WHOLE NUMBER 1824.
Barr’s MOSS.
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A CHRISTMAS STORY.
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It was one'of those strangely mild White“,
of mingled drizzle and fog, which seem so
emphatically to upset all our traditional
notions of what a good old-fashioned Christ-
mas should be. , '
It wanted but three days to Christmas day, «
and the weather was a most per erse com-
bination of April and Novemben-ijzhoheerless-
enough was it in the lightedip’itr'eets (ifeth‘ev-
towns and cities at 5 o'clock on this Decem-
ber evening. It will therefore be My
imagined what sort of a prespect'wss’pre-
seated to the eyes of travelers—if, indeed,
there ‘were any~through theALincoln’sliircf‘
fen-country. '
In one of the wildest pasta?! its inter-
minable swamps, and not many miles distant
from the Wash itself, there stood an old
building, partly farmhouse,.partly nonde-
script. A farmhouse proper would not have
thriven in this district, on account of-thex
very small proportion of arable land totthét
vast expanse of reed-covered swamp. There
were, however, around the house, which
stood on higher ground than the greater part
of the surrounding country, a few tolerably
well-cultivated acres of land, turnips forming
the chief portion of the crops. The house
itself was a long, low building, nearly all of
wood and one-storied, and had as much of a
home-look about it as could be expected,
considering that it stood quite alone on a
small expanse of cultivated land, an oasis in
the midst of the dreary flats, and was some
six or eight miles distant from the nearest
market towu. ‘ ' .
The master of this building was a man
about sixty years of age, who, with his wife
and daughter, and a young man in his em-
ploy (an orphan, whom he had brought up),
formed the household of “ Mnrsh Farm,”‘as
it was called. Ralph Furriner was a curious
mixture of ahrewdnesaand .‘fipidity-f‘hgp
is to say, of shrewdness relating to his own
immediate affairs, and of stupidity as to what
actually went on in the outer world away
from his own isolated dwelling. The old
man followed a double occupation, which
may be briefly deriiribed., He sippllen the
nearest market town, and sometime. some
of the London dealers, with, wild ducks,
widgeon, teal and other birds frequenting
the fans in 'Win‘tcr; During the remainder
of the yearhe‘fa'tteneda considerable quan-
tity oflfdo'rdéstic ' ducks and geese for the
market, the locality being especially suited
to the rearing of this branch of the poultry
‘ trade. ‘ ‘ .
’ In all this, and the cultivation of his small
farm—if it reallyfldeserved such. a name—
he was assisted by Robert Stenhouse, a stal-
wart, active young fellow of six-aud;twenty,
who, left an ~orphan fit an early age, had been
taken charge of by oldFurriuer, andbecame.
quite use 9;. the gammy. ivery nominees be“
‘said of thc.duck'-shooter’s'wife'-and daughter.
The former was simply one of those motherly,
home-loving women who are to be reckoned
byluns of thousands in every class in Eng-
land. Itose Furriner wash fine rosy-checked,
strong-iimbed womb; of - five-and-twenty,
who helped her mother in her home duties,
fattened the geese, baked the barley-bread,
and even helped to cultivate the farm. She
was " engaged 7" .tbRobert Stenhouse. What
else could be expected, when she never saw
any other young man, and he scarcely any
other young woman 7’ They were to be
married this Christmas, and would continue
to live at Marsh Farm. 80 all things would
go on as before, and the little community
would not be broken up (as so many other
domestic communities are) by marriage.
Mrs, Furriner and her daughter were
plucking a couple of plump wild ducks for
the family supper, while the old man, com-
fortably seated in the chimney corner, smoked
his pipe and joined occasionally in the con.
veraation. The quaint appearance of the
interior of the old black-raftered kitchen,
and the picturesque faces of the group in the
ruddy fire-glow, formed' a taut ensemble
worthy of the pencil of Teniers.
“ It's a rare fine night for teal," said
Furriner, removing his pipe from his mouth,
and suffering a cloud of blue smoke to escape
up the chimney; “ and I’m sure Bob ’11
stand a chance to get a leash or two."
“ Yes, and you're growing lazy, father. or
you wouldn’t be sitting there idle in the cor-
ner, and Bob out alone on the fens," said his
daughter, .
.“I mind the time,” said the dame, bridiing
up,as old people will if younger ones venture
to hint that they are. not so brisk as they once.
' were, “ when your father was the smartest
chap in Lincolnshire, be the other who he
might." ~‘
" 0h, mother 1" cried Rose, laughing, “ did
you see all the young men in'Lincolnphire ?"
“She took stock of a pretty good lot of
'em, I’ban tell ye i" said old Furriner, chuck-
ling as he winked at his daughter.
" I had my share of notice," remarked the
dame, complacently. .
“ Many a time I’ve been near up to my
‘ neck in water of a Winter night, waiting, to
get a shot at a'widgeon or a gold-backed teal
for your mother, Rose, just as Bob's out now
to please your whims." said her father.
“ To please my whims, .fat'her'l" exclaimed
Bose, indignautly. “ Why, what “do you
mean ? He’s gone because he said it was
such a likely night for teal that it would be a
sin to lose the chance.”
“ He’s just gone because *heknows a leash
or two of teal would fetch a high price now,"
said his father. “And a certain young
woman fancied a red cloth jacket she saw at
B a month ago; and Bob thinks the
price of the teal will pretty near buy the
jacket.”
Rose blushed consciously.
“ And that’s why I’m sitting in the corner
smoking my pipe like a sensible man,” con-
tinued her father, looking at _her crimsoned
cheek. “D'ye think I’m going to paddle
about the fena up to my neck in mud on a
night like this for the money earned to go on
my daughter’s vanities 2 Not I,” said he,
smoking away furiously, but with a twinkle
of good humor in his eye which quite belied
his words. _
“ Up to his neck in mud, father l’” put in
the mother, anxiously. “ You don’t mean to
say our Bob will be up to his neck in mad 2"
And the good woman looked a trifle uneasy
as she turned and listened to the rain beating
heavily against the lozenge-shaped panes of
the windows, for had she been really Robert
. Btenhouse's mother he could not have been
dearer to her, than heiwas.
“ Don’t I though i” said the old man,-
noddlng his head vehemently. “ And what
then P Never fear, he's all right. He. can
take care of himself.”
Rose took her father’s view of the matter,
and was quite easy as to her lover’s safety.
Not so the dame. . ,
“ Just listen to this rain, Ralph l" she
said, persistingly.
“ Well, it do rain a bit,” raid he.
“ Rain a bit 1” repeated the dame.
enough to drown‘the very ducks themselves.
Why, Ralph.'it’s never rained likewthis. all
the thirty years we’ve lived in the Marsh.”
The old man was struck by the manner in
which his wife persisted in her fears (a most
unusual circumstance with her), and not
without . some [anxiety himself, he" slowly
rose, laid down his pipe, and cautiously half
Opened the door. But he had no sooner
done so than both rain and wind rushed in,
. with such fury, that not only was the candle,
which old Furriner held, extinguished, but
' also the candles upon the iabie'at which the
women sat busted with‘their preparations for’
00 kill“.
as his ‘
Rose, who was by nature extremely light-
hearted, burst into a laugh. But this‘roused
hermother, who indignantly‘ threw upon the
table the half-plucked duck she held in her
lap, and said, in a tone of great asperity:
“ And you to laugh, lass, when your
sweetheart may be drowning! Shame on
Ye 1n
“ Drowning, mother’l" said Rose, growing
deadly pale, and pressing her hand to her'
side; “'you can't surely mean that 7”
Mrs. Furriner hesitated when she glanced
at ’li'er‘ daughter’s‘palcfaccifOr sheahad re‘-
lighted the candles. She did not indeed
believe that her future son-in-lawwaa exactly
fiber“ of his life ; but-at the cametime she.
was aware that a passage through the tens,
,which must-.nowvbe gnduallyzbecoming‘one
"vast sheet or Water, would be‘eitre'mely diffi-
.cult, and probably also dangerous. The ,old
.man, too, bean to look serious,'as he {reso-
lutely took\ down a suit of oilskins, with
which hchprep‘ared to cover his somewhat
shrunken,‘but still sturdy limbs. ' -
" What art about ?" asked his wife. _
,_ -. t‘ I’ll even go and meet the, "
was the reply. . ' '
“ Why, Ralph, the path tracks must be all
under water.”
“ I'll go, I tell ye,” said he; “ and take
the brown pony; I'll maybe of use. I know
my way for miles and miles beyond Rate’a
Moss, where Bob's gone after the teal, and
happen has lost his tracks. I’ll go,I tell
ye 1”
“ Then I'll go, too," said the old woman,‘
firmly. ‘
“ Chat, chut, Polly,” said her husband;
“ who’s to look utter the girl, then? We
can’t take her, lass." , . .
" Ay, that’s true i” said the dame.”
All this while Rose, with pale face and
trembling lips, had watched the anxious,
troubled looks of her father and mother, and
her heart boiled she knew not what of ill.
“ But is there any danger, father ?"_ ‘she
atammered. 7 g .. "
‘ Furriner movedimp'atientiy, but made no
reply.
“ Best tell her all,” said her mother. “ Of
course there's danger, lass, such a night as
this. Take care of thyself, old man," she
start with as much warmth as she had dune
.in their earlier days; “and beams to take
Brown King; the critter’s as much sense as
a Christian, and a good deal more than some
OI;IheEI." . i l , .‘ ‘ ‘ .v
“A ,-ay; cheer up, old lass,” was the
answer. . , _.
And the old man returnedfhisiwife’s em'g
brace and was gone. ' ' ‘ ‘ ‘ ”
The rain poured down in torrents that
seemed to threaten a second deluge, as Eurg
riner sought the little stable where Brown
Kin flittle dreaming of any interruption to
his ‘ vacy‘, ‘was' quietly reposin'g on his-
litter or pea-straw; and not withoutfcdai-‘fj
siderablé resistance on his part did his WE
make him comprehend that he was required
to leave his comfortable bed for theblenk
and desolate fens. At last, however, he iii.-
duly saddled and bridied. _ - \ _
Furriner turned the ”ny's head in the}
“direction of Rate‘s Moss,va famous resort of
teal aid widgeon, to which be new that hit
future son-in-law had proceeded. ' When
there hetrusted to his own knowledge of the
fens, and to the sagacity of his pony, to find
yOun'g Stenhouse. Q
Bate’s‘ Moss might have been about three
miles from the Marsh Faun—no great dis-
tance, it is true, in the well-lighted streets of
a city; but a foanidable one in the fans of
Lincolnshire, on a dark and 'windy night in
December. when the nocturnal travelers were
an old man and a pony. ‘
The wild fowl shooter knew every inlet,
pool and reed-covered islfl of the tens; but
with such violence did the rain beat in his
face and so rapidly was theivater rising,-
that he felt seroiusiy alarmed as to the result
of his adventure. At' first, indeed, he had
but little diflculty in proceeding rapidly in
the direction of Rate's‘ Moss ; but he was
growing old, and at last, feeling that his
knees were becoming numbed and chilled by
the wind and the rain, he thought it better
to give up the idea of steering the pony and
trust to the animal’s own sagacity.
Brown King, who was well aware that
Rate’s Moss was the usual hunting ground of
his master’s, no' sooner,foundiths rein slack-
ened than he took his course ina different
direction fromethat in which the old man had
been guiding him. The~pony in fact was
right, "for Furriner had been wandering
about, almost, in a circle, being unable,
through the darkness, to discern the well-
known spots, which in the daytime would
-have served him as landmarks.
. Half an hour had elapsed, and Furriner
knew he must be close upon the spot he de-
sired to reach. He hallooed with his might,
in the hope of hearing some response from
his adopted son, straining every faculty to its
utmost tension to catch a reply. Nothing,
however, but the continuous plashing of the
rain in the surrounding pools, or the occa-
sional “ quac ” of a startled, mallard, broke
the ominous silenbe. The old man dreading
he scarcely knew what, again called loudly
upon young Stenhouse; but again was he
destined to disappointment. He could not,
however, in the darkness observe the pricked
ears and startled glance of Brown King, who,
with his sense of hearing, more acute than
that of his master, had heard. or imagined he
heard, an answer to the old man’s shouts,
and began to mOve' forward at a sharper
pace. -
“ Whoa—steady!” called Furriner,scarceiy
able to keep his seat, from the uncertain
nature of the bog through which Brown
King was stumbling.
But the pony would not “ whoa." On
the contrary, he scrambled through reeds
and mire with as much aiacrity as he could
summon up, and at last suddenly hilted, and
placing his forefeet firmly on the most solid
piece of ground he could pick out,"prickcd
up his ears again, and gave a loud. ‘sonorous
neigh. '
Even the benumbed faculties of Furriner
were a used at this. . ,7 f p
" Ha ears summat, danged if he doan’t l"
ejaculated the old fellow, joyfully._ “ Well
done, King, boy i”
As if to reward the; sagacious animal’s ef-
forts, a shout—faint, it is true, but still die-
tinguishable—was now heard, in answer to
its friendly neigh, upon which Brown King
again Began to move forward, but this time
more slowly than. before, picking his way
with the utmost caution and Judgment.
They were now/in the very center of
Rate's Moss, and it was really marvelous
how the 'poor animal,without faltering, went
so steadily in the right direction, while all
the experience of his rider was ofnoavaii.
luddenly, and so close to them that it made.
Furriner start as if he had been shot, they
heard the voice of Robert Btenhonso.
“ Here, father, quick! quick i” it said ;
“ I'm nearly dead already.” _
“ Where art, lad ?" screamed the old man,
straining his eyes in vain to see through the
pitch-black darkness. " Wherevart t"
B' the young man, in despair, and no
doubt impelled by a audden instinct, made
no “Ply in words, but gave a. short, shrill
whistle, well-known to Brown King.
The pony recognized it instantly, and,
with a neigh of exultation, turned abruptly
to the left. whinnying as he went, as, horses
do when they follow the call of 1a friend.
Not more than forty yards did the docile an-
imal travel before he brought his rider face
to face with young Stenhouse. But what a
situation! ' ,
The young man had descended from the
more solid part of the surrounding land, and
ndded, kissing her husband as her‘pre‘pired . to ,
. jumped, as it appeared, into a large pool
amid the reeds, for the puspose of picking
'up a dead bird. The rain, however, had
rendered the water far deeper than be ex-
pected, and moreover, _the thick black mud
which formed the bottom of the.pool had
become a perfect quagmire. The intense"
cold, too, had so far benumbed young Sten-
house's hands and feet that he was‘all but
powerless to assist himself. '
There he stood nearly up to his neck in
thick, slimy core, which hadalmost the con-
sistency of birdlime. The situation, which in
the daytime and at a different period of the
year would have beenludicrons, was’now
serious. The more thepoor fellow struggled
the deeper he sank. Oh“ the other hand, if
,he remained still, the cold would stagnatc
'hi's bleed and insensibility and death would
:follew. , ' - ‘ .
; .Old Furriner, who took .in thedanger of
the position at a glance, turned pale and
bleached his hands together beneath his rid-
ing-cloak. He, nevertheless, tried his ut-
most to encourage the nearly .exhausted-
réfifis'man- . -. ' .. 'il; .. ~
“"TiiieiSry,‘ laddié”éh‘ecry‘!" he said dis-
mounting from Brown King. “Beer at good
heart."
" Ay, ay, father, ’ returned the other,
faintly. ‘
“Stay a bit, Bob,” called Furriner. “Throw
me your shooting belt."
With terrible exertion the young man did
so. He had previously thrown it over his
shoulder to relieve his waist from its weight,
when he flrst‘found hinfself sinking deep into
the mud.
m Now your handkerchief,” said Furriner.
The old man tied? the belts; and thehsnd-
kerchiefs belonging to himself and Stenhouse
still unable to reach the poor half-dead young
fellow- , » -, .
7“ The bridle, father, the bridle!” be ex-
claimed. . g. _> .
“Yes, yes." cried the old man; “ to be
bare, to be sure! How could I forget it?"
He added the bridle to the length of his
extempore chain, and by dint of considerable
exertion managed to throw one end of it
within a few inches of the young man’s
shoulder, twhichbiith the. exception of his
head and. arms, wanthe' only part of hisbody
Rober Stenhouse's fingers were so benumbed
_by_continuai exposure to, the severity of the
weather that he .was unable to grasp the
friendly rope. ’Making actremendous exer-
tion, however, he caught hold of it with his
teeth. ,I-~ .
' ' "1' isn’t hold it. father!” he cried out,
despairingly.
3' “Put your. fingers'in your mouth, lad,”
called out the old man; " that'il warm ’em a
bit,.and don’t struggle.” _
The young man obeyed, and as the storm
,had now somewhat abated he gm able, after
some few minutes, to partiallyathaw his
frozen fingers. Then, by the direction of
ducksshooter, he secured the end of the the
bridle as firmly as he could around his arm.
But the efforts of the old man were found
totally inadequate to as'sm his comrade to
climb-to the higher ground. For a mOment
a dull despair fell upon botlf, but yOung
Stenhouae, whose usually not very acute per-
ceptions were sharpened by his imminent
peril, bethought him of Brown King.
“ Tie your end to King, father," he shout-
ed out, his strength fast failing him, “ and
make him pull."
The pony seemed to understand what was
expected of: him. and allowed the chain of
handkerchiefs and belts to be fastened
around him. Furriner so managed this as
not to impede the action of the animal’s hind
legs, and after a good deal of straining on
the part of his master, Stenhouse was so
far extricated from his perilous situation as
to be able, with the help of the old man, to
clamber to the higher ground, whereon
stood his deliverers.. Furriner carried a
small brandy-flask, which was of infinite
service to both the men, and in a briefer
period than might have been expected the
younger had recovered the full use of his
faculties. Even the pony seemed to be aware-
of the service he had rendered, and stood,
with arched neck and expanded eye, waiting
for the applause he had earned.
“ He shall be pensioned off, when he gets
ol‘or this night’s work, shan't he, father,”
said the young man,.patting the shaggy sides
of the animal. , -
“ Aye, that he shall, Bob, and what’s more
to the purpose, he shall have a double feed
of corn tonight," returned the old'man. the
tears glistening in his eyes. “And now let’s
get'back, or the women will be in a fine
pother." - l . '
The, journey home from Rate’s Moss was
a little more satisfactory to old Furriner
than he had anticipated it would be, and was
far more quickly performed than before. A
large string of fowl hung from the holsters
of Brown King’s saddle, a prize which
Stenhouse had ncarlypaid for with his life.
“ Rose’s scarlet jacket was near costing
dearer than she thought for, eh, father i" he
said, gravely. . -
“Ay, thou wast always overrash, laddie,”
said the old man. “ Let this be a caution.”
“ But then, father, -Rose——”
“Ay, ay. I know all about that,” interrup-
ted the old mau; “ well, well, I've been
young myself. But remember, Bob, there
ain’t no real courage in fool-hardiness. A
man ain’t to risk his life for the whims of .a
pretty girl, not if she [was twenty times en-
gaged to him, that’s my,view on't. Reason-
able efforts to please is one thing, and unrea-
sonable follies is another.”
“ You’re right, father,” said
Rose '11 say so too."
1|What Rose said, you may guess, ,. readers
a _.
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-—“_,You have broken my heart, Vivian.”
It‘waa a fair-haired girl who spoke these
words, and as they came from her lips Vivian
Mahoney, the young man to whom they were
addressed, leaned Elderly over Ferida Pet-
erson and strove to kiss away the tears that
were walling up in her beautiful, dreamy,
brown eyes.
‘.‘ I do not blame you," she continued in a
broken voice. i“ She whom you will one day
wed is fair to look ’upon, and when her warm
kisses_melt upon your lips it is not strange
that you forget all else but' that she would
gladly be your wife, and that her father owns
a coal-yard. But I love you with a mad,
deathlass passion that will burn out my life
in the intensity of its flame. You have won
my Scandinavian affection unwittingly, but
you have won them, all the same. In the
years that are to come, Vivian, When your
children are playing at your knee and life
seems like a fair dream, you will sometimes
think of me—som etimes let a tender thought
lie in your heart for the little flaxen-haircdg
girl that knew no happiness so great as to
hear your voice and see the gleam of the
matinee tickets in your vest pocket? Tell
me ,this,.and when the leaves have turned
brown under the blighting |touch of autums
chilly hand, and I shall have been put away
he; “ and
you will lead to the alter a happy bride and
never know the sorrow I have felt. "
“ By yon bright. moon I swear," said
Vivian, taking another kiss on the fly, “ that
your memory shall ever be enshrined in my
heart. Though my life be one of tempest
and storm, or a succession of sunny days, I
shall always remember that you were my
first, my only love.” He was about to im-
print another kisb on the rosy lips upheld to
his, when a dull thud was heard, and Vivian
'lay senseless on the sidewalk. ~
Old Mr. Peterson had opened the front
door and adjourned the meeting.—-0hz'cago
Tribune.
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together, and even their ,neckties, but was"-
.visible'. 'But here arose a fresh diflcuity.
forever in the little deli beyond the meadow
Moving a Printing Office.
In the icourse of a" more or less eventful
life it has been our sad privilege to move
ourselves, our household furniture and those
nedr€st»arid’dbarest to us from one house to
anothen. . We. have, on more than one oc-
casion, sat in calm despair and on the back
door-step eating a. frugal chunk of cold pie
for dinner, while the'ii‘iside of the houSe was
in a state of chaos and dismembered bed!
steeds, and the floors littered with torn wall
paper and carpet-tacksewhiic the exprossman
and his assistants were peeling the veneering
oifvan‘8x12 dining table in trying to make it
fit into a 6x9 express wagon, and the hired
girl was-rupturing mattresses and covering
the landscape with feathers in a wild effort
to haul-some portable property» out of a;
narrow doorway. We have further assisted
at these orgies by aiding and abetting the
wife of our bosom in fishing with a broom
pictures that hung on brass headednails
high up on the walls, in smashing’cherishe’d
articles of crockery while vainly attempting
to double them up in a trunk, and in drop-
plug into the cistern empty wine bottles,
N939? whichclustercd hallowed memories
of the hilarious past, which we didn’t feel
we had any further use for. We have made
a preposterous spectacle of ourselves in
attempting to entice a spotted cow to move
with us to our new home, and we have been
forced (by the aforesaid wife of our bosom
and companion of our sorrows) at '10 p. m.,
andhy the_light of a smoky lantern, to cap-
ture the family cat and carry her in a sack
.to. our new residence. . W6 then. thought
that that was the acme of earthly trouble—
the wormwood of existence—the draining of
the ,cup of human misery to the heel tap;
but in the light of our present experience,
we feel that all that is a mere summer holi:
day—a giddy round of pleasure, when com-
pared with the woes attendent on the moving
of a printing office. ‘ _ -
Last week the Texas Sl'ftings establishment
was moved from cellar to dome, at least we
started to move it last Week. It is notall
moved yet. There is still a lot of damage
mortgage in the old building.
The new office isly‘el ’in a mixed condition.
Everything is in disorder. We .write this,
using a carpenter’s tool chest for a desk, and
resting our weary limbs on a box of dead
electro ads“ The mailings clerks are climb-
ing over us with sacks of mail, the editorof
the' religiOus column is swearing in a long-
primer voice at the pressman who has spilled
a can of ink-over his‘exchanges, and our ar-
tist is kicking a stray dog across the hall into
the composing roOm. ' ‘
While writing the last line we discovered
that the carpenter, who was nailing a board
over a hole in the ceiling and filling our edi-
torial ear with mortar, owns the dog. Heis
now retreating down the ladder, evidently in
pursuit of our artist.
Under these circumstances, nothing short
of a sense of duty, and the foreman’s state-
ment thiit he needs just another column of
copy, would force us to write, or pr vent us
from going out into the country w ere We
Lwosild have room enough to give way to our
feelings. - .
' It :was On' Saturday we began tO'move.
We intended going to press with issue No.
90 on Monday. Disaster followed disaster,
and it was Thursday before a copy of that
issue got into the mail bags. We have been
in the publishing‘business now over a year,
we flatter ourselves that We know the differ-
ence between a double cylinder press and a
fire plug. In fact, we have on more than 0 n
occasion expressed .our willingneseto prove
our knowledge byltaking our presses and en-
gine to pieces and putting them together
again. We have never done this, and after
what we have seen, we do not think we
ever will do it. . ‘ .
When the man put up the press in the new
press-room. he found that he had several ap-
parently valuable pieces of machinery left
over that there seemed to be no‘place for.
The ;press declined printing until [these .
were restored to who're they belonged. Af-
ter much delay they were got in place in time
to discover that the ramrod of the blessed
press had beenbent in moving, and an Irish
blacksmith had to be sent for. In ten hours
the damaged machinery was repaired. We
felt relieved. The paper would only be one
day late. .
The boiler‘was fired, the forms were put
on the press, and then we went off into a
corner andsat down on a pile of brick to
.writeour leading article for next week’s is-
sue. We had just got the length of :
“The need of reform in every department
of the government is so apparent—’2 ., '
when the foreman with ink on his nose and,
cobwebs in his hair, came climbing over paste
pots and bales of paper, evidently hearing
some direful news. -
“ What is it?” we breathlessly asked, “for
heaven’s sake don't tell us that you forgot to
put St. Jacob’s Oil next to reading matter,
or that you have pied Lydia Pinkham’s elec-
trotype i" ‘ - - ‘
“Worse than |that,” he yelled, “ a :piece
of gas pipe fell on the cylinder, mashed a
couple of columns of type, and burst the sur-
ciugle of the press."
It took the Irish mechanic. who was found
to be slightly intoxicated, eight hours to re-
pair the damage. That put us two days late
and the appalling thought forced itself upon
upon us that, at that moment at least 5,000
of our 100,000 readers were writing ;pOstai
cards asking us “ what the -——’s the matter
with the Sigflings this week—not on hand
yet f" , .. . -
There was no other press in town large
enough or fast enough to print an edition of
Sfflipgs, and the calmness of despair settled
down on us with a pressure of a thousand
pounds to the inch as we went home that
night withfia headache and a promise from
the foreman that he would get to work all
right in an hour,
Next morning as the first beams of the a.
in. sun were engaged in kissing the dew-of
the grass, and creating a bad smell in the
trash pile in the alley, we were on our way
. to the office, where we arrived in time to find
that during the night the suction valve flew
oi the track, and the press was again in the
hands of the Irish mechanic, who was pain-
fully jocose in his offers to work for us by
the month. That was Wednesday. The
repairs were soon made, and some 16,000
copies were reported printed and folded by
three p. m. At half-past three there was a
tremendous racket in the engine room. We
looked out of the window just in time to see
the engineer climb over the back fence and
rush down the alley with an earnestness that
we do not remember to have seen equalled
since the war.
Looking into the engine room, we observed
that the belts and wheels were rushing
through space at the rate of about a thousand
revolutions a minute The belt had dropped
from the “ governor,” and the engine had
“ run off.” The pressman and some eight or
ten compositors had also run off. When we
saw them, they were encouraging each other
to get out of an end window without lossof
time. The foreman, waving a galley full of
double column display ad. over his head,
was in the lead. When they got out they
didn’t stop climbing over the adjacant scen-
éry until they got behind the Baptist church.
They left the engine to its doom, and it would
have probably shaken itself to pieces if a
passing draymau had not stepped in and
prodded some part of the machinery with a'
wooden lever until the thing stopped. There
was another delay of twelve hours, as the
Irish mechanic was drunk, and we had to
wait until he got sober before the machine.
could be put in order.§Prodigious thought _
z
1
j ' 'NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, rUESD AY,
Cause: Too much rum inside one Irishman.
Effect: A shadow of gloom in tens of thou-
sands of hemes albover the land, caused by
the non-arrival of Hiflt'nys.
Eventually the whole ‘edition was printed.
At first we concluded to- tell our readers a
falsehood about the delay—blameit on the
U. S. postal department; but better counsels
prevailing, we have written the above true
account of our.trouble.—Tezas Siftings.
gm
Bud Crowner at the Ball.
'rna oosruam ua‘ nanoan in AT numerous
AND WHAT HAPPENED TO IT.
__.—.——_
Up in the hall of the Pacific Coast Pioneers
a few evenings ago several of the ‘5old boys”.
and a number of later comers, their friends
and admirers, were talking over early days
in California. - '
"I shall never forget my first ball in Cali-
fornia,” said Bud Crotvncr. “It was at Hang-
town, in ’52. In crossin’ the plains we had
all kinds of bad luck. We had some of our
hosses stole by the injuns, some died, and. at
last we left behind wagons and everything
but what we could carry on our acks.
“It was every .feller for himsc f in a short
time. I traveled om foot and tuck the dos-
peratc chances of finding grub among sich
wagons and camps as I passed. Nearly
naked and half starved I finally got to the
Humboldt. I found a large party of emi-
grants camped thar for a day-or two to rest,
wash clothes, bake bread, and the like. _
“I was a rough lookin’ customer. I had
on an old roundabout, or wamas that I had
were all the way from Pike, trousers that
was ready to drop clinic and a pair of mocca-
sins I got from a Shoshone Inj un for an old
jack-knife. . , .
“A man at the camp took pity on me, and
showing me two pair: of greenbaize drawers
told me if I'd wash ’em’I might have one
pair for my trouble, As they were sound
and much better than my old pantaioons I
jumped at the chance. I washed the articles
and hung ’em up on a bunch of willers to
dry. '
phiri fearih" the other for me. He was a
little, spindlin’ bit of a cuss, Twhilc I, even at
that time starved 1131 was, weighed nigh on
to 170 pounds.
"‘I took the drawers and went some dis-
tance down the river, behind a bunch of
willers, to make my toilet. The washin’
and dryin’ had shrunk the drawers to sich
an extent that it took me half an hour to git
into ’em. They was skin tight and lacked
six inches of reachin‘ down to my ankle
jints.
“I walked up anddown the bank of the
creek for a long time‘before I could make up
my mind to go back to camp. I went and
looked for my old breeches, but I had
throwed ’em into the creek at the star; and
they had floated off or sunk somewhere.
“As I walked up and down thar by the
water my long, slim, green legs made me
look like a fly-up-the-crcek, a 'crane or some
sich water fowl. '
“When I went to'cnmp everybody roared
and laughed, some rollin’ themselves on the
ground and roarin’ till they was black in the
face. -
“To keep the sun from burnin’ my ankles
.I got some cloths and made straps so I could
strap the drawers down to my moccasins.
"In passin’ along by the wagons I over-
took I had to stand all the fun that people
saw fit to poke atjme. ‘Here comes the
great crane .of the desert 1 some would say,
while others called me the ‘greeu dragon of
the plains.’
“When I got to Hangtown I found out
that there was to be a grand ball that night
in the edge of town. Before scatterin’ out
into different parts of the country the people
were goin' to have a big dance together.
“In the evenin’ I thought I’d slip down to
where the dance was to come off and look on'
awhile. I found° they had set up a lot.of
crotches, in which they had laid poles, cov-
erin’ the wholewith pine and spruce boughs
makin’ a sort of canopy. The ground had
been levelled off and beaten down till it 'was
like a brick-yard. ~
“I found two or three fiddlers mounted on
pine boxes and with thema feller with a
clarinet. They were makin’ pretty fair
music and a great crowd was dancin’ away
for dear life.
“I looked on for a time, but pretty soon I
got excited like, forgot all about my drawers,
and sailed into the thick of the business
with a big Pike county gel, with sun-bonnet
Off and‘hair hangin' halfway down to her
heels. '
“I can tell you we made the dust fly. I
soon saw that, though my drawers might be
a little tight, I‘ had on about the soundest
and gayest rig in the whole place. I’looked
as though in some kind of masquer‘adin’ out—
fit and began to consider myself the head of
the ball—a regular dandy.
“I made them long green legs of mine fly
in swingin” on ‘the corners, and was the
wonder of everydnan, woman, and child at
the ball. I got so excited about the sensa-
tion I was makin’ that I cut all kinds of
pigeon-wings and fancy flourishes, bringin’
down the house every time.
“ ‘Go in green legsl’ the tellers outside
would boiler, and go in I did. Finally a
couple of children came waltzin’ along. I
thought it would be a good trick to sling one
of my long green legs, circusfashion, ovnr
the heads of the little couple. .
"I tried it and left that ball, runnin’ lik
a skeered kiotee and don’t' know that I’ve
sot eyes on man, woman, or child that was
thar fr_om that day 'to this."
“Guess you have,” said an old chap
among the listeners. "I was thar and saw
the whole performance. It was my oldest
gal you was dancls’ with.”
"The little gal you tried to swing your leg
over,” said another old cock, “was my child
and she is now the wife of Senator W——s, of
California." _
“I am the very man that gave you those
green baize drawers," said another of the
party. “I remembered you as soon as you
mentioned what happened out there on the
Humboldt.” ' ,
"Wonderful! wonderful i” cried Bud;
then turning to a “Pioneer” sitting near, he
said: “And you ?" '
“Damfino,” said the man addressed. “I
guess I must a-bin the Inj on that traded you
the moccasins i”——Vtryim'a (Ned) Enter-
pm“. .
Never ~does a man believe so strongly in
the attraction of gravitation as when he sits
down in a chair and finds it gone. .
“ What a blessing it is,” said a hard-
working Irishman, “ that night niver comes
on till late in ,the day, when a man is tired,
.and‘can’t work at all, at all."
It is the father of twins who knows what
N. 1’. 00m. Adv.
Investigating a boiler after it has exploded
is something. It shows a laudable desire for
information on the part of the inspectors.
What is really needed is an inspector who
will point out the weak spot in a boiler the
day before it can explode.——.N. 0. Picayune.
, During a storm in Salina, Kansas, an ice-
cart was dragged through the town by its
frightened team, scattering ice blocks every
way. A reputable citizen, happening along
saw the ice and wrote to his paper that hail-
stones weighing from forty to eighty pounds
had fallen during .the storm—Easy and
Graceful Falsifier, \
“Is this woman your wife ?" asked the
Justice of a colored man, and pointing to a
woman. “Is what my wife f” “Is that
woman your wife ?" “ I don’t see no ’oman.
I sees a lady, an’ de lady is my wife.” “ Is
this man your husband ?” asked the Justice
ofthe woman: “Dat gén’leman is my bus-
band." “ Well, ladies and gentlemen, I havo
investigated this case, and have decided to
”send this lady and gentleman to jail for six
months.”—-0. Reed .
. a: , ‘
.type. a strong smell of obsolete paste. and #0 Presently the teller came and took one ‘
it is to be up all night with the boys.— '
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WWW/”W ray/Mm
\
REAL ESTATE.
mmw‘ W /\_/\/\ «A
n N‘./\
, For Sale or to Let.
Furnished or Unfurnished.
II}: House on East Avenue, occupied byMrs.
O. S. Ferry. Enquire on the remiscs, or of
ssu‘ , JAMES IITOIIELL.
For Sale Cheap.
WILL be sold at a Bargain, ifnppiied for soon-
n. small, neat Cottage, of our rooms. in good
neighborhood, and three minutes" walk of the
Bridge. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE.
’ O ' I C O
In ride Water Virginia.
nuns» AND rucn LANDS. healthy
and mild climate. Fish and Oysters in great
abundance.
E. C. LINDSLEY a: (10.,
Norfolk, Va.
To Let.
IIE large, commodioua front room_ln Gazette
Building just vacated by Francis Mckcon.
Full particulars of
B.J. STURGES.
311138
\
For Sale or to Rent.
THE well-known Farm at Winnipauk, formerly
owned by Morgan T. Smith, is offered for
sale or to rent. The Farm contains some 40 acres
of improved land, in good condition, a commodi-
ous and convenient. residence, barns,&c. Pos-
session givcn immedrately.- Price low'nnd terms
easy. For further particulars enquire zit—the
FAIitFIELD COUNTY NATIONAL BANK. ii
To Let.
I fill Large Hall,rcceutly occupied by the Odd
Fellows, at the low yearly rental of $150.
Full particulars-pithe agent, .8. J. STURGES,
No. 4 Gazette Building.
a. H. BALDWIN, up.
Has Removed his office to his New Residence
No. 71 Wall Street, Dr. Hill’s place.
Hours till 9 a. m., 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p.~m.
ALEX. S. GIBSON,
u ' V .
Organist of the First Congregational Church
Teacher of i
g Plano-Worse, Organ and Musical
Composition,
Lock Box 39. P. 0., NORWALK, CONN.
ENTISTRYr—Dr. C. H. Kendall can and
Will Extract Teeth better and Make ,-Teeth
cheaper than any Dentist in Norwalk.
‘ The N orwalk Dye Works
RE now'in successful operation. Ladies’ and
, Gents’_Garments(Dyed,'Olcaned or Scoured
in best possible manner, without injury to cloth.
Any shade of color produced which may be de-
sired. Work well done and ' rices reasonable.
Goods can be left at tho Mi liner and Fancy
Store of the MISSES ST. J OHN , 33 nin St., N or-
waik. or at MR3. H. KREIGER’S Milllncry. 39ft
, BERNARD COHN.
MERCHANT TAILOR,
WEEK’S BUILDING, WALL 81.,
a FULL LINE or
Imported and Domestic Cloths
of the latest styles, constantly on hand. Novel-
ties in Scotch Sultmgs. Satislacticn guaranteed
in every particular. 46
W. 5. columns;
General Furnishing Undertaker,
OPPOSITE HORSE R. R.DEPOT.
WOrd‘ers attended to pay or night. Residence
Mam Street, 3 doors from Union avenue.
Telephone communication with the house. '.‘
Dr. T. E. SWIFT,
D E N T I S T ,
Office and Residence No. 9 West Ave.
W'Bight Hand Bell.
The Norwalk Fire Insurance Co.
Has now completed its '
18th successful Business Year.
Andhas not outstanding a Dollar or unpaidlosses
or of claims for losses. ‘ -
Ill SOUND “MFA" IIISIIBESAT lilWEil RATES.
Wx.0.S'rnEEr. Pres., s. E.Omxs'raan, Tress.
GEO.R. CownnsSec’y. ~
TNA l NSURANCE Co.of HARTFORD.
Incorporated 1812. Charterll’crpetual.
Capital and Assets, $8,902,272.64
Insnrcs against loss and damagebyFire, on terms
adopted to the hazard and consistent with the
laws of compensation. COWLES .k MEItltILL,
4 Sole Agents for Norwalk and vicinity.
J. Belden Hurlbutt,
Attorney and Counsellor. at Law,
Roorn No. 4, Up Stairs,
GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK.
Notice,
THE undersigned having sold out all his inter-
est in the Hardware. and House and Sign
Painting Business heretofore conducted by him
at No.30 Main St.,to his son, William Hindlcy,
Jr.,\vouid return his thanks to this community
for the patronage accorded him and respectfully
ask for a continuance of the same to his succes-
sor. Persons havingunscttled accounts with the
subscriber are requested to call and settle the
same immediately.
WILLIAM HIN DLEY.
Norwalk, Jan.16th, 1882. -
HARLESS. nocxwoon,
Fashionable Dispel andlailnri
omvrs' FURNISHING EMPORIUM
MainStreet.Norwaik, Conn.
Geo. Ward Selleck,
Has in his New Store, .
HABDEIIBMK'S NEW Bill“, VIAll. SHEET,
A completcassortmentof the best class of
GRUBERIES. PROVISIONS, FRUITS,
&c.,for family use,at Popular Prices. His stock
is at all times fresh and goodmnd will stand com-
arison with those of any Grocerin town. Call
in and leave your orders. 98tf‘
Notice.
FEE subscriber would announce that he has
disposed of his wcil~known Livery Stable
and equipments to his son Horace L. Danri, who
.wlil hereafter run the establishment himself.
Grateful and thankful for the long continued
patronage bestowcc upon him by the public, the
subscriber would request a. continuance of the
sums to his successor, feeling confident that he
Will merit and rice crvc the confidence of the pub-
lic generally. -
WILLIAM E . DANN.
Norwalk. Oct. 4th, 1881.
R E M O V A. Is I
To the Basement of 58 \Vall Street,
Next door below J uckson Brothers’.
E. BEACH,
House and Sign Painting,
l I 1
Paper Hanging and Kalsongmng,
. Residence—Lewis Street,
NORWALK, CONN.
All work entrusted to me shall be promptly
reasonably and well done. A share of the public
patronage solicited. 33c:
Peter L. Guigue,
Flfllll’l‘it llllllllllill
Union Ave., North of N orwalk
Cemetery, Norwalk, Conn.
Dealer in Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants. Fruit and
Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, Vines. Cut
Flowers always on hand and all sorts of De
signs in Flowers arranged to order.
Grading and Tie-fitting Cemetery Plots
promptly ndcd to. ’ 3m21
I I -, I
'M-ullings’ Bros. ,
Carriages it Wagons
MADE TO ORDER.
Repairing in all its Branches.
0.A. MULLINGS}. J.8 .MULLINGS
. mortgage. =Forfull
1yl .
For Sale or to Rent. ~
A House and One Acre of Land, on Prospect
Hill.
May be had on reasonable terms. Applly to
~ - E W.s’ ART.
Norwaik, March 16th, 188]. mu
Farm for Sale.
~ H—E'subscriber will sell the we] known David
St. John Farm with all the Stock, Tools and
Growing Crops. Most of the price can remain on
particulars address
. GEO. F. BLLDEN, Winnipauk, Conn.
Farm for Sale.
HE subscriber ofl‘era his Farm for-sale. situa-‘
22“
thd in the Town of Greenfield, in Saratoga
00., in the state of New York, nine miles from
Saratoga Springs; It 13 pleasantly situated on
a rise of" ground, 95 acres of land, which is favor-
ably divided into pasture, plow, meadow and
woodland; With a. large house; the size of the
barn 30 by 40, wagon house and stabling, hay loft
over the same, 25 by 43, and grainery 16 by is.
Will be sold cheap; part of the purchase money
can remrrnhon mortgage if desired, or will ex-
changetorvrllage property. For-further articu-
lars inquire of S LAS P. TU ,
. Norwalk. Conn,
A Very desirable place on East Avenue.
‘ Also, a few choice Building Lots situated on
Osborn Avenue. for .sale cheap.
Also. a nicely located House and Lot on Mer-
wsn Street near West-Avenue. for sale at a bar-
gain, Enquire of‘ -
s. E. OSBORN;East Avenue,
tfll or to D. W, Fitch, West Avenue.
'CI-IOICE
Bulldmg Lots
ZE‘OR SALE
On WiltOn Allende.
- Apply to
BENJ. mausoleum, or o. r. WILSON
can... Building; 44:
.13. w. BATES.
AT HIS
Marble illrullelari,
On Water iatreet.
* HAS NEW DESIGNS IN
Head Stones, Monuments and
all kinds of Memorial Work.
CALL AND SEE THEM.
Howard S. Betta,
Pharmacist, _
P u. r e D r u. g s ,
Prescriptions a Specialty.
'Tcilet and Fancy Articles, ‘ '
—AT—
consul DRUG mar,
Norwalk. Conan.
some! E. SMITH,
FLORIST,
EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET ,SOUTB
or RAILROAD, ‘
City of South Norwalk, Conn.
Plants and Flowers at all seasons
Flowers 0 r- Funernla furnished and
tastefully arranged to order at ahors
notice ‘
IRON FENCES.
IIE SUBSCRIBER having returned to Nor-
Walk, and located at 26 Leonard street, is
10:
T
prepared to furnish “ls-ought [non Fenc-
lng of all styles, of the best material and best
workmanship. at reasonable prices. Having had
many years of experience in the making thereof
he feels confident t at he can satisfy all demands.
Estimates and plans cheerfully furnished.
EPiiRAIhi M. MERRITT.
N orwalk, Aug. 1882. P. 0. Box 657.
Sheet Music 5 fits.
A large assortment of,
SILK ORNAMENTS,
Just Received,
Andrew Seileck,
Bookseller and Stationer,
49 Wall St., N arr-walk, Conn.
No AMMONIA!
NO ALUM!
PURE!
Avvarded First Premium at Amencan‘ '
Hacksmm
P or.
E R FE ,
BA'K'ING
POWDER
ammum'emmm. ms
PERFEOTLY mm mm ITS.
We come CANNOT Br: smamssan.
For Sale by all Grocers.
GEORGE V. HECKER at (:0.-
mmmusuesgsshwsusfi:
500'Farms .fOr Sale
DeSirableProperty for. "sale. '
Artists’ Materials a Specialty .
" VOL. RVs-NUMBER 51
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A Household .Article for Universal
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theirousen ainin three
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Tetter dried up.
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Darbys Fluid is Recommended by
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ev..A. J. Barns, Pro I., Mercer University ,-
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ISPENSABLE T0 EVERY EDDIE.
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urvy cured.
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I used the Fluid during
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Scarlet Fever with de-
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indispensable to the sick-
Saun-
room. — WM.
FORD, Eyric, Ala.
. ~ _J. H. ZEIIIIN & 00.,
Manufacturing Chemists, PHILADELPHIA.
IVER
PILLS.
Iick Headache and relieve all the troubles inci-
sion: to a bilious state of the system, such as Diz«
ziness, Nausea, Drowsiness. Distress after eating,
Pain in the Side, the. Wllllo chlr most remark.
able success has been shown in curing -
so
Headache, yet Carter's Little Lit-c r Pills are equally
valuable in Constipation, curing, preventing
this annoying complaint, while they also correct
all disorders of the stomach, stimulate the liver
and regulate the bovvcis. Even if ihey only cured
HEAL:
~Ache they would he almost priceless to those who»
Buffer from this distressing complaint; but fortu-
nately their goodness does not end here, and those
who once try them will find these itttle pi e yain—
able in so many ways thatlhcy will not 0 ruling
to do without them. But after all excl: head
In thobane of so many lives that here is where we
make our great boast. Our pills cure it while
others do not. ' '
Carter’s Little Liver Pills are very small and
. very easy to take. One or two pills make :tdosc.
They are strictly vegetable and do not gone or
pu , but by their gentle action please all who
use hem. In vials at 25 cents; five for $1. Suki
by druggists everywhere, or sent by mail.
CARTER DEDICI‘NE co... ’
New York City.
J. G. GREGORY it (10., Agents for Norwalk.
J. F. Peckwell, -
Having purchased the
Harness in Saddlery
- Business
Heretoforc carried on by L. F. Marshall, on Main
street, would respectfully request a share of pub-
lic patronage. He will continue the business at
the old stand until December let. when his store
and shop Will be removed to the rooms recently
occupied by the Reform Club. ly-fd
NEW MARKET!
No. 6 Main street, Norwal, Ct.
THE BEST OF
Beef, Veal, Mutton, Lamb, Pork,
RAMS, POULTRY, &c., always on hand at very
lowest market prices. GAME. of all kinds in its
season. Try me; I Will try to suit.
61114.5 W. F. LOOK W 90 9. late wrthA dams Bros.
Dr. D. Hitchcock,
Cor. of West Avenue and
Berkeley Place,
Third house below the Methodist Church.
Office Hours from 7 to 9 a. m., 2 to 3, and 7 to 8
p. m. .
Purchasing Agent and Messenger,
‘HE subscribers will act as Purchasing Agents
and Messengers between Norwalk and N ew
York, dailyi. Orders and packages received at
I‘_heodore napp’s, South Norwaik, and Bene-
dict’s News Room, Post Oilicc, Norwaik.
EDWIN Ix. SELLECK, with J amcs McCrecry &
D 190., takes 6 o’clock train.
SELLECK. takes 7:45 can. train.
‘Pensions and Bounties got for
all Soldiers’of my own and other
Regiments, &c.
.W. H. NOBLE,
BRIDGEPOBT, CONN.
(l. T. Leonard to Son;
COAL, WOOD,
Masonh’ Mate/rials, -
q E M E B? ‘1’ P I P E
For Drains, Sewers, W ells, _&c. ,
1
At Lowest Cash Prices.
Drains and Wells Dug and Piped
AlsoSoleAgentfor
Patent Tinder Wood,
The Cheapest and Best Kindling out. Tryii
6' Branch Office at H. S. Belts? DrugSicre
Carriage Making
3 E as A s R free.
H. WILEY-”S
Main Street, South Nor-walk, Ct.
1. in? .
"' ’fa‘wwzm‘gqu‘ _ ,
In The Conservatory.
EARL MARBLE
‘ ‘But we must return i What will the on
Yes, Ivknow its awful nice y y ?
In the window here from the others away,
With a taste. now and then, of the ice,
And now and then of—Oh, you wretch !
' It wasn’t at all required
That you should illustrate thus vvith a sketch
The speech that, of course, you admired.
“No matter how naughty. There! you have
spoiled
The ‘ classical Grecian knot’
In which you like my hair to be c :ilcll,
And I really don‘t know what
Other . mischief you havn’t dune. You're
just
Rizal naughty! You squeeze like a vise!
Why can’t you men tail-:1: something on trust,
And be more dainty and nice?
“ There! I’m ready now.
mere .7
Oh! aren'tjyou a tease P
And love me so ?— one, two, three, four,
Therel come now, dearest, please:
I’m almost afraid oi the parlor glare:
When they look at. my lips, they'll see
The kisses upon them.”—“No, not there;
But; sweet, in your eyes, maybe.“ " '
What 1 just one
SCIENTIFIC fllSUELLiNl.
Scientific investigation by Prof. Poufick,
of Brcslau, has verified the suspicion that all
common mushrooms are poisonous. Wash-
.ing and boiling deprive them of llzcir poison-
ous qualities in a greater or less degree.
Dried mushrooms r( quire at least a month of
drying and are not really safe until after
' four months.
A natural intermittent spring has recently -
formed in the French Alps. The water
appears at regular intervals of five and seven
minutes, about ten quarts being yielded each
time; A singular‘ circumstance is that one
flow of water is lukewarm and colorless,
while the. next discharge is cold and wine-
red. ‘
Prof. Young, in. the light of Meyer’s cal-
culations, regards it as highly probable
that the comet of 1880 was a return of that
of 1843. Concerning the comet of 1668 too
little is"known to form the basis of a theory
as to its identity. He is certain however,
that the comets of 1880 and 1882 are not the
same, as they have periods-too great to be
consistent with such aview. He thinksit
more likely that they are twins, moving in
nearly indentical orbits with perhaps a com-
mon origin in some ancient disruption, like
that which divided Biela’s comet in 1846.
It was asserted by a Brazilian delegate to
the Geneva Sanitary Congress that coffee is
natural antidote to alcohOl and that the con-
sumption of alcoholic stimulants is compara-
tively small where coffee is a popular drink,
'as in his‘ own country. ,
. It is a very general belief that during a
considerable. fall a person must be asphyxia- ‘
ted by the "rapid rush through the air which
constantly accelerates as the distance fallen
increases. The suicide of a young girl by a
leap from a height of about 215 feet has rais-
ed a discussion of this subject among French
screams; Dr. Bronardell suggested that
asphyxiation may have caused the girl’s
death before the ground was reached. Mons.
Bontempta objects to this view and points
out that the velocity attained in suchafall
must he sometimes exceeded by railway
trains and yet engineers and stokers are
never asphyxiated. Mons. Remy states that
in 1852 he was 'shown a native of the Island
of Oahu who had fallen from a verified
height of about 1,000 feet with but little in.
jury, his fall- having been broken near the
end by a growth of ferns and other plants.
The weight of opinion seems to favor the
view that if asphyxia ever results during
falls, the distance fallen must be very great.
The old experiment of table-turning has
given evidence of an unknown force which
has perplexed scientific men and fostered the
trickery Charlatans and professors of the
black art. In genuine table-turning phe-
nomena, where the table is too heavy tobe
turned by the unconscious muscular action
of the hands placed upon it, the movement
is said to be slight, but is nevertheless re-
markable. Faraday demonstrated that late-
ral pressure on the part;~ of the operators
always accompanied the movement of the
table and Dr. I’ercy R: Wilde now claims to
have proven by means of instruments of his
own construction, that the unconscious lat-
eral pressure is due to a slight rotatory mo-
tion imparted torthe body at every breath by
the action of the poweful muscles of the
chest.
It is maintained by Nordenskiold that the
aurora is 'a permanent phenomenon in the
polar regions, appearing constantly when the
gun is below‘ the horizon and the moon is
.nvisble.
, Prof. Moos, of Heidelberg, has found good
reasons for believing that many railway acci-
dents have been due to defective hearing on
part of engineers and others in charge of
trains. Expert medical testimony, shows that
railway employee are especially liable to
affections of thc ear. .
Dr. Burcq has suggested that solutions of
coppcr salts be used to impregnate clothing,
furniture and building material as a preserva-
tive against infectious diseases. He was led
to offer this suggestion by‘observin’g that
workers in copper,—who absorb a consider-
p
_ able amount of dust from the metal-enjoy
a quite general immunity from cholera,
typhoid fever and like complaints, while
copper salts protect various materials from
parasites. .
A report by Mons. Girard, director of the
Paris Municipal Laboratory, gives some in-
teresting information concerning the adulter-
ations by which the French people are
victimized. The most extensive imposture
of this kind seems to be adulteration of flour,
which is mixed with various mineral sub-
stances—often of a poisonous nature. It has
been certainly ascm'laincd that artificial
flours are imported into France from Rotter-
dam, containing as much as 30 per cent of
plaster and 20 per cent of sulphate of baryta.
Of 31 flours examined at the laboratory only
13 proved to be genuine, all the others being
adulterated.’ _ - ‘
=22:
A rural dame entered a rolling mill the
other day and asked if they kept roiling pins. '
She was accompanied by her husband who
wanted to purchase a field roller. This is re-
liable, if true. '
_ Two boarding house keepers are compar-
ing notes. f'lt ’peurs to me Mrs. Miggles,
that your chicken salad is never found out—
lcastways, I never heard none of the boarders
complain ” “You see" exclaimed Mrs. Mig-
glcs, “I allus chop up a few feathers with
the veal." '
Mrs. E. D.’E.AN. Southwortb, an exchange
tells us, regards as the happiest portion of her
life the time she spent, soon after marriage,
in .3 lonely log-cabin in the forest-wilds of
WlSCOIlSlD, where wolves often howled about
the door. It was the happiest portion for
the public—Puck.
“ And you love; me, Jared ?” “ That’s
about the size of it, Mary.” “Fortune has
not smiled upon you—you are poor, Jared.”
“ Rich in your love—poor only in 'purse,
Mary.” “ Yet all hope is not lost, Jared.
Father is president of a bank. He will
give you a situation." “Then I am yours
eternally, Mary. We rhall be married in
flu-cementlls. In six months the bank will
be in the hands (-I calceiver. We shall seek
a home beyond illt‘ St. Lawrence, where the
old man can live with us under the name of
Smith." “ Oh, Jared i” “Oh, Mary !"
_'l‘ixo only way to deal with a liar is to boat
hm: at his own game. That is of course un-
le.s he is the editor of some pious neWspaper.
, What started this Item was reading about an
American who had ban to Europe; and who
was telling a hired, who knew he was a liar,
about his trip across the. Atlantic and how on
the ,251h of , the month “they encountered a
swarm of lccusts and the: locusts carried
away every stitch of canvas off the ship." The
listener looked thoughtful for a moment and
then said, hesitatingiy, “Yes I guess we met-
the same swarm of locusts the next 'day, the
26th. Every locust had on a pair of canvas
pants.” Thu first, liar went around a corner
and kicked himself—Peeks Sun.
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