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Be A Woman
.I. _ 0ft I’ve heard'a gentle mother,
As the twilight hours began,
Pleading with a. son on duty,
Urging him to be a man.
But unto her blue-eyed daughter,
Though with lovc’s words quite as willy.
Points she out the other duty——
"Strive, my dear, to be a lady."
What’s a lady ? Is it something
Made of hoops, and silks and airs,
Used to decorate the parlor.
Like the fancy rings and chairs 1’
I s it one that wastes on novels
Every feeling that is human ‘2”
If ’tis this to be a lady.
’Tls not this to be a woman.
‘ Mother, then. unto your daughter
Speak of something higher for
Than to be more fashion’s lady-—
“Woman ” is the brightest star.
I [ you in your strong affection,
Urge your son to be a true man,
Urge your daughter no less strengly
‘ To arise and be a woman.
Yes, a woman 1 Brightest model
or that high and perfect beauty,
Where the mind Iii soul and body
Blend to work out life’s great duty.
Be a woman ; naught; is higher
011 the gilded crest of time ;
On the catalogue of virtue
There's no brighter, holler. name.
Stooping To Wianim.
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The clock on the nearest. church
struck four, as a‘stylish private carriage
turned out of the throng on Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, and drew up be.
f'ore- the door- of a handsome brown-
stone mansion only a. few paces beyond.
The house was one of those fine,
imposing residences built before the
revolution, of which so few‘now remain.
Modern taste had revolutinized its
awkward aspect, in s: a measure, but
within it kept its staid, oldworld look
of luxurious comfort, offering to a
visitor its substantial chairs and sofas,
its cheery fires in tiled fireplaces, its
massive mahogany tables, and its
crimson-velvet draperies, in fashionif
not in actual material, unchanged from
the time of “ one hundred years ago.”
In one of the great arm-chairs before
the fire, a slight, pretty, fair-haired
girl, Of twenty-seven was lmmging with
a novel in her hand.
A servant entered—a smartly-dressed
French maid—bearing a. . beautiful
boquet on a silver salvcr.
“For me I” asked the young lady.
“No, Miss Isabel. It was left five
minutes ago by Capt. Joyce‘s servant.
I was coming up the steps just then,
. and he placed it in my care for Miss
GOMOVIGVC. ” .,
"‘ She has just come home,” said
Isabel Wardroper, shielding her face
with her book. “I heard the carriage
stop. You need not carry it up-stairs,
Estelle ; leave it on the side-table, and
when she comes I will give it to her.
\Vas there any message left with it?”
“ N 0 message, .Miss. ”
The girl laid down the flowers and
departed.
Isabel \Vradfiper listened a moment,
t-hcnrosc and took the boquet to the
window.
“As I expected,” she muttered.
“ Here is a letter—from him.”
Vlith a spiteful wrench of her white,
jeweled fingers she tore it open, and it
read as follows :—
“I could not say all I wished when
we last met, because your Cousin Isabel
joined us too soon.
“But you must have understood my
meaning, dearest Genevieve. YOII must
know that I love you—that I wish you
to be my wife. '
“If you consent, wear the white rose I
send you with this, in your hair, this
evening, at Mrs. Glenroy’s ball. If you
do not wear it I shall know my doom at
a glance, and you will never again be
annoyed by “ VICTOR J oxen."
Miss Wardropcr was a fatherless
heiress, the leader of her own “set,” the
queen of fashion, and in virtue of all
these things, an acknowledged “beauty, ”
as a matter of course.
Yet the face was positively ugly as
she bent over this most genuine love-
lettcr. The pretty blue eyes that could
give such shy, appealing glances at her
admirers, looked cold and hard as steel
now, and the small, white teeth caught
the under lip so sharply and savagely
that they drew blood. '
“Never shall she win you! Never
shall you triumph over me 1” she cried,
and thrust the letter and'the flowers
deep down into the glowing fire.
“What a peculiar perfume,” said
Genevieve, coming into the drawing-
room a few minutes later, looking fresh
and rosy after her long drive against the
wind. “ What is it llell ?”
‘ ‘ This paslillc, I suppose,” said Isabel
motioning toward the smoke that curled
from the miniature watch-tower, in
silver, on the table by her side. “What
shall you wear tO—night, Genevieve ?”
“White, of course,” said her cousin,
abscntly. ,
“Then I’ll lend you my pearl neck-
lace and bracelets, and those lovely
pins, with chain-drops for.your hair.
They will shown) great advantage in
your black braids,” said Isabel, speak-
ing in a kind, careless way.
“\Vill you?’ Genevieve’s eyes
brightened with pleasure at the thought
of looking well in the eyes she loved.
“You are so good to me, dear Isabel.
Every one is good and kind, I think. I
cannot imagine why people so Often say
and write that this is an unhappy world
of ours.”
She went singing up to her own
room to make some preparation for the
toilette of the evening.
Isabel's blue eyes followed her. An
evil Smile played around her pretty
mouth meanwhile.
“You will be wiser, soon, on that
point, Cousin Genevieve ; and it will be
my fault that you are so. But since one >
of us two must suffer in this business, I
am fully determined that it shall not'be
myself.” _ '
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“Infatuated! That is the proper
word to use, Iny dear," said Mrs. Ward-
roper, looking up from her breakfast at -
her daughter. “I never saw a man
more so, in my life. And no one could
wonder;no one in the ball-room could
compare with you, Isabel. That toilette
of rose-pink and diamonds was your
greatest success, and we need not
regret its cost now that our object is
attained.”
Isabel Wardroper glanced‘at her own
handsome face reflected in the pier
glass of their hired . lodgings in a
fashionable London square. Handsome,
it undeniably was. But there was a
W01‘11 look. about the eyes that hinted at
coming wrinkles, and that every morn-
‘ing her Parisian maid had found among
‘her bundant tresscs the first gray
hair. ,
“I hope you are not mistaken, ma-
ma," she said, dcspondentiy. “But
you must own yourself, that he is
very slow in speaking~ii§ indeed he
really has anything to say. I sometimes
think that it was Genevieve whom he
loved,” she added, trying to speak as
indifferently as she could.
"‘Gcnevicve! A mere unfouned
child, and a-Idepcudant on my kindness
to boot!” said Mrs. Wardropcr, half
angrily. “What next, Isabel? Why,
they met. It was at Mrs. Hunter 8 Dan.
I happened to be watching him at the
moment. He went up to her quite
eagerly as soon as he saw her enter the
rooms, and then his face changed; he
looked at her coldly, and barely spoke.
It was almost rude, ‘if such a man could
be guilty of rudeness. And I thought
Genevieve felt it, poor girl. She
colored to her eyes, and watched him
over her fan as he walked away, \.-.lI
quite a heart-broken look. And, to my
certain knowledge, she never met him
again, for he sailed the next week, for
Europe. Genevieve may have. been in
love with him—I '1; say no. A hand-
some, attractive man, and she a young
girl full Of romance—it would be noth-
ing strange. But he was not in love
with her, my dear—you may take my
word for that. And that is all you have
to consider in the matter you know. ”
Isabel listened in silence to this v‘"l¥-
meant attempt at consolation. She felt
utterly small, mean, and contemp'tiblc,
as a matter of course, but she had now
gone too far to recede. ,
That evening Isabel sat alone in her
boudoir, elegantly dressed, with a book
in her hand, while she did not even pro.
tend to read. Eager expectancy shown
from her eyes as Capt. Joyce was
ushered into the room.
He saw it and his heart smote him.
He had been going on idly, trying to
forget the heart wound that he had
While she, deeming him in earnest 1311'
the while,'had evidently given him her
heart.‘
“Why could not Genevieve have been
as afi'ectionato, as gentle, as susceptible
to kindness '2” thought he with a kind of
groan. '
And then, because the wound still
burned and throbbed at the thought of
that once beloved name, and because he
was angry with himself, and almost
ashamed Of the rare capacity for con-
stancy with which he was endowed, had
determined to put himself beyond the
spell of those memories forever, and so
said to Isabel the words that she had
been so longing to hear.
But even in thus repudiating the past,
its blissfulness and its pain, he was
namely and true, and said to her,—
“I will speak plainly once for all,
Isabel, because no such secret as this
ought to exist between us, if you become
my wife. Imust tell you the truth. I
loved your Cousin Genevieve dearly-—
Ifcar I love her yet. I left America
because she tacitly refused me, by
refusing to give me pledge of her affec-
tion that I asked. But I long to forget
her, Isabel, I long and pray to do so.
If you are willing to help me do this, be
my wife. I will be a true and loyal
husband to you, my dear, and from the
moment when you accept me, I will
never mention her name again in your
presence; and with you to brighten my
home, I have no doubt that I shall soon
be able to banish her image from my
heart. Are you willing to take me on
such terms? Look up and tell me,
Isabel, and be as sincere with me as I
have been with you, my dearest girl.” .
Sincere! How he would have stared
at her in utter wonder, if she had dared
to utter one tithe of the tumultuous
thoughts that were surging and boiling
in her undisciplined heart.
At that moment she felt that she
hated him, and that no power on earth
was strong enough to induce her to
become hiswife. But then came the
thought of her mother’s genteel pennry
and fastfailirfg health. During her
mother’s life, if she refused this offer,
they must both endIu'ea semi-martyr-
dom, in order to keep their proper place
in society. And after death, the annuity
expired, leaving Isabel alone in the
world, without a penny or a friend.
“It is my business to marry. My
feelings have nothing to do with the
matter,” she thought, swallowing down
her anger and her pride.
And that same evening, before she
retired, she gladdened her mother‘s
heart by flashing before her eyes the
magnificent diamond which was Capt.
Joyce’s gift as an Engagement ring.
*t‘t *t.# t*** tilt:
Six years after the news of her Cousin
Isabel's marriage to Victor Joyce had
reached and saddened Genevieve Clare, .
she satin her country home alone, one
evening in the beginning of spring.
Poverty Genevieve had known since the
death of her» parents. The bitter lesson
of dependence had been taught her dur-
ing the last months of her stay in her
Aunt War-dropcr’s house ; and love,
which should have cheered and soothed
her through all her trials and bereave«
ments, had been the deepest traitor of
the whole.
Genevieve no longer wondered why
people called the world an unhappy
place to live in: It had proved so to her,
and at times she had felt that she would
gladly lay down the burden of existence,
were it not a sin. .
But the years passed on. Strength to
bear and to suffer came to her by
degrees; and then gradually the suffer-
ing itself changed—mellowed, softened,
till at last she was scarcely conscious
that it was there.
On this evening she sat by a warm fire
in the tiny house which her own
industry had won, and thought great-
fully that at last she might call herself
at rest, at peace.
A jingle of sleigh—bells sounded out-
side the house. Some one knocked
loudly at the door. It was a messenger
from the railway station with a telegram
from Victor J oycc—Isabel’s husband.
“ Come to Isabel. She is dying. Says
she must see you. ”
This was all it said. The messenger
was to wait and 'drive her backin time
for the last express train. I
Like one in a dream Genevieve went
about, setting her house in order for an
absence of a few days, then dressed her-
self for the journey.
At midnight she stepped from the
train into the confusion of a crowded New
York depot. A hand took hers, a voice
said gently——
“ This way, Cousin Genevieve.” And
the next moment she was shut up in a
carriage with Victor Joyce, driving with
all speed toward his luxurious home.
“ There is not amoment to lose,” hesaid
as they alighted, speaking for the first
time. “ Will you come to her at once ?
Night and day her cry had been for
you."
They could hear it as they ascended
the staircase; but oh, how weak and
changed, how thin and. far away, were
the tones of poor Isabel’s voice, inces-
santly saying,-—~
‘ ‘Genovieve !
Genevieve? I cannot, dare not, die, till
I have seen her!”
Every one left the room in obedience
to Capt, J oycc’s sign, as Genevieve
entered. But when .110 would have
followed them his wife cried out, and
clutched him with her weak hands.
“Not you! You must stay and hear it
too, Victor 1"
Then she told story of the past.
“If you had gone to the ball, wear.
ing the flower as he asked you to, I
should not be lying here fie-day, and
you two would have had years of happi-
Ilcss together that can never come to you
now. Don’t you hate me? 'Can you
he scarqely spoke tqher the. last time
received, in Isabel’s pleasant society. ‘
Willno one send for.
ever forgive me? And then I llillelOb
even the excuse of my love for Victor to
hear me blameless! she went On. “I
married him because he was rich and
influential, and partly that you should
not be his wife, Genevieve —for I must
tell you the whole truth here on my dy~
ing bed. But oh, hbw I have been
punished! As his wife I learned how
noble and good he. was, I learned to love
him for himself alone. ~,And if there is
a torment beyond loving your husband
with your whole .Icart and soul, and
knowing that he never has loved, and
never will love you-—if there isa tor<
Inent that can exceed that in bitterness,~
in keenncss, tell me where, tell me
where!" she cried wildly, throwing her
wasted arms above her head.”‘"‘ It has
been so dreadful that I, who have loved
life so well, am glad to die l” '
“ My dear Isabel," began her husband
gently— ' , -
She interrupted him, seizing his hand
and Genevieve’s in a burning clasp.
“I know you have tried to love me,
Victor,” she 'said half bitterly, half ten-
derly. “And I am sure you will both
forgive me when I am dead. I join your
hands now. I, who have been the
tsObStflCle to your happiness OI! earth. It
is not yet too late. Kiss me once, my
husband, and then all will be over with
me, and you will belong to each other
here and in heaven, while I walk, xi
lonely and desolate spirit, by myself.”
With these strange words she died,
just as her husband left his parting kiss
upon her lips.
It was a crn°el and terrible scene.
But in timc'its memory and effect passed
away.
Genevieve is the happiest of wives
and mothers, Victor the proudest of
fathers, in their beautiful suburban
home. And awhite rose, tendered by
careful hands blooms yearly on poor
Isabel’s grave.
A SCRAP 0F TARTAI: HISTORY.
The remarkable swordmanship of the
Tartars is proverbial. Their favoritb
weapon is a long, curved cimetar, quite
different from that Of the Turks It is
made of the finest of steel, richly alloyed
silver, and a sword becomes an heirloom
in a family and descends to the first-borii
so long as the race exists. When the
last representative of the family dies his
sword, which may have come to him
from a hundred generations, is broken
and btu'ied with him. The blades of the
weapons, which are beaten out on an
onyx stone anvil iu the ancient Mogul
city of Taztchintzy, the Holy Place, are
very thin, and the wonderful feats per-
formed with them are astonishing.
Once when Robe, the cousin of the
great Mogul, was caught in a rebellion,
his execution was ordered. The most
skillful swordsman of the empire was
provided for tho beheading, and the
Great MOgul and his court assembled to
see it. For a second the keen Tartar
blade flashed in the sunlight, and then
dcccnded upon the bare neck of Hobo,
who stood upright to receive the stroke.
The sharp steel passed through the ver-
tebrae, musclcs‘nd organs of the neck, ,
but so swift was the blow and so keen
the blade that the head did not fall, but
kept its exact position, and not a vital
organ was disturbed. In surprise the
Great Mogul exclaimed : “What, Robo,
art thou not beheaded ‘2"
“My lord,‘ I am," replied Robo, “but
so long as- I keep my balance right my
head will not fall off.” The Great
, Mogul was so pleased with the deftncss
of the executioner that he ordered a
bandth to be tied on, and Robo
speedily recovered. He afterward
becamca loyal subject, and was made
cushicrof the empire, because, as the
Great Mogul remarked: “He knows
that if he keeps his balances right his
head will not come off.” It is one of
those curious scrapsnf history that are
often overlooked.
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TRICKS IN ALL TRADES.
The imitative quality of the Chinese
extends even to counterfeiting European
and American labels and trade-marks,
says a letter writer in Hong Kong. The
knowledge of certain small articles of
foreign make has caused a desire for
them in China, and an effort to imitate
them. SO we find at the small shops
Chinese-made clocks and watches, and
at the stands of the street vendor, combs
tooth brushes, shoe-horns, pocket
cutlery and razors, which are vastly
inferior to the foreign goods, but as
the price is as low as the quality is poor,
no one can reasonably complain. The
knives and razors often bear very dis-
tinctly the brands of Sheffield firms,
whose names are household, words
wherever the English language is
spoken. These knives are sold for 5 or
6 cents each, while the razors, Sheffield
brand and all, can be bought for 15
cents. The last- implements are rougely
made, and to the thin-skinned man a
torture to look at, but with the other
articles enumerated they show to what
an extent Chinese manufactures can be
carried; and at what rates, defying
competition, they can be furnished to
the consumers. The reasons why the
Chinese can make and sell so cheaply
as to putcompetition entirely out of
the question are the cheapness of their
food and clothing. Their economical.
or more justly, their sordid habits, have
been so often described in the general
discussion Of the Chinese question in
America as to render all detail unneces-
sary.
PERFUMES ., AND DISINFECTION.
Prof. Mantegazzi found that nearly
1.11 the essences used in perfumery, and
many othcrsnot appropriated by the
perfumer, when exposed to air and
light, develop ozone. He says that “the
)xidation of these‘ essences is one of the
most convenient means Of producing
ozone; since, even when in every minute
quantity of oxygen, while their action
is very persistent ; that in the greater
number of cases the essences, in order
to develop ozone, require‘ the direct
my”: the sun; in asmall number of
cases they effect the change" with difi'us- '
ed light; in few or none in darkness.”
Even a vessel that has been perfumed
with an essence and afterwards washed
and dried, still develops ozone, provided
a. slight odor remains. The most effec-
tive essences are those of cherry, laurel,
palma rosa, cloves, lavender, mint,
juniper, lemons, fennel, and bergamot;
the less effective are unisc, nutmeg,
cajeput, and thyme. Mantegazzi adds
that “camphor, as an ozonogcnic agent,
is inferior to any of the above-named
essences." These facts should be better
known than they are. Our grandmothers-
used perfumes a! disinfectants, and
ozone being the mast effective of ox-
idizing disinfectants, it appears they
were right. ,In the East, where there
is much need for atmospheric purifica-
tion, the old faith in perfumes still re-
mains. With us- it is now generally
supposed that such perfiunes merely
hide the malodour and deceive us, but
if Mantega'zzi and Dr. Anders are right
his modern notion is a. fallacy.
' ———-—-o-oeo-»—-—
An Irishman says he can s'oc no earthly
reason why woman should not be
allowed to become medical men.
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MIARRYING 0N SRIALL MEANS.
Young people who really love each
other see more of the sentimental ill-~11
the sordid side Of poverty. A man in a
vague way realizes that if he chooses to
marry on less than a certain income, he
must be economical as to luxuries and
cigars; give up, if pOSSible, tailors’ and
florists’ bills, and live ina very much
smaller house then most Of his friends;
but of what discomforts and privations
the smaller house will entail he has
generally but little idea, He will
gayly declare his perfect willing-
ness to substitute a cheap ready
money tailor for his aristrocratic
long—credit Schneider, and his flill ac
quiescence in Angy‘s wearing calico.
dresses instead of tailor-made dresses
and French “ confections, " but will not
realize that small means entail thinking
of every item in the washing bill (a fact
that at once puts the” calico dresses out
of count,) Of every loaf in the baker's
and every penny in the books, .and that
the tiny house will necessitate instant
and continual acquaintance with every
cooking effort of the establishment, and,
worse than all that, a perpetual con~
ciousness of his children’s existence.
who, if healthy, will make a playground
of the whole house, laughing, shouting
and generally upsetting everything
(especially temper.) or if sickly, crying
and fretting incessantly for want of the
comforts and attention the mother and
the one servant will be utterly unable to
give. Grimes thispioturo is, .it is a
true one, as many with far more than a
thousand dollars a year will testify.
But if Edwin must count the cost, so,
too, must Angelina. Her share will be
no light one, though perhaps easier
borne than his. 3113 must learn to
look into things in a minute and search-
ing way that her old, easy lifewill make
dreadful trying; darning and plain sew-
ing'will have to replace the pretty fancy
work of old days; she must bear to see
her children go without dozens of things
she as a child deemed absolute necessi-
ties (thank God! the children will not
be the worse, really,) while if she is
the loving wife she should be she will
be worried for her husband, and last,
but not least,\ must make up her
mind to forego' most if not all, the
pleasant society and variety of her
girlish life. A woman need not be very
worldly to regret keenly the loss of the
old intellectual enjoyments she prized
so highly. It is not only the gayety
she misses, but the exchange of thought
and the freshening and brightening of
her mind by intercourse with her social
and mental equals, and, unfortunately,
the cleverer and brighter she is the
more she will feel the want, and long
(unconsciously perhaps, but none the~
less surely) for other than domestic
thoughts and household worries, and
another kind of literature than those
wretched red honscbooks. The result
of this, it will be said, is, according to
you, that no one should marry on small
means. Not so, altogether. Happiness
is perfectly compatible with a straight;
cued income, only do not rush into such
a state without counting the cost before-
hand, not only for yourself, but for
each other and your children.
A RIARKET FOR OLD HATS.
A group of islands known as the
Nicobars’ situated about 150 miles south
of the Andamans. Lhaswbcennbut little.
explored, though the manners“ and
customs Of the inhabitants of these
islands offer very interesting peculiari-
ties to the notice of the cth'nologists.
One of the most noticeable of these, and
one which seriously affects the trade of
the islands, is the passion for old hats.
which, without exception, prevades the
whole framework of society. N 0 one
is exempt from it. Young and old,
chief and subject, , alike endeavor to
outvie each other in the singularity of
shape no less than in the number of old
hats they can acquire during their life-
time. On a fine morning at the Nicobar’s
it is no unusual thing to see the surface
of the ocean in the vicinity of the
islands dotted over with comes, in each
of which the noble savage, with nothing
whatever on but the conventional slip,
of cloth and a tall ,white hat with a
black band, may be watched standing
up and catching fish for his daily meal._
Second~hand hats are most in request,
new hats being looked upon with sus
picion and disfavor. This curious
passion is so well known that traders
from Calcutta make annual excursions
to the Nicobars with cargbos of old hats,
which they barter for cocoanuts, the
only products of these islands, 9. good,
tall white hat, with a black band, fetch-
ing from fifty-five to sixty-five good
cocoanuts. Intense excitement per-
vades the island while the trade is going
on, and fancy prices are often asked
and obtained. When the hats or cocoa-
nuts havefit length come to an end, the
trader generally lands a cask or two of
rum, and the whole population in their
hats get drunk without intermission
until the rum also comes to an end. It
is curious that in those far away regions
so profitable a market should be found
for cast-ofi' specimens of one symbol of
civilization. The same yearning after
better things in a more advanced stage
may debbserved in Madagascar, where
no ofi'icer is content if he cannot deck
himself out in the tarnished plumage of
some long defunct admiral, general, or
ambassador.
M”—
THE GOLD-BEATE‘R’S ART.
If a sheet of gold leaf is held up
against the light it appears to be a vivid
green color; this means that the light is
transmitted through the leaf. When it
is considered that this leaf is a piece of
solid metal, a better idea of the extreme
tenuity Of thickness of the leaf can be
comprehended than by any comparison
by figures ; nothing made by the hand of
man equalsit in thinness. The extreme
thinnessis produced by patient hammer-
ing, the hammers weighing from seven
to twenty pounds, the lighter hammers
being first need. When the true method
of this beatingis understood, the wonder
expressed. sometimes that gold-leaf
beating should not be relegated to
machinery, ceases; the art belongs to
the highest department of humanskill
and‘ judgment. Apprentices have
served a term, and have been compelled
to abandon the business, because they
never could acquire the requisite skill
and judgment combined necessary to
become successful workmen.
‘-
I’ECULIAR .ETIQUETTE.
A recent traveller in Central Africa
states that it is not etiquette to eat fish
at Timbuctoq, though the river
abounds with it. At the same city the
two rival indigenous systems of African
currency come into collision—salt and
eowries. To remedy the scarcity of the
native circulating medium, enormous
importations have been made from the
Maldive islands and Zanzibar. The
traveler bought an ass for twenty-nine
thousand cowries, and, as they each had
to bebountcd, he needed all the patience
of his beast.
} .
. confines...A_-pnrca .0: —gaor1u_hasmfn-.he, , .
(accept a diamond bracelet and the
- do not stand to lose ; they may win and
CUTTING A TUNNEL.
Describing the work on a large tunnel
in Pennsylvania, a correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times gives this aécoimt of
the manner in which the work is
pushed: '
“Inside the tunnel a bustling scene is1
presented. The racket and rumble of
the drills, the hdrry and flurry of labor,
the shouts of the engineers giving
instructions to the men, the yells of tho
car-drivers to the mules moving
mysteriously with their loads through
the dark, the flickering of wandering
lights, the ceaseless drip of water from
the cold rOof above and the possibility
of rocks falling down upon one at any
moment, make up an experience novel,
indeed, to the uninitiated. One set of
men work from 6;o’clock in the morning
until 6 in the evening, and are then
relieved by another set; who work all
night until 6 in the morning. Not a
moment is lost. Everything is hurried
forward: Workman have no chance to
dolly, for time is eminently money in
making a tunnel, Men get killed or
laid up, but tlIeé-work goes right on.
Large masses of rock sometimes crum-
ble from the roof "and come crashing
down, sometimes killing a man or. two...
sometimes net. Lately, owingij'ltlii the
thawing of frost-bound rocks and to the
spring rains, accidents of this kind have
been unusually frequent.
All ’the latest improved machinery is
used. A mammoth steam shovel is
operated in loading trucks with earth
and rocks. This tunnel is to have a
double track. No coal or ore Of any
kind has yet been struck in the tunnel,
notwithstanding Tuscarora Mountain
and the neighboring mountains were
believed to contain hematite. The
rocks cutout of the tunnel are all of
slate formation, with an Occasional
admixture of limestone and soapstone
These rocks are piled up in vast banks a
shOrt distance frOm the portals of the
tunnel. The masses of slate, diversely
tinted, placed side by side, dark blue,
gray, red, brown and sage green, form
to the eye a pretty contrast of color.
About 600 men are employed on this
tunnel and about the same number 011
each of the other large tunnels in the
neighborhood. ’Every man wears
rubber boots for protection against the
water, which collects on the floor of the
tunnel. An average man wears out
fifteen or twenty pairs of boots in a year;
The, majority of the men are newly-
importcd Italians and Hungarians.
There are some few Swedes and a
number Of negroes and white Americans
from Virginia and Maryland. The men
of each nationality encamp in the
settlements here by themselves. Most
of the negroes are accompanied by their
families, but among the foreigners there
are but few women and no children.
They live in very close quarters, some.
times upward of fifty of them‘livin‘g
together in one shanty, where thpy
cook, cat and sleep in a single apart-
ment, without screens or partitions.
BRIBERY.
Incommerce bribery is called com-
mission. Of course I do not refer to
the openly charged commission of brok-
ers, merchants, ,or others. It is the
secret commissions that are bribes.
I’Vhen domestic servaiits take comission
from tradesmen " they merely follow a
custom of commerce that prevails in the
city of London and other commercial
worked Off. It is a bargain, but still the
buyer seems tohesitate about purchas-
ing the lot for his firm.’ The seller in
an abstracted manner counts 50 gold
likenesses of the Queen into a. bag and
quite abstractedly drops the bag in the
buyer’s pocket. Then the buyer. buys.
Or the buyer knows ‘an old soldier who
has deserved well of his country and
who is poor. The benevolent and
patriotic seller begs the buyer to give
the old soldier £20 or £30, and after that
softening deed 'bf charity the buyer
buys. It is not worth while to
notice the dinner bribing, except to
observe that some men are wonderfully
influenced by a. free meal. A man who
might resist the allurement of aten—
ponnd note is bribed by a one-pound
dinner. I am acquainted with a suc-
cessful promoter. He has retired from
the profession with a fortune, and has
become a very stern moralist. He has
known of 20 commissions being paid or
arranged before a property could be
sold to a company, or rather a company
got up to buy the property. How did
he induce men of position to become
directors‘ of inferior companies, of
enterprizes that were 'nearly sure to be
wound up? Oftenthrough the wives. He
was not a ladies' man, but he supposed
that no one had bought and given
away so many jewels. Get ’the wife to
husband would be sure to accept a seat
at any board. “Besides, the directors
they. have their fees, besides the
douceurs and commissions.” It
appears that appointments are sold, and
the money paid for an appointment is
called a douceur. Commissions are
secret gifts or allowances from those'who
sell to the company. The douceurs and
the commissions are divided among the
guinea pigs. I cannot vouch for the
correctness of those statements, but cer-
tain it is that gentlemen Of social posi-
tion have been induced to act as limited
bubble decoy ducks, and- the directors
of smashed limiteds seem to flourish.
MON——
THE CURIOSITIES on BURNING.
There are many'curiosities Of burn-
ing, of extraordinary rapidity of com-
bustion, which would be worth detailing
if we had the space. Bad building is the
cause of most, for bad building means
rapid destruction by fire. The party
wall in the majority or old houses built
inarow, and in many new, does not
reach to the roof, as it should, and the
space between creates a channel—
almost a blowpipe—for the spread of the
fire to the next, which is very difficult
todeitl with. It is a danger provided
against 'by legislation (for it is known
that a 0-inch brick wall will resist fire as
long as it stands), but often through
carelessness it is overlooked. In France,
under the Code Napoleon, the build- .
ing ofapropcr party-wall has alWays
been very strictlyenforced, and even in
the terrible days of the Commune there
was no instance of fire spreading from
one house to the. other. A biqiildifig,1r with
a large. frontage of windows—a large
shop, for instance, with showrooms on
each floorjis' one of the most dangerous
with which the brigade have to cope.
The glass soon cracks and falls out, the
air rushes in, and the whole soon be-
comes one vast blast furnace. Perhaps
the most dangerous of all are those lofty
establishments of flats, which very
properly go by the name of the builder’s
or proprietor‘s folly. There is no one
spot in them free .from or unlikely to
catch fire, for they are collections of
private houses, as it'were, and every
part Of a private hoube is equally vul-
nerable, and from their great height
there arcneither ladders long enough or
water-jets powerful enough to reach the
PETER L. GUIGUE,
FLORIST till] 8
UNION AVENUE,
’North of Norwaik Cemetery,
HQRWQEK, .. CONN.
Dealer in In Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and Ornamen
tal Trees Shrubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers alway
on hand and allsorts of designs in Flowers arranged
to order. 41y!
. Grading and Rcifilling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to.
_ - S..B.- WILSON.
Carpenter's Builder,
Steam Band 8r. Scroll Sawing,
WindowFrames, Blinds. 6w. .
Packing Boxes, Mouldings and
Brackets Made to Order
Orders by Telephone or Mail promptly attended to
.. first-Blast Tuning lane to Ul‘iltl‘.
Shop and. Residence, 11, Summer, Street,
”“9 Nor-walk, Gonn.
ROOMS TO LET on moderate terms to the right
parties, in first-class neighborhood. Apply to
S. 1:. WILSON.
BERNARD COHN,
.1.
WEEK'S BUILDING, WALL STREET.
A FULL LINE or
Imported and Domestic Gloths.
Of the.Latest Slyies, constantly on hand.-
Novelties In Scotch Suiting. Satisfaction guaran-
teed in every pai‘tlcular.
Seven Years Experience in U. S. Patent Office.
Geo. R. Byington,
SO LICITOR Oi“
PETER-5T3,
Firehmn’s Inca-ta um Building,
WASHINGTON. D. c'.
Dr. LESLlE’S
SPECIAL PRESCRIPTIUNS
SICK
HEADACHE
SEASICKNESS.
TESTIMONIALS:
Tnor, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1850.
S. B. ARCHER—Dear Sir : ‘I have suffered from
Nervous Sick Headache all my life. Nothing gave
me rehef until I tried Dr. Leslie’s Special Prescrip-
tion for Sick Headache. Have used it for the past
five years and it works like a charm. 'l‘rnly yours,
JOIIN N.FEAsr, with W. II.Frear.
1352 River street, Troy, N. Y., Sept. 12, 135%.
S. B. ARCHER—Dear Sir: For over twenty years
I have been troubled with sick headache, having
an attack every two weeks which confined me to
my bed for two or three days each time, and I have
been unable to find anything that would help me
until I tried Dr. Leslies Special Prescription about
a year ago; since then I have had but one attack,
and that was caused by overwork and anxiety over
the sickness of my daughter. I can therefore
heartily recommend it to all alliicted with head-
ache. Yours sinceseiy,
CHARLOTTE PE’I‘RY.
SS2 River street, Troy, N; Y., Sept. 6, 1884.
S. B. ARCHER—Sir: In reply to yours asking
whether I had any more trouble with headache
will say that I have not been troubled with it in all
the five ears and that m
Eran proveamnnrreer
she’s Special Prescription.
Yours very truly
CHARLOTTE PETRY.
0N E DOLLA R !
FOP. SALE 11"
GEO. B PLAISTED. ‘
1134011111111 and SOUTH NUHWMK.
F1111 II
THE BEST
ficperal health has
PIE-ICE.
Potato Fertilizer.
Bradley’s Supeipbspiaie,
Mapu’ Special Fertiliurs,
Pacific (halo,
Gianni Bale.
BI 11 t,
South Norwalk.
JOHN ll. Slil'l'H,
FLORIST,
EAST SIDE or MAIN STREET, SOUTH
or RAILROAD, '
City of South Norwnlk. Comm
Plants‘& Flowers at all seasons
Flowers for Funerals furnished and tastefully
arranged to order at short notice.
Send six cents for postage, and re-
A PRIZEceive free, a costly box of goods
which will help you to more money
right away than anything else in this world. All of
either sex, succeed from flrsthonr. The broad road
to fortune opens befofe the workers,absolntcly sure
at once address, TRUE & 00., Augusta, Maine.
Pour, Whit" all Giannini,
BANKERS.
Orders executed for cash or on margin
for all sccuritcs current in the New
York market. Correspondence
'Invited. . ' . -
MEMBERS or TUENEW YORK STook Ex-
CHANGE, AND PROPRIETORS or “Poon’s
MANUAL or’ RAILwArs,”
45 Wall Street, New York. 1y41
Nmor nioney than at anything else by taking
I an agency or the best selling book out. Be-
ginners succeed grandiy. None falz. Terms free
top stories.
HALLET BOOK 00., Portland, Maine.
YMAN,
'—M-ERCHANT~ TAILOR,—’""
Extension Casi-s before Coligrcss a Specialty
'5 REAL ESTATE.
_fi
For Sale Cheap. ‘
ILL be sold at a Bargain?“ applied for soon
a small, neat Cottage, of six: come, in good
neighborhood and three Ininntes’ walk of the
bridge. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE.
Building Lats
0n“ 'WiltounAVenue
Alto"
”ii,
a. J. sTuuous. or‘o. E. WILsON,
GAZETTE BUILDINQV 4n
Money tOILoan.
Enquire of o. E. wusomiioé ‘9’ Gazette unim-
ng, Norwalk, Conn. ’; . I. g - tle.
3” ‘ [9315; 9"
A Ches, lit Standing-Desk. Apply at
THIS OFFICE.
ADOUBLE BARRELLED RIFLE made by John
For Sale.
Blissctt, London. Will be sold cheap for-
Enqnire at this 001cc. '
FOR SALE.
NE two seated square box side bar wagon.
cash.
One light inmberhox wagon.
One second-hand square box wagon.
One one-horse cart.
“46
w. E. QUINTABD,
'FURNISHING [lllDERTAKER
OPPOSITE HORSE 1:. R. DEPOT,
Residence 143 Main Street. Telephone Connection.
A. LYON, Knight Street.
GE°.'WARD SELLECK,
unnesusaoows BLOCK. WALL smear,
FAMILY GROCERIES.
ALEX. S. GIBSON,
Organist of the Fix-St Congregational Church,
Teacher of
Pianoforte, Organ and Musical
Gbmposition,
Lock BOX 3 I‘. 0., NOR‘VALK. CONN.
J. BELDEN ,HURLBUTT. I
Attorney and Unnatural Law,
Room No. 4, Up Stairs.
GAZETTE BUILDING, .NORWALK, CONN
DRUN KEN N ESS
Outed in its.Various Siames-
Desire for stimulants entirely removed. Home
treatment. Medicine can be administered without
knowledge of patient, by simply placing it in cof~
ice, tea or any article of food. Cures guaranteed.
Mild Will. 3%". Pill
lor any case of drunkenness that Golden Specific
wll not cure. Circulars containing testimonials
and full particulars sent free. Address,
GOLDEN SPECIFIC 00.,
1y29 185 Race Street, Cincinnati, O.‘
Q
And. Government Claims. my
Sale Business. Thousands have
Rights Neglected.
ADDRESS, Free of Charge,
Gemw. E. NOBLE, Bridgeport
‘TNA IS URANCE 00., of HARTFORD.
incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
CAPITAL AND ASSETS, $8,902,272.64.
Insures against loss and damage by Fire, on
terms adopted to the hazard and consistent with
the laws of compensation. COWLES .1: MERRILL,
Sole Agents for Norwalk and vicinity. ,
A 0.165.251 D.
Having purchased the
FURNITURE BUSIN ESS,
Recently carried on by WILLIAM Locuwoon at
No. 36 MAIN STREET.
I am prepared to meet the wants of all prospective
purchasers of furniture, both STAPLE AND
ORNAMENT“. llhave on hand a large
stock which I will sell
my CHEAP FOR CASH.
Ishall be pleased to meet all old or new friends
- and will guarantee satisfaction in
every case.
3szl'l.“..OR.GE H. RAYMOND.
F. 11. PEC'K WELL,
. ARCHITECT,
N0. 7 WATER STREET,
. AGENTTOR
Gilbert Lock Company.
Dibble Manufacturing Company’s door.
knobs.
New York Wood Turning Company.
Corner Blocks for window casings.
Round and Square Turned Balusters.
is It u , u NO‘VOIS.
Plain and Double Moi'Ilded Stair Rails.
Also‘Il‘lat Moulded Deer and Window
Casings furnished at short notice.
W. H. ZIIEEIIER.
54 Main Street,
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN,
Practical Plumber,
Steam and Gas Fitters, Dealers in Plumbers’ and
' Steam Fitters’ Supplies, and Gas Fixtures.
Jobbing promptly a tended to. 1y21
NEW IHARKET}
No.6 Main Street, Nos-walk, Ct.
THE BEST OF
3...; Veal, Mutton, Lamb, Pork,
IIAMS, POULTRY, .kc., always on hand at the
very lowest market prices. GAME of all kinds in
its season. ’l‘ry me; I will try to suit. W. F.
LOCKWOOD. late with Adams Bros. 6m45
FOR SALE.
A STYLISH
VICTORIA,
.Newly Trimmed and Painted.
A Fine Family Carriage.
Will be sold at a very low price.
HENRY TILLY,
CARRIAGE MAKER,
SOUTH NORVVALK.
CURED.——PEET .0 (30., 501 Sixth Ave., Cor. 80th
St., New I'ork. New Method. Holds any case
with ease and comfort. Relief at once. Parties
attended to‘and return home same day. Also, Va-
ricocelewnhont sur ical operation. Advice free.
Open day and even ug. Sundays till 2 1). III. Es-
tablished 15 years. Book for 2 cent stamp. 1y9
for working people. Sénd 10 cents p03
HELPage, and we will maii'you flee, ‘a roya
valuable sample box of goods that wi
put you-in-the way of making more money in a few
days than you ever thought possible at any business
Capital not required. ‘You can live at home and
work in spare time only, or all the time. All of both
sexes, of all ages,grandly successful, 50 cents to £2”
easily earned every evening, That all who want
work may test the business, we make this unparal-
leled offer: To all who are not well satisfied we will
send $1 to pay for the trouble of writing us. Fui'.
particulars, directions etc., sent free. Immense pay
absolutely sure for all who start at once. Don’tde-
lay. Address, STINSON at 00., Portland, Maine.
.r-.:.'_'.. f I"
b
q
l
punts
AbsolutelyPure‘;
Tum rowficr nevcryariee. Amarve'. or. pure
strength, and wholesomeness. More economic
than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be soldin cOm
petition with the multitude of low test, ski)
weight allnm or phosphatepoWders. ' :
our. Burma POWDERCO.. 106 Wall at, N.
‘ ' ' ' 1y43
. j 1/“ -
To Rein. '
Three Ro’oms suitable for a small family on Main
street, Borough. Apply to
J. _B. ELLS, Furniture Dealer.
For Sale.
A Small House with about one acre of ground at
Broad River. Opposite Mrs. James Panton’s.
Apply to J. B. ELLs, Furniture Dealer.
A Small Cottage ‘I
With plot of ground at Winnipank, ForSale Cheap.
Enqmre of J. 1; Bus, Furniture Dealer.
r A' Small Farm
For Sale Cheap. The old Benjamin Bishop Home-
stead at North Norwalk, or old road to Silver Mine,
consisting of Plow, Meadow, Pasture and Wood
Land, Will be sold as a. whole, or in parcels to suit
pturcpasers. A good chance to secure a' home-
s eat .
. Apply t9 J. B. ELLs, Furniture Dealer.
Building Lots
Within 1 mile of the Center. A number of desira-
ble and eligible Building Lots near the residence of
Chas. Kellogg, Esq., and Broad River District
School. Enquire of
J. B. ELLs, Furniture Dealer.
For Sale.
House and Lot'opposite residenée of Charles E.
St. Johp, Main street, Lot 70 feet front.
Apply to J. B. ELLS, Furniture Dealer.
For sale.
The Homestead of the Subscriber, No. S Camp
street. Good, new House and Barn, 100 feet front
on street. Apply to
Successor to A‘
. E. Quifltard’sSon.
AT THE OLD STAND
opposite Horse Railway'llepol,
Parlor Suits,
BUFFALO LOUNGLS.
‘ and Williams,
Folding Carpet ROCkers.
WalnutChairge’lIAHOCKers.
Upholstered Easy Chairs
Chamber Suits.
CYLINDER ROLL TOP DESKS, LA-
DIE’S DESKS, and DESKS and BOOK
CASES COMBINED, LIBRARY, MAR-
BLE TOP, CENTER, and WALNUT and
A811 EXTENSION TABLES.
Plush Top Stands.
FOLDING BED,
Wire Beds and Cots.
Hair. Cotton, Wool, Rattan and Excelsior
Mattresses, Pillows, Bolsters, die.
Husks, large or small quantity
Live Geese Feathers,
Call and Examine when in want of
anything in my line.
Joseph B. Ells,
HE FELL will: STREETS
KENNEDY’S FAVORITE REMEDY.
Cures a Terrible Case of Gravel When Other
Help Failed.
PI'I'rerELD, Mass, March 1834.
Dr. David Kennedy: '
DEAR SIR :—You have a right to know and I
desire the public to know my experience with
Gravel, and my remarkable recovery through the
use Of your “FAVORITE REMEDY.” I am a
carpenter living in this place, and there are plenty
Of witnesses to the truth of what I' say. My first
comparatively slight attack Of Gravel was in the
year 1878. It passed away. and I had little more
trouble until last July, 1883. One day when at
work in my shop I was suddenly seized witha
keen and terrible pain in my left side. I consulted
two physicians at once. One said: “I can do
nothing for you. Your case is incurable l" I was
frightened and went to the second, who said little,
but gave me a prescription. It did no good.
Then began a series of experiences the agony
and horror of which words cannot depict. Think
of it. I was sometimes taken in the street, and
would fall, writhing witnagony, upon the side—
walk. It was death in life. Thank licaven.I then
heard of “KENNEDY’S FAVORITE REMEDY,"
through Mr. P. P. Cooley. I had not used half a
bottle when I passed three stones in succession,
one of which was 'riy one-half an inch long.
I persevered with e medicine, the symptons
gradually abated, and I have had no more trouble
since. I am well. thanks to you and “FAVORITE
REMEDY.” Yours most gratefully,
JAMES D. KENNEDY.
What “FAVORITE REMEDY” did in this case
it has done in many others. If you desire to do so
Address—Dr. David Kennedy, Rondont, N. Y.
MALARIA.
V As an antl~malarial medicine
DR. DAVID IEEHNEBY'S
FAVORITE REMEDY
has won golden Opinions. NO traveler should con
sider his outfit complete unless it includes a bottle or
this medicine. If you are, exposed to frequent
changes of climate, food and water, Favorite Remedy
should always be within our reach. It cxpcls ma-
larial poisons. and is the est reventative of chills
and malarial fever in the \vorl . It Is especial] ot-
fered as a trustworthy specific for the cure of K1 ney
and Liver complaint“. Constipation and all disorders
arising from an impure state of the blood. To women
who suffer from any of the ills peculiar to their sex
Favorite Remedy is constantly proving itself an un-
failing friend—a real blessin . Ad the reprie-
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. 05. by all drumm-
$2 00 ouncents postage, and by mail you will
i getfrce a package of goods of large
value, that will start you in work that Will at once
bring you in money faster than anything e.se ~in
America. All about the $200,000 in presents With
each box. Agents wanted everywhere, of either
sex, of all ages, for all the time or spare time only,
to work for us at their own homes. Fortqpes (fir
all workers absolutely assured. Don’t do ay. ‘ .
HADLET‘X‘ .k‘Co.,‘Portland, Maine.
133: o r a e Shoelng.
_ WM. McCORMACK,
No. 111 MAIN ST, NORWALK.
Shoeing in all its branches guaranteed to be done
in the best manner. Special attention paid to in-
terfering, or tender footed horses. All work war-
ranted. Givc us a call. 1y39
( III presents given away. send us 5
THE DEADLY TEA.
W. Mattieu Williams, in a series of
articles on food and cookery in “ Know-
ledge," has finally Come to tea, and there
he hits all civilized people in a tender
spot. In truth, the scientific view of
what ought to eaten, and how it. should
be prepared, is so at variance with what
we do eat, and the manner. of its prep-
aration, that one is led to marvel there
issound digestion and an unimpaired
stomach in all civfl ization. Asa mat-
ter of fact, in view. of the startling
revelations as to the deadly character of
our customary food, it is to be wondered
. at that we are not an extinct race. Ac-
cording to Mr. Williams, .of all the life-
shortening, brain~destroying articles
which man is using, tea is one of the
, most dangerous, destructive and deadly.
This is the infusion which Cibber apos-
trophizes in fervent words : “ Tea! thou
soft, thou sage, thou sober, and vener-
able liquid; thou female tongue-running.
smile-smoothing, heat-opening, wink-
tipping cordial, to whose glorious insi.
pidity I owe the happiest moment of my
life, let me fall prostrate,” Nor is Cibber
the only writer : who - has invoked
panegyric to aid in expressing
admiration Of this “cup which
cheers but does not inebria ;"
literature is interspersed with laudations
of the bowl over which fair women
gossip, whose existence is far greater
than the area of civilization, whose
inspiration cheers the souls of the
millions of China, and carries warmth
through all portions of the frozen
steppes of Siberia and Russia. ,
The active principle of tea is a “crystal-
line alkaloid, the t/zez'm, a compound
belonging to the same class as strych-
nine, and a. number of similar vegetable
poisons.” This is the character of the
drink which is served at least once a day
on every table in civilization. That
which delicate women by the million sip
is a deadly alkaloid, of the same class
as strychnine, a drug so deadly that
the mere mention of its name sends a
shudder through the listener as would
the sudden appearance of some hideous
reptile. “The “essential action of tea.
is to waste the syaem, or consume food
by promoting vital action which it does
not support; and worse than this is the
fact that while arsenic, a deadly poison,
will produce the same effect on the
human system as tea—that is, it, like tea,
checks the waste of tissue, and has the
, effect tomake food appear to go further. "
The writer takes up the matter of tea
stimulation, and shows that it acts the
same as tobacco, the betelnut, hasheesh
in certain quantities, and various other
produces of exaltation, all of which Mr.
Williams lumps together under the head
of “vice-drugs.”
FIRE HISTSRY OF THE BRICtlDE.
J.—
Of the measures taken for the suppres-
sion of that stupendous conflagration,
the great fire of London, the only
appliance with which we are concerned
as at all approaching modern gear was a
squirt of three feet long, capable of dis-
charging half a gallon of water, an
instrument presumably of some service,
since by act Of Parliament of 1668 one
was ordered to be kept in every ward,
and for the working of which the Alder-
man of that ward was made directly
responsible. If he did not set it in
action himself he was at any rate bound
to see it done, as nowadays the Sheriff,
. who has always been held responsible for
the execution of cr1m1' 'nals, must atherw, _
I; .. . n. 1....4- nation of the
law or provide an efficient substitute.
Thissquirt was the first step towards
fire engines in England, though for
some few years they had been already
knownin Germany ; for in 1657 Hautsch,
Of Nurembnrg, invented a kind of
I sledge. water cistern, the pumps of
which were worked by 20 or 30 men, a
machine subsequently improved upon
by the - brothers Ver' Heyden, of
Amsterdam, when in 1672 they intro-
duced the flexible hose, the whole the
prototype of the manual fire engine still
in use. Of these cumbrous German
an'angments the insurance companies,
dating in this country from 1681, were
the first to avail themselves, beginning
with the Hand in Hand in 1699, and in
1720 including the Sun, the Union, the
Westminister, the London, and the
Royal Exchange, all of which by that
time had men of their own, and engines
amounting altogether to 30. In the
meantime, by an act of 1707, each parish
was directed to keep a fire engine, and
a system of fire rewards was created for
the first three to arrive on the spot—305.
for the first, 205. for the second, 105. for
'the third, and a sum not exceeding 103.
for the first tnrncock. In 1774, by the
l 14 Geo. III. e. 78, there were required
to be in every parish two engines, one
large and one small, a leathcrn pipe and
five ladders, the whole under the
management of the beadle and charity
boys, of whom, when at work. George
Cruikshank? has made a well-known
drawing. How far the act was enforced
there is nbthing to show, for there is no
record of prosecution, indictment, .or
penalties. The attendance of the
engines was not compulsory outside of
their own parish. and indeed the whole
appears tohave been for many years
practically a dead letter, with the excep-
tion Of Hackney, where a brigade was
maintained by a half penny rate ata
cost of £500 a year.
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ELECTRICITY APPLIED T0 BIG GUNS.
The revolution which electricity is
destined to make in modern warfare is
as yet only in its infancy. The latest
invention of Mr. Maxim is, however, an
earnest of the things that yet shall be.
The invention is an electrical training
gear, so contrived that by the simple
movement Of the handle the heaviest
gun may be turned by a single man, and.
with the greatest ease, in any directiorffi
You pull a handle to the right, and tl‘ e
breach of the gun moves to the right; to.
the left, and it moves to the left. You
raise the handle, and the gun is
depressed at the muzzle ; you depress
the handle, and the gun is raised. This
training gear was applied a day or twO
ago to one of the 38-ton gnnsat Garrison
Point Fort, and the preliminary trial
showed that one man could «train the
gun with the greatest nicety. One may
expect Providence tobe very much on
the side of the big guns when a 38-ton
'gun comes to be aimed at quickly mov-
ing objects as easily as if it were a pis-
tol or a walking stick.
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AN IRON CUSTOM.
The man who holds the most important
government office in China is not only
excused for its neglect if he can' show
that he was engaged in some ceremonial
connected with his ancestral duties, but,
should one of his parents die while he
is in Office, he is actually obliged to
retire from public life foraperiod of
many months, no matter how critical
may be the public interests thus sacri-
fiCed to an iron custom.
When a notorious punster committed
suicide by. hanging himself, one ofhis
friends remarked that he had perpea
“hated his hatahoke. -
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