Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1846-02-21

then when disappointment comess aorsow
takes possession Of The heart where Joy
once dwit; shame ii having aided % lie.
ceive, itself gives an additional paDg 70
The agony or being deceived: an ago aoi
regret. and modification, and cold chagfin,
very often succeeds from such causes
alone. tosa youth Of JOY and ,hpugh.lesa
happiness. Many man, Ralph, has.
firmly believe, killed an amiable and kind
hearted woman. or if not. has killed her
happiness, which Is worse, without
breaking one VOW, without falling in one
promise, except those vague and worthless
promises conveyed by the manner, and
the tone. aud the-demeanor, which often
-a.pa.. a -wDnaAn 1asseu all the
vows that ever were ,bfea,hed al The feet
AZ bsautv MARY d boy. 'iiiat would nj nj
kill = butterfly. destroys The painted in-
sect while catching i. merely 10. admire
its beauty; andst think. Ralph, tia, we
should not only be as careful and as ten
DERBY thoughtful in all our general de-
r1eanor towards woman as we are in our
vows, our promises, and our actions 10.
wards nen--but far more SO, inasmuch as
by the contrary we, risk more terrible in.
jury 10 a more delicate being. and may
injure our own honor by doing wrong to
those who cannotrigla themselves y
.e STEAMBOATS,. sas,t 81 J
Thesfirsl steamboat accident. ia this
country, occurred in 1916, to the. WASH
ng'on. on The OlHo river According to
letter 10 Cone~ess ahp ihe1 Secretary 2 Of
do treasury, written in 1888, the whole
number Of steam, engines Of every kind
that we're then in use in the Uaited States,
was 30l6; Of this number, 500 were in
steamboats,; 35O in locomoiiyes; and 1860
in manufactures of different kinds.
The number of accidents TO steam EN-.
gines up 10 that lime, Causing loss Of life.
was eco, Of which number $50 were in
steamboats,. sa
The creates. los, Of life bys,eamboat ac-
cideni, was BY the collision aud sinking Of
the Monmouth, in 1897, on the Mississippi
pi; the number Of lives lost was 500. b
The greates.loss Of life by the explo-
sion Of steamboat, was in 1899, in the
case ofthe Oronoko.o n the same river; the
number ofliyes lost was 1870. !.
The boilers Of The steamboat Moselle,
blew up at Cincinnati, Ohio. destroying
100 persons.
The greatest loss Of life by snagging,
was in the case Of the steamboat ST. Lou.
is, on ihe Mississippi, in 1884, when
there were l3 lives lost. Ell @
The greatest loss Of life, by the burning
OF a steamboat, up TO the time. was in tie
case Of the Ben Sherrod. on the Mississip-
pi. in 1897.
The number of steamboats, lost up 10
1924, was %. During the year 1897, no
less than 80 steamers were lost on the
western waters. During 10 years, from
1890 10 1910, 80 steamboats, were los, by
explosion, in the United States. by which
means $50 persons were killed outright,
and 296 wounded badly, of which number
254 died from the injuries received.
On the l4sh Of June, 1887, the steam.
boat Pulaski was destroyed by the explo-
sion Of one Of her boilers, while on the
passage from t'ha~le~.s. W Baltimore, and
100 persons persisted.
y About the same time similar acciden,
occurred TO the steamer w ashington, on
Lake Erie, by which SO lives were lost.
There were 10 lives los, by the de-
struction of.he Lexington. in 1910. The
particulars of this sad disaster are famili.
ar to every New Yorker. and therefore it
would be worse than useless 10 repeat
them. - 1f
The burning of the Erie on Lake
Erie in August l64l, sen. to un,imely
graves l76 persons-and it is but short
time since our sympa,hies were aroused
by the destruction Of the Inflated steamer
Swallow.
Accidents on steamboats, are alarmingly
frequent; and scarce anewspaper reaches
US from the south or west, but chronicles
the destruction of one or more. AS these
accidents in nine cases out of ten result
from gross carelessness, the persons re-
sponsible should be punished as the sacri.
fee of human life requires.-[N. Y. Gaz.
The DESERT OF a WoMAN's HEARr.-1
The following illustrative idea of whats
a desert in female mind e is extracted
from novel entitled Marriage a
Douglass saw the storm gathering on
the brow Of his capricious wife, and
clasping her in his arms, said
Are you indeed SO changed, my Julia,
that you have forgotten the time when y on
used TO declare you would prefer desert
with your Henry, to throne with an.
other 2 .54aea,s% g. ~s
NO, certainly, not changed; bu,-I-1