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raise myself and keep myself firm in this new
position. / descended again upon the bridge,
and began another notch above the first.
hattered myself that | should thus be able to
escape from my prison, but a single slip, a
false step, would precipitate me into the
abyss.
was working diligently at my second step
when heard JOYOUS cry above me. "Here
they arel Three men with ropes-they are run
ming as fast as their legs can carry them"
steadied myself as firmly as possible upon
the narrow and slippery bridge, so as to be able
to seize the rope they were about to lower, and tie
it round me. | saw the end of il swinging about
two yards above my head. MAY God have
mercy upon me! 1t is too shortp
1--WE have another"
That was fastened to the first and let down, |
seized the end OF it. 1 bound it strongly round
my waist, and graspiug the rope with both
hands gave the signal for them to pull up.
They began-I was saved. A minute after
wards was standing upon the glacier, had
passed fifty minutes in the crevasse, during
which time had happily lost neither my conf
dence in God nor my presence of mind.
When | placed my foot upon firm ground
again, an oyerpowering feeling of deep graft
tude to the Almighty who had delivered me in
so great peril filed my breast; fell on my
knees and tainted. When again became con-
sc;ous, our party was preparing to start for the
Montanvert. Before leaving / wished to cast
one last look into the crevasse where | had near
~ Deen buried alive. L saw how completely im-
possible 1t would have been for me to get out of
1t as l had projected. The opening at the top
was too wide to have allowed me as reached it
to lean against tie opposite wall, and without
that support the most agile Of climbing animals
would have found it impossible to scale this per-
pendicuar wall of ice.
The guide had run to the inn, where he could
not find single rope suitable for the purpose.
In despair he started for Chamounix; when on
the way he met two nuleteers. Their animals
were laden with wood, tied on with ropes, which
he implored them to give him TO save poor
traveller who had fallen into crevasse These
good people at once unoaded their mules, and
came with the guide to my assistance. Tying
them together there were three-the ropes
reached the depth of thirty to forty yards where
had been arrested in my fall.
Assisted by my DELIVERIES was able to reach
Montanvert, where, in good bed, and with nv
bruises attended to, had leisure to dream about
the danger from which had escaped, and the
remembrance of which often haunts me both
sleeping and waking. | trust that future tray
elers, prohting by nv experience, will not run
the risk of penetrating into the midst of these
icy regions without providing themselves with
axes and ropes, and especially with firm conf
dence in Gods goodness, the surest of supports,
and the best safeguard here below.
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AMERICAN COLLEGES AND THE AMERICAN
PUBLIC, by Professor Noah Porter, of Yale col
lege. New Haven: Published by Charles C.
Chatfeld & Co. In this book the author dis
eusses the questions at issue between the sup
Porters of the established system of collegiate
education, in which the study of the ancient
languages and literature occupies prominent
place. and the advocates of what is called the
new education, who would give TO the modern
languages and TO physical science the attention
that has heretofore been bestowed upon the
classics. Professor Porter believes that the
American colleges which have adhered substan-
TALLY to the old system, have not forfeited their
claim to the confidence and support of the pub
lie, but that this system, wisely planned, and
tested and improved by many years of expert.
ence, still gives the best foundation for broad
aud liberal culture. and is even more practical,
in the best sense of that word, than the plausi-
bic schemes which some educational reformers
would substitute for it. He gives reasons for
his belief, too, that cannot easily be refuted
drawn from experience Of the two systems and
the testimony Of eminent men who have and
those who have not had the advantage of elias
steal education, as well as from the nature OF thu
mind and its relations TO the studies which
claim the first place respectively in the two
schemes of education. He points GU
that the exposures of the deficiencies o.
the English university education d.
not apply 70 the courses of study in our colleges
which are radically different from those, ant
shows that the opportunity for obtaining a gen
eral education without the study of the classics
which is the Characteristic feature of the .'ney
education" has often been offered in America,
colleges within the last fofty-dve years withou
Withdrawing any considerable number Of pupil
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DIFFERENT WAYS OF MAKING TEA.-The
Chnaman puts his tea in a cup, pours hot wal
ter upon it, and drinks the infusion of tine
leaves; he never dreams of spelling its favor
with sugar or cream. The Japanese triturates
the leaves before putting them into the pot. In
Morocco they put green tea, a little tansy and
great deal of sugar into teapot, and fill up
with boiling water. In BOkhara every man car
ries a small bag of tea about him, a certain
quantity of which he hands over to the booth
keeper he patronizes, who concocts the beverage
for MIN. The Bokhariot finds it as difficult to
pass a tea.booth as our own dram-drinker does
to 90 by gin palace. His breakfast beverage
is Schltscha1, that is, tea, Favored with milk,
cream, or mutton-fat in which bread is soaked
During the daytime, Sugarless green tea is drunk
with the accompaniment of cakes of -four and
mutton-suet 1t is considered an ineXcusabe
breach of manners to cool the hot cup of tea
with the breath; but the difficulty is overcome
by supporting the right elbow in the left hand
and giving circular movement to the cup,
How long each kind Of tea takes to draw is cal
culated to the second; and when the can is emp
tied, it is passed round among the company, for
each tea-drinker to take up as many leaves as
can be held between the thumb and finger-the
leaves being esteemed an especial dainty
When MIR. Bell was travelling in Asiatic Rus
STA he had to claim the hospitality of the Burat-
sky Arabs. The mistress of the tent, placing
large kettle on the fire, wiped it carefully with
horses tail, filed it with water, and threw in
some coarse tea and little salt. When this
was near boiling-point, she tossed the tea about
with brass ladle until the liquor became very
brown, and then it was poured off into another
vessel Cleansing the kettle as before, the wom-
set it again on the fire, in order to fry paste
of meal and fresh butter. Upon this the tea and
some thick cream were then poured, the lade
put into requisition, and, after time the whole
taken off the fire and set ASIDE to cool. Halt.
pint wooden mugs were handed round, and the
tea ladled into them, a tea forming meat and
drink, and satisfying both hunger and thirst.
However made, tea is blessed invention for the
weary traveer.-Cbdnbers5 Journal.
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The mysterious rufian, who for some time
past has made himself terror to the people of
Brooklyn by stabbing women and girls in the
streets, without proyocation or motive, so far
as could he ascertained, was arrested last week.
Every ew days some person, generally young
girls from sixteen to twenty years Of age, have
been stabbed by him, none of them fatally,
but several have received painful and dis
figuring wounds, in the face, neck, or arm. The
movements of this vampire, as he has been
called, were so stealthy and agile that he always
escaped detection or recognition, and none Of
his victims could give any definite description Of
his appearance. These murderous assaults were
so frequent at all hours of the day and evening,
that the schools in those neighborhoods infested
by this wretch were nearly deserted and pa
rents were unwilling to trust their daughters
in the streets at all without an es-
cort Something very like a panic per-
yadcd that part of the city. Last week, Mon
day, twenty-one policemen were directed to dis
guise themselves in woman's clothes and
patrol those streets where the miscreant had
committed his assaults, and late in the evening
of that day man darted ont from behind a
projecting wall and was stealing up behind one
Of the disguised officers, when comrade of the
latter gave the alarm, and he turned just in
time to intercept blow from a dagger. The
officers club broke the arm of the ruff1an, and
he was then captured and conveyed to the sta
ton house, struggling and fighting all the way.
When he arrived there he admitted that he had
made the numerous ferocious assaults upon
women in that neighborhood. He refused to
give his name or residence, and said he had de-
termined to have his revenge for the shameful
manner in which he had been Tilted by a woman
who had promised to marry him. The officers
think he is deranged.
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SCIENCE AND IMAGINATION. - What are
scientific experiments but brilliant efforts Of
the imagination2 81 imagine that, under such
and such circumstances, such and such will be
the case. | don't know it; but will try" BY
no one is this fact more profusely and more con-
vincingy illustrated than by DIR. Tyndall,
both in his published books and his letters. He
ampifies the experiments Of other philosophers,
besides inventing experiments of his own. He
wishes to know whether pure water be, as most
people suppose it, in small quantities; but
very thin stratum of pale ale is almost as color
less as stratum OF water. He ponrs distilled
water into drinking-gass; it exhibits no trace
whatever of color: SO he imagiues au expert.
ment TO show us that this pelucid liquor, in
sufficient thickness, has very decided color.
Here" be says triumphantly, SIS a tube Of.
teen feet long placed horizontally, its ends being
stopped by pieces OF plate-glass. At one end of
the tube stanes an electric lamp, from which a
cylinder Of light will be sent through the tube.
1t is now half filled with water, the upper sur.
face of which cuts the tube in two equal parts
horizontally, Thus, send half OF my beam
through air and half through water, and with
this lens intend to project maguided image
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woRCESTE R
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY IA, 1871,
The French National Assembly.

The result of the French elections has not
been reported with sufficient clearness to satisfy
the natural desire to know which party is likely
to be strongest in the national assembly. We
are told that the republicans win be in a small
minority, that the conservatives" have large
majority of the delegates, and that the orlean-
lists will probably organize and control the new
government But nothing is reported that
shows what proportion of the delegates elect are
Bonapartists. If the Orleanists have clear
majority in the assembly, ii will be understood
OF the beginning, that the Count de Paris must
ultimately be king of France; and many of the
Bouapartists and conservative republicans will
be likely to Join them; and, if they prove to be
stronger in tue assembly than either of the other
parties, they will probably be reinforced in this
way so as to be placed in a majority. The
voting in that body will soon disclose the rela-
tive strength of parties,
Neither the extreme republicans of Gam
bettIs sort, nor the Bonapartists, were willing
to have a national assembly elected,-probably
because both these parties believed they would
be defeated at the polls. Gambetta's republic
canism is quite as imperious and despotic as
Louis Napoleon's imperialism. He would place
his faction in power by means of coup d etdt,
If he could. His aim has not been to organize
liberty in France, but to make his own faction
supreme without changing the machinery OF
centralsm, and without fairly consulting the
will of the people. The French people have
learned to dread such "republicanism." 1t is
terror to many who would gladly accept an
- -
been voted down. Louis Napoleon heard of the
proposed national assembly with dismay, be-
cause he believed that he, TOO, would be voted
down, by the people. He expected to he restored
b. means Of declaration that the empire was
tae only legitimate government in France, and
al orier convening the corps legislatif. He has
now issued a proclamation which shows the
style in which he would have proclaimed re-
establishment of the empire, if events had taken
the course he expected.
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A remarkable ebul'ition of common sense
from juryman in a New York court room few
days ago astonished the court and the LAWYERS
into silence. The circumstances that provoked
II were not at all peculiar, but the outburst of
the juryman and its results are worth noting.
A case had been on trial for two weeks in the
superior court. At last the numerous witnesses
on both sides had allbeen examined, cross-ex-
amined and re-examined, the respective counsel
had finished their bewildcring arguments, and
with the conclusion OF the judges charge, the
long tried patience of the jurors was pretty
nearly exhausted, and they were beginning to
wonder whether in the multitude of words they
had been able to seize and retain any idea Of the
points in dispute, sufficiently distinct TO justify
them in rendering a verdict. But as
the last words of the charge
left the judges lips, the lawyers sprang
TO their feet. One insisted that the Judge
should charge this; another commended that be
should not; one proceeded to read page or two
of point" which he desired should be given to
the jury; another launched into review of the
whole case; the judge repeated a part of his
charge with some qualifications, and there was
general interchange of ideas, or what the profess
sional gentlemen mistook for ideas. This was too
much for the perplexed juymen, and one OF
them summoned courage to break out in this
fashion: 81 protest," he exclaimed TO the judge,
against this sort of talking. 1t is only bewil-
dering the jury, and if kept up, will get us into
such 4 muddle that we won't know anything
about the case" This despairing protest of the
poor juror, who felt that his wits were
about to be hopelessly swamped in the torrent
of words, accomplished its purpose. A great
stiffness fell upon the court room. The lawyers
and the judge, either feeling the justice of the
rebuke, or astonished at such presumption, were
silent. The juryman was not rebuked, and the
case went to the jury without further words.
It is the general belief that this jurors remarks
contained more common sense than had for
long time found utterance in that court room;
but the lawyers are said to be astonished that
even juryman in his simplicity could have
supposed that it was expected of him at the end
OF trial 10 know anything about the case.
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NEW oRK, Feb. l3-CottOn quiet and Hclower: safes
1856 bales; middling 1pands l5Ac Flour-sales 800
09si state and western quiet; state S625 a S725:
OHIO S69o q 1867 western S625 a 1885, southern ST "a
SO: Wheat dull; sales 5000 bush No 2 spring 81 53E
@ l,5l; winter red and amber western S5S al ISL /;
white Michigan Sl.72. Corn scarce and frmer: sales
5000 bush; new mixed western 85 "a S5kc Oats very
firm; les SO0O bush; Ohio and western s. a &c. Pork
hrm new mess S28T q %; old S22 a 2225; prime S9 50
"a S5O Lard more active, at l2A@l3kc. Butter steady
ONO ID q 25c state y a 40c. Whiskey steady; west m
free at 9aAo Rice dull Carolina IN 6SAc Sugar firm
and quiet Muscovado 81 g 9tc; fair to good refining
"a "a sac; No Il Dutch standard 9kc. Molasses duil
New Orleans 81 "a h5c Spirits lurpentine firm at 81 \ "a
52c rosln steady at $3.50 Petroleum dull; crude l5c
refined 254c. TalOw steady, at 81 a &C.
CHICAGO, Feb. l3.-Fl0ur dull. " heat quiet; No 2
Sl,3 cash Corn quiet, at sic. Oats firm at As a 4s4c
Rye hrmer, at S9c for No2. Barley firm, at &c High
wines firm, at S6Sc. Provisions irmer; mess pork s225O
@ S!2,62z, Lard l25s a l2Ac Green shoulders ~ a
70 dry sailed shoulders She live hogs active an
hlgher, at sLVO "a 1,95 Cattle dull at S4,4j "a 6S7k
ReceiptS-40 bbs -four, 20OO bush wheat, 5000 bush
corn llUOO bush oats 1000 bush rye 1900 bush barley
lOO hogs Shipments 1900 bbls -four 5000 bush wheat
5000 bush corn, 1000 bush barley, 5000 hogs
CINCINNATI Feb. l3.-Mess pork quiet. at S22 So
Bulk meats-SAc, IOS q Inc Tor shoulders Gle ar rib
and clear stes-offerns &c less. Bacon weak; shou
ders 9Sc clear rib ll3c, clear sides ING Whiskey firm
at SIC
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. l3-Cotton active middlinls l4gs
Foreign Mhrkets.-lBv Atlantic Cable.
LONDON, Feb l3-Con OILS OK; stocks unchanged
LIVERPOOL, Feb l3.-CottOn steaJy; upands IN a
7Ad; sales 10000 bales.
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DICKENS AND CRuIKsBANK.-The following
curious letter from George Cruikshank is said
to have been written in answer to one request
ing him 70 decide wager between an American
gentleman and an English publisher, in which
the former maintained that Mr.. Cruikshank had
illustrated no less THAI six of Mr.. Dickens's
works:
1853 HAMsTEAD ROAD, N. W. GoSDoY),
Nov. II, 1870.
Dear sir; You have lost your wageri for did
not illustrate the WORKS of the late Mr. Charles
Dickens TO the extent that most peope suppose;
but am not surprised at the fact OF their being
misled; for the other artists employed upon hit
works initiated my style as closely as possible
and hence the public supposed-as Dickens wrot,
under the name Of "Boz'-that designed ane
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Consulting Physician to the MORRILL, MEDICAL IHsTi
TUTE No. SBulnch street, the Revere House. Bos-
ton may be confidently relied upon in all cases requ ring
skill and experience. His unrYaled and world-renowned
preparations for all forms Of spermatorrhna Impotency
and nervous debility &C. in men, and for the cure of all
Female Complaints, can only be had of himself at his
Office, where he may be conhdentiay consulted at all
hours. Ladies suffering under any of The complaints
peculiar to their sex can conAoenally consult with the
doctor with every of safety and prompt reei
See his MEDICAL ADVISER AND GUIDE HEALTH, price
10 cents. Al letters promptly answered by return Of
mail dM rh&o&wtf ja3l
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Suggestions for the Season.

Thousands regard the winter season Of trials end
the truth u.s. that if there is weak point in the system
winter pretty sure to ind II out Constitutional ten
denotes 10 disease are generally aggravated BY damn and
cold. Rheunatism sometimes lies perdu all the sum.
mer and fall to pounce upon its victims in the season of
cod) As means of terrifying the body against all the
diseases which prevail most extensively in winter Hos
letters Stomach Bitters be too urgently recon-
mended. There woul be fewer of the pulmonary
complaints tending to consumption. If all feeble systems
erenUgoated during the with course of this
inestimable vegetable tonic and Alternative Constipa.
ton, indigestion torpidlty of the liver and general
suggshness of the secreve organs very generally pre-
vail at this period of the year To all these ailments
experience the most trustworthy Of all mentors teaches
US that the Biers is reliable remedy. Warm clothing
is good external defence against atmosph rio cold and
moisture but vigorous activity in the vital organization
which generates heat and delivers 1t the surface ia
also essential to health, and this activity Is secured
through he operation of the Bitters The skin sympa
thizes with the stomach, and II digestion regular and
perfect, the exterior circulation will he brisk and dam
and cold may be encountered With comparative safety.
f9 d&wlw
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Bath Tubs and Boilers, Water Closets, Wash Bowls
wash Tray Sinks &C. &c. fitted up at short notice. and
q q thorough manner. off jy6
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Fairbanks P1per's Wine Of Calisaya Bark and
Iron restores the glow of health to the pad cheek.
HpTrv
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Fairbanks 6 Piper's Wine of Calisaya Bark and
Iron euriches the blood. "Try it."
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In this city, Feb IL, Walter j, son of Henry and
Frances Gr0en, aged yr days.
. Funeral Wednesday, at O'Clock. Relatives and
friends areinvited.
In this city, Feb O. Annie D. wife of Joseph Barrett
aged So yrs.
In North oxford, Feb II, Mrs Harriet Lamb wife OF
Liberty Lamb, aged 66 yrs.
Funeral services at her late residence, Tuesday, Feb
a. at IL A. N. Friends are invited to attend without
further notice lltl
In New York, Feb g. Jane, wife of Joseph Smith,
formerly of Grafton, aged Al yrs
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JOhu y. Clark ~ Son, Commission Merchants
dealers in Flour ana Grain, Grass Seed, Lime Cal
cned Plaster, Or. Bone, Cement Salt, Guano Super
phosphate OF Lime and Western Produce, Noe IS ano
81 Front st., Worcester Mass.
I0HH g.. CLARK A. SON
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Fairbanks Piper's Wine of Calisaya Bark and
Iron gives tone and vigoT to the debilttated system
0Try IT,"
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REMITTFST FEvERs. The WAY TO ESQ PIE THEM
A dose Of PLANTATION BITTERs, taken night and morn
ing will enable the system TO repel the deleerous In
huenc' of these fruitful sources of epidemic disease 1t
is in evidence that in many instances where The greater
portion Of the population of entire settlement have
been rostraied by bilious remitent levers the few who
have had suicien forecast take the Bitters as pre-
Ueatice have escaped the As remecy an
attack has actually commenced this celebrated tonic
and anbilious elixir is Invariably encaclous In such
cases, taken when the fever Is off, 1t will soon control
the paroxysms, and when tine patient is oonvalescent
Will restore the appetite and recruit the strength more
rapidly than any other stomaehc and inysorant in use
re- deOp&wlw
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