Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-08-12
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oooih5 i"fOio WIN, hdsIuS uduC gnu use
of them in daytime, forget that by the
light of whale oil, long after the sun has
sunk behind the western hills. they cease
to be protection, and osculate fearlessly
to the delectation of heartless passengers.
But young Californian who was re-
turning from an eastern trip to a below
ed home, and still more beloved some
body who was to make another home
beautiful sometime, had different adj
venture. He remembered that he hadn't
changed his shirt since leaving Chicago,
but they were nearing tunnel where
the transfer could be made, and taking
his spotless linen from his travelling bag,
he fixed all the preliminaries, and calm
ly awaited the protecting shade. 1t |
came, and for time the train was tear
ing through thick darkness, but when
the light Of day streamed in again all |
eyes were turned toward the young mans
seat, where two white arms plunged mad
ly in the air. Unconscious that he had
emerged from the regions of darkness,
he was still struggling in the folds of
the clean shirt, through which he was
unable to force his head, having omitted,
in his haste, to undo the collar button
As, with one final jerk, his pink counte-
nance burst through the white garment,
allowing its snowy folds to fall over the
uncovered portion Of his anatomy, he
took in the situation at glance, and
sank, demoralized, into his seat, as alter
ed and reformed young man as ever
made miscalculation.
PIoUs IMPULSES IN SoUALL-TAK-
ING UP CoLLEoTIoN.-By a squall in
Delaware Bay last week, while sailing
in a yacht, two young men were over
taken. At Nazareth church, on Twelfth
street, Philadelphia at public worship
they had occasionally been present.
From the way things looked, the capsiz-
ing of their shallop was very near inev-
table
"Bill,'' said one to the other, 'this is
serious business; can you pray?'
'No, | can't; I've heard Joe Quinn
do it, and I've listened to Bill Post; but
l can't do it myself"
"Well, you can sing hymn, can't
you? For Gods sake do something"
mo, | can't sing here. How can [
sing when this boat at any moment may
drown us both p
"Well, we must do something relig-
ious. If you can't pray and can't sing
let's take up collection.
To this Bill consented In his COM
panion's hat he deposited thirteen pen
MES, corkscrew and broken-b laded
knife. AS he did this the wind lulled
and the shallop made successful land
ing.
A ScoroH PRAYER.-"God bless this
house and all within twa miles ilka side
this house. 0 bless the cow and the
meal, and the kailyard, and the muckle
toun O. Dumbarton. 0 God bless the
Scotch Greys that are in lien in Ham
ilton barracks. They are brave chiefs
they are not the English whalps that
dash their foot against stone, and
damn the soul of the stone-as if stone
had soul to be saved. o put strong
dyke between us and the wild Irish
o Lord, preserve US frae a witches ant
warlocks, and a land-nebbet beastie
that gang through the heather OLord
put pair O brakes about the king o
Frances neck-gie me the halter in m,
ain hand, that l may lead him abou
where like, for thy names sake
AMEN !"
: The railroad bridge between Sa
: Francisco and Goat Island will be
: novelty in architecture. 1t is to ru
t through an immense tube of boiler iron
e supported in the water by its own buoy
n ancy, and held thirty feet below tn
o surface by complicated system of ca
: bles, anchors and buoys The tube
e twenty feet in diameter, and strength
# ened by an internal iron framework
e The principal problem with the eng
IS neer was to have the buoyancy of tn
If tube equal the weight of train of car
n so as to require the minimum of anchor
If age or support. Should the bridg
W prove success, submarine railroa
le tubes may become quite common. ;
ID they may be used where regular tut
b nels would be impracticable, or at lea
K. very expensive.
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:. pers. We once knew poor, but hone
man, who borrowed paper, innocentl
: and Inadvertently, from hitherto whol
:. some neighbor Fatal act. That te
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- veyed insidiously in the fbers of tn
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: several intellectual and heroic sol