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Gossip About Great Men.

An interesting chapter might be writ
ten about the weakness Of great men
The anecdotes Of Archimedes viii be e
membered; he rushed through the
streets OF Syracuse, al freseo crying,
sEurekaT" and at the taking OF the city
he was killed BY n soldier while tracing
',son,etrical lines on sand.
Socrates. when 6lled with some idea
,,orld stand fer hours hKed like statue;
TOo'r I, = Tecorded Of him that he stood amid
te s.,ldiers in the camp of Potidea, ln
roo,ed abstraction, listening TO hls pro
nbc,icu or supernatural voice;
Dsmociitus shut himself up lot aas'
.ogetber in 3 little apartment IN ms "a
den Dante was subject TO hts o. AZ
straciion in which he often guite iorko
bimseif One dsY be found 80 interest s
| inc book. which he long had soaget loi
in druggists shop az Sienna, ana "
rsadinr there till night come on.
Bude. whom Erasmus called the uou
dsr OF France, was . thoroughly a0ssp
man. One day bis domestic broke mt
] his study with the intelligence that hi
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stiffness, he ran few steps and gave
one leap into the air and fell, cutting
the mist like a lead-sinker, two hundred
feet into the seething whirlpool. AS he
left the staging his body assumed an
oblique position, his head foremost, but
above his feet. As he struck the water
there was dreadful silence, while the
populace awaited with choking breath
his temperance. One minute-two
minutes-three minutes-and no signs
of the daring jumper. Then the people
sent up loud wail-a long murmur OF
sorrow.
This was the end OF Sam Patch.
They say he had been drinking during
the morning, and failed to keep his feet
together and his body perpendicular, as
on previous occasions. So when he
struck the water the breath left his body
and he was knocked senseless. A month
or so afterward they found his body
away down below Rochester, dritted
upon the rocks. He never returned to
throw in the bear, or claim the money
collected.
| believe in the doctrine Of transmit
grafton of souls, but on looking at the
almanac nobody was born during the
whole of that fatal day but George
Francis Train.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-06

Concussions and fractures of the
bones call for trepanning of the skull.
A trephine is similar to a thimble, with
saw teeth on its rim. By turning round
and round, as gimlet is used, button
of bone is taken out. Room IS made
for picking out fragments that irritate,
and for giving a chance to Introduce
the end of lever, TO raise up the
crushed.in bone that presses upon the
brain. This statement prepares the
way for combating an erroneous I'M
pression, which is about as common
with intelligent persons as with the ig-
norant, viz: That the surgeon puts
silver plate over the orihoe, over which
the scalp afterward heals. No such
process Is ever praoticed. No sort or
| kind Of covering but the integuments
are used in covering up the orihce.
ANYTHING thus placed would be an IN
tolerable source Of disturbance. fus
would form and alterations follow. Ihe
system could not bear such direct
source Of irritation. Yet 50 universally
| Is the silver plate notion believed that
a platoon Of marines could NOS dispoa-
sess some people Of what they have
been accustomed 10 believe, even when
they know il wrong.
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FuII Compliance &yade with State La"
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MEDICAL.
DIR. IL. l.. LASHI,
Physician, Surgeon
AND ACCOBCHER.

OFFICE. So UNION ST. ; REsIDENCE. 80
Main street (Gayoso Block. Once hours
nom to 10 am, and from 20 6p.m. ere-
.ieif;es. children and female diseases. Grad
natei al ,ho University Of Berlin Germany; (;
gith more than thirty years practical eNpe-
rience. Vaccination daily al his oiice, be
tween and o'clock pm. SEWN
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MUSIC.

pianos, Organs, sheet Music, and
musical meFchandine and Instru-
ments Of every description, whole
sale and retnlis
esd and best aeleoted stock In ibis
city. ana a full assortment OF the
hIckesing. Hollenberg md Hei.
lett a Cumston Pfnmoe, the Lstey
Organs, ana brass ana silver instr.-
neiug a practical ptnn0-mnhor
aud a musician of taste and nbiiitl,
nnk known 90 the public a. such
since 1893. patrons OF this mvs.o
will nnd all goods atrietiy as repre-
sentea and warranted, and NJ moa-
crate prices ana ON easy terms.
WRrerooma. No. 2Tf second street.
ll5-t
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-22
A Fearful Ride Down q Coal Shaft.

Nelson Whitmarsh and Patrick Con-
gan are employed in the shaft of the
Union Coal Company, of La Sale.
A few mornings since having stepped
upon the cage to descend, after having
the signal all right, the drum around
which the cable runs, and which at the
time was somehow disconnected from
the other machinery, began to revolve
rapidly, and they knew that they were
riding to perhaps a horrible death.
They struck the bottom, distance of
253 feet, and breaking through the
three-inch planking, We're plunged into
the sump, which contained about ten
feet of water. Wonderful to relate,
neither of them was killed, but coming
to the surface they clambered up on the
boards. The car which was ascending
at the same time they were going down
reached the surface with awful momen-
tum, and tore through the upper forks
and wrecked nearly everything in the
immediate vicinity. Assistance was
sent below, and the injured men brought
to the surface, whore vast crowd of
people had assembled. They were car
ried home, and medical aid summoned.
Whitmarsh sustained fearful concus-
sion on the hip, and is bruised in sew
eral other places. Congan was not so
severely injured. No bones were
broken, and hopes are entertained that
with proper care they may recover.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-22
An Excited Fire Company.

Some years ago q new fire company
was organized at Reading, Penn, and
the members one evening thought they
would have little innocent fun at the
expense of Hopkins, their Captain
They decided to rush around to Hop
kins' house just after dark, to throw up
their ladders, pull out their hose, climb
on his roof, and scare him with the be-
lief that his dwelling was on fire. But
that very day Hopkins moved out of the
house. and a clergyman moved in, with
out the company being aware of the
change. SO about eight o'clock they
dashed out and went through all the
movements, getting on the roof and
splashing water around and creating n
terrific disturbance generally. A rival
company, noticing what was going on,
also hurried to the scene, and without
understanding the Joke, attached their
hose to a plug, smashed in the front
windows, and began to empty two
inch stream on the family of that Pres
byterian clergyman. They squirted
into all the rooms, split open the win
dow shutters with an axe, broke down
the front door, ran out the furniture,
tore off the shingles, and bawled
through trumpets until the hired girl
had commissions on the kitchen stairs.
The fire company tried to explain, but
the new comers thought an effort was
being made to get them out of the way,
and IA fight ensued, and presently fire
men were sliding off the roof, and pelt-
ing down the chimneys, and bleeding
over the entry carpet, and having bois-
ferrous encounters with spanners and
brass horns on the stairs. And the next
morning that divine and his family
moved out. They said the place seemed
to be too animated and sensational for
quiet domestic circle. They wanted
a house where there was calmness and
peace where they could have more
security for their privacy and pianos,
and for their front doors and shingles,
and peace of mind ard window sashes.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-22
A Gorgeous Household.

The former Duchess of Sutherland
she who was on such nice terms with
Mrs. Beecher Stowe-was woman who
loved splendor, and kept an army of
servants, who were draped in the most
gorgeous livery. Before she died, as
we are informed by the London cores
pondcnt of the Tribune, a great part
of her retainers were dismissed and
pensioned off. But the pensions were
given on condition that the holders of
them should return to their old posts
on great occasions, and this they do.
Without them the household would be
counted numerous with them it pre-
sents such an array as few private man
sions in the world, or none, can equal,
and as they are perfectly drilled and
know the ways of the house, there is no
confusion, nor any indication that this
double retinue is not the ordinary equip
ment of the house The effect is prince
ly, and Stafford House is princely res
idence, with its broad halls, its great
staircase, its noble rooms, its priceless
treasures of art, and all the rest.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-22
Old Uncle Pete.
The Centenarian OF the New iaven Rail-
rOad--Ninety-nine Years Old.

Passengers on train from New
Haven saw an old colored man ge
aboard at Mamaroneck. He was ben
and grizzled, and his clothes were wori
and ragged. He walked with crutcl
and n caue, and his body described tn,
segment of n circle. He did not enter
the car. but rode ON the jolting, sway
ing platform, holding tightly to the
hand rail to keep from falling off. Some
of the passengers trembled for the Did
mans safety, and spoke to the con iuc
tor about it.
"Oh. he's all right" was the reply
che rides that way often. You see OIc
Pete--that's his name, Pete Gross-is {
headhead. He lives at Mount Vernon
and when he's out anywhere along the
road and wants to go home he just gets
on the first train. He never has any
money, and we don't like to put him
off. So the worst we can do is not to
give him a seat.
. Old Pete's wife Rose was with him
this time, and they had been to pic
mic on the old camp ground at Rye
Neck but the old man was going home
disappointed, for he had somehow mis-
taken the nature of the affair. Old
Pete's dialect is as purely African as
his skin, and his man ner is an exagger-
alton of the most outre personations ON
the minstrel stage.
=. .,. " clar to goodness" he said, when
asked the.cause of his disappointment,
"ef l amt clean gone discouraged.
Dey sed dar was goin to be q me etin'
up on de ole groun', and took dat. ag-
gravatin' Rose wild me, an went up fer
goo ole time. But, boss, when got
dar, wild de SCUM of praises an song
already on my lips, dar want no camp
meotin' dar. 1t want nothin' but
picnic. De gals an fellers was
cavortin' tew fiddle, and dar want
no camp meetin' tall"
A liberal donation of pennies from
the passengers soon raised old Pete's
spirits, and he talked away at his high
est pitch, for the noise of the train
almost drowned his voice.
Use ninety-nine years old" he said,
in answer to query, "an' clar to
goodness. honey, dat Use libbed long
clean dead Already. Can't feel no more
wild it den l kin wild dis year hobbling
stick"
Old Pete could remember all the
stereotyped things commonly recounted
by centenarians who have any respect
for themselves. He had seen Wash
ington, and had spoken to Jackson
He told story about being kidnapped
from New York by slave hunters, and
another about a terrible whipping that
old Col. Albert Gray had once given
him.
"De only lie dat cher I told," he said,
" was in the war of 1872. L libbed in
Ma'vland den, an de Brit 'shers was
afer my ole massrs house. tole 'em
dat Tory lib dar, an dey go long
widout burning it. l clar to goodness,
dat Rose II be de death oh me-" She |
was pulling him off the steps, the train
having stopped at Mount Vernon q
bought dat woman I'm ar'lina-paid |
lie cash for 'er, more'n sixty years ago
an now she won't mind me more'n as if
didn't own 'er. Goo mornin', boss |"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-22
An Eagles Scream.

If you have an eagles nest in one of
your apple trees, don't meddle with it,
or you will have cause to repent of your
act, as did North Bridgewater man,
according to the Press, which tells the
tale as follows: A couple of the birds
of freedom, who trusted to the sanctity
of the domestic circle in North Bridge
water, have been rearing a family Of
young eagles in the woods bordering
the town. On Monday afternoon, while
Mr.. and Mrs. Eagle were off on for
aging expedition to neighboring poul-
try yard, marauding biped stole a
march on them, and captured call their
pretty chickens at one fell swoop." The
old folks got back just as the spoiler
was departing, and for few minutes it
was the most even fight that ever was
witnessed. Hair, feathers and clothing
filed the air in about equal proportions,
until about the only thing that covered
the young mans back was that pair of
eagles, and he ran into Factory village
in the uniform of n Georgia major, n
shirt and pair of spurs. The spurs he
got of the eagles. His face looked like
victim of freckle lotion, or a Chinese
alphabet He was about the most taion-
ted man in town.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-22

fell asleep; but only to suffer a repet-
ton of the horrible nightmare.
This time he sent for me on waking,
and excited my curiosity and apprehen-
sion, as have related, by his agitated
manner but still my assurance of the
safety of the vessel was insufficient to
Danish the vision.
A third time he imagined himself in
the burning ship again he was spec
tator Of all the horrors of the confagra-
ton again was he standing amid that
fearful scene of confusion and death.
with all its dread reality intensified :
again he saw hundreds of his own men
dying fearful deaths around him. with
out being able to renGsr the least as
sistnnce, while the hot flames darted
their forked tongues at him and again,
as the dense suffocating smoke closed
P.rOund him, did he find himself the
victim of mad despair. Again, too, he
woke to find it but a dream, and all still
and quiet as before.
He could bear it no longer the vision
was too palpabe--too awful. He
thought of the mysterious voice. Could
1t be supernatural warning He did
not believe in such things but then he
dared not risk repetition of the dream
so he rushed on deck, and sent for the
case, OF the existence of which he had
no positive certainty until it was
brought up, which wonderful corrobora-
tion of what he had just heard CON
vinced him at once of its dangerous
character, and induced him to order it
to be thrown Immediately overheard.
Such was the story that Mr.. Jones re-
lated to me. How much of it originated
III his own brain, cannot say; but all
that l had remarkedin the captains be-
havior was singularly cor. oborative of
mis- tale. will therefore leave thereader
to form his own conclusions, and ac-
count for his "curous case" if he can
only remarking, by the way, that it was
afterwards ascertained to have been
filed with some tins of dangerously
inhammable oil for burning in the
ward-room lamps.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-22
Diamonds.

The Steele gives the following strange
intelligence: Among the diamonds
brought by the Shah are said to be
some of kind totally unknown in
Europe. They have all the properties
of other sorts, the same transparency,
brilliancy and hardness, but they are
reported to possess the property of
emitting perfume in an atmosphere at
an elevated temperature, in an apart
ment where many persons are assembled;
or, better still. in that of ballroom in
the midst of the animation of the dance.
These gems are found in a remote part
of Persia, the soil of which is composed
of ferruginous and carboniferous strata.
The scent they exhale resembles that
of amber, little incense and special
odor peculiar to the forests of that dis
trict
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-22
A Strange EntOmbment.

A correspondent of Puebla (Mexi
co paper writing from Fort Garland
tells the following story
Last Monday two Mexican boys,
Jesus Maria and Juan de la Cruz Linn
bustero, were taking a herd of seven
hundred sheep across the hills of
the 'Lomas del Arreno, about twenty
four miles northerly from Fort Garland.
| These sand-hills extend ont into the
San Luis valley about fifteen miles, op-
posite the Mosco Pass.
1.-The herders undertook to make a
short cut across the hills, instead of
gong around, as directed by their ia
ther. At first everything moved gaily
the boys and sheep and dogs only sank
a few inches in the light, white sand
and they thought how foolish it was of
old fogles to go around twenty miles
when it was only four across but be-
fore they got half across one of those
sudden storms arose; up came gentle
breeze; the breeze became a wind, and
the wind an awful hurricane; the sand
moved about in binding clouds, hills
changed to holes and every hole was a
seething cauldron.
"The poor boys struggled hard to
avert their doom, and Jesus Maria
managed, by drawing his serapm over
his head, and keeping his feet, and
climbing as the sand piled up around
him, to survive the tornado; but his
younger brother, Juan de In Cruz, sue
'umbed to the suffocating blast, and as
ship goes down at sea, so sank the
brave boy, surrounded by his bleating
sheep and whining dogs; and when
the storm ceased, as suddenlyas it com
menced, little Jesus found himself all
alone, with quiet mounds of glistening
sand all around him, and not trace of
the cruel storm nor of the disaster
could be seen.
He hurried home, where he arrived
the next day, and told his tale of terror.
The whole plaza turned to search for
the lost boy and to dig out the missing
sheep. Up to the succeeding afternoon
they had not recovered over four hun
dred sheep, most of them being found
about six feet below the surface, and
the natives from neighboring plaza had
Hooked to the scene, and We're busily
digging out sheep, saving the wool and
on mutton. The old gentle
mans loss was their gain, and they
could say as they smacked their lips
er fine mutton chop. All is not
lost that's out of sight"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-22
A Paris Horror.

A large Diapers shop has been burn
ed. and reveals from the death of three
shopassistants how the latter are board
ed. All modern shops in Paris have
the rolling iron shutter, which once let
down, is locked, the proprietor keeping
the key. In the case in question, the
assistants, after their supper, made
their beds as usual in such establish
ments, on the shop floor, the proprietor
locking them up as safely as the goods.
When the fire broke out.there was no ex-
it but by the shuttered door, The three
young men cried for relief, the proprie-
tor could not be found /; the police cut
at the iron with hatchets f; the voicns
within grew weaker, then ceased. The
inside of the shop was n furnace, and
three shrivelled-save where length
ened by muscular agony-carbonized
masses were all that remained Of the
poor lads.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-22
A Curious Legend.

Tn certain localities of the Nord there
exists an old belief that when two mar.
riages take place at the same time, the
bride who leaves the church before the
other will have a boy for her first child.
Two weddings were celebrated simulta-
neously few days back at Arches, in
that department. The ceremony over,
the two couples with their friends has
tened to reach the door, and arrived
there just at the same time. The stu
alton became embarrassing, for the two
parties had stopped and exchanged looks
of defiance. Fortunately, the mayor
was a man of resources, for he stepped
forward, and, giving an arm to each of
the young wives, took them out togeth-
er, to the great relief of the friends on
both sides.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-22
StammerIng,

One who was a stammerer for years,
writes "No stammering person ever
found any difficulty in singing. The
reason of this is that by observing the
measure of the music, by keeping time,
the organs of speech are kept in such
position that enunciation is easy. Apply
the same rule to reading or speech, and
the same result will follow. Let the
stammerer take sentence-say this
one, Leander swan the Hellespont. Pro-
nounce it by syllables. Scan it, keep
ing time with the finger, if necessary,
letting each syllable occupy the same
time, thus Le-an-der swan the Hell
les-pont, and he will not stammer. Let
him pronounce slowly at first, then
faster, but still keeping time, keep
ing time with words instead of sylla-
bles, and he will be surprised to find
that, by very little practice, that he
will read without stammering. and
nearly as rapidly as persons ordinarily
talk or read. Then practice this read
ing and conversation until the habit is
broken up. Perseverance is all that is
necessary TO perform perfect cure"