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American Toys.

Formerly no one bought American
tovs, but the trade is gaining fast, and
the productions are Of more varied de-
sion and better make than the importa-
tions. Several ingenious men give all
their time TO the invention OF mechan-
ioal tovs., in which America does over
three-fourths of the entire trade. One
young man processes to have earned
800, 600 from royalty on his toys, ana
several others have reaped small Tor.
tunes. A year or two ago baby doll
appeared in the toy-shop windows
Which would creep gently across the
floor, turning it's head from side to side
as though seeking approval About
IN. 600 of these little things were sold In
one wear, although their price was fve
dollars each. The heads, legs and arms
are made to order in Germany, and the
rest of the doll is made In New York;
Upon this one toy $50, 600 was expended
in one year, and its eale is increasing.
Here is a bear, shaggy, ferocious crea-
ture. with a very red mouth and rows
of terrible teeth. Wind it up. and it
will rise upon its launches, open its
law. snap its eyes, and turn upon You
in true grizzly fashion. The native in
his piny depths is put to shame.
Perhaps Young America cannot row
prettiiy. feathering his ores and spurt-
ing at the proper momens II ne VIII
study the movements OF an eutomatom
which has appeared in the toy-shops,
he may become proficient. A vigorous
little chap seated in boat viii pun
across sheet of water in giffy, with
no other incentive than Connecticut
clock-work. The same native makes
model horse canter, with its rider,
across a table. There is no end, indeed
Ia the variety of mechanical toys. The
movements are mostly made IN Bridge.
port and New Haven, and the rest OF
the toy is supplied in New York city,
where several large ma Iufactorles are
working. As baseball is simply ma
tional game and is not played in other
countries, all the implements are OF
homemade. Many schOOners arrive In
New York from Maine during the sea-
son laden with bats alone, the trade IN
which amounts to about $500, 900 annu-
alIy. The balls come from Nitlck,
Mass, where large number OF mel
and women are engaged in their manu-.
facture. The core is made OF cork,
around which several strips of india
rubber and yarn are wonnd. After this
operation the ball is covered with the
bleached hide of horses and sewed with
silk or linen thread. The business OF
one firm in Natick is said to amount tt
S15O,OOO a year. Great numbers OF
rocklng.horses are made in Vermont
Jew's-harps were exclusively manutac
tured for many years by two competing
Irishmen in Dublin. The trade was
brisk, and both had as much work az
they could do; but finally the tide OF EN-
migration to America swallowed one
who established himself in New York
His old-time rival followed, and the two
are now in the metropolis, making this
toy and exporting it to all parts OF the
world. and Home.
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CAPTAIN Jack as a Prisoner.
New York Times letter.l


Confinement goes very hard with an
Indian, and Capt. Jack has suffered
much since his imprisonment. He Is
thin in flesh and haggard in appearance.
No doubt he was especially discomfei-
ted at the result of his interview with
the cheifs, old Sconches and Allen Da-
vid. few days before. He had been
proved liar there under very mortlfy-
ing circumstances, and may have felt
that his case was weakening thereby.
When he came into this last ModOc
stronghold, when the ModOc nation
were penned like sheep, and kept un-
der vigilant guard, it is not unlikely that
the situation was presented to his mind
in a very vivid light. He had been
chief. had magnifed his office, and had
filed it with all possible dignity. He
had dictated terms to the whites as long
as they chose to parley with him, and
when they came in force, he had waged
war with such success as the world had
never before known.
I imagine that the past swept through
his mind. He remembered that the
treachery of part of his people had be-
trayed him to death, and that his cher
ished dream of retaining his birthplace
and the home of his fathers on Lost
river was ended forever. Here were his
people captive, aud he in chains, and
they were objects of sympathy for the
hated white man. No doubt, too, the
kind words, and sympsthetic looks, and
tones of the Boston women were some
thing beyond his ideas; and he sat
for while following the movements
of Gen1 Davis with an eagers pleading
look that had in it something that was
untranslatable that may have been
half wonderment, that they who were to
Judge and condemn him, should show
such sympathy and kindness, and there
NAV have peen questioning OF the JUS
tice of that mystery of Providence that
made him an Indian, wild and untu-
tored, and gave such gifts, such wealth
and such wonderful power to the white
man. The fountains of his soul opened
at these impressions and remembrances,
and tears coursed down the cheek OF the
Modoc chief who will live in history as
the general of the lava beds. His two
wives wept bitterly; old men, women
and children joined in the vail: Jacks
sister, Mary, sobbed and cried with
loud voiced grief, and the lady visitors
lent their tears at the sorrows OF wo-
manhood so true it is that "a touch OF
nature makes the world akin" The
general himself has a sympathetic ma
ture, and, though quick and impatient
as a soldier, does not lack apprecia-
ton of the finest feeling of our natur1
I tell the story as he told it to me.
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Notes on Iron.

Some interesting notes on early chem
istry have appeared in Nature. From
them. we collect the following as to
iron "Iron was not in common use
till long after the introduction OF cop
per. 1t is far more difficult to procure,
because it is not met with in the native
state, and the fusing point is very high.
>metallurgy of iron is more complex
than m,-A Of copper and, when obtain
ed, IL ls mo.>dif{icult metal to work.
According to Xensphon, the melting OF
iron ore was first prae+iced by the Chal.
ubes, nation dwelling near the Black
sea hence, the name Chalups used fol
steel, and hence our word chalybeate,
applied to q mineral water containing
iron. Steel was known to the ancients,
but we do not know by what means i
was prepared it was tempered by h<,,
ing to redness and plungi,e IN cold
water: According 49, knanos, . men Ma
toned by Home1 % ssee. o.t ~ MI !:
was bronze. Iron was known at least
1897 b. C. It was coined into money
by the Laced@raonians and in the time
of Lnkourgos was in common use. 1t
was used in the time of Homer for GER
tain instruments, such as wOOdmen's
axes. and for plow-shares. Its value is
shown by the fact that Achilles proposed
ball of iron as a prize for the games
in honor of PatrOklos. Neither iron
money nor iron implements of great an
tiuuity have been found, because unlike
the other metals of which we have spoken
above, iron rusts rapidly, and soon COM
paratively disappears. No remains Of it
have been found in Egypt; yet Hero
dotas tells us that iron instruments were
used in building the pyramids. More
over, steel must have been employed to
engrave the granite and other hard
rocks, massive pillars of which are often
found engraved most delicately from
top to bottom with hieroglyphics.
Again, the beautifully engraved Baby
lonian cylinders aud Egyptian gems.
frequently of cornelian and onyx, must
have required steel tools of the finest
temper. We have no record Of the fur
naces in which iron ore was smelted !;
~ &e know that bellows were in use
= the fifteenth century B. c., in Egypt
- some crucibles of the same perio
kpreserved in the Berlin museuI
D1osely resemble the crncibles
present day." We may az
uar1 found an iron saw
hfranfs Magasi y
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thought that I knew it, but did not:
The tritest proverb the thing that l
supposed went without the saying, has
leaped, with an experience, into ameaa-
ing that had been, till that moment,
utterly hidden from me.-Dr. Holland
in ,NcriEner's.
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Vaneeisu

think half the trouble inn
comes of doing things from withont-lA
stead of from within. Imitation seems
to be one of the necessary experience,
of youth. Indeed, one may say thai
measles are q sort of imitation. It il
pitiful to see a person of sc-called matu
rity lingering in this grade of culture
Yet how many artists do you find far be.
yond it? When l say artists I imply
all men, for every body is using some
sort of artifice if in no other way thar
in the structure of his life. The fault
with this vast raft of inedited writing
great army of stories, for instance, that
marches mp yearly to be slaughtered
without ruth at editorial batteries. il
that it is not sincere. A girl has been
reading conventional novels all her lite
life. and yearning grows in her consci-
BUSINESS not to say something, but to
write story. She catches the poorest
part; the trick of form, and wonders that
the editor or publisher does not see that
this is the thing the world wants. II
cannot be denied that o large part of what
is supposed to be the literature of our day
is as false in quality as the crude stuff
that never sees the light. Yet 1 think
we need not be greatly troubled by the
easy acceptance granted to persuasive
affectstion. It holds in its heart the
seeds of its own dissolution, which time
never fails to ripen. Nothing insincere
can live, in art, love, life. II there had
not been an element of sincerity in the
devil himself, he would have been dead
long ago. i become 80 tired of all this
vaneeripg. in art. education, converse
tion, morais, and the rsst, that 1 confess
to transient sympathy for certain sin
cere forms of wickednoss. No On can
doubt that sin is q permitted evil and
1 can readily imagine that a 1puI msv
come ont quite as vigorou nbom :
swoon Of undeceiving, passiG - erime
rs from q life constrained ~ 1{A8
ting, hard-jointed, arti6o1 Gks5l q
any kind; even thouah - ~ = =
she'll morality, even The So1 ~ Fl
falsely, religion. The = - 651rrr
from within, are the on ~ IL
nc mans code, no nd - - 4
respect the codes fall = . - 80 Iii5
of all am eager to - -
but ! must know of -
another. / am talk =
myself and for my g
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-08-09

"A West Chester Pa merchant set q
steel tap in the cellar to catch rats, and
the next morning it was missing. A
few days thereafter, boy saw strange
- sntef the cellar carrying Q piece
0f mont in her mouth. She vent be-
hind Iet Of -, and pres
entity HoelX maat. The
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-08-09

Il rejoice in the common origin and
brotherhood Of all genuine forms of re-
ligious faith. They are windows in the
cathedral Of the world some painted
with the saints and sages of China and
India, some withth white-stoled priests
Of Persia, some with the prophets of
Egypt and others with apostles, confess
sors and martyrs of the early Christian
time but through them all shines the
same light, and we could no more dis
pense with one of them than with col
or from the rainbow.-Frederic II.
MAJ rim.
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The Dukes Lesson About Diligence.

There was duke once who disguised
himself and placed great rock in the
road near his palace. Next morning a
peasant came that way with his ox-cart.
80 these lazy people, said he there
is this big stone right in the middle OF
the road, and no one will take the trOu-
BILE to put it out of the way" And so
Hahus went on scolding about the lazi-
ness of the people. Next came a gay
soldier along. His head was held 30
far back that he didn't notice the stone,
so he stumbled over it. He began to
storm at the country people around
there for leaving huge rock in the
road. Then he went on. Next came a
company of merchants. When they
came to the stone, the road was SO mar
lxQw that they had to go off in single file
"DAher side. One of them cried ont:
big stone f0dy ever see the like of that
but no one stopbAxe all the morning,
It lay there for three Ntake 1t away
tried to remove it. Then t6epG no one
around word to all the people onsent on IN
lands to meet near where this rock Law
as he had something to tell them. Ths
day came, and a great crowd gathered
Old Hahus, the farmer, was there, and
so we're the merchants. A horn wa,
heard, and a splendid cavalcade came
gallopiDg up. The duke got down from
his horse, and began to speak TO the
people: "My friends, it was I whC
put this stone here three weeks ago.
Every passer-by has left it Just where Il
was, and has scolded his neighbor fol
not taking it ont of the way" He
stopped down and lifted up the stone.
Directly underneath it was q round hol-
low, and in the hollow lay a small lea
thern bag. The duke held up this BAG.
that oil might see what was written on on
it, For him who lifts up the stone. /"
He united the bag, and turned it upside
down, and out upon the stone fell a
beautiful gold ring, and twenty large,
bright gold coins. So they all ost the
prize because they had not la he'd the
lesson or formed the habit Of [iligence.
Methodist.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-08-09

Leigh Hunt SAYS: Beauty too Of
ten sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of
fashion is not the beautiful, but the
willful not the graceful, but the fan
tastic; not the superior in the abstract,
but the superior in the worst of all con-
that can afford to shift and vary itself,
opposed to the vulgarity that longs TO
do so, but cannot. The high point IF.
taste and elegance is to be sought for,
not in the most fashionable circles, but
in the best-bred, and such as can dis
pense with the eternal necessity of nevsf
being the same thing. -"
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-08-09
What Love Is.

That alteration which a young man
gives to a woman whom he feels to he
greater and better than himself, is
hardly distipguishable from religions
feeling. What deep and worthy love is
not so whether of woman or child, or
art or music. Our caresses, our tender
words, our still rapture under the in
fuence of autumn sunsets, or pillared
vistas, or calm, majestic statues, or
Beethoven symphonies, all bring with
them the consciousness that they are
mere waves and ripples in an unfathom-
able ocean of love and beauty; our emo
tiOn in its keenest moment passes from
expression into silence, our love at its
highest food rushes beyond its object,
and loses itself in the sense OF divine
mystery. Is it any weakness, pray, to
be wrought OH by exquisite music to
feel its woundrous harmOnies searching
the subtlest windings of your soul, the
delicate fibers of life where nOmem-
ory can penetrate, and binding together
your whole being, past and present, in
one unspeakable vibration; melting yOu
in one moment with all the tenderness,
all the love that las been scattered
! through the toilsome years, cOncentra-
ting in one emotion of heroic courage or
resignation all the hard-learned lessons
of self-renouncing sympathy, blending
your present Joy with past sorrow, and
your present sorrow with all your past
ioy? If not, then neither is it weak
ness to be 80 wrought upon by the ex-
neck and arms, by the liquid depths Of
her beseeching eyes, or the sweet child.
ish pout of her lips. For the beauty OF
a lovely woman is like music what can
one say more2 Beauty has an express
sion beyond and far above the one wo-
man's soul that it clothes, as the words
Of genius have wider nearing than the
Thought that prompted them it is more
than a woman's love that moves us in q
woman's eyes it seems to be far-oH
mighty love that has come near to MS,
and made a speech for itself there /; the
rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move
us by something more than their pretti-
ness, by their close kindship with all We
have known of tenderness and peace.
The nOblest nature sees the most of this
impersonal expression in beauty Git is
needless to say that there are gentle
men with whiskers dyed and undyed
who see none of it whatever), and for
this reason, the noblest nature is often
the most blinded to the character of the
one woman's soul that the beauty
clothes. Whence, l fear, the tragedy
Of human life is likely to continue for
long time to come, in spite of mental
philosophers, who are ready with the
best receipts for avoiding all mistakes
of the kind.-GeOr0e Eliot.
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"A western editor statement, w
are living at this moment under absolI
despotism," is att Pbuted by his cont
porsries to the fact that he has
- married. =
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In composing, think much more Of
your matter than your manner. To. be
sure, spirit, grace and dignity of man.
ner are Of great importance, both to the,
speaker and writer but of infinitely
more importance is the weight and worth
of NATTER Writ.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-08-09

To boil tongue-drink scaldine
coffee.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-04-24

TIE original Rsveis are all alive.
but the youngest is more than 60 year,
old. When this troupe was last in the
United Slste-, two young LADIES were
riding in q csr and wished to open
window near them. They tailed, and
one suggested asking the aid OF an old
gentleman sifting on the seat next be-
hind them. Oh. no" responded the
other, don't trouble the old man" To
their sstoDishment this aged individual
rose. stepped in the aisle. made low
how To the young ladies, and then
turned a somersauI, forward sod then
one backward. Apr this he ms1e
another bow and then threw up the
window. THIS was Gabrisl RsyeI,
aged ".
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-04-24
MEM Phls.
Fatal Afrray-Prize Fight.

MEMPHIS, April 2l-To-dsy intorma'
ton was received OF horrible murder
sixtv miles above Pine Bluff, on Mon
iay night. Two men named Smith and
L~dbetter, partners 10 business, had r
falling out about very small tritle, and
were about to settle the ference with
-rx shooters when friends separated
them. 1t VAS finally agreed to give up
al weapon- and take rough and tum
BILE. Ledbetter surrendered his kni e
and pistol and Smith gave up a pistol
only. In the quarrel that followed
: nrth drew kni,e and cut Lelbetter
10 pieces. Smith is said TO be bad man,
this being tour meu he has slain IN a
like horrible manner. The murderer
nas fled the country.
Yesterday afternoon Fred Bulky and
an Irl-hman named Duffy, fought elev-
en- rounds near this city, Busky being
the victor Both men 60 into training
et once lor another mill.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-04-24

the transverse strips it was necessary
TO take a narrow piece from each Of
twelve or e 'teeh 500 dollar bills, which
we're necessarily shortened one-twellth
or obe-6fteenth of their length by the
operation. The first strip was taken
rom The fret bill and cutting the other
bills 10 the came manner the rectangu-
lar pieces when laid together fitted
nicely. The engraved lines and printed
words were distinct and unbro-
ken and the pieces taken from
the 500 bills did not inn
pair their vslue az under q rule es-
ia oIished bv Secretary Boutwell,, any
bill from which less than one half has
been taken will be redeemed by the
Treasury Department for the ull value
OF the original bill. The writer request
ed the money to be sent TO him at q
certain place in New York, and Treas
ury detective was instructed to watch
the station and ascertain who called for
the answer ofthe Treasury Department
to the request This was done and q
youns man about 20 years Of age. a
bank teller, was arrested on the charge
OF attempting TO defraud the governs
men. He made a full confession, but
begged so piteously for mercy that the
detective and a number Of Influential
parties in New York united in asking
General Spinner TO forbesr prosecuting
MN a. ne WAS the only support o. gu
aged mother and sister, and that wa
bis first oteuse. The young man also
wrore = letter to General Spinner I'M
ploring Tor mercy. aud, considering all
the circumstances. General Spinner con-
Guided 10 take no action in the case.
Steamer Arrived.
A telegram received at the Treasury
this morning, announces the
CITY OF Brooklyn arrived out safe with
AL we'll on board. Messrs CotterllI ~
B glow, financial agents OF the United
States, with several Treasury clerks,
AID some millions OF the new five per
cent bonds, left New York on this
steamer
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-04-24

TIE Columbus Journal expresses
ita preference for Crook sgsinst the
field. Tor the first vacant Brigsdiersnip
in the regular army. and gives its
rea=Ons
Crook was emphsticslly Sheridan's
riqh hand in the Shenandoah cam psign
Hi lrttle command acted as the flying
column which turned the epemys left
10 every Fl ,ht up the Valley and Crook
Sas the officer most frequently seen IN
consultation with Sberltau. General
sheridan sought him on the fed after
hi. famous Ride from Winchester. and
remained with him 10 conversation
while general Forsyth and his Aids
arranged the lines Tor the advance
which drove Early "out OF those camps
10 shJrt Crook wss one OF the most
conspicuous snd daring fighters in the
srmy,-equally At home With cavalry
or infantry. II would gladden. thou
-ands OF Ohio soldiers TO know that
"O'd George" had been assigned 10 the
rank in which he has done SO much
service. 1.-THE President has Brigs
der Generals commission 70 put "where
il will do most good be can not 20 far
wrong in putting it TO the name OF
G-Oryp Crook.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-04-24
RHODE ISLAND.



Providence, April % The funeral
Of Albert F. Allen, who lost his lie on
the ill-isted StonIngtou train, took
place this afternoon and WAS largely
attended. He leaves six children, the
youngest being but FIVE months old.
The Uve-tigstion into the Richmond
Switch disaster closed to-day after =
hearing, lasting three and halt hours,
before Henry Staples. railroad CON
missioner. A number OF witnesses
were examined but little news wa-
elected further than that the owner OF
the mill dam thought that in all prohs-
bility the dam had been isnp~red with,
Tor on exaDioation he iouBd that the
fumes were seversl inches lewer than
the top OF the dam, and further that
the water had not filled the fume that
night. Those examined were mostly
employees OF the road.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-04-24
CINCINNATI.
TheGas StFtke.

CINCINNATI, April 23-The strike OF
srokers At the gas works continues.
Onr OF eighty.four stokers about sixty
five or seventy are on the strike, Most
of their places have bee filed and from
pre-ent appearances the usual supply
o, gss will be maintained. A force OF
poIIctsis constantly on duty at the gss
works. The strikers published q card
through their committee to-day, IN
whrch ,hey CAIN that twelve hours 9
d,y on duty in the boiling temperature
10 winch they are subjected is de'ri-
mental to health; and the high price
o. provisions and house rent and fuel.
has CON pelled them to take the course
they are now pursuing. and concludes
ov saving that no act Of violence Cd
t6eir part will be committed.