The Republican journal., 1874-11-26

''ln November, 1866, very importar
congregation came together in St George
Hall. Strange things were seen. / wa
there. Much money was to be gained. 4
young mana Yankee-had secret in hi
pocket. 1t was a wire worth millions. ii
T. LETT the hall 1t was a dark night-fo4
t. and smoke, thick and black. | followed
: him. Across the Haymarlet, across Lei
n cester square it was IL o'clock-ant
g through dark and narrow alley TOWARD
e st. Martins Lane. l could have done il
8 there, but others came by, and shrunk
back into the gloom. Through St Mar
y tins Lane to the Strand, down the Strand
$ to the turning to Waterloo Bridge, still l
o followed him l saw he was going to cross
, the bridge on foot. l crossed the street
: and got ahead of him, and, in the middle
of the bridge, | hid myself behind the
parapet. By and by my man came along,
t slowly walking. his hands behind him,
and his eyes bent upon the ground. When
near me he paused, and looked toward St.
, Paurs, whose huge bulk loomed up still
huger as the moonlight tried to struggle
: through the fog | was near enough to
; hear him. He said %, mighty monu-
, ment. the pride and glory of an empire,
thy renown is gone forever. All | see
|
is but the amusement of child, the labor
OF day. How powerful am here |
stole up behind him, without noise,-'in
future ages my name shall be-, -
my sti'etto fell between his shoulders, and
he dropped like a lamb. His pockets yield
ed up a coil of wire and a uundle Of pa
pers, and his body went over into the riv
er. All! | knew how to do it. / had
dene it often before at Ferrara on the Po
The secret was mine | was frantic with
excitement. | hurried home to my apart
ments, double-locked the door, turned up
the lamp and examined my prize. 1t was
the wire-the identical wire-Which had
swung a cannon in the air, not two hours
before | was impatient to test it powers.
| seized an iron poker from the hearth
wrapped the wire around it, poised it
aloft, let 60, and it fell Gathering upon the
floor. Again | tried and again it fell l
tried different articles | wound the wire
in every imaginable shape, and still with
the same result. Morning found ms hag-
gard and exhausted with my labor and un-
successful Business at the office prevent
ed further attempts until evening |
worked truitlessly until midnight, when
suddenly | thought of the papers l had
also seized. Fool that | was not to have
thought of them before. They undoubt
edly contained an explanation OF the Sc
cret. | tore them open with eager fingers,
All We're blank except one, and it contain
ed the following: Knowing the uncer-
tainty of life and the dangers OF travel |
have on this day (July Z, 1860 placed in
the vaults OF reliable banking-house in
the city of - a sealed packet, con
tanning the details and explanation Of the
means by which the laws OF gravitation
are rendered imperative. In case Of my
death or failure to return, the officers OF
said bank have explicit instructions to
open said packet on May !, 1876, and
spread the facts therein contained to the
world My knowledge is at present con-
fined to myself, but will not long continue
so, as l shall soon proceed to Europe, TO
impart my information to the most re-
nowned scientific men in the world Ny
only object in making the bank a deposi-
tary is to provide against accident, and Sc
cure to the world. beyond all peradven-
ture, the benefits of this mighty secret
There was no name or signature. After
this, | labored in vain to discover the Sc
cret workings OF the wire until at last it
occurred to me that the stranger had said
at St Georges Hall that the wire itself had
no power, but was only the means of com
muncating a power, lnturiated to the
last degree, [ threw the coil which had
cost Inc so much misery anxiety and sus-
pense into the Thames one night, where
it could tell no tales When | am dead
the company who assembled at st. Georges
Hall on that eventful night, may be re-
quested to cease their painful wonderings
at the failure of the mysterious stranger
to return The Thames received his body
nearly eight years ago.
This finishes the case at present. But in
what banking house is the Invaluable
packet OF papers deposited, who was the
man, and, in May, 1876, will the ancient
and lost secret of suspending the law OF
gravitation become again known t. the
world
One Of the most curious discoveries
made during recent investigation OF the
alms-hOuses of this State is that the pau
pers have an obstinate way Of not dying
The average length of life after admission
to their comfortable establishments is said
to be twenty years though the inmates
are, upon entering, most OF them. well
advanced. Such is the advantage OF being
free from botheration, worry, fret, trouble
anxiety, disappointment, and the like
tHll2S, lItC lldltltS ~ WHICH llllN bt lJllIl
in Dr. Rogers Thesaurus 1t was LONG
ago settled by agreement Of the moralist-
and the physiologists that fuss kills more
than fever, and sends greater Numbers to
an untimely sepulcher The real bills OF
mortality are the tradesmans We die OF
tailocs, grocers, butchers and shoemakers,
and OF collectors OF internal revenue We
perish of our great desire to take no our
notes. We are the victims Of too much
heed of tomorrow. We expire OF too
much DR. Franklin and Poor Richard The
wise pauper may say, ii he takes the
trouble Of saying anything; "Ihaye made
snug harbor at last | have all that the
richest man is sure of-three meals daily
a bed nightly and clothes to put on when
get up in the morning. Goodbye hope
| have no further occasion for your an
chor, my lady Farewell care You shal
not kill me as YOU killed the cat Nothing
to do but to live and, by George, | will
live as long as possible, Old boy, you
have got into good thing Don't make
donkey of yourself by prematurely eX-
} haling?" He doesn't, it seems-and why
should he Tribune,
The Nantucket Review saws that the
schooner Oliver Cromwell, while on her
mackerel cruise, had a curious accident
} betall her The seine being out, Il school
of mackerel suddenly turned, and, making
l for the seine, took it down. A vessel in
| the neighborhood Immediately answered
a call for assistance, and swept her seine
under that of the Oliver Cromwell's
Twenty three hundred dollars worth OF
mackerel We're secured, the two vessels
dividing the catch, the fish selling on an
} average of nine cents each. The bunt OF
/ the seine belonging to the Oliver Crom-
well was badly rent by the sudden rush of
the fish, or more would have been secured
t This is the second time the seine of the
y Oliver Cromwell has experienced similar
f treatment losing all the fish at the first
l. on account of the seine giving way, and
n there being no help near