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upon the floor, others attempted to reach
the door, and fell insensible. The teach
er, terrified, surmised the cause, threw
open the doors and windows, and called
to a passer- by for assistance. Before he
could answer, she, too, was insensible.
The stranger turned the uninjured portion
of the school out, carried the rest into the
open air, summoned q doctor. and sue
ceeded in saving every life. Five minutes
more and every human being in the
school room would have been corpse.
In New York city, few weeks ago,
lady whose room was heated by gas
stove went to sleep leaving it at fdll pres
sure, the windows and doors being closed.
She was dead in the morning.
On the night of the 2d of January
five men were killed by gas VIII lie asleep
on vessel at Wilmington. On the 18th
of January father and son died
in Boston under similar circufn instances
A man named Wieland and his wife were
found dead in Philadelphia or February
9th, from an escape Of gas into an air.
tight room. The murder of the three
Thompson children completes the cata.
logue up to date.
The strongest constitution, the staunch
est lungs, cannot escape the insidious
poison Of foul air. If permitted to con-
tinue its assault long enough death must
inevitably ensue. The attention of
school directors and teachers throughout
the country, no less than that of heads of
families, is earnestly directed to the fore
going terrible facts. An insane determi-
nation in human nature attempts to make
a room hot during cold weather, with a
sublime unconsciO business as to the possible
peril in the process, or funerals as the re-.
suits. 1t is principle whose enforce.
ment should be universally insisted upon
that no room in which human life is en-
cased should 80 be closed as to prevent
the free entrance of pure air. This pas
sage-way can be maintained, if building
be decently constructed, without subject
ing any one to the danger of neuralgia
draug ght-Chicago Times.
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How AL. BascOm Saved the Train.

We have rarely read of an instance
where noble effort to save life was op.
posed by greater difficulties or more re-
markably rewarded than in connection
with recent accident on the Troy 6
Greenbush Railroad.
The New York and Boston express
train left Troy at the usual hour, 6 o'clock
IN the morning. None of the passengers
yet know how narrowly they escaped an
awful disaster, and in how great degree
they are indebted for their lives to the
presence Of mind of railroad employe.
There had been serious landslide at
fish-house curve on the Troy & Greenbush
Railroad. A locomotive had been acci-
dentally caught by the landslide, forced
from the track and partly turned, so that
It's headlight was pointed west.
The slide occurred at 6 O'Clock, just at
the moment the New York and Boston
express was leaving the Troy station. The
engineer of the captured locomotive knew
that the down train could not pass the Oh
structions. He told his fireman, AL. Bas-
com, to take a red lantern, 60 up the track
and intercept the train.
Bascom started on his mission; in the
darkness he stumbled and fell on the
track; the light was extinguished. The
time was too short to allow him to return
and get another lantern; it was impossi-
bic in the strong wind to light match.
Covered with mud, but losing scarcely
half minute, he pushed on. The head
light of the approaching train came in
sight. He knew that the voice of warn
ing, be it ever 50 loud, could not be heard
above the roar of the train He had but
few seconds in which to determine upon
his course.
What did he do?
Something very few would have
thought of doing. Taking aim as best he
might, he raised his lantern and hurled
it at the approaching locomotive, and
then awaited the result. He could not
see where bis missile landed; the inter-
vening seconds seemed ten minutes.
BY what we now regard as mysterious
and benefcent interposition Of Provi-
dence, it entered the cab window, break
ing the woodwork, and coming within an
inch of striking the fireman inside fairly
in the face.
If it had hit him he would have been
seriously injured. When the shattering
and shattered lantern fell at the engineers
eet he knew something had gone wrong,
and whistled "down brakes" The train
slackened speed, and at length came to a
full stop within a hundred feet of the
wrecked locomotive, saved from destruc-
ton by the presence Of mind of the man
who had thrown the lantern.
AT this point, where the way is OBJ
structed, the track is built on an embank-
ment close by the river, and had coils
ion occurred between the disabled loco
motive and the moving train, the latter
would have been thrown from the track
into the river, and the horrors and loss of
life, the woundings and maimings Of New
Hamburg would have been repeated. All
honor to AL. Bascom! Let his name be in
scribed on the roll of fame beside that of
Doc Simmons, the heroic engineer who
died at New Hamburg.-Iroy Times,
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Indifference to Danger.

NOTWITHSTANDING all that has been
said on the subject we fear that it will
have to be admitted that the people of
the present generation are foolishly in
different to the countless dangers that
threaten human life. Indeed, we believe
that if some enterprising person were to
stretch cable across the North River be-
tween Cortland street and Jersey City,
suspend basket ear upon it by means Of
a rope, and get the frail conveyance going
by steam engines at both ends of the
route, more passengers would be found
ready to risk their necks than could be
accommodated.
A good example of recklessness may be
witnessed every day on the ferry-boats
When the boat reaches within three or
four feet Of the landing.stage, the hurried
mortals outside Of the chains jump and
run as if pursued by wild beasts. Jump
ing on and off steam railroad cars in mo-
tion is another habit that would be
indulged in to greater extent than it is
but for the efforts made to prevent it.
Yet hundreds of persons are either Grip
pied or killed outright every year because
of it. Most men would greatly prefer to
run the risk Of losing their lives than to
| remain ten or fifteen minutes at road
side station for another train.
Women, in proportion to their strength
and activity, are likewise affected by the
| spirit of Indifference to danger. They do
not, it is true, jump on moving trains, or
crush outside the chains on ferry boats, but
they nevertheless find numerous ways of
showing their recklessness. Among
them may be mentioned the treatment of
the kerosene lamp The burning Of
women through incautiousness in hand
ling this persistent enemy of the house.
hold has come to be daily occurrence.
On Tuesday night last resident of Grand
street, Jersey City, was literally burned
to death by the explosion of one of these
lamps. She had, it appears, attempted to
fiji it while the wick was lighting, and,
"as if to make the experiment more haz-
ardous, held the lamp almost directly over
| a hot stove." A drop of the oil fell on the
stove, ignited, and sent up flame which
struck the oil in her hand, and in an in
stant she was enveloped in flames. The
poor woman, we are told, rushed into the
street and hid herself under the floor of a
shanty hard by. She was subsequently
taken back to her apartment, where she
died after four hours of the most excru-
ciating agony.
1t takes, as we all know, good deal of
writing and talking to effect the very
simplest reform, so that if the people
should come to fully realize what small
amount of actual progress is made by the
disposition to Overturn one another in
their scramble through life it will only
be at the expense of vast amount of
talk and still vaster amount of risk-N
! ?. Times.
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Affecting Romance.

A young gentleman living near Terre
Haute felt that life had no charms if a
young lady of whom he thought a great
deal didn't consent to marry him. She
didn't, and he Immediately went West, and
employed a asympa,hetic friend to write to
her saying that he was dead, and begging
her as his parting request to stop and
drop weed or a flower or tear upon
his lonesome grave if she happened to be
passing in that direction. Mark the prac.
ticality of the modern young lady! No
thrill of anguish desolated her soul; she
calmly wrote back to the friend that if he
had any consideration for her feelings to
send her the dear departed's watch and
chain and money. The things were sent
and their owner speedily followed to OBJ.
serve the effect of his beau stratagem.
Alas he met her walking with Another,
and wearing all his jewelry. Appalled,
by this sudden apparition Of dead man
Another fed, but the young lady had
sharper eyes for her unappreciated suitor
ALPS we'll that ends we'll; she was SO
displeased with Another for running away
in terror that now she is about to marry
the ghost.
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Templars, and is a hard working and en-.

Templars, and is hard working and en-
thusiastic supporter of all temperance
reforms But to his bitter distress, every
now and then Eng gets drunk, and of
course that makes Chang drunk too. This
unfortunate thing has been great sorrow
to Chang, for it almost destroyed his use
fulness in his favorite field of effort As
sure as he is to head a great temperance
procession. Eng ranges up alongside of
him, prompt to the minute and drunk as
lord; but no more dismally and hope
lessly drunk than his brother who has not
tasted drop. And so the two begin to
hoot and yell and throw mud
and bricks at the Good TEN
plars, and Of course they break
up the procession. 1t would be mani
festly wrong to punish Chang for what
Eng does, and therefore the Good TEN
plars accept the untoward situation and
suffer in silence and sorrow. They have
officially and deliberately examined
into the matter, and find Chang blame
less. They have taken the two brothers
and filled Chang full of warm water and
sugar and Eng full of whisky, and in
twenty-five minutes it was not possible to
tell which was the drunkest. Both were
as drunk as looms, and on hot whisky
punches, from the smell of their breath
Yet all the while Chang's moral princi-
pies were unsullied his conscience clear;
and so all just men were forced to confess
he was not morally but only physically
drunk. BY every right and by every
moral evidence the man was strictly
sober, and therefore it caused his friends
all the more anguish to see him shake
hands with the pump and try to wind his
watch with his night-key.
There is moral in these solemn warn
ings, or at least a warning in these solemn
morals, one or the other. No matter, it
is somehow. Let US keep it; let US profit
by it.
could say more Of an instructive ma
ture about these interesting beings, but
let what have written suffice.
Having forgotten to mention it sooner,
I will remark, in conclusion, that the
ages of the Siamese twins are respectively
fifty-one and fifty three years.
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A Public Lesson.

The circumstances attending the Thomp.
son tragedy, in the town of Lake, are 50
familiar, on account of the intense inter
est attached to the affair, that they require
only brief recapitulation. The family
consisted of mother, father and four
children, one of them an infant The
father, David Thompson, was boarding
temporarily near his work. The mother
was ill, and being taken care of by an
ignorant but well.meaning professional
nurse. On Thursday the family was Wis
tied by kindly neighbor, who observed
nothing wrong. On Saturday two of the
children were dead, third was dying and
the mother and nurse were in state of
stupor. The infant, only few days old,
was apparently uninjured. The first sus-
picion was that Of poison, and the guilt
seemed to attach to the nurse. The in.
justice of the accusation became apparent;
and patient examination established the
fact that the three children were killed
by noxious gas escaping from coal stove,
the house being shut tight, and the dampeI
in the pipe reversed. The escape of the
mother and nurse is attributed solely to
the forcible invasion of the house by two
| neighbors, and their promptitude in ap.
plying proper restOratives. The physi.
clans who conducted the post mortem ex
plain the safety of the infant in this
scarcely satisfactory way: ct has been
noticed that infants respire foul air fire.
quently without being as much affected
as adults" It was observed that the poi
son had not killed two adults and had
killed three children; and if it be true
that the infant respired the air with safe
ty, simply because an infant can, it must
be admitted, as necessity has often re-
.quired before, that the explanations by
doctors are among the most mysterious
things on earth
Unhappily, this Chicago tragedy is not
an isolated case. In Oakland, Pa, last
December, an entire school barely es
capped destruction by the same cause
The gas escaped from the stove into the
room. Soon several Of tho pupils swooned
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Beaten at Their Own Game.

ABOUT TWO years ago g. missouri tlVer
steamboat left Fort Benton with a party
of tough and well-to-do miners on board.
There were also among the passengers
three or four brace men, and before ar
irving at Sioux City they had generally
cleaned out the pockets of the miners
The boat stopped at Sioux City to wood
up, and found, among others waiting to
get on board, a ministerial looking per
sonage with the longest and most solemn
countenance on him you can we'll imag-
inc. He was dressed in a suit of black,
wore white stovepipe hat and choker
collar, ornamented with black neck
handkerchief.
Well, he got on board and the boat start.
ed down the stream. For two days he
was unnoticed by the other passengers,
but one of the sports at last thought he
saw chance to make something out of
the sad and melancholy individual. The
latter would once or twice day step up
to the bar, and, with voice that was as
mild and gentle as maiden's, ask for
IA glass Of soda, if you please" and then
he would pull a roll of bills from his
pocket and take quarter from their in
terror layers. Then he would say to the
barkeeper, as if under a thousand obliga.
tions, "Thank you, sir,' and walk aft
again as if about to commit suicide.
The thing had gone far enough, and
the gambler I have spoken of at last ap.
preached him.
Would you like game of seven.up
sir?''
"Seven-up? WHAT'S seven.up? Please
tell me, my good friend"
"Why, game Of cards, you know, just
to pass away the time. Let US play a
game"
my good friend, I do not know any.
thing concerning cards; l cannot play
them"
"Well, come along; we'll show yon
how to do it." And the mild gentleman
in black, after some further protests, at
length cOnseAiGd.
They showed him how twas done, and
they played several games. The gentle.
man in black was delighted. Gamblers
want to know if he will play poker, five
cents ante, just for the fun of the thing
Gentleman in black says he can't play the
game, but they explain again, and the
poker commences. The gentleman in
black loses every time. There are
six men in the game. Each one
deals before the gentleman in black,
and ante has been raised to a dol:
lar. Gent in black deals awkwardly and
looks at his hand. Next man to dealer
bets five-goes around, and bets are
raised to 800. Gent in black sees it and
makes it 500 better. Gamblers look sur.
prised, but will not be bluffed. The bet
had reached $50O-a thousand. All draw
out except Pixies Peak miner, who sees
and calls him: "What have your
"Waal." answers the gent in black, 81
have-let me see, let me see-waal, have
four ones"
The gamblers, who have suspicioned
some time before, now look wild, and the
light begins to dawn in the miners
mind. He leaned across the table and
said in the most sarcastic tones he could
command:
"Oh, you heave, heave yer! You sane
timonious shuffler''
The gent got up from the table and
handed one of the gamblers his card. i
read "Bill Walker, New Orleans"-ont
of the most successful sharpers in thu
country.-St. Louis Journal.
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Inspired being: "Whence, oh
whence, ladies, whence, oh whence came
the marvellous instinct that prompted the
minute being originally contained in this
fragile shell to burst the calcarious en-.
velop that secluded it from the glories OF
the outward world?" Chorus of admir-
ing ladies': "Whence, oh whence, indeed,
Mr.. Honeycomb?" Master Tommy:
Perhaps the little heggar was afraid
he'd be boiled!''
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THE Supreme Court Of Illinois, in a re-.
cent decision, has affirmed the principle
that an express. company cannot he held
for the value Of package of money lost
while in its possession rs a common car
rier, unless the value of the package be
truly stated before tho contract for car
riage is enyered into.
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Selected eHisrelzattg.
UP IN THE CLOUDS.
B1 DANIEL c0kNoLLY.

~ DANIEL oGtxo1rr.
MY friend, your fancy flies too far,
The world OF man lies round our feet,
Here it's unceasing conflicts arc,
And here its varying forces meet.
Pray, curb the thoughts that vaguely rise
Ab0rb HE'S real and stubborn facts;
Give DER wild flights to distant skies,
And do some good by human acts
Utopian dreams arc pleasant things,
No dOubt-but dreams are poor at best;
We live not by imaginings,
Nor thrive Ol vague aud vain unrest.
We must behold with eyes Of sense,
Our feet must tread in actual ways,
And ere we gain the rccompense
'Tis ours to number tOilsOme days.
Grand theories OF what might be,
PrOdigiOus schemes for changing all
Heavens order here caN never free
Mankind from Natures bond and thrall.
What Is, h0we'cr whence it came,
1s that which al must recognizes;
What Mtght Oe wears q winsOme name,
But brings no Joy to fearful eyes.
So, friend, give DER your fancy flights,
Below +he clouds. .you III daily find
Much strife 'twixt Struggling wrongs and rights,
Much good to do to aid your kind.
Pray, curb the dreamy thoughts that rise
Above life's real and stubborn facts;
FOrsake void realms and vacant skies,
Aid do some good by human acts.
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-Figueras is not only tall and thin and
gray y-headed, but goes to bed at five
o'clock and gets up at nine.
The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1874-10-12
The Gig Rare.

THE BACHELORS AGAIN CARRY OFF THE
CHAMPIONSHIP FLAG.
The gig race came off SATURDAY after
noon, rs announced and was witnessed
by quite number of spectators, though
not by so many as turned out TO witness
last Saturdays contest. The Pioneer
crew did not enter. owing to the sickness
OF their stroke. thus leaving the race be-
tween the Undine and Bachelor clubs.
The same umpire and Judges who acted
on Saturday last were again chosen n, and
at ii minutes before four o'clock, the
boats stn tied off in good style.
The race was closely contested, but the
steady, hard pulling Of the Bachelor BOYS
won them the victory and they came in
ahead, winning the race by POI seconds.
Time y minutes So sec onds, which for a
three mile course. is very good The
Ondines made the course in % minutes,
27s seconds.
The championship flag was then award
ed the Bachelors by the umpire, Wash
ton Hastings. Esq. and the Bachelors
will fly it at their PROV until next Sum-
mer's regatta. and longer, if it is not
then wrested from them.
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THIRD EDITION
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE.
EXHIBITIONS FROM THIS CITY
TO-Day's Police Record.
TR4NKLN INSTITUTE
EXHIBITION.

LIST OF EXHIBITORS FROM WILMINGTON.
The exhibition of the Franklin Insti
tute of Philadelphia is now open in the
old freight depot of the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad Companys which has been fit.
ted up for that purpose. Excursion
tickets to Philadelphia and return, in
Guiding adm ission to the exhibition, can
be procured at the depot in this city for
one dollar; the return ticket only being
good if punched by the door keeper OF
the exhibition, this being done to pre-
vent fraud, by persons not visiting the
Institute and disposing of their tickets
This City Is not represented very large
ly 10y the exhibitors, and the greaterpart
Of our contributions may be seen in the
department of machinery.
The following Is II list Of the exhibitors
from this city:
Il. y A. Belts, Screw cutting lathes,
Planning machine and Radial Drill.
j. Morton Poole 4 Co. Chilled Calendar
rolls for Paper mills.
Trump Bros Fleetwood scroll saw.
Pusey, Jones & Co., Expending pulley
and Tremper's cut off and governor com
bined. Wire guide and Chilled Calendar
Rolls for Paper mills. Also Il e I'D and
silver model of the steamship Hudson.
built by them for the Cromwell line
r. Ainsworth. Belt Clamps and Boiler
Felting.
Gawthrop Il Sons, Hydrau'c Rams.
McLear y Kendall, Carriages.
Wilson Wood a Co, Crockery, Well
and Water Cooler with spring bottom.
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STRAY WAITS.

The Board of Education meets this
evening.
Two trained bears were exhibited on
our streets this morning.
The Rugby Monthly for October is an
interesting and well edited number
Saturday night there were lG and last
night 20 dodgers at the City Hall cells.
Ladies are delighted with the display
of millinery goods at 51l Market street.
Ladies' buttoned pebbled boots at 81 30
ditto ladies lacedboot from 81 so to 81 90;
Misses laced do. from $3.50 to sl.75
Mems coarse boots, from $3.50 to So. 50;
boys do, from Sl.75 to $3.50, ut Daniel
Collins NV. corner 4th and Monroe. Ct
Auction sales at Chambers 3l2 Mar
ket street, every Tuesday and Friday
afternoon at 2 o'clock-bargains in
Winter goods will be sold. If.
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boarded WHEAT.

A Milwaukee paper arguing to con
vince Westerns wheat-growers that it is
better for them to store their crops in
their own granaries than to ship at pri-
ces current, alleges their ability to fol
low its advice ::'for year or more than
a year" This assurance may strength
en- the manifest disposition of the far
mers in portions of the West to adopt
the policy recommended, but in certain
otherportions circumstances seem to in
dictate that the prophesy of peroid
within which they may expect to mar
ket their produce at satisfactory prices
would need to be made a little more
precise. In Indiana, for example, if we
may trust the avertments of an Indian
apOlis correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune, made some time since, and
filed away in one of our pigeon holes, il
might be ncedful that farmers should
he assured of their ability to hold back
for considerably more than year, in
deed for several years, in order to in.
duce the repetation of an experiment
which has already been proved unlucky
This correspondent said that sin every
section of the State the farmres' gran
aries are full of old wheat-in not a
few instances the 'hold-over' including
the crop of 1871 as well as that of 1872
and 1873" The stock thus boarded
must of course be still held another sea
son, or sold at a sacrifice; for the fall of
prices since last year has been such as
to make that word alone correctly de-
scriptive of sale of last years wheat
at this years prices. The latest repor-
ted average in Great Britain received
here was, for instance, AIS I'd per quar-
ter, while the average for the cores
ponding week in 1873 was CAS- I'd r., and
the measure of the crop, therefore, lis.
3D.. per quarter The ability to hoard
wheat under these circumstances does
not imply mere ability to defer the
realization of profits, but to suffer an
annual depreciation in values, with at
least an even chance of pocketing a
loss instead of profit at the end of the
t,rm.