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The Longest Swim On Record.

The Norfolk Chronicle makes the death
of Samuel Brock, Yarmouth beachman,
the occasion of recalling his extraordinary
escape in October, 1885. A vessel was OBJ
served at sea about p. m, with signal
flying for pilot, bearing east, distance
about twelve miles. Brock, who belonged
to Layton's company, with nine others,
launched tine yawl Increase, and steered for
the object of their enterprise. About
O'Clock they came up with the vessel which
proved to he the Spanish brig Paquette de
Bilboa. Three of the beachmen went on
board, and the remainder of the crew of the
yawl were sent away. On their way home
terrific squall took the yawl's sail flat
aback and she capsized. In few moments
all the crew, with the exception OF Brock.
were drowned. It was then about $50 p.
M, and the nearest land was six miles dis
tant-Slead low water; and Brock remem-
bered that the flood tide would be setting
off shore making to the southwark, so that
should he ever reach the shore he would
have to swim and float at least fifteen miles.
The swell of the sea drove him over the
Cross-sand ridge, and then got sight of the
buoy of ST. Nicholas Cat, nearly opposite
his own door, distant four miles from land.
lie had now been five hours in the water.
He next caught sight of a vessel at anchor.
He got within 200 yards of the vessel and
hailed her; boat was at once lowered. and
at 80 a. M, having swan seven hours and
half in an October night. he was safe on
the brig Betsey, of Sunderland, nearly fif-
teen miles from the spot where the boat In
crease was capsized.
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Longevity of the Sexes.

Some interesting notes upon the longevity
of the sexes are given in Harper for Febru-
airy. 1t appears from the gathered statistics
Of the world that women have greater
tenacity of life than men. Nature worships
the female in all of its vareUles. Among
insects the male perishes at relatively
early period. In plants the seminate
blossoms die earliest, and are produced on
the weaker limbs. Female quadrupeds
have more endurance than males. In the
human race, despite the intellectual and
physical strength of the man, the woman
endures longest, and will bear pain to which
the strong man succumbs. Zymotic dis
eases are more fatal to males, and more
male children die than female. Devergia
asserts that the proportion dying suddenly
is about 100 women to 7S0 men; 1,090 men
in the United States, in 1870, committed
suicide to 295 women. Intemperence, ap-
oplexy, gout, diseases of the urinary organs
hydrocephalus affections of the heart, or
liver, scrofula, paralysis, are far more fatal
to males than females. Pulmonary con-
sumption, on the other hand, is more deadly
to the latter Females in cities are more
prone to consumption than in the country.
All old countries not disturbed by emigration
have majority Of females in the population.
In royal families the statistics show more
daughters than sons. The Hebrew woman
is exceptionally long-lived; the colored man
exceptionally short-lived. The married
state is favorable to prolongation of life
among women. DR.. Hough remarks that
there are from two to six per cent. more
males born than females, yet more than six
per cent. of females in the living population
and that the population is steadily increas-
ing. From which statistics we conclude
that all women. who can possibly obtain one
of these rapidly-departing men ought to
marry, and that as men are likely to become
so very scarce, they cannot be sufficiently
priced by the other sex.
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THE TERRY IsLANDERs.-The Terry Is
landers, who confidently expected the end
of the world before Jan. /, 1874, don't
know what to make of it. They have re-
vised their arithmetical calculations, and
cannot discover flaw in them. The
Watehman's Cry, the organ of the sect,
says, on resuming publication, that it is in-
comprehensive. The publisher, after ex-
pressing his establishment. inquiries: "After
ri, may it not be true that we arc the SIM
ple-minded, foolish people, the world at
large esteem us to be, and our hopes d mere
dream, hallucination ~ The editor still
believes the Lord win come 4. in d little
while. but the publisher prefers the phrase
'sin his own good time, = and that is safe.
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Poe I RY.
" THE BABES IN THE WOODS
(BIG PINE FLAT, 1S74.)

tBIG PINE FLAT, 1S74.)
Something charactesistic,r eh?
Humph! reckon you mean by that.
| Something that happened in our way,
| Here at the crossin of Big Pine Flat,
| Times aren't now as they used to be,
| When gold was flush and the boys were frsky,
And man would pull out his battery
For anything-maybe the price of whisky.
Nothing of that sort, eh :? That's strange
Why. thought you might be diverted,
Hearing how Jones, of Red Rock Range
DraHcd his 3" Hint to the Unconyerted,"
And saying .Whar will you have it 2" shot
Cherokee Bob at the last Debating!
What was the question l forgot
But Jones didn't like Bobs way of stating.
Nothing of that kind eh +? You mean
Something miIder? Lets see-Oh Joe!
Tell to the stranger that little scene
Out OF the Babes in the Woods" You know
. Babes , was the name that we gave EN-, sir,
Two lean lads in their teens. and greencr
Than even the belt of spruce ard fir
Where they built their nest, and each day grew
leancr
No one knew where they came from. None
Cared to ask if they had mother.
Runaway schoolboys, maybe. One
Tall and dark as spruce; the other
Blue and gold in the eyes and hair,
Soft and low in his speech but rarely
Talking with and didn't care
To get at their secret at all unfairly.
For they were SO quiet, so sad and shy,
Content to trust each other solely,
That somehow we'd always shut one eye.
And never seem to observe them who ly,
As they passed TO theirw work. Twas wornout claim,
And it paid them grub. They could live without it,
For the boys had way of leaving game
In their tent, and forgetting all about it.
Yet no one asked for their secret. Dumb
1t lay in their big eyes heavy hollows.
1t was understood that no should come
To their tent unawares, the bees and swallows
So they lived alone. Until one night
l was sitting here at the tent door, so sir,
When Odt of the sunsets rosy light
Up rose the sheriff of Mariposa.
l knew at once there was something wrong.
For his hand and his voice shook Iust little,
And there isn't much YOU can fetch along
To make the sinews of Jack Hill brittle.
go warn the Babes T. he whispered hoarse:
Tell I'm coming-to get and scurry,
For I've got story that's bad, and worse
I've got a warrant Cd d-n it, hurry
100 labe! they nad seen MIN cross the NH:
ran to their tent and found them lying
Dead in each others arms, and still
Clasping the drug they had taken flying.
And there lay their secret cold and bare.
Their llfe. their trial-the old. old story
For the sweet blue eyes, and the golden hair,
Was W0mam's shame and 1con,ahs glory.
"Who were they?" Ask no more or ask
The that lists their grave so lightly;
Ask Of the whispering reeds, or task
The mourning crckets that chirrup nightly.
All of their life bnt its Love forgot,
Everything tender ard soft and mystic,
These are Babes in the Woods You've got,
Well--Human Naturc-that's character. site.
BRET UaRTE
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Snow SHOES FOR HORSES. s.-The proprie-
tors of the Downieville stage'Iine have shod
their horses running between Camptonville
and Downieville with snow shoes, by the
use of which they are enabled to travel over
the snow banks without sinking into them.
The Nevada Transcript gives the following
description of the shoe and its fastenings:
1T is sx12 inches in size, made of maleable
iron, and covered on the side with India
rubber, which is well riyeted to the plate.
In the center of the plate ON the other side
is a horseshoe of common size, with sharp
toe and heel corks. This also is riveted
solidly to the plate. The snow-shoe is
fastened to the foot of horse by means of
clasp with swivel screw, and when fixed
thereon the horseshoe beneath the plate is
fixed directly under the hoof of the ANIMAL
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WATCHES FOR LocoMOTIvEs.-For years
the Pennsylvania railroads have made
first-class watch part of the engine equip
ment Every engine upon the road has its
watch numbered to correspond with the
number on the engine. The watches are
purchased by the company and controlled
by the proper officers. In the Office of each
division superintendent hangs watchma-
ker's board with numbered hooks for all the
engines belonging to that division. When
the engine goes out upon trip, the watch
is taken from the hook. When it returns,
the watch is replaced, and while in the
office is run with the regulator Asa con
sequence, all the engines upon the road are
being run upon uniform time, and no
record has yet been made Of an accident
resulting from discrepancy of watches.
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ABOUT FIsHING.-A tisherman's outfit
costs from seventy-five cents UP to seventy
five dollars. The best rod is an ordinary
cane growing around the bottoms. 1t
should be well-seasoned, light and we'll
tapered. Joint rods are not to be compared
with whole rods. The best line You can
get is what is called "cable laid, a French
line made of silk. | would advise you to
get snood, they cost about cent apiece
and are generally about foot in length.
The best sinker you can have is an ordinary
buck shot pierced with knife little be-
yond the center, the line hooked in and the
crevice closed together never buy float,
get an ordinary cork and trim it into suita-
BILE shape. If You use reel, (and should
advise you to use one), get the Meek reel,
which costs from $12 to SEQ. One will last
you for years. Never so fishing with an
unsharped pole, a pole with heavy end is
tiresome to hold, and think you can fish
better with the pole stuck i'll the bank.
have sometimes thought that there is mes
meric current extending from the hand to
the end of the line which prevents fish from
biting g.-Report Of a Lecture By Rer. A. Il.
p. Green, d. ID.
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= CO!HpdHlOllq u NuTEE.
a blessing. a cnrsn.
4 UICstFIJrs 4 IUEsO
Fair woman was made to be which

Fair woman made to be which 2"
An economical Danbury woman, taking
advantage of the panic prices bought five
muffs.
A young man who enjoys the sobriquet
of % Frank y in parting with a young lady
the other night, endeavored to impress his
customary kiss, when she forcibly pushed
back her head and said: "No, sin, you
don't-the franking privilege is abolished
The Courier-Journalha having been inform
ed that Baltimore has 10000 more women
than men, says: eve never go to that
blessed city that the number and beauty of
the girls there don't make us long to seize
couple Of carloads of them and fly to the
bosom of the Mormon church as city of
refuge"
A young lady in Jefersonville was re-
| Gently made the victim of a heartless prac-
| tical joke. She was almost overwhelmed
by the discovery that she had been walking
the street with a placard pinned to the back
of her dress upon which was printed g.
600 children wanted.''
The wedding anniversary celebrations oc-
cur as follows: Three days, sugar; sixty
days, vinegar; first anniversary, iron; fifth
anniversary, wooden; tenth anniversary,
tin; fifteenth anniversary, crystal; twentieth
anniversary, china; thirtieth anniversary,
cotton, thirty-fifth anniversary, linen; forti-
| eth anniversary, woolen; forty-fifth anni-
| versary, silk; tiftieth anniversary, golden;
seyenty-fifth anniversary, diamond.
| A boy was passing through the cars of the
| Erie railroad the other morning, with an
Illustrated copy of Nothing to Wear"
A lady remarked, 8" I suppose that takes
off the ladies ?'' "No,'' said gentleman,
sit takes off their dresses ssThen.''
said the lady, it is quite proper that
STRIPPING should sell it,
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EVE-ANGELICAL CORNER

An era unknown to woman-The middle
ages.
Lydia Thompson has new pair of s27.-
600 earrings.
Buffalo Bills mother is stage struck.
Where is this to end I?
When is young lady like whale?
When she's pouting.
Stylish kid gloves are down to fifty cents
per pair in New York
Daughtercultural show" is the latest
name for an evening party.
Mrs. Southworth has "done" as many
novels as there are States in the Union.
Lillian Edgerton is the prettiest female
Why are Marys the most amiable of the
sex? Because they can always be molli-
fed.
What are now known as garters we're
called shank-bands by our Saxon grand
mothers.
The newly-imported Roman scarfs are
very beautiful, and are made quarter of a
yard wide.
The latest originality in marriage an
nouncement is the following: "No cards,
no cakes, no fuss"
Love is a thing of four letters, yet somc-
time in breach of promise case hundreds
are produced
Nine Chinese girls jumped into the river
to avoid being married. American girls
jump in because they can't get an offer.
a young lady of Elmira, N Y, spent four
years in learning Greek, Latin, French and
Spanish, and then married a vegetable ped
dler
Elizabethan rufs and overskirts are going
out of fashion together. Apron fronts sue
ceed overskirts, and high standing collars
the ruffs.
Miss Isabella Beecher Hooker and Susan
B. Anthony are going to travel together.
Landlords along the route will please get
hot bricks ready.
A young lady at Winchester lately called
upon a Photographic artist, and asked him
to take her picture with an expression as if
composing poem.
Forty pairs of hands flying wildly in the
air, forty mouths in distressed pantomime.
"What do you want % asked the teacher.
Your hair is falling off, answered the
chorus.
The young ladies of Vassar College, N.
Y, are reported as drinking $50 quarts of
milk every day, swallowing $50 pounds of
butter and 40 pounds of sugar for pudding
sauce for one dinner.
Mrs. Bluebottle says she knows of
woman who lives in Oregon, who was
neighbor of hers, and who was in the habit
She says she got clear beyond bigamy-way
up in trigonometry.
A stoical Scotchman was addressed by his
wife: ooh, John, shan't leave this bed
alive "Please theeself Betty, and thee'll
please me, returned John, with equanimity.
81 have been good wife to you, john"
persisted the dying woman. "Middlin',
Betty, only Middlin'.''
The following verses were found upon a
lawyers table in the courthouse the other
day:
" Fair woman made to bewifch:
companion, nurse.
blessing, curse,
woman was made IN ha which
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There were manufactured in California
last year So, f54, $50 cigars, of which 80, 050,
800 were shipped to the Eastern States,
and there were imported into San Francisco
dnring the same period 1.45o. 512.
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Ship-building at Puget Sound promises
to be very lively the coming Spring. At
Port Blakely two vessels of 110 feet and
143 feet length If keel, respectively, are to
be built.
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PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
REDUCTI0V IN BOARD AND LODGING
at the
SCOTT HOUSE,
Deer Lodge, Montana.

To put the Scott House in accord with the times, l
have made Reduction in Board aud odging to the
following Prices TO take effect and after Monday
October 90 1873 -
TABLE BOARD, PER WEEK s zoo
BOARD AND ROOM PER WEEK IL 90
BOARD PER DAY, WITH ROOM 2 90
SINGLE MEALS SO
LODGINGS SO
Having Refui7lished and Reitted the Rooms and
Parlos of the Scott House and secured the services of
MRS II. MERCER in charge Of the Housekeeping De-
partment Guests will find this Hotel superior in ali
its Appointments to any Hotel on the West Side.
Reading and Gard Rooms
For Gentlemen.
Fine Parl0r Piano Is Mt the Aeryice
of GucStS.
No effort will be spared to render the Tables salts
factory the most Epicurean tastes and the hesres
sppetites.
Thankful for past patronage the continuance of it
is respectfully solicited
SAM. SCOTT,
224- SCoTT HOUSE,.
DEER LODGE October 16. 1879.
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,,,,r Advertising payable quarterly as due.
Trtn+isW Wtices are 30 per cent. more than regular
IS cents for the first insertion 10
Lhm a. line for each succeeding insertion; lines
emf ss,atsd d in Noupariel measure.
20 Toh Work payable on delivery.
Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1874-12-24

Mayor Hayemeyer's will has been admitted to
probate. He appointed as executors and trus-
tees bis wife and their SONS, John G. and Hem
ry, desiring that they charge and receive their
commission and fees as by law for filing and
executing the trusts of his will. The portions
OF the widow and daughters are to be invested,
and the income thereof paid to them annually,
and the capital theirs to bequeath Mayor
Havemeyer bequeathed five or six
million dollars. The sole legateee
are his widow and their eight adult
children all New Workers.. The Mayors will gives
to Mrs Havemeyer their residence in Four
with all the furniture, pictures, works OF art.
wearing and other apparel, the income Of one
third OF his estate, less this residence and con-
tents, which the testater estimated at S25 900.
The will stipulates that Mrs. Havemeyer's in
0 ome shall not be more than slOO. 900 year, MOI
ess than $4,000
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These are the most durable and easily adjusted
Trusses offered to the public. The spring is Of
the best English Steel, and completely covered with
Cellulod, which protects and preserves it, while the
pad Is OF the same material.
Among the many great advantages Of the Ceu-
lold Truss, which Will be at once appreciated by
those who have worn Trusses, are the following
IL Ia impervious TO water.
II will never break or crack.
II is always clean.
It can be bent with the hand to any shape required
without artificial heat.
II will neither rust or chafe the patient
1t will retain the most dicul rupture with safety
and comfort
1t need not be removed while bathing
Its durability is beyond question.
II Is economical for 1t Will last a life tune
The heat OF the body causes no unpleasant smell.
In fact, with a Ceulold truss, the wearer has
comfort ease, safety, durability, adaptabillty, aud
economy.
A variety Of styles of these Trusses may be found
at Fosters Drug Store, Front and West streets
Please call and examine. Adjustments.nade with
out extra charge.
Special attention shown to ladies' by Mrs. Dr. Eos.
ter. The gentlemen receiving their share OF alten.
ton by competent man.
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The business of Richmond

lCnlcagO tribune correspondence
The war Frustrated, for the period Of its con-
tinuance, the principal Observation-Disclosures of
Richmond. Though trade is now better here
than it has been since the beginning Of the war
nearly fifteen years ago, it has not yet reached
that activity which prevailed for few years pre-
viousy to and embracing the year 1860. Nor
should it be forgotten that the greatest branch
Of business which formerly prevailed here has
been utterly destroyed, i can best illustrate
this by an incident of my own vis-
it. l was standing, the other morn
ing, in front Of the exchange Hotel, which, with
Billiards. with which it is connected by an arch
way across the Streets very much the largest
hostelry in the CITY, when an acquaintance from
Washington, formerly citizen of Richmond,
came up. l inquired presently How it hap
pened that this, the largest hotel in
Richmond, wac chucked away down
here, in an out-of-the-way and unin-
teresting part OF the city ?" "That question u
said he 'conclusvely shows that you never were
in Richmond before the war. Down yonder"-
pointing three four or more blocks away" used
to be the slave-marts. forget just how many
there were, bnt there were several. And before
the war, the great trade OF Richmond was the
slave-trade This hotel was NEST convenient tc
the slave auctons and that is why it ie here"
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"Oh that each In the day
or hts coming, may say
. have fought my way through
| have finished the work
Thou dids't give me u do y"


Tie DELAWARE TRIBUNE, the weekly edition
Of the COMMERCIAL, well sustains to-day the
claim which is set up for it az being the best
family newspaper on the Delaware Peninsula.
Its contents are varied and of a character which
will edfy, amuse, instruct, and entertain. 1t
contains our customary New York. Philadelphia
and Washington letters, all pleasingly written a
good story complete the particulars in the Katie
King expose numerous editorials upon current
topics the real estate transactions within the
bounds Of the Peninsula and in Chester county
during the past week a full and complete local
record of the principal events transpiring in the
ZANE territory during the same period miscea.
neous and general news market reports and al
that constitutes frst-class home paper. Term
Of subscription, 70 per annum.
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As soon as the imperial patty were seated ev-
cry body else sat down 1t would have been
great rudeness for any body TO sit while they
were standing and II the emperor had risen at
any time during the performance, it..would have
been the etiquette for every other person in the
house to follow his example. This 10 the case
every where, no matter where the emperor may
be, and the rule Of etiquette includes all the
members OF the family. Royal and imperial
personages are no doubt greatly bored by the
constant ceremony going on around them, and
most Of them would be glad to escape at least a
portion Of it. The Empress Catherine succeeded
in doing 80 to some extent when she built the
Hermitage. or small palace which adjoins the
Pdlais d Hiper. She arrangeda series of fire.
quent reunions, and the rules governing them
were conspicuously placed at tho entrance of
one OF the principal halls, where they may still
be seen. Here are some Of these rules
al Let each one who enters here remove his
rank his hat, and above all his sword.
"a. leave at the door your dignity, your pride,
aud every sentiment that resembles hem.
-. Remain Standing or sitting. or promenade as
you like, without regarding any one."s
The fourth rule did away with the necessity
| for all 10 rise when any member of the imperial
family passed through the hall, and was no
| doubt great relief TO all concerned. A gentle
| man who has lived in st. Petersburg for some
time, and has the entree Of the court tells me
| that one evening he happened in a little circle
which contained the Grand Duchess Marie, sis
| ter Of the emperor. Conversation went on quite
rapidly, and the grand duchess was in the best
of spirits. After time she said, in the most
| friendly way
II have a favor to ask of all Of you.
want to join the party on the other side of the
hall, and 1 don't want to make connection
that will break up the conversation II you
rise when do, they will, of course see it. Now
l want all Of you to keep your seats, and think
/ can get there without disturbing them"
OF course everybody obeyed the injunction,
and paid no apparent attention to her departure.
She succeeded very fairly in her effort, as she
managed to get quite in the midst OF the party
before she was discovered She dropped into
a seat with merry laugh before more than
half the number were able to assume an upright
position.
Not many years ago an American minister
when presented to the emperor coolly sat dowr
while his majesty remained standing, and fur
thermore placed an antiquated and by no means
} comely hat on the table between them. The,
carried on brief conversation in this way. The
emperor made no sign Of affront at the time
but q remark which he subsequently, dropped
: showed that he WAS not unobservant OF such
gross infracton of etiquette.-From " GAL
Night in Russia" by Thomas W. Knox, in Har
pers Magazine for January.