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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

JOHN STONE PULLEN, formerly
New Orleans sugar merchant,
member of the Louisiana Legislature
and colonel in the Confederate ar
my, who loaned 5000, 600 to the Con-
federate army, and was beggared
by the result, died in a Wretched
tenement in Grand Street, Brooklyn,
and was saved burial at the public
expense by the charity of his poor
fellOW-tenants.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

An Irishman, in writing letter
to his sweetheart, asking if she
would accept his love or not writes
thus
" If you don't love me, plaze sind
back the letter without breaking the
seal -
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14

"When shall / be a man 2" Is the
poetry of childhood. "When was
young 20 is the poetry Of old age.
, 1877-11-23
A CHASTITY Picket Line.

Judge Rowe, writing to the Philadel-
phia Weekly Times, relates the following
incident of the night after the battle of
Fredericksburg: "When, on the return
to Marye's Heights, the command first
filed in from the road, there appeared to
be thin line of soldiers sleeping on the
ground to be occupied. They seemed to
make a sort of row or rank. 1t was as
if line of skirmishers had halted and
lain down; they were perfectly motion
less; their sleep was profound. Not one
of them awoke and got up. They were
not relieved either when the others came
They seemed to have no commandment
least none awake. Had the fatigues of
the day completely Overpowered all of
them, officers and privates alike3 They
were nearest the enemy, within call of
him. They were the advance line of the
Union army. Was it thus that they kept
their watch, on which the safety of the
whole army depended, pent up between
the ridge and the river2 The enemy
might come within ten steps Of them
without being seen. The fog was veil.
No one knew what lay or moved or crept
little distance off. The regiments were
allowed to lie down. In doing so, the
men made denser rank with those there
before them. Still those others did not
waken. If you looked closely at the
face of any one of them, in the mist and
dimness, it was pallid, the eyes closed,
the mouth open, the hair was disheveled,
besides, the atti tude was often painful.
There were blood marks also. These
men were all dead. Nevertheless, the
new corners lay down among them and
rested. The pail of night concealed the
foe now. The sombre uncertainty OF fate
envelopcd the morrow. One was saved
from the peril of the charge, but he found
himself again on Marye's Hill, near the
enemy, face to face with the dead, sharing
their couch, almost in their embrace, in
the mist and the December night. Why
not accept them as bed-fellowsl So they
lay down with the dead, all in line,
and were lulled asleep by the monotony
of the cries of the wounded scattered
everywhere"
, 1877-11-23
The Land of the Midnight Sun.

The Rochester Union makes the follow.
ing extract from private letter dated at
Tromsoe, Norway, July 3; We steamed
into this pretty Arctic town night before
last, and shall make our hone here a
week longer, while portion of the party
finish their northern trip around North
Cape to Vadsoe. We crossed the mount
aims by means of horses and carriages,
using one hundred and twenty for our
ride of two hundred miles. The law re-
quires every station-frOm six to ten
miles spart--to furnish travellers fresh
horses within half an hour of their arriv.
al. We are now two days into the Arc
tic Circle, and where we now live the sun
shines brightly at midnight from May 20
to July 90. Even two days before reach
ing this point the sun WAS so strong at
midnight that the ladies wanted shades.
This coast is perfectly beautiful, or, l
should have said, grand, as well as Won
derful. For nearly 1000 miles the islands
are so thick-so close together-that it is
like sailing upa river which expands into
lakes. The whole distance is overshad-
owed with snow-capped mountains from
5000 to 5000 feet in height. rising alb
ruptly from the water, while in the dis
tance are to be seen those which are much
higher. We were exposed only once or
twice to the open sea, and then only two
or three hours at time. The air here is
very exhilaraiing. Yesterday the chill.
dren picked wild flowers as we were
walking, and within few feet snow.
balls. 1t is wonder that in so short a
season everything can be grown in this
latitude, and yet grass springs up rapidly,
often growing an inch in twenty-four
hours. They have but two seasons really
ten months of winter and two of sum
mer. Although the season is so long yet
the fords never freeze, and / think we
often have as cold weather in New York.
The occupation of the place is fishing,
mostly herring and Goldfish. All are we'll
to-do; no rich and no poor. The people
are intelligent, the masses receiving fair
education. But what queer place and
what queer customs! From the belfry
of the church, between the hours of 8 at
night and 6 A. NJ, man shouts the time
of night through large tin horn at in
tervas of every half hour. The clergy
men wear large wide ruffs. We haveJus
been to see the Lapps, some three or four
miles from the town. They were notified
the day before, and for small sum spent
the whole day among the mountains gath
ering their reindeer, which they drove
down for US to see-some 400 of them in
number. 1t was such novel sight to
see them coming down the steep mount
aims. They will not live low down, as
they eat only reindeer moss, which grows
where it is very cold. Cows will not eat
where they have been, as the scent of the
little hair they shed is very offensive to
them. We go from here to the tiords
around Molde and Bergen, and purpose
spending few weeks there; from thence
we go to Hamburg, through Germany to
Geneva, reaching Nice about the first Of
November.
, 1877-11-23

A NEW INSTRUMENT FOR SCIENCE
There is now in operation in the Labora-
tory of Central University, Richmond,
KY, an interesting apparatus that re-
cords in beautiful manner the motion
of the earth in its hourly progress through
space. It is the invention of Professor
I. W. Tobin. The principle upon which
the instrument is formed is, that deli
cately constructed pendulum will con-
tinue to oscillate in the same direction
as started, and preserving that plane,
mark the movement of the earth beneath
it. The principle was demonstrated by
Foucault, French philosopher, ia 1851;
was verified in Boston at the Bunker Hill
Monument, and lastly again at Yale Col
lege. The apparatus hitherto employed
has been cumbersome, and the results
obtained somewhat vague. The expert
ments, nevertheless, bear historical inter
est, and are related in modern textbooks
on physics. 1t has devolved upon Ken
lucky to furnish the scientific world with
a finished and mathematical demonstra-
ton of this beautiful phenomenon, to-
gether with the apparatus for producing
the result so as to be proved in a school
room or laboratory. The instrument is
about six feet high, consisting of an iron
tripod and delicate pendulum. There is
an index attached to the upper portion OF
the pendulum, and when the pendulum
is started this is perfectly still. In six
minutes the earth's motion becomes ap-
parent, and the needle shows about one
degree of deviation. In one hour the
movement is so marked that the distance
traversed by the earth may be estimated
from its data. The pendulum is Of such
delicate construction that it will remain
in motion for twelve hours, and yet may
be retarded or even stopped by blowing
upon it.-Louisuille CouriT-JOurndI.
, 1877-11-23
A Lion Story.

Some time ago, in Tuais, a Sicilisa of
hlnaldos circus excited general admira.
ton by his manly beauty and feais u
strength. He was ia the habi, Of over.
coming a lion during the performance,
which, however, was trained TO suceumb.
The hey of Tunis, hearing Of this. sent
him an offer Of thousand ducats II he
would kill lion which he possessed.
The proposal was accepted, and on the
day appointed the hey and a large com.
pany gathered round the pit where the
lion was kept. The beast had been there
three days without food, and was found
furious. The iron door of the pit opened
but instead of the athlete, trembling
dog was thrown forward, which timidly
took refuge in corner. The lion. who
was at distance, turned in surprise At
the humble intruder. His tail ceased 10
lash his side, his roar ceased, and he sat
with paws extended, contemplating his
victim. Propelling himself forward upon
his belly, he finally made a spring. The
dog, however, who had watched him with
vigilant eye, sprang in the opposite di-
rection. The lion seemed astonished at
missing his prey, but after rolling over
few times, made another jump, which was
also avoided. Pity for the dog induced
the hey to order cord to be lowered for
him; and while the lion was gyrating
preparatory to a renewed spring the dog
intelligently seized the cord with his
teeth and was drawn up. AS he ascend
ed, the lion sprang again, but was too
late. At this moment the Sicilan ap-
peared, calm and fearless. He was in a
rich circus costume, and carried heavy
mace. He took his position in the same
corner previously occupied by the dog.
AT first the lion did not perceive him, bur,
on turning, his eye expressed vague in
quietude. He slowly withdrew few
steps, watching his enemy with furtive
and sidelong glance. The SiciIian, on
the contrary, looked straight in.his eye
and watched every movement. The lion
evidently had misgiviogs, but, impelled
by hunger, sprang upon the man with a
terrible roar. The Scilian slipped aside
with agility, and before the paws of the
lion touched the ground, violent blow
from the mace on the head laid him in
sensible. The mace was raised for the
death blow when the hey interposed. He
offered the man another thousand for the
life of the beast. 1t was accepted, and
the lion was MI allOwpd to rnnnvpr
, 1877-11-23
Editor and Proprietor
Birds of the Forest.

O follow! follow (! follow!
Across the pine.roofed hollow,
song.tlnted breakers
On the woods wild acres;
knowing the mellow rush
OF song is as the flush
OF the first day that was,
The dreaming, only day,
Lost in the sobbing away
OF sin and pain, alas!
Sweet birdl the blessed place
In what glad world was set
With glory face to face,
Do you remember yet?
His songs their circles trace
Without annoy or fret;
They seem to interlace
The family known and met.
o! how the world of song
May bloom, and throb, and grow,
Or on the pathways long
Melodious overflow!
Through all earth's noise and wrong,
Through all her pain and woe,
How sweet, and purely strong,
The fires of osing glow!
, 1877-11-23

On THE FLY.-"Landlord"
eyes, sir"
"What's thatl"
"Butter, sir"
"Does it belong to the league'"
"Sir9"
"Has it any ambition to excel as base
ballistl"
81 don't grasp your meaning, sir"
"Well, it should, for it's the best fly
catcher ever saw"
"oh, see John, take this away, and
bring the gentleman some OF the muffin
butter"
Silence prevailed.--LOuisUiHe Courier
Journal.
, 1877-11-23

IT is said that the famous Eddystone
lighthouse is about to fall. 1t was COM
pleted in 1859 and has consequently done
nearly one hundred and twenty years.
service. The destruction with which it is
now said to be threatened is not from
any weakness or decay in the structure
itself, but in the reef of rocks on which
it is built, which is represented as being
! ready to crumble away.
, 1877-11-23

AN eminent Scottish divine happened
to meet two of his parishioners at the
house of lawyer, whom he considered
too sharp a practitioner. The lawyer
jocularly put the question: doctor,
these are members of your flock. May
ask, do you look upon them as white o5
black sheep1" II don't know" answered.
the divine, ,dryly, "whether they are black
or white Sheep but knew II they arc W
here long they are pretty sure 10 "o
heeced."
, 1877-11-23

The quantity of pins now produced
daily in England is said to be 80, 900, 900,
Of which Birmingham produces 37,OO0,-
900, leaving some 100000 to London,
Warrington, Stroud and Dublin, where
the article is also made. The weight of
wire consumed annually in the pin man
ufacture of England is set down at about
1875 tons, one-eighth of this being iron
wire, used in the production of mourning
and hair Plus. The consumption of brass
wire amounts to 100000 pounds, valued
at nearly 100000, and of iron wire some
$4,000 pounds, worth about $36, ,000-to
these values being added, of course, those
for wages, paper, ornamental envelopes,
boxes, wear and tear of machinery, man
uiacturers' profits, etc. Mourning, hair,
chronological, and japanned pins-that
Is, those stuck in rows-realze larger
profit than those sold by weight. Taking
it altogether, the pin manufacture of the
United Kingdom is not overestimated, it
is thought, at the aggregate amount of
Sl,O00,0O0 In the. United States, the
weight of pins produced in year is set
down at 100000 pounds.
, 1877-11-23

ONE person dies at each pulsat on OIL
the heart.
, 1877-11-23
There Will be Rest in the Eventide

All day long the farm n may stand
between his plough-handls, turning the
yielding soil; may endure the burden
and heat of the day; may be burned by
the scorching rays of the sun, or be
drenched by sudden showers, but by-and-
by the sun furs his banner of light, the
birds cease their singing and fly home to
their nests; the eventide has come, and
tired man and weary beast find rest All
day long the smith may ply his hammer
while huge drops of perspiration roll
down his smoke-begrimed brow. He be.
longs to the class that must toll for their
daily bread, and work with him has be-
come second nature. He likes the mu-
sic of his bellows and clink of his ham
mer, and as the huge sparks fly off from
the red hot iron he can almost imagine
he is Jove forging thunderbolts and
revelling in the forked lightnings as they
wreath and twine around him. But as
the sun goes down in the west, he lays
by his leather apron, and washes the SCOT
and smoke from his face, and goes home
to enjoy the society of his family. For
him there has come rest at the eventide.
All day the patient mother may toll
for her little ones, sympathizing with
them in their childish sorrows, calming
their fears and soothing their pains, until
she is worn out soul and body; but as
night approaches sleep touches their eye
lids with its magic wand-and for weary
mother and tired child there has come
the rest at eventide. And for us all there
will come rest at eventide, it matters not
what our occupation may be, nor where
our footsteps roam. Life with its
pitiful joys and bitter experiences, its
feverish dreams and empty ambitions, its
hopes and fears, its loves and hates, will
be ended after awhile. AS we grow older
our trust diminishes, as one by one our
friends fail us and our expectations are
cut of, the apples of Hesperides turn to
dead sea fruit within our grasp, and the
idols, we all, at times, so wildly worship,
lie shattered at our feet Oh, the follies
and vanities of life; the lessons we have
to learn and unlearn; no wonder we grow
weary, many Of us, long before the end of
the journey is reached. But all we can
do is to possess our souls in patience, and
press forward for the mark of the prize.
The quantity of pins now produced
daily in England is said to be 100000
Of which Birmingham produces 37,0O0,-
900, leaving some 100000 to London,
Warrington, Stroud and Dublin, where
the article is also made. The weight of
wire consumed annually in the min man.
, 1877-11-23

A GENERATION il fifteen years.
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ture? Who can tell? The civilization and
refinenents of ancient times were followed
by barbarism and rudeness. Shall the rude
stone axe and arrow head of another race
some thousands of centuries hence, sup
plant the boast civilization and refinement
of the present? The coming centuries will
show.
Their manner of making their darts or
arrow heads has been matter of much
inquiry and curiosity among many people,
and for the information of those interested
we will state that for this purpose they
wrapped their hand with buckskin and
used rib bone of some of the animals they
killed, holding it between the thumb and
fingers of the left had-in which they also
held the arrow head, and used it as
lever, applying the power to the other end
with their right hand. This statement
may be controverted by some, but we have
been told by a reliable man that this is the
method now in use by the Indians on the
Western plains, and that he saw them max
ing arrow heads similar to those found here
from pieces of glass in the manner we have
attempted to describe. QUILP.
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Where Shall L Send My Boy!
GLENW0oD INSTITUTE,

TERMS REDUCED: Enlarged Equipments Home
Comforts. Save time and by addressing, for
Circulars, Pref A. G. MATHEWS, A. ",
PRINCIPAL PROPRIETOR.
PROF j. W. FI1Z ~, ivcrstv Virginia..
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A WHOPPER.

All the large fish are not caught in the
eastern waters. Day before yesterday Mr.
Isaac c. Heron, Agency avenue, this city,
was angling for the finny inhabitants of tie
limpid Mississippi up in Judge Simpsons
fishing grounds, above Oquawka. He was
only moderate success until about II
o'clock in the morning, when the line was
seized and ran out with such violent rapid
ity that it set one of the wooden rowlocks,
around which | had taken turn, on fire.
In his efforts to extinguish the flames and
capture the fish, Mr.. Heron upset his
boat, and was thrown into deep water.
The line was tangled about one of his legs,
which seriously impeded him in his efforts
tie regain the boat and right it up. Fortu-
nately he managed to get hold of an oar,
which assisted him in keeping his head
above water. The fish, meanwhile, was
rapidly towing him out into the river, and
Mr.. Heron, now thoroughly frightened,
gave up all hope of securing it, and bent
only on saving himself, shouted Justify for
help, for he was utterly unable to break the
line. His cries for help attracted the at
tention of some raftmen, who Immediately
manned boat and started to the rescue of
the unfortunate man whose condition was
now one of extreme peril. The fish, how
ever, rapidly towed it's almost exhausted
victim over to the Iowa shore before the
raftmen could reach him, pulled him up on
the bank, ran into the woods with him,
climbed tree, and hauled Mr.. Heron up
after it, aud was just on the point of cut
ting his throat with his dorsal fin, when the
limb on which they were seated broke and
precipitated both Of them to the ground,
where the rasftmen, who had just come up,
killed the fish with boat-hook. 1t
proved to be what is known as "channel
cat fish," and weighed, when dressed, a
a pound and half, and was nearly five
inches long. Mr.. Heron, although bruised
and exhausted by his fright and rough
handling, is not seriously injured, and is
able to be about as usual.
Burlington Hdukeye.
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BUBBLES.

-Furrin jewelry-The Alaska seal ring.
-"Pipings will take leading place
among dress trimmings" Water pipings,
anyhow.
Though shoes have no minds, they
understood all people except those that are
barefooted.
1t is now, after years of patient wait
ing, definitely ascertained that Billy Pat
terson was struck by a striker.
just few more moons-a few more
swiftly gliding weeks-and you'll be kick
ing yourself for having found fault with
hot weather.
-" What are you looking in the encyclo-
pedia for, Anna" "My shoes" "Your
shoe?" eyes; dad said yesterday that
could find anything wanted in it,
"A man who was shocked by lightning
on the same night that small pox hospital
was struck, was in dreadful state of sus-
pensc, until convinced that he was hit first.
-"Coal oil is good thing to make your
hair grow" Yes, if you saturate your
head right well and apply lighted match,
your hair will grow remarkably short with
great rapidity.
-" Madame, " said an impertinent board
err to his landady, "your butter is too aris-
tocratic for my democratic taste. 1t is one
of the cases in which sweetness is prefer
able to rank"
"A good little boy who was kicked by a
mule did not say naughty words or go home
crying to his mother. He just tied the
mule within five feet of a beehive, backed
him round to it and let him kick
-Tommy-"Gie us a bite O. yer apple,
Billy" Future Diplomatist-"C an't do
that, Tommy. Don't yer see this 'ere
apples only puddin' apple, and wouldn' t
like to give friend a bite of puddin'
apple"
"A friar when preaching in nunnery
observed to his female auditors: "Be not
too proud that our blessed Lord paid your
sex the distinguished honor of appearing
first to female after the resurrection; for
it was done that the glad tidings might
spread the sooner.
In private, Mark Twain is full of jests,
keeping them up even at his domestic
hearth. His wife asked him one day, when
he was fondling his first born, "You do
love the little thing, do you not, Samuel p"
81 can't say love it, but l respect it sim
cerely for its noble fathers sake"
-" What do you know about the prison.
er?' asked the judge. 81 don't know
nothin' bout him, Judge, only he IS bigoted."
"Bigoted ?" said his honor. eyes, sab. !"
"What do you mean by 'bigoted ?'"-
"Well, judge" explained the witness, he
knows too much fob one niggah, an not
huff fob two"
1t was very careless leaving the parrot
in the parlor Sunday evening, but she
never thought anything about it until Mon
day morning, when she reused the whole
house by making smacking noise and
crying, "Darling Susie, Darling Susie. -"
He kept it up all day, too, and the old
folks are very much interested in the case.
-"Did it ever occur to you," said he,
timdly leaning around the door post, "that
a steam engine and a trained clam are not
wholly unlike?" Mingled with the racket
produced by an office chair violently hurled
after his vanishing form, came certain con.
you see, they are both controlled bivalves."