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A New Way to Print.

A recent letter from Washington to
the Boston Herald contains this inter-
esting item A West Virginia man
named Moore, who spent years over q
type-setting machine, and gave it up,
has invented very remarkable set OF
machinery as substitute for type-set-
ting, which is attracting attention here.
This machinery is in successful use by
leading stenographer in town, who uses
it for printing briefs and reports Of tes-
timony taken in shorthand. The words
are spelled out by keyboard, and a
rapidly.revolving cylinder, turned by
machinery, prints them upon an endless
band of paper. This band OF paper is
taken to another machine by second
operator and "justi6ed into the form
desired. From this page lithographic
copies are then taken. The stenograph-
or dictates from his notes, and the irst
operator spells out the report at the rate
of fifty or sixty words a minute. The
mechanism by which this is accom-
plished is remarkable invention. The
inventor believes that he can impress
the words upon soft paper matrix in
stead of printing them, that the matrix
can then be justified into forms, and that
a stereotype plate can then be made o.
the whole. He is now building set OF
machinery to accomplish this. It seems
wholly impossible that matri1 for a
page of q newspaper can be made up
from one.line slips, but the inventor is
very confident. That the strips OF
matrix can be struck off at the rate of
fifty or sixty words minute is certain.
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DEAR soN-I have a hard duty to per-
form in announcing to you the death OF your
mother. You were her only sorrow and trouble
in her last illness, and that is why will keep
my promise made to her to take you home
when your time has expired. But let me tell
you plainly that cannot afford any longer to
spend money on you. I spend one hour q
week thinking how much sorrow and disgrace
you have caused your family. will take you
home if I see it is your earnest desire to be-
come useful member Of society. Only o
short time ago met one Of your former school
fellows riding in an elegant carriage. You
could have been Just as we'll of il you had
obeyed the commands Of your father.
Fisher was released. His brothers and
sisters looked coldly on his proposed
return, and wrote that his father did not
want him. He resolved to find employ
ment here, and went to the Prison asso.
citation in the Bible house. He could
not get work enough to support him
self, although mp to the time of his
arrest he lived on 50 week-seventy
cents for lodging and the rest for food.
His old friends met him and laughed at
him, calling him "Charlie the pauper." I"
He was offered position as bark 2eper
in thieves den in Chatham street, but
refused it. When arrested he had had
nothing to eat for over sixty hours, but
would not break his promise to his
mother.
This is Fishers story. Justice Otter.
bourg said that he thought the lad told
the truth, and that he would try to get
him employment ont of the city, where
he could take his old name and start
afresh. "I've got several contributions
of money for him." added the Judge,
':and think the case deserves sympa-
y."-NeW York World.
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HerOism of a China Woman.

At about ten o'clock on recent
night, the steamer Santa Cruz, which
had left San Diego, Oal., in the evening,
returned to port, having on board,
picked up at sen, Chinaman by the
name of All Sing, dead, and his living
wife, calling herself Pat.
It appears that All Sing and his wife
Pat went to sea "a a Thursday morn
ing, at about two or three O'Clock, in a
small Junk, and that during the day the
boat was capsized and both thrown
into the kelp but Alb Sing received
such injury on the head by the con-
cussion as to stun him.
The heroic wife, clinging to the YES
sci, which righted, also clung to the
dead husband, and, by herculean effort
lasbed him to it, and in this condition
remained for a day and night. The
woman says she saw and hailed the
steamer as it came in in the morning,
but was not fortunate enough to make
them hear at that time.
Tho Santa Cruz came into port,
discharged her cargo, and left in the
evening, and when we'll outside, at
about half-past six o'clock, heard the
cry for aid, which was promptly render.
ed. The vessel went alongside, and
took both on board, and brought them
into port. There was no one except
the dead man and the living woman on
board the Junk.
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A FOur Legged Fish.

A correspondent writing from Hutch
inson, over in Kansas, says: This
place is considerably excited over the
finding of o fish with four legs and a
frill or sort of rufle about it's neck, IN
we'll forty feet deep. This little Gu
riosity is the same as that discovered by
Prof. o. @. Marsh, in 1868, at Lake
Como, in Wyoming Territory, to which
he gave the name of Siredon tichnosdes
Out in that Territory they are known as
the Fish with Legs and are from five
to ten inches in length. The one found
at this place is about three inches in
length. A siredon enjoys the external
bronchial appendages or gills, making
a partial frlll to the neck, and men,
brane along the back and tail, resem-
bling that of the tadpole. The head is
like that of the yellow catfish, the body
of dark, olive color and nearly trans
parent. According to Prof. Marsh's ex-
perience with the siredons, this little
creature will undergo change like the
tadpole, and the beautiful ruf1e about
the neck and the tadpole-like membrane
will be absorbed by the body, various
other changes will follow and the little
wonder of Hutchinson will be trans
formed into a completed animal, for
merly k1 OWN as the an,blystoma ma
vorliuns, and the doctrine will be prov
en- that all siredons are merely larval
salamanders. Your correspondent
found the above described little won
der at the drug store of Winslow & Al
bright, where it can be seen by any one
who may wish to look at their large
cabinet of curiosities. ~ ST. Joseph
-lMo. J Herald, :.
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Breathing Through a Hole in His Throat,

John Charles Collins, the "Cast-I Iron
Man." lies in st. Luke's with some alloy
in his composition. While he was act
ing last fall as teacher of sparring in
Colonel Monstery's academy in Sixth
avenue he was suddenly attacked with q
sense of suffocation. He was removed
to Bellevue hospital and afterward to
St. Luke's, whf re he was found to be
suffering from paralysis of the vocal
cords-the little organs whose vibrations
cause sound, and which, when paralyzed,
fall together and prevent the entrance
of air into the lungs. The only imme-
diate relief for Collins was All operation
that would allow him to breathe from a
point below the vocal cords, and so q
hole was cut in his throat, or, as the
doctors would put it, the operation of
laryngo-tracheotomy was performed, and
double silver tube, open at both ends,
was introduced into the windpipe. COL
Inns was Immediately able to breathe
without the aid of his nose or mouth
and in spite of the paralysis Of the vocal
cords, and his life was saved. Since
the operation he has been doing we'll,
and the doctors are now treating him
with view to cure the paralysis. The
case is a peculiar one, Us there are few
instances on record of paralysis of the
vocal cords, and Collins disease is fur
ther complicated by the fact that the
cause of his affection is unknown. Be-
fore he was attacked he had suffered
from slight cold, but was otherwise, as
he had always been, in the best OF
lhealth.-Neso Yorb World.
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A Winter Morning Idyl.

uuu0uR LILO udrhuesS efel gWueIe,
The snow has clothed the mocnless air
Through the long hush Of night;
And now with morn the woodlands fill
Their solitude, how bright how still -
The valley hides in light.
The sunrise through our window sees
Illumined to xers, ilumincd trees,
That melt in silver CLEANS,
Where the weird artist of the.night,
To give the child new delight,
Has tried to paint its dreams!
Tho trees with dropping sparkles glisten
Beside our door and-see them listen =
A dozen boys, aglow,
Warm-blooded, full Of buoyant life,
Mingle, knee.deep, in merry strive
Mock battles with The snow!
Losing the winter in their joy;
What shouts! what laughter! Yonder boy
A champion 1.-the and tsll,
Compels his corps with instant will
AL avalanche cnarSe! but, masseu Gnt
still,
These neither fly nor III
One little rospe, 50 cGnnin%-sby,
Powders the large boy in his eye;
With quich-averted faco
Another throws-a cap iS flying:
) 20 escape the bal anc'hc- trying
Slips in soon.lost dissrace
Who, smiling, watches, eager, there?
An old msn-hoar-frcst in his hair,
But fower-warnth il: his bcart-
At yonder window, peeriDg through
Joins in the happy battle, too,
His boyhood taking part.
j. j. Piah
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Ralzac and the Dim.

In recent number of the Temple Bar
there is q story about Balzac, the French
novelist, which is probably new to many
readers. He was, like Dumas, always
in debt, and dreadfully worried by duns.
Once, when he had gone to bed, one OF
these unpleasant personages pres euted
himself and insisted on seeing his debt
or. In vain was he told that N. de
Balzac was i'll, that be was out, that he
was in bed-he refused to bulge. At
last the servant, in despair, told Balzac
who was down stairs, and to his great
amazement received orders to show the
importunate visitor up. The trades
man, already little Modified, is usher
ed into the sleeping apartment. M. de
Bazlac sits up courteously in bed, makes
his creditor a charming bow, and in
quires to what circumstance he may at
tribute the pleasure of his early visit.
Flattered by the warmth of his recep-
tion, the man murmurs something in
which the word "money is only audi
BILE. "Money, my dear fellow ?" cries
the man of letters, with his broad smile
full of good nature, "money do you
want? Look ia the right-hand drawer
of the dressing-table !" Becoming in
stantly supple as glove, the other runs
to the drawer, opens it, examines it,
puts he hand to the back-there ls
nothing there. "Ah," says monsieur
from the bed, "perhaps the left-hand
drawer" Same scrutiny, same result.
"Or the middle oue." Still nothing.
ct must trouble you to look under the
dressing-table" (M. de Balzao is so
polite it is pleasure to listen to him).
The creditor puts his head down-no !
In this way the whole furniture of the
room WAS examined, and even the chin
ney. "Now," said the author, turning
sternly upon tho crestfallen tradesman,
in all the majesty Of tasseled night.
cap, elf there is no money in the left
hand drawer of the dressiug-table, nor
the right-hand drawer, nor the middle
drawer, nor under it, nor under the bed,
nor on the wardrobe, nor up the Chin
ney, how the deuce do you suppose am
to give you any9" With that he lies down
fiat upon his back, and the creditor de-
parts anathematizing the poet.
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The Cologne Gazette says that COM
mittee of experts having examined the
documents known as "Luther's will, !"
which is in the possession of the Protes-
tant church in Pesth, has declared it
authentic. The document found its
way with number of manuscripts
of the learned theologian, John
Benedict Carnzoino, to Hungary,
and came into the hands of private
collector, a rich proprietor named
Jankovics, from whom the arch-
duchess Maria Dorothea obtained it for
400 golden gu1dens. She presented it
to the Protestant church in Pesth, in
whose archives it has since lain, nobody
being positively certain that it was
authentic. It is henceforth to be de-
posted in special case in the national
museum ct Pesth.
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the voice of Lionel Grant. He hat
rudely cast aside Miss Chadwick, and
seriously ieopardized the safety of that
young lady in his mad anxiety to learn
the meaning OF that cry of terror.
"Where is Miss Shelton ? Will no.
body speak? Braye" (the name of the
beau), "she was in your charge"
Treating with indignant scorn the
stammering apologies of the feeble old
gentleman, Grant turned to the two Miss
Chadwicks, now huddled together, and
said iercely:
81 must ask you to take care of your
selves -
"Oh, Mr.. Grant, if anything should
have happened to Isabel
"Would you be very sorry?" he ask
ed, bitterly.
Hereupon Clara began to cry. Paying
not the least attention to her grief.
Lionel turned to the men and said:
"Those of you who know the bay,
come with me. There is not moment
to be lost. A heavy squall is coming
on"
Whereupon he sped with pN2us
alacrity in the direction whence the
shrek had appeared to come. All this
happened in the space OF few moments.
As Grants voice, with it's continuous
cry, "Miss Shelton, Miss Skelton!''
was heard lower in the craggy
hollow of the bay, the threatened
squall came on in bitter earnest,
and perfected the physical misery OF
the women, who were crouched In a
heap under the joint protection of a
stone wall and our friend Braye. The
moon was hidden behind dense cloud.
As Lionel and his Guernsey aids pro-
ceeded in their search, he with feverish
rapidity, it became evident that with
out the light of the moon the chance OF
finding the poor girl was remote indeed.
He continued his cry, "Miss Shelton,
Miss Shelton /" with piteous force.
Then he prayed for a blink, just a
blink, of the light of the moon. Dur
ing those fearful minutes the knowledge
came to him like flash of inspiration
that he loved this bonny maid Of Kent
with o love unspeakable, and if-But
the thought was maddening. Oh, for
the moon Thank God, there it was at
last. Pausing in his downward career,
he peered with painful care near and be-
yond him, and deseribR ething.
What was it that shone 30 curiously
about dozen feet below the crag over
which he leaned? The fringe of pea
cock feathers. Argus eyes had met
his Calling aloud for assistance as he
lifted up her head, bleeding from the
fall that had stunned her, he whispered
her name:
"Miss Standardization Isabel |!
It is I, Lionel Grant. You know me.
Thank God she lives"
They carried her to the footpath that
skirts the bay, and found with joy that,
save the severe wound she had sustained
in her head, she was unhurt.
evil it leave scar ?" she asked, as,
leaning upon Lionel, they slowly pro-
ceeded to where carriage was waiting
to take her to Mr.. Cornthwaite's.
"Yes, DEAR" he whispered, '.in my
heart. But you must heal that"
And she will.
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How OYSTERS are Fattened,

Very few persons who feast on the
large and toothsome oysters which are
served up at the raw boxes of many OF
the oyster houses in this city, says the
Baltimore NeWs, have the remotest idea
from what source the luscious bivalves
are obtained, or in what manner they
are fattened.
The oysters obtained from Tangier
sound, Lynnhaven, and what is known
as the seaside oyster. are rather small
oyster inclosed in an immense shell
their native element being salt water.
These oysters, when dredged and
brought to the Baltimore market, are
sold to the packers and others at the
rate of about about sixty cents q bushel.
Recently plan has been discovered
by which these oysters can be not only
fattened in a very short time, but their
value enhanced at least $50 per cent.
Two of the larger oyster.packing firms
are now engaged in this business, and
the manner of procedure is described as
follows by one who has watched the
operation:
When the oysters are unloaded from
the pungies they are transferred to
scows, over which a deck is built, and
on which the oysters are placed. Each
of these scows will carry load of about
600 bushels of oysters. The scows are
then towed to a point in the Patapsco
river near the Ferry Bar bridge, where
the water is quite shallow.
The vacant space in the scow, be.
tween the deck and the bottom, is filled
with water by means of avalve and the
scow is sunk. There she is left.during
two food tides, when the water is pump
ed from her by means OF small ma
chine provided for the purpose, and
the scows are then towed up to the city
again.
The change from the salt to the fresh
water, and the immersion of the oyster
during these food-tides, it is said, fat
tens them until what was first COM
paratively insignificant oyster, becomes
plump and luscious bivalve, filling its
entire immense shell.
After this operation the oysters, which,
as stated, cost originally about sixty
cents a bushel, are placed on the mar.
ket, and readily command from $l.5O to
1.60 bushel.
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Incombustible Writing Paper.

Two Spaniards have lately taken out
q patent in Spain for making writing
paper incombustible. The experiments
are said to have been very satisfactory.
The paper will not burn, no matter what
may be the intensity of the heat ap-
piled. A single sheet submitted to the
direct action of a fame will carbonize
but does not take fire. If roll of pre-
pared paper Is placed in the hottest fire,
the outside leaves will oarbonize the
edges for short depth: but the interior
remains unaltered, the writings or print
ing being perfectly legible. The cheap
ness of the preparation makes it accessi-
BILE to every purpose in which paper is
used.
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"Ah, by George" groaned young Mr..
Lethered, sinking wearily into an Office
chair, "ah, by George, my head aches
fearfully." Possible ?" asked his en-
ployer, old Mr.. Hardfax, with look
of curious interest and sympathy. POS
siblep Something must have got into
it," And then for long time nobody
said anything, and the room seemed to
grow about fifteen degrees colder.
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A Moslem'S Oath.

The Mohammedan who had ms csse
adjourned, in order to allow him to
swear in the usual Eastern custom, Ess
accommodated to-day with the needfai
book by Professor Herschfelder, OF 10
ronto and Trinity universities, who pro
duced one and swore to its being an
original copy of the Koran. jacobson,
the prosecutor, then swore as follows;
BE took the Koran in his right hand
and held it in front OF him, then wltn
his left hand pressed over his heart, ne
bent down until his forehead touched
the book, and remained in that posinon,:
a moment or two, after which he sala
but one word, "Sworn," which COM
pleted the form. Montreal Poet.
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About Dlphtheria.

a new YORK WOTtU reporter uas uau
the following interview with Professor
Alfred l.. Loomis on the subject OF
diphtheria:
"What is diphtheria ?"
"It is an infectious disease-that is,
one capable of being transmitted from
one person to another. Opinions further
than this are divided about equally.
Some hold that it is purely local dis
ease in which the throat only is con-
cerned, while others claim that it is q
disense of the whole system, the men,
brane or exudation in the throat being
one of its expressions.
"What is your opinion r
"I believe diphtheria to be disease
of the whole system. In different cpl
denies the types differ. Sometimes you
will find the throat affection to be the
most severe, causing death by mechani.
cal obstruction of the air passages; and,
again, you will find that the constitu-
tional symptoms, which are of depress.
ing and exhaustive nature, kill the
patient before the emulation has advan-
ced far
"Is there any reason why diphtheria
should be most prevalent in the winter
season 2"
"Only that at the opening of winter
people begin to shut themselves up in
their houses and 80 surround themselves
with imperfect hygienic conditions. and
inhale more sewage gas than ordinarily.
Diphtheria is by no means a disease OF
cold climates, for it is found in tropical
countries. There are atmospheric con-
ditions that tend to make diphtheria
epidemic, but what those conditions are
is not readily understood. 1t is certain,
however, that they have nothing to do
with the change of the seasons"
"Is diphtheria very prevalent now ?"
CT have not found it 80 as yet this
winter. And you cannot Judge much as
to the relative mortality of different sea-
sons under given treatments, because at
one time the disease takes on the e1haus-
tive form and at another the deaths are
largely from the obstruction to the air.
passages"
"What is the best plan of treatment
in your opinion9"
81 work upon the prlnclple tnaI tne
diphtheritic membrane is the result OF u
very low grade of Inflammation, and that
when higher degree OF Inflammation is
set up around about the diphtheritic
patches those patches are prevented from
extending. This is found to be the fact
in practice. I endeavor. therefore, to
excite this higher degree of Inflammation
and I do this by causing the patient to
inhale large quantities of the steam of
pure water. Then, of course, I use
local antiseptics, such as chlorate of pot
ash, and for the constitutional trouble I
give iron and the most nourishing food.
Quinine ! do not use much, as that is
most valuable when there is high tenn
perature, and that is seldom found in
diphtheria
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The Opening Year.

Orphan hours, the year is dead,
Come and sigh, come and weep,
Merry hours smile instead,
For the year is but asleep;
See, it smiles as 1t is sleeping,
Mocking your untimely weeping.
As an earthquake rocks q corpse e
In its coffin in the clay, q
So white winter, that rough nurse,
Rocks the dead-cold year to-day;
Solemn hours wall aloud, ~.
For your mother in her shroud.
As the wild air stirs and sways
The tree-swung cradle Of child,
So the breath of these rude days
Rocks the year be calm and mild
Trembling hours she will arise 81
With new love within her eyes.
January gray Is here
Like sexton by her grave;
February bears the bier; "
March with grief doth howl and rave !,
And April weeps-but oh, ye hours Z.
Follow with Mays fairest flowers.
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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New Orleans Since the Plague.

New Orleans once more feels some
thing of the Joy of life. Since the
plague left her, "trade," says recent
issue of local paper, has multiplied
to a remarkable degree" From the
head of Ninth street down to the lowest
limit of the river front, the activity
seen is "almost unprecedented" In the
upper portion Of the water front there
is "literally o forest of masts." The
number of sea.going vessels is larger
than has been seen there for many day,
if the like has ever been seen before. A
steamer from Rio has just discharged a
cargo of 81, $50 sacks of coffee, and is
now taking in cotton and grain. One
vessel is discharging English bricks and
tiles, and another, bound for Bordeaux,
is taking on slaves. A German Llooyds
ship and two italian vessels are loading
with cotton, grain and tobacco. At the
head of one street lies "a vast quantity
of cotton" which is destined for Havana.
Six large steamships are lying close by,
and two barks, which are taking on cot
ton. At the barge landing several boats
are being unloaded of immense guam
titles of western produce" All over
the landing are quantities OF corn. oats
and -four, 80 that in some places locomo-
ton is difficult. One river steamboat,
on her last trip, brought down $500
bales of cotton. At Canal street the
levee is "jammed and Uttered by bar.
rels of flour, hogsheads of sugar and
tales of cotton" At the sugar sheds
"scarcely any available space is unoc-
cupied." In other parts of the city re-
turning life and activity are no less
apparent. Business streets are filled
with vehicles laden with merchandise !"
going toward the depots, so that the din
Of the heavy chariots and the hue and
cry of the drivers endeavoring to
thread the maze of trading wagons is
perfectly deafening." In one day firm
sold for cash to country merchants more
goods than for an entire month pre-
vious.