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The Newtown bee., 1879-01-14
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Winter Weather.

Winter Weather. Cold from the northlaud blows the wind keenly Gold are the desolate homes of the poor.) Soon will tho snowfiakes be falling serenely. (Think of the pain that the ireless endure. , Brightly in parlors the diamonds glisten, (Tons of black diamonds one would buy.) Beautiful darlings to loving words listen. (Poverty's children are dying close by.) Ice stretches out from tho shore of the river. (Any worn blankets, old dresses or coats p Even the warmest must tremble and shiver (Eyery free gift glad angel notes.) They who have plenty may rest and be thank (Think of Gods children with nothing at all. ) Now should sweet charity's river be banked
 full.
 (Think of the stream that is bitter as gall.) Winter is with us, in spite of delaying, (Help that poor woman, SO scantily clad.) Now for the glories of skating and sloighing. (Hunger is driving that girl to the bad.) Months are before us of hard winter weather, (See the poor babes in their pitiful nest.) Nightly the rich ones are toying together (Charity gives 10 all pleasures zest.) Brightly the eun of prosperity risep, (See that you make not the hard times too
 hard)
 Past are the days of the "panic and "crisis. :" (Heaven with charity's jewels is starred.) Winter shuts down upon city and forest, (Thousands must suffer with hunger and
 cold.)
 Joy is now highest, and need is now sorest, (Charity's crown is of heavenly gold.)
 -Ne11 York Siot.
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A Desperate Duel.

Although the number of duels which have ended fatally for the combatants Is happily limited, the fashion which pre- vailed during the eighteenth century of having number of seconds on either side pitted one against the other, caused many duels to end fatally for more than one of the actors in them. One of the most famous duels of this kind, as we'll as one of the most disastrous in its con- sequences, was that between the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun, which took place in the reign of Queen Anne, in the year 1712. The Duke of Hamil- ton was most amiable and accomplished gentleman, beloved by his friends and respected by all while Lord Mohun was the most finished scoundrel and desperado of the time, which is saying a good deal. Lord Mohun, for private reasons, of which revenge was only one, was determined to force quarrel on the duke. Accordingly he insulted him grossly and then sent him challenge, which the duke, although he knew that in so doing he played into the scoun- dreps hands, was forced to accept. They met in Hyde park, and fought long and fiercely. Both were accomplished swordsmen, and, although they wound
 ed each other again and again, no att tempt even at reconciliation was made. It was thoroughly understood that the duel was to the death. The duke had received four serious wounds, and Lord Mohun three, when the duke managed to get past his adversary's guard, and rid the world of one of the most worth less men who have ever disgraced it. What really followed will never be known for certain. As the duke leaned forward with his sword still in Lord Mohun's body he was stabbed through the shoulder to the heart. It was said that Lord Mohun, after receiving his death-- blow, shortened his sword, and. with the desperate strength of dying man, drove it to the hilt through the duke's body. But this was disbelieved at the time, and Major Mccartney, one of Lord Mohun's seconds, was accused of having stabbed the duke from be- hind, as soon as he saw Lord Mohun was mortally wounded. His immediate flight after the duel lends some color to the accusation, but that may perhaps be explained by the fact that he well knew no one concerned in the death of such a notable man as the Duke of Hamilton would escape punishment. Be this as it may, the fact remains that one of the most accomplished statesmen and pol ished gentlemen of the day bartered his life for that of scoundrel fit only for the hulks. And this shows one great reason why dueling is such miserable folly. Unless the lives involved be equal in value, the game is manifestly unfair. --The AggOsy.
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Decay.

Turn whithersoever we will on the proud face of creation, and we find the landmarks of decay. A continued au- tumn brings down the weak and aged to death.
 The strong oak that lifts it naughty head on wonder hill, defying the hurri- cane. may have tiny worm gnawing at it's heart that will sooner or later send it's lifeless trunk to the earth, broken mass of decaying wood. The huge mountain, around whose lofty turrets the lightnings of thou sand ages have played and flashed, and whose devoted sides have breasted the storms of snow and rain, alike impervi- ous to each other, may contain within it's bosom volcano that will, one day, rend it in fragments, and level it with the plain.
 The naughty eagle, that mounts the sky, and dries his plumage in the sun- shine far above the clouds. has his al : lotted 100 years to live. Everywhere we find indelibly stamped the word "decay." The sun. moon and stars-the earth, with the bones and ashes of her myriad dead-must one day be rolled up as a scroll. The tooth of time is continually gnawing the bones of departed millions. The si lence of the tomb gives back but g single echo, and that-decay.
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A Police Officer's Plucky Deed.

Officer Vail stood in South street. near DDver, New York, one morning recently, and was almost knocked over by a wo. boEnet on, and her hair was flying in the wind. The officer heard her say, Yes, let me do it. I will l" Then he followed her, but she was feeter of foot than he for the short distance that she ran. He shouted to her to stop, and cast his eyes up and down the street to call to some one to head her off, for she was making rapidly for Pier 27. She reached the head of the pier with the officer about ten feet behind her. Then she stopped, turned to him and said am going to heaven. Goodbye all. J The officer had his hands about her as she jumped into the water. He simply took off his gloves and put them in the pocket of his great coat, and stood upon the pier waiting for her to come mp. He had on his great coat, his belt and club, and ,heavy boots.
 thought" he said afterward, " as l was waiting to see. where she would come up, that I had learned to swim when boy at home, at Riverhead. j The instant that the woman's head ap- peared above the water, Officer Vail jumped in, not having removed his hat even. The water was so cold that he was chilled in an instant, but he was able to seize the woman by the arms and hold her up. Then he trod water, and although every time he lifted his feet it seemed as if he was pulling up load that must the next instant pull him down, he was able to support the wo- man, then unconscious, and progress far enough to get to rowboat. Then with one hand and arm on the icy side of the boat, and the other supporting the woman, he shouted for help. An officer of the eastern steamboat squad and a stranger threw him rope, and with the greatest effort he was able to get the rope around her body. Then she was succored, and taken still unconscious to the Oak street station. Then Officer Vail got into the boat, climbed up the pier, and ran to the station with his clothes freezing stiff. He simply asked Capt. Petty to let him get his frost- bitten fingers into basin of cold water. Then he went down stairs into the drying room, hung up his wet clothes and made himself comforta- ble.
 The woman was sent to Chan bers street hospital, and recovered shortly enough to be profoundly thankful fol her rescue. She said that she must have been beside herself to think of doing such thing, but for long time she refused to say why she had done it. At last she said that she was made wild because her husband had turned her out of doors. Her name is Mary Murray, and she was born in New York. She lives at 164 South street, and is worthy woman. But her husband lately told her he could not support her and drove her out into the cold.
 Captain Petty made Officer Vail's aci the s-biect of special report to In. spvcJor Murray, unu suggested that the police board take some official notice ol of his brave act.
The Newtown bee., 1879-01-14
The Mysterious Sixth Sense.

It is often claimed that besides the five well-known senses of sight, taste, smell, hearing and feeling, there is an- other, unnamed and undefned, which reveals to us the presence of persons or things whose proximity is not made known by any of the senses named. How often we say something tells us ' this or that, when we cannot define what that something" is.
 During the war, sailing vessel, load ed with miscellaneous supplies, went ashore near Hilton Head. It was desir- able to get her cargo out as soon as pos sible, and party of blue-iackets were detailed to go on board and l" break her out" The officer in charge was particu- lar to inquire whether there was any liquor on board, but was reassured on learning that what little there was was in cask in the lower hold, underneath the rest of the cargo, and that his men would not come to it for two days at least. Work began, and in two hours the blue jackets, every man of them, were in state of hopeless intoxication, had to be hoisted over the side, and taken back to the ship whence they came.
 Investigation showed that Jack un- erring instinct had led him straight to the grog. He had literally sunk a we'll through the cargo until he struck cask of whisky, knocked in its head, and im- bibed it's contents by the dipperful. That it knocked him off his pins is not surprising, but how did he know it was on tho ship? or, knowing that, how did he know where to begin his mining operations Something told him. What was it it?-Bostoa 1r0nscript.
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The Biggest Locomotive Engine.

A huge specimen of locomotive art passed through Pittsburgh, Pa., lowed by other locomotives, on it's way to the far West. It is monster tank engine for the New Mexican and Southern acifc railroad, and which is specially intended to work on long heavy grade at point on the Rocky mountains. It is the largest and most powerful loco motive engine ever built in this coun- try. It is a ten-wheel tank engine of consolidated pattern, having eight driv- ing wheels and pony (two-wnee) truck. The cylinders measure twenty by twenty-six inches, and the driving wheels are but forty-two inches ill diameter. The boiler is enormous, being straight, fifty eight inches dia- meter. It has 213 tubes, each over eleven feet long. The fre-box is about ten feet long. A water tank, almost the entire length of the boiler, rests on top of the engine, and when filled with water will add considerably to the weight. The truck wheels are thirty inches in diameter, and are of paper, with steel tires, similfr to those now being used so extensively under the Pullman sleeping cars and on the Metropolitan elevated railroad, New York. This engine, when in working order, will weigh 118, ,000 pounds. The great weight and size of the boiler, and the small driving wheels combined, form tremendous power, we'll suited to the work the engine has to perform. The eight driving wheels are merely to distribute the weight, for if the weight rested on but four, DC track ever laid could withstand the pres sure. The weight is so great that the Western railroads over which it must pass will not permit it to go over bridges
 so it will have to be taken to pieces and carried over in sections. It passed over all the bridges of the Pennsylvania road without being dismantled.
The Newtown bee., 1879-01-14
Nathan Hale, the Patriot Spy.

Captain Hale was just of age when he was hanged in New York for being found within the British lines with inn portant information concerning the Eng lish force and plans in his possession. He was native of Coventry, Conn, and was born in 1755. Educated at Yale college, he was teacher in New Lon don, with the ultimate purpose of en- tering the ministry, when the news came from Boston of the battle of Lexington i. He was one of the first to enlist few hours after this news was received, and he encouraged others to enlist. ss Let us march immediately, he is on record as saying, "and never lay down our arms until we obtain our indepen- dence." The next morning the New London company were on the road to Boston. Some years ago an effort was made to induce Congress to make m appropriation for a monument to Halo's memory. It was unsuccessful. Then the women of his native town, Coventry, with the aid Of a anal sum granted by the State of Conuecticrt. colleetad money enough to erect T 1nonunaent It is nimp1a 6ralaite ehaft forty fest high. M bears hia l1a1ne nsax1 fISS {IiStsS md placss of birth ma de ai|i: S1liI 6i9 y3yirE Woxdf. V only ii F \ 1iI7s1
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Norristown Herald E.chings.

GA growing nuisance"-The New foundlund pup next door.
 We predict mild winter before this time next August. Stick a pin here.
 A doll that swims has come out.-Er. It was about time it had " come out. The weather has become too cold for such diversions.
 Advice to the youth who is trying to coax dilatory mustache to sweep grace fully over his mouth-Let it alone, and it will come down" itsefs
 A young man who complained that his girl was too shy and retiring, found 2 year after marriage that she could 's come up to the scYatch" beautifully. The husband of g year has no business to stay away from home until midnight, anyway.
 Humorists are not encouraged in China. When paragrapher gets of . joke on an emperor, the alleged humor- ist has his pig-tail cut of. The losa q this hirsute appendage is bad enough. but when they amputate it without re- moving it from his head. it becomee painful, and the pAragTapherse propen- sity for joking is cured forever.
 A woman who heard Camilla UfDo play on tho violin, writer that ssit whis- pered and wept and sohbed snd shiver- ed. Tho majority of tho 1ddle9 ceuse the Ii1eener to Weep a1Q eco 9qo E ahiver< And they don q \ elthez. Tho int ec1eeo4 1z 12E!cE 1|5 4gll m to3l liIEe ' TIT 8
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Forest Trees and Climate.

A writer vino has been making study of forest trees, their rapid destruction in this county, and their effect on climate and health, says that since 1885 the for est area of the western hemisphere has decreased at the yearly average rate of 7,600, ,O00 acres, or about II ,000 square miles, and that this rate in the United States alone has advanced from 1,600 square miles in 1885 to 1000 in 1855, and 8,4O0 in 1876, while the last two years have scarcely been less exhaust i've. Statistics for eighty years previous to 1885 show that we have been wasting the supply of moisture to American soil at the average rate of seven per cent. for each quarter of century during the last 125 years, and that we are now approach ing the limit beyond which any further decrease will materially influence the climate of the entire continent. Many Eastern regions, such as Afghanistan, Persia. India and Asia Minor, once pos sessed of fine climate, and abundant barvests. are now often scourged by pestilence and famine, and it is alto oether probable that their misfortunee began with the disappearance of their native forests. It is quite likely that we shall suffer in climate, fertility and health before great while, if we con- tinue to destroy our trees as recklessiy as we have done, and 1t behooves us to be warned in time. What has happened elsewhere may certainly happen here. Indeed, there is great danger of 1t, fol we know by experience that fertile lands have grown sterile by loss of trees, and that sterile lands have m turn become fertile by systematic planting. A cor tain proportion of well-wooded, as vel of afabIe and pasture land, is essential to our mater ' prosperity; and this pro
 portion can nevex be kept up unlem regular tree planting be adopted as q set
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lterus of Interest.

A noisy fellow always annoys fellow. A man who has plenty of thyme The gardner.
 Going to the bow-wows-The man who keeps dog.
 A man may shed an OK, and yet be unable to shed tear.
 When is a magistrate like necessity When he knows no law
 Pen, ink and paper, as we'll as the fixed stars, are all stationary. Gymnasts go npon the principle that one good turn deserves another. The Hindoo widow is the only one that cremates the other remates. The average value of the gold found in Russia has risen to S23, 250, 900 year.
 The bicycle is unknown around the North pole. Up there they ride on ice cycles.
 Garlic is said to be a sovereign rem edy for gout. There is no remedy for garlic.
 Strengthening by horsepower is the latest labor saving invention an- nounced.
 | IutIe lo O1C aAtaItdf,C 4a AA6 a woman who hasn't mind of her own she can't forever be giving you piece of it.
 Wilhemlj, the violinist, is making good deal of money in this country. though he is obliged to " scrape" for living.
 "What plan," said one actor to an- other, "shall adopt to fill the house at my benefit2" ssInvite your credit ors, was the reply.
 Give us the girl who is loving and dreamy. Give us the joke that is pleasant and creamy Give us s cot meath tremulous willc-. | But give us, oh give us no soft snowy fillow Which is-nnt mora than half filled with l feathers.
 A man whose knowledge is based on actua! experience says that when calling on their sweethearts young men should carry affection in their hearts, perfec- ton in their manners, and confection in their pockets.
 Two Irishmen were in prison, the one for stealing COW, and the other for stealing watch. Hello, Mike what time is it ?' said the cow-stealer to the other. ss And, sure, Pat, haven't any timepiece handy, but I think it is most milking time !"
 What resemblance ?-bread to snn2
 An, don't tell rs there is none. For there if. and when you see ii you'u con
 cede it;
 Why, bread risez in the yeast
 And it sets beneath the vest And you generally have it when you knead if.
 = Groplic
 Whalers have been wondering what has become of all inc whales, but there is now news as to where they are dis porting. Lieut. Sandeberry, of the Swedish navy, has lately returned from an expedition to Russian Lapland, made especially with view to researches in natural history, and has brought back many rare geological specimens which he will divide smong the museums of Stockholm, Christiania and St. Peters burg. He reports that there never were such quantities of whales seen in the gulf of Naranger and White sea as during last summer, and that a single Norwegian boat captured hun dred.
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her, very long time, she saw the sol diers on the sand, and judged that Ned must be somewhere in line with them.
 Pulling on until she came abreast oi them, she stood up and looked about her. She found she was at least mile off shore, and two miles up the beach from home.
 Ned was nowhere to be seen, and after scanning the sea in every direction, she sank back with sickening fear that he had gone down.
 At that moment she heard faint call, and rising again, could plainly distin. guish distant hail. She could not sec anything at first, but pulled rapidly in the direction of the sound, with her head over her shoulder, she was pres. ently gladdened by glimpse of some thing yet long way off.
 Rowing for dear life, she soon made out her brothers arm occasionally ap- bearing on rising wave. He was floating almost under water, and very nearly exhausted.
 on, and to help support him as best she could for some time before he was able to scram ble into the skiff.
 1Uo SlIl DdO JULIO HOT Uc6b. Dub WlGu Hll her speed he had been an hour in the water when she reached him. The loss of few moments might have lost his life.
 With Ned lying in the bottom of the skif limp and faint, Katie pulled away for home with glad heart, and if she cried little, it was for joy as much as anything.
 They found Hendrickson waiting for Katie's return, thinking she might pos sibly have the despatch, though he lit tie expected to see Ned with her.
 The Hessians had watched their es caping prisoner until almost out of sight, and then they saw him throw up his arms and disappear. When Katie came along in her boat, they supposed her search would be useless, and had turned into lane leading inland.
 On reaching their rendezvous at Sandy Hook, they reported that the boy had been drowned and his body carried out to sea.
 Sanborne hastened to spread the same report through the neighborhood. and his friends thought they had lost Master Ned, and great was the rejoic- ing when he reappeared the next day sound and we'll, and everybody said "Isn't that just like Kate Koven- hoven ?"- Youths Companion.
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Song.

 Listen, Hsten, listsn while I sing There's mirths mirth in everything ! In laughing eyes quick glance. In dashing through dancc. Mirth does my charmed soul entrance Listen, listsn, listen while sing There's joy. joy in everything ! In bubbiing of fresh streams, In flashing sunlight beams, Joy spariles through my pensive dreams Listen, listen. listen while I sing There's hope, hope in everything. In gloom aud chill and night, When loet the guiding light. Hope nfss ever bright Listen, ttsn, lissen while sing- There's love. love in everything, If mirth end hope must die, Still can upward fly: Love lifts me to the sky,
 = Theodore Winthrop, in ,Scrsbnes-.
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Then the boy came in with bill of five dollars for his sled, to say nothing of the loss of suit of clothes, sur geon's bill for clustering sundry skinned surfaces, and the bill of hackman who conveyed the fainting wife home. In the cooler moments of afterthought Sanscript reckoned it up and discovered that it had cost him $109. 78 to recall recollections of fifty years ago, and re- quired but one minute and five seconds of old father time in which to do the recollecting. = Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Authors and Disease S.

A New York correspondent says 1t has been said tbat Bayard Taylor's dis ease was hardly understood by the phy- sicians, and it is not even now clear whether it was dropsy or disease of the kidneys. This leads tc brief reference to authors and diseases, and by looking
 at the history of the former, we shall
 find that they generally enjoy good
 health and live to the average of
 human life. Shakespeare died of fever,
 and his life terminated on his 6fty-sec-
 ond birthday. Tradition eays that the disease vas brought on by g drinking
 bout on the occasion of visit from Ben
 Jcnson. Pope diei of general decline
 being then fifty fiy. It Is surprising
 how so weak frame endured even 10
 this age, for Le speaks of bis life as a
 Hong disease. Goldsmith died Of
 fever aggravafed by severe local ail-
 ment. Johnson wss old and WAS a sui
 ferer from dropsy. Addison wes intern
 perate in his latter days, and this brought
 on dropsy. Milton, though not an
 old man, died like one worn ont with
 the trials and tolls of life. He is the first author who is mentioned as smok-
 ing pipe, which he found so!ace dur
 ing the weary hours of blindness and
 old age. Fielding died in middle life of a decline, produced by fast living. Gibbons dinoano WAs hernia of long
 standing and aggxavnted character,
 terminating h arorey. Byron died of fever. Sh6licy end IhI0cner were lost
 at sea. Soue6oH died of paxalysis of mind and ho&Xu nd % did Scott Words worth lived >o 1ee fou5ecore, and died on the 23d oI Inn, ths dny and month which maxI 1c1& fhe btrfh and death of ShakspoH<~ Irving died of disease of the heakt (|1E f0r Inc last year of his life b1<i TCok 6niferer. Keats, Kirk, Whit f1Iock died of con- sulcntion, nd <1Ely in life. BuD1 was brok1 poverty. toil end
 etrong drl7 .o a9e. Coleridge had VI n1slffutipn, whzch enabled xo >ho ellkc< q
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Stock of Specie in Each Country.

The stock of specie in the commercial world on the 1st of January, 1879, is esti- mated by Alex. Del Mar, the we'll known statistician, in his forthcoming :" His tory of the Precious Metals, " as follows:
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Job Work

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