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The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
Welcome to the Water.

A lively scene on Boston Common
over thirty years ago is thus described
in the american CIlltiCntOr of that city
The introduction of the Cochituate Lake
water was really an important event in
the history of the New England me-
tropolis, and is still gratefully remem-
bered:
On the 25th of October, lSiS, at sun
rise one hundred guns were fired and all
the bells of the churches rung. The
streets had been decorated with flags,
triumphal arches and mottos. the troops
had been reviewed on the common by
the Governor, a magnificent procession.
occupying over two hours in passing
any given point, had filed through the
streets, and now with a mingling of
banners, plumes and arms, a sea of up
turned faces had halted near the spot
ssI.ien occupied by the "big tree"
1t was four o'clock when the ceremo-
MES were commenced by singing hymn
to the tune of Old Harvard by the i'm
mense assembly, led by the Handel and
Haydn Society. After a prayer from
the venerable DIR. Sharp, the mayor
said, Citizens of Boston, it has been
proposed that pure water be introduced
into the city. All who are in favor of
the proposition will please to say aye"
A tremendous shout of AYE" arose
from all parts of the common, and the
fountain at that exact moment burst
forth, scattering its sparkles and its
freshness in mid. air. The enthusiasm
of the citizens broke forth in thrilling
chorus that woke the echoes of the hills
for miles around, and the roar of the
multitude, mingled with the booming of
artillery, welcomed to Boston the pure
waters of Lake Cochituate.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
The Solan Goose.

The hardy birds, constructed by na-
ture to battle with the elements. have
beauty entirely their own-widely diff
ferent, indeed, from the colored splendors
of the tropical birds; but theirs is a
beauty of ornament rather than of
strength and perfect power The solan
goose, or gannet, is = wonder among the
flying kind
MIR. Frank auckland has been expert
menting upon the anatomical construc-
ton of the gannet, and says it possesses
in its body the most perfec. aeronautlc
machinery that can be conceived. There
is a communication between the lungs,
the feathers and the hollow bones of the
birds, by means of which it is able to in
fate itself like a balloon.
The gannet on which Mr.. auckland
experimental measured nine inches
across the chest. but when inflated 1t
measured fourteen inches. BY suddenly
pressing the inflated body, the dead bird
Immediately gave out the loud call OF
the bird when alive, the sound being
produced by means of the air passing
through the voice-box at the bottom OF
the windpipe. The gannet can instan-
taneously extrude all this air from. its
lungs, bones and feathers; and this en-
ables it to drop down from height upon
its prey in the sea with amazing rapidity.
Some years ago, one of these birds wa
flying over Penzance. in Cornwall, when,
seeing some pilchards lying on fir
plank, in a place for curing those fish, ii
darted itself down with so much violence
as to stick its bill quite through an inch
and a quarter plank, and kill itself on
the spot The bones of the birds neck
are of amazing strength. and as hard as
an iron rod. The head is Joined to tn
atlas by a beautiful ball-and-socket.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
The Dog that Stole the Kittens.

A citizen on Adams avenue, East, who
owns a handsome Scotch terrier dog
the mother of three handsome puppies
took the young CANNES away and sold
them, to the great grief of the mother.
At that time a cat owned by a neighbor
was carefully raising litter OF four kit
tens under the floor of a barn owned by
the master of the terrier. 1t was noticed
that the terrier was very deeply inter
ested in the kittens, and earnestly
watched the movements of the feline
mother. The next morning the cat left
her family. and during her absence the
terrier carried her kittens, one by one,
with the greatest care, to the basket
nest once occupied by her puppies. w 18th
self into the basket with the kittens
about her and awaited the return of the
mother cat. When she did come back
she was wild to find her nest robbed,
and was not long in tracing them to the
terriers basket. Then there was tight,
which was ended by the interference OF
the owner of the dog, who restored the
kittens to their mother and soundly pun
ished the dog for the theft. All the
next day the cat remained by her KIT
tens, while the terrier busted herself
hunting around for food, which she car
ried to the cats nest, and which, OF
course the kittens could not mashcate:
The difficulty was overcome by interested
observers, who placed milk at their ser
vice, and while the kittens supped the
terrier stood guard, successfully repul-
sing all efforts to interfere with their re-
past.-Detr 9at Free Press.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17

ReeSMay.

The uses for wax are numerous ana
Important. Its property OF preserving
tissues and preventing mold or mlldeW
was well known to the anclents, who
used cerecloth for embalming and wax
foI eEcaustic painting as in the wall
pictures of Pompeii wax candles and
tapers play an important part in the
professions and ceremonies of the Roman
Catholic Church. Wax us used by
manufacturers of glazed, ornamental
and wall papers, and on paper collars
and cuffs for polishing the surfaces. 1t
is used in varnishes and paints and for
the "stuffingn of wood which is to be
polished, as pianos, coach work, fine
furniture and parquette floors. Electro
typers and plasterers use wax in form
ing their molds. Wax is an important
ingredient in preparations for covering
surfaces of polished iron and steel to
prevent rust. Combined with tallow,
it forms the coating for canvas and cord
age to prevent mildew, as in sails, avn
ings, etc. Artificial flowers consume
much wax, and, despite the introduction
of parafine, ceresin and mineral wax,
its use appears to be extending. One OF
the Oldest of it's applications is in the
laundry, and in polishing wood work:
The product of wax in the United
States is stated to be 10000, 600 pounds
annually and increasing in
money at least $6,000,000. Of this
about $70e, 600 worth is exported, and
about 81 200, 900 worth of honey also
goes abroad. The total product Of
honey and wax is worth at present tc
the United States nearly $l5,000,0 900,
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
A Doomed City.

The town of Covington, Iowa, is liter
ally doomed city. Situated on the bend
of the Missouri river, the banks are
gradually being eaten away, and the
ground on which the court house stood
a year ago is now covered by many feet
of fast flowing water. The cutting away
is done by fits and starts. A week ago
Sunday, says the Sioux City journal, the
current set inshore and took off Il strip
of land thirty feet wide in a few hours.
No invasions were made for another
week, when another slice was cut off.
Then about half Il dozen buildings were
moved back some thirty feet, and the
next day the land on which they stood
was all gone The citizens have tried to
moor trees and logs to the bank in the
hope of forming barrier for the Hood,
but the current is so swift and the water
so deep that these attempts have failed
To give an idea of what the town o.
Covington has suffered in the past five
years, the case of the ferry house ane
principal hotel may be instanced. Two
years ago there were six hundred feet o
land between the building and the rive
bank; now you can toss stone out o
| tie hotel window in the river, and tn
| buildings are now being put on roller
for removal.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
AYelloM Fever Survey.

In carefully studying the course of the
yellow fever for the past few years, there
is subject for thought and speculation, as
to whether or not we of this latitude
may at no far distant day be visited by
this dread pestilence From the first APP
pearance of the yellow fever in this
country for fifty years, the disease was
confined to New Orleans and adjacent
parishes and its origin attributed TO ma
larial influences of the bayous in lower
Louisiana. The disease was conveyed
there from Cuba, where it was formerly
far more fatal and general than of late
years. Not until 1878 did this plague
appear in epidemic form north of Red
river. in which year Memphis first got
her bitter taste. Last year it extended
northwardly across Tennessee to Hlck-
man, KY. and doubtless, had proper pre-
cautions not been taken, would have ex-
listed in epidemic form at Cairo, and
even Louisville and Cincinnati.
Why yellow fever should have first
appeared this year in the high latitude
of Memphis, while tie lower region has
thus far escaped, can only be accounted
for on the superstition that the seeds Oh
last years disease remained.
Another singular feature OF the DIS
east last year was that in the most north
erly latitude it was most fatal-even the
negroes and natives being numbered
| equally among the victims.
Some fault has been found by humani-
tarians with the rigid quarantine" regu-
lations adopted by the towns north Of
Memphis, but there is good reason fol
| this; for it is now evident from last
wears experience that climnte and To-
cality have little to do with warding of
1.-THE scourge.-Keokuk (la) Oossstitsstion
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
A Broken String.

inS aud to yoa No-no--with ono note
Jared,
The harmony OF life's long chord is broken;
Your words were light and by light lips
were spoken,
And yet the music that you loved is married
one string, my friend, is dumb beneath your
hand,
Strike and it throbs and vibrates at your
will,
Falters unon the verge OF sound, and
Falls back as sea waves shattered on the
strand.
Touch it no more Tor you shall not regain
The sweet, lost tone. Take what is left, or
let
Lies music sleep to death. Let us forget
The perfect melody we seek in vain
And yet, per chance some day before we die,
AS half in dreams we hear the night-wind
sweep
Around our windows when iain would
sleep,
Laden with one long sobbing moaning cry,
One faint, far tone will waken and will rise
Above the great wave voice OF mortal pain
Hand will touch hand and lips touch lips
again,
As in the darkness it recedes and dies
Or lingering in the summers evening glow,
Then, when the passion OF the crimson
West,
Burning like some great heart that cannot
rest,
Stains as with blood the waters as they flow
Some old forgotten tones may rise and wake
Our dying youth, and set our hearts afiame
With their old sweetness-to our lips the
name
OF love steal softly for the old loves sake.
-COrahiH Magazine,
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17

point along the canal, where the captain
may have house, the children are sent
to school, and he works at trade until
navigation reopens. Many, however,
come down to New York and put UP
their boats in the Erie basin or over on
the Long Island shore, where they may
remain the winter for ten or twelve dol
lars. They live in them and do a light
erage business dnring the cold weather,
or odd jobs along shore.
There are number of farmers both al
Troy, N. Y, and Railway, N. j., who
make a business ofboarding canal horses
during the winter. Between the Erie
canal and the Morris and Essex there
are probably twenty-five thousand
horses and mules thus boarded. One
dollar per head week is charged for
the twenty-five weeks of the season, thus
involving some $685., 0O0.-Neao York
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
A Modern Sampson.

The Hon. Samuel Clark, of Horizon.
Wis, told correspondent these stories
about half-breed named Pauquette,
who is still living, and who thirty years
ago was called the Sampson of Wiscon-
sin:
I must have known Pauquette as long
ago as 1880. Iou see, Panquette, who
is half breed, used to make the vicinity
of the old Fort Winnebago his head
quarters, and every now and then, as
occasion happened, we would see some
new evidence of his wonderful powers
of endurance or strength. He was not a
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17

Immense pumping machines were or
dered by the Hungarian government of
English firms for the rebuilding of SEE
gedin, at an expense of over $500, 900 +;
but this money proves to have, been en-
tirely wasted. !. 1t has become evident,
says the SgegeGs Ndplo, that Szegedin can
be rendered dry only by the falling Of
the river that caused the inundation.
For the money these enormous pumps
cost the banks of the river might Fave
been fortified, and future overfows to
that extent guarded against.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
Some Quick Replies.

DR. b, who was for many years
associated with the University of Viz
ginia, was noted for his quickness of re-
tort, and some of his repartees, which
are fading out OF contemporary memory,
are worthy of preservation.
On one occasion, as he was walking,
looking intently at something in the
street, a man coming in the opposite
direction, and who was gazing with
ran shoulder to shoulder against him.
The stranger, drawing himself up with
extreme hauteur, said:
why did you run against mep"
With equal severity the professor
answered in exact imitation of his ques-
toner's tone and manner:
"For precisely the same reason that
you ran against me-" and the encounter
ended in a good-natured laugh.
A gentleman, coming into his office
one day, said:
doctor, why do you keep your room
so hot? 1t is like an oven"
81 must,n he answered promptly, "fo1
| it is here that I make my bread"
Many years ago this incident was told
| in one of the magazines; but the point
was somewhat missed, as the contribu
tor or printer made it bake instead o.
make.
On a visit to New York publishing
| house, against which he had claim fol
six hundred dollars, he was usheree
into an office where one of the firm sa
on high office stool, pompously shell
| ing letters. The professor stood await
ing recognition, but no notice was take1
of him. Finally, the small bushes!
man, twisting himself around nm hi!
perch, said, in the most supercilious O.
tones:
"Wha5?"
"That," said the professor, handing
the order for the money.
The business was settled without an
| other word.
A very tiresome civil engineer haC
been vexing the righteous soul OF one o
| the university professors, who, for {
| loke, and to rid himself of the nuisance
ing schemes, as to a genial and sym
pathetic soul He therefore came will
high hopes, and unfolded his scheme:
several times with wearisome multi
plicity of detail to the devoted professor
/ when the listeners Impotence made
itself felt The engineer continued tt
say, Just one moment, professor, Ont
thing more" Finally, his hearers much
tried patience showed signs of utterly
giving way, whereupon the patented
again said;
'' only want to show you one thing
more, professor. [ have invented {
short method of boring mountains which
1 think will prove very valuable"
"My dear SIR" burst forth the weariet
listener, eff you would only invent {
short method of boring individuals you
would indeed confer a lasting benefi
upon the race" The engineer departed
A would-be kHerateug, who was tn
head of large variety and notion bust
ness, was constantly annoying the docto
with his pretensions. On one occasion
he said:
doctor, have an idea
mo, no, my dear H. said th
doctor a little impatiently, you al
mistaken; you deal in notions, not il
ideas ''-Scribsacr.
The weekly clarion., 1879-10-22
A Plump Partridge.


( Partridges, plump and nice, arc plenty in
/ market and retain at 81 - per pair
/ Doubtless the dealers pay 81 The birds
/ are very fine, this wear. Most of them.
/ probably, are trapped iu sulrcs-the c1m-
mon "twitchup~' fixed I'm the artifciaIlv
made hedges 80 often found by the CNplnrar5
/ Of the Connecticut woods, and familiar %
almost every country ial; hat good many
ot these proveubiAIly plump birds are also
obtained hy the ~plr,~mau- guu-5- Tho
SPOT, found AN the bird. sufficiently attest.
"rJrtridgcs. @o called iu New ENGLAND suI
New \ lorS, are misgailcd quail Iu Penn
sylyauia and some OF the Southern states.
where, also, the real quail is bon popular
Language Turned into Il partridge. Tho
partridge ,oftsf lirgHlaHre) is the 'ruHel
grouse oI the o-uithuloEisl-, aud closely
AKIN 10 the western pluuatod grouse. ar
prairie hen; but Its meat Is white and ex-
tremely sweet and to1th-ame ItIsa much
larger bird thau a quail--hut not more
delicious eating. The quail the well-kuown
bob white of the country lanes wood
borders and fields Of buckwhcat stubbla.
makes Que of the sweetest and most delicate
tldbits imaginable 1t is fortunate cir
eumstance that both quails and partrdgcs
are such prolific birds; were 10 otherwise.
both would have been long since extcrmi-
mated. Even rs il Is, their numbers do not
m this part of the country, tend 10 increase.
The wonder is, that even with their hroods
Of dozen 10 fifteen (the quail rarely or
never lays fewer than fifteen some
times more, and the partridge new
er fewer than dozen or fourteen
eggs), these fine game birds have not ale
ready been eXterminated, in these older
settled parts of the country. What with
the ceaseless pursuit Of them i'm every piece
of woods by men and boys with dog and
gun, the trapping of Cart-loads Of them In
every woodland, and the death-dealiug
work of four out OF every five of our North
ern winters the partridges have a hard
time of it, and double chance, in the
struggle for life. 10 Is the deep SHOWS
more than either the degree or the duration
ofthe winter cold that are fatal to both
patridges and quail. The fatality is espe-
clally sweeping when in addition TO tho
deep snow there comes, rs there sometimes
Will come a winter rain, which freezes hard
on the top of the snow, forming q solid icy
crust, through which the partridge cannot
break, to get in or out, and he thus pcrishea
by starvation. Our occasional mild and
open winters are always followed by a
great abundance of quails and partridgcs i'm
he succeeding summer and autumn. In
lie milder climate Of Virginia the winters
Ire not usually severe enough to kill Off
hese birds, and the result is that they are
lways abundant there. Here, where they
Iave at best hard battle of il for life, they
hould be so far protected, by a sharp and
nceasing enforcement of the game laws
hat the shooting Of them in winter, at least,
'ould be prohibited. Ia fact the birds
re not usually, fit 10 be eaten after New
ears; they have TO live then on certain
inds Of berries i'm the woods which render
heir flesh positively poisonous.-Hartford
Comm Times.
The weekly clarion., 1879-10-22
ODE TO A CONFEDERATE BILL.

! Representing nothing on Gods earth now,
And naught in the waters below it
| As pledge of a nation that is dead and gone
Keep it, dear friend, and show it.
Showing it to those who will lend an ear
| To the tale that this paper can tell
/ Of liberty born OF patriots dream,
OF the storn-cradled nation that FELL
Too poor 10 possess the precious ores,
And TOO much of a stranger TO borrow,
We issue to-day our promise pay,
And hope to redeem the morrow.
! The days rolled on, and the weeks became
years,
But our Golfers were empty stin;
Coin was that the treasury quaked
Ii dollar should drop ia the ill.
But the faith that in so strong
indeed,
And our poverty well we discerned;
And those little checks representing the pay
That our suffering volunteers earned,
We knew il had scarcely value in gold,
~ ct rs gold our soldiers received il;
1t gazed in our eyes with promise to pay,
And each patriot soldier believed it;
But our boys thought little of price or pay,
Or of the bills that were over due,
We knew, if il bought our bread to-day,
1t was the best our poor county could do.
Keep it; it tells our history all over
From the birth of its dreams TO the last;
Modest and born Of the angel of hope,
Like the hope Of success it passed.
The weekly clarion., 1879-10-22
Disappearance of a Lake of Lava.

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
One feature of the last eruption of
the remarkable volcano in the Sand
wich Islands is the fact that the great
molten lake of lava, occupying a huge
caldron nearly a mile in length, and
known as the "South Lake" was drawn
off subterraneously, giving no warning
of its movement, and leaving no visible
indication of its pathway or the place
of its final deposit "Other eruptiOns,
writes Dr. Coan to Professor Dean in a
letter dated June 20, "have blazed
their way on the surface to the sea, or
while on their subterranean way have
rent the superintendent beds, throwing
eat Jets of steam or of sulphurous gases,
with here and there small patches or
broad areas of lava. But as yet no sur
face 4narks of this kind reveal the silent,
solemn course of this burning river.
One theory is that it flowed deep in
subterranean assures, and finally disem-
bogued during those days, and we had
what might be called a tidal wave of
moderate magnitude" The old process
of replenishment which had gone on
since the last eruption of 1868 is report
ed to have begun again, and after
another decade another disagreement
may take place.
The weekly clarion., 1879-10-22
Wild Cat Money.
LESSONS FROM THE PAST.

From the Port Gibson Reveille.l
Forty odd years ago Mississippi had
hundred banks, and the South and West
were full Of banks: money (paper money!
was as cheap as printed posters, and as
abundant as dog fennel, property had n
fabulous value fortunes mushroom growth,
and flush times was written everywhere
and abounded universally. But, the crash
came. Prudent men first foresaw the inn
pending crisis, and gradually furled sails TO
meet the storm, but, in 1887 all the banks
of the United States simultaneously sus-
pended, one morning in the merry month
of May, and universal CONSERVATION was
depicted on the face Of commerce, and each
man reiterated the words Of BOnaparte at
Waterloo-sduUe qW peaur--save himself
who can.
In lS4l Congress passed a bankrupt law
the States passed stay laws valuation
laws-redemption laws-and all the other
legal artifces for evading and delaying the
payment Of kebts.
Rag money was like withered leaves and
gave place to a sound currency, the ruined
went under the surging pillows, and after
the storm came great calm. The rich
found themselves pOor-the prudent had
yet their possessions, but reduced ia value
and the poor were only a little worse off.
The history Of 1887, and the few succeed
ing years, has just repeated itself from
1873 to this day, and now we behold the
world paying us in coin for our excess OF
exports over imports, money, glittcring gold
and, with the musical ring, comes by every
ship, and the era never existed when inter
est was 50 cheap.
Are these not signs Of a beautiful dawn
ing Of prosperity Breadstufs cheap
cotton high-labor remunerative-what
more can we want And we ask, paren-
thetically, why an exodus ?"
The weekly clarion., 1879-10-22
Chinese Printing.

In printing the Chinese do not use a
press as we do; the delicate nature of
their paper would not admit Of it when
once the blocks are engraved, the paper
is cut, and the ink is ready, one man
with his brush will print a large num-
ber of sheets in a day.
The block to be printed must be
placed perfectly level, and secured firm
1y The printer has two brushes one
OF them a sitter kind, which he can
hold in his hand, and use at either end.
He dips it into the ink, and rubs the
block with it, taking care not to wet it
too much; if it were wetted too much the
characters would be slurred if too lit
tie, they would not print. When the
block is once got into proper state,
he can print three or four impressions
without dipping his brush into ink.
The second brush is used to rub over
the paper, with a small degree Of pres
sure, that it may take the impression !;
this it does easily, for, not being sized
with alum, it receives the ink the in
slant it comes in contact with it. 1t is
only necessary that the brush should be
passed over every part Of the sheet with
greater or smaller degree Of pressure,
and repeated in proportion as the prin-
ter finds there is more or less ink upon
the block. This brush is soft and Of an
oblong form.
According to Chinese chronology, the
art of printing was discovered in China
about fifty years before the Christian
era. under the reign of Wing Fong l.,
the second emperor Of the Tartarian
dynasty; the art of paper making about
145 years afterward, before which pc
riod they had been accustomed to tran
scribe, or print, their writings, in vol
umes Of silk or cloth cut into the form
of leaves.