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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-05-20
National Greetings and salutations.

The Germans are the least demon
strative of any of the immigrants arriv-
ing at Castle Garden in meeting their
friends. Hearty hand-shakings some
times a solemnly administered kiss on
the cheek, and an explosive "Sor', or
a formal 8. VIE gaetesP'' are about all
they generally indulge in. But that
their hearts are as warm and their af-
fections as deeply stirred as any other
persons. may easily be read in their
tear-moistened eyes and the happy
smiles that light up their countenances.
The Russians are great kissers. The
Italians greet with noisy laughter,
kisses and irrepressible chatter. But
of all the wild welcomings, those of tho
Irish are the most vigorous. Shouts,
embraces, calculations of IS Glory be to
Godr'' Sc The saints be with u.s."
/" Alannah," and the like, make the
rafters ring. One day last week a
young Irish girl, who had come over
alone, was sighted in the passageway
between the rotunda and the Informa-
ton Bureau--which is in an out build
ing-by four women, relatives, who
had gone down to meet her.. Her back
was toward them, and she was unaware
of their proximity, until with wild
" whilliilewH they precipitated them
selves upon her. In sudden fright from
their onslaught, for they were literally
climbing on her. she failed to recognize
them, and dropped fainting to the iloor,
carrying the four of them down with
her., 1t was several minutes before the
officers could disentangle the quintet.
get them to their feet, and soothe their
Y. San.
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Professor Huxley on Dogs.

Professor Huxley pointed out by the
aid of diagram, in which force was
given to the illustration by the skeleton
of the animal being raised on hind legs,
that in internal construction the only
difference between man and dog was
one of size and proportion. There was
not a bone in one which did not exist
in the other-not a single constituent in
the one that was not to be found in the
other. In the case of the dog there was
not that which, on superficial examine
ton, answered to the collar bone Of
the man; but close dissection would
disclose in the case of the lower ami
NAL little bone varying in length from
a third to half an inch, OCCUPYING the
same place as the human collar-bone,
which was indubitably rudimentary
collar-bone. 1t appeared to be of no
functional importance, but there it was.
Considering the psychological nature
of the dog, the lecturer remarked that
he might be met at the outset with the
objection, Talk of the mind of dog;
why. don't believe he has a mind"
Well, the only reason he had for as
suming that the dog had q mind was
the same reason by which he assumed
that all present had minds. There was
no direct evidence of the fact any more
in the one than in the other
Run a pin into, a man, and there
was start and q cry, by which
they came to the conclusion that pain
had resulted. Run pin into dog, and
there was howl and attempt. perhaps
to bite, by which we inferred that the
animal was in state of consciousness
in which it also suffered pain. Conld
they say that the dog was mere piece
of animate machinery? 1t was quite
true that certain philosophers had held
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist Church,
organized in 1869, has now $500
members and an annual income Of &c.,
843. -a.
The Virginia Bible Society is about
to make a perfect canvass of the State
for the purpose of ascertaining how
many homes are without Bibles.
Tho Washington University. at St.
Louis, Mo. has received in its history
gifts exceeding 81. .000. 600 besides more
than 100000 received for scholarship
credited to one name is S203, 900, and
The next is S179,5 500.
The City of Rochester, N. Y, has
five public libraries, including that of
the Baptist Theological Seminary there,
the aggregate contents of which are
something like 200 volumes. The
Funion of all these in one general build
ing is now urged as measure of public
convenience.
In the mountain counties of East
ern Kentucky the best known man is
George o. Barnes, who for four years
had labored there with great zeal and
rich results as revivalist. He was
born fifty-four years ago in Garrard
County, was graduated at the Prince
ton Seminary, and in 1854 was ordained
Presbyterian minister. Soon after
this he was married, and in company
with his wife set out for India as
missionary. For seven years he taught
and preached in Hindostan, finally los
ing his health, which compelled re-
turn home.
The late meeting of the American
Frebel Union in this city, says the New
York Indepentlent, furnished proofs of
the hold that the Fr9bel idea has on
the civilized world. 1t is now more
than fifty years since Friedrich Fr9bel
published the book that gave the first
announcement of his system of educa-
ton, and nearly thirty years since the
Prussian Government prohibited all
kindergarten in which his method was
employed, ON the ground of its COM
munistic tendencies. At the meeting
held here three weeks ago letters were
read from auxiliary societies in San
Francisco, st. Louis, Chicago, Detroit,
Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Lon
don, Berlin, Dresden, Geneva and Ma
Piles. The Western world seems to in
dorse the system.
"A Methodist church in Massachu-
sets resolved to get along on the c. o.
ID. plan in all departments of its finance.
A few Sundays ago the pastor reported
that the church was two hundred and
thirty dollars short, and asked for i'm
mediate cash to make this amount good.
There being no response, he announced
that there would be no services in the
evening. Thereupon some of the breth-
rem put their heads together and col
lected what was needed. AS result of
this the pastor gave notice that the serv-
ices would proceed in the evening as
usual. This was thought by some peo-
pie to be needlessly severe transac-
ton. But the pastor and the leading
financiers say it is better to do thus
than to pursue reckless course of in
curing Indebtedness which will sooner
or later bring the church under the
hammer of the Sheriff's auctioneer.
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Demolition Of the Pyramids.

The news will be received with re.
gret that in Egypt the hand of the de-
stroyer is at work. A traveller who has
recently visited the Pyramids at
Gheezeh, and whose Investigations ex-
tended to Sakkarah, Dashoor and May
doom, reports that not only was the
work of destruction proceeding at re-
mote place like Dashoor, but at the
very scene of NJ. Mariette's operations.
There have been removed from imme-
diately under the entrance to the Great
Pyramid some four or five large stones,
and this traveller, a correspondent of
The Egyptian Gazette, was informed, on
what he could not but regard rs trust
worthy authority, that this wanton act
nad been committed by order of the
Khedive, the stone being required for
The building of the new mosque. which
so greatly overshadows the beautiful
mosque of Sultan Hassan.
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A Race for o Bride.

A novel wedding occurred the other
day at Pollocksville, N. C. It seems
that Messrs. John Miller and Alexander
Bibb, two well-to-do young farmers,
were in love with the same lady, Leo
nora Lloyd, beautiful girl of that
place. She was not able to decide as
to which she liked best. On Sunday
morning Bibb walked home from church
with her, and left under the impression
that she said she would marry him.
The same night lover No. 2, Miller,
went to see her, and understood her to
say she would marry him. Both men
the next morning went to the Court
House to get out the marriage license,
and there met. Each one armed him
self with the necessary documents, and
each left with q license 70 marry Miss
Lloyd. After some talk they agreed
that the first man who reached the
lady's house should marry her. The
residence of Colonel Lloyd, the lady's
father, is one mile distant, and both
men started on the race for the bride.
Bibb soon left the main road and darted
into the woods, expecting to make a
short cut and reach the house before
his rival, but Miller kept the road and
got in on the home stretch eight min
utes before his rival. Both men were
in sight of each other going up the lane
to the house, and Bibb's efforts to over
take his rival were almost superhuman.
When they reached the house Bibb.
from sheer exhaustion, tainted in the
porch, almost at the feet of his lady
love. When the matter was stated to
her she said she had come to the con-
clusion that she liked Mr.. Bibb the best
and therefore she would marry him.
Her sympathies were won over by see
ing him faint. She stated that she be-
ieved that both loved her; but that he
who faints at the danger of losing a
bride must love her more than he who
is cool and unconcerned in, the midst of
it all. The affair caused intense excite
ment. That night Rev. Aaron Jasper,
the welf-known Baptist minister, mar
ried Bibb and Miss Lloyd. So ended
one of the most startling romances in
real life ever known in the history of
North Carolina.-Cor. 81. Louis Globe
Democrat
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Losses in Feeding,

1t is weI-settled fact that large
per cent. of the food of poorly-bred
stock is utterly wasted. Only we'll
bred stock of any kind have good
capacity for assimilating their food.
When a given quantity of feed may
with confidence be relied upon to make
ten pounds of beef, pork, ETC., when
fed to well-bred stock, it is fact of all
experience that when fed to poorly-bred
animals it will fall large per cent.
short of that number of pounds. The
difference, as already stated, lies in the
widely different capacity to assimilate
and digest. So it is seen that the laws
of breeding lie at the bottom of the
matter. Farmers and stock men, when
considering the matter of stock on the
farm, should consider whether it is
their interest to- be content with that
class of low-bred stock which certainly
results in farm, waste; especially SO
when with good animal they can
soon bring up their stock to high
grades. A good one at the head of the
herd may cost hundred or two dollars,
but not half so much as the usual an
nual waste of food and time.-Indiana
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What the Nihilists Demand.

NJ Michael Dragomanoff, formerly
Professor at the University of Kieff and
now a member of the Russian Revolu-
tionary Organization. has addressed O
letter to General Melikoff, stating the
conditions on which the Russian revolu-
tionists will IS conclude an armisticc"
with the Government, which has been
extensively circulated at St. Petersburg.
These conditions are: 1. The dismissal
of all the Governors appointed with ar
bitrarys powers since the attempt of
April 2, 1879. 2. Abolition of all the
measures ordered by them, and also of
the exceptional DEGREES of 1873. 3.
Abolition of the special tribunals cstab-
lished for the hearing of political triais..-
f. An amnesty and restoration of rights
to those persons who have been de-
prived of them in consequence of tho
arbitrary measures above referred to.
5. Abolition of the third section, with
all its agents; guarantees against inn
prisonment without trial, 6. Grant of
freedom of the press, the right of meet
ing, and the right OF forming societies.
z. 0Convocation of q national assembly.
The ex-Professor adds that if these cons
tiitions are not accepted the contest will
be pursued by the Revolutionary party
with all the means at its command.
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views Of that kind, but common sense
people would not have it, and he be-
lieved the common sense people We're
right. At the same time he was. dis
posed to think that in dogs the feeling
Of pain was Infinitely duller than in hui
man beings As to the other senses be-
longing to dogs, he was inclinedYto
doubt very much if dogs could see with
anything like the distinctness of man.
Their hearing was indisputably very.
acute; but it was q remarkable fact that
that sense was regulated on totally
different scale in dogs as compared with
human beings. Did they ever hear of
a dog taking a pleasure in musicP On
the contrary, the sounds of music
seemed to cause him acute pain,, accom-
panied by horrible sort of fascination,
which fastened him to the spot at which
he was subjected to the torture. Else,
when q German band was doing its
worst in the streets, why did he sit up
on his launches and howl when he
might get up and run away? Yet he
often wondered whether dogs really
did suffer pain from music or whether
they howled purely in sympathy, as
did the jackals of the prairies. -
The sense Of smell in a dog, was
something NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. not
only for its deEcacy, but for the fact
that its discrimination of what was
agreeable and disagreeable was exactly
the reverse of ours. They never heard
of dog being infatuated with lavender
water, or patchouli, or Eau de Cologne;
he rather reveled in the smells which
to men were a source of unfeigned hor-
ror and disgust. He once possessed a
dog which he frequently left amongst
the thousands frequenting Regents
Park, to secrete himself behind tree.
So soon as the animal found that he had
lost his master he laid his nose. to the
ground, and in that manner very soon
tracked him to his hiding place. That
showed that the dog had the power of
distinguishing the particular modifca-
ton Of the leather of the boots caused
by the wearing of his master, in contra
distinction; to the notifications pro-
duced by hundreds of thousands Of 9th
er people present at the moment.
2 As to- the ability Of dogs to find their
way from place to place, he believed
there was an unconscious registration
in their minds of the visual pictures
presented to them in the various tracks
through which they passed, and that
the memory worked backward until the
animal reached its destination. No one
could doubt the moral disposition of
dogs. Some were trustworthy, others
more or less thieves; some were amia-
BILE, others vicious, and SO on. Neither
was there any doubt that dog had
ideas of equality and inequality. They
could easily settle that point by offer
ing q dog a large and a small piece of
meat on the same dish, and by observ-
ing which he took first. Indeed, there
was no fundamental faculty connected
with the reasoning powers that might
not be demonstrated to exist in dogs
London Telegraph.
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A Tempting Bait for Burglars.

Isaac Steele lives with his wife, son
and daughter near Petrolia, Pa. He is
the owner of the once famous Steele oil
farm, and is very wealthy. Having no
faith in banks, he has for years kept in
a safe in his house between $50. 900 and
800, 900 in money. Two years ago
three masked burglars broke into
Steele's house and attempted to rob
him. They had secured Steele and his
wife, the son and daughter being away,
when they were alarmed by the sound
of some one approaching the house and
fled. Steele still persisted in keeping
the large amount of money in his house,
saying that he would rather take his
chances with burglars than with banks
or any investment he knew of. The
other night, at about midnight, three
men broke into Steele's house. They
seized hin, and his wife, who fought
desperately. Mrs. Steele was knocked
-senseless by one of the men, all of
whom were masked. The son appeared
on the scene. One of the burglars met
him at the door of the room and level
ing a revolver at his head compelled
him to stand still. The daughter then
entered the room from another door,
The room was lighted up during the en-
counter by lamp left burning en- a
table by the old folks when they re-
tired. Old MIR. Steele was still fighting
desperately with the remaining two
men when his daughter entered the
room. She at once seized one of the
men, and left her father to cope with
the ether. The robber whom the daugh-
ter had seized knocked her down, and
kicked her until she was unconscious.
She had torn the mask from his face,
however, and recognized in him a no.
torious character of the neighborhood
named Jim James. Old Mr.. Steele had
by this time been overcome, but had,
in the struggle with the burglar,
snatched-the cloth from his face, and
recognized "Billy" Mcdonald, man
who had gained much notoriety in the
neighborhood as pedestrian. The
cries of the family and the noise made
by the struggle in the room had alarmed
a neighboring family, and two men
hurried to the Steele residence. Their
approach was heard by the burglars,
and they fled from the house by the
back door. The men followed them,
firing several shots, but the despera-
does reached the woods in safety. On
the next day Mcdonald and James were
found lurking about the village, and
were arrested and lodged in Jail. 1t is
not positively known who the third
burglar is, but a well-known resident
of Petrolia is suspected. 1t is said that
Steele intends to seek some other place
of deposit for his spare cash.-M y.
Sum
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WIT AND WISDOM.

The pupil of the eye has to be
Forced politeness -Bowing to re-
cessity.
"A dime noyel is of course in-ten-
centsation.
"A man may create breeze if he is
good at blowing.
There is more fashion in the city,
but more stiles in the country.
Luck is the result of keeping a
careful eye on the main chance.
The man who wears paper collars
cannot even secure the respect of first
class washerwoman.
The young man who thinks he is too
good to work generally proves to be too
good for anything useful.
The latest fashionable comfort in
New York is an undertaken who can
shed real tears at a funeral. He is in
great demand.-M o. Picayune.
"A French physician has published a
pamphlet showing the terrible " effects
of smoking on the heart" But we
have known more terrible effects to be
produced on the heart in i've minutes
by little maiden in a calico dress than
by twenty years of steady and untir-
ing devotion to the weed.
The man who can get as much pow
er out of quart of water and a basket
of coal rs any one else can out of fifty
times those amounts is called genius;
but the boy who can get as much agony
out of willow whistle as brass. band
can get out of its instruments is merely
called a nuisance.
The farmer turns the furrow,
f- With careless unconcern;
And r.-E
The fairness works the handle
OF the big old-fashioned churn.
Their son sorts out the 'taters,
For plantin, in the cellar;
while
Their daughter on the back porch
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Shoes for Arctic Explorers.

A Philadelphia shoemaker is to make
fifty pairs of shoes at twelve dollars
pair for the men who are to accompany
Captain Howgate on his Polar expedi-
ton. Each pair weighs from four and
half to five pounds. The breadth of
sole is four and three-eighths inches,
and of the heel three and three-eighths
inches; the thickness of the sole is
three-fourths of an inch. Between the
inner and outer sole a thick layer of
cork is placed tOprevent dampness pen
etrating. The shoes are made of beaver
cloth. and lined all through with lamb
skin with wool upon it. Between the
cloth and lambskin pieces of bladder
are placed to insure dryness to the feet.
The shoes are made extra large in order
to permit the wearing of several pairs
Of stockings.--M Y. Times.
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. FACTS AND FIGURES.

The Connecticut River Lumber
Company cut about 50, 600, 600 feet of
logs during the past winter. a-
sa Within the past fifty years about
20O,0 miles of railroads have been
built in the world at cost of $15, ,OOO,-
100000.
The fruit and vegetable business
from Florida to Northern and Western
cities has grown from about 25.0OO
boxes in 1874 to $50. 900 in 1880.
Careful measurements of 800 boys
showed that in very few of them were
the legs of equal length, the difference
being as rule a small fraction OF an
inch. ., oss .t .-..
r- The Massachusetts, Bureau of Prac-
tical Statistics reports that while the
marriage rate has sensibly decreased
within the last twenty years, the di-
vorce rate has more than doubled.
The London Times estimates that
there are $1,000 blind persons in Great
Britain and Ireland. Nine-tenths of
these, it thinks, could have been saved
from their affliction had the highest
special skill been called to their aid in
time. '--s 1'i
On Saturday, April "a, the roll of
Postmasters in the United States footed
up AZ, 397, and, with the clerks, subor-
dinates and mail messengers, ETC., the
total number of persons in this branch
of the Government reaches upward OF
10000. ~-' fiada ..si 50 a.aas .
in Germany a deep hole was bored
by the diamond rock drill, 8, 315 feet
being attained in six months. >. This is
not so deep as one made by the Prus-
sian Government a few years ago,
which was 4,1S3 feet deep, but took
four years to bore. E ,H-5-.5 !
in the month of March there was q
total of sixty-fve railway accidents,
thirty-three injured. Six accidents
caused the death of one or more per-
sons; 16 caused injury, but not death.
while in 43, or 66.2 per cent. of the
whole number, there was no injury
of casualties is unusually light. As
compared with March, 1879, there was
an increase of four accidents, a de-
crease of five in the number killed, and
of II in those injured. Eaa .stl...5 +
Prince Bismark has just presented
to the Imperial Parliament very in
structive paper on emigration from
Germany during the year 1879. 1t ap-
pears that no fewer than 50, 327 sub
jects of the Empire, nearly two-thirds
being males, took ship last year for
foreign ports at Bremen, Hamburg.
Stettin. or Antwerp. by far the greater
number going to the United States and
British North America. This emigra-
ton total is the largest since 1874.
when the figure was 43,112; 1872 and
1878, Immediately after the war, show
ing the very formidable results of 125,
$50 and 103,638 respectively. These
figures, it must be remembered, only
gauge the flow of German emigration
through few leading channels, and by
no means represent the entire loss in
subjects annually suffered by the En-
pire.
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AAYBLOSSOMS.

Oh, the pink arbutus blossoms
Peeptng forth with starry eyes
From their shady hiding-places
Meath the spring-time's azure skies!
Grateful for the light and shadow,
Grateful for the balmy days,
How the dainty trailing blossoms
Yield the incense of their praisel
Timidly they reused from slumbcr,
Wakened unto life again,
These sweet darlings of the May-time,
Born Of April's sun and rain;
Tfmidly, then growing bolder
As the sunshine warmer grew,
Meath the merry sunbeams kisses,
Flushing into brighter hue.
NOW they wait to hear the music
of the children's voices sweet,
VI the merry lads and lasses
Coming swift on eager feet
Searching for the dainty flowers,
For the welcome gifts OF May;
Hunting field and forest over
For the treasures Of May-day.
oh. the merfy-hearted laughtcrl
Oh, the bas &ets crowded o'er,
OyernowiDg brim and cover
q With ths dewy, fragrant store! 4
HAIL ye sweet arbutus blossomsi
welcome, all bright flowers of Mayi
Neatn the hedge, DER field and meadow,
Bloc soming from day to day!
IN. ID. Brine, IN Youths Companion.
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Denver, Col, is to have a great
union railroad depot, in which all the
railroads going out from that city are
to be united. The building will be Of
stone, two stories high, with central
tower 2IO feet high. 1t will be 500
feet long, sixty-five feet wide, and
cover an area of ten acres.
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During the year 1879 10000
bushels of corn were converted into
glucose in the various factories in the
United States.
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Boston is to have a new Court
House erected on a site costing $780,
600, on Pemberton Square.