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The Osceola times., 1880-03-20
Quebec i'm Danger.

To be threatened with death and their
destruction of their homes by an avalan-
che seems novel danger for the inhabi-
tants of large city; and this is what
has lately menaced and in some cases
overtaken the people of Quebec. When
snow falls in heavy masses at Quebec
there is danger it appears that accumula-
tons formed on the sides of the cliff
Just below the citidel may fall with seri-
ous consequences into the streets below.
In March, 1875, there was such descent
and it swept down three houses and
killed eleven persons. On last Saturday
there was a snow slide which struck the
house of Michael Hucks, on Champlein
street, forced in the back doors and win
dows, tore through the house, and EN-
erged into the street on the front OF the
house The family were in the second
story, and this alone, it is said, saved
their lives. Nor does the story seem an
exaggeration when we learn that the
snow in it's course smashed down the
partitions between rooms, broke up
heavy articles of furniture like eggshells
and is now twenty feet deep in front OF
the wrecked building. Th-ee hundred
yards from this point another avalanche
came down at about the same time and
filled the road to a great depth, but hap
PLY this time without iniuring any
dwellings. But the peril still impends
Champlain street for a distance Of two
miles, and terror prevails among all the
residents, some being afraid to leave
their homes and Others to 20 to bed at
night
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why We Butter Our Bread.
United States Miller

The layers of the wheat berry. as we
proceed toward the centre, become more
and more completely starchy, and at the
centre but little else is found, and this
portion makes our finest -four. The finer
the less fit it is for nutrition. In its ma
tural state, the wheat, with all ITS COM
ponents present, is not fitted for perfect
human development There is deiioien-
cy in the potential heat-producing ma
terials, especially for cooler climates,
there being only 2 per cent. OF fat in
wheat. We instinctively supply this de-
foioncy by the addition of fatty bodies.
We spread butter upon bread, we mingle
lard or butter with our biscuit or cake,
and the fat meat and bread are taken al.
ternately or ooincidentally. The starch
being carbon hydrite can afford. COM
parauvely, but little heat in consumption
and the facts are demanded by the wants
of the system.
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20
STARVING On A WRECK.
A Manned sailor Left to Ills Fate In MID
Ocean.
Philadelphia Record


The story of the recent experience Of
John Nicola, a seaman, who sailed from
this port on board the Rayenna Padre.
on the 18th of November, for Genoa, is
crowded with more thrilling adventures
than is encompassed between the yellow
backs of a ten-cent novel. The ship was
laden with big cargo of petroleum, and
sailed the ocean blue without incident
until the seventh day out, when she en-.
cOuntcred storm that completely
wrecked her On the afternoon Of No.
yember "A the bark Maud Scammel,
bound from New York 10 Lisbon. fell in
with the wreck in latitude so 52' north
and 630 west, her lower masts alone
standing, waterlogged and apparently
abandoned. She lay rolling heavily in
the trough of the sea, which at times
broke completely over her. Aloft on the
mainmast part of the main yard swung
to and fro, with the remnants of tat.
tered sail streaming out in the wIld
Nearer swept the bark; apparently no
trace of her crew remained on the decks
from which the boats had disappeared
After few moments however, a dark
object appeared upon the quarter OF tho
wreck. A brief look through the glass
showed this object TO be man. The
bark rounded TO, and in a moment the
man leaped from the wreck into the sea,
and swan out for the boat that was sent
to pick HIM up. This man, clothed only
in shirt, was John Nicola, and, after he
had been properly cared for, told the
story of his terrible experience. Wien
the storm occurred, on the seventh day
after the ship Ravenna Padre left Phila.
delphia, he was at the wheel, and recciv.
ed very severe injuries TO his thigh and
arm by being struck by a spar that was
snapped in two by the gale. Unable to
work he lay in the forecastle, and, the
vessel commencing to leak. the crew
were k pt at the pumps. The mizzen
top-mast was cut away, and about the
20th inst. the captain determined 10
abandon the vessel and go on board
bark thai was in sight. lie asserts that
he was ignorant of all that occurred
after he was hurt and knew nothing Of
the intention TO abandon the ship until
one of the sailors rushed into the fore
castle and shouted: "Come on, quick, or
you'll be too late" He crawled on deck
as quick as his injuries would permit,
ana reached thepoop in time to see the
boats pulling away from the vessel re
shouted to them to come back. but me
captain babe him Jump Unable to DO
SO from his injuries, he was abandoned
to his fate. The bark, after picking up
the boats crew, kept off before the wind,
For four days he remained in the rigging
without water, and with but few poa'
toes TO save him from starvation, looking
over the troubled waters for vessel "
save him from terrible doom.
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Extraordinary Affection.

The mutual love Of rooster and a
dog in Avon is recorded by the Roches-
ter Union as follows: The rooster is
known by the name of "Dick," to which
he responds very readily when called by
his owner. The dogs name is SANDY"
He is a mongrel with considerable of the
orrier in him, and endowed with more
than usual intelligence. 1t seems that
when the rooster "Dick" was a very
young chicken he took to the dog "San-
dy," who returned the affection warmly,
and cared for the little fowl with all the
tenderness possible. When the dog
went TO sleep at night Dick" would
snug up to him, and thus obtain the
heat of his body. Since then they have
been constant associates and playmates,
the rooster not seeming to care particle
for the company Of other roosters or
hens, and the dog preferred to play with
"Dick" rather than with animals of his
own kind. SANDY" allows Dick" to
perch on his back while he lays stretch
ed between two chairs, and the rooster
succeeds IN sticking on while the dog
leaps from one chair to another. All
who saw the dog and rooster the other
night were greatly amused with their
antics.
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20
A BONANZA Kings Family at tho Vatican

A painting is now on exhibition at the
Vatican, awaiting shipment to America.
where it is to adorn the Murphy palace
in San Francisco, representing the Pope
receiving in his private apartments the
family of the bonanza king, after having
administered their first communion 10
his daughters Isabella and Francesca.
The figure of Leo XIII. is depicted in
bold relief seated in the center of the
picture, and kneeling before him, wrap
ped in large white wells, are the figures
of the two young girls, while little fur.
tier back, in dark toilets, are the two
elder sisters, At the right of his boli-
ness are several dignitaries of the church
Ill the gorgeous attires of prelates OF the
papal court. The foreground is occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. Murphy. The, latter, a
type Of Spanish beauty, is kneeling and
gazing on her children. Mr.. Murphy is
in full evening costume, wearing across
his breast the sash of the Greg lrian or
der standing by the side of his wife.
Tie artist is Prof Grandi. The cam
vas is 800 by 2.S0 meters, and is richly
named. Midway on the lower part 81
the aAms 4 scroll upon which there d
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NY REPLY TO DEAR BRETs Mad.
RIGAL.

Thy spistle, dear Bret. I've received.
A,d trust thou'lt not think me too bold
II frankly acknowledge I'm grieved
At the thought that 10 thee I've been cold.
How sweetly thou managest wooingi
What way 20 my heart thou hast foundl
Abandoning billing and cooling,
Thou tellst me where fossils abound
Forever henceforward I'm thiGc.
TO view Ornithichntes I'm signing,
Don't delay-for a ramble pine)
To find them in situ am dying.
Tridaetylo lous, struthious. and huge:
With phalanges.nicely indented,
Entomed when Nature with rouge
The mari and the sandstone beds painted.
II thou wilt but extract me a femur
With matrix Just near the iroehanter,
I'll abandon all maidenly tremor.
And at once name the day, thou enchanter.
I'll only make one stipulation;
That, avoiding hotel inn and tavern,
We improve the time-honored lunation,
And our honeymoon spend In cavern.
There III labor, content in the fetter,
10 find happy thought If can,
dear second husband, and better,
A petnfied pithecoid man.
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Almost Perpetual Notion.
philndeluhia Times.

lhliNdelphla Times.
Engineers who examined the machine
invented by Albert Pietrowiski, a Pole
say that it comes nearer 10 solving the
problem Of perpetual motion than any
contrivance as yet devised, and that ior
practical purposes il is likely to work a
revolution in machinery. 1t consists OF
q pair Of hollow metallic wheels, which
rcvolvc in opposite directions ON the
same axis. The moving power il nine
metallic balls, placed within the wheels
so as 10 beat the rim down at first and
then gravitate toward the axis, where a
side groove runs them of to grooyed
radius Of the wheels running in the op-
posite direction. To the axis of smaller
grooved wheels, that regulate the speed
Of the machinery TO which the shaiting
v attached.
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20

ed as town property, and have been fed
out of fund set apart tor that purpose,
which is now said TO have been dona-
ton from the Countess Poilcrasto. Until
lately il would have been thought little
less than sacrlege to touch feather of
them; but recently Venetian boy was
discovered carrying off pigeon, evl-
IDENTIFY with a view to pie. The case was
carried into court, where it was decided
that the pigeons had never been legally
conveyed to the town, consequently they
were nobody's property, but, so to speak,
wild fowl, and that the boy was only
following his natural instincts in catch
ING them. and must De acquitted.
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20
WOMAN'S WAYS.
h uripg-.Dressing the Hnir-.fashion Chit
Chat

sHIRRING.
Shirrinp is one of the features OF the
season, and is seen literally on every
thing. from millinery TO cloaks. 1t ls
not only used as trimming, but Is EN-
ployed in draping; in introducing extra
iuliness, and in any way fancy may sug-
pest. Fur trimming skirts tuck shirrlng
is generally preferred, and is arranged IN
groups or continuously, as desired. lhls
is especially pretty in satin, but cannot
be used for heavy materials, such us vel
vet and plush, although these are seen
scantily shlrred on some elegant I'M
norted dresses. Satin is used IN prefer
ence to silk this winter, especially IN
black, and is almost invariably shirred.
Short satin skirts are shirred all around
in groups of perpendicular tuck shlrrs,
and are ornamented at the bottom
wi tn one or two very narrow plealed
tlounces.
DRESSING THE HAIR.
A correspondent OF one OF our ex-
changes says: "rhe hair continues to
be dressed in various ways. Some hair-
dressers arrange it rather lower in the
back, with few very short curls falling
below the corsage. The bouquet worn
in the hair must match the flowers on
the toilette. Garlands of flowers are at
present preferred for this purpose, they
are without leaves, and terminate III q
small bunch, which may be surrounded
by shell-shaped lace trimming. This
is fastened on the left side near the ear,
so that the hair falls a little below the
flowers. A ribbon bow or a velvet ro-
sette may be arranged IN the same man
ner Another can be placed on the SIDE
of the hair in the back. A new style OF
coifIure is called the Anneaux de Diane.
II consists of piece of waved hair,
with very short curls placed little
apart"
FASHION CHIT-CHAT.
The court train is the prevailing style.
PuFFs on sleeves are becoming very
popular
Plush is becoming more and more
popular.
THE Paris ladies wear white hats with
bail dresses.
Fur collars have replaced the hood on
fur-lined circulars.
BLACK satin slippers with white even
ing dresses are stylish.
WHITE Spanish lace mantles are very
handsome with reception dresses.
BERTHAs of rose leaves mounted on net
are handsome with low corsages.
DIFFERENT shades Of purple and lilac
are again among the fashionable even
ing colors.
VELVET boots with low heels and fur
band at the top are handsome with skat-
! ing costumes.
The combination of myrtle-green
cashmere and oriental broche makes an
| elegant street costume.
BLACK kid gloves are even more fash
ionable with evening dresses this season
than they were last.
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20
4 PolYpllOnlc Ear.

There is something TO be said as to the
difference in the way in which the high
ly-gifed musician and the ordinary hs-
tener hear music. Ii is more or less q
waste of energy to write music in many
parts, all of which are made melodious
at some sacrifice of the harmonic effect,
when not more than, perhaps, one in q
hundred listeners is capable Of hearing
more than one melody at Il time. We
think that it is not the power of writing
counterpolnt that has died cut 50 much
as the viii TO write it, There can be no
doubt that the unpopularity of counter
point is mainly due TO the fact that the
ordinary listener is unable to hear in it
what the highly-giited musician hears.
The many simultaneous melodies are
quite lost on the ordinary listener. 1t is
only III the case Of the greatest compos-
ersl whose principal melodies and har-
monies do not suffer by their attention
to the counterpoint, that works of this
class attain any popularity. Until the
requirement of the power Of hearing
many simultaneous melodies Is placed
within the reach Of the ordinary listener
by suitable and widespread education
specially directed to this purpose, it Is
useless TO look for popular interest in
countcrpOint which shall encourage the
composer to produce 1t. There is Il ques-
ton how far it is possible for pcrs IN
not naturally gifted with the polyphonic
ear to acquire it in perfection. But
there can be no doubt that systems OF
education are possible which will do
much toward advance in this direction,
and that the direct cultivation of poly
phonic hearing and reading Is the short
est cut toward the formation of the true
musician
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20
Tho Pigeons Of Venice.

Everybody has heard of the pigeons
which dock daily TO the famous Square
of st. Marks, IN Venice, to be fed, and
many Americans have no doubt seen
them resting upon the shoulders and
arms ofthe woman who dispenses their
daily bread to them. Many are the sto-
ries told of their origin; how their an
cestors served the republic by bringing
back news from its fleets, and so on; but
none Of them sre established, except
hat the bsrds hare Always bssa regard.
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20
New Publications

are furnished by the Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, n. Y, and
Great Russell Street buildings, London En-
gland, on terms TO suit the times. A new
edition of the Peoples Common Sense Medi-
cal Adviser, about 1000 pages. nearly 1000
illustrations, by X. V. Pierce, NJ. D., POST
paid, 10 cents; motion Ms a remedial agent,
Illustrating movement cure for paraly sis,
diseases of females. stiffened joints, club
feet, spinal curvature and kindred affections
10 csnts; diseases of generative organs, l0
OntE Catarrh; Its rational treatment and
positive cure, sent on receipt OF one postage
S1omp. Address o. above
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20
A Running Dog Photographed.
san Francisco Call.


1t will be remembered that two or
three years ago, Mr.. Muybridge, the pho
tographer, took a series of pictures OF ex-
Gov. Stanlord's celebrated horse Occi-
dent, wherein was deleniated the posi-
ton Of the limbs of the animal at every
step, the likeness being struck so instan-
taneously that, although the horse was
going at $50 gait the fine line of the
whip was not even blurred. The same
principle has recently been applied to
the coursing Of greyhounds. Mr.. Muy-
bridge having been experimenting at
ex-GOv. Stanford's mansion, Maylield
Grange, Menlo Park, on the action Of the
celebrated dog Bull-dozer, belonging to
Nat Brooks. of this city. The cralnped
and improbable position of the dog, as
shown in the negatives, would scarcely
be believed by any one who had not
seen the fact recorded by the "unerring
finger of light" 1t is usual to deleniate
a greyhound extended, but these mega.
tives among other positions, give the
animal with his limbs gathered under
dim, storing his strength for the spring.
The dog is got at speed by holding him
on one side, while an attendant takes a
rabbit across a line drawn in front of the
camera, the ground being covered with a
sheet Of India rubber to prevent any
dust or pebbles flying up to impair the
clear.cut outlines of the picture the mo-
ment the dog passes in front OF the cam
era The fine wire is broken, the electric
circuit is complete, and the Trustworthy
collodion has put the fleeing vision on
permanent record.
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20
Burlctte in "A Coal Mine.


The boys took me out in the morning
to the great Pottsyille shaft, and we went
down under the ground-the deepest
shaft in America, | believe. We went
down nearly 1000 feet, they told me, and
there isn't hotel elevator in the United
States moves with as little noise as these
great cages. As you get down about zoo
feet the silence becomes terribly oppres-
sive to a noisy man. AT the level you
couldn't hear a yougn man learning toplay
on the trombone. When we got down We
wandered through the long tunnel, and
watched the working OF the diamond
drill. Going through one of the pas.
sagcs, | was suddenly startled and aston
ished at meeting Il mule. The mule did
not display any emotion whatever at
meeting me. He was the same calm,
impassive, imperturbable mule POO feet
below the level of the sea that he was
when he lived in the sunlight; the same
patient, sphynx-lih face, seven feet long,
and he manifested the same placid in
tcntion of walking calmly and dispas-
sionately over the ltire crowd If we
didn't get out Of the track and stand in
the mud.
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20

SHELLEY" says Mr.. Trelawny, wno
knew him intimately, wrote his poenn
III the open air; on the sea-shore; IN tne
pine woods; and, like shepherd, 10
could tell the time of day exacdy BY ,us
light. lie never had a watch. Ana :
think Byron never had; but if tho la''1
had one he never wore IT,"
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20

NR. LAIKlx J. MEAD, the sculptor, is
married to beautiful Italian lady with
whom be could not at first acquaintance
talk, neither knowing the others Ian
guaee. They have charming home in
IloSooce. N. Meade II one Of the kind.
- r. 0ea and most generous Of. artists,
EA9h hstic and helpfsl toyeuns
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20

In a nursery wherein all Is life and laugh
instead Of crying and fretting, there II sure
to be found pr. Bulls Baby syrup. Price
q ssnts 3 b0tsAe
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20

FREE of charge. Your druggist will ~
fund your money if DIR. Bulls Cough syrup
does not give you satisfaction and cure YOU
cough.
The Osceola times., 1880-03-20

in black letters, an inscription comma
oratiye of the reception of the MuroSr n.
family by the pontiff. pay
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SAFETY OF OTHER VESSELS.

1t was feared Friday that the steamship Niagara,
which sailed from this port August 20, bound for
Havana had suffered the same fate as the City Of
Vera Cruz. She was thought to be very near the
Inflated steamer on Sunday, the day she went
down. The Niagara due last Monday at Ha-
vana but TO utcl gcnce Of her arrival mad been re-
ceived. The owners, j. t. Ward & Co., received n
dispatch Yesterday from Captain Baker stating that
the vessel had arrived in Havana Tuesday at mid
night and that all on board were well. 1t was
OWING to the cable being ont OF order that the in
tcligence was not received sooner. The Niagara,
it is said. previously passed safely through three
hurricanes, of which that in which the
Huron was lost about three years ago.
The steamship iIodji, of the Quebec Steamship
Company, is believed to have escaped the cyclone
in which the City of Vera Cruz went down. She
left this port for San Juan, Porto Rico IN the West
Indies, on August %. If she proceeded in the same
line and the same speed 1t is fcalculated that
she would have been about 200 miles east of St.
Augustine, and about $50 miles east of the City of
Vera Cruz when the latter was lost. Accord
ing to tho latest reports of the course
of the hurricane, this would leave the Hodj
in this position, outside Of the track Of
the tornado. The IIodji is an English built ship
built of iron in Sunderland twelve years ago and
she been employed in the coastng trade for the
past six years. The ship took two-thrds of a cargo
Of general merchandise and one passenger her Off
GERS and crew numbered twenty EIGHT. Outerbridge
& Co., who the brokers Of the HodJi, entertain
no fears for her safety.
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ten yards apart on different pieces of the
wreck. Drumgood and ! got on large
piece of the dning-saoon. We were In
water twenty-five hours before we reached shore
both being blinded at night from the salt water in
the eyes.
LAND AT LAST.
At 4 a. m. on Monday the raft reached the break
ers and went TO pieces We landed
twelve miles north of Mosquito Lagoon, having
drifted probably fifty miles. Talbot, Kelly and
Smith got ashore within three miles OF u.s. Bran
denburg and Greenfield came in eight miles
further South. Two of the crew
and two passengers reached shore
south of the inlet, but did not learn their names.
Eight seamen and three passengers were oil the
survivors, / have heard Of for fifty
miles on each side of where 1 landed
General Torbert drfted ashore six miles above me
at a place called New Britain Mr.. Pitts drew him
out of the surf and discovered some slight vestige
of life; the body was warm. the heart fceby
beating, and blood flowing from a wound
on the tight temple. All efforts 10 resuscitate him
were frutless. He is supposed to have re-
ceived his death blow while in the breakers.
brought his body down the Halifax
River and buried 1t under some
palmetto trees on the Botefuhres farm.
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4 MISSISSIPPI4NS FRANKNESS.
To the EditOr OF The Tribune
SIR: While travelling in New-YOrk ST,

TO the Edftor OF The Tribune.
SIR: While travelling in New-YOrk State
recently ! met gentleman from Mississippi and fell
into conversation with HIM about Southern politics He
said that the South admired Hancocks after the
war; while he was military commander OF the Louisiana
and Texas district and that the people OF the South
were unanimous In wishing that things might be az they
were before the war The negroes he said, were largely
voting with the Democrats It being for their interest to
do
:" How about the Mississippi plan and the alleged
frauds at the polls IN the Soulful asked
In parts of the SOUTH" he replied there have
probably been frauds and ballot box stufng but In
section have been In the majority and there no
need OF any such thing Northern man with Republican
principles who might remove TO Mississippi would be
allowed to vote without disturbance 80 long as he did
not to be leader and draw of others Republican
principles" FREMDR
WOODBURY., Conn, Aug 80. 1880