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Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-05-27
Personal AND LITERARY.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON keeps cows
and sells milk TO Concord housekeep-
ers. tig
Mrs. LIME DEvEREAux BLAKE has
written an essay on The Disadyan-
tages of Being Pretty" Most girls
are good-natured and willing TO put
up with the disadvantages. q Boston
Post.
Ir is understood that Mr.. j. Eliot Ca
bot, who has been for some years Mr..
iEmerson's confidential literary adviser,
win be intrusted with his unpublished
papers, and wiz have authority to write
his life.
PAUL BARTLETT, aged fifteen, has
sent bust of his grandmother TO the
Paris salon. The jury of nine OF the
most eminent sculptors of France ac-
cepted it, and sent to the boy their per-
sonal fluctuations
Mrs. BURNETT, the author of THAT
Lass o Lowrie's'' "Haworth' S, etc. is
so interested in and fond of her own
sonal friends. The hero of "Haworth' So
is her great fayorite.
Mrs. Ex-PREsIDENT TYLER, accord
ing to a paragraph in the Philadelphia
| Press, is now an inmate Of convent in
I Georgetown. For some years she re-
/ sided az the Louise Home-an institu-
| tiOn for ladies who were in times past
in positions of aflluence and influence.
The widow of MIR. McGahan, the
/ well-known special war correspondent,
I is engaged upon Russian translation
| of the poems and stories of Edgar Allen
! Poe. The work, which will fill three
/ volumes, will appear in the course of a
few months. Mrs. McGahan is a Rus
sian lady.
| NoRDENsKJoLD is about middle
height, his head is almost square and
high, his nose is straight and aquiline,
his hair is short, strong and fawn-col-
ored, or drab, and his complexion
would be a German blonde if it had not
absorbed the gold which ought to bur
nish his hair.
A " oRDSwoRTH CLUB is in process
of formation in England. Its object is
the investigation of the text and chro-
nology of the poems and of the locali-
ties with which they are associated. II
is proposed to hold an annual meeting
in order to explore and study the seen
cry described in the poems.
Mrs. DINAH MULoCK CRAIK, the an
thoress. is now on visit to Rome will
her husband, who is the editor of Mac
miliGH's Magdzine. Mrs. Craik is de
scribed in a letter to the EUening Pos
as "a not elderly, but more thar
middle-aged woman, thoroughly En-
glish in her appearance. She is no
handsome, but has loving gray eyes
and dresses plainly in black silk or vel
vet She lives about ten miles iron
London, and willsoon return thither
but both she and her husband are s,
pleased with Rome that they say
shall not be their last visit.
MISS NELSON, who has been playin,
one of the most successful engagement
in her professional career, will, it i
said, be worth nearly 81, 100000 at tn
end of this season. The present en-
gagement will net her about S65,00C
Her profits in this country are all in
vested in American securities, Mis-
Nelson is the wealthiest actress of tn
time. Indeed, it may be doubted
any actress who ever trod the stage ha
, so large an income from investments o
she has. Next to Miss Nelson, probs
bly, Miss Crabt!ee Lotta'O is th
/ richest lady in .he dramatic profession
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-05-27
A Letter from General MelikOG.

BURDETTE, of the H1Dbeye, has re-
ceived the following characteristic let
ter from General Melikoif In explain
alton of the familiar style in which tho
letter is coucbed, says the New York
Graphic, it should be said that Burdettn
and the Russian factotum once spenC
six months together in jail at Honolulu
on trumped-up charge of having at
tempted TO assassinate Queen Emma by
suddenly pounding a Chinese gong at
her bedroom door at midnight. They
both got off at last on plea of habitual
living and emotional insanity:
"MY DEAR ROBBIE: Your favor of
the I'd with enclosure Of fifteen dollars
is at hand. | am eternally obliged and
will hand it to you the first time meet
you in st. Petersburg. Such time as
we had yesterday morning at the VIM
ter Palace. The Gar got out of bed on
the wrong side, and was as cross as two
sticks. Nothing pleased him, and to-
ward noon he began sinking so rapidly
that the court physician was summoned.
He talked with His Majesty few mo-
ments and then said to me confidential
ly, He needs excitement; he lacks his
usual stimulant. When was he last
shot atP 1 said, Nearly three weeks
ago The physician shook his head
and said it was enough to kill him; and
instructed me to do something. SO /
fixed it all up, and when the Gar was
coming down the front stairs | sprung
out from behind door and hit him an
awful clip with bolster. Somebody
else hit him in the face with a snow
ball, we threw him through the glass
doors of the conservatory, poured tub
of ice water over him, fired shotgun
behind his head, split his coat down the
/ back, emptied can of kerosene on his
head, kicked him down the kitchen
stairs, and blacked his eye with pair
of brass knuckles 1t would jusC have
done YOU good TO see how the old man
Frightened up. 'Ah,' he said, rubbing
his hands cheerfully while the doctor
was pasting court plaster all over him,
and a couple of attendants were pulling
/ slivers out OF his back, Ah, he said,
smiling upon us, this is something like
living, Meliky, dear, cut somebody's $
head off and wen 60 in to breakfast. ,
Eggs are cheap and butter is scarce.
! We haven't had any rain for nearly two
weeks. Love 10 your brother John
and come and see me some time, Ever
yours"
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-05-27
An Intellble Record.

From the roc IS we learn the marvel
GUS history of Efe. They are the rec
ords, which nothing can falsify, of a
steady progress under eternal laws
from lower to higher ferns of being.
Any one of us with sufficient diligence
can read these records. They tell us
that the earth has been the scene OF life
and death, pain and pleasuae, for meal
culable ages. The plan has ever been
the same immutable as the laws of mat
ter-but it has been expanded by gra-
dations, always, as far as we can Judge,
tending toward a higher order Of things
Geology tells us, in unmistakable Ian
guage, that the land and water have
changed places repeatedly, that oonti-
nents have sunk that oceans have been
filed up, that both inorganic and or
ganic rocks have been raised into noun
tain chains, that there has been a long
succession of forms of life appearing
and disappearing through cycles OF
time whose vastness we cannot fully
comprehend. Thousands of years must
be as seconds of time 20 him who
would compute the earth's age, and
whole species and genera Of plants and
animals are but so many finely-gradu-
ated marks on the great scale Of life
duration. Nichols Physical History ot
The Earth.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-05-27
Russian Superstition.

WIToHoRAFT in Russia is a profitable
occupation, but accompanied by great
dangers, Last year, near the city of
Tikhvin, a woman was burned as a
witch. Now, in the city Of Saratoff, a
whole peasant family is to be tried
for the murder of a sorcerer, The cir
cumstanees of the case are these: A
peasant known to be sorcerer was in-
vited to wedding ceremony, and
treated with the utmost attention, in
order TO dispose him in favor of the
young couple. The conjurer, howev-
er. looked dissatisfied, and when the
young pair were lying at his feet sup
plicating his mercy, the mother Of the
bride instantly began 10 cry out as one
possessed with an evil spirit. This was
looked upon as bad sign for the new
ly-wedded couple, and their relatives
fell on the sorcerer, killed him on the
spot, and mutilated his body SO shock
ingly that it could hardly be iden-
| titled.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-05-27

DR. OCTAVE PAvY, who will accom-
pany the Howgate Polar Expedition as
surgeon, says that the explorers may be
absent six years. A portable house
win form part of the ships cargo, and
tins house will be erected in Lady
Franklin Bay. six hundred miles from
the North Pole. Well-proyisioned and
with plenty of dogs and sledges, the
party will await the favorable moment
10 strike out for the great objective
point
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-05-27

FAMED by the charm of loveliness,
the independent and virtuous spirit
amalgamates with what is earthly,
Thus il is that love deiies the dust, and
brings down upon earth that which is
heavenly.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-05-27

A NEW play by Joaquin Miller, called
Home, Sweet Home" has been per-
formed In Providence, X, l.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-05-27

TRUE merit Is like river, the deeper
il is the less noise it makes.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10
A Hungarian Tragedy.

A young Hungarian engaged coup lie
entered diapers shop in Sepsi-Szent-
Gyorgy for the purpose of buying a
wedding cap for the bride, who duly Sc
lected one to her taste, but, while her
bethrotke was paying for his purchase,
she cast her eyes upon an uncommonly
handsome kerchief, and expressed her
eager desire to possess it. The enam-
ored youth, however, peremptorily
refused to invest any more OF his capl-
tai in headgear; whereupon, after rat
ing him soundly tor his stinginess, she
abruptly turned her back upon him and
left the shop. Indignant at this pro-
ceeding, he betook himself to the dwell
ing of rival village beauty, to whom
he offered, not only his hand and heart,
but the cap he had purchased for his
former fiance, besides the many-hued
handkerchief that had awakened her
loneings. All his offerings were ac-
cepted: but his forsaken love, unable to
bear the modification inflicted upon
her by his faithlessness and the triumph
of her rival, promptly hanged herselfin
her bedroom. Considerable sympathy
was manifested with her sad tate by her
fellow villase rs, who followed her body
to the grave in large numbers, and the
tickle bridegroom, meeting the funeral
cortege as it passed down the main
street, was so stricken by remorse that
he also put an end to his life the same
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

The balloon business is going up.
If head work is so wearing, it is sur
prising how long-lived BARRIERS are.
When banks become unsteady even
the depositor is likely to lose his bal
ance.
Denmark has only l,960,670 inhabit
ants, and that is 200, 900 more than ten
years ago.
A blind boy, eight years old, in Ala
-bama, can play any air he hears, on the
violin.
An Iowa county official walked five
miles to have some one explain to him
what the fifth prox." meant.
Counterfeit trade dollars of date 1880
are circulating. The government has
issued no trade dollars this year.
The aggregate sales of the product of
the Bethlehem (Pa.) iron works for
the past year amounted to $4 10000.
Minnie Wester6eld, Of New York,
aged one year and four months, died
from facial erysipelas, caused by having
her ears pierced for earrings.
Nevada has a mountain which is
filled and covered with agates. The
nodules are dug out OF the ground like
potatoes out OF the hill. The nodules
are the shape of half an apple, and the
out side is rorgh like that of nutmeg.
San Francisco has been flooded VITA
q small thin japanese coin, worth about
three cents, but made TO do duty. 50 ex-
tensively as half-dime that Spectators
are evidently responsible for its appear
ance.
Some one with talent for economy
has discovered that the bright and
shiny appearance on black cloth and
cashmere which have been long time
in use, can be removed by spongiBg
them with ammonia; or, if that tails,
with unsweetened gin.
Philadelphia claims be the greatest
manufacturing center in the world, and
the manufacturers of textile fabrics
publish statistics showing that the
yearly productions in their Industries
amounts to $4,000 900, and of all the
citg's factories to $500 900. 900.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10

Cutting his swath in the sun, to-day,
He hears the bees on the clover hum,
He sees the birds at their darting play,
He looks where the great clouds stealthily
come,
And suddenly stays his scythe in air,
His heart in his eyes, Tor one goes there
Goes with the man she long since we'd
And the passion leaps that was dumb and dead.
On, heaven! what desolate years since then
Have written their rede on life and brow,
When she was one of the daughters OF men,
And he OF the sons OF God. And now
She walks in peace her perfect way,
And he is a vagrant cutting the hay
Cutting the honey-sweet clover blow
On the lands he lost long years ago.
What is the c. uel fate that bred
Her to honor and him to ruin
What is the pitiless power that led
Him in his strength to his own undoing?
Let the breeze blow up and the cloud roll over,
Nothing cares he tor cloud or clover;
But he blesses the grave that is just at hand,
And will give him his share of his fathers
land. --Harper'S BGSar.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10
CURRENT NOTES.

A strange combat between a man and
a fish on the French coast is reported.
A shrimp fisher named Patey remarked
black mass lying on the single a
short distance from where he was occu-
pied, went to see what it was, and found
himself in presence of an enormous wolf
fish which Immediately sprang at him.
The man had nothing but thick stick
with which to defend himself, but he
called for assistance, and, with the aid
of two other fishers, killed it with
stones. The fish, which from its we'll
armed jaws is dangerous adversary,
weighed $50 pounds.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10

Almost all the tribes in the United
States believed the thunder to be pro-
duced by the wings of a great bird, and
that the lightning was the serpents that
were invariably connected with the
thunder bird. Among the ancient
tribes of the Mississippi valley the
thunder, therefore, soon became thun-
der god, who could be propitiated with
sacrifices The Illinois Indians offered
up small dog when child happened
to be sick upon day when there was
much thunder, supposing the latter to
be cause of the malsdy- Many acct
dents, like CONGREGATIONS, were attri-
buted to this angry god, and some tribes
did bloody penance of Precipitation, often
burning to death their own children.
Statements that the Indians adored the
thunder, however, seem to be erroneous.
1t was the cause of the thunder that
they worshiped, and before which they
burned tobacco and buffalo meat, or cut
off the joints Of their fingers, or threw
their children into the fire when they
were overcome with fear. The Peru
vians had as an ideal stone that had
been split by the lightning. They,
offered it gold and silver. The ~
of Honduras burned cotton sesss
it Numbered. Other southern
made no sacrifices on the approach
storm, but abased themselves in
most a5ject fear. The wild rice bt
aquatic and looking like an arrow
spear, it is also attributed to the thur
der spirit as its origin. In Mexico great
temples were built upon the sacred spots
where the lightning had struck. A
curious notion among Peruvians was
that the preserved bodies of twin child
rem who died in infancy should be wor-
SHIPPED, supposing that one OF them was
the son of thunder, the origin OF this
idea being the fact that the thunder god
of that people was one of the celestial
twins of Apoeatequin and Piquerad.
This tradition was utilized by Pizarro's
missionaries to teach the Indians the
doctrine of the trinity.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10

The steamship Calvert, which arrived
at Baltimore recently, brought in its
cargo novel and great curiosity of the
deep known as the sea-cow. The AMI
NAL, which has head like COW, lack
ing the horns, and fins and tail like a
fish, was caught in the St. IEanie river,
Florida. 1t weighs nearly l,0u0 pounds,
and is as docile as child. The head
and back is partially covered with
coarse, black hair, the skinibeing lead
colored and very hard. The animal is
about ten feet long, with large, I'M
wieldy body not unlike that of seal,
and has large fiat tail. Since it was
captured it has been kept in large
wooden tank filled with salt water.
Not knowing at first what to feed it. on
grass was given it, which was devourcd
in large quantities.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10

Some remarkable long rsnge shooting
has lately been done at lion, N. Y. The
weapon tested was Remington mill
tary rifle Spanish modeD using seventy
five grains of powder, and 385 grains of
lead; the distance being 1900 yards, or
one mile and forty yards. To obtain
this range, the rear sight was elevated
three and one-quarter inches. AS near
as could be calculated, the bullets were
in the aira little more than five seconds.
At the distance named, they were shot
through dry two-inch spruce plank,
and imbedded tour inches in solid
earth.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10
The aymakers.

The aymakers.
In the clover meadows
Sharpened scythes are swinging.
ringlng out their merry music to the mowers
there
In the noontide shadows.
Fading flowers are flinging
fragrant dying odors to the tickle, fieeting air.
Like the fading flowers,
And as grasses wither,
Leaving only perfume to th e knocking morn.
ing breeze;
Let us all the hours
Fitting, none know WHITTIER
Breathe out lives of sweetness, though thew
be devoid OF ease.
Hither come the rakers,
Carefully to gather
Heaps of dead and well-dried foliage tor the
winters store;
So should pleasure takers,
Not dispel, but rather
Treasure hopeless memores-the withered
joys OF yore
Only in the sunshine
Will our hay be making;
Greater its dead value than when growing
fresh and green;
So mortal lifetime
Freed from all heart-aching
Finds it full fruition in the closing OF the
scene IS. T. Clark.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10
Then suddenly I remembered all,

and cried out:
"' My child my child! 1 have
killed my child!'
"Then lost consciousness for the sec
end time, and when Iawoke was in bed
and some one was seated beside me. It
was John Estey. With sharp pain at
my heart, Recognized the manly, hand
some face of the lad my girl loved. No,
had loved. Alas through her un-
natural fathers own act her sweet
young life had been made sacrifice to
a moments angry passion.
"John saw thlt l knew him, and
bending over my bed, he took my hand,
as he said:
"Are you better, captain?'
"'I do not wish to be better, an
swered if / dared to pray l would ask
the Lord to let me die But l am a
murderer-I have killed my child
dare not pray
"'Don't feel that way, Captain Gray.
How could you know what was to hap
penn
ellis gentleness-he who had such
cause to hate me-went straight to my
heart
"'John,' l exclaimed, can you for
give me for my angry wordse | see
now how wrong / was, for had moth
ing against you save that you were not
rich Oh, John. how I wish I could
put my child's hand in yours and say
take her. My daughter, my beautiful
childn
"Captain,' said John. huskily, are
you sure of that! Could she not have
been saved by some chance?'
"His tone and the expression of his
face showed me he was keeping some
thing back. john / almost shrieked,
why do you speak in that way? For
mercy's sake do not wait if you have
any good news for ne!
Then he told me how shortly after
had left, seeing that the Ellen Gray
was in port, he had gone down to the
dock, and rcwed himself over to the
ship, to try and obtain some word of
Nellie, who he knew had gone with me
on my cruise. To his surprise he had
found the ship deserted by MI OF the
crew save the cabin-boy, who told him
that Ellen was on board locked in the
cabin.
In trice he had picked the lock;
and that very day the two young peo
pie took matters into their own ha IDS,
and, going before a min Str had
plighted each other their vows
"'Nellie held back at first, said j ohn,
for she feared that you would never
forgive her But I said it would all
come right in time, and that if we waited
we might be sepa' ated forever. So she
consented
CAS- he told me al this, I, who had
always prided myself on my streng tn,
broke down and cried like baby.
"Then came step outside, and q
sweet voice had thought never to hear
again called out: Father! dear father!
and there was Nellie clasp:ng me round
the neck with both soft arms as it she
would never let me 60, and weeping and
smiling all together.
"They were happy days, and years
after that, John and Nellie came to live
with me in our cosy cottage near the
sea; and | hardly could tell which |
loved Destiny son or my daughter.
s'As to the Ellen Gray, scarcely felt
her loss at all. In my great thankful
ness that God in His mercy had kept me
from living with the dreadful thought
always before my mind that had been
my child's murderer. had not room to
mOllrn -
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10

a gentleman was promenading the
street with bright little boy at his
side, when the little fellow cried out:
"Oh, pa, there goes an editor!" 8 Hush,
hushr' said the father; "don't maj e
sport of the poor man-God only knows
what you may come to yet. n-Hubbard' s
4AdUeYtise~.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10

A French paper points out that am
nesty is more restricted than is i'm
agined. Six thousand communists who
were transported in 1871 have already
returned, and those of them who are
free from criminal antecedents have re-
sumed their full political rights.
Scarcely 500 remain in Caledonia, and
as amnesty will only restore them to the
status they held before the Commune
such of them as had previously incur
red forfeiture for life of their olitical
rights will still be under disabilities.
Sea cely 200 will be able to aspire to
seats in the chambers or local bodies,
and only twenty of these are actually
notorious, namely: NM. Rochefort,
Felix Pyat, Jules Wales, Blanqui, Trim
guet, and others.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10
evening

Our edition of Webster does not con-
tain the words which the tired editor
utters when, as he is about to go home,
the devil protrudes his head into the edi-
torial room and yells out: More
copy.'
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10

The new railway Up the sides OF
Mount Vesuvius, runs along a road
steep as ladder or a fire escape, and
$50 meters in length; but as regards
danger, it is reduced to q minimum. 1t
is not a train in which the passen ger
travels, but single carriage, carrying
ten persons only, and as the ascending
carriage starts, another, counter balanc-
ing it, comes down from the summit,
the weight of each being five tons. The
carriages are so constructed that, rising
or descending, the passenger sits on a
level plane, and whatever emotion Or
hesitation may be felt on the starting,
changes, before one has risen twenty
meters, into q feeling of perfect sec drity.
Dismounting at a little station at the
summit, you can scarcely be said to
Chamber to the edge of the crater, for the
company have cut a convenient winding
path, up which all except the aged,
heavy or feeble can walk with ease.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-10

The amount of capital which has been
sunk in the business of fire insuran ce is
much greater than is generally sup
posed. The Commercial Bulletin, which
has just investigated the mortality ex-
perience of the joint stock fire insurance
of twenty six States. shows in a pub
lished table that within ten years the
Withdrawals have reached the large
number of three hundred companies,
representing assets estimated Jas aggre-
eating some S87, 400, 900. Ofthese with
drawals, fifty-two were New York COM
panies, with assets of$18 100000. Of the
total number of companies, one hundred
or lust one third-were swept out of
existence by the Chicago and Boston
fires of 1871 and l872-leaving wo hun
dred companies whose Withdrawals
cannot be charged to any exceptional
disaster, but must be accounted for
upon the obvious general principle that
their business did not pay for the cost OF
doing it.