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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08
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4 question has asisor "A regard to ths
right or propriety of y professor Of an
agricultural college, aha consequently
An empioyo 81 the public, acquiring
personM property p exy discovery or
inyention Ae nay AaJsn to make in
sucn emp'oyment' hs facts arc as fol-
lows:
Two oi the proiessa1N a the Illinois
industrial oniversisy 49, employed in
making experiments n prodacing sugar
nom sorghum. Ihess appointments were
80 successful 'nat Fne professors nave
patented the processes used U tneif own
names and as their own properly. as
tne quession OF thP Propricty OF TINS
course mas arisen, We frincipai oi 1he
university, under my own signature, mas
publicly defended bns IN the de-
tense ne makes nso 4 the following ex-
traordinary words " regard 70 the dis'
eovery becoming pubnc property !:
Becoming punn9 property SOUNDS
well - iine senti1spt; put as sen. :.
s.mens ~ Woaia 70 3s'ss ~ nice 10 say
). .ne oear P"olic shoula own as pup
nc. an 'ne p.op4'y N tne STATE.
incipA eco.s 'ISes an nius1ratlon
WINCH compieeeiy 'aAes 'ne ground from
i ni' own ioes AZ 'ns aear Pupiic
ao reaily ana IN iacs own all the prop
ef.y IL the o'@'e' iiie apparent owners
'eins sinpay occupiefs, saplecs 70 the
e.ainen' 81 uoli"'h ana s'ghts OF the state.
Ine o'a'e c'ii' ny que process OF iaw'
.aAe possession o. aasf person S tafm OF
nouse anu plt " 70 p"Dilc uses, ana IN
every erah1 Oh ia-'o 70 an lnaivlduai TINS
preceaent r'ght Is reserved Moreover,
'ne o'ate can take Q persons property
ana nls person anu use them Tor Its own
service "neh II 'is tIpught necessary ny
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08
AN IMPORTANT NATTER.

Printers, and, to sorae extent, the
public generally, will be interested in
the following article, which appeared in
late number OF Mackeilor's Typo
graphic Advertiser: Instant ntten-
ton is called to petition prepared by
some publishing house in New York,
and addressed to the Secretary Of State,
praying for the negotiation Of treaty
with Great Bsitain to confer interna-
tional-oopyright privileges on British
and American authors. The method
proposed to accomplish the object, by
treaty instead OF open Legislative action,
is not likely to meet the approval Of the
American people. The subject should
be fully discussed in Congress, with .
searching scrutiny into its details and
bearing. Untold millions have been OK
pended in educating our people and
making them nation Of readers. This
market to British authors is conse-
quently worth immeasurably more
than the British market is to Ameri-
can authors. and the conditions are
therefore immensely unequal. Some
compensating advantage would seem to
be due to our citizens but, 10 far from
this, the treaty proposed has cunning
proviso that can only work injuriously to
n,v orticana and s,aoyox;vor- kl,c 41,;rl
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08
TIE CULTURE or FROGS. I

The "frog wlo would wooing 90 !"
b now . native Of the great republic,
and his matrimonial leap il taken across
the broad waters which separate America
from Europe. He dcscends from this
stupcndous saltatory exercise, not upon
the nnsympathetic shores Of Britain,
where his race 10 locked upon with
disdain, and even aversion, but upon
the hospitable and friendly shores Of the
new republic in France. where his kin
has been appreciated warmly by gour-
mands OF every class. The Figaro re-.
ports with much gusto the arrival of the
distinguished strangers, who are to be
introduced with due honor into the
breeding establishments which supply
the markets Of the gay capital. The
Yankee frog is quite worthy Of the
country in which his first mortal croak
is made. He is twice as big as the we'll
known inhabitant of the mashes of the
Seine, whose delicate limbs are SO eager
" bought up dy French epicures, and SO
dsintily served to tableby the cordosss
setsss or fhe Gate Anglais and the Trois
Freres. The precious consignment has
been received by the frog breeders with
unbounded joy, and it is anticipated that
q skillful treatment of the new race will
infuse fresh virtues into the stock of the
frog ponds, so that in time, by o careful
system OF propagation, the legs Of the
croakers supplied to the French restaur-
ants will rival in sizo tho legs of chick
ems, which they are said to resemble in
favor, and it will no longer be necessary
for the giver Of feast to sacrifce.a
holocaust of the expensive victims. It
seems, however, that the newcomers are
all of the ruder sex. The Yankee has
come a-wooing, and whether his
mother would let him 60 or no" is still o
doubtful point. But, at tany rate, neither
biz mother nor his sister have accom-
PANIED him to Europe. He will be we'd
ded to the wife or wives provided for
him in the French grc,.ouiilcrcs, and We
sincerely hope that he will "live happi-
ly ever afterward," and be the father of
an increasing and interesting family of
Franco-American croakersr.
Globe.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08
LOOKING FOR coxsREss.

~ -
Where's Congress? I'm looking for
Congress. ! said tall, one-eyed woman,
peering through one Of the doors of the
House Of Representatives.
rs that feller with the bald head
Congress |"
"What do You want with Congress,
any how9" demanded deputy door
keeper, grufiy. Hold on you can't
go in there"
! came from Bucks county, Penn
sylvania. to see Congress, and if you've
got It on draught anywhere around here
want some. What's the reason I can't
go in there 2"
Cause you can't. Nobody allowed
here but members.
"That red-headed man with a sor;n.
member 2"
"No; he's one Of the members, .ecra
taries. He has perfect right on the
floor"
"Is that lop-sided chap with a.wir
one Of the members?" -,
No; he's friend Of member had
pass"
whats that bare-legged boy falling
over chair? Has he got any friends2"
"He's one of the pages.
"Who is that red-nosed artist with q
sore carp Did he have pass?"
"That's messenger. He doesn't
need pass"
"What's that fellow with his legs on
a desk. Is he one of the bosses?"
"He is one of the clerks"
"Do any of them fellows pay any
taxes?"
II think not; don't know" said the
doorkeeper, indifferently.
"Now, young fellow, you want to
hunt for room to stand in while I bust
in this door. Don't fool with me, or
your friends willNthink you've been do
ing business with steam grindstone. I
pay taxes on three acres and eight pigs
in Bucks county, and Tn going through
this ere Congress like contribution
box through congregation. You just
crawl out OF sight if you don't want your
spine to change places with the next
township"
"Send for your member, and he will
pass you in"
where's the Congress from Bucks
county? Show me the Bucks county
Congress and if he don't get bill
through this town to send that hare
tipped old sky-rocket who wants to fore
close mortgage on my place to the pen
itentiary he'll wish he'd been born
tree and cut down and burned when he
was young. Point out the Congress
from Bucks county. before I have you
inside out, to see how you're put togeth-
er. Tell me can't 60 in among lot of
clerks, passes and pages! If there's a
square foot Of Congress left by the time
I reach it, it'll wish it was covered with
hair that comes out without hurting!"
They induced her to leave by telling
her that the Congress from Bucks
county" held its sessions in the Patent
Office, and she departed, threatening to
get the bill disposing Of her mortgage
through before she left town, or make
the Bucks county member think bar-
ral OF " cider had busted under him just
= .2ss .lE &c ca top CT nim."
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08
Ens MAN WITH THE 1Ros MASK.

TEE MAN WITH THE IRON MASK.
The identity Of "Tho Iron Mask" or
The Man with the Iron Mask" has
never been satisfactorily. established. !.
About the year 1879 hc was carried with
the utmost secrecy to the Castle Of Pig
nerol, and wore during the journey
black mask, which WINS not Of iron, but
of black velvet, strengthened with
whalebone, and secured behind with
steel springs, or by means Of lock, a.
some say. The orders were that il he
revealed himself he was to he killed. He
was conveyed in 1856 to tie isle Of Sainte
Marguerite, and during tho passage the
strictest watch was kept Tint he might
not allow himself to be discovered. The
unknown prisoner was in 1898 conveyed
to the Bastile, and was, as before, hid
den behind the mask. In that prison tho
captive remained until his death, in 173O.
On Nov. 90, the day after his death,
ne was buried in the cemetery OF st.
Paul, under the namo of Machioti. The
unknoYn was treated witt, the greatest
respect, but SO closely was he watched
that he was not permitted to take of his
mask even in the presence of the physi-
c'an who attended him. Many coniect-
ures nave been hazarded as to who ''The
Man with the Iron Mask" conld have
been, the one generally accepted at the
present day by those who have carefully
investigated the subject being the fol-
lowing: It is coniectured that he was a
Count Matthioli, Minister of Charles
I'LL, Duke of Mantua. This Minister
had been largely bribed by Louis XIV.
and had pledged himself to urge the
Duke to give up to the French the for
tress OF Casale, which gave access to the
whole of Lombardy. Louis found that
Matthioli was playing him false, and
lured him to the French frontier, and
then had him secretly arrested and i'm
prisoned. As he was Minister Plenipo-
tentiary at the time, his seizure was
fragrant violation of international law,
which it was safer to be able to deny
than to justify, and, when the denial
was made once, the "honor" of France
was involved i'll upholding it.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08
mn DxDx,r BURsr.

The following extract from an article
N the Boston Commonwealth gives .
good illustration Of the tremendous
power Of printers ink:
Speaking OF newspapers leads me to
say that the extended advertisement as
we know it originated with George W.
Simmons, after heystarted his coax
Hall" and it is now fully forty years
since it appeared. That enterprising
and "original" merchant wrote o
lengthy story Of his establishments
wares and sent it to the Post, with di-
rections that it should make q column
in length. The announcement YVES
revelation in the counting-room.
No such enormous advertisement
was ever heard of in that .office. MI.
nBeals wiped his spectacles and looked
at the order second time. He sent
Mr.. Slack, the quarter-of-a-century col
lector Of that Office, down to Ann street
to see if mistake had not been made.
=. s No. said Mr.. Simmons, g that iswhs4,
TWantS-a column OF space. Put it in
iuss as marked, and come down for
your money" 1t was accordingly done
As directed, and there was a sensation.
When MIR. Beals handled the first check
an payment he was about as much as.
tonished at the ease with which it was
drawn as he was when the advertise
ment came in. Everybody talked of
the rashness of the proprietor of "Oak
Hail." The street was full of clothing
stores, from Union street to Center
street. The crowd began to assemble
Mt Oak Hall, and often, by 10 o'clock,
tile store would be SO full that Mr.. Sim
mons had to lock the outside door from
inability to let in any more. Then the
cro"d loltered on the sidewalk, and
made even more commotionfort that usu-
ally quiet neighborhood. Simmons
neighbors in the trade held, at one Of
their stores, a meeting, over which Nat
Gale, now Of Chelsea, presided, to see
what they would do about this extraordi-
nary state of things. They concluded
that they couldn't do anything if Sim
mons kept on in the way he began, ex-
cept to wait and see him "burst ups
before long. The longer Mr.. Simmons
kept doing it, the longer was postponed
his explosion. The fact was, he made
an immense trade and reaped profit
correspondingly.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08

TYPE said to date from the fifteenth to
the sixteenth centuries has been found in
she French river Saone. The letters ex-
hibit great irregularity of construction,
being of all heights and having no
"nick." III place of the latter there ID
On oblique incision which showed the
compositor where was the top of the let
ter. The letters were perforated, prob
ably for the purpose of stringing num-
Der Of then together and then tying
them.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08

Shakespeare gives us more pithy say
ings than any other author. From him
we Gull: Count their chickens ere they
are hatched," "Make doubly sure"
Look before you leap" "Christmas
comes but once q year." Washington
Irving gives us the Almighty dollar.
Thomas Norton queried long ago, "What
will Mrs. Grn,dy say?" while Gold.
smith answers, ASK me no questions and
I'll tell you no fibs." Thomas Tusser, q
writer Of the sixteenth century, gives us
sits an i'll wind that turns no good, ;"
"Better late than never" "Lonk ere
you leap" and "The stone that is roll
ing will gather no moss" call cry and
no wool" is found in Buffers ]" Hudi-
bras.' Dryden says: "None but the
brave deserve the fair, J" aMen. are but
children Of the larger growth, 30 through
thick and thin" "Of two evils I have
chosen the least. /" and "The erd must
justify the means, are from lGatShew
Prior. We are indebted to Coliey Glib
ber for the agreeable intelligence that
!" Richard is himself again. Co'sper
tells Us that Variety il the spice Of
life. TO Milton we owe s The l9aadise
Of Fools. From Bacon comes Know
ledge is power, and Thomas So,rtherne
reminds US that " Pity's akin to love. "
Dean Swift thought that Pread is the
staif life" Campbell found that 'tCom-
ing events cast their shadows before, :
and 4 'Tis distance lends enchamtment
to tic View. /" "a thing of beauty IS .
joy forever" il frem Keats. Iiaashlin
says God helps those who help Them.
selves, and Lawl ence Sterns eomforta
4. viii ~ thouGht that \ God temperu
~ xihd u m shola lsnb Z
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08
F1LxAL AFFECTION.

School Board Examiner Gmproving
the occasion) :" Children, love and
honor your parents. Never give them
pain. There are two kinds Of pain
mental and physical. Now, Sally Mig
gins, il, on rising in the morning, you
found your father III and suffering great
pain, you would Be sorry, would you
not p
Sally Miggins 81 amt sorry when
father 'ayes the gout, sir !; I'm glad.
s. B. E. Glad Why"
s. Cos then he can't wear his
boots 70 / don't 'ase 10 clean am. :
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08
rHa RARrif nRylxo trs.

There is abundant evidence that the
amount Of water on the surface Of the
earth has been steadily diminishing for
many thousands OF years. No one
doubts that there was a. time when the
Caspian sea communicated with the
Black sea, and when the Mediterranean
covered the greater part of the Desertoi
Sahara. In fact, geologists tell US that
at one period the whole Of the earth was
covered by water, and the fact that con-
tinepts Of dry land now exist is proof
that there is less water on our globenow
than there was in its infancy. This dim
mutton Of our supply OF water is going
on at the present day at fate so rapid
as to be clearly apprcciablc. The rivers
and smaller streams of our Atlantic
States are visibly smaller than they were
twenty-five years ago. Country brooks
in which men now living were sccus-
toned to fish and bathe in their boy
hood have in many cases totally disap-
peared, not through any act of man, but
solely in consequence Of the failure Of
the springs and brooks which once fed
them. The level OF the great lakes is
falling year by year. There are many
piers on the shores of lakeside cities
which vessels one approached with ease,
but which now hardly reach to the edge
Of the water. Hnrbors arc everywhere
growing shallower. This is not due TO
the gradual deposit of earth brought
down by rivers Of. Of refuse frem city
sewers. The harbor OF Toronto has
grown shallow in spite Of the fact that il
has been dredged out SO that the bottom
rock has been reached, and all The dredg-
ing that can be done to the harbor of
New York will not permanently deepen
it. The growing shallowness of the
Hudson is more evident above Albany
than it is in the tide-water region, and,
III the outlet of Lake Champlain, which
was once navigable by Indian canoes all
seasons, the Upper Hudson is now almost
bare of water IN many places during tho
summer. In al. other parts of the world
there is the same steady decrease of wa
Ter in rivers and lakes, and the rainfall
in Europe, where scientific observations
are made, is manifestly less than it was
at period within mans memory.
What is becoming of the water? OBJ
viously it is not disappearing through
evaporation, for in that case rains would
give back whatever wator the atmos-
phere might absorb. We must ac-
cept the theory that, like the water of
the moon, our water is sinking into the
earth's interior.-NeW York Times.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08
CLERICAL ORATORY.

OLGAtXSAA ft13OHxs
Why do not our preachers study ora
tory? As preachers, not pastors, their
business is to work certain effect, and
all helps to its production it should be Q
part Of education to learn. Ipresume I
shall not be misunderstood to mean the
effect Of displaying self, and winning adj
miration for personal gifts. What the
true preacher seeks to do is to inform
the intellect with Christian truth; to
stir the hcart, and thereby influence the
will of his hearers. Hall the sermons
annually preached are. SO far as human
insight goes, q waste OF labor and breath.
Two things partly account for this: one
is that u ma .oriiy OF the men set to preach
are out of their real vocation good pas
tors they Ill y be, but fit preachers they
are not; another is that those with apti-
tude for preaching do not yet understand
the meuus to be employed to attain their
object.
Sometimes tho preacherhas conception
Of the needs of human ratpr. !. and knows
that the trncst truths fail to move when
put before ,ncn in . anll. dry way per
haps he docs hs beat to acquire q good
style mud succeed. IN making an ably.
written discourse. But y hen he comes
into his pulp.l to give it to his people,
where is the inpressio,, it should pro.
duce? What becomes Of his choice
| words. his considered sentencesY There
they lie upon the page he holds /; he pro.
ceeds to read them. Why do they fai
of anyresulta It is for want Of delivery,
| 81 the oratorical art Of making mere wordl
| .tsll. His faithful effort goes for little
be seems to his hearers TO be reading
something to them. - be is--not to b.
speaking - them from the heart At
l0attc,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08
/ KoGERs, nEGRETS.

Samuel Rogers was not only wealthy
banker and rural poet; he had also
keen sense Of huInor, and there was
something in the deadness Of his eoun-
.anance and the dryness Of his manner
which seemed to give additional point
to mis- sarcasms. Ills dwelling was q
!. cabinet Of art, and he kept . model
baehelors household, his servants cop
s.zians q thrss men and one woman.
When cue died Who had been long
time in his sersise kind d-hearted friend
called TO condole witla Min on tho
loss he had sustained. sspxell r, er.
claimed Rogers. after listening fosSame
time to his expressions Of sympathy, "a
don't know that feel his loss SO very
much after all. For the first seyen years
lie was an obiiging servant; for tie sec
ond seven years an agreeable compan:.
ion; but for the last seven he was 4 nj
ranlical muster. 49,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08
TW0 oHI0 GIANTS.

Capt Martin Van Buren, Bates, who
lives on alarm near Seville, Ohio. isseven.
feet eleven and onc-half inches hieh. ana
weighs 47S pounds. Mrs. Bates il seven
feet and eleven inches high and weighs
4l3 pounds. 1t is difficult matter to
convoyan adequate idea OF the proper
tions d such q dwelling as the one oocu-
pied by tho Ohio giants. A door that is
six feet six inches high is o Iarge-sixed
openDg in the side Of house-that is.
n dvslling house, not q cathedral. But
heloors in the domicile of the Bates
gia.ts are ten feet high, and the knobs
arc clearly as high rs the average mans
he'd.
The house Was built by Capt Bates
irl~-,, ,.aA is Elegantly Furnished. IL
q, e-.", b ,sia1ss os$the ground moor
aE,t b.-iics the spacious hall, the bed
,}imber Of the giants, q sitting-room
ani a parlor. The couch upon which
the big couple sleep was made expressly
for them, and it is curiosity to look at.
1t Is extensive enough to give the great
people II IN to stretch in, and it looks
as big as an ordinary-sized floor. It is
really ten ieet long, wide i'll proportion,
nd about twice as high as common
led. The magnificent dcessing-case is
l.4o huge affair, with glass upon it
nearly as big as the side of house. In
the siting-room is piano OF ordinary
size itself, but it is mounted on blocks
two feet high, so that the instrument is
away up in the air, out of tho reach of
common folks. There are two rocking
chairs in this room that are so big that
the reporter lad to climb up into one of
them the same as an infant would
Chamber up into a "high chair" It is
very expensive for the giants to live. as
they have to pay such an exorbitant
price for everything they Wear. For in
stance, it costs the Captain $50 pair for
boots.
1t is most astonishing sight to come
across the two giants out for a drive.
City folks who have seen the ponderous
wagons with wheels reaching to the sec
ond story Of house, used to haul stones
weighing tops and tons, can form an idea
of the vehicle used. 1t is pulled by six
stout Norman horses. and it is enough to
make man think he has got 'em, sur,,
tosuddenly meet such spectacle ON the
road out in the country. Passing wagons
have to let the rails down and drive
into the adjoining fields until the giants
60 by.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08
a RUDE FOLK.

The Sicilians are rude folk, if judged
by their proverbs, some Of which are
printed in the Paris Debats, as follows
"He who hasn't wife knows not the
devil.
4, g A woman who goes to every tetc, and
mule that drinks at every fountain, is
no good. Z
" He who gets married is contented
for day he who kills pig has enough
for year.
z Sod keep thee from man who looks
ON the ground, and . woman who looks
at the sky. "
sThere is only one devil. and he has
100 wives.
g Women have devil for every hair.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08

A LEADING oculist Of Boston is report
ed as saying that he has more patients
from the Law School at Cambridge than
from any other source. II must not be
supposed from this that the young men
injure their eyes by excessive appica-
ton. The bad ventilation and gas
heated air Of the lecture rooms cause
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08

A DANBuRY man tells good story Of
his aunt. who is a model housekeeper
and . scrupulous stickler for u good
table. The Clergyman called near the
dinner hosr. and was pressed to stayfor
the meal. At the table there was .
good supply Of well-prspared food. but
tho lady felt compelled 10 mako many
apologies for imaginary deficiencies. In
tho grace thu clergyman asked our
Heavenly Father 70 blass tho frugal
nlcai. !" Thia ,aa.1A ~ leslv veyv mad.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08

IT is said that the cost of living for
collegemen at Harvard who make their
appearance in the beet society is not less
than 81, 500, year, and at Yale it is
81, 200. This is not for extravagant in
diyiduals either, but for those who aro
quite moderate in their desires.