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The National tribune., 1883-02-22
The Infancy of the Locomotive.
From the N. Y. Sum.

In his lecture last evening on "The Growth
of the Locomotive Engine" before the En-
gineering Society of the School of Mines at
Columbia College, Prof. F. Z. Hutton told the
story of race between Peter Ceoper's engine
and an old gray car horse more than half a
century ago. He said that one of the chief
obstacles to the attainment of high speed in
those days was the lack of a sufficient draught
through the fire box. In the stack of Peter
Cooper's small experimental engine, the fues of
which were made of gun barrels, was fan
wheel run by belt to increase the draught.
With this Device it was thought that the loco
motive would outrun the car horse, and race
was arranged, the engine and the horse car to
run ON parallel tracks The start was even the
lecturer said, but the engine soon began to
draw away from the nag. The distance was
increased, and the prospect of brilliant VIC
tory for the locomotive was all that could have
been desired, when the belt slipped off from the
fan wheel. Peter Cooper lacerated his hands
in an attempt to read Just the belt, but it proved
fruitless, and instead of distancing the old gray
horse, his locomotive and the experienced nag
came in neck and neck.
Among the pictures thrown upon the screen
was that of the locomotive, BEST Friend"
which was used on the Charleston and Ham
burg Railroad in 1880. The position of the
negro fireman was well up in front, and the
noise of steam escaping from the safety valve
annoyed him. He invented method of doing
away with the annoyance. 1t consisted of
pulling the valve rope taut and sitting On it.
1t worked till the boiler burst, and the darkey
was blown out of the companys employ.
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
The Handsomest Lady in the Cabinet.

Mrs Brewster is ths handsomest woman in
the Cabinet parterre. Perhaps you have heard
of the romantic life of this elegant woman,
who would shine in any society in any land.
She was the daughter of Robert J. Walker, at
one time Secretary of the Treasury. She ao-
companied Admiral and Mrs. Semmes to Eu-
rope, and fell in love with French gentleman,
one NJ. Delon. A marriage followed, and re-
pentance came only too soon, but not before a
daughter and two sons were born. The un-
happy marriage was terminated by Delon's
death, and the widow, poor in purse, was given
a position in the Department over which her
father once had control The present Attorney
General-always an admirer of beauty in
women-met her and offered her his hand and
his wealth and his name for herself and her chill
dren. "Yoa are beautiful" he said, "and l am
hideous, but it will not be the first instance of
the mating of beauty and the beast, and, al
though you may never love me, you shall never
regret marrying me-" The three children took
the stepfather's name. Andre became Andew,
Marc, Mamie But the younger boys name
has escaped my memory at this writing. All
have been well cared for and have had every
kindness bestowed upon them. There has
been only one issue of the present marriage, a
boy of whom his father is extrayagsntly fond.
/ saw picture of the two taken together, the
face of the brilliant man with the terrible
scars which he will bear to his dying day, and
the fresh, sweet face of the boy beside him.
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
General Sberman's BoyhOod.

I was talking to General Sherman last week
about his early days in Lancaster, Ohio. He
said that his mother had only 5000 income when
her husband died, and eleven children on her
hands, and that Thomas Ewing, ST., having ex-
perienced some kindness from Sherman's
father" though" said General Sherman, " my
father did not begin to have the ability Of
Ewing"-the latter told Mrs. Sherman he
wanted to bring up one of the boys as his own.
She was loatb to lose any one of them, but
Ewing insisted and thought of taking two
others, respectively. "But," said the General
with grunt of laughter, they said / was the
smartest and he must take me-" "Was Secre-
tary Ewing man to give much time to children
/ asked?" " No." answered General Sherman ;
"but he was very just man. He was steady
and unwavering where he made up his mind to
help anybody. l took my chance with the rest
of the boys, was treated neither better nor worse
and he sent me to West Point. He was one of
the greatest men of his country" said Sherman.
"He was an ingrained Whig, and when Harrison
was elected, that old general was mere shell
and was entirely the construction of the posi-
tive spirits like Thomas Ewing, who rallied
about him and held him up" Said I Gen
eral, that march of yours to the sea was q very
big thing" "PshawI" said Sherman. "going
to the sea was not the thing at all. That took
me too far on my right flank. The genius of
that march was after left Savannah, when i
went right straight for Joe Johnston's army,
and there should have gone in the first place
but for political and popular belief that must
communicate with the fleet and get provisions" f"
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Little Something About What is Going On in the
Religious World.

Little Something About What is Going On in the
Religious World.
Arrangements for the work of Moody and
Sankey in London in the autumn are already
making.
The Episcopal Church papers are urging the
celebration of the centennial of the Church
this year.
There is good prospect that the Methodist
Foreign Missionary Society will be the first to
establish Mission in Corea.
DR.. Benson, the new Archbishop of Canter-
bury, has been elected President of the Church
Of England Temperance Society.
The Methodists are making such efforts in
Italy as will soon place them in the van of
evangelizing churches there.
Sunday school boy gave the following
definition of faith: 1t is feeling perfectly sure
of a thing when you have nothing to back it
up"
Some of the better class Of Jews in Roumania
are making up colonies for Palestine. More
than fifty colonies have gone within the last
six months.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks who is in India
writes to friend in Boston that "the sun
never warmed dearer part of the earth's crust
than America"
When Mr.. Moody had his photograph tax en-
recently, he had only about a dozen copies
printed for his family and closest friends and
then bought the negative.
An English lady residing in Greece gave
number of soldiers in the Greek army copies of
the New Testament, and the Greek govern
ment has compelled the soldiers to return them.
Christian churches in India and Ceylon are
slowly becoming self-supporting. Of the sew
enty -one churches in those countries connected
with the American board, fifty receive nothing
from its treasury.
John, Scotehman, meeting James, was
asked if he knew a certain Peter. Ken
Peter?" said he, =" Hoots, man fine dae ken
him. Him and mes sleepit thegither in the
same kirk for the last twenty years"
The British and Foreign Bible Society are to
print portion of Scripture translated into the
language of the Gallas, in East Africa, by Rev.
Thomas Wakefield, missionary of the United
Methodist Free Church. He is also busy in
the transiations into two other native dialects
General Halderman, the American Minister
to Siam, presented the American missionaries
in Bangkok to the king recently. His maj
esty expressed his appreciation of their labOrs
to promote the moral and intellectual welfare
of his people, and, although Buddhist, promised
tG tolerate all religions that had such ends in
view.
There are $4,000 places of religious worship
in England and Wales, having about $4,000, 900
sittings. The average attendance on Sundays
is about 100000. The stated mipisters of
religion number $4,000, of whom $4,000 are Of
the Established Church. On every Sunday
there are delivered $4,000 sermons, or 1900, 900
every year. There are 100000 children in
the Sunday y-schools, for whom they are 100000
teachers There is stated minister for every
zoo persons or l40 families place of worship
for every 500 persons or 100 families, and
communicate for every eight of the population.
The annual cost for maintaining religion in the
Kingdom is fl6, 900 sterling.
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
FROM GRAVE TO GAY,
Incidents and Anecdotes, with Dash
of Hum0r Thrown In.
One of the Results Of the War.
from the atlanta Constitution.

In ante-war times there lived in Meriwether
county dOn't-care sort of negro, named Jack
Wilson. who could neither read nor write. He
had gained his freedom in some way or Other,
and gained his livelihood by acting rs a sort of
director general to famous horses in his neigh
borhood. Jack became attached to a servant
girl who was owned by man named Gates,
one of the wealthiest men in Georgia, who
owned thousands of acres of land. and with his
family lived in lordly style. The servant girl
was a bright mulattO, and Jack was shade
darker. They made match of it, and were
married under the order of things that existed
in war times. At the same time Jack had a
slave-time wife in Virginia, but she was as
black as coal. When the war closed and the
slaves were declared free, Jack took his Georgia
wife to be his partner for life, and by living
with her for stated period she became his
wife according to law. As soon as he was mar
ried Jack showed a sudden spirit of industry
thai astOnished everybody. His careless habits
were thrown aside, and he went to work with
a will The wealthy Gates died. and the broad
acres fell to the possession of the heirs. Jack
worked on the place, and was saving and care
full. The Gates family had lost everything ex-
cept their land. Hundreds of slaves were freed
by the new order of things and the vast and
princely fortune was gone. The heirs could
not adapt themselves to the situation. Finally,
pressed, they sold fifty acres of land to Jack !;
tueu lucy "dultu HolO hIOuOg5 anu JAIN Stoou
their security at the LaGrange Bank, and
when they were unable to pay he would take
UP the notes at bank and trade for piece of
the Gates plantation. He worked with a
vengeance, and ali his family worked. Old
man Jack became noted and honored citizen
of the county. He was industrious and pros
pered. In the mean time his old masters
children continued to sell him parts of the old
homestead. Finally he owned it all and was
rich Three wears ago he decided that it was
his duty to provide for his old Virginia wife,
so he sent for her, and she with her children
came to him. She was given a house on the
plantation, and is well provided for. Jack
owns now the magnificent place of about 1,500
acres. His credit at the LaGrange Bank is
good, and he can borrow all the money he
wants on his simple note of hand.
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
Telephoning by a Beam Of Light.

From the Cincinnati Commercial GdSettsl
Prof Alexander Melville Bell, father Of Mr..
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the
Bell telephone, and his brother, Mr.. Charles
James Bell, of Toronto, Canada, have been in
the city since Monday. In the course of q
half-hour talk yesterday Prof. Bell said:
"I have heard sounds conveyed by beam Of
light"
"Articulate sounds2"
eyes, words. No practicable application has
yet been made of this, but there|w be-"
How did you manage it?"
1t was in Boston. The wires were stretched
from the top of the Institute of Technology to
some other high building, the name of which
escapes me. The suns rays were received in q
parabolic reflector. My son spoke against the
back of diaphragm, the front of which was
silvered. The vibrations of the voice created
vibrations in the diaphragm, and consequently
in the rays of light reflected from the mirror,
and these shaped themselves into articnlate
sounds"
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
Thirty.two Years in Search of a Wife.
IFrorn The ". T. SUM-

Richard Zeigler, colored, residing in the State
of North Carolina, recently received tidings of
his wife, from whom he has been separated for
thirty two years. He has been looking for her
ever since the war. She was sold by slave
traders and he gradually lost all trace of her
whereabouts. Lately he received telegram
from her in Georgia. and started for that
State to bring her back. He is sixty years
old, and has saved money and spent it literally
in his search. When he received the telegram
he wept for joy. He has called meeting of
his grand children, and next week will have q
big reunion.
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
Why Burdette Swore OF.
[Fro1n the Piitsburg Post. ]

at may be news to you since you have in
vited me to SMILE" said Mr.. "BOb" Burdette,
the humOrist, to reporter, the other day, that
| have become a total abstainer / reduced
the matter to figures and found out that to each
man is allotted one barrel of whisky; and by
close calculation, discovered that had drank
a barrel and half. In other words, had
drank my own and half of some other mans
barrel. l am too honest to rob anybody, cspec-
tally of the whisky we get nowadays, and there
fore have quit drinking whisky entirely"
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from practice, hay.
ing had placed in his hands by an East India
missionary the formula of simple vegetable
remedy tor the speedy and permanent cure for
Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and
all throat and lung affections, also positive
and radical cure for nervous debility and ali
nervous complaints, after having tested its
wonderful curative powers in thousands Of
cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to
his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive
and a desire to relieve human suffering, l viii
send free of charge, to all who desire it, this
recipe, in German, French, or English, with
full directions for preparing and using. Sens
paper, w A. cloxtss, t4S Poausss Block, Rochester,
n T.
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
A Novel Case Of FIlisI Devotion.

ff0fn The S. Louis Globe DemOcrdt.l
There is boy. eight years old. whose parents
live in White county, Ark. They are highly
esteemed citizens, and people of decided culture
and refinement. The boy has never been
heard, nor can he be induced by any means, to
utter his fathers name or address him even in
directly. His strategy is more than equal to
both his parents and the other members Of tho
family, who have laid all manner of plans to
force him into single utterance of his fathers
name. Upon one occasion they planned not TO
get him any boots until he asked for them like
the others, but this was a failure also, for he
went on through the snow with his bare feet just
as though he were in calfskn to his knees. He
has profound respect for his father, and will
follow him about the farm for whole day at n
time
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
An Honest Count.

A mans wife in Hart county, Ga has given
birth to twenty-one children, and has been so
unfortunate as to raise every one of them. We
heard one of the neighbors say he was at their
house when storm was coming up. The old
lady blew the horn for the children, and she
stood and counted them as they came in.
Somehow she made the number twenty-five.
This mystified her, and she declared that she
couldn't remember having but twenty-on In
order to satisfy herself, she turned them all
out in the storm and let them in one at a time.
She acted as teller while the visitor kept the
tally sheet.
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
Twenty Years After.

From the Syracuse Daily Journal.
Colonel Cribben, of the Chicago firm of Crib
ben, Sexton & CO., dealers in stoves, was in
Merriam & Gregorys store, this morning, when
Colonel James NJ. Gere entered. As each gszed
upon the other, there was mutual reeOgni-
tion, though they had not met before in almost
twenty years, and then under the most trying
circumstances. They were prisoners of war
together at Columbia and Macon, and made
their escape together. They did not stop to
find easy chairs, but at once sat down on nail
kegs, and for couple of hours they appeared
lost to all that was going on about them. They
met like a couple of long lost brothers.
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
Begin Early i'm Life

TO cleanse the teeth with SOZODONT, and you
will be repaid in maturer years and very prob
ably in age by the possession of sound molars
and incisors, which will give you more
youthful look than you would otherwise have
and enable you to chew without incurring the
penalty of toothache. And when you have
children, use the same fragrant preparation
and they will have ample cause TO be grateful
to you. Don't omit it for single day.
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
MINDLESS Rain.
lBy Paul H. Hayne.]

The rain, the desolate rain!
Ceaseless and solemn and chilli
How it drips on the misty pane,
How it drenches the darkened sill
o scene of sorrow and dearth!
Iwould that the winds awaking
To a fierce and gusty birth,
Might vary this dull refrain
OF the rain, the desolate rain.
For the heart Of the heavens seems breaking
In tears DER the fallen earth,
And again, again, again,
We list to the sombre strain
The faint cold monotone,
Whose soul is mystic moan
OF the rain, the mournful rain,
The soft, despairing rain.
The rain, the murmuring raini
Weary, passionless. slow;
"Tis the rythm of settled sorrow,
The sobbing of careless woeI
And all the tragic of life,
The pathos of long ago,
Comes back on the sad refrain
OF the rain, the dreary rain;
Till the graves in my heart unclose,
And the dead who are buried there,
From a solemn and weird Tepose
Awake, and with eyes that glare
And voices that melt in pain,
On the tide of the plaintive rain,
The yearning, homeless rain,
The long, low, whispering rain!
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
"What Shall 1 Dream About, Mammal"
fBy CharG Br0ughton.


"What shall dream about mamma?
Tell me some lovely and pleasant things"
" green meadow frosted with dasieS white,
Where butterflies futter on yellow wings.
"Dream of a little brook that lies
Graded in leaves and messy stones,
Like a sweet child lying with half-shut eyes,
1t smiles and murmurs In low, soft tones.
"Gently its waves DER the pebbles creep,
Anon it will dance in the SUMS bright beams,
But now-little rogue. he Is fast asleep;
May the broOklet murmur all through hi
dreamstn
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
Only Fourteen by me. Mr.. Jenes.

"Reminiscences, &c, baroness BlOoHlfeld.I
81 dined at Montagu House last night and
had the pleasure of meeting the Bishop Of Ok
ford Samuel Wilberforce). was told funny
story about him the other day, viz, that when
he was dining with large party poor Gu
rate who was deploring the large family he had
to educate with a very small income, said; DO
you know, my lord, have nineteen childrenP
Upon which very red-faced woman with
squesky voice exclaimed, Only fourteen by
me, Mr.. JonesP"
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
TOombs and Longstreet.
[Fro. The Richmond (Va.) Dispateh.I

From ge Richmond (Va.) Dispdtehl
The mention of Senator Toombs in the Sem
ate by Mr.. Vest has revived war anecdOte Of
him. Some one having informed him that
General Longstreet intended to arrest him, he
drew up to his full stature and exclaimed:
"That man arrest mel Why, when l write the
history of this great struggle his name shall
not even appear in parentheses."
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
A Relic Of the Confederacy.

Atlanta (Ga.) special to N. Y. Tinses.l
To-day, while the closet of an old building
was being cleaned out, an electrotype plate, 6
inches by s. was found. An impression was
taken, and it was found to be die for Confed-
crate ten cent stamps, having vignette of JEFF
Davis A large number was printed and dis
tributed as relics. The closet had not been
touched for 18 years, at which time it was in
the possession of Thomas Grady, ROW dead, so
there is no means of knowing how it came
there. One gentleman offered 81 900 for the
relic.
The National tribune., 1883-02-22

solid piece. On each end and on the sides were
men with regular raft-Oars to keep it in the
channel, and in the centre was United States
flag floating in the breeve. The ice-raft was
landed at the foot of North Market street and
is now being taken out.
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
An Ice Raj. Five Niles Long.

[From The 81. louis Post Dispateh.l
novel scene on the river to-day was the
arrival from Wood River twenty miles north
of here, of raft of ice over five miles long.
The ice was about six inches thick aud one
The National tribune., 1883-02-22
To COnsumptiyes,

or those with weak lungs, splitting Of blood,
bronchitis or kindred affections of throat or
\angs, send two stamps for DR.. r. V. Pierces
satise ON these maladies. Address the doctor,
Salo, n. Y.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-10-05

To-day will be a successful day.
The weather is propitious, there is no
dust, Gen. Williams speaks, the stock
sale comes off, the programme is at
tractive and interesting and every
thing conduces to make the occasion
enjoyable.
There are no better Commercial
Schools in the West than Messrs.
Wright and Ranks Commercial Col
lege located at Evansville, Ind. They
will have more students this winter
than ever before. Several Christian
county boys are now there and still
others are expected to go.
Workmen engaged in grading Will
liam street not far from the
old Montgomery house, dug up
a box yesterday evening. 1t contain
ed decomposing flesh and sensation
al story was at once started that il
was a childs remains, but an exami-
nation developed the fact that it was
the corpse of a dog which some kind
master had honored with interment,
Our drawing on next Saturday
will be perfectly fair and just to all
our subscr. bers. Tags correspond
ing to the names will be placed in one
box and tags representing the prices
numbered from i to so, will be put
In another box. Two little children
will DC selected from the audience tt
draw them out. A number will bt
drawn from each box Simultaneous!
until the so prizes are drawn, and thu
tickle, holder whose number is draw
will be entitle to the prize cores
ponding to the premium ticket drawn
| No one knows or can know who TIN
lucky ones will be until the number
are drawn.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-10-05
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