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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-06-07
The Action Of the Michigan Legis.
lature.

The members of the Michigan Legis-
lature were highly appreciative of the
graceful presentation of flowers to every
man who voted for the Educational bill.
As their eyes caught sight of those elo-
quent tributes, these who were the
fortunate recipients were touched even
to tears, one of them saying to the
ladies' Il must thank you for this, it
was so unexpected; and when read the
card. could not keep the tears back to
think our work has been so appreci-
ated." But the unfortunates, those
who voted wrong, were in high dud-
geon, and representative of this small
class went so far as to say: ''What
have the women to do with this bill?
what business have they to be meddling
with this?' All, gentlemen of the
Legislature, you could not have touched
women's hearts more deeply than to
provide such a fortifcation of good
teaching for the boys who are assaulted
on every hand, even on their way to the
school-house.
The following is the full text of the
law:
The District Board shall specify the studie,
to he pursued in schools of the district: Pro
rided dilO1ys. That provision shall be made for
instructing al pupts IN eUeTp school in physi-
ology and hygiene. with special reference to
the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and
narcotics generally upon the human system.
No certificate shall be granted any person to
teach in the schools of Michigan who shall not
pass a satisfactory examination after Sep
tember ], 1884, in physiology and hygiene with
particular reference to the effects of alcoholic
drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the
human system Chap. 3. Sec. Is.
If ''all pupils in every school, in all
the States were being taught as this law
requires, how long would the Temper
ance question remain an unsolved prob
lem in this countryP-Uaion Signal.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-06-07
The Other Sort Of Swindler.

There were six or eight of us in the
smoking-car as the train was running
down to West Point from Atlanta, and
everything was lovely until the seventh
man got on at small station. He had
no sooner entered the car than he looked
fixedly at the man who had been telling
us snake stories, and directly he walked
up to him and called out:
"Ha! you Internal swindler, I've
found you at lastn'
"Who's a swindler?"
"You are!''
81 never saw you beforer'
You're liar, and I'm going to
pound eighteen dollars worth of cash
out of your
1t was presently discovered that he
recognized the snake-story man as a
fruit-tree agent who had sold him some
grape-vines which did not show up, and
he was splitting on his hands and making
ready to do the pounding, when the
other remarked:
"My dear fellow, 1 insist upon it that
you are mistaken. / was never in the
fruit-tree business, and Inever swindled
you out of eighteen dollars"
Il say you did"
"Never! Instead of swindling you out
of eighteen dollars on grape-vines, am
the man who charged you sixteen dollars
too much for sewing machine, and
here's your money!
"Well, now, come to look more close
ly at you, 1 believe you're right" said
the seventh man.
"Of course I'm right" growled the
other, as he counted out the money,
"and / warn you TO be little more
careful in future. / have reputation
to sustain, and grapevine swindles are
not in my line. Here's your sixteen
dollars, and now / think you ought to
apologizer'-DetroI Free Press.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-06-07
Temperance.
VINO HATH SORROW?

Who hath sOrrows, who hath woes?
He who to the ale-hOuse goes.
Who hath hghtings and contentious,
Grief and fearful apprehensions,
Causcless wounds, n guilty sOulI
He who thirsts for alcohol
Follows il to ruins brink
In his cravings after drink.
Who hath babblings? Who but they
Led by alcohol astray-
IdiOtic in their talking,
Lame and crippled in their watkins
Who are these with eyes so red,
Vile, besotted, reason fiedI
Those are they who tarry long,
Drinking wine and liquor strong.
Look not on the ruby wine
When its color seems divine;
Death is in that sparkling cup,
Never dare to take II up,
For at last the serpent's trail
And the adder's sting prevail.
Therefore on the goblet frown-
Spurn the liquor, dash it down.
-TeDds Sfftings.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-06-07

Mrs. Sarah Ray, a washerwoman
of Leadville, and the first female who
dared set foot in the place. has amassed
fortune of 81 900, 900 by investing her
earnings in mining shares, Denver
Tribune
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-06-07

The highest sum realized by George
Eliot for any one of her later works wa
$4,000, while the lowest she received
was $4,000.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-22
LILY AND VIOLET.

The lily blooms in gay parterre, the violet in the
shade;
But each is sweet, and most complete, whereer its
lot is laid.
And what is true of plant and flower holds good of
lord and churl,
The lady in her palace halls or lowly village girl
Within her lofty castle home grew up fair Lily
Vane,
As pure and stately as the flower from which she
took her name.
Yet gentle was the maid, and good like gold with
out alloy;
With every crcing year that passed, her parents
pride and joy.
And modest Violets mother kept the lodge beside
their gate;
She learned betimes to knit and sew, content in
No gold or gems to deck her hair, no silken robe
had she
loving heart and true was all the dover of
Violet Lee.
These Maiden-fiowers grew, and waxed more sweet
from day to day;
Each in her place the lesson learned to love, to
work and pray.
They learned to smile at others joy, to weep with
others woe,
To cheer the heart and raise the head with sorrow
dropping low.
Fair Lily in her lordly halls became Baron's
bride;
Sweet Violet humbly labored by her peasant-hus-
bands side.
Pure Lily's sway was felt among the great ones of
the earth
Sweet Violet cheered with heart and hand her
lowy cottage hearth.
the same
faithful heart serves God and man, in lady as III
DAME
SO, like the flowers whose name they bore, when
past life's Summer day,
A fragrance from their lives they left that ne er
shall pass away.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-22
The Travelling Cure.
Norman Lockyef in Nature.

Norman LOckyef In Nature.J
Three years ago when travelling in Amer
lea, one morning, at little station-we
were approaching the Rocky Mountains
was astonished to see very old and vener-
able French cure in his usual garb enter the
the car. and as he was evidently in some
distress Of mind, and as evidently had little
command of English, I asked him in his
native language If could be of any service
to him. There was difficulty about box
which soon settled, and then we sat down
and entered into conversation. He soon
found out that was very much astonished
to see him there, and told me so. I ac-
knowledged 1t. 1T is very simple" he said
II am very old, and six months ago was
like to die, and was doing my best to pre-
pare myself for the long journey. In my
fancies 1 imagined myself already in the
presences of le bon Dieu, and fancied this
question addressed to me: M. le cure, how
did you like the beautiful world you have
left !" I rose in my bed as this thought
came into my head, for II who-fgure to
yourself-had dared to preach of better
world for fifty years, was, oh so ignorant of
this. And l registered VOW that if le bon
Dieu allowed me to rise from that bed of
sickness would spend the rest Of my life in
admiring his works-et me vOici! I am only
on my journey round the world. I am 60
ing now to stop at the Yosemite Valley few
days ell route for San Francisco and Japan,
and the box, monsieur, which your kindness
has rescued for me, contains little scien-
tific library, now my constant companion in
my delicious wanderingS."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-22
Teach Your Boys.

Teach them that true lady may be found
in calico as frequently as in velvet
Teach them that common school educa-
ton, with coD.mon sense, IS better than a
college education without it.
Teach them to respect their elders and
themselves.
Teach them that, as they expect to be
men some day, they cannot too soon learn to
protect the weak ones.
Teach them by your own example that
smoking in moderation, though the least OF
vices to which men are heirs, is disgusting
to others and hurtful to themselves.
Teach them that to wear patched clothes
is no disgrace, but to wear black eye is.
Teach them that by indulging their de-
praved appetites in the worst forms OF dis
sipation, they are not fitting themselves to
become the husbands of pure girls.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-22
A New EnOch.
BROOKLYN Eagle.

"What're you doing here?" demanded a
policeman of chap whom he had caught
peering in at the window of Furman street
house last night
"Nothin,," replied the man, jamming his
hands in his pockets and gazing up at the
sky.
"Didn't hear a woman yelkin that house
few minutes ago?" continued the police
man.
"Should't wonder" returned the man, care
lessly. I'm fact, know you did, for heard
her myself"
What's going on in there ?" queried the
policeman, peeping IN.
II guess he's licking my wife," suggested
the stranger
"Do you live here ?" asked the policeman
in some astonishment
II used to, but I kinder fell out o. the
habit lately" was the Indifferent response.
What kind of a man are you to stand out
here and let another man lick your wife?'
demanded the policeman.
Il think he can do it better than I can,
growled the stranger. II never had any luck
at that kind of a job, and if there's any one
who can make success Of it Pm not going
to interfere with his fun, now you bet"
"Who is the man." Do you know him ?"
"Never saw him BEFORE" replied the
stranger. "Iguess he and she thinks he's her
husband"
"And it's your wife?"
"Sure! Only I've been away long time
-shipwrecked, you know-and I just got
home. I saw 'em at it, and thought 1
wouldn't interfere"
"Do you want me to arrest him ?" inquired
the policeman, contemplating the returned
husband with anlazement.
"Just as you like" returned the other !;
"only don't you mention my name in the
matter"
"But don't you propose to do anything
about it ?"
"Well, now, you just bet Just as soon as
that man winds off that job he's going to be
dry, and if I've got quarter anywhere he's
going to get drink, and don't you interfere !;
now, you hear me?"
And the policeman strolled off down the
silent street, while Enoch, bending low his
chin upon the window that contained Annie,
absorbed the scene, then turned him round
as Philip came the while little ahead of a
fiat iron and took him by the arm. And so
they went, and Annie left alone wot not
that Enoch had been so near and had him
shekels in his pocket wherewith to assuage
the grief of Philip.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-22
TERRA.COTTA LUMBER.
The New Building Material that is
Largely Used as a Substitute
for Wood.

| A party of persons, chiefly builders and
scientists, recently visited the works of the
New York Terra-Cotta Lumber Company al
Crows Mill, on the Raritan River, neal
Perth Amboy, N. J. The New York Terra
Gotta Lumber Company was recently formed
for the manufacture of the material from
which it receives it's name. Terra-Cotta
lumber was invented and patented by Mr.
G. C. Gilman, of Eldora, Iowa, President OF
the company, and is made by mixing the
kaolinite or top" clay, which is found in
immense quantities throughout Middlesex
county, with sawdust until the consistency
of dough is obtained, when it is cast in large
square blocks and burned in kilns in man
ner similar to that Of ordinary brick. The
result is peculiar terra-cotta ware possess
ing peculiar properties. 1t has no fibrous
texture like wood, the strength of the ma
terial arising from incipient vitrifaction, OBJ
tanned in firing, and half-inch boards made of
it, smoothly planed and jointed, show greater
tenacity than dry oak of equal thickness
Every shape which can be given to wood by
edge tools can be given to terra-cotta lum-
Der. It is as easily worked as pine or
spruce, is half the weight of building brick
and tightly retains plastering without the
the aid of lathing. To display the resistent
qualities of terra-cotta lumber to fire and
water the furnace-tender, with long pair
of steel tongs, took from the centre of the
furnace small block of the ware which had
attained a white heat and plunged it into a
pail of water. After cooling it was placed
on forge and the water with which it was
saturated expelled in the form of steam
petroleum was next poured over it and after
wards ignited, the block continuing to burn
with steady flame for several minutes
Subsequent examination of the block by
saving into it showed no difference in ap-
pearance from other material which had not
been submitted to so severe test.
The adaptability of terra-cotta lumber for
building purposes, by the ease with which
it can be worked, its lightness, its indie
structibility by water, frost, gases and, above
all, fire, has already attracted the notice of
architects, and the demand for it largely
exceeds the present supply. The New York
Terra Gotta Company have an extensive fac
tory fitted with powerful machinery, but
their present output isaltogether inadequate.
The company has therefore purchased the
Potter estate, adjoining its present site, and
has begun the erection of plant estimated
to cost 100000, with capacity of daily
output of 100 tons of finished work. The
roof of Columbia College is to be constructed
of the new material and the company have
an order to supply $4,000 tons of it to Mr..
Jose F. Navarro for use in the apartment
houses now in course OF erection by him at
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth streets and
Seventh avenue.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-22
A Human Ostrich.
London Truth. /

London Truth.
The hospitals of Italy are resolved not to
be outdone if they can help it by those OF
Paris, and they are beginning to announce to
the world the living wonders of which they
are the happy pOssessors. At Cremona for
instance, the object of interest is not sleep
ing girl, or fasting man, or giant with
twenty-inch feet who cannot walk, but a
young man who has developed an attack of
pleurisy by his peculiar liking for the diet
which ostriches are supposed chiefly to affect.
From the age of twelve this man of strange
appetites has been feeding freely and with
out any particular bad effects, upon pebbles,
iron nails and knobs of glass. His capacity
for swallowing and accommodating these OBJ
iects within him was only developed by a
considerable course of training, and it was
not until he was about fifteen that the youth
felt qualified to make public displays OF his
art. But by diligent practice he steadily i'm
proved His most usual method was to take
glass balls of convenient size, well smooth
ed or polished, so that there should be no un-
pleasant friction as they passed down the
throat and other internal passages. By de-
grees he became able to eat from fifteen to
twenty pebbles day. each weighing about
three ounces and having diameter OF two
and half inches Nails could not be quite
so readily accommodated; and 1t was con-
sidered good practice to take dozen or two
of them measuring three inches length and
a third of an inch in diameter at the head.
He has, however, when in good form, and
supplied with plenty of thick soup to wash
them down, been known to do twenty-five
such nails at sitting; and the perform
ances are said to have been attested to the
satisfaction of DR.. Cosoi, the Chief of the
Cremona Hospital and other medical men.
On the whole, it is perhaps less surprising
that he should now be suffering from pleu-
risy than that he should not have been
earlier attacked by still more troublesome
form of malady.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-22
Vinegar for the Sick Room.

There is French legend that during the
plague in Marseilles band of robbers plum
dered the dead and dying without injury to
themselves. They were imprisoned, tiled
and condemned to die, but were pardoned on
condition of disclosing the secret whereby
they could ransack houses infected with the
terrible scourge. They gave the following
recipe, which makes delicious and refresh
ing wash for the sick room: Take of rose
mary, wormwoOd, lavender, rue, sage and
mint large handful of each. Place in a
stone jar and turn over it one gallon OF
strong, clear vinegar; cover closely and
keep near the fire for four days, then strain
and add one ounce of powdered camphor gum.
Bottle and keep tightly corked. 1t is very
aromatic, cooling and refreshing to the sick
room, and of great value to nurses.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-22
A Business Secret.
Burlington Hawkeye. l

BurIngtOn daWkeye.J
"Are those cakes new maple sugar ?" he
asked, as he halted before stand on Wall
street.
They are, sir"
"Made this winter?"
"Yes, sir"
From the pure sap?"
"The pure sap, sir"
"And not adulterated ?"
"Not in the least. How many cakes will
you have?"
''Not one I am looking for some cakes of
old maple sugar-some at least year old.
I think new sugar unhealthy"
"Ill tell You what, sir, said the keeper of
the stand, as he gave his voice confidential
pitch, sif you want six cakes at five cents
each, I'll admit I lied about it, and that this
is old sugar polished up with a rag. Come,
sir, patronize poor but worthy man.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-22

! told the rose thy name-it bushed and stirred,
Its petals trembled as in ecstasy.
! creth thy name aloud-and 10! the bird
Burst into song within the thick-leaved tree.
/ spake it when the moon was gray and cold,
And straight from out his east up shot the sun,
spake it in the night--the clouds that rolled
Above dispersed, the stars came one by one.
Should any whisper it when on my face
The black earth lies, calm sleeping under ground
/ think my heart would beat apace,
And that my lips would tremble at the sound.
And if before the gates of heaven / came,
And could for my own worth no entrance win,
| think that then if should name thy name
The eternal doors would stir and let me in.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-22
THE BAD BOYS TALE.
The New Tangled Fire Escapes in Mil
Waukee.
IPeck'S Sun.1

Peck's Sun.
"You see," said the bad boy, 'since there
has been so many fires pa has got Otful
scared, and he has bought three fire escapes,
made out of rope with knots in them, and
he has been telling us every day how he
could rescue the whole family in case of fire.
He told us to be cool whatever happened,
and rely on him. If the house got on fire
we were all to rush to pa and he would save
us. Well, last night ma had to go to one OF
the neighbors, where they were going to have
twins. Pa said there are ought to be law
that babies should arrive on the regular day
trains, and not wait for the midnight express.
Well, pa he went to sleep and slept till about
8 o'clock in the morning, and the blinds
were closed, and it was dark in his room, and
I had waited for my breakfast until was as
hungry as wolf, and the girl told me to 60
and wake up pa, so went upstairs, and |
don't know what made me think of it, but l
had some of this powder they make red fire
with in the theatre, that me and my chum
had on the Fourth of July, and I put it in a
wash dish in the bath room, and touched it
off and then hollered fire.
I was going to wake pa up and then tell
him it was all right and laugh at him. l
guess there was too much fire, or I yelled too
louu, CAUSE ptt JuupcO ouU VI OCu anu
grabbed rope and rushed through the hall
toward the back window, that goes out on a
shed. I tried to say something, but pa ran
over me and told me to save myself, and
got to the back window to tell him there
was no fire just as he let himself out of the
window He had one end of the rope tied
to the leg of the washstand, and he was
climbing down the back side of the shed by
the kitchen, and he was the horriblest looking
thing ever was, with his legs flying and try
ing to stick his nails into the 1ope and the
side of the house / don't think man looks
well in society with the clothes pa had on.
1 didn't blame the hired girls for being
scared when they saw pa and his legs come
down outside the window, and when they
yelled went down to the kitchen, and they
said crazy man with pillow case around
his neck was trying to kick the window in,
and then ran into the parlor and opened
the door and let pa into the kitchen. He
asked me if anybody else was saved, and
then l told him there was no fire, and he
must have been dreaming. Well, pa was
astonished Pa says he has demonstrated
that if man is cool and collected in a case
of fire and goes deliberately at work to save
himself, he will come out all right"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-22
THE PEOPLES SONG OF PEACE
BY JOAQUIN MILLER.

The grass is green on Bunker Hill,
The waters sweet in Brandywine
The sword sleeps in the scabbard still,
The farmer keeps his fiocks and vine;
Then who would mar the scene to-day
With vaunt of battle field OF fray?
The brave corn lifts, in regiments,
Ten thousand sabers in the sun;
The ricks replace the battle-tents,
The hammered tassels toss and run.
The neighing steed, the bugle's blast
These be the stories of the past.
The earth has healed her wounded breast,
The cannon plow the field no more;
The heroes rest: o let them rest
In peace along the peaceful shores;
They fought for peace, for peace they fell:
They sleep in peace and all is well.
The fields forget the battles fought,
The trenches wave in golden grain;
Shall we neglect the lesson taught
And tear the wounds agape again
Sweet Mother Nature, nurse the land,
And heal her wounds with gen tie hand.
Lo! peace on earth! Lo flock and fold,
Lo! rich abundance, fat increase,
And valleys clad in sheen of gold,
rise and sing the song Of peace!
For Theseus roams the land no more,
And Janus rests with rusted door.