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DIFFICULTIES OF A W.T.
NESS.

"You must get around early in the
morning, my DEAR" said Mr.. Spoopen-
dyke, "bocause I'm going to be a wit
ness in court"
GOOD gracious p exclaimed Mrs.
Spoopendyke, "what have you been do
ing?"
"What dye s'pose I've been doing ?
I've heard some things in law case, and
I've got to swear to them. You can't
have law case without witnesses, and
I've got to be one tomorrow; so you
hustle out in the morning and get my
breakfast"
"They can't do anything to you, can
they?" inquired Mrs. Spoopendyke,
nervously.
"H amt there in time they can send
mo to Jail, responded Mr.. Spoopendyke,
ominously "and you'd better get me
ready in time if you don't want to lose
me-" and Mr.. Spoopendyko hoped into
bed and went to sleep.
Mrs. Spoopendyke turned the clock
ahead two hours, arranged her hair, and
sat down to speculate on the chances Of
waking at the proper moment. At first
she concluded to stay up all night, but
sle began to get sleepy, and, rejecting
that if she fixed her mind on the hour
she wanted to rise she'd be sure to wake
up, she went to bed and to sleep stimuli
taneously.
At half-past 4 she reused up with a
terrified start.
awake up, my DEAR" she exclaimed
10 her husband. you've got to 60
witnessing in case this morning. Hur-
ryup, or they'll put you in jail"
"Wah" responded Mr.. Spoopen-
dyke. "What did the heed get mixed
there with-poof-ah |" and Mr.. Spoop-
ondyke was sound asleep again,
"You must get right up and go to
court" said Mrs. Spoopendyke firmly.
"You know something about law court
and you must wake up right Off"
"What's The matter2" propoupded
Mr.. Spoopendyke, sitting up and glar-
ing around him. "What day of the
month is this? Who called Spoopen-
dykep / amt slept wink" and Mr..
Spoopcndyke fell back on his pillow.
"You know you must go to the case"
continued Mrs. Spoopendyke. "You've
Leon appointed witness and you must
10 and swear about it. Wake up, or
they will arrest YOU"
"What caso2" demanded Mr.. Spoop-
endykr. "Who's arrested2 Cant you
let II man alone just as he's getting in q
doze2 What's the matter with you,
anyway"
"You wanted to get up early about
somc court Come. get up, now, or
they'll send you % jail" and Mrs.
spoopendyke got up and lighted the
gas and began dropping on her skirts.
"Who's going to court?" asked Mr..
Spoopendyke, sitting up in the bed.
where's the court? Think any court
wants me ut o'clock in the morningp"
"It's about q law CASE" said Mrs
Spoopendyke, cheerfully. "You know
you are a witness. 10 think that l
should live to be the wife of witness -
and Mrs. Spoopendyke, firmly impressed
that it was something ia the nature Of q
foreign mission, gazcd admiringly upon
her husband.
"Dod gast the law case !" howlcd Mr..
fpoopndyke, now thoroughly mad.
"D'yc think law case goes prowling
around all night like policeman? Got
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A LEADING oculist of Boston is report
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from the Law School at Cambridge than
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supposed from this that the young men
iniure their eyes by excessive applica'
ton. The bad ventilation and gas
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A MAN has no right to occupy such
high moral grounds that he is constantly
so far above his fellows that he can be Of
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A PIECE of beef is much more tender
and juicy when the animal has been fed
on roots than beef made where no roots
have been fed.
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MEN will never know us by our faith,
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0NE a0sr#o ICaTaraT, 81 2 lOsNlss5i s eOs.ae. 81
The Republican journal., 1884-07-17

nightg The sun was within half an hour
of his setting when Parsons, who was
leaning his breast on the gunwale, stood
upright and pointed. His mouth was full
of froth, and as he tried to speak the
foam flew out of his lips, but no words he
spoke it was naught but kind of
death rattle in his throat. We all looked
in the direction he pointed to, and saw a
large sailing vessel heading right down
for us. How we watched her all of US
standing up, never speaking, and only
moving with the roll and toss Of the boat.
1t took her an hour to approach US, and
then she hove us line but her people
had to sling us aboard. None of US could
move. Nothing but the excitement of
seeing her had allowed us to stand. The
moment the line was in the boat and We
were alongside, we all became as helpless
as babies.
"The vessels name, sir She was an
Austrian bark Grad karlovak, command
ed by so humane man that | feel fit to
cry when think of him and his kindness
to us poor, miserable, shipwrecked Eng
lish sailors. That's the story, sir, or as
much of it as there is any call to relate.
Five days and four nights in the month
of January in an open boat, most of the
time blowing heavily. The tales known
at Plymouth-it's known at Runcorn-it
is known to Mr.. Hopkins, the agent of
the Shipwrecked Mariners Society at
Plymouth. And III tell you somebody
else it's known to sir-some one asll
swear to every word of it, and that's
me-"
The Republican journal., 1884-07-17
Measuring the Age of Trees.

The counting Of the rings added by eX-
ogenous trees every year to their circum-
ferences can only. without risk of great
error, be applied to trees cut down in
their prime. and hence it is useless for
the older trees which are hollow and de
cayed. Trees. moreover, often develop
themselves so unequally from their cen
ter that, as is the case of a specimen in
the museum at Kew, there may be about
two hundred and fifty rings on one side
to fifty on the other. Perhaps the largest
number of rings that has ever been
counted was in the case of an oak felled
in 1872, where they amounted to seven
hundred and ten: but De Candolle, who
mentions this, adds that three hundred
years We're added to this number as
probably covering the remaining rings
which 1t VAS no longer possible to count.
This instance may be taken to Illustrate
how unsatisfactory this mode of reckon
ing really is for all but trees of compara-
lively youthful age.
The external girth measurement is for
these reasons the best we can have, being
especially applicable We're the date of
trees introduction into a country or of
lLS pIdubIiiS - ttllHlltlN uAtu. SluCt II
enables us to argue from the individual
specimen or from a number OF specimens,
not with certainty, but within certain
limits Of variability, to the rate of growth
OF thS tree as a species. In these meas
urements Of trees Of century or more in
age, such as are given abundantly in
Loudon's "Arboretum,' lies our best
guide, though even then the growth in
subsequent ages must remain a matter
of conjecture. The difficulty is to reduce
this coniectural quantity to the limits of
probability; for, given the asccrtained
growth OF the first century, how shall we
estimate the diminished growth Of later
centuries Z The best way would seem to
be to take the ascertaned growth of the
first century, and then to make, say, the
third Of it the average growth of every
century Thus, if we were to take twelve
feet as the ascertaned growth of an oak
in its first century, four feet would be its
constant average rate. and we might
| conjecture that an oak of forty feet was
about a thousand years old. But clearly
it might be much less for the reason for
taking the third is not so much that it is
more probable average than the half,
as that it is obviously less likely to err on
the side of excess of rapidity. j. a.
Farrar, in Popular Science Monthly.
The Republican journal., 1884-07-17
Brighton Cattle Market.

TUESDAY, July ..
Amount of stock at market Cattle, 1873; sheep
and lambs. 6554, fat swine, l4,440; horses, 22+.
Prices of beef cattle y 100 n live weight, extra
quality, So 75g1 25; first, Sc l2ag7 30; second,
- % 96 90; third "a l.1a 95 l21a poorest grades
of coarse oxen, bulls. etc, 50 00a4 90.
Brighton Hides, 7a11ac y ID; Brighton Tallow, Ga
h, Country Hides, light ones, 6g61ac D..
heavy 61s &c y Ii Country Tallow. 81 gao n; Calf
skins, lOallc y D., Wool Sheep Skins. 75cd$2. p
each sheared sheep skins, 2O925c; Lamb Skins, 40e
soc.
The supply of Cattle in market this week has
been lighter and the quality Of them of poorer
a ade of beeves than those in one week since The
trade for good fair beeves has been more active but
prices obtained did not vary any TO speak of from
those noted one week ago. most of those Cattle
sold to butchers ranging in prices from ga 9l74 C
per b. live weight, but few, however at the latter
price.
Sheep and Lambs-Nearly all the Sheep and
Lambs from the West were owned by butchers
few only being for the export trade. western
sheep and Lambs are costing butchers landed al
the yards from 4xG71ac per h., live weight But
few Western Sheep or Lambs are offered on the
market for sale.
Swine-Fat Hogy-Those from the West cost this
week from 574 d61ac per lb live weight landed at the
slaughter house. During the past week Messrs. ).
=. Squires Il Co, slaughtered at their establish
ment East Cambridge, 1921 Fat Hogs.
The Republican journal., 1884-07-17
A Hot Air Ship.
HOW AN INVENTIVE PHILADELP PIIIAN EXPECTS
TO NAVIGATE THE AIR,

HOW AN INVENTIVE EPHILADELPHIAN EXPECTS
TO NAVIGATE THE AIR.
Thirty years Of study and labor on the
part of Mr.. Charles p. Fest, of German
town, is believed By that gentleman to
have resulted in an invention which will
enable him to navigate the air with the
safety that ship sails the watery way
Mr.. Fest is German jeweler, possessing
an inventive mind, and during his thirty
years Of work, nine patents were granted
him for aerial apparatus which proved un-
successful, and while bringing him no
fame, cost him in all S6, 600 The last pa
tent he obtained on March Is, and the la
Dor seven months before and since that
date has enabled him to pro luce strong
manila paper and net moe ell of his air
ship. This is in the shape of a cylinder
with one cone-shaped end thirty feet
long and nine feet in diameter, weighing
"A pounds At either end on the under
side of this tube are lamps, which will be
supplied by rubber tubes from an oil
reservoir. The lamps are designed to
generate hot air, which is to be the buoy
ant and guiding power. At each end of
the tube Is valve, and on each SIDE two
others, which will be opened or shut so
as to allow the hot air to escape and
change the direction of the ship. using
the principle Of "Barkers Mll,' which is
seen in operation every day in the re-
volving water fountain Of gas Jets BY
opening and shutting these valves, it is
also proposed to regulate the height of
the course. If the miniature ship behaves
so we'll in trials as to prove its practic-
ability, Mr.. Fest intends to at once con-
struct ship of sufficient size to carry H.
$50 pounds. 1t was 40 feet in diameter,
$50 feet long and will weigh $50 pounds.
1t will contain about $3.50 cubic feet of
hot air. In this ship he expects to cross
the Atlantic ocean at the rate of 100 to
l2O miles an hour. 1t will carry about
30 gallons of oil, which is sufficient to last
three days. The lamp, the valves or
other parts will be operated by ropes
from the car of the ship, suspended from
the tubular motor. In the efforts to in
vent a successful aerial ship, Mr.. Fest
has constructed over 200 balloons Of diff
ferent kinds. He tried gas, electricity
and other motive powers in vain, and
finally hit upon the last plan. The ship
will be covered all over with asbestos
and silicate of soda, to secure it from fire
and explosions, which were the chief OBJ
stacles in using gas. Mr.. Fest intended
to give his invention a trial on Friday
last, but an accident to his wife so Sc
verely injured her that the trial was
postponed, but it will come off at flu
ture day. Lancaster, Pa, lntelligencer.
The Republican journal., 1884-07-17
lives InJure Trees.

Tie injury done by the English Ivy
and most other climbers is entirely me-
chancal. Vines are provided with diff
terent appliances to assist them in hold
ing fast to trees The Ivy, the Poison
Ivy, Trumpet Creeper and Others, have
little roots along their stems these roots
do not as some suppose penetrate
through the bark and live upon the sap
of the tree. They only enter the crevces
of the bark, and soon lose their root-like
character becoming hard and wiry, and
serving merely as hold fasts. Other
vines have tendrils, either a modified
branch or portion Of a leaf, which cling
to the tree. Our Virginia Creeper has
branched tendrllS, and each branch bears
at the tip little disk, which acts some
what Ike boys sucker, and forms ii
h0ld-tast. Still other plants hold to the
tree by twlning around its branches
This last class, the tWiners, are the most
generally injurious. especially to young
trees, as hey soon become woody and
prevent the expansion of the tree, literal
~ choking it to death. One of the most
beautiful Of our native vines, and one
often cultivated, is RoXbury Wax work,
or climbing Bitter sweet Cei0stras scum
dens); this is especially injurious, and it
is not rare to find wild trees with the
slender trunk or the branches embraced
by this vine, which so constricts them as
to cause death. Ivy upon trees is espec-
tally frequent in England, and while
some of the horticulturists of that coun-
try have claimed that it does no harm,
others assert that it is positive injury
Both are probably right. On old trees
the bark of the trunk and older branches
is rough, scaly, and its exterior really
dead, and vines can do no harm. On
young trees, on the other hand, the bark
Of which is smooth, and still taking a
more or less active part in the growth,
the covering of Ivy or other vines, will
arrest development and be injurious tc
the tree. american Agriculturst.
The Republican journal., 1884-07-17
Murders Of American Seamen.
HOW OUR SAILORS ARE BUTCUERED

HOW OUR SAILORS ARE BCTCIIERED IN
FOREIGN PORTS.
A private letter to Bath sea captain says
that the steward Of the ship FL Captain, Ca pit.
}. f. Sewall, at Kobe, Japan, was fatally
wounded by the cook. Capt. Sewall was away
AT the time. There was no witness to the muir
der. The steward-both were coored-had
been with the ship two years and was a faith
full servant. much liked by the captain. 1t was
deadly affair, as the fatal wound-a stab-was
the eighth, over the right lung No weapon
was found that the steward had.
"Ihere are too many of these murders oc-
curing in distant ports and the government
should make an example of them," said the
captain. 1T is altogether too lax
On the ship Centennial the second mate had
a difficulty with the mate. The mate had Just
finished loading Il lighter and was walking by
the forward house, when without provocation
be shot the mate firing two shots after he fell,
remarking, There, you'll never move again.
The mate was of Richmond and was engaged
to young lady there. They get ugly in those
parts; somehow have less respect for the re-
straint of the law. The case went to San Fran
cisco. where they are lenient with such cases,
and the murderer probably is now at liberty.
The Bath ship Bullion, Reed at Yokohama
in so, had the second mate killed by the stew
ard. He drew knife.
Ship st. Charles, Chapman & Flnt's, the first
night she arrived at Kobe, was set fire to by a
sailor. THE second mate accused him of the
act ''You'll never live to tell the captain was
the retort, accompanied by the plunge of a
knife into the second mates breast. He had Il
trial at San Francisco and got sentence of i'm
prisonment for life. 1t is high time the GOV
eminent took notice of these things. A mans
life isn't worth five cents out there.
Capt. Doane, of Wiscassett. was killed by g
sailor in one of these ports. These butchcries
nn Ann ard to ha ~
The Republican journal., 1884-07-17
The Late Allan Pinkerton.
EXPLOITS OF THE FAMOUS DETECTIVE. f.
ALLEN. THE SPY OF THE REBELLION.

EXPLOITS OF THE FAMOUS DETECTIVE. f. j.
ALLEN, THE SPY OF THE REBELLION.
Allan Pinkerton, the founder of Pinkerton's
detective agency, was born near Glasgow,
Scotland, in August, 1919. He learned the
trade of cooper, and in early manhood was a
boss cooper in Glasgow. During the Chartist
excitement he attended public meetings and
made some strong speeches on the Chartist
side. He was charged with uttering seditious
sentiments, and, learning that he was about to
be arrested, embarked with his wife for Cana
da. The vessel was wrecked in the Gulf of
st. Lawrence. and all on board were landed on
an island. He went first to Montreal, then to
Toronto, and finally settled in Dundee. Illinois.
where he again took up his business cooper.
He made barrels and tubs, which he carried to
Chicago and exchanged for goods.
Pmkerton's tlrst exploit as a detective was
the discovery of gang of counterfeiter. on an
island in the Fox River, few miles above
Dundee. He used to go to this island to gather
hoop poles. and on one of hi. visits discovered
in an abandoned camp the evidence that coun-
terfe1terS had been there. The country was
sparsely settled and the place lonely. BY fol-
lowing up clues. however, the gang Of counter
feiters was discovered and punished. About
this time he was frequently employed to aid
the sheriff in searching for horse thieves and
other outlaws.
Removing to Chicago he soon became deputy
sheriff of Cook county. and was noted as Il
brave and successful officer. The sheriff and
his deputies had much periIous work In the
pursuit of counterfeiters, horse thieves. and
other criminals. to whom Allan Pinkertcu soon
became terror. He was AN early abotionist
and an associate of John Brown. He rendered
important and enthusiastic service in the man
agement of the Underground railroad for the
escape of fugitive slaves.
1t was in 1852 that he founded the detective
Ia, ,.,l l.
The Republican journal., 1884-07-17

TWO CHINESE LEPERS WILL EXHIBIT IN THF
LARGE EASTERN CITIES.

TWO CHINESE LEPERS WILL EXHIBIT IN THE
LARGE EASTERN CITIES.
On Sunday. the Goth of July, C. c. O'Donnel
Will start out on a lecturing tour supported by
the most novel company that ever II lecturer
mad. Two pronounced and unmstakable leperS
will be the Doctors companions on the pass
age. and will silently. by their mere presence,
preach sermon far louder and more eloquent
than Or. O'DonneIl himself can preach. They
will show to the Eastern people what they will
not believe by any other than ocular demon
stratlon, that lepro>y is not myth in this
country, but that its existence is settled and
definite fact.
THE TWO LEPERS.
The two leperS who are to accompany the
doctor are both Chinamen, All Wong and Gee
Up. The former is twenty-five years of age
and has been affected with the disease for about
four years and a half. The particular form
of the disease with which he is affected is
known as tuberculosis. His features are badly
SWOLLEN, his ears being nearly five times the
natural size. The flesh on his face stands out
in great wrinkles and folds and he is a most re-
voting looking object. He will probably die,
II the disease runs its natural course. in three
or four years. The other man is older. being
thirty years. He has had the disease about the
same length of time as his companion and will
probably last about as long Combined with
tuberculosis. he has that horrible form known
as elephantiasiS, in which the limbs become
swolen until they lose all resemblance to nat
ural form. In the of this man. the legs
have swollen TO four or five times what they
should be. and the man can barely hObhe
around. His face is affected like that Of the
other man, the flesh being ridged and scanned.
His eyelids have Swelled to such proportions
that they hang down over his cheeks. For re-
pulslVene>> he can share the hOnOrs with his
travelling compaGOn
COURSE OF THE PROCESSION.
DR.. O'Donnel and his horribleS will make
y 1g'l