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The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-28
The Pigeons OF st. Mark.

"The pigeons of st. Mark" as the
gentle birds are called that make their
homes in the facade of the great basilica
of Venice, and in the arcades and capi-
tails of the buildings that surround the
Piazetta, for,U one of the best-known
sights OF the City of the Sea. Mr.. How
bugs" and there i no denying that at
times they are a nuisance; but the visi-
tors judgment is less harsh when he
sees them circling round some pretty
girl, and tamely perching on arm and
shoulder They are exceedingly fear
less, Not only are they the recipients
of plentiful provision from strangers,
but they are fed daily from funds be-
queathed for that purpose. While the
republic was existing, the state main
tanned them, and legends asserted that
this was done in gratitude for the SER
vices they had rendered to the city in
some of its wars with the Genoese, ac-
cording to one version, or, according to
another, in its wars with the Turks in
Candia. But historical Investigators
carry hack the history of these birds
much before the dates of these events,
anu dlllllu "CAC uOihANICo III
the church of the apostle in the year
ST.. At that time. however. they were
net treated with the consideration they
experience at present.
1t is told that on Palm-Sunday, after
the conclusion of divine service, the
sacristans of st Mark used to release a
number of doves, fetteged and encum-
bered with pieces of paper, to be scram-
bled for by the congregation on the
open space in front of the sacred edifice.
Those that were caught were duly fat
tened, and deyoured on Easter-Sunday.
Those that escaped and took refuge in
the church were regarded as under the
protection of the saints.
When the old republic was destroyed
by Napoleon, the poor pigeons had a
hard time for some years, till q charita-
BILE lady, the Countess Poleastro. began
to feed them regularly, and left sum
by her will to be applied for their main
tenance- after herdecease. As the clock
strikes two, whole flocks of these birds
assemble, and with their plumage fash
ing in blue and velvet, swoop down to
get their share of their dailv DOLE
Harper's Razar.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-28
PITH AND POINT.

The peach crop is ruined. As we
do not wish to repeat this news every
week our readers will please bear it in
mind,-OH CW DerrtcF.
IL wonder what has taken away
my appetite for breakfast" asked a
festive Fif h avenue man. II suspect it
was your happy tight last night, dear, y
replied h wifc.-N. Y. Josrnal.
A health writer says "Sleepless
people should court the sun" If he
had only said daughter" thousands
would embrace the remedy where one
will now only laugh at it.-M T. Mail.
The Indianapolis Journal says that
the average citizen wants lock with
four keyholes Unless the average citi-
zen has improved of late, one keyhole
is usually about all he can tind.-N. T..
Graphic.
Where are the ministers ?-Boston
Globe, You drop into church occa-
sionally and you will see for yourself.
and not lead the world to suppose that
editors don know such things Cttca-
60 Inter- Ocean.
"A certain poetess is said to "make
good jellies as well as good poetry" 1t
IS suggested that she also make n new
Departure. e., send her iellies to
newspaper offices and can her poems.
Jellies discount poetry as ''inside mat
ter every tine.-NorriStoWn Herald.
Il see," said McGill, laying down
the paper, 'fhat old Pinchnickle has
willed his property to Scroggins, the
saloon-keeper. ''How's that? sup
posed that he left it all to his son Har-
ry." "Well, he did. Butt was only
an indirect way of leaving it to Scrog-
gins. boston Transcript
Cant you manage to give my son
one of the prizes at the examinations"
asked mother of teacher. mo,
madam" was the reply; ''your son will
stand no chance; he obstinately persists
in idleness." 30, but then," exclaimed
the fond mother, "if that's so, you can
give him prize for perseverance. -
NJ Y. Post,
81 say, Jim, you'd better go back
to the Office. They're busy as nailers
to-day, and they were in9uiring about
YOU as came away. "Were they?"
replleu jim, coOlly hnOChing tHe dSnes
from his cigar. ''If they want me why
don't they come after me? The Office
should seek the man, not the man the
Office. - Chicago Herald.
-"I was just reading your advertise
ment, DOCTOR" said Smith to the pro-
prietor of Jalap's universal cure-all;
''you say that thousands are fastening
to their graves. Do you think, now,
honestly, that your medicines will stop
them?" Doctor Jalap -''Wen, Tom,
between us, you know, | don't think the
stuff viii do them any good; but as they
are fastening out of the world, you
know. / might as we'll have their mon.
ey as anybody else. They can't take il
with them. you know."-Bostoa 7raas'
script.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-28
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
--Photographing on silk and linen Is
now successfully practiced in London.
AZ Y HcrnIH

--Photographing on silk and linen Is
now successfully practiced in London.
N. y. Herald.
Mobile, Ala, has Woman's In
dustrial Exchange, which is doing a
very satisfactory business.-M o.
Times.
Litigation in Germany between Ed
ison and Swan on the Fundamental
incandescent lamp patents, has been
decided in Edison's favor.
Extracting oil from skunks and
selling it to Troy On. " druggists Is a
growing industry among the farmers
in Washington and Rensseler counties.
The druggists pay 81 a quart tor the
article. 1t is said to be a remedy for
croup.-Troy Tvnacs.
During the past three years l35 or
CARNATIONS with contrivances for the
Transmission of intelligence have been
incorporated in the State of New York,
under the telegraph companies act,
and the c1pital represented aggregates
S2l5, 900, 900. -AlbHnyJourRdt.
E. w. Fellows, of Cleveland, after
experimenting for two years, has sue
cceded in inventiEg way to take in
stantaneous and absolutely permanent
photographs upon aly substance hav-
ing smooth surface by the action of
electricity. The EXPENSE is less than
one cent for each picture. -CerelGn1
Leader.
Among the new applications of cot
ton is its use, in part. in the construc-
tion of houses, the material employed
for the purpose being the refuse, which,
when ground up with about an equal
amount of straw and asbestos, is con-
verted into paste, and this is formed
into large slabs or bricks, which ac-
quire, it is said, the hardness of stone,
and furnish a really valuable building
stock. Chicago Herald
Frank Cosby, of Boston, has pat
cnt ele tric tallying machine for ballot
boxes. He wants Congress to use it..
BY it yea or nay vote can, he claims,
be taken in minute and half. There
are to be on each members desk two
buttons, one marked yea and the othe.
nay; by electric wires these are to lie in
connection with the clerks desk. A
touch of the button causes the name OF
the man touching it to be printed on a
piece of paper.-BOStOn Herdtd.
In Pittsburgh, Pa, a ma Hhine has
been invented to manufacture hob nails,
hitherto done by hand, and factory
will shortly be established there. The
machine, it is claimed, is capable OF
doing the work of hundred men. As
thousands are now engaged in the man.
ufacture of hob nails by hand the inven.
ton will result in throwing out of EN-
ployment large number of men
throughout the country. Each ma
chine is operated by three men.-Pitts.
burgh Post.
"A Leipsic journal gives method
which, it asserts, will prevent lamp
chimneyS from cracking. The treat
ment will not only render lamp-chim-
neys, tumblers, and like articles more
durable. but may be applied with ad-
vantage to crockery, stoneware, porce-
lain, etc. The chimneys, tumblers,
etc, are put into a pot filled with cold
water, to which some common table
salt has been added; the water is well
boiled over a fire and then allowed to
cool slowly. When the articles are
taken ont and washed they will be
found to resist, afterward, any sudden
changes of temperature.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-28
A BLOCKADER'S LAST RUN.

The Remarkable Escape and Final Cap
ture of the Confederate Steamer Su.
sauna.
at was about eleven o'clock in the
forenoon some time along in the fall of
1863-in the month of October, | think
it was-that / ran the Federal blockade
in Galveston Harbor in command
of the steamer Susanna, with a cargo of
arms and ammunition for the Confeder
ate Government.
The speaker was medium-SiZed,
square-built man, with deep set eyes
and determined features
81 have read the account in the Sum
day NeWS," he continued, ''of the strik-
ing chase at sea and the story of the re-
markable escape of a Confederate
steaTer at Galveston. l was in COM
mand of that ship at the tine. ="
The reporter recognized at once an
old Savannahian, Captain Charles w.
Austin. who is now in the Government
employ, and who figured in many thrill
ing adventures in the war, but came out
without scar. "You had a narrow
escape, Captain, but tell us something
about the affair?'
"As said, it was some time in the
fall of 1868. l had made four or five
successful trips from Havana, bring
ing arms and munitions of war, but this
trip pretty nearly wound me up. The
Susanny, which the writer in the NtsoS
referred to as the privateer, was a
stanch, trim-built iron vessel, with a
capacity for from l, 400 to 800 bales of
cotton, and with an average speed of
about fifteen knots an hour. She was
built in England, on the Clyde, as a
blockade runner. and lay low lin the
water, with her long black hull hardly
visible except in broad daylight. She
was about 225 feet long by thirty beam,
and being a new vessel felt her equal
to any thing in chase. We left Ha-
yana with a crew of twenty-seven
men, well officered by men who knew
their business. We had good weather,
and calculated to make land inside the
blockade under cover of night, between
one and three o'clock in the morning.
However. as luck would have it, an ac-
cident atAsea-the giving away of some
OF our machinery detained us several
hours, and brought us to. land in open
daylight, about six o'clock in the morn
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-28
Hunting a Husband.

1t is now more than four years since
George Patch, a German resident of this
city, departed for the Southern country
under the advice of phys clan. he be-
ing at that time hopeless oonsump-
tive. He left behind HIM a wife and a
child. He reached his destination, 1uc-
son. and his strength returned so that
he concluded after short time to make
his way back TO the city. he went to
Los Angeles and remained there until
June, 1879, when his friends lost all
knowledge of him and he has long nee
Teen given up for dead. Whether he
succumbed to the dreal destroyer or
whether he w,s murdered for money
has never teen established. He had
81, 900 in his possession when last seen.
A few days ago the news of the dis
covery of the rema ms of a man was
publ shed in a Santa Bar bara paper, the
account of which created the impression
that at last the mystery surrounding the
disappearance of Patch h d cen cleared
up, but the belief was not well founded.
The warm. dry atmosphere ofthe south
ern valleys seems to preserve animal
remains by some natural embalming
process, and for years after death marks
Of identification can be discovered upon
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-28

my fathers SONNY own twin broth
erl victim to this deadly poison
Father" she exclaimed, turning sud-
denly, while the tears rained down her
beautiful cheeks, father, shall drink
it now"
The form of the old Judge was con-
vulsed with agony He raised his head,
but in smothered voice he faltered:
"No, no, my child, in Gods name,
no."
She lifted the glittering goblet, and
letting it suddenly fall to the floor it
Many fearful eye watched her move
ments, and instantaDeously every wine
glass was transferred to the marble
table on which it had been prepared.
Then as she looked at the fragments of
crystal, she turned to the company.
saying: "Let no friend, hereafter, who
loves me, tempt me to peril my soul
for wine. Not fifmer the everlasting
hills than my resolve, God helping me,
never to touch or taste that terrible
poison. And he to whom ( have given
my hand; who watched over my
brothers dying form in thai last sol
emn hour, and buried the dear wander
er there by the river. in that land of
gold, will, l trust, sustain me in that
resolve. Will you not, my husbandP"
His glistening eyes, his sad, sweet
smile was her answer.
The Judge left the room, and when
an hour later he returned, and with
more subdued manner, took part in the
entertainment of the bridal guests, no
one could fail to read that he, too, had
determined to dash the enemy for once
and forever from his princely rooms.
Those who were present at that we'd
ding can never forget the impression so
solemnly made. Many from that hour
foreswore the social glass; Temper
dRce TeLegrdna.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-28

them. In the last DAYS of last month
body was discovered near a place where
Patch must have passed when on his
trip out into the mountains back of San
ta Bar0ara But it has since been shown
positively that the remains were not
those of Patch. Joseph BetZ, formerly
a liquor dealer of Tucson, met Patch
there, and as they were old friends Betz
cont ibuted much to the comfort of his
sick visitor and started him off well
equipred for his trip to Los Angeles.
Four weeks ago Betz sold out his bus
ines in Tucson and came to this city.
He sought out tie wi low of his old
friend, who remembered the kindness
whi h | @ Rad shown to her wandering
husband during his lifetime, and the
many courteS;es that he had shown Ter
since Patch's diappearance and sup
posc1 death. Two weeks ago they were
mllried. The story is that in their cor
respondence the arties had been struck
with the good qualities of each other
and that a rang attachment had long
existed between them. The wife was
not certain that her husband was dead,
but b tz took i. for granted that the re-
ma ms found were none other than those
of his old friend and the former husband
of his wife. AT any rate he married
Mrs. Pa ch, .and the couple are tempo
rarily domiciled in this city. Betl con
cluded his core spondcnce with the Cor
oner of Santa Barbara about the time
o. the announcement of his marriage 10
Mrs Patch. Perhaps there is some
thing in the tone of his dispatch. Here
it is:
Mr. Gutierrez: received your favor to-day,
but we cannot identify our lost friend by the
contents, the -cforo | return the same TO you
with many thanks. Yours truly,
tOsEPH BETZ
-Snn francisco Chronicle.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-28
Temperance Items.

RED used on railroad signifies dam
ger, and means q" stopn' So it does on
q mans nose.
II is mean man who will contribute
to the purchase of sealskin sacque for
the saloon-keeper's wife, and allow his
wife to wear thin calico and faded
shawl.
A PRISONER In the Maine State
Prison, who was offered a drink ON the
night of fire in the prison, preached a
good Temperance lecture when he said:
mo, sir, that is what brought me
here, and have had enough.
REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS says that If
to-day we could sweep intemperance
out of the country we would wipe out
almost all of the poverty in the land.
There would hardly be enough left to
give healthy exercise to the charitable
impulses.
The ADVERTISEMENT of the Woman's
Temperance Home in New York City
says: ''This institution is founded for
ladies of respectability who have be-
come addicted to the use of alcoholic
liquors or narcotics" +" This will give
some idea of the alarming growth of
drunkenness among the women OF the
United States.
If DRINKING is respectable why do
men always deny or apologize for drink
ingP and why do young men so try to
conceal 1t from their friends. and es-
pecially their sweethearts? Ii it is
respectable, why do saloon-keepers set
up screens to hide their customers from
those passing their doorp II it is re-
spectacle, why not have the drinking
stands on the corner, like fruit stands?
No one Is ashamed to stop at fruit
stand and buy an orange, an apple or
banana, but when man who is not toe
far gone in loss of self-respect is pass.
ing the saloon and wantsrto stop in, he
will first halt and look around to see IL
any one is watching. and then dart in
as if shot from gun. Then see him
as he sneaks of. splitting cotton as he
goes Does he not look Is If he had
been in the wrong pen and was
ashamed of itP--SaB francisco Rescae.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-28
DAVE briggs.

DAVE DlNIGl'S.
Dave briggs he was railroad man,
A common kind o chap;
He didn't go a cent on style,
He wouldn't give rapp
Fur them as put on dudy clos
An hifalutin' ars,
An tho't 'emselves some higher up
Than Him upon the stars.
He wore yallcr flannel shirt
That made him look immense,
With that ar damon pin o his
That cost him nifty cents.
Thar wuznt much in rallrOadin'
lie tho't he didn't know.
He wuZ the brakeman o a train
Upon the B. & q.
But after all he had some strcaks
o common sense i'll him.
A leetle cream inside his pan
That want TO thin TO skim.
I've seen him tipsy CT top,
I've seen him goin' wild,
I've seen him Jump an Tesk his life
To save leetle child!
One dark December night the track
Got driftcd In with snow.
That threw the engine down Il bank
hundred feet below;
A l. up on end an all about,
In every sort o style.
The busted freight cars got 'emselves
Uncoupled in pile.
The engineer an fireman both
He'd left the track to stay,
An underneath the smashed CabOOsc
The dead conductor lay.
But Dave, he heard the crash in time,
He jumped with all his might,
An in a snowbank, on his head,
Ker chug. he chanccd to light!
He hung to his old lantern tight,
He got upon his feet;
Thar in the dark he stood alone,
The wreck waz jlst complete.
The snow it beat agin his face,
A bitn' blizzard blew,
The wind jst howled an screamed an
rOared,
An chilled him thro' an thro'.
1t froze the clos upon his back
Ez stiff as any shad.
j tell you twas the proper time
Fur all the sand he had
Yis, Dave he had II level head,
Ef he wasn't much on dress,
He bounded back along tho track
To save the night express
He heard the rumble of the train
Just ez 1t hove in sight
Around the corner, a sudden gust
O. wind blew out his light.
An thar he stood, the wreck behind,
The comm train before,
A hurryin' on TO sudden death
A hundred lives or more.
There big an bright before his eyes
He saw the headlight gleam,
He heard the rattlin o the wheels,
The sissin' o the steam.
An leapin' from the railroad track,
Ez past the engine flew,
Into the cab with all his might
Dave briggs his lantern throw.
1t struck the startled engineer,
1t fell upon the floor,
1t rolled along into the light
Before the tire-bOX door.
He read the letters 'B. o."
Upon the shattered glass,
He stopped the train before he struck
The pile he couldn't pass!
An Dave, he went to work next day
Jst ez he alwuZ had;
He didn't go a-lOatn' round,
Nor git the g-head bad.
The city papers put him in
An laid the praise on thick
But sho! for all the fuss they made
Dave didn't care stick.
He still is breakin' on the road,
He wars that yaller shirt
A leetle wusS for use, perhaps,
An ruther dark with dirt
He traded Off that damon pin,
Ez sure as you were born,
An got a cluster damon ring,
Humphl damon in horn?
Eugene j. Hall, In Chicago Intsr-Occdn.
a
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-28

The total value of property in Ken
tucky owned by the colored people Is
$3.50. 400.
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-28
a HUMBLE HERO.


The onaintest class OF people IN the West arc
,bn railroad men. Not the miHionaire monOp-
w nIi.ts of Wall street, who manipulate stock
pSnior1s and mortgages, but tho hard worked.
OUOOo",rIy.naid and big-hearted men who drive
PUr' Pp',r Western locomotives feed the roaring
S"os ond risk their necks limbs md lives In
uuIar,horinr up and down, between and over
No cars short time since | found myself
a. a little railroad restaurant at Union, Ind.
7, Iwas on my,way to 1ll lecture appointment
IN Southern Ohio. II was about two o'clock in
" ,hc n,ornIng, and ! had TO wait about three
snrrs for the east bound train. While COM
Tortsbly ton sting my feet upon the great stove,
~ wbilh A flerle soft-coal fire was burning, an
cnoinccr and his fireman entered the room,
with black hands and smutty faces. They
seated themselves ON high stools at the lunch
counter and, calling for pie and coffee, began
a ocbaracteristic conversation relative to their
""ccmnation " in life. Their droll hunor is i'm
Dossble for me to perfectly describe. At last
he od engineer, rubbing the end OF his nose
wth the back of his hand, while his fingers
graSpcd the half OF a plump pumpkin pie, and
holding in his other hand stoaming cup Of
noffcc which he occasionally blew upon to
cool il. with peculiar Western drawl and
deen tone of voice, related the following Incl
dent which at that moment impressed me as
beng one of the grandest recitals had over
listened to- | give his words as nearly as pos
sible. only transposing and changing them
sufliCicntly for verslfcation. | had never
heard of the occurrence before, in which the
hero was brakeman by the name of
The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-28

- Mr.. Wizards financial troubles
have had, according to the London
Globe, bad effect upon promising
young Berlin artist, who had been in
vited by him to paint colossal picture
commemorating the opening of the
Northern Pacific Railroad. The young
man had just begun work on 1t when
news reached him of his patrons
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-03-21
VOL. XXIX----NO. IL.
VARIETIES.

"A near sighted man in q street car, see,
ing woman holding a pug dog on her lap,
asked her if she had left her other children
at home. And she got mad and called him
brute.
-Neighbors are very considerable in Nor
way. When baby is born a placard is
nailed up on the door informing the COM
munity of the fact Those who wish to
move out of the vicinity are thus enabled to
do SO in good season.
PA, what is poetic license?" "Well,
my boy, as nearly as can learn, poetic
license is something which enables man to
say things in verse which would ncarcerate
him in lunatic asylum if worked off at
political meeting"
-"Oh dear, believe ! should faint if q
man asked me to marry himp said giddy,
gushing damsel. Never fear" retorted her
practical grandmother; you might possibly
faint, but fyou wanted him you'd manage
to say yes, before you did So"
When band serenades Gen. Grant il is
the best policy for the members to choose the
easiest tune. The General does not know one
tune from another The other evening, while
band was playing The Last Rose Of Sum.
mer," he said, II always did like Home
Sweet Home especially tina: part oft which
refers to the old oaken bucket"
$50 you have lost your position" said
a father 10 his son who had been working in
a grocery store. Yes" replied the SON
did your employer give any reason for dis
charging you 7" "He said loaded myself
too much from the cider barrel" "Ah, see
And what did you do when he fired you?"
u didn't say word. just went off,"
A dog and his tail fell into dispute as
to which should wag the other. An tin.
Grant wasp, passing that way, casually re-
marked: speaking of tails reminds me that
possess one which may possible be infiuen.
tial enough TO. wag you both. This fable
teaches that ten cents worth of dynamite is
bigger man than church steeple.
The mistress ola house in the city said
to ayoung servant girl fresh from the
pork butcher, has pigs feet" The servant
girl departed and returned few moments
later. please, ma am, don't know. !
couldn't see" But what did you say ?" 81
didn't say anything | looked at Mr. Scott
he had boots on"
While escorting lady home the other
evening a popular doctor attempted to
relieve her cough and sore throat by Civ
ing her lozenge. He told her to allow it
to dissolve gradually in her mouth. No re-
lief was experienced, and the doctor felt quite
chagrined the next day when the lady sent
him coat button, with a note saying he
must have, given her the 9wrong,,skind of
lozenge, and he might need this one
The song birds nearly all build low their
cradle is not upon the tree-tOp. 1t is only
birds OF prey that fear danger from below
more than from above that seek the higher
branches for their nests. A line five feat
from the ground would run above more than