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Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07
Margaret.

Beauty she had not neither place nor state;
Not hers the gracious gifts that women
prize,
In learning Of the schools ahe was not wise
She was not anything the world calls great.
Yet, In the quaint old Southern city where
She lived and wrought, In polished marble
Comrade Of Jackson. Clay, and Lafayette,
Her statue rises clean and white and fair.
whs vas she, thus to win such comradeshipi
VIA was she. thus to be immortallzed
with the beloved, honored, idolizedY
Great names forever upon History's lip.
A woman who made bread who at her stall
Or by her bake shop door sat day by day,
Selling her wares In simple, honest way,
very humble womah-that was all.
But everywhere the orphan children say.
cry e out, "Ss "'Twas % she who blessed our hap.
less door,"
while from the past the soldiers blue and
gray
Do speak her praise, and every noble cause
Declares she was our helper; every need
Whispers, she knew not any class nor creed,
But listened always to loves higher laws.
And so she died. and so the people set
Amid their heroes-with a proud consent
This simple womau.crowDed monument,
And carved thereon the one word Margaret
o gracious city he who runneth reads
But in the place you give this humble
name
You prove your faith In loves divlncr deeds.
-Carlotta Perry in Youths Companion.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07
The Yelled MYstery.

There Is a woman in the Treasury
who has attracted much attention on
account Of the mystery surrounding
her. She has been In tho department
for years, not less than ten--and
though she is marked by everybody, l
have never met anybody who has seen
her face. 1t is the talk OF the clerks
brought most in contact with her. She
isa woman Of magnificent presence, q
tall. fine figure, and one OF tho most
perfect foransI have ever seen. Her
appearance is that Of woman who
might possess remarkable beauty, but
she always has her face enveloped In
thick veil In the office or out, at
work or walking through the halls, the
veil is never removed, and the efforts
OF the inqgisitive fellow clerks TO peep
undor 1t are vain. Many susceptible
yonng men, struck by hcr tine figure,
have 9lhckened tlioir step to catch up
with her In the halls, only to find her
face bid from sight No one can tell
whether she Is old or young, but she is
probably not .very either" The mo-
tive for concealing her features is not
known. Whether, like the "Veiled
Prophet" she seeks TO hide vision of
ugliness, or whether she has some other
reason. Is mere matter Of conjecture.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07
Remarkable Christian Names,

Ono Of the clerks in the General
Register Office, Somerset House, kept
by him for years memorandum book
in which he carefully noted the extra
ordinary names given at times by par
ents to their children. Without this
certified evidences by an official one
might always be inclined to doubt tho
genuincness of some of them. But they
are all real enough, as the documents
In the Office show. Here arc few
specimens:
Diewell Sykes, father q weaver
Loyal Thomas Inkpen, father
farmer.
Patience Dinner, wife of husband
man.
Zaphnothpaaneah Drayson, a cooper.
Thankful Joy. His wifes name be-
fore he married her was Payne.
Acts Apostles Tong, witness to
marriage.
Albertena Regina Victoria, daughter
Of q comb-maker, born on Thursday.
Sanspareil Scamp, daughter of John
Scamp, a tinker.
First Son Jones, son OF laborer.
Fergus O'Connor Frost O'Brien Nc
Donnell Hunt Taylor, son of shoe
maker.
John Frost Feargus Bronterre Paine
Smith. son of a printer.
Turnerica Henrica Urica Do Gloria
Dc Lavinia Rebecca Turner, daughter
Of book-keepcr.
Jane StickOlorum, wife of a weaver.
Hostilina Iphigenia Maria Hypsihilc
Wade, daughter Of carpenter.
Prince Albert Daniel Canon, son Of
1aborer.
Zelousiania Chafer.
Matilda French Onion, a spinster.
; james Death, butcher.
Samson Catchasides Kitchen.
Happy George Dadd, son of black
smith.
William Tcatottle Cross, son of a
mechanic.
Primus Community Flitcroft, son of
. bricklayer, born at Queenwood Com
munity.
Martin Luther Spooner. son of
maltstcr.
Coin Teal, a cooper.
Hurbert Pay Day, an engineer, mar
ried 184S.
Isabella Wilhelmina Jacobina Caro-
lima Adelina Cunningham Campbell
MOffat. daughter OF farmer.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07
shopping Customs or Albany.


lsThe shopping customs Of different
citios vary very greatly, writes CORE
spondcnt Of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
l have been to Albany, and thcre
found that the customs were peculiar.
so far as concern some Of the things
which women 90 out daily to buy.
The town has q picturesque feature
borrowed directly from Europe. She
has her market in her principal street,
and 1t Is moro singular than the famous
corn -beef-market In the main street Of
old Nantucket. State street In Albany
Is exceedingly wide. You could drop
Cincinnati's widest street into 1t, and
then have room to drive around it.
This broad thoroughfare in Albany is
considered the hottest spot in tho state
in midsummer, because tho sun has
full play on il, but In winter 1t often
becomes a glacier almost impossible to
mount Every day in tho week the
farmers from miles around drive to
State street, and there arrange their
wagons side by side until they form
two almost solid lines reaching from
Pearl to Eagle street. A horse and
wagon cover twenty feet of ground;
yet after the two lines are formed there
Is room for the two central horse tracks
between the lines, and for carriages to
move in either direction on the sides Of
the street.
At the same time that tho farmers
como the retail grocers, butchers,
boarding-house keepers and the house
holders generally flock around tho
wagons, until the scene puzzles a
stranger, for it looks as though mob
had taken possession Of the street.
Everything produced on farm is to
be found in these wagons; in fact, not
only that, but every thing the farmers
wife can make or her husband can get
hold Of to drive bargain upon is
brought there for sale. Loads OF three
foot hickory logs for rich mems fire.
places, kindling-wood for all mankind,
homemade soap, pure well-water,
which is a godsend in Albany, home
knit stockings, cider, apples. beef,
pork, mutton, horses, ponies, dogs,
poultry, dead and alive, cheeses, skins,
old woman's medicines and herbs, and
no end of other things. At the same
time. and at the foot Of tho long. double
chain of farm wagons, the Albanians
put up at auction whatever they have
that they don't want or are obliged to
part with. The consequence is rag
fair. Strewn upon the cobblc-stones
are old bedsteatls, mattresses, stoves,
pots, kettles, pans, carriages, wash
tubs, bob-sleds, sewing-machines,
shovels, chairs, tables, carpets, cur
tains, and nearly everything else not
mentioned. The cries of the auction
eers, the high-pitched voices of the
shopping women and the hubbub OF
general conversation fill the air with a
confusing sound; the people In the
great crowd shift to and fro and como
and go just as they would be seen to
DO doing around your chief market il
you could lift yourself to the sky and
take bird's-eye view of the scene;
and over all the tumult and the mob
the farmers wives and daughters sit in
the wagon knitting and looking on
complacently like gypsy queens at q
fair, or, better yet, like their distant
relatives at home in the market places
in Holland.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07
The Planchette.

There are some indications that the
mysterious little planchette board, like
roller skating, Is coming into fashion
again. No adequate explanation of it
has ever been received. though many
have been offered. The construction Is
as you see, plain, heart shaped cedar
board fixed upon two metal legs, to
which are adjusted wheels that move
easily and lightly in all directions. At
the point of the heart hole is made.
and a sort of round case is fixed to
hold an ordinary pencil firmly. That
is all there is of it.
Put pencil at tho point, as you soc,
put two hands upon the board, as you
also see. After keeping the hands
lightly and quietly in their places few
minutes, planchette will often begin to
write. 1t usually scribbbles out yes
and no, and scnseless gabble of one
sort or another, to which no import
ance must be attached. 1t is claimed
positively, however, that the board has
written intelligent answers to ques-
tions, which those holding their hands
upon it could not possibly be aware of.
1t may be. But. before believing this
is true, ask some questions and see for
yourself. 1t is one of those cases in
which the word OF no second person
must be taken. Above all, do not have
any superstitions about the thing, tax
ing for granted that the writing Is done
by spirits.
Planchette is merely puzzle. to be
investigated as any other scientific sub
ject would be, on the same sort of evil
dence, and weighed by tho same judg-
menk Don't admit the element Of
humbug and witchcraft and nonsense
and superstition into your soul. Thus
you will not be likely to lose your head,
even when amusing yourself with plan
chette. 1t is fascinating study in
psychological science, nothing more.
1t may be that there are powers and
forces in the human organization that
have hitherto been undeveloped in all
but few exceptional cases. 1t may
be that we are on the verge Of some
marvellous discoveries in mental science.
So much it is safe to admit.
The board writes best in the position
shown, with two hands, a right and
left, upon it. What does the writing
nobody knows. The best authorities
have concluded that it is done uncon-
sciously by tho person whose hands are
upon the board. A nervous fluid is
supposed to pass from the hands and
form current that moves the board.
The explanation ut best is lame one.
But this much 10 certain; Planchette
writing as an entertainment can do NO
harm as long as the exPerimenter does
not lot 90 his common sense and put
superstitious faith in its revelations. =
Utica Observer.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07

him. "You shall marry ner or die!'
And having shaken him twice or thrice,
| flung him from me to the ground.
Even as no fell heard a piercing
scream, and turned to see Valerie.
She, too, had como to meet him!
"You have killed himr she shrieked,
"You have killed himv
She fell on her knees beside him.
He did not move. She called his name
over and over in piteous entreaty. But
he lay dumb, with his white face and
golden curls upturned to the night.
And still she shrieked that l had
killed him.
l leaned over him and listened. "llc
is not dead" said YEARLY; "he has
cut his head on stone in falling"
l wondered then in a dazed way II
she could really hate me, supposing
l had killed him-for her sakeP l left
her chafing his hands and moaning
over him. hastened back to carry
him up.
Valerie's mother listened in bewilder-
ment to my incoherent story. Valerie
still moaned and sobbcd above him in
the drawing-room, where he lay
dying. / felt no regret that he should
die; but my heart ached desperately
for her.
l wanted to speak to her, ere l
should go away for ever.
valerie, Valerie! 1t was for your
sake! Forgive me, Valerie. II you
knew all, you would forgive me-"
She needed me at last. She lifted a
white reproachful face:
'GoN she said in hollow voice.
"Go! You have killed him!'
The look of her eyes drove mo from
the room; was numb; was cold from
head to foot; went mechanically at
her bidding. As crossed the threshold,
going out for ever, heard her fall
heavily to the floor beside him.
l fled through the night, driven by
the awful look in her eyes. would
have died for her-she could hate mo
now.
see, at times, her haunting face.
And yet, if she be dead, it seems to me
that she must understand; that she will
welcome me, moreover, soon, soon,
when 90 hence to search for herl
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07

Some curious revelations as to tho
process by which sermons are manu-
iactured were given in case in tho
law courts recently. A vicar at Dept
ford had, 1t seems, employed tho wife
OF foreman In mandatory thoro
to assist him In concocting his sermons,
promising to ''remember her" in his
will by way Of remuneration. He, how
ever. omitted to make one, and her
claim Of El00 year compensation
was not legally enforceable. though. il
the vicar inflicted two sermons a Sun
day on his congregation, the amount
was not excessive Tor the work done.
For she had to select the subjects and
tefts, and then ''out OF five family
bibles by different authors, she col.
iected the nbtes. references, and author.
itieA and set them In order" The
IDEA ID excellent, and for the increased
improvement In sermons Is 10 be high.
y commended to the wives of clergy.
men, toremen, "and others. "-L0nt1on
~ WV
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07
The Grateful Dog,

Prof. Bouley, of Paris, gives this re-
markable instance of memory in ami
mails: Awatchdog, belonging to the
General Omnibus Company, named
Jupiter, was always spoken of as q
'ferocious" animal, its instincts and
habits being exceptionally savage and
sullen. Only one of the men in the
yard ever ventured within his reach.
Tho dog one day got kick from an
omnibus horse which broke its front
leg. The bandage which was applied
was too tight, and caused infiamma-
ton, which threatened to turn to gam
creme. As it was suffering intense
pain it was taken to M. Vatei, q veteri-
nary surgeon, and M. Bouley applied
an anesthetic of ether before it under.
went an operation by M. Vatel. About
month afterward M. Bouley had oc-
casion to accompany NJ. Vatel to the
omnibus establishment at Montrouge,
OF which place he was the veterinary
surgeon. The moment Jupiter saw NJ.
Bouley he manifested the most demon
strative signs of pleasure. All present
were astonished when M. Bouley pattet.
his head, whilo the poor dog showed
unmistakable signs of recognition and
sympathy. M. Bouley remarks that
the singular point in the affair was the
very short time in which he had been en-
rapport with the dog, the application
OF tho ether being effected in q few
moments. The intensity of the pain at
the time, and the sudden relief, must
have made the deepest impression on
the suffering animal, and we know that
the memory Of such impressions is the
most vivid.
'That brief moment" says M. Bou-
ley, ''sufliced to fix in the brain OF the
dog the impression of my personality,
whether conveyed by sight or by scent;
apd the association Of ideas reproduced,
a month afterward, the feeling of pleas
ure and Of gratitude which had been
experienced on the relief of tho severe
pain by the anesthetic. = Leisure
Hnnr
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07

Passenger, on Pleasatt Valley
car, says the Pittsburg Dtsp6ech, were
considerably amused at q little incl
dent which occurred at the 7th avenue
crossing. A tall, clerical-looking gen.
tleman, with a book under his arm,
stepped on the car, walked In, and de-
posted his nickel In the fare box and
stepped of again. la fi,HAlH.
Conscience money suggested .
fat man, with q market basket. "l'l
bet he's cheated tho company out OF
fare sometime an it's bcen prayin' on
his mind"
"Guess he forgot something" gig
glod giddy college girl with sugar.
loaf hat to slim young man with big
ears who sat by her side.
IA clear case of absent-mindedness,
remarked an old physician. "After
that man has walked a half-square he
will recollect that he started home, and
then he will want some one to kick
him clear down to the 9th street
bridge. The other day. going homo
on the car, saw an amusing caso OF
absent mindedness. A lady residing
on Arch street, and very we'll known
In Allegheny, was on the car. The
driver knew her and stopped the car at
the Arch street crossing. just rs sho
was leaving the car she turned and
said, very politely: u wish you all
good evening" An audible smile went
around the car after she got of. There
wasn't another person on tho car who
knew her besides myself, and am not
acquainted with her. happen to
know, however, that she Is absent
minded, and I suppose she never
thought but that she was leaving the
home Of friend or something OF the
sort.
"The worst case of absent-minded-
ness know OF, however," he contin-
ued, "is that of one Of the professors Of
well-known educational institution.
On Palo Alto street there are q number
of houses which look considerably like
number of others on Monterey street.
The two streets run parallel only Q
block apart. A number of students
have rooms in the Monterey street
houses, and the professor has habit
of dropping in to see the students
evenings without announcing himself.
People on Palo Alto street one night
we're greatly excited by series OF
feminine shrieks, and a minute or two
after saw tall man with his hair
standing straight up dart out Of the
front door with look OF terror on his
face and take rapid gait for Jackson
street. 1t was sometime before tho
neighborhood quicted down. The
story leaked out, however. The young
lady, daughter Of tho household, not
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07

At q recent meeting of tho Philadel.
phia College of Physicians there was
exhibited collection Of dried snake
poisons. They were contained in 4
score or more Of small glass bottles.
and were the venoms secured from rat.
tiesnakes' moccasins, copporheads, Co
bras, daborias and other varieties, and
are to-day as virulent poisons as when
first drawn from the fangs of the living
reptiles. Colored drawings were also
shown representing the action Of these
deadly fluids on the systems of pigeons.
An exhibition was also given of the
sphygmograph, or pulse-writer, the
arm OF colored waiter being utilized.
The delicate instrument faithfully re-
corded tho pulsations Of tho subject on
asmoke-blackened sheet Of mica. I
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07

In reviewing postlumous work by
DIR. Rolleston OF the British Museum,
whose early death was thought to be
partly due to the large demands made
upon his mental and bodily powers,
the Lancet relates the following: The
Professor was returning home after o
hard days work In the museum, when
Q stranger accosted him with, .Ah,
Prof. Rolleston. ! am glad to have met
you. for ! find ! have half ain hour to
spare. and should be SO much obliged
II you would show me over the muse
you have found spare half hour. : in
terrupted R0lleston;. for Coda sake
give It to me; have been looking for
Il all day."
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07

An invitation to dinner among the
middle-upper classes OF Japan frequent
Iy commences about as follows: II beg
pardon for thus insulting you in beg.
ging your company ut my house to din
ner. The house 10 small and very
dirty. Our habits are rude and yogu
may not get anything fit TO eat; and
yet hope that you will condescend 10
be present with us at 9 o'clock the 9th
OF December" On arriving Il tbs
house you find itspotlessly clean, tasty
In arrangement. and the host and hosf.
ess afiable. The bill OF fare consists Of
ten or fifteen courses, the best the
market can afford. All the self.humil.
istion OF the host is the method adopt
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07

HE new sixpence rate for kilograms
70 az parts OF Great Britain Is not such
reduction as at first appears. Tho
present rate 10 one shilling for twenty
words, exclusive Of the address. Under
the new law the address Is counted and
charged for. and the minimum twelve
Instead Of twenty words
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-07

The American climate is treating
kindly the 0belisk In Central Park.
New York. adverse reports 10 The con-
trsry.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-12-05
Farmers, Look to Your I'm.
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