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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26
FROUDE'S PICTURE OF A
TROPICAL VILLA,

The town, Port of Spain, Trinidad, has
between thirty and forty thousand PEG.
pie living in it, and the rain and Johnny
crows between them keep off pestilence.
Outside is large savannah or park
where the villas are OF the successful men
of business. One of these belonged to
my host, a cool, airy hsbitation with open
doors and windows, overhanging portico
and rooms into which all the winds might
enter, but not the sun. A garden in
front was shut off from the savannah by
fence Of bananas. At the gate stood as
sentinel cabbage palm hundred feet
high; on the lawn msngoes, oranges,
papaws, and bread-fruit trees, strange to
look at, but luxurisntly shady. Before
the door was tree of good dimensions,
the stem and branches of which were
hung with orchids which G. had COL
lected in the woods. The borders were
blazing with varieties of the single hibis-
Gus, crimson, pink, and fawn color, the
argest that have ever seen. The aver
age diameter Of each single flower was
from seven to eight inches. Wind stream
ed freely tn rough the long sitting room
loaded with the perfume of orange trees;
on table and in bookcase, the hand and
mind visible of gifted and cultivated
man.
The particular room assigned to my
self would have been equally delightful,
but that my possession of it was disputed
even in daylight by mosquitoes, who for
bloodthirsty ferocity had q bad pre-emin-
ence over the worst that had ever met
with elsewhere. killed one who was at
work upon me, and examined him through
a glass. Bewick, with the inspiration of
genius, had drawn his exact likeness as
the devil-a long black stroke for a body
a nick for neck, horns on the head, and
a beak for mouth, spindle arms, and
longer spindle legs, two pointed wings,
and tail. Line for line there the figure
was before me which in the unforgetsble
tailpiece is driving the thief under the
gallows, and had melancholy satisfac-
ton in identifying him. had been
warned to be on the lookout for scorpions,
centipedes, jiggers and land crabs, who
would bite me if 1 walked slipperless
over the floor in the dark. or these met
with none. either there or anywhere; but
the mosquito of Trinidad is enough by
himself. For malice, mockery, and ven
ON of tooth and trumpet, he is without
match in the world.-From "The English
IN the West indies" By James anthony
Froude.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26
THE sADDEsT SPOT ON EARTH.

THE SADDEST SPOT ON EARTH.
On the second day after our departure
from Ekaterineburg, says George Ken
nan in his article on Siberia, in the May
Century, as we were passing through a
rather open forest, between the village
of Markobia and Tugulimsksya, our
driver suddenly pulled up his horses
and turning to us said: "Yot granitss"
C'Here is the boundary. We sprang
out of the tarantas and saw, standing by
the roadside, square pillar ten or twel, 9
feet in height, Of succeed or plastered
brick, bearing on one side the coat Of
arms of the European province of Peru,
and on the other that of the Asiatic prov
ince of Tobolsk. 1t was the boundary
post of Siberia. No other spot between
ST. Petersburg and the Pacific is more
is more full of painful suggestions, and
none has for traveller more melancholy
interest than the little opening in the
forest where stands this ffief-consecrated
pillar. Here hundreds of thousands ex-
lied human beings-men, women and
children; princes, mobiles and peasant, :
have hidden good-by forever to friends,
country, and home.
No other boundary post in the world
has witnessed has with essed SO much hui
man suffering or been passed by such a
multitude of heort- broken people. More
than 10000 exiles have travelled thisroad
since 1878, and more than 100000 since
beginning of the present century. As
the boundary post is situated about half
way between the last European and the
first Siberian etape, it has always been
customary to allow exile parties to stop
here for rest and for last good-by to
home and country. The Russian peas
ant, even when a criminal, is deeply at
tsched to his native land, and heart-rend-
ering scenes have been witnessed around
the boundary pillar when such party,
overtaken perhaps by frost and snow in
the early autumn, stopped here for the
last farewell. Some gave way to unre-
strained grief; some comforted the weep
ing; some knelt and pressed their faces
to the loved soil Of their native country.
and collected little earth to take with
them into exile, and few pressed their
lips to the European side of the cold
brick pillar, as if kissing good-by for
ever to all that it symbolized.
At last the stern order 'Stroiss" Form
ranks. from the under offices OF the con-
voy put an end to the rest of the leave
taking, and at the word "MRrch !" the
gray-coated troop of exiles and convicts
crossed themselves hastily and all to-
gether, and, with a confused iingling Of
chains and leg-tetters, moved slowly
away past the boundary post into 81
IBERIA.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26
FUSS AND FATHERS.

One of the Bixby children was seized
with fit Of Group the other night. Bixby
heard the little fellows labored breath
ing and, bounding over the footbosrd of
the bed, yelled, Group in about the
same voice that an escaped idiot yells
"Firep' at the theater.
Then he tried to put his trousers on
over his head, but finally got them on
wrong side out, and tore into his shirt
with it wrong side in front.
Jump" he screamed to his wife,
'there isn't second to losel Get the
syrup Of squills! Put on a tub Of hot
water Give him something TO drink Get
hot flannels on his chest Instantly Hur-
ry. hurry Don't lie there doing nothing
while the child is choking to DEATH Fly
aroundw
Mrs. Bixby is one of those meek but
eminently sensible and practical little
women who never get tenth part Of the
credit for the good they do in this world.
While Bixby was racing up and down
stairs, declaring that nobody was doing
anything but himself, Mrs. Bixby quietly
took the little sufferer in hand.
"Do something quick, screeched Blk by.
as he upset pan of hot water on the
bed and turned saucer Of melted lard
over the dressing case. "Here, somebody
quickr' he yelled. Cant anybody do
anything but me? Run for the doctor,
some Of you. Give the child some more
squillsl Is there anything hot at his feet?
Give him aconite! He ought to have a
spoonful of DILL If he don't get relief
instantly he'll die, and here there's no.
body trying to do anything but me.
Bring him some warm water with little
soda in i'll He ought to have been put
in hot bath an hour agol Heat up the
bathrooml What's on his chest? Has the
child got to die because no one will do
thing for him"
Mrs. Bixby, quietly and unsided,
brings the child around all right, and
sits with him until daylight, after she
quieted Bixby down and got him to bed.
The next morning he had the impudence
to say at the office: "One of my little
chaps nearly died with Group last night,
and had mighty hard work bringing
him around all right; but I did after
working like Trojan all night. It's a
terrible disease, and scares women almost
to death; they fly all to pieces right off.
A person wants his wits about him. You
want to keep perfectly cool, and not fool
away a second in Mysteries. TIL ats
where man has the advantage over
women in managing case of Group. It's
mighty lucky was at home to take my
little chap in hand. It'd Bits
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26
A LOST CAR FOUND.

A very singular loss and recovery oc
CURED recently on the Union Pacific near
Laramie. A special freight, running
passenger time, broke in two on the hill,
and the front section ran around a sharp
curve SO fast that it whipped off the rear
car, filled with choice Chinese silks, into
the gulch, where it disappeared from
sight in the heavy brush. The break
was go clean that the two sections we're
coupled together without the single cars
absence being noticed. For two months
that car lay there, while the entire road
was being searched far and near for it.
The other day cowboy rode into a
small station on the line, and casually
asked when they were going to clear up
that wreck down in the gulch. The agent
knew Of no wreck, and thought the cow
boy was joking with him, but at last con-
WINGED he was in earnest, went with him
to the spot. There at the bottom Of a
deep fill, behind huge pile Of boulders
and mass of sage-brush, lay the missing
car. No. SO. 1t was resting on its side,
and, strange enough, the trucks we're in
proper place. The doors were sealed,
and there was nothing beyond few
bruises and dents in the roof and sides
to show that there had been any rough
treatment experienced Omaha Repub-
tican.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26

only pretty, but arrayed in an infinite
variety OF costumes, they dart from
shadow into sunlight and disappear in a
twinkling round q corner or through
doorway. They wear, first, white chsmise,
with gauze sleeves, over it gandours, or
chemiss without sleeves, and reaching
nearly to the ankles. usually of printed
calico, glazing in color, and with spots,
stripes, birds, branches, and leaves; this
gandoura is sometimes of rich brocade
or light silk. Over the first they often
wear q second gandoura of tulle with
design in it, ordinarily nothing more nor
less than common white lace curtain
stuff. ALI the materials hang limp and
hutter when they run; round the waist
broad ceintare and over the shoulders
little bodice. On the head conicaI
cap, always of crimson velvet, more or
less ornamented with gold thread; chill
dren and unmarried girls wear them with
a strap under the chin; married women
tie them On with a colored handkerchief
besides the strap. Their hair is fringed
square,, just over the eyebrows, and
plated down the back. The operation
of dyeing it dark brownish wine-color re-
quires several days, during which time
they appear certainly at disadvantage.
Henna is made into mushy paste and
plastered all over the head, as much as
the hair, being tied up all over, can hold
in place even more, for it runs
down the neck, the cheeks, and into the
ears. The process gives somewhat the
appearance OF head modelled in wax
with the hair studied in masses. The
palms Of the hands, fingers, and the feet
and toes are also stained.-F. A. Bridg-
man, IN Harper's Magazine for Nay.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26
THE BIRDS.

To one who has never studied the birds
of our country and their habits there is
in store quite treat. One Is surprised to
be told that right in the city of Chicago
If he does not live too near the center
of the city-a careful observer in the
course of season can see very many diff
ferent varieties of birds. Watching the
ways of birds affords almost endless en-
ioyment, and we advise all our young
readers to cultivate the habit of observs.
ton just as far as they have opportunity.
1t is a literal fact that nearly all birds
sleep with one eye open; the other will
close sleepily. shut tight, appear to en-
Joy good nap, while the other is wide
shske as ever. Birds are always very
'set" in their ways. A writer in the At
lantic Monthly tells funny story OF
csrdinal-bird, whose drinking cup was
placed in another part of his cage. He
flew down from his perch at once, scold-
ing violently, pretended to drink, looked
over TO the corner where the water used
to be, then resumed to the upper perch.
flirting his tail and expressing his mind
with great vigor. He repeated the per-
Torrance, with much excitement, till the
cup wrs replaced. This bird was very
quick to notice il his mistress wore a
dress of different color, and changing
the position of the furniture nearly put
him into panic.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26
STAR DISTANCES.

The problem of how to measure these
distances has finally yielded to the per-
severing researches OF astronomers in
recent years, and we know now the dis
tances of several of the fixed stars from
the earth with a considerable degree of
precision. Let us take, as the basis of
illustration, the bright star in the South
ern Hemisphere called Alpha Centauri,
which has been found to be nearest to
the earth of all the fixed stars. The dis
lance of this star may be stated in round
numbers to be twenty billions of miles.
Now, billion means a million of mil
lions, so that the distance of Alpha Cen
tauri may be stated to be twenty mil
lions of millions Of miles.
Let US now try to form some concep-
ton, however imperfect, of this amazing
distance. Let us suppose a railway train
to leave the earth, travelling day and
night at the rate of fifty miles an hour
without stoppages. In six months it
would reach the moon, in 200 years it
would reach the SUP, and in 5000 years
it would reach the planet Neptune, the
orbit OF which forms the extreme known
limit OF the planetary system. The same
train, however, would not reach the star
Alpha Centauri in less than forty-two
millions of years. One more illustration
may be useful. Comets, in general, re-
volve in very eccentric orbits. When q
comet is in the perihelion Of its orbit it
is comparatively near the earth; on the
other hand, when it is at the aphelion it
is remote-ir many instances very re-
mote-from the earth. For instance, the
celebrated comet of 1858, known as Don
ati's comet, one Of the greatest comets of
modern times, at the time of its passage
OF the perihelion was distant from the
sun so, 100000 miles, but when it has at
tanned the aphelion of it's orbit (Which
will occur in about 1000 years hereafter)
its distance from the earth will not be
less than 30,000,000,000 miles. Now, our
typical railway train, starting from the
earth would not reach the aphelion OF
the orbit of Donatis comet in less than
10000 years, and yet the aphelion distance
of Donati's comet is only 1700th part of
the distance from the earth to Alpha
Centauri, the nearest of the fixed stars
Good Words.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26
TO MAKE INTERVIEWED WINE

~ MAKE ONF e n IN ENI led WINE.
Express the juice from the grapes.-it
large quantities are needed fruit press
will be desirable-into preserve pan,
add half pound of sugar to gallon of
juice, and bring it to boil. In the mean
time have the bottles we'll heated by boil
ing in kettle of water. When the grape
Juice is at the boil skim off and pour as
quickly as possible into the bottles, cork
tight, and seal with beeswax and rosin.
If the bottles are placed upon a metal
article it prevents any danger of cracking
when filling. The wine does not keep long
after the bottles are opened, and should
soon be used. The cost is about twen-
ty five. cents per quart, and it will keep
for years if properly sealed. This is be-
heved to be the kind of wine our Saviour
used at the institution of his supper, and
also the same as that which the good
Samaritan poured into the wounds of him
who fell among thieves, for had it been
fermented wine it would have irritated
instead Of soothing. For those who can
not procure grapes, raisins will do. We
made wine for our quarterly meeting in
this way: "Two pounds OF good raisins,
chopped fine, pour over them one quart
warm water, let stand on the back of the
stove twenty-four hours, then stew for
fifteen minutes, strain, and color with
raspberry vinegar or beet uice.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26
A WONDERFUL PRINTING MA
CHINE

Tho american BOokmdker describes q
machine which takes in paper at one end
and turns out completely bound books
at the other at the rate of 5000 copies an
hour. There are three great iron cylin-
ders, segmentar in form and each having
diameter Of six feet, and weighing
about three tons each. On one of these
are the forms which do the printing in
quadruple series, the other two acting
solely as impression cylinders. In COM
bination with the cylinder carrying the
printing forms are ink fountains, form
and distributing rollers, while in COM
bination with the impression cylinders
are novel appliances for handling (auto-
matically), revising, assembling, folding,
covering and delivering the complete
books. This remarkable continuance re-
quires eight tons Of paper, with CORE
spending amount Of printing ink, and
this it turns into books in single day.
and it requires twelve box-cars, OF 10000
pounds capacity each, to transfer the
output for single week. This machine
is built in Philadelphia, by it's inventor
and patentee, at whose establishment the
visitor may see in daily and nightly oper-
alton no less than six of these mammoth
machines turning with surprising rapid
ity and regularity their miles of paper
into printed matter ready for the perusal
of the reader.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26
ALGERIAN CHILDREN

must again refer to the children, for
this street was teeming with little ITEM
cenites who had never left, and probably
never would leave, their native town.
The boys, when running about, wear
nothing but a long white chemise and
dark blue. vest, but of all bewitehing
creatures in the world the little girls can
scarcely be surpassed. They are every
where, and must strike a stranger, GER
tainly an artist, as prominent feature
OF interest. Some are going to the bakers,
carrying unbaked loaves piled on plank
on the head; others with little brass.
bound buckets trimming with milk;
singly, in crowds, always fascinating; not
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26
The ftone Sage.
THE SIN OF OMISSION.

1t isn't the thing you do, dear.
It's the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you a bit of headache
At the setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts tonight.
The stone you might have lifted
Out of brothers way,
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say;
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone
That you had no time nor thought for
With troubles enough of your own.
These little acts of kindness,
So easily out of mind,
These chances to be angels
Which even mortals find
They come in night and silence,
Each chill, reproachful wrath,
When hope is faint and tagging,
And blight has dropped on faith.
For life is all too short, dear,
And sorrow is all too great,
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries until too late.
And its not the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you the bitter heart-ache
At the setting of the sun.
-Mdr0dret E. Sdngster, IN Mail and Er
ress,"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26
SCIENTIFIC PARAGRAPHS.
ARTIFICIAL HUMAN EYES.

The manufacture of artificial human
eyes is one Of the most secret of arts. It
is carried on behind strongly bolted
doors. through which outsiders are never
allowed to enter. There are no books
upon the subject. The skilled artisans
are averse to instructing pupils other
than their own relatives. Few exceptions
are made. In France, which is the real
home of-the manufacture, the custom is
to hand the secret down from father to
son. Not over 100 persons in the world
are engaged in the manufacture. There
is just as much difference between an eye
made to order and a stock eye, as the
trade call it, as there is between a coat
made to measure and one bought in a
clothing house. The eye must be fitted.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26

SAID an Omaha clergyman in recent
sermon: "When we Christian people get
the kind of religion that we ought to
have, we will go in a body to the man.
ayers of our newspapers and beg OF them
to have no Monday morning editions.
Then the city editors and reporters and
printers could rest at home Sunday, and
Sunday evening they could attend divine
service. The Monday paper is the one
that compels men to break Sunday"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26

"I believe Miriam is as happy as il
Uncle Ezra had left her fortune. Some
times think I'll break that will yet. il it
isn't too late; then, again, think I'll do
as Miriam hss-be comfortable instead
of stylish" unused Mrs. Holmes The
Christidn Weeklu.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26

THE Advance remarks: There is no
institution or form of Christian influence
dearer to the heart of all thoughtful
Christian people than the Sundsy-school
No live church would for a moment
think of going on without it,"
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-18
METHOD In FEEDING.
The Good Results of System
Shown by Tests.

The Farming World, of Scotland,
gives the following in regard to the care
with which the feeding of animals is
practiced in that country, and its sue
cess.
The feeding is conducted with the
greatest regularity. 1t is Morrison's
duty to weigh and mix the feeding
stuffs every morning, and place the
forenoon supplies in different boxes in
the barn, and these the cattleman car
ries to the feeding stalls. Each bullock
receives daily i'll two feeds three pounds
of Oil cake, three pounds bruised oats
and three pounds of bruised barley and
two pounds of chopped hay all mixed to-
gether. They also get eighty-four pounds
of Swedish turnips, twelve pounds
of long hay, and as much oat straw as
they can eat without wasting any por-
ton. The feeding cattle are weighed
regularly every pay Saturday fort
nightly, and are generally found to
make from two and half to three and
a half pounds per day. Strange to say,
when the bullOckS are prime fat. they
cease to increase their weight, and, on
this being shown on the weighing ma
chine, they are dispatched to the mar
ket. AS long as the bullocks make from
llllCC W ciiti ildlI pOullGS per
day they are kept on. Mr.. M M'Jannet also
keeps two score of half-breed ewes and
a pure-bred Leicester ram. They breed
very useful and profitable type of lamb.
This year he has SO lambs, which have
all been sold, and realized 34s. 4d. each
on an average. The fieeces of the ewes
and ram averaged s lbs, and were sold
for SGD per ID. With these returns
Mr.. M'Jannet is quite pleased and in
tends to continue raising lambs and to
increase his stock of ewes. During the
winter he gives them turnips, hay and
bruised oats. The latter, mixed with
bran, is continued till far on in the
spring, and the ewes are in good con-
dition at the lambing season. The
lambs weigh at birth from lhs. to 10
lbs. for twins, and about Is lbs. for
singles, and on an average make lbs.
per week, and fat lamb weighing S4
lbs. will Weld IS lbs of CARCASS.