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Year: 1879

A lady gives this incident of her visit
TO Nassau, in the West Indies group;


Besides the surf and the shells, and
the lighthouse and the blockade run
ner. and the bathing, there is not much
to be seen at Hog Island, and visitors
are soon ready to re-embark and skim
along the bright waters of the "Sea
Garden" where the boat is mOOred, and
if the waters are calm enough the white
sand of the sea-bed may be seen glim-
mering up through the waves. But
presently Sampson produces his water
glass"-a square box, one end open, the
other fitted with common window glass ;
this end is thrust into the water for a
few inches, and the observer looking
into the open end is disposed to think
SIMPSONS simple-looking apparatus is
the veritable magic glass Of the old
stories, for through it a new world
opened.


Upon the white sand of the sea-bed
there grew as in a garden such marvel
Gus shapes of form and beauty as one
never sees in the upper air, for, like
many another lovely thing to pluck the
flowers of the garden is to destroy them
to make them ones own is to lose
them forever. Sea-furnS or Sea-tanS
wave their delicate foliage, tinted of
every shade of yellow and orange from
white to the deepest of gold, of dusky-
red and brown, and all but black the
sea-anemone, that wonderful hybrid of
flower and animal life, blooms or
breathes in evervarying tints F.; seaweed
of every shape and color floats idly in
the marvellous water; coral and sponge
grow year by year into forms of beauty
and use, and in and out of the subter
ranean grove glide the birds of this fair
garden, the dainty shining blue-fsh, and
many another fnny aristOCrat who seems
to find this his fitting home.


The boatmen always carry, among
other furniture of the boat, a boy or
two, dressed in diving trowsers and not
much else, who is here ready, for a
modest compensation, to dive and bring
up any special specimen ofsponge, coral
or sea-fan which the yoyager may point
out, and it is rather a peculiar sight to
watch one of these sable mermen tug
ging with both hands at a toughiy rooted
specimen, his feet waving fn-like above,
and presently returning breathless to
the surface bringing his spoil in tri-
umDh,
Year: 1879

We were at the Cafe Chautant the
other night. il is Il building somewhat
larger than the COrcoran Gallery of Art
in Washington. It is q great place for
music, songs and dances. There was one
very amusing feature. During one of
the e1ltr'dcicS they brought on an artist
who was billed TO paint marine view
in six minutes, all finished for hanging
(the picture not the artist)


The canvas was brought OH.


Out came the artist, a quiet, nervous
looking young man, about thirty years
of age.


His colors were all upon the palette,
and his brushes were in his hand.


Attention % cried out the director.


The artist seized a huge brush.


At a signal the orchestral band struck
up a clashing, maddeningly nervous
waltz.


As the first stroke was struck the artist
dashed a mass of yellow upon the upper
part of the canvas. Then a bit of blue,
then white; dash Of purple shadow,
and then with a quick twirl of 4 clean
brush, a dark blue sea is dashed in
against the horizon.


Two minutes gone.


The waltz goes OH faster and faster.
The brush keeps time. A huge rock is
sketched in with burnt sienna and black
A lighthouse Win a vermilIion range
lights dropped upon thetOpO of the rock.


Clash, crash, one, two, three, a boat
under full sail is thrown into the dim
distance. Clash, crash, one, two, three,
and another boat is dashed in. Light
upon the waters is thrown i'll with free,
steady hand. A huge brush then care
fully blends the edge of the masses, and
with a profound bow the artist turns TO
the cheering audience, gratihed that he
is through on time.


And the wonder is that the picture
is tolerably good in its broad effect II
is strong and clear. The cOlors are good,
and not muddily mixed. It was as good
a novelty as ! ever saw at any show, and
ii beats all how it amused the French
people.
Year: 1879

One would naturally suppose that a
man who had suffered all the hOrl OTs
of hanging, Just short of actual death,
would never risk the gallOWs again; but
such, in one case at least, was not the
result. A hOusebreaker, named Smith,
was hanged at Tyburn, Dec. "a, 17O5, and
when he had hung nearly fifteen minutes
the people shouted, "A reprieve" He
was cut down, bled, and recovered. When
asked what his feelings had been, he
replied, in substance, that when lie
was turned of, he for some time was
sensible of very great pain, OccasiOned
by the weight of his body, and felt his
spirits in a strange cOmmOtiOn, violently
pressing upwards; that having forced
their way to his head, he, as it were, saw
a great blaze, or glaring light, which
seemed TO 60 out Of his eyes with flash,
when he lost all pain. That after he was
cut down, and began 10 come to himself,
the blood and spirits forcing themselves
into their former channels, put him, by
a sort of pricking or shooting, to such
intOlerable pain that lie could have
wished those hanged who cut him down.
Ever afterward he went by the name of
"half hanged Smith" This fellow soon
returned TO his former evil habits, and
was again tried at the Old Bailey for
hOuse-breaking, and the jury brought
in a special verdict, leaving the affair
to the decision of the twelve judges,
who decided in favor of the prisoner.
Even this second wonderful escape did
not deter him from resuming his NAL
practice, and third time he was to have
been brought to trial, but the prosecutor
died before the day appointed, and thus
he once more got free.
Year: 1879

To MANAGE MEN.-To use men, to
manage men, to reap a golden harvest
through their learning, culture, wisdom,
genius and experience, one must know
what stuff they are made Of. Napoleon
knew men, and his presence in a large
French army was equal to forty thousand
soldiers. No man can get very much
from his own labor alone; he must
know how to employ other men.
Emerson says, "a man who knows men
can talk well onpolitics, trade, law, war,
and religion, for everywhere men are
led in the same manner" Again: "The
merchant works by the bookkeepers
and cashiers; the geologist reports the
surveys of subalterns." As beasts help
man when tanned and trained, so men
help men; but the better you under
stand the animal, and the more wisely
he is managed, the more you can get out
of him, and the better for all concerned.
To be a manager Of men is more than
wealth.
Year: 1879

A lily grew by the River Of Life


Tender and meek, and fair.
Ont over the waves of the troubled tide,
That tossed themselves by the lily's side,


She breathed a perfume rare;
And vuya-eTs drifting down in the sea
Weary with labor and strife, maybe


Were cheered by the fragrant air.
swee.;y the sunshine. and softly the rain.


Fell where the lily grew:
And the wind that heaI on the rivers breast
scarce touched the leaves OF the Ily's crest


AS o er her head il flew:
And when night cluuded the strand and stream,
serene and Eu'y the golden gleam


or welcoming stars broke through.
But Time stood thoushtuIly whetting his scythe,


Close 10y the bank one day,
Where a flood Of glory. vapor fair
As If an angel were brOOdlng there


Over the lily lay:
And ever the fragrance pure and sweet.
Rose from The gloom that grew at his feet


Seeming the son breath OF May.
Then long o er the blossom with tender eyes


Time bowed his wlinklcd head;


Christ blesses the flowers that the earth doth mis-
What If send 10 the Savior this!


That aged reaper SAID.
He turned the glass IN his trembling hand;
Silently. swinly the shifting sand


Ran through in a silver thread.
BE Eazed down the river-the crimson bars


OF sunset filled the West:
The beautiful gates-they are open wide;
] II lay the lily afoat the tide


On some warm wave al rest
And gently then as a mother would,
He knelt where meekIy the sweet flower stood.


And gathered her 10 his breast.
And he placed her rondly anoat the stream;


Peacefully there she lay,
As a chld1n its cradle sinks TO sleen
When evening s earliest shadow creep,


SHINING as still al play:
And while Time stood IN the twilight there.
The sweet wind kissing his snOw-white hair
She passed from his sight away,
The lily grows by the River Of God
Tender, and meek. and fairl
Out over the waves Of the peaceful tide.
That ripple soft by the lilys side
She DreaIhed a perfume rare!
Ana vOyagers passing the pearly gates
Find rest. at last. where the loved one waits
With Chrst-her Christ over thereI
Year: 1879

The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Sunday Press, says the
trial of Chastine Cox for the murder OF
Mrs. Hull, is set down to commence on
Monday, but as MIR. WIN. +. Howe, his
counsel, has already commenced his
legal tactics it is hardly likely the trial
will begin then, and perhaps not for
several months. A writ of habeas cor
pus was IT, ken out this week, and a
certiorari to compel the Coroner to fur
nish the testimony taken at the inquest
upon which the prisoner was commit.
ted. A large number of medical men
will be summoned TO prove from this
and the postmortem examination of her
body that Mrs. Hull was not murdered
at all. 1t is true that the respectable
Mr.. Cox has repeatedly acknowledged
that he pressed all the weight Of his
body on her chest; that he put a gag
in her mouth and forcibly held it there
until she ceased to breathe; but all
this did not kill the woman. She died
from fright. The insanity dodge will
also form part of the defense, and for
this the darkey is already reh"arsing.
The head of the Society for the Proven
tion of Cruelty to Animals and the
ladies are also interesting them, elves
in MIR. Cox's behalf, SO that it i, not
improbable he will yet walk the streets
a free man,
Year: 1879

Senator Window is looming up as a
Presidential candidate He asserts his
dignity by refusing to be any mans
candidate. If the Convention wants
him it will let him know, and he will
be at hand for service. In doing so he
not only honors himself, but improves
whatever opportunity he has as an aspi.
rant.
Year: 1879

A monk on his way to Luzarche the
other day fell in with O stranger riding
in the same direction, with whom hee en-
tered into conversation and was charm
ed with the agreeable sallies of his COM
panion. The latter learning from the
monk that he was in charge Of sum OF
money belonging to this convent, and
was proceeding thither, observed that he
himself was likewise travelling toward
that part of the country, and that by
taking a short cut through the forest
they would materially abridge their
journey. When they were in the thick
of the wood the stranger dismounted
from his horse, seized the monks bride
and with many threats insisted on his
delivering up the money he had with
him. II do not carry it about me- re-
piled the other; "allow me to get off my
horse, and I will call the lay brother
who follows me with the baggage and
hand you over the 1000 liyres." The
stranger consented, and the monk, re,
Joining his attendant, took fro a him 3
purse containing the sum specified and
also pistol, which he hid in his sleeve;
then, throwing the purse on the ground,
he waited until the robber was in the
act of stopping to pick it up, and shot
him through the head. fastening to the
nearest village he related what he had
done to the authorities, and obtained
permission for troop of gems d'armes to
accompany him to the spot, where they
found the robber lying stone dead, with
the purse by his side. Searching his
person, they discovered in q secret
pocket whistle, which one of the party
put to his mouth and blew with all his
force. A few minutes after ten well
armed individuals arrived from different
parts of the wood, and combat ensued,
which resulted in the death of two OF
the gang and the capture Of the re-
mainder.
Year: 1879

The percentage of people who are un-
successful, in the worldly sense Of the
word, is very large one. Often God
snatches away, by His providence:
through no apparent fault or failure OF
theirs, the fruit of mems labors wien
it is just dropping, ripened, into their
hands. Other men come into life hope
lessly destitute of the "knack" for get
ting ahead at anything. The farmer who
thinks he is makinga good bargain when
every one else sees that it is 4 bad one;
the schoolteacher who does not know
how to win the confidence or inspire: the
enthusiasm of her pupils; the minister
whose ways" repel people when ne
takes the most pains to win their eooo
will-such persons are found every.
where. They do the best they know
how, butthey don't succeed. And since
it IS IN experience that is diVlnely, as
signed to so many, we must conslaue
that the ministry Of poverty and deieae
is often better for US than any "orGiy
success could be. blessed are they who
make money or achieve prominence
did not find place in the Beatitudes-
does not, in fact, sound much like them.
GOOD Comm my.
Year: 1879

Celia Thaxton writes from Maine,
where the painter Hunt committed sui
eide short time since: At the top Of
the ledge behind the cottage at Apple
dore is a tiny basin followed out of the
rock to catch the rains, shallow reser-
voir filled with water. which is con-
Quoted by pipes to the wharf for the use
of the small steam yacht Pinaiore, which
plies continually between the islands
during the season. It is q lovely place,
this little sheet of tranquil water lying
cut on the top of the rocks, open to the
sky and rejecting Its every tint and
change as perfectly as the great ocean
beyond it. Hunt and his sister had sat
together near it in the pleasant days,
while she sketchediit and the gable Of the
house close by, and he often said how
pretty it was. Round it the fragrant
bayberry bushes cluster thickly, and till
late the wild roses blossom in sweetness.
At its brim all summer long the little
birds come to drink and to wash, with
twinkling wings ruff1ing the bright sur
face; often I watched them from my
window at tsunrise-sparTows, swallows,
sandpipes, that made the place musical
with melodious cries. Here on that
Monday morning, when all our little
world was seeking him, ! found all that
was left of our beautiful friend floating
upon his face. while the wind fluttered
a fold Of his long coat which lay on the
water, dark in the still and sunny glitter
of the surface elsewhere unbroken. In
q amoment help was on the spot, and un-
availing efforts to resuscitate him were
made, 6utli had been gone some hours;


He had not seemed more depressed
than usual; he sat with us by the fire
a while after breakfast-it had been
raining-then he went cut and we never
saw him again. 1t was an hour or two
before we were really reused to ALARM
about him, for each one thought him in
this or that place where he was accus-
toned to be, and no anxiety entered our
hearts, for of such catastrophe we could
not dream,
Year: 1879

There is a curious old custom kept up
in the United States Senate chamber.
On each side of the Vice-President's
seat are fastened two old snuff boxes.
They are the result of a custom inaugu-
rated almost OF the foundation of the
government, when snuff-takiug was a
Universal habit. Thurman is the only
Senator who makes habit of using
snuff, but sometimes Senator will stop
and take an occasional pinch, while the
many visitors to the chamber take lit
Tie out of curiosity. At first the box
was kept on the Vice-President's desk,
but in those days 50 many of the Senators
used the article, and so frequently forgot
to bring their boxes with them. that il
was resolved to place two public re-
ceptacles for it, and in the annual eN-
penses of the Senate is always found the
item ofsnuff.
Year: 1879

The Naples Qtaly) correspondent of
the London Times writes: The Neapol-
itans have their shooting season as well
as the English, and it is now at its
height. If they cannot boast Of grouse,
they do of quails, and these are coming
in by thousands. If you cast your eye
round the bay you will see that along
every mountain top is stretched net,
or series of nets. attached to poles of 4
great height. They have long been in
course of preparation-perhaps since the
10Th of August. for who knows when the
foreign visitors will come in? They are
as capricious as many human travellers,
and are regulated by unseen atmos-
pheric influences. A clear sky and Il
gentle soutneasterly wind seem to be the
best conditions for their journey, just
such as we had last night; and as soon
as it is dark the watchers and their
friends assemble ut the parata ON which
each net is erected, waiting with anXi-
Gus expectation. 1t is festive occasion,
50 much so that the jollity is greater
than caution demands. The wind is
found to be somewhat too high, so down
come the nets. But there is a lull;
there is a rush in the air and up 90 the
nets again, and one hears "puff, puff
as the poor birds are intercepted. Every
now and then there is haul down to
secure the prisoners and .hen haul up.
This goes on till the morning. when the
enemy appears in double force. A crowd
of peasants have assembled, who shout
till they are hoarse in order to drive the
birds into their nets, so that from the
dawn of day there is no repose for
any one within a mile of the parata


Besides these there is an army of sports
men armed with guns, many of which
no prudent man would touch. But let
them keep at certain distance from the
nets, rs the law commands, or they will
| be denounced or receive some personal
injury. Attached to every net is cage
full of blind quails as decoys for the
visitors. They have had their eyes
pierced by a red-hot wire, and their
melancholy plants, mistaken for sing
ing, WOO many bird to it's doom.
know a priest who has one hundred and
fifty of these mutilated birds, and is con-
sequently one of the most successful
sportsmen of the locality. What q
priest does cannot be.wrong, and his ex-
ample is pretty generally followed.
Year: 1879

Down the vista OF the ages,
Saints and sinners, fools and saSos,
Marching onward, slow and solemn,
Go in never-ending column
Here the honest, here the knave-
With q rythmic step sublime,


To the grave.
Like the rolling OF the river,
Going ON and Oh forever.
Never resting, never staying,
Never for On instant straying,
Peer and peasant, lord and slave,
Equals soon to mix and minSle


In the grave.
Duty cannot, nor can pleasure,
For a moment break the measure;
They are marching on to doom,
They are moving 70 the tomb,
All the coward, all the brave,
Soon to level all distinction


In the grave.
Since the morning OF creation,
Without break or termination,
Ever on the line is moving
All the loved and all the loving,
All that mothers ever gave
On to silence and to slumber


In the grave.
Here no bribe the bond can weaken,
Hero no substitute is taken;
Each one for himsell-no other,
Son nor father-no, nor brother;
Love the purest cannot save;
Each alone the roll must answer


At the grave.
Who commands the dread procession
Who shall know no retrogression?
Who Gun be the great director?
Ha. that grim and grizzly specie,
Him that sin to satan gave;
Death, the mighty king Of terrors,


And the grave.
Year: 1879

A singular story is told ny John
Lather, of Dorsey county, Ark. in the
columns of the Little Rock GLzete. he
has q daughter who suddenly lo5t her
voice and hearing when she was little
girl some fifteen years ago. One night
last week he was passing his daughters
room, when he heard strange voice.
Arousing his wife they crcpt noiselessi!y
in, and with thrills of joy saw that their
dumb daughter was talking in her sleep.
The mother clasped the girl in her arms,
but when awake she again lost her voice.
Since then she has been heard to talk
aloud in her sleep, speaking generally OF
the occurrences in the household of the
day before. A deaf and dumb youth OF
the neighborhood. who has been looked
upon as the girls lover, was prostratedi
with grief upon hearing that his girl
could talk.
Year: 1879

A man in Pennsylvania noted for his
generosity lately had 800. 600 left him
asa legacy. Beggars of, all manner of
causes, good, bad and Indifferent. focked
upon him 80 fast that lie adopted the
plan of stating to each the amount of
his legacy, and the fact that he had hosts
of applications, and the inquiry in view
of all this, how much he ought to be
expected to give the applicant. The
then applied for he noted down,
and promised an answer in six months
from the time he got his legacy. At the
end of that period he added up the
amounts applied for and found the sum
total thereof was S700, 900. :.
Year: 1879

Sum people marry bekase they
think wlmmin will be scarce next year,
and live to wonder how the stock
holds out. Sum marry to get rid Of
themselvs, and discovery that the
game was one that two can play at
and neither win. ~ :


Sum marry for love without q cent
in their pocket, nor u friend in the
world ,ner a drop Of pedigree.


This looks desperate but is the
strength Of the game.


h Sum marry IN haste and then set
down and think it carefully over.


Sum think it carefully over fust and
then net down and marry.


No man kan tell jist exactly what
calico has made up her mind tow do.


Calico don't know herself. Dry
goods Of all kinds is the child OF
circumstances.
Year: 1879

+ Some boys undertook te play base ball
In field where ram was feeding re ;
Gently. He butted the short stop
through picket fence and forced III
the rest to make home run. The boy
who was butted through the fence wsa
sc0re with him. go
Year: 1879

There was q pretty hubbub in So
ciety when it became known that the
earl of Beauvray-or George de Vray,
as he now simply called himself--was
going to abandon his title and estates
to a man who had been a city clerk.
Lord Beauvray himself did his ut
most to make the thing public; for as
the legal tormalities for reinstating
his cousin into his rights would re-
Year: 1879

MR. TILDEY is reported to have sold
,ut his stock in the New York elevated
airoads, and to have made three or
four million dollars by the transaction.
Thus the great reformer is replenish-
ing his barls for the campaign of 1880
Year: 1879

A year or so ago we remember to have
read an account of New York truckman
who was experimenting in reducing the num-
ber of times per day that he fed his horses.
The animals were worked hard, but the
owner omitted giving them their noon meal
altogether. The horses left the stable at Z
o'clock in the morning, and were returned at
half past six in the evening, thus going about
twelve hours without feeding. The amount
of oats morning and evening was increased !;
though the aggregate feed per day was on an
average about two quarts less than when the
same horses were fed three times. The
owner found that the horses did more work,
were healthier and more thrifty than before.
The horses had the best care and grooming,
of course.


The result is probably due to the fact that,
according to long known principle in
physiology, violent exercise Immediately
after hearty meal impedes digestion, es-
pecially if the meal be taken after the ex-
haustive labor of the forenoon.


If any of our readers are to try the ex-
pertinent they should begin by gradually re.
ducing the noon meal, and when entirely
withheld, they must still give the horse the
usual rest at noon.-Farmer's Rsvieao.