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Year: 1874

form was slight and delicately moulded p
''Oh, if you had ocular demonstration
OF the fact, l yield. Might it not have
been Mary Lewis ?"


mo, She is too tall"


Linen clearly, it is as | suspected
Mary Frazier-and l congratulate you,
my dear boy, for having SO stumbled upon
a happy fate in the dark. She IS, doubtless,
the dearest little woman in the world, and
a perfect lady withal" The handsome face
OF the young physician cleared and he
redeemed visibly, as he answered:


u mad not thought of her other than to
admire her gentle and sweet manner and
radiant, intellectual face. Somehow she
IS always 50 reticent and retiring that [
have found it rather hard to get on with
her.


II You had been better read in the WAYS
OF woman, this alone would have con-
vlnced You that she was more interested
IN You than she was willing to acknowl-
edge, even to herself"


"a thousand thanks, Doc confess that
you have helped me wonderfully, and if 1t
is indeed the lovely Mary Frazier to whom
am atiianced, and by whom believe my
sell greatly beloved, l will try not to be
wholly miserable"


The next morning, according to the
advice he had received, DR.. Collins called
upon Miss Frazier AS she arose to greet
him, sudden uplifting OF pair of soft
brown eyes. and npsurging Of the tell-tale
blood convinced him that lie was upon the
right track


cot course" he said taking her hand
and looking down into her timid and blush
ing face, you expected me last night ?'


"Certainly; and | presume | ought to
giveyou lecture for not coming she re-
Piled, smiling sweetly through the roses.


'l most surely deserve it But you are
aware one is never certain Of a physician.
His time is not always at his own com
mand, and you must be confident, pressing
engagements kept me from this dearer
one He blushed as he said the words,
though he found no hard task to again
seek the lips OF the lovely girl. DR.. Pc
ters, Mary Norris and "her Charley''
danced not many months afterward at the
wedding Of Mary Frazier and Dr. Collins,
and who could not help drawing compari
sons between the two, and most favorable
to his own sweet, gentle wife. And as the
years 90 by he never ceases to thank fate
for the rare gift bestowed upon him in the
dark
Year: 1874

CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA. The ravages
of diphtheria in Australia have been so
extensive within the last few years that
the Government offered large reward for
any certain method of cure, and among
other responses to this was one by MIR.
Greathead, who at first kept his method a
secret, but afterwards communicated it
freely to the public 1t is simply the use
of sulphuric acid, of which four drops are
diluted in three-fourths of tumbler Of
water to be administered to a grown per-
son and smaller dose to children, at in
tervals not specified. The result is said to
be coagulation of the diptheritic mem
brane and its ready removal by coughing
1t is asserted that where the case thus
treated has not advanced to a nearly fatal
termination, the patient recovered in al
most every instance.
Year: 1874

There is much said about ewes being
too tat to breed well. In my experience
Of twenty years, | have never seen any
thing that led me to think so, providing
the flesh was put on with good pasture
during the summer, and a few roots with
good hay during the winter. The tatter
sheep become under these circumstances
the more valuable should consider them.
There is a time in the year when it pays
better to feed small allowance Of grain
daily than in the fall, after the feed gets
frozen. and it is not necessary to bring
the flock to the barn.


1t is an old saying, that ''sheep well
Novembered are half wintered." Keep
the ewes fat and the lambs will be fat and
the tiecces heavy. l do not say whether
it is better to have the lambs come early
or late, but do say that it is best to have
them fat then, whether early or late they
are saIeable. All ewes, that with good
care, will not raise n lamb and shear four
pounds washed wool, should be sold. |
have them in my flock that will shear nine
pounds, and raise pair OF twins, and it
costs no more to keep one than sheep
that shears only three pounds. | think no
one will hear the man who keeps his flock
in this way. complaining his sheep are
run OUT and do not pay. and the like


Ticks must be kept out of the flock )
they are the worst enemy of the sheep. ii
they are not killed they will destroy the
sheep For killing them | have never
tried anything better than strong toboc-
co juice,


Here are some good suggestions from
the Agriculturist: every farmer should
have small room, tight and warm, which
he can lock, and where he can keep his
small tools. Then he wants good solid
work bench, with an iron vice on one side
and wooden one on the other. For iron
working, he wants solid piece of iron
for an anvil, seven-pound steel-face ham
mer, riveting hammer, one large and
one small cold chisel, two or three punches
from IA to 3-o inch. a rimmer and coun-
tersink, to be used with bit-stock, a screw
plate that will cut screw from 4 to 3-e
inch then. with round iron OF the various
sizes, and ready-made nuts he can make
any bolt he wishes. For carpenter work
he wants square, shaving horse, draw
ing knife, a set of planes, auger from one
half to tive inches, fine hand saw, with
coarse cross-cut and rip saw, large cross
cut saw for logs, and a grind-stone.
Year: 1874

WIND POWER. We have often thought
that we might make greater use Of the
wind as motiye power. There are l2,-
900 wind-mills in Holland and Flemish
Belgium, each doing from six ten horse
power service, according to the strength
OF the wind and working twenty
hours per pay, and every day in the month
during the rainy season, and when the
SHOWS and ice are melting and the streams
are high. The annual cost OF the wind
mills in Holland is $4 100000. Twenty
times that sum would not operate steam
power sufficient to do the work, for all the
coal consumed in Holland has to be i'm
ported from England or Belgium
Year: 1874

STUFFED CABBAGE Take large, fresh
cabbage and cut out the heart; fill the
place with stuffing made of cooked
chicken or veal, chopped very fine and
highly seasoned and rolled into balls with
yelk of egg; then tie the cabbage firmly
together and boil in covered Kettle tor
two hours. This makes delicious dish,
and is useful for using small pieces of cold
meat
Year: 1874

A root from an oak tree growing on the
farm of N w. Burnett, in South HadIey,
has grown into a seam IN rock, and by
its growth has lifted the mass, weighing
more than ton, to the height of one foot.
Year: 1874

WILLET & IBBEY.-This enterprising firm
announce to-day a reduction in the price of
Lumber at their establishment in Washing
ton, D. G. Read their list Of prices and save
your money by giving them call.
Year: 1874

IIrTL MAY lives near our creek, and often
she comes down 10 the meadow TO talk with her
big brother. when be g at work. lie 3 a very
knowing man, | can tell you for the reason that
he keeps his eyes and cara open when he $ opt
Of doorI, and when he il indoors he fills all i.is
odd moments with reading.


Well. May came crying 70 hia, the other day,
to tell him how she had broken her mother 3
beautiful china vase. The vase was very cold,
May poured hot water into it. The poor child
could not see how 50 simple a thing should have
broken the delicate china into pieces. lie tried
to explain to her how all the tiny PARTICLES OF
the china had drawn closer together with the
cold. while, if the vase had Ibeen standing by
the fire they would have moved al!ttla bit FIR her
apart from each other, for cold contracts, while
heat expands This you .ittlest folk will read
about in your Natural Philosophy, some lime. J
| Now l. being "a ack-in-lhe- Pulpit conld see that
| the vase was ever 80 little smaller by standing
in the cold aud that pouring in the hot water
would make in expand too quickly, or cause
ing the inner Surface before the outside had
caught the idsa. thus causing i: to break, But
Nav being only little girl, dil not have eyes
sharp enough to see this, though they are as
bright IA bright can te; the difference IN the
| size Of the vase in the cod or ia the heat Is 81
very, very small But she will remember now
not 10 pour hot water into cold china or glass
or cold water into hot china or glass. unless
now this Id the great secret the big bi other tolC
TO little May she first puts into the vase o.


whatever it may be, a silver spoon. The metal
he said, draws the first shock of the heat o


cold to ITSELF and thus the glass will not b.


broken Was he right From " Jdc; sn-t1e
Pn7pft" an 81. Ntcho'ds for Marc
Year: 1874




BY PROF. STEPHEN ALEXANDER OF PRINCETON COL


LEGE.


This brief paper merely contained a few
interesting suggestions small correction Of tho
velocity of light deduced from experiment


In accordance with the undulatory theory the velocity
OF light must be less In atmospheric air than in vacuo
the inverse ratio OF the index Of reirsctlon OF
atmospheric air to /; that is as l to IOOOl9i The
velocity then ascertained by experiment under the
cir should be increased by Just about OOOO29 OF itself
be equal TO that in yacuo; G., to the extent almost
exactly OF So miles per second very small quantity
indeed in comparison with the whole velocity
miles per second and yet small as II isand small
10 be below the limits Of of the experiments in
questOnit yet very closely equal three times the
velocity OF the earth Ia its orbit.


Ii Is an outstanding excess and more, with which
we often nave 10 do, as for example, In the
ment OF teperature but the scale which those diff
ferences sometimes present themselves makes them
I'm comparison with ordinary standards Prof AeXan-
der not aware that anything has yet been put for
ward elsewhere on this subject.


Prof Hilgard remarked that the postulate of this
paper that the undulatory theory required that
light must move more slowly ia air than in vacuo
was not By any means settled There had been an
approximate experiment-on alteration by Prof
Airy who filled telescope with water aud sent
light through it-but no deviation was observed
after the most careful observations. We are moi
sufficiently acquainted with the character and
properties of the luminiferous ether to speak with
certainty on these, subjects but the investigation ID
well worthy of the highest effort Prof Henry
Year: 1874

NJ Tweed from hs present quarters to his regular du-
ties as orderly OF tho hospital


Resoired That the hospital he declared open and the
resoinQn Of the Board regard 10 0rdorlos remaining
In the hospital be enforced at once.


The resolution was adopted and will be forwarded To-
day TO the Warden OF the Penite ntaTy. when Txeef
will finally he compelled TO resume his work IN tho
wardrOOm
Year: 1874

The question whether a gentleman
walking will, 4 lady should give her
his right or left arm, is frequently dis
cusSed. Customs and written eti-
quctte are rather in favor of the
right, although there are excel
lent reasons III behalf of the left
arm. Either one or the other. per-
manemtly retained. is vastly better than
the awkward and absurd habit of
changing arms, >o AS to place the lady
on the inside of the promenade. one
advantage of giving the left arm is.
that the person on the right naturally
takes the lead, So that. in the country
or city, in the street or park, he thus
readily directs the way, instead of wait
ing to consult his companion, or caus-
ing Il .iostling Ivy each of them trying
to move to opposite points. Another
advantage il. that in Il crowded thor
oushi.re, such as Broadway, for cN-
ample, where the sidewalk is invari-
ably encumbcred with merchandise
and thronyed with people. a gentle
man needs his right arm to remove OBJ
>tructions and keep rude or careless
folks out of the way.
Year: 1874

has returned to the city and established an
III Office at


No. "a South Court Street.
The office is on the first floor, and has been
newly fitted up with all the cOnTentences ne
cessary for the care OF patients who may put
themselves under his treatment. mhS
Year: 1874

@ The removal of ice from the St.
Lawrence River in the spring by the use
of nitro-glycerine is proposed. The
method suggested is to plant the ex-
plosive al over the river bottom, hay-
ing wires connected with the charges
by which all would be exploded stimuli
taneously by a galvanic battery. The
charges would be planted before the
ice formed in order to avoid the ne
cessity for making hsles.
Year: 1874

There are, says the Scientific Ameri-
can, some curiosities about machines
which seem unaccountable. Every
user of sewing machine knows that
from some unknown reason the machine
which yesterday performed its work 90
we'll, 80 almost Enthusiastically, to-day
refuses to do more than half its task,
and does that half in surly indifferent
manner. So with many other machines.
Even the steam engine is subject to
these fits. Is there some occult bond
of sympathy betveen thA opsratoe -
his machine, by which the latter is in
fuenced by the mental condition of the
former? For it is certain that these
differences can not be due to atmospheric
or other external influence. This mat
ter is quite humorously and. truthfu!ly
treated in the subjoined extract:


It is perfectly well known to expert
enced engineers that if dozen locomo-
tive engines were made at the same
time,s of the same power, and for the
same purpose, of like materials, in the
same factory, each Of those locomotive
engines would come out with it's t<own
peculiar whims and ways, only ascer-
tanned by experience. One engine will
take great meal of coal and water at
once; another will not bear of such
thing, but will insist on. being coaxed
by spadesful and bucketsful One is
disposed to start off when required at
the top of his speed; another must
have little time to warm at his work
and get we'll into it. These peculiari-
ties are 70 accurately mastered by skill
full drivers, that only particular men
can persuade engines to do their best.
It would seem as if some of these ex-
cellent monsters" declared on being
brought out of the. stable, eff it's
Smith who is to drive, won't go. If
it's my friend Stokes, I am agreeable to
anything" All locomotive engines are
low spirited in damp weather. They
have great satisfaction in their work
when the air is crisp and frosty. At
such time they are very cheerful and
brisk, but they strongly object to haze
and mists. These are the points of
character upon which they are united.
1t is in their pecuIiarities and varieties
of character. that they are most remark
able.


The railway company who should
consign all their locomotives to one uni
form standard treatment, without any
allowance for varying shades of charac-
ter and opinion, would soon fall as
much behindhand in the world as those
great governments are, and ever will
be, who pursue the same course with
the finer piece of work called man.
Year: 1874

An Idaho correspondent speaks
OF new and undescribed species of
fish that was last summer discovered to
inhabit small lake in the mountains.
on tributary of Peyette River, weigh
ing from five to ten pounds, in shape
much like shad, and having q skin
and an scales of a deep blood-red color.
Inc meat is of bright yellow color
and delicious in taste.
Year: 1874

There are very few people who can
keep cool in case they discover q fire,
and this is the reason why more fires
are not put out in their incipient stages,
before any great damage is done.


In case you are walking along the
street and discover chimney burning
out, make up your mind that the whole
house has got to go unless your own in
dividual exertions prevent. Therefore
jerk the gate off the hinges, kick the
front door in on the astonished family.
and yell "frew Your first yell needn't
be louder than the common Indian war
whoop, but after the first you must ex-
ert yourself in grand efforts to beat any
other man in that town who ever yelled
over burning chimney. The family
may desire an explanation as the front
door falls in and you bound over it and
begin to throw the chairs around. There
is no set answer to repeat, but most
men manage to say:


"Fire!-fire!-your house-get out
fire-hurry-blazes- -fire-hang it-fre
-frew


They will generally accept the expla-
nation without argument, and you can
go ahead and rescue the contents of the
house. Always commence at the par
lor ornaments first. If you haven't
time to save anything but a chrome,
half a marble-top stand, and the head
of piece of statuary, you don't know
how far these things would go toward
setting the burned-out family to house.
keeping again. The windows are made
to throw things through. If you can
fling all the ornaments out, wrench the
sofa to pieces, and break the legs off of
the chairs, you can consider you have
saved everything in the parlor worth
saving. If there is stove in there tip
it over as you rush to save the bedding
and other furniture. Don't throw a
bed from chamber-window; nothing
will break fcather-bed to pieces as
quick as a fall. Take them on your
back and carefully carry them from two
to four blocks away and deposit them
gently on doorstep.


But the case is different with crock
cry and looking-glasses; you can heave
them out on the sidewalk with perfect
confidence that they wouldn't even get
a flaw. Don't try to save whole bed
stead, but wrench it to pieces, and throw
three or four Stats out, and then grab
the bureau. Bureaus are cumbersome
articles to handle, and it's best to divide
them in halves with an ak, and throw
down the portions separately.


had forgotten to say that it is posi-
lively necessary for you to yell I" fire"
twice per second, from the time you
kick the door in till the fire is out, or
the house is burned down. If you
didn't do this, some of family might
forget that the house was on fire and
make arrangements to go visiting, or
put on dried apples to stew, or go to
setting emptyings.


An ordinary cool man will clear
house of all worth saving in about fif-
teen minutes, especially if he has lit
tie help. If the house goes for it, the
family will not fail to remember that,
but for you, they might have been
roasted alive; and if the flames are
subdued, they'll pick up the looking
glass frames, drawer-knobs, pitcher
handles and chair-legs, and move back
in with hearts full of gratitude that you,
noble hero, through your GOODNESS and
self-possession, saved all that was worth
saving.--FTeside Friend.
Year: 1874

y A Detroit gentleman prides him
self on his fine fowls. and his neighbor
is equally vain of q fine coach dog.
The dog worries the life out Of the
chickens. A few days ago the owner
of the dogs received the following note:
Friend: You keep dogs. I keep
chickens. If my chickens worry your
dogs, shoot them"
Year: 1874

which sometimes requires several at
tempts before it yields to the key, and
which an inexperienced person could
scarcely manipulate. Now if this door
was locked Frank must have been eXr
ceedingly expert to unlock it before
the pursuing Warden overlook him. :
But he did it and and dashed right on
To the front door, which is merely fas-
tened by a large bolt To draw back
the bolt and open this door was the
work of an instant and after this oper-
atjnn
Year: 1874

Two burglars were shot last Monday morning
at Bay Ridge, Long Island, and one of them
confessed before he died that he was the alb
ductor of Charlie Ross, but did not state the
whereabouts Of the boy.


The names of the burglars were Mosier and
Clark. The Phila. Ledger of yesterday says
There is no reasonable room for doubt that
the two men, Mosier and Clark, killed on
Monday morning at Bay Ridge, Long Island,
whilst attempting to commit burglary, were
participants in the abduction of Charlie Ross.
The information Of their probably connection
with the case was communicated in the first in.
stance to Mr.. Wang, the Superintendent of
Police in New York, aud by him made known
to Chiefs OF Police i'll Philadelphia. The
presence of Mosier and Clark in Philadelphia
at the time of the abduction was traced up,
their disappearance aud their aliases where
discovered, their former haunts were found by
our Police Department and by the New York
Police Department, and ultimately a sufficient
body OF slrcumStantlal evidence was built up to
justify the pursuit, as the Ross abductors, of
the two men who were killed yesterday morning
The beginning Of this informant dates back
as far as August and the police of the two cities
have been in search of MlOsier aud Clark since
that time. But they could never be found
near any of their old haunts, and all knowledge
OF their whereabouts was denied by those who
ought to have known. About the first OF
October, it became so certain that Mosier and
Clark were the abductors, and that there was
probability that the missing child was
concealed on a boat or yacht somewhere about
Long Island Sound, or on the waters in the
vicinity of New York, or that the abductors, il
not the child, were to be found in that vicinity,
that u gentleman of this city, in conjunction


with the Chief OF Detectives here, chartered q
steamtug. and had it cruising for a week il
pursuit Of these very men-NIosier and CLARK
in the neigh hborhood where they were at las


killed, when ia the committal of another crime
, IL is matter Of profound regret that rstribu
than through the hands Of the law, Now tina
Year: 1874

they are dead, it may be that the parties who
have had the child in concealmSnt Will be
tempted to restore it 70 the parents, whose
hearts have been agonized so long.


AN ACCOUNT OF TIE CAPTURE.


The burglars attempted to enter an unoccu-
pied dwelling short distance away from the
Van Brunt residence, which was connected
with it by burglar alarm, which notified the
inmates of the latter house of the presence of
buglars in tho former. Then the burglars were
notified OF their discovery by the rafting of the
cellal door, when slight stir was heard by Mr..
an Brunt at the open cellar door at the rear,
through whlch it was evident that the burglars
had effected their entrance, and moment after
two heads peered cautiously out together. Mr..
Van Brunt fired Immediately, his shot shatter-
ing several panes OF window & ass and probably
wOunding one Of the men, who cried out SO
loudly that his complaints we're heared next
door by the women. Both burglars started on
run. A Mr.. Scott quickly came to close quar-
ters with one of the burglars, aud discharged
shotgun close to his body. As the gun had
been loaded for several years it kicked with
such force that Scott was knocked down by
the recOll When he reganed his feet he found
that his antagonist had fallen fatally wounded,
the charge from the shotgun having entered
his bowels, which wers mangl6d in frighttul
manner. The other man was met by " Allie
Van Rrunt, ON seeing whom he suddenly
turned at bay. When the latter was close upon
him the burglar, with an OATH raised his
revolver and fired his weapon, almost touching
the young man 5 arm. Clubbing his gun Van
Brunt rushed at him, striking him violently on
the arm, and breaking the barrel from the
stock by the blow. AS the revolver dropped
from his grasp, the desperate robber stopped
and picked il up with the same hand, and then
lifting his injured arm with his lett hand, again
pointed the pistol. Before be could fire,
young Van Brunt sprang past him to Que side,
aud discharged three shots from rvolver into
his back The robber sank to the ground,
crying II give up" He survived, in great
agony, for nearly all hour, and made startling
confession. He said that his name was j lose ph
! Douglass, alias Clark, and that of his dead
companion William Moshsr. Both, he said,
were well known to the police of \. y, and he
wished information Of their tate to he sent to
the head of the Police Department Mosher,
he declared, was the kidnapper OF Charlie Ross
from Phlladelphia and he was his assistant III
! the theft of the child When pressed to tel
where the boy was hG asserted that he did moi
know, as the secret OF his hiding place had
been kept from him by Mosher. lie added
that he had led life Of crime, aud that thin
was the second time he had been engaged in g
robbery at Bay Ridge He also said that he
was unmarried, but that his companion was
considerably older than he, and had a vile and
six children in New York.