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Year: 1878

near. She retained all her courage and
will, but not her strength. Il
8 Dick gave her several rapid blows
With his knife, She groaned almost as
human being would have done, and
fell upon her side, But she recovered
in an instant, and striking Dick, she
threw him to the earth. But the father
had seized his beloved daughter, aud
throwing her little apart, she was now
out of danger.


Not so with himself.


He was now stretched fat upon his
back, and both the paws of the beast
were upon his breast, and he could feel
the sharp claws entering his flesh. The
two great, CLASSY eyes glared into his
own, the terrible growl rang in his ears,
Ishe jaws were extended, the long white
iseeth glistened, and the blood-red tongue
was ready to lap up his blood. He
struggled, but could not move. A mo.
ment more, and all would be over for
him forever, now the death-grip was
fixed upon him.


And, to add to his agony, he had seen
bis child spring off and run toward the
edge of the cliff 1t would be dashed
to pieces in falling, even as its brother
had been.


I But could this be misfortune, since
the father must die2 Would it not be
better for her to join her loved ones in
another world than to remain in this
cold one, alone2


Just at that instant, however, there
came the report of rifle. The bear re.
laxed her hold and fell heavily upon the
body Of Dick. He rolled the animal
away and sprang to his feet. A friend
had arrived in time, and not an instant
too soon. He was holding Eva in his
arms. She was not hurt.


The father could not help shedding
tears over his rescued darling, for never
before had she appeared half so dear to
him. But he resolved not to expose hel
to any further danger Of the kind, and
so he took an almost immediate depar-
ture for the home he had selected in the
Golden State.
Year: 1878

We have not heretofore felt like open.
ing up this Presidential fraud. We have
felt that Tilden was honestly elected, but
that patriotism demanded silence in re.
gard to it and acquiescence in 1t. But
as daylight is thrown upon the affair 4
grows in hideousness to such proportions
that It cannot be put away. Patriotism
now demands a full exposure, let the
consequences be wha. they way.
Year: 1878

SUPERsTITIoNs OF SOLDIERS. .-Skobeleff
would never ride in battle any other horse
than gray one, since it was on gray horse
he fought his first battle lin the late Russian
war, and he believed that it would be fatal
to him to change afterwards. Gen. Joseph
Shelby, of Missouri, had a similar supersti-
tion. A soldier who served under him says:


He firmly believed, and used often to say,
that he would never be killed in fight
while he rode sorrel horse And the fact
seemed to bear him out in this He was
wounded three times during the war, but
never once while riding sorrel horse. He
had twenty-four horses killed under him in
the various engagements where he was not
hit, and in every single instance where the
horse was hit and the rider escaped, the
horse was sorrel. Once, at Springfield, a
ball struck Shelby fair in the middle of the
forehead. 1t knocked him clean from his
stirrups-something difficult to do, for he
was splendid rider-and back over his
horse, and heavily upon the ground. Those
about him thought him killed, but he was
OH his feet in second, and on his horse in
another, saying in the cool tones of an ordi-
nary conversation, 81 cannot be killed to-
day, for l am riding sorrel horse" Sure
enough, the brim of his large felt hat had
caught the ball and broke it's force. It
knock ed him from his saddle and drew some
blood, but beyond this no other harm was
done.
Year: 1878

A NEW KIND OF HELL.-Here is the lat
est on the He'll question: About twenty
years ago. an old colored preacher in Geor-
gia was exhorting number of Africans to
"git on board the Gospel train and be saved
from the torments of a freezing hellp' The
old colored brother drew a shivering picture
of how cold place hell was, and how sim
ners were never permitted to get within a
million miles Of the faintest glimmer of a
spark Of fire. At the conclusion of the ser.
vices white brother who was present at
tempted to correct the old darkey, in regard
to the climate of the place where the wicked
are said to take up permanent abode after
death. The white man went on to give the
colored preacher an orthodox description of
red hot hell-burning birthstone, bursting
of mountains of seething lava, scorching
lime, rivers of coal, etc. When the white
man finished, the old colored preacher took
him by the hand and whispered privately in
his ear: "Massa, don you nebber tell de
coons about here OBJ such hot hell; eff sum
ob de ole rhumatic niggers wus to find dat
out, dey'd want to go to hell de .falst frost,
sure!"
Year: 1878

There has been always popular super
stition that the moon exerted great ipfu-
ence upon the affairs of mankind, but this
idea has prevailed chiefly among those who
did not understand the utter impossibility
that the moon could exert any such infu-
ences. Formerly, the stars were supposed
to assist the moon in these interferences
with mankind and their labors, and to be
able to "read the stars' was equivalent to
the possession of prophetic powers Now
the stars have lost this reputation, and the
moon is in fair way to lose what little is
left to it. Formerly, crazy people were
"moonstruck," but now, when we see a
tunatac, derived from luna, the moon, and
really meaning ''moonstruck') we do not
blame the moon for it. The moon has now
fallen SO low as to be supposed by some to
influence only the twining of the beans on
the poles, the planting of seeds, for vast
ing of fat pork in the pan, unless it was
killed under growing moon, and the max
ing of soft soap. To reasonable person
this seems small business for the moon to
be engaged in, or very unlikely thing that
the moon can exert any such Influences
If the test is made. it will be found that
there is not the least difference in the
growth of crops, the spending of fat pork,
the successful making of soft soap, or any
other of our common labors from the moons
influence. If any difference occurs it will
be from other causes, such as soil, weather,
etc. Lastly, it is absolutely certain that
the moons influence on our atmosphere is
SO very small that it cannot even affect the
weather in the least.
Year: 1878

A curious popularity of the baobab tree,
found in Africa and Madagascar, is, that
scarcely any injury will destroy it. Fire
scorching the exterior does not impair its
vitality. Nor can it be injured from within
as it is quite common to find it hollow
Even cutting it down does not exterminate
it, for it continues to grow in length while
lying on the ground, and its roots, which
reach forty or fifty yards from the trunk,
retain their vitality. Although the tree at
tains an enormous age, Livingstone having
examined one which he judged to be one
thousand four hundred years old, it is at
tackled by disease which affects it's woody
structure, so in course of time it's own
weight causes it to fall in mass of rnins.
Year: 1878

THE MANS AND WoMAN's WAY OF SAY
ING THINGs.-Look at the ridiculous way
in which man takes for granted that wo
man will be interested in his savings and
doings. If his wife has long story to tell
him, she is filled with misgivings lest it may
tire him, she leaves out many picturesque
touches that she may not take up his time.
and, even on the hand -gallop, she has not
arrived within call of her conclusion when
he asks with confusing directness: "Well,
how did it turn out?' But the man ha
never misgiving that he will he hurried O.,
that life has anything better to offer than
listening to him. He begins his story at its
earliest morning stages, and lopes leisurely
to its close; or, if it is rapid, he gives it
rapid transit, but he never omits anything
on his wife's account. He tells what he
said and what the other man said, and what
the other man might have said, and what
he would have said had the other man said
what he might have said. And the worst
OF it is-the fatal point is-that his conf
dence is justified. The woman IS interested.
The mans talk takes her out of her own
Into larger life, and she not only tolerates
but enjoys it; and what are you going to do
about it?-Gail Hamilton.
Year: 1878

GAPEs IN CHICKENs.-For this trouble.
some disease, the following has been found
to be an excellent remedy.-Pluck the web
from both sides of feather, leaving the
tip, which wet with solution of 30 drops
ofcarbolic acid and or. ofglycerine; run the
feather down the wind-p give it three or
four turns and withdraw quickly; repeat a
few times with new feather. The acid
paralyses and the glycerine sticks the
worms to the feather, so that they can be
drawn out. In treating sick fowls, all
matter, &c., should be burned, to prevent
exposure to the rest.
Year: 1878

Life would be impracticable unless it
were the primary rule to believe what is
told US. There is not single relation in
adult life in which we are not compelled to
depend upon the word of another-of a hus-
band, wife, friend, an agent We be-
heve certain things respecting them-in
their honor, their chastity, their affection,
their faithfulness. TO what kind of condi-
tion would life be reduced if we were to ap-
ply to these matters ''the universal duty of
questioning all that we believe ?''
Year: 1878

A man now a-days, must have something
OF the steam-engine in him. A lazy, snail
paced fellow might have got on in the world
fifty years ago, but he won't do these times.
We live in an age of quick ideas; men
speak quick, think quick, and slow coaches
amt tolerated. "Be up and dressed'' al
ways-not gaping and rubbing your eyes,
as if you were half asleep, but wide awake
for whatever may turn up, and you may be
somebody before you die. Think, plan, re-
fleet as much A. you please before you act
but think quickly and closely.
Year: 1878

A night or two ago I called to boy to
come and black my boots; as he went to
work he passed the stump of cigar he had
in his mouth to little mite of an urchin,
who didn't seem to be more than six years
old, but who seized the stump eagerly and
began putting away at my side. l ventured
to him the advice that he was too young a
boy to smoke, and that he should wait few
years; to which the youngster, who came
about up to my knee, answered with the
greatest calmness between the puffs, "Well,
yer see, when feller gets the habit, it's
hard to give it up"
Year: 1878

The Baltimore boy who fastened crab
on his playfellow's uncommonly big nose,
just for fun, was arrested and taken to a
police court; but he put parts of himself in
evidence to prove that he had been tre-
mendously spanked for his misconduct, and
the magistrate let him go without further
punishment.
Year: 1878

There are different ways of looking at a
thing. An Indianapolis saloon keeper the
other day, while bewailing to friend the
sad state of his business, looked towards
the spire of a new church which was creep
ing heavenward, and CALCULATED; "Them's
the things that's ruinin' the country
Year: 1878

In recent case for assault, the defendant
pleaded guilty. think l must be guilty."
said he, 'because the plaintiff and 1 were
the only ones in the room; and the first
thing knew was that was standing up.
and he was doubled over the table. You'd
better call it guilty."
Year: 1878

Two angels passed through the
streets of a sleeping city side by side,
their arms lovingly entwined. One
lit up his radiant countenance the
other seemed to have a veil over bis
face, so thin that it was like mist,
yet thick enough to make his face q
mystery.


Brother" said the angel with the
yelled countenance, brother, it is
long since we met, how fares it with
you?"


"All is well with me, but your
voice has sigh in it, what grieves
you, brother ?'


"Only this, that wherever l go
there is sound of weeping. Moth
ers vail when | fold their little ones
in my arms-children weep when
their mother rests her weary head on
my bcsom-sisters mourn when | re-
lease their brother from pain If /
might unveil my face, do you think
they would fear me so much ?"


As be spoke he raised the veil re-
vealing a face wonderfully like his
fellow angel, but pensive express
sion instead Of joyous one


A tender smile besmed from his
companions face.


"Azrael, no twin brothers were
ever more alike than we are. Here
after we shall not be known one
from the other, but the Master wills
that you shall be a mystery So long
as we walk the earth"


"Shall we be alike when our task
is done?"


There shall be no more death.
Yet angels cannot die. A little pa
tience, dear Azrael.n


And / shall be ike you ?" said
Azrael, musingly then / am con-
tent to be unknown while on earth
if | shall be like you in heaven, for,
| love you my brother"


"And l you; be of good cheer,
brother, We are never far apart on
earth, and shall be forever together
in heaven"


And the angels of life and death
kissed each other as they passed on
their way
Year: 1878

A woman out in Polk county, be-
coming converted to the doctrines Of
DR.. Mary Walker, took advantage Of
her husbands absence to array her
self in his clothes. She put on the
coat first, and, ignoring the buttons,
pinned it from the chin down. Then
she put on the vest, back in front,
and toilsomely buttoned it up behind
This was about three o'clock in the
afternoon. At about half past six,
her husband found her seated on the
side of the bed in disordered room,
weeping, her hair down, face red,
eyes infamed, and her whole mental
being eonvulsed with excitement,
impatienee and anger. She had his
Sunday psntaloons in her hands, and
all those three mortal hours, she had
been trying to get them over her
hesd-BgfdlO Commercial
Year: 1878

The newly begun emigration of
farmers from Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa TO Mississippi and Texas is at
tracing much attention in the West
The movement is becoming very
general and thousands are going in
colonies of from ten to a hundred
families. Associations and commit
tees are formed, agents are sent to
secure places for the settlement, and
the emigration follows. The In
ducements offered are, land of sur
passing richness for comparatively
small price, excellence of climate, aud
cheap negro labor The price of a
hundred acres of Indiana land will
purchase twelve or fifteen hundred in
Texas or northern Mississippi These
new elements must do much toward
shaping the future of the South
Year: 1878

The great four-fold waterfall, the
Fall of Garsoppa, on the west side
Of India, near Honore, little known
as it is, is one of the wonders of the
world A writer says OF il: Difficult
it is to convey in words any picture
of the stupendous scene. There is
the river, some three hundred yards
in width, flowing through soft wood
land, its waters split into many glas-
sy currents, gliding round worn
boulders and inlets, when instantly
bed and banks are gone, and in their
place are savage walls of gaunt rock
plunging to depths eyes dare not
look into, down which the shudder-
ing waters fall at four points nearly
equidistant on the irregular cnrye of
the rim Of the abyss


From the lip of the precipice to the
dark pools at its foot is an accurately
measured distance of eight hundred
and thirty feet, and down this pro-
digious descent pour the four cata-
racts, each arrayed in its own spe-
cial robes of grandeur and beauty.
First on the western side Is the Great
or Rsjah fall: q branch of the river
runs over a projecting ledge, and no.
where touching the Titanic wall,
which hollows in, descends in state
ly, unbroken column, gradually wild
ening its shining skirts into q black,
Questionable pool eight hundred and
thirty feet below. The precipice
runs backward, curving in an irregu-
lar bay, on whose farther side the
fall, named the Roarer, shoots slant
ing down a third of the height into a
rocky basin that shoulders out,
whence it boils out in a broad mas
sive cataract, plunging FIVE hundred
feet into the same pool opposite its
kindly neighbor


Leaving the bay, next on the gen.
eral plane of the preeipice comes the
Rocket fall, running impetuously
over the brim and down the face of
the stupendous wall, to which it on
ly just clings with q broad band of
glistening foam-white water, speed
ing its quick gushes. necessarily dsr-
ting into myrisds Of watery rockets
and vaporous arrows, with which all
its volume seems alive, and pouring
clear at last in dense shining cur
tain into its own pool. Last and
loveliest, La Dame Blanch glides
down the grim colossal rampant ia
lapse after lapse of delicate lsce.like
wells, now blowing out in bright,
misty spray, and again quickly gath
ering up the white folds, aud so
stealing downward with q whisper
ing murmur, till gently sinking in
sparkling shower into a pool whose
ink-blsck surface is hardly ruffied
The exact depth scientifically meas
ured is eight hundred and thirty
feet.
Year: 1878

A project is on foot to give tie
grandest banquet of modern times in
Chicago in August, 1880 Ii is q
long way ahead, but not too soon to
begin for an affair of the magnitude of
the entertainment in question. 1t is
to be on the occasion of he triennial
meeting of the Knight Templars of
America, which is to tax place there
at that time. At the banquet will Re
seated 10000 people, who are 10 be
served in all the elegancies Il the
most sumptuous feast ever sTread-
The meal is expected to cost some
thing over $4,000, and no profits to
the caterer The plan is to spread
tables capable of seating 100 each Of
the Knights and their friends on the
lake front, if the weather is favorable,
and if not, in the Exposition Build
ing, which will hive a temporary
annex" in order to make its capaci-
ty equal to the occasion. The walters
will number 1850 and be divided
into centuries and tens. Each loo
will be under a centurion, and each
gang Of ten will be directed by q
head waiter Each table will in this
way be served by ten walters as
promptly as though it composed the
entire banquet. Most of the food
will be put upon the tables in
domestic style, every tenth man, for
example, carving for his neighbors.
Immense ranges will be built to cook
the food, which is to be frst-class in
every particular Owing to the
season Of the year, fruits and ice will
be prominent feature in the repsst,
but it is said that :, 1000 fowls will lose
their heads to satisfy the cravings of
the knightly appetite for roasts, sal
ads. cts.
Year: 1878

In one Of our Sunday schools late
ly the teacher was instrueting the
juvenile class about the word glut-
ton.


Suppose" said she; "a man
should SIT down to dinner and eat as
much as fur dinners-.hen get up
and go to q restaurant and eat lot
more-then ill bis pockets with
crackers and cheese, and keep on
eating. What would you call such
a person. The boy that can answer
please hold up his hand.


Up went the hsnd Of a six-year
old boy.


"Well, what would you call such a
person 2n asked the teacher


"a durLed hogl'' rang out with n
clear and well italicized reply.
Year: 1878

Physicians are well agreed that the
use Of tobace by growing boys is falI
of danger Recent Investigations
especially in France-have dsmOn-
strated that a whole train of nervous
diseases are to be traced to this prac-
tice. II you want TO stop growing,
if you want 10 have set Of nerves
like those Of sa invalid old lady, if
you wish TO grow feeble and thin, if
you wish to look sallow and pany,
we do not know a better way than
to smoke tobacco. 1t will make a
drain on your nervous system which
will be sure to tell after q while
Let Us hope that if thousand boys
read this, some of them will be saved
from forming a filthy habit which
most men regret.
Year: 1878

A great question which has long vexed the minds of the astronomically inclined has at last been settled. That the plan cts are inhabited is beyond doubt, IL is well known fact that the astronomer Herschel was obliged to ''knuckle nnder'' to this problem, and that Sir Isaac New ton after years of study exclaimed in desperation, ''I give up beaten.'

 Jan. 18th 1878, was day which will never fade from the scientific mind, as long as man shall continue to exist On that day this all absorbing topic was dis cussed by an assembly of learned youths, and after the arguments pro and con were presented, it was internationally decided that the planets are inhabited. It is probable that in few years some of those who were instrumental in the decision of this interesting question, will occupy seats in the House and Senate of the United States. More than likely the individual who playfully alluded to trolling rockn will be one of this num- Der. Men of such enterprise occupying the controlling offices of our land, what will not modern invention accomplish. Electric Telephones will connect us with the sun and all the principal planets. Railways will not be wanting, and com merce will be carried on to an unlimited extent. Of course the only requisites of success are the necessary legislation, and plenty of money, The former we are sure of when the time for action arrives. and of the latter we shall have more than we can use if the Bland Silver Bill passes. When the great work shall at last have been completed, tickets for any of the planets by the Solar Railway Line may be procured at very moderate rates. A couple of quarts of silver currency will carry us to Mercury, Venus, Mars, or the Moon, A like quantity will be charged to the asteroids, which of course will be only flag stations while half bushel of silver dollars will carry us to the extreme limits of the Solar system. Of course at present VIC do not know whether silver is the standard of value on all the planets, but if we should find gold to be their standard, it would only be necessary to give Mr. Stanley Mat thews a through ticket by the Solar Ex- press. with Saratoga trunk well filled with lectures and speeches on the adyan- tages of a debased currency, to convince them of the error of their ways.

 The incredulops may scoff at these ideas of progress, bnt what we now lack to carry these projects into execution will in time be supplied by Yankee gen jus. The only formidable obstacle which menaces the successful working of such improvements. is, tbat owing to the ir- regular revolutions of the planets, the railways and electric wires might wind themselves around each other, and be- come 80 thoroughly entangled, that they would scoop off into space all animal and vegetable life from the surface of the planets, and produce such general and promiscuous chaos as has not been wit nessd since the creation of the world.
Year: 1878

Editor of the Bee

 DEAR SIR.- I was at that party. (prevously reported in your paper, goa 6nose) see that some of the items of note were left out. l saw the pig on the scale, and noticed that it was dressed very nice, and supposed that it was the work of the boss butcher, and as the ears were gone, some yentured the remark that they were cut off, 10 be used as bones, at the next concert of the Taun- ton Band, of which the boss butcher is a member

 Again, there is no mention made con. corning what happened when he called for his pork, and on examining it, it turned out to be one of old Jake's clans. In the morning, however, piggy came around again, for he was found hung at the door knob. Soon after,a a good break. fast was gotten up for the Happy Family which no doubt they enjoyed. at least such was the wish of A Coop LIVER.
Year: 1878

DEAR SIR We learn from good au- thority that the so called Bennett's bridge is unsafe for travel. The bridge has been built about twenty-three years, and is an old-fashioned structure, built of hewed logs, and they have become so decayed that there is but little sound timber left to support it. About four years ago Mir S W Post. the principal owner of said bridge, put in some new posts and some braces, and that is about all that holds the whole structure up. and we learn the company say they will not rebuild it. Then what will be the result ? The people of Southbury and Woodbury will be cut off from the rail- roatt.

 We think the coming Spring is the time for our adjoining towns to look af- ter such an important matter as this, be. fore the old bridge gives out, which it is liable to do at any day We understand that five head of cattle fell through it last Summer. Yours, DAN