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Year: 1877

There was a burst in tin conductor
leading from the roof Of the house on
the corner Of Rose and Myrtle streets,
the other afternoon, and the water thus
oaeaiaing ran aaso5s the walk. Fowtra
night the weather stiffened up and the
loose water became a sheet of ice.
About four o'clock the next morning
there was slight fall Of snow. In the
basement Of the building an Italian
gentleman has fruit store. Shortly
after six o'clock this morning he had his
outside wares in line Of display.
Peanuts being speciality with him,
two or three bushels Of that article
made tempting pile on large stand.
While he was making this arrange
ment a carpenter with q tool-box on
his shoulder came around the corner,
and stepping on the concealed ice,
Immediately threw his tool-box into
the street, got up himself, looked
around to see what had happened, and
then picked up his tools. This so
amused the Italian that he felt obliged
to rush into the shelter Of the basement
to conceal his delight. Had he been


a native of this country it might have


suggested itself to him to sweep the


thin guise of snow from the ice and to


sprinkle salt or ashes upon it, but be-


ing a foreigner and not very well ac-


quained with our language, he did not


think Of this, but instead he posted


himself in position to give him good


view Of the corner and patiently wait


ed for developments. He saw them
! If his object was to get an idea of the


fullness and fexibility of the Englisl


language he could not have possibly
adopted better course.


Scarcely had the carpenter gathered


up his things and limped off when
man smoking came hurrying along
When he reached the ice he suddenl
turned part way round, bit a briar-woo'
pipe completely in twain, and slid on hi


breast off from the walk into the gutter
He got up, cautiously recovered hi


pipe, and melted away. The Italia
: shook all over.


G Following closely after this misha
: was a laborer with a dinner kettle
= When he touched the ice it was diff
cult for the fruit merchant to determin
whether it was his feet or another pa
h of his person--it was done so quicl
II The new conner appeared to suddenl
: come apart and shut up at the middl


and in the same flash the tin pail d


scribed circle Of lightning rapidit
t. and was then slapped against the pay
N ment with terrific force. At the san
% instance the italian saw piece of pi
Is several half slices of buttered brea
IN two hard boiled eggs, piece Of co
to beef and fork and spoon fly off
ID different directions, while a pint
IL of coffee made its appearance, a
It. emptied its contents in the prostra
rs mans lap. While this individual "
Year: 1877

UNFINISHED WoRK.-Nothing teach
es more impressively mans frailty than
his unfinished undertakings. Lying
in the quarry near the Syrian city of
Baalbec is the largest worked stone in
the world, gigantic block nearly sew
enty feet in length, almost detached
and ready for transportation to its
niche in the titanic platform of the
Temple of the Sun. 1t seems as
though the workmen had just momen-
tarily left their labor, and we fancy
that we must soon see them returning,
But forty centuries or more ago some
providential emergency called them
from their work; and there lies the
huge block, and yonder is the cyclope-
an wall with its vacant niche, one OF
the most striking and impressive OF
the unfinished labors of the world.
And so the colossal Kutub Minar,
though a finished column in itself, is
but a fragmentary memorial Of a gi'
gantic unfinished plan; and as such il
will doubtless stand to teach many
generations yet to come that, thougl
man may propose, heaven will dis
pose Myers Remains Of Lost En-


pires.
Year: 1877

AT the opening Of each year at Mt.
IIolyolxe Seminary, while Mary Lyon
was at its head, her first work was to
call around her the professed Christians
among the students, to impress upon
them their responsibility in reference to
their influence over their unconverted
companions, to encourage them to con-
secrate themselves afresh to the Mast
er's work, and to secure their prayers
Year: 1877

If we were fallen angels, with pow
erful intellects, accustomed to solve
eternal mysteries, glowing, like stars
in this, our neither armament, and with
vast moral energies, and ages in which
to perform, | can imagine that God
would have given us a very different
an immencely fuller scheme Of doctrine
and duties than he has given. But
remembering that so brief is life that
we can know but little, he has flashed
the saving truth before our souls, so
that he may run that reads. The dy-
ing thief saw that truth at the opening
gates Of Paradise, fuller, deeper
truth than all the PHILOSOPHERS and re.
ligions Of the world could bring to the
most ardent students. There is nc
surer evidence of human ignorance anC
folly than the determination to believe
nothing that we cannot fully fathom
AS well might an insect try to fathon
the ocean with one dip of his proboscis
as for one of us to sound the nature 0
God, or Of eternity, in the brief spac


of human life. Behold the consider
alton of God in telling us, so simpl


and yet so clearly, all we need to know


and telling it in such way that it fall


into the heart as easily as light throug


a window into your dwelling, il 20


will only make your heart walls trans


parent with sincerity Cook.
Year: 1877

A truckman of Louisville, who col
lided with two buggics, removing
wheel from each, ran over small boy
playing marbles and finally upset in
building excavation, is being pressed
to go East and secure 2 situation as
New York pilot.
Year: 1877

and personal efforts for the salvation
Of every unconverted pupil in the SEM
mary. The result was, that every
year, sometimes in the early weeks of
the first term, a marked spiritual
awakening would manifest itself,
and before the year closed nearly every
young woman in the institution would
he gathered into the Christian fold.
Such a preliminary work as this is now
needed in the Churches. The hearty
awakening and conservation of pro-
fessed Christians, and their expressed
interest in behalf of the unsaved
around them, would not fail of being


followed with blessed resltl.s,
Year: 1877

CosgsMssnSeated.


Mr.. ED1roR.-The Corporation OF the
NO. & Wilmington narrow gauge railroad
having given notice that the books for sub
scriptions to the stock of said road Will Do
opened on the 10th in Wilmington ana
New Castle, It would be well for the c'ti'
gems of both places to be fully informed
regarding the proposition which has been
made by certain parties who propose to
build tho road, and when ready tor opera
tion, to lease It for term of twenty years,
agreeing to pay the company at tho rate OF
six per cent. interest per annum on the
whole cost of the road and its equipments,
(after the first year, payable semi,aunu'
ally, and also to keep the road and rolling
stock in proper repair, making additions to
the latter Is they may be required during
the term of the lease, and without cost to
the Compsay, guarsn 'eeing the said pay
ments of interest by giving good real estate
or other security, and such only as would
be entirely satisfactory to the President
and Directors. If the Company decide to
have the road built and equipped by con-
tract, they will compete with others in
that way and lease and operate as above
stated.


By careful estimate It has been ascer-
tained that the cost of grading, bridging,
track, necessary buildings, turn. tables, fenc-
ing, ETC., with two engines, two passenger
cars, and two or three dump cars, will not
exceed $4,000 to $4,000. This amount
should be raised without difficulty in the
two cities and intervening country If our
people would only exhibit the promptness
and liberality which the enterprise really
deserves.


There Is no question as to the road being
badly needed, and to be provided with an
hourly communication in comfortable cars,
making quick passage between the two
cities during all hours Of the day and even
ing, would be one of the greatest conve>
niences; and It might be we'll Just here TO
say to our business men that 1t is expected
(and there is little doubt that such will be
the case) that with an hourly opportunity
between New Castle and this city, many
persons will be drawn this way from Salem,
Smyrna, and other points on both sides OF
the Delaware river. And now is the time
of all others, while matarial and labor are
at the lowest point, to push 1t through, and
it is to be hoped that our citizens generally
will not let the opportunity pass by neglect
ing to come forward and subscribe to the
stock upon which good interest is offered
particularly as many families are now sul.
fering for the want of the necessaries o1
life, and many are walking our streets un-
able to obtain even days work to keer
starvation from their doors, Who could OBJ
tain employment and would be only toe
glad Of the chance to work on the road fol
the two or three months required to COM
plete it.


Don't wait to be called on, but come for
ward and help on the enterprise by sub
scribing what you can afford, and in thre,
months it will be ready for use.
Year: 1877

Franklin A. Albcrger, formerly Mayor OF Buffalo,
aud Tor many member OF the State Legislature
dIcd yesterday In Buffalo, OF heart disease Mr. AL
berger was born In Baltimore, Md, IN 1925, and re-
ceivcd good education lie removed TO Buffalo at tho
age Of seventeen years and into the buchering
and provision trade continuing that line Of business
TIL 1858. From the very outset OF his career he took
very active part In local politics and neced first
with the wing and ahcrward with the republican parry.
He was secretary OF tho FIRST republican meeting held
in Buffalo and member OF the first County Committee
OF that party. During the Know Nothing agitation he
was very decided in his hostility 10 the movement and
became very popular among the foreign element
In consequence In 1854 he was elected Alderman
of tho CITY OF Buffalo, and was moro than once re-
elected. In 1860 he was chosen as Mayor, and at
the close oil his term In 1862 was elected Canal
Commissioner, an olhcc which he continued 1 Tor
SIX years hc was sent 10 the Assembly In 1870,
whero he remained Tor several successive terms
being elected by very large maJorites During tho
war he was chairman OF the Military Relief Commit
tee of Buffalo and took active part In orrantzIng
the Twenty-hrst ana forty ninth regiments Of volun-
tears.
Year: 1877

The happiest people, and who live the
longest, are those who have good apps-
tites and eat square meals, especially in
summer. Nonsense all that about not
eating meat in hot weather; time you
want it. Hot weather is weakening,
meat is strengthening. If you let up on
anything, do it on the drinking, for a
voluntary cold bath is much more re-
freshing than an involuntary hot one !;
and it is wellknown fact in physiology
that person who takes cold drinks often
is in hot water all the time. We owe an
immense deal Of rot, in regard to eatinA
TO the wave of vegetarianism which
swept over the country a quarter of a
century ago, and deranged many persons
minds and stomachs to an extent it will
take generations to efface. 1t is all very
we'll for the sick to adopt methods Of
cure, and the "food cure" is probably
much better, at least less harmful, than
the medicine cure; but for well and
hearty men and women to deliberately
70 to work TO reduce their vitality and
expose themselves, weakened to the
attacks of disease, is folly which many
sensible persons have tested, and found
to be folly. Once attacked with food
lunacy Of this description the victim
never knows when to stop; he gives his
stomach mountains Of vegetable matter
to disintegrate, IN the vain hope Of ex.
tracing moiety Of the strength which
would be obtained from small quantity
Of good mcat-and eats and repents, and
repents and eats-until he has laid the
foundation of dyspepsia that costs a
lifetime. Good broiled steak or chops,
roast or boiled mutton and roast beef,
with plenty of stewed tomatoes, fresh
peaches and good bread, constitute the
cardinal points OF healthy dietary for
the present time. Eat, drink water
moderately, a cup Of tea morning and
evening and one glass or more Of water on
retiring, and be happy.
Year: 1877

A correspondent of the San Francisco
Chronicle, writing from Rocklin, Placer
county, CAL, says The recent horrible
murders committed by the Chinese at
Sargent's ranch have thrown the citizens
of this vicinity into such state OF excite
ment that some of them seem to mistake
their own shadow for Celestial with an
AK and pistol ready to commit murder
most horrible. AS a protection against
a repetition of these crimes, the citizens
of this place have sent the Chinese off,
and to encourage them and convince
them that they meant business they
have taken down their cabins and piled
the lumber in heaps. A report reached
lis last night that body of 300 Chinese
were going to attack and burn our town.
Quite number of volunteers with shot
guns soon presented thumselves, and
formed a picket line around the town,
while all who remained at home armed
themselves to the teeth, determined that,
should tho Chinese come, they would
give them warm reception. One of the
men on picket (named Smith) had not
been gone long when he met the enemy,
and thinking his time had come, and
that he must sell his life as dearly as
possible, he discharged both barrels of
his shotgun, and turning his back on
the enemy, made the best time that has
ever been made over this course. 1t was
some minutes before he could speak, and
quite crowd had collected around him,
when he explained that he had seen
about 1000 Cinnamon, had shot their
leader, and if he only had Henry rifle
he could have killed dozen more, but
could not reload his shotgun. A party
wss formed in few minutes to attack
the advancing enemy, and after consid-
able persuasion the frightened picket
plotting them to the place where he
had shot the Celestial. Instead of dead
Cinnamon they found an old stump with
thirteen buckshot in it, showing that the
picket had not missed his mark when hs
shot his gur ef
Year: 1877

The New York World, in speaking of
the recent death of an old man named
Cooper, who jumped from the top of
High Bridge into the Harlem Rivera
distance of 156 feet-says:


Although this is the first suicide
known to have been committed from
High Bridge, it is not The first instance
of person leaping from it into the Har.
lem river. The famous Sam Patch,
who afterward lost his life at Genesee
Falls, jumped from High Bridge about
twenty years ago, watched by thousands
of admiring spectators. He was dressed
in tights, dainty pair of slippers and a
little red skull cap. A platform project
ing out several feet beyond the side of
the bridge had been erected, and from
this, after standing for few moments
to receive the deafening cheers of the
multitudes assembled on the opposite
banks of the river, the reckless man
jumped off. In falling he maintained
an erect position, striking the water with
his feet first. He disappeared under
the water, but soon rose and was tender
ly picked up by his friends, who were
waiting near by in boats. Again, about
six years ago, man named Peter Fran
els jumped from the bridge while under
the influence of liquor, and he is to-day
alive and probably fishing in the river
not far from where Cooper committed
suicide. Francis had several brothers,
all of whom spent good deal of their
time on or in the water. They had q
sort of mania for jumping off from high
places into the water. Their daily sport
was in jumping from the old Macomb's
Dam Bridge, which was about forty feet
high. Peter was about six feet three
inches tall and thin as rail. He was in
the army during the war, and when he
came home he was more reckless than
ever. One time, having drawn his pen
sion money-he had been wounded dur
ing the war-he went off on a prolonged
spree. 1t was while he was recovering
from it that he went one day up to High
Bridge, where friend of his, Billy Ken
nard, was on duty as policeman. He
passed Kennard near the end OF the
bridge, and in moving on toward the
middle he said "Billy, you've heard q
good deal about what my brothers have
done. Now, if you will come along
will show you what leap l can take.
Kennard, who thought Francis was jok'
ing, followed along slowly. When Fran
els reached the middle of the bridge ht
suddenly mounted the coping and Jump
ed over. His feet struck the water first
but he was 80 far on his right side tina
he received terrible shock, from which
he has never fully recovered. For {
long time he was laid up, his right sid,
being paralyzed. He is now making
living by fishing around Mscemb's Dan
Bridge.
Year: 1877

One of the most remarkable applica-
tions of photography is that by which it
is now made to register, and in the most
accurate manner, the mechanical motion
of the heart. The device by which this
result is attained is, indeed, triumph
of inventive skill. 1t consists of thin
india-rubber bag, to which short glass
tube is attached, sufficient mercury is
poured into the apparatus to fill the bag
and portion of the tube, and the in
strument is then placed over the heart
of the person to be examined. Arranged
in this manner, every pulsation OF the
heart is indicated by corresponding
movement of the mercury in the tube,
and, by suitable Photographic appar-
atus, provided with moving Sensitive
slip of paper, perfect registration OF
the extent and rate of the pulsations is
obtained. The interesting fact is made
known by this process, that the fall OF
the pulse sometimes takes place in sue.
cessful horizontal lines, and sometimes
in ascendant lines, the column reasceud'
Ing two or three times before falling
altogether,
Year: 1877

Fifteen years ago, says Jennie June,
a handsome and dashing student of Har-
ward attracted universal attention, not
only by his high style of living, but by
his brilliant scholarship and superb
manner. He was not only the admira
ton of the bellies, but the despair of all
the beaux, for without apparent effort
he surpassed the best of them in appear
ance, in style, in attainments, in gene
rosity which was princely, and in good
nature, which in its indifference was
never inconsiderate of the wants, wishes
or feelings of others. From a student
of Harvard, the splendid young Ameri-
can became fellow of Oxford, and even
among the luxurious and exclusive sons
of the finest aristocracy of the world
shone with almost as resplendent light
as in the more modest halls of Harvard.
He conversed, read and wrote in seven
different languages as easily as In his
own, and at the same time maintained a
brilliant social reputation, which was
enhanced by style of living with which
the descendants of line of titled ances-
tors and heirs of the honors of the great
est English families hardly dared to
compete. In this way, and in travelling
en- grdnde Seigneur all over Europe,
making acquaintances with royalty and
hobnobbing with the younger sons of
ducal houses, ,our Harvard man contrived
to get through the first ten years of re.
sponsible existence; and spend not only
his own fortune but that of several
doting relatives. He came to the end at
last, and, without any shock of his own
or other peoples nerves, settled down to
hard-pan aud the life of a newspaper wri-
ter. He is married now, and with his wife
and one child lives in cottage in re-
tired spot near New York. The genius
which distinguished him as a student
distinguishes him as writer. His fash
ing yet scholarly style marked him out
from among hundred ordinary con-
tributors, and gave him an acknowledged
place at once. He makes more money
as an outsider to-day than any writer
on the press. But few would recognize
in the quiet, somewhat reserved, yet
thoroughbred man who pays an occas-
sional visit to editorial sanctums the
dashing and fashionable young Ameri-
can who attracted the attention of the
most renowned circles by the splendor
of his tastes and the brilliancy OF his
attainments.
Year: 1877


II happened thus on one green afternoon,
When harvest fields were waiting for their
moon,


And fruit was ripe and good,
That two amid the orchard grasses strayed
While apricots and yellow peaches made


Bright stains on the warm wood.
And on branch that hung right overhead
Two golden apples grew, iecked through with
red


Grew perfect side by side.
"They are for us, sweetheart love made them
fair
With color of thy cheeks and of thy hair
Come, gather them, sweet bride"
She stood on tiptoe in the pleasant place;
The swaying leaves made shadows ON her face,


The apples touched her feet,
"Now this is mine, and this is thine, but we
Will make of them gracious memory


They are too fair to eat"
Then, half in loving earnest, half in mirth,
They hid the fruit within the rich, warm earth


And year by year there grew
Two trees InhI Lndue green SnauOWS Dy Inelr
door,
And bore of golden apples wealthy store


Gold fruit fecked rosy through;
Two kindly trees, that when the children
played
In autumn nights within their scented shade


Would freely drop their store,
Or shed with lavish grace their sweetest flowers
Upon our lovers in the spring time hours,


Telling the old tale DER;
Two trees that always thought one couple fair
One aged couple crowned with silver hair,


Who hold without sigh
Sweet sessions, where clear Memory sat content
Serenoly satisfied with life SPENT


And Immortality.
There are two graves beneath two appIe-trees-
Two happy graves, made by the sweet spring
breeze


With apple blossoms white;
Tapped in cool grasses when June roses blow
In autumns splendor, or in winters snow,


Always peaceful sight.


-HrperS Weekly.
Year: 1877

Our last visit in Milan, writes a cor
respondent, was to the Villa Simonetti,
a huge old palace in plantation about
two miles beyond the city gates, now let
out as tenement house, and swarming
with washerwomen and their broods.
You climb toilsomely into the fourth
story, and are ushered into small room
facing an angle of the lofty fiat walls
which surrounded the court yard on three
sides, the fourth side being open to the
level plain beyond. A woman takes up
great trumpet, shaped like fog-horn,
and proceeded to yell, shrek and grumble
through it number of sharp and flat
notes, and q marvellous echo comes back
from the opposite angle, and plays along
the sides of the walls, repeating and
thrilling the sounds | cannot tell how
many times, now in plaintive musical
strains, now in singular cadences, now in
rollicking, guffawing, exuberant iocu-
ularity.


Then the damsel-who lives by the
fees that the echo brings her in, like
Eliphaz, the Temanite, "filling her
stomach with the east wind took down
an old musket, and loading it with great
formality, tremendously handed it to
your correspondent to fire, but not
knowing whether it would kick OF burst,
the offer was politely declined, and, like
another Moll Pitcher or Maid of Sara
gossa, she fred it out of the window
herself against the opposing angle with
the most astonishing effect, the discharge
echoing and re-echoing, first like the
file firing of company of infantry, then
like the applause in theatre, and fainter,
until it died away like the ticking of a
clock, and expired in sound like the
faint humming of insects. She says il
repeated ninety times. She might just
as we'll have made it the even hundred,
for tried to verify her statement by
actual count, but had to give it up in
despair. One might appropriately cal
this talking wall "sermon in stones.
1t is said to be the most remarkable echo
in the world, and [ can well believe it,