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Year: 1873

It is n common thing in our cities to
protect the heads of draft horses with a
bonnet or cushion to keep off the blaze
of the sun. But Dublin protector
proposes to extend similar protection
over the entire animal. He makes a
frame of wood, whalebone, iron rods or
other flexible but strong material, and
this he places over the horse, few
inches above him, the frame being sup
ported either by attachment to the har-
ness or to the thills of the vehicle.
Upon this frame he stretches sheet OF
canvass, oiled cloth or sheet rubber,
which forms a complete pent house to
to keep off either rain or sun. The
space between the animal and the COW
ering permits free passage OF an
which aids Transportation and helps to
keep the animal cool. The principle,
MS far rs this is concerned, is similar to
that of the odd, oval shaped hats worn
by men in the East Indies from time
immemorial. These comprise a light
frame of bamboo slips encircling the
forehead and sustaining covering
lined with cork an inch above, and out
of contact with the head. The slight
rustling of the breeze through ones
hair is said to be very refreshing, and
quite possibly horse furnished with
one Of the new protectors" may coin.
eide with this experience during hot
summer days.
Year: 1873

many Of them who were pretty hard.
Since the repeal OF the act compelling
every ship-owner to carry a certain mum.
Der of boys for every tons register that
he owns, the quality of seamen has de-
generated. Now, out Of crew OF forty
men it is lucky chance if you get 10
men who know a lead from handspike.
1t has been o crying shame the quality
of seamen we have to take, but there
are no others to be had. The men that
used to 20 to sea can make on shore
three times the wages that they can by
going to sea. My vessel is no isolated
case. It is the same with every steamer
going out of Liverpool. They would
not be worth much in an emergency,
but at the wreck of the Atlantic they
could not do much. I have no COM
plant to make Of their behavior"


Capt. Williams thinks the baggage of
most of the saloon passengers will be
saved, and he goes down to assist the
wreckers. He will remain here doing
what he can to aid Capt. Merritt.
Throughout the investigation he has
been entirely candid and taken no ad-
vantage through legal form or quib-
bles. He has no desire to shirk the
fearful responsibility which he assumed
and which still rests upon him. he Is
q broken down man. "My God J.! ne
said as left him, "it is horrible 1t
all seems to me like fearful night
mare" Poor man Can he ever be
happy again?
Year: 1873

Spring navigation on the Hudson rlV-
er has its excitements if not its horrors.
The propeller Nuhpa left Hudson for
New York with load of freight and
some thirty passengers. She crashed
through the ice in safety, and, though
going slowly, passed through the OBJ
structions with comparative ease, not
having to stop once till she reached a
point little south of Barrytown at two
o'clock in the morning. At this hour
all the passengers had retired to rest,
several of them occupying berths in the
cabin below the main deck and the bal
ance in state rooms which lined the up
per saloon. Suddenly the steamer came
to o dead stop in the centre OF a huge
field of ice. Backing out she ran into
it again, but did not make much head
way. The next time she went in, the
ice broke away on each shore, and the
action of the tide forced the heavy fields
from the west and from the east against
the Nuhpa, holding her as if in wise,
and cuttinga hole, all of two feetsquare,
in her hull, just astern OF midships on
the starboard side.


The passengers were told the boat
was sinking, and hurried on deck, and
the women and children were ordered
into o boat, as the propeller was sink
ing. Through some misunderstanding
the bow was lowered much faster than
the stern, and suddenly the tackling
broke and the boat with its occupants
fell to the water, one or two OF the Ia
dies and one child being hurled into the
river. This created wild scene, and it
was feared several would be drowned.
Fortunate the boat on the port side had
already been lowered, and into itsprang
two or three of the crew, who pulled 1t
to the starboard side, where the women
were fast drowning. After superhuman
exertion on the part of the crew the wo-
men were rescued. In q few moments
all had got into the boats, and now the
question of reaching land in safety was
a serious one. A few Of the more cour-
ageous us soon as heavy ice was reached,
stepped from the boat on it and CROPPED
their way ashore, dragging boat over
the ice along with them. Another par
ty started to do the same thing, taking
the ladies with them, one of the men
carrying long ioist. When within
about one hundred feet of the shore the
ice in front of them suddenly cracked
and moved, leaving a chasm ten feet
wide directly in their pathway. This
was a new danger, and again the unfor-
tunate passengers were panic-stricken,
and one of the ladies tainted. The man
with a ioist threw it across the chasm,
and, taking the swooning lady in his
arms, walked across the water on the
joist, reaching the shore in safety. The
balance followed, and all except one
man got across nicely. He fell in up to
his neck, but got out 'gain all right. 1t
was a narrow escape for the passengers
and crew. The boat, of course, sank.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Henry Peters, farmer, lived in
a comfortable log house in Gross Point,
Mich. His family consisted of wife
and four daughters, the eldest OF the
latter being only fifteen years of age.
On Friday evening, in company with his
wife, he went to neighbor's house to
attend a "barn raising" a meeting
which combines industry and pleasure,
leaving these four girls at heme. The
night was spent very pleasantly, and
Mr.. Peters and his wife remained until
a late hour, little thinking what a ter
rible fate had fallen upon their child
rem.


When they returned home they found,
where their house had been, a heap OF
blackened ruins. Their Oldest daugh-
ter, who, after anxious searching, was
found in the neighborhood almost dead
with fright and seriously burned, told
them that at about eleven o'clock ut
night, after all the children had been
abed and asleep for some time, she was
awakened by great heat, and, opening
her ewes, discovered the bed and the
room enveloped in flames. She sprang
from the bed, dragging one OF her Sis
ters with her, and made her way through
the smoke and flames as best she could,
to the nearest window.


Before she reached the window her
Younger sister tainted with pain and
terror, and she was unable to save her.
She clung to the clothing of her dying
sister, which, in her efforts to drag her
from the flame-enveloped house, were
torn from her body. She leaped out OF
the window blinded and exhausted, and
could only stand horror-stricken outside
as the pitiless tongues of flame Tapped
up the dry timbers of the house, and
made an impossible barrier to her re.
turn. The three children were burned
almost to q cinder, scarcely enough OF
their bodies remaining to identify them
from the rest of the debris.
Year: 1873

The amount of misapplied talents en-
gagged on inventions that can never be
used is as wonderful as it is prolific,
and there is ludicrous element in
many of the patents, and more OF the
applications, which is well worth inves-
tieation. We extract from the Patent
Office an account of some of these, that
show more genius than common-sense,
and have produced more laughter than
profit.


A gentleman applied for patent for
heating canals by steam, 80 that boat
ing could go on in winter as well as in
summer. The officer decided that this
invention was worthy of protection, and
gave him his patent


Another applied for combination OF
clock and bed, so ingenionsly contrived
that, when the clock struck, the bottom
of the bed dropped out. He claimed
that this plan would probably awake
the sleepers.
Speaking OF combination, he must
have come from Missouri or Kansas
who asked for patent combination of
cannon and plough. For this purpose
he filed three applications, making the
elongated handles of the plough hollow
so as to form two cannons. These were
to be kept loaded till the guerrillas
were after him the cannons were to be
fired, the guerrillas shot down, and
the farmer to go on his ploughing way
rejoicing.


And he, too, must have came from
the borders who asked for a patent OF q
combination of trunk and house. The
trunk was made with triple sides, NOV
ing up and down. Doing duty all day
in guarding clothes, when night came
on, and no cabin near, the goods were
to be taken out, the triple wall elevated
into one, and the benighted traveller
safely housed.


Another asked for patent for the in
vention OF the generation of steam by
boring hole in the ground till he
reached the waters that are boiled by
the eternal fires Of earth. He set forth,
among the advantages of his plan, that
there would be no danger of explosions,
no expense for fuel, no necessity for en-
gineers - all of which statements are
undoubtedly true.


1t must have been a relative of this
last gentleman, and one equally ac-
quainted with the laws that govern
the hidden heart of this planet, who ap-
piled for a patent for boring the earth
for artesian wells for purposes of irri-
CATION. He gravely set forth that he
had made the discovery that quicksilver
was heavier than common earth. He
therefore proposed to start hole, and
empty into it little mercury. By the
laws of nature that mercury would be
sure to work its way downward till it
struck water, and the water would then
be sure to work its way upward till it
struck air.


All of these gentlemen paid $35 each
for their paten. papers, and some OF
them even more than this sum. So
they must have applied in sober earnest.
Year: 1873

The New York Bulletin has somevery
interesting developments relative to the
failure of the Oriental workmen in New
Jersey, which will disappoint the be-
levers in the coming millennium of Chi
nese labor.


In spite of his apparent docility (ac-
cording to this testimony he manifests
a lamentable proclivity for the highest
wages going, and to check this tendency
a system of isolation and seclusion from
outside influences is necessary. Intel
ligent white men are disgusted at their
keenness in making bargain and the
growing difficulty of overreaching them
is is matter of general complaint. The
meek, almond-eyed strangers who were
lately glad to work for little or nothing,
demand the highest wages when they
have learned the trade. But there is
this difference between them and other
workmen. If their demands are re-
fused they do not sit down and starve
in idleness. They generally start on
their own account next door to their old
employer, and draw off his customers
by underselling him in his own special
ty. He is apt to be excess
ively fond of smoking opium, and, like
his betters, gets lazy, and disposed to
take his day off" as often as possible:
He is avaricious, too, to degree, and
is by no means a model of honesty.
Many of the force at Belleville have de-
serted nor have they gone away empty
handed, having left debts to quite large
sums behind them even, in some cases,
having borrowed money from their fel-
low countrymen, which has not been
repaid.
Year: 1873

The splendor Of thy roses fills


The silence Of my lonely room;
But something in their beauty thrills


More than the brightness Of their bloom.
'Tis this: thy dear hand gathered them,
And grouped their loveliness for me.
In every rose whose leaves kiss,


The wonder Of thy love see.
Two, rising fair above the rest,


Together seem to breathe apart,
And one Of these, supremely blest,


Lies on the others royal heart.
Oh, thus it is with thee and me:


From all the crowded world apart,
NY all Of lfe-love's ecstasy
only know it through thy heart.
Ny rose of men, the lesser flower


Cast not from out thy larger heart;
Enough il in her waning hour,


She may but perish where thou art.
Year: 1873

With the best intentions OF personal
neatness, many persons are unable TO
make the impression Of their company
wholly agreeable. They may remember
with advantage that attention to rinsing
the mouth with some fluid six times day
Is not too much pains TO make themselves
passport 10 esteem than an innocent,
cleanly, taintless person, which wins upon
one before moral virtues have time to
make their way. II you think this has
been said too often, study the personal
appearance Of the well-bred people you
meet for the next month. The result
will satisfy you that those who are as neat
as white cats are as one to fifteen Of the
careless, easily satisfied sort. Slight dis
orders make themselves known by the
sickly odor Of the insensible perspiration,
quite sensible to others Mt once, though
the person most interested Is the last to
become conscious of II. The least care
permissible, even In cold weather, to
those who would make their physical
purity as sure rs their moral state, Is
bathing with hot water and soap twice a
week from head to foot. Carbolic toilet
soap Is the best for common use, as II
heals and removes all the roughness and
" breaking OUT" not of the gravest sort.
Ladies whose rough compilations are
continual mortirication to them, have
found them entirely cleared by the use Of
this soap. The slight unpleasant 0dor OF
the acid present soon disappears after
washing, and 1t may be overcome by using
a few spoonfuls Of perfume In the water.
Year: 1873

MANY of our readers, who are looking
about fer something to do, can find pleas
ant and profitable employment in the bu-
siness of life insurance. Ii requires no
capital, save a horse and buggy to travel
through the county, and to active men
the recompense Is certain. We recon-.
mend the selection of some strong old
company like the New York Life, with
large assets and liberal plans, one that is
popular wherever known, and one TOO
that everybody knows. A man who
takes applications for life insurance is
doing good. 1t Is in every sense good
business. A letter dropped to the home
office of this company, at 346 and 34S
Broadway, New York, will meet with a
ready response. Try it.
Year: 1873

The Wheeling Register Of the goth inst
tells the following story on the authority
of Julia Messenger of Windridge, Green
county, Pa, for whose veracity it vouches ::


man living near Windridge, Green
county, Pa, had born to him five children,
four girls and one boy His name is
Daniel Lewis. When duite Young the
boy and second daughter, named Lucinda
Lewis, developed quite a fondness for
hunting. and were out nearly all the time,
roaming the woods in search Of game
They seemed to delight in nothing so
much as the fall life of a hunter, and
would be gone from home for weeks at a
time. After some four or five years the
boy quit it, and entered on the more in
dustrious pursuits of life, but the girl
continued in the chase Drawing herself
more and more from human intercourse
and restraint, she has become a wild
woman, fleeing from the approach of her
kind with the speed of deer


During the early years of her solitary
life she used to approach her fathers
house and entice the dogs to follow her,
learning almost any breed of dogs to be-
come good hunters. In the hope of bring
ing her back to her home and to civilza-
ton, her brother followed her and shot
the dog she had taken away, using every
inducement to get her TO 90 back with
him. But all in vain.


For eighteen years. since she was twelve
years of age, she has lived this wild life,
sleeping in the centres of straw stacks
during the night and hiding in them dur
ing the summer the wild and cultivated
fruits she intends for her winters store of
provisions. She is now thirty wears old.
and is AS wild as the most unnamed deni-
zen of the forest.


Mr.. Messenger says he at one time,
while out hunting, met her in the woods.
Her long black hair, covering her face and
eyes, was matted with burs and leaves.
and her black flashing eyes made her a
startling picture. She remained perfectly
still until he got within twenty feet OF her
when she turned and fled with the swift
ness no man could hope to rival.


A few days since she was seen again,
and then had in her hand three pheasants
and lour rabbits, but although these en-
numbered her she eluded every attempt to
capture her. She has been so long in the
woods that she has become perfectly wild.
Her dress is made of the skins of wild
animals and blanket that she has taken
somewhere during some of her nocturnal
predatory tours.
Year: 1873

Once ! had little sweetheart


In the land Of the Malay;
Such little yellow sweetheart,
Warm and peerless as the day
OF her own dear sunny island,


keimah, in the far, far East,
Where we sucked the lucious mango
All! and many a sweeter feast.
And such little copper sweetheart,
Was my Golu, plump and round,
With her hair all blue-black streaming
O'er her to the very ground.
And her ewes! her eyes were heaven!
Changing swift from joy to grief;
And her dress! it was no larger
Than ladv's handkerchief.
Twas enough for little Golu;


No more raiment did she need,
Than the milky, budding breadfruit,
Or the lily of the mead.
And she was my little sweetheart
Many sunny summer day,
When we ate the fragrant guavas


In the land of the Malay.
Life was laughing then. All, Golu!
Do you think Of that old time,
And of all the tales | told you


OF my colder Western cline?
Do you think how happy were we
When we sailed to strip the palm,
And we made a lateen arbor


OF the boat sail in the calms
They may call you semi-savage-
Golu! | cannot forget
How / poised my little sweetheart
Like copper statuette.
Now my path lies through the cities.
But they cannot drive away
NY sweet dreams of little Golu,


And the land of the Malay.
Year: 1873

A grindstone should not be exposed to
the weather as it not only Injuries the wood
work, but the suns rays harden the stone
so much as, in time, to render it useless
Neither should it stand in the water in
which it runs, as the part remaining in the
water softens so much that it wears un-
auuallV
Year: 1873

correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph gives the following as his mode
of relieving choked animals. Make a ball
of fine cut chewing tobacco and molasses
and crowd as far back in the animals mouth
as possible with tongue pulled out; it soon
sickens the animal, relaxing the muscles,
and the vomiting will invariable throw up
the impeachment.
Year: 1873

About forty rods distant from the Can
Ger farm stood the Beedleford school
house. 1t was an old frame building
made of square timbers. Nothing re-
mains on the site, bat a quarter OF Il mile
down the road were found what had evi-
IDENTIFY been portions of it. School was in
session when the cyclone made it appear
ance, about twenty scholars being in at
tendance The rumbIinG frightened them,
and they gathered around the teacher,
Miss Smith, thinking She could protect
them. The building shared the same fate
as the others which came within the grasp
of the tornado, and teacher and scholars
cannot imagine how they got into the
road way. The wind demolished the
windows first and rushing into the build
ing lifted it up rs if it were made of paper


and knocked it about like n shuttlecock


A daughter of Henry Rathmel, aged II
years, was in the doorway, and seeing
the black cloud coming, started to run
out. No one knew what had become OF
her until they found her mangled body
half an hour alterward in the mud quar-
ter OF mile down the road. She must
have been raised by the wind and carried
along. She had very little clothing when
found, and her remains were covered
with mud Miss Smith and six of the
scholars, whose names could not be


learned, were injured, three or four OF
| them dangerously: One very singular
Year: 1873

The principal itom Of interest In the foreign
news this morning Is the rather sharp corre-
Bpondence which recently passed beswoen the
Emperor Of Germany and the Pope on
the ecclesiastical policy Of the Empire.
Tho Pope In his 1otter made tho
serious mistake Of assuming that the
Emperor did not oountenance tho measures Of
his Government toward his Ultramontane sub-
jects. In his reply, the Emperor courtoously
but pointedly corrects the Pope on this point
aud not only informs him that he approves
them, but also that he, is responsible for them,
and shall continue them so long as the Ultra
moutRnes are hostile to the Government.
Year: 1873

There is very little Of the slave about
the English collier of the present day, yet
it is a curious fact, that the last serfs in
the British islands were the colliers and
salters in Scotland, who were not formally
emancipated by a decree Of the Sheriff
Court till the year 1899, that is, twenty
seven years later than that memorable for
the famous decision in the case Of the ne
gro Somerset, by which it became impossi-
BILE to take back slave to the colonies
aginst his will who had once set foot on
English ground. Till l779, then Scotch
colliers and salters we're to all intents and
purposes, slaves. They we're bound by the
law on entering coal or salt mine to work
there throughout their whole lives They
could not leave their place Of employment.
and, IN case of sale or alienation of the
ground on which the works were situated.
the right to their services passed without
express grant TO the purchaser. Further
more, the sons Of the collier ard salter
could follow no occupation but that o.
their father, and were not at liberty tc
seek for employment anywhere else thar
in the mines to which they have been at
tached by birth. 1t is difficult TO realize
that it is less than a hundred years az,
since such complete specimens existed il
the British islands Of those twin abomina


tions, serfdom and caste.
Year: 1873

A letter was recently received at the Post OF
hce Department from . gentleman engaged il
bee culture in Michigan, requesting permission
to transmit through the mails small woodeE
boxes containing queen honey bee and from
i've to ten workers. The boxes are constructed
by boring large holes hearty through small
strip Of pine board and covering the upper por
ton with . net work of wire. Inside each com.
partu1ent small pieces Of sponge saturated with
syrup are placed for the bees to feed upon. An
old ruling Of the department prohibits the trans.
mission of such matter and it is not likely it will
be reversed. When they were allowed to pass
through the mails complaints were frequently
made by the postmasters that the syrup soiled
the regular mail matter, and tn at the bees some.
times stung persons who handled the boxes.
Year: 1873

A horribly butchery was discovered
in an apartment in the third story of a
respectable residence on Second street,
few doors below South, Philadelphia.
The room was occupied by a German
mechanic, by the name of Edward
Schusterrerter, and his wife, who was
the daughter of the occupant of the
premises. The father had occasion to
go upstairs to speak with his daughter,
and upon opening the door of the room
occupied by her and her husband, dis
covered them both lying on the floor.
He Immediately gave the alarm to the
police, and couple of patrolmen came
to the scene. The woman was found
with her throat cut in horrible man.
ner, the wind-pipe, carotid artery, and
the jugular being entirely severed.
1t was found that the husband had
taken dose Of poison after killing the
woman, for by his side, along with a
bloody razor, lay an empty bottle.
There was every evidence that terri
BILE struggle had taken place, for there
were bloody fnger-marks on the walls,
the acknowledges, and the door-knobs.
The most singular fact of the tragedy
is that no noise or uproar was heard by
any one. The windows opening over
the yard of the house would have made
it comparatively easy for disturbance
to have been discovered. jealousy
was undoubtedly the cause of the mur-
der. The two had been married but
six months, and had lived unhappily.
The husband was out of work, and had
been very quarrelsome for the last
week, more so than usual. The woman
was but twenty-six years of age, and
the husband twenty eight. The deed
created very marked sensation down
town, and it is the most horrible which
has occurred in that section of the city
for many years. -4 " ~