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Year: 1872

A THOUSAND MILrs an Horn. Sitting
quietly At my desk this calm evening. the
wind hushcd outside. and the sound Of
conversation unhcard in the house. how
can | believe that in spite of all this ST.
lencc l am not at rest? Is it true. as
have been told it is. that VII le l sit in NV
armchair. am at the same time travel
ing more swiftly than the swiftest railway
trains were ever driven. or the swiftest
bird can Hv? If so, then in what car.
riase am drawn. and where is the steed
which draws it! You and l are travel
ing more rapidly than the swiftcst ante
| lope can run The world itself is our car.
riage. and the power which drives it is
force. which the Supreme Being who made
the world and US, has brought to bear upon
| it.


Look at the sun in the early morning.
1t is seen in the eastern sky, just rising
over the hills or the tree.tops. Higher
and higher it climbs. until noon: and then
lower and lower it sinks. until it goes out
of sight beyond the western hills. Men
once thought that the sun did thus travel
every day from east to west. We are hot
to trust the appearance it tells us false.
1t is not the motion Of the sun over our
heads. it is the motion of the earth itself.
which makes the sun appear to rise in the
east. Every day the earth turns around
and carries us and all i.s other burdens OF
hills and forests and rocks and seas with
it. Jus. as. riding swiftly in a railroad
carriage. We sometimes. for the moment.
think the trees and houses. rocks and fen.
ces to be hurrying past us in the opposite
direction so the world, carrying US swift
y onward from west to east, has made i,
appear that the sun and moon and stars
we're travelling from east to west.


But who can tell how fast the earth is
turning on its axis? Why. any boy or
girl who has studied arithmetic can tell.
For the earth is $4,000 miles in circum-
ference. and turns once round in exactly
twenty-four hours. Now. divide %, 600
BY "a, one hour. and fni it to be lit
tie more than one thousand. So while You
and are sitting BY our evening lamps,
quietly reading or writing. we are being
whirled along our journey. never stop
ping. and at the rate Of more than q thou
sand miles an hour.
Year: 1872

To MAKE MISCHIEF Keep your eye
on your neighbors. Take care Of them
Do not let them stir without watching
They may do something wrong if you DO.
To be sure, you never knew them to do
anything very bad. but it may be on yorr
account they have not. Perhaps il it had
no, been for your kind care they might
have disgraced themselves a long time
ago. Therefore do no. relax any effort to
keep them where they ought to be- New
er mind your own busiaess-that will take
care of itself. There is q man passing
is looking over the fcnce-be
suspicious Of him /; perhaps he con.em-
plates stealing. some Of these dark nights;
there is no knowing what queer fancies be
may have got into his head.


If you find any symptoms of any Que
passing out Of the path Of duty. tell every
one else what you see. and be particular
to see great many. 1t is good way to
circulate such things. though it may not
bene6, yourself or any one else particular
ly. Do keep something going-silence is
a dreadful thing; though it is said there
was silence in heaven for the space of half
an hour, do not let any such thing occur
on earth it would be too much for this
mundane sphere.


If, after all your watchful care. you can
not see anything out Of the way in any
one. yon may be sure it is not because
they have not done anything bad: per-
haps in an uuguarded moment you lost
sight Of them-throw out hints that they
are no better than they should be, tha,
you should not wonder if the people found
out what they were after while. then they
may not carry their heads 50 high. Keep
it going, and some one may take the hint
and begin to help you along after while
then there will be music aud everything
will work to q charm.
Year: 1872

0
On cold winter's night once all dreary and lone,
slept 10 house BY. the bleak river side;
Der its cold leaden waters fhe waving moon
And m0urnfully sounded the rush Of its tide.
The river rolled on, the wind whistled low
The moon was fast setting to add TO the gloom ;
Oh CHASTITY and pale looked the hard frozen


snow,


Like sheet over nature laid stif in her tomb.
slept on,-the clock jus. over my head
Was striking the chimes for the birth of dag;
God help me!--in horror sprung from my bed
And rushed for the spot here my ,rusty gun


lay.


For the roof OF the house seemed fast crushing in,
Weight after weight heard laundering fall
A grinding, a horrible ievilish din
And no help was near me-no, none at all.
| threw by my gun-what could that avail p
And fancy new terrors lent to my alarms
When thought of the ghost, Of the ghost of the


tale,


And knew that quite powerless were all mortal
! stood there not long, bat sped DER the aoor
With the speed OF the swallow, rs swift as the


light
Tore down the har-burst open the door
And half naked rushed into the cold winters 9


night.
But all was a. silent-yes, all was as still
As II the last being Of nature had died
And the mournfully murmuring rush Of the


tide.


All unhsrmed and unshaken the house was still


there,
And loomed like giant against the dull sky,
The old oak that stood near with its arms gaunt


and bare
Seemed whispering and beekouing to me to fy
How long stsid out there-it seemed yes q


year
So slow, oh. so slow those dark moments fed
Half frozen with cold vet hot burning with fear
re-entered the room and crept back to bed
With the bed-clo,hes covered my head o er and


DER,
Almos, dreading TO breathe. shivering la-;
With longing never had dreamed Of before,
l anxiously waited the first dawn of day.
! lay there, . think. for an hour or more,
With sleep my eve lids quite heavily grew,
When, by heaven an ague had seized on the


floor,
Aud weigh, from the sky had crushed the roof


through.
In horror sprang from my bed once again,
And fed on the wings Of delirious fright,
In that ghost-riddcn castle could not remain.
So half naked plunged in the cold winter s


night
Yet all was rs silent-yes, all was as still
As if the last being Of nature had died
Save the wheop of the owl on the far distant hill
And the mournfully murmurng rush Of the tide.
In the dull lurd " est the fast sinking moon
Cast light on the snow that looked angry and


red,


While the rising wind sighed with q sad wailing


tune


Like dirge sung over the graves Of the dead
Hark ! distant halloo was borne to my ear,
And far 'er the river chanticlecr crew,
Hope rushed TO my heart, for his voice shrill and


clear


Told me iha, the dawuing Of day h, near drew
Soon in the East saw mornings first raw,
Like message Of JOY both far and near spread,
| then lay down and slept until far in the dav,
Was awakened by the suns peeping in on my


bed.


Now often at midnight when silence rcig rs ronnd
And wakeful notice the slow moments glide
hear solemn echoes Of that horrible sound
And dream of the mur muring rush of the tide.
Year: 1872

This is the heading Of a paragraph in
a Western paper. recording a suicide
He blew his head oif. Bilious. poor.
and disheartencd-The gun-muzxlc in
his mouth. his toe on the trigger. and up
goes his hair"
Year: 1872

HIS FUNERAL AT BALTIMORE, YESTERDAY.


The funeral Of the late Archbishop Spalding
took place yesterday with all the ceremonious
rites that the Roman Catholic Church prescribes
for the bsrial OF one who occupied 30 exalted q
position. There was an immense outpouring OF
the Catholic community and the Cathedral was
densely crowded. The funeral sermon was
preached by Archbishop McOoskey. Among
those present from Wilmington was Bishop
Becker,
Year: 1872

The people OF Somerset county, Nd, are eyi =
IDENTIFY backward in the payment of their taxes.
The last issue OF the True Mdrylander contain
ed an advertisement of the property of two
hundred and seventeen delinquents-about one
twelfth Of the entire voting population of the
county This is certainly bad showing for a
county which boasts the Joneses, the Leonards,
the Crisfelds and host of others to " the
manor borne"
Year: 1872

There is grand quarrel between the factions


in the Louisiana Legislature, and matters are at
such pitch that bloodshed is feared. The yio-
lence and lawlessness Of the struggle, remind
us of the old New Orleans times, before the war.
Year: 1872

"CoME-come," said Mrs. Gray, "you
have been moping there long enough,
nephew, forgetting manners and every,
thing else. Here are the apples waiting,
and no one to hand them around, for
when once get settled in an easy chair
here the good woman gave smiling
survey of her ample person, which GER
tainly overflowed the chair at every
point, leaving the back and curving arms
quite invisible-''it isn't a very easy
thing to get up again. Now hustle about,
and while we old women rest ourselves,
you and Julia, here, can try your luck
with the apple seeds.


81 remember the first time l ever sur
missed that Mr.. Gray had taken notion
was once when we were on an apple.
cutting together down in Maine. Some
how Mr. Gray had got in my neighbor.
hood when we ranged round the great
basket of apples. / felt my cheeks burn
the moment he drew his seat so close to
mine, and took out his jack knife to begin
work. He pared and I quartered.
never looked up but once-then his cheek
was redder than mine, and he held the
jack-knife terribly unsteady. By-an-by
he got noble, great apple, yellow as
gold, and smooth as baby's check.
was looking at his hand side-wise from
under my eye-lashes, and saw that he was
pairing it carefully, as if every round OF
the skin was strip of gold. At last he
cut it off at the seed end, and the sof
rings fell down over his wrists as l tool
the apples from his fingers.


"'Now,' said he in a whisper, bending
his head little, and raising the apple
peel carefully with his right hand. Il an
as sure this will be the first letter of tn,
name / love, as am that we are alive.
He began swiftly whirling the apple-pee
round his head the company were al
busy with one another, and 1 was the onl.
person who saw the yellow links quiver
ing round his head, once, twice, thre
times.


"Then he held it still moment, ant
sat looking right into my eyes. he'll
my breath and so did he.


Now said he, and his breath cam
out with quiver, what if it should b
your name Y


a" 1 did not answer, and we both locke,
back at the same time. Sure enough
was the letter S. No pen ever made on
J more beautiful. Just as I expected,
Year: 1872

The Indian tribes have no system of
notation by which to express large num-
bers, except bycomparison, which convey
confused and general idea. AS numer-
Gus las the trees in the forest" "as the
blades of grass" or ''as the buffalo on the
plains," are very obvious comparisons
when an idea of uncounted numbers is
intended to be conveyed.


The other day, when 1.-TWO Bears" was
here, he told Father De Smet that when
he left home his tribe told him to give
them, on his return, the number of the
whites and their wigwams which he saw
while gone. Two Bears said that when
they reached Sioux City they notched all
the people they saw on stick, and
counted the houses which they saw. But
when they got to Chicago the people were
so many that they could not count them,
and so with the wigwams; so they con-
tented themselves with counting the
streets. At Washington, Philadelphia,
New York, and Chouteau's town (St.
Louis) they were confounded with the
number of whites and houses they saw,
and gave up all idea of counting them.
All they could do, Two Bears said, was
to tell their people that the whites were
as numerous as the blades of grass.


Father De Smet said that the surprise
of Two Bears reminded him that many
years ago he visited the Crows. and when
the latter heard the "Black Gown" had
come they called a council


The occasion of the council being called
together was this One of their chiefs
had been sent to Washington to see the
Great Father. On his return he was
asked by his people to give some account
of what he saw His statement of the
numbers of the whites which he said he
had seen appeared SO improbable to the
minds of his countrymen that they re-
fused to believe him, and gave him the
nickname of Big Liar" He remained
thus under ban until the arrival of Father
De Smet, and. knowing the regard they
had for the Black Gown, he had the coun-
Gil called together in order to vindicate
his character for truth and veracity. The
assembled chiefs asked Father De Smet
in regard to the matter He told them
that if they would start at sunrise and
ride around in a circle all day till sun
down, and were then able to count the
blades of grass contained in the circle,
they would form some idea of the mum.
bers of the whites. They were astonish
ed and still more surprised when Father
De Smet told them that he had seen cities
across the sea that would take them from
sunrise to sunset to ride around on theil
ponies, and that the houses on the space
thus ridden were as thick as the fingers
on their hands. After this simple state
ment, the Indians no longer doubted
"Big Liars" statements, but were ready
to believe anything said about the vast
ness of the white population.-St. LOui
Republican.


The latest thing in the way of inven
ton is kind of cooperative miners
pipe, the smoking of which will bring
with it no danger of explosions. Th,
pipe Is to be made of earthenware, vii
hold two or three gallons of tobacco, ant
is to have as many india rubber stems al
there are smokers in the mine. 1t will b'
placed above ground, filled and lighted
and the miners at work below can pull
away whenever they please at their end O.
the rubber tubes.
Year: 1872

A CORRESPONDENT of Land and Water
tells the following about cat:


"She was very still, and appeared to be
fast asleep, when suddenly she sprang in
to the middle of the room, where she
fixed her feet on limited spot on the
floor, to which also her nose was applied,
as if closely grasping something she held
in her claws. This continued for a short
time, when the nose was gently raised,
and the visible attention was directed to
the feet which still continued their grasp;
but after time one of them was gradu-
ally removed, and then the other, at
which puss appeared greatly at loss to
imagine whittier the imaginary object
could have gone, so as to escape her
grasp. She looked in various directions
along the floor, with foolish face of con-
fusion; and then again her attention was
directed to the spot on which the feet
were first closely pressed, as if to examine
closely whether the presumed escape had
been by sinking through the floor; and
when this seemed unsatisfactory, the dis
appointed animal now widely awake,
retired slowly from the spot; but she re-
turned more than once to re-examine the
place, as if she found itimpossible to com,
prehend how an object she had so plainly
seen and grasped should have sunk into
nothing. Many minutes elapsed before
the cat appeared to be reconciled TO the
conviction that what had been a dream
was not in truth q reality"
Year: 1872

THERE are some disadvantages in liv.
ing on the second floor. A Danbury
housewife thus situated left bar of soap
on the stairs while she exchanged a few
words with the first floor tenant, and a
plumber who was upstairs mending the
pipes came down a moment later with
several tongs and wreuches in one hand,
and a sheet iron furnace in the other, and
when he reached the immediate locality
of the soap his legs suddenly spread
apart, a look of astonishment stole into
his face, and in an instant his head was
half way through the front door, and his
coat-tail on fire, and those tongues and
wrenches were up in the air struggling
for dear life with that sheet-iron furnace


He says now that his father forced him tC
learn the trade of plumbing, and that il
was not his own choice.-DdnbuTy Ne,es
Year: 1872

NASHVILLE, September 2s.-There


was a heavy wind and rain storm this
afternoon. Several persons were struck


10y lightning and seriously hurt. a
horse attached TO a street car WRs killed.


The Nashville Bloodhorse Association
commence their fall meeting Monday,
and indications are favorable for a most
successful weeks sport There are
eighty-five horses on the ground, among
their number some famous racers. Three
races on Monday.


Frank Tweed, editor Of the Southern
Law Review, and President Of the late
Reform and Reunion Association Of this
city, and an ex-COnfederate soldier who
served In the ranks, delivered a power
ful speech tonight 10 a large audience,
composed, in great part Of ex-COnfeder-
ate soldiers The burden Of his speech
was TO show the unftness Of
the present Democratic party to
answer the needs of the hour in this
section, and that the business men Of
the South should recognize this fact and
ally themselves with the national party
that would best promote the commercial
interest He appealed for the renation-
snzation Of the South by Southern men.
Every national sentiment was ap-
plauded.


General Nancy, a distinguished Rebel
officer, published a card in this morn
ing's Banner giving reasons why be
prefers Grant for President. The tenor
Df the card Is TO urge the Southern peo-
pie TO harmonic In the support OF Grant
rs a choice. IN the North the masses
are making no distinction or raConciliq-
ton. Neither Grant nor Greeley is
what is desired, but rather a uecoucilia-
ton Of the great body Of the people.
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, September 2S.-H0race
Z Greeley arrived here about four O'Clock
E this afternoon. He-made a few speeches
I on the route hither, and at Easton,
+ Pennsylvania, said: % l am a protec-


ZIONIST, as all men know, butt is equally


true that if a majority Of Congress
should pass law not recOncilable with
these opinions I would not exercise the


veto power After a reference to the


position Of the Cincinnati and Baltimore


platform on this question, he added:


Now is there one man so unintelli-


gent as not TO know that the present


prosperity of the iron interest Of this


country depends, not at all on the


tarltfs but TO the fact that all over


the world iron is in great demand, and


Is selling ct prices nearly double those


Of three years ago. The world Il iron


hungry; the world Is calling for more,


still more iron to build railroads, and


soon iron will be high in all countries,


because more is wanted than can be pro-


duced. Its not probable that for five
or even ten years hence there will be so


much more iron in the world that prices


will not he above cost of making il here
and everywhere Just like corn; just like
any other product There is less iron in
the world than is needed, consequently
the price is gone up, not because Of the
tariff, but in all countries which have
free trade as vel, and it is morally GER
tain to remain nigh for a considerable
number Of years. he believed that if
the duty had been fixed at ten dollars
per toB AT the close of the war and re-
msined there, We should have had
double our number OF furnaces and been
supplying ourselves with iron very much I
cheaper than we can now get il or could
get il if the tariff were entirely OF it.n
He was met by large and enthusiastic 4
crowd at HOboken, New Jersey, and, un |
his crossing the ferry, he entered q car
riage with Governor Randolph, General 1
Cochrane, Samuel Sinclare, and drove /
to the residence OF a friend. No speech
was made, notwithstanding the de-
mands Of the multitude.
Year: 1872

a Berlin letter says that during the
reception of the late Imperial party,
eight persons were suf0cated and tram
pied 10 death on one night, and fifteen
more mOrtally wounded. The mounted
police charged the mass one time with
draMn sahres.
Year: 1872

z on;MoRDAY; November 25th.
NAnd continue it until every
thing of a Fall and Winter ma
ture is sold. AS the Stock is still
large the reduction in price will
be great so as to ensure their
early sale.
Year: 1872

And all of sudden he consented to
sink his most settled convictions when
he discovered that he could by this
means become a candidate for Presi-
dent. And now, as soon rs he finds
that this ambitious personal venture
was miscalculation, he hastens to tell
his readers that Presidential election
is the appropriate session for discussing
and deciding the question of the tariff.
We concur in this opinion, but believe
that the intermediate period between
Presidential elections is also approprl-
ate.
Year: 1872

"Wood carpeting" is said to be COM
ing into use. There is nothing new in
il, as any person may see whowill take
a walk IN the aHtumnat forest and OBJ
serve the rich wood carpeting Of leaves
there.
Year: 1872

Champagne dealers are threatening
heavy advance in the price of their
aerated slops. The ostensible reason is
"a failure of the vintage in France. -
But what that has to do with New
England cider or the New Jersey tur-
nip fields, from whence our champagne
supplies are mainly drawn, is one OF
these mysterious things that none but
a financial cider dealer can determine.
Year: 1872

This comes of sleeping with pistol
under ones pillow. An Ohio man the
other night discharged arevolver while
in his sleep, the bail entering the right
thigh and passing diagonally through
the thigh, lodging near the knee. When
he awOke he was sitting up in bed, with
the revolver in his left hand, and the
ball in his right leg.
Year: 1872

The New York World is supremely
disgusted with Greeley and the whole
Cincinnati business. That paper says !:


Thus early does the defeated candi-
date confess the hollowness and folly of
the distinguishing thing in the Cinein-
natl platform Though deprecating
tariff discussions as untimely, he makes
haste to reHounce and trample under
his feetthe evasive juggle which alone
made his nomination possible. The
admission would have come with bet
ter grace from almost anybody else.
True, he makes it by oblique implica-
tion; but the implication is so clear and
unmistakable, it holds him with
such tight logical grip, that he cannot
escape the imputation of having given
his sanction to miserable fetch, whose
dishonest emptiness he perfectly under
stood, and which he would have been
the first to expose and brand under 9TH
er circumstances.


" \


Why does he thus link it (the tariff
with the Presidential election, if he
ever regarded that part of the Cincin-
natl platform as anything but a disrept-
liable dodge Pa dodge which he over
stated and exaggerated, as well as sane
toned, in his letter of acceptance.
Within less than week after its close,
the late canvass is confessed to. have
been heartless and tricky, even in the
estimation ofthe man selected to lead
it.. The very thing which rendered his
nomination possible is admitted by
himself to have been an imposture.
He regards the tariff as a national
question Of paramount Importance; he
has hundred times so represented it
within the last two years; he has all his
life given the whole sap and vigor of
his intellect to the advocacy of PrOtec-
Year: 1872

When he travelled abroad-as he often did to verify the most trihing particular which he might be introducing into one of his romances-some money, of course, was necessary. His mode of paying the positions in country where he knew neither the language nor tariffs, is thor oughly characteristic Of him. 1T did not know word of the language of the country" nor did I know the value of it's current coin, but I do know the human heart, which is the same all the world over, and I understand very we'll physiognomy; so this is what did: l had bag which I filled with small sil- yer money, and each time the horses were to be changed, took this bag in my hand :; the position then came to the door of the carriage; I looked searchingly into his eyes while I drop ped into his hand one coin, two coins, then three, four, or ever so many, until I saw him smile. Now as soon as I saw him smile, I understood that had given him coin too many. Quickly I with drew that coin, and my man was paid" This anecdote shows us Balzac as he was-possessing the simplicity of child, united with the profoundest insight and the deepest philosophy. But in small things wisdom is apt to overreach itself, and we fear that had he tried second time this original mode of settling the score, our worthy postilion-supposing him to be equal in wit to the ordinary run of his class-would have refrained from smiling for an unconscionble time. London Society.