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THE PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. C. C. TOraEBSTHinB & SON, EDIYOBS AND PKOPKIETDKS. T K R M S : The H erkihie BKiioasiT will be sent to any person in the County, for one year, for |X 50 in advance* I f not paid strictly in advance J2S 00 will bo charged. To those living out of the Coun^ it will be sent postage paid, for $160 in advance. No paper will be sent out o f the County unless paid for in advance. No paper discontinued unless all arrearagea aro paid, ex- ceptatthe option of the publishers, • SATES OE ADVEB,TISrN®t ■ One square, o n e w e e k ..... .....a. ....... . ......... . I I 00 One square, two weeks......™... __ _ 150 One square, three weeks.... ............... 2 Ofr One square, one month..,...........™......... S 00 Oi^.e square, tw o mouths ......... 4 GO One square, three months..*.*...**. ........ . o (|0 One square, SIX 7 00 One square, q^ue year....*......................... 00 (TWSI.YE J ( ^ A liberal who advertise am o u n t th a n a s a h a r e . A HUNDRED YEARS EROa NOW. The surging sea or human me forever onward And bears’to the eternal shore Its dally freight Of souls. . Though bravely sails our bark to-day, palftDeath sits at the prow, And few shall know we ever lived a hundred years from now. t> mighty human brotherhood! whyflerce^^irar and Strive, While Cfod’s great world everything alive? Broad fields, uncultured waiting tor the r ’— Of progress that shall dred years from Why should wa trrso earnestly'in life’s short; ' narrow span, On golden stairs to climb so blgh above brother man 7 5 ample space lor and ^claimed,* are make them bloom a liuii- pfkimef femoCfat. Q , Q . Sd B O N ; F r o p r t e t o r s . T h e U n i o n a n d t h e G o n s t i t u t i o n . A Y E A R I2ST A D V A N C E . Y O L U I E I I I Y l . E E R E I M E R , ¥ E D M S D A Y A P R I L 25 , 1 8 7 7 . T O M B E R 3 7 - ” I t shall b » m^r p ride and pleaenre to ■ see that y o n -want nothing, Sybella. I am almost glad you have heqome poor- £or that reason.” Tliea he kissed her, aud Sybella was happy, b u t ashanletTof herself for p u t ting him to the test* “ You see ho is all I tliought him, auntie, ” sh e said to Mrs, Margaret, when he was gone. “I shall tell him all to- r«orrow.” w id .Margaret; “wait, a 3ek. Prom ise mo you’ll wait a week;, rbejlft’? • So Sybella waited, and Hargaret, Watohing, Uaw the signs she watched for, tbough. t h i s l o v in g woman had-aa y e t nO suspieiott of the truth. Tbe wedding-day drew near. The dress, lich and quiet enough for who was to be a bride for the m th ? , - brotUerman? ------ Joanic s a d failQdj- and 1© av tier blindly at an eartblysliriiie in penniless. Sbie told the s tory before Mrs. g X ^ n m t,en r s e iv e 3 be dust, a’ hundred' M a r p r e t, l i ^ h i n g grimly behind her years from now. everlasting Knitting, ,ajid she wound u p vmi,esnmun.Trtheworid’«aTmiai,sa 7 WHv' b;y a d ^ ^ * ; ^ r d e a r auutie h ere, what H e r lover had listened very gravely, ha bent over Why pri 2 o so much the world’s applause 7 Why dread so much its blame 7 !Cho Is Its voice cf censure irt, the scorn that ^^earns a hundred A fleeting c( The praise that thrills the heai dyes with shame the hrov 11 be as long- i years from n O p a tien t h e a r t, t h a t m e ekly h e a r y o u r w e a ry load Of wrong! O earnest hearts, that bravely dare, and, striv ing, grow more strong! Press on till perfect peace is •« dream of how You struggled o’er ure’3 thorny road a hundred years from now. Grand, lofty souls, who live and toll that free dom, right and truth Alone ma^rrne the universe, for you 13 endless When ’mid the hlest, with God you rest, the grateful land shaU how Above your clay In rev’rent love a hundred yeara from now. Earth’s empires rise and faU. Time! llke break- erson thy shore; They rush upon thy rocks of doom, go dowa, and are no more; The starry tvlldenies^f worlds that gem night's radiant hrow Win light the skies for other eyes a hundred years from now. our Father, to whose sleepless eyes the past and future sand - ,, • . An open page, like babes we cling to thy protect ing hand; Change, sorrow, death are naught to us If we may safely how Beneath the shadow of tiiy throne a hundred years from now. —[M ks . M abt a . F obu THE W IDOW ’S ROSE. ** Sybella, you are going to do what a widow generally does when she marries the second time. You are going to make a fool of yourself. A rthur Austin doesn’t love you; it is y o u r money he wants.” i “ “ W hy, auntie,” she said, “ how naughty of you. And h ave I no charms, that a lover should not be possible to m e ? \ ,\ T o u are very pleasing and very handsome, too, Sybella,” saidM i's. Mar garet ; “ b u t cau’t you compare this man yourself with poor, dear Eeginald,^ who ;ook h is eyes ofif y o u r fece, and who would do any thing to make happy ? I ’d rather live o n the memory of such 1 ’ove ich a l as that than take a pre- e o f love like this. why,Jthis A r& u r in’t 1 H e is an extrayi lazy, too. The him the sort o f S m Austin is too selfish to love any him self; and though, pf courj love stands apart, a n d you car Reginald back again, only be sensible for a moment, and contrast Mr. Austin with the man you have refused—that fair-haired young artist—^that merry, good-hearted German, with mouth just made for kissing—and old Mr. Bell, seventy, worshipped the passion h i Jum.‘ want fellow, and h e iff 4 jord happened to give looks- you like, and sc you’ve been silly enough to turn your back o a good men, and hold out your arms t irhim .” “ O, auntie, a n y one would thiuk I did the courting,” said the little widow; ‘‘hold out m y arms, indeed I” I t ’s all the same thing,” stdd- the elder lad y ; “all the same thuig. You drop ped into hiffarnqs when hq held theni out, and it’s dreadful to m e to see you expecting so much, when you’ll get so little. A gay honeymoon, jorhaps. After that, neglect, th© p angs of jealousy —with good reason, too, no doubt—and bitter, hfe-long regret,” ‘‘ Auntie, dear, I love him ,” said Sy- “ I usedused too sayay n oo womanoman could bella. t s n w i love twice, but this second love ia very strong, and as swe again. I trust det I had n o t a penn; ; as if I were sixteen A rthur p erfectly,: I f ’orld, I should angry w)ith test him, BlI how genenous of you, a u n tie; only 111 [ p rove him. T o n shall I’ heia, and how fond ’’ said the old,lady; “jn- l don’t believe it, viug your wed- she kissed h er that the test “ I trust so, deed I trust so. B u t 1 aud besides you are ha' ding-dress made.” But Mrs. Euthvei aunt good-night, v ahould be made, ‘‘ He will forgive me when I tell him all,” she said. “ Aunt is so good that I cannot bear she should not know just how good Arthur i s ; dear A rthur.” ^ Then she run up stairs, and opened the locket in which she wore h is p o rtrait, kissed it a thousand times, thinking those thoughts that fill the heart of any loving woman who is a promised bri at g rief h a d come td ^ b e l l a when her young husband was to m from her heart, and she had been very wretched for long years ; h u t the wound h a d f i l l ed at last, and then A rthur Ainfcm jh a d come into her life, s u iting her p erfectly, resizing her every d i’eam.uf w l« t A-man should be. Oftsn she woiidi wag that she shouh P o u b th im ? Ah, doubt him. JBut 'Aunt'-Morgarat should bs satisfied. - - - - ' * - u “ You are looking grave, my dear,” 1 Arthur, as they Sat together the t evenina. 'A little , ,I ist suffer you le failure o f the “ Yes,” he said ; “you h ad your mon ey there ?” “ If I heir money in them :nQV7 ; and you’ve r6£ - Bank to-day?” had not, would it trouble t fail that it should faU ?” she asked, be sure, I have a little besides, but aunt inclc m uist s t: have a hc«ne, y o u know, suppose I shall have about a h u n dred a year. You’ll n o t have a rich wife, A rthur, after all.” H e paused a momani^ and than an- & tou& itoskY wifk emotioitiL but when s h e had finished, 1 her and kissed her. “ Som tec, •will she not be my the d ay t h a t makes-usone ?” Then Sybella, ashamed of her trick, wept u p o n hiff s h o u lder; but, somehow, A u n t M a r ^ ^ e t looked no less g rim ly u p on theliandsbm e Arthur, and o nly said, afterwards: “ W a it a week, child. Prom ise me tq w ^ t a week, before you undeceive Then Sybella said, “ You are u n just.” And was seriously angry with Aunt Mar garet for the first time in h e r life. Four days h ad passed. I t was & bright day^. and. there was to be a p l e a s ^ t pio- i^pBoAy HoatjaHernobiii .Syballa^and her betrothed were at were all ofd friends, t was in her -gayest QeirEyrTOthuAll— LOOn^ . .Syball i Mrs, Buthven )od, and chatted meirily’-witKall—pCrhaps..a- littid h with a shy young fellow of eight* a the because who was .other, b( A r thu rA u stin had begm his u sual good spirits, b u t i thanhan with^ith any company, t w of his youth and shy- thedi 3 d a y in as it went on he grew gloomier and gloomier, and at last relapsed into perfect silence. In vain did h is b etrothed try to cheer him. Ho scarcely spoke or looked ah her, and at last his manner began to have an ef fe c t on the w h o le party. O ne after tne other grew dismal, and the return home WM a s solemn as a funeral, procession. A t lSybelk*s door Anstin hfted M s bat coldly, and bade her good-evening -with out even a presSiwe of the hand. ^‘You are coming in, A rthur?” she id, softly. “ Ho,” ha answered. “ A r e y o u fll?” A t that he and said, aloud; -*Ho, X am n o t H I. - £ ammot b l i a a , th a t is sdl. Nor deaf, either. 1 have watched and listened to-day, to m y cost. Good-evening.” “ W hat did h e mean, aunt?” cried .Sybella, when the door had closed. “ What has been done ? ' I saw’ noth- ing.” “ H e is pretending to be jealous of young Mitttiil,” said Aunt M a f ^ r e t, quietly. “ Sybella, have cour£^e. He rrel and break with you, thinks you are penniless, id he ’will s( A t that h e tnrned sharply upon her, aloud: meansIS to qua now th a t he Tell him the truth, cover from h is jealousy. ourself, and you loRify h im .” And this time Sybella only sighed. 1 never soon re- H eep it to be able to him ,n offer o f her lips, which pretty letter to to come to her, met him with a] he shocked h e r b y rejecting. “ Y o u know how I hav^. been offend ed, Sybella,” he said. flirted w ith that b o y a]ll w I d id not,” .said S^ n m y life. Why I now? N o w o -' ihan I have been to ‘You know y< f l i ^ d w ith th a t b o y a day.” “ YiJh know I d id not,” .said Sybella. *FJirt.l ‘ I eeves fijrted in m y life, should I begin to do s< man was ever truer thai you.” “ I doubt it, ” said h e, “I have*seen much and I suspect m o re; and since your conduct h as weaneA my h eart from you, \we bad betterter part.art, Th he erer is only one way o f managing these thJ p ^ e i s t iging these things.” Sybella looked into his face. She nd jealop madues^,there, only'n cool determination to b reak his engage- lent xnth a woman whom be bad never ived, and 'whofeje.forfcUBfe, ha^beeu his only object from the first. She knew x n a a u o ta p e n n y m th e w o r id .T s S 'o n f d {olieras if the knowledge woidd rend be even dearer to him. • Ho has often soul from her body. She tried to said h e -wished that I had n o t ; but Til hgck frou not be angry w you, a u n tie ; only I ’ll “ ^ only oDject from tlie Urst. au e knew that .her .qipithfid beeq right, b u t she hadioved himfeu euifeely that i t seemed 3 if th e knowledge would renc' ir body. She tried t( — ,-^k,ro f m h er e y e s ,. bui 1 , ' S lo H y she drew heir' engage' in g from” } ingage' it it in- ment-ring from Jier finger and pi to h is hapd, and-tum ed away. At the door a stronger hand grasped .. ^ , _ i-et'S. She led h er niece to heir rodm, and returned fothe parlor -before Arthim A u k in h ad left l A I.M. . ft •<.» Slie .................... itanding before him, looking Btraignl furnace and foun d wanting. Y o u know torn of this. Don’t prevaricato. You know it is true.- I -have. ee©u through roil from tho. first,.’’ - I t is pot-yoar affair, I believe,’ tlmr answered, sulkily, “Of cc when a man expects to m arry monej tsfi’t pleased to find hitfiaelf sad< coursf18, d ^ e d dth a p ^ o rwi^ and her beggarly rela- ’ve broken with Sybella on and ifcia h e r own fault.” “ She hto had a lucky escape, Mr. Affalin,” said Atmt M ajrgaret; “ b u t b e fore y o u go, let me tell y o u a little se- *r©t, Sybella > a s not lost her money. The b m ik.that failed had n o t a pejnnj of neraxd * Ari&v-aa far4.hd'beg'giirty f a -* lationa—you mean me, y o u know—poor Atiut M argaret is worth her twei * ittsand pduhds, and every j o ? R iluth- I warned h e r th a t you did n o t love I forced h e r against, hey -will to you to th e test. And I see that I right, and y o u may go, M r. A rthur A m onth after- t the woman whowho ifff fooled tm e e by idid i dt'. t ; len can i f ___________ _ sam e a n a u m w t b t u bopiiless id and M rs. .Euihven -will rem a in Mra« Buthven u n til some b e tter m an asks hex to change h e r name. bie, he p u t i tt e E d w I j into his bosom. The next # y he remarked, that-they m ade a m uch nicer pie- ^ lau h q expect ed^ PEEWIT’S NEPHEW: A Story- f o r tU© JBoya. Pea-wit’s! delphia on< nephew C£ le day last - n e on from Phila* reek to make him bright-eyed. snowbafiing seasons, -with a rounOabc jacket, a couplq of voices, and a thous and and one pranks—a shouting, whist ling, singing boy, who banged doors. Upset chairs, broke crockery, and cut up the mischief peneraUy—one of -s^om OHver W endeE Holmes sa ought to be kept in a_ b an through the b unghoie till ty-one years old.” , “ They . and fed they are 4wen- RECOXmECXIONS OF UHAREOHE CU8H,- JCAH. A year has passed away since Charlotte C u shm a n died, and the p romised biog raphy of her has not y et appeared. A short time before her death, in a letter referring to th e subject, she -wrote: “I am far too ill to go on with i t now, and have little h o p e of ever being aMe to do so, but I have a great, satisfactiou in knowing that the work is tdready part ly p repared, and will soon be completed, whatever may happen to m e .” Three Before Tom—for that was the name of the youth—^had b e e n in th e house two honrs h e h ad discovered where the cake was kept, and confiscated enongh for six boys, stuffed h is pockets -with raisins, frightened the cook into bysterics the doss :h wound around h im and a hideous itched the banisters frightened th e cook in to hys by pouncing out of th e closet with a table cloth wound aroun d h im and a hid* false face on, scratched the banis •with his jacket buttons, climbed ■;ed a swing in gold-fish, c a t h is finger, tore the seat ibof Ms pantaloons, and didn’t appear b e h a lf occupied a t that. “ H l ’d m y way with boys. I ’d spank the s k in off ’em, i f they clidn’t behave themselves,” said PeOwii’s spinster atmt, coming down the stairs after tying up Ms finger. ‘ ‘ S pare th e rod and-=-” J u s t then she stepped on a piece of bread a n d butter that Tom had left be hind him, and next moment there was the awfulest racket and smash as the spinster aunt skated down the. stairs, and butted a panel out of the hall door with her head. M is. Pee-wit came down, picked her up, examined h er, and found th a t she • ' ’ thum b , 1 3ss. and „______ ____ __— ----------- ----------------iter, and she was fed to the aittlngTyoom and put .to BOffle in arnica and' campnbfTmimencr\ ’ Tom’s sorrow o ver the occurrence did not prevent Mm,, ten m inutes later, from exchanging Peewit’s bast fall overcoat for a mangy, half-starved-Iooking dog and a broken-bladed k nife,,wM ch spec ulation was UOt regarded in a favorable Hght by kfca. Peewit, on her coming into the <3ining-room and finding fhe disreputable our eating the meat iutend- ed fo r d inner j the family cat strutting around among a .shelf fall of broken crockery, with her back arched and hei cjarving h dinin.g-table. “ Mercy sakeff! where’d you get that nasty dog?” she demanded. “ Swapped for 'im. “ O, he’s a hnaky r a tt e r !” \(Shewl I ’ m put him o u t; but the dog o under the sofa, and only ventured out [h to snatch a m outhful o u t of “N o i ’f r e p lie d the fam o u s 'actress, bluntly,_ynthout the least attempt to ap* ■peauwiseV - - - “Isifc p<sssihie y o u do n o t admire. E m erson?” with a look o f u tter astonish- “ Quite possibJje.” ^ M iss Oushman said no more at the oment, but after a little she launched of the most beatitifal -and its^ o n s X h a v e ever l istened long enough to snatch a m outhful o u t o f <lramstio recitations X Lave evei ■ • ~ • \imply magnificent, ending with “be ourS e if,'du pot * “ ■ -------- ----- learned I legs, ancTupset 'h e r ai 33&S info the fireplace. *eewit returned home, te of affairs, h e ^ long pole, but stopped upon the rem o v ing the sitting-down tray of gli Peew it returne d hom e, and th e state of affairs, h e w ent >vm and tried to poke h im out -with a g pole, but stopped upon the 'brute loving the sitting-down part of his pantaloons together with sevefal ounces of h is fiesh, and hunting nt) his shot gun, he blew a hole through the wall , the cannibally-disposed dog. 'ommy superintended the funeral, MM°1 ch took place a t the foot- of th e gar- den half an hour later. Mr, P e e w it ’ ■ r sat down on a chair w h ich h is h a-Ting sat down on a chair which sphew had freshly coaled over with ae, was unable to a ttend -without car- chair with Mm, and spent hia ‘ing the interm ent in tearing id the chair glue, was u rying the c time a books. Tha dinner that day could hardly be cklled a success, considerable excited and b o isterous conversation being caused ................ r Of Mrs. Feew ifs false away a t the bottom the mashed-potato dish, while the it-cellars h ad exchanged their contents id away a t jo ta to dish, salt-cellars h ad exchanged the ir contents with th e sugar-bowl, and the gravy was so thick with red pepper that Pee-wit 3 forced to drink a bucket of water, i be led out into tho g arden and clap- i on the back to get his breath back, er swallowing a spoonful, “ A cook that’d send in a dish of gravy like that to -a ivhitu man’s table ought to b e tarred and feathered,” re marked Pcewit, (jcming hack into the room, with a very red face and a hoarse “ W on’t y o u s it u p to the table and ^ s h your dinner. Peew it?” asked h& “ D inner b e h a n g e d ! D o you s’poae I ’ve g o t a cast-iron stom a c h !” he ex claimed, taking his nicely-fiUed meer schaum pipe from tho mantelpiece and lighting it. “ W-h-e-w! BuUrush Moses! What in thunder’s that ?” he shouted, as his pipe suddenly exploded, covering Mm with a shower of sparks and tobacco ashes, singing his moustache and eye brows, and i l ^ n g the room -with smoke -Bnd'ErkmplotouamnullDf p o w d e r ■ Tommy, who bad surreptitiously ap propriated three slices of mince pie, was w mnoli. affected by th.e aigbt of bis mclo cavorting and noffling around tho •oom, that ho -was forced to adjourn to he hall and butt hia head against some- hing b ard, b e felt so good. During the evening several of tha neighbors called in, and things were g et ting pleasant and sociable, when Tommy quietly sprinkled the stove -with red pepper, and a few minutes, later the party had broke:U over the fences, lamp-posts, kershe-wing 1 trying which could say th e worst 5 n p , and -were , and holding on to~ t ^ a t each oth* fth e an d tryin g which coul things a b o u t that neph* The first train the next m orning tied Tommy back to Philadelphia, the dove o f peaceeace oncence moreore elevatese^ h is p o m el e in that household. I)mnmANt> tbp /B qcl —A certain ■wit ness, in »n action fox a ssault a n d battery, mixed things up considerable in giving b i s account o f t h o - \ --------- ~ Dennis. ^ * throwad it « over and over,’ Dennis?’* “ A t a t him , i t rolled him “ Threw a stone atj bop®r; and' mis ?’* “ A t iho *Iag, yerfiopior ; an d ' got up and hit me again.” “Thoi ?” , “ Nw ; Dennis. And wid that' dog?” “ No>; Dennis, ho s tuck h is tail bef off.” “D e n p is ? ” * when h e came back at down and pounded m y desk as I -write, ;eful chirography speaks of dear, active mind that id ready pen far more any words ite strength ing open etxong, graceful her End the once guided her rapid a n d re* forcibly add eloquently of mine c o a ldportray theiniiai and great intellectual force of h e r char acter. And what a rarely intereafcing book the life of Gharlotto Ci written b y herself, would hav* for apart from g reat histrionic genius and experience, s h e possessed fine litera- talents, and, had she not preferred 3 singe, m ight have excelled as a \writer; H e r mind, stored with a rich fund of ry talents, and, ha d sh e th e stage, m ig h t have writer; H e r mind, store fun d o f general knawledge, and by a prodigious memory, was her command, and, in hmguag* „ oompaot and k een aa a steel blade, ofter overflowed -with. pl6w»ntry, wMch,, of Incessant lufferiing, THE BROOELYN b r i d g e WIRE- The breaking streuj stretch are determun foot samples taken from^bbi each coil, and' L an d amount Of b;^ testing on« »th ends of 'eYodt pie from every fifth coil. The samj hCO] exceadiilg the testing dimensions si oientlyte allow of firm gripping, are piae:ed in the ja-ws of the testing appara-' tuB, and subjected to. a pulling strain eed on a long leing increased -the straiu, [ng the testing ^ . . a preHminaty rengthening strain of 400 p ounds. The percentage o f strength before breaking is noted on a graduated scale. ' The - ----- ;— wire shall over 3,400 and-a-half per cent. a aided 3 always at I, in language grapMc, as a steel blade, often -wit and qnick genial even in her last days Incessant suffer did n o t desert.her. unarlotte Cushman was n ever b e a u ^ n l, even i n h e r .youth, and owed a o lhing of h e r worldruude fame to personal attrac tions ; b u t s he h ad a noble head; a sive brow, a smile o f wh ‘ The d e r - wasne\ neSs, and her power Of using: i t was something marvellous. She could make a whispyer** nrcatlou of awful im p o rt, and p sopla tha v ery air -with imaginary beings o f h o rror. o e l e b r ^ d and, accomplished actress and reader, b u t to know h e r in private life w a | to know the woman, and the woman jwas as lovable, high-souled a n d charm in g as th e actress was great ^ d in imitable. If she had no rival on the sta^e, h e r superiority was q u ite as m ark ed in-social life. Affectatiqns-of i Idetested, and n o t of stretch, far h ave averagi pounds, with fi- and in some cas breaking s trength lias b een reached. ,,--\The wire is further eiam ined aS io its tesistance to vertical strain, and to show the am o u n t o f stretch under this straui by testing from every fortieth coil a piece sixty feet in length. A sample of one foot from each c o d is s u bjected to a bending test b y coiling i t around a- rod half an inch in diameter, and noting its behavior under, this treatment, a break age causing rejection o f the whole coU. So far the quality of the wire has been very satisfactory, 308 of tho 310 coils presented for inspection have bean ac cepted. This makes a b out ten tons of •wire already delivered to the bridge company, as m uch m o re being xeady. From April Haigh expects to de liver to the b r idge company the 150 ton# per month required by the uontridt,. until th e 6,800,000 p ounds, 3,400 tons o f wire have been delivered, which will b e some tw o years from tho tim e o f the first deliveiy. The new b u ilding, which are being p a t up , are constructed w ith es pecial reference to Colonel Paine’s, “straightening” patent, being 200 feet in le n ^ h b y 90 feet deep, imd w ill con tain thtt ^pjdvanizing and reelin g appara tus. S f “ttrotilB author.\ ^*Whyi I thought you aid not read Emerson I” I could -not help romark- “N^or do 1 ; b u t I haveZoo&e<i through A h -fuiohhopt5m o ,^U 6 n a v e ^^ ' “ O o S e ^ t w S instwitly; and emBmber hereafter’ to speak no iU of ithers;i If you do not wish owimB to Speakili o f yon, for there w a s never y e t a iife-so pure but what there was some ; Magdalem and tru e -Worth iff' H o t ibljged ti> h idloa from the housetops to nake itse lf beard. * The m&x. cablesnr the*bridge^ for which and for the wire rope suspenders of the road-way, this rope is being man ufactured, each be composed, cf 6.289 -wires, divided into 19 strands of 331 wires each. These with the break ing strength of 3,400 pounds required by th e specifications would give a ten sile strength of 100,000 pounds per square inch o f oross section. B u t if the wire manufactured by- the contractor keeps a t the p resent high standard the teum e s t r e n ^ h p e r square inch of cross section will b e somewhere in tho vioimty of 200,000 pounds. HlTErRIYING IN JABAN. m ak e itself beard . . . . Sp«rt(^g-»of-herself and ¥e!r w « Iy rnggles with poverty, she said; “ 1 was never troubled w ith an excasa of ‘f o r ' J was hever rMoh seemed uty was of gems ems and ilways talent, ii, Study andpri- X never grasped honestly earned it.' I : now because I mUst. ------ - id l e is. to die.*’ A n d that flowers or dfamonds,*! handsom e,” w ith a smile wMoh seemed to imply that .talent -without beau ty was ]nct especially productive of g an d floral-offerings, “ Ifc wa ‘ ig h t h a rd w< iral offerings, “ Ifc was always down right hard work -with me. . I b a d talent, pt)ut it took years tvationB to perfect it, auocesa until I hone work now bi id To remain __ b -was true enough. Another in her place would have quietly laid down and\died. ■'Hut Charlotte Cushman, endowed with that indomitablo energy and determination, that intense earnestness which she her- ' ’ o i k ^ f as i t J,a n d noD( kne-W ho-a . -e, in abeyance t b u t her u e a r frien dreadful, continuous and agonizing •! th a t ■pain.-^J^hUadelyiMa B u lletin. ___ A R E ^ R KAmPHlNVENTOB. A brief p aragraph in the State papers: mentions the fact thatD f. 0 . 0 . Crosby, o f JT c w 3Ha;7iezt, B a a TeeeujKly p o x f e c io d . a naohine for automatic production of steel pons, -jvhieh produce perfect- pena at the rate of one hundred and fifty per per day. 10 other iu- imiaute, or n i n e iy ihonsaxtd per*' da y . This item of news resalli cideuts in the life of Dr* ____ , _____ appear to be worthy of notice^ iw they show h im to be a remarkable inventor in the n u m b er a s well aa th e ingenuity •of his productions. D r. Crosby is a native of H a rtford, a n d is about siriy years old. H e h as h a d a varied experi- •ence, having worked on a cauM, in a g office, a woolen factory, a s a ia a store, as a silversmith, hue n actor, a merchant, a d entist, and X inventor. One o f h is inventions is a lachine for m aking fish-hooks that xnakes over one hundred finished fish- liooks a minute, so. cheaply t h a t they b e exported and sold in England at fif teen p e r cent, less than they can b e made in t h a t c o u n ^ , ' 'Another is th© a e e ^ e m achine, which h a s almost revolutioniz- •ed tho m anufacture of neediest Acoonx- yjanying^this- machine is im ether of My making and 4&pe-trimming m ad m g. boots ar© am* joots ar© am ong inventions of this has 3 num b er o f th e I remarkable man, who the • ■ ■ h a s been one o f th e b e st onstom ers o f th e patent office, his letters patent nuw- Iiering about one hundred and fifty. ObtrajN’r T escod .— “ I s that a friend o f specuficationS require that th have a breaking strength of pounds,-with three and-a-ha of stret^. The test to which the iron is snbjectett is described by an eye Tvitoess asfoUows; The -ivire was placed in the jaws b y Mr. George Stanley, a workman adjusting the apparatus. When everything was ready for the test there was, as before stated, a strain of 400 pounds on the wire. An employe stationed oa the platform below the scale-arm, first placed weights corresponding to 3,000 pounds on, then increased tha weight to 3.860, when the percentage o f stretch, a s noted from the scales b y Mr. Stanley, was three pei cent. At 3,980 the-wire broke, showing five per cent of stretoh. A second sam ple was taken from another coil. On testing’this with 3,000 pounds at start in g i t gave two per cent, o f stretch. A thousand pounds more were added, and the wire still stood the tremendous strain, the scale recording four per cent. of stretch. Th© breaking strengths sp far have averaged in the-viemity of 3,900 ihfive per cent, of stretch, some oases even as h igh os 4,700 lias been reached. ijoy- oof- _____, , , such as American boys fly. They are made of tough paper stretched o n lig h t frames qf bamboo, and of all shapes,—square; ob- .longjT-or o-raL They exS a lso 'm a d e t o imitate animals. I have often, iU; my walks in Japan, seen a whole paper, menagerie in the aii*.. There w e re, try ing babies, boys-with terms spread out, ishes, bats, hawks, crpws, mpn- snakes; dragons, hesides ships, andhooi houses. Aerbsj and behmd , fishes, bai snakes; an d __ ______ ____ _______ ip of the kite a thia strlp of whalte ihUiuB, bi ih e l bone i s stretched, w h ich uuum, or sings high in the air like fthurdyigttf- dy or a swarm o f beetles. ‘When the boys of a whole city are ou| ia kite-time, there is more music in the »ir thanis da- iightfoL The feal hawks and crows, and other birds, give these buz zing counterfeits o f themselve*^ a wide berth. In my walksj I often was deceiv ed when looking up, unable td tell at Tha Japanea h*jfr teffend “ n boys understand well ____ ___ isengers’^ t o th e top-of the kite, and how to entangle each oth er's kites. When they wjsfi to, t|iey can cut their rival’s struig and send the proud prize fluttering to the ground. To do this, they take al^out ten feet. oY thejateingnear the end,, flilt it 'te .glue and then in t o b | t e ©f -powdered glass, makmg a' m iflyufle o r tiny blades as sharp as. a razor, and looking, -when magnified, like the top of a wallin wMoli -broleen bottles bavc been set to keep off aroken bottles bavo been set to keep off vsrhple 1 lUmbeM.^’Whfitt the two b^fl elsawh* agree to have & ^ aper -vrar i n th e clotids, they raise their kitM, and then attempt to c ross the s trings. T h e m o s t sk ilfu l b o y saws offi witii h is glass Saw,, the oord of h is antagonist. The usud size of » kite in Japan ia two feet square, but o fleu fcmrfeetty and I have seen many th a t were six feet high. I have seen many Of course such hejivy cord, ■which m carried in a. or on a big-stii 5h A kite needs li very ich is carried te a basket -tempts to hpld one in a stiff breeze ! humming monster in the ajr vrill drag him off his feet, pull Mm over the steeet, or into the ditch, before h e knows it. Tie such a kite to a dog’s tail, and no Japanese canine could even turn round to bite thestringr I f the^Gov- emmeut allo-wed it, the iteys and young men woMd make k it^ as large aa an elephant.-—JVo/. TF. M in Si.‘ Miqholas. ' IN A HuEET.— ** What’s broke loo^* Charley ? Where are you going in such ah u r r x ? ” * “ Fm going to the store. “ Trade m u st b e»Ctitewit3 “ I t ’s n o t - - - o n i ” “ It’a not a woman, ia i t ?” j ofttourasnoi But I1l4xpIaiE the thing to you, to keep down your in fernal suspicion- -There are tbrM p a r t ners in our store, and we have o n jj two chairs. The last meu thid comes in. th e HOUSBWORH SET TO MUSIC. terday, at the mission 1 Eleventh Witrd, by the young ladies who have charge of the classes there. TMs missiQn, while acting very m uch in the capacity of a bene-ir<jlen,t insfitution at lairge toward th© podr people of that densely populated p*jrtion of the city around Tompkins S quare, h a s neverthe less. It field pecnliariy its own, and is one of the most interesting in the city. I t gives the rudim ents of an edncation to young g irls from, the families in the vi- mxdty, and aims n o t only to aw aken' the m ind a n d toueh the h eart, hilt to ■train In thopast, latart taugh t the hands te useful worki’ >ped and put plmhed young uiu'ge ox. m o luoMbUtioU, UUd it [usb^ie-this that the reception' yesterday was jgiven. The new art is that which falls to the lot o f household domestics to perform. The young g irls' are trained to spread the table according to rule, daintily and prettily, and to clear it and dispose of the d&hea proptely. They ate also taught a largo variety of things i etc*, of ■' nesti<3S are unfortunately too oft* ^- in th© dark, and. their igi tften com - 'noranca . Mtohen-garden __ __ ___ which this branch of “ household art” is tanght. Practical brooms, toy ■ sots of dinbes, brushes and other implements aro u sed, and roles and principles are imparted in rhymes and songs. The parlors of. tho Mission House were crowded yester*iay with interested ladies. A fe-w gentlemen were also present. A troop of twenty yoUng girls marched and sat down at long i tables. each having before, her a toy completeset o f dishes and ti ring Ugmg, meaiivriUia, uu wui ,nie’’ xuojlx - iber o f rhymes, containing-tho table and able furni- ey a ll went through the whole ice ^of spreading their tables md clearing them ■mth e-vident enjby- nant, singing, meanwhile, an asio ng n u m b er of rhymes, containing-t rules for all they did, .The. songs^td which these rhymes -v^rere s e t wore lively and pretty, a whole volume of \l^ale Col lege songs, and a large collection o f bal- IRds and airs from the operas haying been utilized in their production. They were welLchoaen, and made, tho whole p r o o e e ^ g so interesting that.it looked more l ^ e capital sport for those engag- ed.m itthsutrahungior serious labor, though it i u u s t^ e .smdrthat in© unstruo- tion only sw^med tq bo themoreefffptiye for i ts poetical feature. After th‘e tables were cleared they were scrubbed to an accompaniment of . p o e try and m u sic. The tahles were then carried out; and th e children engaged i n a series of exer- dses, in wMch they niadeuse of brooms, and of jumping ropes in tho capacity of to danc- purpose, in them throughout, and at the close rewarded the pupils and the tutors with a hearty applause.—^iVew; YorJb Tribune. * S u ch i s the sagaciiy of beavers (says Ohorneley), that a tribe of Ameriofin In- dians consider theni as a fallen race of human beings, who, in consequeuce of their -p ^ e ^ e s s , vexed the Good Spirit, a n d were <sbndemjied by him to their present shape j h u t th a t in due times they will be reatered to their -hii- m a n i^. They allege that the beavers; have the power of speech,, and t h a t they have b eard them talk with each other, and seen them sitting in council on an offending member. The ' lovers of natural h istory a re already well acquaint ed with the surprising sagacity of these ‘mal^—-with their dexterity light in collecting and storifig provisions sufficient to last them during the Winter months; but few are awtee, .I- should imagine, of ft remarkable oustoru apaong them, whwjh more than any other con firms the Indians in believing them ,a fallen race. Towards the latter end' of autumn* a certain number; yai'yidg from twenty to thirty, asssnible, for . tha; pur- pose of] bqildingr theii- winter habita tions. They- imniediately cqmmeucs coMtig down treei^, andhotMu^! can be more wondarfnl thau’ the skiH and pa^ iienca which they manifest In tMs labor ious uudertaking. To see them anxious ly lopkinginp, -watching tho leaning of the tree'when the trunk is nearly sever ed, and ------ --- - approach poring 01 ing ccusheGl. ’When the\ tree is pros trate, they quiokM strip off its,branches; after which, -with their .dental chisels,, they divide the'tmnk into teveral pieces of equal lengths, which they roll td the rivulet'across which they intend to erect their house. TWo or three old' ones generally superintend the others; and i t il! no unusual sight to see them beating those w h o exhibit any sym p tom o f lazi-;; ness. Should, however, any fellow be incorrigible, a n d persist in refusing to ork, fie is driven unanimously by the ■hple tribe to And sheUer \and pr.Q-visioii hanks o£ some stream, where they are'easay trap- ped; : T he' Indians' e£ll th4m' “lazy beaver,” a n d their fur is not half so val- ukbie as tiu|t o f tiie qther animals whose ^ t e r . , For OTOHiBB o p B o ^ s .-- rr t n e sou i s poor ing , 6r soiMng Bb*>weritil? ehca ,i or twice « week, and tiAnmg w e bjKll o f earth out aometimes id i r o i f there are angle worms;, or ■war fcering with lime-water to repel them. -Eomovo^plantlioo'with-- iobaccio water. kM p itm ^ Q W . aotmAol Ma voiosu AN ENGLISH VIEW OE AMERICAN KAN- UFACiP^teS. I t is incum b ent upon tho manufac turers of the United E n g d o m to show tho world a t Paris next year th a t they fallen behind tho position the; have not . occupied. Philadelphia -was not edtoge [eu behin d th o position they once occupied. The competition at ompt, ------ _;ether satiafs tory to US, ’ I t in true t h a t every nation has an ad- Vautage in exMbitions h eld within their ovhi afe^: but the products of the Unit e d States surpassed our ’ o-wn oftener than can be explained fay this circum stance. I t appearedppeared as. if there was a a . _ . greater economy of labor habitually icticed in the States, and ■' ------ - was evi* ou -with this there was eviden*50 ■Ore constant presence of a mind super- 13 of industry. it, to take dare o iorrecting any miscarriage of its functions, A steam engine dropped from hea in the m iddlekif Africa might b e adoxcu, but could not b e put to any use. The failure o f many of our industrial enter prises in foreign |>arts can be traced to the difficulty m pfoonring agents and assistants that can be taught to use the machine committed to their core. Much of the mechanical work shown at P h iladelphia was executed -with a fine ness that could not have been exceeded if every man w h o had any share in its production had originally conceived it and had been solely interested in its success. There was evidence of person al care a n d p ersonal anxiety ; ©very stage must have been watched with intejli' gence and z©al. In comparing tho re sults with our-own we are pamfuUy sus picions th a t they revealed the applica tion of more brains than we always have at our commmd.--Ijondon, Times. Tffie ju* A SCATHING RERLY. Perhaps the most crushing rejoinder ever flung back in return for an insult was that which Ourran, the eloquent Irish lawyer, hurled a t J u d g e Bobiuson. le ju d g e was a man of sour and cyni- who h a d been raised to s commonly -------- — -r-., ---------------had ■written favor of the government of h is day a num b er of pampM ets remarkable for nothing b u t their servile and rancorous scurrility. A t a time when Curran was only just rising into notice, and while h e was yet a poor and struggling man, this jud ventured uponipon a Peeringeering joke,oke, -whiihich, small thc)tigliigb itt Was,as, -butbut for Curran’urran’s a P j -w i W - for C ready wit and scathing eloquence, might have done irreparable in j u iy. • Speaking of some opinion of counsel on the oppo site side, GiU'ran said h e had consmted all h is books, and could not find a sin g le in, -which the principle in dispute thus established. “ That may ba, Curran,” sneered the judge; “ but I suspect your law library is rather lim- Ourran eyed the heartless toady for a moment, and then broke forth -srith this noble retaliation “ I t is very true, my lord, that I am poor, and this circumstance has certain ly rather curtailed my library. My books are .not nnmeroqs, but they are select, and ! hope have been perused with proper dispositions. I have pre pared myself for this high profession A study of a few good bool omposition of a great many : am not .ashamed of my I sho-nld Im ashamed of m y pare d mysell rather b y the titan by the composj bad ones. I am i poverty, but I sho-nld bo ashamed of m y wealth, if I could stoop to acquire it by servility and corruption. If I rise not to rank, I shall a t least b e h o n e s t; and should I ever cease to be so, many an example shO-Ws me th a t an ' ifl-acquired elevation, by making th e m ore conspic uous, wotfid only make me th e mors universally and notoriously contempti ble.” . , o n . YOURSELF A LITT L E . There is true h h m o r in , the; folio-wing sto r y :, Once upon a.tim e there Eved an. old gentieriian in a large house. H t hkd servants and everything \he Wanted, he was n o t h appy, and -when things not go as he wished ho was very/ cross. At Iffist his servauts; left him. Q uite out o f tem per,,ho -went to a neigh bor witTi a fiioi’y of dislress. ‘' It seems to hie,” said the neighbor, sagaciously, ’twotdd b e well to oil yourself a little. ” “ To\ oil lajsb lf?” “'Tea; and I wifi explain, Some time ago one of the doors in my therefore, lilt* 8 day, I oiled ihhohsfcantly L ----- mnCe,” “ 'jhed ■ y ou the5 creakingreaking door,”oor,” criedried t h e ’oMoM ‘•^Howow do.. youou wantant mee c d c t h e ’ geiitle- i&. ‘ ‘ H do y w m to oil ^aelf?” . “ T h a t’s a n easy m atter smd ,-..3 neighbor. “ G p h o m e a n d e n g a g e r Bervaht,.and. w h e u h e does r ih b t pre-“ him. If, oh the contrary, h e does soi nan Wont home, and no ; irde were ever heard in the; rds. E v e r y fam ily s h o i ' old or ugly^ h h i S i n t h 6 s h f t | j e o f .. -------- tion, a cross temper, a harsh t o n e , fault-finding fipirit. PU4¥{0TEL FAILURES. Says “ B u r l e i g i F ^ t M g t e the Hq*. toil .mUmal.- I telked yesterday -witii one o f o ur leading hotel ,!-•_* ■! ___ .. . ' hotel keejp (put five iu M y rent, fuel, servants, are the same. My profit comes in from the coiUpany that is over a ^ven point. Tbb teases th a t destroy us destrby fhe great mercantile honses. Those enor- oon^ |20.000 br .mpoo ,it te ^om V68iba ^UP'ltAyA lease and ru n oi . ^ ____ tr o U ^ ox M men have the capao% to run more than one hMieL a i A time. s a v e d B Y A BOTTLE. About five weeks ago there was wash* ed ashore on the coast of one of the Orkney Islands a bottle containing an appeM from some starving casta-ways who-had-been wrecked on St. TTildn, the m o st maooessibl© of the Hebridean Islets. M r. Sands, a S<mttiBh. artist, had landed on that lonely rock in a small boat, and on J u m a ry 17 au Austrian ves sel was wrecked off the cliffs and nine survivors were washed ashore. The islanders h ad s*:arcely enough provisions for themselves, -but they generously shared what they h ad -with the ten cast aways. Starvation stared them all in the face. M r. Sands wrote the message containing t h is information, and lasbing the bottle to the life-buoy, and rigging a small sail, cast it adrift. T h e httle craft d rifted to the Orkneys, and wai ■ k ed u p b y the islanders. The guu- 6 Jackall was dispatched to the island -with a store of provisions, and arrived not a day too soon, for the islanders and their guests were starving. The artist and sailors were landed at Greenock about M arch 1, after a dangerous voy age. T h e lion d o n T e leg r a p h states that St. Kflda belongs to the Maoleod of Macleod, whose family has o-wned it for two centuries. Over the estate he reigns 1 a despotism as unquestioned aa that of tho Czar. T h e ■whole trade of the poor p eople is h is factor’s monopoly, for imtii M r.'Sands g o t a boat for them tew months ago they were unable to idertake a passage to Lewis and sell eir produce for'them selves. T h e y at- bu t e t o his neglect t o scud them sup plies this season, when their corn crop was a failure, the straitened state of their resources when the Austrian cast* aways were thrown on their dharity. A TRAIN-BOY AND PASSENGER. n an Illinois road found justomerustomer inn ain A train-boy oi a rather rough c i a old ^ tlemen of composed mein, who receiv* all shots as if h e were b u llet proof. The boy bombarded him ^vith papers, and pamphlets, and candies,- and bound books, and nuts, and frnits of one kind id another. But it was no good. Had e elderly p arty been lined inside with \ :as8 he could n o t have Bhown greater indifference. The boy fretted u n d er his treatment, as was plain to be seen. He had passed the cigars some thirty tim es, and without success, when ho said, in a tone of desperation : “ Try some of these cigars, and if they d on’t k ill you -within a month I ’ll give you the money back.” T h e man was somewhat amused by that, b u t he had the boy. He said ; “ I f I am dead, how can you give m e the money ?” “ ril give it to your family, then,” Int I ain’t go t no family. ” 7ell, I ’ll gtee it te family next ly next door,” the smile lengthen- “ Well, I ’fl give il oor,” persisted'the boy. “ B u t there ain’t no famil; lid the man, -with tl ing his face. “ O h ! there’ll be one mo-i they hear you are dead!” wa > in -when tha quick* The elderly passenger shut up like a borrowed knife. A REMEDY FOR DRUNKENNESS. A firm of wine merchants in London has been trying a novel experiment dur- past year, -with a view of helping X in the employ of the company to keep sober. The theory on whicli the experiment is based is that d runken ness comes mainly from the h abit of re- .soriMg to p u b lic houses, and that tliia habit is contracted almost as a m atter of necessity b y workmen having nowhere else to go dnrm g the dinner hour. So the firm provided a dining room and and a boiler for cooking there the m en and boy leireir dinners.inners. Ass <ne potatoes ; ai now take th d A o rei of the corporate feeling promoted intercourse with one another d u ring t] noon hour, th e y have form ed am o n g themselves u library fund, out of which ------------ 3 and ma ' ' ' ' ling roo] . to whid: _ ________ now subscribers. Under thiB airang* lent, SB stated b y the merchants in a liter to the lim e s , there has„'mpt been “ astegl® ipstancs of indiscretoh or ex cess o r anything approaching it in tha matter of drink during the whole o f th e last year. Not a boy o r man hsa been absent without leave, and e v e ^ on© has been in Ms place on the morning follow ing our national holidays,” The last mentioned fact, says the B a ll M a ll Ga zette^ is e s p e c i^y worthy the attention of employ-ers, and it adds that “ when men cease to find their pleasure in tha mblio honse during their dinner hour here is at least a chance that they will not go t*i th e pu b lic house t o look for : when they have had a day instead of a 0 themselves.” hour to them THE MISSES EVAETS. The MiSses Evarts—there aro five or claim to this a ll blondes, and ha* vein of sepulchral ] i s W e 5 ilchral humor, bo to speak, which oharaoterizes theireir father. They to this title - iu them th e s humor, bo to e , , th father. ____ ^ are not pretty, but thoroughly intellect- u f j , and much more after tho •Bostou type than the metropolitan. In ConverBation, i f you can succeed in draw in g them in to it, th e y show a keen In dreM [Ure.i They ’ which is due to Mrs, Evarts. the ’ young' ladies are dem commonly wear their hair in the mo* prim of knots, and display it b e a n antique no ornaments gem, or some thing valuable for its ago o r bistory. But their silks are the heaviest, and they do not eschew seal-skin sacques, Mr, Evarts has a eon in his law offic man, wh* is a t the ( come] ? B dea hero, —ThotovmJioasS— >r of Fourteenth sfo-eet end fashioned ui'abed. With his hospitality and taste W g o M cQ o M u g , »!■■! withaf&mily of -such size, M r. Evarts has occasion to keep tip h is business income, which is said to be ^00,000, and probably -do not despise the revenue from his fan which can peuses.- inue from h is farm, >h hardly equal the summer ex- Ohieago Tribune. HINT FOR OLD CLOTHES’ DEALERS. I t i s reported that a dealer in second hand q b toesflving in the Quartier Latin juarti* n Paris has h i t upon a somewhat ingen- ons idea o f disposing o f the gai-ments W^Ch are to o old-fashioued or too d i lapidated to feteh anything lik e a good j-tiqe. .Atfcachedto the various articles longing outsido M sahop . are m o d estly- m tteu.car^ containing announcements ike the fplTowing; “ P a ir of trousers w p m by M . Guikot on h i s arrival in P m i # ’— “ O vercoat belonging to Mr. Llttra before he bei»me celebrated”— HEtewtemg gow n form e r ly belonging to AlexanderDumaa”— “ Test-worn b y M. ’ - -- it these interesting teiica eip rapidly b o u g h t and ptoudi^' w6m by the j economical «tu- ■dents notwithstanding th e skepticisxu of And the bargain ■- ___ M Y . M illiner an d Dressmal^cr^
