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le llansinglintgii f mtm. VOL. I. LAJSrSINOBIJROH, N. Y., FBIDAY, JANUAEY 7, 1876. NO. 3 Singing gentle songs of love To each blossom in tbo grovo, Pmisingonly.in his flight Where the sweets of life are bright, Ail unwilling to depart Till he reach the very heart, And when all the luscioiis store - Is exhausted si As the bee ia tc While the honey treasure flows Are summer friends. As the shadow to the boat On a changeful lake afloat. When the lakp is in repess Uko another boat It si.ows, And all fortune elevates. O’er the surface imitates. iWes with unrest, And when tempests gather round Can no longer there be found— As the shadow to the boat :s of justice that they had succeeded t twice in arresting him, and on How She Caught the Burglar, “The paper says that they’ve caught ; he fellow who has been breaking into .“io many houses in this part of the town lately,” said cousin Jennie, one morm ing, as we sat a t the breakfast-tablei “It’s a pity he didn’t come here, so that you could have added another laurel to your crown .mother,by captur-' ing him. Wouldn’t it have been spleur did if it had happened so. 'fhe fam ily would have been famous. I should have been introduced in society as daughter of Mrs, Van Stratton, the celebrated burglar-catcher, and borne the honor with becoming meekness and satisfaction. Did mother ever tell you about catching that awful thief and probable murderer, Toby Darrell, years ago, before any of us appeared on the stage of action?” “No, I never heard anything about it,” I answered. “Please tell me about it, aunt Annie.” “I ’ve told it so many times,” an swered aunt Annie, “that I ’ve got rather tired of it, hut I suppose you won’t let me off.” Aunt Annie smiled across the table at me in a kind of self-satisfied way that assured me that she was quite as willing to tell me the story as I was to hear it. Like all the rest of us aunt Annie was probably a trifle proud of having done a heroic deed. “It happened a year after your un cle George and I were married. We - i hi troubled over the frequent depreda tions of some person or persons whom it was impossible to obtain any clue of. House after house was broken in to, and money, jewelry and plate were taken. The police was called upon, and detectives ..were put upon the alert, but to no purpose. The ofScers decided that the thefts were the work of an old desperado, called Toby Dar rell; one of the worst cases in the whole list of villains with whom they had to deal, and one of the most care ful and expert. He had been sus pected of murder, and dozens of other crimes had been traced to him, but so successful was he in eluding the ofifi- both of these occasions he had man aged to escape. So frequent had his thefts become, and so daring, that at last a heavy reward wag offered for his arrest. “One day George had to go out of town, and I was left alone with gri father Van Stratton, who had come to spend a few days with us. I didn’t know where the two servants that we kept had gone to. I drew down the cui’tains, as the dusk settled in the streets, and put some fresh coals on the fire, and sat down in our little sit ting-room with a new book, while grandfather busied himself over his newspaper. In this way, with occa sional remarks, the evening passed off; when the clock struck nine grand father declai-ed that he waS so sleepy that he was going to bed, after which declaration of intentions he took out his big silver snuff-box and took a pinch of that fiery Scotch snuff he used to be so fond of, and, on closing it, instead of putting it back into his pocket, he set it down on the little ta ble at toy elbow, and proceeded to warm his feet before going off to bed. I noticed his putting the box on the table, and supposed he would think of it before going to bed. But, after he had said good-night and loft me, I saw that he had left his snuff-box behind him. I took it up and o])oned it out of idle curiosity, and the faintest scent of its contents set mo into a par oxysm of sneezing, and brought tears to my eyes. “The room was warm and cozy, and . my book was very interesting, and 1 concluded that I would read an hour longer before going to bed. I don’t know how long I did read, but it couldn’t have been long, for the clock striking eleven woke me. J woke as people occasionally do, quiet ly and completely, without stirring or seeming to wake. The first thing that I became conscious of was, that there were steps in the room, and they were stealthy, sinister ones. My face was turned from the fire as I lay back in my chair, and was in partial shadow. I remember of thinking, in a quick kind of logical reasoning, that didn’t trouble itself about syllogisms, that I could open my eyes a trifle without betraying the fact th a tl wasn’t asleep, and discover who and wlial my visitor was. I was Mghtend, but felt that it was the safest way for me to appear slight, in^ I with inf , how angry it made me to see great, brutal fellow standing fast asleep. I opened my eyes softly, and saw a man standing about six feet from me, w'ith the flickering fire shining full into his face, and it was the worst and most brutal face I ever looked into in ail my life. It was with difficulty that I kept from screaming out, aud I often dream of seeing that man now, and always as I Saw him hen, standing in the red fire] irhose fitful play lit up his face the look of a demon, watching me with his cruel, tigerish eyes. He had a sack slung over his shoulder, and I understood at once that he had been through the house and plundered it of everything worth his while to “You know that your uncle George .ind I began housekeeping in a modest way; we had to, for he was working . salary in those days, and after paying for the house,, we didn’t have a great deal left to purchase other things with. You can readily understand, there with his sack full of arti< whose value represented months of hard work. I have often wondered iit it since, but the feeling of indigna tion was so. intense as to almost over come my fear and prudence. But I Icnew from the devil in his eye that it any crime that he might be provoked to for his own safety, and I think I never stirred a muscle. But, oh! I wished i^imight cry out for help, and have the Svreteh given up to the punishment he so rich ly deserved! “Suddenly his eyes caught sight of grandfather Van Stratton’s silver snuff-box, standing on the table a t my side, and.he tiptoed toward it, I had not closed it when I put it down. The lid was open in such a way that the light reflected on it brightly, and that was what had caught his atten tion. My arm lay on the side of my chair, and my hand was resting on the table so near to the box that when he leaned over, and reached down to get it, his fingers touched mine. I could aot help a shiver at the touch, but ho did not detect it. “He lifted the box from the table, and held it up close to his face to ex amine its contents. I don’t know flow I came to do it, but I never stopped to think what the possible conse quences might be—I flung up my hand, and the fiery snuff flew into his eyes in a yellow cloud, blinding Aim instantly. He gave a howl of agony andl rage, and njade a. dash toward tiie, got into his nose and mouth, and he be gan sneezing and coughing fright fully, and tears kept running down his cheeks. His exhibition of pain was intense. It seemed to make Aim crazy. He ran about tfle room like a mad animal. “I slipped out of the room, locked the door, and ran up to call grand father Van Stratton. But he flad heard the racket going on below, and was coming down the stairs. I told him what I had done, and he ran ofit after help, and was back in almost no time with some of the neighbors. “It was easy to secure the burglar in the condition he was in, Tfley bound him securely, and took him off to the station house. It was frightful to hear him curse and rave as tfley led him away. In the morning I heard that I had been the means of capturing tfle very person the police had been in search of so long—Toby Darrell, Tfley offered me the reward but I wouldn’t take it; and so they made me a present of a beautiful set of silver. That spoon you have in your cup is one of them. I was half sick for a week after the affair took place, but I concluded there wasn’t any use in being sick over what danger was passed and got over my fright bravely. And Toby Darrell got a dozen years in Sing Sing.” , The Turkish Goverfimeht has, since 1856, contracted an enormous foreign debt, which saddles the tax-payer with a yearly payment of £15,000,000 ■ in the shape of interest. There ia small prospect of this ever being cleared off, as the whole revenue amounts but to $18,000,000, of which the Sultan takes two for his Civil List. Meanwhile, the productive forces of the Empire have not been developed by productive outlay. There are no roads, and tfle miserable inhabitants of a province afflicted by famine starve because there are no communications, while perhaps fifty miles off plenty reigns. Indeed, so low has the spirit of the Mohammedan populations of Asia Minor sunk through continuous mlsgovernment that it is probable that a -Eussian Army advancing on Con stantinople from the Caucasus would encounter hut small resistance from the natives. The only chance of tfle real regeneration of Turkey appears to lie in a timely retreat into Asia,, and in devoting herself honestly to the development of the resources of that magnificent quarter of the globe. A similar line of conduct has afforded Austria whatever prospects she may still possess of staving off her ulti mate extinction as an empire.— Waser’s Magazine. thise’i^ _ three Swiss patriots___ mountain meadow “Gruettf; Lnko of the Cantons, to delil the best method to free their: home from foreign tyrants. ANOX.ING XN FABIS. About 3 :301 sallied forth to jdin my friends, and we set out together for the Seine. The sight in the streets of Paris bordering on the river at that hour was most curious. Erom time to time the doors of the quaint old stepped and the anglers armed with rods, ing-nets, and little tin cans ste^i---. ito the streets. The banks of the Seine were already crowded with en thusiasts, who were either squatted on the bare stones with their feet dang ling toward the water, or standing erect. It would have taken a good deal to attract their attention from the little quills that went gently float ing down stream, and which they sys tematically pulled out of the water as sgon .as they got to the end of their tether, gravely dipping them in again higher up. Chaff was powerless to arouse them. It was in vain a wag gish voyoii in a blue blouse, passing that way, would ask if they had seen “the whale,” and inquiries as to whether the fish bit (ca mord-U?) were treated with equal contempt. Cer tain “ knowing anglers had taken up their positions on the bridges, from which, they angled a t a height of twenty or thirty feet from the water. On the river itself were a vast number of sta tionary punts, each containing two or three anglers, while others, propelled by long poles, moved sluggishly up and down the Seine. The latter be longed to and were navigated by pro fessional fishermen engaged in cast ing nets, a privilege which they enjoy at a cost of two or three hundred francs a year. It was a,musing to notice with what sangfroid and perseverance the anglers continued to angle, while nets were being cast within a few feet of them. They fished with gentles, caterpillars, flies, paste, and various kinds of worms, but I do not believe they caught much. It was rare to see more than half-a-dozen small fish cap tured with a net at one throw; the largest one that I saw pulled out of the water vsith a line could not have measured more than four inches. To catch a fish as long as one’s hand would he quite an event. In so far as our party was concerned we angled all day, at a spot reputed “bon,” and hooked about a dozen small speci mens. I constantly hear of anglers catching eighty and ninety fish in the Seine in the course of the day. I say “hear” advisedly, for I have never yet been able to discover these fortu nate beings. At the opening of the rmgltE^eeiisoh-'lhere must haye been several thousand people fishing in the Seine, and during the whole season it is constantly swarmed with enthusias tic pecTieurs a Za ligne. These crowds of individuals, who belong to almost every class of society and to nearly every age, are one and all as serious as judges. They regard lookers-on with suspicion, and treat them with con tempt. The cause of this is, doubtless the immense amount of chaff that they are compelled to listen to in the course of the day. Chaff, however, is IS incapable of driving them away as hail and rain.—iand! and Water. and eel; who are _ _______ _ _jed to §team paus; are accustomed to open oysters; who are vegetable cooks. Aceom anying these are men used to corks. dio can get up clubs; who have a dressing; who can get thorough ki ffio are d .; who can rub down and who are used to the round knife, or the ground-off saw,; who can do round; who can stuff well; who are milkers; feeders; used to boiling- room; to carcase-work ; hammer and shovel; and who can kill. Some men, be it known further, are clickers, lome are webbers, some are rough- stuff cutters, some are lastei's, some paste fitters, children’s pum _ irators on sole needle-and-thread hands; some, agai: are cleaners-up. 01 manner, mio nniauora c men’s, finishers on light wo finishers on children’s, ‘finish light children’s, and—a little bravely—finishers on men’s. Eemark- ing upon the said divisions and sub divisions, it must be said that they are undoubtedly very odd. Turning the inquiry, for the present, on this one pivot, is the term boot-maker a delusion! Can one man no more ike a pair of boots, than another n make the symbolic pin? It would pear so. Boots have—nay, a soli- Lo,ry boot has—to be clicked, to be rough-cut, to be lasted, to be riveted, to be webbed, to be paste-fitted, flowered, military-heeled}'pewn round, hound at the strap, stabbed, finished, cleaned up, to say nothing of chosen, tried on, fitted, sold; and a small bat talion of men would be required for it. No blame to the British worknaan for quailing, single-handed, from the undertaking, and rejecting it!— All the Year rMund. XECB OIADIAXOBS OF INDIA. Another terrible thann sort of combat, much more a those already’mentioned, nd which is only to be seen now-a-days t Baroda, is the Nucki-ka-kousti, that is to say, “fight with claws.” Here the combatants, almost naked, but adorned with crowns and garlands, tear each other with claws of horn. The claws were formerly ol steel, and caused certain death to one or other of the combatants; but they have been abolished as too barbarous for modern times. Those now in use, are, as I have said, of horn, and are fixed on the closed fist with thongs, I was only once present at a combat of this kind, for my heart was so moved by this horrible spectacle that I refused to go again. The wrestlers, intoxicated with bang—liquid opium, mixed with an infusion of herap--sing as they rush upon one another; their faces and heads are soon covered with blood, and their frenzy knows no bounds. The king, with wild eyes and the veins of his neck swollen, surveys the scene with such passionate ex citement that he cannot remain quiet, but imitates by gestures the move ments of the wrestlers. The arena is covered with blood; the defeated combatant is carried off, sometimes in a dying condition; and the con queror, the skin of his forehead hang ing down in strips, prostrates himself before the king, who places round his neck a necklace of fine pearls, and covers him with garments of great value. One episode, moreover, dis gusted me to such an extent that, without any heed of the effect my sud den departure might have upon the Guioowar, I at once withdrew. One of the wrestlers, whom the hang had only half intoxicated, after receivinj tfle first few blows made a show wishing to escape; his antagonist threw him, and they rolled together on the ground before us. The victor, seeing the unhappy wretch demand quarter, turned to the king to know whatflerto should let the other r butjinflamed.with the spectacle, mon£|.rcfl cried out, “Marol maro!” .strike! strike!” and the scalp of the unfortunate fellow was torn without meroy. When he was taken away he had lost all consciousness. That same lay, the king distributed among the victorious wrestlers necklaces and money to the amount of more than four thousand pounds, — BousseMs \JinMa and Its Frinees.\ JSKGMSH WANH^. We find men advertised for who fii up in frying fish and peeling toes; who are accustomed to i ItlOHEDIBC—BIS APSEABANOB AND CHABACTEB. A figure at once elegant and impos- ig, a majestic bearing, features deli cate, yet stern, and the eye of an eagle —such is the portrait of the great Car dinal which has been handed down to In society the terrible and statesman was gay and his conversation from the of his mind, delightful, and at the same time diversified hy bon mots, and inds ;;some, e ilach membe THOJIAS DE QUINCBY. :is voice was extraordinary — it ae as if from dreamjland; but it was the most musical arid impressive of voices. In convivial life what then seemed to me the most remarkable trffit of. De. Q u incey^ytessfe^ w the power he ^lossessect of easily changing the tone of ordinary thought and conversation into that of his own dream-land, till his auditors, with won der, found themselves moving pleas antly along with him in a sphere of which they might have heard and read, perhaps, but which had ever ap peared to them inaccessible and far, far away. Seeing that he was always good-natured and social, he would take part, a t commencement, in any sort of tattle or twaddle. The talk htbe of “beeves,” and he could ................................do early years and inets, toWordsworth ___ Coleridge, to Homer and Eschylus, to St. Thomas of Aquin, St Basil, and St. Chrysostom, But he by no means excluded themes from real life, accord ing to his own views of that life, but would recouut profound mysteries from his own experiences-visions that had come over him in .his loneliest walks among the mountains, and pas- one of his sentences (or ^pf his chap ters, I might say.) was woVen into the most perfect logical texture and ut tered in a tone of sustained melody.— Bric-a-Brae Series. A CHKOMO W ITH EVERV PLATE. It it has been tfle custom of cert ?rojans who have business in Albi Trojans wh( several days in a week to stop at Delevan House and dine—at the lunch counter. One man, a Uni States officer, has been dining in t way for some time. He became no ticeable to the bartender from his hearty appetite and frequent visits. Yesterday he appeared at the lunch counter and devoured two plates of eatables and called for anpther. The bar tender reached under the bar and found a cigar box, on the inside of the cover of which was a picture such as generally appear on boxes of fine brands of cigars. He broke o cover and handing it to the T Said: “Here, there’s a chromo with each plate.” Exit Trojan.—2Vo!/ Massachi Speakers— y Sixth Congress; the Tenth and 3 lassachusetts has furnished four inkers—Theodore Sedgwick, of the th Congress; Jos. B. Varnum, of The other New havee beenen Jona-ona England Speakers hav be J than Trumbull, of Connecticut, of the Jamesames G.. Blablaine Second Congress, and J G B of the Eorty-flrst, Eorty-seeond, and Forty-third Congresses. Messrs. Banks and Blaine are memhers-elect of the There is a story of an amateur hun ter in the Eocky Mountains who fol lowed a grizzly bear for four days, and then abandoned the pursuit leging as a reason that, “ that the i was gettingtoo fresh.” spirituel; hi extent of his knowledge and the depth lies he was the most polishec!dof the gossip of the time. In the sociel of ladies he was the most polished ( gallants; he was a constant fequenter at the Hotel Eambouillet; assisted at life was one of unceasiing the theses d'amour of the Preciem in spoke the jargon of the and evei manCes leriod. His ordinary li labor. He usuallyretired to rest at 11 o’clock, but slept only three or four hours, His first sleep passed> h® had his portfolio brought to him in bed, and either wrote himself or dictated to a secre tary. At 6 o’clock he went to sleep again, but rose between 7 and 8. Hav ing performed devotions, he set his secretaries to copy the dispatches of which he had made minutes during the night, After this he dressed, and received his Ministers, with whom he shut himself up until 10 or 11. Then he heard mass, and took a walk round the garden, where he gave audience to the numerous inferior persons who sought hiin. After dinner he versed for several hours with his guests. The rest of the day in ployed in State'' affairf, Ambassadors and other funct 3ceiving stionaries. In the evening he took ano|ber walk for recreation, and to give audience to those wo could not obtain it in the morning. Judged by the petty ca nons of a superficial a,ge, of, which the littleness of soul is surpassed only by its inflated vanity, the grand antique figure of this mighty statesman is INSTINCT OF ACQUISITION. A ferret strangled herself by trying to squeeze through too narrow an opening, She left a very young fami ly of three orphans. These I gave, in the middle of the day to a Brahma hen which had been sitting on dum- ies for about a month. She took them almost im ained with them fortnight, at the end of had to cause a separation, in conse quence of the hen having suffocated ne of the ferrets by standing on its eck. During the whole of the time that the ferrets were left with the hen the latter had to sit upon the nest; for the young ferrets, of course, were not able to follow the hen about as ickens would have done. The hen, might be expected, was very much puzzled at the lethargy of her off spring. Twb lOp, .1|hto8 times a day she used to fly offi the nest, calling upon her fcrood to follow ; hut upon hearing their cries of distress from Id, she always returned immediate- .dsat with patience 1 i hours more. I shi that it only took the he .earn the meaning of these cries of tress; for after the first day she uld always run in an agitated maii- : to any place where I concealed the rets, provided that this place was not too far aw%y from the nest to pre vent her froffi-lfixearing the cries distress. Yet I do not think tha: i-teei ihrill peeping note o|'/a ybuhg chicken and the hoarse grpWjiiig'flQise of a young ferret. On therptflerrflapd} that of a tjrant and wholesale mur- by universal history—r milksop humanitariam bis by the canons of his ndd by the broad j sr universal histori derer. own time, an pies taught by those of milksop humanitarians — that’ Armand Eiohelieu and his deeds must he judged. It was a vast task he imposed upon himself—out of the an archy into which bis age had fallen to create order. His order, truly, was absolutism; but, nevertheless, it was the first link in the chain which led to liberty. Spite of our nineteenth tury ideas, social and political ad vancement cannot be accomplished by '■nte. Eeudalism, adapted for the Middle Ages, would have kept nations in eternal bondage; until that inelas tic yoke was removed, the peo; could never expand. Both in Frai and England the rise of the middle class dates from the establishment of absolute monarchy, as the rise of the that Eichelieu’s policy aimed a t ulti mate freedom would he to assert a fallacy; nevertheless, it did much to bring it about. De Eetz has said that “his care for the state did not extend beyond his own life,” but that manual of statecraft, the “Testament Politi que,’’ which he left behind, would seem to refute that theory. The work he did for Prance was a grand legacy to posterity; he put a termination to the terrible religious wars which had desolated the country during more than s century, and while granting free toleration to its worship, he never destroyed Protestantism as a political power; he annexed Lorraine part of Alsace, .and conquered lish, Spaniards, 1 be enemies of Prance, whether Eng- istrains; he re- lavy, !ss ancient cor- The days for formed both Army and navy, and swept away numberlei ruptions and abuses, social advancement, for the rise and encouragement of trades and manu factures, had not yet come; that was a work reserved for a future Minister, a great man, but a much smaller than he. It had not come because the mid dle class had not risen to sufficient consideration in the State, but Eiche- lieu cut down the harriers which barred their progress; he was Col bert’s pioneer. He reformed with axe and sword. The forest must cleared, and the wild beasts slaugh tered, before the settler can build his hut, and sow his corn, and live peace. He was a tyrant only to the great; his vengeance seldom descend ed on less than a noble. He would have all equal before the King, all equally amenable to the law; in that he was the firstirst abolitionistolltioni of privili f ab was the first great li tion.—Temple Bar. I cannot say that the young ferrets idlio learn the m,eh,hlhfes of Lokitig. During the whole f the time that the hen was allowed osit upon the-ferrets she use omb out their hair with her bil he same way as flehs in general comb out the feathers of their chickens. ■While engaged in this process, how ever, she used frequently to stop and look with one eye a tthe wigglingnest- full with an inquiring gaze expressive ilcom of astonishment. At other times, al- her faihily gave her gdbd reason to surprised; for she used often to off the nestt suddenlyuddenly withith a loud doubt- s w a Q action which t ~~ ' rets in their search for the teats, further worth while to remark that the hen showed so much uneasiness of mind when the ferrets were taken from her to be fed that at one time I thought she was going to desert them altogether. After this, therefore, the ferrets were always fed in the nest, and with this arrangement the hen. perfeetiy sattsflcd''^‘Apparently because she thought that she then had some share in the feeding process. At any rate she used to cluck when she saw the milk coming, and sur veyed the feeding with evident satis faction. Altogether I consider this a very remarkable instance of the plas ticity of instinct. The hen it should be said, was a young one, and had iredred a broodrood off chickens. A never rea a b o chickens, few months before she reared mg ferrets she had been atta< ............................. Id f( Vtt'tare were open.—Nature. jvniuju. UEU PASSKNGKB c o n d c c t o b . A few days ago a freight conductor on one of the railroads went to the Superintendent and said he thought he ought to be advanced, having served on the freight for several years. The Superintendent agreed with him, and told him that the change should be made the very next week. And it was made. TheSuperintendentadayortwo after took a seat in the rear end of oi of the coaches to see how the ne conductor would take to business, and pretty soon the official danced in to the door, cap on his ear, slee pushed up, and a half-acre smile his face. boards!” mucky mi id then, turn ing right and left, hie continued: “Eight bowers this way—play lively —pass or order up — how’s trumps with you—slide you right into bhica- go—hurry up there—trump this ace —what kind of a hand do you hold old man?” There was something novel and ex hilarating in his style, but yet the superintendent called the conductor to ruE a freight should have to p wards, senger c( train, and that 1 OVD SUPEUSXIXlONS, Old belief hard in Eng IfitPBOVED L amp .— An improvt of'lampf for lighting streets has kind o lamp been introduced to some extent, and with touch satisfaction, in some of the cities of Europe. The glass shade of these lamps is oval, with the lower part open; and the principal improvement consists in the use of two porcelain reflectors, the one on the lower part of the chimney, the other a t the centre of the glass shade or bell, and which are found to throw down on the pavement considerably more light than do any of the street lamps in ordinary use, while the ex pense is hot great. Both of these re flectors are outside the shade, and thus escape being blackened by the smoke. Tfle upper one radiates light to a distance, bilt always downwards; the lower one sends the rays down near the lamp, and prevents any shadow being cast. . .. yokel would ordinary prayer, tion: “Prom wii and superstitions die nd. It is an ignofa ferup, along with the followii England. I t is not so vei long ago since an ignorant Yorkshh Prom witchi [-tailed-tailed izards, and long buzzards, andcreepir things that run in hedge-bottoms, goc Lord deliver us.” A Coroner’s jury have 'ct of wilful murder gainst one Haywood, a laborer, of little Compton, South Warwickshire, ho, a few days ago, attacked.eked ann old a old led Ann Ten- nged fork the Court, she “was the properest witch I ever knowed.” He confided to the Oor- who, a few days ago, woman, aged eighty, nant, and stuck a two-pronged fori into her, because, as he told th< knowed.’ He confided to t oner that “there were sixteen more in the parish who should be done away with,” and that there were also a good many villagers quite as influential and intelligent as himself who shared his somewhat uncompromising opinion on the subject. __________ “Alfred, darling,” tenderly observec a young Milwaukee wife to her hus band, ^‘I wish you’d take your ears down now, Mariar wants to dust the m a b i o n a n d h i s m e n . It is said that Marion' often en- vamped at The Oaks, the owners, the Middletons, having been from the first devoted patriots. And this brings . up again Marion and Marion’s men, a little band' who probably never dreamed that they were to go down on the page of history embalmed in poetry and romance and song, figures strong in local South Carolina coloring, and yet Icnown ail over the country almost as widely as George Washington him self. Cen. Francis Marion, who, as the angry and harassed British of ficer complained, “would not fight like a Christian and a gentlenaan,’' belonged to the Huguenot colony of the Santee, north of Charleston, the same Santee that owned those Higfl Hills. On the formation of the Itevo- lutionary Army of Carolina Marion was made a Captain in the regiment commanded by Moultrie; he rose to a Colonelcy before the evacuation of Charleston, and, escaping the fate of prisoner of war which fell to Moultrie and many other officers, he collected the fragments of his regiment together in the recesses of the swamps atid from that moment became a dread to the whole Bifitisli Army in the South. •Marion made war in his own way; ' novyhere, and now there; now seen, ^bne, he was like a meteor in the t, and the successes gained by his extraordinary swiftness and daring seeihed marvelous alike to friend and foe. He selected young men for his hand, generally from his own neighbors of French descent; he lived In the swamps; he swam rivers on horseback; his favorite encampment was ’a cane-brake. He did not wait for all his troops, but sallied out fre- luently with only ten or twelve; he ook saws from the saw mills, and turned them into swords; he frequent ly engaged when he had but three rounds to a man. Scouts were kept out constantly, and when vyord was ■ught in of a small party of the imy anywhere, then forth went Marion’s men, like lightning after them. It was said that he was so se cret in his plans that his own soldiers had no idea when they were to be called out, and that their only way of knowing was to watch, the negro cook; when the old man was seen cooking a little store of the poor food which was their only fare, then they pre pared for departure. Marion’s favorite time for starting was sunset, and then tiio march lasted all night. Marion’s : -men—brave, shoeless; ragged, blanket- : less, gallant little hand—the following i» a verse of one of the many songs that were made about you: ig few, but true and ir swift and bold; The British soldier trembles When Marion’s name is toldT Our fortress is the good groouwood. Our tent the cypress tree; We know the forest round og A 8 seamen know the sea; We know its walls of thorny vlnN^ Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass.”—B evant . It is said that Cornwallis had an es pecial fear of Marion, and never sat down in any strange house in the aeigflhorhood of Charleston, but al ways on a piazza or under a tree, that with his own eyes he could watch for the swift-darting foe. Poor Corn wallis ! what joy swept over the coun try, when he was taken! Even the Dutch watchmen of Philadelphia called the news after midnight, “Bast twelfe o’clock, and Cornwallis es dSBkgenV’—Harper^ s Magazine. PBEVENTING e s c a p e OF HEAT. Experiments have been made in France to ascertain what kind of coat ing best prevents the escape of heat from steam-pipes. After numerous trials it was found that chopped straw was the best, and that it reduced the loss of heat by radiation from the bare pipes sixty-six per cent. The next best way is a pottery pipe large enough to cover the steam-pipe and leave an air space; the pottery was coated on the outside with loamy earth and chopped straw, kept In place by straw bands twisted round the pipe. This reduced the loss sixty-one per cent. The next was cotton-waste, which, wrapped round the steam-pipe to an inch thick, reduced the loss fifty- one p er cent. The next was waste .felt from printing machines, under which the reduction was forty-eight per cent,; and the last was forty-five per cent, with a plaster made of cows’ hair and clay. Experiments made with a view to test the effect of color showed that the coatings when painted white reduced the loss a further seven per “Our band ig few, but true a tried. Our leader swift and bold; • T ube W ells .— The most practical method of obtaining tube wells is claimed to be that which Is now in vogue in Paris, the apparatus for driv ing the tube being a simple arrange ment, consisting of common quarter ing set up as a triangle; other pieces of quartering also guiding a rammer. The lubes keep themselves^ free from dirt, and when a spji% --iis touched gives.,as. ^reat a supply'bf-''wa- ■ ter as the pump can draw, the/vvater being as clear as that drawn' frdul a well witli a reservoir. The tubes used in this case are ordinary thrqe-inch gas pipes, which serve the purpose ad mirably. The bottom end is Sfiod with a solid iron spike, rather larger thhn the tube, so as to clear the vvay for i t ; and for about eighteen inches up from the bottom it is perforated so as to ad mit tfle water freely, but a t the same time to exclude gravel.
