The Greensboro patriot [August 14, 1872]

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THE PATRIOT
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
AT GREENSBORO, N. 0.,
1!V DUFFY fc MOBEHEAD. The Greensboro Patriot.
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The Atmosphere.
The body of air that envelopes
our ({lobe is estimated to have a
depth of about fifty miles. Hut as
it is exceedingly elastic nod com- '
pressible, this number is likely to
mislead as to its actual condition.
Beyond teu miles from the earths
... surface wbat is left of the atmos-
WO phere would hardly be perceptible,
,k. p] M.Ki-.r.u.. being ouly about one-eighth of tBe
; Adniini.tr.ior.- ao- whole amount, and that eighth o<- i
-: :.■,-:,. ,t.ieam. ' cupyiug more than three times the I
double column advertise- pn^» occupied by the first seven-1
, uui.m.t eitbs. No animals could live, no
JSfffriiSkuLl^ eloud could be sustained and no
i|,ly rhsagVa taper cent, additional.— wind could blow. At an elevation
■rawnuchangedquarterly when (|f a \\,^\Q over three miles less than
• if -ill. junr r., i.i>r ten ,lum, ciharedi ».• h;«a»l■f r'Cem'uaaiiunns to f"ill upI the ,|,r„e_m„.a,,irnu-
. payable in advenes, lug forty-seven. It would therefore
, ■ ! convey a better idea of the ntmos-the
air is cooled suddenly, a por- | tree, make the best rails These
tion of this invissible water becomes ; roads arc renewed by simply nailing
condensed and visible in the form a lath on top of them, and work as
of fog or dew, and, if the cooling i well as new.
is sufficient and continued long! A locomotive becomes a statiou-enough,
in the form of rain. The ary engine by simply being gained
amount of water disolved in the air , so that the wheels can revolve witb-increases
with the temperature— ; out touching the track, and it is
Bat even when the temperature is then just as effective as any other
high and the air saturated, the j engine for the purpose. In fact.tbe
amount is verv small. It is proba-1 same engine can be made to
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Professional Cards.
II Dtll.nj. .Ino. A. Gilm
il limy P. .Smith.
Dillard, Gilmer & Smith,
ATTORNEYS AT
phere to say that it extends live or
six miles above the earth's surface,
. leaving out of consideration the
outside layers which expand away
into space until elasticity Is just
LAW ' balanced by gravity. This air thus
flooding the earth until it just cov-
-.,1 K nuns IN BANKRUPTCY, >ers the highest mountains is not a
,er Bus of Grawbtto, opp-if single substance, nor »»•<»
i],i,I,.,«■ House, pound like water, but a mixtiiie of
I>i:.M l :i'K in8tateand Federal Courts, two kinds of air or gas entirely dit-atteoiisa
given toJ»»M«™I» ferent in their properties. Water
:.;;:;.a;;;,i^:.nc::^T,;Nvr; a,,.i .i«,boi u.»y be used to in««
i of Horib Caroline. Ceileetioas i» trate the mixture, and tbey are not
I Federal Court, elicited. , more unlike tliau the oxygen and
2*':'Z_ ! nitrogen of which the atmosphere
r r.M.M.iMnii.. Jmi.N N.STAILKS. is composed The nitrogen, like wa-
McNncNUSlI A STAPLES tcr, is bland and inert, and acts as
^AT1 1?ORKN hS• S AVlHMAV«\V . , a restraint u,M,n the fiery oxygen, w,iich el8e ;onI(, mm ,nake „1P
BIEBII«I«M•C., panh Belt w|th fervent heat iiikc
w p™ ii« in the Coortsof GoM.nl, «««; aicohol. oxygen has no law but its
';;:.,':;•::UKBA «-ne.y appetite. K-thingsare
■ .:.- in nil |.«l
ilb -
ry-oao*
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Special BUflcUoa g.wo tn too hard or too tough for it to leea
oi. U-IM s0i._aate_, „»~"AJ Il".. I upon. I*t i•s a cause o_f|- c^o-.n.Mstlannlitt
,„ vNurt..l. o,frCou„ert, Hil,„.u,,«-. Bgra^tit.u^de^tha^t^its f^iery nature is rc- Q{ I|itroRen.
1M ,« B.EKOOH A"a four-fifths of that element are
, s",C:,l't'.':„.r. K.«iMer in^n.ukrupicr. just enough to make our atmos-it
M.I-.V KKOOH, phere what it is—full of life and
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, health to all things living in it.—
„I:I IS»I»IBII, K. c, ; And, strange to say. in this pro-
1PRACTICE in ilie Courm of Guilford. portion it is always found. On the
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ld~?»*"llD5,5?: amor on the land, on tho moan-j
'-r-'-^'tainorinthe K,M -,c unseen
,n.iiiion girai t« |iower and wisdom keep it lor ever
IMIIIMI. RKVKMI'K rAMSS the same. A little more oxygen,
',. i H c.niis ui,a Wfor« the DLI-IRT- .and vitality would exhaust itself in
,T »i WasniNOTOM. orjr life; a little less, and slnggish
km v .li,- V. s. Arm.-, .ml "ill ences, and perish from the earth.—
.,- ifw (i.niu.i.-i.n !.|,|«.iiiie.l bv Besides tho ordinary activity of ox-
H i. uke the in.iiiii..iiy. y„e|1 jt nag nD,ie*r gom(, ciroum
.-:,! ;nt ..(fttonSj-le^^*SreeJlorSiu^,TloZlue "ta.ne.es an increased activit.y* , and
-urvivor-ofilie w»r otisri. . this increased activity is given to
it in blowing over the sea. It is
h;nce, probably, in a large degree,
that the healthful influence of sea
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w ■avidaoo, Guilford ud Kuidolidi, »u.l
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RALPH GOBBBLL,
Allurncy and Counsellor at Law, breezes is derived, and their well
Greensboro, N. C, known power of allaying morbid
• ii i.,.,-». ti.-e in lb. court. ,.f Alanmnce, action in the human system.
The weight of the atmosphere,
compared with that of bodies with
which wo arc familliar, is not easy
to conceive. To say that a cubic
inch of it weighs about the third
of a grain is near the truth, but
does not convey any very clear idea
lo the mind. Perhaps a better
idea will bo derived from a compar-ison
of it with cork, the lightest
substance that wc can see and
handle. A cubic inch of cork
collecting, anil
uiilte.l lo lii« care.
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I !. J.M. Mullen
Clark & Mullen,
Attorneys At LAW.
HALIFAX, N. C,
1>i.'A(TI('K in all the Court, of Halifax,
Martin, Norlhamplon and EfejKombi
In the Soi.reme Court of NorthI weighs about sixty grains, and
. , ,. in ih,- l-'.-.leial Court..
..:. uia.le in all|.art».i( North
mar 14:ly
D. A. & R. F. ROBERTSON,
Surgeon Dentists.
acr5
Having axHOcift
led thcmaclvcs
therefore not far from two hundred
times heaveir than air. In other
words, a barrel of air would weigh
down a piece of cork about the
size of an ordinary quart bottle.—
In large masses and in rapid mo-tion
it is thus easy to see why frail
intbomotlosof structures cannot resist it.
DENTISTRY. As might be expected from its
r.-pcctfuUr offer lightness and elasticity, the atmos
■IwrvkMWtJto Phere id in constaut motion. Its
citizen, of motion is mainly caused by change
Greensboro, of temperature, which, expanding
and the •iirrmm- the portion affected and making it
dingrnnntry '*;;:;:raT;,hc;;ornce,,;:::l<=''»'i'arativeiy lighter, cause it.«
. nil ;.l\v ;u I 1..' I
i.MMi-av\ cmci ue Mairs, entrance Kaat rise upward, while the heavier and
Market"Street. ] colder air flows in to fill its place.
Sntiafactorj refer, nc,. given if deaired. T|„, „r(,at 80urce of heat thus llf-
;:::;\;HV:;'nn.:;;relr:,n,l',roi!iri'-■<•.*»« the atmosphere is the hot
'zone lying around the earth on
Till-: 101H1111.1: LIFE both sides of tho equator Here
tSSUUte Society tne impressible air is continually
o, ,ue . „..eo s,..,.. N.W vo,h. [«'"' P«*Jy,»«eate<l The Conse-mUE
.,n.lerMk.„.,1.u,,.l.r the lirm n.moof: 'l1";"';'' ls.th,at HSes With great force
liiiilin ,v OBOU,-have awiiin.nl the; and the cooler air from the north
■ gen, >• of the above Company for middle, and south Hows in to take its place.
North Carolina. [This in its turn becomes heatcd.niid
^:;,!;;:::,::^x^.ffSfWrw-g , '"-.manor, jh.^...
he, H entirel] solvent ; liberal in it. more. In this way the trade-winds
lernia ami thoroughly just toward, itsiare produced. These constantly
1,1,1s: aani.d.l_ ttlli.-y re.vKctfiilly; b\ov toward tho equator from the
..licit investigation from all who wish to
T. KUITIN,
•.•:::ii" THOMAS M. OWEN.
New Goods !
FOR SALE CHEAP.
T. S. BLACK,
DRY GOODS and GROCERIES,
Kl.KPS constantly on hand a complete
slock of Dry Goods and Groccrioa ol
the I'm. si qoality.
TEAS,
COFFEES,
SUGARS, &c.
• lir.t brand, and at the very low-est
(.ii,,-. llciihoiv II011&, tirceushoro.
K.C.
All sni.ls of
COUNTRY PRODUCE
taken in exchange tat goods
I lie undersigned hei-ehy returna his
- to hi. numerous patron., and so j i
. continuance of their favors.
T. S. 11I.ACK.
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G-T-VIN, MOHLER & Co.
ftnadssiM Merchants,
86 South Kuliiir Street,
Jialtimorc, Mil.
SIL attention to tlio sale of Wool.
Dried I'mii, Feathers,Beeewaz,oVe.,
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northeast on the north side, and
from the south-east on the south
side, the motion of the earth giv-ing
the air the appearance of com-ing
from that direction instead of
the north and smith. They art-found
O-J both sides of the equator,
within twouty-five or thirty degrees
ol" it, and blowwith greatcoustaucy.
There are other winds of well-marked
character iu different parts
of the earth depending ii[>ou some
condition of the earth's surface iu
I their neighborhood. The simoon, or
| poison-wind, is produced by the
large deserts of Africa and Asia.—
Its exceeding drvness is its most
remarkable character, producing in-tense
thrist and drjing up every-thing
in its course, olten being fatal
to men ami animals subjected to it.
A wind of this character occuiiug
| iu Seuegambia and Guinea is called
the harmattan. Another iu Italy
and Sicilly is called the sirocco.
In the Indian Ocean and Iliudoo-stan
and east-ward as far as Now
Guinea, the trade-winds are so
modified as to receive the name of
monsoons. They differ from the
trade-winds in being much more
violent, and in changing their di-rection
with thescasou, being south
west for six months, including the
summer, and north-east for six-months,
including the winter.
One of the properties of the at-mosphere
of interest is that of dis
solving water and rendering it an
invissibly element of its coinposi
tiou. The amount of water so ta
ken up by the air varies greatly
with ita temperature, Whenever
lily a fair estimate to say that if all
the water in the air was condensed
at once upon the earth's surface, it
would cover all over about fonr
inches deep. It Is easy to see that
if this proportion was much in-creased
our floods and storms, now
often so destructive, would be pro-portionably
increased.
Carbonic acid is also an element
of the atmosphere of great impor-tance,
and universally found in it.
It is the food of vegetable life, and
necessary to its existence. There
are also traces of a multitude of
other substances more or less dis-tributed
through it. Indeed, there
is scarcely any substance capable
of existing iu the form of vapor or
gas which the air does not retain in
minute quantities. Most of these,
in large quantities, would be hurt-ful,
but tho restless condition of
the atmosphere so distributes them
all that the greatest good is deri-ved
from the beneficial, and the
least harm from the hurtful.
Cheap Railroads-The Locomo-tive
on Wooden Rails.
(From tho West Yirjfiuia Monitor.]
The following communication,
from a gentleman well known as
one of the most (ingenious and en-terprising
mechauic-biiilders in the
St,tie. derives unusual iuterest from
the actuality ol the important ques-tion
of which it suggests a solution :
'The development of our seemingly
inaccessible timbered and mineral
lands." Should the plan proposed
by the writer turn out as practical
as professional judges esteem it to
be, the enhancement of properties
hitherto valueless on account of their
remoteness from market will add
millions to the wealth of the State,
and realize fortune's for a large
class of laud-holders whose inevita-ble
prospect heretofore was to die
in discomfort and poverty.
Ci.ARKsnrno, West Virgina.
Editor of West Virginia Monitor :
In this great timber and mining
region ofonrs there is rapidly aris-ing
a need for short lines of cheap
railroad, with suitable ears and
motive power to thread up the val-leys
and through the gorges con-necting
them'.with the great lines
now made, making, or incontempla-tion.
More especially are they de-manded
by the lnmbcr interest.—
Kich mining localities such as Vol-cano
and the extraordinary nshpal-tuin
mines near Cairo, can afford to
build railroads with iron track ; but
with our lumbermen, ever shifting
as the timber is cut from them,such
expense is not to be thought of;
and as all the timber with-n wagon-ing
distance of the great lines will
soon be cut off by the fast saw mills
of modern construction,souie means
must be adopted to reach the tim-ber
four, ten, or even twenty miles
on either side.
Some ten years since the writer
of this, constructed a few miles of
wooden tramway and put on it cars
made with flanges of the wheels
working outside the rails, leaving
each axle free to adjust itself at
right angles with the rails. This
allowed tho ears to run as easily
around any sharp curves as on
straight lines; neither did the flan-ges
press against orabrase the sides
of the rails ; and it was found that
this change of the flange from the
inside to the out3ide diminished the
tendency of the wheels to get off
the track by tenfold. In tact, a
properly constructed car with Han-ges
outside can scarce be made to
get oft' the track, even though it be
very uneven.
The success of this lino caused
the construction of quite a number
lines, from one to five miles long.on
the same principle, nnd with simi-lar
results, in this vicinity. All of
these roads are operated by horse
power, and they have given the
mills using them a very marked ad-vantage,
iu a business point of view,
over those without them. These
roads coat $900 to 8400 per mile,
whereas iron roads cost from 83.0(H)
150,000 per mile. The question now
arises, Can not steam be cpplied as
a propelling power on these cheap
roads 1
Saw-log weighing two tons are
habitually transferred on them
without injury to the rails, and this
on cars of only four wheels. Loco-motives
can be made weighing about
3,500 pounds on eight wheels (the
drivers and two pilots on each side)
which will not be so hard on tin-track
as ou the cars now used, and
have about tiftcen-horse power, and
draw a train of cars at from five to
seven miles per hour. This engine
would cost, say, $1,500,or less than
the horses it represents, and would
readily ascend grades of 200 feet to
the mile; and a special apparatus
take it up grades of ten degrees by
its own action. The difference iu
the cost of running horse and stcaui
roads may be judged from the fact
that it costs the Hudson River rail-road
as much to deliver its cars
about tho city of New York by
horse power as it does to briug
them from Albany (over 100 miles)
by steam power.
Imagine the cost of taking a sin-gle
traiu from Parkersburg to Bal-timore
by horse power, and you can
form an idea.
The traction of tho wheels is great-er
over wood than on iron, except
in wet or icy weather, and our
cheapest woods, beach and sugar-drive
the mill, to cut the lumber as a sta
tionary, and then take it to the mar-ket
ns a locomotive.
It does seem that much might be
done to develope the resources of
the country by connecting each
county-seat iu the State with some
one of tho great through lines by
such roads.
Beside their present use, they
serve to show the necessity of some-thing
still better, on the principle
that an Indian trail from Winches-ter
to I'arkersburg showed the ne-cessity
of first a common road; that
called for a graded road; that, in
turn, for a macadamized road; that
for a railroad, which, has become
one of the greatest in the land. In
tact, the demands of the times «re
greater than we judge them to be,
aud the locomotive small or large,
is a great educator of the people.
When tho four or six-horse team
becomes too expensive, lay down a
tramway and do the same work
with one horse; when by reason of
increased business this becomes too
slow, put on the light locomotive,
doing'the work of fifteen horses
with drivers; when this fails to do
all the work,make an iron way with
engines of 200 horse power; and
when this gives way,as it often does,
have double tracks and steel rails,
with locomotives as required. Far-ther
than this human knowledge
does not exteud, but mankind arc
anxiously prospecting.
Each of these modes of transpor-tation
lias its time and place of use-fulness
and profit; and of all, the
light locomotive,with a cheap road,
is the article to be fostered, as ex-tending
advantages to the greatest
number of people, and comiug
within the means of neighborhoods
and communities now more or less
inaccessible.
Habit of Literary Men.
The Baltimore American thus re-vives
rt-miuiscence of some of the
well-known ;iiterary characters of
the past: John Calvin commeuced
his daily studies at five or six iu the
morning, reading and writing iu
bed for hours together If business
required him to go ont, he would
rise nnd dress ; but on his return,
again went tojbed. As he advanced
in years, he wrote little with his
owu hand, but dictated to secreta-ries,
rarely having occasion to make
any corrections. Sometimes his
faculty of composition would fail;
then he would quit his bed, attend
to his out-door duties for days,
weeks, and even mouths together,
and not think Of writing until he
felt the power had returned. Then
he would go to bed, send for his
secretary, and resume his labors.—
The great Cardinal Richelieu, who
was a dramatist as well as prime
minister of France, usually went, to
bed at eleven, slept three hours,
would rise and write till eight in the
morning—now and then amusing
himself by playing with his cats, of
which ho was very fond. Buft'on,
the naturalist, rose early and work-ed
perpetually. His great "Studies
of Nature" cost bim fifty years of
labor, and he recopied it eighteen
times before he sent it to the prin-ters.
He composed iu a singular
manner, writing on large sized pa-lter,
on which, as in a ledger, five
distinct columns were ruled. In
the first column he wrote down the
first thought; in the second he cor-rected,
enlarged and pruned it, and
so on, until he had reached the fifth
column, within which he finally
wrote the result of his labor. But
even after this, he would recom-pense
a sentence twenty times, antl
once devoted fourteen hours to find
the proper word with which to
ronnd off a period. Cuvier, who
raised comparative anatomy to a
science, never had occasion to copy
his manuscript. Ho composed very
rapidly, the proper words falling
into the proper place, and every-thing
being arranged in bis mind
in a very orderly manner. Bossuet,
the French divine, who left fifty
volumes of his own manuscripts,
rose at four, wrapped himself up in
a loose dress of bearskiu, and wrote
until, from sheer fatigue, his hand
refused to hold the pen. Then he
would return to bed, take the sleep
of exhaustion, nnd on awakening
go through the same process again.
Extenxire Oirnership.—Hans Van-dersplockeu
bought a piece of land
in the city, and upon it he proposed
to erect a bnildiug that should
serve him for a store, a manufacto-ry,
and a dwelling. When he came
to strike out for the cellar he di-rected
tho mason to go several feet
deeper than had been planned.
"But," exjiostulated the archi-tect,
"you are going deeper than I
ever beard of."
"Very goot," replied Hans, "I
shall gosnoost ash deep asb I blease.
I grouut ail the way t'rough!"
His answer to the builder was
equally pat and ready. The build-ing
had gone np fonr stories, and
Hans ordered auother story.
"Hut, my dear man," said the
builder, "do you realize how hig»
you ere going t Your building is
already a full story above those
around it."
"Never yon mint do oder houses,
mine frient. I builds ash I blease
mitout caring for dem. I vants on
dat oder shtory—land it very $heap
oog dare.
GOOD-NIGHT.
BY aanr «. «*xroiu>.
Lew, bnrned the fire, the room was dim,
We heard the warning clock strike ten,
Aad ky the moonlight growing grim,
Katw parting-time had come again.
"I bail a dream last night" I said,
"*■ tell it to jon ere I go:
I thought, my daar, ronr little head
Wfc laying on my shonlder, so!
"Tiaalm. to go," I said, "and you—
Yoa kissed me twice upon the cheek
Now tell me^love, if dreams come true."
Mont archly did my darling speak:
'-Why* some come true, and some do not.
Dreams like this I quite believe,"
And then—she kissed me twice, and got
Herwafcrt eataSgWlm efyeUeye,
"Why Wit that to «ygood sight. " as
Mu«t take ee longa time ! I knew, -,: .
Wheu^sps an sweet, snd erse an bright,
One often lingers, lath to go."
But, somehow, ere I went away
That light, the clock had struck eleven:
So long it takes, yon see, to say
What seemed an easy task at seven.
AH Around.
Major (leneral John A. Dix, a
respectable gentleman of this city,
once a Democrat, but of late years
a Republican, has written a letter
to say that he prefers Grant to
Greeley, He gives a number of
commonplace reasons for this pref-erence
; but unluckily he does not
tell fhe whole story by any means.
For instance, he does not mention
amoag the facts which lead him to
love Orant, that system of offlce-brokerage
which the President has
introduced at Washington, whereby
—to mention ouly a single instance
—his brother-in law, Lewis Dent,
sold the Consulate at C'allao for
$2,500 paid to himself, and 91,000
paid to Gen. F. T. Dent, another
brotW-in-law.both Bums being paid
in cash at the same time, and
Grant's appointment of the payer
immediately after the payment.—
Neither does he include Grant's in-terest
in the swindling Perkins
claim .gainst Russia, nor his letter
to the Czar requesting him as a
personal kindness to himself to
eot.srdcr that claim favorably. He
is silent, likewise, about Seneca
saidstone and the euormous rober-ies
of Grant's ring in the District of
Columbia. Neither does he men-tion
Grant's present-taking, nor bis
appointment of twenty-one of his
rehtiuns of office which none of
them could ever have received had
tbey not been members of the Pres-idents
family. Nor does lie say
anything about Grant's share in
the great Chorpenuiiig fraud, or his
support of Kobesou's Secor fraud,
Savage fraud, Governor fraud, en-gineers'
'fraud, torpedo boat
fraud, Tennessee fraud, and
all the rest of. the Navy Depart-ment
swindle*. Still less does he
say anything respecting the Soscol
trainUiy which Grant himself, when
Secretary of War ad interim, hand-ed
over to the Bauk of California
the right of the Government to a
military reservation worth ten mil-lions
of dollars. All these things
Gen. Dix omits—unintentionally of
course—although they are among
tlte most couspicuous features of
Gen Grant's civil career.
Well, it is all right, aud we dare
say it will come out right in the end.
If Gen. Dix prefers Grantism to the
election of Dr. Greeley on the Cin-cinnati
platform there is no reason
iu the world why he should not say
so and vote accordingly ; and it the
majority of the people share the
feelirgs and notious of Gen. Dix,
why, we will have another four
years of Grant, and a curious sort
of season it will certainly be.
Some of the papers accuse Gen-
Dix of a desire to get office under
Grant. This is a groundless accu-sat
ion, aud its authors ought to be
ashamed of themselves.—Netc York
Sun. _^—--——
Bleeding at the Nose.
Sone two years ago, while going
down Broadway, New York, blood
commenced rushing from the nose
quite freely. I stepped aside and
applied my handkerchief, intending
to repair to the nearest hotel when
a gentleman accosted me, saying,
"Put a piece of paper in your mouth
and chew it rapidly, and it will
stop your nose bleeding." Thank-ing,
doubtfully, I did as be suggast
ed, and the flow of blood ceased
almost immediately. I have seen
the remedy tried frequently, and
always with success. Doubtless
almost any substance would answer
the same purpose as paper, the
stoppage of the flow of blood being
caused, no doubt, by the rapid
motion of the jaws, aud the counter-action
of the muscles aud arteries
connecting the jaw aud nose—
Physicians say that by placing a
small roll of paper or muslin above
the front teeth, under the upper
lip, and pressiug hard on the same,
will arrest bleeding at the nose-checking
the passage of the blood
t h rough the arteries leading through
the none.
A great scandale has occurred at
a ladies' swimming establishment
near London, it was fully attended
when one ot the " ladies " slipped
backward and fell from a consider-able
height into the water, uttering
at the instant of her descent an ir-repressible
aud magnificent male
oath. This fact led to the discovery
that the lady was none other than
a young man of distinguished fami-ly.
He was taken before the com-missary
of police, and escaped with
the meagre punishment of • severe
admonition. He says be don't need
the admonition, and he reserves his
discoveries for quiet remembrance
on doll days, when be wanta some-thing
lively to think, of.
Painting Houses.
An intelligent farmer, who la
building • ««w house, wishes to
know the be* color for painting it
It is a two-awry house, of moderate
pretensions^ with but few trees of
mnch site; ih answer to his inqui-ry,
we would recommend any natu-ral
tint, which may anit him best;
if a cool drab color, it should not
pass too much towards coldness,
which is only adapted to stately
mansions; and if a warm brown,
too mnch clear yellow or red should
be carefully avoided. Nothing can
be worse than the impression of a
surface colored with paint merely
for the sake of the color. On the
contrary, the shade should resemble
that of the materials of which the
honacs an built. The natural color
wood or of light atone should not
the roadway may be selected as an
approximate guide to the shade
given to the neighboring bouses.—
A diversity of opinion prevails as to
the color of window blinds, but we
have always preferred some modifi-cation
of green. When Downing
and others attacked the fashion of
painting while, they committed the
error of excluding green for the
windows.
There is no incongruity in light
brown and warm green; some of
the most agreeable combinations in
nature are made of these two colors
—as we see in landscape painting,
in the soft blending of the two in
late summer forests—and the rich
brown bark and cones, and the
deep green branches of evergreens.
A large, rather dark house, should
have dark green blinds; a smaller
house of lighter color may have a
more lively green. Small bouses,
under the shadow of large trees,
may be clear white. Scott, in his
recently published treaties on Land-scape
Gardening, justly remarks:
" The most beautiful, and neces-sarily
the most pleasing of all colors
for window blinds, which harmonize
with nearly every nentral tint and
with all natural objects—ever-beau-tiful
green —tho teuderest and most
welcome of all colors to the delicate
eye, was thrust aside even by the
cultivated tasto of Downing; and
in its place dull brown blinds were
the fashion and in taste Common
sense and common eyesight, have
been too strong for such a fashion
to endure long, and green agaiu
greets our grateful eye on the cot-tage,
villa and mansion windows."
—Country Gentleman.
Can Grant be Xleoted?
Our article and calculation npon
this subject has attracted the at-tention
of others to the same inves-tigation.
The more thought is be-stowed
upon the matter, the more
closely the political present aud
future of the parties are scanned,
the more difficult it becomes to put
Gen. Grant in the position of a man
who can be elected. As evidence
of this fact we give below the cal-culation
of a thoughtful, observant
politician, who has recently had
abundant opportunities of feeling
the public pulse upon this Presi-dential
matter in various States of
the Union. He thus sums up the
contest-:
GREKLKY.
Alabama, 10
Arkansas, 8
California, C
NewHampshire,C
New Tork, 35
NorthCarolina,10
Oiegou, 3
Pennsylvania, 29
Delaware,
Georgia,
Maryland,
Kentucky,
Tennessee,
Texas,
Virginia,
West Virginia, 5
Connecticut, 0
Indiana,
3
11
8
12
12
8
11
(JBANT
Iowa, 15
Kansas, 5
Massachusets 12
Michigan, 11
Minnesota, 5
Mississippi, 8
Nebraska, 3
Rhode Island, 4
SouthCarolina,'
Vermont, 5
Wisconsin, 10
Louisiana, 8
Total, 90
15
9
219
DOUBTFUL.
L'l
7
3
89
4
Missouri,
New Jersey,
Total,
Illinois,
Maine,
Nevada,
Ohio,
Florida,
Total, 57
No calculation worthy of atten-tion
has yet been made to elect
Gen. Grant.—Philadelphia Age.
A Happy Woman.—What specta-cle
more pleasing does the earth af-ford
than a happy! woman, content-ed
in her sphere, ready at all times
to benefit her little world by her'
exertions, and transforming the
briars and thorns of life into the
roses of a Paradise by the magic of
her touch T There are those who
are thus happy because tbey cannot
help it; no misfortunes dampen
their sweet smiles, and they diffuse
a cheerful glow around them as
tbey pursue the even tenor of their
way. They have the secret of con-tentment,
whose value is above the
philosopher's stone; for without
seeking the baser exchange of gold
which may buy some sort of pleas-ure,
they convert everything tbey
touch into joy. Wbat their condi-tion
is makes no difference. They
may be rich or poor, high or low,
admired or forsaken by the fickle
world ; but the sparkling fountain
bubbles np in their hearts and
makes tbem radiantly beatiful.—
Though they live in a log cabin,
they make it shine with lustre
that kings and queens may covet,
and they make wealth a fountain
of blessings to the children of pov-erty.
AJ to Marriage.
**« is jp question that our
•oatry style of living diminishes the
■a*"*** ot marriates,and indirectly
reersuta the ranks of the vicious and
depraved. So long aa fashion de-mands
a style of living which only
a millionaire can really afford, and
a young married couple most first
support an expensive eatabllahaient,
or be excluded from the circle in
which they moved before marriage,
a bar is raised to matrimonial en-gagements,
which only the very
unscrupulous will have had
the hardihood to overstep. The
opportunities and lores to a aingle
life of easy indulgence and dissipa-tion,
have a constantly increasing
influence over the young men of
onr cities; while a continually in-creasing
number of young isstslua
aeducated to a hfe ease, display
extravagance, which only few
yonng men can' possibly support
them in.and be honest. So onr fash-ions
pat a premium npon bachelor-ism
and a vice on the one hand,aud
untold waste and wretchedness on
the other. What is wanted more
than any thing onr society today,
is the courage on the part of young
men and women, to break away
from the present thraldom, and set
a new and nobler fashion of inde-pendence
and company. A score
or two of examples of that heroism
whioh defies the foolish sentiment
and custom of the time, and dares
to be true to the nobler instincts of
the heart, and live simply and hon-estly
in a small and qniet way,
would create a reform, if not a rev-olution.
The question comes to
every young heart: Which shall I
sacrifice,the instincts and affections
of the heart; or the shows and
shams of society I Alas, that so
many yield the former to the
latter! For love is the religion of
the yonng, and whoever suppresses
It for the sake of ease and display,
whoever sacrifices it for fashion,
commits a sacrilege for which noth-ing
on earth can atone. Love is not
a thing to be ashamed of or laugh-ed
at, Data sentiment to be cher-ished
and gloried in; and, at any
sacrifice may require, is cheaji so
long as it adds fuel to the precious
flame which purifies the heart, re-fines
and ennobles the cbaracter,and
makes a manhood and a woman-hood
worth the saving and worth
the name.
A Story Worth Repeating.
From the Hartford Times.
Judge Davis, of Illinois, is a
rich man. The pnblio may not
know how he became wealthy.—
About thirty years ago, when Judge
Davis was a practising lawyer in
the West, he was employed by a
Connecticut man to collect 9800.—
Davis went to the place where the
debtor lived, and found him to be
rich in landed possessions, but
without a spare dollar in money.—
He finally settled the bill by giving
a deed for a tract of land—a flat,
moist and undesirable piece of land
in appearance, lying close by a
sheet of water, and consisting per-haps
of sixty acres. Davis subse-quently
met bis Connecticut client
in St. Louis, when the latter (who
seemed not to have the usual Con-necticut
shrewdness) fell to {and
gave bim a regular "blowing up"
taking the land rather than insist-ing
on having the 9800 in cash.—
He did not want any of your West-ern
land, and he told Davia, that
having received it in payment of
the debt, be bad better keep it
himself and pay the money out of
his own pocket. To this Davis
agreed. Stepping into a friend's
office he borrowed 9800, took the
Connecticut man's receipt for the
land, and held it for a rise. That
land forms part of one ot the su-burbs
of Chicago. Judge Davis has
sold two or three hundred thous-and
dollars' worth of it, and has
nearly a million dolllars, worth left.
Its a striking example of
what the Western property
has done for its holder,
and as the story has never been
printed, we thought it would be in-teresting
enough to publish.
The Hon. George W. Crawford
died at Augusta, (la., oh July 27tb.
He had been Governor of Georgia,
and was the first Secretary of War
in the Whig Cabinet of President
Taylor. While holding that office
he was misled into paying an old
claim of one Galphin, and this act
was followed by an immediate burst
of honest indignation, not merely
from Democrats but from Whigs
also, Dr. Greeley in the iWiuiw
taking a leading part in the move-ment.
In fact tbey made it so hot
for Mr. Crawford that be bad to
resign his office and retire to ob-scurity,
in which he has ever since
remained, no event in his subse-quent
history being known to the
pnblic except his death.
Nowadays members of the cabi-net
boldly engage in swindles like
the Chorpenuiiig fraud, amounting
to 9443,000, and like the represen-tative
frauds of Robeson, amount-ing
to 9318,000; and the most in-fluential
members and organa ot
their party sustain them in the act
and praise tbem as though public
plunder were a virtue.—JTsw York
Sun.
i i . gg=
The Xevtpaperi.—Of the newspa-pers
in the United States, notwith-standing
the vast number of small
papers whose' editors are sodsidized
by office, we find that 2,104 sustain
Greeley, and 1,497 sustain Grant.—
In circulation the Greeley papers
probably exceed the Grant organs
in about the same proportion.
Pirds mit yoost der name kind of
fedders vill gone together mit dem
aelia.
Old, but Good.
▲ miasti/inss was in New Tork
on an August Sunday and crossed
the Brookly fcrry in the morning,
for the purpose of hearing Beecher.
Batlo! the Plymouth paipit wan
occupied by a stranger, who de-livered
a tedious common-place ser-mon
from the text: "And behold
Simon's wife's mother lay aiek of m
ferar." Mr. Beeeher was awwy
taking his vacation.
In the afternoon the man songnt
to consols himself for his morning's
•iaappoiatment by listening to K.
H. Chants. He was shown to a
front seat by the sexton of E. H.
Chapin's church, and in doe time
was horrified to see the minister of
the morning appear in the pulpit.
The poor victim heard for the sec-ond
time, the sermon from the test:
"And behold Simon's wife's mother
lay sick ofa fever," and went ont
of the sacred place very much dis-couraged.
Mr. Chapin was taking
his summer vacation.
In the eveuing the man, thinking
to redeem, in a measure, the defeat
of the day, accepted a choice sitting
in the Reformed Dutch Church, for
the sake of hearing the genial elo-quent
and scholarly Bethune. Bat
his heart qui :e broke when the evil
spirit that had possessed him all
day got upand gave out a hymn.—
And when the text was announced,
"And behold Simon's wife's mother
lay sick of the fever," the party
who knew all about the subject,
rushed wildly from the overdose,
and ran to bis hotel. Dr. Bethune
was taking his summer vacation.
The next morning he took the
first train for home, and stepping
into the car there was his ministe-rial
friend of the day before, with
bis sermon under his arm. The
New York bell were ringing a fire
alarm, and says the minister to his
lay brother, "Friend, do yoa know
what those bells are tolling for 1"—
Says the countryman, looking hard
at the sermon, "I don't know, bat
I shouldent wonder iiSimon's wife's
mother was dead I heard three
times that she was down with •
fever." __^__^____
A Curious Story of a Dabt.
About fifteen years ago, says the
Mutouri Republican, there lived in
the southern district of St. Louis a
man named John Bitter, who car-ried
on the business of a tinner—
Becoming involved in pecuniary
difficulties, he borrowed of a friend,
John Mack, a druggist, who was
one of his business neighbors, 9175.
In a short time, and before be could
return the money, Bitter failed and
fled, no one knew where. Years
elapsed, and no word or intimation
of him was received. In the mean-time,
Mack, the lender, died, and
with him probably died all knowl-edge
of the debt. But last April,
Mr. Conrad Faith, the administra-tor
of Mack's estate, saw an adver-tised
letter addressed to Mr. John
Mack, and by the authority whioh
bis position gave him, obtained and
read it. The letter, dated at Hiogo,
Japan, was signed John Bitter, and
asked for the address ofJohn Mack.
Mr. Faith wrote in reply that Hack
was dead, but that he was the ad-ministrator
of his estate. A week
ago, he received to his surprise and
gratification, another note contain-ing
a draft on account of Bitter and
in favor of Mack, from the Oriental
Bank corporation, Hiogo, Japan,
dated June 3rd, aud drawn on
Messrs. R. Bell and C. F. Smithers,
agents at New York for the Bank
of Montreal for 9C94 in American
gold, which amount comprehended
the original loan aud interest at
compound rate. Probably those
who knew Mr. Ritter in St Louis,
and were acquainted with the cir-cumstances
of his departure, regar-ded
him as a dishonest man, but
this transaction reveals the fact
that although at one time unfortu-nate
iu his business ventures, he
possesed an honest purpose, and it
must have been a happy moment of
life at Which be was able to vindicate
his fair fame and feel the proud
consciousness that be had discharg-ed
an honest debt, the burden of
which had probably weighed npon
his mind for many years while strug-gling
against adverse fortune.—
Doubtless the pleasure attending
the act would have heightened if his
benefactor could have lived to know
that in making the loan be had not
been the victim of misplaced con-fidence.
Flatterers not only lift a man np
—as it is said the eagle does the
tortoise to get something by the
fall.
Real happiness is want little and
enjoy mnch ; vnlgar happiness is to
want much and enjoy little.
The exoeas ofour youth are drafts
upon old age. payable with inter-est,
about thirty years after date.
Afflictiou fall upon some as the
genial flowers upon earth's bosom,
to call forth fair flowers from aeeds
long dormant.
Good is slow ; it climbs. Evil is
swift; it descends. Why should
we marvel that it makes greater
progress in a short time.
Filial gratitude is an amiable
trait wherever found ; it should be
cherished by every ]mssible means,
and will meet its appropriate re-ward.
The holy thoughts and memories
that cluster around the name of
mother can never be so well ex-pressed
as in the calm utterance of
the name itself.
Whenever there is much to offend
there is much to pardon, and where
there is anytbiug to pardon be as-sured
there is something to love.
Only through emotion do we
know thee, Nature ! we leau npon
thy breast, and feel its pulses vi-brate
to onr own. That is knowl-edge,
for that is lore. Thought
will never reach it.—Margaret Ful-ler.
Love one human being purely
and warmly and you will love all.
The heart iu this heaven, like the
wandering son, sees nothing, from
the dew-drop to the ocean, but a
mirror which it warms and fills.—
Jean Paul
Happy season of virtuous ayout h,
when shame is still au impassible
barrier, and the sacred air-cities of
hope have not sunk into the mean
clay hamlets of reality; and man,
by his nature, is yet infinite and
tree.