The Greensboro patriot [March 19, 1879]

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A SAILORS SWEETHEART.
m '<■ thej klatad,
■
■i aravaa i. - -
luncheon-time. Rupert had made up his
mind i'> have m iniict ramlile with Kitty
alter thai meal, anil If things went well.
I,. speak ofhil love. But he bad counted
without fall host, for when luncheon tM
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ItaBklamatM SuaMa rataaia •dTminaaala
appreciated, Mr Cope tells this story of ; pany."
his friend John Fitch; "After indulging intc was
The formation of the undcrtak-
. . idulging I inn wasaoiuewh.il sudden, owing to the
himsell lor some lime in his never-failing ancient riviilry between Liverpool and
topicofdecp excitement, he concluded with I Bristol. The city on the Avon, ancient
the memorable words. 'Well, gentlemen. I home of the American trade, had beta
PERILOUS TRAVELING
ADVENTURES IN THE Wfl.DS OF PATA-
"ONIA.
SCARLET FEVER.
SOME FACTS AS TO ITS OKIOIK.
The prcv.il nee of scarlet fever
the system. Suddenly a very intense
form of scarlet fever "was manifested
The child was extremely ill for several
Varieties.
.
IF!
I'Mllli.TK SOMO.
i-r.
.•-(.:. war,
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IIBJ 'IS
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1 ura urnuM t\
thai
a
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IN THE WOOD.
\ k . s »f on a fallen tree,
waving and flutter-
Isn't it " she cried,
i»tl c impanion a huge,
"But « hi re are you? Why
» i in An I. turning, she
around her.
i merrj voice cried out.
•"" i| IMI the low
wards her, laughing
eyes H ished.
i pardon." siiid the intruder,
;- ' y "but I was taking
Id a hen I beard
- f ahi would annihilate
.■ .
In'i you?'
■-• sir, said Kitty,
>olncss.
■
■ | a dog " was the
re often been
| | . J ,.i your sir
\1 ».."
profoundly.
Kitty. And
■: to hi i- 'i not
'Impi lence! '
the word, neverthc
lie became
il ia the most
n the presence of
I m ifi iid I in ii. SINIBH
ilh Ihrotigli the field was
. right ..I way
I I In ill! roil i iil well, "l
i \j'i i ting in
.1
. A.alll III
i ■ I ,
' mirthful
•"d morn
MTV (-round with his
mother profound
I, and pulling his
I I he fence, vaulted
il in..in. in was out ol"
.
house muttering.
'' u hili- the real
' _- :l rah
lire and ncconi-i
the Itupcn
i "the impudent
iw no more ol
in wondered
wi re slat tug
It the en i of that
n i veiling party at
■ person
he room was tilt
to my neph
iou thai |s-r
'•His name, by Lap
M i| he is' such
• Ii - heal known
- 'that impudent
g people met.
I incing with
lie life "I her Kilty could not
: i j aughed in con
said, bow ni! low. and re-
- true wonls he had used in
mpudenl puppy-at your
sport "i" me,*' mid Kitty
- .: iip haughtily;
the interview she was
nfining herself to
V'ery Mion, el the
■ •: her many ad-ind
n i ill IN']
-'
fir
Ku|
d<
1
rushed on strain
"What ean he mean?" said Riijtcrt.
A siidilen feiirset/.eil him that something
aj i- wrong, and a* borrfcsdoa, iii* dug
ra| i ly leading the way.
At last, in an openingof the W.KSIS, on
a mosa-coverriTroi k. he saw Kilty, pule,
breathless and apparently in pain. In a
moment he was at her side All his
Jealousy was gone. Love was uppermost
now.
"Oh, darling!" he cried, -what is it?
Thank heaven, I have found you."
'Oh! .Mr. .Mortimer." she cried, with a
little soli, "how-glad [am to see you. I
Ittgan in think 1 should have to slay here
all night alone. I've sprained my ankle
and I can't walk. What shall I dot" And
-he bunt inio tears.
Our hero look both the little hands, and
held ihem lightly in his own, while he
questioned her anxiously as to the acci
dent, relating meantime how he erne to
Hnd her.
"But how," exclaimed Kitty, ruefully.
when he had done—"how am I ever to
gel back? I don't believe I can walk a
step."
"Of course, you can't. Who said you
could?" cried Rupert. "Hut you'll get
back right, all ths banie, for I Intend to
I carry you."
"Carry me!" Kitty gave a little scream
i ai.d shrank back, and covered her face
I « ilh both hands; lor she felt the hoi blood
, in her clucks. ••Oh. no! that will never
I do;" and -he blundered out, unthinkingly,
, "what will people saj?"
But Rupert did not stop to reply to this
• |Ui Btion. Very little cared he w hut pco
pie said. Without a word he put his arms
about Kilty, ami. lilting her bodily from
bet feel, walked off wilh her as if she had
been a leather-weight.
At Am Kitty straggled a little; but the
strong, manful arms held hei closely,
and soon she began ralher to like it. and
lo think it all very delightful.
"At any rate," she snid to herself
"I can't help it; he is too masterful to re-sist
'
With this comforting conclusion, and
fair head sank on his shoulder, her
for the first time in her short lile,
Kilty km w what it was to lie supremely
happy.
Rupert carried hi* lovely burden to his
own carriage, which stood apart from
the crowd, ami carefully placed Kitty in
ii.
"Tlii re now," said he, "I shall take
you homelmro«*st«tels\ *nd «iopfnrn doc
lor mi the way. Nobody can drive run
with so little pain as I can," be added,
seeing she was about io object. "Besides.
v.iii must l>< gin lo obey inc. BO as to get
your hand in, for sometime you are going
lo In- my wife, yon know."
"Your wit;?"' cried Kitty.
She gave a pout ami a toss of her head,
hul she blushed, and not with anger,
either. Yes; blushed to the ti|>sof her
daintv cars.
■iif course," retorted Rupert, as he
stepped softly into the carriage, and Hs.k
hi- suit beanie her. looking half saucily
half-fondly into her eyes which feil before
hi-. "I have meant it all along. Didn't
v. HI. dearest?
"Really, you -ire the most 'impudent
puppy' 1 ever saw," retorted Kitty,
bur-ling into laughter in spile of her.
self.
But for all thai, she did not repulse the
ki.-s with which, before starting, Rupert
thought it necessary to fortify himself for
i he journey.
What more is there to tell? Very little.
Fur Kiity and Hii|iert were married early
in the autumn, and were Superlatively
happy.
"I)n you know,' saiil Rupert, one day.
"thai il was by the merest accident we
ever met each other*.' I laid come dnwu
in my uncle's for a single night only, when
I saw you in the wood, and my whole life
was changed. I fell in love at fir-t
sight, and resolved to*lav and make your
acquaintance, even if it took all the suiu-lllel
"S . I owe my happiness," answered
Kilty, archly, "in my faithful dog—dear
"Id fellow—being oif guard that alier
noon."
"And to an 'impudent puppy' coming
along," retorted Uu'KTt, with a kiss,
■jn-i in the nick of lime, and taking bis
place."
EARLY STEAM NAVIGATION ON THE
ATLANTIC.
The prediction or John Filch that
steamers would one day cross the Atlantic,
received its first fultilliiien" in 1S19. it
was in tut summer ol tins year thai an
American vessel, the Savannah, arrived
al Liverp.Mil Irotn Savannah, Georgia,
having traversed the Atlantic Ocean in
thirty da}s. partly sailing and partly
steaming. The event created very little
attention at thai time, the Savannah being
a small Isial of 'fOO tons, and rigged as a
sailing vessel, while her steam |K>wer was
regarded as purely auxiliary; so much so,
that the engines, and even the paddles,
were removable. Her |iassage being of
the same duration as that of the fine
"liners ' which had been built to carry on
intercourse between Great Britain and
the growing population of the United
Slates, it was but natural that slight in
teresi should have been taken in the first
voyage of the first Atlantic steamer, and,
having repeated il .nice or twice without
proving commercially successiul. the Sa
vannah was withdrawn from the route to
seek lM.-tier fortune 00 the Mississippi. No
less than nine years elapsed before another
ship furnished with sicam power followed
the example of the Savannah in attempt.
ing an Atlantic voyage. This time the
venture came from the Netherlands. It
seems highly probable thai the sight ot
the Caledonia, which Mr James Watt.
. y unanimous consent,
the Sinus, lieh.nging to the St. George
Steam Navigation Company. Negotia-tions
concluded quickly, the price ashed
'-g at once accepted, and so ii iam«
most severe epidemics.1
"Want are the causes of scarlet
lilly years taiiier. But even this one
trace of civilized lile had no doubt
long disappeared liefore the surveying
• i r"! fr"lu n",n08 Aynsarriied. Mr.
that the steamer Sinus lelt London, at the ! Beeibobtii did not remain many
shortest notice, on the Wednesday morn Weeks with them, for he received let-ing
of April 4lh, 1S3*. bound for New ' »W» Which required his immediate re-
1 ork, but touching on the way at her old | '""». There was no chance ol a vessel
destination, Cork. Liverpool had beaten : calling at St. Julian, ami he therefore .
Bristol in sending the first English sleamer r.-solved to go overland southwards i., i hc l'lll|iils have conic in contact
across the Atlanlic. sandy |.oillti 0Q 1|le g^^ JJ ■» ' Scaiht lever is said |„ have been com
But ihe victory was not one of many j -'ellan, where the steamers from the ' ""ln"-'at(l1 '■>' niilk. or even by a letter
days. No sooner became the Brim Imef- | Pacific touch. He joined a party of I *ay|or; *■} eminent English writer, re
identical.
fever?'•
"Ttie specific cause is infection by a
specific poisi.n which is communicated
by direct contact, either with the ex-halations
from the lungs of patient:'.
with their skin, or by means ol cloth-ing
or various substances with which
EUGENIE.
HOW SHE BKCAXC AX t?M!'TtESs.
In the year 1815, or thereabouts, lbs
Parisian Prefecture tie I' lice turned
its attention to the Countess da Mon-ty
■, who was then residing with net
two daughters on the third floor of a
house in the Rue St Antoine. Paris,
and asked the t minni-saiic of the
qiiarter_to make inquiries about this
year.
—The Chicago Court lins derided
tl at a divorce cannot be granted when
the "desertion" is the result of an
agreement to live snarl
Mrs. Horace Broad died nt Cam-bridge,
Mi-., at preciSPl) the same
instant ai whii h her daughter . ipired
on the same da) at Boston.
—T;ie Bordeaux Mint, the scene ot
the recent misappropriation ol MM.
junior, brought in Ihe spring of 1817 from | waves, s|iecial pains Were taken lo give
the Clyde, to lake up Ihe Rhine, slaying
for a little while at Rotterdam, had a con
siderable effect in stimulating the interest
of the Dutch in steam navigation; at any
rate they ordered several small steamers
her great longitudinal stiength. The]
ribs were of oak. on the model of those
of linc-of battle ships, and fastened to-gether
with iron bolts 24 feel in lengthJ
Be ng of such greal strength, and ol the,
juse of any kind, vet was 1 «ked
.. Brunei, the registered burlheit. .
being of 1WU ions, and the power of thiW*'"cn be dr,,v<" "long with him
engines—made bv M ssrs. Maudsla/.Bejiin w"frever lle went, and. though he had
A: Field, London—of 440 horses. Tlirf "" ho
new steamer was 212 feet in length be-tween
the perpendiculars, :t>$ feet is
breadth of beam, and 23 leet deep in the
hold. To enable the Great Western lo
re-ist the action of ihe heavy Atlantic
get it.
'Are individuals who have hail the
disease in a mild form more liable to
the second attack?"
"1 shoqld say not. On the contrary,
owu and oth.-r conntriea. She gives
occasional lea parties, al which Sards
are played. II. r d meliivr*, one aged
19,-and the other 1H. are renowned
a
SMSESVT^?£2- rrporl"inme,lici"'""■"i^"-"'^-^ in alter from Scotland, and in 1S27 a moci symmetrical proportions, the GressJI w2i enrm,,,,. ..I'I"9' i "•??„ i "How long does the poison retain its'' J,'"'l»"', for publication ill thai shabby
number of merchants in Amsterdam and 'collection of Sw* papers which ihej
Rotterdam united together lor the hazard
ous experiment of running steamships
between the Netherlands and the West
Indies. Accordingly, they had a steamer
built on the Clyde, named the Curacoa.
of XiO Ions and lull horse power, and de-spatched
her. in the summer of 1(421), fora
,. . - , '. , . I "as enormous. I have klmwn Inn " . . —~ I ' ' ».im i. r SKSAU^kSaMl"p -f-s^BSP! 258''" (["lh,u*- ,ur,"lur"' "^
.pun her. By
and night, she was made ready for III
start alauil the same time the Sirius se
out on her voyage. Slill a tew day
elapsed in taking iu cargo, as well as pas
I fourth and la-t was a young Austrian
sailor who had barn wrecked on the
shores of Patagonia, Be was .as dis-tinguished
for his learning as the
r renehman washy his appetite: for he
conclusive evidence that it has been
retained in clothing sometimes lor
months. For example, a lady assisted
ill nursing the children of a sister in
the country, in the month of August
entitled "Fascicules.'1 My oj'd in
i quoting it here is to recall the impres-sion
Which exist- d in the OaTMal mind
, as lot he respectability of the Countess
de.Motilijo. She was rated in f.he police —Alfred the Great learned hisalpl »-
books us a lady whom society rather bet al twelve ymr< n( n ■
' cut, and wboeedrawing-room wsslittle could barely read or write al fourteei
a Woman's Profeaaorship in the NUUII
college.— Bust n /'.-..(.
—American ooal is sold in Switzer-land,
coming fi.uii Philadelphia by
sailing ah ps to M.ir-ei:l, I ml i!,, n .
In rail to Geneva, when- it costs about
Sio a Ion, Tin- | nee is a little under
that of German mid Kicn-h ooal al the
same point, in d II c qUalit) i- pro-iinuiice
I much better.
—The (i ilhard Tunnel, is now tin
longi si tunnel in ihe world, the length,
holed from both sides, reaching a total
ol 13.481 yard*- 23 vanls longer than
tie Moot Cenis. Wry nearl)
yard- remain to ha etdavated, and if
the work goes on as rapid!) this yeai
as it u. ni mi last it may l»- finished in
i twelvemonth.
emoSt in denouncing Allaulic steam
navigation, showing, by elaborate arrays
ol figures and of arguments, the impossi-bility
of such a leeble thiugaaa "whllfol
! m afraiil.'1 soldo.
But how
J -. loo, ;i- though
and she call
round to my
ii- lieen spoilt
T . g •: into her good
- VI n knee- til
-■ --. - -it 11 while to
i Mortimer, my
fin n, w ii'h
iant a '!".-• that he
Kupi rt found
. 'raclion.
K tij . too, could
I liringly
i ful ngurc.
: he was ihe •■ esl
a hen a waltz
IIS id her to
: n sisi ihe Invila
•
'■ rirls . ill
1 III it would
There exists a general impression that
Steam navigation across the Atlantic is of
quite modern dale, and thai the enterprise
was not dreamt of by the first-builders ol
steamships. It isa belief which arose, no
.i-.ni.i rVom ihe fad that the establishment
oi regu'ar steam routes between this coun-try
mid America, with hours of departure
ami arrival as punctual, or nearly so. as
railway trains, ss within the memory ol
middle-aged men, and all the more
strongly Impressed on account of the op-position
it encountered, and the ridicule
i iis predicted success met with on the part
of many persona, even scientific authori-ties.
However, 'he belief is altogether
erroneous. The idea of crossing the broad
Atlantic in steam-propelled vessel- is as
old as the steamers themselves, and the
, first inventor entertained it most dis-tinctly.
Poor John Fitch, of l'hilad.l-piiia.
already referred to as "ilie inventor
of what really was the first practical
steamer," expressed. In the clearest possi-ble
manner, his belief that mercantile
hips, a- well as men ol war. propelled by
sa) that steam nower. could run between Europe
■
laiitic waies. ami, in im> ■■■eauwhile. the
public seemed »• if asleep on the suiijec
ui Atlantic steam navigation, disliking it,
or iu common wi h the learned l>r.
Lardner, looking upon ii as a voyage u
ihe moon—lunatic, in fact. Now, all al
once, suddenly as by enchantment, the
public heard that l«o rival steamers wen
going from F.ngland lo America at tIn
same time, and great was the anxiety ti
know which ol tin in would be the l.r-i K
arrive. For a week or more nothiugelai
waa udkwl ot in uli England but ihe Mean
rate across the Allaulic, ami huge bill
were entered upon as lo which of the twi
ships would arrive first at New York
willi modifications as lo whether either o.
Tin
get her not an uneven one
Although he airmailed let! her mooring)
on Ihe \\ cdne.-d i\, and the Gleal Wcsl'Ti
on Satuiday morning, the former wa.
under the disadvantage ol gi.ing rouni
tnc whole coast of southern Edgland, ant
also of slopping at Cork, before actual!'
slatting on her Atlanlic voyage, while :
still greater drawback, on her pail, wa
thai ot being a much smaller vessel lha:
the Great Western, with tar less eugin
powertand not specially constructed Hi
tier new duties. The public cxcilcmcli
lose to ihe highest pitch when a week hat
i lapsed after the starling of the twi
■Wamen from Cork and Bristol respec
lively, without their having been spokei
The captains of both steamers, it
steam ' lo combat the tremendous power
ol wind, waves and tides, ami predicting
dire calamities if such attempts were p. r
severed in. The enact of these evil fore-bodings
became visible in Ihe temporary
cessation ol further Atlantic steam iri|w.
While nine years had elapsed from the
first voyage oflhe Savannah to that of the
Curacoa. lull leu years were to go by till
another steamer was sent across ihe broad
Atlanlic. For the first lime the start was
on the British side. Al ten o'clock in the
morning of tVednesday, the 4th of April,
1838, the steamship Sinus, Lieutenant I any of them would arrive at all.
Roberts, It. N., commander, lelt London | r.,ce w.,s altogether not an uneven
for New York, with ninety-four passen-gers
on board. An immense crowd on
shore greeted with their hurrahs the de-parture
of the first English steamer lor
America as she slowly glided down lbs
Thames, el
The Sirius. a vessel ol 700 tons register,
with engines of 830 horse-power, built by
Thomas Wingalc, of Glasgow, was not
destined originally for Atlantic navigation,
tier construction, was due 10 a small joint
stock asso, iuiion. called Ihe Si. Gi-orge
S.eam Navigation Company, with the in
lention of establishing a line between
London and Cork. Un this route the
Sirius was first placed, with excellent
effect, her performances being so go,sl as I with
to create the delighted surprise of all per-sons
interested ill steamships. This led
loan important consequence. Among the
few persons in K.it.and who had faith at
that lime in ocean .-team navigation was
.Mr. IC'Gregor Laird, of Liver|*ool, brother
of the late Mr. John Laird, M. P., for
Birkenhead, who had become known a-
I he leader ot a stout controver-y on the
subject, maintaining his ground well
against a host of would-oe scientific
antagonists. Among the laltcr was I)r
1'ioiiysius Lardner. the well-known com-piler
ol a number of scientific treaties.
lie laid it down, in his great "Encyclo-paxlia."
as an absolute rule, perfectly | Cnited States wasThu
indisputable, that the project of building
■teamen to cross the Atlantic was quite
ab.-urd. and, the more lo enforce this
dognui, the learned dixUorlo-ik the trouble
ol running down IO Liverpool and l.oiur
ing an audience, when hearing that a
company, projecting to build Atlantic
steamships, was about to lie established in
the growinglowu on Ihe Mersey. A pan
oflhe curious lecture oflhe distinguished
encycloj tcdi-t has been preserved in the
Liverpool Albion of December 14. 1835,
which gave a re|»ort ot it. Alier dwelling
nu storms, trade winds and all kinds of
"natural phenomena" on sea. earih and
sky. Dr. Lardner thus pithily expressed
himself about Atlantic steam navigation:
"Aslo the project." he exclaimed, "which
is announced in ihe newspapers, of mak-ing
Ihe voyage directly from New York
lo Liverpool, it is, 1 have no hesitation of
saving, perfectly chimerical, and you
mlghl as well talk ot making a voyage
from New York or Liverpool to the
tarted
about fifty horses and a pa'ck'oi d „
Each morning they chose a fresh horse,
catching him by means of ihe lasso.
As they rode along they were always
on the lookout lor ostriches, which
supplied them both with food and with
leathers to trade with. They had no
adventures of any great moment till
they reached the banks of the river
Uallegos. This they found sosuoiim
by the floods that it was hopeless to
venture to cross it. Their provisions
were almost exhausted, and, though
they could always procure nn at. yet it
was so lean that by it-e,ll it w
■>■•» —i-.i it... ,l;.oo.o i.. „
lady whom she was attending, who had
a young infant. Another case was thai
of a lady who had moved into a house
where there had been scarlet feversome
months before. Three of her children
wen- attacked with the disease who had
not been exposed to infection from any
other source, and no other eases wen
prevailing at the time that could be
heard ol b\ the hull's physician."
"How soon is the disease dev. loped
after infection?''
Tn-sscau re| ortfl a case in which the
disease was manilestcd HI twenty-four
.. They made
was found alternanls. had taken new n,or<. ,,,.,„ „Dr lrU| bnl rthoutsuc-rontesacross
he Atlanlic. somewhat out f, „ The Wl.r(. ,|o[|| I„.ar|v,|1.,nuie,|
*»r tUe iru(k tii easturly-boDod smiui^ »« \«r
M-1S, inonlcr to kjfl tiuickt-at u> their dettj- • ; ',
nation. But this was not known at Ihe ", "T1'". .' i T
time, and the gloomiest forebodings be ll"1'.1 "', a Ti,'a€ " "cl' was " r''l'l"'l K
came rife, with high wagers at Lloyd aite ■•**• |l,e-v "",'" V***** company
upon the total loss of the two Atkutk wiU»-the others and rede sixiy miles
Steamers, when at last the happy newl "" IO another ford, which "lor topo-came
ofihe safe arrival of both at NevI graphical reasons'* thej thought more
York within twenty four hours of cue' favorable for their purposes. Thej re-other.
Liverpool had started first, an \ solved lo make auother attempt by
driving their horses before them, and
then -swimming over th -niselvcs. They
e.uccly | b0Urs after exposure, and other
are reported ; but u-ually the period of
development is from three to ten or
twelve dais alter exposure. This is
probably doe to the difference in the
susceptibility of the patients.'<
"At what ]K-riod o; the disease, and
how long, is u infectious?''
"It is infectious t hroughout its whole
course. It is believed to IK.- most iu-tenn
ly so during the period of desqu I-matioii,
in when the skin is peeling off;
but so long as there is evidence of' dis-turbance
ol the system from the localiz-ation
of the poison in any organ, it is
not sale to assume that the disease Is
not communicable.*'
•"What is the comparative suscepti-bility
lo the danger from the disease al
dillercnt ages?"
"The most su«ccp'ible [icriod of life
is from 1 to 15 years. Murchison, a
Beerlxihm, in fa.t. was swept irom | UTy high authority, states from the
by catching [ statistics of nearly "l-IO.OOU ca-es thai
sufficient to support life. They had no
tent with them, and there was not
even a bush lo allord them shelter.
Hour alter hour they sal exposed to a
cold rain storm trying to warm them-
-c.vesata file which gave out little
heal, but a great deal ol smok •. Thev
rode up Ihe river and down it lo Irv
difleretit fords, but all to no purpose.
One night there was a heavy fall of
snow, and they woke up to find them-selves
emend by it. At length their
■rovisions were exhausted, and tiny
lad nothing to ib (lend on but what
.hey caught by hunting. Weary of
ilia delay, Mr. Beerbohm and the
:'renehman resolved, in spile of the
varnings of the others, to try to cross
.lie river on their horses. Thev
j was a tinge ot Bolu mianism in i be ex-i-
ti nee or a i.uti roaming from city lo
ciy with her children,and never re-maining
in oneeit) more than ;i year
! at a time. One can make some allow
ance. therefore, for the pious horror of
M. Fialin better known under the
name of I)- Persigny, which he had
Usurped), when, on hearing of Xapo-hoii
UL's iiileude.l niirriane with
Mle. Eugenie de llonlijo, be threw
himself on bis knees and besought his
mas er qot io do this rash thing.
Thisocc rml in January, 1883. Na-p"
a-..ii had tried to contract marriage
with a princexaol Bavaria, bnl had
1 h rebiiil-.l; be hi I then made all
"ii r ol bis hand to the Princess ('arola
Wasi. ol s-wcdcn, bu; had failed in this
quarter also. With a proper spirit be
resolved that he would have nothing
more Pub, with mori'cioes <h coirm inre,
but would make a love match. II.- bad
repeatedly noticed Mle. de llontilo,
who us d lo attend the balls ai the
Elysee with her mother and her sister.
who had become Duchess d'Albe. He
gave ihe Countess an invitation i"
spend a week at St. Cloud, and ut Ihe
expiration ol the visit annouiiod
elosa oi his siudie- he has to spend
-one tiuns as much as a live in m '.-
si —en in pi sings final examinatiol
iu the practical deparl mi nt-.
—London Truth tells this: "A marine
insurance case ca brlora a disiiu-
L'uishco jud >c during the rvcenlsillings,
the/ i in- oi th, d.-asi■-, which led lolhn
litigalionhcina Tub lluiboi Libradoi,
Liilui nlal le lo relate, his lordship a as
redact d to inquire ol ;; • learned ■ nnn-si
I. 'Win re is Labrador?' To which
tiia-. gentleman replied, 'Labradoi i«
ihe pa-.- where Tub II iriior i" w hat
do the C.i il Service ' !omiiiiasio
to llil. .-■'
- say
—A bonanxa has I ecu discovered
right here in our hat b u . Ii .a- sup-i
»i-'d that the s|Niug« was i•-.:
in this neighbor xl, Imving b en
u'ltlnr. d years ago. bill siiddeiiy, and
bv accidi nt, it i- .ir lainel that
i ne neignb >nng btrs are teeming with
j S|Ninge of -i superior qu ility. \\
informed by a sponge merchant thai ■
fi w small boat- secured i»-i we n |>H i *i
and tl I, worth oi »\ g- in lw<i
i dais lasl week, and all wiibiu a half
I hour's sail oi ihe whail. —/ic, II ■ 1
abruptly to Ins ministers Unit he was l ,/7„ .
going to raise Mile. Eugenie io tin
throne. C untile Muni was the first —Mr. liars, the American consul at
to understand tbe situation, and after Alexandria, Kgypt, has ju-t gone roe il
warmly congratulalingtbe Emperoron ""' world ina rapid la-hn-n. unequallid
even In Julia Verne. Ilcaccoiu
the iourcej in - \i i-c-ighl dais. It t,„ k
h m twenty days logo reoni A exaiulria
. V.
. ■ ......
' t the
move
-I III 11 tie II n.-I
n islii ng
This was as decided as stroll
and America, and, in fact, over all the ; but Mr. U'Gregor Lord, a dougbl) Scot,
seas o! the globe. In a remaikahle letter had neienhelcss no tear lo attack the
addressed to a friend, one David Rilien | great authority. He did so in a remarka
IIOIIM*. of whom be had to W'g now and lile letter to the Liverpool Albion, signed
i hen the lo ni of a five pound note to carry '"Chimera, ' in which he demolished, one
on bis steamboat experiments, he-aid. on by one, all the arguments of Dr. Lardner
one occasion, "This, sir, whether I bring I against ocean steam navigation. The
It io perfection or no! will be the mode ol I principle of these, aside of "nature! pbeno-
• ros-ing the Atlantic, in lime, for packets ' tnena ' fancies, was that, even If steamers
and armed vessels." It is lamentable lo ', could be constructed lo brave Ihe dangers
think oflhe fate of this true mechanical ' of the Atlanlic. their whole apace would
'u-
- rixpu i pirti. s fii
.-ion. for genius, felling in the end into despair I have to be filled with coal, to the
Kittv ni
. fell into ihe
I ways as her
• feel thai no
■ and io he
■ npic I lo pay
\- yi I, :. srevvr, nowonfs
1 • i lliem; foi I;,,
I i. lean d lo
■ nure ivowal; espe ....
ei Ki ly l,.„i sud-
- and c ild.
n planned lo
It proved a great sue-
■ " > passed uieirily un until
ihrough the mosl abject poverty. "Often
hue 1 si-n him.' relates a Philadelphia
,i |uainlance, Mr. Thomas Cope, ".-talk-ing
about like a troubled Spectre, with
downcast eye- and lowered cuunlenance,
hi-coar-e soiled linen peeping through
the elbows of a tattered garment.'' The
way in which his friends and contcni-porariea
looked upon the dreamer of sni-vels
il steam communication bgraphically
told bv the same writer. 8peaklngofa
visit he once paid to John Wilson, his
hoal builder, and Peter Brown, a black
smith, who forged the rough engine! oi
ihe little steamer which actually run on
the Delaware for eighteen months, al the
rale of eighty miles a day, without being
sion of any other cargo, as well as ol |> u-
■eogers. Being a practical shipbuilder
and engineer, il was easy lor Mr. I. lird lo
prove that all that Dr. Lardner iiad said
about the necessity of tilling steamers
entirely with coal was absolutely non-sense;
hc toid him so most distinctly,
though in th politest form. Tin- lettei
of'•Chimera" created a great impression,
faining over not si few influential men in
.iver|Kiol previously prejudiced agaiusi
ocean steam navigation. One of tin* im
mediate consequences was ihe establish
meat of a company for Marling a line ol
steam- rs from the Kersey to New York
Il received the title of the "British and
North American Sbuun Navigation Com
Liverpool had won ilie race
The historical event of the arrival i
he two first English steamers in tl
ronich-d in oi
of the New York papeis:—"At tint
o'clock r. M , on Sunday, the t9d of Aps
I tie Sirius first de-cried the land, anil eaf
on Monday morning, the 28d, anchor!
in the Noril, River, immediately off ■
Battery. The moment the intelligSOJ
was made known hundreds and thou-no-rushed,
early in the morning, to thedaV
tery. Nothing could exceed the eciti-nient.
The river was covered durinj Ih
whole day with row-b-iats, skitf an
yawls, carrying the wondering peode ot
to gel a close view of this extraoninal
vessel. And while people were yetwol
dering how the Sirius was so succcieful
made to ero-s the rude Atlantic it w
announced about eleven on Mandl
morning, from the telegraph, that a hu]
steamship was in the offing. The Grc
Western' the Gnat Western! was l
eveirbody'a tongue. About 2 o'cln-r.
M. the first cur' of her ascending sum
tell on ihe eyes oflhe thousands ofanxhl
spectators, and a shout of enthusiasm is.
on the air." The reporter then goes
to fell how the Sirius had steamed at t
rate of over eight knots, anil the Gri
Western at nearly nine knots \»T hc
during the greater part of her royal
giving it as hi- opinion that "the i:iii
cxpenmenl h is now been fairly anil lie
settled, and has bei-n completely siiceu
ltd." Only one question, be thmig
was now lelt for solution; Can stel
packets lie made to pay? This was
question SIHI Occupying the dcepatten i
oi the enterprising traders of Liverd
and Bristol, originators of Atlantic sns
navigation.—HuiUr.ty Meuf h>ndvn . 1
—There are twenty-live Menno't
villages in Manitoba, with 4s, 1 din-ing,
ami 2^41 reaidenta. The inii-
•.•rants from Russia have 10.74M aat
under cultivation] 862 horses anil s«»-
2oi*J cows and oxen, and have alrcf
large stores of LTUIO and other prods
1'hey are growing rich rapidly II
prove the very bi st ol citiz fis. seitlr
ail Iheir disputes among themsen
and having in their colony nuilh4t
cousUible nur a lock-up.
took off their clollns and w;0ppcd
them up with all Ihe n st of their
goods in 1 heir cloaks. These th-v
strapped on the horse's backs. If the
horses reached the opposite shore,
their masters would be forced to follow,
as. stripped of their clothes and ex-posed
lo a strong wind that brought
hail and snow, they* could not have
lived many hours. The rashness of
Ihe attempt almost passes belief. Mr.
Beerbohm was. he says, most anxious
to catch the next steamer, and wns ut-terly
weary of his diet. Tiiese reasons,
strong though thev may have Ism,
al out sixty-four per cent, of deaths
from scarlet lever are under 5 years,
and nearly ninety |n-r cent, under 111
years, ninety-five and a half per cent.
under lo years, and onlvone and three-quarters
per ceul. over 2."i years. S ar-l't
fever is very rare in young infanta.
Only one ninetieth of all the deaths arc
under one year, and one-fifteenth l>e-twi
en 1 ami 3yean.'1
■•How can scarlet lever lie prevented
and alleviated?"
"To prevent scarlet fever compVtc
isolation ot the patients is absolutely
essential, as well as the prevent ion ol
alt contact with those in attendance on
the diseased peison. ii is essential
also that t he house should be thoroughly
lent dated, so tiial Ihe poison which
may escape may b' as diluted as possi-ble,
Al clothing should be thoroughly
disinfected, and even the soiled linen ol
the sick shou'd not be mingled with
that of the othermembersof the house
were scarcely sufficient to justify two j hold. The relief of the patients per-tains
to the medical treatment. After
the di-e.ise is recovi red from, the s;ek-roora
should be thoroughly disinfected,
as w.ll as the bedding, the furniture,
the carpets, and even the walls. Il i-found
that dry heat to the point of 212
degrees, kepi up for some hours, effec-tually
destroyi the poison: and this.
perhap-, is as, good a met ho I a- any ol
disinfecting ihe bedding ol tics-who
dinUol allord to have it il st roy. d."
When ihe reporter referred to the
pub i 'el slat emeul thai the household
of tie Pnncesa Alice, Grand Duchess
ol Darmstadt, were made more suscep-tible
to the contagion of diphtheria by
th-- hal-it 01 kissing among its inmates.
■itnl asked Prol. Barker aMher inhal-ing
t: .- breath ol ssc iriet h vcr path nt
b) kissing or otherwise, was dangerous,
and should be avoided, the doctor re-plied:
"Most assuredly, the dim a-
UHLIII IS- communicated by a mother
kiss ng her eh Id, who has either scarlet
fever ur diphthei a."
'•II diphtheria complicates a case of
scarlet lever, dot ■ tlii- inn -.-anh make
the ease fetal?"
"Ii is a si yen- complication, hut by
no ni ansneces-ar.lv fetal,as I'M-often
kiio.111 casts to recover in which 1st h
diseases existed. Last winter a youni;
kirl of ll had diphtheria. After the
diphtheria wns palpably subsiding, 1 ..••
Child continued 10 have a very high
temperature, leading to the suspici u
men. worn out with exposure and |KS r
food in running such risks. Their
lir.-t attempt failed, as the horses were
carried backb) ihe force of ihe cur-rent.
Tiny passed some more days in
this miserable state, and got still
weaker. At lenglb they made a
second attempt. Toe horses crossed
over, and so did ih ■ Frenchmen. M'.
Beerbohm was swept back to the
shore whence he had started. He
managed lo get to the fire which tlvi
hail left, and there warmed himsell up
for another Ir al. Tins time he got
over safely. But their dangers were
by no means nv-r. The next ni/ht
ihev lo-t their h-ir-es ami had to make
their way through the wilderness 0:1
foot. Happily in u day Or two. when
their strength was also spent, they
fell in with Indians, and got food and
horses to continue their journey. They
might Wi 11 have thought lln-y had gone
through dangers enoush, but fate had
not yet done h-r wor-t. The very
niobi of th- ir arrival at Sandy Point
the convicts rise, burning the town
and murdering th" inhabitants. Our
au hor hid a narrow escape, and onlv
saved himself bv hi ling in tl e depths
of a forest till a Steamer arrived an I
took him iff. After such adventures
as these it is scarcely surprising that,
when a friend a.-k d him whctuir he
would c.ire to go a ain to I' tagi-nia.
he auswered, shuddering, "By Jove:
uo!"
his admirable choice, ran oil loproffel
his compliments to the future Empress.
HeiMat-s 1 ueicr iti afb-r lime forgot
ill's act of chivalry and presence of
mind. Meanwhile Fialin. above men-tioned,
was bubbling oul his silly soul
I iu distraught wonderiugs as lowbal
France wou.d say.
Frwiice took the thing very coolly.
I.il lie lime was given tor ol j -ctiot.s, ii-the
marriage wassolemni/eu eight da>a
after the notification appeared in the
llmiteur; and the Municipal Council
of Palis had to vote their g.lt of LJI -
mi 110 ihe Bmpn -- wil h a- m ic! baste
as go. d s|a-id. Mile, de Monlijo was
then -'7 years old, ami there is in. barm
in saying, since the matter is notorious,
that she had already had several oil r-of
mari iage. Her reason fur refusing
- ne ol tin -•■ i- saiil to have laid in a
lillle p.que which she had 1 xpef n n •• d
at the very brilliant marriage wbtcli
her si-tei bad made. S mehoa lie had
got t<> thinking mat the I) IKI d'Albe
wa- piling In-court to herself; w h-tl
-' 1 discovered In r m,-tak.- -he Inn le 1
disappointment [if it wa- om very
giMMt-naturedly, buf vowi-d tual -un.
b-r sister had wedded a Spanish
grandee oftl e first class, she too would
many no'.-iity under Ihe r.iiik ol a
Duke. 1 im-01 Mil,-. Eugenie's suitors
wa- a Scotch officer of the Brill -Ii
Army, a young man ot good family,
w o i.ul met in r at Brighton in 1 -10
and pro|N*ud mi: of hand. 1 in.- would
ha 1 !:k il to -,. the fa. e of this .>
I- .1 HI a h 11 he mil nequi nt y learned to
what iii-li ih st ti.- - bis •; uel 01 e I id
e 1 i.e. He is now, like t!ie ii.ro ot
I. ei- iley Hall." the very
father of a groa u-up family. Ml.- . ■.«
Monlijo wa- also sui I by a French
II hi man who - il on ti. I, ;itin
benc »e: ::. the t'onatilIII nt \-- 1, !\
ol 1*18, and by a f.im ins and wutj
French author, win. became an Impe-rial
Senator, and lived to congratu ifa
the l.mpiess ir q lent ly and laughingl)
on her gools-i.se in ha.. •_• r.- eted
him. De remained single, though. 1
cherished :o i ife's end 1 i-e mosl
knigh'ly reverence for the lady wb m
Ic- lielieved to I e peerless a :.-■ _•
women.- Om '01. Truth.
—Tlie amount r» ived lor • u-t- ms
at the Boston Custom House during
.linuarv wa.- $S!M.4nT.nl. a decrease nl
Sl'o 14'i.liic nip.iied with the eirns-poi.'
iiuj month "I last year. The t a
value of foreign merchandise en ered
during the in mth was S-'.'.ilT.iiS-, an
Increase of iJ.IP J.V.i our l.e ammii.t
lhai some other poison was disturbing 1 enu-ied in Juuuur... l;Ts.
to S HI 1 ■'.-a - io Brindiai, Paris Liv-er
01,: .1;.,; \, w York; tin nil days also
logo from S ui Fr.uii'isi oil, Yokohama;
six days after, be rea bed Hon.' K
in ten da) - 1 - -d loot on sbo eal I
Ion: ami Iw Ive days later he found
h in-. 11 agaiu Egypt.
A Chi'd-.te.iler. said to be the
widow of a Count and well educated,
lias 11 ti d , ,| in Paris atul s
k' OWn a- Ihe "(l.'IT-he de- l.lla
II. r nielhod WI s to si.mil at til)
trance 1.1 a foundling hospital and in-
'i 1 those bringing cbdiiren th re t"
lei bet have llielli. on the gr. UUil that
-he Would have them placed in fain
where 1 iey would have ever) advan-lagi
In ihia W.II she «i
■ bi 'In 11. b .' wi..;-. has bet ".. 1
.1 d tery.
—It is a-s.r'ed that from tie suni-inil
ot' Mi'Ulil Etna lias ein I" of v.- on
iaS I III' eli.iiuioli-
Ti.e hah. ahi / 'lie 0 I l.e ui lUUI
'.- I I Ii Ii lie, mil SUStail s a dl
iaii"ii 1 l_'l to the square un •-. R«l-
.is ihe cigar
1 aipiin Ito an- no n ibcr
n ah: 11 - II- a- ' rl - that tiled.aim b-r
oi tl trunk '-: 1 in-. 1 th, m ii twei ty-
Bve t-i I. and mat a pu lie 1 "ad j
tiirou.-., 1 ... 111 , li i-cay-d ii unk ot'
" I ira -v. ' .. I 1 di Cento
Cavalli.
—The - r ill i'1-u u Avon //•
■in d al lie ot s ,u-
'1 on-i'i. rabli pr gr --
. ■ n in d ■ '.v ird • he ■
"f the theatre portion "■ tb< Mi mui il,
Ilie handsome pro|mrt ons ol which are
teen to greal advantage noa the
■ ■• part oftbe ■ 1 :.. ding ha- bei n
removed. I I.. M imoi a . Ind ' d, ■ o.v
im ins "ii • "1 the - 11'-' ol Sirat I ' 'I.
and no pilgrim to th.- shrine "f the
Itreat dramatist s content to lea 1 t .'■
town u.,'. I ne ha- taken a glimpse at
11."
— It la estimated thai there an in the
State"1°New York no less than
. .t-tIMI or.atii/ itions of all
nouiin itii 11-. occup; ing 1 eat i a- m iny
■ lui 1 -. w deli furnish - al - for i ■
ooo ]»-.- 'tis ami h ive an enr ■ 1. d
in- nib -r-hip <if 1.300.0 0 in rounl iitiin-hera.
The total value ol these churrh
e-ilflcesand Ihe lots which tlwyoccupv
is about Sill] I III Is) 1. to which sh
lie a idi-.l -a rl - 50 I, the value of
the pirsouaif's muf other real 1 slate
belonging to the various denomina-tion.*.