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S*J THE PATRIOT. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT GREENSBORO, N. C. „.»'«« EsfOOltsAed in ISil!"** - of it.. "l.le.1. ftml tswl N«wtpnp«ra Is Hie Slat. : P. F. UUFFY, Publisher and Proprietor. TKK1IS -Cut IIIY»I.»I.IT luailTuira: >,'»rr:. lo. .... Itimonthill.Oo. ir.i lading r.".!^. «*-*:.y paraon fcen.ln.g .a,. saUrrinirt will re- .--ali#. The Greensboro Patriot. OTJIi COU1TTET—FIRST -A-irrj .A_L"W_A.-X-S. ■l-la* free. Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1879. New Series No. 568. THE SEA-BIRDS HAUNT. imong«lDd*iwol-lunft* -tn-.-r ilown in lurgc. iron-Utunil chest, which Carl was marble saint to the charncl house below elwayl particular never Ui open in my The poor girl did uul seem lo have any present e. A thought struck me. Why . part o!" the human frame in its proper might m.i this chest contain secrets which place, or answering to its proper fund ion. Ii would heofiiuporiancefor me to know! It was all the result of a cruel casualty I But how to gel into it! I hesitated a mo- that happened When she was voting. She menl. Carl must hate carried the key | had hurried from home one winter night KATES OK ADVKHTlsi.XG. TrftntlMtftdrtrtlMnwDti P.*»1>1# in i-l v»n.« ; ycaw 17 ■ulT*rUMn«oU quvtasrl* ID ftdvitoco. Iwl. 1 m... »: ■■■ a mo.' a mo. a mo. |4.00 |s.m |R.fr »fr. 1 In. - • f l.« I 12. «t 1 " - • l.3» ' ■ •.to 1 i,ea it ■!■ H.'gy S " - - t.Sn * <■- a. 00 1 UK 19} lf.'i. 4 " • - 1.OD 7.00 ;i ■ in.no ! i:.o» rn.oo * " - - 4.0" l.i-i ■ Mi Hcol. - «.no 1 it,<io 1S.00 Jim J» •■> S •- - looo 1 is.ro l " - 1 ism , v.ro aa.ot I im.on m.oa Special! twenlr-tv*. ftftd lor*), fifty r*. coot hl«her. Court ortsrt. iliwffkv r : Maffi-tr.f«-v mtttm, f'Wrwcrtt. fs: .<linlnliirar.>ri- noilr**, tlr. v.r*«., === >L Dsattt r.ir. kf .i.-ui.tr nkMasadracttMa* WHAT PEOPLE EAT. DANGERS OF CHEMISTRY Keorg, T. Angell recently,.re.?J mmorsv* ,.oss„n,,T,Ks OF , OXWIA- has given us tJ^nSEm; it has put in ^r^wa^prepared teS&SSS, TIONS OF IUUMI.KSS CHEMICAL IN- our hands gunpowder, nitro-glvcerine, °ur object being to prevent the mun- (•IIKIIIENTS—Tin: POWER ovKit XA- dynamite, and, above all, fulminate of Koose leaving for the garden after kill- TlitE AMI HiMAX LIFS WHICH S"ld. an explosive s.i terrible that if an ing the snake. lllEMIsTHY GIVES, ounce " a paper before the American Soda] Science Association in Boston, oni "Public Ueallh Association,"- in which! lie made some .startling assertions about I'urieties. —Of late the robbers on the Roman enmpagua have bean stealing horsea. ■ ■a elrl. '-.■■., in «Maad ■....,:.. mmLmtfttH ami win. tltH - .v . irliirl \ .-.Mil i . iiearl. I I-, . (oManslau neraM int. : I ililo :- • ui.'rirl. a win. - II.\ skin : imnrt HI. -lie I.IK- -' . >- u.a. II... . .: hand. ary -..i J. I THE AMBER RINu. « inter night. I sal by the a '" inn Not Far from m« trull in. U e were both ■ i man I i; versify Th my deliverance. I examined the maun script; large rolls they wen, filled with diagrams, and words in the Latin Ian-gunge. Iieing familiar with the latter, I was at no loss to understand their mean ing. What' Had the- day of magic returned V He-re were directions for calling the jiowers of darkness lo the act of humanity ; the hidden mysteries of nature revealed and explained; and dissertalions of a metaphysical diameter on the mind ol man. and its unknown affinities with the world of spirits. All WHS ap|iarently written long ago—it might be centuries. I sal all day studying the mysterious writ-ings. Night came and, alter obtaining a little nourishment for the IKWIV that was mine tiir the time Iieing, I lit a lamp, and, locking the door, still continued to purr over those wonderful manuscripts that win-revealing to me with every line I read strange secrets, which would make my powerover mankind irresistible. Alt thai was demanded for the possessor of Ibis secret wusa |>eculiar organization. With the body of Carl Von Arnheiml, of ■ ourse had obtained his temperament, and lacilit) to use these powers, idetermined If it survived lor anv t be left i„ a stoppered l-ottle |«Wth oTlime, it was conclusive.prod, mules, cattle and everything the, can that in its own body lay the antidote. Uy U],.h ,,.„„,, „„ h could safelv conclude some par- ~An "ul Proverb says that "the hat to! »nvil lasts longer than the hammer." various This is probably the only consolatiun the undermost man in a light has. and its —The wedding of the Duke of Con-fight | naught will take place in "semi-state" b Iv, wreathing itself in ■ '" "i:'kl' "'.vseif master of them, ami then round the huge Ions thai ■ - -tine 3. I was I IS vi when, sud I '• ' called ine to my senses by « lhat tin- Baren Von ri ly daughter arc in ' !n illirntalivc. /' "ii lib* lace as it (dowry set- II k, in ird aspi ei, I it is forced to those stories bruited the Btudcnta ol some il with which Vrnheini was endowed. I had nd Irointbe lir-t acquain-mi now attached himself to i' one. he destinies . essary :.» isktsd why, by aom his and mv own '1. .i 1 v\ ould be net :i ihe I lie alluded to in his ques-known to both ol us. wus a frank. In e- .ii llisdaughler, ■ died, was the most ature I evei saw Not only cted in.—for we a'ere IUI ii had evidently I'thi sonilire, pale 110 d Carl Von Arnheim. I tie- though! of my ; . v. r tr..ii!.led him. . uid le in d no rivaL I wan lied him thai night, be erci ■!■ u rmin it i - ntly Ii. turned toward ei - on rum.-. Il was ' his L-i-iri.,'. a lurid II■_■ in id,- nrry di ptha • I move n..r speak. Ids hands w. re Ion in. uid I km w thai t : dial I was under Ins I lost all consciousness, H i ai appeared a ■ \ stem .-. I saw i 'arl still • . myself: but from inner. I was scjiarated. - ipiality of our comprehended ns Hi re I was - . II^ body, ■ tgo of melaphy i illy at -j~.ke not, I - me There was - horrible pur iveyed t.> me. ... ai ... onversing Know ing by his dia ■ ii the love of the ■IV !lll_- lli\' *..ul llis own -..ul 'was to ■•:: tin inhabitant sly 1 , ■ 1 could » . to win the I.adv i « is to lose her I - less; and when 1 I - Ihe transformation irl Ii <i departed. I was lie fire of Ihe German inn t atl \ on Ainheim! The linle inn-keeper .. and handed liim his .- ii II■!. - ii.l that int. Ilerr id he. banding him a I -. lobe i arl Von '.-1., mysell. i |..i:.l - I < uue " ii in Ibe cold, ii ■ r II Ii daw tie.: upon me in it-- awful .- Where was ' no be worse thin ii the love ol Rena 1 attempt II Lai - new per in lit declaring . would elieve ght of my named the streets, ! the morn -- i by. ■ unfathomable ! heard them Ii is In- be. n do- ...;- .ill night." - i mv I- iggnnl .. ;..! ami . -. -i.nl there re tthii II I re I si f, ■ ■ . th . -. I; H hen b. saw me he - : |..-'.. uul 1 then knew i... -—lei the villain look lo himself. He had forfeited all bis power by taking upon him my organisation, ao great had been his love for the beautiful l.a.lv Rena. I.lit e did bethink thai I would act with my inheritance as I intended. My heart best with hope Already I seemed to grasp revenge With that Amber King, and the knowledge of its wonderful pro-perties made known io nw by these old manuscripts, I would bring him down— .low n to the \ery lowest pit of misery. ' »v. r ihe way the mansion of the Huron »«•■ Ibe father ofRena. It waslit up with a thousand brilliant lights. I heard the sound ol music and dancing. As I looked from the window I saw passing by the opposite window, and inside the gorgeous drawing-room, Rena and Carl, arm in arm. I did not stagger that time. I smiled wilh secret exultation, lining to my table I unrolled a manuscript and read. "The odic fluid is genorated by- wear-ing the Amber Ringon the third finger ol ihe left hand, and by ihe odic fluid mailer and mind arc united. When odyle is withdrawn Irom thebody the mind is free, and can be commanded. The follow ing farther directions ending wilh: "Thus the Amber Ring, lo him who knoweth its proper use, is io a certain .-x-tent, all powerful.'1 Days passed. By the aid of ihe ring 1 kepi myself informed of the movements of Carl. He was lo be married in three day-, which would be the day before i iiii-iiiiHs. The ceremony was to lake place ill the evening. My time was short, yet long enough for what I had to do. Day and nighl 1 studied ami worked My experiments were, with a few exceptions, successful. By the day before Ciiristmas I was prepared. I had perlecied myself in my art. I badnomore need of the manuscripts—no more need of the Amber King. I therefore, for reasons of my own, burnt the whole, the manu-scripts first, and then threw the Amber Ring into the biasing fire. A pale light starie.l up; the wh.de room shook and gleamed as if of phosphorescent material. Then all was silent. I went to the win dow again and looked over the way. Could 1 have been mistaken? It teemed to me that I saw, in the uncertain light of the moon, Carl Von Arnheim raising his hands lo heaven, with a liH>k la-tokening the greatest lear. It wa. but a moment, and then he was gone. My vengeance should be a retribution One hour before the time appointed for the marriage I wasat the inn ofwhich I spoke at the beginning of the story. I began the incantation which I knew would bring Carl, whether be wished or not, to my presence. Soon he came. There was ■ wild look in his .-yes. and he seemed over-come with terror. I made him sit where be had sat three weeks before. Then u-iiig the same mesmeric means he had used, reduced him to a state of Insensi-bility. Then I taking from my pocket a i ial containing a virulent i»oison which I km w would take deadly effect in Ihe sp ice of half an hour, swallowed its con-tent.— and commanding the spirit of Carl lo resume its original body, 1 re-entered my own. Then springing up I shouted triumphantly, for my vengeance was coin plcte; the soul of Carl Von Arnheim had gone into its former l.ody\ whence il was s.#oit lo be driven forever by the deadly no --ii I led infused into his system. As I sprang from my seul UlCSUiiuuBd ings, somehow, seemed to be changed. I was -till in the same room of the inn, and there la-lore me sat Carl, fast asleep. The little keeper of the inn was bustling about as usual, and before me seemed lying Ihe veritablel»x I had seen burning a month before. 1 sb.M.k (arl. "Wlnl ,1.. you waul?''said lie. looking up. "What do I want'" said I. half reflec-tively, "I believe I've la-en asleep, and hud a .ifa-er son of dream—ali about magic and mesmerism. This isn't Christ-mas eve, is il?" "Christmas eve!" he echoed. "Why. Christmas won't be here for a month." "IA-I US CO," said I. wreck on the rocks of life from n..t i.. :„L. iron-clad. His intellect and culture had secured for him a comfortable place in the department, and inio this he settled to dream of what he would do some day and never did. • It was observed that this official was very fond of lingering about the desk ol Ihe deformed girl, and the oilier innnies H.Iulter.it. d ill England, and probably f the rs.m \s|»,kc |., each other of his I '"'"y w,llil Pyis;*r "f Paris, bone dost, goodness After a time ii. was observed that the two continued talking and laugh ing after business hoars. Audthen he la-gan ihe practice of helping her from and loth.- building. One afternoon, ,i ihe end of a long, pleasant talk, she was about leaving, when he suddenly seized U|s.n her long, thin, white been blighted by sh death, and in a raihe way. as if the utterance choked him, h. poured into her nan a passionate avowal of love, ending in asking her to Is? his wife. Ii is said by those inhuman brutes in human form, who kill deer by culling the throat of ihe |>oor animal while swim-ming, lhat tin- startled, pitiful, pleading look of the doomed creatun is never for gotten. It was this sort ol l.s.k the -irl gave her wooer. She tried to speak as she withdrew her hand, bin her lip- only trembled, and then she abruptly reached for her crutches and hobbled "from her nsnn That uiglu she w rote a Ion- letter to the man who had so strangely up-md, clay, chalk and other articles. I mi told that large quantities of damaged and udwholesome gram me ground in wilh Hour, particularly with tin- kind called lirnham flour. Certainly linndreda, and probably thousands, of ban els of "terra alba,'' or white earth ■ompic-sa ton of dynamite into:, siii-le ! sTi^o?,""' ,'Z "'"' ?'"• " cvcrv cartridge, supposing such iwckage to' ErE«J kn',ws- co'lve,r'. wa,er ""° be possible, ami then leave V ,e dead v 1 '", ''",,,lr",'" V! ^I* °r'"'i1"."' pa.eel King loose on the table. ' ! ' ".f"' ,'T ut a » '"» £• «"» of a .. ■, , rick.-t hall which will explode the mo-i vanidc ol iHitawium is not. like menl it touches the water and ov.-r-pru- sic acid volatile. It is a white . whelm in flames a hostile fleet In- 'I'"I'L ' t. t i r,s,,,llbll"s.' "our or , dee.l, the chemist r.-dnces the world to i uaik. it is. however, so |H,ISOUOU.S I its original and primal elements mere pinch »l il sprinkled over j lihn. even more than th commencing the per- | The hospital hns la-en Continuouslj iiumauce, my Hindoo friend opposite, | overcrowded, and at theclOM of the oy way ol encouraging his "man." : vear had 481 patieuis. aungadolelulditty in Hindustani, and . ,, , , on concluding, lilted the lid of the baa- ' ""A" °1'1 ''o'"™1 preacher in All.in-ket, and giving a sharp Up to the la' (,a" WM» lei'turing a youth of his snake, seized Ins pipes to soothe the I"1'1 »'"">'the sin of dancing, wheu the cobra's anger should it feel tempted to - lal,l'r Prole>te(1 lliat l1"' l,lul>' plainly retaliate. Up spnuig the broad IIO.MI. ' •»"'• "There's time to dance." "Yes, and lor a moment il swayed loandlro ', r nm al'm« todance," said tlwdaik as if undecided as to who should be r!Sme.; ",a"d "'" wl"'" " '•"> b'"1-" the victim. 1 then let the miiiigoose ' "'"PP'"' for gwine to a ball." denly seized u|-m barrels of "terra alba," or white earth ''"' ;l u",, ' 'V,,-. ,Vi - , VCT '''"II-*'v*n "">"' lhan the ™««neer, liminary note of defiance, as on ob»e, lingers, lhat Im.l are sold in our cities every year to be ^g^?^,SS2K? «it^T*,l',WJ S5?""" '." »»P"*vWe. He can ta«a>| Ing its toe slowly wandering down t aking hand- with mixed with sugars in confectionery i 1"'' , ; " " f'.,t'- tha' a oaiitnent . tfc. bill be cniiuot«i«n it-.-lfr can ! room, it uncoiled ilaelf lull* from t r confused sort ol and other white substances. I am told !P^0!:,!mfeIcept™le to »h«.«ye.wiB> 1 level the city with the basket, and with a hiss'of an. ingoose out of the bag. It dialged about the room torn little while, apparently un-conscious ... ilsenemy's existence. The For j snake wan (he first to sound the pre-observ-he by ail eminent physician that this tends to produce stone, kidney complaints, and various diseases ol" the stomach. A Boston chemist tells ine that be has found seventy-five per cent, of "terra alba" in what was sold as cream of tar-tar, used for conking. A large New York house .sells three grades of cream of tar-tar. A Boston chemist recently ana-lyzed a sample of the i»'-t grade, and found fifty per cent, of terra alba in that. Much id our confeclioiiery.con-tains thirty-three per cent or more of terra alba." The coloring matter of if swallowed, prove ei|unily fatal. and that a mere smell has before now produced immediate death. It *is. it seems, the ambition of Prof. Fischer to discover some means of ran- _ —— r _— ...._ -.. -nviuiwii inii 1'iii'iiu, A ring cyanide oi potassium harmless, forces at his control are bevoml c can do this wilh gunpowder—at-I command; the powers he can "evoke ougfa the analogy is not strictly exact cannot lay. Ii is the old story of c proached her. It was a despairing cry of j confectionery In qnently contains lead, a lo-i soul. Her [snir heart under ihal'.l formed body was as keenly alive lo the one passion that control- humanity ns that of any heart: but she shrank in terrorfrom thai for which she longed and seemed dying lo possess. But she put away his love, and never returned to her desk. Not long after she was descending the Hudson upon a steamer. an»l sal looking dreamily upon ihe beautiful coin seemed to -wing by in the golden ha/., a summer day. when she was approached i.y a tall gentleman, whose heavy black beard made him re-, niblc a benevolent old lox looking over a hedge. Heintro ducc.l himself as Dr. , ol New York, and apologizing for hi- intrusion, wenlon to ask her many questions us t»» her con dilion. He ended by asking her to try his system of treatment. 'The brain i- right; ibe heart, lun-s. andai sell ar und," he said. "These limbs of yours only need proper training and exerefse to make you well.'' ■■! would b* glad,"she responded, "bin I am too poor.* "Never mind lhat." in -aid, "coin.- IO my establishment. All I ask of you is to remain Ihere until you are well, or until I say you are incurable." The doctor is an enthusiast. lie does much of that sort ofthing to a great injury lo his pocket But his theory i- thai if you in ike a leg. or arm. or backbone or any part of your body, do what nature in lend- il shall do, after a while nature will come in and execute its own work. He found employment for his patient mercury,arsenic and powder. Rikiug powders are widely sold which contain a large percentage of "terra alba" and alum. Ii is not water alone that is mixed with milk. Thousands of gallons, and probably hundreds of thousands, arc sold in our cities which have passed thai I through large tins, or vats, in which it sc of ' ',iis been mixed wilh various substances. ■ .'.. eipts for the mixture can be bought bv new milkmen from old, on payment of the ii quired sum upon what I b. authority, thai thousands of gallons of so-called milk have been and probably ar.-, sold in this ,-iiv, which do not con-tain one drop of the geuuine article. Large quantities ol the meats of nui-ina's, more or less diseased, are sold in our markets. Cows in the neighbor-hood .-; our large cities are fed upon . material which produces a large flow of unwholesome m:lk. Poultry is fed I upon mail rial which produces unwhole-some egKS. Meats and fish are made unwholesome, frequently poisonous, by 1 careless and cruel methods of killing. A California chemist recently analyzed many samples of vvbiskv. purchased at di'i. rent places in !San Francisco, lie —the means employed wilh gunpowder being mechanical, while those for which I'roi. Fischer sought wire chemical. We know what In ppens il a light is applied to a keg ol gunpowder. If, howevi r. we mix the powder with four or five limes its bulk ofsawdust, a torch may be applied to it with impunity. Tl.e mechanical resistance of the saw-dust makes it impossible for the ex-plosion to al once spread to the whole mass, and the consequence is that a soil of splutter ensues, like that ol a sqiib or blue-light. Prof. Fischer's idea wustli.it, it cyanide of |iotaasium were thoroughly mixed wilh sal am-moniac, it would be as harmless as gun-powder mixed wilh sawdust, but would siuT remain equally plain, but he cannot build II again. He can create prussic a.-id, but he is ignorant of i;s ant dote, lie is like the fisherman who rashly opened the vessel sealed with the ring of .Suleiman Ben Daoud. The his he y of Cor-nelius and Agrippa—those who trifle with nature's secrets do so at their peril.—/...iidoii (ih.-emr. m —A late decision of the Indiana Su-preme- Court is Mb interesting nudiia-pnriani. It has been ruled that a std>- seripfion ma.lo on Sunday for the benefit ol the Church is not binding, and cannot lie collected by a suit at 'lo | law. This follows the general rule of erect., t,*h. e'"Mat,t.a"crk, H01""i't'srii the invalidity of contract, made upon lh(, i ,„.,!•„ rj2_ antagonist. The mungoose gradually ' nearer, until almost awaited, half SNAKE ADVENTURES IN INDIA. p»t nearer and under Urn snake's hood, when it rushed in and pinned Us leaih in the cobra's flesh. Then commenced the battle; the snake's head seemed to rise and fall like lightning, and each time it had evidently left a mark; but, undauiitisl, the mungoo.-e snapped and bit, getting higher nud nearer the neck each time. Then when the favorite spot was Those who g„ out to India for the fS^S*! ", reTcd ",' T"'1'''.•!""'" '" rst lime. a. a rule, leave ne wilh a ! " Ul "."l. 'm,t'a"d ,l"""l« tl"'"1''" wholesome dread of snakesand the !.'.!' u" hr".tt l't'a*'a l" ;struK-' creeping plagues of the Kast in general. ' ' ,e, I'"' 'r', '" ""', »«""'•'»"' UeB,h: In point of fact, however, lam per-'™."*. if 'ound Us destroyer and Bunded that in the Presidency and {2J? %?i»,t!^5; " 'l *'"" usl'" ..the, large cities, the chance, of being i T'..U'C, ,"lU' h'." '!eV''r TT[ ta bitten areaboutdqiial to those of being ",ou"'' a,tl""'Kh lh" tw» rolled over louinl them adulterated with creosote, salts ol copper, alum, and other in-jurious substances. He states it. in copyist, ami then devoted himself to her j "his published report, as his opinion that tiicie is hardly any pure whisky sold in that city. A gentleman recently pur-if she had been the daughter of a land lord of a fashionable hotel, and that i.- the highest position we can think of. And for seven long years thai poor girl worked day aller day in Ihe Complicated machinery of the doctor's hotel for in-valids. And slowly—oh, -o slowly! yet surely-—she gained on Ihe enemy. ' l-'ir-l onecrutch went, and I hen ihe oilier. The cane followed, and after a long lime the '■ lameness disappeared, and al last she,! Stood up in the image of In r Maker,2 human, handsome, and liable to love. The secret of all success in flctilinus liters- | lure is in thai one word endeavor. To struggle for something thai seem- almost impossible to win, t<i make lhat struggle heroic in its self-denial Mn.l high hope is to seize on and hold Ihe |Hipular heart. Il there is success there is delight; if fail ure. there is grief, as the fictitious charac-ters wire alive and very near lo u-. Ilur little heroine was lighting for her life. Her love had licennic her life. Day after monih alter month, year tli.it run I further South. Ill England that plant she had but on hope, and thai w lor,. worthy his ] ougnt, or lo appear . and in.l lay into year, rather one neioie in-, his horror The long, dreary struggle was drawing to a cli»sc. wh.-n one day she happened lo pick upa Western journal, and suddenly she Ihrew it from her with a wild cry The good doctor and his attendants could not comprehend the cau-e. She had .-aught the name of her lover, and read a brief notice of his marriage. Poor little girl. She fell more wretched in her strength, health and beauty than when a helpless cri. pie she sat ill the r.s Washington listening toihesweel pathetic words of the man wh goltell her. flourishes chiefly in Uloucestershire Worcestershire and Devonshire, where it grows on the apple trees, and is 8.-1- <Unn found on tbe oak. When grow-i ing mi the taller, it -•«« ..M-i-ii.-ii a-, i sacred by the Druids. The traditional practice .-f kissing under it caused its I exclusion from Church decorations; ' while its use in private houses is i-im ■ ri. The practice was of Scandina-i vian origin. Balder, the Apollo of ' the North, was hated by Loki, and. as , everything that sprang from fire, air, ul ! earth and water had been sworn not to •V 111 A REAL ROMANCE. Ri .in. ■ years since—it makes no difference w hen in one of our Washington depart-ments and ii is not Ihe slightest import-ance which—a girl held tin- position of copyist, who was remarkable for her de-i Baron fornilty and her beauty. She revcr-cd the | - n-rs ;ll-u.r lho meridian of Hie in t. and fact of ugliness in the case ofthe daughter a(.v,.r.,| IUCCessive gonerationtf of a ,t Dumas; forwhileiher body was horribly , f mMv T|„. remarkable raitltfulness h formed, her head wus a model ol we INHERIIANCE OF DISEASE. The predisposition t<> certain di-- eases. like gout or insanity, ouen de-veloped after maturity, is transmissi-ble; and also the liability t" die about a certain age. The famous Turgnta for more than a century rarely exceeded fifty years of age; and insanity ollen - - I found oi * w .. before ■ one ihe ind . ! i i'yes .ndi ion: to leave I ■ ■ ill went o it. . In ing to lion. Al le'ngili I : ...in. ad -,-i/ d upon lessuj gestedthem- !' I could obtain • '...::. seemed to iginatjon. I looked • room I a oun corum I eapiwd a iui..., manly beamy. Her features were regular lo a fault. Her complexion vied in delicacy wilh the ocean-tinted interior of - .. II. H.r chin rounded out like the h w oi Cleopatra's barge, just broad and pr inenl enough to give lorce to the • BWI .i face above. Her moulli had enough | sweein. ss and expression for any other woman s full lace, and at the ends of her sensitive lips, when the two bows of Cupid Icruiiuslcd, instead ol running off I in weak lines, ili.-y ended in two little . wells from which one could imagine love Mowed over fresh and abundant, llereyea dark-hazel, large and luminous. They were a hairs breadth over the width of in,e eve apart, and gave, in this, to the | face that frank, honest winning look that - such widlli ever indicates, liver all this a is woman s crowning glory, a great mass of nut-brown hair, through which there seemed to play the caught and tangled sunlight of sixteen years. Passing from thii to the body was like passing , from tha exquisitely chiseled head of a of reproduction in the inajori'y of cases is a fact somewhat parallel to the growth andmaintenance ofan organism, wbere-in, witb the constant succession ofo ils. each of oriel exist, i substantial identity is kept up. There do not seem to lie very marked differences in babes; vet from ihe same fond one will become a man of muscle and energy, another of nerve and brain, and a third a port. ly man of ease-loving habits. All ib>' original peculiarities of each tiny hu-man nucleu~ pick out from a common nourishment elements like themselves, reject ing the rest. —Do you know how a person who mak.-s bonnets and such articles of dress came to be culled by the name of , "milliner'." It was originally " Mi-laner." meaning a resident ol Milan. Duly, and it arose from the fact that at one time the fashions all cams from Italy. j hurt the Celestial favorite, the wicked had for I spirit made an arrow of mistletoe,which | sprang, no' from earth, but from a tree, j winch he gave to tbe blind HoiIer to i test. The arrow, sjsd from Ihe ls>w I ot the "g...l of darkness,"'killed Balder. , Hut on being restored to life, at the ■ urgent solicitations of the other ilivini-tics. the mi t'etoc was given to the god-dess of love to ke.-p: and everv one who passed beneath it was kissed, io show that henceforth the bough was tbe em-i hlim. no) of dealh. hut oi love. The plant was cail.d by the Druidspren I aw-yr, or "heavenly plant," believing that it descended from above, and would not grow out of the earth. It I has been called the "Spectre's Wand." ij: cons, quenceof a beliefthat a branch | held in I ne hand, together wilh certain ; incantations, would compelthe appear-ance and tbe answer of a spirit. The , mistletoe used t» be cut by the chief priest with a golden hook, and received on a spotless cloth, at the lime of the Druidical sacrifices; and the branches, being dipped in water, were distributed :i- charms against witchcraft among tin- people. The appearance of the pretty white wax-like berries, and the | olive green leaves growing from the stem in pair-, net ds no description. ...mi available for all onion, on pavineii .,, ^(. lilirpil>,s „,- photography lor ' garden ; but then tiiey'are I'alalisis.and m. I .iui assurer!, which it is at present absoluteb indis- wander eve to be reliable pl.ns.,ble. ' |„ ,.u„« lu the course of his researches Mr. Fischer made a mixture, of which in hi- own mind he felt assured that it would meet Till: , (iMilTliiSs Ol" 111- rliOIlLEM. II,- compounded the cyanide with some oilier substance, ami then, turn-ing to his laboratory assistant, said: ••Science has now so far advanced as to be even able to render harmless to dangerous an agent as cyanide of po-tassium." With these words he tested the mix-ture, and was almost in an instant seised with ihe luosi violent and ex-cruciating agonies, lie at once im-plored in- assistant to send for medical aid. Cyanogen, however, whether as prussic acid or cyanide of potassium, kills almost instantaneously. lu a few seconds Prof. Fischer was beyond help. We. ill'* told that there is no possible reason to suppose that a deliberate sui-cide had been planned and carried out under the mask of experiment. On the contrary, there is every reason lo be-lieve that the Professor has met Ihe fate which befel only too many of the early chemists and their pn decessors, th.- alchemists. We know what will happen to any exp. rinieutalist if he dips blotting-paper in nitric acid, washes it, dries it. and then iuc.iutioulv treads upon it. What happened to the old man who is believed—for his record perished with him -to have first discovered fulminate ofsilver, isamattei of scientific record. That he was engaged in researches upon the fulminates of the higher metals, was w.ll known. How it preciselycame about that he disappeared as he did will remain a mailer of conjecture.— I'll ic came one day a puff, a slight shock, anil a smart noise as ii someone inflated a paper bug and then burst ii between hi- hands. Ol the Professor himself, of his laboratory, of his appar-atus, and of much less within a radius of some yarns, „..> n ..-.-iu.- or trace was left. So ii used to be with the alchemists —the heritors of the bidden wisdom of Bohme.and Roger Bacon, and Albertus Magnus. They w.-re always flowing themselves up or asphixUting them-selves with some noxious vapor. For a man who knows nothing, or next-to eh.i- d From ;i prominent Boston firm a cask of pure sin rry wine for his sick wife. His wife grew worse. He had the wine analyzed, and found there was not a drop ot the juice of the grape in it. An eminent medical gentleman ,.t Bo-ton -aid I.> me: "The adultera-tions of drugs in Ibis country are per-fectly abominable.'' I -ay that laws should in- enacted and enforced prohib-iting the manufacture and sale of these poisonous articles under severe penalties, and compelling the manufac-turers and sellers of adulterated articles to 1.11 buyers the precise character of the adulterations. THE MISTLETOE. In this'enuntry the growth of mistle-toe :- limited mostly to Virginia and knocked on the head when chimney-pots are flyingabout on a windy day at lion..-. The natives undoubtedly run , gr.-.il li-ks. and occasionally drop down dead in their employer's compound th.n they are fatalisls.anc" unconcernedly about jft night, in places where cobras inhabit. Europeans never, it they can help it, i walk in the dark. A boy carries alan- . tern in trout, and the sahib follows in security. In II unbay. when the hooded snake is to Is- frequently found. I m-ver remember, during a residence of lour years, one instance in which an I Bnglishmao had U-en bitten. There may be one in your garden, coiled luxuriously round a small stem, and ili.-malee could easily kill it. Hut tor ali he knows the soul of a man. and a dear but wi.k.d relative, may have, in the order of Providence, passed into thai venomous bead in lieu of purga-lory ; so instead of cutting the reptile in two with his hook, he bolls tohis master breathless with the interesting intelii- . gence. Uul files the sahib with a stick, and rushing to the spot indicated by the in,nee, is about to administer a stun-ning thwack to tlic garden plague. ; when the thing seems to wink, and, almost as quick as lightning, uncoils and darts away inthe direction of some shelter. Ifthen are no holes, you may have ball au hour's line exciting Sport running it down. So long as there is room lo dan about, the snake will not lurti upon ils pursuer; but a remark-ably sharp eve must Is- kept on the dashing white and vellow wriggling body. I remember killing a formidable male cobra in Khan.lalhi. one of tbe cooling stations on the Rhore Ghaut for baked Bombayitea, A friend and mysell were enjoying a cheroot on the verandah, when Raina.iee. the butler. : ran in crying. "Sahib, sahib, samphai!" I and on taking up my riding crop and running to ihe sccnt-of action, we saw, sure enough, a seven-foot cobra wrig- ( gliitkf about the half-grown grass about ; ihirty yards from the bungalow. Where - il came from, goodness knows, but in several direct i.ms vvcre-nakc-cliarin.rs, , some playing their pipes.others dancing ' and shouting to keen the ."bra from I gliding now-lithe side ..f the ravine .lose by, as. il laken alive, it would Is-a great catch for the purpose of exhibi-tion. Uul no amount of piping, sweet as mat have been the souud.m ihe rep-tile organ, had any effect. It grew en-raged at last, wh.-n escapeseemed to be ' cut oil. and, darting here and there, would have made short work of its tor-mentors, bul. that at ev.-ry darl its at-one aiioth. r. the snake twisting in a hundred shapes, and straining every nerve to loosen the grip of the mun-gooee. The fight lasted a long linn, but at last the snake expired, and the victor was pulled from the body. The little beast then ran all about the room, as if looking about for means of exit, but there were of course none. It looked as if it li.nl lieen severely bitten, and was evidently much tired; but there were no signs. >f the poison Uking effect, as far as I could judge. I waited for a considerable time; but it seemed rat her to regain strength than anything else. Iieing called for a moment out of the room, one of the native servants curious to know what was going on in-side, opened the bed-room door and looked in. At that moment theiuiingooee slipped out between l'ie native's legs and ran into the compound. I just reached it in lime to see it nibbling here and there some green {.hints that were growing wild, bo that the one object of the light was frustrated alter all; and we were left as much in the dark as ever as to ihe reaaon why a snake cannot kill a mungoose. Besidea the cobra there is the rock-snake, a great lazy, harmless reptile, which you may handle with perfect safety, and open its mouth with a piece of stick. Then there are the whip and carpet snakes, venomous little vipers, very difficult to catch, and juntas diffi-cult to kill. The rat-snake is a nasly-looking black tiiinu'. four to five feet long, which occasionally comes to grief through venturing loo near Ihe veran-dah, on the look-.ut for vermin. A black bottle nicely thrown seals its fate. There are other descriptions, but unless you bunt after snakes you rarely see any. AUSTRALIA'S RAPID DEVELOPMENT. Ninety years have elapsed since the Australian colony waa occupied by England. On the 26th of February, 178n, Captain Phillips landed there in ih'* capacity of Governor, and took possession of that continent—-then wild and wholly uncultivated. He had with line a certain number ol convicts, and at once set it:- ut the installation of a penal settlement. The world was very-far then from foreseeing that this terri-tory, which is nearly ei|ual to Europe in superficies, would in less lhan a cen-tury contain a population of 2,800,000 whites, and that its annual commerce would amount to i>U>,000,000—a sum nearly equal to that oi tireat Britain at the commencement of the last ceu-nothing, of chemistry, it is a very dan- t,jntioo was distracted by a shrnk fr.i —A Whitehall justice sentencetl a man who had stole a cent to t he penny-lentiary.— Times. And the justice says if that man don't reform old N'ick.l get after him.—AVri*t"irn Beraid. genius game indeed to mix tog. iher a couple ol substances ol which lie knows nothing, and then bray them in a mor-tar. Common sulphur is harmless stud enough, so is charcoal, so is nitre: but let an ignorant man mix tbe three and apply a light to them, and the result will much astonish htm. When of old an alchemist was re. dui-d to fragments in this fashion our in. estors bad an easj explanation. He wa- a magician, they used to say. and the Devil bad come suddenly and had carried him off. There was a nine, be-tween the days ol l!..i.'.-r Bic.n and those of Davy. Black and Uftvendish, when the foul fiend wa- thus always ■tarrying off alchemist a. We know- n-.t how it happened. If a m in goes into acneiiiic.il laboratory and lakes np a big beaker and |»iurs into it the con-t. is of the first two bottles that are ready at his hand, the prol ibilil eel tat ; be will lie reduced to atom- untbespol are sufficiently serious to ca I for his careful consideration. Apart from the sad facl that a young mail with a bright and brilliant future ' betore him should be thus suddenly cut oil. the death of Prof. Ii-. In t ha-aii .tli. r moral. Chemistry—whatever Mr. Lowe may have to say in praise ol civil engineering—is the science of the world and of the lutur-. The bridge which takes the engineer vear- upon years to construct, the chemist can ill so many sixtieths of a second reduce I to atom's. behind. Itwasthue savagelyemployed when I rushed up. I wa- implored not 10 kill il. It was, the blacks said, worth lifl.cn rupees. But being de-termined to have a trophy of some sort to take back wilh me, I told the people to beat the snake on to plain level ground, where 1 could watch its uiove-tury. The colonists, taken as a whole. possess a revenue of £16,000,000; and tomb a sepulchral von the fields which, al the. lime of oeCBHa-tion, were only |M-opled by kangarooa, now feed 7.IMI.0U0 head ol cattle and 63,000,000 "beep. The first great im-pulse given to the prosperity of the colony was the discovery of gold; but during the la.-t .piarter-of-a-century many other and more lasting sources ol wealth have been discovered in its —Venus Anadyomene is still w,.r-shi| ied, says Professor Isaac II. Hall, by the inhabitants of Cyprus. On dune 11, the young girl most noted for Is-aiity Is captured by real or apparent force, and carried out to sea in a boat, bil-lowed by a squadron, decked with i il- Isins nml streamers. At a proper dis-tance from the shore she is thrown into the sea. As she rises, she is taken out of tlie water with every itomonstratloii of joy and carried lo laud in the hand-somest of the boats, the other- follow-ing in procession. S"1' '" ih.n crowned queen for the day, honored with hom-age, and almost worshiped asa goddess. The night following is made hideous with revelry and noise. The inhabit-ants say that this custom has existed "from the lime of Venus," whom they believe to be a real historical person-age. —Ida Lewis, the Grace Darling of America, lias just been appointed keeper of the lighthouse sit uaie.l on the Lime Rocks in New Haven harUir. al a salary of cT-'si |«-r year. Her mother baa U-en the custodian Ol the light since the death of Ida'S fatlli-l. a few years ago. The latter, by reaaon of borage, was induced to resign, through the influence of United States >. nator Burnable, who had Ida appointed in recognition of her services in -av ing so many lives. Secretary Sherman, in his leiler conveying the appointment, says: "This ap|K>iutment is conferred upon you as a mark of my appreciation for your noble ami heroic efforts in saving human life." The keeperahip of the light, therefore, is retained In Ihe family. The salary has beeu increased $250 for Ida's lien.-iit. Her mother will remain wilh her. —Of the Prince of Wales and I>r I.yon I'layfair. it is told thai they were once standing near a caldron contain-ing lead, which was boiling at while heat. "Has your Royal Highness any faith in science'," said the Doctor. "Certainly," replied the Prince. "Will you. then, place your hand In the boiling metal and ladle out a por-tion ot it?" "Do you tell me to do this?'' asked the Prince. "I do." replied the Doctor. The Prince then ladled out some of the boiling lead wilh his hand, without sustaining auy injury. It is a well-known scientific fact that the human hand may be placed uninjured in lead Is.iliug at while heat, being protected from any harm by the moist ure of the akin. Should the lead lie at a percepti-bly lower temperature, the effect need not be described. Alter this, let no one underrate Ihe courage of the Prince of Wales. —An ingenius Western inventor has hit on a device which be thinks will make grave-robbing such a thing of terror that only those of the strongest nerves Could slli-iu—lnlK- complete 14 job where the device bad been applied. His contrivance is a comb,nation of Kdison's phonograph wilh a piece of machinery which goes off like an alarm clock. T*be phonograph is attach) d to the machine inside the coffin. When the body-snatcher pulls up the lid a spring is released, the clock moves rapidly and the. phonograph begins 10 revolve, while from the depths of the exclaims in r.-aded accents, "Get out of here!" A moment later a second phonograph is set in motion a little distance aw... which remarks, in the grutf tone- o policeman, "Drop it"" li> this linn the human ghoul is expected to Is- quaking with terror and making off as cxpe-ditiously as possible. mei.ts. When th'-y did so. and the thing cam. rushing at me raised high I agricultural and mining productions, from tin-ground, wilh its broad hood extended to its utmost, and its villain-ous eyes glistening with rage, and the q ...ring, lance-like fangs but a yard Irom mv body, I almost shrauk from tlie cobte.-t; bul it was too late. My KEEP IT TO YOURSELF. You have trouble—your feelings are njured. your husband is unkind, your wile frets, your home is not pleasant. 11 m. ju-t as the fatal thrust was about vour ni,-uds do not Heat you fairly, and to INI made, swung round, and tin- iron beadol tbe crop catching the cobra lie-low the hood, it was sent stunned tome distance from my feet. Another blow finished it. and the skinner waa sent for. It has long been R matter of dispute as to whether the mungouee, after being bitten by a cobra, has in its own 1 1 or body an element which neutralizes the effect ol snake-poison, or whether it seeks, after tbe contest, an antidote in the long jungle grass. Experiments have been tried over and over again, but I believe the advocates of the one conjecture are a- positive as the other. Therefore one day, two years ago.with a view to settle (lie matter, we engaged a stiak.- charmer lo bring to our bunga-low a cobra wilh its poison intact and a full-grown mungoose on the day lul-things 111 general move unpleasantly. Well, what of it? K<-ep it to youiaeif. A smouldering tire can lie found and extinguished; but when the coals an-scattered, who can pick them up? Bury your sorrow. The place for sad and disgusting things is under the ground. A cut linger is nol benefited bv pulling off Ihe plaster and ex|s,sing it uuder somebody'! eyes; lie il up and let il alone. It will get well itself sooner than you can cure it. Charity covereth a multitude of sins. Things —The London Court Journal tells of aman who has lived thirty y. ar. on seeds, vegetables and fruits, to the total exclusion of alcohol, fleeb and fish, and says that he deserves t-. I«- beard on the subject of vegetariand et. Mr. Ward, tin- gentleman In question, re|sirts himself sound in w ind and limb. He Is a fellow of the Horticultural So-ciety and President ol tbe Veretanaa Association. Probably none could ad-vance a better claim to the latter dis-tinction. He brings his long experience to bear for the purpose of recommend-ing lentils. A pennyworth ol lentils. be says, contains as much nutriment as three shillings' worth ..I lean be f. A |H'ck| of lentils w-ould. In- add-, last a small family the whole winter. Of course, this is riding a hobbyhorse to death, but it is quite worth while to learn a lesson from this horticultural thus covered are often cured withoul a gentleman'along experience, especiall) scar; but. once pub ,shed and confided • at a moment when the subject of cheap to meddling Iriends, there is no end to ] food is so important. A vegetarian the trouble they may cause. Keep it to : dinner, pr<>|ierly cooked and served, is yourself. Troubles are transient, and, ! exceedingly pleasant and satisfying; when a sorrow is healed and past, what a comfort il ia to say, "No one ever knew it until it was ail over." but whether one could aubsist entirely on that regimen is another and a vary much larger question.
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Title | The Greensboro patriot [March 5, 1879] |
Date | 1879-03-05 |
Editor(s) | Duffy, P.F. |
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THE PATRIOT.
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