The Greensboro patriot [November 27, 1878]

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THE PATBIOT.
PUBLISHED *»KIV AT
GREENSBORO, N. C.
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The Greensboro Patriot.
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THE STORY OF THE TILES.
■
accosted ii young limn, who halted.
-i-arili.il bis pockets, and thin threw her
a coin. At thin instant a gen d'armc
percclied tin* girl
"•Come," he said, I trial you for
begging Von follow me lo the lockup.'
■ A i these words a crv of despair was
wrung from the tip- of the unfortunate
woman Quickly the young man inter
posed.
•''Thisyoung eirl la an scquaintance
• if linn*'. I know hi r. 'In re is mi begging
in the question. Come,1 he continued.
- g the trembling girl, -it i- lime
you wi-i'- al home. I>u not tear, it was
only a mistake on the |>ari of this g.-«d
_ . i HI ni the public peace.'
"Leaning on the arm nt llic alranger
Ihe gill aelked on.
Ii nut fear, Mademoiselle,' whis
I ri-il the vntin:.' man. pbtring a purse in
Ihe In hh
nut
'I will a
.1 -i-lil
exclaimed
-
.
1 a Ii it'll lay
< omiainv vmi until %
i erneriis.
\\ hv . I r. nicuibcr f li«- gir
Id- la'Tom
•• Vmi also know the man-"
I do. It was uu other Hum myself '
-True. As we passed beneath • of
ill*- street lamps I saw your lace, anil it-
■ .< :\ feature lamune impressed u|sitt my
■ in.ml Vou ii-nl saved 1113 lili-, HIHI per
Lap. even my very Imnni. ami I lia.l n-a
"■ii t«. remember you,
"To remember IIH-'-''
"Indeed, yea Vou little thought that
tin-wiitu.in to w hnin you gave alma and
protection would become Lady Melville.
mill waa your future wife.'1
"Thia <l,s-- indeed serin like a dream,"
>.ni| !>»• la Tour
"I'I you; Inn i<» me it i- reality.'*
•'Ami urn si. heaiitifnl, sn iruiv lovely,
liengisl in tli<- o|a-n street!
"I 'in', anil once only."
"I iliil mil sec your face.'
"No; for it was lowered by a veil. • in
tin- following day—one, in tart, that I re
gard a- one of the happiest in m) life an
•ild lad} in whom I had fortunately in
spired conlidence ami Mane interest, en
gaged me a» her seamstress My gsyety
returned. Prom tin- service I have
named I wa» raised to the position ofcom
p.iinoii and confidential friend, line day
I w i- presented i,, ;,n ae,pi.i:utam e of mv
l"i as. Lord Melville, lie was a man
,.t alH.ut sixty, tall. thin, hul of dignified
Imiring.
• 'Mi,Itiu.>iselle. he sai.l, addressing
me, I know your history Will yon
ni.irn me-'
I questioned, much
learn to kill several, sucking the blood
until he is full, rating no flesh the Brat
night. An> liny that will ehaae sheep
when out alone, will But r or later
kill them. A green dog will sometimes
kill a sln-ep in the daytime, but this
seldom happens. N'eurl} all the sheep
killing !>> dogs is done in the night;
they are very cunning almut it, often
going long distances from home when
there are plenty of sheep close by. As
a preventive measure, IH'MS are g*M*l;
not .small ones. I.ui ihree giMal-sizcd
IM'IIH tor each hundred sheep. If, in
spite of i his precaution, a sheep is
killed, say nothing, skin it and let
the carcass lie hi the same place. The
litst night after killing the dogs will
not come, lint the second night they
will !»• on hand, i HI four or live gashes
in the sinillhlei ol Ihe dead sheep, put
a small amount of lirst-< lass stryehn ine
in the gashes, and Ihe next morning
you Will la-sure t.. have dead i|oas.-
Mr. II. has sometimes killed fonrdogs
in one night. He adds that "it is well
to keep the month shut."' and con-cludes
with mention of a curious in-cident:
•One morning I found a-mall
Yearling killed, with a small round hole
eaten out of his lore shoulder. It pu/-
/.li-d inc. I knew it was not a common
dog. I told my neighlatrs to shut up
their dogs. The second night after
killing, I put in the strychnine, ami
the next morning I had the largcit red
fox I ever saw."'
" l)en de missus will bev to. Bah.1'
" Mv wife swear '."
" \\ ell. den. ait de hired man. kase
dia bird he/ cot to lie awored at. au'
doan1 you ftbrgit it.'*
•• Well. then. I doiiH want him al
all, and you may take him away. Xo
uatbl shall ever Is; uttered
pit inises. pets or no pets."
• D.ed, sab. Ize a heap obleegeil, I
Slow, den, you mis'oie ole skin-
AN INEVITABLE CONCLUSION
Harvests from the Philadelphia Cen-tennial
time it
but American rate of in
patents that is among the quotation
"0 trom a foreign board. The Patent Con-gress
{PnprieU rnrrmrU i which met
in Paris in eailv September last, was,
some respeets. a continuation of
WHAT THE GREAT PLA6UE DID.
The dreadful prevalence of the vello
were held in tt tree-sheltered grotto.
., v "-eipuia x-eu- 1 ue cireiulful vellow He himself wius one of the survivors;
are still coming in. and this "ever as an epidemic in portioua of the : 1M" wl'en Hie destn.ver at last pass.sl
is not an American invention ' '*"'['' "*•" l":,kH "ie following sketch ! •*»>. the little village was, a* he de-nt
ors and of u|'.'"■ "r"»'-:'! plague and its ravages . bribed it, a Golgotha- a place of
e quotations ', "lle,'"sl l" Unt reader: Its must Willis. The names of all should be
bhuoued in letters of gold, and honored
wherever devotion and self-restraint
are reverenced among men.
The third and la-st appearani f this
When
Ihe
|'ir/>//>5.
Inglilfiil attaek was rriiturics ago
when, under the name of the Black
Death, it wiped away, according to
Mine istiinates, one-third of the popu-i
.
THE TALISMAN.
i a bride <.| rare
itliin a i loii ol
A dainty
h U l.lll ■!-! l.-ll the
u Knali ,i, |a Tour, Ihe
entenai
four raran
ot a iM-auiifnl
in thrown uroiiud
have an
■I wish i
.Itli is delicat
an i redii all
I,
i
Ii s,
til ll all llli
II i.-il are
. el -Ii I
1'r.iin your
kill Mu, -
•I I'.- la Tour.
" 'Marry yi
prised
'Ye-. I
whirl, Id
heril. M\ Ii.
lonely. If I ,
i..Id. vmi are p.
i me Lidy M
"I loved you.
■ »f mv •xi-i.-nii-
I hail seen ytai
forget, ami then
heart and soul thai lolil
niei'l agaiu, that our live
'In- -eit same current; ho
-nt
nei
mnien-e estate.
to in
, and my life
I have lie,-II
■al and pure. Will you
•Iville?
Frederic, who knew not
I I..veil you, although
hul once. " I could not
«a- something in my
llle we should
would run in
:, I know II t,
! :,
," I' his
-k.-.l
II I lia.ked at
his resolute e\
II, . there is iiHilu
oiitinued Mad.i
- in- as ii I
halipin.-—
Hot indeed
ran ie il re
iliar fa. e.
' tr uiv
. ' not pro|. • t.
M..,
widow ot Lord
111} I am l...iii-r de Ii
^ ..II ... strange a- it
l bad _-.HI.| reason i"
' ! n imildling
l lew I Ii- pa-1 :
J. ..I inestimable ; lia.1 ... ..me rich and :
f"nde«l hoiiea This
« liile reluming from
ii in. Hue Si Honor.-
i win. wa>
v' I • -1..- i ailed.
■■■ ." Ihe --.-p. in.I
lo i i,'. i the car
la . ..mi nieaaiirc. h<-
I
II
i I nU in a
triving i
I '
.
" M II
charming
in-. Madame?" r.-
iton ' - irprise
t writi in in. '
v mie. to i,iv knowledge.'
'•M-'i-r me." en
vi nude an alisurd
* -. is that you
ft lie that
i
. : at liearei
what ii
.- t. -
ell
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liei expla
' >• II into
-■
.mi,>u
x' ' - riir.
I- ■ Iv Mel
>utx of
>' •!
ii invimt m
and yet I lelt sure. Wh
l...r.i Melville, and aaw
invasion of i'.... I t'....r...i i... B .,.,
wi-h.-.l lo marry me in older lo rurry
• •in hi- revengi'.
"Hi- p. i-ii.i-ii.iis were redouble*!. I
knew thai his yenra were many, and thai
III} fortune would he L'reat. I thought ,.l
you and how I could benefit vou did 1
hut iHi—r-s wealth, and at list 1 yielded
consent and became Lady Melville."'
■II iw strange ii all seems, ' replied He
la lour.
"Ves, d.-ar love, a-yon have -aid, likr
some faiiy laic 1. a |ioor, Iri. n.lh-ss
orphan. IsTnme tin- wife of one of Kng
land's ii< Ii. -i peer*
"Happy Lord Melville'' exclaimed
l-'irdrrir. "he had the |»owrr to enrich
you.
"Ilr was happy." continued Madame
de la Tour -and never regretted his
» lioice Ilr knew that I bail seen you la-ton-.,
iir marriage."
You told him? '
' Y-s. all. It was not until after our
marriage, Krederic that I again saw you,
and although we -.mi learned to rrad
eai h other's hearts, our lip- were silmt.
I---r.I Melville was wealthy beyond mv
wildest expectations. Ilr could not
-p, ml In- income, and with thai wisdom
IN-eiiiiar lo linn be realized thai while the
>litl", r> ms between our agea rendered love
iiupos-ihir, gratitude would attach me to
linn Three months after our marriage
l...:-i Melville died, leaving me all he
I al, and I resolved never t irry
agaiu, unless 1 couldes|amse theonc man
who always held my heart."
"Andyou w.,n Ihe love of that man?''
"Without his knowing me to la
ii woman his kindness had
!», led " rejoined Louisa t\v la Tour.
i. nding In r band.
"You rrui, inlier.'" continued
-l«ak.r, "thai I refused the! pur-e "
•■^',--. you arrrplrd hut olicroiu."
"iinlyoiir, and at that time I wa- al
most starving."
"Hut it pronir. <l you ftaMl. "
"No. ' replied Mndainedc la Tour, un
clasping a rub} n. rklarr that
her white throat. To this neck
in exquisite medallion.
"See, .bar Frederic, I did not imrt with
my treasure " As she spoke she touched
a spring and dischated a coin.
"It i- tin- one I nave you!'
De la Tour.
"Yes
"An.I y.ii retained it?"
"I would sooner have part
life. I showed ii to a baker,
tin
pro
tin
encircled
SCe hull:;
exclaimed
. In
d with my
and asked
in,I Hi.- I'..]
f.-Kl
I,.
„l re
i T',.nr
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in. " . ,.„•
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-, - •'» -.' I. Ie you r.
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I tell III. -..; ,.
mi-ami; •- -:. "
Km |ain
: ..Ml --I
1 - - ' I.-' A' lln
I,- • I'aria l>\
i' si I.vn- lie
inonei p..i four
i. . i.-i a.her
lo la.
■ ll m ,ii boa
Iber I llowed.
>v .- . -i alom II id
Mori I i, .-,
ap|K-arrd, Inn
i was in Paris
ml-, with
iKbi work, hut
AI
I.:!■• t" lru-1 in,- He did
lowinsda} I w i- aide to pay for th
!"- kimli permitted me ideal "
"X i-. my d.-ar, 1 knew- vou, but you
did not reeosni/c me "
"Surrli there has been a fairy in my
life, "replied he.
"\\ by do you say a,,?"
I'.rrau-e. when y.III saw inr tirst. I wa-
■ nly :. |»ior. struggling |«inter, but from
' me of our meeting the tide changed,
an! pniNperity visited me."
"Would you know tho nauir ol tin-
' i
I i> is you l.oiii-r." exclaimed Fred
rrir. ioyfull} "You hoiifhl mv pie
'.urr'- •
"Man) of thrin. ami haie won your
love
Ye-, my heart, my verv soul."
Frederic de la Tout look' ihe gold piece
and pressed it lo hi- lip-. To that same
Lit of gold he owed happiness and for
turn-
While 1 am the fairy.
L..ili-r. "il i- _\ou. dear lov
im- tin- precious talisman."
eonllnui
who ga'
SHEEP-KILLING DOGS.
Mi. I). I . Kiel id,ol Ohio,
:n an article at lartre without c
th.- results ,.f observation and
ene* ol sheep-killing dogs, from
relates
redit—
rxi»ri-
Hhi.'ll
MALARIVL DISEASE.
Thr death ot Henry Armitt
Itrown from typhoid fever has called
the attention ol I'hil.ul, Iplmuis lo the
a'orking of tin- sewerage system of
ib.it city. It appeals that mouths ago
Dr. liross mid other eiiiineul physi-cians,
reported the whole system as
defective, dcclamig that owing to the
al.srurc of traps the esca|«i ol si w, r
gas into the houses was incessant. It
was proposed, we la-lieve, as a lirs; step
toward reform, to send a committee lo
investigate the drainage of t-uco|ieaii
cities, hut thri'ity Fathers, Hnspecting
an iiiteiuled holiday at their exiiense,
withheld the supplies. Now that a
| popular citizen has fallen a victim Io
the disease, the) are bestirring Iliem-selx'es
again to look into the cause.
I'hiladilpliiatis. however, like all other
• Americans, will probably he more en-ergetic
in tin- work of cure than of
prevention.
In the early fall season, when
malaria of every kind gains gr id
i most rapidly. The decoui|>ositioii ol
; vegetable matter ifl the tall begets iu-
. lerniitteiit fevers, ami thr golden misis
of SrptrlnUl, Ittloved ot poels and
paiiitrrs, are iu fart hut beavj fogs
from the lowlands, which compress the
attnosphrie and make it a more solid
■ vehicle lo transmit contagion. Ty-phoid,
as all our readers ought Hi know,
is Conveyed by animal |a>ison. A
siuglecaae, unless the rlnseis. drains,
etc., are thoroughl) disinfected, i-
; enough to |Hiison a whole neighbor-hood.
This lever has prevail*'*! as an
I epidemic thia su.inner in the cily of
llristol, in Kogland. Search was made
i..i the cause, mid it has beeu dis-
[ covered tluil a lad) ol Clifton, while
convalescent of typhoid, was ordered
lo the country; she found hoard with
a dairy farmer near Bristol; the well
: from which water was takm to clean
tin* milk vessels (anil, |ierliaps, to wa-i
ter the luilk.i was hut a feu feet from
the eloset drain. Typhoid appeared in
I nearly every family lo which the milk
was served. We instance this case lo
show how Subtle are the means of con- !
tagioii, yet how easy the prevention. ;
Americans are just ts»giniiiiig t i grasp
tlie matter of disease in a practical
. way. In EugUTlld, whrii a rase of
virulent fever occur*, the faiuily.no
tnattrr how high their social |Nisitioll,
are obliged to siihinit their premises to
a thorough official process of disinfec-tion;
the patient is isolated, and the ,
diseaseclieekeiL In Scotland, when a
caseof typhoid fever is re|Mirte*l, the
house in whirh it lias occurred is
closed peremptorily, and the owner is
not permitted t 'cupy or renl it un-til
the cause of the disease has been
disrovi-n-d and thr disinfection isolli- .
ciully pronounced complete. Hul who
would dare order ,i freeborn Ainerican
out of bis house, even to prevehl the
poisoning*d a wh*decoiumunity.
In default of an) official means of
pi"\rntioii. we recommend out reailers
laiore returning from the country to
look well to the drainage ol their
bouses in town. Spend enough money
on train, wsistc-pipes, etc, if your '
iloors go bare and you dine mi |mtat*s -
ami milk for the rest of the year. And
it acaseof typhoid or other fever oc-curs,
have no scruples of false prill
feeling aland submitting the patient to
a proper isolation and disinfection for
the good of others. There was divine !
as well as human wisdom in the Jewish
law whirh put the unclean parson |
without the camp. It is misfortune
enough to la- ill, without becoming an
instrument of death to others.— .v. r.
Tribune.
A PARROT STORY.
A few days ago a ritizrii. who bad
hew* on the lookout for a parrot for
some time, was tiding by .1 house on
Prospect street, when the very bird he
wanted was suddenly discovered. Hav-ing
convinced himself that Poll was a
good talker, he si«m strurk a bargain,
and bore her away from ihe colored '
woman, who needed cash more than
la-is. Ten days paaaed, and yet Poll
ill I not utter a note, though she bad
every ran-and seemed healthy enough.
Tin- former owner was sent lor to solve
the mystery, and there waa a huge >_'rin
on her countenance as she obeved the
summons.
" Nutlin' ails dal bird nutlin' Call
"cent dai you dam' understand him."
she explained as she looked into the
cage.
Placing Ihe cage onachair on the
verandah, she gave it a shake, drew a
long breath, and began :
" Now. den. yon infernal, mis'ble
lyiu'. chcatin' - ' wake up an' gin
us .! an' let dis gemMen sep dal
vou am all ri^'ht. an"——! doan' be
siilkm" "rouu no mo"! Wake updar!
you blackguard ! Hoop up dal
voice, ye villun '."
The parroi immediately woke up and
Is-^an chattering and siuginc, and iu a
Ibis world is getting so wicked
thai a good man i- acarcely safe in
buying a stone dog.''—Free Pre**.
BOOKS FOR REJREATION.
"Light reading," meaning by that
such reading as d.a-s not put the
reader's mind u|aui a strain of ttudy
or close attention—such reading, well
selected, is a great relief amid tlis ear-nest
pursuits ol life. It is eom.ucive
t>. rest ot the body, as well as reia>se to
I lie mind, and removes the tmtioii
whirh, constantly kept up, renders life
wearisome, and which not aelilori im-pairs
health and shortens the day*. It
is said to la- man's mil lire to seek
pleasurable rvrilrnirllt, bill the truth
seems to la- that what is needed is
rather novelt) of ilivcrsiou and variety
of mental exercise than excitement of
the senses pure and simple. Kvcn in
athletic s|s>rtsand trials Hie charm is
in the head more than iu the hands and
leet. A man who needs exercise Jnay
I expand his chest and develop bis hius-cles
by swinging Indian clubs or dimh-la.'
ils. Thr process, however, is a
weary-one. There is no coiupetltioM
and no immediate end to la- attained;
and, in most ra-es, after a vigorous be-ginning,
ihe implements tor such exer-cise
are hit to gather dust. Base ball.
cricket, rowing or walking mutches,
and other athletic trials have Hie in-citements
of rivalry andof tin- gauge ol
victory. Probably tlie spectators who
.in- deeply interested in thr success of
their favorites are nearly as much
l»i.i titled as the contestants them-selves,
and it may la- more, lor they
. have the menial exercise which must
forni a part of all human efforts. Even
the horses iii a raee exhibit a sort of
mental perception of Ihe situation, and
give evidence ot spirit and ambit ion.
The temptation to drink alcoholic
preparations, which overmasters man)
unfortunates and which n-ally impairs
Ihe strength of more men than are will-ing
to confess it. has its strength more
in the demands ol the intellect than in
;lie desire of tfie senses. There arc
many things whirh please tin- palate in
il... ,.. .. ..... i ... ...,i * . as. *i... ,, _ ...
ol thought. Then- are dreams bottled
up in tin- wine and beer and whisk. \
which lind their wa) lo the brain,
while the alcohol i- coursing through
the veins and arteries. It is this effect
upon the mind whirh is frequently al
tl,r found,il ion ot thr desire forexhila-ru;
in4 di inks. And as this ilesire in-creases,
and yet tail- ol its satisfaction
by thr deadening process of habit, the
palate i-oinrs al last to be forgotten en-tirely.
The fast idiom, taste which at lust
demanded p.il.ii.ihle potations disap-l
«\tis. Strength and fiery exhilaration
air the rbiel requisites. And this is
true, not only in the case of the poor
sot. but iii that of the man who retains
some idea of refinement. "Absynthe"
ami ..| bei noxious point ions owe their
origin and invention to this thirst of
dissipated genteel drinkers for some-thing
more potent, regardless ofvtlie
line ilavor whirh once was the charm
of the wine bottle.
The reading of romances, fictitious
narratives ami other light literature,
may grow into a dominant and danger-ous
habit, enfeebling to the mind aud '
depressing to thr body. But, alter all. '
the seeking of rest anil recreation in
reading is attended with less danger, i
and is more productive ol g I than
any other form of relief from labor. It
slimild not la-aii exclusive occupation
of leisure. Whatever becomes an ab-sorbing
desire, throws the mind and \
lai.ly out of balance. Many men whom
tin- world would not stfsperi have found
r.-ii-'l from the exactions of their lives !
by losing themselves iu the pages of i
huht literature. The increase in the j
booksrllers" catalogues of biography,
lravel, adventure and romances indi-cates
thr fart that, iu these modem
days ol activity ami enterprise, and in
the weariness of hard limes, winch is
the natural Sequence to overtrading
and speculation, proplr tind rest in
business days and comfort during de-pression
in such literature as we have
mentioned, ll is related of Napoleon !
It.-napai'te that he was a voracious
novel reader. No man had more anx-ious
occupation than lie. But an agenl
in Paris kepi him continually supplied
on his marches, and during his all- ,
sences from his capital, with the last
new laioks. Iii one thing the great
I'orsiean oilers novel-readers an ex- i
ample. Ilr did not feel bound to finish
a book iM-rausr he had commenced ii.
lie "Listed'' the volume lirst, and if he .
found il unsatisfactory, put it aside
and tried another—and another till
he found what suited bis III.*MI. There
are man) readers who fancy they must
undergo the penance of wading through
a work which gives them little or no I
satisfaction, and which falls in the'
main requisite, pleasurable forgetful-iir-
s of pressing cares and relief from
ihe exhaustion of the constant pursuit
of anxious energy or ambition. With
this discrimination, with the avoidance
of laioks of bad tendency, and with
temperance in reading as iu all things
else, novels are found to havel heir use.
And the consequent demand has
created the lilieral supply.—FhWtdel-in
A very common error among busi-
■ men i\i limited experience, i- that
of economizing in the matter of adver-tising
w believer " times are dull."
profits small, and prospects not over
promising. This is the rock on whirh
man) business men air shattered. Hut
the more experience*! and successful
merchant realizes the fart that when
trade is dull, ii is more necessary to
patent system in th.- minds of thought
t'ul European manufacturers is said to
have almost whollv died out. and, in-deed,
to have got its death-blow in
Machinery Hull, Philadelphia, so far
as visiting Europe waa concerned.
The maguilireiil display of inventive
genius there shown was" reirarded, and
justly, as largely owing its tine result to
out Fostering patent laws. Sinre this
* 'eutcniiial lesson Germany has adopted,
iu IS,7, a uniform and liberal patent
law, Spain has also followed the ex-ample
ol' Hermany, while Switzerland
and Sweden are preparing to protect in-ventors,
and Holland will not long be
willing t„ la? classed with Turkey as
among the countries at a stand-still in
thi- respect. The diseussions, thrrr-lorr.
al the recent Paris Coiurrrss no
longer had need to to lK. directed upon
the equity of a patent system, but
raider ttfwarda equalizing arid unifying
existing ami eontemplaled laws of the
several countries there represented,
with the general tendency, more or lest,
marked, to bring these into lino with
the American system.
For instance, the French patent
registry has no provision for previous
examination; ami in Kngtand recent
modifications have laicn submitted iqain
the old system, which also has no surb
safeguard. It was objected that the
power of rejecting untried inventions
for want of novelty or ol practicability.
or lor their apparent triviality, would
be a dangerous power to put in the
hands of any men or set of men. The
modifications proposed are that tho
previous examination shall lie «moden>
tial and ailvtsatoiy, hut that the appli-cant
shall la' free to take the advice or
reject il in registering his claim. The
American system of prior examination
is, in theory at least, eontideutial until
the patent is either granted or finally
refused; alter which the correspondence
between the inventor and l be office,
known as "the files," is open to the
public, and frequently is of great im-portance
in questions arising subse-quently
as to tin construction of the
particular patent It has the advan-tages
for : Ie public, iu that it protrrts
«h,m trom iiwi-- .:*-..» n........ *••
Minima not n-ally palcutahlc; and for
the inventor, that it enables him to so
limit his claim thai il may avoid things
which are old, thus forestalling much
after-litigation.
Thesystem of examination, ofcourse,
cauooi entirely avert counter claims,
disputes ami litigation, but it tends to
diminish them; and, as the Examiners
soon become tamihar with the whol,*
history ot any Hass of inventions, there
is but little labor required for thrm to
judgr ol the novelty in any given rase.
Like all otbrr systems involving the
exercise ofdiscretion, il lias its anuses,
and is open to danger lioth from Inca-pacity
and fraud, Hul where a patent
is refused i>y thr Examiner,appeal ran
la- made in such a manner that three
successive judgments can be obtained
upon it (first by tin- Hoard of Ex-aminers,
thence by the < 'ommtssioner.
and lastly by the Supreme Court of the
District of I 'olumbia), and the danger is
therefore reduced to a minimum. Where
a patent is grained improperly, there is
no remedy, except to test it iu I'ourt;
but it is much la-tlrr thai Ibis should
occasionally ocrur than that litigation
should br the only rherk upon the ex-lent
ol the grant, as is the ease in those
countries where no previous examina-tion
is made. On t he whole, our sys-tem,
wbeu administered by competent
and upright men, works well, and is
more than sell-supporting, as thr oilier
has a surplus from year lo year, trom
the lies received. Ttu Examiners are
all salaried.
AII American patent now runs for
seventeen years, and is ab-olutely ex-tinguished
after that tune. Prior lo
lS7u the period was fourteen years,
with power in the Commissioner's
bands to extend it for seven more, if in
hisjudgment the inventor had not been
sufficiently remunerated. This led to
so much ''falsifying of returns" that it
was abandoned; and the only way now
to extend a patent is to get a special
net oi Congress, and this is bard to
get. Hy I lie English system, an addi-tional
siainp duly and .re-registry of
the patent is required-rtf'the third year
and again in the Seventh year. SO that
the Euglisli ( ommissmner estimates
that only ten per cent, of |*tents re-main
iu force for tin; full period of four-teen
year- In the full term the Eng-lish
system is more rostly than ours,
but by this process of "the survival of
thr fittest,'' uselrss patents come to be
gradually weeded out. An Amerirau
patent costs, in (iovennneut fees.
thirty-five dollars, added to which may
!-• the furlb.r rost ,.f drawing.", models
and attorney's lees.
The communistic idea in regard to
patents, which found some favor at
Vienna, got a cold shoulder al the
Paris Congress. The system of "en-forced
royalties" or compulsory li-censes,
bad been advocated in IS7J,
on I he same ground that admits, it pub-lic
use requires it, thr opening of a road
through a man's property, giving him
valuation for thr same. This was
urged incase of non-use of patents, or
their partial use, or in the event of
great public utility. Hut it may be
pretty safeiyassumed that the non-use
ot an invention by us patentee ispno.u
fneft evidence, except m rare raws,
that there is little or nothing in ii; and
the more there is in il. the more likely
ii is to become of geaeml utility, by
il
other inventions in its application
all further nonsense such as is ocea-nal
Carlo Borromeo, waa then Arch
bishop. |.,ke Sl_ Alllhros, la- was on,
ol the greatest saint* ot the Church,
and proved one ol the most glorious
examples of human coinage rising
superior lo Ihe terrors ol death in Us
most Hideous aspect. He wasso uni-versally
beloved thai his lh>ck—his
clergy, even—besought him to save Ins
life by llight; but the shepherd was
laithlul to his sheep, and would not
desert them in their bitter extremity.
lie refused to leave; and throughout
the man) weary months during which
ihe plague lasted was constant at his
post, bending down to hear levered
lips mutter tutor hist confession, ami
offering the bust rites ol the Church in
hospitals,,n,i pest-houses reeking with
the poisoued v nus. He seemed to heai
a ciianiied life; and when all but be
andalew faithful ones tike himself ap-peared
to have abandoned ever hope,
lie assembled Ins congregation under
ihe might) dome ot the iiiagiiiiueht
cathedral, and lucre, aiter solemn nigh
iua.-a, knell down and prayed I,oil to
lake his ate as an expiatory uttering,
ami deliver his people irrnn the curse.
Hut there was w„rk lor linn vet to do;
and the Archbishop and many ol the
priests wno had beeu brought into the
closest, contact with death survived,
while mail) rich men who had lied
perished III the List week ot the agony
but fugitives escaped, and carried the
disease to Toulon, Aries, ami Ai\. aud
it was not until nearly ninety thousand
had perished that the plague abated.
The Bishop. Henri Francois Xavier Iv
Kelqullce, was the llel'ool Ihe southern
city. Not content with prayers will,
ihe dying, he even mounted the tum-brils
and accompanied ihe remain-, ot
the dead to the grave, tliere lo ad-minister
tin- last sad i lies to all.
Wherever il has appeared, except al
the Derbyshire village, an iHtt'hreak ol
crime has accompanied tin- plague; but
everywhere, also—thanks to Heaven!
—there have lain noble lie n and node
women, whose patient heroism stands
out. bright!) binmug. to ill mate
thr |>agr ol hislmy.
SOMETHING OF A VILLAGE.
London IS Ihe greatest rllv the World
ever saw. ll Is the In ail ot : be Itiil-isb
Empire ami 1 he world, ll covers
within the mien miles' radius of
Charing Ciusj" nearly seven bundled
squar, miles. It numbers within these
boundaries 4.ism.i>iu inhabitants. It
comprises lUn.UOU foreigners from every
quarter of the globe. It contains mure
Roman Catholics than Itoma itself;
more .lews than ihe whole ot Palestine;
more Irian than Dnblin; more Scotch-men
than Edinburgh; more Welshmen
Uiau Caidin'. and more country-born
when, lUfuryapiiearuigtobeassuage*!, , la-rsous than Hie counlirs of Devon
they rel urn al.ioitucy loudly hoped,
safety
Its next appearance was in Amster-dam
iu lotio, Whence, later in the fol-lowing
year, it crossed the i lianuel
and visited London. From the lollow-ing
February until alter tlie first Insets
ol winter its ravages were horrible. Ill
one mouth no less than sixty thousand
|a-ople died; and the city, so soon attei-ward
to la- consumed by lire, was hall
depopulated, The symptoms were the
same as they had la.-eu iu Milan. A
raging fever of a typhoid character was
accompanied by malignant Illinois on
Die inner stile of Hie arm and thighs.
The pain was excruciating, tlie thirst
was tormenting, ami patients died by
hundreds iu ihe very delirium ol mad-ness.
Tnere waa no Carlo liorroiueq
nurses. There were deeds >>i heroism
done, but il was not a heroic age. The
profligate Charles II. was upon the
throne; and the Earl of l{,,cli,sier, sir
lieorge Etheruge, and their set, were
scarcely the men to follow in the foot-steps
of the gran,i Archbishop.
When the pestilence was al Its height.
Ihe condition ol London was frightful.
Whole streets bore upon tlie doors a
cross, roughly painted in red, with the
inscription; "Thr Lord bavr mercy
upon us!*1 as a sign that one m more ot
the inmates were dead or dying of the
plague. The grass grew in the
thoroughfares thai used to be crowded;
and where brilliant carriages bad
traveled to and fro al every hour of the
day. the tracks ol the dead carl were
only seen. There were none to bury
the .lead with appropriate, or even de-cent,
ceremonies. Huge pits were dug
iu the outskirts, aud the bodHMTifmen,
women, and children—uncomned, al-most
naked—were hurled in by the
hundreds. Corpses Were even left to
fester and rot iu tlie lanes and alleys,
and for some days it appeared that
enough would not Is* lelt alive to bury
Ihe dead. It was a carnival of crime.
Thieves and housebreakers roamed the
city at wilUaud hirial nurses, impatient
ol the slow approach of death, mur-dered
their charges by the hundred,
ami enriched themselves with the spoil.
Quack doctors, fortune-tellers, srlleis
of amulets and charms, and even ot
poison, reaped huge profits. Iu one
wa) fanatical street-preacheiaadded to
the confusion, and iu another the reck-less
orgies ot men, desperate with drink
and fear, prepared tlie way for almost
universal anarchy, and unbridled
wickedness ol every form reigned
supreme.
Hilt vile as was the state of the capi-tal
then. England was not without her
heroes of the plague, and the simple
but loiiy heroism of a few hundred
simple villagers lent a lustre to a whole
century. Among the hilLs of Derby-shire
there win a beautiful little Mi-lage,
called Eyain. The houses were
clustered together half-way up a gentle
slope, fronting a lolly lull upon the
other side of the valley. Tidings of
the great plague had reached the ham-let;
but in its seclusion no one feared
tlie fate of Ihe village. I'ul'orl unalely.
a tailor received a bundle of cloth from
town. It was opened, and in a lew
hours the tailor sickened and died,
with plain symptons of the plague.
The wife; of the pastor, Mr. Momfesaon,
begged him to fly; but,like the Italian,
he would not desert his las.ple. and
then, wile-like, Mrs. Moiiitesson also
resolved to rrmain. II.- caused the
bells ol the church lo lie tolled, ami the
people to assemble within its wall-.
There the noble man told his hearers
the true state of the case, and added
that if they thai then they would carry
tlie inlection all over the country.
They promised to remain, and Mr.
Momfesaon wrotealetter to the Earl
of Devonshire, al Chatsworth, asking
tor t,s>.l and the requisite medicines to
la. placed daily at a certain stone near
the entrance to the village—where, io
return, he would leave money, Which
could l»- fumigated; and that being
done, he pledged himself that until the
disease disa|*peared not one ol his
parishioners should leave the village.
There were but little more than six
iblv did
Warwickshire and Durham combined
lias a birth iu it every live minutes.
Has a death iu il every eight iiuuiiu-s:
Him seven accidents every day iu its
,,|««| miles ot streets, lias on an aver-age
twenty-eight miles of new streets
opened and '.I.INNI new bouses built in it
every year. Has l^s (STSOIIS every
day, and 1,%0IK>added lo its population;
lias l.iMi ships and 11,11011 sailors ill ila
|«>rt everyday; has 117,i«HI habitual
criminals on its p.ii ,-- register, in-creasing
at an averageof ;MI.IHKJ ia-rau-iium;
lias more than uue-thlrd ot all th<-
crime in the country committed in ,i;
has as many beer shoiia and gin
palaces a.- would, if placed aide hy side.
sir, tch from Charing Cross to Ports-month,
a distance ol seventy-three
miles; has St>,UUU drunkards annually
many'paupers as would more than oc-cupy
every hou.se in Brighton; has up-wards
of a million habitual in glerters
of public worship; has I'SI mile.- of open
shop- every Lord's day; has need of WW
new churches and SMI additional c-ty
missionaries; ha.- an Influence with ail
parts of the world represented by the
yearly delivery iu it of XkLUUO.UOUof
letters.
DRINKING.
A drunkard is called "j» bloat. *' "a
sot," **a wretch,'1 "a runaway," "a
wreck.1' A in,alcrate-di inker is called
a social, genial gentleman a man wh,,
will let bis appetite get the latter of
his manhood. The moderate drinker
himself heaps anatbeinas iqa,n the
drunkard, ami even lakes complacent
pride in telling linn how he abhors a
••sot." What right has an apprentice
to make fun or despise a journeyman? :
What right has the hindmost of two
men traveling the same mad to make
light of or abhor the man ahcad'f The
moderate drinker says he Likes toil a
glass to arouse a happy feeling; the
drunkard says be takes but two to do
Ihe same thing, having passed Ihe point
where one would do. How long will
it take to learn that there Is but one
law emit i oiling the use of ardent spiiits,
ami that the law of reuse?
GROWTH OF CHICAGO
Nearly live tulles of new house- an,I
stmes added to the frontage of the cily
iu ihe lirst nine months ol tic year is
an exhibit thai speaks well for Chicago,
end for the solidity ol its real estate
values. Since the tir-t ol January the
cily has la-en growing at th<* tale .-I a
luiie ol troulage a inolith. Thr num-ber
of iHlildiiigs erected has laa-n vo|,
and Ihe cost has run up to JI.:UI..'.;III.
Counting in all additions, Improve-iitento
and new buildings, the amount I
of money so far distributed among
masons, carpenters, plumbersandnthei
builders, contra,'..us and day laborers
has la-en Jl.'.'.ai.loll up lo October 1-t.
These new buildings the eit) has su|>-
plied becuuseit was being enriched all I
the while with new population. Before
the year dose- there will la- some addi-tions
to make to these figures to com-plete
the record of what must, on the
whole, la- regarded as a prosperous
twelve-mouth in the history of Chicago.
' 'hirnyu Tribune.
THE OUNWICH ROSE
Near the ca-st of Suffolk are the
[ruiueof Duiiwirh Priory,and in the
I clefts of these ruins ur-.ws the Dunwicb
rose. This rose is said to have been
i la-ought by monks from Normandy
man) centuries since, and il is stated
, that it will grow nowhere else. It
ilegenerates when cultivated, and re-sembles
the Scotch r,.sr. ll is a pnw-
, erfully entiled flower, rambles over
the surface ol the cliffs, and is known
I to botanists as /.V-ai nrrmsis. The
• flower has a sing;,- blossom of purest
• white velvet, with anile
brown, a smooth
sharp I horns, aril
green leaves -'i"'
leaves.
..I black
rown stem with loi
ItlllHll ll-}
ng like
minted dalk
blarkla-rrv-
—At the d
ceremony iu
bridegriaiiu. 1
and In- bride
■elusion "t a marriage
L oidou n ntly, the
• 'aptain of grenadiers,
rated themselves m the
I.niunaiTo^eraVinilustry^nd to hundred of them, but right
To ibcv redeem their pasioi s pledge.
Their heroism—though but few per-have
heard the tale-was as
1 as that of Leonidas and hi-lionally
talked by theoretical orators , baps I
igainst the tenure and protection of gal lain
car of a balloon and were gent!) home
away among the welcoming clouds,
landing near l ainbi Idge after a sail of
three hours. Ah. they must have
been verj happy, doubly happy indeed.
one guillotine executioner. Koch
called "Moiiscighciirdc Paris,''sufflcee,
with Ins assistants, for all France. II,-
gets s,i««P francs a year ami lim franca
for each head cut oil.
—Captain Eads has declined the in-vitation
of D,,III Pedro to superintend
the river improve uis u> Brazil, and
has recoiiiiiieiiiled a prominent Ameri-can
engineer in Ins stead.
Stanley, the heroic African ex-ploier.
istodelivei a hundred lectures
in the large provincial towns of Eng-land.
Past < x|N-iirh,-e -bows him to lie
a much better explorer than lecturer.
—Theodore Tilton, who has just re-turned
from Europe, left hie daughters,
Alice and Florence, to finish their
studies iu Herman), the one being de-voted
to painting and the other to
music.
i aplaiu Henry Allen, of Salem,
Mi—., baa a psar tree iEBl years old in
bis garden. Nexl to the I.i'i,lic..tt pear
tree it is probably the oldest in the
country, ti has la,rue several bushels
of ii nit thia year,
Ouray. the lie Indian Chief in
Colorado, cultivates a farm I
acres, has a house built and furnished
III civilized fashion, drives one of the
la-st teams in the West, and lives in a
g.aal style generally.
An inventive mariner has launched
al Wiacasaet, Maine, a diamond-shaped
vessel, with live inaafla. a great number
ot triangular sails, ami a ruddei ,,t un-common
length. He believes that lite
odd craft will make great speed.
— sickness lias increased l*i an alarm-ing
extent in that part ,,f Hartford
supplii-d with water from I he Connecti-cut
river. And m> wolldei Im the
pipe was found 1" starl in the midst
ol an enormous collection of decayed
Vegetable matter.
—The M.unit,la Indian cannot get
i any intoxicating liquor lo dunk. The
Hudson Bay Company's inflexible rule
| against selling liquor to Indians has
! been adopted h> the Canadian Itovern-
, lurid, and Ihe mounted |a,lics are de-tailed
to enforce it.
Throughout France gardening is
! practically taught in the primary and
elementary schools. Tbereareat pre-
] sent twenty-eighl thousand •■: these
i schools, each ol which has a garden at-j
tached lo it, and is under the care ,,l a
I master capable of imparting a knowl*
1 edge of ihe fust principles of horticul-j
lure.
- Dim Pedro, Emperor of Brazil,
was a student and friend of tlie poet
Coleridge, ami holds his memory in
I lender recollection. When lasl iu Eng-land
he visited Coleridge's toinb one
I morning as early as '.i o'clock. He has
I Intel) sent a silver vase, as a tribute ,,f
i regard, to Mr. Thomas Allsop, theotd-
.. . n I r •!...
great master.
—The Danish Government publishes
some interesting statistics presented to
the Paris exhibition. The area of the
coinitrv is i;,..«Mi,iaMi acres, of which
."..jnn.iiiai is under cultivation, the re-maiiider
IM-III^' pasture, forest, lakes,
rivers, bogs and sand) wastes. The
laud is owned by -JIMI.IHHI individuals
wl Wll I, I-'.:'..'"«' head of cattle, 1,-
7p.i.iaai sheep, ,'iUtfJKJU swine and 332,-
nai horses.
--Victor Einanuel was a man ex-tremely
careless in di,-ss. When about
lo visit Berlin, his chamberlain re-minded
bun that he must have some
new clothes. "Order them,'' said the
king. "But your Majesl) must give
your measure, la-cause they are verj
elegant at ihe Court ol Berlin." "What
a nuisance!" said sturdy royalty.-
"fount It is just my sue. Ask
him to do me the pleasure lo give tils
measure."
In new of the recent dealll of the
Imperial Prince and the failure of the
direct line of slieccscessiiMi, the Km-psrorol
Japan has adopted Prince Sawe
lio-miva. aline intelligent boy of twelve,
eldest son ol II, I. II. Azisugnwa no-miya,
as his son and heir, aud presented
him With tlie rrioi iial lobe at the
Imperial Palace, in the presence of the
Empress, Empress Dowager and others
..I the Inipnial family.
Mis- Florence Nightingale, who
first gaim-d erlrbiity as a nurse of
wounded soldiers during the Crimean
war. is now sixty y.-ars old, and lives
in London al si a prisoner in ber
room, su ill is she. Once a year she
take- bei widowed nmtlier to Derby-shire.
She wrote lately III a letter to a
friend: "Overworked as I am. my
health is in a-anly bad. Thank Hod.
who -' ill gives im* woi k t,, do for Him."
Laura Bridgman, who has been !>•-
fore the publir for II ■ tlian forty
Mars, and whom In. Howe introduced
lo general notice by leaching her.
though a blind, deaf-mute, to spell and
read in a few months, and afterward
I,, a mean.I play skillfully on the piano,
is now nearly "". and has redeemed all
the expectations formed of her child-hiaal.
She ha- a good general educa-tion,
including mam advanced studies;
she writes well, and has many mental
reieiureea. She seWB excellently; is ac-quainted
with domestic duties; com-municates
freeli with bei friends, and
enjo) - life keenly.
-The man who, but for revolution,
would now la: Tyi n ol Japan, is a
student in Paris, living quietly aaM.
Tokugawa. He is small, lithe and
well-dressed. His income is IjatM.UWa
year, of winch lie spends a little on
himself and sends Ihe remainder to his
follower- who were ruined by the re-volution.
Very frw of hisfellow stu-dents
know who he is. lie will learn all
he can at the University of Paris, and
will then go to l^iiidon to continue his
studies. Eleven years ago, when the
Japanese Emlatssy went to London, he,
then a little hoy, headed it. as brother
,,f the Tyi n, and the Prince of Wales
wenl to |s,ver to welcome him.
lira i Stanley, the celebrated Eng-lish
l.-ader of the " Broad Church "
party aud Dean of Westminister, now
on a visit to this country, stands per-fectlv
-till when he preaches, making
no gestures, though he speaks Impres-sively.
One Sunday after returning
from church lie asked Ins wife why pec
pie looked so intent!) at bun during
the sin ice. She replied: "How could
they help it. d.ar. when one of your
gl,.ve- wa- on the top of your head all
the time?" It bad dropped from his
bat. He is a rather magniflceat-look-ing
person with a slightly built and
stooping figure, neatly cut gray hair
and whiskers of the old English style,
a face expressively full of pleasaut in-telligence
aud dignity, aud a volt" not
powerful, but disliust.