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VOLUME II.
CLARE, MICHIGAN, FB^-AY, JANUARY 30, 1880.
NUMBER 39.
The  Clare   County  Press.
ISSUED EVEKY FRIDAY AT
Clare, Clare County, Mich.,
—BY—
ALVAEO F. GOODENOUGH,
Advertising: Hates.
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E. I). WHEATON. C. W. PEH11Y
WHEATON & PERRY,
LAWYERS,
CLARE,       -       -       MICH.
All businoss intrusted with them will rccciv
prompt attention, (.'cillcriii.ns made and Real Ee
tatebiu^hiand sold. Ufiuc Maynard llluck,llain St
TTrM.H". ELDEX, Jewet/er and
t T dcalt-r iu Wall Paper, Rooks and Station-
cry, Sewing Machine Fixtures, etc., Clake.
GEO?w7jI-CFFEItn*]S,lfiJnR¥o"F
Pn-'BATKuml JrsTitr uf thk Peacb, Clare.
Special.mention given tu making collections.   Of-
ce ( m Main Street.
QEO. J. CUMMINS,
AtUirncy-at-Law and Solicitor,
Gourt House Building, Farwell, Mich.
C
C. CASTERLIN,
Attorney-and-Counselor-at-Law, and
CouiiM'lor «fc Solicitor in Chancery,
Court House Building, Farwell, Mich.
HC. DODGE, Justice of the
• Peace and Notaisv I'thmc, Vprnoji, has
Good Fakminci Lands vou Sale
Cheap.   Titles Perfect,
Teiims Easy.
H. C. Dodge, Fuwell, Mioh.
0 H..SUTHERLAND,
• Notary P^Uc&iCpsurRncei Agt*
OZs IMPROVED BEAI, ESTATE
Court House Building, Farwell.
w
S. COOLEY,
DEALER IN
THE TJ^OKN* ^CKKASIHUS.
nv MltS. IJANNIK STEELE MOOIIE.
Away back in my childhood years
Thoro dawned a day I'll ne'er Hornet,
With it a lesson learned in toars
That's deeply stamped on memory yot.
While swinging on a lattice gate,
In childish sport, thoughtless and gay,
Not dreaming of tho bitter fato
That darkly hung about my way,
A young man camo (I knew him well),
Hurriedly riding down the street,
And in ono hand ha closely held
A bunch of ilowers fresh and sweet.
I, laughing, hailed him (ns ho passed),
In a wild burst of childish glee,
And, reaching up, with eager grasp,
I cried, "Oh, give those flowers to mo!"
With rapid hasto he onward sped,
llut yet he heard my childish plea—
Here, catch them quick: 1" he smiling said,
And tossed the fresh bouquet to me.
But in my child-like eagernecs,
While thinking only of my prize
(Tlieir beauty and their loveliness
With rapture filled my longing eyes),
I caught them firmly in my grasp,
But quickly tn the ground I Hung
The treasure I had longed to clasp,
For in my hands the thorns had clung.
Longing heart, no danger heeding,
Till it felt the stinging pain;
Poor little hands, torn and bleeding,
Never touched those flowers again.
Oft through life we grasp at pleasures.
But to feel their poisonous sting;
All through life we long for treasures
Which to our hearts would sadness bring.
And often iu youth's brightest hours,
While hope's golden sunlight dawua,
Do we catch nt tailing ilowers.
Only to feel their piercing thorns.
Piercing tho heart with deeper wound
Than that whicli scarred tbe tiny hand;
A pain for which no balm iB found
This side of heaven's golden strand.
Many hearts nre torn and bleeding,
In anguish deep and dark to-day;
Many yet the thorns unheeding
Are grasping flowers on life's wny.
But from childhood's thoughtless hours
Temptation ne'er has erosspd my way;
But with it comes those lovely ilowers
That pierced and toro my hands that day.
The lesson learned remained through life,
And I've nover sought a pleasure,
Bnt in my eagerness and strife
I recall that thorny treasure.
ConiNTH, JIIss.
! she passed in solitude, till Saturday
i evening, wlien tlie prim old housokeop-
; er entered the parlor wliere Madelino
l was sitting, work-basket in hand.
1 "Mr. Frederic is at home," she said,
j " and Mrs. Ohathard thinks it proper
I that I should sit in tho room;" with
] whioh explanation she walked over to
j the extreme end of the apartment and,
i vanished behind the curtains of the'
' bow-window.
; Madeline ourled her lip slightly stt
! these prudential preparations andl
j went on with her reading, trying to,
I convince herself that her heart wus n$j
; beating fast.    She heard a quick*, lnaar
culino step without in the hall—heard
; tft come in the room and advanco toward
• her, but did not raise her eyes untillie
', stood directly before her. She had
! hard work to suppress her surprise; JUe
( was so little like what she had imagined*
Not old—for if he was really 30 h&Jp-
I by no means looked his age—not* taU,'
j thin and sallow; on the contrary, small}
I though well formed, with an abundance
j of curling brown hair;  large bluq eyps
j that should have belonged to a woman»t
j so evenly "arolied were the brows/ Mrr
i long the lashes, so soft,  so almost sufil
: fering, their expression; cloar-cnt ie&l> *
tires; teeth that showed white and'overi
j throTigh his thick mustache; a gentle,
' quiet, assured manner, neither austorfl
nor frownish, as Madeline hud imag-
| ined, but that of a  gentleman and*
man of the world.
*X swore once," he said, "never to |
,«t mankind, still less womankind, j
in," I
Unsay the rash path," she said, j
;erly. "It shuts you from all happi-1
i'aud goodness." I
jHowdare you ask me!      In whom
'ttI trust?"
\ me."
girl—a child, that doesn't even !
the meaning of things about her, j
less her own heart I"
know one thing—the  truth that I)
t"Within me.   That never  dies, and I
fails.   Only try me, cousin.   I j
to be good."
believe    you    do,"   ho    said, |
softened.       "I   believe,   with
nnocent fervor, you do wish it. j
trust till I see that you, too, are i
to deceive me.   Will you take the
sibility?"
iline held out her hand, and. so
■was truce between them.   Every
t _     jthey studied and talked under
^Supervision of the prim housekeep-
"^ ""<i|a at last he fell into a way of tak-
C morning walk with her in the
Damages for Moivage.
A Boston merchant contending in a
Connecticut court where a shrewd old
farmer had claimed large damages for
flowage upon some apparently half
marshy and worthless land, was astonished at the evidence produced.
There were three or four witnesses
who testified on the plaintiffs side to
the vahie of his land* and the damage
incurred. One spoke of planting a crop
of corn there. A second respjnded
similarly in the following examination:
Plaintiff's Lawyer—"Have you ever
used this land for agricultural purposes?"
Farmer—"Hey?"
P. L.—"Have you ever planted anything there?"
F.—"0. yes, lots on it; planted two
cr&ps o' corn there."
P. L.—"Oh, you did?
called on the General of the army, and,
upon being introduced, remarked: "Ah,
Gen. Sherman; you served in the army,
I presume."—Coluvibus Dispatch.
METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCE.
elso ever do any planting there?"
F.—"Yes; the man that hired it arter
me for ono season planted a big crop of
pertaters."
The   defendant   nt   this   testimony
.Somo Interesting Fuets About tlie Interna-
tioiiiil AVeatiior Service.
[Prof. T. B. "Maury, in Popular Science Monthly,]
The proposition for sueh a service
was made at the International Meteorological Oongress, held in Vienna in
1873, and since that time, through the
co-operation of scientific men and tho
chiefs of the Meteorological Weather
Bureaus of different countries, records
of uniform observations taken daily and
simultaneously with those taken over
the United States and the adjacent
islands have been exchanged. "These
I reports, steadily increasing, now cover
Did any one j the combined territorial extent of Al-
He apologized easily enough for the
rmnrPTit  incivility.    " rrminrfmit bum*
 -,   .j.        ... ,      .   f. ln .,lut! i looked extremely blank, and whispered | erlands
and riding with her m the after-! de8pairingly to &, iawy^,   That ?unc- i -*-'
giers, Australasia, Austria, Belgium,
Central America, Ohina, Denmark,
France, Germany, Great Britain,
Greece, Greenland, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, the Neth-
2tfqrway,_ Portugal,
He oven went with her to sev-
ies, and always to church; and
hborhood held up its hands in
hment.
\hs passed away. Yery peaceful,
ilniff^rones they were. But one evon-
UmR* ,failed to make his appearance.
4>ir^3)fvhext day Madeline watched for
j apparent incivility.   "Invportant bu*i
j ness," that  much-enduring scapegoat/
j had detained him—he was extremely.
| sorry. *   * ^
! But Madeline, who had no patien.ee
| with his lame excuses, intorrupted"hun,
I sharply: ? _
I     "Pray spare your regrets; it is qnit$
evident that your   sorrow   is ol  tfce [)
1 deepest  dye.   Your  conntenanco 1*^
speaks it." _     v »'
I Mr. Frederic opened his eyeil wide
j and sat down. Hitherto he had seeded
j undecided on tho question*. . *' *"'*-
"So, then, you ore really offended,
I and show it after a spirited fashjtoft.'
j Good! I shall have to make my pefrce.
All the girls who were leaving school j It will give us something to talk alxfnt^
MADELLVE.
Harness, "Whips, Robe
Th<*'.-t
b.iK^ ."■ t wi
& Blankets.
rtment of Trunks and Traveling
I prices the lowest.
THK BIST OF MATKIUAL X'SKI).
All Wi'>r!;   v.irr.tnt;.'*!.    K. ji.iirin^ ilune   promptly
I will sf,U * Leaper than r;m heV^u^ht els>e-
wherc i» .s^maw Valley.
R
I'BKX SMITH,
XOTARV PUBLIC.
Real Estato and Insurance Agent.
MARK, ZtllCH.
Par'.i.-ularattenti ^r paid to 1 -king land, cstimat
ir.£ \,v.c timber, a-'j-ivtit.^ trespasses and paying
t;,xcv f. r n..n residents.
Manhattan Fire Insurance Company of New York
Ptr I-;.ii"! S'/.ral, with h.w lates.
carried with them anticipations of a
gay winter, a round of parties, balls
and operas. Not so with Madeline J)e-
launey. The dying a*ill of hor father
made her aunt's house h'er home for the
'^04?$ ^6(^3)3, 18_and ,81; and, .oven if
Madeline had been unwilling to comply, she would still have gone, so
great was her respect for her father's
memory, i
Mrs. Chathard was an invalid, and
her family consisted only of a son—a I
j man over 30, and said to bo eccentric '
I —and the old family servants. Decid- j
j edly not a very brilliant prospect for ;
j Madeline.
It was a sullen autumn   day when
! Madeline rode, for the first time, up the ,
j avc-uue leading   to   her aunt's house. !
She saw a gray sky,, flying clouds, and j
a white beach  on which the sea beat j
heavily in, and, standing in  the midst j
j of a cluster of pines, was a low, massive
" Is there really any necessity ai
ing at all?" demanded Madeline,
more indignantly,
"A few minutes ago I though^
I intended ,k> have
iflOcessnr^" f orinttH
to have sat occasionally with you, by
way of keeping you in countenance;
but now I say yes! There is something
original about you; it may be only a
spark, a glimmer; but, whatever it is, I
will develop it."
" You leave my individuality out of
account, I think."
" Not in tho least. I count on it for
my amusement."
"Amusement? We share the
same blood, Mr. Ohathard. I
think you should know something of the will which is among our
heirlooms. I doubt if I shall choose to
serve even a Chathard as amusement."
"You wilt have no choice. You will
building that might have been a prison, i go to church with me to-morrow. You
and   possibly was   a   house.   No  one , will see and be seen of all the magnates.
tlinvam.
&$is gone away," sho thought,
tfjkeen pang, "and did not tell me."
■e'Veek passed—two—three.   Sns-
£4tf9fc grew unendurable.    She vent-
iileiP*!^ inquiry of   the prim   house-
t tionary, however, when his turn came
: to cross-examine the witness, elicited
t the following:
!    Defendant's Lawyer—"Did I under-
I stand you, Mr. Farmer, to say you had
i planted two   crops  of   corn   on   that
land?"
Farmer—"Y'aas, sir."
D, L.—"Well, now, I want to be ex-
: act. Upon your oath, how much corn
j did you gather from  that first plant
ing?"
F.
Ruspia,
Spain,   Sweden," Switzerland,   Tunis,
Turkey,   British   North America, the
I United States, the Azores, the Sand-
{ wich islands, South Africa, South America and the West  Indies.   Recently,
I over 100 series of marine reports, each
containing the simultaneous  observa-
; tions of a number of sea-going vessels,
I have been added to supplement  the
' similar reports contributed by the land
j observers, swelling the total observing
force to 500 laborers.
"Wall!
I    The main object of this vast scientific
Yer see, that 'ere^ first j enterprise is to study the atmosphere
«rf«
rrFrederic is not away—he is ill."
Ut- Why was I not told? I will
nlrim at once!" . t    ^,_
T(eh«g tlie typhus fever, miss; and j 0' corn?"
Ohathard ordered that you should j    d, l..
iwjJBcotait be admitted, for fear of
ion."
ine left the housekeeper with-
■ther-word, and went straight to
' 'b room.   She was not very sure
ali£jr,fbr it was in the other
plantin' kinder petered aout, en never
grew up to nothin'."
D. L.—" How about the second crop?
How much of that came up?"
F.—"Yon mean that 'ere second crop
thJiuitect
war:
M
R. JEFFERIES,
DEALER IN
j came to the door to welcome her.   Mr.
j Chathard was not at home; Mrs Chathard was in the library, and begged
that Madeline would come to her there.
She found her lying on the sofa, busy
with some sort of knitting—a sallow,
delicate, fretful woman
FRESH & SALT MEAT,
Fresh and Cured Fish,
Fine Groceries and General
Farm Phoduce.
Cheapest T E A in Town !
Cash paid for hides.
MAIN" STREET, CLARE.
They will forthwith call upon you; you
will go to make a round of dreary visits;
you will go to solemn tea-drinkings;
you will talk to Capt. Fanway and Sir
Peter Farquhar, the two eligibles of the
parish, and when you have talked over
the weather  you will begin to fidget,
"No," she said, shrinking back, as and wish yourself home'with me. Even
Madeline showed a disposition to kiss a bear like me will prove more ondur-
her; "no one but Frederic has kissed able than those unmitigated young men.
me for years. Don't commence. I am I You will talk with me, and, in the na-
a creature of habit; I don't like to be j ture of things, yon will amuse me. You
disturbed in any of my regular habits, j cannot help yourself."
I only came down to-day on your ac-1
count, and it has quite unnerved me. j
HOTELS, LIVERIES, &c.
-VrEW^XRNITURE,   ISl^WLY
Ilifttlrd, Xcw Proprietor.
ST. JAMES HOTEL,
V. K. BROWS, Prop.,
MOUNT PLEASANT,   MICH.
First Class Accommodations,    tWind SampleRooms
ior Agents. Good llarn.
I shall not try it again. I must have
perfect repose. Frederic comes to see
me morning and evening; that is as
much as I can bear."
With that, Madeline was waved off to
her room, wliere indignation supplanted
I have other resources," answered
Madeline, loftily. " I have arranged a
dramatic course of study."
Mr. Chathard smiled.
"Try it, my dear cousin, by all
means. It is the most enchanting
thing in the world—in prosjieet. Try
it, I say again, audromember, I shall be
HARWELL  BILLIARE HALL, I in her room.
j    "I shall pass my time very tolerably,"
| thought Madeline, resignedly.   "I won-
FARWELL, MICH.
FINEST~CIGARS
Pure llines, Liquors, Ales, Beer, Por
ter, Cider, Ete.
These desiring a pure article are invited to oall.
a strong desire to cry, and curiosity ' very happy to aid you if any difficulties
....--■■--ii- —l ii.- i.-i.—    * i.-.i.     -r. t occur—wliic]a, though, it is to be presumed, is not possible."
With which he took himself off, leaving Madeline piqued and curious. She
had ample time, however, to recover
herself, and proceeded with her studies.
It was three mortal weeks before he
presented himself again. When hs did
come, it was in a ghostly fashion. She
was bonding over a book, and, looking
up suddenly, found him standing before her, watching her keenly, looking
weary and strangely dissatisfied. He
gave her a cool nod, and threw himself
into a chair near her.
"Talk!" he said imperatively. "I am
bored."
gradually got the better of both.   It
was   really,   she decided,  on looking
about her, a pleasant room, with crimson curtains and furniture, and a deep
! window looking out on the sea.   There
j was a bureau, with a great many little
I drawers that she pleased herself with
| arranging mentally.   There was a vase
of flowers that spoke of a conservatory;
she had seen that the library was well
filled; a pretty piano occupied a recess
CUMMERS & NEWTOM",
Proprietors ofthe
FARWELL  LIVERY
in  this
HORSES &
TO
Parties conveyed everywhere
section and vicinity.
*5=-Terms reasonable.
J£AGLE HOTEL,
Coral, Montcalm Co., Mich
A. FRED GOODENOUGH, Prop.
A Temperance House.
This is a new house, neatly furnished, convenient
to the trains, with good accommodations at reason-
•ble prices.
GOOD  JUIVJEItV ATTACHES*.
/
der what my cousin is like."
Perhaps this last thought had some j
■  influence in her toilet, else why should i
she have braided her hair and put on
her most becoming dress? Itwashardly
henry newton. *   to be supposed that her charms would
have much effect on the quiet parlor-'
maid, who alone was in attendance.        |
Madeline ate her supper with curling j
lip and stormy brow.
" He is a barbarian!   I know I shall
hate him I" was her inward comment. I
" He must have known that I would be j
here.   He might have been civil. How- i
ever, I shall do very well without him I"
And, getting a book from the library
shelves, she sat herself down resolutely
to read. But, try as she would, her
thoughts wandered back to the pleasant
room where she used to sit with her
girl-friends, reading and talking-
different from this great, silent, handsome house. I am afraid the contrast
was not too favorable, for her pillow was
wet with tears that night.
A week passed away. During that
time Madeline saw Mrs. Ohathard once
—that was all.   The rest of  the time
CARRIAGES
LET.
Madeline's hot blood leaped up in revolt. Words hovered on her lips that,
cool as he was, could not but have
placed an effectual barrier between
them. Something arrested them. A
pained look was in his eye, anguish
about hismouth, showing dimlv through
the mask of cynicism. A new impulse
possessed her:
"Cousin," she said, gently  enough,
"why should we be at war?   We are of
tho same blood, and I think we ore alike
in    this    one   thing,    at   least—that
we    are   both    alone.     Why    goad
each    othor     with     bitter     words?
Would   it    not   be   better   to   help
(each   other?     I don't ask   nor   offer
so j any confidence; only if there could be
A-   a liking and a friendship between us,
let   it   develop   itself.     Let   us   not
hinder it.   I am so lonely; and I think
if you would let me that I should like
you."
Strange emotion glistened in his oyes
and shook his voice.
Yes, sir! On your oath, sir."
!    F.—"Wall," said the farmer, with a
I grin; "none o' that kim up at all."
I    The climax was reached when the
other farmer who planted the potatoes,
I and who was summoned by the plain-
j tiff, and had been fuming and fretting
the house—a place where she t {Q conrt for two days at being taken
y^|itnr_ed._ She was, how- j away from his spring work, testified as
follows:
Lawyer—"Mr. Rusticus, yon hired
that piece of land for one year, did
(iron?"  .   t   ■      - jt    ~
'    Rusticus—""yes>- - - ■ > - *— -*"-.«
. . .    L.—"Stato to the court how large a
"Are you better?' was the first ques-1 crop of  potatoes you gathered from
fi°D- | those you planted?"
"Yes; but  why have you left   me ,     R.—"Not a darned one.   They   all
alone so long?   I  ibought you cared   rotted in the ground, condemn it."
for me," j    L.— "Ah!   But do you know of any
"I do. I do 1   I never knew.   I wait- ' thing else being planted there?"
ed and   wondered, and   grew sick ac      11.—"Wall—ye-as, I   dew know   of
heart.   No one told me, and  to-day I   ono other thing."
flgly doubtful of the pro-
Mw^at all; but, if he should
kjier, would propriety con-
^t^mtrmbling.   T**
fer hollow, reproachful eyes.
He-
tOW-
asked. I was too proud to do it before.
I thought yon had gone away, after the
old fashion, without telling me. Then
they said I mustn't come to yor. for fear
of the infection."
"There is danger! Go away at
onco!"
"I will not. Why should I not share
danger with yon? All the orders in
the world shan't drive me from you!"
He turned toward her with sudden
animation, seized her hand, looked
earnestly into her face, and said, "My
little darling, I really believe that you
love me as I do you."
And from that moment he mended,
in spite of doctors and physic, and the
L— "Well, sir, what was it?"
R.—" Wall, if yer must know, it was
the owner's darned bull-terrier pup
that was allers barkin' at every body.
He tore my trouse'z one mornin' when
I was gittin'over the wall, n' I killed the
little cuss with my hoe, n" planted him
right there in' that 'ero lot, wliere I
know'd everything rotted quick and
never'd come up."
The planting properties of the lot
were not further discussed after this
testimony.
Old Story Revived.
Many readers will   remember
,       ,, . .        -   - .      tragedy that  occurred in West Win-
somber old house is gay enough under | ciiesteri  Ontario, where Clark Brown
the blithe   supervision   of   its   young . murdered his father and sister, and was
mistress, Mrs. Frederic
Madeline.
Chathard, our
Stephen Girard's Heroism.
The example of eminent men in the
cause of humanity cannot too frequently be cited if we would see their great
deeds emulated.   The fearful epidemic,;
yellow fever, prevailed in Philadelphia ;
in 1792,    All who   could   fled.    The;
horrors of the plague, as described by '■
Defoe in his narrative of London, were :
realized in this American city. Friends,
and even members of the same family, j
abandoned each other on the approach j
of danger.   The poor were dragged off ■
to Bush Hill Hospital, where, under t
panic and malpractice, few over recovered.   New York passed a legislative
act to arrest and imprison any one, sick
or well, male or female, coming from t
Philadelphia or suspected of so coming.
Massachusetts passed a similar   rigid j
law.   In the   midst   of   this   terrible
scourge it was announced that Stephen
Girard,   the
afterward hanged for the deed. The
tragedy is again brought beforo the
public by a rather extraordinary occurrence there last, week. The bodies
of the father and daughter were exhumed and photographs were taken of
the oyes of the victims, under the idea
that this would show whether or not
any one else than Clark Brown had
anything to do with the murder, as it
was supposed that the last scene on
which the deceased looked would be
pictured on the retina. The eyes of
the old mau revealed nothing, and the
Toronto expert who had charge of the
case thinks this shows that he was killed
in the dark. The most astounding part
of the business is that the eyes of the
little girl, Addie, distinctly show two
objects, which are said to be pictures of
her mother and the brother who did
the murder. Tlie retina pictures will
be enlarged, so as to be unmistakable,
and meanwhile the mother has been
arrested and is now in jail. It is
thought that' Clark Brown and his
mother killed the father, and the little
as a unit. "The atmosphericoceanmust
be viewed by every thinking mifid as a
whole, whoso complex parts act inter-
dependently, as the various parts of a
steam engine, yet all constituting one
grand mechanism." The atmosphere,
"unlike the ocean, is individual and uninterrupted; and every change of state,
in any part of its expanse, sends forth a
pulsation of energy which is speedily
felt far and wide." In 1S78 the Signal
Ofiice at Washington* began the regular
publication of a daily international
weather map, charted daily—an enterprise without a precedent in history.
As these charts in successive order, are .
spread out day after day, the investigator has before him a^yivid x>anorwn»^>f ^
the physical forces iirtpiotui*ejl jt^si^jf^^
dependenceandinteractioninthenormal
j working of the atmospheric machinery.
i Mr. Maury says:
"The birth, life and death of storms;
their translations   from   continent to
I continent, with the times and directions
they take in such  transits;  the ther-
mometric, baric and wind conditions
; around the globe at various parallels;
1 the distribution and amount of rainfall and snowfall; the laws of our great
; "hot waves" and "cold   waves," with
; many other data for settling questions
; of   climatology and possibly of- fore-
, casting in some degree the character
of coming seasons—are some  of   the
! practical problems of every day's life
j which the international charts and bul-
i letins will serve to simplify or solve.
| Among these none, perhaps, call for an
i earlier and exacter solution than the
: translation of cyclones from the Asiatic
' waters over the North Pacific   ocean
to the Pacific slope of the United States,
the j and the kindred question of the transatlantic passage of American storms to
Western Europe.   *   *   *   The ocean
is  pre-emineutly   the   birthplace   and
habitat of storms.   Thence when fully
fonned and densely stored with aqueous
vapor—the fuel of the cyclonic engine
—they assail the land-masses of  the
earth, and traversing them, unless in
transitu they perish for want of water,
return     to     their    native     element.
*   *   *   The golden key to onr continental   meteorology   is   the   adequate
knowledge of the barometric depression and associate waves of high pressure which roll over the continent from
the westward, and in  their   progress
dominate the weather to the north of
the thirty-fifth parallel."
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wealthiest   merchant   of i
-rM  Mill*       -ttit 1 i< -r,       1     ,  UlULllCi   JiliJC" nnc     itt'mi.  umu   uiio  xiuwc
Philadelphia had taken charge of Bush |   . j        &e crime and was alg0 Mlled
Hill Hospital, whence no one ever re-1 \Q Mde the flrat deed.   The v   -
turned, ancl was engaged in shrouding ; reads ]ike oue of Ed       AUen
the dying and interring the dead.   He i f ^      and mystery.
built a new house in the vicinity of the  J      J
hospital and rented a barn to accommodate the patients who then   crowded I
Bush Hill for cure. And, though Girard |
had been declared insane and reported
dead, he still lived and kept well, and
was soon after found on Fifth street in
a large house, in which he installed
sixty orphan children found in the
streets, which proved to be the foundation of the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum.— Washington Republic.
School-Boy Strategy.
A few days before the schools were
closed by order of the School Board,
one of the teachers at noon-time espied
a small boy with a red flannel around
his neck. Visions of diphtheria immediately floated through her brain, and
she ordered the young John Henry to
pack up his books and return no more
"until your throat is perfectly well."
He obeyed the summons, and on his
way home met three of his companions,
who noticed his books and saluted him
with, "What's tip?" John Henry proceeded to explain that the piece oi red
flannel had gained him a furlough.
The three youths held a short counsel
of war, chipped in what litttle spare
charge they could muster, went into a
Similarity of Names or Generals.
The similarity between the late Gen.
Jeff C. Davis and that of the Confede-1
rate ox-President recalls the fact that i dry-goods store, bought half a yard of
there was in the two armies another
similarity of names not quite so well-
known, but fully as striking—that of
Gen. GeorgeB. McClellan, of the Union
army, and Gen. George B. McLellan, of
the Confederates.   The last-named gen-
 j tleman hails from Oktibbeha county,
Christopher Clavius (A. D. 1600) i Miss., and was a member the Yale Ool-
was on the point of being dismissed j lege class of 1858. A little confusion
from a Jesuit college as a hopeless j was also produced in the Union
blockhead, when one of tho fathers j army during the war by the similarity
took it into his head to see if he had of the two Shermans—W. T. and T.
any skill in geometry, which hit his j W.—especially during the siege of Cor-
genius so luckily that lie afterward be-1 inth, when both commanded divisions,
came one of the greatest mathemati- j By the way, speaking of Sherman redans of his age.   An argument^ for an i minds us of a joke that is going the
elective course  of   study.     Many   a
genius is a harp with only one string.
| rounds of the press.   A gentleman, in
' company with a United States Senator,
red flannel, toro it up into strips, and
placed it around their necks, ln just
twenty minutes from that time three
more boys were ordered out of tho
school-room on the ground that they
were threatened with diphtheria.—Lansing {Mich.) Republican.
Xutriment in Benns.
One pound of beans will support life
in action as long as four pounds of rice.
I Two pounds of beans will help do more
I muscular work than three pounds of
| wheat, and more brain-work than three
and one-half pounds.   The reason why
beans require stronger power of digestion than wheat is that they contain
casein instead of gluten.
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