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V o lu m e x v i i i . Helena, Montana, Thursday, March 27, 1884. No. 1 9

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T H E CITY OF PETR A.

H ouses Ilew n out o f Solid Stone, and Mountains for Walls.

The city existed before the time of Moses; it was the place where Solomon was a merchant and David fought the foe. Petra is in the very lowest part of a rocky valley, now called Wady Musa. The city, which covers considerable territory, is completely hemmed in by cliffs. The only available

»entrance is from the east, through a narrow- gorge so small in places that a loaded camel cannot pass through. The path is crooked and the sides of the cliffs are many hundred feet high. Once in the valley, where the site of the city is found, one sees an amphitheatre capable of holding 3,300 persons. Magnificent temples, pillars, public edifices and dwellings are found on every side in almost entire preservation. Up the mountain sides the homes lor the people were built, and the sides of the mountains first shaved off, were carved into long flights of stairs. All the build­ings and pillars are carved out of solid rock. A house or a temple was made out of, and stands to-day, a solid piece of stone The process was to plane olf the side of the mountain of stone, then, beginning at the top, a facade of elegant architectural beauty was carved upon the face of the mountain. First the cdpital was carved, then the pillar, then the hase,and soon down to the bottom. Excavations were made, beginning at the top, and in this way the temple was gradually structed. The stone is a puzzle to geologists, its color is red and green, and yellow and blue, and garnet and brown, as in watered silk, and the best explanation of its gorgeous varie­ty is that the water has mingled witn the iron salts, and the stone itself, being of different constituents, in different places has caused the several colors. They look like the colors of a rich Persian rug blend­ed in curving lines. The mountains, which really constitute the surrounding walls of Petra and give it the name of the “Rocky City,” and makes it the most impregnable place in the world, are from 1,500 to 5.000 feet high. .Some of the dwellings and temples are 100 feet in height. The ex­cavations are 20 and 40 feet deep.

doubtless have induced them to fully pre­pay their missives, had they known how many stamps were required.

The scrimping, half-ounce weight, in short, was better suited to the age when letters were addressed on their hacks, with­out envelopes, than it is to these times, when the use of a separate wrapper is uni­versal.

Social Side o f the President.

[Cilol>e-Demoorat C orrespondence. 1

Although a rather dutiful member of the Episcopal Church, the President makes no more ado about Lent than any of his Presbyterian qr Methodist friends, and keeps on the tenor of his way undisturbed by the rector's sermons and severe injunc­tions each Sunday morning. He will keep up his State dinners until he has dined every member of the present Congress, and this unwonted social activity on the part of the President is taken as one of the surest indications of his political ambi­tions. Heretofore the Representatives have felt that they weighed for very little in the social scale at Washingt m un­less they kept house and entertained handsomely. The last Congress left here indignant at what they claimed were social slights put upon them by the President, in his neglecting to give the regulation state dinners to the legislators, and in other ways. This year no such complaint can be made, as the President is doing his whole duty and Congressmen are getting all the attention their wives could require. The New York Congress­men especially are being accorded ail def­erence, and the more doubtful their stal- wartism the more frequently are they and their families included in the White House entertainments. The presence of Mrs. Mc­Elroy has had a great deal to do with fur­thering the President's popularity this year, and this devoted sister has straight­ened out his extravagant household, re­ceived, presided and gone co entertain­ments without respite since her arrival here the last of January.

A J A P A N E R TEM PLE.

The Metempsychosis Still B elieved by .Many Sinners.

(T okio C orrespondent London N ew s. 1 By slow- degrees we reached the temple

step and stood under the shadow of its overhanging roof. Before the temple is a red wooden structure of two stories, de­signed as an entrance gate. A number of large sandals were hung up before images of the , two heavenly king». these are placed there hy persons who desire to be­come good walkers, and hereby avoid the necessity of ordinary training. Close by was a small altar erected to Ji-zo, the help­er of those in trouble—a large class in Yeddo as elsewhere. Three prayer wheels, attached to as many posts, were in momen­tary use, men anil women patiently await­ing for their turn. Home of the Japanese have the comfortable doctrine that any sin which may beset them is due to actions accomplished in a former state of existence. Wishing to be quit of this sin they come and turn the wheel, praying to the little bronze monstrosity squatted above the wheels, and even as the wheel revolves this evil influence may speedily run itscourseto the end. A heap of small pebbles were disposed al»out the image. I thought this was the work of a rival sect, who had been stoning Ji-zo. But our learned guide in­formed us that these had been brought here by the loving hands of childless moth­ers, yearning for the well-being of little ones they had lost. It seems that in the other world there is a hag who haunts the river Ho-dzu-kwa, and whenever a little child appears in sight robs it of its •clothes and sets it to piling up stones on the river hank. These pebbles are the mother's of­fering to lighten the child’s task. Present­ly (it must be some time in the dead of night ) the good Ji-zo will move his in­adequate little legs beneath his great paunch, get some expression into the in­anity of his smooth brazen face, and hie him oft' with the load of pebbles to cheer the little children.

directions for the proper use of hot water. In the first place it must be hot, i. e., not less than 110° nor more than 15U° Fahren­heit. This excites proper action of the digestive organs. Cold water depresses and lukewarm water causes vomiting. For diarrhrt a ,the hotter the water the better. For hemorrhages it should he at blood heat. The quantity of hot water drunk varies from half a pint to one pint and a half, according to the condition of the pa­tient and the disease treated. The hot water should be taken one or two hours before each meal, and half an hour before retiring. This gives the water time to operate before food enters the stomach or sleep comes. The water should be sipped slowly, and the swallowing of half a pint should take half an hour. It takes six months to wash out the liver and intestines thoroughly. If the hot water seems "fiat,” flavorings, such as lemon, sage, or giuger, may he added. The effects of drinking are noticed in the improved feelings of the pa­tient. The urine becomes clear as crystal, and perspiration is free. The digestion im­proves, thirst disappears, and there is no longer a craving for liquor. Taken as a whole, from Dr. Cutter's estimate, the hot water treatment is the most complete remedy yet discovered for all the evils tlesh is heir to.

I i i l n c k v D a y for Committing .Matri­mony.

[B oston G lobe.]

last night my brother was tripping

Gossip About a W isconsin Senator. Buddhism in R elation to Christianity.

The « o f A lcohol.

w hen I ’m only

But. Indies, nil attentions from th is date I liop e

The only favor that I ask is to he left in peace ; For I consider one th in g sure as a n y th in g run

lie—I will not m arry an y g ir l and n one sha ll m arry

nt s just I xaetly w h a t h e said about a year

w. if you cou ld but see h is room s, th ey tire a perfect show

Of netted th in gs and k nitted th in gs, and paintedpltt<pies ;and sor eens.

Of phot ograj ills . »1 fi imouis m en , and B ea u ty ’s liv - Iing cjnee ns ;

W hile i:>n th e hearl:h.st< m e s its h is Avife—sh e’s 1sw t iC t HI ,.! g.<>od i kn

And if ; of th-e w ords h e saiil a y«*sr 1

lie an**wers yoi 1, w it hoi;it a b lush : “ Oh, th a t’s j: UKUlli l W!nv ;

No «HU• belie■ves a si ngle word old bachelors m ay |Sit)

W hen th e right niig:el com es a long, th ey m arry |

brother.

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Lent.

iiir-e. u nfeeling feller the loan o f your timbrel]« 1 him it's Lent.

If an y trump presu m es to follert n d begi th e loan o f h a lf a dollar

him it's I«ent.

And so tell all w ho com e to borrow f'.une treasured arti< le to -m orrow —

T ell ’em it's L ent.

iis sw eet poem possib ly «lates hack to th e if our first father in th e garden o f Eden, hut « is n o t o n e person in a thousand w h o e v e r

or heard o f it; therefore a reprint m ay

e in terestin g reading :

That m an m ust lea«l a h app y life W ho is «lireeted by a w ife.W ho’s free from m atrim onial ch ain s Is sure to suffer for h is pains.

Adam cou ld find no so lid peace Till he beh eld a w om an's face ;W iien E v e w as g iv e n him for a m ate,Adam w as in a h appy state.

In all th e fem ale race appear Truth, d arling , o f a heart sin cere ; Hypocrisy, d eceit and pride,In w om an n ever «lid reside.

What ton gu e is ab le to unfold The w orth in w om an w e b eh old ?The fa ilin gs th a t in w om an d w ell Ar«- a lm ost im percep tib le .

Cost of it lioal of Bread.

Edward Atkinson of Boston, the eminent statistician, has sent to the .State Committee on Labor and Education a very elaborate calculation showing the cost of a loaf of bread made at the East from the grain grown on the fields of Iowa or Dakota, and how the cost is distributed. This history of the cost of a loaf of bread is a very inter­esting and ingenious one. and at the same time very simple. Of the value of 100 bar­rels of (lour $300 goes to the Dakota farm­er. the freight to Boston will l>e $107.5)0 ; the barrels will cost $45, the grinding $50, and the commissions and cartage $50, mak- mg the total cost of the hundred barrels of Hour $682.50 when the Hour reaches Bos­ton. The baker then takes the hundred barrels of flour and adds $210 worth of oven-heat and yeast and $200 worth of labor, so that when the Hour jgoes into the shop for sale in the shape of 3,000 loaves of bread it has cost $1,092.50—an equivalent of 31 cents a pound. For this bread the baker or the retail dealer gets 7 cents a pound ; that is to say, the baker and gro­cer in Boston get at>out one-half of the money paid for a barrel of Hour, the farm­er gets a fifth, the railroads one-tenth, the miller, merchant anil cooper one-fourteenth.

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Names o f Onr Colleges.

The following information about our colleges is given in an exchange: Har­vard College was named after John Har­vard, w ho, in 1638, left to the college £779 and a library of over 300 books: Williams College was named after Colonel Ephraim AN illiams, a soldier of the old French War: Dartmouth College was named after Lord

[X , Y . Indep en d en t.)

As early as 1850 the use ot alcoholic bev- j erages had been condemned by the best ! medical authorities in Great Britain and j the United .States, as not only needless but ; positively injurious. Prior to that time I alcohol had been demonstrated to be a poi- ! son in a healthy body. Two thousand of j the best medical and surgical gentlemen in j Great Britain declared, over their signa- j tures, that “the most perfect health is com­

patible with total abstinence from all intox- | icating beverages,” and that “total and uni­

versal abstinence from such beverages another would greatly contribute to the health, prosperity and happiness of the human race.” One hundred and twenty-five of the first physicians in New York united in declaring that “alcohol should be classed with other powerful drugs, aud when pre­scribed medicinally it should be Avith eon- scientius caution aud a grave sense of re­sponsibility.” Boon after the publication of these views an article appeared in the Westminister Review advocating alcohol as food. Some French investigators, how­ever, of a high rank, quickly exploded this pernicious theory, and that paper magnani­mously retracted it. Ex-Governor An­drew, before a legislative committee of Massachusetts, Avith a great array of learn­ing1 reasserted the theory that alcohol is food, or at least an assimilator of food, aud the effect of it has been a reac­tion of sentiment in some circles of

Senator Philetus Sawyer, of Wisconsin, is a short, thick-set man having the appear­ance of a successful grocer. He always stands Avith his hands in his pockets and head cocked on one side like a rooster deliberating which worm he shall eat. Senator Sawyer is, however, one of the best hearted men in the Senate. The Detroit Timex tells this story as illustrating his generosity : He is a successful lumbermerchant, and many good stories are told of his youthful experiences. He was “raised” in St. Lawrence county, New York, “bought his time” of his father and started out for himself AvhenJ seventeen years old. He had in his belt $1,2(J0 and $99 to pay his expenses on his way West. He wanted

dollar and borrowed it oi h is In a few years he began to ac­

cumulate. He made lucky speculations in timber lands and his wealth increased. Recently he returned to his old home in St. Lawrence county, New York, where he found his brother in straitened circum­stances. Debt had got the best of him, and to satisfy a mortgage his home wras about to he sold. What is the amount ? said Philetus. lw elve hundred dollars, an­swered Philemon with a face as long as a signal officer's report. “Oh, brace up." said the Wisconsin statesman, “I’ll pay you what I owe you, which with the interest will be enough to straighten this matter out.” “But,” said the former, “you don't OAve me anything.” “ï’es I do,” replied Shorty. “You remember lending me $1 when I first went West? Well, here it is with returns," and he counted out $1,500.

« “Every dollar 1 took away Jwith me has society. But the battle has been fought . brought me $1,500 in return. If you ever over again, and the demonstrations ot the i hard up let me know and I’ll help you ripest science are against alcohol at all as a ! ont again.”beverage, and also as a medicine, except in exceedingly rare cases. In the language of the “Sanitary” editor of the Independent: “Every gain in sanitary knowledge and in the study of the conditions of perfect health tends to drive alcohol from use.”

The employment of alcohol in medicine is immeasurably reduced, in the practice of the most scientific physicians ; and, in the London Temperance Hospital, after eight years of thorough trial, it has been fully demonstrated that it can he dispensed with altogether in the treatment of all diseases.

The Next Step in Cheap Postage.

[N ew Y ork Sun.]Now that two-cent postage is an accom­

p lie Coming Horse.

The horse for which there is a vacancy in all markets, says the Spirit o f the Timex, is the American roadster, of fifteen and a half hands, dud 1,100 pounds weight, with three inches more of height aDd 300 pounds of Aveight added, xvithout any loss of his present excellencies. Already in every di­rection there are sires within 100 pounds of this standard, and they are fast growing in popular esteem and patronage. And it is inevitable that, in the natural course of things, the active, hea\y horse will ere long be developed and generally diffused. To satisfy the demand this horse must walk with the plow, or binder, or loaded

plished fact, it is time to cast around for i wagon, five miles an hour; must trot three the next reform in the postal system. It 1 will be necessary, no doubt, before dimin­ishing the postal revenues to find out how they are afiectol by the great reduction ol October 1st, 1883, and ascertain when the postoflice department will recover from the temporary lessening of receipts aud again show an annual surplus.

But the next accommodation for the people should lie an increase in the maxi­mum weight for the single letter from

hours together twice a day, with his own weight behind him.^at ten miles and hour,'; and, as the most symmetrical form proves the strongest, he must hax e a form of per­fect symmetry and a step and carriage elastic, vigorous and graceful. To do Lis best he must be under perfect discipline and control, and have the highest culture, so that his intelligence, gentleness and docility may be conspicuous. Such a horse is needed not only on the farm machine

its present standard ol halt an ounce ; and wagon, but also on the hack, the coach, to a lull ounce. It is true that the permis- 1 ^je express wagon, the fire engine, and the sion to carry an overweighted letter and to artillery carriage and caisson, and is in in­collect trom the receiver the surplus post- | creasing demand for stately carriages for age due neutralizes some of the objections our 0wn and European cities. English to the present system ; but it does not re- buyers are coming regularly to our inland move them, i here are two good reasons i cities and paying high prices for roadsters lor increasing the standard weight ol the - 0f over 1,200 pounds, and New York and single letter. One is the general policy of 1

At the last large meeting held in Febru­ary, by the Victoria (Fhilsophical) Insti­tute, 7. Adelphi Terrace, Loudon, a paper

j was read by the Rev. R. C. Collins, M. A., on Buddhism in relation to Christianity.Referring to the parallels between the persons aud characters of Buddha and Jesus Christ, he said :

Take, as a prominent instance, the birth stories. I need not here give details, which ure to he found in any modern work on Buddhism. The supposed miraculous con-

j ceptiou ; the bringing down of Buddha from the Tusita heaven ; the Dèvas ac­knowledging his supremacy : the presenta­tion in the Temple, 1when the images of Iu-

I dra and other goir threw themselves at Ins feet ; the temptation hy Mara—which legends are embellished hy the modern writer I have already quoted, under such

j phrases as “Conceived hy the Wholly Ghost,” “Born of the Virgin Maya,” “Song of the heavenly host,” “ITesentatiou in the Temple and temptation in the wilderness”

I —none of these is found in the early Pâli texts. The simple story of ancient Bud-

( dhism is that an ascetic, whose family 1 name was Gautama, preached a new doc­

trine of human suffering, and a new way of deliverance from it.

There is no thought in the early Bud­dhism, of which we read in the Pâli texts, of deliverance at the hands of a god ; but the man Gautamo Buddha stands alone in

! his striving after the true emancipation , from sorrow aud ignorance. The accounts 1 of his descending from heaven, and being j conceived in the world of men, when a pre- I ternatural light shone over the world, the ; blind received sight, the dumb sang, the

lame danced, the sick were cured, together j with all such embellishments, are certainly j added by later hands ; and if here we rec- ■ ognize some rather remarkable likenesses

in thought or expression to things familiar to us in our Bibles Ave need not lie aston­ished. when Ave refiecthow great must have been the intluence, as I have before hinted, of the Christian story in India in the ear­ly centuries of the Cnristian era, and, per­haps, long subsequently. This is a point which has been much overlooked ; but it is abundantly evident from, among other proofs, the story of the god Krishna, which is a manifest parody of the history of Christ.

The Bhayavat-Gita' a theosophieal poem put into the mouth of Krishna, is some­thing unique among the productions of the East, containing many gems of what we should (»11 Christian truth wrested from their proper setting, to adorn this creation of the Brahman poet and indicat­ing as plainly their origin as do the stories of his life in the Maha-Bharata ; so that it has not unreasonably been concluded that the story of Krishna was inserted in the Maha-Bharata to furnish a divine sanction to the Bhayavat-Gita. If, then, as there is the strongest reason to believe, the Chris­tian story, somewhere between the first cast-iron wheels have been removed trom a and tenth centuries of the Christian era s' certain line of cars ; only 10 were worn forced itself into the great Hindu epic, and i ou ̂! the remaining 98, 16 had been was at the foundation of the most remark- 1 tread, 18 were cracked, 56 fiat 4 seams and able poem that ever saw the light in India, : four spotted. A few years ago when cars can we be surprised if we find similarly 1 were lighter, chilled wheels were probably borrowed and imitated wonders in the later ! the most economical use, although many Buddhist stories also ? 1 disadvantages resulted from imperfections

Several Home and Colonial applications I io the tread. Chilled wheels have, bow-

“1 dreamed: dead,” said one of two shop girls

down Winter street.“Thai's a sign there's going to be a mar­

riage in the family,'* said her companion.! “Did you cry ?”j “Did 1 ? My goodness, 1 should think

so. Who wouldn’t?”“Then you ought to have counted the

tears, and just as many tears ils you shed its just so many days before you’ll he married.”

“Why, hoAv funny. Did you e v e r

try it ?”‘‘What a question ! I ain't married, am

I ? But then 1 cried lots and lots, and I couldn’t count ’em, aud it's just as well,

j for suppose it had come on a Friday ? That's an awful unlucky day."

Uh, don't talk about luck. There’s my j cousin in Salem, she Avas married on Sun­

day—they say that's the liest of all—and what luck did it bring her ? A miserable husband, a divorce case, isn’t much for luck.”

Overhearing all of which the Globe statician was reminded of a clipping stored in his archives with the old play­bills and the articles cut out to save that will never be wanted until the next day after they are burned. According to this

: clipping, which will be read with interest in view of the present leap ÿ ea f and a prospective matrimonial boom, there are thirty-two days in the year on which it is unlucky to marry, upon the authority of a manuscript dated in the fifteenth century. These days are January 1, 2, 4, 5, 7. 10 15; February 6,7, 18; March 1, 6, 8; April 6,II ; May 5, 6, 7 ; June 7, 15; July 5, 19;August 15, 19; September 6, 7 ; October 6; November 15, 16; December 15, 16,17. Consequently January is the worst mouth aud October the best month in the year for marriage. The records show, however, that in Boston, and in fact throughout New England, November is the banner month for matrimony, October holding second place in nuptial favor. For this Thanksgiving day is mainly responsible. It has been consecrated to marriage festivals for many generations. Fast day is another favorite day for connubial ventures, and with a large proportion of our population Easter Sunday is regarded as an auspicious occasion for the xvelding of the matri­monial fetters. Thousands of couples have wedded New Year’s week, unwitting the risk they ran as above set forth ; and it is hardly to be expected that the publi­cation of this list will increase the number of happy families or lessen the regular long roll of divorce suits upon the dockets of the courts. _______

Car W heels o f the Future.

An official of the Boston and Albany, in an article ad\-ocating steel-tired wheels, says: “Car wheels are now being subject- ted to greater strains and rougher usage, and therefore not only require greater hardness of the tread, but also greater strength, toughness or tenacity of the metal of which they are made. During the past few years the average mileage of cast-iron wheels has fallen from 56,540 in 1880 to 29,074 in 1882 on this road. This fact indicates greater severity of service and that the proper quality of material is wanting in the cast-iron wheel. This is j confirmed by the fact that wheels in pass­enger service do not generally wear out, ; but become defective from some other cause. During the last nine months 108

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JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE.

Reluctance to Join With>(*(•«*

to Join -sionivts.

Mu-

cheap i>ostage ; a second is the existing un­certainty as to xvhether letters are fully prepaid. People who would not grudge a second stamp, yet dislike to waste it by affixing it when it is not needed.

The weight allowed on Great Britain for the single letter is one ounce, or double the present alloAvance for the United States.As we have just followed that country in the reduction of postage to two cents, the equivalent of the English penny, so now we may well adopt its standard of letter weight. That standard has existed there lor years, and the annual surplus revenue of the British postoffice is nevertheless over $13.000,000.

It may be said that this increase of weight would chiefly benefit business andprofessional men. But that is a hasty in- _ _l'erence. As a fact, probably no corres- requires her to leave him. She doubtless

Chicago are watching the breeding districts and buying from $600 to $2,000 per span for horses for exportation ; while the French government, demanding 10,000 horses a year, has just found the way to our markets. But the horses secured are wanting in weight and in the perfect edu­cation essential in seenring the highest prices.

Legal Status o f the Drunkard’s Wife.The Supreme Conrt of Iowa doesn't take

a sympathetic view of “the drnnkard's poor wife,” who so often figures pathetically before the public, judging from the follow­ing recent opinion rendered by that body : “She chose a drunkard for a husband, and she ought to discoarge the duties of a drunkard’s wife. She does not show that her personal safety or even her well-being

to join the Institute as guinea Subscribers j were received, and its object being to in­vestigate all philosophial and scientific j questions, especially any said to militate | against the truth of the Bible—a discussion ensued in which Mr. Hormuzd Kassam, Professor Leltner, from Lahore, Mr. Coles, an earnest student of the question during 25 years’ residence in Ceylon, Professor Rhys Davis, and others took part. All agreeing in and confirming the statements of Mr. Collins’ paper. Dr. Leitner brought a large number of photographs of early Indian and Tartar sculptures, showing the first introduction of the Christian story in­to those monuments between abont the second and tenth centuries, and he pointed out the value of such additional confirma­tion of Mr. Collins’ statements.

ever, since proved unequal to the heavier loads, higher speeds, and the use of con­tinuous breaks.”

Good Scheme.

At El Paso, Mexican dollars are worth 85 cents in American coin. At Paso del Norte, just across the river, American dol­lars are worth 85 cents in Mexican coin. One morning a car-driver started from the American side with a Mexican dollar. On his arrival at the Mexican town he took a drink of whiskey, which was 15 cents, and received an American dollar in change for

LBen IV rley Poore, in Boston Budget.)

Breckinridge Avas a remarkable man, and he turned his back on the Union with marked regret. Sunset Cox tells a capital story of a supper party at Colonel Forney's, at which Lawrence Keith (a South Caro­lina Congressman who urged Preston Brooks to assault Sumner) undertook to portray the Kentucky horse-raiders. Breckinridge stood it for awhile, but Keith persisted in returning to the Bluegrass region for a location of his stories, and finally Breckinridge retorted. He de­scribed a recent visit to South Carolina, and his meeting there with several of the original secessionists. Une of them, who Avas a militia officer iu Keith's ow n dis­trict, had just returnd from a muster, ar­rayed iu faded regimentals of blue jean, with dragoon's sxvord trailing at his side, anil a huge fore-and-aft chapeau, sur­mounted with a long feather. He was full of enthusiasm for the cause, aud descanted with particular eloquence upon what he called the wrongs of the South.

“ '1 tel) you, sah,* said l*e, addressing me (Breckinridge), ‘we cannot stand it any longer ; we intend to fight ; it is impossi­ble, sah. that rve should submit, sah ; not for a single hour, sah."

“1 asked him,' said Breckinridge, “What are you suffering from ?” anil he replied:

“Why, sah, we are sulfering under the oppression of the Federal government. We have l>een suffering under it for twenty-five years or more, and we will staml it no longer.”

Breckinridge then turned to Keith and said : “I advise my yong friend here from South Carolina to visit some of his con­stituents before undertaking to go to Avar

with the North, and advise them to go through the Northern States, to teach them what an almighty big country they will have to whip before they get thiough."

Breckinridge was sincere in his remarks, yet not many months elapsed before he was forced into the secession by Keith, Prior, Ruffin, and the other agitators. He

! did not, however, shoiv much zeal in fight­ing, and it is related of him that after peace had been restored he fourni himself at a railroad station at St. Paul with the veterans of the 1st Minnesota, who were celebrating their anniversary. They had a hadsome silk flag, and as they unfurled it the band struck up the inspiring si rains of “Hail Columbia.” General Breckin­ridge, who sat in a corner with ex-Governor Beriah Magoffin and two or three other friends, listened to the music, watched the

! banner as its folds spread out in the breeze, then reverently raised his hat from his head, waved it before the stars aud stripes, anil exclaimed, loud enough to be heard by chose near him : “That is the flag, after all ; thank God for it.” A noble sentiment from a noble heart.

John Brown, the A bolitionist.

John Brown xvas l»oru at Torrington, Connecticut, May 9, 1800. He was de­scended in the sixth generation from Peter Brown, an English carpenter, who signed the compact in the cabin of the Mayflower, and died iu 1633. When five years old John Brown was taken to Ohio. His youth was uneventful and obscure. At the age of eighteen he went to Massachusetts, with the design of obtaining a collegiate educa­tion aud entering the ministry; but, being attacked with a disorder of the jeyes, was compelled to abandon this purpose and re­turn to Ohio. In early manhood he was a surveyor, and traversed the forests of Pennsylvania and Virginia. Later, he was for ten years engaged in business in Pennsylvania, anil subsequently in Ohio as a tanner, a cattle dealer, and speculator in real estate. In 1H46 he removed with bis family to Springfield, Mass., and dealt in wool as a commission merchant, without success. In 1849 he went to North Elba, New York. Avhere he toiled upon a sterile, rocky farm among the Adirondaeks, and where his body now lies moldering in the grave. As early as 1839 he had formed the great life purpose, which he never relin­quished, for the destruction of African slavery. Thenceforward there was no di-

: vergence in his career. He was not dis­tracted by ambition, nor wealth, nor ease, nor fame. He never hesitated. Delay did not baffle nor disconcert him, nor discom­fiture render him despondent. His tenacity of purpose was inexorable. Those relations, possessions, and pursuits which to most men are the chief objects of existence— home, friends, fortune, estate, power—to him were the most insignificant incidents. He regarded them as trivial, unimportant, and wholly snlisidiary to the accomplish­ment of the great mission for which he had been sent upon earth. His love of justice was an irresistible passion, and slavery the accident that summoned all his powers into dauntless and strenuous activity.

Our Well-Worn Earth.

That the falling drop will wear away the stone, is a saying which adult persons have not lieen able to verify by observa­tion ; but it is not so generally understood that falling drops will wear away a moun­tain or wash away a continent. Rain, frost and ice have ground down the sum­mits of loftiest mountains, and there are few high peaks now in existence which have not been much higher, and which are not being steadily leveled by atmospheric agencies. In colder climates solid glacier rivers are also found, which, moving im­perceptibly, but with irresistible force hol­lows out valleys and grind down the su­perincumbent rocks. The sea also devours the land rapidly. Furthermore, innumer­able rivers, streams and springs are per­petually loosening the soil, rasping down the rocks with sand, and bearing off bil- j lions of tons of solid matter to the sea bot-

the waters, so that the entire globe would form one shoreless ocean. The coral islands would form no exception ; for the coral builders cannot live above water, nor could their islands ever have reached the surface except for subterranean upheavals, llius the tendency of the world's crust is to become uniformly smooth and level and to surround itsell wit an envelope of Avater. But within the earth enormous forces are at work to counteract this tendency, forces which manifest themselves iu volcanic ac­tion. and in sismio action and in other anil even more mysterious actions.

The life is

Everyday Drollery.

t h e g a m e o fhand to hold that of your best girl.

A no pun letter—One containing merely the terrible words, “please remit."

Patience on a monument : Waiting for money to put up the Bartholdi statue.

The pen may he mightier than the sA vord, but at killing time the pig always leaves the pen for the knife.

A West Point duile wanted a cannon placed on a high hill so it could be said that the hill had a bang on its brow.

An Illinois widow became so crazed by religious excitement that she insisted that the minister should marry her. As there Avas no fee in it he refused.

A Connecticut man is so mean that he has made his wife save up her wedding cake for seven years, in case they should ever have company to supper.

Antrim N. IL, has twenty-one “oldest in­habitants,” all over four score. When they get together they can make up a weather lie that will put even a red sunset to blush.

No, Adela, book agents have not what is known us second wind. Prize-fighters have ; but book agents have not. They do not need it. They never lose their first wind.

“Oh, dear!” exclaimed Miss Flight, “how dizzy 1 am—my head spins round like a top !” “A-very happy simile,” re­marked Fogg, “for everybody’s head, yon know, is atop."

“I’d like to lm e yon give me a good send-off,” said a man to the city editor the other day. “Well, as soon as my boots come back from the cobbler’s I’ll do it,’’ Avas tlie effective reply.

A Vermont man has a hen 39 years old. The other day a haAvk stole it, but after an hour came back Avith a broken bill auil three claws gone, put doAvn the hen and took an old rubber boot in place of it.

Murat Halstead wrote three editorials oppossng the rise of the Ohio river, and it kept rising. Then McLean, of the Enquirer, urged it to rise higher, and it began to fall. This shows the power of the Cincinnati press.

A citizen of Wisconsin who was lning in etfigy a fetv weeks ago s a y s he Avas com­pletely cured of liver complaint inside of three days. Don’t throw aA vay your money on doctors A vh en a dollar will hire some one to hang up your old clothes.

How a Pig .Made a President.

About this time, says the Boston Globe, iu knots about the sunny corners and around the depots anil hotels, Avhen politi­cal stories are in order, you will occasion­ally hear some old stager remark that “a pig once made Andrew Jackson President.” It Avas never my fortune to meet one who could remember hoAv it came about, but in a copy of the A merican Traveler for Decem­ber 18, 1829, being volume IV. No 50. I find all the particulars, which I copy for benefit of the Society for the Perpetuation of Old «Stories. It appears that away back in the eariy part of the Nineteenth century in the tOAvn of Cranston, R. I., Mr. «Some­body's pig rooted through a fence and de­moralized a'neighbor's cabbage garden. The garden owner sued the pig’s proprietor. James Burrill was the prosecuting attor­ney. The prosecuting attorney was a can­didate for the United States «Senate. The Senator was chosen by the .State Legisla­ture. In that l>oily there was a tie, occa­sioned by the absence of one of Burrill's party, who stayed away on account of the lawsuit aforesaid. The said tie was un­raveled hy the casting vote of the .Speaker in favor of Burrill’s opponent, Jeremiah P». Howell. Jeremiah voted for the war, which James would not have doue. The war was made by a majority of one in the National «Senate. That war made General Jackson popular, That popularity gave Jackson the Presidency.

A City o f Churches.Montreal has a far better right to the

title of “City of Churches than Brooklyn. It not only supports sixty French Catholic churches, but the French cathedral situated there is the largest church building on this continent. It is built of limestone, and 15,000 have often been «assembled under its roof.

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his Mexican. On his return to the Ameri­can side he took another drink of equally j tom, where the whole mass is squeezed by- band liquor and received a Mexican dollar the terrible hydraulic pressure into stone,

pondenee is so terse as that of business, in„ __________________ which double letters are rare exceptions.

Dartmouth. Avho subscribed a large amount The great body of city people who have anil was President of the first Board of no weighing apparatus, and who mail their trustee»: Brown University received its letters in the street corner boxes, would be name trom Nicholas Brown, who was a specially benefited by the change. It is graduate ot the college, went into business, , letters of friendship or family information became very wealthy and endowed the col- that are apt to be the longest. Every I ge \ cry largely ; Bowdoin College was office, however, that receives a large mail

named alter Governor Bowdoin of Maine; is made aware that even in othert ale College was named after Eliha Yale, than private correspondence many letters j always broken. In a few words, as she who made very liberal donations to the come marked with postage due, when the j knowingly married a drunkard, she must

sell-interest or pride of the writers would be content to be a drunkard s wife.”

would have lived more comfortably in the society of a sober man, but she ought to have considered, and doubtless did con­sider, the discomforts of a drunken hus­band when she married the defendant But, she . urges, he promised reformation before marriage. His failure to keep his promise did not jnstify her in deserting

The H ot Water Rem edy.The London Lancet contains an exhaus­

tive article on the “Therapeutical Drinking of Hot Water ; its Origin and its Use.” The article is written by Dr. Ephraim Cntter, an eminent physician of New York city, and contains some statements and suggestions, which to say the least, are certainly worthy of attention. Dr. Cntter says that the first use made of hot water

him. All the world knows that such ; as a medicine or “health regulator,” was promises made by a drunken man are made by Dr. James H. Salisbury of New

York, who by a series of experiments on men and various animals, demonstrated its efficacy. In his article Dr. Cutter gives

for his American, repeating the drinks at intervals daring the day, and at night he closed np business with the Mexican dollar he started with in the morning.

Susan B. Anthony has been in Washing­ton some time canvassing among Congress­men In behalf of female snffarge. One day last week she encountered a new member from the far West, who, being introduced to her, broke ont in the following:

“Glad to make yonr acquaintance, Mrs. Anthony. Saw yonr son in the Senate the other day. Looks a little broke down. Never mind that. Ought to feel prond of him.

marble or solid strata of some kind. The Mississippi alone carries annually to the sea 812,500,000,000 pounds of mud. All the habitable land of the globe is being continually ground and washed away— planed down to the ocean level; while the sea bottom is being steadily filled up. The deposit of foriminiferal shells alone— not including other remains—is sufficient, as Hnxley has calculated, to create a bed of limestone in the bottom of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans 800 feet thick, suppos­ing these oceans to have existed only 100-,

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