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And sighed when I recalled the face, of one--our only boy ? And what if all alone I rang a well-remembered lay-- "Wall gather at the river," and smiled my tears away 1 And then 1 thoTtsht of all the yean we've walked the earth together-- Batftt YEAR OOCI'K «rift of foil and hope, of fair ahd cloudy weather; And many more, yet brighter far, may ba our lot bt-loW, 3Per to iy»th of rlsuttHiUs juge, rich fraits fo»Ter grow. - • fito please come back and bring the bairns---I want oEce«mcre to heer Una manic of their voioes, and feel that very near The sxtgela off the little ones are listenis# to^el! o'er The story of oar happiness to those gene on Defore. Sear wife, I'm getting lonesome, and getting old, they say; Ho wonder, for the house is still--I'm forty-nine to­ day ; Ifcat sever mind, Love's evening hath visions just as •bright As ever blessed its morning--God bless thee--wife. -St. good-night. Louis Mepublicun. ?..• • / on-i VOYAGE OF THE BALLOON ZENITH. if t <v« /",» l: f, 1 • t • v 'ij[ \ 1*3? #f?T •f't i"-U*. . Jftx.-.-ih h, * > '! L-, -< «, y ^ » { V " i£ •*• v < -jfCT K s *• * rrhe following account of *th&moet remark­ able balloon voyage ever attempted is trans­ lated from La Nature, of which journal M. Tissaiidier, the writer of the article, ia chief editor.] On Thursday, the 15th of April, 1875, at thirty-five minutes past 11 o'clock in the morning, the Zenith rose from the earth at the gas works of Viliette. Croce- Spinelli, Sivel and myself had taken our places in the boat. Three bags filled with & mixture of air and oxygen, in the proportion of 70 to 100, were attached to the circle, and from the lower side of each of them a tube of caoutchouc passed through a bottle filled with aromatio liquid. This apparatus was designed to furnish in the high regions of the atmos­ phere the oxygen necessary to the main­ tenance of life. An aspirator filled with the essence of petroleum, which a low temperature does not solidify, was sus­ pended outside the boat; it was de­ signed to be arranged vertically at an altitude of 3,000 meters for the purpose of passing air into potassium tubes de- signtid to test the quantity of carbonic acid present in the atmosphere. Sivel t«ui attached within wwh Rome hafm of ballast which could be emptied by cut­ ting the little cord which confined them. He had fixed under the boat a thick straw mattress to moderate the shock on descending. Croc-e-Spinelli carried las fine spectroscope, so frequently used in the preceding voyag^ of the Zenith. On the ropes of the boat were suspended two aneroid barometers, verified the same morning under the pneumatic ma­ chine and giving, the first, the pressures ©ortesponding to altitudes of 0 to 4,000 meters, the second those from 4,000 to 9,000 meters. Near these instruments hung a thermometer of reddened alcohol giving the measure of the temperatures down to thirty degrees below zero ; a thermometer minimum and mMimnm, which, fixed by an endless cord to the valve in the vertical axis of the balloon, could rise and fall in the mass of gas. Above in a sealed box were inclosed the •eight tubes, barometric witnesses, well packed in sawdust, and designed to fur­ nish on the return to earth the precise Information of the maximum of height attained by the voyagers. The instru­ ment to test the point of M, A. Penatf], some maps, some compasses, some print­ ed questions to be thrown from the boat, some dividers, etc., completed the.scien­ tific material of the expedition. The balloon starts ; it XTSG3 i«r tu8 midst of a wave of light, emblem of joy, of hope! Three hours the departure Sivel and Croce-Spinelli were found lifeless in the boat! At about 8,000 meters of altitude asphyxia has struck with death these disciples of •science and truth! It falls to the lot of their companion, miraculously escaped from death, to shut out for a moment grief from his heart, to .drive away sad, memories and gloomy visions, in orde^ to relate the facts gath­ ered during the exploration, and to tell what he knows of the death of his unfor­ tunate and honored friends. From the first moments of the ascen­ sion, beginning with a velocity of about two meters per second and slightij di­ minishing for a distance of 3,5r 0 meters, and then increasing under the constant fall of ballast and the action of a glazing sum to a height of 5,000 meters, Sivel took the prudent care of letting down the anchor and getting every thing ready ior approaching the earth. Hardly were we 300 meters above the ground when he said witli pleasure, "We have started, my friends ! I am well satisfied !" And a little later, looking at the balloon as it swelled to a round form above the boat, " Look at> the ' Zenith !' How splen­ didly it fills ! Is it not beautiful Croce-Spinelli said to me, "Come, Tissandier, courage ! To the aspirator, to the carbonic acid!" and I passed seventy liters of air into the potassium tubes a't the height of from 4,000 to 6,000 meters., But these tubes which I could not at the last moment press into their wadded box would have broken into a thousand frag- ' laenton the descent. These misfortunes • Will be useful hereafter. At the altitude of 3,800 meters the gas escaped freely from the large opening ";#3bove our heads. \ 4,000 iiietcrs the sun is glowing, toe sky is resplendent, numerous cirrus- clouds stretch along the horizon, re­ sembling an opal vapor which forms an immense circle around the boat of the balloon. At 4,300 meters we begin to breathe «#ygen, not because we feel yet the need of having recourse to the gaseous mix- tare, but simply to satisfy ourselves that our apparatus, so well arranged by M , liimousin alter the models indi­ cated by M. P. Bert, is properly per- its work. 20 m. in the afternoon, I breathed the mixture of air and oxygen, and felt my­ self aroused to renewed life by its action ; at 7,000 meters I wrote on the margin of my note book the following words: " I breathe oxygen. Excellent effect." At this height Sivel, who was a man of nnusual physical power and of a san­ guine teiupvi-aiuei-.i., began to close his eyes at short intervals, to grow drowsy, and to become a little pale. But that brave soul did not long succumb ta the encvnachrScnts of weakness. He straight­ ened himself up with an expression of {ia+nrmiimfmn • V»#» mflilo pninhr -- 7 1. v liquid contained in my aspirator after my experiment, and threw the ballast over­ board in ord«r to reach uegions more elevated. Sivel last year had been at a | height of 7,300 meters with Croce- Spinelii. He wished this year to reach 8,000 meters, and when Sivel wished vast obstacles had to intervene between him and his designs. Croce-Spinelli kept his eyes fastened for a long time on his spectroscope. He was radiant with pleasure and cried out, "There is complete absence of the lines of the vapor of water." Then, after having made these words understood, he continued his observations with so much earnestness that he begged me to place on my noic-book the result of ib« read­ ing of the thermometer and the barome­ ter. • During the course of this rapid ascen­ sion it was very difficult for <;s to give that attention to our physiological con­ dition which was necessary. We reserved our resources in this respect for the mo­ ment when we should plluige^jtito the air of the higher regions, without a suspicion of the fatal denouement that paralyzed our efforts. Still it was possible to obtain the following results, which were regis­ tered in our note-books: 13 b. 48 m., 4.G02 meters, Tlmandier, 110 pulsa­ tions to the minute ; 12 h. 55 m.. 5,210 meters, Crooe, temperature of month 37.5 deg.; 1 h. 3 m., 5,800 meters, Crooe, 120 pulsations to the minute ; lh. 5 m„ 5,300 meters, Tiaeandier, number of inspirations, determined by Corce. 26 ; 1 h. 5 m., 5,300 meters, Sivel, 155 pulsations to tue minute ; 1 h. 5 m.. 5,300 meters, Sivel, temperature of the mouth 37.9 deg. The following is a mean of the observ­ ations collected during several consecu­ tive days previous to the ascension : 5 K> I f * s • a. j» s- ^*3 .fa" i.1 ^ i a? it • <s Croce-Spinelli.............. Sivel Tissandier 75 to 85 76 to 86 70 to 80 24 unk'wn 19 to 23 37.30 37.5® 37.4o During the progress of the ascension to the height of 7,000 meters thermome- tric observations were regularly made. They indicate a progressive diminution of temperature up to 3,200meters; and in­ crease from 3,200 to 3,700, and finally a ^radim! diminution from 4.000 to 7,000 and oAove, We give the table of the readings: r Uh.S0m. - . 4 t ( . . . . . . 11 h. 40 ft.'.*.*...*...... ............ " K. it ^ W h. U flGLr.... 12 h. Sim.. lh.5 m. 1 h. 30 m.. on earth 384 7W 2,000 8,200' 3,600 8,«98 4,100 4,887 4,002 4,700 S,21« 5,210 5,800 8.000 8,800 8,700 7,000 7,400 8,000 14 11 8 -8., . 7 1 l.« a o o o o -- s -- s -- 5 -- 5 -- S -- 8 --10 -11 und'd. an altitude of 7,000 meters, I h. For the first time we determined in an exact manner the interior temperature of the balloon, and the results obtained seem to be of great interest. Sivel had perfectly organized the cord designed for raising a self-recording thermometer into the balloon, and Croce-Spinelli made the experiment in two different, ways by the aid of an apparatus I had procured. The thermometer with bent tube con­ tained alcohol and mercury which rose in one of the branches of the tube, mov- after ing an iron index; the index wasbrouglit to the surface of the liquid by the aid of a loadstone. The thermometer indicated that tne temperature of the gas of the balloon v.as 19 deg. at the center, 22 deg. near the valve ; while we were floating at the altitude of 4,600 to 5,000 meters the temperature of the surrounding air was 0 deg. At 5,300 meters the interior tempera­ ture of the balloon at the center attained 23 deg., while the exterior air was 5 deg. below zero. Finally the thermometer remained in the balloon at the moment of our prostration. We found it intact after the descent; it indicated a temper­ ature of 23 deg. These new facts ex­ plain by this great difference of tempera­ ture of the gas of the balloon and of the air in which it is immersed, the rapid ascent of the aerial ship into high re­ gions and its precipitous descent to lower levels. I come now to the fatal moment when we were seized by the terrible influence of atmospheric depression. At 7,000 meters we are all upright in the boat tSivel, for a moment languid, revived ; Croce-Spinelli remained immovable in front of me. "See," said he, "how beautiful those clouds are!" It was beautiful indeed, that sublime spectacle presented to our eyes. Cirrus-clouds of various forms--some elongated, oth­ ers Aightly mammilated--formed around us a circle of silver whiteness. On lean­ ing ever the side of the boat one saw as if down at the bottom of a well^ of which the cirrus-clouds and the vapor below formed the wall, the surface of the earth, which appeared in the abyss of the atmosphere. The skv, far from being black and deep, was of a clear and limpid blue ; the ardent sun burned our faces, notwithstanding the cold began to make its influence felt, and we had al­ ready placed our shawls over our shoul­ ders. Numbness had seized me ; my hands were cold, frozen. I wished to put on my gloves ; but, without being conscious of it, the action of taking them from my pocket required on my part an effort that I was unable to per­ form. ij At tlids elevation of 7,000 meters 1 wrote, however, almost mechanically in my note-book. I copy the following lines, which were written without any positive remembrance on my part of the act. They were traced/ in a manner hardly legible,̂ by a han ̂that was trem- hands are frosen. I an well. 2® w® ^ell FoffontheWizon, with small round cirrus-cfytida. Weareg#- mg up. Oroce is breathing. We respire oxygen. Sivel closes his eyes. I empty aspirator. 1 h, 2* m,, tempemture-- 11 deg. Sivel throws out ballast, Sivel throws out ballast" (the last words hardly readable). Sivel, in fact, who remained some moments Bensive and motionless, closing at timesIhis eyes, re­ called without doubt, his wish to pass the limit in which the Zenith was now floating. He raised up; his energetic form suddenly lighted up with an un­ usual magnificence; he turned toward me and said, " What is the pressure?" •H[e have much ballast; must it be thrdwn out!" I replied, "Do as ypu please." He turned to Crocs and put the same question. lCroce lowers his head in token of very energetic affirma­ tion. There were in the boat at lent five bags of ballast. There was almost as much suspended on the outside by ropes. These, we should add, were no longer full; Sivel had certainly estimated their weightf but it is impossible for us to be precise in this partteftl&K, Sivel seized his knife and cut successively three ropee; the three bags are emptied and we go rapidly up. The last dear reeollectior which remains of the ascen­ sion goes beck to a moment a little an­ terior, Crooe-Spinelli was seated hold­ ing in his hand the flagon of oxygen gas; his head was slightly inclined and he seemed oppressed, 1 had still power to strike with my finger the aneroid barom­ eter to facilitate the movement of the needle. Sivel raised his hand toward the sky as if to show with finger the upper regions of the atmosphere. The illustration represent̂ " Ihe position at this time as accurately possible. But I had not ceased to preserve abso­ lute immobility without doubting thct I had already perhaps lost the power of motion. At about 7,500 meters of eleva­ tion the condition of depression in which one is found is extraordinary. The body and mind become feeble by degrees, gradually, insensibly, without any consciousness of loss of power. There is no suffering whatever. On the con­ trary there is an inward pleasure, like the effect of a radiant light coming sud­ denly upon you. We become indiffer­ ent; we think no more of the perilous situation or of danger; we go up and are happy in doing so. The dizziness of high regions is not a vain word; but, so far as I can judge by my own experi­ ence, tins dizziness appears at. uie last moment; it immediately precedes pros­ tration--sudden, unexpected, irresist­ ible. When Sivel had cut the three bags of ballast at the altitude of about 7,450 me­ ters--that is, under a pressure of 300 (this is the last figure -written wt the tm?e i» my note-book)--J Hnnk I recol­ lect that he seated, himself on the bot­ tom of the boat and soon took the po­ sition before taken by Croce-Spinelli. As for myself I was supported in the corner of the boat, where I kept my position, thanks to this protec­ tion. I was not slow in becoming so feeble that I could not turn to look at tfey companions. Soon I wish to seize the oxygen tube, but it is impossible to lift my arms. My min i, notwithstand­ ing, is still very lucid. I look constant- tat the barometer. I have' my eyes ed on the needle, which comes soon the figure denoting a pressure of 290, m 280, which it passes. I desire to shout, " We are 8,000 meters high!" but my tongue is like one paralyzed. Suddenly I close my Ses and fall lifeless, losing absolutely memory. This was about 1 h. 30 ffi. At eight minutes past 2 I wake up a moment. The balloon was rapidly de­ scending. I was able to cut a bag of ballast to stop the velocity and to write on my note-book the following lines : "We are descending; temperature, 8 deg. I throw out ballast. We descend. Sivel and Croce still in a swoon at the bottom of tne car. We descend very rapidly." ^ Hardly have ll written these lines when a kind of trempling seizes me and I be­ come enfeebled a second time. The wind was violent and denoted a rapid descent/ Some moments after I feel mysel^shaken by the aim, and reoognize Croce, who has recovered; "Throw out Borne ballast," said he; "we are going down." But I could hardly open my eyes, and did not ascertain if Sivel were awake. I recall that Croce detached the aspi­ rator, which he threw overboard, and that he threw out ballast, some blankets, etc. All this is a remembrance extreme- ly confused, which quickly dies out; for I fall again into a condition more com­ pletely unconscious than before, and it seems to me that I enter upon an eternal sleep. , ^ What passed? It is certain that the balloon; impermeable as it was, dis­ charged its Ballast and again went into the upper regions of the atmosphere. At about half past 3 I open my eyes ; I feel stunned, weighed down, but my mind is recovered. The balloon is de­ scending with a frightful velocity. The car is firmly balanced, and describes great oscillations. I drag myself along on my knees and pull Sivel by the arm as well as Croce. "SivelI" "Croce!" I shouted, " wake lip!" My two com- Eanions were crotiched in the car, their eads concealed under their cloaks. I summon my powers a^id try to rouse them. Sivel liad a dark appearance, his eyes were dull, his mouths gaping and full of blood. Croce had Ms eyes bAlf closed and a bloody mouth. .. - To relate in detail what th«n passed is impossible. I LIJPA frightful\wind com- ing upward froin the earth. VWe were yet at a height of 6,000 metersL There was in the car two bags of ballast that I threw out. Soon the earth approaches. I wish to seize my knife to cut thV rope of the anchor ; impossible to find ». . I was like one mad, and kept oftllingvut, " Sivel! Sivel I" \ Bv good fortune I was able to pi my hand on a knife and to detach anchor at the right moment. The co: tact with the earth was extremely vi lent. The balloon seem to flatten, and believe would have remained statiouaiy -but for the violence of the wind before which it dragged. The anchor did not bite, and the car glided along the surface oi uie fields; the bodies of my unhappy friends were jolted hither and thither, and I thought that &t any moment they Y&' • , -J , '• * • * J would fall from the boat. However, ̂ was able to seize the cord of the valve, and the balloon was quickly emptied and lodged against a tree. On jratting foot to the earth I was taken with a violent fever and stink in a swoon. I believed myself about to join my companions in the other world. Notwithstanding, I reoovered gradually. I looked about for my unhappy com­ panions, who were already cold and shriveled. I had their bodies taken to the shelter of a neighboring barn. The descent of the Zenith took place in the plains ib»t hordmv Oiron. two hundred and fifty kilometers from Paris as the bird flies. According to the questions thrown from the ear and, sent to the sitting of the Society of Aerial Navigation by par­ ties who had picked them up, I am assured that the Zenith did not deviate from its route; that the wind blew in a straight line; and that the direction was constant, even to the elevation of 8,000 meters. Its velocity was certainly great­ er in the upper regions of the air than at the surface of the earth. The papers were occupied not less than thirty min­ utes in descending from a height of 7,000 meters to the earth. A paper thrown down by me at half-past 3 o'clock, at the moment of my second waking, and soiled with blood by a slight cut that I made on my hand before my first pros­ tration, was found, still flying in the air thirty-five, minutes after tne balloon came to the earth. After having given the history of the ascent of the Zenith I come to the two important points which have so thor­ oughly taken the attention of the scien­ tific world and the public. "What is the maximum height attained by the Ze­ nith? What is the cause of the death of Croce-Spinelli and of Sivel? The first question is answered to-day by the opening of the tubes, barometric witnesses, invented by M. Janssen, and already employed by Sivel and Croce- Spinelli during their ascension to 7,300 meters, March 22, 1874. The examina­ tion of the tubes goes to establish the fact that t'uo feeblest pressure was from 204 to 262 millimeters, which carries the maximum elevation from 8,540 to 8,601 meters. It seems to me not to be doubted that the death of these unfortunate men is the consequence of atmospheric depres­ sion, It is possible to support during a time of short duration the action of this depression; it is difficult to sustain the continuous offset two con­ secutive hours. Our sojourn in the up­ per regions was in fact much longer than thftf, of any preceding wseension to a great height. 1 win add that the air, being particularly dry, bad perhaps a fatal effect. It will now be asked what is the CftuS© of my safety, I owe my life probably to my pwnulw tempenimnm, essentially !ymj>hatie, perhaps to my complete pros­ tration und th« consequent total arrest of 'the respiratory functions. , I was linntrrv at the moment of departure, and thought at first that Ihis circumstance was peculiar to me; but I have since had proof that if Sivel had eaten, Croce had, like myself, almost no food at all in his stomach. A Strange Silence. a The Cohoes Bulletin says there is re • siding at that place a man aged seventy- five years, who has not spoken to ms wife m twelve years. He has been mar­ ried fifty years, has an amiable wife and several children and grandchildren, and considerable property. The old man and his wife lived together happily until about twelve years ago, when one morn­ ing the wife came down stairs and saluted her husband in a gentle* manner, as was her wont to do, but to her astonishment he made no reply. She spoke to him again and again, but always with the same effect, and ever since that July morning in 1863 the husband has never opened lus lips to his wife. He always' speaks familiarly with the rest of his fam­ ily and friends, but on no occasion or un­ der any consideration would he speak one word to his wife. He always treats her with gentleness and kindness, always providing for her wants with the most scrupulous care, but not one word can be coaxed out of his lips to refer to his strange way of treating her. His wife and himself always occupy the same bed, they eat at the same table, they walk to church side by side, yet not one word has escaped that man's lips for the past twelve years to that woman. His little granddaughter lives with him, and tlmnigh her he always knows his wife's wants, and no request of hers is left un­ heeded. Several friends of the family have tried repeatedly to fathom his strange action, but they always found it impossible to do so. Beady for Her. The other day a Detroit mother poured some ink on the pantry shelf near the sugar box, and went up stairs, leaving her small son playing with the cat. When she came down the boy sat by the win­ dow, wearing a placid, innocent look, but there were ink stains on his fingers. "There! you've been at the dugar!" she exclaimed, as she seized hi# by the collar. "Mother, do yon think I'd steal sugar?" he asked, in a tone of surprise. " Look at those stains on your fin­ gers ! What made 'em ?" " Those stains, mother ?'" "Yes, those stains." "Well, I cannot tell yon a bold lie, mother--I think I've commenced to mortify!" She wasn't quite sure, and he was al­ lowed to go out and play circus.--FY«e Pre9«, THE TAILOR.--A tailor possesses the qualities of nine men combined in one, as will be seen by the following observa­ tions ; 1. As an economist, he cuts coat according to his cloth. 2. As a gardener, he is careful of his cabbage. 3. As a sailor, he sheers off whenever it, is proper. 4.. As a play-actor, he often brandishes a bare bodkin. 5. As a law­ yer he attends many suits. 6. As an ex­ ecutioner, he provides suspenders or gallowses # for many persons. 7. As a cook he is generally furnished with a goose. 8. As a sheriff's officer, he does much at sponging. 9. As a rational and scriptural divine, his great aim is to form good habits for the benefit of hiitt^ >lf and others. , A PIG with a veritable wooden leghob- bfcs about the streets of Dnnleitli. The Noble Bed Min. J?], [From the St. Louis BepuVliaui.], ^ *" Me was one of Barnum's Indians. He was one of those who each afternoon and evening ohase the bounding buffalo and make nim hump himself in the hippo­ drome and who gtalop madly about after the lovely Te-he-ti, yelling with amorous Woojty TT#» was sitting in a lager-beet saloon, where he had just finished his first glass. His hand rested upon the empty mug on the table, and his face were a look of srlooin. Adi^iri^^v. but timorously the observer sidled np and opened a con*srsij»tion ; "Is the heart of the chieftain big within him, that his brow is darkened and his face like the storm-cloud in the heavens? Does he mourn few the lodges of his people, far away to the Westward?" "Ah--git out wid yer ! It's thirsty _ am ̂an' me last nickeJ just gone to the spaipeen beyant i Be any now i" ' ** And do not the thoughts of the red man revert to the past, when the num­ bers of his tribe were as the leaves oi the forest, and when the Manitou smiled upon his wigwam ? Is he not sad that so near him lie the bones of the great Pontine, his ancestor, by the treacherous Illinois!" , " Begone wid ye, now, or don't be blatherm' wid yer furrin gibberish; spake English i" " Two beers, barkeeper--will the red man partake of the firewater of the pale­ faces and commune with his white brother ? Will not the chieft»in "gladden the ears of his white brother with tales of his own prowess; how he followed like the wolf upon the trail pf his foes and returned to his lodge with many scalps at his belt ?" "It's funnin' ye are, stire! IH hist glass of beer wid ye, but how would I be teliin' of thim dime-novel things? 'Dade an' I don't know any tale barrin' wan about a banshee !" ," The chieftain reads not the her *t of his white brother. The white brother would drink the fire-water and r moke the calumet with the chieftain and list to the legends of the Indian. Was the great Hiawatha one of the chieftain's ancestors ?" ^Higher wather, is it? Why, be- gorrfcf the river's fallen two inches 1 An' me aunt had divil a sisther at all at all!" " And was the fair Te-he-ti known to the chieftain ere they sought the haunts of the pale-faces ? Many moons in the past did the chieftain wander with Te- ne-ti in the forest glades and vhisper to her tales of love as the stars shone through the whispering pine trees ?" " An' it's Ta-lia-ti, is it! Ah, wirra! that girrul'll be the death ov me, wid all the racin' an' piungin'! My divil ov a horse is that unasy I'm chafed that bad I'm a martyr. Ah, it's a man a life it is!' " And is not the chieftain lonesome in the great city of the whites ? Yearns he never for his home in the forest?" "Is'tthe on Id sod yon mane? Ah, but it's the tight little country! But the landlord wuz jpippin' an' the praties failed, and', barrin' the fairs an' the chape whisky across the say, Amerik'ys betther." " And still, fee red man" comprehends not the language of his white brother. The face of the white brother, is sad. He win go and leave the chieftaiii alone to his memories and his fire-water." "An'its cracked ye are, sure! Bat ye did the gintlemanly thing, onyhow, in tratin'. May Saint Patrick kape an eye on yez!" The interview concluded, the Indian speaking apparently only his native tongue and being unable to comprehend the English. It is to be regretted that no interpreter accompanies the band, as through him there could be obtained no doubt many interesting legends and in­ cidents relating to Indian life. \ 8 • 1 y Voir Are Diamonds Found I The geological occurrence of the dia­ monds of South Africa has been often described, but some new points of interest are brought out in a recent paper read before the Geological Society of London by Prof. Maskelyne and Dr. Flight. They have found the rock at Du Toit's Pan and other similar diggings to have a soft, decomposed character, consisting of a soapy, steatite; like magma, with a hydfated bronzite, crystals of new vermikilite niinerid, called vaalite, opaline sikca, and other non-essential constituents. This rock has been extensively metamorphosed and fractured, and in many places broken through by dikes of an igneous diorite. It is asserted that "the dia­ monds occur more plentifully, if not ex­ clusively" in the neighborhood of these dikes, or near them in the strata of the hydrous rock through which the igne­ ous material has been ejected. In con­ firmation of this view the writers urge the distinctive character of the diamonds in different localities, and their sharp, nnbranded character. How the dia­ monds have been found can hardly be explained, though it is a point of con­ siderable interest if it may be accepted that the metamorphosed bronzite rock, possibly at places of its contact with car­ bonaceous shales, was the original home of the diamonds.--Harper's Magazine. From Death to Life Again. In France and other Continental coun­ tries the bodies of deceased persons are committed to their parent earth much sooaer after death than is the custom in this country. The law, in consequence, insists on great care being taken to avoid Eremature interment, In Brest lately, owever, a marine fell into a lethargic state, was certified as dead by the hospi­ tal authorities, and his supposed remains were conveyed under military escort to the cemetery. A few days afterward some of those who had buried him were surprised and horrified by meeting him in the street.) Fortunately lie had been reserved for scientific purposes, and when he was placed naked on a marble slab in the dissecting room the sudden ohill revived him. WW THREE wars ago Frank Norton re­ signed a clerkship in the Interior De- Eartment and joined a,professional base-all Iiluft in which he achieved consider- abiewoimtfttion as a batter and catcher. Siut£ Mr. Norton's transformation from a government clerk to the arena of base- hall, he has married and settled in Brook­ lyn, and by the death of an ancient maiden aunt of his wife's, which oc­ curred in the City of Churches a few weeks ago, came into possession of a fortune of half a million. .•4; i A •' v-: OLb GRIMES' t , ' ; s * » , « f . B A U O V . A* iMt that cMcktod her Htu< 90m, ' That han oC IWM the best. She die4^th<mt»«ghorgw*a While In her downy neat, • ' Through trammers' best Mid For ten long years she lay, At mdra and eve, old Grimes >n MZ, . Bnt none the Sabbath day. • She had a nest behind the door, •/ AJ1 neatly lined with hajr; . Her back was bro«xk ard speckM^af ' With spots inclined io gray. ?•«. When e'er tin rain came pelting downL ^ * C » • Or thunders dreadful roar^ % f Until the storm was o'er. if ' ; ' ' Tho' fourteen years of age, almost She still looked young and hate, : And;like Job's turke^ahe could 508#.'« c - One feather in her tail. V %•, She never deigned iheban*-ym<d beau > Hi# face to look 'upon-- ' But loved that one whose long «bHli asmf ' Was heard at ettfly dawn. • "< f ' t • -- t An aged cock, who oft had toM ft' 1 His descent with H sigh-- ". « From one that cried when he waa "/i j His master did deny. V irl •» When poor old speckle closed her ' He jumped the fence and cried, VvV: i He bid the poultry all good-by ,i:; \ ' • .* "*• ..als&thon laid down and died. * ' ' ' ' Km mi. Mat. A WAarr of time--the midule - <rf <W day. y. \ \ ̂Iĵ Bovpfa one's tiiae~-Mending the . i WHO was the old Frenchman who seldom drank water because it has so f tasted of sinners since the flood ? . ^ WHY is one of the rank and file wrho has failed to obtain promotion "like an illicit machine ? Because he is a private still! ANCIENT Grangers--The Mower-bites ° and Scythe-ians, Ancient prize-fighters --The Hit-tiies. Old sailors--The Tar­ tars. • A NEW YORK wag says the railroads of the State are now built of three gauges : t '•Broad gauge, narrow gauge, and mortgage. JOHN SIXNKB, of Rhode Island, wanted his name changed, and it was changed to John Saint. He says he'd as soon W a Sinner as a Saint •HAVE no intercourse with ah enviotls » person, with one who has no regard for you, with a fool, an ungrateful with a vulgar man, or a culmniator. Rocxvntus, Ind., has a base-ball clnb ' the " Fleetfoot " The name wan derived from the resemblance" of the average a*1 boot in that club to a frigate: hence "fleet." " DOCTOR," asked a convalescent* v " can I eat a bit of pork-chop or bacon J this morning ?" "Hardly," replied Medicus ; "to eat the chop would be rash, and the bacon rasher/ THE Western Rochefoucauld says the average gorilla of Oentrsl Afri™ now points to Stanley and his band of explor­ ers, and pathetically reminds its grand- , children that it is what they may one day expect to come to. A FRENCHMAN, incensed at a writer who is not particularly brilliant, spoke } of him as an ass, and then corrected himself : "No ; I am wrong. H <is a mule, who hap ears equally long and - produces nothing." WHEN Arthur was *. verjMnalUttyhis mother reprimanded him one day for A some misdemeanor. Not knowing it, his I father began,to talk to him on the same A subject. Looking np in his face, Arthur J said, solemnly, " Mother has 'tended 1 to me." * " I DON'T take much interest in any- J thing now," said a boy to a playfellow, who was invited to go to a ball match. "Why, what's the matter? You look melancholy !" "Do I? Well, I don't wonder at it, for I'm sitting here waiting for father to come and lick mte, and it u isn't a cheerful business." AN old ladv, observing a sailor go by her door, and supposing it to be her son Billy, cried out to him, "Billy, where lias my cow gone?" The sailor replied, in a contemptuous manner, "Gone to the d>-l! I suppose." ••Well, as you *re going that way," said the old lady, "I wish yon would just let down the bars." 0 ONE of the best double puns we have ever heard was perpetrated by a clergy­ man. He had just united in marriage a ceuple whose Christian names were re­ spectively Benjamin and Ann. "How did they appear during the ceremony?" inquired a friend. "They appeared both Annie-mated and Bennie-iitted," was the reply. ON being asked by one of his fair ( daughters why the bulldog's nose is^r placed so far behind his mouth, the rev- • erend gentleman discovers another in­ stance of the merciful consideration ever shown by--shall we say "Nature?" --to^the humblest of her creatures, and replies: "My love it is to enable him to breathe more comfortably while he is hanging on to the nose of the bulL" As ONE of the dozen old women who drive milk carts around Detroit was rat­ tling across the Campus Martins yester­ day a chap wearing lavender pants and a ' bright blue necktie motioned for her to stop, and then approached', and inquired: "Do you put water in your milk?". "Yes, sir," was her prompt reply. " Ah, ha! So you own. right up' do y<Mi?" "Yes, sir." Her prompt re­ plies rather staggered him, but after some hesitation he asked: "And what makes you do it?" " Because it's much healthier for calves when mixed half and half !" she retorted. She waited for him to ask another question, but he couldn't think of any.--Detroit Free Press. Painlessness of Death from Lightning. Here let me observe that death from lightning must be painless. The nerves V of the human body do not convey a sen­ sation of pain instantly to the nerve- centers. There is an appreciable inter­ val before we are cognizant of what has happened. The time of an electric is a small fraction of this interval. While the velocity of a nervous sensa­ tion of pain is less than a hundred feet a second, that of electricity, varying under different circumstances^ is many thous­ and times greater. We are killed be­ fore we know it. Yet there is probably a greater dread of death from this cause than from almost any other.-- Monthly.