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» tAWLINOj BKLLAi R,, J»T *. «. BTREHAW. 0 dear ! f-om* oottnn ! wbat a fearful «J1n! J VThy, tlure she stands tho BweoteRt elf alive,. tier hair untortnrcd by a crisping pin, .f • ,7 ; J The widest little shoes wo could contrive, '•••£ Ko cruel corset mow poft rf!>.» to fre": Frori a IOOFC bolt hrr light pa*h fluttsrtnf iUk| tThe vorv picture "f lithe tsaen, and yet She b|wls : our Bella bawls 2 And how she bawls! just see those knotted sooirts, How the sobs struggle la htr little throM; What swoiUug gnrRlca, what tumnltncns howls. Ami then, at is»t, that long, <r:M. piercing note; poor Bridget trembles, faithless brothers jeer. Mammi turns pale, " Who's killed?" her fsthd And the^de r yea of startled guests ny, uBlu !" " She bawls! your Bella bawls!*- JLnn ail the worm seems hawimg in repiy; 4. barks like mad, the cross old parrot aookls, The nix canaries, sworn to do or die, bhiii1'; tul a napkin every cage enfolds; The robin* wrangle where the cherries grow, " Th« horses whinny in the distant stalls, The her* all cackle, and the roosters crow-- 8K' (mortal miv M?iU l-«w'_o I With an.rry hum the bees go butting by, The »narrows bicker sharply on the eaves, The rnffled p«acock scream* a fierce reply, The rose-tree rattle? all her fretful ieaves, The very winds of hea\ en, in pettish flaws, Break from the frowning clouds in olatnoroQi squalls, The sleepy thunder growls, and all because She bawls! our Bells bawls! Why d«-s she br wl ? Pear me ! I wish I knew! Cv.W! see these lovely ladirs in a row, "With curls and eyas of suiniatr blue, From Paris, alt complete from top to toe. •What if those two who've lost their wigs look 111, What if that stupid Bid will call them "dawls," "Well cay they're queens «nd nountssses; oh, still She bawls! our Bella bawls! She's turning pnrple! Oh. what shall I do? She'll split her little larynx in a trice; Ooaie, darling, look • your tea-things from Aunt Sue. O pet! this milk snd water is so nioe, The raisins xnust have come just fresh from 8paln, And these meringues, ki melting foamy bails. The sweetest things you ever ate! in vain-- She bawls! our Bella bawls ! Mamma, mamma! one choked and gasping cry, Then shivering on that gentle breast she lios, 04 Sinn, sing," she sobs: the tempest passes by, The starlight glimmers in the softening eyes. And on that storm-swept little heart and brain Faf's the swett voioe, as David's harp on Saul's, There is no charm like mother's singing, when She bawls! our Bella bawls! -- Aim England Journal og Education. BY THE THICKNESS OF A BUTTON. "Ah! there you come at last, do yon f The punch has had a full head of steam 011 this long time," cried old Engineer Zimmermann to several sturdy figures, who, deep buried in thick furs, that left only red noses and gleaming eyes ex­ posed, came puffing, and stamping, and covered with snow, into the engi­ neer's room at Bnrglitz. It is New Year's eve, and the table in the engineer's room is covered with an exceptional neat white cloth, and oa it, next the stove, stands the mighty bowl, at which old Zimmermann is vigorously working, while the clouds of steam that ris" from it, and the empty rum-flasks that stand by it, leave no doubt that its contents are devoted to go at high pres­ sure into throat® of boiler-iron--a genu­ ine engineer's punch. "The devil! Uncle Zimmermann; hard old Sylvester's day this, eh ?" oried the new-eomers, shaking off the snow, and pulSng oft furs, jackets, caps and outer boots. I "What do you sugar-babies know of hard days in your glass houses, on your machines that ro«k you with their easy springs as gentle as if you were in your nurses' arms ? You ought to have stood with us back in '39 and '40 on the little machines that went so hard and jolting you felt every jog of the rai s, from the BOIPR of your feet up under your caps, fend that wouldn't budge a foot if the snew lay a hand's-breadth deep on the rails, and then we stood all out-of-doors, night and day, without screen or shel­ ter, summer and winter, the hottest day In July and the coldest day in Decem­ ber, without any protection but our ©oats and a buffalo outside-coat, that had been well drubbed, I tell you, by the storms. That was something Ifte hard times. But what do you know •bout it ? Far that matter, what's the worst you have to do to what they've put our Hennig through here to-day, who has come off A 1 from his examina­ tion ? And here he is now." "Hallo! old fellow. How was it? How did it go ? Did they make you sweat? Gome, sit down! Bring on the punch !" were the exclamations poured -on the new-comer from all sides. "Less noise there!" broke in the /•harsh voice of old Zimmermann. "Sit .down? Yes! Punch? No! Hornig Franz aren't here yet, that are com- siag in with the freight. It is twenty OBiiautcs behind new, and must be in in ft nnnute or t*vo more. Glass and glass •bout for all; that's fair play." " Weil, now," began the youog can- didate, wiping from his forehead the perspiration that broke out afresh at the irecollection, "they gaye it me well, I can tell you. I was examined by the new rules, you know. There sat a row of chaps, I guess a rod long, and nary one of 'em, except our engine-master, did I ever see on an engine or in a shop. And our engine-master wasn't the worst, either. They questioned me sharp, that's a fact; right up to the handle. But one could understand th%m, and give them some sort of reasonable an­ swer. But what the other fellows asked me I didn't more'n half understand. "Twan't any railroad lingo they used; and what they were driving at--well, yec, I know--I'd looked it up in the books Superintendent Herzel lent me, just lo be able to answer. Never saw anything of it in service, never had any occasion for it, and don't believe I ever shall if I live to be 100." "And wbat in thunder was it all, then? began one of the crowd, lighting his cigar, just as the door was suddenly thro1?™ opon. A cloud of snow burst in, and out of ;t emerged the <iim forms of two new arrivals---the expected engineers of the two engines that had brought in the belated freight train. ' Bravo! Glad you've got here !" was the greeting that met them. " Now pass rouud the punch, and ]et's have the solids in from what's iiis-name's." " Here's a bit of roast for oae thing," cried one of the last arrived, and raised to view a half-scorched hare that he held by the hind legs. "Where did you get that creature? And what are you going to do with him?" " This fellow wished to do himself the honor of making a pert of Hening's treat to night, but probably was in too much of a hu: ry, »nd did himself a little too brown," laughed the possessor of the •" hate. "The red lights of my 'Pluto' routed him out of the hole iu the snow where he sat crouched on the bank as comfortable as you plesse, and he began to run a wager with our train. For two or three minutes, perhaps, I saw the stupid little black rascal skimming oyer the snow in the second track alongside the engine, I gave a short pfiff! That scared him; he put out on a spurt, got ahead into the red light of the signal lantern--perhaps that blinded him--he doubled before the engine as he would before a #og, right across the track. I looked to the other side to see when he would come in sight again, biit he didn't appear. I thought he was either killed or had run back under iho train, and forgot the creature. But when we'd got to Seestadt, and the grate of my engine was being cleaned out, the fellow down underneath there with the poker called out from the ash-hole: ' Hornig, Hornig, Sou've brought a roast with you. I bo-eve the fire of the Pluto has scorched the fellow's brains. Come down and see! Sure enough, as true as I sit here, thprp 1B.IT rriv liare underneath in my ash- box, dead and half stewed. 'The ash-box must have caught him on the jump. He was in a hurry to be roasted." Loud laughter followed the young en­ gineer's story. i # "Now laugh, will you, you stupid blockheads, at the poor beast!" growled Zimmermann, as he filled the glasses; " because vou don't know what a cursed pleasant feeling one has under an ash- box." . "And do you know that, then?' cried several voices, in tones of strong doubt. "I know everything, as you rascals know right well, and have been through everything that can happen between the underside of the rails and the top of the smoke-stack." "But you haven't been in the ash- box?" laughed the company, a little derisively. "Not exactly," replied the old man, very gravely, " but under it, and partly, too, very near in it. But I tell you, I've been by when a splendid train of magnificent cars, full of people in high spirits, with one jolt--before you could lift your hand to your pipe or light a match--was nothing but a heap of kindling-wood and broken screws and pieces of axles and wheels, out of which came groans and cries for help, while despairing men stood round it wringing their hands; and locomotives, like kit­ tens on a roof, leaped down the bank, and rolled once, twice, three times over and over, wheels up and smoke-stack underneath, and all was steam, frag­ ments, fire, hissing, and shrieks; but never 111 five-and-thirty years' railroad­ ing has my heart stood so still as it-did under the ash box." "Tell us about it, Uncle Zim, tell us!" cried voices one could see were used to making themselves heard above the clatter, rattle, and clank of the loco­ motive. " Well, well! I'll do it," he replied, as he slowly undid his tobacco pouch and began to fill his short pipe, " though I don't like to go over the story. To this day there's always some­ thing turns over under the third rib here when I think of it. "You see, boys, the hands that worked this pmnch in those days came near being the hands of a widow then, and my Carl and Julia weren't born yet, though you might even then have called me Stout Franz." " But what's that to do witn it, un­ cle ?" asked the circle. "Weil, then, m the d 's name, light up your plagued elegant cigars again. They suit you dolls in g oases, as the short pipe suits us stout fellows under the free heavens. Pass the glasses this way, and then hold your jaw till I get through. " It was upon New Year's eve, in fhe year 1845, thirty years ago, and a devil of a storm, driving snow and sleet mixed together. I was a young fellow; I'd been married about a year. You know the station is a horrible place for ser­ vice. Let a storm come which way it will, it always sweeps clean across the square that's open and level as the top of this table. In toward the town there is a little cut with two tracks, one or the other of which always chokes up in the first hour of a drifting snow. Just as you get through the cut, in the third house in Garden street, behind the oil- mills that we often cursed for a nuisance, because we always had to shut off steam going by for fear of the sparks from the chimney catching in the shingle roof, I lived with my Louise and Franz, just born, who is superintendent now over at Budrich's. "So, on Sylvester-ove, 1815, 1 came into the station with a heavy freight train from Griesthal, after standing for fourteen hours on the engine in a storm at six below. I was frozen stiff as an icicle, and glad enough, you bet, to get hold of the Sylvester punch. It was get­ ting dusk already as T came in, and through the whirl of glistening flakes, saw the station with its hundreds on hundreds of lights, like a huge Christ­ mas-box. A poor Christmas box for me ! There were collected through the holidays a regular town of cars, some­ thing like 500 of them, and they'd got to bo all made up PO that everything could be off directly after New Year's. Hard­ ly had I got off my engine in the engine- house when up comes the station-master, and says to me : "' Hauser is taken sick, and you will have to take No. 3 in his place.' "'Ten thousand thunders I' said I; ' but I hope it won't last till midnight, Mr. Station-master, for then I must be at home, or there's ill luck for the new year.' " 'Fiddlesticks!' said he ; ' only you be sure you're on hand,' and away he was gone in the driving snow. " I thought I'd taken the matter more to heart than it was worth, and laid the cold shiver that crept over my skin to the uncanny blast that came snorting at me as I came out with the engine. The whole air was full of white snow, and as the wreaths of it drove like white ghosts across the engine, 1 could hardly see the amok'1 stack. • " Of the light-signals one caught only now and then a glimppe, red, white, or green ; of the horn and pipe signals, what with the howling of the wind about the cars and car-wheels, and its sing­ ing in the telegraph wires, and the whistling of the engines, one heard only enough to be sure one had not under­ stood them. Of the shouts of the men one could make just nothing but that they shouted. " Then there were a couple of hun­ dred cars being shunted about in all di­ rections at the same time ; on all aides they came looming like great shadows out of the darkness and thick snow, and straight vanished in it again. The poor switch tenders, wet to the skii.\ up to their knees in snow, sprang this ̂ "ay and that between the rolling cars. You know how a distributing station look's of a winter night. God only knows h>ow 'tis we're not all made mince-meat of the course of ft; and I've all my life long been surprised when next morning I haven't heard that this one or that was killed on the spot. And if anything does happen, the striut gentlemen at the green table in their warm office up there out with the rules out of their pockets. To be sure, it is the only way. But if they would only just f»r once in their lives take the trouble to look on them­ selves outside! " That night, then, it was right bad, and the Sylvester punch, too, may have touched the men's heads a little before­ hand. for the ringing w«nt, nl p rotii oa if Satan himself was giving the orders. The cars flew so this way and that, and the lights went by like flashes, and everywhere one heard the groaning and clinking of the buffers crashing together, and the men crept about under and be­ tween the cars as if the wheels were gingerbread and the buffers downy pil­ lows. Bmt before all there was a wretch­ ed little assistant station-master--I could not bear the man, because he once came very much in my way in a certain matter --but I could not help looking iu amaze­ ment as I saw his signal lantern every­ where, swinging in an inch, swinging horizontally, swinging orosswise, up, d«wn, behind, before, and heard his shrill voice through all the storm. And see, I'd just called to the man as I saw liim slip through between two buffers, that he ought not to be so devilish reck­ less, in a storm where one «ouid neither see nor hear a thing, and might slip down into the bargain. But he had laughed at me, and called out: ' You at­ tend to your own work, Zimmermann, and never mind me; we must be through before midnight -- forward, forward!' and away he was gone. I had called after him with a good will: ' To the devil with yon, then!' and that I shall not for­ get my life long, but shall think of it with sorrow on my death-bed." Here the old engineer made a pause, wiped his forehead, took a draught from his glass ef trnnch, and went on: "I heard him still giving the order ' Forward!' yonder among my comrades, and heard the car-chains clink, and then a sound--what like was it ? have you ever heard a butcher hack through a thick bone with his ax ?--and then a dull cry, and then again, only the cling and clang of the buffers clashing together. A cold shudder ran over me; then I got the signal to go ahead--there was no stopping. ' Forward, forward !' In a moment I was far away in the other end of the yard, where no one could know what had happened. " But I did my duty still, only as if I was dreaming, and when, a half hour later, we bad got through and I entered the engine*hoase again, the boss said to me, ' Have you heard, Zimmerman, A&istant Stationmaster Porges has been killed on the spot, crushed to death be­ tween the buffers ?' " I didn't ask many questions ; my very heart shuddered, and I don't know how I took care of my engine and got on the way home. As I passed by the stairs, I saw a group with lanterns standing there, ana something covered with a cloak lying cm the snow. I didn't stop ; I shivered all over; and I can tell you, boys, I'd have given heaven knows what if I hadn't wished him to the devil half an hour before. I tried hard to get that out of my head. I meant nothing particular by it; 'twas a way of talking common with us. Among you young chaps it's worse yet, and it woui<i cure you if you once felt the crawling inside of you that I have. Well, at last I made out to get thinking of the warm room at home there with the felt slippers all ready, and Louise and the youngster, and the flask of arrack and the sugar and the lemons on the table, and the cat and the tea-kettle singing, and by degrees I began to feel a little lighter. " Now, with all this, and of this and that, you'll readily believe I hadn't too much heed to wind and weather, road or pathway ; and all I knew was, it was whirling and howling yet in the air as I entered the cut by the oil-mill, through whiph I might have seen the windows of my house, if one could have seen anything at all ten paces off. I went ahead op the right-hand track of the two in the cut beeauso that was freer from snow, aftid from that side I could see my house sooner. "And, in truth, I went along quite carelessly, for I was going from the yard, jand that was the in-track, so no train could come on me from behind, and at that hour none was to be expeeted in front. Besides, I must have heard it coming. "Just as I was in the middle of the cut, which lies, you know, in the c»rve, and where that night one eottld not see a car-length off, I heard a whistle be­ hind me, and right after it the clap; and clap of the approaching train. I noticed, too, that the engine was pushing the train before it, because the stroke of the engine was much farther behind than the rolling of the wheels* I thought,. ' Ah ! that is the reserve train of some twenty pair of wheels that stood yonder ahead on the track, and that th®y are shunting over to the freight-house.' But all this passed only vaguely through my mind, as one always thinks mechanically of his work even when kis head and heart are full of other things. I say vaguely.; iu reality I didn't feel the slightest interest in it, for the train mast directly pass me on the other track. But when the ping and pang of the wheels on the hard-frozen traek had got quite close up, and I already heard the coupling-chain on the foremost ear clinking back and forth, and saw the bght ot its signal-lantern begin to glide by me «u the snow, I partlv turned my head to cill out a & Happy New-Year 1' to the fellows upon the train. " But there was no train on the track; and at the same instant I go4 a violent blow in the back. The sparks danced before my eyes--slap !--I lay flat on my faco on the track, and, pustg! pung' the oars began to pass over Eae." Here the old engineer made another pause. It was still as death in the room, and faces breathless and riveted leaned forward and round the table. He filled tbe glasses again, pressed down the to­ bacco in his pipe, and went on : " You sert, boys, when we sit here this way round the table, or stand on the en­ gine, or even, like poor Hornig here to­ day, have to go through a squeeze by those examiners, our ideas come along one after the other, slowly and in some sort of order, so that one can take a good look at'em. They even say ifre engineers are slower than other men, be­ cause all the qui jkness is gone out of us into our engines. But, boys, in the second or so between the blow and my lying flat on the ground, I did "more thinking than ever I did before or since from Easter to VV hitsimtide. *• First about home, the warm room and everything im it, and the New gear's chimes, and the going to church in the morning; then the assistant station- master as he lay there under the cloak on the snow; and then I began reckon­ ing as distinctly as if I was giving the orders for making up all the trains, about the train that was passing over vna TTnm won if. if wail nil tlia wrngg track, the ene I'd been an, ooming out on the in-track? And then all at once I thought, what before in the midst of my cogitating I had forgotten--the •ut- ward track I had seen as early as noon already deep buried in snow, and that was why they were coming out on the in-track. Then I saw plain enough the train just as it stood; there couldn't be more than ten or eleven freight-cars, all our own cars, they all went high above the rails--they would do me no harm. I lay flat enough between the rails. But the engines--the ash-boxes of the en­ gines i I knew all three engines that stiil stood fired up at the station as well as my tobacco-pouch. The " Wittekind' would go harmless enough over me, even though I had been stouter than I was; tke 'Hermann,' too, might be mer­ ciful to me, at any rate if it was carry­ ing little water and fire, and the sleep­ ers Under me didn't stand up too much; but under the ' 85ius, " one of the new, low-built elephants, I was a dead man. Ay! dead ? That womldn't be the worst. I should be slowly crushed and torn into shreds. Whioh engine was it, then, coming there ? "All this, you see, boys J. had thought between the blow and the lying flat; but when I was once down, all cficula- tion ceased, and it was just by instinct I stretched myself out and held my breath and made myself thin as an otter that's trying to get out from a trap, and count­ ed the axles that passed on over me. Every ping and pang spoke distinctly out in syllables, * A wretch-ed death, a wretch-ed death!' And now something heavy catches hold of me! No, it is nothing yet--it only grazes me, and glides clinking its length along over me and off, striking a chill to my marrow-- it is a chain hanging down. But now it comes ! the ground begins, at first gent­ ly, then stronger and stronger, to trem­ ble under me; it comes very slowly. Then I saw at the side that the rails and the snow and the rolling wheel-shadows •ver me grew 6Wr redder, redder. It was the engine fire shining from the ash- box. Now I felt it grow hot on my bare head and neck. The sleepers yielded under me; the rails groaned and bent; the ground shook violently; it is on me. It strikes me violently in the back, presses forward--God have mercy on me! Then rip, crack ! something on me gave way. Pang! pang! rolling! thundering! stamping!--the engine had passed over me and off. From the free heaven once more the snow cloud plunged down upon me. "How I got on my legs I don't know. I stood there, I shook myself, and saw the red lights of the engine disappear round the curve. They looked to me like the eyes of a veritable bodily death. Then I felt myself to see what the engine had turned loose; and, behold I the reg­ ulation buttons were gone from my coat behind. " I went to the nearest switch-tender and got a lantern and looked for the buttons in the snow ; but when we were sitting round the bowl at home, and I was putting in first too much rum and then too much sugar, Louise, wonder­ ing, asked : '*' Husband, what's the matter with you ? You tremble so and don't speak a word.' •* "Then my sense and speech came to me again, and I showed Louise the but­ tons, and told her tbe story, and, holding up a button 'twist finger and thumb, said: " ' See, within so much of a horrible death has your husband been to­ night !' "Look! I have tho buttons yet, and mean to carry them till death comes in reality." The old man opened his coat and drew out two buttons, stamped with the King's arms, which he wore secured by a string about his neok. " And now you know why I pitied the poor creature in the ash-box. I have told you the story because it came up in the talk, but I don't like- to speak of it, because the agony of death was it, and that's something: no man calls to mind willingly. But hark! 19 o'clock! Good luck to us all for the New Year ; and any number of hundred thousand locomo­ tive miles!"--Appleton's Journal, A Case or Conspiracy. A correspondent of the Baltimore Ga­ zette, writing from Lancaster. Pa., re­ lates the following anecdote of Thaddeus Stevens: "Many years ago, when Thaddeus Stevens was practicing law in Lancaster, he was employed to defend two bank officers who bad beefa indicted for conspiracy, they having used the funds of the bank in speculation. • All the legal talent of Philadelphia and sur­ rounding counties had been engaged to assist in the prosecution. When the trial was opened Mr. SteveDS rose, and, addressing the court, said: ' If it please Your Honors, presuming there are differ­ ent degrees of guilt att t«hed to the pris­ oners, my clients, I move they bo tried separately.' The Judge consulted for a few moments with his associates, who consenting, the motion was granted and so recorded. Waiting some time for Mr. Stevens to go on, the Judge at last, becoming impatient, said impetuously: ' Proceed, Mr. Stevens, proceed, we. are waiting for you, sir.' Mr. Stevens rose deliberately, and looking around the court-room for a moment said: ' Did Your Honors ever hearjof one man being tried for conspiracy 1' Then, waving his hand to bis clients, he said: * You can go home; you can go home.' And they did go home. Tbe jury were discharged and the court adjourned. And for this piece of legal stsattogy Thad Stoveus re­ ceived $5,000." A CURIOUS INTIMACY. A Man Wfro Sleeps In his Stable and Claims to Understand Horse Talk, There is a retired trainer, named Long, residing on a small farm in Ala­ meda county, who lives for nothing else but the pleasure of being near horses. He eats his meals in the stable, often­ times passes the night in the same stall with a favorite pony, and among his equine pets is a mare v?ho whinnies in answer every time he speaks to her. Our informant relates that the most perfect understanding evidently exists between Mr. Long and at least three out of the five horses in his stable. Two are re­ cent additions, but even in their the same affinity is seen in a lesser de­ gree. The training of horses, their obe­ dience, docility, and tricks in a circus are no novelty ; all of us have seen a horse fire a pistol, stand «n two legs, waltz, lie down with its trainer, and per­ form a hundred acts of pagacity, but these are simply the result of patient training and systematic correction. What Mr. Long claims is far more as­ tounding. He asserts that, from a life­ long intimacy with horses, he under­ stands their speech; he goes further, and declares that their nasal, guttural, explodent, and unobstructed sounds have a different meaning, are used by the coalition of the brain and vocal or­ gans, and that not only do his favorite horses understand him, but that every sound which they utter is perfectly plain to him. When arguing with him that, though he might comprehend the mean­ ing of the sounds emanating from the vocal chords of a horse, yet it was a patent impossibility for a horse to un­ derstand the English language, he re­ plied : " Living, eating and sleeping with my horses has given me the knowl­ edge I possess, and the same intimacy has acquired for my horses the powers I claim for them."* Here, turning to a slender, light-built gray pony, he said, " Billy, we are talking of you ; if you understand what I am saying, turn your head round on the off side." The pony did so, and then resumed its feed. " Billy," he continued, " tell me your age, how long have you lived here, and on which side of you is your friend Vesta ?" The pony whinnied for about two minutes consecutively, and then, being loose in its stall, walked into the adjoining one occupied by the mare Vesta. "Now," he continued, "do you and Billy w^lk down together~to the trough and drink while I make up your beds." Vesta and Billy walked quietly out and proceeded straight to the trough. While they were out, Mr. Long turned ovey the straw carefully with a fork, and carried on an animated conversation with a roan gelding about fifteen hands high, Vesta's neighbor on the other side. The name of this horse was Poley, and, after talking angrily to him for some minutes about irome fault he had committed the day before, he ordered Mr. Poley to lie down and not to get up until after Vesta and Billy had returned. Our informant saw but little in this to prove Mr. Long's claims, as many a horse will lie down at the word of command ; but when, with­ out a further word, Polty arose and walked out to the water trough after the return of the other two horses, the sub­ ject became as difficult of solution as be­ fore.--San Francisco News Letter. Diphtheria and Its Core. A small quantity of either sulphate of iron, tannin, or chlorate of potash, put dry upon the tongue, and allowed to -dis­ solve there, once in every hour, have all been found to be most efficient rem­ edies in the early stages of diphtheria. This terrible disease appears under three varieties of forms: 1st. There is a fever, severe pains in the back, bones and limbs, and very great prostration. There may fee no soreness of the throat, but, on examining it, small white specks will be noticed on the tonsils, but few or none On tbe rest of the throat. These oases will recover under any and every variety of treatment in four to six days. The great, but false, reputation of lhany remedies and physicians is based upon the necessarily favorable results of these cases. 2d. Large patches of false membrane will be observed, both on the tonsils and back of the throat; but the glands of the neck do not become swol­ len. The majority Of these eases will also rceover under very simple treat­ ment, unless the disease extends down to the wind-pipe, which it rarely does. 3d. True malignant diphtheria, with swelling of the glands of the neck and under the jaw; profuse and often offensive exuda­ tions in the mouth and throat; more or less discharge from the nostrils. Chlorate of potash is a disinfectant as well as a curative remedy,, and, if given pure and dry upon the tongue, every hour, night and day, will rarely disap­ point the practitioner. A small dose, every night, may act aa- a preventive remedy. Sometimes tannin may be given mors readily than the chlorate of potash. The sulphate of iron is rather more irritant, and must be in smaller quantities. The main points in the uee of. the remedies are to give them dry upon the tongue, and frequently and regularly, both by night and day. The Chinese Festival of Tagea. The festival whioh the Chinese pro­ pose to celebrate next week is the au­ tumnal festival of "Ta-Gen," in honor of the Chinese god Hong Wong. The writer, in conversation with a Chinaman who speaks the English language quite fluently, wished to ascertain who Hong Wong was. The reply was, "I no know him ; him dead long time ; may be one time he dam loafer, alia same hoodlum ; now he heap big god." This festival, which occurs during the mid­ dle of the eighth month, Chinese year, lasts several days. .During the festivities they worship the moon, which, accord­ ing to a Chinese legend, is inhabited with most beautiful women, but what they do, or how they live, is something of which tho legend gives no informa­ tion. On that day offerings are made to the moon, and iherohants send out their bills with the understanding that the debtor to whom the bill is presented mnst pay half on that day and the bal­ ance on the following new year. The man who does not pay half of his indebt­ edness on that day is refused credit there­ after.--San Jfyanciaco Call. SHOB-LK&THXB is now made from stur« geons' skins. THE CsioAoo LEDGER is said to have spent $50,-000 in advertising the past two years, and, by the looks of the newspa­ pers throughout the United States, we should say it would take as much to go round this year. And to cap the climax the proprietors have announced their pa­ per at $1.00 a year. How it is done is a mystery, unless they have more than "a barrel of money " to give away. We be­ lieve, however, it is tho theory of the publishers that all they ask of tiie reader 18 the white paper and post- age ; for their labor, when the paper reaches 100,000 or more circulation* their advertising will pay the profit. While they are building up the paper they do not solicit advertising, arid hence the readers get a great paper for $1.00 that is worth $3.00. As the publishers have the money, no doubt fh#»y wiij 2:icccc^ Address THE LEDGER, Chicago," ISC in- c«osing $1.00 for subscription and 15 oente for postage.--Chicago Times. Mstionsl XJfe Insurance Co. of U. S. A. This Company is one of the stronger Mid most prosperous of our life institutions. It has the largest amount of assets and" the West ftmonnt of ineuranoe of any company of its aae - was organized in 1868 by practical insurance jmeiij and its insurance business is now under 11 'JaB R surpius of $1,319,952 ; ratio of assets to liabilities) are 15ft per cent. It lias the largest capital of an? ooxn- pany in the country. It has paid for fosses, „the ei€llt (8) years or its existence, $1,314,383.70. Its aeseta are strongly secured, largely by approved bonds and mortgages. Its premiums are remarkably low, and its policy contracts simple tind definite. It is a i-rtrong stock company, and offers inducements su­ perior to many companies, and equal to those of any. Agents wanted in every town in the Northern States. For agencies or policies, ap­ ply at ffhicago office, 157 LaSalle street. WE take pleasure in calling the espe­ cial attention of our readers to the advertise­ ment of the Bobbin's Family Washer in onr issue of two weeks since. This machine is gaining in popular estima­ tion every day, being especially adapted to the wants of families. It is simple, self-operating, never gets out of order, and will last a lifetime. We advise all our readers who are in want of a really good washing machine, or who wish to secure a good paying business, to send at oncu for a sample machine. The price for sample is only $3. For full description, terms to tgeali, testimonials, etc., apply to the roamif&ottirers, the Geo. D. Bissell Co., Naugatuck, Coun. AN interesting item % A parlor set, seven pieces, veneered frames, only $50. The best woven-wire mattrees #7.50, and genuine 40- pound oar ed hair mattresses $11, now offered by Colby .. Wirtz, 217 and 219 Btate-st., Chicago. Their st ck of furniture excels any establish­ ment in the Northwest, and these quotations indicat e the low prices of all their goods. No char 'e for packing. Arrangements are made f«r shipping with every railroad at half rates. PIMPLES on the face, rough rirint chapped hands, saltrheum and all cutaneonB affections cured, the skin made soft and smooth, by the use of Juniper Tar Soap. That mad© by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, is the only kind that can be relied on, as there are many imitations, made from oommon tar. which ore worthless MANY valuable horses die from the effeots of colic. Tbe best thing to do in a case of this kind is to pour a bottle of Johnsoris JLnodyne Lini-niepit into a long-necked juuk bot­ tle, add half-pint of molasees and water, then pour the whole down the horse's throat. In ten minutes the horpe will begin to eat. THE Ohio State Fair t warded the first premium for pianos to the Ohio Valley Piano Company, of Ripley. 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