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mm .71 * - ...^>-j. Itrtodii Bat It gWrfm tha annaMai of aoaaaaer; T*M chearftt in winter aad atorm. Mw wwllw y*i o>ihnapatiti<k>, WlnwlBtsrwtadsfMfclMd with snow; We Imrtrtl at the freaks at tin atorm-kiag And aLowted Urn em, all aglow. » dashed at his baaatljriilaoiilptare, » We aai sa 4i old-faahlened bcaahnu ' $<"• «•« B|Mp*M-wlth wur pencil atariMs: W thew«h*o< the opemug fatewt, - i And «Nmm4 of our manhood's emtatt . .-43? The btMBUMN Hagwring wltha* leathers*hi life'® «*riy Unm. • wintry, __?»»» ae|H*i^ J» weariae-. _ * «4B4tter4 {*'•' »i I *»**•fond irianeecfcrtba meadow •» f: „ The Mil* just behind tt I Me; % Away In the charm of the distance, Old sehoolhetuse, a bleating on lb INMb^es-SB (hrrterr's thee! -$#f 1% wat fho doak of evening, and mgbtV shadows were quiekly gathering in the mile German village through whose outskirts two \overe strolled. v?TIif|f'h«4 lef| fcafeind tt«a the eot- . tfcgew, and had *ai>dered off ai&oiTg the green fields and under • the shade of Hie trees, behind which tlu can id- most sBuak to rest, ' ' £ It was an old story, the store of their »vin^ They had been betrotlied since file girl was 14. It was wsfU-mgh 5ve 1 years now, and on her 19fch birthday they were to bejaarried. ... , sh» fas- an ocBhwa, he*eim* dowry, Iymg so safely fcestled away in the village bank, ahe had accumulated ty the labor of her own hands. But a •hade was en her lover's faoe to-night, • sod even- in the shadow her quick eye diwened it. ""Sing to me, Hans" she whispered, Blowing that in songHanB Werter for- gjptaU else. After a "moment's silence, he obeyed her, Mid the sleepy birds woke in their nssts and almost indignantly drew their " heads from beneath the soft shelter of wiKg, to listen to this strange, won- " rival to -the sweetness of their ttotes, '• The air was tilled with the ex- quisitemelody. It Tang full and clear flUM} iwtt It soak dofii to the violets, As they stirred in tlie listening' wind. ^ jthen'Roared to thfa stais. f Pftef little Marguerite f' Hans'"music always "brought the moisture to her blue eyes, but tc-nipht it seemed filled with something she hod never lietrfd before, and her little hands were tightly inter­ laced, and her red lips parted in a sort • painful ecstasy. But at the ^lose she was all tmpre- Srad to see him Aid the last*not* in a v sob, then fling himself <toWu on the •ward and bury his faoe in his hmyfa, vT*' Hans, what is it?" she cried, sink­ ing herself down beside him, and trying to raise his head upon her breast. Was he weeping ? She had never in all these years seen him thus moved. His powerful frame seemed ediaken to its innermost center by the torrent of emo­ tion that swept over it. Almost rudely, ife-his unconsciousness to all but MB own suffering, he repulsed her, only the next moment to be filled -with remorse. Conquering himself by a mighty ef­ fort, he drew her to him with gentle force. " Forgive me, dear," he said, softly, "but never ask me to sing again, Mar­ guerite It only teaches me what I might have been, and what I am. Think wfcut it would be if I had the money to' reach Italy I 1 ccnfld have the world at my feet, Marguerite--I could be great aad famous. I know it--I feel it. But I am chain*4# hare, tending my herds and feeding my cattle, pow&iess to tweak the chains. I need so much Kmey--so nincfa---and I have so little, ough Isold all I have In the world, it would not bring me to my journey's ead. Mo, no! I-must give it all up; but never--never ask me to sing again." The girl answered him nothing, as ahc stroked the hot brow with the httle, eool hand, which, all browned and hard­ ened as it was, fellvery softly, vcfy lov­ ingly. 1 I21 her eyes hfe Was a King,, this shep- herd lad. Instinctively'she knew that silence is oftentimes more healing than speech; and, beside, a wonderful, daz- aing thought had crept into her own ; tmsy brain, and driven all lighter thought ' iway. ;..: • -. / s Btill {sOently they rose,and walked aitcmtly home. At the door of her little oottage, he stooped and kissed her on the brow, as they stood beneath the •tars, . ' In two more months he was to share her cottage--rthe home left her by her '" "tea«i parents--so they both had thought soarce an hour agone. To-night, Mar-: pierite Knew dUEenmtlj. Saw much would it bring, the sale of this humble little shelter? Itwn§this pfphleca which banished dumber through this long night hours. It was solved raree days later, when the tm& for its possession by strangers lay in her hands,, and, added to it th< nest- [ %om the bank, znada in uie. child's r . a lortvne. < , WTiat nfattered it "that she was beg­ gared ? It was for Haw" Bake 1 It was now her turn to be silent, as, hand-in- hand, they walked benealh Ihg^ggldr •tndded sky. She felt, for the first time, timid, al­ most afraid, in his presence, That she had performed an act of almost heroism^ si* uev r̂ .dxasmed. He,wa» a IMIOI was Wit a little^, knmbls iaaiAJn' whose proudest duty was to serve him. oilier night, and--and, Hans, we won't be married yet awhile, A wife would only pull you do>rat instead of helping voii soar to the. birds, where you belong, i don't want you to think of me. I want you to ge away and studr to be a gfeat singer" • ; : In the gloom, fhfc maM oou!d see the pallor on the speaker's faoe, as it grew leflected on his own. > : . "Areyonmad, Mtirgnerite ? " he ques­ tioned, at last. " I've crushed the dream, ehttd I Da*it it ftgain bsfope ,mj ftuacy." * . " Yon couldn't crush it, Hans, for it is no dream, but a very part of yourself, and that is the highest, noblest part! Wot' is it madness, Hans. See here!" ind she tmlcMsedl tibe string of a little bag ahe held tightly clutched in her trembling hands, and showed to his dax- sfed eyes the glittering geld pieces lying en & snug little pile of notes. "It's enough, Hans I" she said, in answer to ^ ga» 4 alter bewilderment. "Ifs more than what I heard you once say would let you be taught for a whole year. And it's yours, Hans--all yours." And, as she spoke, die strove to thrust the bag within hn grasp. 44 Msxgnerite P «sh® shrank from the sternness ef his -kaieO-" how did tot jnt the goidr "Honestlyf" She answered, t*K>adly. * * "The gold mm to have been my downr; the not«»--I--I sclcl ttie cottage for those." "You did this for me, and yon think so meanly of me as that I would accept sueh a sacrifice ?" His voice quivered as he spoke. " Hans, I wa3 to have been your wife," she whispered. " Who had the right, if not I? Oh, I shall be so proud--so proud, some day, when you come baok for your little Marguerite and I shall be the wife of fib© great singer 1 They will point at ae and say, ' Yes, he married this little nobody, this little Marguer­ ite, but they say lie loves her,' and they will think it strange that you shonld love me from your great height. But yon won't forget to do that, Hans--ever, ever--will you, my kmet" "Never, until my rmm forgels iti music. I would pray God to still it for­ ever, could my heart prove so fake. SomethiBfipwithin m«t Marguerite, con­ quers myself. It is h6pe springing within my breast. I wiD take your money, little one, a sacred debt Wait for me two years, frauksn. Then I will return to give yuu richest payment. L •wear it, and I sta! It wi& uiis Ms .̂" Hans hmd gone, and Maî neiito was left alone. She lived now in one little room, high up many stairs--up which she toiled wearily injtheevening's gloom. There were no more restful walk* under the stars now. She might have had lovers, like other girls; bnt no--Hans must mid her without reproach on his return. All day she had to labor from early dawn, even for the humble shelter now hers. Sometimes she waa hungry, sometimes cold, but all mattered not to her. It was for Hans* sake. The winter's icy breath bat hastened the spring's blossoms, and their first fragrance would herald the incoming summer, which would make the yesar opmplete sitae Hans, had left, and then there would only be another year to wait. At long distances apart, letters came. Oh, how eagerly Marguerite spelled them out 1 She slept with them under her pillow by night, and they sank and fell with every pulsation of her heart by day. Labor grew light. She even for­ got her loneliness, for they told her that step by step Hans was nearing his goal. Then there were weeks--aye, months --when she heard nothing, and the child's figure grew thin and her cheeks pale, while every night she would run breathlessly up to her room, only to find the table wcant and that the post­ man had hacl no- errand for her. Bnt one evening, when she had al­ most given up hope--when the great dread lest Hans should be ill, dying or dead remorselessly shadowed her path­ way--the silent messenger smiled her a. welcome. She burst into a passion of tears ere Ate broke the seal. It seemed as though the joy must kill her. But at last she unfolded the sheet, when something white and flattering fell to the ground. Skq stooped to pick it uo. What did it mean? It was a little slip, with some figures in one corner. They represented the exact amount she had given Hans. Bewildered, she turned to the letter. Its hrst words explained : I pay yon my debt. Think, my little love, what it cost us, yet I earned it--earned it. Marguerite, on the verv night of my debut I have sung, &nd people hare listened'. Dklooked aboat among &M the faces--on all the yoong and heanbful -women.,, with their eyes* fixed upon rat!--but nothing inspired me. Then I thought of von, and, looking- Htnight into apMe. I forget them all. darling. There wan your sweet, pale face floatiug in the air, your bine eyes looking, not as theirs looked,*bnt down into my soul, and I sang to yon, darting --to you. The flowers rained at my teet. Great ladies tore the rosea from their lireaaU ; bat I would have given them all, darling, for one littie wild blossom your hand had plucked. They say I will lie rich and famous. 1 cannot tell--tho world is fickle. The village banker will CA«fa yonr order. But you need not buy bick the little home I am coming for yon Noon, to bring you to a cage better worthy my mount&in- bird. Again and again Marguerite read and reread the precious words. What cared slie ior the jnoney ? It had made Hans great. * * * * * ** Going back to yonr native village-- you, who have the world at your feet!" sighed one of Florence's most famous beauties, as she looked into the young singer's eyes. Six months had passed sinoe he had paid his debt to Marguerite, and still he lingered. He had spent thrice the amount since then on a trinket to clasp some fair lady's arm. Did he, in hold­ ing it so lighny, forget that once it had been a girl's all ? Why, then, did the s*<h the lady uttered find a response in his own breast ? " It is duty wliioh Calls me." "Duty !" she murmured. "Areyou sue it is not mistaken duty? All your life has changed, Herr Werter. U, in its early time, you pledged it to some rustic maiden, think--oould she fill its measure now ?" The beauty's voice trembled. The cool softness of her iiesh pressed lightly against his burning palm. "And if I give her up," he said, " what then t You will be mine ? " But the " Yes" she uttered was hushed by the madness of his kitsen. And Marguerite watched and waited. • He was coming, therefore he did not write. " He is great now. Marguerite ; be has forgotten yon," the gossips said, the paper he had sent her among his letters. Thus had he redeemed his debt! An empty slip of paper, worthless to all, to return to him, but bearing the interest of a broken heart. while she turned her back upon them, spirit had ever knewn, that they dated thus ma­ in the hottest wrath her gentle spirit 1 'T. him. t was the second snniversaiy of the day which was te have celebrated her wedding, when they burst into her room. " Ha, ha!" they said, " did we not t«D you sot" pointing, as they spoke, to the paragraph in the paper, which announced the betrothal of Herr Werter and the greatest bssaty in all Florence. ' " Leavelme," sh& said at last, when they looked to see what she would do. " I wish to be alone." But one of kinder heart, after some hours had passed, stole back into the darkened room. The child lay tossing in delirious fe­ ver, and the physician, when called, shook his head. The strain had been too great, he said. She must die ! On the third day after, as the watchers sat about the bed, a step sounded on the stairs. A man, stained with the dust of travel, burst impetuously into the room. " Marguerite !" he exclaimed--"Mar­ guerite r Then he stopped and gath­ ered the import of the scene before him. ** I did but falter," 1m cried, falling on his knees beside her bedside. " I came back, my wild Oeriaiia daisy, to tell you so. Oh 1 Marguerite, is it thus I pay my debtf - Then, aa though that voice must pene­ trate even the mists of fever, the blue eyes opened, a wondecful ecstatic light in their depths. "Hans," she whispered--"Hans! Forgive me for the doubt which killed me!" Ant! with the words--a dagger-thrust in his own remorseful heart---the spark of life flickered and went out. Marguerite was dead. She who had lived for him died for him. They found , ,t Origin of Familiar Phrases. ff% IFflbu cannot say «boo V to a goose. * When Ben Jonsoi, the dramatist, was introduced to a noUscnab. the pewr was so struck with his bomaly appearance that he exclaimed, « What! you are Ben Jonson ? Why you look as if vou could not say 4 boo !' to a goose." " Boo V ex­ claimed the witty dramatist, turning to the peer and making his bow. "He's a peg too low," " Taking aman down a pesg,' may be traced to the peg­ ging, or marking the drinking cup, which was introduced by St. Dunstan to aheck the intemperate* habits of the times, by preventing one man from tak­ ing - larger draught than his eompail- ions. But the device proved the means of increasing the evil it was intended to remedy; for the most abstemious were required te drink precisely to a peg or pin, whether they cotild soberly frdre such a quantity or not. " Blue Hen" is the nickname given to the State of Delaware. The origin of the term is this: Capt. Caldwell, an officer of the First Delaware regiment in the Revolution, was very food of game oooks, but maintained that no cock was truly game unless its mother was a '* blue hen." As he was an exceedingly popular man, his regiment was called "The Blue Hen," ana the term was af­ terward transferred to the State and its inhabitants, Ttrar*<S manx a el|p •Twwattecapaitdtip. The ancient Greeks had the following story as to the origin of this proverb: A King of Thrace had planted a vine­ yard, when one of his slaves, whom he had much oppressed in that very work, prophesied that he should never taste of the wine produced in it. The monarch disregarded the prediction, and when at an entertainment he held a glassful of his own wine, made from the grapes of that vineyard, he sent for the slave, and asked him what he thought of his prophecy now. To which the other re­ plied, 4 -Many things fall out between the cup and the lip," mid scarcely had lie delivered this singular response be­ fore the news was brought that a mons­ trous boar was laying waste the favorite vineyard. The King, in a rage, put down the cup which he held in his hand, and hurried out with his people to at- taok the boar, but being too eager the boor rushed upon him and killed hi^n without his having tasted of the wine. «AKB¥ TUB NBWfl. [From the Attleboro Chronicle.] Mr. John Etzensperger, manufacturing jeweler of Korth Attluboro', Mass., lately communicated to us the lollowing: I suf­ fered so muck with pains iu my nnn that at times 1 was completely helpless. I used that incomparable remedy, St Jacobs Oil, and was completely cured as if by magic. "Two Tollar!*' There was a slight blaze on the roof of a house on Russell street a few days ago, and when the insurance adjusters went np to make their Survey they found that about $2 would cover'all the loss. "Two tollar," exclaimed the owner when he heard the deaiaion; " I can't take no two tollar." "But you see for yourself that a dozen shingles and an hoar's work will make good all damages." " Gentlemens, yon dean' put me off like dot. "Vixen my vhife finds dot we. vbas on fire sne screams boieece and mur­ der und falls down sthairs. Wauld you let your vhife fall down sthairs for dot sum ? If so, I goes Lome mit you und sees der fun." "We do no$ insure husbands and wives, bnt buildings," was ihe reply. " I know, but mein oldest poy ho runs for der fire-box und falls a picket-fence oafer und breaks his good clothes all to pieces. Two tollar! I>ot doan* bay me for goming up here." " Yes, but we can only pay for actual damages." "Dot's all I vhant Who stole my dog vlien my house vhas on fire? Dot dog ish gone, und he vhas ten toUars wort." " We didnt insure the dog." " Und maybe you don't insure dem pojs who sat on der fence and called out: ' Dot ole Dutchman's red nose has set his house on fire !' Do you oxpect I take such sass like dot for two tollar ? Und vhen the firemens come hero dey break mein clothes-lines down mit der ladders, und dey spill wasser all oafer my carpets. Two tollar ! Vhell, vhell! you go right avhay from here, und I takes dot old insurance bolicy und steps him into der mudt!" Tea 200 tears Ago. WMle investigating the history of tea an English writer came across a rare manuscript in the British Museum, giv­ ing as below a quaint summary of the vir­ tues of " the herb called tea or cliee." It bore the date of Oct. 26, 1686, and pur- potted to be a translation from the Chi­ nese. ' • 1. It purifies tbe bloud that which is grosse Mid heavy. 2. It vanquisheth heavy dreames. 3. It easeth the brain of heavy damps. 4. Easeth and cuzeth giddiness and paines in the heade. 5. Prevents the dropsie." 6. Drietk moist humors in the heade. 7. Consumes rawnesse. 8. Opens obstructions. r f 9. Cieass the sigbL *' : • * 10. Clear seth andpurifieth adust {tic) humous and hot liver. 11. Purifieth defects of the bladder and kidneys. 12. Vanquished superfluous sleep. • " 18. Drives awfty dis«ine«, makes one Bible and valient. 14. Encourages the heart and drives away feare. ̂ 15. Drives away all pains of the kol- lick which proceed from wind. 16. Strengthens the inward parts and prevents consumptions. 17. Strengthens the memory. 18. Sharpens the will and quickens the understanding. 19. Purgeth safely the gaul. 20. Strengthens the use of due benev­ olence. -- ^ •* IVOW I Do Moat ItaticsttAtfngfy Atot, as an old jtractitiorur, that Warner's Safe Kid­ ney and Liter Cure in among the most valua­ ble discoveries of the nineteenth centaiy. I cannot say too much in its behalf. [Signed] " J. H. COITXELLY. M. D. " PITTSBTTHOH, Pa., 6th April, 188U." Lore's Test. The Cashier enters the private office of the President, nervous and agitated. "Sir," he says, '*&. Imve something on my mind which I feel myself compelled to disclose to you, though for months I have striven to conceal it." The Presi­ dent turns pale. "The fact is, that I-- !#v@ your daughter." The President breathes more freely. "Ah, you love MV daughter. Do yatk ever make any errors in yonr books, or in counting your cash? Find yourself abstracted, eh?" "Never, sir!" with pride. "Then, air, I must decline to encourage your rak You are not really in love?' 9CBJTP8 OF SCIKVCS. A VBBT beautiful mineral to which the name ef "hiddenite" has been given --w«s diaoovered noUong ago in North Carohnab/W. E. Hidden. It is the first purely American gun found, and is wry valuable. THE object glass for the Lick Obser­ vatory telecoope is to be three fleet in diameter, and, if successful, will be the moat powerful instrument of the ever made. About tknee years will be required to finish the telescope. Br means of a strictly vegetable diet, Dr. Hureau de Villeneuve states that he has succeeded in ridding ttitn«u»lf d at-» tecks of gouty rheumatism, Vith which he has been afflicted for years, and of which several of his ancestors had died. AM instrument called the margari- nfeter has been invented by two Parisian chemists, for detecting the presence of margarine in butter. It is based en the different densities of butter and the greasy substances substituted for it or mixed with it. M. BoOtfuk. haa-^lescribed to the French Academy a violent storm at Laigle in September last. Between 9:30 and 11 p. m., there were at least 4.7(*) flashes of lightning; sometimes there were aa many as three flashes per second. The thunder was almost con­ tinuous--like a kind of buzzing, inter­ rupted by heavy rollings. CROLT. has calculated that the amount of heat conveyed from the equatorial region8 northward iu the Atlantic by the gulf stream is equivalent to 77,479.650,- 060,000,000,000 foot pounds of energy per day, which is equal to all the heat received by 1,560,935 square miles of •hrface at the equator, and more heat than is conveyed by all the aerial «ur- renta. LATH experiments have shown that aboat twenty ner cent, of the pupils in the deaf and aumb schools of London are, by means of the andiphone, enabled to hear sufficiently well to take their f laces in the classes of'ordinary schools. t is known that in cases of deafness where the anditory nerves are unaffected, the audiphoue enables the patient to Jiear with distinctness; but where the auditory nerves are destroyed or dis­ eased, no appliance at present known is of any utility. MAKY people, a^rs the Electrician* have obserwd that a blew or other jar­ ring shock will sometimes dispel pain; but the importance of mechanical vibra­ tions as an anodyne is now engaging the serious attention of physicians. For some years Dr. Mortimer Granville 'has been endeavoring to find a good means off mitigating the paugs of neuralgia by a recurring series of shocks administered the skin over the affected part, and he has constructed an apparatus for the purpose which has been employed suc­ cessfully on various occasions. M. Boudet, of Paris, has, however, quite re­ cently developed the subject still further, and applied the ordinary tuning foik to the purpose in question. He was led to do this by the experiments of M. Yigouronx, who provoked contractions in hysterical patients, and subdued the pains of a nervous cripple by causing the sonorous waves from a vibrating tuning fork and sounding hoard to impinge upon his limbs. M. Boudet improves upon this treatment by bringing the vibrator into actual contaot with the surface of the body. He does this by a tuniug fork kept in constant vibration through the attrac­ tion and repulsion of an electro-magnet, in which an electric current flows, and a rod having one end connected to the fork and the other applied over the nerve. So eflicacious does it appear to be, that certain kinds of neuralgia, especially in the less deep-seated nerves, are charmed away after a few minutes' use. The subject is yet in its infancy, but it is probable that other kiuds of physical suffering may be soothed by the vibratory influence, and it is not un­ likely that complete aueBsthesia, similar to that produced by chloroform, may result from tremors of the cranium; for when the fork is applied to the walls of Hie skull, a swimmiug of the head, fol­ lowed by a desire to sleep, is frequently induced. There are good reasons for believing that chloroform acts through mechanical disturbance of the senaory ! nerves. j [From the Detroit Poat and Tribute.] I HAVE a little girl, said Mr. Henry Dole, of this city, in a conversation, who was troubled with a severe lameness in her legs, pronounced by some ±.rysipelas, by others Kheumutism. 1 had tried several remedies without effect, when I was induced to apply fct. Jacobs Oil and 1 am huppy to say Uutt the use ol' but one bottle cured her, aud she is now able to go to school again. ON As Black aa Might. About seven miles west of the "boro limits" of Foxburg. on the Blue Jay Peninsula, is a place called Balltown, and among other developments going on in that vicinity is a well that produces black oil. This oil is so black that even the glimmer of the brightest light can not be seen through a bottle containing a sample of it It "bears a perfect re­ semblance, in fact, to the substance known as coal-tar, and emits a powerful odor, precisely like that of spirits of tar. What it is good for, or what particular qualities ana elements it possesses, have not yet been determined upon, though we may depend upon it that it would not exist as a mineral production unless there were some use to which it could be applied. What that use may be, how­ ever, is a question for future settlement. In its present state this oil (if we may call it oil), will not burn without emit­ ting a dense, black smoke, almost as black as the liquid itself, which deposits a thick soot, that presents the idea of its being a very useful production for the manufacture of lamp-biack or other aubstauce of that description. It has also been suggested that it may turn out to be very valuable as a basis of ex­ traction for analiuta dyes, though this is a subject that no one can speak upon with authority till a chemical analysis of the substance has taken place, and this, we understand, will be commenced imme­ diately. The strike is certainly an ex­ traordinary one, and as far as we can learn nothing like it hasever before been known in the history of the oil trade. No other well in or near the vicinity has anything approaching to it The oil •eems to be found in tlie slate at a depth of 270 feet, and what is the more singu­ lar is, that, although the drill passes through the same land of slate and at the same depth in adjacent wells, ne such yield as we have been describing has come from any other except the one in question. We shall refer at greater length to this subject in a subsequent issue.--Titusville (Pa.) Herald. Sunshine. From an acorn weighing a few grains a tree will grow for 100 years or more, not only throwing off many pounds of leaves every year, but itself weighing several tons. If an orange twig is put in a large box of earth, and that earth is weighed when the twig becomes a tree, bearing luscious fruit, there will be very nearly tlie same amount of earth. From careful experiments made by different sci­ entific men, it is an ascertained fact that a very large part of the growth of a tree ron,fn and from the water, and a very little from the earth; and, notably, all vege­ tation becomes sickly unless it IS free­ ly exposed to sunshine. Wood and coal are but condensed sunshine, which con­ tain three important elements, equally essential to both vegetable AND animal life--jnagnesia is important to any of the tissues. Thus it is that the more per­ sons are out of doors, the more healthy, the more vigorous they are, and the lon­ ger will they live. Every human being ought to have an hour or two of sun­ shine at noon in winter, and in the early forenoon in summer. I1 Treatment ef tbe "rf "i : "Noisy as Bedlam," "mad as Bed­ lam " they used te say a generation or two ago; but Sew thought ef the terri­ ble reality hid the «G* preeskm. The word is eorrepted from Bethle­ hem, from 1647Tto 1814 a noted Rngliwh mad-house. He who entered its door left hope behind. Indeed, even before entering, the most fearful terrors were brought to bear on his bewildered braia, dislodging whatever of reason might be left, under the absurd idea that WE in­ sane can be ruled by fear done. Within this hcuse were life-long hor­ rors beyond ordinary conception--cells, chains, clogs, strait-jackets, stripes, blows with the fist, noisome food, filth, foul air, druuken keepers. Let one flunk of his ewn mother or daughter thrust into such A place! But the long succession of inmates, who, for three centuries, were relieved of the horrors of Bedlam only by death, were equally sensitive to suffering; equally shrank from terror; would have been equally susceptible to kindness; and might, by right methods, as easily have had their fevered brains cured or calmed. It is only since 1793 that* in Paris, the law of love, with its miracles of healing, began to displace the law of force ; and it is only forty years since the same change was inaugurated in England. In our own land many of the old ideas still prevail; and nothing can save our insane from the bad tendencies of unfit attendants but stringent laws and State supervision. Kind treatment alone tends to the cure of insanity, otherwise the disease tends to hopelessness. . Origin ef the Werd Bom-bock. Nathan Guilford, once a well-known citizen of Cincinnati, was an active Whig politician, and editor of an energetic Whig paper. On April 1, of a certain year, he published a circumstantial ac­ count of experiments by a German chemist named Roorback* Roorback had been examining the chemical con­ stituents of eggs of different birds, sup­ posing it might be possible at last to compound a hatchable egg. According to the story, after putting many of his manufactured eggs to the animal heat of different patient mothers,, he at last happily succeeded in hatching one egg and produced a living binl. The sto*y then goes on to describe very minutely the strange creature, anatomically, physiologically AAD every other way, imitating the scientific style used in similar cases. The story read very well, and was copied into many other papers, and, after going the rounds of the press in all parts of the United States, irt was at last (ofter thxee or four months) dis­ covered to have been first published on the 1st of April. Tlie Cincinnati Enquirer \Democrat- ic) immediately fixed upon MI. Guilford the name of Roorback, which was there­ after held to mean a political liar, although the story had nothing to do with politics. Being well stuck to, the name at last became pretty well fixed, and Mr. G. was for many years well known in the political field as Old Roorback. i « EJUCRT'S EXTZACT or TAB AMP WILD CHKBBX has been nsed for twenty rears, and during that time lias saved many very valuable lives. Do not neglect a cough or cold until it is too late. Try tlmt excellent remedy, aud we are sure you will be convinced of ita merit*. Chronic Coughs, aud even ConauinptivcB, are cured by following the directions. Every bottle is war­ ranted to give satisfaction. Trepared by the Emmert rroprittaiy Co., Chicago. 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