Pittston Gazette

              * » ♦ Oldest NewsDaDer in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1890. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. ' Allegiance. The liberty my father* won I'd gladly die to save. 'Neath Freedom** flsg my day* begun, 'Neath It my mortal span shall ran. 1 don't mind tho proprieties to that extent Come! my life tor Nicettel" He was carried to an asylum last night at midnight.'" The two young people fell into each other's arms.—From the French. to gain in its wnoie career, out rof tne Second it was the third great occasion when it played a distinguished part. SERMOMS TILL YOU CAN'T REST, NYE WADES IN BLOOD. or a mg saw .mm, ana witn a plunge 01 the knife as it passed on another swung into position head down, and the unerring steel struck the same point forward of the shoulder and to the left of the windpipe. No experiments were made. The young butcher's style of vaccination always took. I remember once, years ago, my father went away on business, to serve on the petit jury, I think, and told me to kill the pig. It was easy to say that. He might also have included other friends of the family, but he did not think of it perhaps. However, I began the most elaborate preparations and tried to nerve myself up to it by frequent recourse to hard cider, for I had never personally ahed innocent blood before. The pig would probably weigh about 160 pounds, and was not fierce until he found out that I seemed set on mutilating him without any apparent cause. Then he broke down the fence, ate up a small goddess of liberty which I had once had tattooed on my leg, so that I could be identified in case I should run away and go to sea and stumble against a watery grave, as I had intended to do at that time. it be the wife beater. I am told that when a wife beater sits for his death mask, on a still day, you can hear the angels applauding. WRITTEN IN BLOOD. It was four o'clock in the morning when Anatole rang at the door of Nioette's guardian, M. Bouvard. "Is there a fire?" At Gettysburg the regiment was reduced to a small battalion and numbered but 300 men. Small as it was it had the fortune of reaping further laurels, for the Iron Brigade was among the first to encounter tha Confederates on the first day and the very first to score a triumph. The brigade may be said to have fought under the eye of the gallant Reynolds in his last hour, for the hero died in the attempt to plant the Union lines securely in McPherson's grove, along Willoughby run, and this body of men under (Jen. Solomon Meredith was executing his orders when the fatal sharpshooter's bullet laid him low. Cniqne l'ad of a New York Han Who THE BATTLE RECORD OF THE SEC- Mr.1 Villiam H. Treadway, of the firm sf R. G. Dun & Co., has a most uniqne collect ion of sermons. It would in all proba bility be safe to say that there is not another like it on the continent. He began collecting sermons in 1856, and has now 16,000 by actual count. They are by ministers of all religious denominations. He is everf day adding to bis sermonic treasures. He has bound the sermons himself so skillfully as to win the approval of a trained bookbinder. Bis index is comprehensive, accurate and exquisitely neat, and when one thinks that this fine pen work, binding and assorting was done at night after a day of close confinement at an office desk, it is easy to realize that there must be a fascinating pleasure in the work that can only.be thoroughly appreciated by those who ride hobby horses themselves. The index has a frontispiece in illuminated text telling the nature and purport of the work. On the next pages is the "preface," written in chirography so fine that it is hard to distinguish it from copperplate. H as Collected 10,000 Sermons. A VISIT TO CHICAGO STOCK YARDS SUGGESTS SOME THOUGHTS. 'Neath it shall be my grave: ACHIEVEMENTS OF FAKIRS. OND WISCONSIN INFANTRY. At Swift's establishment they have two odd animals, one a steer called Judas and the other a sheep called Iscariot. Each of these animals has a winning way with his set, and is utilized for the purpose of leading his fellows-into the slaughter pen even against their better judgment. They have done this for years, and though the smell of blood naturally repels them, they listen to the siren voices of these two heartless brutes who preserve their own lives at the sacrifice of thousands of others, and death is their portion. The tyrant and his servile clan I scorn, but do not fear. Grand is the brotherhood of man! I am a true republican, A democrat sincere I "No, dear M. Bouvard," said Anatole; "I oame to make a little ealL" They Lire for Weeks and Even Months la "But I suppose, monsieur, that slnoe you disturb me In this way you have something very important to say to me." a State of Trance. VlfhtliD{ Fifteen Bloody Engagement! and Losing Heavily in Six Great Bat- All Honeet Work Is Honorable, from Literature to Dressed Beef-Hop and Their Interior Mechanism—Some Secrets of a Gory Business. There are various circumstances which must exert a modifying influence, and either increase or diminish the period during which life can be sustained in the absence of food. Other things being equal, a stout person has a chance of living longer than a thin one. Inasmuch as he possesses a larsrer store of combustible material which will serve him as fuel. Exposure to cold in conjunction with starvation always accelerates death, while a moderately high temperature aids in prolonging life. The presence of moisture in the atmosphere has a similarly favorable effect, Inasmuch as it diminishes the exhalation of fluid from the body. It is probably owing to warmth and moisture that persons buried in mines or confined in some similar manner have had their lives preserved beyond the ordinary period. In morbid states of the nervous system, life may be prolonged in the most extraordinary manner in the absence of food. In a remarkable case, recorded by Dr. Willan, of a young gentleman who starved himself under the Influence of a religious delusion, life was prolonged for sixty days, during the whole of which time nothing but a little orange juice was taken. Somewhat analogous to the cases just mentioned are those in which all food is abstained from while the person is in a state of tranoe or partially suspended animation. This state may be prolonged for many days or even for weeks, provided that tho body be kept sufficiently warm. The most remarkable instances of this character have been furnished by certain Indian fakirs, who are able to reduce themselves to a state resembling profound collapse, in which all vital operations are brought almost to a standstill. In one case the man was burled in an underground cell for Bix weeks, and oarefully watched; in another the man was buried for ten days in a grave lined with masonry, and covered with large slabs of stone. When the bodies were disinterred they resembled corpses and no pulsation oould be detected at the heart or in the arteriea Vitality was restored by warmth and friction.—New Review. V Proud words are they, yet can it be My boast is all in vain? Ata I from thralldom wholly free? And doth no tyTant over me Cast a confining chain? ties—A Career Without Parallel in the "Very important, M. Bouvard. You must abandon the marriage of my oousln Nioette to M. Capdenac." Union Army. [Copyright by American Press Association.! [Copyright, 1880, by Edgar W. Nye.] "Never, monsieur, never." MONG 300 fighting regiments whose histories appear in Col. Fox's "Regimental Losses in the Everything regarding Chicago will be doubly interesting to the general public for the next two or three years, and it is therefore natural that the varied features of the young giant should be more or less discussed both at home and abroad. That is just what Chicago wants. That suits her. That is what she puts her various millions into an ex- Xe&'nks that hovering in tha air A. vision I can see Of form and features peering fair, With lsnghlng eyes and golden hair— A queen reigns over me! -R. H. Titherlngton in Westjhon^ 'It will not take place!" "We shall see. And now that you know my reply, monsieur, I will detain you no longer." Of all points along the Chambersburg pike, where Lee was advancing, the grove seemed to impress Reynolds as the place of importance, and the commander of the division in which the Iron Brigade served, Gen. Doubleday, seeing his chicf going in there with nothing but a skirmish line to save him, sent Meredith forward with the injunction to hold the wood at all hazards. "If we can't hold it, where will you find the men who can?" responded the brave Wisconsin boys. While they pressed on into the grove from the east Archer's Confederate brigade, of Heth's division, came in from the west, and the first meeting of hostile lines of battle on this great field took place then on the banks of the Run. "That is very kind of you; but I am good as well as tenaolons, M. Bouvard; I take no offense at your prooedure, and I remain." Civil War," the Second Wisconsin heads the list with the highest percentage of killed in action during its whole term of service. The regiment entered the army in June, 1861, and Some day I will again visit the stock yards. I hope to select a rainy day, and shall hope also to take my friend Ward McAllister with me by the hand, dressed in his best suit of clothes. THE FATAL FLOWER. Satisfactory Results It Unexpeot- "Remain if you like. I consider you as gone, and 1 have no more to My te you." Pf TBX ABATTOIR. •aon for. should hare referred tC Skipping gayly through the ruins of former beef creatures and the tottering relics of nude hogs that have been snatched from the glad sunlight and yielding mud of Illinois to deluge the abattoirs of this great commercial town with their bright young blood, I would like to yank the great parlor ornament clothed in a white flanyl suit and his unwavering admiration of himagif, while cheery young butchers pinned to his coat tails yard upon yard of the future home of the sausage. It may be a cruel wish, but when a man outshines me socially 1 cannot help it; I almost hate him /Ao edly Accomplished. "Do you consent?" "To what?" OU ARE a dead man," said the dootor looking fixedly at Anatole."Abandon the marriage." "But, monsieur, M. Capdenae Is a terrible man!" was disbanded at "I wish to say a few words as a proper introduction to this general index to my collection of sermons. It is often asked why I have such a strange fancy, and I am told these sermous are of no use and will never benefit the world. I am aware that It is a peculiar fancy which has prompted me to work, but there are many other things quite as useless, and even more so, that men have put forth greater exertion to accumulate. Take, for instance, autographs; of what value are they to the world? and yet fortunes have been spent in gathering them. In the preface Mr. Tread way says: at the end of three years. The total number enrolled in that period was 1,303, and this includes noncombatants and the sick and absent, who did not go into battle. There were killed In action 238 men, 19.7 per cent, of those enrolled and very nearly one out of every five. This sanguinary record was not, however, attained by accident, such as being caught in a slaughter pen on some disastrous field with a sacrifice of half its numbers at a stroke. "In that oase, let me do it; only swear to me that if I Induce M. Capdenao to give up his claim my cousin shall be free." The animal wandered away into a corn field, and we tracked him by his blood; footsteps. We overtook him along toward noon, and my younger brother held him down while I made an incision in the neck which proved fatal. As we started to drag the animal toward home his head fell off. I state this in order to show that sincerity and inflexibility of purpose had already begun to show themselves even at this early age. After some delay we succeeded in removing the bristles, also some of the pelt, and I began the delicate operation of prying into and exposing the animal's complex work* I guess it would not be best to describe this, for it gives me great pain to recall it I only lniow that I cannot see yet what he had ever done with so many of them or who could have ever arranged such a large assortment in such a little space. They came pouring out like a cataract of new and strange vitals with crotcheted borders on them, and altogether I felt saddened and depressed. I went over to a neighbor and got him to come and assist me. I told him I had operated once or twice on a hen, but a hen travels light. She does not overburden herself with vitals that way. Just give a hen two or three little fixings of that kind and she will go around perfectly contented. But it is not so with a hog. I never saw a hog that knew when he had enough of anything.Anatole staggered.He had come to spend the evening gayly with his old friend, Dr. Bardlas, the Illustrious scientist, whose investigations of poisonous substances every one was familiar with, hut whose nobility of heart and quasipaternal goodness Anatole bad enjoyed especial advantages for appreciating. "Poor boy," continued the dootor; 'what have you been doing?" "Nothing that 1 know of," stammered Anatole, much agitated. The Confederates had been led to believe that the Union army was many marches distant, and that Gettysburg was defended by militia only, but when the Wisconsin men came on in orderly ranks and delivered a volley of ballets with veteran cool- "Yes, monsieur, she shall be free." When Anatole arrived at the addreaa given him it waa nearly six o'olook in the morning. "Who's there?" asked a gruff voice, through the door. "Open. A very serious message from M. Bouvard." The Second Wisconsin had men killed in action in fifteen battles, commencing at Bull Run and ending at Petersburg. At First Bull Run, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg and the Wilderness its losses were heavy, but there were scores of Union infantry regiments that lost a greater proportion of their men in some one of these particular engagements and in others as well. The highest loss sustained by the regiment in any one of the battles named was at Second Bull Run, where eighty-six were killed or mortally wounded, and the lowest at South Mountain, where ten fell in action. The loss at Second Bull Run was the result of a long, spirited fight, and in every one of its great battles (it belonged to the famous "Iron Brigade of the West") it gained prominence through its daring achievements as well as through its roll of dead. Finally the door opened, and Anatola found himself in the presence of a man with a stiff mustache who wore for his nightdress a oostume of the fenoing school. "When I first commenced gathering sermons it was not with the intention—indeed, it was furthest from my thought—to continue it to any extent. In the fall and winter of 185G, having been for gome time very much exercised on the subject of religion, and being in considerable doubt and perplexity as to which of all the many conflicting sects of religionists held the true faith, I purchased a few books containing for the most part sermons of doctrinal character. I read them carefully and think I was benefited, as my own faith became more clearly defined and was strengthened, yet I wished to know more concerning the different phases of the Christian faith as it came to the world through the creeds of the various sects which surround me, and preferring a sermon having a text of Scripture as its motto to any other religious reading I continued to purchase and to read (for then I accumulated no faster than I could read), until finding myself getting weary of controversial sermons I began to read those of a more practical character He Once Suffered for It, It was in the city editor's room. One of the reporters stammered so that he had to write out an order for a paper when he wanted one. A stammerer came in, walked over to this man's desk and began talking to him. Stammerer No. 1 said nothing, but nodded, shook his head, shrugged his shoulders and gesticulated until -No. 2 turned away and got his information from some one else. When he left one of the reporters said: "Monsieur," said Capdenac, "May I know-" V "Ransack your memory. Tell me what you have been drinking, what yon have been eating, what you have been breathing.""Monsieur," answered Anatole, "yon wish to marry Mile. Nioette?" * "Yes, Monsieur." This last word «u a revelatiofc to Anatole. That very morning he had re* ceived a letter from one of his friends who was traveling in India. In this letter was a flower that the tourist had plckedon the banks of the Ganges—a red, odd-shaped flower, whose perfume, as he now remembered very well, was peculiarly penetrating. Anatole seaohed his pocket-book and found the letter and the flower, which h« showed to the scientist. "Monsieur, you shall not marry her!" "Ah! thunderl Ah, bloodl And who will prevent me?" P0CL ... VI her as a giantess above instead of a giant for I see that I have fallen into the feminine pronoun since. However, we will letthat pass.) "I." AT GETTYSBURG. Capdenac looked at Anatole, who vh not very large, bat who uemed rerj decided.ness and aim Archer's men cried: " 'Taint the militia, either. It's the army of the Potomac. There is those black hatted fellows ajfain." "Jim, what is the matter with you, sitting there like a dummy when a man comes in to ask about something?" "I-I go-got li-li-lil-licked fe-for tawawking ter-to a ste-ster-ammering memo - mum - man once." — Philadelphia Press. The stranger should go at once from the depot to the Auditorium. He will »ve time by this, for then he can answer those who ask him if he has seen the Auditorium and answer affirmatively, and be done with it; bnt if be should wait until he has done something else he will be more or less broken in upon by this inquiry. Lata- on I may speak of this great structure with the unfortunate name, but I shall not have space at this time, owing to the fact that I purpose speaking a word or two regarding the stock yards. "Ah, young man,"said he. at last, **lt is lucky for you that you find me in one of my good-humored moments. Take advantage of it. Bun awir while tliero is yet time. Otherwise 1 do not answer for your days." At First Bull Run the regiment fought under Gen. W. T. Sherman near the Warrenton pike, and took part in the Union charge on the Henry Hill when an attempt was made to effect a recapture of the position. In his report Gen. Sherman said, "This regiment ascended to the brow of the hill steadily, received the severe fire of the enemy, returned it with spirit, and advanced delivering its fire." The Iron Brigade had been made conspicuous by their black, wide brimmed hats, and after Second Ball Run and Antietam even the enemy could not mistake the significance of those unique badges. —A boy jumped into a borso car, and before long discovered that his bull terrier was trotting behind. "Go back, sir!" he cried, "go back." But tbo dog kept on, revealing at once his fondness for his master's society and his poor training. "Oh, well" said the boy Anally, "I s'pose #ou can go, if you want to ■o bad; but you ain't fit to be seen, all dirt, and no collar on." "No more doubt," cried the doctor; "ifc is the Pyramenenis Indica!—the mortal flower, the flower of blood I" "Nor I for yours." The Second was now commanded by Col. Lucius Fairchild, and seeing the isolated position of Archer, alone with a stream behind him, he moved the regiment around Archer's flank, cntting him off from the creek and capturing nearly all the brigade with its leader. This little success, though counting for much with saving of time for the Union arms, was but temporary and was dearly bought. The Confederates with high ground in their favor had posted sharpshooters to command the grove, and their missiles played havoc with the intrepid fellows who had assumed the task of holding this important ground. Reynolds fell, and with him was lost the plan of battle. His successor, Doubleday, knew that the grove was the key, according to Reynolds' actions, and he tried to hold it. "During the war I devoted myself mora exclusively to the collection of those sermons which were called forth by the state of affairs in our country. The general collection is not confined to any particular class of sermons or sect of preachers, but embraces everything that could be called a sermon with a text of Scripture at its head. A Mutual Misunderstanding. "A challenge to met Capdsnac! Do yon know that 1 have fought twenty duels, and that I have had the misfortune to kill five of my adversaries and wound fifteen others? Oh, coma, I take pity on yonr youth. Once more save yourself." Surveyor—This is C*-• J "Then really—you think—" "Alas, I am sure!" In the early days they used to assess people here at the stock yards for beer money, and then if they did not get it they woold pelt the visitor with fragment of liver and such little testimonials of respect as that. So it was a custom even among temperance people to give them the money. It was so until cm day an English capitalist who owned a large share of one packing house got a steer's lung down the back of his neck and eighteen feet of sausage wound around his silk hat, and he spoke of it in terms of resentment to the superintendent. Then it was changed. This charge on the Henry Hill was repeated by the regiment, the first having failed. The loss on this field was twentyfour killed outright and sixty-five wounded, the heavy proportion of killed showing the severity of the fighting. "But it isn't possible! I am only* twenty-five years old. I feel full of life and health." "At what hour did yon unseal this' fatal letter?" "I see," said Anatole, 'that you are an adversary worthy of me, and my desire increases to measure myself with so formidable a man. Let us take those two swords there, near the chimney, or those two boarding axes. Or those cavalry swords. Or what do you say to these curved sataghans? What is the matter?" "There are sermons in the collection that wiU suit almost every shade of theological belief. Here the Roman Catholic may come and find food for his soul in productions of his own cardinals, bishops and priests; here high or low churchmen may find that he has not been neglected; here the rigid Calvinist may find his peculiar doctrines set forth, and all the five points sharpened or blunted to suit his taste; here the Armenian stands out in striking contrast to the Calvinistic theology; here the liberal Christian may find just the food he is hungering after, from the most conservative to the most radical school of sects, and the collection has gone so far outside of Christianity as to embrace the Jew." All sorts of honest and successful industry are honorable, whether it be through the avenne of literature or dressed beef. Success is the mark of public approval, and continued success the certificate of integrity. It was honorable for Gen. Grant to canvass for a book or tan skins. It was honorable for Vanderbilttofarmitorrunaferry. It was honorable for Gould to survey Delaware county with a wheelbarrow and a fine tooth comb. It was honorable for the older Astor to skin mnskrats and swap brass collar buttons to the Indians for beaver skins if the noble red man suffered for cottar buttons. What I dislike is for the descendant of Mr. Astor to cultivate soch a big robust and malignant case of hauteur. He visited Chicago some time ago and stated in an interview, which he had arranged for as soon as he could attend to it, that the people of Chicago frequently sat on the front steps and that visitors were met at the door by the housemaid. Thereby covertly intimating that Mr. Astor is in the habit at answering the door himself. Possibly, however, Mr. Astor keeps a man who answers the door bell and does nothing else hardly. That may be, but it is only a few brief autumns since the brave and sturdy mother of the Astor race came around from tbe spring house to greet tl\p gusst in her stocking feet, and the greeting was none the less cordial eyether for a' that and a* that We should not be held responsible for the errors and acquired snobbery of oar grandchildren. From the deep recesses of the unborn future there may come some day a great-grandchild who will inherit -my wealth and name, and while I squirm about in my close fitting tomb he may have a valet to dress him in the morning and train up his whiskers on a trellis, and he may visit Chicago where his ancestors had been so generously and so hospitably treated years before, and when he goes home to England or Tuxedo he may send for a reporter and tell him how his refined nature was shocked all the time he was away. ODDS AND ENDS. At the Second Bull Run the regiment had an accidental collision, but the fighting was prolonged and severe. At this time the Second was in Gibbon's brigade, King's division, McDowell's corps. On the 27th of August the corps was at Gainesville, on the Warrenton pike, and "Stonewall" Jackson's was at Manassas Junction, seven or eight miles southeast of that point. Longstreet, with the main Confederate force, was at Thoroughfare Gap, northwest of Gainesville, and Jackson's salvation depended on his junction with Longstreet's column. This he attempted to effect by making a detour so aa to avoid Gainesville and McDowell's command. The movement was suspected in the Union camp, and McDowell moved east along Warrenton pike hoping to hold Jackson sooth of it until other troops could come up and cat him off completely from Lee's army. But Jackson had moved with rapidity, and about 5 o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th was marching north of Warrenton pike in the opposite direction from Mc- Dowell, but on a parallel line. King's division had the advance in McDowell's corps. Hatch's brigade had th6 lead in King's division, and when near the village of Groveton was met by a fire from several guns of Jackson's artillery. The Confederate leader had discovered this isolated division and resolved to destroy it. Gibbon's brigade followed Hatch's, and while the latter was engaged in front Gibbon saw a Confederate battery on his left rear firing upon the rear of the column, and ordered the Wisconsin Second to march by the flank and attack it. "This morning at nine o'clock." A method of rendering tobacco smoke harmless to mouth, heart and nervee without detriment to its aroma is claimed to have been discovered at Vichy. "Well, to-morrow morning at the same hour, at the same minute, in full health, as you say, yon will feel a certain pain in your heart, and all will bo orer." It has been computed that the late Justice Miller received fully a quarter of a million dollars from the government as a salary during his occupancy of the bench. . confusing, . musi say. I've taken bearings from that bush over by that log three times, and it's in a different place every time. "And you know no remedy, no way of—" "None." said the doctor. "Young man, do not play with firearms."The Eurfurstlichpriviligirten Herzolich- Bergischen Proviuzial-Zeitung is the name of a German newspaper. Think of that, newsboys! The sausage machine is one of the most intelligent that I ever saw. The Havana wrapper is pulled on over a metallic ■pout, and then by a terrific force ex- And, hiding his faoe in his bands, ho dropped Into an arm-chair, suffocating with grief. "Are you afraid? You are trembling!"1 "Tremble! I! It is from cold." "Then fight or abandon Nioette's hand." On the Confederate side Heth, with his division re-enforced by Pender, returned to the attack. For hours the fight was kept up, the Iron Brigade losing in quick succession three commanders and over 50 per cent, of its effective strength in killed, wounded and missing. The Second Wisconsin suffered the heaviest and here added 46 to its roll of heroes—(6 dead out 300 in line. With its other casualties the loss was 77 per cent. Col. Fairchild lost an arm, Lieut. CoL George H. Stevens was killed and Maj. John Mansfield was wounded. If On seeing his old friend's emotion, Anatole comprehended that he was really oondemned. He rushed from the room like a madman. "I like your bravery. The brave ar» made to agree. Shall I make a confession to you?" "Speak on." Since the introduction of clectric lighting into large manufacturing establishments the record shows a marked improvement in the health of the employes. WITH KT FBDENT) K'AIXICTER. Mr. Treadway was an Episcopalian in his early youth, but is and has been for a number of years a stanch Unitarian, although he liberally receives the doctrinal opinions of all other sects. With perspiration on his brow, Ideas upset, and his body mechanically advancing, Anatole went out into the Two hundred young Hindoo women are said to be studying medicine in the medical schools in India. "For some time I have been thinking myself of breaking oft this marriage; but I did not know bow to manage it So I would very willingly consent to what yon desire; but you understand that I can not seem—J, Capdenao—UD yield to threats." ,,L'j' ' 1/fBP IP Hf A tailor at Bellaire, Mich., recently finished a pair of pants which were made of scraps of over 300 different kinds of cloth. He has numberless woodcuts of churches and ministers, all neatly bound. The new picturesque Unitarian church, of San Francisco, contrasts with the old church at Tarrytown in whose grave yard is the tomb of Irving. The old church at Tarrytown, built in 1699 by Katrina Van Cortlandt, has a pleasing old legend that suits the quaint church and its old time environments.With this terrible loss the regiment was reduced to a nullity. There were less than one hundred in the ranks. After some addition of strength the Second entered the campaign of the Wilderness in Crawford's division of the Fifth corps. Here it lost 17 killed, and after further loss at Spottsylvania, its field officers wounded and its numbers less than one hundred, it was detailed as provost guard and ordered home June 11. During its term of three years 753 of its men were hit in battle and 182 were captured. In Company A the killed numbered 20 out of 121 enrolled; Company C, 31 out of 132; E, 31 out of 115; G, 29 out of 135; H, 28 opt of 122, and in K 30 out of 113. In general, lopped ears result from ages of disuse of the muscles which move the ears, and which in wild animals are in constant activity and it appears that ears which have become pendulous tend to increase in length. "I withdraw them." "Then it is agreed." "Will yon write ont yeur abdication and sign it?" Sleepywrags (the tramp)—I've moved three times for that blamed fool, an' if he points thet gun at me again TO go over there and break it over his head.— Munsey's Weekly. "1 have so much sympathy for yea that I can refuse you nothingl" Furnished with the precious doen- Mary Irene Hoyt, the contestant in the Hoyt will case, has a fondness for corner lots. It has been her habit for years to buy a corner lot in any town that she might visit, and in New York she has a handsome collection. Mr. Treadway has many ancient churches of the Old World in his collection, and he has two sermons over 200 years old. He has 450 sermons, discourses and newspaper articles on Garfield, a great number on Lincoln, the war, and on Beecher and on Washington and the Centennial. He D■« forty pages on the Centennial from one newspaper. Most of his sermonic treasures are in pamphlet form, but many are in the manuscript of the authors.—New York Herald. peat, Anatole ran to M. bouvard's. The distance was long, and he did not reach the door until eight o'clock in the morning. She was a stout old woman, with a red face and two wisps of gray hair that were draped back over each ear from the sprouting place like hawsers. "We don't want any," she said, as sha opened the door and saw a thin young man on the stoop. "But, madam"  "Never mind." She Wanted It. The log cabin in Washington county, Ky., in which, it is said, Abraham Lincoln lived as a boy, and where his father was married, has been bought by a committee from Chicago. The structure will be taken down and removed to the World's fair grounds, where it will be re-erected. "Go home and go to bed," shouted the professor, stormily. There was a hill intervening between the regiment and the guns, and while ascending this the command was fired upon by the enemy's infantry. Turning to face this fire the Second was soon engaged with a heavy force of the enemy. Jackson had sent several brigades to the attack. Musketry fire was delivered much of the time at seventy-five paces, and here the regiment lost heavily. The colonel, Edgar O'Connor, was killed. The major was twice wounded, but remained in action. During the fighting of the 30th and 30th the Second was slightly engaged, but its losses were confined almost wholly to this chance fight, which continued an hour and a half. In the battle the casualties of the regiment were 53 killed outright and 223 wounded. Of the wounded and missing 33 were subsequently counted with the killed, making a mortality list of 86. The number engaged was 511. But Jackson did not seize Warren ton pike that night, The story of the Second shows that it won this record by persistent hard fighting and not by accidents In nearly all great battles and in some minor engagements there are slaughter pens where certain regiments are roughly handled and men are sacrificed to no purpose, making a record that looks creditable while it is merely appalling. But it was the long, strong effort that won the day for the Union in the civil war. Luck and accident played a part and hindered or hastened unimportant events. Sharp fighting and plenty of it, however, determined the result, and all in all no better representative regiment could be found for the Union army than the Second Wisconsin, with its three years of lighting, its fifteen bloody battles, its dead leaders, its seven hundred and odd wounds, and its 238 killed in action. George L. Kilmee. "I have Capdenao's abdication. Open the door or I will break it in." M. Bouvard opened. Anatole handed him the paper and went to Nicette'a door to shout: He who realises and upholds the hallowed character of love in all its forms will never slight it in its highest and holiest; and he who holds loosely the love of a friend or a brother is unworthy to take upon himself any obligation more sacred or binding. erted above the sausage meat reservoir the whole thing is pushed through this spout into the wrapper, and yard upon yard of this delicious bivalve is reeled off while you wait. This is too much the fashion nowadays. Few are bold enough to present a looking glass to Sin plated with gold or clothed with authority. Pettifogging criminals are sent to durance vile for long terms of years; gigantic rascals either go unwhipped of justice or are but lightly tickled with her lash. The public censors, with a few exceptions, deal gently with wholesale peculators, and most of us seem to be get-' ting out of the way of calling thieves and' plunder mongers by their right names. This is a very bad state of things. We have been the most moral people of Christendom. We have had a right to point to the vicious courses of the privileged orders of Europe, and claim for the better class of society in this country a far higher moralstanding. Can we do so now? Handling Scoundrels Gingerly. "I merely want to explain to you, madam"  "AND TOD KHOW *0 REMEDY?" might, unconscious of what was going on around him, not even suspecting that the streets were becoming deserted. For a long time he ran that: then, coming to a bench, he sat down. How ibany hours had he left? The persistent and painful sound of a distressing cough tore him at last from bis prostration. He looked, and saw sitting on the same bench a tiny flowergirl—a child of eight years, thin and sickly. "Cousin, ge$ up, dress quickly and eome." J • 'Don't want any. Get along wid ye," "Just let me tell you"  "It seems, monsieur, that 1 am no longer master of my own house Yon go, you come, you command! To prove to you that I do not like it I shall pay no more attention to yoiv You hear? X am going to read my newspaper." "Don't. I have a broom in my other hand, and if you're working Annie Rooney soap or books or subscriptions I'll whack you." One house takes the lives of 2,400 pigs per day, and they nre chilled and ready for the table by night. Mr. Armour personally killed 1,450,000 hogs last year, not in a spirit of revenge, but in order to improve the condition of mankind and keep the rude and disagreeable wolf from his own door. A large and handsome Episcopal cathedral is being completed at Melbourne, Australia. Although the city is only half the size of Philadelphia, it is proud of the distinction of possessing an ecclesiastical building larger than any belonging to the Episcopal church in the United States, with a slight exception in favor of All Saints cathedral at Albany. The organ has been built in England at a cost of C20,- 000. "I understand you take boarders, madam?" A few moments later Nice tie. as fresh as the dawn, arrived in the little salon. Glancing hastily from Mr. Astor to the Chicago stock yards, I will say that few realize, or can do so, the magnitude of this one institution of Chicago. We can hardly imappne 1,280 acres of ground covered with meat, to speak plainly; 1,280 acres almost covered at least with the business of converting live stock into food for man. I had never before visited this institution, and so I went there all dressed np, in order to make an impression on the working classes. "Yes." "Iam introducing a little book entitled 'Appetite Breakers; or, The Landlady's Friend.'" "What's the matter?" Prying a little into his business affairs yesterday, I found that he did a business of $65,000,000 last year. He also paid out $3,509,000 in wages. With a piece of chalk I figured on the back of an oil painting in Mr. Armour's pleasant office that, allowing each year the same number of animals killed last year, say 1,500,000 hogs, 650,000 cattle and 350,000 sheep at a low estimate, in five years Mr. Armour, single handed, could encircle the globe with a continuous girdle of intestines! He fumbled In his pocket, and found two sous and two louis. He was going to give her the two sons, when it oocurred to htm that he would bo dead la a few hours, and he gave her the two louis. "The matter," said M. Bouvard, "1s that your cousin is mad." "Got one with you?' inquired the guardian of the doorway anxiously. "Yes." "Mad? All right!" said Anatole; "bat Nicette will see that my madness haa its good side. Last night, my dear little cousin, I obtained two things—M. Gapdenac renounces your hand and your excellent guardian consents that you may marry the man you love." "Truly, my guardian, you are willing that I should marry Anatole?" Stole a Woman's Hand. Hla Logic. A curious case is shortly to come before the court at Portland, Me., being the trial of a man for the theft of the hand of a woman who had been dead twenty years. The story in connection is a most remarkable one. In 1870 Ronald Seaforth, an Englishman engaged in the lumber business, lost his mother, Mrs. Annie Seaforth. This lady on her deathbed made her son promise to lay her remains beside those of her husband, who is buried in England, near HulL For various reasons Mr. Seaforth has never been able to keep this promise until the last spring, when, early in May, he had the body exhumed, proposing to take it to England. Nothing is more amusing or more perplexing in the case of children than the queer turns which their logic takes. It aot infrequently happens that they seem to be- impertinent when they are simply working upon some train of thought which the hearer does not follow. There is no prospect of a moral reform while we continue to treat our big villains as tenderly as we do now. Until severe examples shall be made of scoundrel ism in high places there is no hope of a better day. Strike down colossal rascals and there will be less trouble in managing the crowds of ordinary scamps that walk between their legs.—New York Ledger. "Come in."—New York Tribune. This incident did him good. So far he had been like a man struck on the head with a club; but now his stupor pawed away, aad he got a fresh grasp of pis scattered ideas. ' He looked at his watch. ; "Three o'clook in the morning! It |s time to go to bed—go to bed! Give my lMt six hours to sleep? No, I oertalnly have something better to do than that, but what?—oh! to be sure, there's my will to make." Mrs. Gadder—How kind and benevolent Mrs. Goodenough is, always planning something pleasant for the poor and friendless. \ Because They Were Deal. Shortly after my arrival it came on for to rain, and having came on for that purpose it removed its coat, suspenders and hat, and rained more earnestly and more vociferously than anywhere else I ever saw it outside of Ireland. I wore a frock coat, patent leather shoes and a silk hat. After a while the mud, gore and hair, to say qothing of lard and disarranged liver, gave me a blase look that attracted attention when I got back on State street. One man whom I did not know asked me if there had been any trouble oca strike at the stock yards. "What?" exclaimed Anatole. "For you are the man I love, my consin." The other day, for instance, little Percy, who is one of the most of children, asked his father how the letters, which he was just learning, happened to have the names they do. Mrs. Chatter—Yes; do you know what that angelic creature did the other evening?What a thought! What food for thought also! Jast then Anatole felt his heart beat violently. Was It the pleasure that Shanty Boats as Men-o'-War. Mrs. Gadder—Can't imagine. Mrs. a party from the deaf and down to the Thomas cqncert. Ifr was Wagner night, and she said the poor creatures did enjoy it so.—America. CV-1 "Oh, that is only the way men decided to name them," his father answered. "They had to be called something so that we could tell which one we were speaking of." A fight occurred between two rival shanty boat families yesterday, who are known as the Cook and the Jones factions, and the former were severely beaten. Both families, it seems, reside on the edge of Towhead Island, and for some time past an enmity has existed between them. Sunday the Joneses armed their boat and pulled it near the Cook boat. The Jones men, consisting of the father and two sons, then boarded the home of the rival family and fired nine shots. The shots passed through the windows and two of the balls hit two members of the Cook family. Neither was dangerously wounded.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Bat as Mr. Armour said in our talk, when I asked him for a little recipe for becoming a millionaire: "Here is the Of of TK -» T,r\n» Tt is oar system or carer uny utilizing everything. Here is a glass jar containing hoof meal. That is valuable for its ammonia. It is nude from the despised hoof of the animal after the neatsfoot oil and other toilet articles have been removed. Here is a jar of white phosphates, made from the pith of the horn. This industry will decrease if the dehorning of cattle grows, bat probably it will not appreciably. Here is a sort of glae made from the tips of the ears and nose of deceased cattle which die a violent death at oor house. Here is a substance used in great quantities by the brewers. Some time in the old days before your reformation yon have noticed when you palled your beer glass off the top of the table that it had a tendency to stick. That is a gelatinous substance which we furnish the brewer in great quantities. It is made from the thin white film which lies between the bone and skin of the head, for instance, and if nothing more harmful goes into beer it will never kill people off at a big rate. Then there is a jar of dried blood. Some is used for purifying sugar and considerable is sent to New Orleans, but more is used for making buttons. So you see we make our money by saving it Not long ago a Frenchman came to me and told me that I was losing a million or so unnecessarily. I froze to him till he told me how. We found that our big reservoirs containing water, and in which we give the beef a bath to sort of cool it and close up the pores, had been emptied into the Chicago river for years, carrying with it the bouquet of the beef. Wo now condense and compress this nutritious juice till wo the most stimulating and the meet ddectaale extract £Df beef that ever ghulCii-Ucd the totterm# stomach of an invalid or a child." "FOB TOV ASI TOT MA1C I It was noticed that the coffin was extraordinarily heavy, and to ascertain the cause it was opened, when it was found that the body had completely turned to stone. Mrs. Seaforth. whose death took place when she was barely forty, was a rarely beautiful woman, with hands particularly symmetrical ;ind small, and it is said that her petrified form seemed an exquisite statue carved in gray marble. Pending his sailing with it, the body was left by Mr. Seaforth in tne charge of Lawson, an undertaker. When Mr. Seaforth called for the remains he found that the right hand had been broken off at the yrist and was gone. Not far away was a restaurant that kept open all night Anatole went there. Nothing more was said about the matter at the time, but a day or two later the governess complained that Master Percy persisted in calling the letter o, which he knew perfectly well, q, and could not be persuaded that he was wrong. An Important Omission. "Walter, a bottle of champagne and a bottle of ink." The visitor is apt to go first to the asrmnmmrt™c department. I remember butchering day at home when I was a boy. It was different from this. We had generally about three shotes to kill, and we waited most always until the weather was so cold thai we could not plow. Then we butchered. We began about daylight to heat water for scalding purposes. Then we climbed the fence and began a secies of uncalled for yet bitter and personal attacks on the elder maternal hog, while her ear piercing squeals rent the sky and her hot blood spattered our neat little overalls. All day we alternately scorched ourselves or froze to death, and at night three flabby, waxen reman*, perfectly devoid of bowels of compassion or other viscera, pried open so that the November wind could sough through their pulseless forms or dally with their leaf lard through the long and frigid hours, hung in a row. Then came the days when all through the dear old homestead the smell of nice hot lard sought out every corner and even pervaded the beautiful brown linen Sabbath school suit, which caught and retained the ravishing fragrance/or years after. Ethel had been sitting on the sofa in silence for half an hour intently watching the lady who had come to visit her mother for a day or two. At last the burden of her thoughts was laid down with a sigh as she looked up in the visitor's face and asked; "Didn't you bring any other dress?"— Somerville Journal He drank a glass of wine and looked at his paper, meditatively. "To whom shall I leave my Income of six thousand francs? I have no father or mother, which is a lucky thing for them. And among the persons who interest me I see only one—Nioette!" Nicette was a charming young girl of eighteen, with light hair and large blaek eyes. She was aa orphan like himself. AT SECOXD BULL BUN. "Why, Percy," his father said, "I thought yon were learning your letters very fast, and here you are stuck on "round o' that •very baby knows." and for this reason failed to open communication with his colleague, Longstreet. Gibbon's brigade received the force of Jackson's attack, and the Second was the front and center of Gibbon's line. In fact it opened the ball and by a heroic front determined the result. "Bat it isn't o any more, papa," the small boy answered. "I 'cided to call it q." "Decided to call it q? What fort" To prevent rust of iron or steel immerse or wash the article tor a few minutes with a solution of carbonu: j of potash or soda. It is said that it will not rust for years after this operation. "Well, I can't remember q very well, and the round letter is easy to tell, so I 'cided to call it q so that I should know it." At South Mountain, Md., Sept. 14, '63, two weeks after Second Bull Run, the Second lose ten killed in a ragged mountain fight. AtAntietam on the 17th it was engaged He accused Lawson of the theft, and procuring a search warrant found the hand in the latter's private desk. The case has attracted a great deal of attention, as it is thought by lawyers to be unique. Lawson will plead guilty to the charge. He says that he wanted the hand as a curiosity and article of vertu, and did not steal it for the ring of gold and pearls on the forefinger.—Chicago Mail. To Doable Them Up. First Lady Manager—I understand that there are now a great many half orphans in our orphan asylum. Second Lady Manager—Yes; at the next meeting of the managers I shall introduce a resolution that two half orphans be put in the rooms which are usually occupied by a whole orphan. We must run the institution on strictly business principles. —New York Tribune. His last will waa quickly drawn np sad every thing went to Nlcette. "Poor Nlcette," he thought; "she was very sad the last time I saw her. Has set her guardian—who knows nothing of the world outside his class in wind instruments at the conservatory—seen fit to promise her hand to a brute, s sort of bravo, whom she detests? She detests him the more because she lores another, if I have clearly understood her confessions, full of reserves and embarrassment Who is this happy mortal? I do sot know; but he is certainly worthy of ber, since she has ehosen him. Kind, gentle, affectionate Nioette deserves an ideal husband. Ah I she is just the woman that 1 should have desired, If—it is outrageous to force her—to spoil her life by confiding suoh a treasure to a brute. Never before did I so well understand the generous ardor that Inflamed knights errant, and impelled them to deliver oppressed beauties. And if 1 should not "But you can't change the names of the letters, my boy." around the hloody cornfield early in tne day. The Firet corps, to which the Second belonged, was led by Hooker and attempted to flank the Confederate position in front of the Dunker chur *h. Tfie topography was very deceiving and caused many tnirnrimw on both sides. Gibbon's brigade was ordered across an open field to the corn field, which swarmed with Confederates, and a Union battery was on a ridge behind firing over the men into the enemy's ranks. The right of the brigade extended into a wood and was here attacked in the flank. Simultaneously a Confederate column moving obliquely from the wood dashed forward at the battery, now covered by the Second regiment. "Why, papa," returned Percy, apparently much aggrieved, "I asked you how the letters got their names, and you said folks just 'cided what to call 'em, and I have 'cided to call that q." The Only Universal Language. Though sages aver 'til a matter quite new— This language they call universal; Thii "Volapuk" people are worrying through. With study and patient rehearsal. Ninette's unexpected confession caused him? Was It death? "Unfortunate caat I amf cried the poor fellow; "she loves me. Happlnesr Is within my reach, and I am to die without enjoying it" His father saw that the boy was really in earnest and not in the least inclined to be either rebellious or impertinent, so he laughed and sat himself down to explain why Percy's decision was not as good as anybody's in fixing the names of the letters, an undertaking, it may be added, which he found none of the easiest.— YCvuth's Companion. But there is another as old as the stars. And open to each human creature; The secret it tells that makes lives or else mars, And is learned without aid from a teacher. Spenser's Three Centuries. The third centenary of the publication of Spenser's "Fairie Queen," and also of Sir Philip Sidney's "Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia," though it may not be made the occasion for public recognition, is well worth bearing in mind, especially by Lon doners. Spenser forms one of the triumvirate of metropolitan authors, Chaucer and Milton being the other two, while Sidney was born in Kent, only a few miles away. Then seizing Nicette's hands feverishly, he told her all—the letter received, the perfume inhaled, the prognosis of his old friend, the will written, the steps taken, the success obtained. "And now," he concluded, "I am going to die." The blushes some prssenoe will kindle. This language tells volumes by means of a sigh; Its resources make Volapuk dwindle. —Washin Vm Pn* Tis the pressure of hands or the glance of the eye, Bellows—My wife was born near sighted. A Diabolical Innuendo. Fellows—You didn't get very near her before you married her, did you?—New York Herald. The Church on t Bock. A Fervent Prayer. The fight over these guns became very hot, the enemy pressing to within canister range. Here 30 of the regiment fell, killed or mortally wounded, making a loss in killed within three weeks of 130 out of 511 men engaged. The stubbornness of the fighting at this point may be judged from the fact that the battery engaged with Gibbon's brigade, B, Fourth United States, lost at this point 0 men killed and 81 wounded, including the captain, and 26 horses killed and 7 wounded. Gen. Gibbon helped to servo the guns. The commander of the Second, Lieut. Col. Allen, who was twice wounded at Second Bull Run three weeks before, was severely wounded and carried from the field. To have fought on either side in front of the Dunker church at Antietam was glory enough for a regimept One or the quaintest and most picturesque ahurches or chapels in America is built upon a rock in Greenwood Lake, N. Y. In the northeastern end of the lakt stands a rock in the water about a rod from the shore. This rock is two acres lg area, and it rises sheer from the water to a height of fifteen feet, as if cut by a chisel The top of the rock is covered with a thin layer of soil, a few shrubs and some small trees. A footbridge Connects the rock witk the main land. On one corner of the rock is perched the church alluded to. Its littla belfry tower can be seen from a distance at two miles down the lake, and the chimes bt the tinkling bell can be beard by baas fishermen as they cast the decepti/e pork rind to catch the warjr fish. Church and fishing go on together.—JErnest Jarrold Id New York Sun. Some preachers are not successful. Per haps they have not been prayed for aftei the manner of the colored brother who having obtained the pulpit services of s northern clergyman made this supplication: "O Lord, bress dis yer w'ite brudder data come down from de.norf to preach to us. Fill him wid de flame of the spirit 'Noint him wid ds kerosene oil of salvation and set him on fire!"—Christian Inquirer. A Great Truth. "Bnt it is impossible!" said Nioette; "this doctor is mistaken. Who is he?" "I tell you, you've got to have a pull to do it successfully." "To do what?" "To milk a cow."—New York Herald. "A man, Nlcette, who is never mis,taken—Dr. Bardais." Both the famous works to which refer ence is made were originally published in 1590 at London, though the "Arcadia" was written at Wilton house, near Salisbury, the same place chosen by the pastoral players for the recent performance of "As You Like It." Some few months ago Messrs. Sotheby disposed of a copy of the "Fairie Queen," the first edition of cantos 1-12, 1590, 4to, for £15, while at the Crawford sale a perfect copy of the "Arcadia" realized no less than £93. This is the only occasion for several years on which a perfect, or indeed any, copy of the original has found its way into ths open market. ~ Pall Mall Gastftta. Here yon hear in the distant and the somber depths of the building a smothered wail ever and anon. You go toward it and find a brisk young man in tall rubber boots standing in a bloody stall with a flashing blade in his hand, while near him a big pan to which is attached a long handle fetches the hot, fresh tide of life as it spttrts with a porple impulse following the long, keen blade. About every fifteen seconds, while we stood there, a new subject came np heels first out of the big slaughter pen, as a log is pulled out of the pond "Bardais, Bardais!" suddenly exclaimed Bouvard, bursting out laughing. "Listen to what my newspaper eays. The learned Dr. Bardais has suddenly been attacked with mental alienation. The madness with which he is afflicted has a scientific character. It is well known that the doctor was specially engaged in the investigations of poisons He believes now that all the persons whom he meets are poisoned, and he persuades them that ther are. Sixteen Hours On. Dashaway (contemptuously)—Are you to wear that suit all winter? Cleverton—No. 1 expect to take it off nights.—Clothier and Furnisher. restrain myself 1—but why should I restrain myself? Why should 1 not be Kicette's knight? u is settled, ana from to-morrow morning—but to-mor*°w *111 be too late. I must set at once. The hoar is s little unreasonable for seeing peoole; bnt when I think that I shall be dead in five boom Blinks—Do yon think Pd wear a coat like that? to m S*emmd lud Stars. Crazy. * i Moees—All right, shentleman. Ve've got something cheaper down stairs in the oaUar.—Texas ftiftings, And so it goes. It seems that an adult steer can afford more real, pore joy by bis death than any other animal, unless She (in the cemetery)—What a crazy looking monument. He—Yes; it's off its base.—Yanke* Klad*