Arkansas City Weekly Traveler from Arkansas City, Kansas • Page 4

KAXSAS. THE SPEIXIXG BEE AT AXGEIS. POPULAR SCIENCE. acres, and the cash value of the crops produced is put down at $42,837,600. Kansas ranks tenth among the States in the total aggregate value of her crops, and ninth in the total aggregate arrpn nf store become profitable that Marblehead, recovering his confidence and feeling convinced that Broughton for his own sake would not betray hira, became reconciled to the possessor of hia terrible secret, left off drinking, and thought alone of money-making.

The year expired, and Ralph demanded the fulfillment of Marblehead's promise, but he was put off for another six months, and the embarrassed manner of the old man made him fear that there was some underhand work going on. Broughton wished to discharge the clerk at once, but Marblehead would not permit him to carry out his wishes for some time. "The lad's done no harm," he said "let him stay." But Broughton was not to be thwarted. One fine morning Ralph found a note on his desk, telling him that the firm of Marblehead Broughton had no further need of his services, and that any engagement existing between him and Alice was thereby rendered null and void Angry and wild with despair, as you may judge he was, Ralph taxed Broughton with malice and treachery and asked to see old Marblehead, and was finally tumbled headlong out of the store after spoiling Mr. Broughton's face, and breaking things generally.

Alice, ignorant of all this, was kept carefully our of the way until nightfall, when, receiving a letter from Marblehead, who stated that he was awaiting her in a town not far from Pitt burg, she fot into a sleigh, and was driven off by heophilus, who showed considerable familiarity with the ribbons. It was a bright, cold night in the commencement of winter, and Alice, warm within and warm without, enjoyed the ride sreatly at first. Just as the sleigh reached the outskirts of Pittsburg, then an insignificant town, and the foot of the old bridge, which, raised on wooden piers, once upon a time spanned the Alleghauy River, a man sprang to the side-walk, and called out, A MAGAZINE RIFLE. The Special Board of Ordnance Offlwri Choose of the Large Number Examined. Di-patch (0t 8) If.

T. Tribune. The board of ordnance officers, which met at the Springfield Armory to examine magazine guns, and to select one for adoption in this army, has adjourned, after adopting a report designating the Hotchkiss magazine gun. The report, which has just been received here, has been favorably indorsed by General Ben-et, the chief of ordnance. Secretary Mc-Crary has approved the report, and returned the papers to General Benet, with authority to expend the $20,000 appropriated at the last session of Congress.

Since early in the war of the rebellion strong efforts have been made by many army officers to adopt a magazine gun for the army. The conservative element has clung to the old muzzle-loader and the triangular bayonet so strenuously that it was only in 1866 that the altered Springfield breech-loading rifle was introduced, and it was only at the last session of Congress that authority was obtained to select a magazine gun. The act oi Congress specified that $20,000 might be used for the manufacture of such an arm in case one was selected by a board of ordnance officers. The board was ordered December 18, 1877, to meet April 3, 1878, and in the meantime extensive advertisements were published, calling upon inventors to present their guns before the board. It was decided that only such guns should be considered as conformed to the calibre adopted for small arms for the service.

45-100 of an inch. Twenty-seven such arms were presented by August 31, the limit of time fixed by the war department for that purpose. Among them were the Franklin gun, the "Ward the Sharp's rifle, the Hunt, the Lewis Rice, the Bufiington, the Winchester, the Burton, the Springfield Miller n- "Well, it is evident that Ike Marblehead was on no account better than he ought to be People in large cities care little for one another, except commercially or politically, and are much too busy to indulge in the amusement of picking holes in the coats of their neighbors, unless their neighbors happen to be prominent men, and calumny serves a politically profitable, or commercially profitable, purpose. In small places like Pittsburg, years ago, gossip is a break in the monotony of daily life, and if it is highly spiced with unfavorable reports and remarks about this or that individual, warranted or the enjoyment i3 considerably enhanced. One fine morning in June, Kehoe's grog-gery was full of its usual frequenters, loafers, local politicians, travelers, "stretching their legs," tiffin-taking business men and grim colliers.

'Tim," said a seedy individual to the barkeeper, "guess Ike Marblehead's made an unprofitable investment this time." "What in?" asked the busy dispenser of cocculas indicus, tobacco-juice and other poisons. "In a woman," returned his customer. The company pricked up their ears, and the seedy chap, assuming an air of great importance, took up a position before the empty stove, elevated nis coat-tails, and proceeded to unbosom himself. "In a woman," he repeated. "She ain't a woman neither I'm kinder wrong thar she's a gal, and thunder! ain she bootifnl?" "Who is she?" anxiously inquired all.

"I'm in the dark about that thar. Oceans of kerosene and miles of wick ain't no use to throw light on that thar subject." A girl about seventeen, or so, had become an inmate of Ike Marblehead's house, and who she was, and what relationship existed between her and the hard old man, became questions of considerable moment. She was very good-looking, and genteelness and truth, like diamonds in a gold setting, made her beauty doubly attractive. There was a straight-limbed young fellow in Pittsburg, Ralph by name, who never saw her witnout feeling a strong desire to do her some romantic service save her life, for instance, at the risk of his own so that he might inspire her bosom to feel friendship for him. Ralph was poor at that time, but industrious and honest, promising fairly enough to live a life as profitable to others as to himself, and as handsome an American as you'll meet with from Maine to Texas.

He was in old JIarblehead's store and many attempts were made to pump all his knowl ScrOBTZD BT TBCTBTCT. JAM 18. Walts In, waltz in ye little kids, and gather roand my Icq And crop them books and first pot-hooka, and hear a yam from me. I kin not ellng a fairy tale of Jinny fierce and For I hold It la unchriatlan to deceive a simple Bat as from school yer driftln by I thowt ye'd like to hear Of a Bee" at Angel that we organized last year It waru't made np of gentle kids of pretty kids-like yon. Bat gents ex hed their reg'lar growth, and some eneneh for two.

There wa Lanky Jim of Salter's Fork and Bilson of I aerac ee. And "Pistol Bob," who wore that day a knife by way of change. Yon start, yon little kids, yon think these are not pretty names. Bat each had a man behind it, and my name is Trutbfal James. Thar was Poker Dick from Whisky Flat and Smith of Bhootrr's Btnd, And Brown of Calaveras which I want no better friend.

Three-fingered Jack yes, pretty dears three fingers you have five. Clapp cat off two Wi ilnglar too, that Clapp aint now aliv. 'Twaa very wrong, indeed, my dears, and Clapp was mach to blame; Likewise was Jack, in after years, for shootin' of that same. The nights was kinder lengthenin' out, the rains had jest begun. When all the camp came np to Pete to have their usual fan Bat we all sot kinder ead like around the bar-room stove Till Sm th got np, permiskiss-like, and this remark he hove: "Thar's tn-w game down in Frisco, thet ez far ez I kin tee, Beats enchre.

poker and van-toon, they callB the Sptliin' Then Brown of Calaveras simply hitched his chair and spake: "Poker i good enough for me," and Lanky Jim ez. "Shake." And bob allowed he warn't proud, but he "must say right thar That the wan who tackled euchre ted his education sqfr." This brought np Lenny Fairchild, the echool-maa- tr, who said. He knew be game and he would give Instructions on that head. "For instance, tke some simple word," sez he, 4 line Now ho can spell it?" Dog my skin, ef thar was one in eight. This oe the boys all wild at once.

The chairs was put in row," And at the head was Lanky Jim, and at the foot was Joe, And high upon the bar itself the school-master was ris-d. And the bar-keep put his g'asees down, md sat and silent gazed. The first word out was "parallel," and seven let it Till Joe waUzed in his double "1" betwixt the and For, since he drilled them Mexicans in San Jacinto's fight, Thar warn't no prouder man got up than Pistol Jo tat night, Till "rhythm" came! lie tried to smile, then said, "they had him theie," And Lanky Jim with oue long stride got up and tak his chair. little kids! my pretty kids, 'twas touchin' to survey These bearded men. with weppings on, like schoolboys at thtir play.

They'd laugh with glee, and shout to see each other lead he van. And Bob sat up as monitor with a cue for a rattan Till the hair gave out "incinerate," and Brown said he'd be durned If any uch blamed word as that in school was ever learned. When came they all sprang np, and vowed the man who rung Another blamed Greek word on them be taken out and hung. As they sat down again I saw in Bilson's eye a flash. And Brown of Calaveras was a-twittin his mustache.

And when at last Brown slipped on "gneiss" and BiUon took his chair; He dropped some casual words about some folks who dyed their hair, And then the Chair grew very white, and the Chair said he'd dj But Poker Dick remarked that he would wait and get his turn; Then with a tremblln' voice and hand, and with a wanrterin' eye. The hair pCxt offered "eider-duck," and Dick began with And biison Niuiled then Bilson shrieked! Just how the fight begun I never knowtd, for Uilaon dropped and Dick he moved np one. Then certain gents aroe and said ness down in camp," th- y'd busi And ez the road was rather nleht was damn. dark, and ezthe They'd" here got up Three-fingered Jack and locked the door ana yelle 1 "No, not one mother's eon goes out till that thar wera is speiiear But whi tbe word were on his lips, he groaned and sank in pun. And sauk with Webster on his chest and Worcest er on his brain.

Below the bar dodged Poker Dick and tried to look ez hj Was huntin' up authorities thet no one else could see; And Brown eot down behind the stove allow'n' he "ws cord," rill it npsut and down his legs the cinders freely rolled. Kni several gents called "Order!" till in his sim- pis way Poor 'mith be? an with was dragged away. 'R" "or" and he little kids, my pretty kids, dawn on your knees viu pray i You've got your eddication in a peaceful sort of And bev In mind thar may be sharps ez slings theii spelliu' equate. But likewise slings their bowie knives without a inongnt or ire Xon wan' to know the rest, my ders? Thet's all! In me vou see The only gent that lived to te 1 about thet Spelliu' He ceased and passed, that truthful man the cHldren went their with downcast-heads and downcast hearts but not to i-port or play. For when at eve the lamps were lit, and supper- les to bed Sach child wds sent, wl task undone and les son an untaia.

HO man might know the awful woe that thrilled lactr youmnii mimes. 7 tnm of Bee and Bret Harte. in Scribner. IKE MARBLfiHEAD'S SECRET. viu ik wno lived in 1'ittsburg many years ago, was a close man every way.

keeping his monpy, his opin ions ana nis an airs all to himself. There was an atmosphere of mystery surrounding mm, Use a London fog, and his neighbors, worthy people, were very ansious to see through it His career in Pittsburg as a storekeeper had been profitable and without reproach, but his friends conscientiously microscopic as all friends are in their judgment of one another, discov ering no Buun on nis character, were rea bvuuij angry, ana taiKci vaguely about mecioasot religion hiding very shabby Kftiiucuuj; iur ise maroiehead bowed and venerable with years attended divine service twice on Sundays with the regularity of clockwork. Although his lank figure long, sharp face, and pro- voweis stamper him as a Yankee. thPM Vara ihnun 1 cr I- m- s4M ms urawi was nucviAuun, tnat ne was one of those com vty quicks wno leave their country for their country's good, and that he was a son of perfidious England. His communicativeness was a prolific Bou-ce of V1 1118 antecedents, prior to nis settling in thepitvnf JfiSSS P' in opinion of wui, mm, some youthful em lations, accounted for his silence regarding the past.

In a business point of view he was aood man. His checks were al- uunorea, ana his orders always filled a and thout children. Ik iUiixuieueaa seemed to fx- v4 i vond money and a Btrict observance of the torm3 of religion, perhaps esteeming the latter a capital investment of time. 1 uwnr oi many tenements, occupied bv poor people, ne did hia duty as a land- U1" icwer, out ne never gave to the poor, and would have his rent at the proper time. Nay, he was once heard to say mat the man who fails to meet his monetary engagements ought to be put in yiuvui I Italy is arranging for an exposition in 879, which wili afford American mer chants and manufacturers an opportunity to introduce wares into that country.

On autopsy, the brain of Nobeling. the would-be assassin of Emperor William. ppeared normal, but the skull was some-" what obliquely shaped, as is often fount! in persons of unsound mind. A writer in Land and Water tells how an exasperating donkey was kept from braying by a weight appended to nis tail. ior it seems that a donkey always must lift that aphendage when braying.

A number of the members of the Vrench Academy of Sciences still declare that a ventriloquist was employed in exhibiting the phonograph before their body, and that the machine is a humbug. Some idea mav lx tormed nt the pro gress of China within "recent vears from thf tact that of the 9,268,000 tons of foreign built vessels engaged in the local carrying nitue ueiween tne treaty port, the Chinese themselves own 3,955,000 tons. Ihe latest advices Nev Guinea exploration expedition, he members of which were so enthusiastic, ii me enect tnat three ot the pa ty were dead4and the others dispirited or fever-stricken. It aeems likelv to nrovp a. Fail ure.

Sponge paper made bv adding fini divided sponge to paper pulp, has been used in ranee for dressing wounds. It absorbs water readily, and retains mois ture for a long time; it is therefore appli cable to many purposes in the arts and manutactures. Collectors of insects and amateurs were warned at a recent meeting of the Ento mological society against purchasing speci mens irom irresponsible dealers, who manufacture new varieties bv dionine various insecta into aniline, and other col oring matters. The Voeringen expedition in the Arctic regions has been even more successful than the Challenger expedition, and reflects great credit upon Norwegian skill and energy. A large amount of scientific data has been secured by sounding, dredging, and trawling.

A French engineer named Monchot has contrived an apparatus in which a system of mirrors is used to concentrate the rays of the sun in such a manner as to generate steam in a boiler to be applied as a motive power, thus doing away with the necessity of fuel. Several portions of the skeleton of large bird, supposed to be a moa, have been found at Queenstown, in New Zealand. Judging trom the skin and feath-irs, the bird could not have been dead oiany years. All those who have seen the exhibit pronounce the bones to be those of a dinornis. A manufacturer of electric clocks, V.

Himmer by name, has proposed a plan for diminishing the noise on the New York Elevated railw ay. He suggests that a twisted steel-wire rope be laid in a groove on the top of the rail. Such a rope has great elasticity, and when struck with a hammer or subjected to the rolling of the wheels, emits scarcely any noise. At the annexation of Alsace and Lor-iiine the fish propagation establishment at Hunigen passed from French into German hands. Under the latter direction no cost has ben spared to make it as effi cient as possible, bmce the German control was assumed, over twenty three million ova of trout, salmon, carp, roach, aave been sent out.

In the Rhine and rivers of upper Alsatia, fish are now so plentiful that the rent3 of these waters aave materially advanced. Fish can now je purchased for six cents per pound, and 'he time of cheap food for the people seems to have returned. A new material available for textile manufactures exists in western Australia. It is a species of "vegetable wool," which jtows on the top of the grass in the immense sheepruns of that country. It is ibout half an inch in length, and as soft as silk.

A silk merchant thinks that the "wool," though too short to use alone, svould mix well with silk, adding to the warmth, strength, and beauty of the fabric thus made. A special commissioner is now in Australia examining the material and taking note of the extent of its pro-luction. It is likely soon to be introduced to the market. The greater part of the files made and used in the United States arc machine-made in every part. Hand-cutting is still carried on in a small way.

The statistics of the file industry of the United States is thus summarized: There are seven manufacturers making Machine-cut files, operating about 275 machines, and averaging 1,500 dozen files per day. These factories also produce about 200 dozen hand-cut files, making a total of 1,700 dozen per day as the total product of the several principal companies, fcmaller manufacturer r.r.ike onfy for home consumption, and for the trades. The probable total 1 production of the country is about 2. iozen per day. M.

Duveyrier has just shown to what portions of Africv explorers should direct their attention. Seven vast regions j-et remain unlrr.nwu or shrouded in nrystery. These are, in tl north, the Sahara and the Libyan desert, in the west, the country between the Joliba and the coast of Guinea; in the centre, the Shari; in the east, the interior of the Cape Guardafui and the chain of mountains the equatorial zone; at the centre, the completion of the basins of the Nile, the Congo, and the Ogono, and finally, in the south, the basin of the Cunure. As the exploration of Africa has crone on at tLe rate of 234- 25 smiare kilometers per year, all of that continent should be known in than forty-eight years. less Grave of Capt John ftmlth.

A correspondent of the Lancaster (Pa.) New Era, now in England has had the curiosity to visit the grave, of the celebrat ed Capt. John Smith, one of the founders of Virginia. He says: "I stepped into the old St. Sepulcre Church, now undergoing repair. I was in search of te grave of Capt John Smith, of Virginia memory, it seems, saved from a cruel death by Pocahontas, was buried peacefully here.

I found the sexton. He said Captain Smith was buried in the church, but he thought it a very etrange thing that any one should care to see the old grave. Besides, he said that the stone that marked the grave and contained the now illegible epitaph had been taken up and was lying in the yard. I persisted, and he finally consented to 6how me the grave and the stone. He did so, but if his indifference is a.

reflection of the indifference of the higher authorities of the church, it is to be feared that I will be about the last person to look with certainty upon either. The first line of the epitaph runs thus 'Here liee one conquered that hath conquered Seasonable Etiquette. A gentleman must always offer a lady his right arm to take her down to dinner. The reason is that a gentleman must invariably give the lady the place of honor, which is the right hand, and the only occasion on which a lady stands on a left is during the marriage ser-. i i vice, wnen tne liuenor noaiuon lnaicaies submission and obedience.

Though 'a gentleman always give his right arm, it is admissible to change at the head of the stairs, 60 as to place the lady next the wall. It is a singular fact that while for thf eight months ending Aug. 31 we imported only $25,000 of railroad iron from Great Britain, the imports of beer and 'f amounted to FACTS FROM THR Kinnvir CULTURAL REPORT. The Most Prosperous State in the Union- Its Marvelous Growth and DevelopmentKansas Compared With Other States Nearly a Hundred Million Dollars Worth of Cereals and Stock. From the Atchiaon Champion.

We have received, from the Commis sioner of Agriculture, his report for 1877. It seems to us that, with all the facilities the government controls, such documents ought to be published at an earlier date. But late or early, it is an interesting document, and one of great value to the country. Notwithstanding the fact that it has become a habit, with editors who never ook inside its covers, to deride and derrv this report, it is always widely sought af ter, and it would be ot still greater ser vice it it was distributed, as it oue-ht to be, only among the farmers of the coun try and such journalists as make use of the facts it embodies. But we have been specially interested the reDOrt of the statistician.

Hon. J. Dodge, an officer who has been at the head of this branch of the service for thirteen years, and whose reports are always carefully prepared and full of in teresting facts and figures. It occupies eighty pages, and is, throughout, crowded wim vaiuaoie lniormauon illustrating tne development of our agricultural interests and industries. "cor: is KING." The corn crop for 1877 aggregated 1,342,558,000 bushehu an increase of over the great crop of 1875, and the largest ever produced in the United States.

The average yield per acre was 26.6 bushels, or a little more than that of the previous year. The old King, Cotton, akes the fourth rank among the agricul tural products ot the country. Illinois still ranks as the hrst corn pro ducing State, Kansas, sixth in 1876, ranks fourth in 1877, having passed above Ohio and Indiana. The products, acreage and value of the corn crop in the ten leading corn producing States is as fol OW8: States Bushels. I Acres.

Value. Illinois Iowa Missouri Kansas 260,000,000 156,000,000 103,000,000 98,900,000 3,965,517 75,400,000 4,800 000 27,810,000 29,769,000 38,800,000 3,551,724 2,709,589 3,079,365 3,200,000 1.963,696 1,020,000 1,041,667 1,246,060 Ooio Indiana Kentucky Tennessee Texas 96,000,000 32,640,000 59,500.000 50.500,001 49,000.001 41,120,001 19,040,000 20,200,000 21,070,000 20,971,000 Pennsylvania In the average yields ot corn per acre, only one corn producing State, Nebraska, reports a larger average than Kansas The yield per acre in Kansas is given at 36.5 bushels; Nebraska, 3S: Illinois, 'jy; Iowa, 32.5; Missouri, 29; Ohio, 31.5; In diana, 30; Kentucky, 30.3; lennessee, 25; Texas, 24: Pennsylvania, 33: Michi an, 31: Wisconsin, 523; Minnesota, 52y; alifornia, 30; Oregon. 26; Arkansas, 24. THE WHEAT CROP. The wheat crop for 1877 aggregates 464,194.146 bushels, an increase of nearly 75,000,000 bushels over thep roduce ot the previous year, ihe acreage, nowever, was nearly a million acres less than 1876.

The average yield for 1877 was 13.9 bushels, while that for 1876 was only 10.4 bushels. The range in the yield of wheat during eleven 3rears has been only four bushels that is, from 1866, when it was 9,86 bushels, the lowest, to 1377, when it was 13.9 bushels, the highest. Ihe average price of wheat during 1877 was abeut five cents more per bushels than in 1876. The total value of the wheat crop of 1877 is placed at $395,155,375, or nearly one hundred millions greater than that for the previous year. Iowa was the first wheat producing State in 1877, and Kansas ranked 11 The wheat crop of 1877, was, in Kansas, a partial failure, and the average yield, 16.o bushels per acre, was not up to tne average of former years.

It was, howev er, very nearly equal to that of the great wheat producing btates named above. The wheat crop for 1878 will, it is said, give Kansas the hrst rank, as the greatest wheat producing State in the Union. RYE. The crop for 1877 was the largest ever produced, aggregating 21,170,100 bushels. The total value of the crop was The average yield, for 1,412,902 acres, was 14.9 bushels.

Only four States in the Union, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois and Wisconsin, exceed Kansas in the total of their rye product, and only one State, Oregon, "excels Kansas in the average yield of rye per acre. Kansas produced, on 120 500 acres, a total of bushels of rye, aggregating in value, $867,600. In the average yield of rye per acre uregon rants nrst, producing 22 bushels; and Kansas ranks second, froducing 20 bushels. Then follow II-inois, Vermont, Wiscons in and Michigan, in the order named. OATS.

The oats crop for 1877 aggregated bushels, or about 86,000,000 bushels more than in 1876. The acreage was less than in 1876, but the yield per acre and the aggregate quantity were greater than during any ot the previous ten years. Kansas ranks eleventh among the oats producing States in the aggregate of the crop, but fourth in the average yield per acre. The oat crop of Kansas for 1877 was bushels, produced on an area, of 321,052 acres. Value of crop.

$2, 196,000. The average yield of New-Hampshire was 43 bushels per acre; ITe- braska, 40; Rhode Island, 39; Kansas 38; and Iowa, 38. All the other States below these figures. BARLEY, The barley product for 1877 aggregated 34,441,400 busnels, or about four million ousbels less than in lob. lue area planted aggregated 1,614,654, and the total value of the crop was $21,028,644.

Kansas ranks as the sixth barley producing State in the aggregate of her barley product, being excelled only by California, New York, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois, ranking in the order named. The barley Eroduct of Kansas aggregated 1,900,000 ushels, produced on 80.851 acres, and valued at $627,000. Kansas ranked eighth among the barley producing States in 176. POTATOES. The potato crop of 1877 aggregated 110,092,000 bushels, produced on an area of 1,792,287 acres, and valued at Kansas ranked as tbe fifteenth po tato producing State, in the aggregate of ner product.

HAY. Kansas ranks eighth in the aggregate of her hay crop, only seven States, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan exceeding her. The hay crop of Kansas for 1877 aggregated 1,155.000 tons, from an area of 7 acres, and valued at $4,042,500. In the average quantity of hay produced on an acre of ground, Kansas ranks all the other States in the Union, her average product being 1.65 tons per acres. Illinois ranks next, producing 1.60 tons; Oregon next, 1.50 tons; and Nebraska next, 1.45 tons.

The total hay crop of the United States aggregated 31,629,000 tons, produced on 25,367,708 acres, and valued at $271,934,950. BUCKWHEAT. Kansas had 4,143 acres planted in buckwheat. This area producd 58,000 bushels, valued at $43,500. Kansas is the fifteenth buckwheat producing State.

The total crop of the country was 10,177,000 bushels, valued at $6,999,810. SUMMARY. The area planted in the eight crops enumerated above aggregates 60,047,246 her crops. The flax, hemp, tohar castor beans, sorghum, broom corn, and other crops, are not included in this re port. (Concerning the flax cron.

hnvpvor the report says that Kansas is becoming the leading flax producing State in the Union. The North and Mouk in Brotherlv AftVetlon. From the Venuhia (Tenn. Appeal. While all that is said is true of the pluck and endurance of the Southern people under the provocations of war, pes tilence and famine, there is something to be said for our brethren of the north, whose constancy, steaamess and devotion to their cause, bravery and persistence in battle and endurance in a prolonsred contest that taxed all their energies, and a skill and resource unequaled, have few parallels in history.

To no other people could we of the South have surren in tne neid so fiercely contested, despite the hazards of political disputes, they have many times since April, lSbo, extended us the right hand of fellowship, full up and flowing over with good gifts, tendered with a manly spirit that robbed the generous ten derotthe humiliations of charity. The game men who led the armies of the North, the same journalise who inspired those armies, add the same religious teachers, and the same noble heroic women who originated and sustained, amid the heat of battle and the excitement of sometimes perilous popular commotions, the grand est benehcence ever conceived of for the relief of soldiers in the field, have been foremost in the heaven-sent work of our relief in weeks thSt are the dreariest ir our calendar. Unwearied in their task as did Joseph with his breth ren, they have tilled our sacks to over-flowing many, many times and yet they are not done. From far Oregon and Montana to Vermont; villages, towns and cities of all the busy Northern State from the miner's camp, the news-boy's home, trom the bankar and the farmer, the professor and the mechanic; from all classes from that section of our country where American ingenuity has found it largest fields of conquest and whose in dustries challenge the world in vain for comparison from this seat ot a great A 1 till dustnai population, unmatcned bv any other on the earth, the guts ot an inteUv gent help and a touching sympathy have come, saving many thousands ot oui stricken ones from death, and lighting oui drearv pathway with the light ot an en during brother love. "Blood is thickei than water' Of the same race, speak ing the same tongue, the heirs of the same liberties and citizens of the same glorious country, no memories of sectiona' divisions, ot political animosities, or cml war have been allowed to stay the steady flow of the bounteous stream thai has brought us, with all else, the as surance that we are one people in fact as well as in name, and that beyond the froth and fuss of politics, and the deceits and dangers of demagogues, the popular hear; is safe, yielding nly of its fullness when challenged in the cause of humanity, and brothers lives are at state.

The Tastes of the Age. N. Y. Correspondence of Baltimore Sun. Speaking of decorative art, the luxuri ous sumptuary tastes of the hour for veritable Greek and Roman coins as scarf-pins, golden bands in the coiffure, Lousaic- shell lewelry, and diamond-lace, in whicl the figures all made of diamond sparks on silver wire these costly artistic tasted are met in articles of ordinarily homely utility by the new iridescent glassware, which is now becoming all the fashion.

Decanters, vases, goblets, finger-bowls, celery-glasses. and even sets ot jewelryare made to look like masses of the most prismatic opal; the effect being produced upon the glass; by the burning of chloride of tin in the furnace in which it is annealed, with lesser quantities of the nitrates baryta and strontia to deepen the tints. The fumes of the tin chloride at once irritate the warm glass, which must then be immediately worked into shape without a second heating, if the freshest tints are to be preserved. The cost of the new material is in keeping with its present novelty, but likely to decline as the market becomes more pleniifully stocked. Caught In the Act.

Seribner for October. The day-time was spent principally upon the quartar-deck, and the President erler tained us with numerous anecdotes and incidents of his life, of the most interesting character. Speaking of the practice that grew up in the beginning of the war, for everybody that found himself in command at a cross-roads or any other place no matter how insignificant to issue a grandiloquent proclamation to the inhabitants, defining the position of the Gov-erment, and mqre particularly expressing bis own views upon the situation, Mr. Lincoln remarked that he Lad be''n so much annoyed by these manifestoes that he had determined to put a stop to tbeni. The first occasion that offered itself was when Burnside and Goldaborough appeared at the Executive Mansion to receive their final instructions in regard to their joint military and naval expedition in North Carolina.

He called their attention to the subject, expressing very decided opinions in the matter. "Would you believe it?" said Mr. Lincoln: "when I spoke of proclainationseach pulled one oat of his pocket that had been prepared in advance, without consultation. I had no idea of catching them in the very act." The Son Made of Metal In a recent article in the XI nteenth Century, by Mr. J.

Norman Lockyer, the writer very strongly objects to Dr. Dra per's discovery of oxygen in rrn. Mr. Tjvlrver savs he has gone carei'ullv over the whole ground, and finds: First, that the photograph on which Dr. Draper bases the discovery is not one competent to settle such an important question; second, that he does not find the coincidence between bright solar lines and oxygen lines in the part ot the spectrum with which he is most familiar; and, third, that, comparing Dr.

Draper's photograph with the fine photograph of the spectrum obtained by Mr. Rutherford, he "fails to find any true bright line in the Bun whatever coincident with any line of oxygen whatever." Mr. Lockyer suma up the evidence as to the sun's composition in these words: "So far as our uncontested knowledge goes, the sun is chiefly made of metal, and on this account is strangely different from the crust of our earth, in which the metals are in large minority." ffemen's Dress. The physical prowess of the softer sf cannot be judged until they are dressed in a manner favorable to the taking of exercise. If any member of an athletic club is disposed to underrate the physical prowess of the fair Bex, let him try to run a hurdle race, display on the horizontal bar, or play a cricket or foot-ball match in a lady fashionable walking dress of the period, and then he will be able to ee-timate the extent to which hi3 sisters are handicapped, why they are so averse to wholesome- out-of-door exercise, and consequently enfeebled both in mind and fle, the Clemmons, the Remington, the liesmsr cun.

the rjiirtress Tiesing gun, the Burgess gun, and the Lee. About a dozen others were presented, which did not conform to the requirements for calibre, but which were exam ined as to the system of mechanism. The 111" .1 Alt arm selected is tne lourtn one oi tne lotchkiss pattern. It carries five charges in the magazine and one in the chamber of the gun. The charges are supplied to the chamber fro ji the butt of the stock by a direct acting spring, ihe gun has a fixed magazine, in which the charges slide in a line with the axis of the barrel.

is worked by concealed locks, and may be used as a magazine gun or a single- oader by the use of a simple cut-off. The mechanism of the arm greatly resembles that of the French chassepot externally, having a turning breech block, which is worked by a round knob sliding back and clear of the loading chamber, and which also contains the firing pin. In the tests for capacity, twenty-nine rounds were fired in two minutes, at a target 100 yards distant. Ihe cost ot the new piece is es timated at ten dollars each, or six dollars ess than the Springfield now used. Repose in the Ocean Depths.

it nas Deen ascertained oy soundings that the roaring waves and the mightiest billows of the ocean repose, not upon hard and tioubled beds, but upon cushions of still water; that everywhere at the bot tom of the deep sea the solid ribs of the earth are protected, as with a garment, trom the abrading action ot its currents Ml 11 11 I It tnat tne craaie oi its restless waves is lined with a stratum of water at rest. that it can neither wear nor move the lightest bit of drift-stuff that once lodges there. ihe unnorm appearance ot the micro scopic shells, and the almost total absence among them ot any sediment Irom the sea of foreign matter, suggests most forcibly the idea of perfect repose at the bottom of the sea. Some of the specimens are as pure and as free from sand as the fresh fallen snowflake is from the dust of the earth. Soundings seem to prove that showers of these beautiful shells are constantly falling down upon the ocean floor, and the wrecks which strew the sea-bottom are; in the lapse ot ages, encrusted over with those tiny, fleecy things, until they present the rounded outlines of bodies buried beneath the snow-fall.

The ocean, especially near and within the tropics, smarms with life. The re mains of its myriads of moving things are conveyed by currents, and scattered and lodged, in the course of time, all over the bottom. lhis process, continued tor ages, has covered the depths of the ocean as with a mantle, consisting of organisms as delicate as hoar-frost, and as light in the water as down in the air. Interestlns Legal Decision. Judge Rogers, of Chicago has decided a novel and interesting point connected with the rendition of fugitives from justice.

In the case before the court, a person named Carroll was arrested some time ago on a requisition from the Governor of Nebraska, The Governor of Illinois issued his warrant for the delivery of Carroll to officers representing, or claiming to represent, the State of Nebraska, and thereupon the ac cused sued out a writ ot habeas corpus Pending the hearing of the writ, the Gov' ernor of Illinois revoked his warrant, for reasons which do not appear. The question was raised, thereupon, whether such a warrant, once issued could be revoked full consideration the Judge express ed the belief that the Governor could le gally exercise his discretion so long as the alleged fugitive remained in Chicago, and that, the Governor decision being final the prisoner must be set at liberty, there being no lawful warrant for his detention existence, A Lover's Rose. From the San Chronicle. Last week the police authorities were informed that a young man named Archie Lavy had called at the telegraph office in the Palace Hotel and persuaded the lady operator in charge to write out a dupli cate of a telegram received by him from Paris which promised the remittance of $2,000, giving as a reason that he had lost the original copy. It was thought at the time that this bosus telegram was obtain ed for the purpose of swindling somebody, It now appears that young Lavy secured this copy in order to impose upon a young lady to whom he was betrothed and satisfy her mind regarding his prospects, and that he had plenty of coin to celebrate the nuptials he was bo anxious to have take pface.

The telegraph company are now satisfied that no wrong was intended and consequently they will not prosecute the amorous Archie. Little Joe'M "Piece" an Owls. When you come to see 'em clos3 they got ofSe big eyes, but when you feel 'em with your fingers, which they bites, you find they have only got jest enuf meat to hold their feathers together. Once there was a man thot he would like an owl ior a pet, so he tole the bird man to send him the best one in the shop; but, when it was brot home, he looked at it and skeweezed it, but it didn't suit. So the man rote a letter to the bird man, and "Dear sir I take my pen in hand to inform you I'll keep the owl which you sent, tho it ain't like I wanted, but when it is ded you must make me another, with little eyes, cos I spose these is but No.

if I pay you the same for No. 6's, mebby you can afford to put in more owl." No Boston policeman is allowed to discuss religion or politics at the station-houses; tu0 truth all at once, would have thrown her -ii ii i i ii i self from the sleigh, but Broughton's strong arm was round her waist, keeping her down in the seat. He seized the whip with the hand that held the reins, and lashed the trotting horse savagely. A splendid roadster, able to do its thirty miles a day without losing flesh, and therefore altogether unaccustomed to the whip, the animal swerved violently, threw its fore feet into the air, and brought the vehicle to the very eslge of the bridge. Broughton jerked out an oath, pulled the nearer rein, and once more brought the lash down on the horse's flanks.

In a moment the strident cry of fear escaped him. Once more the horse reared, dragging the vehicle half over the dizzy edge, and then leaped right over. Ralph came up just in time to see the terrible accident, and was breasting the cold waters of the Alleghany in a few minutes, determined to save the woman he loved, or to die in the attempt. Well, to make a long story short, he saved her and married her. In falling, Broughton's head came in contact with the sleigh, and he was picked up, dead as a herring, three days after.

When Ike Marblehead died, four years after Alice's marriage, a sealed manuscript, in accordance with his will, was handed to her, and she was horrified to discover that he was the murderer of her father, John Geary, whom he had robbed of a large quantity of gold; and that, unable to part with the ill-gotten wealth, he had sought out Geary's widov, who was just on the Eoint of death, adopted her child, and ad hoped to cheat his conscience by treating her kindly. Discovered by a man who was aware of his guilt, Marblehead had given him the slip, settling and succeeding in Pittsburg, where, when her education was completed, Alice, whom he had taught to regard him as her uncle, also came to reside. The rest has been told. A Colored Man's Solution. From the Troy Standard.

Some months ago we published an article on the discovery of the true ratio be tween the circumference and the diameter of a circle. The person whm we mentioned as having solved this intricate problem was Charles T. Gidiney, an aged colored man residing in this city. The old gentleman claims that his algebraical rule is based upon an immutable principle, and tnat being based upon such a princi ple, it is impossible lor it to bring any thing but the correct result in numbers, just the same as 7x7 brings 49 and 9x9 brings81. The products of these numbers are unchangeable.

Now, take two differ ent circles. Let the letter represent the diameter and the letter the circumler- ence of one circle: and the letter the diameter and letter the circumference ef the second circle. From this we form the Eroportion Reducing this we nd that iczxy, and these products must be always equal. Thus we see that if we take any two different circles, and multiply the diameter of the first by the circumference of the second, and the cir cumference of the first by the diameter of the second, these products will be exactly equal. In illustration of this Mr.

Gidiney takes two circles: the diameter of the first he considers 113 feet, and the diameter of the second 7. By a long series of in geniously-constructed equations he finds the exact circumferences of these circles to be HU5 o-iz and Ml 7-l'J respectively, or 113:343 7-12. Reduce this, and 2,438 11-12. In solving this and kindred problems, Mr. Uidinev uses over 1,350 different equations, all of which prove themselves correct from beginning to end.

Another, as 7 21 7-12: :7 Multiply the means and the extremes together, their products will be exactly equal. Thus. 7 5-37x 21 7-12-7x22, or 154 equals 154. He -de sires us to state that among those who have been favorably impressed with the result of his problem'are Prof. Greene and students at the institute, Prof.

Beattie, A. G. Johnson, Charles Eddy. Derrick Lane, ex-Mayor Kemp, James Kemp. Bishop Thompson, Prof.

Sausberrv, D. Packard, and many others. If Mr. Gidiney has done what no other man has been able to do, he deserves great praise. We commend his problem to those mathemat ically inclined.

Jones nod Mmlth. "I understand, Mr. Jones, that you can turn anything neater than any other man town." "Yes, Mr. Smith, I said bo. "Mr.

Jones, I don't like to brag, but there'B no man on earth can turn a thing as well as I can whittle it." "Pooh, non sense, Mr. Smith! talk about whittling! nat can you wmtue as well as can turn? "Anything, everything. Mr. Jones. Just name the article that I can't whittle that you can turn, and I'll give ycu a dollar if I don do it to the satis faction of all these persons "Mr.

Smith, suppose we take two grind stones for trial; you may whittle and I will turn. Living From an Acre of tiroud. From the Stockton Independent. On the Cooper lane, about a mile or so north of Stockton, there lives an industrious Italian on an even acre of ground lying in triangular shape between tne road and the railroad at the crossing point, ne has a wile and hve children whom he supports in comfort from the product of his garden. The little farm is planted to trees, vines and vegetables.

and is thoroughly tilled. Occasionally he 1 -1 pianu an eariy crop on tne railroad ngn ofwav adjommg, which remains undis turbed until the plow of the fire protectors comes aiong. nut this instance is a good fflostration of "a little farm well tilled." edge of that mysterious household out of him, but he was- wisely silent, and kept his tongue behind his white, even teeth, whenever Ike's private affairs were broached. Old Marblehead professed to be greatlv interested in Ralph, giving him plenty of aavice, alter me iasmon oi men generally, who, forgetting the proclivities of their own youth, would have twenty-five think and act like three score and ten. Before long, Alice Marblehead and her uncle's clerk came to an understanding.

Ralph feared that his employer would re ject his proposal, but, obeying Alice, who wa3 too conscientious to keep an affair ot such an importance from the knowledge of her guardian, he told liim Irankly how matters Btood, and was both surprised and delighted to receive his consent to their union. "In a year's time, if you still like each other well enough," said the grim old man, "you shall marry, and I'll set you up in business. It was a joy to live months alter the promise, but mistortune was in store ior all, and Ralph Peaton had to go through much suffering before he received the prize. One Sunday as old Marblehead. in company with his niece and Ralph, wa3 going to his particular place ot worship, 1 i an ui-iooKing stranger, snaoouy auirea, travel-weary and travel-stained, met him ace to face, and claimed his acquaint ance, with a mocK-demonstration ot re spect and pleasure.

Ike Marblehead, pale as death and shaking as if in an ague-fit, bade his niece and Ralph proceed to the chapel, and turned into hi3 house, followed bv the stranger. "You don't look as well as vou were. Tom Brady," said the stranger seating himself before the stove. "By the way. what name do you go under now? Turned honest in your old age, eh?" the old man glared at him like a wild beast at bay, "Don't play with me, Mike," he hoarsely.

"You know me of old. said I am a dangerous, man. "Cool down, returned Mike, crossing his lesrs, and lookins old Marblehead straight in the eyes. "I'm not here to play with you. You've given me the slip for six years, and to judge from ap- Fearances, you seem to have prospered, haven't, I'm pretty nearly played out, and must ask you to put me on my legs again.

First of all, give me something to eat." Marblehead placed 6ome meat, and bread on the table, and waited silently until his unwelcome visitor's appetite was satisfied. "That young lady was verv much like an old acquaintance of mine," said Mike at last, throwing himself back in his chair. Old Marblehead shuddered, and hid his face with his hands. "Just like Jack Geary," continued Mike musingly. "As fine a fellow as ever breathed was Jack, but the little too fond of knocking about the world.

I first met him in Mexico, sixteen years ago, when he went gold hunting with a friend of mine, called Tom Brady. Three weeks afb-r, riding from San Antonio de Bexar, I found Jack Geary, dead and doubled up, lying alongside the track, and Tom Brady's knife was up to the hilt in his heart," Old Marblehead groaned. "I've got that knife now," resumed Mike, drawing it from his pocket, and passing his thumb over the edire. "This is the second time I have 6hown it to Tom Brady." Marblehead jumped up with an oath. but Mike was on his lecs as soon as he.

and held the murderous weanon mena- injfly!" Ue reasonable, said the visitor, as soon as his host sat down, "and don't trv to run away from me again. I don think any the worse of you for trmng Jack Geary his quietus, and pinec s-ou've taken such care of his daughter I can't see why his ghost t-hould haunt you as it seems to do. 1 11 settle down here, be come a partner in your concern, and marry your charming protege. Hand down the brandy, old one, and let's make a niffht of it." When Alice and Ralph returned from service, Mike was introduced to them as Mr. Theophilus Broughton, an Irish gentleman, not long in the country.

Mr. Theophilus Broughton soon cut a figure in Pittsburg1. He exchanged his shabby clothes for otherg of fashionable cut and excellent quality, placed a gold watch in hi3 fob, put on clean linen, and appeared to be a gentleman of forty or something under, well-mannered and well-educated. Henceforth Marblehead's business was advertised as conducted by Marblehead Broughton, and people wonder- wuy une oia man iook a partner at an. Very soon Ralph Peaton found that everything, eave Alice, was changed.

Ike Marblehead commenced to drink deep-ljt neglect hia business, and avoid the society of his clerk, who instinctively discovered in Mr. Theophilus Broughton a bad, bold mm and an enemy. That gentleman proved to be an excellent man of business, and under his management the.