Denison Daily Herald. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 99, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 22, 1878 Page: 2 of 8
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■ vu« claps si thunder
•----n tbs skies,
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, out with anxious eye*.
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iSoktny oot with anile
■ffiaasssia^r
Ikatoohlf.” I
* boy with a do«a
In t straw hat much
not the least like any
before eeen. In i
paper showed a ol
My boy had been, ™
had hie hair shorn! KU_
What mothir can not gam the
I lilt at the realiifition that mj
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not think
■one or modi gr
ooonters, but nw «l
me that ae war 6 ac
our present degree
the average boy will
neoessary to maintain
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.j^Sfcau.
_ _ and eon met their death,
j o’olook la the morning.
About two weeks after, Ear. Robert
for
moved tne child from the cradle. The
wnn a Will they worked and shouted.
And cleared the Holds apace;
And the Parson led the Aging,
While the sweat rolled down his (ace.
And It thundered fiercer, louder!
And dark grew east and west;
But the hay was under cover,
And the Parson had worked best.
Mot a moment had been wasted;
The rain was falling fast
~ bis people
As the l’arson and hit____.
Through the village breathlees passed.
And again in pew and pulpit
Their places took composed;
And the Parson preached hfs sermon
Trt tf flftonnthlv ** UlllAl'O
same fertilit;
broader fid
same disposil
in absolute sul.-------—,
Ml whom Nature had mads his mother;
tba aant argumentative powers which
kagt thtfsnbfiins mind constantly push*
tH tothe cxWnetz sinirita in dismay bfi-
lore the question, “ What shall I do
with that boyf” Sometimes he name to
the rafone and himself presoribed the
means for his recovery; as on that oc
casion when he ran away after break
fast and did not return till long after
dinner-time. When the last limit of
anxiety was reached ha appeared, yen
dirty, |>ut with his usual beaming un
consciousness of having gone beyond
the usual proprieties. The severer dis-
cipline of other members of the family
primitive tows, or hfi
deal tram]’
pled upon. I
cate of psaoe and non-re sistsnns m
I hops I endeavored to impress
I hope 1 enaeeToreo w
,ni the spring in which we moved into
,ni the spring in wl___ .... ......
one of the stwste of our oily where it
was customary for each new-oomerin
the shapa of a boy to ba woei ved with a
series of persecutions somewhat rceem-
bling thorn hazing exeroises popular in
our higher grades of ooilegei. It seem-
ed to me that my boy endured sundry
of these persecutions with praiseworthy
patience. We had lived in the neigh-
roSrSj growls',"wlflT recasTonal wWoefpi
and yells whioh would give thi
%8&BSE££i
________and heart
ttl^w.mu««mknow.
•essiaiteiBMa
•hstsessssB.
iwlngagalnl—
Lateg, of this city, aooompuM by his
brotur Charles, who weldea in the
I TS.' Mr. Laing w. this is only on.
CoT^^e^«h°te«- of sever* families ^‘hat immediate
Sgggggj
the family, the mother, and her three
danghten, tothlsdty. Theys*^*
few days since. The mother U with her
brother-in-law in the oojmtry. and the
little girls aw with tbnlr unde in tha
city. Another brother oama tore a short
time since from Canada, thinking toe
two brothers who went to Kansu after
Mrs. Wm. Laing and her children, had
also toon murdered. He will take toe
youngest child with him and give toe
unfortunate little one a home in hie
family.
waoeemrtof the
•rated by the oonti
r of other
Vt
f-3te
JiBUUe
Son Gi*«**»**ad.—1 ooj»«
impression that a pai
mpressi
>shoes
the twenty-four
pahoee and Cheyennes
,rty of
bad i
square
Ara-
met in
feet of
had suggested patting him to bed on
toh,but i
To “ flfteenthly," where It closed.
When the services wore ended
The people talking stayed.
And among the sternly pious
There were hitter comments mado.
And the good old Deacon Crosby,
A meek and godly man,
Hardly dared rejoice his haycocks
Had been saved on such apian.
But the Parson came down, striding
In haste, the narrow aisle,
1 Mid Iteunnn'g hAtifnld ftl
Ancl the Deacon’s bent old shoulders
He patted, with a smile.
And he said, “ No fear, my brother,
Lest God think it is a sin;
Tor he sent the sun to make your hay,
And your friends to get it in.”
—H. //., in the Independent.
A BOY’S OBITUARY.
BY ABHY SAGE RICHARDSON.
My boy is no more. Nothing can
bring him back again, and the future
holds out no hope of his return. It is
time that has borne him away from me,
and of all the forces of the universe
none is so grim and unalterable as time.
Let it not be inferred that my boy has
departed this life. In his new state of
existence he still inhabits this mundane
spl
Yc
here, a hale and hearty scion of
onng America. But he exists under
new conditions. He who once scorned
all idea of personal adornment is now
solicitous about neckties; he has dis-
covered new fashions of parting his
hair; he favors immaculate linen and
gives emphatic directions about the cut
of his trousers; in fine, he is no longer a
boisterous, uproarious boy, indifferent
to torn clothes and brimless hats, de-
sirous to dispense altogether with neck-
ties, with no use for a pocket-handker-
chief except to keep it tied in intricate
knots like a whip-cord. To such a boy
I bade farewell in the Christmas holi-
an empty stomach,but as his dinner had
been kept in the drying-oven—some what
unrepentant air, the stolid indifference
with which he began to bolt bis viands,
was too much even for the meekest
spirit. I ejaculated;
“ Willie, i don’t know what I shall do
with you. You have given mo the great-
est anxiety. You are a very naughty boy.
I am sure I don’t know what to do with
such a boy.”
With his usual readiness of
sugges-
tion, although his crammed mouth pre-
vented that clearness of articulation
which was characteristic, he said, cheer-
fully and rather persuasively;
“ I’ll tell you what you ought to do,
mamma—you ought to whip me.”
f
While I looked rather astonished at
days, and at Easter he returned to me
full fledged in quite another fashion.
He had entered npon his teens, and the
dignity of such age had prematurely
quenched the spirit of the boy. He had
summoned up all the powers of incipi-
ent manhood to meet the change.
I can not say I find the metamorphosis
altogether agreeable. I recall the time
when I groaned over feet that were con-
stantly muddy, and hands that were
eternally grimy; when I sometimes
grumbled over rough and unexpected
hugs, that were fatal to fresh neck-
ruffles and carefully arranged hair—
when I wished fervently that boys were
not such little savages—with the regret
we feel at our indifference to those
blessings that have descended upon us
in disguise. Since my boy is gone and
I shall see him no longer I feel his
value.
I have been going over in my memory
some of his characteristh s from earliest
babyhood when, a small morsel of hu-
manity, he first began to toddle about
and get himself into mischief. The
Protean variety of his mischief was nev-
er rivaled in history or fable. Pando-
ra's box is a weak invention beside his
teeming brain. But less varied even
were his exploits than his explanations
and reasons for all his actions from the
moment that speech first unlocked his
exuberant imagination. If there was
any thing ifi which he was precocious it
was in giving reasons and framing
answers. Like other mothers I was
constantly being pushed to the
wall by questions about the whys and
wherefores of every thing; but unlike
most others I was spared the trouble of
answering, for before I could open my
lips for a reply my interlocutor had us-
ually solved his own riddle. As when
at four years he first saw a fire-fly and
cried eagerly, “ What makes them
shine?” And whde 1 was framing an
answer which would best conceal my
own ignorance and satisfy curiosity ne
had answered in atone of dogmatic sat-
isfaction, “Oh, I know! They have
fire instead of blood.”
Why my slower brain digested this,
came the next question, “ What are
fire-flies good for?” followed by the
ready answer, “ I guess they are for
canales to light the toads and caterpil-
lars to bed.” Prom that day to this,
like Rosalind’s woman, “ if you took
him without his answer you would take
him without his tongue.” This men-
tal trait was again shown in his expla-
nation of his line of conduct when I
found him one day, with muddy and
bespattered pinafore, ruthlessly trying
cut up a large garden toad with a'dull
knife clandestinely obtained from the
kitchen. In profound horror at the
cruelty I delivered a lecture on the suf-
ferings of the poor animal, with the
idea, diluted and simplified, that a
tfei
this manner of prescribing in his own
case, he went on:
“ Most of the boys I know got whip-
ped, and it’s very good for them.”
“ But, Willie,” I faltered, “if I had a
tender mother, who didn’t want to whip
me, I should be all the more anxious to
be good.”
“Of cqurse you would,” with an ex-
pression of sovereign contempt for the
feminine attitude toward morality; "you
never was a boy, and that makes all the
difference.”
I am reluctant to admit that he was
born with an innate conviction of the
superiority of boys over girls and of men
over women which no teaching could
quite remove, although enforced with
most weighty example. One day I sat
at my desk busily writing; a long si-
lence was broken by my boy laying
down the gauntlet in this wise :
“Mamma, men are a great deal
smarter than women.”
" What do you mean by that, Willie?"
“Why, they know more. They can
do all sorts of things that women can’t
do. They are smarter.”
This was a sort of statement which I
felt must De at once met argamentum ml
hominnm. Drawing myself up with
quiet dignity, [ said :
“ Willie, you don’t know what you
are talking about. I consider it very
doubtful if you will know as much, or
can do as many things, as a man, as
your mother does as a woman.”
“ Oh, that’s so! I never expect to be
equal to you. Catch me reading as many
bowks as you do! I didn’t mean to say
I could beat you at knowing things.
What I meant to say”—here his oracu-
lar index finger was slowly shaken at
me—“ was, not that all men are smart-
er than all women, but that some men
are smarter than any women.” And,
while I paused, gathering up my forces
for a reply, he clinched the argument:
“Now, just produce the woman who
could write Shakespeare, will you?”
Then, perfectly conscious that I was
staggering under the weight of that
challenge, he leisurely sauntered out of
the room, making an abortive attempt
at whistling a tune.
I am not sorry to confess that he
looked down upon all literary pursuits,
and would have scorned the idea of de-
votion to the Muses if he had been as-
sured that he might himself have be-
come a second Shakespeare. I never
knew him to show any thing but an ab-
horrence of pen and ink, except on one
occasion when he found I was trying to
write in spite of a headache. Having
discovered this, he cried, in a moment
of enthusiastic sympathy:
“Never mind, mamma; you just go
and lie down and I’ll write that article
for you.”
I had forgotten the promise when he
reappeared, after the lapse of an hour
or so, inky from head to foot, bearing
a foolscap sheeton which was inscribed
in hieroglyphics somewhat resembling
the Runic characters used by our Tue-
tonic ancestors, the following effusion:
jostling
on the door-steps, climbing upon the
balustrades, and crowding the pavement
to the curbstone was a mob of boys, of
all sizes and conditions, from the im-
maculately dressed sons of the banker
over the way to some shoe-blacks who
had wandered uptown, and with their
paraphernalia for boot-blacking slung
over their shoulders helped to swell the
tumult. In the center of this howling
wildnerness were two boys with their
jackets off in pugilistic attitude, Gra-
cious heaven 1 One of them was my
boy. I ran to the front door, opened it
and shrieked “ Willie!"
Willie looked up, saw my startled
face, and at once ran in, shutting the
door behind him. A howl of execra-
tion from the savages outside followed
faintly through the keyhole. Before I
could open my mouth to remonstrate
Willie began breathlessly;
“ Now, look here, mamma, I’ve got
to have it out. Now, don’t you say a
word. It’s no use. I’ve got to have it
out with that boy, else I can’t livo in
this street in any peace. It must be,
sooner or later, and you’d better let me
have it out now ana be done with it.
Just go up stairs and please don’t in-
terfere.”
What ought I to have done under the
circumstances? I really have never
been able to decide, but his peremptory
manner was too much for me. I open-
ed the front door, saw Willie dis-
appear, and then ran rather
hurriedly up to the third story
back room, and put my fingers in my
ears to shut out the diabolical uproar
which welcomed his return. It was
some time before I ventured down again.
When I descended I found Willie on the
lounge in the library, rather flushed in
face, and scraggy as to the stale of his
hair, but apparently whole and un-
harmed, peacefully reading his favorite
volume, “The History of the United
States." No words were exchanged be-
tween us on the subject, but he never
had any trouble in the street after that
eventful morning.
As I have before intimated, the bolder
and more aggressive traits of the boy
are easy to delineate. But the tender-
ness, the warm-heartedness, the real
loyalty displayed often in rather shame-
faced fashion, are harder to depict.
These have not died, but continue with
him in his more advanced estate, and
seem somehow to be expressed in the
improved state of the necktie and the
superior hair-parting. The finer quali-
ties that were sometimes obscured in
the past by blustering boyhood, so that
only the sympathetic eye of motherhood
could fairly discern them, begin to shine
out now clearly visible even to intol-
erant critics. There is thus consola-
tion, even though it be feeble, in the loss
of the boy, in the promise of the man
who may one day rise from his ashes.—
Christian Union.
The Laing Tsalljr Massacre—Heartrend
III DMorlptlon of It* Details by s
Brother of Dae of the VMtlms.
fFrom the Omaha Republican.1
Most of the facts connected with the
massacre of the Laing family, on the
South Fork of the Sappa, Decatur
County, Kansas, at the time of the Chey-
iadj
enne raid last September, have already
been published. A few days ago the
‘ nuly
remnant of the unfortunate family ar-
rived ia this city, being brought hither
by the brothers of the murdered man,
Rev. Robert Laing and Mr. Chas.L&ing.
From the former a reporter of the Re-
publican obtained a detailed narrative
of the horrifying occurrences. The ar-
rival of the mother and the three little
girls adds a fresh interest to the story,
and it is thought interesting enough to
publish, even at the risk of repeating
something already known.
On the morning of September 30, Mr.
William Laing, accompanied by his son
Freeman, a boy about 15 years of age,
started for Kirwin, Phillips County, to
pay for land Mr. L. pre-empted. Two
young ladies were in the wagon with
them at the time of the tragedy to fol-
low. The fopr had proceeded on the
journey in the covered wagon about 8
miles when they were met by a band of
12 Indians, who rode up to them at a
gallop. Part of the warriors were in
their war paint and the remainder were
not. They were not discovered by the
party in the wagon until with-
in gun shot. They immediately
surrounded the wagon, and began
to salute Mr. Laing, who was driving,
with the usual greeting of the red man,
“How?” Two of the Indians, with
seeming cordiality, grasped the hands
of the father and son, and two other
fired from behind, killing both instantly,
the father falling backward into the lap
of one of the young ladies, and the boy
sinking upon his knees in the wagon.
Provisions had been prepared for the
long journey, and were in the wagon.
These the Indians took out, and while
they devoured these, the young ladies
were compelled to hold the horses;
after which the horses wore cut loose,
the wagon-cover torn off, and the trem-
bling females taken to the creek, not far
distant, where the band encamped,
neighborhood who met with similar
* ’ ___a tKo rhfiVAnnM. rwen-
&f.nt 1598“ ft* Twen■
murdered persons.
It is the intention of the relatives to
preMnt a claim to Congres for assist-
ance for the destitute remnant of a once
happy family. In the event of Con-
gress failing to afford the relief justly
claimed, the matter will be taken to
the courts, and a ease of damages estab-
lished.
The estimable brothers, Rev. Robert
and Mr. Charlos Laing, together with
all the rest of the relatives, and especi-
ally the widow and her little girls, have
the sincere sympathy of the entire com-
munity in their terrible affliction, and it
is hoped the Government will not be
slow in affording them the necessary
financial relief.
Is Every Thing Nothing But Hydro-
gen!
By the announcement which Mr. Nor-
man Lockyer has just made to the Paris
Academy of Sciences, to the effect that
he believes he has succeeded in realizing
Faraday’s famous prophecy with regard
to reducing the so-called chemical ele-
ments to air, the prospect of another
grand discovery is added to the series
of extraordinary facts which have mark-
ed the scientific annals of the present
year. M. Dumas, the venorable and ac-
complished French chemist, was the
medium through whom Mr. Lockyer
conveyed these startling tidings. The
(10 odd elements, of whioh, according to
the school-books now in use, all terres-
trial matter is composed, are in reality,
it is said, not elementary, but com-
pound bodies. Science has been de-
ceiving itself with mere Protean com-
binations of one arch-substance. In-
stead of CO or 70 elements, the number
may be even less than the traditional
four—earth, air, fire, and water—which
held so long a sway, from the Aristote-
lian period until the days of Robert
Boyle. In making the communication
to the Paris Academy, M. Dumas added
that the conclusion reached by Mr.
Lockyer was the result of three years’
assiduous research. Conscious of the
extraordinary character and of the en-
tirely new aspect which the discovery
will give to chemical science, Mr. Lock-
Here they were ravished in the heartless }'erstates that he will send photographs
French S£ack-watek Drain.—In
France the navigation of small and na-
turally shallow streams early became a
manner of these fiendish devils. They
then took shawls and aprons, jewels,
bonnets and necklaces from them, and
ordered them to go to a house about
half a milo distant, the house ot Mr.
Jacob Keiffer. They feared to go lest
when they turned their backs their
treacherous ravishers should kill them.
After some little expostulation on the
part of the savages they wont to the
house. These events occurred between
9 and 11 o’clock in the morning. The
corpses of the father and son were left
in the wagon without mutilation. This
problem to which engineers gave their
best thought. The result was the in-
troduction of a device invented by M.
Chamoin. This is a series of gates so
arranged that when the water is high
they lie fiat on the bottom, or rather on
the platform to which they are hinged.
When the water is low they are raised
by means of props, so that they divert
the water into a lock after the manner
of a canal, through which barges can
readily pass. Oniy so many of the gates
are raised as may be required to pro-
duce the necessary depth of water in
the lock. A large dam of this kind is
to be built in the Ohio River near Pitts-
burg, under the direction of Colonels
Merritt and Mahan of the Engineer
Corps. An appropriation was made
by Congress last session, and, accord-
ing to the Tribune, work will shortly
be begun. The main dam will be 1,201)
feet long and composed of 200 wickets
or gates. The lock will be 100 feet
wide and will admit an ordinary tow of
coal-barges. If the dam proves sue
eessful, and according to Col. Mahan
there is no doubt of this, it is not unlike-
ly that the system will be applied to nu-
merous other rivers which at present
are not available for purposes of navi-
gation during a great part of the year.
1 beetle in corporal sufferance finds a
pang as great as when a giant dies,”
ending with, “ I would not enter on my
INf
list of friends, though graced with pol-
iahed manners and fine sense (yet want-
ing sensibility) the man who ruthlessly
sets foot upon a worm.” He listened
with rather nnusual attention, especial-
ly to the quotations, and at the close
answered with the proud contempt of
of an experimentalist in vivisection, “ I
only wanted to see if toads had red
Mood.”
TIIB SENTKNNEAL.
The Senteniieal is the birthday of Our
Country. Our Country was born In 1402. It
was discovered by 0. Cojumbus. I pily
Columbus because he was a Forenor. Hut
then he could not be born hear cause he had
todlscoverit first. Our Country is the larg-
est, biggest, strontfest Country In the hide
world. Hurrah for the l'. S. of America.
Yours truly, WILLIE.
P. S.—It can lick any other Country.
As he handed this to me, quite Hushed
and tired out with his arduous labors, I sun it will indicate a temperature of
he said, with a soothing sympathy for about 120 degrees; but if the bulb be
band did no scalping. It is said their
chief, Dull Knife, never permits this
custom, almost universal among the In-
dians.
In the evening of the same day about
sundown, just as William and John
Laing, two older sons of the murdered
man, were leaving their work to return
to the house they saw what they sup-
posed to be some Texans trying to
catch wild horses. Frequently droves
of these animals are brought across
the country here. But they were not
alarmed even when they came close
enough to be distinguished, as they sup-
posed they were friendly Indians. They
were trying to catch some horses which
they had stolen. Shortly two of the
red renegades rode up to the wagon
with the characteristic greeting. The
and other details, which tho Academy
will rightly look for with suspended ‘be-
ll
three little girlsj their sisters, aged 12,
' '" ' “ Ti
lief. In the meanwhile, our distinguish-
ed savant has no hesitation in publicly
disclosing the specific character of his
discovery, which has been accomplished
by the use of that most potent and mag-
ical of modern instruments of analysis,
the spectroscope.
The honor of achieving a prodigious
analytical success, which, if verified,
must ever be memorable in the history
of molecular physics, has for some years
past been an object of strenuous rivalry
among a few of our leading scientific
workers. The eventual dissociation of
the so-called elements was confidently
contemplated by F'araday nearly JOyears
ago, and it is not too much to say that
the expectations entertained by that
eminent man gave a stimulus for work in
the laboratory which has never been
lost by those who were privileged to be
learners or fellow-laborers with him.
Since Faraday’s time, the whole ques-
tion of the physical constitution of the
universe, and especially the particular
manner in which creative power may
have gradually elaborated the present
cosmieal order of things, has been in-
vestigated with a zest, and, it may be
added, with facilities for discovery,
which have lent a greatly increased in-
9 and 7 years, named Mary, Fllizabeth
and Julia, were in the wagon with them,
having gone out, as children are wont
to do, to ride home in the wagon with
their brothers. The Indians shook
hands and were invited to go to the
house with them. They started as if to
accept the invitation, and after riding
alongside a short distance one Indian
said, “ Look there.” As their victims
terest and importance to inquiries into
‘ il
>11 _
belief that the heavens afford to the
usd force of toe telephone voc*ll**tion
neatly inoreaaed. Prof. Bell tell* me
thfitpraotlcal dsewnetratioaof toe im-
portance of tto diooovery will be gWen
in London w soon ae toe neoee»«ry pre-
liminaries are complete.—London News.
Atmospheric KutoTBicm and
Plant-growth.—,Ateaoepherioeleotrio-
ity is, according to M. Grandeau, ^pow-
erful agent in toe prooees of aaeimila-
tion in plants. Plante proteoted from
its influence build up 60 to 60 per cent,
less of nitrogenous matter than those
subject to ordinary conditions; the pro-
portion ol aah i» higher and of water
fj,.,—.tv the author’s experiments
inclosed within an electric screen eoTC-
sisting of four triangles of iron. The
plants experimented upon were maize,
tobaooo and wheat—two specimens of
each—of which the one was screened
from atmospherio electricity, the other
not. The results of these experiments
agree fully with the discovery made
some time ago by Berthelot, that free
nitrogen uniteB with organic matter un-
der the action of electric currents not
only from ordinary induction-coils, but
even from feeble voltaic batteries. The
proportion of nitrogen thus fixed in sev-
en months in paper and dextrine was
1.92 thousandths.—-Popular Science
Monthly.
Scientific Reliance on Soap.—Dr.
Richardson lectured recently in this city
on the germ theory of disease. He ac-
knowledged his obligation to Tyndall
for his microscopic investigation on air
dust, spores, and other comforting and
salutary;topics. It is worth while for
common people to learn that 50,000 ty-
phus germs will thrive in the circumfer-
ence of a pin head or a visible globule.
It is worth while for them to note that
these germs may be desiccated and be
borne, like thistle seeds, everywhere,
and, like demoniacal posesssions, may
jump noiselessly down any throat. But
there are certain things spores can not
stand, according to the latest ascertain-
ed results of science. A water temper-
ature of 120 degrees boils them to death,
and soap chemically poisons them.
Here sanitary and microscopic science
come together. Spores thrive in low
ground and under low conditions of life.
For redemption, fly to hot water and
soap, ye who live in danger of malarial
poisoning. Hot water is sanitary. Soap
is more sanitary. Fight typhus, small-
pox, yellow fever, and ague with soap.
Soap is a board of health.—Philadelphia
Press.
Danger from Lubricating Oils.-
From a paper read by Professor John
T. Ordway, at a recent meeting of the
New England Cotton Manufacturers’
Association, it appears that many of the
oils used for lubricating machiucryviiay
be classed as dangerous, because When
heated to a sutlicient degree they throw
off an inflammable vapor. In this re-
spect it is claimed that some of the ani-
mal and vegetable oils are even more
hazardous than those which arc partially
mixed with earth oils, and that the
higher price of an oil is by no means a
guarantee of its safoty. An account
was given of a firo last summer in the
Bates Mills, Lewiston, Mo., at which
the flames, on reaching the weaving-
room, shot across it in all directions on
a level of about live feet from the floor,
and with sufficient heat to melt the lead
connections to a gas-meter located on
the same plane of height—from which
the gas had fortunately been shut off-
while a towel hanging two feet below
this level was not so much as scorched.
This was thought to show that there was
a body of inflammable vapor hanging in
the air, cast off by the oil used on the
machinery. Apart from the danger of
fire, the transformation of oil into vapor
Is a waste of material which every man-
ufacturer would gladly prevent, and it
will therefore be of interest to all who
have to use lubricating oils to know that
experiments are to be made for the pur-
pose of finding out some remedy and
simple means of testing the evaporating
properties of oils, so that any one buy-
ing them can quickly judge of their
qualities.—Scientific American.
little waterTaadthen beat Into the mo-
lasses.
Tomato Soup.—1 can tomatoes, 4
onion, boil 1 hoar; attain through a
colander; add 1 tablespoonful corn-
starch, 1 of butter. The eoup oan be
made without any meat, although it ie
very nice to put in a bone if yon have It.
Orang* Cake.-4 eggs, 2 oupe sugar,
4 tablespoons butter, s oup sweet milk,
24 oupe flour, 2 teaspoons baking-pow-
der, juloe and pulp of 1 orange; bake in
jelly tine; save out 2 whites of eggs for
irosting, and sprinkle the gratea peel
on it.
Boiled Custard.—Take 6 eggs;
beat toe whites separately; have 1 quart
ol milk boiling; add 4 tablespoonfuls of
lor’s experiments powdered sugar; l teaspoonful of va-
'“***■" to ’boll-then
turn them over and boil 1 minute more;
remove them to a dish; stir the beaten
yelks in the milk, and boil three min-
utes, as more will curdle them; remove
to another dish; when cold, place the
whites on the top, and serve with jelly.
Cream Puffs.—1 cup of hot water, 4
cup butter; boil the water and butter to-
gether, and stir in a cupful of dty flour
while boiling; when cool, add 3 eggs,
not beaten; mix well; drop by the taole-
spoonfuls on buttered tins; bake in a
quick oven 25 minutes. This makes 15
puffs. To make the cream for the puffs
—1 cup of milk, 4 cup of sugar, 1 egg,
3 tablespoonfuls of flour; beat eggs and
sugar together, add the flour and stir in
the milk while boiling; flavor when
cool; when the puffs are cool, open and
fill with cream.
French Cream Cake.—1 cup of
sugar, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful of sweet
cream, 1 cup of flour, 2 teaspoonfuls of
baking-powder; bake in two tins.
Cream Filling—1 pint of new milk, 1
egg, 2 teaspoonfuls of corn-starch, but-
ter size of an egg; let the milk come to
a boil; have the corn-starch moistened
with a little cold milk; add the egg to
it (wcllboaten) and the butter; stir all
into the hot milk; care must tie taken or
it will scorch; as soon as it thickens
lake it off. Split the cakes while hot
and spread thick with the cream; a lit-
tle soft icing on top improves it; flavor
to suit the taste.
The Anglo-Indian Army of Invasion.
the elementary and prima forms, of; ha(fbeetl married only a few months,
Auguste Guidi and his wife were
very miserable in San Francisco. They
had 1
SSTVwh?i,-P^13 'Iff'£.rTnd,Ll I but wcro Blre“‘iy discouraged by pover-
“ “ ' “ ty, having been accustomed to an easy,
careless life. Guidi sent a letter to a
view of the astronomer the process of
world-making in its various stages has
done much of late years to encourage
tho particular branch of research which
now seems to he yielding such extra-
ordinary and valuable results. Mr.
Lockyer believes that in spite of the
—-----------JJ,
multiform aspects of tho world in which
turned their heads, the murderous sav-! "e bv®t to®?-0 *s but one *orm
ages shot both boys, and they died in-
stantly, one falling from the wagon to
the ground. The little girls were or-
dered to get out of the wagon and sent
to the house, the Indians meanwhile
ter which is truly elementary. The
primal element is presented to us in the
shape of hydrogen. It is not a little re-
friend, requesting him to go to a certain
spot in the suburb of the city, find a bit
of red paper, and follow a trail of sim-
ilar pieces until he came to “some-
thing startling.” The friend did as re-
quested, and found the dead bodies of
Guidi and his wife. They had commit-
cd suicide.
The Chinese Minister to London has
an agreeable wife, whose appearance in
yelling and making threatening gestures I tb,‘ ren®'* chemists have re-
at them as if to frighten them into obe- ®entty beo,rj devoting their energies. It
dience.
The eldest girl upon arriving at the
has been, reduced to a liquid condition.
Mr. Lockyer himself has arrived, by
means of the spectroscope, at the con-
house told the poor mother what had
befallen her two brothers. She had
scarcely uttered these sad words before
the savages were again upon them, sur-
rounding the house.
The dwelling was a cabin partly un-
.......,-------j------------| <!er ground, with sod walls, but com-, , ... . , ......
hie influence over a body’s power of ah- fortable and well furnished within, as ] “mKen 13 0Be body of which tho va-
sorbing heat. If a thermometer, on a ' Mr. Laing was a man in moderate cir- nou3 meta*3 and earths that have hith-
hot summer’s day, be exposed to the eumstances. They compelled the
frightened and anxious mother to give
Color and Heat.—Color, says the
American Builder, has a very consldera-
markable that tho nature of hydrogen ^reeauie wue, wnose appearance in
should have been a question to which ! ;n^llsth 80CICt5; has wnmwhat startled
- ■ - - *- her native country. One Hong Kong
jcrnal suggests that Madame Kwon
may return to China an ardent advocate
is now well known, thanks to M. Picket
and his French colleagues, that hydro- of ,t.he ?/. *?““ 10 mo/e cons'')-
gen. in its easeous form, can be.^ and ‘ ?ral^onJ^ndts the custom to pay her
?en’Jn!t^8“.,0T._ ^n be7,,and in the Celestial Empire.
elusion that hydrogen can no longer be
asasimpli
regarded as a simple element. Further,
he believes that he has proved that hy-
erto constituted the chemist's catalogue
of elements are composed. So novel
ingnicnea ana anxious mother to give , , . . ; . —
________ them every thing in the house wKich T1 striking an interpretation of all the
me,mingled with profound contempt for : blackened with India ink or the smoke , struck the savage fancy, and demand- > phenomena of animate and inanimate
&11 literary work ~ __i!_ •*. Lin so , • I _.1 J i it .«•' . .. natnrn nf ull fnaf. ura i>An spa in t.ne afai*.
This is a boy’s compositio n on girls:
“Girls arc the only folks that has their
own way every time. Girls is of several
thousand kinds, and sometime one girl
can be like several thousand girls if she
wants to do any thing. This is all I
know about girls, and father says the
less I know about them the better off I
el_ dowed with such Protean capacities of Jhe complementary of every color may
The army is divided into three col-
umns, Which are advancing into Afghan-
istan from as many different points.
The Peshawur Valley Army consists of
16.000 men, with 66 guns; the Koorum
Valley of 6,000 men, with 24 guns; and
the Quetta column of 12,000 men, with
60 guns. This makes a total force of
34.000 men, with 160 guns.
Tho importance of the task assigned
to each column is apparent from its rel-
ative strength. The Peshawur column,
having the town of that, name for its
immediate base, will evidently have the
most arduous and important work to
perform. It is, therefore, the strongest
of all the three columns, and is immedi-
ately commanded by Sir S. Browne.
This army is intended to advance on
Cabul, the Ameer’s Capital. In per-
forming this march it has to force the
strongly fortified Khyber Pass and the
other difficult defiles intervening be-
tween the Indian frontier and the Af-
ghan Capital, a distance of about 150
miles. Gen. Pollock having accom-
plished this feat with 8,000 men in 1842,
it is considered that double that number
will now be more than adequate for the
enterprise.
The Quetta column is to advance
from that town towards Candahar, an
Afghan stronghold, 150 miles to the
northwest. Once in possession of Can-
dahar, this force would hold a very im-
portant strategical point, practically
severing the Cabul Valley from both
Southern Afghanistan and Herat. From
Candahar this force may either advance
northward on Ghuzneeand Ctibul to co-
operate directly with the Peshawur col-
umn, or content itself with giving a
hand to tho Koorum Valley and assist it
to capture Gunznee. It is supposed
that this army may ultimately march
towards Herat, but as the distance from
Candahar to that city is no less than 400
miles, this dhngerous projei t may be
abandoned.
The Koorum Valley column, which is
to invade Afghanistan at Thul, will play,
in all probability, but a subsidiary and
subordinate part, though circumstances
may arise which will enable it to deal
the decisive blow. HavingKohat as its
immediate base, it will advance up the
Koorum Valley by which it will be able
to turn north, and in five or six marches
after debouching, roach either Cabul
or Ghuznee. Its great difficulty will lie
its communications till it effects a junc-
tion with one of tho other two columns.
Each of these two columns, even that
operating by the Koorum Valley, ig
strong enough to be independent; that
is to say, it will not be exposed to the ‘
danger of being crushed by a concen-
tration of the enemy. At the same time,
all three columns will combine their
movements so that they may give each
other mutual support, and co-operate in
the general dosign of the campaign.
By this arrangement it is expected that
the Ameer’s forces will bo divided and
their attention distracted.—New York
Tribune.
our books for us.”
I fear I have not given
Blue absorbs all but the blue rays, and poor children and the entreaties of
lightest I
a of the so on through the colors. The lightest already heart-broken mother had po ef-
|enerosi- colors are the most heating, therefore ; feet upon the hell-hounds. The sufier-
finer qualities of jhe boy;
ty, his chivalry towafl^“ smaller light colored walls, but especially white,
boys, and his sense of honor, which, are the worst for fruit trees The ther-
although sometimes displayed in un- 'nometer against a wall rendered black
couth fashion, was still a sense worthy by coal tar rises 5 degrees higher in the
of maturer years and ripened intellect, sunshine than the instrument suspended
His chivalry was a boy’s chivalry, but against a red brick-wall of the same
akin to the spirit that ruled the young thickness. Nor will it cool lower at
Bayards of the days of knightly heroes, night, though its radiating power ia in-
He might sometimes rebel against fern- creased by the increased darkness of its
inine government, and assert masculine color, if a proper screen be then em-
irio........ • • *
•u penority, but he allowed no one else ployed.
ings of the three helpless ones can bet-
ter be imagined than described.
Having satisfied their beastly lust,
they placed the three little girls between
the feather ticks of the bed, kindled fire
in different parts of the room, throwing
into the flames what they did not want
to take away, and had begun to take
the bed-cord from the bed to tie the
poor little ones between the ticks. The
mother, almost despairing, stood by
form, is a conception which utterly
eclipses all that poetry or mythology
and the world be-
haa ever inapired,
cornea infinitely more wonderful by such
revelations as now seem to bo brought
within our grasp.— London Telegraph.
Dutch Puffer Cake.—1 cup molas-
ses, 4 cup water, 4 cup butter, 1 tea-
spoon ginger, 1 teaspoon soda, 3 cups
flour and 1 egg, 4 teaspoon each of
cloves, allspice and cinnamon.
be produced.
A microphonic burglar-alarm is the
last device. The slightest noise made
by tho burglar is straightway magnified
into an earthquake ana conveyed to the
ear of the sleeping proprietoi
tie trouble is that a mouse, or, for that
or. One lit-
niatter, a mosquito, has about the same
effest.
The Princess Louise calls him
“Lorncy” in her pleasant moods; but,
when she gets up these cold mornings
to build the tire and finds no kindling-
wood split, she says, “You John George
Edward Henry Douglass Sutherland
Campbell, is this what I married you
into the Royal family forP” Then he
wishes he hadn’t forgotten the kin
dlings.—South Demi Tribune.
“ You can not imagine tho terror with
which the advancement of American in-
dustries is fillling British manufactur-
ers,” said Prof. Silliman in a recent ad-
dress, “ We, as you know, took tho
leading prize at Paris for the best steam
engino in the world, and it is not de-
nied in Europe to-day that America
heads the list in the manufacture of ag-
ricultural machinery.”
A Saginaw City
| girl has fallen heiress to 1200,
(Mich.) si
11200,000
serrant-
A Florida preacher closed an un-
successful revival meeting recently with
the remark, “ I tell you, my hearers, it
don’t pay for the gas.”
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