South-Eastern Independent, 1871-06-30

J x in at to ; ,lFor GodVsake, stop her I I exclaim- eZL ""Who are youT " '.Me 1 ' he answered, with a quiet laugh. lrm a practical engineer, workSt?; in the interests of science. I've studied for year and years, and yearsj and -now I want to make an experiment I Don't interrupt fie "gave rioe another look, full of wfld determination, and then bo ret into a fit of hilarious laughter. fJrtnrl t o-nnd ? pood I he cried. But she H dot better,' better,, better, by and by I Now-he files f V. - - w 4 " rr mvft tri throtflt! lever another jerk-; tha engine I shof. away, faster than ever, and trees, telegraph poks, fences and hoosea waat by like iightning; :..- - " Eor a Biotncat iaosK down upon my aoot in ntviw rlMiwlr . Tn mAAfiiifs strenffth with the madaifw was, 1 -gawj aimph sul J cklal. A Btrnegle.conli only result m vprtAin irstj-nr.tinn to mvself. and probabie destruction to the train and all oa Jo&rd of it But one possible chance ot regaining- control of the ehiriiie presented itself. and Ui4tW0ia4reauir.e,alit.he, nerve a n't coolness 1 had in me. i must araw mm into conversation, and watch for my -opportunity to pin advantage, either of his credulity orhls vanily, aurEcieutly to in induce - duce induce him to give me bis place. . Once there, I must , trust, to . Providence and my own courage to prevent further mis- ChieC - - " I scanned him closer than ever for a moment or two. He neenied 1J nave en entirely - tirely entirely forgotten my presence r now jump jumping - ing jumping up, and ' laughing and clapping - his hands; now letting more steam on; now looking eagerly out ahead, - and murmur murmuring - ing murmuring : ' Better, better, better still 1' "My heart was mumpmg'! against my chest as I said : - - - - - a , " Yon seem to. understand Jour Imsi Imsi-ness - ness Imsi-ness pretty well, anyhow, my friend. Been long at itr '. - '-- -. " He looked at me, looked away again; tat did not answer. - . .1 o . ' " 1 1 see you are a good,- practical engi neer, asyon say, - continued, now long have you been in the businessf '"Yea's, and years, and years, I tell you I' h'A answered. . ' It was I who fitted out Pegasus, the winged steed. I who gave that fellow,. Icarus, the wax wings; but he- new too near uki ooi, ana mey melted and let him down into the water. Ua! ha! ha!' - " ' I wish I only had your experience at it' said I; 'what a team we'd make to together, - gether, together, pulling in the cause of science, eh ?' . ."A new light an expression of un unspeakable - speakable unspeakable delight lighted up his face as, catching ray words, he turned toward me and, looking me full in the face, answered, but so longer abstractedly r :- -,v " '. Are you for science, too f n " ' Science, every inch of me ! said L , ' -: "'Give us your hand!' and he shook mine with a fervor which sent a tingle to my , very collar . bone. ' Hurrah for science. You're the man Tve been search searching - ing searching for with a lantern these thousand years. Toucan help me. But' and he leaned and whispered in my ear, so dis distinctly - tinctly distinctly tliatl could hear every word and letter -of it above the racket around na ' can von keen a secret J - fjertamiy 1 can,' l replied, wnne a sort of creeping horror stole over me, as I leit his hot breath upon my face. . - ' You swear you can f he continued, looking inquiringly into my face. - : "'I swear I can ? said I, with a des desperate - perate desperate effort, looking back at him. " ' Because,' he grated out, between his teeth, 'if I thought you meant to betray me, I'd tear your tongue out 1 "'Never fear one man of science be traying another,' I answered, with a sickly attempt at bravery. " 1 m your man!' " Well, then, mind what I say,' eaid the madman, apparently -reassured, and pull ing from his coat pocket a bunch of dirty papers, scrawled all over with lead pencil marks. Here's my secret, the result of hve hundred years' nard study. loyou, as a' friend of science, I will impart it But remember your promise !' i " By this time I felt terribly uneasy not only in . apprehension of my strange companion's intentions, but on account of tha alarming rapidity at which we were moving. The madman was crafty enough to keep his position upon the foot board, ana 1 saw mere was no nope ot stealing a march upon him in that direction. "' Now, you see,' he went on to say, a tangent from a parabolic curve goes on to infinity,' and he held up one of the soiled scrawls before me, pointing out the marks upon it with his long, craw-utce lore fincer: 'and infinity is what? Do you know ? No ; but you shall. Do I know f Yes ; and, in the cause of science, I am going to show you. Speed, in locomotion, tends toward inanity. Infinity is unknown. The higher the Bpeed, consequently, the greater the proximity to. the unknown. Down where I've been studying, they wouldn t -let me build my engine to make this -experiment with. So,' and here his voice fell to a horrid whisper again, ' I came away secretly the other night, and now ha! ha! ha! I've got a good engine of my own ! Speed, speed, speed is what we want By and-by we'll be ready for the tangent; then infinity, -and then our fortune is made forever ! " I saw that hope was fast' disappearing; llis intention plainly was to put the en gine to her highest speed, and send us whising over an embankment at tne nrst short curve. e had gone nine miles al already, - ready, already, although, only thirteen minutes had elapsed since we left H nerved my myself - self myself for a final effort : : i u Come.' said I. ' vour secret is a won derful one, and now that I know it, I will give you all my help to carry out your plan. liut yott nave overlooked one im important - portant important pointi The tangent which will quickest bring us- to what we are after inhnity must be directed from a point as near as possible to the base of the cone. That point we cannot discern, unless you, with your" superior insight into the prin principle - ciple principle involved, take apposition npon the outside of the engine, and give me the signal when to send her on. " The idea seemed to- strike him. "'Good! better! best!' he exclaimed. clapping his hand, and-shaking mine. ' But mind, don't take your eyes off me I' - Tnat l snaa v i said, fervently, as he opened the window, and made a move ment as jl.tq pass out .npon the .running ooara. "My heart beat high aeain. but this time with hope and anticipation. Once outside, ne would oe at my mercy long enough for me to whistle down brakes, snut on steam, ana reverse tne engine. "Alas! suddenly ha turned, slamming the window, and then, glaring upon me like a demon, he hissed s ; - - " " You've betrayed me! What did tell you?" .!:: . ! "I trembled with horror.- r - - " ' Come, coma,' I said; 'no- I haven't Go ahead.: See! there's the curve, just ahead. Hurry, be quick, or the chance gone!' " "'I say you've betrayed me, and Tm going to kill you! I heard you whisper my secret a moment ago !' and he came toward me with all the frenzy and savage cruelty of a maniac " ' Now,' thought I, ' one last struggle for lif or-death,'-and mustering-all my force, I struck him a fearful blow with my clenched -fist npon the forehead. 14 Still he neared mi 7 1 fth his- long, bony hands in my hair. I staggered. fell backward; my head struck against something hard, my eyes grew dim, and lay insensible." -.- ' The narrator paused for a moment and passed his great rough hand across his forehead, as if to drive away the terrible memories his story had recalled. His companions, mute with eager interest, only drew themselves nearer as he resumed :

On a bitter cold morning to January, the passengers on the" night express, due in B at noon, awoke to look out through the narrow window panes upon a land landscape - scape landscape white wlth'enow,; and to fcear the wind howling dismally loud above tha end endless - less endless clatter of thee car-wheels beneath them. -The snowwas mill falling fast, and great clouds of it, caught up Upon the xale, came dashing in .drifsB againsf the train, enveloping roof, and platform, and window window-ledge, - ledge, window-ledge, and anon whisking.. awy jBgainj leaving them as barb as a newly-swept floor. t . No w and their a sensible retarding of motion would tell -unmietakably that the crest putting f.r nri forward, had en countered soiu&sntQvy harrier, dluitcTt to penetrate ; yet through ana on, ena away again, moved the train, in the dim light of morning, winding its dusky leEjth through the field of otherwiss unbroken white, un until - til until day gradually stole upon the travelers, and disclosed a scene so cold and forbid ding Without; as W tiiTf'erve"?tTW tit- keener East ta tie w&tm, . Kjzy .cmiort within -- - As the hours wore on, the .storm, tar from showing any . signs of abatement, seemed, if anything.' to Increase In vio violence. - lence. violence. Eight o'clock had arrived, and the station where the train - usually stopped at that hour for passengers to breakfast 'was yet a matter of twenty mile r sa distant. The snow-drifts ahead grew more and more formidable, taking all the strengUi of the engine to batter them down before it Passengers bersTTto jrow tnieasy, pulled out their watches, peered anxiously out of the windows, consulted their time-tables, tried to take aotof familiar landmarks by the waskle, and assailed the conductor, whenever he passed, with all sorts of ir irrelevant - relevant irrelevant inquiries, When suddenly :the train slackened its speed ag du moved on a little slackened morfr-atrtdn "tried to move, and then stopped stock still, with-a jar and- a. reDouna .wjuca . naa weu-iuga 863140100 unwary ones off their feet Instantly there was a rush for the for- ward cai, in ihe nope of ascertaining the" cause of this unlooked-for stoppage. One or two imprudent .ones undertook to alight but on finding themselves waist waist-deep, - deep, waist-deep, were only too glad once more to re- fain the solid footing of. the- platform, eanwhile, the word- rarx dawn from mouth to mouth, from "car to car, Snowed in, Every moment the situa tion, was 'growing worse," and the possi bility of extricating' the train grew more remote with each Keen oiasi ,inai came piline a few more inches of fleecy wall around us. Front and rear, and on the side, the barrier each instant grew higher. Spasmodic efforts now forward, now backward, but each succeeding one more feeble than its predecessor all proved fruitless, and at length the great monster, weary and exhausted, -eeasea t ncrce, fiery breathing,' and the train lay still, half-buried in the snow. T , . -... Mean while,' upon impromtn seats, boxes and logs, and barrels, a -merry' parry"" had gathered about, the glowing stove in the express car forward, -and were fmaking themselves vastly comfortable under the circumstances. I've been thinkine, said the express messenger, " that our friend Jim T , during his twelve years of running an engine on -this road, must have run iip against many a worse aa venture man mis, my friends. So I propose we call on him for a story, from his own experience. . ; t That s a gooa idea, answerea Beverai voices. , " Come, Jim, old fellow, said the con ductor, "give us the story of that day when you came 66 near going head first over the P Bridge, train and all. I never did hear the wnoie trutn oi mat matter." -. . - , , , . , The engineer .looked into t thei fire thoughtfully for a moment and a shadow stole over his pleasant face,, as -he' answered.- 'V " ' ' ' 1 K Well, boys, it's ten years ago since that little aftair happened, but it never comes back to mind without making me shudder at the recollection of it I was running No. 7, between II and B , at that time ; .me ruau w 111 prime tajiiuikuju, iuj engine had just had a thorough overhaul overhauling, - ing, overhauling, and altogether the duties were pleas pleasant - ant pleasant and easy enough, as one of our trade's duties go. ' :' - -. : - Well, on Sunday morning, I had back backed - ed backed down from the eneine-bouse to the sta station - tion station at H . coupled on to my train, and was waiting for the passengers to finish their breaklasl, ana get aooaraagn lor a start One ay one theyteamo hurrying out and I stood on the jilatform by the tender, playing with. the children, whom my wife had brought down to the depot, as was her custom every Sunday morning. to see rne olli I was Jiving in - II at the time, Tor' that Way1 1 had a chance to pass my evenings at nome, you sec i was just giving my youngster a parting hug, ana wonaenne wny uie nremaa suiyeu so long at his breatlast wnenau ot a auaaen I saw: a man, a stranger to me, jump stealthily but quickly upon the engine, and null the throttle the wneeis creasea, me train moved, the loiterers on the platform jumped hurriedly on . board, ; Qi-ck as as tnougnt l piacea me cmiu ia us muui- ers arnis,.and in anotner insiant was iace to face With-the iutrudeT. " - - "A smele look-umosd to tell me that he meant mischief. A maa of herculean stature, Jjere-Jieadid and fcantily attired, with eyes glaring like coarsJof fire-, with long hair falling downnpon his shoulders, with sleeves rolled, up above his elbows, dif playing- brawny, muscular arms, ana with a wild, excit- d laugh upon his coun coun-tenancej - tenancej coun-tenancej was before me,' pulling the -bell-rope violently, and taking apparently but little notice or my presence. -x w. iesa time than I have bet.n fejling it 1 had closed with him, t -. r . i - . " What are you duing r Are you crazy r; I cried." ; ' -- ' : ; - lie looked at me for a minute,, with that same devilish leer -in his eye, and pushing me back as if I were a feather, said, atistracieuiy : , " ' Don't annoy me now," I beg of you rmbusy., .. '.."". "I . L summonea ail my strcngtn ana rusn rusn-ed - ed rusn-ed nnonhitn asain. for by this time the train was well in motion, and the rate of speed was momentarily increasing. " ne let et Oi tna oeu-ruue. uuu, as seized him by the arms, grasped -mine in turn, and holding me in a vice-like grip, looked me lull in tne iaca. . .. . . Didn't I tell "vou. said he, in a harsher voice than before, mat i cuan t wisa to be annoyed ' - : f I trlaneed into his face closely as. he spoke, and then, for the first time, the horrible truth broke in upon me the man teat mod I 44 1 felt a shudder ma through my veins, and great drops of cold sweat stood out upon my face, as in a single momeat I re- thongM of my littlechildrn,wao8e Kisses were yet warm upon my face, and of that long train behind us, full of passengers little suspecting their peril. .Ail tne sto stories - ries stories I had ever heard or read of crazy people and their freaks, flashed through my mind in that instant, as I felt myself pushed DacKwara to destruction. "But no; quietly seating me upon the bench, on the other side, he loosened his hold and returned to his post saying, tne same aostraciea voice as ax nrst : ""There, now! I dont want to be both ptm ' ' "" Bv this time we were dashing slonff a firettv rapid rate,' and I could -see that he knew how to handfethe engine almost as well as I did myself. I jumped to my feet and a third time he leaned forward reach the throttle lever.

of " Steps TjpwAhDr Going to bedV ' "WcH-aoii.ri5yTHRriAOs''r-A shirt ' " Taxes j-rom JIeatL 'TrrE''--Chinese ,rrnenes.', ;-" " cA i- Tb CrTE APCTT AlfO' LOSOEST COHTEt-? AKCE-kA train of thought i-; i .': -. NoW is the time to insure, in the Mutual Lifc of Chicago. -,:.7 h.-. -4 Toe. St ton ia HeraU wants "a. real good boy to make a devil ot". .'.'"". . OrruiiyU was hot a lawyer, although he was a tawny-general of. Venice. " ' A eeSTtEsiAH of Medford, Mass., IsTiotr repairing hl bouse, which was built 237 years ago. 1: a r- .. : '.-:. Five hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred trains : leave .London in the course of one yearv j . . . " ; . . ' A graveyadd inscription in Kenne- bunk. Me., "reads thus.' "Poor Joe! his hed is level now, if it never was before." ' Jake BoFrirxs says : My wife'a the most poetical -woman alive; leastways, she's always a erc to me, you bet!". .- , A widow holding -a policy on her de deceased - ceased deceased husband in the Washington gets the money herself. It cannot be taken for bia debts. ' ' 1 : : " ' '- ' ? SAiris the subject of the school schoolboy's - boy's schoolboy's latest composition: "The salt is a spice which spoils the potatoes, if you forget t" put it on." .. .. . Tna Govef cor of the District of Colum Columbia - bia Columbia received one thousand applications for one hundred and thirty-da offices at his disposal in Washington. -.- Whenever a preacher has preached a sermon that pleazes the whole congre congre-gashun, - gashun, congre-gashun, he probably has preached one that the .Lord won 1 inaarsc. uming. A cuiiiOTS fact about book-publishing in the kingdom of Greece is, that, of every book published at Athens, nearly three times as many copies are sold tat of the country as in Greece itselC ' . ; - A ClEVBLakd merchant lately received a package labeled, " 1 box Tom. Cats." It took him some time to decipher the. fact that the inscription meant a box el tomato catsup." . " " ' No less than two hundred and twenty twenty-four - four twenty-four life insurance companies have been wound up in Great Britain within the last twenty-six years. This ia twice as many as now exist there. - . . .... The landlord of a tenement house la Boston actually called on the person who rented it the other day, - and asked him what repairs he wanted made, and what makes the matter stranger, the landlord was perfectly sane. . . . In New York, a boarding-house land landlady - lady landlady recently claimed $75 damages against the property of an ex-boarder because of his dying in her house, and thereby injur injuring - ing injuring her business.. . The jury would not grant the claim. - .:.- A yotruo gentleman of Pittsfield, Mass., has recently involved himself in difficulty by .stealing empty: bottles from the back door of a drug store, and then carrying them round to the front door and selling them to the owner. 1 The appearance of Mr. Darwin's book on "The Descent of Man" has been fol followed, - lowed, followed, the London papers say, by a great increase in the number of visitors to the monkey-house in the Zoological Gardens, Regent s Park. " A shoemaker in Fond du Lac, Wis., whose wife recently presented him with an heir, has run a wire from his bench and attached it to the cradle in the next room, and, when the baby cries, the father keeps step with his foot to the music of the lap stone. It is said that the salary of President Eliot of Harvard College, is $3,2U0, and of the chief cook of the Parker House, 4,000. "There is nothing very alarming in this statement" says the Boston 2Varei- Ur ; "it only suggests that there are more men ntted lor the presidential chair 01 colleges than are capable of taking charge ot the Kitchen ot a nrst -class Hotel.- Many tenement houses in New York are built now with 6tairways reaching to the roof, so that tenants have only to open a door, instead of raising a scuttle, when they want to visit the house-top. The cu curious - rious curious triangular coverings of these stairs are visible on many rows ot city build buildings. - ings. buildings. ..... .', . . ' A funny limb of the law had an office next door to a doctor's shop. One day an elderly gentleman of the fogy school blun dered into the shop. " Is the doctor in ?' "Don't live hero,'-, said the lawyer, who was In full scribble over some old legal documents. "Oh, I thought this was his office." "Next door." "r"ray. sir, can vou tell me has the doctor many patients?'' "Not living." The old gentleman told the story in the vicinity, and the doctor threat ened the lawyer witn a noei. An enthusiastic lady who takes part in the religious exercises in the St Louis Central Jfolice stations, tsunuay mornings, told one of the parties she found there, on a recent Sabbath, that she was glad to see him sober once, as she could see by his looks that he was then so; and after she had spent some little time in urging him to reform and lead a different lite, closed her discourse on beine informed tliat tne subject of her solicitude was a minister who had been, invited to assist in the exercises of the day. , . . s . , . A gentleman in Canada gives a history of a battle between two swarms of bees, recently. ' One swarm, he says, took forci forcible - ble forcible possesion of their neiffhbors' barracks, and as tha attacked defended their rights. a furious fight commenced, and the battle raged from 4! tin a p. m. n exx morning, na ti.R nn armeared. the battle was resum ed, the marauders appearing .not lu good condition, yet showing great pluck. The Mrn&ra continued without intermLsion till 10 a. m, wnen nunureas 01 ueau uouiee lay on the plain. At 11 the battle ended, when there was not one of the attacking - . . ,.jj 11 3 parry left to tell the tale. Profkssor Morse tells an anecdote of his early struggles. When he was in Washington, employing all his energies to obtain an appropriation from the govern government - ment government to erect a -line from Baltimore to Washinirton." he had his instruments at , nd nf th Oanitol to demonstrate to the members; of Congress the feasibility the plan. He says : " 1 talked to mem, ex explained - plained explained the working of the instrument hour after hour. I gained many adher adher-cntc - cntc adher-cntc Btm T Raw fhat manv were incredu lous, and many even scouted at the idea as preposterous, ana pronouuucu alrnmnt na tha tAV of a crack-brained en thusiast It was toward the close of the session, and there were still about two or three hundred bills yet to be passed before thev came to mine. It was late at night, n.f fln.iw T mve nn in absolute despair, nri'ioft tho PMnitnl bnildine with a sad heart I was bankrupt having expended all that I had on my discovery. 1 wsikiu down the Capitol steps with exactly fifty cents, all I had in the wor'd, and a more disconsolate individual it would have been -hard to find.. After a wattiui mgns arn in thn morn in 2 to find my bill pass ed, and a new era in the history of science commenced.' Professor Morse is now his 81st year.

of of y all of on is Rose is a black eirl eiefrt years old", and has hair so curly that it fairly kinks, and a nose as fiat aa- yours le, -little darling, when yout press it against tha window- pane, to watch for papa s coming home. er lips are twice as thick as yours, and as red as 'cherries r1 and when rbe laughs. which is every two mmntesianae can be seen a -row ot tec in as woite as snow, and as even as a row oi pins - And and! iiowsnaii j. tei you now black Rose js? O, "I know; just look down at your little shoe,' the -one yon have-worn long enough tt. take the first gloss off, and there yoi, ha ve.it, --"As V. 1 .. 1. nA tha, ia Pn.Aa aaU Hose doesn t like lunucn being so black; and she runs out of doors without any hat and sits whole- hours in tha sua, hoping she II fade out, " like ALiae JLovegro? old calico dress." -, . Rose has the care of the chickens, and calls them hers. She feeds them" twice every day, and -fcives them plenty of nice tre3h water to dnnK. une day sue came running in and said . " (J, Ansa .Lovegro , 1 wisn l was a chicken, like them little white banties; d give anytning it l could only oe oner " Why don't you play yoa are oner" said Urn. Lovegrove. " I think yon could manage to roost on a pole, if you tried ; you know you can do almost anything." O, Miss Loyegro, can I try?" And when she was told that she mipht. she hopped np and down, for joy, which so Irierhtened Tabby, the cat that she jumped out of the window, and- over turned a nower-pot ana went racing aown the garden path, as if a great black dog was after her. , That night when everything was quiet and it was Rose's bed-time, instead of going up to, her own little chamber, she stole somy out oi me oacK uoor, aown the path, behind the barn, to the hen henhouse. - house. henhouse. ; : - I v T She was a little afraid of the dark, which made her hurry the faster, and in a minute she had unhooked the hen-house door, opened it and walked in. it was very dark inside, and Rose said to herself " O; dear. 1 wish 1 had brought a light j ' then she thought " Why.hensdon't have no light to go to bed by ; what a gump you are, Rose Wallace, to want a lamp! You'd better get on to your perch and go to sleep - . - v- So she clucked a little, as near like a hen as she could, and slapped her arms against her sides, as if they were wings, and look ed up to the roosts, and wisnea sne couia get up. barrel and stan'pn." So she rolled a barrel under the perch. and nn she 1 unified, hrst upon the barrel and then upon the perch.; But all she onnld da. she couldn't stay on. She would slip hrst one way and men tne otner, and then down sne wouia go 10 me gronnu. " Dear me ! I ve hurt me awtul, sne said. "It a'most as hard to be a hen as it is to be good. I dedar for it, I don't see how them hens stick. ' . - After awhile, by trying very hard, Rose at last found herself roosted in a corner, with her back against a beam,' and one hand holding on the window bar, and feeling pretty comfortable, and quite se secure, - cure, secure, she thought she would try and go to sleep. . - " Taint quite so easy as a neu, dui i u soon get used to it, and then it's so nice to be a hen. I's a good mind to try to fly down. I would, if I wasn't afraid of hit ting that barrel. Law'salive, how did that yer barrel come open end so? I must have tipped ft over. De very first thing I'll do in the mornin' is to crow, iust aa loud aa I ever can, an' then I'll go stan on one leg in the sun, the whole hve long day. And so thinking and thinking, pretty soon she began to dream. She dreamed that she was" a splendid great hen, with gold feathers, and diamond eyes, and a top knot as high as a barrel, and made of feathers of the gravest colors, which kept a nodding, and glancing, and waving in in the wind, and which so overhung her eyes that they made her quite dizzy to look at ". - ..i , She tried to look down to the ground, but she couldn't keep her eyes off the feathers, and she was growing dizzier dizzier-dizzier - dizzier dizzier-dizzier everything seemed to be whirling round dizzier dizzier round and round until by and by she whirled herself upon the edge ot a high bank. - - . , Round and round sne weni. untu sue whirled herself off, and then round and round, down and down she went until she brought up, with her neao aown in a uar rol &nit wide awake. There she was with her heels in- the air, and her head at the bottom of the bar barrel. - rel. barrel. Bha could not get out . She forgot all aboutcrowine ; besides it was still dark. So instead of crowing she screamed : ML Loveero Miss Love rro!" That frightened the hens and they flew down, andf cackled and squawked, and fluttered about tintil such a noise was made that it reached Mrs. Loveerove'a ears, who had not yet gone to bed, lor it wa3 only nme o clock. She called to her husband. " Oh, dear, aomebody's stealing our bens, or a ferret has got in and ia eating them.- Do go out quick and see what is the matter, and I'll go out and hold the lantern." " So nut thev went and then Mrs. Love- jmjve knew Rose's voice and screamed, - yv nere are you, nose .- -"Here I is, Misa Lovegro," in a barrel, in the hen-hocse. Do take me out So they opened the door, and there were the hens, frightened half to death, but there in tie corner, were two black feet sticking out of a barrel, and that waa all there was to be seen of Rose. . So they pulled her out. and set her cn her feet, and away she scampered to the house. .-'-'. Then Mrs. Lovegrove remembered what Rose had asked her in the afternoon and laughed" heartily to think Rose had taken her in earnest After a good washing, Rose crept up her own chamber, aad as aha went said, " Good night Misa Lovegro', 'taint no risa trvini tn he anvthin? vou aint d'clar for't I'd rather be Rose Wallace, than the prettiest beauty in that coop." yonii't WlnltVv a - "1 d ciar, said sne, taint no use vyin to fly with nothin' but arms. Wish I had some feathers! Nebber mind, 1 I'll get a

SoirE time ago, 'Minr in company with a medlea roan, whom I will call Mr. R , "we fell into cone nation on -be use of the tuicroBcope,- in the teaca?ement of which he was an adept' "Mow,' said he, 'I will tell yon a toiy of what happened to my-ielf-eae which, I think, well iUustras the importance of thi. instrument, to so society, - ciety, society, though I wis put in a very anpleas' ant posiUon owins to my acquaintance With it . . . . . .. . I have, as you know, given a good deal of attention to ccpafairve anatomy, es especially - pecially especially to the Btrnctnre of the hair, as h appt-ars -under the microgeope. "To-the un unassisted - assisted unassisted eye, indeed, all hair appears Very mnch alike, except as it is longer short, dark or fair, straight w early, coarse -or fine. Under the microscope, however, the case is very .different,- the white man's is round, the negro's oval.Hhe mouse's appa apparently - rently apparently jointed, the bat's jagged, aiid o on. Indeed, every r animal has hair of a pecu liar charactef, and, what is more, this cha? racter varies aooordicg to the pact of the body from which it is taken animportant cjreumstance, as will appear from my story, which it this: - ' - "Iohce received, lettfr;.tiy, post, con containing - taining containing a fewjiairs,. wilha request ihat I would examine thein,-id adding that they wouldle called ft h; few 'days.'1 Accordingly-, I eirbmiNcrl tha hairs to the mi croscope, when I discovered' that they were from the human eyebrow, and had been bruised, r" I made a note to this efittct, and folded it op- with the hairs in an envel envelope, - ope, envelope, ready for the person , who . had sent them.. la a few. days a stranger called and inquired whether I had made the investi investigation. - gation. investigation. ..'Oh, yes," J said, 'there they are, and yuu will find them and thi ir descrip description - tion description In this envelope, handing it to him at the same time. - lie expressed himself as being much obliged, and offered me a fee, which, however,1 1 declined, telling him that I oonld not think of taking anything for so small a matter; s "It turned out, however, of more con consequence - sequence consequence than I had imagined, for within a week I was served with a subpoena, to attend as a witness on . a trial for murder. This was very disagreeable, as I have ssid, but there was no "help for it now. . . The case was this.: A man had been killed by a blow from some blunt instrument on the eyebrows, and the hairs sent to me for ex examination - amination examination had been taken from a hammer ia the "possession of the suspected mur murderer. - derer. murderer. I was put into the witntss-box, and my testimony, that the hairs were from the human eyebrow, and had been bruised,' was just the link in the chain of evidence which sufficed to convict the prisoner. The jury, however, were not easily satisfied . that my statement was worth anything; and. it required the solemn assurance of the judge that such a conclusion . was within the reach .of science, to convince them that they might act upon it . ." "One juryman in particular an old farmer was very hard to satisfy. Docs thee mean to say said he, 4 that thee can tell any hair of any animal?' , I answered that I would not take upon myself to as assert - sert assert positively tnat I could do so, although I bulievedl could.- .'Well,' said, he, 'I'll prove thee.'.. - -. .t . . The prisoner, as I said; was convicted, add, in the busy life of an extensive prac practice, - tice, practice, forgot all about -my obstinate old farmer. ' About two years afterward, how however, - ever, however, a "person, an utter stranger to me, called on me with few hairs screwed up in a -piece of paper, which he asked me to examine and report on. ' -?.- i ms. ms.-Is - Is ms.-Is this another- murder case f I in inquired - quired inquired : 'for if so, I will have nothing to 10 with it I've had enough of that sort of work.', . i ; . - . , 'JSo no,' .said he, fit is nothing of the kind. It is. only a matter of curiosity, which I should be. very much obliged if vou would solve : and if yon will do it. I will call or send for the result of. your ex examination - amination examination ra; a few "days 'time1'-'Having, received this assurance, i onaertooa- the investigation, --':;. . " When he was pone, and I had leisure, I put the hairs under the microscope, and soon disco vere 3 that.they were taken from the back -of a Norway rat. - ' i,: -. -" Two or three days afterward, as I was sitting in my - -consulting room; an old farmer looking, jn&n was ushered in. '.Well,' said he, Vfcusthee lookedat them fcaiaf .- ... , " 'Tes.'I anawcrecL'ana I ffad that fbev are from . ' the'.back.'of a Uforway rat Welt,' exclaimed he so- they are. ' Thbu' nasi iorgonen me, dux i nave iioi iorgox-tr-n.thee. Does Jnee recolleefth'e trial for m order tit 'L 'asriBew? 1 paVi I would prove thee, and I havd: ibr-; thm hairs come from t?e back xrt'ia rat's -skia my snat aeut me 'from Norway.'. -So- the old irentlemaa was quite satisfied with the Dtoof te which he had nut me, and L as yon may suppose w.us weU .pUsaeed that mykili and. aagacity had stood such a queer proof, as this,. and more, convinced than, Fer . fit the . value of the micro microscope.""' - scope.""' microscope.""' . . . " ; .'. . ' - .Here the doctor ended his story, which f have CTveh as nearly' as possible in his own words, and upon which I believe that a thorough k0eAdene may.be- placed.

" T couldn't have kin there half an hour for, whep JL came, to, the first object thaw met mv view in me uisiaui mnuscHrxs w as the white tower of the Methodist Chnrca m N . I was lying orrmy side, between flirt wiiilna and tendec with my head .half over the edge.'' i ... . , r - "Weak and exhausted from loss 'of blood, which was still flowing from-the wound upon my. head, J lay there helpless and hopeless. "My eyes .-wandered, to Where the madman was -cull -standing. , l saw hira wiifc heightened. wildness on his countenance,'his longhair .floating In the -int tiphiiirl. bis eve clancin?TsserIy out ahead, his lips muttenng words to ma in eoilerem anu mesiHuiea. ; -irv am v he-AVould daCca, end alap his hands w ith a flendiih joy, then Settle quietly ..down again to his sullen maturings. " ' . ; ' . i $ The rate of speed at which-1 we were moving was absolutely frightful not less, nould mint, man a nines uuuu-.c feared -eVefyi lufrtant the crash would send -me,; madman, engine, averyuiing, whirling la perdition. - iculties ptcw I sl?onper. I becaa to realize, ia aU.iM iorceT) the horror cf lor situation. What if he should discover in rrto sgns "ef retunung life? He would, without a doubt throw me from the train. or dash my brains out Meanwhile, where "was the conductor Perhaps he hail been lft behind at II . The brakesman -could Art aome of them come to rescuse me? Had not onf wild speed, our neglect of the usual stoppages, to'd those on the train that something, was certainly wrong? And why, , then, did they not come to see Tf nat 11 was r oureiv an end must soon come of thla horrible affair, ia some way or another, . t " Heavens 1 vt a sudden 1 rememoereu a 'circumstance, the - thought of .which chilled me to the-Very bone, aad well might make me cry out m expostulation and terror to the terrible being befortf me. We Were rapidly approaching P bridge, spanning the awful chasm through which, far below, the T river leaps and plunges, in three successive fallvto the quiet level of the valley below. I had in my pocket at that moment a -copyof a telegraphic order from the Division Su Superintendent - perintendent Superintendent stating that the westward bound track on the bridge wouid that morning be taken up for repairs, and di directing - recting directing all trains to switch off on ap approaching - proaching approaching the spot, and cross on the east ward bound tracs. " In a moment all the horror or the im pending disaster broke upon me. Should this maniac persist in his mad purpose only ten minutes longer, he and I, and all of us, would be precipitated headlong downward through the- air,- crashing through the timbers, cars and engine with us, to be dashed to atoms upon the piti pitiless, - less, pitiless, jagged rocks below. Oh, how I prayed in that moment for forgiveness for all the wickedness of the past With what unspeakable tenderness I recalled the parting words of those dear ones whom I might never see again, and how I inwardly asked God to watch over them after I was gone. , I wondered whether they would ever find as, or know the real cause of the catastrophe. Eagerly I watched the familiar landmarks flitting by, as on, on, on, we dashed, faster and faster, toward the death and destruction which now seemed all but inevitable. ' 4 " "I heard a cry of wild jny from my companion, as gliding like lightning around acurve, the valley, and, in the dis distance, - tance, distance, the massive bridge, were first dis disclosed - closed disclosed to his view. "'Now! now!" he shouted-.. Here we. are come, at last! Science, and lnnnity, and all the ' unknown, are mine, mine, mine, forever! He betrayed me, did he? and he died like a dog ! Ha ! ha 1 ha ! "And he danced and screamed with a horrid zest, which-mocking my anguish and terror, only made me more desperate. I tried to move a pang of agony shot through every nerve, and muscle, and fibre in my body I sunk down again, in utter despair, and closed my eyes, waiting for death to come and end it all ! . " Crack crack whiz whiz a scream a shout another crack another whiz ! I opened my eyes once more. The madman had fallen upon his knees, and with the expression of a demon incarnate npon his face, his two bared arras stretched above his head, his powerful form- writhing in horrible contortion, was gnashing his teeth, while his eyes protruded from their sockets, foam oozed from his lips, and a stream of blood, ever so small,, trickled down his shirt front . " ' Come! come ! come quickly ! -1 called out, as loudly as I could ; but my' feeble voice was drowned in the clatter, and I saw the monster,-weak and ' wonnded as he was, tura and crawl npon his knees to toward - ward toward me. " ' Come I - for God's - sake, . come !'. I screamed ; but by that time his clutches were upon my throat and I looked up upward - ward upward to the clear blue morning sky above ub, to feel my breath ' growing slower and slower, as the cruel grip grew tighter and tighter upon ma , '!'-' i ! -'? II: "The coarse, talon-like grip relaxed of a sudden, the din grew less and If S3, and the welcome shriek of the whistle fir down brakes sounded in my cars like the"voice of a neS6enceT from God, calling me back to life, and loved ones, anu an mai -was dear.- I full mvself lifted up like a child in trvo pairr of $Vut friendly arms. : I heard sobs, and shouts of joy, and the movement, of many feet about me, and a voice whispered lovingly in my ear r: "'Saved'; ' " " -- :

In learning fh 'English a child Jhfgjna with letters, but in Chinese he begins with syllables, bectuso there are no leltors, for what we should 'call . letters 'are words. Instead of" bur" twenty six k-tters the Chinese have about five hundred syllables, and these are ooubined.togsther in aa n( n(-mt - mt n(-mt infinite formation, to make their i I j ox sixty thousand worda, each of which is repiesented by a separate .character. Tram the paucity of their syllables, they have to give them- a great-' many meanings, as, for instance. Rev.- 8. H. Brown informs us that the syllable .has two hundred, and twelve significations,' "ching 'one' hundred and thirteen, etc. Hence, if one China man says to another (imply Maey he may mean any one of two hundred and twelve thmirs, w hich "s practically nothing, and he hav therefore, in order to limit it some somewhere, - where, somewhere, toj speak' another syllable' of kindred mcanfug, cither befbre-or after it These two sylfcbles (sometimes three); he utters so quickly together that they form one word as much as in English, which fact makes it ioaccurate to call the Chinese a monosyllabfe language.- fn other words the arrangement ol syllables in English is inevitable, aa that in caso of the word "incomprehensibility," fur instance, we cannot write any two of the syllables to together - gether together to make another word, while the Chinese (supposing it had so long a word, though it has none longer than three syl syllable), - lable), syllable), can pick it to pieces and make perhaps a dozen, perhaps two dozen, new words. , . Let me use homely illustration.- Sup pose two Chinamen sit dowa on opposite sides of a table, one of them with five hundred little blocks, each of which is furnished with glue on both ends. He minht-pick up and show to the other any of them, and he would call out any one of its dozen or hundred meanings, eacn oi which has its own symbol or character; but in order to communis it e any extended or precise information, his friend must glue them together in couples or threes. This' is why the Chinese is not aa it is usually called, a monosyllabic language. W e can say in .ngiisn, r i went to town last night and found my friend, and went with him toee the play," all in monosyl monosyllables - lables monosyllables ; but it is impossible to express in Chinese anything but the very shortest sentences in words of one sylable, as "I say" (ngo ihao), or "Who are you ?" (ne the timet) A rapid speaker in English docs not separate his syllables by greater inter vals than he does nis words ; neimer uo the Chinese. The error of calling the language monosyllabic has arisen from the fact that ia writing, the Chinaman makes one cumbrous and complicated but solid character for every word, but that word may, nevertheless, be spoken in two or three syllable. But 1 will skip over these less interest interesting - ing interesting mechanical details, and come to gene general - ral general facts. One advantage the Chinese has, amid its appalling difficulties, is the sim simplicity - plicity simplicity and Engliah naturalness with which tne woroa are arranifeu in wutcuuea. it has no strained and cumbersome involu involutions, - tions, involutions, by which one word qualifying an another - other another is found two or three lines distant as in German or Greek, and especially in Japanese : but the words are built up one npon the other in the simple, easy succes succession - sion succession of nature, in what Max Mueller calls the ' architectonic order. T hus to trans late as literally as possible the" sentence tien yan hen-vu, Uing n&a tne ho ya- inn; reads, " Jleaven will rain, pieaae you find umbrella. Then, to omit tne cninese, we have this: "Jr lease you. to-morrow come my nouse eat rice. - . T o sum it all in a word, u umnese were only written with our letters, it would be easier for a third person to acquire than Encrlish itselt It is delightful for its childish simplicity in that respect for the absence of prepositions, conjunctions, ad adverbs - verbs adverbs and others of those dreadful " parts of speech," which were the nightmare of our school days, no declensions, no con conjugations, - jugations, conjugations, no moods, no tenses, no first second and third person singular ano piu piu-ral, - ral, piu-ral, no gender (except by the addition of a few particles in certain cases): nothing but these little naked, innocent bita of words strung along together. If you nno a verb it never has but one form, instead of the seven hundred or more of those re remorseless - morseless remorseless Greek verbs in mi: if you have noun, it always remains in the same shape. - - - - '

. j in The English Government has built a litrht-houte upon Wolf Rock, winch is situated about nine miles souinwesi oi Land's End. The surface of this rock ia very rugged ; consequently, to land npon it is at ail times a very difficult matter. As it is, moreover, in deep water (about twenty fathoms on all sides), and exposed to the full force of the Atlantic Ocean, terrific sea fulls upon it as may readily be supposed. From this cause the building of the new light-house has been no child's- play. The light was hrst exhibited on tne 1st of Janury. 1370, and has since burned regularly every night, from sunset to sun sunrise. - rise. sunrise. But the structure haa taken nearly eiffht vears to erect On the 17th. of March. 1862. the workmen first got trpon the rock, to cut out the foundation ; but owing to the insecurity of the foothold, and the constant breaKinz oi me suri over the rock, stanchions were obliged to be fixed in the rock where the workmen were dirreinz. and each man worked with a stfety-rope lying near him, one end which was attacued to me nearest sianca sianca-ion. - ion. sianca-ion. .An experienced man was always stationed on the summit as " crow," look out for the sea, and give warning when a wave was likely to sweep over tne rock ; when the men would hold on, head to the sea. while it wasbed over mem. Then, when the wave had passed over, and there was a temporary lull, picas, nam mera. and Inmners. some over twenty pounds in weight were frequently found to have been washed away. An addition additional - al additional danger to the men was in the necessary blasting oi me roca wun guuj-vwuci their only protection from the showers shattered fragment oiroca, Deing a tem temporary - porary temporary pent-house, formed each time they landed. In building light-houses, the pro gress of the work must always dtpend upon tne numor oi me weauier. often it is impossible to land on the rock at all ; and, when you do, yoa may often find a large portion of the last day's work washed away : and this has to be done over again. In the eight working seasons ownnied over the Wolf-Rock light-house there were two nunureu auu biaijt-dia landings; and of time spent in labor, eight hundred and nine and a half hours being or, i r nna hnniired and one worKinz- days, of tea hours each, for the erection the tower, in tms ugui-nouee, a wg-wu weiphinir five hundred weight is fixed the lantem-gaiiery. ii is eiruca. uy . hammers worked by machinery. For purpose of giving the signal a distinctive character for the station, the machinery orrun iron for Rtrik:nf the bell three blows in quick succession, at intervals of fifteen . . ft 'i i: it:, link! seconds. The cost oi oiuiumg uia . rrai.lriic tha exceDtional diffi culties, may be reckoned moderate being about sixty-two thousand seven hundred and tweniy-six pounas. js.jicum ver nal. ' - a rvrt ruii arldictcd to scientific quiry his discovered that 33 days complete the cycle ot me potato uug . that seven hundred of the critters are average product of one female, from which the family grows in the second generation to 245,000, and in the third to 5,700,000. There are not ciphers enough in any exist existing - ing existing type foundry to express the nweber the tenth generation.