The Fairfield News and Herald, 1881-10-12

uoa ana a ieei msi 1 uhyo uuiie u. xo has bec-n a satisfaction to me to escape -t many trials, get otit of the world, assume ^ the plain dress and language, and live a g life of purity. I'm glad I did so. I v know I would have been as liable as ^ any woman in this world to succumb to temptations of the world if I hadn't > placed myself beyond them." After * more marching the venerable blind j Shaker closed the exercises by speaking r I a few words and requesting the audi- t ; enee to remain seated while they passed out. This was done. The Shaker ser- ^ ' FA3IILIAK PH1USES. c The Orisio of Some of Them?A Story or ^ Artcmus Ward. 9 Out in the Cold.?An expression fre- a I quentlj applied in the United States v ; and England to'persons who have been ! driven out of office or who have not ob-1 f tained the appointments they had de-1 sired and solicited. It is nearly a cen- J g tury old, and wjis one of the sayings of j 2 P. H. B. Wyndhim, in 1874. ^ CastJes in the Air.?Used by Bobert a Burton in his 'Anatomy of Melancholy," k over 250 years ago, and since used by 0 Dean Swift, Henry Fielding, Philip Sid- *( ney, Colley Cibber, Charles Churchill, 0 William Shenstouse, and innumer- 11 able others, until it has become a very common expression. sDead as a Door-nail.?Taken from the door-nail, the nail on which, in old c< doors, the knocker strikes, and there- k fore used as a comparison to any one ^ irrevocably dead; one who has fallen ^ fas Vircil savs) mvJiamnrtn. i. p... with

JLiCU Hi* VA V-WWJ then," said Lord Loring. "What do you think of Miss Eyrecourt ?" "A very striking face; full of expression and character. Leonardo would have painted a noble portrait of her. But there is something in her manner?" He stopped, unwilling or unable to finish the sentence. "Something you don't like?" Lord Loring suggested. "No; something I don't quite understand. One doesn't expect to find any embarrassment in the manner of a wellbred woraan. And yet she seemed to be embarrassed -when she spoke to me. Perhaps I produced an unfortunate impression on her." Lord Loring laughed. " In any man but yon, Eomayne, I should call that affectation." < "Why?' Eomayne asked, sharply. Lord Loring looked unfeignedly surprised. "My dear fellow, do you really think you are the sort of a man who impresses a women tin favorably at first sight? For once in your life indulge in the amiable weakness of doing yourself justice, and find a better reason for Miss Eyrecourt's embarrassment." For the first time since he and his friend had been talking together Romayne turned toward Stella. He innocently caught her in the act of looking at him. A younger woman, or a woman of weaker character, would have looked away again. Stella's noble ; head dropped; her eyes sank slowly until thev rested on her long white hands crossed upon her lap. For a T'r.mmo ]nnlcf il at, liftT I

nay tsee uu xiiiucuwuc m ised, nowadays, in the manufacture of d> vhips and corsets. Umbrella frames fi: ised to be made altogether of "whale- a xrae, but since its scarcity and high ii >rice, steel is mostly used for this pur- ejose. Whalebone hats and whalebone s< ibbon have just come into vogue. The o: 'ormer look very beautiful and are very a :0m for table on the head. n Whales, like seals,^do not get time to r< jrow, for they are slaughtered merci- o essly, young and old, in the pursuit of tl wealth. The old ones are often killed ci ?efore the young are able to take care a )f themselves, and the result of this C iruelty is a loss of thousands and thous- u inds of whales and seals in a year, d Mankind will have to be more thought- e: ,'ul in the work of slaughter if it wishes " ;o be better compensated by these ani- h nals, and the whale must be let alone ii or a few years if the ladies are to have o ine corsets and the gentlemen fine o valking-sticks and riding-whips.? n Brooklyn E<iale. a I Life in High Altitudes. The greatest height to which men * lave ever mounted is about five and a b lalf miles above the sea level, and the P oailoonists who ventured on ihat experiment were very glad to come down. Short as their stay in the upper regions pras they were almost frozen and almost suffocated. The cold so benumbed their ^

UUCU lu iiiuiiftj. VWIMV/UW. It-v*v.v. j is has been the case, it is reported at on opening np the pipes the lead s been found to have disappeared, d to have given place to a basic car- j >nate of a brittle and porous nature. ^ ;periments conducted bj an expert j ,ve shown, it is said, that lead when aced in contact with lime for a time ] variably loses in weight, and becomes ' bjeet to a corrosive action which ulti- ( ately destroys it. A^pipe made of j ad one twenty-fifth of an inch in ickness, and imbedded in lime mor , r, would, it, was found, be eaten j rough sixteen months. ( lis can hardly be an ^ >n, for it is incredible tha^sflH "ect should never have been obse^^l 1 the Germans began to lay their , iegraph wires nnder ground, if^the , ;ts are as represented. It certainly is t so well known, however, as its im- ? rtance requires that it should be, if ae either in mcrtar or cement really ' ,s this effect npon this metal. It ems very probable that the bursting * pipes during a frost may be greatly * militated by the attenuating action of i is kind of corrosion. There are still . me houses :n the bnilding of which ne is employed for the mortar, and j ere are a great many in which lead pes are imbedded in cement. It is ] ?11 worth while to be aware of this urce of mischief, especially as it "??*?? mvr- oocr nf rnmprlf If ninPS ]

probability to make money, out me resuit of their quest of money will unloubtedly be to encourage tlie man :he maid to wed. The society firs? oegan its operations in Indiana, and isfl I low casting its benevolent arms oveifl he bachelors and spinsters in othez^^^H itates, territories, and provinces. InW he words of the circular, the association fl s established 4'to encourage lawful wedlock, promote economy, to endowjfl lomes, and to make married life theH ;nd and aim of the rich and poor alike."? Che scheme is as follows: Supposing Tobn Smith, on the 13th day of August, fl lasts his lot in with this association. Hefl >ays, in the first place, So for-his cer-H ificate, and a semi-annual payment fl hereafter of $1. In case some of his* :o-insurers marry, and there not being B ufScient funds in the treasurer's hands H o pay the sum to which the newly mar- 9 I ied man is entitled, an assessment of H ll is levied all round. These are the I ayments to which he is liable. The H tenefits are that should he marry on the 3th of August, 1882, he is entitled to V 200. Should Ms marriage not occur or five years, he would be entitled to 1,000, and so on. "We don't suppose ^^B bat ladies are excluded from the assoiation. It's a grand scheme. Aip^B oung lady who was known to havr^ f these certificates would be tl;

ana we/i we sunn acc. " Upon this, he spoke. I need scarcely I ^ recall to your memory how careful we were, in first planning the attempt to c recover the Vango property, to assure ^ ourselves of the promise of sticcess, * which the pectiliar character of the pres- r ?nt owner held out to us. In reporting f what Penrose said, I communicate a dis- ^ covery which I venture to think will e be as welcome to jou as it was to me. e " He began by reminding mo of what ? ? had myse'.f told him in speaking of ^ Romayne. 'You mentioned having t heard from Lord Loring of a great sor- t' row or remorse from which he was suf- t fering/ Penrose said ; 4 and you added ^ that your informant abstained from ? mentioning what the nature of that ^ remorse, or of the nervous malady con- c aected with it, might be. I know what ti he suffers, and why he suffers, and with s: what noble resignation he submits to his n affliction.' j? " There Penrose stopped. You know n the emotional nature of the man. It Sj was only by a hard stmggle with him- a! self that he abstained from bursting into S! tears. I gave him time, and then I ^ asked how he made the discoveiy. "He hesitated, but he answered sj plainly, so far. '"We were sitting to- a<

tese children by adoption, ana nave .ore requests to take] and bring tip rphan and uncared-for children than ley can comply "with. The wards are identured to them until they are Tentj-one. Then they are at liberty > leave the community and go into the orld if they wish. The Shakers educate lem, and give them the best of home aining. After several marching songs, the hakers took seats. We had noticed nong them one sandy-haired young taxi, apparently of not more than renty-five years, who wore a plumtiored coat and who sang with much nction. This young man stepped forard nervously, drank a little water om a glass, opened a Bible which lay a a window shelf, and after a nervous fting of the shoulders and compression f the lips, read a text from the eighth erse of the third chapter of Second ??er: "But, beloved, be not ignorant : thing, that one day is with le Lord as ^ars an(* a lousand years as one da^iw^s ^en )oke earnestly for about fifteen mmulMi^ ithout notes in a measured, distinct id cultured voice. The speaker's ords were listened to with the mo?t rofound attention by the audience. He as William Paul, the eloquent young reacher of the Shakers. Mr. Paul has een with them about four years. He ; older than he looks, having reached

and driving whips, canes, corset-bones, s corset clasps, husks, hat-bone, suspen- t itr-bone, fishing-rods and tips, landing- r -" ds for nets, drill-bones, ferules, $ ints, probangs, paper-cutters and j lders, graining-combs, boot-shanks fc ,uoe-horns, policemen's loaded clubs 1 2tc., that require -whalebone in their 8 jonstruction, or that are made superior f< by their having whalebone in their com- $ position. t] The best whalebone is obtained from c :he Greenland whale. From the mouth y 5f one of these monsters from two o ihousand to three thousand pounds are s< >ften taken. The manufacture of whale- o: :>one into articles of use and ornament p 5 not so extensive as one might imag- L ne. It is principally confined to New Fork and Boston, four manufactories jeing in the former and three in the atter. When the raw whalebone is irst received at the. factory the hair is n _?l hey are scraped of all the gum that b tdheres to them. They are next put in it t steam-box, where a workmen straight- tl >ns them with a knife; they are finally t< jolished, and are then ready to be made a< lse of for any purpose that the dresser st ?- TITUAIAKatia -toy vvvin/MTVill V T*,'