The Tribune, 1874-12-23

J. lie report tliat a successful poultry dealer act up-a carriage, arose from his statement that he had made his ooop pay, this season. Now is tho time when the poor little castaway exclaims, " Say, Johnny, don't wo pity them littlo fellows as hain't got any nice warm barrel to sleep in ?" A Milwaukee woman's bonnet oosts, upon an average, about $15, but she has the bill made out for $30 or $40, in order to show it to tho woman noxt door. A Maine college professor throws out tho suggestion that hazing might easily bo prevented if parents ftuly understood the virtues of the corrective shingle. A foreign journal refers to the story of a great speculator who floated a company for working a salt mine of inexhaustible extent, which turned out to bo the sea. An individual who was about to start a paper in tho interest of the glove makers and dealers was rather disgusted at tho suggestion that it should be called The Jfatul Organ. Five colored men have been elected to the next Congress, all new men. Two are from South Carolina, one from North Carolina, one from Alabama and one from Louisiana. An English girl laughs at the idea that a woman cannot live comfortably with her mother-in-law, and advertises for some good-looking young fellow to give her a chance to try the experiment. He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan, will accomplish twice as much- as one who makes no plan ; when the disposal of time is left to chance, all things will he huddled together. A girl in South Carolina, playing with an empty champagne bottle, fell down, broko the bottle and cut her throat with the gloss. As a gun is dangerous without lock, bo is a gkauipagno bottle, dangerous, whether it is loaded or not. No nurse girl should hold pins in her mouth?it is too dangerous.* It is much more convenient and safe to make a pin cushion of the baby. If the baby cries, drive tho pins home by patting the child, and if that won't do, give it paregoric. An iu?rA utu! f.l>rAA-t/inflia nf lan/1 Vuuir.

lor uio express, xno line, as I have said, ran tkrougli a wood ; and just beyond the station tlio ground rose a little, so that there w as a cutting Cwenty or thirty feet deep. At the top of the bank was the distance signal, which now showed a white light to the up line. Beyond that the track ran straight away over a broad level country. It was a fine piece of engineering that; a road as straight as a dart, spanned here and there by bridges, converging gradually till it vanished to nothing on the horizon. Fiyo miles or more away you could discern tlio lamps of an advancing train on a clear night. I could see the lights now, merged into one yellow point that twinkled like a star in a mist ; and the hum of the approaching train was distinctly to be heard, and yet she was two miles away. Two miles away! That meant two minutes?that was her headlong speed ; for every throb of one's heart that mighty moving mass had leaped a flying stride some sixty feet. And behind this rushing coil of iron, fire, and hot scalding vapor, luxurious men and soft-limbed women sat and dozed away the moments ?reading, perhaps, or busy at some trifling task, or talking drowsily, the lamps shining softly down upon their hoads; and here in this quiet country nook, the moon looking placidly down and the stars twinkling tlirougli the rifts in the white fleecy clouds, lurked death in wait. " I can't close the points, Ned !" cried my friend, iu a hoarse excited whisper ; " come and help me." Had I thought for a moment I should have rushed to the'handle of the distance signal and turned it to " danger but I was confused by the imminence of the peril. " There's something between the points," he said, " that prevents their closing."

met, as tney would bo sure to. I ran down the garden and opened the gate gently, and went along tho path. In a moment I stood upon tho bank overhanging the line, and thou I heard tho express whistling and moaning a long way off. I made up my mind to stay till the train went by; and I watched it coming on, its lights gradually growing more distinct, and the wreaths of steam it threw off looking like white fleecy clouds in the moonbeams. All of a sudden I heard a sort of smothered cry in the direction of the station, and, turning round, I saw two men were struggling upon the railway line, right in the way of tho express. They were Edward and Archer ; and then in a moment it struck me that Archer, mad with disappointment and jealousy, meant to murder his friend and kill himself at the same time* by means of the express train. The train was just upon me, in another half minute it would be over them. I could do nothing ; I could only scream aud look up to heaven. Aud then I saw a light above my head, the distance signal of the station shining "All right" to the advancing train. Instantly there came into my head one of those iuspired thoughts that seem to bo communicated by Providence in moments of sudden danger. The wire of the signal by which it was moved from the station ran along little posts along tho side of the line. If I could only reach that wire and turn the signal to danger, I might yet save my lover. I dashed down the bank and over the ditch at the bottom, and there my foot struck against the wire of the signid, and seizing it with both hands, I dragged it with my utmost strength ; but it would not move?no, I could not move it an inch either way. I knew the reason afterward. It wits rm? nf ?otunX

pork tlio rest of the tisli ; cover this with , three luuidfuls more of onions peeled and sliced. (Nine or ten onions in both layers will suffice, though more will not injure it.) More pepper and salt, to taste. Then pour into the pot water enough . just to come fairly even with the wholo, or partly cover the samo. Put the cover , on the pot, place it on the tire. Let it boil gently and slowly for thirty minutes. It is to boil thirty minutes, not merely to be on the lire thirty minutes, and at all events let it boil until the onion ! is done soft. Pour in at this point about a quart (a common bottle) of best cider 1 or champagne, and a tumbler full of port wine, and at the same time odd about two i pounds of sea biscuits. ] Note.?If, when tlio onion is done, you ' find there is not liquor enough in the 1 pot, soak the sea-biscuit in water for a few moments before putting them in. I | would recommend the practice goner* 1 ally. i After the cider, wino and crackers are ] put in, there is no harm in stirring the wholo with a long spoon, though it is not necessary. Then let the whole boil again (not merely be over the tire) for j about live minutes, and the chowder is , ready for the table. Before dishing up let the cook taste it and sec whether it lacks pepper or salt, when, if it does, it is a good time to add either. Note.?Also, never boil a potato in chowder. If you waut potatoes, boil them in a separate pot, and servo in a 1 separate dish on table. Advice to a (Jirl who "Finished." Gertrude, yu tell me that yu hav been j two years in a boarding school, and lmv just finished yure edukashun, and want j t,(l klio Tvlint. vii hIuiII <ln liort.

i ocean south of 64 dep. latitude, the tem, perature of the -water, except for n few feet at the surface, where it is warmed by the sun, is 29 do#. Falir. This is 3 dog. bel?)w the freezing point. Even the surface water close to the ice is of this temperature, so that the iceberg moves in a bath of this low temperature. ! Only in summer is the water warm enough to melt a notch around it at the sea level. This notch is.never more than thirty feet deep, and tho waves striking in break down the overhanging cliff, and tho iceiceberg rises somewhat, the notch deepening. This action is most vigorous on the weather side, which accordingly becomes the lightest, causing tho iceberg to turn slowly round. It is to the cavities thus formed, surrounded by ice of various thickness, aud containing more or less water, that tho rich colors of icebergs are <lue. " Where the crevasses," | says the diary, '? or other weak parts in I the upper surface of the parent glacier | extend down to tho water-lino of the floating iceberg, the sea, having a less solid part to withstand it, soon excavates a ipost beautifully defined and picturesque cave, the sides of which, reflecting light, color the interior with an exquisite cobalt blue, the tint of which increases in warmth and riclmoss as the depth extends, When these occur on the side that is afterwurd raised, no description can do justieo to the picturesque appearance of this line of fairy grottoes." ? The glaciers from which icebergs are I broken off reach far out to sea. A glacier j of 2,000 feet thickness will have to push its way out to a depth of 1,800 and more

was n perfect treasure. I never saw any boy like him for energy and firmness. One day Dick camo and told me that there was to be a party np at tho Hall, a sort of upper servants' party. At fifteen minutes after midnight the up express passed through at full speed, and it was Dick's duty to bo at tho station to see the lino all clear. Half an hour before tho express came a goods train usually, but it rarely stopped. Our siding was not long enough for it to shunt into, and if there wasn't a truck to leave, it ran on to Greatford, a principal station on the line, where it shiuited for tho express to pass. After thoso two trains had gone by there was nothing more for the station master to do. I did not carc to go, but went to please Dick. Near the Hall was tho Hurford Arms inn. The landlord had a very pretty daughter, too, Ellen Lanford, and in his quiet way Dick was very fond of her. Between ourselves, I liked her too, and thought about her more than I should have cared to acknowledge. I was rather sprry for Dick, because I could see tho girl didn't-care for him. She was really a nice girl, I assure you, well brought up and educated, and tnere was a charm about her tliat seemed to entangle one whether one would or not. However, I wasn't going to interfere with Dick ; it would liavo been a pretty return for liis hospitality to have cut him out 011 his own ground, even if I'd had a chance of doing it. I fancied that Dick had made up his

raised his eyes from tlio paper before liim. "To bo married," said he?"to be married, eh ? Who is the fortunate fair, I wonder ?" I was rather relieved to iuid that Dick was taking it thus lightly, and I went on : "I have proposed to Ellen Lanford to-night, and she lias accepted me. If I've interfered in any way with you, Dick, I'm sorry ; I didn't intend to, but"? " Interfered with me ?" interrupted Dick, with a sort of a sneer. " Wliat on earth should make vou think that? I may have flirted a littlo with her, but that's my way with girls. I assure you I had no intentions except a little diver- I sion." " That's lucky," said I, coldly, for I didn't like his tone. A.11 of a sudden we heard a low murmuring sound, caused by the humming of the wires of the telegraph overhead, and tho gcntlo vibration of the woodwork about us. "It's the express," cried Dick, his face turning quite livid, " and I haven't locked up tho points ! Come and help mo, Ned. The ' goods' dropped a truck at the siding, and I never locked the points." He hurried out upon tho platform and away to tho Bwitcli that turned the points off and on. I followed him closely, not expecting, however, that my Servians would be required, as tho affair was only one of an instant. Dick ran to tho switch, and I stood by the lino watching him and looking- out'

Edward, and felt how vastly superior ho was in every way to this Mr. Archer. The note was short and rough. " Ellen," it began, not that he had any right to address me in that way?certainly I was not and never had been "Ellen" to him, but so it was?" Ellen, you have deceived me, you and Neil Walters ; but I give you warning it is for tho last time. You and he shall never marry ; I will see you both dead first." I was dreadfully frightened when I read this ; but I came to the conclusion it was mere rodomontade when I began to think it over calmly. I langlied at the idea of that whipper-snapper, little Archer, doing any damage to my Edward, and yet I was uneasy. Then father came homo in rather a bad temper. The party had been a failure, for everybody hail been upset by that young Archer, who behaved liko a madman at the hall, told everybody of liis troubles, and abused father to all the company, and at last went off to walk home Jo the station, seeming quite wild and disturbed. " It's all your fault, too," said father, " flirting and encouraging that young chap to come here." Father went to bed and bado mo put tho lights out and go to bed too. But still I couldn't'get rid of my uneasy feeling ; I couldn't make up my mind to go to bed while I was uncertain as to what might be happening at the station when ltichard and Edward