anaheim-gazette 1877-08-18

ANAHEIM VOL. 7. The Boy that Laughs. I know a funny little boy, The happiest ever born; His face is like a beam of joy. Although his clothes are torn. I saw him tumble on his nose, And waited for a groan; But how he laughed! Do you suppose He struck his funny bone? There’s sunshine in each word he speaks, His laugh is something grand; It’s ripples overrun his cheeks, Like waves on snowy sand. He laughs the moment he awakes, And till the day is done; The schoolroom for a joke he takes, His lessons are but fun. No matter how the day may go, You cannot make him cry; He’s worth a dozen boys I know, Who pout and mope and sigh. —George Cooper. The Capture of Constantinople by the Turks. Somewhere in the wild steppes between the Caspian Sea and Lake Aral, the Turkomans or Turks once dwelt. The first branch of this Tartar race that came pouring westward, extending their empire even up to the very Bosphorus, were the Seljuk Turks. But their power went down into ruins before the terrible Mongol, Zenghis Khan, who, in the thirtieth century, drenched Asia with the blood of millions. double wall, and a great ditch one hundred feet deep, lay in their front; and within this rampart the Emperor Constantine marshalled his little band of defenders. A little band indeed it was, for scarcely six thousand out of a population of more than one hundred thousand souls would arm for the defense of the city; and western Christendom was so dull or careless that, with the exception of two thousand mercenaries under Giustinian, a noble of Genoa, these had no foreign aid. The harbor of the Golden Horn, guarded by a strong chain across its mouth, sheltered fourteen galleys. The Turkish fleet consisted of three hundred and twenty vessels of different sizes. The siege began. On both sides cannon and muskets of a rude kind were used. One great gun deserves special notice. It was cast by a European brass-founder at Adrianople, and throw a stone ball of six hundred pounds to the distance of a mile. But such cannon could be fired only six or seven times a day. Lances and arrows flew thick from both lines; and heavy stones from the balists filled up the pauses of the cannonade. At first, fortune seemed to smile on the besieged. A vigorous assault of the Turks upon the walls was repulsed, and the wooden tower they had used in the attack was burned. One day, in the middle of April, the watchman of the besieged saw the white sails of five ships gleaming on the southward horizon. They came from Chios, carrying to the boreguered city fresh troops, wheat, wine, and oil. The Greeks, with anxious hearts, crowded the seaward wall. Canadian Spice The English element lost none of its wonted sports of flood and field vent in the free scope of waters, and the wildness of our game. There is no world” opened to the lood from the old lands who here finds himself monarch of all he can bar to sunset, with no other than those which the greece compel. Does he come in quiet moose and running carrief thief of the corn-field, snipe, the stupid pheasant grouse, the cosmopolitan strategic partridge, the shy black duck; do bear, wolf, beaver, martel otter, or does he woo trout, et hoc genus omnus find everywhere food for fancy. If his spirit waxes the fox, I can commute courtesy of the Montreal will give him fences than any English hedge, down, cunning as an “find to finish” he will have and daring can do, with Canadian skies above, an ground below. None of swamps, wet to the skin eyes, horses, hunters, hoof and a wild splutter of carcass, head, pads and is thrown to the yelp Or doth his fancy tur The Capture of Constantinople by the Turks. Somewhere in the wild steppes between the Caspian Sea and Lake Aral, the Turkomans or Turks once dwelt. The first branch of this Tartar race that came pouring westward, extending their empire even up to the very Bosphorus, were the Seljuk Turks. But their power went down into ruins before the terrible Mongol, Zenghis Khan, who, in the thirteenth century, drenched Asia with the blood of millions. There was, however, another Turkish tribe destined to play a more brilliant part in the world's history. These were the Osmanlia, or the Ottomans*, who derived their name from the Emir Osman or Othman (the Bonebreaker), the founder of their empire. Othman, a handsome, black-browed man, with very long arms, ruled the Turks from 1299 to 1326. The great object of his unceasing efforts was to conquer the possessions of the Byzantine Empire in Asia Minor; and when he lay on his death-bed, the news came that the arms of his son Orchan had been crowned by the capture of the great city of Brusa. There the seat of the Ottoman Empire was for some time fixed. The reign of Orchan (1326-1360) was marked by the establishment of the famous Janissaries (New Troops.) Every year a thousand Christian children were torn from their parents, forced to become Moslems, and trained to a soldier's life by the most rigorous discipline. This was done yearly for three centuries; and thus was formed that terrible body of troops, whose fierce military ardor and unpitying hearts made them first the safeguard and then the terror of the sultans. In 1358, Solyman, the eldest son of Orchan, crossing the Hellespont one night with a few warriors, seized a castle on the European shore. In three days three thousand Ottomans garrisoned the stronghold. This event marks the first firm footing gained by the Turks on European soil; and they never since have lost their hold. Under Amurath I. (1360-1390) Adrianople, being taken by the Turks, was made for a time the center of their European possessions. A league was formed by the Sclavonic nations along the Danube to repel the Infidel invaders, but in vain. The creosent—such was the device borne on the Turkish banners—still shone victorious in Thrace and Servia. Bajazet, a drunken sensualist, who, succeeding his father, reigned from 1389 to 1402, exchanged the title Emir for the prouder name of Sultan. At Nicopolis he routed the cavalry of Hungary and France, which had mustered to roll back the dark flood of Moslem war. Classic Greece, too, was ravaged by his victorious horde. Steadily he seemed to be advancing in the gigantic plan of European conquest sketched out by his ambitious father, when the most terrific warrior Asia has ever borne, rising on his eastern frontier, dashed his power into fragments. This was Timour the Lame, whose name has been corrupted into Tamerlane, a Mongol, descended from Zechghis Khan. From his capital, Samarcand, he spread his conquests on every side—from the Chinese Wall to the Nile; from the springs behead only six or seven times a day. Lances and arrows flew thick from both lines; and heavy stones from the balists filled up the pauses of the cannonade. At first, fortune seemed to smile on the besieged. A vigorous assault of the Turks upon the walls was repulsed, and the wooden tower they had used in the attack was burned. One day, in the middle of April, the watchman of the besieged saw the white sails of five ships gleaming on the southward horizon. They came from Chios, carrying to be leeagured city fresh troops, wheat, wine, and oil. The Greeks, with anxious hearts, crowded the seaward wall. A swarm of Turkish boats pushed out to meet the daring barks, and, curving in a crescent shape, awaited their approach. Mahomet, riding by the edge of the sea, with cries and gestures urged his sailors to the attack. Three times the Turks endeavored to board the enemy; but as often the flatilla reeled back in confusion, shattered with cannon-shot and scorched with Greek fire, while the waters were strewn with the floating wreck of those vessels which were crushed by collision with the heavy Christian galleys. Steadily onward came the five ships, safe into the harbor of the Golden Horn. The Turkish admiral was doomed by the furious sultan to be impaled; but the sentence was commuted to one hundred blows with a golden bar, which we are told, Mahomet himself administered with a right good will. Then came the turning-point of the siege. The sultan, feeling that his attack by land must be seconded by sea, formed a bold plan. It was to convey a part of his fleet overland from the Propontis, and launch them in the upper end of the harbor. The distance was six miles; but by means of rollers running on a tramway of greased planks, eighty of the Turkish vessels were carried over the rugged ground in one night. A floating battery was then made, from which the Turkish cannon began to play with fearful effect on the weakest side of the city. When the attack had lasted for seven weeks, a broad gap was to be seen in the central rampart. Many attempts at negotiation had come to nothing, for Constantine refused to give up the city, and nothing else would satisfy the sultan. At last a day was fixed for the grand assault. At daybreak the long lines of Turks made their attack. When the strength of the Christians was almost exhausted in endless strife with the swarms of irregular troops who led the way, the terrible Janissaries advanced. The storm grew louder, the rattle of the Turkish drums mingling with thunder of the ordnance. Just then she brave Giustiniani, defending the great breach, was wounded; and when after this loss, the defense grew slacker, a body of Turks following the Janissary Hassan, clambered over the ruined wall into the city. Amid the rush, Constantine Palmologus, last of The Caarss, fell dead, sabred by an unknown hand; and with him fell the Eastern Empire. At noon on the same day Mahomet summoned the Moslems to prayer in the church of St. Sophia—thus establishing the rites of Islam where Christian worship had been held ever since the days of Constantine the Great. Willis’s Events in History. If his spirit waxes so far than any English hedge-down, cunning as an “find to finish” he will hatch and daring can do, with Canadian skies above and ground below. None of swamps, wet to the skin eyes, horses, hunters, and a wild splutter of carcass head, pads and is thrown to the yelp. Or doth his fancy turn foot-ball, yachting, rowing here he will find acclimating as life recreations abominable, high and cheap, princely and play every country on the face. Some of the worst injuries brought us their best foot-print of the earliest races are left in their very Mennonites; they have fixed the imprint times among the settlers. Canadian sportshow acter of their own. That of the ungoverned and than the games of them seem to resent the imposement. The Largest Book II The trustees of this book are in treaty for the purpure of largest book in ward close of its secretary—the reigning Emperor pointed an imperial copy print in one vast colony works of interest and every branch of literature gaining of fellow commission completed there were able to lay before very palpable proof of it in shape of a compass of 6,100 volumes; entitledkin too shee tselh chiningtrated Imperial Collector and Modern Literature. Only a small edition is in this instance,and greater part ofthe copies had been cast forthe melted down and cooled down by fire and violently reducedthe numberthe imperial edition on it is believed that it tively few now remain trusteesofthe British come aware that one such been offered for sale attered into negotiationsand it is much to be may succeed in adding interesting collection library. THE VALUE OF A DOLLAR represents a day's borer. It is given to it as idea of what it has worth. He would be dollar as a dime for a toy. But if he boyhthe dimes and dollarshis face he knows tha he routed the cavalry of Hungary and France, which had mustered to roll back the dark flood of Moslem war. Classic Greece, too, was ravaged by his victorious hordes. Steadily he seemed to be advancing in the gigantic plan of European conquest sketched out by his ambitious father, when the most terrific warrior Asia has ever borne, rising on his eastern frontier, dashed his power into fragments. This was Timour the Lame, whose name has been corrupted into Tamerlane, a Mongol, descended from Zehghis Khan. From his capital, Samarcand, he spread his conquests on every side—from the Chinese Wall to the Nile; from the springs of the Ganges to the heart of Russia. Whenever this demon conqueror took a city, he raised as a trophy of his success a pyramid of bleeding human heads. Bajazet was obliged to forego the intended siege of Constantinople by the attack of the ferocious Mongol upon the eastern frontier of his newly-acquired dominions in Asia Minor. The decisive battle was fought in Augora, where Bajazet, utterly defeated, was made prisoner. Carried about with the Mongol army in a litter with iron lattices, which gave rise to the common story of his imprisonment in an iron cage, the Turkish sultan died, eight months after, of a broken heart. His conqueror, Timour, died in 1405, while on the march to invade China. Four Turkish sultans reigned between the wretched Bajazet and the conqueror of Constantinople. Amurath II., last of the four, having died at Adrianople in 1451, his son Mahomer, crossing rapidly to Europe, was crowned second sultan of that name. He was a terrible compound of fine literary taste with revolting cruelty and lust. One of his very first acts after he became sultan was to cause his infant brother to be drowned, while the baby's mother was congratulating him on his accession. The throne of the Eastern Empire was then filled by Constantine Palmologus, no unworthy wearer of the purple. Limb after limb had been lopped from the great trunk. There was still life in the heart, though it throbbed with feeble pulses; but now came the mortal thrust. After more than a year of busy preparation, seventy thousand Turks, commanded by Mahomet II. in person, sat down, in the spring of 1453, before Constantinople. Their lines stretched across the landward or western side of the triangle on which the city was built. * The modern Turks call themselves Osmanli—not Turka, which latter name implies rudeness and barbarism. Dr. Vandyke, at the General Assembly in Chicago, speaking of the master's choice of little children as a pattern, a fountain and a motive for right living and for doing good, told an experience of his own, in his genial way, to show that even common humanity and hospitality sometimes need the influence of children to quicken them to their best: He was going up a river in Canada one summer, along with his two little boys, to enjoy a little fishing—according, as he said, to the apostolic example—in the wilderness. [Smiles.] One evening he asked for entertainment at the house of a Scotch woman, who seemed to regard him with little favor, not to say with some degree of suspicion, for he did not look as much like a minister just then as now. [Laughter.] In short, she refused him entertainment. He told her he was a minister, but she did not know even then whether she would take him in or not. She asked him, however, where he came from. "From Brooklyn," was the reply. "That don't help the matter a bit," said she. [Great Laughter.] He was put to his stumps, as he expressed it, to get in. He knew she had a human heart, and the question was to persuade her to let him in or stay out all night. So she said to her: "Suppose I should tell you I have two nice bairns in the boat, and that one of them is sick." "Ah!" said she, "bring the lads up, and if they can eat porridge and drink milk they shall have as good an entertainment as I can give them." All that he had said about himself, or about the glories of the city of Brooklyn [laughter], had not moved her, but at the suggestion that there were two lads in the case her sternness had relaxed, and she promised to do her best for them. "Worth makes the woman." Canadian Sports. The English element in Canada has lost none of its wonted fondness for the sports of flood and field; finding fuller vent in the free scope of our woods and waters, and the wildness and abundance of our game. There is indeed a "new world" opened to the lover of gun and rod from the old lands across the sea, who here finds himself the luxurious monarch of all he can bag from sunrise to sunset, with no other let or hindrance than those which the gory pot-hunters compel. Does he come in quest of the wary moose and running caribou, the quail-thief of the corn-field, the mud-loving snipe, the stupid pheasant, the pine-loving grouse, the cosmopolitan plover, the strategic partridge, the sancy wood-duck, the shy black duck; does he court the bear, wolf, beaver, marten, mink or the otter, or does he woo the salmon, the trout, et hoc genus omne—here he may find everywhere food for his sportsman's fancy. If his spirit waxeth hot to chase the fox, I can commend him to the courtesy of the Montreal Fox Hunt, who will give him fences to leap harder than any English hedge, and fox to run down, cunning as an Indian. From "find to finish" he will have all his nerve and daring can do, with the clear blue Canadian skies above, and the hard, dry ground below. None of your fogs and swamps, wet to the skin, and mud to the eyes, horses, hunters, hounds, all a color, and a wild splutter of slop when the carcass, head, pads and brush excepted, is thrown to the yelping, frothy dogs. Or doth his fancy turn to thoughts of Sleep. Sleep, Dr. W. A. Hammond says, may be defined as general repose. Almost all the organs rest during sleep. The heart, popularly supposed to be in perpetual motion, is at rest 6 hours out of the 24, the respiratory organs 8, and the other organs more or less. The brain alone is constantly employed during wakefulness, and for it sleep was formed and made needful to its preservation. It is true that sleep does not give the brain a total recess from labor; imagination and memory are often vividly active during sleep, and unconscious celebration likewise takes place, but enough rest is obtained for the renovation of the brain, and that which has been torn down during wakefulness is to a certain extent rebuilt. Sleep is a most wonderful power, often stronger than the will, as in the case of the sleeping soldier—and more mighty than pain, as when sick persons and tortured prisoners sleep in the midst of their suffering. No torture, it is said, has been found equal to the prevention of sleep. The amount of sleep needed differs according to the constitution and habits. Big brains and persons who perform much brain labor need a large amount of sleep. Children need more sleep than grown people because construction is more active than decay in their brains. Making Hair Grow.—If the head be perfectly bald, nothing will ever cause the hair to grow again. If the scalp be glossy, and no small hairs are discernible, the roots or follicles are dead; and you might as well cause an arm which has been amputated to grow again. Women as Lottery Prizes. The great special premium distribution for unmarried gentlemen subscribers to the Times came off yesterday at the Opera House, as announced, and was a genuine success. Between 2 and 3 o'clock the audience at the Opera House was largely increased by the presence of many ladies and gentlemen, attracted thither by the matrimonial drawing set for 3 o'clock. Every face wore a look of pleased expectation, and shortly after 3 o'clock the general premium distribution was announced. Mr. Frank R. Allen, stepping to the front of the stage, said that, in behalf of the Times, he would state that the drawing, though startlingly novel, was a genuine one. One hundred and sixteen young ladies, from far and near, had requested the Times to place their names on its list of matrimonial premiums, and with their requests had sent letters descriptive of themselves, their age, looks, accomplishments, etc., and at the same time sent their photographs and the consent of their parents that they should do so. In addition to this number there were many young ladies who had asked a place on the special premium list, but had not as yet sent their photographs. From the mass of letters received 124 had been selected, and their writers would be termed list No. 2, those who had sent photographs forming list No. 1. The list No. 1 would comprise 116 young ladies, and the list No. 3 would comprise 124 young ladies, commencing with premium No. 200 and continuing to premium No. 325. Nearly 1,000 gentlemen subscribers to the Times had applied for tickets in the special drawing one one. Simplification Simplicity its and doing Russian hearts now at heels dwells in a journalistic truth that he of all the R sky, the child any time waits and tha Duke Comm even by an a bundle of pails passer-by making out in doorstep of shrubs ing language which are seen time. The his quarters staff through large reheadquarters dining in tha noticed thya by a little t serve them were anxious bosquet vacant whi They wait tha hejoed there An officer ve me pointed Grand Duk son of the little p If his spirit waxeth hot to chase the fox, I can commend him to the courtesy of the Montreal Fox Hunt, who will give him fences to leap harder than any English hedge, and fox to run down, cunning as an Indian. From "find to finish" he will have all his nerve and daring can do, with the clear blue Canadian skies above, and the hard, dry ground below. None of your fogs and swamps, wet to the skin, and mud to the eyes, horses, hunters, hounds, all a color, and a wild splutter of slop when the carcass, head, pads and brush excepted, is thrown to the yelping, frothy dogs. Or doth his fancy turn to thoughts of foot-ball, yachting, rowing, cricket, golf; here he will find acclimatized and natural as life the recreations, good, bad and abominable, high and low, costly and cheap, princely and plebeian, of almost every country on the face of the earth. Some of the worst immigrants have brought us their best diversions. The foot-print of the earliest known Indian races are left in their peculiar games; the very Mennonites, the last arrivals, have fixed the imprint of their pastimes among the settlers of the far West. Canadian sports, however, have a character of their own. They smack more of the ungoverned and ungovernable than the games of the Old World, and seem to resent the impost of regulations. —Scribner’s. The Largest Book in the World. The trustees of the British Museum are in treaty for the purchase of the copy of the largest book in the world. To ward the close of the seventeenth century the reigning Emperor of China appointed an imperial commission to reprint in one vast collection all native works of interest and importance in every branch of literature. In the beginning of the following century the commission completed their labors, and were able to lay before the Emperor a very palpable proof of their diligence in the shape of a compilation consisting of 6,100 volumes, entitled "Kin ting keo kin too sheo tselh ching," or "An Illustrated Imperial Collection of Ancient and Modern Literature." Only a small edition was printed off in the first instance, and before long the greater part of the copper types which had been cast for the undertaking were melted down and coined in cash. Accidents by fire and violence have considerably reduced the number of copies of the imperial edition originally printed, and it is believed that only a comparatively few now remain extant. The trustees of the British museum have become aware that one such copy has likely been offered for sale at Pekin, have entered into negotiations for its purchase, and it is much to be hoped that they may succeed in adding this rare and interesting collection to the national library. THE VALUE OF A DOLLAR. —A silver dollar represents a day's work for the laborer. It is given to a boy; he has no idea of what it has cost or what it is worth. He would be as likely to give a dollar as a dime for a top or any other toy. But if the boy has learned to earn the dimes and dollars by the sweat of his face, he knows the difference. MAKING HAIR GROW. —If the head be perfectly bald, nothing will ever cause the hair to grow again. If the scalp be glossy, and no small hairs are discernible, the roots or follicles are dead; and you might as well cause an arm which has been amputated to grow again. However, if small hairs are to be seen, there is hope. Use the following every day, brush well, and bathe the bald spot three or four times a week with cold soft water: Carbonate of ammonia, one drachm; tinucleation of cantharides, four drachms; bay rum, four ozs.; castor oil two ozs. Some elderly people often desire to keep their hair from turning gray. The following dye will effect this: Take the hulls of butternuts, say about four ounces, and infuse in a quart of water. Then add half an ounce of copperas. Apply with a soft brush every second or third day. This preparation is harmless, and I have reasons for believing so, has never been published. It is better far than those dyes made of nitrate of silver. —Cor. Tribune. CHANGE OF WORK. —That was a wise father who, on hearing his little daughter request her brother drive a few nails in the woodhouse for her, said he would teach her how to do it herself. She was apt, and drove in all the nails successfully; so pleased was she with her success, that she would have set a double row around the shed if her father had not concluded that these would answer for the present. "Tuere, that little lesson helps to make you independent, my girl," he said. "Now I will teach you some day to catch and harness up a horse. You have already learned to drive a gentle one. Learn to sharpen a knife, and whittle, too, without cutting your fingers. Don't let the doors creak for want of an oiled feather, or the little children's boots get hard in the winter for the want of a little grease." Take a lesson from this girls. You don't know where you will be cast away some time during your life. The most helpless people I have ever met are those who can only do one kind of work. Learn to help yourselves, even if, sometimes, you trench upon "boys' work." STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE. —One quart of flour, sift in two teaspoons of seafoam, a little salt, one-fourth pound of butter rubbed in, with milk enough to moisten properly; handle as little as possible; divide it in two parts and place it in two jelly pans; make it fit the pan by shoveling down with the fliggers; bake it quickly; then divide the top and bottom crust without cutting; spread on plenty of butter; have the strawberries washed and drained in a sieve; then crush them and make very sweet; spread plenty of berries between the top and bottom crusts; have some of the crushed and sweetened berries in a deep dish,and when the cake is cut and served cover each piece with plenty of the crushed berries—like sauce. Mr. Allen added that the Times was authorized to transmit the photograph and accompanying letter of every lady premium to the gentlemen who won their numbers, with the exception of some few young ladies who desired to hear from the Times in regard to the gentlemen before their photographs could be sent to the fortunate bachelor or widower. It was expected that a good many friendships would result from this interchange of correspondence between the fair premiums and Times bachelors and widowers, and more than one marriage. In case marriage resulted,the Times stood ready to fulfill each and every pledge it had made in regard thereto. The committee in charge of the general distribution were requested to take charge of the special drawing,and soon both wheels were in lively motion. After the subscribers'andthe premium tickets were mixed thoroughlythe distribution commenced.The name and residence of each gentleman who won a prize was announced.The chairman from the photographs before him selected the picture of the lady who was won,and without giving her name gave a brief description of the lady as she appeared in her photograph,也 read some portions of her letter descriptiveof herself,但in no case revealingthe nameofthe lady. The novel drawing throughout was a pleasant and decorous affair.The names offortunate gentleman will be found in this issue.The Timeswillto-daynotifybymaileachofitsfairspecialpremiumsofthegentlemenwhosenamefortunehaslinkedwithherown;andwillalsowhenauthorizedbytheladiesforwardtheirphotographsandletterstotheluckybachelorsandwidowers.-Kansas CityTimes. A Poor Little Girl. —An incident of a sad and painful nature occurred in the Fifty-seventh street Court,新 York City,一日天last week.A little girlofonlynineyearsofagenamedMary Anderson.was broughtintothecourtroombyanofficer,bohodfoundherinTwenty-eighthstreethearThirdavenue,cryingasifherlittleheartwouldbreak. “Whatareyou cryingabout,小oneone?”askedtheofficer. She started back,e endeavoredtodryhertears,andsaid,betweenhersobs,"Iam homeless.Mother'sbeen senttotheIslandforbeingdrunk;fatherleftuslongago.Nooneknowsmeorwillhaveanything todowithme.Mr.Kane,thelandlord turnedusoutofdoorsandthrowourofurnitureintothestreet,and The Value of a Dollar.—A silver dollar represents a day's work for the laborer. It is given to a boy; he has no idea of what it has cost or what it is worth. He would be as likely to give a dollar as a dime for a top or any other toy. But if the boy has learned to earn the dimes and dollars by the sweat of his face he knows the difference. Hard work is to him a measure of values that can never be rubbed out of his mind. Let him learn by experience that a hundred dollars represents a hundred weary days' labor, and it seems a great sum of money; a thousand dollars is a fortune and ten thousand is almost inconceivable; for it is far more than he ever expects to possess. When he has earned a dollar, he thinks twice before he spends it. He wants to invest it so as to get the full value of a day's work for it. It is a great wrong to society and to a boy to bring him up to man's estate without this knowledge. A fortune at twenty-one without it is almost inevitably thrown away. With it and a little capital to start on, he will make his own fortune better than any one can make it for him. —Hunt's Merchants' Magazine. Mr. Smith's Philosophy.—The appointment room of the Treasury Department is always filled with applicants for office. The head of the bureau is an Ohio gentleman named Smith. "How do you manage this crowd?" queried a visiting friend. "Oh," said he, "I come down in the morning and read the papers long while, and let the crowd wait. Then I see all the new faces, have a kind word to say to them, and let the old ones wait. When 13 o'clock comes round I go out and drink a quart of buttermilk, which makes me sleepy, and then I am in a good condition to do business. It makes me doze. I tell the office seekers to talk away, and I nod in my chair until they get through." A facetious physician, an old bachelor, said the other day to a single lady: "How can you with a clear conscience answer St. Peter when you shall reach heaven's gate for your heartlessness in refusing so many marriage offers?" The lady archly replied, "I shall tell the Apostle that Dr.—— did not ask me." Gooseberry Trifle.—Scald the fruit, pulp it through a sieve, and add sugar to taste; make a thick layer of this at the bottom of a deep baking-dish; mix a pint of milk, a pint of cream, two well-beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of corn-starch, a cup of sugar; put this mixture over the fire and let it come to a boil, stirring constantly. When cold lay it over the gooseberries with a spoon, and put on the whole syllabub. SYLLABUS.—One quart of rich milk, half a pint of wine, six ounces of leaf sugar; put the sugar and wine in a bowl; have the milk lukewarm; put it in a pitcher; when the sugar is dissolved, pour the milk in with the wine; hold the pitcher sufficiently high to raise a froth on the milk as you pour it into the bowl; grate nutmeg over the top. To Destroy Vermin.—Croton bugs and red ants can be driven off by sprinkling the floor with pulverized borax, and leaving a place for them to get out; to kill them, mix borax with sugar, so they will eat it. For ants or other vermin, wash the shelves with a strong solution of borax. Then sprinkle the same with borax mixed with sugar. When white-washing your room, add a tablespoonful of pulverized borax to each pailful of lime. DESTROYING MITES ON CANARIES.—Take some carbolic acid and put just enough water to make a liquid, and after cleaning your cage with hot water, put on the carbolic acid with a paint brush, both on the inside and outside the cage; let it dry in the sun, and it will be a sure cure, and no injury to the bird. Polish FOR FURNITURE.—Equal proportions of turpentine, linseed oil and vinegar well rubbed in, and then polish with a piece of chamois skin, will work wonders with furniture that has become dingy from exposure to dust and old age. THE SUNNY SIDE.—A free exposure to the light, and to the sun's influence, has a great effect in diminishing the tendency to disease. The sunny side of the street should always be chosen as a residence, from its superior healthiness. It has been found, in public building, etc., that those are always the most healthy which are the lightest and sunniest. In some barracks in Russia it was found that, in a wing where no sun penetrated, there occurred three cases of sickness for every single case which happened on that side of the building exposed to the sun's rays. All other circumstances were equal—such as ventilation, size of apartments, number of inmates, diet, etc., so that no other cause for this disproportion seemed to exist. In the Italian cities this practical hint is well known. Malaria seldom attacks the set of apartments or houses which are freely open to the sun, while on the opposite side of the street the summer and autumn are very unhealthy, and even dangerous. The equality in point of numbers of the sexes is most nearly attained in France. For every 1,000 men there are 1,007 women. The other extreme is found in Paraguay, where there are 2,000 women for 1,000 men. GAZETTE. NO. 44 Prizes. The medium distributmen subscribesterday at the wed, and was a and 3 o'clock a House was presence of men, attracted drawing set wore a look of shortly after 3 medium distribution. Simplicity of Russian Leaders. Simplicity itself characterizes the habits and doings of the great men of the Russian headquarters and of the court now at headquarters. The Emperor dwells in a pretty seven-roomed villa—a journalistic friend of mine boasts with truth that he lives next door to the Czar of all the Russians. Gen. Nepokoltschitsky, the chief of the staff, may be met at any time walking between his own quarters and those occupied by the Grand Duke Commanding-in-Chief, unattended even by an side-de-camp, and with a great bundle of papers under his arm. Every passer-by may see Prince Gortschakoff sitting out in the open air on the raised doorstep of his house, under the shade of the shrubs growing there in pots, stooping languidly over one of the novels which are said to engross so much of his time. The Grand Duke Nicholas leaves his quarters and walks with his personal staff through the streets to a school house, the large room of which is used as the headquarter mess. The other day, while dining in the garden of the Hotel Broff, I noticed three young staff officers sitting by a little table. The waiter desired to serve them; they wished to dine, but were anxious to do so in one of the prety boquets, and would wait till one was vacant, which was not then the case. They waited some time, and then fell heirs to the bosquet, and, let us hope, enjoyed there Mr. Broff's excellent cheer. An officer who happened casually to join me pointed out one of the three as the Grand Duke Nicholas the younger, the son of the Commander-in-Chief and the nephew of the Emperor. Having dined, the little party went quietly off to the thе The Chastity of Cossack Women. These Cossacks have some very curious customs. They are all comparatively young men, and nearly all married, of course, to young wives. It often happens, as in the present instance, that they are away from home during a war for one or even three or four years, and the natural result is that many of the wives left behind do not prove to be Lucretias. The Cossacks are quite aware of this, and many of them, upon starting from home, buy a white scarf or handkerchief, which they take with them. Upon entering their villages—the whole population—women, girls, old men and children—come out to meet them, including, of course, the wives of the returning wanderers. Now, those of the wives who have been unfathiful to their lords, of which there is usually a considerable sprinkling, go forward to their husbands, kneel before them in the road, put their face in the dust, and place their husband's foot upon their necks. This is a confession of guilt, and at the same time a prayer for forgiveness. If the husband then covers his wife's head with the white scarf, it means that he forgives her, asks no questions, and obliterates the past. In this case no one has a right ever to reproach the wife with her constancy, and if any one should be rash enough to do so he would have to count with the husband, who is the protector of his wife's honor. If, on the contrary, the white handkerchief is not produced, the woman returns straight to her father's house without again entering her husband's dwelling, and a divorce is pronounced. Although there is generally a considerable sprinkling of women who they should do no number there who had asked premium list, but photographs. received 124 had writers would be who had sent No. 1. The 116 young laud would compriseicing with preamining to pro-5000 gentlemen and applied forwing, each one signature statured man and deaddistribution. The Times was autophotograph and every lady pre-who won their son of some few to hear from gentlemen be-sided be sent to widower. It and many friend this interchange in the fair pres- and widow-marriage. In case times stood ready pledge it had of the general to take charge and soon bothiation. After the premium tickets the distribution and residence on a prize was from the photographed, and without brief description in her photo-proportions of herself, but in no of the lady. Throughout was aair. The names will be found will to-day no-fair special pre-whose name her own; and by the ladies, and letters to widowers.—Kan. An incident of occurred in the Hart, New York A little girl of named Mary An- the court room and her in Twent- ward avenue, cry-would break.ing about, little endeavored to dry clean her sobs, "I been sent to the father left us owns me or will come. Mr.Kane, out of doors and to the street, and WEIGHT AND NUTRITION.—The weight of the body has often been assumed as an infallible proof of the maintenance of the condition of the body, or of a disposition of tissue, and the food which keeps up a man's weight has been regarded as on that account satisfactorily nutritious. But the weight of the body is no criterion of the value of the food taken; because while the weight remains constant, or even increases, water may increase in the tissues and albumen and fat diminish; or there may be an increase of weight and disposition of fat, while there is also at the same time a diminution of the albumen of the body. Badly nourished people are usually not lighter than others, but their bodies contain more water and less albumen and fat than those who are well nourished. Every cattle feeder knows that cattle which are being fattened do not at first increase in weight proportionately to the food they take. And yet people commonly regard weight as of great importance in the case of men, though a butcher will not buy a carcass on the merits of its weight alone; he must know the quality of the meat.—Herald of Health. WOMAN'S HEADGEAR.—Joseph Addison says of woman's headgear: "I would desire the fair sex to consider how impossible it is for them to add anything that can be ornamental to what is already the masterpiece of nature. The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station in the human figure. Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be remembered and surrounded it with such a prayer for forgiveness. If the husband then covers his wife's head with the white scarf, it means that he forgives her, asks no questions, and obliterates the past. In this case no one has a right ever to reproach the wife with her constancy, and if any one should be rash enough to do so he would have to count with the husband, who is the protector of his wife's honor. If, on the contrary, the white handkerchief is not produced, the woman returns straight to her father's house without again entering her husband's dwelling, and a divorce is pronounced. Although there is generally a considerable sprinkling of women who come forward to kneel down and put their faces in the dust, it rarely happens that they are not forgiven. A very tragical case, however, is related, in which the reverse took place. A returning Cossack was informed by a malicious neighbor before he reached his home that his wife had been unfaithful, without waiting to see whether the guilty woman would come forward and confess her sins. The comrades of the Cossack perceived that he had all of a sudden taken to drink and dissipation, although he was not a man given to those vices. When he reached his village his wife, as he feared, came forward, knelt down, and put her face in the dust at his feet. The spectators saw him look at her as she lay in the dust for a long time. Two or three times he put his hand in his breast for the handkerchief, as if he were going to caver the repentant woman's head—two or three times the movement was restrained. Finally, as if driven by a sudden impulse, he all at once drew his shaka, and with one stroke severed her head from her body! The punishment for the crime was two months' imprisonment, while the malicious neighbor who had taken the trouble to inform him beforehand of his wife's misconduct was sentenced to Siberia for three years. An Ex-Cincinnatiian's Extraordinary Statements. Eli Johnson, the next speaker, said he had been in Europe fourteen months, during which time he had traveled 14,000 miles and delivered 291 lectures, at which 10,341 persons had signed the total abstinence pledge. "There is one place in this city at present," he said, "where they manufacture all the beer that may be required, and there is not a particle of malt or hops in it." He exhibited a black box containing bottles of drugs of poisons, from which he said, all kinds of liquors could be manufactured in large quantities, without a drop of pure liquor in their composition. He read from a book issued in this city, furnishing directions for making liquors by use of essential oils. By one of the receipts could be made forty gallons of "Pure Holland Gin;" at a cost of only twenty-five cents' a gallon. One-half bottle of any of the essential oils contained poison enough to kill the strongest man. He next referred to brewing, and stated that a "hop powder" was manufactured, every pound of which was gummanted to be equal to sixty pounds of hops. From another book he read a recipe for manufacturing gin by the following formula: Oil of almond, 80 drops, oil of juniper, 8 drachms, and A little girl of named Mary Announcement the court room and her in Twenward avenue, crying would break. Gregg about, little deavored to dry when her sobs, "I been sent to the father left us wme or will me. Mr. Kane, out of doors and to the street, and girl could tell no sobs came back child sat was the mass of debris, that might once by home. If she was hunthing to eat, and officer explained al at the stationthe ravenous way before her. The protectory.—N.Y. free exposure to hens' influence, has using the tendency side of the street as a residence, ness. It has been gag, etc., that those healthy which are st. In some barfound that, in a retrated, there occkiness for every seen on that side to the sun's rays. were equal—such partments, number so that no other action seemed to exties this practical Malaria seldom attains or houses the sun, while on street the summer healthy, and even at of numbers of early attained in 300 men there are extreme is found are 2,080 wom- WOMAN'S HEADGEAR.—Joseph Addison says of woman's headgear: "I would desire the fair sex to consider how impossible it is for them to add anything that can be ornamental to what is already the masterpiece of nature. The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station in the human figure. Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light. In short, she seemed to have designed the head as the cupola to the most glorious of her works, and when we load it with such a pile of supernumerary ornaments, we destroy the symmetry of the human figure, and foolishly contrive to call off the eye from great and real benefits to childish gewgaws, ribbons and bone lace. SCENE ON THE BOSPHORUS.—At the present moment sounds of martial music fill the air. His majesty, Caliph of the Moslems, goes to mosque, and to escort him thither, the imperial guard, headed by its band, is passing through the streets. Below lies the Bosphorus, across which the sultan's golden caique, propelled by threecore narsmen, is swiftly flying. The sun is shining brightly upon the beautiful scene. A more brilliant spectacle than is presented by this imperial and military pageant cannot be imagined. Every minute the roar of artillery rattles over the water, and is echoed and reechoed by the hills on shore. All the pump that can be devised is accumulated to render the show stately and effective. The most magnificent troops in the world, some of the heaviest iron-clads, the marvelous waters of the Bosphorus, and the height of barbaric splendor, all combine to impress the looker-on. It is easy to pick holes in other people's work, but it is far more profitable to do better yourself. Is there a fool in all the world that cannot criticise? Those who can themselves do good service are but as one to a thousand compared with those who can see faults in the labor of others. It is easy to exclude the noontide light by closing the eyes; and it is easy to resist the clearest truth by hardening the heart against it. THE EUCALYPTUS CURE.—The Climatological Society of Algiers has made investigation to ascertain the importance and value of the eucalyptus globulus in relation to public health. It appears that reports were received from fifty localities, where the aggregate number of blue gum trees is nearly one million, and from these reports the following conclusions have been drawn: (1) It is incontestably proved that the eucalyptus possesses sanitary influence; for (2) wherever it has been cultivated intermittent fever has considerably decreased, both in intensity and in frequency; and (3) marshy and uncultivated land have thus been rendered healthy and quite transformed. Similar results have been obtained in Corica, where it is computed that at the end of the present year there will be upward of 600,000 plants of eucalyptus in full growth. Some of the gas wells of Pennsylvania flow with a pressure of 300 pounds to the square inch, and are estimated to yield 1,000,000 cubic feet of gas every twenty-four hours.