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WATER-PROOF GLUE.

It is said that an excellent glue, which will not become softened when exposed to moisture, can be prepared by dissolving one ounce of gumsandarac and one ounce of mastic in half a pint of alcohol, and afterward adding one ounce of clear turpentine. At the same time a very thick glue is to be prepared, and added to the first

mentioned solution, both of them heated almost to the boiling-point, and stirred intimately together. After mixture it is to be strained through a cloth, when it will be ready for use. This glue is to be applied hot. It dries quickly, becomes very hard, and pieces of wood united with it will not separate, it is said, even in hot water.

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UR Record closes on the 24th of August.Very little has transpired in connection with political affairs in this country. In the Republican State Convention at New Orleans an attempt is said to have been made by Dunn, the colored Lieutenant-Governor, and his party to exclude Governor Warmoth and the latter's adherents. Dunn was supported by the military power of the Federal government. It is claimed, on the other hand, by the Dunn party that it was the Governor's intention to pack the Convention, that no one was excluded who had credentials of election, and that the employment of military force was absolutely necessary to prevent the control of the Convention from passing into the hands of "thugs and rowdies," the tools of Governor Warmoth.

August 15, by the laying of the corner-stone of a monument to the memory of the celebrated poet and novelist. The celebration was under the auspices of the Caledonian Club. The oration was delivered by Mr. William Wood.

Exercises in celebration of the erection of a monument to Miles Standish on "Captain's Hill,” Duxbury, Massachusetts, were held in that place August 17. Horace Binney Sargent delivered the oration.

DISASTERS.

A collision on the Toledo and Wabash Railroad, sixteen miles from St. Louis, July 25, resulted in the death of six men and fatal injuries to four others.

On Sunday, July 30, the boiler of the Staten Island ferry-boat Westfield exploded. The boat was just on the point of starting out from its slip The Commissioners to carry out the Washing- at the foot of Whitehall Street, in this city, and ton Treaty Convention at Geneva have been was crowded with passengers. Two hundred chosen as follows: By the United States govern-persons were injured, over one hundred fatally. ment, Charles Francis Adams; by the British, The coroner's inquest, August 16, resulted in a Chief Justice Alexander Cockburn; by the Ital- verdict pronouncing the president, superintendian, Count Menabrea; by the Swiss Confedera- ent, and engineer criminally responsible for this tion, ex-President Jacques Staempfli. The Bra-wholesale slaughter. Warrants "were issued by zilian government has not yet made its appoint- the coroner for their arrest. The prisoners were ment. Both the British and United States Com- admitted to bail. missioners will be supported by the most eminent legal counsel.

Hardly had the excitement produced by this catastrophe subsided when (August 19) the boilThe election in North Carolina, August 3, re-er on another Staten Island vessel- the tugsulted in the defeat of the proposed Constitution Convention by a large majority.

The election in Kentucky, August 6, resulted in the victory of Leslie, the Democratic candidate for Governor, by between 30,000 and 40,000 majority.

General Pleasonton on the 8th of August was suspended from his position as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and J. W. Douglass, the Assistant-Commissioner, was deputed to act in his place ad interim. The displacement of Commissioner Pleasonton was occasioned by differences between his rulings and those of Mr. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury.

The convention for the interchange of money orders between Great Britain and the United States has been duly ratified, and will go into effect October 2.

Mr. Kurd von Schlozer, the successor of Baron Gerolt as minister to the United States from the German empire, presented his credentials to President Grant August 1.

A census just completed shows that Chicago contains a population of 334,270 souls, of whom 170,276 are males.

The centennial anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott was celebrated in New York city

boat G. H. Starbuck-exploded near New Brighton, Staten Island, causing the death of the fireman. The coroner's inquest returned a verdict of manslaughter in the third degree against Mr. Mills, the engineer, and Unites States Inspector Stratton.

An explosion of gunpowder, caused by the igniting of gas during the drawing of some roseoil, in Vienna, Ohio, August 8, fatally injured four persons and wounded twenty-seven others.

A nitro-glycerine explosion in the Hoosic Tunnel, August 8, caused by lightning, resulted in the death of three persons.

On the 14th of August an explosion of gas occurred in the Eagle Shaft at Pittston, Pennsylvania, causing the death of seventeen miners. The accident is said to have been due to defective ventilation.

The boiler of the steamer Chautauqua exploded, August 14, six miles below Maysville, New York, killing four passengers and wounding fourteen.

Early in the morning of August 14 an explosion occurred in Durancey and M'Gee's liquor store in Jersey City. The building was consumed by fire, and five persons were burned to death.

The boiler of the steamboat R. E. Lee ploded near Fayetteville, North Carolina, August 17, killing three persons and wounding three.

CENTRAL AMERICA.

ex-given in our last Record, failed of support. Sefor Zorilla was called upon to form a new cabinet, and (July 26) the following list was announced: President of the Council and Minister of the Interior, Señor Ruiz Zorilla; Minister of War, General Fernandez de Cordoba; Minister of Marine, Señor Beranger: Minister of Justice, Montero Rios; Minister of Finance, Ruiz Gomez; Minister of the Colonies, Señor Mosquera. The new ministry is composed of members of the progressist party, and will follow out the policy inaugurated in the September revolution.

In our last Record we incorporated the report of Juarez's probable re-election as President of Mexico. Later reports indicate that the election resulted in no choice, and that it will have to be decided by the Mexican Congress.

A conflagration at Point-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, destroyed nearly the entire town, and 20,000 persons were deprived of shelter.

EUROPE.

The Army Regulation bill has been passed by both Houses of the British Parliament, and received the Queen's signature. The resolution censuring the government for its course in connection with the abolition of the purchase system was carried in the House of Lords, July 31, by a majority of eighty votes.

In the House of Commons, August 8, the bill providing for voting by ballot was passed. The bill was defeated in the House of Lords, the majority against it being forty-nine.

The bill providing for an annuity of £15,000 to Prince Arthur, having passed both Houses of Parliament, received the Queen's signature August 1.

Parliament was prorogued August 21, by an excellent speech from the Queen, alluding in terms of satisfaction to the royal annuities granted to her children, the Treaty of Washington, the abolition of the purchase system, the passage of the Army Regulation bill, the salutary effect of the extraordinary powers granted to the Viceroy of Ireland for the repression of agrarian outrages in Westmeath, and the repeal of the University Test bil,

A serious riot occurred in Dublin August 6, occasioned by an attempt to hold a meeting in favor of an amnesty for the Fenian prisoners in spite of the prohibition of the authorities. Over a hundred persons were wounded. The Prince of Wales and his brother Arthur, who had been visiting the city, hurriedly took their departure for home, anticipating that violence might be attempted against them.

A gun-cotton explosion at Stowmarket, England, August 11, resulted in eighteen deaths, and in more or less severe injuries to fifty-seven persons.

A railway accident at Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire, England, resulted in injuries to six

teen or seventeen persons.

The national festival in Scotland to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott was celebrated in Edinburgh August 9, instead of on the 15th, to afford an opportunity to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, then in session, to unite in the ceremonies. The Earl of Dalkeith, eldest son of the Duke of Buccleuch, head of the Scott family, presided. Dispatches by the telegraph cable appropriate to the occasion were exchanged between the Earl of Dalkeith and President Grant John Slidell, prominent as a Confederate agent during the civil war, died in London near the close of July.

The attempt of Marshal Serrano to form a Spanish cabinet, the constitution of which was

Jules Favre, near the close of July, resigned his position in the French cabinet as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and was succeeded by Count Rémusat.

The principal Communists arrested by the Thiers government are undergoing trial by courtmartial. Among these are MM. Ferre, Assi, Jourde, Regere, Urbain, and Verdure. The testimony taken on this trial goes to prove that the burning of Paris on the eve of the triumphant entrance of M'Mahon's army was ordered by the Communists.

A Munich telegram of July 29 announced the election of Dr. Döllinger to the rectorship of the University of Munich. Fifty-four professors voted in his favor, and six against him.

The separate ministerial department for Roman Catholic affairs in Germany has been abolished, owing to difficulties occasioned by the decisions of the late Ecumenical Council.

There have been alarming indications of the spread of the Asiatic cholera from Russia, where it has raged for some time, into the other parts of Europe. There have been many victims of the disease in Poland; Königsberg, in Germany, has suffered from its ravages, and notices have been received of its appearance in the south of France and in England.

ASIA.

The London Standard of July 25 contained an account of a terrible earthquake in one of the Philippine Islands last May. One hundred and fifty persons were swallowed up by the earth.

A London telegram of August 14 gives the details of an earthquake which had visited the island of Tagolanda, in the Malay Archipelago, about the middle of July. An accompanying tidal wave, forty yards in height, swept all the human beings, houses, cattle, and horses from the surface of the island. Four hundred and sixteen persons, all Malays, are stated to have perished by this disaster.

Within a few days of this event (July 4) Kobe, in Japan, was visited by a typhoon, which in various ways caused four hundred deaths, and wrecked a number of vessels.

A London telegram, dated August 22, announces the foundering at sea of the Prince of Wales, bound from Hong-Kong to Bankok, Siam. Fifty persons lost their lives by the disaster.

The reports in regard to the ravages of pestilence and famine in Persia are confirmed by later advices. The famine was caused by the substitution of cotton for rice planting-an indirect consequence of the American civil war. The largest city of Persia, Ispahan, has lost 27,000 of its population. In the provinces the mortality is even greater in proportion.

Editor's Drawer.

HILE traveling some time since in Ver- | Brother Thrall, after imbibing pretty freely,

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fortunately he fell off and stuck in the mud, and was unable to extricate himself. Brother Magee, coming along, kindly offered assistance; but Brother Thrall, mindful of the superior antiquity of his Church, and the duty of maintaining its prestige, cried out, "Go avay, Metadeest! go avay, Metadeest! I vants nossing to do mit you. I vas born a Luderean, and I dies a Luderean! Go avay, I say!"

And the "Metadeest" passed by on the other side.

rated to me an amusing story, which illustrates the vein of humor which is so peculiar to Mr. Jenckes, of Rhode Island. As I have never seen it in print, and believe it worthy of preservation, I send it to you for publication. It ran as follows: About four years since Mr. C. M. Keller was engaged at Windsor, Vermont, before Mr. Justice Nelson, in the trial of a case involving the infringement of the patent right of a metallic coffin. At the next term of the court he was employed as counsel for the Rutland Marble Quarry at Windsor, and during the trial it became necessary to introduce in evidence a large number of specimens of marble. Mr. Jenckes, while looking over these samples, observed "that Mr. Keller must have brought his family grave- An eminent judge used to say that, in his yard with him;" to which Mr. Keller responded, opinion, the very best thing ever said by a wit"that if Mr. Jenckes would write him an epi-ness to a counsel was the reply given to Missing, taph he would give him (Jenckes) a tombstone." Mr. Jenckes immediately composed the following

verses:

Here Keller lies, and he who knows
The story of his occupation
Will tell you that the record shows
A change of place, not of vocation.

And could he tell the truth, his life,
Although well filled with good intentions,
Was spent in wordy, windy strife

On nothing else but new inventions.

In life he patent cases tried

With speech that bothered courts that heard him; His clients, grieving when he died,

In patent burial case interred him.

With tongue and pen great was his scope
To clothe crude thought in wordy tissue;

Life he surrendered in the hope

Of coming back in a "re-issue;"

Believing that his claims, when passed

In the last dread examination,

Would with the "patent seal" be classed,
Not with "rejected applications."

And when his spirit fled this sphere

Grief clutched our throats, but did not throttle,

For claret was but half as dear,

And port fell fifty cents a bottle.

GOOD story of General Sherman. Dining one day, in 1864, at Memphis, with General Veitch and General Chetlain, army stories were in order; whereupon, thus spake General Sherman : "While at Bowling Green the rebel women bothered us to death. It was always the same old complaint-The soldiers have milked our cows, or stolen our chickens, or busted into the smoke-house.' At Chattanooga we were bored to death with these women. One morning they besieged my head-quarters, when, raising myself to my most solemn posture, I said to the foremost woman, Madam, the integrity of the republic and the solidity of the Constitution must be maintained, if it takes every chicken in Tennessee!'"

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THE extent to which sectarian prejudice can be carried is indicated by this incident:

Old Billy Magee is a strong Methodist, while his neighbor, Andy Thrall, is an equally strong Lutheran. They recently met at a county sale, where plenty of the ardent was distributed.

Our lawyer friends may, perhaps, appreciate the following, from Mr. Mark Boyd's "Reminiscences of Fifty Years:"

the barrister, at the time leader of his circuit. He was defending a prisoner charged with stealing a donkey. The prosecutor had left the animal tied up to a gate, and when he returned it was gone. Missing was very severe in his ex

amination of the witness.

"Do you mean to say, witness, the donkey was stolen from that gate?"

"I mean to say, Sir"-giving the judge, and then the jury, a sly look, at the same time pointing to the counsel-"the ass was Missing.'

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THE following "Twenty Points of Piety" were written three hundred and fourteen years ago by one Thomas Leisser, a good man,' and are now published for the first time in this country in the Drawer:

1. To pray to God continually.

2. To learn to know Him rightfully.
3. To honor God in Trinity:
The Trinity in unity,

The Father in His majesty,
The Son in His humanity,
The Holy Ghost's benignity:
Three persons, one in Deity.
4. To serve Him alway guilelessly.
5. To ask Him all things needfully.
6. To praise Him in all company.
7. To love Him alway heartily.
8. To dread Him alway Christianly.
9. To ask Him mercy penitently.
10. To trust Him alway faithfully.
11. To obey Him alway willingly.
12. To abide Him alway patiently.
13. To thank Him alway thankfully.
14. To live here alway virtuously.
15. To use thy neighbor honestly.
16. To look for death still presently.
17. To help the poor in misery.
18. To hope for heaven's felicity.
19. To have faith, hope, and charity.
20. To count this life but vanity:

BE POINTS OF CHRISTIANITY.

AT the recent commencement at Amherst College the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, present and assisting, deemed it pleasing to go into reminiscence of his studious and ascetic ways while an under-graduate. This was thirty-seven years ago. On the day of his graduation Professor Snell told that the faculty would never hear from him again. Mr. Beecher was very fond of "cutting" recitation, much oftener, in fact, than was to the professor's taste. One day, after

having listened to a long lecture, because of absenteeism, Henry Ward asked Professor Snell what was the use of his going to mathematical | recitation anyhow.

"To discipline your mind,” replied the pro

fessor.

"Oh, well," said Beecher, "I sha'n't go any more if that is all, for I can discipline my mind enough by inventing excuses to you for not being there."

eager, restless glance of his quick gray eye showed that he had no want of energy. My friend the interpreter looked admiringly at the pair as they approached each other, and was just exclaiming, There, thank God, a real Russian and a real Turk, and admirable specimens of their race too!' when suddenly General Tarassoff and Ibraham Pasha, after staring at each for a moment, burst forth simultaneously, Eh, Donald Cawmell, are ye here?' 'Lord keep us, Sandy Rob

Mr. Beecher thought it very odd, even indec-ertson, can this be you?' orous, that the faculty never consulted him in regard to what appointment they should confer upon him; and he left the classic shades of Amherst with only an ordinary sheepskin, "such as nature and the college provide for all graduates."

INDIFFERENT about money matters as the late Rufus Choate is reported generally to have been, he had certain views about the proper amount of a fee and its payment that were not unprofessional. On one occasion, when called upon to defend a man for a capital offense, and where impecuniosity was mentioned, Mr. Choate flatly declined, exclaiming: "So steeped in blood, and no money? He's a lost man!"

YOUNG lady readers of the Drawer may find food for thought in the following advertisement, copied from the Providence Journal of July 3, 1871:

NOTICE.

WHEREAS my husband, Charles F. Sanford, has

thought proper to post me, and accuse me of having left his bed and board without cause, etc., I wish to make it known that the said Charlie never had a bed, the bed and furniture belonging to me, given to me by my father; the room and board he pretended to furnish me were in Providence, where he left me alone while he staid at the Valley with his "Ma." He offered me two hundred dollars to leave him and go home, telling at the same time that I could not stay at the place he had provided for me, and as I have never seen the named sum, I suppose he will let me have it if I can earn the amount. It was useless for Charlie to warn the public against trusting me on his account, as my father has paid my bills since my marriage, as be

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WAS ever a place that hadn't its Scotchman? In a late English publication we find account of a gentleman traveling in Turkey who, arriving at a military station, took occasion to admire the martial appearance of two men. He says: "The Russian was a fine, soldier-like figure, nearly six feet high, with a heavy cuirassier mustache, and a latent figure betraying itself (as the physical force' novelists say) in every line of his long muscular limbs. Our Pasha was a short, thickset man, rather too round and puffy in the face to be very dignified; but the

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THE following humorous song, in the dialect of North Lancashire, England, may amuse some of our Yankee readers, as it certainly will those from the Old World. It is now in print for the first time in this country:

Cum Roger ta me as thou ert mi son,
An' tak the best counsel o' life;
Cum hidder, I say, wi'out farder delay,
An' I'll war'nt ta I'll git tha a wife-I will!
Yes, I will, sooa I will;

An, I'll war'nt ta I'll git tha a wife—I will!
Put on thi best cleas at iver thou hes,
An' kiss ivery lass at thou meets;
Ther's sum 'ill leak shy, an' tak it awry,
But udders 'ill co tha a sweet-thay will!
Yes, thay will, sooa thay will;

But udders 'ill co tha a sweet-thay will!

The first bonny lass that Roger did meet
Was a farmer's fair douter, her neam it was Kate;
She didn't exchange wi' him many a word,
But she fetch'd him a slap i' the feace-she did!
Yes, she did, sooa she did;

But she fetch'd him a slap i' the feace-she did!

Sez Roger, if this be like laitin a wife,
I'll never ga laitin anudder;

But I will leve sing'el o' t' days o' mi life,
An' I'll away yam ta mi mudder-I will!
Yes, I will, sooa I will;

An' I'll away yam ta mi mudder-I will!

THE cashier of the First National Bank of St. Paul, Minnesota, had occasion a few weeks ago, a correspondent informs us, to notify the cashier of a bank in the southern part of the State that his account was overdrawn. For answer he received the following telegram:

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Ir is a part of the economy of nature that tipplers of the common sort are apt to be impecunious. Such was the case of an individual recently who, while laboring under the influence of a favorite beverage, applied to a literary gentleman formerly connected with this Magazine for a call loan of ten dollars. There were several reasons, consistent with "the eternal fitness of things," why the negotiation should fail. It did fail. Desiring, however, to show a reasonable interest in the welfare of the applicant, our friend said, "Although I have not the money, I can suggest a way to procure it."

"Can you? Do."

"I see you have a gold watch; go to any

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"Fact!-never thought of that. I'll go right off. Who's your pawnbroker ?"

THE extent to which patriotism may be carried is illustrated in the following extract of a speech recently made by an honorable member of the Arkansas Legislature. In advocating a retrenchment of the public expenditure, he exclaimed: "Gentlemen talk about adequate compensation of public servants.' Why, Sir, during the late war I was in thirty-seven battles, was wounded thirteen times in the cause of the South, and the entire pay I received was $30 in Confederate money, every cent of which I gave for one glass of old rye whisky."

Thirty dollars for thirteen wounds is a little less than $2 for each wound, which is cheap for wounds, and especially cheap in its connection with the then market rate for "red eye."

THOMAS JEFFERSON is known to have solaced his leisure hours by playing the violin, on which he was a proficient. His fondness for the instrument may be inferred from the following anecdote, quoted from his "Domestic Life," recently published by Harper and Brothers:

In the year 1770 the house at Shadwell was destroyed by fire, and Jefferson moved to Monticello, where his preparations for a residence were sufficiently advanced to enable him to make it his permanent abode. He was from home when the fire took place at Shadwell, and the first inquiry he made of the negro who carried him the news was after his books.

"Oh, my young master," he replied, carelessly, "they were all burned; but ah! we saved your fiddle."

THE following charade was written by a friend of Miss Upham upon her name. The lady, who had lived in single blessedness for over seventy years, made a pertinent answer, in rhyme, which has also been given to us:

CHARADE ON THE NAME OF UPHAM.
To get my first a sluggard's loath;

To get my next a glutton's glad.
Happy is he who gets them both;

But jewels are not cheaply had.

ANSWER.

Your first, I guess, is to get up,
And on your next, when sliced, we sup;
United, both will name a lady

Who, long since passed her youthful heyday,
Unmarried now, upon the shelf,
Lies soberly beside herself.

The men, I grant, have wanted spirit,
To pass a jewel of such merit.
For this mistake I must not fret,
But patient wait to be new set

In that good place where wedlock ceases,
And woman's bliss, perhaps, increases.

dependence: "While the question of Independence was before Congress it had its meetings near a livery-stable. The members wore short breeches and silk stockings, and, with handkerchief in hand, they were diligently employed in lashing the flies from their legs. So very vexatious was this annoyance, and to so great an impatience did it arouse the sufferers, that it hastened, if it did not aid, in inducing them to promptly affix their signatures to the great document which gave birth to an empire republic. This anecdote I had from Mr. Jefferson at Monticello, who seemed to enjoy it very much, as well as to give great credit to the influence of flies. He told it with much glee, and seemed to retain a vivid recollection of an attack, from which the only relief was signing the paper and flying from the scene."

HERE is a bit of "good time" which the Marquis de Chastellux relates of a visit he made to Jefferson at Monticello, in 1782, when Jefferson was not yet forty:

"I recollect with pleasure that as we were conversing over a bowl of punch, after Mrs. Jefferson had retired, our conversation turned on the poems of Ossian. It was a spark of electricity which passed rapidly from one to the other; we recollected the passages in those sublime poems which particularly struck us, and entertained my fellow-travelers, who fortunately knew English well, and were qualified to judge of their merits, though they had never read the poems. In our enthusiasm the book was sent for and placed near the bowl, where, by their mutual aid, the night far advanced imperceptibly upon us."

Of course Jefferson used to have "good time."

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SINCE that witty man, Charles H. Webb, retired from journalism and the Adder, to rejoice DOUBTLESS every thing was created for a pur- in the felicities of connubial life, and revel in the pose, but "what is the use of flies ?"-an inter- large sum of money which he, in conjunction rogatory frequently heard in fly-time. One with Mr. Drew, Mr. Vanderbilt, and other capmemorable instance is mentioned in Jefferson's italists, has realized by those peculiar upheavals "Domestic Life," where they served an impor- in stocks which the public records tell us sometant purpose. A gentleman who had been a fre- times occur in Wall Street-since then he has quent visitor at Monticello during Jefferson's seldom been heard of. When he was one of life gave the following amusing incident of "us," doing semi-reportorial duty at one of the the first Congress and the Declaration of In-fairs of the American Institute, he found it nec

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