the carolina watchman vol ix third sseies salisbury n c august 29 1878 no 45 ■ m . uman i \ kning hymn .. a mil of day sinks slow . . . -•■ us meek and holy out iln ether dim ! '' ' ; cl,aiii iu evening hj nm .,.-• . di childish strain ,. iiitaiueei - in spain ,, | audalusian steeps . m darkness softlj creeps - < i sight llion bride of death i mil bate the btcatll ., pub lire of sleep : , , i ii lit i bildreii keep mn till morn shall give i , i iissiii nice i hat we live savioi i i«'l "- rise v iiii thee ii r snid in i tei ni . 1 l.nii that lay in pilate's tomb timi ji the triple night-fall's gloom i ; ns on thy bleeding breast all our care forever rest like tlm of old ; b coming on the wold : the inagi-gniding stai - cross ol blood aud scars | tli i ib'deeinei ' mjtkf out tin s \\ ml of love iii-l ue - of praise kcholug through oui stui r nights and along these wooded heights n fi mu ■ shall lull i'd our pilgi initi te is full j \\ i'i a \. ill iingel hai !■ above \\ , ihall chaul ih . wondrous lovci aug i -;■-. i !•• n wa v sm m i ■_■—_._-. an i'l frielld and patron v lm has been r the watchman many years clip ]„.,| fmin a number of ! - ij the follow iug ivhii'li i,i commend ten ion of treating candidates \\ , 7i b low an extt aei i'i nm the v.d chapter of the revised statutes of the statcof north carol ina j consisting of three sections of snid ciiaplei thej are ou the kiihjprt of candidate - 1 1 cat in for elect ion wiiiig purposes our object iu publish ing ilieni al this time we do not hesitate in say .- that the conduct of candidate in lliis coitllty should the goon treating m ; i \ he uuivi isally known and recognized ii ii \ iol i ion ui existing la .\ s i \ 1 1 i i i !.•" u rill •.: i i -,.!> .• i . i ; ; -. j ifanj person shall at uity llnieho 1 '■ • 1 1 • ui after an clci iii u either dii cctl or indirectly . i c an money gift gratuity in lew mi to a ii > el ctni ol i li'i i i -. or in un*i ci ni ti i ;. ordistriet i lo ik eleel ■ eil ui iu pi ocurc tint ol her pei ti lo he clccti-ii us a ineiuli i "• i !:•■ i leneral as . ( \ cr ii rson ■ tillvndiii shall ibi feit and pa loin hundred dollars to be iei u ci cl b m ii ot detit in nn i'ollrl ul record h i aiice hereof w ith ih to serve as ti ■ i tlui inu liu con tin nance ol lhe ii ascinbh . i'm » hieli nch election shall be in ide us afori dd '.'■•. if aii*i person or persons sh:;ll treaty with rilhei nn it oi driitl ou the day of i ii i nm or am i.i \ im vious t hereto wit li an ixt1.nt tl inph'knck the 1 1 it i'p.in even person so offending shall lm feit and pai l he sum of i w i hun - ihi il dolhirs i in one ball for ( ite use of llic county where lhe same shall be re ravcred to be paid to the county trustee i'ii nther half to the use of the person who shall sue for the i nne to be recover 1 by action of debt in any court ol record btiv ing cognizance i hi rcof w ith co t ji ii shall be the duly of the sheriff in each ml over county annually to pub lish lhe two preceding sections of this act li ad . i i : i ■■ • and reading i he same at tin ni house door ou the first and sec ond day i'l ihe county court which shall happen pre ions to the annual elect ion and also on the di heron i days of the elec tion under the pt ua i -. nl i'm ty dollars for em h and e en neglect s . also append hereto two or three ex tract rrom the hli i hapterof the lievis i-'l statutes sajd chapter is headed ""'»-." all jiersoiis elected to any of | i ' of trust ct profit in this stale tire re inii ■■! to take the oath of office before en tering i hen mi mi inliei - of the legisla ture tin required to take au oath some thing like this pei hap : i a is do solemnly ami sincerely in i"'i ','. thut / will in faithful and ■". ttlh.i-.ti a !,, the statcof xorth < iif't'iitt i„.i i the constitutional powers and authorities which are or may hevstab lixhtil for tin tuft latni nt thereof and that ' ill endeavor to support maintain and k'fcml ihe const it ut ion of the uited states to the best uf mv knowedge i ill : so help me j id the wuu in the above oath in italh u c think ch-ail bind the observance of the laws of iln state whether in nol i hies i iu material i we know that all persons sitting as members of tlie legis lature ate inul a ,..,;|| ;,, supporl the laws ;""* constitution of the state as well those laws m the buhji ct of bribery as auy ,,;]„,,-, 1 '" follow ing i ■ ihe oath wliich thesher 1 "' ,:" county i ;• ijiiii-ed to tak before e"teiiiig upon the discharge of the duties uxiilicc no man who has expended beds of dollars in treatiny to iuhn wcc bis election can take this oath and et not be obuoxious to the law ou the s|lll.l offal swearing nik oath l iv \ - . i : . 1 ; i 1 i ". ')•'• h do solemnly wear or affirm t i will execute the office of sheriff of lit in the best ol mv knowledge ». ability agreeable to law and that i m not take accept or receive directly n»ffircctly an lee gift luilk gratuity j t'ward w hai ue , i for returning a 1 '" sci\e as a juror or for making any ('' "'"' a ain pn i ess to me direct •• j ami i also swear that 1 have noi giv '■ • gift gratuity or reward or ' l|uii whatsoever to any person or lm|ii for in ,,;■ their vote or interest to l iue to be in miii tied to the said "'• or will 1 hei alter give lo anv person or persons such fee gift gratuity or reward for having procured or contrib uted to procure me to be nominated there to : so help tne i iod with all this and the following pre sentment of the grand jurors before us what sort of respect can those persons have for themselves thai offend in this matter and iu what estimation should every community hold them this practice to say nothing of its ex ceeding wickedness is supremely foolish for when all the candidates treat what advantage does it give one over the other it were precisely the same if none treated why then should men break the laws of their country and subject themselves to consequent penalties and to the tortures nf an accusing conscience merely to grati fy the burning thirst of not exceeding ioo miserable uuui who are not regarded above the swine which wallow in the in ire ex cept when nn election is pending the following is a presentment of the rand jurors of bow an made arci t session 1845 wk the grand jurors of uowan pre sent . that the most ofthe business brought before us during litis term has been in consetjiience ol drunkenness und that a great deal of it has been occasioned by and through the public treating nf candidates for public offices at different times and places ; consequently we cannot help bul view the practice a an evil and a grow ing evil for it is manifest to every one thai i is annually becoming worse ami v in se and we cannot help but feel alarm ed for the good order and morality of the community tit large if uoi for liberty it sel for ii has almost come to pass that those who treat the most ate certain to be elected consequently tliose who are un able or unwilling to treat have no en couragement to become candidates as they are almost invari ibly defeated no matter what their qualilica tions are and we can not help butfhink ii is high time for the fi iends of good order and morality and for every patriot without distinction of party to come oui and put the fro w'n of condem nation upon the practice and hereafter use their inlluence in endeavoring to pre vail upon all candidates to abandon the practice and trust to their own merits rather thau to the merits of the whiskey barrel jno mrculloch foreman kkhabd harris john i.ogel.s bknjamin fi.at.ky bichabd gbaham geouge vilhei.m jacob set/.el henry sloop michael bostian benjamin seculei caleb yost ii sin deal iii.ni vrilhelm asa j'm'.u.v .!<»!!>; s!l man sen david shul1ba1-gei — 0 i'l a rpoum of the democrats of the metropolitan district the convention ofthe democrtaic par ty of iin fourth congressional district whicli assembled iu raleigh last thurs day seems to have been a very harmo nious body while the contest between tile two highest candidates was very warm it was conducted evidently with the best of feeling and the defeated candidates | submitted gracefully and cheerfully gave iti heir adhesion to the nominee caleb b green of orange was the perm inent i chairman of the convention ami the plat j iui in of tiie party of the district as adopt ed b the convention was as follows we re-atnnn our adherence to the time honored principles the democratic party and in the interests of ourselves and of our posterity denounce all inoncpoliis higll taxes and all extravagance and waste iu the expenditure of the people's money uud we explicity demand the repeal ofthe resumption act we denounce the contraction of the cur rency the heartless and ll 1 1 patriotic po licy of the republican administration making the rich richer and the poor poorer whicli lias caused a stagnation of business destroyed the prosperity ofthe couutry throw n thousands out of employ ment and reduced millions to penury aud want we denounce the demonetisation of silver hy the republican party in the interest of tile capitalists and bond hold er and we congratulate the country on the successful efforts of tho democratic parly to restore silver to its legetimnte uses even over the veto of a repub lican president we demand the retirement ofthe cir culation of the national banks the sub stittt ion therefor of greenbacks whose volume should be regulated by the re quirements of trade and business and the repeal ofthe tax on state banks leav ing their organization to the will of the people ot different stales we demand a modification ofthe rev enue system so tliat it shall not discrimi nate againsl southern industries atari fur revenue only end not for the purpose of building up northern manufacturers at tiie expense of the south ; and we favor a lax on incomes thereby lessening tlie burdens of labor and making capital pay its just proportion of public dues we demand a reduction ofthe tax on tobacco and a modification of onerous tax on the distillation of fruit we denounce corruption iu office wherever it exists ; the higher the plane the greater the crime and we call upon the people at tlio polls to punish the in famous electoral fraud by which thej peo ple of these united states were deprived of their right to elect their president finally we congratulate the people of tlie union on the overthrow ofthe party of hate with its corruptions nnd upon the triumph of that policy of conciliation i tnd fraternal kindness which the demo 1 crat ic party has so long anil so persis 1 tenth advocated | the total number ot votes hi the con . vent loli wns 168 necessary to a choice 1 85 capt jos j davis of franklin was ' nominated on the tenth ballot the sev < cial ballots writ as follows first ballot davis 55 j cos 64 manning 23 ; carr 26 ' second ballot davis 50 cox gi ; manning 23 ; can 7 third ballot davis 52 cox l ; manning 25 ; carr 2h fifth ballot — davis 75 cox /■_ ; manning 21 sixth ballot davis 7<i ; cox 71 i manning 21 seventh ballot-davis 73 j cox i manning 21 eighth ballot davis 73 cox 69j manning 21 ninth ballot davis s ;' cox 16 manning 68 tenth ballot davis 163 the democratic convention for this dis trict met according to announcement at ° greensboro last thursday hon a m scales was nominated without a dissent ing voice and this unanimous action of the convention will not be a surprise to anyone gen scales fidelity and his zeal for the welfare of his constituents en title him to mich recognition it their hands no member of the 45th ongress has been more persistent and industrious in his labors than lie and few from the south wield nunc influence in view of his entire fitness and the accumulated ex perience and inlluence of several terms the people of the district are to be con gratulated on their wise choice the hab it of turning out our congressmen as soon as they get well in the harness merely to give somebody else a chance i damag ing to the common good to our section ami to the party sonic forget that offices arc noi created to give this niaii and that one in turn a start iu the world they arc niaii not to benefit individuals not to gratify unholy ambition or to ad vance private pecuniary interests — but that they may be filled to the advance ment ami protlt of the greatest number for the general welfare — davidson record •«___£. ._*-__*- amenities of mabried life married people are apt to make the mistake of fancying that when the prayer is said the deed is done once for all and there is no more to be said about it but married love especially to which is likened christ's love for the church should be like god's loving kindness new every morning and little attentions small cour tesies are ofteu far more grateful to the tiled wife than to the bright young sweet heart who never suffered for lack of them in a short list of maxims for young mar ried couples published long ago is this never say smart things at each other's expense and the same advice applies to all near relations this is a discourtesy olten indulged in between people who really love each other and who at once join to do battle with any third party who look either side in such contests shafts thrown in play nre sometime hurt ful and the stranger who sees such mis siles hying is seldom pleasantly impress ed beside sham lights are good prepar ation for real warfare and it is wisest not to play with edge tools there is noth ing more frigid than cool politeness but true politeness is never cold unless it means to freeze tin love which puts itself in the loved nne'splace whicli thinksfor and with him is the truest generator of genuine courtesy nothing which can add to home happiness is unnecessary and respect for the rights of others and consideration for theii feelings are certainly no small items iu the account children in the nursery should be watch ed and taught politeness to each other as carefully as to their elders the dis tinctions of nieiiin and tuuin may well be learned there and the baby who snatches away his brother's toy should bu taught as early as possible that the action is wrong thank yon and if you please should he early words and late taught to the little ones with the prayer at the mother's knee nnd used not only for show but among themselves as household words the stately manners of our ancestors when a child dared not sit down in the presence ofa parent and a lady in com pany must not touch the back of her chair have fortunately gone by ; but politeness is not stillness and courtesy is not identical with ceremony tennessee democratic convention nashville aug ki the de crat ic state convention reassembled this mor ning the platform adopted arraigns the radical party as the author of all the country's misfortunes und pledges that tiie democratic party will never lower its banner until the prosperity of tlie whole people shall be held to be the supreme j law of the political administration the following gentlemen were put in nomiua ! tiou for governor alfred caldwell and john m fleming of kuoxville john ii ' savage of mc.minnviile arthur s col year of nashville and john a gardner o f w ca k ley co u n ty let the vnforijieiny fear a soldier whose regiment lay in a gnr rison town in england was brought before his commanding olrieef for some offence he was an old offender and hnd been of ten punished here he is again said the officer on bis name being mentioned : everything dogging disgrace impris onment — has been tried with him whereupon the sergeant stepped for ward and apologizing for the liberty he tool said ; there is one thing wliich has never been done with him yet sir what is that sir ." was the answer well sir said the sergeant he has never been forgiven forgiven exclaiine.f the colonel surprised at the suggestion ile reflected a few moments ordered the culprit to be brought in and asked him what he had to say to the charge nothing sir was the reply only 1 itm sorry for what 1 have done turning a kind and pitiful look on the man who expected nothing else than that his punishment would be increased with the repetition of his offence the colonel addressed bim saying well we have decided to forgive you i the soldier was struck dumb with as tonishment ; the teats started to his eyes and he wept like a child lie was hum bled to the dust ; he thanked his officer and retired to be the old refractory in corrigible man no he was another man from that day forward lie who tells the story had him for years under his eyes and a belter conducted man never wore the queen's colors in him kindness bent one whom harshness could not break : he was conquered by mercy and forgiven ever afterwards feared to offend lltm ti little girl faced death willie a bright little daughter of mr t w wal ton died recently at her father's residence near l.oanokc in lhe seventh year of her age i idle willie had been sick a long time yet she bore her affliction with all ' the patience and fortitude of one much i older on the day of her death she called j her little brother and si.-ter around her and divided among them her toys she lingered until 7 o'clock iu the evening without the leas apparent change iu a perfectly conscious condition talking to those around her she counted the strokes as the clock tolled seven aud when it had finished she turned to her father and said pa 1 will in er hear the clock strike again : give ine an apple the apple was given her and after eating it she began talking of dying expressing a great aver sion to being put under the ground after death she was assured that only her body was buried that the spirit left the body and went to heaven this seemed to give her great relief and again address ing her father she said : is ma watching for me iu heaven _" and on being assured that she was she said : turn me over then and let me die she was tenderly turned on her side and spoke no more the clock tolled 8 all the same but little willie never heard it she was dead — howard county advertiser many good husbands are spoiled iu the cooking some women go about and blow them up as if they were bladders others keep them constantly in hot water whilst others freeze them by conjugal coolness some smother them in hatred contention and variance and some keep them in pic kle all their lives these women always serve them up with tongue sauce now it cannot be supposed that husbands will be tender and good if managed in this way ; but on the contrary very delicious when managed as follows let a huge jar called the jar of faithfulness which all good wives keep on hand place your husband in it and set him near the fire of conjugal love let the fire be pretty hot but especially let it be clear and above all let the heat be clear and over all let the heat be constant cover him with af fect ion kind ness and subjection garnished with modest becoming familiarity and spice with pleasantry ; and if you add kisses and other eoiifectioudries lei ihem be accompanied with a sufficient portion of secrecy mixed with prudence and mod eration we would advise all good wives to try this recipe and realize what an admira ble dish a husband makes when properly cooked it is a well know fact that the accident al admission of air into veins during sur gical operations has in many cases caus ed the death of the patient the knowl edge thus gained has been utilized to de stroy old and otherwise worthless horses the instruments used are a fleam and a gtitta pcrcha catheter tire manner of operating is to open the vein as in bleed ing then introduce the tube into the vein passing it downwards toward the heart : three full inflations of the lungs are rap idly passed through the tube when it is advisable for the operator to stand one side for the animal falls instantaneously without warning a u-w struggles for breath and the animal is dead to pre vent the attempt to breathe an assistant js soon as the animal falls draws the nose toward the wind pipe when a long narrow blade ofa knife is passed between the oc ciput and lirst bone of the neck perpen dicularly dividing the medulla causing jnstaut death the study of real life in schools referring to the growing custom of us ing newspapers iu the place of reading books in schools a teacher in the milwim kee high school professor l lbirstall i writes us that for some years be has used ! the scientific american in that way with ] the most beneficial results his belief is | that a great part of the work of schools especially of the higher grades of schools | should be to direct tbe work of students j to real results to knowledge that may j give them a lift iu future years and lit them to understand that they ought to be greater more practical more decisive than their fathers for this reason he thinks that too much time is given in the schools ui the history of the past to hu man conflicts and dynastic struggles bat tles mad strife and the victories of hypocrisy and brute force and too little time to the history of real progress ofthe present age he history ofthe steam en gine the telegraph and other inventions i the influence of wliich would be to impel i the students to emulati in iln . lives lhe men who have lived aud labored for the real benefit of immunity . as the best exponent that he knows of ihe realism which i.s the mainspring of our country's success is the scientific ' american he insists that it ought not only to be on file in all school libraries but that it should lie used as a common reader for translation and for composi tion as a leader for class work and home j occupation we are not sure but our friend is alto | gether right certaiuly one great fault with current school teaching is that it gives too little attention to and is too little in sympathy with the real working and determining forces of the age as ! onr correspondent puts it too much ! time is given to tlie knowledge of the '■ past very little to the present and the future asa natural consequence most , students leave school uot much better i fitted for the life of to-day than they l would be had they been schooled a hun j died years ago and laid away to sleep for a century the reading of a paper like the scientific american in schools or at home must do much to correct and atone • for this neglect of the scientific conditions and aspects of modern life in the routine . work of the schools while much of the j information giveu is beyond the years of school childre enough of every-day life is covered from week to week pictorially or otherwise to make the paper instruc tive even to the youngest — scientific a nir riri i it keeping faith sir william napier was one day taking : a long country walk when he met a little i girl about tive years old sobbing over a j broken bowl she had dropped and bro j ken it in bringing it back from the field i to whicli she had taken her father's din ! ner and said she would be beaten on her return home for having broken it as she said this a sudden gleam of hope seemed to cheer her she innocently look ed up into sir william's face and said l?ut you can mend it can't you f he explained that he could not mend the bowl but the trouble he could overcome by the gift ofa sixpence to buy another — however on opening his purse it was empty ot silver and he had to make amends by promising to meet his little friend on the same spot at the same hour the next day and to bring the sixpence with him bidding her mean while to tell her mother she had seen a gentleman who would bring her the mon ey for the bowl next day the child en tirely trusting him went on her way com forted on his return home he found au invitation awaiting him to dine at hath the following evening to meet some one whom he especially wished to see he hesitated for some little time trying to calculate the possibility of giving the meeting to his little friend of the broken bowl and still being in time for the din ner party in bath but find in ; ; c uild not be be wrote to declim ■■ ; i iie invitation on the pica .«: a pro-engage ment saying i cannot disappoint her she trusted me and so the great man like il true gentleman went and kepi ilis appointment with lhe poor ragged las.-ie a mental intoxicant prosperity intoxicates most men it turns their heads ami throws them off their balance others cannot bear adver sity they lmve no fortitude no cour age no hope they are not like the old sailor who said he always felt happiest in the height of a storm because h knew then that the next change that took place whatever it might be must necessarily be for the better they cannot realize that there will be any change when the sky is once clouded and overcast they will not believe that the un will ever shine again young men should make it a point to keep their heads cool under all hangesaud circumstances to preserve their equanimity and uot to be unduly elated by success or too much cast down by disappointment an enterprisiug iowa man named hi daughters time and tide so they will rait for no man and have got a first mortgage on matrimony to begin with * mi edison and the unseen uni i v\i hitherto man's knowledge of the extent ofthe univer.se has been bounded by the limits of vision during tlie day when the range of sight is narrowed by the sun's excessive brightness we see but a minute frwtion even of fhe little world we inhabit at night a wider reach of vision i.s possible and some thousands of stellars and planetary bodies are added to the domain of positive knowledge thus ! enlarging enormously man's idea of the magnitude of the universe but the in crease of knowledge which darkness re teals is almost infinitesimal compared ; with the wider view of the universe open ed up by thctclcscop *. and every addition to the telescope's penetrative power brings a itirger and larger universe within our ken that the most powerful of telescopes enables us to reach the limit of the uni verse no one imagines see as ninch as we may more perhaps infinitely more lies beyond so at least all experience leads us to infer but our positive knowl edge ends with the limit of vision must this always be so ? hitherto science has given no hint of the possibil ] ity of exploring the vast and m > strrions | beyond froni which no vi.-i i ray ol iit j has ever been detected or is ever likely to be detected by the most far-reaching and sensitive of optic aids but now tliere comes a promise of an extension of ' positive knowledge to fields of pace so remote that light is tired out and lost be { fore it can traverse the intervening dis tance a new agent or organ of scientific i sense for space exploration has been given to the world in the tasimeter liy which it is possible not only to measure the heat of the remotest of visible stars but mr edison believes to detect by their invisi ble radiations stars that are unseen and unseeable mr edison's plan is to ad just the tasimeter to its utmost degree of sensitiveness then attach it to a large telescope and thus explore tliose parts of the heavens which appear blank whe.ii examined by telescopes of the highest penetrative power if at any point in such blank spice the tasimeter indicates an accession of temperature and does this invariably the legitimate inference will be that the instrument is in range with a stellar body either non-luminous or so distant as to be beyond the reach of vision assisted by the telescope and the position of such body can be tixed and i mapped the same as if it were visible seeing that the tasimeter is affected by a wider range of ether ic undulations than the eye can take cognizance of and is withal far more acutely sensitive the ' probabilities are that i will open up , hitherto inaccessible regions of space and i possibly extend the range of our real j knowledge as far beyond the limit attain ed by tin telescope as that is beyond the | narrow reach of unaided vision possibly too it may bring within human ken a vast multitude of nearer bodies burnt out suns or feebly reflecting planets now un known because not luminous — scientific american recommendations a gentleman once advertised for a boy to assist him in his oliice and nearly fifty applied for lhe place — out ofthe whole number he in a short time chose out aud sent the rest away i should like to know said a friend on what ground you selected that boy lie had not a single recommendation with him * you are mistaken said the gentleman he had a great many he wiped his feet when he came in and closed the door after him showing thai he was orderly and tidy he gave up his seat instantly to that lame old inau showing that he was kind anil thoughtful he took oil his cap when he came in answered my questions promptly and respectfully showing that he was polite lie lifted up the book which i had purposely laid on the floor and placed it ou the table while all the rest stepped over it or thrust il aside showing that he was careful when j i talked with him i noticed that his clothes were carefully brushed hi huh j in nice order and his teeth as white a milk when he wrote his name i observ ed that his finger-nails were clean in stead of being tipped with jet like the handsome little fellow's in thebluejacke ; don't you call those letters of recommen dation .' i do aud what i cum learn ab ml a boy by using my eyes tor i1 minutes is worth more than all the line letters he can bring me — x c preihylerian hard shelp christians the follow i iug instance of almost incredible ignorance occurred iu georgia two men were re cently cited to appeal befor a hard shell anti-missionary isaptisj church to stand iri.tl : the one was charged vtith drunken s and the other with the crime of having joined a temperance society the trial resulted in the ucuujt-.i of the drunkard and the cxconuiiuuieation of the temperance man the reason as signed for thi conduct is this the drun kard acknowledged he had lone wrong but the temperance inau would make no such acknowledgement ! lis fun to court but oh how sad to oui l your girl ion uirini and dad a curious insect practical entomologists will find a very interest-tig and suggestive study ofa in sular phase of insect life in mr william ii gibson's paper on the house rudder caterpillar printed in the current is..i:e of the scientific american supplement mr gibson says that for u dozen sacces sive years lie has studied this insect col lecting hundreds of caterpillars and co coons ami watching their tr.msforma__»ns meantime he had searched in vain foruny satisfaetory account of the singular fea tures f the reproduction of the insect and the fertilization of the eggs harris say that the female never leaves her cocoon packard ays ihe same ib_,on says there is no female ! mr wood says of a west india species unit the female has no external vestige uf wings nnd looks more like a grub than u moth tlie head thorax and abdomen be ing hardly distinguishable from each oth er and adds : love and courtship with this insect are carried on quite iu an ori ental fashion pushed to extremes for whereas the oriental in many eases never sees ihe face of his vailed bride until after the nuptial ceremony is completed tho house builder moth never sees his mate either before or after marriage and so i obliged io love blindly or nol al all mr packard's account is ch.tra teii/ed as more specific but nevertheless nasal i.-faetory he describes the female as wingless cylindrical and in general form closely resembling its larva the fertili zation of the female he licli ves to take place while ii i within the case wliich it never leaves ami in which the eggs are deposited this conclusion mr ibson thiuks to be based entirely oi inference not at all on ohscr ition according to mr t'ibson's obsei vat-ions the female larva is transformed uot into a moth but into a bundle of eggs and i little fu which under thi microscope reveals forms of wing scales similar 10 those on ordinary moths if fecundation lakes place at all it occurs either during the catterpillar state which is iinproba ble or the fecundative is passed down several generations after the maimer of the aphides mr i'ibsou illustrates by numerous drawings the various stages iu the development of this strange insect as observed by him tlie caterpillar inhab its the arbor vitm larch hemlock nnd the like sometime doing harm to these favorite hedge and shade trees scieittifie i mericait a case that l'uzzled the doc tors . a recent dispatch from new haven ! conn to the new vork sun says the case of george ii willis agud t years of fairha veil puzzles the physicians he was a frieght clerk in the otliee of the new new york and newllav.eu railroad com pany in this city and on friday last went to work complaining of a severe pain in his head he went home and a physi cian wa summoned on saturday he grew worse but nothing serious was feared un til yesterday on arrisiug he went for a glass of water but while raising it to his lips was seized with a convulsiou which was succeeded by another and so he suf fered until death supervened at noon to day large quantities of morphine were injected into hint hypodermic-ally yester day and last night aud early this morn ing it was found necessary to chloroform him so violent had he become ilis struggles in his convulsions were fright ful and toward the end it required four men to hold him iu bed lie snapped and bit at anything within reach aud narrowly escaped biting the physician when the latter approached to adminis ter the chloroform between his spasun be talked very rationally and yesterday seemed aware that death was near he gave minute directions about his funeral the dowers and the services di sided hia personal property among his brothers and insisted thai the physicians should hold a post mortem examination ho was a strong-minded young m in of deep religious convictions and uot at all sub ject to his imagination hence the phy sicians think thai the ell its of fear re sulting from a moukcj bite some twenty years ago had nothing to d v.iii id death win a young willis was three years old he at templed to hand something lu a mi.ii key led by au itinerant organ grimier the animal bit the lad i.i the leg the wound was nol a serious one and wa forgotten until lately when liken itl and after convulsions had sel in willi insisted thai be was suffering from hy drophobia the result of thai bite the attending physicians h.-trdli believe this yet are coin pi lied to accept it iu tlu want of any other cause of the death of tlie yotii r man here i civilization and high moral ideas foi you john i'eii eye a uegr wa banged und when bis body reached chester mass ;. as exhibited for sev er iiouj _ ul i ii cent - a head go it masschusetts the witch memory i aftc you - wilm '//' ■•• star in some countries a broken-down front gate produced in court is all the evidence a girl needs to eusuri a favorable verdict in a breach of promise case cincinnati 1 .;/ i'ttxt ial '■ ■ a perspiration proof couaf has been in vented