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would founder, stood logging afield: other
piteously. There lay the ship still wallowing,
when the skipper, as the only way of saving her,
resolved to cut away her masts.

The men flew to execute orders, the moment
the sheets of water would permit them.

The shrouds were scarcely touched by the keen

’ edges of the axes, when over went the three

masts.

The crew having cleared away the wreck, the
ship righted a little.

Still, however, it was soon discovered that
there was no hope of saving the craft. The leak
gained rapidly, and the dismasted hull settled

ower every moment.

The captain therefore decided to take to the
boats, and gave his orders for them to be care-
full lowered.

I y mother, brothers,~sister and cousin now
came on deck, trembling. With difilculty the
long-boat and yawl were kept from swamping
alon ide in such a le.

“ heer up," sai the captain, “ we are near
land 2”

By certain signs, he knew this to be a fact;
wherefore it was with grateful hearts that the
crew now betook themselves to the boats.

The children and women were helped, with
great difficulty, into these boats.

I had devoted myself to the task of helping
into the awl the captain, who had not yet re-
covered rom his injuries. He and I were now
the only occupants of the deck, and it was with
difficulty I could persuade him to go first.

Finally, I got him into the boat; at the same
moment a great sea came along, twitching the
warps so that they parted, the boats receding,
and leaving me alone aboard the wreck !

The crew endeavored to pull back, while I at
once prepared for action.

By means of a rope, fast to the stump of the
mainmast, I swung myself over the rail.

1 saw the captain wavin his hand to me; I
saw my mother gazin wis fully at me; I saw
my sister Ellen hiding or face in her hands, my
cousin Polly holding out her arms!

Waitin‘g till the hull rolled, I swung myself
clear, an made a desperate leap.

Down, down, I seemed to go, to the depth of
many fathoms; then I nearly lost all sense. _ ‘
I suppose I struck out mechanically, for, i _
few minutes, I came to the surface and ,
wildly around. .571“?

I was to windward of the ship, which had p
over me. ,p 4 , ,

Dashed against the hull, I clamber’ed on 
but I could see no boat, which, unable to 
the wreck, had probably been carried. into 
black rack and fog beyond.  x , -

I became insensible. l, ,  {It}

When I recovered, the old hull was flaunt“
her beam-ends, and fast aground! 1': 20" ""

w 

It was dark, so that I could see not” 
crawled into the cabin, however, where i 
some rum and a biscuit, which revived 1118.3 ‘

At dawn I saw the land, and discovered flat
the wreck lay on the beach, with her keel driven _
deep into the sand, which was continually wash-'
ed by hea seas. The seas, meanwhile, were
rolling fear lly, and I heard the cracking of the
timbers, as some of them began to part.

There was no time to lose.

Seizing a displaced sparL—the maintop gallant-
yard, lying on the deck, to which it had been
pulled by the straining lift, when the mast went
over—I secured myself to it, as well as I could,
with some detached pieces of rigging, and then
holding to it, threw myself overboard. I had
expected to be washed on the higher land, by
the seas, so that I could make my way out at

their reach, but I was doomed to disappoinfi.

meat.

I was whirled by the current around the point
on which the ship was cast, into a broad bay,
several miles in extent, so that, faint as I was,
I almost despaired of reaching the distant shore
of the island, toward which I was now being car-
ried by wind and wave. At last, however, I

aincd the far-away beach, crawling upon which,
Icould scarcely see the wreck in the dim dis-
tance. I drew myself up beyond the reach of
the waves, and icoked around me, to see nothing

_ save a desolate wilderness, rude basaltic rocks,

and sandy hills, covered with scrubby palmetto,
the stalks of which were so prickly, there was
no walking among some of them.

Pickin up an empty oyster-shell, I looked in
vain for resh water.

Then I sat down, hopeless, to see nothing
cheering or pleasant.

I believed myself to be on an arid, sandy reef,
without water or food; my whole worldly wealth
a clasp-knife and an oyster-shell.

 

 

Saturday Talk.

History of Skating—In awork written eight
hundred cars ago called the “ Edda,” the first men-
tion of s ates is made. The Uller is described as
renowned for his beauty, his arrows and his
“ scalees.” A hero of those days, Kolsen by name,
boasted among his accomplishments, that With ease
and grace quite unequaled by his friends or enemies,
he could traverse the snow on scatees of wood. In
Holland and Norwa skates were made use of as far
back as 1688. In “ arr’s Remarks on Germainie,“ a
portly and valuable volume published in that year, a

assage descriptive of a battle closes with the fol-

owing lines: “ The nimble Dutchmen with their
scalees did shoot down the French like ducks diving
under water, so long as the yice would beare them.
It is recorded that in 1608 at Gronin en, “ two young
women in ye contest on scafeea, di 0 thirty miles
in two hourse.” Skates were not an nown 11 Eng-
land in the thirteenth century. A writer in the

uaint style of those days, says: “When the eat
genus or moore, which watereth the walls 0 the
cities on the North, is frozen, many young men play
upon the yice; some tye bones under their feete and
under their heeles. and shoving themselves along
with oles shed with iron, do slide as swiftly as a
bird yeth in the air, or an arrow out of a cross-bow.
When they fall, whatever part of ye head coares upon
ye yice is sure to be laid ears."

Old-fashioned Winters.—-In the year' 401'
the Black sea was entirely frozen over. hm not

 

only the Black sea but the Straits of Dardanelles
were frozen over, and the snow in some places rose
fifty feet high, In 1822 the great rivers of Europe,
the Danube, the Elbe, etc., were frozen so hard as to
bear heavy w one for a month. In 860 the Adriatic
was frozen. 991 every thin was frozen, the crops
entire] failed, and famine an estilence closed t re
Yea-1% 1067 most of the trave ers in German were
frozen to death on the roads. In 1134 the 0 was
frozen from Cresona to the sea ; the wine-sacks were
burst, and the trees split by the action of the frost,
with an immense noise. In 1287 the Danube was
frozen to the bottom, and remained long in that state.
In 1308 the crops failed in Scotland, and such a fam-
me ensued that the poor were reduced to feed on
as, and many perished miserably in the fields.
a 1817 the crops 'wholly failed in Germany; and
wheat, which some years before sold in England for
six shillings the uarter, rose to two pounds. In
1%8 the wine distri uted to the soldiers was cut with
hatchets. The successive winters of 142-2-8—4 were
uncommonly severe. In 1683 it was excessively cold,
most of the hollies were killed, and coaches drove
across the Thames, the ice of which was eleven inch-
es thick. In 1709 occurred what was Ion called
“the cold winter,” when the frost penetrate three
yards into the earth. In 1716 booths were erected
on the Thames. In 1744 the strongest ale in Eng-
land, exposed to the air, was covered in less than
filteen minutes with ice an eighth of an inch thick.
In 1809 and again in 1812, the winters were remark-
zililly cold. In 1814 there was a fair on the frozen
.’ ‘ ames.

 

Jack Horner.—Little Jack Hornet must be
accepted as one of the real heroes of the Christmas
season. Althon h his name has been familiarized
through the me um of a nursery song, yet, as in so
many other singular jingles, there was a meaning in
the apparent nonsense. For Jack Homer was a real
person, although there are two or three versions of

is story. One version is that the abbot of Glaston-
bury had otl‘ended Henry VIII., by building his kitch-
en so substantially that the destroyers of the monas-
teries were unable to throw it down. In a rage, the
king sent for the abbot, who, hopin to appease the
monarch, sent to him his stewar , John Homer,
with a wondrous pie, the interior of which was com-

osed of the title-deeds of twelve manors. But as

ohn Horuer sat in the corner of the wagon that car-
ried him to the kin , he was induced by curiosity to
lift up the crust, an to abstract a title-deed from the
dish, which deed, on his safe and successful return
home, he showed to the abbot, and told him that he
had been iven it by the king for a reward. The
deed prove to be that far the manor of Wells. The
second version of the story chau es the scene to
.Wells, and the steward to Colone Homer; and it
makes the king to hang the abbot. The third version
changps Wells to Mells, and the Colonel to a conntr
lad; nt in all three versions of the story the lea ‘
{lug incident is preserved, and also the name of the

em. ~ 0

 

Pony of the Song-4. most striking illustra-
tion of ' stren ‘ ' mwer of the sea is exhib-
ited on he islan , esMJL I. Some years
ago avegel with a car-g6. nitewent ashore on
the rocki‘cn the east sidki' nd and went to
pieces. ,Bf her cargo ensign. computed to weigh
about men tons, was dep en a rock on which
there isvnot above two fee ‘ofwater at hicrh tide.
The soften of the waves has moved this block of
granite at four different times, inboard,.lifting it over

.yr until it is now one hundredvfeet distant from

tho 7 cc where it was originally deposited.

 

E1 Chinese (unionism-The childre of the Flow-
ery Kin dom expend vast sums in wed , g ceremo-
nies. ’l e most costly presents are showered upon
the brides and bridegrooms, and days and days are
devoted to feast-making and revchjy. The bridal
chambers are ornamented and.de regardless
of cost. When every thin ‘idinrelfiinees, the bride,
who reviously has had 3' _ pulled out,
that s e may forever afterward. , distinguished from
the virgins. is bornein a ly-ornamanted bridal-
car to the home e‘tlmsbaud, where the

  

her .fi.
marriage cerem'e _ ed b outnumber of
priests and V ,1” j I. . ebulkof expenses thus
incurred.  , bridegoo ‘ who therefore,
not  l , b0 _ talone ma-
trimow. '  . '
- ii.- ' ‘m— '

001%: fi’ vity.—-A cold-climate seems
to be fa rabid long life. ‘ ‘Acco ‘to a Russian
journalfliedcaths during 1888“ Irkuts , Siberia, in-
cluded six. \ sons over one hundred and ten rs
of age. a, had reached their. one huh and
twenty-sixth year, and one diedat’ the age-atone
hundred and thirty-one. Three others were'mure
than a century old.

 

Doctors, Canec.—It was formerly the practice
among physicians to carry a cane having a hollow
head, the top of which was gold, ierced with holes
like a pepper-box. The top couta ned a small quan-
tity of aromatic powder, or of snufi‘ ; and on enter-

 

ing a house or room where a disease supposed to be
in ectious prevailed, the doctor would strike his
cane on the floor to a itate the powder, and then ap-
ply it to his nose. ence all the old rints of phy-
sicians represent them with canes tot eir noses.

 

Animal Instinct.-—A blind horse wandered
into White River at Indianapolis, and getting beyond
his depth, swam around in a circle, trying to find his
way out. His distress attracted another horse not
far away on the bank, who first went to the water's
edge and tried to direct the blind horse by neighing.
Failing in this he took to the water, and swam out
to his relief, and after swimming around him for
nearly a quarter of an hour, he finally got the blind
horse to understand in what direction the land la
and the two hor: Us came to shore side by side, aml
the cheers of up ard of one hundred persons, who
had become spect. ors.

 

“'hirlpool on V'orway.—-The maelstrom on
the coast of Norway whatever may be said to the
contrar , is an actual existence, and is often danger-
ous. ast whirls are formed by the setting in and
out of the tides between Lofoden and Morkcn, quiet
at high and low tides, but most violent midway be-
tween. Small vessels are not safe near it at the time
of its strongest action, even though the weather be
clear and serene; and though large vessels may then

ass it in safety, yet in stormy weather it is extreme-
? dan erous even for them, for at such times ales
fl; m the sea and the land breezes sometimes orce
two mi hty opposing currents into collision. The
whirls 0 not swallow up a vessel, but toss it about
till it fills, or is dashed upon the shoals, a wreck.

 

A Sardine Flehery.~—The Paris correspon-
dent of the London Field thus describes the man-
ner of catching sardines: “The nets, which are of
the li htest ossible material. are layed out in a
lon me be ind the boat, which rags the entire
flee of nets after it steadily. A man stands in the
stern and throws across and across the net handfuls
of prepared coo-roe, commonl called ‘r'o ue.’ As
it falls on either side of the ne the fish dar throu h
the net to catch it, and are caught by the gills in 0-
ing so.» The long, sunk trammel, I. have mentioned,
would require ten or a dozen men to haul it in, but

 

 

as it is worked on board the steamboats. chiefly, it
is wound in by the engine. Besides the above nets,
they use the large seine, or scan, and the ground-
sean, the mullet-net and the shrimp-net, and there
are some lift-nets I could not et at. At times a
prodigious number of gray mul ets are got by ut-
t1ng a lon net across the mouth of a creek at ow
water, an wei hin down the corks with large
stones. When 't 6 tr c has come up to its full hig t
the ends of the net are shaken vio entl'y, the stones
topple off, and every fish which has entered the
creek with the tide is inclosed without any disturb-
ance or alarm. A gentleman Imet told me that he
had been out on the day I saw him, and taken three
or four thousand pounds of mullet in that way, a
lar e shoal having entered the creek, the whole of
wh ch were captured. Some species of the gray
mullet will, however, when thus inclose leap over
the corks, and when this is ap rehended t is requi-
site to prop the net up above t e surface.”

 

Star Beams.

Jessie Benton Fremont, as she appeared at dinner
at the Arlin on, Washington, the other day, is de-
scribed as a urge, fat blonde, with a sharp, up- oint-
ed nose, 9. good complexion a bright eye, 1 ghted
uppzptly with humor and partlywith intentions high
spin s.

A trick politician, who was noted for never doin
any thingY without a sinister (purpose, having die .
the clergyman who preache his funeral sermon
said that it would have been a great consolation to
the friends of the deceased if they could have ascer-
tained his motive in thus suddenly leaving them.

The Hindustan, on her recent arrival at Calcutta,
from Hong Kong had no less than ten American pas-
sengers on boar engaged in making the “grand
tour of the world."

Gen. Sherman’s dau hter was asked to dance with
Prince Arthur at the ashingtou ball in his behalf,
but on consulting her card excused herself as en-
gaged for the set he named.

Josh Billings says he will never patronize a lot-
tery so long as he can hire anybody else to rob him
at reasonable wages.

At a stable near St.Louis there is a young pony colt,
of the Shetland breed, three weeks old, and weigh-
ing 0:113 sixteen and a half pounds. The Lillipu-
tian mul is only twenty inches in hight, and
jumps through a fence like a cat.

The room in which Jefi'erson wrote the Declara-
tion of Independence, in Philadelphia, is now used
as a lottery policy shop. '

Mrs. General Gaines is described as looking as
bright and young as a woman of forty. Her e as
are clear, her complexion fresh, and her step e as-
tic. Having, after toiling some years, recovered a
vast estate, she announces that the bulk of it shall
be expended in charities.

A surgeon of Paris lately showed to one of his
friend one of 'his instruments, the handle of which
was carved in bone. “Do you know,” he asked,
“ of what this handle is made i” “ 0f ivory, I sup-
pose.” “ No,” said the doctor, while tears almost
choked his voice,“ it is the thigh-bone of my poor
aun .’

A case of domestic scandal was under discussion
at a tea-table. “Well, let us think the best of her
we can,” said an elderly gossip. " Yes,” said an-
other, “ and say the worst. ’

Important ancient discoveries have been made at
Marenil, France. The re ains of some tWOhundrcd
and thirty Gaul warriors erc found, with quite an
arsenal of lances, javelins‘and axes, besides buckles.
ear-rin s bearin traces of enamel, and also lass and
copper owls. he greatest curiosity consisted in a
quantity of hair-pins.

The Es uimaux sag “ A man who has three wives
is sure of eaven." 9 should be, for he will have
enough of the other place here below.

A western captain, importnned bya life insurance
solicitor, settl matters y remarkin : “ Look here,
my friend, I never bet on any game w ere I’ve got to
die to beat.”

A bar of iron one inch in diameter will sustain
a weight of twenty-eight tons, a bar of steel flf—
t tons; and, according to com utation, based upon
t e fact that either only 1-4000t of an inch in diam-
eter will sustain flfty- our grains, 9. bar of spider’s
silk an inch in diameter would support a weight of
seventy-four tons.

The last and sweetest thing in fashion is the “ A1-
exandra Limp.” Shoemakers in London now offer
their fair customers the choice of boots with equal-
ly h heels for each foot, or the far more charming
vari y of a high heel for one foot and a low heel for
the other, causing the wearer to halt in a way sup-
posed to be imitative of royalty;

The other day they lynched a man in Iowa for mur—
dering one Johnson. Johnson turned up afterward,
but it was too late for the other fellow to turn up
again too. Cleari the lynch-pin was out of the
wtheels of the car 0 Justice.

The Syracuse Journal says: “ A new sensation in
social recreations is what is termed illow-case and
sheet masquerades. Ladies and gent emen envelope
themselves so that, by reason of the sameness of ap-
parel, one person can not be distinguished from an-
other. Several of these parties have recently been
held in Syracuse, and have afl‘orded great amuse-
ment to the participants.”

A young lawyerjwho had long paid his court to a
lady without advancinsr his suit, accused her one day
of being inscnsible to the" power of love.” “ It does
not follow,” she archly replied, “that I am so, be-
cause I am not to be won by the ‘ power of attor-
ney.’;" “For ive me,” replied the suitor; “ but you
should remem or that all the votaries of Cupid are
solicitors.”

Fanny Fern says: “ If one-half the girls knew the
previous lives of the men they marry, the list of old
maids would be wonderfully increased." Whercup~
on the Boston Post asks: “ If the men knew what
their future lives were to he, wouldn‘t it increase the
list of old maids still further?”

The original model of a telegraphic battery filed by
Prof. Morse, when he got his patent, has een un-
earthed from a lot of old rubbish in the cellar of the
Patent Office whereit has been lyingfor years. The
clumsiness of the signal-key, as compared with the
one of the present day, is ridiculous. It is nearly
two feet long, and has a large lump of lead at the
end furthest mm the hand, to throw the key up and
break the circuit.

Alexis St. Martin, whose side was shot away in
1822, in such a manner as to expose the‘ action of
the digestive organs to the sur eon’s eye, is still
aliveand wellin avendish, Vt. ew men havedone
more than he for the advancement of science, and
no one probably ever did so much involuntarily.

Wounds made by the teeth often prove poisonous.
A man in Detroit struck another in the teeth on
Christmas day, cutting his own knuckles thereb .
The hand swelled and became ver much inflame ,
and since then the flesh has decaye from the wound.
ed finger. The diseased bone has been scraped,
but without effect, and the physicians think amputa-
tion will be necessary.

 

   

 

A Netsang.

HY PRETTY LITTLE BLONDE.

Copied bypennlsaion of 0. Dirsox & 00., Music Publishers, 977
Washington St... Boston, owners of the copvri lit- C. H.
Drrsox in Co., '11! Broadway, New or .

Of all the prett little blondes,

That ever wa ked the stage,
There’s one, I’ll call her Nellie,

She’s the beauty of the age;
She’s petite in stature,
And as lively as a. witch,
And her backis ornamented
-With a golden swinging switch.

CHORUS .

The first time that I met her
.She wore a swin in g switch,
Did this beautifulfihis charming,
This pretty little witch ;
All down her lily shoulders
It hung with raceful ease,
Except when slightly fluttered by
The gentle summer breeze.

Her smile it is angelic,
And her manners are serene,
Her teeth, of pearl whiteness,
Are the prettiest have seeh;
Her voice at times is mellow,
Again it is pure and rich,
But the sweetest thing about her
Is that golden swinging switch. (0110.)

She is no foreign import
But a native of our soi ;
Not in burles ue nor in ballet
Does the litt e beauty toil;
Her ellow tresses never were,
Li e some, as dark as pitch,
But will always stand their color,
As will the swinging switch.

She skips before the footli his,
With an air of grace an case,
She sings like a canary,
And is always sure to please;
Her admirers they are man ,
tch,

(020.)

They applaud the little
And when she gets an encore,

Oh, don‘t she toss the switch! (0110.)

 

 

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