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FOREST AND STREAM. 



The Oldest Home in America to be 

 Tobk Down. — The old Horton. house, at 

 Southold, Suffolk county, Long Island, is 

 said to be the oldest house in America, hav- 

 ing been built by Barnabas Horton in 1639. 

 A portion of the house (the east end) was 

 built later for use by the Court of Sessions for 

 the East Riding of Yorkshire on Long Island. 

 This Yorkshire and its Riding, with the 

 Court of Sessions, were established by the 

 Duke's laws in March, 1663. The judge's 

 bench remained in the house until a few days 

 ago. The old house has recently been sold 

 to Mr. Amos L. Sweet, who intends to take it 

 down, and erect a new one on its site. The 

 residents of Southold and vicinity, as a fitting 

 finale for a famous building, arranged for a 

 grand entertainment last week. Antique fur- 

 niture, household goods, kitchen utensils, im- 

 plements of domestic industry, cranes, tram- 

 mels, spinning wheels, ancient chairs, tables, 

 etc., were gathered from every quarter of the 

 country, and all the necessaries of good 

 cheer provided. The tables were loaded as in 

 the old days. The ladies who served the 

 tables were robed in the costumes worn 200 

 years ago. 



Gypsy's "Intelligence."— Gypsy is Mr. 

 P. T. Barnum's largest elephant. She is now 

 at the Hippodrome, this city. She has a 

 number of riDg tricks in which she displays 

 wonderful cleverness, even for an elephant, 

 which everybody knows are very clever ani- 

 mals. The other day Gypsy's conduct was 

 such as to increase tte already high respect 

 entertained for her by her keepers, the story 

 is told by a metropolitan paper : 



She was ordered out for rehearsal at 11 

 o'clock. She followed her keeper from the 

 stall in the menagerie to the gate opening in- 

 to the circus. At this point there is a level 

 bridge of thick plank, coveiing a subterranean 

 apartment twenty-two feet square, in which, 

 in times pist, it was custom iry to house cer- 

 tain mysterious ammals until the exigencies 

 of " Bluebeard" or other pantomimes re- 

 quired their presence in the upper world, 

 when they were shot to the surface through 

 the ordinarv trap. 



Gypsy was nearly across the bridge when, 

 with a crash, the heavy timbers gave way, 

 and down into the cavern, fifteen feet below, 

 the ponderous beast fell, flat upon her side. 

 The circus hands were immediately on the 

 spot, and various unsuccessful attempts were 

 made to get Gypsy out. 



At last Mr. June bethought him of the 

 natural sagacity of the animal, and ordered a 

 number of bales of hay to be brought. One 

 by one these were rolled into the cavity, and 

 as these came down Gypsy placed her fore- 

 feet upon it and waited patiently for the 

 next, taking care to place it in position be- 

 fore Bhe attempted a further acent. She was 

 soon able to mount to the surface, where she 

 was met with cheers. She suffered no in- 

 juries more serious that a Blight abrasion of 

 the skin on her side. 



" You'll never get Gypsy to cross that 

 bridge again," Mr. Keeler, a showman of 

 thirty years' experience, said. " When an 

 elephant has once met with an accident, it 

 will forever after avoid the spot where it oc- 

 cured. Some years ago I was showing Em- 

 press, a bigger elephant than Gypsy, up in 

 Vermont. Once we were entering a little 

 town through which a narrow but deep 

 stream ran. This was spanned by a strong 

 wooden bridge, but it was not strong enough 

 to support the elephant. The bridge went to 

 pieces under her five tons of solid flesh, and 

 she fell into the creek. We had Kieodemus' 

 own time in getting her out. Three years 

 afterward we were about to enter the same 

 town. Meantime the bridge had been made 

 level with the street, houses had been built 

 right up to it on either side, the bridge was 

 covered with dirt, and none of us knew that 

 it was within a mile. Empress did know r . 

 We tried all sorts of ways to get her up the 

 street, but she wouldn't budge ; amd at last 

 wc were obliged to take her around the town 

 and lead her in by another road. She went 

 like a lamb." 



A Supplement to Edison's Electricity.— 

 We have just learned that our townsman, 

 Robert H. Fenn, who has been blind for 

 many years in consequence of an explosion of 

 chemicals, has recently invented an electrical 

 stopcock, which for simplicity and emcteccy 

 cannot well be surpassed. 1 his Utile instru- 

 ment consists of a screw, the end of which is 

 plated with platinum, and made to press up- 

 on a small disk composed of carbon or some 

 metallic powder. By merely raising or low- 

 ering this screw, thus varying the pressure, 

 the strength of the electrical current can be 

 correspondingly varied to a sufficient degree 

 for all practical purposes, in connection 

 with this stopcock Mr. Fenn has also invented 

 an electrical meter, which, altougu not _ quite 

 as simple in construction as that, promises to 

 prove equally efficient The object of this 

 apparatus is to measure and rtcord the total 

 amount of electricity passing over a wire dur- 

 ing any given lime, however great the ir- 

 regularities of the current may be. In this 

 instrument Mr. Fenn has utilized the same 

 property possessed by carbon, metallic pow- 

 ders, and some other substances of increased 

 conductibiltty under piessure that he had em- 

 oloved in his previous invention. It is well 

 here to state that Mr. FennclaimB to have 



discovered this property of carbon as far back 

 as the summer of 1873, but refrained from 

 publishing the fact, modestly taking it for 

 granted that previous experimenters could 

 hardly have failed to take notice of so obvious 

 a peculiarity. 



In the discovery of an electrical meter Mr. 

 Fenn appears to have surpassed the great 

 electrician, Thomas A. Edison, who, having 

 recently devised a means of adapting electri- 

 city to illuminating purposes, and thoroughly 

 demonstrated its practicability, was at a loss 

 to furnish any process whereby it might be 

 measured out to individuals. In an inter- 

 view instituted by a New York reporter the 

 other day, Mr. Edison expressed the opinion 

 that some method of measuring electricity 

 might be discovered, though he admitted that 

 he had serious doubts whether it could be ac- 

 complished. He stated that it was the inten- 

 tion of the company at present to charge so 

 much per light, whether it was used or not. 

 So it seems that our unfortunate townsman 

 has met with a little good fortune in anticipa- 

 ting the great inventors in the discovery of 

 several important electrical appliances.— Ro- 

 chester Union, Oct. 22. 



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Specimens of Capo di Monti ware, Austrian 

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