L'OKCO, A TALE OP VENICE 
[Concluded from page 124 this No.] 
« The Captain is afraid ? ” replied the un¬ 
known, with a disdainful laugh. 
Franz did not answer. He felt that she was 
right, and that fear was gaining possession of 
him. Not having the power to master it, he 
wished, at least, to dissimulate it, and he 
resolved to remaiR silent. But, at the end of a 
few minutes, he was seized with a sort of vertigo, 
and raised himself and walked towards the 
unknown. 
“ Sit down,” cried she to him. Franz, whose 
fear rendered him. furious, still advanced. 
“ Sit down,” repeated she in a furious voice; 
and seeing that be still advanced, she stamped 
her foot with so much violence that the barge 
trembled, as if she had wished to npset it. 
Franz was overturned by the shock and fell, 
fainting, in tbo bottom of the boat, When he 
came to himself he saw the unknown lying at 
his feet and weeping. Touched by her hitter 
eorrow, and forgetting ill that had passed, he 
seized her la his arms, raised her up, aud seated 
her by his side; bat she did not cease to weep. 
“ O my love,” cried Franz, pressing her to 
his heart, “ why these tears ? ” 
“ The Lion! the tlon! ” answered she raising 
her marble arm toward the sky. 
Franz looked toward the part of the heavens 
which she pointed out, and saw, in fact, the 
constellation of the lion, which sparkled, 
solitary, amidst tho clouds. 
“What matter? The stars can have no 
influence upon our destinies; and if they could, 
we should find favorable constellations enough 
to struggle against the baleful ones.” 
“Venus is set, alas! and the lion rises. And 
below there !—look there!—who can struggle 
against what comes there? ” 
Shu pronounced these words with a sort of 
wildness, lowering her arm towards the horizon, 
Franz turned his eyes to the side she designated 
and &aw a black spot appearing upon the waves 
in the midst of an aureole of lire. 
“ What is that?” said he in profound aston¬ 
ishment 
“It is destiny,” said she, “coming to seek.Its 
victim. Which ? were you going to say. 
Which ever I like. You have well heard those 
Austrian gentlemen spoken of who have entered 
my gondola with me and never returned?” 
“ Yes, but that story is false,” 
“ It is true. I must devour or be devoured. 
Every man of your nation who loves me and 
whom I love not, dies. Aud so lung as I love 
not one, I shall live, and I shall cause death. 
But If I love one, I shall die. Such is my fate.” 
“ 0 my God ! who are you, then ? ” 
“How it advances! In a minute it will be 
upon us. Ho you hear? do you hear? ” 
The black point had approached with incon¬ 
ceivable rapidity, and had taken the form of an 
immense boat. A red light came out from its 
sides, and surrounded It completely; great phan¬ 
toms stood motionless on the deck ; an innumer¬ 
able number of oars rose and fell in cadence, 
striking the waves with a sinister noise, and 
cavernous voices sang the Dies tree, accompany¬ 
ing it with the clanking of chains. 
“O life! O life!” cried the unknown in 
despair. “ 0 Franz ! behold the ship ! Do 
you recognize it ? ” 
“ No; I tremble before this terrible apparition, 
but I know not what it Is ? ” 
“ It is the Bucentaur. This is what has 
swallowed all your compatriots. They were 
here, at this same place, at this same hour, 
seated beside me in this gondola. The ship 
approached, as it approaches now. A voice 
cried to me, ‘ Who goes there ? ’ I answered: 
‘Austria.’ Then the voice cried, ‘ Do you 
hate, or do you love? ’ I answered, ‘ I hate;' 
end the voice said to me ‘Live.’ Then the 
-ship passed over the gondola, swallow- 
ing op your compatriots, and bearing me in 
triumph over the waves”— 
“ And to-day ? ” 
“ Alas the voice U going to speak.” 
In fact, a lugubrious and solemn voice, impos¬ 
ing silence on the fatal equipage of Bucentaur, 
cried: “ Who goes there? ” 
“ Austria,” answered the trembling voice of 
the unknown. 
A chorus of malediction burst out on the 
Bucentaur, which approached with always in 
creasing rapidity. Then after a new silence, 
the voice continued : “Do you love or hate?” 
Written for Moore's Rnral New-Yorker, 
CAUSE OF DEW. 
Written for Moors’* Rural New-Yorker. 
A FEW WORDS FOB THE LITTLE ONES, 
Tub capacity of the air for holding moisture 
depends upon its temperature. When the tem¬ 
perature is reduced below the dew poiut, a por¬ 
tion of its moisture is deposited in the form of 
dew. The dew point, that is the minimum tem¬ 
perature at which a given quantity of water can 
remain suspended in the air, depends upon the 
humidity of the atmosphere; the greater the 
humidity the nearer it is to the temperature of 
the air—so that when tho air contains the 80th 
part of its own weight of water, the dew point 
is 50 degrees. If the temperatnro Is reduced to 
S3 degrees, the dew becomes frozen, forming 
hoar-frost . This is falling or evening dew, which 
the French call 
Dew is the most abundant in clear nights 
because the earth and vegetation radiate their 
heat and become colder than the surrounding 
air, which, coming iu contact with these colder 
objects, reduces its temperatnro and causes It to 
deposit a part of Its moisture in the form of 
dew, the same as when a vessel is filled with cold 
water and placed In a warm room, the moisture 
from tile air very soon collects on the outside of 
the vessel. If the night is cloudy radiation is 
prevented, or rather, the clouds radiate the heat 
back to the earth and prevent its becoming 
much colder than the air, and there is very little 
dew. Dew formed in this way, which is seen in 
the morning upon the leaves of plants and other 
cool surfaces, the French call rosee. Iu English 
we have but the One term, dew, to express both 
these phenomena. Previous to the beginning of 
lhe present century vague and curious notions 
were entertained even by those who made con¬ 
siderable pretensions to science, in regard to the 
phenomenon of dew, 
DT GRACfl VBRNBT, 
Sitting in church a few Sabbaths since, my 
thoughts borne heavenward where my beautiful 
darling had so lately gone to dwell with the 
angels, my attention was arrested by tho move¬ 
ments of a little girl in a aide pew, whose bright 
face and airy, restless movements had often 
before attracted my attention. The sermon 
was about to commence, and I was settling 
myself to hear it, when suddenly the littlo girl 
drew her dainty garments closer about, her, and 
with a little toss of her head which set the glit¬ 
tering plumes of her hat all in a flutter, retired 
to tho farthest corner of tho pew, and, hanging 
her head, furtively cast a glauce over tho audi¬ 
ence, while a blush of shame, U seemed to me 
overspread her face. Surprised, I looked about 
for the cause, and saw an old man slowly advanc¬ 
ing up the aisle, trembling and gray. His gar¬ 
ments were old and poor looking, and moreover 
he was sadly deformed. He seated himself in 
the same pew with the little girl, to her evident 
dissatisfaction. I felt ashamed for her, child as 
she waa, that she should feel ashamed to sit with 
the aged and poor in God’s own house— should 
fear to soil her garments by contact wlthpovTr'tyT 
'T he next Sabbath she was there again, and 
With her another little girl as daintily dressed as 
she. Again, tho old man came, and again the 
proud child moved away, but the other little girl 
retained her seat dose by him 
DOMESTIC PIGEONS, 
Tub domestic pigeon is too well known to 
need a description. They are found in every 
town and village, and familiar to every school 
boy. There aro, however, several varieties sel¬ 
dom seen, aud nrnoug the prettiest of these is 
the Crown Pigeon, of which we give a fine eu- 
graving, Tlieu there is the Fan Tailed sort, 
called by this name from its habit of spreading 
out the feathers of its tail like a turkey cock. 
The Tumbler Pigeon soars to a great height 
and turns somersets in the air. The Ihuter pos¬ 
sesses the power to inflate the breast with air, 
and swell it out to a great size, which gives 
the bird a very proud and strutting appearance. 
The Carrier Pigeon, and a variety somewhat 
similar called the Svrseniart, are much attached 
to their home, aDd will find it as soon «te they 
have their freedom if carried hundreds of miles 
away. Interesting experiments aro often tried 
by carrying them off and sending them home 
with letters attached. The Jacobin is a very 
small bird, and having on the back part of the 
head, inclining toward the neck, a range of 
inverted feathers, having a resemblance to a 
monk’s cap. The Dragon is a good deal like the 
Horseman, but smaller and lighter. They sur¬ 
pass most other varieties in swiftness iu short 
flights of ten or twenty miles. The Mawmct or 
Mahomet Is a beautiful cream-colored bird, with 
bars of black across the wings. The Barb was 
originally brought from Barbary, Is larger than 
the Jacobin, with a short,.thick beak, a small 
. and when the 
hymn was read, she took the hymn-book“from 
the rack, and finding the place, passed it to him 
and looked over with him during the singing. 
It did my heart good to seo her, and surelyj 
thoughtl, “ Of such is tho Kingdom of Heaven. ’’ 
I hope none of the little ones who read this 
have ever been guilty of such wrong and wicked 
feelings as possessed the little girl of whom I 
have told. It Is no cause of shame ,to bo seen 
with the poor and needy ones of earth. How, 
think you, God looked down upon those two 
little girls, the one so proud and the other so 
innocent? Our blessed Saviour when upon 
earth did not go about seeking the society of the 
rich, but rather the poor and lowly, tho suffer¬ 
ing and sorrowing ones, and shall wo poor mor¬ 
tals fear to follow HU example? 
Little children, when you are tempted to 
laugh at those who are not so well dressed as 
you, or those who are aged and deformed, 
remember the example Jesus has set, and that 
in Heaven “ the rl,ch and tho poor meet together, 
the Lord is the Maker of them all.” 
Ashland, Mass., March 28, 1866. 
Probably on accouut of 
Its beautiful and brilliant, sparkling in the morn¬ 
ing sun, the ancients supposed it came from the 
stars, and diligently exercised their inventive 
faculties In vainly trying to convert it into dia¬ 
monds. Still later It was supposed by some to 
be the sweat of plants. 
Not till 1814, when Dr. Wm. Charles Wells 
published his Essay on Dew, giving the result 
of his researches, was the real cause of dew 
known. Themerit of the discovery of the Theory 
of Dew does not, however, belong exclusively to 
him. Prof. Wilson of Glasgow, contributed 
largely by many interesting experiments and 
luductive reasoning. M. Pictel of Geneva, 
and others, should also have a share of the 
merit. P. H. Dowling. 
Rome, Mich., 1866. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
THE PITCHER PLANT-SMALL-POX. 
In a recent issue of your paper I find an arti¬ 
cle on the use of the Htcher Plant as a cure for 
tho smaLl-pox. I am a strong believer in the 
virtues of that plant, as I know that it certainly 
was used with the happiest results in Oalt, C. 
W., some years since, when the small-pox ruged 
there. About a year ago I wroto an account of 
it, which appeared in your columns. My in¬ 
formant said that, after witnessing the almost 
miraculous cures resulting from its use, if he 
had only a supply of the root of the Pitcher 
Plant, he would not fear the siuall-pox any more 
than the chicken-pox. I wish everybody knew 
of Us virtues. 
There is another thing about Bmall-pox that 
everybody ought to know. It is that a free use 
of glycerine will prevent pitting. Perhaps this 
fact is generally known, but as I did not know 
it till quite recently, I feared that some one else 
might not know It, I have it from a lady on 
whose veracity I can rely, that several yearn ago 
her little daughter had the small pox. She had 
it bo hard that for some time tho mother felt 
that if she only lived sho would ask for nothing 
more; but as the child began to recover the 
mother began to regret the little one’s lost beau¬ 
ty. The physician told her to keep wetting the 
scabs with glycerine,—to wet them whenever 
she thought of it, if It should be every five min¬ 
utes. 8he did so, and when the scabs came off, 
she had the satisfaction to find that on the face 
and other parts where Bhe had been careful 
about wetting them with the glycerine, not a 
scar remained, while on other places, where she 
had neglected It, the child was frightfully mark¬ 
ed. I shall hope to see more about the Pitcher 
Plant, and that Its virtues may become generally 
known. M. A. Strong. 
Reynoldsburg, Ohio, 1866. 
UK KIND TO EACH OTIIBK. 
Bn kind to each other) 
The night’s coming on, 
When friend and when brother 
Perchance may be gone I 
Then midst oar dejection, 
Flow swoot to have earned 
The best recollection— 
Ot kindness returned I 
TUB COMMON DOME3TIC PIGEON 
(in 1865,) for No. 103,820, it worked just as well 
as when made. 
It is perhaps unnecessary for me to add that I 
believe the Wheeler & Wilton to be vastly su¬ 
perior to any other machine made. 
Yours, respectfully, P. E. B. 
Time tries all things. Use only furnishes the 
final test. Opinions of the skillful may be of 
value, but time is needed to confirm them. All 
failures have had their advocates. It Is note¬ 
worthy that the Sewing Machine lor which the 
highest premium was awarded at the World’s 
Fair here In 1853 long since sunk into merited 
oblivion. The past fifteen years has seen numer¬ 
ous Machines, with high-sounding pretensions, 
rise with a flourish, confovnd the simple, and 
vanish. Bo will it be while credulity lasts. 
The Wheeler & Wilson Compauy fixed upon 
the “ Lock Stitch” as the one best suited to tho 
general pnrposes of sewing, for beauty, perma¬ 
nence, elasticity, and ecoeomy of thread, and 
experience has confirmed ttic preference. It waa 
at liberty, then as now, to make a chain-stitch 
machine; and even now, ii a cost of less than 
10 cents each, can adapt ite Lock Stitch Machine 
to make the chain-stitch (is well as the lock¬ 
stitch; but, not believing in the stitch, has 
steadily refused to give ltlany kind of indorse¬ 
ment. 
While this Company has given to the public 
the best fruits of inventive genius, It has guard¬ 
ed it from a multitude of traps. Attachments 
have been added for variopa purposes, as hem- 
mfog, binding, braiding, edrding, Ac., but It has 
been kept free of all unless complications. 
Simplicity of parts, and adaptation to the widest 
range of work, has been the constant aim. .In¬ 
stead of boasting of a variety of useless stitches 
and movements, it claims to make but one kind 
of stitch , and that with the fiwext movemetits possi¬ 
ble. Hence the Machine may run constantly for 
fourteen years, like the No. 1 above mentioned, 
or a lifetime, even, and work Just as well as 
when new. With a compl cation of all parts 
and movements, it would require monthly re¬ 
pairs and adjustments. As the purchase of a 
Sewing Machine Is, or may be, an act for a life¬ 
time, care should be had in getting what time 
and use have approved.—GW Advertiser. 
CITIES AND MANUFACTURES. 
The Secretary of the Interior, in response to a 
resolution of the House of Representatives, com¬ 
municates a list of the cities of the United States 
with the statistics of their manufactures, includ¬ 
ing those having 10,000 inhabitants and upward. 
It includes one hundred and two cities, begin¬ 
ning with New York and ending with Newport, 
Kentucky. The total capital employed is *417,- 
129,234; hands employed—males, 410,980; fe¬ 
males, 147,000; value of products, 1874,934,827. 
New York stand first iu the list. Capital, *61,- 
212,757; males employed, 65,483; females, 34,- 
731; value of products, ?159,107,3C9. Philadel¬ 
phia employs a capital of *73,318,835; male 
Operatives, 68,350; females, 80,633; value of 
products, *135,979,777. Cincinnati, third In 
order: products, *46,000,Q00; capital, *17,000,- 
000 Iu round numbers. Boston : products, *26,- 
000,000; capital, *13,000,000. The other principal 
cities produce as follows: Brooklyn, *34,000,000; 
Newark, *33,000,000; St. Louis, *21,000,000; 
Baltimore, *21,000,000; San Francisco, 19,000,- 
000; Lowell, *18,1X10,000; Providence, *15,000,- 
000; Louisville, *12,000,000; Richmond, *12,. 
000; Pittsburg, *11,000,000; New Bedford, *11- 
000,000; Chicago, *11,000,000; New Orleans, 
*10,000,000; Manchester, *10,000,000; Troy, 
*10,000,000; Rochester, *10,000,000. 
The value of our blessings is sometimes best 
indicated by imagining what would be our 
condition without them. 
God protects men when they are in his way, 
but not out of his way. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 41 iottere. 
My 11), 15, 7, 8,18, 33, 23, 19 ia the name of a Union 
General. 
My 8,35,14, 2t, p, 19 la a musical Instrument. 
My 27, 2, IS, 13. It li an article of apparel. 
My 13, 39,26, 36,16, 39, 3,8 is a wild animal. 
My 17,34, 9,3t is a river in the.United States. 
My 31, 93, 36, 31,19, 22,10 are sometimes very troub¬ 
lesome. 
My 1, 9, 9, 4, 5 ia not black. 
My 77, ii, 23, 46, 41,17, 1 fa the name of a bird. 
My 6, 3,10, 5 la an ornament. 
My 37,17, 36, 81 ta a domestic animal. 
My 6, 26, 36, 20 has no end. 
My 1% 33, 21, 2k 29, 33 is a kind of tree. 
My whole ia worth remembering. 
Oakville, Ohio. Lou. & Clara. 
Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
ARITHMETICAL PROBLEM. 
There is an Island 73 miles in circumference. 
Three persons start at the same time and at the same 
point. The first can travel around it In 8 days, the 
second in 10 days, the third in 16 days. Required the 
time lu which they will all be together again. 
Spring Arbor, Mich. Frank. 
EB r " Answer ia two weeks. 
Toe country was level, and large tracts of it 
covered with mopane forest, the leaves of which 
afford but scanty shade to the baked earth, so 
that scarcely any grass grows upou It. The sun 
was so hot that the men (natives) frequently 
jumped from the path in the vain hope of cool¬ 
ing, for a moment, their parched feet, under the 
almost shadelesa bushes; and tho native who 
carried the provisions of salt pork got lost and 
came into Tette two days after the rest of the 
party, with nothing but the liber of the meat 
left, the fat, melted by the blazing sun, having all 
run down his back!— Livingstone's Travels in 
Africa. 
A CURIOSITY FOR THE LADIES 
Turks is on exhibition at the salesroom of 
Messrs. Wheeler & Wilson, No. 635 Broad¬ 
way, N. Y., the first Sewing Machine, (No. 1) 
made by that Company, the present number be¬ 
ing 330,000. Let the interested compare the 
Machine sold in 1851 for *126 with those now of¬ 
fered for *55. The former owner of this Machine 
gives its history as follows: 
This Machine waa finished early in 1851, and I 
learned its use from Mr. Wilson himself I was 
thus, you see, the first to work the Wheeler & 
Wilson Machine, and learned on the first Ma¬ 
chine they ever manufactured. 
In 1854 I earned with the Machine *395, be¬ 
sides doing my owu housework and taking care 
of my baby. In. 1856 we came to Davenport, 
and brought the Machine with ns. I believe it is 
the first Machine ever brought to Iowa. 
I run that Machine almost constantly for more 
than fourteen years, on all eorts of work, from 
the finest dress making to the heaviest tailoring. 
I quilted a full sized white bed-spread with it 
which has been exhibited three times at the 
Fair. It took me three weeks to do it with my 
other work; but it could not have been done by 
hand in as many years. I have, even stitched 
leather with it, and at the time I exchanged it, 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
AN ANAGRAM. 
File si lear 1 Lief is r on.a tee! 
Nad het varge si ton tia lpag; 
Sailt hout tar, to tads turnstoer, 
Saw ont poskne fo eth lous. 
Minetto, N. Y. 
635 r~ Answer in two weeks. 
Alice. 
Appearance of Tennyson, the Poet Laure¬ 
ate. —The poet Tennyson is thus described by 
one who saw him recentlyHe was dressed 
In a very ordinary, rather negligent manner, and 
his thick, curly gray hair hung in long and 
shaggy locks down over a broad collar. His 
hat was down over his face, so that I could not 
see his phrenological development; but he truly 
had the ‘sad passive eye,’ which I have heard 
credited to him, and which, withal, was nervous 
and downcast no wore a rather long beard and 
moustache; both were plentifully sprinkled with 
white, though originally very dark. The poet’s 
complexion was sallow, his nose straight, and 
his face rather long.” 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, Ac., IN No. 845 
Answer to Illustrated Enigma:—Man wants bat 
little here below, nor wants that little long. 
Answer to Historical Enigma: — Jerome Charles 
Frederic Von Monohauven. 
Answer to Anagram: 
Go forward, press onward, 
O live not ia, vain; 
There's wisdom and honor 
And glory to gain; 
The path Is before,you, 
You’ve only to choose; 
You win if you’r active— 
If slothful yoa loose. 
Lemon Juice in Diphtheria.— Dr. Itevillont, 
in a paper presented last summer to the French 
Academy of Medicine, asserts that leipon juice 
is one of the most efficacious medicines which 
can be applied in diphtheria, and he relates that 
he was a dresser in the hosp.tal and his own life 
was saved by its application. He got three doz¬ 
en lemons and gargled, his throat with tho juice, 
swallowing a little, at the same time, in order 
to act on the more deep seated parts. Dr. R. 
has noted eleven cases of complete success ob¬ 
tained by this method of treatment. 
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