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NEW YORK STREET NAMES.
Many of Tham Stand For Old Warrloro
and CHurohmon.
• Many of New York's city streets
were named after the war of 1812
in honor of warriors who were
prominent in that conflict.
There is quite a batch of these
1812 war hero thoroughfares on the
east side, according to the New
York Board of Brokers Bulletin, ip
eluding Forsyth, named for Colonel
Forsyth, wounded in Canada; Chrys
tie, for Lieutenant Colonel Chrystie,
killed at the Niagara frontier^ El
dridge, for Lieutenant Eldndge.
scalped in Canada; Allen, for Lieu
tenant William H. Allen, wounded
in the naval fight between the Argus
and the British ship Pelican; Lud
low, for i.ieutenant Ludlow, killed
in action between the Chesapeake
and the Shannon; Pike, for General
Pike, killed in the attack on To
ronto in 1813. Worth street was
named in honor of General Worth,
killed in the Mexican war. It sup
planted the earlier name of An
thony, alter Anthony Rutgers,
through whose farm it ran.
Were it not for the policy long
ago adopted by Trinity church to
give the names of its wardens and
vestrymen to many streets as they
were laid out from time to time
. through the broad acres of its
' cuurch farm more than one of the
great leaders in the early mercantile
and social life of the city would
now be forgotten.
These commemorate the activities
of Gabriel Ludlow, Matthew Clark
son, Colonel Bayard, John Reade,<
Joseph Murray, John Chambers,
Stephen De Lancey, Robert Watts,
Elias Desbrosses, Edward Laight,
Dr. John Charlton, Humphrey
Jones, Anthony Lispenard, George
Morgan Lewis, Thomas Barrow,
Jacob Leroy, Frank Dominick, John
Clark, Rufus King, the Rev. Dr.
Beach and that worthy old Dutch
man, Rip Van Dam.
Imagination.
That imagination often lights the
way to discoveries that would never
be made by matter of fact plodding
has proved true over and over again.
Illustrations of this in the history
of chemical science are quite as
numerous as in other fields of dis
covery. In this connection the
Journal of the American Medical
Association calls to mind that oxy
gen was merely a principle to La
voisier in 1777 and that when, a
century later, it was produced in
liquefied form “the metaphor had
become a reality.” When Harvey
was writing of the blood he wonder
ed whether there might not be mo
tion, as it were, in a circle, the
Journal says “he expressed in meta
phoric language what only later be
came the fact of the circulation
which was given visible demonstra
tion by Malpighi,” and adds, “the
fabric of progress is woven from
legitimate dreams to a greater ex
tent than the«practical man is wont
to realize oy is willing to admit.”
Renan’* Chance.
Claire de Pratz in her book,
“France From Within,” brings out
a new story of Kenan. Mme. Au
bernon at her Friday dinners had a
rule that, every one at table should
take part in the conversation. Re
nan tried to interrupt the speech of
one of his fellow diners. “Wait,
wait!” cried Mme. Renan, “you will
have your turn.” Renan was silent
until near the close of the feast.
“Now, dear master,” said Mme. Au
bernon, with a smile, “will you tell
us what you were going to say just
now?” “Oh,” said Renan, “it was
quite unimportant. I merely wish
ed to ask you for another helping of
green peas.”
Humidity.
Humidity is a term which is often
used without a definite understand
ing of what it means. It refers al
ways, of course, to the moisture in
the atmosphere, but does not always
mean the same proportion. There
is at all times some moisture in the
air, and the amount expressed in the
number of grains to the cubic foot
of air is the absolute humidity, a
term seldom used. When we speak
of it we usually mean the relative
humidity, which is the difference be
tween the amount of moisture in
the air and the amount it could hold
at the present temperature if it
were saturated.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Ponies of Iceland.
Icelandic ponies aroused the ad
miration of the great traveler, Mme.
Ira Pfeiffer. “In spite of scanty
feodshe wrote, “they have mar
velous powers of endurance, They
can travel from thirty-five to forty
miles per diem for several consecu
tive days. They knew by instinct
the dangerous spots in the stony
wastes and in the moors and
swiynps. , On approaching these
places they bend their heads toward
the earth and look sharply round
on nil sides.- If they cannot discover
a firm resting place for their feet
they stop at (mice, and cannot be urg
ed forward Withitfot many blow*.*
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SWEPT INTO THE SEA.
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Tragedy of tha First Lighthousa an
Minot's Lsdga.
The first lighthouse on Minot’s
ledge was built in 1848. It was an
octagonal tower resting on the tops
of eight wrought iron piles eight
inches in diameter and sixty feet
high, with their bases sunk five feet
in the rock. These piles were braced
together in many ways, and, as they
offered less surface to the waves
than a solid structure, this light
house was considered by all authori
ties upon the subject to be excep
tionally strong.
Its great test came in April, 1851.
On the 14th of that month, two
keepers being in the lighthouse, an
easterly gale set in, steadily increas
ing in force. People on shore, and
no doubt the keepers themselves,
watched the heavy seas sweep harim
lessly through the network of piles
beneath the house and feared no
harm. On the 15th, however, the
wind and sea had greatly increased,
and the waves were flung higher and
higher toward that tower in the air.
Yet all thought they surely could
not reach sixty feet above the ledge.
That night was one of keen anx
iety, for the gale still increased, and
all through that dreadful driving
storm and darkness the faithful
keepers were at their posts, for the
light burned brightly. On Wednes
day, the 16th, the gale had become
a hurricane, and when at times the
tower could be seen through the
mists and sea drift it seemed to bend
to the shock of the waves.
At 4 o ’clock that afternoon an
ominous proof of the fury of the
waves on Minot’s ledge reached the
shore, a platform which had been
built between the piles only seven
feet below the floor of the keeper’s
room. The raging seas then were
leaping fifty feet in the air. Would
they reach the ten feet higher, for
if so the house and the keepers were
doomed ? Nevertheless, when dark
ness set in the light shone out as
brilliantly as ever. But the gale
seemed, if possible, then to increase.
What agony these two men must
have suffered! How that dreadful
abode must have swayed in the ir
resistible hurricane and trembled
at each crashing sea! The poor un
fortunates must have known that if
those seas, leaping always higher
and higher, reached their house it
would be flung down into the ocean
and they would be buried with it
beneath the waves.
To those hopeless, terrified watch
ers the entombing sea came at last.
At 1 o’clock in the morning the
lighthouse bell was heard by those
on shore to give a mournful clang,
and the light was extinguished. It
was the funeral knell of two patient
heroes.
Next day there remained on the
rock only eight jagged irdn stumps.
White Man Versus Indian.
An officer of the Indian office at
Washington tells of the patronizing
j airs frequently assumed by visitors
to the government schools for the
redskins.
On one occasion a pompous little
man was being shown through one
institution when he came upon an
Indian lad of seventeen years. The
worker was engaged in a bit of car
pentry, which the visitor observed
in silence for some minutes. Then,
with the utmost gravity, he asked
the boy:
“Are you civilized?”
The youthful redskin lifted his
eyes from his work, calmly surveyed
his questioner, and then replied:
“No, are you?”—Lippincott’s.
The Name “Canada.”
According to Father Hennepin,
the name Canada was derived from
a corruption of the Spanish words
Capo da Nada, or Cape of Nothing,
which the early voyagers gave to
the scene of their discoveries when,
under a conviction of its utter bare
ness and inutility, they were about
abandoning it in disgust.
It has been conjectured, with
greater appearance of probability,
that Canada is a modification of the
Spanish word signifying “a passage,”
because the Spaniards thought they
could find a passage to India through
Canada.—Ave Maria.
Th« Aga of Ruoh.
An Englishman arriving in New
York was taken into the subway by
a friend. They boarded a local,
changed to an express and returned
to a local, all on the way to their
destination. The return trip was
made in the same manner, hurrying
all the time and running most of it.
“Why,” asked the guest, all out of
breath, “why do you run about this
way?” “Gome on,” cried the New
Yorker excitedly, “I save two min
utes !” “But,” was the reply, “what
—what do you do with the two min
utes ?”—Exchange.
Hard Cash.
Mr. T. Wadd—Yon always speak
of money as “hard cash.” ;>
vMrs. T. Wadd—All I ever get
comes as hard as anything I kiMse
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