STAR OF THE CAPE.

CAPE MAY CITY, K. J.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1874.

w km h«n than a white dog," mid Han;, “ or," ha added, pointing on* hie ahoaUat with hia thomb, "a green one, like

_ anaiaiaiT <d Oan. Ooatar'e oflaal report, oorenng the hMon af the expedition from Jnl; 16. alerting from Proepect Valle;, Dakota, baa been made br a oomepondent: From “ ‘ lilttleJUisaonri to the rallej of

'

ess isatstts jars; tor .Ter; ten ml)M the. .11.11 Lrarei Irt going to

A Bad Story of the Sea.

On thelSth of Marob, 18(1, the ehip Browne Bailed from Lirerpool lelphiawithaerew of eereataen f-firo emigrant paaaengsn, men ten. Some twenty In jn ont ahe

j trank an iceberg. All the erew and a C on of the paaaengera were hurried

the two boata (for ahe had bnt two

and them leaky), and the a hip Bank, carrying down with L '— *•—

thirty-one hnman be _

the ghmUy'atenggle for life—that^G^ perate atnugle where the inteoaeat aelQahneaa beeomea. If not a Yirtne, Tanial. One can hardly read it withost

, * now.r mid hia wife. Mr. Gamp ahook hia head, and an

rerad, myeterionaly:

“Ho nee, my dear. They’re rery *°^i/yoa eonld get a new pair, 1 get a pair for Herenlee and o

Alexander ont of yonra."

Mr. Gamp arid nothing, bnt ahook

hia head,-and amoothed down aeraaae boata, in hia well-worn pantaloona, aa if they

noed np with ootton in the heel. Mean-

itreet," aaid Mr. Gnmi the anbieeA 1— -je Mra. Gamp cry—it made him feel aa if he depended — - *—*~ 1 Did yonaak^ S33k

“ And I anppoee that I would aee my children atarre a gre are not going io atarre, dear," trotting the baby, who waa beto whimper a little. " We moat and worry along

hare anow in Ban ._, e had aaid ; and her mother and had both merrily declared it an excellent reason, and agreed that ita

be Snow.

walked along^nieSy behind

her. Her Annt Lilly '■yjtaatW; perhaps

bo. very friendly to him. Suddenly Snow, by a yiaioua, peeled pull of the ribbon, broke from Beasie'a bands, and disappeared in the labyrinth of horaee and

which filled the 1 little girl, before i apeak, dropped h dashed in after it.

Heronloe didn't atop to think—he aa only so Ten—bow eonld he atop to .-link! He aaid afterward that It aeemed to him that tome other boy waa in him, doing orerything that he 3 that he couldn't help it. It waa all a whirl for a few minutes, nt Lilly’s face rivaled the gentle-

ind carriages

the outlying ranges of hills. The o .twianlpaSr^phi oak, and poplar. On the aid we halt* and encamped within (0 miles of prominent peak in Wyoming, called Inyan Kara, 6,600 feet high, which peak we ascended, lying over hero or - day. The expedition then turned di__ east, and attempted the passage of the Black Hills. After a short mareh we tme into a moat beautiful Talley. Its equal," aaid Gen. Ouster, " I have ever seen." Bach, too, was the testiiony of all those who beheld the panoima spread out before na Every step I ocr march that day wm amid flowers ! the moat exquisite color and . jme some belonging io new or nn sided Species. The, total flora of valley embraces 125 aperies. The ... ter in the streams stood at .(0 degrees. This beautiful rale wm named Floral Valley. We foDowed this valley to the of the western ridge of the 1 Is, winding our way through park of great natural beauty. c-- the 30th, we camped within four i of the waetem base of Harney's " n Caster

In no portion of the United

txoepttng the famous Blue Gross region of Kentuoky, hare I ever found grazing superior to that which growl wild^in these hitherto unknown regions. where nature has done so much to prepare homes for husbandmen and left so little for them to do aa here. Everything indicates; *— 3 * —

■P««‘

eupled b

aught a great ca d stopped him a ick on his haunt

how till I get

biLai

fell b , , screamed and somebody a ” ' creeping oi

.Black Hills. Gold has been found in several placce, and it is the opinion of those who are giving attention to the subject that it will be diaoavered in paying - quantities. I have upon my table (0 or 50 small partielee of pore gold, in size about that of a email pinhead. Most of it was obtained to-day from a single pan of earth, but aa we

AH ALLIGATORS’ ASTJCS.

_ Tarobomu and Blmk. about four miles noTthoMheJown oLHouma^Knonng gosling island near the border of crived the idea of expionag it for i decided to carry it intoexecutlon. J Approaching the spot with cant id deeming tnc coast clear, one of i jroee—Ferguson we will call hie sembarked to despoil the neat, wl ......

NO. 37.

The Stars Man Ca. A translation from flm writings of Fraoch jdiAoeophrr gives na the followaxS !h^dislanoeTrom*ue" 1 Se eat of the atara is distant from thn no lem than 206,266 Umcs 92.000,000 miles. The apaee which aurrounda the gjaoe^ayriem is void o( stars to" ' fdia of Centaur, has a parallax of second Ita diataaoe from earth is 226,(00 times the radius of the earth’s orbit, or fd.OOO,000,000,000 miles. This la or neighbor ktoir, and ita diatanoe la prob bly the minimum diatanoe between at and star—21,000,000,000,000 mile

“ft: oei,it_ .. and ita

’Orderof distances, is 61 Oygni. Ita parallax ia 0.61 — ‘—cm 87,000,000,000,-

of atara which hai.

iw the diatanee of snty. Among these we mi i Sirius, a sun 2,688 tim an our own, surrounded by f ‘heavenly bodies, several - e already known, and diets: 82.000,000,000,000 miles; tl Polar Star, which ia a double star, distant 292,000,000,000,000 mile.; and Ca pells, distant (25,000 000,000,000a apace which ia traversed by light in seventy-one yean and right months-; ao that the Ipminons ray which reaches n from this fins star in 187( most hai started out iu 1803. CapoUa might hai been extinguished in 180(, but w should aee it still. It might go out U

darUTwould oo their heavens i

A Fitchburg provision dealer found *- lying down in the stall with — —a hud feet in hia mouth. With the aid o( a crowbar the foot waa ' ' i ita natural position and *>,. lot injured in the le—'

itil II

o admire it U

itoniahed citing oirct Jones had contemplated proceedings thus far with awe that struck him dumb and benumbed hia faouitir

the planets gravi-

tating round Cspells, minds whose tranaoendent vision oouldthinoe descry our little earth, loat as it ia amid the son's raya, they would now use the

earth of the year 1803, "

. livelier

in of the

onhanoed fact that Ferguson had taken the —* piers the neat, and he waa sail away from there. On

the maddened crocodile, and climbed the Canoe to make a dinner

but that individual promptly

ah ore, followed hia companion's by climbing a small tree. & „ too high, in hia terror, he bent the tree -ver, and feU flat on hia back in the ind below, and became nearly frantic hen he imagined the hungry •— about to ponneenpon hiir Ho quickly recovered 1 the tm, ana was temper stay there nntil starvation "or "pbyaioal exhaustion sbonld compel '— 1 —

history. These are thi

nearest to us. The others are

incomparably more remote.

■ra. • whose light cannot .ban 100, 1,000 or 10,000 yean, tbongh light travels at the

of 185,000 per second.

_ i traverse the sidereal world of whieh we form part (the Milky-way),

light trkee 15,000 years.

To reach na from certain of tbenebu-

ed yearly by wild b government of Vologda, Boa amounts to 6,000 hones, 9,000 tx and 35,000 of small cattle, valued auogether at 582,000 roubles, (1800,000.) may not be true, but it ia said an Irishman, after seeing the num:s hills and mountain ranges of New ipshire, exclaimed : " Bedad, I . jg was in a country before where thej^ had ao much land they had to day to Prari

■ that i

quarreled, and

abuse. '• Hava b other ugly?" asked

, No, air." “Verygeod; will undertake to reconcile them. J recent arnet in San Franeisoo of the exhibitors of the four-legged child

iri?y*relieve$

period, or 5,000,000 years.

Let the imagination, that ia not a palled by these immensities, strive conceive of them. If it does not e

penenoe the “vertigo of let iteaimly oontempl '

and realize the poriti— .. — and of man in presence of them. Thus

opiate' these abysses,

te. A Ludlow illedaatriped x, which bad

The prospect -aeemed very gloomy _ dreed to Ferguson and Jonea, and they had almost given np hope, mid resigned ‘vee to horrible despair, when ‘ liter iu a canoe appeared unoi other and thanking ST’

the universe. Aa yet w< vestibule of the edifice, on the abyss of infinitude; end we a i very far beyond.

They Finally Got Married. One long summer afternoon there --.me to Mr. Deridaon's the mo-* — 1 — specimen of an old bachelor ever heard of. He was old, gray, wrinkled and odd. He hated old afraid to Bay ao. He and' Annt Patty had it hot whenever chance die " together; yet still he came, and noticed that Aunt Patty took i pains with her drees whenever eX Sne^sy the contest waged un strong, and Aunt Pntiy biftia and went out lute the garden. " That bear I” she muttered io 1 , as ahe stopped: to gather a flow sr whieh attracted her aitentio i. What did you rhu ter laid

t, for Billy

“And that?" “Marry me." •• What! ua two old fools get married ? ::y^3 ; good-bye. I shan’t ei again." — - bit—what a packer you're

•tory of a queer character we onee had in Nevada by the name of Pokebury. He waa a lawyer of some promise, but came to nothing through drink. Losing all hia clients, he went to mining, and joined a ron^h — * J- Pokebury appeared ' 1 WelCyou Bee," said he, “Billy- in * and I Hked Billy, ling man for an unf-

it Billy an

partnership; we settled leastwise we «truck each othei. Billy settled. Our first little diBoreno was of an astronomical character. Wi divided the day different. Billy divided on 6 a. H., and 1 divided on 10 and Billy, instead of allowing nioal difference, sai' "

But I didn't mind ny partner, von a

right to nla vlet._ —, ablution. Billy abluted before breskr it. end aaid I was a dirty dog, te you always ablute after breakfast.

. lidn'tmindtkl * -

differ, and so long

But the third differenee v too much for me. We _ down to beans ana slap-jacks, and 1 blowing about my bring a *- -’— — “only the fellow psiu « me, you te thoee molasses."

just took him intbe countenance will _ right-hander that settled him and hi darned insulting bad grammar together Singular Parental Lave, While wo were in Blpley a few day* ago, aryi a Marysville, Ky, paper, we

Ivery pc . ..a of another, oi

for hire, ia guilty of a

They have begun to _ (VL ) boy says he recently killed aa. ike 10 inches in length, which b small snakes inside it, each abo_ > or three inches in length. Twice ia 19(, and the tnaks of ten inebee _ .1 oontaiaa 19( inches ia worthy of all farm ^iouee, where a^farmaTwua trying to harneea an obstinate mala. “Won't he draw?" said one of themes. “ Of oourae," aaid tl " * -"*

'.raw the —“— “

The Louisville Cburtar^Nmvnaf rays: It is rumored that the Bev. Henry Ward Beecher has become involved In

rkward aerape with s< ther in Brooklyn. H tl

ia any troth in this, it ia very at range ithing ia aaid about it in the

pera." > -

yonng lady n a^Panniiylvaaia to her future fanaband. That evening^ however, ahe had eaten two plates of joe cream, about a pint of ■trawberriaa, . -• c«k Mi rod two largo

he no* aaya ahe would

riegta al

marry the man ahe saw 1

by contraotion, on oooHng to 66 deET^ * “ ” -

aD§*refln«nentl arrived at that place with hia family on a pin all trading boat,. Being in ill-health he concluded to rent - house and make Ripley te a time hia In hia interoonne with the

Preparation of Condensed Milk, The process of Prof. Trommar la essentially aa follows: The milk from washed udders, after being strained —a aiav-i tee fire, la again . _ Ine tin strainer Lite shallow evaporating pans of heavy tin, * evaporated on a water-bath, with tinned stirring with a wooden pad- , after the additibn of 3 to 8( ounoaa of refined auger for each quart of milk, in the form of a strop, prepared by boiling it for acme time with half Ita weight of water, akimmisc, at raining it through flannel, and oooling it to IflT degrees. The temperature daring evaporation ia act allowed to ride above 189 dagrees. Whan sufficiently concentrated, as Indicated by Ita drtppl from the stirrt- *- • previoualyole ... heated woU tea few ee completely with it, a> i-_ —.—lion, on c — dt-grnea, ia filled np with itratad, putMasd sugar sirup. sp. and the joint covered with hot ir-pasto, and them with a strip of <er similarly mated. Ten to eleven • •• '- — -n.raUrai with the ed- ■ be equivalent invalneto aquart ol pure milk. While analyses of several samples of condensed milk of the earns specific gravity, by Prof. Moser, thowad that one waa much richer in the proper ingredients of milk, and the other consequently in sugar, he does not eonaider it advisable to carry the concentration too far, as may be neeeanary to E arn an article of the first kind,rinea silk ia apt in snob eases to acquire ■ taste, ao frequently noticed tdmiik.