J i ( - 7TT'- " : HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. NO. 33. VOL. VI. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 187G. A Printer' Poem. TO MITO CATHARINE 1 , OT V. T. X. An 8 A now I mean to write, 2 yon, sweet K T 3, The girl without , The belle of TJ T K. 1 1 dor it you got the 1 I wrote to you B 4, I tailed in the EKDA, 4 Bent by L N Moore. My M T ht-ad will eoarau conceive 1 calm IDA bright, tnt 8 T miles from you I mast M this chance to write. & 1st, sLonld NENTU, BEZ, niind it not, If any friendship shew, B sare They s mil not be forgot. Bat frit n ls and foes alike D K, As C miy plainly 0 Io every funeral 11 A, Out nncle's LEG. From virtue never DVB, Her influence B 9 Alike induces lOderness Or JOttide divine. .V if jon cannot cut a , Or cause an !, I hope TJ'll put a . 2 I'i. R U for an Xation 2 My cousin, heart and G3" t He offers in a A broad of land. He says he loves U to X 8, TJ're virtuous and Y's, InXLNCCXL Ail others in hiB This 8 A until U I 0, I pray you to X Q 'a & do not burn luFIG My quaint and wayward muse. Now, fare U well, dear K T J, I trui-t Mint U It Hue, When this U C, then U can say AuSAIOU. THE BRAVE RESCUE. A STORY OP CEYLON. I was ail only child, and my fat her was, a widower, so that our actual necessities in thnt cheap and frugal country, Cey lon, were easily provided for. Our nearest neighbor was Mr. Fors ter, a plantar, by far wealthier than we were. Now Oswald Forster and I were plighted lovers, but the very idea of an engagement between his only Bon and the daughter of Lis embarrassed neigh bor was gall and wormwood to Oswald 'b father a proud, strong-willed man. Desirous to efface from Oswald's mind the idea of murryirg poor little Ellen Travera, Mr. Forster, with his wife's conenn ence, proposed to send his son to Europe, eouftdent that foreign travel and change of scene would soon obliter ate from his memory the image of the lonely littls girl beside the great tank of Minary. And now a word concerning the tank it-.elr, the name of which, 1 fear, eov.js to readers but a very in ade junte conception of the stupendous realUy. Tho tank of Minary, justly reckoned among the marvels which the island of Ceylon has still to show, is perhaps the grandest of the artificial lakes ever planned by mortal engineer. More than two thousand years have passed since, before the Christian era, a Buddhist king bade his, subjects toil to erect tha massive walls of hewn stone and toughehnnnm that environ that vast short of water, twenty-five miles in cir cumference. With the Minary lake, or tank, which lay cloan to my own Lome, I had been from childhood familiar, and I dearly loved tho mirrorlike expanse of its calm waters, studded with floating islands of tho crimson blossomed lotus of India, the red flows and green leaves of which covered many thousand acres of the sur face. Strange fish of brilliant colors glided in glittering shoals through the deep, clear water, rarely disturbed by prow or paddle; bright birds of every size, from the scarlet flamingo to the tiny oriole or tho towering adjutant, haunted it; and all around grew in dense prolusion the mighty trees and flower ing creepers of the virgin forest, whence came at times tho complaining cry of tho mountain cat, tha belling of tho deer, tho panther's snarl, or the orash ing of cane and sapling, ufwtviM ele phants forced their way through tha trackless reo-isses of the jungle. Alligators were very common, snakes plentiful, and the scorpion, tlie centi pede, and the tree leech were often to bo met with iu tho more swampy and tanjled traots of the woodlands. Oswald was goiug away, and it would bo but very seldom that we were to meet henceforth, siuee, poor fellow, he was to pail by the Lord Dalhousie, expected at Point, de Gallo on the thirty-first of the month, ffl weijt with a heavy heart to the spot where we always met. To my surprise I did r.ot at first see him for whom I looked, and begun to fear that he had forgotten to keep his wouted tryst; but, on drawing nearer, I beheld a bight that for the tnomeiit froze my very veins with horror, and caused the cry of cn l.nif.h that roie to my lipi to die away. Oawuld, Jyiujjr on the turf anu;ng the ronr a of the gig.ii.tio palm tree, seemed to ba a-iloep, overooine. probably, by the unusual heat, while around him waa luosely coiled something that resembled a stout rope, curiously streaked with black and orange and white something that caused the withered leavos an 1 crisp grass to rustle, as it stirred, writhing. I had never seen a living tio palma, but I knew at the first glauco that tha snake before my eyes was no other than a largo specimen of that dreaded reptile, whieh in Ceylon takes the position that in continental India belongs to the co bra, and for the bite of whioh there is notuoFn remedy. Twice within the last tbreo years laborers on my father's plantation had beon brought in dying from th vuom the tio palunga, but in each instanoe the skill of the native snake charmer had led to the capture of the rept de, aud it was not believed that any of this species, rare as well as dan gerous, bad Iwen left alive in our imme diate neighborhood. This, however. was unquestionably a tio paluupa, many itJiu ib uhu wntppeu its con, as though in hideous sport, around Os wald's limbs as he lav there nnconsoioua. The great flat bead of the enormous snake rested on the ground among the flowers and ferns. I could see its eyes, bright as jewels, fixed upon me. It showed, for the moment, however, no particular signs of anger or distrust, but contented itself with quietly contemplat ing 'the intruder on its haunts. As I stood gazing on my sleeping lover and the monstrous creature that lay, wake ful, but quiescent, so near to him, nil the stories of snakes that I had ever heard or read came crowding in upon my qnickeued memory. I knew that the tio palunga, iu common with most of the venomous varieties of its race, seldom employed its poison fangs unless when stuck od or Annoyed ; but I also knew that tho hardiest elephant hunter of the forests would sooner confront the chnrge of a herd of incensed tuskers than face the laucelike dart and rancorous bite of this dreaded denizen of tho jnnglo. The tic palunga, unlike the boa and the python, rarely, if ever, preys upon tho luger animals, such as deer or cattle, confining its diet, for the most part, to birds and frogs and lizards. Some ca price, most likely, had caused it to twine a part of its supple convolutions around Oswald as he lay, and so long as he re mained asleep and motionless, there was little probability that tho serpent would harm him. My great fear was lest he shonld awake, and, in awaking, by some nasty movement, arouse tno ire of the resistless foe. Oswald was brave and strong, but it was a mockery to speak of strongm or courage wiien so terrible an antagonist was in question. Suddenly, as it it had been a whisper from Heaven, there came into my mind a thought that promised hopf, even in that dire extremity of need. I had often ncen harmlesn snakes kfpt tame in colonial households, and was aware of their habits, and of their love for cer tain kinds of food, aud, above all, for milk. Could I but bring to that spot a supply of milk, and place it, before Os wald should awake, temptingly near to the tic palling!!, all might be well. And yet to descit him poor fellow ! in such teriible company seemed cruel; yet it was for his sake, and I felt that I must go. Very slowly, then, lest my foot steps should disturb the sleeper or irri tate the huge reptile that kept watch be side him, 1 stolo away, and when at a i afe distance, flew rather than ran along me iorest patn. The nearest European dwelling was Oswald's own home. There were Cin galese huts nearer, no doubt, where dwelt some ot Mr. 'orster s hired men, but I should not be able to procure what I sought save from the planter's house. At another time I should not have willingly trenpissed on tho domains of Oswald's father; bnt this was no oo (asiou for sci-upla or punctilio. Life and death, as I knew, depended on my speed. There at length rose up before me the milk thorn hedge, the impenetrable thorns of which are often nseful in keep ing out leopard and jackal, which sur rounded the plui ter's homestead ; and passing through an open gate, I entered Ihe compound. The first servant that I met, and who lifted his hand to his tur ban with a polito " Salaam I" and asrailo Hint showed tho white teeth between 1 as I lenrded li ps, was a man whom I know, a Mahratta groom, who had formerly been in my father's service, and whose ehild I had nursed through au attack of tho Ceylon fever. " Lall Singh I " I gasped out, panting for breath, " do me a kindness for the sake of old bread and salt. Get me some i iesh milk quickly, for the love of God, unt asK no questions bhai I Something in my tone impressed the Mahratta, for without a word he hurried off, and soon returned bearing a jar of milk and a drinking vessel, or lota, which would contain something less than n phot, and which, at a sign from me, he tilled with a ilk. This very act, slight as it seems, was no small compliment, for it was doubtless his own drinkiug eup tbat Lall Singh was giving me, and should any lip m t belonging to ono of pure Hindu descent touch its bnrnished ) iru, it would hereafter be unfit for use. However, 1 scarcely waited to utter a word of thanks, but r.natchod up the brass lota and darted out. It may be thought singular tbtit I had not given the alarm to the household at Sir. Forster's plantation; but I had re solved that I would not, if I could do my errand unquestioned, create a tur moil whioh might bring about the very evil against which I was striving. Os wald's mother and sisters loved him, but their nerves were not of the btrong cbt, aud their outcries, had they heard tho news, would have had the effect of summoning a score of servants aud coolies, and to seal Oswald's fate by sending a noisy posse of volunteers to the place where he lay at the snake's mercy. As if on winged feet, yet carrying the precious draught of milk with jealous care, I hurried back to the spot where, at the foot of the huge talipot tree, lay Oswald, yet asleep. The snake, how ever, as though uneasy, was beginning to stir. Its monstrous head wagged slowly from side to side among the whita wild flowers, and its slender tongue protruded from between its grim jaws. But I was in time, and as I pour ed the milk, or rather a portion of it, on the ground, so that a long trail should lead to the epot where I set down the brass drinking cup, with what of its contents romained, I was careful to avoid, by any abrupt gesture, iucensing the tio palunga. Then came a minute or two of ago rized expectancy, and then, to my great joy, I saw the reptile slowly uncoil him self, evideutly making for tho milk. First one wreath and then another of tho snake's limber length was untwined, and the great serpent, brushing through the forest grass and flowerets, stooped its broad head to drink. As I saw Os wald thus freed, and the unsuspected foe draw further away from the place, where he reposed, I felt the strength which had hitherto supported me suddenly be come weakness. My nerves being no longer braced by the sense of Oswald's mortal peril, the instinctive terror an disgust which I had from childhood felt for the serpent tribe overpowered roe, and I grew weak, and oould scarce ly stand and scarcely see. 'What was this before my dim eyesf The well known porch of the Dutch colonist's summer house, overgrown by trailing creepers, and all but choked by tall wet-ds. Mechanically I entered, aud sinking down on a moldering wood en seat, once decked with silken cush ions and goldleaf, I gradually regained the I hysioal strength whioh . had de serted me, find with it the capacity for thought. It is curious how, in such oases of extreme exhaustion, the be numbed mind slowly resumes some abandoned train of thought, nnd thus it was with me. JJy degrees I remembered Oswald a danger, my own efforts to savo him. and What was that rustling among the steals and leaves and buds of the luxuri ant plants that festooned the shattered windows of the summer house in all the rank profusion of their tropical growth? Surely surely not. the rippling, undu lating motion with which a huge snake drags himself through the brake and jungle grass! Yes; my fears were but too true, for there in the open window space the broken trelliswork of which nad been replaced by wild vines and dangling orchards appeared, at a hoight of six or Eoven feet above the ground, the hideous head of the serpent that had lately menaced Oswald and now confronted me. And when it flashed upon me that this deserted kiosk was probably the reptile's actual home, and that, as though in the very irony of terror, I had ventured to intrude into the lair of the terrible creature from the sight of which I had once that Oswald's safety seemed as sured reeled dizzily away. I had often heard of .the strange taste which snakes evince for an abandoned human dwell ing, and how frequently they haunt the oil tbnil (lines nf Tfirnnoniia' ulin.l.ia aA the huts of the natives, and yet here had i rasuiy strayed into tiio lurking place of the deadliest guardian of the Ceylon jungle. That the snake was perturbed there could be no doubt. It curved its grace ful neck like that of a swan, and hissed slightly, while its broad inws wern nnrtltr opened. I fancied that I could see the enrved poison faugs more to be dread ed than ever was Mnlnv ciwm nr ATn.. ish dagger wbilo tho bright eyes glit tered ominously. One wild, piercing shriek I could not repress ; and then the futility of resistunnn nv nf fliohf (nmn,l itself upon me, and I stood, motionless as a maroio statue ot embodied fear, Brazil O at tho omeraldinn even fivfi.l irif li so pitiless a stare on mine." The subtle, suffocating odor which largo serpents exhale, when angry, reached me ; but ulready I gave myself up for lost, and wiiited pust.ivo till the tio palunga should uiunu nia mult ami. "--jv kuw ouimu o half-shut iaws bail imvten lnmw ana the bright, baleful eyes more menacing, ,wune ino grim nea.t towered lugh alolt, readv to strike. ?linn cmiljlun'iir umu. thing bright Unshed through the flower ing nines oi me creeping plant, and the snake's hideous head and litho body dis appeared as if bv masic. Then fnlln-.iro1 tho sounds of a tierco strnggle, repeated uiows, irampnug teet, and snapping boucrhs. and tho accents of 1 and then Oswald came leaping through the doorway, clasped mo in his arms, and bore mo out into the broad light of davs where lav writhinnr to. ilm cass of the snake, hewn through by tho uuurp cuuiug ax wnicn uswalrt still grasped in h:s right hand. "Shabashl" exclaimed Lall Singh, whose swarthy face gleamed with dohght as ho spurned tho body of the vanquish ed rentile. "It was well tlm. t.liu Krpt blow wf-ufc home, or it would have fared out uaaiy witn ine young sahib when this accursed slayer of men turned on him. Wah ! I'd sooner have faced a tiger." To Lall Singh I was, indeed, iu no slight degree indebted for my safety. Convinced, from the agitation of my manner, that something was wrong, he had followed me, and was in the act of arousing Oswald from his slumber when the piercing shriek which foar had wrung from me re-eohoed through the woods and called attention to the immi nence of the peril. Then Oswald had snatched up one of the keen, short axes which the native woodcutters had left sticking in a tree trunk, and had been fortunate enough to disable the snake at the first blow. My story is now toid, and I have only to add that I was overwhelmed with praises and caresses by the Forster fam ilyhitherto so cold and that on the followiug day Mr. Forster himself rode over to my father's house to entreat Mr. Traverp, from whom he had of late been estraneed. to accent bis rmimrail frin1- ship, and to ask for my hand on behalf of his son. Oswald lost his passage on board the homeward bound steamer that was to touch at Point de Galle; and when he did visit Europe, he took witn him Ellen Travers as his wife. We have long been happily settled far from tropio jungles and their dan gerous habitants but never has either my husband or myself forgotten those few instants of bitter anguish and alarm beside the tank of Minary. Poor Humpty Duinpty. The Now Tork Dramatio JVew tells a sad story of the condition of Geo. L. Fox. Ho is harmless, and sits for hours in one place jnninbling to himself. At times he has lucid intervals, and spoke sensibly of the past, but these are growing rarer, and his mentality is be coming sapped further week by week. He is also gradually failing in physical power, particularly in his limbs, which he is almost unable to make use of. He needs little or no watching, and is al lowed to go about of his own free ac cord. - But he nover wanders far from the house. His occupations are eating, sleeping and talking to himself. When he becomes sensible he asks about his wife, and expresses a hope of being able yet to return to bis old vocations. This, however, is a delusive hope. Dr. Brown-Seqnard, one of the most emi nent of onr authorities on brain troubles, sayg he can never appear in public, and any attempt to put him on the stago would only result in failure aud hasten the end. It is a very decided and in curable case of softening of the brain. Discovery of Gold In America. In a speech delivered in the House of Representatives, II. B. Vance member of Congress from North Carolina, said that the first discovery of gold in the United States was made in Mecklen burg, in that State, in 1820. A corre spondent of a North Carolina newspaper corrects this statement, saying that the first gold was found in Cabarrus, in 1799, and refers to Wheeler's " History of North Carolina " for evidonco. Old chroniclers give an aooonnt of a province called Cofaohiqni, whioh was visited by De Soto's gold hunting expe dition in 1538-40, and which was em braced in what afterward became tho States of ' Florida, Georgia, Alabama and - Mississippi, and. according to Logan, in his history of " Upper Caro Una," had its" center "On the west ern limits of South; Carolina. - Its capital and chief . town stood upon the tongue of land between tho Broad river, of Georgia, and the Savan nah, just opposite the modern district of Abboville. The Spaniards entered this capital after a two months' march, and found tho country ruled by a beautiful Indian queen, Adalla, who entertained the Spiuish governor and army with much ceremony. Here t' sy found hatches formed from an alloy of gold and copper. By this their cupidity was greatly excited, and they concluded that they had found a country abounding in the long coveted precious deposits of gold, And so indeed they had, says Logan (whom we quote freely), but it was neither their good fortune nor their desert to find out the precise spot where gold could be obtained. In less than fifteen miles southeast of the town, on the opposite or Carolina side of the river, lay ono of the most extraordinary gold deposits in the world. The Chero kees were well acquainted with the Dorn mine. This is shown by the numerous relics of their handiwork scattered around it, and there can be little doubt that the massive nuggets of its outcrop ing gold supplied them abundantly with tho finer metal of the alloy that so at tracted the eyes of the Spaniards. It is no less known, to a few who have in quired into the traditions of the aboiigi nes, that the gold and copper, found in their possession, in the form of solid masses or enrions trinkets, by the first white men who visited tho country, were obtained from these sources. Tho Indian method of smelting these metals was one of the most remarkable devices of savage ingenuity; in practical efficiency the famous blowpipe of Dr. Huro was scarcely superior. Logan tells us that, haying first hollowed out a flat stouo in the form of a basin, th y filled it with charcoal, and upon this laid the nuggets of metals. A number of In dians now seated themselves in a circle around the basin, each having in his hand a long reed pi reed through its entire length and arc-vfsi at one erid w'th a clay tube or pipe. Everything beiug ready, hre was applied to tho charcoal. and tho whole mass instantly blown into a powerful heat through the reeds, the clay extremities ot which were inserted in the basin, while the Indians blew through them upon the charcoal with all tueir might, aud with protracted ex piration. No ordinary lump of either gold or copper could long maintain its solidity in such a crucible. With this process tho Indians could easily pro duco any variety of ornament from thoFe metals, using them either alone or in alloy. This method was known to have been in uso among the Indians who lived upon tho gold producing lauds of North Carolina,. and the same prooess must have been known to tho Chero kees. These chronioles and traditions do to confirm what Lawson says, that the In dians, from time immemorial, were ac quainted with valuable mines of gold aud silver in Upper Carolina. The Man to Live Long. He has a proper and well proportion ed stature, without, however, being too tall. He is rather of a middle size and somewhat thick, set. His complexion is not too florid; at any rate, too much rud diness in yonth is not a sign of longev ity. His hair approaches rather to tho fair than the bluck. His skin is strong but not rough. His head is not too big. His shoulders are round rather than flat: his neck is not ton 1 mi it- l.ia abdomen doesTiot project; his Xnuds are large, but not too deeply cleft; his foot is rather thick than long, and his legs are firm and round. He has a broad, arched chest, a strong voice, and tho faculty of retaiuing his breath for a long time withont difficulty. There is harmony in all Li's parts. His senses are good, but not too delicate: his pulse slow and regular; his stomach is excel lent; his appetite good and digestion easy. Tho joys of tho table are to him of importance; they tune his mind to serenity, and his soul partakes in the pleasure which they communicate. He does pot eat merely for the. saka of eat ing, but each meal is an hour of daily festivity. He eats slowly and has not too much thirst, the latter being always a sign of rapid self-consumption. He is serene, loquacious, active, susceptible of joy, love, and hope, but insensible to the impressions of hatred, anger, aud avarice. His passion never becomes violent or destructive. If he ever gives way to anger, he experiences rather a nseful glow of warmth, and an artificial aud gentle fever, withont an overflow of the bile. He is also fond of employ njei.t, particularly calm meditation and agreeable speculations. He is an ODti- niist, a friend to nature and domestio felicity. He has no thirst' after honor or riches, and banishes all thought of to-morrow. Mankind's Belief. John Stuart Mill was of opinion "that as mankind improve, they will more and more recognize two independent prov inces the province of belief and the proviuce of imaginative conjecture; that they will become capable of keep ing these' apart, and that while they limit their belief to the evidence will think it allowable to let ther imagina tive anticipations go forth, not carrying belief in their train, in the direction which experience and study of human nut u re shows to bo most improving to the character, and most exalting and consoling to the individual feelings." The Child Mayer. The Boston Transcript fays: N w that the question of the commutation of the death sentence of Jesse H. Pomeroy is settled, an item of news that we have refrained from publishing on account of the injury it might work to the one whose life was pending before the ex ecutive council, may as well be made public. It has been annonnoed that Pomeroy once attempted to escape by working the bricks from his cell with the wire taken from the rim'of his wash basin, and that he asked the assistance of his mother, whom he wrote to eond a file in a banana, but that Jesse Pomeroy has sinco his confinement in jail mado four desperate Jack Sheppard attempts to escape is not generally known. The last attempt was while his case was being considered by the governor and council, and was not made pnblio be cause it might bring too strong a preju dice to bear upon the anthorities. On the fourth of July last, Jesse's mother sent him some ice cream iu a tin pail. Had it been any other article it would have been placed iu another dish. He had this tin, perhaps, two hours, and in that time he ingeniously drew the wire Pf rom tho rim and turned down the edge again so mat to tne officer tho article appeared all right. Itof course required much strength to do this, bnt Pomeroy is a powerful man now, with large bones and powerful muscles, much above the average of full-grown men. With this wire he took from the wall near the floor and under the ventilator a flat. Bharp piece of brick, about the eighth of the size of an ordinary brick, which he broke into other pieces and wrapped in his blanket. The doors of the jail cells are made of heavy round bars intersect ed with a few flat bars. It was Pom eroy's custom to sit at his cell door reading, with his feet on the lower bar. Sitting iu this posture, with his head bent over a book in his lap, he would hold n small brick in his hand and saw upon the round bars nnder one of tho flat cross bars. In this way, in two or three days, he cut ono bar half off and another bar three-quarters off. But in tho thorough search which he had been subjected to every day theso proceed ings were discovered, aud he was re moved to another celt. It was the cus tom to change the cell every week, but sinco then he has been rem ved from one to another every day. The Burial Cure. In 1848 there lived at South Shields (England) a laboring man named Dick inson, a native of the village of Conis cliffe, near Darlington. He was afflicted with paralysis, which for some years bad crippled his limbs, and deprived him of tho use of the left Bide of his body. One day, as he was slowly crawling along the street, he met with an elderly, well dressed man, who stated that he was a physician from Edinburgh, ind he, on hearing of Dickiuson's case, advised him to return to his native village, and have himself covered up with earth, which operation would cure him. The poor fellow, nothing doubting, dragged himself on foot to Couiscliffe, where he persuaded an old acquaintance to assist him iu temporarily burying himself. They proceeded to tho Tees-side, where Dickinson's friend, with his spade, dug a hole in tho ground, in whioh the pa tient was to lie for four hours. Dickin son stretched himself in the excavation, with his head only at the outside, aud soil was heaped upon him to the depth of two feet. At the expiration of a quar ter of an hour the patient broke out iuto a profuso perspiration, and an in tense pain at the same time attacked his left side, loin and leg. Notwithstanding the agony he endured, ho remained thus till the expiration of tho allotted time. The man who buried him, seeing him turu ' black iu tho faco." and feariug he should die, would have released him sooner, but Dickiusun would not con sent. The sick man, when the earth was taken off him, arose and walked away with an active step, cured of his disease. This remedy for sickness is an old one; and Dam pier, the voyager, at tacked by illness in the East Indies, was, at his own request, buried to the neck in tho earth until his pain abated. Slumbering Plants. It is well known that plants sleep at night ; but their hours of sleeping are a matter of habit, and may bo disturbed artificially, just as a cock may be waked np to crow at untimely hours by the light of a lantern. A French chemist subjected a sensitive plant to an exceed ingly trying course of discipline, by completely chauging its hours exposing it to a bright light at night, so as to prevent sleep, and putting it in a dark room during tho day. The plant ap peared to bo much puzzled at first. It opened and closed its leaves irregularly, sometimes nodding, in spite of the arti ficial sun that shfd ils beams at mid night, and sometimes waking up, from the force of habit, to find tho chamber dark in spite of the time of day. Such are the trammels of use and wont. But, after an obvious struggle, the plant sub mitted to the change, and turned day into night, without any apparent ill enects. Association op Ideas. Eddie, a chap of three and a half years, was sent to the corner store to get two wioks, but he got into the store minus a knowledge of what his mother wanted. Tho kind keeper, to help out the little fellow, be gan naming several articles, and at last mentioned the herb thvme : That's it!" exolaimel he, "someflng about time. I fink she told me to bnv a fort night." "Buy a fortnight I Why, my little man, a fortnight is two weeks.' " xnara it I " ejaculated the little mes senger, in high glee, mamma told me to get two wicks two lamp wicks." The End of thb Line. A romontio pair, not more than 1.000 miles from New Tork, were blessed with a number of daughters. The eldest was called Caroline, the seoond Madeline, the third Eveline, tne fourtn Angeline. when lo 1 the fifth made its appearance and no name oould be found with the desired termination. At length mamma, who had been reading of the fashions at Sara toga, pounced noon a name very popular at that place, and forthwith the baby was paptizca urinoiine. The English New paper. Here is a town, says Lonis Jennings, writil.g of Guilford, Engluud, of, I be lieve, sotnn ten thounand inhabitants, and yet it has only one weekly newspa per, and that is a picayune affair, with not lung more exciting in it than some police news, and the records of such local events as little Bobby Tucker cut ting ids finger with a bit of glass and old Mrs. Fusby slipping down on a piece of orange peel. No local " editorials" no smart paragraphs. What a dust a sharp and active man, like some Ameri can editors, would soon kick np here. I should very much live to see one of them lying around loose in a newspaper office at Guildford for a few weeks. He would soon strike a light, or I am much mistaken. A meeting of tho board of guardians is quite a startling event in a place like this, and, as a general rule, the editor of tho local paper takes good care not to make any comments which would be disagreeable to any of his cus tomers. His articles on national politios are written in London, by some accom plished scribe who keeps about half a dozen country newspapers informed as to the latest doings in aristocratic circles and the most prominent topics of conver sation at the " clubs." The scribe turns out a " Conserva tive " or a " Liberal " article with equal facility, and is busily engaged to-day iu denouncing Turkish atrocities while to morrow he will quite as successfully do fend them. Of all the methods of earn ing a livelihood known to mankind, surely that pursued by some of our worthy journalistic brellren is the hard est and most melancholy. How .many men I can remember even in niy time, who have tried to earn their bread at " the press," and have gone down sor rowfully to their graves amid black dis aster and failure I And yet the numbers who flock to it as a means of occupa tion increase every year. London is overrun with them, and every editor re ceives hundreds of applications for em ployment in the course of a single month. All the sucking barristers mako use of the press as long as they can, or as long as they need it, aud then, as your London namesake said not long ago, take good caro to abuse it the rest of their lives. In tho country, the pro prietors of newspapers are sometimes able nnd experienced men in largo towns they always aro; bnt I am now speaking of only third and fourth iate places, inferior even to Gnildford; there the proprietor is usually a small local nobody, with no education, no princi ples and no ideas -but I think I have heard of newspaper proprietors of that type elsewhere. And certainly they seem to get on very well in the world Tarlcties in Fashions, Among lato novelties is Dove's lever buckle. This bucklo is made self-attaching by means of a lever, and is ca pable of supporting a weight of ten pounds. It is applied to various articles with very good effect, such as garters and stocking supporters. An improve ment iu stocking supporters is to have r o suspending straps from the waist instead of one. Tho same principle of the lever clasp is also applied to but tons, which are thus attached to the gar ment without being sewed, and are. therefore, very couvouiont for gentle men's clothing. Now belts of velvet and of leather are wide girdles pointed behind and in front, and laced with silk cord. Straight pelts are ornamented all around with square clasps of silver. Purses for carrying specie are in fash ion again. Ihey are made of fine silver wire, and are suspended from tho chate laine. Now fichus or kerchiefsof China crape are of delicate colors, blue, rose, or cream, or else dark blue or cardinal red, aud are trimmed with white silk lace woven on the popular Smyrna lace de signs. Basques of new dresses have vests in front, and the back is elongated to rep resent a polonaise back, and join with the trimming on -the back of tho skirt. New braids for trimming dresses are of woolen twills, through which are threads of chenille. The f rinse used with these has chenille threads also. The colored nets for the hair are fast becoming popular with young ladies The hair is not now braidod before be ing put in the net, bnt is tied iu a straight loop, which is valfed the Cato- gan loop. English calicoes are brought out in foulard patterns, with soft finish that makes them resemble the fine French foulard cambrics. They are shown iu stripes, dots, cross-bars and iu damask patterns in the stylish gray-blue, brown and navy blue colors. They oost twen ty-eight or thirty cents a yard, and arc a j arc! wide. The fashion of cutting the edges of overskirts and polonaises into squares is much followed for plain costumes of silk, cashmere or alapaca. Tho " NewDort " wraD is the name given to a pretty woolen shawl with whito ground, wrought with blue or scarlet stars or circles. Bazar. The Boomerang. A writer says: The boomerang, still the deadly weapon of the natives both of Australia and Central America, has been discovered in the bands of the sculptured Nimrod at Ehorsabad and of hunters represented iu a busso relievo at Theoes. . It may have been the crooked weapon of Saturn; it is sup posed to have been the club of Hercnles (and, wo may add, the hammer of Thor, which is said to have returned to his hand when thrown), and if the matter were properly investigated it would per haps bo shown that it was not unknown to the anoient Celtio nations. What It Costs. Bishop Whipple gives a striking illustration of the oost of the Indian war. He says : If ten soldiers were placed in a line, with an Indian at one end, and the American people oould be brought to understand that in order to secure the scalp of that one Indian it would require the sacrifice of tha ten soldiers and an expenditure of $500,000 in money, they might be led to inquire whether the scalp was really wuitu iuo outlay. Items of Interest. A Chinese poldier, at Soochow, had his head cnt off for ratting a girl on the cheek. Two farmers in France recently fonght with thrashing rods, and one killed the other after ten minutes' exertion. Milk is slow stuff to steal when it has to be taken from the cow. Adam Grei mer, of Kentucky, got shot in the leg the other night while doing it. The old man's toast: "It's hard work to keep your sons in check while they re young ; it s harder to seep tnem in checks when they gtow older. The Chesapeake (Md.) Chesapike is a new paper. Here is tne editor s salutatory: "What I have to say to this community will be said gradually." The German empire has now nine military schools, five schools of subal terns, and nine of cadets. Four addi tional schools for subalterns are eoon to be opened. Mother "Now. Gerty, be a good girl, and give Annt Julia a kiss, and say goodnight." Gerty " No, no 1 If I kiss her she'll box my ears, like she did papa's last night." " But that juryman is deaf," expostu lated a man nt the opening of a case. "Oh, that's all right." whisperad a bailiff, in reply, "the sheriff's told him . on a piece of paper what kind of a ver dict is wanted. Said a gentleman, a well known fancy fanner, to some guests at his country seat on the Hudson : " Will yon have milk or champagne, my friends!" ad ding somewhat sadly, "one costs as much as the other." Advertising in the bull's-eye of trade. The successful business team is that which advertises most. Now is ihe time . to make the shots tell, when thousands of spectators have assembled to see the fun and distribute prizos. Ah Lee. of St. Louis, is what his name implies a Chinaman. His wife is Irish. Sf their progeny, the boys aro unmistakably Irish, and the girls are as - clearly little Celestials as ever had their feet crampeil in babyhood. When you see a young man and woman leaning over the garden gate in the twilight, and hear a sound like tho squash of a potato bug beneath a farmer's heel, yon instinctively feel that there has been a climax of two souls. The immigration from England to the United States last year was almost pre cisely equaled by the numbers returning from thence. More than 81,000 persons left for the United States, and more than 80,000 returned to the British isles. A man may love domestic quiet and harmony enough to keep his mouth Bhut while his wife's relations are in the house, but when he sees one of his fine ruffled shirts on his brother-in-law, what wonder if he feels he must go down in the cellar and shovel coal or burst. A stranger who called recently at the office of a newspaper, on the day of it 3 publication, was surprised to find a no tice on tw door saying : " Office closed. Paper pill be out to-morrow." Upon in qniry, it turned out there was a base ball match m progress in the suburbs, and all hands had gone out lo witness it. It is a curious fact that in the salt mines of Poland and Hungary the wooden pil lars supporting galleries are foand to last unimpaired for ages, inconsequence of being impregnated with the salt, while pillars of brick and stone, used for the same purpose, crumble away in a short time from the decay of their mor tar. Investigation tends to confirm the story that Samuel Lester was recently buried alive at Shelter island. His health had been uncertain for several months, aud, after partaking of a hearty meal, he suddenly fell in what the doc tor, who was called at once, declared an apoplectio fit, and he was pronounced dead. " Mr. Tompkins," said a young lady, who had been showing off her wit at the expense of a dangler, "you remind me of a barometer that is filled with noth ing in the upper story." " Divine Ju lia," meekly replied her adorer, " in thanking you for that compliment let me remind you that you occupy my upper story." A hydrometer for testing the propor tion of water iu cider has come into use in New England. The test, however, doe i not indicate which has the most pleasant flavor, but simply determines the amount of water in the cider, whether it camo from the apples, or was poured iu to reduce the strength. Cider made from grafted fruit contains the most water. A miserable knurly apple will produce the highest grade of cider, -according to this standard. A good story is told of a dispute en tered into by a Sootchman and an Eng lishman, as to which of their respective conntries had produced the most emi nent men. Every name was claimed by the Scotchman as that of a man who had been born north of the Tweed, till finally tho Englishman said : " Surely you won't claim Shakespeare as a Sootchman V " Weel," replied the canny Scot, "if Shakespeare wasna a Scotchman he was clover enough to be aue," Sleeping-Rooms, A goodly part of onr lives is spent in sleeping, and there is reason in the thought that onr sleeping-rooms should be regarded with a good deal of care. To be healthy they shonld be large and well ventilated. We do not think of putting vile things filled with decaying material in onr stomachs; much less shonld we take poisonous substances into' onr lungs, and etill we do this every time we are oonnned in such a manner as to breathe over and over again the same air. We require fresh air in abun dance, and u more people would look well at the amount of it which they can get during sleeping hours there would be a smaller number of people who need to seek the heights of Colorado for new life, from the buoyant atmosphere. Our air is pretty good if we only insist upon taking it fK6h instead of breathing so much of it that contains the poison breathed out from onr bodies as a result of the disintegration of tissu s. Govt r np warm bnt sleep where the air can cir culate fully and become purified.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers