HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPEIIANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. VII. BIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 3.0, 1877. NO. 28.
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We hold a paper In our hands
" A Jonrnal of To- Day "
So reads its modest title-page.
Now dim with age, and gray
Tis filled with startling Incident,
With essay, tale and rhymq--
The doings of the Lonp Ago
The rew's of olde;, Unie.
The nimble Cogers, jeft and sprv,
That this type of yore,
with their kindred dust
l"ull fifty years or more;
long ago, the busy scribe
That drove the good qnill-pen i
Closed, yean agone, the eyes that read
The thoughts of honest men.
And yet, in those time-honored days,
They had their little spites
And jealousies, and quarreled o'er
Their fancied wrongs and rights;
lb factions, led to victory,
Or beaten, left the field;
Toor, human hearts ! so much like ours-
Th;v'd rather dio than yield.
Wa "run our eyes across the page,
And up and down each column ;
Wo read the list of marriages
And births the deaths, so solemn ;
And then we wonder who will read,
When we have passed away,
A hundred years or more to come,
Our '! Journal of To-dav!"
A QUEER COURTSHIP.
You cin just fancy how I felt when
ijam drove up to the door one night, and
I went out to get the package, to sec
brother Joshua's daughter Jemima on
the seat with Sam, chatting and laugh
ing awny as merry as a cricket. I was
powerful glad to see the child, but
dreadfully mortified to find her tucked
in there with the driver. I told Snm
pretty sharply that he ought to know
better, for there wn plenty of room in
side, and I didn't know what the board
ers over thu way would think of it.
"Sho was bound to ride outside,"
aid Sam ; " and a willful woman must
havo, her way."
" Why, it's all the fashion up our
Way," said Mime. "The summer
boarders swarm all over the tops of the
coaches like so many lovely bees ; but
if it hurts anybody's feelings, I'm sorry.
A school-marm must mind her p's and
l'8."
"A school-marm?" I said, wondering
what the child meant. Then she told
me she'd come out to take the poor little
widow womau's place ; that she'd writ
ten to Mr. Steele, tho schoolmaster, for
wjj rouidn tget along at tiieschool there.
" It would take a saint to put up with
llieir airs and their interference, and you
know I liko to havo my own irny," oUI
my niece Jemima.
'" Out of the frying-pan into the fire,
Mime," 1 said. " The schoolmaster has
it all his own way here, and he's little
better than a brute. I've seen uuder
my own eyes a woman's heart almost
broken with him." Then I went on to
tell how he'd tormented the poor widow
woman into giving up the place, and
how I'd seen her worry and fret till the
Js.m fairly dropped off' her bones.
I' Pooh ! pooh !" said my niece ; " the
skin won't drop off my bones, aunty."
Aud I couldn't help thinking what a
pity it would be if it did, for whiter and
finer and wholeBomer skin I never did
see. It was the kind that so often comes
with red hair, and a lovelier color never
was in a blossom than bloomedin Mime's
cheek when she cried out :
' I've got to tight it out somewhere,
aumty ; let him mind his own business,
and I'll mind mine !"
I couldn't, bear the thoughts of her
spirits aud health being broken by that
dreadful Mr. Steele.
" I'll tell you, Mime," I said, as she
dried the dishes for me, " what we'll
do. You shall stay at home with me
and help about the shop ; there's bon
nets now and then to trim, and lots of
little knickkuocks iu worsted work to be
made."
" Now, aunty," said Mime, "'a buffalo
would be less clumsy at trimming a bon
net than I would, and as for worsted
work "
"I suppose so," I said, for I could
sec she was determined to teach.
The next morning she went to school,
and for a month or so everything went
right, and I didn't hear a word of
complaint from, her. She made fun
enough for the " schoolmaster, and said
he didn't know how to manage the boys,
and made himself more tronble than was
necessary ; that a coaxing word of hers
went further than a dozen slashes with
that rod of his ; but every one had their
own way, and it was none of her busi
ness. She was getting along splendid
ly, and the smaller children were quite
delighted with a way she had of
tiicturing out things on the black
oard. Mime was quite ready with her
pencil, and had made us luugh, Sam
Riley and me, many a time by scrawling
off funny conceits on paper. Sam Riley
began to drop in at night, and I noticed
he was quite taken with Mime. , Sam
was well-to-do, and, outside of his lino
of stages, owned a fine house down on
the main road. Sam didn't mind being
hit off himself once in a while him and
his horses and passengers and all ; he
used to sit back in his choir and laugh
till the tears rolled down his cheeks,
aud look over at me, winking and blink
ing, and whispering, under his breath,
what a wonderful woman she was.
" She's as fresh and handsome as a
rose, " he would say when Mime was out
of the room ; " and what health she's
ut, and what spirits !
V could see how things were going.
Detyr I dear ! I used to sit and picture it
all 6ut to myself, and think how nice it
wouUl be to have Mime settled near mo.
for lie. So when she came home one
afternovu from school, with a bright
spot buiViing on either cheek, an angry
flame in Vier eyes, and said to me that
war had begun between her and Mr.
Steele, I Yhdn't so much mind, for I
thought the sooner she got discouraged
the better. Sam was well on to thirty,
aud though Mime's skin made her look
younger Uiuu she wus, there wasn't so
much difference as you'd think between
their ages. . .
" He's forbidden my illustration on the
blackboard, aunty," said Mime; and
though I didn't know one bit of board
from nuother, I could see by the way
she felt about it that it was a great spite
to Mime. " Ho calls thein pernicious
and exciting to the imagination, and in
nrions to more practical requirements,"
said Jemima. And I couldn't quite get
the hang of his objections, for every
word of the schoolmaster's was as long
as the moral law, but I could tell it was
some imposition of his. " He's a narrow-minded
idiot, and I shall tell him
so if he persist in this notion," said
Mime.
"If he persists," I said, "you'd
better give it up. He's so set in his
way, there's no use crossing him. "
"I won't let him cross me," said
Mime, and she didn't. She went on with
her pictures on the blackboard for a full
week or more, till one night there was a
rap at the sitting-room door, and it gave
me quite a turn to see the long bony
figure of the schoolmaster standing on
the threshold.
Mime started up, a hot color leaping
into her fuce, and stood there confront
ing him like a young Jezebel.
The man looked pale enough himself,
sinking into the chair I set for him as if
he was quite worn and spent like, and he
seemed beat out in some way; for though
he fixed his eyes savagely on Mime, there
was something in 'em that looked tired
and hunted.
" I have come here to remonstrate
with your niece, madam," he said to me,
" though I've found it of very little use
aud profit heretofore ; but however
capable and efficient she may be, and
however judicious it may seem to retain
her services, her spirit of insubordina
tion is too dangerous an example to the
naturally rebellions and headstrong tem
perament of youth. She must confine
herself strictly to the rules that govern
the method of instruction.- The trus
tee "
" Don't pnt it on the trustees," broke
iu Mime; and I was glad she took it upon
herself to answer him, for I couldn't
make out head or tail of what he was
saying, what with his long words and
the fluster I was in. " The trustees are
mere lay figures for you to dress your
petty 'schemes of conceit and tyranny
upon."
He waved his hand impatiently, and
went on: "It is the will of the trustees
that you shall put aside the puerile aud
reprehensible course you have taken in
exciting the imagination and creatiug
frivolous and mischievous emotions.
Tho pursuits of my own class have
been interrupted, their attention dis
tracted "
" Why don't your class mind their
own business?" said Mime. "Why do
you look at me, or listen to me, or bother
with me at all ? It is not vourcloss that
is disturbed. Mr. Steele, it is you." The
schoolmaster's face "suddenly reddened,
then grew paler than before: he wined
head, and his bony fingers actually
trembled on his knees. I don't wonder
he was mad, for Mime went ou iu the
most outrageous way. Her spunk was
up, and she wasn't a bit afraid of him.
"You can't bear to see knowledge
made easy and pleasant," she said.
" You'd like to knock every new idea
into the brain with a sledge-hammer;
you hate to look over at the children
and me, and see us making light of our
task it's gall and wormwood to yon,
Mr Steele."
"Hush, Mime!" I said, for I could
see that he was getting more and more
excited, and I didn't know but what
he'd fling the lamp at her head, or
something. But he mastered himself,
and up he got and went away without
another word; and pretty soon Sam Riley
came in.
I thought we'd have a nice evening,
for Mime was in high feather; and sitting
down to the table, she caught up a pencil
and made the schoolmaster take every
ridiculous shape that she could. Her
eyes shone and her cheeks glowed, and I
didn't wonder Sam couldn't take his eyes
off her face.
"Say the word, Mime," said Sam,
"and I'll punch the idiot's head."
" Who are yon calling an idiot?" said
Mime, turning straight upon Sam. " If
you had the hundredth part of his intel
ligence, you might be glad."
" I thought you called him so your
self," said Sam, meekly, for he was
head-over-ears in love with the young
termagant.
" If I did," said Mime, " it was ab
burd, and I'll never do it again. No,
Sam, I'll beat him with his own weapons.
I'll go to the trustees myself. If he
can wheedle and coax them, so can I;
and if he can bully them, perhaps I can
do that too."
"You can do anything," said poor
Sam.
And soou after that Mime said she was
tired and sleepy, and sent Sam off, as
cool as you please. Then she got upon
her feet and walked about the floor,
and I could see she was terribly put
out and excited by the schoolmaster's
visit.
" You'll wear yourself out for noth
ing," I said, for it vexed me to see her
all in a fret that way from pure spite.
He'll break your health and spirits like
he did with that poor little body that
was here before you."
" I don't believe all those stories
about that woman, aunty. I've found
out she had heavier troubles than those
put upon her by the schoolmaster. You
musn't believe all that you hear."
That was the way with Mime she was
that contrary when sho was vexed that
she'd swear black was white, and take
the part of the evil one himself.
She began from that time out to fight
hard for her own way, and it got to be
pretty well known she was winning over
the trustees. The children had never
liked anybody as they did Mime, and lit
tle Bill Pritchard, that used to play
truant half the time, and would rather
take a beating any day than be pent up
in school, went there as regular as clock
work now, and began to mark out horses
and dogs with a stump of a pencil him
self; and Mr. Pritchard he was ono of
the trustees, and thought the world and
all of my niece Jemima.
But somehow or other, just as I said,
the continual worriinent of it fretted
Mime, and she got thin and lost her
petty color ; aud the night she came
home and said she had got the best of
the schoolmaster, and the notice had
been served on him that day that he was
to let ber have her own way of teaching,
that night I made up my mind it was
about time it was settled in some way,
for Mime was mare fidgety and contrary
than ever ; and I don't believe every
thing would have turned out as it did if
Mime had been in her sober senses.
The girl was about half wild, and I don't
believe she knew what she was about J
for it stands to reason she must have
hated the schoolmaster, and yet when I
began to glory over his defeat, and say
how glad Sam Riley would be, she 'shut
me up in a minute.
"Sam Riley and Mr. Steele," she
said, " are two very different men."
" I should hope so," I said.
" Sam is made of different stuff," she
went on to say. " The little pricks and
torments that sting tho soul of Mr.
Steele to madness would be utterly un
felt by Sam. Sam is a good fellow "
" Tlhank you for Sam," I said, for she
was enough to provoke a saint
" But he has not the capacity for suf
fering that Mr. Steele has ; and oh,
aunty, he does suffer 1"
"Serve him right, the monster," J
said ; and had scarce got the words out
of my month when there was a rap at
the door. I went over, thinking it was
Sam Riley, when there was the thin,
gaunt face of the schoolmaster again.
He came in and bowed as grave as an
owl, aud sat down on a chair by the
door ; his cane rolled down beside him
on the floor, and for a full minute or so
he couldn't find a word out of that long
dictionary in his head.
I was glad to see that Mime's spuuk
came back at the sight of him. Her
eyes were as bright as they could be,
and her checks like the heart of a holly
hock. " My errand here, Miss Jemima," he
began, "is altogether a friendly one.
You have so much spirit and determina
tion that I think your present subordi
nate position is unfit for you. I know
of one that will be shortly vacant, which
you can fill with great credit' to your
self and all concerned."
" I'm much obliged to you." said
Mime, her lips beginning to curl, and
tho color of her cheeks deepening to a
flame, " but I'm quite satisfied where I
am. I can well understand that you'd
be glad to be rid of me, but I must beg
to decline. I'm not going away from
here. "
" But I am going away from here,"
said the schoolmaster, getting upon his
feet. " It is my place that will be vacant,
and I think yon may have it if you
choose."
"You you !" said Mime; and I
don't wonder the child was astounded at
the news. I was quite flustered myself.,
" Yes," said the schoolmaster ; " you
can have your own way now." And he
went out the door, bowing awkwardly as
be went, a queer miserable smile strug
gling into his face.
Dear dear ! the contrariness of
mmoi.'r?3CTftrtftiipr wiu thn rlnnr Troll
snut on mm tnau Mime -purine i.. i,
the table and began to cry. Her hair
got loose and fell all about her, and, to
make the matter worse, I heard a foot
step outside, and this time I thought it
must be Sam Riley.
" For goodness' sake, Mime," I said,
"don't let Sam Riley. see you in this
way !"
But the door opened, and there stood
the schoolmaster again. He said he
had come back for his cane ; but lie
never stooped to pick it up, but stood
staring at Mime as if she was a ghost
instead of the fresh, pretty, wholesome
crcoture that she was. She raised her
head, and though her face was half hid
den by her hair, her eyelashes were wet,
and the tears not dried yet on her
cheeks.
The school master, not minding me
any more than if I was a block of wood
or something, walked straight over to
Mime.
" Yon know very well," he said, " that
I am only going away from here because
I love you. Because it was not the class
that was distracted by your pretty ways
and devices; it was " L You know all
this very well, and can tell me whether
I had better go or not. Now tell me,
shall I stay?"
You might have knocked me down
with a feather when I saw Mime put her
hand out timidly to the school master,
and he turn pale and catch it in both his
own.
" Of course not," I broke in, for I was
near distracted by the way things were
going. "If you're an honorable man,
and got any sense left, and an eye in
your head, j ou'd see that my niece is as
good as engaged to Sam Riley."
" Sam Riley !" said Mime, as scornful
as if poor Sam was a toad or something,
and holding on to the school master's
horny hands as if she was drowning.
Like enough they'll beat her some day,
and if so she'll like him all the better for
it, for before I'd got out of the room I
heard her tell him she'd teach any way
that suited him best; and my only hope
is that he's got a little money laid by,
for he said he didn't intend she should
teach at all. But, dear I dear 1 when I
heard the crack of Sam Riley's whip
outside, and knew the evening stage was
in, and poor Sam not knowing what was
in store for him, I hod to go up stairs
and have a cry all to myself. And all I
can say is, if Mime marries the school
master, it's a mighty queer courtship.
Harper's Weekly.
A Simple Cure for Drunkenuess.
A Brooklyn man writes to the New
York Sun: I drank more intoxicating
liquor from the year 1857 to the last day
of 1873 than any other person I ever
knew or heard of; and in the meantime,
knowing this sure cure, did not practice
it on myself, but for fun, did practice it
on many others, and effected permanent
cures. The remedy of the cure is this;
When a person finds he must have a
drink, let him take a drink of water, say
two or three swallows, as often as the
thirst or craving may desire. Let him
continue this practice. His old chums
will laugh; but let him persevere, and it
will not be a week before theeppetite
for any kind of stimulant will disappear
altogether, and water betaken to quench
the natural thirst. If at any time the
victim should feel a craving, let him take
the first opportunity and obtain a swal
low of water, aud he can pass and repass
all saloons. When he goes home at
night he will feel satisfied aud be sober
and have money in his pocket. I com
menced this practice the first day of 1874,
and never think of taking a drink of
stimulant,
BREAD.
The Use of Thla Indispensable Article of
Food From the Rnrlleu PeriodThe Dll
ferent Kind or llrrnd.
The original signification of this word
was anything that may be eaten, or, in
general, food; but as now used it signi
fies a preparation of some of the cereal
grains. Since the day that "Abraham
hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and
sai'd: Make ready three measures of fine
meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the
hearth," bread has been among all
civilized nations a staple article of food.
The various processes used by the
ancient Egyptians in making bread are
distinctly represented to-day in the
paintings on their tombs. The primi
tive mode of making bread was to stir
the cereal, ground fine, with water until
a thin dough was formed. This was
made into cakes, laid on hot coals and
covered with ashes and cooked, then
eaten warm. The Arabs of the desert
still employ this method. Later, ovens
were invented. These were .round ves
sels of brass or earthenware, which were
heated by a fire kindled around them.
When hot the dough was spread upon
their sides in thin flakes. During the
war with Perseus, king of Macedon,
about 200 years before the Christian era,
the Romans learned the art of ferment
ing bread, and on their return from
Macedonia brought bakers with them.
These bakers and their successors held
very high place in the public estimation;
they had the care of the public granaries
and enjoyed many privileges. From
Rome the art of bread-making with fer
mentation found its way into France;
but not until near the close of the seven
teenth century was yeast in general use
in the north of Europe for bread-making.
In 1688 the college of physicians in
Paris, France, declared bread made with
yeast to be injurious to health, where
upon the government prohibited bakers
from using it under a severe penalty,
but the superiority of yeast bread be
came so apparent that the prohibitory
laws were enforced, and soon became a
dead letter. Before yeast was used in
raising bread, leaven was employed for
this purpose. This was made by mixing
flour and water into dough, and keeping
it in a temperature of from 70 0 to 80
until it fermented, which would be in
three or four days. This leaven was
then mixed with a quantity of fresh
dough, and wheu the whole mass was
fermented it was ready for the oven, and
all baked, save a pound or more, which
was reserved for the next batch of bread.
If buried in a sack of flour the leaven
would keep many days without spoiling.
As wheaten flour contains more gluten
than the flour of any other of the cereals,
it is very difficult to make wheaten bread
spongy, and porous without the use of
some kind of fermentation. In the South
hammered liiwmit are in vtvjnaMr uii ac
count of their freedom from ymut and
yint puweiB. They are made of flour,
water or milk, and salt, hammered with
the rolling-pin for an hour or so, made
into tiny shapes and baked in a quick
oven. The hammering introduces air
between the particles of dough, and thus
makes it light. Oatmeal, cornmeal and
barleymeal contain much less gluten
than wheat flour, and can therefore be
reodily made into light, thiu cakes with
out any fermenting agent. Barley and
oatmeal were for a long time the depend
ence of our oaxon ancestors for .bread.
It was probably barley bannocks the
great King Alfred was set to watch wheu
he took refuge in the swine-herd's cot
tage. With the facilities within reach
of almost every housekeeper, there is no
good reason why every household should
not have a perpetual peacemaker in the
family in the shape of well-compounded,
nutritious and palpable bread.
The Potato Starch Industry.
The Springfield Republican says of
the potato starch industry, which has
already assumed considerable propor
tions in Washington, Clinton and Essex
counties of New York:
One of the most important manufac
tured products of the small country
towns of New England and New York
State is potato starch. It is believed
that nearly 3,000,000 bushels of potatoes
are frequently consumed per year in the
States of Maine, New Hampshire, Ver
mont and New York in the production of
potato starch. This amount is three
eighths as large as the potato crop of
Maine, three-fourths as large as that of
New Hampshire, three-fifths as large
as that of Vermont, one-tenth as large
as that of New York State, of about the
same magnitude as that of Massachu
setts, and much larger than the crops of
Connecticut or Rhode Island. There
are about 225 factories engaged in the
manufacture of potato starch, and proba
bly all of them, w ith one or two exceptions,
are located in the States of New York,
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
The average price paid for potatoes by
starch manufacturers during the past
season has been thirty cents per bushel.
The aggregate annual production of all
the factories is usually from 6,000 to 11,.
000 tons. A bushel of potatoes generally
makes eight pounds of starch, 250
bushels, therefore being required for a
ton. As the average market quotation
for potato starch is about five cents per
pound, it follows that a bushel of pota
toes brings only forty cents after being
converted into starch, and the value of
the total production of potato starch in
the country is from $800,000 to 81,200,
000 per annum.
How Two Grocers Came to New lork.
The Troy (N. Y.) Whig tells this
story: A couple of clerks in a large
grocery store on River street, not fur
from Washington square, had a very
pleasant trip to New York on the City of
Troy, Tuesday evening. Some packages
were to be shipped by the boat, and the
young men were hurried off with them
a few moments previous to departure.
In their haste to get to the craft thev
went in their shirt sleeves, and without
huts. On board the boat they met a
couple of fair ones ith whomthev ston.
ped to converse a moment, and the chat
was so interesting that they did not hear
the cry " all aboard " nor realize until
too lata that the boat had moved from
the dock, and they were obliged to make
the trip to the metropolis minus hats
and coats, and what was still more em
barrassing, without cash in their Dockets.
They managed to negotiate a loan when
the boat arrived, and with borrowed
coats ana hats returned the next evening.
MOHAMMED.
A Condensed Illitory of the Founder of the
Tnrkleh Kellaion.
We briefly record the story of the
founder of the present Mohammedan re
ligion: Arabia never was conquered by
any foreign nation. Its sands have been
its security, and the poverty of the scat
tered people offered no temptation. It
was always the native country of romance
and superstition. Iu it Sabeanism, or
star-worship, prevailed for indefinite
ages, till overturned by Mohammed,
who was born at Mecca, in 569. His
father was Abdallah and his mother
Amina, both of good family and great
personal beauty. His grandfather, Mo
talleb, who took charge of him, died at
the age of 110. His uncle, Abu Taleb,
brought him up as his own son, aud took
him, with a caravan, to Egypt and Syria;
and he afterward served m a campaign
under his uncle, who was the commander
and guardian of the ancient temple of
the Caaba. At twenty-five he married
Codiga, a rich and noble widow, and
lived in opulence. The religions of the
Arabs were the ancient Sabeanism, Jew
ish and Christian. At forty he announ
ced himself a prophet, and taught the
Unity of Qod in opposition to the Trini
ty, and disclaimed the reverence bestow
ed on Ezra. His first converts were his
wife, his cousin Ali, his servant Zeid,
and Abu-Bekr, a man of distinction, who
made five proselytes. He now preached
in public the belief and worship of one
God, in the courts of the Caaba, and be
gan to produce the Koran. This, he
pretended, was brought to him ready
written by the angel Gabriel, and its
florid composition, in splendid Arabic
language, imposed on the vulgar. The
Koresh now sought his life, and he fled
with Abu-Bekr to Medina in 622 (the
Hegira), where five hundred disciples
met him. Here he adopted the kingly
and sacerdotal office, established a mos
que, and publicly preached. He banish
ed seven hundred of his opponents and
buried seven hundred alive, chiefly Jews,
seizing their wealth. He soon after had
a battle with one thousand of the Koresh
forces, and defeated them in the battle of
Beber, in 623, after which he had one
thousand warriors, but at the battle of
Oliud was defeated, and Medina was be
sieged by twelve thousand and defended
by three thousand; but the besiegers
being baffled, a ten years' peace was con
cluded. Two years after he gained a
victory at Muta, over a large army of the
Eastern empire; and in 629, with ten
thousand men, took Mecca, and destroy
ing the three hundred and sixty idols in
the Caaba, consecrated it to his own re
ligion, called Islamisin. In another year
ail Arabia listened to his pretensions,
and he now marched with thirty thou
sand men against the Eastern empire,
bmiuwr a jM)nw ly Uio approach. Ho
returned to Medina antl performed the
Pilgrimage of the Valedi.tion, with a
train of 114,000 believers. Soon after he
was supposed to be poisoned, and died
at Medina in 632, aged sixty-three. He
was regarded as a man adorned with
every virtue.
Fashion Notes.
Colored laces are too much worn.
Clair1 dr how jet means colored jet.
The reign of stripe?! hosiery is over.
White caps are fashionable at New
port.
Box plaited basques will be much
worn this fall.
Fashionable pique suits for children
are no longer braided.
Colored jet bends bid fair to be the
rage as a fashionable trimming.
Little boys and girls under six or
seven wear the same styles of dresses.
' Lace buttons are revived for organdy
aud Swiss muslin garments.
All new polonaises and hotel basques
simulate men's frock and dress coats.
Pique is the fall dress fabric for little
folks, combined with Hamburg or opeu
work trimming.
The snits for small children of both
sexes are the princess robe, the English
frock, and the Scotch kilt.
A profusion of ribbon bows with tight
straps and long loops and ends are seen
on some of the importations of dresses
for fall wear.
Chenille net polonaises, embroidered
with chenille, are the latest costly novel
ties for upper garments to be worn over
silk skirts and bodices.
Very pretty boots are now shown in
fancy styles especially adapted for the
Eercale toilettes. Many now wear the
igh slipper, which almost conceals the
foot, for walking and driving.
The colored bead passementeries
which will be used onfall dresses will
give them the appearance of being strewn
with precious stones. Such passemen
teries will be applied only to evening
and reception toilets.
For very small children, the most
effective pique dresses are cut pompa
dour or square iu the neck, the sleeves
are short, and the whole trimmed with
ruffles and flounces of Hamburcr em
broidery, headed with insertings of the
same.
A new style of infants' cloak is made
with a waist plaited skirt, a coachman's
or short military cape covering the shoul
uers anu turning dock in ironi witli a
silk lining. The colors chosen for these
noveltieB are pale blue, pink, gray, and
even iiiiem, uui wniie is uoi exploited,
and is the handsomest of all.
A Singular Compact.
Mr. Rnnnv rift Mulv Rnmlisii- U.n
province of Tohernikoff, Russia, com-
uuiieu . suiciue recently under singular
circumstances. As the gentleman was
verv rich, and haA OYftAllAnt iwiumn. 4.
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remaining in the world, his voluntary
a.; -r.1 : i i i i i. .
c&iu rruo pii4uiug, uui was PApituueu uy
a letter found in his desk, alongside of a
pistol case. Ten years before he had
enffatrftd tn rlcht a duel Vint inafoiul r.1
going into the field it was' decided that
one of the two contestants should kill
lumself in ten years, unless his adver
sary gave him permission to live. Lots
were drawn in order to decide who
should be the victim, aud Mr. Rouav
was the unlucky man. The time for the
suicide was May 11. 1877. and accord
ingly on the tenth he received a letter
irom his cold blooded antagonist de
manding he fulfillment of his word,
A Dangerous Cigar Trap.
A late issue of the Cincinnati Com
mercial has the following: A few even
ings since a man walked into a cigar
stand on Vine street and lighted a cigar,
or rather relighted it As he threw away
the taper and whiffed vigorously at the
weed, something occurred that rather
startled him and those who happened to
be standing near. It was an explosion,
a sharp crack. There were smoke and
flying tobacco and an odor of powder, in
the midst of which the victim vanished,
without waiting for the sympathy and in
terrogatories that were sure to have been
poured upon him.
Yesterday noou Police Commissioner
Carson was standing on Fifth street,
when he and a friend were startled by a
report, as if of the explosion of a pistol.
Looking across the street they saw a
young man with his head bowed and his
hands up to his face, as if in suffering.
" Somebody must have shot him," said
one. " Perhaps he has tried suicide,"
said the other, as there was nobody noar
to do the shooting. They crossed over
to the young man, and the party entered
a drug store, where the young man, evi
dently badly scared, was found to be but
little worse for the explosion. His foce
was not burned, but there was a slight
burning of the roof of the mouth on the
left side. Mr. Carson asked him his
name and where he lived. He answered
that it was William Brown, and that he
lived on Sycamore street. Soon after
ward he acknowledged that he had not
told the truth. He then said that his
name was James McCarthy. He had
given the wrong name and address, in the
first place, through fear of getting his
name into the newspapers. The officer
accompanied him to his home.
As the officer was about to leave he
was accosted by Alexander Corbin, who
keeps a little policy office with a " coal "
sign and a small cigar stand for a " stall,"
with a questi'on as to the trouble. The
officer informed him, whereupon Corbin,
in great triumph, informed the officer
that the cigar that had caused the trouble
had doubtless been stolen from his case.
He had for a long time been troubled
by cigar thieves, who had robbed him of
three hundred dollars' worth. To detect
and punish them, if possible, he had
lately charged twenty-five cigars with
powder in small tin cylinders. Some of
these cigars had been stolen. He thought
that if tho officer would search young
McCarthy he would, perhaps, find more
of the same kind on his person. The
search was made, mul, suro enough,
another of the loaded weeds was found.
A reporter for the Commercial pro
cured one of these small internal ma
chines and examined it. The cigar is of
common stock, dark wrapper, full size.
Exactly one-third of its length the
middle third is occupied by a tin cylin-.I.-.I.
ououi uj Uoju a fifth in length
and about a fifth of an m diameter.
The end toward themontn j8 Df tin, and
well secured; but .fuut ujkmh ti,n other
end of the cigar is covered only with
i .it . ri
paper, anu very min paper ai uiai. me
inevitable result of the smoking of one
of these cigars is an explosion, when the
cigar is about one-third burned.
How Franklin Got a Seat.
In the year 1772 Franklin visited
Boston, and on his return to Phila
delphia at every stopping place he was
beset with othcious inquiries, etc., on
which he determined to be beforehand
with interrogatories iu future.
At the next tavern he registered him
self as Benjamin Franklin, from Boston
to Philadelphia, a printer not worth a
dollar, eighteen years of age, x single
man seeking his fortune, etc., and his
singular introduction checked all further
inquiries and effectually repulsed the
daring propensity of native luqnisitive
ness. At one of the public houses the
fireplace was surrounded by men so
closely packed our traveler could not ap
proach near enough to feel any of its
agreeable warmth, and being cold aud
cliilled he called out :
" Hostler, have you any oysters ?"
" Yes, sir," said the man.
" Well, then, give my horse a peck."
said Franklin.
" What, give your horse oysters ?"
" Yes," retorted Franklin : " give him
a peck of oysters."
ihe hostler carried out the oysters
and many of the occupants of the fireplace-
went with him to witness the
great curiosity of a horse eating oysters.
j.iuuK.1111 netiieu nimseu comioruuny
before the fire and derived mnch satis
faction and enjoyment from the funny
experiment. Soon the men came in,
and the company with rueful faces ex
pressed most decided dissatisfaction at
their disappointment.
" The horse would not eat the oysters,
sir, and they had lost their eosey, com
fortable, warm seats.
" Well, if the horse won't eat them I'll
eat them myself, and you may try him
witn a pecu oi pats."
No More Turkey.
A traveler departing from Oriental
scenes breaks out in the following
rhapsody : Farewell to the gay gardens,
the spicy bazaars, to the splash of
fountains and the gleam of golden-tipped
minarets! Farewell to the perfect
morns, the balmy twilights, the still
heat of the blue noons, the splendor of
moon and stars ! Farewell to the glare
of the white crags, the tawny wastes of
dead sand, the valleys of oleander, the
hills of myrtle and spices ! Farewell to
the bath, agent of purity and peace,
and parent of delicious dreams to the
shebook, whose fragrant fumes are
breathed from the lips of patience and
contentment to the narghileh, crowned
with that blessed plant which grows ' in
the gardens of shiras, while a fountain
more delightful than those of samarcand
bubbles in its crystal bosom 1 Farewell
to the red cap and slippers, to the big
turban, the flowing trousers, . and the
gaudy shawl to squatting ou broad di
vans, to sipping black coffee in acorn
cups, to grave faces and salaam alei
kooins, aud touching of the lips and
forehead ! Farewell to the evening
meal in the tent door, to the couch on
the friendly earth, to the yells of the
muleteers, to the deliberate marches of
the plodding horse, and the endless
rocking of the diomedary that knoweth
its master ! Farewell, finally, to annoy
ance without anger, delay without vexa
tion, indolence without ennui, endurance
without fatigue, appetite without in.
temperance, enjoyment without pall 1
A Woman's "No."
He spoke to her with manly word
With honest speech and slow t
Bhe felt she loved him as she heard,
But yet she answered " No."
Bhe Baw him rise, ehe saw him stand,
As staggering from a blow ;
Bhe could have kissed his trembling hand.
But still she answered "No."
And so he goes to come ao more !
But let him only go,
Her voice will call him from the door
Who trusts a woman's " No?"
Items of Interest
A new Chinese theater is to be erected
on Washington street, San Francisco, at
a cost of $30,000.
The foreman of a jury in Texas, which
lately granted a divorce to a woman,
married her the same day.
Many of the wagons going to the
Black Hills are drawn by cows, which
furnish sufficient milk to pay the tolls.
Three good-looking young ladies the
other day stood beBide a grocer's sigu .
which read : " Don't squeeze these
peaches."
An international congress is to take
measures against the phylloxera and
Colorado beetle, the destroyers of vines
and potatoes.
The inhabitants of the mountain val
leys of North Italy are embarking in
large numbers from Mediterranean
ports for America.
The United States occupies the third
place in the list of hop-growing coun
tries, Germany taking the lead and Eng
land ranking second.
Some Europeans think that Europe
cau take 2,000,000 American cattle every
year, because some of tho old countries
have reached the limit of cattle-raising.
A post-mortem examination on the
body of a New York man who had died
of consumption showed that the heart
was on the right side and the liver on
the left
Tnriish soldiers are taller than the
Russians, and will average at least five
feet and ten. inches. They, wear full
beards, but have their heads shaved, or
the hair cut very short.
A market street lady purchased a nice
new door mat the other morning with
the word "Welcome" stamped thereon
in glowing letters, and the first to como
along aud plank his number elevens on '
it was a book agent.
A wandering old portrait painter
named Cooper, always seen with a rusty
satchel under his arm, has been found
dead near Martinville, Ky., and the
bundle when opened was found to con
tain $65,000 in government bonds.
A farmer named Reuben White, while
cutting oats in a field near Washington
Conrthonse, Ohio, cut through a nest f
huso, ma iiumco, muaJoneil by the
stings of the insects, threw him tm Ins
seat before the sickle, lie was so baiuy
mangled that he died in a few minutes.
A contemporary says in a recent article:
" If you wish to know whether a man is
superior to the prejudices of the world,
ask him to carry a parcel for you." A '
fellow tried this plan a few days since,
upon a well-dressed man he met at a
railway station. The well-dressed man
took the parcel, and the other was satis
fled that he was superior to tho preju
dices of society, but he has not seen the
parcel since.
They were walking arm in arm up tho
street, aud just ahead of them was u
woman iu a new Princesse dress. The
setting sun was gilding the .western
heaven, and throwing ji beautiful crim
son glow over all the earth. He said in
a subdued tone: "Isn't it lovely?"'
" Well, I don't know," was tho reply of
his fair companion; " I don't think the
trimming matches very well, and it
doesn't fit her for any thing. " He shud
dered. A gentleman had been bothered so
constantly with tramps and their en
treaties for something to eat that he in
structed his cook to tell them she had
nothing. The other day one of them
dropped iu and made the usual plea and
inquiry. The cook responded promptly:
" We have nothing at all." The tramp
then courteously asked : " Have you an
old basket you could let me have ? The
girl replied : " No 1 . What do you want
with a basket?" Tramp" Oh, I thought
I would run over to the poor-house and
get you some cold victuals."
Why They Often Fall.
Young men often fail to get on in thiu
world because they neglect small oppor
tunities. Not being faithful in littlo
things, they are not promoted to the
charge of greater things.
A young man who gets a subordinate
situation sometimes thinks it is not
necessary for him to give it much atten
tion, lie will wait till he gets a place
of responsibility, aud then he will show
people w..at he can do. This is a very
great mistake. Whatever his situation
may be, he should master it in all its
details, and perform all its duties faith
fully. The habit of doing his work thorough
ly and conscientiously is what is most
likely to enable a young man to make
his way. With this habit, a person of
only ordinary abilities would outstrip
one of greater talents who is in the
habit of slighting subordinate matters.
But, after all, the mere adoption by a
young man, of this great essential rule
of success, shows him to be possessed of
superior abilities.
A Valuable Tahlo for Reference.
A sun of money placed at compound
interest at the rate stated in the first
column, doubles itself iu the time given
iu columns opposite, iu the following
table :
JVar. Manila. iiayt.
percent. ..46 6 191
....35 0 1
" ....28 0 25
" ....23 5 10J
" ....20 0 62 18-24
" ...-17 8 1017-24
- " ....15 9 20 22-24
....14 2 13
....12 11 10
" ....11 10 21J
" ....10 2 271
" .... 9 4 3-24
.... 8-Q 15
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