Ratoa of Advertising. One Square (I lneh,)ono insertion - $1 One Square ' ono month - -3 00 One Square " three months - 6 00 One Square " one year - - 10 00 Two .Squares, one year ... IS Oo OunrterCol. " - - - - 30 00 ia published evkky wkdnesbay, by OFFICE IN R0BIN301T & BONNER'S BUILDIKQ ELM STREET, HON EST A, PA, OunrterCol. Half " One " . " - 50 00 " - - - 100 00 TERM8, fl.60 A YEAR Xo Subscriptions received for a shorter l.rlod than throe month. Correspondence solicited trom all parts nl the country. No notice will bo taken of Legal notices at established rates. Marriage and death notices, gratia. All bills for yearly advertisements ml. lected quarterly. Temporary advertise ments must bo paid for in advance. Job work, Cash on Delivery. VOL. XII. KO. 7. TIONESTA, PA., MAY 7, 1879. $1.50 Per Annum, imuiiyiMuuM c mi mimical ions. The OH, Old Story. The pastor's littlu daughter Sits smiling in the Bun, Dosido her on tho old stone bench The Btory-hook just done, And lurking in hor wine-brown eyes A story just begun, 4-'or yonder, pruning the apple trees, . Behold the farmer's son. Slowly ftdown tho pathway The pastor cornea and goes, And settles with his long, lean hand Tho glosses on his nose. Bora ever dry, brown branch before So beautiful a rose T Ah, he thinks his blossom only a bud, Though he wntches it as it blows. ' "s it the story of Moses In his rush-wrapped cradle found, Or of Joseph and his brethren T IleJJiiiiks us he glances round. " Ydave finished your volume, Amy, Is it something scriptural and sound T" And his little daughter blushes and starts, A nd her book fulls to the ground. Go on with your walk, good pastor, Yon do not yourself deceive; It has boon a soriptural story Since Adam first kissed Eve. And never blush, little lassie, The talo was written above, No other so speaks of Heaven As the old, old story of love. London Header. AT SIMPSON'S. " Any letters for'F. F. Van Cleof?" in a nervous, anxious voice, '.was asked by a well-fed, well-clothed, close-cropped young fellow of the hotel clork. "All! what name?" demanded that elegant functionary, not liecause he had not hoard perfectly well, but to find time to lounge over tlio ten feet intervening b 'tween himself nod the letter lioxcs. The name was repeated in a sharp, quick tone.- "No; nothing." " Please look in C " The clerk stared ; wonderel what was up; reflected that the new comer had brought but little bargaye; mentally re solved to keep an eve on him; shuffled over the letters in the "C'box; shook his headend then relapsed into an arm chair ovtfi'orac with the exertion. Frank Tbok the elevator, let himself iiio- his room, lit a cigar, reflected, and then sighed. Eight years in Europe, home at last, summer well under way, a fair inherit ance, prineinally in Chicago property, ami a prospect of being independent ol his brush for the rest of his lit; such were the time and circumstances under which he found himself. Nothing to sigh at in that. But expensive living in Europe had exhausted the gold remaining in his pocket after he had paid his passage money. His lawyers and 'the executors of his late Aunt Miranda's estate had been instructed, however, by tho previ ous mail to remit money to him at the Brunswick, so that was a matter of no moment. -But the remittance had not arrived. Most of his baggage had been expressed to Chicago from the hold of the big Cunarder,.aud in it the address of his new lawyers. " ' My lawyers' sounds well," he re flected, "but I wish to the deuce they'd semi me some money." Tuesday came, but with it no letters. It became, annoying, but still ho could wait, Presently he went out for a stroll, found it warm, and deplored the luck that kept him from getting away from the heat and dust to Newport, where he was to join some friends with whom he had spent the winter in Rome. Entering the hotel, the clerk handed him a letter. Ah! money at last! No; it was a note, addressed n an Anglo- Boston, laanu : ear Mb. Van Ci.kkk: Come and din with us to-night. We saw your arrival in the Part hia's passenger-list in the morning pHper, and are anxious to know how you are and whqre you are going to upend the summer. Come at seven. Dining by sun light is like " playing tea," so we eat late. Yours, sincerely, Marib. No. '28 West 41th street. "Now, who the deuce ! Marie, Marie I don't know any Marie, especially any Marie who is particularly interested in me, and who writes a charming note, aavs things which with women pass for wit, and," smelling of the paper, "who uses extract of violet liberally. Well, I'll be sure to go ; it may divert rav mind from my pecuniary embarrassment. I'll have to make a clean breast of it to the clerk soon, and probably lie arrested for a swindler. A man who expects remit tances and don t know his. lawyer s ad dress, who has no baggage and wants money to get to Chicago with, looks like a sublimely-cheeky conliilence.man." " "Evening dress claw-hammer coat. etc., but no gloves, no ties; why4 money is a momentary .necessity, by Jove!" said Frank, as he took these articles from his trunk. - " I can't go to dinner and find out mv unknown friends if I don't have cloves. Oh, if there was only a Mont de Picie in New York! By Jove, Simpson's! I will arise and go unto ' my uncle' and say, ' Unele, lend me $10.' " Frank laughed, then grew sober again. There was a sense of degradation in the mere idea. Then, with a shrug, he took out a box of jewelry, none of itex pensive, and turned it over. "Hello, here's just the thing," he thought, as he took out a locket. It was an odd eanieo. Around it coiled a golden serpent, with brilliantly-enameled scales and a pair of " pigeon's-'blood" ruby eyes. Frank had picked it up in a little shop in Ixmdon just lx'fore he sailed for home. It was one of the fancies in which he hail begun to indulge himself when he re ceived the first remittance from his new lawyers and new pri perty. ", 1 his bauble is principally accountable or my being short of money," he bought. "I will make it remember me." On the back of tho quaint old locket were the initials, " V. 1). V.," and below them. " M. E." There had been a picture in it once, but there was left only the marks of the knife with which it had been pried out. It was growing late, and calling a hack, Frank jumped in and told the driver to take him to the new courthouse. Arrived there, he told the man to wait, passed through tho building and out the other door, walked bri sk ly to Si m pson's, 1 lesi t ated a moment, bolted in the door, and in a moment stood in a box at the counter, where a poor woman was pawning some clothing for food. Frank shuddered, drew out the locket and laid it down. A dark man took it up, looked at it, turned it over, scrutinized the initials, tested tho gold on a corner, and said, laconically : "How much P" "Ten dollars." The man turned away, made out the ticket, handed Frank the money and his duplicate ticket, and turned to the next comer. With a sich at tho atmosphere of misery hanging around the place, from the dark comers of which the hollow faces of the specters of want and starva tion seemed leering at him. Frank passed quickly out the door, regained his cab, said to the driver, "Brunswick quick!" and rolled away. n. Two little red lins nuivered nercepti- bly, and two big black eyes fined with tears. To bo hungry - absolutely, un poetieally and practically hungry was a novel experience to Bessie Prang. To be hungry in a fashionable lodging-house, with plenty down stairs in a well-filled larder and cool, pleasant dining-room, was absolutely absurd. Sitting in a pretty room, amid a mass of pretty femi nine knick-knacks and brick-a-brac, hearing the rattle of knives nnd forks come up on the air from the table below ; and yet to be hungry was " positively. maddeningly incongruous," she thought. To be sure there was no reason whv she should not have gone to the landlady and explained her situation and been sure of proper treatment, but they had been in the house but a few days, and hail been taking their meals out nt a neighboring restaurant. Bessie's mother had been called away to visit a sister who was ill, and she had left her little girl alone, not without misgivings, and the night before Bessie hnd lost Iter purse or had her pocket picked coming from din ner; at any rnte it was gone, and with it the money which was to have bought her food for the next two days. A prac tical woman would have done the obvi ous thing and interviewed her landlady. isut Jiessie was even more than most women sensitive altout going to strangers when in trouble, especially about money matters, and feared to encounter suspi cion ; so she went without her breakfast, and at lunch-time was ravenously hun gry. What a curse a good appetite is at times! Then it occurred to her that she had heard her cousin Tom joke about his " Uncle," and she knew that he was alluding to a pawnbroker. What a hor rid thing a pawnbroker must lie. A kind of a crop between a Shylock and a Fagin, she thought, and they would ogle her perhaps. Oh. no! She'd starve before she would go there. But as the afternoon wore on an4 hunger increased, and with it her perplexity, she began to cry. But crying didn't help matters any; on the contrary, the pangs of hunger rather in- i i : 1 . . . i . . . . ci e.ini-u, juiu nil Liit-iii uer ueiermina- tion to find her cousin Tom's " Uncle." She resolved that no one but herself should ever know of her perplexity, not even mamma, nor of her visit to the pawnbroker's never that." i rom under a mass ol ribbons and laces. artificial flowers and dainty lace hand kerchiefs, tumbled into a Bureau-drawer, she fished out a small box, ad took from it a queer old locket. It was a carved cameo, surrounded by a brilliant ly enameled snake with ruby eyes, and on the back the initials M. E., and under neath, V. P. V. Poor old grandma; how horrified von would be if you only knew, and hadn't been dead these ten years !" she said to herself softly, as she put the locket back in its case, and ran down stairs in the late summer afternoon. It was a long walk down Broadway. the pavements were hot and scorched her feet, her lace grew flushed with exer tion, and her black curls clune damply to her white forehead. Besides, she was weak from long fasting. She thought at last that she did not know were she wus going, but she mustered up courage to ak. a policeman. He eyed lier curiously, but told Her civilly enough where to go Hot waves of crimson dyed her face and neck as she passed in at the doorway under the trio of golden balls, and stood at the counter. She heard a poor woman refused tho amount sho begged for on an old shawl. It was moth-eaten, aiut they aid not want it any price. Then a voice said : " Well, miss P" She produced the locket. "How much P" Alter a hurried ex nminatron she was relieved to see that the man took to her novel situation cool ly enough, and she spoke for the first umei "Ten dollars, please." The money was counted out, she gave a dollar oi it to the poor woman whose shawl had been rejected and who still stood in a dazed way on the side walk, escaped from her thanks into fourth avenue car, and was soon bath ing in her cool room, and forgetful, now that sne nad money, of her hunger. J ust then a note reached her. Drabest BESf 'k: Do come over nnd dine Fred ana I are in town for a day or two. In haste, thine. No. 28 West 44th street. Marie. "'Put money in thy purse' and thou shall be invited to dinner," thought Bes sie, as sne mentally resolved to go at once to her old school-fellow and her husband. III. "Mr. an cieei, said the man-ser vant, opening the door of the drawing T. ..L) II'... .1.1 . room oi io. d y esi nin street, am: .. . -i ... rranK was usnerea into tne cool rooms ard the presence of a tall, fine-looking man, whom ho had never seen before in his life, a blonde, matronly little woman "that's Marie," he thought and a charming girl, in white, with great black eyes, and a mass of soft, black hair rolled upon the small, clean-cut head. For a moment the situation was em barrassing. Then Mr. Francklyn step ped forward, and Frank said : "There seems to be some mistake; I must have a namesake somewhere." "Oh, no; we are cousins to your Jate Aunt Miranda, who has just made you her legatee, and as you have come homo at last we mean, now that you are. here, to make you accept a cousin's plat in our house and our friendship," said Mr. Francklyn. It is enough to say that the dinner was perfect, the hostess charming, the host ajolly good fellow and Bessie so botwitch- ing that Frank was in love head and ears before the dinner was finished. The letter from " my lawyers " was at the hotel when Frank returned, covered with the postmarks of half tho " New Brunswieks" in the country, among which it had traveled while lie was waiting for it at the Hotel Brunswick. The last murnvur that he made as lie dropped off to sleep was, "Found an ' uncle,' two cousins and and " and he was dreaming of a black-eyed girl in white in another minute. IV. The phlegmatic clerk at the pawn qroker's turned over two lockets appar ently just alike and" examined them curiously, then put them back in their wrappers and was about to put them away when a fellow-clerk approached and also looked at them. They changed them about a little and then placed them in the wrappers and in the safe. The next day both lockets wero redeemed. They thought it curious at the moment, but odd things are of daily occurrence in the office of a pawnbroker, the theater of tho daily tragedy of woe and want, pov erty, hunger and dirt. Frank looked at the locket when he reached his hotel; it was the same. There was the little bright spot where the pawnbroker's acid had touched the orner ot tne case, but tne rest was the same exactly, no ne rubbed nis eyes whereas when he took the locket to the pawnbroker the initials on the case md read : V. D. V. M. E. Of this he was perfectly sure; yet, here now, they were plainly reversed, and cail : M. E. V. D. V. He puzzled over it for some time. Then be went down in a cab and de manded of the pawnbroker an explana tiorn The young man told him of tho two lockets, exactly alike, left within an lour of each other on the preceding day. each pledged for $ 10, each redeemed in he morning, and explanations now they must have been changed, the young man hoped that there was no harm done ; mom tiered that the other locket was eft by a " young woman :" really didn't (member what sne looked like, and then went back to his work. Frank returned mine puzzled. It really didn't matter: it was only a chance purchase of a unique rifle in leweiry; no hadn t the remotest idea whose the initials were, but he was superstitious about it, and it troubled nm. lhat the locket nad a double in New York there could be no doubt, and so Frank resolved not to tell the story, nit to wear tne locket on nis watch- hain. in the hope that it would some time attract the attention of some one who could solve the mystery. " Mamma," cried Bessie the next dav when, her confession made, she had re deemed her prwious locket and was ex amining it, "Mamma, this is not my locket. This is the other one. This is ioor trrandma s love token to her faith less lover come back to her grandchild: see, see," she rattled on in wild excite ment. Mrs. Prayne looked sharply, saw the reversed initials, and was as excited n a moment as Bessie. Cousin Tom was lispatched to the pawnbroker's for in formation. He learned but little more than Frank, and so the mystery was talked of and speculated upon for the next week. Grandma s love story was told over and over. Briefly it was this: Mary Emerson and Van Dyke Vedder were lovers years before. Thev exchanged lockets made for them. Vedder went sailing away out into the west nnd mar ried, leaving grandma, then young and nrettv. to soon console herself with an other lover and husband. Sho always kept the locket and a warm spot in her heart, as every woman does lor the man whom she once loved. But she never saw or heard of him again in life. Bessie m-eived her blessing, her little fortune and the precious locket from grandma on Her deatn-bed. And now, alter fifty years and without a clew, the lockets were changed by some mysterious agency. VI. Two months later Bessie and Frank met again at tho Franklyns' pretty house at Newport. They had both forgotten the lockets, and soon forgot the world in each other. One summer evening Bessie promised to be his wife, and as two little white arms went up around his neck, Frank was guilty of a most unconventional pro ceeding. He actually was surprised out of taking immediate 'advantage of his newly-acquired privileges. Among the lace about Bessie's neck rested the other locket. The love -tokens were love tokens still. Bessie told her grandmother's little romance, and the initials were explained to Frahk, who exclaimed, almost with awe: "Van Dyke Vedder, the faithless lover of your grandmother, Mary Emer son, was my grandfather." In a handsome house in Fifth avenue there hangs upon the parlor wall a velvet case. In it are two lockets, each as like the other as can well be imagined a cameo surrounded by an enameled snake with ruby eyes. Over them hang three golden balls. Xsw York Star, TIMELY TOriCS. It may bo interesting for some people to know that it costs twenty-five dollars to take a dog across the Atlantic, and that the animal is taken at the owner's risk, unless special contract to the con trary is made with the steamship com pany. One company will not take them on any terms, neither will it take corpses. Goldie, the naturalist, has found in New Guinea a tribe who suggested to him the origin of the rumors always current of a race of tailed men in some corner of the 5 lobe. These natives wear artificial tails, hey arc entirely nude, except for the caudal ornament, .which is a plait of grass fastened around their bodies by a tine string, and depending behind to about halfway down their legs. New Orleans is deterermined that its filth shall not invite yellow fever to its midst this summer. A sanitary associa tion of citizens is backing up the lioard of health, and by their joint efforts the canals and gutters are being flushed, garbage removed, and the cemeteries, into which the city poor have been crowded until tho neighbors could hardly endure the stench, covered two feet deep under river sand. Quarantine regula tions will also be more strictly enforced than ever before. A correspondent at Ilarrodsburg, the oldest town in Kentucky tho first cabin was built there in 1774, by Capt. James Harrod, after whom it was named has been inquiring into the murderous record of the immediate vicinity during the last seventeen years, and lias found that forty-three homicides have been com mitted there, and only two persons sent to prison for their crimes. Some of the tragedies have been barbarous in the ex treme. Rlrs. Tilford, a widow with seven children, having inherited her hus band's estate, married again, ono Scott, a younger person than herself. He deliber ately provided himself with a small arsenal, and set about exterminating his wife's offspring. He killed three out right, and wounded others. The moftve was plainly to enjoy the property alone with his wife; but the jury found him insane. , It was held that an act so dia bolical could not be done by a man in sound mind. Scott afterward went to Texas and married again. Ono Daven port, n deputy sheriff, had a writ for tho arrest of Isaiah Gabbard, who armed himself, and with a friend sallied out in quest of the sheriff, nnd shot him and his brother dead. The murderers wero acquitted. Later, a certain Henry Noel, having heard that Gabbard had threat ened his life, hunted him down, and find ing him unarmed, put two bullets through his heart. Noel was not even tried. Timoleon Bosley was shot dead while coming out ot church, by James Lawson, who had an old grudge against him. No Sunishment followed any of these min ers. In several instances, where men of no social position exercised the privi lege of the commonwealth by shooting somelxjdy, the shooters wero hanged by mobs. The First Piano. The name first given the new instru ment was the hammer-harnsichord: next, its power of giving both a loud and a soft note procured it the name of forte piano t. c, loud-soft ; this next changed to piano-forte. In 1702 Mozart played upon the piano, at the nro of six: and his letters in 1777 record his great delight in the pianos of Stein, a maker of that day. In 17C7 the piano seems to have been introduced to the public in England, for a play-bill of "The Beggars' Opera" at the Covent Garden Theatre, May 16, announced that "at the end of Act I. Miss Brickler will sing a favorite song from "Judith," accompanied by Mr. Dibdin on a new instrument called the piano-forte." "Tho use of this kind of instrument," said Thalls-rg, " led to its peculiar capabilities being thoroughly acumen ami appreciated, and tne com poser repaid their obligation to the in strument by writing for it many of the finest productions of music,- and by prac ticing the execution of these productions to such an extent as to be able to bring them ln'fore the public with the greatest possible eclat." Mozart, llii .dn, Handel an i Beethoven wrote especially for it ; nnd yet, although the note of the virginul-spinet-harpsichord was called by Dr. Burney " a scratch with a sound at the end of it," the early piano was not much better. The one on which Ghu-k com posed his " Arinida," which was prob ably as good as any of the great com posers of the last century ever saw, was made in 1772. It was exhibited as a suggestive curiosity in the Ignition Ex position of lHt, and was thus described : " It was four feet and a half in length and two feet in width, with a small Biuare sounding-board at the end; the wires were little more than threads, and the hammers eonsisteiUff a few piles of leainer over tne ncau or a fioriz rizontal jack working on n bridge." In his early life an important part of John Jacob Astor's business was the im portation of Ixmdon pianos to New York. In lH(K), Thomas Jefferson, in writing to lys daughter Martha, men tioned that a Philadelphian had invented "one of the prettiest improvements in the forte-pianos I have ever seen;" and he bought one for his Monticcllo house. It was an upright, and Mr. Jefferson said that "he contrives to give his strings the same length as in the grand forte-piano, and fixes his three unisons of the same screw, which screw is in the direction of tho strings, nnd therefore never yields; it scarcely get out of time at all, and then for the most part the three unisons are tuned at once. Julius Wilcox, in Harper's Magazine. Prof. Benjamin Pierce, of Harvard Col lege, says the whole number of comets which are capable of being seen from the i arth, and which are contained in our sun's sphere, may be fairly estimated at i ver 5,000,(XK),t)00. Considering the hard .ess of the times we should say that the un's sphere was pretty well fixed, as rc ards comets. i When Neptune is in an affectionate iood he throws an arm of the sea around aist ol water and hugs the shore, A L'nrionsly Told Tiger Story. A papsr published in India says: The following sensational story of an en counter with a tiger is supplied by Babu Donian Chundei Chowdry, Zemindar of Maldah : " On the morning, 0th Bhad dra, Kishen Lai and myself went with five elephants to the Kadubnnd jungle, four miles to tho north of Itohanpore. My howda was on Makhna Kishen Lai had his on Dantal. At 9 A, M. wo en countered a tiger, and bang went two bullets from my rifle, hitting stripes, I suppose, on the loin and the belly, and Kishen Lai hit him on the thigh. Most probably tho bullets did not break the bones nnd tho ' spotted foe ' took shelter at some distance in tho water of a hol low overhung with long glassy jungle and was, of course, not visible. I at once followed the game with a couple of elephants, one being only a beater. Poor Makhna. on whicn I which I was mounted, unfortunately tell into the hol low, and, quick as lightning, the tiger was on his back, biting him. I lost no time in giving stripes two bullets in his lxidy, and yet the light between the ele phant nnd tiger continued. The moment was critical. The feat of remaining in tho howda became extremely difficult. With his trunk Makhna dragged stripes down four or five times and the latter made the bulky body of the former shake right and left some fourteen or fifteen times. During this struggle the mahut fell on the ground from tho elephant's neck but had the dexterity to mount his back again and then to lodge himself on the back of the howda, which shook so fearfully at times it would come swing ing to the ground. Of course, now, the combat was ' hand-to hand.' nnd lasted for nearly an hour. The four remaining elephants followed me at first, but what with the struggle between their comrade andstlipes, and the roaring of the one and the cries of the other, they became uncontrollable, beat a hasty retreat and took their stand more than sixty yards off. Dear Kishen Lai tried his best to come up to me, but the Dantal was too much frightened to obey the mahut. Chand Tare, poor creature, did after wards comatoward ine, but she was only a boater and took her stand some fifteen feet behind. Poor Makhna was much the worse for this singular combat and fell prostrate on his right siire, and stripes, too, fell on the ground. The tiger lay some four or five feet from me. Not seeing me, my followers were alarmed. They kicked up a row, Kishen Lai crying out 'uncle killed by tiger.' To see me was impossible. Lying on the ground I thouglit of God, pressed against the howda, handled the rifle and gave stripes 'a bullet. It told upon his neck, but yet he did not let go his held of the elepliant, which was still lying on his side, The contents of the other bar rel I emptied into the tiger's back. He then left Makhna and all was over with stripes in an instant. The elephant was on his legs. The mahut got upon his neck and I mounted the howda. Mak hna, poor creature, had been hurt in his trunk in ten or twelve places. The tiger measured thirteen feet from the tip of his nose to the end of the tail. This is but a faint outline of what actually took place. Many a tiger has fallen by my rifle, but never in my life did I witness such a larai." The Powder-Play. Several times during : the year in Mo- litants of a town roeco, the Arab inhal hold certain half-religious festivals called the leasts of the Aissouia, which, in many ways, are as revolting as the orgies of the lowest savages. Though the Arabs are shy of foreign eyes at their rites, the tourist may get an invitation to these performances, if he happens to have a friend among the natives. Following his guide through a maze of tortuous streets, and up a (jreat many flights of stone steps, lie will final ly be conducted to a small hall of Moor ish architecture, with the characteristic horseshoe arches supported upon marble pillars, and no roof except, perhaps, a fragment of striped awning. Around the inside runs a gallery occupied by veiled Moorish ladies, and ornamented with a few flags, which alone relievo the glare ol whitewash on nil sides ot this queer building. The floor is laid with octa gonal tiles ot red and white, and upon red mats, around a small "altar" in the center, sit the musicians and performers, while the spectators find places behind. The chosen performers will dance I bare-footed upon red-hot plates of iron and on beds of living coals; will i lick rods of red-hot iron; will take j burning torches between their teeth ; and hold lbtmingoil-wicks until the blaze has burned straight into the palms of I their hands; will swallow nails and I stones; will even snatch up a living I scorpion and crunch it between the teeth. ; with as keen relish as that with which a j newsboy eats a shrimp. All this is gone through with (for money) to the harsh i tumult of half a dozen rude drums and horns, which make a fit accompaniment to these horrid remnants of pagan fire worship. A much more interesting, though no 1 loss noisy, recreation, is the powder-play, ! a game that may tako place on foot or on horseback, for these Moors, as everybody knows, are nearly as much at home in the saddle as afoot. The horsemen en gaged in the game ride at an exceedingly rapid pace, carrying loaded guns which they discharge as they dash about in all I kinds of positions above, below, on either side and straight forward. The noble horses seem to enter into the wild rush and noise of the fun as much as their masters, and the celerity with which tho various movements are exe cuted is wonderful. Not only do the younger men take part in the sport, bul old gray-headed nun enjoy it with keen interest and equal spirit. Another kind of powder-play is performed on foot. The band strikes up a fearful din under the name of music, and in the midst cf the distracting medley two lines of men, that have formed opposite one another, rush together, and, throwing their Isalies into wonderful attitudes, fire their guns, and shout and yell as though in a tual bat tie. The Arabs call this powder-play J.ah-cl-baiode.J-.'rnt.il liiyirsuU in M. Nicholas. ITEMS OF INTEREST. It is easy enough to make a shoi t ox stall There are more short young men than tall ones. To make your collar last shirts first. Make your The fusc.hia is sometimes called th lady's eardrop. A rod, a line, and a poor worm at each end, typify patience. Wood is often found at a depth of forty fet at Oscaloosa, Ind. It is said about 1,000 settlers per day " boom into Nebraska." The army Bill William Tecumseh Sherman. Buffalo Express, Eight hundred thousand base balls are made in this country each year. Two chunks of lead, weighing half a ton, have been mined at Washington, Mo. Henry Clay's voice was called a band of music; Webster's a trumpet; Chaa ning's a harp. New Haven turns out 3,000,000 corsets annually, half of the country's supply coming from there. According to the French newspapers there is general distress in the provincial manufacturing districts. What is the difference between an old dame at the spinning-wheel and a young urchin chewing tobacco? One sits and spins and the other spits and sins. The boxwood forests of the Caucasus, Armenia, and the shores of the Caspian Sea are rapidly disappearing under the constantly increasing demand for this valuable wood. The construction of underground tele graph wires is going on in Germany, and that country will soon be intersected with a complete network of this invisi ble nnd inaccessible means of communi cation, which no thunder storm can de stroy and no roving enemy can readily cut. FOR WHITERS TO THE PRESS. Write upon pages ot a single size, Cross all your t's and neatly dot your i's. in one side only let your lines be scon Both sides filled up announce n verdant green. Correct yes, correct all that you write, Aud let your ink be black, your paper white; For spongy foolscap of a muddy blue Betrays a mind of the same dismal hue. Punctuate carefully; for on tliis score Nothing proclaims the. practiced writer more. The gallant who, when a young lady stepped on his foot while dancing and asked pardon, said, " Don't mention it ; a dainty little foot like that wouldn't hurt a daisy," not only told the truth, but doubtless felt more comfortable than the boor who, when his foot wns stepped on, roared out, "That's right; climb all over me with your great, clumsy hoofs." ISoston Tramcript. The cattle plague is becoming more and more formidable in Bohemia. Sev eral hundred places have been attacked by tho disease. They are surrounded by a military cordon, and as far as possible prevented from carrying on intercourse beyond its boundaries. Tho lost to the inhabitants of the district is very con siderable, and is not totally represented by that of the cattle slaughtered. Agri culture is in many places at a standstill, the cattle which servo as beasts of burden being locked up wherever the disease ap pears. The "Tim Flnnegan" Mines. A far-West study in nomenclature is given by the Milt Jake Tribune. A stranger asks a miner why a series of nineteen claims have the name of " Tim Finnega-i." The reply, in the vernacu lar, explains the phenomenon: "Well, stranger, it was at Pressott, an' me an' . Tuscan Jake was playing a game of cur sock, jes' for the drinks, you know, when in comes one of them crazy, bloodthirsty bloodhounds that turns loose in mining camps sometimes, ripped out his six shooter and shot the barkeeper dead ; then, turning on me an' Tuscan Jake, said : ' Now, cither of you move an inch an' I'll blow the top iif your heads off !' We knowd he'd do it. There was the" barkeeper dead, an' thar was the pistol pointed right ut us. It was fearful; we darsn't take a full breath. .lake's feel in's worked on him so powerfully that he couldn't keep still; he hitched round a little. Quick as lightning a bullet laid him at my feet. The sweat stood on my face like cobblestones. I even wished he would shoot me an' have it over with. Jos' then a pistol flashed behind the wild beast, an he fell dead in his boots. Tim Finncgan had got too much whisky early in the evenin', an' stretched out on some barrels in the corner an' went to sleep. The shots that killed the barkeeper an' .Jake waked him; an' bein' sobered by his nap, he, unbeknownst to me an' the murderer, easily an' gradually drew his pistol an' sent the bloodhound to kingdom come. I hugged an' kissed Tim, an' I've named the claims after him; an' if 1 die before mv wife Tim's a bachelor I want her I to be named Mrs. Tim Finncgan." Words of Wisdom. Surely half the world must be blind they can see nothing unless it glitters. He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. It is not what you have in your chest, but what you have in your heart, that makes you rich, Tho word knowledge, strictly em ployed, implies three things, viz., truth, proof and conviction. There is nothing lower than hypocrisy. To profess friendship and act enmity is a sure proof of total depravity. The best kind of revenge is that which is taken by him who is so generous that he refuses to take any revenge at all. It may serve as a comfort to us in all our calamities and inflictions that he that loses anything anil gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss. It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers thev might have borne if they had flourished.
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