Hates of Advert i; in,. 0;i fqnarc (l ilteli ono moot h - - fui One nam " thren months -Otio N U;iro " oiio year - -Two Squares, on year " jnnrtort'ol. ..-- 0 0(1 10 (i 15 ) ;'.0 en . fiO CO 100 CO f: I ; a, r,. t y Half T7. ;.-.;, I ..." a vr.Alt, IKSil notions At cilablioned rafe. Marriage and dealli notions, gratifi. All bills for yearly l vcrtiHctnents col lected quarterly. Temporary nrlvortipo. pienta must lif paid frM- in mlviir.i'p, Job work, C:ish on !'Uve-.v. r-.H ' r a Htiortff ' '' 1 rV-n nil parti : t n w ill t.i!."!i of VOL. XIII. NO. 7. TIONESTA, PA., MAY 5, 1880. $1.50 Per Annum. II OF " (,! I'PT.B YAWfon rit ai:ks." Hrrn lUif-y vn pool in pel, V J-1 our. for 1 t-r jiiy'iiit : A',1 i rM! i1r niatifel off, '') iy dor flrofddn pri;lit i .' s ninnvil vlien J viw young ( "T IMO'I'T, 'l!HVM ItM.t I ntJ ,,i ;K!!i.-.l,l,.i ftto IUns ! :m tn ki'il Jin onp in pod. I lulu It ino oiViniiin fader too, L'n l llMV lad y.'(-.t. to Miy, " To '" , jov bi'! a hardt oli't row 1 1 liin.i, nni' nn -lie liluy!" 1 Oii l mil nu ll (lot i'i vnH driio Viu Tiiiin tf!'1! n'Wr hnid, Vhlln Pnv-.od'.i ig to -a n miiio d xi-.n linii' i 1 IhokI";; upj i l p-vl. Dm- o!.!t. !'! To pj l.rnU III van liUo a lhriin iT ili-iii lil;0 dot. i.;.-..'i.-l l r, hi I vm ' 11 loiUs " now it i t. .. j ..... ,.i.:l i ili-a t! cm moil! u-i nffvcr VR8, ll 1( "ijlli flul V lilili'.i, ivy n'i;i-t v dukes ilhmn oup 1 tin -1,- illmiri ill illxnr jtJ. !:.! i tin pluo ! I n ! nil i-.us lonosorno sepm, I vi, h I vns dot poy ttjutn, I ml VRtill a rllirpniT). I viirit to M-isi liiino uiotler voaco, 1'u-l vlin 1 : i i t l'-:.yor Vil ai(l, To In' my iii'l r link mo op I I ml t-ii U si'O in mina p(l. llar)er' Magatint, 9 rt flMiOHEY'S LACE. They were li!iyir? a very good time r:t it:" firm, s p learnt, a party of gay r;tl ir.vlu ;ites s could well bo put to 'tliir, when fili s Mahoney arrived u in liie bet tie of action, and her np r -.r -nee was certainly like a wet blanket r.!l plcr'surf. . '.I lie f.ii'in was on a mountain-side, hiuh up in tir; all below it a great arur-hitheaLer of lesser hills, mellowed in distance and vapors tiil they looked hLo the waves of a purple sea, with noiv and then mighty rainbows hpan nin? them: and all above it tho lofty tops c l hill.-', whose woods here feath ered off upon the morning sky, and whoso, era us there jutted sharply .n the Mais at night. The air wes full of the nong of birds, the rustle of leaves, the hum of bees and the rushing of water fills, and it see.aed to the happy young things' that they were somewhere above the world in an ideal region rom which no voice could summon them. But, for all t hat, a sharp voiee called when Miss Mahoney was heard at the door, and I he cruel common world burst in behind her. She ciiino in tho noon stage, nnd she brought such tons of luggage! That had to come on another. What did she mean to do with it at the farm, where liivu lawn was full dressP And she had a collie dog, and a huge cage with a magpie in it, and themagpio chatte cd like tie confusion of tongues. Mis? Mahoney stopped at the door, opene 1 the cage, and let tho magpie go. "lie come oatrs ai can, - saia sue to juts. rieisoii, our landlady, who hardly looked with kindness on the bird of evil, "lie likes to have his liberty and mnin his nest, and bo I lt him have it all tlni summer city life is soconfiuing. And Laddie keeps an eyeon him." But we ail embraced "Laddie" at once, as ho put up his pretty nose and tender brown eyes to our fa- es, and tho oollio became the best friend of all the young girls tlmt day, particularly ot the pret tier ones, for ho had quite a taste la ho.'ttity; ho seemed to know that there was not a gallant about the place, and he might bo escort to tho whole party if he would, and he presently attached himt.di fo pertinaciously to Ade:e Montrose that Jane Hunt said she should have toshow him Philip's picture next, and tell Laddie that Philip was corning in a month. , . Miss Mahoney came down to tea in regit army. No such garment had ova beer, cn at the farm as her pur-plij-EtdpKii velvet gauzes, with their fciUni uuder-stutV. As for her string of p"ar is, perhaps they were only Koman ; but if iley wei-rtal, they were worth niLre than the r 1 : and then the lace Ktwl w'h.k ifOltt Hi ti h t,.. kuotted up round her seyeatonthe piazza look ing ut the sunset more underneath than ti'i'.'ve litem, " as .f it bad been Shetland wool," said Jane, "when it W&3 price lc,,s Ui-u.scls net " ' lint she lias oceans of lace," said riisj Meyer. "I opened her door by xaistake as she was unpacking, ana tlicre it wad, some in boxes and trays, f.):iio over chairs. What with laws aiid jewek, the room looked like the in'.:! f way." '' "il il.liik we are a set of bar 1 ii l.-.iis," fcaia Adele, with her quick I ..; ii, with hardly i;o much as a d we sliall think her a vulgar oc, bringing bucii things to such '," said Jaiie. 1 a I hi; 3 not a nouveau riciie, at any rate," answered JMiss Meyer, "i'orshe i-'n't rich at all. Mrs. Pierson knows aUo'iit let, blie inherited all her iine tilings !i oui some relation or other, nnd l.-is only 'iiomi,!i money to live on; aod via-;i 5 .vaij'.i to do something ex ii av.! '-int. iin-j couiitig to the moun i - ir nee, fch'i sella a pearl or a I .-. i,t i i. e." ti,., : i.. honey, of course, Ix'cama an oti.i'.'L ( study ti) the i r la, and was al v. i v. i:paiiieil in her progress by h : I : ii u we nud more ridiculethe i.-nm i' a tin? possessor cf linery that t-oiiu : ow went to tlieir hearts every ti-ue they saw it or heard of it, the lat ter ns a woman pat forty, tall and an g'tl.if and Ui'y iiinl i .moraiit, aping th'i a I .-ar'ince I'lid ipiai.m 1 : ot yoiuu tr t r ls . "1 woi.ih r how rho came by i.,ui!ihel"' L-;i;.d A iti'le, one day. " fr-'he 1'iivo a ie--. ti for Liui 'io A r. i hi Mrynr, ln.V2hins;. "so to liave gnmc thins lo protect lifr othvv jewels. I'm pure it's 110 wonder how she came by Jack. That magpie will drive , us all out of the homo yet." "See him now," said Jane Hunt, "on the limb of that hollow onlr. Doesn't ho look like a limb himself?" "There oertuinly Is something de moniac about Jack," said Adele. ' He camo t.'tppin? at my "yindow lat night, and when i saw tlioag eyea of his they made me shiyer so " "lie wns after the cakoa .in your " Do you suppose lie wasP" she asked, as she win eom? off with Laddie. They didn't any of them suppose so, for all the animals about the place seemrd to hayo a iondness for A dele, cows and horses, cate and doves; even the wood birds had a way of flying low round tho charming head as she called them. Some said it was her beauty, for she was tho loveliest little brown-haired, blue-eyed, white-browed, damask cheeked piece of flesh and blood one could imnffine: others said it was her prntle ways; and the rest fancied it was some nearness to nature in her, or some secret attraction like that of the Indian snake-charmers. "That is the same way Bhe tamed Jane's brother Phil," said Lueia. " Every one knows that Phil was the haughtiest and most high-strung man in cxlstenrc.and ratherdespiscd women. And now he just adores the ground she walks on. As for me." said Miss Meyer, should bo afraid that that sort of love was a glamour, and would break up some day." " There's no dantrer of Tbil's love for Adele breaking up," said Jane. "And how sho does worship him ! She never mentions his name, but she writes to him everv dav and she even saves the scraps of Lis writing on newspaper en velopes sue does indeed, girls I "Dear me! 1 wouldn t want to care so much for any one," said Miss Meyer. "I don't know anybody that's more likely to," cried Lucia. " When you do tail in loye, 1a Meyer "Don't you concern yourself, young lady, about mo," saia Miss Meyer, sharply, walking off to give Laddie a biscuit, which was at once stolen by Jack, Laddie being engrossed in a fine romp with Adele. "They say she used to care for Phil herself," whispered Lucia to her neighbor, and then they tell to comparing' their tatting nnd crocheting, and getting out patterns. and Mi98 Mahoney joined them. Miss Mahoney's morning toilettes were as extraordinarily severe jis her afternoon ones were extraordinarilv su oerb. " Oh. Miss Mahoney!" cried one of the girls one morning, "if we had your Jaees, we shouldn't have to' do tatting." -'. . " We hear you have such lovely lace," said Maria Meyer.wun her grand air on " I have some very pretty pieces," said Miss Maboney "Our family is an old Irish family, and I am the last ot it and so in one direction and another have fallen heir to a good deal." " And I suppose you Lnovr all about lace P" said Lucia. " I know all about m y lace. Some of it is quite nice. As pretty pieces," re peated Mis9 Mahoney, "of their sizo as one could see in America." " What if you had a grand opening at home time, and let us see tnem all? asked Lucia. " Why, with the greatest pleasure any time now, if you say so." And of course the girls all said so, and SDrunz to their feet at once. 11 Oh, is sho going to show in her laces P" cried Adele, dancing up with Laddie barking' and jumping round Jack, who had perched on her shoulder "How lovely of you, Miss Mahoney!" and she lollowed with, the rest. "This," said - Miss Mahoney, when 6he-i.ad opened her boxes, " is Venice point." "It doesn't look any different from tatting," said Maria Meyer. "Only," said Miss Manoney, "as different as mist is from water. This is a bit of Spanish lace made in a convent. Here la a scrap of cardinal's lace; no body but the cardinals at Home Have it I don't know how my grandmother came into possession of this scrap thre used to bo an archbishop in our famiiy somewhere, but that's not a car dinal. These are all old French laces Mrs. Palissey never saw their equal. But they are a great deal of care. I often think that piece of Valenciennes costs me ns much trouble as a child. These are Irish laces they are like hoarfrosts and blowing snow-drifts, somebody once told me. They don't make them now. See thi3 piece of Kng lisli point old Devonshire point " "Oh, how lovely!" cried Adele, while the others were exolaimina over this and that. " Talk of snow-drifts!" and sho took the Devonshire point in her hands ; it was two or three yards of finger-deep edging in a couple of pieces caught together by a thread, of the most exquisitely delicate beauty both of tex ture and design idealized foam wreaths or the fancies of some frosted pane spread on a spider's web. "How per fectly lovely !" exclaimed Adele again, and she wound it around her blushing face before the glass. "What a finish for a bridal toilette?" and then she held it up in. her hands in the sunlight, and the magpie on her shoulder, cocking Lis head on this side and the other, looked more demoniac than ever through the film of an end ot it that lay over his shinim? blacK feathers " You are exactly like one ot tlioso girls hold ing liule bannerols that come dancing out of the iaeades of temples in those Pompeiian decorations of Phil's!" cried Jane. "What a pity that you're not going to marry a ricn man, uei, wqo v mid afford you Devonshire point and diamonds.' she added, the least atom maliciously, instead ot a poor young at'cliite-i. ! ' "It Adele wound a duster round her hhii would look decorated," said Lie i 1. M-.-.t folks would," said Adele, tak ing: ii the lace soberly, and laying it dua. "Bat I muat confess that think laco is the moit perfect thing made by hands; it always seems to me the nearest approach 6i man to works ot nature, and I'd about as lief make lace as paint pictures." And then Mi is Meyer began wrapping herself in a black laeo mantle so precisely designed that the verv dewdrons seomed to clisteu on the onpy petals tttere; and presently an the other girls were masquerading in tho precious things, while Miss Mahoney sat by complacently enjoying ber mi.g nificence. Now, my dears," said Miss Mahoney, s one by one they resigned their bor- owed plumes, "you see I have nico things, if I don't wear them." And, satisfied with the exhibition, during tho next week she put on nothing cost lier than a nine-penny print. "Well." said Adele, -"its tust a pleasure to have them to look at." I'oor little Adele was tne penniless or phan of penniless parents, and she aujrht drawing in a large school in If oa- ton, where Phil had happened to see her and love her nt first sight. Phil was coming before long now for his month's vacation, and she was only living by counting the houra. A little restless till then, the light talk of the girls seemed to he" unmeaning clatter. in which she had small interest, and she used to wander off bv herself.sketch- ing on her little pocket-boards, or lying in the fern or under the shadows of the clifls, with an unread book in her hand, bv the hour tosether. O cunied with her own fancies, and with a drawing of the outlines of old World s Lnd, it was not stranga that she did not particularly notice the demeanor of the gins, or, it she did observe them whispering with their heads together, that Bhe should have thought it no more than the cus tomary mischief and merrymaking. She was standing alo ne one morning, just as tho sun was drying the grass and moss on the top ot Breezy Bluff, behind her tho great purple mountain, below her the dewy verdure of the hill sides; hawks were soaring and sweeping over her head in the marvelous blue of the stainless sky, and under her feet the tons of the woods were bowing and bending. It was not like daily life, ehe was saving to Herself. " Ibis wonder ful hill country ! It is just as if one hnd died, and were teally approaching heaven." And in her white gown, with her bright brown hair floating out about her face in the wind that fanned so pure a color there, and with her luminous eyes borrowing the very color of the skies, she looked almost as if Bhe were. As she stood there, rapt in rev erie and happiness the world was so beautiful, and Phil was coming any day now, and she had hardly any other thought she did not notice Miss Ma honey. under a big umbrella, toiling up to meet her, till that individual was close upon her "I have followed you here, Miss Montrose. said she, suddenly, in her most rasping tones, "to save you any mortification before the other boarders, and to ask what you have "done with my Devonshire point." '" Willi what?" " 'With ray Devonshire point." "What I have done with your De vonshire point P Why, Miss Mahoney, what do you mennP" she exclaimed, descending from her day-dreams " I mean what I say. My Devon shire point has disappeared. I have searched everywhere for it so have two or three others every box, every bag. every basket, every drawer. I have shaken every garment, have left no nook or comer neglected, and it is not to be found. You were the last person sen with it the only one who appreciated it. What have you done with itP" " You must you must be dreaming, Miss Mahoney," said Adele. " What m the world should I. do with your lacer' "Finish a bridal toilette with it, per naps." said Miss JManoney. "Do you mean- is it possible you can mean " Miss Montrose, I mean that Bome- body has taken my lace, and that to be plain, suspicion points to you, and that I am giving you a chance to restore it w me uejore x can in nu omcer. ror doubtless, since you could do sucu a thing, you know the value of that lace." " Am I talking to a crazy woman?" cried Adele. " No." said Miss Mahoney. " But I am talking to a thief." . . t or a moment Adele was dumb. Then the full meaning of the accusation smote her, nnd her anger flashed up like a flame. " How did it happen," she broke forth, " that bo dreadful, so con temptible a woman came under the same roof with mo! Leave me leave me this instant! I refuse ever to speak to you again." " lou will speak to the omcers ot the law, men, aiu xvins raauoney, using her umbrella like a tipstaff. . " The peo ple at the house hate but guessed that i suspected you. Now X shall speak at once to Mrs.- Pierson and the other boarders, and tell them my certainty. I never dreamed that coming into a coun try farmhouse I was coming into a den of thieves." And she was as good as her word. Adele herself hurried down the moun tain, slipping and scrambling and roll ing. But fast as she went in her indig nation. Miss Mahoney's long less, had gone faster; and as she drew near the house, she saw that the usual gay morn ing parties on the piazzas were absent, and she presently understood, by the sound of the loud forgetful tones that came through the open window, that the loss of the Devonshire lace was under discussion "Mr. Philip Hunt will learn," Miss Meyer was sayiog, "that beiore one niarriea a beauty it is best to see whether or not she is a kleptomaniac." " Kleototiddlesticks!" cried Miss Mahoney. "A thief's a thief. Rich or poor. She haa iny lace, or she hasn't. If she has, she's a thief, and four strong walls will hold her before nithlfull, and save the lace of other people It eeeraed to Adele that she was cer tainly Kojuu: mad herself, t'he walked J in among them and stood looking about her, white a? ashes, and with blazing eyes. " Is there any one hero capable I of believing such a frightful thing as this woman's words?" she exclaimed. Miss Montrose!" cried Mrs. Pierson "Miss Montrose, don't you be a mite troubled. There's nobody believes her. We'd trust her, all of us, with untold gold" "1 don't know," said Maria jueyer then, slowly and very white herself. But I feel it my duty to say that pass ing Bliss Montrose s door tne oiner morning, I saw what looked very much like a long strip of lace fluttering at her irlnrlnw - T. lw T . 1 "Maria Mever!" cried Lucia. "I would far sooner believe you told a false hood" ' Thank you," said Miss Meyer, with a scarlet lace. "ut your oeuci win not end the matter." And just then every one s glance followed in the direction of her own, and they saw tho tall figure of a dark young man in the doorway. " What is all thisP" cried a cheery voice. And at that Adele turned too. "uii. rriuiDt minor- sne shrieked, holding out her arms. " Save me, save me, save me irom this dread ful woman!" In another moment the dark young man's arms were about Adclo, and he was possessing himself of the state of the case. " And so. because Miss Montrose ad mired your lace, you dare to make sucn an accusation!" ne exclaimed, turning on Miss Mahoney, and his face almost crav with wrath. " I make no unsupported accusation. said Miss Mahoney. Miss Meyer has Been the lace in Miss Montrose's room Oh. vou don't believe it, Philip!" cried Adele, in an agonized tone. " Relieve it! Not if all the" Just at that time so furious a barking rose without from Laddie, that Mrs Pierson: who at any other time would not have minded it. now, with all her nerves fluttering, ran to see what was the matter, and in another moment her cry and call rang out so wild and loud that, by natural instinct bait the people in the room had followed her to see Laddie, who had treed the cat in the branches of the old dead oak under Adele's window, himself powerless in the grasp of Jack, who had descended from his frequent perch in those branches, and planting himself firmly on Laddie's shoulders, had proceeded to tear out his hair by beaktuls. At the approach of Laddie's" re-enforcement though, in the shape of Mrs. Pierson, Jack extricated his claws, screaming and fluttering back: and following his flight with their eyes, tlicy all Baw what Mrs. Pierson had seen the end of some thing delicately white and fibrous peep ing from the moss and lichens in the crotch of tho hollow tree. Philip, who had not .followed, but had remained, hushing Adele's sobs heard the voices that called him: and In less time tuan it takes to ten, ne was in the crotch of that trea. " Whoso magpie ia thisP" he cried, as well as he could be heard for Jack's scolding, sit ting astride the branch, and beginning to pull out a long string, nrmly quilted ana felted in the hollow with hair and matted moss. " Here is his nest, which he has hidden away; and here" (lie knew very well what it was)" la tins string of any consequence?" It Is the lace! it is the lace: tried Lucia. The lace!" echoed Jane. "And that is Adele's room just over the hol low, lie got out with it from Miss Mahoney's room, and the wind fluttered this end into Adele's window while he was stowing it away; and that is what Maria Meyer saw, if she saw anthing Oh, my lace! my lace! It is ruined I it is almost ruined 1" cried Mis Ma honey; and then she remembered Adele. "1 am so sorry, miss Mon trose!" she said "so sorry! Indeed I am! How can you overlook itP" I never can." sobbed Adele. tre ca bling s ill in every fiber. " You mav iust pack vur trunks. Miss Mahoney, for the afternoon stage, said Mrs. Pierson. " l can't nave " And here s a comb," .interrupted Philip, still bringing out one thing after another " yours, by its air" and bring ing up, Mrs. Pierson. And a thimble, and a bow of ribbon, and a curl of yet low hair, and a stuffed humming-bird, and and what is this, Adele?" and he held up a gold chain and onyx locket "Ou. it is miner' exclaimed Aoeie ' It is the one you gave me on my birth day. I oouldn t imagine what had be come of it." J - uiuu u j vwuv.j. " Oh. I thought I thought I mean. I thought she never came honestly by so many things, and I was sure she had taken it to add to tne others, and it didn t seem worth while to make any fuss. So after that 1 just locked my drawers SheP" cried Miss Mahoney, now re covering her lost breath. "SheP MaP awanonevr is it x. you rune "Oh, yes!" replied Adele, " And I am so ashamed! Ana you never can forgive me." . " I never can," said Miss Mahoney. But directly afterward she broke into a hearty laugh. " My dear Miss Adele," said she. "I can. and I do; and you must, and you shall. As for that bad Jack, he deserves to have hia neck wrung; and I'd do it indeed, then, i would if I didn't need him to keep Laddie in subjection. Now I beg your pardon heartily, and everybody's, and I know you're going to grant it. The poor Devonshire point! that will take me weeks to restore, and 1 suppose n would have uncomfortable associations, too. But I've lots of old Irish lace iust as delicate as that, and it will look just as well aa the finish to a bridal toilette, And vou inusn't feel hard. You see, we're quits; you thought as much of me. I'm a weil-meaning old thing; and. perhaps Mrs. Pierson will let me stay, after all." JIarperU Bazar. An eight-year-old girl of Rochelle, 111., who has been making a savings bank of her interior, recently had a stomach upheaval which caused her to disgorge ti in silver ten-cent pieces. two glass beads and a glove-button, The "Arizona Diamonds." A writer in the San Francisco Call re vives the recollection of tho famous nnd fabulous story of the Arizona diamond j fields, and gives its origin m tins wise : Several years neo the always larco floating Bohemian population of San Francisco included Thomas Seymour, who will be remembered by many of the profession, and who was a kind of para graphic tramp, having successfully done local itemizing " on every paper 01 every town west of the llocky mountains. Seymour's knowledge ol tlie topograpny cf this slope was a most detailed one A 1 X 1. ;C,11 .,:. ,! 1 ways going afoot, but always of necessity nilM IllHi UIXIl UKIUIUIIT IHI U1ICU UJ and never ot choice, rrora the place where his usefulness had just been ex hausted to where he hoped to have it re newed. In San Francisco Seymour made his usually precarious living by writing specials for the Sunday edition of such papers as would buy them. By virtue of the common guild of vagabondage Sevmour had made the acquaintance in this city of one who was, when hi3 energies set in any direction whatever, a mining prospettor. "How do you newspaper fellows liveP" once asked the prospector curiously of Seymour "Uome with me and iwnl stiowyou, said Seymour, and he led tho other to his meagerly furnished room. "Now, see. Here's a good two columns. Ill probably get $12 for this. Listen," and Sevmour subiected his mend to the fear ful punishment of listening to an author reading h'S own manuscript. "Were you ever there, at that p.ace described P" asked the miner, who had listened with out an interruption to the lull rcadinfe. "Well. I was never exactly there. but I've been near where that place ia supposed to be, and it's a tough coun try." " What put it into your head to spin such a yarn as that? There's no truth in it." "Anything is true that you can't prove to be talse. How can one prove that it ain t truer" The miner dropped his head in his hands, thought long and intently with out moving, notwithstanding Seymour's growing impatience to get back to tt:e beer cellar from which they had Issued. jfcinally. the prospector asked abruptly " What s the most a paper 11 give lor that roorback f" "Oh. $12 or $18 at the outside." "Does anybody else know about that yarn?" " jNot a person. ' ' Say, Seymour," said the miner, after another pause. " I know something about that country, too. There ain't no stones there, that s a fact ; but that whopper you have there is a pearl itself. if vou only knew it. I ll give you 8a5 for it, and if you keep your mouth mum on it i wilt make that story pay you better than all the yarns you ever spun in your life." Seymour gladly made the sale, and soon lost sight of his friend, and in succeeding literary inventions that which he had sold, not for publi cation,- had long been forgotten, when, individually, he was astounded at the announcement of the discovery of the great Arizona diamond fields, in almost the identical spot where he had lo cated in a newspaper fiction a field of precious stones. That announcement was one that startled the whole civil ized world. Sevmour followed the sue cessively-announced facts with the in tense interest of one who believed that his own genius had been prophetic Then came the even more startling ex position of the even more wonderful fact that the diamond held was the crudest, most barefaced and most enormous "plant" that had ever been made in Pacific coast mining. The pros pector, whom beymour never saw again, was not one to torget hia prom ises, for Seymour ieceived an unsigned letter, presumably from him, and in closing a certified check for l,b(0, and which reads aa follows: "Do yon think I have improved on your story P 1 think so. It has made a great deal more than two columns, and as it was very interesting, I inclose what I hope you will think fair pay for it. When you invent another equally good dia mond fie)d or a gold mine, or anything of that sort, please hunt me up. as I will give tho story point, and it will be lor the interest of both ol uss bey tnour was so startled that it was lotg after the diamond plant had lost its In terest that it was generally known that it was founded on the invention of a Bohemian and that it was only acci dental that its interest was not the ephemeral one of the publication of a surprising story in a newspaper. Itoblnson Crusoe's Land. - Bovs and girls, as wejl as "children of a larger growth " will De interested in the tidings that Robinson Crusoe's isl and has recently been rented of the Chilian government by one Herr Von Kodt. the son of a Protestant pastor at Berne. Von Ilodt'a career has been a somewhat adventurous one, and he would appear in every respect a worthy successor of Juan Fernandez, the origi nal castaway rechristened by Defoe in his immortal tiction. la hia twenty first year Vott Kodt entered the Aus triun service as a lieutenant ot cuiras siers. fought gallantly in the loud cam paign, waa so severely wounded at Nac hod that he was compelled to quit the armv. and settled down on a small pen sion in Pari alter the peace of Nikol- bourg. ,W hen the ranco-Prussian war broke out he volunteered into a French linn reeiment and distinguished hlniselt by tonspieuous valor during the uerce tight at Chainpigny. in ion ne emi grated to Chili; where ho engaged in husiness so successiuiiv that ne was en abled a short time ago to purchase a steamer and carry over a small colony of agriculturists and stockmen to his island, ot winch lie nao ootainea a uing lease from the republic. Ihere lie raises cattle and vegetables wherewith tostiDDlvthe whaling ships with fresh provisions, and governs his subjects in a truly Crusonian manner, serving out their rations in persona, and exercising a patriarchal control over their morals and manners. The Old-Time Farm. Where giint hills a slieltoml vale enfold, , An olil-tiire farm lies neMling out ot eilin, The red-tiled homes.lo.'vl nirpMig toward tiio 1'g'it Amid a Rrovo of oakn, hiige-bonshed and old ; And lichetfs, through qnntnt tenderness grown bold, Ran riot o'or the place in silent might, And crimson snnset flashes now to-nijjlit Flash all their grays and yollows into gold. Hero changes come not , nor a strnnger's fnco; Die winds indeed seem linked unto the place, , And brings no news of what tho world's about; - And as I pass along in strange sm-prise The very horses in tho etalls look out And gnsr.e at mo wfta oi lmly wondering eyes. fj... 1 Ja . ITSKS OF I3TEEKST. A cat's mouth is like a free show, open - to waul. Boston Post. New York is gaining on Paris in the manufacture of tine confectionery. All M-ia 1ttrtvira fmrrnfyfld fin. ttlfl Kfc. Gothard tunnel received commemora tive medal on its completion. A farmer, when flagellating two of hia unruly boys, waa asked what ho was doing. "Thrashing wild oats," waa the reply. Fishes go in schools. And it is as serted, by persons with piscatorial ten dencies, that some play " hooky.'' Yonkers SlUcsman. The poetical language of the Orient differs vastly from the plain, common sense brusueness.of our own land. For instance, when the rersian meeis a friend he says: "Thy visits are as rare as fine days." But when an American woman sees a caller coming up the front walk she remarks: I here! it there ain't that everlasting Smith woman again!" It is a big difference in form, at least. Rockland Courier. - A South American Curiosity. A note was received at the New York Worll office recently, reading: "Come and see a remarkable curiosity at the Aquarium." The reporter who an swered this call walked along through . straw and was just about to put his leet down into what appeared to be a bundle of old hay when the . proprietor ob served : " That's the curiosity-dou't step on it." Tho hay began ti move with much deliberation, and tnere was slowly elevated a ong, wide fan, which went to the rear to serve as a tan. "That animal" said its proprietor, Charles lleiche, " is an ant-bear.". The bear roso on its legs, showing a wonderfully elongated and narrow head. It is thickly covered with long coarse hair, which on the tail is half-way between the nlamenta of a heavy plume and the sticks of a fan. The tail is used by the bear with commendable ingenuity aa a blanket, being for that purpose brought around a half-circje and spread just sufficiently to entirely cover the body. Besides serving as a cover for warmth it hides the animal. "Hunters not accustomed to the forests of Brazil which the ant- bear inhabits step on it without know ing that it is a curiosity. The color is brown washed with gray on the head and face, and interspersed with pure white hairs on the head aid hinder limbs. The throat is very black, and a long, triangular, black mark crosses the animal from the throat, passing ob- icmelv over the shoulder?. Measur- i&g from the tip ot the snout to the end of the tail, the b?nr ia just a trifle more than six feet in length. Tho head alone is one and one-bait and the tail two feet long. The bear has four toes on the fore-f .et and live on the binder feet. The claws on the fore-feet are ex tremely long and curved and of no use in walking. They are used as a means of defense against stronger animals, ii they once are implanted in the flesh of a human being, the wound is apt to prove fatal. They are apt also not to como out, so that the dying mas can kill tho bear if ho desires to. me Dear naa found that the safest way ia to wind its snake-like head around the body of its foe Its hug is particularly powerful. The bear turned its claws inward upon a thick, rough palm, and walked on the outer edge of the fore-feet in a lazy, awkward manner to a box two feet away. The only indication of intelligence it displayed was in scrap ing away tho straw for a bed. It can not walk long. The bear came from Para by the schooner Thomas Williams. Its owner. Mr. lleiche, has had a stand ing offer for the hist ten years to all tho captains sailing from New York to Brazil to pay a good sum lor a live ant bear, and this animal is the only one ever brought to thfl United States. Captain Edwards secured it while -it was sleeping, which it is very capable at. Mr. lleiche is negot iating to sell it to the German Zoological garden com pany in Berlin for 3i.50O. He says that no zoological garden in the world pos sesses a live ant-bear. The London garden could keep ona for only a week. It died in tho garden. Mr. lleiche feeds the bear with ex tremely finely-scraped beef mixed with ejrgs and suar. Every schoolboy, par ticularly if he has read Maype lleid with proper diligence, remembers the picture of tuo ant-bear sweeping up a thousand live ants with u tongue nearly two feet long. .-This toaguo, which is covered with saliva, is a most effective ant trap. Mr. lleiche fed the bear while the World man was present. At first it did not take kindly to the change of diet, and a basin oi ant eggs soaked in luko warm water was brought. The bear ate half of tho meat by lapping up the eggs much the same as dogs eat. Turn ing to the dish of scraped meat it placed the tip of its long tongue on the plate and returned it to its mouth without partaking oi the food. Tho bear then stood upon her feet, and leaning its head down vertically spread its tongue over the straw and made a shrill noiaO like a tin whistle and hobbled back to its bed.
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