. .. ' -. .. : : Tyrfry y ' 1 i : - ' .1 - , - I . B. F. SCHWEIER, . , . IHI COSSTITCTIOH THI VHI05 A TH1 MFOBCIMIST OT HI LAWS. . . -r.- . ; . V i.-.ri.'.'i.v. i . : - - Editor im4 ProprUton VOL. XXIX. j : MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. SEPTEMBER 1. 1875 ; . NO. 35. TEE KUDO'S SUET. ' Knotting and twisting ber golden hair. That shaded a brow both young and fair, A maiden cat alone ; Bright were the gems the maiden wore, But yet for all the maid was poor.. For her heart was not ber own. For alas! a stranger came one day ; He stole tb maiden's heart away. And gave ber in return .' A few smooth words and a treaca'rous kiss. A few poor moments of fancied bliss. And a bitter lesson to learn. . Fhe knows not sitting, dreaming there )f the Litter waking she most bear. Of the clond (hat bangs shore ; No shade is on her fair youug brow, Khe is whisp'ring ever soft and low. "Come back to ma, my lore !" Rarely a heart is worth more than this More than a flattering word and a kiss. Bat there! 'tis ever so; Men are not always what they seem. And love, though fair enough in a dream. Is another word for woe. A Burglar's Story. Tald By Hlasselt Br ELEANOR KlIUC. "There is something very mysterious aliout the man, said my companion We were fitting, book iu hand, by i favorite lake of ours in the heart of the Cutskill -Mountain, a. the individual referred to went slowly pant ns. I had noticed him many times. I closed my book and watched him out of night. He might have lieen forty years old, though hi lace did not indicate that number of years.- His figure must once have been line, but now his broad shoulders were Itent. and his gait was slow and evi dently painful. His feature were fine and of a Grecian type; his eves dark and large, and when they suddenly met vours, fieri and almost wild; and his hair was as white as snow. "He lias a tent aliout a mile from here," in V companion continued, "and , I asu told that every year he changes 'his quarters, and seem determined to make iioacquuiuUnce. The proprietor of the hotel savs that never until this year lias lie wandered any distance from his caiim. but that now he is too unwell to prepare his own food, and is coin- , telled to go to (he hotel after It. I listened to his account itli consid erable attention, for this -t ranger had interested me dcvply. I had met him more than once in mv solitary rambles, and had come to feel a singular sympa thy for the siiflering he had evidently experienced. 'I wouldn't meet liini alone," mv friend continued, with a little shiver, "for anything in the world. "Nonsense 1 answered. "He is as weak as a child, and either of us could manage li i m w ith one hand." "Ion't be too sure of that. The man's face to me is full of desperation. If he should ever speak to me, I believe I should be frightened to death." A few moment" after, my companion joined a party of friends bound for the spring, ami 1 was left alone. Absorbed with my txiok, I had unite forgotten the subject of our cou vernation, when sud denly a shalow fell upon the pages, and 1 looked up iutothe eyes of the stranger. He was pule as deatii, and it was evi dent to me that he would not be able to walk many steps further w ithout faint ing. He had lost all control of the staff he held iu his hand, but was apparently determined to pass me without breaking down. Only bold measures would avail with this determined spirit; so. rising, I said, Miiuting to the rustic scat I had just vacated : "You are tired, sir, and seem to have a hea-vy load. Sit here a while and rest yourself." . "What do you know about ,it?" he . demanded, gruffly. " "What my eyes tell me," I answered, good nature'dTy! Vllow far do you live from here?" "Is that any of your business?" "Under ordinary circumstances it would ba a great piece of impertinence to impure, but now you' are sick, and ourxommou humanity give me a right to know." "And you are not afraid of me?" I took the basket and pail from his KM.r, limp hands, and minted again to the seat. He olieyed my gesture, and seated himself wiih a deep groan of ex haustion, and leaned his head against the trunk of a tree. "I am never afraid of a man that needs iny help," I replied. "What have vou iu this pail?" " offce." "Have you eaten anything this morn ing?" "So." "Then you must eat now " "You say I must.'" ''Isavso. How long have you been ill?" 'I am not ill." I uncovered both basket and pail, found some sandwiches, took one out, and presented it with the coffee, saying as 1 did so; "If you will give me a sandwich, we will" have our lunch to gether. I am very huugry." "If I w ill give you a sandwich !" he replied; then, after a little pause, he continued, more gently, "Please help yourself;" anil then," after another pause, "Perhaps you would like a drink of coffee In-fore I bike mine?" "Thank you, do! Coffee and I are not very goitd friends. Will you please drink yours now." I passed the pail, which he took readily, drinking like one parched with fever." The sandwich he ate with less relish, hut I had the satisfaction of see ing it all Uisapjiear. "I can go on now," lie said. "I am much obliged to you. ma'am." I covered and returned his basket and till pail, picked up his staff, and said: "1 hope you will feel much better." I caught bis eye at that moment, and such an expression I never saw before, and hope never to see again. Such loiiesoineness, such remorse and heart ache as shone from the depths of those eyes! I felt myself choking up, and was glad when lie suddenly turned and walked quietlvaway. Durinthe week following I inquired for him many times. o one had seen mm; out tins w as not uncommon, and I tried to think that he had been warned by this expe rience to keep away from meddling strangers I believed, however, that he was too ill to leave his tent, and ima gination pictured him dead or dying alone in the midst of the forest. 1 had tried to enlist several gentlemen at the hotel in the stranger, but they only laughed at me, and oue day I deter mined to go in quest of the place myself. So I called the companion of all my solitary ramble, a great intelligent Newfoundland dog, and started. 1 found, after a long and difficult climb ing among the rocks, that I had made the reckoning about right, for here in a small and beautiful valley, surrounded on all sides by the ever lasting hill, 1 came upon he tent. A low "growl escaped my companion at sight of this, but 1 bade him be etill, and hastened on. There was no sign of human life about the place, and mr heart almost stood still as I approached the door of the tent., A low groan an swered my tap on the wooden stay. "May Icoine in ?" I asked. ' "Who Is it?" Inquired the voice of the stranger. . t "It is only I; the lady you met week ago in the lake path. 1 was wor ried about you, and couldn't wait any longer to hear." "Who is with yon?" "No one, except the dog I always ike when J stray far away. ' take when J stray 'Come in, then.' 1 lifted the canvas, and entered. On a mattress, in one corner, lay the poor fellow. . On each cheek was a bright hectic spot, and bis fine eyes seemed to have gone far back into his head "Oh ! I am so sorry I didn't come be fore!" were my first words, as 1 knelt lieside the rude bed. "Why did you come at all ?" he asked endeavoring to be gruff. "Hon t let's talk nonsense," l an swered. "Io you know what is the matter with you ?" "No. I only know that whatever it is, it means death I counted his pulse one hundred and fifty a minute; palms of hands fiery hot, and respiration quick and difficult. "ion must come to the hotel at once and be taken care of" I said. "1 could not breathe at all there," he replied. I went to the spring, and brought some cool water, and then bathed his hands and face, Not word did he say; but the tears pressed out from be tween his tightly-closed lids, and his Up quivered painfully, l gave him mug full to drink, and then prepared some aconite, which he readily swal lowed. I had selected some food at the house fit for an invalid, and this he partook of also. In an hour's time the pulse was down to a hundred and ten. breathing less difficult, and the hectic flush almost gone. "i am better again," he said as he raised himself on his elbows and looked at me. "What did you do it for?" "Never mind about answering," he continued, as I vainly cast about in my mind for the right thing to sav. "1 understand it; you love your fellow creatures." I bowed assent, for words just then were out of the question. "And you believe that every man must have a simrk of divinity in him somewhere?" 1 bowed again. "If 1 am permitted to speak to any of the angels, when 1 land on the other side, 1 shall say a good word for you," lie continue!, smiling lor the nrst time "I shall tell them bow the tender pity iu your eyes threw a gleam of light into my callous soul, and helped me to see some goodness and purity In this world helped me to throw myself into the arms of my God and ask Him to have compassion upon me, "What must this man have endured," I asked myself, "when he is so grateful lor a little kindness?" Please don't cry," he went oh. ' want to tell vou something aliout my self. Would vou like to hear it?" "I should." All! LI II IVU) . want vou to hold fast to vour belief in the inherently manly or divine. The person In whom this belief is a certainty can be of great service in this poor suf fering world, lurl tell you, my dear iady, there is no weapon that can over come but the weaiwn oi love, iou must love vonr fellow creatures before you can help them, and in order to love that which is unlovely you must have this faith in the dmnitv of every man and every woman. This theory I have held lor many years; tne knowledge oi its truth 1 never fully understood till a week ago; then the sum added up right; to-dav proved It. r irteen years ago i met with a great disappointment. The woman I loved, the woman I haf mar ried, deserted me for another. She left me one night as I slept, without a word of warning, without our having bad a single moment's unpleasantness. 1 be lieved she loved me as devotedly as l did her. When I awoke in the morning 1 bad no wife, and it was not till many weeks after that 1 discovered she hail fled with her paramour. Up to that day I had never touched intoxicating liquor, never had contracteu a single vice. Prom that morning when I found my self alone 1 was a changed man. I turned squarely'roiuid. 1 drank, gam bled, lost my property, stole, lied, and cursed the iod w ho made me, and al most the mother who bore me. The guilty woman 1 let go her lover also. I made no quarrel with them. I only cursed circumstances. I became at last so low and reckless that I joined a gang of burglars iu New York city, and when they roblied at uight and caroused by day, I had no fear, because at any time a stray shot would have oeen welcome. 1 had no conscience. By man I had leen roblied. I would revenge myself by robbing in return. Their wives I lid not want their property 1 cared little for, for many a time in my fits of ungovernable rag have I destroyed in the morning that which we took a night to steal. Y'ou do not shrink away you do not despise me after hearing all this!" "I am so sorry," I could only answer. "If only some one had been then sorrv !" he went on. "I did not know then that God was sorry. If there was a God which I very much doubted, He was mad, enraged against me, and tnat idea only drove me deeper into sin. One night the gang to which I belonged had made arrangements to roo tne house of a Very wealthy man np-town, in New York. This family consisted of a gentleman and his wife and three servant-women. The coachman slept n the stable at the lower end of the lot. The master of the house was unable to leave his bed ; the lady a delicate, timid creature who would be easily overcome if she attempted any resistance to our mands. At one o'clock in tne morn ing three of us had effected an entrance by the back basement window. There was nothing below to tempt us. The back parlor was used as a dining-room, ami on this floor we halted. The silver had all been taken up-stairs excel a heaw napkin-ring, which 1 was the first "one to seize. An unexplainable curiosity led me to examine the inscrip tion. There was but one word lizzie' and that name was the name of my wife. That moment I was seized with an uncontrollable fit of trembling which I tried in vain to hide. What Is the matter wun your growled one of my companions. 'Yon ain't going to take the Wk track are you ?' I laughed it off, but put the napkin ring in my pocket I could not, and fin ally put it back w here I found It, with a feeling akin to that a mother mast have wTien she comes suddenly upon some plav-thing of the little one she has buried. "Xot that 1 for a moment sup posed this Lizzie to be my Lizzie, but the simple sight of the name had taken all the bravado and all the hatred out of me for. etranee as it may appear, though I was in arms against all the rest of the world, 1 had hone but the tendcrest feelings for the woman who had deserted me. A noise as of some one walking about on the second floor, kept as for a few momenta as still as death:" "Then everything was quiet agaiu. I had been the leader in all these midnight adventures, as the men knew that I was to be relied on for any emergency. A hasty consultation fol lowed this cessation or noise, fliy com panlons were to return to the basement and leave me to manage the robbery above-stairs. If I needed help I was to call. As we were then situated we were only in each other's way. A few momenta after we had separated, the opening of a door above attracted my attention. This was followed by a groan so hollow and deathlike that it made me shudder. Then frightened woman's voice. I stood in the front parlor door awaiting developments. The next thing I beard were light footfalls on tiie hall aoove, ana tneu l realized that a woman was descending the stairs holding in ber hand a lighted candle, bhe came down very slowly, for the light was dim, and she was evidently fearful of putting it out entirely, l saw her hare feet and long white robe, and then stepped back a little. As I did so the light fell full on her face, and Miss, there there stood my Lizzie. She was pale and hollow-eyed, and all the joy bad gone out of ber face, and 1 knew that she had suffered too. for a mo ment I thought 1 was going to die, but I held on as well as 1 could, and watched. She went to the back parlor and opened a closet, took out a decanter and then took a wine-glass from the table; then she dropped all, and stood and wrung her hands. " 'Oh, t at her in heaven !' she prayed, tell me why I was ever tempted to leave htm? ion know 1 have never had a moment's rest since; and now be is dying dying, and I am alone. What shalll do? Oh, Ed, Ed, Ed! Edward, my darling, where are you ?' " 'Here V cried I, rushing forward, unable to control myself. 'Here, Lizzie !' "One wild shriek, and, Miss Miss my wife fell dead in my arms. "What did I do? 1 rushed out into the darkness with ber. My companions understood it all. They found a car riage for us, and an hour after my dead wife Uy on the bed in the room she had left eighteen months before. The next day I read an account of a burglary and the probable murder of the master of the house. He was found dead in his bed by his servants, in the morning. Nothing was said aliout the missing woman. There, Miss, that is all. Since the night I clasped my dead darling to my heart I have been what you see now a wreck. It won't be long now be fore But never mind ; let us talk no more about it. I am grateful to you. Miss, because you have made me feel that there is some goodness left yet in the world enough of the leaven of love to ultimately redeem it." I he poor fellow was moved to a farm house about half a mile from his camp, and, a week after, passed peaceably into the world ol spirits. His last words were to me : "I will truly tell the angels;" and then, looking up suddenly, "Why, there is Lizzie. arrie rhlldrea at StbmI. Under this caption the Pall Xull Gazette speaks ironically as follows con cerning the piece of legislation recom mended by Lord Stanley of Alderley : "The amendment which Lord Man lev of Alderley is desirous of introducing into the Education act of 1S.0 deserves very grave consideration. He wishes to substitute the words 'boys and un married women' for the word 'children' in the clause giving compulsory powers to school boards, for the following rea son : By the common law of England, as laid down by Lord Coleridge, it is lawful for a woman twelve years of age to marry, and uuder these circumstan ces such a case as this might arise: A Manchester workingman might select for himself a bride of twelve years of age, marry her and take her to his home, when In consequence or her aosence from school for a week or a fortnight the police or the school-board officials on her first appearance in tne pumic streets might carry her off from her husliand to hurry her away to a board school. With or without a breach of the peace,thecase would then be brought before a magistrate for his decision, when the husband would plead his right to his wife's company at all times under the common law, while the school- board official would show that the Kdu cational act gave him the right and im posed on him the duty or eulorcing her attendance at school for another year. How would the magistrate decide in such a case, and what view would the Home Secretary adopt? W'oirld the govern ment be disposed to asK i'ariiaiiient to enact that no woman should marry till she had attained the age of thirteen and had completed her schooling? Or would the Education Department be willing to allow a woman to marry when twelve years old, and be free from school if she had completed a certain number of at tendances the previous year? This would be open to objection as an exer cise of the dispensing power. The Duke of Richmond din-lines to promise the legislation asked for, and this important matter must therefore stand over for another year. In the meantime Lord Mauley or Alderley should lortuy nis case by obtaining statistics of the num ber of workingmen s wives or tne age of twelve years, and should further con sider whether a magistrate might not hold it to be a 'reasonable excuse' under the act for the non-attendance of a child that the child is a married woman." I widest s ml Ike Frew riswda. One of the waifs was a showman's van, which was surprised by the Gar onne at a village fete and carried down to Toulouse scarcely injured. The com pany inhabiting It bad not time to es cape from their itinerant dwelling. An unfortunate watcnaog, cnaineu to tne axle, was battered almost to a pulp. All the "trans" were stowed away in baskets, covered with tarpaulin, which served as beds to the drowned players, and came out fresh and gaudy in the midst of the wrecked objects heaped about for transportation to the Mayor alty. A little girl, supposed to have been a dancer, had not washed her face on going to bed, and the vermillion was bright, a lr Danea tn last colors upon her ghastlv cheek. The female giant, with a pair of artificial legs, to which her feet were strapped, was in her tinsel gown and dressof crimson cotton velvet. She and her husband bad probably sat up late, and were only thinking of divesting themselves of their finery, when a wave swept over the plain, and in its recoil drew them into the central current, A frail raft, prohaoiy con structed on some housetop with the sticks and hoards at band, was thrown upon land near the hospital. It bore a live poodle and a dead woman, both of which were fastened to it. The soldiers made much of the poor brute and car ried bim iorously to their barracks. A parrot which came unhurt out of a ruin has also Deen aaoptea Dy ine troops which saved it. Its talk attracted the attention of some linesmen, who labored hard to dig it out. thinking they had come upon someliody driven mad with fright. There is a man in tne hospital whose instep was crushed by a beam dashing against it as he was saving a womau aud ner two daughters, lie. was fastened to the boat in which he drifted senseless into a church window, where he stuck. He preserved, at great peril, the lives of sixty persons. The brothers Saussac, who kept a ferryboat, saved two hundred persons when the flood was at its highest. This is the season of the year when a man may expect to be suddenly called at any moment in the night to get op and put down the windows. On the advent of a thunder shower it is rarely that a man wakes first. If he should he keeps quiet, so as not to disturb his wife, and avails himself of the first lull to go to sleep again. How differently a woman acta oh, so differently! Just as soon as she wakes up and hears that it U raining, she seems to lose all judg ment at once. She plants both ber feet into her husband's back, at the same time catching him by the hair and shaking his . head, and , hysterically screams "Get up ! get up, quick ! It's a pouring right down in torrents and all the windows are up!" , He cannot wake up under such cir cumstances with any immediately clear conception of the case; in fact. It fre quently hapjiens that he is away out on the floor before his eyes are fairly opened, having but one idea really at work, and that as to what he is doing out of bed. The first thing to do Is to strike a light, and while he is moving around for the matches, and swearing that some one has broken into the house and moved them from wnere he laid them on going to bed (which is always plausinie enough), sne nuns alter mm the following tonics: "Do hurry! Mercy, how that rain is coming into those windows ! n e won't have a car pet left if you don't move faster. What on earth are you doing all this time? Can't find the matches'? Mercy sake! vou ain't going to stumble round here looking ror matches, are you, wnen tne water is drowning us out? Go without a light. What a man you are; I might have better got up in the hrst place. Well! (despairingly) let the things go to ruin if you are a mind to. I've said all I'm going to say, too, an' I don't care tr tiie whole house goes to smasn. i ou always would have your own way, and now you can do as you please; but don't you dare to open your mouth to me about it when the ruin's done. I've talked an' talked till I'm tired to death, and I shan't talk any more. We never could keep anything decent, aud we never can; an so that the end or it. A very brief pause) John Henry, are I'm, or are pov mot going to shut down those windows?" Just then lie finds the matches, and breaks the discourse by striking a light. He was bound to have Uiat help belore he moved out of the room. He has got the lamp lighted pow. No sooner does its glare till the room than he immedi ately blows it out again for obvious reasons. He had forgotten the windows were open and the brevity of his night shirt. It almost causes him to shiver when he thinks of his narrow escape. He moves out into the other room with celerity now. He knows pretty well the direction to go, and when a flash of lightning comes it shows him on the verge of climbing over a stool or across the centre table. If there is a rocking chair in the house he will strike it. A rocking chair is much surer iu its aim than a streak of lightning. It never misses, and it never hits a man in but one spot, aud that is at the base of his shin. We have fallen against more than 800 rockers of all patterns and prices, and always received the first blow in the one place. We have been with dying people, and have heard them affirm in the solemn hush of the last hour, that a rocking chair always hits a man ou the shin first. Anil w hen a man gets up in the dead of night to shut down windows, he never misses the rocking chair. It is the rear end of one of the rockers that catches him. It is a dreadful agony, But he rarely cries out. He knows bis audience too well. A woman never falls over a rocking chair, and she never will understand why a man does But she can tell whether he lias, by the way he puts down the windows when he finally reaches them. A rocking chair window (if we may be allowed the term) can be heard three times as far as any other. Vanburii Stte. The Errrwtrlrttles rtke Earl r D ley. When Mr. Ward became Viscount Dud ley and Ward and took possession of the family estates he sunered as much em barrassment as his father from an over grown fortune. He one day described this embarrassment to mv uncle Archy in very graphic terms. "When I came to my estate," he said, "I resolved to spend my whole income within the year. With that view I purchased the estate of Kdnam, in Scotland; 1 bought a library at Venice; I reiudred my house in Park lane, Ac, Ac, Ac; but a rise unexpec tedly took place in the price of iron, which brought me 10,000,and you know one oris'f ahmit tie prexrrd for use rrm- Unqewxrjt.' When Lord Palmerston in his auto biography mentions as a notable instance of disinterested love of power that his friend Dudley Would have gladly given A6,0(l0 a year to remain in office, he evi dently was not aware that to Dudley 6,000 a year was a mere trifle. One of Lord Dudley's eccentric habits was that of speakingto himself or think ing aloud. Of this practice many amus ing instances were related, perhaps oc casionally invented, by his friends. Soon after he had succeeded to the title of Dudley and Ward a lady asked Lord Castlereagh how he accounted for the custom. "( it only Dudley tanking to Ward" was the ready answer to her in quiry. " Lord Dudley was introduced at an evening party to Lady N., whom he was requested to hand down to supper. Her ladyship availed herself of the oppor tunity to present her two daughters, af ter which ceremony she overheard him, as they went down stairs, muttering to himself in bis usual undertone : "The fair one is plain ; the dark one is not amiss; but the fair one is exceedingly plain." "Iam glad, 'my Lord," says Lady X., with good-humored readiness, "that at all events the dark one pleases you." A gentleman from Staffordshire pre vailed on Lord Dudley to present him at court. They got on very well as far as St. James street, where they were stopped nearly half an hour by the liue of car riages. His Lordship then forgot him self, and, after a long pause, began : "Now this tiresome country Squire will be expecting roe to Ak him to dinner. Shall I ask him, or shall I not ? No, I think he would be a bore." The indi vidual so unexpectedly blackballed was at first confounded, but, recollecting his companion's infirmity, commenced in turn an audible soliloquy : "Now, this tiresome old Peer will, of course be asking me to dine with hiin to day. Shall I go, or shall I not go ? No, I think it would be a bore." This impromptu was well taken, and the Invitation was given in earnest and accepted. After sitting a long time with a lady to whom he was paying a morning visit IiOrd Dudley exclaimed aloud, " voa aYr vAta (Aa tirrtoute ia vill go flKvry." At a dinner given by Lord ilton, who had one of the best cooks in London, Lord Dudley tasted some dish of which he did not approve, and, forgetting where he was, began apologizing to the com pany for the badness of the entertain ment. "Ike faei it," said he, "that my head took teas taken ill, and tome kitchen girl, I nppote, kas been employed to dre tne amner.' Lord Dudley, receiving a visit from tie poet Rogers at Paris, proposed that they should go together to the Cata combs. It has often been remarked of Rogers that with his fine bald head, wrinkled skin, and sunk cheeks, he was more like a death's head than any man that was ever seen alive. Accordingly. when the poet had spent an hour or two In the abodes of mortality, and was about to make his exit, 'the keeper, startled at bis death-like appearance. med to stop Dim, crying out, "Halloa Get you back 1 You have no right to come out!" Rogers afterward com plained to Lord Dudley that he had cruelly deserted him In this emergency "My dear Rogers," replied the Earl. "J did not like to interfere, yw lonked tn tne at aonte." Oil Time and Distant Plaert, Jokm Sinclair. The Streets of Caw taw. The sights of a Chinese street are a marvelous mixture of incongruities, and everything appears crowded up toge- tner, as tnougn people scarcely bad room to move or breathe. The stores are ranged thickly on both sides, and re semble great booths or stalls, being en tirely open In rmntand having substan tial counters and chairs and shelves. Their goods are ranged on the shelves around the three sides of the room, or else In showcases, so that the passerby may see at a glance all that the shop contains. Every store has its own little godhouse," or sacred table and inscrip tion,, in a prominent place high upon the wall, and before these tapers are burning aud incense is offered. Another little shrine, to the "God of Wealth," is also placed at the entrance, and before this tapers and joss-paper are burned each evening, just after the shutters are put up in rront or the shop. Hv far the most strikingeffect in the street is caused by long sign-boards, which hang down from iron brackets, and are so thick that yon can only see a short distance ahead. These boards are colored, green, Mue and red, and are Inscribed with heavy gilt letters: or the names are carved and the alternate characters are cobred differently, so that with all iu variety of hues the crowded causeway has a very gaudy appearance. The Canton streets are celebrated for tlieir cleanliness, but of their odors on a warm day I will not speak. They are all pavd with granite slabs, worn smooth and slippery by the tread of generations. The slabs are very long and aliout a foot wni?, and tney lie crosswise over the road. Directly under them are the sew ers, which open up to the air through the numerous crevices of the pavement. The atmosphere is not usually unplea sant, though, and there is always so much incense burning, so many fire crackers exploding, such quantities of sandal-wood, spice, f ruit,sugar-cane and other odoriferous substances exposed for sale, that it takes a long time to discrim inate between the scent tiiat please and those that do not. It must be remem bered, also, that most of the streets here many of them main streets are scarcely as wide as the sidewalk in front of an American house; and if one can imagine miles or such lanes, intersec ted at irregular intervals by similar crooked and twistingcross-paths, an idea may tie gained or what a labyrinth Can ton Is made up. This system is utterly perplexing to a new-comer, and one could not possibly find one's way around without an experienced guide; for there are no parks or open spaces whence a general view of the situation may be ob tained. Nothing can lie seen above but a strip of sky between the projecting eaves of the houses; and even this open ing is not uufrequently covered with iMiards or matting. Wsaaea y ass Meet ! the Cars. There Is the woman who drives you mad by never being discomposed in ci ther manner or dress. Her hair is as smooth as though it had been ironed ; her face is as clean as though cinders and dust were an unknown quantity; her boots and gloves are new ; they fit so perfectly that you are quite sure she was poured into them. She is not with out wisdom in being liienchnuee and him gnntee. When people have nothing to do or to think aliout, they are reduced to extremities! But when this immaculately-attired woman emerges from her section, after a sleepless night's journey, as calmly unrumpled as on her first ap pearance, endurance ceases to be a vir tue. She is a reproach to earth and man. People have no business to go through life without coming In contact with it. The immaculately-attired woman has no wrinkles. She never will have. She sheds feelings precisely as she sheds dust. They slide off her. I don't approve of her at all, but I do wish my boots and gloves looked like hers. Then there is the frowsy woman. The longer she travels the more "scratched up" her general appearance. Her children, be tween the ages of three aud seven, browse upon everything in general, making night hideous by crying, and day hid eous by permeating the atmosphere with their uneasy selves. Her husband wears paper collars, puts his boots on in public, and reads violently illustrated papers. Kate Field. What laveallaaa Da. The following colloquy recently took place between Recorder Hackett and a criminal before him for examination in New Y'ork. From it we conclude that, while human depravity is not less pre valent than formerly, modern inven tions protect mankind from the depre dations of the vicious, by rendering their operations considerably more ha zardous : "What is your business?" asked the Recorder. "I am obliged to work." "Don't you like it?" "No." "Why not? What was your busi ness?" "A cracksman." (Frank answer.) "Well, then, you have given up that business?" "Yes. Tou see, Counsellor, what with the burglar alarms in houses and stores, and the district telegraphs, and people growing economical and careful, and the newspapers hounding ns, bur glary, garot ting and highway robberies. and such things, is actually hazardous, and ain't so easy to be did." Clrla' SehMl la Etyst The school for girls lately established by the third wife of the Khedive of Egypt, which is one of the greatest in novations the country of the Pharaohs has ever seen, is turning out a great suc cess. The lady bought a large house in a thickly-peopled, locality, near the dancing dervishc erected around it a quadrangle of spa icus buildings, and banded tbem over to the Education De partment, but she defrays the w hole cost of maintenance. The school is free to all, and when it had been open only four months were were zoo boarders and 100 day scholars, all Arabs or slaves. They discard the Oriental veil, and are dressed in frocks, pinafores, and shoes, in Eng lish fashion, and they ait, not squatting .W, i.i i V . . .1 I. tl " Journal. A young and skillful disciple of Robert Loudon was some time ago traveling In tne northern provinces or t ranee, giv ing exhibitions in natural magic, ia company with a young wag, now direc tor or a printing establishment m Paris. In their wanderings they arrived at the town or n , more renowned tor its manufactories than for the natural brilliancy of its inhabitants. Here the receipts of the magician were absolutely nothing, and despair reigned in the heart of our two adventurers. What was now to be done? "By my faith !" exclaimed the assist ant magician, "It will never do to say tnat we did not make our expenses! have it ! Let me write a poster for one or more entertainments, and If the at traction don t answer call me no assist ant for a high priest of diablerie. 'At the argent request of the large and in telligent audiences or our former enter tainments, we have consented to per form the astounding feat of making the cathedral bell ring any hour indicated by any or the audience, lo take place this evening. There, how w ill that do?" But how are you to fulfil the promise?" O, never mind. Am I not a worthv pupil of a skilful master? Iave that to me." Night came, and with it a crowd of the curious. All went off well, and now came the feature of the evening. And one was asked to name a number. "Four!" came from the crowd. In fear and trembling the mighty magician extended his hand towards the cathedral, when one! two! three! four! boomed from the cupola. The cold perspiration started to the exhibi tor s brow, and the audience shouted with delight and surprise. encore I encore!" resounded from all parts of the room, "Again!" what was to be done? But A voice from be hind the curtain said "Go ahead, old boy it's all right?" With a sigh of relief the exhibitor repeated the miracle again and again. and the spectators departed, filled with enthusiasm. "What in the name of wonder have you been doing ?" exclaimed the puzzled principal to his laughing assistant, as soon as the doors were closed. Why, I gave the bell-ringer five francs to stay in the belfry and ring as many times as I placed candles on the window, and I think it succeeded pretty well," replied the other, shaking the well-filled cash-box. The next day as they were starting in the cars, one of the City Councillors came to them and begged that they would explain the miracle. It is magnetism, my friend," said the magician, with a grand flourish of his hand; and the magistrate departed, much edified and perfectly satisfied. Haw a TasMf t sdimn An eye witness to the process thus describes a toad taking off his clothes. About the middle of July, I found a toad on a hill of melons, and, not want ing him to leave, hoed around him. He appeared sluggish and not inclined to move. Preseully I observed him press ing his elbows against his sides, rubbing downward. He appeared so singular that I watched to see w hat lie was up to. After a few smart rulis, his skin began to burst open straight along the back. Now, said I. old fellow, you have done it; but he appeared to be un concerned, and kept on rubbing until he had worked down all his skin into folds on the sides and hips; then, grasping one hind leg with his hands, he hauled off one leg of his pants the same as any body would, then stripied the other one the same way. He then took his castoff cuticle forward, between bis forelegs into his mouth, and swallowed it; then, by raising and lowering his head, swallowing as his head came down, he stripped off the skin under neath until it came to his forelegs, and then grasping one of these with the opposite hand, by considerable pulling stripped off the skin. Changing hands, he stripped the other, and by a slight motion of the head, he drew it from the throat and swallowed the whole. The ojieration seemed to be an agreeable one, and occupied but a short time. A WoBderrsil (lark. A marvelous piece of mechanism in the way of clocks is described in the French journals. It is an eight-day in Btrnnient, with dead-beat escapement maintaining power. It chimes the quarters, plays sixteen tunes, plays three tunes every twelve hours, or will play at any time required. The hands go round as follows: One once a min ute, one once an hour, one once a week, one once a month, one once a year. It shows the moon's age, the rising and setting of the sun, the time of high and low water, half ebb and half flood. By a beautiful contrivance there is a part' which represents the water, which rises and falls, lifting some ships at high water tide as they were iu motion, re ceding leaves these little automation ships dry on the sands. The clock shows the hour of the day, day of the week, day of the month, month of the year, and in the day of the month there ia provision made for tne long and short months. It shows the zodiac; it strikes or not ; chimes or not, as may be desired, and it has the eqnation ta ble, showing the difference of clock and sun every day in the year. Thaaahlle a Taaih able. I aear as. Iu general, I have no patience with people who talk about the "thoughtless ness of youth" indulgently; I had rather hear of thoughtless old age, and the indulgence due to that. When a man has done his work, and nothing can any way be materially altered in his fate let him forget his toil, and jest with fate, if he will; but what excuse can you find for willfulness of thought at the very time when every crisis of future fortune hangs on your decisions? A youth thoughtless! when all the hap piness of his home depends on the chances or the passions of an hour? A youth thoughtless ! when his every act is a foundation-stone of future conduct, and every imagination a fountain of life or death? Be thoughtless iu after years rather than now though, indeed, there is enly one place where a man may be nobly thoughtless his death-bed. No thing should be left to be done there. Buskin. Esajais a aad Bears. According to a recent author, the Es quimaux, low as they are in the scale of humanity, have considerable inventive and constructive skill. Their boats are Ingeniously made, their ice huts are per fect applications of the principle of the arch. But if his account of a device of theirs for killing bears is veracious, the Society for Die Prevention of Cruelty to j Animals ought to send them a mission-1 ary at once. They sharpen the ends of : a piece of whalebone a foot or more I long, then bend It double, and wrap it closely in fat meat, which is exposed to the air till it freezes. These treacherous I pellets are .thrown to the bear, who bolts ' them whole. They thaw in his stomach ; 1 the bent whalebone straightens, and the ! sharp points pierce his vitals whenever he attempts to move. ' - Torres' coixkl , , . Tit LitlU Grocer trio FaiUd. The following, though intended tor the yonng folks, will also convey a very useful lesaon to children of a larger growth : "Mamma," cried Freddy, "I will play grocery store." After a great deal of counting, Fred fly found that he bad seven pennies, "Not much capital 1" said sister Net lie she was grown np. "What's canital T" asked Fred d v. "The money you have to bnv your goous wun that is your capital." Freddy bought tea. coffee, white su gar. beans, salt, nenner. flour, meal randy, nnts, soap, dried apples, croc kery ana starch. rJnt all these cost fif teen cents, and Freddy bad only seven cents. r reddy arranged his store and nnt ont his sign, and just then all the older orothers and sisters came home from school, so that Fred had plenty of cus tomers and his goods went off very fast and he thought grocery store a splendid play. Lucy said she would take all the dried apples if be wonld write 1 1 down in his book for her, because she bad forgotten her money. When the little grocer had sold all his goods, Nellie reminded him that be owed eight cents. "Why! they didu t pay for tilings,1 said Freddy. "Yon know I asked vou to nut the dried apples down in your book." said Lncy. "ies,n said Freddy, "bnt I didn't have a book and I forgot it ; but yon might bring back the apples. Lucy." "Oh. no. i can't ! I've eaten them" said L.ucv. then r reddy found that the candv and nuts were eaten np, and that those who bad bongbt them had no money to pay for them. "Well." said Freddy, "it's of no nste: I can't pay that eight cents, for I've only four." Wbv. then onr little arrocer has failed," said Nellie. Failed f said Freddy. "That means iliat I can't pay it !" "Yes, that s it," s. said Nellie. "That ia because I did not think about the pay when I sold them." said r reddy. When you are grown nt a man and have a real store rememberthesetbings Don t buy more than vou can nay for. Don't sell other people more than they can pay for. Always think what you are uoing. Story of a ifihlina Bird. Our neigh bor. Mrs. Dodd, has a mocking bird, whose name is Charley. Charley has a house as large as four ordinary cages and in there he jumps and flutters and whistles to his heart a cou tent. Of course you know, from the name, that these birds are fond of imitating -11 sorts of noises. When Carrie laughs loudly. Charley hops down from his perch, turns his head one side, and lis tens attentively ; then np he jumps again, and gives Carrie's laugh back to her in tine style. Oue night, after everybody had gone to bed, Mrs. Dodd heard the cat in the room. Mie asked Mr. Dodd to get np ami nut her ont: but he came back to bed without lind- ng anyone, and they were just going to sleep, when they heard a distinct Mew. mew. mew!" Lo got Mr. Dodd again ; but be could find no cat, though . he made a thorough search. So thinking it must have been a mistake, he lay down for the third time. He had hardly closed his eyes when the sound came again, "Mew, mew, mew. It canuot lie a mistake, said Mrs. Dodd. "i will find you. Mis tress Puss, if it takes me all night to do it." So she got up and opened the door and listened. Pretty soon she burnt into a laugh. "It is no cat at all," she said ; it isthat little rascal of aCharley!' And sure enough, it was the mocking bird amusing himself in the middle of the night by giving an imitation of the cat. Hut is not often Charley practices at such improper hours or annoys any body with the sound of his voice. His usual notes are the very perfection of melody. Distant isenpiinite. lie gives by turns, the sweetest music of all the singing-birds, aud far outdoes them all. The Snrtrrg. Beeftteak Electricity. The six Christ mas lectures at the Koyal Institution, in London, were delivered by Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F. K. S. He chose for bis subject, "The Voltaic Battery." One of the experiments revealed a fact not generally known. He said that in daily life weak electrical currents are at work where tlieir presence is little sus pected for instanccsupnosing a person at dinner to have a silver fork in one hand and a finger upon the steel part of the knife held intheotlier; it follows that, when lie plunges the knife and fork into a beefsteak, two dissimilar metals are thereby placed in a moist conducting substance, whereby a vol taic circuit is formed, and an electric current flows through the body of an individual between the knife and fork. To prove that this was really the case, he connected a reflecting galvanome ter with the knife and fork by means of wires ; he then proceeded to cut a beefsteak, and the current thus gene rated deflected the needle of the gal vanometer so that the spot of light which it reflected was seen traveling along the screen by all observers. Ckiltlrcn't rUiything. Playthings that children make for themselves are a great deal better than those which are bought for them. They employ them a much longer time, they exercise ingenuity, and they really please them more. A little girl likes better to fashion her doll's enps and saucers of acorns, than to have a set of earthen ones supplied. A boy takes ten times mora pleasure in A little wooden cart he has pegged together, than he would in a painted and gilded carriage bought at the toy store ; and we do not believe any expensive rorking horse ever gave so much satisfaction as we have seen a child in the country take with a cocoa nut husk, which lie had bridled and placed on four sticks. There is a pecu liar satisfaction in inventing things for one's self. No matter though he the construction be clumsy and awk ward, it employs time (which is a great object in childhood) and the pleasure the iu vent ion gives is the first impulse to ingennitv and skill. The llontekerper. Clay Eaters. Leusinger, in his "Travel on the Amazon aud Madeira," speaks of the appetite for clay shown by the inhabi tants of the virgin forests traversed by these rivers. This propensity is common to all ages from childhood to old age, anil is so strong that the prospect of a miserable and dreadful death cannot withhold them from satisfying this mor bid taste. It is not uncommon to see amongst the negroes employed on the coffee and sngar plantations an unfortu nate being working in the heat of the day with an iron mask over bis face; this is a clay-eater, whom it is sought to save from his deploraMe projiensity by thi means, and who i never allowed to take off his mark unless under proper superintendence. Thi tast. however, is not peculiar to man in those regions, Many animals, and even birds also show it, of which advantage Is taken Tor hunt ing purposes. The Tinnter has only to place himself in ambuscade near a clay pit, on a moonlight night, and he will soon have plenty of sport among the wild boars and roe-deers, as well as the jaguars, which are attracted, not by the clay, but by the desire for living prey. 5ZWS TS BRUT. The grasshoppers have reached Northern Alabama. Yonng ladies at the Holyoke, Mas., seminary are taught to swim. Sitka, in Alaska territory, has five hundred and two people aud one news paper. The girls of Whitewater. Wis., hava decided that they will not pin back their d rases. Ex-President Johnson had policies of insurance on his life to the amount of 3o0,lNJ0. The labor market ou the Pacific coast is overstocked, ami poverty stares leopie in tne race. The Bible is now printed in no fewer than 210 languages. In 1854 It was printed in only fifty. The authorities of Newton, Mass., propose to erect a monument to the memory of Roger Sherman. The White Sulphur Sorimrs Hotel. Va., will lie nulled down next year. It cost l,200,ui0, and hasu't paid. The Indian census bring to light a matron who has nineteen children, with but seven birthdays among them. Tennessee now gives kindly sepul ture to the mortal remains of three ex- t residents Jackson, Polk and Johnson. Seventeen hear have been killed in Malta wamkeag, Maine, this season. The State pays five dollars for each capture. To call A woman a piano, is deemed an actionable slander in Canada prob ably because it seems to imply that she's forty, George Pealod v was a bachelor, but the Chicago Adcanre refers to hint as the "father-in-law" of Professor Marsh. of Yale. Mr. Fulton, of the Baltimore Ameri- rnii, says be d rather he a high private than the next Governor of Maryland. lie s a trump. The free excursion system in Balti more has much reduced the death-rate among the poor children of that city this summer. Some enterprising individual has filed a land claim in the Washington office for the ground umii which Chi cago is mult. Tom Sayers, son of the noted pugil t, is a jockey, and has been riding at Saratoga. He is said to resemble his ate father remarkably. The gentle citizens of De Soto. Mo have passed resolutions declaring that they will hereafter hang every horse thief they can lay their hands on. ' Rip Van Winkle" Jefferson an nounces his determination to spend the next three years in Europe, and will not appear on the boards during that period. The inmates of the New Jersey Penitentiary are rather high-toned. bey mutinied the other dav because they could not get three meals per day. The adventists have now set Sep tember ltith, the anniversary of the battle of I.nke Erie, as the iiay when the world will come to au end. The entries of the great Central New York Fair, to be held in Utica. Scptemlier 27, are coming in rapidly. It is thought they will aggregate over .turn. The population of Rhode Island has increased 14!,40! In $5 years, while Vermont and New Hampshire have in creased but 3$,03 and 33,726, respec tively. A Mormon wagon brought the first rat t. Pioche, Nev., that ever made an apiiearaiice in that city. A Gentile cat nabbed the Mlygamous rodent and put an end to his career. Among the delightful summer re sort in Vermont is mentioned one named Bread Loaf Inn. Yon can Loaf Inn and loaf out thereat your own will, just a much a you want to. The Vermont State debt has been reduced to $IC7,"iO), which is not yet due, while the cash lit the treasury amounts to nearly that sum, and the sinking fund to $lt7,!32 more. Of the 170 silk mgiiiifactiiring establishments in the United States, 45 are located in New Jersey, and all but 5 in Patterson. Work is described a quite bri-k at the Pateron factories. Minnesota will have this year the best and largest crop of potatoes for many years. The crop of Western New York, notwithstanding the ravages of the beetle, will lie fully up to the aver age. The building for the Vanderhilt Univer-ity are nearly finished. They are to lie dedicated next I tctober. The address will be by Dr. Deems, anil Com modore Vanderhilt i exiiected to be present. The Pension Otflce states the num ber of pensioners on the rolls, on June 30, at 22H,0:ti, a decrease of 4,871 for the year. The money paid was $1UO,0)JO less the past year than the previous year. A new grove of colossal red wood trees has been discovered in California. One of them eclipses all that have been discovered on the Pacific Coast. Its circumference, six feet from the ground, is a hundred and fifty feet. t Iu 1S70 we exported leather to the value of $10:,.112: in 1S7I, it increased to ti.30,r43; and the increase since then has lieen rapid and great. For the year ending with July 1, 1S73, our leather exports were to the amount of $.1,678, 471. Mr. George B. Loriiig, the Centen nial Commissioner of Massachusetts, In a circular just issued, says that the ap plications of Massachusetts for space at the exhibition are about one hundred and thirty, whereas they should exceed one thousand. An old lady of Litchfield, Ct ninety-six years old, drove a pair of horses attached to a mowing machine to the Held, the other day, and mowed three times around it, working the ma chine herself, and doing the work as well as a man could. President Ortou ays no proposi tion has been made to unite the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company with the Western Union that would be ac cepted by the latter, though there has lieen considerable talk between leading stockholders of both companies. A new society has just been organ ied at Springfield, HI., ..ailed the "Consolationists." It Is composed of bachelors and married men whose wives are off for the season. A copy of the constitution and by-laws would doubt less prove interesting reading. The fourth of July is an eeeial holiday to theS-aiidinavians of America. July 4, 1H2'i, the iirt small colony of Scandinavian immigrants set sail for America, where their followers and de scendants now form an element ia the opnlatioli of the United States at once numerous ami important. A statistical bore rises to remark that this universal Yankee nation has had IS Presidents, 27 Vi-e-Presilenta, 33 Secretaries of State, 37 Secretaries of the Treasury, 42 Secretaries of War, 35 Secretaries of the Navy, li Secretaries of the Interior, 33 Postmaster general. 45 Attorney generals and 53 Speaker of the House. i - f J- . ? : U i ' '. T i t I - 1 V il if i : i II! i 9 M
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