3 -Si W SsX 1 II I . II I II . . . .-:! !r.- ' . .. . ' I. I - 1 - J " I .. .. a B. F.SCHWEIER, -, THa 00JC8TITtJTI01l THI U5I0H A5D THE I5T0RCKMX5T OT THB LAWS. - Editor and ProprtctOtV. TOL. XXIX.. K MlTmNTjOWN, JUNIAl ,, NO. 37 GOOD-NIGHT. v Apple blossoms fair and lovely ' Opened with the dawning day, Shook tbeir fairy beads and nodded To the blossoms o'er tits way. Caught tbe sunshine in the frolic. Held it in their petala bright, Scattered perfume on the breeses. Laughing, flawing, said Good-night Fading bioaeoma. pore and stainless, : Slowly flatter from the trees ; Snowy petals sadly linger Playing with the evening breeze. ; . Drifting, floating, falling ever. Fairy angels robed in white. Hid among the dewy gramas, Softly, sadly sighed Oood-night. Dy and by, alone and lonely, Learea and blomoms withered dead, Will the trees seem robed in sorrow. Mourning for their beauty fled. Itut from oat tbe barren branches. Kindly veiled in winter's white, Iloful of the coming spring time, Hweet-toned voices breathe Good-night. We are waiting for the apriug time Dark and drear may be the day Stiff our wistf ul eyes are taming ' To the "sometime far away. So we sink to rest, still trusting ' Sleep, to dream of morning light. Where the flowers shall bloom forever. Where we ne'er shall say Good-aitftit. Rulh's Step-Falher. A curious trade to take to, but then it lias ;rown to b pro3table. Things were at a low ebb ith lue w hen I took it up, while now There, I wou't boast, only say tliat I'm thankful for it. Poverty comes in at the door, and love flies out of the window, .so. they say; but that's all nonsense, or else jour oor jieople would be always miserable, while ac cording to my experience yonr jMior man is often more light-hearted than the man with thousand. 1 was at my wits' end for something to do, and sat nibbling my nails one d:iy and grumbling horribly. "Don't go on like that, Tom," says my wife; things might be worse." How?"' I said. "Why, we might have Luke at home, ami lie is doing well." Luke's our boy, you know, and v.-c had got him into a merchant's office, where he seemed likely to stay; but 1 was tu a grumbling fit then, and there was a clickety-click noise going on in the next room that fidgeted me terribly. "Things can't be worse," 1 said an grily ; and I was going on to prove my self in tllb wrong by making my wife cry, when there was a knock at the door. ' "Come in," I said, and a fellow lodger put in his head. "Are you good at works, Mr. Smith ?" he said. "What works' I said; "fireworks gasworks J" "Xo, no; I mean works of things as goes with wheels and springs." "Middling," I said, for I was fond of pulling clocks to pieces and trying to invent. "I wish you'd come and look at this sewing-machine of mine, for 1 can't get it to go." Sewing-machines were- newish in those days, and 1 got up to have a look at it, and after about an hour's fiddling aliout, I began to see a bit the reason why the purpose, you know, of all the screws and cranks and wheels; I found out, too, why our neighbor's w ile, who was a dressmaker and had just started one, could not get it to go; and before night, by thinking ami putting this and that together, had got her in the way of working it pretty steadily, though with my clumsy fingers I couldn't have done it myself. 1 had in y bit of dinner and tea with those people, and they forced half-a-crown uMn me as well, and I went back feeling like a new man, so refresh ing had been tiiat bit of work. "There," said my w ife, "I told you something would come." "Well, so you did," I said; "but the something is rather small." lint the very next day as we were living in the midst of people who were fast taking to sewing-machine? if the folks from the next house didn't want me to look at theirs; and then the news spreading, as news will spread, that there was someliody w ho could cobble and tinker in-tchiiicry without putting people to the expense that makers would, if the jol didn't come In fast, so that I was obliged to get flics and drills and a vii'e a regular set of tools by degrees; and at last 1 was as busy as a lice from morning to night, and whis tling over my work as happy as a king. I coarse every now and then 1 got a breakage, but I could generally get over that by buying a new wheel or spindle, or what not. Xext we got to supplying shuU'es and needles and machine-cotton. Soon after I bought machine of a man who was tired of it. Next week I sold it at a gnod pmfit. Bought an-' other and another, and sold them; then got to taking them and money in ex change for new ones, and one way and the other lut-aiiie a regular big dealer, as you see. Hundred? Why, new, second-hand, and with those being repaired tip-stairs by the men, I've got at least three hun dred on the premises, while if anyloxly had told me fifteen years ago that 1 should be doing this I should have laughed at him. That pretty girl showing and explain ing the machine to a customer? That's Ruth, that is. Xo, not my daughter vet, but she soon will be. Poor girl, I always think of her and of the bread thrown upon the waters at the same time. Curious idea that, you will say, but I'll tell you why. In our trade we have strange people to deal with. Most of 'em are poor, and can't buy a machine right off, but tre ready and willing to pay so much a week. That suite them and it suite me, if they will only keep the payments up to the end. You won't believe me, perhaps, but some of them don't do that. Some of them leave their lodgings, and I never see them agaiu; and' the most curious juirt is that the sewing-machine disap iears with them and I never see that again. Many a one, too, that has dis apiieared like that 1 do see again per has have it brought here by some one to be repaired, or exchanged for a big ger, or for one by a different maker; lor if von look round here you'll see I've got all kinds new and old, little domestics and big trades there, you name any maker and see if I don't bring you out one of his works. Well, w hen I ask these people where they got the machine for I always know them by the number it turns out that they've bought it through an advertisement or at a salesroom, or inavbe out of a awiibroker's shop. But I've had pleuty of honest people to deal with too them as have come straightforward and told me they couldn't keep up their payments, and asked me to take their machine back, when I'd allow them as much as 1 thought fair, and 'twould be an end of a pleasant transaction. The way I've liecn bitten though by some folks has made me that case-har dened that sometimes I've wondered whether I'd got any heart left, and the wife's had to interfere, telling me I've been spoiled with prosperity and grown unfeeling. It was she made me give way about Ruth, for one day, after having had my bristles all set up by finding oot that three good sound machines, by best makers, had gone nobody knew where, who should come into the shop but a lady-like looking woman lu very shabby widow's weeds. She wanted a machine for herself and daughter to learn, and said she had heard that I would take the money by instalments. Now, just nan an nour Deiore, Dy our shop clock, I had made a vow that I'd give up all that part of the trade, and I was very rough with her just as lam when I'm cross and said "Xo." "But you will if the lady gives se curity," says my wife. The oor woman gave such a woe begone look at us that it made me more out of temper than ever, for I could feel that if I stopped I should have to let her have a first-class machine, as good as new, she only paying seven and. six down, and undertaking to pay half-a- crown a week, ana no more security than nothing. To make it worse, too. If I didn't se'id the thing home without charge, Luke going with it, for he was back at home now keeping my books, being grown into a fine young fellow of five and twenty; and I sat and growled the whole of the rest of the day, calling mysell all the weak-minded idiots under the sun, and telling the wife that busi ness was going to the dogs, and I should lie ruined. "So I am," said I. "I didn't think I could be such a fool." "Such a fool as to do a good kind actian to one who was evidently a lady born, and come down in the world !" "Yes," I says, "to living in Bennett's place, where i've sunk no less than ten machines in five years." . f "Yes," says the wife, "and cleared hundreds of pounds. Tom, I'm ashamed of you yoira man with twenty work men busy un-stairs,' a couple of thou sand pounds' wortli of stock, ami in the bank a " "Hold your tongue, will you !" I said roughlv, and went out into the shop to try and work it all off. Luke came back soon after, looking very strange, and I was at him directly. "Wherc the seven an' six !" I says angrily. lie didn't answer, but put the three half-crowns down on the desk, took out the book, made his entries date of de livery, first payment, w hen the other's due, and all the rest of it and was then going into the house. "Mind," I says sharply, "as those payments are to be kept up to the day, and to-morrow you go to Holly's who live nearly oposite to 'em, and tell 'em to keep an eye on the widow, or we shall lose another machine." ' "You needn't be afraid, father," he says, coldly; "they're honest enough, only poor." I was just in that humor that I wanted to quarrel w ith semeliody, and that diil it. "When I ask you for your opinion, young man, you give it me; and when I tell you to do a thing, you do it," I says in as savage a way as ever I sjioke to the lad. "You go over to-morrow and tell Holly's to keep a strict lookout on those people do you hear?" "Father," he says, looking me full In the face, "I couldn't insult them by doing such a thing," when without an other wont he walked qrietly out of the shop, leaving me worse than ever. For that boy had never spoken to me like that before, and I should have gone after him feeling mad like, only some H'ople came in, and I didn't see him again till evening, and a good thing, too, for I'm sure I should have said all sorts of things to the boy, that I should have been sorry for after. And there I was fuming and fretting aliout, savage with everybody, giving short answers,' snapping at the wife, and feeling as a man does feM when he knows that he has been in ihe wrong and hasn't the heart to go and own it. It was aliout 8 o'clock that I was sit ting by the parlor-tire with the wife working and very quiet, when Luke came in from the workshop with a book under his arm, for he had been totting up the men's piecework, and w bat was due to them; and the sight of him made me feel as if I must quarrel. He saw it too, but he said nothing, only put the accounts away and liegau to read. The wife saw Ihe storm brewing, aud she knew how put out I w as, for I had not lit my pipe, nor yet had my evening nap, which I always have after tea. S she did what she knew so well how to do filled my pile, forced it into my haud, and just as I was going to da.h it to pieces in the ashes, she gave me one of Iter old looks, kissed me on the fore head, as w ith one band she pressed me back in my chair, aud then with the other she lit a splint and held it to my tobacco. I was done. She always gets over me like that; and alter smoking in silence for half an hour, I was lying back, whJi my eyes closed, dropping off to sleep, wheii the wife said (what had gone lie! ore I hadn't heard) : "Yes, he's asleep now." That woke me up, of course, and if 1 didn't lie there shamming and heard all they said iu a whisper. "How came you to make him more vexed than he was, Luke?" said the wife; and he told her. - "1 couldn't do it mother," he said excitedly. "It was heart-breaking. She's living in wretched room there with her daughter; and, mother, w hen I saw her I felt as if there, I can't tell you." "Go on, Iuke," she said. -"They're half starved," he said in a husky way. Oh ! mother, it's horrible. Such a sweet, beautiful girl, and the poor woman herself dying almost with some terrible disease." The wife sighed. "They told me," he went on, "how hard they had tried to live by ordinary needle-work and failed, aud that as a last resource tbey had tried to get the machine." "I'oor things I" says the wife: "but are vou sure the mother was a lady ?' "A clergvman's widow," says Luke, hastilv; "there isn't a doubt about It. l'oor girl 1 and they've got to learn to use it before it will be of any use." "Ioor girl, Luke?" says the wife softlv; ami I saw through my eyelashes that "she laid a hand upon his arm and was looking curiously at him, when if he didn't cover his face with his hands, rest his ellwws on the table, and give a low groan ! Then the old w oman got up, stood behind his chair, and began playing with and caressing his hair like the foolish old mother would. "Mother," he says suddeuly, "will you go and see them?" She didn't answer for a minute, only stood looking down at him, and theu said softly "They paid you the first money ?" "Xo' he says holly. "I hadn't the heart to take it." Then that money you paid was yours, Luke?" "Y'es, mother," he says, simply; and those two stopped looking one at the other, till the wife bent down and kissed him, holding his head afterwards for a few momenta between her hands; for be always did worship that, chap, our only one; and then I closed my eyes tight and went on breathing heavy and thinking. - For something like a new revelation had come upon me. I knew Lnke was five and twenty and that I was fifty- tour, but be always seemed like a boy to me, and here was I waking up to the fact that be was a grown man. and that I .1. . .i a . mo ) Luiiihjuv aim iceiiiig ws ursi thought and felt when I saw his mother, uigb a pon eight and twenty years ago. l lay DacJE, thinking and telling my self I was very savage with him for deceiving me, and that I wouldn't have him aud his mother laying plots to gether against me, and that I wouldn't stand by and see him make a fool of himself with the first pretty girl he set eyes on, when he might marry Maria Turner, the engineer's daughter, and have a nice bit of money w ith her to put into the business, and then be my jiartuer. "Xo,"Iays; "if you piot together, I'll plot ail alone," aud then I pre tended to wake up, took no notice, and had my siier. I kept rather gruff the next morning, and made myself very busy about the pbice, and I dare say spoke more sharply than usual, but the wife and Luke were as quiet as could be; and aliout twelve I went ont, with a little oil-can and two or three toots in m v pocket. It was not far to Bennett's place, and on getting to the right house I asked for Mrs. Murray, and was directed to the second floor, where, as I reached the door, I could hear the clicking of my sewing-machine, and whoever was there was so busy over it that she did not hear me knock, so I opened the door softly and looked in upon as tad a scene as I shall ever; I dare say, see. There in the bare room sat, asleep in her cha;r, the widow lady who came about the machine, and I could see that in her lace which told plainly enough that the pain and suffering she must have been going through for years would soon be over, and, situated as she was, it gave me a kind of turn. "It's no business of yours," I said to myself roughly; and I turned then to look at who it was bending over my machine. I could see no face only a slight figure in rusty black; and a pair of busy white hands were trying very hard to govern the thing, and to learn how to use it well. . "So that's the gal, is it?" I said to myself, "Ah, Luke, my toy, you've got to the silly calf age, and I dare say " I got no further, for that moment the girl started, turned around, and turned uKu me a timid, wondering face, and made my heart give a queer throb, and 1 couldn't take my eyes off her. "Hush !" she said softly, holding up her band ; and 1 saw it was as thin and transparent as if she had been UL. My name's Sinltb " 1 said, taking out a screw-driver. "My machine; how does it go? . Thought I'd come and see." Her face lit up in a moment, and she came forward eagerly. "I'm so glad you've come," she said, "I can't quite manage this." She poii'ted to the thread regulator, and the next minute I was showing her that was too tight, and somehow, in a gentle timid way, the little witch quite got over me, and I stopped there two hours helping her, till her eyes sparkled with delight, as she found out how easily she could now make the needle dart in and out of hard material. "Ik you think you can do it now?" I said. "Oh, yes, I think so; 1 am. so glad you came." "ho am I, says 1 grntny; "it will make it all the easier for you to earn the money, and pay for it." "And I will work So hard," she said earnestly. "That you will, my dear," 1 says in spite of myself, for 1 felt sure it was'nt me speaking, but something in me. "She been ill long?" I said, nodding towards her mother. "Months," she said, with the tears starting in her pretty eyes; "but," she added brightly, "I shall have enough with this to get her good medicines aud things she can fancy ;" and as I looked at her, something in me said "God bless you, my dear! I hope you w ill; ' and the next minute I was going down stairs, calling myself a fool. They thought I didn't know at home, bat I did; there was the wife going over and over asrain to Bennett's pl-ice, aud all sorts of little nice things were made and taken there. 1 often used to see them talking about it, but 1 took no not'ee, and that artful scoundrel, my Ikiv Luke, nsed to nay the half-eleven every week wit of his own ookec, after going to reach it from Ihe w mow s. And all the time I told myself I didn't like it, for 1 could see that Luke was changiil, and always thinking of that girl a girl not half good enough for him. 1 rememliered lieing xor myself, and I hated poverty, and 1 used to speak harshly to Luke and the wile, and feel very bitter. At last iime au afternoon when I knew there was something wrong. The wife had gone out directly after dinner, saying she was going to see a sick woman I knew who it was, bless you ! nd Luke was fidgeting aliout, not himself; aud at last he took his hat and went out. "They might have coiifidinl in me," I said bitterly, but all the time 1 knew that I wouldn't let them. "They'll be sjiending money throwing it away. I know they've spent pounds on them already." At last I got in such a way that I called down our foreman, left him in charge, aud took my hat and went after them. Everything was very quiet in Ben nett's idace, for a couple of dirty, de jected looking women, one of whom was in arrears to me, naa sent tne cuu dren that played in the court right away because of the noise, and were keeping guard so that they should not come back. , I went up tbe stairs softly, and all was very still, only as I got nearer to the room I could hear a bitter, wailing cry, and then. I opened the door gently and went in. - Luke was there, stauding with his head bent by the sewing-machine; the wife sat in a chair; on her knees, with her face buried in the wife's lap, was the poor girl, crying as if her little heart would break ; while oil the bed, with all the look of pain gone out of her face, lay the widow gone to meet her husband where pain and sorrow are no more. ' I couldn't see very plainly, for there was a mist like before ray eyes; but I knew Luke flushed up as he took a step forward, as if to protect the girl, and the wife looked at me in a frightened way. But there was no need, for something that wasn't me spoke, and that in very gentle way, as I stepped forward, raised the girl up, and kissed her pretty face before laying her little helpless head upon my shoulder, and smoothing her soft brown hair. "Mother," says that something from within me, "I think there's room in the nest at home for this poor, forsaken little bird. Luke, my boy, will you go and fetch a cab? Mother will see to what wants doing here." My boy gave a sob as he caught wiy hand in his, and the next moment he did what he had not done for years kissed me on the cheea oefore running out of the room, leaving me with my darling nestling in my breast. I said "my darling," for she has been the sunshine of our home ever since a pale, wintry suushine while the sorrow was fresh, but spring and summer now. Why, bless her ! look at herl I've felt ashamed sometimes to think that she, a lady of birth; should come down to such a life, making me well, no, it's us now, for Luke's partner no end of money by her clever ways. But she's happy, thinking her husband that it is to be the finest fellow under the sun; and let uie tell you there's mapy a gentleman not so well off as my boy will be, even if the money has ail come ont of a qreer trade. Veurue "cnnllt fern in CaneW. Ptatal Teleajrmphy la Eaarlstaa'. A London letter says : It is a very uii-e thing to be able to send a tele graphic despatch to any. point within the L'nited Kingdom at the rate of one shilling for tweuty words press mes sages going at the still lower rate of one hundred words for a shilling. But it now appears that this is too cheap; and that while the number of despatches has doubled in the last four years, the increased expense attending them has been so great that the Postal Telegraph Department this year will incur a loss of $23,000. This unfortunate result, however, appears to be partially due to the fact that when the government took the telegraphic companies under its control, it raised the pay of all the em ployes. . . , Another cause of trouble is. found in the fai't that in its anxiety to afford every facility for telegraphing, the Government established a vast number of new otllees, 54'J of which, out of a total of 3,U92, are not at present paying their exienses. In London alone there art 373 l'ostal Telegraph ollices. All but seven of these, however, are profit able; and those which are doing busi ness at a loss are principally those which are located in small and obscure country places. Having placed its hand to the plough, however, the Government does not intend to look backward ; and it only proposes to change the present system in a single detail. At present you can send a message of twenty words, exclusive of your own and corresHndeiit's address,.- for one shilling. The average number of words contained in a shilling message, how ever, is shown to be forty-three the value of the actual message being sev enteen words and the remaining twenty- six being made up of the address and of words not written Dv the sender, nut oy the clerk, aud known as "service in structions." The department is now preparing a plan by which these latter words may be omitted, or greatly abridged; and it proposes also to adopt tbe "word system" by which a message of one word will cost only one-twentieth of what one of twenty words will cost, exclusive of the address and signature which, under this system, must be also paid for. The Caase r Half Wark. There is time enough to do many things, if the person is seriously con centrated in his work, and does not squander his mind aud time by half w ork. Xothingisso bad as that. There are many persons who think they are working when in truth they are only dawdling over their work with half attention. 1 here is time enough thrown awav every dav to enable any one earn est mind to do more than many a man does with his w hole day. All depends u I hii love ot the work on which one is engaged, and in concentration of one's faculties, it is, in my opinion, better to iie utterly idle, and lie fallow to influ ences, than to muddle away hours in half work. Besides, change ot lalior is rest, and to an active mind more rest than laziness. 1 have always ton ml In music a moi-e complete refreshment of my mint! after a hard day's work in my studio than even sleep could give. The faculties and powers and interests are thrown in a different direction, and while one series works the other reposes. After an entire change of occupation one returns with fresh aest and vigor to the work he has loft; whereas if the thoughts are constantly treading the same path, they soon, as it were, wear a rut in the mind out of which they can not extricate themselves, and this begets in the end mannerism and self repeti tion. Still more, the various arts are but ditt'erent exercises of correlative powers. They each In turn refresh and enlarge the imaginative and motive lowers, aud extend their sphere. Each, as it were, is echoed and reflected into the other. The harmonies of color and forms and tones and words are closely related to each other, and but different expressions of merely the same thing. A sculptor's work w ill be cold if he is not sensitive to color aud music; aud a winter's work w ill lie loose and vague unless his mind has been trained to the absoluteness of form and outline; neither can compose well his lines and forms unless he possesses that innate sense of balance and harmonious arrangement aud modulation which is developed by music. UlartwooWt Mmmine.- ladla-raaaew aidewalka. India-rubber sidewalks are coining into fashion out West. For small towns they are ad in irable combining economy and durability. The first experiment was made in Danville, Iowa, where three hundred yards were put down on one of the principal streets. All the boys in the place ran over it, but there was no noise. A leading merchant stopped in front of . his house, then jumped on his heels. The elastic forces hidden in the rubber threw him over the gate to the roof the piazza. But after a few trials he was able to alight on the steps with the graceful accuracy of a flying squirrel. The chief draw back to the walk is its odorous famil iarity in hot weather, but it can be neutralized by a weekly wash of borax and coal tar. Its principal advantage is that it cji be stretched. As the to wn grows, it is pulled out towards the suburbs. Two yoke of cattle can lengthen it three miles a day. ' Baaas Satara. People have usually three epochs in their confidence in man. In tbe first? they believe him to be everything that is good, and they are lavish with their friendship and confidence. In the next, they have had expeiience, which has smitten down their confidence, and then they have to be careful not to mistrust every one, and not to put the worst con struction on everything. Later in life they learn that the greater number of men have more good in them than bad, and that, even where there is cause to blame, there is more room to pity than to condemn. Gov. Gaston will not sign the bill for the execution of the Pomeroy hoy. BrMflavt Tta The lata Lord. Lyndhurst lived till 1363; yet he had seen the birth, growth and maturity of the Republic of the L'nited State of America, for he was born In Massachusetts, at a time w Tien that and the other Eastern States were British plantations or colonies.' In his ninety-two years of life, he had seen the whole history of the great Republic. In 1871 died Paymaster Thome, the oldest naval officer in the Queen's ser vice; for he received his first commis sion in tbe days when Lord Nelson was still living, fighting, and conquering. Still more remarkable w as . the case -of the hue Field Marshal Viscount Com bermere; he was a commissioned othcer in the British Army in lvl, and a com missioned otlieer be was In lsoo, when death carried him ' off at the age of ninety-two. During bis passage through all the military grades, from Ensign to r leid .Marshal be had been conversant with the wars relating to two Kepub- lics, two Empires, and several -Slop archies in France. Most noteworthy fact of all, Combermere and the great XaKlcou had been subaltern orticers in the self-same year, the one (English) as r.nnign -oiton, the other, ( v rencn ) "a Lieut. Bonaparte; and yet .Kapo.'eon has been dead more than half a century ! When George IV. visited Edinburgh In 1322, he had an interview with one of the men who had fought for Prince Charlie in 1745; the King pleasantly welcomed him as "the last of bis ene mies." One Mr.. Evans who died in 1730, was wont to speak of having wit nessed tbe execution of lharles I. in 1C40; but tins assertion is sadly in need of corroboration. ' The Scottish news paiers tn 1706 recorded the. birth of a child to Ladv Xicolson. of Gleubervu; her busliand, Sir William, was ninety- two years old at the time, having mar ried his second wife when bit-was eighty-two; there, was an interval of sixty-six years between the birth or his first daughter by his first wife aad his vou n ires t daughter bv his second wife. We have no record of the death of this youngest daughter, but supposing her to have uved beyond her eightieth year, she might have said In 1310: "My father was born 172 years ago, in the time of Charles II.; and my eldest sister was born 116 years ago." This case was a secially remarkable one in one at leastof its features. .More within the ordinary run, but still noteworthy, was the instance of Dr. Franklin, who was the grandson of a man born in the time of Queen Elizabeth; Benjamin r rauklin himself died in 17'M, and thus he, his father, and grandfather covered two centuries. About the year l.VW wa born Miss Lettice Knollvs, who eventu ally became by marriage Countess of r.ssex in Ijm, Countess of Leicester in 1S8G, and Lady Blount in !'. This courtly ladv, who did not quit the scene of life till 1U34, was a great niece of Anne Boleyn, and might, very pronaniy as a little girl, have seen Henry VIII.; she certainly saw Edward VI., Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I. Lettice belonged to a family very retentive of life; lor her father reached the age of eighty-five, one brother eighty-six, ' another brother ninety-nine, and herself ninety-five. Another courtly lady was in a position to say, shortly before her death ill 1S.V!, "King Charles 1L .was present at the marriage of my grandfather, and gave away the bride nearly a hundred and ninety years ago." This leaping over a wide gap of time seems rather start ling; but the facts and dates arrange themselves in the following way: James, the fifth Earl of Balcarras, was a naval otlieer in the service of Queen Anne; he had come to the earldom as successor to his lather, the fourth Earl; Charles II., near the close of his reign, had given away the bride at the first m.trnage of this fourth Earl; of the years of birth and death of the two noblemen we need not take account; but Eiirl James' daughter Elizalieth became Countess of llar.lw icke, and survived to a very advanced age in ISjS. CAuia ter' Jvurmii. LJeas at Diaaer. The following interesting account of a lion's dinner is from a work entitled "Large Game in South-eastern Afri ca": - . Perhaps the most beautiful sight that I ever saw in connection with them was on a morning when I went ont to hunt with one bearer at dawn. I had not eone far from camp, and. most earrh'RHly, my gun was still unloaded while 1 was examining some bottalo spoor, when, looking np, I saw my gun bearer, who had my cartridire. runiiinir away at full speed. Knowing that he must have seen something to tnghten him so, I did not shont, bnt went to where he hail been standing, a few yards ahead, and there, sure enough, not twenty yards off were a pair of lions; they were boih full grow niuil the male had an immense mane, altogether as handsome a pair as ever 1 saw. The Lioness was rolling on her buck, play fully striking out at her lord and mas ter with Iter paws like a kitten, while he stood gravely and majestically look ing on. I stopiM'd a moment to watch them, though the gronnd was qnite oien, ami tbey must have seen uie if they looked around, and then I rnshed off alter my Kaffir to load. The posi tion tbey were in. was good, and I might have killed one to a cer tainty, if not both; but when I had succeeded in getting him down from a big tree aud went back.they had gone. I supo8e they must have got onr wind. Xo doubt they had been hunting all night, and Wen down to the river to drink preparatory to goin g to bed. I once had thepleasureol, unobserved myself, watching, a lion family feed ing. I was eneaaiped on the Black Un ifolsi, Zuluiand, and towards evening, expecting a friend, I went out to meet him, and instead of taking a gnu which I should have done ninety-nine times ont ot a hundred. 1 only took nr one of the Kaffir's spears not intending to f o over a couple of hundred yards, lowever, not meeting my friend I went about a half mile from camp. I saw a herd of zebras galloping toward me, and when they were nearly two hundred yards off, I saw a yellow body fiash towards the leader, and saw him fall beneath the lion's weight. There was a tall tree about sixty yards from the place and anxious to see what went on, I stalked np to it, while the linn was too much occupied to look about him, and climbed up. He had by this time quite killed the beautifully striped animal, but instead of proceeding to eat it, he got np and roared vigorously until there was an answer, and in a few minutes a lioness, accompanied by foar whelps came trotting up from the same direction as the zebra, which no doubt she had been to drive towards her husband. Tbey formed a fine picture as they all stood around tbe carcass, tbe whelps tearing and biting at it but unable to get through the tough skin. Then the lion lay down, and the lioness, driving her offspring before her. did the same, four or five yards-off. upon which be got np and commenced to eat. and bad soon finished a hind leg, retiring a few yards on one side as soon as be bad done so. The lioness came np next, and tore the carcass to shreds bolting huge mouthfnls, but not objecting to the whelps eating as much as ' they could find. There was a good deal of snarl ing among tbe yonng lions and occa sionally a stand np fight for a minute, bat their mother did not take any notice of them, except to give them a smart blow with her paw n they got in her war. At last one of the whelps. having probably eaten as mach as H could gorge, began to wanuer about, and in a few minutes came my way. Seeing it so near, tbe idea of catching it entered my bead,, and descending to the lower branch I waited till it came underneath and dropped down over it. seizing it with both bands ; but 1 had counted without my host; the little beast snarled and bit and tore my bare arms in such a fashion that I was glad to fling it away and scuttle np a tree as fast as I could out of the way of the enraged mother, who was coming down at full gallop,' her tail carried out straight behind and Looking the very pel Bonification of fury. Sue rushed right against the tree in her blind fury. and then running np glared at me, and roared terribly. I might easy enough have sent my spear into her: but as there was not the faintest chance of killing her, and it would answer no use ful purpose, I refrained, and watched her instead as she Mew at her offspring, and drove it, yelling at her rough treat ment, towards the others. There was now left of the zebra but a few bones, which hundreds of vultures were cir cling round waiting to pick, while al most au equal number hopped awk wardly on the ground within fifty or sixty yards of it ; and the ' whole lion family walked quietly away, the lioness leading, and the lion, often turning his head to see that they were not followed, bringing up the rear. Am Itallaa ( rla A most extraordinary tale of crime has been unraveled by the Italian de tectives in endeavoring to clear up the mystery of the assassination of Son zogno, the editor of the Capital news paper at Rome, who, it will be remem liered. was assassinated at his desk during the carnival, last Christmas. VYe need not goover the steps by which the plot of assassination was slowly un wound, but as presented to the courts, it stands in this wav: Signor Luciani. a former colleague of Sonzogno and the betrayer of bis wife, procured the as sassination, out of fear that Sonzogno would reveal some air.ur in bis own life which Luciani wished to keep secret. Luciani, who is quite a politician, and recently a candidate for Parliament, to accomplish the murder, hired two men to do it for 6,00u francs. 1 he mercena ries, however, with unusual thrift pro cured the murder done for nothing bv working on the ignorant patriotism of a laborer named t rezza, whom tbey inspired with hatred of Sonzogno, as suring him that Garibaldi wanted Son zogno out of the war. After the murder the two men in partnership received Irom Liticianrs mother l.nnu francs, with the promise that the other 5.UDU francs should be forthcoming. When arrested a 500- franc note was found on one of them, and Uie other confesses to having made way with a similar note after his arrest. At tins instant, Prince Olcalclu. a noble Roman, went to the magistrate and gave evidence that Luciani had applied to him fora loan of 6.000 francs. and hail been accommodated with l.UUO in two 500-franc notes. The Prince's banker was able to give the numbers of the notes, and one of them was tbe one found in the possession of the ar rested man. 1 he chain of circumstances is thus fearfully strong. Luciani denies everything, but, when arrested, was found concealed in a closet, and his mother protested that he was not in the house at all. But what was Lnciani's secret which Sonzogno shared t Luciani was once private secretary to Ratazzi, husband of thefamonsCouutess Ratazzi, the Bona partial. Racial Life af Aats. Mr. Anguste Forel. a gentleman who spends his life in studying ants and their habits, and who tells some as tounding tales aliout them. Among other things M. Forel says: 'They render each other mutual ser vices ; when an ant has got besmeared with mud. its companions set aliout cleaning itmotit methodically. M. Forel, had, by way of experiment, "dirtied and deformed some of the silky cocoons that contain toe ants' nymph ; on the following day be found them all per fectly clean dressed, and brought in shape again. What has lieen said by Huberts to the precision with which an expeditionary column of A maones proceeds on its march, is only partially true, for when the insects are laden with heavy cocoons they can not mind any order, but goon as they ran. Under such circumstances many lose their way, but when they get into the ritrht track again they evince the greatest self-confidence by. their steady step; iney, consequently, are enuoweu witn memory. Tbe battles of ants have been often descrilied, but even here M. Forel haasomethingnew to say. Some siecies are timid and cowardly, and always seek safety iu flight ; others are exceed ingly brave, and seem to enjoy a tight above all tilings. But then there are others whose courage requires exciting: they hesitate at first, but gradually lie come bolder, and - ultimately display foolhardiness in a paroxysm of rage they will let themselves be uselessly killed. When an ant thus loses its self command, its companions will try to keep it back by its feet until it has re turned to iu senses. The architecture of the nests has received much atten tion from the author, and he shows that the same specie will build in different ways. 1 he locality, tne season the ex tent of tbe nooulation all these cir cumstances require special arrange ments. The ants will quarrel among each other abont constructions that are not equally convenient to all. When ants find a habitation unoccupied, or hare driven the inmates from it, they will retain the old arrangements, mak ing only slight improvements in them. Railway Traveliag aad Sleealaeaa. There is something peculiarly strik ing in tbe somnolence which the move ment of a railway carriage indilces in a large number of travelers. It is not felt by all; some persons, indeed, are quite unable to sleep in a train; but the sedative effect on a great many is quite irresistible. To the physiologist the phenomenon has scientific interest as another illustration of the strange effect of reiterated sound upon the brain-cells; gently loosening, by its vibrations, the finks which bind together the centres of consciousness and of sensation. We know of many instances of a similar effect on the nerve-centres of repeated sensory Impressions. How they act we do not know yet, but we have gained some insight in the discovery of the part which "Inhibition" plays in nerv ous action. We see it, for instance, in many effects of peculiar auditory sensa tion Take the influence of the plough boy's whistle on his resting' team, or the idiosyncrasy to the sound of the bagpipe, with which Shakespeare has made us ramillar. we Know still less of the mode of the action of sound upon the brain to which -we have referred ; whether on tbe nerve-cells directly or through the vessels, whether through the auditory path or through many sensory nerves, or whether in part by the motion of the brain itself upon its "hydrostatic bed," is still uncertain. In any case it Is a rough reproduction of the "lullaby" which is the instinc tive sedative of nature, and doubtless may be allowed to exercise its full effect with much advantage in lessening the wearying effects on the nerve-centres of a railway journey. ihe Lancet iwnvwun. Caught and Taught. "Pooh! who eares for that f cried the Blae-bottie. bursting through the spider s web in tne pride ot bis strength, as Be began his dav's snort. The Spider waited in tbe dark till he had passed, then, went to work to mend ner web. "What ! ready for a catch agaia f cried Uie Blue-bottle, returning at noon rather wearied with the frolics and ex cesses of the morning. Twice he struck tbe web before he passed through it, carrying some ot it on bis wings. . The Spider half showed herself, but ran back as he escaped, and. when be had gone, once mora span away to re pair ber web. "Ha ! ha ! ha r cried the Blue-bottle. languidly, as he was going home in tbe sunset, quite worn out with his day's dehsrhts. "1 m sorry to diatnrb von. old fatly, but, if you will hang your I. .... m ,n tk. I Iniui. 1. w.l. I.am' uwu1 au ..iv. uivu o ui. ii . mj , .111 it 9 nothing for it but to go through it." . He threw himself against the filmy snare, bnt be was not able to break it. He affected to scorn it. "I won't trou ble myself w ith it now." he cried, and thought to leave it ; but the subtle threads had cl osed round his feeble limbs, and he could not withdraw them . "Sorry to disturb you, sir," said the Spider, coming out of her corner, "but if yon will make free with people's houses, you must expect to pay for the liberty." ... in meeting ber attack the unhappy Bine-bottle struggled so violently that he broke the web. and fell fainting be low. "Ah V he cried, as he crawled away, sick and wounded. "I see now none but the fool-hardy will trust them selves in Uie most contemptible snare when they are not prepared for it ; that w inch 1 laughed at in my strength naa nearly proved my destruction in the hour of my weakness. Going to the Caracan. Going to the caravan means to go to a big tent, where tbe bear. lions and monkeys are kept in cages. It may be a long time though, before the heavy carts, with the lions inside, will come bumping and thumping into town, and the tent be set up with the nags overhead. Uur Eddie, a chubby boy, only three years old. goes to tbe caravan as often as he can get his papa's dictionary. That is a big word for little folks to Ray, "ilic-tion-a-ry." It is like going up a hill, then down ; up, and so down again, till you land at the bottom. The best Eddie can do is to call it the "uVa fcrry." In Uie last part of the Webster's Dic tionary that belongs to Eddie's papa are pictures of ever so many animals. And it is as good as going to a caravan for Eddie to look at the pictures as he sits holding on to the book, and turn ing the leaves with his dumpling hands. I asked him one morning to tell me what the pictures were. He began, "That is a striped horse, and that is a wild-cat, and that is yon, papa ! (point ing to a big monkey.) and there is a piggie-wig, and Uiere is a donkey, and that is a fox." "And what else!" "And there's yoM, papa ! (coming back to the monkey). My poor dictionary is going to ruin. The leaves where the animals are shown, look like caravan-cages with their corners worn, and cracks in their sides. But, for all that, Eddie shall have his caravan. Happy is the house that has a little fat boy in it, it he uses up a dictionary every year. A Pntfomnd Secret. "I will tell you something, if you will not tell ; for it is a profound secret," said litUe Xelly Drew to Ruth Barton. "What is it, Xelly t" said Ruth. "I will promise not tell." " ell, then, you know the old spar row's nest in the corner ot our pasturef "Ves, yes, I know," replied Ruth. "There were four beautiful litUe spar row's eggs in it yesterday." "There are only three in it to-day," said Xelly solemnly. "Why, who has been robbing the poor little bird V .. i "Xed Brattle took the egg. I saw him take it; and I told him, if he did not put it bark.I would tell his mother. He ran to put it back, but stumbled and broke it." "Well, then, he hasn't pnt it bark." said Ruth, "and yon can tell his mother w ithout breaking your promise." - "But would that be honorable, when lie meant to pnt it back t" asked Xelly. "Perhaps not,K said Ruth : "but it's a dreadful thing to rob a bird's nest; and I'm afraid Xed Brattle will come to a bad end." "Oh, 1 Uiink not f cried Xelly. "He's a pretty good boy ; for, when I told him how cruel and wicked it was to rob a hint's nest, tbe tears came to his eyes, ami he said he would not do it again." "Then be is not so bad a boy as I thought,"' concluded Ruth. Soon Hitjh, oic. "Mother." said a little Daisy, which bad lost sight of the sun under the shadow of a huge mushroon; "isn't it unbearable I Here are we, who have been patiently grow ing and putting forth bud after bud and leaf after leaf, from the very dawn of spring, and have gradually increased to a very decent family, through sum mer and the opening of autumn, sud denly buried, ectipeetl. lott, under the shade of this monstrous creature, the growth of a day or two !" "Xever mind, child," said the Parent Plant ; "my experience of those things is, that they perish as quickly as tbey rise ; we advance slowly but surely, and strengthen as we grow ; the very ra pidity with which a mushroon runs up carries in it Uie sentence ot a brief ex istence. Be patient ; it will soon van ish, and we snail see the sun again." A little three-year-old, warned by her mother not to put her fingers into the chopping-tray, lest the knife should cut them off, said : "Uod can make some more for me when I get to hea ven." Her mother replied: "Yon will not need them there." "Yea,' said the child, "I shall ; else how can I play on my harpt" Taa Caeaileal CassaaslUaa af the Brala. Dr. Thudiciim presented to the Lon don Chemical Society, at a late meeting. the results of the chemical analysis of a thousand brains, mostly normal brains taken from the human subject, but also comprising the brains of oxen for the purpose of checking the result. Tbe first step was to remove the water, amounting to 80 per cent. This is a difficult matter, but by cutting the sub stance in thin slices, and steeping them in successive portions of strong alcohol, a product U obtained which is dried and rubbed through a sieve. Heated to 4o deg. C. in alcohol, a residue consisting of albumen is obtained, and a solution which deposits a white precipitate con taining most of the phosphorized prin ciples, all the nitrogenized, and a large part of the cholesterin. Four groups of organic bodies are obtained in this way, as follows : Sul phuriaed, phosphorized, nitrogenized and oxygenated ; while in the inorganic series sulphuric, hydro chloric, phosphoric and carbonic acids, potassic hydrate, soda, ammonia, lime, magnesia, copper, iron and manganese are found. In the organic group the phosphorized and niuogenized com pounds form five per cent of the brain. In softening of the brain he had found free glycerophosphoric acid and fatty acids. KIWS II BaUT Wm. P. Ross has been elected chief of the Cnermtee nation, over Thomp son. ' ' . A dead dog was buried lit a line rosewood cofflu at Albany the ether day. - : The peppermint crop of Wayne Co. X. T., is estimated to reach $oU,000 this yr. J . - . Xinety-flve million feet of lumber have been rafted ou tbe Penobscot river this season. '. - ' The Spanish government will soon send a royal commissioner to the Phil adelphia exhibition. '- The great fish way at Holyoks Dam, Mass., built at an expense of $5D,000, is pronounced a failure. Seven county conveuUons ia Cali ifornia have nominated women for school superintendents. 1 The New Hampshire prohibitionists will hold tpelr state convention at Con cord on the 10 th of Xovember, i ; . A proposition is on foot to build a snmmer church for Rev. Henry Ward Beecher on tbe White Mountaius. It is estimated that the forthcoming Iowa census report will show that the state has a population of 1,30,000, The late Hon. Horace Binney. "of Philadelphia, was tbe last survivor of ' the class of 1797 at Harvard College. Ihiring the six months ending June ' 30th Colorado produced $1,052,000 gold bullion and $1,104,100 silver bunion. Ticonderoga farmers have converted '- a church into a cheese factory. TheV ' calculate there will be "millions in it J' .- Fourteen million postal ranis were issued in July, and their contents were all read by postal clerks and servant girls. James Parton has become a perma nent resident of Xewburyport- Massa chusetts where he has the most elegant nouse in low n. Treasurer Xew says that $1,000,000 of silver can be issued in Xew York la '. a hort time at a cost not exceeding one hundred dollars. The horse Lulu has leaped into fame by beating Goldsmith Maid at Rochester in three straight beats. Time - :l 2:la 1-2 2:17. The total number of emigrants who arrived at Xew York during July wa 9,202, against 15,634 during the corres ponding month of last vear. The Xewburyport HeraM says that one good reason given why Grant should step aside next year is tluit we are all out of ex-Presidents. A hotel at Lake George is ikwrihed as having all the modern attachments from the newly married couple to the latest improved kitchen range. Hon. D. M. Key, of Chattanooga, is appointed by the Governor to fill tbe vacancy iu the the L . S. Senate caused . by the death of Andrew Johnson. They have found a beehive a qnar- ter of a mile in length, near San Ber nardino, California, and are talking of calling it the "Linked Sweetness Mine." The genealogy of the Loomis family is being perfected by Professor IxmiibU, of Yale college. When finished, there will be nine thousand names upon the list. The President has conntermamled, for the present, the order allowing the wives of Indian prisoners at Fort Ma rion, Florida, to be sent to them from Fort Sill. A couple of young men were found in a freight car at Detroit, the other day, who had come through from St. Thomas, Canada, in 36 hours, without food or water. Spotted Tail wants $7,000,000 dam ages for injuries sustained by his peo ple by the invasion of the Black Hills. . Under Uie new code the claim should be left to arbitrators. Twenty years ago there entered and 1 left one of the depots In Jersey City forty passenger trains a day. Xow, to accommodate the increased traffic three hundred trains are necessary. ' . The Bridgeport Standard announces that P. T. Barnum la going to build , a hotel corner of Broadway and Houston streets, Xew Y'ork, to be kept an the . European plan, at reduced prices. , A Kentucky postofllce, paying a salary of $23 per year, is sought after by fourteen different men. They don't want the money, but are after the big feeling which every postmaster has. The number of prominent candi dates for nomination by the Republican ' party for the office of Governor of Mas sachusetts reached twenty-seven at the last meeting of the "Campaign Club." - A mail was received recently at the San Francisco Punt Uttice, which had , been but fifteen days in coining from London thither, and but fourteen days from Dublin. This U ihe fastest Ume on record. , At Wells Beach, Vt., they harbor a curious superstition that any one who ' will take a dip in the river on June 26th will be free from sickness for one year, and on that date hundreds flock to the charmed waters. A Richmond (Va.) niusic dealer an-, uounced that he would receive Confed erate money in payment for goods, ami ' only a few days ago he sold a piece of sheet music to a lady customer for $2, 612 in that currency. The whole number of locomotives in the world is estimated at a0,(Sa of wh)-h nearly 15,000 are in the L'nited Stale, and nearly 11,000 in Great Bri tain. The aggregate horse power Is es timated at lo,ouo,ouo. The consumption of cotton in the. Southern mills last year is said to have been 13,000,000 pounds in Geergia; 7, 000,000 pounds iu South Carolina; Ala bama, Tennessee and Xortii Carolina each, 6,000,000 pounds. Carl Schura will make about $-25,nO() from lecturing, the coming season. His calendar for Xew England hi nearly full. Wilson and Colfax are favorites in the lecture field, this season, espe cially in the Middle States and the West. An awful fate has overtaken a Texas lawyer. The Bonham Entei priM says: Joe Dupree made his firt speech on Tuesday, assisting apt. Sims in the prosecution of Alex. Rodg er. The jury sentenced him to te hanged. The arrangements for manufactur ing coal dust into ruel are a reality. At the Harrisburg foundry five machines are being made for this purpose. The Reading Railroad Company are about using this coal dust fuel in their loco motives. Suffering, grasshopper-stricken Kansas, has nearly completed harvesting the largest and finest crop ever pro. duced in the State. The corn stalks average from 12 to 17 feet In helght,wlth two or three large, well filled ears to every stalk. The national exposition in Rome, Georgia, will begin October 4 and cor Unue until October . This expos ilk n promises to be one of the grandest ever held in that section of the United States. Many distinguished men are expected to be present. 1 1 I '. V.' h r.. ? ;l J J' -U.I s 1 t is H r U :
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