;. 1 ----- ..v? : 3 ffil I V I J a F. SCHWEIER, THI 0058TITUTI05 Tfll U5I0N A51:TH1 IJJfORCXMXX? OF THI LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. Pi VOL XXX. MUTLINTOWN, JtJNIATA BOUNTY, PENNA., JUNE 21. 187G. NO. 25. Ml a. on . : . . -g , . iS OLD BOUQUET. BI fHABI.ES CTT1BT WELLE jboafb the flower wither, love. Other flowers as fair C.to T00 the heu,er-IoTe' lo adorn thj hair! Io adorn thy bosom, love Tbo who modest blush Sever Lily J hth blown Willi a daintier flash ! jbengh the flowers wither, love, When their scent bss died ue will gather fresher flowers. To aJftrn thy pride ; Eat when chilling winter, love, gammer flowers shall doom, Thon sh!t bloom yet daintily For thy lover bloom ! Tbonjh the Sowers wither, love, Ligtieaely depart, T.ionshalt bloom, thyself a flower. Fragrant as thou art Knthiog as a fresh rose, love. In the morning liht. Tare as waun cereoa, Eoseoniinj; at night ! Though the flowers wither, love. Bailing hopes arise, Vtapering that a Spring of Love Shall delight thine eyes Bend tLj fond eyes nearer, then. With thy gentle art, AoJ rare flowers of love shall bloom For thee, in my heart! Tis Wil! That Wins. ISAPOKK ROGERS. It wi evening. The moon had just risen over the Uq of the tall trees that fciniereJ the shores of a beautiful lake jc Hie tate of Ohio, and sent floods of jmber lisht over the rippling waters iua rutlli-d by the gentle breezes of orly May. The notes of a distant iliipioorwill waked the echoes of the .rove, an'l all the noisy nocturnal ,n-:ers that sunny spring welcomes Wpv life, seemed to vie with each t!ier in echoing the chorus of nature's jnnil concert. There was a sound of 'iniin" oars out upon the lake, and theclear nie 01 nuic bix-uuiouicu br a chorus of youthful voices came rinsi"? back across the water to the iwofthe stalwart farmer and his wife tbo lived near by, and who stood lis. Ming to the music and smiling at the itteriu Jes of merry laughter borne back fcrthe war ward breezes. It's a happy time they're having out iire to-night, wite," saw tne gooa Mtured an.t contented tiller of the soil, -nil wliv shouldn't thev? All this is r.nreatiifinnocent. If all the youth of this broatl land could be supplied with such amusement crime would disap pear in a ten fold ratio, and remorse ind liriinr of conscience would cease to follow in'the footsteps of pleasure. The very sound ofth.it music brings happi ness and enjoyment to every one who bears it.'' But in this the farmer was mistaken. Sxial distinction upon a false basis had crept in to mar the rural harmony, and tiu BKirUvt, huppieet and moet hopeful spirit of them all had come to grief that tlfbt, and Ina Warren stood alone un fertile friendly shadow of a huge maple, li-tening to the sound of all this mirth inljollitv, w hile deep convulsive sobs sbofk her slender frame. The tear ainrj face was decidedly pretty, fining brown hair fell in wavy tresses ibout her shoulders, and on the rounded thk were tints of health's own paint kz: the rosy mouth expressed the gen utEess of her nature, and not the least ii her charms was the intelligent, de termined expression of the clear blue tes. she w as the daughter of a neigh boring farmer in very moderate circum M3's, hut the girl had aspirations tyoiid the thoughts of her associates, irt-aais of the future which carried her at upon the creat sea of hope, to higher Juries, grander attainments and wider t!reres of action and usefulness than ae narrow limits of her surroundings vouid warrant. But what was there to justify these dreams? Nothing. And young as she was, she already began to realize that idle dreaming would never Vtfnch the ceaseless longing, and that prompt, decisive and energetic action ber own part was her only hope of er reaching the land of her drens. I p to this time the district school had her delight. Ever willing to proSt by the advice of those whose age exjrience entitled them to give it, tit lu'l profited by a maxim given her steadier five" years before, which will be of immense benefit to every young person who will adopt it. It is simj.ly this: ''Learn erery Uon y-rtiH," "and as a result, although -ir fifteen years of age, she had mas 'th all the branches usually taught ii district schools, and now aspired to higlier si hool in a neighboring town. tien she firt mentioned this project her parents it was pronounced im-jos-it.lf. ,"You know, Ina, that I have five 'liters younger than yourself to K'vide for, and to furnish you with "Sth clothing as you would need would "quire an unjust sacrifice on the part tlie rest of the family," said Mr. rrren. "bo you supjx.se that I would accept a sacrifice, father?" asked Ina re-P-oaihfuilv. "All I ask is your per mission to obtain employment in some -Icta!,!e f;imilv and 1 can provide for myself, i can' make myself useful imt .Mvra when I am out of school, fill am sure she will let me have a "toe with tier while I am trying to eate myself." Hr scheme looked rather visionary W practical parents, but neverthe ttie carrieil the jwint, and it is the fulfilling her engagement at '"Titer Kohinson's that the reader is " introduced to iier. She had been JHted to a trial of which the gentle, t'Mtive country girl had not dreamed. Wiethe young jieople are preparing i" out on their boating excursion, "wry l!obinson. the farmer's four year "1 came into the kitchen where Ina setting up thHast row of milk pans. 1 'hiiik the "iris is iust as mean as ""7 can l.e. . 11 i , "nr, Harry," said Ina, "you mustn't talk so, it is wrong to call mean. ... 1 don't care, they i mean," said the " fellow. "Anna Wilson and Agsies l'wjrn said if 'Manda was goin' to - mreu girls to go along thrg wouldn't ; anna ilson said that her cousins ti Sevc"r never thought of inviting : P t0 W'th tl,em' ",Ml tU 0,11,1 ,)e very imp1"0!1' ana f. amla said she woulilu't ask you. m ?"in' to ti-ll f-.ti.or " Wi'r D0' (i,m t 'Iarry. lot "s S an1 . rf eires lM f,.r.. if U tn Hark." said tm ln , w 1,e kePl nim away -until the into ti i Ronp' anJ tnen se"ling him ive use ii,,e went way alone to II? Ve?t t0 uuhappiness in tears. n-k.1T v " mui 1 6ufler this?" she j,.!. helf, as the girlish figure torir, , the tree m a periect v Ji con vuUive "O"8- Uaving wept tmJii- 7 ursl uurst or her grief ana ..-"""atlon slie reasoned more calmlr. w:..P.uP w orking here would be to l"i"ii all Ik.jh. of etlucation and improvement. I cannot do it I have done nothing that my conscience does not approve, and I will persevere." It must be confessed that thoughts of a certain pair of dark eyes and a manly youth out there on the lake, singing with a bevy of happy maidens where she was not, added a keener pang to her nnnappiness. "If Herbert Allen slizbts me for this he is not so noble as I thought he was, and I will care for him no more," she said resolutely, and then going to the lake she bathed away the traces of tears and returned to the" house, and taking up a basket of half-worn stockings she oegan to menu mem. "hat does this mean, girl? I thought you were out there with the rest of them, singing like a whole flock of nightingales. What are rou here for?" "I'll tell you how it was," said mas ter Harry, "they didn't want her be cause she works for us," aud the little one gave his own version of the con versation that he had heard. "You see," said Ina, with a faint attempt at a jest, "that my occupation debars me from genteel society." 'Genteel society be hanged," ex claimed Mr. Kobinson angrily. "Do you suppose that I would have any but a respectable girl about my house? and will any ne dare to tell me that living in my family and doing the game kind of work that is done by my wife and daughter makes her less' worthy? There are good reasons why some people can not treat persons in their employ upon equal terms. It is because their course of action has been such as to drive re pjectable people from their service, but when I employ equals they shall be treated as such. .You have not forfeited your self-respect, Ina, and earning your own way, and paddling. your own canoe will be a feather In your cap that other girls will have pointed out to them when you stand upon an eminence that they will never attain. As for Amanda, I'll teach her a different lesson for to-morrow night." "Please don't say anything about it, Mr. Robinson," said Ina, "you kuow 1 could not go if they invited me because they were obliged to." When the boat touched the shore, Mr. Robinson was there. "Come again to morrow night," he said, "enjoy your rides while the moon is bright, there is nothing that gives me more happiness than providing innocent pleasures for the young. Keep selfishness from your midst and memory will perpetuate your enjoyment." And when Herbert Allen stopped just a moment to say, "Don't disap point us to-morrow night, Ina, for the enjoyment of the evening is gone when you "are away," half her un happiness had vanished. On the following evening as the moon again gilded the waters the boating party prepared to embark. Amanda had been detained in the house by her mother, and Mr. Robinson bade the boys to row once or twice across the lake and come back for her. "You may stay and mend stockings to-night, Amanda," said Mr. Robinson as he again entered the house. Amanda looked up in surprise and disappointment. "What do you keep me for, father?" she asked, while her lips quivered and her eyes filled with tears of disappointment. "To let you know how it seeii'S," an swered the father, quietly taking a paper and drawing near the light. Just then the notes of the flute and the words of the well known song, Come over the lake with me, my lore. Come over the Use witb me. came floating bark on the evening breeze, and unable to control her feel ings another moment, Amanda leaned her head against the casement and sobbed passionately. "O don't, Mr. Robinson, I do not feel badly about it now, and I don't want her punished for having slighted me," pleaded Ina. "I knew that it would be no satis faction to you, but it is for her own sake that she is punished," replied the father. "But it was not her own idea, it was another who suggested it," continued Ina. "It is not my duty to eradicate the selfishness from the hearts of other people's daughters, but I am responsi ble for the training of my own," an swered the father firmly, and both girls felt that farther words were useless, and for a time there was a silence broken only by Amanda's passionate sobs and the strains of music from the lake. 'Foreive me, Ina," said Amanda, at lenzth. "I didn't feel right about it any of the time, and it spoiled my own en joyment as well as yours." "If vou see vour conduct in its proper light it is all I want Amanda," said the father, "and when they come to this side again you can go if Ina goes with you." J . . . , , V -. I. ina Deggea to oe excuseu, uut uai half an hour later, he, for whose opinion she most cared, appeared and joined his entreaties with Amanda's, she con sented to go. Two weeks later Ina occupied the position which she so much coveted, only that of a pupil in an excellent school. Although she might not wear costly dresses, there was an indescriba ble charm about the innocent girl fresh from the rural districts, artless and un suspecting, amiable and intelligent, which no art could supply, and the simple calico of her own earning, and the modest ribbon that bound her sunny tresses were in far greater harmony with her tastes and character than cost lier material which her father would have been taxed to pay for. "You will make your mark in the world, Ina," were farmer Robinson's parting words. "Only keep a clear conscience, do your duty and leave the rest to the Great Ruler of destinies." Of course such a girl was a favorite with her teachers. She made them her friends and they were interested in her welfare. The fall vacation was occu pied as the spring had been, in earning money to supply her necessities for the coming winter. This was the last time that she found it necessary to enter the service of any family. She had risen ,w it. And let me say to every young persou who may be dependent upon his own energies, do not hesitate to engage in any honest occupation that may present itself. If you are really above it, trust my word for it tnai you will rise above it, and in no way can ranidl v than by faithfully performing even the most trivial duties of your occupation- Through the influence of her teacher Ina obtained a situation in one of the primary departments where she received ample compensation and found time to .trend to her most important studies. lour years passed away, and In an that constitutes equality in ow utry, Bhe was the peer of any lady in the land. She had won laurels and fresh tokens of esteem at every step, and at the erand exhibition at the close or the list term, when she stepped upon the suge and took her seat at the organ and sent its tones rolling, fh"B, brating through every part of the spa cious building, until lit seemedas though the hearts of the andience were held in tranee by the wondrous music, and u1M,frth in a erand, beautiful 'and raplnrouVing, the excitement of the audience scorned all restraint, but found rent in a wiid deafenlne arrolauae that shook the building to its founda tion. And Amanda had whispered to ner companion, -it is glory enouga to be her friend." At the close of the entertainment the was offered a situation with a salary that teemed to ber like a fortune. And Herbert Allen who had just returned from College said, "your ambition is gratified, Ina: you have won. what need of longer waiting?" "When I have helped my parents to comfort and plenty and laid by aotne- tnmg lor myseir, 1 will urge no farther delay, for to be settled in a quiet peace ful home of our own, surrounded by loving friends, will certainly be my crowning happiness," said the dutiful girl. "Provide for your parents if you de sire it, ina; but meanwhile 1 will be providing for you, and when you are satisfied that your duty is done and your parents enjoying all the blessings that your dutiful heart desires, my home will be waiting for you to share its plenty." "And 'it all came from paddling your own canoe, ii you naa waited lor op portunities to come to you, you would have been waiting yet," said farmer Robinson when he came to congratulate ner. Oriel rw r PetowteaaB. At first it was held by many that pe troleum was the result of distillation from the bituminohs coils, which were found in its vicinity, and this belief was strengthened by the fact that some of tne very bituminous coals, such as Can nel and Boghead coal, afforded larsre quantities of similar oils on being dis tilled ; but, although this is very prob ably the source of a small amount of oil, yet the larger part of it ia now be lieved to derive. Its origin from rocks lying below the coal-measures, since the oil bearing rocks are mostly older than the carboniferous formations. some investigators nave ascribed a vegetable origin to petroleum, but most authorities agree in attributing It to ani mal as well as vegetable agencies. Shales are the most common oil-bearing rocks, and in their formation' the organic material would be finely divided and protected from oxidation. The oil- bearing shales commonly show few vegetable remains, and Dana observes that the absence of distinct fossil ani mal aud vegetable remains points to an abundance of delicate water plants or infusorial or microscopic vegetable life as the source of organic material con tained in them. Limestones, on the other hand, are frequently full of animal fossil remains, showing an animal origin in them, although it is by no means said that the petroleum in certain lime stone was derived from organic remains in the limestones and not from other strata below th:m. In whatever shape the finely-divided material was origin ally present, it would be finely diffused through the mud. and protected from atmospherical agencies, and subse quently the hydrocarbons would be formed from them, probably at but a slight elevation of temperature, pro duced by the same agency which have caused elevations in tne temperature of the interior of the earth's cruet at vari ous points. Dana has further pointed out how petroleum might be formed by the reac tion of the organic vegetable remains alone, the abstraction of some carbon and oxygen, as carbonic acid, account ing for' the formation of the lighter oils; while the escape of some marsh-gas from less confined material would ac count for the heavier oils. Popular Science Monthly. Poetical Old Bachelors. Corneille, Racine and Boileau were all bachelors. Gray was. in every sense, real and poetical, a cold, fastidious old bachelor, at once shy and proud, sensitive and selfish. In looking through his me moirs, letters and poems, we cannot find one indication that he was ever under the influence of women. He loved his mother, and was dutiful to two tiresome old aunts who thought poetry one of the seven deadly sins. His learning was entombed with him. His irenius survives in his elegy and odes. What became of his heart we know not. He might well moralize on his bachelorship, and call himself a "solitary fly." Collins was never a lover, and never married. He is reported to have been once in love. and. as the lady was one day older than himself, be used to say. jestingly, that "he came into the world a day arter tne lair." lie wrote an uue on the Passions, in which, after dwell ing on bpe, fear, despair ana pity, ne dismisses love with a couple of lines. Such was Collins' idea of love. Goldsmith died unmarried. Shenstone was not formed to capti vate; his person was clumsy, and bis manners disagreeable. He never gave the lad v who supposed herself to be the object of his serious pursuit an oppor tunity or accepting or rejecting uini. lie died unmarried. When we look at a p!cture of Thom son, we wonder how a man with that countenance and mein could ever have written "The Seasons." or have been in love. He was devoted to his "Amanda" through a long series of years, but some destiny denied him domestic happiness. Hammond the favorite of our Conti nental grandmothers, was an amiable youth, and wrote son new to "Delia." But this lady was deaf to his pastoral strains, so he was doomed to live and die alone. Wkr rnm kilo Vswd Slaaple Lm-H aruco. CaaMaatiM of Colons, Color decoration in "particular offers a broad field for the crude attempts of the tyro, and the unmeaning forms ar i leas harmonious tints. Instead of rraw lying, are likely to become an ou trace ; world put together Sf4t test. Now, in order to over- wVitrjC in the appearance ot some of dealer will caH Rio. It is all called Mocha or Java, or possibly Maracaibo. Bv far the greatest part of the coffee uttu in the I nitetf States is Brazilian or Rio coffee. Indeed Brazil produces more coffee than all the rest of the There are marked Tradition has it that years ago, when t : ; rMnt-lm was a tad np henQ to study philosophy, and soon became tond of applying technical names to com iron objects. One evening when he mentioned to his father that he had swallowed some acephalous mollusks, the old man was much alarmed, and sud denly seizing him called loudly for help. Jlrs. r ran. u u came wuu -iiu - and the hired man rushed in with the garden pump. They forced half a gallon down Benjamin's throat, and then held him over the edge of the porch and shook him, while the old man said, "If we dou't get them things out of Benny he will be pizened, sure." When they were out.and Benjamin explained that the articles aluded to were oysters, bis father fondled him for an hour with a trunk strap for scaring the family. After this Franklin's language was sim ple. Pretty Cswto of the Polll lrU. At Warsaw, the annual fete of "float in" crowns" was recently celebrated, aiid It attracted, as usual, a large crowd of spectators of all classes. It consists in the young girls of the city carrying wreaths of roses, decked with ribbons, to the Vistula, casting tbem into the river, and watching them as they are carried away by the current. The man ner in which they are borne along by the waters is supposed to predict the future destiny of those to whom they belong, and accordingly the girls make demonstrations of Joy or sorrow. A somewhat similar practice is prevalent among the young girls of India. couie one-of the first principles which it would be desirable for us to establish is the theory of complementary colors. Although we do not propose to make tnu a technical paper, perhaps a lew re marks npon the subject would not come amiss. We know almost instinctively that blue will not harmonize with green, and that red will, but the theory upon which this contrast is based is but vaguely understood. We remember learning in our natural philosophy that white is the reflection of all colors, that is, that all the primary colors com bined produce it. It is the general im pression tnat there are seven primary colors, viz.. those seen in the rainbow. whereas in reality there are but-three Dlue, red, and yellow. Green, oranire and purple are second' ary colors, produced by the mixture of tne primaries. Thus blue and yellow make green: red and yellow produce orange-; and blue and red, purple. The mixture of these again produces what are called tertiary colors citrine, russet, and olive: orange and green forming citrine; purple and orange, russet; and green and purple, olive. A knowledge, also, of the quantities in which these colors harmonize is requi site, the whole system being to combine them in the proportions which produce white, whicn in the primaries are five of red, three of yellow, and eigh t of hi ue ; in tne secondaries, thirteen of purple, eleven of green, and eight of orange; and in the tertiaries, twenty-four of ol ive, twenty-one of russet, and nineteen or citrine. A primary color-sayL red juxtaposed to the secondary green, whicn is its complimentary (being composed of the two remaining primary colors, blue and yellow), arranged in the above propor tions, produces the harmony retired. It is also a fact that in looking at any color, its complementary is reflected. Thus green reflects red, and when placed in juxtaposition with it, makes the green greener and the red more in tence, whereby the richness of the effect is produced ; and to complete the for mula, blue and orange, also yellow and purple, are harmonious, for In each case all the colors producing white when mixed in the right proportions are pres ent, We would here state that when sev eral primary colors are placed together, the contrast is apt to be too violent. producing we might say, something of a swimming sensation, ii uiese, How ever, are separated by small members or lines of white, this dazzling e fleet may be obviated. But certain combinations, may have an enlivening or depressing effect. For example, blue Is a cold, quieting color. while red is warm and exciting, and can be made to affect the mind iii any manner ' desired. Again, prominence or subordination may be given by their employment, For instance, blue pro duces the effect of distance, and if placed upon the celling, causes it to ap pear higher;, or if in a recess will deepen it. Yellow, on the contrary, appears te advance toward the eye, and if used upon the ceiling, will seem to lower it; or if upon a projecting mould ing, will exaggerate its prominence; while red is the only color that remains stationary. It is as painful to the eye to see hues inbarmoniously disposed as are discordant sounds to the musical ear. Harper' Magazine. tuese coffees: as well as considerable difference in flavor. Taking three of the best knovn kind, for example, Kio, Mocha, and Java, we notice that the grains of Java are larger than either of tne otners, ana or a siignt yellowish Drown color. Kio coffee has larger grains than Mocha, and the color Is usu ally considerably darker and somewhat more inclined to greenish, In flavor Java is much milder than either of the others, and Mocha is richer and spicier than Rio, while Rio is the strongest of the three, and indeed, is perhaps the strongest of all coffees. It is true of all coffees that the fewer bro ken and discolored grains in it the bet ter tne conee, and no cup or conee can be really excellent unless all imperfect grains are removed before the conee Is roasted The best coffee here obtainable is an equal mixture of Java and what is called Mocha. As the grains of one are much larger than that of the other they should be roasted separately, but ground to gether. The common cheap grbund coffees contairr-usually a little coffee, and here the bulk is supplied mostly with either peas or rve. Chicory is too high priced to be used to any great extent, and the people who think that if their coffee is not really pure it contains only a little cnlcory,are probably drinking peas and rye, made dark and bitter with burnt sugar. 1 he higher sounding the title of the coffee, the poorer the quality as a general thing. AmAtrtatm Duel. Capt. Rob. Dunlap related to me the circumstances of a duel which he once witnessed a little ways inland from the town of Juba, on the river of the same name, upon the eastern coast of Africa, and nearly under the equator. It was certainly not such a duel as our heroes of lighter complexion would delight in nor yet such as they could feel pride in ; but, after all, it evidently yielded entire satisfaction.and was fully as sensible as shooting with pistols, or chopping and stabbing one another with knives and swords. In the case of these duskv sons of the Afrlc 8hore,as is not unusual elsewhere, a woman was at the bottom of the diffi culty. At the appointed time the duel lists, two stalwart savages, nearly naueu appeared npon the field of honor, each armed with a stout raw hide cat. or triple-thronged whip, capable of inflict ing the most tremendous blows blows that might make an ox bellow. Having arranged the few necessary prelimina ries, thev Ditched three oyster shells each at a given mark to decide which of the two should receive the first lashing. The unfortunate loser immediately took his stand, and received, without flinch ing, the given number of blows five- and twenty. Then came the turn of the other who with heroic firmness, offered his back to the sufferer, whose arm was not made lighter by the pain and the loss of the nitoh. Thus thev alternated until one gave in; and, had the umpires judged tnat tne twain nau suuereu numticuuj before either would give up, they were at liberty to stop the duel, and award the victory to him who had borne the greatest number of blows without flinch inir. And ever after the scarified backs of these heroic men were displayed in token of their honor and their bravery. Hiata oo Cofleo. i VaJikeo Bawl PUafor, Some twenty years since an American bugle playar concluded to make a trip to j.nglaiKl, to learn by personal obser vation the state or Instrumental music in that country. A day or two after his arrival in London, in which be was al most a total stranger, be saw an adver tisement in the Time for a bugle player in one or the regiments or Guards, lie presented himself the next morning to the bandmaster or the regiment, and In troduced himself by say iug that, having seen an advertisement for a bugle play er, he bad come to oner himself as a candidate for the situation. The band master, thinking the stranger did not present a very promising appearance, treated him rat her cavalierly, but finally told him that there would be a rehearsal the next morning and he might come and show him what he might do, intt mating at the same time that his quail fications must be very high to obtain the place. Nothing daunted, the Ameri can made his appearance, with his Kb bugle in his hand, and took his place in the band. The rehearsal commenced with a new piece.containiiig a solo for the clarionet, which the performer on that piece found dilllculty in executing. After the clario net had made several failures, the lan kee asked permission to play the solo upon his bugle. This proposition, was received with a sneer by the bandmas ter, and a laugh of derision by the mem bers of the band. 1 he i an kee insisted. IfoweVer, that he could play the solo wttnout winking. The bandmaster at last ordered the band to play the pre lude, and told the Yankee to look sharp or he would fiud himself the laughing stock of the whole regiment. The band commenced the prelude, the stranger looked carelessly around. The prelude being finished the solo was commenced. Scarcely had a half dozen notes been sounded when every member In the band ceased playing, and listened with wonder and admiration to the magic tones . The solo was executed to perfec tion, and at its conclusion the bandmas ter rushed up to the performer and grasping his hand, exclaimed: "Who are you?" "My name Is Kendall," replied the Yankee. "What! Edward Kendall, of Boston, the greatest bugle player of America, or ot the world ?" said the bandmaster. The rehearsal was over for the dav, and Xed Kendall was the guest of the band during his stay in Loudon. Professor Daniel C. Easton. who occu pies the chair of botany at Yale College, in the course of a lecture on "Coffee," brought out the following points : Coffee, as it comes to us, is commonly called the seeds of the coffee tree, and for common usage this statement is suf ficiently correct. But it has long been known to botanists that a grain of cof fee is really more than a seed. It is really a seed enwrapped in a horny portion of the fruit, and therefore more strictly analogous to a peach pit, which is the stony Inner portion of the fruit which the seeds contain in it. The tree is not large, generally from six to ten feet high in cultivation, bnt when allowed to grow freely perhaps three times that size. The leaves are of good size, hand some, polished and evergreen, not very unlike orange leaves. They grow in pairs on the slender, straight branches. The flowers are little clusters of fra grant white stars. And it is said that in a coffee plantation there is no time when some flowers cannot be seen. The flowers are succeeded by green berries, which ripen to a beautiful red, and look not nnlike rather small cherries, except that they are closely clustered along the branches. In 1859 the whole production of cof fee in the world was estimated at 713, 000,000, pounds, of which Brazil furn ished 400,000,000, Java 140,000,000, Cey lon and San Domingo, each, 40,000,000, Cuba and Porto Rico, 25,000,000, Venez uela and Sumatra each as much, and all other countries, including Arabia, Cos ta Rica, Jamaica, etc, only 1(1,000,000. From these fiigures it will be seen that only one man in three drinks of Java coffee, and probably only one in one hundred gets any Mocha, and yet you will find it difficult to buy a pound of coffee in this city to-morrow which the Toaac JlarreaMljr. At the age of fifteen Marreaily left liusrbv, never to retnrn, and not to stu dy for the l!ur. His father's manager ial nilhciilties compelled him to take to the stajie, if not to acting for he became a stage manager on his father's circuit before he tempted fortune himself. The elder Macready was a teacher of his actors as well as their manager. At rehearsals he gave them good advice in a gruff voice and impe rious tone: "Look at me, sir! Keep yonr eye fixed on me, sir, when I am sneaking to you. Attention is always lixed. If yon take your eye from me you rob the audience of my effects, and you rob me of their applause." This precept. Macready says, he never for got, and be remained ever mnch in debted to it. It is certainly singular that the younger Macready, strong in dramatic instincts, instructed the play ers before he acted with tbem. One morning, at rehearsal, bis father being present, he was showing a stage "sa vsge" how, in leaping at the throat of a hostile knight, he was to lapse into astonishment at seeing his own figure reflected iu the polished surface of his antagouist'8 shield. The father, never prodigal of praise, conld not help say ing, "If you can do anything like that on the stage, there will be few come near you." He had not that nor any thing like that to do when, at the age of seventeen, be made his first appear ance on the stage at Birmingham as Komeo. He bad a stage fright at the beginuing, but overcame it, and achieved a great success. "Well, sir, how do you feel now f said a lady to him, after the curtain was down. The Itoyish answer was without disguise "I feel as if I should like to act it all over again !" Macready adopted a cu rious iflethod of studying. After at tending Sunday morning services he would lock himself into the theatre, and there tread the stage, literally making himself familiar with the field, as it were, of his straggle for fame ; pacing it in every direction to give himself ease, practising gestures and attitudes, and reciting whole parts of particular speeches, till he was tired out, and glad to breathe fresh air again. This was bis Sunday afternoon custom for many years. His Komeo, we may add, gave him snch reputation thst his father, to increase it, got De Wilde to take his portrait "for the shops." Hard was the labor and not great the reward of those early years, fashioning himself on country boards into that approach to perfection that might warrant an attempt to obtain a footiug on the London stage. He played Hamlet at eighteen, and his comment on the character is, that while few fail in the part, there aro fewer who understand it any more than they do Sanscrit. With Macready even lond applause was no proof that the actor fathomed the intricate nature of the character. Popular favor did not prove anything, he thought. When he played Percy, the youthful lover of Elwina, in Hannah More's tra gedy, Macready had to make love to a fat woman, "npon the verge of sixty," Mrs. Whitelock, (a sister of Mrs Sid dons.) and it was "hard lines" for bim ; bat it was mnch harder, in another sense, when, at Newgate, Mrs. Siddona nerselt came to play Lady Kandolph and Mrs. Beverly, and Mr. Macready was cast for Norval and Mr. Beverly. The thonght of the standing by the aide of the great mistress filled him with terror, bat be did not leee deter mine to do his best. - He- went to ber hotel, that they might rehearse their scenes together. He was struck with awe at the sight of the qneenly woman, who soon put him at ease on bis perplexities, she received him in "her grand, good-na- turea manner," saying, 1 nope, Air. Macready, yoa have brought some hartshorn and water with yon. as I am told you are terribly frightened at me;" ana she made some remarks abont my being a very yonng husband." The Queen of Tragedy spoke approvingly and monitorially, as was great.Sarah's way, to the young actor. 10a are in the right way," she said! "but re member what I say study, study, stu dy ! and do not marrr till vou are thir ty." And she took leave of the yonng actor with, "Don 'i forget my words study well, and God bless you VThe Atnena-nm. Oddly Adare rd Letter. A number of years ago a post-letter arrived In Ldmburgh, addressed in for eign handwriting to "M. Tompits, EdimbourgV' As no special direction was given, the Post Office officials were at a loss to understand who this M. Tompits could be. As far as knowu there was no such person in the town. At length, bv pondering over the matter, and judging from the sound of this extraordinary name. It was dis covered that the letter was intended for our old and esteemed friend, Mr. Thomas 1'otts. ordinarily and jocularly called Tom Potts alas, now deceased, but re membered for the geniality or his char acter. The letter was from a foreigner to whom he had shown some kindness, but who had understood bis name to be siraplv Tompits. It is mentioned that something of the same kind once took place regarding a letter which arrived by post in London, directed to "Srom- frldevi, Angleterre." There was no such person as Sromfridevi ever heard of; but on a little consideration and judging from sound it was obvious that the roreign writer of the letter meant Sir Humphrey Davy; and this proved tl h. tliA JVIdA I'fkllnMrlni, tliA AvnmnlA .v ...v . . v., v n .111. l A.lllllt. of the English General Post Office the r rench Administration des Postes main tains a staff of "blind clerks" that is to say, caligraphic experts who are sup posed to be able to decipher the most Illegible handwriting, and to deduce sense and meaning from the apparently nopciess cnaos ot orthographical blun ders, some years since there was re turned to the French Dead Letter Office an epistle which had gone the round of every seaport in the Levant, and the mblguity or whose superscription had battled a legion of Postmasters. It was addressed "J. Dubois, Sultan Crete." Xow what could this mean? The suzerain of the Island of Crete 'is the Sultan of Turkey, but his Majesty's name is certainly more like Abdul Asiz than J. Dubois. Five out of the six blind clerks in the Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau confessed their entire inability to solve the mystery of Dubois, who, cm tne race or the envelope, at least, was proclaimed a Cretan Sultan. But to the sixth among the band of experts there suddenly occurred a happy inspiration. "Fetch me a .Vnry List,' he said to a subordinate. The Annuairede la Marine was brought. The expert looked up Sultan, but alas! there was no ship bearing that name in the French N'avy stationed at Crete or anywhere else. The wary cryptographer cogiuted for a time, still turning over the pages of the .ir Lit. At length he rose trium phaut to the occasion. "I have it." he cried ; "this letter Is addressed to J Dubois, tur le lancrede," and to M uudois, who was a quartermaster on board the good ship Tancrede, on the Pacific station, the letter was duly for warded. The missive was from the Quartermaster's brother, whose educa tion, so far as regarded siielling, had seemingly been or a strictly phonetic uature, and who had written down his relative s address, not in accordance with the commonly-received doctrines of orthography, but just a the words had sounded to his ear. Mouther t Journal. Hal Id op a Hsmntesd. CEMTEXHIAL BOTES. Correct The newspaper men have had their Centennial headquarters re moved to the Department of Public lamrort. Puget Sound. Alaska, sends an In dian carving 40 feet high a specimen of tho wood of the region, and of the skill or Kulosb Indians. The Philadelphia boarding-missus can no longer "bull" her prices with the dreaded scarciiy of accommodations, for the snrtrtlv of rooms Is rreater than the demand and scores of private hou ses offer a large, well-furnished room with breakfast and supper, for $2 a day. The Christian martyr who keeps a soda water stand outside the Centennial grounds is understood as firmly op posed to the immorality of opening the exhibition on Sunday. In this respect be differs from the Christian martyr who keeps a soda water stand on the other side of the fence. The Philadelphia reporters are fully impressed with the necessity of doing up the dally Centennial reports in the very choicest of language. An old lady from Germantown fell down and bumped her head the other day, and next morning all the papers had it, "A severe case of frontal contusion." The declaration of awards will not be announced nntil the close of the Ex hibition, but the personal work of the judges Inspections, etc., will terminate at the latest, in the early part or July, after which their reports upon the in trinsic and comparative merits of com petitive articles will be submitted in writing. The New York Tribune nrges every body to go see the Centennial, even if they would nave to sacrifice a large part of their year's earnings and time to do so. Moreover, it says: "It is not a chance likely to occur again in a middle-aged man's or woman's life. It will lift them as nothing else can do out of the dull level of every-day thoughts. They will be healthier and stronger all their days lor knowing bow large is the world they live in and how small Is their part of it" Jennie June has had a glance at the Exposition, and says, In a letter to The Baltimore American : "I am modest myself; I only want some china, some lace and a Turkish rug. I should like to take ray house to pieces, and put in all sorts of new fixtures self-acting things so that I could suit my Bridget and Margarets with places in which there was nothing for them to do. I should like to put wall-paper which im itates tne choicest woods and reining of the finest marble; insert tiled man tlepieces. and replace every article of furniture with Eastlake designs; but that would be unreasonable for a cor respondent People would suspect me of having a share in the Big Bonanza, or something to do with a Ring. So I shall be auite content with some Dres den, a little of Sevres, a lunch set of Wedgewood, an odd specimen Of Majo lica, a dark Smyrna rug and some point Duchesse." iiws nr brut The feeling that you are settled and fixed will induce you to w.rk and im prove your farms, to plant orchards, to set out shade trees, to Inclose pastures, to build comfortable outhouses, and each successive improvement is a bond to bind you still closer to your homes. This will bringcontentment in the fam ily. Your wives and daughters will fall in love with the country, your sons will love home better than grog-shops. and prefer farming to measuring tape or professional loafing, and you will be nappy in seeing the contented and cheerlul faces of your families. Make your home beautiful, convenient and pleasant, and your children will love it above all other places : they will leave it with tegret, think of it with fondness, come back to it joyfully, seek their chief happiness around their home and fireside. Women and children need more than meat, bread and rainment; more than acres of corn and cotton spread out all around them. Their love for the beauti ful must be satisfied. Their tastes must be cultivated; their sensibilities humored, not shocked. To accomplish this good end home must be made love- r, conveniences multiplied, com torts provided, and cheerfulness fostered. there must be both sunshine and shade, luscious fruit and fragrant flowers, as well as corn and cotton. The mind and hearts as well as the fields must be cultivated; and then intelligence and contentment will be the rule instead of the exception. Stick to, improve and beautify your homesteads, for with this good work comes contentment. Faaerals la 17?. Funerals touched weddings at the point of feasting, and were often very expensive, showy and pompous occa sions. In some parts of the country, especially among the Dutch of Long Is land and ew lorK. it was tne custom of a young man to lay by his earnings after coming of age, until a sufficient sura had accumulated to provide for him respectable funeral when be should come to die. uttentimes tne young burgher would reserve half of the por tion of wine which he had liberally laid In for his marriage, to be used at the funeral of himself or his wife. Spe cial invitations were sent out for funer als as for parties. The clergymen, pall bearers and physicians attending, were provided with scarfs and gloves, aud sometimes each with a mourning ring; while the feast which followed the in terment at the house of the relatives of the deceased, elaborate with cold roast meats, wines, liquors and pipes, w as not unfrequently an occasion of coarse excesses, sometimes descending into hilarious and noisy demonstrations. A "respectable" funeral of this descri tion might cost perhaps a thbusand dol lars: while the funeral of the first i!e of Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer Is s:iid to have cost not less tnan s ju.uuu. s..r rard AWwrfr'a " Rrralntiimaru Time.'" The Cextcxmal Ci.-srAR. The following Is a list of the bodies which have arranged to meet at the Centen nial, and the dates npon which they will meet : JCLT. Congress of Authors, July 1. National Convention Catholic Young Men's Associations, July 3. International Typographical Con gress, July 3. Salesmen's and Commercial Travel lers' Association, July 3. Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, July 4. International Conference of Dele gates, Societies of St. Vincent de Paul, July C Society of the Army of the Cumber land, July 6. International Arbitration Convention, July 11. Pennsylvania State Dental Society, juiy .'.. Lncampment Knights Templar at Ridley Park, under auspices of Mary land Commandery, July 28. arotST. Convention of Historical and Anti quarian Societies, August 1. American Dental Association, August i. State Camp Patriotic Order Sons of America (at Reading), August 8. Caledonians of North America, Au gust 1J. Photographers' National Association, August 15. Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of I ennsylvanla, August 1j. American Association of Instructors of the Blind, August 13. Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias, August 22. SKITKJIBKR. International Medical Congress, Sep tember 4. International Convention of Archaeo logists, September 4. National Pomological Society, Sep tember 11. Grand Council Improved Order of Red Men of United States, September 12. National Convention American For esters. September 13. American forestry Association, Sep tember 13. Grand Lodge of United States, I. O. O. F., September 1!. Grand Lodge of L nited States, I. O. Red Men, September 19. Convention of Apiarians (Honey Men) September 23. Welsh national Ltstedrodd, third week. National Carriage Builders' Associa tion, third week. OCTOBER. Dedication of hall, P. O. Sons of America, first week. State Council O. U. A. M., October 16. American Dairymen's Association, October 17. DECEMBER. American Pharmaceutical Associa tion. Around the circumference of the cir cle of which the Great Exhibition is the centre, and within one hundred miles of it, a large number of bodies will as semble, the dates of meeting, except in a few instances, not having been an nounced. Among these are the following: New Jersey State Centennial, at Princeton, July 2. Centennial Sunday School Conven tion, Ocean Grove, July 22. National Forest Convention, Oc:an Grove. National Board of Steam Navigation. Baltimore. National Board of Trade, Xew York. In addition to the list given above. the following deliberative bodies have been announced to assemble in Phila delphia, though no definite date has been assigned for their meetings: National Board of Underwriters, Con vention of Life Insurance Agents of the United States, California Pioneer Soci ety, Order of B'nai Berith, Christopher Columbus Association, National Alumni Association, National Rifle Association, United Tailors' Association, American Butter and Egg Association. Baltimore has seventy-six Metho dist churches. An excellent quality of tea is being grown in Jasper county Texas. Florida manages to squeeze $240,000 a year from her sponge interest A catfish weighing one hundred and seventy pound 3 was caught at Alton, 111., a few days ago. The Congregational Church at Rindge, X. H., has had but two pasto ral changes in 102 years. Parton has abandoned Massachu setts and gone where a man Is permitted to marry his stepdaughter. Almost pure chalk exists in vast beds in Trego, Kansas, and a house has been built of sawed blocks of it The pistol with which Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton is said to be in the possession of a gentleman of Ver sa! les. Ky. The British and foreign Bible So ciety issued 2,682,185 copies of Bibles, Testaments, and portions of Scripture last year. Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister, has rented a place near Onota Lake, a short distance from Pittsfield, Mass., for the summer. There are now seven hundred and fifty convicts in the Massachusetts State Prison, the largest number ever in that institution at one time. By fascinating arts known only to the female sex, an Omaha youth of twenty-two was recently Induced to marry a widow of seventy-five. The Chinamen of Gold Hill, Nevada, are petitioning the authorities for a public school, in which their children may learn the English language. The Herald of XewTork"8ays"that what that city really needs is a large aquarium like that at Brighton, Eng land. San Francisco has a nice one. The Centennial exhibition is not elevating the price of butter to the ex tent that was anticipated. In fact it is much lower than at this time last year. If Colorado should be admitted to the Union, the new Constitution will require its first Legislature to submit suffrage of women to the popular vote. Miss Marian Stockton, of Xew Jersey, has taken the first prize of f."00, offered by the Baltimore Sun, for the best American story, against 20K com petitors. Nearly two thousand buildings were erected in San Francisco last year, ami over one thousand in Oakland. Only forty-four of those in San Francisco were of brick. Congressman Blair, of New Hamp shire, is restoring the old Webster Court House in Plymouth, N. II., where Daniel Webster made his first plea for a public library. The American Bible Society pub lished last year 850,470 copies ot the Bible, which makes the total number issued by the society since its establish ment 33,125,766. Some San Francisco people propose to charter two or more clipper ships, and offer strong inducements, in the way of low fare, or no fare at all, to the Chinese, male and female, to return to China. In Nevada, when a building falls and kills two or three persons, the jury first hunt up the contractor and bang him, and then bring In a verdict that nobody is to blame but the contractor who cannot be found. The tusk of a mastodon, seven feet long and eight inches in diameter, has been unearthed in Yolo county, Cali fornia. It is of pure ivory, in excel lent preservation, and curved almost in the shape of a crescent. The educational institution of Con necticut embrace five colleges and dis tinct professional schools, 2338 un graded district schools, 261 graded schools, 35 high schools, 26 academies, and 249 private schools. Texarkana, a town of two hundred inhabitants, is claimed by both Texas and Arkansas, the State line dividing the town in the centre. Taxpayers are happy because they don't recognize the assessment of either State.. New Mexico is to be admitted into the Union under the title of "Monte zuma." The SortI American thinks a more appropriate name, considering the prevailing weakness of the inhabitants, would be "Threecardmontezuma." The precocious lad Jimmy Blan chard, who some months ago person ated Charley Ross, and who a few days ago ran away from his parents with a horse and wagon, has been placed in the New Hampshire Reform School. A private fair held in Baltimore re cently realized nearly $40,000 in two days. One gentleman gave ."000 for an afghan. and another $2000 for an album containing the photographs of the prettiest young ladies of Baltimore. The fair was In aid of a Catholiccharity. The official returns of the trade of Canada for the first quarter of 1876, show an encouraging state of affairs. The Imports are $18,552,611, as against $20,877,849 last year; and the exports. despite the dullness of the lumber trade. have risen rrom $1,'J4I,15I to $6,682,260. A New Orleans correspondent in forms us that in one parish in Louisiana there are thirteen negro schools sup ported by taxes paid almost exclusively by the whites, and no white school, be cause no one neighborhood can furnish twenty-five white scholars, the number required by law. The Buffalo Courier company have just Issued a mammoth show bill for P. 1. Barnum. It Is forty-seven feet long and seven feet wide; it Is made up of forty different sheets, placed in two rows of twenty each ; the most exten sive show bill embracing one general design ever printed. A larger number of counterfeit notes have recently been received at the re demption division of the Treasury than ever before within the same length of time. Recently a dangerous counter feit $10 note of the National State Bank of Terre Haute. Ind., and a counterfeit $5 note of the First National Bank of Louisville, have been discovered. The' American SoeialM gives an ac count of the socialistic communities in the United States. The inspi rationalists of Amana, Iowa, number 1450, are led by a woman, and permit but do not en courage marriage. The Harmony So ciety of Economy, Pa., has about a hundred members and own $2,000,00(1 worth of property, accumulated in manufactures; marriage is prohibited. The separatists ot Zoar, Ohio, number three hundred, own $1,000,000 in pro perty, and discourage marrying. The above mentioned are Germans. Noyes's Perfectionists, at Oneida and Walling ford, practise what they call "complex marriage;" are worth $500.000, or more, and are manufacturers, publishers, and. agriculturists. The Shakers have eighteen societies in seven States, prac tice celibacy, and generally are prosper ous financially. The Icarians of Cor ning, Iowa, are French, marry regu larly, number sixty-five, and are not wealthy. m m ml 'if-t life ia 1 m m ii m m m I'M !(' if him Hi H 111 III m m i-rH Ml m ma S! m." Mm : ill ( r. m ,U.iVC & pi m m m m 1.
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