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An i I promised my love to com t back to bar Ere the pleasant autumn weatLer That we twain might wed When the leaves were red, And live and love together. She cut me a tries from her nut-brown hair, And I kissed her lips of cherry. And teve her a ring cf the old-time gold. With a etone like the mountain berry As clear and blue As ber eyes were true Sweet eyes so bright an 1 merry! ' Tho wtakh of my love is all I hare To give you,'' the said in turning; "Tbe gold that wears like tbe radiant stars In yonder blue vaults burning!" And I took the trust As a 'over must Whose soul for love is yearning. Fate kept us apart fcr many jetra. And tbe blue eea rollei between us; Though I k.sd each day tbe nut-brown tree And maJe freb vows to Venue Till I fought my I ride. And fate defied. That failed from love to mean us. I found my love at the garden gate When the dew was on tbe heather. And we twain were wed at the little kirk In tbe p'essaut autumn weather; And tbe gold that wears Koar sot the my cares. And we live and love together. Alice May. "Never saw so many vases in my life before?" observed Harry Elmer, staring around at the shelves. ''Did not know it was possible to make 'cm into so many dif ferent shapo." And, in truth, the exclamation was not together uncalled for. Great 1'ompcian vast-s of red clay stood in rows on the floor high-shouldered Etruscan vases, with slender necks and picturesque twisted han dles, were arrayed on shelves severe Greek outlined vases crowded the windows, and dragon-shaped jars elbowed one another in every nook and corner. And our hero, looking confusedly around, with his hands in his pockets, liegan almost to feel as if he were changing into pottery himself. "Is it for a !adv?" said'the brisk little shopman. "It is for my sister," said Harry Klmer. "A pair of vases for her Ixjudoir." "Ah!' said the shopman, diving into a wilderness of red clay moulds; "here is the very thing slim-necked and tall. Equally suitable for a bracket, a table, or a draped mantel.' Harry Elmer- stared belplesily at the vases. 'I want pictures on them," said he. "Birds, flowers, lieetles, or something!" The shopman shook his head at this. "We only keep plain ware," said he. 'But I can give you the address of a young person who paints them to order." And he handed a card across the counter. 'All right," said Harry Elmer. "Give me the vaos."' And in less than five minutes he was in search of the place designated on his card. "Oh, yes,'' the baker's wife on the first floor assented, cheerily; "the young woman who painted vases did live there. She rented the third story liack room, and worked very hard, poor thing. If the gen tleman would walk up stairs, and knock at the first door on the left, at the top of the second flight of stairs, it would be ail right." And Harry E'.me-r stumbled up the dark stairway. ''Come in!'' And with a final stumble, our hero lound himself in a little room where the sunshine streamed through ivy and wax-plants, and a table in the middle was heaped with half decorated china, tubes of color, sheaves of brushes, and portfolios of sketches. Of course it was the modest little atclierot an unpretending artist one could have pro nounced that at a glance. And, working away at a sketch of a scaricl-winged bird, as if her ry life "depended on it, sat a slender young girl, with a scarf falling away from her shoulders, and a veil of flaxen hair drooping over hcr.face. She laid down her hair brash at this ap parition of the stranger. 1 !eg your pardon, stammered Harry, with an unaccountable sensation of embar rassment; 'but ore you the young woman that paints vases?" Of course 1 am? said the golden-haired little artist. "lon't you sec me painting one now?" "I want these decorated," said Harry. "Can I get them done here?' 'Of course you can,'" said the girl, sur veying them critically. "A nice shape pretty ware! Suitable f r blue birds, ori oles, I should think." "And what shall you charge? "Five dollars each." 'Isn't that a good deal?" said Harry. "Not for a piece of artistic work, said the girl. "Of course if you don't like the price you can go elsewhere. "You are very independent for an art ist; said Harry, smiling in spite of him self. "Why shouldn't an artist be as indepen dent as anyone else?" said the young girl. "Well," said Harry, "I'll leave them, and I'll call for them in a week." "Very well," said the young lady. "They shall be ready." So our hero took his departure, with the deep, blue eyes of the young artist haunt ing bun as he went. "It must be a hard way of earning one s living," said he to himself. "And artists are always poor. I suppose there's a mother at home, and perhaps a rheumatic old father, and a swarm of helpless little brothers and sisters. After all I don't know as five dollars a vase is too much to pay and 6he is very pretty!" At the end of a week he called for his vases. They were ready and packed, bat the eolden haired girl was not there. "Where's the artist? demanded Harry, considerably tUssppointed. "She ain't here to-day," said a lad, who was drumming with his fingers on the win dow. "I'm 'tending to tbe business. And Harry Elmer paid his money and went away in disgust. e Dear Harry, It's so lucky thai you came up here just now," said his sister ra diantly. She was sitting at her window, and narry Elmer sat opposite her, sunburned, handsome and stalwart. "Didn't know what else to do," yawned Harry. "Everybody was out of town, and there wasn't a soul to speak to." "Miss Mayne is to be here next week," interrupted Mary Elmer, breathlessly. "And who is Miss Mayne!" "Don't you know? The heiress the beauty the girl who owns half of a town." "I don't see how that concerns me," said Harry. '"Oh, Harry! why shouldn't you be the one to marry hert" narry Elmer made no answer; but he thought of the golden haired young artist) with the sea blue eyes and the skin like velvet "I wonder what has become of ber? pondered he. And all Mary's chatter about the heiress "who owned half a town" was thrown away on his inattentive ears. But, early the next morning when be wandered out to smoke his cigar on the shore of the lovely lake, when the mists were just beginning to be tinted with rose and gold, he perceived a light figure whose floating white robes seemed almost a part of the rolling vapors a girl w ith both bands full of roses. "By Jove!" he exclaimed, involuntarily; "It's the artist!" And at the same time she recognized him with a smile. "I don't know your name, said she; "but I believe you are the gentleman who wanted the vases painted." ''My name is Elmer," said he advancing with a glad face. "And yours? "They call me May," said the girl, with equal frankness. "Isn't it strange that we should chance to meet here, Miss May?" said Elmer, hold ing the slim little haud longer than was alwolutcly necessary. "Things do happen strangely in this world,' said she. laughing. "Take care, you will make me drop my roses. "I suppose you're getting studies. sketches, and things for your painting?' hazarded Harry. And so they wandered off into the woods, where the level rays of the sunrise were lighting up the leafy aisles with kaleidos copic glitter and the birds were warbling joyously. "She'll be here at the hall to-night,' 'said Miss Elmer, with the St Michels." "Do you mean " "I mean the heiress, of course." "Oh, hang the heiress!" exclaimed Harry Elmer, impatiently. "Look here, I've something to tell you; I'm engaged to be married." "Harry!" "To Mhis May, the sweetest little angel you ever saw. "Is she rich?" "Well, no not in a money point of view, but I love her " "Who is she?" 'She is an a-tist, I believe." "Harry, are you mad?" shrieked Miss Elmer. "Not in the least." 'To throw yoursalf away on a mere no body a girl without a penny a creature with no social connections whatever." "I love her," said Harry, puffing serenely away at hissegar, "and that's enough." And his sister's tears affected him no more tlian if he bad been a figure of stone. "I will introduce him at all events," Miss Elmer declared to herself, "whether he likes it or not." And she brought her brother, reluctantly enougli, into the magic circle which sur rounded the heiress in the great saloon. Miss Mayne stood there in a dress of pale blue tissue, looped up with bluebells, with diamonds encircling her throat and spark ling in her ears a beautiful blonde with hair like coiled sunshine, and large wist ful eyes. "You need not introduce us, Mifg Elmer" said she with a smile. "Tour brother and I are old friends, in fact" coloring like a rose "we are engaged lovers. Don't look so surprised, Harry; you have only known me as Alice May; my last name is Mayne. :' "But," stammered Harry, "You are an artist a decorator of vases!" "No, I am not," said the neiress. "I was waiting in the studio that day for Miss Vestry, the genuine artist, to come and give me my lesson. You supposed me to be the decorator. I only humored your mistake. You're not vexed with me Harry?" And the captain answered wiih a loving glance, which was perfectly satisfactory. He wus engaged to the heiress in spite of fate but then he bad not lost bis golden- haired little Alice May! And Miss Mary Elmer found herself com pelled to behave in true love after a!L Comparative Value of Woods It is a great convenience to know the comparative value ot different kinds of woods for fuel. bbellDarc hickory is re garded as the highest standard of our forest ....... . w. . I . . - trees; ana calling inai iuu, otner trees win compare with it for use as fuel for house purposes as follows: Shellbark hickory, 100; pignut hickory, V'i; wnite oak, 4; white ash, 77; dogwood, 75; scrub oak, T3; white hazel, 72; apple tree, 70; red oak, 67; white beach, 65; black birch, 65; yellow oak, 60; hard maple, 60; wild cherry, 65: yellow pine, 64; chestnut, 52; yellow pop lar, 61: butternut and white birch, 43; white pine, 40. It is worth bearing in mind that in woods of tbe same species there is a great difference according to the soil on which they grow. A tree that grows on a wet, low, rich ground will be less solid and less durable for fuel, and therefore of a less value than a tree of the same kind that grows on dry and poor soiL To tbe ordinary purchaser, oak Is oak, and pine is pine, but for bouse use the tree grown on dry upland, aud standing apart train all eusrs, is worm great aeni mare. Winter la Ottawa. Lord Lome has been having a skating and tobogganing party at Ottawa. First, there was the ice, in splendid condition, a big sheet enough a small bush covered Is land in the upper part, while cleverly ar ranged on a framework, at tbe end there gleamed out in gigantic letters of light the kindly words: "A Happy New Year." On the margin of this frozen lake there had sprung up a real backwoods shanty, with timbers squared on two sides so as to fit closely, and showing the honest rough bark of the tree on the outside. The inside was prettily wainscoted and comfortably warmed, it being intended for the u.e of skaters. Nothing prettier can be imagined that the sight of the skaters as they went through evolutions of the most complicated nature under Uie soft, warm light of the lanterns and to the sharp, cheerful ring of their own skates. Quadrilles and figure cutting were the order of the night, and if there hi one pastime more than another in which a pretty costume and graceful shape can be shown to advantge, it is the last, where, as the centre of a circle of admiring and jealous eyes, a young lady can twirl and pirouette. Blanket coats, with borders of regular blanket red, were very much the fashion, and daintwi coquettish little toques'' f red and blue, or still more charming caps of sealskin, set off the charms of our beauties. But the tobog gat ing was the real fun of the evening, and a pretty sight the great towering slide made with its rows of Chinese lanterns ex tendiug down, down a quarters of a mile into the trees, with the red glare of the bonfire to light up the merry cargoes of much compressed but laughing humanity, as one after the other they dashed with thirthy-mile-an-hour speed down the s'ope with a wish and a crunch and a growl, which is the peculiar and most jolly lan guage of the most captivating of winter sports. Now and again, but rarely, a load would sway wildly from side to side tor a moment in its course, the steersman behind would give an unfortunate touch too much to right or left, and presto ! all tbe king's horses and all the kinc's men could not prevent a plunge into the snow or a free-and-easy roll down tbe slippery path. But no one was hurt, and if there is one thing more than another which tends to make things pleasant on these occasions it is the boo camaradeship engendered by a good upset. Bun Down at the Heels. A man clad in the habiliments of tbe tramp knocked briskly on the back of a Cincinnati residence ou New Year's day, and, bowing low to the gill who made her appearance, said ; "The compliments of the season, fair maid, and may each recurring New Year " "Oh, go long !" said the girl, interrupting him. "I am not the onlv man who has run down at the heeL" "No, there were seven ahead of you this moruing. "Seeing vou keep open bouse, I presume they were admitted at the front door. But the bark door is good enough for Die, I am not proud, l ou will observe I did not come in a carriage; but no matter. I am hungry. I would like a bite to eat." "We haven't anything for you." "Don't be too sure of that until you know who I am. You probably never heard of people entertaining angels unawares." " l es I Lava ; but 1 don t believe iL "Homer wjs a beggar." "Ho nver got anything here, my good man. "Cervantes died of hunger." "He ought to have gone to work." "Diffenbarker had nineteen trades, aud starved to death with all of them. However, that is neither here nor there." "Try the boarding house over the way." "Spencer died in wvit." ' 'I know it. I le depended on this shebang for his victuals." "Tasso, Italy's celebrated poet " "Oh, I suppose he was shot". "He was not ; but he was often hard pushed for a nickle. I mention these facts to prepare you for what is coming. I am the individual who first mentioned Grant for a third term." "We are all solid for John Sherman," said the girl. The man walked slowlv to the gate, paused, scratched his head, and turning once more to the female, said : "Wouldn't vou give a future cabinet officer a cold potato ?" "Coulta't think of iU" "What if the next Minister to the Court of 't. James should ask for one ?" "He couldn't get it." "Very well. I will not withdraw my good wishes for the new year. I presume you are acting according to instructions. A man who is lust entering upon tn? primrose paths of politics can afford to be magnani mous. And, kissing bis hand to the hard hearted housemaid, he took his leave. "Give Me That.' 'Driver," I cried, "be so kind as to slop until these ladies get on board." lie was kind enough to lo so. On marched the enraged three. The face of two showed indignation, the face of the umbrella one showed vengeance. "lou think you re smart, don t you! she snapped out at me as soon as she got her breath. I modestly confessed that snch was the ease. "Do you think I'm going to run all over town after a car and then pay for it?" "I would n t if I were you it s too hot. I replied. "I won t have any of your impudence, sir. 1 11 report you to the company, my man, see if I don't." "Madam," said I. "it won t cost you a cent more t- sit inside tbe car than to stand on the platform, and you must admit it would be more dignified. "There's your fifteen cents," she cried, "and don't you talk back to me." Willing to appease the woman I walked the length of the car and put the fare in the box. "Let me off at Lincoln avenue," she called out to the driver. 'This car don't go to Lincoln avenue. This is a Woodward avenue car." "What!" she cried, "isn't this a Grand River car?" "No ma'am," said the driver. "Any one can tell a Grand River car from a Woodward car, and the other cars have conductors." That conductor took my money and I want it back stop this car." "Madame, said I, "I put the money hi n 'Give me that fifteen cents. "I say that " "Give me that fifteen cents. "Why, I ' "Give me that " and here her umbrella came so violently in contact with my hat that I missed the rest of the sentence. "Give me that "Certainly, madam, here is twenty-five; never mind the change. You might miss the next car." We never met again. l ishiug for Bbwks. At the head of the harbor, seven miles east of the town of Nantucket, is a place called Wnuwinet composed of two rude summer hotels, where splendid flub dinners are served. Several steam and sail yaehti ply between riantucket and Wauwinet, making two round trips each day. The fare is 20 cents each way, and the trip is a charming one. At auwinet only a bank of sand an eighth of mile wide separates us from the main eastern shore of the island. Here we find a party of sturdy fishermen ready to take us on a sharking expedition. We embark in "dories'' and are carried out to larger whale boats anchored a short dis tance from shore. Sail is then hoisted, and having reached half or three-quarters of a mile from shore, anchors are dropped and work begins. Large fish books a foot long connected by a yard of chain to lines as thick as your little finger and baited with a dozen small perch are thrown into the wa ter, which is here five or six fathoms deep. The bait rests on the bottom and the fisher man holds his line sufficiently taut to en able him to feel a bite. He does not have to wait long. A violent tugging tells him he has a shark on bis hook. His com panions assist him, and the united efforts of two or three are required to draw the animal a nose to the gunwale of the boat. Then while some hold him there others be gin a fierce assault with clubs as thick as your wrist. Blow after blow on the nose is kept up until the animal is completely stunned, bis tail meanwhile keeping up a fearful lashing, which, if not well protected with oilskin oversuits, wets every one on the boat through and through with salt water. Finally his lashings cease, and by the united efforts of thewhole party he is hauled over the side into the boat. Though now perfectly quiescent, it is still dangerous to place one s hands in too close proximity to his triple row of sharp teeth. These sharks are ugly things, six or seven feet long, and perhaps 500 pounds in weight, without scales, with sharp-pointed tails, white bellies, small eyes and great caver nous mouths. Their teeth pointing inward. are not used so much for dividing their food as for holding on to it when seized. their teeth acting as barbs. The food is swallowed whole. They are very numer ous and bite freely, insomuch that a party can any day catch one apiece within an hour or two. Brought to land, the honest fisherman first cut out their livers from which cod liver oil is extracted. Their carcases are then buried for a few mnnths until mostly decomposed, when they are dug up for use as fertillizers. Transit in London. Omnibuses were introduced in London from Paris a half a century ago, and the horse railroad from the United States about ten years ago. The first hack ney coaches were introduced in lniM, and for a couple of centuries were regarded as a monopoly. Acts of parliament were passed limiting the number to ply for hire in the whole of Ixn don. This limitation lasted till the date of the great Reform Act. The old hackney coach was a two-horse vehicle, and the fare was a shilling a mile. It was not till 123 that the one horse cabriolet, the familiar four-wheeler of the London streets, was in troduced, and made way but sljwly. The Hansom, the gondnlaof the streets, as it is called in "Lotbair," was a few years later, and is gradually superseding the old four- wheeler, as that superseded the hackney coach. The actual numler of cabs now licensed in London is 4014 four-wheeled and 4617 two wheeled. Railways as a means of inter-communication in London are still new, and arc still in course of de velopment. At the time ol the Great Ex hibition no railway came farther into Cen tral London than Drummond street, Eu ston Square on the north, and liishopsatc and Fenchurch street on the East. The North London line had only been opened in the previo'us year, and it was some years after that the scheme of tbe Inner Circle, to connect tbe great termini of the main lines, was sanctioned by a Committee of of the House of Lords. The Met ropolitan Railway got its act in 15 , but the works were not begun till 1S0, and the opening- took place in l&6i. It was then a broad gauge line from the Great cstern to Farnngton street; it was altered to a narrow guage line before Londoners had found out the wonderful facilities it provided for them. The Woman Barber of St. Cloud. I entered the barber shop nearest the foot of tbe little hill at St. Cloud, France, and found tbe assistant engaged in shaving a captain of the 130th. This was easily ap parent, because the number "140 was on his cap, his collar, his sword-belt and sev eral other prominent places. Tbe head barber was absent His wife entered from an inner apartment, and invited me to take a scat in the barber s chair. I did so, not apprehending anything extraordinary. A rrench barbers chair is straight-backed without cushion, and behind is a hard wooden crutch to lay your head in. It sug gests a .combination of guillotine and ga rotte. Tbe woman then tucked a towel un der my chin. This aroused me. I won dered if it could be possible. I began to suspect that she meant business. I saw coming possibilities. Because in France women are, to a great extent, real help mates of their husbands. If grocer, the grocer's wife keeps the books, and takes the change; if butcher, the butcher's wife can slice off a cutlet as quickly as her husband; if baker, tbe woman is always at the coun ter; if in almost any description of retail trade, the wife is as conversant with the business as her husband. Sometimes they are on fete days conductors of extra omni busses. Yet, thus far, I had never seen a woman barber. But she lost no time. Her hand was on the lather brush, and the lather brush was on my face, and she lathered me. She lathered me with neatness, taste and dispatch. She strapped her razor with true professional dextcritv, gave it a wipe or two on the palm of ber hand and the regular barber flourish preparatory to the shave. This was business. I did not wish to ap pear amazed or surprised. Still, I desired to know if this was really the custom in St Cloud. So 1 kept the corner of one eye diligently upon her. But everything went on as usual in the little town. Tbe red legged captain of the 130th barely looked at me. 1 he soap-suds flowed with a noisy murmur down the steep narrow street, peo ple tramped by indifferently and no crowd gathered at the door. "It is well," 1 thought, "at least I am no spectacle for the curious." She applied tie razor with a linn, delicate manipulation. It was a sharp razor. A sharp razor is not an every day occurrence in France. Often have I emerged from the Gallic barber's door. bloody and battle-scarred. Something ovt r a Dint of blood have I in this manner already J left on French soil. What the French bar-1 ber's blade lacks in keenness of edge, he makes up In muscle. She shaved me well. Her execution was more agreeable than that of tbe male barber. Still the sensation and experience were curious. 1 regretted that she did not finish me. This was be cause tbe barber's assistant had polished off the captain of the 130th, pomatumed his soap-lock and waxed bis war-like moos- tache. After which he sprang on me. Compared with hers, his touch was that of a clumsy brute. He laid on with the wb le weight of his arm, swept one side of my face with a combined sweep and scratch, which where it did not take off hair did skin, left a few faint scratches behind and cut my chin. Then he drove me to the wash bowl as they always do in France, to cleanse my own countenance of the lather, which be had managed to shove into my ears and hair. I believe it to be a part of a woman's mission on earth to shave. The French barber shop with all Us drawbacks of execution has some attractive novelties. Nice-looking girls often enter and occupy tbe chair next you, to have their hair ar ranged. It is always the depot for switches, curls and all sorts of false hair. 1 think the women send their old false hair to the barber's to be regenerated and refrizzed, because the assistant is always, when not shaving, occupied in brushing these things up, carding them out or curling them anew That Awful Cow. There probably isn't a woman in North America who isn't afraid of cows, and there isn't a cow in North America which would harm one hair of any woman's head if it bad the least chance in the world and no other job on band. Recently a stray cow, perhaps from the country for a taste of baled hay found a gate open and entered a yard on Second street, Detroit The woman came to the front door dressed to go out, but seeing the cow she uttered a scream and hurried back. There wasn't a thing in the yard for the cow to damage or eat and be ing tired she raised ber cud, lay down and began to chew away as if she had got home from a long visit to Europe. The woman next appeared at a side window and called upon tbe cow to "git out" A dog might have "got," but the cow didn't Then the women threw a rag at the cow and called for tho dog. 1 he dog didn't come and the rag did not scare. 1 ben the woman shook a pillow at the cow and per-e:.ptorily or dered her off the premises, but the bovine ball closed her eyes and let her thoughts run ahead to fly time. As the cow didn t go, and as the woman couldn't go till the cow did, sterner measures were resorted to. A tin pan was held out of tbe window and beaten with a spoon, but that cow couldn't be fooled into believing that Fourth of July had come. Then the woman went into the back yard to throw clubs over the fence and knock a couple of horns off. The first one hit the window and the next one banged the blinds on the next house, and the cow's horu stuck tighter than ever. Cries of "git out!" were again resorted to without effect and then the woman watched at the front d.Kir till she saw a boy come along and she opened it and cried out "Oh! boy! there's a horrid cow in our yard' I I'rop the gate open and get all the boys and police vou can and drive her out aud I'll give you a whole quarter of a dollar. Hurry up for she looks as if she was getting ready to come right in here!" The boy "huinjjed" the dangerous animal out in about thirty seconds, received his pay and the woman gave up going down town for fear th would have a '-nervous spell." Bow Bessemer Learned. It will be of interest of the reader to lenrn that, according to Bessemer's statement his knowledge of iron mvtallurgy was at that time very limited, so that be had to get up the whole of the subject He is now, how ever, of tbe opinion, that his ignorance proved of great advantage to him, as he hail very little to unlearn and could thus approach the subject free from the bias in separable from those who have followed a tieaten track and vainly endeavored to get out of the rut. These words of Bessemer require, however, to be carefully consider ed. He does not imply that a state of ig norance would enable him to invent, as many schemers imagine, who put forth crude ideas, which are crushed by practical men. He sat to work to learn the whole business thoroughly, first from books and then in the foundries. Still it will be seen that here is a man well on in the world, who set himself to hard learning while many of us think we can do very well without learning at all, or without learning any more. To the public who thus get de tails at first band, it is also of interest to know that having built a small experimental iron works in St Pancnis, and begun his preliminary trials, months rolled on, and he spared neither labor nor money, but made failure after failure. To the wise man, however, failure is a way of learning, and failures are carefully recorded : 1. Be cause they show as, through narrowing the field, in what way we must try, and, 2. Because they, in themselves, often suggest some further experiment. Bessemer, in deed, says that during his long time of fail ure be was accumulating many important facts which could pot but ultimately be of advantage to him. Row an Owl's Bead Revolves. A contributor to the American Naturalist who had read a funny story about an owl's wringing his own neck by looking at a man who was walking around him, tested the matter by an experiment. He obtained a fine specimen and placed bim on top of a post. "It was not difficult," says the writer, "to secure his attention, for he never di verted his gnze from me while I was in his presence. I began walking rapidly around the post a few feet from it, keeping my eyes fixed upon him all the while. His body remained motionless, but his head turned exactly with my movements. When I was half way round his bead was directly behind. Three-quarters of a circle were completed and still the same twist of tbe neck aud the same stare followed me. One circle and no change. On I went, twice round, and still that watchful stare and steedy turn of the head. On I went, thice times round, and I began really to wonder why the bead did not drop off. when all at once I discovered what I failed to notice be fore. When I reached half-way round from the front, which was as far as he could turn his head to follow my movements with comfort, be whisked it back through the whole circle so instantaneously and brought it facing me again with such pre cision that I failed to detect the movement although X was looking intently all the time. 1 repeated the experiment many times after ward to watch carefully to detect the move ment of the readjustment of his gaze." "Connt 'Em." While a bootblack was the other day giving stranger a shine at the corner of Griswold and Congress streets, be was asked the nature of the soil around De troit "Yon jist wate a minit and I'll tell ye," replied the boy, and be scouted "Jim" "Jim!" to small boy down the street Jim came upon the scene with two of the dirtiest feet s youngster ever sloshed around with, and the other said : "Here, Jim, stock yer hoofs out here. This 'ere gent wants to know what kind of a site we've got around here, and you hold still and let bim count the differ ent layers while I'm blanking Us exfcsr Twtl Neville Cross. About a mile to the west of the I Cathedral of Durham is a spot close I ly connected with its history, and j memorable in the annals of Eng- ! Englaud. Here, on October 17, in the year lS4o, was fought the battle of Neville's Cross. The victory of Cressy had been won a few months previously, but a Ed- warak Hi nml Iha tlskwa-na. sT than L nnliah asniw ward and the flower of the English army were yet in France, tbe King of Scotland deemed that bis opportunity Kwascome, and that the northern provinces were de- feaseless. Gathering together an army of some 40,000 men he swept over the borders. devastating all the land before him. The chief among his nobles accompanied him ; the most sacred relic in Scotland was pres ent in the host to encoumre the troops on the battlefield. This was the "Black Rood," a crucifix of blackened silver, de livered so mysteriously to David I., on that spot between the town of Edinburgh and crags of Arthur's Seat, where afterwards the Abbey of Holy rood was reared to its honor. But though the King of England was over the sea, his Queen i'hilippa was in England, and did not shrink from the danger. An army was assembled, to which the palatinate sent its contingent, and was placed umler the command of Earl Neville. The invaders drew near to the walls of Durham ; the English troops, considerably their inferiors in number, awaited their approach. The Bishop of Durham was present at the head of his men, and there was also- an "Ark of God'' la the English camp ; for the Prior, in obedience to a vision, had brought from the cathedral one of its choice-at treasures, "the holy corporax cloth wherewith St. Cuthbert covered the chalice when he used to say mass." This wus attached to the point of a spear and displayed on the Ited Hills in sight of the army. From the cathedral tower the monks beheld the battlefield, and prayed for the victory of the defenders of their saint f rom nine till noon the con flict lasted; the English archers with their cloth-yard shafts, the Scotchmen with their Lochabcr axes, smote down many a man on either side; but at last the watchers on the tower turned from prayer to praise, for the Scottish host wavered and broke, and the Black Rood proved less potent than the banner of St. I tilhbert It was a dark day fur Scotland. The slain numbered 15,000, the king was wounded and a prisoner, many of his nobles killed or taken, and the Black Rood was the prize of the conquer ors. Once before it bad been for a while in English bands, but this time it was lost to Scotland forever. Henceforth it was nutnlered amongst the treasures which were collected together in the Nine Altars CbapeL After the battle the "corporax cloth' was attached to a velvet banner, and was aftei wards present with the king's host on many occasions. The nerrlng. The herring, though a small fish, is com mercially attractive enough to often find its own prospects of peace and longevity seri ously endangered. Its diminutive size causes it to sutler more from tinny enemies than either the cod or the niackvrel. and its spawning capacity is comparatively fee ble a mere trirle of thirty thousand eggs, which the mackerel exceeds by fifteen or twenty times, and the cod by a hundred or more. And yet there seems no limit to the quantity of herring. Were the demand many times as great as it is, it could easily !e supplied from this side of tbe ocean. This is doubtless duo in great measure to the peculiar security enjoyed by the spawn and tbe young. Instead of floating, orifice downward, like the eggs of most other fish, herring spawn sinks to the bottom, the ori fices of the egg being upward, and as it is deposited in deep water, there are but few fish that interfere with it. The young, finding no loving parent near to guide their ye-uthful steps, sensibly remain close to their birthplace, feeding upon diatoms and smaller Crustacea, until they grow old enough to venture abroad. Migratory only to a limited extent, it is probable that the herring changes it 9 base only on account of annoyance from larger fish. They are caught inshore by many varieties of seines and pounds, and the hook has occasionally been tried upon them by self-sufficient city youths, urged thereto by the sea ahore boys, who wished to remove the conceit from their visitors. To attempt to lure with hook and line a fish which cannot bite, but lives wholly by suction, and to spend long hours at the attempt, under the stimu lus of some wonderful story about how many some other city youth caught in the same way, is very stimulative of one's memory of the imprecatory psalms and of other Scripture as misquoted by the wicked. The herring, like the other fish named, in habits cold water, the line of Long Island sound being the southern boundary, while it is far to the north that it must be sought in quantity. The secret of the selection of particular l7calitic8 for fish homes seems explained by an examination of the course of the great arctic current This body of cold water, starting from the Spitzbergen seas, flows westerly until it strikes the Greenland coast, when it changes its course to the southward, and carries great masses of cold water into localities the latitude of which leads one to look for a high temper ature in the water. It is a branch of this current that enables tbe cod to live and multiply about Block Island and Nantucket Shoals, in water at 40 deg., while further J north bathers luxuriate in water at 70 deg. The same current forces its way into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which is the most profitable fishing ground in the world, and probably has something to do with the phe nomenal tides of the Bay of Fundy. This current brings not only cold water, but food for the fish. This food consists of diatoms and other minute forms of vegetable and animal life. Coming into existence in a latitude higher than that of the fish that devour it this food is swept southward by the great arctic current, and wherever it is found the waters are almost alive with fish. Professor Hind says that although the sea off Canada and the United States appears abundant in life, it is nevertheless almost a desert compared with the north seas, par ticularly on the Labrador and Greenland coasts. There the ocean at times seems to be thick with fish and to such an extent that during a single night the temperature of the water will be materially influenced by animal life. How the Prince of Wale, lost his Sapper At a ball given rt'cently in honor of the Prince of Wales a small table in an alcove was reserved at supper for his Royal High ness and bis intimates. The ball was at its height; the Prince led one of his partners to the table, followed by some of the most distinguished guests. Two chairs, how ever, remained unoccupied. A heated par son, supporting a still more heated partner, descried the vacant places and immediate ly swooped down upon them. In vain the courtiers nodded, winked and beckoned ; bis reverence meant supper, and was not to be denied. At last Lord Charles Be res ford, always fertile in resources, dropped on his knees, and crawling under the table pulled the parson by the leg. It was ot no avail ; tbe revered gentleman merely kicked out, and continued his attack en the good things intended for royalty. rj eaten om Earth. Nine miles from Walla Walla, Oregon, is situated a colony of Davisite Mormons. They call their organization the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. They believe that spirits return and take upon themselves new j hi,. ,.i ,hal ,he , Jesi., ( hrisl ! ri i.j, ,k r,:, J r and about halt tbe other old apostles, King 1)aTi Mosesthe lawgiver, Abraham, k - .. .. Isaac and Jacob, have returned, been born over again, and that they now have those sacred children in that colony, and are only waiting, for them to grow up, when they shall compter the whole world. They have a sacred corral in which those children usually play, which none can enter with out taking off their shoes. Davis baa daughter about nine years of age, who, it is claimed, is the great external mother of spirits. She is the motor of her father's spirit in fact of all spirits and is to be mated by her father to her brother in the desh, who is the great father of spirits. Davis claims to have power over life and death, that he and all who believe faithfully in his doctrines may live as long as they please. Nevertheless, bis wife, the mother cf Jesus, died last spring, and Davis was complaining of ill health wheu we saw bim last The child Jesus i red haired and wears it long, and is slightly freckled in the face, has a long aquiliue nosc, a clear, blue eye and a pleasant ex pression. Members of this colony never shave or cut their hair and seldom ever Comb it. The Gentiles have nick-named them "the barber killers." They hold their property in common, but Davis holds the deeds, titles, etc. Most of them say that communism is an impossibility, and thev would gladly get out of it if thev could do so satisfactorily, which they can not do. They tlo not believe in marriage. They argue that Jesus was neither married nor given in marriage, but was as the angels in heaven, and that in the Lord's Prayer, Jesus prayed, "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." And now that bis kingdom has come and his will is done on earth as it is in heaven, they are married no more, but mated by Davis to suit himself. Davis claims to be the Holy Ghost, the true rep resentative of the eternal father of spirits, the standard ot Israel, and commander-in-chief of heaven and earth In a pamphlet published by him he says : "It is. God's will that you do my will forever acd ever." Davis is a Welshman, and the remainder are English, Irish, Scotch, Scandinavians, Canadians, and a few backwoods Ameri cans. When gathered together for service they would remind one of Mark Twain's unprejudiced jury. When we left the camp of Israel young John the reve iator was trying to lasso some young ducks. St i'eter aud John the Baptist were riding around on their stick horses mocking the ducks with their quack, quack, quack, while King David and Moses were making some mud marbles. Goats. The "British Goat Society" whose object is tbe extension and encouragement of goat-keeping and the improvement of the breed of the milch goat, is one of the most recent organizations. It proposes, among Other things to supply goats to villagers, to re paid for in instalments ; to counteract the prejudices against the use of goat's milk, and to increase the size and "milk ing capabilities" of the goat. The hono rary secretary, a Mr. Pegler, laments that while great success has attended the efforts of other live-stock societies, "the goat has never yet bad the advantage of scientific selection such as has been bestowed on short-horns" and other breetls. "Few he- goats are kept, and owners of goats have a difficulty in mating their females. An abundant yield of milk is, like other quali ties, hereditary, and in order to be trans mitted to the offspring with any degree of certainty, it should be a characteristic in tbe blood of both parents, ami traceable to. at least, two generations on both sides. If, then, a goat descended from good milking families be, for want of better, crossed with a common animal not possessing the same qualifications, this valuable feature. If not altogether lost, is very much reduced. and in tbe next generation, perhaps, en tirely annihilated. Stable keepers and others would be recommended by the society to keep male goats, and a stud book should be started in which the names and pedigree of all such anim.Js would be en tered. A herd book should be kept in which goats bred from the sires in question would be registered so that tiiere should be no dispute with respect to pedigree." In cases of consumptive adults, and of infants deprived of their natural food, goat's milk had great medical value. Physicians would prescribe it oftener, if it could easily be procured. In a word, it was of prime im portance that goats should be encouraged. The Wonder of Baccarat. The wonders of baccarat are without end. There is a storv about two voting gentlemen. whom we will call X. and Z.. now going the rounds of the clubs. X. had ill luck. terrible ill luck, one night at his club ; he lost and lost he borrowed from the cashier of his club, and borrowed 6') louis from Z. It was impossible to change bis luck, so he went to recruit iu the provinces. Five days passed and Z. beard nothing of X., so he v. ent to his rooms. Monsieur had not re turned ; he had gone out early in the morn ing and had not returned since, said the concierge. "1 ert.ps he has gone to my room," thought Z. ; "wliat a fool 1 was to go out." So Z. hurried back to his room, but his concierge bad seen nothing of X. Oh, 1 shall see him to-morrow," said Z. to himself. To-morrow passed attd X. did not come. Z, then wrote a letter, saying that be had a pressing need of tbe sixty louis that he bad the pleasure of lending X. some davs ago, and that he would be at home the next day until 7 o'clock. He remained at borne until 8, but X did not appear. Z. then went on to the boulevard, and, as he was passimr in front of one of the gilded dining places of -the lnxurious and wordly minded, he saw X. and another gentleman seated at a table loaded with sumptuous meats. L. tapped at tbe indow, nodded to A., and parsed on. In the course of the evening Z, received a note from X. "I was led into a trap bv my noble friend, in whom I hail hoped to find a savior. After dinner he ordered cigars at 2 fr.. 50 c, each, but when the bill came he begged me to oblige him by paying it, for he had left his purse in the same place that I hail left mine, at tbe club. I had not a sou, but I knew the chasseur of tbe bouse ; he went out and bought me a newspaper at the Kiosque. into which he slipped two hundred-franc notes. When I paid the bill I hail sixty francs left With this stock in trade I went to a claqwdenti (suspicious sort of a club), where I had been introduced by my friend. If fortune favors me you will hear from me to-morrow." The curious thing is that the next day Z. received his sixty louis ; the cashier of the club was aid, and the chasseur at the cafe received bis bank notes back, with a pourboire that doubled them. Total coinage in December, ,079, 000 valued at $S,79,000. x.... i7 vp-..
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