iiiwfa feiiiei ill r . . IJ B. F. SCHWEIER, TEE O0ISTITTTTI0I TEE UEIOE AID TEE EIT0E0E1CEIT 0? TEE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXIY. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1880. NO. 43. I f 9 II 1 4 PEaSEVERlHCS. One step aud tben another. And tbe longest wulk is t njoj ; Oua stitch and then another. And the largest rent M attended ; Ooa brick upea another. And the tig beet wall M mada ; One flake tipon another, Aud the deepeat snow ia laid. to the little eoral workers. By tbeir alow and eonstant motion. Hare built those pretty ialanda In the oiotant dark-bine ocean. And the nubleot undertak.nga Mau'a wisdom bath conceived, I t oft-repeated effort Have been patiently achieved. Tben do not look diHheartened On tbe woik yon have to do. And sav that such a ought; taak Ion never oan get through ; But joat endeavor day by day Another paint to gain. And auou the mountain which you (eared Wi.l i rove to be a plain ! liome waa not boi.de J in a day," Ihe aceient pi over b teachea. And Nature, by her trees and flowers, the aanie aaeet eermon preaches. TUnk not of far-off duties. But of duties which are near. And having ouoe begun to work, ltc o.ve to persevere. Cousin Edilh. Lillian Ames stood leaning against the casement of an open window leading on to a sloping lawn, at whose base flowed sunny, rippling stream of water. it was one of England's fairest daughters. Even at this moment, spite of the fact that her brow is gathered in a frown, and the red, full lips are unmistakably pouting, her beauty is undeniable A few bclil spirits had declared that there was little soul in the face; but the large h:;zel eyes could melt or flash at will; the dark lashes shaded a cheek as white as Pa rian marble, with rarely even a touch of olor upon its velvety surface; and tbe lithe, graceful figure even unconsciously asMiuied a new grace in each unsteady poise, until one f jrgot the question of tool in its perfect outward flesh and blood ta bernacle. Near her, reclining on a low easy chair, sat a young girl of about her own age. At first glance the exquisite soul-loveliness of her face paled in Miss Ames's brilliant beauty, but there were more to love its pos sessur, and fewer to envy her. Something like imagination was in her voice, as she addressed her friend. "I caunot believe that you mean it, Lil lian," she said. "You have been eogaged to Oscar Derirg for a year, and how can you say so carelessly that your engagement shaJI be broken " 'Beg pardon!" interrupted the other, in low, ironical tones, "1 have not yet been engaged to Otcar Denng twenty-four hours. It was to Lord Oscar Dering I gave my pledge." "Oh, but Lillian, because he has lost title and estate must he also lose the woman f his love? Think a Canute. You surely will not give him up so easily! "Nonsense, Edith! I am 21 no longer a girl of an age to live upon seulimeulalism, but to look upon every -day realities of life. When I enra.;ed mystrif to Lord D.r.ng; 1 was the subject of congratulation among all my f riendfc. Now that the cousin who was supposed to be dead crops into life in some remote portion of the gl .lie, an i that Oscar insists upon renouncing the property in his behalf without even a struggle, I am not content to let these same congratulations lapse into pity." "Oh, Lillian, do you think anyone could pity you for possessing so royal a gift as the love of such a man? Think better of it, dear; I know you care for him. Do not so lightly renounce young life's happiness.' "You plead his case eloqmently, my dear. Really I did not know I possessed a rival in my fair cousin. . Perhaps a heart caught in the rebonnd you know the rest, of course, and can point the moral. 'Lillian,you are cruel cruel! I " But the late speaker had passed through the window out of hearing, and advanced to meet a man qnickly approaching on the green sward, while the young girl left be hind fell back in her chair, the great tears coursing down her cheeks, on which the crimson color signal flamed. It was as though some ruthless hand had snatched the veil from her own heart, leav ng exposed its most cherished secret secret she had not known herself until now betrayed Dy her shame. "I must leave this place. I cannot meet him again; I must go home. But, Oh how can she give him up!" Edith Loring and Lillian Ames were cousins, bnt the one was the daughter of a clergyman whose rectory was some ten miles distant from Ames court, and one of the noblest estates of England, and of which Lillian was sole heiress. The girls, however, had been closely united, more by tbe tie of friendship than cousinship, since the Utter was a rthtan bond, and Aaics court was almost as much Eoith s home as her own. Now, however the homelier charms of the rectory were verv grateful to her. Here no one could proVe the discovery so new to herself to trace the scarlet blush which seemed bo often to burn hercheex, until she wondered that it did uot leave its brand. : She had been horns six weeks, and twice Oscar Dering had driven over to see her, but she had always denied herself to him on some household pretext, until one morn he overtook her in tbe road. w hiisv wLlt thoughts of him. wondering how he had borne bis ruptureu troth, and reproaching herself lor the cow ardv which heretofore had forbidden her meeting him, when she heard behind' her the quick step of the horse's hoofs.. His rider drew rein at her side. "So I am to find you at last," he sal". His voice sounded the same aa of old; the bright, cheery tone was unchanged. "Have yoi seen LiUie, lately last found courage to ask. "No," he answered, and then she saw the frown gather on his brow, and an -pression of pain oomea about hi lip. - oi your cousin as possible now. You know. Miss Loring, I m no longer a subject of congratulation.- "Yes, I know," ahe said. "1 "Donl pity me," he Interrupted; "I can't bear that quite yet." "I did not mean to pUy you," ah. re plied. "Oh, if Lillian had not spoken of the heart caught in the rebound," ahe thought, when week after week Oscar Dering would find his way to the rectory garden or the rectory parlor, to spend long hours with its fair young mistress. She understood so well why hecaua, be cause now and then Lillian's name drifted into the idle talk, and because, as he grew stronger, he dared speak of her and of the ove he had borne her. It was a mingled pain and pleasure to listen. If ouly she had not learned her own heart the pain would have been leas. But she was de stined to learn it more fatally, yet, as one morning strolling through the woods to gether, the sharp report of a hunter's gun close beside them startled them both. The next instant ber companion sank white and senseleas on the sward beside her, while the affrighted hunter, whose misaimed charge had entered his arm, hastenen for ward. "Bring assistance quickly," exclaimed Edith, while she raised the heavy head to her lap: "Oscar, speak to me, "she moaned. "Oscar! Oscar!" Over and over again she repeated his name in the same accents of desparing love, until they had forced their way into the life-pulses of his being and aroused them to acivity. lie opened his eyes in a half-wandering look, as though delirium had overtaken him. At this instant the hunter returned with assistance, and a half hour later the wound ed man had been brae to the rectory, the wound dressed, and the knowledge given that it was merely a flesh wound, painful, but not dangerous. Yet his recovery was a tedious affair. He grew moody and abstracted. It gave bim more time to think of Lillian and his loss, Edith thought, even while ahe won dered why his eyes followed her with such a strange questioning look. Once she en tered his room with some freshly cut flowers in her hand. "Where shall I put them, Mr. Dering?" she inquired. "Mr. Dering?" he answered. "Did I not once bear you call me Oscar, or was it a sweet fancy wafted from dreamland" Again the crimson tide dyed her face. "Don't !" she said, as though he had hurt her, and hastened from tbe room bear ing with ber the flowers, and it seemed to him the light and sunshine. Had be been blind all this time, and was he just beginmug to sect A grand ball was to be given at Ames court. Lillian insisted that Edith should be present, and the invalid also was sum moned to the feast. On the evening of Miss Ames's ball she picked up tbe paper sent down by the after noon mail from London. She was sudden- ly startled at seeing the name of the man to whom she so lately had been betrothed. It was a published decision of the court that owning to some disability, the title could not descend to Oscar Dering s cousin. He was, then. Lord Dering still. Fool that she had been. But to-night, while he still thought ber in ignorance, she must win him back. It was late when he entered the spacious drawing-rooms. "I have been waiting for you," she said, in her sweetest, lowest tones. "You honor me too greatly, Miss Ames,'" he replied. Let us go into the conservatory." she added, M it is cooler there." He offered her his arm. From a distant corner of the room Edith saw them. "I will not begrudge him any happiness," she said to herself. "Have you forgotten the last time we were here together, Mr. Deringl' Liliian was asking at this moment. 'No," he answered gravely, looking intc the beautiful face beside mm. "Can one ever retrieve a mistake," she asked, "when one finds it out?" 'I don't know," he replied. "Can one cause the rose, blighted in mid-summer, to bloom again in the depths of winter! She knew then what he meant. "We are dealing in similes;" she exclaim. ed. "let us return to our guests. An hour later Oscar Denng led Miss Loring to the same spot "I love you, Edith," he said, "I thought my hearr was dead when I met you. My darling, will you be my wifef " "Oh, Oscar, you are sure, sure of your self?" . . , , , "I have been made more sure to-night, La m navWOV-sWl She was too happy to question his words to-, happy even to let Miss Ames s con gratulations sting her when she said; . . . v. ra,.7ht in tae rebound. Did A . - r nnt trU TOU SO." Too happy to be made happier when she learned that on her wedding day she was to be made Lady Edith Denng. Thing t Would be rwnnv A patent medicine that wasn't warranted a dead sh.it for anything, from corns to without a thorn and a woman without a fault. , A tarpaulin stout enough to keep the rain frouVsoaking through the backs of our milkman's cows. MwsDarr A poor piumuer - nan- amssh out ortisTvo bun.- wbiie nuking a tight eet and still keep the air brake on bis "Teaman who wasn't always able and Jeaneditorafew pointer. ,n ,bA,S;PwlS believed all along temper. h monotony. A circus jua - " . nted the A chromo of the man wno m dance called 'the racket. H 1. easier to.uppre. he first desire thlntoaatUfyallUiatfoUoarlt. The Rocking Stoma. Scattered over certlin nntinni r tk. British isles, and here and there in other parts of the world, may be found masses ef detached rock, often of great aise, poised mi uiuciy on a narrow Daae that they move to and fro under very alight pressure, and known in Great Britain by the name of "logau" or "rocking' stonas. In some cases the action of the wind alone is suffi cient to set them in motion. tonnerly, these stones, from their pecu liar characteristics, were considered to be the work of human hands, and were classed among "Druidic remains" the common beliet being that they were connected with tbe religious riles and ceremonies of tbe Druids. One of tbe absurd beliefs was that if a supposed culprit was brought to a rockins- stoue, his guilt or innocence would be at opce proclaimed if guilty, the stone would vioraus on his approach by unseen power; while on tbe other hand his innocence would be proved by its remaining station ary. An opposite belief was that t he stone would "rock" at the slightest touch of those pure at heart, but would withstand even a giant's power when exerted by the guilty. These belie. s, like many others connected with so-called cromlechs and other re mains, are, however, exploded, and it is now very generally agreed that rocking- stoncs are not works of art, but the result of cat ural causes. There cau be no doubt that in most cases the "lockine" property of ihese masses of stone is entirely due to weathering ; disin tegration having been effected through countless ages by the action of wind and rain, and sometimes by sand blown by the wind upon the masses of jutting rock of which they are composed. In some in stances, too, theie is little doubt the super incumbent mass has fallen or rolled from the rocks and heights above, and become accidentally poised on its present bed; and in others again they may have been depos ited in their position by glaciers or ice berg. In all cases, however, we shall be sale in attributing, in one way or other, their formation to natural agency. At one of (he meetings of the British association, this theory was clearly demonstrated by Mr. Grove, who slated that by artificial at trition he had hiuisell made suvtral minia ture rocking-6tones; "and thus ho showed how by the action of the atmosphere on their corners, many large masses of rock, which having a tendency to disintegrate into cubical or tabular blocks might gradually become rounded into the rude spheroidal shape generally presented by the logan." Street Acquaintances. You know a great many people you are nX acquainted with. Your accustomed walks on the street bring you face to face with men, women and cuildren every day, who grow famil iar to you, but you know theai not. Just about so far troin the sauio corner every morning you meet the care-worn man, weighted with lue's burdens, his face wrinkled with the history of strug gles. You always feel like taking off your hat to hun aud offering a sympathetic word. The f pruce young clerk, with one hun dred and twenty steps to the minute, glances at you sharply and whizxes by as if the world woulun't move till he gut there. The distressed-looking woman, with pale face, shabby-geutsei dress and a bit of resolution expressed by her closed mouth, tiresouiely comes down the walk. Her face has moved you to pity every uiornipg for a year. What is this little breeze coming? With metallic heel-plate clicking, clicking oa tbe sidewalk like the ringing of a clog dancer s step, jaunty hat to one side of ber head, neat co.-tume, aud fancy, piquant air ? Meet her every day, but dout dare to speak to her. This little toddling girl with bangs, pro tected by an older brother, playing on the sidewalk with a hoop and dolly. A gleam of childhood's sunshine that greets you cheerily. Those two jolly fellows coming, telling stories and laughing all the way to their work. Light-hearted, because they were born so. You feel . like turning about and having a laugh with them, but they are only street acquaintances. The "grubbing" sort of men whom you meet every day carrying a pipe between their teeth, round-shouldered, and having a hangdog sort of a gait, perfectly indiff erent to everthing. It makes a man feel blue to see them. The gray haired and much-bowed vete ran, whose life is near adjournment. You meet him on Saturday mwrnings only, lean on his staff, his while locks streaming in tbe breeze; a picture which we all look upon with reverence. These are but few types of the people we meet every day in the street and know, but are not acquainted with, that are as much a part of our every -day life as are our duties that add so much to our pleasure and opportunity for study, and more than books and newspapers. Curious Sea Inhsbltan ta There is a continual warfare going on in the deep, a constant struggle for the means of sustaining hie. The carnivorous devour the vegetarians, and the mud-eaters swallow both animal and vegetable forms; and this runs all the way down the scale, from the shark and the equally ravenous bluefish to the least of the anneJds. These last, the sea-worms, are wary, but they cannot escape their enemies. If they were to confine themselves to the bottom, where they feed and where many of them glow to the length of a foot or two, they might in a measure escape, though they would still be a prey to the scup and other fish that know how to dig for them ; but they love to swim, particularly at night and in the breeding season, and then they are snapped up in countless numbers. They have almost every variety of forms and their structure is marvelous monsters with hooked jaws at the end of a probos is, and withal, sides of bluest green that throw off an infinite variety of irridescent hues. Some of the sea-worms have scales, others have soft bodies; some are sluggish and curl themselve up into balls when dis turbed, others are restless, particularly at night ; some are round, others flat ; some build tubes of sand and cement, woven together till they make a colony of many hundred members; tbe tubes of others are soft and flexible,aud some, when disturbed, withdraw within their crooked calcareous tubes and close the orifice with a plug. One variety of the eerpultv has three dark red eyes ; another has clusters of eyes on each tentacle. The amphiflods were accoun ted of no great value till it was shown by the Fish Commission that these small Crus tacea furnish a vast amount of food for both 'salt and fresh-water fishes. Indeed, there is not a creature that swims or crawls that does not become the food ef some other aniinaL A beach flea is caught up by a scup or flounder; squids make terrible havoc among young mackerel, and sharks and stingrays find something appetising in the fssteropod. Bat we have not room here to dwell on tbe attractions offered by the invertebrate animals on this coast. The rocky shores abound in varieties differing from the pro ducts of sandy aud muddy bottoms, and the different zones have their peculiar forms of animal and vegetable life, and one has only to sweep the water with a fine net, and drawing it through the sea weed, to gather an infinite variety of ani mal life, so minute and delicate in form as only to be seen with the aid of a glass. At the laboratory of the Fish Commission, crabs not bigger than the head of a pin may be seen seen swimming in a shallow dish, tiny forms, almost transparent, but active and pugnacious when they meet each other. These minute animals at this stage are not fully formed, out have a tail, which, when not in use, is drawn up under the body. This appendge, like the caudal one of the tadpole, disappears when the creature has no further need of it. So of the young of the lobster; it has five feet, while the abdominal segments are flat tened out into a tail fin. But perhaps there is no greater change in the growth of any of the erustacea, than that which charac terizes the star-ash. Its larva sue ma com plete in itaelt,and its movements are active before it presents any of the aspects of the parent fish. Even its temporary mouth does not remain the permanent mouth of the starfish. It is the starfish that is the great destroyer of oysters, and there is nothing more tenacious of life. Tear off one of its lobes or arms another will grow in its place ; tear off two, three all of its five arms, and it is able to reproduce them Oebome taoaaei Osborne adjoins the estate of Norris Cas tle, where the Queen spent some time in childhood, and her selection of tbe place in mature years was probably due to early impressions. The Queen and Prince seem soon to have fell a desire tor what her predecessors on the throne nerer had a borne of tbeir very own. as opposed to an official home, and the private borne of Os borne was soon supplemented by that of Balmoral. It is scarcely probable that a radical House of Commons will be content to vote much longer the great sum annually demanded for maintaining royal palaces at which the sovereign never resides. Besides Buckingham Palace where hr residence now averages about ten days a year the Queen has Kew, Hampton Court, Kensington, Busby Park, St. Jasies, the white Lodge in liicbmond Park, Frog more, all at her disposal, should she please to oc cupy them, and all main ained at public cost, besides Holyrood in Scotland, where occasionally she has speut a few days. Kecaington and Hampton Court are now given up in part to pensioners of position. The accumulation of these palaces has been in a considerable decree due to the indi vidual caprice ot various sovereigns. William 111 hated the splendid palace of Whitehall, and was not sorry w hen lire ef faced the triumphs ot Holbein and Inigo Jones. He lived at Kensington, and occa sionally at Hampton Court. Anne lived at Kensington and Windsor, as did the Geor ges up to and inclusive of George IL George 111 and Charlotte lived at St. James, Windsor and Kew until Buckingham House was bought. George III also lived a great deal at Frogmore, in Windsor Park. For years he did not occupy Windsor Castle. George VI lived, after he came to the throne, at Buckingham Palace, Windsor, and the Pa vilion ilnghton, and spent on tliem then, probably.at a rough calculation, $7,500,000. William IV, not at all a representative King lived chiefly at Windsor and Buck ingham palaces. So far as Windsor, Hampton Court, Busby and Kichmond are concerned, their surroundings are entirely free to the public, who can ride and drive in nearly every part of their parks. Were, however, Kensington Palace, a plain brick building, covering several acres, razed and fine bouses erected, the public would not suffer by the loss of a recreation ground, and the public treasury would gain to the extent of a sum nearly covering all allow ances paid to the royal family, except that to the Queen. Cwrtoaltlea ot a Mleaourl Cave. About a year ago Mr. Strain bought a tract of land one mile east of West port, upon which was a wonderful spring of coul,pnre water, which came bubbling from an im mense cave which has been explored 8,000 feet from its mouth, tioen after Mr. Strein secured tbe property he bethought him of raising brook trout, and Mr. Annin, a well known fish-cullurist ot Rochester, came to Kansas City to see if the plan was a feasi ble one. Mr. Annin explored the cave; and after making his way underground about ax hundred feet came to a small cataract about three feet high, over which the water felL In about four hundred yards another waterfall was reached, but at this point a person has to crawl along, as the walls of the cave are very low, the ceiling being ragged and rough. About a year ago. when an investigation of the cave was first made, a lot of old Indian arrow heads of flint were discovered near the first waterfall, and It is said in olden times the Indians used this cave as a sepulchre for their dead before they were sent to the "happy hunting ground." In support of this theory it is known that within thirty yards of the mouth of the cave are the remains of an Indian stone house, where not many years since dwelt a half breed and his aged squaw. They were very reticent as to the use of the cave, but claimed that the water which came from it had certain cuiative powers which their "uieuicme men" had discovered ages ago. The people in the neighborhood have all heard the stories, and the place has about it much of interest. Mr. Annin told Mr. Strein that in his opinion the water in tbe cave was well adapt d to raising fish, and on his return from Rochester he sent out three thousand eggs taken from Caledonia creek,near his own home, which have been hatched out successfully. Loyalty Banrarded. The French Government has just con ferred the military medal upon a young woman employed in the telegraph office at Pithiviers during the war of 1670. Upon tbe arrival of the German forces in that town during the month of November, they at once, as was their wont, took possession of the telegraph office and relegated Mdlle. Dodu, the young woman in charge, to a room, and Mdlle. Dodu managed to tap them and convey the information to the sub-prepecu One day a telegram ai tved from the Prussian staff at Orleans address ed to Prince Frederick Charles, informing him of the march of a French corps upon Gien, and suggesting the movements to be made in order to surround it. This tele gram she took to the sub-prefect who made three copies of it for the commander ot the French corps, sending each by a different messenger. Two of the messengers were killed, but the third arrived, and the in formation enabled the French commander to make a timely retreat. Tbe Prussians did not as certain what had taken place un til just before the armistice, but for which Moils. Dodu might nave fared badly. Two Trwccdtaa sf Miafara. More than twenty years ago Niagara witnessed a tragedy which, while of a heart rending character, was marked by an act of true heroism, seldom equalled in grandeur. Mr. Charles Addington. a young man about twenty-three or twenty four years of age, was affianced to Miss De Forrest, both being tesidentt of Buffalo. One day a happy party, comprising Mrs. De Forrest, Miss De Forrest, a younger daughter, Eva, a beauti ful child five or six years old, and "Charley" Addington, as his friends were accustomed to call him. visited the Falls. They crossed the bridge to Goat Island, and while resting under the trees. Little Eva strayed away from the group, and ap proaching the bank of the narrow, but deep and swift stream that rushes between Goat Island and the small island lying between it and the American rapids, was amusing herself by casting sticks into tbe water and watching them as they were whirled swiftly away. Mrs. De Forrest alarmed for her child's safety, requested Charles Addington to go after her and bnng her back. Charley at once proceeded to the bank, and thinking to give tbe little one a fright, approached her stealthily from be hind, and catching her under the arms, held her over the stream. The startled child threw up her little arms over her head, and instantly she slipped through young Addington's hands and tell into the rapids. The realization of the horrible calamity must have come home to Addington'sJ brain with the rapidity of tbe lightning's flash. He saw his rash act had cost tbe child's life that only one desperate chance of saving her remained that the world was at an end for hun for him forever. Tear ing off his coat he rushed alnng the bank until he had passed Utile Eva, who was keeping afloat by her clothing; then plunging in ahead of her, he seized the child and desperately attempted to throw her up tbe bank. As he made tbe effort be fell back in the rapids and was whirled over the small fall that intervenes betweea tbe American horseshoe falls. Little Eva struck the top of the bank, but all power bad apparently gone iroui her, aud she rolled back into the stream and was hurried to her dreadful fate. The mother and sis ter stood paralyzed with horror, while tbe tragedy, almost instantaneous iu its action, passed before their eyes, leaving its dark cloud hanging over all their future Uvea. Charles Addington had made a hero's atonement for his thoughtless and reckless act. His father he was an only son was in the hibit of visiting the falls once a week for years after the tragedy, and he would sit for hours gazing at the spot where bis son and little Eva had met tlieir deaths. He became well known at tbe falls, and there were many who believed that he would one day voluntarily seek tbe same fate that his son bad courted. But his sad pilgrimage had no such ending. An accident with dramatic accompani ments occurred some years after the sad eveni that cost Charlie Addington and Eva De Forrest their lives. One morning soon after daybreak, the early risers at the falls discovered something moving on a huge old log or trunk of a tree which lor years had shown itself above the boding rapids on the American side, haviag become caught by aud become firmly wedged into the rocks on its way toward the falls. Looking downward from the bridge this log was and still is iu full sight in the fiercest part of the rapids, considerably nearer to the small island on the American side of Goat Ulaud than to the American shore. The moving object was soon found to be a man, and it was evident that his boat had been carried over the falls during the night, while he hiuirelf had mi raculously been cast against tbe log, by which he had managed to stop bis fearful rush toward death. Despatches were im mediately sent to tbe coast life-saving station, and Captain Dorr hastened to Niagara by a special train, carrying with him two metallic life-boats, and plans to save the man were concerted. But before the arrangements were completed tbe news had spread abroad, and many thousands of persons bad reached the falls by special trains. Goat island, the bridge, tbe Ameri can shore, the roofs and windows of all the adjacent build.ngs and the branches of trees, were c ivered with anxious and horn tied spectators. Tbe first attempt at rescue was by means of a Francis metallic life-boat attached to a cable which was slacked off from tbe bridge opposite the log aud guided by side ropes. 1 he boat had not got far from the bridge when the fierce rapids seized it, turned it round and round, and appeared to be endeavoring to crush its sides. 1 he strong cable snapped like a whip cord, and tbe poor fellow wbc had been watching the i Sort made for his rescue saw the boat whirled past him and carried over the falls, a if in niockery of his would-be rescuers. Considerable time was then consumed in deliberating on a new plan, aud it as pro posed to fasten a cable to some building on the American aide, to carry it over to tbe island until it would sag near the log, and then to rescue the man by means ot a bas ket hung on the cable by rings, and to be let down and pulled in by means of smaller ropes. The material for this experiment could not be procured, so at last it was de cided to send down a strongly constructed raft in the same manner as the life-boat had been launched, and if that reached the man in safety, to ease it over toward the small island, from whence his rescue would be comparatively easy. The raft was built, but it was four o'clock in the af ternoon before all was ready. Tbe day bad passed without the flight of time being heeded. The excitement was intense. Men and women who had stood for hours without food were painfully agitated. The raft moved. It withstood bravely the wild assaults of tbe angry rapids. It neared the log. The man stood up and waved his anus. The raft came within his reach, and he got on to it, ate the food, drank a small quantity of weak brandy and water that had been put aboard, aud fas'ened bunself by the lashings that had been pre pared and the intent of which he under stood. Then the raft was cautiously and steadily moved toward the Island with the precious freigbU The people shouted, and many wept from overwrought feeUng. Suddenly the raft came to a stand. The rope wss tautl It had caught in a rock. To attempt to force it was to risk its part ing, and the fatal consequences could not be misunderstood. The poor victim seemed to Uke in the situation and to grow desperate. He unfastened the lashings; stood ';p, and made a spring from the raft in tiie direction of the island, and was in the foaming waters. Instantly he struck out for the island. He seemed to be a powerful swimmer, and thousands of men and women held their breath in horri fied suspense. He appeared to near tbe island m his desperate efforts. Then arose the cry, "He's saved! he's saved!" But suddenly those on tbe bridge, who could see more distinctly from their loca tion, became aware that the space between the island and the swimmer's bead was widening There was another dreadful moment of suspense, and then the unpity bag rapids seized their prey, and apparently making sport of tbe efforts that had been resorted to to snatch aim from tbeir grasp, twisted him round and whirled him along until they hurried him over the precipice. As the poor fellow went over a singular ef fect was observable. The vast body of falling water curves over tbe edge of the of the falls like a huge wheel, and as the body waa shot forward by the force of the current, it seemed to leap completely out of the water, the feet being visible, before it took tbe terrible plunge. Tbe death-like silence that had fallen upon the crowd was broken by a fearful cry a sound mingling a wail, a bowl and a shnek in one. Many strong men as well as women fainted. Tbey had witnessed a tragedy more intense in ltspainfuiness than any drama could present, and one not like ly to be soon forgotten. Powerful oeeaa steaaaahlpa. Twenty years ago the largest steamers known (in this, as in all such comparisons, neglecting the Great Eastern, which wss a prodigy of engineering skill) did not reach 350 feet in length, 45 feet in breadth, 3, 600 tons in tonnage, or 4,000 horse power indicated. We have before us at this moment a list of 60 merchant steamers sailing in the year 1860, from South am tou and other southern ports, which the largest vessels than frequented, and the list includes but 10 ships of more than 300 feet in length, none of whicn reached the limits of size and power just giving, and the whole of which belonged to two companies viz., the Iioyal Mail and the Peninsular and Oriental. At the present moment we have afloat and at work the White Star Liners, some of them 445 feet in length, 45 feet in breadth, and nearly 6,000 indicated horse-power; the Inman Liners, compris ing such ships as the City of Berlin, 468 feet by 44 J feet broad, and of about tbe same steam power; the Orient, of 445 feet by 46 1 feet, with engines developing 5,600 horse-power; tae Arizona, of about tbe same size, with still greater steam power aud speed; and many other splendid ves sels but little inferior to any of the fore going. And these grand steamers many of which reacu the quays of New York with greater punctuality than railway trains reach the London suburbs from Vic toria and Cuaring-crosa, and would reach our quays with equal punctuality if they could avoid tbe abominable sands that bar the Mersey are the forerunners of still larger and more powerful vessels now taking shape upon the banks of the Clyde and elsewhere. The Cunard steel ship, the Scrvia, now building by Messrs. Thompson, of Glasgow, is 600 feet by 60 feet, with over 10,000 indicated horse power, . and will therefore, doubtlesss, ptesess a speed considerably in advance of that of the very fastest ship at present afloat in the mercantile marine. The In man steamship City Of Rome, building of iron at Barrow, will be still larger, having a length of 646 feet, a breadth of 62 feet, agrosa registered tonnage of 8,000, and a steam power nearly equal to that of the Servia. Tbe Guion Line is to be increased by ships of almost equal size and power, and the Allan Line is budding otheis equal to the finest of the White Star boats. Not withstanding the number and magnitude of the passenger steamers now running be tween America and this country, tbe traffic is so great that it has only been possible to secure accommodation by arranging pas sages many weeks, and even months, in advance, while the rapidly increasing population and wealth of the United States and of Canada make it certain that the interchange of airricullural produce aud manufactured goods between them and ourselves will go on increasing. A Dive for Life. Just below Kanahwa Falls, in West Vir ginia, is an overhanging rock of Immense size, jutting out about on 3 hundred fed over a seething whirlpool and it was once the scene of a remarkable adventure. The Indians were in hot pursuit of Tan Bibber, a settler, and a man of distinction in those early times. He was bard pressed and all access to tbe river above and below being cut off, be was driven to tbe jump ing rock, which proved to be the jumping off place for him. He stood on the rock, with full view of the enemy above and be low, who yelled like demons at the cer tainty of his capture. He stood up boldly, and with his rifle kept them at bay. As be stood there he looked across the river, saw bis friends bis wife and a babe in her arms all helpless to render assistance. Tbey stood as if petrified with terror and amazement. She cned at the top of her voice: "Leap into the river and meet me!" Laying ber babe on tbe grasi, she seized the oars and sprang into tbe skiff alone. As she neared the middle of tbe river, her husband saw the Indians coming in full force and yelling ie demons. "Wife, Wife!" be screamed, "fm coming; drop down a hit t bwer. W iih this he sprang from his crag and descended like an arrow into the water, feet foremost. Tbe wife rested on her oars a moment to see him rise to the surface, the Utile skiff floated like cork, bobbing about on the boiling flood. It was an awful moment; it seemed an age to her. Woald he ever rise? Her earnest gaze seemed to penetrate the depth of the water, and she darted her boat further dovt the stream. He rose near her, in a moment the boat was along side of him, and she helped him to scram ble into it amid a shower of arrows and shntthat the Indians poured into them. The daring wife did not speak a word; ber husband was more dead than alive, and all depended on her strength being maintained till tbey could reach the bank. Ibis they did, just where she had started, right where the babe was lying, crowing and laughing. The men pulled the skiff high on the land, and the wife slowly arose and helped to lift Van Bibber to his feet. He could not walk, but she bud him down be side his babe, and then sealing herself, she wept wildly, just as any other woman would have done under the circumstances. That babe is now a grandfather and that rock U called "Van Bibber's Kock" to this day." A rarrot la (ha Wltaeaa Boa. About six months ago a parrot belonging to the Sisters of St. Boniface Convent dis appeared, and was recently found in the possession of Pierre Mallet, who lives on Lapeyrouse street. New Orleans. A de mand being made upon him he refused to surrender the bird, claiming that be pur chased it, and will not give it up unless paid an extravagant pnoe. I be bisters have therefore mstuted a suit in the second Justice's Court to recover tbeir bird, which they value at one hundred dollars. The parrot speaks German fluently, and its owners slaun that they will have no diffi culty in proving their propriety. Upon the trial the bird is to be brought into court to tell what he knows about kidnapping. The lird is well known to the pupils who at tend school at the Convent, and it is said that a test of indentificalion wi!l consist in the bird's obedience to a certain sign know n only to its rightful owner. The trial of this case promises to be both interesting nid amusing. Colorado expects to build 500 mile f railroad track uua year. Learned commentators on the Northern antiquities help us to conjure up the scene of one of those drinking bouts. It is a bitter evening in winter; the war galleys have been laid up in ordinary for tbe season and tbe time hangs heavy on tbe hands of the vikings. The better part of the morn ing is psssed in sleeping off the effects of the previous debauch; and, after breaking their fasts with unimpaired appetites, the listless warriors have roused themselves for exercise, and have been stretching tbeir muscles over manly sports. All the same, the short day has dragged and they have welcomed the heavy fall of the shadows. The feast has been spread in rude profusion; the huge salted joints have been picked to the bone and tossed to tbe hounds; the bare tables on the trestles have been cleared away, and the boisterous com pany, breathing hard after the meal has settled itself down for an earnest carouse. Though the hall is lighted with numerous torches it is no easy matter to distinguish objects for the smoke from the fire burn ing in the middle is curling up to the raft ers of the lofty room, in vain attempts to escape by the smoke holes. But all around the revelers are grouped on the rough benches, while at the end, on a dais above their followers, sit the chiefs in the places of honor. Tables may be dispensed with. The great horns, with the cup bearers, or horn bearers, in attending to replenish them, pass swiftly from hand to hand. There are toasts and "sentiments" and long-winded speeches as well, on solemn occasions of ceremony. Tbe scalds sitting apart, chant the memorable deeds of gods and heroes, and especially the feats of the present company, in interminable stanzas core or less melodious; and the fierce re velers chime in with the chorus until roof and rafters ring again. Naturally the fun grows fast and turioua. Thanks to the form of the drinking vessels, there is no setting them down between pulls. It was the anticipation of the hard drinkers of a later age who guarded against heel taps on the sly by knocking the bottoms ot their glasses. It was tbe principal pride of these "jolly good fellows" of the North to take off tbe contents of the horn at a breath. The muddy ale and the headier mead had muddled weaker or more delicate brains. As it was, there was little intelligence to be confused, and not much wit to be ex pelled, though, if the Sagas are to be trusted, those case-hardened topers are to be credited occasionally with some bit of dry humor. But tbe warm blood grew hotter still as the liquor went coursing through the fevered veins, and quarrels be gan that led on to bloody feuds atterwards, U comrades prevented their being settled on tbe spot. More than once in such ban queting hall some epic in action had its sanguinary uenouemenL Tow Caa Skip. "Is your name David Shaster ?" asked the court of a man nearly seven feet high who suddenly walked out on Bijah's arm. "Heyf" replied the prisoner, aa he lean ed forward. "Is your name David S haste:?" "Heyf" "Is your name David Shaster?" repeated the court with all his voice. 'Ves, I suppose it is." "You are charged with being drunk." "Heyf" "You are charged with being drunk." "Hey?" "Drunk! "yelled Bijah, with his mouth close to man's ear. "Wbo'sdrank? What have I got to do with anybody being drunk?" "You were drunk!" shouted the court. "Hey?" "You were drunk!" yelled Bijah. "Bet you $5." replied the prisoner as he went down for the money. The officer in the case said he found him lying under a shed, drunk and asleep and the court teplied: "Well. 1 can't yell my head off to make him understand. I've busied my collar button ar t broken a suspender already. and I shall let him go. Prisoner you cau go. "Hey?" "You can skip." "Hey?" Bijah turned him around and run him out and shut the door on him, but he put bis nose against the glass and shook tuc door and called out: "Ueyt I'll see if I haven't any rights!" Charlenaacwe, Above the ordinary height of a man. Charlemagne was a giant in his statue as in his mind; bnt the graceful and easy pro portion of all his limbs spoke the combina tion of wonderful activity with immense strength, and pleased while it astonished. His countenance was as sinking as bis fig ure; and his broad, high forehead, his keen and flashing eye, and bland, unwriukled brow, offered a bnght picture, wherein the spirit of physiognomy, natual in all men. might trace the expression of a powerful in tellect and a benevolent heart. Gifted with a frame, the corporeal energies of which required little or no relaxation, and which, consequently, never clogged aud hampered his intellect by fatigue, Charlemagne could devote an immense portion of his time to business, and, without taking more than a very small portion of sleep, could dedicate the clear thoughts of an un tired mind to the regulation of his kingdom, even while oth er men were buried in repose. He was accustomed, we are told, to wake sponta neous!y, and rise from his bed four or five times in the course of each night; and so great was his economy of moments, that the brief space he employed in pulling on the simple garments with which he was usually clothed, was also occupied in bear ing the reports of bis Count of tbe Palace, or the pleadings ot various causes, which he decided at thoe times with aa much clear wisdom as if listening to them on the judgment seat. Pearl Thread. A Paris firm has begun the manufacture of "pearl thread," or "beaded thread," which has the appearance of thread on which the beads are attached at regular in tervals. The process consists in impreg nating tbe thread at proper intervals wiih drops of a pasty substance, like wax, resin, lac, gum, etc, which on cooling becomes glassy or crystalline. The apparatus used is as follows: 1 be liquid bead material is held in a trough-like vessel, from the bot tom of which extend obliquely downward a large number of narrow tubes, which are closed at tbe lower ends, but have each an opening a little above the end, through which the liquid comes out in the form of a bead. The female worker brings the threads in a horizontal position simulta neously before all the holes, and the drops get attached to the threads. A surplus trough is placed below. The prepared thread ia wound on a removable reek In order that the bead may fully solidify, and neighboring pieces of thread may not stick together, the reel is displaced in the region of iu axis after each revolution. It is moved by means of a weight, The Bake la the Cu. Although it has been long established as a general fact that "a babe in a house is a well-spring of joy," yet there are in cer tain bouses little youngsters whose coming was never hailed with gladness and whose presence is not a source of delight. To get rid of such exceptional babes as these, hu man ingenuity, especially of tbe feminine sort, is at times taxed to its uttermost. There are few mothers who tike the idea of getting nd of a baby by knocking it on iu little head, but there are many who think no more of leaving an infant to the chance mercy of a stranger than they would of straying away a cat or of presenting to the neighbors a litter of puppies. In most of tbe large cities of the Old World the unde sirable infant can be anonymously left at a foundling hospital. Here there is no such provision, and the woman who seeks to stray her infant away must be constantly on 'he alert, with some degree of watch fulness and low cunning, to find some un suspicious person with whom to leave her burden. There are way-worn and weary meu who love to snatch from the hurry and worry ot the day ever so bnef a season of repose and slumber. Some of these have by long practice habituated themselves to sleeping whenever and wherever opportunity offers, regardless of the proprieties of time and place. So customary has it become for these men to slumber as they ride in the street cars that the introduction of sleep ing cars on our principal lines has been suggested. It looks so uncomfortable and distressful to see a slumberer, whether so ber or drunk, tryiDg to sit erect in tbe cor ner, yet with his limp and heavy head dropping over sideways to find a resting place on the shoulder of an irritable neigh bor. Y'et thus, for lack of better accom modations, did Uerr Fritz Von Something orother lose himself in slumber in a New York street car which traversed e ne of the leading avenues of that city. Next to him sat a woman with a babe, apparently tak ing a nds for the purpose of giving the child some fresh air. Watching the slum bering lii rr Fritz, and noticing that his lap seemed broad and ample, she quietly made up her mind as to w hat she would do. Having gone as far as she thought good to nde, she rose from her seat, tend-rly de posited the child in the lap of the slumber ing Fritz aud remarked to the conductor as she left tbe car : " Dot ish mine hus banL" Tho conductor, thinking if be thought at all that thU was a pleasant way she had witli that husband of hers, put no obstacle in tue way of her depirture. Laughing in her sleeves at the unsuspect ing conductor, at tbe boozy and snoring Fritz and at the success ot ber ingenious trick, she tnppeil bghlly away and was soon out of sight. Iu the course of the ride. Fritz, who has been but a short time in this country, and who has not masUred all the intricacies uf our language, awakened from his slumber and exciteuiy gave vent to the emotions which racked his soul on finding a strange baby in his lap. The conductor, not un derstanding his remarks, was unable to impart suitable advice. Indeed, it is no part of a car CJJiiuctor's business to give advice, nor can he afford, at $1.75 a day, to give it, even if he should have a car load of it on hand. o Fritz, with a crowd of citizens around him, was escorted, with his baby, to one of the subordinate pol.ee sta tions to see what disposal could be made of the little stranger. Failing to make himself undersood, he was directed to the Central Police Station, whither he hasten ed bis foot-steps, a constantly augmenting crowd, cemposed largely of small boys, fol lowing in the rear. Al ter much trouble and protesU ion that he had never Seen the child before, and hoped never to see it again, he was elieved of his burden, and was, at least, as glad to b- rid of it as was the cunning fellow poesenger who had left it on his lap. Hereafter Herr Fritz will do all his sleep ing at home, in the hours generally assign ed for this pre-eminently home duty. Her says that no consideration will induce him to slumber in a public vehicle, for he wants no baby; and he intends to keep a sharp lookout for the women of this country, whose stated and pernicious practice, he believes, is to to dtp. sit unconscious child ren on the laps of uu ary foreigners. Industrial Aweriea Abroad. We recently announced the shipment of brush and broom making machines to the Holy Land by a Schenectady firm. They were for the American colonists at the f.tot of Mount CaruitL A short time ago the cable announced that an American mowing machine had taken first prize in a trial on the fields of Bulgaria, Simultane ously from Australia came the announce ment that an American watch had been awarded the highest premium at the fair in Melbourne. Europe and the East does iu weighing on American-made scales. A correspondent in Paris gave lately an ac count ef the introduction of American ele vators in hotels there. American hotel palace cars have been introduced in England in spite of English prejudice, and will soon overcome the opposition to their introduction in France which the parsimony of r rench corp-xa- tions maintains. Our bread-stuffs are sold in every market of the hemisphere; and special fleets of steamers convey live Am erican beef to English markets. Every variety of canned g'ods finds favor there. These are only a tew of the facts which nihrht be named in illustration of the re cent material development of America abroad. The growth of our industries has not been conr-ned to home ; marvelous as it has been in the last decade or two, it has been equaliy surprising in tbe oiler coun tries. A few years ago American pork and cotton were about tue only staple pro ductions wliich Europe largely bought of us; now there is a large trade in nearly every article of food grown or machinery invented in America. A History ot Church Fewa. In the early days of the Anglo-Saxon and some of the Norman churches, a stone bench, running around the interior of the church, except on the east side, was the only sr.ting accommodation for iu members and visitors. In the people are rep resented as sitting on the ground, or stand ing. A little later the people introduced low, three-legged stools piooiiicuously over the church, sxion af.er the ioruan con quest wooden seats were introduced. In 13S7 a decree was issued in regard to the wrangling fur seats, so common, that none shouli call any seat in church bis own, except noblemen and patrons each enter ing and holding the one he first found. From 1530 to 1540, seals were more ap propriated. A cross-bar guarded the en trance, bearing the initial letters of the owners. In 1608 galleries were first intro duced; and as early as 1614 pews were arranged to afford comfort by being baized or cushioned, while the sides around wte so high as to hide the occupants a device of the Puritans to avoid being seen by the officers, who reported those who did not stand when the name of Jesus was mentioned.
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