1 I 4 B. P. SOHWEIER. TEE 00IBT1TUT10I THE UTIOI AID TEE EITOKOEEEST OP TEE LAYS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XL. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 30, I8S6.. NO. 27. : : 1 The Disappointed. "E enough for th hero. Who dwell, on Uia ktiiuta of fame; I sme for the diaaTeiajJt, ' For those who miased their aim. I ato with a tearful cadence . F" 009 who stands in the dark H.OW,thf I hU ,ast W Has bounded back from the mark. I sing for the breathlesa runner. The eager, anxious souL Who falls with Lis strength exhausted Almost in aight of the goal . r hearta in ailence ith a sorrow all unknown: or those who need companions, let walk their ways alone. nS enough for the lovers, bo share love's tender pain: I aing tor the one whose passion Is giTeu and In rain. F or those whose spirit comrades Hare missed them on the war, I sing with a heart o'erflowine This minor strain to-day. Anft I know the solar system Must somewhere keep in space A priifl for that spent runner Who barely lost the race. For the plan would be imperfect. Unless it held some sphere That paid for the toil and talent. And lore that are wasted here. THE MYSTERIOUS FORGERY. It was a bleak October morning, and Mr. Walter Crump, ca,-hler to the firm of Messrs. Uvesey & Mason, quickened bis pace as be made bis way along Throgmorton street to the scene of bis daily toil. It was not that be reared to be late that Mr. Crump was walk ing fast. During all the forty years that be had sat upon a high stool from 10 to 5, Mr. Crump bad never been known to be late for his work. A more methodical, careful man never hung over a ledger or balanced a cash book. At length lie reached the well-known staircase, opened the office door, and stood still for a moment in surprise. Young Carter, the assistant book keeper, was there before him, already at bis work. Mr. Crump smiled grimly. "So you've made a beginning, young man." he said. "Well, well see. " Carter's face flushed a little as he bade the old man good morning. The fact was that Crump, who had married late in life, had a bright-eyed daughter named Annie, with whom Robert Car ter bad fallen very much in love. It was only on the preceding evening that things bad come to a crisis, and, some what to the young man's surprise, Mr. Crump bad rejected the proposed en gagement, lie did not like young Carter. lie did not approve of the young fellow's fashionably cut collars, nor of bis scarf-pin, nor of bis cane. Such things Mr. Crump considered were the signs of a frivolous disposition and unsteady habits. 2or did Mr. Crump approve of the snatches of comic songs which Carter was continually bumming. He suspected that the young man frequented music halls, and spent more money on cheap cigars, novels, and outings than was proper for one in his position. Besides, Mr. Robert Carter was usually the last or ail the clerks to make bis appearance in the morning, and this was, in Mr. Crump's eyes, a very bad sign. It was plain to the old man that Carter was now making an attempt to earn bis good opinion. "Time will show time will show," said Mr. Crump, in rather an aggravat ing way, as be changed bis coat, opened bis desk, unlocked bis safe, and set about bis work. Some of the other clerks began to arrive, and then came Mr. Mason, the acting partner, a tall, pale man, with long, black whiskers. Mr. Livesey, the senior partner, only came to the office twice a week, to examine the bank book and see how things were going on. Mr. Mason opened the let ters, and soon came to Mr, Crump's desk with a small sheaf of tlftm in his band. These were letters in response to which small sums of money bad to be sent, and it belonged to Mr. Crump to attend to them, for be had authority to sign checks for the firm for sums up to five pounds. Mr. Crump made a list of the pay ments he had made and then went to bis safe for his check book. As he opened it to write the first check be was surprised to find that the counter foil belonging to the last check which bad been taken from the book was not rilled up. He could hardly believe his eyes. Never in all his life had be written a check without first filling np the counterfoil with particulars of the amount, the date, and the person to whom the check was sent But bis surprise changed to dismay when be took out his cash-book and fcand that be had only drawn nine checks the day before, f e counterfoils of which were all properly filled up, whereas a tenth check bad been torn out of the book. Tor a moment he felt stunned. Could any one have stolen the blank check? He always kept the key of his safe on his own bunch; but it was Just possible that some one might have got hold of the key, taken an impression of it In wax, and had a false key made. He bad beard of such things, lie leaned bis head on his bands and tried to think. When had he closed the saTe last night? About 4 in the afternoon before anyone had left the office for toe day; for he remembered that he had been sent to the docks about 4 o'c ock Sth some documents for a ship that about to sail, and that whenl.e had got back at half-past six everybody had left, and the place was in darkness. If the nana eucv- -- --ZI2 the theft muse nave ueeu last nieht or luis iuuiuue. safe have been opened tefore bis the . .n it. -,mmiieini uarter s uu- usually early appearance, and threw a Scions glance at the young man. Then a simple solution of the matter ocSdtoblm. It was very possible fSZTiT, tearing out the last check he rVrawntoeBday before, he had torn S two by mistake, folded them up 'St 7tuem off tether This ti7 circumstance to Mr. Ma mention the C1J. Mr crump on consideration Air. up ninuu - rrwith. and a coniessiou man to ,Vfci careful would.ruin .the cfccteri ness whicu w 1 " that in paper which bad caused him so much anxiety. The next day was Tuesday; and ac cording to his invariable ccstom on that day of the week, Mr. Livesey made his appearance in the office. Business had not long commenced, when everybody In the establishment was aware that something unusual had happened. Mr. Mason was closeted with bis partner for a few minutes, and then went hurriedly out of the office, returning shortly afterward with Mr. Jeffrys, the manager of the London and Lancashire Bank, at which the firm kept their account. Then Mr. Jeffreys left, and came back accompanied by one of his cash iers. Then a bell was rung and Mr. Crump was sent for. With a beating heart and a cold sweat on his brow the cashier obeyed the summons. Bring yourcheck-bDok.Mr. Crump,' said the senior partner. This was done, and a tall man, whom Mr. Crump had not noticed up to that time, stepped up to the table and glanced at the check-book along with Mr. Livesey. "I thought so," exclaimed the old gentleman. "Here's the place from which the check was taken. Here is the counterfoil. The numbers corre spond. What made you do it. Crump? You are the last man In the world from whom I would have expected such conduct." "Do what, sir?" faintly uttered Mr. Crump. "Do what!" echoed his employer with a contemptuous smile. "Who did you get to do this little bit of work for you?" As he spoke Mr. Livesey tossed a check across ths table. Mr. Crump took it up and read: "The London and Lancashire Bank, ray Jos. Beckmaa, Esq., or order, three thousand one hundred and seventy-two pounds fif teen shillings. Livesey and Mason." He looked up bewildered. The till man in the .frock coat watched bim narrowly. "Who Is this Beckmaa?" asked Mr. Livesey. "I don't know, sir." "You dont know? You see that the check has come from your book?" "Yes, sir." "Did you give it to anyone?" "No, sir." 'Did you miss it?" "Yes, sir; I missed it yesterday, and I wrote to Messrs. Marshall, to whom I bad sent the one before that, think ing that I bad torn two out by mistake.-' 'That rather points to his innocence,' whispered Mr. Mason to the tall man at his elbow. "It may be only a clever plant, sir," returned the other. "You did not put that letter among the others to be copied in the letter book," put in Mason. Crump bung his head. Is the check " he began, after a pause. "Of course it is forged," answered Mr. Livesey. "And was it paid?" "Y'es; it was paid yesterday." Mr. Crump shuddered, took a long breath and waited. "Now, Crump, you had better make a clean breast of it," said Mr. Livesey, after a few moments' silence. "Tell us who this man Beck man is; tells us where the money has gone it cant be all spent already and it will be none the worse for you." Mr. Crump felt a choking sensation la bis throat, but he plucked up cour age enough to say, '4 have told you already, sir, that I know nothing about ft. It was only yesterday morning that I noticed that a' check had been taken from the book." "Why did you not mention it?" asked Mr. Mason. "I thought I had torn it out myself along with the one I sent to Mr. Mar shall." "But it may have been torn out by any one in the office during the day before?" " Yes, sir," replied Crump. "I don't see how any one could have got at the book, for 1 am very careful; but it is possible." "The thief has probably got a pro fessional forger to copy the signature from an eld letter." said Mr. Mason, taking up the slip of paper. "It is beautifully Imitated. I would not have detected it myself." "It is plain that the thief must have been some one in the office, though probably he had an accomplice outside." said Mr. Jeffreys. "A stranger would not have known that the firm had so large a balance at the moment. Is there any of your fellow-clerks whom you think may have had a hand in it?" be added, turning to the cashier. "No, sir." "Is there anv one who keeps loose company, or any one who is in the habit of spending too much money?" Mr. Crump thought of Carter, and hesitated for a moment "Speak, sir, if you are wise." saw Mr. Livesey, sternly. T hAVA nnmetimes tboueht that Mr. Carter spent a good deal on dress, and so on; but no more than many young men," replied Mr. Crump. But as he spoke he suddenly remembered Robert Carter's unusuany eariy appcaiauwj uu the preceding morning, and a suspicion arose in his mind. Without intending it he allowed bis thoughts to appear in his face, so that his protest "I know nothlrie whatever against Mr. Carter" had but little effect. Crump was sent back to nisaesK, ana Carter was sent for. He came back to the clerk's room in a state of great indignation, having strenuously denied any knowledge whatever of the for gery The result of a consultation between the bank manacrer and the partners was that, as Mr. Crump could not account for the loss of the check, he had probably stolen it; and that, although there was not evidence enough r.uiantA him. he must be dismissed at once. As to Carter, they determined to allow him to remain where he was, and keep a close watch upon his pro- Poor Walter Crump went home that day like one In a dream. He was dis missed as tne accomplice oi - hamnld not sav that, in the clr- hiui been treated un- iusfy Tne check had been entrusted lo bim, .and he bad lost ; it I t ws. apparently, at least, u.a - crime bad been committal He almost wondered that he had not been sent to prison. i u.hnf his nam hnUM he W nea no icn-i - - -m in front of the fire without sat meaking. and even his favorite daugh- s ter. Annie, , jv- . ., . ii.i ktn tTaw (mnid ne tell what children that he, their father, bad his been dismissed from b!s situation on suspicion of having robbed his employ ers of 3,000. About 8 o'clock In the evening a knock came to the old man's door. It was Robert Carter. Crump started to bis feet in indignation. Was this fel low, whom he suspected to be the real criminal, to come and gloat over him in his misery? But before he could speak Carter had come intothe room and held outhishand. "I came to tell you, Mr. Crump." said be. "bow sorry we all are in the office about this. None of us believe you had anything to do with it, of course. It will all come out, bkely, in a day or two." ' The old man stared at him for a minute or two without speakin; and without taking Carter's band. "Begone, sirl" he cried at last. "How dare you come here to insult me with your sympathy? 1'ou.' I fancy vou are the one who knows most about it." Annie turned from one to the other with bewildered, terrified looks. For tunately she was the only other one of the fnniiiy in the room. "What is it, father?" sho cried, clasping her hands. "What U It you say Robert knows more about ttvw any one else? Oil, tell me what haa hap pened?" "Go to your room, girl," said her lather, sternly. "There Is trouble enough without your meddling in it. Stop," he continued, as the girl slowly left the room. "You see that young man. I forbid you to see him, to write to bim, to receive any letters from bim. He you will know soon enoueh." "What, sir!" cried Carter, his eyes blazing with indignation. "Do you say that Z-that took the check? Why, it w.is an impossibility, even if I had wished to do s Ci a tl i ir." "Leave my bouse, sirl" was the old ma i's reply, as he reseated himself in his chair. He had by this time per suaded hlms.-lf that in soma unguarded moment he had left his key In the sife, that Carter had taken an Impression of it and had a false key made, and that he had got some clever forger to Imi tate the firm's signature. But he knew that no one would believe him, that ap. eirances were all against him, and that It would be Impossible for him now even to earn bis bread. lie looked upon Carter as the man who had ruined hlm, and In his misery and his unrea sonableness he fancied that one of the young man's objects was to throw sus picion upon him, to reduce him to pov erty, and make it impossible for him to refuse to accept him as Annie's hus band. But in this the old man deter mined he would never yield. Carter protested once more against the injustice of the cashier's suspicions, and then left the room. At the street door be met Annie, who was waiting for him. "Oh, Robert," she exclaimed in a low voice, 'tell me what has happened.' "Sainebody at the office has forged a check for three thousand pounds and more," he replied. "It had been taken from your father's book, and and he fancies I took it I, who had nothing to do with his safe whatever." "And do they imagine it was" Robert was silent "And yoj came here to say you didn't believe it? Oh, how good of you I" "But be thinks I am the thief. You don't, Annie?" "No, Robert; I am very sure of that Only I can't see you so long as my rather " Robert's only answer to this was a sigh, and with a hurried good-by the lovers departed. Weeks and months went by, and the mystery of the forged check remained unsolved. Mr. Livesey Insisted that the firm should bear the loss of the 13,000, which Mr. Mason thought the bank ought to repay, as they were legally responsible for the" money. "No," said the old gentleman, "they may be legally responsible, but I don't see that they ought to suffer. The check was in our hands, and we allowed a thief to get hold of It The bank did all they could. The forged signature was so like yours that no one conld tell the difference; and the bank cashier tells me that the man who cashed it showed him letters addressed to him self as 'Joseph Beckman,' (the name on the check), and showed bim bis card, saying that he was a solicitor. Of course he wasn't The thing has been most cleverly planned, and 1 am quite at a loss to think who put that poor fellow Crump up to it; but it seems to me we can't let the bank suffer. We could not afford to let it be known that we had done so. No other bank would keep our account." Of course poor Walter Crump could not find another situation, though he would have been glad to take the low est place in an office. The wolf came to bis door in earnest Annie, who had actuation in a boarding school, was the chief support of the family; and the poor girl was pale and thin from long hours and scanty meals. It was about five months after the day when the cashier was dismissed In disgrace that one day Mr. Mason left his office at half-past one, his usual hour for going out to lunch. Half-past one was also the time when it was Rob ert Carter's turn to go out for half an hour; and Mr. Mason bad hardly time to reach the street when the young man left his desk, went into Mr. Ma son's room, entered a small closet in which a wash-band basin was fitted up, and proceeded to wash his hands. This was a high misdemeanor, especially as accommodation was provided for clerks in another part of thebuilding, but Mr. Robert Carter preferred Mr. Mason's closet, and always used it when he had a chance of doing so. ... On this occasion, however, he had barely begun his ablutions when he heard the outer door of the office slam, tl... 11 a heard Hnma One. whom he auu ww ... - judged to be bis employer, come Into the room. , Fortunately the door of the closet was nearly closed, so that the young man was invisible to any one in the center of the room. 4CI I. Visa Anlv Pnmfl hank for his um brella," said Robert to himself; "there is no need lor my moving, u. .! quiet he will be gone In a minute. Nol Some one else has come in with bim. What shall I do?" . , tu Mr. Mason bad already closed the double doors which led from his room to the outer office, and Carter was screwing up his courage to the point of confessing his presence, when the first word spoken by the stranger fell upon his ears and made hlm stand as still as a stone. "You can take your choice, as I said in my letter. Hand me over an .i k...Hi nr III unlit. What's one UlUGl uuuiuw - -i - seventy-two out of three thousand? I , bad all the xisx ana you v "Silence will you?" hissed out Mr. Mason, in an angry whisper. "I can't give you a hundred pounds, for I haven't got It But I will give you fifty new, and fifty next month. After that you can 'split' if you like, for you shall get no more out of me. Anpthing would be better than living as a slave to a man like vou." "Hand over the fifty, then," said the other after a pause; and then there was a slight rustle of bank notes. "You had better leave the country," said Mr. Mason in a low tone. "The bank cashier who cashed the check might meet you in the street" "I'll take care of that." replied the stranger; and after a few more words bad passed the two men left the office. All this time Carter had been stand ing half paralyzed, first by fear of dis covery and then by astonishment But he understood this much, that this stranger was the mau who had cashed the forged check under the name of Beckman; that Mr. Mason knew it, and so far from denouncing him to the police, was giving him money to hold his tongue. Y'es; and mora than that the stranger was threatening to "-split' upon Mr. Mason. What it could all mean Carter could not comprehend; but he saw one thing plainly enough. The important point was to find out who this man was, and where he lived. In a moment Carter ran out of the room, seized his hat, and rushed down stairs. lie was just in time. Mr. Mason was leavinz the foot of the stairs, going up the street, while a well-dressed man, who had just evidently parted from hiui, was walking rapidly in the oppo site direction. Carter followed the straoger to the Mansion House, and saw him take a Bayswater omnibus. This suited Carter exactly. lie went round to the front of the vehicle and got up beside the driver. Then be clambered along the roof and seated himself above the door. At the Holborn Restaurant the man whom he was following got out and stopped to refresh himself, while Car ter waited patiently outside. At last he reappeared, and Cuter quietly fol lowed him down Holborn, up Gray's Inn Road and Into a dingy street in the neighliorhood of King's Cross. Here the pretended solicitor stopped at a door, which he opened with a latch key. "Ah!" said Carter to himself, "I have you nowl" He waited a few moments, and then knocked at the door. It was answered by a dirty, slip -shod girL "Does Mr. Williamson live here?" inquired the young man. "No, be doesn't" "Wasn't that Mr. Williamson who came in just now Mr. Williamson, of Peterborough?" "No. It wasn't That was our first floor. Mr. Cromer, l'oa've made a mistake" "So I have. Beg pardon, I'm sure" and Carter turned away. From King's Cross he went stra'zht to Scotland Yard and narrated his ex periences. That night Mr. Livesey re ceived a vult whichcaused him some surprise and so did Mr. Cromer. No sooner was the latter gentleman in the hand3 of the police than he confessed the whole matter. Mr. Mason had known Cromer, who was a scoundrel with a respectable ap pearance and a plausible manner, for some time, and bad selected him to be his tool. lie had sent poor Crump to the docks on the afternoon before the morning wheu the check was missed; he had come back to the ofliee after the clerks were gone, and had then opened Crump's safe with his own key and abstracted the blank check. 'This check he bad himself filled up and signed with the firm's signature In the usual way, so that there was little won der that the cashier at the bank paid It without any suspicion. He ha I, no doubt calculated that the bank would have to bear the loss; but as it was, he had cheated Mr. Livesey out of two thousand pounds, for, as he himself had but a third share In the business, only one thousand out of the three had to come out of his own pocket Mr. Mason saved his partner the trouble of trying whether be could make him criminally responsible for what he had done, for when the police went to look for htm be had disap peared. Probably, he bad seen Robert Carter following bis accomplice, and, scenting danger, bad saved himself while there was time. It turned out afterwiud that he had been speculating largely on the Stock Exchange and was sorely in need of money to pay his losses. It was some consolation to Mr. Livesey to think that his dishonest partner had not profited much by the theft As for Walter Crump.be was offered his eld place, with an apology and a handsome present to boot; and be still keeps the books which he had so long under bis care. He has not quite overcome his prejudice aga'nst Robert Carter, and he always regarded it as a hard thing that he should have to owe his reputation and his deliverance from poverty to that particular young gen tleman. However, as things were he could do no less than inform Carter that be had done bim an injustice, and that he would be happy to see him in the evening whenever it pleased him to call. The color came back to Annie's cheek and the light 10 her eyes when she heard the good news; and it was not many weeks before she became the promised wife of the young man who discovered the secret of The Mysterious Forgery. Proud ot His Sister. An exchange relates the case of a young man who was regarded as a phe nomenon, because he took his sister to all the best entertainments, and actually devoted himself to her during the lec ture and opera season. Being praised for his unusual attention to his sister, the young man promptly and proudly replied: "No, there's nothing wonderful or extraordinary about it She is the only woman I know in whom I have most thorough confidence. She is always the s.une, always very pleasant and affec tionate, and to tell you candid truth, I am afraid she'll go and marry some of those imitation men around her. and be unhappy all her life "she has nobody else to look to, and I'll take care she does not have to look to anybody else. I suppose some day a genuine man will come along. If he's a genuine man, I won't object Until he does come, she's good enough for me, and if I lever find as good a girl, I'll marry her." The example is most commendable. A young man would do well to seek bis sister's society until he finds another lady as good, ? The Physical Part of Senators. These Senators are as a rule big men. Their average height is over five feet nine, and their average weight about one hundred and seventy-five pounds. The fattest and heaviest Senator is Phdip Sawyer, who, though be is short, will pull the beam at 250. Stanford of California, Eustis of Louisiana, and Beck of Kentucky, will aggregate at least 600 pounds, while Palmer ot Michi gan, Jones of Arkansas and George of Mississippi have each about one hun dred and eighty pounds ot solid flesh in their anatomies. John Sherman has not an ounce of fat, but his bone, brain and muscles weigh about one hundred and sixty pounds. Chace, of Rhode Island, the Quaker, weighs 150, and John C. Spooner about one hundred and twenty five pounds. John A. Logan has grown fat lately, and he now weighs about one hundred and eighty, while Ingalls, who sits back of bim, 'though he is six feet tall, will not weigh more than 140. It would take twenty Mahones to make a ton,and the weight of these twenty would not amount to as much as that of eight men like Senator Sawyer. Mahone is the leanest man in the Senate, though Eli Saulsburyof Delaware, Henry I). Payne of Ohio, and Ingalls of Kansas, crowd very close. Payne, Walthall, Sherman, Sauls bury, Ingalls, Eustis, Brown aud Blair are each six feet high, while Vest is not over five feet six and Spooner about five feet four. I forgot to mention Evarts among the thin men. Of all the noted dinner-eaters in Washington he gets the least fat out of his meals. He looks very small indeed as he sits, but when he rises you find that he is of a good height, and as he draws those long four-huiulred-word sentences out of his anatomy during his speech you imagine he must be a giant. Ben Harrison of Indiana, is short and inebned to obesity. Cteneral Hawley is taller, with a slight tendency the same way. George Hearst, the new millionaire from Cali fornia, is a six-footer, and Maxey, of Texas, has to take off his hat when he goes through an ordinary sized door. Riddleberger is alwve tlie hight of ordi nary men. Eli Saulsbury looks to be six feet high, on account of his tii nness, and Wilson, the new Senator from Maryland, although he Is about six inches shorter tliau Saulsbury, looks to be a foot less by the contrast. If I were a cannibal I would rather eat a slice of George Hoar of Massachu setts, than any other Senator. Hoar is the personification of cleanliness, and his complexion shows that he keei his blood m good condition. He is fair skinned, smooth-faced and he looks like Horace Greeley. Allison is another man who wonld serve up well and Man derson of Nebraska, and Gorman, of Maryland, would make dishes fit for the King of the Fijis. I don't think there would be much demand for either Sher man, Ingalls or Evarts in.the cann'i . market, and Conger, Eustis, Ker.na, and Chace, with their brunette complex ions, would only be in demand on the principle that the dark is sometimes the sweetest. V Souvenir or London. "I never appreciated Pittsburg till I struck the Inventors' Exposition in London last September," said a pro fessional gentleman yesterday. Then be continued: "Strolling through the department of pottery and glass exhibits I saw a placard: 'Spun Glass Aeckues.' The cherry-lipped English girl entrsnched behind the silver mounted show eases selected a spun glass scarf In high colors and gave me a receipt for four shillings and sixpence. 1 had a worthy souvenir of the great show. The goods were only sold by sample, and my purchase would be delivered at the hotel in the morning. "I t didn't come. Three days p issed. Tired of waiting I jumped Into a cab and drove three miles out Queen Road, I think It was, to the manu factoryas Indicated on the card. I landed at a snuff and tobacco store, where a little round, fat oily Hebrew greeted me. Yes, It Was the factory. Orders were so heavy he had failed to fill mine on time. "Where is your factory?" "Yust oud dere." Through a dirty rear window Indi cated I conld see nothing but a sqnatty ceal shed. In the IK tie back room hundreds of scarfs were being prepared for mailing. A big box, with a greasy oil-cloth cover, which had been util ized as a breakfast-table, stood near the window. On the Side toward me I read the legend: "From 'Pittsburg, Penn., U. S. A. "There is nothing more to tell. The spun glass cariosity rny beloved sou venir of the Inventors' had been fash ioned within a mile ot my home In Pittsburg." The Egg Dauoe at Baroda. A AanoA infinitely mnra srareful and IntM-pittintf- than that executed bv the Nautch girls Is the egg dance. The dancing girls, dressed la tne ordinary costume of the worn em of the people kAilijta aimI vnw nrf bot-H parriaa on her bead a wicker wheel, placed per fectly horizontal Round this wheel threads are attached at equal distances. which are provuea at tneir extremities with a slip knot kept open by means of a glass bead. - The dancing girl advan ces toward the spectators, noiuing a basket filled with eggs, and to the measure of a monotonous and jerky' strain of music, begins turning herself around with great rapidity. Then, seizing an egg, she inserts it in one of the slip-knots. By means of centrifugal ac'Jon, the thread holding the egg is tightened and placed in a straight line with the corre sponding spoke of the wheel. One af ter the) other the eggs are thrown Into oiiruVnnta an it form a horizontal aureola aronfid the head ot the dancing girL At this point the dance becomes more and more rapid, ana tne least, taiae susp, fti n?hfMt utonnnpfl. would smash the eggs one against another. The eggs are then wimarawn one uj m u m same manner in which tbey bare been fixed, and this second operation is the most delicate of the two. . . Qneen Victoria has given $500 to the Countess ot Dufferin's fund foi supplying lady doctors for the women of India. Memory is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away. Imprest upon your children from early Infancy, that their actions have results, and that tbey cannot escape consequences, even by being sorry when they have done wrong. AT THE BATH. ; The Delights ofthe Turkish for Society Ladies. Papa has forbidden my taking Turk- " j icoi ic3u wiia ucr appupponax- scented handkerchief. "And a very sensible father he must oe," was the comment of a lady physi cian who overheard the remark. This Turkish bath craze is doing more harm than a little, and it is high time that parental authority, if there is sucnatningin these degenerate days, should step in and prevent our girls from ruining their health. "Almost every day I am besieged by Solicitous mammas, worried about Jo sephine's or Aneeline's health, and begging me to positively forbid 'those areadtul Turkish baths.'" "What are the special attractions of the Turkish baths?" "Oh, they are various. Some are ad dicted to them purely for the physical deliirht tllPV afford: ntliAra huvA an f.lon I that they are 'good for the complexion' (as they are in some cases when mod- erately indulged in); others, again . and these compose the majority take : them heranaA 'jII tha nim rirla An Anxious for personal experience, and in search of a new sensation, the writer ODtaineu the necessary directions and was driven to the fashionable estabii h- uiciiii iuiu iu ue irequenieu vy tne 1 r. 1.1 4C: T T , It was about 10 o'clock on a Satur day morning, and the buxom nymphs of the bath, who glided about in ex tremely decollete costumes, had more work on hand than they could well at tend to. "Saturday Is our busiest day," re- marEea one of them, as the represen tative underwent tne usual prelim ina.y of a shampoo, "and most of the ladies come between 10 and 1. Sometimes we have as many as thirty here during the morning," she added, as the repor ter followed her .down a marble corri dor to the "hot room," where half a dozen girls, in voluminous white dra pery, were reclining on lounges in a temperature of 131P. One luxurious young woman was supplied with a box ot m irrom glaces and a volume of Browning; another was deep in a novel, while a third, whose back bair reposed in her lap, was reading to her friend in a low voice. Two or three were Idly staring at the celling, and all looked supremely con tent with themselves and the world One by one as the prescribed half hour in the "hot room" came to an end, they disappeared, in charge of an attendant into the adjoining bath-rooms whence issued muffled sounds of vig orous thumplngs and poundings, filling the soul of the novice with awe and curiosity. Every now and then a white-clad figure issuing from the mysterious chamber, passed the "hot-sun" on her way to the dressing-closets, there to be snugly rolled up in blankets and leit to follow their own sweet will, whether It led her to the arms of Morpheus or the mystic Mazes of Mrs. Browning's fancy, or. as with the writer, to the yielding up of herself to a delicious dreamy languor, through which occa sionally penetrated the chat from neigh bonne rooms: "Don't you feel perfectly splendid ?" "Yes, ju3t splendid." "Will you have some of my oil?" "Won't it make my face shine?" "Oh, no. You can put powder on ! afterward." About three hours is the time allow ed for a "T. B.." as they are called by the craft but when the additional lux uries of a manicure anl pedicure are indulged in four or five hours are often spent under the marble arches. The broughams and victorias of the devotees, some of whom coma twice or even three times a week, usu ally begin to arrive between 9 and 10 o'clock, and are sometimes not ordered again till 2. "It's such a capital way to kill time" said a girl the other day. If poor old Father Time was the only sufferer the T. B. mania might be allowed to run its course unmolested, but the serious charges brought against it by leading physicians makes its in dulgence or suppression a question for consideration. Opinions on the matter are of course varied. "If they mu3t perspire," said a gruff old doctor, when called in to prescribe for two pale and languid T. B. devotees "let 'em do it as a horse does by honest exercise.' IIlHlorr of the Penny. There Is much more In a penny than appears at first sight says a writer in an English exchange. Its manufacture, its history, its adventures might each form the subject of an article, or even a series of articles; so with Its purchas ing power, which, to a famishing per son, might be a matter of life and death, while, under happier circum stances, what such a bumble coin may command is well illustrated by the paper which the reader now holds in his hand. Then there are the legends and em blems which are upon the two sides of a penny, and well, really one is al most appalled at the idea of dealing with such a vast subject in a single ar ticle, which is all that can be devoted to it at present The penny is of really respectable antiquity, "numble coin" Indeed! Why, if birth and long descent were things, apart from other circumstances, to make one feel proud, then might the penny be the most haughty of coins, You recollect how, In sacred history, the laborers In the vineyard each re ceived at the end of his day's work a "penny" (or denarius, representing nearly seventeen cents, which was the regular pay). Coming down to more recent times, and yet very far remote from our, we find the penny the only coin gener ally current among the Anglo-Saxons. It was a silver coin, the 130th part of the libra or pound. For long, long years the penny was Indented deeply with a cross-mark, so that it could easily be broken into two or four parts, hence we get "half-penny" and "farthing," or "four-thing." But In the year 1210 round farthings were coined, and about seventy years later large num bers of circular coins were struck by Edward I., who In trod need many im provements in connection therewith, and made importation of false money a heinous crime. The first legal copper coinage, it seem3 was established by Charles 11., and half-pence and farthings were struck. . Between 17J7 and 1805 the celebra ted MaObew Boultou, of Sotn. near Birmingham, "coined foe the British government at a mint he had fitted up for the purpose no less than 4000 tons of copper coin, amounting at its nominal current value to nearly 800,000. That mint continued in oiratlon down to half a century ago. There is a mint (a new building) at Birmingham still, and that busy town claims the honor with London, ot man ufacturing money. These are the only coinage establishments In England. The old copper penny was a clum sier but a more valuable coin than the modern bronze representative that is, it was worth more as regards its metal; but ot course, you could only get a pennyworth of anything for a penny then. Some few of the o'.d "cartwheel" pennies still remain, but only as curiosities. The bronze coinage we now use came into existence in 1350, and in six years, at Messrs. James Watt & Co.'s mint at Birmingham, bronze and cop per coins (for they made them for other countries beside England), were pro duced, weighing 3317 10 tons and numbering more than 006,000,000 pieces. On some occasions as many as 1,000,000 pieces have been made and packi d in one day. The Birmingham mint now belongs to Messrs. Heaton & Co.' whose initial "IL." may be found on some of the bronze coins. Bronze, it may be stated, contains 95 per cent of copper; 4 of tin and 1 of zinc. E.VT1XG IX ITALY. Everylhins Eaten and Ever) body Seemingly Satisfied. The Italian of the lower order Is not very particular about his eating. W hat be wants is something to eat, and he cares very little about how it is pre pared, or in what shape it comes to him. One street leading off from the Thea tre San Carlo is for a mile a sort ot market devoted to the sale of cimesti bles, and there are Ion? rows of booths for tiie preparation and sale of ready made meals. The street Itself and th a alleys leading" from it are indescribably dirty, so dirty that to make a description that will convey any idea ot it Is as impossible as it would be to describe the hues of a rainbow. Imagine every possible de scription of garbage, with every other species of filth, thick on the streets, reeking, fermenting and festering under a tropical sun, and you may have some ideas left There are kinds of filth mixed with this mass which may not be described in print for the Italians of the lower classes, male and female, have no sense of the commonest decency. In the midst of all this stench there are booths for the sale of macaroni and everything else edible that can come within the compass of a cent a portion. There are the hideous cuttlefish, boiled and cut into portions. The seller, with a fist that is as black and grimy as original sin, places a por tion of the fish upon a slice of brown bread, dashes some of the hot water in which it was boiled over it, the consu mer with a hand equally as grimy seizes it and in a moment it is gone. The macaroni eater takes the long strings in his hand, throws back his head that he may lose none of his penny worth and swallows it There are fish fried in loud smelling oil, fish Iioiled in filthy water in still more filthy ksttles, fish picked and fish in every form, the only difference being that some look more dirty than the others. They are still on equality in this respect, however, being all as dirty as they can be. But nevertheless, everything else is eaten, and everybody seems to be satisfied with it Vast quantities of fruit are eaten in these markets, as it is very cheap and good. Oranges are worth next to noth ingfive for a halfpenny, and sometimes cheaper; and other tropical fruits are just as cheap. They ripen the year round, and there never is a lack of them. One article of food is plentiful In Italy, and always good namely, egg3. The Italian takes naturally to ben cult ure, it being a pursuit suited to his na ture. The hen is, unlike its owner, an en terprising being, and can skirmish for her own living. The ben providing for herself, the gathering of the eggs is ex actly the Italian's idea of labor. He Is equal to the picking of the eggs if they are not too much out of the way, and it is a labor that precisely suits him, because the hen does all the work. Therefore, he cherishes the hen and looks upon her with great favor. lie would like the donkey better if the donkey would only load himself, trot on without guidance, and unload him self. As the hen boards herself and requires no attention whatever, the Italian being put only to the inconveni ence of gathering the eggs, the Italian loves the hen above everything in ani mated nature. lie can not only get the product of her work without any exertion, but the ez?, when he has got it can be consumed without labor. The Italian sells it when be is not hungry and when he needs the nourish ment he ran eat it raw. The hen is thn It ilian's best friend. Tb3 fondness for hen culture fur nishes the residents with fresh eggs al ways, and their style of cooking them is really appetizing. They fry them :n oil, they torture them into omelettes with oil, and as in respectable residences hotels and families the oil is always goid the result is entirely satisfactory. Fortunately, oil is very cheap, aud there is but little inducement to adul terate it and the hen is always present So be who can live on eggs can get on well in Italy. Coffee. "It is a nice task to brown coffee jiust -ifrlt " suiiil a Xpw York coffee-roaster tile other day. "Nearly everybody browns coitee too mucn. it coiue out burned instead of browned, although it ic frrpailv to the interest of the whole salers not to brown it too much on ac count of the loss of weiglit lien the berry is roasted until it becomes ml, instead of chestnut colored, as is cus tomary, it preserves its maximum weight and aroma. One hundred pounds r hon-ipa rruistpd nrooerlv lose but fifteen pounds in weight. As usually roasted tuey lose twenty pounus. it roasted long enough the berry glazes over and turns dark brown. It loses a fourth of its weight in the process." . "Why does the grocer overroast his coffee, then?" was asked. "The trade demands it The coffee that is made from over-bumed berries is black, and the flavor is rank. The popular taste is educated to choose black coffee, and would find the Lght-colored liquid' made from the reddened berr'es rather insipid at first, and would refuse to buy enougn to learn to admire the rich flavor of the reddened berrie1." NEWS IN BRIEF. -It takes 144,000 watch screws to weigh a pound. Ceylon now cUUms to grow the finest tea in the world. A Nebraska Shyloek recet'y toe It a chattel mortgage on a well. Jrtvn Bnght's oratory Is still the leligbt of London assemblages. The use of epaulettes will soon be iiscontinued in the French army. The best running tracks now have their turns thrown up like the trotting tracks. The Dwyer Bros.' Tremont is by everybody considered the best 2-year-old or the year. The establishment of a daily church newspaper is advocated in London. In China the fee for medical atten dance is from live to ten cents a visit Lucy Larcom, whose poetry is widely copied, once worked in a cotton mill. Thirty-two of the 1S1 prisoners In the Maino State prison are serving life terms. At the drum tap nine million drilled soldiers would take arms In Europe. Three great-grandsons of Charles Wesley are now clergymen of the Church of England. The doors of St. Chrysostom's church in Philadelphia are never closed during the day. Prince Bismarck is unhappy be cause bis doctor wants him to shut off on beer drinking. Pacific City, la., claims to have the champion curiosity in the person of a whistling ghost. Last year the number of communi cants in the Presbyterian church in Cauada increased 3,S-'C. Pig-styes of rosewood logs are to be met with iu Mexico, so plentiful are tLe precious wood3 there. Mine. Etelka Gcrster has returned to Paris fully restored as to health and vo.ee by her sojourn iu Ita'y. Flounders can now ba caught with the hook and line by the thousands in any of the Long Island bays. The late George Sloane, the New Y'ork dry goods merchant, left his Sl.'WO.OOO estate to his wife. It is proposed fo erect several city mission halls in London in memory of the late Earl of Shaftesbury. John Boyle O'lleilly hiis overwork ed himself in speech-making for Ireland and so has to go on a vacation. Orioles have been seen with unu sual frequency in various part3 of Mas sachusetts for several weeks past. By a Japanese proo&is seaweed i3 made into paper so transparent that it m;iy be substituted for window-glass. Saow still lie3 to the depth of three feet on the mountains between Wil mington and Bennington In Vermont.- A piece of property in Berlin which wis purchased 3J years ao for 25,000 marks was sold lately for 3.0,000 marks. The State prison !n Massscluisetts expended during the past year $20,200 and earned $17,052. There are 132 con victs conliued. At the Loudon "Zoo" ' a hall has been erected and a course ot lectures ou zoology will be given during the summer months. TopsDeU. Mas., has a citizeuA, named Holmes who is G feet 8 inches in height and believed to be tiie tallest mau in the state. Ostrich feathers are said to have declined in price from M to i.'10 a pound tor the best. Cape farmers are returning to wool growing. A seventeen-year-old lad in Pope county, Minn., has invented 'a com bined hayrake and cocker" for which be has refused an offer of 515,000. The Ufe-saviDg stations on the Loiig Island coast are to ba furnished with a new style of life-boat, claimed to be a self-righter and self-bailer. Last year the expenses of India ex ceeded V.is revenues by $15,000,000, owing mainly to the war in Burmab. A suiplus of 54'JO.OOO for the next tiscal year is figured out The Trafalgar, which is about to be commenced at Portsmouth, Eng., will cost nearly i.700,000, according to an estimate that has been approved by the Admiralty. Four members of a Blount county (Tenn.) family have married in as many weeks. First two son3 went off, then a daughter, and now the father, aged three-score years. A strange fish resembling a sperm whale with an animal's head, but only about eight inches iu length, has lately been on exhibition in a jewelry store at Gloucester, Mass. A meteorite fell on the ice recently near AastvedL, in Bergen, Norway, with the effect of making a hole about eighteen inches in diameter, though the ice was eight inches in thickness. A pier under the Brooklyn tower of the East River bridge has been leased for S3 500 a year to trie Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which will use it as a landing place for the company's aunex boats. Harvard College celebrates its 230th anniversary on the Till of next Novem ber with appropriate ceremonies in which James Kussell Lowell and the Governor and State oflioers will be in v.ted to take part. Public interest in the projected National Industrial Exhibition in 13S4 is on the increase, and subscriptions to the required guarantee fund are re ported to exceed by this time the sum of 1,000,000 marks. Eight years ago Rev. David Walk. a New Orleans clergyman, purchased five acres ot ground in Ninth street in Kansas City, and at the eastern city limit for 1500. This week he sold the same property for 550,253. The gallery at Brussels has acquir ed, for 100,000 francs, a superb por trait of a woman by Rembrandt, dated 1051, and a fine piece of still life by Adrian Van Beeren. The Gallery at Antwerp has bought, for 85,000 francs, a portrait by F. Ual3. The Municipal Council of Vienna has compiled a list of the distinguished dead whose remains it is proposed to transfer from different suburban ceme teries to the Central Walhaila. The names Include Beethoven, Gluck, S:hubert and Jobann Strauss. Professor Billroth, of Vienna, ac companied by one ot his assistants, re cently went to Alexandria, Egypt, to perform an operation upon the person of a rich banker there. For tne ex penses incurred and hi3 services he was to receive the sum ot25,000 francs. s V ' :lt! V;!:' E I m . :.-: l :j ill1 r.wi'.:- I: I 'am - ml m i PM i. Ill '!!- 2 ft r i '!!-!. l ' hi;:!; ii i it :!!'. m m ;: I ft ; i n'- w. ii l i :l;'.t (ii!!: ' 1 : . ' . at A 1 UaaajM ihlifii-fM
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