VOl- 1.1 11. ras IIITS or TORK. A *)•* fall* n an um lake And tanking to it* pearly tkxvr. Sv-nd- eweiltnf ua.t far out to lo* Ttie petothee * a the dtetant ehom And aeewwy V dnptbe oft i ily etirnxl Hj Mantles hie some we're known In*fere. Break* forth in thought* that wand< r back And linger mufet the thy* of Yore. A leaf that on the rirer'a breast tko e eiowly drifting with the tide, b born* to whirling eddiee back Within ua |ainl ah de to glide. And nuiT a wearied wanderer l> 9 a dwtant. fneoakea ih.ire. le<ruscn sw.ft dream t.xwencd viip To greet the happier lHy* of Yore. The cloudlets on a summer sky in tear" upon the ma u Neath sminy smbee forg* t their grief Tc ti,ml Tene in hea veu again. Atvi hnme heart* unlock the r gmtos Wnen MM*e mga is a tu. et o r. And let the olden suushute *tr am Replendant from the Day* of Yore. The Bunch of Violets Loudly rang flu- hell af Mrs. Evan'sdtHir, one naming, ami Maud Evans, pvping out. saw a small hoy standing on the steps whom she seenied to recognize. Not wait ing f<w Jane, lb* only *rvant in the estab iishmral. Mand ran gayly down stairs and opraed the tioiw. Tt- taw smiled in re c. ignition, and handed her a IHX. "Flense. ma'am. I was to give this to Mr*- Evans ; you're she. ain't you ?" •"Tea. Mr. Howard, your employer, sent y.m. 1 suppose !" "Yes. Miss. He said as Ism there was no answer. " "Yerv well." iTwanc the door ami running up to her w*n sin* opened the box. and taking out an ri -cant Uatuuct of doners, stood ami looked a; them with a lendif lx>k in the brown eves, as if she was thinking more of the irivrT than the gift **>• bt ha* come bark." thought Maud, ••and mill he at the party Benight, since he sen: nie these ; i wonder if he will repeat aim: he w* going to say when we were in terrupted r Whmls-*r lh- unfinished sentence was it li.u<st hare been something sweet to Maud, f.ir site ss.xxi there turning the flowers round and round in her hand. with a happy Wik in the bright eyes, till she heard her iiKUher cmiL "Maud ! Maud ' When- an* you child? 1 wwfc you would oi*e and help nie with lb*. hrad-drv*-; I want it to wear to nurht." Mrs. Evans mas a widow, tier lmskaud had died five years lef<we, leaving her with eme child, the Maud f iny story. People ttad though: Mr. Evans a wealthy man. hut it was lnund after his death, when every thing mas untied, that the widow would lame Hut a very limited iuwxane- She knew it wowlit not go far in try ing to keep up ap jwaraners and five in the manner in which they had \wen accustomed. So Ining a sewahk* woman, she had removed with Maud to a small cottage thai had been left them out of the wreck, taking with them what was suitable of their furniture, and one servant, faithful Jane, who had been with them many years, and who declared she would never leave tliem. They had many kind friends who did not leave at their change of fort urn-. Judge ft imd wrife were attached friends, Hie judge seading his carriage to take them to and from places of amusement, when they dm*- to attend, and the judge's wife kindly inatronized Maud whenever her nether was unable to go. The party of which Maud had spoken was to be at the judge's house that evening. They lad lieen very gay that winter, in H parties and halls following in rapid succession. Maud had leen to several, ami had met Frank Howard, a young lawyer. He- had sought her society on every ocea mrn. and was evidently in-love with the littkr beauty. Tie we*k before there bad Iteen a bril liant party at a wealthy 1 tanker's. Maud had met Frank there, and they had strolled into the oonservaUw-y together. Standing there lieside some tropical plant lie had been telling her of, he fell such love f<r her surging up in his h<iirt that lie felt lie must lell Iter—must know if his love was return ed. "Mane !* said be. She looked up quick ly—ktok-td up t*i encounter such a look of }iassianau love that her eye* sank lieneaih it. ''Maud, do know " Bin the wenu-ooe was destineo never to he finished, for into the conservatory bounced a young fop with tan-colored hair and nuwsaobe "And he was so delighted to find Miss Evans! Did she know the band was playing the waltz she had pro mised him f" Young Howard glared as if he would like to annihilate him on the spot. Maud, feel ing in no amiable mood, oouki do nothing !ft accept his proffered arm. After that, there had lieen no opportunity for the pair to speak together alone that evening: Inn as Maud stood with several other*, bidding tb<*ir Imsw-ss good-night. Frank had in answer to wane invitation ex tended him. answered that he would lie un able to attend, as be should he obliged to leave the city on busiru*ss for a week. Win Frank returned from his business trim be fosmd invitati ma awaiting hint to mem-makings, and among them owe I<r tlie party at Judge R "s that evening. He knew that Maud would Ik* There, and. being rather an impatient young man. tiiougfit he would risk another inter ruption. lun would write and tell her oi his k*ve. Seating himself at his desk, he to indite the momentous epistle, ami, after using about half a quire of paper, he at length finished one. He told Iter how dear ly fit kwed her; of how sweet the hope Had hem him that In- might call her "wife.*" and asking her. if she could return ttft kmc. 1c wear tin- bunch of violets he sent her in her hair that evening "1 ahai! watch for these flowers, and shad learn wy fate frriu them. If they we in your hair I shall know you return my Met; if not—then God forever bless and make you happy, darling, though 1 can never call vou mine !** Takmr a box from his <h-sk. lie placed the letter and flowers in it. and, lying fc il tightly called tlie law whose acquaintaiM-e w* haw made on Mrs. Evans' steps. * 4 | want you to take this to Mrs. Evans" mm l htlmire for Mt Maud ; be sure you giwe it to no oae else. You know where it m. oat": you I" Me WMmm Dmmml. "Yes, sir; any answer ?" "No,"' said Frank, absently thinking of the answer that Maud would perhaps give him that evening. He knew she had always seemed pleased and happ when with him, and though not a conceited or vain man, he hardly thought her answer would In* no. But their love seemed destined not to run smoothly, for the note that would have made Maud so happy never reached her, and this is how it hap|>ened : The aforesaid small boy, having received the l>ox, pro eeeded to carry it in the way lnys invaria bly do, swinging it from aide to side, wrong side up or any other way, it made no dif ferent. tff course this one came to grief accordingly. Having one finger in the string TNII around the IH>X, he was swing ing it to the U'st of his ability, at the same time gazing in open-mouthed admiration at a lny alout his size win* was |>onimeling one several degrees smaller on the opposite side of the street. Being occupied in look ing at them, he did not see the ice on the walk, ami consequently came down with a font* that bought tears to his eyes. Having sat there a moment rubbing his head with an injured exptcssion of coun tenance, he gathered himself up and limped along to pick up the IHX. NOW the string had slipped off the l>ox, when Johnnie sat down with such force, and the poor little violets slid off the walk into the gutter, while the note, lying against the snow did not attract his attention. Taking up the lKtiquet of flowers, he deposited them in them in the IHIX. ami tying the string se curely round it. started off at a good round pace, arriving at Mrs. Evans' door without any further calamity befalling him. A young man WHO was talking with some one had seen Johnnie's fall, and espied ti:e note. Picking it up, he called to Johnnie; but as that youth's heels were just disap pearing around the corner, he did not hear. The voting man, thrusting the note in his picket, forgot all alxmt it. lieing in a great hurry to catch the truiu, with only five min utes left in which to reach the depit. Ten o'clock saw Frank making his way through Judge B 's lighted parlors. Inking eagerly, he espied Maud surround ed as usual by a crowd, for she had many admirers liaside the young lawyer, lie could catch a glimpse of her now and then, so, standing quietly, he waited till the crowd parted and he was able to see her plainly. he could see no violets; ho rubbed his eyoß ana hHiked again ; but it did not improve his vision ; there wen*certainly no violets hi the honnv brown hair. Ho stood thoro, fooling himself grow white ami cold, till lie was conscious that his fa<v would toll strange tales if anyone accosted him. Turning, ho loft the room, going out on the veranda, ami there sat ami fought the hitter tight out. A less manly man would have blamed Maud, would have accused her of leading lam on for her own amusement ; but he loved her too well. li<' alone was to blame ; he had thought it was love he read in the brown eyes raised so slyly to his ; if she did not love him, that was enough ; he would never make her un happy by alluding to it, but would try and be unselfish enough to bo happy wlirti he saw her so iu some other man's love. After a time he went back to the parlors, knowing he should lie questioned as to his non-appearance if he did not. Now Maud had seen Frank when he en tered the rooms first, and missed him when he disappeared wondering what had lie come of him. When he entered the par lors again, she stood talking with someone. Ixtoking at her as he passed, he said, "Good-evening,°"aud quietly passed on to where Miss Fenton atuou, and Maud heard him ask her to dance. Annie Fenton was a sunny little blonde, and Frank had paid her more attention than anyone else except Maud. And now, when she she saw them together, she thought, "What if, after all, he dot's not iove me ? He has acted strangely this evening. Pos sibly he is in love with Annie Fenton. It would be nothing strange if he were. Men are ever tickle and changeable,'' with a bit ter smile, and the wisdom of her eighteen years. "Not even to give me an oppor tunity to thank him for his tlowers ! But he seems completely infatuated with Annie Fenton," looking at Frank, who was bend ing in seeming devotion over the little blonde's chair. "But I will show him I can be as gay as he ; lie shall never know I love him." So Maud danced and Hirted, till you would have thought she was the happiest of the happy ; but pride will do much, and pride upheld Maud till the weary party was at an end. After that, Frank avoided every place where he was likely to meet Maud, and be came morose ami melancholy. As for Maud, she went out as usual, but went in a listless fashion that had become habitual to her now, causing her mother much anxiety. But if Maud was miserable, Frank was no less so, though he, having more to occu py his attention, did not feel it as keenly as she. Still, he was not feeling in a very cheerful mood, one morning, as lie sat in his office, looking intently at the fire, and puffing at his cigar like a whole volcano, when suddenly the d<xr was thrown open, and in rushed the stranger who had picked up the lost note. "And how are you ?" lie inquired, seizing Frank's hand and shaking it heartily. "First rate," replied Frank. "When did you get liack." "Oh, this morning; thought 1 would drop in and see how you were. Seems to me you are not looking remarkably jolly ; what's the trouble ( Ixst your money, or has some one left you out of bis will, or-—" with a laugh, looking at his friend's gloomy face—"has some one refused you ? Conic, 1 piess I've hit it this time," lie said, as his friend's face slightly flushed. "You were rather sweet on Miss Evans when 1 left. You may as well own up ; she has refused you V Frank was naturally of a reticent nature, but he never could withstand Tom Lorimer. Why, lie and Tom bad known each other since the time they wore rounilaliout jack ets — had helped each other out of innumei ahle boy scrapes —had been room-mates at college, and after graduating, had settled in the same place. What! not confide in Tom ? It wotild IK* treason to the eause of jriendship. So, in answer to Tom's question if Maud had refused him, lie answered that she had, relating the manner in which the proposal had been marie. "Well, I'm sorry for you," said Tom, when he had finished the story. "I have lieen doing a little in that line myself since 1 have lx-eti away, and can imagine how I should feel if her answer had been no in stead of yes." He then proceeded to relate to Frank how MILLIIEIM, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER It, 1879. he had met his divinity, made fierce love to her and had been accepted; going into lover's raptures over her; to all of which Frank listened patiently. "But I've her photograph here," taking it from her picket, and handing it to Frank, and at the same time pulling out the lost note. "Hullo! I'd forgotten about this." Turning it over several times, hut not gaining much informationwfrom the blank envelope, he proceeded toopui it. Having perused a few lines he broke out with, — "1 say, Frank, here's a go! Some one has been writing a declaration of love and lost it! Want to hear it?" He then related how it came into his pos session. "lii't me see it," said Frank, excitedly, a gleam of hope crossing his mind that it was his note to Maud. When assured that this was really the case, he astonished his friend by jumping up, over-turning his chair in his excitement, and demanding Ins coat and hut forthwith. Johnnie, entering about this time, caused a pleasant little diversion. Frank pmneed upm him, asking what he meant by doing errands in such a manner ? White Tom tried to impress upm the mind of the be wildered youth the awful retribution that would surely overtake him if he did not own up and tell the truth. But Johnnie protested lie had carried the IK>X all right ; he owned he had fallen and the flowers rolled out. "But 1 pieked 'em up," sniveled Johnnie, "and gave 'em to the young lady all right." Frank was too happy to lie very unfor giving toward the delinquent, so, after de livering a short lecture on carelessness, he told him he would overlook it this time, if he would lie more careful in the future. That evening found Frank ringing the Ml at Mrs. Evans' door. Jane ushered him into the parlor, where Maud sat. She had not heard the dror open, ami was quite startled when a manly voice at her side said— "Maud !" She started up with a glad cry as she saw Frank, and he needed no other assur ance than the happy, blushing face that his love was returned. Stretching out his arms to her she went straight into them, and as he folded them round her he knew that for him the winter of his discontent had ended at last in a glorious summer. Barrett, tlic Piper. Barrett, the Piper, you see, lost his skill, and was advised to go to the Black North to recover it. (Barrett was a Minister man). Well, he took his little laiy with him, and they walked till the dark came, and then went into a cabin by the roadside to look for lodging. "God save all here !" says they. "Save you kindly !" savs the man of the house, but he left out the Holy Name. "How are you. Jack Barrett f" "Muslia, pure and hearty, sir; many thanks for the axing, but how do you know me ?" 44 (>cli, I knew you before you were weaned. Sit down and make yourself at home ; here you stay till morning." Well, faith, they got a good supper of pratees and milk,* and a good lied of straw was made for them by the wall up near the lire, and they lay down quite comfortable to a g(MMi sieep. Hut some bad thoughts came over Jack Barrett in the dead of the night, and he got up and went out of the bed, and into the ticlds by himself, and a couple of mad dogs running after him. There was a big tree near him with ever so many crows' nests in the top, and he run and climbed up into it from the dogs, and if he missed the dogs he found the crows, and didn't they fall on him to tear his eyes out! He bawled, and he roared, and the man of the liouse came into the kitchen, and stirred the tire, and there was Jack Barrett on the hen-roost, and the cocks and hens cackling about him "Musha, the sorra son you for a Jack Barrett! How did you get up there among the fowls ?" "The goodness knows; it's not their company I want. Will you help me down, honest man ?" Well, he got into bed again, ami if he did he was not long there when a bad thought came into his head, and up he got. He was going into the next room, when where did he find himself but by the bank of a big river, and the same two dogs tear ing along Pike vengeance to make gibblets of him. There was a tree there, and its boughs were out over the river. Up climbs Jack, and up after him the dogs; and to get out of their clutches he scrambled out on a long bough. The dogs were soon feel ing after him, and he going out farther and farther, till he was afraid it would break. At last he felt it cracking, and he gave a roar out of him that you'd hear a mile off, and the man of the house came into the kitchen and stirred the fire, and there was Jack, sthraddle-legs on the pot-rack. "Musha, Jack, but you're the divel's quare youth at your time o' life to be niak in' a horse of my pot-rack. Come down, you onslmch, and go to bed." "W ell, the third time, where did the divel guide him but to a bed in the next r wui, and when he flopped into it he let such a howl out of him that you'd think it was heaven and earth coming together. "What's in the win' now, Jack ?" says the man of the house. "Oh, it's the pains of labor I am !" says the unfortunate piper. "Will we send after the midwife for you!" says the other. "Oh, the curse of Cromwell on yourself an 1 the midwife 1" says the poor man ; "it wasn't God had a hand in us the hour we darkened your door. Oh, tattheration to you, you ould thief! won't you give UH some aise ?" "Father, honey," says the boy, "it's pishrogues is on you. A drop of holy water will do you more good nor the mas ter o' the house, God bless him!" "I'll tear you limb from limb," says the ould villain, when he heard the Iloly Name, "If you say that again." "Well, anyhow,' says the boy, "make the sign of the cross on yourself, father, and say the Lord's Prayer." The p<x>r ould piper did so, and at the blessed words and the sign his pains left him. There was no sight of the man of the house on the spot then ; maybe lie was in the lower room. When the piper and his son woke the next morning, they were lyine in the dry moat of an old rath that lay by the high road. The conqueror is regarded with awe, the wise man commands our esteem, but 'tis the benevolent man who wins our affection. Tlit* Gain* that •• J*em*" Played. There was an awful time in a farm-house near Pontine. We haven't 'received any particulars, but solemnly believe that a cer tain husband whose front name is "Jeems" was made to wish he'd never been lam into this deceitful world. There arrived on the Western express a nervous, wiry, black-eyed woman of forty, who kept closing and opening her fingers all the time, as if she was clawing noses or pulling hair. She bad a straight business iH>k in her eyes as she got off the train, and one of the liackmen at the dcjiot door ventured the opinion that she had come in to the city to foreclose a mortgage or make up a "shortage" on wheat. "Sir!" began the woman as she walked up to the depot policeman," 1 want answers to a few questions." "Yes, niiiin—just so," was the humble reply us he followed her into the waiting room. "Now. then," she continued as RIIC took a seat, "I live near Pontiac. My Jeems was in here the Fourth of July, und didn't get home till midnight. He came IU here on my money, and 1 want to know how he spent it. Here is his bill of expenses as he made it out. He has put down $2 for rid ing up town iu a hack." "That's twelve shillings too much," re plied the officer. "Just as 1 thought—just exactly!" she whispered us she put down the figures. " Here lie lias got down one dollar for see ing the hali<H>n go up." • 44 Not a balloon went up that day, madam." 44 Just as I thought—just exactly! He looked as innocent as a lamb when he wrote that down, but lie didn't know mc ! Here is eighty cents for riding across tp Canada and hack." " That should be ten." "Just exactly what I thought last night when he ktmed me and mid it was an aw ful price, hut lots of comfort." she observed as she put down "70 " opposite his figures. 44 He has it down here that his supper and dinner cost him #1.50 per meal at the Cen tral .Market. It strikes me that three dol lars would buy two pretty festive meals." 44 You can knock off about two dollars and a half from that," mid the officer after lie had figured a bit. 44 Just exactly as I thought. He smiled as softly as an angel when he wrote that down, but he was smiling at tlie wrong woman. While 1 was home milking the cows and having an awful headache he was eating his high-toned meals like a second Join. Jacob Astor! Aid now he has put down fifty cents for soring the bears," " The wlmt ?" 44 He says it cost him fifty cents to go into a menagerie and see tne liears," she explained. " If there was a menagerie in town on that day, then 1 didn't hear of it," solemn ly remarked the officer. "Just as I thought—just as I thought ! Went in to see the bears, did he? Well, he'll see several menageries w hen I reach home! Here is one more item. He says he paid #2 to see the rnfw walk." " It was free," replied the officer. " Yes, I thought so—thought so when he sat there and looked so loving and fatherly and said it made his hair stand up. There will he a 4 walk ' when I get hack home, and someltody's hair will stand straight up! That's all, and I'm much obliged." "You won't kill him at- once, will you?" pleaded the officer. Bhe looked over his heat! at the wall, breathed hard, clenched her hands, and an swered : " I've 'spected it a long time, and now I'll claw him if I die for it!" Slit* walked up and down the depot with her teeth hard shut aud her eyes growing brighter all the time, ami when she finally took the train for home, the bill of expenses tightly clutched in her hand, the officer looked after the receding train and mused: "Now why did he give himself away in that manner? Why didn't he tell her right out that some one picked his pm-ket ?'' Artei:tn Well*. The first artesian well bored at Antois, France, over a century ago, has since then flowed steadily, the water raising eleven feet almve the surface at the rate of 250 gal lons a minute. The famous Grenelle well in the Paris basin was commenced in 18811, with the expectation of obtaining water at 1,200 or 1,600 feet, in the secondary green sand formation which underlies the chalk, the uppermost of this series. At 1,500 feet the government would have abandoned the enterprise but for the urgent appeals of M. Arago. It was continued till ou February 20, 1841, at the depth of 1,797 feet, the baring rod suddenly penetrated the arch of rock over the subterranean waters and fell fourteen feet. In a few hours the water rose to the surface in an immense volume, and has continued since. It is well known that at the depth of a few feet below the surface of the earth the temperature never changes. At St. Ix>uis, Missouri, the tem perature of water at 1.500 below the surface is eighteen degrees higher than the mean temperature at the surface, making the in crease one degree for eighty-three and one third feet descent ; ami, strange to say, the increase of temperature is one in every fifty-two and one-half feet at Charles ton, South Carolina. The hot springs that How out to the surface in many parts of the world are natural artesian wells rising from great depths. In Virginia these springs are found along the lines of great faults or breaks in the stratification of the rocks, by which formations usually separ ated by thousands of feet are brought into contract with each other. There is a class of hot springs called geysers whose force would be as serviceable as that of the hy drostatic presses if it were practiceable to use it. Geysers, or eruptive fountains of boiling water, are found in different parts of the world. There are some very large geysers in the southern part of Iceland. In a circuit of about two miles are more than 100 springs which send forth hot water. These springs are of different, degrees of ac tivity. Geysers are to be found in Cali fornia and iu New Zealand. The two prin cipal geysers in Iceland are called the Great Geyser and the Htrokr or Churn. The. Great Geyser,' when quiet, presents the ap pearance of a circular mound of sileceous incrustations, inclosing a pool with sides sloping inward and outward. The height of the mound is about twenty feet. The diameter of the basin varies from fifty to sixty feet, and its average depth is four feet. In its centre is the mouth of the ver tical tube which connects it with the sub terraneous passages. The tube is about nine feet, in diameter at its mouth, and sev enty feet in depth. When the geyser is iu- aetive the basin is filled to the edge with clear water, which has a mean temperature of 18f> degrees Fahrenheit, and runs gently down the mound, emitting clouds of steam; but for several hours after an eruption, the tube is empty to a depth of four or five feet. At intervals of about an hour und a half a rumbling noise is heard, and the water heaves up in the centre, throwing an in creased quantity over the margin. The great eruptions take place at irregular in tervals sometimes exceeding thirty hours. At these times loud explosions are heard beneath the surface, the water is thrown into violent agitation, it boils furiously, and at last is suddenly sent forth in a succession of jets, which increase in force till they 1m eome an immense fountain, that is lost to view in the clouds of steam in which it is enveloped. The heights reached by those jets are almost incredible. Van Troil, traveling in Iceland in 1772, saw an erup tion of boiling water from the (Jreat Geyser which ascended ninety-two feet. Sir John Stanley, in 178'J, saw one ninety-six feet. Lieut. Olshen, a Danish officer, in 18it4, saw an eruption or jet which rose to the height of 212 feet. This intermittent ac tion of the Great Geyser is supposed to be owing to the sudden production of steam in subterranean chambers connected with the channels through which the waters flow. The water from the geyser has its origin in mountain land, and in issuing forth is only seeking its level. It is hot, and in name in stances 1 toiling, because it comes up from an immense depth—from a depth where the earth is of a high and uniform temper ature. The water of the geysers is always lstiling at the time of an eruption. The temperature of cold springs is also uniform, because they take their origin at some depth from the surface and Mow the influence of the external atmosphere. The same spring water which is deemed warm in winter is deemed cold in summer. But it is really of the same temperature at all seasons, the difference Is'ing that in summer it is sur rounded by a warmer atmosphere and ob jeets than in winter. Si* Feel Iruuiul the Waist. A negro cobbler, named Charles John soil, weighing nearly four hundred pounds, tiled in Washington. He was liorn a slave on the estate of Charles Carroll, of Carroll County, Mil., in 1809, but was liberated just before the war on account of his phe nomenal si;.e—he then weighing nearly five hundred pounds. In family history there was nothing remarkable about Johnson, ex cept that he had two sisters and one daughter who nearly approached his own bulk. One ot the former still lives in Car roll County, ami is the mother of a large family of children, all of average size. The fat daughter lives, but is unmarried at forty-six. "Aunt Eliza," the helpmate of I nele Charley, is hut a little woman, weighing about seventy-five poifnds. and appeared to feel deep grief at the death of her decidedly better half. The church people have la-en in the habit of presenting their bulky brother with a new suit of clothes at each Christmas, made of such substantial material that they sufficed for the whole year. The cloth used in these clothes was sufficient for three ordinary men. The tailor had to repeat the stale joke of asking his customer to hold the tape while he went round, for the gi:th of Uncle Charley was a serious matter for one man to attempt to encircle, he l>eing over feet around the waist. His shoulders mea sured J feet 2 inches across, and his hips the same. When a young man he was said to have stood over i feet, but at death was hut 5 feet 6 inches. His weight at death was slightly under 400 {rounds, and therefore the arrangements for the funeral, which are in the hands of Nelson & Dabney, are matters of considerable difficulty. No or dinary casket will contain the huge bulk, and a coffin is now being built of such pro portions and strength as will insure a safe interment. It will be over three feet across and two feet six inches it. height. The cylinder had to IK- taken out of an ordinary large ice casket, and even then there is nt sufficient room for ice enough to serve without constant renewal. It is probable that the siiie of the frame house in which the body lies will have to he torn out to al low of its removal. Johnson was very fond of gin, of which he would drink all he could obtain ; but claimed to be a tempe rance man and despised beer or whiskey. PurHiiing it to the Kml One morning recently a stranger pur chased some fishing tackle at the ferry dock, and took his seat under a shed to fish. People who were watching him saw that he paid fully as much atten tion to a tlask of whisky as to nis fish line. and it was remarked that every time after he took a drink he appeared to have several bites at the book. Af ter he had been fishing for an hour, be was seen hauling up the book about once every ten seconds, and an Idler sauntered over and observed : ''Beginning to bite, eh?" "Yes, it sheems zhat way," replied the man, as he hauled up again. "Are you having more bites than when you first begun?" "Well," answered the fisherman, as he vainly tried to look the other in the face. 'I can't zhaetlv shay. I'm either having more whisky or more fish, an' I'm going to keep right at It till one or the ozzer am all gone?" Changing the Name* of St reet* in I'arin. The Municipal Council of Paris has or dered the following changes in the names of streets: From Ave. de la Reine-Hortense to Ave. Hoche, from Ave. Josephine to Ave. Marceau, from Ave. du Roi-de-Rome to Ave. Kleber, from Rue du Dauphin to Hue de la Convention, from Rue Saint Ar~ naud to Rue Lincoln, from Qui Napoleon to Quai aux Fleurs, from Rue Fontane to Rue Valette, from Rue du Frere-Philippe to Rue Paul Louis-Courier, from Rue Bil lault to Rue Charron, from Rue Bonaparte to Rue Gutenberg, from Rue Abbatucci to Rue de la Boctie, from Rue Cambaceres to Rue de Coulmiers, from Rue d'Albe to Rue Ilouget de l'lslc, from Boulevard Hauss manu to Boulevard Ettenne-Marcel, from Rue Magnau to Rue Beaurepaire, from Rue de Rovigo to Rue de la Bienfaisance, from Rue de Bouille to Rue de Duban, from Rue Marie Antoinette to Rue Antoinette, from Rue Marceau to Rue de la Vallee, from Rue Hoche to Rue de Presles, from Rue Kleber %o Rue de la Federation. A Pennsylvania Geyser. The Kane Geyser Well is located in Mc- Kean county, I'a., four miles southeast of the "Summit Hummer Resort." This well was drilled for petroleum in the spring of IK7B to a total depth of 2,000 fee*.. No oil was found in paying quantities and the well was abandoned, since which time it has been throwing periodically—ten to fifteen min utes—a column of water and gas to a height varying from 100 to 150 feet. Mr. Charles A. Ashhurner, assistant in charge of the survey of McKean county for the geological survey, has made a study of the "Geyser Well" and furnished the following facts: During the operation of drilling a number of fresh "wiuer veins" were encountered down to a depth of 364 feet. All of this water was shut off by a east-iron casing G| inches in diameter, which was inserted in the six-inch hole to the requisite depth. Thus the hole was kept free from water during the after-drilling. At a depth of 1,415 feet a very heavy "gas vein" was struck. After the well was deserted from failure to find oil the iron casing was with drawn from the hole and the fresh water permitted to flow in on the top of the gas. Here the conflict between nature's elements commenced, which has made this well one of the most interesting natural phenomena in Pennsylvania. The water flows into the well on top of the gas until the pressure of the confined gas becomes greater than the weight of the superincumbent water, when an expulsion takes plaee and a column of water and gas is thrown out of the well. This occurs at present every thirteen min utes, and the spout iug continues for one ami a half minutes. On the evening of July 81 Mr. A. W. Sheafer, of the McKean Survey, measured two columns which went to a height res|>ectively of 120 ami 128 feet. On the 9th of August Mr. Ashhurner meas ured four columns in succession and the water was thrown to tbv following heights: 108, 132, 120 and 138 feet. During the time that the columns are thrown out of the well the gas is thoroughly mixed up with the water and is readily ignited. The sight after nightfall is grand beyond description. The antagonistic elements of water and fire are so promiscuously blended that each seems to lie fighting for the mastery. At one moment the flame is entirely extin guished, only to hurst forth at the next in stant with increased energy and greater brilliancy. In winter the columns become encased in ice and form a huge translucent chimney. The Art ot Keejiuig Cool. It is not by fretting or worrying or ply ing the fan that we can keep coot, but by taking up our work, doing it bravely and cheerfully, with as little fuss as possible. 'Take time by the forelock' and rise early, getting as much done as possible l>cfore the heat of the day. Never do any work directly after dinner, if it cannot l>e done in the forenoon let it go until the nexi day; you will live just as long and the family be as comfortable. It is a mistake to keep the house close as a cell all day, lest the suns rays should enter it. Pure air must Im' allowed to circulate through the house, and this is of importance in keeping the body cool. Throw open the windows and blinds very early in the morning and keep them so until the dew has dried off; then close them tightly and the rooms will re main quite comfortable until evening, when the blinds can once again be thrown open to admit the cool evening breeze. Drink ing large draughts of ice water when the body is heated or partaking too freely of food or ices, should lie carefully avoided. Bathing when heated or in excessive per spiration is a good cause for illness; but an ammonia or salt water bath once a day. but not directly after a meal, is not only a luxury but a positive necessity. Also we should le careful in the food we eat; very little meat is desirable, but fish, lamb, chickens and ail white fleshed fowls are in season ; also, all kinds of vegetables and fruit. Berries as well as stoned fruits can be eaten in moderation. Much is said against the unhealthfulness of cucumbers and watermelons; the first can be eaten without discomfort if allowed to remain a few minutes in salt and water, then poured off and vinegar put in its place. Water melons can be eaten if fresh and thoroughly ripe. Iced tea and coffee arc very desir able; as t hey act as tonics upon the system. Only enough should be cooked to be eaten the same day, for even if put in an ice box it will taste stale. All animal food should l>e eaten of sparingly, but milk and fruit, bread and vegetables. Ice cream, (which can oe bought at a small cost), iced fruit, oat meal, hard boiled eggs, served in vinegar and salt—they have lately been pronounced by medical authority more di gestible than soft boiled eggs—ham sand wiches, dried and canned meats, jellies, fresh crackers, dried fish ; all of these are very g<xxi for summer meals, or for picnic lunches. To Make Flowers Bloom. No plant can continue in bloom if nature is not permitted to do work completely, for the going to seed exhansts the energies of any subject, and stop everything else. By constantly removing decaying flowers be fore a seed pod can swell, the growth of the plant and the continued development of new buds and flowers upon the new growth are matters of course. Try the experiment upon the rose. Two cottages, having fine plants covering their fronts, being in the hands of two different persons, frequently exhibits the most stricking contrast —one a mass of flowers, while the other is bare; and those who pay no attention to the cause are, nevertheless, often surprised at the fact. If they look a little further into the matter they would observe that one is loaded with hips or seed vessels, which are swelling in great numbers, while in the other not a solitary berry could be seen.— It is only necessary to cut away the dead flowers and the season of bloom will be prolonged. A Cure for tlie Crow. A very successful plan has been tried by placing in Mr. Crow's way a number of grains with a horse hafir run through them. He is bound to swallow one, and his note of alarm is soon sounded. It is impossible for him to dislodge the grain, and if he can be watched a sufficient length of time, he will he seen to cut his own throat in scratching at it. His usual note is changed, and I can assure you that life to him is such a misery he would "even wish that he were dead." It has been noticed that after the note of alarm had been sounded all the crows in the vicinity will leave that .ield and approach it no more that season. It is a simple tiling, yet all who try it will lind it a success. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. To work out our own contentment, we should labor not so much to Increase our substance, as to moderate our de sires. Those who can themselves do good service are but as one to a thousand compared with those who can see faults in the labors of others. It is better to wear out than to rust out. We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike until it is made hot. Happy is lie who has learned to do the plain duty of the moment quickly and cheerfdlly, wherever aud whatever it may be. The poorest of the poor have been as brave as the wealthy; the learned have died gloriously, but the unlearned have almost stolen the palm. A mind .trained to self-denial meets trials with an amount of reserved moral torce quite inexplicable to those less habituated to self-control. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong; which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. Good books effected in Loyola what the fear of approachiug death, a heav enly apparition, a miraculous restora tion 10 health had failed to do, Error is blind, but reason is argus eyed; but tlie mass of mankind will seek the li-st for counsel and wisdom rather than the latter. Flattery is a safe coin which our own vanity has made current, and will never be out of credit as long as there are knaves to oiler it and fools to receive it. llow strange that the stratna of love and hate lie so close together that it takes but little to bring the latter up permost, when under the pressure of unkinduess or injustice. Tears do not dwell long on the cheeks of youth. Rain drops easily from the bud, rests on the maturer flower, and breaks down that which has lived its day. Our customs and habits are like the ruts in roads. The wheels of life settle into them, and we jog along through the mire, because it is too much trouble to get out of them. There are no hands upon the clock ol eternity; there is uo shadow upon its dial. The very hours of Heaven will be measured by the sunshiue—not by the shadow. Beauty, 'ike the flowering blossoms soon fades; but the divine excellence of the mind, like the medical virtues of the plant remains in It when all those charms are withered. If we would have powerful minds we must think; if we would have faithful hearts, we must love; If we would have strong muscles, we must labor. These include all that is valuable in life. When you doubt between words, use the ptaiuest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew flue words as you would rouge , love simple ones as you would native roses on your cheek. A sour godliness -chills and represses every bud of hope about us; a sunuy soul kindles into a glow of life and fresneus the wXole circle in which it moves. A man's character is like his shadow which sometime's follows, and some times precedes him, and which is occa sionally longer and occasionally shorter tnan he is. Kuowledge will not be acquired with out paius and application. Jt is troub lesome and deep digging for pure water; but wheu once you come to the springs they rise up and meet you. Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, ior their censures are not in your power, and they conse quently should not be any part of your concern. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy meets friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love; plea ure bestowed upon a grateful mind was never sterile but generally begets re ward. But little do men perceive what soli tude is, and how far it extends. For a crowd is no company; men's faces are but like pictures iu a gallery, and talk but a uukliug cymbal where there is no love. Truly has it been said, emphatically * in these days ought to be repeated; a loving heart is the beginning of ail knowledge This it is that opens the whole mind, quickens every faculty of the intellect to do its lit work. Aveit your gaze from the crosses of the luture, you see them without the softening, sustaining grs.ee which ac companies them wheu they reach you. Let all your ettorts tend to bearing the cross 01 the present moment. Don't you wish sometimes that the world would stop talking and let you think? And have you never been ex asperated to hear some oue utter the very thought which you had cherished as all your own, and which you were just going to utter? Admonish a friend; it may be that he hath not done It, that he do it no more. Admonish thy friend; it may be he hath not said it, but If he have, that he speak it no more. Admonish a friend; lor many times it is a slander, and be lieve not eyery tale. The art of conversation consists in the exercise of two flue qualities. You must originate and you must sympa thize. You must possess, at the" same tune, the habns of communicating and listening. The union is rare, but irre sistible. Strive to gain new ideas not thought of by others, lor they are the mothers of progress. If we always retain our old thoughts and cherish them as the only truths, we stop in the dark and will soon rapidiy digress In wisdom and power. As well might fog, and cloud, and vapor hope to cling to the sun-illumin ed landscape as the blues and rnorose ness to combat jovial speeches and ex hilarating laughter. Be cheerful al ways. There is no path out will he easier traveled, no load but will he lighter, no shadow on heart or brain hut will lilt sooner in the presence of a determined cneerfulness. It may at times seem difficult for the happiest tJtnpered to keep the con inuauce of peace and content; but the difficulty will vanish when we truly consider thatsullen gloom and passionate despair do nothing hut multiply thorns and thicken sorrow. NO. 3G.
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