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. lek 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.uened : 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 faX 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 pr 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 halin 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