YOL. LIV. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. e. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower. A BOWER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, PKLLEFONTK, PA. Office In German's new building. JOHN B. LINN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BKLLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street. £JLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BKLLEFONTE, PA. Northwest corner of Dl.unond. D. G. Bush. 8. H Yocum. D. H. Hastings. JgUSH, YOCUM A HASTINGS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BKLLEFONTE, PA. High Street, opposite First National Bank. M. C. HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTK, PA. Practices in all the courts of Centre county. Spec al attention to collections. Consultations In German or Engl an. yyriLBUR F. REEDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE. PA. All business promptly attended to. Collection of claims a speciality. J. A. Beaver. J. w Gephart. jjeaver a gephart, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. omce oa Alleghany Street, North of High, yy A. MORRISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on woodrlng's Block, Opposite Court House. S. KELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Consultations In EDgllsh or German. Ofllce In Lyon*- Building, Allegheny Street. JOHN G. LOVE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Office In the rooms formerly occupied by the late w. p. Wilson. yjILLHEIM BANKING CO., MAIN STREET, MILLHEtM, PA. A. WALTER. Ca9hler. DAV. KRAPE, Pres. HARTER, AUCTIONEER, REBERSBURG, PA. Satisfaction Guaranteed. The only wav to have a friend is to be one. Domestic rule is founded upon truth and love. If it has not both of these it is nothing better than a despotism. Measure Christianity by its teachings, and not the short sighted, selfish prac tices of a few unworthy followers. Hash words are scarcely more dan gerous, and are generally much less unwholesome, than capricious silence. We appreciate no pleasure unless we are occasionally deprived of theni- Kestraint is the golden rule of enjoy ment. Young man learn to wait. If you un dertake to set a lieu before she is ready, you will have your labor for your paios. He who boasts that his heart has re mained whole, confesses that he has only a prosaic, out-of-the-way- corner heart. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circum stances. There is nothing soeasy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by the way, for such wisdom is wnolly wasted. Look at the pages of your own heart* and you will see a dim reflection of what the recoiding angel has written' about you. Beauties often die old maids. They set such a value on themselves that they don't find a purchaser till the market is closed. Faults are pliable in infancy, change able in childhood, more resolute in youth, firmly rooted in manhood, and inflexible in old age. The worthiest people are most injur ed by slanderers; as we usually find that to be the best fruit which the birds have been picking at. Kindness is stowed away in the heart like rose leaves in a drawer, to sweeten every object around them, and to bring hope to the weary-hearted. Never permit the most resolute curi osity, or the most friendly concern, te find" the lowest depth of character, Gain the reputation for reserve by re serving. If you are a wise man, you will treai the world as the moon treats the world Show it only one side of yourself, sel dona too much at a time, and let wha you show be calm, cool, and .polished But look at every side of the world. FAR APART Beneath the quaiut old bridge you hear The waves make music as they pass; And winding to the elm tree near. You see the pathway through Ike gra a Where we were wont to walk, alas! The river wanders as of old Beneath the shades of w.llow tree*. The smulit wat rs glraiu like gold. And ripple to the gentle breeae; But 1 am far from thee and these. The sky bends over broad and blue. And, in the soft aud in-llew light, Tou tread the laae our footsteps knew In former days, when days were bright; Do these days bring such sweet delight? And still that lane with grass is green; With fragrant flowers the banka are fair; In golden £lo*a and silver sheea The beee stiU hauut the balmy air; But you will fail to find me there. Again, perchance, 1 may not aee The ruet iug row of willow trees (Which lent a leafy canopy Whan we strolled auderueath at eaae); For I am far fiom thee aud th se. Our joys far?ake us. Soon doee Bprlug Pass bv and for >he Bummer call; Boon do the birds lose heart to aiug. When fadiug leaves in Autumn fall; And Winter is the eud of all The Pupil's Love. It was the final night of her engagement, which had beeu a signal triumph in the Italian city, and an ovation was tendered by the nobility to the gifted pupil of the celebrated Max Heme. Whose mind was tilled with the greatest sense of triumph to night, master's or pupil's? Max Heme sat alone in his box, hand some, calm, collected, seemingly unimpress ed by the excitement about him. But noting his eyes they tell a tale. Was it the performer or performance that filled his eyes with adoration? We shall see. The beautiful child ©f music bowed her golden head and received the honors heap ed upon her. Her cheek was flushed with triumphant pleasure, but she did not look once towards the box where her master sat. Heme was detained some minutes after the curtain weut down by friends pressing around him with their congratulations, so his pupil was at home by the time he got round to the stage entrance. In her private parlor the flush of tri umph no longer glowed upon the cheek of the child of music. Surely she was not satisfied with to-night's triumph. The expression betrayed her heart, her happiness was incomple: her eyes said as plainly as words, heart hungry. The door ot>ened. and Maude Leblanc started from her position. It was a young French girl, her maid, who entered, saying: '•Monsieur Heme is here. Shall I ad mit him?" "Yes." And the daughter of music's face took •n a rosy hue ag*in before Max Heme stepped into the room. "How did you get away so quickly?" he ©ried, the moment he entered. "I thought your admirers would have detained you for some time." "I did not give them a chance, 1 ' she re plied, averiing her face from his gaze. "I was tired of it all, and wanted to get away. I wish it was over." "You wish what wss over?" he said, se verely. "My engagement throughout Italy. I long for the day to come when we shall sail for home." "The© y©ur art does not satisfy your soul's longings. Yon have opened your heart's door and let in other idols to share the place of one." She did not answer him. "Surely," he said after waiting some moments f®r her to speak, "you have 110 particular wish to return to the farmhouse where I found you. If my memory serves me aright, your life in your native land, what I saw of it, was anything but pleas ant." "His words stung her. This man stand ing before her lik© a merciless judge, knew as well as she did herself that she loved j him. She had betrayed her love to him a thou sand times by words and deeds. Why j should he speak to her thus unkindly? I "Yea, my past life was anything but pleasant," she cried in atone that startled Max Heme, for he had not heard her ust it for years. "But lam tired of this one all the same—tired of hearing the high sounding nam© you have dubbed me. "You are ungrateful," he said, coldly, interrupting her. "No, no; do not think that," she cried. "To repay you for what you have done foi me I would devote my life to you." "Devote your life not to me but to youi art. It is my idol, as I have told you Make it yours, have HO other if you woult repay me." Her fair face was instantly buried in he hands to hid© its growing whiteness. Her love was thrown back to her. Long ago, the truth that her master wa selfish to the heart's core, tried to force t self upon her, bat she would not believ it. , If she had a spark of pride, she wouli never again let this man know how muci she loved him; indeed he was alread; tumbling from the pedestal in her heart upo which she had reared him. 4 'You are tired: you are not yourself to night," he said, more softly, smoothing her bowed head; "I think you ought to retire at once, you need rest; you know we start for Germany to morrow. Has the senora everything in readiness?" "We will be ready to start anytime to morrow," she answered, as she raised her head. 4 'Then I will bid you good-night, ' he said. 44 0ne quest'on before you go," she said quickly. "It has been on my mind for some time." 44 What is it?" he asked, in his old gentle tone, at the same time regarding her in tently for her expression, he thinks, has certainly undergone a change. "Supposing you discovered another child ' displaying the same talents that I did, ■ would you take her and do for her as you " have done for me?" His answer came without a moment's ' hesitation. "Would I?" he cried, his eyes aglow. MILLHEIM, PA., THUIfeDAY, JANUARY 1880. "Ah, if some fairy couUi Inform me where a dor.cn such children were, 1 should only be too ready to take them all. by, my child, one such perfoi mance of my pupil as yours last night, would repay me for my trouble." As Max Heme finished speaking, the last slender column that propped her idol on its throne snapped, and it toppled to the ground. Max Heme was gone in another minute, and she alone in her misery, knew that the idol she worshiped was made of selfish clay and was broken forever. If one night of triumph repays my mas ter surely he is repaid now, is what Maud Leblanc thinks, as success meets them in the German cities. She is out for her morning walk in the pretty town iu which they have stopped to rest for a day. Only one week more, she thinks, ami then for home. I wonder Her thoughts are broken by a voice at her aid*. is she dreaming? "Maude, Maude; ia it little Maude?" She turns. She is not dreaming The owuer of the boyish voice of loug ago, the one bright gleam of her past life, the only link that connected her native land, isslamliug, a tall, handsome mau be side her. "Hunt Ellis!" she cried, Joyfully. "h> it little Maude, then, " he said taking the baud she offered. "I beg pardon," he continued, "I suppose I ought to call you Mademoiselle " "No. no," she cried; "call me Maude, don't call me that hateful assumed nunc." "All, 1 am glad it is *uly assumed,', he said archly. "1 was sure it was you I saw at Berlin, and I followed you here. Very impudent of me, was it uotf" he asked in the hearty voice she so well remembered. "Very," she answered, catching some of liis spirit, and strange to say, she feit her heart growing light; but i suppose, uow that you are here, you may talk with me, and we will talk " "Over old times," he concluded; "1 have no earthly business here but to see you. Now shall Igo or stay?" "We go ourselves to-morrow,"'she an swered. "Where?" "To Paris. Oue performance there and then for home." "Then I am for Paris to morrow also, that is if you do not object, for you know we cannot say all we two have to say about old times between now and to-morrow," he answered laughing. At Paris Maude Leblanc gaiusd her crowning triumph. "My child, you surpassed everything I ever dreamed of for you to-night," cried Max Heme, when the performance was over. "That was because 1 am so happy," she says, and her beaming face strengthened her words. "I could uot but succeed to night, lor my heart is overtiowmg with love. My master, you must make no en gagements for me." "1 do ot understand you," ho cried, in a tremor. "I will explain iu a few words. Be cause I have made a life loug engagement for myself." "You have made an engagement for yourself?" "Yes, I am going to marry Hunt Ellis. That is the cause of my overwhe ming suc cess to-night." If Maude Leblanc had planned hr mas ter's punishment, she could not have brought it about more effectually. Now, when his protestations are in vain when he knows she is lost to him for ever, the truth burets upon him. He loves her; she is the sdol that has been entlironed in his heart, and blind man. he could not sec it uutil too late. Handy to Know. Fire insurance policies do not include in ilieir indemnity among other things the fol-, lowing: Fences and other yard fixtures; ' also store furniture and fixtures and plate- I glass doors and windows, when the plates are of dimension of three feet or more " J It is important that this fact be mentioned in the wording of the policy, if such articles are to be included under the policy. Care less, ignorant or unsophisticated brokers and agents very frequently make mistakes in this respect. The following articles also are not included in the security of a lire in surance policy, unless mentioned, viz.: Jewerly, plate, watches, musical Instru ments, ornaments, medals, curiosities, pat terns, printed music, printed books, engrav ings, paintings, picture frames, sculptures, cast and models, money or bullion, bills, notes, accounts, deeds, evidence of debt, or securities. These should al ways be speeded. If a building falls, no insurance will attach, or cover its loss, unless it is caused by fire. Stolen property is not to be paid by the in surance company. Losses from explosions are not to be paid, unless fire ensues, and then only the ac tual fire loss is to be settled for. Property standiug on leased ground must be so represented to the company and expressed in the policy. Goods on storage must be represented as such. The assured, in case of a fire, must invariably do his best to sfcve it, and carelessness in this respect will vitiate his claim. In HO instance shall he abandon his premises to firemen or thieves. Where a party has a trust-worthy and intelligent representative, agents or brokers, whose business it is to study these ' points and consult his own and the assurcd'g interests, by so doing it is sometimes safer than to risk it by attending to the insurance himself. military skaters. The corps of skaters, a force peculiar to the Norwegian army, has been lately reor ganized, and consists now of five companies, each of 110, men which in time of war can be reinforced by calling in 270 skaters be longing to the landwehr. The men of this corps are armed with rifles, and can be maneuvered upon ice or over the snow field of the mountains with a rapidity equal to that of the best trained cavarly. The skates they U9e are admirably adapted for travelling over rough and broken ice or frozen snow, being six inches broad and be tween nine and ten inches long. In ascend ing steep slopes the men take a zig-zag course; tacking up the mountain side as a ship does against a head wind. As an ins tance of the speed at which they can go, it is mentioned that last Winter a messeng er despatched from lioerass at 3 o'clock in the morning airived at Drontheim at 9.30 in the evening of the same day, having con sequently accomplished 120 miles ia hours. lUUIng the rill*. . He had wandered from the beanery on matinee day, and was "just look in* around to see what he could see." He was worry ing a toothpick, ami, seeing a sign in a win dow, he drew near to it and read : "Cloaks cleaned and the pile raised." He said: "Uumph"—you never can get that word in print as a man gets it out of his throat. He hid one of his hands in the lower end of his pocket ami raked up a nickel. He went inside, and a man with a fiat-iron came up to the counter and said: "What Is it?" "You clean cloaks here?" The man spat on the tlat-iron and said they did, when the opportunity presented itself. "And you raise the pile?" "Beautifully," said the man who showed every tooth in his head. "Kiu you raise the pile 'thout cleauiu' the cloak?" "Oh, yes, we cau do that; you know we can do anything." "Kiu ye?" "Well, I should say so." "Wall." said the stranger in Jeans, "look here; here's a nickel; noth in' crooked abou it, nut her." "Yes, I sec," said the boss." "Wall, I'll leave It here." "You'll leave it here, foi what ?" asked the sweet-faced man on the other side of the counter. "That's ray pile," said the stranger. "Your pile?" "Yes, my pile; dou't ye know yer busi ness?" "You ain't dealin' with no sucker now," said the stranger. "1 am not, 1 do uot, really I do uot com prehend you. u "Really, no." "That's my pile," pointing to the nickel. "I see the nickel." "Wall, if you see it why dou't you raise it?" "Raise it?" "Yes; raise the pile." "I don't understand." The stranger went up to the show win dow, look out the card, and laid it on the table. Directing spetfial attention to it, l.e said; "Cloaks cleaned; is that right?" •'Yes, certainly; but " "Hold on —aud the pile raised—is that right ?" "Yes, certainly." "Thar's a nickel, ain't it." "Yes, I never doubted it," "Thar's all I've got; it's my pile." "Your pile?" "Yes; 1 want it raised." "I don't see It." "Course not; this is another one of them durned new fangled city tricks you've got up to beat people from the country. If I was to ask you to copper that, 1 reckon you'd know what I meant." He walked away in a lamentable manner and itAppoJ rori.ai j he said to him self : "1 reckon the printer got it wrong on the keerd, and the mau can't read." Beer aud Talk. The day was hot at Frisco, Utah, and the three drank beer and talked. It ap peared from their conversation that they had all had more or leas experience in pios pecting. One said: The biggest thing I ever struck was once when me an 1 Newtßowden was prospectin'. One day we felt the earth kinder tremblin', an' saw a smoke on the top of a mountain. We climbed up to the top—'twas a long pull. When we got there wc foun' it was a volcano. 'Twas all bilin' in the crater. One place in the crater was low#r that t'other parts, an' a cliff struck right down from this low place; it went down 'bout seven hundred feet. The earth kep' trem blin'. An' a stream 'bout twenty feet wide by five feet deep run outen the crater or gap, an' made a clear jump seven hundred feet down." "Water?" interrupted one of the listeners; "pooty hot, wasn't it?" "Water! 'twas quicksilver." "Quicksilver!" "You bet. We went down to the foot of the fall. The stream of quicksilver from the fall run a few hundred yards an' sunk. It kep' tremblin' ?" "What made the tremblin ?" "The quicksilver itrikiu' below; heavy you know. Me an' Newt both got sick; he sicker than me. He kep' gittin' worse, an' died before I could get him to a camp. got to a camp and was sick for months; was salervated. My teeth all came out. I hain't no teeth now ; nor toe-nails, nuther." "Why didn't you go back to the quick silver?" " 'Fraid er git tin' salervated agin. Killed Newt, you know." Number two said: "Well, the richest dis cov'ry I ever made was one time when I was by myself. I saw a bluff 'bout three miles off; it had a queer look. I went to it; 'twas more than a thousand feet high, an' nearly ever bit of it was solid native silver. You could walk 'long an' look at it for a mile 'thout beein' anything but sil ver- Some places silver had oozed out ! while the cliff was hot, an' made things like big icicles; some of them was hangin' down 500 feet long. 1 located 'bout three miles of the lodge, an' left." "How come you so poor?" asked one. "Well, I'd got back in a day's ride to camp, an' was packin' up one mornin' after breakfast; as I come to the fryin' pan my ■ mule had one bin' root in it, an' I tapped him on the leg to make him step qutcn it, an' he up an' kicked me on the head." "Hut he didn't break your head." "No; but 1 can't remember directions since*" i The third one began; "I was by myself, too, when I struck it big. Oue day I was prospectin' through au open country, an' traveled on until after night, tryin' to find water. At last I rode over a ridge, an' no l tieed that rny mules shoes kep' clinkin' against somethin'. I had a fine young mule. There was a valley at the bottom of the ridge, an' water. I went to sleep, an' waked up when day begin to break, but rolled over an' slep' again. Nex' time I waked, the sun was up, but I couldn't hold my eyes open until I'd tried a long time, there was such a glitter!" "Mica." one of the party suggested. "Gold, sir! Gold, everywhere! I'd thrown i part of my blanket over a chunk to make a i pillar; the chunk was gold, solid gold! The ridge I'd come over was gold, solid ■ gold". Outother side of the valley were mountains of gold, risin up an glitterin' in the sunshine. One high mountain had snow on the top, but was gold up to the snow. Fellers, that mountain looked like a picter! I'd jes begun to ti ink my bacon eatin' days was over, when three men came up to me, two young men, an' oneoleman. Judgin' from their actions—l couldn't un dsrstan' their talk—the young fellers wanted to kill me, hut the ole chap persuaded 'em not ter. They all had gold buttons on their clothes, an' heel-taps, an' tup soles of gold. The ole man was sinokin' a gold pipe, with a long gold stein. They bliu'-folded me, an' led me away." The narrator slopped, ami seemed to lie retrosjiecting. "Well, did they lead you far?" he was asked. "Seems to me 1 listened to the clink of litem tap-soles an' heels for ten thousan' miles." "Wits they long about it?" "When 1 "laid down in that gold valley that night, though 1 say it myself, I was young au' good-lookin'; my beard was black as a crow; an' hair thick as a dogs, hut when they lef' me, an' got out of hearin' and 1 uncovered my eyes, my beard was gray." "An' your head?" "Like it is now, not a hair on it." "What became of your fiue young mule?" "The ole man rode it on the trip till it fell dead of ole age." Cliurchrft In cared to Mary Magdalene aud His mother, the centre of the globe and others too numerous to mention. A minute description of all that invites respect under the roof of this one edifice would fiill a volume and a bare catalogue would be tedious and useless. A Shell In the Ear. Mrs. Jennie Lewis, a well-known resi dent of Nevada, has just returned from a trip to Europe. During her absence she removed from her ear a shell which had been lodged there for over thirty years. Mrs. Lewis says that when a child she was holding a small shell to her ear, aud trying to hear it "roar.'' While so doing, the shell, which is hardly a quarter of an inch iu diameter, slipped into the passage of the ear. Efforts to dislodge it were unsuccessful, and only drove it further in. It remained there for ten years, causing occasional pains, when a surgical operation for its removal was at tempted. The operation was performed in Illinois, where Mrs. Lewis 1 parents were then living. It was extremely puiuful and induced excessive bleeding, but w y as un successful. For twenty years more the shell remained in the ear, completely ob structing the passage. This summer, while on her homeward voyage across the Atlantic, Mis. Lewis was one day seated on deck, engiged in picking with a pin the ear which harbored the shell. To her great joy and surprise she found that the shell which had so long been firmly fixed was loosened, and that it moved under the pressure of the pin. She worked away at I it in great excitement for a few minutes, and at last the long imprisoned shell was extracted. A surgeon on board the steam er was greatly interested in the case, and declared he had never in his life heard of such an experience. Mrs. Lewis still keeps the shell, and shows it to her ac quaintances when telling its story. One of Those l*up. lie was a shrewd, white-headed old gen tleman tourist who sat sipping his lemonade in the Baldwin barroom, Han Francisco, recently, and who remarked, as a self-im , portant looking individual came in and haughtily ordered a whisky straight. "Now, 1 s'pose that gentleman is one of your lMjiianza fellows, and owns about two thirds of the real estate 'round here?" "No," we replied, "he's one of the suc- I cessful candidates of the iate election.'' 1 "1 might huve known itl" exclaimed the old gentleman, emphatically. "Ile acts just as I did when 1 was elected to Con gress." "How was that?" "Well, ytu see I was elected M. C. from the Fourth District just after the war. We had s pretty lively campaign of it, and as I never had been in politics before, I some how got the idea that the whole country had quit work and was watching my con test with quivering anxiety. .Every time the other side accused me of being a chicken thief, or a bigamist, or something, and I'd get back at them with a card in the Red ville War hoop, headed " Another lie bailed!" I'd send a marked copy to every leading paper in the country.'* "Did, ehl" "Yes, snd I was disgusted to find they never paid the slightest attention to me, either. What surprised me most was that, although I kept the President and Cabinet advised of everything that occurred 1 never got the slightest sympathy from any of them. I was an administration man, too, and 1 thought it was blamed singular." "Didn't notice you at all?" "Not at all, sir, and when I was elected and the boys lighted a bonfire in the main street, and serenaded me, and 1 spoke six h urs in the open air as to my future course on the tariff aud finances, the New York pajiers merely said that 'a Mr. Gunn had been elected by a small majority,' mv name being Gonley, as you know." "That was hard." "Well. I put that all down to envy and malice, and I started for Washington. I expected that at least the Speaker of the House and a committee appointed by the Senate would tie down at the depot to wel come me to the capital." "They did so?" "The only persons that met me were a oommittee of liackmcn, who tore my over coat half off. rammed me into a hack, and robbed me, with the aid and assistance of the hotel clerk, who then gave me a room on the top floor, and asked the first week's board in advance; said it was the rules of the house with Arkansas members." "The impudent rascal." " That's what I thought. Well, the next morning I got away from the bed-bugs as well as I conld, and went up to the White House to see if the President would like to stroll down to the House to introduce me aud see me sworn in. I sent up my card, and in an hour or two some secretary or other sent back word that the President was HI uix-aKtasi aiiu cuauiu'T bewmrrca. "That was pretty short, wasn't it?" "Well, I was just dumbfounded. How ever. I went down to the Capitol, and told the Sergeant-at-Arms <0 go in and announce to the members that I had arrived. He grinned, aud said, 'That's devilish good, that is; and rushed off. I expected that, of course, t lie members would come crowd ing up to congratulate me, and say some thing like 'Magnificent speech of yours, that last one. Gonley. Beat 'em by 48 votes, too, old fellow.' And then mebbe they'd give me three cheers, and all riiat sort of thing." "Anddid they?" "No, sir, I hope 1 may never stir if they didn't give me a hack seat in the cloak room until my name wa called, and a door keeper fired uie out into the corridor twice under the impression that I was a lobbyist. Well, after I had leen put on the joint com mittee on spittoons and window washing, and spent a couple of months trying to wedge in my great four hour speech on the match tax, something occurred that let down my check rein, and took all the frills out of me for good." "What was that?" "Well, I was taking a drive out to the Soldier's Home one afternoon with three other members, when a light buggy went by like a sireak of greaseu lightning, the trotter driven by a solemn looking man in a rusty plug hat", who was smoking a cigar, and steadying a small terrier on the seat with his elbow. 'That's Butcher Boy,' said one of my companions, with great in terest; trots in 20. He's a rattling good stepper, bet your life.' "'Did you notice that dog,.' said another. 'Best bred put in town —tail no bigger than a rat's—infernal fine dog that.' "As I had nothing else to say I casually inquired who the driver waa. " 'Why, that's the President.' said one of them with a yawn. 'By Jove, how'd you likw to have one of those pups!' "That settled it. I've been as meek and sad as a carhorse pulling a picnic ever since. tiirilg in Winter. A lad> in a neighboring town, who is fond of birds as pets, and who keeps several feathered songsters, resorts to an original method of supplying t hem in winter with their proper food. In the summer she goes out and collectsspiders, crickets, grass hoppers and other small deer, which shy dooms to execution and then dries them, and lays them away in paper bags. At this inclement season she gives her birds (she has a number of different kinds) a daily treat to this insect food, first causing it to swell up to its former shape and pro portion by putting it in hot water! It is a fact well known to successful keepers of mocking-birds, that they not only thrive on spiders especially, but that if a bird seems to be ''dumpish" and feeling badly, a day's diet of spiders will generally make him as tuneful as a May morning. Hence, this lady's unique method may be a hint worth heeding to persons who keep these and other insect-eating birds. Lime-kiln Club Meteorology. The Committee on Atmospheric Influ ences announced that thev were ready with a report regarding the coming winter. The Committee had been entirely guided by signs, and their reasons for predicting a hard winter were: 1. The thickness of the corn husks. 2. The unusual number of overcoats in pawn. 3. The anxiety of women to get winter bonnets. 4. The way the frogs have gone down for deep water. I.ook Out for Splinters. A Detroit boot-black, who had strayed out to Pontiac, was 011 his ret urn, having a seat in the car with a benevolent old man. Of course Shiner put up the window as soon as he sat down. The wind blew in at the rate of forty miles an hour, and the old man presently said : ' Why do you keep the window up?" "Don't 1 want someday to jump out if the cars fall into the river," replied the boy. Then he stuck his head and sboutders out, and the old' man asked : "Boy, why do you lean out of the win dow so far ?" "Don't I want to see if there areany cat tle on the track 1" "Let me tell you a story," continued the man, as he hauled the boy in. "There was once a boy thirteen vears old named Henry." "Didn't they call him Hank?" inquired the boy. "There was once a boy named Henry. One day he look a journey by rail to a city about twenty miles from his home." "Didn't beat the conductor out of his fare, did he?" "This boy had been warned," continued the old man, "not to throw up the window. A r. open window is dangerous on account of the draughts, and many a person has been blinded by the flying sparks and cinders."? "But he shoved up the winder, didn't he? "Yes. ile thought he knew more than any one else, and up it went. Not satisfied with that he put his head and shoulders out." "Bound to see the country, wasn't he?" "The train sped onward," sighed the old man, "and by and by it came along to a signal post. The boy was still leaning owl. and all of sud " "Hold n, old man," interrupted Shiner, as he whei d around, "I know what you are going to say! You are going to say that tbe boy struck the poet with his chin and knocked aboat three feet of the top off and tore up half a mile of track and was put in State Prison for life, but I want you to understand that I'm no sun-fish! I'm going to look out of this window all I want to, and if this railroad company don't haul in its posts they must look out for splinters!" A Performing Samson. If report B]>eaks truly, all the astounding feats performed by the strong men of anti quity, including Hercules, Samson and Mik> of t'rotoua, have been capped by the recent performances of a French athlete, Joigne ry by name" who is at present fulfilling to crowded houses an engagement in the Ber lin Vaudeville Theatre. Tossing about huge cannon balls with sportive grace. JJhia person appears nightly on a rased platform in the body of the theatre, above which platform is suspended an ordinary trapeze. I lis ankles are then fastened to the trapeze, so that he swings head down ward a few feet above the surface of the central stage, and in full view of everyone in the house. A horse, covered with gay trappings and begirt with a strong leathern attached, is then conveyed to the stage, and there mounted by a full grown man. When all these preliminaries have been effected, Joignerey seizes the loops in both baud, and by sheer muscular strength, lifts th "Horse aud his Rider" some inches off the stage, sustaining their combined weight in the air for several seconds, and letting them down again as slowly and evenly as he had raised them. Upon the occasion of his first performance, the horse selected for experi ment was so p>anic stricken that, when it was lowered to the level of the platform, its knees gave way under it, and the atten dants had a great deal of trouble to make it stand up again. All Berlin is flocking to see M. Joignerey's entertainment, which would appear to be the chief attraction of the German capital just now, for, while the managers of the leading theatres are com plaining of empty houses, the Vaudeville is compelled, night after night, to turn hun dreds of curious Berliners away from its doors. A French l>etecttre Trick. A few days since, a young man dressed in the height of fashion came, with all the other travelers, out of the train which had just reached Paris front Brussels. He had scarcely quitted the car when he was ac costed courteously: "Do you wish a porter jil?" the very thing I was looking for. Will you take this valise and show me the way to Hotel de la Rouinania, Boulevard St. Michel. As this is my first visit to Paris, I prefer going there on foot.'' "At your service, sir," On they truged. When they had crossed Pont St. Michel, the por ter, instead of following BoulevarJ du Palais, turned to the left, went down Quai de 1' Horologe and entered the Prefecture of Police. He said to the owner of the valise: "I am going to introduce you to the master of the house,'' as he ushered him iuto the office of the head detective. The latter no sooner laid eyes on the stranger than he said: "Why, good day, Mons. Vauwater. You have just come from Antwerp, where you have stolen a large sum of money. You have already spent five years in jail for a similar crime. What on earth possessed you to wan't to put up at the Hotel de la Roumania. where lodg ings are dear, when you knew I had a chamber at your disposal for which I would not charge one cent?" The thief was put in a cell until the legal papers to warrant his extradition reached Taris. Etching on tila§. Glass 18 etched by hyprofluoric acid gas or liquid hydrofluoric acid —solution of the gas in water. The former in contact with glass produces a rough surface, as in ground glass, while the latter ordinarily leaves the surface clear. The gas is prepared by mix ing together finely-powders, fluorspar—cal cium flluoride, three parts, and two parts of strong sulphuric acid, in a shallow' leaden dish, and applying a very gentle heat. The plates to be etched much may be placed over the dish. The operation should be oonducted under a hood or in the open air, to avoid inhaling the pernicious fumes. The plates are prepared by coating tliein while warm with wax or paratlin, through which to the surface of the glass design is cut with suitable gravers. In preparing the liquid acid the mixture of spar and oil of vitriol is placed in a leaden or platinum resort, which is heated, and the gas taken off is couducted into a leaden bottom partly filled with water, which absorbs it. In contact with the flesh the acid produces stubborn sores. The metals are usually etched with dilute nitric acid, or nither and sulphuric acid, or sulphate of copper and salt, or hydrochloric acid and chlorate of potash. Hydrofluoric acid is not used on metals. NO. 3.