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FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Many men claim to be firm In their
principles, when, really, they are only
obstinate in their prejudices.
Thev that will not be counseled, can
not be helped. If you do not hear rea
son, she will rap yeur knuckles.
•A good deed is never lost; he who
sows courtesy reaps friendship'and he
who plants kindness gathers love.
Whenever there Is fickleness you may
say with truth to him who is charac
terized by it, "Thou shalt not excel."
Cheerfulness makes the mind clearer,
gives tone to the thoughts, and adds
grace and beauty to the countenance.
Words are good, but there is some
thing that is even better. The best is
not to lie explained by words. The
spirit in which we act is the chief mat
ter.
Venture not into the company of
those who are infected with the
plague; no, not even though thou
thinkest thyself guarded with an anti
dote.
A great many men die beggars by not
improving the time they spend in wish
ing that their rich neighbor's shekels
were theirs.
Religion finds the love of happiness
and the principles of duty separated in
us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is
to reunite them.
The temperate are the most truly
luxurious. By abstaining from most
things, it is surprising how many
things we enjoy.
It you would be pungent, be brief;
for it is with words as with sunbeams
—the more they are condensed, the
deeper they burn.
Never believe a man who Is always
telling what he used to do, who always
deals with the past tense; for the past
tense is a pretense.
The bad fortune of the good turns
their faces up to heaven; and the good
fortune of the bad bow their heads
down to the earth.
He who betrays another's secret be
cause he has quarrelled with him, was
never worthy of the sacred name of
friend; a breach of kinduess will not
justify a breach of trust.
Unselfish and noble acts are the i; ost
radiant epochs in the biography of
souls. When w roughtin earliest youth
they lie In the memory of age line the
coral islands, green Cud sunny, amid
the melancholy waste of ocean.
ile mmmJiiriiL
THE ENGINE.
Into the gloom of the deep, dark night
W th panting breath aud a etartled scream;
Swift as a bird in sudden tlight
Darts this creature of ateel aud etcaw.
Awful daugera are lurking nigh.
llocks aud chasms are uear the track,
But straight by the light of its great white
eye,
It speeds thro' the ehadows, dense aud
black.
Terrible thoughts aud fierce desires
Trouble its mad heart many au hour.
Where buru and smoulder the hidden tires.
Coupled ever with might aud power.
It hates, ae the wild horse h Ues the rein,
The narrow tra.'k by vale and hill ;
And shr eks with a cry of startled pain.
And Ion „s to fcl.ow its own wild wilL
Oh. what am I out an engine shod
With muscle and flesh by the hand of God,
Speeding on thro' the dense, dark uinht.
Guided alone by the soul's white ligLt?
Often and often my mad heart tries,
Aud hates its way with a bitter hate,
And longs to follow its owu desires.
And leave the eud iu the bauds of fate.
O, pondroue eugine of eteei and steam ;
O, human eugine oi flesh aud bone —
Follow the wlnte ii.ht s certain beam
There lies saftty, aud there alone.
The narrow track of fearl sa truth.
Lit by the soul's great eye cf'light,
O. passionate heart of restless youth,
Alone will carry you thro' the uight.
An Indian Romance.
Iu the old times when Cleveland was
very young, the settlers along the lake
9bore had much more communication with
the aborigines than whites. Long rows of
canoes, instead of steamers were wont to
lie along the shore w here the Union Depot
now stands and the railroad runs, and the
traflie was in blankets, heads, venison aud
furs, instead of wheat, iron, coal and pe
troleum. There were winding paths in
stead of streets, and wigwams and log
cabins were the business blocks and dwell
ings. Natural forests were the parks, and
while there was nfl gruud water works, the
Cuyahoga was uncontaniinated by vile
sewage.
One bright afternoon in the autumn of
A. D. 18—, there came into the village a
neat-appearing squaw, apparently 25 years
of age, with a lithe, half-breed hoy of 10,
who either walked beside her or capered on
before. The little settlement was unusu
ally active upon that day, and the October
sun-light rested upon a scene of surpassing
beauty. The lake aud the landscape were
silver and gold, aud the skies were blue and
amber, and the Indians were gay in their
holiday attire of feathers and bright
blankets.
The face of the youuff Indian woman
bore an expression of sad anxiety, that was
quite in contrast with the brightness around
her. She did not mingle with the crowds
of Indians but sat down near the entrance
to the principal trading house, and while
surveying the motley scene, talked kindly
and soberly with those who spoke to her.
There was something in the appearance
and demeanor of the Indians which showed
that they regarded this as an important day.
Their gay attire, the almost complete ab
sence of weapons among them, their com
parative silence toward the whites, their
freedom and sportiveness among them
selves, all went to teach the experienced
obsecver of Indian character that they
were moved by some uncommon though
undisclosed purpose.
After her arrival had ceased to attract
attentihn the young squaw passed quietly
into the store, the boy remaining outside
playing with his red companions. As soon
as she could do so unobserved, sue strolled
as if inadvertently, to the rear of the store,
where, in partial concealment she caught
the trader's eye. He knew from her glance
that her signal must be heeded. As he
contrived to come close to her she coniniU;
uicated to him the plot of the Indians.
They will all pretend to go home to
night ; hut they will not go home. They
will come hack in the night. They want
your goods. If you will give them up,
they will not kill you, if you fight they
will kill you. I shall he with you."
Having said this, she sauntered slowly
out, with a face sadder than before, and
resumed her former seat. Soon the hoy
came uear her, and she whispered to him
secretly. He went into the store, where a
number of squaws were pretending to
trade, and stood, a9 if by mere chance,
where she who sent him stood. The
trader, still busy, came close to him and
whispered the names of certain white men
of the village. The hoy soon strolled out
to his play again, but somehow sport
seemed to take him near and into the shops
of the men whom the trader had men
tioned. He would give the chief trader's
name secretly, with an intimation of danger
and then go wandering on with his play
ing. His momentous little task was-soon
accomplished, and the shouts of himself
aud his fellows were soon echoing again in
front of the store of the chief trader.
The sunbeams were nearly as level as
the lake, when the Indian woman, beck
oning to her happy protege , began to loiter
toward the trail by which she came ; one
heart how light, and the other oh how
heavy ! They kept the way until well out,
of sight, then lfet it and took a circuitous
course, stopping finally at a wigwam upon
the shore about one mile eastward from
the village.
John Morton was the foremost trader in
the village, intelligent, trustworthy, and a
leader among his fellow settlers; so that
when a warning of danger with the sanc
tion of his name went round to a certain
trusty few, there was a certainty of prompt
and effectual response.
At sundown the Indians began to de
part, and by dusk not one remained in the
village. As soon as darkness had settled,
the few who had been warned assembled in
Morton's store for consultation. It was
not many minutes before a rap was heard
which Morton readily recognized as that of
the woman of whom we have spoken. By
her devotion and fidelity she had saved
him from many dangers and many losses.
She was admitted and began at once to re
veal the Indians' plans in detail. It was
not their intention to make a general at
tack ; their designs were only upon Mor
ton's store. They expected to find him
sleeping in the little apartment off the
main room, terrify him into acquiescence,
ransack the establishment and carry off
MILLIIEIM, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1880.
nch booty as suited them. Should he
resist, they would kill him, if ueceasary to
the accomplishment of their purpose.
Word was instantly sent to such others
as could be trusted in an emergency, aud
within an hour some 25 men who kuew
j the use of gunpowder were assembled at
i Morton's all fully armed, and with Mor
| tou's stock of ammunition to back them.
' They decided to take their stand outside
■ the building, and post sentinels in every di
: rectiou 40 iihls away. The woman was to
j retire to a safe distance and remain se
; creted. Morton commanded.
All being in readiness, they hail not long
to wait. Within an hour a sentinel came
in with the tidings that a party, some
twenty or thirty as nearly as he could
judge in the starlight, were approaching.
By a preconcerted signal the other senti
nels were called in, and the men deployed
in such manner as to give an impression of
the largest possible nuinliers when a simul
taneous tire should be delivered.
It appears that the savages, thinking it
an easy matter to rob a single man, had
not come in force, but lnul detailed a few
braves for the purpose, (hi they came,
with their Stealthy tread, until their forms
began to be dimly outlined. As they came
within easy range, Morton estimated their
number to be not more than twenty. When
all was ripe, Morton gave the word ta tire.
As the twenty-five rifles, scattered in along
line, blazed out upon them, they seemed to
think that an army of a thousand men had
opened tire. With one united horrible
yell they tied to the woods, and no trader
of that village was ever thereafter molested
by them. The men had purposely aimed
high, as they desired rather to frighten
than injure those with whom they were
not at all anxious to inaugurate a bloody
feud. As a consequence no blood was
shed and no serious ill-feeling engendered.
The Indian woman, who had proven so
faithful a frieud. was provided with a home
in the village. She was given a rudimen
tary English education, adopted the dress
and civilization, and subsequently married
Morton, who was 111 fact the father of the
liitlu fellow who had followed his mother
i to the village on that eventful day. "Some
of her descendants still reside in Cleveland ;
others are scattered elsewhere,
lnterestlui; Facts.
The tomb of Edward 1., who died in
1301. was opened Jan. 2, 1770, after 469
years had elapsed. His body was almost
perfect. Canute, the Dane, who crossed
over to England in 1017, was found 1770
by the workmen who repaired Winchester
Cathedral, where his laxly had reposed
nearly 750 years, perfectly fresh. In 15(50,
three Roman soldiers, fully equipped with
warlike implements, were dug out of jx-nt
iu Ireland, where they had probable y lain
1,500 years. Their bodies were perfectly
fresh and plump. In the reign of James
11. of England after the fall of the church
at Astley, in Warwickshire, there was taken
out the corpse of Thomas Gray, Maiquis
of Dorset, who was buried the 10th of Octo
ber, 1530, in the twent}*-secondy ear of Hen
ry VII. ;'and although it had lain there seven
ty-eight years, the eyes, hair, flesh, nails
and joints remained as though it had been
but newly buried. Robert Braybrook,
who was consecrated Bishop of London in
1331, and who died in 1404, and wis bur
ied in St. Paul's was taken out of his tomb
after the great fire in 166(5, during the re
pairs of the Cathedral, and, although he
had lain there no less than 262 years, the
body was found to be firm as to skin, hair,
joints and nails.- The Convent do St. Dom
ingo, was lately demolished in search of
the treasure supposed to be concealed
tin re, and the body of Prince Rodriguez
taken out, who had been buried in 1565,
exactly as when placed 250 years before.
His daughter, two and a half years of age.
was lying at her faher's feet and was as per
fectly preserved as himself.
A New Species of Moukejr.
There are now in the Alexandra Palace,
London, six live specimens of a monkey
new to science, the macacus gclundci .a
1 native of the mountains of Abyssinia, Where
it lives at an elevation of from 7000 to
i 8500 feet above the sea-level. One of these
monkeys is an adult male. It is hairy over
the whole of the body, with the exception
!of a pink patch, free from hair on the
chest, and a space around the throat of the
: same color. When the animals become an
gry or excited, these pink patches turn
bright red. The nostrils arc high up from
the upper jaw, and the upper lip is so mo
bile that it is often turned up so as to show
the whole of the upper teeth and gums.
The tail is long and thick, and ends in a
; tuft resembling somewhat a lion's tail. The
i color of the liair is brown, except around
! the breast where it is gray. The bare part
' of the chest shows two male indications of
teats. The female has not such long liair
as the male, and on the bare spot in front
are two well-developed teats. The young
monkey takes one in each hand and sucks
from both at once. While these animals
have rejected all fruits, they have eaten In
dian corn and grass, pulling it apart, and
making it into little balls. In their habitat
these monkeys sleep iu caves, and in Lon
don they sleep in a Irrge box, the old male
remaining on guaid near the entrance.
A French Hoy's Treat.
The father of Eugene Sue, who was a
physician, had been presented by his ex
alted patients over all Europe with some
choice examples of the most celebrated
wines. The Emperor of Austria, for ins
tance, bad contributed Tokay; the King ot
Prussia rare hock; Queen Christina of
Spam first-class Alicante; Prince Mctter
nich genniue cachet d'or, and so on. The
whole was kept iu a large iron ccupboard
in the study of the learned physician, known
as Ins Elzevir library. Unfortunately, the
hiding place was discovered by Eugene Sue,
then a college Freslmmn, who procured a
skeleton [key and, in company with his
friends Adolphe Adam. Veron and others,
proceeded every night to the practical ana
lysis of a few samples. As they were
afraid, however, lest the experiment should
be stopped prematurely, they took care to
drink only one-half of the contents of each
bottle, filling it up with water and careful
ly resealing it. So that, for a long time
afterwards, when the doctor happened to
treat his guets to a bottle or two of his
world- + ameds library, and the company
tasted the noble liquor with a due sense of
awe, it was unanimously felt that those
great brands were all moonshine, although
nobody ventured to express the opinion.
It was only after the demise of his dreaded
parent that Eugene See coulessed the sac
rilege,
Strong Mu.
Among the Greeks the successful athlete
was erowued with laurels and loaded with
wealth ami honors. When Egeuetus, in
the ninety-second Olympiad, triumphant
in the games, entered Agrigeutum, his
native home, he was attended by an escort
of three hundred chariots, each drawn by
two white horses ami followed by the
populace, cheering and waving banners.
Milo six times won the palm at both the
Olympic and Pythian games, lie is said
to have run a mile with a four-year-old ox
upon his shoulders, and afterward killed
the animal with a blow of his ilst, and ate
the entire carcass in one day ! So great
was his muscular power that he would
sometimes bind a cord round his head and
break it by the swelling and pressure of the
veins. An ordinary meal for Milo was
twenty pounds of meat, as much bread and
fifteen pints of wine. Polydatnus of Thes
salonia was of prodigious strength and
colossal height, and, it is said, alone and
without weapons, he killed an enormous
and enraged lion. One day, (it is so re
corded) he seized a bull by one of its hind
feet and the animal only escajwd by leav
ing its hoof in the grasp of the athlete.
The Homan Emperor Maximums was up
wards of eight feet in height, and, like
Milo of t'rotone, could squeeze to powder
the hardest stone with his fingers and break
the leg or jaw of a horse by a kick. His
wife's bracelet served him as a ring, and his
everyday meal was sixty pounds of meat
and an amphora of wine. Topham, who
was bprn in London in 171<>, was possessed
of astonishing strength, llis armpits, hol
low in the case of ordinary men, were with
him full of muscles and tendons. He would
take a bar of iron, with its two ends held in
his bauds, place the middle of the bar be
hind the nap of his neck, and then bend
the extremities by main force until they
met together, and bend back the iron
straight again. One night, perceiving a
watchman asleep in his box, he carried
lK)th the man and iiis shell to a great dis- j
tauce, ami deposited them on the wall of a
church yard. Owing to domestic troubles,
lie committed suicide in the prime of life.
The famous Scanderberg, king of Albania,
who was born m 1414, was a man of great
stature and bis feats in sword exercise lias
never been equaled. On one occasion,
with a scimitar, he struck bis antagonist
such a terrible blow that its tremendous
force cleaved him to the waist. He is said
to have often cloven in two men who were
clad in armor from head to foot. On one
oceiusion the brother and nephew of a cer
tain Ballaban, who had been convicted of
cruelties towards the Albanians, were
brought to him, bound together. Trans
ported with rage he cut them in two with
one stroke of his wrapfiu. Maurice, Count
of Saxony, the hero Fontenoy, inherited
the physical vigor of his father, and was
especially noted for tb* surprising muscu
lar power or "grip" o hi s hands. On one
occasion, needing a Wrk-screw, he twisted
a long iron nail round into tne required
shape with his fingers, and with tiiis ex
temporized implement opened a half dozen
bottl-s .ot wine. Another time, when
stopping at a village blacksmith shop to
have iiis horses .shod, he picked up a num
ber of new horse shots and with his bands
snapped them in two as readily as it made
of glass, much to the surprise and disgust
of the smith. If history is to be believed,
Phayllus of Crotena could jump a* distance
of fifty-six feet. This exercise was prac
ticed at the Olympic games and formed
part of the course of the Pentathlon.
iStrutt, an English authority on games and
amusements, speaks of a Yorkish jumper
named Ireland, whose powers were some
thing marvelous. He was six feet high,
and at the aire of eighteen years leaped,
without the aid of a spring-board over nine
horses ranged side by side. He cleared a
cord extended fourteen feet from the
ground with a bound, crushed a bladder
suspended at a height of sixteen feet, and
on another occasion lightly cleared a large
wagor covered with an awning. Colonel
Ironside, who lived in India, early in this
century, relates that he met in his travels
an old, white-headed man who with one
leap sprang over the back of an enormous
elephant flanked by six camels of the
largest breed. A curious French work,
published in Paris in 1745, entitled "The
Tracts toward the History of Wonders Per
formed at Fairs," mentions an Englishman,
who at the fair of St. Germain, in 1724,
leaped over forty people without touching
one of them. In our own day we are
familiar with many remarkable expositions
of strength and endurance. Dr. Wind
ship, with the aid of straps, lifted a weight
of 3,500 pounds, and with the little finger
of his right hand can raise his bxiy a con
siderable distance from the ground.
WhHt She Had Lost.
She was a Stalwart aggressive female, in
rather striking personal contrast to her milk
and water looking husbAnd, and, as soon
as she bad taken her seat, in the car she
thrust her head forward and began a care
ful scrutiny of the face of a lady on the op
posite side of the car. She evidently knew,
or thought she knew, the name of the per
son she was staring at. Finally, unable to
restrain herself any longer, she asked:
"Ain'tyou Mary Slawson, that was?"
The lady addressed replied that she had
formerly borne the name given, though she
had been married since.
"And don't you remember me? We used
to live close by you, you know."
"Ob, yes; I remember you well "
"All, I thought you would. Well, I've
lost my daughter Sarah since I knew you.*'
"Indeed; I'm sorry to hear that."
"Yes; and John —you remember John
well —he's lost a leg."
"That ifi very had, I m sure."
"Yes; had it cut off by the cars; and my
daughter Jane, she's lost her husband."
"That is too bad."
"Yes; and Henry—you remember my
son Henry—lie's lost his place."
"That is unfortunate, certainly."
"Oh, it's real mean; and I've lost almost
all my teeth."
"I hadn't noticed it, I'm sure."
"That's because I've got new ones; but
I've lost'em, just the same; and my hus
band, lie's lost most of his hair."
The lady on the other side of the car had
exhausted her stock of sympathetic ex
pressions, and said nothing. The lady who
had lost so much in one way or another
back in her plaoe, beaming with sat
isfaction and self sufficiency. She had
evidently a profound contempt for such
people as talk ouly about the weather when
they meet a friend.
lt'a Too Much.
Due of the officials of Justice alley, De
troit, was lately waited on by a man who
said his name was Smith and who volun
teered the further information that he was
about to get married. The only stumbling
block was the fact that he would not agree
to leave off drinking, lie had come to
consult liis Honor on that {sunt and see
what was advisable.
"Well, I'd promise, I guess," replied the
Justice. "It's a had haoit anyhow, and
the sooner you break it the better."
"Well, I guess I will,'* answered the man
and he went out. In an hour he returned
and said:
"Wh it do you think ? After I promised
that, she wanted me to promise to leave off
cliawin' tobacco!"
"Well, I'd do that, too," said His Honor.
"It is another had habit, and you'll feel all
the better for breaking it."
Smith went away again, and when he re
turned he looked twice as solemn as a frozen
white-fish.
"And now she wants ine to promise to
stop swearing!" he gasped as lie fell into a
chair.
• "Is she a nice woman?" asked liis
Honor.
"She is."
"And you truly love her ?"
"I do."
"Well, then I'd stop swearing.' It is a
senseless habit anyhow, and you lose noth
ing by promising."
The man concluded to promise aud de
parted quite liuppy, but when he once more
returned after an interview with the bride
elect he was mad.
"There won't lie no marriage," he an
nounced, as he sat down and pounded the
table.
"Why? What now?'*
"What now ? Why, when I promised to
stop drinking, quit chawiu' anil leave off
swearing she said 1 must promise to clean
up, shave up aud go to church with her!"
"And you won't do it?'
"Judge," replied Smith, after a struggle
with his mental agitation, "do you sup|ose
I'm going to change myself to a
gentleman just for the sake of marrying u
forty-year-old-widow with a mole on her
chin? Never 1 You can go home ! There
won't he any splicing t? do, anil from this
time out I'll drink and chaw and swear
around four limes worse than ever! It's
too much—it's the last straw on the camel's
hack !
The I'orcelaiu lU*tiuieut.
A paper has lately been discovered in the
State archives of Saxony which contains
some curious particulars concerning the
corps long known in the Prussian service
as the "porcelain regiment," and from
which the present First Dragoons and the
Third, Fourth and Fifth Regiments of
Cuirassiers claim to have sprung. Accord
ing to tradition, the regiment was bought
by King Frederick William of Prussia from
the King of Poland for some costly porce
lain vases, and the document lately found
in the Saxon archives show that substan
tially the tradition was correct. King
Frederick William, it appears, possessed a
number of very lioauiilul and precious
specimens of porcelain, and an attempt was
made by King August II of Poland, who
was also Elector of Saxony, to purchase
some of these through an agent in Berlin.
King Frederick William declined to sell
any f his porcelain; hut King August,
knowing his royal brother's passion for sol
diers, offered him 600 dragoons, without
horses, arms, equipments or officers, in ex
change for certain pieces. The negotia
tions were carried on by Privy Councillor
von Marschall on behalf of Prussia, and by
Lieutenant General von Schmettau for King
August, and euded in the transfer of the
600 dragoons to the King of Prussia, and of
a number of the vases in the first place to
Dresden, were some where added to the
royal collection of china, and others were
placed in the Johaun Museum, where they
are still distinguished as the "dragoou
vases." The men were valued at twenty
thalers each, and the whole regiment con
sequently at 12,000 thalers: while the por
celain given in exehauge for them was con
sidered to he worth considerably more,
though it had been purchased by the de
ceased King Frederick I for a smaller sum.
Two Remarkable Friends.
There came into Bodie, Colorado, not
long ago, a man who is a living evidence of
an astonishing freak of nature. There is
an episode iu his history of the most as
tounding and phenominal kind. This man
goes by the name of John Jarboe, though
his real name is George Roberts. Upon
this change of name hangs a most wonder
ful tale. Many may think the story about
to he related a mere fancy sketch, but its
truth can he substantiated by a number of
reputable men in Bodie and in Nevada. To
begin: In a small town in Western Illinois
there lived a wealthy family by the name
of Jarboe. Its members consisted ®f the
father, mother, three daughters and one
son, christened John. Hard by lived a Mrs.
Roberts, a widow in reduced circumstances
with an only son, named George, who was
about the same age as young Jarboe. John
Jarboe and George Roberts grew T up to
gether, went to the same school, Shared
each other's pocket money and were the
closest of bosom friends. A short time he
fore the war brokeput the elder Jarboe died.
About the time Fort Sumter was bombarded,
young Jarboe, then a lad of sixteen sum
mers, took his share of his fathei's estate
and went to the wilds of Colorado. At
Denver he opened asuloon and did a thriv
ing business for years. Young Roberts
answered the first call for volunteers, and
went South with one of the first regiments
of the Illinois troops. He served through
the war and came home at its close a tall,
handsome youth, hut with his head pre
maturely bald. It must here he remarked
that John Jarboe had very dark features
and an abundance of straight, dark hair,
while young Roberts was a fair-haired,
blue-eyed and ruddy-elieeked blonde.
Shortly after Roberts' return, from the war
he received a letter from Jarboe, invitiug
him out to the growing City of Denver.
Roberts went, and for many years the two
friends were inseparable. They lived at
Denver, Central City, Golden, Blackhawk,
and other places in Colorado, and always
together. About 1873 they came West to
Utah. And now comes the strange part of
the story. Some five years ago the two
were occupants of a cabin in Bingham
Canon, Utah Territory—a rude log hut,
covered with a dirt roof. One night the
roof gave way and fell in on the two friends
while asleep in bed. Early next morning
the neighbors extricated them from the
ruins. Both had sustained severe contu
sions about the head, and were for many
hours in a comatose state. The first to re
cover was Jarboe, but strange to relate, his
first utterance was, "Did Jack (Jack was
the name George used to call Jarboe) get
killed?" Those around the bed asked who
he meant, and he replied, "Jack Jarboe, of
course." They told him he himself was
Jarboe, hut he got angry and swore he was
George Roberts. Seeing it was useless to
argue with him his attendants dropped the
subject, thinking that he would recover
from his strange delusion in a few days.
Next day Roberts recovered consciousness
uud, singularly enough, inquired the first
thing, "is George dead?" In vain they
tried to persuade him that he was George
Rolierts; he insisted that lie was John Jar
boe. During their interim of insensibility
the two friends lia<f completely changed
their identity. Thus Jarboe insisted that
he was George Roberts, and Roberts as
stoutly stlirmed that he was John Jarboe.
Their friends ami acquaintances thought
tliut they must lie crazy for awhile, hut it
was soon se.m they were perfectly sane
upon every other subject. It was no use to
show their photographs taken before the
accident. Tiny could not account for the
change in their respective appearances, but
they remained perfectly positive of their
identity After awhile it became a sore
subject with them, and they would con
sider any allusions to it an insult. There
was much talk of the affair at the time, hut
it finally died out as every thing else does.
At last the two friends went on a visit to
their old home in Illinois. Rolierts pre
sented himself to the mother and sisters of
Jarboe as the son and brother, hut his ad
vances were spumed. Jarboe went to Mrs.
Rolierts as her sou, hut she declined to re
ceive him as such. When she saw her sou
she fell on liis neck, hut he disengaged him
self and told her he was not her child. The
jx*jr mother was nearly crazed with grief
ill this repulse. Mrs. Jarboe and her
daughters saw the real Jarboe, and wanted
to smother him with kisses and embraces,
hut he kept them off, telling them they
were mistaken. Their sorrow and amaze
ment cannot he described. Our two friends
held a consultation, and, concluding that
their relatives had gone daft, immediately
set out f< r Nevada. They have been roam
ing around the various mining camps of
Eastern Nevada ever since, most of the time
in company. Jarboe, who represents him
self as Roberts, was in Nye County, Neva
da, some mouths ago, and, as before stated
Roberts, who calls himself Jariioe, came
into Bodie a short time since. This is one
of the strangest cases on record, and is a
hard nut for scientists to crack.
Indeed I Shall.
Alxnit ten o' clock the other forenoon a
man got off the ferry-boat at Detroit look
ing as if he expected to he grabbed by
some one in waiting. No one troubled
him, however, and after hanging around
for a while he called a citizen aside and
said:
•'Stranger, I want to ask your candid
opinion about a mat'er."
"AU right—go al aid."
"Suppose that you were my wife?"
"Yes,"
"And that I should come home looking
just as I do now?"
'•Yes."
"What would be your strongest impres
sion? Give me your honest opinion."
The citizen thus appealed to turned the
man around, looked into his eyes, snuffed
of his breath, and stood hack and said:
"Stranger, is your wife a lunatic or a
fool?"
"No, sir."
"Then you'd better wait at least ten
hours before you eo home, for you've been
on a three days' drunk and she'll spot you
in a minute; I've gone home looking fifty
per cent, better than you do, and had whole
iiandfuls of hair pulled out of my head be
fore I could get my my overcoat off."
* "I shall ever remember this favor —in-
deed I shall!" exclaimed .the stranger, and
he started up the wharf to look for some
secluded spot in which to kill time and get
the drunk out of his looks.
"Let** Take The Drink."
A student applied the other day to oue of
the District Courts in San Francisco, for
admission to practice, and an examination
committee of oue was appointed by the
Judge to ascertain his qualifications. The
examination began with:
"Do you smoke, sir?"
"I do, sir."
"Have you a spare cigar?"
"Yes."
"Now, sir, what is the first duty of a
lawyer?"
"To collect fees."
"Right; what is the second?"
"To increase the number of his clients."
"When does your position toward your
client change?"
"When making a bill of cost."
"Explain."
"We are then antagonistic. I assume the
character of plaintiff and he becomes the
defendant."
"A suit once decided, how Go you stand
with the lawyer conducting the other
side?"
"Cheek by jowl."
"Enough, sir; you promise to become an
ornament to your profession, anil I wish
you success. Now are you aware of the
duty you owe me?"
"Perfectly."
"Describe it."
"It is to invite you to drink."
"Bat suppose I decline?" •
Candidate scratched his head. "There
is no instance of the kind on record iu the
hooks."
"You are right; and the confidence with
which you make the assertion shows that
you have read the law attentively. Let's
take the drink, and I'll sign your certificate.
No Loss of Confidence.
A Detroit grocer had a patent money
drawer attached to his counter the other day
and it was no sooner in working order than
his clerk tendered his resignation.
"You going to leave? Why, what's the
matter?" asked the grocer.
"I don't want to stay where a person has
lost confidence in me."
"Do you refer to this new till?"
"Yes."
"Well you are very foolish. I haven't
lost the least bit of confidence in your hon
esty, but I simply argue that if you had
less change to squander outside I could have
more of your time in the store! Loss of
confidence! The idea is absurd!"
The satisfied clerk took off liis hat and
returned to duty.
Bog Stortai.
A few weeki ago, while several citizens
of Detroit were surrounding a hot stove in
a Griswold street tobacco store in came a
stranger who had been on a "big drunk "
His eyes were red, his back all mud, his
clothes ragged, and his general appearance
was that of hardup and played out old soak
er. One of the group was telling a yarn
about a hog, and he was going on with his
story when the old fellow interrupted:
"Bcuse me, but I'm an old soaker who
wants to reform."
"Well, as I was saying," continued the
story-teller after a glance at the man, i4 that
hog was about forty rods away when I
first saw him,. I got my gun "
"Say," interrupted the drunkard, "isn't
there sonieljody here who wants to help re
form me?"
"You go out!" replied one of the men.
"I won't do it 1 I'm an old drunkard,
and 1 want some one to take me by the
hand and hope I'll reform."
"Go on with the hog story," put in one
of the group.
" You shan't do it!" exclaimed the drunk
ard. •"I want some one to feel sad be
cause I drink up all my earnings and mis
use my family.
"No one here cares how much you drink
or how soon you go under ground!" said
one of'the men.
"You don't, eh? Don't any of you want
to give me advice?"
"No, sir! **
"Don't you feel sorry i>ecause I am de
grading my brilliant intellect?"
"Brilliant bosh! You never knew any
thing. anyhow!"
"Won't any man here pity my family?"
"No, sir!"
"Nor shed one tear over my degraded
condition?"
"Not a shed! You'd better be going—we
want to hear a hog story."
"Had you rather hear a hog story than
try and save me?"
"You bet we liad ? "
"Well, now, you hard-hearted and sel
tisluninded old liars, I know I'm worth
nvwre than any hog, and I'll prove it, too!
If you won't save me I'll save myself—
hanged if I don't! Y'ea, sir, I'll keep sober
from this day on, and I'll show you
whetherji'm of no more account than any of
your hog stories or not! Y'ou needn't pity
me nor advise me nor talk with me—l can
run my own grocery!"
And he did.
A Great Tunnel.
The announcement that a project for a
tunnel through the Arlberg and a junction
ot the Austrian with the Swiss railway
system has been laid before the Austrian
Parliament causes great satisfaction in
Switzerland, and has already had a favora
ble effect on the prices of railway stock
The object of the proposed line is to
shorten the distance between Western Aus
tria and Eastern Switzerland, create a di
rect traffic between the two countries, and
render them independent of the South Ger
man railways, over which it is now con
ducted. A further advantage will be to
enable the Austrian and Hungarian bread
stuffs to compete in Switzerland and East
ern France with corn coming from IJussia
byway of Genoa and the Gothard Railway.
The new line is divided into two sections—
the first running from Innsbruck to Lan
deck, the second from Landeck to Bludenz.
The former will be seventy-two kilometres
long, and it begun this year, as is proposed,
may be completed before the end of 1882.
It will pass along the right bank of thelnn.
Its construction presents no extraordinary
engineering difficulties; the greatest gradi
ent is oue in 110 and the sharpest curve
makes a radius of 300 metres. The cost of
this section is computed at 7,600,000 flor
ins, equal to 105 560 florins per kilometre.
The construction of the stretch between
Landeck and Bludenz will be much more
difficult and costly. It will be a mountain
line from first to last. In the valley of
Rosauna the gradient is one in forty. The
road will cross the valley of Panznau on a
viaduct of three arches, each having a span
of sixty metres. The length of this stretch
is 54.75 kilometres. the total estimated
cost 11,784,000 florins, equivalent to an
outlay per kilometre of 216.900 florins. It
is expected to be completed within four
years from the time of commencement.
At St. Antoine, 555 metres above Landeck,
will begin the great tunnel. The point
fixed upon by the Austrian Government for
commencing this work is not the one that
was chosen by Gen. Nording. who first
surveyed the ground. The tunnel, had
his scheme beeu adopted, would have been
higher up the mountain, shorter, wide
enough only for single rails, and therefore
less expensive than the one finally fixed
upon. But the Government, believing that
the Arlberg line will some day be one of the
most important in Europe, have decided
that it is expediefit to provide every facility
for a traffic. The gradients are to be as
easy as possible, even though the tunnel
should be a little longer, and the lines will
be double railed throughout its length.
Norwegian Trains.
Iu the slowness of their trains the Nor
wegians excel the Dutch, and yet the lat
ter. for this merit or defect, according to
the time, nerves and fancy of the individual
traveler, may place themselves at the head
of other European countries. But here all
comparison ends, for while the Dutch pos
sess but a small territory sufficiently inter
sected by lines, Norway, with its great tract
of country, has scarcely any railroads at all.
Nor is it probable that she will ever be much
better off in this respect. The land is so
thinly populated that railroads could never
pay. From the hilly nature of the country
their construction would cost much, while
the people are poor. And lastly, the pre
sent mode of traveling is all they need.
Time is of less consequence to the Norwe
gians than to other people, because they have
less to do. They do not rush through life,
as we do, for instance, giving to one day
the work of six. They breathe; the re
mainder of the civilized world is, for the
most part, breathless. If they have a hund
red miles to travel they can as well devote
a week to it as half a dozen hours; or, if
they can not, they wisely stay at home. 8o
that traveling in Norway is very much what
it was in England a century ago. A little
slower and more leisurely, perliaps, now
than then, for nowhere in Norway will you
come across the fine sight of a coach and
four tearing up hill and down dale at ex
press speed. The average rate of progress
is about four miles an hour: and, do what
you will, taking one thing with another,
you can not get much beyond this. Their
railroads, by comparison, are not much bet
ter —of stately speed, perhaps, but irritat
ing.
NO. 16.