VOL. LIV. PROFESSIONAL CARDS OF BELLEFONTE. BUSINESS CARPS OF MILLHEIM, &i\ A. STURGIS, DEALER IN Watches, Clocks. Jewelry, Silverw are, Ac. Re pairing neatly and promptly done and war ranted. Main Street, opposite Bank, M.Uhelm, Pa. O DEININGER, NOTARY PC HI.II' SCUIBNER AND CONVEYANCER, MILI.HEIM, PA. All business entrusted to htm. such as writing and acknowledging Deeds, Mortgages, Releases, Ac., will be executed wtih neatness and dis patch. Office on Main street. JJ H.TOMLIXSON, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF Groceries. Notions, Drugs. Tobaccos, Cigars. Fine Confect lone ties and everything in the Hue of a Qrst-class Grocery stire. Country Produce taken in exchange for goods. Main St-eet. opposite Bank, Ml lhelm. Pa. I. BROWN, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN TINWARE STOVEPIPES. Ac., SPOUTING A SPECIALTY. Shop on Main Street, two h uses east of Bank. MUlbelm, Penna. J EISENHUTH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, MILLHEIM, PA. All bu- lneas promptly attended t collection of claims a specialty. Office opposite Elsenhuth's Drug Store A jTsSKR A SMITH, DEALERS IN Hardware. Stoves, Oils, Paints, Glass, Wall Paper-, coach Trimmings, and Saddlery Ware, Ac., Ac. All grades of Patent Wheels. Corner of Main a:.d Penn Street-, MlUhelm, Penna. JACOB WOLF, FASHION ABI. E TAILOR. MILLHEIM, PA. Cutting a Specialty. Shop next doer to Journal Book Store. M iLLHEIM BANKING CO., MAIN STREET, MILLHEIM, PA. A. WALTER, Cashier. DAV. KRAPE, Pres. HARIER, AUCTIONEER, RKBER3BURG, PA. Satisfaction Guaranteed. C. T. Alexander. C. M Bower. A BOWER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office in Garm&n's new building. , JOHN~BTLINN7~ ATTORNEY AT LA W, BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street. QLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Northwest corner of Dlimond. "yOGUM & HASTINGS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, PA High Streer. opposite F ret National Bank. 'J. HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LA W, BELLEFONTE, PA. * Practices In all the courts of Centre County. Spec al attention to Collections. Consultations in German or English. F. BEEDER, ATTORNEY AT LA W, BELLEFONTE, PA. All bus'ness promptly attended to. Collection of claims a speciality. J. A. Beaver. J. W. Gephart. JgEAVEK him. 'Twas the brave commander aud his beautiful bride. Her arms were about his neck, and a sad, sweet smile upon those pale, cold lips. One of his hands still grasped the spar. With the other he held her close. Together, hand in hand, their spirits had ascended to the bridal feast. In Scripture the drunkard's style be gins in lawlessness, proceeds in un profitableness, ends in misery; and all shut up in that denomination of his pedigree. A son of Belial. They who are ignorantly devoted to the mere ceremonies of religion here fallen into thick darkness; but they are iu still thicker gloom who are solely attached to fruitless speculation. Hand Organ Mualc. "The popular taste just now secerns to run more to light uud comic than to serious uiul sentimental music, M said Mr. Taylor, America's hand-organ maker, pressing down the ashes iu his pipe bowl aud medl tutively giving a twist to the nearest crank, which brought forth a i>rot eating yowl from the instrument. "Hut, of course," he con tinued, "when they got their musical car goes by the hand-orgnu line, they have to take them mixed. We put up the tunes in assorted lots, as you may say. For spring styles just now, the principal choice seem to be selections from the 'Pirates of Pen zance,' Ed. 11arrigau's aire, 'The Pitcher of Beer'and The Jumping Jack;" airs from 'Fatinitiza.' and a variety of jigs, reels aud waltzes. What arc we doing from the 'Pirates?' Well, the opening chorus, the second chorus from the policemen, and the aria of the General's daughter. Published ? Well, 1 lielieve some of the 'Pirates' music is published, but I'm uot certain. It isu't necessary for us to wait until music is printed to get it on our cylinders. I can listen to a piece of music ouce and write it out afterward correctly, without it is terri bly complicated. Hut the 'Pirate' is weak, viewed from the hand-organ standpoint. It lacks taking airs, melodies such as 'Pina fore' was rich in, things that everybody gets to know and that the children sing. We had a great rush on 'Pinafore' airs last season, but now they are never called for. I only make organ barrels, or cylinders, to order, and the jierson ordering picks out for himself the tunes he wauls put ou; so there is no regularity about the arraugment, and no two are alike. As I said the demand this year is lively for music more than ever before, but still there are some serious tunes that hang ou well. 'Silver Threads Among tho Gold' is one of them, anil the 'Sweet By and By' will always lie good in the West and through Connecticut. Some of Moody and Sankey's tunes are good to have in working the rural districts, particularly the sort of lively ones, such as 'Where is My Boy No-night?' and 'Hold the Fort' is a good, steady stand-by. Au operatic air, one from some old, good, standard opera is always well to throw in. "Negro minstrel airs arc very seldom culled for now. That sort of music seems to have in a great measure died out, audit's I a pity, for some of the sweetest purely American music was written for the burnt cork brethern. I have a good deal to do putting in old country songs, German and Italian, generally, that people come and whistle or sing to me for the purpose of getting them set up. But the popular fav orites, you may say, for the coming season, those whioii you will hear on more organs than any others, will be tbe 'Jumping Jack' aud 'Pitcher of Beer.' "No, 1 don't make a great many instruments. I can turn out about two a week, if i want to, but the demaud is limited, and n oh of my work is in repairing and making new cyl inders. A cylinder with eight or nine tunes for hand organs cost from $32 to S4O, aud for parlor and organs from $33 to $11)0, according to size. The score of instruments you see about you all belong to individual owners who are having some j thing doue to them. The large ones come from the carousel sat Jones' Woods, Coney Island and some other places of summer 1 resort. I don't hire out any organs, but there is an Italian ou Baxter street who rents out a dozen or more during the sea son. I uever tried that, but 1 did try ouce selling hand orgaus on the installment plan. It didn't pay. Organs are too light aud handy to get away with." ItoNes. is not known from what country the rose first came, but it has been common from the earliest period. The variety of this beautiful flower is infinite, and the study of the various kinds forms one of the charms of liotanty. There are several wild kinds in the United Slates, among which are the prairie or Michigan rose, blooming in July, and from which some of the cultivated pink roses have descended. There is also the dwarf rose, so called, which blooms from May to July; the swamp rose, found usual ly in damp ground, and which blooms from June to September, and the early wild rose. The Cherokee rose, much used in the Sout hern States for hedges, was originally brought to this country from China. Among the cultivated roses, the red French or Provence rose is fine and attractive. It was brought to France from Syria in the days of the Crusades. The familiar and luxuriant cabbage rose came from the Cau casus, and the Denmark rose from Damas cus. The poetical moss-rose was first brought to England front Holland; the yel low rose from Persia. With us the rose is valuable for its ordinary fragrance and beauty, but in the East it is a source of valuable manufacture, and is valued for the perfumes or oil extracted from it. The ottar of rosea is an oil distilled from the petals or flower leaves ot roses, and is pro duced iu India and Turkey, some also be ing made in tbe South of France. It re quires 4000 pounds of rose leaves to make one pouud of ottar of roses, hence the great cost of this article, very little, if any, of which ever reaches this country in an una dulterated state. Damask aud musk roses are chiefly used for the production of their delightful perfume. A Noi*y Joke. A faithful night watchman in a Sacra mento warehouse was recently made the victim of a practical joke. Six alarm clocks were locked up in the drawers of six desks along the wall. They were so. arranged that the first should begin the racket about 1 o'clock in tbe morning, and the others to chime in intervals of a half hour each. At the appointed time, as the watchman was resting his feet upou the stove, the hereto fore nois?less little instrument iu one of the drawers fairly turned itself loose with a noise resembling the ringing of half a dozen door-beJs mingled with the roar of a steam engine. The startled watchman sprang to his feet and i ushed to the windows, but, gazing out, could see nothing, and again taking his seat, was beginning to imagine he had been mistaken, when clock No. 2 went through a like performance. This time the location was suspected, but the cause not understood. When No. 3 began there was new cause for wonder, as the noise had changed from one desk to another. The matter now became too perplexing for rest, and No. 4 and No. 4 were listened to with equal astonishment. When the last one had ended tbe night's entertainment the joke was 6een: EXPERIMENT shows that with Early Rose potatoes the smallest amount of seed iu the hill yields the best crop. Safety in Thunder Storm*. The safest place iu a thunder-storm is the interior of an irou building, or of a house well provided with lightuiug rods. As to what meets the latter condition, it is suffi cient to say that the application of lightning rods is a matter demanding the exercise of ex |>ert knowledge aud judgment, and in telligent apprehension of the law of electric ity. Experience has shown that it is not safe to trust to an ignorant person the de cision as to the quantity aud location or arrangement of lightning rods for any building w hat so ever. Under ordiuary cir cumstances, iu a house without any rods, or with rods improperly adjusted, the safest position is a horizontal one, in the middle of u room, upon a leather bed elevated above the tlajr. An iron fied-stead, how ever, furnishes a perfectly safe position, and ! a wooden bedstead may lie made a safe place of refuge by attaching metallic wires to the corner posts, and connecting them all together by other wires running from one to the other around the bed In these circumstances, a discharge of lightning is provided with an easy path in any ilirec i tion, either vertical or horizontal, a d no injury can ensue to a person lying upon, such a bedstead. Number nine annealed iron wire or a small copper or brass wire may be conveniently and effectually used 1 11 tins way; or strips of sheet-metal may be tacked on. Nails, bell-wires, stove fun nels and other metals in buildings present an interrupted path for lightning. It is : especially dangerous therefore, to assume a position between two detached lines or masses of conducting matter. For exam • pie, a person has been killed by lightning while seated in a chair with his head leau ing against a hell knob; in another in stance, a man was killed by a discharge of lightning, which passed from a socalled , lightning rial ou the outside of the wall to the quicksilver on the back of the mirror, , in front of which he was standing; thence through him into the floor, an t to a stove pipe in the next lower story. Positions near windows, doors, and lire places are to be avoided as particularly dangerous. Out ! of doors the safest position is flat upon the ' ground, away from any tree or other ele- I vated object. Thoroughly wet clothing is a partial conductor, and gives lucreased security to the wearer. An umbrella with an iron or steel shaft, having attached to the handle a metallic chain or flexible wire i cord long enough to trail upon the ground, would protect the person carrying it. Farmers might easily arm their wagons With wires in a manner similar to that already suggested for a bedstead, or they cau fasten a wire on a long handled pitch fork or rake, and then hold it vertically, with one end in the ground and thus secure protection. The interior of a barn containing new hay or graiti, is a very dangerous place in a thun der storm, uud such building need lightning rods of the most complete and perfect des | cription. NmiCMt-M in India. Colonel Hatg, in his account of his jour ney to discover the best road to Judgalpoor iu the Bastor county, thus describes the falls of Indravati, which must very nearly come up to those of Niagara: "The falls , are certainly one of the graudest sights in India, though from their inaccessible jx>ai tion few will ever see them. The river was in flood within teu feet (according to the people on its banks; of its extreme height. Aln)ut four miles aliove the falls I (which area mile alxve the village of Chitra kot) the Indravati is joined by theNarnagi, , a river about three-fourths it size. "The united waters of the two, by the heavy rains to a volume wnich I reckoned [ at al>out thirty million cubic yards Dor hour descend perpendicularly a height of ninety four feet over a ledge of sand-stone rocks, alx>ut five hundred yards in length, and slightly curved iu at a place at one end, so as to give the fall something of a horse shoe shajK*. The rich coloring of the water, varying from a redish brown at the crest of the falls to a brilliant ochre, where more broken in its descent, adds much to the beauty of the sight. The lower part of the fall is hidden by the clouds of spray, and iu damp weather, immediately after a shower, when the air is loaded with mois ture, these rise even higher than the crest of the falls, fill the whole chasm below, and even hide the country on the opposite hunk from view, disclosing only at intervals the final plunge of the immense mass of water into the gulf beneath ; the scene then he comes one of the wildest and grandest im aginable. Itu* ; ne*H Maxims. Choose the kind of business you under stand. Capital is positively required iu business, even if you have real estate outside aud credit ever so good. One kind of business is as much sis a man can manage successfully.* Invest ments on the outside do not generally pay, especially if you require the mouey iuyour business. Buy cautiously and just what you want, and do not be persuaded to purchase what you do not need; if you do you will soou want what you can't buy. Insure your stock; insure your store; insure your dwclliug, if you have one. If the rate is high it is only because the risk is great, and of course you should not take the risk yourself. A business that will not pay for insuring will not just.fy running. Sell to good, responsible parties only. Sell on a specified time, and when your money is due demand it;, do not let the account stand without note or interest for an indefinite jieriod. Sell at a reasonable profit and never mis represent to effect a sale. Live within your income; keep your business to yourself; have patience, and you will succeed. Competition is the life of trade, but in trying to run your competitors out of busi ness, be careful you do not run yourself out. A Nice Dinner. A lady guest at a Baltimore hotel last week decided to have a nice little dinner all by herself, and here is what she called for, served in courses: Soup, baked shad stuffed, boiled mutton and caper sauce, chicken with egg sauce, turkey with parsley saHce, spring lamb and mint sauce, roast veal, stewed kidneys with champagne sauce, chicken pie in country style, cold veal, cold mutton, mashed potatoes, spinach, lettuce, asparagus, cabbage, apple pie, rhubarb pie, punch cake, sponge cake, baked tapioca pudding, vanilla ice-cream, English wal uuts, crackers, rice snow-balls with cream, apples, coffee. The Far West. Old Dr. Potts, of San Francisco, and who is an enthusiast in his profession, is the originator of the theory that much disease is transmitted to human beings through eat ing the flesh of immature animals, such as calves, in the early spring. The doctor maintains that young animals, in their inexperience, eat greedily of certain nox ious weeds, and that the poison thereby assimilated is transferred to the blood of the consumer of the animal 's gosh. As this assertion was disputed by some of his con tenqiorary M. JJ.'i, Dr. Potts determined to make some useful experiments before giving to the world his discovery. He ac cordingly purchased a six-months' calt— one of the kind that appear to be built on stilts—and, as the doctor had no hack yard to speak of, he had the brevet cow placed in the cellar, where he projiosed to mix the weeds injquestion among its food for a few days prior to its being converted into test cutlets, so to speak. The China boy was bribed not to mention the calf's presence to the other members of the household, who, it happwued, had been absent while the quadruped was being secretly let down through the coal-hole by the butcher. To prevent its bleating the doctor had placed a stout leather muzzle on its nose. That night the doctor was awakened by Mrs. Potts, who sat up in oed and gasped in a horror-stricken voice: "Gracious heavens! Archibald, don't you hear that singular noise down stairs ?" The calf had evidently gotteu the muzzle about half off, and was making a peculiar sound, resembling a small foghorn tortured by remorse, but Old Potts stammered out that he couldu't hear anything in particu lar. "Not Lear anything, Dr. Potts? Are you deaf ? Just listen to that! It's per fectly blood-curdiing." "Perhaps it's rats, " hazarded the miser able physician. "Rats, Dr. Potts! Are you insane? Did you ever hear rats wailing like a lost soul in purgatory ?" "Well, not exactly like it,' said tbe doc tor, soothingly, "but perhaps—" "I can't staud it a moment longer. I shall go wild if you don't go down and see what's the maLcr. It's my belief that burglars are trying to murder Ah Wrong." "Well, my dear, if you insist I'll—" But just then there came a sudden jerk at the bell and a terrible hammering at the front door. The doctor put up the window and beheld a delegation of about fifty lialf dressed neighbors with four police officers iu their midst. "Is he dead yet ?" said one of the crowd, as the doctor poked his head out. "Is who dead?" said the latter much astonished. "Why, your brother, down there in the cellar. Didn't you tell us your brother had made a big strike in stocks, and was com ing to stay with you this week?" asked Didimus, the doctor's next-door neighbor. "Why, yes ? What of it ?" "You cola-blooded villain. Do you sup pose no one heard you murdering him in tlu-cellar just now? By Jove, he is not dead yet—he's groaning still. Just lis ten 1" "If you don't lemme iu I'll bust the door down!" said one of the police. "Oli, Archibald! to think you should turn out to he a murderer!" gasped Mrs. Potts, going into hysterics. Old Potts was too mad to utter a word. He just walked down stairs iu his night cap, admitted the whole crowd, conducted it to the cellar stairs, handed the policeman a candle, and told him to go ahead. He then went up stairs aud awaited results. Of course the calf made a break for the i light as soon as it saw it. The big officer holding it was upset by a terrible butt in the stomach, the candle went out, and, amid the rattling of the coal and the un earthly yells of the crowd, the cellar began to vomit forth liatless, grimy, aud disgusted men. When they had all gone, Old Potts quiet ly descended, locked tbe bouse up again, tied a sponge full of chloroform round the calf's nose, resuscitated Mrs. P., and then returned gloomily to his dreams of science. Thus ended one of the most interesting in cidents of pioneer life in the far West. About Dinner*. "A man should, if he aie having accept ed an invitation to dinner, leave his execu tors in solemn charge to fill his place," said Sidney Smith in that vein of burlesque solemnity with which his ample wit draped all trifles. And the absurdity contains a truth. Dinners are so carefully measured; they are so important to host and hostess; they are the results of so much care and thought, that every one is socially bound "to remember tbe engagement and keep it with punctuality. If illness or necessary absence from town cuuse the invitee to regret, after having accepted, a note in the first person should inform the hostess at the earliest possible moment, that she may in vite somebody to fill the place. Invitations to dinners in New York, in the gay season, are sent out a fortnight in advance, and should lie answered quickly and positively. Never hint at any contingency, but give your hostess the simple assurance that yon will come or that you will not come. Nev er say that you "would come if so and so." Never attempt to give a dinner unless you are sure of your cook and your waiter — that hot h are very good (unless you give your dinner a la Russc and order every thing from a restaurant. These are uot the l>eßt dinners. The dishes are apt to be cold, greasy and poor unless you have the very best restaurant in the world at hand). The best dinners are those given by excel lent housekeepers, whose domestic service is perfect, who have a cook who is famous for individual dishes and with a waiter who is at home and who can call in, if he needs them, some men to help him. The American habit of hiring the same waiters who have just served at a neighbor's house led "to a very curious mistake from a foreign nobleman. Looking at a well-known oki black man, who used to serve at all the dinners, he remarked: "What a very singular resemblance the colored race bear to each other. Now I could swear I had seen your butler at every dinner I have eaten in New York." Tbis habit of hiring a "set of retainers" had never occurred to the nobleman. "The little dinners" there fore, of eight or ten, cooked in the house, served by the servants of the family, simple and short dinners are the most agreeable, the most flattering as attentions, and require, if giveD often, a far greater care and ex penditure of thought than the one splendid show dinner. How to Writ* Well. We believe that the whole of our method , is a mistake, and there is no single system , of niecanique for writing, and that a child belonging to the educated classes would be taught much better and more easily if, after being once enabled to make and recognize written letters, it were let alone, and chid* den or praised not for its method, but for the result. Let the boy hold his pea as be likes, and write at the pace he likes— hurry, of course, being discouraged—but insist, strenuously and penitently, that his copy shall be legible, shall be clean, and * shall approach the good copy set before him, namely, a well-written letter, npt a rubishy text on a single line, written as no body but a writing master ever did or ever will write till the world's end. He will make a muddle at first, but he will soon make a passable imitation of his copy, and ultimately develop a characteristic and strong hand, which may be good or bad, but will not be either meaningless, unde cided or eligible. The boy's hand will alter, of course, very greatly as he grows older. It may alter at eleven, because it is at that age that the range of the eye is fixed, and short sight betrays itself; and it will alter at seventeen, because then the system of taking notes at lecture, which ruins most hands, will have cramped and temporarily spoiled the writing, but the character will form itself again, and will never be defi cient in clearness and decision. The idea that it is to be clear will have stamped itself, and confidence will not have been destroyed by worrying little rules about attitude ami angle and slope, which the very irritation of the pupils ought to convince the teachers are, from some personal peculiarity, inap plicable. The lad will write, as he does anything else that he cares to do, as well as he can, and with a certain efficiency and speed. Almost every letter he gets will give him some assistance, and the master's remonstrance on his illegibility will be tended, to like any other caution given in the curriculum. t • An Auhtralmn Opossum. The tree was a large one. Its bark was smooth like glass. Cutting a notch in the bark, and embracing as much of the huge trunk as possible with his arms, the black fellow mounted the height of the step, then, standing with his toe in the notch, with his tomahawk he proceeded to cut another, about the height of hi 9 waist, which he also ascended, keeping his body flat to the tree. Step by step he gradully rose looking like a fly walking up a window-pane, uDtil he reached the first fork, nearly forty feet above the ground. A sudden twist enabled him to surmount this difficulty, after which lie walked among the branches with the activity of a monkey. Selecting one with a hole in it, he dropped two or three small stones which he had carried up with him down the hollow, listening intently as they rumbled down the pipe. They all stopped at a particular place. Descending to the spot Stick-in-the-mud cut into the hollow, and, inserting his hand, drew forth a large opossum, its eyes blinking in the daylight. A few knocks against the the tree deprived it of life, and throwing it down, its captor descended, grinning f rom ear to ear his appreciation of the white fellow's compli ments as to his dexterity. Blacks never move without a flrestick; and 900n the opossum, divested of its fur, was roasting on a fire, emitting a most inviting odor un der the circumstances. It makes Stick-in the-mud, who has only lately despatched an immense meal, hungry again; and John has some difficulty in persuading him not to seize the half-roasted creature and bite out a piece. The black fellow looks aston ished; the prohibition is quite against the customs of his race; however, he gives in, contenting himself by throwing the entrails on the fire for a moment, and soon, to his guest's horror, he commenced dispatching yards of the scarcely warmed intestines, at the conclusion of which operation his face presented a sickening spectacle. fifty Vents* Worth. Jamie Welch, a bold teamster, living in Detroit, wus sitting on his doorstep the other evening when along came a stranger who picked up something from the walk. 44 Was it a hair pin ye found at my door ?" demanded Mr. Welch. "1 never bend my back for less than fifty cents," was the reply, as the stranger tossed the coin in the air. "It rolled from me pocket, and I'm much obleeged that ye found It," said Jamie, as he put on a smile. 44 You can't foil no fifty cents out of this chicken," was the answer, as the man moved on. Mr. Welch followed him, and argued and flattered, and when that wouldn't do, he put his fists at work and hammered the finder until he gave up the coin. When he returned home and told his wife she claimed half, and there was a family row which brought an officer and an arrest. 4 4 Where's the money ?" asked the court, after the story had beea told. The prisoner handed it over, and after it had been inspected his honor said: 44 lt's the worst counterfeit I ever saw I" . 44 What! is she bogus?" exclaimed Jamie. "She are. It's more than half lead." "And I was fool enough to have two fights and get myself run in for the sake of this old sham!" groaned the prisoner, as he flung it on the floor 44 You were, and I must punish you." 4 'Go ahead, judge; I'm deserving of all you can pile on. I'm the biggest fool in America, and I might as well be in prison as out!" "I'll say ten dollars or sixty days." "That's little enough. Is the perform ance over ?" "It is." "So am I. I've no money, and so I shall go up. If my wife comes crying around tell her I've hired out to a circus as the big fool, and that I won't be home for two months." A DISCOVERY ABOUT CORN.— An ex change tells of a man who plants, two or three weeks after the crop is planted, a new hill of corn every fifteenth row, each way. And this Is the reason: If the weather becomes dry after the fill ing time,the silk and tassels both become dry and dead. In this condition, if it should become seasonable, the silk re vives and renews its growth,but the tas sels do not recover. Then for want ot pollen, the new silk is unable to fill the office for which it was designed. The pollen from the replanted corn is then ready to supply silk, and the filling is completed. He says nearly all the abor tive ears so common In corn crops, arc caused by the w r antof pollen, and he has known ears to double their size in lUU filling. NO. 25.