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Office In Lyon's Building, Allegheny Street. JOHN G. LOVE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLKFONTK, PA. Office In the rooms formerly occupied by the late W. P. Wilson. BUSINESS CARDS OF MILLHEIM, &. Q A. STURGIS, DEALER IN Watches, Clocks. Jewelry, 811verware, Ac. Re pairing neatly and promptly done and war ranted. Main Street, opposite Bank, M lihelm, Pa. O. DEININGER, NOTARY PUBLIC. SCRIBNER AND CONVEYANCER, MILLHEIM, PA. All business entrusted to him, such as writing and acknowledging Deeds, Mortgages, Releas* &, Ac., will be executed with neatness and dis patch. Office on Main Street. TT H. TOMLIXSON, * DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF Groceries. Notions, Drugs, Tobaccos, Cigars, Fine Confectioneries and everything in the line of a flrst-class grocery st .re. Country Produce t aken in exchange for goods. Main St eet, opposite Bank, Ml lhelm. Pa. JJAVID I. BROWN, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN TINWARE, STOVEPIPES, Ac., SPOUTING A SPECIALTY. Shop on Main Street, two houses east of Bank, Millhelm, Penna. T EISENHUTH, * JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, MILLHEIM, PA. All business promptly attended to. collection of claims a specialty. Office opposite Elsenbutb's Drug Btore. •m/f USSER veliest of all things that adorn this wonderful October day—lovelier than flash ing river, gleroing sunshine, steeped peb bles, flaming gladiolaa, and bee-loved feur o-cloaks—is tne lady, young and fair, with gold brown hair, large blue gray eyes, pale oval face, and sweet, small mouth, leaning back against one of the pillars of the Peb ble House porch, the red foliage of the Virginia creeper that enrobes it drooping oyer her beautiful head. There is a ten der, dreamy look in her large eyes, aud a soft smile about her pretty curved lips, as she sits there so motionless, gazing out up on the river. One can see that she is wandering in dreamland; but, alas! she is doomed to be rudely recalled to earth again. "Kleptomania indeed!" says a loud girl ish voice near tier, ami Miss Ada Warden a little brunette with magnificent black eyes and heavy black eyebrows, comes sud denly out ou the porch, arm in arm with her inseparable friend Linda Lees, whose eyes are as blue as Ada's are black, and whose eyebrows are the faintest shadows of those belonging to her friend. Why do they never call it that when the—the—" 4 'Kleptomaniac," drawls Linda, sinking into an easy chair, and clasping her pretty hands above her head with a generous yawn that seems to indicate her weariness of the subject. n Oh, thanks!" continues Ada, in the same loud votee, swinging her broad-brimmed hat carelessly tojandjfro—"kleptomauiac to be sure—happens to be a poor wretch who steals a loaf of bread or something of that sort?" '•Don't look at me, Ada dear," Miss Howell begs, in tones that would have de lighted Shakspeare himself; 4 'l'm sure I don't know," and she yawns too, but such a cunning little yawn, as though a red rose bud haa suddenly made up his mind to unfold into the smallest of red roses. "Well, upon my word," exclaims Ada, indignantly, looking from one ot her friends to the other, "you both appear to be in remarkable spirits this afternoon. I can't stand it. I must run away in search of some one less boisterous. No, I won't either, for here comes Herbert Moore, my cousin of cousins, attended, prince of good fellows as he is, by slaves bearing ioed sherbets and caaes of dew and honey—that is lemonade and macaroons. Girls ain't you glad I've got such a duck of a cousin, and that I coaxed him to spend his vaca tion here instead of at Newport? And now for bis opinion on the subject." "What subject?" asks Herbert Moore. And then, without wailing for an answer, he turns to the lovely faoe inwreathed with the vine leaves, and says, 4 'May I sit at your feet. Miss Howell? I've been roaming, and I'm (leu—beg pardon—aw fully tired." "Wouldn't you rest better in a chair?" and she leans forward, with a bright smile on her lips and in her eyes. "Not at all, thank you," seating himself a step or two below the lady. •'Mrs. Sherwood," begins Ada, between two bites of macaroon. "Oh, that affair of the diamond brace let—poorthiug?" says the young man. "What, do you believe in the kleptoma nia? drawls Linda from her easy chair. "That's the way they explain it, Ada goes on. She has been an innocent picker up of costly trifles since her' childhood, her father ft first, and then her husband, re funding. But Mr. Brown, the jeweler, with a heart as hard as his diamonds, threatened prosecution and only consented to compromise on condition that he should be allowed to warn his brethren of gems and gold. And so it all came out. Oh dear, what a shocking thing, especially when one remembers that the—the—' "Kleptomaniac," Linda again lazily sug gests. "More thanks, Linda love—that the kleptomaniac came near being one of one's intimate friends. Do say something, Her bert." '•The most charming girl I ever met in my life," Herbert responded, gravely, was a pickpocket." Miss Warden chokes with her lemonade, Miss Lees drops her hands from their fav orite position above her bead into her lap, with the echo of the word 4 'pickpocket," and Miss Howell looks down on the young man with a questioning look In her lovely eyes. "Tell us instantly, Herbert, that's a dar ing. * gasps Ada, and Herbert obeys. 1 "Last winter coming home to my lodg ing one night, just after parting with my old chum, George Cuthbert; Ada—" Miss Warden, with a toss of her curly head and a flush on her brown cheek, com mands, "Don't address yourself altogether to me, sir. It isn't polite." "Beg pardon," says Herbert, mischiev ously, "but for some reasoa or other I al Ml LLIIEIM, PA.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1880. ways think of you when I think of George. Well, I'd seen George off to EurojH" that aftoruoou. after we had roomed together for four years without quarreling once. 1 wonder 11 that could be said of any two women? He paused, but the audi ence maintaining a dignitled silence, pro ceeded with Ins story. "I naturally felt very lonely after, his departure, and being unable to read, and in no humor to make calls; 1 determined to go to some place of amusement. It was a cold night, and as .lack Frost and 1 never had t>een on very friendly terms, in order to avoid a protract ed struggle with him, 1 selected the nearest theatre, regardless as to what the perform ance was to be. It chanced that they were 'playing a most dismal piece." "What was it?" asks Ada. "Ada ' —with great solemnity—"not for the world would 1 give any one. not even you, my geutlo cox, a clue by which— Well, I was just seated, when a most love ly girl, followed by her escort —a young man whose resemblance to her led me to believe him her brother—sank into the chair next me.'* "What did she look like?" slyly ques tioned Linda. "Miss Lees, I must repeat the remark I made to my cousin a moment ago. No word or act of miue shall lead to the — Suffice it to say she was lovely. The cur tain rose as soon as she had taken her seat, and from that instaut her attention was riveted upon the stage. I was pleased to notice, however, she did not favor her companion with any gushing remarks about the handsome—" " Who f u from Aila. "No matter, aud that she did not wear—" 44 What f from Limla. "Either a buuch of violets or a Jacques rose. But 1 was not so well pleased to find that she seemed totally unconscious of my proximity, all hough she did accept a programme from my baud, in au absent minded kind of way, without even a glance in my directiou, while the young I lady on the other side (>ecped coquettishly at mo." 4 *You conceited fellow?" exclaimed his cousin. 4 \Bhe did, upon my honor, from behind her fau, every few minutes, aud at last, gaiuiug coutidencC, from the angelic ex pression of my countenance, no doubt, ac tually offered me a chocolate caramel." 44 Why Mr. Moore!" "She did, Miss Less, aud 1 took it and ate it. rihe was about six, 1 should think. However, to go ou with my story, in the third act, where — "Rose Michel," 44 The Two Orphans." "Neither. Where there is some very pa thetic business, my charming neighlior be gan to weep, and reach ; ug her grey-kidded hand down by her side, took from the pocket of my coat my handkerchief —the last of thai dozen of silk oucs you brought me from Paris, Ada." "Not really?" Aud what did you do?" "Nothing. Y'ea, 1 did, I laughed si lently and loDg, till the liirt of the lan aud the chocolate caramel said to me, reproach fully. 'Why do yu laugh? It isu't funny. Aud I watched her at the end ot the play walking away in the most dignified man ner, after carefully putting my handker chief in her polocoat, or whatever you call it, pocket. "•Twos all a mistake you may depend upon it, Herbert. Last winter we wore our pockets so—so —" Ada hesitates, aud Linda as usual, comes to her assistance: "Iu cur back breadtlis.' 1 "I—that she —1 mean no doubt your coat skirt was intruding npon the arm of he chair. And did you ever meet her again ?" " I did. And she immediately possess ed herself, in just as guileless u manner as she possessed herself my haudkerchief, of something belongiug to me, from my point ef view of infinitely more valuable. "There's George, and we promised to go sailing with him. Come, Linda," shouts Aaa, grasping her lazy friend by the arm; and as they ran down the steps she shouts back at her cousin, "If there's any more, tell us this evening, Herbert," 'ls there any more, Miss Howell?" asks Mr. Moore, rising and stauding face to face with the blushing girl. "Should there be more?" she asks in re turn. 4 Tes. 4 And she gave him her heart in place of his owu, and promised to be his true and faithful wife?' I)o you approve of that ending for my story." "That would be a happy conclusion, I'm sure," laughs Illione. "1 can think of no better one, Herbert." And he draws her little haud within his arm, and they slowly saunter off tow ard the happy river. Proverbs, New and Old. Never sacrifice safety to large expected returns. Never make a loan on importunity. Never lend a borrowing frieud moro than you are willing to lose if he cannot pay. Never speculate deeper than you can at ford to lose if you lose at all. Never borrow any money to speculate with. Owe no man anything. Be satisfied with a moderate rate to a good tenant. Keep well insured aud watch your policy. Never consult a man on business who does not manage well his own. Avoid a second mortgage for a fresh loan. He that maketh haste to be rich is not wise. Poverty is no bar to marriage if both parties will work and save. The gods help those who help themselves —men and women. God promises nothing to idleness. A man must ask his wife if he may lie rich. Little coins, like drops of water, will fill a bucket. As we sow in temporal affairs so shall we reap. Short settlements make long friend ships. Fortunes are made by long earnings and savings. Money easily gotten Is soon spent. Money earned is money valued. It is easier to loosen up good property than to re-establish it. In discussing business disagreements keep cool. Less wisdom is required to make money than to keep it securely when made. Moreno** In Flour Mnnufitotiire. Until recently it was believed that tho only thing to be sought for in the produc tion of a good article of flour was a more or less line disintegration of the ktrnels ot wheat. As long as millers held to the the ory that grinding was all that was required, a large percentage of the flour bad its nu tritive powers greatly reduced by being ground to an impalpable dust. Science, by aid of the microscope, has shown that no really good bread can lie made from flour iu which any large portion of tho starch globules have been thus broken down. The rising of bread is due to the starch globules which remain whole, whilst the dust from the disentegrated ones, by souring, impairs the lightness and sweet ness of the loaf. It is but recently that these facta liuvo been made known to mil lers, and since that time they have been discarding their old theories and machinery and devising improvements with the view to separating the starch globules, rather than pulverizing them. Another import ant advance in this industry consists of an improvement iu boltiug machines. Until recently the bran was separated from the flour by a powerful air blast, which blows off the light particles of bran. Considerable power is requifed for this process, and al though -t is carried on in a closed room, there is not only a great waste of the fln-r particles of flour, but the impalpable dust pi netrates every part of the null aud often gives rise to destructive explosions. By a recent invention, electricity is made to take the place of the air blast. Just over the wire boll ng cloth, which has a rapid reciprocal motiou, a number of bard rub ber cylinders are kept slowly revolving and rubbing against strips of sheepskin, by which a large amount of fractional electric ity is evolved. Then, as the middlings are sieved by tbe reciprocal motion, the light er brau comes to the top, whence, instead of being blown away by an air blast, it is attracted to the electricallay charged cylin ders, as light substances are attracted to a piece of paper, or a stick of sealing wax which lias been smartly rubbed. The re moval of the bran from the rollers, and its deposit on one side, are readily affected, while the flour is carried in another direc tion. The separation is thus made com plete, with very little loss of dust. Still another device has been introduced, to re move from the wheat, before being ground, small pieces of iron, which, despite the ut most care, will find their way into the grain, workiug great injury to null ma chinery. This trouble Is now remedied by the use of series of magnets, directly under which all t.*e grain is made to pass. Tnese maguetß readily catch all the stray pieces of iron from the wire bands used in bind ing; and they have also revealed the sin gular tact that, of the scraps of iron and steel which find their way iuto the graiu, fully one third are something be sides the binding wire. They are of larger proportions, of varying character, and much more hurtful to the machinery than the wire. Thus i is that science is con stantly coming to the aid of all the various industries, lightening the labor of the workmen, decreasing the cost of prmiucta, and in every way improving hll the various processes which arc involved in the im proved and constantly advancing civiliza tion of the age. Whtitling In the IHIUM. In 1840 there was a threat mine disaster near Carbondale, Pa. Several miuers were buried iu oue of the Delaware and Ilud&on Canal company's mines by a sudden cav ing in of the roof. Although the cause of the caving was known to have been a lack of proper support by pillars and tim bers, at least one old miner, a survivor of the disaster, still living here, has al ways maintained, and still maintains, that it was caused by a 4 daie-devil miner," named Jack Richards, whistling in the mice while working with his gaug, against the prv>- tests of his comrades. Richards was a skeptical young Welshman, who ridiculed all the superstitions of his fellow-workmen. With the old miner mentioned above and tifteeu others, he was working in the mine, a mile from the entrance, on the day of the catastrophe. The mine was well known to be scantily propped, and the miners were "robbing' it preparatory to Its aban donment. He is described s having been a merry fellow, fond of teasing his com panions. On this occasion he suddenly laid down his pick, and announced to his fellow workmen in the chamber that he intended to "whistle them up the 'Rigs o' Barley.'" The miners were aghast at the thought of Richards thus deliberately flying in the face of mine luck, and they begged of him not to oh se the good luck spirit away. He laughed at their fears, and with clear, loud notes made the chamber ring with the lively Scotch air. Not content with that, says the old miner, shuddering at this late day over the sacreligious temerity of the merry Welshman, he rattled off a jig known by tue miners as the "Devil Among the Tailors," and ended by telling the good luck spirit to "take a dance to that, and be blowed to it." None of the miuers could speak for some time. Some of them tried to go to work again, but the fear of disaster was so strong upon them that they all made preparations to quit the mine. The old miner who recalls this incident says that he had a brother and a son work ing in another mine, and he made up his mind to go to them, tell them of Jack Richard's foolhardiness, warn them of its consequences, and escape with them from the mine. Jack Richards could uot con vince any of them of the childishness of their intended course. Suddenly, while they were gathering up their tools, a noise like the sound of dis taut thunder came to the ears of the agita ted miners. They knew too well what the sound presaged- The roof was 44 working," and a cave-in threatened. The miners turned to Jack and charged him with bring ing disaster upon tliem by his defiance of the good luck spirit of the mine. Jack re plied that if the roof was falling, it was because of insufficient support, and, not because of Ids whistling, and knowing the danger that encompassed them all, he coun seled his comrades to lose no time in "get ling atop." But before they could take the first step toward reaching the surface a second shock ran through the mine. This time it was like a clap of thunder near the earth. It was followed by a crash that could be made out by the falling masses of rock and coal from the roof, and by a gust of wind i hat hurled the miners against the jagged walls of their chamber. Then the mine fell in all about them, and the seven teen miners and the car-horse were impris oned behind a wall of fallen coal and rock, u a space u >t more than torty feet square. Their lights were extinguished, and there was not a match in the party. With death awaiting them in one of its worst forms, they cursed Jack Richards, and one of the miners tried to find him iu the dark to brain him with a pick. To ascertain wheth er any of the gang had been killed by the falling coal the name of each one was call ed by one of the miners All responded but Jack Richards, lie was found dead, half buried bcuealh the wall of rock and coal. The miners gave themselves up to despair, as they did not dream it was pos sible for any aid to reach them from with out, and to dig their way through a mile of rocky debris was a task they knew was hopeless. Among tho imprisoned miners was a young man named Boyden. He was a son of Alexander Boyden, the superin tendent of the mine, and, like his father, was a man of great nerve and courage, lie encouraged his imperiled companions with the assurance that the air in the mine would not t>e poisoned by the gasses for at least two days, and that as long as the horse's l>ody lasted they need not starve. He said that his father would leave noth ing undone to rescue all who were eliut in the mine, and that, meantime, they llicm se ves could aid his efforts by digging out to meet him. Only three picks could be found, the others being buried beneath the coal. With these the men went to work with a will. Those who had no picks worked with their hands in digging into the barrier between them and their free dom. The body of poor Jack Richards was uncovered and laid tenderly in a safe place in the chamber. The horse seemed understand the terror of the situation, and gave voice to frequent piteous neighs. The men worked for hours, many of them working the flesh from their lingers in the sharp coal. Home of them lost all heart, aud threw themselves upon the damp floor of their underground prison and bewailed tlieir fate. Suddenly a ray of light broke through a small opening in the wail. Then a lantern was pushed through, followed by a man's bead. The man cried j out: "Is Ihere a man here that is alive ?" j A glad shout from the miners was the re ply. The man pulled himself through the opening into the chamber. It was Alex ander Boyden, the superintendent. The miuers took him up in their arms, wept tears of joy, and kissed the man whom they believed had couie to deliver them. Mr. Boyden had found his way to the sjiot where the miners were imprisoned by crawling along a narrow passage that had la-en left in the falling coal and rock by tbe lodgiug of roof timbers all along tbe way. It required a struggle for hours to make the perilous jourueyl He did not expect to find one man alive in the chamber, his great desire being to rescue the body of his son, if possible, and save it from being devoured by rats. He soon had tue min ers in readiness to follow him back toward the mouth of the mine. lie took the dead body of Jack Richards on his back and lead the way, and two hours after ward the miners were in the arms of wives, parents and sweethearts on top. Richards had no relatives but a crippled s'ster, who was dying with consumption. She died the uext day. The brother and sou of the narrator of this tragical incident and twelve ether miners were never found. Three days after the fall, mine boss Hosie, who had been iu a distant part of the mine when the roof caved in, emerged from its depths, worn away to a skeleton. With his pick he had dug hi 3 way for more than a mile through au almost solid wall, without a taste of food or a drop of water to strength en and sastaiu him. This mine tragedy forms one of the fav orite narratives of the old miners of this region, and, after relating it to iuquiring visitors, they never fail to warn them not to whistle if they intend going down in a mine. rrlnirval Man. In a recent speech Prof Dawkins gener alizing from the distribution of the animal remains found in the early tertiary periods, concluded that Europe was then joined to Africa. The evidence found in the rnid plioceue period of the existence of the rivei drift hunter in France, Italy, Spain, Greece, North Africa and also iu India, brought us, in his opinion, face to face in that period with the primitive condition of human cul ture on which, in all probability, all pro gress had been based. The absence of geographical limitations already referred to would account for the freedom with which the hunter passed to aud fro. Subsequent ly, in the cave-men he found the succes sors of tbe river-drift hunter-men of much higher type. He gave of their habits the following hypothetical description: They dressed themselves in skins and wore gloves not unlike those worn at the present time. They wore necklaces and armlets, aDd probably pierced their ears for the recep tion of ear-rings for ornamentation. They used reed raddle, and indeed some of the practices of the present time might be looked upon distinctly as being survivals. Tbe skins with which they clothed them • selves tuey sewed together with bone need les,and from what they left behind on bones and pieces of skin and the liae it appeared that were able to form a distinct idea of the creatures which they hunted, the represen tations thus left probably being the trophies of the chase. They were fowlers and fishermen, and it was evident from the fig ures of animals whioh had been discovered that the hunters of these times had great facility in representing forms of animals cn bone; but their attempts at representing the human form were rude. They had also left behind evidence of the art of sculpture. They were ignorant of metals. They had no domestic animals. Apparently they were not in the habit of burying their dead. We were not aware of what sort of phy sique they had, but there was reason to be lieve they were most closely related to the Esquimaux. They were wholly different from the river-drift men. The river-drift man was in a state of primeval savagery; the cave man was of a higher type, but iu his turn was wholly inferior to the farmer, herdsman and merchant who followed him. We hftd this proof of the developement of the human race in times before history began,aud it occurred to him they had no reason for fixing any limit as to whore progress would end, his opinion being that man would go on increasing in knowledge and in improving in the arts of ci vilizatiou until in perhaps not a very remote future he would be as superior to the men of 1880 as we were superior to the early hunters aud cave me n Stick to one thin until it is done, and done well. The uian who chases two hares not only loses one of them, but is pretty sure to lose the other also. Gold la Musical laatrnmanta. The use of gold in the construction of musical instruments, never yet tho roughly investigated, offers an interesting field for experiment. Four metals are distinguished as being capable of being hardened to spring temper, and in that state possess more or less power of vibration, atool hardened by tempering is used for pianoforte strings. Brass is hardened by drawing down or flattening, but the elas ticity is not equal to steel. Nickel can also be drawn or flattened, and (xissesscs great springiness, but no metal, either in a pure state or mixed with other metal, equals gold, if oombined with copper, sil ver or both, for ductility or of power of vibration. A spiral spring made of fif teen-carat gold—that is, fifteen parts of flue gold to nine parts of copper drawn into a wire —possesses more springiness. Many years ago 1 superintended tbe manufacture of some gold wire on this principle, as a string upon an ordinary pianoforte, and the results were marked Not only was the tone considerably increased, but its quality ma terally improved. With the thinner and shorter strings this was s? noticeable that it is surprising the idea should not have suggested itself to others. Fifteen carat wire drawn down at least six holes after softening answers best. I have also sug gested the use of gold for the vibrating tongue of the harmonium, concertina and other instruments of the kind. Some time ago I asked an amateur zithern player to try the effects of gold wire upon his instru ment aud he has since assured me the in crease in tone is so remarkable that he has substituted it for tbe steel springs with complete success. I think the idea one that merits further inquiry. The expense (if advantages are to be gained) should not deter those most interested in the matter. The harmonium tongues are made so thin that little extra outlay would be required, and with small loss, seeing that the old gold can be remelted. Let anyone take a disk of steel tbe size and thickness of a sovereign, throw it upon a wooden table so as to make it ring, then take a sovereign and beat it in tbe same way. The first will have a dull sound, as if the metal were cracked, and the second a bright metallic bell-ring. A still better test is to throw a piece of steel band on the floor, listen to the vibrations, then do the same with a strip of gold of the same size and density. Gold has been used for the strings of the virginal, with what effect I cannot say: everything depends on the gold being alloyed and hardened by draw ing down to the desired condition, in which it will stand nearly the same as steel. A Poetic story. There is a quite singular tact mc onnec tion with Stiles' hill, in the town of South bury, Conn, knowu to the country residents living within sight of that eminence. For six decades two tall elm trees stood side by side, a little distance apart, upon the topmost point of the elevation; these trees were visible for many miles around, and from this fact they became noted land marks. More than sixty years ago two little girls were wont to pass over the summit of this hill daily, during the summer season, to drive their father's cows to pasture. They were impre seed by the sightly attributes of the elevation, and often tarried to gaze at the wide-spread landscape. One day they conceived tho idea of planting each a tree upon the hill, which should be to them a reminder of their childhood days in the years to come. They put their idea into effect, and two slender elm shoots soon waved their green branches as sol itary sentinels in the open space round about. Y'ears passed by and the shoots grew into tall, stalwart trees. The girls grew to womanhood and passed out of the parental home into the great, wide world. Occasionally they would meet one another and allude to the living reminders of youthful days, and often they would visit the familiar haunts of their girlhood and would sit beneath the wide spreading branches of the mammoth elms. About five years ago one of tbe girls died, an aged lady of almost eighty. Scarcely had the intelligence of her death reached the neighborhood of her youth than the residents observed that one of the old elms was dying. Its leaves wilted and with ered as though scorched by flame, aud although midsummer yet the foliage fell to the ground, leaving the naked, lifeless branches and stock looking desolate enough. Decay quickly followed in the great tree, and during a high wind, one night the following winter, it fell to the earth. The other girl, although an octo genarian, still lives, and the old elm which she planted in her fresh young girlhood still lives. But the people, to whom the above circumstances are known, watcb it with interest, feeling that a sub tle relationship exists between the two lives, and that the one will cease with the other. Clearing tl-e Hay for Old Hickory. When President Jackson visited Hart ford, Ct., in June, 1833, among the inci dents of the day, which provoked consid erable merriment at the expense of the sufferers, was the following, related by a gentleman who witnessed it: As the Presi dent's party came in sight of the crowd at Skinner's Corner it was observed that three men in a wagon were riding abreast of Jackson's carriage, and while not designing to insult the distinguished visitors, their conduct was so boisterous as to annoy them, One of the assistant marshals requested them to fall back, but he was answered by a flat and profane refusal. General Pratt then rode up and asked them to take them selves out of the way. Another blast of profanity and an emphatic negative greeted this request. General Pratt's eyes flashed ominously. He was mounted on a fine, powerful horse, aud ha" ting until the wa gon containing the belligerents was a few yaids away, the General put spurs to his horse and charging upon the animal which was drawing the refractory three. He came up at full gallop, his horse stncking the other quarteringly on the foreshoulder with tremendous force. The horse was knocked down the embankment, .the wagon upset and partially wrecked, and the stub born occupants tound themselves sprawling on the ground. Although the shock of the collision was great, Pratt kept his seat as firmly as a rock, and the crowd cheered him lustily. Old Hickory could not re press a smile at the ludicrous scene as the three men took the unexpected tumble. There was a good deal of the Jackson snap in the performance, and possibly the Presi dent thought if he had been in General Pratt 's place, 44 1 would have done the sanje thing, by the Eternal!" MBBIM. There are many strange physiological phenomena; such as, for Instance, as what is known as imitative and curiosity manias, the one being an uncontrollable desire to do as we see others do, and the other an irresistible wish to see what oth ers see. History records many instances of these manias. One of the most remarkable of the first occurred in Aix-la-Chapelle and other cities in 1374, when an assemblage of persons appeared who had " danced their way through Germany." It was es timated, at one time, that there were 30C00 persons thus engaged. Its commencement was supposed to have been that a single in dividual, afflicted with some nervous dis ease, commenced dancing: others seeing him, in obedience to the desire, the mania, to act as others act, joined in the dance, which, in a short time, engaged the above extraordinary number of persons- In the same category may be placed the " biting nuns," who appeared in the convents of Germany, Holland and Rome in another century. This extended imitative mania arose simply from the act of one nun at tempting to bite a companion, and almost immediately the whole sisterhood com menced biting each other. So in regard to the "mewing nuns." A nun in a convent imitated the mewing of a cat. Other sis Vers commenced mew ing, until, finally, the whole sisterhood mewed in concert for hours at a time. Something similar to this, about sixty years ago, took place in our own country. At a camp-meeting held at Uaneridge, Kentucky, a man thought he could best serve the Lord by climbing a tree and barking like a squirrel. In a short time the imitative mania wised upon others, and the trees upon the camp-ground were soon covered with men barking in like manner. The curiosity mania leads to scenes, if not so ridiculous, quite as strange. A dscipated gambler by the name of John Law, killed a man in a duel in London, and escaped to Paris. The finances of France were in a deranged condition. In a short time he became famous as the great financier who had extracted that country from her difficulties. Such was the curi osity to see him that his carriage was sur rounded by thousands, so that a troop of horse had to clear the streets before he could proceed. Whenever men or women become noted, no matter for what, there exists in the public mind a curiosity to see them, and if there be an opportunity offer ed, it becomes a mania. Discovery of Bilk and Satin. The discovery of silk is attributed to one of the wives of the Emperor of China, Ho&ng-ti, who reigned about two thousand years before the Christian era; and since that time a special spot has always been allotted in the gardens of the Chinese royai palace to the cultivation of the mulbeny tree—called in Chinese the "golden tree" —and to the keeping of silk worms. The first silk diess in history was made, not fr a sovereign nor for a pretty woman, but for the monster in human shape, Helioga balus. Persian monks, who came to Constanti nople revealed to the Emperor Justinian the secret of the production of silk, and gave him some silk worms. From Greece the art passed into Italy at the end of the thirteenth century. When the Popes left Rome to settle at Avinton, France, they introduced into that country the secret which had been kept by the Italians; and Louis XL established at Tours a manu factory of silk fabrics. Francis I. founded the Lyons silk works, which, to this day, have kept the first rank. Henry IL, of France, wore the first pair of silk hose ever made, at the wedding of his sister. The word "satin" which in the original was applied to all silk stuffs in general, has, since tne last century, been used to desig nate only tissues which prevent a lust red surface. The discovery of this particular brilliant stuff was accidental. Octavio Mai, a silk-weaver, finding business very dull, and not knowing what to invent te give a new impulse to the trade, was one day pacing to and fro before his loom. Every time he passed the machine, with no definite object in view, he pulled little threads from the warp and put them to his mouth, which soon after he spat out. Later on, he found the little ball of silk ou the floor of his workshop, and was attract ed by the brilliant appearance of the threads. He repeated the experiment and by using certain mucilaginous preparations succeeded in giving new lustre to his tis sues. Something About Fans. KAN SI was the first lady who carried a fan. She lived in ages which are past, and for the most part forgotten, and she was the daughter of a Chinese Mandarin. Who ever saw a Mandarin, even on a tea chest, without his fan? In China and Japan to this day every one has a fan; and there are fans of all sorts for everybody. The Japanese waves his fan at you when he meets you, byway of greeting, and the beggar who solicits for alms has the ex ceedingly small coin "made on purpose" for charity presented to him on the tip of the fan. In ancient times, amongst the Greeks and Romans, fans seem to have been enormous; they were generally made of feathers, and carried by slaves over the heads of their masters and mistresses, to protect them from the sun, or waved about before them to stir the air. Catherine de Medicis caaried the first folding fan ever seen in France; and in the time of Louis the Fourteenth the fan was a gorgeous thing, often covered with jewels, and worth a small fortune. In Eng land they were the fashion in the time of Henry the Eighth. All his many wives carried them, and doubtless wept behind them. A fan set in diamonds was once giyen to Queen Elizabeth upon New-Year's Day. The Mexican feather fans whioh Cortes had from Montezuma were marvels of beauty; and in Spain a large black fan is the favorite. It is said that the use of the fan is as carefully taught in that country as any other branch of education, and that by a well-known code of signals a Spanish lady can carry on a long conversation with any one especially an admirer. The Japanese criminal of rank is polite ly executed by means of a fan. On being sentenced to death he is presented with a fan, which he must receive with a low bow, and as he bows, presto I the execu tioner draws his sword, and outs his head off. In fact, there is a fan for every oc casion in Japan. NO. 44.