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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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BKLLKPONTB, PA
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BELLEJONTE, PA
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BELLEFONTE, PA
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BELLEFONTE, PA
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a gephart,
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BELLEFONTE, PA
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j
BBLLEFONTE, PA
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MILLHEIM, PA.
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She pilthcim from
GUARD THE FACr.
Speak though the truth, let others feuA
And trim their words for pay ;
In pleasant sunshine of pretence
Let others bask their day.
Ouard thou the fact, though clouds of night
Down on thy sa ch-tower stoop,
Though thon shouldat mh< thy heart's delight
Borne from thee by their awooj*.
Face thou the wind : Though Si.fr seem
In shelter to abi la,
Wa were not made to alt and dream.
The safe must brat he tried.
Show thou the light. If conscience gleam.
Set uot thy bushol down.
The smalleet spark may send a beam
O'er hamlat, tower and town.
Woe nnto him on eafety bent.
Who creeps from age to jonth
Failing to grasp hia life's intent
Because he fears the truth.
Be true to every inmost thought.
And as thy thought, thy speech.
What thou bast not by striving bought
Presume thou not to teaoh.
Then etch wild gust the mist shall clear
We now see darkly through.
And j untitled at last appear
The true, in Him that's true.
Shot as a Robber.
Our tale opens in February of 1543, just
four months before the outbreak of the re
volution in France.
In a bit of a room on the fifth or sixth
floor of a humble house in one of the com
mon parts of Paris, and about SAX in the
morning (for your tiue Frenchman is an
early riser), a young man of about twenty
six might have been seen that summer
morning busy over a giowmg fire.
He was casting bullets. His face was
firm, and eveu noble, with a certain gentle
kindness, however, recommeuding it to
most who looked at him.
After a time he discontinued his work,
which was done very quietly, and the bul
lets he had made, together with the shining
gun, were hidden behind a loose portion
of the wainscoating.
Then taking a little earthenware pipkin,
he set to work and made a capital mesa of
brtad and milk, which he turned tuto a
white basin. Next he tarried it to an inner
notn, when he called "Granddad!"
In a moment an old niau staited from a
light sleep, and turned smilingly toward
the new comer
"Here is thy breakfast.,'
"Htaveu bless thee, George. Thou art
the light of my eyes! And what One bread
and milk it seem si Ah! hast thou had thy
own breakfast?"
"No. not yet. But why dost thou sigh,
granddad?''
"lo think i cannot earn my own living.
Ha! 'twas a pity 1 served my time at a
trade to winch my constitution was not
fitted! Here lam with fingers scarcely
stroog and limber enough to hold this basin
of bread ai d milk!
"Bab, Granddadl Thou didst work
when thou wast abie; and now I, tby only
descendent work as well as I can for thee.
I ouiy do my duty."
"Thou dost indeed, do thy duty. When
thy father, who married my daughter, was
killed by a wound received from a gend
arme, who mistook him, Innest fellow, for
a thief, when thy mother died, and 1 took
care of thee, never did I think 1 was pro
viding for my own early old age.'"'
"Bah! granddad. 1 was 100 young to
help you by the work of my hands. When
I was only eighteen I had escaped the con
scription, and so 1 took the place of another
and richer man, and became bis substiture
on condition of his paying you a little an
nuity. This kept you while I served as a
soldier, and keeps you now, when 1 am
free of the army, and am once more a cabi
net maker, getting my own living."
"An! but thou wouldst make more hadst
thou properly served thy time to thy
trade. Bnt 1 will not repine, and as I see
thy face is clouded, let us say no more on
this subject. Tell me, what means the
new sign-board of the little Knen-draper op
posite? He calls it 'The Sword of Breu
nus;" it was named The Purring Cat.'"
"Grnddad, you know the Romans came
into Gaul, and made our forefathers ihe.r
slavei. Well, after a time—a very long
time—Bret nus led us to Rome; and com
pelled the Romans to pay tribute; and as
Brennus saw them cheating with the
weights, he cast in his heavy sword and in
sisted upon its weight in gold beyond the
weights in the scale. So M. Lebreune has
taken this sword as his new sign—that of
an honest man."
"With a pretty daughter, George!"
laughed the grardsire.
But he became grave as lie saw his
grandson turn sadly away.
"What art thou going to do, to-day,
giandfatber?"
"1 shall take my walk on the Boule
vards."
"Don't dear grandfather, there may be
fighting to day. Tue people are angry.
Thou art too old to help, aud I beg thee to
keep at home."'
"But—"
George Duchene was gone before the old
grandfather could find words in which to
ask for an explanation.
Paris was angry. As the hours grew
there were threats in the very air.
Meanwhile George Duchene, who was
not working that day, was passing along a
quiet, but pleasant-looking street, when he
heard calls for help on the first floor of a
hotel.
"VelladaVvoice!" he cried. 'There can
be no question.
He hurried into the hotel;, where great
confusion was reigning among the waiters,
dashed up-stairs, and ran to the doors
which opened into rooms looking over the
street.
Three—four were unlocked, and yielded
to his hand. The fifth was fastened.
A moment, and he had burst the lock
apart.
It was she—Vallada—the daughter of
a linen-draper who had recently changed
his sign from the "Purring Cat" to "The
Sword of Brennus." It was she to whom
his grandfather had referred some hours
previously.
She had fainted, and lay on the divan at
the mercy of a handsome villain, who was
somewhat advanced toward a state of in
toxication, and who appeared stunned by
the sudden intrusion of the mere workman
who stood before him.
Bui only for a moment The next, the
MI LLIIEIM, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1881.
young rogue was fluug crushing to the
other side of the room. nd then George,
taking up a glass of water, dab I tied Valla,
da's forehead witli his wetted, honest right
hand.
"Mademoiselle! Look up! It is I
George Duchene, your ueightior. IX. not
be afraid."
The voice recalled her still wandering
senses.
''George!" site repeated, in a sweet, soft
voice which made his heart heat.
"Quick —let us leave this place!"
"Yes, yes, George—take me home!"
But the waiters below showed signs of
preventing their egress.
"My sister!" said George, making use
of one of those untruths wuich now ami
again must be used in extreme cases.
There was enough of human nature in
those servitors to cotiijx'l them to fall back
and let the couple pass into the street.
"Long la-fore he had reached her father's
house, he hail declared lus love and had
l>eeu accepted.
Aud when ouco they* had passed the
threshold and the old linen-draper Lebrenne
had heard what both had to say. the trader
a&id:
This decides me. I join the Insurrec
tionary movement. These aristocrats with
out aristocracy, aiul who have induced
the kiug to illtreat his subjects, must have
a lesson taught them. This Plournel is no
more a count than you or 1, M. George.
He fancies because his father made large
sums of money as an army contractor, that
Ik* is one of the nobility who can command
the utasnei "
"He said he was taking me to set; an old
schoolfellow of mine, who was ill," added
Veiled a.
That evening in the Hue St. Deuia, his
grandfather, Lebrenne, the lineiitdraper,
and his daughter had dined together when
tney were attracted by loud cries to the
street door.
In the distance approached a crowd, car
rying various arms, which glittered iu the
light of the torches grouped iu the centre
ot the people.
"l'o arms! Vengeance!" were the
shouts heard as the procesalou approached.
The torches lit up a wagon load of dead
men and women. Upon the butt-end of
the shafts stood a powerful liitui almost
naked to the waist, ami canyingn swinging
torch.
"To arms! Vengeance!" The soidletji
have fired upon the pe,ple!"
Burrouudiug the cart were citizens and
citizen soldiers beating arms.
They were marching to the palace to de
mand justice of the king, who was already
thinking of packing up the crown Jewels.
"It is time!" cried G< orge. "The R vo
lution ha* commenced! But a moment,
and 1 hold my gun! *
"And I join you!" cried tholincu-draper.
At this instant female cries dominated
even over that terrible d:n, and a woman
was seen battling with a young man.
Two or three about the cart of death,
seized both, aud brought them before the
mau striding from shaft to shaft
'•What is itr"he asked.
"So plcasj you, citizens, this man en
tered my shop and demanded money for
buying arms to fight in ihc Revolution; aud
when 1 offered him a piece of gold, seized
me, gagged me, and stole my gold. And
as he was escaping, I broke lrom my bonds
and seized him, and cried 'Help.' "
"It is true, 'cried the man, "I wanted
money to buy myself and companions
arms. This woman first gave me money
then repented, and now accuses me'.f theft,
My companions aud 1 have been seeking
all day for arms."
"Is that so?'' asked George. "How thcu
is it, that in the middle of the day, I res
cued my swe theart from your clutches?"
"'Tis false!"
*"Tis true!" said Yallada, advancing
fearlessly, "You are no workmau, but a
M. de Piournel, pretending to be a noble
man. "
"Death to thieves.'" cried a voice.
And a score of other angry voices re
peated the cry.
"True!"replied the men in the wagon;
"w. must show we are good citizens by
proving we are no thieves. What say you?
Shall he die?"
"Die!" shouted a hundred voices.
Vainly he screamed for his life; useless
that George asked for it; in vain the linen
draper urged the guilty man's youth in his
favor.
He was placed against the linen-draper's
shutters, a gun put to his temple, a crash
and he fell dead.
A paper was placed upon him bearing
the words: "shot as a kobbek."
When Louis Phillipjie had fled, and
Louis Napoleon became President of the
French Republic, Vallada aud George were
married.
We all know what politically happened.
Louis Napoleon betrayed the Republic;
pie tending to court the working men by
massacring the middle classes as they
walked on the boulevards; caused himself
to be proclaimed Emperor; and was finally
taken prisoner by the Germans. Then he
tied to England where he died.
George Duchene fell lighting for France,
and Vailada died of a wound while nursing
in one of the hospital during the first
siege of Pans. But their children have
reaped the benefit of their parents' and
forefathers' work, and live happily and
peacefully in regenerated France.
About Lace-
Jn the sixteenth century iace was a fa
vorite lover's bribe to an Abigail, Silvio
in the bill cf costs he sent to the widow of
Zelinda, at the termination of his unsuc
eessful suit, makes a charge for a "piec<
of Flanders lace" to her waiting-woman
Swift addressed a "young lady," in his pe
culiar strain: "And when you are among
yourselves, how naturally after the first
compliments, do you entertain yourselves
with the price and choice of lace, and ap
ply your hands to each other's lappets and
ruffles, as if the whole business of life ami
the public concern depended, on the cut of
your petticoats." Not satisfied with lace
when alive, both men ami women craved
for it as a decoration feu their grave
clothes. In Malta, Greece, and the lonian
Islands, the practice of burying people iu
lace acquired an unsavory reputation on
account of the custom of rifling the tombs
and selling the lace—often in a filthy con
dition—iu the market. At Palermo the
mummies in the catacombs of the Capuchin
Convent are adorned with lace, and in
Northern and Middle Europe this fashion
prevailed for a long period. In the church
of Revel lies the Due de Croy, a general of
Charles the Twelfth, in full costume, with
a rich flowing tie of fine guipures.
A llhm lmiioMor.
Hhoitly before three o'clock the otheraf
ternoon a farmer from the vicinity of
Hempstead appeared in front of the Stock
Exchange, Now York, and entered into
conversation with a citizen, who was wait
ing in the door, bv asking :
"The convention in there breaks up at
three o'clock, dou't it ?"
"Y'es, that's the hour," was the reply.
"Jki you know Jay Gould when you see
him"
"U!i, yes."
"Is he iu there?"
"1 presume so."
"\V ell, 1 wish you'd point him out to me
when he couie* out."
The citizen promised to do this, and
within a few minutes he kept his word.
The farmer took a square look at tue rail
road aud telegraph pnuoe, and then turned
and asked:
"Are ycu dead sure?"
"Oil, yea."
"Can't be no mistake ?"
"No."
"Well, it is about as 1 suspected. A
few days ago a great big slouch of a fellow
halted at my gate and begau measuring my
ground with a tape line, and squinting
around iu the most mysterious manner. 1
went out to see what was up, and, after
beating around for a while, he said he was
Juy Gould. I'd heard and read of Gould
but 1 diuu't kuow what he looked like."
"It must have beeu a fraud."
"1 am sure of that now; I pumped
around to find out what he was up to, aud
he finally said he wanted my place for an
orphan asylum, lie was going to build
one as .ig as a palace and take care of all
the orphaus iu the country."
"And of course, you treated him well?"
"Didn't 1! V\hy, for three days he
lived on the tat of the laud and slept in the
pailor bed-ruotu! He was going to give
me $25,000 for my land, aud the way we
kilied chickens aud turned out sweet cake
lor him made the eld woman sick. He
finally jumped the house aud took my buu
diy suit aud a fiddle worth SB."
"1 don't believe Gould would steal a fid
dle."
"That'z w hat I thought, and so 1 came
over to have a look at him. It wasn't
Gould ut all, but some base imposter."
"And you are so much out? '
"Wall, it looks that way, but the experi
ence is worth something. It may not be
u week before some one else will couie
along with a ten-foot pole in his hand aud
a theological seminary in his eye, and
claim to be Russell Sage, and the way 1
will knock uown and step ou him and
walk over him, aud drive bun iuto the sile,
will pay me a profit of fifty per cent ou the
investment.
A>n*rlci) it ml Jtrfllun Nututtr.
The quantity of native sumac, brought
into the market does not exceed about
8 000 tons yearly, and its market price is
only SSO per ton, just half the price of the
IlaiiHU product. fi-L? difference iu value
is due to the fact that the American sumac,
as at present prepared, is not suitable for
making the finer white leathers used for
gloves aud fancy shoes, owing to its giv
ing a disagreeable yellow or dirty color.
It has recently been shown, however, that
the leaves of native sumac gaht-red in
June und July, are* equal to the best for
e.gu leaves. The importance of this dis
covery may lie seen by the fact that the
cultivation of the plant may be carried on
most protitably in this country as soon as
manufactureis aud dealers recognize the
improvement thus obtained in the domestic
article, and by clasei lying it according to
its peicentage of tannic acid and its
relative freedom from coloring matter, ad
vance the price of that which is early
picked and carefully treated. In Italy the
siitnuc is planted iu shoots in the spring iu
rows, aud is cultivated in the same way
aid to about the same extent as corn. It
gives a ciop the second year after settiug
out, and regularly thereatter. The sumac
gatuered iu this country is taken mostly
lrom wild plauts urowiug on waste lanti,
but there is no reason why it should not be
utilized aud cultivated OL land uot valuable
lor other crops.
Aunt Jane at ilalir*x.
In was In the year 1-851. I was sailing
as second . ugineer on a Liverpool steamer
bouud for New York. When three days
out the chief engineer came down and
told us- stowaway had been found on
board.
1 didn't wait to hear any more, but went
upon deck like a skyrocket, and there 1
did tee a sight and no mistake. Every
man Juck of the crew, end what passeugcrs
we had on board, were ali in a ring on the
foreca Be, and in the miudle stood the first
male, iookin, as black as thunder, flight
in lront of him, iookin' a reg'lar mite
among all them big fellows, was a little
bit o'iad not ten years old—ragged as u
scarecrow, but with bright, curly hair atol
a bonnie little lace of his own, if it hadn't
brcn so woelul thin and pale.
But, bless your soul, to see the way the
little chap held his head up, and looked
about him you'd ha' thought the whole ship
belonged iO hiiiL The mute was a great
huikiu', black-bearded fellow, with a look
that would have frightened a horse, and a
voice fit to lintke one jump through a key
hole; but the young un warn't a bit atear
ed—he stood straight up, and looked him
full in the face with iliem bright, clear
eyes o' his , for all the world as if he was
Prince llmired himself. Folks did say
afterward (lowenug his voice to a whis
per) as how he coined o' better blood nor
what he ought; and, for my part, I'm
rather of that way o } thinking myself; lor
i never yet seed a common street llarab,
as they cal them now, carry it oil like him.
You might ha heard a pin drop as the mate
spoke.
4 Well, you young whelp," says he, in
his griuiunest voice, "wLat brought you
here! '*
"It was stepfather as done it," says the
boy, in a weak little voice, but as steady
as could be. "Father's dead, and mother's
married again, and my new father says as
liow he won't ha' no brats about eatin 1 up
his wages; and he stowed me away when
nobody warn't looking, and guv me soaie
grub to keep me goin' for a day or two till I
got to see. He says I'm to go to Aunt Jane,
at Halifax; and here's her address."
And with this he slips his hand into the
breast of his shirt, and out with a scrap o'
paper, awfully dirty and crumpled up, but
with the address on it right enough.
We all believed every word ou it, even
without the paper, for his look and his
voice, and the way he spoke, was enough
to show that there wasn't a ha'porth o' lyin'
in his whole skin. But the mate didn't
swallow the yarn at all; he only shrugged
his shoulders with a kind o' grin, as much
as to say: "I'm too old a bird to lie caught
with that kind of chaff;" and then he says
to him, "Look here, my lad; that's all very
flue, but it won't do here —some o' these
men o' mine are in the secret, and I mean
to have it out o' them. Now, you just
point out the man as slowed you away and
fed you, this very minute; if you don't it'll
be the worse for you."
The Ixiy looked up iu his bright fearless
way—it did ray heart good to look at him,
the brave little chap!—and says, quite
quietly. "I've told you the truth; 1 ain't
got no more to say."
The male says nothin', but he looks at
him for a minute, as if he see clear through
Uiui; aud then he laced round to the men,
lookm' blacker thau ever. "Reeve a rope
to llie yard!" he sings out, loud euough to
raise the dead; "Smart uow."
The men all looked at each other, as
much as to say, "What on earth is coming
now!" But on board of ship, o' course,
when you are told to do a thing you've got
to do it; so the rope was rove in a jiffy.
"Now, my lad," says the mate in a hard,
square kiud of voice, that made every
word seem like fitting a stone in a wall,
"you see that rope? Well, I'll give you
ten minutes to confess," and he look out
his watch and held it in his hand, "and if
you dou't tell the truth before the lime is
up, I'll hang >ou like a dog! '*
The crew all stared at one another as if
they couldn't believe their ears—l didn't
believe mine, I can tell ye—and then a
iotig growl went among them like a wild
beast wakin' out of a nap.
"Silence there!" shouts the mate, in a
voice like the roar of a northeaster. "Stand
by to run for'ard!" and with lus own hand
he put the noose around the boy's neck.
The little leilow never 11 inched a bit: but
there were some among the sailors, big
chaps as could ha' felled an ox, as shook
like leaves iu the wind. As for me, 1 be
thought myself of my curly-headed little
lad al home, and how it would be if any
one was to go for to hang him. And at
the very thought on it 1 tingled all over,
aud my fingers clinched themselves as if
they were a gnppin' somebody's throat.
I clutched hold o a handspike, aud held it
behind my back, all ready.
"Tom,' whispers the chief engineer to
me, "do you think he real/ means to do
it?"
"1 don't know," says I, through my
teeth; "but il he does he shall go first, if
1 swing lor it."
I've been in many an ugly scrape in my
time, bui 1 never fell half as bad as 1 did
then. Every minute seemed as long as a
dozen, And the lick of the mate's watch
reg'iar pricked my cars like a pin. The
men were very quiet, but there was a pre
cious ugly look on some of their faces; aud
I noticed that three or four on 'em kept
edging for'ard to where the mate was stand
in' in away tli&t meant mischief. As for
me, I made up my mind that if he did
go tor to hang the poor little chap, I'd kill
him on the spot ami Lake my chances.
"Eight minutes," says the mate, his
great, deep voice brcakiu' in upon the si
lence like the tone of a funeral bell. "If
you've got anything to confefs, my lad,
you'd best out with it, for yer time's near
ly up."
"I've told you the truth," answered the
boy, very pale, but as firui as ever." "May
1 say my prayers, please?"
The male nodded, and down goes the
poor little chap ou his kness, with that in
fernal rope about his neck ail the time, and
puts up his little hands to pray. 1 couldn''
make out what he raid —fact my head was
Id such a whirl that I hardly could have
known my own name—but I'll be bound
God heard it, every word. Then he got
up on his feet again, and puis his haud.-
behind him. and says he to the mate, quite
quietly, "1 am ready."
And then sir, the mate's hard, grim face
broke up all to once, like I've seed the ice
in the Baltic. He snatched up the boy iu
his arms aud kissed him; and burst out a
crying like a child; and 1 think there
warn't one of us as didn't do the same. 1
know I did, lor one.
"God bless you, my boy!" Bays he,
smoothin' the child's hair with his great
hard hand. "You're a true Englishman,
every inch of you; you wouldn't tell a lie
to save your life! Well, if so t>e as your
father cast you off, I'll be your father from
this day forth, and if I ever forget you,
then may G*xi forget me." And he kept
his word.
Dust.
Instances of caused by the ig
nition of carbonaceous dust floating in the
atmosphere have become so numerous that
such dust may be counted among the ex
plosives. &uch explosions are not uncom
mon in coal mines. An explosion was
caused iu Paris iu 1869 by the taking fire
of dust rising from a sack of starch which
was thrown down stairs and burst. Tbe
fatal explosion which took place in a candy
factory in New York city a few k years ago
was probably due to the starch dust float
ing in the room. The explosion of the flour
dust in the nilts at Minneapolis, Minn., in
1878, is another case in point. An explo
sion of malt dust recently took place iu a
brewery at Burloii-on-Trent, England;
finally, it has been suggested that the ex
plosion which signalized the breaking out
of the fire on the Seawanliaka was one of
coal dust, such as often takes place in our
stoves.
Facta Worth Keiiicraoerlng.
One thousand shingles laid four inches
to the weather will cover over one hundred
square feet of surface, and five pounds of
shiugle nails will fasten them on.
One fifth more siding and flooring Is
needed than the number of square feet to
be covered, because of the lap in the siding
and matching of the floor.
One thousand laths will cover seventy
yards 3f surface, and eleven pounds of lath
Lails will nail them on.
Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen bush
els of sand and one bushel of hair will make
enough mortar to plaster 100 square feet of
wall.
Five courses of brick will lay one fixit in
height on a chimney; nine bricks iu a course
will make a flue eight inches wide and
twenty inches long, and eight bricks in a
course will make a flue eight inches wide
and sixteen inches long.
—Chicago Is to have a sugar refin
ing company, with a capital of $750,-
000.
Disciplining the CM.
Grandma Slocum was busy over her
sewing in the warm, quiet air of the sit
ting-room, and grandpa was striving to
convince himself that he was reading the
weekly paper, despite a vague impression
tliat he was falling asleep, when both were
brought to their feet by a sudden crash in
the pantry. "It's that cat!" said grandpa.
But grandma, who seldom ventured to ex
press an opinion before looking into the
queatiou, said nothing aud hastened to the
scene of the disaster.
As she opened the door ol the pantry
the unfortunate cat darted out, and grand
pa, armed with the broom, started in pur
suit around the spacious kitchen. The
cat, however, was too nimble for his rather
clumsy movements, and he was abliged to
desist without having accomplished any
thing more than thoroughly frightening the
animal.
"I'd teach the critter I" he exclaimed.
"Forever on shelves and tables! Only
yesterday she chawed up the last chicken
you had laid away, and last week skimmed
half a dozen pans of milk! What's she
done now?"' and pushing open the pantry
door, he beheld his wife gazing sorrowful
ly down at the fragments ot several plates,
among which lay an old china teapot,
which had belonged to grandma's mother,
and was held in great reverence by the
family.
For a moment grandpa stood speechless
with indignation. lie was so lavish with
his tongue on ordinary occurrences he
could find nothing to say which could fully
exprets his mind on this occasion. When
he did speak, it was only to say, very
quietly:—
"1 wouldn't have taken any money for
that teapot."
Then he turned away, leaving grandma
to gather up the fragments, and went tut
10 the wood-pile to vent his feelings in
quick, heavy blows, continuing the exer
cise until night.
Meanwhile grandma had examined the
teapot aud thought it could be mended. To
lie sure, the nose and handle were broken
off, but if they were ingeniously put
tied on agaiu, it would still be service
able.
80,. very carefully, she cemented the
broken pieces together, placed the whole
behind the new stove that the joints might
harden, and returned to her sewing, where
at length, overcome by the warmth and
quiet, she fell asleep.
Al dusk grandpa came Into the kitchen
to set- if supper was about ready. Grand
ma was not in the room. His eye caught
he glimmer of white behind the stove.
"Nice kitty!" he said, coaxingly. "Pret
ty kitty! Did she want to be pelted ?
Weil, she should. Just let me get within
three feet on ye, and we'll see whether
there'll be any more crockery smashed!
Yes; po or kitty! Warn't satisfied with
satin' off a chiuy plate. Had to see what
was ou the shelves, hey f Let me get two
steps nearer, and I'll never ask another fa
vor of ye! Ni-i-ce kitty! Take THAT,
you varmint 1"
The heavy foot struck the object with
terrible force. There was a jingling crash,
grandma screamed, 4 and the ill-fated tea
pot scurried across the kitchen in fifty
pieces.
Grandpa was probably never so com
pletely surprised in his life. But in a mo
ment the ridiculousness of his performance
overcame him, and he dropped into a chair,
laughiug heartily.
lie made no further effort to discipline
the cat.
How Dlamand* are Made.
Professor H&nnay recently conceived the
possibility of finding a solvent lor carbon.
A gaseous solution nearly always yields
crystalline solid on withdrawing the sol
vent or lowering its solvent power, it was,
therefore, probable that the carbon might
be deposited in the crystalline condition.
Many exjieriments were made, but they
showed that ordinary carbon, such as char
coal, lampblack, or graphite is not affect
ed by tbe most probable solvents that oould
be thought ef, for chemical action takes
the place of solution. Duriog some ex
periments, Professor Ilannay noticed a
curious reaction, namely, when a gas con
taining carbon and hydrogen is heated un
der pressure in presence of certain metals,
the hydrogen is attracted by the metal, and
the carlton is left free. W hen this takes
place in presence of a stable compound
containing nitrogen, the whole being under
a red hea!, and under several thousands of
atmospheres of pressure, the carbon is so
acted upon by the nitrogen compound that
it is obtained in the clear, transparent form
of the diamond. The great difficulty lies
in the construction of an inclosing vessel,
strong enough to withstand the enormous
pressure and high temperature, tubes con
structed n the gnu-barrel principle (with
a wrought-iron coil) of only one-half inch
bore, and four inches external diameter,
being torn open in nine cases out of ten.
The carbon obtained in tbe unsuccessful
experiments is as hard as natural diamoud,
scratching all other crystals, and U does
not affect polarized light. Crystals have
been obtained with curved faces, belong
ing to the octahedral form, and di&mdnd is
the only substance crystalising in this man
ner. The crystals burn easily on tlun
platinum foil, over a good blow pipe, and
leave no residue, and after two days im
mersion in hydrofluoric acid, they show
no sign of dissolving, even when boiled,
On heating a splinter, even in the electric
arc it turned black—a very characteristic
reaction of the diamond. Lastly, a little
apparatus was constructed for effecting a
combustion of the crystals and determining
composition. The ordinary organic analy
sis method was used, but the diamond
pieces were laid on a thin piece of platinum
foil, and this was igui ed by an electric
current, and the combustion conducted in
pure oxygen. The result obtained was
thai the sample (14 milogrammes) contain
ed 97.86 per cent, of carbon, a very close
approximation, considering tbe suiali quan
tity employed. The announcement that
the long-predicted experiment—aitificial
formation of diamond—would be described
at a meeting of the Koyal Society has oc
casioned much excitement, but neither
dealers in diauiouds, nor the general pub
lic need disturb themselves. The process
is expensive, tedious, dangerous, and the
diamonds are as yet too su all to represent
anything beyohd a scientific value. Cheap
diamonds made by machinery are reserved
for some future generation.
—Brazil supplies the Uuited States
with BUU,OOO bags of coffee annually.
—The grain crop oi Italy is this year
rger by one-third than in 1879.
BoaMhold Adornmeiiu.
Bkeleton leaves ana crystallized grasses
for household adornment may be made as
follows: There is a slow and quick
method; the former Is by procuring the
natural decomposition of the pulpy sub
stance of the leaf oy exposure to light in a
dish of water, the quick method is by the
use of a weak alkaline destructive solution,
of which soda and lime are the active
agents. By the slow method one may
proceed as follows: The leaves are laid out
smoothly in a pan or dish, and covered
with rain-water two or three inches deep,
and are held down by means of sheets of
glass resting on small stones at the corners
by which they are prevented from pressing
too closely on the leaves. They are ex
posed to the sunlight in a warm window,
in two or three weeks they are examined,
and ail those that have become soft and
pulpy are removed to another dish to he
cleaned. The rest are left until they, too,
become soft. The softened leaves are
carefully removed one by one by being
floated on to a small sheet of glass; the
pulp is pressed out by means of a small
stiff painter's brush or a tooth brush, used
by tapping up and down and mot by a
sweeping motion. This breaks up the
pulp only, which is washed away by pour
ing water upon it from a small pitcher.
To make this convenient, the glass may be
placed on two wooden bars resting ou the
edges of a deep dish with a towel under it
to catch the splashings,
The quick method is as follows: Four
ounces of sal-soda are dissolved in a quart
of hot water, two ounces of quicklime are
added, and the whole boiled for 20 min
utes, The solution is cooled and strained.
The leaves are then boiled in this for one
hour, or until the pulp is easily removed,
when it is washed off as already mentioned.
The fibres remain, leaving a perfect skele
ton of frame-work of the leaf. This is
bleached by exposure to a solution of one
tablespouiiful of chloride of lime in a quart
of water, strained clear from sediment.
The skeletons are placed in a dish, covered
with this solution, and kept in a (lark
closet for two days l watching in the mean
time that the fibres are not softened too
much and thus injured. After bleaching,
the leaves are steeped in clear soft water
for a day, and then floated off upon a card
and placed between soft napkins until dry.
They are then ready to be finally pressed,
beat, curled, or arranged in bouquets or
groups. Crystallized grasses aud sprays
are made as follows: The bunches are first
arranged in a suitable in&uner, tied and
secured; a solution of four ounces of alum
to a quart of boiling water is made, and
when this has cooled to about 90 degrees,
or blood heat, the bunch of grass and leaves
is suspended in it, in a deep jar, from a
rod placed across the mouth of it; as the
liquid cools crystals of alum are deposited
upon every spray, the finer and weaker the
solution is made. This deposit of crystals
occurs m the cooling liquid, because hot
water dissolves more alum than cold water,
and as the water cols the excess of alum
forms crystals which attach themselves to
any fibrous matter in contact with it more
readily than to anything else. These crys
tals enlarge by accretion constantly, as
long as there is an excess of alum in the
solution. When the supply is exhausted
the solution is wanned and more slum is
dissolved in it; it is returned to the j&r and
the bunch of grasses is replaced. When
sufficiently covered with crystals it is taken
out and dned and is finished.
Bulgarian Hurow.
The three heroes ot the Bulgarian cam
paign who are enshrined in the hearts of
the Russians, are Todleben, Gourko, and
Skobeloff. Todleben is now in his sixtieth
yeai, having entered the engineer school in
St. Petersburg in 1806. During the Crimean
war he conducted the siege of operations
against biiistria, and the heroic defence ot
Sebastopol. At the outbreak of the pres
ent war he was considered an old.fogy, and
was shelved in the Engineer Department of
the Minister of War. When the staff
found out that Plevna could not be cap
tured by hurling solid regiments against
the mtrenebments, the veteran was called
to the front to conduct the investment.
Gourko is in his fiftieth year, and had seen
service in the Crimea, and Poland before
he made his dashing raid across the Bal
kans. tie commands the Imperial Guard,
the flower of the Russian Army, and has
borne a conspicuous part m the siege of
Plevna, Bkobeioff is the youngest Major
General in the servica, his age being thirty
two. tie won the nauie of dare-devil
during the campaign IU Khokand, and has
exposed himself recklessly during the pres
ent war. On ttie evening before the pass
age of the Danube at bimnitza, having
been requested by the Grand Duke to call
for volunteers from the first division of
Cossacks under his command to swim the
river and recounoitcr the opposite bank, he
piunged into the water at the head of a
small party ot ten men, and successfully
accomplished the required wora. He al
ways leads his men against the enemy,
lie saved what was left of the army that
a'tacked Osm&n late in July, and in the
desperate assaults upon the enemy's works,
early in September, fought like a second
Suwarrow.
He TbouffUt be bad ',
Sniffles brought his two weeks' spree to
a close on Thursday night, lie lay ou the
lounge in the parlor, feeling as mean as
sour lager, when something in the corner
of the room attracted his attention, tie
asked hoarsely:
"Mirandy, what is that?"
"What is what, Likey?"
Sniffles name is Lycurgus, and his wife
calls him Likey for short and sweet.
"Why that —that —thing in the corner/'
said the frightened man pointing at it with
a shaking hand.
"Likey dear, I see nothing," replied the
woman.
u What, don't you see it?" he shrieked.
"Then I've got 'em. Oh, heavensl bring
me the Bible. Mirandy, bring it quick!
Here, on this sacred book 1 swear never to
touch a drop of whisky. If I break my
vow, may my right hand cleave to the roof
of my mouth and—"
Here, catching another giimpee of the
terrible object he clutched his wife and
begged in piteous tones:
"Don't leave me; don't leave yout
Likey," and burying his face in the folds
of ber dress, he subbed himself into a trou
bled sleep.
Then his wife stole gently to the corner,
and picked up the toy snake and threw k
into the stove.
—There are 40,000 American books
i n the British Museum.
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