VOL. LY. PROFESSIONAL CARDS OF BELLEFONTE. C. T. Alexander" cTm. Bower. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office in German's new building. JOHN B. LINN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street. OLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Northwest corner of Diamond. YOCUM & HASTINGS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA High Street, opposite First National Bank. 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. ■yY II BUR F. REEDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA All bns ne>s promptly attended to. Collection of claims a speciality. J. A. Beaver. J. W. Gepbart. JgEAVER & GEPHART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA Office on Alleghany Street, North of High. yyr a. morrison, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA Office on Woodrlng's Block, Opposite court Hou^e. 8. KELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA Consultation* In English or German. Office In Lyon' - Building, Allegheny Street. JOHN G. LOVE, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE PA Office in the rooms formerly occupied by the late w. p. Wilson. BUSINESS CARDS OF MILLHKIM, &. 0 A. STUROIS, DEALER IN Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Itc. Ra pairing neatly and promptly done and war ranted. Main Street, opposite Bank, M.llhelm, Pa. A O DEIXINGER, * NOTARY PUBLIC. SCRIBMKR AND CONVEYANCER, MILLHEIM, PA. AU business entrusted to htm, such as wiitlqg and acknowledging Deeds, Morlgages, Release a, Ac., will be executed wnh neatness and dis patch. office on Main Street. XT H. TOMLINSON, DEALER 131 ALL KINDS OF Groceries, Notions, Drugs, Tobaccos, Cigars, Pine confectioneiles and everything in the itne of a first-class urocery stire. Country Produce taken In exchange for goods. Main Stieet, opposite Bank. Mlilhelm, Pa. y\AV!D I. BKOWN, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN TINWARE, STOVEPIPES, Ac., SPOUTING A SPECIALTY. •hop on Main Street, two houses cast of Bonk, Mlilhelm, Ponua. T EISENHUIH, ' JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, MILLHEIM, PA. AH business promptly attended to. ixillocttou of claims a specialty, onice opposite RlsenUuth's Drug Store. DEALERS IV Hardware. Stoves, Oils, Paints, Glass, Wa Paper-, coach Trimmings, and Saddlery Ware AC,. Ac. All grades of Patent Wheels, comer of Main and Penn streets, Mlilhelm, Peuiia. I ACOB WOLF, FASHIONABLE TAILOR, MILLHEIM, PA. Cutting a .specialty. Shop next door to Journal Book si ore, M ILLHEIM BANKING CO., MAIM STREET, MILLHEIM, PA A WALTER, Cashier. DAV. KRAPB, Pres. HAKTER, auctioneer, RJSBERSBURG, PA. Satisfaction Guaranteed. ok t piUbriM SHnmraL WITH THE SPRING. How eharp the eplrea upon h s hill! They rise againd the aunaet eky Like masts of ship#, that eaihu,' \ aat A sea of Hams, now auchored lie. But lo! a pilgrim in the path. That dlml) traood along the gtouud. Through orchard, mea low, pasture* bare, Wind* upward to the hilltop towu. Ah, what ia 1 fe eavo juit a path, A haaty walk for only one, And ohildhood. manhood, age. are field* Between na and the setting aim. That toiling traveler gaiua the hill, He weary walk* the village through ; Ai d now he aeerna amid the clouda, Aa if to heaven an angel dew ! O bit as the life that holy here Beyond the ridge of death has paaa. d, A shaded footpath now, but lu averlaaiiug )i*,h*. at la<t A Fall For Life. The merchant ship Druid, from Horn bay for London, lay becalmed ofl the west coast of Hindustan, between Goa and Man galore, where the Ghauts M luntains were seen, towering in savage grandeur thou sands of feet in aif, with wild torrents leaping down the rocks, flashing through the dark green shrubbery, and rush'u g with the din of thunder. 'lf the wind does not rise before to morrow morning we will have to aucbor," said the captain to Kobert Winfiald, a iiandsome young naval lieutenant on leave of absence from the frigate stationed at Bombay. '1 don't want to lny the ship's bones on the coast, nor do I like to get too near it. I haye heard bad stories of the natives there; at auy rate, I believe that almost every Hindoo is a thief and mur derer by nature.' Bell Upton, daughter of Major Upton, who was on his way home from his India regiment, on sick leave, heard the words, and, shuddering, drew oloser to her inva lid father. A quick glance was exchanged between her and the young naval lieutenant, whose reassuring look seemed at ouce to dispej her fears. Major Upton, noticing the giauce, frown ing, said to his daughter, 'Come, Bell, let us go below.' Winfield bad beeu a suitor of Bell's since she came to visit her father at Bombay, some months before. The girl favored him, but not so the major, who wanted her to choose a wealthy lover. Bell was beautiful, with a form of un rivaled grace, brown eyes, a clear, pearl white skin, with little color, and dark golden hair that fell in rippling masses over a pair of magnificent shoulders. The lieu tenant watched her admiringly until she disappeared in the cabin. 'No harm shall befall her, not while I live,' he thought, as he now glanced un easily towards the coast. 'We have arms aboard, have we not?' he added aloud to the captain. 'Ay, ay, sir ; but it is not likely we shall be attacked. We are full two leagues from the coast, and before we axe near enough to be boarded a breeze will spring up, 1 hare no doubt.' A few hours later night closed around the ship. The sky was covered by thick clouds which obscured the moon and seemed to betoken that a breeze would spring up before long. Meanwhile the ship having drifted a league nearer the coast, the lieutenant thought the captain very careless not to have more than his one lookout posted for ward on so dark a night. Before eleven o'clock the quarter-deck was deserted by ail save the oflicer ol the watch, a lazy fellow who was now stretched on the carpenter's chest, half asleep, while the watch forward, as Winfield (whostood leaning over the rail amidships) could per. ceive by the light of a lantern in the fore rigging, lay reclining on the hatch, some of them snoring. Not feeling sleepy, the lieutenant re solved to go aloft on the mizzen topsail yard and watch for the first sign of a breeze. Arrived on the yard, the gloom was so in tense that he could not see the waters be low, although he still gazed in that direc tion. Was it reality or imagination ? lie thought he could detect the dim outline of somethiug shooting around the ship's stern. He was about descending, when, the moon parting the clouds, a flood of silvery light was poured down on the ship and water, revealing a sight that filled the young man with horror—a scene so sudden and unexpected that his heart seemed to stand still. While he was aloft Bell Upton had come out on the quarter deck, and now stood with her back to the rail, about two feet from it, her head bowed as if in deep thought, so that her beautiful white face shene like polished ivory in the bright moonlight. Then unseen, unheard by the young girl, a Hindoo, with a long lithe body naked to the waist, had clambered up the side from a large canoe containing a half-dozen of his companions, and had contrived to glide, serpent-like, on the out side ot the ship until he had gained a po sition directly behind her, when he drew a large dirk, which he was now on the point of plunging into the snowy neck of the fair passenger, that she might not give an alarm! The lieutenant's hand clenched the yard like a vise, as he lieheld the young lady's peril. He must save her—he would save her, he thought; yet, how was it to be done ? To give an alarm would only has ten the girl's doom; to descend, no matter how quickly, by means of one of the bick- MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1881. stays, would be of no u c e, as she must per ish before he could reach the deck and at tempt to -tay the deadly hand. . There was uo t'me to lose, lu three seconds the dirk would descend, aud the girl would bo killed at one stroke, so that lie murderer's companions, who had al ready begun to ascend the vessel s side, could pounce on the drowsy male occupants of the deck, and, slaying them, make themselves masters of the ship almost he fore a warniug could ho given. Like a lightning flash, the Instinct of love, the resolution to save Bell iu some way from his immediate attack, scut a sudden thought through the brain of the agonized spectator. The Hindoo murderer, in his position on the outside of the ship, was under the yard, although about forty feet below hin, while the girl, standing two feet from the rail, was withiu easy reach of the native, whose arm aud body, as already stated, were drawn back from the bulwarks to give force to the meditated blow. The youug man, therefore, deemed it would be an easy mat ter to reach the Hindoo in the oulv way it could now be done wi h sufficient rapidity to prevent the accomplishment of his deadly purpose— away at ouce uovel aud despe rate, and which would, perhaps, involve his owu destruction. In a word, not hesitating to risk life or limb for the woman he loved. Lieutenant Winfleld resolved to drop down from near the end of the mizzen topsail yard upon the Hindoo, forty feet below, aud thus d ish him from the rail into the sea, perhaps killing himself, ere he could deal the fata! blow with the uplifted dirk. He would utter a shrill cry— a warning to the crew— as he cleavini the air, thus rousing them, perhaps, iu time to meet the attack of the robbers, aud ensure the further safety of Bell aud the ship. The emergency admitted of no delay. The young man, clutching the yard-arm near the end, hung by it a second to make sure be was in a line with the Hindoo be neath, then, just as the dirk was about to descend, he let go of the spar with a long, wild cry that pierced every corner of the ship, and down he went, cleaving through the air with terrible velocity. There was a whirling, rushing souni, then a loud thud as the heavy boot-heels of the falling body crushed Upon the head of the uative ere he could use his kuite, dashing him from the rail into the sea, aud killing him in stantly. The watch heard the warning cry of the lieutenant, aud before the other natives could recover from tbeir surprise at the oc currence which had so suddenly aud unex pectedly broken upon them, the decks were alive with the whole crew, and the entire gang of robbers beat a hasty retreat. Meanwhile Beil Uptou had been so be wildered by that sudden, fearful cry she had heard, and the subsequent splash of the bodies in the water, theu not until the boat was lowered anil the lieutenant, who had been struggling in the sea, was brought aboard aud into the cabin, to explain iu a faint voice how he had saved her life, did she clearly comprehend all that had hap pened. Then she threw herself down by the prostrate form of her lover, aud hung over him in agony, fearing that he was fatally injured. Soon, however, the doc tor gave cheering information lo the con trary. The young man bad sustained a fearful shock from his contact with the Hindoo's body, but as that body had offered little re sistance to his downward progress when he struck it, being simply driven before him into the sea, his lower limbs, although partially paralyzed for the time, were not broken. He had, however, fallen danger ously near to the rail. A roll of the ship to the other side, ere he could let go of the topsail yard to descend, would have caused him to fall on the bulwarks, when, of course, he would have been killed. 'Never before,' said the doctor, 'did 1 hear of such a daring performance.' 'Ay!' exclaimed Majoi Upton, 'God bless him! Here, Bell, he shall have you girl, for he has earned you.' He put both hands of his daughter in the lieutenant's, and turned his head away to hide a few tears upon his bronzed cheek. Immediately after the young man had been brought aboard, an off-shore breeze sprang up, enabling the captain to head seaward. In due time the vessel reached ber home port, wheu the lieutenant, who by this time had fully recovered from the effects of his fall, claimed his beautiful aud willing b-\de. Cutting ilaid Steei with Soft lion. About forty years ago, havh g beard that hard steel could be cut readily with a cir cular disk of sheet iron when driven at a high motion, I made a disk about ten in ches in diameter out of a pie:e of heavy slove-pipe iron, having a round eye at the center about one and a half inches in d ame ter. I then put a stick of hard wood in tie turning lathe, turned it off true, mak ing a wooden mandrel for holding this iron disk, just as a circular saw is held on a metallic mandrel. The periphery of the disk, after it was secured to the woodeo mandrel in the lathe, was ground and filed until it would run as true ai a millstone, l he disk was secured to the collar or shoul der of the wooden mandrel by putting four screws through the disk into the wood. While the disk was revolving at a high mo tion the soft sheet iron would cut oil a ten inch cold steel file in a few seconds. Af ter we were satisfied that so't iron would cut cold and hard steel (no matter how hard), the disk was put on one of the jour eals of a circular saw which was driven at a very high motion; and that disk was employed for many years afterward to gun* saws of ali sizes. A Sensible Wife, "How extravagant, Eugene!" said Utile Nettie liollis, one Saturday night, to her husband, as he stalked into the living room, loaded down by the weight of his purchases. "Wait and see first, love," he answered, lightly. "After you kuow what I have bought, you will not have that opinion Look at ibis," holding up to her view au elegant pattern of a new silk dress. "What do you think of that, my beauty ?" Now most women would have shown their approbation and pleasure in the warm est manner; but uot so Mrs. llollis. "Why, my old one that I was married in, is good yet. Why. did you buy this wheu times are so hard f Aud only yes teiday 1 heard you say that the shop would bave to suspend operations for a few mouths soon." "I know dear; but you bave worn that dress ever since we were married, uearly a year. It is time, I think, that you had a new one." "But the times 1" "Oh, botber the times! We have the lease of this little house for a year uud 1 guess we can live through it somehow ; besides our credit is good to an unlimited extent." "Well, love, it is a nice present," said Mrs. Holiis, holding the shimmering fabiic to the light. But no supremely satisfied look passu! across her face, aud ahoitly afterwards the dress was put away with a sigh. Eugene Holiis, like thousauds of other young men working on a salary, had mar ried the woman of his choice, and settled down into a staid, sober, home-loving man. He was open-hearted by nature, and de lighted to see his little wife look well, though he had to run in debt for it Mow, though he knew it uot, iLis said wife was a perfect utile heroine, and well worth her weight in gold. The time cuuie shortly afterwards, that ooth had feared ; the shop nad closed for a few weeks, which time run into mouths and still no signs of work. People that Eugene bad traded with sold out. in disgust, while strangers filled their places. With them credit was an impossibility, and Eugene iloliis soon had the mortification of being reduced to his last ptmuy. It was high time that tojiuclhiug should be done, or the little! woman he had vowed lo shield from all harm would suf fer. To this end he went through the city, and in o every imaginable place where there was a likelihood of earning au hon est living. But hundreds were there before hini, and one evening about dusk fjpund him wend ing lus way, foot-sore ani weary, towards home, lie brought no money noi provis ions with him, for the lati penny he had was paid out a week befoie. But what a contrast hi found in the happy, eoutenloHhtace of hi* wif* io hi* own despairing condition. "Come, love, supper is ready ; sit down at once, before it gets cold," she said, Kindly, noticing from the woe-begone look that he had not succeeded. ••Supper! What can we make supper of, except the imagination that one ought to be I" was the morose remark. "Oh, there is the ham that you purchased the other day, and then the potatoes are not out yet,'" she smilingly said "Be sides, there are enough left for several meals." Eugene thought a good deal, out said nothing; he was quite positive that the last potato had goue a week before. But Ir.s wife kept right on talking as merrily as if they had a house full of plenty in stead of want. So he mentally decided that she had received a loan from some relative, which fact she wished to keep to herself. So matters went on day after day, but still no work or signs of work. There were others in the same condition as Eu gene, so he had the comfort of knowing he was not alone in his woe. He always went away at the usual work ing hour, and spent ihe time hunting in the cheerless round alter work ; but when he came back again at night, his wife always met him the same as ever. It had become an established fact in his mind that outside help of some kind was provided for them in sufficient amount to keep them from starving. The bacon never ran quite short or the potatoes either, for that matter, and they were relieved now and then by a steak or chop. He wus too proud to take any notice of this strange fact outwardly, and his little wite never meant that he should, always changing the subject if it came up in tbeir conversations, leading him to believe that Buie well to-do uncle whom he had never heard of, was at the bottom of it. But this stale was not to last always. When a man is honest and sober, and is willing lo do auytliiug, he is capable of doimr, a streak of sunshine in the shade of success is sure to crow n his efforts at last. Eugene Hollis, at his trade as an en graver, was a skilled workman in every branch, and in fair times commanded a good salary. He now felt himself in luck when the position to drive a coal cart at three shill ings tier day was offered him. "Good news 1 Good news!'" he shouted, rushing into his home, and searching for his wite. Where was she? The rooms were de sert ed. But no, the attic door was open. Through it he went, and up the short llight of stairs. There sat Nettie, patiently and rapidly propelling a sewing machine under ihe light from the narrow panes let into the sloping roof. "Why, Nettie, where did you get that?" he asked, completely taken aback at the discovery. "I bought it, love," was the hesitating response. "1 did not know we had uiont y enough to buy a sewing machine, dear." "Do you remember that silk dress you bought me a long time ago—just before the shop closed V "Why certainly," "Well, one day Mrs. Morse called up to see me, and fell in love with it. When she found I would sell it at a much lower figure than the pattern could be purchased for at the linen-draper's she offered to take bo you see I Lad enough money to bu'j this machine, with which I have found mofe or less work to do ever since." "Nettie, my noble little wife ! So you i sacriiieed your own new dress for me, the giver! I am not worthy of you, my price less jewel 1 I am not worthy of you 1" Then the strong man's feelings gave way, and his voice failed him. "This shall never happen again, Net tie," he said at last, joyful'y. "I have ob tained work now that will last until the shop opens. Then you shall be my banker; for lam satisfied you will take care of my wages much belter tbau I can.-' That night new projects for the future weie formed—a future, smoother than the past had been. liaar mud Uitulel Wttbater. In the winter of 1848-44 deer were quite pleuty in Plymouth woods. Daniel Web ster was then at Marsbfield. Word was sent lo him that the Kingston gang was going on a deer hunt the day before ]'hauks givmg, with an iuvitation for him to join us, aud all were to meet at the old flaxing place at Smelt Pond at sunrise, sharp. By 8 o'clock his Honor appeared with a gen tleman friend ; and Samuel and Waldo F., Uncle Thomas B. and my father and my self. We all had old-fashioned king's arms, percussioned, except Mr. Webster and his friend, who had double guns. It was a fine frosty morning, and our parly lively. We had two good hounds. Sam uel and Waldo were to take the hounds and drive Watson's valley. Uncle Tom was to duve over and take Nick's Hock stand. The rest of us were to hurry over to the Carver road and to string out at the guide-board crossing. We had scarcely reached our places before we heard the welcome voices of the hounds in full cry, and soon the thundering echoes of two king's arms at the head of Watson's valley, aud then echoing down the valley came "Whoop-oh-whoop-oh! Look out, look out!" The hounds were coming directly towards us. I soon detected something coming down the blind road at my right, aud when withiu forty yards it stopped be hind a bush. I shot at the fellow I saw, when almost immediately two deer came out of the bushes at my left and crossed the road within a few yards of me. My father, who stood OB my right, and Mr. Webster aud friend, who stood at my left, ail fired, and one deer fell. I ran into the woods where 1 had shot, and, not finding auy thing, returned, to find that Mr. Web ster and friend had jumped into their wagon and run their horses to West Pond road to intercept the other de r at the crossing, as the dogs had gone in the track of the other. Father'advised me to hurry on aud he would stay there with the dead deer, uud wait for Sam and Waldo to come up. Uncle Tom had come up and kept on in his carriage toward We.it Pond, and while he was driving the deer came within gun shot, and he shot at it from his wagon. 1, bearing the dogs, hurried back. The deer jumped into the road some ninety yards off and we all fired. The deer fell, but gained his feet and bounded away, falling at every jump. Hounding up the rad wc all chased it except father, who reloaded, and, run ning the old mare, overtook and shot the deer. We now had a joyful lunch, wash rng it down with something good from Mr. Webster's lunch basket. Then we con cluded to start for home, as it was about 2 o'chick. We decided that Mr. Webster aud his friend had shot the buck, aud my father had sliot the doe. Mr. Webster gave us #1 each, aud he and bis friend took the buck, which was a nice one, and father gave the other two men fifty cents each aud took the doe, astlireeof us were at my father's, i, feeling a little dissatisfied at my first shot, took one of the hounds aud went up the blind road wheie I first shot. The hound, snuffing arouud, soon found a large red fox, dead within ten feet of where I shot at him. We now took our bells from our wagon boxes aud reiurue i home jingling, as was the custom, if suc cessful. lh AIMMX >u. Dr. Fletcher recently delivered an inter esting lecture on the Amazon river and its valley. He said, perhaps, all things con sidered, the valley of the Amazon, with its virgin forestß, its mighty rivers, and its happyclimo 'where eternal summer dwells,' is the most interesting portion of our globe betwixt 'Cancer' and 'Capricorn.' Dr. Fletcher took his audience up the ma jestic stream which the Tamoyo Indians called the 'king of waters,' and to which the civilized world gives the misnomer of the 'Amazon,' or, as in the Portuguese and Spanish languages, 'the river of the Ama zons. ' Dr. Fletcher gave a rapid sketch of the discovery of the river in 1542, by Orel lana, an officer under Gonzalo Pizarro, who descended the river from Peru to the Atlantic, and encountering the Indians dressed in full war costume thought they were women-warriors, hence the misnomer. The fabled story of the city of the El Do raao. or gilded king, was narrated along with other incidents of history. Dr. Fletcher gave much information concerning the physical features of the great valley, how the trade winds give a constant supply of water which fills the vart system of rivers. There are more thau 20,000 miles of steamboat navigation below and above all falls. The building of a railroad around the rapids of the river Madeira gives steam navigation into the heart of Bolivia. The gentle declivity of the main stream is re markable, only an inch to the miie, wl ich, , the lecturer remarked, 'makes it the finest steamboat river in the world.' The size of the valley is astonishing. It covers two-thirds ef Brazil, three-fourths of Bolivia, two thirds of Peru, three fourths of Ecquador, and one-third of the States of Colombia. Its area is more than twice that of the val ley of the Mississippi, and is equal ti that of the United Sttt3B minus the sta'ts of Ca'ifornia and Oregon, and Washington lYriitory. Alfred R. Wal lace, the English traveler, says that more people can be supported in the valley of the Amazon than in any other equal space upon our globe. The climate is not ex treme. In three visits to the Amazon Dr. Fletcher never found the thermometer in dicating higher than 87 degrees Fahrenheit." Everything that Chn be cultivated in the tropics can be produced there, while the spontaneous productions of this region, in tne shape of India rubher, sarsiparilla, ipe cacuana, copaiva, vanilla, Brazil nuts, cabinet and dye woods, are inexhaustible. Only the narrow spirit of the Portuguese, which excluded all other tfian their own subjects until within the first quarter of this century, kept this region uninhabited. Ever now that vast valley has not a half million inhabitants, but it is waking up under the broad policy of the present emperor. Curiosities of 100. In 1850 Mr. Faraday discovered that two pieces of ice placed in contact froze to gether almost instantly. Mr. Tyndall says, "One hot summer day I entered a shop on the Stand; in the window fragments of ice were lying in a basin. The tradesman gave me permission to take the pieces of ice in my own hand; holding the first piece 1 attached all the other pieces in the basin to it. The thermometer was then sixty de grees, and yet all the pieces were Irozen together. "Iu this way Mr. Tyndall form ed a chain of ice. This experiment may be made even in hot water. Throw two pieces of ice in a pail full of almost boiling water, keep them in contact and If hey will freeze together in despite of the high tem perature. Mr. Faraday made an other ex periment of the same sort. He threw into a vessel full of water several small pieces of ice. They floated on the surface of the water. The moment one piece touched anotiier there was au instantaneous reireez ing Attraction soon brougiit all the pieces in contact, so that in an instant an ice chain was formed. An ice wheel turning on a surface of ice refreezea at the point of contact; during the rotation a series of cracks are heard which show the ear that successive refree zings are constantly taking place. The pnenomeuon of refreezing is easily explain ed. *At the surface of a piece of ice the atoms, which are no longer in equilibrium on the outside, tend to leave their neigh bora, as happens in boiling or evaporation. Melting ensues. But if two pieces of ice are brought together the atoms on the sur face are restored to their equilibrium, the attractive action becomes what it was, the atoms resume their relations with their neighbors and juxtaposition ensues. In consequence of this property ice is endow ed wiin singular plasticity. A rope and a knot or buckle made be made of ice. It may be molded. The school boy who fills his hands with snow aud compresses it into a bail produces tbe phenomenon of refreez • ing, and forms an ice ball sufficiently hard to be a dangerous projectile. This explains the extraordinary rigidity of the briuge* of snow which are often seen iu the Alps suspended over deep crevices, ihe Alpiue guides, by cautiously walking on these snowy masses, freeze the parti cles together and transform the snow into ice. If snow be compressed in molds, ice statuettes may be obtained. Fill a hollow bail with snow, pressed in as hard as possi ble, and you may obtain ice balls admira bly t'ausiucid. Nothing would be easier i ban to dine with a service made of molded snow—plates, glasses, decanters, ail of snow. A gentleman in Paris recently served sherry wine to his friends before a not fire iu beakers made of snow. Bnow compressed in this way doerf not melt so rapidly as might be thought. Ice requires a great deal ot heat before it melts. A layer of ice otien becomes a protection again t cold. If jx>u would prevent any thing from sinking to a temperature below thirty-two degrees dur.ng tile very severest frosts,we kuow you have but to wrap it in wet rags. The process of freezing gives to the envi roning bodies ail the heat necessary to de stroy it. The water in the rags slowly i orrns small pieces ol ice on the rag, and in tne meantime disengages heal, which warms tne object wrapped in the rags. A tree wrapped in rags, or in moss satu r;oed with water, does not freeze even when the thermometer is several degrees beam the lreezing point. The slowness with which ice melts is well known. Dur ing the winter 1740 the Czar built at St. Petersburg a magnificent palace of ice, which lasted several years. Bince then cannons have been loaded with bails and fired. They were fired ten tunes without bursting. It is consequently indisputable that ice melts slowly, and may be turned to good account in the polar regions, lu Liberia tne windows have panes of ice. The remarkable property with which par ticles of ice are endowed of molding them selves into different shapes by reireczing easily explains how glaciers make their way through uurrow gorges aud expand in valleys. Tne ice is broaen into I ragmen is which refreeze whsuever they touch. I>UUUI. The term "Bedlam" so often applied to lunatic asylums, is merely a corruption of Betheieheui, a hospital of that name hav ing been set apart in London three centu ries ago for the treatment of such patients. It need hardly be mentioned that msanity is a disease due to high mental cultivation. In Scotland the proportion is oue to 6(13, while in England, where there is less cul ture, it is one to 788. In our own country it is one to 750. it is never found, how ever, among barbarians. There are but few lunatics in iudia, and in countries de • prived of political liberty, such as italy and Austria, the propuition is very small. Among the more noted instances may be 4. eniioned George 111., whose mind was disordered during the last thirty years of his life. Dr. Brown, former superintend ent of the Bloouiiagdale (Mew York) Asy lum, became a victim of the disease which he was treating, and the constant study of insanity led to Uis own mental wreck. Hor ace Greeley's case is too well known to re quire detail. Gcrrut Smith, the famous philanthropist, was at one time deranged, aud was during this attack an inmate ol the Utica Asylum, James Otis, the revo lutionary patriot, became deranged in his latter days, and while in this condition, was aided by a stroke of lightumg. American statesmen have been remarkably exempt from this calamity. A Shrewd Vac. A gentleman who took a trip into the country yesterday, when on the plains a mile from any house, noticed a cat, a huge one, almost as large as a fair-sized dog. It was lying upon the ground, its feet upper most iu such away that he had no doubt that it had fallen a victim to some vicious dog. Around it feeding unsuspectingly, was a flock of young birds. The apparently lifeless cat was within range of the vision of the observer for some time, and just as he was thinking how much easier it would be for the animal to feign death and catch a bird by deceiving it than by slipping up to it, he was astonished to see the cat suddenly roll over aud grab one of the feathered tribe tnat was very near, lhe other birds flew away a hundred yards or so and alighted. The cat only made one or two mouthfuls of the game, and then crept around to the windward of the birds, laid itself out again, and once more successfully played the dead dodge. The gentleman drove away without seeing how many birds it took to satisfy the feline. TrMd by a Boar. Mr. Field and Mr. Safenbery started down to Mancos, Colorado, to locate some farms, and having selected our ohoice we went over to the hedge o! the valley to look for house timber, where we encoun tered a herd of deer. I had not gone over a thousand yards when a great big bear track caught my gaze, which made my hair stand straight on end. I cannot ex plain to you how I looked, but can assure you had that bear seen me just then i should never have got a look at him, to say nothing about a shot. However, I wanted to see and shoot a grizzly, and forgetting all about tbe deer and my friend, I fol lowed the track and did not go over half a mile when 1 spied Bruin resting under a tree. 1 was within Ave hundred yards of him. 1 bred, but missed him. He got up and ran off. This made me a little more courageous and induced me to follow on. I had traveled about two miles and was just entering a large p&teh of small cedars when I saw him walking leisurely about a hundred yards ahead of me. This was my time. I was just in the act of firing when he heard me, stopped and looked around at me, as thougn to better receive the contents of my rifle, which told with good effect as you wiil see. As soon as i had fired he turned and made for me. i tried to get another cartridge into the rifle, but could not do it quick enough, so real lizing my danger 1 made for a tree which tried to climb with rifle in hand, but being unable to do this 1 was obliged to drop it. I had got up the tree about eight feet, when he passed under it at the rate of about 20 miles an hour, and having lost sight of me returned and took the trail that I came in on. As he passed the tree the second time 1 could see the blood ooz ing from his right side which lett a orim son mark on the snow, and knew from this that he was Dadiy wounded By this time I was about thirty feet up tbe tree and felt much better. When he got out of sight I descended irotn my nlace of refuge to follow on again, but being just a little bit scared 1 did not like to veuture alone, so 1 re turned to the place where I left my friend, whom 1 found sitting on a large deer, which he had shot, waning for me. Hav ing lost all his cartridges 1 told him briefly of what had transpired, and arming him self with a small axe, we both took the trail. We did not travel far from the scene of conflict until we saw Mr. Grizzly reposing under a tree. As soon as he saw us he made a bold charge at us which com pelled both oi us to climb a tree in quick order, though this time I succeeded in tak ing my rifle. He did not come all the way and was on the point of turning when a well-aimed bullet from my rifle entered his head and killed him. We hauled him home with a horse, where the boys took off his skin. 1 never saw any kind of meat so fat—it was just like pork. He dressed ueail,' SIX bnmWri poiuvda, tu largest Dear killed here for many years. Bans *vs Prof. Leidy, in company with Dr. Porter of East on, Penn., visited in August last Harunan's cave, near Stroudsville, Penn., on the invitation of D. T. Paret of tnat place, and examined a number of interest ing animal and other remains which were found there. The cave is partly flUed with a bed of clay 10 fc et deep, on which rests a thin layer of stalagmite, and on this about a foot of black, friable earth min gled with animal and vegetable remains. The cave appears to have been too small to be inhabited by the larger caroivora, and no large entire bones of them were found, but about half a bushel of fragments and splinters of limb boues of smaller and large animals have been collected, many of which exhibit marks of having been gnawed, whether by rodents or small car nivore Prof. Leidy does not assume to de cide. Some of the splinters are derived iroui such large and strong bones that it is questionable whether even the largest car nivore could have produced them, and are presumed to be remnants of human feasts, in which the bones were crashed to obtain the marrow. A tew of the bones are some what charred, among them a small frag ment ola bison's jaw with a molar tooth. Most of the bones are of species still living, but some of them, as the jaws of the rein deer, bison and wood-ret, are of annuals no longer belonging to the fauna of the siate; and a few, as the teeth of the Oaste roides Uhioensis and the jaws of a young peccary, are of extinct animals. None of the remains hive been identified as posi tively per.aiumg to our domestic animals unless two of the tee*b may be those of a I® ai or new-born horse. The vegetable remains include a few small fragments of charcoal and seeds of dogwood, pig-nut and walnut. Remains of human wora. were found—a large stone, celt of hard brown slate, from tee bone earth some dis tance within tne cave—fine bone awls, some of them gnawed; the prong of an antler, worked so as to be barbed on one side; a needle of bone resem oling a cro cnet needle, a fish hook of bone, and a cone shell, of a species found on the west ern coast of Oeniral America, bored through the axis as a head. "rut on The Indian custom u to outcher prison ers taken in battle. Such, however, was not the practice of Tecumseh, the great chief, who, as an ally of the British, fought against us in 'he war of 1812. He hated the Americans, but he fought as a warrior, not as a Thug. in 1818, Col. Dudley, while attempting to relieve Fort Meigs, where Gen. Harrison was besieged by British and Indians, was defeated with great slaugnter. As usual the Indians began killing the American prisoners. Gen. Procter, the British com mander, loosed coolly on and made no ef fort to restrain them. Suddenly a voice sounded like a clap of thunder, and Tecumseh, mounted on a foaming horse, dashed among the butchers. Iwo Indians were in the act of killing a prisoner. Springing from his horse, Te cumseh seized one Indian by the throat and the other by the breast and threw them 30 the ground. Drawing tomahawk and scalping, knife, he any Indian to touch another pris oner. A chief disobeyed, and Tecumseh brained him with his tomakawk. The Indians su lenly desisted "What will become of my Indians ?" he exclaimed. Then, turning to Procter, who stood near, he sternly demand.d why he had not put a stop to the massacre. "Your Indians cannot be command,d,'' replied the General. "Go away! You are not fit to com mand. Put on petticoats!'' was the scorn ful reply. NO. 16.
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