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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.
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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.
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' 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.
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* 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.