VOL. LV.
BARTER,
AUCTIONEER,
REBERSBURG, PA.
J C. SPRINGER,
Fashionable Barber,
Next Door to JOURNAL Store,
MILLHVIH, TA.
JgROCKERHOFF HOUSE,
(Opposite Court House.)
H. BROCKEBHOFF, Proprietor.
WM. MCKRKVXR, Manager.
Good sample rooms eu first floor.
Free bus to and from all trains.
Special rates to jurors and witnesses.
Strictly First Class.
IRVIN HOUSE.
(Most Central Hotel In the City,)
Corner MAIN and JAY Streets,
Lock Haven, Fa.
8. WOODS CALWKLL, Proprietor.
Good Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers on first floor.
D. H. MINGLE,
Physician and Surgeon,
MAIN Street, MILLHICIM, Fa.
D R JOHN F * hartek
PRACTICAL DENTIST,
Office in 2d story of Tomlinson's Gro
cery Store,
On MAIN Street, MILT.HKIM, Pa.
BF. KISTF.R.
• FASHIONABLE BOOT A SHOE MAKER
Shop next door to Foote's Store, Main St.,
Boots, Shoes and Gaiters made to order, and sat
isfactory work guaranteed. Repairing done prompt
ly and cheaply, and in a Qeat style.
S. R. PSALB. H. A. MCKEK.
PEALE & MeK EE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office opposite Court House, Bellefonte, PA.
C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BBLLEFONTE, PA.
Office In Garm&n's new building.
JOHN B. LINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Allegheny Street.
QLEMENT DALE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Northwest corner of Diamond.
H. HASTINGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Allegheny Street, 2 doors west of office
formerly occupied by the lute firm of \ ocum •
Hastings.
C. HEINLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Practices In all the courts of Centre County.
Speaal attention to collections. Consultations
in German or English.
F. REEDER,
ATTORNEY AT LA W.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
All business promptly attended to. Collection
of claims a speciality.
J. A. Beaver. J W. Gephart.
JgEAVER & GEPHART,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Alleghany Street, North of High.
A. MORRISON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Woodrlng's Block, Opposite Court
House. '
S. KELLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA,
Consultations in English or German. Offloe
In Lyon's Building, Allegheny Street.
JOHN G. LOVE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
<J> BELLEFONTE, PA. •
Office in the rooms formerly occupied hy the
late w. p. Wilson.
AN UNHUNG UICTURtC.
Only a landscape, beauUful with the gnu* of a
summer's day,
And blight with the glow of the sunshine over
the lawn at play.
An old house, sheltered and guarded by tnauy a
stately tree.
Whose leaves with the summer breesos are flut
tering merrily.
White daisies cover the greensward, and golden
buttercups He,
Where clover blossoms are growing under the
azure sky.
There are bees m the fields and pastures, and
butterflies on the wing.
And many a nest 111 the tree-lops, where blrdlluga
are learning to slug.
There's a meadow slope in the distance, where
cows are browsing all day,
Aud a brook through ferns and wild grasses mer
rily coursing its way.
Think not (/ picture was painted for silent gal
lery wails.
Where only through guarded windows the sun
light charily falls.
Ah.no! for I stand in the doorway and breathe
the free fragrant air,
Aud hark to the sweet sounds of nature while
viewing my picture so fair.
Its beauty can never be bounded by frame of ebon
or gold,
And the scenes so gladsome to look at never grow
weary or old.
Thus I cherish the lx>auufiil picture which Nature
painted for me,
And my life will borrow the sunshine it scatters
so joyously.
OI'K OI'TING.
Sally Taut> and I had calculated on
having an outing for quite a considera
ble time, but one thiHg or anotner kept
putting it off, and so it got to be June
before Sally Jane and I got a chance for
our holiday.
But one Monday, as we were helping
with the starched things, Sally Jane said
to me—
"Jemmy,"—my name is Jemima, but
it is such a solemn name for common
use that I'm always called Jouiniy—
-44 Jemmy, to-day's wash day, and to
morrow is ironing day, and Wednesday
finishing up, and Thursday baking, and
Friday sweeping day, but don't you
think we could get old Mrs. Rubby to
come over and scrub a Saturday, and
have our outing then?"
So I considered a minute, and said—
-44 Well. Sally, I shouldn't wonder."
So we settled that we would
And as we had fifteen dollars we'd
made out of pot-cbeeee, why, we felt in
dependent and wouldn't lie obliged to
ask any one for anything, which is a
great comfort to two single young wo
men, liviug with an uncle as close and
careful with his money as Uncle Jeffries
is.
That night 1 told Aunt Jetlriea that
Sally ad I were going to take our out
ing on Saturday and go to New York,
and she looked* solum, and said in a
loud whisper to uolxxly in away she
has that makes you think of ghosts—
44When I was a gal, young women
was keepers at home and not gadders
about."
But I just poked Sally under the
table with my foot not to say anything,
and we both knew that, old as she was,
Aunt Jeffries went out ten times to my
once.
We had hired Mrs. Rubby ourselves,
but we didn't make any remark.
We were to take our outing Satur
day, and to be up, bright and early, to
take tlie stage for the five o'clock train.
It is singular how news fties.
Before Tuesday night everylxxly in
the county seemed to have found out
we were going to New York, and folks
began to call m with commissions for
us.
Mrs. Potter wanted a new muslin and
Pamelia Potter wanted nine yards of
sky-blue ribbon, and old Mrs. Jake
wanted a new crape veil, and Martha
Tack a Japanese umbrella, and Miss
Guild the minister's sister, she wanted
ten copies of the 4 4 Advice to Young
Gal's" for the ten best Sunday scholars
at vacation, and some lawn for her
brother's cravats.
And so they kept coming in one after
the other, and I think Emma Prinker
was the last.
She only wanted ns to call at her
brother's office and get a hat in a box
that was to be left there for her.
We made out a long list of what they
wanted us to buy, for fear we'd forget
something, and started off in the stage
at half-past four Saturday morning.
It was a mighty hot day—seemed to
get more'n more broiling every hour.
The stage was bail enough, but when
we got to the ears we were roasted.
And naturally New York wasn't cool.
The streets were like bake ovens, and
the stores were as close as if they were
air-tight.
"Dear me, Jemmy," said Sally Jane
to me, "if it wasn't for this shopping,
I should say the best thing we could do
was to go straight to the coolest place
we could find and take ice cream and
soda water; but we've got to get this
buying off our minds."
"I should think we had," said I.
"We've got forty-eight purcheses to
make, half of 'em to match."
The stores were just open when we
got to town, and it was half-past three
o'clock before we finished our last
matching, both of us were loaded down
and we had't so much as even thought
of our own muslins, nor our bonnets,
though we had bought uncle his hand
kerchief, and aunt some calico.
"Through at "last, Jemmy," said Sally
Jane, looking at me over the top of her
pile of bundles; "and I'm afraid it's too
late to see any show, or to get our mus
lin and ribbons. We could go over and
spend the rest of the afternoon, and
take tea with cousin Betsy, though."
"That's a good idea," I said. "It
will rest us; and we haven't seen cousin
Betsy for a year, not since. Why,
what's th 3 matter, Sally Jane?"
And I stopped short, for she was star
ing at me as if she'd been struck.
"What's the matter, Sally?"
"We forgot something," said Sally.
"Emma Prinker's hat box."
"Thank goodness, that wont have to
be matched," said I, cross as could be.
"It's at her brother's office, in Maiden
Juane,"
MI bid I KIM. PA.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8,1881.
"Sully, we're up at Twenty-fiftli St.;
it's an hour's journey. I've a mind to
keep on forgetting it."
" That won't do. There'd he ill-feel
ing," said Sally.
So we carried our bundles into the
stage that seemed to us to go nearest to
Maiden Lane, and oft* we went.
Nothing happened to us until we got
to Maiden Lane, and found the number
and Emma Pricker's brother.
Ho was a crossish-looking man, and
when we mentioned tin* box he Mtid—
"Emma wanted I should fetch it up
for her—but I struck. I ain't an ex
press; if I was I'd charge for it. It
isn't here. I sent the man over with it
to Cudlip and Currier's, three doors
from the depot; thought she could take
it up herself when she came down."
He hadn't asked us to sit down, so we
stood, and now he walked off without a
word more.
So away we went up to the depot, and
there, to he sure, was Cudlip sand Cur
rier's, and in we walked, and said to a
young clerk sitting on a box:
"Will you please let us have the hat
box that was sent here by Miss Prinlt
er's brother?"
"A what? an ash-box?" asked the
young clerk.
"Hat," said I,
"Go and see if there's a hat here for
anybody, saio the clerk to a little boy.
And he went awav, and came lmek
and said there wasn't.
But pretty soon there came along a
real prettily spoken nice young man, and
after we'd explained, lie went and in
quired.
And he came back and said there was
a box with Emma Printer on it.
So we thanked him, and he went and
brought it. *
It was a great square thing, made of
pinewood, with two iron handles and a
big padlock, and marked with great
black letters, " Emma Printer."
1 looked at Sally and she looked at
me.
" You didn't expect such a large box,
did you, ladies?" said the polite young
gentleman.
So I said we didn't, and thanked him.
And then we piled our parcels on top of
it and each took a handle and walked
off with it.
We hadn't had a bit of anything to
eat since four that morning, and we ran
straight to the restaurant and sat down
to a table.
We ordered some sandwiches ami
some iced tea and some cream—and it
was just put on the table before us when
whang went the great bell, and "Last
train for Dillytown!" screamed the man
at the gate.
"Can't stop to eat," said I.
" Pay for it anyhow, ma'am," said the
waiter.
So we paid—and flew.
We hardly got on the trainin time aw
It was, on adcuuin or mat posKY iihi-r>*
of Krnma I'linker's, which we had to
send as freight, and being so dead tired,
and missing the stage, we had to hire a
wagon to take us home.
Sally paid for us, for though I wanted
to 1 found I'd had my pocket picked,
where or how I never could guess.
Alout ten o'clock we got home.
Everybody had gone to bed, and uncle
said it wasn't seemly for girls to stay
out to such an hour, when he let us in,
and aunt called downstairs that "when
she was young women that were always
gadding weren't thought much of;" and
we hunted up a little shortcake and
some milk, and t<xk it up to our room
and Sally cried, but what I said was
what Mr.* Prinker said to me—
-4,1 ain't an express, if I was I'd charge
for it."
And I mode up my mind what to do
next time.
But Sally and I don't talk much, and
nobody knows what sort of an outing
we had, and we're spoken of in the
family and out of it as very gay young
women, who were always going to New-
York to enjoy ourselves. If we ever go
again we will.
Hurried Dinner*.
It is a mistake to eat quickly. Mastica
tion performed in haste must be imperfect
even with the best teeth, and due admix
ture of the salivary secretion with the food
cannot take place. When a crude mass of
inadequately crushed muscular fibre, or
undivided solid material of any description
is throwu into the stomach, it acts as a
mechanical irritant, and sets up a condition
in the mucous membrane lining, that organ
which greatly impedes, if it does not alto
gether prevent, the process of digestion.
When the practice of eating quickly and
filling the stomach with unprepared food
is habitual, the digestive organ is rendered
Incapable of performing its proper func
tions. Either a much larger quantity of
food than would be necessary under nat
ural conditions is required, or the system
suffers from lack of nourishment. Those
animals which were intended to teed hur
riedly were either gifted with the power
of rumination or provided with gizzards.
Man is not so furnished, and it is lair to
assume that he was intended to eat slowly.
We must apologize for reminding our
readers of facts so familiar; but we do this
in the hope that anyone who may chance
to have influence with the managers of
large hotils where dinners a la table
d'hote are in vogue will take measures to
bring about a much needed reform in the
manner In which these entertainments are
conducted.
At the best and frequented estab
lishments in places of fashionable resort,
where at this season multitudes of health
seekers are wont to congregate, the hur
ried dinners are not only causes of annoy
ance, but actually go far to prevent the
benefit which should be derived from a
change. .No sooner is one course served
than another is intro luced, without giving
the guest time to digest or even to swallow
the first. The eagerness to secure good
dividends takes a particularly mischievous
form when it piles food on the plate of a
customer, and compels him to consume it
breathlessly. The matter may seem a
small one, but it is not so. Just as a man
may go on for years with detective teeth,
imperfectly masticating his food, and won
dering why he suffers from indigestion, so
a man may habitually live under afl inflic
tion of hurried dinners, and endure the
consequent loss of health, without knowing
why he is not well, or how easily the cause
of his illness might be reined'
Curving.
In preparing meat for the table, and in
laying out the table, reference ought to be
bad to the carving department, a very on -
erous one to all aul to some a very disa
greeable one. The first requisite is a
sharp knife, and if to be used by a lady,
light slid handy: dexterity and address
in the manner of using it being more re
quired than strength, either in the knife or
the carver. First a nqikin should be
spread under the platter so that the edges
are hardly discernible, and yet large
enough to protect the clwth, so that it may
be clean when the platter is removed. The
seal should lie sufficiently high for the
carver to have a complete command over
the joints, ami the dish should be sufll
cieutly deep and capacious so as not to en
danger the splashing of the gravy. It
should also be placed as near to the carver
as possible; leaving room for his or her
plate. A knife with a long blade is re
quired for a large fleshy joint; for ham or
bacon, a middling sized, sharp poiuted
one is preferable, and for poultry or game
a short knife and sharp-pointed is the best.
Some like tins knife a little curved.
As tish is the first tbiug to be carved or
served, it lias first place. In helping fish,
take care not to break the flakes, which in
c xi and fine frcsli salmon, and some other
sorts are large. A tish trowel is necessary,
not to say indispensable, in serving many
kinds of tish, particularly the larger sort.
in curving salmon cut pieces along the
hack-bone, and also along the flank. The
Hank or thin part is the best and richest,
and preferred by all gourmands. The
back is the most solid and thick. The
tail of salmon is not so line as other parts.
The head is seldom used. The liver, milt
or roe, are generally served, but seldom
eaten.
Partridges are carved like fowls, but the
breast and wings are not ofteu divided,
the bird being small. Pigeons may be cut
in two, either from one end to the other
of the bird or across. A gooflb or duck
should he cut with as many slices from
the breast as possible, and served with a
portion of the dressing to each plate.
When the meat is all carved, and not till
then, cutoff the joints; but, observe the
joints of water fowls are wide spread and
go further back than those of land fowls.
A roast pig is generally slit down the
middle iu the kitchen, and the cook gar
nishes the dish with the jaws ami ears.
Separate a shoulder from the can uss on
one side ami then do the same thing
with the leg. Divide the ribs, which are
frequently consideied the most choice
pari, into two or three helpings, presenting
an ear '.r jaw as r ar as they will go, and
plenty of s<uce. Some persons prefer the
leg because uot so ricli or luscious as the
ribs, 'ihe neck end, betwee.l the sboul
tiers, is also sometimes preferred. The
joints may be divided into two each, or
pieces may be cut from them.
In carving beef, mutton, lamb, and veal,
thiu, smooth and neat slices are desirable
enf IUTO-X 0 1 ' 1 " rai, " < "} '■ P®** 9
the knife through to the bones of the
meat.
A nam may be carved in several ways.
First, by cutting king delicate slices,
11 rough the thick fat, in the centre, down
to the bone; or by running the point of
ihe kniie in the circle of the middl and
cutting thin, circular slices, thus keeping
the ham moist, and iast and most econ
omically, by beginning at the knuckle and
si icing upward.
A tongue should be carved as thin as a
water, its delicacy depending a great deal
on this, aud a well cut tongue will tempt
the most fastidious. A heel's heart should
also be cut in the same way.
Tli* I'osUO Card.
The originator oi ibe idea is said to
have been a German State offlciai. Dr.
Stephau, who wrote an essay upon it in
1865, Austria was the first to adopt it,
beginning in October, 186 V. The first
three months witnessed the passage ot
2 V3O 000 cards through the mails. Ger
many followed suit in 1870, and on the
first day after the introduction of the pos
tal card 45,468 were sent off in Berlin
alone; and within two months over 2,000,-
000 were used. Other countries soon ini
tiated the same step. Duriug the Franco- 1
Prussian war the postal-card system was a
great boon to both armies. Over 10,000,-
000 cards passed during the campaign
between the German soldiers and tiieir
friends and homes. The greatest propor
tional consumption of postal cards occurs
unquestionably in the United States. The
whole of Europe is estimated to use annu
aliv 850,000,000, while the consumption
in'the United States alone will probably
not tall short of 230,000.000. Germany
consumed in 187 V 122,747.000. The use
of the postal card is, moreover, constantly
increasing, and, to fome exteut, at the
expense of the letter correspondence.
There are now said to be seventy-three
countries in which it is introduced. Aus
tria, which has the honor of first pulling
the idea into practical execution, is now
said to have cards of the poorest material
and most inconvenient form.
A Htrange Cloud of Vapor.
About a month ago a remarkable
phenomenon was observed near the
village of San Jose, "\ era Cruz, Mexico.
Two days after a violent thunderstorm
and incessant raining, what seemed to
be an immense cloud raising out of the
ground was observed. Little attention
was paid to the phenomenon, as many
of the peasants interpreted it to be the
smoke of large quantities of wood that
were burned into charcoal. An Indian,
going to his maize held, situated on a
hill, discovered that the vapor issued
out of his held. His attempt to approach
the column was thwarted by the extreme
heat of the vapor. The extension of the
column was some thirty square yards,
and the vapor issued at intervals of five
miuutes. The smoke was so dense that
the eye could not see the trees on the
other side of the column. The maize
hsld was completely burned, and as the
vupor came out <>n the other spots cover
ed with trees, the leaves were burned
and the trunks became black. The va
por column proceeded in the direction
torn east to west, between the volca
noes of Tuxtla and that of Orizaba.
The phenomenon lasted nearly seven
ays, and it is interpreted as an under
rouhd fire communicating with the
oleanoes of Orizaba and that of Tuxtla.
—The annual raisin produption of
California amount# to about 62,000
boxes,
Nnalla.
The great vine snail has quite a his
tory, and its lease of life should ho a
long one, if that may he uninsured hy
tho powers of endurance. In 1771 the
members of the Royal society iu Eng
land could not lie brought to believe an
Irish collector, who averred that certain
white snails that huve been confined for
fifteen yearn came out of their shells
upon his son's putting them in hot
water; but the possibility of the thing
was proved iu 1850, when after four
years' somnolence in tho British muse
um, an Egyptian desert smitl woke up,
none the worse for its long rest and absti
nence. It fed heartily on lettuce leaves,
and lived for two years longer. Spul
lanzain asserted that he had often behead
ed snails without killing them, and in
a feW months they were as lively as
ever, huving grown new heads in retire
ment.
Snail-eating has been in vogue for
manv centuries, aud was considered by
the ancient Romans one of their table
luxuries. In Pliny's time Barbary snails
sto<xl first in repute, those in Sicily
ranking uex' ; and it was the custom to
fatten them for the table by dieting them
on meal and new wine. In modern
Rome fresh gathered snails are hawked
from door to door by women, who
boil them in their shells, stew them,
or fry them in oil. Snails are gathered
oft* the vines by the peasantry in the
wine district of France, and are sent up
in cases and wicker baskets to Paris
halls, where they are sold by auction,
aud are purchased by people who make
it their business to prepare them for the
restaurants and cliaicutiers. They are
killed by being placed in scalding water,
and after being removed from their
sliells by the aid of a piece of wire, are
thrown into an immense copjier and
boiled for three-quarters of an hour in a
mixture composed of water, vinegar,salt
and herbs. They are then replaced in
their sheJls, the mouths of which are
closed with butter and parslev, and are
ready for sale. To prepare them for the
table, it suffices to place them in a fry
ingpan for a few minutes with a small
piece of butter, and without removing
them from their shells. They are sold
at the wine shops and eharcutiere ut
thirty to forty centimes the down.
A century ago some 4,000,000 of snails
were annually erpoited from Ulm in
''cans" of ICLOOO, fetching from twenty
five to forty a " In. tlu*
Tyrol youngsters of lx>th sexes are em
ployed during the summer months col
lecting snails as stock for sm:U gardens
—small plats of land cleared of trees and
covered with heaps of moss and pine
twigs, separated from each other by
moats, having gratings at their outlets
to prevent any truants that may get into
th£ water from being carried beyond
bounds, The prisoners are supplied
daily with fresh grass and cabbage leaves
until their appetites fail and they retire
into the moss heaps for their winter
sleep—the last one they will enjoy ; for
when spring comes they are routed out
of their beds, packed in straw lines]
boxes, and sent on to market. In a
favorable season one of these gardens
will turn out 40,000 snails. The con
sumption of them in South Tyrol must
be great. Snails are often used, boiled
in milk, for diseases of the lungs, and
are sent to this country as a delicacy;
they are very indiscriminate in their ap
petite, and even devour the dead of their
own kind. Snails delight in warm moist
weather ; in dry weather tneir chief time
of activity is in the night, and they hide
themselves by day ; but after rain they
come forth at any hour in quest of food.
At the approach of winter, cr in very
dry weather,they close the mouth of ttie
shell wiih a membrane formed by the
drying of the mucus substauce which
they secrete, and become inactive and
torpid.
Tlio Great Grain States of the Union.
Au exira census bulletin just issued,
giving the cereal production of the L uited
States by couuties for the year ending June
30, 1880, shows the States which lead in
the enormous grain yield of the country.
Illinois may he said to head the column.
It produces the most wheat, corn and oats,
and ranks second in the production of rye.
California leads'in barley and Pennsylva
nia leads in rye. New York is first in
buckwheat, second in barley aud third in
rye and oats. The great wheat states are
Illinois, which raised fifty-one million
bushels; Indiana, fony-sevoj; Ohio, forty
six; Michigan, thirty-five; lowa, thirty
one; California, twenty-nine; Missouri,
twenty-five; and Wi-cousiu, twenty-four
In these States were produced nearly three
lourths of the whole wheat crop of the
couutry. Neatly a third of the entire corn
yield of the Uuiled States was grown in
Illinois, whose product amount'd to three
hundred and twenty-five million bushels.
Smith s a Liar.
"Father," Degau a young Detroiter the
oilier evening, "were you in the war ?"
"Yes, my son."
"Was it awful?''
"Yes."
"Lots of dead and wounded men f
"Yes."
4 D d you k'll many?"
"Well, I shouldn't like to answer that
question."
4 'Are you very modest, pa?"
*1 hope I am too modest to brag."
4 That was what Mr. Smith meant, then,
when he was telling the men down at the
drug store that you hadn't any war record
to brag of."
"He did, eh? Smith is a liar!"
"That's what I thought. He told the
men that you run so fast that he couldn't
catch you on horseback, and auy boy
knows thai a horse can catch a man with a
I stiff knee."
Catching • Rut Under Dlltlcoltlea.
A eat, H rut, a pretty and stylish young
lady and an Intrepid clerk form the dra
matis personcs of this narrative. Jt all
happened laat week, iu one of the most
fashionable shoea tores, iu Boston, located
on Waalmigton Street. For some time
punt the st >re has leeu troubled by an in
road of nils, causing great detriment to the
stock aud annoyance to the pioprietor. A
cat was procured, which at once began
to catch them to the great joy of all con
cerned. One day she brought up a vigor
ous rodent from the cellar, aud began to
toy with It before killing, alter the manner
of her kind. Suddenly it was discovered
that the rat had made its escape, and,
almost simultaneously, the persons iiwtlie
store were start led by a feminine shriek
emanating from a pretty young ladv who
had been in the act of trying on a pair of
boots. The look of horror and disgust on
licr fuce bore atuple testimony to the truth
of her assertion, "Oh, Heavens! something
has bitten me!" One of the clerks, a young
man justly noted for his courtesy and gal
lantry to the fair sex, and whose identity
will be effectually concealed under the
name of Smith, sprang forward aud grasped
the lady's dress-skirt at a point she indies
led, just below tne waist. It was the
missing rat who had theie sought an asy
lum from his feline toe. Mr. Smith held
him ugh ly and Invited the lady to the
rear of the store, where, with as much del
icacy as the circumstauces would permit,
lie removed his ratship from beneath the
dress by the tail and dashed it on the floor
At this point the lady fainted from fright
and nervous strain. By the kind attention
of those present she was s'Xiu restored and
able to depart, which she did, but not
without first learning the name, of her pre
server. For a clay or two after this Mr.
Smith was subjected to a great variety of
teasing remarks from liis fe.low clerks,
some even asset ting that he "would now
have ruts caught and brought there" and
other remarks equally ill natured and u
j-istiliable. On the thud day a large
package \fas lcll at the store for Mr. ouiith
who refused tor a long time to open it,
being apprehensive that the atoresaid
jokers had sent hiui a half dozen rats of
assorted sizes. His curiosity eveutually
triumphed over his fe irs, aud amid great,
though suppressed, excitement on the pari
ot all present, the package was opened and
found to contain an elegant aud cosily
cigar stand, fashioned in etiony and gilt,
j'lius were the foolish jesters silenced and
thus courtesy and daring rewarded.
The Ylollu.
Perhaps of all musical instruments the
violin has the greatest latent possibili
ties; it may almost be said to possess "a
soul." One does not wonder at the pas
sionate love felt for it by all the great
violinists; the most barbaric people pos
it in its rudimental form, •<!
Oivw BTUTjTruiimit; iwmra irmn SOmCTe
sonant board. It is easv to understand
its charm, for the harmouy it produces
is only by direct communication between
t lie performer and the strings. It is the
human touch upon the chord which
makes the tone so human, and which
carries, as it were, the very spirit of the
performer into the outer atmosphere.
There is no emotion that cannot be ex
pressed by it from the agitation of the
passionate heart. It is the divine quiet
of restful and contented love. It is curi
ous that tins, the most musical of all
instruments, should have been perfected
by the least musical of people, for there
appears to be no doubt that it was the
oldest English instrument, and that the j
modern name of violin is but an adap
tion of the old English word viele, which
in its turn, was a Norman corruption of
the original Saxon "fythel," or feethel
which becoming feedel, was popularised
as fiddle, and by Normra incapacity to
pronouue the difficult "le," degenerated
into the smooth viele. This is the ety
mology given in Chappel's Popular
Music, and is probably correct: or be it
as it may, representations of the fiddle
exist in the oldest carving aud bas-re
liefs of the British Islos. In the time
of Charles the First it became popular at
Court, but it owed its later superiority
to merry Charles 11., for he introduced
a special band of violinists and made
them play to him at table. Pepys re
fers to it in his pedantic diary, and
about the same time we read of its in
troduction into churches, and of the
many objections raised to its "too great
liveliness," is amusing in the
face of a description of the sacred sing
ing of his time given by old Cornelius
Agrippa, who says: "They sing not
with human voice, but with the brutal
noise of wild beasts, while the boys
whining tue descant, others low out the
tenor, others yelp the counterpoint,
others gnash their teeth on the bass,
and although they make many sounds,
no words or speech are understood."
Even the despised fiddle oouid hardly
have done worse.
Botanical.
"I would like to purchase a small col
lection of plants," she remarked, as she
paused beside a florist's stall.
"What variety, madam?" was the po
lite response,
"Oh! I hardly know."
"How would you like buttercups?
"Oh! as for that, I think I can pro
cure a few of those cheaper from Mrs.
Jones. She says her new hired girl
has made way with all the crockery
about the place but her cups and she
has enough of those for two families.
The dealer blushed.
"Daisies?" he suggested.
"No, I don't think I need any more
of those. My husband has indulged in
days' ease, while his business has run
behind, until we are in bad shape finan
cially. No, nothing more in the way of
daisies for me, thank you,"
•'How would jou like a few cowslips?"
desperately.
"No, nothing of th kind either. I
guess. The blossoms are most too
creamy, while the last I had were
hooked by an envious neighbor. I have
found it necessary to hide my plants
from the general gaze, Cows lips do not
emit as fragrant an odor as some other
varieties which I can mention.
Then the flower man said he odor an
apology for the mistake and suggested
artichokes.
"You artichoke down the idea of fit
ting me out with anything of that sort."
the customer replied indignantly.
"Fuscliias?"
"Few shees? I guess not, sir. lam
all the shes that will ever be introduced
into our household, I'm thinking."
"Ivy fine collection of clambering
vines," the dealer observed, after au
awkward pause."
"Vine the world don't you oliinh ar
ound and trot them out, then?" was the
pert reply.
They didn't suit, however, and then
the harassed man suddenly changed the
subject.
"Would tulips fill the bill?" he in
quired.
"I suppose they would, if the other
fellow's bill wasn't too large in propor
tion," was the blushing reply. "You
will do well not to press so delicate a
subject too far however."
"How about thyme?" he exclaimed at
last, in sheer desperation.
"That's just what I was about to sug
gest," was the reply. "If I buy of you
at all, it must be on long time."
And then the florist lost ail inter
est in the subject, and she went out in a
sail sort of way because she hadn't bot
any.
Burl 9(1 Alive.
While Mr. Ralph Gore, the contrac
tor, was superintending the work in the
new sewer in Cleveland, Ohio, and while
he was at the bottom of the excavation,
the earth began to give away. He step
ped aside and let all in his employ es
cape ahead of him, and then the earth
fell on him. His head could be s6eu
just above the earth. "I think my
legs are broken, gentlemen," he said,
"but set to work and dig me out of my
grave." He spoke encouragingly and
made light of the accident. While the
workman were digging the other bank
Was to be <rbH TUT n*r It wmaLMmmt
the spot where Mr. Gore stood wedged
in as in a vise. Five or six hundred
tons of earth and rock must come down
unless a miricle intervened. The laboi
ers had cleared away the earth as far as
Mr. Gore's shoulders, but now they had
to fly for their own lives. Next moment
the man was alone, Above him was the
tottering avalanche, and on the sonth
bank stood a crowd of people with pallid
faces. The look of despair that he gave
when he took in the situation will never
be forgotten. He made one more des
perate struggle to extricate himself, and
then resigned himself to his fate. He
tiied his eyes on the slowly moving mass
and watched it creep nearer and nearer
to the point where he know it would re
ceive sufficient impetus to be hurled
down u]K>n him. "God help me," he
exclaimed, and the awe-stricken crowd
echoed the wish. Then nis lips were
seen to move in prayer, and the land
slide moved faster. It received a tem
porary check, but again glided on to
ward the brisk. The suspense at this
moment was terrible. A large sohool
opposite had just let out, and the teach
ers and children had gathered on the
bank. Men, women and children sobbed
aloud, and somo knelt in prayer. The
avalanche was now within two feet of
the jx>iut where the bank became steep
er. Slowly it crept; inch by inch the
point was reached; its pace quick
ened ; there was a rush, and the next
moment five hundred tons of earth
plunged over the brink, and fell with a
crash on the top of the man's head.
Later in the day the body was recover
ed, a shapeless mass.
Kuick Knack* for Fall ToiUta.
All sorts of knick knacks add to the
dressy effect of fall toilets. Quaint
jewelry, cocks' heads, or the entire bird
in real, imitation, or semi-precious jew
els, toitoises, parrots and owls, tiny sil
ver mice, paroquets of green enamel
perched on a gold stick, with a pearl or
diamond at eaoh end, together with bits
of gold lace, silk brocade, figured vel
vets, gold lace and antique embroidery
are introduced into costumes with mar
velous effect nowadays. Everything in
our mothers' or grandmothers' scrap
bags and wonder chests is unearthed to
combine with cashmere, or satin, or
moire—thing a hundred years old with
ribbons of yesterday, and ancient jewels
with fresh novelties. Nothing need be
scorned or thrown away.
Postal Statistics.
The annual report of the Superintendent
of the Free Delivery Division of the Post
Office Department for the year ended June
80, shows that during the year there were
delivered 262,425,668 mail letters, 59,-
968,f-59 mail postal eards, 76,788 208 local
letters, 48,898,168 local postal cards, 2,-
126,809 registered letters, and 146 417,114
newspapers. There was collected at the
109 free delivery offices during the year
284. "59,945 letters, 85,793,125 postal cards
and 54,075,476 newspaijers. The c*t of
service for the year amounted to $2,498, -
972.14, or 3 milla per piece.
NO. 49.