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PEALE Sc McK KE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office opposite Court House, Bellefonte, Pa. C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office in G&rm&n's new building. JOHN B. LINN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street. QLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLKFONTS, PA. Northwest corner of Diamond. J J H. HASTI.YU.H, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street, doors west of office formerly occupied by the lAte flrra of Yocum M Hastings. C. HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Practices In all the courts of Centre County. Special attention to collections. Consultations In German or English. ILBUR F. REEDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. All business promptly attended to. collection of claims a speciality. J. A. Beaver. J W. Gephart. JgEAVER e older, larger, Weeping at some fane ted woe; O, the happy, hapless children 1 Still they come, and still they go. All the world Is full of lovers, \\ ulkiug slowly, whispenug sweet, Dreaming dreams, and building ca*tles Thai must crumble at their feet; Breaking vows aud burning letters, smiling lest the world shall know i O, the fooling, trusting lovers I still they come, and still they go. All the world Is full of people, Hurrying, rushing, pushing by. Bearing burdens, carrying crosses, Passing ouward with a sigh ; Some there are with smiling taees. But with heavy hearts below; O, the sad-eyed burdened people! still they come, and still they go. A WILD RIDK. Before I begin my story I must tell you that I am a commercial traveler, born ami bred, so to speak, to the bus iness. I have my wits about me, and, as I often happen to have a good many valu able articles also, i have need of them. I am an Englishman —English to the back bone —and live on roast l**ef, bot tled ale and old port wine. lam one of the men who don't dream and don't fancy. When I see a thing I see it. When I hear a thing I hear it. And what I saw on one particular occasion I mean to tell you. i'ou will not offend me if you doubt it. Nevertheless, I shall, as 1 said, tell the story. It was in the year 18—, and the month was May, and the place was England. I had left London five days before, and now I was miles and miles away from it, in the very heart of the country, travel ing toward a little town where I had business. It was an old-fashioned inn, aud the people were kind and obliging. Travelers did not often stop at that inn, I suspect, for they were as partic ular about my meals as though I had been a prodigal son come home for the holidays. They killed the fatted chicken for me and made much of me altogether; aud to crown all, as the train did not stop in time to take me on, as I wanted to go, and as it was only a matter of five miles or so, what did the landlord do but liuut up a rusty old coach that was tucked away iu the coach house, and ordered his man to drive me over that evening. It wasn't an extra, mind you. It was sheer good will. So I shook hands all around, aud remembered the chamber maid aud the waiter with half a crown each, and off I rode. It was getting dark fast, and the road wound away among the hills in a very romantic sort of away ; why, it made you tlnnk ol ghosts, if you were a commercial trav eler. " Here's the place,'" says I to myself, "where the old gentlemen of the road would like to have met me and mv black bag fifty years ago," A hundred years ago, anyhow, 1 would pot have felt as safe as Ido now. Just then the coach came to a sudden pause. "Hallo," cried I out of the window ; "what's the matter?" "It's more than I can tell, sir," said the man. "Black Jane has turned sulky ; she won't move one step." With that he began to shout and craek his whip, I, with my head out of tbt window, watching him, when suddenly the beast started off like mad, and I drew in my face and saw I had com pany. While the coach was at a standstill n lady and gentleman had slipped in. They sat on the sent opposite me, and though it was an intrusion I had not the heart to find fault, for a prettier pair 1 never saw in my life. If he was twenty-one years, it was just as much as he could be, and she was not seventeen. I have seen a pair of china lovers on the mantle-piece the perfect image ot what they were, as pretty, and dressed much the same. His hair was powdeied, and hers, too. She had on a yellow silk, lower in the neck than I would like a daughter ot mine to wear it, and her arms would have been bare only for her long kid gloves. She had pearls in her ears and on her throat, and she had just the most innocent face my two eyes ever rested upon. As for the boy, he had a choco late velvet coat and white silk stockings, and lace ruffles at his wrists. And they had one large cloak—his, I fancy—casl about the two of them, though it drooped back a bit as they sat down. "Two young folks going to a fancy ball, perhaps," said I. "and just took a lift on the way." And I touched my cap to them, and says I: "Fine evening, sir." He did not answer me, but she looked at me and stretched out a little white hand. "Oh, sir," she said, "look out at the back of the coach, I pray you, and tell me if he is gaining on us." I looked out of the window. "There's a man on horseback riding up the road, said I, for I saw one. "Oh, heavens!" said she. "Courage, Betty?" said the young fellow. "They shall never part u*."^ MILLIIEIM, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22,1881. Thou I knew it WHS U runaway match. '1 see how it is," cried I, "Keep up your heart young man. If the young lady likes you, she'll stick to you through thick and thin. I'll do my heat to help you." "Oh, heaven!" she cried again. "Oh, my darling, I hear the horses' feet. There are more of them. Oh, sir, look; tell me," I looked and saw many armed horse men following swiftly. '•Closer to my heart, Betty," eried the young man. "My beloved, they oome." He drew his sword. Among other things he wore a sword. 1 pulled my pistol from my pocket. We all stretched our heads forward, and at that moment the coach turned a rooky point of the road, and I saw we were on the margin of a precipice. All the time Black Jane had kept tip her furious s|rrhl, and 1 saw we were in danger. "Have a care!" cried I. "Faster!" cried the young man. Suddenly there came a jolt and a scream from the young lady. I heard him say, "At last we die together." And the coach lay Hat on its side— not over the precipice, but on the edge of it. A man is a little stunned by a thing (ike that. When 1 elitubed out of the window and helped old Anthony up with the coach, and coaxed Black Jane to quiet ness, I remembered that no one else got out of the vehicle, and I looked about in vain for my pretty lovers. They were not there, nor were there any tigns of the troop of horsemen I* had seen dashiug up the hill. They could not have passed us in the narrow path by any possibility. "We ran a chance for our lives, mas ter," said Anthony. "Yet lum culled a good driver, and Black Jane is the kind est thing I ever saw in harness. Thank God for all His mercies. It's a strange thing we did not go over the cliff. "But where did they go ?" I asked. "Who?" said Anthony. "The two lovers—the pretty creatures in fancy dress. The people who were after them —Where are they?" "Where—" liegan Anthony. Then lie turned as pale as death. "All gtsnl augels over us!" he cried. "We have ridden with Lady Betty. It's the 10th of May. I might have known letter than to try the road to-night. Protect us all. Yes, we've ridden with Lady Betty." "Who is La 'y Betty ? said I. "As prettv a creature as ever I saw, at all events. Who is she ?" Old Anthony stood looking at me and shaking his head. "It's an old story," he said. "Book learned folks tell it better than I. But a hundred years ago and more, on this blessed night, my Lady BetVv Hope, the prettiest lady, run off from a coun try ball with her father's young seere tary." "They put one cloak over their heads, aud an old servant drove them, knowing it was worth his life. "But before they had gone for, be hind them came her kinsfolk, armed and ready for vengeance. And when they reached this point they saw that all was over. " 'Better die together than live apart,' he said, holding her close. Then he called out to the servant, 'How goes it?' " 'All is lost, sir,' said the man. The horses can't hold up five minutes long er.' " 'Then drive over,' said he. The man obeyed orders. "But ever since that night, sir, as sure as the 10th of May comes around there's plenty here that will tell you that whoever drives a coach past this road after nightfall won't ride alone. "There's nobody that remembered the night would do it for a kingdom, but I forgot. I'm getting old, and I forget things whiles ; and so we've ridden with Lady Betty." That's the story old Anthony told me, and what went before is what I saw and heard. I'm a solid, sensible man, but facts are facts, and liere you have em. I want to Smoke. As the Pacific express traiu coming east on the Central Road reached Ann Arlxjr the other day there were many to get off and on, aud there was the usual hurry and confusion. Among those get ting aboard was a little old woman about 60 years old, who secured the assistance of the brakeman and drew herself up the steps of the smoking car. "This way, madam—this way," called the official as she laid hand on the door of the smoking car; but as she paid no attention he continued : "Hold on, madam—that's the smok ing car." "Wall, don't you 'spose I've traveled enough to know that ?" she queried as she whirled around. "I guess I know where to go when I want to smoke !" And she entered and sat down, filled her old clay pipe, borrowed a light, and was soon puffing away in the greates contentment. "WELL, Andrew, have you worked hard at school to-day?" 4t Oh, yes, mamma; look at my hands," And In fact the little fin gers were all black with ink. "How can you get so inky wrtting?" "Oh, it wasn't writing ; it was stuffing paper balls Into my inkstand." Tout-lit-il lift Vanity. A dark-eyed beauty, with a mouth like a mule's ear aud a nose like a sugar-cured 1 am, a saddle-colored complexion, aud something sweet and assuring in her de nieanor, walked into our den the other day ami bearded us. "I want to to see the gentleman who ed its this paper,' said she. We pointed ourselves out. "I lecture on temperance," said she, "and let nie assure you that 1 Just tear the life out of the whiskey subject every time 1 throw my jaws apart." "indeed! ' "True as gospel, and the way I get in my work on the tobacco subject would tickle the heels off your boo's" "You seem to be a kind of female Benson," we ventured. "Worse thau tbat. If Benson aud Gough lK>th boiled down and copi>er distilled, they would't do to travel ou the same train that 1 do. And, beside* that, I am natu rally a literary character. 1 don't mind giving the thing away to you, for you seem lo be a square man, but 1 am the au thor of 'Beautiful Snow.' " "You are?'* "Yes 1 am. I write like a mule kick ing, and the publication of my lecture would make the fortune of any half-star ved editor in Arkansas." "I have never consented to have my lectures published," continued she, "but 1 don't care if you give a report of it, provided it don't extend over two column. Give me ten dollars—five now and the other live after it is delivered—and its all right. Here is the copy for the report, so you won't be troubled." She laid down a pile pf manuscript, and looked at us in a superior kind of away that seemed to sa>: 'You havn'l got five dollars." Now if there is anything that makes us mad it is to insiuuate that we are not wealthy, and as. strange to say, just at tbat moment we happened to have, for ouce iu our life, a whole five dollar bill all at ouce, we pulled itout with a lord ly air ami handed it to her. She took It, smiled, bowed, and retir ed. The next morning our beloved Mayor said: "Ellen Arabella Smjtbe, you were very drunk and disorderly last night, but as your little rest in the cooler has seemed to bring you lo repentance, 1 will let you go, provided you leave town in one hour." .As she walked down the railroad she lock ed up at the oifice window, andspyiug us. squealed: "1 will send jou a few notes from my next point. You urn remit at your leis ure. " f TUe St. Gotliurd Tunnel. The St. Gotliard Tmuwl, nine and a third miles long, pietces the Helvetic Alps, and forms a link iu the St Gotli ard Railway, eonuecttpg the Swiss raii wuys with those of Upper Italy. It exceeds the MoiitConvTuunel In length by 8,856 feet. The northern end of the tunnel, Goescheuen, is 82 feet from the southern end of tht station platform, situated 3637-5 feet above the sea level, and 2,204 feet above Luke Lucerne. From this point the line rises with a gradient of 1 in 171 for 24,600 feet, then with a gradient of 1 in 1,000 for 4,428 feet, where it reaches the highest point of the tunnel 3,785 feet above the sea. Then after a length of 1,279 feet it de scends with a gradient of 1 iu 200 for 3,870, when the gradient is reduced to 1 in 500 for 13,792 feet, which brings it to within 984 feet of the platform of the station at Airolo, situated 3,755 feet above the sea, and 3,100 feet above Lake Majeur. The normal width of the tun nel is 24 feet 11 3-16 inches at the level of the rails, and 26 feet 3 inches at the height of 6 foot 6 inches above the rails. The height of the tunnel is 20 feet; the roof is semicircular. Tiie floor of the tunnel is formed with a fall of 2} per cent from eacli side toward the cen ter, and at the lowest part is a drain 211 inches deep. Up to the level of the top of the railway sleepers the rtoor is filled with ballast. The nature of the revetment varies with the rock tra versed. In addition to the main tun nel there are fifty-two subsidiary tun nels oil the line, having a total length of 17 miles, and 64 bridges and viaducts. Of the entire lengt hof the St. Gotliard line 17 i>er cent is tunneled and 1 per cent bridges and viaducts. The main tunnel carries two lines of railway, 4 feet inches gnage. OtyeutH of Int4*ret in liulm. Oue of the principal objects of interest in India to the stranger is the temple of worship. You can enter aid witness their worship of the various idds with which their temples are adorned, aud to which they are consecrated, by pyiug a trifle to ihe usher. lie will then late you to every point of interest, and explain to you the meaning of what otherwise would seem a senseless devotion. He wil show you also die oilier temples and instruct you in their peculiarities and the weirc legends con cerning them. Near one of the temples is !he old car of Juggernaut, upon which the peer victims ol long ago use! to br broken, and under whose ponderous wheels many a wretched victim has been crushed to ap • pease the anger of the gods Among the other points of interest is the river Ganges, worshiped as sacred by the natives, and called by then the goddess Gavga. Pilgrimages are made to particular places on Its shores, ablutions performed, : the dying exposed, tne amd thrown in, infants frequently sacrificed. The river is replete with inierest from itssouice to its mouth. Rising as it does among hills of eternal snow in the Himalaya mountains, and sweeping down a distanceof 1600 miles 10 the Ray of Bengal, where it forms the most extensive delta in the whole world, making and unmaking yearly thousand of acres of ground. Accordng to an an cient legend this delta was firmed by the god Siva, who, squeezing the jrater through liis hair, let it run down throigh his fingers, thus forming the innumerabl* streams that divide the delta. This delta begins at a distance of 200 miles from tie sea, forming a perfect wilderness of creeks and rivers, and during the wet season is almost eulirely inundated. It is navigable from llurdwaa, but above Cawnpore only for river crafts and passenger steamers, but below Allahabad for large vessels. A large amount of traffic is conducted ou its waters. The Island of Elephants derives its name from the gigantic stone figure of an ele phant which formerly stood upon its shores. Il is situated in the harbor of Bombay, seven miles from the city aud contains several very remarkable ancient cave temples cut iu the rock and adorued with numerous sculptured figures of the llludoo mythology. The largest of these cave temples is I.'LJ feet loug, and is sup |H>rted by tweuty-six piP&rs. The island is six miles in ciicumferenee, aud always of interest to travelers. Taurus lu Trace*. The bull is both playful and pugna cious. Wheu confined in a stable and fed as usually fed, to look nice, both of these characteristics are stimulated. A bull plays hard ; is rough iu his manners. This is well enough when bull meets bull, but when the playful propensity is exercised toward his keeper, as it often is, it is dangerous. A toss of the head byway of a gambol or exercise uiay kill a mau. and then again a bull who has been pampered doesn't feel like stopping, and is very liable to continue his gamltols. A large uumber of the injuries lrotn bulls are due to these bullish propensities, which are in creased by the treatment which they re ceive. Instead of being kept confined in siables, like prisoners in cells, bulls, should lie made to work. When young they should be thoroughly broken and kept in subjection, and be taught to mind at the word. They are capable of performing hard work, which would not in the least injure them, but would make them better sires than when kept in an unnatural con finement. A bull and an ox may lie worked together, or two bulls, or a bull uiay be worked singly. I have known them to be used in ail these formf, aud a single bull, wi.h a collar made to fit his neck and a bit iu his mouth, with reius attached, to do as much hauling, attached to a boat or cart, as a pair of horses. Thousands of dollars are waited annually in the sha{>e of useless bull fat and ratlscle. Bulls are usually kept too fat, especially thorough bred ones, which stimulates them to be restive and ugly, or at least not so easily managed. With a ring in a bull's nose, and broken to lead, it is a very easy mat - ter to bring him-to work in the yoke. I have known a pair to be hitched up aud taken to the field at ouce, led by the nose, put to woik drawing stones without any trouble whatever. They will Bu learn to follow the driver without any leading, and thus really become a serviceable learn. Bulls thus handled, with plenty of work, will rarely do any lujury to persons. A null will live ou coarse fare, and on IhH ac count makes a cheap woiker. He can be made to do more than earn his keep, be sides being less dangerous. His stock will ne better, and he will be A surer getter. For rough and lough places a bull team is just the thing, as there is no danger of their being injured, aud they will save the risks to the horses. Less grain will be required for the horses if the bull is made to do a pan of the heavy work. Exp sure to sioruis won't hurt him, which olten br.ngs sick ness to horses. Betier slaves than nets. Our HuMtei iu England. What in the moral to be gleaned from this unusual excellence of FoxhalL asks an English paper? We must not forget that, although the Americans began importing English thorougli-breds as far back as the commencement of last cent ury, they did not seriously addreea themselves to the task of raising blood stock until after the great civil war, which ended in April, 1860. That with in 15 yerrs they should have been able to produce a Foxhall speaks volumes for the soil, water, and climate of Ken tucky; and during the next 20, 30, or f>o years we exjiect that many as tine, or perhaps even tiuer, horses will be raised tliein Western hemisphere. But it is probably duo to English air, food, training, and riding that Foxhall is now what we saw him to be Recently It is not disputed that the blood of our English brood mares is purer than that of their American sisters, whose pedigrees in many cases "end," es the phrase runs, "in the woods." But, as a climate in which thorough bred foals may be dropped to advantage, we do not believe that anything more favorable can bo found upon earth than the Unite* 1 States to the south of Mason and Dixon's line. When Richard Brins ley Sheridan was buried iu Westminster Abbey with splendid pomp and cere mony, although baiiiffs struggled to tear the last blanket off his body while the breath was still in it, a witty French wag remarked that "France was the place for a man of letters to live, and England for him to die in." Foxhall, in the same manner, has been fortunate in the piaco of iiis birth, and in that of his training. The Kentucky grass is the most nutritious in the world, but the English and Scotch oat far transcends the oat of the United States. In th e | management, training, and riding of thorough-breds our horse-loving cousins are still in their infancy, and Mr. Keene may well thank his stars that he sent Foxhall to England to be trained. The Grand Prix, the Grend Duke Michael Stakes, and the Cesarewitch have set the Kentucky-bred colt upon the very highest pinnacle of equine glory; and it is a singular iact that, while Blue Gowd, the best horse of this day, was in course of transportation across the Atlantic, at the bottom of which he now lies, Mr. J. R Keene was at the same mo ment in possession of an Amerioan oolt who within a year was destined 1-> show himself equal, if not superior, to Sir Joseph Hawley's sturdy little Derby winner. Go no Further. There are no flies or mosquitoes at the White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, but there are plenyt of snakes in the outlying neighborhood. The monntains are filled with copper-heads, rattlesnakes and adders. There are no desirable walks and drives ationt there. The majority of visitors keep within ihe 800 acres known as the White Sulphur reservation. The other day a mountaineer brought in two huge rattle snakes. He had them in a wooden box with a glass top. They rolled, hissed and struck at visitors whe bent over the box, greatly to the terror of the children who crowded about the owuer of the snakea. One colored man expressed great fear that the snakes would get out aud bite some one. "That wouid lie all day with them, I guess, said he. "Oh no!" said the moun taineer; "a rattlesnake bite doesn't amount to nolhin'." "It don't?" said a visitor. "No," said the mountaineer; there is not a man up In our pearts but what has been bit by rattlers a good many times. It is easy enough to cure the bite." "How!" "ttome put ou turpentine. Tbat draws the pizen out. Jest put the mouth of a bottle filled with turpentine on the wound and the pizeu will drop out and make tur pentine green. Some, however, kill the snake aud bind a piece on the bite. That droprs tliopiaen out There is a man up our way, however, who never does nothlu' when a rattler bites him. He has been bitten three limes, The biles kiiul a swell up, but after a time tue sweillu' went away again." "Did he tay be did uotbiug to cure the bites?" "Yes." "He must have lied." . "He is a preacher, and—" "Enough—you need not go no fur ther. " The mountaineer says that the worst snake in the mountains is the copper head. it gives no warning, is often in clined to be aggressive, and strikes quickly aud surely. Its bite is much more deadly than thai of the rattlesnake. There is a den of snakes at Cool Knob, a station some thirty miles from here, where there are thousands of snakes in a great cavern that no native has ever been bold enough to approach, to say nothing of exploring. Anybody Sick, Recently Mr. Sarsaper told his wife one morning that he had got about tired of buttering his bread with a spoon, and that day he sent home a refrigerater. It was a beauty and be felt prond ot it. So much that he had a good ileal to say about it at the store. "1 suppose you have to put ice in it, don't you?" inquired one of the clerks. "Certainly," Baid Mr. Sarsaper; "but then it takes very little. It's an improve ment on all others ever made. Full of little boxes and places for all aorta of things. Keeps everything aeperate —meat, vegetables, milk aud so on—without any mixing up. It makes hot weather so much more comfortable, Bob, to pull up to the ♦able, aud find every nice, cool and crisp, instead of limp, sour and slushy. We wouldn't be without it again for any money. 1 wish )ou would run in and look at it Bob, the first time you're going by. It's a curiosity, and 1 know you'll get one as soon as you see iL Dun't bother al>out cerermony— run in at any time." About two o'clock one morning Mr. Sarsaper was awakened out of his slum ber, thai always keeps company with an easy conscience by his wife poking him in the ribs, and calling on him to hustle out and see what the matter was. The door bell was jingling like all possessed. Mr. Sarsaper crawled out ot lied, and, after banging his nose on the door-post urn il the blood started, giviug himself a black eye against the corner of the mau tel, and falling down over pretty much everything in the room, he finally made his way to the front part of the house, fhrew up a window, and peered out into the wet and mucky giooni. "Who's there" he demanded, looking dawn at the tip of an ummbrella. "Me!" cauie in a thick voice from the under side of it. "Who's me?'' "Bcb." "Oh!" it's you is itf What's the matter, Bob; anybody sickl" 4 *Oh, no. You see I've l>een out to Sodamsviile with some of the boys to help institute a lodge, and I'm just getting back. 1 happened to think about that refrigera tor of yours as I was goiug by, and so I thought I'd stop in and see it, without ceremony as you said. Come down and let me in. I'm in a hurry to get home, and can't stop but a minue." Mr. Sarsaper said something that would bend the types double if we should under take to print it, and slammed down the window. He remarked to Bob the next day that for downright coolness his re frigealor was a bake oven compared to the prank practiced on him. The Wrong Boy. In an all iged "horse thief" ease there was quite a lettle sensation. The accused was John Campbell, a young stripling of perhaos eighteen, and not a bad looking boy at all. The principal witness for the prosecution was a young glr who claimed to have seen Campbell in the stabte. Just before she took the stand counsel for the defendant managed to get another boy, very much resembling him, Into the seat next to Campbell. After a few questions ihe wily lawyer looking all the time at the other boy, ask the witness if she could pos itively Identify the prisoner. She must be | verv careful, and make no mistakes, etc. Looking over the seat, she said; "There he is, there. "You are quite sure, now, are your' said the lawyer. "Oh. yes, sir, quite sure," was the con fident response; "Why 1 know Johnny Campbell welL" "This is my case," exclaimed the law yer, and Court, Jury, audience and all saw that it was. In her confusion the young lady had identified the wrong boy. Counsel for the State immediately threw np the case, and the Court room was con vulsed with laughter, durmg whictryouug Campbell withdrew in the company of his relatives and iricnds. —The human skeleton oonsists of more than two hundred distinct bones. Polar Exploration. The editor of Nature thus comments ou the effort now making to carry out the scheme of the late Lieutenant Weyprecht, the discoverer of Frans- Josef Land, for the establishment of a ring of observations around the North Pole: Many Arctic authorities are of opinion that the days of great and ex pensive national Polar expeditions are past, and that the money thus spent would l>e put to much better use by be ing devoted to the carrying on of a con tinuous series of observations. At various points around the Arctic area ob servatories will be established as near as practicable to the Pole, where a con tinuous series of observations will be taken, according to a common, prear ranged plan. These observations will be oonnected with meteorology in all its departments, with terrestrial magnetism the anrora borealis, atmospheric electri city, the movements of the ice, biology combined with geographical exploration where practicable. After a year or two of such observations we may then l>e able to oompare and coordinate Polar conditions with those which prevail £u regions further south. A vast array of data must necessarily be accumulated that cannot but l>e turned to valuable account by scienoe. Our knowledge of the meteorology of the temperate xoae can never be com plete until we are well acquainted with Arctic conditions, and thus the work to be done at these observatories will have an important practical bearing. Not only so, but it is maintained that it is only when we have the knowledge widely will be collected at these stations that we shall be in a condition to send out an ex pedition for the Pole itself with anything like scientific assurance of suocess. We cannot but regret, then, that England has no share in the scheme. The coun tries forming the International Associa tion are Russia, Germany, Norway and Sweden,' Denmark, Austria, the United States, and we believe Canada; Franee and Switzerland lent it their counte nance, and Lieutenant Bore's Italian Antarctic expedition is to some extent affiliated to the Association. Stations are to be established on the north coast of Siberia, Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen Island, the west coast of Greenland, Lady Franklin Bay, and the neighborhood of Be bring Straits. The oolony for Lady Franklin Bay, sent out by the United States, has already;' we believe, reached its destination. Heart DUeaw. When an individual is reported to have died of disease of the heart, we are in the habit of regarding it as an inevitable event, as something which could not have been foreseen 01 prevented, and as it is too much the habit, when persons suddenly fall down dead, to report the heart as the cause. Tliis silences all inquiry and in vestigation and saves the trouble and Incon venience of a post-mortem. A truer report would have a tendancy to save many lives. It is through a report of disease of tae heart that many an opium eater is let off into a grave, which covers at once liia folly and his crime; the brandy drinker, too, quietly slides around the corner thus, and is heard of no more; in short, this re port of disease of the neart is the mantle of charity which the polite Coroner and sympathetic physicians throw around the graves of generous people. At a scientific congress at Btrasburg it was reported that of aixty-six persons who had suddenly died, an immediate and faithful post-mortem showed thai only two persons had any heart affection whatever one sudden death only in thirty-three from diseases of the heart. .Nine out of sixty died of apo plexy—one out of every seven; while forty six—more than two out of three—died ot luug affection, half of them congestion of the lungs, that is, the lungs were so full of blood they could not work; there was not room enough for air to get in to support life. It is, then, of considerable practi cal interest to know some of the common everyday causes of this congestion of the lungs, a disease which, the figures above being true, kills three times as many per sons at ahort warning as apoplexy aau heart disease together. Cold feet, tight shoes, light clothing, costive bowels, ail ting still until chilled through after having been warmed up by labor or a long, hasty walk, going too suddenly from a close, heated room, as a lounger or listener or speaker, while the body is weakened by continu 1 application or abstinence, or heated by a long address; these are the frightful causes of sudden death in the form of congestion of the lungs; but which, being falsely reported as a disease of the heart, and regarded as an inevitable event, throw people off their guard instead of pointing them to their true causes, all of which are cur*bb; and very easily so, as a general rule, when the mind has once been intelligently drawn to the subject. Nevada and New York. In the recent examination held before the Police Court much interest was manifested by an audience at Reno, Nevada, specta tors in the testimony of the various wit nesses. One of these hailing from New York, testified: "I never carried a pistol in my life." A breathless silence spread over the faces of the spectators, and the lawyers all look wonderienly at the witness. "I never owned a pistol in my life." A faint pitying smile passed over the weather beaten faces of the audienee. They had encountered a very hard forma tion. One of the old veterans leaned over to a short man who had lost his nose at au annual meeting, and whispered: "lie's joshin'," "Jedge's got the drop on him," returned Sliorty,shitting someting in his hip pocket. When the witness, continuing, said, "I dont remember of eyer having shot a pistol in my life," there was a considerable ex odus to the sidewalk to discuss the an nouncement. "I knowed he was a duffer when he took the stand," said the tall veteran. NO. 51.