vol,. LY.
HAULER,
AUCTIONEER,
REBERSBURG. PA.
J C. SI'RiNGER,
Fashionable Barber,
Next Door to JOURNAL Store,
MILLHKIH, PA.
HOUSE,
(Opposite Court House.)
H. BROCKfiRHOFF, Proprietor.
WM. MCKEEVER, Manager.
Good sample rooms ou first floor.
Free bus to and from all trains.
Special rates to Jurors and witnesses.
Strictly First Class.
IRVIX HOUSE.
(Most Central Hotel In the City J
Corner MAIN and JAY Streets,
Lock Haven, Pa.
8. HOODS CALHELL, Proprietor.
Good Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers on first floor.
D. H. MINGLE,
Pliysidnn aud Surgeon,
MAIN Street, MII.LHKIM. Pa.
jjR. JOHN F. HARTER,
PRACTICAL DENTIST,
* Office in 2J story of Totuliusou's Gro
cery Store,
On MAIN Street, MIUHKIM, Pa.
Br. KISTKR,
• FASHIONABLE BOOT A SHOE MAKER
Shop next door to Foote's Store, Main St.,
Boots, Shoes and Gaiters made to order, aud sat
isfactory work guaranteed. Repairing done prompt
ly and cheaply, and In a neat style.
a. R. Pealk. H. a. McKek.
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 <fc GEPHART,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Alleghany Street, North of High,
A. MORRISON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA
Office on Woodrlng-a Block, Opposite Court
House. . ______________
JQ S.KELLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA
Consultations in English or German, Ofllce
In Lyon's Building, Allegheny Street.
JOHN G. LOVE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
& BELLEFONTE, PA ©
Office in the rooms formerly occupied by the
lets w p. Wilson
fir piililriti
ALL TMK WOULD.
All the world is full of children.
Laughing over little Joys,
sluing over little troubles.
Fingers bruised and broken toys,
Wish lug to l>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 B<x>u 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.