VOL. LVI.
BARTER,
AUCTIONEER,
REBERSBURG. PA.
J C. tePRINGER.
Fashionable Barber,
Next Door to JOURNAL Store,
MILLHEIH, PA.
gUOCKERHOFF HOUSE,
(Opposite Court House.)
H. B&OCKEBHOFF, Proprietor.
WM. MCKKEVEH, Manager.
Good sample rooms ou 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 J
Corner MAIN and JAY Streets,
Lock Haven, Pa.
B. WOODS CI LWELL, Proprietor.
Good Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers on first floor.
D. H. MINGLE,
Physician aud Surgeon,
MAIN Street, MILLUEIM, Pa.
JOHN F. BARTER,
PRACTICAL DENTIST,
Office ia id story of Toin-iinson's Gro
cery Store,
On MAIN Street, MILI.HEIM, Pa.
BF. KIRTER.
• 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 neat ETJIE.
8. R. PKALE. "" H. A. MCKBB.
PEALE Ac McK EE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office opposite Court House, Beilefonte, PA
C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BKLLEFONTE, PA.
Office in Gannan's new building.
JOHN B. LINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTH, PA.
Office cm Allegheny Street.
QLEMENT DALE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BKLLXPONTZ, PA
northwest corner of Diamond.
H HASTINGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTTE, PA
Office on Allegheny Street, T doom west of office
formerly occupied by the late Arm of Yocum k
Hastings.
M * C. HEINLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Practices in all the courts of Centre County.
Special attention to Collections. Consultations
in German or English*
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
All business promptly attended to. Collection
of claims a speciality. '
J. A. Beaver J W. Geph&rt.
a GEPHART,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA
Office on Alleghany Street, North of High.
vyr a. moeriscTx,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA
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Office on woodrlng's Block, Opposite Court
House.
Yy S. KELLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA
Consultations In English or German. Office
in Lyon'a Building, Allegheny Street.
JOHN G. LOVE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
# BELLEFONTE, PA •
Office in the rooms formerly occupied by ths
late w. P. Wilaoft.
▲ STAR BEHIND THE CLOUD.
No matter bow dark the ulgtit;
No matter bow dark tba cloud* rnajr be,
Up In the shrouded sky.
Hidden from watching eye,
Glitter* a star for me.
Silvery bright And clear.
Oat In the tlelds of fadeless blue,
Heedless of cloud and ra'n,
Fear lass of death and paiu,
Golden stars In their silent sphere
Twinkle and buru for you.
Summer and winter the same;
No matter if storm-clouds surge aud roll
Like waves on ihe frenzied sea;
In heaven's bright gallery
Twinkle and glow, with a qaeuohless daiue,
These types of the soul I
No matter how dark thy life;
No matter how gloomy thy watch ma) be
'.Mid sorrow, and pain, and care.
Still watching thee everywhere—
Back of the curtain of earthly strife,
Twinkles a star for th<*e 1
TWO LIVES.
It was a alow and languid thrilling of
his senses. So Vaughn Dare would have
worded his seusation hud he suddenly
been called upou to do so, as, sitting ou
the broad piazza of the Oceuu House at
Newport, he found his attention rivited
upou a woman's face of such rare beauty
that his gaxe was fascinated.
She sat quite near him, reclining iu a
low chair, her liamls holding some soft
fleecy work, which however had made
no progress since he hau first seen litr.
The bead, small and dainty poised ou
the exquisite, sloping shoulders, was
covered with a luxuriant mass of dark
red hair, which the wiud blew iu innum
erable little waves doatiug above the low
white brow. Her eyes when the loug
lashes lilted themselves from the carmine
tinted cheek to betray their oolor, ap
pealed to hold in their brown depths
the same shade of red which was in her
hair lauding a sort of smoldering light,
as though only needing some powerful
impulse to have it burst forth in a flume.
Her lips richly red aud not too full,
parted over the strong gleamiug teeth.
Every motion was replete with grace.
A little groupe of men surrounded her
whose presence she seemed to suffer ra
ther than court. She rarely laughed.
Now aud again she smiled—a faint lan
guid smile—when her features would
relapse into the old indifference.
"Too absorbed even to wish me g.xul
morning. Mr. Dare?" interrupted a voice.
There was no out ward visible sigu of
the man's inward anatkeinus, as
instantly nsiug, courteously doffed his
hat to Mrs. Thome—a young aud pretty
widow ot but twenty-four.
"How glad I am to see you," she con
tinued, holdiug out a white, plump little
baud. "When did you arrive? I thought
you still abroad."
"Lives there a man with soul so
dead!" he answered, laughingly "You
aee, it was that sort of thing tuggiug at
my keart-st iug, that brought uie back
a penitent to my fatherland. I reached
New York some time last week. Really
it was too hot to k6ep any account of
time, except as measured by the ther
mometer. As soon as possible, I oanie
down here for a breath of fresh air.
Reached here late last night, and already
with a low bow "met my reward."
"Ah, I see you have not forgotten
your habit of making pretty spuackes!
Fortunately, loug ago I learned to esti
mate them at their proper value. But
tell me did you find anything in the gal
leries abroad lovelier thau Laura Stern's
faoe? Have you met her?"
"I certainly have met with no
greater miraole than the fact of one
woman according to another her
due meed of praise. Dare I respond?
or is it merely a trap for the unwary?
She is pretty— rcUhar. You see I am
timid, I do not kuow her. Will you
present me?"
"With pleasure. Laura," li&viug
taken his arm led him over to where the
girl sat, "this is my old frieud Mr. Dare
Mr. Dare— Miss Sterne."
The red brown eyes lifted themselves
for a moment to his face, the carmine
burned an instant to a deeper stain on
the beautiful cheek.
With a musical laugh, Mrs Thorne
glided away; the other men one by one
followed suit, and the new intruder held
undisputed possession of the prize.
The morning was a precursor to the
days that followed. It grew to be a
recognized thing that Vaughn Dare had
stepped into the foremost plaoe, and
that when he approached, others must
fall back.
There were many who had made des
parate struggles to gain that which
seemed to fall to liim by by a sort of un
oouscious light. He had drifted to
Newport without purpose or intent. He
found himself held there as a vessel to
its moorings; but he knew his anchorage
lay in Laura Sterna's smile.
How it lit up the lovely face! Was it
only his fancy that it always waited his
coming to iirst dawn in the wonderful
eje\ and then to grow and deepen until
the red lips caught it.
"Vaughn Dare is a flirt," said Dame
Gossip.
"It is diamond out diamond," said
Dame OnDit.
"There is a fiano4 awaiting in Gotham,
asserted Dame Rumor.
But spite of the three ancient and
worthy (?) dames, the lovers wended
their way content.
Were they lovers? had they paused to
put the question to themselves? Some
times they would spend hours almost
MILLHEIM, PA.. THURSDAY. MARCH 16,1882.
without words, when Vaughn throwing
himself on the sand at Miss Sterne's
feet, would let his eyes rest dreamily on
the perfect face, ou which neither sun
nor wind seemed ever to rest but with
loving impress.
"Have you a picture of yourself?" he
asked her, one day.
"No," she answered "I have never
had a photograph taken. Btrange is it
not?" I have always hated the idea of
having a cardboard representation of
myself in the possession of one's tive
hundred friends. If one's picture could
be held by one—the one for whom you
have had it drawn or painted, one whom
you knew would value it as a counterfeit
of the real- it may be different."
Did she expect that he would answer
"I waut it! I would be that one'"
Silence fell for a moment between
them; then Vaughn sprang to his feet,
aud offering her his arm, they walked
silently back to the h >uae.
That night, as they had finished a
waltz together, he whispered in her
ear:
"I am tired of all these people, I
want to be alone. May we not go up
for awhile into your parlor?"
"Certainly," she replitnl, her mood
always falling in with his, and led the
way, he following.
It was a pretty little room to which
she had brought the stamp of her own
individuality. The music from below
reached them but faintly; the salt air
from the ocean stirred the draperies
from the window.
"Without, the atmosphere was weary,
oppressive, as though a storm were
brooding. It seemed to weigh on
Vaughn Dare's spirit.
He leaned out to look into the night
to try if possible to shake it off. A faint
scream roused him.
Miss Sterne had crossed the room
to her escritoir; a breath of wind
hod blown the lace shawl aha had thrown
about her shoulders and fastened to her
hair, directly across the dame of the
lamp. It had instantly taken tire.
As instantly, Dare comprehended the
danger. A table stood at his side, cov
ered with some pretty dainty cloth. He
dragged it off aud threw it about her.
Scarce had sixty seconds, passed and
the peril was overl Sue was unscorohed,
unmarred.but he still held her as he had
caught her—close-wrapped in his arms
—close-pressed to liis heart.
One of his hands was severely burn
ed. He did not even know it, until she
caught and pressed it to her lips,
"For mel" she whispered, Vaughn,
Vaughn! I love you—l love you! The
life 3*ou have saved is yours,"
At her words he slowly opeued his
arms aud released her from his hold, an
ashen pallor creeping on liis face.
She looked up at him in dim bewil
dered wonderment.
"What is it?" she questioned.
"Only that you have opened heaven
to me, and I must turn away from its
gates. Mod, blind fool that I have been
not to see whither we are drifting. Laura
I love you—aye, as you love me—and I
am bound in honor to another woman.
"You mean that you have been enga
ged to—be—married all this time and
I—Oh, what have I done?" covering her
face with her hands and sinking back in
her chair.
"Nothing," he replied, "but what the
loveliest, purest of women might have
done. Knowing no evil you thought
none. I—"
••Leave me'" she cried springing to
her feet. "Go to the woman who has
the right to claim you. I make to heav
en but one prayer—that 1 may uever
see your face again!"
But when he had obeyed her, she
crouched down on the floor in her strug
gles to keep back the moans—aye and
kissed the spot where his feet had rest
ed.
Calm, silent, impassive all her life, he
had opened the pent-up flood-gates of
her soul, for this— for this.
* * * * ♦ *
We have made a mistako, Forgive
me that my eyes have just opened to it,
and that I ask you to release me from
my bonds. I thought that I loved you
but women do not always know their
owu hearts. I send you back your ring
your letters. Send me back my broken
pledge, and your forgiveness."
This was the letter from his affianced
Vaughn Dare found waiting him ill liis
room on his return to the city." This
which fate had sent him in the moment
of his need—this which raised the
weight from his ehest, and load from
his brain—which made him a free man
—free to woo and win the only woman,
he knew, that he had every truly loved.
It would be a little difficult, perhaps
to gain her forgiveness—to win anew
her trust; but with sdfcli an end, and the
kuo .vledge that she loved him, he could
not. fail. .
Why was it then that on the boat, re
turning, sleep forsook him? In the mor
ning he would find her sitting, perhaps
where he had first seen her. He eould
fancy the look of incredulity on the
beautiful face as he approached, only to
see it soften and die out under the elo
quent passion of his words.
Ah, how he loved her! Now in the
new sense of his freedom, he dared avew
to his own soul how well.
But spite of all the night wore heav
ily away. Toward morning he sought
his berth, but only lo toss restlessly
about, until the steamer touched her
pier.
It was still early when he reached the
hotel. A sudden chill seised him as he
entered the offloe. The few standing
around wore a sad, pitying look, ho
could not understand.
"You have heard the terrible news,
Mr. Dare?" the clerk questioned.
"I have heard nothaig," he abruptly
answered.
"What you do not know? Miss Sterne
was drowned yesterday while bathing.
At first she seemed adverse to going in
but they finally prevailed upon her
The tide was very strong, but thoy say
when it swept her beyond reach, she
seemed to smile, as though she kud no
fear. She uttered no cry or moan, and
must have lost consciousness almost im
mediately, for when the life-rope was
thrown her—they hoped in time to save
her life—she in* do no effort to grasp it.
Her body was recovered last night."
"Take me to her!" Dare whispered
in a hoarse changed voioe.
It seemed as though ho had known it
all long ago as though he had lived in
another life Walking as in a dream,
with all traee of oolor tied from cheek
ami hps,, he followed to the closed door
where the man had J eft him. Then he
opeued it quietly and went in. The few
watolurs taking one glauoe at his awful
face, rose aud left him with his dead—
ah, liis own for time aud eternity! Did
she not still wear the smile upoD her
lips for him?
For her the struggle was over, What
wonder that she had smiled as she felt
the waters, more merciful than man,
wrapping her in their embraoe? What
wonder that she cared not to grap the
rope which should suatch her back into
the old agony of living?
On his knees before the exquisite
form, Vaughn Dare wrestled with his
anguish. Ah, they both had drifted with
the tide—she into the still ooean of eter
nity, he into the bitter turmoil of the
might have-been. Drifted—drifted with
the tide men call living, and on its waves
have been wrecked "Two Lives,"
Papyri Slully.
To asoeud the Cybhe is very much
like making your way along a back
water on the Thames, but with the em
phatio difference that in place of oaiers
and the usual river plants and flowers,
we have nothing but papyri. The men
soon find that to use the oars ia imprac
ticable. They step out on the bank,
harness themselves with ropes—still
Thames fashion—and we are towed
along, brushing our way through the
tall papyri as well as we can. This long
eyot is named alter an English lady who
brought it uuder cultivation—that is,
covered it with papyri. Our guide
plucked up one of the tall reeds, cut off
a piece from the thick end, aud showed
us how he can oouvert it into paper by
shaving it into narrow strips and laying
the sections which he has thus peeled
away across each other. To convert
the material into paper fit for use, it
needs only be pressed and dried. I ka<i
never seen the process of paper-making
from the papyrus before, nor, indeed,
the papyri growing. It is a long reed
which runs to a cleat height, with a
very graceful feathery top. Y\ by the
papyrus should grow with such great
luxuriance at this particular spot and
nowhere else, as the guide told us, in
Sicily, or indeed, iu Europe, is a ques
tion which, no doubt, Sir Joseph Hook
er would readily solve, but it is quite
out of my range of knowledge. I can
only speak of the facts as I saw them.
The next day we bought from the guide
a specimen of his manufacture —papyrus
paper, pressed aud dried, yellowish in
oolor, with the marks of the cross strips
very distinct, buv presenting a smooth
suriaoa. Ink does not run upon it.
You could copy a manuscript, old or
new, well enough upon the material.
Oonuudruiua.
When is a wall Uke a fish? When it
is scaled.
How does a stove feel when full of coal?
Grateful.
Which of the reptiles is a mathemati
ciau? The Adder.
When is a boat like a heap of snow?
When it is adrift
When is a doctor most annoyed?
When he is out of patients.
When is a literary work like smoke?
When it comes in volumes.
Why is the letter G like the sun? Be
cause it is the centre of light.
What ia that which shows others what
it cannot see itself? • A mirror.
Why is the letter N like a faithless
lover? Because it is inconstant.
How docs a cow become a lauded es
tate! By turning her into the field.
Why is whispering a breach of good
manners? Because it is not allowed.
What is an old lady in the middle of
the river like? Like to be drowned.
What word may be pronotmoed quick
er by adding a syllable to it? Quick.
Why is a miser like a man with a
short memory? Because he is always
forgetting.
How does a sailor know there is a
man in the moon? Because he has been
to sea (see.)
Why is a fool in high station like a
man in a balloon? Because everybody
appears little to him, and he appears
little to everybody.
Cigar Facto.
Speaking of Hav%na, says a New York
correspondent, I may add a few facts
ooncerning the cigar trade. New York
purchases the most costly cigars in the
world, and these, of oourso, come from
Havana. Noarly 100 brands are known
hero, each of which has its admirers.
These cigars are of high cost in their
own market, but the prioe is enormous
ly increased by the duty which is eigh
ty per eent. Among the moat noted is
the Intimidad, which has been quoted
by the importers at the trifling sum of
S4OO per I,OUO. They have retailed at
sixty cents apiece, but perhaps are now
a little cheaper. The Henry Clay is
another popular brand of almost the
same value. They are imported in boxes
each containing fifty, and a large num
ber of these boxes are packed iu one
case, There are other fine cigars of more
moderate prices, and if the reader wish
es to observe a little closer economy,
there is the Prii.oipal, which is only S2OO
per 1,000, wlile the Flora de Fumar is
only ouo-half that price. They retail
at twenty cents und are in steady de
mand, being, indeed, the most oommuu
cigar found at the leading hotels. One
tobacconist says that it is impossible to
equal an Havana oigar by any other
manufacture. The attempt has been
tried at Key West in the most careful
manner, but has failed. They imported
the finest tobaooo from the valley of the
Abajo (of which the best Havana cigars
are made), but the Key West article
proved inferior. Key West is so near
Havana that (had the effort been suc
cessful) the duty would have been saved
by luukiug up the Havana leaf. Key
West cigars are common in our market,
but they never equal the imported arti
cle.
Uueeu Mr.;uerit# of Italy
Seems to be greatly beloved by the
Neapolitans. They call her "the Mar
guerite of the Marguerites." Recently
when she entered Naples, every window
and doorway was adorned with her fa
vorite flower—indeed the whole city
looked like a bouquet of daisies. From
Naples she went by water to one of the
Mediterranean ports. On going on board
ship she found that every one, from the
Admiral commanding down to the com
mon sailors, wore a boutonniere of mar
guerites, a delicate attention which
greatly pleased the Queeu. Her SOD,
the heir apparent of Italy, bears as one
of his titles that of Prince of Naples.
When he was born that city presented
the Queen with an exquisite cradle made
of pale pink ooral filled with the snowy
petals of tier own delicate flower. Queen
Marguerite has lost much of the bright
blond beauty which once rivalled the
charms of the Empress Eugenie. She
has growu a little stout, and her sad ex
pression and a frequeuty noticed redness
of the eyelids gives emphasis to the ru
mor that she often weeps. All the royal
beauties of Europe have had trouble.
Eugenie, the Princess of Wales, and
her palu, frightened Bister, the "white
dove" cf the Russians, all know what
sorrow is, and Queen Isabella,one of the
ugliest women in Europe, has not had
a happy life. It is said that she left
Madrid in tears last mouth, when State
reasons forbade Alfonso to ask Der to
extend the visit of ceremony she is al
lowed to make her native land once a
year.
Fishing With oaniel Wsbiter.
■ •* mm irnmmm -
So you knew Webster personally, did
you? said a reporter to an old man.
Well! I suppose I might say so; though
it is more than forty years ago when I
went a fishing with him dowrn Cut River
into Marshfield Bay. Cod fishing we
went." Only you two? No! Skipper
Seth—somebody was along to manage
the boat, bait the hooks, and pass things
when wanted. I had never been cod
ding and was green as a gosling at the
business. 'Twos a splendid morning!
Webster was dressed in an old gray suit
wore a gray hat, aud-smiled all the way
down the river, at me I suppose. He
told me he knew my father before me,
and if I ever made naif as good a man
I'd better be satisfied, or something to
that effect. He was a good deal more
social than you would take him to be
seeing him at the Astor House on his way
or at Washington iu the Senate. I felt
perfectly at homo after he had caught
the first'fisb. 'Twas just at daylight;
aud a haddock. He "weighed seven
pounds in his own scales." This was
Mr. Webster's joke, but we didn't have
another; or a bite for more than a half
an hour. There was a "halibout"
about, Mr. Webster said, aud if we didn't
hook him we'd have 10 move down fur
ther toward Gurnet Neck. He hooked
himself on my hook and (he skipper got
him into the boat, along with enough
of Marshfield Bay to keep him alive for
a month if we had not bailed the craft
out. After this bites were frequent.
Cod of all ages, haddook, sculpin, and a
school of six mackerel came fover tlie
gunwale. Along about sunrise Mr.
Webster put a green vail over his bat
and face, and I did not see either again
till we made a landing. He always wore
a green vail fishing after sunrise. Soon
after we caught a baby "halibout"
Fletcher Webster came out to us In a
small boat, and then the fun began. He
brought with him little Dr. Choules, a
settled Baptist minister at Newport,who
the Marshfield people said worshiped
Webster more than he did his Maker.
That's no matter. He was the funniest
little piece of langh and errow fat Chris
tianity I ever saw. He was proportioned
like a pumpkin, and his face was as sun
ny as a ripe one. They brought some-"
tiling to take, and we all took. This liad
an immediate effect at both ends of the
lines. Codfish seemed to want some
thing, too. They bit like a house on
fire, "Now Fletcher!" said Mr. Web
ster, "give us a little Lafayette." The
"little Lafayette" the great expounder
wanted was a rehearsal of Websters great
speech of welcome to Lafayette, which
can be found in Webster's works, and
should be read by all men) A whack
ing big mousier of the deep took hold of
Fletcher's hook. "Give us a hand for a
starter, Dr. Choules." said Fletcher,
and slowly the capture came through
the five fathoms of water. Just as the
head of an enormous "halibout" ap
peared above the splash twenty feet
away, Fletcher opened, "11-lus-tri-ous
strauger!"—suiting the action to the
words—"Citizen of another hemisphere
welcome to these shores!" and with a
faw hauls of oouceutrated Fletcher and
Choules power the eel lustrious strang
er was promptly lauded in the boat.
Dr. Choules proposed that we "take"
again, and it was done as a purely san
itary measure. Good John E. Williams
brandy from the ancient cellars of 1847
on Boston neck being used to oonteract
any unwholesome effect that might fol
low the dousing we all received while
welcoming the illustrious stranger to our
common platform. The larger the fish
thereafter the larger the take, and we
took a great many large ones of both
descriptions before we up anchor and
tried to head for home. Somehow or
other we had not noticed that a strong
wiud over Marshfleld salt meadows and
right out of the mouth of Cut River had
risen while we were taken the biggest,
and instead of sailing back on the tack
we'd oomo out on, we were obliged to
make one toward Duxbury. then "tow
ard Boston, Qaiaoy, Fall River, and
Newport," as little Dominie Choules
said often before we got through taok
ing, by driving plump into Plymouth
harbor, twenty miles away, Lord! how
that broad-breasted yawl bounced over
the water and breasted Boreas and the
billows. Fletcher said "Boreas was a
bore and ass." "Rightly named!"
chimed in little Choules. "If the Pilg
rim Fathers," arid the immortal defen
der of them and of the constitution; "if
those godly ancestral heroes of Massa
chusetts had been driven against the
stern aud rook bound ooast with such a
vehement exhibition of Divine wrath and
power " "They wouldn't have
landed without some swearing,l think,"
continued Fletcher. As it was, it was
one of the wonders how we lauded at
aIL Ju the general bobbing and bounc
ing, I had become as limp as a skinned
eel; had thrown off ail the pleasure and
lots of other things besides, that 1 had
enjoyed before the anchor was heaved,
and was glad to wade ashore at a point
a little to the southward of Plymouth
Rock. Plymouth people were on their
way home to their usual 2 o'clock din
ners when we walked up the street and
turned *he right hand oorner to reach
and reinvigorate at the popular house
with an Indian name, on the high road
to Kingston. You ought to have seen
Rev. Dr. Choules when he landed from
the boat. He looked like a young robin
after a seven days' storm. Exceedingly
damp, though blazing from the eyes and
from the depths of his inner conscious
ness with smiling thankfulness that we
had not been upset in the middle of the
bay and out of soundiuga. Mr. Webs
ter maintained that godlike mieu and
carriage for which he was so justly ce
lebrated. His green vail had been car
ried away in the storm, and that splen
did appeared onco more in its matchless
glory* How wo got back to Marshtield
with our plunder from the sea I will tell
at another more convenient period.
Fmli Raising.
The cod, Spauish mackorel, striped
baas and smelt have been heretofore the
only sea tisli whose eggs have been
hatched by fish oulturists, but the New
York State Fish Ooinmitsion has under
taken to establish fish hatcheries on
Long Island, both fresh and salt water
ponds, where it is expected that other
varieties will be rapidly added to the
list. Here is a..matter in wkioli the
States and the United States mutually
benefit and inspire eacli other, the Uni
ted States Fish Commission yearly sup
ply, while the several States can for
themselves work out the suggestions it
makes for either fresh or salt water far
ming.
Loookto.
Energetic measures against the locusts
are being taken in Cyprus. Up to the
end of October, 880 tons of their eggs
had been destroyed, of whicli 270 tons
were gathered in that month alone, aud
four or five months still remain for the
collection. The rewards paid have been
raised to £l3 the ton; and the govern
having ment, already spent £6,000 this
year on the eggs, is prepared to expend
£23,000 as soon as the raseots are
hatehed in April and May on screened
enclosures and pit traps, to be managed
by 2,000 men.
Hospital Beat*.
"There are a good many of the olass
called 'hospital dead beats/ " said {he
Superintendent of the New York hospi
tal. "They make it a business, especi
ally in winter, to go from one hospital
to another with pretended ailments,con
tent to lie in bed and be waited upon as
long as we are willing to keep them.
The women generally olaim to be afflic
ted with hysteria. They will sometimes
lie rigid as a corpse and pretend to be
unable to more. 1 have known suoh a
case to be cured by one buoket of ice
cold water suddenly clashed upon the
patient. The 'hospital beats' are gene
rally familiar with Bellevue, where,
from long experience, they have learned
to dispose of such cases summarily, so
that the old 'rounders' get tired of at
tempting their impositions.
"One of the most successful frauds I
ever saw practised was by a girl of
nineteen. She came here well recom
mended, and claimed to be afflicted with
rheumatism. She gave her name as
Mary Reed. She was so pretty, modest,
and amiable that she soon became a fa
vorite in the hcspital. She was tract
able and easily managed. As she re
covered her strength she showed a de
sire to help other jatients.
"One day a rather course man called
to see her, and said she was his wife,
and he wished to take her home when
she got well. We were all surprised to
discover that she was married..
Her story was that she had been at
service with a wealthy family up the
Hudson; that this man was the coach
man. and she had married him; that
soon after they were married her hus
band got out of employment, and in or
der to help him along she had come out
to service.
"The girl's manner was so plausible,
and she told her story with suoh a cap
tivating simplicity, heightened by a
pretty foreign accent, that we all be
lieved her. As she got stronger she
went out several times, saying she was
looking for w irk.
"One of our patients was afflicted
with erysipelas, and we had to isolate
her in the cottage. Miry kindly vol
unteered, to nurse the patient, and did
so with a tenderness and assiduity that
won her admiration. The patient got
well, but communicated her disease to
Mary who became very ill. At one time
her life was despaired of.
"The visits of the ooarse man oeased.
Then another man came and claimed
her as his wife. He was a Spaniard,and
evidently a sailor. Our suspicion was
aroused. His story was that he had met
the girl at Gibraltar, where she was
known as the daughter of a Spanish
Jew; that she had come to this country
with him, and that he supported her
here, but that while he was abseut ou
one of his voyages she had left him. fie
was willing, however, to forgive her and
marry her, and they finally made UP
their disagreement and went off togeth
er. The Spaniard aaid that her sister
was one of the favorite wives of the Em-.
peior of Morocco, who had taken a great
fancy to her and bought her from her
parents."
To Warm the Girl*.
* A seal skin saoque costs fifty per cent
more than it did five years ago. Seal
skins have not been worn more than
fifteen or eighteen years, Fashion and
the disoovery of new methods of prepa
ring and dying, or first the latter and
second the former, brought them into
use The seal fur, as seen here, is the
inner coat. When on the back of the
seal this fine fur is hid by coarse hairs,
which are removed by a process of par
ing down the under side of the skin.
The color of the fur as known to wearer
is artificial. If the-government had not
taken measures to protect the seal new
wearers of seal sacques would be few in
a short time. The Shetland seals were
onoe numerous, but have been extermi
nated. The Newfoundland seal is in
market, but is inferior to the seal ot
Alaska. The islands of the Behring
Sea are the only ones in the world where
seal catching has great commercial im
portance.
From 1751 to 1870 the scientific world
knew nothing in the regard to the his
tory of the seal. The Smithsonian In
stitution did not possess a perfeofc ski a
and skeleton of the seal, although thou
sands of men and millions of dollars
j have been employed in capturing, dres
sing and selling fur skins for the last
hundred years. The vast breeding
grounds bordering on the Antarctiahave
been entirely depopulated. Between
the yeaTs 1795 and 1821 1,232,274 seal
skins were taken in the Pribylov Isl
ands; between 1821 and 1842, 458,500
skins, and from 1842 to 1861, 372,000
skins. In the year 1868 the number of
skins taken was 242,000. In 1770 only
9.965 were captured. During the last
ten .years the catch has been a little less
than 100,000 per year. The whole
number taken between 1796 and 1880
was 3,561,051 skins. The seal catching
is done in June and July. After that
time fur begins to "shed" and is
worthiest. * The natives are psid forty
cents a skin for their labor.
—Two persons die every seoondL
—Paris produces more than two hun
dred books and pamphlets a week,
NO 11.