VOL. LVJ.
HAKTER,
AUCTIONEER,
REBER3BURG. PA.
J C. SPRINGER,
Fashionable Barber.
Next Door to JOURNAL Store,
MII.LHEIH, PA.
JgROCKERHOFF HOUSE,
ALLEGHENY STREET,
BKLLKFONTE, ... PA.
c. O. McMILLEN,
PROPRIETOR.
Good Sample Room ou First Floor.
IWFree Buss to And from all Trains. Special
rates to witnesses and Jurors. 4-1
IRVIN HOU^E.
(Most Central Hotel In the CltyJ
Corucr MAIN and JAY Streets,
Lock Haven, Ta.
.8. WOODS CALWELL, Proprietor.
Good Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers on first floor.
D. 11. MINGLE,
Physician and Surgeon.
MAIN Street, MILLHKIM, Pa.
R.JOHN F. BARTER,
PRACTICAL DENTIST.
Office in *2d story of Tomlinsoa'i Gro
cery Store,
On MAIN Street, MILIHF.IM, Pa.
BF KIKTFR,
• FASHIONABLE BOOT Jfc SIIOE MAKER
Shop next d<x>r to Foote's Store, Main St.,
Boots, Shoes and Gaiters made to order, and sat
lafUrtorv work guarantead. Repairing done prompt
ly and cheaply, aud in a neat style.
S. R. PKALK. H. A. MCKIE.
PEALE Ac MeK EE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office opposite Court House, Bellefonte, Pa.
a T. Alexffbdet. C. M. Bower.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTK, PA.
Offlce In Garm&n'g new building.
JOHN B. LINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTK, PA.
Offlce on Allegheny Street.
QLEMENT DALE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTX, PA.
Northwest corner of Diamond,
jQ 11. JIASTIINCS*,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTK, PA •
Office on Allegheny Street, 2 doors west of offlce
formerly occupied by the late flrui of Y'ocurn A
Hastings.
XJ^MTCTHEINLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTK, PA.
Practices in all the courts of Centre County.
Spec al attention to Collections. Consultations
In German or English,
F. REEDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTK, PA.
All bos'ness promptly attended to. Collection
of claims a speciality.
J. A. Beaver. J W. Gephart. .
JgEAVER & GEPHART,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTK, PA.
Offlce on Alleghany Street, North of High.
YOCTJFFHARSIIBERGER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA
P Si. KELLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA
Consultations in EngH&h or German. Offloe
in Lyon' -. Building, Allegheny Street.
JQ H. HASTINGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA
Office on Allegheny street, two doors west ol
office formerly occupied by the firm of Yoeum k
Bastings.
Sie pillleiu §®iwai
AT THE LAST.
The strsiun 1* rainiest when It neara the tide.
And the flowers are sweetoxt at the evsntlU*,
And bird* moat musical at the closs of da;,
And saints divlnest whan the; pass awn;.
Merntnn Is hot;, but a holier charm
lies folded close In Kveuuijt's robe of balm,
And wear; man must ever love her beat,
For morning calls to toll, but night to rest.
from lleaveu, and ou her wings doth
bear
A holy fragrance, like the breath of prayer.
Footsteps of angels follow In her trace,
Ta shut the wear; eyes of day in peace.
All things are hushed before her as ahe tarows
O'er earth and sky her mantle of repose ;
1 here is a calmer beauty and a power
That Morning knows not, in the Evening hour.
Tntll the evening we must weep and toil-
Flow life's stern luirow, dig the weedy soil,
I read with soft feet our rough snd thorny way,
And bear the heat aud burden of the day.
#
Oh! when our sua ta setttug may we glide
Like summer Kveutug dawn the golden tide,
Aud eave behlad us, as we pass away,
Sweet, starry twilight round our sleeping clay.
J I'WT TOO I AK.
"But I tell you, Lou, I can't afford
it ?"
"Oh, you stingy thing! You are will
ing to have your wife go like a dowdy,
just for the sake of a few paltry dollars?"
And pretty Lou Falconer pouted her
rosy lip, and turned pettishly away
from her husband.
"We are a young tirm, you know,
Lou, and—"
"Oh, say nothing more al>out it, if
you please. I shall never ask you for
anything again." And with a little toss
of her head she left the room
Falconer sighe 1 , and hi* brow con
tracted with pain, as he looked after
her.
"Poor child ! It is so hard to refuse
har anything."
He was a pale young man, with a
thoughtful cast of countenance and
earnest gray eyes; habitually reserved
and prudent, he accounted a sharp
business man, and at the time of his
marriage, two years previous, the old
men predicted that he would eventually
become one of the largest capitalists in
B. His wife, a wilful, pretty creature,
seemed to be his one weak point. Nor
was she slow to avail herself of this ad
vantage; her influence over him was un
bounded,and even in cases where it was
against his better judgment he invaria
bly yielded to her wishes. The present
object of these last named was a garnet
silk drees pattern, which she had ttiat
morning seen at C 's fashionable
store; and poor Falconer's ears were
still ringing with the minute description
of its incomparable loveliuesss.
"It seems so cruel to deny her what
she has sot her heart on," he said, lay
ing down his pen, aud arising, took one
or two turns across the room The re
sult of his reflections was,that he put on
his hat, went straight to C 's, order
ed the silk, and had it charged to his
account.
"Who would hesitate to credit Falco
ner and Frost? There was not a safer
co-partnership anywhere, The sales
man blandly inquired, "Anything else,
sir?" wrote the address and promised
that the parcel should be sent home "in
an hour's time." Then the purchaser
walked slowly down *o his business, not
altogether satisfied with what he had
done.
"Oh, Edward, you darling!"
words that greeted him whe_ he went
home that evening, aud throwing her
arms around his neck, his wife, literally
overwhelmed him with kisses. "Oh,
you dear love! how oiever it was of you
to fei n the old Sbylock, and then give
me such a delightful surprise!"
"It was really a delightful surprise,
Mignon," putting both hands upon her
shoulders, and gaaing fondly into the
fair, joyous, face, "I am simply reward
ed for my trouble."
"Wait until you see me in my new
dress, and then you'll be rewarded in
earnest. *
"Well, suppose you let me have some
tea now."
"Cerrainly, as much as you want."
Throughout the meal Lou was gay
and garrulous, and afterwards went to
the piano and sang to her husband till
bed-time.
"I can't make up this handsome dress
myself," soliloquized Mrs. Falconer, as
she examined her treasure next day; "I
am sure that Edward would rather pay
the dressmaker's bill than have me spoil
it." So she forthwith took it to a fash
ionable modiste and was fitted.
When she reached home she found a
letter from her mother in New York,
saying that she would be with them by
the following Tuesday, and immediately
set about preparing a room for her re
ception.
"Dear, me," she said, "I must have
some new muslin curtains; I should be
ashamed for mamma to see these, all
darned as they are. Edward must be an
angelgain, and give me some."
"Sweetest, dearest, and best of men!"
she said to him at dinner, "I am in a
worse fix than was the Princess Gra
ciosa; wont you be Percient and come to
my assistance?"
"What is it you want now ?'" asked
Falconer, beginning to get neivous.
"Oh, love, my muslin curtains are so
ragged as to disgrace the house, and
mamma if: coming to visit me next week;
she is always so particular about appear -
MILLIIEIM, PA., THURSDAY. JUNE 1,1882.
anoes, ami 1 want to get tome fri sh ones
to put up iu her room."
"Is it absolutely necessary to have
rnnaliu curtains, Lou 9 Wouldn't dimity
do just as well? I'm sure you must have
a apart* sot."
"Oh, but mamma is accustomed to
muslin curtains, and I know she won't
feel at home with any othei kind. There
now, be a good darling, and let me got
them."
"I hate to refuse .you, Lou, hut—"
"Oil ! you've turned into a monster
sgaiu, you Gharou ! I mayn't even wel
come my mother, and make her comfor
table in our home.
"You can welcome your mother aud
make her very comfortable, without the
aid of mu-ilu curtains," said Falconer,
decidedly.
"Savage !" cried Lou, beginning to
pout.
"This is unreasonable and childish!'
exclaimed her husband, impatiently
pushing hack his chair, lie had some
perp ex ng business on his mind and was
m<t in a mood for trilling. But Lou
burst into tears.
"Hang it all !" cried Edward, and
taxing his hat he left the house. He
had not gone ten steps, however, be
fore his resolution failed him, ami hur
rying up to the nearest bank, he hastily
drew a check and returned home with
the money. He found his wife in her
own room,with their little Eddie on her
lap ,the traces of tears were fresh on her
face, and she was singing to the baby iu
alow voice.
"Forgive me, my precious for having
been so crabbed just now," pleaded
Falconer, in a penitent tone, as he bo t
over aad kissed her, at the same time
placing the money in her hind. "Will
this be sufficient for what you want?"
"More than sufficient!" she exclaimed
delightedly, separating the roll of Dank
notes. "I'll take what's left over and
get you a perfect duck of a dressing
gown, anil materials to work the love
liest pair of slippers you ever saw."
Falconer began to protest that he
stood in need of neither dressing gown
nor slipjiers, but a reproachful glance
from Lou's blue eyes arrested his words.
"Not when I'm g iug to make them
with my own little lingers ?" she said,
and Eilward was subdued instanter.
The following week Lou's mother,
Mr*. Townsend, arrived, aud was affec
tionately welcomed by hu r daughter
aud son-iu-law. She was a thoroughly
sensible, reasonable woman, with a deal
of penetration, that seemed to devino
things at a glance, and was an acquisi
tion to any household.
"Don't you think, Lou," she said to
her daughter, one day, when the latter
had, in her usual coaxing, half-pouting
style, bean urging Edward to gome
fresh extravagance, "that you may
push your importunities just too far ?
Mr. Falconer looks very much perplex
ed and worried to-day, 1 think."
"Oh, Edward is the dearest, most
amiable of men."
"Yes, Lou, but the very reason that
your husband is amiable aud indulgent
to a fault, you should be merciful, and
not press him too far. Now I consider
that baby's cloak winch you coaxed
him into getting for Eddie quite an un
micessary piece of extravagance. Now.
take my advice, aud baa little reasona
ble in your demands."
Mrs. Falconer knew better than to
pout to her mother, she resolved not to
ask her husband for anything in her
presenoe agaiu ; but 110 sooner was Mrs.
Townsend gone than the old practice
wa renewed. Too much occupied with
her own selfish little aims, she did not
notice that her husband's manner was
often strangely flurried ;there was a reck
lessness in liis very tenderness; refused
her nothing that she asked for, and the
little lady availed herself to the very
utmost of his propitious disposition.
"Oh, Edward," she said to him one
day, as they sat together over their des
sert, "the Charity ball comes off next
Wednesday, and I have been made one
of the lady patronesses. I must have a
pretty dress for the occasion.
"Ordei what you will," be said, la
conically, as he rose and left the table."
The evening of the ball Lou was dis.
appointed that her husband did not
come home ij> time to see her dressed,
but she could not keep her party wait
ing, and she was obliged to go olf with
out seeing him.
Half an hour later Falconer came
home. He inquired from the housemaid,
who had been roused from a nap by the
violent jerking of the parlor bell, if her
mistress had gone out; and sleepy as the
girl was, she was startled (as she after
wards aijerred)"by the look of his face,"
as he dismissed her.
He went to his own room where little
Eddie lay asleep, but turned abruptly
from the picture. The heavy ice of des
pair lay or his heart. Falconer and
Frost had failed, and he was a defaulter
to the amout of more thousands than ho
could hope to repay; his good fortune
was gone; nothing but beggary and ruin
lay before liirn, and tlia disgrace would
be reflected on his wife and child. He
passed to his dressing room, turned the
key on the inside, and ten minutes later
the neighbors were startled by the re
port of a pistol. They forced the door,
and found that to the name of "bank
rupt" and "swindler," which had been
applied to liini as soon KS the failure had
been made public, he had added that of
suicide.
They were fearful tidings that reach
ed his wife's ear in the midst of the fes
tivities anil hurried her home and vain
ly might she, iu frantic accents call on
that lifeless form "only to speak to her
once more" and she M ould be content to
"live on dry crusts in a hovel lor the
rest of her days."
Then she called herself "his muileress,"
and wringing her hands incessantly,
cried: "Just teo far. too far!"
Tain, vain lament !
lata Yurtkutlak.
Lieutenant Dancnhowcr, of the Jean
nette Expedition writes on the 30th of
December, 1881, from Yakut ik,Siberia,
us follows ; We are passing tile time
quietly but mi] alieutly. It is daylight
here at about Ba. in. We get up and
have breakfast at a little hotel that is
handy. The forenoon I spend reading
a little, writiug a little and in attending
to auy business I may happen to have
on hand. About 2 p. w. General
Taehernief's a'eigh arrives, aud 1 go to
dine with him ; generally return aliont
4 p. ni., and if I do not have visitors 1
take a nap and kill time as well as I can
until © p. in., when we have supper at
the little hotel, and then go to bi d. As
I have told .you before, I have found
nice people in every part of the world
that 1 have visited, and this place is by
no means an exception. Last evening,
for instance, we speut very pleasantly at
the house of a Mr. Correikoff, an Irku
tsk merchant, who entertained us very
well. His wife is a charming lady, and
it was very pleusant to see the three
beautiful children. They have a fine
piano, the first one we have seeq since
leaving San Francisco.
Yakut-k is a city of 5,000 inhabitants.
Ths houses ure built of wood, aud are
not painted. The streets are very wide,
and each bouse has a large yard or
court. The principle trade is in furs.
In summer a great deal of fresh meat is
sent up the river. During nine months
of the year snow and ice abound. In
the winter the thermometer falls to sev
enty degree* below zero. Since our ar
rival it has been sixty-eight degrees be
low, and to-day it is only thirty-live de
grees. or theroalM>ut*. lu the summer
the temperature rises as high as
ninety-five degrees Fahrenheit, but the
nights are cold. There are many horses
and cows in this vicinity. Toe natives,
th Yakut**, cat horse meat, but the
Rusaians eit beef and venison. Pota -
toes, cabbage and a few other vegeta
bles, a few berries, wheat and rye are
grown in this vicinity. There are a few
dieep and jioultry also.
Tit* Mlurtlo I'aik IUMQ.
Tliis spot in Colorado lias been called
the hunter's paradise, from tlie abund
ance of its game, and has been and will
bo the resort of sportsmen for years to
oome. But the Middle and North Barks
are very fertile districts, and are largely
made up of separate valleys bordering
the streams, and separated from one
another by long ridges, ranges of hills
or mountains spurs that are covered
with timber. The valleys are open
meadow laud, with generally a good
anil, which produoes an abundant
growth of grass and othef vegetation. It
lias proven an excellent stock growing
region, and is sparsely occupied by
bands of horses, herds of cattle, and
flocks of sheep. The hills, ridges, and
abundant timber afford good shelter,
so that animals Buffer much less from
oold than in level, open districts, where
the wiud has unobstructed sweep.
The altitude of the larger valloys
ranges from 7,000 to 8,000 feet above
sea level. Smaller valleys reach up
1,500 feet higher. Receut experiments
prove that many crops of graiu and
vegetables can be successfully grown up
to 0,000 feet, at least, above sea level.
While damaging frosts may occur im
mediately along the large streams, the
little nooks and valleys among the high
h lis and mountains 1,000 feet above
them are entirely exempt. Dairy pro
ducts are especially excellent. Timothy
and other cultivated grasses flourish
wonderfully, and the consequence will
be that it will in a few years become a
district of little dairy farms, producing
their owu hay, potatoes, turnips, Ac.,
and supplying the towns and iniuos of
the State with the best butter, cheese,
beef, and mutton in the world.
Christian Collet**.
There are in the United States accor
ding to the latest report of the Commis
sioner of E lucation, 364 colleges; of
these 41 are Baptist, 53 Methodist, 36
Presbyterian, 17 Congregational and 10
Episcopalian. The total value of the
property of these institutions is.iu round
numbers, $80,000,000. The average
value of college peoperty in the principal
evangelical denominations is as follows:
Methodists, $1.75 a member: Baptists,
$3.82 a member; Presbyterians, $3.90 a
member; Congregatioualists, $6.93;
Episcopalians $13.57. Tue proportion
of college student* to members is thus
stated: Baptists, one to every 830 mem
bers; Methodists, one to every 1,000
members; Presbyterians, one to every
600; Congregatioualists, one to every
.413 Episcopalians, one to every 900.
Exploding am Alligator.
A hunter says that after having
tramped many hours through the swamps
of Southern Louisiana without finding
tlio game he sought, lie seated himself
upou a log to take a rest before turning
his steps homeward. A few minutes
after he was sealed he looked down upon
the ground around him and was startled
by the uppearance of a large alligator,
which was lying upon its belly only a few
feet distant, with its mouth wide open
and its eyes closed. At first impulse he
sprang to his feet and started to change
his resting place to a safer distance.
But he observed that the auimal remain
ed motionless as though he had not ob
served his sudden movement. He at
once surmised thut the alligator must be
asleep, and he resolved to have some
fun with him. After bea Jug around the
bushes iu order to reassure himself that
the Minimal was really unconscious, he
stealthily crept up by the side of the
immense jaws aud poured a horn full of
powder into his mouth. Then taking up
a number of percussion caps from his
hex, he placed them in opposite posi
tions on the ends of his teeth. And the
alligator continued to doze with his
mouth wide open. "Then," says the
hunter, "I walked to his other end, and
alter preparing myself for emergency 1
just stuck a pin in liis tail. Instantly
the great jaws went down with a crash,
which wus followed by an explosion and
a flash of fire, and from the volume of
smoke which enveloped the head I
saw pieces of flesh and jawbone flying
übont among the trees. The great lx>dy
first recoiled from the terrible force and
then bounded forward against a tree.
Then it floundered about in the most
terrific convulsions, beating down small
saplings and tearing up the ground.
Thus it coutiuuod for a quarter of an
hour, and then at last it became still.
Then there was one last lash of the tail,
a quiver through the frame,and my alli
gator was dead."
I'aTfl a CiKar?"
When the Atlantic express train over
the Central road reached Niles the other
day a Detroit commercial traveler boar
ded the train to find every seat taken.
In the centre of one ooach one seat was
occupied by two satchels and another
by an overcoat, while the owner of the
articles wan in the smoking car. The
IJstroiter gathered up all the baggage
and placed it on the wood -box and oc
cupied the seats with his own,ami lie had
just got comfortably seated when the
late occupant returned from his smoke.
He saw what had trauspired.aud he was
white with anger, when he began:
"Who moved my baggage:"
"I did," was the reply.
"Sir, I represent the wholesale crock
ery house of Blank and Blank, of New-
York, and I—"
"I knew it—saw jour name on your
baggage," interrupted the other, "Have
you seen the papers to-day?"
"No sir."
"I thought not. Well,your house has
failed for $288,000 —can't pay 20 oe its
on the dollar—bad bust—no tune for
you to swell over two seats—crowd ID
somewhere or stand by the stove, and
when we get to Detroit I'll help you to
get a pass home. Sorry for you and
all that, but our house is lated A 1. has
a reserve of $75,000 in mortgages, and
the survival of the fittest is a priucipal
older than the hills. Have a cigar?"
. m a
i Hlutrd Glhks
Oudiuot, tlie famous French paiute
on glass, has been summoned to New
York to mount the seventeen windows
which he designed and painted for Wil -
liam K. Yanderbilt's house. Sixteen, of
the windows are of uniform size but the
seventeenth fills the end of the dimug
room and is twenty one feet high. It
represents the meeting of Henry the
Eighth and Francis the First in the Field
of the Cloth of God. The magnificent
picture is divided bv five horizontal and
four vertical sashes, but its mtiity is well
preserved. Henry is represented full
face mounted on a great whi f e horse and
Fruueis is seen in profile. Each king
has a following of knights, squiies, pur
suivants, lanoe, spear aud battleaxe
men-at-arms, falcoLers, bowmen, whip
pers-iu, jesters and amusing dwarfs.
There are dogs for the field sports of
their majesties, and splendid creatures
they are. The ladies represented aro
Queen Claude and Auue Boleyn and in
all there are one hundred and thirty-three
figures ou the big window. The other
sixteen windows are decorated with ar
morial bearings of eight English and
eight French lords who were present
at the meeting of their k ; ngs. The sub
ject was chosen for the painter by Mrs.
Vanderbilt.
A Dead Copper.
"I'm a dead copper to a country, and no
mistake," said a seedy sidewalk lounger
recently. "I went to Maine, and the ice
crop < ailed; 1 went to Florida, and the
frosts killed all the gardens and orchards;
I went to Mississippi, and they had a flood;
I went to California, and the people began
to die with small-pox. Since 1 struck this
State the Comstock mines have never paid
a dividend, and if I go to Oregon I am
willing to bet they will have a drought."
"Now, see here," said a Comstock vet
eran; "if 1 thought you were the Jonah or
this camp I'd lake you down and drown
you iu the Jacket swamp."
Before he could be captured the ragced
tourist had started —presumably for Ore
gon.
A German Stove.
On going to bed that night we got enr
first insight into the mysteries of Ger
man stoves and beds. German rooms,
are Jas all well-regulated foreign rooms
are, sold in winter. In the corner of our
room stood a china or delf-ware concern
which the waiter was pleased to imform
us was a stove. It was at least seven
feet high, and two feet and a half
square. The monotony of its white,
glistening, glnzed exterior was relieved
by an attempt to deaeive one into the
belief that it was built of seperate bricks,
while for ornament it bore around its
top a border of impossible raised flow
ers, aud half wav down one side an im
possible raised angel, with outspread
wings, surrounded by a wreath ot im
possible raised flowers, in much the same
style of art one sees on the old-day tea
pots in the familiar illustration of "Re
becca at the Well." Well, the waiter
opened a polished door of sheet brass on
one side of this monolith, about a foot
from the floor, aud exposed an iron
door, bearing a peg, from which peg de
pended a key. With the key he unlock
ed this second door and brought to view
a third door of barred iron. He opened
the third door aud we gazed into a little
chamber about a foot square Into this
chamlier he put a piece of paper, a small
handful of wood and aud a still smaller
handful of coal. He touched off the
paper, closed the the inner door, and
proceeded to open the windows, for that
stove smoked most infernally. We went
down stairs until the htove had gotten
through with its smoke When we went
up again the waiter had shut all three
door* not forgetting the middle one,and
hail left that little smothered handful of
coals to warm up that great stove aud
our great room. The Germans claim,
that they get a maximum amount of
heat out of these stoves with the expen
diture of a minimum amount of fuel.and
that there is no danger of fire from them
-economy aud safety, two Germau
characteristics. I can vouch for the
miiiimun amount of fuel, but ou the
questien of heat I am inexorably ailent.
They must be safe, for it is a physical
impossibility for a little, smothered fire
to get out of a stove with solid walls
half a foot thick aud defend 1 by three
doors, one of them locked and the key
on the outside.
Food for Infant* aui Invalids.
It may be questioned whether there
is any subject which comes more closely
home to the people of all chisses than
the character of the toxl supplies spec
ially provided for iufaute and invalids.
The increasing demand for this class
of preparations has led to a great num
ber and variety of such competitors for
public favor. Put up iu ornamental
boxes, they appear on the counters of
every grocer and in the show cases of
every apothecary shop; and not unfre
queutly their acual value is in inverse
ratio to the pretentiousness of the pack
age and the price.
As a rule, purchasers are obliged to
tak9 the virtue of such articles upon
tru&t, few having the means or the know
ledge requisite for au analysis, micro
scopic or chemical, ot the preparations
which they are advised to trv, perhaps
by the family phjfsiciau, ana yet a mis
take in this connection may be fatal.
For all young infants, ami for adults
in many cases of sickness, starch food is
injurious; sometimes iu beiug a source
of iutestinal irritation, sometimes, as in
the oase of very young children, in fur
uishing a semblance of ailment witliont
the reality, such ohildren being as una
ble to digest and assimilate starch as
gaud. Henee the usual olaim with re
spect to prepared foods of the cereal
class is that they are free from or con
tain very little si arch, while they are
rich in gluten ami other food elements
c pable of nourishing the sick and the
young.
Giyeerlue in Brer.
The following method of quantitative
ly testing for glycerine in beer may bo
found useful; The beer is mixed with
powdered slaked lime and an equal bulk
of fine quartz sand, and evaporated to a
paste ou the water bath. When cold, the
residue form a hard mass, which is pul
verized and extracted with 80 to 100 c. c.
of a mixture of equal volumes of absolute
alcohol and ether in a small stoppered
flask. On allowing the extract to evap
orate, the glycerine is obtained free from
sugar. If two drops of it are put in a
dry test tube with two drops of phenol
(previously liquefied), and the same
quantity of sulphurio acid, and heated
very cautiously over the flame, but so as
to reach 120 deg. the formation of a sol
id brownish-yellow mass is perceived.
When cold a little water is added and a
few drops of ammonia, when the brown
ish- yellow solid dissolves with a splend
id carmiue red color.
The detection and estimation of gly
cerine aud the other bye products of
fermentation in beer etc., would teud
to throw further light on what is at
present very obscure.
Good taste rejeots excessive nicety;
It treats little things as lit.tle things and
is not hurt by them.
The hardest rotk is made of the soft
est mud. Don't allow the sentiment of
habit to harden into vice.
The Mugnlfleenee of Neio.
It was to Nero that Tacitus applied
the expression, incrcdibilium cupitor.
What he not only desired but achieved
in the incredible in Roman history had
he not already shown what revolting
atrocities may be conceived by a dis -
eased imagination and executed by ir
responsible power. After the burning
of the city he gratified his taste, in en
tire disregard of the proprietors in re
building it. Re at once appropriated a
number of the sites and a large por
tion of the public grounds for his new
palace. The porticoes, with their ranks
and columns, were a mile long. The
vestibule was large enough to contain
that colossal statue of him, in silver and
gold, one hundred and twenty feet high,
from which the Colosseum got its name,
The interior, was gilded throughout,and
adorned with ivory and mother-of-pearl.
The ceilings of the dining-rooms were
formed of movable tablets of ivory, which
shed flowers and perfumes on the com
pany; the principal saloon had a dome
which, moving day and night, imitated
the movements of the celestial bodies.
When this palace was finished he ex
claimed—"At last 1 am lodged like a
man." His diadem was valued at half
a million. His dresses, which he never
wore twice, were stiff with embroidery
And gold. He fished with purple lines
and hooks of gold. He never traveled
with less than a thousand carriages.
The muliS were shod with silver, the
muleteers clothed with the finest wool,
and the attendants wore bracelets and
necklaces of gold. Fiye hundred she
asses followed his wife Foppcea in her
progress, to supply rniik for her bath.
He was fond of figuring in the circus as
a charioteer, and in the theatre as a
singer and actor. He prided himself on
being an artist, and when his possible
deposition was hinted to him, he said
that artists could never be in want.
There was not a vice to which he was
not given, nor a crime whioti he did not
commit. Yet the world, exclaims Sue
tonius, endured this monster for four
teen years, and he was popular with the
multitude, who were puzzled by his
magnificence and mistook his senseless
profusion for liberality. On the anni
versary of his death, during many years,
they crowded to cover his tomb with
flowers.
The Tower of Bologna.
Four suioidea during the present oen
tury have been committed at Bolognabj
jumping from the top of .the famous
leaning tower, Asiuelli, the climbing of
which involves a toilsome journey up
more than 400 worn and daaty stairs.
The first case occured in 1833, when a
shoemaker, while sitting astride one of
the battlement, drauk a flask of wine as
he was siug'ng, and then allowed him
self to fail backward into space. The
second was in 1874, a young man, aged
43, allowed himself to fall, with a hand
kerchief tied round his eyes, leaving his
coat, hat, sleeve cuffs, aid two letters
behind him. The third happened two
ye are later; an old man went with his
boy nephew, and waile the boy was
obeying his directions to write the word
"infamy on the wall, threw himself over
the battlement The fourth suicide has
just takeu place. A young man, who
had failed in a certain examination, as
cended the Cower with the keeper, light
ed a cigarette, and while the keeper was
showing him the bell, jumped off. Two
ladies and gentlemen cam a up just after
he hail jumped and found that the keep
er had fainted from fright
Libert*,
Africa Las as many square miles of
territory as the United States and South
America. Liberia has a sea-ccast of 600
miles, extent 200 miles inland, and had
from 18,000 to 20,000 A nerican Liber
lans, who governed about 1,500 000 na
tives. Because of the elimate Liberia
was no place for a white man, yet its
mortality had never equaled that of
Jamestown or Plymouth, Mr. Morris
in a recent lecture, exhibited a large and
interesting collection of Liberian pro
ducts, of whioh, he said, none were
more vaulable than coffee. In a pecun
iary sense ooflee was Liberia's backbone.
Coffee grew all over the coun ry. All the
Lilieriaus had to do was to tickle the soil
with a hoe and it fairly laughed with a
harvest. The lecturer shewed specimens
of Liberian chocolate, cayenne pepper,
spices of all kinds, lime juice, cotton,
&c. Indigo plauts, he said, grew as
thick in Liberia as the huckleberry
bushes in New Jersey. Atrica's great
product, however, was palm-oil. Li
beria possessed one remarkable thing, a
mountain of natural steel ore, believed
to be the only instance of natural steel
ore in the world.
To acquire a few tongues is the task
of a few j ears; but to be eloquent in
one is the labor of a life time.
The proper way to check slander is to
despise it; attempt to overtake and re
lute it, and it will outrun you,
It is woud rful to note the number of
men who see the value of a thing after
it is beyond their reach.
Brair.s cannot be measured by the
size of the head, nor eloquence by the
extent of the mouth.
Each man has an aptitude born with
him to do easily some feat impossible to
any other.
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