VOL. LVI.
HARTER,
AUCTIONEER,
MILLHEIM, PA.
J C. SPRINGER,
Fashionable Barber.
Next Door to JOURNAL Store,
MILLHKIH, PA.
HOUSE,
AXJJCGKKXT STREET,
BJKLLEFONTE, - - - PAi
c. O. McMILLEN,
PROPRIETOR.
Good Sample Room on First Floor.
§9-Free Buss to and from all Trains. Special
rate* to witnesses and Juror*. 44
IRVIN HOUSE.
(Moat Central Hotel In tbe City J
Corner MAIN and JAY Streets,
Lock Haves, Fa.
S. WOODS CA.LWKLL, Proprietor.
Good Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers on first floor.
JQR. D. H. MINGLE,
Physician and Surgeon,
MAIN Street, Millhkim, Pa.
JOHN F. HARTER,
PRACTICAL DENTIST,
Office 1b 2d story of Tondinsoa's Gro
cery Store,
s On MAIN Street, Millhkim, Pa.
BP KIMTF.R,
• FASHIONABLE BOOT A SHOE MAKER
Shop next door to Foote's Store, Main St.,
Boot Shoes and Gaiters made to order, and sat
isfactory work guaranteed. Repairing done prompt
ly aud cheaply, and in a neat style.
8. R. PbjXK. H. A- UcKn
PEALE Sc McKEE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office opposite Court House, Bellefonte, Pa.
C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower.
* BOWER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office In Q&nnan's new building.
JOHN B. LINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Allegheny Street.
QLEMENT DALE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Northwest corner of Diamond.
HOY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA
Orphans Court business a Specialty.
C. HEINLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Practices In all the courts of Centre county.
Special attention to Collections. Consultations
in German or English.
J. A. Beaver. J W. Gephart.
JgEAVER <fc GEPHART,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Alleghany Street, North of High.
Y°CUM & HARSHBERGES,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA v
S. KELLER, "
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA
Consultations In English or German. Oflfoe
In Lyons Building, Allegheny Street.
5. n. nASTDfoi w. w. snsn,
•pj-AaiINGS & REEDER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA
Office on Allegheny street, two doors east of the
office occupied by the late Ann of Yovss/- Hast
UK HELPFUL.
Your bands may ie mall, but every day
They can do something that's good as play;
They can help mother, and she'll Imp tUd
For all that's done by her bias or lid.
If all the children would think to-daf
Of helping mother, as all of them may.
They'd bring la water and WHMI, and do
A dozen things she w uld like them to.
For, though hands are smull and though yeaia ar#
few
There's always something that they can do
To help the mothers and make tnam glad,
Remember that, little lass and lad.
So help your mothers about tin ir w ovk;
Don't wait for smug— don't try to kli.ru,
Do Just the beat that you can, and she
Will say : ••What a help are my dears to lue
lUISS II AKCC.URI'S I.OVER.
"It looks as if it were going to snow
ier weeks, Mit-s Elizabeth," said old
Gregory, as he touched his hat and hob
bled down the icy pathway as fast as
rheumatism and old age would permit
him.
Miss Elizabeth looked down into the
sweet old English garden, with the tang
led mass of sliiubbery covered with
snow, and a mist came over her eyes.
A week ! The slim white fingers closed
tightly over the yellow envelope clasp
ed in her band, and as she turned away
from the door a tear plasl ed down up
on it.
In just one week the mor gage would
be foreclosed, the letter said, and unless
the amount could be raibed iu the moan
while, the dear old house where she was
born must pass into the hands of strang
ers, /
Tbe invts ments that lur nephew
made for her all proved failures, and
when, five years ago, he bad come bust
ling up from London and t< Id her that
tbis mortgage would save ber fortune,
she signet! ber name to tbe paper, and
for a while all seemed well.
How foolish she had beeu ! Why had
she not asked more about it ? Ralph
Morgan had paid tbe interest for her as
it came due, until two years ago, when
she received word from him, and he had
decided to go to Australia.
That was all, Miss Elizabeth had
seen very little of him. He was the
only child of her sister. When the fath
er died, the property was divided be
tween the sisters. Margaret took her
share in money, and went, with her
husband and child to live in London,
where she died soon after.
Elizabeth had never left the old
homestead, and with proper manage
ment, there would never have been any
need to do so; but now—she had made
another mistake.
The old clock was ticking loudly in
the great wide hall as she slowly went
up the slairs to the pleasant room where
she bad spent ber life-time.
"I am always making mistakes," she
moaned, drearily, as are threw herselt
on the little white bed. "Sixteen years
ago to-day I made one, and now I have
made another."
There were no tears now in the dark
gray eyes, only a tired look that strang
ers wouid wonder at; for if ever a wo
man was envied m that village Elizabeth
Harcourt was.
"She has everything one could wish
for," the poor folks said; "but she is too
good with it all."
How could they know of the business
worries, and the pinching economy, and
the achiDg heart that tne sweet, calm
face never showed ?
Elizabeth Harcourt was a proud wo
man, and in years gone by, had
been a hasty one; and now in the quiet
of her room, her thoughts went beck to
long ago when, in her hot temper, she
told Jack Rainsford she never wished
to see his face again. Row could ho
know that m the morning she wouid
have given worlds to unsay the words ?
It had started like most quarrels,
with such a little thing ! But he had
taken her at her word, and one week
from the night she gave him back his
riDg he sailed for India, and she had
never seen him since.
She did not think he would stay away,
but, in the meanwhile, no one should
ever know she cared at all; so she laugh
ed and talked more blithely than ever,
and grew prettier every day, until every
one said she never had cared for him ;
and away off in hot Calcutta, Jack Rains
ford heard it and his heart grew hard
and bitter.
A year went by and he did not come
back; then she promised to marry Phi
lip Dinsmore. After that she was gay
er than ever, until, when the wedding
day was fixed, and the villagers talking
of ihe grand match, she broke it off with
him. Nobody ever knew why, except
Philip Dinsmore. If he had been less
grand and noble than he was she might
have married him ; but looking into those
pure eyes of his, she could not take a
lie on her lips. So she told him with
bitter tears how the face of her absent
lover came between her and any one
else.
Brave Philip Dinsmore ! As he list
ened, whiter and whiter grew his face;
but when she had finished, he stooped
and kissed the sweet red lips for the
last time. In all the world he knew he
would never love another woman as he
loved Beth Harcourt, audit was a grand
er love than she had before.
"I am going to India on business next
month, Beth," he wrote to her after
ward, "and if I can, I will find Jack
MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12,1882.
Rainsford." So ho sailed away—aud
the ship was lost, and Philip Dins wore
never reached Jack Rainsford.
After that Elizabeth Harcourt was
never the same; and as the years rolled
on, she was left alone with faithful ser
vants in the old stone house. Some
body said that Mr. Rainsford married
the daughter of a rich merchant, but
he never came back. Something had
gone frojn her life with each year, ami
now, at forty, the very last thing had
oowe, and the old home was to go.
No wonder, on that winter morning
Elizabeth Harcourt was in despair 1
She had so much to bear 1 From that
night that Jack Raiusford left her in
anger she had never really been happy
again. That hot temper her mother
had warned her against—ah 1 it hail
been cooled since then. No ono who
saw her bending quietly over the sick
bed iu the poorest cottage, would guess
that calm face there had ever seen any
thing bat peace.
Now she lay with wide open eyes,
thinking of the past, and in litr ears
were ringing old Nurse Blackitt's words
of her: "She will take an awful site of
soberin*."
Just then there came a knock at the
door, and Elspeth's voice saying :
"Miss Elizabeth, there is a strange
gentleman down stairs who wishes to
see you for a few minutes. He looks
as if he was from Loudon."
The lawyer from London! Miss
Haroourt's heart gave a quick throb as
she arose aud mechanically glanced at
the little narrow glass between the
windows. There was a reel spot burn
ing on each cheek, and the brown hair
had lost its smooth, satin appearance;
but she did not notice that to-day, but
passed quickly down to the cool, dark
room below.
The stranger rose and bowed as she
entered, a tall man with gray hair and a
swarthy skin.
"Your letter came this morning," be
gan Miss Elizabeth, nervously. "I nm
afraid the house will have to go for the
mortgage—"
"My letter?" said the stranger, "I
think there must be some mistake."
"I beg your pardon," Miss Harconrt
said, "but are you not from London ?"
The stranger took a step forward.
"Betli," he said, "have I changed so
completely that yon do uot know me?"
"Jack !" she gasped. "You cannot
be Jack Rainsford!"
Sueli a different meeting from that
whieh she had planned in the years
gone by ! Instead of passionate kisses
she quietly shook bands with her old
lovt-r, the chair opposite
to him.
A chill disappointed look came over
the worn, tired face of the man, and he
arose and walked over to the window aa
he said bitterly,—
"You have hardly changed at all, but
sixteen years in India are not likely to
keep a man fresh and young—especially
when they pro not particulary happy
ones."
Something in the tones made Eliza
beth Harcourt's heart thrill as in the
old days ; but she remembered that wife
in India. The feverish cheeks grew a
deeper crimson but she said quietly :
"Are you goiug to stay any length of
time in England, Mr. Rainsford? Is
your wife with you ?"
With a startled look he turned and
faced her.
"You know I never martied, Beth
Harcourt," he said bitterly, "I never
loved anyone but you, and you have
forgotten me."
With a low cry she sprang toward
him, and the next moment was sobbing
in his arms.
"Jack, my darliug," ihe said, "Ihave
loved you always, and have not forgot
ten you for one moment of the weary
years!"
If I had only known it before I" he
answered sadly. "Some one told me you
married the year after I left, and I
thought it was true until one day on
board a vessel, I met a lad that came
from here. I asked him about the old
place, and he told me Miss Elizabeth
Harcourt had,, nursed him through a
fever when every one else was afraid to
come near him."
Rainsford stopped and slipped an odd
hoop of shining stones on Miss Har
court's finger.
"Do you know," he said, "a wild
hope filled me, and I said to myself,
'lf not I will drop it iu the middlo of
the ocean, and never look at England
again'"
Elizabeth looked down at the spark
ling diamonds, and said with a long"
drawn sigh;
"Ob, Jack, it was only this morning
that I was in despair."
"Suppose you let me see that letter
from London ?" he said. "I wanted to
make some English investments."
That night Miss Harcourt knelt by
the little white bed with a happy sob
like a tired child that has found rest at
last.
Jack did make an investment, but
was not in London. The mortgage was
relieved, and Jack and Beth now enjoy
the old stone mansion.
For a good cement for seams in roots
take equal quantities of white lead and
white sand, with as much oil as will make
it into the consistency of putty. In a few
weeks it will become as hard as stone.
1 .Iglit aud Heat.
The light, heat and other vibratory
emanations that are issued from the sun
are scattered around it in all directions
iuto space. It the sun were placed in the
ceutre of as did hollow shell that was
every where al the same distance us the
earth—that is, approximately #3,000,000
miles from the solar surface—all these
vibrations would impinge upon this outer
boundary wall. But as there is no such
intercepting screen, they for the most part
pass still onward into space, and beiug
widely scattered there, aie weakened by
tbe diffusion more and more, excepting
just where they fall upon the earth and
other planets chancing to he in the way.
It appears, from a consideration of the
distauoe and mzo of the earth, that about
the two billion two hundred and fifty
millioneth part of tbe entire radiated
energy is thus caught by the earth, and
probably about teu tiuies as much falls to
tbe share of the other planets. This,
therefore, implies that scarcely more tnau
the two hundred and twenty-five mil
lioneth part of the radiant enery is appro
priated by the planets, and that the rest is
dissipated into space. Nothing whatever
is yet known as to what finally becomes
of the vast amouut which thus wanders
off iuto the void fields of the measureless
immensity. What is done with the com
paratively sina'l part that is intercepted
by the earth is clear enough. The solar
vibratiors that strike upon the earth rouse
its dead substance into life. They clothe
the terrestrial surface with its garment of
vegetation, feed its counlieps myriads of
animated tonus, work the mechanism of
its rivers aud winds, warm the ground and
air, and brighten the sunward half with
glowing light and glorious colors. That
is, at any rate, tbe result brought out from
the two billion two hundred and fifty
millionth part. It creates a world teeming
with life out of a dead, rocky chaos. Bit
nothiug can be said as to what happens to
the much larger part that trembles off into
the unbounded immensity, excepting that
to all appearauce it is lost to tbe sun and
in some way absorbed into tbe infinite void.
Tbe common sens*; view of this subject
very naturally leads to the idea that th:s
vast scattering of light and heat from the
sun, which goes on so unceasingly, must
all be set down as less, at least to that
luminary. Vast and hot as the solar
sphere is, it must in the end be chilled and
cease to emit these, to us so beneficent
vibrations, unless there is some as yet un
detected provision in nature for the re
newal ot the solar fires. All our own ex
perience of such mailers, derived from
the observation of artificial processes go
•iug on upon tbe earth, tell us that fires
ultimately go out unless they are periodi
cally supplied with fresh stores of fuel.
Dr. W. Siemens 6tates in a recent con
tribution to the Nineteeth Century, and no
doubt correctly states, that the present an
nual yield of all the coal mines of the
earth would suffice to keep up the fire of
tfio sun, at its present intensity of light
and heat, for the forty nnlliontn part of a
second, that if the entire earth was made
of coal, it would serve as a fuel supply for
feeding the solar fires about thirty six
hours. On the other band, it has beeu
calculated that, even with no specific pro
vision lor restoring tbe waste radiations of
the sun, the mass is so vast and tbe heat
so enormous that it could go on cooling by
free radiation into space for what, taken
in reference to man's method of counting
the lapse ot time, would be a very long
period before any actual change of tem
perature could be perceived It is toler
ably sure that during the last 8000 or
4'>oo years of history, there has not been
any appreciable diminution in tfie heat
communicated by tbe suu to tbe earth. It
is tiue that there have not been any trust
worthy records by tbermometric instru
ments for more than a very small portioa
of that time. Bui there are records, which
ere quite as significant, furnished by the
distribution of vegetable life. Plants that
required tbe sustained warmth of a genial
and approximately tropical climate, ami
tbe same liberal allowance of solar in
fluence Ibat is now communicated to tfie
earth, were jquite as widely distributed
upon the terrestrial surface, and quite as
vigorously maintained ages ago as they are
new, and the sliniatn of Egypt was then,
as now, habitable by man
Modern Borgia*.
Tbe arrest of over one hundred women
in the little district of Ilungarv, charged
with poisoninir their husbands, and the
conviction of one-third ot ihe number, is
startling, but uot without a parallel in
history. In the seventeenth century an
old fortune teller in Italy, carried ou the
business of selling poisons to such at ex
tent that the attention of the authorities
was attracted to her place, and it was dis
covered that the poisons were supplied
to young married women who were de
sirous of getting rid of their husbands.
The courts in those days were little better
thau Judge Lynch's tribunals, so that it is
impossible to say whether their judgments
were well founded, but a dozen or more
women were hanged, and scores of others
were whipped through the streets. About
the same time there was a similar outbreak
of poisoning in France, which was not
controlled until over one hundred prison
ers, chiefly womau, bad been sent to the
stake or the gallows. Early in the
eighteenth centuiy a woman in Naples
carried on a large trade in poisons, and is
supposed to have been concerned in bring
ing about the deaths of over six hundred
persons. She was tortured to confession
and then strangled. In every instance of
wholesale poisoning, such as that reported
from Hungary, there has been fouDd some
seller of poisons responsible alike for sup
plying the means and the suggestion of
murder. The poisons used were always
slow acting, frequently administered, and
so gradually undermined the health ot the
victims that their deaths excited no suspi
cion until the aggregate grew so large as
to cause investigation.
Optical and philosophical instruments
made in France often have all their brass
surlaces of a fine dead black color, very
permanent and difficult to imitate. The
following, obtained from a foreign source,
is the process used by the French artisans:
Make a strong solution of nitrate of silver
in one dish, and of nitrate of copper in
another. Mix the tvo together and plunge
tbe brass into it. Remove and heat the
brass evenly until the required degree of
lackness is obtained.
—Europe will have a deficit this year
f 343,000,000.'
Fair* for Farmer*.
But for the constant weekly remind
era through the press, and the induce
ments held out by advertisers through
the same medium, backed up by an
nuul exhibitions, we bardly see how the
half of what has occurred in the way of
disseminating domestic animals of the
highest types could have occurred.
The fairs have proved of great value in
disseminating the smaller classes of
farm stock, such as sheep, swine and
poultry, and indirectly in bringing the
several breeds of cattle to the a'tention
of fanners. It is not safe to take all
you see at fairs as meaning just what
outside appearanoes indicate. Obscure
parties and traders sometimes put in an
appearance with very stnking speci
mens of pigs, but the representations of
these men cannot be safely taken, and
in the majority of such cases, if pur
chases be made, the buyers will be bit
ten.
Iu the first place, you cannot safely
take the representations made as to the
pedigree. . Grades often take on a very
comely exterior, quite cleverly imitating
the higher type from which they have
sprung, but when used with the expecta
tion that they will reproduce their kind,
the efforts end in failure. If you are a
reader of the "Prairie Farmer," look
over its advertising columns and if you
do uot see what you want offered over
the signature of a reliable, well-known
breeder, write to the office for informa
tion. While many of the most reputa
ble breeders exhibit at fairs, so, like
wise, do traders and speculators take
advantage of the seeming character ob
tained by showing in respectable com
pany, and they thereby, many times,
get a position before visitors to which
they have no legitimate claim. As a
rule, the proper place to buy any kind
of stock is at the home of the breeder,
where you can see the general character
of his stock, not as represented by the
few head ho may have fitted with oil
cake and new milk, for exhibition, but
on their every-day feed, which is sup
posed U. be similar to what you feed
ujxm your own premises. It is not ad
vantageous to the breeder to sell highly
fitted exhibition stock to other than a
professional breeder, who fully under
stands the process used in the fitting,
and the necessity of following this up,
if appearances are to be maintained.
Many men who have taken their
liking for improved farm animals from
specimens seen at the fairs # have hail
their ardor cooled down by becoming
more intimately acquainted with these
or others of similar characteristics, after
they had put aside the Sunday rig, as
suming the every-day farm apparel.
Taking improved stock to your farm
should be, to a certain degree, likened
to taking to yourself a wife. As this
is not usually on any temporary basis,
and is often a matter of business, a pru
dent man will plan to see the lady in
her every-day garb, as the arts of the
dressmaker are equal to those of the
expert herdsman, and polish and adorn
ment are found to be so embellishing
that our admiration is greatly modified
when these are t&Ren off.
Blit Thursday.
A most picturesque scene presented
itself recently at a small beach on the
Indian River Bay, Delaware, called
"Pot Net" Here, undei the thin shade
of two tall pme trees, was gathered a
crude and motley crowd of people from
the back country to celebrate "Big
Thursday," or "Bare-foot Thursday"
as it is also called, which is a picnic
of the farmers after harvest work is
over, They came iu all sorts of vehi
cles; there was the festive buggy, of
ancient pattern; there was the old family
carriage and tbere were sulkies, opeu
wagons aud Dearborns, but the queerest
of all were the two-wheeled ox-carts,
witlj a lioop-pole frame covered with
white muslin, and one cart even had
the rag carpet from the floor for a roof.
these carts were whole families
sitting on the straw like a pack of gyp
sies. At one place there was a group
of youug men and maidens standing
together, screeching hymns out of an
ancient hymn book. Another group
was gaping at a couple of men dancing
jigs on either end of a tail-board from
an ox-cart, to the squeaking and scratch
ing sounds which were sawed out of a
dilapidated fiddle. A local politician
had another group of men listening to
his flatteries. But the chief amusement
of the people seemed to be to sit in their
wagons or carriages in the sun and look
at the rest. To these our party from
the hotel seemed no doubt like pepoel
from another nation or with the self
satisfaction of Sussex couutyaus, like
barbarians from the outer 1 world.
A Block System.
The permissive block system has hitherto
prevailed on most French Jines, and wbere
the absolute block was in use the signaling
instruments adopted were those of Tyer
aud Regnault, which merely infirm the
signalmen of tbe approach ot trains, leav
ing it to them to block the line and com
municate with the drivers ot other trains.
The French Minister of Public Works now
requires that the absolute block system,
with automatic signaling apparatus, should
be as soon as possible established on all
double lines. He recommends the electric
semaphores of Lartique, 'i'esse, or Prnd
ilrmme, laying great stress upon the ab
solutely automatic working of the signals,
and on their standing against all trains in
case of a failure of current. Single lines
are all to be furnished with electric bells,
and the Leopoldtr apparatus is particularly
recommended, as it can be used for giving
danger signals or for announcing trains au
tomatically.
* Cooking In sltoalru Island.
A resident on Pitcalrn Island write#
as follows in relation to cooking at that
place:
As there are no stoves, we know well
how to do without them, although labor
can be so much lightened by their use.
Each family has. for baking, an oven
made of stone, not bricks. Tbe top and
bottom of each oven are made each of a
solid piece of stone, bewn out of some
huge rock. These ovens are made ac
cording to the requirement of each fam
ily, the largest families having the largest
ovens. In them we bake a kind of sweet
potato cake, made of grated sweet po
tato, to which milk is sometimes added;
also corn-cake, bread, pies, etc. Sweet
potatoes form the staple food here, be
sides, we have Irish potatoes, bananas,
plantains, and yams. Garden vegetables
—such as turnips, parsnips, radishes, etc.
—we do not haye. Bread-fruit, in its
season, forms A considerable part of tbe
food eaten, and taro as welL Flour is a
luxury, rather than a necessity. When
meats are baked, tbe most general way it
is done is in the primitive style of cooking
underground. This way of cooking meat
renders it very soft and tender, and the
leaves of the ti plant (pronounced tee), in.
which the meat is cooked, impart to it a
most agreeable flavor. Fish is ot ten
cooked in ti leaves. This is done by
wrapping the fish in tbe leaves and laying
it over the stones of the oven built in the
ground. This is a favorite mode of cook
ing fish here. When any kind of food is
cooked in ovens underground, baking-pans
are, of course, dispensed with. The kind
of cakes made from sweet potatoes, yams,
bananas, and bread-fruit are called pilhi
here, as we still retain its i'ahitian name.
ATter the yams, etc., are grated on a stone
grater, they are then wrapped in broad
leaves of the young banana tree, and then
laid on the hot stones in the ground.
Othtr hot 6toncs are placed over, and then
the whole is covered with leaves, over
which garth is thrown; and in a short time
all within the oven would be nicely cookqd.
The flesh of tbe goat supplies us mostly
with meat, and sometimes, but rarely, we
have mutton. As for poultry, there are
only the common domestic fowl and a few
ducas. Turkeys do not thrive at all Of
birds there are two kinds that are eaten—
tbe noddy, a black bird, that livs among
the rocks, and the white bird. Occasion
ally too the tropic bird and a kind of hawk
are killed, their flesh being esteemed as an
article of food. The shot used m killing
these birds is a natural production, being
the seed of the Indian shot-plant. Chil
dren are often 6ent to gather a quantity of
the Indian shot, when required for shoot
ing birds. The white bird frequents
mostly tbe banian tree, and lays its eggs
on the bare branches ef tbis tree, wher
ever a niche large enough to hold an egg
can be found. This bird is often ehot in
great numbers, and taking them with guns
or climbing trees after the young birds
affords much pleasure and sport to boys
aud young men. There are no singing
birds, aud tbe only bird-note that can be
heard is tbe little brown- sparrow chirping
its solitary note among the branches of the
trees. After living on Norfolk Island,
where the air is made vocal with the
sweet music of the feathered songsters, it
seems a great want is felt here, where they
cannot be heard. Fish are not so plenti
ful as may be supposed. Sometimes the
fishermen catch them in great numbers;
Rut more generally the day's fishing would
not be very successful. The depths at
which fishes are caught vary, the greatest
depth being 150 or 140 fathoms and the
least from six to fifteen. The usual fish
ing depth is from twenty-five to forty
fathoms. Canoes are always used in fish
lug in deep water, as they are so easily
managed. There are several kinds of fish
caught while fishing among the rocks.
Going on the rocas after fish is an occupa
tion much liked by the women, as well as
the men. This is not considered toil, but
pleasure: as well as taking the small fish
with nets as with the hook and line. Ac
cideuts are so very rare as scarcely to de
serve a mention, and, as all the islanders
learn to swim almost from infancy, no case
of drowning has ever occurred except
oucc, at a shipwreck.
The Faris 'llu*.
'The 'bus system of Pans is the best in
the world." So says the guide-book ;
and I stood on the sidewalk and hailed a
bus that had "Bastile" on it. They didn't
pay the slightest attention to me. I
hailed the next and the next with the
same result, and 1 began to get offhanded.
I shouted at the next, aud waved my um
brella, but both guard and driver looked at
me with a sort of *mil(l curiosity, and
passed on : but a white aproned waiter
approached from the cafe in front of
which I stood, and said, Parley voo
Fransay, mossau ?"
"No."
"You speak de Eug'ish, den ?"
"Yes,"
"Well, my master, le propritair, would
lie much oblige if you do not repeat your
wave le paraplui—le—le—umbrella—but
to move 'way."
• 'Then does your master, the proprietor,
imagine lam doing this for his amuse
ment ? I want to get on one of those
idiotic'buses, if I can."
"You vont to get on ze'bus ?" asked the
waiter, in astonishment. ' 'Zen who you
not go to the stoshec—le station ?" and lie
pointed down the Boulevard des Italiens,
to where a 'bus was standing and people
crowding on board.
•Then 'buses only stop at stations, like
railway traius ?''
"Certainmang, mossau. Ze 'bus sys
taim de Paree ez ze best in ze voruld."
Agriculture for ULrJs.
France has an agricultural school for
girls. One of tbe chief is near Kouen,
whicn is said to have begun with a capital
of <sne franc, by a sister of charity and
two little discharged prisoner girls, and to
be now worth SIOO,OOO. This establish
ment has 800 girls from eignt to eighteen
years of age. The farm entirely cultiva
ted by them, is over 400 acres in extent,
the staff of teachers consists of twenty five
sisters. More than one medal of the
French Agricultural Society has been
awarded to this establishment at Darnetel,
and the pupils are in great demand ali
over Normandy on account of their skill.
They go out as stewards, gardeners, farm
managers, dairymen and laundresses.
Each girl has, on leaving, a small sum of
money, earned in spare hours. If they
want a home they can always return to
DarneteL
Trad* In Skeletons.
"Where do they get those skeletons?"
said a reporter to a medical gentleman, in
Chicago, the other day, as the two stood
looking at a number of ghastly female
frames hung up in the window of a surgi
cal instrument store.
"Get them!" said the doctor, "Don't
you know?"
Tiie writer admitted that he didn't
know.
"Well," remarked the doctor, ."I will
tell you. They come from the medical
colleges. Kaeh student, as you are prob
ably aware, purchases from those who dis
inter stiffs a Subject,' and, with the dem
onstrator of anatomy as his instructor, ho
hacks it to pieces, examining the several
parts and getting therefrom all the infor
mation he can. The flesh is boiled down,
and the bones separated from it and clean
ed, after which they are mounted (strung
on wire), as you see these, and preserved.
Students, as a rule, do not take with them
to tnsir homes complete skeletons, content
ing themselves usually with a skuil or a
haad."
"That would leave the frame imperfect,"
the reporter ventured to suggest.
"Yes, but the loss of a member is noth
ing, as it can be easily supplied, there
being cart loads of odd bones always to be
had. Now, i have no doubt, if you will
step in and ask the proprietors they will
tell you just what I have told you, and
will agree to supply any particular bone of
the human body asked tor. Some of tho
skeletons in this window may be put
together from the bonea of half a dozen
peopl;; but, skeletons can be had perfect
in themselves."
"Students," remarked the reporter, "I
am informed, are a graceless set as a rula,
and are deposed to be jocular and mirth
ful over a cadaver, or stiff, as they term a
dead body, e<=piciaily if it is that of a
woman. Is there any truth in such state
ment?"
"I am sorry to say that there is. The
jokes, as the boys call their twaddle, are
always of a ribald character, but brandy,
let me tell you, has a good deal to do with
the talk of medical scholars over a body.
The fire water is taken to free them from
nervousness, and it is astonishing what a
quantity of it it lakes to brare a young
man up in the presence of the dead. When
1 was a professor in a Cleveland college 1
knew a student to drink three pints of
whisky during one dissec ion, and he did
not get very drunk, either.
"Are these we see, think you, the skel
etons of respectable people!" queried the
reporter.
*Oh, no! Respectable people lie in
their graves unharmed. There are plenty
of others—the bodies of the outcasts of the
world. Scarcely one *ef them lies in the
grave twenty-four houis after it is covered.
They generally die in the hospital or alms
house, are pitched into a piue box, and
thrown into a tolc but a few feet deep.
The body-snatchers are a live set of men,
always on the lookout, and rssurrect the
corpse the first night. Nobody care 3 for
these unfortunates, hence there is no
trouble, or, indeed, any inquiry.
Water Lu
During the Roman war upon Alexandria,
a suppl* of water for the troops was diffi
cult to obtain. The General of the Egypt
ian troops wae Ganymed, who made great
exertions to deprive the Roman troops of
their water supply by the introduction of
salt water into the canals suppling the cis
terns of the quarter of the town held by
them. When the brackishneas ot the
water became increasingly known there
was something like a panic Seme blamed
C® for not at once retreating to the
ships, while others were afraid thAt such a
step would lead to further mischief, since
the ietrograde movement could not be
concealed from the Alexandria troops.
Moreover, in the part m which the Roman
troops were stationed were many inhabi
tants charitably supposed to be favorable
to Ca ar and his fortunes, but whose
fidelity wa9 not too much assured. "All
who know them," in effect says Aulus
hirtius, "will be convinced that they are
the most suitable instruments in the world
for treason." To allay the fears of the
soldiery, Caesar assured them that they
could easily find fresh water by digging
wells, since sea coasts naturally astounded
in fresh springs, and that even it the soil
of Egypt differed from all others in that
respect there was the opuu sea and access
by it to Partomum on the left and Pharos
on the right, whence they could obtain
supplies. He counselled them to abandon
all thought of retreat and to seek safety in
victory alone. The soldiers were reassured
by the words of their great leader. The
cenlurious, laying aside all other works,
devoted themselves to the digging of
wells, and the labor was continued by day
and night. So vigorously, we are told,
was the undertaking prosecuted that dur
ing the very first night abundance of fresh
water was discovered. "Thus," says
Hirtius, "the mighty projects of the
Alexandrians were entirely defeated, and
that without auy great effort an our side."
The French Army.
The French army is far from being in
a flourishing condition. Marshal Cauro
bert has again sent in his resignation,
as, indeed, he always does after every
change of G rvernment; Ducrot is dead
and Bourbaki is kept on the shelf be
cause of his political opinions. Two
generals and several superior officers
have asked to be placed en disponibilite
because they are unable to bear the
fatigue of theautumn manoeuvres at
Chalons. The Marquis de Gallifet sum
mari'y deprived General de Clermont
Tonnerre of his command because that
gallant officer gave evidence of utter in
nocence of cavalry manoeuvres, although
for two years he had commanded a
brigade of dragoons. Three generals
declared that they were unable to ride
on horseback. The first suffered from
some permanent bodily weakness; the
second was a martyr to rheumatism, and
the third naively declared that, haviag
been mixed up with office routine for
the last seven years, he had forgotten
how to ride.
"OH, vou be darned," as the Christ
mas present said when it slipped through
the hole in the heel of the hung-up
dtocking.
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