VOL. LVI. HARTER, AUCTIONEER, MILLHEIM, PA. T~' C. SPRINGER. Fashionable Barber, Next Door to JOCRXAL Store, MILLHKIH, PA. J^ROC EERHOFF HOUSE, AIXXGHXXT STREET, UKLLEFONTE, - - - PA C G. McMILLEN* PROPRIETOR. Good Sample Room on First Floor. •#-Free Buss to and from all Trains. Special mlet to witaeasea and Juror*. 4-1 IRVIN HOUSE, (Moat Central Hotel in lie Cttyj Corner MAIN and JAY Streets, Lock Haves, Fa. 6. WOO OS CALWKLL, Proprietor. G"od Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers on first floor. D. U. MINGLE, Physician and Surgeon, MAIN Street, MIILHEIM, Pa. JOHN F. HARTER, PRACTICAL DENTIST, Office iu 'id story ot Teoilinsott'i Gro cery Store, Ou MAIN Street, MILI.HXIM, Pa. Br kinti k, • FASHIONABLE BOOT A SHOE MaKER Bh'>j> next d>>or to Foote'a Store, Main St., fk>ots, shoes and Oattera made to order, and sat |osßible." "I must, his life is menaced," said de Marsau, in a whisper. "Oh ! in that case follow me." They mount, de Marsau enters a hand some apartment, aud sees a niau already of a certain age, preparing to enter his bed. "Hush !" said de Marsan. "Hush, sir ! dress yourself, and give me arms." • "What does that signify ?" "It siguities that there are assassins hidden in the house ; the wretches have just roblied me of everything." "Oh, Heaven !" cried the old man ; "and when ?" "This instant, even ; the thief and as sassin, for I suppose that his intention is to murder you to-night, hail on a dres sing-gown, brown with red stars." "A dressing-gown," stammered the old man, horror-struck. "Yes, sir." "Brown ?" "Yes, sir, with red stars.' "Merciful heaven 1" groaned the old man, striking his forehead in despair. "My son. a robber ! "Oh, my friend ! come up with me, and confound this miserable Etienne !" "Etienne !" thought de Marsan. "Oh ! the infamous . "This is then where his passion for play has led him. "Come." They reach his room : they enter. De Marsan nearly falls oyer a long black beard lying on the carpet, while from behind an alcove they heard loud peals of laughter. "Do you dare." cried the old man, in a voice of thunder. "Ah ! my father, let me laugh," said a voice from the aicove ; at the same time the owner of the voice made him self visible, a young man advanced. "It was de Tevillo. "Here, take back your snuff-box," said he to de Marsan, who stood stupe fied, and a little ashamed. The supper gained by the Count do Tevillo took place ; and the adventure was long talked of in the gay circles of Paris. The riou f'renldeat. "I think it's a mistake to have any lights in 5 the cars while they are going through the tunnel," remarked the super mtendant of a Mew Jersey railroad to the good old President. "Why, my dear sir," said the pious old man, "I can't understand what the ob jection to them is—in fact, I think they are absolutely necessary. Will you tell me why you think the road would be benefitted by u>t lighting the lamps when the train passes through the tunnel ?'' '•Well, sir," replied the observing Su perintendent, "you know tl at our road carries a great many young folks ?" "Yes, yes, 1 know that." "Weil, you never have &een them hug and kiss each other in the daylight ou the ears, have you?" "No, I can't say that I have." "Then, don't you see, it we don't light up they would be more apt to patronize our road, and the profits would be more than commensurate to the growls of the uou-ki3Bing traveler!" "fl'rn, yes. Very true. In future, if any conductor allows a lamp to be lighted in his train while going through tunnels let him be discharged at once, *' said the pious president. 11 ow to Ma*tnM*. A reoeut writer on the mysteries of mesmerism, says: I lay it down as a fact which can he verified by all who are curious enough to try it, that the mes meric conditions oau be produced with out the supposition of a subtle fluid, without the use of the cabalistic passes of the mesmerist, without the bouquet, the magnetic rial, or any of the myste rious means employed by the profession als to heighten the effect of what would be too simple and ten) unattractive if performed straightforwardly. The direc tions are these: Place the JHTSOU to be ojierated ou, naturally iu a chair. With your left hand suspended by a string, about a foot from the eyes, some smalt object, a dark marble or a bright steel ball or a diamond—it matters not what, though Bowothiug bright is, perhaps, preferable. Direct the subject to fasten his eyes and encounter his attention on the object Slowly raise|pour left hand until tne object is as far above the eyes of the patient as is compatible with his gazing steadily at it Watch his eyes. At tirst you will see the pupils contract, but after a few seconds they will expand rapidly. When they are -at the point of greatest expansion, move the first two fingers of yhur right hand from the ob ject directly toward the eyes, the fingers being separated forklike, to embrace both eyes. As the fingers approach, the eyes will close, and the subject will be una ble to open them. After a quarter of a minute the subject will be thoroughly under control, so that the operator may make him believe whatever he tells him. Lett quiet, the subject will sink into a profound torpor, during whioh his ears uose, and even a finger out oil* without pair. To arouse liim—-and this is au important step—wind, either from a hand bellows or a fan, Should be di rected against his eyee, in- else his eyes should be tickled with aafeather. The rationale of the method is simple. The fixed stare of the subjeot fatigues his retinal nerves, aud when the operator's fingers upproaoli, the eyelids close, as eyelids always do when the eyes are threatened. But the fatigue of the nerves bus produced muscular fatigue as well, transient paralysis of the eye lids has resulted, and they can not be opened. The eyelids being then closed, the delicate frontal nerves exhausted, and the irnud made vacant by monoto nous attention to one slbject, the pa tieut is in a condition td fall asleep— and he does fall asleep. He is now ready to dream. The only thing re maiuiug to do is to make him dream. But how is this to be effected? Dreaming, as has long been determined, is the result of extenal suggestion. Dr. Gregory, to illustrate, |iaviug been tUinkiug of Vesuvius, weAt to bed witu a jug of not water at his femand dreamed that he was climbing thi^sides of the burning mountain. Dr. Reid read a book on the Indians, put a blister to his head on retiring, and tiiought in his sleep that he was being sculped. Both the dreams, as all others are, were caused by suggestions offered exter nally. Tiiese suggestions, being re ceived while the directing power, the common sense of the mind was in abey ance, owing to sleep, were interpreted very errouioualy, yet according to plain laws of association. The hot water in the one case called up the previous subject of thought, Vesuvius; tne sting ing blister iu the other, the equally stinging scalping-knife. It is now easy to see how the sleeping subject may be made to accept as truth whatever he is told. Joba The career ot JoUn Goideuberg, who lately died at Wiesbaden worth many millions of dollars, was a strauye one. He never spoke of his origiu, but he Wiis probably born in Galicia. Cireuin stanees led him while still a youug mau to the Levant, and finding no foothold there he turned his steps toward the East, and eventually found himself iu Burniah. He had no sooner crossed the border than he was stopped by a party of natives, who proceeded to ran sack the pack which he carried over his shoulder. Among other articles they found a box of pomade, which, to his amazement, they began to eat with great apparent relish. This incident led liim to reflect that among such a barbarous people a clever European might make his fortune. He began his operations by trading in teak wood, and having at length secured the favor of the kiug by making the first coined money ever seen in Burniah, he obtained a mo nopoly of the teak forests, and advanced rapidly to great prosperity. In 1#76 he returned to Europe by the way of Pesth, where he married a youug girl, from whom he was soon afterward separated. Last spring ne made the acquaintance of Ina Moller, an Austrian pianist (whose more famous sister is the act ress Frauleiu Leuau), and last August he married her iu London. He died suddenly in Wiesbaden on Sept. 27, while they were making a wedding tour of Germany. His wife is tlie sole liuir of his vast property. The Quoen of Oreeve. Queen Oiga looks very Polish, althojgh she resembles her aunt, the men of Han over. The Grand Duke (Jonstantme was Vice-Emperor of Poland wncn she was a child, whicu accounts for so much in her air and manner that re iniuda one of the Warsaw ladie . The lace is very regularly proportioned, and yet not iu the least classical. Her hair is still very flue, and curls naturally. It Is drawn back from the forehead wuh a comb such as we see in the pictures of "Alice in Wonderland." The face is round In its front couiour. It is lighted up by a pair of dark beaming eyes, whicb have a soft kindly expresdou. The Q teen is simple and natural. She looks at once gentle aud a woman ol spirit. In giving informal audiences, she plays a good deal with her pa dog. Like the Kiug, she is more aud more struck each time she revisits France, with the vitality ol the French peopie, their happy activity (for, busy they are, Tney have time to look around them, and seem to enjoy beeping their eyes open), and their extraordinary prosperity. The New (told Certificate*. Assistant United Htates Treasurer Thomas C. Actou sat iu his private room in the Bub-Treasury Building, New York, making money at the rate of $30,000 a minute. That is, he was sign ing new gold certificates of the denomi nation of SIO,OOO at the rate of at least three every minute. These new gold certificates are sent to Mr. Actou from Washington bearing the engraved fac simile signature of United Btutes Treas urer Gilfillau and B. K. Bruce, Register of the Treasury. The autograph signa ture of Mr. Aeton completes them and makes them negotiable. The certifi cates are printed on the yery finest quality of bank-note paper and are about the size of an ordinary United Htates Treasury note. On tho face of each certificate is the following language:— "Ten thousand (or whatever the denomi nation may be) dollars of gold coin have been deposited in the Treasury of the United Htates. That sum is repayable in gold coin on demand ou the presenta tion hereof at the ollice of the United Htates Assistant Treasurer at New York city." The certificates are issued in denom nations of S2O, SSO, SIOO, SSOO, SI,OOO, $5,000, and SIO,OOO. The backs of the notes are printed in a dull vermil ion color and have a heavy border of fine scroll and tlower work, which sur rounds the large figures iudicatiug the denomination of the note, and a picture of an American flag partially unfurled. Each certificate has upon its face a finely executed stcll-engraved portrait. The S2O notes have a picture of General Gar field ; the SSO notes, a picture of Hilas Wright; the sloos, Thomas Benton ; the ssoos, Abratiam Lincoln ; the sl, - 000s, Alexauder Huniilton ; the SS,OUOs, James Madii on ; and the slo,ooos, Andrew Jackson. Up to 4 o'clock yes terday afternoon Mr. Acton had signed 15,000 certificates, representing $44,- 050,000, and since the certificates were issued about $0,000,000 have been paid out, mostly for Clearing House business. The ollioers at the Hub-Treasury say that they cannot possibly exchange more than a million of dollars per day, as they are obliged to test, by weight, every bag of gold that is presented. More than SOOO,OOO in gold was exchanged lor gold certificates yesterduy. Thus tar the demand has been chiefiy for notes of large denominations. Mr. Actou signed $10,000,000 of SIO,OOO certifi cates yesterday. There lias been no call whatever lor the S2O certificates. The testing of the gold coin which is offered daily ut the Hub-Treasury shows that there is a constant loss in weight. One lot ot gold coin of the value of $500,000 was weighed a day or two ago and found to be S3OO short in weight, which amount had to be made good be fore the desired gold certificates would be issued. Mr. Floyd, oi tfie Hub-Treas ury, stated to a reporter that the gold certificates were already regarded as a very great convenience. "They are not only a good thing tor us," he said "but tUey are uu immense convenience to tne business community." Instead ol cart ing around several pounds of coin rep resenting SIOJ,OJO, a man may now simply put ten of these little $1U,003 notes in his vest pocket and walk about with them without the slightest per sonal nconvenieuce." These certifi cates, itiis said, w ill very much facilitate the Clearing House business. I'epyeinmn Drops. Take a convenient quantity of dry granulated sugar ; place it in; a pan liaviug u lip from w Inch the contents may be poured or dropped ; add a very little water, just enough to make the sugar a stiff paste, two ounces of water to a pound of sugar being about the right p-.oportion ; set it oyer the tire and allow it to nearly boil, keeping it con tinually stirred; it must not actually come to a full boil, but must be removed from the tire just as the bubbles deno ting the boiling point is reached begin to rise. Allow tlie sirup to cool a little, stirriug all the time ; add strong essenoe of peppermint to suit the taste, and drop on tins, or sheets of smooth white paper. The dropping is performed by tilting the vessel slightly, so that the contents will slowly run out, and with a small piece of still wire the drops may be stroked off on to the tins or paper. They should then be kept in a warm place for a lew hours to dry. If desired, a little red coloring may be added just previous to dropping, or a portion may be dropped in a plain white form, an the remainder colored. There is no reason why peppermint should alone be used with this form of candy, but con fectioners usually confine themselves to this flavor. Any flavor may be added, and a great variety of palatable sweets made in the same manner. If de.-ired, these drops may be acidulated by the use of a little tartaric acid and flavored with lemon, pineapple, or banana. In the season of fruits, delicious drops may be made by substituting the jiuce of iresli fruits, as strawberry, rasberry, etc., for the water, and otherwise pro oecding as directed. A lest.iuienlary Curioaity. Iu 1877 a. man who died in Berlin, leaving behind him a fortune ol 31,000 marks, surprised ail who knew him by devising that 32,000 murks should go to the authorities of his native place, and that the remainder should be divided between nine relatives and a friend with whom he had quarreled, the share of any one of the legatees becoming for ierted if he followed the testator to the grave. His relatives religiously obeyed the dead man's decree, but the estranged friend, remembering old times, could not refrain from going quietly to the chuich yard and paying his last respects to the deceased. By and by a codicil came to light directing that if any one of the teu legatees under the will should disobey the injunctions re garding the last ceremony he was to receive the bulk of the money left to the testator's town, and, thanks to the shrewd device, the man who thought more of his old friendship than his old friend's money found himself comforta bly provided for for the rest of his life. Passionate persons are like men who stand upon their heads; they see all things the wrong way. * I.lfe on a Misalmtipp! Flatboat. 'I lie malarial distilcts in the Bortnem part of the city during the summer months nave a large population that rarely figures in the city directory. 'l'he persona refer red to are the flat-boatmen, who dot the river bank during several months of the yeur. All of them live in the boats, most of them have a large family of small children, and every boat has a contingent force of dogs distributed in the ratio of about three curs to every man, woman and child on the craft. The men are mostly sallow and sickly, and tbe women and children scrawney and rawboned. A re porter made a visit to the neighborhood. Just at the foot of the waterworks a num ber of flats were found tied up. Approach to the boats was cut off for some time by a yelping and mangy pack of hungry curs. A tall man made his appearance and in a suspicious manner inquired what was wan ted. He said he was willing to tell what he knew about flatboating and seated him self on a log. Six or seven of his children of assorted sizes disposed themselves around to listen. The man was possibly forty -ii ve years of ago and clad in gar ments which were equally remarkable for patches and varieties of color, lie stated that he enjoyed his semi-maritime lite and thought it as pleasant as aay other work he could get. "Hew frequently do you make your trips to New Orleans?" "Oh, not more than once iu three years. They do not pay, you see, and we rarely make them. 4 ' "What does it generally eoet for a trip of that kind?" "Weil, hfty-flve cents to $1 per day. 'What is your plan on such ruus?" "We generally piepare for the trip a month or six weeks ahead, and cut ]9e from here or wheiever we may be three or four weeks before tbe snow and stormy weather sets in." "What is your first landing-place after you leave this port?'' "We stop at Cairo to take observations and lay in extra supplies. I tell you Cairo is the greatest of all places in this country for tiatboats. On tbe trip we work more with the fishing tackle than anythiug else, and sell our catch to the towns along, aud sometimes trade in knick knacks." "How long does it take you to make one of your southern tripsf" "bomctimes four months and sometimes only three." "If the trip is successful what does it pay you?" "On my last cruise south 1 made, clear of expenses, s2uo; but then I was goue five months, The average is fIOO for a trip in tbe tisbiug business." ' Are there many tl it boats moving south in the fall of the yeai?" "I have known 200 or more going south at the s.ime time, borne of the men are single but many of them baye families, like myself. When we reach the end of our trip we generally sell our boats and come back on the deck of some steamer." "What work do you do when you are stopping here?" "When we get back our first work is to build another fiat. In high floods we are out in skiffs on the watchout for logs that have got away from above, if tue owners come we are always paid and return tbe logs. We also catch driftwood, cut it iulo cord- wood leug h and dispose of it to glass factories, mills, etc.. at from $2.50 to $3 per cord. When there is no wood floating we go iu skiffs fifteen or twenty miles up the river to some of the dritt heaps, make wood rafts and tow them down to St. Louis, and sometimes we pull lumber out of the river; but most always the lumber companies have their regular men to do the work, you know." The man declared that be and his family, who traveled with him, were not often sick. He seemed to think the life he was leading as couducive to longevity as any other. He said that he was sure that there were as many as 1,500 flat boatmen in the western country, and at least 500 made the southern trip every year. He closed the conversation by say ing that in places where be stopped he paid considerable attention to tbe educa tion of his children, and he knew be was as prosperous and as happy as most men wbo had to work for a living. A Laiie Kstate in California. The possessions of some of the great landowners of this section are prodigious, it is a favorite story that certain men are üble to drive a herd of cattle from the northern counties of ths State to San Diego, at its extreme southern limit, aud quarter the animals every night upon their own territory. Haggin, Carr, and Tevis, whose property 1 was privileged to exam ine considerably in detail, have some four hundred thousands acres. Much of this was secured for a mere trifle while in the condition of waste land, and afterwards redeemed. A neighbor who had acquired a great eitate of a biruilar kind, mainly while holding the post of Surveyor Gener al of the Uuitcd States, drew forth one of the best bonuiots of President Lincoln. "Let me congratulate you," said L ; ncoln us this gentleman was retiring from office under his adiuinlstr ition. "You have become monarch of about all you have surveyed." The owners do not often live on their owu estates, but leave them in the hands of managers, and draw the revenues. The Haggin, Carr and Tevis property is divided into a number of separate ranches, each with its resident superintendent. The Bellevue Ranch, so called, is tbe ceutre aud focus of authority for the whole, Here is the residence aud office of the general manager, and here are assem bled a foree of bookkeepers, engineers and mechanics, who keep the accounts, map, plan, supervise, construct aud repair, and give to the whole the clockwork regularity of a great commercial enterprise. The numerous buildings constitute a considera ble settlement. There is a "store" of general merchandise and supplies. A dormitory and a dinmg-hall have been erected for the laboring hands. A tower liae water tank, surmounted by a wind mill, and accommodating a milk room below, rises at one side. Tbere are shops for the mechanics, capacious barns and long sheds filled with an interminable array of agricultural implements. It is worth while to take a walk past this collection of reapers, thrashers, sulky plows aud rakes, and study out their uses. The immense "header and separator" rises from the rest like some awe-inspiring leviathan of the deep. A whole depart ment is devotea to the "road scrapers, *' I "buck-scrapers" and plows of various softs used io the construction and dredging out of the irrigating d.tohes. The soil is, fortunately, free from stones, and the work is. for the most part, quite easy. One enormous plow is seen which is de signed to be drawn by sixty yoke of oxen, and to cut at once a furrow five feet wide by four deep. Like the famous steamship Great Eastern, it has defeated itself by pure bulk, and is not now in use. More than $500,000 has been expended on the great estate in tiie item of fencing alone. An average of four hundred laborers is employed, and in the harvest season seven hundred. The rate of wagon is quoted at from $2.50 to $3 per day tor mechanics, and $1 per day to common bauds. This seems low as compared with information frou.| other sources and that which appears in the chronic complaints of the scarcity of farm labor in the Cali fornia papers. No great portion of this domain appears to be now in the market at the disposal of settlers of small means, though the atten tion is avowed of offering some of it in this way when all shall have been thor oughly reclaimed. Numerous tracts, however, are occupied on very favorable terms by renters, as they arc called. They take from 120 to FICO acres. Very many of them are Portuguese and Italian?. They are usually unmarried, work in companies of from six to flfteeu persons, and wear the red Garibaldi shirt. The renter is provided by his landlords with a house, aj artesian well, a credit to a mod erate amount at the general store, and the use of some cows. He has the milk of the cows but must give their increase to the estate ilia lease nms three years, and he pays as reut one-third of his crop In stances of large profits are frequent among these persons, and no doubt the same opportunities are open to others who may wi*b to follow An OtJ Kill i. 1776 —Curious that a century ago a breech loading rifle, which enabled those armed with it to *eize every advantige of cover, should have been invented, brought into use. and then l.iet sight of. Ameri can writers note that, during tde Revolu tionary war. Ferguson's rifle "was used with effect by his corps," and the biogra pher of Washington says of i*s inventor: "1 he British extolled him as superior to the American Indians in the use of the rifle—in short, a? being tbe best marksman living." An account of its exhibition before Lord Towoaend, then Master- General of the Ordnance, is to toe found in the "Annual Register" of Ist June, 1776. "Some experiments were tried at Wool wich b lore Lord Viscount Townsend. Lord Amherst, GODS. Heivey and Desar uiliers. and a number of other officers, with a rJL'-gnn, upon a new cons'ruction, by Capt. Ferguson, of the Seventieth Regiment; when that gentleman, under tbe disadvantage of a heavy rain, and a high wind, performed the following four things, none of which had ever before been accomplished with any small arm; First, he tired dunng four or Ave minutes at a tar get, at 200 yards' distance, at the rate of four shots each minute; second, he fired six rhvts in one minute; third, he fired four times per minute, advancing at the rate of four miles in the hour; fourth, he poured a bo'.tie of water in the pan and barrel of the piece whep lo .ded, so as to wet every traiuof powder, aud in Jes3 tbau had a minute tired with her as well as ever without extracting ths ball. He also hit the bull't-eye a 100 yards lying with his back on the ground: aDd notwith standing the uuequalnesS of the wind and wetness of the weather, he only missed the target three tur.es during the whole course of experiments, The Cap tain has since taken out a patent for ike said improvements." The invention at tracted a good deal of attention, aud be fore long was exhibited betore the King at Windsor by some private men of the Guards. But in tbe preseuce of majesty tbe marksman were shy, aud shot wild. "Tuey would not." said the captain, "be so embarrassed in tbe presence of your Majesty's enemies." Ferguson then took a rifle himself, and uiue shots which he fired at the distance of IDO yards put five balls into the bull's-eye of the target and four within as many inches of it. Three of these shots were fired as he lay on his back, the other six standing erect. Being asked 'now ofteu he could lead sml fire in a minute, he said seven tunes; but added, pleasantly, that he could not undertake in that time to knock down five of his Majesty's enemies. ' The Mechanic's Capital. TLie mechanic is someti lies U o"ced upon as amm withrut capital. Sometimes he looks UJM)U himsef in this light. This is all a mistake. The man who earns SI,OOO a year has not only capital, but in these times of low interest, he has considerable eapital. The manufacturer and the nfer chant aim to increase their capital by a judicious handling of the presenmeans. The mechanic does, or should try, to in crease his in the same way. Kuow ledge to the mechanic is capital, because it enables him to com nand more for his ser vices. If ne possesses the skill of the workman, he can make that skill earn inui a certain sum per year, which sum is the exponent of the capital, he has invested in his business. If, to the skill of work man, he adds the knowledge of the man who thinks beyond present purposes, he earns more, or, in other words,he increases his capital. Tue young machinist, for in stance, who learns machine drawing, is morally certain at some time to tind use for it where it will stand exactly to him as the money of the capitalist stands to its possessor;though this is hardly a fair statu ment, because he will at once tind use lor it. When the man who earn $1 000 a year by virtue of his skill as a workman adds buch knowledge to his business as to earn $2,000, he has as surely doubled his capi tal as the man who has twice as much money to invest in his busiu- a as he for merly had. It is earnestly advised tuat every apprentice to the machine business shall do a little calculation for himselt on this subject, alwa>s lemembet'ing that capital which is the result of skill an t knowledge is seldom at a discount aud never lost. It is just at this tiuie in the.r lives when habits are formed, that to a great extent determine the working capital with which they are to go through life. Wo often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more desp.se { what we really fear. NO 49.