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Office in Gann&nl new building. JOHN B. LINN, ATTORNEY AT LA W. BELLEFONTI, PA. Office on Allegheny Street. QLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLE FONTS, FA. Northwest corner of Diamond. HOY, ATTORNEY AT LA W. BELLKFONTE, PA. r Orphans Court business a Specialty. C. HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTS, PA. Practices in all the oourta of Centre county. Special attention to Collection*. Consultations in German or English. -. - J. A. Beaver. " J W. GephAit. JgEAVER A GEPHART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTS, PA. Omce on Alleghany Street, North of High. Y° cum a HARSHBERGER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTS, PA. Jy d.'RfeLLfclt, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Consultations In English or German. Office in Lyon's Building, Allegheny Street. d. nTEkaram: w. ranoxn. Ao'l'lN G8 A REEDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. ' * BELLEFONTS, FA. Offloe on Allegheny street, two doors east of the office occuoied by tbs lase firm of yv—• * {jt&et- IngS. aa.t7 To CLEAN A BLACK SILK DRESS. — Take one quart of water and put into it an old kid glove and boil it down to one pint; then take a sponge or soft piece of flannel and sponge it over: then iron it on the wrong aide while it is damp, it will look bright and new and will be quite stiff. For light-colored silk take p white glove. PAtIKNCK. If your toe* loruieut tui-l taunt you, If your foitr* harass *uJ hauut you, If the world seems dark ana dreary— "Walt a wee and Ulnna weary." If the hopes you fondly cht rtah, Dashed to earth, *eein sure t*> persti, Walt with patieuoe till to-morrow No tuau's life Is w hoio sorrow-. If your plans dou t work to please you, If the Fates should vex sud lease you - If you can, be bright and cheery, "Walt a wee and diuua weary." If Uod gives you leisure take it, ♦'lis his elft—a blessluf make It; Faith in him no whit abut uf, Serve his will by patient waliluf Or, If work, Instead of leisure, Pain, instead of longed-for pleasure— llwwsoe'r your ! ot seems dreary, "Walt a wee aud dluua weary." A KRKNt-ll DfcTKC 11 VK'S ItIWK. Even as the great clown," Crriuialdi, was the prince ami father of his imita tors, so was the great Parisian detect ive, Vidooq, the prince of detectives. The phenomenal alacrity which lie ex hibited iu penetrating the motives and metis. ds of crimes, and in unearthing ciimiuuls, has never been equaled. In boyhood a gamin of the docks, he became a dialect performer in the con cert halls of Paris and gniued alivlihood in a huudred different grades of employ ment before he turned his attention to the detection of crime. At the time of his greatest fame as a detective, one Moirellet exercised the duplex fiuictioi s of sexton and chanter of the fashionable church of Lwry in the suburbs of Paris. He was a shrewd and, to all seeming, a very pious umn. When those southern pillagers, the Cossacks, ware expected in Pans, the people of the city and suburbs be thought themselves to eoneeul their most valuable effects. The curate of Livry was anxious to remove the church plate and his own to a place of safety, and, being an imbecile old man, intrusted his valuables to Mouellet to be secreted M. Senart. a friend of the cure and a jeweler of Pans, becoming advised of of the cure's action also intrusted one hundred thousand crowns' value of precious stones to Moireilet, that they might l*e buried secretly anil securely in the forest of Boudy. A fortnight later Moirellet appeared before the cure, pale and distracted, to announce that the Cossacks had cer tainly passed through the v*ood and dug up the precious deposit. So good was the man's reputation, so sorrowful his protestations, and so honest the method of his tale, that the old cure believed it at once; but M. Senart called to his couutiug-room Vidoeq. 4 'What kind of a mail is this Moir ellet?" asked the detective. "He eujoys a great reputation iu all the neighborhood as a man of great piety, sagacity and prudence." "Is he married ?" "Yea," "Wife handsome— dressy ?" "She is very pretty and is fond ot diess." 44 A native of Paris?" "She was boru and dwelt in her mai den-hood in the suburb of Andrea," "Good. Moirellet shall be called aside from the churoh to-morrow morn ing and quietly oouveyed to the prison. I will at once set forth to Andrea and learn what I can of bis wife's family and her early lite." "But there is absolutely 110 proof warranting the arrest of Moirellet!" "It is my business to find proof." The next morning Moirellet was quietly couveyed to prison. An hour later, a dashing and hand some young man, clad in a semi-naval costume, km oked at the door of Moir eliet's residence. His fair wife answered the summons, "Marie I—and how goes it with my little schoolmate, Marie of Andrea?" exclaimed the young man, grasping her hand impetuously. "Pardon me, sir, but you have es caped mv recollection." 4 'You do not recognize me? But, tell me, surely you are Marie (iabnlto, the grocer's daughter, who dwelt in ohildhood at "1 am, sir." "Then you are the Marie I played with—ana you do not reoognize me? Pie, Marie 1 ha ! lift !ha ! And do you dwell here —are you married ?" "Ay, sir." "And to the great and good man, too, I warrant, if your beautiful lace and womanly graces have met their due?" "A good man, truly, sir—but if you will be pleased to enter and make your self known to me, we may converse more intelligibly." The fair hostess soon after entered the cozy parlor of her home bearing a silver bottle-tray, and pou'ing forth a glass of wine to the young man, said :j "And, now, sir, kindly inform me what my old schoolmate's name is ?" "Ha Iha 1 and you don't know me, Marie ? You know that we men love to quiz the ladies ? Look well into ray face, my eyes. lam one who not only played with you, Marie, in those dear, golden days of the past, but one who felt for you the tenderest regard. Can it be possible you cannot recall me?" "I look at you well, sir, and tkiDk over all of my young playmates, and yet I can not name you. Keep me not in agony of ignorance—who are you ?" "A midshipman in the navy. Is that not a hint ?" returned the young man, holding his glass for more wiue. "It is no hint that I can fathom," re turned the lady, refilling his glass. 4 'Ay, but I have told you wrong—l am a lieutenant in the navy," said the young man, draining the goblet. "But your name—your name ?" de manded the lady, impatiently, again filling the empty glass. "All I have spoken is wrong, Marie," quoth the young man, appearing the least bit intoxicated. Behold in me the captain of the battle ship Havre—Pare Moliiere." Tfie woman's lace reddened, and her eyes flashed angrily, as she sprang lor- MILLHEIM. PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14 ,1882. ward aud caught away the empty glass from the ytmug man's hand. "Why, Marie I" ho gasped, iu aston ishment* "do you think I hrvo Hod to you—.that I am not. Molliere "Tt is not that," returned lus excited hostess, shrewdly, "but that, if you should drink another draught of my wine. I fear that yon would turn out to be the commodore of a fleet; and that finally, at the last driukiug, you would make*me tieUeve that you were the loid high admiral of all the seas." And ahe pointed suggestively toward the door. "Marie Gabrielip," said the unwel oome guest, iu tones of authoiity, and rising impressively to his feet, *it had been well for you had you long since shown the true Pere Molliere the door. He who was your schoolmate, who ran from home, joined the navy, deserted after robbing several of his comrades, who, to cap a life of crime, at length came to Paris, donued the rotes of sanc tity to cover his serpeutile trail of mis deeds past—who had been false to every thing save his boyhood's love; whb secretly induced you to leave Audrea, wed you ; who is at this moment in ptison for appropriating the Jewels oi M Senart and the cure of Livry ; and who has confessed that you are his ac complice. Tell me, Mario Gabrielle, where are those stolen valuables hidden, or you are my prisoner ! I aiu Vidocq." The glass dropped from the woman's band and, uttering a piercing shriek, she fell tainting upon the floor. Soon after a squad of detectives reached the home, out without avail, and the woman declaring her innocence, oiid the ignorance of the missiug valua bles, was conveyed to prison. That afternoon Moireliet was snipped and put to the "pump," that a confess ion might be extorted from him. The "pump " was a water-tight oe 11 in the yard of the prison into which a stream of water constantly flowed, winch could only be discharged through the pump. Tlie only means by which the unfor tunate inmate could prevent drowning was by working mcessauPy at the pump. For three hours Moireliet endured the enforced labor, but when at length the water was turned off, uud he was re moved from the cell m an exhausted state, he still protested his entire inno cence. aud averred that he was not Pere Molliere. That night, n ooarselv-dress* d Ger man youtn, vulgarly inebriated, was thrust into the apartment of the prison in which Moireliet was coutiued—much to Moiiellet's disgust. The German, however, dropped in one corner of the cell aud slept soundly all night, only at times muttering as it iu his dreams suoli sentences as : "Yot ] care nohow." ' I got dot gold sure." ~Vot could dey prove?" "Schinid, shake hands mit 103 pelf—you was all right." In the morning Moireliet gave the turnkey a piece ol silver and requested 1 hut he be iurui-died with a veal cutlet for breakfast "done well browu." "L T nd ghf me also a preakfost of veal cudlet done veil, Schmidt," said the German, also giving the money. "What do you meau by a veal cutlet done well, Schmidt?" demanded the amused turnkey. "Vaa dot uot rigid ? Dis shentleman he asked for a veal cudlet veil done Browu, uud I ask for oue veil done Schmidt V Vas you not hat gif dot name, ven you sends de order ?*' Moireliet aud the turnkey laughed at the German's stupidity, but socu after, when the prisoners were eating their loot! alone, the German said : "You laugh at me—bud I was dot man vat should laugh. Doud dink 1 vas a fool because I vas Dutch. You rasa sheutlemau, uud I vas a tief. I rob§ a Prussian officer of all his money. I got it. I go—hush !—dis very night avay from Vrauce," "How do you mean?" asked Moir eliet, for the first time looking toward the boor without disdaiu. "Hush 1 1 vas a tief, I dole you. 1 knows all de tiefs—ull der brieous — look here!" And tke Dutchman, with a sly wink, removed a neatly hidden slide" in the ole of his heavy shoe, disclosing three ingeniously wrought skeleton keys aud a small vial. "Aud do you meau, Schmidt, to break prison ?" "You shall see. I git my gold safe— I git safe out of Yrance. Dey vould uot catch me now, but I was trunk." "Then if you will aid me, away with you, I know of a vast treasure buried in the forest of Bondy. A third of it skail be yours." At midnight the German began work. Opeuiug the cell door with oue of Ins keys he peered forih into the diiniy lighted corridor. A turnkey was sitting near the door in a dose. Saturating a handkerchief with the fluid from the vial, lie soon had ren dered that functionary insensible to uoise. Taking the keys that hung at his belt, he opened the ddor leading to the main hallway of tne prison. Passing swiftly to the prison's front door, he opened it. Waiting and listening until the gend arme had passed upon his beat, tbe two men suddenly darted from the prison, crossed the dark street and escaped. The German ltd the way tnrough round-about streets to the suburbs of Paris, and ere daybreak they had ar rived in tiie forest of Bondy. It was a dark night, but Moireliet readily found spot where the treas ure was buried, and, using sharpened sticks, the men soou unearthed the two large tin boxes containing it. As they did so, a rustling in the for est leaves caused them to look up. A score of gendarmes, with swords drawn, stood in a circle about them, tiashiug the flare of their dark lauterus j in their faces. "Pierre Molliere, alias Moireliet, you are my prisoner," said the German, placing his baud upon Moirellet's shoul der, "And you are— " "Vidocq," "My God 1" cried the terrified cul- prit, "who would have thought it—you looked bo clownish." The prisouer was sentenced to six years' close confinement. Vidocq was overloaded with compliments by M. Scnart aud the oure, wnoprwuutdd hiui with 5,00 i) francs for having so deftly recovered their lost treasures. Song of the Irj Sa. The soug of the icv sea is a very pe culiar oue ami can scarcely be described so as hi convey any clear idea of its na ture, It is not loud, yet it ouu be heard to a great distance— it is neither a surge nor a swash, but a Kind of slow, crashing, groaning, shrieking sound, m which sharp, silvery tmklinga mingle with the low, thunderous undertone of a rushing tempest. It impresses 01m with the idea of nuarpeas aud distal so ut the same time aud also with that of immense forces in eoiflfict. When tins contused fantasia is heard from alar through tiie stillness of an Arctic night the effect is strangely weird aud almost solemn—as if it were the distant ham of an active living world breaking across the boundaries of solitude uud deuth. Ou June 25 the steufcn whaler North Slur, the first ship of the season to reach Point Barrow, steamed up a loug lead, which ran in a northeast direction, about six miles from the shore, until she came opposite the signal station, when she made fast to the stationary, ice. On the ttth of July she made her way into a small inlet in the shore ice, about three miles from shore, with the hope that the projecting ice capes, grounded in filteeu fathoms, would with stand the pressure iwid protect her un til the current should ciiaugeor a favor able opportunity for making her escape occur. It soon, however, became cer tain that this hope was vain, for the pack kept on its way slowly, steadily, but as relentless as fate. Tlic ice capes were ground into powder and melted away before the resistless pressure as if they were not a straw's weight, in stead of millions of tons ; the grounded mass found the ship soou followed and the ill-lated Star was caught aud ground to pieces, as if she were no stronger than a child's card-board toy. Never was destruction more complete. Her great masts and massive ribs of solid timber crocked and broke, as if they were pipestems, and iu au hour froui the pressure first reacned her uotliiug remained of the great ship that looked so beautiful aud strong 111 the bright sunshine a fe\k minutes before but two or three boini, a little iiard bread, a few bags of flour and iorty oight homeless men. What assistance could be given wus fitsuiahed by tne party at the sigual station. All that had beeu saved from tne wreck was brought onshore, tents and provisions were lurnisued to the shipwrecked men until the 14th, when the whalers Bow head and Belvidere came up and took them oil to l>e distributed through the list of the fleet. On the 15th the pack Uud nearly ail disappeared and the bur ner of anchored ice wus then about two in lies wide, but it broke up rapidly and 011 ihe 22d 110 ice was visible. i'utlilt>in * WeUur. In tho Silver chapel is the tomb and marbie effigy of tiiat beautiful woman, Phiiippina VVelaor, of luuspruek. Her eyes wore divme, it is said dark blue, her hair golden chestnut, and the skin so transparent that "the red wine oould be ween as it ran down the lovely throat." In the photograph her beauti ful face rises up like a lovely fiower, out of a high ruff, a superb jeweled collar with pendant jewels is bound clone about the liigii-mouutiug neck of the rich dark velvet robe; the hair is parted and rolled back from a high, broad, intelligent forehead that has nothing Greek about it, but is a clear, good Anglo-Saxon brow; on the head ia a net cap made of some gold rosettes, with pearls and a jeweled border around it. The arch of Uie delicate eyebrows is perfect; the eyes have a bewitching expression that is both courageous ana pleading; she had a shapely nose, a ioyely mouth and chin, aud an express ion of dignity, refinement, and gentle ness. Perteet womanly loveliness char acterizes this pictured semblance of a woman who was the most beautiful of her day, aud whose romantic history has inspired many a poet and dramatist. Hhe wus the daughter of a rich Augs burg banker, Ferdinand, nephew of Ouarles V. fell madly in love with her, and they were married secretly. She was the mother of two sons, whose por traits you can see ut Bckluss Am bras, the charming castle on the Mittlege barge mountain slopes, a short distance from lunspruck, w h ie Pnillipiiia uud Ferdinand spent their long, happy mar ried life. Tne Emperor Ferdinand was naturally very angry at this marriage, but during oue ot his visits to Inus pruck, the lovely weuian came with her two young boys and begged him to torgive her. History tells how he had only to look at Phiiippina to justify his son. When Ferdinand died she lost her best and most powerful lriend. Her mother-in-law was forever tauutmg her. So one morning the poor woman lay down iu her bath tub aud drowned her self, in order that her dear husband might marry a royal wife. Ybu can see the bath-room at Soliioss Ambras but the custode denies the legend, 1 am happy to say. and I am unwilling to believe it. Her husbuud, the Oouut of Tyrol, mi urned her loss. Tradition say s he was frantic with grief, and built the beautiful Siborue o..apei, where each lie buried. True, he married again only two years alter her death, aud his second wife was oue of his own rauk, the daughter of Duke William of Man tua; but he never lived again at Schloss Ambras. Spued, of Engines. —A new speed indi cate!, called tbe Dtrathmoyrapb, tor indi cating tbe speed of locomotives, Las been introduced ou tbe Hanoveriau railroads. By it tbe engineer can read from a scale tbe actual speed of his engine at any lime, besides which a oompicte recorJ of the trip is kept on a slip ol paper,- True lllstufectauts. Many a so-called disinfectant is em ployed to-day iu a certain solutiou wheu it does not posess any value what ever under the circumstances. If it is really our intention to disinfect wound? wc must be certain, at loast, that we will achieve our object with the remedy we use; if such is not the case, we only irritate without doiug good. The Im perial Board of Health iu Berlin has published a number of experiments which have been made by Dr. R. Koch, with the view of establishing the real value of many so-calledJiainfectatits. It would lead us too far to give the whole procedure employed to ascertain the facts mentioned, aud we will, therefcre coufine ourselves to giving the more im portant results of the investigations of this oelebrated physician. Most sur geons have Ihjcu Batlstled to wash their hands a.id cleau their iustrumeuts with a two per oeut solution of carbolic acid. Huoli a solutiou is almost iuert, aud a five per cent solution is necessary to achieve the desired objects. But what is the most interesting is the fact that carboiic acid dissolved iu oil or water prove itself totally inert. What do our surgeons who still make use of so called oarbolized oil say to that ? Koch found that carbolic acid, when dissolved iu oil or iu alcohol, hail not the slightest in fluence on the vitality of any of the uiicrooiicoi or bacilli. Concerning sul phurous acid, it was found to be power less against spores bacilli and mocro eocoi, wheu exposed to the fumes m a box. were killed wiliiu twenty minutes, but were very little influenced, or ncR at all, when exposed to the fumes in a room at the usual temperature. Chloride of zinc showed itself just as harmless. A five per cent solution ex erted absolutely no influence ou the spores of anthrax, notwithstanding the same has been exposed to the action of the remedy for a period of thirty days. Of other drugs, the spores of the bacilli were k lied by chlorine water, fresh pro pared; two per ceut bromine water, oue per cent aqueous solution of perman ganate of potassium, oue per oeut osmic acid, within one day; formic acid, four days; oL terebinth, five days; solution of chloride of iron, four days; one per ceut arscnious acid, oue per cent quinine (water with muriatio acid), two per oeut muriatic acid within ten days; ether within thirty days. Inert or possessing very little influence: dis tilled water, alcohol, glycerine, oil, sul phur-carbon, chloroform, benzol, petro leum-ether, ammonia, concentrated solu tion of common salt, bromide and iodide of potassium, one per ceut; sulphuric acid, sulphate of ziuo and copper alnui, oue per cent; peruianof potash, chromic acid, the eliminates aud bichromates, chlorate of potash/five per oeut; aoetio acid, five per ceut; tannic acid, five per ceut; ben sou te of sodium, five peroent; quinine (two per ceut in water 40, alco hol GO), iodine (one per cent in alcohol), thymol (five per cent iu alcohol), sali cylic acid (five per cent in alcohol, two per cont in oil). But as, for purposss of disinfection, the microorganism must be killed, aud in the shortest possible period, and the effect of retarding the development of the spores (autiseptie) is not sufficient, only the following remedies can, ac coiding to Koch's experiments, be said to be of value; corrosives üblimate, chlo rine, bromine iodine. Bromine in form of vapor is, oa concerns rapidity of ac tion, superior to chlorine and iodine. The Ketl-flnck Or (lei. 11l its own way red brick is a very pood tiling indeed. It is warm in color; it is domestic; it sorts well with Dntch and Euglidi notions of home life. But it Is not an architectural panacea. In London red brick is a simple ntoeeaity of the situation; no other good building material can be iiad within a convenient distance, and lor all purpo es of ordin ary house-building brick or nothing is the Hobsou's choice of the limited householder, Uuuor these circum stances, our architectural authorities of late years, turning over in their heads the question of sound, honest material for London dwellings, have wisely re pudiated the time-honored maxim that Queen Anne is dead and haye "revived Queen Aune m all her ruddy glory from Jb ltzjoini avenue at Hani}>stead down to the humbler roofs of Bedford Park at Turuhum Green Being compelled to ouild in brick they have sensibly deci ded to adopt a style based entirely upon brick as its material, instead of copying styles based upon solid stone, which is unattainable within the limits of what the Saturday Jieview will not allow us to call the metropolitan dis trict. But a curious result of this acci dent or misfortune ol the London basin has now begun to show itself in many provincial regions where good building stone is cheap and abundant. Visitors to London have got into their heads the notion that brick is fashionable, and they have accordingly set about build ing brick houses, briok schools aud brick public offices in places where stone is quite us cheap aud far more desirable. Anxious to be iu the height of the architectural mode, they have taken to putting up Queen Aune erec tions where Queen Anne ought never to have shown her royal red faoe at al. Instead of building houses of the same strictly domestic type in local stone and in styles adapted to stone, they seem to fancy that it they adopt the new sth etio fancies at all they must adopt iJhem in their entirety, material and ail. In tact, they wajit to reverse the boast of Maecenas and Baron Haussmann, and to leave a oity of brick where they found a a city of marble. A RomantlA Life in ua humble farm house in Fablus, Onondaga County, in 181 V, Malvina M. Dean was born to a career which verges on romance. Her mother died when she was eight years old, and then until the was seventeen she lived with an aunt in Weeds port, N. Y. Then she went to New York Cuy. She was an uncultured country girl, but rather prepossessing. She took the fancy of Alex&uder Bessie, of Mon treal, a traveling salesman, whom she married. Bessie concluded to go to fiouth America with a small stock of goods, and his wife, who had operated the Wheeler A W ilsou sewing machine, then but a rude invention, induced the company to let her take six of them on credit. The ship in which they sailed for Rio de Janeiro was wrecked, but alter much suffering Mr. and Ma. Bessie reached their destination, sav ing three of the sewing machines, tihe commenced to canvass for them. Her success was wonderfuL They were the first sewing machines in Brazil, and she was soon able to maxe an order tor 100 of them, which sold for fabulous prices among the rich Brazilians. Bessie (lid not like the country, and when be announced that he was going to return to New York his wife re 1 used to keep his company, aud they separated aud btcame divorced. For twenty years she continued to sell sewing machines and accumulated a fortune. benor Joseph Gomez Olivers Uuunaraes was a rich Portuguese gentleman, who trafficked in diamonds and rosewood in Itio de Janeiro. He married Mrs. Bessie, coming to the house of Air. Wheeler, of the sewing maching firm, at Bridgeport, Conu., for that purpose. They went to Lisbon, where the Senor built the first and only horse railway. He also owned much other valuable property. In about six years be died and made his wile sole heir to all his possessions, both in Brazil and Portugal, She returned to this country iu 1875 and bought considerable properly in Oswego, where sne decided to live. In tbe Riverside Cemetery of that town she caused to be built a magnificent monument in memory of her husband. It was im ported from ltaiyt The soft and delicate marble is already crumbling from the effect of this sterner climate. Iler property in Rio de Janeiro was left in the management of Senor Antonio Hi liero Seabra, a handsome and roysu ring young Brazilian, who had been Senor Guiinaraee' clerk. In 1878 ehe went to Brazil and married him, and they returned together to Oswego. Seabra, who could not speak English, came to Syracuse to learn the language, and bis conduct here was reported to have lieen more consonant with foreign than American marital cus toms. In 1880 he induced his wife to go to Lisbon with him. Arriving there, be sought to establish a domicile in order to acquire control of her estate under the domiciliary laws of that country, It is said thai he possessed himseif of her valu able diamonds and was iu a fair way to secure her property there and in Brazil, and that he did actually obtain poase-sioo of rents from her property in tne city o' New York. Therefore she left him and returned to the United States in 1881, and begati an action for divorce for principal cause, and also an action to recover her New York rentals. Seabra entered a counter suit for divorce against her, alleg ing the most s mndalous assertions as to Ler conduct, Tuese contests have now been ended by the death of Mine. Seabra at Oswego on Monday, at the age of sixty three years. It is said that her estate, v alued at about $400.000, will revert to her family relatives, she having no Issue. The Lime ProoM. A new and interesting method, called the "lime process," has lately been dis covered in Euglan 1 for breaking down coal in a mine without running any of the risks incomparable from blasting. Tbe process, which is said to be a de cided snoces, is briefly this: Holes are drilled in the solid coal at intervals near the roof, and into these are inser ted "cartridges" of highly compressed, very caustic lime. The cartridges are three inches in diameter, and of any desired length, but they are made with a groove into which a small iron pipe can be inserted. The hole being filled and the pipe inserted, it is plugged or tamped to prevent the escape of steam, and, a number being ready, a small force-pump is attached by a flexible tube to the pipe aud the the water for ced in, which, escaping, wets the lime. The pipe is then closed by a stopcock, and the same operation r peated at the next hole. The first result is the con version of the water into steam, which itself tends to force the coal down, but after a time tho lime swells with irres tible power, aud, the sprags being re moved, the oomes down in large blocks. The operation of watering the lime is performed very rapidly, a few miuutes sufficing to "tire" any required number of cartridges. A Notable Day. The 15 th of October is a~ note worthy date, being the 300 th anniversary of the introduction ot the Gregorian calendar. It was the work of Pepc Gregor XIII., who iu the yesr 1582, being struck by the fact that the veruai equinox, which at the time of the Oviuncil of Nice, A, D. 825, had occurred on March 21, then happened on the 10th, caused ten days to be thrown out of the current year—the day after Thursday, Obt. 4 being declared Oct 15. This alteration of the style was immedi ately adopted in all the Roman Catholic countries of Europe, aul even in England an attempt, of which little notice has been taken, was made to introduce *it two years later. On the 16 hof March, 1584 5 a bill was read for the first time in the Rouse of Lords entitled 'An act, giving her Majesty authority to alter and make a new caiead&r according to the calendars used In other countries " It was read a second time on tde 18th of the same month, and then the project was shelved for nearly two centur ies. it was not till the year 1752, in the reign of George 11-, that the Gregorian calendar was adopted in England, and by that time it had become necessary to drop eleven days. The 3d of September was declared the 14th, so that the month only contained nineteen days. Monkey* at Freedom. The manners and customs ot monkeys are too oommonly judged from those of their kind retained in confinement. Monkeys are born in almost as helpless a condition as are human beings. For the first fortnight after birth, they pass their time in being nursed, in sleeping, and looking about them. When about six weeks oid t the baby begins to need more substantial nutiiment than milk and is taught to provide for itself. Its powers are speedily developed; and in a few weeks its agility is most sur- prising. The mother's fondness tor her offspring continues; she devotes all her cares to its comfort and education; and should it meet with au untimey end, her grief is so intense as frequently to cause her own death. The young ones are seen to sport and gambol with one another in the presence of their mother, who site ready to give judgement and punish misdemeanors. When any one is found guilty of foul-play or malicious conduct towards another of the family, the parent interfere by seizing the young criminal by the tail, which she bolus fust with one hand while she boxes his ears with the other. Their parental affection for their young offspring is shown by teaching them to seiecc food, to exert themselves in jumping from bough to bough, an J then in tak ing more extensive leaps from tree to tree; encouraging them by caresses when timorous, and menacing and even beating them when refractory. Knowing by instinct the malignity of the snakes, they are most vigilant in their destruction; they seize them when asleep by the neok, and iunning to the nearest fiat stone, grind the head by a strong friotion on the surface, fre quently looking at it and grinning at meir progress. When convinced that the venomous fangs are destroyed, they toss tiie reptile to their young to play with. In tue case ot the approach of human enemies, an alarm is given by one of the tribe that danger is at hand. In an instant the vouugster springs on to its mother's body, and grasps it with such tenacity, tuat no jerk can possibly loosen it* nold. Ac cording to numerous accounts, the large species of monkeys, in their native lorests, construct huts for themselves and families nearly similar in form to those of certain Africans; or else they take possession of those abandened by the natives. They also make beds of leaves; but according to tome accounts, these are only for the females una young, and most of the time the mates sleep outside. It is asserted that tuose A trie sui monkeys maintain among them- . selves a republican form of government, in whiok the strictest older and subor dination are enforced, Wneu they^travel from place to place, they are under the command t f particular cuieftains which are always the oldest and most poweriui of the tribe, and maintain a severe kind of discipline upon the marcn. When they are engaged up on any very daring raid, monkeys place seminal* upon the neighboring trees and heights, to give them timely warning of approaching danger; and should they be surprised through any lauli of these sentinels, the luckless in dividual is either severely punished, or in some oases, it is declared, is put to death lor his neglect of the public salety. Acs Jl ding to some accounts, these raiders will lortn a long chain, ex tending trorn the field or garden they are plundering, towards their own place ol abode; and toss the fruits of of their robbery from one to the other, till collected together aud deposited iu a place 01 safety. By this co-operative system they are enabled to carry off a much larger booty than they oould u each one only took sufficient for him self. Wh m leaving the scene of then pluuder, however, each takes off with him as niufii as he can o. rry. Fruit aud eggs are their chief food; in a state of nature, it is believed, they will not touch the iiesh of warm-blooded ani mals; nor in a state of oaptivity, unless cooked. Expenses uf Ctturche*. New York's total church expenses foot up abont $6,500,000 each year. The figures include the pay of pastors, the building fund, the oost of running the vaiious churches and the outlay for mis sious and all benevolent purposes. The Roman Catholics lead the lißfc, They have some seveuty-five churches, and their total annual outlay is estimated at $2,250,000, half of which goes iu charity. The Episcopalians come next. They have seventy-nine churohes and chapels, with 25,000 oommumcauts. Their out lay is $1,150,000 $600,000 for church expenses and $550,000 for benevolent purposes. After the Episcopalians come the Presbyterians, with sixty churches, having a membership of 21,500 and an expense list of $705,000, something over half of which is for "church purposes," The Methodists have sixty-five churches, bat their membership is only 13,300, and their total expenses are set down at $243,000—5200,000 being for church purposes. The Baptists, with thirty six churches and a membership of 12,- 700, expend near y SIOO,OOO more than the Methodists, their entire outlay be ing $327,000. The Dutch Reformed and the Lutheran combined have forty one churches, with a membership of 16,000, and their expenses foot up to $363,000. The Oongregationalists have only six churches, with 2,440 members, and a total expense list of $96,000. Next come the Jews, and they make a very good showing. They have nine teen tabernacles, with a declared mem bership of 3,000 (the regular attendance though is at least four times that num oer), and an expense of over $300,000. Occasion may be the bugle eall summons an army to battle, but the blast of a bugle can never make soldiers or win victories. NO. 50.
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