Y()I„ LVL
\ BARTER,
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AUCTIONEER,
MILLHEIM, Pa.
JG. SPRINGER,
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Fashionable Barber,
Next Door to Journal Store,
Millhkih, Pa.
HOUSE,
ALLS GHENT STREET,
HKLLEFOIVTE, ... PAu
C- G. MoMILLEN,
PROPRIETOR.
Good Sample Room on First Floor.
•VFree Bon to and from All Trains. Special
iwteato wiUWMsea aud Jurors. 4-1
IRVIN HOUSE,
(Most Central Hotel In tie City J
Uoruer MAIN and JAY Streets,
Lock Haven, Pa.
8. WOODS CALWELL, Proprietor.
Good Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers on first floor.
JJR. D. H. MINGLE,
Physician and Surgeon,
MAIN Street, Millheim, Pa.
JJK. JOHN F. BARTER, #
PRACTICAL DENTIST,
Office in id story of TomUnson's Gro
cery Store,
On MAIN Street, Milihkim, Pa.
n r k 1 MTf.it,
D ■ fashionable boot & shoe maker
Shop next door to Foote's Store, Main St.,
6001.4, Shoes anil Gaiters made to order, and sat
tsfactorv work guaranteed. Repairing done prompt
ly and cheaply, and in a neat style.
C. T. Alexander. C. M . Bower.
A BOWER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
liELLEFONTE, PA.
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.