VOL. LVL BARTER, AUCTIONEER, MILLHEIM, PA. J C. SPRING KR. Fashionable Barber* Next Door to JOURNAL Store, MILLHKIH, PA. JJROCKERHOFF HOUSE, ALLEGHENY STREET, B KLLEFONTE, - - - PA C 6. McMILLEN. PROPRIETOR. Good Sample Room on First Floor. •Y-Free BUM to and from all Train*. Special rates to witnesses and Jurors. *4 IRVIN HOUSE, (Moat Central Hotel tn Via City J Corner MAIN and JAY Streets, Lock Haven, Pa. S. WOODS CALWELL, Proprietor. Good Sample Rooms for Commercial Traveler* on first floor. D. H. MINGLE. Physician and Surgeon, MAIN Street, MILLHKIM, Pa. K.JOHN F. HARTER, PRACTICAL DENTIST, Office In 2d story of TomUntoa't Gro cery Store, On MAIN Street, MILLHEIM, Pa. Br UINTIK, • FASHIONABLE BOOT A SHOE MAKER Shop next door to Foote's Btore, Main Bt, B"<>t... Shoes and EAVER & GEPHART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Offloe on Alleghany Street, North of High. Y° CUM A HARSHBERGER, 4 ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLKFONTE, PA. g: SELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Consultations In English or German. Office in Lyons Building, Allegheny Street *D. ■. HASSDWHU '• JJAOTLNGS & REEDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, * BELLEFONTE, PA Offloe on Allegheny street, two doors esst of the occunied by the late urn o1 Y""~"" * Bast ings. sn.t7 A LITTLE 3-year old, whose mother was mixing a simple cough mediciue for him, watched the process, and asked if it was good. He was permitted to taste it, and having discovered a bitter ness in the decoction which was not suitable to the present wants of his pal ate he exclaimed: "It is awful good, mamma; let's keep it ail for papa," ilie pittteiii fwtaL A UOLDKN TKKSH. Ah me! now silent * oiroutusisnee May move our iumqj's deepest swtue*. Alt tue: how aimple-seemioa ohauoe Cau oiutoli Anu wake lite old reuieuittereJ tunes, Till memory maiKleua to tlte altr, And all the past'* oblivious bone* Leap llv.n# from the sepulu.tre. 1 found a to-d*y a golden tress uf one who has been dead for years. And such a su Hen loucliuea'j Fell ou uty heart and ou the spheres, 1 well uigli feared the Christ of Faith Had gathered all ills suushlue lu. And left us uothiug but tue wraith uf dark seltlshueas and alu. The seat beneath the btuel-ttough*. The woodlands where our feel did stray, The quick, warm thrill of whispered vows That wore the precious tune away. The twilight depths of those dear eyes, The reverent lips the saintly urow, The Kdeu-hours of low replies. Beloved! bow they haunt ate now. Almost uty heart had bridged across The aolem waters which did roll Betweeu my fearful seuse of loss Aud every other human sou'. But uothiug uow surmounts the waves. That waslt my barren talaud shore. Moaning like dead hopes from their graves; Ah nevermore! ah nevermore. L 1 FK'S Mil ADO W.| Whatever on earth you oan see to ad mire is beyoud me," Dr. Ogdeu said emphatically. "1 did think, Carroll, you were wade of different stuff from the ordinary run of young meu, but it appears you are as big an idiot as the rest of them. Ami, looking with Dr. Ogden's eyes— indeed, with almost anybody's eyes—it did seem as if young Carroll Eytiug had done a very foolish tiling in determined ly falling in love with a girl who was only pretty and fascinating, but—poor and obscure—aud that, too, when, as the heir aud prime favorite of his rich old bachelor uuole, Carroll might have married m his owu rank and society. But, Jessie Morrison was so pretty, it was haidly to be wondered at, when you looked at the question from the lover's side. So pretty, with a fair dewy complxion, all cream-aud-roses, great, meltiug black eyes and hair, and a mouth smilliug, and fragrant and saucy, and a figure liko a Hebe's. 4 *lt'u too bail, too bail," Dr. Ogdeu went on, half-scalding himself with hot coffee for supper—a breach of good judgement he would have roundly be rated in a patient—"too bad for any thing ! "I did think it would all come to an end, but here you oome and tell me you are up and-down engaged to her—your prospects ruined, your future marred." _ Carroll laughed pleasantly. "Hardly as bad as that, uncle Johu, I hope. "My engagement to Jessie promises to be a long ons, for I have no idea of marrying until I am definitely settled for my life business." "Ruined and blighted, I tell you," Dr. Ogdeu repeated emphatically. "She is not the style of girl to make a good wife—she's selfish, and vain, and lazy—crimps her hair and fools with her toilets, at the expense of your shirt buttons " "But, uncle Johu," Carroll interrup ted solemnly, a merry twinkle in his blue eyes, "you forget shirt buttons are uot worn now. "Button-holes and stads " "The invention of the demon for shiftless women and careless laundres ses," Dr. Ogden growled. "But that's neither here nor there. "It's the principle of the thing that I am after, although I might argue till I was dumb before I oould convince you that you were running your head against a post." "YoS, I think it would take that long aud longer," Carroll answered. "I am sorry that you look upou Jes sie as you do, uncle John, but I think, when you know her better, you will change your mind." "Never ! "I haven't lived sixty-seven years, and half ol them right in people's fami lies, not to know the genuine article when 1 see it! "And I tell you, my boy, Jessie Morri son hasn't the ring of the true metal about her—never had, never will have ; it ain't in her." And then Carroll bit his moustache— a sure sign that his usually placid tem per was rising. "We will not discuss the subject further, uucle John," he said, with a quiet manly diguity that Doctor Ogdeu felt bound to respect. '-Uucle Jolm is terribly unreasonable, and utterly wrong," Carroll said to him self. "The boy is making a consummate fool of himself," uncle John thought regretfully. And for a long month Jessie's name was never mentioned between them. It was at the end of that period of silence, one cold, dull January day, when there was snow in the air, and Dr. Ogden was driviug rapidly through a shabby back street, wlien a woman ran out from a wretched little house and bailed bim, holding lier little blanket shawl tightly oyer her unkempt hair as she stood in the penetrating air. "I have been watching for you the last hour, doctor. "There's a bad casein the house—au old woman, and a stranger. "You must come in and see her, doc tor." i It was a "bad case,"—Dr. OgdeiHGa MILLHEIM. PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21 ,1882. covered that before he had beou five minutes in the dull, comfortless tittle bedroom wher the patieut lay. "It's a bad case," he said to her, iu his bluff, honest way, "but there's no reason why we won't pull you through. "Buiail-pox, I suppose some people would call it, yarioloid I say. "But you ureu't going to die, mind you, madam. "You're a stranger here, Mrs. Jones tells me. "What's your name ?" "I'm a stranger, sir, and I would have stayed where I was if I'd dreamed 1 was going to be such a dreadful trouble. "Soiull-i>ox, yes, my daughter told uie she knew it was sinal l-iox. "My name's Morrison, doctor, and I'm from Brighton on a visit to my daughter, whom I liayen't seen for five years, but she was afraid " "Morrison !" Dr. Ogdeit repeated, a curious little snap in his voice. "I've heard the name before. "So your daughter wouldn't have you at her home, eh ?" "You couldn't hardly blame her— Jessie's young, pretty aud gay, aud girls is thoughtless, you know. "Maybe you kuow ner—Jessie Mor rison, sir, iu Hewliug A Donaldson's dry goods' store ?' Dr. Ogdeu's eves twinkled od*lly as he buttoned up his overcoat. "I ve heard of her," he said, "And you haven't seen her for five years ?" "Not until a couple of days ago, sir. "You sec, I can't get away—being in service—very often, but I'd heard Jessie was going to l>e married to as Hue u youug gentleman as there was in the world, and I ciayed so to see her and talk it over with her. "She alwavs w as liigb-minded, ambit ious, Jessie was, and I wasn't surprised when I heard it; and, of course, I couldn't blame her for not letting me stay with her a few days, when she found I was ill with such symptoms.'' "Well, I don't agree with you," he answered. "Your daughter was bound to take care of you ; you wouldn't have turned her out of your home if she had brought a pestilence with her. "I don't admire your daughter over and above, madam—a girl who would allowed her old mother to live out at service, while she is earning fair wages and dresses as tine as your daughter does "TLeu you've seen her doctor ' "You know how pretty and stylish she is. "1 don't mind it a bit, and Mrs. Jones* isn't afraid of the disease, for she's had it, aud her husband, too. "I've got a few dollars sayed up, and I'll give it to her. "I was going to buy Jessie a coral pin she wants so bad, but she'll have to go without it now. "What a terrible pity," IV. Ogden said sarcastically. "Now, Mrs. Morrison, I want you to take your medicine regularly, and fol low every direction 1 give you, and in a little while you'll be all right." And then Dr. Ogden bustled away to change his clothes ana fumigate his hair and whiskers before he went home. At luncheon that day, Carroll Eyting looked gloomy and depressed, an 1 be fore the meal was over he broke the "mouth's silence." "I dare say you will object, uncle John, but I Would be thankful if you'd go and see Jessie. "She's hall ill, aud dreadfully nervous, having been exposed to small-pox—a miserable begging creature from the city forced herself upon her a day or so, ago who at the time was sickened from the scourge herself. "It is shameful, positively shameful that there is such laxity iu our health taws as to " Dr. Ogdeu interrupted the indignant speech coolly. "There are tilings more shameful, my boy. "See here, Carroll-- if I was to get the smali-pox would you kick me out, send me to the hospital ? "What would you do?" # Carroll looked questiongly. "Kick you out ! "Send you to the hospital ! "Why uncle John, you don't think me capable of " "That's enough. "Of course you wouldn't. "S you're afraia Miss Morrison's coming down with the small-pox, are you ? "I don't suppose you'd marry her if she turns out pock-marked and scanty haired, and " "I'd marry her no matter how her beauty was spoiled ! "I loved Jtssie, not her face,"Carroll said hotly. "T- en, if her beauty of character was spoiled, Iter womanhood tarnished by a mean, despicable deed, you'd give her up y" Carroll flushed. "I would—but it is au impossibility. "Will you go and see her, uncle John—as my betrothed wife ?" And then Dr. Ogden laid down his napkin, and stood up, aud looked soelmn ly at Carroll." "My boy, when I tell you that this morning % I was called to see the "misera ble beggar from the city who forced herself upon Miss Jessie Morrison, and learned from her own lips that she was the girl's owu mother, inhumanly driven away—perhaps to her death—by reason of fear and mortification, I do not think you will ask me to visit Jessie Morrison as your 'betrothed wife.' " Carroll had sprung to Lis feet during Dr. Ogdeu'g words, a paleness on his face, an excitement iu his manner, born of tlie very conviotiou in Dr. Ugdeu's words and mien. "Cuole John ! "It is impossible-impossible !" he oried hoarsely. Hut before twenty -fflur hours had pas sed he know it was not only possible but true. \ "You wore right* uncle John," he said sadily, "tke g rill loved was sper riotis metal. "She wo* not worthy W be- your niece." v And whin Dr. Ogden shook him sympathise!ugly by the hand, ho did as much as say— "l told you so !" Jessie Morrison did not have the suiiill-pox, but she lost her lover, just as she richly deserved to lose him, and will repent bitterly her inhumanity as long ns she lives. Oid Mrs. Morrison recovered in Heaven's and under Dr. Ogden's skilled cure—but it was not to return to the haru work of years, for touched with deep pity, Dr. Ogden and and Carroll secured her a position as matron in a children's asylum where her life is declining peacefully amid oou genial, well-performed duties. And Carroll Eyting will never marry, to Dr. Ogden's secret delight—yet a de light strangely mingled with regret at the young fellow's qufrt sadness and ludiguutiou that such Agirl could have Htnulowed so noble a ij 'e. l>lieaut .luoltst Days. Undoubtedly tiiere is much idle talk about tbe wonderful extravagance of ladies of the present day, their pursuit of constantly changing styles, and the luxuries demanded by those who can, or think they can afford the expense. One would be led to suppose, in the absence of knowledge to the contrary, that these were things of modern growth. But just look at the "style" they used to put on in early ages, and their enor mous extiavHgance. We arc told that the ladies of Lesbos slept on roses whose pen nine had been artificially heightened. Aud in time court maidens powdered .their hair in gold. Marc Antony's daughter did not change her d ress hair a dozen times a day, tm do the Saratoga graooa, bat who made the lampreya iu her lish pond wear earrings. The dresses of Lollia Paulina, the rival of wore valued at #2,604,480. Tins did not in clude her jewels. She wore at one sup l>er $1,562,500 wortb of jewels, and it was a plain citizen's supper. The luxury of Poppase. beloved by Nero, was equal to tliat of Lollia. The women of the Koinau empire indulged iu all so r ts of luxuries and excesses, and these were revived under Napoleon tbe first in France. Mine. Tallica bathed herself in a wash of strawberries and raspber ries, and had herself rubbed down with sponges dipped in milk and perfumes. Ovid says that m his day girls were tuught to smile grseefully. The beauties of ancient times were just as vain as modern belles, and spent the greater part of their day at their toilet Tbe use of cosmetics was universal amongst them. Aspasia and Cleopatra (models of female beauty, it is said), both used an abundance of paint, aud each wrote a treatise on cosmetics. Cleopatra used bears' grease to keep her hair from fall ing out. Roman ladies were so careful of. tbeir complexions that to protect them they wore masks. The Athenian women of of antiquity were verystudioUH of the attitudes and actions, and thought a hurried aud sudden step a sign of rus ticity. We iiave oertain styles of beauty now-a-days; so had the Greeks. They went wild over the "ideal ohm," neither sharp nor blunt, but gently undulating in its outline, aud losing itself gradual ly and almost insensibly in the iullness of the neck. The union of the two eye brows Wiis esteemed by the Romans as a beauty. It is said they admired the air of dignity it gives to the face. An Al banian belle of to-day presents a rather striking appearance. She is, as a rule, coifed with seed pearls aud coins, and enveloped in bluok serge pelisse. She uses paint on lior face profusely, and her taste runs to cherry lips anil cheeks and jet black eyebrows strongly drawn. An Albanian bride discards paint for a a while, and if wealthy, wears a suit like this: Rose colored under robes, with an over robe of dark green velvet, the idoa being taken from a rose bud half opened in its leaves. Thus array ed the girl of handsome features is said to look really bewitching. The Tartars despise prominent nasal appen dages, and tbe woman who has the smallest uose is esteemed the most charming, but to outside barbarians she is a perfect fright. The women of Spiti, India, wear tunics, and trousers of woolen stuff, with large boots, partly of leather, partly of blanket, which come up to the knee, and which they are fond ot taking off at any time. In order to get greater warmth they often put a quantity of flour into these boots besides tlieir legs. Their taste in regard to ornaments luns much to all sorts of rings, including nose rings. A typical women in the interior of Afrioa is thus described: "Her naked negro skin was leathery, coarse and wrinkled; her fig ure was tottering and knock-kneed; her thin hair hung in greasy locks; on her wrists and ankles she had almost an ar fcenal of metal links of iron, brass and copper, strong enough to bind a prison er in his cell. About her neck were hanging chains of iron, strips ot leather, strings of wooden balls and heaven knows what lumber more." Lass graia and more grazing tend to a better development of frame and muscle than when corn is fed to hogs exclusively. Build the frame tns f , and lay cm the fat afterward. The fostal Card. No one denies that the postal oard is a great thing, and yet it makes most people mud to get one. This is be cause we naturally feel sensitive about having our correspondence open to the eye of the postmaster and postal clerk. Yet they do not read them. Postal em ployes hate a postal card as oordially us any one else, if they were banished, and had nothing to read but a package of postal cart is or a foreign book of statistics, they would read the statis tics. This wild huDger for postal cards on the part ot postmasters is all a myth. When the writer doesn't oare who sees his message that knocks the curiosity out of those who handle those messages. A man who would read a postal card without being com pelled to by some stringent statute must be a little deranged. When you receive one you say: "Here is a message of so little importance that the writer didn't care who saw it. I ilont oare much for it myself. Then you look it over and lay it away and forget it. Do you think that the postmaster is going to wear out his young life in devouring literature that the sendee does not feel proud of when he receives it? Nay, uay. During our official experience we have been placed where we could have read postal cards time and again, and no one but the All-Seeing Eye would have detect ed, but we have con trolled ourself and closed our eyes to the written message, refusing to take advantage of the conttdeuce rcjiosed in ns by our Government and those who thus trusted us with their aeorets. All over our great land every moment of tiie day or night these little cards are being silently scattered, breathing lov ing words inscribed with hard lead pen cil, and sheddiug information upon sun dered hearts, they are as safe as though they had never been breathed. They are safer iu most instances lie cause they cannot be read by anybody in the whole world. That is why it irritates us to have some one open up a conversation by saying: "Yourememoer what tnat fel low wrote me from Cheyenne on that postal card of the twenty fifth, and how lie rounded me up for not sending him those goods?" Now, we can't keep all those things in our bead. It requires too much of a strain to do it cn the salary we receive. A man with a very large salary and a tenacious memory might aeep run of the postal correspon dence in a small office, but we cannot do it. We are not accustom to it, and it rattles and exiles us. llanK IturtfUry hi anArt. A writer from San Francisco says when tbe combination lock was invented it was thought that burglars could uo mere go a burglariz ng. In 1872 or 1873, however, ibis lond hope was found fallacious, when a Louisville bank was nearly "cleaued out of cash." TuiS adroit operation was fol lowed for a period of four years by a nuui ; er of robberies and attempted robber les which have been equaled. Tbe "gentlemen of the jimmy ' had the best of the combination lock, bome idea may be bad of the serious charKOter of this tact, when the reader reflects that during those years nearly three millions of money and bonds were stolen from various banking ius.ilutioas. These most skilful robberies were the work ot one gang of men, nor was the proof necessary to convict obtained until the famous Northampton robbery, in the winter of 1876, when four masked men took from the vault money and bonds of the face value of nearly one and a quarter million. I propose tc tell the story of two ot the exploits of this gang, wbtcn, although not altogether successful, will show; in part, tne amouut ot work required to break a bank, it may deter letnargic persons from adopting tbe profession, because it will be tound that even buigl&rs have to work for a living. Robert Scoti and Jimmy Dunlap were the brains of the combination, the former born in Warsaw, 111., and the other in Scotland. They were both "nervy," muscular, aud nobby. They lived in con siderable style and fared sumptuously every day. bcoit owned the celebrated trotting mare ixuox. lie, in company with the blonde-uioustacned Dun lap, created no end of a sensation one season at Long Branch being voted stunning good fellows by the men, wlme they attracted considerable attention among the ladies. Billy Conners, a Now xork "crook," was also a member of the syndicate. The Second National Bank of Elmira was selected for attack, it was decided to "work the bank" through the floor of the YouDg Men's Christian Assooiation room directly above the vault. But they were met at the outset by an unexpected difficulty—ihe door of the room was an iron one, and locked with a Hall lock. They did not understand its mechanism. One of the party entered the house of the secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association while he was asleep and searched his pockets to steal the keys long enough to get an impression in wax. The young man, however, had placed the keys under the carpet in his room, and the robbers were thus foiled. They were now "in a quandary," and were almost ready to give up, when Conners heard of a lock expert who was employed by one o! the great New York safe-makers. Considerable diplomacy was employed and some half a dozen interviews held before the expert consented to reveal the secrets of the iiaii lock for $50,000. Conners came back to ElmirA, and Duu lap, by some means, managed to hayo a letter sent to the New Y'ork safe men uiak iug inquiry in regard to their goods. As was expected,the expert was uespatcued to Elmira to "buz" the customer." He was careful to mike known his busine a. It was mentioned in an evening paper. Scott mserted a ball ot paper in the Hall lock,in const quence of which it was quite natural that the expert be summoned to repair the same. The expert took an impression of the key,and thai difficulty was surmounted. About this time a cerlaiu Mrs. Davis came to Elmira from Baltimore and rented a smalt house iu thfe suburbs. Hue represented iter husband as a commercial man, who was almost always on the road, it was a queer kind of housekeeping she kept. There was a full set of window cui tains to the house, a few blankets and a few culinary utensils. But she was very careful to sweep the pavement every day and hung out an occasional "washing." Here the "gang" spent their time, never going out in day time, and using every precaution against disoovery. Tbe reader will seo at once the value of this cover. These men, it must be lewembered, were suspected; some of them were known hank breakers. Had their presence been k >nwu iu Elmira a dszen of detectives would have been at their heels and all the banks would have been warned. By this plan, however, they were enabled to defy pursuit, for had a robbery been committed during their stay there, no one knew they were in the city. They were strangers to everybody; nobody ws£ familiar with their faces. In this house they lived nearly two months. Every night they wen: to the Y. M. C. A. room, unlocked the door and took up ihe flooring, which they were also careful to repiaoe before the inormug began to blush over the hills. There were not more tuau six men engaged in this work: one of the party was obliged to ••pipe" outside. 'A)h after ton of stone was carried up stairs in baskets and depos ited on the roof; they burrowed through five feet of solid masonry, and thence through a layer of heavy iron. A plate of steel, nearly two inches in thickness, was the last barrier between them and the coveted wealth. They were at work upon this. The president ot the bank, Mr. H. C Pratt, had occasion to enter the vault one night, and observed a quantity of plaster dust upon the floor. The president suspected and buuted up an officer; but the midnight masons took the hint and es caped. Stanley and Uruit. Brazza, the Afrioan explores, the other night heaped coals of fire upon Siauley'a head. But he did not operate in a meek, Christian spirit. He is an Italian and has a very remarkable head. To the front view of his face Euehd's definition of a liue (length Without breadth) is applicable. There are, how ever, a pair of gleaming, intensely keen black eyes, the ironical expression of which musfhave been galling to Stan ley. As to the profile, it is made up of violent curves. The forehead is bumpy and strongly modeled. A very high bridged nose (higher than the Duke of VV eilmgton's, but not so abruptly out lined) dips at tbe end in a rounded pout, so far down as to be almost hori zontal with the mouth. The chin ad vances in another strong curve. Braz za's head is Florentine. Iu Leonardo's picture of "The Last Supper" there is such a head, and it is upon the shoulders oi one who betrayed with a kiss. Judas baa not, however, gleam ing eyes aud an expression of scorching irony. Br&zza managed not to look scornful when singeing Stanley's head, it is said that he was eavesdropping while bis hated rival was expressing contempt for Mm and the French flag, which he appraised, in the diction of a New York dry goods store, at so much per square yard. Brazza's appearanoe at the close of the evening was a most effective and smoothly performed coup de theatre. His little speech was de livered trippingly, in a good voice and with telling emphasis. That "Let me shake hands with you before 1 hear what you have said of me"—it was as the lady saying to the gentleman who asked her in a railway tram if she ob jected to a cigar being lighted, "I really cannot answer one way or the other, as nobody ever yet smoked before me." Judged according to his tenacity,and en terprise, Stanley is a great man; but he is a poor writer. His speech, which he read with a closed mouth, was inter minable and without movement. Why he called Brazza a Florentine in mean iug to abuse him it is hard to nuder stand It is not disgraceful to be a oountryman of Dante. Man and animals. There can be no doubt that dogs associ ate with barking in certain tones special emotional states in tneir companions. In fact, it is probable that dogs can, in this way, communicate with each other a wide range of states of feeling. But these states are present states, not states past or future. They are their own states; not tne states of others. A dog can call his companions' aitention to a worn able cat, or he may have his attention roused by exclaiming "cat." But no dog could tell his compan ion of the successful "worry" he had just enjoyed, or suggest that they should go out tor a "worry" to-morrow morning. Aud here we come upon what seems to me the feet which raises man so immeasurably abeve the level of the brute. The brute has to be contented with the experience he inherits or individually acquires. Man, through a language, spoken or written, profits by the experience of his fellows. Even the most saVage tribe has traditions extending back to bis father's father (■si roai). And the civilized man—has he not in his libraries the recorded results of many centuries of ever-widening experi ence and ever-deepening thought? Thus it is tha. language has made us men. By means of language, aud language alone, has human thought become possible. This it is which has placed so enormous a gap between the mind of man and the mind ot the (log. Through language each human being becomes the inheritor of the accumu lated thought and experience of the whole nuinaa race. Turough language has the higher abstract thought become possible. Malinaison France. The sale of Malmaison to a land com pany for $90,000, or less than one-third of what tbe late Emporer Napoleon gave Queen Christina of Spain for it will re move another landmark in the history of the Bonapartes. Originally a hos pital, Malmaison was tbe dowry home of Josepuine to Beanharnais, and it was there that she died, thus being ful filled, aooording to Lord Holland, the prophecy made to her by a gipsy before she had made the acquaintance of Napo leon, that "she would be more than a queen and die in a hospital,'* After the death of Josephine, Malmaison be came in turn tbe property of a Swedish banker and of tbe ex-Queen Christina of Spain, while of late years it has be longed to to a financier, whose attempts to divide the property into eligible building sites was a failure. This finan cier has gone the way of so many cour tiers, and Malmaison is to be demolish ed to make room for a manufactory. —Wolfe was oonquerer of Quebec at irty-fcwo ch for BuiMluf. A trade journal has tbe following re garding papier-mache: It may claim to rival iron in the multiplicity of its in dustrial applications. In Europe it is employed to a considerable extent in hrcnitecture, from a complete church building in Bavaria (capable of seating 1,000 persons,) having columns, walls, altars, roof and spire of papier mache, to thefiuest traceries of a Gothic screen. Some of the most tasteful halls in Britain and on the continent are fin ished in it, in preference to 'wood. The mantels and the mirror frames they support, are of its composition; and, strange as it may seem, the very chan deliers, in their gilded elegance, are of this humble material, Its use in archi tecture can literally have no limit; for no onerto-day can say what may not be made of ft. In toys, tables, bijouterie of all kinds, we have examples of its ex tensive uses, and suggestions of its future applications. Papier maoUe never cracks, as wood, plaster, terra ootta. etc., will do. In the same ar ticles it can be- made, if required, far lighter than plaster, terra-oeita, metal ofi even wood. Neither heat nor cold affects it; it can be sawed, fitted, nail ed or screwed, quickly adjusted or re moved, gilded, painted, inarbleized or bronzed. It can be made light as cork, or heavy as stone; never discolors by rust, as with ron;is not affected by temperature or oxygen, as is eveu acino. It can be made for a given thickness stronger than any white or rare marbles, and is even tougher than slate, quite as hard, and will not chip corners nor crack off in strata. One of the great advantages of papier-mache is that it can be produced very cheaply. In architecture it can be supplied very nearly at plaster price, and, taking in to consideration the price of patting up, costs no more, and sometimes even less. This depends on the size of the orna • ment, the larger being tbe cheaper in proportion, it can be made to imitate the rarest marbles, as it takes a polish even superior to slate, and costs not half so ninoh as the preparation of plas ter Of Paris, known as soagliola, while it is infinitely stronger. Pedestals, col limns, newel-posts, vases, clocks, and multifarous other articles are made of it in elegant and durable forms. Possi bly, as a recent writer remarks, when the forests of the globe are regarded as curiosities, and the remaining groves are perservdd with the same care that has guarded historic trees, th 6 cast off rags of mankind, and the other wise useless weeds, reeds and grasses of the marsh and swamp, will take the place of timber in the construction, and many will welcome the change, if for nothing else than that it will obviate much of ths nuisance et frequent repaint: uga. Tlg*r Slaying; Extraordinary, In the early part of October in Java took place the announced clearance among the tigers belonging to His Highness tbe Sultan, in order to make room f>r a fresh supply when the new tigers pe s will be built. At abont 10 A. M. the Sultan, the Resident Military Commander, Assistant Resident and other spectators appeared behind the Kratou and seated themselves in a grand stand constructed for the pur pose. Thousands of Javanese flocked to the spot to see the combats. Soon H tignt between a royal tiger and a buf falo together in a pen was commenced, the tiger was several times tossed in to the air and then gored to death by the buffalo, which had been made as tnrious as possible by peppered water, burning nettles and red hot iron bars. This combat lasted fully two hours. Af terward began the rampokea or tiger light. On tne plain alongside the Kra ton stood Javanese, armed with stout spears fifteen to eighteen feet long, drawn up in rows, one behind the other, altogether an extraordinary large square. The two foremost rows lay kneeling, • the two hindmost stood erect. In the centre of this open space were thirteen straw-roofed, wooden pens, in each of which was a tiger. At a given signal a musical instrument called the game lan begins playing a martial air to a slow measure. The tiger-keepers then step out of the ranks and approach the cage. Two of them bear each a burn ing torch, with which they set fire to the straw. The tiger, frightened by the shower of sparks, is then foroed out into the open space, but knows not whither to turn. It runs around and seeks whether it can find an outlet, until it endeavors either by a desperate spring to get away over tfio human wall wliicu keeps it inclosed or tries to creep through underneath. But it falls pierc ed by the many spears which have strnoK it. It utters a savage cry, which is dr wned by the applause and shouts of the multitude. In silont agony it strikes around furiously with its mighty paws. The shafts of the spears olten break like glasi.. In such cases a single blow might cost the life of any unior - tunate within reach of its olaws. It is afterward killed m due form. Tibs soene took plaoe in the same way thirteen times successively with as many tigers, the festivity closing at 2 P. M, Only a few accidents occurred. One soldier by ill luck received a spear thrust when combating with a tiger, and was severely wounded in the leg, A native received a bite when one of the tigers broke througn tne square and was killed out side it, after causing great oommotiou among the spectators. Wmglit of MU una Women. Far the purpose of ascertaining the ave rage weight ot men and women living in that section of the country of which Cin cinnati is the centre, a thorough test was made during the recent industrial exhibi tion in that oity, 22,155 " adults weri weighed, of whom 7,497 were uien an-1 14 68S were women. The average weight for the former was found to tie 154.02 pounds, and for the latter 180 87 pounds. A similar record ot the weights of 20,0 )0 men and women was made in Boston in 1864, by which It appeared that in that latitude the average weight of a man was T4l.fi pounds, and of a woman 124.fi pounds NO. 51.