VOL. LVII.
BARTER,
AUCTIONEER,
MILLHKIM, Pa.
J 0. SPRINGER,
t' *
Fashionable Barber.
Next Door to Journal Store,
Mii.LHKin, Pa.
I) ROCKERHOFF HOUSE,
>
Allegheny street,
B KLLKFONTE, - - - PA
C G. McMILLEN,
PROPRIETOR.
Good Sample Room on First Floor.
*j-Fre Bnw to and from a'l Trains. Special
ntes to witnesses and juror*. 4-1
IRVIN HOUSE.
(Most Central Hotel In the City,)
Corner MAIN and JAY Streets, r
Lock Haven, Pa.
S. WOODS CALWtfLL, Proprietor.
Good Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers on first floor.
D. H. MINGLE,
Physician and Snrgeon,
MAIN Street, Millhkim. Pa.
Practical Dentist,
L iff e iu 2d story of Toiu-linsoa'i Gro
cery Store,
On MAIN Street, Millhkim, Pa.
3R HISTFH,
• FASHIONABLE BOOT A SHOE MAKER
Shop ivesr J>>or to Foote'a Store, Main 3L,
M H>t*, Shoe* Gaiters nuale to order, and saf
hfactory work guarauteaO. Repairing done prompt
. and cheaply, and in a ueat style.
C. T. Alexander. C. M Bower.
A BOWER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BBLLEFONTB, PA.
Office !n Carman's aew bnlldlng.
OilN B. LINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTB, PA.
offloe on Allegheny Street.
QLEMEXT DALE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BKLLEPONTK, PA_
Northwest comer of Diamond,
HOY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEPONTE, PA.
Orphans Court business a Specialty.
C. HEINLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTB, PA.
Pnwttce* in all the court* of Centre County.
spec>al attention to Collections. Consultations
in German or English.
J. A. Beaver. J W. Geph&rt.
gEAVER <fc GEPHART,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEPONTB, PA.
Office on Alleghany Street, North of High.
Y°CUM & HARSHBERGER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BKLLEFONTE, PA.
S. KELLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BBLLEFONTB, PA,
Consultations In English or German. Offloe
in Lyon'. Building, Allegheny Street.
d h HAjmyos. vr. t7itmw£T~
ACTINGS & REEDEK,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
J# bellefontk, pa.
Office on Allegheny street, two doors east of the
offi e occupied by the firm oI Y~— 1 * Hast
iufct. <A-t?
A CONTEMPORARY asks: "How shall
women carry their purses to frustrate
the thieves ?" Why, carry them empty.
Nothing frustrates a thief more than to
snatch a woman's purse, alter following
her half a mile, and then find that it
contains nothing but a recipe for spiced
peaches and a faded photograph of her
grandmother.
fie piltluim Sintrmtl
hlkthdaym.
I *m content
To let the aihied years
That come to me
Roll back Into the past HO Flr
That memory
Can only flint sUon# the shore
Some perfect sheila, ami nothing more
1 aui content
That seaweed, blta of wreck
And pt'bblC* JfTHV,
Drift out ot sight mto the sea;
For them to stay
Would be to cherlah grief and pain
1 would not, must not feel a+rsin.
1 am content
That uone of life
Can ever be
Lived o'er with throb and thrill;
No more to me
Will former song, or txx>k, or toy.
Fill the new measure of my Joy.
1 aiu content
To live all of to-dav;
And when 1 dream
I.et fancy revel in the light
'1 hat hope hath seen
Beyond the present, and afar—
A steadfast, sweetly beck'nlng star.
I am content—
For age upon the heart
Can never creep;
And w lieu, at last. In stillest night
1 seem to sleep,
A birthday comes to me tn truth;
The gift It brings—immortal youth.
TWO HOMES.
There was trouble on a oertain morn
ing in two homes at opposite ends of
the city.
The homes were very different, and
so was the nature of the trouble; never
theless, tbe latter was felt with con
siderable the respecive in
habitants of botlu
The tirst of these dwellings was on
the sonth side of Meriou Square, a
goodly mansion, the abode of wealth
and luxury.
The lady to whom ail this belonged
sat disconsolate in the midst of her
rich r-urtuundings.
Books and embroidery were on the
dainty little flower-deckeu table at her
side, but they were untouched; aud a
restless, troubled expression was on her
face while she nervously clasped and
unclasped the jeweled hands lying idle
in her lap.
The door opened, and a footman an
nounced a visitor.
"Oh," she exclaimed, rising to greet
her, "you got my note."
"How kind of you to come I"
"[ am in such distress."
"And for what? ' asked the friend.
"Tell me ail about it."
"You remember my cousin Laura
Merrihew?"
"Of course."
"But no one has seen her for years."
"She has shut herself up in her
country-place ever since her husband
died; has she not?"
"Yes; she is still a prey to grief."
"Before they married, her husband
gave her, as her engagement ring, a
valuable jewel that bad been in his
family from time out of mind, and had
came to him for his mother."
"It was a diamond, a single stone of
great size and the purest water. '*
"Of course she valued it immensely,
as indeed she would have any gift of a
man to whom she was so devoted."
"Since his death this ring has been
simply estimable in her eyes the
earnest of happiness ruined so soon.
"Latterly, she has fancied that the
stone was becoming loose in the setting,
and spoke of sending the ring to me to
have it examined by a jeweler, but
could Dever make up her mind to part
with it, even for a few days.
"At last, however, the stone came out
of the setting."
"She sent it immediately to me, and"
—here the speaker broke down—"l
have lost it 1"
"You have lost the stone?"
"How very unfortunate !"
"No wonder you are so wretched."
"Tell me how it happened."
The lady told her story, pouring the
details of her misadventure into sympa
thetic ears.
The means that had been adopted for
the recovery of the Jost treasure were
discussed by the two ladies, and fresh
measures suggested.
At last the visitor departed, leaving
the owner of these gorgeous drawiug
rooins with an anxious and heavy heart
under her "silk attire."
The other home was in a different
quarter of the city.
It consisted of one room in a house
let out as tenements.
Tne house was habited by extremely
poor families, and situated in a dirty
and dark back street.
Lying outside the bed, partly dressed,
was a man—the wreck of a fine, stal
wart, broad-shouldered young fellow.
He was a day-laborer, and had lately
left the hospital after a long and heavy
fit of illness.
Two small children were playing
quitllj in u <xn.er; and the wife, her
apron thrown over her head, was sitting
beside the fireless grate, rocking her
self backwards and forwards, sobbing
bitterly.
"If I could get work, I wouldn't fret>
said the young woman.
We might struggle on, and keep the
life in us till such time as yon were on
your feet again.
"But I can't"
"It's a poor case to b© able and will
ing to work and not get it to do."
i "The of needlework Miss
MILIJIEIM. PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 25.1883.
West got for me, she's a good friend,
heaven bless her, was well paid for."
"She promised to try and get mo
more amongst her ladies."
"I'll go off u> her now, and see if she
has heard of anything."
"You'll he good, avourneeii, while
I'm away," said she, aisaing the two
half-starved mites in the corner.
"An' ye won't ery, or ilisturb the
ja.H>r sick daddy."
"I'll be back, Jim, my heart, in less
than no time."
Faith in Divine help and patieut en
durance of suffering are traits well
known to those whose experience lies
among the lower orders.
Poor Jim had a full share of both.
Nevertheless, when his wife had gone,
he broke down miserably.
"God help her!" he said, looking
after her retreating figure; "and God
forgive me for deceiving her, and mak
ing up stories about getting stroug and
well, when I know as sure as that I'm
lying stretched here, that the never
a stroke of work I'll do again iu this
world."
"My heart is weak from fasting, and
the longing and the craving are killing
me."
Meanwhile poor Mary was harrying
along through the streets with anxious
footsteps, speculating on the possibility
cf her friend having found any work
among her pupils.
Miss West was a music teacher.
Though but nineteen, she was the
main prop and stay of a widowed invalid
mother and young sis re ITS; earning by
her daily toil that which eked out the
pittance left ol better days, and made
by frugal contrivance the two emls
meet.
But none are so poor as not to l>e
able to help in some way those worse
off than themselves.
The young girl had pleaded success
fully for Maiy, aud had procured em
ployment that had beeu the ouly sup
port of the family during Jim's illness.
She waa going to bn akfust when her
protegee entered.
Ttie table was already spread, aud
she was just preparing to attack, with
the healthy appetite of youth, and the
knowledge that many busy hours would
pass before she would again see food;
a good slice of thick bread-and-butter.
The thick-ess, be it obseryed, wa H
referable to the bread only, the butler
spmni thereon leiug limited to an al
most imperceptible ' scrape."
"Ah, is that you, Mary?" said she
with ttie bright pleasant smile that
always seemed, Mary declared, to ' rise
her heart out of trouble."
"1 am afraid I nave uo orders for
yon this morning; but 1 hare got a new
pupil, and she tells me that there will
shortly be a wedding in the family.
"So there's a chance for you."
"Needlework may be required, and
I may have go*l news for you before
long. '
Foor M iry wrung her hands together
uuder her cloak, straining them hard iu
the agony of her disappointment that
she strove to keep down and hide from
her young benefactress.
Very bitter was the pang of deferred
hope; but she would not seem to be
ungrateful.
After a few words and a cup of tea
with a heavy heart Mary turned away,
retracing her steps along the passage..
Remembering something, however,
before reaching the hall door, she came
back, and reappeared in the room where
the little governess was tying her l>on
net-strings, prepariug to set out.
"I forgot this," she said.
"Sure, I'm losing my mind entirely
with the fret that's on it.
"God help rue! my burden is making
me foolish."
"Coming along this morning, I seen
this on the flags, and put it in my pocket,
thinking maybe if it was clean, one of
your little sisters might fancy it for her
curiosity-box.
"Let me wipe the mud off it for you,
Miss."
"It shines bright and beautiful now
—a bit of glass like."
A moment's scrutiny of the object
sparkling on the womans outstretched
palm, and Miss West cried ont:
"Give it to me quick, and wait,"
snatched it from her, Mary staring in
astonishment at her vehemence, and
rushed upstairs to her mother's room.
"What is it, dear?" said the sturtled
invalid as she dashed in.
"Whatever is the matter?"
"Oh, mother, look!"
"Can this bo what we saw advertised
for in the newspaper?"
"Is it possible poor Mary can be the
lucky finder?"
"I can scarcely believe it."
"Do look." .
The advertisement was as follows:
"#3OO REWARD, —Lost, a valuable
DIAMOND. "
[The description aud further particu
lars given.]
"Whoever finds it, or can give in
formation leading to its recoyery, will
receive the above reward by applying
at , Merriou {Square, {South."
Mrs. West at once pronounced what
was submitted to her experienced judg
ment, to be a diamond of great value,
and was strongly of opinion that it
mi&ht be the missing one.
But both mother and daughter agreed
it would be better not to tell Mary the
extent of her possible good fortune, for
fear of disappointment,
So on returning to her, tho young
lady only said:
"My mother thinks this may lie
something wo have seen advertised for
ill that square, HO I will go with you to
the house mentioned.'*
"Thar.k ye kindly, Miss."
"The footmen in them grand houses
wouldn't look at the o' mo."
"They'd just slam the door iu my face,
if I made so bold uh to ring."
As she tripped along, the young gov
eru6Bß*B heart beat high at the prospect
of what might be the happy result of
her errand.
No more slaving for poor Mary; good
food for Jim; an airy lodging at the sea
side, where he would toon reeover lus
strength; clothes and furniture redeem
ed from pawn; and after an interval of
lost and ease—sorely after their
sufferings—lier humble friends restor
ed to their old life of industry and com
fort.
it is needless to dwell upon what fol
lowed whin Miss West was shown up
into the drawing-room, and displayed
before tho enraptured eyes of its occu
pant the precious jewel whose loss had
caused her such tribulation.
As for poor Mary, it was somo time
before she could real ze her good for
tune, or take in the liewildering tidings
of the wealth that had RO providentially
come to her and them.
And Jim, what news for him!
There was healing in the very though
of such prosperity.
So it came to pass that in the two
homes, clouded so lately with trouble
and anxiety, peace of iiiud was restor
ed.
Heaviness hail entered for a niglil—a
long, weary night in one case—but joy
had oome to both in the morning.
LMSAOIDK A Wild Cat.
A writer thus describes the novel fun
of lassoing a wild cut: *'While talking
to my companion, Drake, who was on
lus horse and had his liumoon his saddle,
a tremendous wild cat* fully four feet
long, jumped up in of us and
started for the brush. But the rowels
were already in the flanks of Drake's
horse, and at break neck speed, the lar
iat curving • its graceful coil above his
head, went pursuer and pursued. When
within twenty-five feel of his catship,
the lariat was thrown, and, encircling
like the weird chain of a magician, laud,
e d the fatal noose around oudon's neck
Never was cat of any desersptiou in a
tiger embrace; horse at full run, the rope
fastened to the horn of the saddle, auJ
tbe game making unwilling jumps ol
twenty or thirty feet. This, however,
only lasted a few hundred feet, when
the cat, catohlugtlie rope with his teeth,
snapped it as if it were tow string.
Drake finding that his line was empty
and his hook gone (sa fishermau would
say) return to look &t the dead quad
ruped. Deadl He was not dead, but
sleeping. For with a yell an J two bounds
he cleared at last forty fe> t, and fasten
ing one set ot olaws iu Drake's leggins
and the other in the hip of the horse, he
seemed to insist on a ride and a dinner
at the same time. But for the presence
of mind of the rider and his luck in
having a three-pound loaded whip, with
which he broke the animal's skull, we
rather think the wild cat would have
been the best mounted quadruped in
the cattle regions of the West.
Tlie AH It I.
Nearly midway m L<ODdon strait, a nuge.
naked rock, which might fairly be calletl
an island, lilts itself above the waters,
breasting the conflicting cut rents caused by
the winds and tides. Between this rock
and the eaje on Muskong is the famous
Maelstrom, which fertile imaginations have
clotned with many terrors. Its geograph
ical position is such as to expose it to tierce
tidal currents, and, when they are assisted
by high westerly winds, they are, no doubt,
terrific. The bottom of the strait is strewn
w-th immense boulders, which are so ar
ranged as to give the current a spiral mo
tion, directed toward the isolated rock
from the northern side, which is much in
creased in times of high tides or storms,
when it whirls quite around the island
rock. Then it is that it becomes really
d fiicult for boats and vessels without
steam power to keep cleir of the rocks
against which the wayward currents would
dash them. While there are at times vast
and powerful eddies, whmh give objects
floating upon them a fearful spiral moiion,
there Is nothing liae a vortex produced by
a subterranean discharge of the water,
although the tumbling and boiling char
acter of the spiral currents may submerge
temporarily objects driftmg on the surface.
No doubt in the course of time the actioD
of the water has tended to leve down the
bed of rocks, some of which, we may
presume, showed themselves above the
surface. This inay have made the Mael
strom much more terrific than it is now,
and better justified the ancient fable. As
it is, in ordinary times and in favorable
weather, the fishermen do not hesitate to
seek for fares throughout these waters,
which to strangers are suggestive of the
most terrific dangers.
DRAPERY, as a means of modifying
the stiff aud cold appearance of the
entrance lia.ll, is not made as much use
of as it might l>®. Whenever it can be
employed either as a portiere over a
door or across an archway, as well as
lor hangings, for the staircase windows,
it will, if made of suitable material and
harmonising ia color with the walls and
woodwork, warm and lighten the hall
and give it a inueh more homelike and
hospitable aspect.
A Mouthful of^Pepppr#.
Four yonnj gentlemen were preparing
to enjoy h first class dinner recently, in
one of the bent known and most popu
lar up-towu restaurants of New York.
One of the party was a regular frequent
er of the diuing-saloon, a man of the
world, and a connoisseur in the gt>od
tliingH of the tuble. Two were oitv
men. The fourth waa a stranger from
the Ettst, but a man of the world, so far
as a knowledge of the world can be ob
tained 111 New England citieo. When
the party was seated the waiter brought
to the table, among other things,
an innocent-looking octagonal shaped
boitle filled with u bright red sauce.
Its very appearunce was appetising. It
appeared to bo a small bottle of tomato
cutsup. Oysters on the fialf-shell con
stituted the first course of the dinner,
The ' regular diuer" of the party
picked up tne innocent-looking bottle,
trilled affectionately with it a moment,
unscrewed a little cap which served as
a stopper, and sprinkled just a dash of
tlio tempting-looking condiment on the
the edge of the shells of las oysters.
Then he ate one of the Blue Points
with a relish that would seem to indi
cate supreme satisfaction with himself
and the world at large. Tho young
gentleman from New England witnessed
the operation from the corners of liis
eyes, and thought it would lie an emi
nently proper thing lor him to imitate
iho example His impres
sion wus that no was dealing with
tomato catsup. So the sauoe wus
sprinkled with a lavish hand, until the
oysters assumed the color of a boiled
lobster. The New Yorker, who was an
enthusiast on the subject of condiments,
watclied the proceedings with astonish
ment, and finally remarked:
"Oh, yta; of course J do," was the
answer of the representative of Boston
culture, w lio assumed such a look and
tone of injured innocence that further
interference or any explanation on the
part of the New Yorker would have been
wholly out of the place. The New-
Yorker simply turned to the waiter and
said;
"Bring me a glass of milk as quickly
as possible," and waited further devel
opments.
The New Englander moved one of his
oysters gently about iu its bath of sauce
until it was thoroughly coated, and
with a graceful movement of his fork
transferred it to his mouth. He took
u thoroughly energetic bite, and that
bite wa> the last he took for some min
utes. He didn't say anything. He
didn't have time. He swallowed his
oyster like a hero. Then he reached
tor liis water goblet, and drained from
it every drt p. Tears gathered in iiis
eyes. There was anguish clearly de
picted 111 every lineament of his faos,
sud he looked toward his fri-nd as
1 hough he would murder luui, The
New Yorker quietly remarked:
"Diink tins glass of milk that I or
dered ; it will relieve you at once. I
had it brought beeauso 1 thought you
had mistaken the character of that sauce,
though some people can eat it in that
way. It's a splendid coudiment, a
good appetizer, and a line aid to diges •
Uou.''
"Sauce! condiment,! Aid to diges
tion 1" exclaimed the New Englauder,
a* tor he had obtained so much relief
from his draught ol milk as enabled him
to s|>eak. "JDoes Beecber ever dine
here? Hus he ever tasted that 'sauce,'
and doee Lie still believe there is no Lieh?
Holy Mososl what is it?" And at the
close oi his series of exclamations and
interrogations ho wiped the tears from
his eyes and cheeks, drank another
goblet of water, and gave other evi
dences of huving obtained a fresh hold
ou life. The theological questions
were n<t answered, but tbe verdant
young New Englauder was informed
that the "appetizing condiment' with
which he had rashly made so intimate
an accpiaintunOe was Tabasco sauce, a
highly relished by epicures, and said to
be one of the finest ever made.
"riuuee! why, it's nothing but liquid
red pepper, done up so seductively as
to make a man think it's ton ato catsup."
"You're mistaken, my friend, it's
better than capsicum. It's simply the
pulp of tbe ripe pepper extracted by
pressure, and contains the flavor,
strength, color, and arum a of the fruit.
After you've used it a time, aud in mod
eration, you'll like it.
Oriiuife Culture in Souihri n California*
The orange-tree grows all the tima
That is to be thought of. It calls for
the frequent cares which are its due as
well in winter as iu summer. Not a
few persons of the invalid class who
had looked iq>on its culture as a mere
pastime haye been broken down
through this cause, and liaviug taken
up more laud than they could manage.
The lesson of such cases is not to at
tempt too much, but to keep to the five
or ten acres perhaps within one's per
sonal cap;icity. Nor his it been politic
to put everything into the single crop
of oranges. The smaller fruits, peach
es, plums, and especially apprieota, for
canning, which come into bearing
quickly, are useful in tiding over tbe
rather'tedious period of waiting for the
orange-trees to mature, and are always
in profitable demand, To start exist
ence comfortably here the new-comer
should have a capital of from five to ten
thousand dollars. Peculiar energy, of
course, will do with less.
It requires about nine years to bring
an orangt-tree from the seed to a full
bearing. On the other hand, it is found
that by deitiy inserting an orange bud
into a smalt shoot ot lemon-tiee slitted
in an X shape, and setting this m the
ground, a tree can bo obtained winch
oears marketable fruit utter the second
year. The controversy rages as to
whether it is worth while to do this,
since the product is but a dwarf, like
the dwarf pear-tree; and though it
yields early it can nevor yield much,
and its truit does not stand shipment as
well as that of the seedling. Against
this it is maintained that it lives longer
than the seedling, yields choicer varie
ties of fruit, more uniform in size and
quality, and not subject to the singular
form oi destruction which sometimes
overtakes the seedling, that of being
clashed against its own thorns.
The Larded Undue.
It appears that young Butler was
much enamored of a pretty girl who
lived ou a farm about six miles from
that of the Butler family in the west
ern part of Massachusetts. The country
beauty was a coquette, however, and
kept quite a large train of admirers in
suspense, each rival doing his best to
gain the advantage of the others. At
lust matters were brought to a climax,
and the damsel appointed a certain night
when she would render her final deci
sion as to which suitor she preferred.
It goes without saying that they were
all better-looking than Ben, but the
latter determined to put the inside of
his head against the outside of those of
his opponent*. r l he nearest way to the
fair flirt's house, and the one taken by
all lier eager followers, was over a
bridge formed by a single and some
what slippery log placed across a deep
brook 111 the rear of the house. Young
Butler repaired to this bridge an hour
earlier tnan the accustomed " courtiu'
time," carrying a pail of lard with which
he carefully auuointed the log by the
mellow moot.light, backing himself
across it astraddle.
As he afterward sat with his sweet
heart, watiug for the other suitors to
appear, a loud splash came from the
direction of tne brook. Ben's eye t wink-
It d, and in imagination be could see
one of his gorgeously gotten-up tellow
candidates climbing np the opposite
bank with his teeth chattel iug and head
ing for home across lota ; but the con
spirator looked as innocent as a cat in
tne dairy and said nothing.
Pretty soon there came another souse,
and after awhile another. The beauty
began to look at the clock and show
evidences of decided pique at the negli
gence of her other admirers—a circum
stance Ben did not fail to turn to Lis
own protit.
Presently he could faintly hear voices
in the distance, and he knew that the
last two, swains were approaching to
gether Pretty soon came a tremendous
double splasL.
"Dear me," said the young lady,
" how the tish are jumping to-night 1"
The upshot of it was that when the
future governor rose to go the slighted
beauty gave liiin her hand, beaiiug
the bargain with an old-fashioned husk
mg-beo kiss, Butler left his prize 111
such a state of exultatiou that he for
got all about the greased log, and the
tirat tlnm? Le knew both heels hit him
in the back of his head and he took a
header down below, just as his victims
had done. He climbed up the already
well-clawed bank and made six miles to
home, uttering Keameyisms untit for
publication. He was taken with chills
and lever as a result, and when ho got
well, found his tlancec had eloped with
a hired man. Butler klia tins as the
narrowest escape of his life, as he says
tiie gnl began eating onions the very
next day alter she became engaged.
Dolia Worth Many Dollar*.
Said a dealer in dolls in New York,
to a reporter. "The value of the last
lew weeks' importation may be pat at
$600,000. Turee hundred thousand dol
lars' worth are now in the retail shops
to lie sold to private customers for holi
day presents to children. The rest will
be purchased from the wholasale shops
by out-of-town dealers. Why. a ready
made doll's costnme of ordinary ele
guuoe is worth SSO, and such costumes
are made for spring, summer, winter
and autumn, as a doll could not reasona
bly be expected to wear the same clothes
the year rouud. The banner dolt m
this shop is valued at $95. Her dress
and jewels are very rich and elaborate."
"fcjhow me an economical doll."
"Certainly," said she ; "here is one
in white satin, wi'h a white satin cape
trimmed with swan's down, poke bon
net ditto, silk stockings and kid slppers.
It is SSO. Here is an aesthetic dob IU
old gold plaid plush sacque, with a blue
satin dress and red satin bonnet with
ostrich tips ; a mere matter of $15."
Tne reporter gasped and turning to
the suoerintendent of the department,
"i>o these dolls go oat of the stock
alone ?"
"No," said he ; "they require elegant
fcros: ocau box* a of toilet articles, trunks,
bandboxes, &o. A tolerable wardrobe
includes two extra dresses—one ot fauey
satin, the other of white satin ; a full
line of underwear ; lace caps, fashiona
ble hats, necklaces, ear-rings, brooches
and a basket of flowers. Some ward
rones are arranged in handsome boxes;
others l • trunks, ready for starting. A
lair ward rob a costs sl2 ; some are $9,
while a i.iniiod wurarooe for a very
young doll is only 9$ oents."
A miniature bedstead with a brocade
velvet spread aud cardinal satin cushion
costs $9. More luxurious couches for
dolls cost $lO. Cuniiuig rustic chairs
are $0 and $4. Bronze high chairs, se
cured iu a maunor to prevent very active
dolls irow jumping or falling out of
tliem, are $b and $lO apiece. Lace
cur taihed cradles for dolls which have
uot yet been weaned, may be had for $9.
Nothing But A Boil.
Now that Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks
lias really recovered from his attack of
so-called "senile gangrene," a story has
come out which is decidedly at the ex
pense of his physicians. On the very
day, the tale runs, to which the medical
pkropliets in attendance had limited his
life, a blunt old granger—also a doctor
alter a fashion—called to pay him a fare
well visit. After a pathetic interview
the country practitioner thought he
would take a look at the " gangrene"
which was about to terminate his iilus
rious friend's life. He did so; stared
at it open-mouthed for a moment; aud
then with a derisive grant and an
indignant, thumping oath, roared out:
"Nothing but a boil! 'Surely enough,
Mr. Hendericks was very oon rushing
along the high road to recovery, and
the able physicians who attended him
are keeping moderately quiet.
Char ins Against in* r.vtl Eft.
The supposed liability of the innocent
multitude to the malevolence of the evil
eye caused the superstitious to hare
recourse to many charms, incantations,
and ceremonies to avert ill-oonsequenoes
and render the poisoned glance innocu
ous; among which, as just recorded,
prayer and the use of saliva were con
spicuous. The wearing of oorsl
brooches, beads, and earrings is still a
opular charm in Naples against tiie
til eye, "In Scotland," says Mr.
raham Dalzeli, in his addenda, "a
thread tied about a child's neck, or
rowan cross, (cross of mountain ash),
i : . believed to be equally efficacious
in preventing the influence of evil spir
its, evil eyes, aud other calamities."
In the Middle Ages an amulet, of a
lozenge shape, marked with the mystic
letters A. B. R. A. C. A. D. A. B. R. A.
was worn in the bosom as a certain
specific. A cross formed of the wool
of (he elder tree, affixed to cow-houses
and stables, was supposed to protect
the cattle from all possible barm. A
branch of the rowan tree was also in
great favor, and to hold up but a branch
or a twig in the presence of an eye-biter
was sufficient to render her deadliest
wishes of no avail. A four-leaved
shamrock, which is excessively rare,
and all the more highly prized for that
reason, was a sovereign antidote. In
Pooock'a travels in the east be says
that the Arabs of Egypt threw salt into
the fire as a charm against the effect*
of an evil eye, or before loading their
camels for a journey through the desert,
concluding, as the blue flame arises,
-hat tvery evil genius is banished,
the ejection of saliva was also consid
red a charm of peculiar efficacy.
I'liny speaks of it as a certain antidote
o "fascination," as well as a preserva
tive from contagion, and in pugilistic
encounter as certain to aggravate the
violence of a blow. "At the present
day, as of old," says Mr. Dalzeli, "a
Greek mother, as if commemorating
the words of Theocritus and Tibullus,
spits in lier bosom to repel fascinating
glances directed toward herself, and,
dreading the gaze of the sterile on her
child, spits in its face." But the most
common of all the charms in use against
the eyil eye is that very vulgar gesture
of applying the thumb to the noose,
stretching out the lingers, and "twid
dling" them with a rapid motion for a
few seconds, commonly practiced by
London street boys, without the slight
eat knowledge of its origin or meaning,
and known in slang parlance as "taking
a sight." The Slang Dictionary says
that "to take a sight" is a vulgar notion
employed by boys to denote incredu
lity or contempt for authority; but the
real moaning in ancient times, forgotten
and wholly unsuspected in our own,
was to show contempt aud defiance of
the machinations of witchcraft, and to
render the evil eye powerless. This is
the action that so offends the good
ie a lured Pio Nono, not for itself, but as
a manifestation of the public opinion,
that he possesses, independently of his
will, a power that he would be the last
to exercise designedly. This vulgar
sign, modern as it looks, is as old as
Egyptian civilization, and was known,
as tracings upon the unearthed walls ot
Pompeii and Herculaneum abundantly
prove, to the street boys and other VUi •
gar inhabitants of those ancient cities.
uyemx Leatliur,
In the glove trade the leather has
hitherto always beeu dyed by brushing
on the dyes by hand. The defects of
this method are : its slowness, the oc
currence of large, soiled edges on the
tleshy side, and, notwithstanding eyery
care being taking, the uneven ch araoter
of the dye produced. To avoid these,
Joseph Kris ten, of llrunn, has a pro
cess in which even dyeing is obtained
by the application of centrifugal force.
The skin to be dyed is fixed on the cen
ter of a horizontally rotating disk ; the
oolor is also fed on to the center, and by
the rapid revolution of the disk, is
spread equally over the whole surfaoe.
Tiie oolor is forced on tc the disk by
means of a pump, or it merely flows
from a reservoir standing at a high level.
The exoess of color driven off at the
edges of the revolving disk is collected
and used over again, until the skin is
fully dyed. To dye one skin by this
method takes from ten to fifteen minute.
A single color pump may serve for at
least five machines, whicli would re
quire only one attendant, so that, by
tue above arrangement, one man oould,
in twelve hours, easily dye 150 skin*,
possessing great evenness of dye ana
free from spotting.
A Mine's Mistake.
Ex-Congressman Bill fcilemmons tells of
a pair of feel tliat mast have been objects
ot great regard in their day. One aay a
party of men, includiug Jacfcson, the man
of big feet, were preparing to attend a po
litical barbecue. It was soon discovered
that there was ao way of conveying Jack
son, as all the vehicles were full.
"Let me ride that mule over there,"
asked Jackson.
4 There is'ut a man m the world that
can ride that animal. He'll work to a
buggy or plow, but no man can stay on
his back."
"I'll try him, anyway."
And the determined man instructed sev
eral negroes to catch the mule and hold
hira The animal plunged andkicked, but
finally Jackson secured a seat in the sad
dle. Every one expected to see turn dash
ed against the ground; but the mule lock
ed around, saw the man'i feet, and walked
peacefully away.
He thought he was between a pair of
shafts.
NO. 4.