VOL. LVII. HARTER, AUCTIONEER, MILLITEIM, PA. J C. SPRINGER, Fashionable Barber, Next Door to Journal Store, MILLHF.IH, PA. JJROCKERHOFF HOUSE, ALLEGHENY STREET, BKLLKFONTE, - - - PA. c. O. McMILLEN* PROPRIETOR. Good Sample Room on First Floor. la-Fire Bans to and from all Trains. Special rates to witnesses and Juror*. 4-1 IRVIN HOUSE. (Most Central Hotel In ttie City,) Corner MAIN and JAY Streets, Lock Haven, Pa. S. WOODS CALWELL, Proprietor. Good Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers on first floor. JQR. D. H. MINGLE, Physician and Surgeon, MAIN Street, Millhkiii, Pa. JOHN F. HARTER, PRACTICAL DENTIST, Office iu 2d story ot Touriinsoa'i Gro cery Store, On MAIN Street, Mili.hkiii, Pa. BF KIKTFK. • FASHIONABLE BOOT A SHOE MAKER Shop next door to Foote's Store, Main 3L, Boots, Shoes and Gaiters made to order, and sat isfactory work guaranteed. Repairing done prompt ly and cheaply, and in a neat style. C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower. A BOWER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Offlce in G&rm&n's new building. JOHN B. LINN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. omce on Allegheny Street. OLEMEXT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Northwest corner of Diamond, HOY, ATTORNEY AT I.A W. BELLE FONT E, PA. Orphanß Court business a Specialty. C. HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Practices In all the courts of Centre County. Special attention to Collection* consultations in German or English. J. A. Bearer J W. Gepbarc Reaver & gephart, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTK, PA. Offlce on Alleghany Street, North of High. Y° cum & HARSHBERGER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. ______ __ ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA, Consultations In English or German. Ofllce in Lyonc Building, Allegheny Street. D. H. HABTCNdi W. r.RIXDIS JJ ACTINGS & REEDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, • BELLEFONTE, PA. • Offlce on Allegheny street, two doors east of the offlee occupied by the late firm of y * Haat lUfcA <UU? Chicory will hardly be longer made to serve as a substitute for coffee, if it is true that, as a European technical journal as set Is, it can be male to give an alcohol of a pleasant aromatic taste and great purity An adulterant of higher value than the substance it is destined to simulate is nev er introduced, and tor very obvious rea sons SWEET EVKNINUT COME AND tD. sweat evenings come and go, love. They came ami wont of yore; This eveniUK of our life, love, Snail go ami come no more. When we have passed away, love, All things will keep their name ; Kui yet no life on earth, love. With ours will he the same. The daisies will le there, love. The stars in heaven will shine; 1 shall not feel thy wish, love, Nor thou my hand tu thine. A better time will come, love. And better souls be boru; I would not bo the be*t, love. To leave thee uovv forlorn. <M >r KNI D KI.OPK>i KM'. I had loved Bella for more than a year. When I s.iy that 1 was over twenty-five, my readers of the sterner sex will, J am sure, bo impressed by my constancy. Bella had money. Not that this had, of course, anything to do with my t xtra ordiuary devotion, but it served lor a time to bo the hairier to our happiness. 1 first met and fell a victim to Bella's charms when her mother was alive. Her father had then be-.n dead several years. The old lady took to me. I have a knack of getting on with old ladies. This is a very useful gift when tlicy are well oil, and are the mothers of lovely daugh ter's. 1 advise all young men to culti vate it. The main point is always to be more attentive to the mother thau to the daughter. It is also well to throw iu i ceasional remarks about the appar ent degeneracy of the age, and allude to the superior constitutions and charac ters of the preceding generation. All was working smoothly for Bella and me, when cruel fate, in the shape of a drunken car-diiver, crushed the mother under its Jugger-nautian wheels. We prosecuted the driver, and an intelli gent jury, largely influenced by the wealth of the car company, decided that pedestrians have no rights which car drivers are bound to respect. It turned out, by lnr lather's will, Bella in the event of her mother's death, wus, until her twenty-first year, to be placed uuder the guardianship of an uncle, who was a farmer m Vermont. This same uncle was an admirable specimen of the typical \ crmonter. He Oould freeze to a ctiauce of making a dollar harder than a lobster's claw to a small boy's investigating linger, lie had two great hulking sons, anil deter mined that Bella should marry one or the other, indeed iio believed lie was acting most kindiy in giving her a eiioioe instead of insisting on her taking thefiist-born. When old Green found out that 1 had come into the neighbor hood und was hanging about the premi sea, he sternly wurued me oil, and even hinted at the fierceness and number of the dogs which populated his yard at night. I took ins word for the dogs it was about the only thing 1 would have taken it lor. Bella was virtually a prisoner. The old 'tarm house was three stories high— a very unusual thing in that part ol the country —and she was locked in at night ui her room on the top floor. With great uiffieulty 1 managed to get one or two letters to her ; but so closely was she watched aud guarded during the uay that speech w\th her was im possible. 1 was iu despair. There was yet a year to rim before she could claim release lrom this guardianship, Was j there no means of escape possible ? While 1 was pondering over this question in the litile hotel where I had now been staying lor some weeks, I heard a strange voice addressed to the proprietor in loud tones, und distinctly neard the words "portable lire escape." Instantly an inspiration dashed through my mind. 1 joined the party, and in doing so, heard these words : "it's just the simplest thing in tne world. A two-year-old babe couldn't hurt itself. "No, sir, it 'ud Lke to have •ne tora playtning, and 'ud umuse itseil all day huiiiing itself to the top ot tue house and lettiii' itself dowu again. They're so ligut and easy, that wieii 1 oiks don't wuncebeajas 1 often sells them as baby-jumpers. Jest try one ; it's only SI 53. Make it lor you as an advertisement, seem' jou keeps u hotel and you d ought to have one for the pro tection ol your guests." "Gue<-s not. My place is only two stories high ; and it we have a fire, they can jump out or burn, just as they may please." Aud the eaielui hotel-keeper strolled off. "What nave you there, my friend ?" 1 asked of the stranger, "A portable fire-escape. Simplest thing in tho world. But 1 was fooled to come to this section, anyhow. There isn't a house high enough lor a muu to hurt himself much il he rolled oil the roof, and a Vermonter 'ud sooucr take chances on his lite tnan spend a dime, any day." , "I'll tell you how you can sell one escape lor S2O aud no trouble either," "¥ou will 1 I'm your oyster." I uuioiued my plot, and found a sym pathetic listener. He wastogo up to Bella's uncle's house and try to sell au escape. Of course, we knew that would be perfectly hopeless, bo, alter being rebuffed, he was to insist on leaving one on trial lor a week or two, till he came around again. He was also to try to smuggle a letter to Bella, explaining she was at night to get possession of the escape, attach it to her bedstead, and slide down into my waiting arms, which would be waiting as near as the dogs would let them. On the night she was ready, sho was lo signal in a j ceitain way with a candle at tne window. Ihe peddler staited off and soon re turned, having bi en successful in get ting a letter to Bella, and baring given an exhibition of liow to use the eseape. For several nights 1 waited in vain lor the signal, but at just It <vas shown, i did not hear the dogs about, and I gent ly crept, nearly under the window. It was opened. "Aie you there, Bella ?'* I whispered. "*e. ' "You re not afraid, dear I" "Mot very. I've ued the end around the bedstead, and I don't think I can MILLHEIM. PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1.1883. ,*-lip out of tho loops, nave you abuguy waiting ?" j "Yes, dear, at the Hist turu ot the ; road." i "Very well. I atu c°bg to try now. Oh !" She had Lunched herself off from the side and was descending beautifully. ' "Don't come too fust, dear. Use Hie | check rope if you fv el vett are coming 1 too quickly." I She had got to the second tloor, when there was an unaccountable stoppage. "What's tho matter ?" I eriad. "It won't move." "Shake the rope." "I have." "Loosen the check.' j "It is quite loose." "Try to pull up a bit." "I can't ; I'm stuck fast." "Let lite shake the rope." "Try. Oh !Oh ! It's uo use ;it won't move." "Can't you slip out of the loop and | slide down the rope? I'll catch you." "No, 1 cauuot. I'm setting in them and can't get out. Ob, what's to be done r" "I'll try to climb up and sec." Bella sat dangliugiu the air, like Mo , ltaiumod's collin, between heaven and earth. 1 tried to climb, but the rope was not half an inch thick, and I slipped hack. Then came the tragic sequel. There was art sh of something behind me, und a bulldog seized me in that part which had been nearest to him as lie approached. 1 have heard of sol diers riddled with bullets, or almost cut and thrust to pieces by swords and bayonets who have still advanced tqron the enemy. 1 don't think they could have done it with a bulldog hanging rearward. If any one of my male readers doubts this aspersion ot man's coinage, let him get an augrv bulldog and try. Other dogs began to give tongue. Bella f-creamed. Lights were seen moving in the house. "Go!" she orient "They will till you if they tiud you." "But I cannot leave you, Bel'a." 1 was leaving her in small sections down the dog's throat, and I felt 1 must run away. • Go ; save yourself 1" By a convulsive effort I shook oiT the dog, a considerable portion of my trousers and a couple of good inoutli tuls of my anatomy, and bounded over a fence und up a tree. From there I watched triumphant Yerinoneters haul Belli, into a second story window. Then they came out, and with much crying aud swearing began to look for me. 1 am happy to say they were unsuccess ful. About two hours afterward 1 ven tured to limp home. Bella never tried to elope again. She remained proof against all tho argu ments oi her uncle and the charms of the Green Mountain boys, and when she became really her own mistress she became mine legally too. Never saw that lire-tscape man again. Perhaps it was better for him I didn't, lie never culled for his machine. Pos sibly he heard something oi the story m his travels. I don't know as there us any moral to this tale, except never to use a rope tire-escape for an elopement. There must have been something prophetic in the instinct ol the author of the old song, when he wrote : When a lady elopes Down a ladder of ropes, siie may go to llong Kong for me. 4>nen of Uie T*nk. Bating, sleeping and sewing beneath the waters are among the accomplish men's of' the New lork aquarian diver who calls herself "The Water When asked if it required much time to acquire her art, she said, "about three weeks." •'How much dul you weigh when you began tirst?" she was asked. ''Between 145 and 160 pounds." "Did the water reduce your weight?" "Very little. It simply tiuhtened the muscles." "Did it came any change in your relish for food?'* "On the contrary, it increased my appe tite." "What was your first experience?" "The first plunge made me very sick." "How long have you been practicing the tank act?" "I commenced five years ago last Aug ust." "What is the longest time you ever re mained under water?" "Three minutes, forty-five secouds, with 160 pounds pressure to the square inch on the chest On one occasion it took me one minute and twenty-five seconds to do the sewing act as they call it." "You once trod the tanbark?" "Yes, I followed Mine. Anderson. I did noi have one day's training, but 1 made up my mind to do it, and 1 did., 1 accom plished the feat of walking 1,200 half miles during so many half hours." "What effect has lank diviDg on your ears and eyes?" "Only a little on my eyes. Sometimes there are specks in the tank. When the water is clear 1 can see a foot from me, but 1 cannot discern faces. 1 cau see per sons crossing the stage, but there is a sort of blue mist across my eyes, so that I can not tell who they arc." "While remaining so long in the water did you not feel a sort of inclination to re main there?" "No, J am obliged to come up, for 1 feel as though my head would burst. But 1 waut to tell you a good joke. 1 went to Boston once, and after performing there we thought it best to change the water iu the tank. My husband got some barrels somewhere and had them filled with water As soon as 1 got into the tank 1 detected the smell of whisky, but thinking that I was mistaken 1 kept in until I got drunk. 1 afterward discovered that the water wus carried in whisky barrels, which poaked through the pores of my skin, so that 1 had to be rolled out. —Senator Edmunds has endowed a room in the Mary Fletcher Hospital, in Burlington, in memory of his daughter, Miss Julha M. Edmunds, who recently died. The endowment, ssobo, provides for the support and care of one free patient, ana its first beneficiary has al ready been received. Tl lllml'Mf ' ■■■ ' y - In the remote village of Older Dohec, in tho district of Bauhur ill, there are to be seen two small tombs oil the bank of a small lake, containing the holy ashes of a young lady who burnt herself alive on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband. The name t f the hu-buiul of the lady was Brut in maud Gossuin, and he died of fever iu the morning. She wept not, but sat by the dead lwidy of her husband. How wo wished that she could give vent to her feelings, aLd relieve herself. But no, hlio sat and uttered neither a sigh nor a groan. At last she rose and p-Decoded straight way towards the Tkctkoor Jiarcc to the image of the god Krishna There she went, followed by many men and wom en, and prostrated herself before the the god. Then she stood, and began to divest htrseJl" of the ornamouts that alio had on her person. A)uo by one she took them and placed theui at tho foot of tho god, for the first time speaking: "Here, my lord, take them, I need them uo longer." Aud thefi she slowly came back to where the body of her husband was lying covered. She then addressed her brother-in-law, and sho said; "Pre pare for the ceremony of cremation, aud you know I can't,live without him. I must accompany hiin." Though her relations, li muds and neigubors had all suspected that something serious was impending, the first announcement was received with a shock which could not be described. Then follow ed dissuasions, and her trends, relations and neighbors all begau to dissuade her to no purpose. The uucle*in-law, the mother-in-law, whom a Hindoo lady is bound to revere next to her God, commanded, and then earnestly pleaded to her to forbear, but she was not to be moved. Then cane the gnroo, the purohit, whom, as her spiritual guides, sho was bound to obey. They tried their best, but she was de termined. Time roiled ou, and she wayored not for a moment. Then the last device was resorted to. Her fears were appealed to; they described to her the horrible and paiutul sufferings ot a living man npou a funeral pile. At first she disdained to give replies to their appeals to her f*ars, but at last when obliged to say something she said: "You need uot be anxious; my soul has fled with my lord. As for tardily sufferings, I shall show you that I need uot apprehend them." There was a lamp burning, uuder the usuul custom, by the corpse, and she put one of ner fingers upon the slow fire of the lamp and burnt it without hviuciug. Crowds had then collected lrom ail parte of the country. It was then about ip, ML, and tho corpse was carried to tho tunning ghat on tho bank of the small lake, only about a couple of hundred yards from the house, and the lady followed, followed by thousands of men chanting "iiairliole." The crowd then began to collect dry faggots, und heaps were gathered in a few mo ments. When the funeral pile was in process of being prepared, tho corpse was bathed, and the lady herself per formed her ablutions. Sho than put vermilion ou tier forehead and dressed herself in a now Soree (cloth for ladies) and then slowly entered the fum ral pile. Her hair was properly adjusted by her triemis, and they adorned her with garlands and wreaths of flowers. Tue crowd then with tearlul eyes begged of her blessings and some tokens Horn her to be kept in remembrance of tier t-elf sacritiee. She was supplied with cow ries, plantains, betel nut*, etc., and she began to throw handluls of them amongst the crowd. She then laid tier self by the corpse of her husband in the posture of warm embrace. She gave the order, and the pile was lighted in several places and there was at once a biasing fire. The Suttee raised her right baud aud began to utter tho name of Horee, turning her hand round and round. She was dead before the fire had reached her sacred person. Thus a Hindoo widow ended lur life on (he funeral pyre of her husband. Her Husband was dead and the world appeared to her a dreary waste. She was determined to follow her lord to the unknown world, uudeterred by tho sol icitations of her friends and relations ana the temptations of worldly pleasures. Her fears w ere appealed to, but in vain. Sho felt she" could not live a moment without her lord; she must accompany him, and under the iuiluence of this overwhelming impulse bhe entered the flames w.thout the least display of fear aud with an alacrity which surpasses all description. We ask, who can con template this spirit-stirring scene, this wonderous spectacle, without feeling a sort of veneration for the lady who thus offered herself as a sacrifice ou the altar of couuubial duty? May her spirit rest ill peace, aud from its place in the heav ens shed light upon her surviving brothers and sisteis and upon her coun trymen, inspire them with courage m the accomplishment of their ends in life. Olrt JSOntP, The arcluaological treasures of Paris will shortly include a collection of old boots. It will be the most curious feature of the new aallc to Vie opened next month in connection with the Muaee de Cluuy, and promises to bo the most complete history in leather of the bootmaker's art that the world has yet seen. To the specimens already acquired by the museum have just been added two famous private collections— namely, those of AI. Jacquemart and the Baron Scliuter—together * with a number of boots once worn by Venetian courtiers, purchased 011 behalf of the French Govermeut in Italy a few days since. In the same room will be shown the ancient tapestries and articles of clothing formerly belonging to the Chateau de Boussac, which but for con venient French law would have passed into foreign hands. The -Commune of Boussac, being in want of money, was actually negotiating with German agents for the sale of these relics of the past, when the Government stepped in, claim ing the collection under the Historical Monuments law. The tapestnes are now being restored, and so cleverly will the weik be done that only the eye of an experienced arclneologist will be able to distinguish the new patches from the ancient fabii*. Ilxd MciVutrieq. j "When the old State Savings lnstitu i lion failed in August. 1877," said He ; ccivcr L. B. Otis, "the books of tLie bunk showed the names of 14,(UK) <lo positors, and of this number 11,212 : have drawn dividend. The remaining | '2,.188 are—no ono knows win re. The J face of their unclaimed deposits is $26,- ; 0(H) or $27,0(H), and all efforts to find 1 tlniu have proved unavailing. Many 1 of these accounts arc very small, and Borne ate only for interest, but in order to pay a final dividend it is necessary to know just how many claimants there are." "On July 24, 1882, six different divi dends, amounting in all to 45 per cent., were in process of payment. As no dividends hud been drawn upon many of the claims agunst the institution, and for the purpose of enabling the re ceiver to pay a final dividend and wind up the affairs of the institution, au order was entered by the court that all credi tors and holders of deposit-books should draw their respective dividends on or before December 1, 1882. This date was subsequently extended to February 1, 1883, after which time all claims upon which dividends are not drawn by that time are barred and excluded from uuy participation iu the funds of the institution in the hands of the receiver. There is now, ami in all probability will be on February 1 next, about $26,- l)i'0 of unclaimed uccouuts, and the dividends on these will therefore go to the other depositors, thus Increasing the amouut they will receive. "Within the Jast month the receiver und his clerks have gone through the books of the institution, and, using the latest city directory, besides resorting to other means, have endeavored to find out the whereabouts ot these unknown claimants aud notify them by circular that dividends were awaiting their pleasure. As a result we have made some interesting discoveries. "There was an account of $327 75, for instance, iu favor of George P. Lee, formerly assistant treasurer of the Chi cago 4L Northwestern Railway. He moved from Chicago to Fond du Lac, Wis., iu 1870. Ho was traced to that place, and when informed of the fact eouid give uo explanation of it. He had ut one time done a large business with the bank, aud supposed no had drawn out everything. He was, how ever, glad to draw his dividend. There are still 2,388 unknown claim ants, and very few it any of these will be touud. The lire scattered a large number of them, aud many of the serv ants who had siuuil sums iu the bank went back to Europe. la* still tryiug to hunt i p the old depositors, but do not expect to find many mora of them. The claims against the bank amounted to $3,030,0UU, and when the final divi dend is paid, sometime after February 1 next, about $1,503,000 will have been distributed to creditors," A FLirni !•>. Among the women married recently in New lork was one who from early girl hood has been extremely tend of flowers. Bhe decided to spend her energy and her father's money upon floral decorations in stead of in the direction of flue gowns. Her floral feat is a matter of remark with every guest who attended the reception that followed the marriage ceremony. Palms and terns made the hall lovely. In the drawing room the grates were filled with maiden hair fern and bright cut flow ers beneath. A medium sized plant rose from the centre. On the ends of the man tels were floral fans widespread. The centres were sn all white daisits; the frin ging ot rosebuds aud ferns. The sticks were marked with ardesia berries. Another fan on an easel of smilax was composed of white pompons, edged with bon siieue buds and fringed with yellow daisies. The sticks were of violets. Both of the fans were hand painted with sprays of the loveliest combinations through the ceutre. On the mantel stood the "Old Oaken Bucket," a marvelous piece of flor al work. Upon a bed of licopotliums, fringed with cissus, crotons and ferns, with terrestrial orchids springing up in places and a spray of passiflora rubra near near the old shaft, stood a square well, the sides made of different blossoms. One side was of yellow pompon artemesias, one , of while, one of crimson king carnations, one ala purity carnations. Each one was sprayed with a knot of roses. The top ol the well was mossy; on one corner perched an owl, wise in expression; the owl's back and wings were wrought ot chrysanthemums and his breast was of pale purple artemesias. His eyes were of yel low daisies. The well bucket was full of sweet smelling violets, aud trailing moss seemed to have been caught oa the pendu lous stick. The floral screen was effect ively worked out. There was a clover leaf on the marble of the pier glass, and loose baskets of roses were interspersed throughout the rooms. The portiere of ivies and smilax chains which swept in the arch between the extension and the draw ing room was the most effective work. This* was looped back with rosettes of white satin. In its centre swung the wed ding bell, a bell of roses sprayed with pale buds. A Doctor's Subatitute, Ho was a young man with a wild, disordered look. He rushed iuto the office of a prominent city physician yes terday, placed a small cup on the desk, took off his coat, bared his right arm. and whispered: "Stick me!" "l)o you want to be bled?" "I do! Open a vein, and let me catch the bloo/1 in this cup." "Too full iu the head?" "Alas! too full in the heart. My affianced will not believe me when I teli her that I love her better than my life. I will write my love—l will write it in my own life-blood! Proceed!" "Is that all you want?" "All! Is not that sufficient?" "Young man you are a dodo ! Put on your coat. I keep a red ink here for tiie very purpose you desire, and I will sell you a whole gill for a quarter." And the young man was not stuck. —The vapor 01 tobacco juice will destroy all kinds of troublesome insects 1 that infest hot-house plants. Britliih Ignorance oi America* I A correspond or t, from Paris, Says { I was lately at a dinner party where the guests were ull Americans, and all of them had made a sojourn of longer or shorter duration in London. The con versation turned on the really oomical ignorance of all things Americau dis played by the best educated English people, und numerous anecdotes iu il lustration of the top in question were ciUd. One of these related to the sou of a former United States Minister in London, Mr. Edwards Pierrepont. At some public dinner one of the guests asked Mr. Pierrepont, jr., while his futher was in the ae* of making a speech, who tho orator was. Tho young gen tleman made answer that tuat was the American Minister, "Is he of the old established Church or a Dissenter?" was the next question. But this does not quite equal the query ot the Archbishop of Canterbury, who lately asked of an American visitor to explain to him "the attitude assumed by tho United States toward Dissenters." A general of our army next told how he had accompanied an English officer of high standing to visit Newburg, and informed him that Washington had once had his headquar ters there. "Which Washington?" languidly demanded the Briton. Next came an accomplished young Southern gentleman, the son of a United States Senator, who described an in terview that he hod recently had with an English lady, who was introduced to hun us a prodigy of intellect and of learning. "You camo from the South ern States, sir?" she remarded amiably. "Which ol the two do you come from— Missouri or Peru?" With great pres ence of mind, my young friend in formed her that he was then residing in Peru, but intended shortly to re move to Missouri. But I rather think that tho climax was capped by au English author, who, on oeiug told by au American lady that she came from Missouri, said, thoughtfully;—" Mi ssouri—let me see—what State is that iu?" "Missouri in a State," responded tue lady. "Ah, yes—yes —to be sure it is—it is Mississippi that I was think ing of." Fortunately the lady in ques tion was weil used to the peculiar igu irauca of Englishmen and English society in general respecting our coun try, and she did not even smile. I myself have become thoroughly case hardened on the subject; so when a charming English lauy, the wife of a distinguished iudiau officer, akcd mo one day if it were not very dangerous to walk in the environs of Philadelphia on account ot the rattlesnakes, I was enabled to answer her without moviug a muscle of my countenance. Vampire BaU in BraVl. Probably no part of Brazil is more afflicted than a portion of the province of Bahia with the scourge of vampires. Whole herds of cattle are somotimes destroyed by this venomous bat. It was long a matter of conjecture how the animal accomplished this in sidious and deadly work; but scientific men have now decided that the tongue, which is capable of considerable exten sion, is furnished at its extremity with n number of pipiliss, which are so ar ranged as to .form an orgau of suction, the lips having also tubercles sym metrically arranged. Fastening them selves upou cattle, these dreadful animals can draw the blood from their victims. The wound, made probably from the small noedle-like teeth, is a fine round hole, the bleeding from which is yery difficult to stop. It is said that the wings of this deadly bat flying around during the operation of wounding and drawing blood, with great velocity, thus fanning the victim and lnlling while the terrible work is in progress. Some of the creatures measure two feet between the tip 3 of the wings, and they are often found in great numbers iu deserted dwellings in the outskirts of the city. The negroes and Indians especially dread them, aud there are numerous superstitions anioug the natives regard iug them. lh Digestion off an ostrich- It has commonly been made to appear that ostriches are so stupid or so greedy as to be totally indiscriminate in the matter of food; but this is a mistake. When two kinds of food are placed be fore them they will prefer the one, and are notably fond of certain kinds, such as mealies and prickly pears. Many of them even show delicate choice But a hungry bird will eat almost anything. His syetoin requires food in large quan tity, but he always prefers the suitable kinds. It is a fact, however, that the ostrich often dies a victim to over-in dulgence. Ou the farm birds also die by the score from apoplexy, brought on by thei* keepers stuffing them constantly with all thoy can eat. An inoredible number of pebbles are sometimes found in an ostrich's stomach where they serve the same purpose, in triturating the food, as sand in a pigeon's gizzard. Mr. Tillbrook, a farmer of the Graafi Reiuet district, once found a carcass, the gizzard of which contained some nine hundred and thirty stones, of sizes varying from that of a pea to that of a walnut. Most of them were bright and hard, and all more or less rounded by constant rubbing. We may see the reason of that instinct which prompts an ostr ch to stretch his neck over the fence and pick off a gold stud or a dia mond pin from the breast of the unsus pecting visitor, or in default of a jewel so attractive, to attempt to pull a button off his ooat. A Luiprev'a Nt. A writer says: One day late in spring as I was passing over a bridge I chanced to see two lampv?ys, or ''lamper-eels," as they are usually called, engaged in building their nest in the creek below me. It was one of the most curious sp ctacles I ever raw in our stream. Tliey w.'re a few yards below the bridge jnst where the water breaks from the still pool beneath it, and flows with a rapid current over its roughly paved bottom. They were distinguishable from the yellowish brown and black atones and pebbles amid which they were working only by their motions. They were tugging away at the small movable stones with great persistence. 1 weoit down to the water's edge where they were within reach ot my staff, the better to observe them. They would ruu up to the edge of the still water and seize upon the stones with their suction mouth and drag them back with the current aud drop them npon thei r nest. I understood at once why their nests, which I had often observed be fore, were always placed at the begin ning of a rift; it is that the flali may avail themselves of the current in build mg then. The water sweeps them back with the pebble in their mouth, their only effort being iu stemming the current to seize it. They are thus ena bled to move stones which they couid not stir in still water. The stones varied in sie from a wal nut to a goose egg. When one of them was tugging away at a stone too heavy for it, I wonld lend a helping hand with my staff; I would move the stone along gently, and the lamprey seemed entirely unconscious of the fact that it was being helped; it would drop the burden at the proper point, and run up for another. Indeed my aid and pres ence did not disturb them at all, Prom time to time, the larger of the two, which was the female, would thrust her tail with great violence down among the pebbles at the bottom of the creek and loosen them up, and set free the mud which tbs surrent quickly carried away. The new material thus plowed up was carried to the nest. Twice in the course of the half-hour that I ob served them, the act of spawning took place. Besides helping movo the larger stones with my raff, I several times plowed up the bottom with its point, thus relieving the female of that duty. The fish took it all as a matter of course, and seized upon the pebbles I had loosened with grtat alacrity. When I thrnst my cane beneath them and tried to lift them out of the water, they would suck fast to the stones aud pre vent me; but the}' did not manifest aav alarm. The lampreys become mu *h exhausted with the spawning and nest building, and large numbers of them die when it is over. In June it is not unusual to And their dead bodies in the streams they inhabit. How to Pronounce clerk. Freeman, the historian, in a readable paper on American speech and pronuncia tion, published since his return to Eagland well says; "The words 'metropolis' and 'provinces' used in this way, I venture to call slang, whether the city which is set up above its fellows is London or New York. Anyhow this use of them is in no way distinctly American; indeed the misuse of the word provinces, is, 1 fancy, excessively rare in Amerisa, aud it is certainly borrowed from England. Each side of the ocean unluck ily finds it easier to copy the abuses of the other side than to stick to tbe noble heri tage which is common to both.'' What he has to say about the pronunci ation of the word "clerk* 1 is wirth repro duction at length; • "The word "clerk*' is m Bagland usu alls sounded "clark, 1- while in America it is usually sounded "clurk." I say "usu ally," because I did once bear "clurk" in Eugiand —from a London shopman—and because 1 was told at Philadelphia that some old people there still said "dark," and —a nrst important fact —that those who said "clark" also said "marchant." Now it Is quite certain that "dark" is the older pronunciation—the pronunciation which the first settlers must have takeu with them. Tins is proved by the fact that the word is a surname—aud it is is one of th 3 commonest of surnames—is al ways sounded and commonly written •"C.ark" or "Clarke." 1 suspect that "Cierk"' as a surname, so spelled, is dis tinctively "Scotch," in the modern sense of that word. Also in writers of the six- I teenth and early seventeenth century, tbe word itself is commonly written "dark," or "clarke." But of course "clerk" was at all times the most clerkly spelling, as showing the French and Latin origin of the word. It is plain, therefore, that the pronunciation "clurk" is not traditional, but has been brought in artificially out of a notion of making the sound conform to the spelling. But "clurk" is BO mo:E the true sound than "dark;" the true sound is "clairk," like French "clerc," and a Scots man would surely sound it so. "Clark" and "clurk" are both mere approximations to the French sound, and "dark*' is tbe cider and surely the most natural approxi mation. The truth is that we cannot sound "clerk" as it is spelled; that is, we cannot give the e before the r the same sound that'we give it when it is followed by any other consonant. We cannot sound e in "clerk" exactly as we sound e in 'tent" This applies to a crowd of words, some of Teutonic, some of Latin origin, in which the spelling is e, but m which ihe sound has, just as in "clerk," fluctuated between a and u. The old peoole at Pmladelphia who said "glark" also said "marchant." And quite rightly, for they had on their side both older English usage and. in this case, the French spelling itself. The sound *'iiiWrcEani'' has come in, l>oth in England and America, by exactly the same process us that by wnich the sound "clwrk" has came in in America, but not in England." NO. 5.
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