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.
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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.