VOL. LVII.
I HARTER,
AUCTIONEER,
MILLHEIM, PA.
J C. JBPKINGER,
Fashionable Barber.
Next Door to JOURNAL Store,
MILLHKIH, PA.
JJROCK.ERHOFF HOUSE,
ALLEGHENY STREET,
BKLLKFONTE, - - - PA.
c. 6. MoMILLEN,
PROPRIETOR.
Good Sample Room on First Floor.
O-Frw Bnss to and from all Trains. Spools!
rates to witnessea and Jurors. 4-4
IRVIN HOUSE.
(Most Central Hotel In ttie City,)
Corner MAIN and JAY Streets,
Lock Haven, Fa.
8. WOODS CALWKLL, Proprietor.
Good Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers on first floor.
JJR- D. H. MINGLE,
Physician aud Surgeon,
MAIN Street, MILLHKIH, Pa.
JJR. JOHN F. HARTER,
PRACTICAL DENTIST,
Office in 2d story of Toinlinson'i Gro
cery Store,
a
On MAIN Street, MILI.HKIM, Pa.
BF KINTFK,
. FASHIONABLE BOOT A SHOE MAKER
Stiop next ibior tn r<ote's Store, Main St.,
Boots, Shoes aud Gaiters made to order, and sat-
Isfactorv work guarantee. uoufc
iy and cheaply, aud in a neat style.
C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower.
ALEXANDER & BOWER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office in Carman's new building.
JOHN B. LINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
omce on Allegheny Street.
OLEMENT DALE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Nortbweat corner of Diamond,
HOY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Orphans Court business a Specialty.
C. HEINLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW*
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Practices In all the courts of Centre County.
Spec al attention to Collections. Consultations
in German or English.
J. A. Beaver J W. Gepbaiu
JJEAVER A GEPHART,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Alleghany Street, North of High.
YOCUM & HARSHBERGER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
U S. KELLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA,
Consultations In English or German. Office
in Lyon's Building, Allegheny Street.
D H HASTINGS. W. F. RXHDKK.
JJAOTINGS & REEDER,
ATTORNEYkS AT LAW,
• BELLEFONTE, PA. •
Office on Allegheny street, two doors east of the
oflh e occupied by the late Arm of YO— * Bast
luja 4^17
PRACTICAL suggestion: When a man
is excited he is very apt to talk without
thinking. An Austin landlord called
on his tenant the tenth time for the
rent. "I haven't got any money," was
the response. "Well, if you haven't got
money enough to pay rent you ought to
build yourself a house,"
©lie PKllketa Sinmuil
A SHADOW HO \T.
Under my keel another oont
Sails a* 1 sail, flo ts as 1 float;
Silent and dim and mystic still,
It steals through ihut weird nether-world,
Mocking my power, though at my will
The form before its prow Is curled.
Or cairn It lies, with canvas furled.
Vainly I peer and fain would see
What phantom in that boat may be;
Yet half 1 dread, lest 1 with ruth
Sotro ghost of my dead past divrne.
Some gracious shape of my lost youth,
\> hi>ee deathless eyes once tlx oil ott mine
Would draw me downward through the brine 1
IN A IHOMKNT.
Stunding by tho window, with a
thoughtful look in her nark blue eyes,
and a wistfulness about lior little red
moutl), Isabel Jeffrey was indulging in
one of the retrospective memories she
did not very often give way to.
But tomorrow was Mew Year's Day,
and in the old times that seemed so far
back, it had been the gayest happiest
day of all the year for her, when the
elegant parlors in her father's mansion
on Madison Avenue had been decorated
with flowers, and the windows darkened,
and the gas had been lighted in pink
ami silver globes, and every luxury anil
delicacy been served on the New Year's
table by the waiters in tho Jeffrey
livery.
Aud Isabel queened it over all—
young, fair, rieh, happy, hopeful.
Five years passed, and now she was a
woman ot twenty-three, whose best dress
was a cashmere, whose home was in
three rooms, whose father had been
dead ever since the terrible break-up in
Lbs financed affairs, and whose friends,
yvhoee name had been legion, were scat
tered she never knew where.
It hail been pretty much the same old
story.
Isabel Lad had to face the world, and
she had done it bravely.
She had been fortunate enough to ob
tain a position in a store, anil on her
hardly-earned salary of six dollars a
week, she managed to make a fairly
comfortable home for herself, her deli
cate little lady-mother, and her ten
years-old-sister.
Of course it was hard—awfully hard—
to stand it; but people have to endure
just such things, and the more brave
and cheerful and philosophic they can
be, the easier it is for them ; although
beyond the philosophy that Isabel Jeff
IwAnglii Ui ,
her sweet patient trusting that helped
her so much, that kept her very gentle
and uncomplaining all these dark days,
when, more keenly than loss ot pro
perty, or home, or friends, was the ever
oonstant memory of Jack Mervin's hand
some face, and bold blue eyes, and
charming voice, aud caressing manner.
They hail never been, lovers, that is,
engaged lovers, nor had Jack ever said
much of anything special to her.
All the same 'though Isabel had beeu
very sure of him.
So sure that she was perfectly content
to wait just as long as fate ordained.
And then, just at tho time when he
should have been staunch and true, if
his love were worth auythihg, so Isabel
reasoned, just as bitterly, he had gone
with the crowd that had deserted the
Jeffreys in their reverses.
And in five years Isabel had never
seen him or heard his name spoken.
Poor little soul!
The big tears would start to her lovely
wistful eyes as she stood there between
lights that New Year's Eve, that might
have been so different.
For perhaps half an hour she stood
there looking down into the brilliantly
lighted street below, with its throngs of
people hurrying through the stinging
cold, tho solemn moonlight shining
high, anil pure and holy above all.
"If only Jack had not gone with the
rest !"
"Oh, if only he had stayed and loved
me!"
That was tho burden of her tnought,
just as heavy that night, Ave years from
the time since she had seen his hand
some smiling eyes, as at the flrat.
Unwomanly ?
Well, I think not —certainly not.
She had carad for him from the very
first and she would care for him to the
very latest throb of her loyal heart,
choosing—nay, perforce, having to
suffer her loss of him, rathor than enjoy
another man's love.
Directly, with a little sigh, she dashed
the big slow dropping tears off her
lashes, and obeyed Bessie's cheerful
summons to supper, and went slowly
out to the neat frugal little meal of
buttered toast and cold thin-sliced ham
and mustard.
And delicious steaming tea and a woe
taste of canned pineapples.
Then she returned to tliefctorc, where,
after hours, Dell Amber took lier confi
dentially aside and imparted a delicious
bit of information and an invitation.
"Grandma Amber, up in Jersey you
know, Isabel, has sent me the loveliest
invitation, to spend New Years Day
with her at the farm, and she wants me
to bring somebody with me.
"You'll enjoy it ever so much if you
like sleigh-riding and want turkey, and
mincepies, and cider, and walnuts and a
roaring big fire in the open fireplace,
aud everything old-fashioned anil coun
try tied. You will go with me, won't
you ?"
An unusual little thrill of delight crept
'ver Isabel.
Oh, what a blessed, blessed rest a day
MILLIIEIM. PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8.1883.
in the oouutry would le, where, if any
where in all the wide world, site oould
banish the memories that every New
Year's Day persistently brought!"
*'l really believe 1 will accept your
charming invitation, Dell.
I "Yes, 1 will go, and thank you a
thousand times, only i never can repay
you."
Dell gave her hand a loving little
squeeze.
"You are a darling I"
"Grandpa is to meet the seven-thirty
train with the big sleigh, and we'll have
a live mile ride to hegin with.
"Oh, we'll enjoy ourselves immensely,
Isabel !
"And don't you ever say another
word about paying anybody back.
"It's an honor you pay me, Isabel."
New Year's Day, clear and sparkling,
and frosty and exhilarant, and the Amber
farmhouse, warm, and sunshiny, and
low-ceiled, and odorous with the plenti
ful preparation progressing for the
marvellous dinner.
And grandma Amber portly, happy,
merry as a girl, a big apron tied around
her comfortable waist and her spectacles
on the top of her ttiiek grey hair, the
very ideal of the hostess ; while grandpa
Amber hale, hearty, and jolly, was like
a grown up boy, all that lovely day,
when Dell and Isabel thoroughly en
joyed every single moment.
As, Isabel had thought, there was
almost absolute surcease from stinging
memory, amid the delightful novelties
all around her, and only at rare intervals
did she liiul herself allowing thoughts of
the one alxjve all others to creep in.
"It has been a grand, go< H! day, so
far," Dell declared with a happy sigh,
at three o'clock of the bright, cold
afternoon ; "the best is to come yet.
"What do you think, Mademoiselle
Isabel ?
"The big folks over at the big house
—otherwise the St. Clements, of the
Hollies—have invited you and me over
to dinner, and to assist the young Indies
in receiving.
"Imagine us.
"Two of Maey's sales- ladies receiving
New Year calls.
"I don't know what to do.
"Do you ?"
A cruel little pang smote Babel, but
she repressed all sign of it.
"We can be us agreeable as we know
How ; I imagine .4,„
due entertainment.
"But our drosses, Dell.
"D > you really want to go?"
"Do I really waut to go?
"Well, I should say so,
"It's just too lovely for anything.
"Mr. St. Clements driving oyer to
ask us, with 'Miss St. Clements' and
Miss Mabel's compliments.'"
"But dear—our dresses—" began
Isabel, looking deprecatingly at her
well-worn black cashmere.
"They won't expect us to be dressed
stylishly or expensively.
"A bit of blight ribbon and lace—tho
ribbon off our huts, Isabel, and I know
where grandma has some lace."
Hut Isabel was hard to be persuaded.
"I would so much rather stay here
and talk to graudma, while you go to
the Hollies, Dell.
"Let grandpa drive you over, dear.
I won't mind your going in the least."
But Dell was obstinate.
Unless Isabel went she would not go,
and when Isabel saw tho ilissppoiut
ment Dell would not express, she re
lented, with a desperate little curb on
her own inclination and consented ; nor
did she permit Dell to gain the slightest
idea of the cruel stab it was to her to go
to the splendid house, where everything
reminded her so painfully of the very
thing she had come away out here to
escape.
Mrs. St. Clements was tlio very im
personation of refined womanliness and
erect graciousness, and she instantly
recognized tho nobility of Isabel Jeffrey
aw she saw lir pure sweet face—her
grave, sad, yet interested attention ; her
quiet reserve and ease of manner, while
the young ladies were friendly and
social, us only the real aristocrat can be.
"Our friends are nearly ail to come
from the city, "Mabel explained, when
they were all seated in the parlor.
"A few of them have been and gone,
but the majority of those we expect arc
yet to come.
"Anil the first arrival, grandma," she
added, with a little laugh, as a sleigh
load of gentlemen dashed up to the
door.
"And the very first one to outer the
room was Jack Mervine —hauilsome ele
gant as ever, and the first persoe he saw
WDS Isabel Jeffrey.
For one little awful seoond she
thought she should faint or die, because
of that sensation that overweelmed her.
He saw she inclined her head coldly
as a duchess might liave done.
"Mr. Mervine."
But her repelling tone, proud as icy,
did not freeze him.
Utterly ignoring Mrs. St. Clements,
who really was busy with the other
gentlemen and Miss St. Clements, he
went straight up to her.
"Isabel, where have you been?"
"If you hail wanted very much to
know, you might have learned where."
Her eyes met his—haughty, steady—
liis momentarily darkening with emo
tion.
"I swear to you I. could not find yon.
"I thank Heaven I have found you.
"Isabel," and he dropped his head
forward, and hlB voice lowered to a
quick passionate whisper, "will you be
my wife ?
"Quick ! before I lose you again, my
darling."
And all the warm color left her face
for one brief instant, as sl .e looked in
his eyes—the man she loved.
"Yes," she said.
And with ft triumph almost beyond
imagination, ho linked her arm in his,
aud turned towurds them.
It had all happened in a moment.
"Friendi, this is my betrothed bride-
Miss Isabel Jeffrey.
"Will you not wish ns a Happy New
Tear."
And then explanations wore briefly
mode.
"It has been a day of days," Isabel
■aid, between smiles and tears, as she
told it all to her mother in their little
quiet home, that blessed New Year's
uiglit.
"We are to be married at once,
mamma, because Jack insists ou it—
next week, mamma.
"And ouoe more yon will have your
carriage to ride in, and your laces and
diamonds to wear.
"But if lie hud been a beggar, shovel
ling off the snow for his dinner, and hail
asked mo to be his wife, I should have
said Yes all the same.
"Oh, mamma, mamma, I am so
happy."
Lrrtti>luic an Ardeui Lover.
"Glory to God iu the highest, and on
earth peace and good-will to men."
With this angelic anthem began a senti
mental letter received by a youug lady
in Quiney, Mass, It was written by u
young man, a stranger to her, who has
tor some time past been demonstrating
his affection for her by sending her
love-letiers by messengers and by mail.
He begun at first by standing on the op
posite side of the street, gesticulating
and bowing in a manner that would
have done credit to Don Quixote him
self. Later his infatuation grew to al
most a mania, and notwithstanding
the girl aud her mother discouraged his
attentions, he begun sending, almost
daily, love epistles written in the most
gushing st\le of affectionate sentimen
tality, declaring that his love for her
remained. All the letters have been
shown to jhe girl's mother. Her wrath
has for seme time beer steadily ineroas
uitr. and litis tiuiriiiiv - it passed all
tKinua*. nmi m n
rushed over to the court room ana be
sought the court to interfere in the
matter. Ou beiug told that the man
was not legally responsible, not having
done anything criminal, she started out
pale with anger. Ou the sidewalk in
front of the building stood the object of
her ire. She rushed apou him and
struck him in the face with her clenched
fist. Getting out of her clutches, he
stepped back a few paces, aud taking off
his hat, gave her a most insinuating
bow. This had the effect of making her
still more angry, and, seizing a large
stiek which lay in the street, she
swooped down upon the unfortunate
lover and vigorously belabored him
about the head aud shoulders. He
took the tlirashingas a martyr, who was
being sacrificed for his devotions. He
looks upon the matter very lightly, and
seeuis to believe that lie has got the best
of the affair, aud lus enthusiasm, fan
aticism, or whatever it may be called, is
by no means ended. The mother is lie
coining desperate, and unless the law
interposes, the affair is likely to result
seriously.
C ommitment Anil Sorrow.
A resident of Park street, Detroit,
had a photographer come up tho other
day for the purposo of takiug a view of
his residence, and the man of the camera
had just got in position when along came
an old coon, with a buck-saw on his arm
and wanted to kuow what was up.
"Going to photograph tho house,"
was the reply.
"Then 1 guess I'll pose," remarked
the old man. "I'll take a position at
the left of the gate aud represent the
statue of industry."
The members of the family came out
and arranged themselves, and the man
called out ;
"Hero, old niau, you want to get out
of that 1"
-"Can't I represent Industry ? '
"No, sir 1"
"Can't I stand over there and repre
sent Laziness ?"
"No, sir 1 We ilou't want you iu the
group at all."
"Lomme represent the Sleeping
Beauty.
"You go away 1"
He drew off to ouo side, the passing
teams halted te give the artist a
aud directly tho plate was made. Every
body rushed forward when it was ready
for inspection, aud tho old man was one
of tho first. As the plate was held up
lie giggled and tickled, anil finally burst
into a loud laugh. He had dodged
around the corner of the house and his
full figure was revealed behind the
family.
"Well do you represent in that atti
tude?" sternly inquired the photogra
pher,
"What, 1 reckon that's a pretty good
pose for Contentment."
"Very well. I will now represent
Dissatisfaction."
And the artist took the festive old
chap by the ear and walked him out of
the crowd and put in a oouple of kicks
which changed the pose of Contentment
to that of Sorrow.
(imubullii'i Trniflu Fate.
A despatch says of Gambetta: The
corpse reposes on a bed. The ayes, which
are wide open, preserve their customary
expression, while the mouth seems mo
bile. The hair is throwu back from the
forehead. There is uo distortion in the
features. Death has not disfigured his
countenance. Perhaps, had he been like
ordinary mortals, he might have recovered,
but high living and excesses of all sorts
had brought on diabetes, which wa9 com
plicated with other disorders. The patient
being asthmatic, the use of aesthetics
was proscribed. Without anesthetics it was
feared he would die during an operation.
Besides, in the condition of his blood, gan
grene was lhe inevitable consequence of
of an incision, lie would as surely have
died from the result of an operation as he
did die of the disease, wherefore it was
judged unwise to attempt what could only
had increased his sufferings. This was
the decision of his medical attendants.
Another complication, not generally
known, was that of varicose veins on the
left leg, the existence of which explains
certaiu attitudes often severely commented
upon as undignified, lie was physically
iucapitated troin sitting straight in a chair.
It is impossible to affirm until after the au
topsy, which tukes place to-day, thai, as
asserted by some persons, he had received
a bullet in the abdomen. Still, without
doubt the wound m the arm was the pri
mary cause of death, anil necessitated im
mobility, depriving him of the exercise
prescribed as indispensable to oue of his
constitution uud temperumcnt and contin
ually threatened by cerebral congestion.
It is whispered also that he disobeyed the
medical order of a strict diet of milk and
egges. Throughout his illness his friends
have sought to conceal the gravity of the
situalion, and above all the agency of a
woman in the tragedy. Nevertheless, no
doubt is permissible that the shot which
ilirectly or indirectly caused his death was
tired by a lady who is well known in Paris,
and whose pseudonym, Lconie Leon, con
ceals the patiouymic of one of the most
honorable.lrae!itißh families of Bordeaux.
She left her husband, the Conseiiler Gen
eral of the Gironde Department, to follow I
the fortunes of him by whose eloquence
in the Bauiliu subscription and trial she
was completely fasciuated, and uni ing
wi'h htui HI lkoß, she deserted her family, j
lie was impatient of the chain he could
not break, especia'lv as a child was bom
the succeeding year, whose paternity he
refuseu to acknowledge. These refusals
caused scenes of recrimination and olten
of positive violence between the lovers.
The man wearied of the connection, and
the woman clung devotedly to him for
whom she had sacrificed her honor. Gam
betta disliked the child, who was sickly,
but intelligent, and lived as bis nephew.
He resembled Gambetta in character and
features. Two jears ago Leouie's hut kind
died, and she summoned Gambetta to ful
fil Jk-JL iiroiiiiko ot ninrrimfe. lull receTVfeiii
however, to provide for young Leon en
tbe condition lhat he should be educated
in Germany. The mother hesitated, but
finally consented aud accompanied the
child and lus fattier to Dresden. This was
the journey so much commented upon last
year by the European press, which ascrib
ed political motives to the presence of
Leon Massahie et la ilauie at the German
hotels. The connection was continued
alter their return, Leomc going every Sat
urday evening to his villa, where she wai
accepted as mistress by the servants, and
returning Monday morning in his carriage.
Their quarrels also continued. Within a
week three discharged domestics revealed
the mysteries ot the ill-starred establish
uient. Finally the distensions culminated
in the scene of the uuheppy pistol-shot.
Gambetta lost his temper, giving vent to
abuse and course language, such as he
was wont to employ in moments of pas
sion. She was exasperated, seiied a ri
volver, and fired. He raised his baud to
turn aside the weapon, and received his
deatu wound. Every thifig else is con
jecture.
How to Oi> Tin.
A pamphlet was puuiisncd in England
in 186 5, entitled "Letter on Corpulence,
Addressed lo the Public by William Bant
ing." In this was narrated the experi
ence of the writer, who Buffered much
from excessive corpulence, iu reducing his
weight forty-six pounds in a lew weeks.
The lyslom was suggested to him by a Mr.
Harvey, an artist. It consisted in avoid
ing all sweet, siarchy and fat fo>ds, and
the very moderate use ot liquids, substitut
ing meat, tish and fruit in moderate quan
tities at each meal, toga her with the use
of an alkaline draught. This method of
diet was effective in this person without
auy serious injury to his health; and it
was practiced by many persons with a
like result. But in some cases the rapid
reduction in weight was found to bo in
jurious to health, anil the method could
not be adopted with safety in all cas°B.
In such an important matter as this, when
llie iiabit of body is so seriously and sud
denly changed, it would not be safe to act
without the advice of a physician. But if
the changes were made judiciously it
would not probably be hurtful. Severe
exercise aud the use of uitrogeuous ali
ment, discarding hydro-carbon substances,
as sta r ch, sugar and fat, would always
operate to reduce the weight. The well
known opera singer, Mile. Albani, who
was very stout, kept lier weight i educed
by eating leau miat, mutton and beef
chiefly, and also by workiug three hours a
day at a force pump fitted to a barrel of
water, to which the water was returned
by the pump. This kind of work exer
cises all the uiusceles and is very effective
for the purpose. The following rules for
reduction of corpulence are given in a
work ou dietetics. On rising early take a
cold batli and rub the body with hair
gloves and exercise for half an hour.
Breakfast upon lean meat, oatmeal and
tea, without sugar and milk, but with a
little lemon juice in it. D.ne upon plain
meat, free from fat, with beans, spinach,
cabbage and sourkrout, but no potatoes,
sweets, pastry or butter. Baked apples
and lemonade, not sweetened, may be
added, and water for drink. For supper,
tea with lemon, oatcake aud skim milk
cheese. Between meala exercise must be
taken until perspiration is produced. The
loss of flesh should not be more than half
a pound a day, and if the loss is too rapid
bread aDd skimmed milk may be used to a
small extent, and a little sugar. A mod
erate allowance of claret or other acid
wine and water at the meal is also advis
able in case a feeling of depression is ex
perienced.
Watclieg And Pergonal Muicneilgin.
"Sir, you should war an open-faced
r watch if you desire to be accurate in
. your time " said a watch-maker to the
) stout man ; you are too magnetic."
"Why, wiiat the deuce has the case
| got to do with it ?" was the interroga
tive reply,
i "Everything. Yonr watch has a hunt
ing-case, necessitating steel springs for
ojiening and shutting. By constant as
sociation with your body those springs
become magnetized, and they generate
their condition to other necessarily steel
portions of the watchworks, and thus
render their movements imperfect."
"Then, if I were not fat my watch
would not lose two minutes, more or
less, a day," said the puzzled stout man.
"Exactly," returned the watchmaker.
"I have worn your watch for over a
week and it has neither gained nor lost
a dozen seconds ; but then I am, from a
corporal i>oint of view, yonr antithesis.
I am exceptionally thin and slender."
The stout man mused. "Accordingly,"
said he, "open-faced tickers for fat men,
closed cases for thin, eh ?"
"Not at all," replied the other. "Thin
men have at times more magnetism in
their systems than fat men. Everybody
is more or less magnetic ; you happen
to be particularly so ; I happen to be |
quite tho reverse ; hence my remarks I
and advica For the rest, open-faced
viatches are always more accurate than
hunters. Tliey are more air-tight for
one thing. As for the steel springs in
huuting cases, mechanical science has
not yet discovered anything else to re
place them ; the public like double cases,
and there tho matter remains for the
present. There are, however, many ill
contrived portions in watches, and while
the demand ooutinues for watches of a
certain price it is impossible, from a
commercial point of view, to think of
improvements. Long-used methods and
ingenious engines have been specially
provided to fashion and cut out every
one of the minute parts which go to
eompose the existing instrument. Every
watch consists of over 200 pieces em
ploying over 200 persons, distributed
among forty trades, to say nothing of
the tool-makers for the artisans. If the
construction of the watch were ma
terially altered, all the trades would
have to be uaw tuuß aud
• wueei-ouhiiig engines would have to be
devised, wan me majority of working
watchmakers become useless. The con
sequence would be that the watch would
become enormously enhanced in value
and its possession a token of wealth.
You see, in your complicated state of
society even machines in the process of
time come to surround themselves with
a circle of 'vested interests' which em •
barrass attempts at improvement."
"You are interesting mo," remarked
the stout customer, as he placed his
watch in his pocket. "You have been
many years, I suppose, in the business.
Of course, there must have been some
improvements m your time ?"
"Of course. Watches during the
past ten years have grown much in
thickness. Old-fashioned watches are
thin And fiat. I have had a watch in
my charge as fiat as a trade dollar. It
is impossible to properly adjust the
works for neat, cold and position under
suoii circumstances, I should have to
give you a long explanation of the pack
ing of maotiauism to explain to you
why,"
"Well, has the increased thickness
raised the value ?"
"No. On the oontrary, watohes are
now worth 25 per cent less than they
were twelve years ago. That fact, you
will say, bears against my previous re
marks. lam referring to the cheaper
grade of watches worn by the majority
of people. There are watches which
bring $1,500, anil watchea whiob can be
purchased for $lB a doaen. If you are
wiiling to pay for costly work almost
anything can be accomplished.
"I made a watch for a physician
which fitted into a signet ring not much
larger than a pea. It had only second
hands. It was perfectly accuiate, and
was used by the doctor to time the pulse
of his patients. That cost SIOO.
Watches are made from the size of a
ten-cent piece to half a dollar, and worn
as trinkets by laities. They are also
fixed in bracelets, brooches, tops and
pencils, eye-glasses, and even umbrella
handles ; but they are very luxurious
toys."
The stout man paid his bill anil went
home,
The Khedive's Wife.
The wife of the khedive i 9 a remark
able wo an, both by descent and for tier
persona qualities. Her mother was
the daughter of a Turkish sultan; her
father the son of an Egyptian khedive
and a d< amndant of Mohammed Ali the
founder of the present dynasty. Tewfik
Pacha, who married her ten ytars ago,
when she was only twenty, has never
given her any rival in his affection or
in his househould. They have four
children, two sons and two daughters,
who are educated by English gover
nesses in English ways. The pirncess
looks more jike a European than our
idea of an Egyptian lady.
Soft words, warm friends; bitter
words, lasting enemies.
Life is a comedy to him who thinks;
[ a tragedy to him who feels!
A Bear chase,
A short time ago as Mr. Welschanoe
of Lycoming County Pa., was going
through with the morning work, such
feeding the horses, cattle, swine and
chickens, his attention was attracted by
a shout from hie son, who lives near the
mountain, inviting him to come and help
capture a large bear. Without waiting
a moment he dropped his basket of
corn, and rushed to the house with a
shout of, "Wife, untie my dog while I
get my gun; there is a great bear com
ing!" The wife obeyed, and iu a
moment man and dog were galloping up
the lull, and soon joined Bigler, who
shouted, 4 'Pap, put the dog on him!"
The faithful dog obeyed, dashing after
the bear who made a start across the
valley. Soon the dog came so close
that old bruin determined to give battle
which was done by striking and biting
him until he resolved to abandon the
pursuit, and howling and yelping, he
began retracing his stejis until ho was
met by his master who yaiuly implored
him to return. Py this ttme the bear
led passed Laubach's, who were soon
i hot pursuit with dogs, guns, and Mr.
Stephen Luuhach was not far behind
with his axe. The bear now changed his
course and went direct for Oriole, thus
changing his route from a line to a tri
angle, and the WtlsLance's traveling on
the rypotlienuse soon joined the Lau
buchs. The bear was now alxmt in the
position of the British army in its re
treat lrom Concord and being saluted in
front, rear and tlanks with stones, clubs
and dogs ho was brought to a stop about
half a mile south of Oriole. This spot
will ever be memorable on account of
the desperate struggle which then en
sued. The bear planting hiuisell on his
haunches prepared to resist all his ene
mies. The light now became terrible to
behold; the hear and stray budets suc
c, • led in dispatching ■. vend of his canine
enemies belore he was prostrated upon
old mother earth by a ball from Abram
Welshanse's ever reliable rifle. The
bear now breathed his lust, and the next
order of work was to dissect the prize.
The leadership of this part devolved
upon Air. ►ieth Phillips, wnoby making
use of his natural ability, soon had the
hide severed from the flesh. By the use
of a pair of sea es furnished by John
Gebhardt, his weight was found to be
317 i pounds. The gathering was now
transtormed into a parliamentary body
with liev. White as president. By the
skilful management of this gentleman
they soon decided by vote to give aacli
of the ex-hunters twenty pounds of the
meat (of course the scalp belonged to
Abram>, dividing tlia balance equally
with the families their represented,
which entitled each to about nine
pOUildb of
A JDelliluui Of Dishes.
A fashionable table now looks as if a
dozen families had been called upon to
help set it, aud color known to
science is represented in an abandon of
rainbow-hued disorder, A lady of this
city who had hired a new girl was ex
patiating to her on a set of china she had
recently bought. "Just think of it,
Bridget,"' she said enthusiastically, "it's
iu a hundred and tilty pieees!" "Sure,
mem, was it the cat?" asked Bridget,
sympathetically. But they tue not really
dishes. The quaint *.reen basket, witii
pink lining and a braided handle in
mottled china, is a sugar bowl, aud that
funny little pitcher that jooks as if it
had the jim-jams is a vinegar cruet.
Castors ere out of style nowadays and
all the available space beside your
plaque is tilled in with stubby bottles,
individual pepper and salts; the pepper
usually comes out with a rush, but the
salt tearfully resolves itlaei into brine
and re 1 uses to be dislodged.
It would L>e a comfort to drink your
after-dinner coflee out of a Hue white
china cup, agaiust the shell-like sides of
which the yeilow waves of aromatic cof
fee would ripple softly; but you lift the
ue v cup by a green lizzard handle, and
as your lips touch the wings of a vaiie
gated butterfly you observe on the oppo
site side a baked tarantula, while in the
bottom of the cup—may your shadow
never grow leas!—is an Aiab's head—
hospitality.
Tue next design thrust upon us will
doubtless be a literature iu china; for
msttmco, the edge of a breakfast plate
might be appropriately mscrib-.d, "The
early bird catches the worm, "First
the grub aud then the butterfly, "for the
Aeaiu jug, "Little pitchers have long
ears." There are already Shakespeare
plates, Longfellow pitchers and Whitt
ier bowls. A table sot, in Emerson
china or Carlyle clay, would be very in
structive.
A Ceutury Ago.
Cloth had become the usual material
or the ooat, with black satiu breeclie?.
Top-boots and round hats were worn in
tne morning, with the hair undressed;
but silk stockings and buckles, with
three cornered cocked liats, hair powder,
and swords, were worn upon occasions
of ceremony. But swords were not so
generally worn in full dress as they had
been ten years previously. Planche
observes, in his "History of British Cos
tume," that about the year 1778 gold
laoed hats had become fashionable
again; because the press gangs were
particulary busy in that year for the
Royal Navy, and the gold-lace was sup
posed to impart a military or distin
guished air. The Peers stil habitually
wore their scarlet and ermined robes iu
the House of Lords. Iu the Commons
it was customaay for the members of
the Government to appear in full dress,
bag-wigs, buckles, and swords. Jesse
observes that Charles James Fox and his
party, who had been accustomed to
dress in the neyligie style which had
come into vogue, created much amuse
ment when they came into power in
1782, and appeared in the House in ail
the stiffness of the full dress.
A want of care does more damage
than a want of knowledge.
NO. 6.