PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY IN MUSSER'S BUITjDINGV Corner of Nnhi and Prnn Si*., at SI,OO TER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE; Or §1.96 if not paid in advance. Acceptable Correspondence Solicited, fiPAddreas all Idlers to " MILLHEIM JOURNAL." ir If men eared loss for wealth and fame, And less lor battlefield and pjlory; If writ in hunmn hearts a name Seems better than a song and story; If men, instead of nursing Pride, Would hard to hate and abhor it; If more relied on Love to gui le, The world would be the better for it. If men dealt lass in stocks and lands, And more in bonds and deeds fraternal; If Love's woik had more willing hands To link this world to the supernal; If men stored up Love's oil and wine, And on bruised human souls would pour it; If 'Sours" und ' mine" would ouee combine, The world would be the be.tor for it. If more would act t&J of Life, And fewer spoil it 111 rehearsal; If Bigotry would sheath its knito Till good became more universal; If Custom, gray with ages grown, Had tewer blind men to adore it; If Talent shone for Truth alone, The world would le better lor it. II men were wise in liylo things, A fleeting less in all their dealings; It hearts bad fewer rusted strings To isolate their kindly feelings; (I men, when Wrong beats down the Right, Would strive together and restoro it; II Right made Might in eveiy fight, The world would be better lor it. A LUCKY SHIP. It was about twelve o'clock on a dark, cold February night; the rain had been pouring down steadily for several days. One could hardly imagine a more bleak, desolate station than Elm wood on that night, with one lamp making darkness visible, the platform an inch deep in rain, and a sleepy station-master and porter giving the only indications of life. Mr. Hugh Lambert, as he got out of the train and went to look after Ins luggage, felt very thankful that he had only a mile to drive before reach ing home. He was a man of about forty, old for his years and slightly gray; in figure he was tall and well made, and his face had an expression of cleverness. As a rule few passengers alighted at Eluiwood by that late train; but on this night there were two besides Hugh Lambert—a young lady and her maid, with a goodly pile of luggage. Hugh was wondering a little as to where they could be going, when he heard the girl ask the station-master if there was a carriage waiting from Mrs. Newton, of Priarton. "Why, the road has bin blocked since six o'clock, miss! There's bin a big landslip, and they're working all night to git it cleared. I don't think you'll get to Priarton this week, what with the slip and the floods." "What am I to do?" exclaimed the girl, with a face of blank despair. "Is there no other road to get to Priarton V" Hugh Lambert was listening with some interest. Mrs. Newton was hi s nearest neighbor, and a great friend of his; this must be her niece, of whom he had often heard. He approached the lady and raised his hat courteously "l am sorry to say there is no other road to Priarton; nor is there any way of getting there to-night. I heard of the landslip only about an hour ago, and know that the road is completely blocked." "What can I do?" the girl asked again. "Is there any inn here, or must I take the next train back to the near est town ?" "The Just train's gone an hour; there ain't no inn in the country-side save publics"—this from the porter. "You must let me arrange this matter for you," said Hugh Lambert. *'l think I must be speaking to Mrs. Newton's niece, Miss Nay ton?" "You have guessed rightly;" and Dorothy Nay ton looked up eagerly, de lighted to find some one to whom she was known, if only by name. She was a bright little body, pleas ant-looking, though she could not lay claim to beauty—a brunette with a clear olive complexion, dark eyes, and a straight nose. She had crossed from her home that afternoon, she told her new acquaintance; and so of course her aunt might not have expected her to arrive so early. "You must let me take care of you," Lambert said. "My place is close by. I will take-you there, and send a mes sage to your aunt as soon as possible to let her know that you are safe." Just at that minute a horse was heard galloping up the dark road, and presently a man came hurrying into the station. "Is there a young lady here for Priarton ?" he asked. Dorothy went forward eagerly. "If you please, miss, here's a note from Mrs. Newton. I've been four hours getting here; I had to ride twelve miles round, for the road is blocked and the floods are out. I had to get a boat at the low meadows, and borrow another horse on this side; and this has delayed me in getting here." Hardly waiting to listen to this long explanation from the eld coachman, Dorothy tore open the note and read: Iht flJilllieim Journal. DEININGER & BUMIKLER, Editors and Proprietors. VOL. LVII. "MY DEAREST CHIIJ*-—Tain in great distress. The road bet ween here and the station has been blocked by a tremendous landslip; suit is impossible to s. nd the carriage to meet you. 1 have therefore forwarded a note to niy great friend. Hugh Lambert, asking hi in to send for you and give you and your maid shelter for the night, till we see what is to be done. He is the only neighbor on that side of the land slip. and is so charming you need not mind going to him; it is indeed the only thing to be done. In great baste, "Your loving aunt, MARY NEWTON." The coachman had also given Hugh Lambert a note. "I was to have left it at Leyton, sir." he said; "but 1 heard you was coming by this train." Lambert glanced at the contents, and then turned to Dorothy. "Your aunt has kindly trusted you to me; so now you won't mind accom panying me home, will you? ' he asked. "I think it is you who ought to mind," was Dorothy's answer. "I am afraid we shall be giving you so much trouble. It is very good of you." A minute later she was seated beside him in the dog cart, spinning along the dark roads into what was to Iter an un known country. Dorothy was very tired, and was thankful to reach the house and be handed over to the care of the house keeper. Very soon she was fast asleep in an old-fashioned, oak-panelled room would have seemed very ghostly to her but that she was too fatigued to take much heed of her surroundings; and, beside, her maid was in the dress ing-room and within call. The next morning Dorothy was down for half-past nine breakfast, and w as show n into a bright little morning room. Mr. Lambert met her. and was so kind and anxious to make her happy and at home that she very soon found herself talking to him as if she had known him for years, instead of his being an acquaintance of a few hours only. She was rather an unconvention al litttle person, and by no means stiff or cold. Bho had warm-hearted manners, and looked at the world in a trustful way, believing people and trusting in them flrmlv, unless she found that thw w ere not to be depended upon, instead of proving before trusting, as colder-natured and perhaps wiser folks do. She bad been brought up by an old uncle, for whom her elder sister kept house. They had no brothers, and their parents had both died years before. Mrs. Newton was their mother's sister in-law; but her husband had quarreled with the girl's uncle and guardian, Mr. Nay ton; so it was not till after the doath of the latter that Dorothy and her sister had been allow ed to go to Priarton. Now however they had hoped to spend a good deal of time there; but this was Dorothy's first visit. Mary Nay ton, her sister, was about twenty-seven, and exceedingly placid and sensible, but she took things so quietly that Dorothy w as always allow ed to go her own way ;uid do whatever she liked; consequently, at twenty three, she had learned to tliink and act fur herself, and, as her nature was impulsive and warm-hearted, she in dulged in a great many theories of her own, hated conventionalities, believed firmly in Platonic friendsltips, and not unfrequeutlv got into trouble in eon sequcnce. It very soon struck Hugh Lambert that she was different from most of the girls he had met, and she interested him accordingly. It was with a feeling of relief that he found the roa 1 would be impassible for some days; so lie wrote to Mrs. Newton, begging her to let Dorothy remain with him, instead of returning home, and asked an elderly cousin who lived a few stations off to come and act as chaperon. The old lady accepted the invitation and the post allotted her; but, as she was a great invalid, Dorothy and Hugh were constantly left alone together. He liked to sit in the dusk and hear her sweet voice singing to him, to watch her arranging flowers, and to consult her*about the garden. The girl felt supremely happy—he was so kind to her, such an agreeable com panion in every way, that she thorough ly enjoyed his society. A fortnight went by, and the road was pronounced perfectly safe; even the floods had subsided. !So Hugh had no excuse for detaining his fair guest longer; and, though very reluctant to part with her, he drove her over to Priarton. She was standing in the hall as he left that night, after dinner, and held out her hand to say good-by. "I can't thank you enough for all your kindness," she said softly. "Nay, my child, I cannot tell you what a pleasure it has been to me; but perhaps you will know some day," he replied, and she went upstairs won dering what he meant. She believed firmly in Platonic friendship that she would not let her self think that the feeling toward Hugh Lambert was anything else; and, although she knew he disbelieved in her theory in the abstract—for they had argued the subject very warmly - still she thought that bis senti ments were well defined iu her ease. Hugh Lambert felt as if something very bright had come into Ids life sineo he bad known Dorothy. She was so quaint and naive in speech, new and fresh with her ideas and theories, so free and unaffected in manner, and yet so womanly withal, that during those few days they bad spent together she had completely won his heart. Hut he was not likely to act on the spur of the moment; he was so much older than she; how could ho ever expect that bright little body to regard him as anything but a siteadv-going friend? Hut still, day after day, he would ride over to see her at Priarton, and when he returned would sit and think of how she used to look in the rooms that now seemed so desolate. llow he longed in the evening for the sound of her voice singing to him "The Land o' the Leal" or "Auld Robin dray!" And Dorothy began to watch for his coming, and, if, by chance, something detained him at home, how long the day seemed and how uninteresting everything was! At first she justified jt to herself by the thought of her friendship to him —a friendship which had ripened quickly in the peculiar cir cumstances of their meeting; but little by little, as time passed, and she had been at Priarton nearly three months it dawned upon the girl that the feel ing she entertained for Hugh Lambert was something moro than mere friend ship. She fought against herself with all the strength of her nature; she could not bear to prove false to her own theories, and traitor to her favorite cause; but finally she felt the struggle was hopeless, and made up her mind to keep her secret securely locked in her own bosom. While gathering primroses one sweet spring afternoon, Dorothy heard a step crushing the dead leaves, and saw Hugh coming toward her. "I want to speak to you," lie said, "Will you walk with me a little?" Presently he turned sharply and took both her hands, and iooking more in earnest than she had ever seon him look. "I can't stand this any longer!" ho cried out. 'T must know my fate one way or the other. It is true that I am years older, but no one will ever care for you better than 1 do. If you cannot love me in return, I will go away and never worry you any more. I give you my word. Am I to go, Dorothy?" "Go! oh, no! she gasped out, hardly able to realize what he was saying, only feeling as if she could not breathe. Not long afterward thero was a happy wedding at the dear old home; and then Dorothy came back to brighten up the old house at Leyton. Hugh Lambert would have been less or more than a man if he could have resisted triumphing over her a little; and, as they went into the library, where he and sin; had often argued together, and she had bravely defended her theories, he turned and said: "By-the-by, Dorothy, who was right after all, about Platonic friendships?" Earth's March Through the Heavens. It is difficult to comprehend that, in addition to the earth's motion around the sun, the latter is also moving through space at the rate of 160,000- 000 miles a year. The astronomers of the last century discovered that our solar system was flying through space in the direction of the constellation Hercules; in other words, if the spec tator were to take a stationary point in the heavens, he would see our sun with its attending planets passing through the space at the rate of 450,- 000 miles per day. .Six thousand years ago, it is computed, our solar system was a million millions of miles farther from the stars of Hercu. les than it is to-day. The region in which we are entering is more thick ly studded with stars, that is, with suns of other solar systems, than the heavenly regions we have left behind us. What a marvelous universe we live in! When we travel on a railway car at the rate of fifty miles an hour, it makes our heads swim; but when wo call to mind that the earth revolves on its axis once in twenty-four hours and around the sun, 92,000,000 miles dis tant, in 365 days, and that sun is fly ing through space 160,000,000 miles in a year, human consciousness cannot comprehend the mad whirl of worlds by which w r e arc surrounded. What fairy tale or Arabian Nights story is half so marvelous as the simplest and most ordinary facts in astronomy?— Demorest's. MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 12,1883, A LONGEVITY LIST. Thf Xmius autl Itnonl* of r>raii IVIio 11* v* 1,1 red lit*) oikl One Hun dred Year*, "1 have records of more than ten thousand persons who have lived one hundred years and upward," said Jo seph K. Perkins to a reporter of the •Syracuse (N. Y.) Stunrfunf. "I have spent thirty years in collecting these materials, which 1 am preparing for publication. I have ransacked almost every branch of literature, magazines, newspapers, medical works, encyclope dias, etc., and 1 have personally writ ten to a large number of centenarians to procure authentic statistics." | "Who is the oldest person you have discovered?" asked the reporter. _ "According to the historian to the king of Portugal, a man named Numas 1 do Uugna died in India in 1556, aged j 370 years. 1 have sixty-three names of persons who died more than 150 years old. 1 might mention of those of that number who died in America, a slave named Si asms who died in 1798 aged ISO. In 1780 Louisa Tritxo died in South America, aged 176. Of course I cannot take into account the aged people mentioned in the Old Tes j lament, because in those days a differ ent method of computing time was in | vogue." "What country produces the great est number of centenarians?" "The cold countries. Perhaps Rus , sia comes first. Switzerland, Sweden* Wales, Scotland, and Ireland produce a great many. Our country is among the first, ulthoug many of our centuri ansareof foreign birth. The Ameri ; can Indians have refnarkable longevi- I tv. We do not look for extremely long life in the tropics, but a celebrated physician in Algiers, Africa, collected in thirteen years 162 cases of Africans more than 100 years old. I wrote to him for the names, but he had not pre | served them. The Chinese are not very long lived. In 1785 the emperor called a convocation of all the old resi • dents of his empire, utyd of the number who responded only four were more than 100 years old Jmdia lias on rcc ord a large number of cases." "Do you find that civilization lias anything to do with longevity?" "Indirectly, perhaps. Almost al cases of extreme old age belong to tlie ; lower classes. They have more robust , costitutions to begin with, and they are not subjected to the wear and tear, the late hours, and the tendencies of dissipation that fall to the lot of a cos mopolitan. Of the European countries France has the fewest centenarians. In fact, they are extremely rare there. Their nervous temperament has much ;to do with it. A curious fact, how ever, is that Frenchmen in very largo numbers live to be between 60 and'Bo years old, but drop off without going beyond the latter figure." "Which sex lives the longer?" "There are more women who attain the age of 100 than men. but more men live to be exceedingly old than women." ! "Are there many cases of longevity in this city?" "I have collected more than fijfty cases of persons who died in this coun ty aged 100 and over. There are liv ing here at present three persons older J than 100. These are Mrs. Driscoll aged 105, a colored woman named Wil liams in the poor-house, aged 103, and a United States pensioner 102 years old, living on Water street, named Van Vail." "When will your work be ready for publication ?" "Within a year or two. It will bo ; called 'The Encyclopedia of Human Longevity; or, Records of People Who Have Lived 100 A'ears and Upwards. It will contain between two and three hundred illustrations, and, as I said more than ten thousand instances." . llow Rarnnm Emptied a Show. A story is told of how Barnum once succeeded in emptying his big show at a time when it was densely crowded ! and thousands were waiting outside to obtain admission. He knew that a ; start was all that was needed to effect this purpose, but how to manage that was the rub. At length a bright idea occurred to hiin. Painting up in large letters on a piece of calico, "This way to Egress," lie hung it up at a conve nient angle of his show. Some of the 1 people thinking "egress" was some strange new animal just added to the collection, passed through the slit in the curtain, and to their amazement found themselves outside the show. ! The 4;hing was done. Everybody saw every other body making for the cor ner where the new animal was on ex hibition, and in a few minutes the show was emptied, the outgoing stream be ing so great that it was quite impos sible to turn when once caught in its i eddy. A PAPER FCR THE HOME CIRCLE. Labor and Food. The human body never ceases to work, liven in the most profound slumber some of tho functions of life are going on, its, for instance, breathing, the circulation of the blood, digestion, when there is food in the stomach; and it billows that some part of the ner vi/us system is therefore awake and at tending to business all day and night long. Jn the act of living, some of the substance of the body is being con stantly consumed. The amount of work done by the heart in one day in propelling the blood is now estimated as equal to the work ot' a steam engine in raising 125 tons one foot high, or one ton 125 feet high. We lose in weight by working. Weigh a man alter several hours' hard labor, and he will bo found two or three, and, in extreme cases, sevend pounds lighter. If we do not wish to become bankrupt, we must replace by food tho amount we have lost in labor. Hunger and thirst are the instincts which prompt us to do this. They are like automat ic alarm clocks, which stop the engine at various points to take on fuel and water. In a healthy man as much is taken in as is required to maintain the weight of the body against loss Nature keeps the account. On one side is so much food spent in work; on the other, so much received into the stomach for digestion. They should balance like the accounts of an honest bookkeeper. In an unhealthy person the instinct of hunger becomes disor dered and does not sound the alarm, and so the person goes on working - without eating until be becomes pauperized; or the instinct works too frequently, and lie eats too much and clogs the vital machinery. A calcula tion of the business done in the body reveals the fact that for a hard work ing person about eight and one-half pounds of food and drink are used up daily; some bodies use more and some ess, but this is the average. .The profit which the body gels on this tran saction has been calculated, and may interest our readers. The energy stored up in the eight and one-half pounds of fiw>d ought to raise 3100 tons one foot high. Most of this ener gy, however, is exjiended in keeping the body warm and its functions active. About one-tenth can be spent in our bodily movements or in work. The profit, then, on the process is about ten per cent. This is enough to raise 340 tons one foot high each day. A profit which is quite enough for earning a good living if rightly expended, and it is probably more than most make; but all ought to strive to reach this point if possible.— Scfvntijic American. i The Confederate Suit Works. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger gives an interesting account of Saltville, near the Clinch mountains, in West Tennessee, where the southern people obtained their salt during the rebellion. The locality is a basin in closing about six hundred acres, the bed of a former lake, forming one of those rich blue-grass bottoms that are worth a fortune to the cattle-raiser, and underlying it is a salt rock. Here is made the salt that supplies Georgia and Alabama. In 1858 George W. Palmer, a New York salt-maker from Syracuse, came to the region and went into the salt-making industry in a small way. Wells were sunk, piercing the salt rock, the water beneath it was raised to the surface, boiled in pans, and the salt thus obtained. The in dustry was in moderate operation when tho rebellion began, and it then extend ed in an amazing way. The blockade of the southern ports cut oft all the outside supply of salt, and here almost the entire confederacy had to come for it. The manufacture was made a na tional one, each southern state estab lished its agency, paying a royalty for the salt produced, and Col. Palmer, ex tending his business, took in Gen. Stuart as a partner. They are now probably the two wealthiest men in Virginia. During tho war federal troops destroyed tho works, but after they left the manufacture was resumed It was enormously profitable for th? owners, who turned out as much as ten million bushels a year. The re ceipts of confeder&te money were at times so heavy that they had not opportunity to count it, but bundled it up, taking tho account as sent them. As gold appreciated and the paper ac cumulated they bought land. In this way Stuart got seventy thousand acres and Palmer bought out all the region surrounding Salt Lick, thus getting a magnificent estate of twelve thousand acres, on which he now lives with his brother, and breeds many thousands of sheep anil hundreds of fine cattle. The salt industry by this process often pro duced them an acre of land for a bushel of salt in the high war prices, but the production has now fallen off, about ' 600,000 bushels being turned out annu- j ally. Terms, $1 00 Per Year in Advance. LIFE-SAVING MEDALS. How the l ute d Nlatei Government He wind* Those Prisons Who Nave Other* from Itro WIIIIIK. 'i'lie Washington correspondent ol Tht! Fhiladelphia ltecurd says: If you jump into the Delaware and, at the imminent risk of your own life, save the life of another, the secretary of the treasury will give you a medal. II your risk was "extra hazardous" or your services particularly distinguished you will get a gold medal; if your risk was of a lower degree it will he silver. When the life-saving service was reor ganized under it s present efficient chief, Sumner J. Kimball, congress establish ed these rewards. They were then called the first-class and the second class medals, and were given only for the actual saving of life at the actua risk of life. People who had saved life at the risk of life objected, however, to receiving a second-class medal for what they deemed first-class service. One spirited young lady returned the silver second-class medal sent to her. She. wanted the best or none, and it now reposes on its velvet bed in Mr. Kimball's ofliec safely. It was found, too, that men often saved life at a risk of property or of limb not tantamount to a risk of life, but deserving of some recognition. It was thought, for in stance, that the master of a laden ves sel who delayed his voyage to save a wrecked crew at great personal expense and inconvenience deserved a inedal equally with the man who simply . moistened his clothes in the surf. So congress, to meet these suggestions, changed the names of the medals to "goW medal" and "silver medal," and made the provisions of award so comprehensive as to take in all life savers at risk. The terms of award are, however, not loose. Tiiis is evi dent from the fact that while many applications are recieved (through "my congressman," of course), few medals are issued in a year; sometimes as few as four or five, and never more than a score. The applications, which must be supported by affidavits, go to a com mittee composed of the chief of the life saving service, the chief of the naviga tion division of the treasury depart ment, and the chief of the steam vessels inspection service. These gentlemen have to be convinced by evidence that would satisfy a court of law. Thev cannot be bulldozed bv J "your member." Once convinced' however, they recommend you to the secretary of the treasury, and he sends you your medal with a handsome little letter. The medals are very handsome in themselves. A new series, some what differing from the old, is now being prepared in the Philadelphia mint. These 1 have not seen, but the old ones were good enough. The gold one had a life-boat in the act of rescu ing a drowning man on the obverse, and an angel or two on the reverse with the necessary inscriptions. It is not strange, perhaps, that a man or woman should deserve a medal of this sort several times in the course of a useful life. As a matter of fact, these medals have been earned, again and again, by the same person. They never get more than one medal of each class t though; but for each subsequent achievmcnt deserving of a medal, they are given a bar of gold or silver, as the case may be, to be placed on the ribbon of the decoration as the clasps are on European war medals. • Just as 110 Said It, An excited gentleman, who took ex ception to a personal notice made of him in the paper, called at the office the other day to demand a correction. 110 said that he did not take any stock in newspaper apologies; that they were generally an aggravation of the original offense, and to guard against any such possibility he insisted that just what ho would dictate should be printed in contradiction and precisely as he uttered it. Perhaps the gentleman did not con ' sider that, as ho had a very bad cold in the head, his caution to print his re marks "precisely as he uttered them" would involve his name somewhat ridiculous, for he was especially em phatic in saying that he "did dot wadt \dy dodseds about it;"- but having agreed to his demand, we feel in honor ■ b -und to abide by our promise, and the following is what he said and just as he said it: "Id lass week's dubber of tiiis dews -1 f aper ad iteb apposed statidg that Bister Jokd Dicolas pcdt Sudday id Colubbus. As this was dot id accord adce with the facts add codtlicts with the geddlebad's stadebedt to his fabily add friedds that he was id Greed Towdshib od Sudday, the correction is l cheerfully bade that Bister Dicolas did sped Sudday id Green Towdshib add 1 dod id Cob bbus, as errodeously do ' ticed." — Cincinnati Saturday Night. NEWSPAPER LAWS. If pubscriWre order the ilisooutinnation of newspapers, the publishers may confinne to sentl them until nil arrearages are paid. If subscribers refuse or neglect to'take their newspapers from the otfire to which they are sent, they nre held resjonaible until they have settled the bills and ordered them dis continued. If subscribers move to other places with out iritorming the publisher, and the news papers are sent to the former place of resi dence, they are then responsible. " ADVERTISING HATES: Iwk. 1 mo. iam<*. Ift rani. f lfM* 100 $ 200 * 8 1*) s 4 $ i 6to W column 00 400 I H 001 10 Ob /18 0C Sm.tu.nn 500 iW| 12W| * OQ I &00 ( colama.;.. 800 18 00 | aot| 30 00 j BO 00 j One inrti m*km * .quart*. AduiinWrtr.tom m<) ill. Kutom' NiSicPH S'i.Wt. Trnatnt dv*rt>Pwuotii and' Jool 10 centi uor line for first insertion sod 8 cents per > line for esch additional insertion. NO. 27. A Wife to Her Husband. One of ui, dear — But one— Will fit by n bed with a marvelous fear, And clasp a band Growing cold as it loels for the spirit land- Dulling, which one? One ol us, dear! But one— Will stand by the other's coflfia bior, And look and weep, While those marble lips strange silence keep, Darling, which one? One of us, dear— But one! By an cqien grave will drop a tear, And homeward go, The anguish of an unshared grief to know- Darling, which one? One ol us, darling, it must bo; It may be you will slip from me; Or perhaps my life may just lie done— Which one? PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. A piece of steel is a good deal like a man—when you get it red-hot it loses its temper. It is pleasant to know that the big bridge between Xew York and Brook lyn is a suspension and not a failure. The most affiieted part of the house is the window. It is always full of panes, and who has not seen more than one window-blind? "Thank Heaven!" exclaimed a fond father, as he paced the floor at mid night with his howling heir; "thank Heaven, you are not twins!" Fruitful of trouble—Green apples* A man may be ever so absent mind ed, and yet he never forgets his first wrestle with a carpet tack. None but the most inhuman would think of pulling down the blind. A company has been formed in Vi enna to undertake the general busi ness of washing windows, scrubbing, cleaning pavements, etc. The origi nator of the idea is supposed to have been at one time a Philadelphia ser vant-girl. A vigilant sentinel is posted at the door of a picture gallery, with strict orders of the customary character. A sight-seer happens along and is prompt ly halted. "Here, sir, you must leave your cane at the door!" "But, my friend, I haven't got any cane!" "Then go back and get one! No one is al lowed to pass in here unless he leaves his cane at the door. Orders is or* ders! "Don't you forget," exclaimed a man, arising during a discussion, "that I lay over the deck." "Do you mean that you can whip me?" replied a long haired Arkansaw man, also arising. "No, sir," said the first speaker. "Then what do you mean when you say you lay over the deck?" "I mean that 1 am a steamboat man and sleep in the pilot-house." Soup and Sound. Some curious demonstrations of the effect on the color and figures in soap bubbles were given at the Franklin in stitute in Philadelphia the other even ing. A film of soap was placed across the end of a phoneidoscope. To bring the sound in direct contact with the soap a tube was used. A "reflection of the film was thrown on a canvas screen, where it first assumed a bluish-gray appearance. An intonation of the voice, with the lips close to the mouth of the tube, caused a number of black spots to appear on the reflection., When these passed away a beautiful light-green, intermingled with pink, remained. These two appeared to be the principal colors caused by sound. It was noticeable, however, that while a certain tone would cause the same figure to reappear, it had no control over the color. A tone which, for in stance, caused one solid color to ap pear, would bring out, perhaps, a dark blue at one time and a yellow at an other. No difference was noticeable in the effect of the male and female voices. The Sparrow Classified. This journal has distinctly demon strated in several editorial papers dur ing the past two or three years where the sparrow stands in ornithological classification, and that his place is not, and never has been, among insect feeding birds. lie is a finch, and there fore essentially a grain-feeding bird. Mr. Jonesby says he believes a spar row would, eat an insect provided you coulil convince him that some other bird wanted it; and, in confirmation of this assertion, he says he once saw a bluebird about to appropriate a worm, but he was driven off by two sparrows, who greedily and heedlessly seized a short string instead of the worm, and, after a stubborn conflict, one of them secured it and immediately swallowed it, the worm in the meantime making its exit into the — Lancaster Farmer.
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