PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY IN MUSSER'S BUILDING. Corner of Main and IVtin nt SI.OO PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE; Or (1.85 if not paid in adrancn. Acceptable Correspondence Solicited. all letters to " MILLHEIM JOURNAL." The rhantom Ship. The anchor's weighed, the harbor past, Away! away! the ship flies fast. The shipper's wile is at his side, In fear she scans tho darkening tide. "Fear no'.," quuili lie; "thou'it *>afe with me, Though the fiend himself should sail tho sea!"' And merrily ho! the breezes blow, Over the sea the ship doth go. The sea grew black, tho wind blew high; "A ship A ship?" the sailors cry; Down sank the blood-rod sun in flame, But nearer still the vessel came. She had no sails, no oars, no crew! Bnt nearer, nearer still she flew. One lone, dark man on deck they see, They can hear him laughing mockingly. The skipper stood with frozen stare, His men were white with wild despair; The tempest shrieked, the sea was flun© And neaier still the strange ship came. Down knelt the skipper's wile and prayed "God of the sailors, send us nid." F,ach stony sailor bent his knee: "Save ns, O Lord! we cry to Tlieo!" Hurrah! Hurrah! tho spell is dono! The phantom thip is gone, is gone! The winds are fair, and fair the tide; The skipper's wife is at his side. He holds her hand, he cannot speak, A tear rolls down hi? rugged cheek; And merrily ho! the breezes blow, Over the sea the ship doth go. Frederick K. tVcatheritl. Miss Lehman's Method. A long stretch of white, sandy beach, dotted here and there with dark piles of shining sea-weed; a broad ex panse of restless, heaving billows lap. ping with frothy tongues the gleaming shore, tempted Helen Lehman to pause and finally to sit down, even though it was the middle of the summer after noon, and the sun was pouring down a scorching heat upon the unprotected rocks and glittering sand. Miss Lehman had a broad-brimmed hat and sun umbrella, either of which was sufficient to protect her fair com plexion, and if Harry Ashland was not thoughtful enough to likewise pro. vide for his own comfort, he must suf fer the consequences. She had no heart—the world said so. 11.id she seen the look of pain and disgust which, for a moment, played upon the gentleman's face it would have called forth no pity—not the slightest. He was not obliged to remain with her. There was the hotel, just above them, and he could find the coolest place on the broad, well-shaded piaz zas, where he could lie undisturbed all the afternoon. It certainly seemed very foolish to make oneself so uncomfortable for a lady; but for Miss Lehman he would have sat for hours in those thin clothes on the hot rocks, and undergone tor tures innumerable, provided she would smile upon him occasionally. But Miss Lehman was very silent and grave that afternoon, and poor Ashland hitched about on his warm seat without drawing from her one smile or even a look of appreciation. Getting tired of such thankless mar tyrdom, he burst forth, after several moments of silence, with: "What is the matter. Miss Helen ?" "Matter? Nothing! Can't one think without having something the matter with them?".she asked, sharply. The gentleman started at her ear nestness, and meekly replied: "Yes." "Well, then, Mr. Ashland, what are you talking about? I was think ing. Would you like to hear my thoughts?" "Oh, yes, above all things." "I was thinking of that great body of water before us. It so reminds me of the lives of some people whom I have met—so full of restless yearning —always coming and going—never paising, never tiring. Oh, it is so strange, yet so grand and beautiful!" "Yes," murmured the martyr, mov ing uneasily, and thinking that it was indeed very strange, very grand, and very beautiful. "And yet it ever tells the same, same, story—the 'something* for which it yearns never comes. So it is with life. We spend a life-time with an aching void in our hearts, and die still longing—" "Yes." Helen Lehman turned with an ex pression in her dark eyes, which spoke: "What a stupid creature!" She modified her meaning to: "Mr. Ashland, you have not heard a word." "Oh, 'pon my honor, Miss Helen, I heard every syllable! Don't you think that it is hot ?" "Hot? Very comfortable, I was thinking." "Bless me, I am quite baked." "Then let us go to the hotel." The gentleman arose with alacrity, but as he walked along he felt uneasy, for he was not quite sure that he had pleased the lady, and rather than dis please he would have willingly sat upon the hot rock for another hour and suffered without a murmur. file Jtilttem Journal. DEININGER & BUMILJLER, Editors and Proprietors. VOL. LVII. Mr. Ashland was in love with Miss Helen Lehman, and had been a perfect slave to her caprice all the summer. He had met her in the city during the proceeding winter—had seen her in all the glory of her ball-room dress, and had been awed into worship by the flash of her diamonds and glorious dark eyes. At the seaside she was not less beau tiful in her robes of wondrous lace and silk, whieh caused so much envy among the ladies —costing a small for tune, they all said—and Ashland had become the lowliest worshiper at her shrine. To cap the climax, thcro was a new arrival—a plainly-dressed, thoughtful looking "nobody"—who stood upon the piazza "as cool as a cucumber," looking out seaward with an expres sion in his elear eyes very like that whieh had shone in Helen Lehman's a few minutes before, and she wonder ed if his thoughts were the same. "Who is that. Mr. Ashland?" "Where?" "Why, that line-looking man on the piazza." "Don't know, never laid eyes on him before. Something new, 1 fancy." "1 hope so. I'm dying for a change,'' thought she. "Shall I lind out who he is?" asked the accommodating Ashland. "Yes, do." "Well, 1 will as soon as I can. 1 don't for a moment imagine that you'll care to know him, for really he doesn't appear to be anybody." "True, but it won't hurt you to in quire." "Oh, certainly not." That very evening, in the large par lor Mr. Ashland edged along to where Miss Lehman sal talking, and whisper ed: "Well, I found out a little coneern lng -that fellow.'" "Go on, and tell me about him." "He is nobody at all, Miss Helen. A poor artist, or something of that kind. Not worth a cent, Alden told me." "Thank you for your trouble." It was astonishing how Miss Leh man, after learning this, could have made the acquaintance of Philip Grey son and could treat him with such marked politeness! It quite puzzled poor Ashland, and he soon found himself in a painful po sition. The fellows began to banter him to excess, and call him a "fool" and other pretty names for thus allow ing Miss Lehman to drive, sail, read poetry, and wander out upon the beach with this "poor wretch." It was all very well to treat him po litely, but where was the need of mak ing so much of him? It would never do, and so he resolved to put a stop to it at once. "We are not engaged, and so she thinks it no harm in flirting with Grey son. But I will settle matters at once.'' It was easier said than done. Miss Lehman was so cross and strange that Ashland, confident as he was, never approrhed her without feeling timid and wonderfully "shaky." But at last, one morning, after see ing Greyson's head very close to Miss Lehman's for a full hour without any apparent cause, he resolved to put on a bold face and propose. "Miss Helen," he began, as soon as an opportunity presented itself, "I have been dying to speak to yon for several days." "Have you ? Well that is rather un pleasant." "Oh, no, thank you, not at all." "What have you to say?" "Oh, nothing—that is—yes—" "Well, go on." "The fact is, I am tired of single life, and want to get married at once.'' "Very wise, indeed!" "I think so. Well, of course, you understand that I ha\e a great regard for you, and I think—l mean, are you —that is—will you have me?" "Bless your heart, no." "No!" "Certainly not!" "Oh, you're trying to tease me?" "No, I am not." "But consider—l have been so atten tive, and all that, you know. Have you no reward to make me for all this?" "None whatever." "But, Miss Helen—" "My dear Mr. Ashland, we may as well come to an understanding first as last. The truth is, I am already en gaged." "Engaged!" "Yes, to Mr. Greyson. We are to be married in the fall." "Oh!" Mr. Ashland's moustache drooped perceptibly, and his appearance, as he dragged himself up to the hotel, was rather of the sick chicken order. "Poor fellow!" Cupid chuckled in fiendish exhulta. tion over another victim that night. Ashland did not make his appear ance until he was fully recovered, and aMe to answer one of the many inqui ries in the following careless manner: "We men of the world, my boy, get used to this sort of thing. Wo get toughened." "Yes, 1 dare say; but it seems to me that I should like a milder process of •toughening.'" "It's all the same, 1 assure you." "Perhaps so; but 1 think I should really prefer anything to Miss Leh man's method."— Lot lie Uray. Drinking a Tear. "Hoys, I won't drink without you take what I do," said old Josh Spillit in reply to an invitation. Ho was a toper of long standing and abundant capacity, and the boys looked at him in astonishment. "The idea," one of them replied, "that you should prescribe conditions is laughable. Perhaps you want to force one of your abominable mixtures down us. You are chief of the mixed drinkers, and 1 won't agree to your conditions." "He wants to run us in on castor oil and brandy," said the Judge, who would willingly have taken the oil to get the brandy. "No, I'm square," replied Spillit. "Take my drink and I'm with you." The boys agreed and stood along the bar. Every one turned to Spillit, and regarded him with interest. "Mr. Bartender," said Spillit, "give me a glass of water." "What, water!" the boys exclaimed. "Yes, water. It's a new drink on me, 1 admit, and I expect it's a scarce article. Several days ago, as a parcel of us went Ashing, we took a line chance of whiskey along, an' had a heap of fun. 'Long toward evenin' I got powerful drunk, an' crawled under a tree an' went to sleep. The boys drank up all the whiskey an' came back to town. They thought it was a good joke 'cause they'd left me out there drunk an' told it around town with a mighty bluster. My son got a hold of the report an' told it at home. Well, 1 laid under that tree all night, an' when I woke in the mornin' thar sot mv wife right thar by me. She didn't say a word when I woku up. but she sorter turned her head away. 1 got up and looked at her. She still didn't say nothin', but I could see that she was chokin'. •I wish I had suthin to drink,' s's I. Then she tuck a cup what she fotch with her, and went up to whar a spring Piled up, an' dipped up a cupful an' fotch it to me. Jes as she was handin' it ter me she leaned over ter hide her eyes, and 1 saw a tear drap in the water. 1 tuck ti.e cup an' drank the water and the tear, an' raisin' my hands I vowed that I would never alter drink my wife's tears agin; that 1 had been drinkin' them lor the last twenty years, an* that I was goin' to stop. You boys know who it was that left me drunk. You was all in the gang, (live me another glass of water. Mr. Bartender." Arkansaw Traveler. A Persistent "Shadow." A detective recently said to a New York reporter; ",-v man hired to shad ow a party, or a shadow, as we call him, gets about *2 a day and expenses, and is paid for the time he works. A shadow is expected to watch a man from the time he gets up in the morn ing till he goes to bed. If it happens that a party must be shadowed night and day it requires two men to watch him. A shadow must watch his man closely without himself being seen or allowing the party to lind out that he is being shadowed. I meet the shad ow, for instance, and tell him that ho must keep his eyes on a certain man whom I designate by brushing on the shoulder with my handkerchief. Then I enter a place, and as the man comes out I pretend to see a bug on his shoul der and brush it off. Then Igo away, knowing that until I give the word that man will never be out of the sight of my shadow. The shadow takes him to dinner and back to his place of business. Then to his supper, and then down town in the evening. Then it is that his hardest work begins. He may have to suddenly hire a hack at a big expense and follow the man out on a carousing expedition. He Anally takes him home at night, secures a cover and catches a little sleep himself. The securing of a cover is sometimes the most diflicult part of the work, for your man may live in an aristocratic locality where there are no rooms for rent. I have known our man Boland to sleep night after night in a coai bunk on the street when it was nip ping cold. There are in New York certain banks and large corporations that every year along about the holi days have each of their men shadowed about a week. At the end of a week a full report of the man's habits, haunts, style of living, and even of his week's expenses, is given to his employer." MiLLIIKIM, PA M THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1883. A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE. LIGHTNING. If* Kffecll Clon the Krrvoiu Wyelem- A short time ago an item was exten sively published relating Iho circum stances of the death of a child from fright caused by a thunder storm. She was ten years of age, and having been roused from sleep by the thunder, implored permission to share her mother's bed till the storm was over. This was refused her and she grew so quiet that her parent went to see what was the matter. She reached tho child's bedside just in time to see her die. Another incident of death from fear of lightning was reported from Cleveland recently. The victim was an elderlv lady who lived alone. An % unusually sharp and near flash, follow ed by an imtant crash of thunder, so overcame hfr that she fell to tho floor and died, <u though the current had passed through her. While cases of such extreoe terror caused by light ning are rire, even rarer than death from the slock itself, fear of lightning in a less intense form is by no means uncommon It is a notable fact that courageous and healthy men are some times very unpleasantly affected, if not with tar, at all events with a sense of acute discomfort, not only after ashaip flash and instant explo sion, but btforc a storm approaches. During thi progress of the tempest their discomfort Increases. Some com plain of lassitude and headache before a storm, due, doubtless, to the absence of ozone in the air; others, as the flashes occur mere frequently, experience nausea, and sometimes an unpleasant quivering about the abdomen. These are symptoms that accompany acute terror sometimes, but the sense of fear is probably absent. How to account for the phenomenon is not easy. Supposing thit its cause is purely ob jective, why thould some people suffer and others escape? or why should the s;une person suffer at one time and not at another ? As a general thing children do not fear lightning or even thunder; and adults who have long suffered may overcome the dread in various ways. A mother who would take refuge in a closet during a storm, f*i instance, and give way to the most unreasoning terror, on being warned to master her fairs for the sake of the wondering child may be entirely re lieved of apprehension during a storm. Of courae, reason tells us that the chance of being killed by lightning is so small as to te hardly appreciable. According to the state census of 1875, during tliat yea* eighteen people were killed by lightning, while forty were murdered; 194 committed suicide; 350 were drowned, 279 were killed by falls and 33 by kicks irom horses and mules. Water, therefore, twenty times as dangerous as lightening, and the horse and tho mule ars doubly deserving of the termr which a thunder storm pro vokes. Moreover, it could be shown, no doubt, that ninety per cent, of the deaths caused by lightning were due to foolish exposure, such as taking refuge beueafli a tree or carrying an umbrella during a thunder storm. These facts, or their general infer ences, are pretty well known, but they are powerless to prevent fright. One solution of th? mystery is that nerves out of tone ami flaccid may be suscep tible to subtle influences unfelt by healthy person* another is that the dread comes irom habit rather than anything else, and may be overcome by the exercises of will power. There is a current belief that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Blackmore, tte brilliant English novel ist, how ever, professes to have data to prove tho contrary principle, so far as human beings are concerned, namely that a person who has once been struck invites a repetition of the blow, and is in greater danger than one who has never had that nnpleasing experience. —Brooklyn Evgte. A Gigantic Enterprise. The East ana West India Docks company of London has boldly em barked in a gigantic enterprise, for which some commercial prophets pre dict a failure. This is the construc tion of docks at Tilbury, on the Thames, opposite Gravesend, of such magnitude that the Globe says: "On the whole, this dock extension promises to be the most remarkable that even London has ever witnessed, and will leave all other ports in the world far behind." They will have a tidal basin with a depth of forty-three feet, and the largest vessels afloat will go in and out without regard to the tide. The contracts call for four dry docks with a total length of 1730 feet, a float ing derrick with a lifting capacity of 100 tons, special wharves and abbatoirs for the cattle traffic, 15,000 lineal feet of quay berths, from forty to fifty miles of permanent railroad tracks and a large hotel for the accommoda tion of passengers. "Tilbury is cer lainlyata considerable distance from London," says the Globe t "but with the railway facilities to he organized, a few miles more or less will really be a matter of no great importance, while it is undeniable that, with the huge ships of the present day—and they still seem to he continually advancing in dimensions—the avoidance of a few miles of river navigation, with its windings and shallows and fogs, and tho necessary cost of tonnage and pilot age, must he an immense advantage." The contracts call for tho completion of the work within two years and a half, of which one year has already elapsed. THEIR ORIGIN. The lll.tnr.v of Nome Common Food IMauta. The origin of vegetables is an inter esting study, and in the pages of Mas tery will be found this account of where the food plants that we claim as our own had their origin: In his recently published investiga tions of the early agriculture of the temperate regions of Asia ind Europe, DeCandollo traces the origin of the turnip to northern Europe, and the cabbage to the western coasts of Europe, where its wild stock may still be found. Purslain, which is a food plant with many, but is known among us chiefly as a very troublesome weed, is found wild from the western Hima layas to Greece. The onion was brought from western Asia. The com mon bean seems to have become extinct in its wild state. It was intro duced into Europe by the Aryans, probably from the region south of the Caspian. The remains of lentils have been found in the Swiss lake dwellings of the Bronze ago, and this plant was native to western Asia, Greece and Italy before its cultivation there. It was afterward carried to Egypt. The chickpea was carried from south of the Caucassus,east and west by the Aryans, to India and to Europe. The carrot is indigenous to the eastern Mediterra nean, whence the Greeks introduced it into Italy and the Arabs into western Europe. DeCandolle regards all the various kinds of wheat as derivatives of the small grained kind found in the most ancient lake dwellings of western Switzerland. He inclines to the belief that the wild stock of this originated in Mesopotamia, where it may still exist. The origin of spelt is very doubtful, and it may possibly be an ancient cultivated derivative from wheat stock. As to barley, the inhab itants of the Swiss lake dwellings cul tivated both the two rowed and the six rowed kinds. The former is found spontaneous in the area between the Bed sea and the Caspian; but nothing is known of the spontaneous occur ence of the latter or of the four rowed kind. Either, then, both were deriv atives in prehistoric times of the two rowed variety, or they are the cultivat ed representatives of species which have since become extinct. As to rye, probability points to an origin in south eastern Europe. The lake dwellers even of the age of Bronze did not know it, but Pliny mentions its cultivation near Turia. DeCandolle supposes that the Aryan migrations westward met in Europe and carried it onward. Oats seem also to have originated in eastern Europe; they are found not earlier than the Bronze age in Switzer land. From Pliny's mention that the German used oatmeal, it is concluded that it was not cultivated by the Romans. The vine is indigenous in western Asia, whence its use was carried to various countries by both Aryan and Semetic races; but it did not reach China before 122 B. C. The almond, though so characteristic of Mediterra nean countries, seems to be a native of western Asia and perhaps Greece. As late as the time of Pliny the fruits were known to the Romans as Nuces gracae. The wild stocks of our pears and apples seem to have been indigen ous to southern Europe and western Asia before the Aryan invasion; their remains abound in the Swiss lake dwellings. The quince is a native of North Persia, and seems to have been introduced into eastern Europe in pre- Hellenio times. Remains of a form of the pomegranate have been found in the strata of the pleiocene age in south ern France by Saparta; but it died out and was reintroduced from countries adjoining Persia in prehistoric times into the Mediterranean region, of which it is now so characteristic a fea ture. The primitive home of the olive was apparently the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, where the Greeks discovered the useful qualities, the Romans learning them later. The fig has left its remains in quaternary rocks in France, along with the teeth of Elephas primi genius, but its pre historic home must be sought in the southern Mediterranean shores and lands, where it survived after probably perishing in France. Terms, $1 00 Per Year in Advance. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Incandescent electric lamps are used In the carriage lamps of Baron Roths child, of Vienna. Storage batteries placed under the coachman's scat are said to bo capable of carrying a charge of electricity sufficient to feed the lamps for one hundred hours. M. Charles Montigny, of Brussels, has noticed that not only does tho aurora borealis increase the scintil lation of stars —as other observers have noted—but that magnetic dis turbances produce the same effect even when accompanied by no visible auro ra. Tho influence is strongest forstars in the north. Recently one man was taken very ill and another died from the effects of handling poisoned hides. 'I here is no reason why hides should not convey serious and fatal diseases, like clothing. "Some years ago," says the Scientific American , "an importer of hides in New York died from the effects of a bite or sting of a fly which inhabited the loft where his hides were stored." There are reports from several parts of Sweden of a hitherto unknown and very destructive kind of caterpillar which is giving a great deal of trouble to the farmers and anxiety to the whole population, it is gray-brown, with deep gray stripes; its appearance is most common after rain. Its work on tho crops has been so serious as to demand the assistance of the gov ernment. The opinion is said to be gaining ground among metallurgists, that whatever mechanical strength is de sirable, an alloy is preferable to pure inotaL One of the greatest obstruc tions to the mechanical value of iron is its tendency to crvsta lize, the result being the same whether the article be a monster gun or a ship's cable. But this tendency of iron to crystallize may be prevented by the almixture of other metals. Prof. Proctor asserts that the moon has grown old six times as fast as the earr.h, a comparison of the masses and radiating surfaces of the two bodies making it evident that the earth's internal heat was originally sufficient to last six times as long as the moon's supply. On the very moderate as sumption, then-fore, that only twelve millions of years have passed since the earth and the moon were at the same stage of planetary life, this astrono mer shows us that sixty millions of years must elapse before the earth will have reached the stage of life through which the moon is now pass ing- Japanese Object Teaching. The teachers at the school for the sons of Japanese nobles in Tokio ap pears to have hit upon a notable method of teaching physical geogra phy. In the court behind the school building is a physical map of the country, between 300 and 400 feet long. It is made of turf and rock and is bordered with pebbles, which look at a little distance much like water. Every inlet, river and mountain is re produced in this model with a fidelity "to detail which is wonderful. Latitude and longitude are indicated by tele graph wires, and tablets show the po sition of the cities. Ingenious devices are employed in illustrating botanic studies also. For example the pine is illustrated by a picture showing the cone, leaf and dissected flower, set in a frame which shows the bark and lon gitudinal and transverse sections of the wood.— Nature. Half Worm and Half Snake. The mountains furnish many strange forms of life which the dry, hot valleys never develop. Old rotten pine logs seem to be tho favorite nest of a loath some creature which is half-way be tween a worm and a snake. It is usually a foot long and nearly an inch in diameter, with a head like a snake, and a clumev, blunt tail. It is of a dead color, between a dirty green and a brown, without spots or stripes. It is slow of movement, cold and clam my to the touch, and seems to be more of a jelly than bone and muscle. It is regarded as harmless, and the woods men pick it up and handle it careless ly.—Virginia City (Nev.) Enterpiiae. Around Gainesville, Fla., the rais ing and shipping of the turbine squash has become an industry. It finds a ready sale at Boston, and is used al. most exclusively for making pies. In shape it resembles a turbine wheel, whence it takes its name. It has the color of the pumpkin and looks like a kershaw, but is liner and of a more delicate flavor. The vines bear heavily, and continue bearing until about the Ist of August. The prices vary from |4.50 to $5 per barre'. Montana is paying great attention tq ooi ing artesian wells. NEWSPAPER LAWS. If subscribers order the discontinuation of newspapers, the publishers may continue to Bend them until all arrearages are paid, j If subscribers refuse or neglect to take their newspapers from the office to which they are sent, they are held responsible until they have settled the bills and ordered them dis continued. If subscribers move to other places with out informing the publisher, and the news- Sapers are sent to the former place of reei - ence, they are then responsible. A D VE&TfSfN Q RATTEs! 1 wk. 1 mo. 18mon. i ftmos. 11 yssi I 1 00 • 800 •00 $ 00 9 OS k column 800 400 | 00 10 00 |IS 0< E column SOO 8 OU| IS 001 90 00 I 86 00 r column 800 18 001 20 001 85 00 1 80 00 ; One inch m?ke* a square. Administrators ao<l Kv tcutora' llotices 83,60. Transient a4vorUmran*n and' locals 10 cents per line for first Insertion and 6 osnts per < ! line for each additional Insertion. NO. 34. Sometime. Sometime I think you will be glad to know That I once kept you fondly in my heart, And that your heart'i true home waa really there, Although to-day we wander Jar apart. Some hour, when you have slipped away from care, And idly fall to dreaming of the past, And sadly think of ali your life has missed, You will remember my true heart at last. Or it mny come to pass, some dreary night, After a day that has been hard to boar, When you aro weary, heart-sick and forlorn, And there is none to comiort nor to care, . That you will close your tired eyes, to dream Ol tender kisses falling soft and light, Of rcstlul touches smoothing back your bair, And sweet words Bpokon for your heart'i delight. Oh! then you will remember, and be glad That 1 once kept you londly in my heart, And that your heart's true home was really there, Although to-dsy we wander far apart. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. A hard case—The oyster's. The key-note—"Wife, let me In." A revival meeting—A camphor bot tle and a fainting woman's nose. A citizen of Rochester calls his stom ach "Hades." because it is the place oi departed spirits. Paper rowing-boats were not the first aquatic craft that were constructed of that material. Paper-cutters were made years and years ago. The Concord school of philosophy has not yet determined how a woman should act when her hand 3 are in the dough-pan and an aggressive fly alights on her nose. A New England physician says that if every family would keep a box of mustard in the house one-half of the doctors would starve. We suggest that every family keep two boxes. "Mercy!" exclaimed Mrs. F., as she caught sight of the camelopard, "just look at that beast; what a long neck!" "Yes," replied Fogg, "the most re markable case of soar threat I ever saw." "Never would call a boy of mine 'Alias,'" said Mrs. Jones, of Hunts ville, Ala., "if I had a hundred to oame. Men by that name is alius cuttin' up capers. Here's Alias Thomp son, Alias Williams, Alias the Night hawk—all been took up for stealin.'" A small boy was asked where the zenith was. He replied: "The spot in the heavens directly over one's head." To test his knowledge lurther the teacher asked: "Can two persons have the same zenith at the same time?" "They can." "How?" "If one should stand on the other's head." A Terrible Religion. Baron Palet contributes to the Paris Figaro a strange history,under the title of "An Hour amongst the Dead-" Tha dead, in this case, are living women who regard themselves as "dead to the world." They are, in fact, the little known order of the Barefooted Clares. These ladies possess a cloister in Paris, in which there are eighteen nuns, and a few lay-sisters who act as their ser vants. Fourteen of the present staff of nuns are under twenty-three years of age. The reason of this, according to Baron Palet, is terrible enough to justify the intervention of the state. The rule of the Clares is so excessively severe that nearly all the professed in mates die young. They wear a rough woolen dress, with a rope as girdle; they go barefooted on the cold stone flooring; they never warm themselves at a fire—even the kitchen fire is plac ed beyond their access; they eat meat only once a year—on Christmas day; they sleep on a narrow board; they must spend ten hours every day upon their knees; they are only allowed to speak to one another on rare occasions; they live entirely on alms. The ab bess, through a grating, assured him that more than one of her nuns, through cultivation of this grace of si lence, had actually lost the power of forming a sentence. We doubt if Mr. Carlyle himself would have approved of so prodigious a development of the axiom that "Speech is silver, silence is golden." The Baron does not seem to have suspected that the abbess might be chaffing the credulous man of the world. When these ladies were "in the world," they probably had more than enough idle and purposeless chat ter, for they were all members of aris tocratic families, and have thus passed from one extreme to the other. Each inmate is only allowed to be visited by iier parents once in the year, and the interview must take place at the iron grating where the Baron learned the letails which he publishes. When a lun dies she is buried by her sister luns. The Baron regrets that a phy-r lician of repute cannot undertake the intopsy of one of the deceased Clares, is he thinks the results would be prof table to science.
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