The Democratic Watchman.
BELLEFONTE, PA
BUILDING ON THE SAND
"fie well, to woo, Us good to wed,
For so the world had) done
Ilineemyrtlergrew, mid rooes Limy
tkittl morning brought the sun.
Viet have a'eare, ye young and fair,
VliS sure you pledge with truth,
Be rtrtain that year lore will wear
fteyond the days of youth !
Por if ye give not heart for heart,
As well as hand for hand,
You'll find you're played the ' r u Jae" part
And -both upon the sand "
'Tie well to save, 'us well le have
A goodly store of gold,
And holtienottigh of whining stufl,
For charity iscold.
but place not all your hope and trust
In what the doff, mine bring., ,
Wecannot Eve on yellow dust,
Unmixed with purser !binge.
And he who piles up wealth M05ur ...... "
Will often hare to stand
Beside his coffer chest and own
'Tis "built upon the sand."
"rip Kood to speak in kindly gwlee,
Anil soothe where wo can ,
Fair grouch' About.] bind the human nnua
And lore link man to man.
But stay not at the gentle words.
Letedeeds with language dwell,
The one who piling starvmg
Should scatter erumbs as well
The mercy that In warm and true
Must lend a helping hand
Te those whit talk, yet tail to du,
ltut "bulld upon the nand "
A PLEASANT STORY
12=1
newer will forgise hirn," said old
Mr Remington, soleinal3 dilaisiting his
great gold spectacles 131 their green
itather ease
-- “N - or ; either," sobbed Mrs Hem.
ington, heedless of the unwonted disor
der of her cap-string ..To marry that
'bold, dashing, city girl without co much
as waiting for our permission " •
"Hut you know my dear," suggested
the old gentleman, "we shouldn't have
given it to him if he had waited a half
century ' •
"Certainly we should not," said Mrs.
Remington, emphatically "To think
-
of our ojsiv child treating us so cavalier
ly, Abel, the oily one we have got in
the world "
'•He has made Lashed, and Must lie on
it," said the old sus sternly "I will
never receive his gav city bride here,
and so shall write to him immediately.
We are scarcely floe enough for a Fifth
avenue daughter-in-law '
As he spoke, the old loan picked up a
cramped letter that he had thrown on
the floor in the lint paroxysms of Ins
anger, and smoothed out its fold. with a
mechanical touch
"Why, only tkink of it. Abel," said
Mrs liemingtor " Mahal& Buckley
served for six weeks in this—this girl'■
cousins family and says Ellyn Sayre
could smoke a little paper cigar just_lilse
a man, and used to gu skating with her
dress all tucked up to the tip of her
boots, and drove.r baruuche, with the
groom sitting behind—and— '
-Bless my soul' interrupted the old
gentleman, his breath nearly taken away
by the catalogueof enormities .• Bless
any soul, you, dur't say so And our
l'harles is married to such an umaron as.
this '
So the couple eat in the roomy porch
of the capacauus oh! farm house, with the
Michigan ropier totiaing little billetdoux
in their laps w scouted flowers„ and the
delicious odor of the fresh mown hat
l . oming up from the meadow flats ht the
riser, as nuserah:e an old couple as you
want to use
Meanwhile MAIL I. harle, Remington
a bride of three weeks standing was ma
king herself sureinely }tulip at Niaga
ra She wt .13 11 fall. n log, among tier
delicious litanies and 01 Gvnt
Island, that bright June dal, with the
lights and iihadows liasitii.; each other
:Across fir lo‘el face, and turnin4 her
Iona; elie,trott rolls of g 4,1.1
11x•..,.1 all at white she. Hs fa:ten ing
%ninth flo•ers into the ribbon of hi.r
little ha: and singing some
old ballad softk• to herself
Ev I% n Eon: % . 71:ton . har
neither Llond.• tier hrui,ett, .1 1 .•
eutitri% est to ULlie OW Lilian'. of 641 /
her riee-leafeiiititlexiiin bright hair ni
ti eye-, and the •tiiih, that,
fri h -.•arlet lip., were
ger. •t rmiv,lit from the heart
II V 1 IP. J. , 1 tied In tier
hand--n Litt, 011 t;; G How it
It %Mt and a Lt-riti•eful lint
I% ~ ler ter, EN
and 'Pad • 1111 , 1
" • •( lb ( ' nml th,
fn 1,1 su 11:i from th,
•11 ..11. pot v, •r had and rt
p:ea-ant I:• ad, ill/ "1,1
11, t. k ,4 1 lnt , her lap •tiltly r.II. n
I,•tter, .at par.• r paper •• , :gne.l
• 11d aral Mar\ C. r:11:o.ton, ' a, k...
expr,•—oon tit - eir t 1 1 411111.1, \ alt!
11 , hadr,,ua l.d, mid 11 II 11.-
•••rti , .ll 'of then- detertimiatiou tie% er
nvititi hol Notre *A a daughter
Evlyii vu to her husbatiii fat
with her bright rtra full of tears
•• )h, Charles, f am ~,irry "
Ile laaghetl and quoted to her the ..h1
',wripture ;dame ••A matt shall lea%.
lin , father and inotlier and cleave to ht.
iv tfe '
••Anil now don't you want to b., the
• thor letter, E%lyn '
1L win It minium., from the rtierean s i
rile arizi with w hich Charlez Retinue:-
Jon C,01111‘ . ...t..d, ha earnest intr,uty
.that he would vi-it Contrid America, in
rt heir interests immetLately.
—Go by all means. should I us k ou
to linger by tny side, when duty
.2,0 u away, aoor wife ( - should be •'
Ile kissed her flushed cheek with ad
mirtag tendernet..
Antl where. 2.111'11 I Imre you, my
botouie bride
I will make a hi-A.( vidit 'home
in the alearlilflie It cuts our wedding.
tour Elturt, but theu ,ou know we ha t ••
it life dam. to flnigh our Loriry
And von knew nothing of thi, ' '
deniandeti Mr Remington of hia son.
..Not a word; it's Evlyn's own idea "
And) El, lyn, half-laughing, half
crying, stole into her. mother-in-laws
extended arm.
• It don't semi po.e.ible that .he 1 , 01 , 1
• • • • • Fifth A enue girl ' -aid the old gentle-
Ye.: .sid old MN Remington eoin. man. ••Come here and trice me n kiss,
placently. think that via. n splendid Ma—Kvlyn, I :neon.'
idea of your., .ending for Lot "No; %he 1, our t' daughter,' attpr
Chatitie , orphan t odpt It'll traeli said nrond Mrs. Remington Es -
C hark , . lip w ife that w o'ro Iv() head confm , .rd their prejurli ,,, with
in warm .t al.out •41 rot , , and th,.. :Johann-a wand of love
Ifl •r
So the brief Nigger's sojourn came to
an end, 111/4 Mrs. Remington, tor the
.e. on was n widows! bride
"Ho will he hark .00n," .he riLid to
Lorself, "and in the lorunwhtle, , ,oh, I
row , t do .o !um h "
Marian Chauncey won't have no city
airs nor grates. I'm dreadfully anxious
to see her. Lot was a likely looking fel
' low, and toy cousin twice removed, and
folks' said his wife was a regular built
beauty, I guess likely she'll come by the
stage to-night.''
'•1 gums likely there she is'how," said
Abel, Who, sitting by the open window,
caught the first glimpse of a slender fig-.
ure coming up the path, and carrying a
well packed carpet-bag, and Mrs. Rem
ington ran forward to kiss and welcome
the new comer.
Marian Chauncey was exceMingly
pretty—Mrs. Remington soon discover
ed that—a bright little winsome ore.-
tufo, with gold brown hair that would
curl in spite of the restraining net, MT. ,
ing hazel eyes and tremulous red lips.
'Oh, Abell" 'Quoth the soft-lnvarted
old lady, at the end of two days, "why
didn't Charles wait until he had seen
Marian Chauncv ? Is she' n6t sweet—
don't it seem like a gleam of sunshine
in the old house when she is tripping
“She is very pretty,” said Mr. Rem
ington.
"And thou,' pursued the old lady,
"she is so handy She knows just whyr-.:
everything is kept, and how to .do eve
rytlling ; and she does my caps exquis
itely, and jou should have seen how
she rove me to meeting yes
terdiy. Oh, Abel I if Pm - wide:ice had
only blessed me with a daughter-in-law
like dear little Marian Chauncey "
Ntrs. Remington's speech was cut short
by the entrance of the subject of it, with
her apron full of eggs and her hands full
of wild flowers
"Mrs Remington," she began, and
then checking herself abruptly—."Oh, I
cannot call you by that long, formal
name; may f say mother 7 "
Uf course you may my darling,"
said the enthusiaitie old lady, I only
wish yotowere my real daughter '•
Marian laid down her dowers and de
posited her store of pearly white eggs in
a basket on the table, anti then came up
to Mrs Remington. kneeiing down and
nestling her bright, head in the old lady's
cheek apron
• -'.4fritireri-"-the murmured softly, "you
do not know how sweet the word
sounds And will you aiwajs love mo
and cherish me and let me be a real
daughter to you'" -
"I should be a hard-hearted old cor
morant if I didn t, pet., ' said the old
lady, her spectacles dimraod with tears
In short, ,Harlan` Chauncey became
the light of the farm house, the bright
little guardsan genius of its celled rooms
and a ide airy halls She read the pa
per to farmer Remington; she compoun
ded cake, jelly and syllabubs, to the as
tonishment and delight of the old lady
—she kept the two old china vases on
the mantel brimming over with a rain
of roses she knew by instinct just when
to darken the room fur the old man's
afternoon nap or the wide chintz 'sofa,
and was better than ten doctors a lien
rs Remington had ohe of the bad ner-
TULIN headaches
.•1 really don't see how we ever con
tinued to live without Marian," said the
' old gentleman,
'Alm she shall never leave us," said
Mr% Remington, decidedly
' "Marian, little bright eves, I've gut
{news.' called the old gentleman une
!Horning, thruu4h the hall, •• lea% e tho%u
honey suckles fur some one else to tie
;up and come in here Charley is coin
. mr, home
••To stay, sir '
Ne. t 4 ;allt . of course his fine city
wife demands his permanent devotion
-Mr 'Remington could not help speak
ing with r sneer- "hut he will spend the
tilt here, on hit nay to New lurk I
shUold like iou tii see Charlei. —and I
should like ( harlea to see
blll4l--it on re nut better looking than
hi., Fifth atinie wife, .he mug
partoz..ti rtliong women that', all I to
got to ‘ a)
• I% 11.•11 u b.• hen•
• lit sli..ut at. h air, I should
trilin his letter lie •Iwtts (1111 write un
awful ••risul —tut • and u s Just half
and all the time liirgets tiier , altu t
but I siipii,se that s the faill on m w-s
-du,•
111.arlut. reia
7...11i t. bru•li r•-ki-z; ; I ; ;rl.
arol .11,t1.; the Mk I in
Una 4 ;nth.T.,l It t.; u fiat
( ham; t, vi LI , •i •.14 0,.•
lit treat had t •..r ve•l f.:er-
U , .1%
But I ! ,t. t:. :.1. n. u :.
..atd Mar.an in a as
pained a unite 1...-e te her breatt, at
prolured t•• liezot,ell,l i. , J. , ••:.••••'
Mr- It , n.in4t.a. • • Mara
Marian, I .lou n ar,d t
.r
dl • (.1 the I.lt—r tth an a-n. s
ra.linnt littl.• in.• 11,::
tlenatti, 11.• t rt•
ttt 11,41 .
sky. I% 11.11 AI 4 lio.
Clinrlr .1.111111
twaritt:l- .k:1 • r
tlangater. woo--
hn•l •; r..__
0:0,41it the .114 ht 15r-t.r ,
artp4; while the t;., den ha.r dvat,
!we've; I 11, title of curl. ~ ,er his
Pr
-liviNn. My %if,'
Mr Itetwington etart.d at h:, w
Mr! iter11111.214.11 Start.,l at Le:
balid
"Ile's mud whi-pered the old ma:.
"Charles, ' he added aloud, • oil are
mistaken , this is Marian C'haunees our
adopted' daughter "
No, sir, it is not, faltered the
.young
lady in question '•I am Erlyn, your
son's wile. I have stolen into our
hearts on false pretences—but I did s o
long for 3 our love! When 3uu sent k n .
Marian, %%Liu /1 one of m!, deareet whool
friends, I iiisrsuaded her to
Mime nod allow me to personate rer just
1 . 4, a few weeks Father, mother. you
will not turn me out of your atfevtion
now
The Hawaiian Divers—How it Feels
, tn Fall Far.'
Sometimes the native children fix a
long-pole so as to project from a bank
over-deep water; along this they chase
each other to the outermost end, leap
ing in regular succession into thel wa
ter. Leaping Ink high perpendicular
eliffs is a favorite and daring sport with
the men. They choose a plaCe where
the water is not less than fifteen or
twenty feet in depth at the foot of the
cliff; then taking a rousing run, to get
fairly under way—like Washington Ir
ving's Dutchman, who started to urnp
over the mountain—they bound far in
to the air from the edge o' the cliff.—
As the leaper falls from that dizzy
height—sometimes a hundred feet by
measurement—toward the -water, he
litfhda himself almost double, as in wan
ton muscular play i but just before
striking the water he partially straight
ens himself so that his whoie body is
slightly curved forward at the moment
of the plunge, and the feet aro, perhapsf
a foot in advance of a perpendicular
line let fall from the head. Ile strikes
the water without a splash, entering it
with that quick, dull chuck that a
smooth pebble makes when thrown
forcibly into water, and at an angle
with the surfnne so Qicely calculated
that he is actually brought to the sur
face again by the momentum of the
fall. With his body curved as I have
described, he shoots through the arc of
a circle under the water, and after two
or three seconds comes up, feet fore
most. The first thing kou see of him
is his toes, emerging from the water fit
teen or twenty feet in front of the place
where he went under. o athletic feat,
is more daring and beautiful than this.
The sensations experienced by one
who falls from a great height have not,
I think, beers desertbed in prnst. A
singular good fortune having triadh the
writer dr this article an expert in the
Ihrwaiian manner, he is able to give
sonic account of them. Until you are
thoroughly practiced in the leap, you
have a decided inclination to think
twice about the matter b e fore you risk
it. 'You first dike at the foot of the
tjaf, and satisfy yourself that there is
sufficient depth of water. You watch
one after another of your companions
as they bound away in long parabolic
curves from the edge of,the cliff , but it
requires some nerve to throw yourself
deliberately from aslugh precipice into ,
mid air. The solid ground scenic a
tnuch more comfortable place. At last,
nerving yourself, you run and leap.—
Instantly you have a feeling of floating
rather than iJi falling—such a feeling, I
I suppose. as a bird has when rapidly j
alighting from an elekated
There is nu sense' of accelerated motiqn
as you fall; but you feel' your, hair
blown upward by a tierce current of air.
This does not., however, in the least
embarrasaFiSur breathing. The notitm '
that people have "their breath taken j
away" in falling from a height is erro
neous. In an instant collies the plunge ,
and you must enter the water 111 exact I
ly the right position, or it will hurt you
almost like tke solid earth. If you en
ter it with a splash, you meet its re j
sislance too suddenly, and may be
lamed or stunned. The great leaper,
Sam. Patch, lost his tile thus. flail ,
lie possessed Hawaiian skill and a sit ,
her head, he would never have lost his
position while falling, as in his last
leap at Genesee Falls Coiild an island j
er bake taught him bow to conic out
toes foremost, he might hake been al e
and leaping at the present ou, '
wiser than be. come safer to the cur
Mee, swim ashore, and prepare for an
other leap --Hearth and Home.
The Population of the Globe
There are oil the globe a b o ut I
000,tnni •ouli., of which
3641,(100,(()0 are ofithe Caucn•:nn rio
tan) are of the Moog.: rac.e,
190,000.9 W arc of the Ethloinuti
176,000.000 are of the Malay mce,
I ,ta.n.hooo,ooo are of thelrolo- Amer:-
, l ra.e
There are 3 f,42l.anclsg.-. spoken, and
1 000 thlierent reitgtuns.
'flo• etsrlt murtahty of th..
S peri•ou3 This is at the rate
of G 1 . ..el per day. 3.730 per hour. ti( per
pulsutßou of our heurt
s use of •wu hums;. rea-
It srl• t‘
Th• a gOrtiumail ht..
111, k.r th, pyulliti4kt .ti
lag. , of 7 3 eta,
Mr
fat ur I.4ft,ris 17 scar.
Iti Wit rwr• , . l)f ort.• arr
1.00 t.mh , 4..ne m WO
ko:.0 114 101) It%
IMIII
Hi
Linger than .111 , :1.•
I. I lA/ rwriwtis GS tuarr, and
EiEl
A ,itAttt, unit :
1:• atV other tip.tatt I.t
1'
11 • •• •-xvf
r
of the uf, it•
MEE=
Pr a great
nr. 10r , 4e% It% In 1,000 ludo, !dual,
Jan% e it•the &ken' . 7, •I 2 arc pnest. , ora
tor, or public speakers , 40 are agrirul
turali.t+•, workmen, 32, are euldlt r.
or ni,liuiry employee, , , 29 are advocate:,
engineer. 27 profeseors, and 24 doctors
Those a o devote their lives to the
prolongation of others die the soonett_
There arc 33.5,(X10,000
There are 5,100,000 Israelite.
There are 50,000,000 .%.iatie r,
li
giou.
There sir« 1qi,(000,000 31,,hkEnti.
, 111. re ore '2(10,000,000 l'agari-
I 70 1100,(X111 profel. the Itointut
7 - 0410(190 rrof...“ the Greek faith
1,1,1.01 0,(10Q profe.. the Proteatant
I %, • Seeds --The Chinese 4dom
sow a cron without having pre% ion.ls
,eaked their seed, in diluted manure.
keeping tio•in there until they begin ni
sprout They hold that this not only
Five., the plant , an early and vigorous
start, but pre,erx.be the seeds from
worms or bird- The practical results
of Chinese agrit ultu re are too important
to speak of them with contempt
Would it not be well for to
sb •teepA for our eorn, squa.The,,, mel
ons. etc , general rule, and not, 0- at,
eXoviotitin
OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 1+
Over and over again,
No mutter which way I turn,
I always find In the Book of LIN,
FVIIIITOW6h I have to learn
I must take my turn at the mill,
I must grind wattle golden grain,
I moot cork at my tank, with a resolute will,
Oner and over again.
We cannot measure the need
Of even the dulcet dovver,
1 4 Nor dheck thirflOw of the golden nande
That run through a single hour
But the morning dewe must fall,
And the Nun and the mummer rain
/dust do their part, and perform It all
Over and over again.
Over end over again
o'he brook through the meadow flown,
And over and over again
The ponderous mill wheel goer!
Once doing will not suffice;
Though doing he not in vain ;
And a blessing, failing U 9 once or twice,
May come if we fry again.
The path that has once been trod,
la never CO rough to the Teel,
And the lesson we once have learned
Is never so hard to repeal
Th oug h surn us f tit-tears may fall,
Aod the heart to rte depth be riven
With storm and tempest, we need them all
To render U. meta for heaven.
A Wonderful Liar
Ati Englishman travelling on -the
Mississippi told several rather rough
stories about London thieves A Cin
cinnati chap named Case, heard these
narratives with a silent but expressive
"huhiph," and then he remarked that
he thought the Western thieves heat
the London operators all hollow.
How so inguiml the Englishman,
with so rprtse l'rav, sir, ha% e you lived
much in the 1VP.,0
Not a great deal I undertook to sot
up ljusiness at Des Moines Rapids a
while ago, but the rascally peuple At,le
nearly everything I had, and finally
Welsh miner run off with my wife
Gracious I said the Englishman, and
have you never heard from her ?
NCNIT to this day But that was not
the worst of at.
Worst! What could be 'worse than
stealing u mon 's wife
Stealing the children, I should say,
chid the implacable Case
Children!
Yes A nigger woman who had
none of her eOl abducted my uoung
est daughter and sloped and jined the
Dal sou Bee her ?
See lEier 9 Yes, she hadn't ten rods
the start of tae, hut plunged in the
lako and swam off like a duck, and
there wasn't a 'canoe to follow her
with
The Engll►rnan leaned back in
chair, and called fur anulher mug of
'alf-and-'alf, ahtle Case — smoked hi.
cigar
I shan't go any further west, I thin 6.
at l eng th 01,,,erved the excited John
Bull I should not advise any one to
gut said Case, quietly. My brother
once lived there, but he had to leave, al
though his business was the best in the
eetintry •
bu4iness wu, he in, pray
Lumbering—had a RIM-111111
And they stole his lumber'
Yes, and saw-logs, too
Saw-logs'
Yes, whole dozens of black walnut
logs were aprnted mr or carried away in
a single night Ile tried every way to
prevent rt , had men hired to watch lus
logs, but it wits no use They would
whip them away as easily a if there had
been nobody there They would steal
them out of the cove and es en'out or the
rail ways
Good grariom
Just to give fon an idea how the
.teal out there--shd ,ou over work in it
saw-will '
vr
Well, one day iny brother lo,ught an
all-tired tine black %stunt lag--tour feet
three ut the but, and not ri knot in it
Ile was determined to Leer that log any
how, and hired two 01(111‘ S,,,tvh inert to
watch it all night Well, they took a
small demijohn of whisks/ with them,
snaked the log up the a ide of the hill
abuse the mill, built a Ore and then sat
down to play keerds, just to keep them
awake, y see 'Twits a monstrous hi
log—bark two inches thick Well, as I
was sayh-, they played keenly and
Lirank wh isky all night, and as it begun
Lb grow light ; went asleep astraddle of
the log About u minute after day light,
George meritu er to the null to see how
they were getting on, and the log V,ll,
gone
What were the Scotchmen doing
Sitting .11 the bark The (hies...shad
dross• an iron w edge 'Ter" the butt. end,
whie h sainted don n lull, and hit. lied a
at ..2,‘ oki. of oxen and lulled it right out,
leas mg the shell, and thin Scots hers alt.
11%t 111 it, last asleep ,
is es at
F:nglishinwn here itrost.,
1/, v:git r •turni, irtd t h.. .I.lthooth 104,ked
at hi, %addl. and Enid ho thought d
~ 1 1 de, k 9e.• how far he'd hpdown
Ow rn r bufdr.• nr ruin,
IN III•
li
Old New Fashions
In ery age"( t world', his
tory , it lifts b.". 1.1 a perplet mg Fold. in ti o
de% ide how [mall a belle of the p. nod
owed t., nature, and 110%% much to art
Apparently we are as far removed froin
satisfactory solution of the question u.
uere our antestor, The iii)stert
tone -a day, attaches to e% ery ta , rtion of
that female figure. where bold swelling
cures are drawable, is pratitively par
alyzing in ItM perplexity
bends, t higtion4, pads, and the thousand
and one contrivances by which Broad
way beauties are made up, render ail
man, in these latter times, the itaist vu- I
riously interesting animal in creation
Every Stlvel•NeiVe daring innovation 1, I
received with tumult non- 11
aniaied laichelordoin, j.au.si 111 (•110r1.1.•
shrill caeltliiez of what are kiiom II
as atrotigniiiiiled females, but the Ri
de... 4 having sat up her image and Mho:-
tinted her 111`erPO, dm simpering dear,
strut along heedless and rejoicing._
Similarly-fared our forefather , ; and the ,
sober inntrou, who clasps her hands and
wanders what the world is coming to, us
she behold, ,u precocious )list 011 high . ]
beds tottering 'along the ,treet tinder ,0
bend called Grecian, may rest
that horrible at these freaks or f llt 11111%
matters were quite as bad, if n.;( '
wor-e.a century 11:f., The monstrine,
rriOitingale and the roll' of Qlll,ll 8e...
hll%e h... nee hi.tor.• il landmark-, mid
hi,% P. , -V.+'1 , .. , 11 fairly equalled in tot-'
hoops and skirts. With respect to (Ali=
er articles of k .modern bell's attire we
propose to show from , quaint old oh
tervers that in almost every particular
our great, great" grandmothers, in the
matter of aggravatednxtravagance, were
decidedly ahead of us.
•
Take till last perplexing contortion--
the Grecien bend—for example ; and we
find from various stinging allusions of
satirists and caricaturists of the period,
that it raged in all itsungiuney deformi
ty in 171;l1; and that woman then re«
dueed themselves as nearly to the shape
of the monkey as possible. Writing of
fashions in France, the Countess of
Wilton delicately says "It excites enter
tainment to know that inventions ;for
increasing the size of the female figure ,
behind were common under the last
ifrinees of Valois." While in England,
at the same period, the dresses of the ton
fire described as
"Itounring behind—wlth flounreq In rows,
Puff, htl porker up knots on your at nts Intel
your totot "
It seems curious that the artifivinl pos
terior hump should have rendered enor
mously high-heeled boots 119 now an es
sentiM portion of dress. But co it seems,
as the following extract, from a versi
fier in the Snlobury „Journal, 175 f, will
show:
'Mount on Frew h heck *hen 'you gn In a
ball,
Tot tin fa.hlon to totter, nod xhow you etto
Fall "
Another observant chronicler of the
same period gives slllo additional par
ticulars 11 says, "they wear their
shoes bigh,,both painted and patched ;
while still another rhymer almost accu
rately descrlbe, tire pedestrian at
tempts of modern Indio , of fashion in
these lines,
- Tottering like the Lir l'llhlone
Mounted high and huekled low.
Tottering e%ery .t4.p they go
A clever Nair,. in the London Maga
zine three years later, 1777, indicates
that some modifications had been check
ed in the farliions, and then in fact
they were more preposterously absurd
than in 1763—Allmon
A T116.0111' OF THE A CROlt 1 BORE U.'S.
The New York Journal of Commerce,
in a carefully conmidered article, us if
from borne scientific pen, mulinutm the
following theory (original as far as it
is known) to explain the phetio,mena of
the aurora borealis, as displayed nI the
magnificent exlidution of lust Thum
(lay night.
The aurora borealis in the silent_ilia•
charge of accumulated electricity in
the atmosphere, furnishing the same
relief to nature 11H Hashes of lightning
under other conditions. The plienoni
entt of the northern lights are in all re
spects electrical. !fill the electric na
ture ol aurora was denimm
strafed conilusively by its effects . on
telegraph wires. When a thunder
storm occur. the wires become cliarge.l
with 'electricity, which -smnetuttes at
them so perversely that they can
not be worked, and at other times fur
filSll4l4 an efficient substitute for the gal.
manic• battery. At New York, Bosom
and Philadelphia, and sonic other lilac
es, the auroral electron) charged the
wires, arid enabled operators to work
than without recourse to batteries --
St ,lolin's, N F , the most northern
punt from which we hare any report,
the aurora merioiedy interrupted the op
eration of the telograph I.i...tidily be
eleise the current supplied from the air
wan too strong for the w ,, 11( to he done.
No duulat re111.11t1. , , tiller the
}men bt man) intelligent 01.-erer,, in
sarious parts tit the country, that the
aurora rs ittirrocloi by the release of
enormous 4111alillties of cleolnc Ity
The tlicon s% bleb we propoP-V rn die
Holt one that etplaots %%lir the aurora
bur-ulrs i. ' , CCU ill the arctic or
antaretivi and tenqwrate nines never
or rarelt in the torrid tom , and also
ahtit is r ruble here oily I nr chichi
in the fall, winter , or spring month.
not in the 1111111111er. in the tropic ruin
and 111 the warts month., the 11 , C II 111 , 1
laced eleetricit, in the ittinuspliere is
discharged under er.tirtly different con
dawns, am lightning with thunder, tint
ing heart showers of ruin.
1 - --The following story is told II) a
New York piper. " little seven tear
older living in Waterf,ird, Sailttogo
count'. taking pattern id his lather.
stolid% 1,1111-, If a I i uno. rut
II r ‘ , 11.• IteHtlM.
pro m : , kill, a Icon and rartice
Ilc t hi- olois n , ll
mg ni h:. 1;s1 1-1 1 ‘• tv
!rave, and %%:1- unr , nntnnniraLnr ,1,1
ter it brief meal he arose voll went into
the kitchen, u here Bridget Was at work.
Resting his head upon his hands, he in
dulged in deep meditation fur a mo
nientoi then suddenly looking up he
asked "Bridget, do know what
I ant?' "No," said the girl. "Well,
I will tell you]," said lie: "I am a darn
Led old copperhead ?” maid
I Bridget. "I tell you I titn u darned
old copperhead, the meanest kind of a
I)eutocrat.~' 'plus settled the came, and
Kre,1,1% clings to him party at the sacri
fice of a roily and a carriage."
llow Do You KNOW KKK' Di A
(,on.--A Frenchmen who had won a
litgli rank among men of sewnce, who
denied the God who to the author of sei
t•lict., was crossing the great Sahara, ii
cottipan ith an Arab guide. Ile no
t teed, with it sneer, that nt certain times
the guide, whatever obstacles might
arise, put them all wink, and kneeling ,
.at the burning-quid, called on Ills (39t1
-Day after day passed and still the
Arab 114'N er ; till at last, tom eve
ning, the philosopher, wheif, he, arose
from his knees asked him with a eon
tetriptutiti. smile :
o How do yott know there is a God?"
l'ltt• guide "fixed his burning eymon
the scoffer for a moment in wonder., and
then solemnly said:
“Ilow do I know IL 1111111, trot II
rnulol, pi1.,441 1113 111.4 th,.
? Wn. it not by Om print of
in II n • '1111.1? F.%1•11 nO,” 1014111 P
la inl •l to thr sun, who•os lit•t rrh•s u..r.•
over 1/oM'rt, "dart
foot 10-nit i , not that of
This, That and the oth
—The oldent woman's bro
—A wooden wedding—marryin K
head.
—lt taken flneen mllllnn yard.rd
put up the Callfornln grab] for o xpor
—"Mho stoops to conquer"—The b
Grecian bend.
Ll'ortland witttupt to he ronAtloro
Ing phico—strietly cold Natter.
—Two hundred known Illerory k
nee haunt New York hookntoren.
—Forney's troupe are deadhead'
the Houth In glorious style.
—A good auggoation le like a oryh
a concert—it ought to he can led out
—The noblest sight en earth la
ing reason, and his wife listening to
—An exchange says lnharfalle lk
Boner's now•a-days, They are all is
—The work kind 01 husbandry
(•laver marrying a woman in woods
—Ppworit—AVhitt t h e latlleitiond t
with to rimlce the hulk go off well.
—The time to clinch an argutnen
attention of the audience in riveted
—Why are good hunbrindn like du
cause the Women need them,
—lf a man has any religion Worth
will do his duty. and not make a film
It in tho empty kettle that rattler.
—lf you cannot. inspire • woman
of you, till her above the brim with I
self, all that runs over will be yours
—Nano denim Ix oa•oxaary to k
tnotion ; and he whom+ rout wante ur
most adroit Ulnae of fanny.
—Prentice says he tries to ho Imp
Wall that ho Is unable) to bads at tit
except on the dark side
—A runner elgn In Pi Uxfleld, M.
•f'nhllii dun beer," has been eliange
'Maid and repaired "
—An Inditillnal, nltine.l T., in,
vinred that lie owns 511,111111 . 11 k,
hum brought cult to reisoter
kn old lady, a ho hatiltntt diet
lieninthed her properly toe friend
ed upon the maintenanee of n Altryl
—\ young man, out west, writes In
report of my mart lag. , grunion,
shall continue to live on the Ettrop
—it le evtlingtool that there arc
Ing Ineritiner in the l'niteti Stett
counting the "echool mann,. "
—A youth of ten year.. who h‘ es h
hae tnanaged to get ell the way fr,rn
ti Omaha free of e penxe
—la 1t because a lady thlnks .I
thing valuable in her head that +I,
many locks on ll?
—Why Is matrimony like a hero
Befouls., those Who Art, Itl aunt to g
those Who are out watt to get io
—Whitt to the difference between t
ed /111.1 the rejected lover • The mei .
en the minx and the rejected tob.-.•+
—The man who tried in norooton Ii
on.. of Iu• vlife's haw
'agar Nothing like first prim iplo
—An old Indy hearing somebody
!nails were very Irregulsr, soot
so in my young days—no tru.ung ai
—The President %111 not receive
oftee seekers on the elahhath II
1011.11 hare one day to get sober In
, —There Is a fellow In I slifornis •
Kant that he 11111.11 e, the fin• with I
and skates on lefi-ereain.
—.4 Pier flea hn ndretbyanls of •uhd
blasted by nitro-glycerine on Salon
ullO discharge, at the writ shaft of
Tunnel
-0110 liuuJrnd and thirtivn lawye
Carolina bairn a iglied R proteat "wail
promo C,ourt Judgeti in that Stata 0
—Two aeaulpe reeentlk .et up
stre" at Hart(ord. ...1.1 dear wool
1.1) oliesp, and suddenly doeampo
pa) tog their debts
—t lientunt, lan lut. Invent, it
inotion wagon It wind, itar If up Ia
If there are it
anyway
U10..t01l paper MINN, flint A 111
Im•nitty in riding A hog through the
A pret.itmt.ory prat the 10 111141114(1,,g
pe".
-- “It In f 1 ,4 Until thy 11,14.,
that bait IwottA t.. rtyrp ato in life
r..tfialtee I. lao4t the pr.,, 11,4
he cipenol,t
arid in, einty PO, en Olin/Nand Jnllan
Ll%l •••iiiin if lit It prii in
gully elected, 01 ....tax it that body
-1 he nneleut• timed to s enerkte
of depart. aneeporei , the it,
ecßmille -showing greot
' .In•t of their'i•
rn lond K I In Vorlrn It
pr. ry d.•f nit inn of I.le word tiMppl
•I.it Soil Mallte,i t.. glVt. ill )our
litIle•
Itrighani I. , ting•ftriele.o
nti Siolith lle nftit)k••••
gt. 4.1 lig gel. dntnk. Wu, X
V/1“ . 1. 141111 preaches th« gurpvi
is an old Ist.ly In 1,)0 ,
Fhiln who made • ymir of yool,
yeltrs She tnorely knil feet 4, In
%Inter and kips every other winter
—A \.•w /4:n1414.A41 pAper
n Errtalllll- In uur parugrApll y.•.t
,`,11111)( 114Atlenn t11114i41.4,444 144144
;pnnki 1 In ITlNtivy , , 6.? .p , e4144.1 red.
report, 1111 trii.i
to lil. piper by a lag 4.1.1
‘ , .ar pap, ,t
11. , 11 t.. It if ha4,l( qr.,. rt.
lid)..ton port miya
I hal l• ling. 1111111: h.,. Is
For all Old II". trill, 1,1 , 1 lit •
I lint NubnUi 1 , triiii•it •1,11,rt ,
h Allowed I ,
illst tt ti itlarinvil the I
li t rt,lh eg he t ellong down the
Mr. J0n...0' I Ned t
eSlreleeti In Heel%
at the rink," r. riled the
1-1-1.11/1' the veloeyria.le'"
I he Boston Adverhs, says
oi respondent In Florida es,
r.. 1. 41 by surrdliteling eircuointane
11., the fllllllV , lnff •
floe cloth the little crocodile
Improve hot shining tail.
4nd pour the waters of the Nil
On every golden scale
llow cheerfully he seems to art
How neatly spreads Ili, claw
And welcome. little fishes in
With gently smiling Jaws
—Thn morn..g seem, to thin
Itaavett, the negro envoy to Ili
Itsualities hint for his min in
tine We though{ I 1 Congo tongue
language inatuaal of Latin.
young lauly who teach°, inn
Academy In western New York. 'tent
to a publisher, recently, in which
tho word. very badly Rho •
adding • rO•thOript.. follows "
etkeitsi than letter as I phi Id float,
10 tow "
—A i'lltrburg Alderman being ti
%with R4ontilt the other flay, tieteeno
the 14.111 , 14 and kicked "the party of 11
p.m' . Into the 4 treet An the Rani y
eleren.lent In Il e • tont then Henn:
ineßtlon hether or not the
be regarded uo tinen n out of Court
sanantion story °antra from Phi
Of a iiernum.wini pit drunk suit lan
town to Klapp ontinilo • cemetery, a
himself mixed up with a humber 0
whi t. the meillesi stuilenta hiul dog
grlIVOll Ito COMO to ilk
the ilisinietimprooni Just us All nrifent
...lam, wan lthollt to rip him open
he Si** tuinidt (1 ia) pnperx repo ,
pg....v.:1i0n by (hut town of itn Inter
bo.eon%titteted n hobe thni the .1
of eltl.rl or thrill will explode It 11111 R.
ut ( . 1111,. blow a duet to the 11. ,
stippo4ltig the key Ix todt, or the 14.ek
of order who the dein, ht to open it
the hidden tretuntrel,