Bellefonte, Pa., November 29, 1889. THE QUIET HOUR. A little rest in the twilight After my work is done, A lttle time with my Master At the setting of the sun. The day has been one of trial, Of failure oft and tears; But Jesus knows all my weakness, He knows my doubts and fears. All sordid thoughts I can banish, And let my spirit fly Above the earth and its sorrows, To God's white throne on high. The door of a place of refuge, A place of quiet rest Is near, and my soul is longing To find the portal blest. I come with my heavy burden, I come with all my sin, I knock, and the door swings open, And Jesus lets me 1n. My sin departs. and my trouble Is lost in a blissful calm ; This quiet hour with my Saviour Has soothed my heart like balm. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN DONE. What might be done if men were wise, What glorious deeds, my suffering brother, Would they unite In love and right, And cease their scorn of one another. Oppression’s heart might be imbued With kindling drops of loving kindness, And knowledge for From shore to shore, Light on the eyes of mental blindness. All slavery, warfare, lies and wrongs, All vice and crime might die together, And fruit and corn, To each man born. Be free as warmth in summer weather. The saddest wretch that ever trod, The deepest sunk in guilt and sorrow, Might stand erect, In self-respect, And share the teeming world to-morrow. What might be done ? This might’be done, And more than this, my suffering brother ; More than the tongue E’er said or sung, If men were wise and toved each other. PRISONER 411. The State prison at C was a gloomy place at the best, but this June morning the sun streamed over its high, bleak walls, flooded the cheerless yard and even lit the dismal corridor with an unwonted glow. Never had the outside world seemed brighter and lib- erty sweeter to a young man, scarcely more than a youth, who stood peering through the bars of a narrow window at the little of the outside world includ- ed in his vision. His reverie was brok- en by the stern words of a turnkey who came upon him unnoticed. “Loafin’, eh!” said the official. “You'll be with us a day longer for that. Get to work, d you, and fin- ish your job!” The convict glanced at the official half defiantiy, but made no reply, and picking up the iong handled mop that had fallen at his feet proceeded with the washing of the corridor floor. The turnkey eyed him for a moment and then passed on to the rotunda, so con- structed as to command an almost un- obstructed view of every nook and cor- ner of the prison. Stepping from the corridor he.met the warden and a bevy of lady visitors. “What is the matter with 411!” ask- ed the warden. “Loafin’, as usual. He's a lazy cur, and ought to be put at hard labor.” “It’s only a week since he left the hospital.” “He shammed to get there. He may fool the doctor but he can’t me. Sick? Not much! he's as well as I am,” and the turnkey cast a malignant look at the prisoner, who was now pur- suing his task with the measured, mon- otonous effort characteristic of prison labor. “Bring him here,” said the warden, not displeased at an opportunity to show his authority before the ladies by reprimanding a prisoner. The con- vict came down the corridor with his gaze upon the stone floor. When he reached the rotunda he removed his cap and looked up squarely in the war- den’s eye. “McDonald caught you idling, didn’t he?” asked the warden, harshly, irri- tated by the indefinable resistance im- plied rather than expressed in the pris- oner’s manuer. “Yes,” answered 411, quietly. “What's your excuse ?”’ “I looked from the window, and the day seemed so fair that I forzot my- self—where I was and every thing.” “Thought you'd like to be outside in the sunshine, I suppose ?” “Yes, sir. “Well you shall be. I'll have you put to work in the stone quarry to-mor- row, and then you'll get more air—ex- ercise,” and the warden smiled grimly. The prisoner made no answer, but drew his hand wearily across his brow. It was a simple movement, but so fraught with patience, and perhaps dignity, as to be pathetic. “You can go now,” said the prison despot. “Please, warden, can’t I speak to him ?” entreated a feminine voice be- bind the official. He turned and re- plied with all the courtliness a marti- net could command : “Certainly.” “What is your name, sir?’ asked the lady of the prisoner. “Terrance Moore, miss.” “Would you mind telling me why you are confined here 2” “For forgery.” “Were you innocent 2” “No, I was guilty.” “Aud you are sorry for your crime?’ she continued, breaking off’ a rose from her corsage bouquet. This question was disconcerting to the prisoner and annoying to the warden. The former dropped his: eyes in embarrassment and the latter fid eted in disgust. “Yes,” said the convict, “I am sor- ry.” “For being caught,” added the war- den. “How much longer will you be here?” she asked. “Six months.” i “You will need friends when you leave,no doubt. Come and see me then, perhaps I can assist you,” and she ex- tended a card and the rose as she spoke. When he passed the turnkey on his way back to work that *eeper saw him wipe a tear from his cheek. “Snivelin’,” said the official, taunt ingly. “Yes,” replied 411, “for the first time in my life.” “Moore is one of the most refractory men in the prison,” explained the war- den to the ladies. “He doesn't often break the rules and never offers open resistance. But there is something ominous in his manner irritating to a degree, and marking him, according to my experience, as a dangerous man. If I mistake not he is as desperate a criminal as was ever within these walls.” “But he doesn’t look like an evil peeson,”’ interposed the young lady. “Looks are not always a correct criterion,” replied the warden ao tes- tily that the ladies took the hint and 411 escaped further comment. That night when McDonald peered into cell 411 he saw th2 occupant stretched at full length on the floor and the cot over turned. Repeated commands elicited no response, ana unlocking the door he entered. “Come now, that bluff won't go,” and the exasperated turnkey brutally kicked the prostrate form. “Rouse up and get into your bunk or I'll have you put in solitary.” But the prisoner gave no sign. Look- ing closer the turnkey saw that his tongue protroked and that his open eyes were as vacant in expression as the staring orbs of a corpse. He drop- ped upon his knee and bent forward for a closer view. As he did so the convict clutched his throat with one hand by a movement as stealthy and sudden as the uncoiling of a snake, and drawing the other from beneath the bed, struck him with some blunt instrument such a vicious blow upon the head that the unfortunate keeper sank senseless without a moan. In an instant Moore was on his feet, and rapid- ly replacing his cot in position and laying the turnkey upon it, fairly tore the clothing from the lifeless figure in his haste. Scarcely two minutes had elapsed from the time McDonald entered the cell before another man, similarly garb- ed, stepped forth, and locking the door proceeded on the usual rounds in the habitual manner. Passing through the rotunda he averted his face by an apparent scrutiny of the wick of his lantern, which, 1t was afterwards re- membered, was not lighted. How he finally gained the street was never known. The guards all averred he did not pass either of the gates and it seemed incredible that he could have scaled|the wall from the yard unnoticed. But escape he did, and, though large rewards were offered, was never appre- hendea. McDonald lingered for weeks and died. ® Timi Five years later Miss Mable Wess- ling was visiting friends in a’ fashion- able suburb of Philadelphia. She had been suffering from neuralgia, and, be- irg somewhat restless in consequence. lett the gas burning at the lowest glim- mer when she retired. Shortly after three o'clock in the morning she was awakened from slumber, so light that it might be termed the twilight ofsleep, by a seeming noise in her room. She listened until certain that her quickened senses had verified the im- pression, and then, arising as noiseless- ly as possible, stepped to the faint spark against the wall locating the gas fix- ture and in a second turning the light on full force. A heavy hand was in- stantly pressed over her lips and she was pinioned against the mantel. Her arms were free and, obeying an erratic impulse, she tore the mask from the face of the intruder. The countenance revealed was rather prepossessing and would have been decidedly so butgtor the shading of certain lines traced by evil courses. She stared into cold gray eyes, reflective rather than fierce in ex- pression, and felt that she had seen the face before. She was not frightened, strange though it may seem, and re- mained much calmer in the grasp of this marauder than some hours later when the reaction came. If you attempt to move or utter a word above a whisper I shall kill you,” he breathed in her ear. "A pencil ly- ing on the mantle chanced to meet her eye. She reached it with difficulty and wrote upon the smooth white sur- tace: “You are Terrance Moore and were confined in the penitentiary at C in 1881.” * As he read the words his grasp tightened involuntarily, but almost instantly relaxed under the im- pulse of a recognition now mutual. He withdrew his hand from her lips and etepping back a pace rested his elbow on the mantel. “Don’t speak loud,” he whispered. “You are perfectly safe with me. If I had known you were in the house I should never have entered it. 1 would die ten times over before I would harm a hair of your head.” “You must go—at once,” she said. The door of the chamber, already ajar, was pushed open at this juncture and another man, also masked, enter- ed with foot-falls felipe in lightness. “Well, I'll be blanked!” ejaculated the new-comer under his breath. “Who'd of thought, cull, you'd run agin a mash in this plant?” “Then—" and the second burglar drew his finger across his throat with a gesture of horrible significance. Moore shook his head with vehemence. Turning to Miss ling, he asked : “If we quit now and leave every- thing, will you promise not to disclose my identity!” “I promise—for God's sake go!” she pleaded, the mental strain begin- ning to play havoe with her nerves, The other burglar suddenly emptied a vial upon the sponge with which he had been fumbling, and, springing for- ward, applied it to her nose before Moore could interpose. Moore threw * * * fierce Wesg- himself savagely upon his partner in! crime. “Alarm the house!” he shout- | ed, seeing that she was already affact- ed by the pungent fumes of the chloro- form. With a shriek she threw her- self against the window, breaking the pane she knew not how. “Curse you!” howled Moore's pal, thinking now only of safety in flight. “Let me go, blank your soul !”’ Rendered desperate by the sounds of the awakened household he broke away by a mighty effort and sprang for the stairs. Moore followed, but whether to effect his own escape or de- tain the other burglar cannot be told. His confederate must have regarded his intentions in the latter light, for he turned and fired two shots in rapid succession, at point blank range, both bullets finding billets in Moore's breast, and gained the open air through the door, which in burglar fashion had been left open to facilitate & sudden de- parture. They dragged Moore back “into Miss Wessling's room and it re- quired no physician to inform the startled group that gathered around the dying criminal that his moments were few. He motioned to Miss Wess- ling and she knelt beside him. “You—spoke—the—only — kind — words—I've heari—for years. I lov- ed—yon for—them. Look—here,” and he touched his breast, gasped and went before the Eternal bar for his last s'ntence. In a chamois skin they found the wtibered remnants of a rose anda card inscribed: “Mable Wess- ling, 1741 LL avenue, C 2: On the other side was written in a bold hand. “The slightest kindness may leave an indelible impression on the human heart, and those who sow in charity have sown a single seed on the ston- iest ground to bear rich fruit.” Household Affairs. The value of petty savings can not be too highly estimated. The conscien- tious habit of saving everything that can be turned to any account, fitting the object, however small, into its right place, is a habit in iiself enough to in- sure thrift. There are so many things in the household which are thrown aside which by careful thought may be turned to use. Wise providers buy only gocds of genuine value which may be used to the last shred. This is true of market buy- ing, of shopping, of everything that may be purchased. There isa good brand of flour and a make-shift brand; a cloth firm and well made of wool, and a cloth to take its place, cheap and flimsy, of cotton wool. In all these cases the gen- uine cloth is the cheapest in the end ; the good brand of flour will give the best and most nourishing food. The well-made cloth may be washed or clean- sed again and again, and be made over until nothing is left of it. A great deal may be saved even in buttons, thread and needles, little minutiae of which we seldom think. It is in the sedulous care that every little article shall be used, that every piece of cloth shall be turned and made over until it is past usetulness, that consists the chance of the average family foran orderly wells fed, well-clothed home. Lavishness is the worst of providers. Tt is the system- atic, steady hand, careful of minutiae, that provides a home and table where genuine comfort and good cheer prevail. Simple spending of money cannot ac- complish the same result care can. The children of the poor men, brought up to the habit of thrift, usually enjoy more actual luxury than the children of a spendthrift, who varies from feast to famine, from rags to velvet with the reg- ularity ofa clock pendulum. Extrava- gance should be looked upon as a sin, a trust to use honestly the goods God has given us, not considered in the light, trivial way it is, as something the indi- vidual alone would suffer from.— New York Tribune. Where Colors Come From. The cochineal insects furnish a great many of the very fine colors. Among them are the crimson, scarlet, carmine and purple lakes. The cuttlefish gives the sepia. It is the inky fluid which the fish dis charges in order to render the water opaque when attacked. Indian yellow comes from the camel. Ivory chips produce the ivory black and bone black. The exquisit Prussian blue is made by fusing horses’ hoofs and other refuse an- imal matter with impure potassium car- bonate. This color was discovered acci- dentally. . Various lakes are derived from roots, barks and gums. Blue black comes from the charcoal of the vine stalk. Lamp black is the soot from certain resincus substances. Turkey red is made from the madder plant, which came from Hindostan. The yellow sap of a tree in Siam pro- duces gamboge . The natives catch the sap in cocoanut shells. Raw sienna is the natural earth near Sienna, Italy. Raw umber 1s also earth found near Grains of Gold. Most great works are accomplished slowly. The one prudence in life is concen- tration; the one evil is dissipation ; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine. The best instruction is to practice what you teach. More is accomplished by doing each day’s work faithfully than by crowd- ing two days’ work into one. * The lessons of life ma -e deeper im- pressions than the lessons of hooks, because they touch the heart before they reach the head. Beware of prejudices ; they are rats, and men’s minds are like traps. Pre- judices creep in easily, but it is doubt- ful if they ever get out. No one was ever corrected by a sarcasm, but often driven further in the wrong way. In teaching always be kind and patient. There is no surer mark of the ab- sence of the highest moral and intel lectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. A ——————E<at Under the Crust. “You'd better ask the doctor for his bill next time he comes,” said a poor sick minister to his wife.—“I don't know when we can pay it, I'm sure. He's made a good many visits, but I hope he won't have to come many more times.” The old doctor was a grim-looking person, who said as little as possible, and spoke in the gruffest of tones; but he had kept his eyes open, and was not halt as unfeeling as he appeared. At his next visit the minister's wife followed him out of the sick room, and timidly preferred Ler request. “Your bill,” said the doctor, gianc- ing around the kitchen and then down at his boots. “You, gir,” said the woman; “Mr. Ames wanted me to ask you for it,though | we can’t pay it just now. Wa'll pay it as soon as—"’ “Well here it is,” said the doctor. And he took out his pocket-book and handed the astonished woman a ten-dol- lar greenback, and was out-of doors be- fore she could say thank you. A Bandit in a Coat-of-Mail. The Killing of a Companion of Rube Burrows by a Sheriff’s Posse. BirMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. 17.—A suspicious looking stranger heavily arm- ed was seen lurking in the woods near Albertsville, Marshal county, for several days and on Thursday the sheriff sent a squad of men to arrest him. They slipped up on him in the woods and demanded that he give himself up. He replied by firing upon them. The sherfi’s men returned the fire from ambush, but their bullets glanced from the stranger as though he were invulner- able. Presently a ball struck him on the head and he fell mortally wounded. The man’s body was found to be pro- tected by a strong coat of iron mail. His dying words were: “You think I'm Rubg Burrows, but Rube’s in the west.” It is thought he was Smith, Rube’s companion in crime, Dr. Scott, who killed the man, and others in the neichborhood, think the man was really Rube Burrows, but they cannot establish his identity. Miss Beckie Johnson, a very pleasing and attractive school teacher, living near St. Thomas, Pa., went to Carlisle a few days ago, and at the rail- road station met a man whom she had never seen before. ln an hour they were husband and wife. The groom is John Demaree, of Rushville, Ill., who came all the way to wed his unknown bride, and the wedding involves an in- teresting story of courtshipat long range. Some time ago Miss Johuson made the acquaintance of Miss Maggie Jenkins, who was visiting near the home of the school marm. A strong friendship sprang up, and when Miss Jenkins left for her Western ‘home she carried with her Miss Johnson’s sincere affections and one of her photographs, but it was to the latter that Miss Johnson is indebt- ed for her present husband. Mr. De- maree chanced to see the picture, and was then and there smitten. A corres- pondence was arranged by Miss Jenkins, and the marriage was finally brought about. The meeting and ceremony took place at Carlisle, away from the prying eyes of curious neighbors who bad heard of the remarkable affair. ——Twenty years ago there roamed over the plains and 1 ountains of the far West nearly 8,000,000 buffaloes. To- day there are less than 600 head of the animals in existance. There are but 85 head of wild buffaloes, 305 alive in cap- tivity, and about 200 under the protec- tion of the Government in Yellowstone Park. There is also said to be about 550 head in Montana, but this is rumor. Of the 85 head of buffaloes which are Umbria and burned. Indian ink is made from burned cam - phor. The Chinese are the only manu- facturers of this ink and they will not reveal the secret of its manufacture. Mastic is made from the gum of the mastic tree, which grows in the Grecian archipelago. Bistre is the soot of wood ashes. Very little ultamarine is found in the market. It is obtained from the precious lapislizuli and commands a fabulous price. Chinese white is zine, scarlet is iodide. of mercury and native vermiliion is from the quicksilver ore and called cinnabar seers First Monmuaent to McCellan. A dispatch from Trenton, N. J. | says + The erection in Riverview Cem- | etery of the noble granite monument to Gen. McClellan, was completed to-day. | This is the first monument to McClellan | that has been erected. Secretary of | State Kelsey who is at the head of the committee which had the matter in charge, says that no date has been fixed | for the dedication. It may be postpon- | ed till Spring, owing to the uncer- | tainty of the weather. The shaft is of granite, 46 fet high, and surrounded by an eagle with spread | wings. It stands 150 yards from the | cemetery entrance, on elevated ground, | fore baking in a quick oven. To be I was bound to have me. known to exist 25 are in Texas, 20 in Colorado, 26 in Wyoming, 10 in Mon- tana, and 4 in Dakota. The statistics have been carefully gathered by the Fashion Fancies, Embroidered appliques of black cloth or velvet, in deep-pointed desigus, are favorite trimmings for colored cashmeres and ladies’ cloths. “Four-cape pelerines,” which give an appeara .ce of breadth to slender figures, are made with two capes of seal and two of Persian lamb. Cloth has been brought out for mil- linery purpose, pinked at the edge and embroidered, and this is intended to be used on the toques, made to match cloth dresses. For mantles, silk ruches are worn made of braid of different widths, inter- mixed with oblong drops and aiguil- ettes. These drops of several shapes are the new mantle adornments. Feather trimming is once more in fashion—uncurled ostrich, three inches broad, in all colors; shorn ostrich, which is close and looks like fur; and marabout— all are applied to dresses and cloaks. Leather-work wimmings, in while and delicate shades of kid, cut out in applique designs, and wrought with silk to match, and tinted pearl and cut silver and gilt beads, are among the most exquisite ot the season's garni- tures. Manties are to be uniformly long this winter, tight-fitting at the back and loose in front, with long sleeves falling straight from the elbow. The first models for early winter are of fine smooth cloth, richly braided or em- broidered in spike patterns, Square-toed boots are once more coming into fashion, and, with low heels make most ugly-looking feet. Shoes are of black kid or patent leather, low on the instep with a small flat bow. Black silk stockings are fashionable worn with dresses of any color. A combination of two kinds of far in one shoulder cape is a fashionable feature of the season. Sometimes al- ternate stripes of two furs, lengthwise, or carried around the shoulders, form the entire cape, while others have dif- ferent side pieces, collars or V fronts, or, perhaps, a binding of different fur. Bonnets and muffs are made to cor- respond, and adainty example is «white or rather cream cloth pinked a$ the edges and trimmed with beaver. The mutf has two corners of cloth falling from beneath the fur, and the bonnet overthe face has a puff ot cloth and beaver. Another set displays sable tails. In bonnets we notice the Ascanio capote, which is pretty and becoming. Low hollow crown and border of fluted silk; a flat bow of black velvet on the top continued into short strings in front. The model we were shown was of cardinal red silk, trimmed with black lace insertion, and with a tiny {red and black humming-bird on one side. A novelty in fringed trimmings is the passementerie sash, which may be had in various widths and colors, and has deep sewingsilk fringes. These sashes may be put on about the lower edge of a pointed basque, in the style so popular in the use of ribbon, or may be arranged in a bow at the back. con ——— Two REcipEs For CocoaNUT CAKE. —One-half pound flour, one-half pound of sugar, one teacupful sour cream or milk, small teaspoon of soda; flavor with rind of lemon ; four eggs ; bake in pans one ard a half inches thick; one grated cocoanut. 2. Two cups of butter, three of sugar, one of milk, one-half teaspoonful of soda; four eggs, four cups of flour, one cocoanut grated and put in lightly at last ; bake in two loaves. Last July a well-dressed stranger entered the first National Bank in Chattanooga, and purchased one draft for $4 and two $2 each, paying for the same. The bank is notified that the $4 draft has turned up in New York a $4,000 draft. It seems that the swind- ler weat to Philadelphia and purchased a soda fountain for $1,100, paying for the same with the raised draft and receiving $2,900, in exchange. The draft was thrown out by the New York correspon- dent of the Chattanooga bank as a forgery. The work was so well done that it can hardly be detected by an ex- pert. CAROLINA QUEEN CAkE.—Work a quarter of a pound of butter to a cream, dredge in it halt a pound of flour, add a quarter of a pound sifted sugar and a quarter of a pound of currants; whisk two eggs and mix with half a teacupful of thin cream and a few drops of lemon essence; stir this into the flour,and then add a teaspoonful fof baking powder; beat the paste well for ten minutes, then bake in small buttered tins for from a quarter to half an hour. The mixture shouid be stiff and doughy. This amount is enough to make a do en cakes. ———————— officials of the Swmithsonian Institution, and it is absolutely known that the | number stated comprises all the wild | bufinloes of the world. The skeletons of the numerous herds of a score of veurs ago are bleaching on the Western plains, a tribute to the prowess of the American | Nimrod. ——PraiN Buns.—To three pounds | of flour add a quarter of a pound of but- | ter, one ounce of sifted sugar, a pinch of | salt, one ounce of yeast and two eggs; mat) | mix with enough new milk to make a! { for some hours, and when light, divide into small buns. | i { { | light dough ; set the mixture to rise | | { Let them stand on a hot plate to warm for a few minutes be- eaten buttered, either hot or cold. The | rolls, a day old, are delicious for making | sandwiches, : ——————— Toven OLp WrEren.—Mrs. Oldboy --Oh, you needn’t talk, John. You You can’t say | that I ever ran after you. | Oldboy—Very true, Maria, and the | rat trap never runs after the mouse, but | comes an object of disgust. { time ——TThe breath of a chronic catarrh | patient is often so offensive that he be- After a ulceration sets in, the spongy bones are attacked and frequently en- tirely distroyed. A constant source of discomfort is the dripping of the purulent secretions into the throat,sometimes pro- ducing inveterate bronchitis, which in its turn has been the exciting cause of pulmonary disease. The brilliant re- sults which have attended its use for years past properly designnate Ely's Cream Balm as by far the best and only cure. Too Fresa Pork.—A few days ago a large hog belongingto Le Roy Hardy, of Stark, Ga., while the family were all out of the house, went into the house, and after climbing upon a feather bed proceeded to tear the bed and clothing into doll rags. His hogship thought he had found a beauti- ful playhouse and in his delight and playfullness tore things up generally. Whenthe inmates ot the house camein the floor was literally covered with feathers, and the festive brute ran from and within a short distance of the Gen- it gathers him in all the same.— Boston | the house lcoking more like one of the eral’s grave. Transcript. | feathered tribe than a fat porker. All Sorts of Paragraphs. —It is suid that there are 48 langua- ges and dialects spoken in Mexico. —New York's elevated roads carried: 179,000,000 passengers during the past 12 months. —Richard Burton, of Denver, Col., has sued for a divorce from his wife be- cause she squints. —A Baltimore man has been con- victed of stealing a lot of gold filled teeth from the museum of the Uniwersi- ty. —An oak tree on the Potter farm six miles from Visalia, Col., measures 40: feet 6 inches around two feet from the ground. —KEnglisb syndicates have invaded the- Austrian Empire, and are buying up breweries in Bohemia, and printing offi- ces in Vienna. —A company interested in the propa- gation of the buffalo has secured a large tract of land in Utah, where a herd of. bison will soon be domiciled. —Redheadville is flourishing settlement in Otsego county, Mich A family of Redheads gave the place its auburn appellation. —At the Bapist fair in Flint, Mioh., which is now over, the spade with which ground was broken for the new: Bapist church wassold for $210. —Some hunters near Bowen, IIL, wounded a big bald eagle Saturday and captured it. The bird is very vicious, and measures 7 feet from tip to tip. —One of the chief industries of Sicily is the mining of sulphur. There are 567 mines in the country, and brimstone is one of the most inportant exports, —Four wolf scalps were taken to the County Clerk at Carthage, I11., Monday, each scalp bringing $8. Wolves have been very numerous in that vicinity this season. —One of the smallest traveling men in Michigan is C. Sparling, of Kingsley. He is 26 years old, 40 inches tall, weighs 60 pounds, and represents a Chicago house. —A Democrat in Monana county, Ia., was elected to the Legislature by a ma- jority of I vote. If he had remained at home on the day or election the re- snlt would have been a tie. --A mistake of one word recently cost S. O. Fisher, of West Bay City, the price of 50 bushels of potatoes. He told his clerk to write to a Grayling man for 25 or 30 bushels and the clerk wrote for barrels. —Jesse O’Cooly, of Jeffersonville, Ind., was arrested for descrating the Sabbeth at Seottburg, His erime con- sisted in repairing a broken rail last Sunday to prevent a wreck on the J. M. & I, he being asection hand. —A cork tree at Vistalia, Cal., was transplanted to the Court House yard last Friday. Tt was planted trom an acorn in 1857 in a vacant lot,and has grown to be 30 feet high and 20 inches through the butt. The bark is 1 inch thick. —R. B. Duncan, of Salem. Ore., was feasting last week on strawberries that grew and ripened, unprotected, in the open wir. His vines are still in bloom and he has a few berries in all the stages, some green and others are about matured. 3 —A few days ago workmen at Morris- ville, opposite Trenton, N. J. unearth- ed a fine paleolith of argillite, ten feet below the surface, which is pronounced a relic of preglacial man. It had jag- ged edges, evidently having been fashion- ed for a weapon. —Abbotsford is still so popular a re- sort that the fees paid by tourists usual- ly exceed £400 ayear, so that it is twice as profitable to show the place as to let it, for the rent paid by Mr. Thor- burn, who has taken it for five years, is only £200 a year. —Last summer a hen belonging to Robert Mosely, colored, of Crawfords- ville, Ind., hatched a brood of 12 chick- ens out in the woods. ‘When she brought thera to the house a Laby quail follow- ed. 1t has grown up with the chick- ens, is no wilder than they are; and goes to roost with them at night. —A queer decision by a New Jersey justice of the peace 1s reported. John Wolf put a stuffed wolf at the door to represent his name. A dog destroyed the sign, and the justice holds that, as the stuffed wolf represented John Wolf, the dog is guilty of biting the man, and his owner must pay $25 damages. —-While remodeling a chimney in an old homestead in Cherryfield, Me., for the purpose of attaching a hot air furnace, an interesting relic in the form of a little brown jug of unusual shape was found in an arch of the chimrey, which certainly had not seen the light for 100 years. It was empty, but smelled of other days. —A duck recently killed near James- town, N. Y., has caused great excite- ment in that region. In its crop was found a piece of gold quartz. The bird bad been feeding on the borders of Chautauqua Lake nearby, and it is {claimed that an examination of the local- ity revealed many more specimens of of rich goldbearing quartz. —Dr. Mead, of Cincinnati, left his horse untied and it ran away. Thedoc- tor sent messages all over town and had about given up all hope of ever seeing his rig again. when he was called to the telephone. He recognized the voice of his affianced, and was rejoiced to learn that the animal was standing patiently in front of her residence. —Jobkn Baskett, of Dayton, Tenn.t and Nettie King, both prominen voung people, eloped and were marri- ed. Basket carried a ladder for two miles and stole his bride from an up- stairs window at 2 o'clock in the morning. They left the town at once to escape the wrath of the bride's father, who opposed the match, —A magnificent royal stag, whick has been well known in North Uist, Scotland, for more than 20 years, and which} hus so often been stalked and shot at without success that it had come to be regarded asa charmed beast, was recently killed, after a very long and difficult stalk. The clean weight was 18 stone, and the head was su- perb. the name of a:
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers