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' Tin- iic-oni modal ion of vls- LAND. 2VeiO pen ACHE ' ...iK. within the period f :!;".' -i acres of hind ill e..unt us much as. 100 - -t. ., -. rt. with Fruit Growing r with it in a short time in -N k'.-VkE. and TOWN LOTS, i i f L .n uie tud Vint land, also , Crntfiin'.il Exposition ,- - v -:! . .1 HI SIVH 1 1 PJtMC.i: ?. , hi 1 niil information will hp -,. c.iii-aiioa to LilAIiLLS ;.. o.ANii. N. J. , .i i. ,-i i i x.'ni. I from rt ('ofrip ... , I. , ,,i. n liy tiie well-known v iMs ii), uik'i puuiiblji.il r-y r-." ') : ,-..: Tno ,.f t!o "well to ('o" f"Tt, - -. wi..i '.pvc tu-ncd llicir attention : u-k-1 t.'i. fj.'.iH. Ii.ie itrown rich. r tj-y .. a. .in :iiny to clayey. rn.'M':i:i. . i.:tcrectcl witii !- i.'i wet m'n.iw. In ..: i r l.iu.-k are ( guffi - :-1.. '! e r.'l iu.l !artaee. alter . !' t-' ; !' n.'itu'.-it l!i iility. .. ). m'if ' cir:;ire tra'. in . . ..( t itubif condition .' ' r- i.o-r of t hit tide oj ". V ' in.'.d tnmt of the o'd .:' t. a p. nhtabhi p. oJci (! 1 . Jkf'U 0l' a hundred yeurs n I'icrer the cause of Srp v'.:.lf conntry is a fiv.li t"ie ?f.il we toniiil -.1 . .1.4 ,- .;i.ict-3. sreneiaMy l.i ir.'ntK nnirl. s. lowing .'t ?;i.-l . of toe ter 7 lj i:h-ta sre r ncr,t I a vfrif co nminuted inn 'nt rutilytt'i.n- :r . ,f :! in i. Ja. ,nrr dj'irrt toc.-'.'i-S-2.i.-ly. Ayer's airYis"or. Coring to Gray Hair it: v viiauxy ana uoicr. A dressing which is af once agreeablf healtliv, an i eQ'octual fo V. Yt$H. preservin? tl. fc;Jt&fU restores fade fr'rtr-r or nrau hrrt 'fij' to its origino color, icith tit. "1 fi'shaess of youth. Thii vkene.J. fJHng hair checked, ks often, though not always, .:'? u;e. Xotliing can restore :'n-r2 tha fullicles are de t: glan h atrophied and . .Jt sueh as remain can be application, and stirau rf,iviTi that a new n-r is produced. Instead ' -ne hair with a pasty sedi- ilkwp it dean and vigorous. '-"il DSe Will nra.Tra.r t- 1 1. I. : ? gnr or falling off, and . -i.-iic oaianesa. 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Itlairand John Iewis, acting Assignees of the "Klicnsburg Mining and JIanulaclnr.ng '. oin pny,"(a shown by their first and partial ac count.) to and amongst the parties entitled to re vive the same, notice Is hereby given that I will attend to the duties of said appointment, at my otflee iu Ebens'mrg, on TfESOAY. Jani'Ary iota, 1;7, at 'J o'clock, r. M- when and where al. par ti. interested nuist present their claims or be de barred from cumlng in on snld fnnd. KO. W.O ATM AN, Auditor. Ebcnsbur. Dee. 20, 1879.-3U UIUTOK'S NOTICE. The un- tleiaijfneil, having been appointed Au ditor by ihe Orphans' ourt of Cambria Jeounty, to reiMirt distribution of ihefnndln the hands of Joseph riste administiator rum tentame.iitit o-tiej-n vt Ann Kearney, iate of Munster township, dco'd a shown by his first and final account, to and among the parties entitled to reeefve the same, hereby gives noUee that he will sit at his office, in Ebensburg, on Friday, Jasoary 191 h. 1878, at 2 o'clock, p. m., toaf.end to the du ties of said appointment ; wken and where all per sons Interested may attend It they see proper. Des. 21, l8-a.-au J. . L-VK K, Auditor. UDITOIl'S NOTICE. The nn- Iersijnl Amlitor, appoinled by the Orphans' Court of tJarobrla county to report dis tribution or the funds in the hands or Charles lluilou, admlnirilratorof Israel Oonghnour. dc d, as shown by his first and partial account, hereby notifies all persons Interested that he will attend to the duties or said appointment at his office in n,.h.iu ..n Vmnir.tlia IHth dry of JAJIO- r 'IILKR Aff.,rrn, r,t ' A RT, 1877. at 2 oVloek. P. u., when and where all 'n,lr; nU' Attorney al , prte, bavins claims are required to present fun. pA. Offie in r.nl. ! ham or ha dehtrri.1 from coming In osi said fund. .... . I - -- , - . - .- . Ebetuburg, Dec. 18, 187fl.-3t. EBENSBURG, TIIE IIORKIBI.F. KNOW. Oh! the scow, the horrible show, Making niy nose an emblem of woe; I'iliiig up atiow-tlrifts over my feAi-a, Filling my eyes to overflowing with tears. Il we must have It, why tioul.ln't it grow ? Twoulil bo more acceptable then, I kuow. Quite nie in its virgia purity true! Hut It makes my faeo most awfully blue; The way it goes "floating ami skimming" silong, In a Virgin snow is decidedly wrong. L.iaht on the- house-tops it settleth down, I fa poetical to call it a diamond crown; Hut the house, if it leaks, its diamonds must doff. And, prosiest fact, they shovel it off. As fair as the corals of ocean now. If glimmers and gleams on crackling liouph; But snow-laden boughs, if they chance to be dead. Are reuiaikahly apt to fall on your head. Oh! the snow, the horrible snow! It's all very nice to look at, I know, As you sit by your fire and toaat Your shin, While all is comfort and warmth within, Watching the sparks np the chimney fly Watching the glow of the coals as tbey die; Our places, if changed, right soon you would know Tis distance lends charms to "beaatiful snow." In thl3 suff.-ring world 'tis much ottt of rdace. "Except as an nltimate means of erace I A trial for Christians yet really I doubt That they feel as ihey should, if the truth weie out. For precarious quite is "'beautiful snow" To morals and Manding, s all may know. The pavements are nought but puddles of slush. And the shortness of petticoats causes a ! blush. As slipping and sliding 1 hurry on by, With a c-ol.l in my head ami a girl in my eye; Trusting to stand, iu a duplicate sense, By Providence and a neighboring fence. Once I was clean, like the snow, but I fell ; Fell with a vehemence words cannot tell; Made some remarks that when printed are dashed Fell to lie bruised, to lie langhed at, and Splashed "Into Die tilth of the horrible street," Draggled and wet the suit once so neat ; Pencils, cigars, eye-glasses, ad Temper, besides, I have lost by my fall. Kven my Intimate passes me by, Scoru ou nis brow and his nose to the sky. One pleasure redeeming comes with the snow, Thn minutes fly by with a sparkleand glow, As we dash away gaily, light as a feather, I ami my bonny sweetheart together; Our hearts as light as the crystMne spray Tha'- springs from the hoofs or' our horses away, But sweethearts tnrn false, and the bills come in "Beautiful snow" wen't furnish the tin. How strange if nnder the veil of the snow 1 should wander where punches enticingly flow ; Where minutes and ilollais so rapidly flee That frequeut indulgence is forbidden to me. How queer it would seem when night comes again, And "one too many" has muddled my brain, To lie in some dubious street down town. Discouraged because of the snow's coming down. Till a party of bummers stop as Ihey go, And roll me around in tlu horrible kww. A S'L'Ain'LIXG SJ'Olll. Previous to the year 1780 the city of I"aiis possessed as a guardian of its safely and chief minister of police a man of rare talent and integrity. At the same period the parish of St. Germains, iu the quarter of the Hue St. Antoine, had for its cure a venerable old man, whose life was spent in doing good to both the souls and booics of his fellow creatures, and whosecotisisteiicy and dignified courage caused him to be loved by the good and respected by even the most abandoned cliaiacieis. One cold dark winter's night the hell at. the cure's diH.r was rang lnudly, and be, although in bed, rose and iiencd the door, anticipating a summo.is to Koine sick or dying bed. A prison richly dressed, with hi.- featu.es paitially concealed by a large falsclica.il, stood outside. Addressing the cure in a couitons and giaceful manner, be apolo gized for his unseasonable visit, which ns he said, the high reputation of moosieu: . had induced him to make. "A great and terrible, but necessarj and inevitable deed," he continue d, "is to be done. Tin: presses, ar.d the soul about to pass iuto eternity implores y-ur ministiy. If you come you must allow your eyes to be bandaged, ask no questions and consent to act simply as spiritual consoler of a dying woman. If yon refuse to accompany me no other piiest shall be admit ted, and her spirit must pass alone." After a moment's secret prayer the cute answered, "I will go with you." Without asking any further explanation, ne allowed his eyes to be bandaged, and leaned ot: the sirm of his suspicious visitor. They both got into a coach, the windows were imme diately covered .with wooden shutters, and they were driven off rapidly. They seem ed to go a long way and make many doub lings and turnings ero the coach drove un der a wide archway and then stopped. During this time not a word had been exchanged between the travellers, and ere they got out the stranger assured himself that the bandage over bis companion's eyes had not been displaced, and then, taking the old man by the hand, he assist ed bim to alight and ascend the wide steps of a staircase as far as the second story. A great door opened as if of itself, and sev eral thickly carpeted rooms were traversed in silence. At 'length another door was opened by the guide, and the cue felt his bandage removed. They were in a solemn looking chamber. Near a bed, veiled by thick damask curtains was a small table surporting two wax lights, which feebly illuminated the cold, death-like apai tun nr. The stranger he was the Duke de , then bowing to Ibe cure, led bim towards the bed, drew back the curtains, and said iu a solemn tone : "Minister of God, before you is a woman who has betrayed the bliNKl of ber ances tors, and whoso doom is irrevocably fixed. She'knowsou what conditions an interview with you has been granted her : she knows too that all supplications would be useless. You know your duty, M. le Cure. I leave you to fulfill it, and w ill return to seek you in an hour." So saying, he departed and this agitated priest saw lying on a bed a beautiful girl bathed in tears, battling in despair, and fnlljunr in her hitter ft con v for the oom- ' .. ... n pAl!,.!j.n "NT . k iiivoctiir'il una lenn J ;ii0tn,. " - ..... -- possible, for the unhappy creature declar ed herself bound by a terrible oath to con' TA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1877. ccal her name ; besides, she knew not in what place she was. I am," she said, "'the Victim of a se cretimi)y tribunal whose sentence is ir revocable. More I cannot tell ? I forgive my enemies as I trust God wiil foigive nie. Pray for ne." ' The minister of religion invoked the de vine promises of the gospei to soothe her troubled soul, and be succeeded. Her countenance after a time became com posed ; she clasped her hands in fervent prayer, and then extended them toward her consoler. As she did so, the euro per ceived the sleeve of her robe was stained with blood. "My child," he said with a tiembliug voico, "what is this?" 'Father, it is the vein they have already opened, and the bandage uo doubt was carelessly put on." At these words a sudden thought struck the priest. ' He unrolled the dressing, al lowed the bhrod to flow on his handkerchief, which he bluded within his vest, and whim pered : "Farewell, my daughter' take courage and have confidence in God I" The hour had expired, and the step of his terrible conductor was beard approach ing. x am ready," said the euro. And hav ing allowed his eyes to be covered, he took the arm of the Duke de -, and left the awful room. Arriving at the foot of the staircase, the old man succeeded without his guide's knowledge in slightly displacing the thick bandage so a to admit a partial ray of Inmjr-light. Finding himself in the car riage gateway, he managed to stumble and fall, with both hands forward, in a daik c roer. The Duke hastened io lai-e him, both resumed their places in the caniagr, and after lepassing through the same cir cuitous rouie, the cuie wan set dowu iu safety at his own door. Without a moment's delay be called his servant. "Fieire," ho sai l, "arm yourself tiith a slick and give me your supiHirt ; I mtt,l iu M.inily go to the minister of police." Sown jifiei winds the cfiioi.il gate was opened lo ciJiuit the well-kuo.vn veuerable paster. "M'.n.seigneur," he said, addressing the ministee, "a len i'jle deed will sih.hi be ac complished it" you are not in lime to pre vent it. .Let. your agents visit, before day dre.ik, every carriage gateway io .'aria ; in the inner angle of one of them will be found a stained handkerchief, The bio nl is that of a young female whose munici, already begun, has been miraculously sust-uded. Iter family have condemned their victim to havo her veins oiiened o.io by one, and Ihns io perish slowly iu expiat-ion of a fault already nine than punished by her mortal aony. (Jourage, my friend ; you have al tesidy some iio.ns. May God assist you I can only pray." The same morning, at eibt o'clock the minister of poiicu cit.icd the cute's room. "My friend," he said, "I confess my in feiiority; you are able to instruct me in expedients." "Saved I" ciieu the old man, bursting into teats. "Saved," said Ihe minister, "and rescued from the power of her ci uel relations. IJut the next time, dear Abbe, that you want my assistance in a benevolent enterprise I wish you would give me more time to ac complish ir." Within the next twenty four hours, by an express order from the king, the Duke de and his accomplices were secretly removed from Paris, and conveyed out of the kingdom. The young woman received all the care her precarious stale required, mid, when fully recovered, removed to a quiet country village, where the royal pro tection assured Iter safety. It is scaiccly needed to sny that, next to her Maker, the cute of St. Gerinaius was the object of her deepest love and gratitude. During tiitecti years Ihe holy man received from time to tiino the expression of her grateful affec tion, and at length, when, from extreme old age, he was on tiie brink of the grave, he received the intelligence that she had departed in peace. Never until then had a word of the mysterious adventure passed fioni the good cure's lips. On his death bed, however, he confided the recital to a bishop, one of his paiticular friends. 'I'h is is the exact tiuth. Neveu too Late to Learn. Socrates, at au extreme old age learned to play ou musical instruments. Cato, at eighty years of age, learned the Greek language. Plutarch, when between seventy and eighty, commenced the study of Latin. Boccacio was thirty-five years of age when lie commenced his studies in light literature ; yet he became one of the great est masters of the Tnssin Dialect Dante and Plutarch being the other two. Sir Henry Spelnitm neglected the sciences in his youth, but commenced the study of them when be was between fifty and sixty years of sgo. After this time he became a most learned antiquarian and lawyer. " Dr. Johnson applied himself to the Dutch language but a few years before his death. Ludovico Monaldesco, at the gieat ago of one hundred and fifteen, wrote the memoirs of his owu times. Ogilby, the translator of Homer and Virgil, was not acquainted with Latiu and Greek till he was past fifty. Franklin did not fully commence his philosophical pursuits till be had reached bis fiftieth year. Dryden. in his sixty-eighth year, com. menced 'the translation of the Iliiad, his most pleasing production. We could go ou and cite thousands of example of men who commenced a new study, either for livelihood or amusements, at an advanced age. Hut every one fa miliar with the biography of distinguished men will recollect individual cases enough to convince him that none but the sick and indolent will ever say, I am too old to learn. - A pretty widow, whose husband has been dead for several years, received a handsome bouquet the other day. The man who sent it had been Hying around her with an earnestness worthy of a dry goods clerk, and it was with an extra de light ho saw her pass his store that even ing with the bouquet of flowers in her baud. . "I am so pleased to see you with them," said be, and a thousand little Cupids dim pled in his smile. "Yes," she replied, "it was very kind of yon. I always knew you liked him. and I am taking them to bis grave." Raleigh HentituL GROG Oil XO GROG. THE ATtCTTC KXPEIJITtON FCRNISHIXG AN AKOL'MKNT IN KAVOR OF TO- TAL ABSTIJ.ESCE. . Among other results of the Arctic expe dition some curious statistics have been obtained with reference to the question of total abstinence. The abstaineis who went out with the expedition were six, viz: Wm. Mallay, Adam Ayles, William tore. Joiner and Self, of the Alert, and Henry Petty, of the Discovery. There were two or three other seamen who joined the temperance ca-ise during the commission, and it is only fair to slate that the novices suffcrtd fmm the scurvy like the rest of the crew. Mallay was mt employed on any long jour neys, but was repeatedly out w ith support ing parlies. He states that the sledging parties of the Alert suuered greater priva tions I ban those from the sister ship. They h!id pushed beyond the limit of animal life, and their supplies of reindeer and musk-ox were soon exhausted. They weie consequently otdiged to subsist entirely upon ship's stores, and this enforced absti nence from animal food made them in a P-ecial degree susceptible to scurvy. On the termination of the sledging duties, at the end of July, the abstainers found that they had surpassed the remainder of the Alert's crew in the iimiilierof days' sledg ing performed. On this occasion Ayles had been out 110 days and Mdliay 96, "and it is a remarkable fact," the latter remarks, ''that neiiherof us was allocked with scur vy, but enjoyed good health, anil weie only weakened by our arduous duties iu sledg iog woik." Adam Ayles is a believer in Adam's ale anil a teetotaler of many years' standing.. He wa.s not only out for 110 days' sledging, but on one occasion he was out no less than SI days from the ship at a time. On this occasion scurvy bad at tacked the party, and had gained ou them s suddenly that-, with the exception of Lit'ttlenaiit Aldrich and Alcs, the whole of the men (seven in number) were in a helpless condition. D,dge arid Mitchell still managed to struggle by the side of the sledge, but the other invalids, who had held out until the last moment, were ob liged I o be carried. We have alicady stated that of the two who were tree from scurvy Adam Ayles was one. The other was Lieutenatit Aldrich, who although not an abstainer, was next door lo one,. diluting his rum mote than any other member of the expedition. During the whole of his sledge j'uinicys Ayles ate and slept well, and bore the cold even bctler than those who were accustomed to take stimulants. The rest of the patty had a double allow ance of grog, forty-five alove proof, before tui-iii'ig in. They also smoked a great deal, bui. for his part Ayles says be neither drank nor. smoked, and he took care that his allowance of grog was slopped on join ing l De ship. Twice a. week theie was beer served out, which was consideicd a great luxury, as it occupied much room in the traveling. lie was never in bctler health in bis life than at the present Li ne. Henry Petty, a teetotaler of sixteen yen.s' s. aodo'g, was the only total abstainer i-i 'he Discovery. He accompanied Gap lain Stephenson in all his sledging excur sions, and as it fell to his lot to net. ns cook while they were away from the shii, and he was thus obliged to get. out, in the cold for an hour and a half in the morning, and for the same periini in the evening, be was most exposed to the frost, of any man in the ship. He was sledging sixty days in all. On one occasion he accompanied the cap tnin to the Alert-, a distance of some ninety miles, doing the journey in four days and eight hours, and reluming in three days and a half, lie bad been medically ex amincd on Tuesday by the doctor of tho ship, with Ihe -est of the crew, and lie learned that he had never been treated for sciovy. lie hod only kUiTerrd from a cut in ihe hand. He believe" t hat his iinmnnity from disease was ctniitly owing to his tee totalism. He had slept well throughout, ihe campaign, and bad relished bis food, lie had also escaped frost bite. Goto, it seems, had bcenran abstainer until he was twenty-one years old, but in an ungunrded moment, w hile on I he sledge journeys, he succumbed to the temptation and persuasion of his companions, and took the grog. Previous to breaking his pledge Gore states that he could eat as well as any one. In fact, after devouring his portion he was in the habit of looking about foi more ; but no sooner bad ho taken to grog drinking than he found his appetite lo fail, and he was deprived of the refreshing sleep which lis had formerly enjoyed, lie was the only Goed Templar who joined tho ex pcditionlh.it was at lacked w ith scurvy, and for this he was no doubt indebted to his unfaithfulness. He gave stimulants, he remarks, a fair trial, and he is now con vinced that it was the grog which did the mischief. It may be noticed (hat Ihe testi mony of the whole ships' companies dvc tors and officers included is unanimous and conclusive against the serving out of stimulants during the day. They emphat ically state that no work can be done upon Riog. but many of them seem to cling to the belief that a glass at night was a sov ereign recuperative agent, and fitted them for the fatigues of tho morning. Dr. Golan, the senior niedicnl officer on board tho Alert, speaks very favorably of total abst inencc as exhibited during the ex pedition, and his forthcoming report will possess much interest. London 1'imes. NATUitAb Ccriomtt. In the great val le' between th north and south mountains in Pennsylvania, commonly called the Eastern ridges, a well was dug some years since in Franklin, and another in Cumber land county, thirty or forty miles from the former, which led to a discovery affv.ditig a subject for interesting speculation. Al ter proceeding in each instance to the depth of about thirty-six feet, the Itottom of these wells suddenly gave away, (but fortunately when the workmen had re tired,) antl a torrent of water gushed up. A lead was sunk with fifty fathoms of line without finding the least obstruction. They remain at this time untouched and of unknown depth. The presumption is, that there is a subterranean lake in thatquarter, and how far it extends tinder the base of the vat primitive mountains situated be tween the Susquehanna and Pittsburgh, will never be ascertained, unless by some terrible convulsion of nature, they should be precipitated into the tremendous abyss. The young man who wrote and asked h's girl to accept a "bucket" of flowers b- came a little pail when she said she wood eu ware it. li UMA A C'i" ttJ ' A liGitL AX OT.D RAILROADER'S THRILLING STO'tY TIIE TERILS OF FI'.OOS IN THE TRAC K. While two men, employees of the Obi. and Mississippi railroad company, were on I for a seimon anrnnlly preached there in their way to their work In Ihe car shops of commemoration of tl e greatest storm that the company at Aurora, Indian i, their at- . lias occurred in Knglnd in modern times, tent ion was attracted by a boot her 1, fresh- ! U.ireit Taylor, who suivtved this fearful ly torn off, slicking in the "frog" of the ; visitation after ha ing been exposed toaw-rail-rond Hack, a shoit distance from the j fnl jei il. placed a small sum of money In shojrs. Tbey stopjH-d a moment to exam- j the public iundsto pay for an annual ser ine it. and found that the heel was so se curely fastened in the "frogM that it le quired a smart blow with a ciutch one of he men had lost a leg to remove it. Long nails protruded from the heel, and all the evidence went to show that it hail raken considerable effoi t to tear it from the boot. "It apiicar to me," said one of the men, "that some fellow has had a narrow escape from bein mil down by a train, or else hi has been badly frightened and wrenched his boot heel olf w hen there vas io occasion for it." "It reminds me, ' replied his companion, in a low tone, "of a little adventure that happened to me several years ago up on the Fan Handle road. I was then a voting man, but ic isn't likely that I'll ever fnget it," and he cast a rueful glance at. the empty 'eg of his pants. "Tiie si try i- s mi f id," lie went ou, tin ning ilic b t-'l heel over in his hand as if to find inscrilK'd iivn ita siory similar to his own. "I was walking on ihe track near Cadiz .fundi in, in Ohio It w as one d.nk and blustry night in Februaty, ami a heavv snow storm was nrevailmir at the time. The snow and wind beating into my face was almost sufficient to have blinded one had it been in broad daylight. I was walking briskly along, not dreaming of any harm in fact, sir. I was then re turning from a visit to mv sweetheart. ho had that evening promised to Ire my wife when suddenly 1 fnmd my foot fastened between two rails where a side track j lin ed the otjiin track, just as this heel was f.is- ened heie in the ft' "g at our feet. At ,h:t T,o.nent I heard the shriil whistle ofa locomoiive, and looking up the track I saw, thiougli the blinding snow, a light , bearing down upon me. I had passed the depot, a few minutes previous and l.ad no ticed several jiersons standing n the plat- foiin. The jicrsoiis were wiiting for a i train, and here was one con. ing ! It was; an unusual hour for a tiaiu and the idea j of meeting one had not occurred to me Iks- j fore, but now the awful titiih Hashed upon nie, I made a desperate eii'oit to release . my foo, and the horror of tho situation t was increased a bundled fold when I found that it was securely fastened between the rails. The light wa so close that is reflection ujioii the new fallen snow blind ed me. As a man will in a like si. nation, I thought of a thousand things in an in slant. I thought of my aged paten's, eif events of my past life, of my promised bride ; and ihe thought that I slum Id be lorn from her, or what was woise, U bo maimed for life, was infinitely mo.e dread ful lhan the thought of death. Hut I'll n-t trouble you witli these painful details. What I supposed to be dies head tight of a locomotive was blazing right in my face. It was this leg that was fastened, " be said, swinging his s'ump back avd forth." and I just threw myself " "Yes, yes." inter rupted his companion, with blanched checks, "you threw yourself to one sida and the engine severeel vour leg from your body !" "Not exactly," returned the story teller, smiling blandly upon his victim. "Tho tinih Is, sir, I am almost ashamed to say that the light did not proceed from a loco motive, but from the lantern of a watch man who happened to be coming dow n the track." "And the shrill whistle that you heard?' "That, I presume, came fiom a one horse sawmill not far ofl." tin... l.. Ai.t ,-.t, l.tcr. tloit ' "As manv auoLher brave man has lost j;ii ,oni tv-fc ..... j. .. ... . hi," came the answer, accompanied by a heavy sigh, and a far-away 1 -ok as if to re call the scenes of somo field of battle ; "I fell under a mowing machine and had it chopped off." "Well, all I have to siy." replied his companion, somewhat disgusted a, tho tnrn the? romance nail taken against nun. 'all I hare to say is that I hope your girl went back on von and married an ax ban tile maker or some one else who could nial-re her nippy." "She stuck to me." said tlie romancer, "stuck to me through eod and evil re port, and married me married me one rapt ur ous evening in the merry month of May. and now," and his voice grew husky witli otion, "and now I'd give the top of this em bald and beetlir.g p de if she hadn't He PfT Strexgtti in It. An Indian tan went into a Chicago saloon, and askrd for "a gin cocktail w ith some strength into it." The bat keeper made a mixture of alcihol, pepper sauce, absinthe, lime, and painkiller. "The Indianian dia:k it," says the Chicago Tribune, "and about a quart of tears came to his eyes, bis mouth ceuitracted to about the size of a safe key hole, and when he had sufficiently mastered his emotion to speak he said, 'llowmnch's that?' 'Fifteen cents,' responded the barkeeper. The customer put down a quarter and said, 'keep the change Have something yourself, thru, wringing the barkeeper's band, bo added, 'That's the first goal gin I've ta;.ted since 1 leu home something like liquor ; it's sort, of quick in takiug hold ami slow in letting go. Come and sec me, and l"ll give yon somo corn whiskey that's letter still whiskey that's like swallowing a circular mw whole and puli ng it up again.' The bai keeper, an hour later, asked the patrolman if be had heard of an old man being found dead on the sidewalk, and the officer said no, he danced a few jig steps and critd. 'Hurrah he's gone somew here else to die !" " Dow They Tried Him. A Massachu setts young man went to visit his true-love tho either evening, and his friend at the house where he boarded resolved to ascer tain what "time of night" be pot home. So they put a tin pan on each of the stairs in the hallway and tied them all together by a string leading from top to bottom, and fixed them so that when he softly oi.eiied the front door and sneaked in the pans would descend and meet him. And a little while before daylight those in that house who were not iu the trick covered wp their heads and softly prayed under the mistaken impression that an earthquake had arrived and it was time to get read j. But it wasn t. 'Twas nothing but 'them pans," heralding the young mau's appioach. NUMliKU 11). .3 -4 l'-l..'-. Not far from Druiy Lane, London, is a street called Wild street, in which thro has long Mood a Haptist chajel. This in stitution has for 173 vears been irmaikable) mon which never fails to excite extraordi nary intctcst. Th'sstoim, for set rial vcais j afterward mentioned not asa s:oim. but as t the storm, w as comparable, snys Ijoid Stan- l.oj e. in his hisli rv .f Queen Anne"? rctgr to the woist in ttopical climes. Its cl.ii f foice was spent iu tl.rson.fii a;nl southwest j of Engl.ir.tl. The Queen was aroused from her trcd in St. .Tnuu s palace by part of that venerable stinctuie beicg blo n tins ti, ami the r.ishop of Bath snd Wells and bis w ifo were killed by the fall of a chinuuy slack. The Kegistrar of Eton College was blown from his mom into the street near Lndgate Hill, London. The damage done at Biis tol Tvas computed at il."i(t.tHKt. "Ports mouth," says a wii'trof i Le tiino. "loog I "he a city bombarded." The Eddystono Lighthouse was swept into tho sea. The whole country was strewn with giant trees, torn from the roots by a wind such as bad never been known befoie. Curiosity led Defoe to count them in a ride around Lon don. He ceiunteel 17,KMI, and then cot I tired, ! at sea Hut the most tei rible disasters weie Fifteen sail of the line, including ' Admiral Rowater and the wh-ile of Lis ; crew, together with several hundred mer i cbantmcii and a sixty-four gnn shiji, witli ; Admiral iieatiinout ou boa it), peiisbed, tha i latter iu full view tf Deal. Of SG'.i men but eine was saved enst by a wave to thorp. j It has been computed that F,'.).H) jK?op!e 1 lost. The House of Commons piesc weie lescnteel an address to the Q.iecn depleting the lof-s I to Ihe navy, and sn-est jug the building e f new ships, this being, says Lord Maranlay. the only occasion in England when a tem- pest evoked a public adilress, or the na tional fast which followed it. During Queen Anne's reign the d;iy of the storm continued, in obrdience to her pi-oclama-tion, to bo solemnly observed. The worst year in England since then was I81L In its autumn and winter the sea was covered with wrecks and the coast with corpses. On Nov. 2t):h a fearful tempest swept un from the tumultuous Atlantic. Tbe wind raged for three elays with appalling fury. The year closed with a long remeniltere-l snow stoim winch paralyzed locomotion throughout the kingdom fcr renvly a week, i The foreign mails were rent by sea from ' Lond'tii to tho Ci.utineiit, because the road ; through Kent, th-spite the ffir!s i f tho immense crowd set to clear it, continued impassible. "Pei haps," ebserves a w riter, referring to it some years later, "no act of : nature gives so high a conception of amoia I than moitalhand the rapidity of itsefiect, ' the subtle but resistless chemistry by which ', the impalpable element was turned into a j material of n totally different, form and qual i it irs sufficient to sheet millions of miles." What a myriad of human lioHsmust bav been suddenly thwattetl ot defe ated by this visitation, which probably iu some indirect manner Directed the coutse of as many ca reers S A. i Sun. A Di":A?r. A certain good man, in the days of old. had a dream, and lo ! became before the king to relate it, "What didt thou see?" questioned tho monarch. "Your gracious majesty," responded the good man. "I sav a throne from which a bright gold liirht issued, and on each side j of it langed tho transparent spirits of tlie ' good men who have gone before us. J "What was the most woudcilulthinjyoui ' saw or heard?" asked the ruler. "Oh, (xir majesty, I saw on the left of J the throne a of forms across whose incasis were oiacK oars. vu ine itgni tue spirits wore crowns of light ami tlivir forms were transparent as the sun's rays. Arid I was tilled with wonder, ard I asked : "Why thisdistinctiou?" And a voice fiont behind the thjone made answer at:d said : "Lo ! the forms cm the right are those c.f true and conscientious meu who invariably ! paid for their newspaper in advance. riietso on the left are those who promised j to pay but were crossed off the li:-t in tinio j to avoid the punishment which would otb J crwise have been theirs.' And I marveled I much and said : "And the the;, () Pow j eis, w here are they ?"' And -ucc again tho i voice spake, "O human, listen !' and listened and bcaid the shout ing cf many agonized voices and tho words were these: T II be hanged if I i;y in advance. and again, "I never ordered that pat-er." And when the good man bad finished, the king was in deep thought, ard he or dered that the dreamer be clothed and fed, while a page was dispatched to the office -f the local paper to pay up arreareges and prciay for two years. Hhinclctk Gazette, The discoveiy on the 15th ult., near ona of the ever-shifting sand banks of fiLle Is land, of a ortioii of the Italian baik Or vieto, wrecked there many sears ago, has recalled to the old ke-rier of the I rtspital in in that gloomy region the incidents con nected with the Oi vieto's loss, jtnd which be Iras recently letafed to the Caj tain tf tho 1 Lady Head, a li'tle stramer that plies be - tween ILilifax and Sable Island withsnp- plies. Ibe light the tirvieto was wrecked the watches on the east bar of ihe island were alarmed by the incessant bowlir g of a dog. Following np the soui.d tLeir lan terns revealed a huge New foutidlaiul dog guarding a woman and child. The URial restoratives were instantly at plied, and the helpless sufferers removed on the canvas st i etchers, which the watches always carry. On reaching the hospital the woman's sen ses could not be revived sufficiently long to glean from her any particular tf the w reck. Tho faithful dog. who had doubt less dragged mother and babe ashore, could with great di"ir:ultv be kept away from the bedside. The mother died the night rf her rescue, but the infant survived, and is probably now living w ith its grandparent? in Palermo, Italy. The woman htd thei ii.ini.it ure of her husband in a brooch, and a letter in her pocket, received at Qnecns town, and dated at Palermo, giving tho name of the lost vessel and an address n that city. Hardly any trace of the ill-fated baik was found for many months, so com pletely wreckeel and buried in the sands had she become. Woman's favorite nse-paper a mar nage certificate.
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