Dying Summer.
On taway hills in faded splr-dor drest.
Of rusty purple and of tanuehsd sold.
Now like some F.asiem monarch sat and
eld.
The discrowned enmmer lieth down to reel 1
A mournful miet hangs o'er the net low plain.
O'er waterv meads that elide down pine-clad
height*.
And wine-red wood* where eon* no more de
lights ;
But only wounded bird, cry out in jwin.
A pallid glory lingers in the *ky,
Faint soon to of wilding flowers flout in the
air,
All nature's voices rmuumr in <!ss|sdr—
"Was summer crowned eo lata—so scon to
die?"
But, with a royal eni.'e. ktie whispers "oease.
If lifs is Joy and triumph. destii u peaoe
Asking.
He stole-from my Mim a rose ;
My cheek was tta color the while ;
But. ah. the aly rogue ! he well knows,
11 ad he ask'd it, I must have eai i no.
He uiatch'd from my lips a soft kisa .
I tried at a frown 'twas a smile ;
For. ah. the sly rogue 1 he koowa Una
Had he asked it, 1 must hare said twi
That "asking " In love's a mistake ;
It puts one in mind to refuse;
"Tie best not to ask. but to take .
For it esris one Ihe need to say no.
Yet. stay this is folly I'tc said.
Some thine* should he ssk'd if dsarred :
Sly rogue ho|<e* my promise to wed ;
Wheu he asks ms I will uot say no.
THE COMEDY OP ERRORS.
Shew las Hew la Old Mall teas* a Wife
it Sea He I ran ki per led llaa.
One of the puxxlinest things I know*
on for a stranger is the way they has in
England of namin' their strsvU. Yon
gate into the street yon wants, and
afore you've gone a doxen blocks you
find it's changed its name and you're in
an entirely different street. Thus oue
and the same street will sometimes have
three or four different names afore you've
gone the whole length of it
1 mind a funny blander I made once
in consequence of thia, though, arter all,
it turned out all right, jist as if I'd a
kept my right (eckonin'.
When 1 u*\l for to be goin' reglar
into the Liverpool packets, out of oue
ship and into another, it so happened
that 1 come for to be shipmates with a
chap as were called Dick Oetrom, tliree
or four v'Tsg'-s one arter another, and
wo got for to lie chums like.
Dick were one of those steady chaps ;
didn't never go outo no sprees, always
boarded to the Sailor's Home wheu he
were in New York, and went to church
Sundays. Dick were a pretty good sort
of a chap and a tiptop smlormau aa well,
and so we got to tw chnmmiea, tuniin'
iu and out together at sea, and weariu'
each other's dunnage. The both of us
come in the John It. Skiddy, and then
both shipped agin in the New World.
I expect Dick were the bash fullest
chap along of wimmin that ever stood
on two legs. Sailors ain't given much
that way, sir, and it were a wonder,
seein' as he'd been so long in that trade,
that he hadn't a got over it, but you see
he never vrent round like the rest of us,
and would tarn the color of red huutin'
if any of the gals at the boardin' house
said nnythm' to him, and that was the
way they come for to call him " Bashful
Dick."
Soon as supper were over Dick would
top his boom and sail barge and mine
of us know'd where he weut to, and we
supposed he either went aboard or else
to some gosjiel shop to hear a bit of
preachin", anyway his way wer'n't our
way, and we didn't trouble ourselves
about it.
While we was in Liverpool that time
in the New World, we sot the riggiu' up
fore and aft, and me aud Dick was up iu
the foretop one day—Saturday it were—
a seizin' off the topmast riggin', when
all of a sadden Dick says to me: "Tom,
I've an idee of gittin' spliced."
Well, if he'd a told me he'd au idee of
j ampin' oat of that top, I wouldn't have
bean more astonished. " All right, my
lad," says I, "if so be as you gits the
right kind of a lass. You'd better be
sure she's seaworthy afore von ships."
" She's too good for me, I'm afewred,"
says Dick.
•' That I'm an re she aiu't," savs I.
" Where does she hail from an 1 how on
artfc did you ever come athwart her
hawse f"
"She lives here," "sys Dick, "and
I've la-en cruisin" off and on in her wake
for a couple of year* or s>o. and I've been
a aivin' up till I've got SSOO in the bank
at home, and that a enough I think for
to gii spliced on."
" Five hundred dollars," says I ;
" why, it's a fortiu, it's more than ever I
had in my life at one time, and I've
been spliced for years. When is it to
come ofl i if it'll be any help to you, I
can giv yon the mark and number of the
cbap as spliced me, and he's a man as
will do the job neat and cheap."
'* Well, as to that," says Dick, " I
ain't said notliiu' to her about it as yet.
I thought I would last v'yage in the
Skiddv, but every time I went there
sometiiin' tnrued up, and I oonldn't jist
git to it, and since I've been here this
time I've gone there lots of times detar
miDed to say somethin' about it, but the
fact is, Tom, I can't do it, and there's
the truth aliont it. You've seen me in
many a gale of wind, and you know that
where any man can go I can go, and that
I ain't !a*t at any thin' them times ; but
alongside of a vitamin, Tom, I'm not bin'
bat a haby. Sot but what I can take
care of one, Tom, if I'm once spliced to
her, and she needn't I* afeared of want
iu' for anythin' so long as I have my
health • but it's jist as I tell you, Tom,
when I comes to the p'int of speakin*
about it, I always think I'll wait till next
time."
Well, I thought the thing over a while,
and then I says: " Dick, my flower ; it's
clear that you can't do this thing by
yourself, and as yoa and I has been ship
mates for so long, I don't mind lendin'
yon a hand in this here business, pro
vided when I sees the craft, I judges her
all right. To-morrow is a Sunday, and
to-morrow arternoon I'll rig up, and yon
shall giv me her mark ami number and
I'll go np and see her and fix this thing
for yon in a jiffey. Ton see havin' been
one v'yage to lani, myself, I can do it as
easy as jumpin' overboariL"
" Tom," says Dick, "this here were
jist what I were a-goin' for to ask you to
do f-r me."
Well, sir, next mornin' arter we'd
washed the decks and had breakfast, I
went over in Waterloo road, and paid
threejienoe for s shore-shave, and then I
put on a pair of blue cloth pants aud a
white shirt, and I borrowed a red plush
vest from a chap named Billy Small, and
put Dick's frock coat over that, and with
a high hat which I borrowed from the
third mate, I jist looked equal to any
thin'.
The sailin' directions 1 got from Dick
were to stand up Mortimer Btreet to the
bead of it, where it is (Tossed by Rinoon
street, turn round Rinoon street, go
about three blocks to No. 65, and ask for
Mrs. Lee. Well, I kept my reckonin'
all straight till I come to Rinoon stroet,
and then it struck me that Dick hadn't
said which way to turn ; but remember
in' that the rule of the road were always
for to port your helm, I sheers around to
the right at a venture, thinkin' I'd soon
git a true dejiarture by the numbers.
For the first block there weren't ne
nnmliers; there were a vacant place, and
a factory, and what not, but when I
oome to No. 25 en the next block, I were
glad I had made a lucky land-fall, and
were sure I were right. Of oonrse then
all I had for to do were to follow along
till I got to No. 65. It were a nice little
two-story brick house, and as I ringed
the hell I couldn't help wonderin' how
ever Dick had fetched up in sich moor
in's as these. There were a nice little
lass opened the door, and when I asked
her if Mrs. Lee were at home, she said
she were, and asked me to walk in.
"What name shall I say?" says she,
as I went into a snug little parlor on the
right of the hall.
" Well, miss," says I, " as she don't
know me, the name don t matter; tell
her it's a friend from a peiliclar friend,
F"1 {KIX lv 1' HI 1 /, LMitor ami Proprietor.
VOL. VIII.
w would like l> see her on uuportunt
hniinMß."
" Yea, air," says she, and I thought to
myself if the mistress is as luce as the
maid, I don't wonder at Hick, and then
1 thought of what I'd promised old nep
tune the And time t croased the line,
" never hi kiss the maid if 1 could kiss
the mistress, unless 1 liked tue maid
the best," and worn(fred if 1 should
like the mistress as well as 1 did the
maid.
Presently there come int-> the room as
ueat a little craft aa one woukl wiali to
meet in a day 's sail. Fine tlgurehead,
good smooth how, able bodv, and clean
run. all shqvdispe and Bristol fashion
fore and aft.
" Did von wish to ace me f" she siud,
and 1 didn't wonder at Dick gittin' in
the doldrums, for I wer'u't much better
myself. You see 1 thought it would be
a easy thing for to do, but now that it
had got to lie done 1 didn't hardly know
what to say.
"The fact is, inarm," sava I, a-standiu'
up before her, and I wished I were a
hundred miles away, " l)ick Ostrom,
whom I s'pose you kuow well, is a chum
of mine, me and him havin' now been
shipmates off and on for over a year,
and put Dick, inarm, to a weather eariu'
m a gale of wind, and there ain't none
better, as any body'll say as has ever
tieeu shipmates with him, but alongside
of a woman, marm, as uo doubt you
have obmrred, Dick are as skoerv as a
colt, and so yon see, marm, havin 1 long
e'eu a'rnoet worshipped the ground you
stand on, he never couldn't git hia
courage up to the stickiu* p'int for to tell
yon so, and so 1 bein" his chum, vuluu
teered for to come and let you know how
the land lav, and that Dick, havin' saved
up a good bit of money, were williu' for
to be spliced, if so be as how it were
agreeable to vou, marmand I wiped
the sweat off my brow and were glall it
were over.
Well, she looked kind of confound,
but I seen that she weren't displeased,
tiud she says: " I suppose I know the
gentleman you speak of, havin" uotictsl
him iu meetin'."
Oho; thinks I, there's were Dick
come across this craft. " But," says
she, " this js so sudden, so eutirt lv un
expected, that really I am not prepared
to sav nnythin'."
" He'll" never come near you agin,
marm," savs 1, "unless he thinks he
has some little sight; may I tell him
that he mav come up and see yon to
morrow uiglitf"
" I shall tie home to-morrow night,"
says she, " and of course I'm always
glad for to see mv friends."
*• Talk enough, inarm," says I, for I
considered the business as gixxl as set
tled, and 1 bid her good artern<xin, she
letting me out of the door herself.
Well, I goee dowu and sees Dick, and
I says : " It's all right, old chap, and
you re a mightv luckv fellow; all you've
gut to do is to haul alongside as soon as
ever you like, and the widder's yours,
and -ke'll Ixi expectin' you to morrow
night." But Dick were too much in a
hurry to wait for the next night, and
away he goes that same evtnin' as happy
as a young porpus.
I turned in mayhap about ten o'clock
that night, and were jut droppiu' off to
sleep when I were woke up by Dick.
" I don't want to strike you in your
bunk," says he. " but git up and put on
your pants, and come out ou deck, ami
we'll have this out here and now."
" Avast," says I, "there's some mis
take here, and I ain't a going to tight
till I knows what it's for, and anyhow I
ain't a-goin" out on de>-k for to tight,
'cause the watchman will call a police
man and we'll both le locked up iu less
than uo time ; so wbatcver's the trouble,
it'll keep till mornin' and then if I've
done anythiu' agin you, we'll go down
to the north shore, and tight it out
pleasant."
Some of the rest of the chaps had got
waked up. and they took my part, and
jist told Dick th-ro mua'n't lie no fight
iu' there, aud them and he agreixl for to
4>ut it off till mornin', " and then," nay*
he, " I'll larn you how to fool a ship
mate."
Well, he goes out on deck and I hcerii
him a walkin' there ami waited a spell,
aud then I went out and I says : " Now,
chnmmie, what's this al! alxiut ("
fJays he : " You never went near tliat
woman, and have made a fool of me."
" Avast!" says I, "who says so ?
" She says so," says he.
"Then,', says .1, "with all due re
spect, anil I'm *£rrv to say it of sich a
nice oreeter ah i appeared to be, she
tells a thunderm* lie. 'Taint no use,
Dick, for me and you to fight over this
t .ing, I'll go np with yon to-morrow,
aud if I don't convince yon that she lies,
don't never call me shipmate agin. She
aint worth stoppin* out of Ix-d for ; go
turn in and take your rest like a man."
Well, sir, next night we goesuptogeth
er, and when we gits to the top of Mor
timer street, instead of portiu', Dick
starboard**!.
" Hold hart 1, old fellow ; right your
helm says I, " that aint the way."
"Yes it is," says he, "this here is
Kincon stm t, t'other way is Douglass
street."
" I don't care what you call it, - ' say*
I, "this here's the way I went, and at
No. 65 I found Mrs. Iy e, and a mighty
nice body she is."
" That's Douglass street," says he,
"aud you went all wrong."
"I found Mrs. Dee, and so I went all
right," says I. " And now we must go
and explain to her how this misUko oc
curred."
Well, it were a long time afore I could
git Dick to go, but at last lie did, and
we was let iu by the same tidy little lass
that had opened the door the day liefore.
We didn't have to wait long afore the
widder coma down, and if I thought her
charmin' the day Wfore, yon mny jist
believe me, sir, she were perfectly lie
wilderin' this evenin', with all her kites
aloft, and every one of 'em puliin'. 1
seen at once that she'd hever sot eyes on
Diek afore, so 'twas clear she hail thought
I come from somebody else, so there
were a blunder all round.
Of coarse, I had to be the Spokesman,
and I up* and I tell* her the whole story,
poor Dick sittin* there lookin' as sheep
ish as you please, and the comical si<l
of it struck her so that she hurst into
laughter.
Well, she insisted on our bavin' a
gloss of wine, and she told us she kind
of cottoned to us, 'cause her first hus
band hod l>eon a sailor, bavin' liecn
mate of a ship ont to Liverpool, and she
aaid we must always come and nee her
whenever we oome to Liverpool.
" Mind, now," says she to Dick as we
was goin' away, "when you oome up the
street don't always turn to the left; oome
and see me sometimes."
Well, sir, the other Mrs. Lee kept a
public house, but weren't it odd that
both numbers should be 65 ? I went in
the California trade artcr I got back,
and I weren't in Liverpool agin for near
two years, but one day a-goin' along old
Hall street who should I meet but Dick
Ostrom. Well, he were delighted to
see me and insisted that I should go
home with him and see his wife.
"I managed it arter all, old chap,"
says he, "and thanks to you." But
when I got to his house and found that
his wife was my Mrs. Lee, I thought be
had much to thankful for.
Atlanta, Ga., is said to have more
doctors than would be needed if a pesti
lence was raging, and more lawyers than
oonld be employed if every man were
plaintiff or defendant in a suit at law.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
A king Without any Nonsense.
lion. E. D. Helton wrtUn to the \iil
uaukrr il'infoiuoi km follows An wo
returned to the western front of the pal
kM| tiro King of SwihU'u and aouieof his
friend* were standing on the porch, He
recognised Mr. Daiufrldt, from acr*w
Um wide graveled walk, lor lifting
his list to him ; whereupon Mr. I>. n
cused himself to us, and proceeded to
pay his res pools to the king. The king
in s sensible and friendly wsy extended
his hand cordially to his '• Superintend
out of Agrioultme ami Commissioner of
the American F.X|hwiUoii. " They 0011
versed for a little time, wheu the two de
scended the stairway, and Uvkuued us
to approach. What ! was the king
going to greet us strangers f He shook
hands with us in the same cordial way
tliat the governor of Wisconsin would
greet a citiseu calling upon him at the
capital. He speaks English fluently,
and asked how we were pleased with our
{ouruey iu Sweden, etc. Heplyuig to
lis inquiries, 1 took an early opportu
nity to thank him for the part his gov
ernment was taking in our Contemn d
exposition. He replied that, iu cotiaid
eration of the nurut>er of Swedes who
had gone to America, and the friendship
borne our government, it was but proper
that Sweileu should take part in the ex
position. 1 said to him that hia person
al presence in America wonld lie cor
ilially welcomed by unr people. He
replied that that time could not now lie,
and expressed regret that in his earlier
life he had uot accepted the opportunity
of visiting the new world. Hut he inti
mated that it was jmesible that he
might aeud one of his sons. Thus our
conversation ran on. Wheu he said:
"May I have the pleasure of introducing
you to the queen f" Oertaiuly. Why
not f Heiug here at the king's palace at
Drottingholm, on this exquisite after
noon, and upon the invitation of the
king himself, why uot lie introduced to
the queen f The king leads the way
through the palace from its went front
to the lawn upon the east front, where
the royal familv and their guests are en
joying themselves in the shade of the
palace. The king directs a servant to
invite the queen to join them, when a
sweet faced woiuan, dressed with charm
ing taste, approaches, and we are intro
duced to the of Sweden. She
could S|ieak English, though uot as well
as the king. She and my wife held some
conversation, while the king brought
his minister to Washinton, Mr. Steven
sou (at present spending some time in
Sweden), and introduced him.
Oscar 11., the present King of Swe
den, is the gramlaou of licruadoUe, and
has lieeu upon the throne but three or
four years. He is a uiau about forty-six
or seven years of age ; is tall and well
fonued. He is represented as a very
atmtemions and temperate man in his
habits—settiug an excelleut example to
his subjects in his private character. So
far as I can judge, his reign give* satis
faction to the people, and all goes well
here in Sweden. ofar as the government
is concerned. There are four sons, aud
the crown prince is now a boy of some
seventeen years of age.
Jack in the Pulpit.
WHO CAN OOfST THE STILUS f
Did you ever try to oonnt the stars I
I umsl to try to do so myself, but some
how I always fell asleep liefore I could
get through, and when 1 woke up I could
not tell where I left off. I'm told,
though, that it has !>cen done, and that
there are only alxiut eight thousand visi
ble to the naked eye. Don't they make a
great show for a uutntier uo larger than
that 1 But the raven tells d that his
master, the astronomer, suvs that those
we can see with our eyes alone are but a
very trifle compared with the numl>er
that he can see through his telescope.
He says, for instance, that there are
eighteen milliont of stars in the Milky
V\ ay. Now it's of no use ! I can't even
think of such a numlier as that. My
head isn't big enough to hold them.
OROWINO MOCNTAINa.
Yon wouldn't think it, '..at I'm told it
is actually so, tliat very high mountaius
increase in size every year. This is owing
to the great quantities of scow which fall
npon their tops. Some of this snow
slowly melts and ruusdown the mountain
sides; but much remains, and so the
mountains grow higher, year by vear, as
each season's snow falls upon tliat left
there the year before.
THE MEAN-ISO OT "IIURKAII."
Who can tell the meaning of "hur
rah?" Jack used it just now a
thoughtlessly, considering its true sense.
The pretty school ma'am says it originated
among Eastern nations, where it was
used as a war-cry, from the belief that
all who died in battle went to heaven.
"To Paradise!" (Jlurrag.') men
shouted to one another, by WHY of en
couragemeiit, in the thickest of tne fight;
and so, in time, came onr word " hur
rah !" which means almost anything you
choose, so that it lie of good cheer.— St.
Xichota* for October.
linn,a.i saliva Kills Snakes.
The M irirtta (da.) Journaf was told
by a gentleman the other day that human
spittle was as deadly to (Kiisonons snakes
as their bites were deadly to man. He
*ays thai while picking np a bundle of
Rtra-.v and trash under bis arm, while
cleaning a field, a ground rattlesnake,
four feet long, crawled out from it ami
fell to the ground at his feet. He at
once placed his heel npon the linod of
the snake and spit in its mouth. Shortly
afterward the snake showed symptoms
of inactivity and sickneas, and he picked
it np by its tail and carried it to the
house and showed it to his wife, telling
her he had spit in its mouth, ntul that it
was poisoned. At the expiration < J fif
teen minutes the snake was dead. To
further experiment, ho earae across a
blowing adder (snake), which ejected
from its month a yellowish liquid. Ho
caught it and spit in its month, and it
died. He caught another blowing, aud
it refused to open its month. lie spit
U|>on a stick and rnhbsd the spittle npon
the adder's nose, and it died. Afterward
he came across a blaeksuake, regarded
as not poisonous, and lie caught it and
spit iu its month. Instead of the spittle
killing the blacksnake, a* it did the poi
sonous reptiles, it only mode it stupidly
sick, from which it recovered. Tina
conclusively shows that |s>isonous
snakes have as much to fear from the
spittle of man as inau has to fear from
their bites.
A Phenomenon Fx plained.
The sight of a swarm of bees suspend
ed from the branch of a tree, and so
heavy sometime* as to l>end it, is s sur
prising one, and the observer naturally
asks how so great a weight can be sup
ported, without apparent fatigue, by the
few scores of bees that are fixed to the
inferior surface of the branch. Accord
ing to Dr. Bourgeois modem science es
timates the amount of weight which can
lie supported by means of a vacunm (of
which the sucker on lice's foot affords
an example) at one kilogramme thirty
grammes per square centimeter. Now
the sucker of a bee's foot, magnified six
ty diameters, represents a snrfaoe of
more than a centimeter. Each bee hav
ing six feet, it will therefore be poeeible,
rigorot sly, for ten bees to support the
weight of one kilogramme. Thus, the
phenomemon in question may be ac
counted for.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1875.
A Sepoy Narratlie.
On* ilav, in nufl of tiicv inclosed build
intra near Lucktiow. * groat uuiubnr of
prirtoucrs went takou, li.-iuly ail Hepoy*.
After tin l tight thoy were all brought in
to liie officer commanding tuy regUiMiit,
and in lint morning the order oaiue that
they should all t>o allot. It chanced that
it wait my turn to command the firing
jmity. I asked the prisoners their liauiee
and regwueut. After hearing soui* live
or aii, one B*<|ioy aaid he lielonged to
tlie regiment, whieh was thai my
aoti had lieeu IU. lof course aekisl him
if he had known my eon, A nun tee
ltam. He answered that tliat was his
owu uauie ; but this being u very eom
moii name, and having always imagined
tliat my sou, as 1 had never hoard from
him, mu*t have died of the Seiude fever,
it did not at first strike me ; but when
he informed me he cauie from Tillowee,
my heart leaped in my mouth. Could
he be my sou f There was no doubt of
it, for lie gave my name as his father,
and he fell down at my feet, imploring
my pardon. He, with all the other men
in the regiment, Itad mutinied, and had
gone to Luckuow. Once the d*-cd was
done, what was he to do I Where was
he to go, if he had ever beeu inclined to
escape I At four o'clock in the day the
prisoners were all to Is- shot, and I must
be my sou's executioner! Huch is fate !
t weut to the Major Saheb, and request
ed I might t>e relieve*! from tliis iluty u
a very great favor ; but he was very
angry, and said he should bring ine to a
court martial for trying to shirk my
dutv ; he would not lielieve 1 was a
faithful servant of the Kuglish govern
ment—he was sure my heart was in
reality with the mutineers he would
hear me no longer. At last my feelings
as a father got the I tetter of me, and 1
burst into a flood of team. 1 told him I
would shoot every oue of the prist>nem
with my owu hands if he ordered w<>,
but 1 confessed tliat one of them was my
son. The major declared wliat I urged
was only an excuse to get off shooting
my owu brotherhood. Hut at last his
heart seemed touched, aud he ordered
my unliappy sou to tie brought Iwfore
him, and questioned him very strictly.
I shall uever forget this terrible aoene;
for oue moment I never thought of ask
ing his life to lie spared that he did
not deserve. He Ixieuiue convinced of
the truth of my statement, aud ordered
mo to lie relieved from this duty. I
went to my tent, bowed down with grief,
male worse by the gil*-* and taunts
poured on me by the Sikhs, who de
clared I was a renegade. lu a short time
I hoard the deadly volley. My sou hail
received the reward of mutiny. He
showed no fear, but I bad rather he bail
beeu killed in ftght. Through the kind
ness of the major 1 wart allowed te jier
form the funeral rite over my misguided
sou—the only ot:e of tlie prisoners over
whom it wurt performed, for tlie remain
ing Isslies were all thn>wn to the jackals
and vultures. I had not heard from my
son since just after my return from
slavery. 1 ha*l uot seen him since I
weut to Cabtsil, aud thus I met him
again, untrue to his salt, iu opeu rebel
lion against the master who had fed his
father and himself. Hut enough—-more
is unnecessary. He was not the only
one who mutinied. (Lib-rally lu> was
not alone when he mutinied.) The
major told me after ward tliat he was
much blamed by the other officers for
allowing the fuueral rite to lie performed
on a rebel. Hut if good deeds wipe
away sins, which I have heard in me
Salubs lielieve as well as we do, his niw
will be very white. Had fortune never
attends on the merciful. May my major
soon become a general.
Take a f 'brw.
There are four little girls in Mi!wan
ke*- 4 the AVIM says, two of them daugh
ters of a South->idw filu-rm*ii, Otic the
daughter of a (terman earyx-t weaver,
ami thp other a lassie named " Annie,"
who are employed by a wrtain well
known and wealthy b'bacco dealer to
pick up whatever may lie found iu
saloons, on the stns-ts and iu the gut
ters, at one cent for every ten pieces,
weather large or small. Kvery cigar
stub and discarded " quid " is picked
up, no matt* r how dirty it may tie, no
matter who has used it, or where it is
found. These are us* d in the mannfac
tur- of " choice " Havana cigars and
pa|icr chewing tobacco. The longer
ami lietter "stumps " are unrolled aud
used for the f.irmer piirjxme, while the
•' quids," short stumps, and <iakel and
rotten " tips " are made into chewing
toliacoo. There is nomethiug delectable
in a contemplation of all this. These
children make good wagon at the liusi
Uflnn; tlieirjiay ranges from eighty cents
b> 81.50 per day. When a Large and
well soaked lump is found the little ras
cals divide it. aud by so doing make fif
ty |*-r cent, on their " find."
Macaulay's Tribute to his Mother,
Children, look in those eyes, listen to
that dear voice, notice the feeling of
even a single touch that is bestoweo on
yon by that gentle hand. Make much
of it while yet yon have that meet pre
cious of all good gifts, a loving mother.
Head the unfathomable love in those
eyes, the kind anxiety of that tone aud
look, however slight your jaiu. In after
life you may have friends, and lond,
dear, kind friends ; but never will yon
have again the inexpressible love aud
gentleness lavished upon yon which a
mother lestows. Often do I High, in
my struggles with the hard, uncaring
world, for the sweet, deep security I
felt when, of an evening, nestling in
her bosom, I listened to some quiet t le,
suitable to my age, read in her untiring
voice. Never can I forget her sweet
glances cast npon me when I appeared
asleep : never her kiss of peace at night.
Years have passed since we laid Iter lw
ride my father iu the old churchyard ;
yet still her voice whispers from the
grave and her eye watches over m as I
visit spots long since hallowed to the
memory of my mother.
Lynch law.
In Ohio a number of farmers, infuria
ted at tho murder of a young girl in the
woods, Inrnke open a jail, took out of it
the man accused of tho murder, and
hanged him. Tho poor creature had
l>een accused by hia wife ; he solemnly
denied, in hia laat momenta, having
committal the murder, and smarted
that hia wife charged liini b<-cause alio
was insanely jal<>n* of him. Now it
turna out that tho man waa innocent.
Unfortunately he ia dead. Unfortunate
ly the men who in violation of law hang
ed him are all mnrderera, who ought to
l>e hanged in th-ir tuni. Unfortunately
they will all have the nnpleaaant con
ae.iouaneaa, for the reat of their lives,
that they are munlererw—not a comfort
able thought to moat of them, probably.
It ia aoaroely neoeaaary to pursue the
thought further. Lynoh law ia alwaya
wrong ; but this ia not all; nine timea
ont of ten the men who take tho law into
their own handa hang the wrong man.
Keeping Ice.
Families taking ioe in (rammer usual
ly wrap flanuel about the cake to keep it
from melting. I found, by experiment
during the poet summer, says a corres
pondent, that Jhe same amount of ioe
lasts nearly twice as long if paper is
used instead of flannel. Both paper and
flannel may be used with au eqnallv
good result, and it does not made much
difference which is next to the ioe.
A strategic Wasp.
A New (trkaui correspondent says :
Not long since, while reading beneath
the shade oi a fig tree, our attention was
attracted by u peculiar Luid aud shrill
btiXXUig sou tid, as of aoine one of the
b<s< family in ilistress. Licking in the
direction of the noise we olmorved quite
close to us a dirtdauber, or builder, oue
of the sjsicies if wasps so well kuowu
for the eylindrieal ess.** of mud whieii it
builds uuder cave* and on sheltered
walls, which It stuffs full of certain
worms ami spiders f*ir its young. Ttiis
wasp hud half of Its Irtsly slid head down
til*'hole of the equally well kuowu doo
dlebug, a worm whieh children pull out
of their holes by b-aaing the.u with a
straw until they grasp it with their
strong nip|iers and hold ou till they are
thrown out. It was evident at s glance
ttint the wasp liad gone down the hole
of the doodlebug, autl tliat the doodle
bug soon had him iu his strong grip at
grt-at disadvantage and where the wings
of the wasp wore of uoadvuulng*' to him
only t> make a u<>iae whieh might alarm
Ills adversary. The oontost laste*l full
two miuubsi, when finally tin- dirUlaub
er came out with a jerk. He tlew but
a few inches from the hole, lit upon the
ground, rubbed his beeu, and fairly
danced with paiti.
In a few moments he recovered from
the effects of his wounds ami Imgau
making short circles over tlie hole, evi
dently roconuoiteriug and laying his
plana. Presently, lighting at the mouth
of the hole, he tried the earth all about
the entrance with the skill of an engi
neer, and selecting that whieh wa driest
he liegau b> scratch like a dog with his
for*- fe*-t, throwing the dust rapidly Imck
ward into the hole. We watchM with in
b-ns*- interest, and could not but ad
mire his pluek and deb-nuinatiou, for
we iiuagiue tliis throwing of dust ou tha
head of his adversary was oidy to pro
voke him to a fresh light. Every now
and theii he would sb>p aud aud take a
cautious peep down the hole to observe
the effect of his operations. We ei
jsH-ted every moment to see him descend
and make another attack, but it statu
lieoom* manifest that such was not his
intention, an*l it gradually dawned upon
us that he had a strategic mode of at
tack based iijsiu the soundest principle*
of philosophy, reason and a thorough
kuowle Ige of his a*lv*-rsarv and of tlie
means h<- was using to render his resist
sue*- futile and make bim an easy cap
tive.
By throwing flue dust into the hole the
doodlebug would eoou be smothered, as
it was necessary that he should have
free air, uuleaa he climbed upward, as
he woaid do. Whenever the worm
worked upward to get his head above,
the flue dust fell behind and below him,
and thus slowly closed up his hole, un
til, blinded with dust, he poked his
hood out at tlie Uip. This won the point
aimed at, and tlie moment he abowed
his head alsive, the wasp pounced upon
him, seised him by the neck, drew lum
up, gathered him in his arms and flew
tiff iu triumph, though the worm was
much the largest of the two. Struck
with amusement at the sagacity, scitaioe,
skill aud engineering ability of the *lirt
dauber, we carefully aoiuitied tin- hole,
aud found that in Stie course of five
minutes this rensuuing ii-aect had filled
iu five indie* of dust alui put his for
midable adven*rt completely st his
mercy.
tmriUh Workiugmeu.
An English re-view, speaking of the
workiugtuen *if the old world, says:
There is no saving aiming the workiug
classes. The trw*liti*<ual picture of the
English tar of a century ago, whose ec
centric extravagance hue lieen the source
of inexhaustible laughter for several
generations, would is- no unfitting rep
resentation of the more prosperous sec
tion of the Hritisli workmen of the pros
eiit lay. Much has indeed ls*en done
in the din-oti* >n of thrift by t!i great
Iw'liefit societies, but their action has
lax n greatly checked by the fact tliat
even the best of them are based upon sta
tistics wluch do not command the confi
dence of those qualified to form an
opinion of their stability. It is littlo
bi the ere.lit of past governments tliat
alight legislative assistance baa beeu
afforded to thu only greet effort which
luis been made liy the workingrnen of
F.ugland to raiac themselves js rmanently
aliove the influence of psuperiom. The
life of a collier, of a Loudou journeyman
tailor in th- season, or even of au agri
cultural laborer in the Im* districts, is
one of more or less lavish expenditure;
and the idea of joining a Ix-nefit societv,
mncli hies ! laying by money, but roreiy
enters th< uiiud of these men. They
have no oiiject in doing ao in this coun
try. A man who succeeds by his own
thrift in providing himself with a little
income in case of sickness or old age, is
no lietter off than tin- man who ban led
the life of a jovial British workman, aud
who, in his hour of need, draws from
tlie parii-h jiay table in all probability
at suit the name income which tlie other
lias denied himself many a luxury and
enjoyment to pmrure. The advsuiage
to a country of n large number of small
hoards is aimost incalculable, as the re
cent history of Franco clearly shows.
It is not too much to nay that the folly
and extravngiiuceof Imperialism plunged
that country into misfortunes from
whieh the thrift of the working class
extricated her. There ai e no such
hoards in England. If we hnd an in
demnity to pay, we should have to moke
hard bargain with those capitalists
in whose hands the wealth of the coun
try lsacnnmnbiting with geometric s|Med.
Is there a single working man iu Kug
lsnd who holds consols?
Tloth Jackets.
Hraul and bias silk bands trim most
oloth jackets, yet many imputed gnr
ments are covered with embroidery. The
Louis XV. jacket with a vest sewed iu is
a popular design for the wraps of young
ladies and misses. These ore made in
diagonal, basket-woven, mid in stein***'
cloths. Brown is the eolur preferred ;
then comes black, blue, mid green ; the
merchants all announce these colors in
the order given, but conclude by Raying
green will lie the mot stylish "color of
all. The French sack with a single seam
down the back, quite short behind and
long in front, will lie a popular garment.
The double-breasted F.nghsli jacket will
not lie abandoned. Embroidered cloth
jackets, embroidered in France, ami
their shape outlined, hut not made up,
cost from 818 upward. Some have wide
Dulnian sleeves. Others aro so long in
front and so short behind that they de
serve to lie called domi-polonaiaM. Long
sack cloaks of silk lined with fur or*
more shnpely than those of Inst wiub-r ;
they vary iu length, but the longer they
are tho batter style they are considered.
There are also many short jackets of silk
lined with fur.
To Sell.
Robinson, of Winnebago county, Illi
nois, turned out to hear ex-Henatoi
James R. Doolittl* aay tlint a married
man ought to huve two votes, tiecause hr
always represents at least two in the in
t*irrtt of good government, and has had
more experience than a single man in
governing human society. Tlien Robin
son went home, and BH lie kicked ovei
the last batch of bread ho was heard tc
remark thut now a man could sell his
vote to both candidates without going
back on his party.
A I/rhMin la Life.
: J William H. Wood, president of the
i Greenfield (Indiana) Manufacturing
■ j company, a leading business man of
I j Hancock county, registered at the Union
Depot dining hall, Indians) mil*, requost
i* ing tliat he might lie given a room itn- .
t- mediately, as lie was not feeling well.
He was shown to a room, aud from tliat
II time until eight o'clock iu the evening
t was soeu alxiut the d(iot and about the
1 city viaiting various insurance com
i panics. 11*- secured several policiea of
* lusurauce ou his life, ami in favor of his
i j wife and children. Tlie next known of -
* ! htm was the following morning, 1 let ween
t eight and nine o'clock, when he was dis
i txivered in his room suffering from opium
i {Miisoiiiug, and soon after eipirod. It
- 1 seems that he deliiierately took the
f poison, first inditing s letter which ex
< phoned the reason of his taking off.
lu tins letter he set forth that h WON
t ruined financially, and tliat U> stave off
* the fatal day lie had forged a Large
i amount of pajier then iu the hanks. He
l h*l used the names of h*s father,
1 faliter-ui law and leading cttiaeua. This
|iu)ior was c*itiling due and he could not
* meet it. lie cuucluded his letter as
* follow* : ; i
r | "1 am too brave to run away aud
leave my wife and three children uever
i to kuow what has become of me, and
I to drug out a life of miaery and longing
to see and I liehold what dare uot and can
* not without suffering the pangs of au
I ! outraged law that would confine me for
l the remainder of a long life iu prison ,
- walla. O < tod, may my sad fate warn {
t any and all who ahall hear of my tor
* ritile emliug that tlie first ilebt made ,
- lays the roo*{ to ruin, that indebtedness i
- 1 begins to bring ou crime, core and
anxiety, all tlie social and m irsl aenti
r ments of tlie bent of minds. I earnestly i
i ask of all that 1 owe anything to to wait ;
with |i*tieune and not sue my nurvtiea, i
r' as mv affects and insurance, if properly 11
i handled, will pay all my indebtedness. ,
* 1 earnestly ask a generous public to di- 11
* j vide its substance by paying liberal i
i prices for all my property. I liave |
i I Islsired hard for the town of Orweuficld i
* and its moral good. Will you not do i
i something to make what 1 have accuinn j <
- lated bring such prior* that none shall
i j suffer, but all, both thooe who bold ,
i forged security and those who have only i
* my own nam*-, may realise what is just
ly theirs 1 My good, true wife lias al- , <
- ■ ways been a pleasure to me, aud begged
jme uot to speculate as 1 have dime. O, ,
- that 1 hod taken her counsel. Bhe has ,
* lieen my solace in affliction, my oumfurt i
* in our mgrried life, and in no way is she
i j to be sentenced or scorned for my mis
i deeds and misfortanes. My dear rhil
, lreu, Lord (iod, srho doeat all things
, well, bless them and make their lives
- pl< arsut aud reconcile them aud their
* mother to my fate."
Courtship la Ureealoatf.
i There is something exceedingly melau
r choly in the accounts which are given of
1 the custom of courtship in Ore*'nland.
i OeneraUy woaieu enter UJHIU th<- bleased
, crtiat*- with more wiihugn*os and leas so
- licitude tlutu nx-n. The wmunu of
, (in-eiilaud arc an exception to this rule,
p. A Oreeiiliuider, having fixed his aff*-*-
1 tious uj*uii some female, acquaints his
- ' parent* with th** i-tate of bin heart. They
* apply to the )*arenta of the girl ; ami, if
tlie ]iareiiU are thus far atrreed, the uvxt
proceeding is to op |wiin t two feoialo ue
gigiatora, whose duty it in to broach tlie
subject to the jouug lady. This i a
' inatb-T of great tact and d* licocy. The
' lady amtwasatlom do not shock the
? young lady to whom Uiy are sent by
any sud*leu or abrupt avowal of Ui<
awful subject of tlieir iniasioa. Instead
? of doing this, tliey launch out in praise*
! of the gentleman who seek* her hand.
Th*y speak of tlie splendor of his bouse,
the sumptuuurt&osK of his furniture, of
his courage and skill iu catching seals,
, aud other accomplishment*. The lady,
pretending to be affronted even st these
h rcmoti- hints, runs away, baring the
ringlet* of her liair as she retire*, while
the *uulinsha*lreMsrs, having gut the con
t sent of her parvnt*, pursue her, take her
1 hy fifoc to tho house of her destined
' hiinliand, and there leave her. Oom
; jielle*l to remain tlietW? she ait* for days
u with dislwvelod hair, silent and deject
| i <*d. refusing every kiu*l of sustenance,
r till at last, if kind entroatitw do uot pre
vail, she is oomp**lh-d by force, and even
' by blows, to sutimit to tlie detested
u union. In some cases, Greenland wonw-n
s faint at the proposals of marriage ; in
others they fly to the mountains, and
' only return whon ooiuiielhxl to do so by
' liunger and oold. It one cuts off her
■. hair, it is a sign she is determined to re
* I Hist to the death. The Greenland wife
u is the slave of her hnabond, diximed to a
life of toil, drudgery and privation.
The M Batata
j A Paris eorreepondent writing to the j
y 1 New York 7Yme* says : M. Thiers has
r gone to Ouehv, in Hwitoerland, where
j he will receive a visit frtim Prince
e UortscluxkofT as soon as tho latter ha*
li completed his ' i*in cure "in theviciui
~ ty. The treatment of general debility
, by grapes is by no means new here, but
v it will probably appear a novelty on your
j side of the ocean. At certain towns in
u Switr.*'rlnnd grape* are grown solely as
A miHlicine, aud the vineyards are put to
I, no other use. Instead of drinking
water, as at ottier places, the patient is
~ sent out to eat grapes, and must nick
M them himself from the vines. Where
i. the doctor ordinarily instructs the
I jiati*ut to drink stiuiany glasses of water,
lie is here instructed to eat just so many
bunches of gra]K's, and no more. It is
assumed to lie dangerous to go beyond
the doctor's prescription n single grape.
As strung*- as it may appear, invalids ex
. periere*' tho best of g<i*sl off*-ts from
' j the " roisiu cure," or at least think they
*l>, aud go away very well satisfied.
' Another |H>pular treatment is found at
I the mud baths of Schualbach slid <ith*r j
k places, where the patients are immersed
" in soft black mud no to their china, and
*] remain in the hanlt for some honrs.
| Most of them have a floating table
' liefore them upon which they keep j
\ Ixjoka, cigars, or refr*linieuts, aoconl
ing to the text*-* of the (atient. After
remaining two or three hours iu the mud
'! one is washed off with a hose pipe ami
put into a tepid bath, after which one
[j is naturally suppose*! to f****l s groat deal
. better. If he does not, the operation is
continnod the next morning, and is re
fiented until the pstient is cured or tired.
e ■
II l'nuishinent of Criminals.
There in one punishmeut permitted in
~ j the Alliany penitentiary, says a visitor,
namely, tlie dark cell or dungeon. Capt.
J Pilabnry lias so great a respect for lnw
' , tliat as* loug as he is legally restrained
k from corporal punishment he will not
■ employ it secretly, but it is with great
: relnctance and only where it is posi
tively necessary that he should do so,
i that he resorts to the dark cell as a
i- ; menus for the coercion of unruly con
ir victs. H)x>aking with tho weight of
d many years of experience, he declares
e the tiark ctill the most inhuman and inju
i- rious of all forms of pnniahment known
d in penal institutions. It breaks men !
n down physically, he says, with fearful
i • rapidity and certainty and is exoeeding
■r ly liable to destroy their mental orgaui
o rations. The " cat " or " paddle"
is i would do infinitely less harm and be
g j more radically effective as moral per
suasives.
Term*: S-i.OO a "Vear, in Advance.
A WtM'H f.I'IHOIIK.
a i iwbw kwswM r>awu isra • vate
ablr lllmtwi ss* hi* wlls a Mavtaa
Mulw>.
A Paris correspondent tells the follow
iug touching story : The sad case of
the insanity uf Mow. Ie Duo, wife of
the well known chemist who has achieved
such a wonderful thing in diamonds, is
attracting much attention. The story is
as follows : M. Le Due is a chemist
whose hobby hss lieen diamonds for
years. He wan in moderate circum
stances, yet with a fair) prospect before
him when he married the daughter of a
well known silk dealer. Hhortly alter
i the marriage M. Le Due oummeßoed ex
perimenting on charcoal, believing that
be could discover the secret of creating
diamonds from it He worked night
and day on this hobby, and, of ouurne,
•fient all tbe means lie had and all he
ouolil borrow to carry on his experi
ments. His family more than once was
! in very straightened circumstances, and
his father in law diacovering that all the
money he gave his dangbter was bunded
over to her hnslsuid to continue the es
ijerimenta, endeavored to induce her to
leave him and return to her home. The
chemist had imbued his wife with his
strange infatuation and she would not
leave.
M. La- Due discovered after aeveral
years, wliat others had discovered be
fore, the fallacy of hia attemjita,
but he also made a discovery
of no alight importance, that be
could harden crystal to about the con
sistency of diamonds and plate these
crystals with real diamonds. His pro
ocas waa similar to that of eiectrotyping,
the battery being used, and the diamond
dust or diamond chipping* from dia
monds being used as copper is, the re
sult being that the crystal was diamond
iasd, if 1 may use the term. He made
some of these mock diamonds, and
takiug them to a broker the chemist was
delighted to And that his work was
taken for the real jewel. M. La Due's
father in-law died a few years ago and
his wife inherited some two hundred
thousand francs. Thia she turned over
to her hnsliand willingly, and it was de
voted to the laboratory. The poor
woman waa as folly carried away aa tbe
chemist, and her desire that be should
succeed, with her fear of failure, and
with failure that her children should
suffer from poverty, worked seriously
upon Iter mind. Of late she has evi
dently suffered mnch, but she kept her
grief from her husband, and hoped for
the best.
When the chemist finally succeeded
in his scheme and turned out stone* that
even the broken believed to be real dia
monds, be rushed with the glad tidings
to his wife. She partook of hia ioy, yet
her mind had been so strained that the
blow, joyous as it was. was too much few
her, and" she, after listening to the ex
clamations of her husband, broke out
into an unnatural peal of laughter,
which was followed by tears and oriea.
It was evident that she was insane ; that
she had suffered too much, and reason
luul deserted its throne. At times her
mania was of a quiet kind, but often it
was of the in oat violent description,
bunting forth into terrible expressions
of rage. On several occasions she at
tempted to take the life of her youngest
child, declaring that all their property
was gone and only poverty stared them
in the face, and it became neoessarv to
remove her to a private madhouse, whefe
she is now confined, subject to the moat
terrible raring*.
Poor M. I* Ihw! On the very day
that he became famous in Paris has this
terrible affliction befallen him.
A Swindle, of Conn*.
Notwithstanding the feel that every
lottery or gift concert scheme revolts iu
fraud, lotteries still reign supreme in the
United State*. They rw up in a day.
take in thousands nf dollnn of the hanl
earned monoj of the people, a drawing
in held, and* the result ia—a swindle.
The result is the same whether the lot
terv be in aid of a public library, becked
Bp by the leading ®en of a State, or for
some saylnm. Some long-headed ras
oal steps in and reaps the benefit, and
the purchasers of tickets art* swindled.
It would seem as though peqpls who
are so anxious to bite at the tempting
baits offered and to get rich in a day
would learn in the course of years, but
they do not appear to
The last lottery dodge is the Female
Humane Association lottery of Alexan
dria. It was advertised all over the
country and thousands of tickets were
•old. It WHS ascertained that the ar
rangement of the drawing had been in
trusted solely to parties from New York,
who make it their business to be en
gaged in all these schemes, and that all
the ntoney obtained from the sale of
tickets, eioept some 16,000 or SB,OOO,
had been left in New York, and wa* not
subject to a draft of the officers of the
association. The parties present ap
pointed a committee to proceed at once
to New York and endeavor to recover
such of the money as could be obtained.
It is believed that not a single dollar wa*
>irawu by any bona fide ticket holder,
but that the whole of it has been re
tained bv New York sharpers. About
half a million dollars' worth of tickets
were in this lottery. Now for the next
scheme and the next grand swindle.
The Emblematic Eagle.
The Kim scans, says Arplstons'
" American Cyclopaedia,' revised edition,
were the first who adopted the eagle as
the symbol of royal power, and bore its
image as a standard at the head of their
armies. From the time of Marina it
was the principal emblem of the Roman
republic, and the only standard of the
legions. It was represented tritb out
spread wings, and was usually of silver,
till the time of Hadrian, who made it *f
gold. The double-headed eagle was in
use among the Rysantine emperors, to
iudicato, it was said, their claim to the
empire both of the East and the West ;
it WHS adopted in the fourteenth century
hy the Herman emperors, and after
ward appeared on the arms of Russia.
The arms of Prussia are distinguished
by the black eagle, and those of Poland
bore the white. The white headed eagle
is the emblematic device of the United
States of America, is the badge of the
order of the Cincinnati, and is figured
on coins. Napoleon adopted the eagle
for the emblem of imperial France ; it
was not, however, represented iu heraldic
style, but in its natural form, with the
thunderbolts of Jupiter. It was disused
under the Bourbon*, but was restored
by a decree of Louie Napoleon (January
1,1862).
A lame Defense.
A lauie defense ia letter than none, oc
caaioually, but a aailor in Montreal re
cently made a sad mistake in tbia parti
cnlar. He was charged with larceny,
and, when questioned on the subject, in
formed the court that he had evidenoe
to offer in his defense. He called, aa
hia first witness, a boy, a member of the
crew, who testified very frankly that he
had seen the prisoner attempting to
open the box from which the money had
been taken ; the audience laughed, and
the priaener seemed equally amused.
The magistrate inquired of the prisoner
if he tiad any other similar evidenoe to
ofler, and he naively replied that he had
two other witnesses who would
swear the same thing (laughter). Con
viction and sentence were no longer de
layed.
NO. 43.
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law N.MO.
The Youths' < \imjjanloti tolls the
story of a uutod individual, Herman
Hetutel, a shoemaker, who, in the early
part of this century, lived in Alsaoe.
About the year 1889 be name to the
United Hub*. and settled in Hew Or
leans, where he opened a shoe shop.
Beimel cared nothing for whisky, gin,
brandy or rum. Kven his national beer
bad no charm for him. He drank no
alcohol at all. The beverage whose taflto
enthralled him, and in imbibing which
be am mod at length to find his only
pleasure, was bark tea —the ten water in
which he stooped his hides 1 It became
a passion with him, and Hetmel, the tan
yard toper, loved his peculiar dram ae
well as any pot-bouse disciple ever loved
lu
Hut the visible effects were much tar
dier thai i in the case of the alcoholic
drunkard. People had no particular re
mark to make on his appearance, unless
perhaps some one wouhl venture to hint
that instead of a red nose be had a yel
low one. The invisible effect* reported
themselves (to the man himself) quite
soon enough for his comfort.
Not only did his stomach grow tough,
but his gullet did. The hardening pro
cam extended all the way np his caao
phagus and into his mouth. His throat
dried and ettffened like ao ptd boas pipe;
the glands of his palate puckered ; his
tongue seasoned into a mere piece of
animated India rubber.
At last he could toatc nothing at all
He ato enormous quantities of food, but
it gave him do satisfaction beyaad know
ing that it filled him fulL Me ate his
dinner as be would make a shoe. In
fact, he was about like a shoe himself
now. He had been tanning himself into
a man of leather—and be knew how it
felt better than he could toll anybody.
You think that a man ia hit condition,
and so well aware of the cause of it,
would try to reform ; would break away
from hie strange habit, and by absti
nence repair his ruined sense of taste.
But reform in his case waa something
easier said than done.
Heimel seemed aa incapable of mas
tering or mending his habit aa if be had
been born with it, and every day be
went bark to his beloved tan-wafer:
Htill ua oat ward signs at injury to his
health and vitality appeared. Be lived,
a miracle of vigor ami endurance ; and
ao far from being discouraged fr alarm
ed at the nsdly uncomfortable results of
bis intemperance, he rather grear proud
iff them, and made a parade of his tough
Unas, giving all the credit of it, of course,
to his daily draughts of oak and sumac.
It occurred to him that be oould ex
ploit a little with his invulneraUe throat
and stomach, and he began to take
pleasure in doing this for the amuse
meat or astonishment of his family and
neighbors. He drank quantities of pung
ent and poisonous medicine, and took
whole box.* of pills at once, just to show
how perfectly his KTstem was proof
against their effects. Then be swallowed
small stones, bits of iron and aula, but
tbey gave him no incouveimi,.
From this he gradually psawi to more
difficult practices, and emulated the feats
of men like Carlo Benedetti, the sword
swallowrr. Dressing hides and making
shoes grew too dull and alow for him.
Why oould he sot go upon the Stage and
coin a fortune out of the monstrosity be
hail made limine If t
The idea onoe suggested, he was not
slow to art npou it nrimel quitted hi*
boauMM, put on hi* beat clothe*, ud
advertised himself an "The Groat Ataer
ican Ostrich." .
He was now a man in middle life.
The war of the rebellion, which I woke
oat aboat this time, interfered with hie
freedom of travel in tliia country, and be
went to Europe. Of coarse be carried
with him, or took care to keep within
roach of, hie daily supply of tannin.
Year afU-r rear he " exhibited ** in the
cities and villages of the continent. It
was hard work, however, and he became
tired of it. lie returned to America,
and settled down once mote at hi* old
tannery in New Orleans.
Hut Herman Heimel was no longer
the stoat, lusty German of other day*.
The strain to which be had subjected his
constitution told severely upon him, snd
worse tbiui that, his excessive drinking
of tan water had hardened the tissues
and closed the pores of his system so
that it bad no power of renewal. It
could only waste and wear away.
He grew haggard and thin. His com
plexion, and, indeed, his whole akin,
turned the color of trunk leather, and
wrinkled into hard, callous folds. His
flesh continued to fall away, and the
nerves decayed, till he betrayed no feel
ing of the severest pinch, and could suf
fer the deep prick of a pin with little
pain. His very hones perished (receiv
ing no material to rebuild themselves),
and finally grew so small and ao supple
that tin y could be bent like s tough
stick. Herman Heimel was a skeleton
of leather.
He is 'living yet (or at last amounts)
in the city f Now Orleans. Bat it is
only a living death. Now and then skill
ful' surgeons come and inject the warm
blood of some healthy animal into his
veins, and this is his only support. If
he is conscious of his condition, no mia
erv can be greater than his.
Such is the story of the tanned tanner,
or the tan-vat drunkard. How far his
appetite may have been pure mania, we
have no room to speculate. Far his fate
he certainly could blame no one but
himself, and his case (though perhaps
without a parallel in kind) is but another
warning against the danger of yielding
to exoeaa, or to nunatural appetites of
any kind.
She Knew the Women.
At one of the railroad depots in De
troit, the other day, a lady walked np to
the ticket window and smilingly said :
" 1 know just how women are, and I
don't propose to bother any one. An
swei me a few questions, and IH ait
down and say nothing to no one till train
time. How far is it to Grand Rapids f
What's the fare ? When does the train
leave? When do we arrive theret
Where do they check baggage I Which
track will t&e train start from f How
can 1 get to Muskegon from Grand
Rapids ? How far is it ? What's the
fare ? l>o I change cars t Is there a
palace coach on the rood ? Shall I get a
lay-over ticket I Can I check my bag
gage clear through ? Is there a conduc
tor on this road named Smith ? Do yon
allow dogs iu the passenger cars ? and
can a child ten years old go for noth-
flaviug been answered, she kept her
promise to sit still, and the depot police
man never had the least bit of trouble in
seeing her off.— Frrf /Yew.
A singular Case.
A most singular iustanoe of " natural
surgery " is reported in a Manchester
(New Hampshire! newspaper. Two or
three years ago a gentleman sustained
an injury in his bock, which was called
a partial dislocation of the spinal column.
The lower limbs were paralysed, and the
case pronounced incurable by the physi
cians. A few weeks since the gentle
man had a very severe fall, which nearly
proved fatal; but when he reoovered
from the shock he found he oould use
his limbs, and now he can walk a mile
and work aa other people do. Probably
the fall replaced the dislodged part with
out injuring the spinal marrow.
TW Baby Rhew.
Tb* Kakm (Ouoada) Ttmm psrpe
tmsaa tha faUowtng on tbs Im behy show:
Twmy fear hablM All ilk row,
Twsmty-foat MMM aim on bow ;
1 -Twsaty-tanr ifAdies tafepy w dams,
A show of live Utw BOM of your thun#.
I 4 rkkm of m t n g m \ m i <Smi IIUIo liiwHr
ItMM of laterooU
Harrowing to the sole—page.
Board wages-Directors' (m*.
To bo grant in to bo ntamderetood.
Wbol men going down want—checks.
Headache is the name of a poet office
to Miehigaa.
A barber's epitaph : Ho dyad and
made no aign.
"ATistiamnnissaady togowhereduty
nails, bo should go borne.
The height of impudence ia mid to bo
the length of book agent
Teachsca in Tommmmwo are hereafter to
he paid aalariea without distinction of
sex.
A French priest haa refused two mil
lions of francs bequeathed to bim by bo
brother because toe brother bad led a
aidud life.
Haling baa broken out again in Har
vard, and many at thisyrer's freshmen
have been most cruelly and disgracefully
maltreated.
Find dam Chinese botela have rained
the price of board to twenty-eight oenta
p<* day, and tonriata altoold make their
arrangements accordingly.
A young woman, who found herself at
Hatidwich, 111., without money, obtained
two debars wherewith to proceed to
Chicago by pawning her glaea aye.
•' I>o they ring two balls for school r
■aid a father to his ten year-old daughter
who attends the high school. " No, pa,
they ring one bell twins," she replied.
In Breefam, Mass , five million sewing
machine needles wet* made ia the two
manufactories last year. Tbey turn out
at present twenty thousand needles a
'l*7 •
Mr. Bmith, of IM Crosse, announces
that one of the Bmith family was in the
garden with Adam, but that jealousy lias
prevented s liters from mentioning the
A Pultney (N. T.) girl put in a lively
ton hours' work the other day. Bh* nail
ed in that time 900 driving
10,000 nails and handling 3,000 pieces of
wood.
Hiss Hulrtt, the Chicago towyer, will
oot move in a divorce case, believing, ss
she says, that " any woman who will
marrv a an ought to be forced to live
with "hun."
Captain Richard Ring, the Texas cat
tle king, has a field of sixty thousand
acres within one fence. He recently
filled an order by telegraph for 2fi,oGo
beeves.
Many a woman who is too feeble to
peel a deern potatoes for dinner will
walk four miler pasta rival's houae to
display a new drees, and prance back
borne like a three-year-ohl filly.
A shopkeeper in England calls him
self " I coxing glows maker to her
majesty." It ia only a few years since
an old Edinburgh sign waa taken down :
" Breeches maker to her majesty."
The King of Holland ia not a miser
The other day, when a laborer stopped
the royal carriage from getng in the
river, the king handed him forty oent*
and smiled a smile worth thirty-five
oenta more.
Two antique chairs, one formerly in
the posamtoo of L*us XVL. and the
other brought from Venice in the seven
teenth century, were sold at Boston a
few days ago, the farmer for $13.60 and
the tatter tor $17.30.
A panther runhed into a bedroom in*
bonae a few mib* from Willi*, Tex.,
•ad earned off baby in hi* month, bat
the twelve -year-old sinter followed and
acreamed o luntily tb*t the brute
dropped the yonngater only slightly in
jured.
A ib of onertz rock wee recently
■hipped float toe Greene mute, Kend*,
containing more then two aqneie feet,
through which there WM e streak eboat
four inchee wide thet wee nearly or quite
<mr-keif gold. Hie piece wee mtuneted
to be worth et leant $1,500.
A sertooa CMS of poisoning has oo
cnrred in Sheffield, Caned*. A tin of
Nora Scotia lobeter* wae opened on
Saturday night, baft they were not eaten
nnpl Monday night The person* who
ate of it—Joseph Butler. a cutler, and
six member* of hi* family—all shortly
afterward became very ill, and three of
them are in a critical condition.
The Sturgeon Bay (Win) Expositor
aaya: A. J. Sibley ha* rigged him a
boat with aada, decked it over forward,
with oomfortable quarter* for hi* family,
and ia about to atart for Florida or aome
other place. He ie going to Green Bay
np the Fbx river and the canal to the
Wisconsin river, down the Miaawaippi
river, and throngh the Gulf of Mexico to
Florida.
A St. Louis doctor wrote a proscrip
tion for a lady who was slightly ill, call
ing for "asyphon of carbonic arid,"
meaning a large syphon bottle of soda
water. The intelligent druggist con
strued " carbon 10 arid "to mean " car
bolic acid." and took "syphon" to be the
Latin for "two ounoes, and, acting on
his conviction, burned a hole in the
patient's stomach.
IV smallest Bible in the world, just
produced by the Oxford University
Prima, is printed on a tough India paper
of extreme thinness and opacity, meas
ures four snd one-half iacn.e by two and
one-fourth inches, is one and one-half
inches thick, sod weighs, bound in limp
morocco, has than three and one- half
ounoes. It can be sent through the
British post for a penny.
The editor of the Alabama Slate Jow- %
nal is now Sam Bard* fnd be wants it
understood that his paper will admit no
long contribution whatever, and " per
sonalhr ahorive articles will be charged
at the rate of 1100 per line." He states
that he 4 ' has been connected with jour
nalism, directly and indirectly, since
1845, snd has learned at last what not te
put in the columns of a newspaper.
The girl who sold wax flowers at Long
Branch, and was ever searching for her
" long lost father," like the unfqj"tun*t<-
female in the phr, has found him at last
through the kinasees id a gentleman at
one of the hotels, who escorted her to
the depot, where the " long lost father "
-too!! waiting to receive " her stamps."
The game, although very transparent,
; deceived a great many charitable people.
A now swindle is being played in the
central part of the State. A well dressed
man stops at a farmhouse and engages
accommodation for a drove of sheep and
a man who drives them. The sheep and
drivers are to come along the next, day.
The pretended agent stops over night,
has the best the house affords, and slips
off the next morning without paying his
bill The sheep and drivers never ap
pear, of course.
Legrand and De Gas met in the Paris
Bourse. " I promised to oape you—l
do so," said Legrand, and he struck De
Gas across the face with a walking stick.
" And I promised to shoot you—l do
so," responded De Gas, drawing a re
volver, firing at Legrand, and woundiDg
him in the head. They were wealthy
broken, and their encounter was the re
sult of a quarrel, in which they had made
the threats that were subsequently ful
filled.
When a Nevada photographer wants
to make a good picture, he puts the
sitter in his place, pulls out a navy re
-1 volver, cocks it, levels it at the man's
head, and says: "Now jist you sit
perfectly still, and don't move a hair ;
i put on "a calm, pleasant expression of
i countenance, ana look right into the
mnMle of tins revolver, or I'll blow the
top of your head off. My reputation as
an artist is at stake, and I don't want no
nonsense about this picture."
It is claimed for the Dominion of
Canada that it ranks third—at lowest,
fourth—in importance among the ship
owning countries of the world. The
list of vessels exhibit a total of 6,930,
measuring 1,258,363 tons. Of these 634
are steamers, 236 ships, 546 barks,
twenty-five barkentines, sixty-two brur=.
542 brigantinee, 8,785 schooners, snd
1,100 smaller vessels. Four hundred
and ninety-six new vessels, measuring
190,756 tons, were built in 1874.