The Careless Word.
' IVas bat * word. a oorelss* word.
As thistle down it seemed ss light;
It paused s moment in the sir,
Then onward winged its flight.
Another tip caught np the word.
And breathed it with s hearty stteer ;
It gst tiered weight as on it sped.
That can>lne word, in Its career
Then rumor canght the flying wont.
And bnsy gossip gave it weight.
Until that Utile word became
A vehicle of angry hate.
And then another page of life
With horning, scalding tears was hlnrred ;
A toad of care was heavier made.
Ite added weight, that careless wont.
That careless word, oh ! how it scorched
A feinting, bleeding, quivering heart'
'Twos like s hungry (Ire. that searched
Through every tender, vital part.
How wildly throbbed that aching heart !
Ileep agony its fountains stirred ;
It calmed, bat hitter satiee maik
The pathway of that careless word
Two Yolces.
A voice oame down from Uie far white hills.
And crept like a thonght along ;
The world woke up from its dream of anew
To the sound of the Machine* song.
A stray lost bird In the wind-blown sky,
A stray lost flower by t'te snow ;
And a wandering brvv k .w two set free
To seek where the violet* grow.
All fresh with tie hreslh of the mountain
rises*,
The song of the mountain rills.
The voice sped on throvgh ibe city ways
And over the sunlit hills.
And still se it went the pulse of life
With s dream of change beat high ;
While over all the changeler* stars
Burned on in the watchful sky.
" The world te wide, and the labor am all.
In the reach of all the crown ;*
And over the hopee and Lhe Uright-winged
dreams
The sua of pnug went down.
• see*
81ow and solemn from the forest
Whence all my*terie# have btith.
Speaking in the flow of rivers,
Oame the eecor.d voice to earth.
AU the world grew etill before it.
Idle fell the toiling hand ;
Ae the ml leaves of the maple
Drifted brightly thrvugti the land.
And the stream of hfe e< t deeper
Through the channel of the year ;
lhrwn among ite wrecks were ?iee|twg
Many a hope and many a fear
With the sun the turds went southward.
Bright a ings glanc.ng m its teams ;
Clowe beside, on viewless pinions.
Fled an airy host of dreams.
" Wide the world, ft* tabor endless.
Farther off the distant crown."
Over all the bruken vi-otss
Slow the autumn son went dolrn.
—AUat il. Pm-ry.
THE PASSING CLOUD.
" Do yon want me to get anything for
yon iu town?"
Andrew Thurston spoke ve. v calmly,
and a chanoe visitor might have thought
that he spoke kindly. He certainly
spoke deferentially ; but his lips were
compressed, and there were lines UJHIII
his brow which were not usual. Ordi
narily he would have said, as he drew on
his gloves : " Now, my love, what can 1
get for von in town ?" and he would
have spoken gaylv and frankly, with
sprightliness and sparkle.
For they had beeu married not a year
yet, and only the day before Andrew had
declared that they would never outlive
their honeymoon. " Doilie," he had
saiJ, with a kiss, "when we cease to
love we shall have ceased to live; for
life could be nothing without love."
But now a olou 1 had come—very
small at first—not bipger than a man a
hand—but yet a cloud. Doilie had never
complained of fatigue and weariness;
and yet she was far from robust. On
this particular morning she hail risen
with an aching head ; bnt she did not
tell of it. She did not smile as was her
wont, and her husband asked her what
was the matter. His question seemed
to imply that her manner hat! fretted
him—there was almost an accusation in
it—and she replied, rather shortly :
"Nothing."
" But there most be something. What
is it i"
This, to the wife, rendered over-sus
ceptible bj htr headache, seemed a dis
puting of her word, and she answered :
" I tell yon—nothing."
" But, Dollie, yon wouldn't act so if
there was nothing the matter."
"Act how?" demanded the wife,
flashing under this direct charge
" What hare I done t"
What could the hn<hand reply to
this ? What single act of hers—what
word, ewu—could he point out ? Some
thing in her manner had jarred upon
the sensitive cords of bis heart, aLd a
clond had km betweem them; bnt how
could ho tell it? How could he give an
other an idea of that which had no form
nor substance, and which he had only
pert-wired because it dropped a discord
into the exquisite harmony of his jeal
ous lore! He could make no plausible
answer, and this fretted him still more.
"Oh, nothing, nothing," he said,
drawing back. "If you don't wish to
confide in me, all right."
The wife's eyes flashed now. and she
spoke quickly—spoke so quickly and so
feeiingiy that the hnstwnd was in turn
offended; and, with a hasty word upon
his lips, he went away to his chamber
and made ready for the city, which was
distant but a few miles from his subur
ban residence.
When Andrew Thurston returned to
the sitting room, with his hat in his
hand, he asked the question we have al
ready heard : "Do yon want me to get
anything for yon in town?"
How cold his voice sounded to the
wife who sat, with bowed and aching
head, by the curtained window. It did
not sound like the voire of her hus
band, and she did not look up. Bhe
would wait until he came to kiss her, as
he aluayß did before he went away, and
then she might be able to sj>eak—to
speak upon his liosom, where she could
hide her face—but she dared not trust
her voice now. She knew she would
cry if she spoke, and she wonld not
have her husband see her do thst if he
were angry with her. Bat he did not
come to her. He turned away withont
another word and was gone.
Andrew Thurston knew that his wife
must have heard his question, und as
she did not immediately answer, he al
lowed his auger to express itself in a
slam of the door as he went out. He
pulle d on his gloves very vigorously and
step| -d off with measured and majestic
stnd- *. But not long so. The fresh
morning sir fanned his brow with acool
ing influence-, aud he begnn to think.
He missed something. For the first
time since ho had been married be was
going away from home without nis
wife's kiss. Surely a cloud had arisen
upon the domestic horizon, aud some
thing very much like a storm had come
npou their peace. He was nnhsppy; and
the more he meditated the more un
happy he became.
"Dollie was to blame," he said to
him>* If. But this did not heal his
wound.
•• I may luivo l>en hasty," he ac
knowledged, after farther reflection.
•'But still," he assured himself, "ahe
irritated mo."
Thns he reached a point very far
from soothing or satisfactory in its in
fluence. He was forced to acknowledge
that he bad allowed himself, in a mo
ment of irritation, to apeak hastily and
unkindly. When he entered the train
lie took bis seat alone, in a far corner,
and pulled his hat down over hia eyes.
He did not wish to converse. When he
reached his office he was moody and
tacitu-u very unlike the Andrew
Thurston whose wont it was to oome in
with smiles and Cheerful salutation.
A little thing it Vae, to be sure, but it
gave him great pain. A mote is a tiny
jmrti.'le, but it becomes a thing of pain
ful moment when it is lodged in the eye;
and the heart that is made tender with a
devoted, living love is as sensible to
motes as is the eya Hitherto, the car-
FKED. KURTZ. Kditor and Proprietor.
VOLUME IX.
rent of Andrew's love had flowed on ut
! broken and untroubled, and this inana
iug of otistruction hod produced a tin
buieiuv as destructive of peace ami hsj
piuesa, for the time, * tlieiigh the ver
fountain of love itself hod been brokei
up.
An he sat alone in his office he picke<
np a paper, and nought to overcome hi
! unhappy thoughts by reading. II
eonhl not tlx lits utind upon the threa
of a long article, iw he read the ahor
paragraphs, and at length his eye catigh
the followtug :
j "Where there has been nifftunde!
standing between two near ami dea
, frier.da, resulting in mutual unhappi
nees and regret, the one who lovve moot
j and whose sense of right and duty i
, strongest, will make the first advano
j towards reconciliation."
Andrew Thurstou droppad tlie jajn'
1 and rose hi his feet It was a* though i
voice from heaven had spoken to him
i "I do not love the most," he sotilo
I quised; "but 1 am the strongest am
! should show my love by my works."
He looked at bis watch. It was al
most noon. It was not his custom t<
• return home till cveuiug; but be coul.
i not remain as bear the burden throuifl
j the other hoars of the day. And h<
; marveled, and he pat on his hat am
drew on liis gloves, how even the re
solve to do this simple thing hod let tin
i sunlight into his souL
• • • • •
Dollie Thurston, when she knew tha
her husband had goue —Ink! gone with
out a word or a kiss—had gone witbou
giving her time to recover her strickei
j senses—sunk down and wept; aud ii
was a long time before she could clearli
thiuk or reflect. She had been left olout
oloue with pain and sorrow—and sin
j was utterly miserable. Hhe blame]
herself for not having called her bus
band to her; and she blamed him foi
not having come of his own accord. Tc
her it seemed as though the death of joy
had come. Hhe had never known suck
misery before. By-and-bye, when sin
could thiuk, she woudered if her has
bond would smile upou her if she should
offer him the first kiss, and speak the
first word of love. She would try it. ll
would be terrible if be should refuse
her; but she could uot live so.
The hours passed and the young wife
sat like one disconsolate. She thought
uot of lunch—she hod uo appetite. Hhe
only thought, could the warm sunshine
ever come again 1 Did her hnsbaud
love her less thou she had thought (
There she sat, with pale cheeks and
swollen eyes, when she heard the onter
door opened, and a step in the hail.
She started up to listen, thinking that,
ivrbaps, her senses might have deceived
ler, when the door of the sitting room
was opened and her husband entered.
His eyes filled with tears when he saw
how pale and grief stricken his wife
looked, and, with open arms, he moved
toward her.
" Del lie—my darling ! Don't let ns
be unhappy any more !
He had been thinking on his way
home what he should say when he met
her ; and he had framed in his mind
a speech of confession which he would
make, but he forgot it all when he saw
her, and hi* heart spoke as it would.
The words burst from his lips lovingly,
prayerfuUy, beseechingly : " Dollie !
my darling I Don't let as be unhappy
any more!"
She eame to bis bosom and twined
her arms about his neck ; and for the
kiss that was missed in the morning
they took many now ; and they wept no
more apart, bat wept together.
Th.it was all. The cloud had passed
and tbey experienced the exquisite thriU
which all true hearts can feel when s
wrong has been made right and when
the warm joy beams drive away the dark
shadows of sorrow and regret. It was a
life lesson to them both, and they
promised themselves that they would
pay heed to its teachings.
Fishing Fleet Destroyed.
A iKsastrons accident is reported of
the fleet of French fishing boots annual
ly sent from the ports of the Normandy
com! to the fishing grounds of Iceland'.
This disaster will, undoubtedly,strength
en the belief iu presages aud omens en
tertaiued by the kind hearted aud cour
ageous, but rather superotitouß, popula
tion of the villages along the seashore
of France. They will rememlier the ac
client which occurred at Boulogne some
mouth* ago, just on tho occasion of the
sailing of the tw<> pioneer bouts of the
fishing fleet. Most of the inhabitants
were crowded upon a drawbridge to wit
news at a nearer distance the soiling of
the two vessels, hen suddenly the
bridge gave way, and some persons were
drowned. This was a Imd omen: and
now we learn that the Emms, of Dun
kirk, has been wrecked on Uie coast of
Scotland.
Besides, the crew reported that six
other I'renab vessels engaged in the Ice
land fishing trade have been lost, and it
is feared that tins whole fl-< t has leea
destroyed. We hoi* that this latter
fact will not be confirmed; bnt it must
be admitted that of late disaster-* to the
Frerc-h fishing boats which h uve peri
odically for the fishing grounds have lie
come more freqnr-nt than formerly. The
cause is to lie partially found in the fact
that the French government has not
known how to protect th-- rights of the
French fishermen in the Newfoundland
waters, aud those men, constantly trou
bled in their fishing basiiie.is, ha v- been
compelled, iu larger numbers than be
fore, to go cruising on the more danger
ous coasts of Iceland.
Learning lo Swim.
Aft the season for swimming in just at
hand, it may l>e opportune to say that
Captain Webb, who is on the topmost
wave of his profession as a swimmer,
thinks that the bent place to biwh a very
young child to swim ui u large puddle in
the saud at low tide. The child, like a
puppy, will begin by puddling. If yon
throw a cork into thh water, yon will see
the pappy ran in np to hia depth and
give a short bark, and the chances are,
especially if there is a grown np dog
that can swim to set him an example,
that in a day or two he will take his
plunge of his own accord, and very
proud he will be of his tlrst success ;
only here, agaiu, don't overdo it. As
soon as the puppy has been in, walk
away and call him, and ho will be more
anxiona to go into the water another
time. Now treat your child like your
pappy. Entincc him to go in, and if yon
can get some older child who can swim
to go in with him, all the better ; but let
the child do juat as he likes. Get two
children to play at splashing one an
other ; they will enjoy the fun, and
gradually getting excited, will venture
n deeper and deeper.
Lapland Babies.
Lapland mothers are not in the habit
of staving at home with their babies.
The Lapps are a very religious people,
and take long journeys to hear their
pastors. As soon as the fkmily arrives at
the little wooden church, and the rein
deer are seenred, the father shovels a
snug little bed iu the snow, and tho
mother wraps the baby in skins and de
posits it therein. Then the father piles
the snow around it, and the dog is st on
guard, while the parents go decorously
into Hie church. Often as many as
thirty babies may be seen laid away in
the mow about a church.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
The Agricultural Building,
Within the imniflßM Agriculture
buildiug ou the CoutoaaiaT ground
are exhibited all the nrooossra, mi
chinery, and product* of the farui, th
orchard, the garden, and the fisher
front a score of uatiau*, and from th
four quartern of the globe. Ou th
whole, this department of the Kthibi
lion may U< oouaiderod it* monk sinking
and ori iual feature. There have beei
gieat displays of oirt, manufacturer
and machinery before, but never aucl
an exhibition of industries that fee.
the world. Two-thirds at leant of th
door occupied bv United State
exhibitors. Throe fourths of all tin
uiaohiutM and sbowoanea were iu poni
lion ou the opentug day. Something o
the luxury and variety of taste in tie
installation of exhibits, so prominent ii
I the Main building, is to lot oeeu here
many of the eases I wing of extreme ele
gancw ; and in the arrangement of arti
elea to attract attention there in oftei
skill and taste shown that almost amouu
to genms. Take for example the (Ron
center fisheries exhibit In a tank fioa
models of the fishing craft of 177(5 OIK
those of 187t5 ; projecting into the wa ei
in a /ae tttnile in miniature of the whar
. of a century ago atui one of the whar
of to-day, with men and women engage,
in panning the fish, and on cue Hide oi
the tank, ou shelves and frames, art
shown all the implements, nets, etc.
uae.l in securing the finny tribes. Tht
long row of aquaria tsirderiug the east
em wall of the building, coutaiuiug tht
food fishes of lake, river, and sea, will
repay careful inspection. Halt watej
is brought daily from the ocean for tht
murine fishes. Several States are pre
paring admirable collective exhibits ol
grain, grasses, and other farm products,
but none except lowa have made much
progress.
The cotton exhibit is not a quarter no
large as it ought to be. Of wool, there
promises to lie ou excellent display when
it is all in sbajie. Some coses are now
up which show fleeces under glass, and
have on their tope stuffed specimens oi
sheep of the breed that furnished the
wool—an admirable idea. The seeds
men are of course on hand. Many of
them deserve praise. There is a very
fine exhibit of grain in the sheaf. A
spacious area is closely packed with the
cases of the tobacconists. Nearly all
the lumbermen show odorous boards and
huge sectious of tree trunks. The
makers of fertilizer* are well represented,
and, with a commendable regard for the
olfactories of visitors, they provide air
tight and smell tight cases for their
articles.
The show of native wiuee from Cali
fornia, Ohio, and central New York is
calculated to moke foreigners think
that the problem: "Will the future
American drink wiue 1" is already set
tled. The extent of the industry will
surprise nine tenths of our owu people
if they wiirtake the trouble to look into
its statistics. A brilliant show is made
by the rival starch makers, who have
secured places on the grand aisle. One
has a gorgeous Moorish pavilion, and
others are glorious iu gilt and glasv
The manufacturers of wnat we Amen
ions coll crackers, and the English name
"biscuits," makes flue show, and no do
the spice grinders—one firm display i'.ig
its articles iu a twenty-feet-high m-xlej
of its five story factory. Of hams, . r.:s,
canned fruit* and vegetables, pn-muv. d
meats, and a great variety f other Leu
perishable food preparations, there are
quantities and quantities.
International inhibitions.
International exhibitions daU from
the y ar 1851, when the first .structure
!-vr erected for an vxpoM'.iuu of the in
dustries of all nations was opeurd in
London on the first of May of that year.
Previous to tins time the idea of one
nation inviting others to a competitive
exposition of it* products had not been
entertained, or certainly not enoouraged.
The dailv average number of visitors to
the exht* ition at Soy dam dnriug the
141 days it remained open was 42,831 ;
the gr.-ate-t number visiting it in one
day was 109.915; the greatest number
present at anv one time in the building
was 112,224. Financially, the enterprise
was Hutcessful Iwyond nil expectation.
V balance remuint-d after oil expenses
hail I wen paid of aliont nine hundred
thousand dollars.
The second British exhibition was
held in 18(52. It was opened May 1,
18(52, and closed the fir-tt of November
>( the same year. Of the 22,000 xhibi
tors, 1,700 were native or colonial, and
iho remainder foreign ; as in 1851 one
half of the bnilding was reserved to
Hug land and her vast colonies. The
total number of visitors was 0,117,450.
The first international exhibition bold
in France was in 1855, and it was simply
the xpansion of the national cxpoaitinnn
which bad been held regularly since
1791.
The last exhibition we have to con
sider is that held at Vienna three years
igo. Like the French it was a govern
tneut enterprise. Misfortune seemed to
attend it from the first. It was not
nearly ready at the tune fixed for the
opening ; the number of visitors fell far
below what was expected, and a heavy
fiuancial loss was the result The prizes
to exhibitors were awarded on the
eighteenth of August ; nine diplomas of
honor were awarded the United States,
liesiden a utimlter of medals. The exhi
bition closed Nov. 1, on which day it
was visited by 139,037 persons. The
total number of visitors was reported at
7,254,000.
Size of Countries.
Groeoe is about the size of Vermont.
Palestine is about one-fourth the size
of New York.
Hindustan is more than a hundred
times as large as Palestine.
The great desert of Africa lias nearly
the pros nt dimensions of tho United
States.
The rod sea would reach from Wash
ington to Colorado, and it is three times
as wide as lake Ontario.
The English channel is nearly as large
as lake Superior,
The Mediterranean, if placed across
North America, wonld make sea naviga
tion from San Diego to Baltimore.
The Caspian sea would stretch from
New York to St. Augustine, and as wide
as from New York to Rooheater.
Great Britain is about two thirds the
size of Hindustan ; one-twelfth of China,
mid < n<- twenty-fifth of tho United
States.
The gulf of Mexico is ahont ten times
the size of lake Superior, and about as
large as the sea of Kamschatka, bay of
Bengal, Cliina sea, Okhotsk or Japan
sea ; lake Ontario would go in each of
them more th in fifty times.
The following bodies of water are
about the same size : German ocean,
1 Slack aea, Yellow sea ; Hudson bay is
ratber large. The Baltic, Adriatic,
Persian gull, and /Egeon aea, half as
large, ami somewhat larger than lake
Superior. _
CENTENNIAL BADGES. — The badge
adopted by tho Centennial commission,
worn by each of its members, is made
of gold, and consists of an American
eagle grasping iu its talons a horizontal
bar, npon which are the letters U. 8. C.
CJ. An escutcheon is suspended from
the bar, and the badge is worn in the
center of a blue silk ribbon, at the top
of which is the name iu gilt letters of
the btate to which the commissioner be
longs,
CENTRE HALL, CENT
A IIAKBIMaKIt OF I'FAI'K.
KdlltrUl Tttuuihia bv ibr (>.
trMiilnl Kkblbllla~\UII ihr I.pmmn bf
I f
I Awn! tlx* ringing of boll., tin* thun
' der of cannon, tin* blare of trumpets,
; the military display of regiment* of sol-
I diery And Ut* enthusiasm of a great city,
i tin* IVlitenmal Exhibition vrw formally
I o|n*ntxl by tlx* President of tin* Citltod
SUU. All tin* high officers of tin* gov
: runiont, tin* President ami hut cabinet,
the Senate, House hik! supremo court,
the foreign ministers, tin* governors of
various States, took port ill the cere
monies. Ami, an if to a<l*l to tin* his
toricol significance of the .lay, tin* em
peror of Brazil showed by his presence
inn friendship for onr people and his in
> terest iu this international fair.
If the Centennial Kxhibition wen*
| simply a show of waxes and fabric* it
would be useful. Civilization becomes
j more am! more a question of peace, and
j peace is confirmed by nothing so much
as tli.-ho comparisons o! national imtus
: try and skill. lu the ol.leu times the
| comity of nations was shown in the iu
' terctuuige of pnuoely visits, the retinue
i of oue sovereign displaying its splendors
jat the court of another. All that the
j people saw of their neighbors was ou
I oocasional |>ageant. Itiit iu our day*
j the people, wlio are sovereigns, exchange
these visit*. Instead of a royal meet
ing on the Field of tlie Cloth of Hold,
i where rival princes vied with each other
j in tlie brilliancy of their trappings, in
stead of a sumptuous carousal at Pomp
i ton Court, or a tournament at White
! hall, wre have the artitiers of Kngland
and Franc*, of Russia and Spain, unjr,
even of far China and Japan, coining to
the graceful palace on the woody
Schuylkill banks to exchange rivalries,
to show tnaukuid bow far they have fail
ed or succetded iu the do veto pom Kit of
' civilization; for those men whose works
I are now spread b*fore us in tin* Con ton -
1 nial Kxhibition are the true king a. To
j tlieni we owe the comfort and re;>oae of
i our daily existence. They have torn out
j the depths of tlie earth, they have
pierced the subtle mysteries of the skies,
they have traced paths in the midst of
the sea and over the menu tain summits;
j they have put the universe under tlis
cipliue, that we may live a wiser and
gentler life.
When we compare their achievements,
which find expression iu a hundred 1
forms in the lift* of the humblest, with
the glowing deeds which historians j
record and which some foolish painter
emblazons on canvas, how much higher
they ore! We are not indulging illusious
sa to this Kxhibition being "a harbinger '
of universal i**ne*." We wish it oould
la*. The skill which built it, and which
fashioned its million* of object*, may
go out to iMitl** again, for lh< re are
many questions, unhappily, awaiting i
battle. But every such display is an
other step to peace. These friendly con
tests will determine new friendships uud I
strengthen old once, and buid the j
nations closer and closer together. Take,
for instance, countries like Ja;*au and
China, who are here in fervent competi- j
tion with our own lalxirers, ami the fact
is full of emphasis. Japan, which
twenty years ago was only a gougraphi- !
oal i ame about which hovered (lark i
memories of cruelty and superstition ]
—Jajmi. f*r instance, which <u lUe Uine '
of the English fair was only a pale, j
sinister star in the galaxy of uatioouli- -
ties, is mu to bo a refulgent, glorious
planet, a rthv to rank with the bright
. st of them all.
And so we might coutinne this thought,
deducing the lisc-ons that intelligent
miuds will see in the presence of uatious
Like llrazil and Peru, of culoutaa like
those of Kngland and the Netherlands,
of civilizations an venerable as those of
Ipdia and KgJl>t. If the imagination ia
strongly moved by trophies which tell
of the glory of Sesostris and Alexander,
by remnants of age* and races which j
have failed from the memory of man, it {
is no less impressed by Iht* freeh glory
of countries like Australia and Canada '
and California, only vestordsv the borne
of tbo savage and to day standing breast
to breast with n* in all tin* essentials of
a refined civilization. Which lesson
will bo the most instructive to the phil
osopher f That whieh he h*arns within
the gloomy portals of tho khedive's
palace, over which the brooding Sphinx
nits in sad, questioning silence, or tlist
which yonng Australia obtrudes upon
him in the mountain of gold which tolls
of her wealth, or the photographic pano
rama which tolls of the wonders of her
new world I For the Centennial Exhibi
tion lias a high use in this, that within
the four walls of its main palace we have
every phase of civilization. It is the
nineteenth century, with its post nnd
the promises of its future.
As the mind follows the flags of the
great nations of Europe it recalls tlie
hundred battles in whieh, even during
onr centenary, they have wnved in vic
tory and def*at—the hundred Imttles
from Jemroapes to Sedan. Rut in spito
of th*se dark memories hero, under the
central towers of tho numi palace, they
unite in friendship and peace. It was a
liappv thought to bring together, iu the
very heart of the Exhibition, England
and France, Germany and tho United
States. It seems only yesterday when
two of these nations wore at sword*'
points, and here, under the flag of
America, they meet in peace. If we
dnrod to indulge a romantic and un
availing boi*e, which at all events is in
keeping with the day, it i*t that the ties
which bind the genius of theao mighty
nations together to-day—which brings
England and America, Germany and
France into the friendly strife of indus
try against industry—may never be
broken, and that the prayer for peace
which the reverend prelate offered at tho
opening may bo blessed to one and to
all.— New iurk Herald.
The ttoTcrnment Clerk*.
It is remarked of the female clerks in
the Washington departments that they
might set np au aristocracy of their own
if they chone. Widows or daughters
of army and navy officers of the highest
raDk, daughters and granddaughters of
former members of th" cabinet, aenatoia,
supreme court justices and Presidents
are to be found among them. The grand
daughter of Thomas Jefferson has a
clerkship. The danghter of Audrew
Jackson Donaldson (tho adopted son of
Androw Jackson) wss bom in tho White
House and educated in Berliu, aud is now
a clerk in the Post Office department.
The daughter of Chief Justioo Taney is,
or was, a clerk in some government but
rean. aud so was the daughter of Robert
J. Walker, formerly secretory of the
treasury. These are bat a few instances
where names might lie cited.
A Stick of Oysters.
But I have brought you hero to havo
some oysters. Will you havo a stick,
my tb-ars I Yes, a stick of oysters I
In Fu-Chow the jiassing refreshment
trade is supplied, not from cans aud
kegs, but from a atick, a bamboo stick,
upon which the oysters, all in their
shells, are set fast. In fact, they grow
UDQII this stick. At the proper time
thcee bamboo rods are thrust down into
the oyster beds; aud the baby -oyster s
all babies always want something to
hold by while they are growing, you
know—attach themselves to these rods.
When the oysters are mature, the rods
are taken up and brought into market.
A moot dainty and appetising way, I
think.—Wide Awake.
IE CO., PA., THUI
TIIK DIMIOYKItY 01 AM FBI (A.
Hhdr PrtvUat !• ibui f | |irU
llrr 4 •iMhibua,
The chapter of pre-Columbian voy
ages iu Wiii, C. Bryant's new history of
the Hinted HUteH is new and interest
iug. The suthora trace the legendary
history of viiyage* to America by the
Welsh, the Norsemen and the Chinese.
" We have devoted these earlier chap
ters," say the authors, "to periods
whn h, in previous histories of the Uni
ted Htatos and of America, have either
had no place at all or have l>ecu dis
missed iu s jisgt'oi a paragraph. Should
it ever lie poMiihle to penetrate the mys
tery and darkness which shrouded one
half the world almost ns completely as
if it hud lieeu another planet, from the
tune of it* creation to u thousand years
after Jesus Christ, such an addition to
human knowledge would be of iuesti
limbic value ai. tl intense interest. Mod
ern science lias uuly begun to read this
story of races and of civilization that
long since disappeared, leaving uo otber
rtxxml than those relies which till re
cently have lie'U either overl>okeil or
misunderstood.
" What point in time or what degree
of knowledge may be thus reached by
future discoveries and deductions from
them in s field as yet but little explored
it would be rush to hazard even a guess.
But it is well to know what ground there
is for presuming that it is {tossible to
learn suything of that prehistoric pe
riod. And still more in actual his
tory, even though its records be olsv-nre
and mi|>erfect, or only traditions re
duced to writing; even though the pe
riod of which we can gain only snch im
perfect information be, in some resjxvta,
legendary and romantic, we may, uever
tbelees, profitably and properly go fur
ther back thou tha ordinary starting
point bv five hundred years.
" Hitherto the legitimate (ximmeuce
menl of American history lias been held
to be toward the end o'f the fifteenth
century, and all tieyund fabulous or in
*erutabic. But there were l*ld men and
skillful sailors before t'oiumbas. Ever
sinoe men sailed npou the sea or po*
s.->ised a liU-ratnrt) there have been
gliui|*es, sometimes transient or iilu
sory, at other timt a distinct, of a tnys
tart OU. world in the Western ocean, the
subjtvt of curiou. conjecture, of vague
prophecy, .ud oftener, |>erh.|M,' nan is <
suppo.v-,1 of atti inptixl discovery. '
Though there was no j-crnianeul ia-cu- i
lation and no jH>-itive rtniognition of -
this as a new quarter of the globe till i
tho Cidnmbian era, the real or suppjaed '
apprisichtvi t > it* pt*<-H.ion for Utc 500 j
p.evious years np]>cal a* much hu
man sympathy and are it* jwrtment to
humau progress as tlie mythical period,
of the histories nations of the old
world.
"From discoveries made without de
sign and in ignorance of their r.-sl char
acter we are lot, m the gradual progress
of event* and the slow advance of
knowledge, to that later time when the
ocean was traversi-d with s distinct and
intelligent purjMw and with anhesiUt
ing faith. The Northmen, the Welsh,
the Venetian*—assuming their narrative*
to be wholly or partiaiiy true —while
they were certain that they hod sailed
into unknown sea*, aud were east upon
as si T UTI i* autl tUu:gr> jirvjili*
beyond the accredited limit* of Uie in
lisbitcd world, also believed, no doubi,
that they had only reached the further
shares of the outlying islands whence
they came. The notions as to the shape
and the extent of the earth were at tlmt
period so vague, even among the learn
ed, am! the art of navigation was so lit
tle developed, that thy was uot much
*|>eculntiou a* to the possibility of pcue-
Iratiug U-yund the known limit* of the
continent and oat of the aocnstonnxl
tracks of slop*. All that mariner* dared
to do was to creep along the coast from
headland to headland, with a fair wind,
to go to places frequently visited."
The authors are of tie opinion thai
"Columbus, like the navigator* of
Prince Henry, meant to find a new route
to the Fast, only iu a fresh direction;
and he died in the belief, after four voy
age-- to the new world, that theoouutries
he had readied were literally the West
Indie*—the coasts of Asia approached
from the west. Th** difference lietweeu
him and those who by chance crossed
the Atlantic liefore him was, that lie,
impelled by a fervid religious faith and
by conclusions drawn from scientific
study, hod boldly sought to explore the
unknown on which tliey hail only been
igncranlly driven."
Ilod for tlie Farmers.
Potato bngs are ravaging Long I aland
farmers' hot bed*. Duties, the parent*
of the potato bugs, that had slept in the
beds All winter, awoke on the appear
anoe of spring, and settled on thin ten
der growth abont them. They laid
their egg* on the softest leaves. From
the egg* were hatehed potato bngs, and
thej begun to devour the leaves on
which they were hatched. Taking the
reporter to hi* hot tied*, wherein were
egg plants, a Flatbnsh farmer uprooted
a plant, whose leaves were pierced and
withered, and peppered with bngs, and
said : " Bee how lively they are ! The
potato bog eats a farmer ont of house
and home, until it gets to be a perfect
beetle. Then it dives into the earth,
and stays nine days, probably getting
ready to lay. When ready, the beetle
comes ont of his hole, And lights upon
the youngest plants. On them it lays
eggs, and then bobs away. Last June
the (tootles came ujHtn us, and caused
thousands of dollars' loss by breeding
upon the plants in the hothouses. I had
egg plants enough to yield two hun
dred pounds of seed, that 1 was to sell
to s Philadelphia seedsmau for SBOO ;
but the potato bngs ate all but S4O worth.
They couldn't hurt the potato shoots,
Itecause they were sbont a foot high.
The beetles hung around all snmmer,
crawling and jumping in the sun, and in
the fall burrowed in the earth. Farm;
era are setting out onlv half as much
potatoes as usual, ans are terribly
afraid. In plowing, wo turn up lots of
beetles. The grouud is full of them,
and as soon as real warm weather comes
they will begin to hatch."— Sew York
•Sun.
A Murderer Baptized.
Burr Beggarly, the Tennessee mur
derer, was iiaptized iu the jail yard.
The officiating minister said it was a
solemn occasion. The man had resolved
that tho brief remainder of his life
would be spent in trying t" undo tho
sinfnl life of the past. The hymn,
" Alas, aud did my Savior bl id I" was
given out, and jn*t as the setting of the
sun threw the jail yard into shadow,
Burr stopped into the |.o] that had been
provided, and was baptized. Imme
diately after coming out of tho water,
Beggarly began shouting with fervor.
He exclaimed: "Oh, if you want to
liud me when I am dead, come up; don't
go down there. This body has got to
lie hung, and the worms will eat the
flesh, but they eau't hurt my soul.
Thank Go i I've found him, and I ain't
afraid of death now."
AN AnvEiiriaiNo LAWYKK.—Tho law
yers of Ireland are iudiguant at a bar
rister who advertises in the newspapers.
Tho ancient etiquette of the legal as of
the medical profession is to starve rather
than publish one's business in the same
oolnmn with announcements of dry
goods and grooeriea.
81) AY. JUNE 8, 187(>.
The Horticultural Department.
The grounds of the Horticultural de
iMtrtuitiul of the Exhibition embrace
forty acre., in the midst of which i
Horticultural hall. The wall, embrace
an area of ueariy two oity acres, each of
'2OO feet square. The ground, are laid
out in walk., 1 sir dors, miniature lawns,
flower boil, and ornamental gardening.
Tho space allotted to exhibitors ami
occupied is a trifle over eight acres.
The walks, roods aud passageways are
substantially mode, mostly paved with
asphalt, aud collectively they reach a
distance of two miiea. lloth foreign aud
domestic exhibitors present large dis
plays of flowers, plants, forest and orna
mental tree, among which are choice
new species front China and Japan. In
some special line. England is excelling
all others. France, Germany, Nether
lands and Cuba are well represented.
The decorative ground embrace, a
parterre or sunken garden, so planted as
| to .bow oorjiet, bedding, ribbou aud
geometric gardening. Here all kind, of j
bulb, suited to the season are in bloom, j
others are to bloom in the future, and !
; the vast extent of this plauting is to be
gathered from the statement that their
; uumber is over 5,000. A* a part of the
decoration are to be seen fountains,
statues, kiosks, summer booses, rustic
seats, dumps of evergreens and all such
; adornment*, place I with due regard to
the rules of landsostie gardening, aud as
such are worthy of study by amateurs
and professionals.
The hall itands on an artificial eleva
tion, ornamented by artistic terraces
which are reached by flights of marble
steps. At a distance the chief object
connected with the ball aud being s
| art of it are the glass oonorrvstories on
the sides. The structure is divided into
several dejisrtmeuts for the exhibitor*.
The architecture is iu the Moresque
style, of the twelfth century, and the '
principal materials are iron and gloss.
On the north and south sides are the
conservatories, four in number, each 30
xIOO feet, The beating is done hi hot j
water in a most effective manner, and
one which will attract great attention
from those interested in heating
aiqiaratu* for propagating purposes.
The main hall is 80x230, ornamented
by a handsome marble fountain, sur
rounded by choice tropical plant*, and
near by is a grove of oranges and lemous,
loaded with ripe fruit, intermingled
with statuary and works of terra-ootta i
and porcelain. Prominent citisens of
Philadelphia have contributed largely
from their houses of rare ikl choice
plants, as have also the joint library
committee of Congress and the Agri
cultural de|iartm<*uL The number of
exhibitors occupying the grounds <x.
oeeds 2U), representing many of the
States, also Cuba, Philippine islands,
Spain, Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil,
Argentine li< public, German*, France,
Luxemburg, New Zealand and Sandwich
islands. Tlie English exhibition cover*
nearly an acre, and it is largely devoted
to a display of rhododendrons, which
will for excel anything of tin- kind ever '
*een in America. Portugal occupies
half an acre. The show from New
Jersey lias a money value of SIO,OOO.
Among the most noticeable objects
that can he mentioned at this tunc are :
a finiitvraiu m u tiTinmn iradi
of fruit done in jtapirr-maehr from
Cincinnati; the fau palm from Japan,
fines on which grow the pine apple, the
ht-nix palm. Hibiscus of Australia,
India gum, or rubber tree ; hanan*
tree, a new orbutuluiu, with striking
blossoms; (he Mexican Yucca, sage
palm, Australian evergreens, a large
philodentmm iu fruit ; hoy a, bearing
fruit similar to strawß-mee, from Japan;
fig* Issuing fruit. Iu the east green
house is s largs {mini st&lk or stump,
with a cactus growing from tlie top. Iu
tiuolhet room is a great variety of bud
ding plants. On the other side is a
magnificent fernery, among which is a
new caiodintu. white and lovely ; South
Mexican plants, qait<> enriouK ; the
deer's tongue, with young haves grow
ing out of old ones ; theoeououiA fuuxus,
from Africa, a sugar plant ; draco na, a
rare decorative plant, blood red ; Dutch
pipe plant, which is gorgeous ; a
maranthnm, from the Amazon river, sel
dom seen ; Livingstone palm, from
Africa; Maiden lons hair feru. N < ar
the north entraiiou are spoctuieua of oof
fee, tea and auger plants. On the
gmnnds is s large collect ion of roses
from Paris, uotiible from the fact that
manv varieties are budded on single
stocks of the native wild rose of Europe.
It is said that the French will be likely
to excel all other nations iu rosea. JU
no great di tanoe is s large plauting of
American tea roses, now coming into
bloom, and all old and new sorts are
presented. Americ* will make the best
show it is able to make.
A Warning to Country Girls.
A young girl named Il< ttie Hall left
the town of Sayres, Pennsylvania, to
oome to New York city in seam* of em
ployment. In tbo cars she was accosted
bv a strange man, who inquired her
name, where nlie had oome from and
whither she was going.
The man introduced her to two fash
ionably dressed young girls, by whom
ho was acconi|>aniod, and soou ingrati
ated himself into her confidence. He
invited her, on their arrival at Jersey
City, to come to his house, whore he
said she might lisve a home until she
had procured employment. Tho women
who accompanied him pressed her to
accept the invitation, and her money
being nearly exhausted, Bhe finally con
sented.
Tho party tlion proceeded to Groone
street, and shortly after the nnfortnuato
girl discovered that aha had Ixvn en
ticed to a house of proatitntion. She
requested permission to leave, bat tho
mail ordered tbo doora to bo locked aud
threatened, with an oath, to break her
head if aho attempted to oaoape.
Hho waa forced into anbmiaaiou and
mined. Bbo wu closely watcliod by
tho man and hi* wife, tho proprietors of
the establishment. A boat eleven o'clook
at night, while coming down stairs, she
noticed the hall door standing open,
and, notwithstanding the ctoldness of the
the night, rnshed out into the street iu
her acauty attire, determined to effect
her escape." The attention of an officer
was attracts by her short skirts and tin
sel. Hh. rushed wildly from one side
of the street to the other, aud he arrest
ed her.
At the station house she told the
aliovo story to the captain. Hettie, who
is an interesting looking young girl
aliout eighteen years old, was taken to
a police court, where the justice, after
hearing her pitiful narrative, issued
wsrrauto for the arrest of every inmate
of the house. The officers arrested the
man, his wife, Kix girls, two oolored
cooks aud one man. The prisoners were
arraigned lief ere n justice, who at once
begun a thorough investigation.
A Business llule.
A personal friend of tho late A. T.
Stewart says that he once remarked to
that gentleman : " Mr. Stewart, I have
ofteu wondored what will become of
your great mercantile interests when
you pass away, for uo one who has the
means to carry on such a business would
invest it in dry goods in these days."
"Oh," said he, "my business does
not depend on any one man; it depends
upon a principle—to buy aa cheap as I
can, and to sell as cheap aa I can. The
rest takes care of itaelf."
TERMS: 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
Fashion Notes.
There is a marked effort to popularise
gilt embroidery and bnud, but as yet
It is seen only on the new bouse jackets.
A decided novelty in summer dresses
is furuished in thoseuutuposed of Indian
cambric, with the front* checked and
the harks striped.
iiuuneU of coarse straw, known e*
" peasant's straw," are fashionable.
The long Haxoti glove, without but
tons, are adopted for demi-tutlet.
Knitted silk purses are again revived.
For summer, fine thread gloves, either
ecru or white.
Hmall cheek, and stripe, rule this
season iu aiLk and woolen, as well a* in
cotton goods.
Nothing has been introduced to take
the place of the almost indispensable
block suit m> long worn for street pur
poor*.
Hubiria is the name of a new model
for a close fitting gwbrielle style of pol
onaise.
Rolled gold jewelry is every year
more extensively patronised.
Jackets, cut by pattern ont of the tiiece
lace, now made in close imitation of real
lace, are largely taking tlie place of the
woolen ones, as they are uot only lea.
expensive, but can be fitted to the figure
with greater precision than the ready
made ones.
Novslties in ornament are offered in
white coral, carved couch shell, and in
smooth oval pebble stones of dark slate
color.
New veil, are Men made of ecru, net,
with chenille dot*.
The shapes of the bonnet* are rather
.mailer than list year.
Morning wrapper* are now made of
cream colored aaahmere, trimmed with
cream woolen lace and aardinal red rib
bons.
Muslins will be confined to house wear
entirely, and for the country in July
and August.
The block grenadine# checked with
gold and silver threads find but few pur
chasers.
A desire for matching is observable in
all the details of the toilet. Ladies who
can afford it have a hat, parasol, gloves,
stockings, etc., to match each suit.
Iu silks there are a great variety of
tissues this spring.
The Parisian, whatever ber station,
never ha* a huge number of toilet* at
one tune, which account* for ber always
being dressed in the fashion.
Home of the new bonne - * look like
evening caps or headdresses, as they are
composed of a garland of flowers and of
a ruche of lace.
It is the fashion at the present time
for ladies to paint or etch menn and
guest cards fur their dinner parties.
Polouaisss, partly of black cashmere
and partly of black silk, are mostly
readily sold, as black promises to re
main the dress for the street.
Now that all the booflisat effect in
draperv is produced lower down on the
skirt, long, slender bustles that slope
larger as they dcaoend instead of pro
jecting suddenly below the waist are
worn.
White silk, richly rvppcd, is largely
used fot wedding dreu*.
French hand made lingerie, a fashion
jouiiiol says, is largely imported this
nca*ou, both iu simple, inexpensive gar
ment* and also those very elaborately
trimmed. Thus it is possible to buy for
$2.25 a nightdreM of French percale of
liglit quality made up by band, witli
cluster* of tiuy tucks iu the yoke, and
neatly stitched collar and cuffs. This
thin jsTcsle loses it* sloxiness after lie
iug washed—the goods are imported un
hinudried—and is quite heavy enough
for sleeping gowns. By adding a little
of the Smyrna linen lace now coming
into fashion for trimming under
clothing, this is made into s very nretty
garment. For $2.90 ore heavy Ma.la
jH llam gowns for winter use. The pri
ces incri'seo upward to sl2 or sls for
elaborately tnnimcd gowns, with three
rows of embroidery separated by clus
ters of tucks extending the whole
length of the front. Yoke gowns are
still preferred. A neat fashion is that
of laving the yoke fullness in three box
plait* in front, with three similar plaits
iu the back, like the plaited waists ones
so popular. Those are sold in nice
American muslin, with s nest ruffle of
Hamburg work around the neck and
wrist*, for $1.75.
With domostie muslins at their pres
ent low prices, expert needlewomen can
emuiy supply themselves with on
abund nee of underclothing. The beau
tiful light muslin known as Frait of the
Loom now sells for nine or ten cents a
viird, while the heaviqf Wamsutt* and
New York Mills cost bat twelve and one
half cents a yard.
*' Looking for a Job."
When Arthur Wayne swung around in
front of the desk and remarked that ho
was looking for a job, tho justice re
plied :
"That's too old and it's too late. You
might have put in such ou excuse a
month ago, but 1 can't receive it now.
The grass is np and growing, the honey
bet* is kiting around, and the music of
the hand organ makes the song of the
morning lark dwindle to a single note,
ttpriug is here. Arthur Wayne, glorious,
big Injun spring. The vagrant season
hits closed. Whips sail up and down,
red-painted rooking chairs may la* seen
ou the ferry hosts again, and I'll put
you behind tlie l*ars for a chronic
loafer."
•'Will von put me in prison f" asked
the offender.
•' I will."
•* Will yon let mo get a drink first f"
•'No, air."
•* May 1 send oat and bay a bo
logna f"
•• No, sir."
" May I borrow some tobacco of some
one f"
•• No, sir."
" May 1 go to the post-office f"
•• No, air."
•'Will you send me up for three
months f"
••I will."
"That's more like it—l knew I'd
earrv my point," growled the prisoner,
aud he meekly sat down en a plug hat
which some one had let! in the corridor.
An Exciting Experience,
Mill river, above the tipper dam, at
Leeds, Mass., was the theater of an ex
citing scene, in which Joseph Bbeam,
su|x>rii:tcudcut of the silk mill, was the
leading actor. He was in a boat teach
ing his eight-year old boy to row, when
he discovered that his little girl of three
Jears, who hail Won sitting iu the stern,
ail disappeared. He at ouco dived into
the with r, and, snatching the child,
swam to.the shore, although encumbered
by an " overcoat and rubber boots.
Arriving at the bonk, ho was compelled
at onoo to drop the girl, throw ofT extra
clothing and swim after the boat, which
was drifting toward the dam. Seeing
that he was not gaining on it, he called
to two men coming down the railroad
track to save the boy. This they wcie
able to do by the boat's drifting within
reach of the shore. By thi - time the
father, who was in the middle of the
river, was taken with cramp and would
doubtless have perished but for the
timely discovery of an upright stake, to
whioh he olung until rescued by the
meu who had secured the boat ana boy.
NUMBER 23.
THE tEMTENNUI EXHIBITION.
I
Tkr H MSerawl !Hiilrr Hall-Tko Ursat
Virion at Its AIIEIMIMM.
Machinery hail ia 1,860 feet long and
I 860 feet wide; it covers about fourteen
acres, and ooat *642.800.
On i nu ring the edifice at the western
end th<* sight is picturesque sod irupree
I sive. Almost every aort of machine in
; < sistcucn, from a looumotivo to s paper
j folder, is io active operation. The per
; sous employed to work them are now
fairly started in their tasks, and the
| prospect of aht mouths in the building
! seems to make them fed at borne. Tin
i central object of interest is the msgnifl
j oeut engine, which furnishes the motive
| power for ail the machinery that is not
•elf propelling. It consists of an im
mense fly wheel, thirty feet in diam
eter, two fact in thickness, and fifty tons
in weight, caused to revolve at the rate
of thirty -six revolutions a minute by the
piston rods of two cylinders; and ao si
lently does it perform its work thateveu :
when close beaide it yon can bear the
lowest tones of your companion's voice, j
Below it is the main abaft, which by
gear wheels six feet in diameter eon
nects with eight lines of shafting, each j
635 feet long, running lengthwise under
the roof, and communicating their mo
tion by leather belts to the various ms
obinery on the floor.
This machinery is of the meet inge
nious sud various description, and con
sists of apparatus used in milling; in
working metal, wood and atone; in spin
ning, weaving, felting and paper mak- :
ing; in sewing and the manufacture of
clothing and ornamental objects; in typo
setting, printing, stamping, emUswuig,
book making and paper working; in
producing and tranamitting power; in '
pumping, hoisting and lifting by by- 1
draulic and pneumatic torn*; in manu
facturing locomotives aud railway roll 1
ing stock; in preparing agricultural im
plements; snd in aerial, pneaaiatic and 11
water transportation. While saunter ing I
along the aiales uue oau wiinsaa the pro- <
ocas of rock drilling, of well and shaft I
boring, of coal cutting, of electroplat
ing, of planing, sawing, veneering, 1
grooving, mortising, tonguing, cutting, 1
molding, stamping and carving; of j
drilling, slotting, turning, punching and
coming; of dressing, shaping and pol
ishing; of rolling iron, grinding glass,
casting metals, and riveting, nailing, [(
bolting and tacking Uiem by steam ; of
manufacturing silk, cotton, woolen and ;
linen goods, rope and twine, paper and
felting, india rubber goods, mixed fab
rice and wire doth; of preparing and ,
working leather, watches, ,
and pipes for smoking; of printing, em- i,
bossing snd lithographing, type oasitng ,
and sun- typing, bookbinding and pa
per folding; of generating power by {
boilers, water wheels, hydraulic rams,
Ktoam, air. gas and electro magnetic en- ]
gioea, aud of transmitting it by shaft
ing, belting, cables, gearing and screw
propellers; of lifting and moving liquids
and solids, and moving and oomprea* '
ing air or gas; of extinguishing firs and
osoapiug from it; of manufacturing soda '
water, bottling it, and corking the bot : '
ties; of diving for the recovery of sunken !
treasure*; of matinfaotaring looomo j
lings and snow plows, wheels, tares,
axles, and springs, switches, torn
tables and water crunra, great railways
and bone oars; of grinding jpi*. nfln
ing sugar, making candy, preparing to
bacco, oil, spices and fancy goods, and
brewing beer and diKtilling liquors; of
boikling nupensnt bridges, transport
ing cables, sending luallooa boats and
wuling T essoin, and dually of transport
ing telegraph cables snd railway brains,
snd of steering and propelling ship* and
steamboat*. Indeed, it is not too much
to HST that an extraordinary lifetime
might be spent in examining the appar
atuK, the processes snd the result* pre
sented in Machinery hall. The vast
structure, with the exception, perhaps,
of some of the persons who are visiting
it, does not contain s single object not
interesting or instructive.
The Government Batiding.
The building devoted to the exhibits
of the United States government ia
more nearly complete in its features
than any other on the Centennial
ground*. And the display 1* a much more
creditable one than could have been ex
pected. A prominen' feature in it is a
branch of the Philadelphia post-office,
wherein are received and aent regular
mails with the precision which ha*
made oar ;*ostal service the most effi
cient in the world. Near bv, machinery
in full working order, for Hie manufac
ture of envelopea, attracts all passers.
It is worked by a woman, and the en
velopes there 'made bearing a Centen
nial memento in one corner, are sold at
the post office window. The department
of agriculture makes a "good showing of
the products of the country. The pa
tent office and the Smithsonian Insti
tute contributes an amount of curiosi
ties which would set liarnuot up in the
museum business again. The ord
nance departmentexhibita, in addition to
cannon, guns and ammunition of all
kinds and calibers, the machinery with
which they are made, and hen* may be
witnessed the process of making gnu
stock*, rilling gun barrels, and the
manufacture of metallic cartridges.
Near by, a group of wax figures exhibit
the various styles of uniform* worn by
onr soldiers since the daya of '76. borne
elaborate work by government engi
neer* is exhibited by tbst department.
Among those is s perfect model of the
nuder rock-and water operations of
General Newton at Hell Gate. From a
glance id this, one can get a complete
idea of how he intenda to blow up the
the bottom of the East river. The ex
plosion in Jersey City the other day
was but a side show to what General
Newton's circus promises to be.
One of the very interesting features
in this building is the exhibition of
lighthouses, in practical working order
and by models, by the lighthouse
board. The signal bureau has also on
exhibition the machinery and parapher
nalia pertaining to its peculiar service.
Onr national fish commissioners also
make a very interesting exhibit of fishes
peculiar to our lakes and rivers, to
gether with the various contrivances
with which they are captured. There
is also a splendid collection of sea mam
malia, including staffed walrus, seals,
sea lions, casts of whales, etc. In short,
the exhibit in the government building
gives a very fair glimpse of the scien
tific experiments, investigations and re
search made by the government for the
information and protection of our peo
ple.
The English Navy.
A Parliamentary return of " the reli
gious persuasions of the royal navy, and
also of the royal marinec," states that of
the seamen, 22,816 belong to the Church
of England, 1,150 are Presbyterians,
2,675 belong to the other Protestant de
nominations, and 3,866 are Roman
Catholics. " Jack Tar "is a stout Con
servative. The religions classification
of the marines is as foliows: Church of
Eagland, 2,545; Presbyterians, 462;
other Protestants, 1,295; Roman Catho
lics, 986. The return also gives the
number of chaplains employed on Her
Majesty's ships, with their pay and al
lowances, and a list of ministers of every
denomination employed in the home
ports, on foreign stations and among the
coastguard man.
Tbt Mysterim.
OOM cm mr mttim'a brsaal, a AHIM. I WSJ*.
linidiitg m teeath |
Tb*o, af and *m), lay atmdtaiag and wpt
At (A* dark mytMry of daatb.
WM7 and Mk and won with *ll uarvH,
•pent with tho strife
Oli. mother, let at waap eper thy brew-i
At Un and mystery of Ufa f
- W. V. BowriU.
Item of latere**.
A oomd aaata heraalf in * church
pew in NNB motion* j • man with one.
Over lift,ooo,ooo are Invested in var
ious enterprises of the grangers in the
j United Mates.
- A Pennsylvania man own* * farm in
which be oau fell a tree m that it will
i lie in three counties.
Think alt yon eaa of the good quali
ties of others: ferret and seep
concerning their bed qoaJiUtsi.;
What place I* ao ragged and ao
homely that there te no beauty If yon
only hare a sensibility to beaaty ?
Never trust him who flies into a pas
sion oa being donned, tint make him
| my quickly if there is any virtue tn the
Of the 85,000 dead-bead tickets issued
to the Oentenniai, 54,000, will go to ootn
mon people and the other thousand to
editor*.
A Mexican girl living at Tncaoola has
three wall developed arms. She can do
up her hair without cramming her
mouth full of hairpins. •
Lots of able-bodied young ladies whose
parents haven't got a spoonfnl of horse
radish in the house am out all day hunt
ing fur trailing arbutus.
The weariest and most loathed worldly
life that age, ache, penury and imprison
ment ma lay on nature is a paradise to
what we fear of death.
The drees coat has been called the
swallow tail, the steel pen, the claw
hammer, the spike tail and the nib, and
now it la called the tack raiser.
A young lady who bad no time to
spare feu- making garment* for the poor
has been engaged three weeks embroid
ering a bla ket for her poodle dog.
The Chinamen of Gold Hill. Nevada,
are petitioning the authorities for a poli
tic school, in which they and their chil
dren may leant the English language.
That was a good Detroit buy who told
hi* father that if he would buy him a
pony be would let him have the use of it
when it waa too rainy for good boysto be
out.
Topic : Geological discussion. Prin
cipal—"Was it colder or warmer a hun
dred years ago then at present I" Pupil
(honestly)—"l really don't reooliect,
air."
True courage ia cool and calm. The
bravest man have the least of a bullying,
brutal insolence, and in the very ti uie
of danger ate found the moat serene and
free.
Ban Franmseo has adjourned her
schools for want of mooev. The chil
dren now go around throwing atones at
heathen Chinese to their nearta' eon
tent.
" Ah, doctor, I'm out again ; let ma
thank you my dear fellow." Doctor—
-44 Bat,' nonsense, I never came to see
you while you wew iIL" " Wall, that's
why I'm thanking you."
A teacher asked una of the little boys
in her school : *' Where does the ran
rise f ' Great was har astonishment aa
the little fellow, with a wise look,
answered : 44 In Boston, ma'am."
With a sigh of relief we announce the
(act that during the past week no candi
date for the Presidency has been accus
ed of murder, forgery, burglary, or ar
son. Them is life in the old land yet.
Sterne says in his Koran : I t ever
drink—l cannot do it on equal terms
with other*. It coats them only one
day, bot me three ; the first in sinning,
the ascend in suffering and the third in
pen ting
aniuEow church by teducifig hi* salary
to (£2OO pr yaw, bat be look, the motion
kindly and replied: ** Why, I lived
through last jew on $75 in cash and a
A from Michigan has beeu a
drk in government warrior in Washing
ton for the hurt sixteen years, and be
brags that be baa had to change bis po
liUcai and religious views bet two ban
died and eight times.
Qod baa fixed npon the earth two
gate* which lead to heaven. He has
Elaord them at Hie two extremities of
fe ; one at ita beginning, the other at
its end. The find ia that of innocenoe,
the second that of repentance.
Discarded ulsters make exoelient wraps
for parlor stoves daring the rammer
of retirement to the woodshed. The
Lifter, poker, shovel and other small at
tachment* can be put in the pockets,
and the hood may be drawn over the
nrn.
A little neglect may breed a great mis
chief ; for want if a nail the shoe was
lost; few want of a shoe the horee was
lost; and for want a borae the rider was
lost, being overtaken and slum by the
enemy; all for wast of a little care
abont a horseshoe nail.
A poor Frenchman, whose wife
aroused him from sleep with a cry :
" Get np. Baptists, there is a robber in
the boose !** answered sensibly : " Don't
molest him ; let him explore the house
awhile, and if he should find anything
of value we will take if away from him. '
At a recent Western baby show the
ladies arranged all the wee morsels side
by side, covered their fsees, and re
quested the fathers to pick out their
own. One proud parent came forward
and grabbed s pair of kicking little
feet. One foot belonged to a girl, the
other to a boy.
The clarionet is not a solo instrument.
By an advertisement in a Belgian paper
it is shown what it must accompany:
Wanted, in a mirror factory, a little
clarionet player, who would be able to
act is second leader, conduct at the
piano, drive the car of the firm, and take
a hand in the oat-door affair*.
Dealers in trees assert that experi
enced men buy small, thrifty trqes,
while thoee who are just starting are
anxious for the largest ones to be had.
Thoee who are to set trees the coming
season will do well to learn from the ex
perience of thoee who, at considerable
lose to themselves, have demonstrated
that m*n frees are the ones to buy.
The iron prow of the old steamer Now
Jersey is lying at the Pennsylvania rail
road "company's yard at Perth Amboy,
N. J., and is to be sent to the Centennial
exhibition in a few days. When she
first came from England ahe was known
as the B, H. Stevens, but was recharter
ed as the New Jersey. She was the first
steam veeael that crossed the Atlantic,
and no smaller steam vessel has crossed
it np to this day.
Says the Ogdensborg Journal: Some
men have a great propensity to trade.
An honeet fanner of a neighboring town
paid us for four years' subscription
and stopped his paper, because wo would
not trade the amount, while he could
get cash for his butter and eggs any
where on the street. In lees than aweek
after he commenced to trade with a pat
ent right man and is ont 6750. Moral:
Don't stop your paper.
The following statement of the cost
of the " big gnus " of Europe is from
the London Engineer ; The eighty-one
ton gun has oosi $75,000, and ttio price
named for the " Newcastle infauts," of
one hundred tons, for the Italian navy,
is $120,000 each. The cost of the Krupp
monster will be $150,000 or more. The
latter will send a ball weighing abont
2,300' through the air. It costs $125
every time time the eighty-one ton gun
is fired.
Mrs. Livermore thinks women should
be allowed to vote, because, aa she says
in the course of a logical argument :
" When the Roman Marius was victori
ous, the Norse men and women besought
him to protect their virtue ; but he
said: 'To-morrow von shall be given up
to my soldiers.' That night the mothers
submitted to their daughters thp alter
native— 1 Death or dishonor t' and be
fore morning they had all met death at
their own hands."