lnstiMta.
Hsavaa gars Ui bee desire for sweets,
And Beavetijsenda her.flowers |
The thtrstv lanA.for'mnistnrs waits,
At (1 Hseven sends her showers
Nor .re the instincts of the heart
Lees blest with Heaven', ere.
Nor would Heaven sympathy imparl
Merely to perish there.
The heart that yearns for kindred mind
To share its bliss or pain.
Thai longs to love, shall sursly And
A heart to love again.
t Impair* Hying.
Sinks the enn below the desert,
Oohlen glows the sluggish Nils ,
Purple flame crowns spring and temple.
Lights up every ancient pile
Where the old gods now are sleeping .
Isis. aud Gains great .
Guard me. help me. give me courage
lake * queen to meet my fate!
" I am dying. Egyp', dying!"
I*l the Cwear's army come -
I will cheat him of his glory,
Th utgh heron 1 the Styx 1 roam.
Shall he drag this beauty with him
While the crowd his triumph emgs ■
No. to, never ! t will show him
What lies in the blood of kings.
Though he holj the g. video scepter,
Role the rtiaraoh*e sunny laud.
Whc e old Nilua rolls resistless.
Thrivugh the sweeps of silvery sand ■
He shall never say 1 met him
Earning, abject, like a slave -
1 wil foil him. though to do it
1 must cross the Biyg.au wave
Oh, my hero, sleeping, sleeping—
Shall 1 meet you on the shore
Of 1' uuvuian shadows t Shall we
In death meet and love once more !
See. I follow in your footsteps
Scm the Cam r and his might -
For your love I will leap boldly
Into realms of death and night
bow n below the deceit sinking
Fa lee Apollo's brtlliaut car.
And rxwn out the distant .sure.
Breaks the bright gI vara of a star
Vein s, queen of love ai d beauty,
W IcoiDoe me to death's era brace,
by it g—free, proud. and triumphant.
The last sovereign of my race
Dytug ! dying ! I am coming,
Ob, my hero, to your arms :
You will welcome me, I know it—
.Guard me from ail rude alarms
Hark ! I hear the legions coming.
Hear their cries of triumph swell.
But, croud i'ear, dead 1 scorn yon,
Egvpt- Antony—fxfell!
- T\cm xi S. CVCisr
Joe Gorton's Passenger.
The day was drawing toward its close,
chill and raw. Lake Village was almost
always gu>ty, but just now the wind was
having its own way more than usual,
and any passer through the long, bleak
street, happening to glance in at the
window of the little tavern, might well
have been tempted by the bright fire
and good company inside the bar.
They were the usual afternoon loafers,
with the exception of one small, wiry
looking man, a stranger, who, at the
moment, was evidently the center of the
general interest.
" Bnt what is it yon know, anyhow,
stranger!" asked one of the group.
"Come, now, among friends."
" Sever yon nund," answered the
man addressed, " I know enough to
shut up John Sawyer a pretty spell, if
not to make him swing, and 1 know how
to tell it when the right time comes,
don't yon be afraid for that. The day's
gettiLg on," he added, abruptly, rising
t and turning toward the window, "and
your duekpond there don't look over
agreeable jffct now. Who's a good boat
man hereabouts ! for, if I'm spilt, I
can't swim."
"Joe Gorton's your man," was the
answer; "he couldn't tip ovei if he
tried, couldn't Joe."
" Why don't yon wait till to-morrow,
stranger, if von're afraid o' the weather I
and (hem eionds over there do look
kinder pes! v," said the landlord of the
Lakeside House, turning a practiced
e J e on the gray mingling outlines of
lake and sky.
"Well, fact is," said the other, " I'm
acquainted over in Mi'ham, and, if it's
all the same to you"—with a wiuk—
"l'd rather be there than here; so, if
you'll hunt npthisjue YYuat's his name.
I'll be obliged ''
The landlord, rest nting the wmk and
the implied insinuation, opened the
door and calhai out, rather sulkily, to
some one in the next room: " Margy,
ran down to the water and tU Joe
there's a passenger here."
In another minnt" the house door
closed, and a tall, slight girl's figure,
with a shaw! over her head, might hav<
been Been bnrryiDg down to the water
aide.
Joe Gorton, busy abont his boat
heard his name called, and, looking up,
saw the girl Margy. The sharp wind
\ had blown out stray locks of her crisp,
black In ir from under the red shawl,
but the h ctic in the cheeks, and the
L 1 feverish brightness in the dilated eyes,
were not ail the wind's work. She came
close to tbo young boatman, who raised
himself up, facing her. •
••Joe." she said, "there's a passen
ger waiting up to the house;" she laid
her hand < n his arm, and glanced can
tiously around before adding, in a whis
per: " Joe, if oaee that man reaches
the other side, it's all np with father."
" What's tliat, Margy ?" said the boat
maD, looking wonderingly at ber.
" I tell you I heard it; he'll bring it
home to him; he says he's come a-pur
pose. It's father's chance clean gone if
you take him across."
"Do you mean I should refuse to
take him. Margy ?" said Joe, slowly.
" What good would that do?" said the
girl, iiujeitiently. " Kelley or some of
'em WODU take him fast enough; what's
father's life against a fare ? No, it's you
must take him, Joe, and theu, if any
thing happens," sinking her voice to a
meaning whisper, "nobody but me and
you's the wiser."
Joe started back.
" Marg, what's that you're thinking T"
"J ctn't help it," cried the girl, pas
sionately, t listing her fingers in the
shawl fringe so that it suapped; "he's
my father, and never was a better but
for the drink —yon know yourself, every
body says so—and, if you could hear
that man up there laughing and boast
ing he'll hang him, Joe, you'd find it
hard to keep your hands off of him; but
I don't a-k you to so much as touch a
finger to h m, only, if the boat turns
over, he can*' swim. I heard him say
so, and then father's saved, and nobody
the vjsir, for tie bent boatman that
ever was might have an accident on a
squally eveniug like this."
" There, there, Margy, be still, poor
girl, 3on don't know wliat you're say
ing,' int riipted Joe.
"Yes I do," she said, passionately;
" never you think that, Joe Gorton. I
tell yon it lays with you to save father
or to kill him; yes, and mr, too, for if
they hang him I'll never live over the
day, and that I swear, so you cboos be
tween as. Hark!" she turned to listen.
" I can't stay." She pressed her hand
hard ou his Bhoulder, looking up pite
ously iu his face. "Joe, if ever you
cared for me, save that poor old man! "
And liefore be oould answer she was
gone, leaving him looking after her like
one in a dream.
The clouds were getting lower and
heavier as the boatman set off with his
passenger.
" Looks as if we should have a spell
of weather," said the latter, glancing
from the leaden sky to the leaden water.
" Hope you're what they cracked you up
to be, for if I got a ducking her# I
fchpnldn't find myself again in a hurry."
•' Well, I'm as good as they average,
■ reckon, mister—l didn't hear your
FIiED. KTJRTZ. Kditor and "Proprietor.
VOLUME IX.
name," said Joe, looking up inquiring
ly.
" Fetor Groom is iuv name, and one I
ain't aahatncd of; it'll bo pretty woll
known in these parts by this day wook,
I'm thinking," ami tho man smiled a
smile not pleasant to aoo.
"How's that I" said Joo, nuiious to
Ivetrav no previous knowledge.
" I* TO come to give evidence iu a trial
that's pooling off in your pouuty town,"
answered Groom, motioning toward the
Mi [ham shore. "I'vo traveled nigh
five hundred miles on purpose to do it,
and I'd travel five hundred more if 'twas
needed."
"Is. it the Sawyer trial von mean I"
asked Joe, carelessly. " People have
heeu saying there ain't evidence enough
to make a case, bnt 1 'spoae there's
eumethiug new turned up t '
" 1 should rather think so; something
that'll make a oaae'll hold John Sawyer
as tight a.* hie ixvffiu."
Joe clinched hie baud on hie oar. He
was beginning to underwtaud Margy's
hatrel for thie man, with hie open exul
tatiou in the rtiiu he wue going to work.
"I'm eorry for the old man," heeaid,
after a panee, " and eo are most folks
about here. Wilson was known for a
bully, and, if Sawyer really uoue it,
'twae that- that sud the drink, for when
he'e himeelf he wronldu't hurt a worm."
" You've no need to tell me what John
Sawyer ia," said the other, ehortly. " I
ktiewr him before yon were txtru, before
even he ame iuto parte."
"Well," said the boatman, " you've
a queer notion of old acquaintance*
sake then, that's all."
"I'll give him a swing for old ac
quaintance' sake, if 1 can," replied
Uroorn, with a scowl.
Joe drew a quick breath.
" Can yon do that f" he asked.
" That or a lifer. I tell you, my man,
I saw it done."
" You saw Sawyer kill Wilson f" ex
claimed Joe, stopping short on his oars.
" I saw him strike the blow that killed
him, and that comes to pretty nigh the
same thing, I take it."
" But how is it you've kept back all
along i"
" Well, it's like this," said Groom,
who appeared to be in a more communi
cative mood than a while before.
" The day of the mnrder—to begin at
the beginning—l happened to lo pass
ing through Mil ham. aud stopped over
a train there to see a man I hail deal
ings with, lie lived a little out of the
town, a lonesome road, part of the way
acros* some fields. I did my busiue*-*,
sod started ba. k again alone, as I had
come. Halt way, or thereabout, 1
heard a k ud of cussing aud quarreling
in tie next field—right close to my ear
it sounded, only I couldn't see anything
for the high hedge. 'What's up I'
thicks I, 'might as w-11 take a peep.'
Twus at uncommon line evening;
moonlight you could almost see to read
by, and 1 knew Sawyer as soon as I set
eyes on him. His face was turned ex
actly to me, and ngly enough it looked
theu. The next minute I saw him strike
out, and the other went down like a
" And you let him lay ?" interrupted
Joe, in excitement. " You uever called
for help, nor nothing ?"
" What for ?" said Groom, carelessly.
" I thought 'twas just a drunken qnar
rel—l knew what Sawyer was—and I
left 'em to settle it between themselves.
I had to look sharp for the next train,
so I hnrried back to the hotel, nnd none
too sexm, either. I never thought agaiu
about the matter, till the other day 1
happened to hear that John Sawyer was
going to be tried for mnrder, and, talk
ing this way and that, I found the time
and the geu'ral circumstances sgreed
with that evening—so, then, 1 knew I
hail seen the ihing done." *
Groom paused a moment, and when
he rammed it was in an attracted tone
"'Twasn't particularly convenient for
me to leave my business just then ; if
it'd been anybody else I'd likely have
left the poor devil to sink or swim, as
might be, but John Sawyer ! I tell
von," he continued, through his set
teeth, as, catching the boatman's eye,
he appeared suddenly conscious of a
listener, "I'd let all I've got go to rack
and ruin for the pleasure of seeing Johu
Sawyer stand there, a disgraced and con
victed man, and saying to him : ' 'Twas
me that did it!"'
There was something in Joe Gorton's
breast on which the fierce words and
manner j arret! painfully. He was no
preacher, this poor, untaught boatman ;
lie did not know how to tell the man be
fore him that his promised revenge WHS
•ruel and cowardly ; bnt yet he felt that,
even setting aside Margy's interests,
there was something in it which roused
ail his instincts of resistance. He shook
his bead as be thonght about it
" That's a feeling I can't make out,"
he said, half aloud.
•' Can't yon?" said Groom, shortly,
supposing the remark to lie addressed
to himself. •* Have yon got a sweet
heart, young man ?" he added, abruptly,
after a short pause.
"A sweetheart?" repeated Joe, start
ing nt the associations connected with
the uurstion, and the man who put it.
" Well, you've no caue to be shy of
owning it," said Groom, who bad no
ticed the movement. " A sweetheart,
when she's the right sort, is what no
man need be ashamed of. I bad one
myself when was your age " —he
stopped a moment—" I don't s'pose
you'd often see her like, I never did.
There was a girl up at that place, that
tavern there, had a kind of look of her
abont the eyre an' forehead, but noth
ing to compare. I had a friend, too—
well, it ain't much of a story," Groom
broke off, with a dry laugh, "and 1
don't hardly know why I tell it at all,
only, maybe, it'll help you make out
what seems to puzzle yon. The long
and short of it is that my friend—mind
that, youngster I my friend cheated me
out of my sweetheart. I ain't much to
look at, I know—never ws ; but I could
care for a reman ju-t as much as if I'd
been six foot high, and fresh as a rose,
and I'd take my oath she cared for me,
too, till he come between ns with a false
tongue enough to turn my girl's bead.
Well, he come off first best; she left me
and went away with him. I Rwore ther,
boy," said Groom, looking darkly in his
listener's earnest face, " that if ever my
day come, I'd bo even with John Sawyer;
1 never thought 'twould, but it hax, and
do you think I'll let my chance slip
now? No, and the man brought down
his fist with a force that shook the boat's
side.
" That was hard lines, sure enough,"
said Joe,4 thoughtfully, "but, Mr.
Groom, you was speaking just now of a
girl up at the tavern, there. She's my
sweetheart, and," added the boatman,
slowly, " she's Sawyer's girl, his only
child."
"No!" exclaimed Groom, evidently
moved by the intelligence. " Hetty s
child," he muttered to himself,
" Hetty's child I"
" Yes," said Joe, eagerly, " don't for
get whose child she is, aud that you'll
mak>> her suffer along with the oi l man."
"Ah," said Groom, "that's all very
well, but I don't forget, neither, whose
child she is on the other side. No I I'm
sorry for the girl, and for you, young
ster, since you've an interest in her, but
I'd have my pay out of John Sawyer,
now, if I was to die for it."
Joe's grasp tightened convulsively ou
his oar. Was the man crazy, thus to
make a boast of the misery he would
cause before one whose advantage and
opportunity it alike was to insure his
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
silence; who had him almost as pom
nletely at Ilia merer hers on this nil
familiar element, as if thev two had tteeu
alone in all the earth ' If he were to
die for it I Kvery plunge of the dark
water seemed to lie repeating those
words. The tioatinaii roused himself
with a start at the sound of his )>awien
ger's voipe.
" You're a oretty feller, ain't you,
now," said the latter, resuming the sub
jeot in a lighter tone, " wanting to per
suade me to cheat justice after that
fashiou I"
"As for that," answered Joe, "you
said yourself if it had l>eeii anybody
but Sawyer you wouldu't have troubled
to huut him dowu, and 1 can't see as
that's auv tetter notion of justice than
mine. "Besides," he added, gravely,
"the old mau's got his death sentence
a'readv, if that's what von want; what
with the drink he ain't the rutin he used
to tie, aud the night of the quarrel he
got a oough that's tearing him all to
pieces; the doctors say he can't live
long, uohow."
" He'll live long enough to make the
acqoaiutauoe of a rope's end, 1 reckon,"
said Groom, with a coarse laugh, "and
that's alt I care about."
The brutal words and maimer mused
the lurking devil in Joe Gorton's heart.
He stammered out a etuvo, nuilirulate
for passion.
"Kh(" said Groom, catching the
sound, but not the words "what's that
yon say ?"
Tho boatman stopped rowing, and
loaned forward till he almost touched
Groom where he sat.
" Just put yourself in the old maun
place for a minute," he begun, with au
effort, speaking quietly! "S'puse there
was somebody'd got the chance and tin
will to get shut o' you, just as you have
of old Sawyer "
" What are you driving at now I" in
terrupted Groom. "There ain't any
body. as 1 know of, has got either- more
luck for me !" he ended, with a laugh.
"Ain't thtref" said the boatman,
slowly. " You talk about justice, Mr.
Groom," he resumed, " but it ain't jos-
U.v you've set oat to do—it's mnrder.
You've got the law on your side, as it
happens, but all the same, as far as yon
are concerned, it's uinrder—as l<ad, for
what I can see, as if sometxidy—it might
be me," said Joe, looking fixedly in the
other's fact* through the growiug dusk,
" somebody with a motive, no matter
■vhat, for wanting to be rid of yon, get
iug yon all alone -as It might be here—
>ut of sight or help, should just put you
jnietly out of the way "
" Hey ! d'ye mau to threaten mo t"
•ried Groom, springing up. Just theu
he breaking gust struck sharp on the
txiat's side, that, lefttober own gunlance,
iiad drifted round ; she gave a lurch and
i bound, that sent Groom, who in start
ug back had lost his l<alonee, overboard
like a shot.
Joe --tared for an instant at the empty
place opjHieite, hardly comprehending
what had happeued so quickly, then,
uddeu its the lightning dattmg through
he sky above him, it iL*hcd into his
niud that here were silence and safety,
tud that throu h uo act of his. Why not
profit by the accideutt Why not, in the
nan's own spirit, in his very words,
" leave him to sink or awiui, as might
bef" But Jiie could uo more be de
rived by his own, than by others'
•ophistru-s ; a voice within him cried:
"If you leave this mail to die, you are
lis murderer !" A great surge of horror
iud remorse* for the thought that bad
leen in his heart t*em< *1 to sweep him
.iwuy, and lefore a second lightning
bolt could tear the clouds, he had thrown
uimself after Groom.
When the two rose together, the tx>at
was nowhere in Might. There was noth
ing now for it bnt to strike oat for the
bore. Lnekiiy, the Milhsrn side w
not now very distant; still, it van a hard
••retch through the numbing water, en
timbered, as he was, with his heavy
-iothing and the weight of Groom, who,
moreover, himself completely helpless,
'ield him with a nervous clutch that half
strangled him. By the time they neared
:he shore, his strength was pretty well
spent, bat the growing lights gave him
heart again ; be rested an instant for the
dual prll, and just then it was that the
gust seized him. unprejwred, and whirl
*nl him away from the inlet he was making
for, to the rock ledge jetting into it,
that canght and battered him |x>r Joe.
lie was conscious when they took him
up, but there was a look in his face that
foretold the end, even lx-fore the doc
tore did. As for Groom, he had Is-en
shielded by Joe's body, and, tough and
wiry as he was, was scarcely the worse
for the whole adventure. Whan he
heard what thev were saying n'oout Joe,
he burst out with an onth, and hurried
to where he lay.
" Well, Gorton, and how is it with
yon?" he said, affecting to speak cheer
fully, though struck at once by that look
of death in the face.
" About as bad as it can be, Mr.
Groom," answered Joe, feebly. "The
old Ixiat and I 11 go down together, 1
reckon."
" Now, never yon talk that stuff, my
man," sai I Groom, in almost a bluster
ing way, ptrhaps to conceal a certain
unsteadiness of voice; "I own you a
life, and I ain't one to rest till I've paid
it, if it tikes all the doctors from here
to Jericho. I've got means, I tell ye."
"No use, Mr. Groom," said Joe,
"there ain't no doctor could patch up
what's smashed inside of me. But look
here," and he instinctively lowered his
voice, with a glance at the attendant,
though there was little fear of thai
broken whisper reaching any ears hut
those close to it, "it's what I wanted to
speak to you about—you owe me a life,
yon say; mine ain't yours to give—but
old Bawyer's is"—
Groom's face darkened. "I swenr I'd
almost rather you aked for my own,"
he muttered
"But you'll promise, Mr. Groom!"
said Joe, in his eagerness managing to
half raise himself, "you'll promisef"
"Well—l s'j>ose I ain't got no choice,"
answered Oroom,still reluctantly; "yes,
I do promise, tlnro's my hand on it."
A glearu of intense delight for a mo
ment almost drove the death look from
Joe's face. "It's all right, Margy," he
whispered, softly, to himself, and laid
bis bead back aguin.
When John Sawyer hail lieen dis
charged for wuut of evidence, when the
Ijka Village gossips, wondering over
the stranger's disappearance, concluded
that his boasts had been mere idle talk
to mnke a sensation, Margy could have
told them better. She knew how it was
Joe died, she knew that a life had been
paid for her father's; aud in a heart
softened by pain she acknowledged that
her prayer had been answered in God'B
own way.
A Clerics! lilt.
Ministers will have their little jokes
like other people.
" Come over and preach for me to
night," said a Chicago divine to a
clerical friend whom he met ou the
street, not many days sinoe.
"I-can't to-night," was the reply,
" I'm almost down Biok with a head
ache."
" Well," drolly observed the other,
" I guess you can do it, for if you preach
as you fisnally do, you won't have to use
your head any!"
They they both laughed, and pinched
each other in the ribs, and said it was a
good one, just as heartily as though
they had been tha worst kind of sinners
all their lives.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY.
A Yellow Feter Ntory.
There was a curious incident in the
(rellow fever panic at Navamiah which
iss not attracted as much attention as it
deserves. The hero of the mournful rtii
aode was a young drug clerk. When the
fever broke out at Havaiinah the whole
force iu the drug store where he was al
work deserted the post of danger and
left the city. Hia rrieuds, who lived in
Augusta, sent word to him to oouie
home, hut he refused, and remained on
duty uuUl tbe proprietor of the store or
dered him to doee it. lie then went to
another drug store iu Havauuah and
worked laboriously as prescription
clerk. He was kept so busily engaged
that he had little time for his meals, no
chauce to chauge his clothes and no op
portunity for rest or amusement. His
employer took the fever and died, al
though the boy minted him faithfully.
The (took took it, and he attended to
her also and she recovered. A youug
comrade was then taken ill and the stead
fast druggist nursed him and performed
hia duties in the store night and day.
His friend regaiued hia health slowly,
aud then the clerk was himself seized
with the fever, but as he wan Mtroug and
cheerful he sent word to his relatives
that he had no fears. It wan then his
companion's turn to show the kind of
stuff of which he was made; and the
material turued out to be pure gold. He
nursed his friend from day to day, keep
tug up constant couiuiuuioaUou with his
uome by telegraph as long as the tele
graph messengers could le persuaded to
venture into the infected jiart of the
town. His 1 M dispatches were : " 1
will stick to him to the last," and " 1
shall not sleep to night." Both of tbe
youug meu (bed that ui^ht.
We are not much addicted to what is
known in the newspaper profession as
gush, and have no desire to turn a com
monplaoe matter into heroism by a few
gorgeous phrases glittering m tlw* light
of an overheated imagination; but we
are inclined to think that some honor is
due to the memory of these two youug
fellows, and should be frankly paid.
They found themselves iu the heart of a
city afflicted with the plague, a place in
which even brave men often quail and
from which seltla). ones always shrink.
They were iu no aen-e be/or* the public
eye, and whatever they did was done
through loyalty to their own impulses,
not iu the Loi>e of reputation or reward.
They had that kind of duty te perform
which is the hardest that can lie put
upon man. It was ugly, wearing, disa
greeable and dangerous. The self-sac
riflce required WHS not sudden and
startling enough to win glory, but it
was of that moderate, continuous and
exhausting kind which only rare ]>a
tieuce can stand. If these young Geor
giaus had fallen side by aide in a battle
tield iu the endeavor to sustain their
tlag or rescue each other, no one would
liave wondered at their death; but to
tlud them wearing out their health 111
uurwiug the sick, and faithful to each
other through weary vigils, is s sweet
surprise. At a time when the national
character ha* suffered a great deal
abroad through the misconduct of offl
eials through whom we are luaiulv
known u> other peoples, and the Amen
cm is pictured as a ham, angular, super
ficial, unscrupulous reraouage, occur
rences li'.e this at Savannah should
bring us reassurance aud comfort. It iH
only one incident out of many from day
to day suggesting rare powers and pro
penalties for good. Every skirmish on
the plains, the overturning of a pleasure
yacht, or the rescue of a shipwrecked
crew, is su r e to bring some hint of a ca
pability for heroism which seems to In
in Americxn heritage. Few readers
will fail to respond to the words of the
correspondent who has told in a private
letter the facts which we have just re
(tested: ' Tbev were lirave boys, were
they not I Does it make any difference
which side or which flag such souls
fought for twelve years ago f Can't you
roach out and shake hands over any dis
lance t"— World.
A hia l -* maker's Kate.
T LIP it* at an artificer in Itom who
made of gUs* of FO tenacious a
temjH'r that they were ait little liable to
if broken as tbuM that are made of g<>hl
and silver. When, therefore, he hiul
made a vial of the pnrer sort, and such
. s he thought a present worthy of Ow
alone, he was adimtte.i iuto thepresence
of the then Emperor Tiberius. The gift
was praised, the skillful hand of the ar
list applaudetl, and ttie donation of the
giver accepted. The artist, that he might
enhance the wonder of the spectators and
promote himself yet further in the favor
of tho emperor, desired the vial out of
Cantor's hand and threw it with (inch
force against the floor that the most
solid mt tul would have received some
damage or bruise thereby. Camr was
not only amazed, but affrighted with the
net; bni the artist, taking np n vial from
the ground (which was not broken, but
only bruised together, as if the substance
of the glass hail put ou tho temper of
brass), drew out an instrument from his
bosom aud lieat it out to its former tig
ore. This done, he imagined that he
had conquered the world, as lieliviug
that he had merited an aeqnaintauoe
with Csßsar, and raised the admiration
of all the beholders, but it fill ont other
wise, for the emperor inquired if any
other person besides himself was privy to
the bke tempi ring ot glass. When ho
told him ••No" he commanded his at
tendants to strike off his head, saying :
"That shonld this artifice oome once to
lie known, gold and silver would lie as
of little valne a the dirt in the street."
Long after this, in 1810, we read that,
among other rare presents then sent
from the Bopby of Persia to the king of
Spain, were si* mirrors of malleable
glass, so exquisitely temjierivl that they
could not bo broken.
The Hood that Comes to L*.
Much of the good that mmes to us
through life is far removed from any of
our plans or intention*. If we watch
a child at piny wo shall see that his con
tinual pleasures take him unawares. Gne
by one they meet him titiexpeetoJlv in
simple yet ever changing forms. When
he grows older and plnushis enjoyments
how seldom does he realize his anticipa
tions ! Happiness elude* his anarch and
defies hiR scnames, but comes in ways
untbought of. It escapes from the am
bitious schemer, who thought liis grasp
upou it wa* firm, and dwells with the
simple and loving hearts under the cot
tage roof, who court it not. It flies
from the banquet table, spread to en
snare it. and itesocuds upon the frugal
lioard, where health and peace and love
preside. Complicated plans to secure
wealth and power, fame aud position,
may he successfully carried out without
bringing halt the enjoyment which comes
nnoalled to those who live simply, pure
ly, trustfully and self-donyiugly from
day te day, making no claim, hut receiv
ing gratefully whatever blessings de
scends u]M>n them.
We would by no means undervalue a
grand life purpose, or throw tho least
shade of disrespect upon careful and
well laid plans of action. They are in
valuable, if we use them ns instruments,
keeping them uuder a wise control and
modifying them as occasion may re
quire. They are only detrimental when
we worship them, become absorbed in
them, are bound down by them, and
8' ek good in no other directum. Like
fire and water, onr plans make excellent
servants but very bad masters.
A Story, with a Moral.
A gentleman of middle *f , who had
always been a (armor, had cleared u|>
and improved one of the liest farma in
Maine, erected in'* autl convenient
building*, reared a family, and wan u
joying the blessings with which ho wan
nurrouudod, lieoaiue possessed with tbo
idea of selling hia farm.
Friouda told him bo could livo no
much oanior to go into the village, where
ho could have a men bouse, a garden,
keep a cow, and, if ho abode, a borne,
and livo tiko a gentleman on the intereat
of hia money, that ho advortined hia
farm for Halo. 110 found no want of
purchaser*, and the farm wait noon ilia
posed of for a handnomo num. Thou
the a took, forming tools, etc., wore Hold,
aud the place that he had wrought with
hia own hands, the buildings ho had
I built for his own oobvouieuoo, and, ac
cording to his own notions, the spot
where he had raised his family, aud
around which clustered so many assorts
tionn, panned into the hands of stran
gers. Vor a time the gentleman did not
locate, as he desired to lock round, Hud
a place to suit him, and see whore ho
could ho happy for the remainder of his
days. At last be found a place that
suited him, purchased it, and settled
down to life again. Hut things did not
go right, 110 missed his old farm and
house, the silent but delightful com|any
of his cattle, sheep, and other domestic
annuals, the scenes where he ha t pass
ed so many happy yean, and the society
of his old neighbors, tried aud true,
110 grew discontented, and was well
nigh sick. His wife and daughters,
also, were not pleased with their new
home; it was half a mile from town,
with a little land, and was what many
would have called a desirable place.
Having remained long enough in his
new place—he could not he said to have
lived at all—to Iwome satisfied he
should never lie contested, he resolved
to have the old farm back again. He
went to the man who owned it, paid him
five hundred dollars more than what he
got, took iHWHaHaiuu again of his fa
miliar tlelds and groves, and, having
learned a wholesome lesson from his
traiiHHTtiou, is now at work again U|MJU
his old farm, a happier, wiser and bet
ter oonteuted, if not a richer man.
Its moral to farmers and < .tiers is,
that when they get discontented snd sell
out, they should be sure they are able to
buy laek their old homes and business,
when they find they have not bettered
themselves by the change.
A brand Pot latch.
There was a mighty gathering of In
dian* tit Saanich, savs a letter from
l?rit;*h Columbia. I'pwaru of 3,000
redskins, iu 273 canoes, wore present.
The occasion of the assemblage was a
grand pot latch of over $15,000 worth of
good* beiug given away. English
blankets to the value of $5,000 were
tbroan from tbe top of tbe lodges to be
scrambled for by the natives lielow, who
stood armed wub long poles, stuck full
of nails at one end, to secure the prize
us soon as it fell. I', addition to these,
*oni" cnrioUH " j-r ivrro," made by the
natives themselves from the wool of the
mountain sheep, were also thrown.
Three hundred gnu*. uuiongM whieh
were some very tine doubled barreled
piece* with prrraMk'n locks, were then
throwu down, and caustnl a series of
tremendous struggles, which la*td in
sonic cases for marly an hour. Pieces
of ihwrd representing sums ranging from
SIOO to $&00 were then scrambled for
after the same fashion. Three brothers
gave 3.500 blankets as their contribu
tion, winch had all been j<aid for by the
products of the CIIHHC. The stuck of
gift - b> it g exhausted tbe natives all got
into their canoes and lelt, thus ending
one of t'.e large*! meetings of the kind
which has taken place for many yiwrtf,
aud probably the I**l of any magnitude
which will occur, as the rising genera
tion of Indians se m to care little about
pcr|)ctuatiug the customs of their fore
father*. aud tins, as well as many other
ancient practices, will soon be numlx-tcd
among the things of Uie past. Alt was
conducted soberly, and tbe Indian
superintendent, Colonel Powell, and
Police Superintendent Todd, who were
present, were l*>lh struck with the ab
sence of any sign of intoxication.
\ Horrible Death.
Home weeks sgo Alexander So>tt, a
farmer living near Cherry 'ltll, Mary
land, iudnlged iu an exchaugc of
horses. The horse he secured was a
flue looking animal, but at the time was
suffering from disease of the bead. Mr.
Boott believed it to lie •' distemper,"
aud did not object to running the risk.
A few weeks ago Mr. Hcott'sband ttegun
to inflame from a slight wound on the
back of it, and Viecauie iu a few dny* a
very ugly nicer, causing him a great
deal of pain. He became sick of fever,
and a physician was called in. He found
the patient suffering from fever, but de
tected nothing different from an ordi
nary case of intermittent fever, and pre
scribed the usual remedies. Tin- physi
cian hiving occasion to 1 ave home, and
the fever not almting. another doctor
was asked to attend Mr. Scott. At the
flret visit he prescribed for intermittent
fever, having first inquired about the
sore hand, and IN ing told that it had
nearly beahsl. The next day, however,
he found Mr. Hoott suffering with a rug
ing fever, and covered with "button
fnrey." The disease was unmistakably
"glanders," and had been cotumum
aitcd fro::, the ghuidered horse through
the break in the skin of the hand. Mr.
Hcott suffered the most fearful agony
and delirium throughout two days, when
death ensued. Oases of persous suffer
ing from " glanders " are very rare, but
iHVur often enough to remind horsemen
that the proper way to deal with a horse
suffering from this fatal disease is to
have him killed at once. A horse may
have "chronic glanders" and live a
long time, keep fat, and work without
difficulty, yet innocnlate man aud l>eat
with the deadly virus that is slowly sap
ping his existence.
Not Contagion*.
The following incident in mentioned
in an exchange in proof that the yellow
fever i not contagions in the sense in
which Hmallpox or scarlet fever is, and
that, unless a place is in a condition
favorable to the spread of tho disease,
there >s no special danger that the
pranenco of a patient who has contracted
the fover elsewhere would cause a well
person in contact with him to take it:
About twenty years ngo the yellow fever
desolated Norfolk, Virginia. For a time
the alarm in tho country round about
was very great, and every village and
neighborhood instituted a fort of quar
antine, which shnt tho poor Norfolk
people closely in their stricken city.
Ilenry A. Wise alone of all the people
in the neighborhood retained at once
his courage and hia humanity. Seeing
how sore the neod was of a refuge
withont the walls of the city, he invited
the sufferers, sick and well, to come to
his plantation in Acoomac connty, just
across the strait from the city ; and do
fying the threatened violence of a
ft ightaued mob, he brought them tlioro
in considerable numbers, and not a
particle of harm came of it; not a siugla
person who bad not been exposed
to the infected air of the city took tho
disease. If this fact is correctly re
ported, there is something in it deserv
ing the oarefnl investigation of thought
fnl physicians.
NOVEMBER 9, IH7H.
A Bar Incident.
At the I tattle of Gettysburg, while
commanding a company iu the Eighty
second Ohio regiuieiit, July 1, an ufflocr,
Ca| it. lev, Was wounded and left for
dead U| H in the fleld at utghl by his re
treating comrades. One of Julial
Early's aids carried httu off the fluid,
with other wounded, and deiK>sttod them
in an oluicure farmhouse, whence he had
no uieaun of communication with his
regiment or friends. The news of his
death reached hi home iu Ohio. ills
obituary was published, and I'rof. Mo
Oat>e had prepared an eulogy upon him,
to be delivered July 11, the Mttuday of
commencement week, iu connection with
other exnrciacs appointed, fur the day.
An immense crowd weie gathered iu the
church. After the opening of the ex
ercises, Capt. Lee, pale as a ghost, hob
hied in on crutches and took a quiet
Heat among the worshipers. He had
been lelt behind by his oapjors, aud,
not knowing himself reported dead, he
had come quickly home to l>rlaware to
recover, reaching there unannounced
late ou Saturday night. Those were
days of intense dramatic experience,
days of death in life, and life in the
midst of death, and though every, heart
of those who knew him leaped for jojr
at seeing him, the decorum of (Jod's
house was preserved. The meeting
was turned into a missionary anniver
sary. liev. Dr. Harris, the then mis
Blouary secretary, but now a bishop of
hut church, presided. When donations
to the missionary fund were in order,
this young soldier, s |<>or man, pale aud
falteringly, rose on his crutches, and
said, briefly : " In token of gratitude to
God for having spared my life upon the
fleld at Gettysburg, put me down for j
$100."
Hotel ltllls.
Were you ever in tichwalbach t This
is the bill with which s party of four aud
one half—viz.: three ladies, one gentle
man, and a servant—had to j>ay at the
Deutachan Kaiser Hotel in that place in
July last :
IV apartment*
Four txxlriKima ami a anting-room, dvt
day®, tou franca SO
fo breakfast—
Four pataona, 1 25 franca each, fire daya. >5
Tu dinner
Fuur jKsreone. three franca each. Ave day*. 60
To eln five bi tl.ee Ilocbbe.lner IS
To tea four petaona, LK each, fle daya *5
To servant a bard and roots. Ave daya 25
Total . 'JUS
Call one dollar Ave franca >4O
Were you ever in Saratoga r This is
the bill which s party of four—viz.: two
gentlemen, one lady, and two servants
—had to |>ay at a hotel there in Auguet
last:
To board >4O per day, fire dava fiOO
(Three bedrtxima and one small aiding -
room . servant* noma )
1 o meal* in room 10 j
To bathe 1
Total * 21S
In accordance with a custom at hotels,
a servant l* reckoned as half a quest— two
S4 rvarils count for one. Now at Sohwal
l>fu h each guest had to pay bee thau two
dollar* a day, while Saratoga mulcted
them iu the *um of ten dollar* apiece
aud over. What is the reason, a*kn the
New York Titnm, for this difference lie
tuern the cost of living at the American
and German watering places i
It Uidn't Suit.
A Detroit boy, after finishing the la*t
chapter of a Inxik called " The Plea*
lire* of the Deep," pleaded with his
father to let bun ship aboard a lake
schooner. The old mau smiled a grim
smile, took the case under considers
Hon, and in a few days the boy was ou
the rolling deep, having shipped its a
greenhorn on vessel in the lumber
trade. He Nailed to Haginaw, came
dowu and crossed to Toledo, aud next
day be appeared iu Detroit, Lame and
stiff, hia throat sore, one eye nearly shut
and a feeling of humbleness miming all
through blm.
•' What! lutrk again I" erid the old
man. as the Itoy entered the house.
'*Yea, father. I want to saw I*ll the
wood for winter, bring in all the coal,
clean out the cellar aud patut the bora"
and you needn't give me but two meals a
day.
" Don't you like sailingf"
"Father, you don't begin to realize
anything alniut it. The captain sailed
right along ou Sunday, the same as any
other day. and I believe be swore even
harder. He wouldn't give me an um
brills when it rained, he made me sit
up most all night, aud two or three times
he oalled me up at midnight and made
me haul on rojiea and drag old sails
around. There wasn't a single nqjbt
when all of us got off to bod at nine
o'clock, and there wasn't a day that he
didn't bos* ns around aud break in on
ns every time we got to readiug any
thing good 1 I like land, father, and I
wish yon owned a farm I"
A City of lnuranee.
By the last official report ij appears
that 212,467 people hifve their lives in
sured in the insurance companies of
Hartford, Conn. If each of these repre
sents a family of Ave, then more than a
million people are looking to the city as
their refuge in the time which the in
surance agent, himself s Hartford pro
duct, can so jmthotically deecribc as cer
tain to le, for the uninsured, of acute
financial as well as domestic distress.
These lives are iusnred for $450,000,000
altogether, and the property insured in
the Are companies of the Name city is
$645,646,000 more, so that the total i isk
which Hartford carries is in round nnm
bora $1,100,000,000. The Chicago fire
wiped out six of the large number of
fire insurance companies in the city, and
took $10,000,000 of property away from
the place.
A singular freak of fate, says a writer
iu Srribnrr for November, made the
loss seem even a bit worse than if it had
eome on any other date. In Hartford
insurance stock is taxed at its market
valnr, and tbo tax lists sre sworu to,
October first each year. The fire came
on the uiuth of the month, and so the
holders f the worthless or fallen stocks
had for that yoar to pay toxc* ou tbe
highest valuations the stocks had ever
known. If the flie had oecuxml ten
days earlier, the difference in favor of
the individual losers would have been
very considerable.
love and Devotion.
Sandy Melville endeavored to swindle
an old man in Omaha by selling lnni
spurious gold coins in exchange for
greenbacks. After his arrest he at
tempted to escape from the officers and
was dangerously wounded. A lovely
maid haunted the corridors of the jail
until the sheriff took pity on her and
permitted her to enter the prisoner's
coll and dress his wonnds. She nursed
him and gave him brandy and water and
piloted him out of the valley of the
shadow. When she had restored him
to health the courts took him in hand
and sentenced him to five years' im
prisonment in the lowa penitentiary.
Affecting spectacle ; justice of the pmoe
called in ; marriage ceremony in the jail i
witnessed by all the prisoners ; bride
groom carried off to chew tobacco in the
penitentiary ; bride returns to her hum
ble home to take iu washing and to wait;
beantifnl essay in local paper on
woman's devotion, with appropriate
references to Diana and Mother Eve.
TERMS: 02.00 a Yoar, in Advance.
strange hounds At Night.
Every one has noticed how many
singular nouuda are heard at night
noises apparently iinexplaiuablc, aud
consequently mysterious. Many
ghoat tory has sprang up from an on
aeuountabie noiae; many ■ person terri
fied beyond measure by an uucfpeeked
otind at midnight. Hir David Brew
liter gives ail excellent account of a
mysterious night sound which would
have frightened many jteraoua, but
which proved Innocently harmless when
tested by a steady observer. A gentle
man heard a strange sound every night
noon after getting into bed; hia wife
, heard it also, but not at the time when
h retired, a little earlier than be. No
probable cause could be assigned, and
the effect upon the imagination became
rather unpleasant. He found some time
afterward that the sound came from a
ward rota* which stood near the bead of
Ilia bed. He almost always opened and
closed this wardrobe when uudreaaing;
but an the door was a little tight be
could not qnite close it Tbe door, pos
sibly affected by gradual changes of
temperature, forced lUwlf open with a
Mort of dull sound which wan over in an
instant. From the lady not being in
the habit of using that wardrobe, the
mystery became associated with her
husband only. Had they given way to
imagination, and never investigated the
affair, another haunted house would
have been added to tbe long row already
standing.
The Cruder Fight.
Little Buck Elk has stated to ludian i
Commissioner Mitchell that he was in
the fight in which Gen. Caster and all
his mefi were slaughtered, and that
eleven different tribes were engaged in
the fight. He said that the Indians
were as thick as bees at the fight, and
that there were so many of them that
they could not all take part ; that the
soldiers were all brave men and fought
well ; that some of them, when they
found themselves surrounded and over-,
powered, broke through the lines and
tried to make their escape, but were
pursued and killed, miles from the battle
ground. One soldier, who had a faster
horse than the rest, made his eaoape
into the Bad Lauds, and after he had
rideu seven or eight miles accidentally
ran into a war party of Indiana and was
killed by them. This soldier rode a
big home with flaxen mane, and had a
government saddle and gray saddle
blanket, but it was not known whether
he was an officer or not. He aiao said
that they captured six battle flags, and
that no soldiers were taken alive, bat
after the fight tbe women went among
the dead bodies and ribbed and mutila
ted them. There were plenty of watches
and mouey taken from them which the
youug warriors are now wearing in their
shirts and belts.
Another Indian Fight.
News from Fort F©Herman states that
a haying party of twelve men and seven
ox te,. - were attacked by a band of
twenty or thirty Indians, twenty-five
miles from that post. John Ottena,
wagon master, was badly wounded and
<ur horse was killed. It appears that
two of the party were out hauling about
eight o'clock, aud, hearing an Indian
war song, hastened to the train, which
was immediately prepared for defense.
Four of the men start, . 1 to find the sav
ages, which they did, and mad© a lively
retreat, hotly pursued by them to with
in fifty yards of the train, when the re
maining eight men M-I a volley into the
Indiana, who n-treated to the shelter of
the bluffs, and commenced firing upon
the train, which, bring at a disadvantage,
wns compelled to move two hundred
rard*. The fight lasted nearly four
Lours. The number of Indians killed is
unknown, but two were seen to fall.
Mr. Powell, a contractor, * tales that the
Indian* allowed great courage, and were
strongly armed with Winoheater and
army rifle*. The telegraph line IxHween
Fort FeUerman aud Cheyenne being cat
sbont the time of tbe figLt, it i* thought
that it was the work of the same band.
Ottens is doing well, bnt undoubtedly
will lose his right arm.
Just Like Her.
The Pall Mall (Msrtlr reads modern
wive* a lecture on the duty of finding
sureties for their husbands. A woman
who was an lutuatc of the workhouse of
tit. George'n-iu-the-East applied for per
mission to leave that establishment fora
day or two. Her husband, who was in
receipt of a pension of £33 per annum,
had tieen sentenced to fonr months' im
prisonment, and to find sureties for a
further period of two months for a say
age assault upon herself. During hia
imprisonment she and her child had be
come chargeable to the pariah, and the
guardians had attached tbe pension, no
as to pay for the maintenance of the
wife and child during their stay in the
workhouse. Tbe term of the erring
husband's imprisonment having nearly
expired, ho had written a most affection
at*' letter liegging his wife to find the
necessary sureties for him. Her appli
cation wa* granted by the guardians, and
the woman was given permission to start
on her singular errand of endeavoring
to persuade some confiding person or
persons to guarantee that for two whole
months her linslianO would refrain from
any further attempt to fracture her skull
or"sma*b her ribs.
I .©gal Begging aud Stealing.
To beg tobacco and steal umbrellas is
strictly,legal, for it has liecome a law by
ou*tom," the practice of which has been
indulged in "time out of mind, whereof
the memory of man runneth not to the
contrary."
1 f by chance one loses possession of
an umbrella only for the abort space of
live minutes on a stormy day, when such
things are most required, the chance©
are that it will go into the hands of a
stranger and will never be seen again by
the rightful owner. But an nmbrella
stolen is not so great a crime or an act
of such unparalleled meanness us to
have an habitual tobacco beggar solicit
in a biuud manner a " chew;" and when
you hand him your box to have him
take all that there is in it, put what he
can in his mouth aud the rest in his vest
pocket, then coolly remark that you
ki'ep a poor stock and advise yoti to go
and purchase a new supply.
Both of these disreputable acts are of
frequcut occurrence, bnt the potty lar
ceny in umbrellas is not so frequent as
the oonrtdenoe dialge iu tobucco. The
surest remedy to ©ffeetnally abate this
nuisance is to attach your nmbrella to
your side as some of the ladies do their
fans, aud when yon are solicited by
well knowu tobacco lieggars hand them
five cents.
Let Me See Him.
Wheu Louie XV. was passing through
a town in the north of France, hie re
ooption being of the most enthusiastic,
an old woman was suddenly seen to dart
through the ranks of the military escort,
crying: "Let me see him! Let me
see him I"
The king stopped his carriage, ad
dressed a few kind words to her, then
continued his progress.
Then tbe old woman flung her hands
into the air, aud, with all the rapture of
pions Simeon, cried:
" Thank Heaven ! 1 have seen him I
And now I dou't care how soon—he
dies!"
NUMBER 45.
A Jew Plague in Egypt.
A letter from Alexandria aaya : A new
calamity now engagea the attention of
all Egyptian* even more than the finan
cial decreets of the kbedive or the re
fuaal of the goTerumeat to accept the
judgment* of the new court*. It seem*
that many of the cavalry horaea that
hare returned from Abyaausia in the teat
two months came with a moot malignant
disease upon tbem. The doctor* pro
tioonoe it a kind of typhoid fever. It is
must infectious and terribly rapid in its
progress, death rtwulting in many eaae*
in a few hours. It to stated, and on
good authority, that the government, in
stead of isolating the infected animals,
sold them all at very low prices to the
feUahtm. Thus they have been di*
tributed throughout the country, and in
the neighborhood of Getro alone several
hundred horaea are already reported
dead. A well informed correspondent
thus describes in the W<a the effect of
this epidemic in one of the bustett die
triete : "It ia ravaging now among the
horse*, mutes and donkey* of our die
triet moat furiously, and many village*
are named where not one bonus baa es
caped the disease. It us to be fasted
that this calamity will interfere very
disagreeably with our work, aa the oart
men will be short of hones, and the
donkey* to carry aeed and cotton to the
station* will be wry scarce. The gov
ernment ia alone to blame that the dto
naee haa spread ao quickly over the
country, wiling everywhere [or a napo
leon or a pound the aick cavalry borne*
returned rom Abyssinia, instead of iso
lating them."
Kitting oa a I'orruploe.
The Sacramento (0*1.) Union haa the
following incident: A travels* by one
of the railroad trains brought to the
city a porcupine of large aiae, caged in
a roomy box, with pieeea of board
placed senna the top at interval* of
about an inch and a half, in order that j
the animal might have aa much air aa
> |toasubte. Hie owner aat the box down
near the ticket office white attetuung
some other matter, and it attracted little
attention. By-and bye a young man,
who had got bred of standing up, seeing f
what appeared to be an empty fruit box
hsmdy, de|K*ited himself upon it with a
sigh of relief. A bystander who under
■stood the " Mtuation," stepped up quiet
ly and with hi* cane begun punching
the porcupine. It waa but a few sec
onds before the animal became " fret
ful," as it were, and be got hi* "back
up. " The reader may at some time
have admired the alacrity with which an
individual haa ariassn from a chair out of
deference to a bent pin which had some
how got there before him, but on this
occasion the man shot np aa though he
had wit down upon a full paper of bent
pin*, all hot at that.
A Dure of Death.
The Hon. Evelyn Ashley, step-grand
son, biographer, and formerly private
secretary of Lord Palmerston, writes to
* London paper to explain, by means of
* private letter be haa received from a
very authentic source, the meaning of
Mr. Baring's denial of the statement
that forty Bulgarian girls were burned.
The statement was founded on a misun
derstanding of a colloquial Turkish
phrase. To born is yakmak, a verb con
stantly need in the sense also of rain.
Thus s debtor will say: "Do yon wish
to burn me f" meaning to ruin me. The
truth as to these girls is that they woe
carried off, and have never been beard
of since. Mr. Ashley's correspondent,
s consul, farther tells him that after two
hundred men had been mnrdered in a
certain village, the Turks found some
more in hiding places, and told them
that if they would danoe one of their na
tiona! dance* they would let them off.
Bo the poor fellows begun to danoe. It
was a danoe of death. The ruffians shot
them down while at it.
San Francisco Millionaires.
II seem* to be a penchant among the
millionaires of Han Francisoo to squan
der their money on hotels and opera
boose*. Senator Sharon has a aeven
storv palace hotel, on which be is losing
about SI,OOO * day; Senator Jones runs
a newspaper and a Roman bath estab
lishment; K. J. Baldwin, another mil
lionaire, has built an opera bouse and
hotel at a oost of $2,600,000. John St
one, another millionaire stock broker,
has given Strakosch a $30,000 lot of
ground, upon which ho promises to
build an "Betalian opera boom;" and
Jasper McDonald, a leading bear, has
inst taken poasaiwion of one of San
Francisco's leading theater* for moneys
advanced. It would seem as if her mil
lionaire brokers intended having a
monopoly of all the luxuries sf life.
Elbow hrrase.
"Awful Gardiner" was once a wall
known pugilist and sporting character in
New York. On one occasion he went to
Newark with a " select party " to give
a sparring exhibition. The man who
had oharge of the hall where the show
was to take place was of gigantic stature,
and one of the party wagered a bottle of
wine that " Awful Gardner " could not
knock the fellow down with his fist
They all waited in the hall for the com
ing of the janitor with lights. He ap
proached with s candle shaded in his
Lands, and as bt came within arm's
roach the "Awful " measured him and
atruck square from the shoulder. The
mau hardly winked. He simply turned
his head round toward the pugilist and
said : " Gentlemen, please be a little
careful of your elbowK "
11 ts Epicurean Taste.
"hpeaking of epicures," lately re
marked a young Chicago society swell,
" I'ye got a brother who ia the greatest
epicure I ever saw."
" Indeed," chorused the circle about
him.
••Yea," continued the swell, " why,
be eats everything in the line of victuals
he own lay his hands on—he doesn't care
whst!"
Then when everybody got up and
rolled around and laughed, that young
swell got mad, and wanted to know if
any one supposed that ho " didn't know
what un ' epicure' was I"
WihD P*ACm.—The editor of the
Wallapai Enterprise, published at Min
eral Park, ArL, has been presented with
a box of wild peaches, and says of them:
These peaches, though wild, are equal
in flavor to any we have ever eaten, and
some of them measured as much as nine
inches in circumference. The trees
upon which they grow were discovered
some twelve or thirteen years ago by
the first whites in this section of the
conntry, and at the time of the discoverer
the main tree looked to be as old as it
does to-day. The fruit, in appearance,
resembles "the fin est Jersey peaches.
A NoTaßim OiiOCK. —In the Kansas
building, on the Oent innial grounds, is
a clock whose peculiar excellence is that
it requires winding but once in a hun
dred years. It is said to keep the most
accurate time, telling the month of the
year, the day of the month, the day of
the week, and the time of the day; and
yot the inventor claims that it does all
this with much less power than is re
quired with any other dock escapement
ever invented. Who would like a cen
tury clock ?
Sight Heat.
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Sees a* late
Ton, ton, me/ aoai, afaall OM day Sod r°m* RAAL
ItMU of laterart.
If i clergyman to la doubt vtal la
preach about, ha should praaah about
tan minutes.
A' California Indian want away from
boma with the aTO wad intention of cat
ting a now wifo. Hto old wifa thereupon
kilted beraalf and four children.
A Wiaoonain editor baring a i lilac el
a daoaaaad gentleman that "totikaaaa
■ had impaired hto health," a rirml re
joined: •• Tea; it often haa thai offset."
"Ho, all ye dyapeptiea I" ana a
patent medletno advertisement If all
tb dyapeptiea would only boa regularly
their number would be radnoad amaa
. ingly.
On the English ohannel, where the
royage prodnoea the nanal effect. An
ncooomieal tody ertoa: " What a pity 1
A braakfaet that they charged ao much
for, too."
It to humiliating to a young man who
haa been ainging hto aweetoet aonga in
front of a bowse to be told by it police
man tw the family bare been aheant
for a week.
" I wiah TOO would piy a little attea
tion to what I am aaying, tor," roared a
lawyer at an exasperating witness. " I
am paying aa little aa I can," waa the
calm reply.
The following notiea to panted eao
apicuoualy in a Hootch offloa: " Shut
the dour, and when yon hare done talk
ing on buainaae, aerre your mouth the
name way."
Every year a Georgia farmer cultivates
a diet!net piece of cotton, which ha aalto
hto " preacher patch. baaaoaa the
araila of the crop go to the eupport of
hto minister.
A trained home in an English arena
attacked the man who WM conducting
its performance, shaking bin aa a oat
would a mouse and than throwing him
out of the nag.
According *° • wwll knows physician,
" U w dangerous to go into the water
after a hearty meaL" And it would ba
a vary flaky one a mas would gat if ba
did go is after oata.
Three boy* in London were aantaaaadf
to three day*' imprison mrnt and to re
oat re seven stripes each with a birch rod
for baring thrown atooaa at train# on
the Midland railway.
On September 16. the sixty-ninth
annireraery of Mexican independence,
the corner atone for the bronaa statue
of Joarer waa laid. Bignor Oagbardo,
a Ban Franciaoo aeolptor. won the prim
for the beat model.
M. Bebrill, a French architect, ob
viate* the danger arising from damp
nam in brick boildinga by injecting
brick*, tries and other eartheo material
with the terry reaidne from the menu
f act ore of illnminatin g gaa.
The Louisville Qmher-Jomrmal my*.
Mr*. Bally Beers, of Clinton eonnty,
Mich., work* a farm of one hundred
acrea and ha* nine children. If there
were a few thooaand anch parsons in the
world aa Bally, more of n might eaaspe
work.
Fifty thooaand elephant* are killed
every year to furnish the ieory worked
np in England alone. The bam ivory
comae from Zanxibar, the silver gray
from region* sooth of the equator, and
the favorite ornamental material bom
Biam.
A Binghampton (N. Y.) man ia suing
for a divorce from his wife on the plea
thi abe haa a glaaa eye that ia always
open nights, and the "aspect make*
him nervous." He ooaxed her to does
it with red sealing wax, but that only
increased his terror.
The l*trst. aimpiet and moat effectual
mouse trap yet thought -rf ia an earthen
washbowl nearly hall 6 ed with water,
covered over with meal >nd placed on
the pantrv shelf. A Pulaski (N. Y.)
woman recently caught several of the
mischief makers in one night by this
method.
A traveler in Egypt in 186 visited a
number of Arabian school*, in almoto
all of which be noticed they kept a silk
cap. Upon —king why this was dona
he wm told that it was the severest pun
ishment that oould be inflicted upon
any of the ohildren to be compelled to
wear it
It was Pope who usca to swear "God
mend ma," and, • wearing hia favorite
oath one day in the presence of a tittle
boy, the boy looked at the diminished
mil misshapen 'rm of the great poet,
and mid: ." Gcxl mend yon, indeed t
I think it woold be a good deal easier to
make a new one."
One of the Krgest droves of cattle
ewer seen in any plaoe was driven from
Texas * few vaeks igo from Oapt.
King's ranch. Nneoes county, to Kan
ma. The herd numbered 90,000 horned
osttle, and was attended by 700 droves*.
The outfit alone cost $50,000, and the
herd brought $630,000.
"Mr. Tompkins, "said a young lady
who had been showing off her wit at the
expense of a dangler, "yon remind ma
of s barometer that is filled with nothing
in the upper story." "Divine Julia,
meekly replied her adorer, " in thanking
yon for that oomphment, let me remind
yju that you occupy my upper story."
The miner* of South Yorkshire wen
dieestisfled with their wages, and at
tempted to become colliery owners them
selves. An association bought a colliery,
the profits of which were to be shared
among them. The capital raised was
about $400,000. The enterprise has
proved unsuccessful, and the money in
It has been proposed to establish
penny bnk in connection with the
public schools of New York. The candy
shops and chewing gum vender* might
suffer, but good results would be ob
tained. The experiment haa been tried
in London, where, in a few months,
5.266 children had deposited no leea
than $5,620.
Visitor* to the Centennial ait gallery
will be sorry to learn that the little sta
tue of "Playing Cat's Cradle" wsa
broken by the point of a parasol one
day recently, and the tiny bars of mar
ble replaced by threads. But the lady
who unwisely meddled with it feels
probably jnore sorry, as report says she
Lad to pay $500!
The ire of a St Lome paper toward
the editor of a Chicago journal is let
loose in this way: He stands np and
lies, site down and lies, eats lies, drinks
lies and dreams lies. There is no other
name but lies for his preposterous and
unprincipled assertions. If there is
really a place prepared for liars, the
smell of sulphur already arises to his
nostrils.
General Fadeeff, a Russian, is of
opinion that Germany will not willingly
expose her flank to Russia when she
could protect it by raising up a Polish
state between herself and her great
enemv on the north and east. It would
suit Germany marvelonsly, moreover,
to have an independent Poland, which,
in its movement toward the east, it
might colonise with its superfluous
population.
No tool is more essential on the farm
than a good grindstone. They were
formerly all imported from England.
Then the Nova Scotia ones were found
superior. Ohio grindstones are largely
used by Western farmers. But now
Lake Huron grindstones are superseding
all others; they have s fine sharp grit,
and leave a fine edge. The stone-should
be kept clean and dry, and free from
grease and rust
A mercantile agency in Toronto pro
fessed to make, through its system of
espionage, a correct statement of the
status of a retail dealer. The presumed
knowledge was sold to a wholesale deal
er, who sold to the retailer on the pur
chased hypothesis that he would reoeive
the money for his goods. The retailer
absoonded, and the wholesaler recover
ed $524 at law from the mercantile
agency, and a higher court Ha* affirmed
the judgment