Haronn II Raschtd. rr tint w. tonevzujow. Om day, Haronn A1 lUaohid read A book wherein Ue poet Mid: " Where ire the king*, and where the peat Of man who once the world pomireil ? "They're gone with all the(j pomp and ehow. They're gone the way thou ihalt that go. " Oh thou who ohooeeet for thy ahare The world, and what the world telle fair, " Take all that it oan giro or lend. But know that death ia at the end !" Haronn A1 Baeohid bowed hi hand; Then tear# fell upon the page be reed. —St. AMohl Magatine. By Private Telephone. (A Dialogue of the Aiy-n/Vr- IV-wwrrvw.) nmanoceroaa. Angelina (out t\f TWaJfir the .'isisew-l Edwin (ta a papmkm* Oily pes', i Angelina. I've read Uis laat l<ag of the latest Miss Braddon, I've strummed the piano until I am Ured ; I've sung-to myself—the laat eong vou went mad oa. I've done up my hair in the way you admired ; And still it is raining, a down-poor quite steady. The sky won't oblige with the least bit of blue. I'm bored beyond tearing ; and so. my dear Eddy. My thoughts and my telephone straight turn to you. jMvt*. JC* demur r*##orf, dear ? Angelina. Now do not be spiteful; Tm really too tired to be talked to like that. Abets. Weil, the chance of a chat is su premely delightful. .1 ngelina. That's Terr much nicer. Pray what are you at iu your den at this moment 7 Inquisitive darling ' How needless a question ? I'm talking to you. Angefuut. Now dou't be evaaive ; and. if you get anarling. I'll shut up the tube, and go —flirting. ftkna Pray do. la the flirtee at hand? (7\iw.*i ion^n.) Angelina (ft'mafiy). Are you there, Mr. Haughty ? Kheta ,opo&yV Oh, yes! Was just off for a turn in the park. Angelina. No, don't; and I'll promise I'll not be so naughty. Ahem. 'Tie I was a brute! (ytowiwis of a tometehat imartimUuely l uNo. character are eoneeymi through the instru ment.] Angelina (after an interval). You were pleased to remark? Edict*. That if acme clever haiul could con trive an invention By which hps might meet through— Aaprhwa. You're very absurd. Ahem. Ton think so? Assure you 'twaa not my intention. But there, it u much that your voice may be heard In my den iu the Temple, though you are at Dover. Now what would Leaader have thought of thia scheme ? .1 *pr,i*.i. Disdained it, of course. Ah! that youth nu a lover. Mies Hero most lucky ! [ Wafts a teitphonic sigh from Ikyotr to At Ternpir. Kdvin (/hrfunmo). Why Styi'e own stream Should not keep me from you. if— Aapriiao. Ah if! That'* a barrier Far wore than the channel-to Cavill or Webb. Edict*. Do you think tie from choice that in town Dm a tamer" Ha fate, and the burden of "Jinka versus Jebb." Aapcfma. Oh! ia that what you're doing? Door fellow! Edictn Your pity. Conveyed through long league* in mellidu oua tones. Bring* balm to thia prisoner pent in the city. Aaprhno. The weather ia clearing ; the', hand some De June* With his drag *at the door. We ar going out driving Edtci*. That Jones ia a Angritna. Huah ! Telephonic abuse la an insult to science. —London Punch. Old Heads and Young Hearts. " Do I look nice, Anntie ?" The speaker was standing before a fall-length mirror, her pretty head twisted to one side to survey multitudi nous flounces of white tulle over pale blue silk, constituting the ela'xirate evening dress covering her slender, graceful fig ure. Clusters of bine flowers with snowy leaves caught the drees at the puffed overskirt, formed a bouquet de corsage, and were twisted in the profu sion of golden curls. "You look very nice, my dear." Miss Delia Merriman had taken a long surrey of the exquisite face before she spoke, and was satisfied with the appear ance or her young and lovely protege. •• Very nice," she repeated, " Hortens* lias fitted you perfectly, and the drees is most becoming. Now, if you will get my jewel case, you shall wear my pearls." " Thanks 1" cried Elsie, carefully lift ing the heavy casket, and putting it on a table beside Miss Merriman. "I am so sorry yon have each a cold! This will be a splendid party, I know. Ah! Auntie," she continued, opening a small box in the jewel case, " I never saw this!" Bhe held up as she spoke a slender chain, from which depended a gold lock et, upon whose surface gleamed one pearl of great beauty, pore and large. " Oh, how lovely," Elsie cried, clasp ing the chain around her slender throat "May I wear it?" Miss Merriman was moved, as the locket was held up before her. Some strong memory stirred her nsnally placid features, for the soft brown eyes grew troubled, and her lips quivered. " tfould vou rather I took it off," Elsie asked, gently. "No, dear, you ma? wear it Pat in the solitaire pearl earrings. I hear the carriage. Do not keep Mr. Jamieson waiting." " I wish you were going," Elsie said, as Miss Merriman wrapped a warm opera cloak over the delicate dress. " I never feel so happy if vou are at home." "Thank you, dear. Now run along." So Elsie, already forgetting the locket and the troubled face, kissed hers o-called aunt warmly, and flitted away. For Miss Delia Merriman, who had inheiited thirty thousand pounds from a second cousin, greatly to her own amazement, was not Elsie Garman's annt Nineteen years before, she had closed the eyes of the girl's dead mother, lifted a week-old babe to her own bosom, and taken her home. Not to such lux uries as now snreonnded her—not to ball dresses, pearls and gaiety—but to a small room in a lodging house. Here for twelve long years she had denied herself every luxury of life, many com forts, to provide food for the child, to clothe her comfortably, to send her to school. She was bat a girl herself — scarcely twenty in those days—earning her bread by making artificial flowers, and working early and late to keep the room tidy, cook the simple food and do the neoessary sewing, when she WAS not working at her trade. Bnt wh-n wealth came, suddenly and unexpectedly, flooding Elsie's life with sunshine, Miss Delia altered little from her former self. Trne, she had leisure time, oould open her kind hands in charity where before she had only given her warm, tender sympathy, bnt as she had been in poverty quiet, gentle and ever sad, so in prosperity the same calm gravity rested upon lip and brow, the same deep sadness lurked in the soft brown orbs. Though but forty, her hair was some what streaked with gray, and premature sge was the fruit of a toilful life and sor rowful heart. Yet she was lovely still, and goodness ever beamed from her sad, pitying glance. After Elsie had left her she put aside the jewel case and sat musing before the FRED. KURTZ. Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME X. dm. She had made it oue of her dutiM to her adopted child to accompany her, after iutroduetiou to siviotv, to all sceuea of gaiety. But a severe cold hail rendered exposure to the night air au imprudence on tin a, the evening of Mm. Walton's large party, and Elsie hail joined the family if a friend. Memory waa very busy in Delia Merriman'a heart as she sat over the tire during Elsie's absence—so busy tliat slie started as if from a dream wheu the car riage rolled to th.v dour as the mantel clock chimevi two. There were words of parting, tlieu light ate)* ou tlie stairs, and Elsie came in, not as usual, full of bright auimation, but with an earnestness of purpose quite unusual to her. "Did vou have a pleasant eveuing, dear 7" Miss Delia aakeiL " Yea—no—l don't know. Are you verv tired ?" I'he last words were all of the discon nected answer the girl seenud abl to give, ou account of her emotion. " No, dear ! Why, Elsie, love, what is it 7" For she was looking troubled. "1 have a message for yon, auntie." " For me 7" "From a strau er who was at Mrs. Walton's, Mr. Oarriugton—Ralph Oar riugtou." Delia Merriman rose to her feet. . She tried to speak, but the words would uot come. " A untie," the girl cried, terrified, " Don't look so—don't!" "The message?" she whispered. " He told me to tell you that the man who killed Heurv Gorman was Charles Ralston, the cashier of the Hope Bank, who has confessed his guilt. He said ; ' Tell Miss Merriman that to-morrow 1 will see her." Auutie," Elsie continued urgently, " what does it tueau 7 Was uot Henry Gannon my father 7" " Yes, "ohild. It uieaus," Miss Merri man said solemnly, " that tlie cross tliat for twenty years has loin u)K)u my life is lifted to-night. You shall know *ll, Elsie, at once. I will not send you to a sleepleas led, child, with your heart so troubled. Bat give me a few mo ments to think of yonr tnlings, snd tell me how this message came to be intrust ed to yon." " Mrs. Walton came to me late in the •veuiug. aud asked permission to indro duee Mr. Oarriugton. I had noticed a stranger, who looked at me very earne-t --ly." " " A tall, handsome man, with curling brown hair and pleasant features, wear* ug a full beard of waving golden brown 7" " No. A tall, grave man, with stem features, smoothly shaven, and hair ilmoat white—qnite sn old man." " rroe ! true ! I had forgotten. He must 1* fifty-five." " When he was introduced to me, he 'onched the locket npon my neck. ' Pardon me he,' he sxid, 'if I am too •urioos ; but your name and that trinket ire connected with so much of my life hat I veutnre to ask yon something con •erning them. The locket first. Did not somebody give it to you —a lady?' His looks were so eager that I told him the locket was yours. Then he led me •n, little by little, till I told him my whole life. * He said he hail been here two months seeking you. He did not look for a wealthy woman, but one poor aud solitary. Then I informed him how ooor we Lad been ; and about your cousin, and how yon had lavished every good thing on me. And then, auntie, he whispered, half to himself, tliat I had no claim on you. What did he mean I Are vou not inv aunt 7" "No, dear, there ia no tie of blood •etween as. Your claim is the claim of love, for you have been the one comfort, 'he one snnsbine of mv lonely life. Twenty years ago, Elsie, Ralph (Harring ton gave me the locket yon have upon vour neck, a gift of betrothal, for we loved each other truly and were engaged to be married. I was a poor girl, making irtifieial flowers for bread, an orphan, too. He was assistant cashier of the t>auk, where yonr father was night watchman, and Charles Ralston was head cashier. Ralston wa in love with me, and pursued me with unwelcome attentions. " One day, to rid myself of his im portunities, I told bim I hail promise to marry Ralph. He left me in a rage. Only*one week later the bank was enter ed at night, yonr father shot through the heart, and" Ralph Carrington discov ered in the vault trying to revive him. He was arrested and tried. He told • story, not credited, that Charles Ralston had sent him from his house to the bank for paper-., after keeping him busy there over the books all the evening. Bnt Ralston swore that he had not been at home that evening ; and proved it; that the keys of the vault safe, found hanging in the keyhole, were stolen from his desk, and be had not sent his clerk to the bank. So Ralph was convicted and aentenoed. He escaped! EUie, I hail saved fifty pounds for my wedding gar ments. 1 went to see him in prison, and, knowing be was innocent, I gave him the money to bribe the keeper of his cell. The man took it, ami Ralph -ras free. I have never known if he lived or died nutil to-night. "After he was gone your mother was taken ill. Before her marriage she had worked for the same establishment where I was employed, and I kuew her well. The shock of her husband's death was too severe for her, sud she ucvcr rose again from her bed, though she lived three months. When she died I promised you should be my charge, and never know the shadow upon yonr life till von were a woman." Elsie was sobbing quietly, often lift ing to her lips the gentle liand that hail given her all she had ever experienced of life's blessings. There WM a long silence after Miss Merriman ceased speaking, and the gray dawn was creeping in at the windows when, aoftly kissing her. Aunt Delia told Elsie to go to rest. But for herself there was no rest. Feverishly, with an agitaticn altogether unlike her usnal quiet, she waited the coming of her lover who had fled from his unjust sentence twentv years before, bnt who was free now and his innocence known. The dav was young, and Elsie was sleeping still when he came. Delia was waiting for him in the draw ing-room. There was no affectation of yonth in her silver gray silk, and the square of black lace upon her soft hair ; but instead of a brooch, there fell npon the knot of ribbon at her throat the pearl locket Ralph had given his be trothed. She stood np to greet the stern-faced, elderly man who advanced to meet her, trying to find traces of her lover. Not till he smiled tendeily did she recognize him. Then, her own eves dim with tears, she said, softly - "You are more than weloomo, I am rejoiced the clond is lifted from vour life, Ralph !" And he, holding the trembling hand fast in his strong ones, answered : " I have found yon at last. I began to fear you were dead, Delia. My little love, my darling!" " Ralph," she said, the .bright blush rising to her faded cheek, "yon forget we re gray haired, elderly people ?" " I forget everything but that yon are here, that the hope that has seemed a dream of madness for twenty years is realized. I have been in California, Delia, all these years, amassed wealth, nnder another name, working for gold to drown thought I have lad a THE CENTRE REPORTER. busy life, but there haa uot leen oue hour when I have not pictured such hap* p.ncaa a* this. You are miue, Delia ; you will not aend iua from you 7 You "will l>e my wife 7" " If vou wish It," she said, softly, her own ffiJtlful heart thrilling uuder Uie sincerity of his toue, " I have never ceased to love you or to pray for you, Ralph." Society speculated upon the brief courtship, for there was a quiet wedding wttliiu a mouth, but nolsalv knew of the painful past save Elsie, the cherished child still of Ralph Oarriugton and Delia. Ins wife. Wakened to DK Pierre Jean Welker, the taliou* as sassin of a little girl in the Rue Nation ale, Paris —ahe was eight, ami he strangled her with her skipping-rope snd weut to sleep, uaiug her corpse as his pillow -has been guillotined. The a arrant designated as the hour "about 5 30 a. M," and somewhat after midnight the machine arrived and aas noiselessly sot up with wooden screws, only about 150 perilous being attracted to the scene beside tlie military and police. One of them was a woman. It was 4:48 when Mr. Roch had everything m working order and tried tlie fall of the ax; then ho and his assistants, Jacob, the chief of . the detective service, and the Abbe Crozes, who lias accompanied so mauy scores of murderer* to the guillotine, and whose hack, No. 148, is as much a part of tlie procession as M. Koch's van, entered tlie priaou. Welker was a fear ful coward, who hail wept and moaned and torn his hair wheu sentence was passed and wheu he was placed in tlie coudeniued cell, but he believed the merciful falsehood that forty days muat elapse before carrying out of sentence, which jail attendants always tell to con fiding prisoners; and thinking he hail still some Line left to him, and alto having faith that his petition for mercy would be heard, he had gotten over Ins terror, ate freely and slept soundly. So souudly was he sleeping thia uioruing that neither the opening of his <*ll door nor the light of tlie lanterns disturbed him. Jacob sh ok him by the shoulder, and the clerk said loudly: " Wake up, Welker, your petition has been rejected ; you must prepare to die." A horrible sound, half the cry of a wild beast, hall a death-rattle, issued from the tuau'a throat, and he fell back on his bed, con vulsively bitmg the coverlet. " Have you anything to say ? Do vou want sime brandy ?" asked Jacob; out Wel ker did not hear him, and lay racked by convulaive shudders. He was lifted out of bed and made a vain effort to draw on his trowsers, but he could not stand and tumbled again npon his couoli. The veins of his forehead and temples stood out like knotted oordage, his eyes were filmy, his jaw had fallen and a cold or eat was pouring down his ashy far*. The Abbe Crozes spoke to him earnest ly; Roch asked; "Do I hurt you?" as he bound Ins hands, but Welker made uo answer, heard nothing, was as one dead. Indeed the attendant* were urged to make haste or lie would die of fright in their hands. Two of them hail to carry him out with his arms around their necks, his h>d hanging on the right shoulder, and his legs trailing on the stones behind him. The priest walked b.ickwards before him to shut out the sight of the machine of death, bat the merciful preeauti.si was need leas. Welker knew nothing. His body fell upon the plauk like a bag of sand, and a moment later the ax felL Owing to tlie difficulty of placing the inert I**l} in position, the ax shored away the head diagonally, taking off a part of one shoulder," and leaving a part of the jaw attached to the other. So large was the murderer's skull that it got jammed in the bucket into which it fell and cos Id only be shaken out by ponmling ou the inverted vessel. It was 4:48 when the officers entered tlie prison to take out their man; It wa%5.06 when the ax fell, the time occupied being three minutes less than was taken iu the case of Billoir. Roch thinks that with all circumstance* favoring liim he can reduce the time to twelve minutes—that is to say, there will lie for the criminal au interval of lea than ten minutes between sleep and death. But how many ages of mental agony in those ten minutes ! The Wonderful I>g of I'ohoes. Morrison, Colwell A Page liave In < connection with their rolling mill at Coboew, N. Y.. a large stable for their iarge stock of horses. Two watchmen guard this stable day and night and care for the horses. Besides the watchmen a lurge dog, a cross between the St. Ber nard and Newfoundland species, is kept on the premises. This animal realizes that he is assistant guardian of the premises and faithfully doe* he perform his duties. At night if anything amiss happens to the horses or anything e.se he straightway starts for tbo watchman and taking his trousers in his teeth will not loosen his bold until be lias led him to the spot. Formerly, when any of the horses slipped their halters and attempt < 1 to wander about the stable, he would drive them back into their stall and mount guard over them until the watch man arrived in his rounds and secured them. This practice was kept up until iu an unlucky night, some time ago, when he attempted to drive a vicious mule into his stall from which he hail escaped, when the animal let fly with Ikoth hind feet, one of which took effect on the poor dog's head, knocking out a utiraber of teeth and cutting his face badly. Since that time the knowing dog has not attempted to drive book any of his equine charge that may become loose bnt straightway goes to the watchman on guard. At one time some looe straw and hay laying in the rear of and against the barn by some means caught fire. When discovered the faithful dog wan at his post, and standing in fire and smoke was scratching away with all hi* might, removing the burning mass from the building'and barking lustily for aid. Although the dog was burned somewhat, the building, mainly through his efforts, was saved. The gentlemen owning the animal prize him highly and would not exchange his services as watchman for any biped in creation. Photograph in# the Heart-Beat. Oae of the moat remarkable applica tions of photography is that by which it ia now made to register, and in the moat accurate manner, the mechanical motion of the heart. The device bv which thia result is attained ia, indeed, a triumph of inventive akill. It consists of a tliin india-rub!>er l>ag, to which a ahort glaaa tube ia attached, sufficient mercurr ia poured into the apparatus to fill the bag and a portion of the tube, and the in strument ia then placed over the heart of the peraon to be examined. Arranged in thia manner, every pulsation of the heart ia indicated by a corresponding movement of the mercury in the tube, and, by suitable photographic appar atus, provided with a moving • sensitive slip of paper, a perfect registration of the e i tent and rate of the pulsations is obtained. The interesting fact is made known by this process, that the fall of the poise sometimes takes place in sue* oesafnl horizontal lines, and sometimes in ascendant lines, the column reaaoend lng two or three times before falling altogether. If yon dont want to be robbed of ydor good name, do not have it painted on your umbrella. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1877. A BBOCEIXU TEAOUUY. Tbr Hud •*•( •• Iks Heal* •' • \trtrw Is I.•#!•■ -A Tl* - i*rt** a*C Tvrrlblv I r*l> Vslls*S I* Ik# ('•art#. Olive Logan writes from Loudon to Uie New York Graphic, giving the do tail* of the Peiige mystery, tlie trial of four young )eoule (or the murder by ! starvation of a fifth, a woman .the wile of one of the four. The trial created an extraordinary sensation, and the court room was crowded daily. Tlie oorre spoudeutsays: TU* wuivWtxl woman, who#® Christian name was Harriet, came up to lstudou from her home iu the country four yours ago. She was highly UUIIMflfSil Hhe was a niece of Lady Rivers. Her step father is a clergyman. Her own father had a gixxl position. Her mother is a lady. From various sources Harriet ! was entitled to the sum of 915,1 AM) on I her marriage. Hhe was of rather weak intellect, easily iufiuenced by any oue ID whom she took a fancy, sad slie was thirty-five years old. Hh* stopped in London at a boarding house, and there made the acquaintance .f a young man, Louis Stauutou, s good-lookina fellow, olerk to an auction (MT. lie mtormed himself at her tinan ,-i*l pros|>ects, and imiuodialely olferetl her marriage, though he was mere than ' ten years younger than she was. Hhe 1 accepted, "and the astonished mother 1 in the country hurried up to town, took in at a glanc* a bat sort of a man the young auctioneer"* dark was, and his iuotive for marrying lier daughter She made an effort to reobtam control over Harriet by trviug to prove her of un ! sound mind; but she was uot succeatful \iu this, and Louis HLauntou took his I wife away. Hex mother uevcr laid eves on her again, dead or living, Louis had a brother inhabiting a lonely place in Kent, and he now pffiwls that he paid to this brother XI a week for his wife's support. The brother's wife had a young sister, Alice Rhodes, au'd behold them all living together in the same ! house the twvconple* comfortably; the discarded wife, whose £I,OOO have beeu ; duly obtained, confined in a dark cellar bcucatli, witliout foisl, fire or neocasariea for vleauliuee*. A servant name.l Clara Brown, a Sort of remote |>oor relative waits on tlie lot, and one day wheu the ' niilkwotiiau was at the door, a ghastly ; spectacle of filtli and emaciation came jMH-riug up towarvl the light from the lauMunent IN'IOW, giving the milk woman as great a fright as if it hail been a ghost, and Clara Brown flew toward the gaunt intruder, shrinking, "(o tiack' (io down -tairs! I'll give it you!" The poor, hunted thing rtd swsy with the wild look of fear in her mournful eve-. "Do vou speak like thsfl to a lady 7" asked the mukw' iinan. * She's no more a lady than you or I," answered Clara Brown. " Who is she?" Master's sister." The milk woman uever dreamed she was Louis SUuutou's wife. How could she f Alice Rhodes was Mrs. Ljonis Huunton to all who knew thorn theralout. Now, this wuhappy creature gave birth to a child. The child was seen about the house by aeveral people; all thought it either Alice's baby or her sisters- Mriv Patrick Staunton. One lay, however, this child wa* missing, Patrick Htauutou had taken it up to London ami placed it in a hospital. The Sister of Chanty wjio received the babe told him that it was dying of ifan atum. which seemed to have bwn tfnug on smoe its birtli. He replied tliatlie knew nothing of that, for tlie child was nothing to him--it was tlie child of a carpenter named Horns, whom he had promised as a favor to briug the aick child to a Lon don hospital. He was told he must letch proper clothes for it. He called the next day. The child had died during the night. He promised to osU again. He never did. Tlie child was buried by the hospital authorities, registered as " Harris." Wo mart change tho scene now and tlnd these HumtiUion and Alice Rhodes looking tor lodging* at INsngo, a suburb near tUo Crystal Palace. They engaged a sitting-room and bedroom at the rate of a week, awl told tho laadlady that the lady *u ill who was to occupy them, and would probably not be able to came over from the railway station tieforo morning. She left the front door open that they might the more easily go in and out. and at ten o'clook in the evsuipg, to her surprise, ni g<iiag tip to her new lodgers' rooms, she found the nick woman lying in bed. She had been brought in the house without noiae or warning. The landlady insisted on their having a doctor, and after some hesita tion Alice Rhodes and Louia Staunton went out and called on the nearest physician. Dr. Lvugrigg. LLe cams aud taw the patient, but she could not speak. He remarked the extreme filthiness of the body, and asked who had been her previous medical attendant. They gave the name of a phys cian near their own home, but who in reality uevar attended her. When the landlady At Pengs was cleaning b r d < wsi"pn the nest morning the undertaker aam<> up and asked to lie allowed to go up-staira and measure the corpse. The good woman wan astonish e<l, and directed him to another house, where there had lieen aickness, thinking he had made a mistake in the number. She then hurried up stairs and rapped at the door of the sitting-room. Alice Rhodes answered it, aud in reply to hsr question, said : " Yes, she is gone." A woman came from tho undertaker's to wash the body. The tilth of it was some thing indescribable. The feet were horny, indicating that she had been lonn without shoes. Her hair was matted and impossible to comb. In disgnst the woman abandoned the task of cleansing the body. Login Ktaunhm gwre her a sovereign not to mention in wliat con dition it was. When the undertaker came to coffin the corpse he was stopped by the law, Dr. L ingrigg having given notice to tho authorities, after a ixiat rnortem examination which disclosed evidences of long-continued starvation. Ijonis Staunton's assertion that his wife was of intompejate habits was distinctly | falsified by the autopsy. Drunkards have a large liver. This organ in Har riet Staunton was shrivelled and shrunk en to nothing almost. After dne inquiry the whole four people were committed to stand their trial for wilful murder. They had been in jail but n few days when both women were delivered in their cells of children, Mas. Patrick Staunton of twins. The babes were taken from their mothers, that being the prison law. One of the twins died. Tho fearful catastrophe ends with tho bloodthirsty vengeance of the Mosaic law. The jurv lias found tliein all to lie guilty of wilful murder, and when the black-capped judge pronounced their sentence of death by hanging, ' 'and may the Lord have mercy on your sonls," nearly the whole oourt murmured, " Amen." The women are to be recom mended to mercy. Alice Rhodes cried out in leaving tho dock : " lam innocent of it all I" "> We listen to those whom we know to he of the same opinion as ourselves, and we oall them wise for l>eing of it j bnt wu avoid such m differ from ns; we pro nounce them rash before we have heard them, and still more afterward, lest we shonld be thonght at any time to have erred. Greet]!*!*! to* no oa*.ft imagine oaks in a oountry where the nigh to are six months long! A Fight fvr a Itrdoubt. A correspond ant of the Luudou Daily AVw*#, who tUuw hia letter (rum the left wing of the lftcha road, writra : 'llio redoubt Hkobeleff waa attacking waa a double redoubt ill the beud of the Lofloha r>>ad dou near Plevna. Ha had adrauoed Ins troo|m down the slope of the mouuUuu to wtthiu easy rouge. Ae the Turks immediately opened Are upon him from the redoubt he returued the tire with unsteadiness am! precision, putting hie men tiuder cover aa much aa possible, lua cauuou pouriug a steady ■(renin of ahell and cauuiaiar Luto the re doubt ae well. For three hours he kept up tins Are, and just after Kriloff*a acc oud repulse, the Turkiuh tiro having aoiuewhat relaxed, dominated by the Russian, he thought the moment had come for making the assault. He had four regimeiita of the hue, and four bah talioua of sharpshooters. Hlill keeping up hia uinnierona tire, be formed uuder it* cover two regiment*. tlie Vladimiraki nud the ZooxoUki, in the little hollow at the foot of the low liill on which waa luiilt the redoubt, together witii two bat talion* of sharpshooters, not more than twelve hundred yard* from the scarp. Then, placing himself in the t>eHt posi tion for watching the result, he craned fire and ordered tlie advance. He order ed the assaulting party not to fire, and they rushed forward with their guns on their shoulders, with music playing aud banner* dying, and disappeared in the fog and am oka. Hkobeleff is the only J general who places himwdf near enough to feel the pulae of a battle. The advancing column as indistinctly seen, a dark mass in the fog aud smoke. 1 Feeling, aa it were, every throb of the 1 tattle, he saw this line begin to waver and herniate. Upon the iiauuit he hurl ed forward a rival reguneut to support, aud again watched tha result This new force carried the mass further on with its momentum, but the Turkish redoubt darned and amoked, aud poured forth *ueh a torrent of bullets that the line was again shaken. Hkobeleff stood in this aliowcr of balls unhurt. All his ' escort were killed or wounded, even to , the little Kirghis, who received a bullet in tlie shoulder. Again he aaw the line herniate and waver, and he dung hia fourth and last regiment, the Libaosky, on the gtaria. Again this new ware car ried tlie preceding ones forward, until } they were almost on Uie scarp ; but that deadly ahowrr of bulleta poured upon | them ; men dropped by hundred, and I the result still remained doubtful. The line once more wavered and hesitated. Not a moment was to lie lost, if the re | doubt was to be carried. Skobeleff had now only two battalions of *har]M>hoct-rs left, tlie leat in his de tachment*. Fnttiug himself at the head iof three, lie dashed forward on horse bark. He picked up the stragglers ;he reached the wavering, fluctuating mass, and gave it the inspiration of his own I courage and inatru'-tiou. He picked the whole mass up, ami carried it forward villi a mail and a cheer. The whole re > .toobt was a mare of flame and smoke, from which scream*, shoots, and crire of agony and defiance arose, with the deep mouthed bellowing of the eaunon, and, above all, the ateadv, awful crash of that deadly hfla Are. Hkobeleff*a sword waa cut in two in the middle. Then a mo ment latter, when just on the point of leaping the ditch, horse and man rolled together to the ground, the horse dead or wounded, the rider uutouched. He tprang to hia feet with a shout, then with a formidable, aavage yell, the whole mam of msn streamed over the ditch, \ over the scarp and counterscarp, over the para|M>t, and swept into the redoubt | like a hurricane. Their bayonets made hort work of the Turk* still remaining. Then a joyous cheer told that the re ' doubt was raptured, and that at last one | (if the defenses of Plerua waa in the hands of the Russians. Hkobeleff seemed to lie tlie only one among the Russian general* who lias ' studied the American war with profit. Ue knows it by heart; and it will tie n*n by thoae who have studied the great j civil war that, in this assault, Hkobeleff followed the plan of the American gen erals on both Rules when attempting to carry such positions, to follow up the I assaulting column with fresh troops, ' without waiting for the first column to !h repulsed. If the position proves too *trong for the flr*t column, then rein forcement* ore t hand before they hare time to break and run. At iiinrise the Turka began an attack u (xm the captured redoubt, and the ' dorm of tattle again raged with fury here, while all was quiet everywhere else. Tlie desperate attacks of tlie Turka wore repulsed. Another attack was made, another repulse; and this continued all dny long until the Turka had attacked and been beaten five suooeaaive times. ! The Russian loose* were becoming fear ful. General Hkobeleff had last, he , thiuka, 2,000 meu in attacking the re doubt. By the afternoon be had loot 3,000 move in holding it, while his bat talions shriveled up and shrank away aa if by magic. One battalion of sharp shooter* had been reduced to 160 meu. A company which had been 150 waa now , forty. An immense proportion of i officers wore killed. Only one com mander of a regiment is alive; scarcely a head of a battalion is left Two officer* of the staff are killed, one of them waa Venuttchagin, brother of the great artist. Another brother waa wounded. Oeu. Dobrovolaky, commander of sharp shooters, was killed. One officer was blown to pieces by the explosion of a i caisson. Oapt. Knrapatkin, chief of the *t*ff, standing beside this officer, had his hair singed, and suffered a severe contusion. Otily Gen. Hkolwleff himself remained untouched. He seems to bear a charmed life. He visited the redoubt three or four times during the day, en couraging the soldiers, telling them help would soon arrive; Plevna would soon be taken; victory would soon crown their efforts; telling them it was the final, de disive blow struck for their country; for the honor and glory of the Russian arms; i snd they alwsys replied with the same ohrerv shouts, while their numbers were dwindling away by litmdreds. He again and again sent for reinforoements, and again informed the commander-in chief that the position was untenable. The afternoon wore awiyy, and no rein foroements came. Gen. Levitaky. as I have been informed, formally refused reinforcements either because he thought the position, in spite of Gen. HkobolefTs representations, was tenable, or because he had no reinforcements to give. Gen. Krilofl, on his own responsibility, sent : the remnant of a regiment which had attacked the redoubt, which I eaw rush forward and then back through that In ! dian cornfield. Of the 2,500 there were ! barely 1,000 left, so it was utterly in ! capable of going into action that day; and even this regiment arrived too late. .Oen. Hkobeleff hail left the redoubt at four o'clock to go to his tent on a woody hill opposite. Ho had been there scarcely an honr when he wo* informed that the Turks were again attacking the right flank on tlie Lovoha road, immediately above Plevna. He galloped forward to see, and woe met by an orderly with the news that the Tori* were also attacking the redoubt for thesixth time. He daubed forward toward the redoubt in hopes of reaohing it in time, but was met by a stream of his own men flying back. They were exhausted by forty-eight hours' incessant lighting, and were worn out, hungry, and dying of thirst and fatigue. Owing to the inactivity of the Russians during the day, the Turks had beau enabled to collect su overwhelming force, which had mode one lost desperate effort and had succeeded in driving the Russians out. One bastion was held to the last by a young oflloer, whose name 1 regret I have forgotten, with a handful of men. They refused to fly, and were slaughtered to the last man. It was jus* after this Uiail met Gen. Hkobeleff, the first time thai day. * He waa iu e fearful state of nciUuneut and fury. Hut uniform was covered with mud and filth; hia sword broken ; hia Cross of Ht. George twisted round us hia shoulder ; his face black with powder and smoke ; his eyes haggard and blood shot, and hia vutoe quite gone. He *l>oke in a hoarse whieper. I never be fore saw such a picture of battle ae lie presented. 1 saw hiui sgam iu hia tent at night. Ue wu* quite calm and col lected. He said; "I have done my beet; I could do uo more. My detach ment is half destroyed ; my regiment* do not exist ; 1 have uo officers left; they sent me uo reinforcements, and I have lost three gun*." "Why did they re fuse yon reinforcement* ( Who waa to blaiuvf" "I blame nobody," he re plied "It is the will of God." A WO.NDKHU L CAT. Tbr IJttlf laiareat sk* Tike Is (kI(M --► ire ttara .Waller. u4 Tbsss ll* Visa ( barer *f Tb*. There is e cat at the fire-alarm tele graph office in Chicago that deeerree a place in print. This cat is of the fem inine persuasion, albeit " tlie boys " and the "night gang" have given her the nuniphooious and opposite uainr of Pete. Trie has been at the fire alarm daily and nightly ever since the third day after the big fire. Hbe came in, a kitten, with the hair upon her body iu spots, and sat down deliberately upon tlie desk of the Bii|eriuteudent She looked up in hie fare, as much as to say, " 1 am a suf ferer, I have been burned, ami here I am." Pete waa careeaed and fed, and from that day to this she haa never gone heck on the place that took her in. The points that make Tete a remarkable fe line are several in number. Bhe is eun veiwaut with the workings of the com plicated machinery of the office. When the watchers are changed in the office, which occurs at four o'clock r. m. , mid night, aud at eight o'clock a. *., it is the cuntorn for the men coming on a* relief to test every instrument and find out the omdition ot the multitude of linee that stretch throughout the city. This oat ia, on deck at the change of' every watch, and goo* through the very oame move ments of the relief, ao far aa she can. Hbe put* her nose up to the register; she creeps along the casement and puts her velvet paws upon the relays; she does the ■sine Uiiug with the galvanometers, and purrs geutly against the switch-hoard. Mhe leaps over to the repeater* and looks upon tlie dials, and then climua back among the wires to see, apparently, what their condition is. When she has fin ished her tour of inspection in this room, site goea out to the battery apartment with Paddy—Paddy ia in cnarge of tlie betlenee, imd not imother cat, ae might be inferred, but for this explanation — aud carefully follows him through hia inspection of the multitudinous jars. When an alarm of fire is turned in, she comes galloping to the front, and jump* upon tlie repeater, where she remains till the fire is "struck out" Pete seems to be the soul of watchfulseas at night, and watches the movements of a\ crv thing or body that stirs. A few nights since two of the gang had gone to the armory, a few blocks south of the fire-alarm'office, in search at news. On their return they met Pete on a fnll run, with ber nose southward aud her tad turned toward the stars. Hbe recognised the couple, and imme diately turned and dashed back to the alarm office. One of the gang said to tlie other, "There's something up." " Yes," said the party addressed, "Pete's tail." But the inveterate joker waa choked down and homed off to find Pete sitting on the dial of the telegraph in strument. which was bringing s dispatch from a distant sub-stats hi conveying the intelligence of a shooting affair. The night operator ays when he received the message he made tins remark to his as sistant, "Wooder where the gang ia?" aud the assistant replied, "At the Arm ory," and lVte, she that was sitting iu the window, darted away in that direc tion. That she knew what was np seems evident from her ooudnct in returning when she met tlie gang. These pecu liarities of HUB cat, which may seem like on attempt at fictiou, are most unquali fiedly true. ______ Hcrole Rescue of an Americas Frew. Tim crew of au American schooner, Louia A. Hwatt were recently lauded at Liverpool by the ship Thorn is Hrockle bauk. A* the latter vessel was home ward lwuud from Jamaica she fell in with the erWmer in a disabled condition and flyin: signals of diatreaa. Captain Brown at once backed the yard* and stood fur the vessel, the captain of which in formed him that she was making much water, which w* gaining upon the pumps. These had to be kept continu ally at work. He asked to be taken aft, and also said his crew were thoroughly exhausted through incessant work, snd were unable to lsuneh their own boat. At the time the weather was exceeding ly rough with a terrific sea ou. and a liuat could only lie lowered with the ut most danger. Four of the crew of the Thomas Brock lebank. however, with the i boatswain volunteered to msn a small boat, and they put off to rescue the helpless sailors. The boat could not approach the "schooner in safety, and lines were thrown, by which the men were hauled through the sea into the boat, the captain being the last to leave, snd he swam to the boat. The men were almost naked at the time of their rescue, and when they were taken on board the Thomas Brooklebank fresh supplies of clothes were given to them and they were kindly treated by Captain Brown," to whom the greatest praise is due for hi* bowery and humanity, as well as to the sailors who so heroically j manned tlie boat. The Louis A. Hwett ansa owned in Iloeton, and at the time of tlie disaster waa bound from Accra to Boston with palm oil. The distressed seamen were taken to the Sailor's Home. A Jidge Itylng Upon the Bench. About six o'clock one Thursday eve ning recntly, while tte Supreme Court was in session at Knoxvilie, tlie county ( seat of Crawford county, Georgia, Judge Barnard Hill, the presiding judge, died upon the beurh in s sudden and unex pected manner. The facts appear to be us follows: A criminal trial, in whioh two meu were charged with larceny, had just been ooncluded and the jury re turned a verdict of "guilty." They neglected to state the value of the goods stolen, aud Judge Hill remarked to them that they had best retire apd supply this portion of the verdict. They re turned to the room and a lull in the pro ceedings followed. A few moments after one of the attorneys looked up and discovered that Judge Hill's head was thrown back upon his chair, a deathly pallor overspreading his countenance. Friends rushed to him, but with on easy gasp his spirit passed away, and he sat (lead upon the bench in the midst of the discharge of his high official duty. " A special diapatch to the Paris pa pers reports that the czar ia ill" Indi gestion probablv; s little too much Turkey. TERMS: S'-i.OO a Year, in Advance. ABOL'T TKLKUKAPMINU. K■*!•*•# ss4 ibees Wssss-lks Melierlss -iiwMe NSSSMSS -A i srtsw# ffesuwre sf Urtss Tel •(**. The New York aumspomltnt <if Ik* Troy Tims* write*: DM of tlie moot j interesting place* iu thia mty ia the tel *graph building, corner of Broadway and I >*y street. Formerly Una apot was occupied by the Franklin House, a vwry Kular ion. From Franklin's ooanoo with aieetiioitv, it seems proper IhM 1 the telegraph bnilding sh old be its suc cessor. As a specimen of grand oom- I mamal architecture, this structure has no superior, and the fact that its ooet was 92,000,000 shows how much oui be laid out on spare not exceeding 60 by 160 feet The telegraphic operations carried on in this establishment are of au extent tliai would perplex an ordinary observer. It may, however, be sug|/<*t ed by the feet that the services of 3i5 capable employee are required beeitie operators. Tlie room occupied by the I latter te of v*nt size, and * on the sixth floor. Here 266 skillful persona watch the clicking of the machines, A large portion at this foree is composed of vonng women. The beet operators re ceive 9116 per mouth, and work entirely by t*r. There is s greet surplus of talent in this establishment, and many ineffectual applications for employment arc made daily. The contrast between the cheap ma terials and the immense results iu tele graphy is very striking. The power is obtained simply from sulphate of cop per (blue vitriol), water and tine. In the battery room there are 14,000 cups in use, each containing the necessary ele ments. The heaviest battery contains 360 cupa (or cells), and ia used solely for Chicago dimiafc'W They consume 90 barrels of blue vitriol every mouth, and 6,000 pounds of sine. On one of the upper Boors a restaurant is in operation, where the employes have a first-class dinner at a reasonable price. They pur chase tickets in ndvmnoa, and thane tick ets are currency for diahea, which are supplied on the European plan. This system is becoming venr general in all large establishments. Daring the hot weather a ton of ice is consumed in this establishment daily, nearly fifty water coolers being in nee. The cable battery contains s dozen cells. I need hardly "any that the method used in cable practice differs from or dinary telegraphy. The term applied to 4 this method is " induction." I nave not space for its explanation, but one of its features is the reflection of the needle. The cheapest message on the cable is seventy-five cents, and is limited to one word. * Some of our renders may think that one word oan be of little use, but if properly handled it may convey as much information as an ordinary sentence. Tikis can be done by the method called "pocking." List us suppose that a Hew ' York banking house arrange* with its London correspondent a vocabulary of words, each of which haa a specific mean ing. The London bouse may telegraph, for instaoee. the word "thunder," and the New Yorkers, by reference to their book, will find the meaning of " thun der " to be "the Rank of England has advanced its rate of ir tercet to three per cent" All this, which at long rale would cost f5.75, is obtained far s mere trifle, snd Hie system certainly shows , great ingenuity." The cable cyphers, as these are called, are numerous snd are in charge of a very expert operator. The difference in time bet ween New York and London ia a curious feature in ocean telegraphy. The I/mdon banker is ia therolfswell of traffic when the New York agent is first thinking of " getting i up." At noon the London markets are \ cabled to this city, where they arrive at seven o'clock te the morning of the same day. Hie London agent of the New York press telegraphs the most hn portant news issued m the Ixmdon 71 oies at six o'clock in the morning. It reaches here at one o'clock the same morning, just in time to be inserted in the New York journals, whose renders have the same matter that the Londoner digests with his breakfast. This is do ing s little better than even " taking time bv the forelock." It is getting ahead of him in s prodigious manner. WIM hi He! Fifteen years ago, says Jennie June, : a handsome and dashing student of Har vard attracted universal attention, not only by hia high style of living, but by his brilliant scholarship and. superb manner. He was not only the admire tiou of the talles, but the despair of all the beaux, for without apparent effort he surpassed the beat of them in appear ance, in style, in attainments, in a gene rosity which waa princely, and in good nature, which in its indiffismee waa never inconsiderate of the wants, wishes or feelings of others. From a student of Harvard, the splendid young Ameri can became s fellow of Oxford, and eTen among the luxurious and exclusive sons of tlie finest aristocracy of tlie world shone with almost a* resplendent a light as in the more modest hall* of Harvard. He conversed, read and wrote in seven different languages as easily as in his own, and at the same time maintained a brilliant social reputation, which waa enhanced by a style of living with which the descendant* of a line of tittal ances tors and heirs of the honors of the great est English families hardly dared to compete. In this way, and in traveling m pramD AMgnmr all over Europe, making acquaintances with royalty and hobnobbing with the younger sons of ducal houae*,our Harvard man contrived to get through the first ten years of re sponsible existence, and spend not only his own fortune but that of several doting relalives. He rams to the end at last, and, without any shock of his own or other people's nerves, settled down to hard-pan and the life of a newspaper wri ter. He ia married now.and with nis wife and one child lives in a cottage in a re tired spot near New York. The genius which distinguished him as a student distinguishes him as a writer. Hia flash ing yet scholarly style marked him out from among a httmirai ordinary con tributors, and gave him an acknowledged place at once. He makes more money as an " outsider " to-day than any writer on the press. But few would recognise in the quiet, somewhat reserved, yet thoroughbred man who pays an oooaa sional visit to editorial sanctums the dashing snd fsahionable young Ameri can who attracted the attention of the most renowned circles by the splendor of his tastes and the brilliancy of his attainments. Advice to Business Men. To make business good, if it is not so with you, reader, we should then eny go to work and make it so. First of all, bear in mind that you are the architect of your own fortune. Good or bad it is you who make it, and from you must come all the best relief to the situation at any time. Make your exiatenoe known. Keep your name and goods constantly before the public. Attract trade. Oease to imagine that it will at any time seek you out. Do not let your customers forget you. Remind them of your facili ties and business constantly. Advertise. Early and late be at work to increase your business; and if there is anything to be had you will get it. But don t place blame on the times when you your self are not np to the timee and the mod ern methods of attracting trade and doing business. Rattan Journal of Com mare*. NUMBEB 41. Credulity In India. An amnatng anecdote, related by Btah op Hebar, givee oa e good idee of the foiblea end ignorance of una of the petty prutoea .f India and the ramnnaas of the minteter who managed hie affaire. The fondness of the king for mechanics, says the bishop, led him to try eome expert ruente, in which befell in with e Unreal matt engineer of planning addrane and ready talent, aa well aa considerable, tnough unimproved, genina for aneb i punraito. The king took eo much do light in oouvarmeg with Una man that 1 the imnmtor began to fear a rising com- , IteUtur, ee wall knowing that the mean ueae of hia own birth and function* h*.: liretn no obstacle to hie advancement. He therefore aent the engineer word that if he were wise, to leave Lueknow. The poor man did so, removed to a place ten milae down the river, and est, up a ahop there. The king, on inquir ing after hii humble friend, wae told j that he waa dead of cholera, ordered a j gratuity to be aent to lus widow and children, and no more wae aaid. Borne uuie after the king aailcd down the river on Ida brig of war, aa far aa the place i where the new *hop stood. Ha was •truck with the different eigne of neat. , ueaa and ingenuity whieh he observed , iu peeeing, made hia man draw in ah ore ana, to hia aatoniahmcnt, aaw the engin eer, who atood trembling, and with joined bands, to receive him. After a ' short explanation, he ordered him to come on board, —**t turned in high! anger to Imeknow, and calling the min ister, asked him again if be waa oertein that such a man waa dead. " Undoubt edly," wee the reply. " I myself ascer tained the teet and conveyed your mejee ty'a bounty to the widow and children." " Hanuasada, " mid the king, bursting into a fury, " look there, and never see j my (ace any more." The rimer tamed round and aaw bow matters were awnn atanced. With a terrible glance, which the king could not see, but which spoke volumes to the poor engineer, be imposed silence on the latter; then turning round agaia to hie master, stopping hie noae, and with many muttered exclamations of "God be merciful ! M "Baton is strong!" " Ia the name of God keep the demon from me ! N he amid, " I hope your majes ty has not touched the horrible object?" ''Touch him." said the king; "the aight of him is enough to convince aaa of your rascality." " Istnftrallah !" said the favorite, and does not your majesty perceive the strong smell of a deed ear cam?" The king atfll stormed: but hie votee faltered, and curiosity and anxiety began to mingle with hie indignation. "It is certain, refuge of the world," re turned the minister, " that your majes ty's late engineer, with whom be pesos! is dead and buried ; but your slave know, ah not who bath stolen hie body from the grave, or what vampire it ia who now inhabits it to the terror of all good Mus sulman*. Good were it that he wae ran through with a sword before your maj esty's face, if it were not unlucky to shad blood in the auspicious presence. I pray TOUT majesty to dismiss us; I will see kim conducted back to*his grave—-it may be that when that w opened, he may en ter it again peaceably." The king, con fused and agitated, knew not what to aay or order. The attendants led the torn fled mechanic out of the room, and the vixier, throwing him e purse, ewore with e horrible oath, that • if he did not pat himself o„ the other side of the counter # frontier before the next uoramg, if be ever trod the earth again, it ahduld be aa a vampire, indeed. Tha, I think, no bad specimen of the manner in which an absolute sovereign may be persuaded out of hia own senses. An Excited Tew*. A fldrreepondent of Um Son Frnnciseo fWiiefe, writing from Boek'in, Placer county, OiL, iiTi: Th recant bornbl# murder# committed by the Otuoe at Sargent'* ranch have throws the c* tiaras of this vicinity into suehasUtoof excite ment that someef them eeem to ■ristahs their <roro shadow tor a Olesttal with an j ax and pinto) ready to commit murder moat horrible. An a protection against a repetition of theae Crimea, the oiUaen* of this place bare aent the Chi no— aft and to encourage them and convince them that ther meant buaiai— they hare taken down their cabins ami piled the lumber in heap*. A report roaohad ua last sight that a body ot 900 Chinese were going to attank ami bars oar town, (jaite a nnmher of voluntas ia with ahot- Ena aoas praaented tlitnnaclvee, and ■med a picket lute around th® town. i > while all who remained at home armed tbenuwinw to the teeth, determined that, should the Obineaa •..roe, ther would give them a warm reception. One of the men on picket 1 names Smith) had not I been gone long when he met the enemy, I and thinkinr bin time had cam. and j that he tonal sell hit life aa dearly aa ; Ertnhle, he discharged both barrels of i is shotgun, and turning hia back on [ the enemy, made the beat time that has 1 erer been made over this course. It waa < some minuter before be cottld apeak, and j quite a crowd had collected around him, when he explained that he had teen j about 1,000 Chinamen, had "hot their I leader, and if he only had a Henry rifle he couid hare killed a dosen mm, bat could sot reload hia shotgun. A party waa formed in a few minutaa to attack the adranoiag enemy, and after consid erable persuasion the frightened picket waa piloting them to Um place where be I badahotthe Celestial, laatoad of a dead Chinamen ther found an old stump with. , thirteen bnokabot to it, showing that the picket had not missed his mark when he shot hia gun off Changes ef a Outury. The nineteenth century has witnessed manr and great discoveries and changes In 1909, Fulton took out the nest patent for the inrention of a steamboat The first steamboats which made reg ular trips across the Atlantic Ocean were the Birios and Great Western, in 1880. The Ant public application to practi cal use of gaa for illumination waa made in 1902. In 1813 the streets of London were for the first time lighted with gas. In 1813, there waa built In Waltham, Mass., a mill, believed to hare been the first in the world, which combined all the requirements of making finished cloth from the raw cotton. In 1790 there were only twenty-fire poat-offioes in the whole country, and up to 1837 the rate of postage wto twenty fire oeuta for a letter sent over four hun dred miles. t In 1807 wooden clocks began to be made by machinery. This ushered in the era of cheap docks. About the year 1833 the first railroad of any considerable length in the United States was constructed. In 1840, the first experiments in photo graphy were made by Daguerrn. ( About 1840 the first express business was established. The anthracite ooal business may be said to hare begun in 1890. In 1836 the patent for the inrention of matches was granted. In 1845 the first telegram was scut. Steel pens were introduced for use in 1803. The first successful trial of a reaper took plaoe in 1833. In 1846 Elias Howe obtained a patent for his first sewing machine. The first successful method of making vulcanized India rubber was patented in 1889. Leap* tnm e Mssy HdghU The New York yorfci. m tx&Kt to 1W b—l mitWt from High Bridgn* tenths** tosteoee of a perm from It Into tb H*r lem river. Tm tenton Bmn Pblelt, Who afterward lout hi* life at Genesee Palis, janptd (torn High Bridge about twenty rmn ago watched by thousands of a. Iminng spectator*. He was dressed su?ttaE@iftsrsi* ing oat several fret beyond the side of the bridge hud bono erected, end from this, after •tending far a tew memento to receive the drefentng cheer* of the multitude* assembled <m the opposite hanks of the river, the reckless men jumped off. In failing he maintained ao erect position, striking the water with hie feet Arte. He dmappeared under the water, but soon reee and WM tender ly pinked ap by hie frieoda, who were waiting near by is boats. Again, about •is yearn ago, a man *ed Peter Fran ,:■ jumped from the bridge white under the influence gOiquag, and he n to-day slive and probably flailing in the river not far from where Oooper oommitted suicide. Fnmoe had several broth era, all of whom apent a good deal of their time on oe in the water. They had a aort of mania for jqnpiMofl from high plaeea into the water. Their daily apart wne m jumping from the old Macomb's Dam Bridge, which wae about forty feet high. Peter wee about ate feet three inehee tell end thin aaa red. He wae in the army during the war* nd whan be came hone to* wga more reckless than ever. One time, having drawn hia pen non nuoaf —be had been wounded dar ing the war—be fribt off on a prolong** apree. It wee white he wae iwo-nug from it that be wwtt one day up to High Briilg-, where a friend of hie, Billy Ken uard, was >m ditty m nabeemau. He iiaaewl Katinard near tit* end of the bridge, an.k in moving on toward the midrtte he mid * ' '"HIHy, you've heard a H -oJ dead alx/ot what my brother* have done Now ,if you will eome along I will afaow you what a leap I can take." Kennami, wan thought Francis wae jok ing, followed along aiowly. When Pren •; r-< ln-! the noddle of the bridge be andderfrteoilflWfl e tef Ing and jump ed over. Hit fret struck the water Arte, but be waa ao far on hia right aide that he received a torriM* aback, from which he bee never tolly recovered. For e long time he WM laid up, hie right aide bring imralraed. He ia now making a liv ;tig ' • (tiling around Macomb's Dam Bridge. • The Baahi-Banook m mamotdj ill moantad; vy few of them, toctyi re onutafrom tiyria, ridinghoraes thatshow nj trace erf blood Theff bone* ana alwavs ke-jK bridled; <WW when eating their food. The mdilewast of one pat I tern, but theuc bridles an m varum* m tbairovntn IMIM Some rider* prefer belters. The men are from all part* of the Turkish Empire- Kurd*, Albanian* | and Amenta pmiumiaattog among them. < Their clothing may be rich or may be giaeea, or evety variety. of rind colon. An enarmoa* snawl or girdle around the waist is universal. They have the mer ited reputation of being the greateet pil agen in th* ootid, and thia girdle is the iiidwg-piaeeor aeeaplafileef their booty. Their bediea have been amwtimas found with gold to the value of a thooaand or , ntofrtar i hundred, dollar* hidden in it* fold*. They are sot hard to discipline as to military man on ran, bat they baffle every attempt to put any leabaint npon them after they break rank*. Off the parade grand they are dreaded equally by friend and foe. Daring the Crimean war no putn*hm<-nta would keep them from insulting, striking or wantonly bayoneting Ens-hm aofcfiar* whom they met in public planes. Their bitterest hatted is for Roaan. their sweetest hope, th* plunder of Moaeow. Their oflWrs can animate theia to fury with, that weed, which far received by. about* (with their beads apna the piatola in their belta)of the Arab word for "let oa hop* it— JkaKoUmk.'" Their arms are rude and various- They depend upon the government they serve for a distribu tion of laaera and satin new. bat every mm carries htaowa gaMaghon, and baa two, three, or feorenameoa piatola i ST* ■ ■ i— II ■ Th* Tebgrapa Operator. The sanding and reeatving of meaaqges by telegraph is a aompaatively new business. The inveabon of the tele graph ia ap recent that the men and women now employed as telegraph operators make the first set of people who ever triad the work. To send a meeaage the operator site at stable, and with bia nght Wad movra a small handle up and down. To reeehre massages, he listens to the clinking cofca of an instru ment called a "Bounder." This work, simple ami may a*ft appears, makes the chief pari *f the operator's business. Any intelligent boy og girl aan quickly learn this MUCH, and BUT thus earn a few dullait a month. Tobeootne a first rate operator, to behble to send and re ceive message* quickly and amnmtaly, i a telegraphic office, and to earn high pay, is quite another matter, sad requires years of hard study and praetieei It is tike learning to write mart-hand; any sue can aiarier the alphabet in a few wweka—to beooaue a reporter coats i years of hard study. { (toed WgrattTe Apparatus A ounviet to the Gundagal jail, in i Australia, undergoing a term of imprie onmeot lor stealing a ting, naed to gain a living by trarc&iug from town to town ' giving performance* in which be offered torswaltow any article his audience se lected. The ring for the stealing of ' which ha had been oonncted, he bad , swallowed, ami he asserted he oould i swallow a bagful if he got. them. The prisoner Is at present being treated by the visiting surgeon to the jsQ, with ths ! view at msfriny has disgorge a steel | Albert chain and a large brass ring. The . chain aan W distinctly felt at the bot tom of the Stomach, and the patient says be swallowed it nine months ago, and • that it ia the only article ha has had any difficulty about' Heavers that he has i had two pounds' weight of jewelry in hia stomach at one time, and that he has harbored watches in that vinous for twenty-four hours. The jailer has a collection of Albert chains, pen knives, fanes rings, etc., whieh he asserted he hadenoaeeded in causing th* prisoner to vomit by moans of emetics. Tsrkisk Executions. An Adrianople correspondent of an , English paper writes: As we walked about the town the other morning we oould not avoid coming upon five street executions, and witnessing the whole disgusting proceedings, not that they were to me any novelty, for during the two or three dur* I was in Adrianople t seemed as if I oould never get out of sight of men dangling in the air. As soon as a likely-looking shop is reached, say one with sun blinds supported with brackets, the officer ones "Halt," and a soldier, carrying a stool and a rope, stops on one side and arranges the latter over the bracket The man steps on to the stool, the nooee is placed around hi , neck, and be is drawn off his feet There is no drop, but in every case, I am told, the poor wretch dies just as those we saw did—that is to say, instantaneously, and apparently wifh bttle pain, being, in fact choked instead of having the neck broken. A recent advertisement contains the following: " If the gentleman who keeps the shoe shop with the red head will re turn the umbrella of a young lady with whalebone ribs and an ivory handle to the slate-roofed grocer's shop, he will hear of something to his advantage, as the same ia tb* gift of a deceWted mother now no more with the name engraved upon it • The joker's land—All-jeers. —New York Republic. The joker's see— The Bay of Fun-dj. —Boston Trove liar. The >: joker's point—Point No Paint— X. Y. Commercial Advertiser. The joker s Bute— Merry-land.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers