A Spinning Sng.
Owr and over, round end round.
Like * gold -green top on a eryrtal ground,
With DPvor whim or singing sound,
The beentiful earth gone ■pinning.
She rweepe in e nmle around the mn
With Time, end the veer-long reoe !■ won
By both —to e minute; 'tie ever done
And ever again beginning.
We olaep our hand* in ameer, and err.
" * A time to be born, and a time to die.'
I* giirn to meu, but the year* go by,
rnending and nnbeginning. "
But on New Tear'* morning the pesiple ing
And wail in a breath: and the broad tendering
With '• The King t* dead -long lire the King,
But the earth goee on with her epinnlng '
Mivry A. JjMhlmry. in W'm- .itouAv.
Hire Hope.
There never wa • valley without ■ fa-law!
flower,
There never was a heaven without *ome
tittle eloud
The face of day may fl*h with light In any
morning boor.
But evening wo shall ocnis with her shadow
woven shroud
There never was a river aithont it* nii*l of
*,T*y,
There, never wa. a forest arithout it* fallen
leaf i
And joy may walk be>ids u* down the winding,
of cur way
When lo! there sound* a footstep, and e
meet the face of grief.
There never vat a seashore without Us drifting
wreck.
There never wa* an iwui without It* moan
ing ware.
And the golden team? of glory the summer
aky that fleck
Shine where dead stars are i-leeping in their
aaure-mauUed grave.
There never was a streamlet, however ccyUl
clear,
Without a shadow reeling m the ripple# of
it* tida
Hope'* brightest robe* are bordered with the
sable fringe of fear—
And ahe lure# -but atoe* gut her |<alh ou
either side.
The shadow of the mountainf alia athwart the
lowly plain.
And the shadow of the cloudlet hang* above
the mountain * head
And the highest heart* *nd lowest wear the
shadow of some pain.
And the smile u scarcely flit ted ere the an
guish tear u shed.
For no eree hare there been ever without s
weary tear,
And those lips cannot be human which neve;
heaved a sigh .
For without the dreary winter there has never
been a year ;
And the tetnpwt* hide their terror* in the
calmest summer sky.
So dreary life is passing— and we move amid
its mate,
And we grope along together, half in dark
nee*, half in light.
And our heart* are often burdened by the
my steries of our way a
Which are never all in shadow and uever
wholly bright.
And our dim eye* ask a beacon, and our weary
feet a guide.
And our hearts of all life's mysh-rie* seek
the meaning and the key ;
dad a cross gieams o'er our pathway, en it
hangs the Crucified,
And He answers all oar yearnings by the
whisper: " Follow Me. '
j 1
ENSIGN RANSON.
Many years back, a young man came
out of a little honse at the eastern end
of a town by the sea. There was plenty
of life and gavety at the other end of
the town, which was enlivened by one
>r two barracks, a fort and a castle.
Bat the eastern end was very poor, and
•would have been quite lonely but for
the fishermen and their boats. The
house from which the yonng man came
was beyond eveu this homely tunstle,
and was little more than a wooden hnt,
tarred to defend it from wind and
weather.
But the young man who came out was
in the full dress of a military officer,
though that was screened from a first
view by the long gray cloak that the
wild March wind made so necessary.
He was quite young, and hia face was
finely cut, and wonld have been pleas
ant but for a look of stern and painful
sorrow, not unmixed with bitterness,
which seemed strangely incongruous
with his years and his dress.
He waUed on qnite through t e
town. Wherever the houses broke
apart one caught glimpses of a wild,
flat country, dotted here and there with
weird trees in Indian file; and the
youth looked wistfully toward these
desert fields, as if he wonld fain have
struct, away across them inatemi of
going cm, as he did, toward the grim
old fort.
Tet there, it wa clear, festivity was
• going forward; and friendly voices
greeted him as he passed the gray old
portal. And then, over his stern, sad
face he dropped a mask of gayety, and,
though he relapsed into silence at
times, he was as polite and oonver-able
as the best of them.
There was preparation for a dinner
party in the fine, stiff, old hall, with its
rows of military portraits, and its dingy,
blood-stained banners. The castle]
the barracks, and the fort itself, had
eagerly furnished guests to welcome
the visitor of the day, a grand old gen
eral recently returned from honorable
victories in the south of Europe.
After dinner, when ceremony was
fairly thawed, the good old geueral, in
the kindliness and pri<ie of his heart,
displayed a little box, which had been
fiven to him by aom.e grandee of Spain,
think it must have been too small for
a snnff-box, and was probably one of
those tiny tribes in which fashionable
folk used to carry oomflts and lozenges.
At any rr,te, this box wis set with dia
mond* And colored gems of rare value,
and passed from hand to han 1, flush
ing brightly ifl the lamplight, while the
Old warrior told dread stories of his
campaigns and of the daring and honoi
of his men.
Bat suddenly, at the end of a story
so thrilling that all heads had been
crammed toward him, while the mili
tary servants had thronged the door in
rapt attention, the simple question wa*
asked :
" Where is the general's jeweled
box ? "
Nobody knew; everybody said that
be had silently packed it on to his
feJ'iOW.
The general rummaged his own pock
ets, lest it had found its way back to
him and he had half consciously put it
away. No, it was not there, and the
brave old fighting face looked a little
blank, and he murmured an excuse
about. " how its loss would vex Lady
Elizabeth."
" But it oannot be lost, general," said
the officer in command of the fort.
" in this room it was a few minutes ago,
and in this room it must be still. No
gentleman, to his knowledge, has it in
his possession. Let the servants at the
door come in ; though, to the best of my
belief, not one of them has approached
the table Bince the box was brought ont.
Let the door be made fast, and let our
search be thorough."
The candles were brandished to aqd
fro, under the tables, under the chairs,
round the table drapery. But from no
point flashed ont the brilliant beauty of
the little box.
"Still it must be here," insisted the
oommandant, " and surely no gentle
man will think his honor infringed if
each in turn is asked to empty the oou
i—lents of his pockets upon the table. I
Itself will be the first to do so. And
the servants shall lie the last."
Nobody could be exjftcted to demur
at so simple and sensible a proposal,
backed as it was by the honest old of
• ficer instantly rattling out some crown
pieces, and a tobacco pouch, half-penoe,
FHKD. KURTZ, Kditor nnl T'rop-iftor,
VOLUME XII.
and an old pipe. One after another, the
gentlemen on eitiier rule of the tal-le
followed his example, while sharp hnt
not nufrieadly etw t*-k eager note
strange pieewsof personal property, and
of dainty three-cornered tiotw, which
might serve in the future as material for
badinage atnl quizzing.
Hut oue drew back when tie- com
maudnut tnadc his That
young man who had walked lu from the
eastern eud of the town dropped sud
detdv into hu seat, whence he had risen
m t tie first eagerness of the search. He
parses) I.is hand once or twice nervously
! through his hair, leaving it wild and
straggling. And then he watched
' blankly, as the frtot!r* search drew
uearcr amt nearer to himself. Wittnu
1 five minutes later, oue or two of the of
, tine were whispering to each other that
j any simpleton might hare seen ha did
uot exj>eet it could be found.
(His turn was the very laaL "Ensign
Hanson." said the commandant, steadily.
Ens:gu Hanson was certainly the first
who required to be call npoii by uame.
The youth arose, and, though the
rest of his face was a deadly whiteness,
there was a spot of burning red ou each
1 cheek.
" I dout tiuuk any gintlciuan should
lw> aidte-1 to do this,* he said. " I will
i give uiy wotvl of honor than the box is
not npon my person. I did not even
k ep it in my hamis for a moment; I
merely took it and passed it on."
1 "Too high-tmndt-d even to look at
anch gewgaws," sneered a spiteful old
major under his breath.
" What won high in the service and
old enough to be his father have already
done. Ensign Hanson may safely do
also," said the commandant, with a se
i verity which was not unkindly, for
young luiuson looke-i sttch a boy among
the crowd of meu, mostly stout ami
middle-ag-xi; and the very suspicion
suddenly lowering over him made the
old officer think of his owu lsds, grow
ing up and not quite sure to do well for
themselves after all.
" I would never have asked it for the
, sake of my box," observed the general,
leaning back in his chair, and inwardly
wondering what Lady EliaaWth would
say of his carelessness.
" But we ask it frir the sake of our
honor, general," taid the commandant,
testily.
"Aud we do not seem to have asked
it needlesslywhispered the spiteful
major.
" I will not do this thing !" cried the
yonng ensign, passionately; and he
looked wildly round the group as if he
sought for oue face that would compre
hend aud Compassionate liis misery. The
face which looked the kindest was that
of the old general himself, partly be
cause it was not his hospitality that wa*
outraged, partlv because- his genial na
ture was terribly shocked at finding
anything of his the canse of snch a
wretched act of dishonor.
"If tie general will come with me to
the anteroom," said the young man, " I
will convince him that I have barely
touched his box. But this public ex
posure I will not submit to; onr consent
waa not asked, and "
"Certainly not!" " Out npon you !"
" Geueral, you mnst not think of in
dulging his insolent request," w*re the
only sentence* audible in the general
hnbbnb that arose on every side.
But the general rose. "Gentlemen."
he said, qmetly, " I have never yet re
fused to listen to au enemy's petition.
If you can satisfv me, air, perhaps >< nr
comrades will take mv wi-nl for vou."
There was a murmur of very relnctaut
acquiescence, as the ensign bowed and
waite.l respectfully to follow the general
to the ante-chamber. They had not dis
appeared behind the heavy curtains be
fore all sorts of surmise* were whis|ered
round the table, guesses and hints so
wild and so sinister aa to do credit
neither to the beads nor the heart#
which originated them. The general
and the ensign stayed a longer time in
the anteroom than would have sufficed
to search the ensign's pocket# twice and
thrice over. Not a sound could be
heard. If any conversation waa going
forward, it must have been in a very
lflpr voice. The two gentlemen were
away for nearly half an hour. All the
military servants had been subjected to
the commandant's rigid scrutiny, and
then dismissed. It might be as well
that none bnt the " gentlemen of the
regiment" should know exactly what
the end was. The delay grew first
awkward and theu awful. Even the
whispers and rumors flagged into an in
tent and excited watching.
At last the general and the ensign
came ont. The ensigu's face waa still
very pale; what flash remained npon it
had now mounted to the eyes. The old
general waa blowing his nose.
"Ensign Hanson haa thoroughly sat
isfied me," he said, in his most gentle
voice. " Never miod my box. It has
vanished by one of those mysterious ac
cident# which will bappeu sometime*.
It will be found some day. And now,
gentlemen, perhips a# we have l>eeu
thus broken np we shall not settle down
again very comfortably to-night. I
hope we shall see you all at the castle
before Lady Elizabeth and I leave for
London."
" General," aaid the commandant,
drawing him a little on one side, " may
I say that I sincerely truat yonr great
generosity has not led you to—"
"Hir," cried tho old general, "can
yon imagine tliat any mistaken idea of
kiudnee# would canse me to make yon a
oompauion of thieve*? Gentlemen,"
he went on, seeing that the company
were not unaware of this little by-play,
" 1 pledge yon mv word that I am sat
isfied of Ensign kanaon's honor; and
whoever dares to doubt him makes me
to be hia accomplice."
And the old general seized the yonng
ensign's arm and marched with him
from the hanqueting-room, while every
one sat dumbfounded, till the spiteful
major remarked that wonders would
never cease.
There was nothing more to be aaid.
It was discovered that Euaigu Hanson
was not only invited to the castle with
tho other officers, bnt waa also asked
there by himself, and actually was be
lieved to have taken tea with the gener
al and Lady Elizabeth in their deepest
retirement. For the general's sake,
.lather than his own, his brother officers
continued on courteous terms with him;
and be hail nlwas been so shy, an-l held
himself so aloof, that perhaps he did
not discover there was bnt little cordi
ality in their courtesy. And presently
he exchanged into another regiment,
which went on foreign service.
He was away for several years, azd in
the fortunes of war he got rapidlv pro
moted, so that when he returned Lome,
thongh be was still yottug, he was no
longer a poor nobody. When he landed
in his own country be fonnd a letter
awaiting him, written by one who hail
sat near him at that memorable dinner-
and who was now residing in the
old castle where the general and Lady
Elizabeth hail then been guest#. This
letter pressed him, in the warmest
terinn, to speDd some of his earliest
days in England at thiH very castle, aud
so give many old friends who were in
the neighborhood an opportunity of
meeting and congratulating him. En
sign Hanson, now Colonel Hanson,
smiled a little strangely when he read
this invitation, but he wrote a very po
lite reply and accepted it.
Once more he sat in the stately old
banqueting-room of the fort. This time
be had not walked in from the bleak
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
<st eud of the town, hut had been dm
en from the ensile in the chariot of the
Cattle's owner. Hnt, As he took hit
seat Hi the elmir of honor, he uotioed
that every race nt the table was, m all
lis Chawfes, familiar to him. All of the
, ffwoata at the former dinner were uot
there. Many of those, indeed, he well
knew, were sleeping ou t-attlofield# far
away. Hut UOIHHIJ *U at tills dinner
who had uot t-oeu at the other oue.
Out* more the dishes were (removed
and the servants withdrawn. The guest
of this evening was uo wonderful story
teller, like the good old general, who
had now passed to his reel. Colonel
Hanson was a* taciturn an Euaign
Hanson had l-en shy, and he even let
the conversation ttag and uever seemed
to notice it.
"Colonel," aanl the eldest gentleman
j of the party, speaking with visible effort,
and giving a slight cough, to vail his
embarrassment; "colonel, I think we all
remember another time when we dined
together here."
"Certainly ; 1 remember it," answer
ed tlic colonel, lifting his gray eyes with
a cool light in them.
" Colonel, we fancy you think some
of us did yon ill justice then. At least
a lady nays von felt so—Lady Elisabeth,
the good old general's widow. If what
we are goiug to do is any way painful to
you. 1 hope you will pardon us, for we
are only following her counsel. Colonel,
there was a box lost that evening. Here
it is."
Ym, there it was, glcamiug once more
in the light which danced gaylv upon it.
The colonel looked at it calmly, and
asked :
" Where was it found t"
His composure was exceedingly dis
concerting. Another gentleman, feel
ing that the first had done his part, now
took up the {-arable.
"It was found in the verv chair on
which you are uow seated, cv-louel," he
said. " You will remember tliat the
general sat there ou that night. It
mnst have found its wav back to the
general's owu hand, and In the interest
and excitement of his story-tolling he
must have intended to slip it back iuto
his pocket, which, if vou recollect, was
the first place where Le sought it. In
stead of that, it evidently escaped the
proper orifice and dropped iuto the cov
ering of the chair; that ouveriug was
very thick and heavy, and hung in lap
pet* abont his legs. Hart of it wo* uu
sewu, and this box dropped between the
damask and the lining and remained
the, safely and unseen, till the chair
wa* recovered last year."
"Gentlemen," said the colonel, with
his accustomed calmness, though his
lip trembled a little, " I cannot wonder
if some of von thought my con-inet sus
picious. i thank you heartily for show
ing me your brotherly delight that those
suspicious were unfounded."
At the bottom of the table sat the
spiteful old major (he was on half-pay
now, and more spiteful than ever), and
lie thought within himself that there
wa* no knowing whether Ensign Han
son had uot taken some subsequent op
portunity of getting rid of his danger
ous booty into the hole in the dannu-k,
and that the mystery oonld uot be called
cleared np, unless the oolouel had ex
plained why he hail demurred to the
search. Aud this spiteful old major
would have said n* much to bis next
neighbor, if he himself had not beeu so
terribly deaf that he could uot regulate
his owu vosce between a confidential
whisper und a mighty shout.
The colonel sat iu silence for some
minntos. Thcu he recallel himself
with a start, and, drawing somethiug
from his owu jjocket, said quietly :
" Geutlomeu, I, too, have something
to show you."
All pressed forward a# he carefully
unfolded the soft pajn-r {jacket and laid
something on the table. Y> hat was -t ?
Wliat oonld it be ?
It was the bleached skeleton of a
chicken's wing.
"Gentlemen," lie said, m that same
quiet voice, which no longer sounded
cold and stern, bnt rather f nil of strength
and sweetness, " when I was here be
fore, I was a poor, fatherless Lad. own
ing nothing in the world bnt my poor
little pittance of pay. 1 bar I w# an
eyesore to some of you. I think yon
felt that my appearance did uot do
justice to the diguitv of onr regiment.
I Itelieve I often looked rather shabby,
but really I could not help it.
" I had only one relation in the world,
and that was my mother's sister. After
my mother died she had been as a
mother to me, but when onr home was
finally broken np, there was nothing fur
it but she must l-e a governess in a
stranger's house. And she did her
work courageously and cheerfully
enough, till her health failed, aud
nobody wanted the service of a sick
woman.
" Hhe bad always been good to me,
and we two had only each other in the
world. 1 conld not help her as ahe
ought to have l>een helped, but my pay
would at least provide her anch a home
and snch a maintenance as a poor work
lugman can give to a poor working
woman .
" I took my annt to lodge with the
wife of the miller's man, in the little
l-lack cottage beside the mill. She was
a very kind, cleanly woman, though
rongh and plain in her ways; and my
{-oor annt used to tall herself very
liappy there. Bnt she oonld not eat the
simple food aiy scanty means could pro
cure. And the good landlady used to
break my heart by suggesting that her
appetite might be tempted bv chickens
or game, or such other luxuries beyond
my utmost reach.
" All the day of that memorable din
ner-party my annt hail been very feeble
and failing. When 1 left her I really
wondered whether she wonld be alive
when I saw her again. My soul revolted
at the sicht of dainties which were no
good to mc, and which I could not con
vey to her who seemed dying for want
of them. Suddenly a bright idea Seized
mc. 1 took a letter from my ixjckct
and spread it on my napkin, an-l then,
by an adroit movement, transferred the
wing of a chicken from my plate to the
paper, and thence smuggled it to my
pocket"
The listening gnest# l-egan to look at
each other with enlightened eyes. The
spiteful old major feit that very full
explanation waa being given—and he
was glad he was deaf, that he need not
hear it
" Gentlemen, yon can all imagine my
feelings when sncli nnlookcd-for cir
cumstances threatened to ex{Kj#e my
poor little plan. Gentlemen, there nre
some of yon who were, like myself,
yonng then; whom it would have been
aa hard to meet, after snch a discovery,
as it wonld have been had I really stolen
the jewels."
"Heaven forgive ns, Hanson; but I
can't say yon are wrong." said one
brave gentleman, who had been a fash
ionable dandy in those days, but who
bail a wife and six ohildren now.
"Gentlemen, I did not fear the old
man honored aud enriched by a grateful
country. The men who have fought
the best buttles of life have ever a piti
ful respect for the poor and friendless.
To him I could lay bare my poor little
secret. Bnt my place then wu# among
the young—the young, who, having
never conqnerwd, alwavs despised the
defeated —the vain, giddy youths, ex
travagant with their fathers' money,
and "
" Oh, come, Ranson," cried one offi
cer, "it is your turn now, with a veu-
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1870.
gvatuV, I'letuH' to remember that to
iiight we are the abject and Jefeateib
1 and le merciful."
'ltn- x>loiiol taught#!. Anil thev could
uol tell whether it was Willi good (ruth
or nubile irony that he rej-Jiutst, " You
are right," mid then went ou:
. "lu that liKlc room, yonder, 1 told
my sad story to that goo-1 great man
who is gone. Aud I folded up my
queer treasure again, for I could uot
leave it liehiud to I-ear Witness ; amt,
bennies, having paid such a terrible
price for it, 1 dtd net see why my auut
should not iisvs it- Aud she ate it for
her supper that very night; and next
moruiug, almost as soon as U was light,
there was the geueral hammering at the
cottage door, with a basket of (owls and
fruit carried in his owu bau-1. Ami,
then and there, I took this little chicken
boue, and vowed that I would keep it
till the snnff-box was found, and 1 my
self was f-uoli a man annftig saeh uusu
that uoue would ainde at my poverty, or
even despise my weakness."
I'rtJuble Among the Telephones.
The telephone occasionally g- crazy.
A reporter of the World happened into
a shoe store l-etween whlcli and its
wholesale manufactory a telephone
has lieeu Constr -.eted, was sn.arist to he
boid the geina! propm-lor, with face
atlnttie and eyes dilataag, dan- lug a horn
pipe, whils to his s*ra ha in-id the
jH-akitig-tubcol themsUiUuenL "What
the blank, blank, blank -lue the idmt
mean ?" he exclaimed U> the clerks who
amiably clustered around him. One
doe* not always get a chance to see a
shoe manufacturer dance. Hndilenlv
changing the tul>e from his ear to hfs
moutii he shouted out: " Ihnici) take
your salt fish; 1 tell you to have those
shoes made to bttttou."
Au interval of aiUittce. "No, uot
mutton; button," he shriektsl.
More silence, during which the shoe
dealer kept the instrument to his ear
ami secnied to llie l<Kkers-on tc be draw
ing through it tire and brimstone, ao
red in the face he gre. I'resentlv ia a
rage he dropped the handle and diafcp
piearevl iuto the mner office. The re
porter thereupou picked iu> the oar
tramp't and was at once sslutcil with
the startling question: " Have yon got
those fish I sent up packed in ice t"
" Who the dnece are yon ?' safil the
voice.
" How alsjut th-aie shoes?"
"A No. 1, lid-7 preferred. Take
all," said somebody, softly, as if mur
muring to himself auioug the pyramids
of Egypt
" How many case* have you sent lo
the Anchor line?" was the thundering
response.
"Cases of what—small-pox ?" came
urn He red back, dreamily—sad then the
tolephun# quivered tuider a storm of
wicked words.
'• When- are you ?" said the reporter.
" Nuue of your busincas," replitsl the
flrst voice, and there was a laiug as if
somebody ha.! alammts! down the cover
of a piano in a harry, after which, mi-re
faintly than before,'the same mysterious
wbi-penng of myshe nnmliera went on
fr a few momenta ami than •-..wd. It
was all >cry puxalmg until nn agent of
the telephone company called lu explain
tliat the shoe store wire had f-Il athwart
wjges leading re*{w-etivelj ti Fulton ff' !i
market and the st.-ek exchange .Vn •
York World.
Ecoaoialriag fuel
One of the great objj-oticms to ordi
nary flreplae. * is tlist too much of the
heat goes up the chimuwv, aud innumer
able have heen the attempts to obviate
that loss. Regiat.r stoves have l-een
invente.l, and various contrivauce# adopt
ed to regnlate the draught an I re.hice
the size of the flue. One method pr*>.
(kwosl was to light t!w fire on tlw lop,
and, after the that lew m.oaten, as UMJ
heat spread downward, all the smoke
{tassiug through the upper ncaudes.-. ut
layer cunvamed, and so much the
mure heat saved; but the moment the
fire Lad to be made up again all the ad
vantage* were lost. One of the latest
sugg<wtions to prevent the waate of heat
WAX to form the bottom of the grato of
an iron plat# niHteiui of bars. An im
. provemeut ou that plan ia a patent cxwi
wouonim r, which iiaa a iwdluw pierosl
cyliuder rising from tlw* uinhlle uf the
P-ate. The air en tori ug the cylinder
from below the grate ia thus conwyetl
' .it once into the center of the fire, and
the heat, instead of dialling tn- Hie
otnroney in nudne qnanVitV, is dfffiiaefl
into the room, and coal er*aiu*iiixel.
The perfectioa of Outtibust tun is SCIIMV
i cd when, lustoad of feeding th<> cjl u-ler
with the vitiated atr of the r-*>m, it is
supplied by a pipe communicating with
- the external air. And further, we are
informed that if camphor or any other
disinfectant ia hnng on the cylinder, the
' scent is driven into every corner of th
ipartment. So that a roam roav be p#r
ttimed, disinfected or vcnulatod by this
ixjntrivauce when properly mauag#.!.
A Festival of Wa*herwomen.
Greenville Murray, in a now " K -nnd
About Franco " naper, tells how Paris
is washed, starched and ironed every
week. He says that French laundresses
have an awkward trick of pnttingon the
flue liueu of dicir lady ctiNtomers to
deck themselves withal ou festive occa
siona; and this they do epecilly at the
yearly festival of washerwomen which
take* place on the Thursday of Mid
1/eut. On that day the laundresses of
each wash-house clod a queen—gene
rally the prettiest girl who washes in
the quarter; she in turn nominates a
king, some fascinating young fellow
who drive* a laundry cart, and the pair
lieing tricked ont iu their I-eat are driven
nbout all duy in a carriage iui<i pair,
followed by a gallant piDOfSHion of Otbor
WHHherwomen and washermen in vans,
cart# and gigs of every description. Iu
the evening tliero is n grand dinner, for
which two or thrivi lavotra clnb together,
and the procwediitgs wind up with n
bull. During Mi-Csroma weak ladies
have often lo oorapl&in that their j-nart
est petticoats, ailk stockings ami laced
handkerchiefs sro missiug, fjr the
queens got themselves regardless of
other people's expense, and are neTor ao
pleased as when they can find among
their customers' bundle* the nwterials
fur a showy bridal ooatumo, all wlnto
and fresh.
There is probably nothing so common
of which so little" ia known, or about
which there is so mneli curiosity, ss tho
newspaper. Men road it every day;
they abnse it, threaten to give it tip,
{-niise it, advertise their wants in it-,
write ty it, search it to see if their
letters are in it, call it hard names, pav
for it year after year—and atill
to ninety-nino out of a hundred
of them its production is a com
plete mystery. To them It ia a
business office, a newsboy, or a post
offloe, who are simply carrier#, and that
is all. It is the exemplification of effect
without cxnse—an impersonal institu
tion with plenty of vitality, and some
times oven with genius; but it is always
mysb rions, even to those most intimate
ly connected with it. The whole of its
secret# are known to no single individual.
Its personality i "Wallowed tip iu the
editorial "we," into whose depths no
man penetrate#, aud even the inquisition
of the law never got# behind its inner
most curtain. The only name pertaining
to it ia that of the publisher, the
accoucheur, who becomes responsible
I for its birth.
The Newspaper
4't'KIOMTLES or VI'M,OB FEVEK
Tar I ratlin* N* Oilrmi. liuuiu • tun* mm
tfcr ria*a*-lu I unaiSaarr hV. ratrl.
lUr-aud Inuatnllr, % FU< ilr.
Yellow fever is the queerest disease tn
the worhl. Nearly two hundred years'
study of it has brought no uuauimitv of
opinion about it. Doctors differ,
nurse* differ, pahents differ, authorities
differ. Th* t-Mtom reason of it all is
that veiUw fever differs. ff to be
" inauywidad " be a proof of greatness,
ttwui yellow fvr must Iw s great fever.
Every o*ae differ* frotn every other ease,
every epidemic differ* from every pre
ceding epidemic. He who sees it for
the thousandth time e*u find something
new in It, provided he has eyes. He
who made up h!a opinion forty years
ago, and tucks to it, is a poor authority
uow. Yellow (ever la like * character
sot* aon the stage, who oomua out in
■ Ufferrut ooituu< sud with different
gestures and voices, but is the same
man under it all.
Th* geographical freaks of yellow
fever are extrardin*ry. between fifty
aud a hundred years ago it ravaged our
Northern Title*, especially New York
Slid J'hiladelphia,a# iiadly an it ever rav
aged Neff Orh-aus. Now It is unknown
fti these Ibealitics. Until IMO it had
viev-r attacked Kin Janeiro, aTtlamgh
that cay SMumdastlvoiptasil to u. for
fifty veara. Htnoa Ihfiu, the fever is
toitmi at Kio at all naasoua. Than- is
one city pu the uortlmru coast of Houth
America Caraccaa, if I remember
jireaenting Uie supfK-stal cauww. of
vellow fever in tin- must concentrated
tons, where no case has ever occurred.
It will spjiear lor a dozen years sue
cesiv*iy in cue of the West India
island#, quarantine or no quarantine,
and lor tho nest duaen u will not ap
pear, although unrestricted tuter\x>urse
with tnf-c>ed ports is j>eruuttd. The
monster will survey the whole Southern
coast, and pounce only on Hsvauuah.
It will deliberately pas* by onr imperi
al etty, move np the riverii, and attack
Biisfve|airt ami Mempl i*. There is no
aooountiug far its movements, and no
pcodictiug the in. It ma., become epi
deaui- throughout the Southern States:
it tuny be retrugadc lo riuladslpbia and
New Yi<rk. it may locate in Mexico.
(Jush) tat* f
YetluW fever i unknown in the trop
ics of th# eastern hemisphere, where all
the supposed aaua> of it exist in the
highest degrms It s>ein to b# an Af
rican powou ungrafte I UO the white race
of the two Americas. A humorous
friend suggests that from its yellow
color, its black vomit, and its sporial
ravage of slavehohling conntriwi, we
might have known long ago that the
uegn* waa at the bottom of it. The na
tive African han no such fever. The
Afi.oau brought tu the West Indian nev
er has yellow fevor. The Weal Indian
urgr.'hr -iight to the United btatos is
uol liable to it. The alsvra cf the
Southern States ba| tiiis JU-OPM- very
rarely b-fore IHfri Sfnce then they
have been 1-ecoming more and more
snbj-ct to it, YalUw fever is a groat
turn-o>st, and henceforth w- may ex
jv ,-t it to b<< hyal to tli# constuutiona!
amenducata. and tunke it* attacks
" without regard UJ race, color or pre
vfons condifion."
Who ran give any '{•lansit-le rca*-a
why the n*rive-tm |ir-}*|!ti,.n cf this
slat#, e#fi-iaily th-aw- of Prvnrh origin,
huold hurt) been aimoat entirely ex
ampt from ydlpw fever for a httndred
yeara ? And who can account for the
change going un during the lad thirty
vpara, h-w!y, but ao that uow the dill-
Jlton l*>ro here Jutve had little xeiap
ticn more than the chilffrru of the
stranger ?
Now. who do y>-n sapptsie are lmst
liable uf all the people to be with
yallow fever? The neat aud cleanly?
These who handle silks ami iaee*. or
deal in perfumery ? Those who live in
salutary -pots, qci-upy fine house*, witli
l-aUi-ixoni faoiiilies, ami am oia.l iu
snowy litiea? No indcc.l! A groat
many writers agree oti the curioua fact
that" sean-tigvra. farrier*, tanners, dis
aocUug- room p#..jHe, gravo-ligger* am!
thoae wis- iiAadla Use offsl and offensive
J weaving antraai tuaitor sru remarkably
eUTupi from tins diaeacti. Why d-eay
ing vegetable matter should cause it (?)
and decaying animal matter prevent it,
ia a ant for the sanitary philosopher* to
crack.
Yellvw fever nrwtetfmro attacks the
animal kingdom. Wl*toi hrwnl of a
h<tune do# haaatg ehilla and tovsr, or a
, reapeUl>le haf-y dying of IwIKHIS RO
mittout? Thaaa/Trou ea-urge • nn-rv
diffusive m its uative, and haa been
koowu to visil aQ kunia of animals. Irum
the horse and cow down to the rat and
canary bird.
!>r.' Rrtslt **rw thst ft! 1793 over five
thi usai.d eato diail of yellow faver in
Hiiiadalphia. In twi #pdenne which
▼iaitail (libndtar in 1812, every monkey,
parrot, dog, cat, rat and canary bird in
that place perished by tlli* diaoaae.
Perhaps the vollow fever oommiasioti
will cxplatu why the file# disappeared ao
otyaUtnoualy this summer. Why the
moequituea vaniMiod from some locali
ties altogether: aud why ai on# time it
wa# impossible to get rid of the ants,
afld at another time impossible to find
oue.
Yellow lever ia MijjposeJ, oo vcrvalen
dcr grouuds. to he contagious, aud some
people are aakviiahmgly afraid of it It
shares wfth AM stir cholera th* glory of
being able to get np a first clan* panic iu
the bnauin race. Smallpox haa some
reputation for generating a scare, bnt it
will alwuys stand third in the panic mar- |
ket. Yellow fever is unquestionably
Hnt. It# contagion, however, like
everything alx-nt it, is very queer. It ia j
very ftrtitagious to some people and uot j
at al! contagion# tootliflr people. If one
man Joeka out of a window at a yellow
fever fu ral he will catch it another
person may live in a yellow fever hospi
tal aud breath# the poison day and night
and keep in rubicund health. ff you
ilont want it vou wHI be apt to get it,
but if yuu aoeV ft yon can't find it. Des
perate wi-ineU, nocking death, have of-
Uui sought it in vain by die utmost ox- j
I asm re to yellow fever poison. Uuao
cl:muted doctors, sciciwie blind or crazy,
have elspt with yellow fever patient#,
disaectod thetr toslien. Injected their
blood into their, owu veins, and eveu
drank tho li)tick vomit(l) with perfect •
impunity.
Feor ha# 11 good deal to do with it,
as with many other diseases. The vol
low feier ia sometimes likea mean yellow
dog. If yon far* him ami defy him he
will slink"away, but if yon recede from
him lie wiU porta* and attack yon. He
hahffieen known tfltfilin#e{*ople a# far as
tflnoinnati or New TfiKjk. Tliere is an
immense deal of pioffMruing done by
doctors and nurse* and fnwadu to keep
tip the hope and courage ofy*flow fever
{jatients. A doctor ami an tiffin with a
panicky faee are as mean a (Kitfible of
portraits a# ypn oouUl display jiff a sick
room.
Pleasantry aside, a bad oaae of yellow
fever ia well calculated to make • think
ing man nfraid. It ia not only a severe
malady, bnt a fearfully treacherous aud
deceitful one. It is the oiwssnm of :
diseases ; it pretends to l-e sleeping or j
even dead and gone, when fit is more i
alive than ever ; uot only are it# aymp- '
turns of the most distressing kind, lint
the sudden tnrus it take# are absolutely
appalling. What are yon to think of a
disease in which you leave yonr patient
at nine o'clock in the morning express
ing himself perfectly well, and actually
looking ao, sending dispatches to his
wife, couveraiug cheerfully and ration
ally, and whom you find dead and laid
out a few hourn afterward ? Thews in
explicable change* are tne cauae* of a
great many au|>eratitiou*, false theories
and alxttird regulatioua of the sick
room.
The energetic minds of nurse* and
friends must find a cause for these
changes, aud they generally seize UJMIU
the last thing taken or done as the true
"Oh, the patient was getting on sph-u
didly, but the d'-ctor came in ami threw
off oue of the blankets, and she went
right Into a congestive chill," "The
doctor gave him two taldespoonful* of
chicken tea and it brought on the black
vomit." "The doctor let him change
hi* ahirt on the fifth day— and,of course-,
he died on the sixth !" " Tfiey allowed
him a drink of ice water, and lit- had
seven convulsions the next day." " The
doch-r had one of the windows o|>eutid,
ami t!M- patient went out of his miuu in
fifteen minutes."
A thousand such stories are Iteing
wufh-d to and fro upon the air of New
Orleans to-day. To all of which we
doctors may relate the story of Mr.
Hmilh, who fell dead whilst shaving
himself at his looking glass one morn
ing— aud the editorial comment—" and
yet, notwithstanding this appalling ca
tastrophe, men will continue shaving
theiuselve* at their lookiag-glasses
every day I" •
It i very queer that yellow fever
should have spread ao extensively in all
directions, wheu there are ao many aure
and wuty ways of preventing it. As
soon as it ap|amt, hew many genuine
philanthropic*, retired nurses, retired
missionaries, etc., came to the front and
told us how to ettcape it ! lam eclectic
in my principles, and take the good out
of everything—ao 1 made a compound
prophylactic prescription f.-r mv patient*
which never failed to prevent the disease
in ei cry case in which it was trie#!. It
WIUI this : Wear a oatuphor lag on your
breast, a cspaiciue plaster on your back,
iioltuan'a pad ou your stomach, flowers
of sulphur in your stockings, the rat
tles of a rattlesnake in yottr pocket, and
take a pill of quinine every morning,
pulverized charcoal at dinner, Wmalow'a
Boothuig sirup at bed-time, taimon'#
liver regulator twice a week, and go off
at once UJ the White mountains 1
It is very queer also that the board of
health sln-uld have persisted in report
ing so many deaths when we doctors
were so nntlorndy successful. Ask any
doctor if he was not sneormful. Ask
the friendadf any particular doctor if be
wn n<>t very successful. The answer
will always be in the affirmative. It
logically follows, therefore, that we
have all lwen successful—and as Dr.
Smith la dead, there is nobody left to
father the epidemic.
To achieve success, however, the doc
tors ere put to Lheir metal. Old allo
path, venerable with years and honors,
viucrged from hi* office radiant with
cobwebs, and pli*l hi* purgatives and
emetics, aud sweating# and blistcrings,
and calomel and quinine and morphine,
and succeeded, just as he did in 'AS and
'47 and 719, and one or two hundred
yours away bark 1 Yourg aik pathy,
wiiL hia clinical thermometer and hypo
dermic syringe, hta scientific inrreda
lay, his small doac* and new remedies,
hi* i-ejicbuit for fresh air and cold
a ator, made a groat many friend* and a
pretty p-svl rec-.rd. Homeopathy, with
his •nhbtne faitJi in the minuter opera
tnms of natnre and of medicine, his
#cientitle precis u, his {mcket drug
su re under hi* arm, at-J a friendiy lean
tug toward young allopathy, sncwd#it
—well, tot hi* friends toll how he anc
ccvlfvl.
IJ&MIJ, and the queerest thing of all,
there:*'a prophTlartio against yellow
fever, not hkelv to l-e discovered or in
dorsed by the present yellow fever
cntnmisMou. Tlist is. the verv cautious
and iduUfal itabulation with tbe txiiaou
of the rattieauake, ao aa to produce a
alight artificial disease resembling ▼el
low fever. This will prove more effica
cious than tH>lladonna against scarlet
fewer; it may even rival in value the u#e
of vaccination against smallpox. But
a* th measure is luued upon and cou
tlnuatory of the homeopathic law of
cure, it will hare to wait npon the sure
but gradual evolution of bomwopalLy
itself; upon Uu- happy time# when allo
pathy and quarantine# are alike extinct.
Dr. W*. li. //u/cornhc, in .NVir iklran*
/V'flytme.
How to lake * Saner kraut,"
The proper way to maae sauer-kranT,
fcccirdingto the recipe given by a N w
' York paper, if a* follow*: The reeij-e
is for the manufacture of one barrel,
i Take si-ont thirty or forty bends of cab
bage (the numlior will dej#od ou the
tutMol the baada), and first clean them
and cut them tip fine with a slaw cutter
or sharp carving knife. Next mix the
cabbage well with salt; for thirty gosl
sired heads two quarts of salt will lie
sufficient. Hack the cabbage m the bar.
rel i t wine or hqnor barrel, well-clean
ed and scalded, is perhaps the I-est),
and altar-it is {jacked, put a clean
inuaim cloth on the top ol the cal-ljage,
ejitircJ.T covering it. Then put a wooden
cover on the cloth, and ou the cover
place a clean atone weight (an iron
weight wonld rust and flavor the saner
kraut). I hit the oar rel in a dry place,
and everT week be careful to wash the
cloth, tin- weight and the wooden cover.
! The cabbage will uot be transformed
uito good sauer kraut in loss than
throe w>eks; it would be better if it
oonld remain in pickle for two months.
When 1 .-th cover and weight are
washed each week the brine on top of
the cat-bag*- should be tasted, and if it
jis rathor fn-ah, more salt should be
sprinkled on; the cabbage must always
be covered with brine. If by evapora
tion or uoakage the bnne booomea low.
it will l>e ueoeesary to make a brine
strong enough to float an egg or pota
to, ami poor enough of it on to oover
the cabbage. Before it is ready for nae
it mnst be thoroughly washed several
time* in clear coin water. To be oaten
raw it mnv be mixed with vinegar and
sjuoee. to prepare it for cooking, boil
it tu clear water for teu minntea, then
put it in a colander, squeeze the water
out of it, and it i# then ready to ok
and serve with meat. Saner-kra it
is particularly g<x>d in connection with
pigs' jowl, pig's tail, and pig*' feet
Germans like it with the smoked sau
sage imported from Frankfort, aud
other* find anch a mixture very palata
ble,
Forest l-and* of Europe.
The proportion of land covered with
forest* throughout Europe is twenty
nine per oont., of which Huasia and
Hweden furnish the greatest part. In
Russia, forty per cent, of territory is
cover oil with woods, and of this some
200,000,000 acres are covered with pines
and other cone-bearing tree#. Hweden
and Norway have thirty-four per cent.,
chiefly birch, maple, pine, fir and wil
low. Austria haa twenty-nine per cent.,
Germany has tweuty-zix per cent, and
Franco seventeen. Far Inflow these
cornea Spain, with its cork woods and
evergreen oak forests, eoveriug seven
per cent, of the land, and Holland and
Belgium with the same. Portugal comes
next with five per eent., and Great Brit
ain fojlow# with four per cent. The
percentage annually decrease# in all
countries rapidly. As far back aa 1838
it waa estimated that timber waa cnt
down yearly in Great Britain aud Ire
land alone to the value of ff10,000,000.
TERMS: a Yoar, in Advance.
"A MAS FIMH."
Tlir l arteas SSMIs* *1 a,Tall •**•**<•
■■■ lima* TSSSNMS,
A abort Urns hum the Teauaaae* and
Kentucky iiewapapereemitßinwd • aUrt
; bug amount of a wfid man lately
captured, with great difficulty, in the
Cumberland mountain#. He wa*
feet ten incbea high, extraordinarily
fleet of foot, and exrasuovely aagage. He
fe<l chiefly ou raw fialt, which he cap
tured with-it artificial aid. He spent
much of hia time in the water, and after
bring captured he had to be frequently
bathed. He waa nvered with abining
scale*, like those of a fish. Hia bauds
and feet were webbed like the feet of
water-fowl*—ao the uew#{aper accounts,
with many embellishment a, ran. It ta
scarcely ueeenaary to say that much of
thm story was only showman's talk,
uttered to attract the attention of tits
curious and credulous public.
The physician* of Louisville were
invited to visit the monster upon hia ar
rival in the city, prior to bis general
exhibition. Among others I visited the
merman; but before seeing the case I
had diagn- wed it a* one of icthyusia, and
a single gtauce wsa sufficient to verify
the correctness of my conjecture. The
man fish presents a most magnificent
example of the form of ictbyosis or fish
skin disease, called icthvuaia serpentina,
or eeqient skin; and hia general effect
la more that of a sequent than of a fish.
Hnt upon different parts of hia body
may be found nearly all the varieties of
ictfiyosia. The resemblance of this
man's skin to the abed skin of a boa
constrictor, lately brought me by a
friend from the" zoological garden in
Loudon, is almost perfect. About his
joints the skin is loose and wrinkled,
hanging in folds, and the scale* are
large, suggesting the skin of a lisard or
alligator a)>out their limbs and belly.
Hi* arms and leg* remind one of the
•kin of the buffalo porch, the carp, or
or other large fish. The cuticle every
where is dry aud harsh, and never per
spirea. There seems to be an absolute
absence of fat, and the man la shrunken
and withered, of a dead ashen-gray ap
pearance, except here and there, where
Le is brownish or blackish. Though
only about fifty years of age, he im
presses one as a very old man. The
stun of the face is red and shining, and
tightly drawn abont the cheeks, pulling
the lower lids down to such an extent as
to perfectly evert them, making* horni
caae of ectropion. In some places his
scales are silvery, in others dark, and
again in other* are small and tjrauoy.
Hi# hair is very thin auJ Jead-luuking.
The backs of Lis baud* are fissured, and
on his palms and solsa the cuticle is
grcsllA thickened. Thp fingers and toan
seem shorter than natural, and the akin
ia drawn lightly back over both feet and
lianas. The septum between the fingers
and toes seems to extend much further
down than usual, thus suggesting the
webbed appearance before alluded to.
He IN considerably over six feet in
height, ana is a man of a low order of
intelligence. He is married, and is the
father of several children, none of whom,
fortunately, inherit his malady; and as
icthyosia is almost, if not always s <n
gi-niial disease, they are not likely ever
to have it. The fish man fails to pre
sent but a single variety of ictbyoeia,
and that is the porcupine disease, a* it
is called. In this, spine*, formed by
hardened sebaceous material, protrude
from the akin, closely packed together.
Wilaon state# that ha has observed them
a quarter of an inch long. Lilian re
port# having encountered them of an
inch in lecglh. 1 have newr seen them
longer than an eighth of an inch. Many
rear* ago two brothers, in England,
having this form of tcthyoaia, were
exhibited in the shows as porcupine
men.
Ictbyoais is one of the rareat of akin
disease*. I am under the impreaaion
that if is more frequent in Europe than
in this country. In ten years 1 have
seen leas than a dozen cases. Its cause,
a* I stated in my report to the American
Dermstological saaoeiaHon, in 1877, is
scrofula, according to my observation
and experience. It ia found in all the
walks iff life. I have encountered it
with equal frequency among the rich
and the poor. It is commonly eooatd •
cred incurable, and only temporarily
aud partially untigable.
The treatment which I have found
successful in permanently removing
iclliyosia, in more than one case, con
sists tu the use of the ooastroctivea,
i. c., ood-liver oil, extract of malt, simp
of the iodide of iron, airup of the bypo
phoaphitea, etc.; attention to the
digestive organs, aud by giving the
rich est and boat fat-producing food*,
anch as cream, butter, hog meat, fresh
or cured, sugar and othar sweets. A
careful aud thorough daily anointing
with some oleaginous substance is of
great value, and prolonged vapor or hot
water baths should he employed fre-
quently.— Dr. IP. Yandrlt, (s/jouu
t iIU Medical AVTCA.
Erery lan His Own Ixjcoaietite.
The newspaper carrier who serves
paper* to the attendants io the perma
nent exhibition building goes his rounds
at the rate of twelve miles an hoar. He
travels on machine* not unlike roller
skates, which are called pedometer*,
according to the iuvcutor, Mr. J. H.
Hobbe. au architect on Walnut street,
atoive Fifth. The day is not far distant
when the whole city will be cm wheels,
when {xsh-striana will be skimming
through the street# at the rate of ton
miles au lionr without any more effort
than ia now pnt forth in perambulating
half that distance. The pedomotor con
sist# of four tough, light wooden wheels,
supplied with an onter rim of tongh
India robber. These wheels are secured
to a frame the shape of the foot, which
is strapped to the pedal extremities in
the nsnal manner. Unlike roller skates,
the wheels of theee little vehicles are not
under,but are placed on each aide of the
foot, thus giving the wearer a good as
well as a solid footing. The roar wheels
are three indie# in diameter,while th-aa
in front are but two and half inches.
This gives the foot a slight incline, and
when in motion has much to do in im
pelling the {Jtaleetrian forward. Extend
ing from the t*', with a slight cnrl to
ward the ground, i* niece of casting
termed the pusher, which is simply uaed
in mounting the elevation or steep in
cline. From the center of the heel a
small brass wheel extends backward,
serving as a guide aa well aa a brake.
The whole scarcely turns the scale at a
pound weight. In using them no more
effort is required than in ordinary walk
ing. The wearer steps with his regular
stride, and ia amazed to find himaelf
skimming over the ground so rapidly
with so little muscular effort, Mr. Hobbs
explains the mystery of the rapid
movement a# follows: A man whose
stride ia thirty-two inches will traverse
forty-eight inches, or one-half further,
with the pedomotor. This is because the
body is iu constant motion. For instance,
says he, the traveler start#, and while
he raises one foot to step he continues
rapidly onward until the foot is set down
and the other raised to make another
step. This gives him mere momentum,
and away he goes over two miles in the
same time it would take nim to accom
plish a mile with the feet. No effort of
the Ijody is required for their use, as in
skates. The traveler simply plants one
foot before the other and finds himself
whizzing along at a lively Phila
delphia Record.
NUMBER 3.
TIMKLY TOPICS.
Tl>e world's production nf gold k ooa
third lest than in 1880.
In the United HUtea alone, in 1877,
100 deaths per week were reported from
accidents by keroaeoe.
A resident of Washington, Kj., took
a vow that tf ever be got drunk again bo
would whip himself all the way borne
from the tavern. He got drnuk, and
fulfilled his vow with sueb vigor that be
could not stir out of bed for two weeks.
From the rethar imperfect ►Utiatina
at hand, it ia estimated that the total
amount of honey produced in Hie United
HUUv, ia not ICM than 38.000,000 pounds
for the year 1878. In 1870 the returns
gave 1i.70-i.BBI. and 681,129 of boos
wax.
Luia Gardens, an artist of Quito,
Bonth America, baa seat to the da
partmeut of at ate at Washington a
fall length portrait of General Wash
ington. It is considered an excellent
hkeu*s, anJ will be framed and bung
in the white house.
At a r**ut fashionable wedding is
London the bridegroom requested the
bride to order her own jewel*. TWa
•he did; and bills have now eomc in to
the trusting brtuagroom MB on b ting to
over Shou.OOO. He is unable to psy.
end the jewels'* decline to take beck
their wares.
The Ilural New Yorker says: *' An
intending purchaser should Us re the
horse brought out before him, and
watch the animal as be stands at rest.
If the owner is ountiaoallf starting the
horse into motion, and urging him to
" aliow ofl," something may be a aspect
ed, because it is when the horse is at
perfect rest that his weak points sre
divulged. If the horse be sound, be
will stand right square on his limbs,
without moving auj of them, the feet
being flat opon the ground, and all his
legs plumb and naturally posed; if one
leg be thrown forward, with the toe
pointing to the ground, and the heel
raised, eg if the foot be lifted from the
ground, and the weight taken from ft,
disease or tenderness may be . ins
pected."
China has a governor-general by name
Li Hung Chang. Be is at the head of
the progressive party in that country,
whose great aim M to avoid the course
pursued by the Japanese in leaning so
mnch upon Europeans, snd to develop
Chins bv Chinamen. With this view a
variety "of great undertakings are in
contemplation— a steam navigation com
pany, extensive mining operations, the
gradual introduction of railroads snd
telegraphs, snd s postal system on the
ordinary model. With a view to at
tracting investors, the competitive sys
tem of selecting employees, which for
some 2,000 yean has been rigidly ad
hered to, is to be at once laid aside, snd
any contributor to the stock of certain
of the new schemes will have the right
of nominating a clerk. Xo attempt at
improving the poatal communication
with the capital ia immediately contem
plated, but during the summer, cor
respondence between Pekin and Tient
sin ia to be carried on daiiv by donkey
or horse mail, and m winter by a route
which at beat tnvulvea ten days.
The Sea Vrpeat Again.
Captain William SL Ne'aott, of the
ship Sacramento, ha* seen the aea ser
pent. " I have never had any confidence
in the yarns which have been told from
time fc' time by seamen about the aea
serpent," be said to a Hew York World
reporter, "for you know water dogs
have a faealtv tar stretching things •
little, but 1 must confess my opinion ia
changed since I saw Una monster.
Whether it waa the nasi aea serpent or
ta* I don't know, but call it that or
whatever else yon have a mind. U waa
certainly a very * range creature. I
never saw anything like it before in all
my fortv-eight years' experience at aea.
We left New York on July 16,1877, and
sailed for fifty-eight days with fair winds
and no nnusnal incident*. About uoou
on the fortv-ninth day, the man at the
wheel—J *8 Hart was his name— no
ticed an immense motionless body lying
on the surface of the sea only a abort
distance from the ship. The sea at the
time waa quiet and the object waa tn
plain sight. The animal had tfaeap
(Hwrance of a very large snake of from
fifty to aixty feet in length, and lay per
fectlv motionless upon the surface of the
water, with its tail only, and a small
¥>rtion of the body near it, submerged.
he body of the aerjieot waa about the
six# of an ordinary flour barrel. The
head was like an alligator's, and the
mouth contained rows of teeth. The
color of the beast was a yellowish brown.
About ton feet from its heed waa a large
pair of flippers. When first seen by Hart
its bead was raised some three feet shove
the surface of the sea. The man must
have been wild at the sight, for he howl
ed down to roe that there waa a sea ser
Cent near by. If he'd said anything else
nt aea serpent I'd have gone right up,
but that word staggered roe, and I sim
ply sat down and laughed. I went up
in "a few minutee, though, and saw the
creature a short way astern. Ever since
that daT I'm satisfied that the sea-serpent
exists. * For the rest of the voyage the
sailors were on the look out for more.
The t haage* in tke Frog.
Nowhere in the animal kingdom is
there so favorable an opportunity for
peeping into natnre's workshop a* in the
metamorphoses of the frog. Tlus ani
mal is a worm when it oomee from the
egg, and remains soeh the first four days
of its life, having neither eyes nor tars
nor nostrils nor respiratory organs. It
crawls. It breathes throngh iU skin.
After a while a neck is grooved into the
flesh. Its soft lips are hardened into a
a horny beak. The different organs,
one after another, bnd ont; then a pair
of branching gills, and last a long and
limber tail. The worm has become fish.
Three or four days more elapee, and the
gills sink back into the bcily, while in
their place others ooma, much more
complex, arranged in vascular tufts, 112
in each. But they, too, have their day,
and are absorbed, together with their
frame work of bone and cartilage, to
b© succeeded by an entirely different
breathing apparatus, the initial of a
second correlated group of radical
changes. Longs are developed, the
month widened, the homy beak con
verted into rows of teeth; the stomach,
the abdomen, tlie intestineAprcpared
for the reception of tmimal fotf in place
of vegetable; fonr limba, fulljfkq. ;>ped
with hip and shoulder bones, wnh nerves
and blood vessels, push ont through the
skin, while the tail, being now sup
planted by them as a means of locoaM*
tion, is carried away piecemeal by the
absorbents, and tbe aoimal passes the
balance of its days as an aik-bresthing
and flesh-feeding bstraohian. Perm
Monthly.
••1 say, Pat," said a philoeopher,
•'can you be doing two things at the
same'time?" "Can't I?" answered
Pat; " I'll be doing that any day 1"
"How?" asked the philosopher.
"Why," replied rat, "TUpe sleeping
and draining, too, at the tuns,
don't yon see?"
Item* • latfmi
The INK IRMIWHII paper-Grea
baek,
Hnnbtwa* should bo naed in build
ing a tig
OflM to cufttepUte-The ooutente
of tho garbage mi .
Tbi OfMb'4 of tbo motto* wua tliot bo
Ared hi* pistol in tbo air.
Tbo flrot temperance society in tbio
country was organised in 1808.
A man foola tbo nood of a Rood char
aetor moot a/tor bo baa toot ono.
Always build a pigety with great de-
Hbaratidn, and tn the aowweat corner
•A your lot.
Why io it tbot people boot dog. and
•boo a boo, and foot a biD, and oap a
climax, and atoal a glanoo f
For o*ol7 looa there io auao gain
Wbaa you leee jour balance yo* gain a
boneb on tbo back of your bead.
American atroot oara ar now running
la nearly every large oily it* the world,
and boraoa continue M be exported from
tbia oountry to Europe.
Man may bo tbo aofeloot work of oree
tiou, bnt bo doMu't think about it. and
bo do mat look it, wben, oa bearing bi*
tame called in tbo street, bo turn* and
ftuds that it io only somebody Oallmg hia
> dog.
It* Kngonia, Eugenia, will yon atill in
uat on waahng tbo bair of another
woman npem yew boodr* " Alpbonae,
Aipboooe, do yow Mil insist spue wear
inn tbo akin of another calf upon your
fotr
* A jAfrnjmm tn Bocklaod, 111., baa
I found thai 00m a paralytic stroke baa
ita (nn|MMi*ati<.:.n Thou ,ij disabled
t b* it, tle shuck BWiopMd bio oara and
' opened bia oyoa, for bofOwo ho waa botb
deaf and blind.
"I'm a rutabaga, and ban's where I
plant myself," said a tramp, aa be eo
i tared a farokboo*- near Passport, Hi.,
and seated himself at the labia. "We
• Xm bile .mm," said U farmer's wifa
and aboaouacd him with a diab panful
I oi boiling water.
An exchange gi*ea a *jipefor making
a Ituaaian name. It ta a* fullowa : Take
three alphabet* tad ahafce thri* up in a
hat : throw on a table, Uh m dine ; pick
outtboaothat fail nght side up, stick
;m a line and add either the
! " itch " or " km," and you bare a gen
uine. full-fledged Bosnian general's
•• Tcung Philosopher " would like to
inquire what "safety " nlatch is, and
why mm catted. A safety match is one in
wturh the voting man owns a pair of
inuraes, a tlirwe-storr bouse and a seal
ring, while the young lady's father is
the possessor of aiity tbonaami dollars
in ha"k and a whole square of brick
blocks.
The little folks wanted the head of the
family tct apend the evening with them,
bather said he thought of attending a
meeting. Various measures were dis
mayed for keeping father at home, when
Tommy,aged fivsLsddir*-*od his brother,
aged seven, as follows: " 111 tell you
what we'll do. Well put a sign on the
front door—' Ho admittance to go out>#
this bouse nights.' "
A natural palpit exists in North
1 Htonington, Coup., formed by a cluster
i of Urge rocks, apparently thrown to
gether in some upheaval of nature.
The earlT settlers need to meet there
' for religious worship, and among the
eminent preachers who have occupied
the palpi tare George Whitfield, Gilbert
' Tennett and Simeon Brown, to# latter
two being the eminent " Separatists."
, A young man from the country was in
town snd entered a photograph gallery
to hare his picture taken. After seating
1 him, the operator told him to assume a
*r' - expression. " Think of some
thing cheerful," he said ; *' think of
Tonr girl." A terrible scowl took
txiaaeeeion of the young man's face, and
lumping np, be exclaimed : "Think of
the deuce' She went home with
1 another fellow last night, and she can
!go to thunder, for me I" He evidently
f thought of her, bat the pleased expnm
i lion was not forth 0.-miag. Someiow*.
Herald.
When Leitcli Ritchie was traveling
in Ireland, he passed a man who was a
painful spectacle at pallor, squalor and
raggednem. Hia heart smote him, and
he tart,ed back. "If you sre in want,"
said Bitch i* with aome degree of peev
ishness, " whvdout von beg*" "Sure
1 it's begging "I am, yar honor." " You
' didn't my a word." "Ov coorse not,
' ret hotair; bat see bow the skin is
, speakm* through the boles of me troos
j era! a *" ( the "boue* cryin' out through
'me skin! Look at rae sunken cheeks,
! and the famine that's ataa-in' in me eyes!
Man alive.' isn't it beggm' * 91(11 *
hundred tongues f"
Thoae writers who think that ihoagbt
h™.td spring into the mind fully armed
and equipped, and who oon*ider it be
neath their dignity to correct and erase,
should see Tthnjrscn at work writing
■ snd rewriting his poems over snd over,
4 or rather printing them, for the poet
' laureate rarely uses a pen. He keeps
s printing prem, snd baa his poems set
in type, l ine by line. Imagine what a
nice, leisurely time the poet must have
strolling about an hia Uwn smoking
cigars, with that eooentrio Texan hat of %
his slouched over hia moody brt.w, com
posing a verse ever) day.
i The artnluH made of taper at the late
Berlin exposition comprise the roof,
i-oiling, cornices and interior walla of a
house, the eiterior wall* of which were
of pine wood; bat nil the furniture,
blank, curtains, chandeliers, carpeting,
ornamental doors, mantel and table or
naments were of paper, including a
stove made of asbestos paper, in which
a lire was burning cheerfully. There
were also exhibited wasli bamms water
* L a full-rigged atup, lantern-, bats,
shirts, full suits of clothes snd under
clothes, straps, handkerchiefs, napkins,
bath tuba, buckets, bronaea, flowers,
urns, jewelry, belting and animals, both
for ornament and for toys.
TH* OTHF.B sn>t
" Two 4daa Uwrs sre to every tabs'
Aud every proverb, too :
And I have soegkt to here prosed
Home troths in aapeot* new.
" The early bird win catch the worm.
We in oar vosths were tooght ;
Bat while the late worm deeps in pesce.
The early worm Is caught.
"Hie rolling stone collects no moss.
Another fact that's buried
At many a tooth who feels inclined
To roam about the world :
But there's one troth that seems to be
Bid from oar elders eyee ;
The stone tbat changes not iU place
Can never hope to riee. -
•" A 'j nail that's caught, Ive beard It said.
" Is worth two pheasants free. "
Bat just reflect, the osptnred one
WIU sooner eaten be.
* Secure the pence. '' the sages say,
•' The pounds will beeecure ;
But if von have the dollars safe.
The dimes will be. I'm sure.
"Tie well to look before you strive
To pierce the silken shield,
! If what is on the other tide
Will Just as quickly yield.
Just so hi well to see, ore you
Ihseeminate your lore,
! If those whom vou would strive to teach
Were not as learned before.
Alien to Faint.
One who has had experience writes t hat
'' paint applied to the exterior of build
ings in autumn or winter will endure
twice as long as when applied in early
summer or hot weather. Li the former
it dries slowly, and becomes hard like a
glased surface, not easily affected after
ward by the weather, or worn off by the
beating of storms. But in very hot
weather the oil in the paint soaks into
the wood at onoe, as if into a sponge,
leaving the lead nearly dry, and ready
to crumble off. This last difficulty,
j however, might in a measure be gnarded
against, though at an increased expense,
Iby first going over the surface with raw
aid. Furthermore, by paint ng in oold
weather the annoyance of small flies,
which i ■variably collect during the
warm season on fresh pain:, is avoided.
1 A* ao offset to this, there is a trouble
vlfttn stottoirjuig paint—it is the dust,
which altftys will collect upon exposed
surfaoes, wijl keep collecting as long as
i the paint isltot dry, and stick to it, so
| tbat to obtain a smooth surface free
' from adhering dtist, it is necessary to
secure quick drying Thi* is especially
the ease when varnishing. I lmve often
been disappointed, and no doubt so have
many others, that the varnish used
dried ao slowly that durt had time to
settle on H before it became hard."