What in Nohle ?
What ia nohle ? to inherit
Wealth, estate, and permit degree?
There must be some other merit
Higher yet than these for me'
Something greater tar mnat enter
Into life'* majestic span,
Fitted to ereate and center
True nobility in man'
What ia noble? That which placea
Truth in its enfranchised will!
I oaring atepa—like angel traces —
That mankind uiay follow atill!
K en though scorn's malignant glances
Trove hini poorest ol his clan,
He's the-noble who advances
freedom and the cause ot roan'
—Char I* s Nicci*
My liOttrs.
1 have four nolile lovers.
Young and gallant, blithe and gay.
And in all the lund no maiden
Hath a goodlier troti|ie than they'
.Vnd nev ss princess, guarded
Ry hnign s id high degree.
Knew sweeter, purer homage
Thau my lovers pay to me'
One ot my noble lovers
Is s *!f-pow.l. thoughtful man.
tiravely gay. ereneiy earnest.
Strong lo do, and bold to plan'
And or.,- is sweat and sunny.
Pure as crystal, true as steel.
With a soul resjamding ever
When the truth makes high appeal'
And another Ot my lovers.
Bright and ifrAcnutr is he.
Brave and anient, stnmg aud lander,
Aud the flower id courtesy'
last ot all. an eager student,
I'pou lolly aims intent'
Manly lorve and gentle sweetucss
In his nature rarely bleut'
But a hen vd nolile lovers
All alike are dear and true.
And her heart to choose retusos,
Prav, what can a woman do ?
Ah. my sons' for this 1 Hess ye,
liven as I mysslt am blest,
That 1 know not which is dearest.
That 1 care not which is Ideal'
— Jaii.t Dorr,
RANKIN BROTHERS.
A REMARK ABLE PASSAGE DC THE HIS
TORY Of TIlV: ft KM.
Harry Rankin was married. Uis
elder brother and senior partner. George
Rankin, now. for the first time, fuliy
realized the fact. True, he had that
very uiornin: arrayed himself in un
it on ted finery, had gone to church in
an uncommonly solemn frame of mind,
ami assistivl at the wedding. He had
even gone so tar as to print a brotherly
kiss upon the lips of the bride, as she
and Harry set out en their bridal tour.
Still he had not fully mast- red the fact
that Harry Rankin was married until
now. He poked his fire into a blaze
aud planted his chair fairly in front of
it, byway of asserting his sole occu-
I ancy of the hearth. Around him were
nil the bachelors" traps tltal he and
llarrv had a,cumulated during their
long joint tenancy of the room. He did
not inventory them in his mind—he did
not see them, for he was looking at the
tiro —sti.l they were there, ami he knew
tf oy were there and fel; the ir induence.
lie "felt that the room would nevir be a
home again—nothing but a hermitage.
"This is worse than having a tooth
drawn." said he to hintseif. "'t was
dull enough hen with him, after he got
to prosing eternally alxmt Eva, and
Withering me with his ground plans for
cottage houses. I thought 1 should !><
glad when it would ail be over, and 1
should have heard the last ol Eva and i
double oariors and winding stairs, but j
r it that it is over and I have heard the
L t of it. I don't s. em to be very lively.
Tlteolilder. will never he itself again.
The firm of Rankin brothers is dissolved
far as this place is concerned. 1
s. ia.ll have to carry on this branch of the
establishment alone. I suppose 1 shall j
get u- -d to it after awhile, out just now
1 feci like a fellow's left leg when the
■mt-geon carries off the right one in a
-,, k. I ought to write three or four
,t::, rs to-night, hut there's no use in my
trying to do anything. If I do I won't
a. liiniish as much as a bluebottle fly
nil a wooden god's nose. I shall have lo
our. to opium, or chloroform, or
,i phus. or something, to get to sleep
in this haunted chamber to-night."
With these cheerful reflections and
many others of the same sort, he whiied
. any the evening until about nine
o'clock, when the solitude became so
oppressive that he sallied forth, stick in
hand, and walked by starlight until 1
about eleven o'clock, after which he
turned in and slept soundly.
The interesting ev<*nt mentioned in the
aliove paragraphs did n_t prevent the ,
senior memlter of the firm of Rankin
brothers from resuming his uniform
routine of habits and duties the next
morning. At precisely eight o'clock,
his lonjpestablished breakfast hour, he
took his accustomed chair at the hotel
table, and was supplied with his im
memorial breakfast of toast, coffee and j
medium boiled eggs.
The rustling of a lady's dress called
bis attention from his breakfast to the
opposite side of the table. There sat
his brother's bride.
"Why, Eva." said he. "you here?
Did you'miss the boat? Where's Harry ?" j
" Sir!" said the lady, with a stare of
unutterable astonishment.
" llow does it liappen that you didn't
gel off? Tm had ample time to reach
the boat. l>id the carriage break down
on the way to the landing?" said Mr.
Rankin. • little discomposed by the
amazed look of the lady, it is
still confident that he was address...*
his brother's wife.
By this time the lady began to see the
true stat.- of the ease.
" You mistake me for some other per- i
eon," eaid she.
It was now Mr. Rankin's torn to be
amazed. The lady belore him so ex
actly resembled his brother's bride in I
every line of her face :uid figure, every '
trick if countenance, iip and eye. that 1
he felt more disposed to doubt her sanity
than her identity. There was the same j
slight, lithe figure, the same smooth j
' brown hair, the self-same hazel eye. the
identical high, clear forehead and petite,
spirituelle lower face.
" Can it he possible that I am mis
taken?" said he. "1 took you for my
hrother's wife. Tlie resemblance is 1
most extraordinary and there be any
dissimilarity yout personal appear- i
* anee and hers cannot perceive it. I I
don't beiieve I should ever learn to dis- ;
tinguish you. Your voice, even, is the
very counterpart of hers."
An old gentleman, who was seated by
the young lady, here took up the conver
sation.
" My daughter," said he, " has been j
annoyed by the unusual degree of atten
tion she lias received since she came
here hist evening. Her every move- !
ment has been watched by several euri- i
ous pedple. Probably the resemblance j
you speak of has deceived others as well j
as yourself. May I inquire the maiden
name of the lady you speak ot? Such a
remarkable resemblance could hardly
exist in the absence ot any family rela- 1
tionship."
"The lady I referred to," said Mr. |
Rankin, "was called Eva Noble until j
yesterday, when she was married to my
brother. She is the only child of Judge
Noble of this city. By the way," con
tinued he, brightening up as a new
thought struck him, " I have heard
tliat Eva had a twin sister who was lost
in the woods here when a mere babe,
just able to run about. That wa long
before I came here. The site of this
city was then a wilderness for the most
part. The story goes that the little one
strayed off into the forest, that search
was made for her many days in vain,
until her discovery*, alive or dead was
despaired of, and that no vestige or
trace of her was ever found."
" Did you ever hear the first name of
this lost child mentioned?" said the
old gentleman.
"Imay have beard it, but I have for
gotten it if ever I did. " .
Here a lady boarder at the same table,
who had been an attentive listener to the
whole conversation, cleared her throat
and interposed.
"The name of the lost child," said
she, " wa.- Ella. I have heard Mrs.
Noble and the judge speak of her many
times."
"My dear," said the old gentleman to
the young lady, "I'm afraid I shall her
THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME XII.
to sire you up at last." Then turning
to Mr. Rah kin. ln< said:
" When tlits young lady was apparent
ly aluiut three years of age, sne was
found with a family of Indians in Cen
tral New York, where 1 then resided.
The Indians claimed to have found her
in the woods, lost and nearly famished,
many dn\s journey, as they said, to the
westward. I'hey professed to he will
ing to give Iter up to any wliite j>eraon
who would take ,or and take care of
her. They had plenty of children of
their own. so they said, and no oc
casion to steal other people's. Hav
ing no children of our own. my wife
anil 1 wereglad to adopt the little stran
get - . Who ah* was aoOllt twelve years
old my wife died, and since then slie
audi have got along together as well
as we couhl. Iter clothing when
she came tou was marked 'Klia N.'in
several plaees. It was badly worn and
soiled, but my wife carefully pr.serve*!
it, thinking it might lead to her identi
fication. You have it with you. have
you not, Ella?"
"Yes. sir," said the young lady, re
treat iug to her room with evident emo
tion.
There were alw>ut a dozen p> ople at
the table, most of them regular lHrvl
ers and residents of the city. When the
strange young lady made her appear
ance among them, thov had all sup
posed that she was Harry Rankin's
bride, and were on the qui vive to ae
••ount for her appearance there and then
with a strange old gentleman. Of
course they were eager listeners to the
above conversation, and of course the
news of the probahle discovery of Judge
Noble's lotig-10-t daughter, and her
marvelous likeness to In r supptised sis
ter. traveled fast. The la.ly who had
volunteered to give the first name of the
lost child was at Judge Noble's house at
the earliest possible moment, and the
judge and his iadv were at the hotel in
lass than half an hour from the time
when Mr. Rankin sat down to break
fast. The young lady's history, and her
marvelous 'ikenes- to their reuiaing
daughter, would have satisfied them
that she was their child, it the lit!so
garments in winch she had been found
hail been not preserved. Those Mrs.
Noble instantly recognized as Lcr own
handiwork; suui her husband and the
old Strang** gentleman smiled and ex
ehanged glaneos when they heart! the
mother apologizing to the daughter for
tlic coarseness of her infant wardrobe.
" You see, my daughter," s;*id the
i <x>d lady, " the country was new then,
and the ways of the people very plain
and primitive. There was but one store
here, and tliat a very small affair—no
drewmakrrs, no miliint rs.no nothing.
Your father was not rich. We kcp.t ru>
servants. I was a young mother with
no experience, and with a double |KI
tion ot work and care—that is, you un
derstand. you and your sister wire
twins You and she couid spoil more
good clothes than any one woman couid
make and keep in order. That's why
you happened to have on such <-oar
little things when you were lost."
" This Western world has changed a
good deal since tliat time." said the old
gentleman. ."Such a loss and finding
would lie simply impoe-iblc now.
The newspapers would lo raid the child's
disappearance, in all its known particu
lars. from one end of the land to the
other. Now about these little cloth.
My wife was greatly impressed with
tiieir original elegance, though tbey
came to lier hand" badly -aiied and tat
tered. She was especially struck with
tic fact that each article was marked as
it was."
"Thelittle one'sclothing was marked
with her first name in full at niv sugges
tion," explained the judge. " You see.
sir. the two children were so exactly
alike that nobody but tiieir mother
could distinguish them—and it is my
belief that he was sometimes mistaken.
So we had every tiring lielonging to theiu
marked with their first names in full,
to avoid ■•onfusion."
" May I inquire," continued the judge,
"the name of the gentleman to whom
we are so deeply indebted?"
"I .am Jonas Cunimings. the origin
ator of the railroad which first brought
your city into notice, .as 1 am vain
enough to believe. You and 1 have
been occasional correspondents tfie<e
many years, though we now meet for
the first time."
"And father." said th* young lady,
now for the first time taking an animated
part in the conver-ation, and blushing
and stammering over her difficu.ty in
calling a strange gentleman " father,"
" if you only knew how kind he has been
to nn', you wouldn't blame me, even
n<>w that I have found my true father
and mother. He has spoiled me with
his indulgence, as you will find. I am
afraid. I will try to le* a good daughtet
to you. and always ea! 1 you " father,' if
you please, sir. But won't you let mc
continue to call him * papa,' as I have
done so many years?"
" My daughter." said the judge, with
emotion. " I shall value you in
proportion to your gratitude and affec
tion for your lienefaetor. If he has
spoiled you with indulgence, as you say
b" has—and as i can '-asily believe from
what I knaw of hitij, though we now
meet for the first time—it is well that
your sister wa- married and gone before
you r"me. for it would be inconvenient
to have two spoiled girls, two only
daughters, in the same family. Besides,
if your sister had not secured a husband
before you came I don't believe -he or
you ever could have got one. What
man would be bold enough to make love
to one of two girls that he couldn't tell
apart? I don't sec, for niv part, how h<*
could possibly make up his mind which
he wanted."
Mr. C'nmmings and Mr. Rankin took
dinner with Judge Noble and his lady
and their newly-found daughter that
day. Mr. Rankin had never been a vio
lent admirer of the lady whom his
brother had wooed and won and wed.
Ih* had regarded her as a very nice girl
and a very suitable match for Harry.
Further than that lie had never commit
ted ' himself in his own mind in her
favor. Now that lie was seated by one
whom he rould not possibly have dis
tinguished from her had she been tlier
and similarly dressed, lie began to be
sensible of charms which had quite
escaped his attention before. In fine, he
went away from that dinner party a
smitten man.
It was agreed that Mrs. Harry Rankin
should not be informed of the discovery
and return of her sister until she enrac
bark from her bridal tour and ln-r
mother undertook to communicate this
arrangement to every per sua who would
be likely to corresponrt with Ji< r in the
meantime.
Mr. George Rankin was a very fre
quent visitor at Judge Noble's house,
where lie was so cordially welcomed
that he soon made bold to propose Hr
Miss Ella. He was frankly accepted
by the young lady, to the undisguised
satisfaction of h*r parents.
After some little demur on tlie part of
the young lady and her mother. It was
arranged tliat the wedding should come
off before the return of Harry and his
bride, which arrangements was duly
carried out. A bridal tour w.ts out of
the question as Mr. Rankin could not
leave his business during his brother**
absence. He and his bride took a fur
nished house, and proceeded to estab
lish a home forthwith.
When Harry and his bride returned,
they were received by Jud :e Noble and
his lady at their house. As soon as tlie
first rush of questions and answers be
tween mother and daughter had sub
sided, George ad his bride appeared,
and the latter was duly presented.
Harry's astonishment at finding his
brother married to a fac simile of his
own wife, though very great, WAS not
to be compared to the amazement of his
bride. She seemed to be confronted
with her own image in a mirror. Ella,
though fully prepared forthe interview,
was also strangely impressed with this
first sight of her sister. She seemed to
see her own fonturt * on another face, and
tolirarlier own voice from thy lips of an
other To their liuiitwnili and parent*
the rrtmordiiuury Hkriie** of tlie two
Imiies wo* Astonishing and bewildering,
hut to the ladim themselves it WA* magi
cal and almost Ulteniuiy. It Watt at first
liaril for either of them to regard her
double otherw ie tliatu tut an apparition
Harry was the first to speak. "George,**
saivi he, " I knew you trusted my taste
more than your own, but 1 really did
•! expect you to duplicate my wife!"
" It must • it must be Ella!" said Kva,
in a suppressed tone, such aa one iuvoi
utarilj adopts wh<ti overwhelmed with
astonishment. "Where—whero was she
found ?"
When the whole story had heen duly
told to the to wlv-arrivad, the sisters
went up to Kva's old room and there
made such changes in their toilets :i> diw
stroyed their previous identity. Tiny
then presented themselves before their
husbands, and required them each to
take his own wife in to diuner and
make no mistakes.
Kaukiti A Brother were obliged to sur
render at discretion and confess that
they could not recognize their own
wives.
Since then the ladies have been eari
fill to dres, so differently that their
iiusliands and the other members of
their families should IM able to distin
guish them, but their wonderful like
n. ss still causes perplexity in their large
circle of acquaintances.— Sf. Ijtui-s Illus
trated .Viiyo-nwe.
Managing Cattle on the I'laius.
The management of a vast herd of cat
tle upon the open plain is a difficult and
hazardous feat. It requires both nerve
and an intimate knowledge of cattle
nature to ride into the midst of the
thronging, pushing beasts, and single
out tin -e destined for the corral. Should
a panic ensue, both hoiso and rider
will lie borne along before the resi-t
--less tide to certain destruction. Aln rd
has been stamp* ded at the sight of a
mail dismounted from his horse. They
regard the man and beast as a single
creature, whose w ill dominates, and to
see this being take himself apart is a lit
tle more than bovine nature can stand.
A* a general thing, the animal* are
quite docile, and ready for the round
ing up." lWibly the - , may look lor
warvi to it with some instinctive pleas
ure at the grand sight of tin ir own nu
merical strength. Stand herewith me
upon this grassv knoll. Beneath u-. at
yon tiiria* scrub oaks, is the station
agreed upon. From three directions
wc mav sis* long dotted skirmish lines
growing front the little black bead-ike
spots in a row into moving leasts The
lines rapidly become m<>re dense . th
ering up the individuals which stop
-razing, look with wondering eyes a
moment, and then, evidently having re
flected. " Ut's -<*>. this is June, isn't it?
they're rounding us up." obedii-ntly join
the grand advance. Those knowing
ones who have been under the brand
may have some vague remembrance of
its torture. The " Mavericks." as un
claimed cattle have ina n called, and the
calves have yet to feel the terrible iron
as it burns it way through the quivering
cut iele.
It is an old Texan stor*. the origin of
the name "Maverick." hui perhaps it
will liear transplanting to th" East. A
certain well-known "colonel"of the
name bought an island in one of the
rivers, and stocked it with a few cat
tle. proposing to keep his animals where
he could find thciu when he wanted Ixa't
or hides. Business entanglements
claimed the worthy colonel's attention
and In course of lime lie well-nigh for
got his island colony. Rounders la gan
to find among their herds ancient nulls
and cows, all guiltless of owner's mark.
They came to be counted bv thousands,
and it was finally discovered that they
were runaway* from Colonel Maverick -
island. The old colonel was informed
by the herders of his good luck, and
told, among other thing*, that some two
thousand hulls were subject to his
order*. The last tiring recorded in con
nection with this legend i- the colonel's
excited speech upon this occasion:
"For Heaven's sake, noys. go and help
yourselves!" Thereafter any nnimai
found without a brand was called a
" Maverick," and duly stamped with
tlie finder's mark. Harper's Monthly.
How Buffalo Rill Served a Writ.
Buffalo Bill in hi- autobiography tells
the following story of his official career
in the far West:
"One morning a man came rushing
up to my house and said he wanted a
writ of replevin to recover iMis'-cdon of
a horse which a stranger was taking out
of the country. I had no blank forms,
and had not yet received the statutes of
Nebraska, to copy from, so I asked the
man:
"•Where is tlie fellow who has got
your horse? "'
"'He is going up the road, and is
alxiut two mile* awav,' he repli'd.
"'Very well,' said I, 'I will get the
writ readvin a minute or two. 1
" I saddled mv horse, and then taking
up my old reliable rifle. Lueretia, 1 said
to the man: "That's the best writ of
replevin that I can think of; oomealong,
and we'll get that horse or know the
reason why.'
" W* soon overtook the stranger, who
was driving a herd of horses, and as we
came up to him I said:
"' Hallo, sir, I am an officer, and have
an attachment for that horse,' and at
the same time I pointed out the animal.
"•Well, sir. what are you going to
do about it?' he inquired.
"' I propose to take you and the horse
iiack to the post,' said I
"'You can take the horse, hut I
haven't the time to return with you.'
*" You'll have to take the time, or
jmy the eosts here and now,' said I.
"'How much are the costs? '
" 'Twenty dollars.'
" 'Here's the money,' said he, AS lie
handed me the greenbacks. I then gave
hiin a little friendly advice, and told
him tliat lie was released from custody.
He went on Iris way a wiser and poorer
man, while the owner of the horse and
myself returned to tin-fort. I pocketed
the twenty dollars, of course. Rome
people might think it was not .i square
way of doing business, but I didn't know
:iny better just then. I had several
little cases of this kind, and I became
better posted on law in tlie course of
•rillie."
The Great Bridge.
Botli ot tiie towers of the New York
and Brooklyn bridge rest on sunken cais
sons. which win* sulstituted for the
solid foundation which the engineers
were unable to obtain. It was expected
■ tliat when the weight of the structure
came upon the towers they would sink
some. "We are surprised," sab f'ol.
Paine, of the engineer corps, to a ro
porter, "that the towers have sunk so
little. Tlie New York tower rests upon
t wentv-two feet of timber and is sevent y
eight feet tmder water. In making tlie
timber foundation there was a gain of
two and one-half inches, hy reason of
tin* pieces not coming close together.
This we allowed to stand, expecting that
the tower, when finished, would sink
more than that; but now that the tower
is all completed and over four-fifths of
all the weight that it is expected to bear
is upon it. we find that it liAssunk alxiut
ah inch and a half, cr hut little more
than half of the unintentional increase
in its height. That is not near so much
as we expected. At a certain altitude
we had iron spikes driven into the tower
at every angle to it on all sides, and we
; took the level from another spike, driren
as a bench mark into the sill of a win
dow in South street. By taking tlie differ
ence in tiie level of those spikes to-day
we get the distance the tower has sunk.
AT other peculiar thing is that it has
sunk evenly all around. The Brooklyn
tower has not sunk so much—not over
an inch, I think."
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER C>, 187 D.
In Turkey, where wine and intoxi
cating drinks are forbidden hv the Ko
ran, the juice of the grape is liolled
down in great quantities ami commonly
, used in the household, much as wc use
!jam, answering the purpose ol hoili
butter and jam. It is considerably
thicker than treacle, aud in winter can
he cut with a knife like butter. It is
put tip in goat skins, ami is a common
article of trade in the market. It is
called '* pek met."and is used as a drink
when diluted with water. It tnste*
somewhat like new cider.
The towiug of \*sscis on canals by
means of locomotive* has recently leeu
•uiec-sfully u icd in Enuice. A railroad
is laid on the tow-path, near the side ot
llie canal, on widen are run small 10.-o
--motives of four or more tons, m'cortling
to the weight to IH> pulled. One man
manages tiir locomotive. \ <t>sela are
thus drawn at a speed of two miles or
more an hour aU>ut twi*e the no an
rate of a horse U|w>n the tow-path* Tin
locomotive has drawn an empty vessel
six miles an hour, but such spis-d in
jures the hanks of the cana..
The speed of carrier pigeons appears
to depend as much on the clearoe*- of
their sight as on the strength of their
wings. The London relates
tha' in an experiment recently made
with some Berlin pigeons, on a -lear
day, a dutaniv of over 300 miles, li'ota
Cologne to lh'riin, was aeoomptishod in
five hours and a half, or at the rate ot
sixty miles an hour, while the most < x
pedition of a group let !<*se the aevt
day—a day not of t v, e >ainrt kind- U*>k
twelve hour* to reach Berlin. Hetiee it
would app'ar that in th< latter case a
ga >d deal of the pigeons' UtUe w.vUsbll
up in exploring tiie country for land
mark*. as was some of Mr. For la**' in
his ride from Ulumli with news of lord
Chelmsford's victory. It is not instinct
but sight by which the carrier pigeon
guides it> tlight.
Calistoga i* a famous mineral spring
resort, sixty-eight miles frohi San Frtui
cisi-o. It was inteudi-d to In* the Sara
toga of the Pacific coast, the name Imng
an abhreviatiHl tauithination of California
:uid Saratoga. The waters are prin i
pally sulphur, iron, stnia and magnesia.
Nome of them w iri boil an egg in two
minutes. Over one is built a pretty sum
mer house It is called the chicken *oup
spring. Here the guests resort, after a
Isttit, with pepoer. *alt and erneker*. and
if you are verv hungry and of an imagin
ative turn of mind, you may. perhaps,
be induced to believe that nature has
indeed prepared iti her subterranean
kitchen this delicate decoction for h< r
visitor*. After people have been in
California awhile they learn not to he
surprisiai at anything that *onn*> from
the heavens above or the earth ben-alh.
The colony of New Z**aland ha- a very
extraordinary prime minister in the p. i
son of >ir George Grey. This gentle
man was twii-e governor of the l'aje,
and tln-n apj>"Uit<-d to the govcrment ot
New Ze-aiand. When hi* tenure of th<
latter office expired beele'ted to remain
in the coionf, and took up his nbode in
a remote locality, an ishmd, where he
livtal almost exclusively among the
Maori'*, with whom lie cultivated the
most intimate and dome*tlr
ties. He has now lus-n for some time
governor, hut of late si'riou* dii>sen*ions.
assuming tin- character of violent per
winai antagonisms, have ari-cn In ilm
cabinet, and the retirement of the
premier is expected. Sir George is a
man of force ami ability, hut decidedly
eccentric, both in charaeicr and habits
New 'lsaland. whos< area is estimated
at IiJ.OOO square mi tt—about that of
the British islands — i divided into
eight prorinoa, ai-h of which i* g v
--croed tnueh after the fashion of one of
our States, while the general govern
ment consists o! a cabinet of five officer*.
In ore of the suhurta of Igmdon, the
other day, a tnedicnl district officer
called in to see the children of a man
named Bailey *i< k with an eruptive di
ease, declared that they hnd mall-j>ox
and ordered the whole family t> go into
hospital. When they had been there a
fortnight they were discharged with the
conoomtorv assurance th* 'lie doctor'*
diagi.-jsi* was > imneous, t. M u they n< v r
as a matter of fact had small-pox, and
that what the children had caught w:-
chicken-pox, an innocuous form of in
fiuitrie disease. Titus the whole family
had been exposed for a lengthened tiim
to the contagion of a not mortal uid
loathsome nialmiy; the hreml-winner
lost his situation and two weeks' j>ay.
and the ln'l authorities. ly wnv of
ompensation, magnanimously offertsl
the sum of five shilling- in money, two
-hillings worth of gnweric- and four
loaves of hreml. A family is broken tip,
a house disinf!*cte<l at >snsderahle cost,
and no end of mischief done le < ause an
incomjs'tent health officer could not dis
tinguish Iwtwccn variola aad varicella.
The moral is obvious.
Forest- and Meteorology.
An important paper in /bfyWAffon on
this subject gives the r -ult of olwcrv a
tions made during tlm last six years
under trees and not far from the <*fgo of
a forest, and also in the plain and fai
from all trees. I. Forests increase the
quantity of meteoric waters which fall
on tlie ground, and thus favor the
growth of springs and of underground
waters. '2. In n forest region tiie ground
tcceivesa* much and more water under
cover of the trees than th" uncovered
ground of region* with little or tv>
wood. 3. Tin* cover of the trees of a
forest diminishes to a large degree the
evaporation of the water received hy the
ground, and thus contributes to the
maintenance of the moisture of the latter
;uid to tlie regularity of the flow of
water sources, f. The temperature in a
fure.-t is much less unequal than in the
open, although, on the whole, it may he
a little lower; but the minima are there
constantly higher, and the maxima
lower than in regions not covered with
wood. These oliservations have been
made in theneighlmrhood of Nancy, and
by tlie pupils of the school of Forestry of
of that city, under the direction of M.
Mathieu, sub-director of the school.
On the other hand, Mr. Fautrat. when
stib-inspector of forests at Senli*. made
during four years, hut on a different
method, observations on forentinl meteo
rology which fully and completely corro
boralc in certain respects those of Mr.
Mathieu. The laws which *<i'ni to fol
low from the figure* given by M. Fan
tral, as well as an inspection of the
curves which graphically represents
them, are as follows: I. It rains more
abundantly, under identical circumstan
ces, over forests Jinn over non-wooded
ground, and most abundantly over for
ests with trees in a green condition. 2.
The degree of saturation ol the air hy
moisture is greater nlmve forests than
over non wooded ground, and much
greater over masses of fituts sylvrstri*
than over masses of leaved species. 3.
The leafage and branches of leafed tree*
Intercept one-third, and those of resin
ous trees tlie half of the rain water,
which afterward returns to the atmos
phere by evaporation. On the other
hand, these same leaves and brunches
restrain the evaporation of the water
which reaches the ground, and that
evaporation i* nearly four times less
under a mass of leafed forest than in the
open, and two and one-third times only
under a mass of pines. 4. The laws of
the change of temperature out of and
under wood are similar to those which
result from the observations of M. Ma
thieu. Tlie general conclusion seem to
be that forests regulate the function of
water, and exercise on the temperature,
aa on the atmosphere, an effect of " pon
deration" ana equilibrium.^ —lx>ndon
Times.
TIM til, 1 TOI'ICN.
Awful Scene* f n Rati mail Wreck.
Tin* conductor of the Wagner ale** ring
ears attached to theexprautrain, which
collided wit!i a freight train, a Jackson,
Mich , git the follow ing account of the
terrible disaster by which fifteen persons
were crushed to death in a twinkling :
My train was made up of three W 1 ug
lier sieepers, the St. N icholiw.Eori Wayne
and D*\ler, with forty passengers. We
did not get awa\ from Detroit until
1 alx>ut 10 30 o' -<Vk, l,i inj; fifty minute*
I behind time W nut n* tM doves
! all of forty-five miles an hour- to make
j up, until pulling into Jack sou yard, when
jwe slaiked up to twenty-five tiiilea. 1
was in the real coach, the Dexter, that
la shackled at Detroit fur Grand Rapids,
kind ot drowsing, when 1 felt a slight
I shock as though the engine had revers
ed. Many a time I have felt a hard' r
! jar from common causes, but 1 noticed
I tiie train came to a stand very quiekly,
1 and I stepis-d out to see what was the
trouble. There was a hmkeman hurry
-1 mg paal with a light, and hr said in an
swer to inv halloo of" w hat is the mat
ter?" thai the train was smashed up. 1
jumped off and ran ahead and saw the
terrible tight. Engines lay side by side,
up against tin banks, the lad lent together
as you would lay your lingers. Both
calm were off, and I noticed that one
ileam-lox w ss Stripped, the *tetuu <•#-
t aping from the v< nt with a shrill roar.
Baggage ami smoking ears w, re shoved
together a little, but Hot ntuch, while tin
two next cars were completely telescop
ed 1 never saw* any thing like it. they
being jammed through each other. It
was norrihle beyond any words of de
j script ion or imagination. The first car
1 was well tilled with emigrants, and their
groans, eric* and shrieks made me sick.
I did not stay long, aa 1 hail my own cars
U' look after and could givrrto assistance
there. It was right ll llie village, Occu
pied by road employes, and more than
a thousand people seamed to I* helping.
The engineer of our train was "Mat
Gilbert, and the fireman Smith. 1 did
j not know the latter's first name. Both
i men w<rv killed outri.ht. Gilbert had
!oth legs cut off and bow<-!> torn out. 1
c n't Is-ar to think of it a* 1 Maw him
lying with hi* hot life'* blood shining
in the g.a:e of the tnanv flaring iamp*.
Smith wa- cut and torn Wyond recogni
tion. I went ba*k and found many of
my passengers 1.0 l even sw ak' tied. niui
they were ages d d a! vexed at l-ing
hastily aroused. I tlirew out bedding,
towels and iiiatti->**<- as fast as could Is
done with the help ot the porters. From
tin* riii: oviking around 1 saw there was
a sitting right lino , with a freight train
tin it. Our wrecked car* lay upon them,
and af i rawhiie the freight* wererleared
nnd'our car* shiflrd
Mr. William 1. Ciapp. who. with lri*
wife, occupied a middle Iw-rtli in Uietiril
shs-pt*r, was first apnriscd td toe disas
ter bv leti g violently thrown from iris
< oueli U|Mn the floor. Mr t app said:
I gntheml my sell int< a standing |Mtur<
as Stain a* possible, hut was unaiiie lor
five minutes or *o u> make an <-* it front
th< car. owing to the etc fusion. I pon
n-acliing the p.alform the ocenaievoaled
wa* a sickening one. Tiie lady inmates
tif the sleeiwr-. who had scranib.ed frolU
tiieir cuttdOM, ami had the horrible spec
tacle and iuerormity suddenly r*\ <*aleil
to their vision, a.tt rtmtctl their so'** with
prnvtrs to be removed from the ghastly
sight. The first of the victims to whom
my att< ntit-n wa* dmvt<! wa* a flaxen
haired little giri of p.-rhaps five years.
The right !de of her fat*e hod 1M en eul
aw ay a* it severed by some sharp instru
ment. while the eltilti's limb* were
tight i v wedged in the debris A hrt
distance awav wa* a mas* of six human
b*ing*, jammed and disligured almost
U-yon-' recognition, with anus and iinihs
in their nakedn< ss protru<iing in the last
quivers of death Still a lit 1-o further
along were the bodies of the fireman
ani engineer of the express train, under
a mountain of splintered wmml and warfc
ed iron, " For the sake of a mother.
s.av<- the child'''rame tlie husky voire
of a young woman as she drew tile atten
tion of a group of lookers-on to a little
hoy wiaigcd in among the wreck a fi w
yards off. whocried piteous!* to ho lil**r
alel, while it* mangled head and *hou'-
cii rs sw aved in its struggle for life. Of
course, such souo as th-*e untittial the
stout- l In :u*t for the work ms-ded. As
morning wore on. however, the passen
gers. the railroad hind* and thoae at
trai tiai to tlie ma-ne, ntered nt>on the
work of extricating the unfortunate
on-s. The ordeal wa* one I hope never
to pa** through again.
The Story ola Dnel.
In connection with tlie recent arrc*t
of the Count de Vcysy in Belgium fi-r
muruer, a I'.-ui* corresjHindcnt u*lis thi*
tory of the duel out of which the charge
arrw: The Marquis de la ltochejaque
lein gave recently an evening partv at
Klo'infeid. to which lie in\ ited ail of hi*
acquaintances. After the dance was
onoed supper wa serv**!. Guest after
gue*t told anecdote* When it eaiue to
the turn of Baron de Vnn!ix he told an
incident that had lippensl to him at
Constantinople in 1*77 and whose hero
w:is the famous or notorious Gevznde
Sonioskeoy. alias Count de \ ojflj. A\ lien
he hail ended hi* story a guest rose
abruptly and asked him In an insolent
L ne: "Do you per-onaiiv know Geyza
de Somoskeoy 3 " Baron de Vanion re
plied, " Indeed I do. I have g<xMl reason
to rememlwr him. Iletoit bf.tHW from
me." " Ym are a liar' lam the person
of whom you speak and you have never
had the honor of mv acquaintance." A*
h* ended he threw the content* of a
gln-s brimming with cJiampagne into
Baron d<* Vanion's face. Itar(>n de \_aii
loo ran towards him. hut the two furious
ail versarii's were separated. A duel
was settled for the following morning.
Tiny fought with swords. Count de
V'ryyy wns at ffie outset severely
wounded above the elbow and bled pro
fusely. His sword wa* covered with
blood; even his adversary?* lace ra
ceived some drops of it. Baron \ anion's
second* proposed tlie duel should end.
Count !•' Vcysy would hear of no such
thing. They"fought five minutes longer.
Count de Vcysy by a feint foiled the
parry of his adversary and plunged his
sword in Baron Van loo's abdomen.
The latter fell mortally wounded and
ha* since died.
A Brother Marries hi* Sister.
A young am! respectable-looking
couple, brother and sister, named Lnd
and 1/ouii" Rauckmnnn. son and daugh
ter of a quiet, respectable tanner, resol
ing in Lone Grove township, about
twenty miles from Vandalia. Illinois,
boarded the train a short time ago, went
to St. Ixiui* and were made husband
and v ife. They remained in the city a
day or two. then returned homeward,
getting off the trsin at Browntown. a
station eight mile* from Vandalia, and
for fear of lw'ing detected, wandered off
in the woods near town, and remained
there till found nnd arrested hy consta
ble Joseph < 'opeland ■
Tlie man is about twenty-one years of
age, and of gixtd appearance, and his
sister nineteen, and rather good-looking.
W hen asked why he was induced to com
mit such an act he said: "Mv sister
loved me so well tliat we thought the
best tiring we could do would be to get
married. lie was further asked if he
did not know it was wrong and against
the law to do so, and also why they hid
themselves in the woods and kept awav
from their parents. This he answered
hy saying: "We did not know it was
wrong, and only hid in the woods for
fear of being discovered by our folks, as
they were very much opposed to our
marrying."
Their j>arent.s are very respectable
people nnd are sadly grieved over the un
paralleled act of their children. They
were tried, iound guilty and bound over,
the man's bond being fixed at SMK>. and
the woman's at S3OO, in default of which
they were committed to tlie county jail.
The affair has created great excitement
in Vandalia.
Never Ho It*
Never lie too warm in your praises of
a lady's lady friends. Friendship should
he eneouragvd, not disooUraged.
Never try to equal the smartness of
your smart interioeutor. It is not his
province to recognize smartness in
another, hut to astonish with his own.
Never tell all you know to a stranger,
even if he regale you never MO eopiously
with his affairs. Think you lie would
la* more careful of your reputation than
lie is of his own ?
Never say, when retiring, I will get
up early to-morrow; for doesn't the
good book say tliat all liars shall have
their part? etc.
Never jam your finger in tin* door;
for to swear is neither brave, polite nor
wise.
Nt ver eall a man a liar; for the eye is
a tender organ aud the sense of vision a
preeious one.
Never ask n lady to play upon the
piano unless you intend to he polite
enough to listen to her playing. After
having talked iues-ssanily during her
performance—
Never add hypocrisy to iMxirishneas
by souring to IN' pleased with what you
thought more eon tempi ihie than your
contemptible prattle. Own up that you
only asked her to play out of politeness
and failed t listen <>ut of impoliteness.
Never read your literary production*
to another unless he press you to read
them. Remember the golden rule.
Never refuse the fruit when it is first
passed jou, hoping thai all will show
their politeness by taking the smaller,
inferior apples and pears, leaving the
best for yourself the next lime round.
Not oniv is this mean, hut you may
over-estimate the |>oliU-ncsa uf vour
company.
Never look over the shoulder of a man
who is writing. Have mind upon voui
j health; he may forget hitnoelf.
Never talk of yourself in a country
where forty odd millions of people are
lient on taiking of themselves.
Never ak a question unless you inU nd
to pay attention to the answer. There u
no happiness in life comparable to the
my of airing our knowledge. Give your
frienil a clianre to air his. He will love
you with a love surpassing that of
woman.
Never say that you have heard before
what your friend lias evidently taken
great pleasure in telling you. His de
light at finding you equally* well in
formed with hittisell may not Be so great
as \ou had imagined.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth
while the donor is present. After he i*
gone, it is a duty. The proper study foi
the horsemau is llie horse.
Never ask for a second piece of pie.
lift .* boy, unless you arc sure of getting
it. It is IH-I not to get people in the
habit of refusing you things.
Never mak> any distinction in your
borasear gallantry in favor of youth
and beauty—if you can help it.
Never tell a secret U< a woman. If
you can't h<-eii It yourself, why expert
sin will le- abc- to keep it to herself?
Never stiv die to a barbrr. lx't him
alone for startim* that übja*t, or he ii>
not the barber wc take him for.
N< * er IrK about t<eniorrw's wmther.
If to-day'* weather is pleasant, enjoy it.
You may be SO fortunate a* to escape
to-morrow's storm by getting smashed
• •n the railroad or blown upon the steam-
IK NlT,— iioMoft Transcript.
\ Wonderful Georgia I'srrot.
Some month* ago, *ay a correspon
dent of the St. IxHlis ilUikc-lkmorral, I
met a gentleman from Alabama who
related the following parrot story,
which 1 lo'lieve to I*- the l>e*i I ever
h< ard : lr. .of Montgomery. Ala.,
owned a parrot during and after "the war
that w-t* the pride and wonder ot all
Montgomery county. The doctor, like
all physician*. was fnsjuentiv railed out
at night by some one's " halloo" at the
front gate. Folly learned this, and one
night when the doctor answered a shrill
"halloo" by coming to the door and ask
ing what was wanted. Polly answered
from a bunch of rose buslo-s: " 11 • ! hi!
ha" 1 fooi the doctor that lime; hi! he!
ha!" Polly received a sound thm-hing
for this trick and was quite sullen for
a wo k or so. when one dark, rainy night
the doctor woke up lo hear some one at
the gate repeating his " halloo " fre
quently. Going to the door he asked
who wan there. From the top of a tail
lorn hardy poplar the parrot screamed
out in fiendish gl<*': " Ha' ha! ha! You
can't eatcli l'oliy this time! You isn't!
you can't!! you can't!!!" All the doc
tor's persuasive arts were called into re
quisition to get the parrot down from
her high perch, but she eot'ld not lie de
rrlved. i-oaxed or flattered into doing as
he commanded or entreati.! her. She
resolutely k< pt h-r pereh ail night in
tlie rain, and waitsl until t started off
next morning on his daily u und la-fore
she vi-nturial down.
Th edmtor had a little boy aged
about two years, for whom th parrot
formed a strong attachment. Warren
was the child's name, and by-aad-bye he
fell sick. The parrot mop'-d around and
appeand to he nuite melancholy. At
times, when the child was left alni for
a few moments, l'ol'y would hop up on
the edge of the cradle, and. spreading
out her wings, she would vibrate them
like fans, and ask as she had heard the
nurse a*k "Poor baby! Baby want
water? Baby sick? Baby hungry? Poor
bahv? l'oliy'* so <>•(> sorry."
Finally the child died, and the par
rot slunk away for the two days preced
ing the funeral, and was neither Been
nor heard. On returning from the
cemetery, the family met it, waddling
along tlie middle of the road, repeating
t horse if in the tonderest and most
mournful manner: "Where's little War
ren? Poor baby! Baby sick 3 Baby
want water? I'-o-o-o-o-r baby! Polly's
so-o-o sorry."
She was picked up and taken back
home, hut never spoke another word un
til the dav of tier death, when she
cried out. " Hawks, hawks." and the
next minute was whisked away in the
talons of a monstrous chicken-hawk
that hnd laam watching for an oppor
tunity to carry her off for several hour*.
Item* for the Loral I'spcr.
The following suggestions, made by
the editor ol tlie FishkiUfN. Y.) .Stand
ard, are as pertinent to this locality a*
to any other: We often have people
sav to us: "I intended to send you a
little item for the }>aper last week."
(mentioning what it was aUmt.l " but I
didn't do it," ami then offer an excuse.
Or another person will say: "You
ought to have been down to, or Up to
such or such a place, anil sec such a
thing that happened there. It would
have niodca good item." We are always
f [ratified attln* good intent ions ex pressed
>T such persons, hut grieved that they
let the opportunity slip to po s( us on the
matter in question, when they could
have done it with so little trouble. W#
cannot le everywhere, and while [we
may desire to be at a certain place our
duty iuay require us somewhere else.
Even if we couid be at the place indi
cated hy our frienil. who is especially
interested in the item he mentions, often
times it would not pay us to spend the
time to go there. But he. being thor
oughly conversant avith the whole mat
ter. could write ft out in a few minutes,
and perhaps no a great deal letter than
we could if wc happened to be there.
No one need fear to *end us truthful
items. Write them with a lead pencil,
if tlint is handiest, on any kird of paper
that you can get hold of, put your name
to It so that we will know who it comes
from, not for publication, and if there is
the least interest attached to your item
it will see daylight in as good ashapsas
we know hoav to put it- This is intended
for sverybody- Who will send the first
item?
Some of the New York shopkeepers
advertise an opening as an exposition
One of them ha* had a " pageantry of
head-gear finery" for sale.
TERMS: a Year, in Advance.
HORACE GREELEY.
TMO Xro aud UWHI Sioilt.al Ike Urtal
JourualUl.
1 Th* Ww York of the*
ludiana|Milis find.) JourtuU writes:
Narrating something of my ixmversation
with Mr Reid reminds me of an inter
esting Ulk 1 lirnl the other day with
j Professor V. 11. lh-uslow, of f 'hieago,
concerning Mr. Reid'agreat predecowor.
I'rofissor Dens low was tin* chief editorial
writor on the Chii-ago Trttmnr when I
first met him, ten years ago, and won
derful spirited, bright and attractive ar
ticles did he contribute. He hail been
for two years previous financial AliUirial
writer of the New York 7Vt?aac, butllie
offer of a higher salary hail transferred
his brilliant pen to its namesake on the
lake. 11l |H?J lie left it on aciamnt of ill
health, which rcsultisi in a distressing
j insomnia, and he has since done little
; newspaier work exceffi to write tiie
series of long exhaustive and scliolarly
articles on " Modern Thinkers." now
running in the Chicago Time*.
"I well rem*uil>er when I first met
Mr. Gneley," said Densiow. "1 was
iust twenty-one, and had rei-ently lieen
admitted lo tiie New York bar. 1 was
at tip* residence of one of my first clients,
Mr. Partridge, publisher, when Greeley
called When I went into the room
with his hands under laisooat tails, look
ing at some picture*. 'Mr. Greeley,*
said Partridge, •this is Mr Jhmslow. a
young attorney.' Greeley uttered a short
grunt of recognition, but did not even
look around. I. embarrassed, shrunk
away to one eorncr of toe room and took
a chair. He went on around the room,
looking at pictures and what not, and ia
SIKIUI KM minutes when his tack was
turned on uie and 1 thought he had for
gotten inc. he suddenly, without looking
at me said : ' Hem! So you'rv an attor
ney, are you?' I confessed it. 'I hale
lawyers, he exclaimed emphatically. ' I
hate lawyers; they do mora mischief
than their heads are worth!'
"' 1 suppose they are a necessary evil,
I suggested, aeprecatingly.
" Wholly unnecessary!' he insisted
" * I suppose you will acknowledge,* I
said, 'that they promote good order and
remove impediment* to good govern
| m*nt?'
"'Just the contrary' just the con
trary " he squeaked, in his old falsetto;
•they ,xu* disorder, and they are the
chief obstacle to good government"
" I thought tiie man was crazy. * l'ir
baps you w ill tll me,'l *uggst-d, * how
debt* would lie collected without law
yer*.*
"*l>on't want 'em collected! don't
want Vm rolle*'t*ai!' he squeaked.; "if A
lets B liave his property without pay
ment. I don't see why C, D. K. F and all
the rest of the alphaiiet should Is- called
on as police to g-t it tiack! No debt
stiouid be collected by law. *t's mon
strous! l*'t a man trust another man
at liis own risk. Even a gambler pays
his debt* that he isn't legally obliged to
pay. and rails them debt* of honor: but
men will put their property out of their
It amis to prevent tiie ;ega! collection of
their groc ry bills. Abolish all iawsfor
thecoijecti on of debt, and that would
abolish most of you lawyers—good rid
dance T*
"Itacemvd impossible lo talk with a
man with uch cc-entrie notions."
And this storv of Profi-ssor lfenslow's
remind* mc of the im thod by which
Seilheimi r got on the TYi/msr tm years
ac. " I brought a letter from my uncle.
Tliad Stevens, saidSeilheimer. "and up
to Greeley's cubhy-tiole I went Thcte
lie sat witli his hair lilted forward,
writing aw.y rapidly, with the paper
close to his nooe. The hoy thrust mus
tard between his nose and the paper but
he knoekid it awav without looking up. I
waited and waited until I had lieen there
an hour, t IrveJey never look'sl at anybody
ami rarely spoke. When Young wani
ed him to sign anything he brought it
and thrust it um-eremoni tusiy between
ids nme and the manuscript, and held
it there till Greeley signed it. At last 1
thought 1 would try that with Stevens*
letter In liiiu. which lay on lh<- desk un
opened. 1 opened it. and slowly slid it
along on llie desk from the right, the
signature uppermost. He took no notice.
I cautiously pushed it a little further.
Scratch, scratch, scratch —he was ohJiv
ious. I timidly advanced the document
till its ivige overlapped his writing, but
when he came across the paper the next
time he pushed it away an inch or two
with his pen and kept on. Emboldened
now. I wailed a moment; then, when tie
reaclnal for ink, I deliberately pushed
the letter till it covered up his manu
script. He looked down, saw the signa
ture. and gemiy pushed it off again.
MM saying in a high, shrill voice.
HoWslMr I told him. and that I i
hail brought him tiie letter lor him to '
read, hut lie was again altsorlied. and I j
couid not induce him to again permit
his voire to fall on the auditory nerve or ,
my image on his retina. After waiting '
another half hour, I withdrew
" Young gave me a place and I went
to work. Mr. Greeley never came to tkr
office on Saturdays, hut remained at
Chappaqua. One Satunlay I was sur
i>ris<si to see him come in and go u> work.
l'r< -ently he came out and looked around
surpris<al. " When-'s Y'oung?' he asked.
•WMNk Winter 3 Wlicn-'s "-am?'
(Wilkinson). 1 saw thai the old man
was puzzled and had mistaken th" day.
'They do not come Saturday.' "Is this
Saturday?" he asked with a start. 'I
think it is,' 1 answered, as if doubtful.
The revelation irritated Mr. Greeley, for
lie thundered out, a* nearly as his curi
ous voice couid l>c said to imitate thun
der. 'Oli. you think it i. do you? you
think it is? And whothe are you?'"
1 have omitted the theological term
which Mr. Greeley intrcsiucea torender
his exact meaning plain.
Tlie Walters.
"I*am to laltor and to wait." wrote
Longfellow, yet it i not likely the gen
ial poet lias any idea that in New York
city alone there are thirty thousand
rasqde following his advice. The New
York World has been taking a bur
among the hotels and restaurants of that
rity. and it finds ttint there arc this
number of men who wait on their fellow
men. When a man cries " waiter," he
calles one of the vast army of men whose
object in life is to administer to the
yearnings of appetite and quell the rav
ages ol tlie demon hunger. The o<vu
pation doe* not seeni to Te one in which
there is any great danger of the occu
pant becoming suddenly or alarmingly*
rich. One of the best waiters in IH>l
- only gets eighteen dollars a
month. The same rat** rule at the
Fifth Avenue and other first-class hotel*.
However, the gn-at fact must not he
overl(Kk*d that it costs about a dollar
in any New York hotel to make a waiter
hear you order a beefsteak plain. This
is tin 1 reason that waiters on infinite
small wages are able to drive fast horses
and live in brown stone front*.— Detroit
Free Press.
An Interestlitg Enterprise.
A number of prominent citizens of
New York, have formed a company,
with a capital stock of $2,000,000, for a
conservatory and zoological garden in
that city. 1 hey have purchased a tract
of land bounded by the Harlem river.
St. Nicholas avenue. One hundred and
tifty-tifth and One hundred and fifty
ninth streets. There are three plateaus
upon the land of which tlie highest
point is nearly 155 feet ahove Eighth
avenue. The land has been purchased
for $400,000, and surveys have been
made by an Austrian engineer and land
scape arti-t at an expense of SIO,OOO.
The plans have been prepared by Will.
Mertnnez, who laid out the zoological
garden in Philadelphia and other simi
lar places of resort. Arrangements have
lieen made to set at work about 500 la
borers who are to be engaged in form
ing the topography of the ground to the
contemplated buildings. The proposed
building will be among the largest and
mo6t elegant in the country.
NUMBER 44.
THE FORMER'S BRIDE.
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The recent arrest, in England, of Win.
| itingoid Cooper,says a Washington letter,
j revives the memory of the social, as
well as political success in this city of
I tin- daring, unscrupulous forger and
scoundrel. During the winter of IbOB
thee appeared in Washington a hand -
some, dashing young man. who repre
; mud himself to be an English noble
niiii, lie made a great parade of hi*
arislmcratir lineage, and asserted that,
impelled by a iove of ad venture, tie had
come to this country and had dour val
iant service for the Union by deeds o
j daring in the navy. Mr. Welle* was
then secretary of the navy, and was
thoroughly imposed upon. Cooper
trumped up a plausible teason for de
siring a clerkship in the navy depart
iu<*nt. and obtained it without any
trouble. This situation enabled him to
-tudy the hand writing, as well as the
business of the paymasters. The gen
tleman was too elegant for work and
j wiseed his time driving fast horse* and
courting the girls. Of course I don't
know bow many affairs he had on
ltasK! at the same time, but I know of
1 one other than tliat of* Miss Mothers
head. Mr. Defrees' niece, not daughter as
has been published, whom be married.
A retired army officer had an only
daughter, wlto was a charming musi
cian. Mr. Cooper devoted himself to
her. He had a stylish learn and the
young lady shared his rides. The couple
iiecatne engaged, and when Mr Cooper
was laid up with small-pox the roman
tic young lady wrote tin* U-ndereat notes
to him and daily sent delicacies made by
her own fair hands. She believed him
to be immensely wealthy and listened
with delight to his Claud Meinour de
scriptions of the home and estate*
of hi* ancestors in England. The
young lady was really refined, well
cduca rd and of toud lineage, but be
always impressed her with the idea of
her inferiority to him. and that it was
great Cundeaceneion on bis part to notice
her. She. like many American girls,
tamely submitted, and did not evince
the slightest spunk until he deserted her
and married Miss Mothcrshcmd. whom
he supposed to lie wealthy. His forgeries ,
were disooverid several days before his ,
marriage, and it sectned cruel to allow ,
the ceremony to proceed wh*n Um '
detectives were outside of Mr. Ibfrc-'s j
house, and followed him and the
bride u> the train, taking passage with
them and not losing sight of him
for an instant. At llavre de Grace the j
arrest was made. Cooper begged the
detectives not to let the arreat br known
until he reached Philadelphia and placed
his bride in a hotel. To this they agreed.
He returned to the poor unsuspecting
girl, sat beside her and entertained her
!.•: :!.'!.< ab.v a . Ih- cvning. The
party proceed to the Con linen tal hotel,
Philadelphia, wliere Cooper engaged a
room, escorted bis liride to it. and then,
with the promise of returning soon, left
her. She never saw him again. Vainly
did sbe wat<h and wait during the long
hours of the night. In the morning her
uncle. Mr. Defrre*. arrived, and told the
frightened, horror-stricken girl. He
brought her flhrlc to bis home, which she
had left only the day before so bright
and bappy. Before leaving tins lady, I
will add that Mr. IMree* quicaly ob
tained a dicom* for his much loved
niece, and Miss MoUiendicad returned to j
Indiana. In a few years she a vain mar
ried. and, I believe, has been so happy
Unit, except for the frequent turning up
of the scoundrel who so cruelly deceived
her. she would haveforgotpen this dread- •
ful episode of her Youth.
When Cooper ieft his bride in ler
chamber at the Continental the detec
tives were waiting to conduct htm to
prison. It Ixvamc known that he was
the son of humble parrat* in l>ela
ware. His mother was a widow, and
testified that he was always bad and
unprincipled, and used to invent false
hoods to suit his every purpose. She
had known nothing about him daring
or after the war. Cooper received the
mild sentence of five years in Moya
mcnsing prison He served out his term,
and ha* led the life of a forger ever since.
He deceived men with the same facility
that be did women.
The general's daughter, whom Cooper
; jilted, of course felt much chagrined
when she heard that Cooper had mar
ried another, but the news of his dis
grace so quickly followed that she felt
| thankiui lor her escape from worse
humiliation. She quickly dispatched
her father to the navy department to
■ lieg the secretary to give him an order
i for the delivery of her letters and sou
venirs which might he found among
Cooper's papers, which, of course, had
Ixen seized. I was present when the
general came in with toe package. The
young lady sprang from the sofa to re
ceive them, when her mother cried out:
" lbm't touch them, they may be in
jected with small-pox! General, take
them to the kitchen and put them in the
range." but the daughter would inspect
the bundle first. Every letter was folded
and briefed like a business document.
Each letter was numbered and his
comments upon the content* of the
letters wen- recorded on the backs.
One read: " I tear little . how
she ovos me!" Some of the re
flection* were not so complimentary and
tlie young lady finallv yielded to her
mother's command that the general
should consign the package to the fire,
nor was she satisfied for several days
that the entire family might not be in
fected with sinall-pox bv the handling
of the tender missives which had been
sent daily to beguile t!e tedium of the
invalid's sick room.
Cooper wa* a* successful in California
and England as he was in Washington.
It seem* strange that no one ever recog
nised him as the ex-eonviet. He had
had mnv disgraceful transactions whan
he was with the fleet on the Mississippi
during the war and yet he came direct
from them to Washington where he WHS
in daily danger of being confronted with
the officers whom he had defrauded. In
San Francisco lie was always exposed to
recognition for he does not appear to
have adopted aliases, and in England he
lias been equally bold. O ben reiser, in
Dicftem' " Xo Througbfnre." SHVS that
the world is so small and narrow that
we are always running across the same
people, but this has not been the case
with Cooper, for lie does not appear
ever to have l>een recognised until he
was detected in one of his clever forger
ies and then he has been identified as
the most successful forger pmong the
Coopers.
Words of Wisdom.
Adversity is the balance to weigh
friends.
To him that lives well every form "of
life is good.
We must not look nround on the uni
verse with awe. and on man with scorn.
I/ovo, like tire, cannot subsist withaut
continual movement; so soon as it ceases
to hope and fear it ceases to exist.
Love and enmity, aversation and fear,
are notable wbetters and quiekners of
the spirit of life in all animals.
No man is called on to lose his own
balance for the advancement of the
world in any particular direction.
Logic helps us to strip off the outward
disguise of things, and to behold and
judge of them in their own nature.
The law of food is, that man should
eat what is good for him, at such times
and in such quantities as nature re
quires.
The sweetest music is not in the ora
torio, but in the human voice, when it
speaks from its instant life tones of ten
derness, truth and courage.
Have the opurage to show your re
spect for honesty, in whatever guise it
appears, or your contempt for dishonest
duplicity, by whomsoever exhibited.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Feeling i* no criterion of right or
wrong.
Henry Clay'* old home, Ashland Farm,
in offered for rent.
Hurry man ha* hi* prtyudlce* and
* arrry woman her biaa.
A Chicago girl call* hrr bran Lucifer.
' because he i* such a good match.
Mince pie for lf0 will be composed
! of the usual fourteen ingredient*.
A buneh of chyle* ostrich feather*
waa recently *old for 9337 a pound.
One of the UMD of adveraity—Help* to
fill up the dictionary.— L. O. Urgga.
An old dealer *ay* business is just now
moving in tlra furniture line.— naiguna.
The small hoy who got slightly scalded
; w* only a son-burnt.— Stao Ynrk Srwa.
Chicago kill* six hogs for every min
ute of every hour of every day in the
year.
The Sultan of Turkey spends f10.P00.-
000 yearly upon himself and hi* fcuO
wiv.
There is one consolation in being
broke. You have nothing to ose, and
everything to gain.
A lame tanner waa asked if he had a
corn on hi* toe. " No." be said, " but
I've got lot* on the ear."
The ordinary life of a locomotive is
thirty years. No doubt it would live
much longer if it didn't smoke so much.
If Edison can render sound available
in so many ways, why doesn't be utilise
the bowling wilderness? Haturdag
Sujhl.
Major Thorn burgh, who was killed by
the L'te Indians, was one of the tet
rifle shots and horsemen in the United
Stem Army.
" 80 ends my tail," a* the bee said to
the boy. at the loiur time giving him a
practical illustration of Low be coo
ducted business,
Pennsylvania has eighty incorporated
county agricultural societies, thirty-one
of which have representation in it*
State Board of Agriculture
T\& Phrmolomeal J'jurt-tU SAYS: "In
choosing a wife be governed by the
chin." And that's the thing a man is
governed by after choosing her.
There are ten petroleum refineries
within the limits of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
wtiidb have a combined eapiwity of from
eQ tKio to T5.000 barrels refined oil per
week.
The difference bet sreen the man whs
girdles a tree and the one who entraps
Bruin in it* branch** is this: One bare*
a tree and the other tree* a hear.—Bos
ton TroM*mpt. >
A plow boy at Orkney recently picked
from the furrow two gold rings, which
are declared to he 1.000 years old and
very curious and valuable as antiqui
ties.
A woman was recently dragged under
a railroad train at Xearcaatle and killed
in consequence of shaking hands with a
friend at a ear window as the train
moved out.
Four of the largest trade unions it
Great Britain have, during their com
paratively brief terms of existence, spent
over 91,500.600 in relieving the wants of
members on strikes
Because a newly-married couple sit
upon opposite and* at tin- sofa and throw
sheep's eyes at each other in silence, it
is no sigh of fear or bash fulness. They
are simply unspeakably happy.— Wain
loo Obmrvtr.
Let some of those mm engaged in run
ning aix-day matches try raining a
newspaper lor a while if they would un
derstand the difference hctwee* go as
you please and please as you go.—N. Y.
MouMv Unmm.
A colossal hotel is being ooupleted
opposite the new lentral station U Ber
lin. It will >-ontain immense apartment*,
luxuriantly furnished and tastefully de
corated. and 500 bedrooms, besides a
theater, two chapel* and a synagogue.
The number of emigrant* wiio have
landed in New York this year between
January I and October I, has been 115.-
404. against 77.307 for the corresponding
months last year. The arrival* in Sep
tember were nearly twice what they
were in September •( last year
Alfred Bently. ol Hardinsviile. Ky..
refused to pay the rent of the farm on
which he lived, and declared that he
! would submit to DO remonstrance about
' it. Bight, lit" landlord. rode to
the place to confer on the subject, and
the ten net shot him on sight with a rifle,
killing him.
Switzerland ha* been visited this y< ar
by hWO.OOO strangers. a number
! which exceed* by several thousand* the
average of the last four yean. Of this
total <ce-fifth are said to be Knflish.
(Germans and Austrian*: tire-tenth*
Russian*, one-twentieth French and
Hanes, three-twentieths Americana, and
other national Kit* one-tenth.
A hog scraping machine which lias
, just been hated in Chicago worked very
-atisfactorilv. A hog was killed, placed
in the niarhW, and almost in an instant
name out with only a few odd hair* on
his bead and lew. Seven hogs were
;>a*sed through the machine, and each
• >ne came out as hairless as could be de
sired. With a tew of improvement#,
the machine is expected to finish off
ti.CMO hogs in ten hour*.
The influence of nasal respiration on
the ear is illustrated by George Callin in
his " History of the North American In
dians." Among 000,000 Indians he
found not one who was deaf or breathed
through the mouth, except three or four
deaf mutes; and in the memory of the
rhlefs of ISO tribes not one case of deal
ness could be remembered to have oc
curred. This is explained by the mother
closing the mouth of the child whenever
it attempted to breathe through it.
Mrs. Belle Inwson. of liagerstown.
Md . has in her possession an
ancient breastpin containing three locks
of hair, braided together very beauti
fully. si Kirn from the head of the fattier
of his countrr. It formerly belonged to
a Masonic lodge, and became the prop
erty of Mr. Inwson more than thirty
vrars ago. On tle hack of the pin is the
following inscription: "This contains
the hair of tlen. QMM Washington,
first President of the United State* of
America."
How He Was Cured of Swearing.
John caiue in and inquired whether
dinner was ready, and was told it was
not.
" Well, why in the isn't it?'" said
ho.
"Because." she coolly replied, "the
wood was so wet that the fire
wouidn'l burn."
" Why. Mary, what is tlie matter with
you? Are vou crasy or have you been
drii kiuc' > " '
" Neither," she said, and quietly pro
ceeded to put on the dinner? '
The beef didn't melt like huttcr be
tween tlie teeth—it rather resisted all
attempts at mastication, like so much
india-rubber: and finally John blurted
out:
" What makes this beef so infer
na! tough?"
Mary looked up archly and replied:
"Well, John, {suppose vouwentdown
to the butcher's and without knowing
tlie diflerence. picked out a piece of some
old stag Uiat hadn't been fed for a
month."
John jumped up. lonkrd at hi* wife in
dismay, and wanted U> know what such
language from her lips uieant.
" It means just this, John; you are
the head of the family, and just as long
as you think it manly to swear in my
presence I intend to do the same! If
you don't like to hear it you know how
to ere vent it."
The cure was radical, and to this date
Mary has never been compelled to ad
minister another dose of that prescrip
tion.
A Hank President's Hold Briek.
The details of the r. nnrkablo confi
dence game in Leadville, whereby one
Lewis and his confederates were enabled
to get 814,000 out ef Mr. Clark, presi
dent of the First National Hank at
Ravenna, Ohio, by selling him a lead
brick for a gold one, show that it was a
shrewdly-conducted robbery. It is now
said that Lewis carried the brick from
Kansas City in his carpet-bag, and in
fratiated himself into Mr. Clark's con
dence on the ears till the latter con
sented to buy for about half its value
this precious brick, from a confessed
murderer, who alleged that he dare not
offer his brick in open market for fear of
arrest, but was eager to make any sacri
fice in order to go home to --e his " dear
mother" before consumption claimed
him for its own. Mr. Clark does not see
any fun in it.