Thanksgiving. Oartloads of pumpkins as yellow as gold, Onions in silvery strings, Shining red apples and clusters of grapes, Nuts and a host of good things, Chickens and turkeys, and fat little pigs Those are what Thanksgiving brings, Work is forgotten and play-time begins : From office, and schoolroom, and hail, Fathers and mothers, and uncles, and aunts, Nieces and nephews, and all Spoad away home, as they hear from afar The voice of old Thanksgiving oall, Now is the time to forget all your cares, Cast every trouble away Think of vour blessings, remember your Don't be afraid to be gay ! ung, Nose are too old, and none are too yo To frolic on Thanksgiving day. i —————— The Night Before Thanksgiving, | Gently, Boreas, gently throw, Oer the earth her robe of show | Coase thy rivors for s while, Wreathe thy wrinkles with a smile Change thy warlike notes to praise, Heralding this “Pearl of days” Danish every lingering trace m Ia on the while, Of thy frowns iy wna's face ; Nee | she throws up Mystic tracery of Peneiled there, with artist's care, Forest wo Fleecy aloud at fleck the blue With her soft 1 ai shadows flitting o'er the plain, As her face Waves of Emblems of our Ix Newer hope 8 avd Raa Gratitude ve That Wife of Mine SOI voice and 1 Irony i areal, 2 Yank +4 looked up 1 & gi 3 ok? a young girl ard the we pened my heavy to what seemed for ¢ impse of Paradise. There dark green leaves of the low bushes, among which I dimly remembered dragging wyself, 4 al and faint, it seamed a Year ago itl ywa upon their dark as la Mas, 1 ask. No, there was her who 1 lovely 3 Sanka & as 1 100880 ¥ 2 suUppse not ach »® 1 ¥ » 5 singuiar reguiar ic ie on t 4 2 still it always to , and that mormin t, her face was as an angel's. I was as nearly won could well be, and ever black and dreary enougl bright summer ime. I was only a tramp then—not a ragged, irty tramp, such as you drove out ol erhaps, but a kind wo Seem up at man K looked gh, even in that SS wd FE an] vestarday 1 Yard Tvesie rday, } wd IL un- of r me down. final i i ght 1 remember ceash eame, and avert it, my si It reemex ways so favo penniless, a gar, stil: certs > $yy 1 I Hie ine to a realization o YE {ar ] ail 100 late. WOW 8d toate ALAS a beggar's friend- +s position. » to remain where was known, forifear of my creditors, | 2 os new regions, and begged that's the word—Dbegged for work, any honest work, and begged for | it in vain. Idd odd jobs, here and | there, but nething lasting, only just enougl for me to live along from hand ! 1 to mouth—and sometimes it was poorly | $n ek off int —Te The night before, with a fever bum. ing in wy veins, I bad left Ridgefield left without supper or money—and all the long night had trudged onward, down the great, white country road. Sick, with the hot fever coursing through my veins and parch- ing wy tongue; faint with hunger, | footsore and weary from long travel, disheartened, and caring but little whether I lived or died, just as the sun came up I sank into the low, cool-look- ing bushes by the roadside, and Jost all CONSCIOUS ess. ‘+ Are you sick, sir?” Tue question was repeated with even more earnestness than before, “Ifear I am,” I said, pressing my band fo my throbbing temples to still the pain, “ Whete man?” There was a look of pity in those great, earnest eyes, that, if I should live | foraver, I could not forget. “Friends!” I echoed; the words sounded almost like a mockery to me. “Did you ever know such menas Ito have friends 7’ “ Why, what have you done—are yon a criminal ?” It was said with the action of a start. led fawn, and 1 hastened to answer: “A criminal? Yes, of the worst kind, s0 people seem to think. Iam ‘guilty’ of being poor.” “Oh, is that sll.” What a relief there was in her voice ; sick as I was I noticed it. ** Weare poor, too, motherand 1; but still we have friends, and will | pever leave any one sick at our door withont help. Can yon walk at all, err” : “1 will see,” I said, faintly ; and in- | spired by a new courage, with a hold | on the thick bushes, I managed to gain | my feet and staggered, rather than | walked, out into the road; but when | at last I got once more into the sun- | ligh* he old dizzy faintness came over me, and in a swoon I fell forward in be dust For days following I was conscious of | nothing but pain—a throbbing and ach- | ing of the head, a feeling throughout | the body of hunger and suffering, I had closed my heavy eyes in the heat and dust, and even as I lay there, day gfter day, I seemed to be breathing the same dusty air, suffering with hunger burning with the fever, and without water to quench my thirst. When at last I opened them I saw a cool, white curtain swaying to and fro before an cpen window, and now and then I could feel a breath of fresh air upon my cheek, and out beyond I could see, where the curtain was caught up, rain- drops dropping and glistening among the leaves. I felt as if in fairyland as I handled the clean, white coverlet laid over me, and I looked about at the few cheap pictures and the neat, simple sweetness of the room. “Where am I?” Unconseiously I spoke, in my surprise and wonder, aloud. A curtain banging at the head of the bed was suddenly lifted, which gave me a slight glimpse of another room, neat 8s my own. A young girl entered and guickly came forward to the side of my It was the face of my @ are your friends, poor . VOLUME XIV. N 4 Hditor and HALL, CENTRE 4 00., PA., r NOVEMBER NERMS: 82.00 a a 17, 1881. RRS in Advance. NUMBER 45. 1 COOH, iV $3 Hil hands fever eld” batter. Moist on n “awake, and gone. Youn must feel muoh I could only look “Yos" OYOS, of Now, 1 You are my pati me." “But where am 1 un spite of all orders I must might fade, tomplos the with my io +4 LIOR t want you to talk, ent. and youn mast mind ask that question, for fear the “ You're saf other's and mine , but you would aid aor 5 GUO Vision y in ii Id i 4 s } 4d our hols ¢ alo i 1 f ¥ YOu Wwe wele ht before t i Tiga “ “1'm very sorry,” penitently, “Hom! T at now how sick you've been? I protested my entire 1gnorance, an Well, you've had a fever, and been wild g » she informed til untill gal yOu sO PN (101 § » o mes sometimes, wind 1 : "ATA 118 she got from in whidd As she said tl haty yr italy HE Ril & “No, don't go!” sleeve, and 1 do want you!” She down laugh. sat again she said, i 1¢ I want » Aly voice sound you do want,” “Yes I do; go, will youn?" ANXIOUS 14 118 Weak! “ Not without mother y $0 sleep.” Nae me very careit “ How did yov asked, Prose ntly. # Oh, one of the station men help nh, if vou and yon were terribly heavy, if 3 Wy el VY Be me here? i me, $33 + YROINE LO O85 . 3 1 " . > 3 y pillow, and watche 1% 108 hadn't an I lay back on m 2 hava ¢ vids fF th her sitting there ke stillness of th 1 ai more than It was a ¥ man . yo x N80 SCArCeLY spOXen room for an had 0a long year, ¢ xeepting RUSWOrs, The sun that open window, LNOIWOIK ne into the HE 10% 1 two women i me sin trey ar ¥ +18 wi W bad x they cotked me And then one wouid your n “TY In the days under their tend better, until at last Id frame ne ing could now tear me away ir] who had saved my lif 11 a 1 new but too well 1 loved. I never gaid one word of love to or I was only a tramp, and my k her, { love was . Th i t nave its oD oO hi nest, og ject needless pain. Deep in my heart I had resolved to ap to something yore worthy 2 } worthy myself. But, mean- while, I could altogether leave her, and, finally, ] inflnence with np who had worked with O'Neil bef killed, I received a position. was only that of a brakeman upon ight express 3 you think. Perhaps not to offing friend, with your credit at the bank, but it was everything to me. It was the first chance the world as my first step up- ward, aud I believe J was prouder in that brakeman’s cap than I ever was i my first gold and black law sign in the old days of my prefligacy and my pro- fession. I ran on that road—it was the P. D, and G.—for nearly two mont making | every night the trip between Platts- | mouth and Delaver, rain or shine. Now and then of a Sanday I would go down to the little cottage of the O'Neils, and { y a pleasant after. noon in talking over the events of my sickness with the mother Of On man £ men id i fie n It w n hs, hus speadq ma ¥ r, or wandering down by the river with Florence, my | little love. I began to dream that she loved me, and it made me a better man. One night, I think it was of a Wedues- unusu- uth © ai hard for two days, and it bid fair to be a dark, tempestuons night. A special | freight train left an hour ahead of us, | which we were to pass at Somerset. The night, as it grew later, proved to be one of the roughest I had ever ex- | perienced; the wind blew a perfect hur- ricane from the north, the glare of the lightning was incessant, and the heavy sky. “Watch sharp for a red light at] ‘ Bridge No. 2,'” I heard the train mas- ter say to the engineer of the freight | as his heavy train pulled out of the | yard. “Bridge No. was the one close by | O'Neil's—the long one over the river was just this side, and known as ‘‘ No. 1”—their little cottage was nestled in the thick woods between the two. Just how it happened I suppose no one exactly knows, but it seemed that “Bridge No. 2” had been swept away | by the fury of the storm, and the red lantern, safely placed by careful hands to stop the advancing train, had gone out in the terrific gale. freight, propelled down the steep grade between the two bridges by its own weight, rushed with a scream by the little cottage and took plunge into the air, down fifty feet to the rocks below. When I saw it, early the following morning, the wreck was complete, with the dead, mangled bodies of the train- men wedged into the water and crushed down by the heavy timbers, £ “ And our train?” you ask, Well, I'll tell yon about that as it told to me. Florence and her mother were | Lut EL “ i i i i strange friend by the roadside; her suuny hair and earnest eyes had been with me, as something intangible, misty as a pleasant dream, all through my sickness, and I remembered it now ie promised aid and swooning in the ust, _“ Soyou are at last awake,” she said, retiring to rest, believing the lantern to be safely burning, when thoy heard the shrill whistle of the freight, and a mo- ment later the fearful crash. Realizing in a moment what had happened, Flor- ence grasped a lantern, and, amid the hurricane of wind, the deluge of water, the incessant glare of the lightning, and peal upon pes X tage and started for the 1 OX} } 3 y IRL Was oniy nd Matl { 3 4 i & LasK , iid i funy RYO 2 i under flowing skir ¥ 840 Crawied v Reserved Power. to worl ntl their machines serve force, Ig. Am to do twelve hon in twenty-four, do but nine o vars’ work. Th warve power kee rounds o All hot the bo iy in frame to § mind person with incapabl nie of lore re- sponsibility { iif al ad) ha i A little exertion puts him t of breath He cannot increase his work for an hour without the danger of an explosion. Such are generally pale, bl nervous, irritable, despondent, We all pity them. The ou aod less, gloomy. |0oUree the of onr n the Can be So oa the uns depends sayy SCANLLY, the mill « iid an that ua that ich wo. oid blo wd, : When lividoal runs hat a change 3 t to stop BAVIDE 1 tail tells in nse the word. m » pOwWer of : » 5 i 2 Senso i great f power in upon it health and Walter 1s man with little good blood can do this old among stock-raisors w Ifitisonly g of individual is blood. It the machinery life, and strength stream where worked but a port f time, little work. The reserve power must be stored up in this fluid, It is 1g ““bloos " It is equally t tha mn i the het Ie Ox an in 18 an indieation t WCOEBATY, and that it i and sceumulaticg, miller does when the water in the pond. Buch acourse re many a person from physi- ples 15 bes go to § 58 i cal banka Y. a Seandinavian Hospitality, As in all other ecuntries that retain in Scandi- navia always implies eating and drink- ing. The poorest farmer or fisherman ava has something to offer the visi- tor, and lack of appetite is generally construed as a slight. The author mon- tions one occasion which, to aveid hurting any one’s feelings, he ato thirty times in two days, and drank thirty four, caps of strong on cofiee, Often provoke appetite, and in the cities a formal dinner is preceded by a smorgas, or lunch. at a table crowded with Org as boiled eggs, caviare, fried saneage, an- chovy, smoked goose breast, cucumbers, raw salt herring, boiled meat, potatoes, ggs, beets snd onions, There were and from these and the varions dishes the guests helped themselves bounti- fully, and then did justice to an excel lent dinner. An American who would attempt by such means to gain an appe- tite would be helpless before reaching J. dinner table, and his dyspepsia id be one of the most wonderful 5 on record; but the Swedes s:ldom Main of indigestion, and they cer- duniy live ‘longer than their Western neighbors, — Harper's Magazine. RIO ier used to trim black satin el aks, SCIENTIFIC NOTES. vas accidentally discov by Brant, while engage d in the proces of transmutati account of ts soaroity it was its walght In ge 1d. he law of gravitation MM RANE 4 hat the we a Har BALES, or Abraham and twelve mo Voltaire rejected the l the patriarch without question the attained by se EY 16 SAYS, tL ages the Com twenty eaches that he should live fiv long as it takes him to become Aeeording to this author the of a completed development may be recognized by the fact of the junction of the bones with their apophy- 1 5 Ju takes place } 3 ab five vears, and the hor live be yond twenty-five voars the ox at four years, and it di man at years, t five times as an adult, moment junction horse y 1 not teen months, and that animal rarely lives over ten years. With man it is effected at twenty years, and he only exception ally lives beyond one hundred years. The same physiologist admits, however, that haman life may be exceptionally prole 1 unde: conditions of comfort, sobriety, freadom from care, regularity of habits and observance of the rules of hygiene, and he terminates his interesting study of the last point (**De la Longevite Humaine ”) with the aphorism, “Man kills himself rather than dies.” — Popul Wonthly. EE ———— MIRE certain ar NY ANC Threatened Famine in Asia Minor, tition of the terrible famine of 1873-4. Locusts, drought, depopulation, mis government, have wronght their effects, This vear's crops have almost universally failed. The district of Angora again ap- pears to have suffered the most severely, and the unfortunate inhabitants are al- FACTS AND COMMENTS, Cyrus W, Field to erect a memorial window at Williams college to the late President Garfield. Proposes Morrill i . Sanator 1 collect statistios Of the « Xisting Pawn. brokers in the United British Kingdom. mber is 4 37 and during they take 1, iL Wm esti 200,000,000 pledges Re al pawnbrokers repre of 33.500 pledges, of 20 OU, O00 iB « alenlated . i iy tal y 1) hair otal mt Vid, i yoar *. (HM In order to mi the wrapped Hg t valet GAsler [or feel are wd with lard. Bat the stioky mud will Cr r mia in linen sos ually where A New York the i Pp of Liis hi une, isin a i Odds fly Ms ow of the 1 wlollice, to Central park to to collect their straight home the spot where said that the ees have to the bloss They wien { as black and Ue Rabble, past mid s vol i LA The agricultural bureau est wheat crop of the United States be 881.47 4 { 1870 was 3 { L300 buash- $08 O00 O00 at of 1851 is pow sel at 408 I'he decrease this herefore 117,000,000 examination of Appears { fim! 18 my 108 Wii 2 HsNpers It would astonish people in th know to what an extent i d On in Ne Ww Yi rk eller, calling hersel was arrested swindling, for contrary to a law which is seld« foreed, It is a short he business i an en between adventur. wt of them women, get hat business in New York. he fools who allow harpies to swindle them are women, says the Christia Work, and many are women who dress well, too, and move in a pretty fair sort of social circle. They can hardly be set down as ignorant, thay keep up with the $s h eslimated at are these for times, s0 far as reading goos at least, But they believe in fortune-telling as firmly as the he sly ignorant, are duped in tl Aside from it as a fraud and imposture, the whole business of fortune-telling 18 an agent of immor. ality that onght to be sternly suppressed, just and Way pales x act is € Brune the objection i to ———— The First Sign of Consumption, It is not as extensively known as it ought to be that, in the large majority of fa slight cough in the morning on getting up. After a while it is perceived at night on going to bed; next, there 1s ‘coughing spell” some eases, consumption begins with an OCCASIH nal | nin there is a difficulty of breathing on any slightly unusual exercise, or in ascend- Even before this, persons begin to feel weak, while there is an almost im i gradual diminution in weight-—harrass- ing cough, loose bowels, difficult breath ing, swollen extremities, daily fever and a miserable death, Miserable, be in search of food, lest winter snows and swollen streams should cut off their communication with the outer world, and they shonld again find themselves pent up in their mountain homes, with- out a chance of ercape, and reduced to years ago caused fathers and mothers to sell their children for a handful of corn. The government is, of course, too much Egyptian intrigues to take any useful measures against the impending calamity. All that has been done hitherto is to suspend the export of grain from the famine districts, As merchants are obliged to sell at mock prices to the authorities, who lock up { the grain inthe government storehouses {until they find some opportunity of | driving a good bargain. It is an il | wind which blows nobody luck, and a | famine is not without its redeeming | points in the eyes of Turkish function- aries, — Pall Mall (Gazette, sv | Mohammed Tewfik, the khedive of | Egypt, has regular features, and is not | at all bad-looking. He is only twenty- | nine years old, but looks clder, and i | rather portly, While his bearing is i eral air that would depress Democritus himself. his home and is an excellent husband and father, | i i able. How much it is to be wished that the symptoms of this hateful dis OALe Were more generally studied and understood, that it might be detected in its first insidious appproaches, and application be made at once for its ar rest and total eradication; for certain it is that, in very mauy instances, it could be accomplished. It must be remembered that cough is not an invariable attendant of consump tion of the lungs, inasmuch as persons have died, and on examination a large portion of the lungs were found to have decayed away, and yet these same per- sons were never noticed to have had a cough, or observed it themselves, until within a few dave of death, But suca instances are rare, and a habitual cough on getting up and on going to bed may be safely set down as indicating con- sumption begun, Cough, as just stated, is originally a curative process, the means which natare uses to rid the body of that which offends, of that which is foreign to the system and | ought to be out of it; hence the folly | of using medicines to keep down the | cough, as all congh remedies sold in the | —Hall's Journal of Health, cc ——————— King Kalakaua has subserided $2,000 to the erection of an Fyiscopal cathe- dral in Honolulu, SITTING BULL, The Hedoubtabie Indian Chief Described. tie Makes a Speech, During the trip down the Missouri by Captain Boyton, in his rubber suit, and a New York Herald correspondent in a canoe, they landed at Fort Randall, where Sitting Bull is eneamped, a pris The Herald correspondent writes © After breakfast we went to the hostile camp in company with an officer, The camp is about a mile distant from the garrison and is situated on a pleasant | stratch of level ground. There thirty-two tepees in all, which accom modate 168 people, forty of whom are males over sixteen vears of age aud the rest women and children. The tepces are arranged in a circle, with a large space in the center, around which braves, squaws and almost nude ehil. dren squatted and lay in the sunlight. As we approached the camp we could see a solitary white man standing in ron He Wis dressed ina dark pair of pantaloons, brown duek | overcoat, and his head was surmounted large broad -brimmed drab felt hat, with an enormous dinge in each side of it. It was Allison, the army scout, who entered the hostile camp last year and brought in the main body of the Rioux warriors led by Crow King. The scout is a medinm-sized but is | pactly and str it. He has a peculiar of shrewdness on his face and his eves are keen and ier, are tof a tepee by ou man, gly bud GX Pression COI y, gentlemen !" he cried, at the ne saluting the officer, ** I sup- pose you have come to see the old man.” As he said this, Allison jerked 1 boulder toward a group of braves seated near a large At that mome of the turned toward our companions was ead i, for the dignified expression which the painted features assumed, the ce of the surrounding savages graciously outstretehed hand we were in the preseree of the led Uncapapa chief, Whatever may be of Sitting Ball, he cer- tainly has the appearance of a man born to lead wen He is five feel ten inches in id weighs, i suppose, about and i pounds. His gent one and is thumb over his # : t * nL iOUge, ane and ns, s oof H tion deferer and the 10id us Ae : 8 BRIq 134 : ME neight, ar nsyus large 3 (is is promi mds to broadne 88, and his shaped He hus i of Gall, or the distin Rain-in-the- dignified vel withal, after examining ¥ he cast his dark he ground and invited us into his d led the way himself. One after another we crawled through the vered hol hich door to seated oanrselves on 3 our EWAZE er 3 which treachier guishe Face, modest {a our 68 © 10nd OY es | i ol | poe, & SErves G8 8 thi ning twigs, the the chiefs two fighting He was man and ABNER, whieh Fave appenrance. The usehold shook hands and paraded ral half naked ry dirty chil ¢ heirs and ws of the Bull When Allison told Sitting Ball t a correspondent of the Herald was esent, and that he could speak to the American people if he wished, the chief k me by the hand several times and said he was glad of it. He said he was a prisoner of war and wanted to see the y order to arrange a 0 and Lis people. le-Standing. ww fouLy every $ ana Ye i Reg ure “I will tell he said, “exactly what I intend to the President if I am allowed t Washington.” Sitting Bull then | 1 his pipe and did not speak until several Indians had taken a puff or two. Then he raised his hand, and with a solemn expression began. “1 have lived a good while and seen a great deal, and I have always bad a for everything I have Every act of my life has bad an object in view, and no man can say I have neglected to think, I am of the last generation of independent Sioux chiefs, and before me the position I oe cupy belonged to my ancestors. If i bad no place in the world I would not be here, and the fact of my existence entitles to the right of exercising what. ever influence I posess, for 1am sat isfied I was created for a purpose. When I went across the line into Can ada I did not give up my title to my country, but fled before troops. I could not help myself and yielded to a supe- rior force, although I knew I had a right to stay the United States. Ever since | have been trying to come to a better understanding with the Brit. ish and American governments. 1 heard good words from both and then I hook hands. 1 held the British gov- ernment by one hand and the Great Iather by the other. Finally IT deter ved to come over to this side and lead my people back to their native soil. I want the President to put and all the people who were cn the warpath with me on a separate reserva. tion on the Grand river, some distance from the Missouri, and there we will learn to live like white men. I wantto put my young men to work so that they can raise a good crop next year, and the sooner they commence the better. “In my act of surrendering I con- sider that I have wiped the blood from my hands and washed myself entirely | of the past. From this time forward I am determined to lead a different and better life in fall accordance with the wishes of the government. I consider the Sioux as all one people, and 1 want them all to be happy, even those who refused to join me on the warpath. It is my intention to improve their condi- tion as much as possible. I have no | objection to the occupation of our re Servation by white men as the other! hioux have. In fact, I would rather Tave them come and live among us, { he country is being settled anyway, and if the whites mingle with us my | people can learn their ways more | rapidly than if they were isolated by | themselves. I have even learned that the army is a good thing and will pro foot us as it does the whites. When I | came in 1 expected to see the President | and make a treaty of peace, but, just as | my hopes were almost realized, the | President was shot, Although I wanted | to see him I could not, and when he | died I felt very bad. I was gorry for him and sorry for my people, for it in- terfered with my plans, Now we have MAY is reason done, one m miu me to him. I want to stand face to face with him and say that I am at peace and will do right always. My people are destitute of everything, and, although we are willing, we have nothing to farm with. It is necessary that work should be commenced at once, and that is my reason for being in haste to see the head It is a well known I believe 1 can make my men better farmers and steadier workers than other Indians in North America. They are the most persevering and intelligent of Well, they | will be just ss earnest direction if they get a chance, men have told me about schools for in- structing young men in the different trades, and 1 am anxious that my peo- ple should have the benefit of such an ipstitution.” “Do you think you have influence enough left since your surrender to lead the hostiles ¥ 1 inquired. “ They would only be too glad to fel- low me,” waa the reply. * Give me a reservation and I promise that ail my people will dress in white men's clothes and give up their savage life entirely.” “ Do you think the Indians can ever be citizens of the United Btates ?”’ “* My idea is to prepare them for citi gensbip. It must come slowly, but ] 1 have Little influence am helpless, but 1 ple citizens vel now, because 1 people if the government will aid me.” ing, Allison assured me that the ehief was in earnest and would prove of great service to the country if allowed to visit Washington an? get an idea of the power of the government. nese A Third Set of Teeth. Concerning the growth of a third = of teeth Professor Owen says: Teeth are organs that, as a rule, have a term of existence more limited than that of the organism of which they form a part. In many of the lower vertebrates thoy are shed very soon after they are com. pleted and in use, and are as quickly replaced by others. In the mammalia, however, there is but one succession of teeth naturally shed, but thongh the of he so-called * milk io enough to acquire i they are ad vanced a belief B BUACASROrS 1 fed th H last iE the title of permanent,” rarely retained age, There entertained 1 aoquisition of a third set 1n human cen tenarians, Thus, it is recorded of the Countess of Desmond, in “Fyne's Mon. son's Itinerary (1617), that, not many years before her death, which is said to have oceeurred at the age of 140 years, had all her teeth renewed.” I was 0 his point iv clergym house of a wd whom [ was visiting, and to my icism as to the alleged age and d set of teeth of the old countess, he replied that there then lived in his parish an old woman alleged to have passe d her hundredth year, who was then actually cutting her third set of teeth. 1 re joiced at this instance. I had long been convinced that actnsl phenomena bad suggested the statement, but that the nature of these had been misinterpreted, and 1 deemed myself most fortuvate in having an opportunity of testing the matter. The following morning 1 was no @ 10 } i an iB, wowever, }¥ Ian “she Y : led to a discussion on t by a wort gyman at the thr xy ay th in the north of Ireland, and she was sit- ting crouched over her peat fire, a typi- cal example of human desay. To th mts of her pastor the deaf old egupe replied by pulling down her skinny lip and exposing the side of her lower jaw, from which there Dro je ted through the im the blackened stump of a tooth, the crown of which bad gone many Years before. The absorption of the gums consequent on the edentulous stale of x Y fii or the jaw in senility, had brought to light a remount of a long-lost tooth. stumps of teeth, of which the lo=s of the decayed had been forgotten, might. in like manner, appear through the shrinkage and absorption of the senile jaw. And this I take to be the true ground of the allegations as to the acquisition in the extreme old age ofa third set of veritable teeth. crown Restoring Solomon's Temple, Jerusalem, has recently receivad im- perative orders from Sultan Abdul Hamid to resume the work of restora tion of Bolomon's temple, commenced continued some five years ago. The pasha has also been instructed to clear the great square fronting the temple of all the rabbish aud rank vegetation with which it is al present inenmbered In this square stands the famous mosque Omar, which derives a revenue of some $75,000 a year from pilgrim con- tributions and other sources. Hitherto the greater portion of this sum found its way annually toStamboul. The sul tan, however, has decreed that hence- forth it shall be applied to defraying the expenses of the works sbove alluded to, the present resumption of which, as well as their original inception, is due in reality lo suggestions made at differ ent timea to the Ottoman authorities by members of the Austrian imperial family. The restoration of the temple ruins was begun at the instance of Francis Joseph during his visit to the holy land, shortly after the accession of Abdnl Ax: the throne: and it was the recent pilgrimage of the Archduke Randolph to Judea that imparted a fresh impulse to the interrupted enter prise. Not only has the commander of the faithful signified it to be Lis sove- reign will that the works should be car of io officials of the sublime porte, Serid and Raif Effendtn, have already left Con- stanticople for Jerusalem with instruc. tions to take measures, on their arrival, for insuring the literal fulfillment of his majesty’s decrees. The gratitude of Christians and Jews alike 1s due to Ab- dul Hamid for lending his high anthor- ity to s0 generous and enlightened an undertaking.— London Telegroph. ———————— TS ——————— Debris of Old Buildings, The varied materials ccllected from old buildings in course of demolition form enormous accumulations in some of the upper wards of New York city, where one can purchase anything in the Wi all a magnificent French plate glass, Timber of all sort, from giant cross dow sashes, window weights, doors, ing, tiling, wainscoting, bricks, brown stone fronts, granite steps, granite col- nmns, iron girders and iron fronts, iron stair-frames, and, in fact, anything and 2» house. Door-knobs, bell handles, iron railings and balconies, not to men- tion the cornices, are there in profusion and confusion, The profits of this busi- ness are said to be great, and while it frequently happeps that large figures ave paid for some houses. the profits are correspondingly great. Recently some houses on Twenty-third street were taken down, and as they were finished in hard wood, ornamented with mirrors and great, spacious fireplaces, the price demanded was very large, but the old brass work and glass alone paid the pur- chaser for what he bad invested, and the wood, stone and brick of the house was all elear profit. The two firms who do the largest traffic of the kind carry to their yards about fifty track-loads of material a day. Then there are dozens of others in the trade who do a much more modest business, — Industrial World, Tdleness is the refuge of weak minds their race. You see how they followed and the holiday of fools. THE HOME DOCTOR, Fraxseep Tes. —Put two tablespoon- | fuls of whole flaxseed in a pint of boiling | water; let it boil fifteen minutes; eut | up one lemon aud put in a pitcher with | two tablespoonfnls of sugar; strain the | tea boiling bot through a wire strainer | into the pitcher and stir together. Good for cough snd sore throat, | Puysic vou Cunuones.—Rhubarb and | magnesia: Mix one drachm of pow- | dered rhubarb with two drachms of | carbonate of magnesia, and half a drachm | of ginger, Dose, from fifteen grains to fone drachm. Use as a purgstive for | ehifld ren, Cone von Dysewruny.—Take new churned butter before it is washed and | salted ; clarify over the fire and skim | off all the milky particles; add one- fourth brandy to preserve it, and loaf | sugar to sweeten it. Let tho patient | (if an adult) take two tablespoonfuls twice a day, The above is a sare enre, | To Remove Conss ~The American | Medical Jowrnal tells how to remove | corns : Baturate a small piece of cotton | with aleohol, apply it to the corn for a | minute, then with a sharp scalpel or | knife carefully separste the ecrn from the healthy tissues, which is easily done by a careful handling of the knife and gentle pulling with forceps while the parts ave being immerged with alco hol. If the alcohol dries away while | operating, apply the satamted eoctton agsin, and 1 frequently find it neces. sary to apply this several times before | the operation is completed. The alco hol not only lessons the sensibility of | the parts, but it facilitates the separa tion of the hard corn from the soft and | tender tissues, This cures, and that without drawing a drop of blood or | producing any pain, except what resuits | after pulling on the corn with the for- ceps. After raising one edge, it is about like removing a piees of adhesive plaster, a em T——— 5 TS “Working People” in New Enziand Fifty Years Ago, classes,” we are using very modern language, which those who formed the great mass of the Populating forty or fifty years ago wonld have found it duf- ficult to understand. The term * work. ing people” was then seldom used, be- | cause everybody worked. The minister | and the doctor had usually worked with | their hatds to defray their college ex penses, and they often continued their labors afterward to eke out a scanty in. Some. The mistress of a family did her own sewing and housework, or, if it was too much for her, called in a neighbor era relative as “help.” Young girls were | glad of sn opportunity tv earn money {or themselves in this way, or by means | of any handicraft they could learn, or by teaching the district school through the summer months; all these employ- ments being considered equally respect able. The children of that generation were brought up to endure hardness. They expected to make something of | themselves and of life, but not easily, not without constant exertion. The energy und the earnestness through which their fathers had subdued the | savage forces of nature on this con tinent still lingered in the air, a moral | exhilaration. Children born hal! a century ago grew ip penetrated through every fiber of | thought with the idea that idleness is disgrace. It was taught with the alpha- bet and the spelling book; it was en- foreed by precept and example at home | and oh and it is to be confessed that it did sometimes haunt the child. | ish imagination almost mercilessly. 1 | know that Dr. Watts’ ** How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining bour,’ # sal and King Solomon's “Go the ant, thon |sluggard, * * and be wise,” filled | one child's mind with a dislike of bees and ants that amounted almost to hatred; they ran and flew and buzzed | about her like accusing spirits that left her no peace in her beautiful day- dreams. It was a great relief to sees bee loiter around the flowers, as if he | enjoyed the lazy motion. As for the nts--those little black psgans—they | overdid the business by working just as | hard on Sundays as on any other day. | It surely was not proper to follow their example ! — Atlantic Monthly. Artificially Drying Crops, The deterioration of the last British | wheat crop, by reason of the heavy | rains that fell jnst as the farmers were about to harvest it, brings into promi. | nent notice an important invention for | securing all agricultural products from | the effects of dampness, This inven. tion is the matured result of elaborate experiments by W. A. Gibbs, of Essex, { Bogland, and is known as the “Gil- i well Dryer.” Its essential feature is that hot air and the products of the | combustion of coke or anthracite, as coming from a portable farnace. are driven by means of a fan right over and through the hay, wheat or other products to be dried. Under this pro- | cess the hay retains its full natural odor and savor, and is eagerly eaten hy | the most fastidious cows and horses; {and in practical working no disaster | from fire or any other cause has ever | occurred. Such an invention is in- | yelnabie, if, as a high scientific au- | thority usserts, over thirty tons of wet | hay can be dried by it in twenty-four | hours at a cost of less than four dol lars, and that it is eflicaciois in saving | grain, seed and all other products { The immense loss of British agricul. { turists from the saturation of their { harvests by their proverbially torren. | tial harvest raims have terribly crip. | pled them for several years, so that | some process for drying grain is a | prime necessity. The increasingly in- | ferior condition in which KEoglish wheat is reaching the market is clearly | shown by a comparison of the commer- | cial statistics published during the month of September (the price falling from about fifty-five shillings a quarter on the 34 of the month, to about forty- eight at its close), and August was a month when the means of artificial dry- ing would have been worth millions to British farmers. The value of the ma- chines might also be of incalculable benefit to American districts when vis- ted by wet weather at harvest time. ee ————— Nuggets of Gold. The San Francisco Stock Report has the following: * The first piece of gold found in Califorria weighed fifty cents, and the second five dollars. Since that time one nugget worth $43,- 000, two $21,000, one $10,000, two $£8,- 000, one $6,500, four $5,000, twelve worth from $2,000 to $4,000, and eight- een from $1,000 to $2,000 have been found and recorded in the history of the state. In addition to the above, numberless nuggets worth from $100 to $500 are mentioned in the annals of California gold mining during the last thirty years. The two first referred to were exchanged for bread, and all trace of them were lost, The finder of one of the $8,000 pieces became insane the following day, and was confined at the hospital at Stockton. A carefully com- piled history of gold hunters in 1850-69 latter days.” . pond I'l Ot homely frog snd ily bell, iH Twas In the summer month of Jane, That lily spoke to frog so free: “Oh, could 1 only leap like thes” But here 1 am so still and lone, ; And dail ss any old white stone, 11 The frog then said to lily fair: “ Just woe me jump so high in alr” But down he cams into the flood, : And stopped not 1ill he reached the mad. 1v, A boat upon the lake was seen. = A man caught froggy by the throat, And throw him in the fatal boat, The lily placked by maiden fair, Was placsd upon her golden hair, Magar, The richest man may lose bis gain, The poorest otis aay rise io fame; Be not puffed up with sell-deseit, The boaster always courts defeat] Nor proudly say what you ears do, Dat be modest, gentle, pure and true, i E ——————————— HUMOR OF THE DA arithmetic to emrry one, A man, being tormented with con kicked his foot through a window, the pane was gone instantly. “1 find thst with light meals health improves,” said the Esqui and down went candle. A little heat that can’t be beat, window open wide; a breeze, . little sneeze, and you're the The Commercial Bulletin says the man who does not advertise has it done f, him finally, under the head of * failures in business.” . = Vassar has one small girl who will in the hereafter be heard of in the woman's rights societies, She de scribed “ straw’ as being a hollow with & ten-cent man on one end sad, a twenty-cent diink oa the other e “You can't add different things to- gether,” said a school-teacher. you add a sheep and a cow together, | does not make two sheep or two cOWR. A little boy, the son of a , held ap his hand snd said : “That may with sheep and cows, bat if you sdd quart of water it makes two quarts of milk. I've seen it tried.” - A young gentleman who ie very par- tienlar about the getting u ot Bis wrote a note to Lis laun snd at tse same time sent one to the object of nis affections. Unfortunately, he put the wrong address on the envelopes and d them. The woman was pug- zled, but not in the least ¢ but when the young lady read, + it Jou rample up mv shirt-hosoms and drs the butions off the eollar more, 88 you did last time, I shall to go somewhere else,” she cried all the even- ing snd declared she would never speak to him again. A Colorado Sunset, Standing upon the margin of a lovely lake in the bosom of the moun. tains above the beautiful villag f Georgetown, in Colorado, one can see a sunset more brilliant and beautiful than was ever Jooked upon in the East, and which is only equaled by the virgia reach of reddening light which mellows into twilight ows on the plains. saw it on a Summer ev pa‘nra was hushed in stillness. The fireflies shot through the growing dusk like sparkling louries in Ef n'ght. Overhanging forest swart and blackened ereg were reflected in the green vs of the lake. The sun hovered, as in a spell, above the mountain tops, while rays of golden light, flushed with erim- son peak and tarret on nature's hattle- ings for miles mighty flame. its boldness, it drew a veil of blushed across the Then, as if ashamed mist abont its face and grayish beneath it. The mist changed into a cloud shaped like a crescent, with m fringes flecked with gold, and in wonderful aspect recalled the i Mohammed's banner, red and Jurid be- neath Asian skies. Even ss 1 looked ic colored surface, si side with golden lavces, which seemed to flash from the glowing orb like dissolving rays. enamored sky for one caught and mirrored all the c.} the rainbow. Then sgainit flashed and paled —and dmwing the hovering draperies of the night about it, sank ont of sight. The siars came out. The night-hawk poised onswoop- ing pinion, sbrieked above the forest solitade. The leafy murmur of the moaning pines took up the and awoke the spellbound senses. into life and action. The charm was gone, bat the beauty lingered on the fancy likes besutiful memory.— Omaha Herald, Adelina Patti, Adelina Patti, now in this conntry, is thirtv-ight years old, having been born in Madrid, Spain, February 9, 1843. Her parents were Italians, and both were musical artists. Her a Mae. Barill Patti, who was tho prima donna of the Grand theater at Mndeid: : birth © lost her yoige Sox sites De ul Adelina, she often ¢xpres h belief that it had been given to the child. Within a year of Adelina’s birth the family removed to this try, and her father became the m ger of the Chamber Street lialian house in New York city. ter, Amatia, married Mr. kosch, and it was under ment that Adelina first public. At the age of h aut od a Te : in oO! aL sae. ne pen in New York. From that time her artistic career has been succession of trinmphs in ail the apd tals of Europe. Some years ago was married to a French nobleman, nis de Caux, but bas been vorced from her husband. rn ——— I wos How Much a Cow Eats, A cow is not inclined to gluttony Usually when the appetite is satisfia cow will stop eating. Any cow'ss tite may be ganged in this way: Gis her all the feed she will eat aad have left. Weigh what is given fo her a notice what is consumed. Then n the ration three-fourths of the gq: eaten. No animal, not even a © should have all it ean eat, and the plus above what is necessary is injm ous, and produces disease. more barm is done by over-eatiag th by starving. The staple ratioa for cow is fifteen ponnds of hay and pound of weal, or the eqaivalent ia other fool. As grass or green fo ides contains seventy-five par cent. wu water than hay, four times as m ass or green fodder should be gives ioe of hay; that is, sixty pouns with the maal. Some cows will p bly require more and very few less this quantity. = ‘'ne correspondent of an E ites: “I have a canary - . exception. I cannot but th B va
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