Happiness, Do you ask me, love, with fond caress, What seems to me perfect happiness ? A golden day, and a sapphire sky, An emerald earth, and yon and { Roaming through woodlands green together That's happiness fn summer weather, And say "tis winter ; outside the snow, And inside the fire’s warm, cheerful glow; And we sit by it, cheek touching cheek, Silent sometimes, and sometimes we spoak ; So I find, in summer or winter weather, Happinoss means to be together, Ifa Heart for Thee is Beating. If a» heart for thea is beating, Use it gently lost it break; Warm and tender be thy greeting, "Twill grow fonder for thy sake, Oh! in sickness or in sorrow, Let thy care its solace be, Then "twill all its gladness borrow From its sun of hope on thee, VOLUME XIV. Hditor and CENTR KE PA.., THUR rs —— SDAY, 1, 1881. NUMBER 47. apartments. She persuaded Oh ! the heart it is a blessing, In its freshness and its youth, Ba it thine "mid thy caressing, To preserve it in its truth, "Tis vo worldly gem, at pleasure To be worn or cast aside, But a firm and priceless treasure, And more valued when it's tried, Marie Antoinette was ready to receive him again into favor, court; and, having spoken disrespect. fully of the queen's mother, Maria Theresa, her daughter, the queen of France, refused to countenance him. snatehed at even the feeble thread this Oh ! the heart it is a troasure Tha' should not be lightly won, To be thrown aside at pleasure, When the festive hour is done. “Tis a jewel that to cherish Shoukl be still thy constant boast. For, when all beside it perish, Will its worth be known the moat. Song BE awh in TIN, She now forged letters which she pretended had been sent to her by the different light. Delighted at this favor able turn in his affairs, and filled with sunocessinl mediator Story of a Diamond Necklace. her, She now goes a step farther, and the cardinal receives letters from the queen herself, through the medium of the countess. Through the same medium he sends money to her] When the Countess Dubarry was in the height of her power, holding in chains a vicious king, Louis XV. or dered for her a necklace of diamonds Bohmer and Bassenge, the jewelers hunted the world throngh for gems | worthy to be wrought into a necklace for the favorite of a king. Before the necklace was ready for delivery the king died, and the jewelers found them- selves burdened with a heavy debt in- curred in purchasing the diamonds, Ther made an effort to sell the glit- tering and costly bauble to the youthful Marie Antoinette, Ln* the queen de- clinel to purchase The finances of the country did not allow of so great | an expecditure on an article which, however beantifal, was by no means nec- essary to the queen, It was offered to | the various E ropean courts, but they were not willing to pay $400,000 for a diamond necklace, however precious the stones might be. For ten years the | jewelers persisted in offering the neck- lace to the gneen, until she grew weary of the perscention. Thinking that they saw their opportunity when the danphin was born, again they appeared at the palace with the necklace, and the king taking it, offered it to the gueen, and | was astonished at the warmth of her wierds when she rejected the gift. So the jewelers still had the unlucky neck- lace on their unwilling hands. There was a plot brewing which, if | succesful, would relieve the jewelersof | the now obnoxious necklace, but which | would not place it within the hands of royalty, It wasa plot wonderfully con- trived and wonderfully carried out, the | chief conspirator, » woman, showing re- markable fertility of resource, urecom- | mon audacity, and great recklessness of consequences, This woman, the Countess de Ia Motte, was desconded in an irregular way from Henry 11. of Valois. The Saint Remi family, however, had been reduced through poverty to the lowest extreme of degradation; and, however their exalted lineage, they had lost all | traces of their royal pedigree. When we are first introduced to the | wickediconntess she is begging on the | roadside with her little sister on her | back, she herself a child of tender! years, Deserted by her unnatural | mother these little ones had to take | care of themselves, and perhaps the cunning for which the wily countess was distingmished had been acquired | during her vagrant career. It was a fortunate day for Ler when, ranning beside the carriage of the Mar- | chioness de Boulainvilliers, she cried: | “Pray fake pity on two orphans, de- | scended from Henry II. of Valois, king | of Franca.” Such an appeal was likely ! to attmeet attention, as it was unusual | to see the members of a royal family re- | duced to such a plight. The marchioness | inquired into the girl's story, and find- ing that her lineage could be traced, even though remotely and irregularly, to a king of France, she sent for the | clildren to her chateau and befriended | them. Every eduocational advantage | was given them, and by persistent of- | forts she had their claim to roral de- scent acknowledged, and a pension of | $160 a year settled on each of the three | children—for there wasa boy also. The | little beggar-girl was now known as | Mademoiselle Valois; and a'ter she had i completed her education she went to | Bar-Sur-Aunbe, the place of her birth. | Here she encountered M. de la Motte, | an officer in the gendarmes, and married him. Even at this early age her moral character was not above suspicion, and it is clear that she wus utterly deficient in self-res and in proper principle. | Full of pretense and of ambitious as- | pirations, she thought that a daughter | of the house of Valcis should support a certain style. Neither her husband nor | herself had the means to keep up a dis | play, or even a moderately genteel ap- | pearance, and like many other weak- | minded Fesple wader Jil circum. | stances, n to borrow, beg and | steal. She now assumed the fitle of | countess and her husband that of count. Faneying that she was kept out of her ancestral estate, she fairly besieged all who she thought could be of service in pushing her claims, Having been, unfortunately for him, introdueed to the Cardinal de Rohan, grand almoner of France, she prepared to secure him in her toils. He was not hard to ensnare. Bhe was not desti- tote of attractions, was cajoling, flatter- ing, insinuating and without any moral scruples; while he was vain, profligate, and easily duped by women. He was grand almoner of ce, and a rich prize for her to grasp. Resolved to secure her ancestral do- mains, she was determined to gain ac- cess to the queen in order to enlist her sympathies in her cause. But she failed in reaching the presence of Marie Antoinette, notwithstanding her artfully contrived plans. So persistent was she in thrusting her petitions be- fore those in authority that, to get rid of her, the controller general added about 8150 to her pension. This, how- ever, was but a’drop in the mighty ocean of her wants. Living far beyond her means, burdened with debts, and har- rassed in mind, she even contemplated suicide, but concluded to remain on earth awhile longer “and battle with grim poverty. Then it was, when she was having a hand-to-hand fight with penury, when every resource was exhausted, and the wolf could no longer be kept from the door, that her fertile imagination con- ceived a deed which for cunning and daring has rarely been s This was a plan to transfer the diamond necklace from the hands of the jewel- ers into those of her own. Into this audacious plot the highest in the land were to be dragged—the queen and the Cardinal de Rohan, high church digni- tary and grand almoner of France. It was a desperate deed, but well planned and well executed. She first set tho report about that she was on terms of intimacy with the queen, and, to give an appearance of | | eagerly appropriated by the Countess de la Motte. These letters are written on the same blue bordered paper on which Marie Antoinette usually wrote, and were inscribed by a young man employed for the purpose. Under the pretense that the queen wishes the eardinal to negotiate with the jewslers for the necklace, he is in- vited by one of these blue bordered notes to meet Marie Antoinette in the | garden of the Tuilerles at midnight. To have believed it possible that the | queen of France would commit the in. discretion of inviting a man to meet her in such a place at such an hour | proves that the vanity of the cardinal | was so gigantic that it completely swal- | lowed up his common sense. A woman, | who is not in the vlot, but whois a| dupe also, is cheated into meeting | the cardinal. She is not aware thst | she is representing the queen, and does | not know that it is the cardinal she is | meeting. She says but a few words, when the countess, who is keeping | watch, hurries her off, fearing that the | deception MAY be discovered by the | cardinal. The end has been accom- plished, however; the dnpe thinks the | queen has thus honored him, and } ned of her favor and forgiveness which she | has placed in his hands. Wonderful | any act, however silly, ut the bidding of | the cunning and false daughter of | Yalois, whose exalted descent did not | prevent her being a swindler of the | worst kind. powering the eardinal to purchase the | necklace. She sends one of her trusted emissaries to the jewelers to suggest to | is in high favor with the gueen, she would be likely to persuade her i purchasing the necklace. She was 3 80 and when ithe cardinal purchased the necklace they did not recognize him so much in the matter and | all-powerful countess. were the jewelers to get rid of the ex- they to the countess for her powerfa which she was the honored guest. to hand it to the necklace, he was told Countess de la Motte, to receive it. This person was the sccomplice who wrote the letiers purporting to come from the queen. Everybody is satisfied. The cardinal that he is able to gratify the queen; the jewelers that they have got rid of the necklace, and the countess that she has secured that which will place her far above the pangs of poverty. A thief, a forger of the queen's name, she any time to destroy her. She does not geem to realize this fact, however, as she gloats over her stolen treasure, The queen, meanwhile, is nnecnscions victims—a plot that is destined to work her woe and even to cast a shadow over her name. Not the faintest suspicion entered the minds of the cardinal and the jewelers that they had been duped. But why did not the queen wear the necklace she had purchased? There had been public occasions when it been most appropriate ; when its gorgeous luster would have decked her most becomingly. The necklace was to be paid for in in- stallments ; and when the first was dae the countess visited the cardinal and informed him that the queen was com- pelled to dsfer payment. The cardinal saw the jewelers, who were not satisfied Their creditors were pressing them, and their need of the money was great. Meeting Mme. Campan, Bohmer, one of the jewelers, told her of the pur- chase mude by the queen. She electri- fied him by asserting positively that the necklace was not in the queen's posses sion, and never had been. The necklace contained 629 diamonds, all of rare beauty and many very large. The De 1a Mottes, picking it to pieces, prepared to sell the stones. Vilette, the young man who wrote the letters, was sent with some of the diamonds to sell. While thus engaged he was arrested on suspicion of having stolen them, but, as nothing could be proved against him, he was released. The chief conspirator succeeded in disposing of many, and her husband had similar good luck in England. And now “the winter of her discon- tent” vanquished, and the countess pre- pared to live as a danghter of the house of Valois should, She furnighed her house in regal style. The hangings to her bed were silver velvet trimmed with gold lace and fringe, and embroidered in gold thread and spangles, and her coverlid was worked in pearls. Her stables were filled with horses; she had fine carriages; silver bells were attached to her horses when she rode out; she had outriders; her coffers glittered with rare jewels, and her attire was worthy of the queen herself. She was now liv- ing at her old home, Bar-Sur-Aube— living there like s princess where she had once lived as a beggar child. But the storm was gathering that was to break upon her, for Mme, Campan had informed the queen of her pur chase, made in her name by the Cardi- nal de Rohan. One day, as arrayed in his pontifical robes he was about to cele- brate a church festival in the chapel of Versailles, he was summoned to attend the king in his private cabinet. On being questioned by the king as to who gave him the authority to purchase the necklace for the queen, he replied: “A Jady called the Countess de la Motte Valois, who handed me a letter from the queen, and I thought I was perform- ing my duty to her majesty when I un- dertook this negotiation.” ‘ How, gir,” said the queen, *‘conld ou believe I should select you, to whom olally through the mediation of such a woman-—a woman, too, whom I do not even know ™ The cardinal ev idently thought that the queen was only playing a part in the presence of her husband, and he felt some contempt for her cowardice in trying to screen herself from blame in the transaction. However, Lie soon be a dupe of, and confessing the same, de. clared his willingness to pay for the necklace, This did not save him from punishment, however, and in spite of his protests, he was arrested in his sacred robes and thrown into the Bas tile. When the guilty countess heard the news of the cardinal's arrest she was at a dinner party at Clairvanx, where the abbot was entertaining some of his friends. She almost fainted, as well in evident dismay. She was arrested the next morning and carried to the Bastile, while her husband wisely fled to England. The woman, Mme, d’'Oliva, who personated the queen in the garden scene, was arrested, as was also the young man Vilette, who wrote the letters purporting to come from the queen. desert her on her trial. She put a bold face on the matter and denied every- thing, trying to make it appear that the cardinal was the guilty party. She was of Vilotte, saying that he was as inno cent as she was herself. She was cool and courageous, never at & loss for an answer under the severest cross-exam- and bore herself proudly through the whole trial, as a daughter Her assertions of innocence did not save her, however, and she was borne to the conciergerie, where a ter. COurse. The cardinal was acquitted, amid the plandits of the people; but the king demanded him to resign the office of grand almoner and the orders that had been conferred upon him, and to retire to his abbey among the mountains of Upon tho countess deservedly fell the greatest punishment, She had planned the whole affair, the others being her dupes and instruments, When her sentence was read to her she went into convulsions. She wasto be whipped and branded on both shoulders with the word * voleuse"—thief. was not the person to submit quietly to an infliction like this. Bhe screamed and struggled violently when the hot iron was applied to her tender flash. Never did the shoulders of a Valois suffer did those of this degenerate * orphan, ile i" Amid her cries and imprecations the painful sentence was the lowest into a coach and driven to prison for the wn a Through the connivance of outside she effected her escape, and joined her husband in England. They possession, and these they continued to sell as their exigencies required, Her day for doing harm was not yet over, and she employed her pen in writing an necklace. Her narrative, which was as wide; and her terrible slanders against The last glimpse we catch of this she jumps ars, audacious creatare 1s when from a window in London to avoid the creditors who are pursuing her. So badly was she injured by her flight that she died in a few weeks, aged thirty- four years, “The evilmen do lives after them,” says the bard—a saying verified in the case of the countess. The slanders she had raised against the queen, and the dubious position in which she had placed her with regard to the cardinal, were shadows which always darkened the pathway of Marie Antoinette. There were those who persisted in believing her as guilty as they wished her, and her cnemies were only too glad to have a subject of reproach like this. Dismonds have often worked woe, but never did they work such woe as this diamond necklace accomplished. Where are they flashing now? Who can tell ? The king who ordered them died most miserably; the woman for whom they were ordered, the base Dau- barry, was carried shrieking to the guil- lotine; the lovely queen whose name was used in the plot, bowed with heavy sorrows, shared the fate «f Dubarry, whole matter died a tragic death, her seal of her infamy. Truly, these gems — Demorest's Magazine, The Seeret Order of the Zunis, Mr. Francis H, Cushing, the young ethnologist, who was sent ont by tke Smithsonian Institution to study the inner life of the Pueblo Indians of New secret order of the Zunis, secured a scalp — a necessary perquisite — in the war with the Apaches, he pre- a different purpose and to a different audience, told the story of his valor in war. After much persuasion on He was taken to the burying-ground, songs interspersed, ensued. a pole on which was the scalp, he then pole was stuck in the ground. Then sitting motionless on an ant-hill filled After further prayers and other cere- order. Then followed a march around the town. A score or more of dogs were killed to give variety to the day's fes- tivities, and the young fellow was hurt ried off to be baptized as “a child of the parrots” and “a son of the eagle.” For the next four days he was locked up without ** fire, meat, oil or tobacco,” being forbidden to see any one. Nor was this all. For the ensuing twelve days the ceremonies of this mystic order were continued; and of them he writes to a friend in Boston. ‘Fresh in my memory as they are, they seem to me the grandest, most interesting, weird and terrible experiences and days my life has ever seen, and open up the sub- depths of meaning to my researches in Zuni.” If, ashe says, this was the least wonderful part of his experience he will return from the land of the Pueblos with a narrative of striking interest, and with much valuable information regard- ing the descendants of the Monteznmas. The only place where cremation seems to be thoroughly established is Milan, where about 150 bodies have been burnt since the crematory was reality to her story, she was constantly have not spoken these eight years, to built—searcely a year. SUNDAY READING, MHeliglous News and Notes, In the last ten years the number of churches in Chicago has increased from 156 to 418, Catholies in Marion county, Ky, with 170 communicants, The members of the Presbyterian congregation of the Rev. A. B. Mackay, Montreal, have given, the past year, $140,000 for theologieal education. The Episcopal diocese of Pittsburg reports forty-eight clergy, seventy four churches and chapels, and 5,838 f communicants. The confirmations dur ing the year were 416, It is said that boys and girls who have walked a distance of eighty or ninety miles to attend the Telugu Bap tist schools in India have been regret fully turned away for lack of accommo- dation, > The Lutherans are very strong in Missouri, 818 congregations and preaching ing stations." Last year 18,735 chil dren were baptized, and 8,380 wore con. firmed. The Free Baptists of New Bruns wick have added 344 communicants and received $25,000 for church purposes during the past year. The increase in communicants during the last ten vears has been 3,500, : The Methodist Episcopal church South has eleven mission stations along the Rio Grande and the Mexican bor der, with sixty-one preaching-placas, 147 church members and 373 Sanday. school ¢chools, 3 The report of the American board shows an Increase of seventeen mission. aries, 10.) preaching-places, 2,500 com- mon school and 800 high school scholars, and more than 2,000 additions to the mission ehurches. The California Methodists have be gun to raise a * Haven memorial fund’ of §10,000 in memory of the late Bishop Haven, who died in Oregon, for perfect library, cabinets, ete., of the University of the Pacific. The fiftieth annual Episcopal Dio casan convention of Alabama reported twenty-seven clergy and 3,615 commun- ieants, The confirmations of year number 210 and the baptisms The total of contril A Lutheran Ecumenical now called for. The J Lalieves that such a conference would be perhaps one of the greatest meetings ever held, and that, instead of a few million of Calvanists or Armen. ians, it would represent 50,000,000 Lath. erans from all quarters of the globe, h #4) i - at ing the the past 208, vations was 847,540. 1 council is wtheran Visdo asserts Fish as Food, A doctor writes in Good Words, an Fuoglish magazine, as follows Found for pound fish is fully as natritions as butcher's meat, It may not satisfying, but that is because the sensi of satisfaction which we experience in eating is the result of smpplyving the stomach with food and in no direet or immediate way related to the nourish ment of the organism as a whole. Very few of the solid substances we eat are digested, even so far as the stomach is concerned, in less than an hour, and nuirition cannot commence until after digestion bas proceeded for some time, It follows that the feeling of satisfaction produced by solid food during a meal must be duo to the appeasing of those cravings which are set up in the stomach rather than the supply of the needs of { the system, Inasmuch as butchers meat 1s less easy of digestion than fish, and it gives the stomach more to do, it is easy to see why it seems, at the moment, more satisfying, Looking to the ultimate purpose of nutrition fish is the better kind of food; it is more readily and completely re duced in the stomach, and it nourishes the organism more thoroughly, and with less physical inconvenience, than the flesh of warm-blooded animals, A common error in regard to the use of fish is the failure to recognize that there are two distinet classes of this staple, looked at as food. In one class, which may be represented by the mack. erel and the salmon, the oil and fat are distributed through the flesh, while in the other, of which the cod and whiting may be taken as examples, the oil and fat are found almost exclusively in the internal organs, notably the liver. Now the oil and fat are necessary, and if the | fish is not cooked and eaten whole, or nearly so, these most important parts are wasted. In cleaning fish, as little | as possible should be removed. This REGIN 80 ment, Fishmongers and cocks need to be To omit any portion of the liver of a cod in preparing the fish for the table is to throw away a great delicacy. A cod’s | liver properly dressed is a dish for a gourmet. It is inexplicable how any- thing so nauseous as the * eodliver oil” of the chemist and druggist can be pre- pared from anything so nice as the liver of cod. Housekeepers and those who purvey for the table should take care that nothing edible in a fish is sacri- ficed. For cooking purposes it may be | assumed that fish is not only good food, | but food of the best description; well able to supply the needs of the system, and particularly easy of digestion. It {is equally serviceable for the weak ss | for the robust, the young as the old. ————— i | instructed afresh on the subject. The Mysterious, | cont on, top buggy, and all of a sudden he stops in the middle of the street and looks fixedly at his horse. In ‘““ What's the matter?” “Balky.” {and start the * T'll bet he's an ugly brute.” “Of course he is. wicked eye of his!” { The crowd bas | fifty, and several vehicles have stopped. “ Anybody hurt ?” “No; balky horse.” “ Why doesn't some one whisper in his ear?” Four men stepped out to give ad- vice, but they are hastily motioned crowd observes: taken,” numbers 200, horse looks up and down the street, braces his feet, takes a firm grip un the lines, and softly says : “ Come, Peter.” And Peter drops his head, dangles his ears and moves off as slowly and softly as i river of grease, * What was it ?” calls a man who has run four blocks and is puffing like a whale. But there is no oie to answer him, The crowd has dissolved like a handful of sugar in a barrel of water, It is very mysterious, and the crowd doesn't enjoy the climax at all.— Detroit F' ree Press, SULENTIFIC NOTES. Eleotric power is now used in Ger | many to deliver coal at the entrance of | mines. One reason that compound fractures are so dongerons is that the air, bring. ing with it putrefying germs, gains ac cess to the wonnd, After much disputation astronomers have come to the conclusion that the nebula in the Pleiades no real existence, The effect is due to the glare produced by the bright stars near the fleld of vision. Resonance in public halls ean be modified or prevented by stretohing wires across the ceiling, so that the vi brations are absorbed, conveyed from one wire to another, and spread over the building, At the late archmeologieal congress, held at Tiflis, Professor Bamokvasoff gave an account of his discoveries in the graves near Pyatigorst, He ox. cavated about 200 places of interment belonging to the stone, bronze and iron periods. In the larger graves im. plements were found with stone ones, As there were in these graves, besides the bones of sheep, several split human | bones not belonging to skeletons, he inferred that during the bronze period the people in that part of the Caucasus were man-eaters, A Curious Machine, There are but four fishing hook manu. factories in the United States, and of these three are located in Brooklyn, the fourth being in New Haven, Conn. In the largest of irooklyn estab lishments can be seen one of the most ingenious and complicated machines in existence, which performs about ten different operations, turning out com. plete fish-hooks from plain cast-steel wire in larger quantities daily than twenty skillful workmen could make by hand. There are only two machines of the kind in the world, and both are owned by the house in question, for which the machine was devised by the Der. Crosby, now i has the 0 eos Sel. The firm paid a very large sum for the invention and for the patent rights, which if now holds exclusively. Until recently this machine was op- erated privately, and no one was al lowed to work. The machine consists of two distinet divisions, inventor, seo 1 each operated indeps andently of the other by separate gear, vel which must work to- gether in perfec The wire is uncoiled from a large wheel, ‘and at the same time itened by a series revolving rollers, after passing through which it is seized for a second by a clateh which holds it in position to be eut off by another knife working at right angle to the This plows up with a clean cnt a small spur of metal near the end, which is to form the beard or barb of hook, the point remains perfectly and square, but passing on, it 3 nnted by a B80 roof a wodge, i 3 aarmony. glraied others, the 8 ¢ other machine and in upon an endless front of the re- files by which hook is to be $n t the first, vO & BTOOYE In, whioh passes In bie At the same time the upper wire is 1 by an invisible nger and bent into a ring with the rapidity of ght, It isthen brought in contact wilh the six files, one after another. These files are in the form of oporated by a separate belt from the shaft, and each 18 of a dif. ferent degree of fineness, graduated from the rough burr which takes off the wedge, to the little polishing wheel coming last and leaving the point of the hook perfostly round When k, finished, but straight, loaves the last file, a finger pokes it down upon a ratchet, which fits exactly into the barb of the hook and forces it to bend around a projeo- tion on a fly-wheel, which gives the hook its proper shape and throws it into a receplacle below, By this machine about fifty-five hooks # minute are turned ont, all ready to be tempered and blued or japanned, or about 33,000 in a day of ten hours. If it were allowed to run continually, more hooks would be turned ont than would supply the whole market for a year to come, and more than conld be conveniently finished and packed, The production could be increased to over sixty a minute, but so high a run. ning rate damages the files and the fin. ish of the hooks is not as good. The waste in defective hooks is only about five per cent. Every hook, before being tempered, is examined singly, and if imperfect is rejected. Oaly the large hooks, and those for which there is most demand, are made by the machine, which can be adjusted so ss to make! three different There is most demand for large trawl hooks for cod fishing, which are sold to fishermen by the barrel, as a good-sized trawl con- tains thousands of hooks. i) a thou Ww heels, each aimost + 3 adit ie HOO #1 B1208, IO 5. Cases of Leprosy in Louisiana, A writer for the Morgan City (L.,) Review, who has lately visited the Bayou Lafourche, says: As a companion and myself ap proached a house below the Cut-off he told me the entire family were afflicted with leprosy. I saw a man hobble ont with a half sack of rice on his bent! shoulders ; he was followed by three little children. There was a trading. boat coming up the bayon at the time, | and 80 we stopped at the fence, my companion exchanging a few remarks in French with the unfortunate. One and his children was the lack of that everlaeting trait of the 'Cadian “hand- He didn't rash up to us Hindoo would, until happened to lower it, he went on jolting his rice down into his sack, and now and then casting fugitive glances over to where we stood at the fence, beside our horses. When the trading boat tied something but, instead, | his children and we followed. This his legs and feet were horribly swollen, | and were incased in large, shapeless nor At two isolated, common, “There is leprosy in there.” But the inmates were out in their little rice “I've heard that sometimes these poor creatures hail the trading boats them, and they ‘pass by en the other side ;’ is this true ?” “ You have seen how that family was treated above here. No trading-boat shuns them, except the trader is that of provisions, or bas a full retnrn of freight ; then he don't stop for any- body.” “Do any of the children of these lepers attend the public schools ¥” “No. Though these lepers keep to themselves, they are all known. One of the children of a leper down here tried to attend school last year, but the pupils all left immediately.” IIIs 5 5. Girls of fourteen are sent by Mormon missionaries from Sweden to Utah. Marvelously fortunate escapes from gunshot injuries have been recorded, Bullets have been known to rebound or ing it easy to withdraw, Bir Astley stances, in one of which a bullet mo ving coming in contact with a rib, was de. the body. In the other the bullet under the sealp to the other, and never penetrated the skull at all, The following ease occurred in the pupil I was, A man was brought to iim who intent, He was said to have held the weapon only an inch or two from his ear, and the extensive burning and the truth of this statement; there was a ragged bullet hole; nevertheless, no and there was an entire absence of ‘‘ head symptoms "—that is, those indi. cations which point to some lesion of the brain. So he was put to bed and carefully watched the while for any un- toward manifestations that might de. velop themselves. But nothing came of it, and in a week or two the man was nearly well. Then, for the first time, he complained of a pain and stiffness in the cheek, which, being examined, showed signs of an impending abscess. This formed and was opened in due course, when out dropped the bullet! Now, how was this to be accounted for? At the side of the head is an arch of bone, known technically as the gygoma; it may be seen in the skulls of animals, and serves to pro- tect and strengthen the hinge of the jaw, ns it were. The bullet, meeting he sharp upper edge of this arch there was a mark ou the bullet caused probably by the bone-- was turned sud denly downward at right angles, and lodged the thick muscles of the npper part of the cheek. Bat this would never have occurred if a great disproportion had not existed between the caliber of the pistol-barrel—an old- fashioned cavalry blunderbuss —and the size of the ball, which allowed much of p wder's force to be expended around it, t is a well-known fact that bullets, coins and other metallic objects will ocoasionally remain impacted in the flesh for years, without giving rise toany irritation or annoyance. Ina case whish in eral years since, a ball had undoubledly passed into the chest, and is undoubt. edly there to this day; yet the patient recovered without any bad symptoms, and is still alive and well, Two German students, being in love or in debt, but in any case in despair and wearied of the world, R Rtco0 to put an end to their troubles by shoot. ing each other thropgh the heart simul. taneously. So much was gathered from a paper signed by both of them, found on their table when the police, alarmed by the double explosion, broke into the room where they lay on the floor, weltering in their blood, one a corpse and the other desperately wounded. jat when the latter had recovered sufficiently to speak, he emphatically denied the truth of the allegation that he had murdered his comrade, and stated that, though be had signed the paper, he had repented of his deter mination at the last moment; not so his friend, however, who, seizing both pis- tols, had shot him in the breast and killed himself afterward, A wverdiot of willful murder was returned against him by a coroner's jury; but when he was put npon his trial, after a long and dangerous illness, he was allowed the benefit of the doubt—a decision at which no one will cavil much, Hennen states that be has seen five eases in which bullets were lodgad within the skull and did not prove im- mediately fatal; Canningham speaks of a boy who survived for twenty-four days with the breech of a pistol, weighing nine drachms, in his head, lying on one of the membranes of the brain, and resting against the concavity of the while Dr. O'Caliaghan has recorded the remarkable case of an offi cer who lived seven years with the breech of a fowling piece, three ounces in weight, lodged in his forehead, and actually supporting the right hemi. A ——s. 2: A Surgical Arm. A Philadelphia surgeon his invented a remarkable machine for the perform. ance of surgical operations, The Phil- adelphia Record thus describes it: It consisted of an npright arm standard about four feet high and a couple of inches in diameter, with a foot treadle and driving wheel at the base, At the as a flexible arm, being a long iron bar, with the shoulder, elbow and wrist made flexible by means of an ingenious arrangement of wheels, enabling every section of it to be moved in any direc- tion at will. Into the wrist parta hand piece was screwed, and at the end of this a small circular saw. An endless cord, attached to the driving wheel, ran up the standard and along the arm, and as the wheel was revolved by the movement of the treadle the cireular gaw went into motion until it is flying around at the rate of 18,000 revolutions per minute. Instruments at the wrist ean bo inserted or removed in a mo ment, Pat in circular saws from half the engine is ready for any of the major operations upon the bone. Here is a moving only three-fourths of an inch ment, or 30,000 both ways. This will cut the bone instantaneously as smoothly tions of every bone in the body can be dle of the saw, which is fastened into the bone to be cut, holding it firmly to the frame of the saw, and with this the thigh bone can be resected as high up as the upper third, and the end out ofl at any angle with the precision of mathematics, Substitute a drill, and with the rapidity of lightning the oper- ating surgeon can have a hole of any size up to a quarter of an inch in any bone lying loose in the tissues, and where a stone in the bladder can be reached within four inches a diamond drill may be used to puncture the stone with numerous holes, which destroy its cohesive powers and enable it to be broken with impunity by the fingers or with weak forceps. Does it become necessary in an operation to shave down a bone, all that is necessary is to attach one of thesa burrs, and an operation which would take hours to perform with chisel and mallet is accomplished in a few moments, I srs. Sheridan says that an oyster may be crossed in love, and rumor has it that a mosquito was actually mashed last sum- mer on a Long Branch belle, WISE WORDS, There is no dignity in idleness, Impudence is not independence. Do not be impatient for notoriety, This world belongs to the energetic. | Do not despise another because of | poverty, | You ean be decided without being | offensive, { Do not hold the opinion of others in | contempt, It is not so hard to earn money as to ' spend it well, | Those are the most honorable who | are the most useful, What has been unjustly gained cannot justly kept. | What has been done amiss should be | undone as far as possible. Men, like bullets, go farthest when | they ure smoothest, | It is not death that makes the martyr, | but the cause. { | be | quicken us to duty, and not keep us | from it. | We know that we must meet to part, | but we know not that we part to meet again, The Terrible Cabbage Habit, | day this week, fopiried to fill the de. | mand caused by t bage crop in this country. becoming addicted to the cabbage habit to shake it off. If they cannot get the levy upon foreign countries for a sup ply. man gradually. At first he tries a little raw cabbage, and likes it. takes it with vinegar, until his appe- resorts to the deadly saurkraut, and then there is no help for him. From the moment that he es she platter be is a changed man. Friends may rally around him and try to get him to turn over a new cabbage leaf, and stifle his sppetite, but he is deaf to their | entreaties. He laughs ot their fears He even gives cabbage to his children, men in the prime of life, women with into saurkraut. If accused of an in- tention to convert the cabbage into the admit it demoralizing cabbage babit, Lat fallen cabbage consumers, and cause happiness where now is gloom and the smell of kraut, Let us go among the cabbage eaters and beg them not to look upon the cabbage while it is red, or it. Let us nominate sn anti-cab- Lage ticket for State officers, com- posed of men who have indulged [in cabbage to excess and been re- formed, and snatched like brands from people on a platform that denounces the practice of eating cabbage, and calls any man that likes cabbage a horse thief and a villain. Think of it. Men of eabbage. No one is safe as long as EE IS AS THE FARM AND ROUSEHOLD, Farm and Garden Noten, | Maoures contain ammonia muat | not be mixed with a ne ashes, olse | some of the ammonia will be lost. ' Pampkins are excellent for hogs. i are a sovereign remedy for intes- tinal parasites, They are just what swine need to make them healthy, They will be relished. Ouse dollar's worth of food when the cow is dry is worth $1.00 worth after she comes in. An animsl in poor con- dition cannot digest as much food as an apimal in good condition, A New York doctor declares that horses ought to be treated to fruit and sugar now and then, and he agrees with Rev. Mr, Spurgeon that above all, one day's rest in seven is important for them. Pumpkin seeds scl as a diuretic on cattle. Cows in milk should never have acpess to them. Before pumpkins are fed the seeds should always be re- moved, for they decrease the flow of milk very rapidly. Petroleum is an excellent preserva. tive of exposed woodwork and tools, It penetrates the pores and repays its cost many times over. It is good for sll farm buildings, gates, tools and rustie work, and is very cheap. | The objection to horses with white | feet, though mostly considered a mere | eaprice, is reasonable enough, for white hoofs are more brittle than black ones, | and are much more liable to break and contract than those of a dark eolor. Mr, Harris Lewis, examining once a | sample of milk drawn from an udder, by a dirty man in a foul stable, | remarked that there was a little too much mannre to be called pure milk, {and not quite enough for a good fer | tilizer, Even when damaged wheat is consid- | ered unfit for stock it may be used with profil in the poultry yard. There is no {ood so favorable to egg production, sad at §2 a bushel it will pay to feed it in | moderation to laying hens. Wheat | screenings, sithough not so good as wheat itself, is excellent if alternated with some other grain, II you begin pruning fruit and orna- mental trees ol shrabbery while young, and follow it up esch year, you can form | just such a top as you want. If your | tree needs spreading out, cut the young shoots off just above a bud on the ontside of the shoot, and, if you waat to | train upward, leave a bud on the upper | side of the limb where you cut ito The roots of grass being much shorter than those of the cereals areless able to collect ash constituents from the soil. If, therefore, grass is mown for hay, manures containing potash, lime and phosphoric acid will generally be re- aired. Like the cereal crops, grass is | applicstion of soluble, nitrogenous ma- RUTes, The practice of picking apples and putting them in heaps for a few days until the skin tonghens, before barrel. ing, is a good one. Put the fruit into the barre! with care, shaking it down | when half full and again when full, so | that the apples will fit closely when the head is pressed in by means of the bar. { reluug press. The opposite head should | be marked as the one to be opened. The scales which drop off from iron when being worked at forgos, iron | trimmings, filings or other ferruginous | material, if worked into the soil about trees, or the more minute particles | spread thinly on the lawn, mixed with the earth of flower beds or in pots, are ex- tremely valuable, They are especially { valuable to the peach tree, and in fact | supply necessary ingredients to the soil. | For colored flowers they heighten the bloom ; they are also f>und to be bene- ficial to the pear trees when worked in | round their roots. holding office and drawing salaries, Let us work while the day lasts, in this cabbage reform, aud pay our salaries out of the collections taken up. The country is in danger as long as the growth of cabbages is not prohibited by law, — Pecks Sun. —— Feasting in Fiji, The taro is of a bluish-gray color, and | both in appearance and consistency re- sembles mottled soap. As its name sng- gests (Arum esculentum) its leaves are like those of our own aram greatly wagnified, while those of the yam are like u very rich couvolvulus, as is, also, its habit of growth. A great many vari- eties are cultivated, including one the root of which is throughout of a vivid mauve. The sweet potato is also in Cream rises best and almost wholly | in a falling temperature, The rising is | but slow when the temperature ceases {to fall. This is because the cream | globules are not as good conduotors of { heat as the water and caseine of the i milk. Hence, the latter cools faster ! than the cream, snd its weight is in- | creased. When the temperature be- | comes equalized throughout, the cream | is so very little lighter than the rest of { the milk that it rises very slowly. The { movement of the cream globules is | cansed by gravitation, and the rise in | the atmosphere. The larger ones rise | follow, the very smallest coming up | last. In some milk there are cream | globules so small that they never rise, ! and they would make very inferior but- { t-r if they did, that is, if churned by | themselves. nanas are abundant. them till they ferment. The stench when the leaf is dug up is simply in- tolerable to the uneducated vose of the foreigner, but the Fijian inhales it with delight, therein scenting the mandrad (bread) and puddings in which his sonl delights. sometimes made on a gigantic scale on the occasion of any great gathering of the tribes. We were told of une that measured twenty feet in cir- eumference, and on the same occasion there was a dish of green leaves pre- pared ten feet long by five wide, whereon were piled turtles and pigs, roasted | whole; also a wall of cooked fish five feet high and twenty feet long. Cer tainly the masses of food aconmulated | on these groat days beat everything we have heard of ancient Scottish funeral foasts. Mr. Calvert describes one festi- val at which he was present where there were fifteen tons of sweet pudding, soventy turtles, fifty tons of cooked yams and taro (besides two hundred tons which were judiciously reserved), and as much yangona-root as would have | filled five carts. Tho mode of laying ‘the table on these occasions is peculiar. All food is arranged in heaps; a layer of cocoanut as foun- | dation, then baked yams and taro; next the gigantic puddings on green { banana leaves, the whole surrounded by pigs and turtles, These are roasted | whole in huge ovens, or rather pits in | the ground, perhaps ten feet deep and | twenty in diameter, which are first | lined with firewood, on which is laid a | layer of stones, When these are heated {the animals to be roasted are laid on them, with several hot stones inside te secure cooking throughout; then comes a covering of leaves and earth, and the | baking proeess completes itself, When ‘all is ready certain men are told off, who carefully apportion this mass of fcod among the representatives of the various tribes present, these sub divid- ing among themselves, and great is the need for punctilious observance of ali ceremonies and points of etignette, as the smallest breach thereof would in- evitably be noted, and involve certain revenge—or rather would have done so before the people became Christians, — Good Words, It is estimated that the millers of Minneapolis, Minn, will need for con- sumption this year, 88,000,000 bushels of wheat, : Recipes, | & tablespoonful of melted butter, salt | and pepper. | into oblong rolls. | and roll in cracker dust. | pings, or lard and butter, Bove Mix Biscrir.—One pint of sour ! milk, one teaspoonful of soda; add to | your flour a half cup of lard and spoon- | ful of salt; then mix the flour with the | milk. Make stiff enough to roll out as | pie crust; eut them out and put them to | bake in a moderately hot oven. | Breaxrasr Caxe.—A delicions break. | fast cake can be made by taking enough | bread sponge to make, when risen and | baked, a cake about two inches thick; | knead into it a piece of butter about | the size of half an egg; afterit isin the { tin put on the top little lumps of but- | ter, and then cover it with fine white | sugar and ground cinnamon; when | baked there will be a sort of a crust | over the cake. This is very pice with | coffee. { Arris Cumese Caxes.—Take one | pound of apples, boiled and pulped | through a» sieve, one ‘pound powdered | white sugar, the juice and grated rinds | of three large fresh lemons, and four | eggs, well beaten. Mix these ingredi- | ents carefully, and put them into a | saucepan in which you have a quarter of a pound of fresh butter melted. Stir it Soustantly over a slow fire for balf an hour and let it cool. Line pie- dishes with fine puff-paste, pour in the apple mixture and bake without up; crust in a quick oven. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve when per- fectly cold. Prexkuep Porrene Canpace.—Quarter the cabbage, lay in a wooden tray, sprinkle thickly with salt and set in the cellar until next day; drain off the brine, wipe dry, lay in the sun two hours, and cover with cold vinegar for twelve hours; prepare the pickle by seasoning enough vinegar to cover the cabbage with equal gqnantities of mace, cloves, whole white peppers, a cup of sugar to every gallon of vinegar, and a teaspoon: ful of celery seed for every pint; pack the cabbage in a stone jar; boil the vinegar and spices five minntesand pour on hot; cover and set away in a cool, dry place. This will be ripe in six weeks. Fry in drip- I I sss. An American Protestant Episeo church, it is said, is to be Dresden, finger to a ing that salt scattered would kill fowl. That 7) mid the oiler Sequins stopping is the milist of his laying down his paste-brush; “* yes Jats wine. What of it? True, ain’ t : “ Jes, ag Shal's just what's the met. ter,” 3: a about you put such things in your | There's Smith, who lives me, ie B08 Your resally sheth i t, an Monday Motning. ; we full of : hens, sir! He'd salted his The Transplantation of Bone, | The engrafting of flesh is a surgical | feat which has been frequently ace | plished with success; but the known instance of transplanting a piece of bone from one living person another was announced at | mesting of the Royal Society land. In 1878 bow ima s w infirmar of | ted into the hn = bone of the ar amerus, or bone upper s The mortified part was removed the bone, but ever a x iI 3 benefit of t he latier. te Luxurious Gambetta, The great orator has a tase for a i ne © : Uas erto represented. He ples ine appointed with luxurious eleg: drawn by blood horsss. Bourbon, since he came to live
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