The Courtier’s Reply. An old Norse king, one dark and stormy night, . Sat with his courtiers in his windy hall. The oak logs blazed, and shafts of raddy light Wavered like moving spears along the wall. Without, like some old Viking armed for wan The tempest wandered in his robo of rain, Or, rushing with a clamor from afar, again, The monarch and his boarded courtiers sat ~All silent round the fire, with downeast eye, No sound within wes heard, save when a rat Seamperad across the floor, with dismal ory. Bui suddenly a bird, wot-winged and bright, Flashed over them, and vanished as it came. Out of the night, it vanished into night, As brief and beautiful as a falling flame, “Buch,” said the king, “such is this life of onrs. A moment's passage throngh a lighted room: One taste of this swoet breath devours Life's transient cay in its etornal gloom, then A moment no one spoke; then, with a toar, An aged courtior hastened to respond Trae, site, the tiral bird did not tarry here, Becaase iba nest Gol gave it lay beyond.” w=James Buckham, ix Lippincott, PAMELA'S FACULTY. They talked over Deacon Semple's death in the sewing -cirele. It was very But Mrs, Calkins, at whose house the society wet that week, couldn't help thinking that it would have been a very doll meeting if he had not; for since ' Deacon S8cmple-<von never conld make him mad,” said Miss Nancy Perkins, as { sho opened the gate. And though the | other mcmbers of the committee | wouldn't acknowledge it, | resemblance to her father in that | tespeot wis the thing that they had | found most aggravating in their inter | view with her. Before they reached their homes they | repented that they had not said more, | but there was something in Pamela's | bility, | to go again, | bridge, the minister, upon the subject, | her, | and mighty with the minister. sistently set at him. { had never shown the slightest signs cf | being caught. | him and made known their errand. the interview to her friends: I “He kinder turned red, and then he thing that wan't proper, as much as a minute, he up and said 4 demanded : “Didn't you tell us that you had offered her a situation to keep house? 9 + said the “You misunderstood me,’ with great politeness, Mis' JYohabod sat down, because nothing occurred to her to say, and for a time there was silence. Then Deacon Simmons arose and said, like a second Adam : “1 hope you won't take no offense, nor shink nothing’ more about this, Mr. Stockbridge. It's somethin' that themselves, and | guessit don't amount to but dretful little" “To relieve any about the matter,” said the minister, looking straight at the committse, “perhaps [ had bettor explain —al- though it isan explanation which a man doesn't often maky in public—that the position which I offered Miss Semple and which she declined that of your minister's wife." Mis’ Ichabod always averred that if it hadn't been fora bit of einnamon which she had on her tongue she should have fainted then. The church meeting broke np sud. denly, the sentiment which Mis’ Hosea apparently the sentiment of all-—that she should have died in five minutes ifshe couldn't have got out where she could talk it over, “ Don't talk to mo about that girl!” exolaimad Miss Nancy Perkins, with deep feeling, “There pover was a man that it took so much faculty to farther curiosity Was gol AS his farm, and Dr. Saunders’ marrage | argerfied beautiful about how the town | “ And she wouldn't have him? De. old story, there was absolutely nothing to talk about. It was also providen- tial that he should die just after plant Ing was over, sud before haying had began. He was growing very deaf, too, and was always shiftless, Being a dea- con, of course he was prepared, and there was really not much to mourn for, except that now Pamely would have to fake care of herself, and Pamely had po faculty. Rathy Ann could go on Keeping school, as she had dome for Fears, and the twins, luckily, were mar. ried. Pamely was the only one that was left unprovided for. Pamely was one of the kind that always was nnpro- vide. for—the kind that bad no faculty. The farm was all run out; aad if it were not, Pamley wouldn't know any better than to expect to raise pump- kins on a pea vine. If she was a farmer's danghter she didn't know bat what potatoes came up of their own se- cord, and weeded and dux themselves. Mrs. Ichabod Badger (generally known as Mis’ Ichabod) thought it probable that she even supposed that they washed themselves and jumped into the dinner pot. And it was evident at she set a sight more by posies than she did by garden sass. She was always littering up the house with weeds and stufl out of the woods, and she drew otures when she'd beiter have been wing candles or making soap. She took after the Spencers—her mother's folks. One of them wasn't half witted and wrote verses, and another painted piciures and never amounted to any- thing. And Pamely was headstrong; she never seemed to pay any attention to good advice. She was always as pleasant and amiable about it as could be, but she would go right on in her own way. This was like her father; when they tried to dismiss the Rev. Mr. Caldwell for unsoundness of dooctrine, Deaosn Semple he wouldn't agree to it. He didn't get excited and eall hard rames as the others did, but though they argaed and argued he wouldn't be con- vinead, Mis’ Ichabod was of theopinion thats committee of ladies onght to call upon Pumaly and advise her to go and keep house for old Hiram Hutchinson. He had a large farm and two invalid daughters, ove afflicted with spinal dis- ease and the other with epilepsy; so twas a hard place, and of course she would keep everything at sixes and sevens, not having any faculty ; but old Hiram was willing to take her, because he was very close, and she wouldn't ex- pect much. And Mis’ Hosea Blodgett added that as Hiram was a widower nobody krew what might happen, was over fifty and bard to get along with, but then Pamely couldn't be far from twenty-five, and onght to be will- ing to make a sacrifice for the sake of a company with her, had gone off to sea five years before, and had probably got drowned, to say nothing of being a shiftless good-for-nothing, and sursly there was no man’ in Brimblecom who wanted to marry a girl without faculty. Ichabod, Mis’ Hosea Blodgett and Miss Nancy Perkins, the postmistress, were appointed a committee to labor with Pamely. There was no donbt about the zeal of the committee. Bright and early the next morming—so early, in fact, that the breakfast dishes were not washed in ladies presented themselves at the front door of Deacon Semple's late residence; front doors were reserved for state occasions in Brimblecom. The committee, aftér consultation, had de- cided that this was an occasion which rendered the use of the front door ap- propriate, Katursh Grant, who had been maid. of-all-work in Deacon Semple's family for halfa century, hobbled to the door, and admitted them to the sitling-room; and there was Pamela, with a great bunch of weeds—buttercups and clover and white weeds—painting, actually paiming, at that time in’ the morning! he wore a high-necked and long sleeved apron, which was bedanbed with point, and on her nose was a smireh of right yellow. The committee with one consent heaved a deep sigh. *Beein’ Beripter commands us to be kind to the widow and the fatherlees we thonght we'd come and tell you that old Hiram Hntchinson wants a honrekeeper,” said Mis’ Ichabod, who had been chosen chief spokesman in which she was renowned. Pamela turned an innocent, puzzled face upon Mis’ Ichabod—a very lovely face, with a pare pale skin, and soft shy brown eyes, though in Brimblecom, fashion, they had never thought of calling it so. “Oh, the widower! I eonldn’t think for the moment what you meant. Poor man! Tam sorry if he can’t find one. But nobody could expect me to give up Keturah, surely! She is growing too old and she wouldnt leave me, any- way. ‘The committees looked at each other, Their mission seemed a somewhat diffi- cnlt one to perform. Was Pamely so innocent as she looked? Mis’ Ichabod had a dreadful suspicion that she was deep, and she resolved mot to be daunted. “We thought yon might like the Place yourself, egecin’ you was left so d of dependent,” she said. “I? Oh, dear! I haven't the least bit of faculty, you know ;” and Pamcla laughed merrily. “Them that hain’t any faculty have got to try to do something if they don’t want to be objicks of clarity,” - paid Mis’ Ichabod. “1 don’t think Brimblecom will ever have to take care of me. ‘If it does I am such a little thing that it won’t cost much,” ~_ There was a suspicion of a flnsh on - Pamelas cheek and a tense look about hier mouth that the committee did not observe. They only saw her laugh, and ¥ arose in high dudgeon. hope the time won’t come when you won't find it a laughing matter,” suid Mis’ Hosea Blodgett, who was determined not to come away without 2 anything ; that wonld be so inating to tell of, ° 3, 1 hopo not,” said Pamela, Tat was the very woist thing shout bein’ her father was a deacon the church ought to do its duty, advisin® | and Iaborin’ with her if she was| | headstrong and set up, and she con. vinced him-—with a few words that I lot fall as "twas given me to speak ‘and be said b'd go and talk with Pamely accordin’ to the best wisdom | and judgment that was given him. | | When she sees him a-comin' she'll | dowsa her peak, for there's nobody in | | Brimblecom that ain't afraid of the | i minister.” : Within a week the committee waited | | upon the minister to hear the result of | his advice to Pamela. It wasvery hard | to fiad bim at home; they tried four | times before thev succeeded. Ifhehad | could not have avoided the painful sus- | picion that he slipped out of the back ! door when he saw them coming. And when at last they did find him at home bis report was not altogether satis. | i factory. i i ‘Miss Semple did not care to accept | the position of housekeeper to Mr. Hiram Hnutohinson,"” he said, as if | Pamela were the greatest lady in the | land, and could pick and choose posi- | | tions. Bat then he was a minister, and | ministers couldn't be expected to talk just like common people. { “What is she a goin’ to do, then?’ demanded Mis’ [chabod, severely, “I | {don't know of any other chance for her.” “I—I offered her a position, but she | declined that also,” said the minister, { The committee looked thunder- | strock, “1 do hope it wa'a's to keep school,” | said Mis’ Hosea Blodgeti, recovering | berself suddenly, **for she hain't a | mite of faculty, everybody knows. Why, | { I asked her once if she understood | mathematics, and she said she conld do | addition if you gave her time. My An- | | gelia understands mathematics, and be- | | sides beautiful learnin’ she's got a real | faculty for keepin’ school.” { “It was not a position as school teacher,” said the minister. ¢ She could kind of get along with | house work, thongh she hain’t any | | faculty. I hope the folks ain't very | partickerler,” said Mis' Ichabod. | ** As she declined the position it | does not seem to matter whether they | are or not,” said the minister. | 1f Mis’ Ichsbod had not stood very | much in awe of the minister he would | | have then and there received a piece of | her mind,” as she afterward declared; | “for if there was anything that pro-| voked her beyond "endurance it was a | | alosemonthed person.” Bat as he was | the minister thers was nothing to do but to tate leave of him with a ocold- ness and dignity which should give some token of their displeasure. { As if he counlda't tell them just as | well as not who wanted to hire Pamely to do honsework! Bat there was one | comfort—the committee knew there { was nothing going on in Brimblecom | that they couldn't find ont. { And just after she had cxpressed that { opinion Mis’ Ichabod was so overcome | by some sudden thought that she fairly gasped and leaned for support against {the town pump, which providentially stood in her way. “I heard that Joanna Leach wanted to go home because her sister's twins | had the measles. The minister wanted Pamely to keep house for him!" she | gasped. | i “Well Mis’ Ichabod, if you hain't got an understandin’ worth havin’! And though I never breathed it to a mortal before, I've had my suspicions that the minister wa'n't all he'd ought to be,” exclaimed Mis' Hosea Blodgett. “I never kuew a man to have one white eyebrow for nothing,” said Miss Nancy Perkine, darkly. Before night the report had spread all over Brimblecom that the minister bad asked Pamela Semple to keep house for him. Mr. Btockbridge was certainly the last person lo be suspected of an impropriety, but appearances were de- ceitful., He surely must know that ho ought to have a housekeeper who was at least fifty, and it was eminently proper that she should be tcothless, cross-eyed and disfigured with the | smallpox, as Joanna Leach was. If Pamela were an especially capable per- son, the case would be somewhat differ- ent; butto be willing to bear with a housekeeper who had no faculty he must have a personal regard for her. The oldest inhabitant could not re- member such an excitement in Drimble- { com. The Rev. Mr. Caldwell's heresy | had been tame, and the report that Dr, | Saunders had another wife living only | mildly exhilarating in comparison. { But several weeks went by before i any sound of it reached the minister's | ears, Happily for bim Brimblecom | bad a wholesome fear of the minister, i But at length, owing mainly to the efforts of Mis’ Ichabod, Mis’ Hosea Blodgett and Mise Nancy Perkins, it was decided that at the next church meeting one of the deacons should question the minister concerning the matter, Sach a crying scandal must no longer remain uninvestigated, It was a great day for Brimblecom, There had not been such an attendance at a church meeting since the Rev. Mr, Caldwell’s trial for heresy. Mrs, Dua- con Simmons said it seemed so much like county conference that she got up at 4 o'clock and went to baking great bateh of pumpkin pies before she remembered what she was about, If the minister had any idea of what it all meant he gave no sign, and when Deacon Simmons, with awful solemnity, and witha long preamble concerning the duty of a minister to set an example to his flock in righteousness, asked him if he thought it seemly and becoming to ask the daughter of their late Deacon Ephraim Bemple to become his house- ceper, tho minister quiet] i that he had never done = y replied The committee looked at each other, and everybody else looked at them, Miss Nuncy Perkins felt, asshe afterward ex- pressed it, as if she “would like to go through to Chiny;” but Mis’ Ichabod bore up nobly, and Mis’ Hosea Blod- gett relied upon Mis’ Ichabod. “Didn't you tell a committees con- sistin’ of Mis' Ichabod Badger, Mig’ Hosea Blodgett and Miss Nancy Per- kins that you had done sn?" pursued Desneon Simmons, “1 did not,” said the minister, with an air of bland and innocent surprise. i 1 i i ! She's deep,” said Mis lehabod. “What do yon think Mis Gregg whispered to ma in meetin’? said Mis’ Hosea Blodgett. “Bhe says Pamely sells the pictures she paints for money—sends ‘em off to the eity. besides supporting her and ) she's a-goin' to pay off the mortgage on the farm.” “I hain't never been sorry that I was brought up t> work," said Mis’ Ichabod. Moses " season, but we all know where the downward path ends, If Pamely Sem- ple hadn't been sent away to that acad- emy she might have been as likely and well-behaved as any girl in Brimbleocom -if she hadn't any facnlty.’ And with these remarks Mis' Ichabod withdrew herself from the couneil, On the even tenor of her way went Pamela, working early and late with her brush, and before long a report found its way to Brimblecom that she was considered a remarkable artist, and some things were evident to Brimble- com senses; the mortgage was being paid off, the crops ware in a prosperous condition, and ola Keturah was renew- ing her youth. Brimblecom began to be proud of Pamela. It almost forgot that had afraid } become a 14 is she would pauper. Nobody seemed to remember that she had been thought to have no Que or two persons were actually was a pity she wouldn't marry Mr, Stockbridge, but than the rest «f the Drimblecom girls. Mis’ Ichabod always shook her head with mysterious meaning when Pamela was mentioned, and said, grimly, “ Them that lives the longest will most.” One iohabod. The committee were in the postoflice —Mis’ Ichabod and Mis' Hosea Blod- gett were often so kind as to assist Miss Nancy Perkins in assorting the mail — when in came Mrs. Deacon Simmons, who was fat and scant of breath, and in such a state of excitement! that the comurittee had, all and severally, to fan her vigorously before her news could be extracted. “Don't vou think, as trne as I'm a livin’ woman and not a corpse, as I might expect to be, hearin’ such up- settin’ things and hurryin’ so" “Go on, go on! don't lose your breath !” eried the committee, in chorus, fanning vigorously. *‘ We'll never breathe it to a soul.” “Qh, it's all over Brimblecom, That good-for-nothing cretur, Ben Seaverns, bas come back without hardly so much as a coat to his back, and the rhenmatio fever. Been cas’ away on a desert island and eat up by cannerbals ‘most — which nobody can't say wa'n’t exactly like him —and nothing but skin and bones, and the doctor says most likely won't never be good for anything again, not tomea tion that he never was, And Pamely's took him in, and she and Kentury’s a-nussin’ him up. And that ain't the worst of it; the minister went up and married 'em | Bhe's took that good for nothin’ cretur to take care of for life— her that might a-had the minister!” “They never got me to believe that B00 day f{rinmph came to Mis’ — Harper's Dosa, A Level-Hiaded Engineer, A Ginner was given in Paris a few days ago to M. Grisel, now sixty-nine years of age, who has been all his life a model workman. In 1857 he particn- larly distinguished himself. On No. vember 23 in that year he was driving a train from Clermont to Brioude, when, on arriving at Vie le Comte, he heard the river Allier rushing with unwonted violence. The night was horribly dark, the rain was pouring in torrents, and being well secquainted with the Vie bridge he felt sure that it would not resist the inundation that wus already beginning, The statiop-master rig- naled to him to proceed, but Grisol re- fazed point blank to move on, on which the official flow into a rage, but the engine-driver declared that he wouid not stir until the bridge had been ex- amined. His apprehensions were des- tined to receive a striking confirmation, At the very moment when the station- master was telegraphing to Clermont for instructions the bridge was carried away with a terrible noise, and the pas. sengers, who had got out of their car risgos in much alarm, not quite under- standing the cause of the extraordinary delay, rushed up to Grisel and over. whelmed him with expres: # ns of grat- itude. On that memorabie night the gallant engine driver had, at tho risk of losing his situation, been instrnmental in saving no less than 125 persons from, as the event proved, certain death. It was at the instigation of M. Gambetta that M. Ilaynal, his minister of public works, recognized Grisel's rare merit by making hima a knight of the Legion of Honor, How the Patient Paid, Among the leading medical special ists of the I'rench capital is a fashion able physician who professes to oureall the ills that flech is heir to by olfactory treatment. A wealthy Briton not long ago crossed the Channel on purpese to consult hiv. Having asked his visitor a few cart questions respecting his symptoms, and subjected Lim to ecare- ful auscaltation, the doctor extracted a bottie from a drawer in his writing table, uncorked it, and handed it to the Englishman with the words, * Smell it!” adding, as soon as his command had been obeyed, “That is well. Yon are cured.” Whatever surprise the pa- tient may have inwardly experienced at being relieved of his malady with such astounding prompitude and ¢ uy, he ¢x- hibited no external sign of amazement, but, adopting the laconic style of nis professional adviser, ejaculated, “ How much?’ “A thonsand france,” was the reply; whereupon, producing a bank note to that amount from his pocket- book, he held it under the doctor's nose for a few seconds, saying, “Smell it.” The astonished AJ:culapius mechanical- ly complied. ‘That is well. Yon man, pocketing the note: “I have the honor to wish you a very good-moru- ing.” Bo saying, he bowed politely, and This was too meh for Mis’ Ichabod. quitted the room, SCIENTIFIC NOLES, A frozen plant may be sometimas preserved if plentifully drenched wibh pold water, becanse the Spplisation ol the liquid produces a neutral thaw, A healthy frog will remain alive for days after the whole of its blood hao been withdrawn from the replaced by a solution salt, of litre of landanum, twenty which would be a strong mediocina for a nou-habitnated person, qrops of dose years in Senegal and other intertropi- val regions in Afrioa, Dr. A, Corre is inclined to balieve that the African blacks are destined in course of time to disappear and be supplanted by Euro pean emigrants, An Antworp firm has patented a means of automatically playing musical instru: ments by pnenmatic and electro mag netio appliances, The pnenmatio ar rangements are for sounding reeds, and a theet of card, perforated sooording to tune, makes and breaks eleotrio contact as it travels, A French chemist is said to have ob tained a devse, black gum from the outer lavers of the birch tree bmk by distillation, possessing all the ordinary properties of gutta percha, and having the additional merit of resisting the de teriorating inflaence of air and the cor rosive action of a ids, In seeking for a substance whioh would destroy the mioroscopio animals in water without injur for drink- ing purposes, Dr. Langtelt found that sitrio acid (one-half gramme to every litre of the water) killed all the living organisms, exoept with thick epidermis, within two min utes, the ing it different positions in flying Marey em- ploys an instrument like a rifle in shape, giving twelve images por second, each image being taken in the 1-700 part of a second. Iu bright sun light the time of exposure is reduced to the 1.1500 of a second. These views furnish an the motion of birds in flight which could not be ob tained before the perfection of the pro cesses of instantaneous photography. BRoCesRive analysis of The Monks of St, Vincent The abbey of St. Vincent, near La trobe, Pa., is the oldest monastery in America, having been founded in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and the college now connected with it is attended by 816 students, receiving instructions from a faculty of thirty three monks. The lay brothers eulti- vate & farm of 500 acres, and there is a brewery attached, which, besides sup plying the beverage to the community attached to the monastery, ths sur. plus is sold to the neighboring cities, fhe barn on the farm is 3500 feet ight, and the brothers have wlery, where all college ala y put up all 1ild their own BOR, make their own cle +3 and cook their own i, and sla ighter the eat raised on own pasturage. The founder was odore Browers, a pious Franciscan rom the Danish West Indies, and on his leath bed he loft a will providing that the priest who should succeed him should have the u {f the small farm for life; the only condition being that the nid each year say four masses for the soul of the testator on the an. niverssry bis death and the three saoceeding days, In 1701 Franciscus Fromm, a German priest and mission- ary, took possession of the farm under the will without the consent of Bishop Carroll, of Baltimora, He was ousted from the farm in 17958, and since then it has been a trust of tha church, and the stumpy, partly-el »d farm has become the flourishing abbey of St. Fediiiis 10 f fre £0 a} i 80 of 3 ; 00 site of Vincent. The Earliest Plowman, The steel or iron plowshare is one of the most valuble of modern inventions, snd has both lightened the farmer's labors and added largely to his wealth. Bat Mr. Darwin has proved that worms lo in a quiet but effective way the same k that the plow does on a larger lo. They break np the solid erustand parich the surface by bringing the most valuable constituents from the sub-soil and forming a rich vegetable mold, The little piles left at the mouth of their holes are {ull of nutrition, and of the highest value for the growth of plants and vegetables, ‘fhe worms fill an important place among agricultural labors. The smooth- ness of beautiful lawns and meadows, Mr. Darwin says, is ‘mainly due to all the inequalities having been slowly laveled by worms.” The improvements which their industry effects are constant and progressive. The whole of the superficial mold over any expanse has passed, and will pass again, every few years through the bodies of worms.” These despised articulates ought to be reckoned by the farmer among his most valuable allies, Made a Mistake, An insurance agent called into an establishment the other day with a large account-book under his arm. Walking np to the proprietor in a busi. ness sort of way, he inquired : * How's busizess—how's stock ?" “Oh, business is very dull,” replicd the tradesman. *'Pon my word, sir, 1 haven't got $300 in"the house. Terri. ble dull!” and he paused and looked inquiringly at the visitor. * Only 000!" said the insurance man, in surprise, “'Pon my soul, sir, I don't believe there is a dollar more—look for your. sell,” and the man looked very sad and sighed, “Then, sir,” said the insurance man, with a good deal of warmth, “how does it come that your stock is insured in our company for 84 500, eh ?" “Oh! ah! beg your pardon!" ex- claimed the dealer, in confusion. “Thought yon was the taxman! I was sure you was the tax-gatherer, or, ‘pon my soul, I would not have said that, when, in fact, my stock is worth Look for yourself, sir,” The Photograph Gun. The last invention of science, says a London letter, is a machine to take your likeness by photography unawares, Mr, Tennyson and other celebrities who have an objection to having their por- traits taken will no longer be able to enjoy the sunshine, but must take the air at night only. The apparatus is contained in an ordinary opera glass, in holders” are substituted for the usuel eye-pieces, “The dark chamber used is a cylinder of bluck cloth like a mufl, which fits tightly about the wrist by means of elastic bands,” One look at This will ufford an opportunity for jokers to im- in the most Life of the Savage. The The savage baz no education, no Ho was troubled with He wooed a maid, rais:d children, roamed the forest and fished He never traveled in Europe; never was tried for heresy; never at tended a primary election, engaged in He never cook to get saucy, or indulged in house. hold expenses he could not pay. His in fashionable attire, obtained on credit from a French milliner, or bought on time. . He never had a headachs from He lived, hunted ond took no thought for the fature. — 1 Ice lying in the interstices of 1¢ !» will explods them us effectual dynamite, NEWS OF THE WEEK. | | | 24.545 emis Ax explosion of sulphur ina colliery near Shamokin, I'a., caused the death of three men AT a meeting of striking ratlroad miners in Pittsburg it waa resolved to continue the strike against a reduction in wagos ki H., be came jealous of his wife and they separated Mee Fay, a mill.owner of Stafford, N ting her the other day in a cemetery he Fay ip t Brook Iviy have struck for an inerease of ten per cent was arrested, er-makera of New York and in their wages uspen ie i solo months since and only red Iy resum will wind ap ita business, hie socom suspen 1 lack of business since resumt ora not i nis due toa fidence in dhe con av i n-year-old { td, & thirlec Djecte d 10 gong on an er and when she ud banged hima if estate Of valued at $1,000 000, whic? 8 goveinment { { debt, the will was di 110 be tik Nhe, the will of the best known 3 IoerCian South and West. vernor Washburn t $2.0 HE 14% €x-Ul 2 was witnessed by 5.1 . Ba throes all man was | tan 0} i ox-Trossurer Thom wr of t an J 3 0 Dike, BOvern claring that there is a ded {f the governor d treasurer (0 the Ala, iv 8 Daker arin (he six Lio was extent of Tur President sent the following nominations to the Senate; Leland C, Dacon, of New York, WwW. Blone, of of the United United States at Funchal; John Mich iran, 16 be attorney ge naval Fug postmaster general, in io a responss speaker in which 1, recommends that the postage on second Sass matter (papers and magazines) bo abolished, Heo also states thay the fourth class matier (merchandise) ia Oar ried government at & loss 10 the government, and if the is 10 be taxed Tor the transporia by hor olass it should bo the second class instead of the fourth Foreign News, An American missionary stationed at Jalas, | Min ris the prevalence of a dis g famine He says that | ne-half to three-fourths of the people in | r, rej in that region, from « any villages are destitute ¢ th tussis, and their condition of misery is | wean! Jews are withou! shelter at! bill passed its second | mmons by a vote of | An Attractive Reglon, A writer in the Atlantic Monthly enys : The northern zone of the Bouth, em- bracing Maryland, Virginia, North Car. olin, Kentucky and Tennessee, with the northern portions of Georgia, Ala- arn people accustomed to farming who may desire to emigrate to a conn. try suited to this industry. There is much excellent land here, with soils the important farm products of the ye. glon lying belween New York and Pennsylvania, oa the east side, and Tows and Kansas on the west, as well as to those of the sonth, The elimate is favorable, not being to different from that of the Btates north of itas to cause emigrants from them any cousideruble inconvenience or discomfort. In ths hilly portions of this zone thers is cold tion render farming and stock-raising more profitable than they are farther imals require comparatively small ex. penditure, The summers are of course ¢ Rasslan cear will take | jer 4 i destroyed severs! 48, CAUSILR & loss U wWorsmer but the heat is not nsually so great as it is in New Hampshire. With to sanitary oon requirements this is a itions and very Foun hundred houses have been destroved | by fire at Boyabad, in Asia Minor, | Tus schooner President arrived at Quebe 0, Bn board the mate and five seamen of The captain and thirteen | lost, Tur Duke of Grafton is dead in his sixty Inxranp is to have a new detective force. Dugixa a riot in Limerick, Ireland, the police 1on the crowd with fixed bayonets and Ir is reported that at & council of the Rus. evial family it was decided, because of t of alarming information touching ts of the ? to defer the cos fn Of the czar for a year Tog Irish members of the British parliament atly resist the passage of the repression the Jewish quarter of Kovno, Rus od 105 he attempted to destroy a bridge A FIRE In destroy 2 Five who n the Mexi men an National of the g silway were caught, y order fr of the slate of } Ley Were Lue sod 10 the moderate The latter, wilh severs! fi the house, n ordered to omit ¢ massacre of Jews the steamer pear Killarney of per ¢ Of perscns ost atl FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, Bennte —————— ISE WORDS, W We ean refate assertions, but who {ute silence. An obstinate man does nod hold opinions; they hold him, = w hich { stated. Idleness is hard work to those who are not used to it, and dull work for | those who are Pleasure is the mere secident being and work { holy necessity. | More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple knman pity that will not for ake ne, urs Tay ses are not facts, be unjust Baepicions peed uot be of our its patural and most The mos! brilliant qualities become ifeseed 10 th From Washington. Ture state department has advices that Presi lent Barrios, of the Repablie will visit the United States at an early date, Tus pPrropriatis of Guatemala wm bill, the agricultural department and the act providing for i Genera ppropriation bill the removal of the remains of the late Kilpatrick to the State of New Jersey, Guiteav has written another letler assert! that he is in the protection of the Almig this country, ug bill to extend thecharters of the nations banks passed the House by a vote of 123 to 67 Ture unanimous decision of the District su. preme court on the questions raised by the de. fense in the Guitean care is against the appeal I'he tion taken by the district attorney, that the jurisdiction is be declared void for want of jurisdiction, opinion of the court sustains the pos out regard to the locality of actual demise. The court holds that the bullet fired at the Prosident by Guiteau on the 2d of July at the railroad sta tion in Washington was the cause of his death and that the trial could only have been held in Washington, and that the mere fact of the victim being removed to Elberon to prolong his life or save it if possible could not bo made The court holds, in addition, that there soveral grounds on which the jurisdiction, as exer- cised, might be maintained if it were necessary to decide the case. Arren the delivery of the opinion adverse to Guiteau’s appeal the prisoner was taken at once to a solitary cell in the jail and placed ill be obmerved up to tho fatal moment, and not a word will be permitted to be spoken to him ex- cept by hia spiritual adviser or by persons spe cially authorized by the warden, General Crock- er, who has entire charge of and responsibility are under the death-wateh, Every action w for tho assassin until his dead body is ready t bo consigned to the doctors for a post mort m examination. District-Attarney Corkhill determined upon an examination of the brain of the assassin by a board of the most eminent has over the question of his eanily, After the ives, Gurreavu received the announcement that tho with considerable coolness. Mr, Rood, his “I have just come from the court in bane, winch has affirmed your “On what ground 2" * They on of right Nervousness, of B08. the jurisdiction the “Well, what do you Mr, Road prisoner, in the conrse of which ho explained Guiteau listened attentively, and expressed his Imitate time. It destroys slowly. It undermines, woars, loosens, separates Ii does not uproot. Poetry in the blossom and the fra grance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotion | language. { Nothing elevates a man so much | lisinterested good-will. { ample, most heartily wish that every man in the world had and we ourselves a million, Hugging sorrow is not the way to lessen it, though, like the nettle, it is firmly Bs | grasped and not feared. | vows our hearts may prompt, ardly, the vacillating. The roar of the battle may deafen us, the smoke of the conflict dim our sight, but if our feet our hearts filled with divine aspiration {for all that is pure and true, if our hands be the willing servants of our hearts, victory will be ours. Defeat is impossible, as God views victory and defeat. - Co —— HEALTH HINTS, Jorax used in preserving batter im- parts no disagreeable flavor, Milkweed juice is said to be a reme- | A strong solution of white soap forms | a valaable antidote in case of poisoning | not at hand. The wearing of silk or flannel under- | wear throughout the year, especielly for delicate or invalid persons, is recom- | mended by physicians. If, however, | the skin is so sensitive as to make even | the thinnest gauze a sonrce of irrita- | tion, an exception would be made in| such case; but in some way il is neces- | sary to be prepared against the sudden | changes of temperature w'ich, in our | climate, occur almost daily, even in| summer, Mr, George Catlin, in his history of | the North American Indians, says that | he never mot one that breathed through | the month, nor one that was deaf, | unless born so. The habit of breathing | naturally throngh the nose wonld there. | fore appear to preserve a healthy state of | the air-passages leading from the back | of the throat to the miadle ear on | each side,.— Dr, Foote's Health Mon'hly. | A Romance of the Guitean Trial, The Washington Star says: During the Guiteau trial the newspaper corre- visits to the court.-room became much interested in a young lady with a protty face who sat during the trial at a table beside Mrs desert of bald heads and unromantio pencil drivers, immediately in frort of the judge's stand. This young lady was sician, who declared Guiteau to be insane, aud became so much interested in the proceedings that he remained Dr. Rice and his daughter May stopped ab the Tremont house, and there Miss Rice became acquainted with Mr. Fred (‘cwie, the son of Mr, George Cowie. Since the trial ended Mr. Cowie has found mysterious business that has taken him out to Wisconsin once or twice. Oa the last trip, however, he gottled the business and returned to Washington with Dr. Rice's daughter, than in some of the finest portions of New England. There is much beauti. In Northera Alabama I observed a close hill regions of Southern snd Central New Hampshire, By attention to the selection of seed north, which are supposed to be unsuited to the South, ean probably be profitable throughout the rone now nnder consid- Bush acclimation of esculents from other portions of the country would be a great benefit, and is espe- lack of variety in the bill of fare at the Bouthern hotels use but for a brief portion of the year, simply because to take the pains to produce them. the usual answer, when I inquire about them. ment for the time and labor of men; en tirely unimportant in comparison with baceo, sugar or rice. “We like a few Give us the old stand-bys,” These are the ordivary fare for laborers, s————————— Hecalled Home, A Tranguil § f Cun never be pocaensed bY tons. wnoss digest: ive and sseimilative orgaus are in & state of chronio disorder. Weak stomachs make weak nerves, To restore vigor and quistude to the Iatier, the first must be invigorated and lated. The ordinary sedatives may atliize the nerves for a while, but they can never, iike Hontetter's Stomach Bitters, remove the causes of nervous debility. That superb invigorant isordersd conditions of the alimentary organs have also the effect of im- parting tone to the nerves, The delicate tissues of which they are constituted, when weakened in consequence of impoverishment of the senimflation, draw strength from the fund of vitality developed in the system by the Bitters, which imparts the required impetus to the nu. tritive functions of the stomach, en the circulation, and gives tone nd regularity to the secretive and evacuative organs, Dexvien has an old organ grinder, living in an obsours hat, who has begged $30,000 worth of small coin above what little he needed to exist, ———— re Te Consumptives, Reader, can you believe that the ecrealor afflicts one-third of mankind with & disease for which there is no remedy ? Dr. KV. Pleres's “Golden Medical Discovery” has cured bun. dreds of cases of Consumption, and men are living to-day- healthy, robust men whony physicians ronouseed incurable, because one ung wis almost gone, Bend two stamps for Dr, Pierce's pamphlet on Consumption and Kin. dred Aflections, Address WonLb's DisFENsaRY MEpicar Association, Buffalo, N, ¥, Tue tras way to advance another's virtue is to follow it. and the best means to ory down another's viagds to decline it Young or middle-aged men suffering from Jervous debility, loss of memory, premature old sge, as the result of bad habits should send three stamps for Part VII, of Dime Series pamphlets, Address Wonip's Dispessany roical Association, Buffalo, N. ¥, Ir is not until we lave passed through the farnsce that we are wals to know how much Dr, Pierce's “Favorite Prescription” is of debilitated woman's best restorative tonie, Ir we were all permitted to put our ows val. uation on ourselves there would not be » low. priced man in the world, Inthe Family. Corwen Wyoming xp Luzeaxs Stare.) Prresrox, Pa, Beptember 8, 188], H. HH. Wanses & Co: Sirs] havo used Bafe Kidney and Liver Cure in my family wit marked benefits and can highly recommend iL CW, Cann Dispose of the time past to olwervation asd ome to Providence, Fuow James M. Wrnsox, Esq, 2 Hayne street, Charleston, 8 C.: i Da. Hormax: It affords me great re to | have re. | ceived from the use of the Holmen Pad and | Plssters, For over forty years | have endured | dyspepsia, accompanied with violent head. | changes of climate without receiving permanent | relief, 1 have wors one of Holman's Pads | about one month with wonderful resulta, snc | Prom the beuefit I have received, I am con. | vineed of the virtue of the Pad and recommend | t 10 suffering humanity, i On Thirty Days' Trial, The Voltaic Belt Co, Marshall Mich, wi send their Electro-Voliaie Beits and other Eleo. | tric Appliances on trial for thirty dave to any | wrson afflicted with Nervous Debility, Lost | itality, and kindred troubles, guarsuteelng | lete restoration of vigor and m | his brother in England in 15850, came to America, went % Ban Francisco, and gradually sunk in the social scale until he became a noted pest. “Old Ag" has now been recalled to his home by nglifving him of the death of his father, sion to a couple of millions, ——————— {Brooklyn Soxnpay Fagin} A Picture Worth Beholding. opposite, a plainly finished but neatly framed chro mo about 2% by 3 feet in“size, which is looked upon by hundreds of people daily, on many of whom it has a wonderful and salutary effect, a little rustic temple set in the rugged side of the wountsin which rises in stapen: covered with a rank luxuriant growth of folisge in brush and tree. In the open door of this little temple stands a half con- cealed figure, with an arm and hand ex. eagerly scans, “rt. Jacoss On The Great German Remedy, Simple as this little chromo appears in ils unostentatious position, it has an influ. ence which it would be difficult to esti sions of Mr, Hall” said Mr Douglass, a gentleman connected with Mr. ent ability to perform my work. weeks pgo | was violently attacked with doctor could do gave me any relief, and | began to think in a few days that my case 1 had often looked at with but little inter est, and then Mr, Hall came to my bed- side, and, telling me how St had cured him of a worse and longer stand- same remedy. 1did so that very night, tious, which she did with a large piece of flannel cloth saturated with the Qil, and then bound the cloth to the affected parts, The next morning I was free from pain, and although a little sore in the hip was Here 1 am now in full health and tism or other pain since. one of our drivers or any other person who ness, 1 point him to the picture in Mr. St. Jacobs Oil at once ” in Ramfit & shoe- name and business which Fer instance: Catwell, tailors; Alfred Pinch, (tonne, anclioneers, EE th. tallroaders’ Relief, That most © of our representatives recently: arm, and was unable to raise it, did so, and before the second hottle hs been exhausted my arm was perfectly well. - Brooklyn Egle. re ———— with solid comfort on the obituary col- umn. — Middletown Transcript, The success of St. Jacobs Oil through. out the civilized world is without a paral. lel.—Richmond (Va ) Southern Plante: and Farmer, a —— The European tashion of wearing no jewels, except in full dress, for evening entertainments, is becoming the rule ety people in New York. WANTED. =A person in every town to dis. tribute 10 to 100 newspapers. A handsome present will be sent, For particulars address Journal of Commerce, Omaha, Nebraska, Pure cop-LIVER o11, from selected livers, os the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard & Co, N. Y, Absolutely pure and sweet, Patients who have onco taken it profer it to all others. Physicians declare it superior to all other oils, CHAPPED HANDS, face, pimples and rough skin cured by using Juniper Car Soap, made by Cas- well, Hazard & Co., New York, 23 Cents Will Buy a Treatise upon the Horse and his Diseases. Book of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner of horses, Postage stamps taken, Sont post- paid by Now York Newspaper Union, 150 Worth Street, New York. Baldheaded men are informed that there is but one avenue of escape from their affliction, and that is Carboline, a deodorized extract of petroleum, ithe great hair renewer, which, being recently improved, is more efficacioys than ever. P. B.— No risk 1s incurred, as 50 days’ trial is allowed. : Catarrh of the Biadder. Brixoing irritation, inflammation and Kidney and Urinary Complaints cured by * Ba. chupsiba.” $1. Druggists. Bend for pam phlet 0 E RB Weris Jersey City, N, J. The Science of Life, or Seif-Preservation, medical work for every man-vyoung, middie. | aged or old. 125 invaluable prescriptions. RESCUED FROM DEATH. Willtam J. Coughlin, of Somerville, Mass. sare In fhe | £0 of 156 1 was liken with SLECDING OF THE LUNES foie ! 1 lost my appetite snd Sesh, | In 15071 was admitted to | The doctors suid | had & bole in my lung as | Alone Lishe & report went around | 1 gave up hope, bul & friend told me of L WILLIAM HALLS BALSAN FOR THE LUNGS, | 8 bottie, when to my surprise, | commenced 10 feel | f, and to-day | fee! better than for three years past, 1 wille this hoping every one afflicted with Dissased | 1 take DR, WILLIAM HALLS BALSAM snd | 1 that CONSUMPTION CAX BECURED, 1 Ms positively 1 has done more good than all the | Ted thal | was dead 28 Counts "will Huy = te every owner of borses, Postage stamps taken | Bent postpaid by LEW YORK NEWSPAPER UNION, | 150 Worth Sireet, New York : ALLENS Brain Food«cures Nervous Debility & | Weakness of Generative Organs, aii ., Bend JorCircular, Aliens Pharmacy 313 Firsts 3 THE MARKETS Se 9 NEW FORK, Bes! Cattle~Prime, Lvea weight 13 @ Calves—Com'n to Choice Voals, X ye Lech yr - Live, . oh Dressed, city our Ex. State, good to fancy 5 Western, good to choice 590 No. 2Had............ 1 900 S06E866 Wheat Na, 1 White Ungraded Western Mixed Yellow Oats White State Mixed Westom Prime Timothy No. 1, Rye... . State, 1581, chaloe. Mews, new, for export... City Steam Helined , | Petroleum Crude Hofined ....... us Butter—State Creamory, fine, , Pay. ...connen Western Im, Creamery Factory » Choese—State Factory S68a6R088e 188 ork Lard vue Western Egps—Stato and Penn... .... Polatoes--Larly Rose, State, bbl 3 G2 BUFFALO, Good to choice Lambe Western... ...covvnnes - 6gégeensaas “w Le Te AS Gt 60 TH 65 65 675 168 He Fi rx. Good to Choice Yorkoms, | ir C'y Ground, No, 1 Spring Na. 1. Hard Duluth, ... Na, 2 Mixed . No. 2 Mix, West ~Two-rowed State. .... al ad 2 wy 5668866 SoEENER Lom Oats Barley LOXTON, Joel Extra plateand family. 1650 @1800 N@ 8 AVD ovnann nines susan Hogs. ity DProssaed - Extra Primo pot bid, mr-Spring Wheat Patents, | High Mixed y bs] + Extra White, .conssnvsan Rye d . Washed Conab& Delaine Unwashed * . WATERTOWX (MASS) CATTLE MARKET, i Extra quality TE. 887 | Live weight ie 17 Ory “ri PHILADELPHIA, Family, good 600 @ 637 1454 7 coy | * se 5 Creamery Ext . BF 28 | Qs | 12% (hats Chieose—~New York Full Cream. ! Crude 6 @ 7 Refined, .... sanas 1 34 1 Among the medici- E t pal means of arrest. 0S! | E ing disease, Hostet- CELEBRATED ter's Stomach Bite ters stands pre-embs | nent. i i i i i It checks the | furiher progress of ! all disorders of the = stomach, liver and ~ bowels revives the vi- | © tal stamina, prevents | and remedies chills matism, and Is a | gepnine stay and | solace to aged, in. | firm and Dervous An English Veterinary Surgeon and Chemist, now traveling in this country, says that most of the Horse | and Cattle Powders sold here are worthless trash, He says that Sheridan's Condition Powders are absolute. | s and fever, increases | E- the activity of the persons, For sale by all Druggiste and . ly pure and immensely valuable. Nothing on earth will make hens lay like Sheridan's Condition Pow i kidneys, counteracts | : 4 ; : a tendency to rheu- a I HER AR a oat Fearn oll " B rns i § FE! ers generally, i ders, Dose, one teaspoonful te one pint of food. So everywhere, or sent by mall for 8 letter stamps, 1. 8, JOHNSON & CO. Boston, Mass formerly Bangor, Me, r Y ~Agonts to sell the only an, W A N TED thorized picture of the Gar field Family—publisbed nnder the direction of Mrs, Garttold, Samples free to Agents that work, Exe clusive Territory given. J. H. Bufford's Sans, Art Publishers, S43 and 293 Broadway, New York. Best work In the U.K, for the BUGGIES: CARRIAGR CO, On’ 0, Terrd al ’e tory Given, Ontalogue FREE, 30 er Werk can be made in any locality Something entirely new for agents, 83 outfitgree. GW. Tugrannm & Ce., Boston, Mass, PRMRIURPY Inventors to know that I make oft ANTE charge for obtaining patents until afteris D the patent is actually allowed. Book sent ™ free. C. A.SHAW, 11 Court St. ¥ SEE RM Morphine Habit Cured in 10 0 to 20 days. Nopay till Carved. _EWFet0 bu. J Ns. Lebanon Ohio. Do AMONTH )~90 best 4 best NA | selling articles in 1s WANTED-50 beat Address Jay Bronson, Detroit, Mich, NE MEN Tf you want to learn Tel i YOUNG MEN a fow months, and be of 8 Slatin, Mies Valentine Bros., Janesville, Wis. JREE SAMPLE with catalogue of and I Sensational Books. J, A. WiLsox, Patisbor X. J. $66 a week in your own town. "Terms and $5 ou free. Add’s H. Havrerr & Co. Pol $510 $20 [TIL NAN $00. Fortiend il li i A<gszes Jk : i beg to announce to the public that in order to accommodate ti froatly increased demand for their Sgnitic On nts ey ave re moved their principal and offices from 468 Fulton St. Brookiyn, to 28 East (4th St, New York City, where ali communica- tions should be addressed, and all checks, draftsand P. O. orders be made payable. WILSONIA © MAGNETIC CLOTHING CO, 25 EAST 14th STREET, New York City. AGENTS WANTED FOR THE ICTORIAL ISTORY cr rez WORLL (tind taoders fies wed tacsdiod 3 of the rise aud fall of the engrav: p the Rorid ever pabished. Sead fOr Speci. (al Preusstiss Co, Philadelphia. Pa. Payne's Automatic Engines. mpg bail, not Bend for Ilustrat od ued, , W. Payss & Sons, Box 8, Cormung, NK. NT for the three fret phmbers 0c the new volume of Dexorzsr's Meoxrmy. Ten lape ~Steel engravinge and best Portrait of the iste Press dert James A. Garfed, Two os of h forty pages of choles Hieratore, size 8Xx 115, or 1 pounds of ning, on tinted Q3pe3, post free, for £fty cents postage stamns, W. JENXINGS DENOREST, a 168 BLOOD) Stishge the blood in ws ¥ BP ht from 1 to [weeks mail & letter stamp Co, ou, Mass, sant 1. 8. JOHNSON & eu For SOLDYERS, widows, futbers. mothers oo of Bay \ soisery entitled to INU procured for Santer t sod Bounty laws Missks snd Er . ean refer to hema in ne apd Clie Fires LW: Flaine § Sorrorie Beat in the world. Eves — - —- $10, $100. Coupons Attached SIX per cent. per Annum, Better than Goverpments. Suitable for men of Readily turned into cash. Refer to leading banks and bankers. Full information by applying to U.S, LAND & IMPROVEMENT CO. 36 Pine 51, New York. ich 3 5 la a mh 1 Jesse, The mos cid hai $i i writien. Fully cents for completo antfly, which liberal, send © quick for terms, WHT WASTE MONEY! Teusg meaner oil. I you want » lususient shiken @ 4 Dasry groath of hue sh bends. or #0 THICKENS, STRENGTHEN sad INVIGORATE the HAIR anvebers don't be raped, Eeorees which Sas NEVER YET KIX CEXTS to De. J. GONEA. Wess. Bewsre of af obtains. CRAPE THE FLAG, 2*.% en @ —rc a N. ¥, IMPROYED ROOT ey 23c, package makes 3 gi EER. delicious. wholesome, sparkifg 1 peranoe beverage. Ask your druggist, or —— Bagh for 25¢ he For HULLERS= == Clover Hulling AtlecAment write gi AULTMAN & TAYLOR OO. Mansfield. am——— EO meat fe Q ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD a EVERYBODY WANTS IT! EVERYBODY NEEDS IT! HIRES’ CY OR, SELF. PRESERVATION, and Physical Debility, Premature Decline in Man; is an indispensable treatise for every man, whether young, middle aged or old. THE SCIENCE OF LIFE; OR, SELF. PRESERVATION, Is beyond all comparison the most extraordinary a Physiology ever published. There is nothing whatever that the married or single can either res aire of wish to know but what is Tully explained. ~ THE SCIENCE OF LIFE: OR, SELF, PRESERVATION, Instructs those in health how to remain and th invalid how to become weil. Contains one Te red and twenty-five invaluable prescriptions for all forms of acute and chronic diseases, for each of which a first-class physician would charge from $310 §10.— London Lancet, i THE SCIENCE OF LIFE; OR, SELF. FRESERVATION: ' tains 300 engravi Superbly ene gid rouslin, embossed, toiled tis a marvel of art and beauty, warranted to bea Ee or dus the pi 5 hs ene whl where for double pi or refunded in every instance. wher, : FE: OR, SELF. PRESERVATION, ! 1a 80 much superior to all ather treatises on al ub, THE SCIENCE OF LIFE; OR, SELF. . PRESERVATION, Is sent by mail, securely sealed, postpaid, on receipt of price, only $1.25 (new edition). Small {llustrated ‘samples, 6c. Bend now. i The author can be consulted on all diseases re Address quiring skill and experiepce, or W. H, PARKER, M. D.,
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers