Past, Prost and Future.
The Past, forever fled away,
Has shed its influence on our day,
To instruct ur we discern ;
And from its ample stores supplied,
To make the good our only guide,
Is what we all should learn.
The Present, which is ours to share,
Should find us all resolved, with care
Our duty well to do;
Then let us strive as best we may
To improve ourselves from day to day
In truth and virtue too.
The Future, which is hid from view,
Is full of hope if men prove true
To follow reason’s call ;
For them is progress sure to prove,
That peace and piety, joy aud love,
May be the lot of all.
— Investigator,
Then and Now,
I did not know thee then as now,
For life was in its vernal May:
And ‘mid the beauty, bloom and balm
I, careless, ran a devious way,
Nor paused to learn thy hidden worth,
Thy beaming eyes and placid brow
I saw, but not the depths within—
1 did not know thee then as know,
In sunyner glades and autumn groves,
And by the margin of the streams,
I often met thee fair as mom,
As still thou comest to my dreams.
And oft I deemed thee fair as those
Sweet saints to whom rapt pilgrims bow;
But, oh, thy wealth of truth and love!
I did not know thee then as now.
I saw that thou, serene as light,
Didst with mild glory ill the air
Till all things round thee seemed so bright,
And friendship smiled more blest and fair.
All winged mute homage to thy worth,
Yet I-—insensate that "twas thou
Didst wake the joy so sweet and calm—
1 did not know thee then as know.
But memory, now that thon art gene,
Oft brings thy meek, ethereal shade,
And still 1 see new beanties dawn,
Which in thy clime can never fade.
No olongds dwelt on the samumer hills
Nor sober thong r brow;
1 could not see the gold refined;
1 did not know thee then as now.
htsonm ¥ young
Story of a Human Hand.
A SCOTCH LOVER'S RUSE.
When I tell you that in my story
there is a broKen w heel and a storm,
pechaps you w cew: @ me of romance
{ag; but 1 di reak the wheel
cause the r 1 as my narrative is
true, I assure you that the wheel
Lard Fergus’ I broke opposite
the door of an inn; also that there was
& terrific storm in the mountains,
Lord Fergus was not an ordinary
man. That he was a gentleman was
evident. however, it
would have been difficult to decide
whether he were young or old, good or
bad, handsome otherwise.
times brusque, his manners
times were of captivating gentleness,
Occasionally, without apparent éause,
he had sudden accessions of wild gay-
ely or Thpturous meditation. At such
times all that was obscure and strange
about this incomprehe le being was
revealed, and seemed to concentrate
in a double focus, in his eyes, intense,
unfathomable and majestic. His gaze
exercised such a mesmeric influence
over the gentler sex, that the noble lord
always took the precaution of putting
on green glasses when he desired to be
loved for himself.
It is needless to add that he was
generally regarded as a magnetizer. In
vain did he contradict this explanation
with great sincerity that it was not by
magnetism at all, bu i i
sympathetic projecti
times quite involuntar )
sort.of fascination over so re eof
paturcs. No one believed it, so per-
sistent are the vulgar in wishing to
have explained by ordinary methods
effects of which they cannot
hend the cause.
Be that as it may. After Lord Fer-
gus had been sufficiently discussed, they
all agreed it to be impossible to under-
stand the man. The secret of his
power lay entirely in the expression of
his eye.
Lord Fergus was dreaming in the
large waiting-room of the inn. The
rolling of a carriage and the cracking
of whips suddenly disturbed his revery.
Curious and idle as are all travelers, he
hurried to the balcony, and saw a
young lady descend from a four-horse
carriage, who, as well he could
judge from so great a distance, ap-
peared to be marvelously beautiful.
The lady proved to be the Princess
Gelsomina Cordileone. At that mo-
ment 8 heavy roll of thunder shook
the house and made every window rat-
tle. The princess, deathly pale, and
with clasped bands, hurried toward
Lord Fergus, exclaiming :
“In heaven's name close all the doors
and windows, and remain with me?’
In the midst of the frightful tumult
of the elements they were imprisoned
for two long hours. Every time Lord
Fergus attempted to speak; the
princess, with a gesture of terror, «
treated him to be silent. But if speech
were denied them, their eyes were
eloquent, and when the last erash of
thunder had passed away, their destinies
were more indissolubly united than if
their acquaintance had extended over
a period of years. ’'Tis true, they had
not spoken, but silent love is the most
vehement.
“ Milord,” then said the princess, “I
thank you for the service which you
bave rendered me. Now if vou will
be so kind as to order the carriage, my
gratitude will be complete.”
Lord Fergus, with lightning rapidity,
went to do her bidding, and returning
immediately announced the carriage.
The princess bestowed a gracious smile
upon Lord Fergus, who bowed pro-
foundly as she passed. But at that
moment an expression of pain distorted
the face of the princess. She stopped, |
pressed “her hand to her left cheek,
and exclaimed, with a suggestion of
tears in her voice:
“Oh, how 1 suffer!”
she sank into a chair.
Lord Fergus felt no surprise. He
had watched her preparations for de-
parture with imperturbable calmness,
but understood the language of love
or
ie from that,
Some-
or
at
ther
CVRAts
as
Sompre
as
As she spoke
pening to two such powers as this lady
I say two powers, for if Lord Fergus
had a magnetic gaze, the princess pos-
sessed a voice of wonderful sweetness.
thing comparable to its music. Clear,
rich, and vibrant, it ruled, caressed and
inspired. At the first word she uttered
Lord Fergus thought: “It is incon- |
testable that if that voice commanded |
the sacrifice of my life I should obey
without hesitation.” T herefore, in re- |
roached her, and having contemplated |
er with his supernatural regard,
asked:
“ Are you ill, princess?” and his in-
tense look seemed to add: “Do you |
think I will permit you to suffer?”
The princess raised her fine eyes con- |
fidingly to his face—eyes doubly beau. |
tiful from the tears of pain glistening |
like diamonds in their depths. “Yes, |
suffering intensely from neuralgia,” |
she responded. “Oh, if some one could
help me!”
“«] will relicve you immediately,”
said Lord Fergus. “Lift up your head
and look at me.” As he spoke he laid
the point of his index finger between
her eyes. Omnipotence of irradiation
and sympathetic projection! The prin-
cess, without the slightest hesitation,
with no embarrassment whatever,
lifted up ber head at once, and the ope-
rator finger lightly along
the right a , This prelude was
VOLUME XV.
Editor
HALL, CENTRE
CO., PA.
———— no A
SEPTEMBER
21, 1882
NUMBER 38,
grave, that the most
not have refused
sure of it
he prin
Bn) iil»
assured, §
captions mind could
to recognize it In a pgwer
solf and of its fnfallibility,
cess felt it instantly, and all the
pathetic currents of her nature seemed
to concentrate beneath the lovely brow
which the light fingers of the ope
were caressing. What followed,
man language has no to
soribe. The whe Lord
gus had passed into his fingers
SS ned yemanate in waves of electrl
om their xtremity He |
nd over the for
WE SCR
1 BO RO
words
: od
sO of
ity { VET)
gan , passing his hu
head and { hat ks Of the
g then
as if brushe
turning afterward te
the two eyebrow %, he fol
tour of the delicate awn
thumb, swept, going back,
and upward -to the ner
the eve, to touch lig the nose,
lightly along the
moment at the
and reach at le
chin, where he sto
Wik roely
a Re
«ib
3
3
cate skin
rephyr.
CHUN
I'e mbl © vasoity
the nu inetion of
lowed tl ig con
hes with his
the he,
canthu
ngth
pped,
Lord Fergus, as an experienced ope-
rator, had reasons for
first psa prel mi
for in starting
, the operat
and animated.
encountered
1e sick wh
sto
LIS
o bear
i He he tel, then,
observe result of his efforts,
in this case the expectant and com-
Dl le ly resis gned expre ssion of the lady
left him in nodoubt : and after remain-
ht he ad thrown back
1}
ai
ing a moment wit}
rder to collect his
ind eyes closed, ino
, he ed a-
He wing laid Tots thames
the chin, he described a fan with
ations.
each hand,
) Wer
the
resum
ers ol
} tl VEY:
1 aem
5
nem un
emples, &
ir to the 3 ba
led below
, and met 1
then requested
head gently,
te
i and muscles,
had also the advantag:
the fingers to
v into the
nently
'
electr
movement
pe rmitu ng
more )
which is pr
transmission
knows.
deepl
EI
of 3
he {fingers of
‘in the
of passes exquisite] ly
fact the decisive mom
for the cure enti:
upon the perfect corres
the fullness of the
situated at the br
operation
pended
between
bulh "
zygomatic arch,
th
Ww wi) pieth
ne mn
casioned neur: ralgi a It
and last p
the most 1
pr ssedd an
his hands f
this a
an artist de
a sculptor modelin
dess,. He, with
ks red with ent
Pygmalion animating his
At last, in a transport of power
triumph, placing the index fir
his right hand between
of the princess, id,
of & conqueror:
‘You are cured.”
The lady, lifting
eves to his face, and ta king
replied in her melodious
‘It is true. I than
An rising, thank
leaning upon the arm of )
conducted her in perfect sil nee to
carriage. The pe
he saddle. She stepped into the j
offered her hand to Lord
who Kissed it respectfully, a
1
(S844 st
2 the
be a ng
ht slag, ened
st
Clie
like atue,
ier
she
stili ion was alread)
chaise,
Us, 10
said:
* Drive on.”
“Princess,” observed Lord
“the hand which has rest 1
face shall never touch anythir 1g el ;
dedicate it to you. And before
uld reply he made the
to the postilion
]
Fe TEs,
1 on
h
how el
the
the
tered
jaa before
i late hour of the night,
* * *
i 3 ater the Princess Gelso-
nina was ne in a little se-
cluded villag ge of Tyrol. A man
ho Irs back . Wi ho claimed to have Colue
from Berne by easy . Journexs, was in-
quiring for her. Riding up to the door
of the inn, ” leaned from saddle,
innkeeper and
“1s the Princess Gelsomina
oae here?”
“She is.”
“ Is she in her room ?"
“ Yes"
He dismounted, upstairs, was
introduced, and drawing a small case
of white wood from a game-bag which
he carried, presented it to the amazed
lady, saying :
“ This
Forfar.”
Giving her no time to ask
| ticulars, he hastily descended the stairs,
leaped upon his horse, and set off
gallop. The princess, greatly agitated
ordered her servant to open the box,
the cover with mq
he informed her that it
package. The princess
immediately dis missed. | h bin, As
as she found herself aloneshe feveris
ly lifted from the object en-
veloped in white cambric. The cam-
brie removed displayed an envelope of
violet satin, with the arins of the
princess and another person em-
broidered in silver upon it. Under the
folds of satin something hard and
angular was delineated. The lady
unfolded the satin, and a silver box
| exquisitely chased, shaped like an
| Egyptian sarcophagus, appeared before
| her eyes, A tiny golden key hung
| from one of its feet. The princess
| took it off, inserted it in the lock, and
| opened it.
Upon a crimson velvet cushion bor-
i dered with a fringe of fine pearls, lay
{a human hand. The hand bore upon
the little finger a ring, whose setting
was a magnificent bezoar stone, The
| princess gazed a moment spell-bound,
then carefully reclosing the sarcopha-
| gus, and concealing the key in her
| bosom, she shrieked aloud. After which
| she threw herself upon a eouch, ar-
| ranged the folds of her dress, rang for
| her maid, and fainted: That hand was
the right hand of Lord Fergus;
reap]
remained dreaming
on
his
asked:
Cordilc-
went
is from Lord
Fergus Mae
any par-
nh
precautions,
contained a
sS00n
Case an
was never seen there more,
‘We will not attempt to depict the
state of maddening love in which this
fantastic and surgical gift had plunged
Never before did horror, astonishment,
gratitude and pity so blend in a wo-
man’s heart. Many a man had offered |
cushion {ringed with pearls, was indeed
a novelty, In regarding herself in her
mirror, she could truly say that no other
wornan in the world had ever been the
hieet of 00N And then,
< the hand perf otly embalmed,
take it often from its
fan ving this
of the
such adorat
Wiis
he must needs
oncealment to caress it
st way to fulfill the wishes
illed {t to her,
rolled away, The
¢ more and more with
. reproached herselt
] wrong. At last
Every effort that
i Fergus of
15 was
of Europe,
was the
had bribed
» what
tHe
i unceasingly,
and day
From
ched the progress
had s¢
il ane dav, « i
, he stole
during his be
return the
in some
such secret
Whi iD
¥
1
ieeming
! I's al
OVID 5 Ast
eoner
ceeding can
rw which she descended
opened the
Lord Fergus, ad-
} He,
a gesture
hand were not cut off,
Fergus
and be
Hr prayers,
his right arm, as
Lord Fer-
kes a st roke,
ii hand full
sleeve a
*
at upon the :
ited were
768 perfume d
jasmine, vio-
As the ¥ idl y
about the
with aloe
he had won
ae
love,"
thrifty
ent you, my
’ surchased from a
+ in the hospital at
ul embalmer p reps ared it for
i
vou know.’
feane;
ie,
and
she
him,
op with a
The princess looked at
struck him on the
in her hand.
“False, false!” eried
ld an unsophisticated
sist such a
diabolical ruse?
FTOse
ore
she. “How
woman re-
But you
econ
first meeting 7"
ro ot hor re
remember oui fg:
‘Yes
“When I had ti
“Yes”
The § hed merrily as she
exp osed two rows of perfect pearly
teeth, “ Well, my love, 1 never had the
neuralgia in my "lite. -Argonaut,
ie neuralgia?”
rincess
lang
Poor Humanity in London,
Many ght is to be seen in Lon-
don, but few more melancholy than
the spectacle of those poor, broken-
down creatures who are hired to saun-
ter in the gutters of our great metropo-
} advertisement
lis with
Their
listless
a sad si
are
backs, hopeless, famished faces,
their gait,
ments, often drenched with
the precious
or two may
are, are too much
and more
JH rhaps, 18 the look of
rain,
be
iT sober contem dis-
essing than all,
i plation;
tr
shame about these poor wretches,
course, they are glad enough to earn a
shilling inthis way; and yet
on a cold, raw, rainy day
an outrage
another to such uses,
poor
ulous costumes, then we
about the outrage at all. . Here,
the “sandwich man” hasno ¢ hoie e
hins to conform
Histrate the humorous
employers if he does not wish tos
and does not like to steal, In
case, also, he is glad
too,
that, should we
the
no doubt about
delighted to see
yet
of these poor strollers, It
Here
“guys”
done, however,
pigtails, like Chinamen, and al
$0 piteously ashamed. As for that,
however, we all know where the shame,
a deep disgrace it is.—St. James Gazette,
eS ses
emigration,
&500 to aid him, from Mr. Gladstone,
Mrs,
| great interest in social subjects, has |
POPULAR WEATHER SAYINGS,
Upon What the Weatherwise of New Hamp.
shire Base thelr “Probabilities,”
I'he chief signal officer at Washing
ton is seeking material for a
of “popular weather BAYINES, proverbs
and prognostics used throughout the
co untry, and by all and
including Indians, negroes and all for
eigners.” Our readers may be inter
ested to see a collection made in New
Hampshire for The writer
does not vouch the correctness of
the He gives them
they were given to him, and the reader
may
The
officer
classes Faces,
his use,
for
prognosti 8,
judge
divisions made by the
are twenty- three
1. The sun. A halo around the
indicates that there will be rain
snow soon, If the sun rises clear and
soon goes into a cloud it will rain be
fore night, 1f the
rains, it will rain the
dog, or mock sun, indicates
‘will be stormy weather very soon,
The moon. * One
change is enough for seven years,”
there 18 always a severe
The nearer the time
change to midnight the
weather be during the
lowing. The nearer
phases of the
foul or wet weather may be expected
during the next
space Tor these
hours before
night and noon. A
moon indicates a coming storm,
¢hie { ni
in number,
gual
next day,
is
storm
of the
fairer will the
seven days fol
to midday the
seven di
calculations
ys,
is
the number of
occur. If the new
$0 that the
there must be rain, as the
all descend. If the
ontal, so that the
there will Ix
water collected will be
Grain should always be
the new of the that it
row with the of the
The same rule should be
lanting flower slips, To kill
ey should be cut after the full of
ugust moon, when the sign
Pigs and hogs should
illed during the
or the pork will diminish in Iv
shows
will
upright,
hold water,
water must
moon is horiz
II hold water,
davs before it
moon stands
Hew
tof y raln, as
moon,
increase moon,
bushes
eh
the
always be
if the moon,
kK while
* INCTease «
cooking.
Jd. Stars and
borealis always
Wwe ather, 3
weather wil
no falling
meteors,
are
ne wom oy
ng stars on i
may expect
for fi
falli
you
rain.
Rainh
foot of the rainbow,
the earth, you will
When there is a
will no hie
Summer's
nder and
IWS, . yO R {
where it touch
find a pot of gold
rain boy
next day,
yw in the mori
in the
at the day will b
Mu
s fog settles on the
mort indi
a hot
mountain
ung
one,
g, it will
i0re “When
the mountain, you
When i comes down
on may go fis
* there will be
Juktar; rain,
6. When you
heavily in the evening, you
sure it will be fair next
in the morning you
covered with webs, coverad
and no dew on the ground
is a sign of rain before night, for
spiders are putting up umbrellas,
others say, “ When the
their sun shades, it will bé a hot
7. Clouds. If the sky is very red in
the west in the the weather
will be fair next it is red in
the east in the morning, it is
a storm. If in the evening it is deep
red low down in the west and black
above, it is a sign of wind. If very
black, a very high wind. A mackerel
sky in the west indicates rain.
certainly rain
he {1 Wr
i !
bef night. FOEs ul
tf
ot
the
weather ;
fine in
feel the dew 1
miny
dav.
the gro
with dew
a
the
But
1
aay
evening,
day. It
driving to the northwest, it will be
fine for some days.
“Great clouds like an old mare's tail,
Make great ships earry low sail.”
8. Frost. White frosts on
successive nights indicate a thaw,
the ice crack much, you may expect
the frost will continue,
9. Snow. When there are
If on a fair day in winter a
bank appears low in the
sure indication of snow very
snow fall in large flakes and they in-
will be a thaw.
10. Rain. If rain commences be.
fore daylight it will hold up before 8
If
south-it is a
SOON,
If not till
through the night,
after 9 o'clock pr.
next day.
it will rain the
will rain
commences
the
0 o'clock r. Mm. it
If it
M. it will rain
next dav.
“If it rains before seven
It will stop before eleven.”
If the wind is from the northwest or
southeast the storm will be short; i
from the northeast it will be a hard
one: if from {the northwest a cold one:
and from the southwest, 8a warm one,
After it has been raining some time a
blue sky in the southeast indicates that
After
it has been raining some time, “if you
see enough blue in the west to make
a Dutchman a pair of breeches,” it will
soon clear off.
11. Thunder and lightning. “If it
thunder in the morning it will be fear-
ful before night.” * Winter thunder is
to old folks death and to young folks
plunder,” It is said that personsin con-
sumption have died during a thunder
storm,
12.
rain
S001.
Winds. A south wind brings
A northeast wind a severe
storm, and a northwest wind fair
weather, If the wind veers round
with the sun there will be fair weather
If the wind starts up while it is rain-
ing it will blow the rain clouds away
and there will be fair weather,
13. Animals. The following are
said to be signs of rain: If bats fly
low and come into the house: if cattle
lie down in the morning and chew the
cud; if horses toss their heads, sniff
and are very uneasy; if rats and mice
are restless and squeak; if swine are
uneasy, grunt loudly and squeal; if
cats and dogs eat grass and sheep
spring about more than usual, So also
the proverbs:
“When the ass begins to bray
We surely shall have rain to- day. n
And
‘“ When the donkey blows his horn,
'T is time to house your hay and corn.”
When in winter pigs rub against the
side of their pen it is a sure sign of a
thaw.
14, Birds. Before rain cuckoos sing,
and other fowl] pick up and oil
their feathers, guinea fowls are noisy,
owls hoot, peacocks squall, quails
whistle, crows caw, swallows fly low
and water-fowl seream and plunge into
the water, If birds flock togethe rin
September, it of a
slo. If crows are seen going
the fall it is a sign of
but if they north, there
will be warmer weather, If wild
geese come from the north early in the
tall, it is the sign of an winter:
if they go north early in the spring, it
that je winter is broken,
Fhe Phebe bird, pewee, be
fore warm we athor.
15. Fish. Fish bits
rain,
16,
i158 4 Sign coming
south
in colder
go
Cur
IS 4 sign
sings
best before
md tree toads
If a leech be Kept
filled with water,
while it lies curled up at the bottom of
the jur there will be fair weather, but,
before rain, wind or snow it will
and will rise to the surface,
entirely out of the
thunder,
ain
will
sptiles, Frogs
iW"
before rain,
be
and if it comes
are
Carry
bees are
their
Before ants
active, and
gs from place to place;
mt do not go far from
crickets sing and try to get
into the house; fli Very annoying
and s
s in the alr.
17. Insects.
bustling and
E
bh
8 are
than
vel
usual; pi-
8
it
ders spin gossamer
ants clear their holes and pile the du
11 o'clock A. M, it will be
fair the rest of the day.
18, Trees and plants, If the
of maples and other trees turn up so
to show i
leaves
il»
le itis a sign of
Dandelio tuli ps and other
flowers close up Ix fore rain.
19. Various obje t When
from
a storn Wh
up it is an indicatior
5
sounds
their under si
rain. iS,
sin oh
Wh
sign of
11
bells, steam
are heard
rain is near, Before
rack,
tly than
usual, rain tables
eard t violin
will break, cor:
h
Lrout
string
Ling
DeCoIme mo
that is if
other dog
the
sO Wi
tha
rule the days,
i thers will
ti
4
11 thi Oth
1d dry,
{Mher
a dry time
nti
unter Mo
at that time
venturing to de
, he telegraphed
as if to visit one of
, then living at their charm
at Bougival Nelaton
m entering the drawing
topics
1 hot haste for him,
and «
$1.1
began talking
vith the
room, on various
master of the he who, al
he had pair battles
ans knew
nse,
ited many
vigltories,
daton, EC
ind knowing
as sked, tothe great embarras
the painter, where the pa
Presently the wounded brute
magnificent cush-
howling with pain in spite of all
care taken. At so distressing a
Meissonier, forgetting every-
exclaimed in agony: “Save
illustrious master, save
dressed the Fri, and the
dog recovered; and shortly afterward its
master wrote a grateful Ra to the
ning
impatient
the
1
delay, value «
the
else,
him!"
surgeon,
to know his
that when the
he could eall
fee. Nelaton replied
painter came to Paris
upon him. This he soon did,
producing his purse, crammed
bank notes, when Nelaton exclaimed:
“Stop, sir! you are a painter, are
not? Just put a gray coating on those
with
You
indeed a
had the
This was
but which
finished!
delicate revenge:
last word? Meissonier, who, going at
once to work, at the end of a few days
produced two of his masterpieces on
the panels,
President for One Day.
General David R, Atchison, ex-sena-
tor of the United States, and who be-
came vice-president at the death of W,
R. King, and was, hy the operation of
the constitution, the legal president of
the United States for one day, is now
living on his farm in Clinton county,
Mo. General Atehison tells as follows
how it was that he was president for one
day: It came about in this way.. Polk
went out of office on the 3d of March,
1849, on Saturday at 12 o'clock a.
The next day, the 4th, occurring on
Sunday, General Taylor was not in-
augurated. He was not inaugurated
till Monday, the Hth, at 12 o'clock: Mm.
It was then canvassed among senators
whether there was an interregnum, It
was plain that there was either an in
terregnum or I was the president of
the United States, being chairman of
of the senate, having succeeded Judge
Magnum, of North Carolina. The
judge waked op at 3 o'clock in the
morning and said, jocularly, that, as 1
was president of the United States, he
wanted gne td appoint him secretary of
state. Other senators came to me and
advised me to claim the franking priv-
ilege for life under the law giving a
president of the United States that
emolument. 1 replied that 1
not assume any doubtful powers,
office of president was vacant from
Saturday at 12 o'clock Mm. to Monday
noon, when General Taylor
sworn in.
se cms.
You cannot tell much
truth or falsity of the sentiments ex-
pressed in the “old songs”
experimenting with them, Take,
instance, that old
gong, “Are We Forgotten When
We're Gone?” The only way to tell
to a certainty is to go away, and to
make it. more binding take somebody
¢lse’s pockethook with you,
The
for
FOR THE LADIES,
News and Notes for Women,
It is sald that the Princess Louise
wife of Lord Lorne, has her favorite
French and German authors in her
bedroom where she can alw ays put her
hands on them.
President Eliot, of Harvard, is a pro-
nounced supporter of the medical odu-
cation of women, and Huxley, in Eng.
land, firmly indorses woman suffrage in
the wodified form in which it prevails
there
At a special meeting of the Ladies’
Land league, in Dublin, the league
was dissolved, and a recommendation
was passed that leagues be established
throughout the country to teach hie
rising generation the national history,
A Philadelphia dancing master ins
troduced a new style of waltzing, the
hands of the couple being joined as in
roller skating, doing away with the
arm encircling the lady's waist, which
has by some been considered as objec-
tionable familiarity.
Miss Mary Berger, of Portland, Ore
gon, on returning from a pie nie, found
the timbers of the Elk creek bridge on
fire. She disrobed, dipped her clothes
in the creek, w rapped them about the
burning timbers, and thus kept the fire
in check until help arrived.
In Bayou Chicot, Lu., a full grown
wild cat leaped upon Mrs, Gridith
Thompson, fastening teeth in her
left arm. She grasped the savage beast
by the throat, and held it until it was
choked to death, although it was biting
and scratching her all the time,
A vear ago the princess of Wales ap-
entertainment at Baek.
with simple wild white
clover as floral ornaments, and it
say that the clover imme-
thereafter came into fashion.
Now it is all the rage in London,
The s sending of
gland to India is likely to be
tablished custom, The Indian women
are averse to treatment by physicians
not of their own sex. The statisties
of the British maodical service in India
that the women have rarely
led themselves of pres riptions or
A staff of tra
roposed as a J art of the public ser-
in India, partment co-ordinate
not subord linate to the existing
his
peared at an
Ingham palace
is
needless to
diately
medical women from
il es.
ava
attendance. ined women
i a
3
medical burean
In Germany the
honor, and to omit
li LHS
oneself
usages of
sofa is the
offeri ng is
t, ist
seat of
privi-
o condemn
lenorant of the
i society, But a gen-
tleman may not sit upon the sofa: to
seat there uninvited is VETY pres
sumptuous; and to ask an inti-
nate acquaintance to sit beside her on
sacred resting-place would be
indecorous in a young lady. |
. a
§ the eustom of the country,
take a
even
Fashion Notes,
Cardinal red velvet basques are worn
with black skirts.
White Danish kid glo
ra by bridemalds,
"
ves of exagger-
New Fron
dark green cloth are
several rows of very
put on straight :
Muct i of
merely white
the flax gray and ecru
enlled ficelle cok
Feather t
yvelvel crow
dresses of
med with
gold braid,
i promenade
trim
fine
what is called ficelle lace is
Spanish colored in
shades that are
lac Ls
Is,
urbans and straw hats, with
ns, worn with cheviot or
admirably adapted
of fall,
presen it the Jae ference is for
for new dresses, but there
will be many combination dresses that
will be partly made of striped goods or
of large figured fabrics,
Wattean
nore suits, an
WH il dav 4
At
1 lain gi wails
overdresses are in great
favor with voung ladies, The large
fold ut the back, which 1s the princi
pal feature of the dress, is caught up
below the waist to form drapery.
The new Pompadour lace is similar
to Breton laces, with the addition of
flowers in relief made of muslin, and
worked in button-hole stitch ; a single
flower is in each point or scallop of the
lace,
becoming
long cuir
hort round basques gre
Bal instead of the
asses that turn up at the edges when
wearer 1s sitting, are in
square battlements, or in leaf poihts or
slender curves, and the are
heavily corded,
Military styles are in vogue, such as
braiding in cross-way rows on jackets,
and there are military collars of white
linen worn lrigh around* the neck, and
fastened by a ring and ball that
passe J through the button-holes on each
gide of the front.
Ginghams are a feature
son. In those the best choice
honest Scoteh ginghams, which stand
any amount of washing without in-
jury ; and next come the American
goods warranted to wash, and which
may usually be relied on to do so with-
the These
}
Ages
is
of the
‘are the
Se0-
Chisele velvets, with figures in bold
Spanish lace
passementerie, and « henille frings trim
with overdress, but ‘the skirt is rich
to dispense with trimmings, |
and even the narrow balayeuse finish
Novel French mantels made of
black merveillieux, or canvas grena-!
dine, cut as a rather long shoulder-cape,
with a border of chenille fringe elit
or a mixture of
The cape forms a V-|
followed by
silk |
are
shaped opening in front,
two finely-plaited scarfs of fancy
starting from the shouldersgores, and
contracted at the waist by a number
of close shirrings ; thence these scarfs
eross and fall over the tapered ends of |
the
Browns of every shade, and greens |
ranging from the “greenery-yvallery” of |
to the darkest and most |
invisible greens, will undoubtedly be
the reigning favorites during the ap-
proaching season ; and as regards sty le,
the present indications are that but
few, if any, dresses will be worn with
flat trimmings—the more bouffant the |
better, Dressmakers, hy means of
panniers, puffs, full-scarf draperies,
ruches and other resources at their |
command, contrive to make fashion-
able costumes as intricate and impos- |
gible to follow as possible; and the
fuller the effect the greater the tri- |
umph.
cape.
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Carlyle said Froud was the best read |
If he had come
America he would have written that |
ever met,
two extremes on record,
Serr IIPS
of very young soldiers in the British
forces recently sent to Egvpt. Some
9,000 men are known to average little
more than two or three-and- =twanty
years of age.
FACTS AND COMMENTS,
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business, A company begun operations
laet January, and now has several
thousand policies in foree. The
child is less than a year old, $19 if more
than that and less than two years, and
80 on up to $123 at eleven years,
The traflie ip thet
new phase with the rapid increase in
the exportation of dressed meat
from the West to the East
Boston have already taken the alarm,
and their fears of sharp competition
from this source appear to be well
founded. Already one establishment
at Hamilton, Ind, is
parations are making at v
for extending this business,
of some western snakes tells how the
destroy their young. It seems it is not
an unusual occurrence to find whip,
racer and
stomachs, This observer has
seen a puffadder attached to the hind
foot of a turtle, sucking its blood and
digesting off its toes,
box-turties deformed in their hind feet,
probably from this cause. Dr, Foole's
Health Monthly.
ese o—————
cious
for a person deprived of his natural |
organ of smelling has been repeatedly
undertaken with success,
and difficult operation; and an attempt |
just made in Vienna by Professor Bill- |
roth, one of the most distinguished |
surgeons in Austria, to supply a sol-
dier who had been frightfully
lated in Bosnia with an artificial nose,
has attracted much attention. The |
material for the new organ was taken
from the skin of the forehead. The |
operation is reported to have been én- |
tirely successful, and with a supple- |
mentary shaping process, is expected
to result in a nose that cannot be dis- |
tinguished from a Ratu) one,
A nove la X pedie nt for giving strength
yan alibi was adopted recently by a
M: SSAC osha s lawyer. His client was
an Italian, and several unimpeachable | !
witnesses had testified that the prisoner |
wis in a certain place at a certain time.
On the seeond day of the trial the |
lawyer put a friend of the accused man |
in the dock, and sent his client to a seat
among the spectators. The substitution |
was not discovered for some time, when |
» lawyer claimed that the witnesses
* the prosecntion, who had identified |
ie prisonor as the man they had seen
at a certain time, might easily have
been mistaken, since the learned and |
observant court did not detect the sub-
stitution, The prisoner was acquitted. |
During the year ended June 30,
1882, the total number of acres of
United States public land disposed of
was 15,000. 848, an increase over last
vear of about 5000000 acres. The
cash received for this land amounts to
about $8,361,001, as against 5,000,000 |
during the last fiscal year. The num-
ber of acres entered for agricultural |
purposes as “cash sales” during the
year amounted to 3,600.800 acres ; for |
mineral purposes, 3,706,810 acres ; for | |
desert lands, 106,055 acres: for coal |
lands, 7.194 acres: 6.347.729 acres |
were e nt: red under the homestead laws, |
wh ile 2,216,244 acres were “proved |
up” under the same laws; under the |
timber culture acts, 2.600.797 acres
were entered and “ proved up ;” under
the various land warrants, railroad
grant, school, and State selection acts |
Kinds of scrip),
615,866 acres were disposed of. The
great increase in the disposition of
public lands during the past fiscal |’
vear is said to be owing to the large
emigration in the Northwest, In
Dakota the increase is more noticeable
than in any other State or Territory.
The area of cash sales in Dakota alone
was 698,004 acres, and the homestead
entries in the same Territory were
more than 2,000,000 acres.
Secretary Teller has written a letter
on Indian education in which he says:
“The Indian requires education in the
practical affairs of life; he must be |
tanght to work as well as read: his hand |
must be educated as well as his head. |
additional labor schools estab- |
lished within easy communication with
u ie tribe, yet not near enough to allow |
he influenc es of savage life to coun- |
. ract and undo the work of the |
school, we may hope to repeat on a
large scale what Captain Pratt and |
Mr. Armstrong have so successfully |
Labor |
{
izer of the human raee, and w henever |
the Indian becomes a laborer he is not |
far from civilization and usefulness to |
society, Heretofore we have confined |
our ¢fforts to the education of a few
hoping to make such perselas teachers
and exemplars to their savage brethren;
but experience has demonstrated that |
a few educated vouths could not with- |
| stand the baneful influences of savage |
{
i
i
i
i
| rounded on their return to their tribe, |
We cannot hope for the speedy civili- |
zation of the Indian unless we can ex-
mass of Indian chil |
as the Indians |
include the great
To do this now,
i
access, is only a question of ‘appro-
priation and the cordial support of |
» administrative authorities,” i
Highest Tunnel in the World,
The Denver and South Park railroad
has just completed an extension to
Pitkin, Gunnison county, Colorado. In |
the course of the work a tunnel had to
Rockies, It is the highest railroad |
tunnel in the world, being 11,500 feet
above the sea level. The length is
side are said to be marvels of engineer- |
| ing skill. At its eastern end the tunnel |
has a sharp curve, but so nicely were
the calculations of the engineer |
carried |
met in |
the in.erior of the mountain there was |
only about one inch variation. Ameri- |
can engineering has more than one |
famous triumph of this sort to boast of, |
The sides of the great Hoosac tunnel, |
No |
—varied in all less than an inch.
Europe.
em nen AI,
No rank can shield us from the im- | | 000
partiality of death,
WISE WORDS,
{ ———
No man can be successful who neg-
lects his business,
If you would succeed in life, rise
early and be an economist of time,
The qualities we never make
us 80 ridiculous as those we pretend to
| have,
One who is never busy can never
rest, for one implies relief from pre
vious labor,
Those who blow the coals of others’
strife may chance to have the sparks
fly in their own faces,
Though charity may tend to make
| your purse lighter one day, yet it will
make it heavier another.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure
thought, happiness follows like »
shadow that never leaves him.
Every man’s vanity ought to be his
| greatest shame, and every man’s folly
ought to be his greatest secret.
Looking to others for our standard
of happiness is a sure way to be
miserable. Our business is with om
| own heart.
| I know no real worth but that
| tranquil firmness, which seeks dangers
by duty, and braves them without
rashness,
If you would find a gem many
faults be on the lookout, » Jou
want to find them in unlimited
bers be on the look in.
Deceit is the false road to happl-
ness ; and ail the joys we travel
| through to vice, like fairy banquets,
| vanish when we touch them,
| An deception in the course of life
is, indeed, nothing else but a lie re
duced to practice, and falsehood pass |
ing from words into things,
Perseverance is the crown of all the
other virtues, and the characteristic of
| heroes. It is a small thing to begin;
we must persevere to the end,
We are taught to clothe our minds,
in vogue, and it is accounted fantas-
TO ——————
The Poetry Market,
A timid, but really rather pretty
young man came stepping softly into
the Hawkeye sanctum yesterday after-
noon, when nobody was in but the ad-
| vertisement solicitor, who was writing
a half column puff of Slab gnd Head-
stone's new marble shop. The young
man took off his hat and said,’ “ Good-
morning,” and the advertising man
snarled. What is worth #”
“Forty cents a line.” the adver-
tisement man, promptly and rather
| tenderly, “ and you can’t do better any-
where in America. The advantages
we offer for the publication of
Our circulation, standing in
sissippl.
is placed in the hands of 150,000 fami-
lies before night. How much have
vou?
“Perhaps,” said the timid
man, fairly reeling with delight, “wit is
a little too long.”
“Makes no difference,” said the ad.
man, beaming upon him kindly; “we'll
plement. And everything over 3,000
lines goes at thirty-five cents.”
The timid young man looked disap-
| pointed.
“It isn't so much then," he said,
“ when it's very long 7"
“ Never,” replied the ad. man mag-
nanimously. “Never; less room, more
| pay: that's the way you make a living.
| Got your copy with you ¥"
“ Yes, sir,” replied the young man,
joyfully, “would you like to read it,
sir, or shall I read it?”
“ No, don't care to read it just now.
Rit down and we'll count it.”
So they sat down and counted it.
“My-heart, my heart in throbbing
numbers tells,” read the ad. man.
* Heart medicine, young man?’ he
who knows everything.
*“ No, sir,” replied the young man in
amazed tones, while the ad. man
counted away for dear life. * No, sir,
“Oh, yes; yes, of course,” said the ad,
man in reassuring tones. * Hundred
nine, hund ten, hund 'leven-—course,
hund fourteen—hain't done much in
rhapsodies since Helmbold failed =trupd
tw en-thee—good things, though; we
took a gross of ‘em last spring on Pad &
Lotion’s column—hund for'-two—and
{ 1 wore one myself two weeks and it
made—hund fift-four—man of me.
One hundred and sixty-eight lines, sir,
{ and we'll throw in a fourdine head and
won't count the odd half line—$67.20;
call it an even $65 cash down. Just
| step down to the business office and
{ I'll give you a receipt.”
We don’t know what happened im-
mediately after that. We only know
that when the footman opened the door
of the carriage to let us out at the
marble steps of the Hawkeye office, the
lad. man was leaning on the heavy
| bronze balusters, gazing wonderingly
at the figure of a young man, walking
{ fluttering manuscript in one hand and
| into the other clasping his pallid brow.
“You may take my double-column
head for a foot-ball, sir,” said the ad.
man, respectfully raising his hat and
standing uncovered as we ascended one
broad stairway, “if that young fellow
| going down street isn’t a th uare
| lunatic from Crdzyville. W. anted me to
pay him sixty-five dollars for a long
shyming puff without a line of business
n it, sir." — Hawkeye.
The Fork. .
The fork has been made the subject
In the ancient world this aid
to eating was unknown, and the
display as much delicacy as possible in
mouth with the fingers, It was a
thousand years ago when the first
mention of the forchetta was made in
and it was then
spoken of as an instrument introduced
into Venice by a Byzantine princess.
It was at first not favorably received,
use, either in Italy or the rest of
| Europe. No mention of a fork was
| made in the catalogue of table furni-
ture at the wedding of Maria Sforza-
Visconti as late as 1493. Still, the
| fifteenth century saw its use sp
|in France, and the sixteenth saw it
lin Germany. It was not until the
seventeenth that it was adopted in
| England.
TRA a.
The decline in the value of land con-
| tinues in England. A Yorkshire
few years ago, has been sold for $35,-
turbance:*~ My dear, this bread Jooks
delicious; but it is the first you have
ever made. 1 cannot think of eating
it, but will preserve it to show to our
children in after years as a sample of
their mother’s skill and deftness”—
-
A writer in the Kansas City Review
etary
sun injure man? Indeed, such impact
serves to keep him alive. The sun
does not radiate too much heat now,
and astronomers are agreed that part
of the present supply is Xepuphy a
cosmical bombardment. ;
away in some nook of bh ra
chained to an expiring wofld—a home
that is already suffering en 8
of polarice, We exist only by the heat
of thesun. The real danger lies notin
cometary downrush, but in the fear
ough meteors and comets
A Reasonable Request, :
He had never told his love, their ac-
quaintance had been a very short one,
and when suddenly he had plased her
arms about “his neck and imprinted a
kiss upon her rosebud mouth, she was
naturally startled. Eo
“Sir,” she said, “this is insufferable”
« Forgive me,” he eried. “1 was mad
to act thus. I beseech you, pardon mel”
“No, I can never forgive you, never,
You have forfeited my friendship. You
must leave me at once and forever,”
Vainly he plead ; she was obdurate.
And so he said he would
whole life would be embittered, for |
felt that her image could never be
faced from his heart.
“1 will go,” he said, sadly, “but Le-
fore I leave there is one boon that I
would ask. I feel thatIam not
reasonable in desiring and
that you will grant this one
favor.” y
“What is it?" she asked; gently
touched by his emotion. .
“Won't you please take your
from around my neck?" Saturday
Harvey U. Benson, of Paw Paw,
Mich his brow brought suit Jb against; a lady
or $5,000
ried one Back after having
herself to Benson. She vi ped
tenuation that her Paw Paw coms
pelled her to marry the Black man,
Keeping 6
In Europe a coping Grapes, preserv
grapes is now very generally follows
The cluster is cut with a piece of
cane still attached, and the lower
of the cane is inserted in the neck
bottle containing water. - Grapes thus
treated are kept in a eet
for a long time. The.
nals have fi red racks and other
they would
aware that th