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A Summer Sunset
BY THE BARD O}' TUE MOUNTAIN,
The day-god is slowly descending,
Ms gold with the forest trees blending;
Bright tints to the distant hills lending,
Bre from the rich scene he withdraws.
Ms shimmering rays flood the valleys
And nooks where the singing birds rally
As forth from their covert they sally,
Awarding a cheery applause.
In mellow effulgence reclining,
Where gayly the woodbine is twining
Anon with a brilliant film lining,
The gosamer clouds as they drift
Across the deep azure of heaven,
By soft breezes silently driven,
And fold from its kindred fold riven,
In golden embroidered clefts.
Now lengthen the brown cooling shadows,
Across the green carpeted meadows,
Whilst brightly the dazzling radi
Illumine the western sky,
With splendor the mountain crest bathing,
Whose verdure the gentle winds waving
A garland of beauty 'tic weaving.
To win the enquiring eye.
Now into the depths of seclusion,
Ile sinks from our peering intrusion
And waked from our somnolent musing,
We serer our lingering gaze.
Thus sinks in eternity's ocean,
When death stills each tremulous motion,
The soul that has quaffed its full potion,
And threaded life's care-shadowed maze.
Other people have their faults,
And so have you as well,
But all ye chance to see or hear,
Yoa have no right to tell.
If ye canna speak o' good,
Take care, and see, and feel,
Earth has all too much o' woe,
And not enough o' weal.
Be careful that ye make floe etrife
Wi' meddling tongue and brain,
For ye will find enough to do
If ye but look at hame.
If ye should feel like picking flaws,
Ye better go, I ween,
And read the book that tells you all
About the mote and beam.
Diana lend a listening ear
To gossip or to strife,
Or, perhaps, 'twill make fur ye
Nae funny thing of life.
0, dinna add to other's woe,
Nor mock it with your mirth,
But give ye kindly sympathy
To suffering ones of earth.
Es. ilmetoil's Girl,
"Dear me !" said Mrs. Haughton as she
bent over a great kettle of quinces. "I
don't know what we are to do. I can't
get such a girl as I want for any wages,
and there is everything to be done."
"Just like papa !" said Fannie, working
away at a mass of paste that was to appear
later in the shape of pies. "I don't sup
pose he even remembered we had no girl
when he invited Mr. Austin and his cous
in."
"If it were only gentlemen, I would not
care, but there is Mrs. Austin."
"Mamma!"
"Fact, my dear. Of course your papa
forgot to mention that till just as he was
starting for the city this morning, and
they will all come with him this evening.
I have sent Daisy to put the spare bed in
order; but you know how it will look."
"She'll make up the bed on the floor,
and put the toilet service on a chair," said
Fannie. "I'll try to get a peep. Mamma,
here comes Bessie Turner."
"She will have to come in here."
The visitor advancing , up the garden
walk did not wait for an invitation to the
kitchen, but came directly to the half
opened door. She was a small, pretty girl
of about twenty-two, with a marked air of
refinement in her sweet face and the grace
ful carriage of her slight figure.
Two years before she bad driven to call
upon Mrs. Haughton in her own carriage,
but her father's sudden death had revealed
the fact that he was deeply in debt, and
bad left no fortune for his only child.—
Since that time Bessie had been teaching
in the Seminary at B— ; but on the day
when Fannie Haughton saw her from the
kitchen window it was school hours. Her
knock was answered by a cheerful "Come
in, Bessie," and she obeyed the summons.
"Mrs. Haughton," she said, after the
usual greeting had been exchanged, "I
heard you wanted a girl."
"I do, indeed. Do you know of a good
one ?"
"Will you take me ?"
_ _
WITH
"Bessie !" cried both ladies.
"I must do something for a living, and
Dr. Will says I must neither sew nor teach
neat winter, if I want to live. He assures
me my only chance of recovering from the
trouble in my lungs that I have had so
long is to give up teaching, and be posi
tively forbids me to touch a needle."
"But, Bessie, you—a lady"—gasped
Fannie.
"Are you any less a lady for snaking
pies this morning, Fan—Miss Haughton,
I mean ? I suppose you will hardly care
to have your servant girl call you Fannie."
"Don't be absurd, Bessie. The idea of
your father's daughter being a servant
girl !" said Mrs. Haughton.
But Bessie was in earnest, and her tone
was very positive as she answered.
"I must earn my Brion. 6, Mrs. Haugh
ton, and cannot teach for a time. You
must be aware that my salary has not been
sufficient for me to save enough to live on
all winter. If yon will not have me I must
go among strangers."
"I should b glad enough to have you
if you really meant it."
"I really mean it. You can pay me
just what you paid Sarah. I'm sorry,"
she said gaily, "I have no recommendation
from my last place."
"But we are expecting company, said
Fannie.
BUSINESS CARDS,
CONCERT TICKETS,
LEGAL BLANKS,
"I'll allow you to have company some
times," was the gracious reply.
"Now, Miss Houghton, I'll finish the
pies ;" and Bessie took a large apron from
her pocket, tied it over her black dress,
removed her cuffs, rolled up her sleeves,
and took possession of the pie-board.
"See what Daisy is doing, Fannie," said
her mother; and Fannie went off.
As soon as she was gone, Mrs. Hough
ton taking Bessie's face in her motherly
hands, kissed it softly.
"Darling," she said, "this must not be.
I love you, Bessie, as one of my own girls,
and you must come and let us nurse you
well again. You shall be my guest this
winter."
PAMPHLETS
'You are very kind," the young girl
replied, "but you must let me have my
own way. I do not need nursing, only
rest from the constant talking to pupils,
and active exercise. I told Dr. Will what
I meant to do, and be said it was the best
medicine in the world for me."
Quite a long talk followed, but Mrs.
Zke PALM' Nom.
Speak Nae 111
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HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY; JULY 23, 1873
Haughton was obliged to yield her point.
Bessie was resolved to be independent, and
saw no disgrace in honestly getting her
living in her friend's kitchen.
_ __
Mit when the girl was really alone, she
certainly acted very strangely, considering
her late resolution. Just as Mrs. Haugh
ten had left her, she had said:
"We expect Mr. and Mrs. Austin and
their cousin, a Mr. Alexander Wight,
lately returned from California."
Then she left the kitchen, awl Bessie
dashed into the buttery and sit down be
hind the door.
"Oh, why didn't I wait !" she said, in a
half whisper. "Alick Wight at home !
What will he think to see me a servant
girl ? It was bad enough to be teaching
for a living; but cooking for a living !
Oh, why didn't I wait? Wait for what?
I am only earning my bread. Alick Wight
is nothing to me," she said again in stern
self-reproach ; "probably lie has forgotten
my existence."
But even as she spoke there arose in
her memory a picture she would 'never
forget. In a conservatory where tinkling
fountains cooled the air for choice exotics,
a lady stood beside a tall, fine looking man,
who held her little gloved hand fast in his
own. Both were in rich evening dress,
and the house was full of gay guests. Mr.
Turner having accepted an invitation to a
friend's party in one of Fifth avenue's pal
aces. It was the second winter he had
spent in New York with Bessie, the last
winter of his life. But the couple in the
conservatory were not thinking of death
or change, when the gentleman spoke in a
low, earnest tone :
"I will not bind you by any promise,
Bessie, for you will be an heiress while I
have still my way to make. I sail for San
Francisco very soon, and expect to go into
buisness with my uncle there; but in a
few years I shall return. I shall hope that
you will not forget me."
Two weeks later he was gone, and Bes
sie an orphan. Years of struggle for her
had been years of success to him, for his
uncle was dead and had left him a large
property and prosperous business. The
pride inborn in Bessie's nature had kept
her from telling her sad story to one who
was not formally engaged to her, and she
had learned to think of Alick as merely a
good friend. But to meet him as she must
meet him in a few hours, was a sore strain
upon her pride and love.
"But this won't get my dinner," she
said suddenly, as the little clock on the
kitchen mantel warned her that time was
flying. "If I must be a servant, at least
I will be a good one."
The afternoon train brought the expect
ed guests, and Bessie, peeping from her
kitchen curtain, saw the pretty little lady
who had been her hostess one evening al
ready mentioned, and her gray-haired hus
band; and a tall, broad-shouldered, heavi
ly bearded young man, was introduced to
his hostess and her pretty daughter as
"My - cousin, Mr. Wight."
It was not the easiest work in the world,
after this, to wait at the table, and Mrs.
Haughton stared at the demure little wait
less, whose perfectly cooked viands she
was dispensing. But nobody noticed her,
and dinner passed off very quietly, the
new arrivals being full of city gossip for
their country friends.
As the girl stood over her dish-pan, in
which two scalding tears had fallen, she
thought,
"fie did not even recognize me."
In the drawing•room there was music
and laughter, in the kitchen tears and
sighs, when Mrs. Haughton came out to
Bessie.
"Bessie, dear," she said, "leave the
dishes and come into the parlor. Do."
"I am too tired and hot," pleaded Bes
.
"It will rest you."
"But it is better not. I can't be ser
vant and lady too, Mrs. Haughton. Don't
think I am ungrateful, but it is better for
me to keep in my place."
"I think so, too," said the lady ; "but I
don't think we quite agree as to which is
your place. However, you shall have your
own way to-night. Your dinner was splen
did."
And the lady returned to her guests,
while Bessie washed and wiped plates,
cups and dishes, and put all in order.—
When the last dish was in its place, the
last crumb swept up, the young girl threw
off her apron and went into the garden to
try to throw off the feverish heat burning
in her veins.
"I wonder if I am strong enough to go
through with it ?" she thought, as she
seated herself in the summer-house, and it
was not altogether of physical strength she
was so doubtful.
"He never looked at me to-night," she
said to herself; "but be must see my face
sometime if he is to stay a week."
Just at that moment the odor of a segar
came floating in at the summer-house
door, and before Bessie could escape, a
masculine segar holder followed the 'Ha
vana.' She had started to her feet, and
the moonlight shone full upon her face as
Alick Wight sprang forward, crying :
"Bessie Turner, where have you come
from?""
But the girl drew back from the raptu
rous greeting, saying in a cold, low voice :
"I am Mrs. Haughton's servant girl,
Mr. Wight."
"Her - -her—her—" stammered the
young man.
"Her servant girl, working in her kitch
en. My father is dead, and my own health
prevents my teaching, so I am earning my
living in Mrs. Haughton's kitchen."
She was so hard and cold that he looked
at her in amasement ; but after a moment
he saw her face quivering in the moon
light, and be forgot everything save that
the woman he loved above all other women
was poor, in sorrow, and in trouble.
"Bessie," he said, and his voice was full
of deep feeling, "was it kind to keep all
this from me, knowing I loved you? Is
it kind to thrust me away. now, when I
have come all the way from California to
find you ? Have you ceased to love me,
Bessie ? Will you send me back alone, or,"
and he opened his arms, "will you be my
own true little wife, as you gave me reason
to hope long ago ?"
"But, Alick," she said, I am poor,
sick—"
"Hush, darling ! You are mine, and I
am not poor. You shall grow well again,
my darling, when you have love and rest.
Do not drive me away, Bessie."
And nestling down in his stiong arms,
Bessie gave him the promise he craved.
The sound of gay voices coming from
the house aroused them.
The whole party were near the summer
house, when a couple came out into the
moonlight, and Mrs. Austin recognized
her former guest. •_
"Why, kiss Turner!" she cried, ama
zed. "I wrote you a month ago to come
and pay me a visit, and you never re
plied."
"Bless me," whispered Mr. Austin, "I
forgot to post the letter."
"Aliok will forgive me now for disap
pointing him," continued his cousin. "I
had promised you should be at my house
to welcome him, but it is all right now, I
suppose, Aliok ?"
"All right," was the emphatic reply.
And so Mrs. Naughton lost her girl the
same day she engaged her.
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"The Graphic" Balloon
Description of the Monster Air-Ship Now
Constructing for Professor Wise.
In answer to numerous inquiries on the
subject, we give the following details as to
the dimensions, material, outfit, &c., of the
balloon to be used in the great Transatlan
tic voyage. They are from specifications
made by Mr. Donaldson.
There will be two balloons, the largest
of which will be 318 feet in circumference,
100 feet in diameter, and 110 feet in
height. When inflated and ready to start
the extreme height of the apparatus, from
the crown of the balloon to the keel of the
life-boat, will be 160 feet.
The great balloon will require 4,316
yards of cloth. The material is unbleach
ed sheeting—of a thick, close quality, of
the brand known as "Indian Orchard,"
purchased from Eldridge, Durham & Co.,
340 Broadway. The crown of the balloon
will be doubled for a distance of fifty feet
from the top, with 150 yards of some ma
terial, and the third thickness will be add
ed of "Manchester Mills," bleached, of
which 250 yards are required.
There will be 14,080 yards, or eight
miles of sewing, in which 10,137,600
stitches will be made. The stitching is
now being performed at the show-rooms of
the Domestic Sewing Machine Company
(corner of Broadway and Fourteenth
street), by a force of twelve seamstresses.
The thread used is silk and cotton, the top
spool being silk.
The valim of the balloon will be three
feet in diameter, and made of Spanish ce
dar, with a rubber-coated clapper closing
on a brass plate. The valve fixtures and
top of the balloon are the essential parts
of the apparatus, and are being constructed
with special care to guard against any ac
cident of derangement.
The network will be composed of three
strand tarred rope, known as "marlin."
The width of the net will be n 2 meshes,
and its breaking strength will be 58,300
pounds. Five hundred pounds of "mar
lin" will be used. From the netting 53
ropes, P inch in diameter, of Manilla, will
connect with the concentrating rings.
These ropes will each be 90 feet in length,
or 4,770 feet in aggregate. The concen
trating rings will be three in number, to
guard against breakage, and will be each
fourteen inches in diameter, each ring be
ing of wood, ironbound. These rings will
sustain the car, life-boat, and trailing rope,
and will bear the strain when the anchor is
thrown out in landing. From the concen
trating rings twenty-four Manilla 1-inch
ropes; each 22 feet long, or requiring 528
feet in all, will depend and form the frames
for an octagonal-shaped car. They will be
kept in place by light hoops, made of ash.
The lower ropes will be connected with
network, and over the network at the bot
tom of the car a light pine floor will be
laid loosely, so that it can be thrown out
if required. The car will be covered with
duck, of which fifty yards will be needed.
Attached to the side of the car will be a
light iron windlass, from which the boat
and trail rope can be raised and lowered as
desired. From a pulley attached to the
concentrating rings a heavy Manilla rope
will fall down through the car,
thence to a
sling, attached to which will be the life
boat. This boat'will be of the most ap
proved and careful construction. It will
have water-tight compartments, slidinr ,
keel, and will be so made that it will be
self-righting. The boat will be provided
with a complete outfit of oars and sails,
and to it will be lashed instruments, guns,
lines, &c., and provisions for thirty days,
all in water-tight cases.
The trial rope, by which the aeronaut
can maintain any desired altitude without
resorting to ballast, will be of Manilla rope,
11 inch thick, and 1,000 feet long.
The car will be fully provided within
struments, provisions, &e., independently
of the boat. It will be so constructed that
it can be taken apart piecemeal and dis
posed of as ballast. It will carry about
5,000 pounds of ballast, which will consist
of bags of sand, each carefully weighed
and marked. Among the instruments to
be carried in the car there will be a gal
vanic battery, with an alarm, two barome
ters, two chronometer watches, a compound
thermometer, a wet and dry bulb thermom
eter, a hygrometer, componer, quadrant,
chart, parachutes with fire-balls attached,
and so arranged as to explode when strik
ing the water, so as to indicate the direc
tion traversed ; marine glasses, two vacnm
tubes, a lime stove, Sze. A number of car
rier-pigeons will be taken along, and des
patched at intervals on the route with in
telligence of the progress of the expedition.
The smaller balloon will be 40 feet in
height and 34 feet in diameter, and will
be made from 408 yards of "Manchester
Mills." Its network will consume 20
pounds of 40 thread cotton cord and 6
pounds of Italian hemp. It will be at
tached to the concentrating wings of the
large balloon, and will be used as may be
required to test the upper currents or as
sist in feeding the large balloon.
_ .
The balloois will be coated with a var
nish made of boiled linseed oil, beeswax,
and benzine, and of these ingredients 1,000
gallons will be used.
The capacity of the great balloon will be
600,000 cubic feet of gas, but it will be in
flated with but 400,000 cubict feet, which,
at the height of one mile and three-quar
ters, will expand sufficiently to fill the bal
loon. The lifting power ofilluminating gas
is about 35 pounds to the 1,000 feet, so
that-the balloon will have a lifting capaci
ty of 11,600 pounds. The pressure will
be 1 I/ pounds to the square inch.
The weight may be summed up as fol
lows :
Balloon
Net and ropes
Car lOO
Boat l,OOO
Dray rope 6OO
Anchor and grapnels 3OO
Sundries 3OO
7,100
Then 4,500 pounds will be allowed for
passengers and ballast.—.W. Y. Graphic.
A COUPLE were married while sitting
in a buggy in front of a parsonage, in the
lower portion of Clarion county, a few days
ago.
"One Horse' , Colleges,
Every college in the country is now con
gratulating itself upon being the centre of
intellectual life, and upon having sent forth
the most honored sons of the Republic.
Each institution of learning evidently be
lieves that without its important aid the
mental progress of the nation would have
been checked, and a lower stage of cul
ture attained. We need not remind some
of these institutions of learning that the
age by no means holds them in the high
honor which once was given them. New
professions have sprung up, new mental in
fluences have begun, new positions are
held, which have no relation to the acade
mic training, formerly so much valued. In
Great Britain, two men have died within
a few months, who each led, one in the
theoretic, and the other the practical field,
Mill, the great philosopher, and Brassey,
the celebrated railroad builder, both of
whom owed nothing directly to university
training. The present most eminent Eng
lish thinker in abstract philosophy, Spen
cer, is not, we believe, a graduate of any
school of learning. Wallace, the great
naturalist, has had no advantage from col
lege or university; and many others could
be mentioned, who are influencing Euro
pean thought, or are leading its practical
affairs, who have not been members of the
learned schools.
In this country, the profession which is
now chiefly directing thought, and exercis
ing the widest, if not the deepest, influ
ence—the Press—has little for which to
thank college or university in its direct
training. The great "barons" of this age
—the railroad and bank corporators and
managers—who govern such numbers of
people, and exercise such an unchecked
sway in this country, are seldom graduates
of balls of learning. It would seem that
the best-paid talent in this nation—that of
organizing vast interests and of managing
other people's investments—owes nothing
to college training. One great cause of
the comparatively small influence of our
institutions of learning on the mind of the
country, we believe to be the great number
of them. Almost every town now of any
celebrity throughout the Union has a col
lege or university. The number of what
are called "one-horse colleges," would alone
fill a considerable catalogue. These insti
tutions are in fact "high schools," and give
no more culture than a gymnasium in Ger
many. They do not act, however, as in Ger
many, as a stepping-stone to the universities
but they often take the place of them.
They really keep the students from the
highest culture. The money spent by
each family in painfully educating a boy
in them, would just as well put him in a
first-class university. The small colleges,
in fact, degrade the standard of learning.
It is difficult to make the ordinary Wes
tern farmer understand that to form a real
university requires many years of labor, a
slow and careful growth of intellectual life,
the gradual accumulation of valuable li
braries, the gathering of museums and ma
chinery, the rolling up of investments to
form scholarships and professorships, and
such a name, won by many hard victories
on the mental field, and such wealth, as
may attract leading men of every depart
ment to its various branches.—N. Y.
Tints.
The Glory of America
In his late lecture Father Tom Burk
eloquently said:
America aloae proclaims to the world
the glorious truth : "I recognize no no
bility of blood; no class privileges, no
aristocracy of blood. I recognize only the
nobility of intellect, of energy and of vir
tue. I ask only of my citizens, has God
gifted yon with estraordinay talent; has
God givon you a working energy, then
preserve your manhood and your virtues?"
If you are able to satisfy these questions—
that you have these things—then she
opens every portal of her legislature, and
of her commerce, she says :
"Child, behold tie supremacy of my
power; arise and walk until you reach it.
No man shall hinder yen; no privileges
shall obstruct you; no vain fool of an
aristocrat will come and say to you, 'Have
you in addition to your virtue, industry
and talent, aristocratic blood ? What was
your father ? what was your grandfather ?
Because if he was not what we call a gen
tleman you can come no farther."' No
such thing here. It was the grandest idea
that was ever embodied in the mind of a
nation ; it is the grandest country that
God ever created.—Fireside Friend.
Light at Eventide
It is in the season of trial and sorrow
Jesus lends most lovingly his ear to hear
his people's voice. It is "songs in the
night" he most desires to listen to. It is
prayers, if we may so speak, saturated with
tears, he loves best to put into his conser
It was the express divine injunction re
garding the daily incense offering in the
temple service that on lighting the lamps
"at even" Aaron was to burn sweet incense
on the golden altar. Afflicted believers,
it is so still. "At even"—when the bright
world is shaded, when the flowers have
closed their cups, when the song of birds
has ceased, and the sun of earthly bliss
has gone down in the western sky, then it
is that the lamp of prayer is kindled in
the soul's temple. It is in the soul's dark
and lonely seasons still that the Church's
moral and spiritual wrestlers are crowned
with victory, and, as princes "have power
with God."—Macthiff: '
Backbiting
Here are some useful rules which should
guide our daily lives, and which if adhered
to, would save much happiness :
Hear as little as possible that is to the
prejudice of others.
Believe nothing of the kind until you
are absolutely forced to.
Never drink in the spirit of one who
circulates an ill report.
Always moderate as far as you can, the
unkindness which is expressed toward oth
ers.
Always believe that, if the other side
was heard, a very different account would
be given of the matter.
Pounds.
.. 4,000
.. 800
Never under any circumstances repeat
anything injurious to others.
IF there were no other arguments for
the corruption, the cold and indifferent
way that we praise God for Christ, is a
demonstration of it.
liavE patience a while ; slanders are
not long-lived. Truth is the child of Time;
ere long she shall appear to vindicate these.
LIVING always in the world makes one
as unfit for living out of it as always liv
ing out of it does for living in it.
Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly ,
Wool growers—Sheep.
Second thoughts are best.
Measure twice, cut but once.
Wranglers never want words.
Neck or nothing—A ball dress.
Penny royal—An English coin.
Book of revelations—The diary.
The latest thing out—Night police.
A rich perfumery—Money musk.
An even thing—The mason's plumb.
Blunt people often say sharp things.
Pleading at the bar—Begging for drink.
Slow match—Married against your will.
Can a gallery of arts be called a gene
?
Gamblers are men who have winning
ways.
Florida has just sent out fifty tons of
sponge.
You cannot squeeze happiness out of
avarice.
An expensive wife makes a pensive
husband.
There is no wretchedness like self-re
proach.
Affronts are innocent when men are
worthless.
It is easier to be wise for others than
for ourselves.
All that is worth remembering in life
is the poetry of it.
As charity covers, so modesty prevents,
a multitude of sins.
Jaffray, N. H., will have a centennial
celebration August 10.
Simplicity is one of the striking char
acteristics of real genius.
The drought is injuring the tobacco
crop in Bucks county, Pa.
In these times we fight for ideas, and
newspapers are our fortresses.
Complaint against fortune is often a
marked apology for indolence.
Virginia papers think that an end has
been put to duelling in that State.
A secret has been defined as "anything
made known to everybody in a whisper."
Never marry a woman until you know
where her dress end 3 and her soul begins.
Chinese cheap labor has proved a failure
in the extensive laundry in Belleville, New
Jersey.
A Vermont legislative committee report
in favor of the abolition of free railway
passes.
The glory of great men ought always to
be rated according to the means used to
acquire it.
No sword is too short for a brave man,
for he has only to advance to make it long
enough.
Alfred Scbucking has been appointed
consular agent of the German Empire at
Washington.
If you intend to do a mean thing, wait
till to-morrow. If you are to do a noble
thing, do it now,
A man, who pretends to know, calls
courtship "the skirmish before the regular
battle begins.
A project is on foot in Terre haute to
build a market house, with a city hall in
the second story.
People never applaud Mexican actors.
When a man makes a good hit they pelt
him with fruits.
Vienna has a law by which the outside
doors of all houses must bo locked at 10
o'clock at night.
Plato says that God has so framed his
laws that it is fbr the advantage of every
one to observe them.
Think before you speak, think before
whom you speak, think why you speak,
think what yon speak.
The rule on the Lowell Railway is, en
ter the car by the rear platform and leave
by the front platform.
Lightning cut off a man's bead at Fort
Wayne, Ind., and the head and body were
found some distance apart.
A floating cannon ball is one of the
sights at Vienna. It weighs fifty pounds,
and it floats in a cauldron of quicksilver.
Lehigh Valley, Pa., rails are said to be
laid on Salt Lake City street railroads.
An Allentown mill has an order for fifty
five tons.
A Chicago man is living in an ice-house
to keep cool, but the temperature being
uncomfortable he has put up a stove, and
is now happy.
Advices received from various parts of
New York State say the crops are much
less affected by the prolonged dronth than
heretofore expected.
The new furnace, Etna, at Ironton, 0.,
will be 90 feet high ; and it is said the
ore will be calcined and the coal coked on
the top of the stack.
A Conntcticut man has purchased a tin
coffin, for his own use, and wishes to be
hermetically sealed when he no longer has
any use for air.
A young man who rose in the Cairo
police court and called out, "Three cheers
for Billy Patterson," sat down under a fine
of one hundred dollars.
One thousand four hundred picnicers,
in New Jersey, joined in singing "The
Ham Fat Man," and the grand chorus
made earth's pillars tremble.
A country postmaster in Virginia wish
es that people who use postal cars wouldn't
write so fine, as he consumes twenty min
utes reading some of them.
The heavy annual shipments east of
Texas cattle has commenced. Sixty thous
and head are in Waohita, Kansas, which
is only one of the shipping points, and
150,000 are on the way there.
Some of the stations along the line of
the overland telegraph in Australia, have
to be provisioned for three years. Iron
poles are almost exclusively used on that I I
line.
The Rochester Union remarks that it
has been permitted to "glance at" a half
column letter, and then proceeds to pub
lish it in full. What would it have done
if it could have had a good look at it ?
Crop reports from Arkansas, North Mis
sissippi and West Tennessee are encoura
ging, although drought is feared. Reports
from North Alabama are conflicting, and
the appearance of the cotton caterpillar is
reported in several sections, likewise in
the prairie regions of Mississippi.
NO. 29.
Zia gudgtt.
He "Didn't Like Beans."
Probably - no branch of business affords
such a field to the ludicrous side of nature
as that of the theatrical profession, and a
short anecdote related to us a few days since
by a friend who is connected with, the pro
fession is too good to be lost, and the fact
of its being an actual occurrence will give
it a keener relish.
About a year ago a troupe was started
from Boston to make a short season through
the principal towns in the East. In the
company was the leader of the orchestra,
(Jake Tannerbanm), a gentleman of fine
musical abilities, of decidedly Tentonio ex
traction, who liked his beer and cheese,but
had a mortal horror of our Yankee dish,
pork and beans. Among the places they
visited was the famous "brick and herring"
town of Taunton, where our favorite dish
is always to be found on Sunday. The boys
in the troupe, aware of Jake's pecu
liar aversion, resolved to have a little fun
at his expense, and accordingly "put up a
job" on him. The landlord was let into the
secret, the waiter feed, and the. fun com
menced on Jake's appearance at the break
fast table, where he was politely asked by
•the waiter:
"Will you have a few beans for break
fast ?"
"No," was the emphatic reply, "I dond
vant no peace."
"Oh," said the waiter, "you must eat
beans; everybody eats beans on Sunday."
With a look of extreme disgust, Jake
replied : I told you I vont eat peans ;
vat's the madder ; are you crazy ? Gif me
some sdeak and fried perdaders."
"Very well," said the waiter, "but you
will have to wait till it is cooked." And
wait he did for about fifteen minutes,
when, his temper getting the best of him, be
left the table to see the landlord and state
his grievances. No sooner was he out of
the dining room than the door was locked,
and Jake not finding the landlord, was
compelled to go without his breakfast.
Resolved not to be cheated out of his meal,
he put on his hat and went in search of a
lager beer saloon, where he could get his
favorite bologna and beer; but alas for
poor Jake, the Sunday law was in force,
and nothing was to be had, so he had to
wait till noon to satisfy his appetite, which
was never poor. Well, the dinner bell
sounded, and up went our hera, who, as
before, was met by our faithful waiter,
who again approached him, and smilingly
said :
"Well, Mr. T., will you have a few beans
to commence with ?"
This was too much, and the answer, not
couched in the most amiable tones, came
forth :
"No, py dander, I tole you two dimes I
vont eat peans."
"But you must have a few beans," per
sisted the waiter.
"Mine got in himmel, who der —ll is
going to eat dis dinner, you or me; dat's
vat I'm drying to find oud."
"0, very well," responded the waiter,
"if yon can't speak civilly I shall not wait
upon you."
Up jumped the irate Dutchman to again
find the landlord, which he did and related
his grievances, but was partially pacified
on being told the waiter should be prompt
ly discharged, and told him to go up-stairs
and get his dinner, while be in the mean
time was going to take a short ride. Back
went Jake, only to find that the boys had
again locked the door; and he was wild.—
Seizing his hat, he again rushed out to
make a more thorough search for some
thing to eat, but with no better result than
before. Ashamed to come back too soon ,
poor Jake waited until near supper time,
when he again returned to the hotel, and
seated himself in a corner, not a civil word
could any one get out of him. Shortly,
supper was announced, and Jake was one
of the first at the table.
Prompt to his case, the waiter again
went for him, but before he could ask him
for his order, Jake broke out :
"Yaas, you may bring me some peans ;
you vas right dis morning yen you say I
moost eat peans ; you may bring me some
peans ;" and for the first time and proba
bly the last time in his life Jake did eat
beans; but how the lager and bolog na did
suffer when the company struck t he next
town
Called to Preach.
The late Elder John Smith, of Kentucky,
who died recently at an advanced age, was
one of the most eccentric wits south of the
Ohio river. He was familiarly known
throughout Kentucky as Raccoon Smith.
While still in the Baptist ministry, and
attending one of the annual meetings of
that body, a tall, lank, green specimen of
humanity presented himself before the
Association as a candidate for the min
istry. He was regarded as not being of
entirely sound mind, and labored under
the hallucination that he was especially
"called to preach," and kept constantly
importuning the Association to give
him the necessary license. In addition to
his particularly unbalanced mind, young
Meeks was the possessor of as huge and
unganily a pair of feet as ever trod in shoe
leather. Tired of his importunities, and
not being disposed to grant the license, the
Association handed him over to Smitb,
with instructions to make an end of the
case, and between them took place the
following conversation :
Smith—"So, Brother Meeks, you think
you have a special call to preach ?"
Meeks--"Yes, the Lord has called me to
the work, but the Association refuses me
the license."
Smith—" How do you know you are
called ?"
Meeks—"Know it ! I feel it in my
heart of hearts. I want my license."
Smith—"Do yon believe in the Bible,
Brother Meeks ?"
Meeks—"Certainly I do—every word
of it."
Smith—qf I can prove by the Bible
that you are not called to preach, will you
be satisfied to drop the matter and not
further importune the Association for a
license ?"
Brother Meeks assented to this and Rac
coon Smith deliberately opened the New
Testament at Romans x, 15, and in a
grave tone read,—"How beautiful are the
feet of them that preach the gospel of
peace,"
Then glancing at Meeks'
large feet, remarked: "You see, Brother
Meeks, that the feet of the preacher are
beautiful. Yon,•sir, have the most mon
strous ugly feet of any man in the State of
Kentucky; therefore, by this Bible, _it is
clear that you have not been especially
called !" As Smith finished his remarks
the Association went off into a paroxysm
of laughter, and Meeks, really eoaelndieg
that be bad not been "called," bolted from
the meeting house and never after annoyed
the Association for a license.