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Advertisements, both local and foreign, solicited, and inserted at reasonable rates. Give us an order. ggggggg JOB DEPARTMENT •-; • I C. 03 , CD Cr CD CO R... 0 0 0 r••• • 0 11 0 .-1 Pr 1 to 'TING PRI: t®' All letters should be addressed to J. A. NASH, Huntingdon, Pa. Ely ftiusts' *tutr. Kiss me Good Night, Mamma. Dear mamma, I've put all my playthings away, Fee been such a good little darling to day ; know that you love me, for often you've said That I was your angel, now put me to bed. The stars have come out, and, mamma, you told me They were windows through which all angels could see ; And now while there smiling on u4with delight, Oh ! kiss me, dear matnr.:a, come kiss we good night. Angels watch over me, thy vigils keep, Guard and protect me when 1 am asleep ; Oh I bring me a message in dreams from papa, Waiting in heaven for me and mamma. Dear mamma, you kissed me and told me to day That if I'd kneel down you'd teach me to pray. I heard you last night—won't you teach me the same ? "Our father in heaven, hallowed be thy name: , I'll kneel when you kneel, and I'll look as you look, So that God can write down both our prayers in one book, And papa can read them while God holds the light, Oh 1 kiss me, dear mamma, come kiss me good night. Dear mamma, look up ; 01 don't look so Bad, To knew he's in heaven should make your heart glad ; 0 ! kiss me but once, and then smooth down my hair, And tell me that some day we'll meet papa there. 00000000 You know that he's waiting, and happy he'll be When he comes with the angels to meet you and me, Ah I then we'll be happy, in God's pleasing sight, Oh! kiss me, dear mamma, come kiss me good night. otorß-Etlitt. LEFT OUT IN TiiE COLD. It was a winter evening and the snow fell dreamily outside, down, down, over the earth like a white mantle of charity. One of those soft, midwinter nights. when to stand at the window and look out is a luxury—all seems so white and peace ful—when to put out the hand and feel the cold snowflakes touch it and melt thrills one with a refreshing sense of life and vigor. but to be obliged to go out, alone and on foot, is not so delightful a prospect. And inside, on this night, were warmth and light, the odor of fluwers, and the ele gant appointments which betoken wealth and taste—inside this pleasant home-man sion on W. avenue, Chicago. A young girl stood at the window of her boudoir, and throwing back the shutters leaned out a little way into the night and down-falling snow. She raised her face, beautiful as a day lily, and the snowflakes kissed it lovingly —the face, the brown, braided hair, and the richly embroidered sack. It was a beautiful picture she made from the outside darkness, standing there in the half open window, light and beauty gleam. ing behind her, and snowdrops like a feathery veil falling between her and the chilly night. So thought the little, dark robed girl opposite, tripping along through the snow, on the side street, and looking up at the picture, framed in the dusk and shadow of the evening. The little girl's name was Bernice Floyd, and her grandmamma, among the old New England hills, had been wont to call her Brownie, and she was certainly brown enough, with her dark, curling hair, great brown eyes, and rounded brown face, with a flush of red at the lips and cheeks, like autumn stains on forest leaves. They bad lived in Boston in those farmer days, and bad been wealthy, and Brownie's mamma had dressed her always in soft rai ment, warm colors, that brought forth the beauty and brightness of the dark face ; then came other days, when misfortune stopped at the door, and they had conic west to the great city, and prospered well; but the darkest days of all came with the fire of '7l, which swept nearly all they had away, and Mr. Floyd bad contracted a cold from which he never fully recovered. He had never been able to do much, but had obtained a small clerkship, and they had lived in a very unpretentious way— almost shabby—compared to the old life Mr. Floyd had one friend—James Rus sell—who lived in Boston, and who had come to them once since their trouble, when Bernice was fourteen years old, and bad been pleased with her dark beauty and bright, youthful vivacity. He bad wished to help his friends, but Floyd was proud and would not allow it, and indeed they seemed to be getting oi; better then, but at last be had prevailed upon him to accept as a gift to his little daughter, the price of her musical instruc tion for one more year, and a beautiful piano. Then he bad gone abroad, and they had scarcely heard from hie; since, n )t, even when Mrs Floyd wrote to him of the death of her husband. And so. in those long dull days Bernice had her music to con so!e her, CI G it .- AD 17 P., It was her especial delight. and she studied it with application and ardor. So when her father died and left them with but little, to battle against a world of poverty, hunger and cidd, she had taken the burden upon her little, strong shoulders and taught music to a small class of pupils, while her motLer did braiding and em broidery for Madame L. 's establishment. They had got on quite comfortably in their small way, and lived "in rooms," but they were bright and homey, with the piano, a few flowers and a bird in the south window, which was white—draped by deft fingers. 44- O Bernice often ran errands for Madame L., for even her lessons and practice did not occupy all her time, and she liked to do it, for it was a change for her, with a glimpse of the old life, which seemed to her now like a dream of the dead past, never to be hers any more, and she ac cepted her fate hopefully, and spent no time of her busy life in useless regrets or bitter envyings of those girls whose days Were gladder, or whose future seemed more rosy than hers. She was naturally active, and her sort of life suited the energetic pulsings of the brave little heart. Madame L , was an impulsive French woman, superficial like her race, brilliant and a trifle grasping, but there was color, brightness and a certain majestic presence to the little Brownie, that reminded her of her own early youth, and it refreshed her and made her glad to have the young lady about her. Then she was an attractive feature to the establishment, was swift and trusty, !:11C1 cm t:C 0 , -.1 fa , 0 .4 co ....... ,PECIALT (HUNTINGDON, PA), FR never made any mistakes in delivering the dainty parcels of needlework, and always remembered what, alterations were needed, if any, for all of which Madame paid her well. It makes any girl happy to know she is pretty and admired, and Brownie never went into the stre3t without meeting ad miring glances from almost every one she saw. Old ladies and gentlemen smiled to see such a bit of sunshine pass them ; passe beauties envied her, young men wondered who she was, and even grave business men, perplexed with the cares of the day, turned to look again at the sunny face, with its tiny rings of brown hair, clear, laughing eyes and red cheeks. And to crown all this, Brownie had a lover. How could it have been otherwise ? And this is how it came about : In her music class was one Mollie Eaton, who grew passionately fund of Bernice, and always had her own way in the house, so when she invited the music teacher to dinner, as she often did, no one objected, and it became quite the usual thing for her to stay an hour or so after lessons, as this was the last place en her round of instruc tion. And when Mollie's brother Charli , i came home, it had been as natural as could be for Bernice to play waltzes and polkas for the two to dance after. Then, short days of winter, it came dark almost before they knew it, and Charlie would walk with h..r to the street car and once, one gala tii7ht, when the car was crowded, he had walked home with her, to those bright little r.Kmis, where the monthly r..se and the mignonette blossomed in the window, and he held her hand just for an instant at the door. Of course it was not at all the thing fir him to do, considering the difference in their social standing, but somehow he couldn't exactly help it. This had been the year befire, but during the summer n►ontl►s she had not seen him at all, and later they had again met, and in some way, life looked rosier. perhaps because Mollie had once said : "Charlie thinks the world of you, Miss Floyd. He's forever holding you up as ,► model of behavior; says you have a certain style about you that would take you any where." Perhaps it was because last night they had such a lively evening all together, singing and dancing, with a merry • little dinner all to theweelves. Perhaps it was because of the compli ments he had paid her ; telling her she had cheeks like roses and eyes like stars; and had snatched the little, jewelless hand from off the piano, in a moment when Mollie's back was turned, and kissed it, laughing at her blushes and petulant rebuke. But I rather think it was because he had taken her home, with his shining bays, and driven up toward the armory building, to give her a longer sleigh ride and bent his handsome head down toward the bright, uplifted face and said, 'Brownie, I love you." You know girls are just foolish enough to allow such things to add something to their lives. Then Bernice had not answered that she loved him too, but had smiled back to him in her glad childish way, for she was so small and swift and fairy of motion, that she seemed only a child, although she was eighteen years old, which seemed very an cient to the little girl who had ro long borne the burden of life. And this night of which we write she was carrying home from Madame L.'s to the house on W. avenue a beautiful dress fur its fair young mistress, Alice Herrick, she who had stood at the window and watched the snowflakes falling, and whom Bernice had looked up to and admired as a beautiful picture. Alice had stood but a moment and then turned back into the soft lighted, luxurious room, to wait for the dress she was to wear that night, and which had been sent back for a slight alteration, making it a trifle late. Bernice had been there before, but Miss Alice had not happened to see her. It was getting late, the hairdresser bad been there and she was all ready to don the dress when it should come, and was getting impatient when little Brownie was admitted. Miss Herrick gave one swift, startled glance at the brown face, bright with out door air and the constant kissing of the snowdrops "Whom am I to thank for bringing my robe ?" she asked, after a mo ment's silence, in which she had not looked at the dress, but straight into the face or the girl before her. It was as Charlie Eaton had said. Ber • nice had a ceitain style about her whleh would take her anywhere. and Miss Her rick, who was used to think of Nladame's girls as at least very iirdinary, could only speak to her as one lady speaks to another, but her ._ - gitation had not orignated entire ly in surprise at the beauty of Bernice Floyd. It was this—she had seen her face before. Yes, scarcely a moment since she had this girl's picture in her hand and had been studying it for a day or two. "My name is Bernice Floyd. Ido er rands sometimes for Madame L. when I have leisure. Will you look at the dress, please? I fear it is getting late." "Oh ! pardon me, yes; only your face looks familiar—like that of—of some one I once knew. lam sure the dress will suit now," as she glanced hastily over the heavy silk; "but won't you sit down ? You must be tired. Bernice smiled in her careless way, and said she was not tired, and bidding the lady good evening, turned to go But Miss Herrick called to her, and laying her white hands on the little girl's shoulder, looked down at her searchingly, and said, "Do your friends sometimes call you 'Brownie ?'" In surprise, Bernice answered yes Then the other added, hurriedly, "I have not time to talk with you now, but can you not come to me, soon ? I want to speak with you." Stupefied by wonder, Brownie promised to come on Wednesday, and went away trying to conjecture what this lovely girl could want of her. "How strange she acted," she solilo quized. "Perhaps I remind her of some one who was dear to her, and is now dead, but how did she know they called me Brownie !" Then, in thoughts of her lover, she for got the fair Miss Herrick and her words. Alice Herrick was engaged to a man she deemed worthy a lifetime of affection. She had known him a long time, and a few evenings before this, he had been showing her some photographs, and ac cidentally left his pocket case at the house, and in the morning she found it in the parlor, and not dreaming there were any he would care to conceal from her, she had looked at them again, and among them discovered one he had not shown her, the face of this little beauty from Madame DAY FEBRUARY 21, 1879. L.'s, and rm the back, in her future hus band's writing, were the words, "My Own Little Brownie " Her betrothed was Charles Eaton. He was a good enough fellow, in the main. but nre eminently weak. He had been pleased with Alice Her. rick. She belonged to his set, sang, played and danced well, besides being an only child of a father worth something more than two hundred thousand. Compared with Bernice Floyd, she was like pate dawn to noonday, in splendor, and the more he saw of this flash of sun shine, the less he admired his affiance. lle had not really meant to make love to the music teacher in the stereotyped way, but her wit, beauty and lively good humor won him quite away from himself, and after that night, when he told her he loved her, he had serious intentions of asking a release from the other entanglements, and marrying her. ' Yes, for fully two days he carried about with him this decision, to give up Miss Herrick's money and position, and "marry Brownie for love," tor that was the name by which he designated the sentiment with which he honored Miss Floyd. . Afier that he became Inore rational, laughed at his folly, cursed his fate and comforted himself remembering he had not really committed himself to Bernice. On Wednesday Miss Herrick and Ber nice were together a long time They parted firm friends and have retnainLd ever since. What passed betweeu them, only thew sehes ever knew. Charlie Eaton received from Alice a note releising him from the engagement., and the diainond she had worn to remind her of his true and lasting love. _ _ She would not even see him when he called for an explanation. 'She was a woman of principle and her idol was Eaten. When Eaton again saw Bernice ; she was the same as of wily her blushes did not come quite so quickly at his bidding, but she laughed and chatted with him. was just as witty, bright ar,d beautiful as before; but whet' he took, her, one starlit night, for another slei,.ll ride, out to the Boulevard, and bent again the handsome head to the starry-eyed face beside him. and said in his lowest, sweetest tones : "Bernice, I love you Will you be my wife ?" she answers him, "No." And the "sweet bells jingled" emmusi cally in the ears of a man who had been twice rejected in one week, and once by a music teacher. too. It' he has any conceit left, I'm sure it isn't the fault of circumstance. One night, soon after, be saw both these girls at the opera, and together, accom panied by a distinguished looking gentle man. For the first time, he wondered if he haan't been "awfully given away," as he expressed it. The gentleman was James Russell, who had come from abroad, and being for a couple of weeks in Chicago, had be thought him of the little girl for whose musical instruction he had provided four years ago, and sought her out. He was more pleased than ever with her fresh, bright beauty and freedom from af fectation and the usual "isms" of young ladies, and she was always grateful to him for his kindness to her father's daughter, and in all those years she rarely touched the piano, that she had not breathed bless ings on the giver. _ _ Before he went home he asked for the hand of little Bernice, but she was strange ly intuitional (f suppose the life of self reliance had made her so), and she seemed to feel that for some reason he was not just what she required in a husband, and he had gone back alone. What strange fate led him, a year later, to marry Alice Herrick ? But he did on New Year's night, and she sometimes says to her best friend, Miss Floyd, "You stole a lover from me, and gave me a husband a thousand times more worthy," for she knows of Russel's former penchant for Brownie. Madame L took Bernice to Paris last summer, and it is said she is going to marry a prominent and wealthy physician of Baltimore soon, but she is in no burry. She has so long tasted independence that the diet is sweet to her. Meanwhile Charlie Eaton finds himself left out in the cold. select Prices To—day and Prices Fourteen Years Ago. liou-ehold , rs will probably find it diffi cult to obra•ri prJvisioni at retail in our mark* is at a reduction of prices corres ponding with the figures which are print ed below At the same time th.se complr isous, made within a few days, by actual transcription fr.rn the b, poke, of a firm at Providence, in Rhode Island, give precis ion and reality to the changes in the cost of supplying a household: WHOLESALE PRICES, 1 barrel flour. 1 barrel sugar, 200 pounds 42.00 17.50 1 bai rel p0rk.._....48 00 10.50 1 barrel kerosene oil, 40 gals 35.20 3.70 1 bag salt 1 barrel lard, 204) p0und5........62 00 12.50 1 chest lea, 25 pounds 22 50 6.00 1 barrel beans ... _ _ ...... 1 hogshead molasses, 120 gals 1 tub butter, 100 pounds 47.00 . 20.00 1 barrel hams, 200 pounds 1 dozen brooms 6.00 2.'_5 _ - —.....- 100 pounds corn meal 2.60 88 10 pounds pepper 4.00 1.40 10 pounds coffee 6.00 2.60 100 pounds codfish 7.50 3.00 100 pounds cheese., 21.00 9 50 100 pounds tapioca 22.00 7.00 100 pounds soda 10 boa,. raisin• 100 pounds soap 14.50 5.50 For reduced dividends, low rates of in terest for new investments and reduced wages in all kinds of industry, men will find in the prices above quoted some com pensation•—New York Evening Post. The Noise of' the Finger. In the current number of the Medical Record Dr. Hammond says that when you poke the end of your finger in your ear the roaring noise you hear is the sound of the circulation in your finger. Which is a fact, as any one can demonstrate for him self, by first putting his fingers in his ears, and then stopping them up with other substance Try it, and think what a won der of a machine your body is, that even the points of our fingers are such busy workshops that they roar like a small Nia gara. The roaring is probably more than the noise of the circulation of the blood. It is the voice of all the vital processes together—the tearing down and building up processes that are always going for ward in every living body, from concep tion to death. SUBSCRIBE for the JOURNAL An S A now I mean 2 write 2 you, sweet K T J, The girl without a The belle of U T K. I 1 der if U Ntertain The calm I D A bright, That 8 T miles from you I must this chance to write. & Ist. should NENV U, B E Z, mind it not; If any friendship show, B sure They shall not B 4 got. Form virtue never D V 8, Her influence 89, Alike induce 10derness Or 40tude divine. & if you cannot cut a Or cause an ! I hope you'll put a 2 1 ? R U for anXation 2 My cousin, heart & iisr? He offers in a If A section bread of land. He says he loves you to X S, You're virtuous and your Y's; InXLNCUXCL, All others in his I's. This S A, until U I C, I pray U to X Q's ; And do not in F I G- My quaint and wayward muse. Now, fl:re you well my K T J, I trust that U R tro , , When this U C, then U can say, An S A I 0 U. How the Tyrolese Love and Fight. There is a pretty Alpine hut inhabited in the summer by the subject of his affec tions. Tee solitary life is one that could only be made endurable by , habit, iron nerves and absolute indifference to danger. The girl lives alone among her cattle. She seldom sees a single soul, except her fellow servant who brings her the fortnightly sup plies, or seine surly keeper who is sure to suspect her of being in league with his ene mien, the poachers. "She has to tackle the vicious bull single handed ; she has to tame the cow—no longer the docile creature that would come when she called her name, since her calf had been taken away from her." She has to protect herself and her frail habitation and her charges against snow storms, thunder storms, hurricanes and swollen torrents. One can fancy how she looks forward to a pleasant visit of any kind, above all the visit of a lover. Yet it is significant of Tyrolese welt-restraint under any circumstances that the pair to all appearance are absolutely unden►onstra Live, unless for what may be read in their eyes. She does nut even offer her Lida' rer her hand, nor does he seem to expect it. Yet should there be rival suitors, and if' the young WOULIII is a flirt, it will be seen that his feelings are the fiercer for being sup pressed, and affairs are unlikely to be set tled without bloodshed. The very indoor amusements of the Tyrolese are rough and even savage, though they seldom bear ma lice for anything that may happen. A writer and traveler tells of a friendly struggle in an inn parlor, where a couple of companions at a drinking-bout inter locked the middle fingers of their right hands, resting the elbows on the table, and struggled to drag each other over. A runs cle gave way under the strain and one of them was hopelessly maimed for life; yet, when the first sharp burst of pain was dead cued and his finer was dressed, the suffer er gave his hand to the winner, and they ended the evening amicably as they had begun it. So at the rifle matches, they show the same inflexible firmness of nerve and body. We took a friend to one of them who was inclined to depreciate these per formances. The cynically dispsed specta tor changed his opinion altogether when he saw the marksmen at work. He re marked afterward, that "had he not seen it with his own eyes he would never have believed that human muscle and nerves could remain so rigid and apparently mo tionless. And the shooting is more admir able that the weapons are clumsy and an tiquated. The usual range is one hundred and fifty yards, and he has counted five consecutive shots in which "five marks men, taken at haphazard, firing one after another, hit each a mark the size of a six pence " Such feats are the more astonish ing if we consider that the marksman has no rest either for his body or the unwieldy rifle. The temperance men of England are im proving the present condition of economi cal distress. Lord Aberdere said in a speech the other day that if the immense amount of money hich had been an nually wast,d in drink had been put into the savings bank by the working classes, or spent in building cottages, or in laying in stocks of clothing, there would have been nothing like "the universal dismay, the extent of evil, the widespread suffer ing." And yet Lord Aberdere is not a total abstainer. He doesn't see why he. or his family should nct taste a glass of beer because John Jones or William Thom as makes a beast of himself. Ile added, what has been said before, that excess in drinking had almost disappeared from the upper classes and the upper lower classes. It exists still more strongly among the ig norant population, and it is upon them that the influence of enlightened persua sion must be.exerted. 18(4 and 1865. 1879. $ 16 50 $ 6.00 Death Caused by a Match. 6626.17 $188.03 A young Frenchman died in Lyons two weeks ago from the effects of lighting a match. He scratched it with his thumb nail, and a piece of the incandescent phos phorus penetrated under the nail and made a slight burn, to which he paid no atten tion. But, after an hour, the pain became very great, the thumb swelled, then the head, and next the forearm. He was oblig ed to alight at the first station and send for a medical man, who declared that in stant amputation of the arm was necessary. The patient insisted on postponing the operation for a few hours until the arrival of his father, for whom he had telegraph ed. But before the latter could reach the spot it was too late ; the poisonous matter had passed into the arm and shoulder, and an operation was impossible. He died twenty seven hours after the burn, in hor rible suffering. A YOUNGSTER, while warming his hands over the kitchen fire, was remonstrated with by his father, who said : "Go 'way from the stove, the weather is not cold " The little fellow, looking up demurely at his stern parent, replied : "I ain't heatin' the weather, I am warming my hands." A Printer's Poem. The Uses of Adversity. Automata. For many ages automatic figures have been a source of wonder and lelif , ht to all surfs of people, from the monarch on his throne to the humblest of his subjects. As far back as four hundred years before the Christian era an ingenious mechanic in vented a wooden pigeon which was capa ble of flying a long distance. In the thir teenth century Albert us Magnus and Roger Bacon are said to have made the figure of a porter which would open a door, and also a wooden head which would speak, while another ingenious mechanic succeed ed in imparting a life like motion to a fly. In the beginning of the eighteenth cen tury an ingenious Frenchman made a pan tomine in five aces, which was moved by machinery; and M. Cadmus constructed, for the amusement of Louis XIV, an an tomati , . carriage, which is said to have been nearly perfect. In 1738 M. Vaucanson constructed and placed on public exhibition a flute-player, which pressed the instrument to its lips and produced the notes with its fingers, precisely like a living human being. Three years later the same ingenious mechanic made a flageolet player, which played a variety of tunes on that instrument, with the accompaniment of a tambourine, which he beat with the left hand. In the same year M. Vaucanson produced a duck which ate, swam, pressed its plumage, and actu ally digested its food. This famous auto waton was repaired by Robert Houdin. the Pari,ian conjuror, who found the trick to be as simple as it was interesting. Jacques Vaucanson, the maker of these automata, was a native of Grenoble, where he was born in 1709. When a mere boy he made a clock, and also several curious toys which were moved by machinery. Among the wonderful automata invent ed during the present century is the wri ring boy of the older and the piano forte player of the younger Droz, the latter of which, when perf mming. followed its hands with its eyes, and, at the conclusion of the piece, bowed gracefully to the audience. Druz's writing boy was publicly exhibited in Germany about thirty years ago. The machinery of this automaton was so campli cated that no one was able to detipher its manner of action. Some doubts of its nat ural origin being entertained, the boy and its constructor were suspected of the black art and were, fur a time, confined in the Spanish Inquisition, from which they ob tained their freedom with great difficulty. Another wonderful automaton was a boy, invented by M. Maillardet, which wrote and drew with a pencil while kneeling on one knee. Maillardet also constructed many other ingenious automata, including a steel spider, a caterpillar, a lizard and a mouse, all of which moved as naturally as living animals. In 1842 the famous Maelzel exhibited an automaton trumpeter of his own con struction. This ingenious figure would play sevpral popular marelie , , accompanied by a fall orchestra The sound of the trum pet was said to be very fine, and even more agreeable than that produced by the ablest musician. In 1843 a speaking machine was ex hibited before the American Philosophical Society. This machine was invented by a Mr Reale, who labored sixteen years in bringing it to perfection and afterward de stroyed it in a frenzy. One of the latest adepts in automatic art is Robert Houdin, a native of Blois, and the son' of a watchmaker. In 1844 he exhibited an automaton writer, which at tracted the notice of Louis Philippi and his family. This figure drew as well as wrote answers to questions. Houdin after ward constructed a nightingale, which sang and flapped its wings like a living bird. One of the most marvellous contrivances ever produced was doubtless the automaton chess player, which at various periods as tonished and delighted the world. It was constructed in 1769 by M. de Kempelen, of Presburg, in Hungary. M. de Kempelen died in 1804, and two years afterward the chess player was exibited by a new owner. On one occasion of its exhibition the Em peror Napoleon entered the lists as a play er, and was badly beaten. In the year 1845 it was exhibited by Maelael in the principal cities of the United States, in - eluding Boston. In the memoirs of Robert Houdin the secret of the performance of the chess play er are fully revealed. A Polish dwat f' named Wourousky, both of whose thighs were shattered by cannon ball while fight ing in a revolt at Riga, was concealed in this image, which represented a Turk of the natural size, wearing the costumes of his country, and seated behind a box chap ed like a chest of drawers. The chess play er was seated immediately under the chess board of the automaton, and frem every one of the sixty four squares was suspend ed by silk a tiny metal is ball, and as each of the chessmen had a magnet inside. when it was placed on a square it drew up a ball beneath, while the balls beneath the other squares remained suspended. By turning the handle attached to the arm of the figure and moving the finger springs, the concealed player caused it to take up the piece to be played, which was indica ted by the falling ball, and when it was plac:d upon a square, the ball was drawn up. The mutilated Pole once had the au dacity to visit St. Petersburg in his clock work case, and play a game with the Em press Cathariue, against whom he had re volted The famous astronomical cluck in the Cathedral of Strasburg, which was con structed by Isaac Habrecht, is justly con sidered oue of the most ingenious works of the kind in exigence. It indicates the days of the months, the phases of the sun and moon, and the other celestial phenom ena, and, in addition to all these, contains a group of figures representing our Sa viour and the twelve apostles. At the striking of the hour the ap , stles move through an archway to the front of the clock, where, one by one, they pay homage to the Saviour, who is seated in the bal cony of the temple. Several working mod els of this clock have recently been ex hibited in the United States, where they excited much interest. Quite as ingenious as any of the above automata is the one known as "Little 114,m -my, the Japanese Oracle " Thus far the secret of its wonderful performances has baffled the curiosity of hundreds of intelli gent obs.rvers, including many noted sci eutific and literary gentlemen. Little Tom my is a Japanese figure, less than three feet in height, seated in a chair, which rests upon a small table. His mode of ex pression is by movements of the head, by which he responds and gives prompt and correct answers to an endless variety of questions He will give the correct time of day. even to a minute, and tell the number of persons in a room. This ingen ious automaton was invented and construct ed by a gentleman of Boston, whose name has not yet been given to the public. The Hebrews. No race of men upon the earth are a more int.-resting study thin the Jews. With an Ltuoeqtry dating back to the very aswn of history, their life, biography and religion have heen woven into and become a part of the records of the past. Along the banks of the Euphrates, the Nile, and the Jor dan, from Ur of the Chaldees and Pales tine, two thousand years before the com ing of Christ, we gather the connected and well authenticazed history of the Jews, and the world in which they moved, and which but for them would have been a blank ; or the records left at least in great doubt. They were known as Hebrews for over a thousand years after the emigration or Abraham. The name of Jew was ap plied after the dispersion of the ten tribes, and the House of Judah became the royal representation of the people, separating, as they did, from their brethren who gave themselves to idolatry. it is not our purpose to enter into the past history of this pecu liar people, but only to call attention to some current facts of interest. As we glance at the history of the persecutions, bitter, malignant and unrelenting, which followed this people in almost every land and every age, we are struck with amaze ment that they exist at all. But this won. der increases when we see them closely al lied with every tongue and every nation, driving in the marts of trade and shaping the policy that rules, yet, at the same time slinging to the characteristics that mark them as unerringly to-day as when they took possession of Palestine, thousands of years ago. But half a century has elapee3 since they began their emigration to Amer ica ; now they are in every State and every city. For years they did ni4 buy real es tate, but kept all their wealth in money ; but during the war they became parches. ers of a large amount of realty, and in every city are now to be found some of the most solid business firms among the Jews. Their churches, or synagogues, have rapidly multiplied—notibly so in New York, which has the largest Jewish popu lation of any American city In that city, we believe, they have fourteen synagogues and temples, a Jewish hospital, an orphan asylum and a home for the indigent. A recent writer remarks that there are more Jews in the city of New York than remain in the whole land of Palestine." The lar gest Jewish population in the world- is in Russia, and the neat in Austria. "Accord ing to the census, the Cia Lothian provin ces contain 821.000 Jews, and Tras-Lethian nearly 600,000_," In 1575, according to the records of the Austrian army, there were enrolled in all Palestine, including Jerusalem, there are only about 25,000. As an instance of the toleration abroad in the world, the King of Holland has is sued orders to allow all Jews serving in his army the privilege of keeping all fast ileys and Jewish holidays. During, the last menth shere have been two very notable gatherings of Jews, one in our neighboring I cily of Milwankee and the other in Paris. IThat in Nliiwctukee was intended to look into questions pertaining to Jewish inter ests in America; that in Paris was to give aid eel advice to the war-stricken districts which contain so large a proportion of the Jewish people. Since the destruction of the temple, the Jews have had no regular order of priesthood. The chief rabbis of the various communities are the rulers, and different sections often materially differ in belief and government. Many of the leading Jews have desired to break np the Congregational custom and establish some authorative power. It is also a well known fact that a large number of Jews have of late years shown a desire to break over some of the ancient landmarks that have separated them from Christian denomina tions. We have heard the charge that this change was in the direction of infidelity, while others have classed it as only a "lib eral Christianity." Whatever may be its direction, there is no doubt a spirit of change abroad among the Jews in America, which is marked by liberality and advan ced intelligence. The societies which have established in Chicago the Young Men's Hebrew Associations, which have for their aims the helping of young men to employ. ment, and introducing them into society and winning them from vice, are most praiseworthy and beneficial. These asso ciations in Chicago are, many of them, prosperous; have gond libraries and read ing rooms, and every winter have lectures and amusements attractive to the young people The Jews have recently started a paper in Chicago which promises success, the Jewish Advance. Thus far in the United States Jews have taken but small part in politic:; in other countries it has been dif ferent, and from the days of Queen Esther and Mordecai, they have filled important and influential public positions. Whatever influence they do exert in this country, is, fur the main part, on the side of law and order and good government. While the Jew loves wealth, ana will drive a sharp bargain, he seldom transgresses against the statute law, and but seldom is aJew arraigned before a criminal court. Be he ever so strict in his religion, he makes no public parade of nor does he, in any manner attempt to interfere with the cus toms or enjoyment of others. Lovingand tender in the home circle, kind and ready to . lend a helping hand to the poor of his race or.a stranger, it is a truth that many who make louder professions might learn profitable and practical lessons from this peculiar people, this Bible nation, who t'orto a living relic of the dead past.—lnter Ocean. Facts About the Human Body. The skin contains more than two mil lion openings, which are the outlets of an equal number of sweat glands. The hutoan skeleton conrists of more than two hundred distinct bones An amount of blood equal to the whole quantity in the body passes through the heart once every minute. The full capacity of the lungs is about three hundred and twenty cubic inches. About two-thirds of a pint of air is inhaled at each breath in ordinary res piration The stomach daily paoduees nine pounds of gastric juice for digestion of 1:,od ; its capacity is about five pints There are more than fik e hundred separate mus cles in the body, with an equal number of nerves and blood vessels. The weight of the heart is from eight to twelve ounces. It beats one hundred thousand times in two-nth four hours. Each perspiratory duct is one fourth of an inch in length, which will make the aggregate length of the whole shout nine miles. The average man takes five and one halt pounds of food and drink each da,, which amounts to one ton of solid and liquid nourishment annually. A man breathes eighteen times a minute, and three thousand cubic feet, or about three hundred and seventy-five hogsheads of air per hour. • NO 8.
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