VOL. 43.
The Huntingdon Journal
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TICALDWELL, Attorney-at-Law, No. 111, 3rd street.
. Office formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods & Wil
liamson. [apl2,'7l
R. A.B. BRURBAUGH, offers his professional services
11 to the community. Office, No. 623 Washington street,
one door east of the Catholic Parsonage. Lian4;7l
TR. ITYSKILL has permanently located in Alexandria
11 to practice hie profession. [janA '7B-Iy.
E.C. STOCKTON, Surgeon Dentist. Office in Leieter'e
• building, in the room formerly occupied by Dr. E.
J- Greene, Huntingdon, P. [apl2B, '76.
P_RO. B. ORLADY, Attorney-at,Law, 405 Penn Street,
Ur Huntingdon, Pa [n0v17,'75
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GL. ROBB, Dentist, of fi ce in S. T. Brown's new building,
. No. 620, Penn street, Huntingdon, Pa. [apl2.'7l
f C. MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law. Office, No. —, Penn
11. Street, Huntingdon, Pa. 1ap19,'71
SYLVANUS BLAIR, Atturney-at-Law, Huntingdon,
tl . Pa. Office, Penn Street, three doors west of 3111
Street. [jan4,'7l
JT W. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law and General Claim
• Agent, Huntingdon, Pa. Soldiers claims against the
Government for back-pay, bounty, widows' and invalid
pensions attended to with great care and promptness. Of
fice on Penn Street. [jan4,'7l
L ORAINE ASHMAN, Attorney-at Law.
Office: No. 405 Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa.
July 18, 1879.
T S. GEISSINGER, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public,
IJ. Huntingdon, Pa. Office, No. 230 Penn Street, oppo
site Court HOU.. [febs,'7l
4:1 E. FLEMING, Attorney-at-Law, Huntfihdon, Pa.,
office in Monitor building, Penn Street. Prompt
and careful attention given to all legal business.
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WM. P. & R. A. ORBISON, Attorneys-at-Law, No. 3.21
Y Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. All kinds of legal
business promptly attended to. Sept.l2,`7B.
New Advertisements
There is no "Powder in the Cellar,"
TONS OF IT IN OUR MAGAVNE
DuPont's Powder.
WE ARE THE AGENTS FOR THE
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SEND IN YOUR ORDERS.
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HUNTINGDON - , PA.
Apriil 25, 1879.
CHEAP !CHEAP !! CHEAP !!
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Buy your Paper, Buy your Stationery
Buy your Blank Booke,
AT THEJO URNAL BOOK & STATIONERY STORZ
Fine Stationery, School Stationery,
Books for Children, Games for Children,
Elegant Fluids, Pocket Book, Pass Books,
And an Endless Variety X:ce Tlo'ngs,
AT THE JOURNAL BOOK &STA TIONERY STORE
DR. 1. J. DAHLEN.
GERMAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office at the Washington House, corner of Seventh
and Penn streets,
April 4, 1879
HUNTINGDON, PA.
DR. C. H. BOYER.
S L ENTIST,
Office in the Franklin HouEe,
HUNTINGDON , PA.
Apr.4-y.
S. WOLF'S
HERE WE ARE !
At Gwin's Old Stand
505 PENN STREET.
Not much on the blow, but alo,vays ready for work.
The largest and finest line of
Clothing, Hats and Caps.
GENTS.' FURNISHING GOODS,
In town and at great sacrifice. Winter Goods
20 PER CENT. UNDER COST.
Call and be convinced at S. WOLF'S, 505 Penn st.
RENT AND EXPENSES REDUCED
At S. WOLF'S. lam better al,le to sell Clothing,
Hats and Caps, Gents.' Furnishing Goods, Trunks
and Valises, CHEAPER than any other store in
town. Call at Gwin's old stand. S. MARCH, Agt.
MONEY SAVED !S MONEY EARNED
The Cheapest Place in Huntingdon to buy Cloth
ing, Hats, Caps, and Golds.' Furnishing Goods is
at S. "MLF'S, 505 Penn street, one door west
from Express Office. S. MARCH, Agent.
TO THE PUBLIC.—I have removed my Cloth
ing and Gents.' Furnishing Goods store to D. P.
Gwin's old stand. 'ts,..Expenses reduced and
better bargains than ever can be got at
S. Wolf's 505 Penn Street,
March 28, 187:,.
BEAUTIFY YOUR
0 A. , 1 P. S
The undersigned is prepared to do all kinds of
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING,
Calcimining, Glazing,
Paper Hanging,
and any and all work belonging to the business.
Having had several years' experience, he guaran
tees satisfaction to those who may employ him.
PRICJES
Orders may be left at the JOURNAL Book Store.
JOHN L. ROIILAND.
March 14th, 1879-tf.
New Advertisements.
33 UT TIiER E
$ TO $6OOO A YEAIt, or $.5 to s'.oa day
( i t io i k Ea u t i o l a " cas n o l x:ll:: t u l s . i :B t . .l N a2l:y b ri o s m y k e a . make o o m m o u:i
can fail to make money foal. Auy one
can do the work. You can make frem
50 cts. to e 2 an hour by devoting your
evenings and spare time to the business. It coats nothing
to try the leasiness. Nothing like it for money making
ever offered before. Business pleasant and atrictly
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orable. Reader if you want to know all about the best
paying business before the public, send us your address
and we will send you full particulars and private terms
free ; samples worth $5 also free; you can then makeup
your mind for yourself. Address GEORGE STINSON &
CO., Portland, Maine. June 6, 1879-Iy.
KENDALL'S c r u e r m e a l t pa ab ,lnonv li l c i i i n will a,
Curb, Ca.lous, &c., or any enlargement, AND WILL RE
MOVE THE BUNCH WITHOUT 13LISTERINO or cans-
SPAVIN ing a sore. No remedy ever discover
ed equals it for certainty of action in
stopping the lameness and removing the bunch. Price,
$l.OO. Send for circular giving POSITIVE PROOF.
CUREFRIINCIL RICHARDS & CO., Agents,
Philadelphia, Pa, or sent by the in
ventor, It. J. K_ENDALL, I) Enosburgh Falls,
Vermon t.
May23-Iy-eow.
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CI - MOOMIR,S,
Next door the Poet Office, Huntingdon, Pa. Our
Motto: The Best Goods at the Lowest Prices.
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SHAWLS,
COATS & COATINGS,
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UNDERWEAR,
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S, INY DIZUGGIST WILL TELL NOU ITS REPUTATION. 5
Julyll-Iy.
EMT SAIII
Now for BARGAINS !
Having intent fined to quit business, I ani. now
Felling my goods at
Cost and Carriage,
A FULL LINE OF
DRESS GOODS,
BOOTS and SHOES,
HATS and CAPS,
CLOTHING,
NOTIONS,
GROCERIES,
and everything usually found in a first-class etoro.
IF YOU WANT
Immense Bargains
don't forget to give me a call, corner of Fifth
and Penn streets, Huntingdon, Pa.
B. JACOB.
ATILL FOR
JJE•
Being desirous of retiring from active F n.-suits,
will sell my GRIST MILL, situated one-.`calf
mile from McAlevy's Fort, in Jackson township,
Iluntiugdo.n county. The mill is comparatively
a new one, .only having been run four years. It
is 25x35 feet with two run of burs, and an addi
tional run re ady to start at trilling cost. It is
located in on e of the best wheat—growing districts
in the county . There are Dian two good hou , es
on the property, one of which is finished in good
style, every ro lm being papered.
For particulars inquire on the premises.
Auz.22-3m 4 '.] ROBERT BARR.
Jrn,.& ) y / 6&e',/
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J. C. SMITH, A. M., Principal.
Sept. 26-102.
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; - ' Fret and Scroll Sawing, Turning,
4 Boring, Drilling,Grinding, Polishing,
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Send 6 cents for 100 rages.
EPHRAIM BROWN, Lowell, Maas.
Sept. 5, 1579-eow-lyr.
HROBLEY, Merchant Tailor, No.
• 813 Mifflin street, 'West Iluntin.gdon
Pa., respectfully solicits a share of public pat
onage from town fsll.l country. [octl6,
HUNTINGDON, PA,, FR
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SALE OF UNCLAIMED FREIGHT.
—The Pennsylvania R. R. Co. will offer at
public sale, on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13th,
1579, at 10 o'clock, a. m., the following described
articles, now at the several stations, as designated,
unless the owners or consignees pay charges and
remove the same before day of sale:
SPRUCE CREEK.
Seed Screen and one old cook
stove, No marks.
1. cider press, John S. Isett.
2 meat stands,
I box merchandise, Eli Rush.
1 bdl. p. sacks Wooner S Thompson
I grain drill, IS pc5.,....
2 ,`q•ain drills, W. M. Meek.
.161ter A. Wood reaper, 1
ch a •upion mower and reap
er, 5 I , .toWs, 1 straw eutter.R. S. Seeds.
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HUNTINGDON.
blds. cement C. H. Anderson,
1 bag merchandise, W. H. Port.
1 box hardware, ..11. C. Robinson
1 bar iron, I bdl. moulding, 1
grain drill tongue, No marks.
MILL CREEK.
1 1) , ,x loom, T. L. Lytle.
2 boxes hardware, Jacob sharp.
MOUNT UNIOI4.
1 box burr rubbers, Miller & McCarthy.
13ruken tomb stone, Mrs. Collins.
Dar irin,
JOHN REILLY,
Oct. 24, 1879-3 t. Supt. of Transportation.
NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS.-No
lice is hereby given to all parties not to
trespass on the lands or premises of the under
signed, in Walker township, either by hunting,
fishing or otherwise, as the law will be rigidly en
forced against all persons on doing. The destruc
tion of fences, the hauling of wood and gravel, and
other depredations impel me to this step.
0c124.tf. JOHN M'CAHAN.
R. M'DIVITT,
SURVEYOR AND CONVEYANCER,
CHURCH ST., bet. Third and Fourth,
0ct.17,'79. HUNTINGDON, FA.
DAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1879.
WITURS' (t*itutr.
Pat O'Brien to Dennis O'Rafferty.
Arrsh, ould Dennis O'Rafferty,
Why did yez go off so in debt?
If I hed yez here I would batter yez,
For yez left me till pay part yer rent.
Meself, out of pity, was bailin' ye,
For yez could not get trust for a cent,
I knew that yer credit was failin' ye,
And that's why I bailed yez for rent.
Yea mind whin the sheriff was after ye,
And none but yerself was till blame,
I'm fearin', ould Dennis O'Rafferty,
Ye'll not climb the ladder till fame.
But yer a jintleman, that's ivery inch of ye :
And a virry great poet 'tin true ;
If I had yez here, now, I'd he punchin' ye
Till yez paid ivery cent that is due.
Yez know how ye baffled the agent,
And tould him ye't: pay off the rent,
But run a great store bill fornenst it,
And niver have paid him a cent.
And yez know that yer owin' the miller
For bread stuffs yez got at the mill,
Thin why don't yez pause and consider,
And try for till pay off yer bill?
And when Biddy, yer wife, was a startin',
The 'squire stop't her short on her way,
Laid hands on her trunks and her satchel,
And tould her yez tax was till pay.
I will stick till me word, ye ould honey,
I have said yez was honest as steel ;
But send me the hulk of that money,
Or say yea no better than STE A L.
Yerself might have saved promulgation,
And left a good name here behind,
But this trick will learn me a lesson
To niver trust one of yer kind.
Now, Dennis, me darlin' ould honey,
Ye know that I've told ye the truth ;
'Tis better than riches or money,
Which ye should have learned inyer youth.
ALEXANDRIA, PA.
Elje *torg—Celler.
THE NEW WILL.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "IN THE DARKNESS,"
"LICHT AT LAST," ETC., ETC.
My studies, preparatory to my admis•
sion to the bar, bad been completed in the
office of an eminent legal firm. A day or
two after my admission to the bar, the
senior member handed me a bundle which,
he said, contained the papers in the case
of Farren vs. Hilliard.
The facts of the case were as follows :
There had lived for many years, in a
certain city, a maiden lady who was known
by all as Miss Betty Farren. She was a
good and pious woman, who spent her life
in doing deeds of charity. She was well
to do in the world, her income amounting
to three thousand pounds, which was more
than enough for the simple wants of her
household, and left her a large surplus
with which to carry on her schemes for
doing good.
Miss Betty, as she was familial ly
loved with all the strength of her ardent
nature the young girl of whom she had
the sole care from her earliest infancy. •
At the age cf . two-and-forty, it was rea
soneble to suppose that Miss Betty was no
longer amid the shoals and quicksands
which surround those who are still steer
ing for the matrimonial harbor, and that
she would finish the voyage of life as plain
Miss Betty Farren.
But the minds of women are never made
up on the alluring subject of matrimony.
So it was with Miss Betty. A man had
,r.oute into the town by the name of Hil•
liard. He rented an elegant house neat
far tom where Miss Betty resided. He
was a w;.dower and the father of three
children, and lived in a style that would
indicate he was a man of fortune.
Soon after his coming he formed the ac
quaintance of Miss Farren, and ere long
Mr. Ililliard was a constant visitor at Miss
Betty's house. It soon began tet be whis
pered that Mr. Ililliard was constantly
seen at Miss Betty's icsidenee, and the
good people of the town were not very
much astonished when it was announced
that they were to be married. This event
occurred, and Mrs. Ililliard, with her
niece, went to reside in the stately man
sion of her husband.
In the course of time it became known
that the marriage was an unhappy one.
The marriage was a childless one, and
she clung with more than usual fondness
to her niece.
Day by day she became sadder and
weaker.
At last the doctor became a constant
visitor at her house, and then the clergy
man was called to do the last solemn busi
ness of his office. _ _
When it was known that she wLs dead,
there was many a sad heart for acts of well
remembered kindness done by the good
litrae woman.
In a few days he produced her will and
offered it for probate.
The feelings of the whole community
were shocked to learn that she had, with
a small legacy to charitabie uses, and
another to her niece, given the bulk of her
fortune over to Hilliard and his children
of the first marriage.
Under the advice of Mr. llolt, Miss
Florence Farren, her niece, determined to
resist the will, and this was the case in
which I was to make my maiden speech.
The only course which I could pursue
in attacking the will, was to show the cir
cumstance 3 u.nder which Hilliard had al
ways lived with his wife, the great love
and affection which she had ever shown
fur her niece, and to argue therefrom that
the unnatural and cruel disposition which
she had made of her fortune was the re
sult of force or undue influence used by
her husband
It was, therefore, only a forlorn hope.
but we were obliged to rest upon it.
My brother, who was a physician, and
myself, both of us unmarried, had a month
before rented a small unfurnished house,
in which we resided with two servants to
attend to our wants. One night, several
days before the case was to be heard, my
brother having gone out upon some pro
fessional engagement, I settled myself for
a hard night's study of the case, as I was
anxious, of course, to make the best ap
pearance possible.
While I was engaged in my studies, my
attention was attracted by footfalls on the
back steps leading from the yard up into
the piazza, and which I at the moment
presumed were those of one of the servants
bent upon some household mission.
They reached the piazza, lightly crossed
it, and entered the hall of the house. On
they came, and in an instant more I was,
without looking up, aware of the presence
of some one in the room. When I did
look, I saw a woman standing at the door.
She was a little above the medium height,
very thin and emaciated, with red, sunken
eyes, which were bent upon me.
She was dressed in a loose pale gray robe
of cassimere, drawn together at the waist
by a black belt ; a large, flowing collar
reached to the point of the shoulder, the
edge of which was bou❑d in black about
half an inch in width; at her throat was
fastened a bunch of black ribbon, which
fell low upon her bosom ; her hair was
drawn smoothly down over her forehead
and back, so as to conceal her ears.
There was nothing in the appearance of
the woman to startle me; but her strange
mode of entrance occasioned me some sur
prise.
The next instant I concluded that she
was some patient of my brother, and with
that idea in my mind, said :
"It is the doctor you wish to see, I pre
sume ?"
She made no reply, but moved slowly
and in a direct line across the room to the
front parlor; and I noticed that in pass
ing she deflected from a straight course in
order to avoid contact with the corner of
the table at which I sat.
Through the folding doois she passed
into the front parlor.
Still impressed with the idea that she
was seeking my brother, who had his office
in that room, I called out in a louder tone,
thinking-that. she had not heard my first
remark :
"Madam, the doctor is not in."
After a moment's pause I arose and fol
lowed her, and when I reached the fold
ing door the figure was standing a little to
the left of the room.
She had turned around and was facing
me, and now her left hand was raised and
pointed to the closet.
Stepping back a moment to the table at
which I trad been sitting, I removed the
shade from the drop light, and then with
some force threw back the folding-door.
My back was only turned an instant to
accomplish this.
When I returned to the other room she
was gone.
I at once proceeded to the hall door of
that room and found it locked.
I recrossed the room to the closet at
which she had stood pointing, and found
it was also locked.
There was no other place in the room,
now thoroughly lighted, where she could
have concealed herself.
Although astounded at what I had seen,
I at once began to run over in my mind
the various tests which the scientific have
suggested.
I seated myself again at my table.
I looked at my watch and found it
wanted seven minutes to nine o'clock.
Believing then that I had been under a
strange optical illusion, .I awaited with im
patience the return or my brother.
In a couple of hours he returned, and I
described to him fully what I had seen.
Ile was much interested in the account,
and made a memorandum of it, saying it
was a remarkable instance of optical delu-
aion
The next day I spoke of the circumstance
to some of my most intimate friends, one
of whom said :
"Why, you have seen Miss Betty Far
ren You not only describe her features,
but the very dress which she was accus
tomed to wear, and which was so peculiar
as to be easily remembered."
Some one inquired as to the situation of
the house in which I resided, and upon
my giving the desired information, said,
with a face full of consternation :
"And that is the house where Miss Bet
ty lived so many years before her mar•
riage."
I had never seen Mrs. Hilliard, nor did
I know until that moment that the house
occupied by my brother and myself had
ever been her residence.
When I got home that night I told my
brother of the strange intelligence that I
had that evening received.
As we sat talking the matter over, he
suddenly sprang up and said
"Have you ever thought to examine
the closet ."
I replied that I had not ; that I supposed
one of the servants used it as a sort of re
pository for some of our small wares.
lle was at once called, and ou being
asked what it contained, replied that he
did not know ; he had never had the key
or soen it open. _ _ _
We directed the servant to find the key
of the closet, and he soon returned with a
dozen keys in his hand, all of which we
tried, but failed to open the door.
We made no furter attempt that night,
and determined to have the closet opened
by a locksmith.
The locksmith arrived, and in half an
hour the door swung creakingly on its
hinges.
We found upon the shelves some forty
or fifty volumes, which bore the name of
Miss Betty Farren ;
• there was also a small
black leather trunk, which the locksmith
easily opened, and which contained some
books, likewise the property of Mrs. Hil
liard.
At the bottom of the trunk, concealed
from our first view by books which lay
upon it, was a square tin box, and in it a
large old family bible, the lids held to
gether by heavy clasps.
Eagerly taking hold of the book, I
slipped the clasps, when it opened and dis
closed a large envelope.
With my mind painfully excited, I read
on the envelope these words :
"The last will and testament of Eliza
beth Farren Hilliard, April 13, 1855."
The seals, three in number, bore the
initials E. F. Cutting one end of the en
velope, I drew out of it two papers—one
the will, the ether a letter, addressed to
Miss Florence Farren.
Opening the will, which was short, I
found that it bore a date subsequent to
the one under which Hilliard and the
children claimed the property. By it she
gave five hundred pounds to charitable
purposes, and the residue of the estate to
Miss Florence Farren. The discovery
was kept a secret—not to be divulged un
til the day, so near at hand, when it would
serve the interest of my client.
On the morning that the case was called
for trial, Hilliard and his counsel appeared
in court full of hope and confident of suc
cess. I then raised my voice so as to be
distinctly heard throughout the court room,
and said :
"May it please the court, I now offer in
evidence a will made by Mrs. Ililliard a
few weeks before her death, and which
came into our possession only two days
ago. There were several witnesses present
who swore to the genuineness of the signa
ture. I looked to the place where Hil
liard had been sitting near his legal ad
viser, to see what effect the startling fact
had on him.
He was gone
It was clear to all that the case could
end but in one way. In a few minutes
the opposing counsel consented that a ver•
diet should be taken against his client.
Hilliard disappeared alter that, for him,
fatal day.
His children, whom he left totally un
provided for, became the special care of
my interesting and beautiful young client.
So ended my first ease. The ever re
curring question in my mind and one that
I am unable to answer is—Was it her
ghost?
Was it shadow or substance?
ctifticfflistellan ß .
The Old-Fashioned Girl.
She flourished thirty or forty years ago.
She was a little girl until ehe was 15. She
used to help her mother wash the dishes
and keep the kitchen tidy, and she had an
ambition to make pies so nicely that papa
could not tell the difference between them
and mamma's ; and yet she cuuld fry grid
dle cakes at 10 years of age, and darn her
stockings before she was 12, to say noth
ing of
knitting them herself.
_ _
She had her hours for play, ani enjoyed
herself to the fullest extent. She had nu
very costly toys, to be sure, but her rag
doll and little bureau and chair that Un
cle Tum made were just as valuable to her
as the $2O wax dull and elegant doll fur
citure the children have nowadays.
She never said "I can't," and "I don't
want to," to her mother, when asked to
leave her play, and run upstairs or down
on an errand, because she had not been
brought up In that way. Obedience was
a cardinal virtue in the old fashioned little
girl.
She rose in the morning when she was
called, and went out into the garden and
saw the dew on the grass, and if she lived
in the country she fed the chickens and
hunted up the eggs for breakfast.
We do not suppose she had her hair in
curl papers or crimping pins, or had it
"banged" over her forehead, and her
flounces were no trouble to her.
Sbe learned how to sew by making patch
work, and we dare say she could do an "over
and over" seam as well as nine tenths of
the grown-up women nowadays.
The old fashioned girl did not grow in•
to a young lady and talk about beaux be
fore she was in her teens, and she did
not read dimenovels, and was not fancy•
ing a hero in every plowboy she met.
She learned the solid accomplishments
as she grew up. She was taught the art
of cooking and housekeeping. When she
got a husband she knew how to cook him
a dinner.
She was not learned in French verbs,
or Latin declensions, and her near neigh
bors were spared the agony of hearing her
pound out "The Maiden's Prayer" and
"Silver Threads among the Gold" twenty
times a day on the piano, but we make no
doubt she made her family quite as com
fortable as the modern young lady does
hers.
It may be a vulgar assertion, and we
suppose that we are not exactly up to the
times, but we honestly believe, and our
opinion is based on considerable experience,
and no small observation, that when it
comes to keeping a family happy, a good
cook and housekeeper is to be greatly pre
ferred above an accomplished scholar.—
When both sets of qualities are found to•
gether, as they sometimes are, then is the
household over which such a woman has
control blessed.
The old fashioned little girl was modest
in her demeanor, and she never talked
slang or used bywords. She did not laugh
at old people or make fun of cripples, as
we saw some modern little girls doing the
other day. She had respect for elders,
and was not above listening to words of
counsel from those older than herself.
She did not think she knew as much as
mother, and that her judgment was as good
as her grandmother's.
She did not go to parties by the time she
was ten, and stay till after midnight, play
ing euchre and dancing with any chance
young man who happened to he present.
She went to bed in season, and doubt
less said her prayers before she went. and
slept the sleep of innocence, and rose up
in the morning happy and capable of giving
happiness.
And if there be au old fashioned girl in
the world to day, way Heaven bless her
and keep her and raise up others like her.
New York Examiner.
Phenomena of Rain.
One of the most curious things about
rain is in the equality of its distribution.
ThP reader is of course aware that rain
may be measured in inches in almost any
vessel set out to catch it. If a pail, fur
example, be put out in an open space on
the ground. If we visit the pail after
every shower, we may by the means of a
two•foot rule tell what depth of rain has
fallen. This is the principle of the rain
guage. In practice better means are of
course adopted, so as to prevent evapora
tion and to measure the depth. Now it is
of great consequence where we place our
rain guage It, might be supposed of no
importance whether it was on the top of
the house or in the garden close by. And
yet, strange to say, a gauge in the garden
of Westminister Abbey caught twenty
three inches of rain in the course of a year,
while one on the roof of a house caught
only eighteen inches, and one on top of
the abbey, only twelve inches. The fact
is, rain forms at a very low elevation, it
increases the size of the drops which come
from the higher levels. Thus, while Mr.
Glaisher was descending in a balloon, lie
passed through a wet fog, where the drops
of rain where exceedingly fine, covering
the note book like pin points. These in
creased in size on approaching the earth
and more rapidly when very near the earth.
WHEN a youngster wishes to trick the
whole family at once, he does it by ab•
ruptly asking, at the table, "Say, pa, you
know that old man that lives up on the
Dodgetown road ?" Then there is a gen
eral opening of mouths, and pa and all the
rest bend forward with straining eyes and
want to know, "Why, what's the matter
with him ?" The boy allows them to reach
the height of impatient interest in the
matter, when he cooly announces : "Noth
in', pa; I only wanted to know ifyou knew
him—that's all." And "the little upstart"
catches up his hat and rushes out of the
house with a chuckle, while all sorts of
appellations indicative of disgust follow
him from all around the table. In less
than a week he will do it again.
"THUNDER," exclaimed a man, rushing
into a railroad telegraph station the other
day. "The express train's gone off the
big bridge !" "Many killed, many killed ?"
screamed the by-standers. "Not a one,"
replied the other. "She just went on at
one end and went off at the other, just as
usual."
THE telegraph reports a marriaga on
board a western train. It was a railroad
tie.
A Petrified Corpse.
DISINTERRED AFTER NINETEEN YEARS
AND FOUND TO BE TURNED INTO STONE
-A RARE CASE OF PETRIFACTION.
Great excitement was occasioned yes
terday afternoon in the old St. John's
burying ground by the disinterment of a
Indy with the intention of removing it to
Calvary Cemetery at Babcox's Corners. It
was the body of Mrs. O'Neill, who died
nineteen years ago of paralysis of the
throat. The daughters of the dead woman
had employed J. Sullivan, the keeper of
the old cemetery, to remove the body.
When the time came to remove the coffin
it was found to be ofsuch enormous weight
that it required the strength of three men
to raise it.
A most strange sight then presented
itself to view. The clothing of the corpse
had almost disappeared into dust, but the
body from the knees to the neck was per
fectly white and of an apparent chalky
cmsistence. The head and the body from
the knees downward bad entirely decayed,
nothing but the bones being left. Father
Walsh, of St. John's Church, was imme
diately sent for, and as soon as he had
viewed the body he dispatched a messen
ger for Dr. llull, the State geologist, who
made a thorough examination into the
phenomenal appearance of the body. He
said it was a magnificent specimen of pet
rifaction, though why the whole body
should not have become similarly tram
formed he was unable to say.
Upon scraping the surface with a knife
he found it was granular. He claims thap
if it had remained a few years longer it
would have become as hard as marble.
After the examination had been made the
body was recoffined and taken to its new
resting place. At the time of death Mrs.
O'Neill was sixty nine years of age, and
died after three days illness. At that time
the unnatural pallor of the body attracted
much attention. and there was some hesi•
tation at first in giving the remains, burial
until a change had manifested itself.—Al
bang Times.
Cutting Glass With Scissors.
Many persons may not be aware that
glass can be cut under water with great
ease to almost any shape by simply using
a pair of shears or strong scissors. In or
der to insure success two points must be
attended to. First and most inapertant,
the glass must be kept quite level in the
water while the scissors are applied, and,
secondly, to avoid risk, it is better to be
gin the cutting by taking off small pieces
at the corners and along the edges, and so
reduce the shape gradually to that requir
ed, as if any attempt is made to cut the
glass all at once to the shape as we could
cut a piece of card board, it will most
likely break where it is not wanted. Some
kinds of glass cut much better than oth
ers, the softer glasses being the best for
this purpose. The scissors need not be at
all sharp, as their action does not appear
to depend on the state of the edges pre
sented to the glass. When the operation
goes on weil the glass breaks away from
the scissors in small pieces in a straight
line with the black's. This method of cut
ting glass has often been of service when
a diamond has not been at hand for cut.
tiny ovals and segments. and though the
edges are not so smooth as might be de
sired for some purposes, yet it will answer
in a great many cases. The hints given
above, if strictly followed, will always in
sure success.
Animals and Music.
Some animals are fond of music; horses
especially love to bear martial music, and
the sound of the trumpet will fill them
with fire and spirit. They will draw near
and listen with attention as great as that
of human lovers ti music at a concert.
Cows, also, are susceptible to the charms
of music, and instances have been known
when the organ is playing near the wall
that separates the field from the church
yard, they stand listening gravely. A
French state prisoner begged, as a great
favor, that he might have the musical in
strument on which he played, to amuse
himself in the prison ; and what was his
surprise, after he had played a few times,
to see some mice appear, and stay quietly
hearkening to the playing, and at its con
clusion returning to their holes. Nor was
this ail; several large spiders came also,
and remained during the musical perform
ance, and thin ascended to their corners.
Other instances have been known of spi
ders showing this same • taste for music,
and coming out to listen to it.
Perhaps when the ancients wrote the
story on Orpheus and told how he charm
ed the brutes, they may have known some
thing of this love of music implanted in
the hearts of the dumb creation.
Hoisted by His Own Petard.
Professor Thomas, recently connected
with Butler University, says the Indiana.
polis News, was noted for his exactness in
the use of vernacular. One night he was
awakened at au unseemly hour by the dis
cordant sounds of midnight revelry from
the direction of a student's bed-roam.
Dressing bin - melt* hastily he proceeded
down th hall, and after a few knocks on
the bolted door to enforce silence, he call
ed out, "Ili, you fellows in there ! Can't
you make less noise ?"
"Who's out there ?"
"It's me."
"Who are you?"
"Professor Thomas."
"You're a liar. You can't fool us.
Thomas would have said, 'lt is I.' " Come
on boys, just once more." And the strains
of "Landlord, fill the flowing bowl" res
ponded through the house till daylight. The
affair was never after alluded to by the
- ••
professor.
MRS PAItTINGTON ROW says : "You
shouldn't be so glutinous, Isaac," as with
an anxious expression she remarked the
strong, conclusive effort that young gent
was making to bolt the last quarter of a
mince pie—"you shouldn't be so glutinous,
dear. You must be very careful, or you
will get something in your elementary
canal or sarcophagus oue of these days that
will kill you, Isaac."
A SCOTCH minister, who was famed for
his dryness in the pulpit, called on one of
his aged hearers, and as usual partook of
a cup of tea. lie remarked to the guid
wife that her teapot ran very slowly.—
"Deed, ay," quo' the guid wife, "it's like
yersel' ; it has an unto bad delivery."
WHEN a man goes to a quilting party
about tea time, and sits down on a ball of
wicking with a long darning needle in it,
he will think of more things connected
with darning in a minute than he call
mention in two hours.
NO. 44.