VOL. 44. rho Huntingdon Journal. o)Zee in 11e10 jouRNAL Building , Fifth Street. Tile au:iiistwos JOURNAL is published every Friday by .1. A. NASH, at s2,ou perannutn IN ADVANCE, exit pa,' for in six months from date of sub eeription, and If not paid within the year. No paper dist:on:Limed, unless at the option of the pub lisher, until all arrearages are paid. NO paper, however, will be sent out of the State unless absolut••ly paid for in advance. Transient .iivertisements will be inserted at TWELVE AND A-HALF CENTS per line for the first insertion, SEVEN AND A-HALF CENTS for the second and ME CENTS per line f o r all subsequent insertions. ltegular quarterly and yearly business advertisements will be inserted at the following rates - • 13m j6m 9m Iyr 3m 16m I ; 9ml lyr _ 11.0, .$3 4 5 , ' 5 50' S 0;1:k/ i con 9 00:18 00'1'271 36 2 •• a.) c; 12 ;18 18 0 136 00 50 65 3 7 0,, 1.1 o. 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[jan3,'7l L ORAINE M AN, Attorney-at Law. Office: No. -ithi Penn titreet, Huntingdon, Pa. July 1S; 187 d. T S. GEISSINGER. Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, 11. Huntingdon, Pa. Office, No. 210 Penn Street, oppo site Court House. [febs,'7l E. PI.E3IINII, Attorn.y-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., 0. °nice in Monitor building, Penn Street. Prompt and careful attention given to all legal business. Laugs,'74-Bmoa Tu. P. & R. A. ORBISON, Attorneys-at-Law, No. 321 1' Penn Street, Iluntmgdon, Pa. All kinds of legal. business promptly attended to. Sept.l2,'7B. 11 New Advertisement BEAUTIFY YOUR lIOMI The unders , zned is prepared to do all kinds of lIOUSE 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. PRICES 31On EII.A.TE. Orders may Le left at the JOURNAL Book Store. JOHN L. ROIILAND. March 14th, 1879-tf. CHEAP! CHEAP!! 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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 5.5 also free; you ran then makeup your mind for yourself. Address GEORGE STMON & CO., Portland, Maine. June ti, 1879-Iy. C. F. YORK & CO., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Ci-IZOC=P.)S, Next door the Post Office, Huntingdon, Pa. Our Motto: The Best Goods at the Lowest l'rices. March 14th, 1579-Iyr. DR. J. J. DAHLEN, GERMAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office at the Washington House, corner of Seventh and Penn streets, HUNTINGDON, PA. April 4, 1579 DR. C. H. BOYER. ,gURGEOS IJENfIST, Office in the Franklin House, HUNTINGDON, PA Apr.4-y. B. SURVEYOR AND CONVEY-4YCER CHURCH ST., bet. Third and Fourth, 0et.17,'79, JOHN S. LYTLE. SURVEYOR AND CONVEY 4 1 CER SPRUCE CREEK, Huntingdon county Pa. 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Give us an order_ !ggg JOB DEPARTMENT HUNTINGDON, PA Co All letters should be addressed to J. A. NASH. Huntingdon, Pa. -4 4 ,t. tihe e d on Journai.• Printing PUBLISHED -IN No. 212, FIFTH STREET. TEIZNIS : within six months, and 83.00 if not paid within the year 41 0 0 0 00000000 00000000 PROGRESSI VIC U - REPUBLICAN PAPER. 0 60000000 SUBSCRIBE. 00000000 0 0 0 o 0 0 0 A • FIRST-CLASS ADVERTISING MEDIUM. 5000 RENDERS WEEKLY. I.*J e t ; OD 'c , ... 4 C C R dQ C ce 31 0 .-: rr 0 '2. .-- SPECI, lI.OR PRINTI New Advertisements. T HE SECOND TIME I SAW HER. First part of this pGein, entitled "Lave at First Right," can be had Olt application at To'rcr Hall.] I.'ll flo , Bard of Tuircr Hall. Tuesday last I had a toothache— liorrible beyond description— And cold steel was recommended As the very best prescription, Sleep I wooed. hut, fickle goddess, Opium could not cajole her; . I must on some dental altar Sacrifice the aching mtdar. So, I hurried to a dentist; Reached his office in despair; Entered—Lo! before me sitting, In the cushioned dental chair, Was the timid with golden ringlets I on Chestnut Street had seen, She who stole away and lett me In the car at "Twelfth and Green." Stid upon her snowy shoulders F e !! the same bewitching curls; But, alas! her "lips of coral" Were no longer "couched on pearl..." Not a tooth had they to rest on, And I saw, to my dismay, That the pearls which bletsed my vision Then upon the toile lay. She bat had a tooth extracted, And the pain nad made her taint ; From her cheek the rose had vanished (?) Oa the osier.' Wt. xr, ore print! She was :tool the swoon reviving, When, oh ! horror ! Shall I tell? Through art effort made in sneezing To the floor her ringlets fell! On the head, by curls forsaken. Ilair was starting, coarse and thick, But the shade was far from golden, 'Twas the color of a brick, From my tooth, the pain departing, Settled in my head end i cart, As no dentist could extract it, I made up my wind to start, And I also made my mind op That when I again did wtite. I would caution fellow creatures 'Gal.( the dtaft# of Lore on Sight. Tits ring that no one will mention "Priceless Jewel," "Beauty's Queen." - I can bear to hear of " Twelfth Street," But let no one utter—" Green !" It may be by some remembered, And, perhaps, it may by all, That the " 1,1,111 r f my passion Sw,,llowed ~p the Tower Hall." But the ••renters of irdnii,ition" Swell no more the ocean's dry ! Tower Hall is still existing, Where you can your clothing buy— Where, unlike the hard, you will he Safe although you chose on sight, For the prices are the lowest, And the garments always right. GARITEDL MASTEN & ALLEN, TOWER HAEL CLOTHING BAZAAR, Nos. 51S and 520 MARKET STREET. New Stock of Clothing ROCK-BOTTOM PRICES, OLD ESTABLISHED CLOTHING HOUSE, IN THE DIAMOND, lIUNTINGDON, PA Having abandoned, for the present, my inten tion of removing my store to Philadelpeia, I would respectfully inform my old friends and cue towers, and the pubiic generally, that I have just purchased an entire New Stock of Winter Clothing for Mcn and Boys, of the latest style and best quality, which I propose to sell at prices lower than they can be purchased elsewhere. I feel confident that I can offer greater bargaias in Clothing and Furnishing Goods than any oth er dealer in the county. N0v.14. 1.1. ROMAN. r- I:ASSAM' OLD AND RELIABLE. ''..l)i:. SANFORD'S LIVER INVIGORATOR tiS !I, Staadar 1 Family Pvi.nedy for ..k o i'idis .ascs of the Liver, Stomach 0.4 , 1 a• r , and Bowels.—lt is Par,:ly 0, 7 $ I' . , q. " o' , erretlble —lt never 4.' 6 " ~..' 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SANFORD, 64,0,, I, 9 ;4 r D an i A T Y ,is 'l a ANY DRUi:CICT WILL TELL YOU ITS REPUTATION ke m i d CD 0 u m C .-c Julyll-Iy, .9c3 Illustrated Floral Guide, A beautiful work of 100 Pages, One Colored Flow er Plate, and 500 Illnatrations, with descriptions of the best Flowers and Vegetables, with price of seeds, and how to grow them. All for a FIVE CENT STAMP. In English and German. VICK'S SEEDS are the best in the world. Five cents for postage will buy the Floral Guide, tell ing how to get them The F ower and Vegetable Garden, 175 Pages, Six Colored Plates, and many hundred engrav ings, for 50 cents in paper covers; $l,OO in ele— gant cloth. In German or English. Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 32 Pages, a Colored Plate in every number and many fine Engravings. Price 51,25 a year; five copies for e 5.00. Specimen numbers sent for 10 cents ; 3 trial copies for 2.5 cents Address, Jan .2-3 t. .1 oi 0 ... LTY. - T_T ROBLEY, Merchant Tailor, No. A A • 813 Mifflin street, West Huntingdon Pa., respectfully solicits s share of public pat o nage from town and country. [octl6, R': Lb m; SOLD AT - tT TEI - VICK'S JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y. HUNTINGDON, PA„ FRIDAY, JANUARY IG, 1880. Eke 411156' (olv,tr. Why? Why is the wrong so strong, And the right so weak and poor ? Why goes black bread to the patient man, And gold to the evil-doer? Why dies the noble cause, We periled life to save, While the baleful growth of an upstart Fill O'crshadows a nation's grave ? Why died that widow's son ? Ile was all she had to bless. The children crowd round the selfish heart, And gain but a cold caress. Who reads the riddle right? And who can answer why The clouds sweep over our mortal life ? Not you, brave priest, nor I. Why came a throbbing pain To that heari so firm and fair, While the crown of wealth and blithesome health Some lesser angel *ear? Why went that young life out On honor's perilous road? The carping tongue and the jealous mind Stay here to wound and goad. I picture once I saw— Three crosses against the sky; And the heaviest cross was the highest one ; Perhaps that answers why. To wave the banner and the wreath Was the privilege of the Jew : But the boon to carry that heavy cross Was reserved, dear Lord, for you. —Lady's Journal. Ely *fool-Cella. THE GOLD CHAIN. A. dreary November twilight Dead leaves raining down at every gust of the inconstant wind—strange, spicy scents ris ing, out of the ground—and the new moon hanging like a sickle of blood over the pur pled dark of the southerly sky. Dreary and chilly ; a dying year ; a fast gloaming dusk ; yet the windows of Mrs ()agates old brown farm house hung out their cheery signals behind the fringed cotton curtains, and when the kitchen door opened you could see the red shine of the blazing logs, the figures coming and going like a miniature magic lantern. _ It was Dora Oxt!ate who opened it, and came flitting out to the well, with a scarlet shawl festooned over her head, and an empty cedar pail in her hand. As her light feet pattered over the carpet of autumn leaves in the pathway, she sang a snatch of that good oid-fashioned hymn : Rook of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee— "My goodness alive I What's that ?" Fur as the words ti illed sweetly from her tongue, a tall dark figure had ari , en from the low wooden bench under the apple tree, whose boughs overhung the well. "Don't be alarmed," said a deep, sweet contralto, with a scornful intonation in its sound. "It's only me, Dora. Joanna Elfield. What then? Have lAllen so low that I am no longer worthy to sit be neath the old apple tree ? If so, tell me so at once and I'll quit." "You know that I did n9t mean that, Joan na." "It's hard to tell what people mean or don't mean, now.a-days," said Joanna, pick ing at the tnanfzy ft of the frayed rag of a shawl. "I was tired. I wanted a drink of water, so I came to the old well. I'll go away if you say so." "Joanna," said Dora, hesitatingly, "are you hungry ?" "Hungry No. There's a sort of crav ing, though, on my stomach, which is next to it. I suppose." "Would you like something to eat ?" "I don't beg." "Wait a minute, Joanna." Like an arrow Dora Oxgate sped back into the house, where her thrifty mother was just settity , the teapot on the table. Fresh baked waffles steamed on one side; hot biscuits were piled in drifts of snow on the other; preserves gleamed redly through the cut glass of a small dish, and liquid honey oozed from a lump of comb. Fur Mrs. Deacon Peabody and her daughter Comfort were come to tea, and Mrs. Ox gate was a housewife to he excelled by none. "Come, Dora, quick with that water," said Mrs. Oxgate. "And shut the door. What do you suppose is the use of fires, it—" "Mother," said Dora, speaking in a slightly embarrassed tone. 'Joanna EL field is out by the well ! She is cold and hungry, and—" Mrs. Oxgate's face hardened into lines of stone. Miss Comfort Peabody drew her skirts close around her, with an involuntary movement, and Mrs. Peabody looked hard into the bowl of her teacup. "Then let her stay cold and hungry for all of me ! Joanna Elfield is no associate for either you or me. Dora! She has run away from home, and acted with common strolling play actors—she has sung at low concerts instead of keeping that fine voice of hers for the Lord—she has, of her own free will, given up all that is decent and reputable, and people do say that she has taken to drinking ? And you expect me to open my doors to such as her ?" Mrs. Peabody uttered a sympathetic groan. "But, mamma," faltered Dora, half frightened at her own boldness, "don't you remember that lie came to call, not the righteous, but sinners to repentance ?" "Silence, girl', How dare you quote the scriptures to me ?" cried Mrs. Oxgate, her stern brow clouding over darkly. "Bring in that pail of water at once, and let u' have no further discussion." Thus rebuffed. Theodora thrgate crept back into the chill, frosty twilight dejected and empty handed. "Ah," said Joanna Eltield, shortly, "I thought how it would be. Well, it's noth ing new. Everybody's doors are shut against me." "Is it true, Joanna?" whispered Dora, coming close to her. "Is what true?" -That you drink." "Of course it'a true. You would drink if you were driven as I am. Driven and hunted! There are timos when you would sell your whole soul f)r a chance to be found in—drink !" "Oh, Joanna, I am sorry for you." "Sorry! say that again, lass! people have mostly left off being sorry for me," said Joanna with a hard laugh. "But listen, Joanna. 1)o be serious. Won't you do differently ?" "I alit not so bad as some folks think me, Dora, °ante, except the horrid crav ing for drink. I have been nothing worse than wild and willful. Believe me, child, for it is God's truth. Only, when a girl get■ on the down hill every Christian man or woman thinks it is their duty to give her yet another push." "Then you will try to retrieve your own P el f' ?" "now oln I ? What is there left for rre ?" "Your superb voice, Joanna." "You would have me sing myself into respectability, ch ? Ant in the wt•antitne I should starve." "You need not starve, Joanna. Here !" Quick as lightning, she drew a small gold chain, with a gold locket shaped like a heart, dangling at its end, from her neck. "Dear Joanna, take this. It is worth money I know; and it is all I have in the world to give. Sell it and use the money for your own nerds " Joanna Elfield stared vaguely at the gleaming trinket. "Are you in earnest, Dora''' "Of course I am. flush ! MotLer is calling me. I must go." "God bless you for this," said Joanna, huskily. "And, Dora—one word more ; I'm lonely Joanna Elfield, but—if you will, let me kiss you just once." By the way of answer Theodore Oxgate threw her arms around the tall girl's neck, and pressed her soft, cold lips close to the other's cold mouth. And as she did so, something plashed on her cheek—a hot, round tear. The next minute Joanna Eifield disap peared into the world of shadows that was hovering over all the autumn landscape. And as she went she murmured, uncin scion-4 that she was speaking aloud : • "Some one believes in me yet!! In me'. a strange sensation, and yet—it gives one something to live for, after all !" * * * * "Dora! Theodora ! Why don't you n • swer ? But no one thinks it worth while to listen to me now a days!" It was Mrs. Oxgate's shrill, piping voice ! and Mrs. Oxgate, helpless from paralysis, set in her cushioned chair in the sunny doorway •'What is it mamma ?" Dora asked, com ing to the door. The Oxgate farm house bad drifted sadly to decay. FenCes had fallen ; gates hung creaking on one hinge; sunny pasture lands were neglected ; grass meadows had toppled over with their own weight of bar vest. And Mrs. Oxgate herself loAed, as she sat in the doorway, like the-very genius or decay. "The carriage with them grand people that has bought the Glenwood Place. A gentleman dresQed like the Prince of Wales, and a lady whore diamonds flashed fit to blind one. Ah me ! it's fine to be young and rich. Look ! the carriage is stopping ! Perhaps they've dropped something ? Sure's I live the lady's coming back, trail ing her purple silk dress in the dust like it was domestic gingham. Oh, dear me, I wish I had my best hat on." She gave her apron a twitch and tried to settle her scant skirts over her poor, useless feet as the tall, stately figure swept up to the door. "This is Oxgate Place, is it not ?" the lady asked in a deep, sweet voice that be trayed her at once. Dora answered prompt ly : "This is Oxgate Place; and you are Jo- anna Elfield." "Not Joanna Elfield now ; but Joanna Avenel," she rejoined, smiling and flush ing. "Here is my husband. George this is the friend I told you of, whose hand ten years ago lifted me out of the darkness and set me in the right path. Oh, George, you know how much I owe her !" Mrs. Avenel was weeping softly now— yet the smiles shone brightly through her tears. "Dora," she added, "chat was the turn ing point in my life. See ! I have your gold chain with the heart yet. I knew then that one human being had faith in me still, and it renewed the fountain of life within me ! Dora, Dora, you are my guar dian angel God bless you for it " People wondered much that those rich Avenela of the Place had an insignificant chit like Dora Oxgatc so much with them to say nothing of that tiresome, prosing old bore, her mother. But Mrs. Avenel was a great lady, and of course could be excused for having her whims—one of which was always to wear a threadlike chain of gold about her neck, with a heart shaped locket hanging from it. _ _ _ "When she could have diamonds in. stead !" said Miss Comfort Peabody, who bad of late observed that she had always thought Joanna Elfield to be a genius. And Dora Oxg,ate, although she had settled into a solitary, hard working old maid, knew that her apparently purpose less life had not been in vain. "For there is joy among the angels of heaven over one sinner that repenteth." ,*tirtt glisertim. Washing House-Plants. A plant breathes like an animal, and not through one month, but through thous ands As is well known, the plants draws up its food from the soil, through the roots in a liquid form. This food, very much diluted, must be coneentrated, and thus assimulated to the plant. We have in the leaves of the plant a most beautiful arrangement to answer this need. They are filled with breathing pores, which al low exhalations when moisture is freely supplied, and check it when the supply falls off. These little mouths are found on both sides of the leaf in most plants, but usually on the lower Aida in by far greater number. They vary iu plants from several hundred to more than 150,000 to a square inch or leaf. Now, we are careful in our own persons to bathe frequently, lest, as we say the pores of the skin become ob structed. Yet we are willing to allow our plants to go unwashed for a winter, when the pores are much smaller, more numerous and delicate, than those of the body. The rule is obvious. Wash the leaves of the plants, both under and up per sides, at least once a week. Use water moderately warm and if the plants be come very dirty, a little weak soapsuds is beneficial. This washing should be care fully done with a soft sponge or cloth, in the case of plants with thick, polished leaves, such as camellias, oranges, and daphnes. 'Where plants have hairy leaves, or the substance is soft, water is bet ap plied with a small syringe, fitted with a very fine nozzle. - Jr is related of a certain minister, who was noted (Or hi 3 long sermons with many divicons, that one day, when he was ad vancing among his teens, he reached at length a kind of resting place in his dis course, when, pausing to take breath, he asked the question : "And what shall I say more ?" A voice from the congrega. tion earnestly responded, "Say 'Amen !' " SUBSCRIBB for the JOURNAL. Fallen. [This poem was written by a lost woman while in Detroit jail. It is sad to think that one so intellectually gifted should be brought thus low. Aside from the sympathetic chords which it will touch in every heart, it is meri torious as a literary work.] The iron voice from yonder spire has hushed its hollow tone. And mithtiglit finds me lying here all silent and alone ; The still moon limo' m window shed its soft light on the IlurT, With a melancholy paleness I have never seen before. And the summer's wind comes to me with its sotl As if burtheried with the sorrows of a weary, weary day : Yet the moonlieht cannot soothe me of the sickness here within, And the sad wind takes no portion. from the bosom's weight of sin. Yet my heart and all its pulses seem so quiet- ly at rest, That I scarcely feel them beating in my arms or in my breast ; And these rounded limbs are resting now so still upon the bed, That one would think to see me here that I was lying dead. What if 'twere so ? What if I died—died as I • am lying now, With something like to virtue's calm upon this marble brow ? . What if I died to-night ? ! now this sloth ° tul heart begins to beat, A fallen wretch like me to pass from earth is sadly sweet. Yes I am calm—as calm as clouds that slowly float and form, To give their tearful strength to some unpity ing summer storm ; As calm as great Sahara, ere the simoon sweeps its waste, Or the wide sea, ere the breaking wares its shores have laced. Still, still I have no tears to shed ; these eye lids bare no store— The fountain once within me is a fountain now no m ore, The moon alone weeps for me now, the pale and thoughtful moon, She weeps for dying Mary, through all the night's sweet noon. What if I died to-night within these wretched, gilded walls, Upon whose crimson length no eye of virtue ever falls ? What would its soulless inmates do when they should find tu9 here, With cheek too white for passion's smile, too cold for passion's tear? Oh ! would one come, and from these arms unclasp tte bauble bands ; Another wrencti the jewels off my fairer, whiter hands ; This splendid robe another's form would grace, oh, long before The glistening moonlight came again to sleep upon the floor. And when they laid me th,wn in earth where pauper's graves are made, Beneath no bending weeping willow's angel haunted shade, Who'd come and plant a flower o'er poor Mary's friendless grave, Or trim the tangled wild grass that no sum mer's wind could wave? Who'd raise a stone to mark it from the ruder graves around, That a passing stranger's footsteps might re spect the spot of ground? No stone would staud above me, no little waving tree, No hand would plant a flower o'er a fallen wretch like me. What if I died to-night? And when to-mor row's sun bad crept Where late the softly radiant moon in virgin heaven slept, They'd come and find me here. Gb ! who would weep to see me dead ? Who'd bend the knee of sorrow by the pulse less wanton's bed ? There's one would come—my mother God bless the angel band That bore her, ere her daughter fell, to yonder quiet land. Thank God for all the anthems that the glad dened angels sung When my mother went to heaven and I was pure and young. I'm all alone to-night. How strange that I should be alone! This splendid chamber seems to want some rone's wonted tone. Yon soulless mirror, with its smooth and all unvarnished face, sees not these jeweled arms to-night in their unchaste embrace. Oh! I have fled the fever of that heated, crowded ball, Where I might claim the richest and gayest of them all— Where I could smile upon them in that easy wanton grace That checks the blood of virtue that would struggle in my face. But I hate them all, I scorn them, as they scorn me on the street ; l,could spnrn away the pressure that my lips so often meet; I could trample on the lucre that their passion never spares, For they've robbed me of a heritage above the price of theirs ; They can never give me back what I have thrown away— The brightest jewel woman wears throughout her little day ; The brightest and the only one, that from the cluster riven Shuts out forever woman's heart from all its hopes of heaven. What if I died to-night—and died as I am ly ing here? There's many a green leaf withers ere the au tumn comes to sear, There's many a dew drop shaken down ere yet the sunshine came, And many a spark bath died before it waken ed into flame. What if I died to night and left these wretched bonds of clay, To seek beyond this hollow sphere a brighter, better day ? What if my soul passed out and sought that haven of the blest, "Where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest ?" Would angels call me from above, and beckon me to come And join them in their holy songs in that eternal home ? Would they clasp their hands in gladness when they sew my soul set free, And point beside my mother to a place re served for me ? Would they meet the as a sister—as one of precious worth, Who had won a place in heaven by her holi ness on earth ? 0 God ! I would not have my soul go out upon the air, With all its weight of wretchedness, to wan der where? oh ! where? "ARE you going after that sugar ?" called a Marquette (Mich.) mother to her boy, who was in the street. "Am I going after that sugar ?" drawled the youth in a saucy and impudent tone; but just then he happened to see his father coming up behind him, and he said very respectfully and loving!y : "Why, of course I am, ma; I didn't know you needed it right away." A MINISTER had a negro in his family. One Sunday, when he was prhching, he happened to Ivok in the pew where the negro was, and could hardly contain him self as he saw the negro, who could not read or write a word, scribbling away most industriously. After meeting, he said to the negro : "Tom, w hat were you doing in church ?" "Taking notes, massa; all de gunmen takes notes."— "Bring your notes here and let me see them." Tom brought hie notes, which looked more like Chinese than English "Why, Tom, this is all nonsense " thought so, mass; all the time you was preaching it." Under the Microscope. Perhaps you will think it almost incred• ible when I tell you that plants breathe! But it is really so. The leaves answer the same purpose as the lungs, and are just as necessary to life, and, and what is nnre, this breathing goes on mostly in the dark. When plants are in the shade they take on carbon, thus improving the air by its removal, and makidg it better fitted for animal life. The microscope shows us that there arc a number of small openings in the under part of the leaf, which help the plant to breathe, and it would be as im possible for these functions in these plants to cease for a moment without their dying, as it would he for animals to live without breathing You see, then, that in the day time, when we are busy and require a large supply of air, these little plants help to make it of a better quality, becau , e, the moment sun shines upon them they exhale oxygen; and at night, when we are sleep ing, or resting from our labors, and we need less oxygen, the plants take in their supply—giving it over again for the ben efit of man as he walks to new necessities— thus, by the removal of carbon and the renewal of oxygen, keeping the atmosphere in nine!' purer state. You have heard of the pollen of flowers, which the bee is so fond c)' gathering to make her wax ; look at it under the glass, you would not be lieve what a variety of structure it has; some of the prettiest are like little globes covered with thistles. Then take down many kinds of seeds, either on the top like a little crown or like wings ! Do you know what this is all for ? It is to pro tect it, or that it may float away and drop more easily to the spat where it is to spring up and grow. What a wonderful contri vance to increase vegetable life This is the reason that in many a wild and un frequented spot we find sometimes such a wealth of floral beauty. You know that some kinds of nettles are very thickly covered with prickles that sting the flesh severely. Well, these prick lea under the microscope look very much like the stings of animals—hollow, and terminating in a very sharp point with an opening at the end, at the very bottom of this cavity is a tiny bag filled with a sort of liquid, which upon being; touched, is sent through the opening and, upon en tering the flesh, produces the pain you have often felt, no doubt. Mosses of all kinds are very interesting to look at, and are as perfect in their leaves as the largest flower grows ; some that grow on the rocks are wonderful beautiful, yet they are so common, and without flower, that they at tract but little attention and would seem altogether useless, but this is not the case. Here, as in everything created, is infinite wisdom and utility. The mosses shelter and keep alive seeds and roots of plants, which otherwise would die. They give food and shelter to many birds, and this is not all; for in their very decay they supply nourishment to a new generation of plants by fertilizing the soil and im proving their condition. In extremely. cold climates, where every other species of vegetation would perish, upon the frozen earth and rocks may be found mosses of the richest green. Homely and insignifi. cant and even repulsive objects are often found, when examined, to consist of ex qusite parts and be beautifully adapted to their proposed ends, and will excite more interest and wonder than you can readily imagine. On every hand, in God's won derful creation—in every leaf, every flow er, every living thing—the Father's work. manship and the manifestation of His love and power are developed, even in the most minute objects as well as in those of greater ' magnitude. Not Generally Known. Frogs live from 12 to 15 years, (if tot eaten). Ducks can fly at the rate of 90 miles au hour. The crow can fly at the rate of 25 miles an hour. The sparrow can flj ut, the rate of 92 miles an hour. The falcon can fl y at the rate Cf 75 wiles an hour. Hawks can fly at tli rate of 150 tulles an hour. Fair winds make their flight three times greater. The Australian dog and the shepherd dog of Egypt never bark. In Spain there are 10,000,000 fine wooled Merino sheep tended by 50,000 shepherds and guarded by 30,000 dogs. Queen Isabella's jewels have been sold for $720,000, and she kept a few of the neatest bits just to show off now and than. The old Alexandrian Library contained 700,000 volumes, the largest ever brought together before the invention of printing. Each square inch of akin contains 3,- 600 sweating tubes, or perspiratory pores, each of which may be likened to a little draintile one fourth of an inch long, ma king an aggre..:ate length of the entire surface of the body 201,166 feet, or a tile ditch for draining the body almost forty miles long. The skin is composed of three layers, and varies from one-fourth to one eighth of an inch in thickness. Its average area in an adult is estimated to bt , 2.000 square inches. The atmospheric pressure being about fourteen pounds to the square inch, a person or teedium size is subjected to a pressure of 28,..:00 pounds. Leuwenhock ha 4 computed that 10,000 threads of the full grown spider are not larger than a single hair of the head. Ile calculates, further, that when young spi Bars first begin to spin, 400 of them are not larger than one of full growth—allow ing which, 4,000,000 of a young spider's threads are not so large as the single hair of a man's beard. Jr is pleasant to see a young creature come into a horse car, seat herself for ad miration, look happy for five minutes, and then wake up to the dismal consciousness that there is a rip in the middle finger of her . right glove. THE pupils of a girl's school in Pitts burg, out for their day's promenade, were recently mistaken for an approaching band of temperance reformers, and. their ap pearance was the signal for a general clos ing of the saloons. A NAUGHTY little boy, blubbering be cause his mother wouldn't let him go down to the river on Sunday, upon being ad monished said. "I don't want to go swim with 'em, ma; I only wanted to go do.rn to see the bad little boys drown for going in a swimuain' on Sunday." A Human Monstrosity. FRIGHTFUL DEFORMITY or A MICHIGAN PAUPER-A MAN WHO ISIHALF TURTLE) Willi FINS LIKE A FISH. A correspondent of the Chicago Inter- Ocean of the 27th, writing from Battle Creek, Michigan, tells a remarkable story of the discovery of a monstrosity in the poor house of that State, known as "the turtle man " The correspondent say he visited the porhonie to satisfy him. self as to the truth of the numerous stories he had heard regarding this creature. The keeper of the institution introduced him to the monstrosity, calling the four feet high dwarf, who stood before him, by the name of Samuel Keene He says : Keene, at the command of the keeper, managed, by a singular side movement of the b tdy and pushing his slouch bat from his head by his queer shaped claws, to make a courtesy. As he stood before us, bare)eaded, he presented the most wonder• ful specimen of man amalgamated with the animal kingdom that can be imagined. On speaking with him be apparently understoA every word, but lacked suffi cient intelligence to frame a reasonable answer, just as a dumb brute can compre hend hut cannot give an intelligent reply. In stature this singular being is short, thick set, and flat rather than round. His legs and arms are short, the hands turn ing outward, the same as a turtle's and in- stead °flingers the widened palm ends in webbed claws. Tao feet are fashioned in the saute manner and when he walks it is with a sidelong, rambling gate, moving the entire side of the body in the manner pe culiar to a tortoise. In his actions and talk he has a slow measured jerking style. The inside of his dirty claw or fin, which he held out to shake hands with ; was of a yellow color, as were also his feet and stomach, the akin having the same ribbed appearance and color of the under part of a. turtle. It was reported that he had a shell upon his back, but upon examination it was found to consist of tough layers of cuticle, which, however, are growing hard er each year, and may soon became ossifi ed. The peculiar color of different por tions of his body, some being dark and others white, has led to the conclusion that his flesh is multikind or of different construction in (issue. Although so small he is thirty two years of age. The most singular and startling feature of the mon strosity is the head, which seems but to be a continuation of the neck, with a flat face and head coming to a point at the top, the same as that of a snake. He is almost constantly moving his head or eyes from side to side. The back portion of his cran ium is directly perpendicular to the neck, and covered with short, bristly, black hair, but no hair grows on any other portion of the body ; no whiskers or mustache, only a few bristles at each corner of his mouth. The nose is flat, like an Ethiopian's. The mouth extends from jowl to jowl, very wide, and furnished with a full set of teeth. He constantly keeps his mouth open, with his large tongue lolling out, and it is this, more than anything else, that causes his unintelligible jargon. But the eyes are the most striking portion or his features. The whites are excessively large and rolling, the pupils small and black, look directly ahead, and possess s wild, staring, 3et fascinating glare, very sharp and piercing, and glistening froi4 underneath the broad eyebrows. In temper he is perfectly docile and harmless, unless aroused to anger, when he is sullen and anapp.sh. In habits he is not very social, scarcely ever says anything unless spoken to, and, when young, never mingled with the boys or engaged in juvenile sports. His parents were very poor, and both died when he was very young. He has broth ers and sisters well off in worldly goods, and respectable, but they refuse to support him, and he is a pauper upon the charity of the town . CAUSE OF TILE DEFORMITY. The cause of this terrible deformity is said to be a fright received by the mother previous to the child's birth. It furnishes of the most startling proofs of parental influence on rei•ord. The parents resided near Diamond Lake, and, being very poor, often caught fish for food. Whil out of a boat one day, with her h touching the water and holding an enormous turtle, attracted•by the mov ing fingers, suddenly jumped up and bit her. She never recovered from the fright, and when the child was born, a few months afterward, it had been indelibly stamped upon its entire body the form of the tur tle. It was not so noticeable at first, bat grew with its growth and strengthened with its strength. The first habit which was noticeable was its desire to creep tur tle-fashioned, even after it could walk. At terward, upon examination by doctors, the joints of the arms and legs were found to he double and turned outward, like a tor toise. As the horrible truth grew upon the mother, the child became loathsome to her, and it was probably to shame and grief' that the early death of the parent was due. During boyhood it was found impossible to educate the boy beyond a few words which he utters hourly. As he has no memory of facts or incidents, he cannot tell even his age, or anything con nected with his life, and all is to him a blank. He exists only in the present, and, like the brute, seems to have no care for the morrow or sorrow for the put. In summer his greatest delight is to go bath ing, and he will remain under water for a long time. When a boy he had to be constantly watched lest he should drown, as his friends feared Ile was a constant care to his parents during childhood as he had to be fed, his claws or fins not being large enough to grasp food, bat lately he has learned to feed himself. He is fondest of vegetable food and fish, and will eat anything he sees the rest of his fellow companions eat. He seems to have no pas sion or affection and cares no more for the opposite sex than for his own. He takes the greatest pleasure—which is the only sense he seems to possess—in tending baby, and for our amusement the keeper brought in an infant. Sam's features lighted up with a smile which would have done credit to an Egyptian idol. his mouth opened still further and his tongue protruded us lie saw the child. Sitting down in a chair and crossing his dwarfed limbs to from a cradle he tenderly took the poor unfortunate infl,nt left on the steps a few days before and began to rock it with his knees, while he made a.most singular, low mumbling noise, which he called singing. Sammy, as he is called by the inmates, has very little idea of the great world. All his world is the house and farm on which he lives. He seems to possess but little or no emotion and upon the announcement of any one's death, takes it as calmly u a call to dinner. He seems to be simply one grade above animal life and asfit an argument for Darwin as could be wished. We are in formed that Barnum was negotiating for him as a companion to his tattooed man. NO. 3.
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