Cht Cfutrc Democrat. BELLEFONTE, PA. The Largest, Cheapest and Beat Paper FUIIMSIIKI) IN I'KNTHK COUNTY. From lb Now York ObtM*nr*r. INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. Third Quarter. IT MV. HEART M. URut'T, D. D. AUGUST I I. Lesson 7. THE RED SEA. Kx. II: IS-27. OoLMn TIXT:— ■" Np**K unto the children of that they go forward."—Kv 11 I•. Central Truth: — To the obedient, God opens a ssfe pathway through sens of difficulty nd dunger. When the last judgment fell upon Egypt, in the death o( all the first-born, Pharaoh hastily called for Moses ami Aaron. But one feeling seemed to pos sess him, und that was terror. Trem bling with a sense of helplessness, he ordered them to take the people and "be gone." The Egyptians were equally terrified and urgent, "for they said, We be all dead men." Before daybreak tin- Israelites were actually on their way. But they did not go out empty-banded and crouching. They a-ent as victors, not as captives. They demanded a por tion of the treasures of which they had been robbed. They did not "borrow," as our version renders the word : they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver and jewels of gold und raiment, as men that had a right so to do. And the Egyptians were glad to give what they asked. The whole number ol those who went out could not have been less than two or three millions, counting, as we must, six hundred thousand men able to bear arms, together with their families, ami the mixed multitude that 'went with them. As has been often and abun dantly shown, this, by no means, repre sents an incredible increase during their sojourn in Egypt. Many attempts have been made to trace their path, but great differencesot opinion with respect to it still prevail. , The stations named are Succoth, "the tents;" Etham, "the fortress," ami ; Pihahiroth. "the place where the reeds ! grow." But neither of these places can j certainly be identified, nor can any j theory respecting their exact course be ! constructed which shall be tree from ! difficulty. The straight road would ! have taken them through the land of the Philistines: a warlike people, with I whom they were by no means prepared • to cope, God therefore led them l>\ : another and more winding way. But ; while they pursued their journey, I'ha , raoh repented that he had let so valua j hie a portion of his subjects go. and set 1 out in pursuit. Two things are here to he noted. The children of Israel were in groat peril, j and their faith quite forsook them. The Egyptians, with horses and char j iots and horsemen, overtook them at l'ihahiroth, between Migdol nnd the sea. There is a view recently put for- j ward with great confidence and learn- 1 ing which locates this tr to the north,) on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea But the majority of scholars still holt to the older view. It is quite possihl- j that the "Weedy Sea," rendered Be 1 , .Sea in our common version, was a sy tern of lagoons and marshes in tr ' north of Egypt. But the theory is nt i established. There is no sufficient r 4 son tor doubting that Pihaturoth wax near the point where Suez lies. Into ' this place ol peril God had brought his ' people. And from it escape seemed iin j possible. Behind them on the north ; was the Egyptian army. West and south were precipitous dills. Eastward was the sea. Surely they were "entan gled." And their faith forsook them. , They forgot all the wonders God had done in their presence; the merciful deliverances lie had wrought for them, I They were sore afraid. They bitterly complained against Moses. They did a* God's people so often do when brought into straits where no human arm can save. But their fears were groundless as their want of faith was wicked. The key of this whole narrative is in the thirteenth verse of this chapter: " Fear not; stand thou still and see the salvation of the Lord which I will show to you to-day." It was that they might see bis salvation that they had been brought hither. God would prove to them by one final and most glorious act the greatness of his power and bis faithfulness to bis people. By one crowning interposition he would teach them to obey in the face of difficulties, and to trust in times of darkness nnd peril. The pillar of the cloud which went before Israel on their march and came between them and the Egyptians when j they went into the midst of the sea, was the visible sign of find's presence. By means of it God was the leader and ! protector of his people. It was the .Schechioab, which afterwards rested upon the Most Holy I'lace. If we accept the common view with j respect to the place where the waters divider!, its breadth was from three to four miles. Here the water is not deep. The place is used as a ford. Through it Kobinson was told people waded at low water. Niebuhr crossed it in 17fi2 on a dromedary. Bonaparte crossed at this point on bis way through the des ert. A strong east wind, like that spok en of in the lesson, would drive the waters far hack, leaving a firm and level bed of rocky soil. And if at the bead of the gulf there were any depression in the bed of the sea, the effect would he as if a broad pathway bad been sud denly lifted, leaving water on either side. We are not to tbink of any such marvel as the waters standing in ab rupt or perpendicular walls, nothing like this being at all indicated by the language employer!. As the parting of the sea was caused by the east wind, a sudden change to the opposite quarter would drive the waters rapidly hack. The miraculous element in this grand event was not in any violation of na ture's laws; it was in such a use of them as can be accounted for only upon the supposition of direct supernatural in tervention. The communication of the divine plan to Mores nml tho opening of tho waters and their return at just the right momenU to secure the escape of Israel and the destruction of the Egyptians, were hy natural IIICUIIN, and yet hy tho special and miraculous pow er of Clod. I'RACTtI'AI, SI UUBSTIONN. 1. God sometimes brings his truochil dren into positions of great difficulty and peril, yet no difficulty or peril oan be so great that lie cannot make for us away of escape. 2. When he bids us go forward, it is always safe tooboy ; he will make obed ience possible, und tho end will be blessing. 3. The angel of God, which went be fore tho camp of Israel, is by many sup posed to have been tho Second Person of the Trinity, as he was manifest be fore his incarnation. Jesus is now by his example and teachings and Holy Spirit the guide ol believers. And no day will be so bright that we shall not need him, nor will any night be so daik that he will not shine as our guiding light. 4. The same manifestation of God may be light to his friends and dark ness to his foes, hastening the salvation ol the one and the destruction of the other. 3. Israel's exodus from Egypt allbrds at many points a type of the soul's es cape from a lite of sin. It is a passage from bondage to freedom ; a state where judgments accumulate to one of disci pline culminating in glory ; a going out with doubts and fears, and get with great promises; a flight before enemies lull ol wrath and of great power, and yet with a Helper who is divine. Seas of difficulty and sorrow seem to close up the pathway. Hut no soul ever gave trusting heed to the command, "(Jo forward," who did not witness the part ing of the waters before him. Away appeared where none appeared possi ble. C>. The punishment of the wicked is sure and remediless; the salvation of those who heed and obey the divine voice is glorious ami everlasting, Be yond the sea lies heaven. THE MAM OX THE STEEI'I.E. WHAT A rs MOl's c I.IVARA ssvs or THE rr. HI us or ins in 'si.sr.ss. From Ih*' Troy Tim- f. The hundreds of people who have watched the <>|K-ration.-> of the man upon the towering steeple of the Third street lsa|>ti<t church painting the wooden spire ami rearranging the weather vane, have expressed wonder as to the means used to reach his lofty position. A reporter yesterday went up into the belfry and interviewed the most experienced steeple climber in the world, dames Ferguson. "Why, my dear boy," said he, with an hon esty of expression that struck home at once, "I've s|>eiit the greater part of my life up among those rolling clouds. For eighteen years I sailed the sea be- tween the Ko.-1 Indies and China be /'ore the mint, and afterward occupied every station except that of raptain. WlihU I wm "ixteen years of a_"- | 'limlulL a steeple in tilasgow three huQdryj hour. The (..yferaaat it took the noted S< <.t-h - three day- t'> per form mounting fteepli-* f r lie 7*'^^^^. I be 'hi-war' Presbyterian n i three hundred -"feel I took dnWIl the weather vane in the shape of a fish, which weighs three hutidr<*d and twen ty-seven jMiiinds, being of cop|ier and loaded with lead. It was the first time any one had been up the steeple in thirty years. The highest steeple I ever climbed went up three hundred and seventy feet. This was in Ayr shire, Scotland. The general impres sion is that when on a steeple it is easier to look up than down. This is all a mistake. When looking up an almost, irresistible feeling eomes over you to jump from your seat. 1 had ex|erience of this kind while on the steeple of Dr. Darling's church in Albany. I gazed steadily up for a moment into "pace, when, without any feeling of dizziness or anything of ' that sort, I became almost beside my self and a kind of delirium came over me. I had to quite right then and there, for a moment later I would have sprung from my seat. I can look steadilv down ami it does not af fect me. I seldom climb steeples in cold weather. It's too confounded dangerous, the sides Wing icy and slipjiery. I was up on a Hudson steeple last January, and then vowed I'd swear off climbing in winter, as I nearly fell. "They tell me this here steeple ; shakes when the wind blows. I)o you know it's all the better for that? It ■ gives the iron roils on the inside play, 1 Ixwk out for these taut and apparent- Ily solid steeples. They go some times with a sudden crash. And, besides, I j enjoy a ride on n swaying steeple. It reminds me of the days when I was at sea. Troy looks immense from the top of that spire. The people appear like mites, while the sky liears the same aspect as from the street. I never remember of having felt dizzy when on a steeple. I feel just as much to home away up there where Dial's handiwork can be vicwi-d in all its beauty as on the ground. I've got to, in fact, for if I didn't you'd never catch mo hundreds of feet from good walk.ng. That arrow on the spire of the church I took down, gilded it and replaced it. It is ten feet in length nnd weighs all of two hundred pounds. When putting it baek I held it in po sition with one hand and tightened the bolt* with the other —no easy task, I tell you. A man at this business can earn from IT to $lO a day. As to the manner in which I ascend that must remain a secret. 1 never allow au outsider to handle r examine my ropes. 1 attend strictly to business when mi high, mid if I saw even my wife on the sidewalk would refuse to recognize her. I just glory in being as high as ever I can get. It's my home up there, and I think if I go below when I die it will tie a terrible piece of laid judgment on somebody's part —probably my own." A NLW KN(JLA.M M'STOM. 'ACTS AUDIT COI.TK.E STL L>KNTS AS WAIT- I: lis — AN INTEKCHTINU If.TTKIt. Tbo Boston Courier has a letter from a "college student" waiter, in which the writer says: Here I am, fairly settled for the season as table waiter in the spacious dining room of the Dash house. It seen is <juite a change alter our eollego life at Dart mouth ; hut 1 think on the whole I shall like it. The work is ipjite hard and some parts of it disagreeable; but that I expected. Mv companions in the dining hall will, I think prove very pleasant aeipiaiutances. About seventy in number, they are gathered together from all parts of New Eng land. Several of these gentlemen are from Tnlts college, one being a mem ber of the class which graduated this summer. lam theonly repccscntutivc of Dartmouth here. Among the young ladies who are waiters are students from both Vermont and New Hamp shire normal schools. One ladv is from Weileslov college and two others are from a well known institute of in struction in Central Massachusetts. I might goon in this way until nearly every one of the seventy had been de scribed ; hut it is enough to say that probably half of the help necessary for the working of this huge hotel is composed of students and teachers. If you linda book tucked out of sight underneath a sideboard, and wonder w ho is rending on the sly, open it, mid lo ! a copv of Shakesja-arc or Milton, perhaps Virgil, or even Horn- cr in the original. Most jtcoplc ac cept with n jrol gruec having their steak and colli-e handed litem hv a waiter who can demonstrate a propo sition in Kuclid it necessary. < >thcr rcgard it as something to In- ridiculed. Among this cla-s is Mi-s K. S, I'liclpi, who touches lightly upon the subject in a chapter of h<-r "Friends," ■-ti cltided in a recent number of the At lantic. A few allow themselves to up p< ar ridiculous. li> r<- i- an iii-tam e: I heard a lady at a table near mine a-k her waiter in a patronizing man ner, "(.'an you read, my girl?" (on siderahlv astonished, the girl nnswi r ed "Yes." She might have answered truthfully that she did not read not only Kuglish, hut al- > I-atin, <>ri k and French. It may lw asked why such a person can l>e induced to conic a a servant in a hotel, where -he cannot hut he obliged to put up with many disagree able thing*. Muny come because they wish to pa-s tlnir vacation awav from the eity, and -till he earning something instead of sp< nding. Some w i-|> to he, for at least a lew weeks, independent of their parents or friends who sup. port them for the remainder of the year. A few come because they ex pert to haven jolly good time with little work. The-e usually go away disappointed. Of this kind were two nice looking girls who recently eauie here from a town in Maine, expecting to do table work. They expected to work only six hours a day, to have a room carpeted mid lighted with gas, and so forth. When told that, among other things, they would be expected to help wash the dining room floors, thev exclaimed, in great surprise: ' "Why, we <lo not know how to do such j work. Mother always diil it at home." After staying two days they left in great disgust. To all such persons, and in fact to every one who is think ing of coming here, I would snv, don't cotne unless you expect to work hard, and are willing to do so. The Suirarity nf the Weasel. Pnm PnU IWrtiarft Pi>*w The remarkable sagacity of the weasel was well illustrated the other day by an incident which actually oe | curred in the suburbs of Santa Har ! hara. A gentleman's Imrn was in fested with rats, and he was greatly annoyed hy their depredations. They had been gradually disappearing, how ever, during the pat few weeks. The gentleman finally discovered the cause of their disappearance in a very wide nwake weasel, which was engaged at the time in a vigorous combat with an unusually large sized rat. The latter proved too much for his adversary and finally chased his weaselship out of the ham. A few mornings later the gentleman again found the same ani mals engaged in a similar battle. The weasel at last ran away, as before, and the rat followed in hot pursuit. This time, however, the wcazc) ran through a hole it had burrowed in a pile of hardened compost. The hole was rpiitc large at the entrance, but the outlet was scarcely large enough to admit the passage of the weasel's laxly. The weasel darted into the hole, with the rat at his heels. A moment later the weasel emerged from the other side, ran quickly around the compost pile, and again entered the hole, this time in the enemy's rear. The gentle man, interested in the proceedings, watched the place some time, and found that only the weasel came out. Digging into the compost, he found the rat quite dead and iarfly eaten. The weasel bad arranged bis trap so that the rat could enter, hut becoming closely wedged in the nairow portion of the hole, could be uttacked at a disadvantage and eusily killed. ♦ Tin; WKKI'INK WILLOW, 111 Young pMtfil*. You have seen and admired the weeping willow trei ihe Hut is llubij tunica—upon which the captive He* brews hung their harps when they sat down by the river of Babylon, and "wept when they remembered /.ion." it is a native of the garden of Eden, and not of America, and I will tcii you hoiv it immigrated to this coun try : More than one hundred and fifty years ago a merchant lost his fortune. He went to Smyrna, a seaside town of Asia Minor, to recover it. Alexander I'ope, one of the great poets of ling land, was the merchant's warm friend, and sympathized with him in his ini-- fortune. Soon after the merchant arrived in Smyrna he sent to I'ope, its a present, a box of dried figs. At thut time the poet hud built a beautiful villa at Twickenham, on the hank of the Thames, and AMIS adorning it with trees, shrubbery and flowering plants. < hi opening the box of fig-, I'ope discovered in it a small twig of the tree. It was a stranger to him. A it came from the East he planted it in the ground near the river, close by his villa. The spot accidentally chosen for the planting was favorable to its growth, for the TAAIG AA:I front the weeping willow tree jiossibly from the hank of one of "the rivers of Bab vlon" —which flourishes best along the borders of watercourses. This little twig grew vigorously, and in a few years it became a large tree, spreading AA ide its branches and droop ing graceful sprays, and winning the admiration of all the j>et's friends a well as strangers. It Ix-eame the an ee-tor of all the weeping Avillow tr< < - in England. There was a rebellion in the Eng lish-American colonic- in 177Brit i-li troops were -ntto B <-t> -n t<> put down the insurrection, 'i hi ir leaders e\|te< ted it to end 111 a few weeks at'li r their arrival. Some young ulfi<<r hrought fi-hing taekh* with them to enjoy -port aft< r tin ir bri< i Avar. < till ers came to settle on the eonfi-eated lands of the "r< beis.' Among the latter was a young < l!i --ecr of the itafr of <•< in r.il Howe. 11• brought with him. wrapp- d in Mid silk, a twig from I'ope'- weeping wil low at TIM. keuham, which he intend ed to plant mi - me stream watering hi- American < -tat'*. Washington commanded an army before B'l-toll AA- hi h kept the British imprisom-d in that city a long time against their will. <>n hi- stall* wn his stepson, John I'urke Cu-ti, vvlio frequently went t<> the British hcad cpiartcrs, under the proteeti n of a flag, with dispatches* lor Gen. Ilowe !!•• Ix-eame n< piaintd willl the oliiei-r who hail the willow twig, and they Ix eame fast friend-. Instead of "crushing the r< hi I ion in six weeks," the Briti-li army at B <— ton, at the end of an imprisonment <>) nine mouths, were glad to fly bv sea for life ami lilicrty to Halifax, l/.ng fjefore that flight the British subal tern, satisfied that he should nevi r have an e-tate in America to adorn, gave his carefully preserved willow twig to young t'ustis, AAIIO planted it at Abingdon, Virginia, where it grew and flourished, HIKI Iweame a parent of all the weeping willows in the I nit oil States. A tINCFNNATI MISKK THE SI'MIKSTIVX lira AND DKATII or A WORsnil'l'Kß or L.01.11, The Cincinnati Enquirer ha-- the fol low ing : A few days ago a small funer al procession might have been seen slow ly approaching the Catholic ceme tery near Warsaw. The coffin was lowered into the grave, ami a few minutes later a yellow mound marked the spot where William S. lay buried. For thirty years this man. with fcAv friends or counsellors, lived alone in poverty and filth nt No. 253 West Sixth street. In his death is re vealed another instance of the horri ble life of a miser. With SI,OOO and over within hi* very hands, and deeds for a couple of houses and lots, Mc (jtiadc continued his self-chosen her mitage. A one story dingy frame, the front of which had been used for a store, a few doors east of Central ave nue, has been closed during the past week. Here it wa* MeQunde lived, and a more miserable habitation could not he imagined. The stench of the place, the foul air, laden with the fumes of moth and decay, still lingers in the reportorial nostrils, in a small ileii —it could hardly lie called a room —perhaps ten by fifteen. Willinm Mo (junde slept. An old fashioned bed. dark with the dirt of ages, covered Avith cobwebs and griniv with soot, stood in one corner. '1 he mattress had long lost semblance of lieiug cov ered with ticking, nnd both blue and Avbite stripes were lost in the black filth which prevailed over all. A hare floor, the Ismrds of which had partly rotted away, a small looking glass several inches square, and a trunk, completed tho outfit of the room to which during hi* life Mc- Quadc forbade entrance to both friend nnd foe. During the terrible hot spell of so recent a date McQuade was stricken down. He was discovered lying insensible amid the pile of filth which served aa the accoutrements of his home. He was taken to the hos-! pital, and after lingering a wick he finally died from tin* effects of the prostration. The night before he died > lie revealed tin- hiding place of a |s<r tioii of his |K)-essions, saying that on the morrow lie would tell where the re-t could he found. Before the dawn of that morrow M<-({uade was dead, and though search after starch had i been made for the hidden treasure he > could not lake with him, the efforts of those who tried to uueurth the secret have proved futile. In this mouldy trunk, mentioned above, secure I v h la den beneath piles of tnotlieaten clotln-s, was found £I,OOO. In a small desk in the store fifty dollars more of gold and silver was discovered, iwiijqx-il in brow n paper. The deeds for a house on Baum street and one in Fulton were also found, including the lease for the pro|s*rtv occupied at the time of his death, v>liich embraces a num ber of houses on both Sixth and George streets. The floors have been ripjicd up in search of the money which lie, in hi* will, left to his sister, supjsised to live in .Jersey < ity, hot of whom no trace ha- yet been froumi. One thou sand dollars was his bequest to the orphans, and the sum found AAUI be so appropriated. Trouble Bad In ctllutr at a Jther's \itme. Ffotu I'LlU.it]}>tla Ttin'. Jut then we came to a pleasant streuni and stop|>ed to water the horses. I usked I>-c what the stream was called. "De Mat, sub." M*ll it," said I. "M-A-T —Mat," said he. We trotted along through woods and le Ids for a few miles, and came to another stream. 1 asked Ivce what the stream was called. "De Ta. -ah." "Spell it." "T-A— Ta." Again we put whip to our horses, and utter tlire<* more miles had been left behind we r'-aehed another small stream running through a piece of wo i Is. I a.-kcd J/cc what the stream was called. "De |'.i, -ah." "Spell it." • i'-o— IV By that time we wer<- on the road t< I're leriek-hurg. Coming lo a Forth rivulet. I a-kul D wlmt the SIP -iin AMI- railed. "1 >e Nv, sah." "SIM-11 it." "X Y—Nv." "The what ?" "De Nv, sah. Jin dar's vo' M-A-T, • n <lar - vo' Mat ; den dar's vo' T-A, Yi. dar's Vo' Ta. en' yo' M A TT A, 'i n yo' Ma'.ta; den dar's yo' I'-O, Yu dar'- yo !'<>, 'in vo* M A f-T-A-l'O, 'en V"' Mattaf'o ; den dar's AM' N-Y, '< II ilar- yDU' Nv, '< n yo' M-A-T A- I'-O-N-Y, <ii ihir Ao halt yo' Jiil>l-r Mat *itj■ in y. which am a lug riblwr made up of d<-<• to' little, teeny rib- IK r- dat us j<*.-s pn-s obcr !" I>■<• wa- ti -< riou* u- u |ier-<iii at a funera 1. 1 hud thought when he l gan hi- rigmarole that he AAU- in earn est. It actually did take 1/r three liDiir- t<i sjiell the word "Mattapoiiy," arnl meanwhile we had travc'lecl fiftei-n miles. The lir-t syllable was s|ielled at *.lO A. M. AV In nwe crossed the Mat; the second alsiut ft.d'i when we crossed the Ta ; the third at 10.'JO when we crossed the I'D. and the fourth at 11, when AAC left the Ny behind. Medicinal (Qualities of Hiittermilk. For summer I leverage there can lie nothing more healthy and strengthen ing than buttermilk. It is excellent fur weak or delicate stomachs, and far belter as a dinner drink than coffee, tea or water and, unlike them, docs not retard hut rather aids digestion. A cell I rated physician once said that if every oue knew the value of butter milk us a drink, it would lie more freely partaken of by persons who drink so excessively of other bever ages ; and further compare its effects upon the system to the cleaning out of a cook stove that has In-en clogged up with ashes that have sifted through, filling up every crevice and crack, saving that the human system is like the stove, and collects ami gathers re fuse matter that can in no way he ex cluded from the system so effectually as by drinking buttermilk. It is also a sjpecific remedy for indigestion, soothes and quiets the nerves, and very somnolent to those who are troubled with sleeplessness. There is something strange in the fact that |iersons who are fond of but termilk never tire of singing its praises, while those who nre not fond of it never weary of wondering how sonic people can drink it. So far as is jms sihle, people should overcome their aversion to it, and learn to drink it for health's sake. One gentleman of our acquaintance is so extremely fond of it that we knew him one time to drink nlioiit three glasses, then set his glass down with a thud, exclaiming earnestly, as he smacked his lips: "That's food and raiment both." While another buttermilk enthusiast made the statement INKS that where the liver has become lifeless from tor pidity and inaction and is too dead to |erfiirm its functions, buttermilk will cause a new one to grow in. Whatever exaggerated statements may have been made concerning butter milk, its medical properties cannot be overrated, and it should be more free ly used by all who can act it Every one who values good health should drink buttermilk every day in warm waller, arid let tea, coflee and water alone. I'or the benefit of those who arc not j already aware of it, | niay arid, that in the churning the first process of di gestion i* gone through, making it one !of the easiest and rjuiekext of all j thing* to digest. It make* gastric juice and eon tain a | properties that readily as-imilutc with jit, with little or no wear upon the I digestive organ*. ASE( JMFI Ks OF ANIM ALS. * An American eagle'* peculiar freak i- related hy \\ . W . Cole, a Lowmun. : hile he wa* exhibiting in M< !bourne, An-trulia, an American eagle, the only one of the specie* ever in Aus tralia, belonging to the zoological gar dens, ex raped from it- cage and roared heavenward, hut was attracted toward J th<: (olei of the circuit tent-, where I the flag- of all nation* were flying, ! The lird railed around for a few' mo j incuts, and then, a- if impelled by some sis-cial power, it darted toward j the pole from which the !tar- and | Stripes were flying, and seated itself | upon the |iinnaele of the flag-taff, there remaining fully half an hour, ; after which it winged its way to the j mountain* arid was seen no more. The Klmira /><*-* J'rt ** t< ll a story ; of how a blind horse in a pa-lure lot i wow led to choice feeding ground and to water by a gander, who went In fore him giving sign* by a constant j eaekle. A perfect understanding wax had between them, and they seemed to know what each wanted. At night the gander accompanied the horse to the stall, sat under the trough, and i the horse would occasionally bite off a j mouthful of corn and drop it to the j ground for hi* feathered friend, and thus they would share eaeh otlu r's ♦ meal*, finally, on one Sunday after noon, the old hor-e died. The gander seemed utterly lost, wandered around disconsolately, looking evervwhc re for his old comrade, refusing food, and at the end of a week lie, too, died. To test the faculty which dog- pox -v of returning to their home* by a nearly dir* ei course after being car ried a great distance hy a circuitous route, an Ohio phy-ieiau made a dog insensilile with ether at Cincinnati, put hirii into aw icker basket, took a train of the Cincinnati Southern rail ; .11, fir-t --utliwe-t to I)ativill< .Junc tion, thence to Crab Orchard, and finally northeast to a hunting rendez vous near l'er<-a. The dog was shut up all nigh - and li 1. The ih-xi morn ing he wa- taken ■ ut to a < baring and on the t • of a grassy knoll and let !•• -e. Without any preliminary sur .v<yho -1 uiik ■;!' into a ravine, scram bled ti|> the opjiosite hank and struck fir t into a trot and then a swift gallop, not toward Crah Orchard, but in a U e line for Cincinnati. He ran not like an animal that had lost its war, but "like n hor-c on a tramway," • trnight ahead, with hi< liose well imi, a- it he wa- following an air line to ward an invisible goal, lie made a short detour to the left to avoid a lat- , < rai ravine, l ut further up he resum ed his original course, l<a|d a rail fence and went ahead into a coppice of cedar bushes, where they finally |o*t sight of hint. The report of the experimentero wa* forwarded to the owner hy rail, and on the afternoon of the next clay after receiving this re port the owner mcf the dog on the street in Cincinnati, "wet, full of burrs and rt morse and ap|iareutly ashamed of hi- tardiness." A Funny Old Story. Tom Marshall was engaged in the trial of a case in the interior of Ken tucky. when a decision of the judge struck him as so had that he arose and said : , "There never was such a ruling as that since Pontius Pilate presided on i the trial of Christ." "Mr Clark," responded the judge, | "fine Mr. Marshall $lO for contempt ; of court." "I confess your honor," continued Torn, "that what I said was a little hard on Pontius Pilate, hut it is the first time in the history of Kentucky I jurisprudence that it is held that to speak disrespectfully of Pontius Pilate is contempt of court." "Mr. Clark, make the fine S2O for a continuous contempt," said the judge solemnly. "Well, Judge," Tom added, "as you won all my money la-t night at poker, lend me the twenty." "Mr. Clark, cried the judge, hastily, "remit the fine. The State can afford to lose the money better than I can." "I congratulate the oourt upon its sane condition," said Tom, tesuming his seat amid roars of laughter. A — Q "Tom," saiil a girl to her sweetheart, "you have been paying your distress to me long enough. It is time you made known your contentions, so as not to keep me in expense any longer." - - A LITTI.I girl had been scolded hy her grand na>l her. She picked up her little kitten, and caressing it, said : "I wish one of us three was dead. And it ain't you, kitty, and it ain't me," A lovkr discovered that his girl wore two sets of gold-mounted faKe _ teeth, and he sat down and wrote a I stem entitled "Rich and rare the gum* she wore." A civil. ENutSKKtt —one who give* a tramp a free ride in his caboose. * v i >*
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