AN OLD PICTURE. Mrs. C. Jowett, in Portland Transcript.) ota [4 sweetest ucts ro that memory brings old brown house, with its open door, ide fang windews, and spotiess floor, hollybocks by the foot sweet old-fashioned tell of a beauty-loving Unlearped in a sing ths grow, 1s of snow heart, rule of art. tansy bed, ing overhead, with crowns of fod, 1 oan hear again the patient tread gentle mother, long since dead; fee! her band upon my brow, Ah! the earth has no such healing now, mi the For the race of women has passed away That blessed the land in its earlier day; And quaint oli bh uses, low and brown, Are found unbeaithy, and all torn down, The world moves on, its progress brings Grand reforms, undresmed of thing: But nothing modern ean ll the place Of the dear old home and mother's face, How Paupers Feod 'n China, {Professor Felix 1. Oswald} A hardy. naked savage is not an object of pity. The self-denial of a hard-working Yankee m chaniciscompensated by hope; put the poverty of the Chinese papers is pualified, unparalleled and hopeless Benjamin Franklin, indeed, assures us that no mau ever repents of having missed a meal, but in the Great Middle Kingiom the aathor” of that dictum would forfeit his claim to the title of philosopher. Even in a climate where sunlight is a food surtuzate, 50,000,000 of our fellow-men suffer the » cr-present misery of malnutrition by boing re stricted to a barely half-suflicient quan- tum of half-digestible food. In Canton nobody dreams of cleaning the markets, or, a la Mexico, tolerating vultures for that purpose. The paupers pick the offal in half an hour better than an army of ants could doit in half a year. They make soup out of bone splinters and shreds of skin, boil cab bage-stalks, turnip-leaves, poiato-p wls and the refuse roots of chantung tuoers, scrape the fragments of banana and store up every crum and gra spilled rice. In the selection of food they have learned to follow ex ence rather than their sense of taste, and do not shr nk from the most disgu t ing flavor of any substance susp ted o nutritious properties. As the beasts of the desert congregate at a spring, the population of China gravitates toward the seashore, seeking in the waters the sustenance which the land denies them. They are wretched sailors. but their junks cover the west ern Pacific, and near the coast they spare no kind of fish or mollusk. In all larger seaport towns there are special venders of kwang, or fish entrals. Stale kwang forms also the principal food of the hairless dogs which Shanghai and Canton fatten in such monstrous num. bers. SKINS, f 5 The Beginning of Sea Bathing, {Lon lon Lancet. ] It was in England and toward the middie of last century that the sea was first recognized as the mighty sanitary agent the world now acknowledges it to be. At that time western [urope was heavily scourged by strofula— Kings evil, as it was called —and all ranks of society, from peer to peasant, were more or less sufferers. Dwellers on the seaboard, guided by instinct apparently, drank of the briny water, bathed in it, washed their sores in it or bound them up with seaweed. Aud they had their reward in physical as well as moral in. vigoration. of this practice, and Dr. well, a court physician, who was first to become cognizant of it, did not wait for a chemical or physiological the- ory of its efficacy, but preseribed it at ra wl once to his patients, and was followed | by others of his contemporaries. Soon the English coasts were planted with | villas and cottages; and hamlets, from their sea-bathing advantages, expanded | into towns. At the close of last century Germany | imitated England, then Belgium, then | France, until in the year 1512 Dr. Le francois, of Dieppe, published a treatise on the internal and external virtues of sea-water, and raised his uative town into a much-frequented health resort, 80 that from having been first used in scrofula, the touch of ocean is now em- ployed in countless other evils than the “king's,” and invalid Britannia repairs, | with yearly recurring alacrity, to the | waves over which she rules, The World's Telegraphs, [Belentific American.) The telegraph appears to bave made more p in the United States than in any other eoufitry. The number of American telegraph offices in 1882 was 12,917, and the number of telegrams forwarded during the year was 40,581, 177. The number of telegraph otees in Great Britain and Ireland in 1582 was 5.747, the number of telegrams for warded being 82,965,020. Germany had 10,203 oinces, the number of tele grains forwarded, being 26,260,134, had 8,319 oMees, the number of forwarded being 26,260,124. Russia had 2,419 offices, the number of forwarded being 9,800,201. Belgium bad. 585 offices, the number of oi pr forwarded being 4,088 848, had 847 offices, the nam ber of tel: The profession took note | the | THIBET'S TWO LAMAS, A Description of the Principal Teme ple at Lhassa, {Cincinnati Commercial Gazetto, Politically dependent on China, Thib- ots’ two Lamas are religiously independ: cut, and the veritable popes of a system based on Buddhism, which was intro- duced early in the fifth century of our era, and mingled with the Christianity of of the Nestorian missionaries, serpent worship, and magical superstition. Ita | curiously jumbled doctrines are taught | in a bible of over one hundred volumes. | Of the chief cathedw! at Lhassa we havo | the following description; | “The entrance is through a large hall, | where holy water and rosaries are sold, | and in which stand four statues of the | archangel. The walls are vovered with | rude paintings of scenes from the le | gends of the Buddha. The church itselt | 1% a long nave, divided by rows of pillars | from two aisles, and by silver screens of open trellis work from two large chan. Into the aisle on each side open fourteen chapels, At the end is the holy place, containing fif- teen jeweled tablets, with mystic sym- bols of Buddhist metaphysics, and in the farthest niche is the maguificent golden statue of the now deified Gan tama Buddha. On theleft is the throne of the Dalai Lama: on the right, that of the Pantshen Lama; and in order on either gradually decreasing in eels, sie, height and splendor, the seats of the | Chetuktus, the abbots, and the eighteen | orders of inferior clergy. In front of the idol is the high altar, or table of offerings, with images of gold and clay, bells, lamps, censers, other vessels used in the holy so “The service beging by the entrance of a procession. with the living Buddha as its head. When he sealed on his throne each | ama bows before um. A bell is then rung, and all murmur the three Befuges, the ten Precepts and other formulas. After silence has been restored. the bell sounds again, and the priests sing in horus from the sacred books. The filled with In cense from the censors A nk with a pitcher jours with suga® and mir ror, which another Wipes time with a silk napkin. Another holds a mystic symbol of the world, on which the water drops from the mirror, to be enught in & cup. Thence the holy mixture is poured into another pita her and a dropor two allowed to trickle upon the hands of each of the worship and vice, is church Is water saffron over a shaven head, his forehesd and his breast with the sacred liquid | ently swallows the remaining drops, and in so doing believes himself to Being, whose image has been caught in | the mirror over which the water has passed. Fishing ia Jalisco, Mexico, (Cincinnati Eoaguirer, ) Consul Lambert, of San Blas, trans mits the following account of the pecu- liar mode of fishing at that place The novel method before referred to for catching fish in this viemity may not be instructive, but it will doubtless prove interesting. There is a small shrub growing wild | basco.” The native fishermen procure the fibrous root of this shrub, and, after mangling it well, place it in the bot toms of their canoes. At high tide they proceed to the months of the | esteros and drive down a wicker fence They then partly 6ill their canoes with water, which produces an intensely | white lijuid from contact with the {root. Arriving at the source of the stern, or some shoal place beyond | which the fish are not likely to go, they | throw their preparation broadcast into { the water, which also turns white. The | sffect is that the fish become blinded, and ina very short time, upon the re turn of the boat, they are found Boating | ou the surface of the water at the fence The | lnrger ones are then gathered into the | boat and taken to market. Another method, more fatal, but per | formed less frequent, is in the use of | the milk of the ‘ava’ tree. This tre | yields, when tapped, a white liquid very | much resenibling the juice of the India { rubber tree. It is used similarly to the varbasco, und blinds as well as Kills the fish instantly. Fish killed by the “lache de ava’ have to be used immediately. { In neither ease is there any visible sgn of how they are killed systematic Goodness, (Hudney Smith ] “When you rise in the moms termine that you will make jer sons happy during the day. It is canily done. If you are young it will tell when you arc old; and If you are old it will help to smooth the road down to the bottom of the hill. By the most simple arithmetical ealeulation look at the re sult, Suppose yon live forty year: aftr | you commence this courses of medicina, and you make one person a little hap- pier than they would have been every day; that is 365 days in the year, which, multiplied by forcy, amounts to 14,600 persons which you have made happy at all evens for a time.” | erected at the mouth of the estero. rr do. NOTE Change of Color of the Mair, [London Lancet. | A young girl has just died in lum at Ham #1] ve ri! ench | i for | ‘squire ! dolag r i tion, | his son, he here called “var- | menced to dig a well in his back-yard, i The ish { on THE “COON BELT,” A District In Indiona Where Justice Was Quensrly Administered, The state library should secure, if haply it yet exists, the docket of an early Sharpsville justice of the peace, wish its simple entries: ‘‘John Smith va. Thomas Jones. 1 beard this case and gave Smith judgment for $6.75 and costs, as witness my hand, ——— J. P."’ From the decision of this court no guitor ever took appeal; they were final as those of Khadamanthus himself, The advocacy of council learned in the law was not encourged by this primitive udge. The general history of proceed gs was much in this wise: The laintiff went to the ‘squire, who heard Bis story and made distant and shrewd, though non-professional, cross-examing tion of plaintifl Often he would say “I shan't hour this case. There's noth in’ rite, and you ought to know it. If you bother me w.ih it | shall give it agin you.”! After such an expression of opin on suit was seidom brought, Hut if the squire thought there was something rite in it,” he would say: “I'll fix you all right, and take dinner with meat 1: wu on Thursday, and get your eritha we'll try the case at 1 oclok, you can leave at half past 1, and get home in time to do your chores before night.” When the day of trial came the ‘squire (his name was Wilson; would hear hear plaintifi’s testimony, and, address. ing the defendant, would say: “Maybe you have some kind of a lie to ls ll abou this, but | know you owe the man, jus as he says, and | shall give judgment agin you, no matter what you say.” He siways did give judgment in just the manner indicated. If the defendant sugested his desire to ape al the court always remarked that it woul { be mor pleasant to go into the back yard and matter, and i wire nece; ted the defendant's motion for an appeal was generally overruled in Wo rounds and one knock-down NW, Halley, who now holds a position under the doorkeepor in the { fepre hwouse of tis at Washington Son cua “Hr ESE eitle ti the olier vel ix ay remembered the ouly ea failed Lo overr ile a mot.on o A long-haired and Tennesaean had ment until after the war), brought him to ‘work and labor done instance and request,’ this Kind era red Come { the settle appear SIL Wus $1.29 sliid | Iw ghborhoods nainst recover al lis special The squire gave A “a3 1 edgment for the amount; the Tennes ing monks, who marks the crown of his | K y seean asked for a new trial, “Come out in the back yard and get it right now, He then rever- | : ’ | ie ght no said the ‘squire. The court and defend ‘ { ant, accompanied by the plaintiff, the te mys | ‘ | constable, tically swallowing part of the Divine the defendant's son, crowd of spectators, yard, In the first round, says Mr. Halley, the gentlemen from east Tennes simply stood stock-still and let ths hammer at him A sock on the right ear, that sounded like the blow of a hammer on a shingle nail, aroused his stien and, giving his hat in charge of struck the ‘squire a lef handed blow that (overad his face with a richer red than the rays of the setting sun or the stains of pokeberry juice ould impart. The ‘squire had ecom- and a adjourned to the Kaos fennesseean picked him off the ground, dropped him into the hole, ‘and, turning his son, said: “Jake, take shovel and cover him up.” mister,” said the ‘squire, “that ndgment is reversed.” From that day the squire was a crusted man. He re. 1 his office to ae - Ee went to Kansas. HKude as his decisions were, they were generally correct, He was a good judge of human nature, and, if unfitted for guiddities of law, pos- sessed a clear perception of ejuity. It was a rude ern that endured the end of the 60's in central Indians, but it was gn honest one. If A farmer had locked his doors he would be laughed it: the idea of burglary had not entered the rustic mind, clothes were left hang- ing out at nights, grain was piled in doorless cribs, each man knew his neigh bor and trusted. We are wonderfully improved since then, Old Jack MeClan ahan sat as ‘squire in fourteen of the most litigious years of Indiana, and boasted, with truth, that no decision given by him was ever reversed by a su- perior court. Om two occasions the old common pleas court overruled his decis- ions, but, appeal !eing taken higher, the sap’ eme court judgmint of the common pleas. Cate of hos last judicial acts was to dis charge a prisoner arrested under the | Baxter bli. “Gentlemen,” raid Jack to the attorneys who prepared to argue the case belote him, “you might talk all the afternoon and do no good: my mind is made up. 1 have read the law, and it isn't worth shacks; the caption don't | hold on to the text. Prisoner, go peace and sin no more; you ar. as free as the wind.” The matter dropped there, ro far as Jack was concerned, but a cireait judge in another county having convicted a prisoner, the case went up to the supreme court, and the law was beld worthless on the exact grounds that Juck bad laid down. He died rejoicing that lie “was the first judge’ who had declared the bill unconstitutional. We jaugh at the uncouth speech of these early ‘squires, but many of them were men of insight and of intuitive Hold | ar and shortly afterward | until in turn reversed the | in | O11 Upon Troubled Waiters, {Popular Belence Monthly.) The time is fast approaching when the pow risin the folly of ¢vidence on this subject which has recently accumulated bas now com- yelled attention from the most skeptical, and the experiments so successfully carried out on the stormy coast of Aberdeenshire, at the harbor of Peter lead, have borne fruit far and near, rome of the fishers who had witnessed at Stonehaven, danger by the white-crested waves rag ing on the bar, They had with them only a little colza oil and a little paraf fine for their lamps (vegetable ad mine oral oils, so little that most men would have deemed iL mere folly to cast such upon tempestuons ’ Put men had profited by their lesson man stood on esther bow, |] x san i) { Approncimi WAVES ne and, just as ne font surf, they the waves, which, as if by magic, ceased break, and rolled on in harmless green billows, which carried the safe into port, | Lornwal " LG raging that a part who chanced to Of Lor be at Aberdosn at ime of Loe 0 perinoenis, the stilling of the re « to their own granite -bound coast the conviction that they thing which hereafter it i Jor them 1o rach | Now, than | and ene Relic Mold hwan who planned | and brought into pre new tara with SO WIHYEE, may ve well M tothe ssilie l Ar actical working the men of hent can tel HE vhiter is 8 lication nnd 1 QUICKLY, On § {oil breakwater nt voterhead, the ap Folks how few 10th | st ne, of a | gallons of oil calmed ti | and he har {and safe, The Lomdon papers, in re {porting on \ i | stated the 160 LINE breaking | | WALES made 1 Or smooth those X general f oil Aerimenis i lave that belief by this enirance a ne harbor may bh TL Mth ti Il he | The London Fane Tree, don Tinea) To t} , arborial deo | very go | truly | plane, are interesied in sation of Landon it muzt be observe how tree “the atifving to admirable | generation will wonder at | having ever neglected such | a means of salvation; for the muss of | them remembered them to some good | purpose when trying to enter the harbor | and warned of their | hone | lowly poured out their offering to | boat | have also heard from | uh fishers i the | and thers wit- | had seen | 2 i 1 nenrieaq ’ the | that | London | has triumphed over the adverse | | influences of the late scorching weather i P which has left its marks on all kinds of trees, such as elms, limes, the foliage of which has been | shiriveled up and more or less destroyed, while the “London plane” stands out conspicuous in retaining its beautiful foliage in all its charming brightness, as | may be seen, not only in its parks and | squares, but also in the most dense and | confined parts of the « iy, where it 80 happily display its marvelous capabili ties In resisting every influence By some special, happy constitution in the natnre of this graceful tree, it not {only thrives in smoke-laden air, but, | judging from the brilliant and vigorons | growth of its foliage. absolutely ap | pears to enjoy conbating with those de- | structive influences that are unfortu- | nately an inevitable result of our rap- | idty expanding towns. These facts fought to cause those who have to do with the care and decoration of our towns | 18" extend the planting of this most graceful tree in every situation where | space can be found for it. 1 have used {the term “London plane” to distin i gnish this admirable tree, as it so hap other | pily confers so much beauty to its | | squares, parks and streets A Field of Coral, {laterview with a Diver. } ‘One of the most remarkable sights | that | observed,” remarked the diver, | “ware the coml beds. From a boat they | present nothing unusual-—a brown mass | of pointed stems or branches—but one | day 1 had the boat placed on the edge of a channel, and gradually walked | down into it until 1 attained the bottom and I tell you the seene was impressive | I seemed to be in the streets of a city | The bottom ui on which 1 stood WAS A {pure white sand, hard and firm, and | perfectly free from coral; but on either | side rose a perpendicular wall of the | branch coral nearly forty fect high, all | the points extending directly outward | or toward me, and presenting a magnifi- | cent unbroken surface of a rich olive | brown hue. | “Hidden, and only noticed when the coral was broken away, were myriads of wa eggs of echini of al shapes and colors. Some were jet black with spines like needles. Another kind had short spines, and were albinos, or perfectly | white. They are eaten in some parts of | Italy, and considered a great luxury; { but they are not used in Florida. They Lave no lo'sters there, but their place is taken by what they call the cray-fish, It looks like a lobster, only it is a yellow and instead of having two large or feel their whips Jrojssting and waving to and fro cont nually.” “Hunting the Wren.» {Detroit Free Prom | Hutithgf the wren” isa custom pecul iar to sle ol Han, near the const of d. Ab kind of adverse | | oaks and ! ~AT THE~- Job Office And Have BY ¢ CHEAPLY, NEATLY AND WITH DISPATGH. Now is the Time to Subscribe FOR THE “CENTRE DEMOCRAT,” The LARGEST and CHEAPEST Paper in Bellefonte. s ONLY $150 PER YEAR, }
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