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Call and see them In operation. lor sale In l'eiry Count v by WJl, IClvEH, Newport, l'a. AND r. MORTIMER & CO., ' New Bloomflclil, Ta. MANVFACTUKKHft OP DOORS, Moulding s, Balusters, Newel Posts, Scroll, Sawing, CIRCULAR WORK, Ac, Ac, Made and Warranted from dry material, anil all common aize of DOORS AND SASH, Kf jit on hand and for aal6 by tho undersigned - nd for List of Trice to BPHOUT t JCIiliV, l'IC'TLUK HOCKH, VH. I.yootnlDE ouuty, Fa. SUNDAY R E A D I HG. "COD WILL rilOVIDE." T.Y CATIIF.11IKB BTANI.EY. 66 T"0N"r cry. Nollic" sfiid a piping j liltlu voice. " Yott know wlmt mnniina told us tlio night slic died. ' God willivovido,' she said. It was Saturday night a wild, hitter winter night. The wind rattled at tho loose casement, and roared down tho firo lesa chimney. Tho two orphans had eat en nothing nil day, and there was not a cent iu tho house. From earliest dawn tho eldest had heen sowing tit a bit of piece-work for a clothing store, iu iiopc3 to complete it befura night; hut now, when dusk had conic, and tho task was still unfinished, her bravo heart had given way, and letting tho waistcoat fall into her lap, she burst into despairing tears. Nellie Tliorndiko and her little six-year-old sister, Annie, were tho children of a clergyman, who had worn himself out in tho service of his Master, in an obseuvo country district. His wife had soon followed him to tho grave, broken hearted, leaving their orphan offspring clono and friendless in tho great city to which sho hail como iu hopes to earn a living by giving lessons in music. For a while .Nellie had fought bravely to keep tho wolf from the door. But us her needle was her only resource, tho battle had gone steadily against her. First, ouo comfort had to bo given up, and then another ; no five had been kept, though winter and very often the sisters had gono supperles3 to bed. To-day they had eat en nothing. No wonder that Ncllio had broken down ! Even at seventeen, when when hope is still high, there eau bo such a thing as despair. lint sho rallied at her little sister's words. Hastily brushing tho tears from her eyes, she took the child iu her arms, and kissed her vehemently. ; I know, I know '." sho said. I have been weak and very wicked. Yes, dar ling ! ' God will provide.'" "And don't you remember," said An nie, nestling to her sister's heart, " that verso in tho 3ible, about never seeing the righteous forsaken, or their seed begging bread i" Mother used to give it to mo to learn by heart." " She was interrupted by a loud, im perative knocking at tho door. " 1 lark ! What was that V she cried, in a frightened whisper. Nellie started to her feet, but still held the child. Sht was pale and trembled, and had u wild look, as of ono hunted to death. "It is the landlady," sho said. "1 promised to pay tho rent to-night; and I had forgot. But I haven't a penny. What shall wo do '! Sho will turn us out into tho streets." " Oh, not to-night !" cried Annie, con vulsively clutching her sister. "Just listen to tho storm." The danger roused Ncllio, as danger al ways rouses tho bravo. Her eyes kin died. Her frail form seemed to grow tal ler. " Sl'.o won't dare to do it. Sho can not bo so cruel," she said. Yet sho hard ly believed her own words. "But I must go and open tho door." She put down Annie as sho spoke. The child followed, clinging to her skirt. The knocking about this time had become moro furious. Nellie unbolted tho door, and stood (hero with a fust-beating heart, but outwardly calm. Brave, noblo girl 1 It w;is us blio expected, tho landlady. But, to her surprise, no angry counte nance niotNcllic's gaze. Tho new com er was in a flurry of apparently pleaaura blo excitement. "Oh, Miss!" sho cried, raising her hands as if in admiration, " such a car riage as is at the door with a footman as well, Miss." hc spoko in short.gasp ing sentences, evidently out of breath with her haste. " They ore nsking for you, Miss. Miss Ncllio Tliorndiko and her sister! There's such a grand old lady in tho carriage. With such beautiful white hair. Such a dress !" And tho hands went up again. "They'ro coming up stairs themselves to you. I've just run ahead " At this point, tho landlady's exclama tions wero cut short by a tull footman un ceremoniously pushing her aside, making way for tho most wonderful vision in tho shapo of un old lady, that Ncllio had ev er conceived of, much less beheld. Ho stately and grand, and yet bo sweet-looking withal, aud dressed so magnificently 1 If sho had been a fairy godmother sho could not lmvo ovepowcred poor Nellie more ! a " It is ! it is 1" cried this apparition, na sho saw Nellie. " You have my dear brother's eyes, and your mother's sweet mouth. Oh! my darlings! that jou should have como to this !" As sho spoko sho looked around tho buro wintry room, mid thou clasping tho orphans in her units, sobbed aloud. " I am your aunt, my dears," sho re plied. " Your father's only sister. Have you never heard him talk of sister Annio ? Ono of you is named after mo. Is it you, is it, you darling!" and sho kissed first Annio und then Nellie, hold ing them, by turns, at arm's length, and pasionatoly regarding them. " A widow, a childless widow, now living these many years away off iu Chiua, till I lost my dear husband, when I canto homo to find all trace of you gone. Wo have search ed everywhoro for you. But it was not till to-day that I canto on your track. Thank God! I havo found you at last! You must como and live with mo, to tako tho placo of thoso I havo lost. Tho car riage) is nt tho door. What a happy day!" That night, as Annio nestled in her sister's arms, after tho orpans had gono to bed, in tho grand mansion to which thoir aunt carried them, sho whispered, " Wasn't I right, Nellie, dear? Didn't mother tell tho truth ' Yes ! 'God will provide.' " And Nellio murmured, amid happy, thankful tears, clasping Annio closer to her heart, "Yes, darling, God will provide. Those riiiguod Cuts ! r Mil 13 FACT that Mr. Oliver lived in J. a uniform row of houses in tho Four teenth Ward was tho reason why ho was unfortunate. Ono moonlight night last week tho noise mado by the cats on tho roof was simply awful. Mr. Oliver lay in bed tryiug iu vain to get to sleep, grinding his teeth with rage, until at last tlio uproar overhc.id;bccomo unendurable. Mr. Oliver crept out of bed softly, so that his wife could not bo awakened. Ho put on his slippers,' seized a boot with each hand, and clad in tho snowy robes of night, ho opened the trap door and enlarg ed upon tho roof. There wero thirty or forty cats out there holding a kind of general synod in tho cool of tho sum mer evening, enjoying tho bracing air, and singing glees. As Mr. Oliver ap proached, tho cuts moved over to thencxt roof. Mr. Oliver advanced and flung a boot at them. They then adjourned sud denly to the next residence. Mr. Oliver projected another boot, and went over af ter tho first one. Iu this manner the synod retreated, and he advanced till the lust ono of tho row of t wenty houses was reached, when tho cats arranged them selves in a lino along tho parapet, milled up their fur, curved theirspincs, and spat furiously at Oliver. That bold warrior gathered up his boots and determined to rotreat. Ho walked over a dozen houses and descended through a trap-door. Ho went down stairs to his bed-room, and opened tho door. Thcro was a man in tho room iu tho act of walking up and down with a baby. Before Oliver had recovered from his amazement, tho man flung tho baby on tho bed, and seizing a revolver began firing rapidly at Oliver. It then dawned upon Oliver that ho had como down tho wrong trap-door. He proceeded up stairs again suddenly, tho man with tho revolver practicing at him in a painful manner. When Oliver reached tho door ho shut the trap nud stood upon it. Tho man fired through tho boards twice, and then hooked the door upon tho inside. A moment after Oliver heard him springing a watchman's ratllc from tho front window. As soon as tho neighbors know thero was a man on tho roof, they all flew up stairs and fasted their trap-doors, and Mrs. Oliver fastened hers, with tho firm conviction that some predatory villain had entered while sho slept and stolen her Oliver. When ho tried tho door it was fast, and Mrs. Oliver was screaming so fiercely that ho could not muko himself heard. By this time tho btreet was filled with policeman, ull of whom wero blazing away ut Oliver with their revolvers, while tho young men across the street kept up a steady firo with pistols, shot guns, and miscellaneous missiles. Oliver, with every advantage of forming an opiuion, said thut Gettysburg was a mere skirmish to it. Ho hid behind tho chimney and lay up against the bricks to keep warm, while tho policemen stationed themselves all around tho squaro to capturo h?ni when ho would slide down ono of tho water-spouts. But Oliver did not slide. Ho sat out on the roof all night, with tho wind circulating through his two trilling garments, listening to tho yawling cats und tho occasional shouts from tho picket lino below, and thinking of tho old Jews who used to pray on their house tops, and wondering if Mussulmcn wero ever shot at or bothered with cats and police man when they practiced thoir evening devotions on thoir roof's. When daylight came, the neighbors rallied in a crowd, armed with all kinds of weapons, from howitzers down, and mounted to the roof, Oliver was taken down and put to bed, and ho now has moro influenza for a man of his sizo than any other citizen of his Ward. Ho says ho is agoing to move in to a houso thut is next to nobody, a house that stands iu the middle of a prairie of somo kind, aud ho intends to stencil his name in white on tho trap-door. JtSf A Louisville girl, whoso lover culls every morning and stays all day, and long into tho night, became discour aged ut so much attention, aud concocted a plan to get rid of him by asking him to help to move tho piano up stairs, and after thut was done, changod her miud aud hud him help to move it down. Sho had it moved to und fro seven times, and ho didn't seo the point, and tho other uight, in despair, sho threw a pail of wa ter 'on him out of tho window. He says you can't placo any confidence in women, and he has presented a bill for moving furniture. Mechanism of Watches. AN interesting articlo in tho Phreno logical Journal hnd Pachnrd't Monthly for December, ou tho AVtitch Manufacturo iu America," gives somo ex traordinary facts connected yith tho ex ceeding delicacy of tho mechanism of our pocket timo-kecpers. Aulong other things tho writer says : " A hair spring, accord ing to tho Elgin standard, is a delicate ribbon of tho finest steel, measuring ouo-twclvc-hundied-and-fiftieth of an inch iu diameter, and weighing onc-fiftccn-thou-sandth of a pound troy. It is a foot longwhcn drawn out on a straight lino. " A pound of steel, worth in tho bar ono dollar, when converted into hair springs becomes worth $1,000; or moro than fifteen titnc3 as valuublo us a pouud of gold. Fttr each pivot of a watch, a jewel is selected with a hole which is a degree or tho 10,000th part of on inch larger, so that thero shall bo just suffi cient room for tho pivot's play and no more. In preparing jewels for watches, tho precious stones diamonds, rubies, garnets, sapphires aud aquamarines, aro set iu good time-pieces are cut into lit tle cubes, mid thou turned iu a latho. When ready to be inserted in tho watch plate, a jewel weighs less 'than tho one sixty-fifth-hundrcth of an ouuco troy. Tho pivot holo is drilled into it with a diamond point, hardly pcrccptiblo to tho naked eye, and then polished with a wiro that pa.-scs through it and whirls ouo way, making US,000 revolutions in a minute. Every jewel holo is left a littlo larger than tho pivot, for what is called tho ' side shako,' and every shaft or axlo a littlo shorter for ' tho end shako.' Tho minute guages which measure all tho parts, make allowance for these a bit of calculation which they readily perform with an accuracy unknowu to human brains. After tho operation of polishing, if a single particle of diamond dust is loft in (he jewel holo it will imbed itself firmly in the steel pivot, and thcro act liko a tiny chisel, cutting away into tho jewel as tho pivot revolves. Tho utmost caro is necessary, therefore, to seo that no dia mond dust is left in the watch. " Tho last stage in the manufacture is tho adjusting of tho movement to heat and cold. First, tho watch is run several hours in a temperature of 110 degrees; then it is placed in a cold box whero tho temperature is above zero, and it must keep timo alike in both conditions. It is the oflico of tho adjuster also to try tho running of tho movement in different positions, and if ho finds no variation, it is ready for tho case. " The number of pieces in an Ameri can watch varies from 150 to 180, whilo a watch inado by hand in tho old English style, contained 800, if we count each link in the chain, which in this country, with tho fusso and ' maiuwhcel,' havo bcou clono away, und with advantage." What Uccomcs of a Dead Horse. Tho Scicnlifu: American recently con tained tin articlo on tlio uses to which dead horses can be applied, in tho course of which it is remarked that tho animal must bo a remarkably good one, if ho is worth as much when alive as ho is to tho retorts and kettles of tho chemist. As soon as tho horso is dead, his blood is sought by tho manufacturers of albumen, and by sugar refiners, aud burners of lampblack. Not a drop is allowed to go to waste. Tho muno and tail aro wanted for hair cloth, seives, bow-strings and brushes. Tho i kin is converted into loather for cart harness, for boots and shoes, aud strong collars. Tho hoofs aro used for combs, horn-work, glue, and in old times, wero tho chief source of hartshorn, now ob tained from tlio gas house. Tho fiesh is boiled down iu tho rendering vat, and much fat and oil is obtained from it. Somo of tho choico bits may find their way into cheap restaurants, and play tho part of beefsteak, or help to enrich tho hasty plates of soup of thoso establish ments. Tho flesh left after all has bcou extracted from it that is of any service, is sometimes burned, to bo used as a manure, or is worked up into nitrogenous com pounds, such us tho cyanides, to bo used by tho photographer in taking our pic tures. Tho stomach and intestines mako val uable stings and corfls for musical instru ments, and out of tho bonos so many use ful articles aro manufactured, that it is almost itnpossiblo to mako out a oomploto list of them. Among them uro bullous, toys, tweezers, knifo handles, rulers, cups, dominoes, balls; aud the residue from ull these things is burnt into bone-black to bo used by tho sugar refiner, who puts iu' a secoud claim ou tho dead horse; and some part of tho bone-black is burnt white to bo used by the ussaycr "in testing gold j and when tho assayer aud refiner have finished with it, it is converted into super phosphate, to servo as n valuable manure on our laud. Tho teeth uro used as sub stitutes for ivory ; and tho iron shoes, if not hailed over the door to insuro good fortune to tho household, ore worked up into excellent wrought motul. Somo por tions of tho bono-bluck is converted into phosphorus for tho manufacture of matches, and lately a valuublo bread preparation is inttdo of tho phosphate, and medicines aro prepared for tho cure of consumptives. For The EloomfiM Times. Two Scared Lovers. IN a beautiful town in tho old Koy stono State, our dear friend, tho " Squire," has lived many n year, and raised up a highly rospcctablo family, which is a groat comfort at this period of his life. Thinking that a visit to his friends would be a source of recreation to . him and afford great pleasuro to his beloved wife and son Willio, concluded to hitch " Yank" to tho carriage, and leave his pleasant homo for a few days. His young est daughter was left in charge of the household and kitchen furniture, aud feeling somewhat lonely when her parents and littlo brother had gono, invited somo of her female friends to spend tho even ing with her. When tho fond lovers of tho fair damsels learned of thoir lonely situation, they at onco sought thoir society to spend a few hours in social converse. At about ten o'clock iu tho evening, when tho happy parties were nestled up very close, a comical fellow thought ho would arrest tho progress of tho youthful lovers. So, when ho reached tho porch of the houso, ho hollowed loudly, imita ting tho Squire's voice : "Whoa! Yank! whoa! Willio jump out and knock tho snow off your shoes be fore going into tho houso." As soon us the young gentlemen in the houso heard this they ut onco loft their sweethearts by way of the back door, and in passiug through tho garden, one fell and knocked tho bark off his nose tho other jumping tho fence, and return ed thauks that his life has been spared. As soon as tho bravo lads left, one of tho ladies opened the frontdoor, and said: " Willio, como in Como iu Willie.' And lo! no Willio was there. Tho joke was then discovered, but not in time to call back tho departed lovors, that were making their tracks for parts uukuowu. A KeiT Catechism. Whom did Adam marry and when did ho marry her 1 Ono JJvc. What was her bridal dress ? Barely nothing. Not evcu a ribbon ? No, sho had no need of one ; sho was a rib Lone herself. When Adam aud Evo wero iu the gardening business, what timo did they commcuce picking apples? In tho Full. What was tho first step they took iu tho sugar business '( liaising Cain. Why did not Cano make good sugar? Because he wasn't Alle. Spirit as well us sugar, comes from cane : what evil resulted from this Gain's spirit ? Abel got slewed. What reason havo wo to supposo that Cain also got slowed? lie wout immedi ately to tho land of Nod. AVho was tho wisest man ? Knnwer. What did ho know? lis knew enough to go iu out of tho rain. Tako thy Pill. A gentleman of tho old school, thus describes tho rendering of a well known hymn by a modern fashionable choir : Firstly, the soprano, iu a soaring leap, sings, " Tako thy pil ," followed by tho alto aud tenor iu duet, with like advice, (whilo tho soprana is magnificently holding on to tho " pill,") aud as tho deep baso profoundly echoes tho samo, "Take thy pill ," they finally unite aud repeat together, eventually succeeding iu sing ing " Tako thy pilgrim to his homo," etc., greatly to tho relief of both minister aud poople, who seem alike awfully impressed with tho suggestive advieo so emphatical ly reiterated. JRS7"When Mrs. M. was preparing to act " Juno Shoro," at Liverpool, her dresser, an ignorant country girl, inform ed her that a woman had called to re quest two box orders, because sho and her daughter had walked four miles on purpose to see tho play. " Boos she know mo t" inquired tho mistress. " Not at all," was tho reply. " What a very odd request," exclaimed 'Mrs. M'Gibbon; " has tho good woman got her faculties about her ?" " I think sho have, ma'am for I seo she has got something tied up in a rod silk haudkorclucf." Ei5X.Tho electricity generated by it rapidly moving belt is pmmenso. The ono leading from tho fly wheel of tho large cngino that drives tho works in Batter son's building, Hartford, develops elec tricity enough to iguito a gas-light situa ted at least six feet from tho belt. By presenting tho knuckles of ouo hand to tho belt and tho point of tho osher to the burner the gas will bo instantly iguitod. fls?3A niuu in Spurta, Wis., wishing to present an organ to a church, wroto to a friend in New York to know what it would cost to get one. Ho received a reply that ho could get a littlo cussed or gan for $1,500 ; " but if you expect to get to heaven ou tho organ dodgo, you had bettor invest ubout $20,000." He took tho high-pricod organ. IT" Thoro is a boy iu Brockonridgo, Mis souri, who lias no.ears. Thoy aro entirely grown ovor, if thoro ever woro any. It Is said that ho can hear distinctly through his mouth. B53u There will be only ono professional bass-ball nino iu Philadelphia next sea son, which is one too many.
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