2 Stye Stmts, Nctu Bloomftctir, Ja. SAVED BY WOMAN'S WIT. rilHE following passage in the life of JL Gustavus, when that distinguished monarch took refuge from the Danish usurper in Delecarlia, to mature his noble plan for the deliverance of his country, is truly dramatic: .On a bill stood a very ancient habitation, of so simple an architecture, that you would have taken it for a hind's cottnge, instead of a palace that in times of old bad been the abode of nobility. It consisted of a log farm-liko structure, formed of fir, covered in a strango fashion with scales, and odd ornamented twistings carved in wood. But that spot was hallowed by the virtue of its hcroio mistress, who saved, by her presence of mind, the life of the futuro de liverer of her country. Gustavus, having, by an evil accident been discovered in the mines, bent his course towards this house, the inhabited by a gentleman of the name of Pearson, whom be had known in the armies of the late ad ministrator. Here, he hoped, from the obligation he had formerly laid on the officer, that ho should, at least, And a safe retreat Pearson received him with every mark of friendship; nay, treated him with respect and submission, which noble minds are proud to pay to the truly great when rob bed of their external honors. He exclaimed with such vehemence against the Dalies, that instead of awaiting a proposal to take up arms, offered, unask ed, to try the spirit of the mountaineers, and declared himself and his vassals would be the first to set the example, and turn out under the command of his beloved gen eral. Gustavus relied on his word, and prom ising not to name himself to any, while he was nbsent, some days afterward saw Pear son leave the house to put his design into execution. It was indeed a design, a black one. Under the specious cloak of zealous af fection for Gustavus, the traitor was con triving his ruin. The hope of making his court to the Danish tyrant, and the expectation of a large reward, induced him to sacrifice his honor to his ambition, and for the sake of a few ducats, violate the most sacred laws of hospitality, by the betraying of his guest. In pursuance of that base resolution, he proceeded to one of Chrisliorn's officers commanding in the province, and informed him that Gustavus was his prisoner. Having committed this treachery, ho had not tho courage to face his victim, but tell ing the Dane how to surprise tho prince, who he said believed himself undor protec tion of a friend, he proposed taking a wider circuit homo, while they apparently un known to him, rifled it of its treasure. "It will be an easy matter," said he, for not even my wifo knows that it is Gus tavus." Tho officer at the head of a party of well-armed soldiers, marched directly to the lake, the men invested the house, while the leader, abruptly entering, found Pear son's wife, according to the fashion of those days, employed in culinary preparations. At some distance from her, sat a young man in a rustic garb, lopping off the knots from the broken branch of a tree. The officers told her he came in King Chris Horn's name to demand the rebel Gus tavus, who he knew was conoealed undor her roof. The dauntless woman never changed col or; she immediately guessed the man whom Iter husband had introduced as a miner's . son to bo tho Swedish hero. The door was blocked up with soldiers. In an instant she replied, without onco glancing at Gustavus, who sat motionless with surprise " If you mean the melancholy gentleman my husband has had here these two days, be has just walked out into the wood, on the other side of the hill. Borne of these soldiers may readily seize him, as he has no arms with him." The officer not suspecting the easy sim plicity of her manner ordered part of bis men te go in quest of him. At the moment, suddenuly turning her eyes on Gustavus, she flew up to him, and catching the stick out of his band, exclaim ed in an angry voice "Unmannerly wretch) What! sit before your betters? Dont you see the king's offl cers in the room? Get out of my sight, or some of them shall give you a drub bing 1" "' As she spoke, she struck him a blow ou the back with all her strength; and opening a side door, "There, get into the scullery, cried she, " it is the fittest place for such company!" And giving him another knock, she flung the stick after him, and shut the door. " Sure," added she, in a great heat, "nover woman was plagued With such Ion t of a slave!" The officers begged she would not disturb herself on his account but she, affecting great reverene for the king, and respect for his representative, prayed him to enter her parlor, while she brought him some re freshments. The Dane civilly complied; perhaps glad enough to get from the side of a shrew, and she immediately flew to Gustavus, whom she had bolted in and by means of a back passage, conducted him in a moment to tlie bank of the lake, where the fishers' boats lay, and, giving him a direction to an hon est curate across the lake, committed him to Providence. SCIENTIFIC BEADING:. AIR AND WATER. How a Discovery war Made. riIlE air pump, rude, it is true, in its JL construction, had long been known, and the common pump for raising water from wells had been in use for centuries. In the latter drawing the piston up, it was known, would cause tho water to follow; and When tho philosophers were asked to explain the reason, in their wisdom, they said, "It is because nature abhors a vacu um." And this answer had satisfied even the wisest men in tho world for two thous and years; nor can we tell how much longer it would have sufficed, had not the facts which it seemed to explain, at last over turned it It was near the middle of tho seventeenth century that tho Duke of Tus cany hod causod a well to be dug near Flor ence; it was sunk to an unusual depth for those days, for this was long before " Ar tesians" were thought of. Not suspecting any cbango from the usual programme, the engineers fitted their pump, when, lo, it would not servo its purpose. The water would rise a little over thirty fcot from tho bottom, and there stop. Repairs wero made; then all the changes which their ingenuity could devise,' but nothing could coax the water above the point at which it so obstinately stood. At last in their des pair, they applied to tho wisest philosopher of the day, to see if ho could solve the mys tery. This was Galileo, then, in his old ago, living in retirement, not far from Flor ence. When the story had been recounted to him, he is said to have replied, half in jest, half in earnest, that "nature did not abhor a vacuum above ten meters I" At an earlier ago he might have been more suc cessful in solving tho riddle; but then, this was the best answer he could give. The question was submitted to his pupil, Torri celli, who very soon saw that some mechan ical force, not a ficticious sentiment, must raise tho water to just the hight and hold it there. Suspecting tho true eause, the pressure of the atmosphere, he reasoned that, if it were truly this, it would raiso a heavier liquid, only to n proportionately less bight ; and, since mercury was thirteen and a half times heavier than water, a simplo calculation told him that this should riso only from twenty-eight to thirty inches, instead of thirty or thiriy-tlireo feet. Taking thercforo a glass tube closod at one end, and a vessel of mercury, he ex hausted the air from the tube, applied his fingers so as to close tho other end, while he just dipped it beneath the surface of his mercury. Upon removing his linger he was delighted to see the mercury riso to just the point he had anticipated; and then, after vibrating a moment about it, settle there To his own mind tho question was solved; and not only this, but lie had here the means of weighing tho whole atmos phere, for a column of this of equal base with the bottom of the tube must weigh just tho samo as mercury which it balanced. With this as data it was an easy step to compute tho weight of the whole atmos phere which surrounds the earth. Ho an swered the engineer's question and began to publish his discovery to the world. But, as might have been expected, very few be lieved his theory, the great majority pre ferring to stick to tho old philosophy of their fathers, that "nature abhorred a vacuum" ten metres if no more. TorricclU did not live to see his views bo come the prevailing opinion, but they began gradually to make their way, and after his death a philosopher as keen as himself took them up and succeeded in convincing the world of their truth. The philosopher was Pascal, who began to say that if it was really tho atmosphere which sustained the mercury, the higher ho should asoeud from the earth, the less being the weight of the air above, the less consequently would be the hight of the column of mercury which it would balance. Living in Paris, ho took his tube to the top of tho highest steeple to to which he could gain access in the city, and was delighted to find that the mercury fell, though slightly. Not satisfied with this, he wrote to his brother-in-law, liviug near a high mountain in the province of Auvergne, to try it there. This ho did, and found a difference of about three inches in the measure of his mercury between the bottom and the top of the mountain, while at the various points In the ascent the ele vation was accurately marked by the dif ference in the elevation of his sensitive in strument; "which," he writes' to Pascal, "ravished us with admiration and aston ishment." And so the theory of the pres. lure of the atmosphere was proved beyond a doubt to all but the most obstinate, and not only so, but the most convenient, as well as an accurate, way of measuring ele vations was established. A Laughable Mistake. ! A RICH old gentleman had an only daughter , possessed of the highestat traction, moral, personal and pecuniary. She was engaged and devotedly attached to a young man in every respect worthy of her choice. All the marriage preliminaries were arranged, and. the weddding was fixed to take place on a certain Thursday. On the Monday preceding the wedlng day the bride-groom elect (who was to have received $50,000 down on his wedding day, and fur ther sum of $100,000 on his father in-law's death, an event which would probably soon occur) had a little jealous squabble with his intended at an evening party. The "tiff" arose in conscquenoe of his paying more attontion than she thought justifiable. to a lady with sparkling eyes and Inira itablo ringlets. The gentlenan retorted, and spoke taunt ingly of a certain cousin whose waistcoat was the admiration of the company, and hinted that it had been embroidered by the fair heiress herself. Ho added that it would be soon enough for him to be school ed after they wero married ; and that sho adopted tho "breeches" a littlo too soon After the supper they became reconciled apparently ; and the bridegroom elect in taking leave was kind and affectionate. On the next morning the swain regretted tho angry fooling he had cxibited, and the cutting sarcasm with which he had given it vent ; and, as a part of tho amende hon orable, packed up a magnificent satin dress which ho had previously bespoken for his beloved (which had been sent home in the interval), and sent it Jo the lady with the following note : "Dearest Jane, I have been unable to close my eyes all night, in thinking of our misunderstanding last even ing. Pray, pardon me ; and, in token of your forgiveness, deign to accept the ac companying dress, and wear it for the sake of your most affectionate Henry." Having written the note, he gave it to his servant to deliver with tho parcel. But, as a pair of his pantaloons happened to need repairing, he availed himself of tho op portunity (the servant having to pass the tailor's shop) toond them in another pack age to the tailor. The man made the fatal blunder 1 left the satin dress with Snip, and took the noto and the damaged trowscrs to the lady. So exasperated was she at what sho considered a determined and deliberate affront that when her admirer called she ordered the door to be closed in his face, refused to listen to any explanation and resolutely broke off tho match. A Secret For Women. "I JTANY women who, bofore marriage, iX made it their study to please tho eyes of the men they wished to marry, lose their affection after marriage by carelessness in dress. Men aro fastidious in this matter, Even those who aro careless in regard to their own appeaanco take delight iu seeing thou- wives neat in tnoir attire, l ney miss those coquettish garments, the neatly dressed hair, and all the thousand tasty and fanciful little articles with which young women adorn thcmsclvcs,more than they would be willing to allow. The neatness and order which cliarmod them too often give place to a slovenly morning gown frowsy hair, slipshod and unlaced shoes, and the like. Men reason that they should have the same desire to please the men they havo chosen after marriage as well as before it. The last new song loses its charm com ing from tho lips of a slattern. The wife who on account of household cares neglects her personal appearance, commits a grave mistake, which too often bears bitter fruit, and they see their husbands leave their so ciety for that of others without really know ing'the cause, and most men are too proud to tell them. Let women always give the samo care to their dress after marriage which they gavo it before, and not rush from the room to "sserd np"only when there is a prospect of "company." Let them consider that that which gives them a charm In the eyes of their friends has like effect upon a husband, and they will see that he will not have so many pressing bus iness calls "in tho city" in the evening, but will have the same delight in their society as in their days of courtship. Somewhat of a Mistake. A gentleman in New-IIaven, was recently showing to some friends a package of the new five-twenty Government Bonds ; one of which was for $500. They left soon after, and presently this bond was discover ed to be missing. The owner immediately notified the police, and telegraphed to his banker to learn the number stamped ou the bond he bad bought. Nothing could be heard about the valuable paper until in the afternoon one of the friends came in, and hearing the gentleman's story of bis loss, Inquired "Do you mean them things you was showing us T" "Yes," was the reply'.' "Well, I guess I put one in my pocketi ' I supposed they were a new kind of handbills, and I thought I would take one home and read it I guess it's in one of my overcoat pockets," and he Immediately looked, arid found it. ' Another one of the party, a Captain of a boat said afterward that when looking at the bills, be bad intended to take one and tack it up in bis cabin, but thought be would have time enough to get one before he left for home. A JOKE ON THE DOCTOR. A' WQRTIIY FRENCHMAN, who was was very hoarse and. troubled with a bad cough, went to Dr. Elder some time a go to consult him upon his maladies. Be fore ho went, the Frenchman, whose knowl edge of English was very imperfect, turned to bis dictionary to seo how cough was pronounced, and seeing that though was pronounced tho, he naturally conclud ed that cough was pronounced cow. To make assurance doubly sure, he looked and saw that the definition of cough was "ami- ady in the chest," " a sort of bronchitis. When he arrived at Dr. Elder's the latter said "Well, monsieur, what is the matter with you? Tho worthy Frenchman replied " I have got ono leetlo hoarso and one bad cow." "You've got a horse and a cow'" said El dor. "Ah! I suppose you want me to buy them?" "Mon iieul I vlsh I could soli' em; they vill not let me sleep at de nights," said the Frenchman. "Why don't you lock them up in the sta ble?" inquired the doctor. The Frenchman was in dospair. "Ah, you no me understand," he cried clasping his hands; I have got ma lady in de box." " Got your lady in a box what ! with tho horse and cow ?" asked the doctor, who began to think monsieur was mad. , Almost frantio with bowildcrmcnt, the Frenchman ejaculated "O, sacro ! De brown creatures not lot me sleep at night," (meaning bronchitis). "O !" said the doctor, "the bugs bityo eli ?" Assuming a dignified air, tho French, man said, as he struck his breast panto, mimically " Sarc, I have got here, Bare, von horse, von bad cow, and tho bad creatures, and ma-lady in de box. I ask you, saro, to cure my sow 1 Why for you no cure my cow? "Because," replied Elder, "because 1 am not a cow doctor." " Yes, sare, you aro, sare; you cured my wifo s cow.' At this minute Dr. B s, the editor of the , happening to drop in, the Frenchman told him in French what he wanted. They all had a hearty laugh at the barbarism of the English language, which thoy declared wasn't fit for a pig. Romantic A Kentucky schoolmaster fell in love with ono of his pupils in I860' and married her although she was only thirteen. As he used to scold her like tho child sho was, sho went back to her mother, and ho roamed elsewhere.' After a while each was informed of theothor's death, and each pro ceeded to many again. The girl's second choice very kindly died in a year or so, as did the schoolmaster's, when he married a third time only to bo divorced. About two weeks ago this mnch married couple mot by chance, joined their fortunes again, and as the girl arrived at years of discretion, they expect to be happy. . " KSTThe large clock at tho English Par liament House is tho largest one in the world. The four dials of the clock are twenty-two feet in diameter. Every half minute the point of the minute hand moves nearly seven inches, The clock will go eight and a-half days, but it only strikes for seven and a half, thns indicating any neglect in winding it up, Tbo mere winding up of the striking mechanism takes two hours. The pendulum is fifteen feet long ; the wheels are of cast iron J the hour bell is eight feet high and nine feet in diameter, weighing nearly fifteen tons, and the ham. mer alono weighs more than four hundred pounds. This clock strikes the quarter- hours, and by its strokes the short-hand re porters in the Parliament chambers regu lata their labors. At every stroke a new reporter takes the placo of the old one, whilst the first retires to write out the notes he has taken during the previous fifteen minutes. lITAn elegantly dressed woman was detoctod in the very act of plagiar izing a pair of silk stockings, recently in Boston. She started, turned pale and burst into tears, suddenly conscious of her guilt, and then in the most agonized manner be sought the proprietor to release her and offered him a twonty dollar note for the stockings. The gentleman kiudly reasoned with the afliicted woman, and thou, taking the price of tho stockings, returned her the change from the twenty dollar note, Tho poor woman then disappeared and was heard of no more, although her bank note was a'counterfeit, tWX man who lives in Albany, and whose busiuess is that of a clerk, said that he bad lately built a house that cost him three thousand dollars. His friends ex pressed their wonder that lie could afford to bcild so fine a dwelling. "Why, this is my smoke-house, " said he. "Yeur smoke house! what do you mean?" "Why,' I mean that twenty years ago I left off smo king, and I computed that what I saved, with interest, would amount to three thous. and dollars, and I concluded to put the money savod from smoke into my house; hence I call this my smokehouse." New Advertisement. THE CAUSK AND CURS OF CONS TJ M 1 TIONI rpnE primary causa of Consumption is 6e JL rangemeot of the digest Its ergans. Thla derangement produces deficient nutrition an assimilation. By assimilation. I mean tbt process bv which the nutriment of the food la converted into blood, and thence Into the solid or me body. Persons with digestion thus im paired, having the slightest predisposition te pulmonary disease, or if they Inks eold, willba very liable to have Consumption of the Langs in some or its forms and I bold that It will be impossible to cure any case of Contumptloa without first restoring a good digestion ana healthy assimilation. The very first thing te be done is to cleanse the stomach and bowel from all diseased mucus and slime, which is clogging these organs so that they cannot per form their functions, and then rouse up and restore the liver to a healthy action. For the Surpose in e surest and best remedy Is Schenck'S landraks Fills. These Fills clean the stom ach and bowels of all the dead and morbid slime that Is causing disease and decay In tbe whole system. They will clear out the liver of all diseased bile tbut has accumulated there, and rouse it np to a new and healthy action, by which natural and healthy bile is secreted. Tbe stomach, bowels, and liver are thus cleaascd by the use of Sshenck'e Mandrake nils i but there remains in the stomach an ex cess ef acid, the organ Is torpid and the appe- mo poor, in in bowels the lacteale are weak, and requiring strength and support. It is in a tondition like this that Bcbenck's Seaweed Touio proves to be the most valuable remedy ever discovered, it Is alkaline, and Its use will neutralize all excess of acid, making tbe stomach sweet and fresh It will give perma nent tone to this Important organ, and create a ?'ood, hearty appetite, and prepare tbe system or the first process of good digestion, and, ul timately make good, healthy, living blood -After this preparatory trcatmcnt,wbat remains to cure most cans of Consnmptlon Is the free and persevereing nsa of Schonk's Pulmonis Syrup. The Pulmonic Syrnp nourishes ths system, purifies the blood, and is readily ab sorbed into the circulation, and thence distrib uted to the diseased lungs. There It ripens all morbid matters, whether in the form of absces ses or tubercles, and then assists Nature to ex pel all the diseased matter, In the form of fres expectoration, wkan once it ripens. It is then by the great healing and pnryfylng properties of Schenk's Pulmonic Syrup, that all ulcers and cavities are healed up sound, and my pa tient is cured. The essential thing to be done In curing Con sumption is to get up a good appetite and a good digestion, so that the body will grow In flesh and get strong. If a person has diseased lungs a cavity or abscess there rhe cavity cannot heal, tbe matter cannot ripen so long as the system is below par. What is necessary to cure Is a new order of things a good appe tite, a good nutrition, the body to grow In flesh and get fat; then Nature is helped, the cavities will heal, tbe matter will ripen and be thrown otTin large quanties, and the person will regain health and sterength. This is the true and on ly plan to cure Consumption, and if a person is not entirely destroyed, or even If one lung Is entirely gone, if there is enough vitality left in the other to heal up, there Is hope. I have seen many persons cufed with only one sound lung, live and enjoy life to a good old age. This is what Bcbenck's Medicines will do to cure Consumption. They will clean out the stomach, sweeten and strengthen It, get up a good digestion, and give Nature the sys tem of all tha diseases she needs to cleat ths system of all the disease that Is In the lungs, whatever the form may be. It is important that while using Bcbenck's Medicines, care should be exercised not to take cold i keep ln-doors in cold and damp weather ; avoid night air, and take nut-door exercise only In a genial and warm sunshine. I wish it distinctly understood thct when I recommend a patleut to bo careful In regard to taking cold, while uslug my Medicines, I do so for a special reason. A. man who has but par tially recovered from the effects of a bad cold is fur more lluble to a relapse than one who bas been entirely cured and It Is precisely the same In regard to Consumption. So long as the lungs are not perfectly healed, Just so long is thore imminent danger of a full return of the disease. Ucnca it is that I so strenuously caution pul monary patients against exposing themselves to an atmosphere that Is not genial and pleas ant. Confirmed Consumptives' lungs ore a mass of sores, which tbe least change of at mosphere will inflame. The grand socret of my success with my Medicines consists iu my abil ity to snbdue inflammation Instead of provok ing it, as many of tbe faculty do. An Inflamed lung cannot, with safety to the patient, be ex posed to the biting blasts of Winter or the chill Ing winds of Spring or Autumn. It should b carefully shielded from all Irritating influnces. The utmost caution should be observed in this particular, as without it a cure under almost any circumstances is an impossibility. Tbe person should be kept on wholesome and nutritious diet, and all the Medicines continued until the body bas restored to it ths natural quantity of flesh and strength. I was myself cured by this treatment of th worst kind of Consnmptlon, and have lived to get fat and hearty these many years, with ene lung mostly gone. I have cured thousands since, and very many have been cured by this treatment whom I have never seen. About the First of October I expect to take possession of my new building, at the North east Corner of Sixth and Arch Streets, where I shall be pleased to give advice to all wbo may require It. Full directions accompany all my Remedies, so that a person in auy part of tha world can be readily cured by a strict observance ef tb ume. J. H. 8CIIENCK, M. D., Philadelphia. WJonmoN, Hoi.lowaT ft Cowdkn, 602 Arcb Street, Philadelphia, Wholesale Ageuts. 6 23 1 X. Z. llEVOLViSRSf The New X L llevolver. No. 1 22-100 Csl.. No. 1 22-1U0 Cat, short. No. 8 32-100 Cat., Ionic. 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