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HIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENU'A., JULY 27, 1870.
WHOLE NUMBER 1219
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professional Catbs.
LEX. K. McCLCRE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, .
144 SOUTH SIXTH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
oct27-tf .. , , ., .
JOBERT McMEEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HIFFLINTOWN, PA.'
Office on Bridge street, in the reom formerly
occupied by Exra D. Parker, Bsq. . , ,
g B. LOUDEN, . . ( .
MIFFLIXTOWX, PA.,
Offers his services to the citiiena of Juni
ata county as Auctioneer and Vendue Crier.
Charges, from two ta Cea dollars. Satisfac
tion warranted. nov3-Sm.
THOMAS a; elder, m. d
MIFFLINTOWN, PA.
Office hours S A.M. to S P.M. Office la
iBelford's building, two doors above the Sen
tinel offioe. Bridge street. aug 18-tf I
DR. P. C. RUXDIO,
PATTERSON, PENN'A.
August 18, 189-f.
Do So E3 83o!
HOM.tOrHATIC PHYSICIAN t SURGEON
flaving permanently located in the borough
it Mifflintnwn, offers Lis professional services
e the citizens of this place and surrounding
country.
Office on Main street, over Beidler's Drug
aug ia ie9-tf
G. W. HcPHERRAN,
IMtorneB at fain,
C01 SANSOM STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
ang 18 186i-ly
QESTRAL CLAIM AQESCV,
JAMES M. SELLERS,
144 SOUTH SIXTH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
Bounties, Pensions, Back Pay. Hor
Claims, State ("laims, Ac, promptly collected
ho charge for information, nor wben moner
is not collected. oct'J7-tf
gustntss arbs.
DR. FREDERICK'S
THE MEDICAL WONDER !
roit rms wit aches
Depot, Philadelphia.
JOHNSTON, 1IOLLOWAY 4 COWDUN.
oet'17 Im
SIEVES
WIRE CLOTH
MANUFACTURED BY
SELLERS BROTHERS,
633 Market Street, rhilada.
sept2J-3m
1863. PHILADELPHIA 186.
WALL PAPERS,
HOW ELL A BOURKE,
MAvrrACTcasas or
Paper Hangings and Window Shads
hales Rooms, Cor. 4th and Market St
PHILADELPHIA.
Factory, Cor. Twenty-third and Sansom ts.
Arte Stylet every Day, of our oira Hake.
sept29-3m.
B. K. AftTHAX. C. H. DILLlKOin. M. A. MOr.
ARTMAN, DILLINOER & CO.,
Ko. 104 NORTH THIRD 8TREET, PHIL.,
Tvo doort abort Arch, formerly 22ft,
MANUFACTURERS A JOBBERS I
Carpet; Cotton Tarns, Jlatting
Oil Cloth, Carpet Chains,
Oil Shades, Grain Bags,
Wick Yarn, Window Paper,
Cordis
Tie I'm,
Covert,
ALSO
WOOD ASTS WIIO.OW WABJ,
Bnoms, Brushes, Mirrors, Trunks, Ao.
H. SAIGER,
WITH
SHUMWAY, CHANDLER 3c 0.
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS l SHOES.
221 Market and 210 Church St.,
PHILADLPIIIA.
apr 13,1870
J. M. KEPHEART
BARNES BROTHER &HERR0I,
i
WIIOlESAtB DBA LI 9 III
HATS AND CAPS
503 Market Street, Thiladelphia.
aug 18, 1869-ly. '
PRICES REDUCED! ,
Newport Planing Mill Company,
MAMFACTUttEBS OF
DOORS, SASH, BLIJIDSIFFLINTOWN, PENN'A.
SHUTTERS, MOULDINGS, , Iron, steel. Nails, Nail Bod, Horse Shoes,
rnSTHPH ITT flOHTnTG TarWATHER-Carpenters, Builders. Carriage Makers, Cab-
Have reduced their prices to suit the times. U A a U.W A
Give them a call, or address
NEWPORT rxiime nnn
mir23-3m Newport, Perry Co., Pa.
PLAIN and Fancy Job Printing neatly c xe-
euted at this Office. ,
I facat giucrtistiiunfs.
The Place forGood Grape-Tines
15 'AT THE
gsniata ITalltn fJimprbs,
AND GRAFS-VINE NURSERY.
fpni undersiznel would respectfully in.
UL form the pubic Uat he has started a
iirepe-viue nursery mot one mile northeast
if MifBintown, where e has been testing a
large number of the different varietiee of
Grapes ; and haviag bten in the business for
seven years, he is nowprepared to furnish
VINES OP ALL THE LEADING
VARIETIES, iND OP THE
MOST PROMISING
KINDf, AT
1i O XV RATES.
by the sinrle Tine, doan, hundred or then.
sand. All persons wisiing good and thrifty
vines will do well to eal and see for them
selves.
fjfaiy- flood and respotsible Agents wanted.
Address,
JONAS fBERHOLTZEB.
Mifflintevn, Juniata Co., Pa.
Feb1 14, 1870-ly
A. . rASICE..
joh Hears.
, ! ' FASICK & NORTH,
O00T & SHOE L1AKER8,
i MAIN STREET, MIFFLIN,
ln the Hutft BttiJd!t? fMr- Ym"-
IUTlnR en,ereJ int0 .lershlp, we are now
prepared to manufacture and have for sale
all kindi of
jjqqjc SHOES AND GAITERS,
FOR
GE-rg LADIES ASD CHILDREN.
Our work is all manufactired by ourselves,
and we warrant it to be made of the best ma
terial. Oil work sold at cur counter will be
' repaired free of charge, ihould the seaming
give way.
Give us a call, for we fail confident that we
can furnish you with any kind of work you
may desire.
fj-Repairing done neatly and at reasona
ble rate. FASICK & NORTH.
aug 18, lPGO-tf.
COME THIS WAY!!
New Flour and Feed Store !
T BE undersigned baring opened a Flonr
and Feed Store on Main street, opposite
the Post Office, in the building formerly occu
pied br Caleb Parker, would respectfully
announce to the citizens of MifBintown and
vicinity, that he is now prepared to furnish
the public with
FLOUR AND FEED,
SLt'M AS
Corn Meal, Com, Oalt, Chop, Middling,
ISh'trtt, Bran, lc.. ip..
And everything usually kept in k First-class
Feed Store. Also,
POTATOES FOR SALE CHEAP.
ay I will deliver all goods if ordered. I
respectfully solicit a liberal share of public
patronage.
EN'OS BEROY.
MifBintown, April 20, 1870-3b.
CONFECTIONERY
AND
FRUIT STORE.
THE undersigned, thankfnl for past pat
ronage, takes this method of informing his
old customers and the public geierally, that
he has added another large and veil selected
stock of Oranges, Lemons, Potatoes. Tobac
eo, Cigars, Spices of all kinds, aad the larg
est stock of Confectioneries ever breught to the
county; also.
Fresh Bread, Bolls, Cakes, tee.
Having purchased the Mifflin Bikery, I am
prepared to furnish Bread, Rolls, Pies, Pret
tels, Dutch Cake, Rye Bread, Ginger Cake,
8ugar Cake, Spice Oake, Pound Cake, Fruit
Cake, Sponge Cake, Ac. Jelly Boll and Or
namental Cakes made to order.
K. Having secured the services of a first
class baker, f am prepared to furnish the
country trade with all kinds of cakes at rea
sonabls rates.
Nov. 10, 1?69. WM. n. EOOLF.
CHAIRS I CHAIRS I
THE public are hereby informed that the
undersigned is now manufacturing all
kinds of
Cane Seat and Windsor Chairs, and
Rocking Chairs,
of every description, and will endeavor to
keep constantly on hand a
COMPLETE ASSORTMENT
of the same. Not wishing to offer anything
that he would not be willing to buy, his pa
trons can rely upon getting the value of their
money. He does not hesitate in saying that
his work is second to none manufactured,
either now or in time past.
Wareroom on Main street, Shop on Water
street, MifBintown. Pa,
Good chair plank wanted, from sis
teen inches and upward.
sept 22 '69 tf WM. F. SNYDER.
WELL! WELL!! WELL!!!
THE undersigned would respectfull inform
the eitixens of Patterson and vicinity
that he has opened a
DRY GOODS. GROCERY AND PROVISION
STORE,
at his old stand in Patterson. Hating been
out of business for a number of years, he
hopes to again receive a liberal share of pub
lic patronage, feeling assured that he oan sell
as cheap as any other store in the oounty.
All kinds of county produce taken in
exchange for goods at market prices.
WILLIAM WRIGHT.
sept 22 1869-ly
CLARK & FRANK,
HARDWARE DEALERS,
OPPOSITE THE COURT DOUSE,
Call before purchasing elsewhere, at
$ . CLARK S r BASKS,
ang 18, 1869-tf Mifflintown, Pa.
xp you want a good S
A lishmeat f 9.
Steve, ge to the estab-
1. Limirrn,)
EASCIIIS THE BAB I.
T IMMA ALIOS BBOWS. .
Wo measured the riotous baby
Against the cottage wall
A lily grew at the threshold.
And the. boy was just as tall !
A royal tiger lily, .
With spots of purple and gold.
And a heart like a jeweled chalioe,
The fragrant dew to hold. -
Without the blue-birds whistled
High up in the old roof-trees,
And ts aad fro at the window
The red roes rocked her bees ;
And the wee pink fists of the baby
Were never a moment still.
Snatching at shine and shadow
That danced on the lattice sill
His eyes were wide as bluebells
Hie mouth like a flower unblown
Two little bare feet, like funny white mioe,
Peeped out from his eaowy gown ;
And we thought, with a thrill of rapture,
That had yet a touch of pain.
When June rolls around with her roses.
We'll measure the boy again.
- Ah, tnel In a darkened ehamber,
With the sunshine shut away.
Through tears that fell like a bitter rain
We measure 1 the boy to-day ;
And the little bare feet, that were dimpled
And sweet as a budding rose.
Lay aide by side together.
In the hush of a long repose 1
Up from the dainty pillow.
White as the risen dawn.
The fair little face lay smiling.
With the light of heaven thereon
And the dear little hands, like rose-leaves
Dropped from the rose, lay still,
Never to snatch at the sunshine
That crept ts the shrouded sill !
We measured the sleeping baby
With ribbons white as snow,
For the shining rosewood casket
That waited him below :
And out of the darkened ehamber
We went with a childless moan
To the height of the sinless angels
Our little one had grown !
Hearth and Home.
glisctllanxous $caiim.
RAVAGES OF WILD BEASTS IS INDIA.
It has been reckoned that at least ten
thousand people die every year in India
of snake-bites. Tbe new plan of inject
ing ammonia into the wounds may tend
to diminish tbe number of deaths from
snake-bites, if it succeeds in India as well
as it has in Australia ; but the havoc
caused by tigers, leopards, and other
wild beaeU if not greater in fact than it
Was some years ago, has at any rate been
serions enough to draw from Lord Mayo
a demand for help on tbe part of the
local governments in devising measures
to abate the evil.
Man-eating tigers are the special terror
of the countryside. The taste for human
flesh either grows with indulgence, or
becomes a last resource oi tigers of ad
vanced age, Whose energies are no longer
equal to the demands of their appetite.
We had always imagined that the latter
was the true way of accounting for the
ravages of the " man-eating " class, and
the mangy appearance for which they are
remarkable. It is certainly a curious
fact that the tigers in the Oudh jungle
seldom prey on man, being plentifully
supplied with wild pig and other targe
game. There, too, they are such cowards
that herdsmen armed with laities, or iron
bound sticks, often drive them away from
their own cattle. A driver of a mail
cart will also scare them away by merely
sounding his bugle. Elsewhere how
ever, they are either bolder or have lest
choice of food. In tbe central provinces
it is a thing of yearly occurrence to hear
that a man-eater has posted himself near
some district-thoroughfare, whence he
falls on unwary travelers and toiling pea
sants, until, emboldened by practice, he
carries off his prey from within the village
incloeore. In the Chanda district alone
one of these brutes killed, in a short time.
137 people, and stopped all traffic for
many weeks on the road from Mool to
Chanda. A tigress in Ghindwarrah slew,
according to native estimates, 150 people
in three years, causing the abandonment
of the villages, and throwing 250 square
miles out of cultivation. Another old
tigress in Knrnool carried off sixty-four
human beings within nine months, stopped
the post-runners and police-patrols, and
scared away th laborers employed on
public works. One of her victims was
the head constable. The brute's average
allowance seems to have been one man
every three days. It was only by keep
ing together In numbers and making a
horrible noise with " tomtoms " that trav
elers could safely pass that way. At
last a broad strip of jangle was cleared
away from either side the road, and in
due time the beast was hunted down.
In the Bhagalpore district alone of
Lower Bengal as many as 1,434 people
were killed by wild beasts in six years
During the same period 13,401 deaths
from wild beasts were reported for Ben
gal Proper, of which 4,218 are ascribed
to tieers, 1,407 to leopards. 4,287 to
wolves, 174 to hyenas, and 105 to bears ; '
the balance being set down to boars, jack
als, buffaloes, elephants, and mad dogs.
On the other hand, it cost the Govern
ment 6,500 in rewards to secure the
destruction in the same time of 18,196
wiM beasts, of Wlroin 7,278 were tigers,
5,663 leopards, 1671 bears, and 1,338
wolves. In one year the loss of human
life in the Central Provinces amounted to
506, many of whom were children ; while
518 tigers, 895 panthers and leopards,
534 bears, 467 wolves, and' 475 hyenas,
were put to death. The wolves of Oudh
in the same year killed 5 men, 2 women,
72 boys, and 80 girls. Each of the
other provinces adds its quota to the
butcher's bill. Of the numbers of cattle
slain and of the loss entailed on their
poor owners no regular estimate can be
formed; but one man alone in South
Canara complained of having lost 50 head
of cattle through wild beasts ; Captain
Rogers tells of a tiger who killed half a
doren in a few minutes, and it is well
known that thousands of villagers are
continually reduced to utter poverty, fol
lowed by a long term of bondage to
money-lenders, through the ravages of
these unpleasant neighbors. The very
spread of cultivation tends to increase
the suffering caused by their neighbor
hood. In the Neilgherries, for instance,
the clearing away of jungle for coffee
plantations drives the wild animals to
seek their prey from the villages at the
foot of the hills. On the other hand, the
planting of new and the conservation of
old forests may afford new haunts or new
means of living to the beasts of prey.
Superstition also plays no small part in
the maintenance of these intolerable
scourges. The Gonds, for instance,
instead of mustering in force to
hunt down tbe tigers who wage war
against them and their herds, have an
idiotic way of regarding the tiger as a
divinity whose wrath it is unsafe to arouse.
If one of them falls a prey to the divin
ity'e appetite for human flesh, the rest of
the family are forthwith tabooed as dis
pleasing to the object of their reverent
dread, and must expiate their offense by
costly sacrifices, which may leave tlicm
penniless, but will restore them to their
caeto-rigbts.
The head-money granted by Govern
ment, to the tune of .15,000 a year,
tends, no doubt, to keep the nuisance of
wild beasts in some check. As much as
a taundrea pounas nag Deen given lor tue
head of a man-eating tiger. But the re
wards are sometimes granted on very
slight evidence ; for it is well known that
a cunning native will bring up an old
head for a new one, or sew a tiger's skin
over the bead of some smaller animal,
and thus cheat a credulous or careless
official into passing an unfounded claim.
Perhaps the present state of rewards
would bear amending, if, as we under
stand, mneh too little is offered for the
cubs in comparison with full-grown tigers.
Tbe quickest way to extirpate the brutes
would be to encourage the destruction of
young animals by a larger bounty for
their heads. Sportsmen naturally shrink
from attacking these scourges with other
than the sportsman's usual weapons ; but
even Captain Rogers in his report avows
himself a thorough convert to the use of
traps and other wiles against foes so
widely destructive. From the Indian
Mail.
VODER EUROPEAN WARFARE.
Duration of the Most Recent Hostilities
In the Old World.
Just now, when most people are can
vassing the probable duration of the war
between France and Prussia, the follow
ing particulars relative to the most recent
wars on the European Continent will not
be without interest :
The Italian war of 1859 was begun by
the rejection of the Austrian ultimatum
by Sardinia April 26. The Austrians
crossed the Ticino April 27. The French
entered Genoa May 3. The battle ot
Montebello was fought May 20 ; battle of
Magenta May 30-31 and battU of Sol
ferino June 24. The peace of Villa
Franca was signed July 11. Hostilities
were active but ten weeks.
The Schleswig-Holstein war of 1864
began by the invasion of Schleswig by
the Prussians February 1. The Prus
sians took Dropel April 18, and Alsen
July 9. Treaty of peace between Den
mark and Germany signed at Vienna
October 30. Actual hostilities covered a
space of twenty-two weeks.
The German-Italian war of 1866 was
begun by Prussia June 14 . Italy de
clared war against Austria June 20. The
battle of Custoza was fought June 24,
and the battle of Sadowa July 3. The
treaty of peace between Prussia and
Austria was signed at Prague August 23,
and between Austria and Italy at Vienna
October 4. Actual hostilities between
the belligerents lasted only five weeks.
"Mamma," said a little fellow whose
mother had forbidden him to draw
horses and ships on the mahogany aide
board with m sharp nail, "Mamma, this
ain't a nice bouse. At Sammy Rackett's
we can cnt the sofa, and pull out the
hair, and ride the shovel and tongs over
the carpet but here we can't have any
funataU."
A JEALOUS PRINCESS.
The Crown Princess of Prussia, Vic
toria's eldest daughter, f Inherits more of
her mother's traits than any of her other
decendants, among which ia a jealous
virtue not to be despised, and something
of a temper. She recently went to her
jeweler to purchase a diamond necklace
and selected a very beautiful one, some
thing quite new, but noticed that the
head of the establishment, who, of
course, was serving her tried in vain to
suppress a peculiar smile. The princess
always excitable, flushed and asked
haughtily, if there was any reason why
she could not purchase the necklace she
had seleeted.
"It already belongs to your royal
highness," the shopkeeper was startled
into replying, "though I was not author
ized to let your royal highness know it.
It was orded some time ago-"
"Who ordered it! the Prince 1 OI
now X see my birthday is in a few
days; no doubt he intends this as a
birthday gift. Be sure you do not men
tion my visit here, and I shall say noth
ing to the Prince."
The Princess was touched by the
thoughtful compliment from her husband.
who, in those days, was neither noted
for this thoughtfulness nor his tender
ness, and eagerly awaited her birthday
in silence. The morning came, and
numberless cadeaux .according to German
custom, were carried into her bedcham
ber ; among them one that bore her hus
band's hand-writting on the covering.
She tore off the wrappings, trembling,
almost weeping, and refusing assistance.
The little casket contained a very hand
some diamond bracelet no necklace.
What could it mean t Like the Queen,
the Princess Royal is a martyr to jealous
rage, and her fury may bo imagined.
But to discover what she was determined
to learn, she hid her rage, saying to her
self 1
"A necklace like that would only be a
fitting cadeaux to some one who goes to
court I shall see it 1"
And she did. At the next court ball
the searching eyes of the crown prin
cess did not permit any one to pass unno
ticed. At last there entered a young and
beautiful lady a well known belle ; she
e that necklace. The eyes of her
royal highness flashed, as though giving
back the light of the diamonds when
her glance- rested upon it. She walked
deliberately up to the lady, and asked
her in a toue quite audible to those
near :
"Who gavo you that necklace 1"
The lady colored crimson, hesitated,
Stammered, and failed to reply.
" Who made you a present of those
exquisite diamonds I demanded the
Princess, varying her question.
The lady, now quite confident, from
the manner of the crown Princess, that
she knew the honor, and there was no
mercy to be expected, stood Bilent.
"It was given to you by the Crown
Prince of Prussia, my husband. Deny
it if you can but you cannot. I now
leave this place, and I never mere will
enter it until you have been openly for
bidden to do so."
With that she swept out of salon. Of
course the fair necklace-wearer was then
and there dismissed in disgrace.
TIE SCI0OL1A8TU Ail US FCMLt
"Robert, where is Africa 1"
"On the map, sir."
"I mean Robert, in what continent, the
Eastern or Western Continent t"
"Well, the land of Africa is In the
Eastern Continent, bnt the people, sir,
are all of 'em down South."
"What are its products 1"
"Africa, sir, or down South ?"
Africa, you blockhead 1"
"Well, it has not got any; it never
had any."
"How do the African people live I"
"By drawing ."
"Drawing what water 1"
"No, sir ; by drawing their breath."
"Sit down, Robert."
"Thomas, what ia the equator V
"Why, sir, it is a horriaontal pole run
ning perpendicularly through the imagi
nation of astronomers and old geogra
phers.
"Go to your seat, Thtmas. William
rStiggs, what do yon mean by an eclipse 1"
"An old rac horse, air."
"Silence. Next. Jack, what b an
eclipse ?"
"An eclipse ia a thing that appears
when the moon gets on a bust and runs
agin the sun; consequently the sun
blacks the moon's face 1"
"Class dismissed."
A Yank bb one day asked his lawyer
how an heiress might be carried ofL
"Yon can not do it with safety," said the
councellor, "but 111 tell you what you
may do. Let her mount a horse and bold
a bridle-rein ; do yon then mount behind
her, and yon are safe, for ehe runs away
with you." The next day the lawyer
found that it waa his own daughter who
had run away with bis client.
A whitb squirrel was recently killed
in Washington county.
A LESSON TO A KDItt.
An ancient Persian fabulist tells the
story of a king who, having hanged his
general because be had lost a battle, re
solved, in his rage, to kill the widow and
children of the unfortunate officer also.! . u .
, (minded persona in the wwW, except
The whole country was in distress be
cause of this cruel and unjust resolution,
and numerous petitions were sent in. But
all this was in vain. The despot became
all the more implacable as his sense of hu
manity was appealed to.
One day the king's chief counsellor
threw himself at the feet of his master,
and asked for justice. He was accom
panied by his daughter, a women of un
paralleled beauty.
"Ruler of the world" he said, "your
physician, seeing that my daughter sur
passes his daughter in beauty, as the sun
surpasses the moon in glory, has, in a fit
of jealously, deformed my child by
throwing a caustic fluid over her face."
Having said these words, he unveiled
his daughter's face. An ngly black spot
was exposed, which terribly disfigured
the otherwise beatiful countenance of the
poor girl.
The king, roused to anger by the sight
immediately sent for the physician.
Why have you done this to the wo
man T" he asked.
The physician gave no reply.
"By the sun and all his hosts," cried
the king, "with thy head shalt thou pay
for this offense."
He beckoned to the captain of the
guard, who at once stepped forward to
execute the verdict. But the physician
produced a sponge from bis bosom, and,
dipping it in a basin of water, with one
stroke thoroughly washed away the black
spot.
"What is this r asked the king.
"Ruler of the world," the counsellor
answered, "yon have sentenced my friend
the physician, to death because he only
disfigured a girl's face by a stain which
could be washed off easily; but what sen
tence will the Eternal Judge have to cast
upon you, if you cast such a stain upon
your conscience as you purpose a stain
which all tbe water of the ocean cannot
wash away 1"
The king, deeply struck by the ques
tion, abandoned his cruel intention, a id
sent tbe widow and children of tbe de
ceased general home, enriched with to
kens of his princely munificence.
FAIRY ISLAND (3IACK15AC).
A strange, quaint race are the inhabi
tants of Fairy Island. A full-blooded
Indian grandmother, clad in blanket and
moccasins, a funny little French grand
father, full of gay songs and jokes, a dusky
half-breed mother, and a sturdy Dutch
father, must necessarily produce peculiar
children many-featured, many-hued.and
many-charactered. A pretty young girl,
her face sparkling with the vivacious in
telligence peculiar to the French, is ac
companied by a silent brother, whose
features and form are Indian pur et sim
ple. Playing on the beach are confused
groups of mongrel children, and so be
wildered are we by the unexpected ad
mixtures of features and complexions,
that we almost expect to discover that
some of them are half-squirrel or half
loon descendants of the original inhabi
tants of Fairy Island. Basking against
an old boat in tbe brilliant sunshine, we
discovered, one morning, one of those
dried-up old grandperes, and entered into
conversation with him. He told us merry
tales of the furtraders, their wild adven
tures ia the far West, and their gay meet
ings at Mackinac twice a year, wben
from all directions assembled the loaded
bateaux, and the canoes freighted with
the spoils of the wilderness. In his lit
tle piping voice and French patois, he
sang for us one of the boating-songs,
which we have endeavored to translate,
as follows :
Bow, row, brothers, row,
Down ta the west I
On, on, on we go.
Pause not for rest.
"The san shines bright,
The boat rows light.
As we the long oar gayly draw,
But aeon the night
Will veil from sight
The distant heights of Mackinac.
Farewell, farewell,
Ma belle, ma bells, .
The brightest eyes the world e'er saw l
How long 'twill bo
I'er w shall see
The distant heights of Mackinac I
Afar we go.
Towards lee aad snow.
With wolf aad bison most we war,
Bat smiling Spring
Again will knag
The distant heights of Mackinao.
"Bow, row, brothers, row,
Down to the west ;
On, on, on we go,
Pause not for rest."
From Putnam's ifagivufot July.
Two California barbers quarrelled and
arranged a duel. They were to walk
around a block in opposite directions, and
each was to fire at sight of his antagonist
They started, and as soon as the block
intervened each took the shortest cut for
home, complaining that bis adversary
didn't come to time.
THBHSarein India 600 missionaries
and 2,000 native preachers. About f 1,
500,000 are expended in this field by
twenty-five societies.
ABSENCE OF XLN.
Doctor Josiah Campbell, who lived for
many years on tbe Western Keeerve, ia
Ohio, was a skillful physician, but withal
one of the meet eceentne and aoaent-
Margaret, his wife, and she was folly hi
equal, One summer morning tbe Doctor
was caught out in a tremendous shower,
which drenched hnn to the skin. It
soon cleared off, however, and Doctor
Josh rode into his own yard, where be
took the dripping saddle from his horse
and let him go adrift into the pasture.
Tbe saddle he placed on a stout log of
wood which was elevated some four feet
from tbe ground en two posts, whore thn
doctor bad begun ta build a platform t
dry bis peaches on.
After having got hfe saddle fixed so it
would dry,he took tbe bridle, and, putting
the bh over the end of tbe log, he
stretched out the reins, and hitching
them to tbe bora of the saddle, went ia
to change his wet clothe and get break
Cast, Josiah, Jr., and Margaret, Jr , were
away from home on a visit, and so the
two seniors sat down to the morning meal .
When tbey were about half through, Jim
Atwood, a farmer who lived about eight
miles distant, came in, telling the doctor
he wished he would go over to his hou?e,
as he reckoned he might be wanted over
there, and then went off to the village in
a hurry, after some neeeBs.iry "fixena."
When the doctor finished his meal, he
took his saddle-bags and out he went into
the yard, where he deliberately mounted
hie saddle and set out in imagination fur
Jim Atwood 's.
For a long time be rode on la silence.
with eyes intently fixed on Bachan's
Practice, which lay open before him. At
length he began to feel the effect of the
fierce rays of amid day sun, and on look
ing up from his book he discovered a
house close by him upon which hs sung
out lustily for a drink of water.
Aunt Margaret, who had been for tha
last two boors very busy iu the garden,
soon made her appearance with a pitcher
of milk, and after the thirsty stranger
had taken a long draught, they entered
into an animated conversation, tbe Doc
tor launching out into rapturous praises
of the scenery about tbe place, the neat
ness of the buildings, tbe fine orchard of
peach and apple trees ; and the lady, who
had caught a glimpca of the saddle-bas
made a great many inquiries about the
health of the neighborhood, etc.
The Doctor finally took his leave of
the lady, assuring her that he would call
on his return and have some further con
versation with her, as she reminded him so
much of his wife, who, he was sure would
be very happy to make her acquain
tance. The lady turned to enter tho honse
and the Doctor had just gathered up tbe
reins, when Jim Atwood dashed up to
the gate with his horse all in a lather of
foam.
"What on earth are you doing Doc
tor 1" yelled Jim ; get off that log and
come along.
The Doctor was greatly astonished at
first, but after a few minutes it got
through his hair that he had been all the
morning riding a beech-log in his own
dooryard.
THE CHINESE PIG-TAILS.
It ts curious how the Chinese came to
Were pig-tails. Several hundred years
a . at . ...
ago tne lnbaDttants of unina wore tiieir
Lair as we do, but there was a war be
tween China and Tartary, and the Chi
nese got the worst of it and were con
quered. When the first Tartar King of
the present dynasty came to the throne
he determined to humble tho pride of
the Chinese. He began in 1064, by or
dering everybody to shave off all the
hair exeept a tuft on the crown ; that be
ing the way he wore his own hair. There
were a great many proud and high-spirited
gentleman iu China who would not
obey the command, and the result was
that they had their heads chopped off.
It ia rather an uncomfortable thing for a
man to lose his head. The Chinese
thought so, and concluded to shave and
braid their hair into a pig-tail, althongh
it was an act of degratbn. They felt it
keenly, but as the years rolled on they
forgot the humiliation, and began to like
the fashion. As soon as the pig tail be
came fashionable, the young gentlemen
of China tried to get ap the longest,
neatest, and glossiest tails possible. They
cultivate them just as young gentlemen
in the United States, and almost every
where else cultivate their whiskers and
moustache, greasing, combing, brushing
and fingering them allithe time. Haney
Journal.
A MAN lately made applicatian for In
surance on a building situated in a village
where there was no fire engine. In an
swer to the question, "What are the fa
cilities for extinguishing fires t" he wrote,
"It rains sometimes."
A good sign at the numerous college
reunions which have taken place this
season has been the absence of wine and
other liquors from the festive board.