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MIFFLIKTOWN. TA.
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Office on Bridge at rear, opposite the Court
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A TTORNEY a T LA Jf
MIFFLINTOWN, PA.
Office on Bridge atreat, ia the room formerly
occupied by Exra D. Parlrer, Esq.
actT6neeil
JF. G. LONG, residing in Spruce Hit!
township, offers his services to the citi
tent of Juniata eoumy as Auctioneer and
Vendue Crior. Charges moderate. Satis
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. .
MIFFLINTOWN, PA.,
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ata eouaty aa Auotioneer and Vendue Crier.
Charges, from two to tea dollars. Satisfac
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Q YES ! O YES !
H. H. SNYDER, Perrysville, Pa.,
Tenders his services to the citizens of Juni
ata and adjoiningvtauntier. as Auctioneer.
Charges moderate. For satisfaction give the
Dutchman a chance. P. O. address, Port
Royal, Juniata Co., Pa.
Feb 7, '72-1 y
DR. P. C. 11UNDIO,
PATTERSON, PENN'A.
August 1, 18C9-tr. '
THOMAS A. LLDEK.mToT
Physician and Surgeon,
MIFFLIN'TOWN, PA.
Office hours & A. M. it S P. M. Office in
Felford's building, two doers above the Sen
tmtl office, Cridge street, aug 18-tf
B. GARVER,
Hoxoptiiic Physician anil Surgeon,
Having located in the borough of Thompson
town, offers his professional services to the
citizens of that place and vicinity.
Office In the room recently occupied by
Dr. Sorg. f June 12, '72-tf
B. SUITS m.
H03LE0PATIHC PHYSICIAN i SURGEON
Having permanently located in the bcrougb
of llifliintown, offers his professional services
te the citizena of this place and surrounding
oauntry.
Office on Main street, over Beidler's Drug
Btors. fang 18 l69-tf
V T Ik sT
in. Ji. a. Dunpson
Treats all forms of disease, and msy be con
sulted aa follows: At his office in Liverpool
Pa., every SATCKDAT and MONDAY ap
pointments can be cade for other days.
JegrCall on or addrens
DR. K. A. SIMPSON, .
dec 7 Liverpool. Perry Co., Ta.
GREAT REDUCTION
in vua
PRICES OF teeth:
Full Upper or Lower Sets at Low as $5.00.
TCo teeth allowed to leave the office unless
Ibo patient is satisfied.
Teeth remodeled and repaired.
Teeth filled to last for life.
Toothache stopped in five minutes without
extracting the tooth.
Dental work done for persons without them
leaving their homes, if desired.
Electricity nsed in the eztraction of teeth,
rendeiing it almost a painless operation, (no
extra charge) at the Dental Office of G. L.
Derr. established in Mifflintown in 18fi0.
G. L. DERR,
Jan 24, 1 872-ly Practical Dentist.
C. ROTIIBOCK, "
DENTIST,
MoA-listervillrf, Penna.,
OFFERS his professsonal services to the
public in general, in both branches of
his profession operative and mechanical.
First week of every month at Richfield, Fre
mont and Turkey Valley.
Second week Liverpool and Wild Cat V al-
le Third week Millerstown and Raccoon
'fourth week at his offioe in M'Alisterville.
Will visit Mifflin when called on.
Teeth put np on any ef the bases, and as
liberal as anywhere else.
Address by letter or otherwise.
WALL PAPER
jt ally to the Place where vou can bny
your Wall Paper Cheap.
THE undersigned takes ihis method of in
forming the public that he has just re
ceived at hia residence en Third Street, Mif
flintown, a Urge assortment of
WALL PAPER,
ef various styles, which he offers for sale
CHEAPER than can be purchased elsewhere
intheoounty. All persons in. need of the
above article, and wishing to save money, are
invited to call and examine his stock and
hear his prices before going elsewhere.
ALarge supply constantly on hand.
. . SIMON BASOM.
Caution.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against
Hunting. Fishing, or in any way trev
pasaing on the lands of the undersigned, in
Milford township. All persons ao offending
will be dealt with to the full extent ; of the
jjj r. n. H.AVY3.
Dee. 4, 1872-tf ' '
Caution.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against
Hunting, Fishing, or in any wsy tres-
nn ihm farm ocAunted bv tlis under-
iened, in Milford township. All persons so
.... . ... -.1. .k ..t.nl
offending will oe uean wu m " -
of the law. JOSEPH FUNK.
CATJTIOSY
. i ...;(
ALL persons are ncreuy
trespassing by hunting, or in any other
way, on the farm onwbioh I reside in Fer
managh tewnsWpi AU persons offending
will be dealt with lo the foil xtnftb
air. K1L80K.ROBI30K.
B. F. 8CHWEIEB.
VOLUME XXVII, NO. -30
JPoetry.
There's Eangsr ia the Town.
t JOUS M. TATCS.
There! John, bitch Dubbin to the post ; come
near me and sit down';
Tour mother wants to talk to you before yon
drive to town ; . -
My hairs are grey, I shall soon be at rest
within the grave ;
Not long will mother pilot yon o'er life's
tempestuous wave
I've watched o'er you from infancy till now
you are a man.
And I have always loved you aa a mother
only can ;
At morning and at evening I have prayed
the God of love, .
To Dions and guide my darling boy to the
brighter home above.
A mother's eye is searching. John, old age
can't dim its sight.
When watching o'er an only child to see if
he does right ;
And very lately I hare seen what has aroused
my fears
And made my pillow hard at night, and
moistened it with tears.
I've seen a light within your eye, upon your
cheeks a glow
That told me you were on the road that leads
to shame and woe ;
Oh ! John, don't turn away your head, and
on my counsel frown,
Stay more upon the dear old farm ; there's
danger in the town.
Remember what the poet says long years
have proved it true
That "Satan finds some mischief still for
idle hands te do ;"
If you live on in idleness, with those who
love the bowl.
You'll dig yourself a drunkard's grave, and
reck your deathless soul.
Your father, John, is growing old ; his days
are nearly through ;
O ! he has labored very hard to save the
farm for you ;
But it will go to ruin soon, and poverty will
frown.
If you keep hitching Dobbin up fo drive
into the town.
Your prospects for the future are very bright,
my son
Not many have your start in life when they
are twenty-one ;
Your star, that shines so brightly now, in
darkness will decline.
If you forget your mother's words, and tarry
at the wine.
Turn back, my boy. in yonr youth ; stay by
the dear old farm ;
The Lord of Hosts will save you, with his
powerful right an.
Not long will mother pilot you o'er life's
tempestuous wave-
Then light her pathway with your love down
to the silent grave.
IVXiseell&iiy.
THE ARCTIC EE&IONS.
A Wonderful Narrative Brought from
the Lana of Ice and Snow.
The New York Star, edited by Joseph
Howard, Esq , eives currency to a re
markably eeusational narrative, portions
of which we publish, merely as a carios
ity in its way. Howard was the author
rf a bogns proclamatiotf "during the re
bellion to wbicb he attached the name of
President Lincoln, a piece of enter
prise which cost him a brief stay in fort
Lafayette. The story he now publiehes
has iu it some of the elements that char-
.cterized the celebrated moon hoax.
We give it for what it is worth :
-A letter has been received from TV il
iam North, one of the Arctic explorers
who accompaned Sir John Franklin on
his memorable expedition from England
in 1S54. North is still in the Arctic
regions, and, according to his statement.
great continent exists beyond the sea
of ice. Bis narrative, if true, will be
of the utmost importance to scientists
and explorers. : it was written on the
bite side of pieces of skin, laced to
gether with sinews and enclosed in a
morticed log and sent adnft. It was
picked up in Hudson Bay, Washington
Territory, and by . him forwarded here.
The following extracts are taken . from
orth's letter : ' -
"In Mar. ISoi, beine desirous of leav-
iiie Ei'irland, I shipped before the mast
on the Erebus, under command of Sir
John Franklin, on an Arctic voyage.
Before winter wc reached latitude 7
ez. north, in Wellington Channel. This
was the highest the ships ever got Cap
tain Franklin died of . brain lever in
1857. We abandoned the ships in April
1S58 CaDtain Crozier decided to go 39
degrees south, hoping Jo reach Hudson
Bav. Our provisions becoming exuaus-
led, all but myself perished. I lay pn
th anow insensible, when I was rescued
r some Esquimaux and lived with them
several years. From my observation i
became convinced that there was a habit
able land father north. The birds and
la nffon came in large nnmber
from that direction, and then suddenly
rtnmd ' The Indians all had a super
stitious fear of going far in that direc
tion, and none who did so were ever
..n raln. It was supposed they per
ished of cold and starvation, or were kM
bevond the' mountains.
"j " .
I concluded to push on to the north and
MIFFLINTOWN,
reach the North Pole or per ish ' in the
attempt. No one would go with me, bo
I went alone, taking two dogs and a boat
I had rigged on runners. This was ou
the Greenland shore, as far north as the
Ice mountains, known to navigators as
the glaciers. It was early in the spring
of I860, according to my reckoning, and
the season was the most favorable I had
ever seen, and in two months I must
have traveled fully six hundred miles,
living on game killed on the way. I will
not dwell upon the perils and privations
of my juurney, except to say I had kill
ed my dogj to save me from starvation,
when on the 20th of June, 1860, accord
ing to my calendar, I passed out of a
crevice or gorge between two great walls
of ice just in time to escape death by a
falling muss larger thau a ehip, into an
open space of table land, and stretching
away as far as the eye could reach, a land
more beautiful thau England or any oth
er country I have, ever seen. When my
feelings had become calmer I descended
the mountain, at the foot of which I
came upon a village in which was a great
crowd of people, who seemed to be c-Ie
brating a carnival or feast, being clad iu
skins. I was greatly affected by heat,
and fainted, remaining insensible about
two days. I was carefully attended by
prients, but closely guarded. Soon after
I was taken before the chief, who is call
ed tbe jail, and was received by him with
distinction, lie ia nearly seven feet high
and splendidly made, lie is a blonde.
with long flaxen hair, and about forty
years of age. Tbe queen is also a pure
blonde, very tall and beautiful I am
learning the language, which is very
similar iu sound to the Sweditb, I atn
almost sure tbe ruling race here are the
ancient Norman of history. I am sacred
ly protected, treated with the greatest
consideration, but carefully watched.
The peasants, or serfs, seem to bo entiie
ly another race, and are swarthy. The
people here worship the sun in summer
aud the moon fti winter. Soon after I
arrived the sun commenced declining and
finally disappeared on the. fifteenth of
October, appearing agsiu above the hori
zon on the first day of March, showing
that the day, or summer, is fceven and a
half months, and tbe night, or winter,
four and a half months iu lenjrth ''
'JLe remainder of tho letter is given to
a description of vegetation, animnli and
mineral resources of tbe country. The
trees are very fine, and include cotton
wood, oak, elm, birch and pine. Vege
tation grows rapidly in summer, grass
giowing to tbe height of one foot in two
weeks iu J uno. Tbe animals are moose,
reindeer, musk ox, buflulo, bears, wolves
foxes, rabbits, See. There are also horses
very small nd highly esteemed, walrus
and seal are domesticated and used for
lowing barges and canoes iu lakes and
rivers. They have grain iu abundance,
such as wheat, maize aud bailey. There
are also potatoes, plums, apples, grapes
aud many varieties of berries. Geese,
ducks and swans are numerous ; fish of
many varieties abound in swarms, the
salmon being the favorite. Iron ia plen
ty, mostly magnetic. Stone is also found
and there are large quarries of very fine
quality. 1'recious stones and also gold
and silver abound, and flue diamonds are
are frequently seen. Gold and silver,
hammered iuto oval shape, are used for
ring. Concluding his letter. North says :
"I have been here about eleven months,
this being, according to my calendar, the
22d of May ,4861, and the heat is grow
ing somewhat oppressive. They have
not offered me any violence, and do not
think they will, as the priests are too
anxious to learn from me what they are
satisfied I know. I am learning tbeir
language slowly, but faster than they ar e
aware. I shall put this statement, prop
erly secured in a seal skin, into the river
hoping, but scarcely believing, that it
may pass the cataracts and be picked up
by some whaling ship or other craft."
The letter ia signed Wm. North, U. M.
S. Erebus, Sir John Franklin's expedi
tion ; enclosed May 28, 1861. . ,.
A story is told of a negro in Virginia
whose master threatened to give him a
flogging if be boiled his eggs hard again.
Next morniug the eggs came to the table
still harder than before. "You rascal !"
shouted the enraged planter, "didn't I
tell yon to cook these eggs soft 1" "Yes
massa," said tbe frightened slave: "an I
got up at two o'clock dis morning' an'
biled dem five hours, an' it seems to me
I never kinn get de3e eggs softer !"
A Clergyman iu Davenport, Iowa, ex
changed pulpits with a pastor in a not
distant city a few Sundays ago, and
meeting at the railroad crossing they
had a chat together. They carried sat
chels just alike, and when the car bell
rang each caught up one and started for
tbe train, to find on reaching tbeir desti
nations that they had exchanged satch
els and e'tw-
A uBNTLEM AN was complimenting a
pretty young lady in the presence of his
wife "It is lucky I did not meet Miss
Hopkins before I married you, my dear,
"Well, yes, it is extremely lucky for
her," was the dry rejoinder. ; .
ihi ooasTiTCTioa ma onion avd Tn saroaoeaaiT or
JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN'A.,
The Gray Hare the Better Horse.
In answer to a correspondent who asks
the origin of the above proverb, the New
York Obtercer gives the following story :
This well known proverbial saying
originated from the following circum
stances : A gentleman of a certain couu
ty in England, having narried a young
lady of considerable fortune, aud at tbe
same time was possessed of many other
charms, he found not long after marriage
that she was of a high, domineering tem
per, and always contending to be mis
tress both of him and his family ; there
fore he formed the resolution of parting
from her. Accordingly be waited npon
her father, and told him that be found
his daughter of such a temper that he
was heartily tired of her, and if he would
take her home again he would return
every penny of her fortune.
The old gentleman having inquired
into the cause of his complaint, asked
htm why he should be more disquieted at
it than any other married man, since it
was the common caee with them all, and
consequently no more than he might
have expected when he entered into the
married state. The young gentleman
desired to be excused if he said he was
so far from giving his assent to this as
sertion that he thought himself more un
happy than any other man, as his wife
had a spirit no way to be quelled, and
most certaiuly no mau who had a sense
of right or wrong could ever submit to
be governed by bis wife. ' Son," said
the old man, '-you are but little acqainted
with the world if you do not know that
all women govern their husbands, though
not all indeed by tbe same method ; how
ever, to end all disputes between us, I
will put what I have said upon this
proof, if yon are willing to try it.
I Lave five horses iu toy stable; you
shall harness theee to a cart, in which I
shall put a basket containing a hundred
tSSB i an(l f 'n passing through the
county, aud making a strict inquiry into
the truth or falsehood of my assertion.
and leaving a horse at the house of every
man who is master of his family himself,
aud an egg where the wife governs, you
shall find your eggs gone before your
horses, I hope tLat you will then think
your own case not uncommon, but will
be contented to go borne and look upon
your own wife as no' 'worse than her
neighbors. If, on the other hand, your
horses are gone first, I will take my
daughter home agaiu and you shall keep
her fortune.
This proposal was too advantageous to
be rejected. Our young married man
therefore set out with gieat eagerness, to
get rid, as be thought, of hia horses aud
bis wife. At the first bouse be came to
be heard a woman with a shrill and an
gry voice call to her husband to go to
tbe door Here he left an egg, you may
be sure, without making any further in
quiry. At the next bouse ne met with
something of the same kind, and at every
house iu short until hia eggs were almost
gone, when he arrived at the seat of a
gentleman of family and figure in the
country. He knocked at the door, and
inquiring for the master of the house was
told by a servant that bis master was not
yet stirring, but if be pleased to walk in
his lady was in the parlor. Tbe lady
with great complaisance desired him to be
seated, and said, if his business was ur
gent, Bhe would wake her husband, but
had much rather not disturb him. ''Why,
really, madam," said he, "my business is
only to ask a question, which you can
resolve as well as your husband, if you
will be ingenuous with me ; you will"
doubtless think it odd, and it may be
deemed impolite for any one, much more
a stranger, to ask such a question ; but
as a wager depends upon it, and it may
be some advantage to yourself to de
clare tbe truth to me, I hope these con
siderations will plead my excuse. It is
madam, my desire to be informed whether
you govern your husband, or he rules
over you." "Indeed, sir," replied the
lady, "this question is somewhat odd ;
but as I think no one ought to be ashamed
of doing their duty I shall make no scru
ple to say that I am always proud to
obey my husband in all things ; but if a
woman's own word is to be suspected in
such a case, let him answer for me, for
here be comes."
The gentleman at that time entering
the room, aud after some apologies being
made acquainted with the business ; con
firmed every word his obedient wife had
reported in her own favor, npon which
he was requested to choose wbicb horse
in the team he liked best, and to accept
of it as a present. . .'
A black gelding struck the fancy of
the gentleman most, but tbe lady desired
be would choose the gray marc, which
ebe thought would be very fit for her side
saddle ; her husband gave substantial
reasons why the black horse would be
the most useful to them, but madam still
persisted in her claim to the gray mare.
"What." said she, "and will you not take
her then f But I say you shall, for I am
sure the gray mare is much tbe better
horse." "Well, my dear," replied tbe
husband, "if it must be so." You
must take an egg," replied the gentlemau
carter, "and I must take all my horses
back again, and endeavor to live happy
witkiny wife." ;
TBI LAWS.)
JULY m, 1873.
' The Terror of Gaesen.
Daniel Harder was, cays the Swiss
Times, at the time of his uunatural death
only twenty-seven years of age, and,
until his twenty-second year, his conduct
had been irreproachable. An act of in
justice, which he suffered in 1867 at tbe
hands of a Prussian nobleman of high
rauk, converted him from a respectable
village schoolmaster into a relentless ene
my of society, and eventually led him to
the scaffold. It was shortly after the
Gnesen Land webr battalion had returntd
from the war with Austria, and after
Harder, who had served as a private in
that corps, had resumed his duties as
schoolmaster at Grodzyk, a village near
Gueseu, that he accidentally met the
Baron von Ilettsedt, tbe major of that
battalion The Baron was uuder the in
fluence of liquor, and, without any pro
vocation whatever, began to abuse Har
der very grossly. Harder tried to get
away from him, but the Baron struck him
and spit in his face. This was too much
for the village schoolmaster. He turned
furiously upon his assailant, aud although
the latter was in full uniform, beat bim
severely, broke bis sword, and left him
bleeding aud almost insensible on tbe
ground. He theu left tho plage for parts
'unknown.
On the following day a summons was
issued aguiust him by the Guesen milita
ry tribunal, and, failing to appear, be wus
sentenced to be a hot. All the efforts to
ascertain his whereabouts remained fruit
less, and six mouths afterward the affair
was well nigh forgotten. There was but
one man who remembered it with the
keenest bitterness, and that was Daniel
Harder himself. While be bad hidden
from the police he had brooded over tbe
great wrong thai had been done to bim,
and determined to wreak a terrible re
venge upon the Baron von Ilettstedt.
The latter lived iu a very fine mansion
two miles from Gnesen. Shortly after
midnight on tbe 3d of August, 1S67, a
fire broke out in the mansion at three
different places. The building was
speedily laid in ashes, and, owing to the
rapidity with which the flames spread,
one of -the Baron's children "peiL-hed in
them. The conflagration was evidently
tbe work of an incendiary, and tbe peo
ple's voice at ones designated Daniel
Harder as tho man who had done it.
A reward of one thousand dollars was
offered for his apprehension, and the
geusdarmerie of the whole district was
sent out to hunt him up. It was discov
ered that he had been in the neighbor
hafod, but he managed to elude pursnit.
Daniel Harder had set fire to the Iletts
tedt mansion, and henceforth hia career
was that of an outlaw, knowing that hia
life was forfeited. Tho peasants began
to look upon him as a dare devil, endow
ed with almost superhuman powers of
endurance, fiendish malignity and the
most indomitable courage. We next
find him associated with a baud of high
way robbers, who made the ast forests
of the Gnesen district tbeir headquarters
and whose chief he became soon after
ward in consequenee of his superior in
telligence. Tbe baud, under his leader
ship, became a scourge to the district.
It committed hundreds of lawless acta ;
it robbed, killed and burned, aud at one
time fought a regular battle with ten
mounted gendarmes, in wbicb two of tbe
latter were killed. Harder delighted in
bidding defiance to tbe authorities. Once
he visited Gnesen in disguise, and called
npon the policemaster. A few hours af
terward he sent that dignitary a letter,
iu which he informed him who hia visitor
had been.
During the war of 1870 the impudence
of the Harder band became so great
that a detachment of regular cavalry was
sent out to scour the woods and bunt the
daring criminals down, but all to no pur
pose. Harder became such a terror to
the district that the peasants did not dare
to give information that might lead to his
apprehension. The mayor of the village
of Dilitzka, who had volunteered in 1872
to lead the gendarmes to hia place of
concealment, was brutally murdered a
few weeks afterward. It was this assas
sination that finally led to the arrest of
the great bandit. The murdered Mayor
of Dilitzka had four childreu, the eldest
of whom was Sophia Josephine Arnitz,
who at the time of her father's death
was eighteen. Sbe was good looking,
and endowed with superior intelligence.
Tbe cowardly assassination of her father
made a deep impression npon her, and
she swore to herself to bring hia murder
er to justice.
With true feminine shrewdness and
extraordinary powers of dit simulation,
she managed 'to have an interview with
Daniel Harder, and made him believe
that the renown of his bloody aud daring
deeds bad caused her to fall in love with
him. She was handsome, his vanity
was excited- in a word, he accepte d her
declaration of love, and said he would
marry her. ' She told bim that she was
the daughter of a widow, and that he
could meet her next evening at the Gol
den Ox Tavern, one mile from Gnesen,
where she was about to accept a place as
servant girl. She talked with such ap
to
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WHOLE NUMBER 1376.
parent frankness that Harder did cot for
a moment suspect her. He promised to
meet her there at the appointed tirao in
the disguise of a peddler. He kept his
appointment, and was at ouca arrested
by six gendarmes, whom the girl had
notified of bis coming. Ten days after
ward he was placed on his trial before
the Criminal Assizes of Gnesen and con
victed of crimes enough to send a dozen
men to the scaffold.
He was sentenced to be beheaded.
His execution, however, was delayed un
til the first of May. Until then Harder
manifested the greatest fortitude in jail.
When the executioner visited bim on the
eve of hia death, Harder joked with him
and told him he need not fasten hia head
to the block, as he would lie still until
all was over. He added to the heads
man : "My friend, grind tbs edge of
your axe well, so that you kill meat one
blow." Ou the scaffold he turned to the
immense multitude and exclaimed in a
loud tone, "Now see how a man dies !''
Then he knelt down bebiud tho block
and put hia bead on it. He growlod
aloud when the executioner fastened him
to tbe block with the leathern straps.
"You are very slow," be said calmly,
while tbe headsman took out his terrible
axe. "Strike ! Strike !" f he axe fell
twice before the bead of the great outlaw
was severed from the body. Not a few
of the superstitions spectators dipped
their handkerchiefs in Uarder's blood.
Vegetable Instinct
If a pan of water be placed within six '
inches of either side of the stem of a
pumpkin or vegetable marrow, it will in
the course of the night approach it, and
will be found in tbe morning with one of
the leaves on the water. This experi
ment may be continued nightly until the
plant begins to fruit.
If a prop be placed within six inches
of a youug convovlulus, or scarlet run
ner, it will find it although the prop may
be shifted daily. If after it has twiued
some distance up the prop, it be un
wound, and twined in tbe opposite direc
tion, it with return to its origiual position
or die in the attempt ; yet, notwithstand
ing, if t vo of these plants grow near to
each other, aud have no Btak'e around
which they can entwine, one of them will
alter the direction of ilia aplral nd tLy
will twine around each other.
Dubamel placed some kidney beans in
a cylinder of moist earth ; after a ohort
time they commenced to germinate, of
course sending the plume upwards to tbe
light, and tbe root down into the soil.
After a few days tbe cylinder was turned
one-fourth around, and again and again
tbia was repeated, until au entire revolu
tion of tbe cylinder was completed. The
beans were then taken out of tbe eartb,
and it waa found that both the plume and
tbe radicle had bent to accommodate
themselves to every revolution, and in its
efforts to ascend perpendicularly, and the
other to descend, they bad formed a per
fect spiral. But although the natural
tendency of tbe roots is downward, if
the soil beneath be dry, and any damp
substance be above, tbe roots will as
cend to reach it.
CuaRLES IlAl'BER.a desperate' look
ing villain, was accused by J. O. Oskins
with the theft of a stove from his store.
OEkins took tbe stand and prepared him
self for an immediate elucidation of the
whole difficulty.
Alderman Well, sir, tell us what
you know about this case.
J.O. Oskius (excitedly). Besterhine
vat I vash no no nix on a heap un a
shelapp gant all der vile, und
Alderman What on earth ia the man
talking about? Tittering
Basso P. Si-i-Ien-ce !
J. O. O Vat ish dat T
Basso P. Silence ! ' Order !
Alderman. Prisoner, furnish $1,500
bail for your appearance at court.
As old gentleman of eighty-four years
having takeu to tbe altar a young dam
sel of sixteen, tbe clergyman said to him :
"Yon will see the font at the opposite
end of the church." "What do I want
with the font 1" asked the old gentle
man. "I beg your purdou," said tbe
clerical wit, "I thought you had brought
the child to be christened." .
Mollie,' said Joe Kelly's ghost to his
wife, "I'm in Purgatory at this present
time," says he.
'And what sort of a place ia it V says
she.
"Faix," says he, ''it's a sort of half
way bonse between you and heaven ; and
I stand it mighty aisy after leaving
you."
An exchange refuses to publish the
poem commencing,
"I breathe en the faoe of a maiden,"
until the editor knows what its author
drinks. '
Why do young ladies whiten tbeir
faces t Because they think the powder
will make them go off.- ;..!
Why are good resolutions like faint
ing ladies T Because they want carry
ing out.
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Eetsrn of tlia Menajsites.
The party of commissioners represen
ting the Mecnonitcs ef Russia, who.
early in June, went to tbe North-wrst ti
a toui of inspection, and recently weio
so roughly treated in Manitoba, fcave re
turned to Minneapolis, Minn. The St.
Paul Pioneer gives tbe following accor.nl
of them : Tbe party is in charge of Mr.
M. L. Ililier, of New York ; Rev. John
F. Funk, of Elkhart, IuJ, and Jacob"
Scbantz, of Berlin, Canada, and is cox
posed of the following-named' gemlt-men :
Jacob Buller, Andreas Schraag. Tobias
Uoruh, Louh Suderman, Paul Sclietter,
Loriu Sebetter. of Russia, and W. Ewert,
of Prussia Thry are commissioners ap
pointed by the several Mennonite colo
nies of Russia and Prussia to' visit the
United States aud select a proper poiut"
iu the Not th-west for the location of a
large colony of tbeir people.
"Our reporter called ' upon them ltt
evening, and iu a pleasant interview with
Mr. Hitler, obtained a sketch cf their
trip since leaving St. Paul i:i Juufl list,
and their impre-io:is of the count;y.
Mr. Iiiller states that from St. Taul tl.y
went to Duluth, aud fiom there to Fur-"
go, where they spent two days. They
theu continued iluir jouruey to Manito
ba, where they remained a week. '1 hey
were not pleased with the soil or tho
people of Manitoba in fact were dis
gusted by tbeir reception and treatment.
The unremitting exertions of tbe Mani
tobaus to puff their country . into favor
with the commissioners,- met with but
poor success, and the party left there
some two weeks since, happy to get well
out of the country. They have since
examined a considerable stretch of terri
tory in Dakota and Western Minnesota,
and with the latter, particularly, are uioie
than pleased. Tbe party will go to St.
Paul to day, and on Monday next will-
start for Southern Minuesota. They will
visit Kansas and Nebraska before return
ing to Russia, and will not decide npon ar
location for the proposed colony until
their tour ia completed. Wc trust that
their favorable impressions of Minnesota
will be lasting, und that we clay yet
number the Meunouiles among our peo- .,
pie. There are at least 40.000 of them, '
who will within a few years gather upouu-"
the lands selected by these comniissto'.
ers.""The STennonites are of I rbtwtant
belief, and in some respects resemble tie
Quakers. They never bear arms, or u-e'
profane language, or engage in lawsuits.
Tbey are exclusively a farming- people,
are very intelligent, and, as a clas, ari
wealthy "
Even those copper colored rascals, the'
Apache Indiaus, have atonch of delicacy
and romance in them. From' a letter
delivered in San Francisco, by '.Col'. John
C Carmany, we take the following ac
count of their courting customs : Every
young girl ia at liberty M'refuse a suitor
for her band The father, mother aud
brother are prohibited from interfering
in her choice. Her person is at her own
disposal. After ar short courtship- the
lover makes a formal proposal by offer- -.
ing so many horses. Horses are stan
dard value among Indians. Aa tbe'
squaw does all the w'ork, horses are ac-
cepted as an equivalent for her labor.
When a young wiarrior becomes Enamored
he fastens a bnrse near tbe wigwam of the
squaw whose band ho seeks, where he i
left four days. If she fails to feed anil
water the horse during that time the'
master is rejected, bat if she accepts biv
offer she grooma and kindly cares for
the horse, and then ties him to tbe wig.
warn of her lover, as much as to say,
"I am willing to be your elave and do
your work." At marriage the sigr s and1
sachems meet together, and the bride fit
not unfreqn-n:ly loaded wilh forty or
fifty pouods of silver or copper triuklets.
That was a good, though a nthcr
severe, ptm, which was made by a stu
dent in one of our theological sem na
ries, when he anked "Why is Professor
the greatest revivalist of the age?"
and on giving it up said, "Because at
tbe close of every sermon there ia a
great awakening.
A CAI.T old gentleisan. of an active
stirring disposition, had a man at woik
in hia garden who waa quite the reverse
"Jones," said he, " did you ever see a
snail ?' " Certainly," said Jones.
Then," said tbe old man, "you must
have met him, for you could never have
overtaken him."
A peaceful disposition is not abso
lute protection against the turmoils of
life. What is more peaceful than a clam I
And yet, ten to one it ends its life in a
broil. And then, bow peaceful an oyster
is ; and yet how frequently it gets mixed'
up in a stew.
A max has discovered in the West In
dies a tree from the fruit of which a juice
is obtaiued, which will make tbe toughest
beefsteak tender. The discoverer ex
pects to make a fortune rapidly.
Philosophical happiness is to want lit
tle and enjoy much ; vulgar happiness it
to want much and enjoy little.
Always "hard-pressed" -brickr.
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