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IW . 4 IW (W IM Two ini-hes Three im-he- One.fonrth column.. i OU a h 8 INI 111 IM 17 w 35 m 1i IW VOL. XXVII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., SEPTEMBER 10, 1873. NO. 37. Mall column 1H IU One column... 3u uu Poetry. Wailing Tor Lark. SAVED BY A SHARK. Ho! ye who listless and moping Kit dismally twirling yoor thumbs. And gloomily watting and watching For something that thna never comes ; Van might Jut at well, foolish morula. Expect you'll by lightning be struck ; One will happen aa aooa aa the other! Don't stand aronnd waiting for lack ! There's a aaying a goad and true one (Take courage, yon poor one who delvea With a atont heart so brave) that "Heaven Will help those who (rat help themselves ;" And you'll find. If yon wl.h for good fortune, A pretty good way Is to tnck Up your shirt-aleeves and start oat a&d find it ; Don't sit around waiting for lack. Y.te may pine and mope on forever Kind fanlt and deplore yoor bard fate Bat yoa'd better remember the proverb. And act on it ere it 'a too late ; Toa may pout and gramble forever Just so long yoa will find yoa are stack la the mire of sloth and abasement Don't sit around waiting for lack ! There is wealth to be had go and aeek it! And w ith It get honor and fame ; By the sweat of yonr brow yoa can gain them. And carve for yourself a proud name ; But to do thia takea tact and ambition. Persistency, hope and some pluck. Are you ready? then lose not a moment! Don't sit around waiting for lack. A MidKUiiinier Idyl. BT D. W. BBOWXELL. Within the shade by willows made. In softest summer weather. We aat beside the rippling tide My love and I together. Through clouds of white, with softened light, The harvest moonbeams shimmered ; And on the stream a silvery beam With diamond luster glimmered. The snmmer breeie, from fragrant trees, Delicious odors brought us ; While Bounds from o'er the farther shore la blended sweetness sought us. And so we, too, as In us grew The sense of peace so geotle Attuned oar song to Nature's throng, Beneath the evenings mantle. We talked not much, bat the soft touch of hands, and eyas oft meeting. Told more by far than worda declare. As heart to heart have greeting. Then, midnight come, we loitered home, Like brother now and sister, "Ts choat surprise and prying eyes" Till at the gate I kissed her. Snibtttr't M:ithl). 3 1 i ! c ? 1 1 a . Exercise. What American girl would be equal to the following ? From a single feat, performed by a youug lady of the aristocracy, aa English paper concludes that physical degene racy cannot be imputed to the present Feneration of our transatlantic cousins. Lady Blanche Somerset, the daughter of the sporting Duke of Beaufort, a young girl not yet eighteen, who was sojourning with her father in London on Derby Day, snddenly expressed an puiiotis longing to witness the great national race. Epsom was, however, twenty miles distant ; the race was to le run at three o'clock ; and Lady Blanche expressed her wish at half-post twelve. There were no trains, and the duke had no carriage at hand ; so, at a quarter before one, the young lady, escorted by her papa, started for Epsom Downs on korBeback, and reached the scene of the race in an hour and forty minutes, well in time to witness the winner bound past the goal. Certainly no prettier feat of horsemanship could be performed, and the event speaks well for the vigor and pluck of England's daughters. If sporting ladies, daring to rashness in the chase, and perfect mistresses of frisky steeds on Rotten How, are an indication that the stand ard of physical soundness is kept up, it is a just conch sion ; for, as the paper referred to says, "our women ride harder across country than their grandmothers. It is a trite remark that English women the first words are the lustiest and healthiest in the myself up, ami collected my shattered world ; the only divergence of opinion senses. "Who gave you permission to begins when the causes of this are ' clutter up my cabin, turning it into an sought. Some.meteorologically inclined ; office? I au strongly tempted to kick A number of years ago, almost at the dawn of mv natnrs.1 mrepr. T ioined the owners were old friends of my father, through whose influence I obtained the situation. I had been married but a short time when the order arrived, which forced me to leave the arms of my fainting bride and hurry to the city, where the ship was in readiness to proceed to sea. The captain came on board when we were well down the bay, and as he stepped over the rail the pilot bade us farewell, and the last link that bound us to onr native land was severed. I felt a strange thrill, a feeling of disappointment, when I recognized in the captain an old schoolmate and for mer lover of my wife's. I had disliked him from a boy ; in the village, and at school he bad the name, character and characteristics of a bully. He had tried in vain to win the hand of Helen May, who repulsed him with a loathing that could scarcely be concealed. It was said that he uttered threats of venge ance against ns both, when I had suc ceeded in capturing the prize ; but I paid no attention to the gossip, as I never supposed that our paths in life would bring us in contact. A deep, dark scowl rested on his handsome, reckless features, as advanc ing toward me, he said "In what capacity are you aboard of tins snip : "Supercargo, Captain Watson." "Very well. Jack Richmond. I am captain, remember that fact ; perhaps I shall have occasion to remind you of it before this voyage is over. I feel that I am in debt to you." I knew what he was driving at, but I would not allow him to think for an in stant that I felt uncomfortable, so as suming a careless air, I replied : "Fate, Captain Watson, has thrown ns together ; it was none of my seeking, I assure you ; but I know my duty, and shall discharge all the requirements of my office, looking to the owners of this vessel, and not to you, for approbation. As for matters that are past and gone, if yon choose to treasure up hard feel ings, of course I am not to blame. I am competent to take care of myself, and I neither care for your friendship nor hatred." "Bold words. Jack Richmond, bold words. Take care, or we'll have trouble before our jackets are wet with salt water." "No, sir ; I shall not quarrel." "A wise conclusion." I could see the devil lurking in the depths of his large dark eves, but his attention was called away by the mate. For a time he was busy with the Sultan, being anxious to gain an offing before night. The manner in which he cursed the men, raving and stamping aronnd the quarter-deck, convinced me that my life on board the Sultan would be anything but pleasant. Had it been possible, I would have cancelled my engagement and left the ship ; but it was too late, and the hills of my country were rapidly receding from view. The voyage proceeded without any incident occurring worthy of note, un less tt was tlie rounding of the cape, and favored with good winds, together with fair weather, the Sultan bid fair to make a passage that would reflect credit on all concerned. Captain Wat son seldom addressed me except when absolutely compelled, seeming to avoid and shun me, with which behavior I was secretly pleased, thinking that so long as we remained apart there was but little possibility of our having any trouble. I was watchful and guarded in all my actions, being convinced that Watson only lacked the opportunity to wreak his vengeance and hate upon me. The weather was warm and sultry, so much so that I was forced to move my desk from the state room I occupied to the cabin. I was busy with my accounts papers, etc., never once dreaming of giving offense, when a quick heavy step sounded behind me, and the next in stant my desk was sent spinning in one direction, while I was whirled iu another. "Confound yonr impudence !" were 1 beard as J. gathered attribute it to the moist yet not mias tuatic climate, which acts as a preserva tive of the forces imparted by Nature to the hnman constitution ; others, who may be supposed to have a genealogical turn, and who pronounce Air. Oalton a philosopher, refer it to "race," "blood," health, and strength, inherited through long generations from hardy Norman and Saxon ; yut others say that it fol lows fiom the fashion and custom of persistent out-of-door exercise, and the permanent taste for the vigorous sports of the field, the river, and the hunting- you on deck, you sneaking, quill driv ing, good for nothing laud crab." I found myself confronted by Watson, who was fuming and frothing in impo tent fury. His breath was almost ex hausted after delivering this beautiful harangue to which I listened, my blood boiling with rage. Completely losing my temper, forget ful of all rules of caution, 1 planted a blow full in the bully's face that caused him to reel aud stagger while the blood spurted forth as sufficient evidence of the force of my attack. With a cry like park. Perhaps it is .combination ' these causes which produce the robust. rosy-cheeked Englishwoman, who is so wholesome to the eye of every foreigner who sets foot on English ground ; per haps, too, the plain, hearty, wholesome rooking which obtains there has some thing to do with it. A Ghostly ViHllallon. TheDavenport (Iowa) Gazette vouches for the absolute truth of the following: A citizen of North Davenport had an only daughter who was betrothed to a young man of fair promise, a clerk in Dubuque. Arrangements had been made for an immediate union when the bride-elect died. The young man re turned to Dubuque. Nervous fever set in, and an hallucination seized him that his lost one was present in the room, draped in the same garb which had en veloped her clay. He minutely des cribed her and her position ; even when his friends wonld sit or stand where he and snatched up a chair, bringing it down on mv head with crushing vio lence. It must have rendered me insensible, for when next I was able to think, act and see for myself, I was lying in my stateroom, with a dull, aching sensation in my head, I attempted to lift my hands, but to my intense indignation, they were handcuffed. The rascal had put me in irons while I lay insensible. A week passed by, during which he had the effrontery to place me on bread and water, all of which indignities I inwardly resolved should be resented when I had the opportunity. One night I was awakened by the tramping of men as they hurried to and fro, while the oaths of Watson, the thumps of a heavy sea under the coun ter, and an occasional pitch and roll of the Sultan were sufficient indications that a gale of wind was blowing. With caution and considerable maneuvering, declared her to be, he saw her glide 1 1 finally succeeded in gaining the cabin awav and take another place. This went on for weeks, and the patient was gradu ally sinking when a friendly ruse was tried. Coming to Davenport, his mother found that the funeral garments were purchased at the store of C. A M., and made by Mrs. B. She procured the material, had it made np in fac-simue, and returning, a young lady as near in height and appearance as could be found, was dressed to resemble his deceased love, and during one of his fevered and brief slumbers was intro duced into the room, taking her seat in a shaded corner. His awakening was anxiously watched. He woke, and turning bis eyes in the direction of the pious fraud, stared with fixed eyeballs for a few seconds, then, raising himself almost upright in his bed, flung his arms aloft, and shrieking in an unearthly voice: "My God, there are two of them," fell back and expired. Tennyson has consented to accept a baronetcy, but he will find it a barren honor. door, and standing in the narrow com panionway glanced cautiously forth. The heavens were entirely obscured ; not a star or a ray of light was visible, except the vivid flashes of lightning which lit np the dark background with an intense glare followed by the low mutter and growling of the distant thunder, and darkness ten times more profound than before the flash. The sea was rising rapidly, and occasionally the white crests of an angry billow could be seen looming np in the darkness as it hissed and frothed alongside. With an anxious ear I listened to the howl and rush of the gale, as it whistled through the rigging, and the mournful creaking of the spanker gaff as it swung to windward. Both officers and men were busy tak ing in sail, while the Sultan darted for ward, rushing at a mad pace through the darkness and gloom. As I half crawled, half reeled back to my state room, I thought with a shudder of the awful fate that wonld await me in ease of an accident happening to the ship. My mind was haunted with strange forebodings as I again sought my pillow, which the soothing effect of slumber could scarcely drive from my brain. I was suddenly aroused by a shock which threw me with violence from my berth, while the crash of falling spars, mingled with cries of agony and shrieks for help, penetrated even to mv state room. A series of sudden jars followed one another in rapid succession, and with difficulty I succeeded in forcing back my state-room door. As I did so, a vast column of water poured down through the cabin skylight, causing me to scramble hastily across the cabin, and crawl up the after campamonway, As I reached the door, a terrible spec- tacle was before me. By the awful glare of the lightning I was able to snatch momentary gbmpses of the scene. The Sultan, while running before the gale, had struck on a coral reef, the whole forward portion of the ship being forced over the narrow neck upon which the after part was resting. All three masts had gone by the board, and the watch on deck, being forward at the time, as well as the unfortunate men who were below in the forcastle, were swept into eternity without a moment i warning. With an anxious eye I peered through the darkness, but could see naught but the white crests of the mighty rollers that chased one another in quick suc cession, while the boom and roar of the breakers fell upon my ears, as though rejoicing over the havoc and ruin they had helped to bring upon the once staunch and noble Sultan. I rushed back to the cabin, which was rapidly filling with water. My only thought was to free myself from the infernal bands that rendered me inca- pableof helping myself. I was well aware that the irons, arms, etc., were stowed away in the captain's room for safety, in case they should be wanted, therefore, I naturally supposed that the key must be there also. After a great of trouble I succeeded in lighting a candle (not without stop ping at times and listening to the dread sounds raging about me) ; then com menced the search upon which de- pended my life or death. Keys I found in profusion, but not the right one. I well nigh despaired of success, when I espied a small dark object hanging from a hook over the bead of the captain s berth. It proved to be the key I was after, and with renewed hope tugging at my heart, I made haste to insert it in the socket. I worked with patience and caution, spurred on by fear. By means of my teeth I succeeded finally in turning the instrument, the spring new back and 1 was free. I again rushed on deck and lashed myself securely, waiting anxiously for daylight to dawn. Each minute I ex pected the shell would go to pieces, and my body be dashed with irresistible force upon the sharp, jagged edges of the rock. But, fortunately for me, the gale had reached its height, and 1 could perceive that it was growing less intense in its fury. As morning dawned, the breakers gradually died away to a low moan, and the gale had calmed down to a stiff but steady breeze. With a prayer of gratitude trembling on mv lips at my narrow escape, I cast myself loose, and cautiously groped aronnd, hoping to find some one who had been as fortunate as myself. Stumbling over something near the bumpkin bitts, I found, on examination. that it was a man, and as it grew lighter 1 was at last enabled to make out the features of Watson. Although he deserved but little care or pity at my hands, still I could not see a human being suffer and die while 1 was able to render any assistance. even if that hnmau being was my worst enemy. I chafed his hands, brought some brandy from the cabin and poured it down his throat, which had a salutary effect, and seeing he would soon re cover, I left him, while I surveyed the situation on all sides. The reef was narrow, bnt of consider able length, and the stern of the Sultan was wedged firmly in between two walls of c'oral. Away, as far as the eye could reach, a long, low, black streak was visible. To an inexperienced eye, it would have passed for a cloud hovering ou tue hon.ou, but I knew that it was laud, uiiti as I turned toward the poop again, my eyes suddenly rested on the light, fast-sailing gig that was lashed firmly to the eye-bolts along the break of the house. It was comparatively an easy job to swing the light boat over the side by ! the means of tackles, which I rove for the purpose. Watson was sitting up, watching me with a listless apathy. His spirits, nerve and brute strength apjieared to have deserted him. In an swer to my question as to how he felt, he replied that his head ached, and his body was so sore that he could scarcely move. To my intense satisfaction, I soon had the boat in the water, floating lightly along side. The mast was soon stepped and a sail rigged, while two pairs of oars lay ready for use. In as few words as possible I told Watson my plans, pointing out the loom of the land in the distance. With a wild, eager expression, he glanced earnestly in the direction pointed out, and as I descended to the cabin for the purpose of attempting to save some provisions and water, in case of need, I left him leaning on the taff rail watching the boat as it grated under the counter. I stowed an armful of packages away in the boat, leaving Watson standing in the same position, he not offering to assist me. Returning to the cabin for a fresh supply, I was soon busy searching for whatever I could find uninjured. Sud denly I fancied that I heard the flap of a sail, as though the sheet, which was slack, was hauled off. Listening for an instant, I strained my ear to catch the chafing of the boat, occasioned by the light swell, but not a sound could I hear. All was silent as the grave, exeept the occasional swash or thump of a sea as it ran alongside. A hoarse shout which came floating through the confined space of the cabin, caused me to scramble madly toward the companion-way, my heart beating wildly with undefined fear. Gaining the stairs I was soon on deck, and at a little distance from the wreck sat Wat son, in the stern sheets of the gig, hold ing the sheet in his hand, while a mock ing smile of triumph played around his lips. "Ah, Mr. Jack, allow me to thank yon for the kindness and forethought in fitting out this boat, I am about to leave for a more desirable location, and I trust you will be able to pass some kind of an existence nntil I send yea assistance. By the way, I may have the pleasure of seeing yonr wife before I return. Have you any word ?" "Fiend 1" I shouted, "will yon leave me here to perish ?" A load laugh was the answer that maddened me beyond all control. With one foot on the rail, I was on the point of leaping into the water, with the des perate hope of overtaking him by swim ming, when I caught sight of a small triangular fin, moving slowly through the water. It was a large shark, and, with a shudder, I drew back, giving np my wild undertaking. Watson, satis fied with his revenge, had hauled the sheet aft, and the light breeze filling the sail, the boat glided rapidly away in the direction of the distant land, Bitter and awful were the feelings that surged through my breast as I watched that villain receding from my view. My last hope was gone. I must die alone and deserted. Watson, in token of a last and final farewell, stood up in the stern sheets of the gig, waving his hat derisively above his head. At the same time a flaw of wind struck the frail craft, causing it to shoot up into the wind with a sudden jerk. The wretch lost his footing, striv ing in vain to recover his balance, and, in his efforts, the gig careened, pitching the occupant headlong into the clear blue waters. A long, dark shadow passed swiftly along, a wild shriek of mortal agony rang out upon the air, a tinge of crimson streaked the blue water, and all was over. Captain Watson had received the re ward he so well merited for the treachery he had practiced upon me. With eager eyes I watched the course of the boat, as it slowly drifted before the wind, and soon found that it would pass close under the stern. Lowering myself into the water, I watched for a favorable opportunity, and with a few strong strokes, gained possession of the coveted prize. At a late hour the next day I hauled the gig up on the beach of the distant land I had seen. It Droved to be one of the manv islands composing the Maldives, and the natives treated me with great kind ness. Through their aid I was enabled to reach 'Ceylon, and from there em barked for home, which closed np the disastrous voyage. Chill and FeverA Sanitary Suggestion. The successful cultivation of agne is possible in the healthiest of neighbor hoods, and thousands are nightly en gaged in that unprofitable occupation without knowing it. Take a stroll any where in our city suburbs any evening of a sultry day. The sun has gone down in splendor. A light breeze be gins to stir the air into life, and every body is out to enjoy it. Children run up and down the garden-walks : and at every door is a group of children, larger grown, arrayed in cool linen and ghostly muslins, mingling the fragrance of Ha- vanas with the odor of roses, laughing, chatting, flirting, heedless of falling due and more rapidly falling thermom eter. ' All day the ladies have been panting in the inner rooms, praying for a breath of fresh air, and sighing for thought of their husbands, brothers and lovers, sweltering in the sun-scorched city. These, as the day declined, have per spiringly rushed from their shops and oinces to catch the evening train or steamer, and are now slowly recovering from the fatigue and debility due to hard work, dead air and pitiless sun. J. he evening is delightful. The dewy grass and flowers give off a faint per fume like that of Paradise, in compari son with city stenches. The fire-flies dance over the dark meadow across the way, and the beetle drones among the leaves overhead. Evening fades into night, while the unheeded thermometer against the door post records a steadily decreasing temperature, which chills as it refreshes. Washington's Birthplace in 1873, From its associations, and from its natural beauties as well, the place was doubly interesting. Standing half a mile from the junction of Pope's Creek with the Potomac Kiver. it commanded a view of the Maryland shore and of the course of (he .Potomac lor many miles. The house was a low-pitched, single- storied frame dwelling, with four rooms on the hrst floor, and a huge chimney at each end on the outside the style of the better class of houses of those days. A stone, placed there to mark its site by u. VV. I'. (Jnstis, bore the simple inscrip tion : "Hebe, on the 11th of February (O. 8..) 1732, Georob Washdjotos was BORN. Such was its appearance in 1834 or 1835, when Howe visited it. Its present condition may be gathered from what the writer of the letter in response to the London querist has to say about the site itself, that being all that is left of a place so memorable and so deserving of perpetuation "I have had no opportunity to obtain the sketch I promised you. Indeed, there is virtually no material to make a sketch of. The birthplace is now simply an old field lying waste, with indistinct vestiges of a human habitation. An old chimney stands which belonged to an outhouse (kitchen or laundry) some remains of a cellar, and the foundations of a house in which tradition states Washington was born. There was a stone slab, with a simple inscription. placed on the spot some sixty years ago by u. w. 1'. fjustis, to denote the place, but it was long ago removed from its original position, mutilated and broken, so that only a fragment remains." That a place of such interest one might call , it sacred should be left to decay and obliteration is no new thing in Virginia. Enemies might well de clare that neglect of her mighty dead is characteristic of the old common wealth. The truth is, she has a great many dead to care for, and of late years all her time has been absorbed in the care of her living. But something has been done, or attempted to be done, to rescue Washington's birthplace from oblivion. As far back as 1858 an act was passed by the General Assembly of Virginia, accepting from Lewis Wash ington a grant of the "site of the birth place of George Washington, and the homes and graves of his progenitors in America," and appropriating five thou sand dollars "to inclose the same in an iron fence," etc. Hon. Henry A. Wise, Governor of Virginia at the time this act was passed, entered with zeal and alacrity upon the work, the execution of which was entrusted to him by the legislature went in person to West moreland, examined carefully the sites, negotiated with the owner of the adja cent farm for right of way, adopted a plan for the inclosures and tablets, and began a correspondence with mechanics and artisans at the North with a view to the speedy completion of the work, and just then his term expired, the war soon followed, and the matter was of course dropped. The money appropriated, together with the accrued interest, is now in the treasury of Virginia, and although Governor Walker in his late message did not bring the subject to the attention of the legislature, the long-delayed work will be consummated sooner or later, and "a neat iron fence" with a few plain slabs will be erected on the hallowed spot. But it strikes the present writer that hve thousand dollars, or even ten thousand dollars, form rather a small sum for such an object, and that "a neat iron fence Simplicity in Living. To live simply to master and control our expenditure, is a sore need in all classes. The influences which surround us, the habits which we fall into as a second nature, all sway us in the same direction. Every family and every class seems to have caught hold of the skirts of the one above it, and be des perately holding on. Well, as Mr. Goldwin Smith says, the best thing that they pan do is to let go the only thing, indeed, which will give themselves any comfort, or make their lives of real use in their generation. The moment they will do so, and begin resolutely to live without regard to what their neighbor on the right spends on carnages, or their neighbor on the left on upholstery they will find themselves rich for all good purposes. From that moment it can no longer be said of ns with truth that we dare not trust our wits to make our houses pleasant to our friends, and so we buy ice creams. And this most needed of all reforms is just the one which every soul of us can carry through for himself or herself. We cannot sweep our whole streets. No doubt. But every one of us can sweep our door step, and if he will do it quietly and regularly, anon his ngnt-hand neigh bors follow, and before long the whole street is swept. And in this way, and by this means, can almost all these so cial tangles which we have been glanc ing at casually this evening be set right. Simple living 1 To it even the great household question, at once the most harrassing of social troubles, will in the end yield, will begin at once to look not wholly insoluble and hopeless Speaking of this sore question in the Nation the other day, one of the witti est of American essayists took up the cudgels lor .Bridget against her numer ous accusers. "My good friend." he urged' "what else have you any right to look for? The things which Ameri can life and manners preach to her are not patience, sobermindedness, faith fulness, diligence and honesty, but self assertion, discontent, hatred of superi ority of all kinds, and eagerness of phy sical enjoyments ;" and the words come home, I fear, with singular force to us islanders also in those days. Let ns hope that the picture of the good com ing time which he goes on to draw may prove true for us also. "Whenever the sound of the new gospel which is to win the nations back to the ancient and no ble ways is heard in the land, it is fair to expect that it will not find her ears wholly closed : and that when the alter of duty is again set up by her employ ers, she will lay on it attractive beef steaks, potatoes done to a turn, make libations of soup, display remarkable fertility in sweets, an extreme fondness for washing, and learn to grow old in one family." Thomas JIugcs. right in saying that "every woman is at heart a rake," he wonld have spoken perfect truth had he said that every woman is at heart an aristocrat, more especially where her children are con cerned. Xcw i'ork World. "Vrii'ieties. Colorado Park. The Park itself is 9812 feet above the sea-level, or half as high again as Mount Washington. The surrounding rim is some two thousand feet higher, while in the distance, north, south, and west, may be seen the snowy summits, four teen thousand feet high, of Gray's Peak, I'ike s 1'eak, Mount Lincoln, and Other Titans, without muse or name. The South Park is sixty miles long and thirty wide, with a surface like a rolling prairie.and contains hills,groves, lakes, and streams in beautiful variety. It formerly abounded with buffalo and other game, and was a favorite winter hunting-ground of the Indians and the white trappers.but since the great influx of miners the buffalo have mostly dis appeared. Such, however, is the excel lence of the pasture that great herds of cattle are driven up here to feed during the summer. Several towns and villages have sprung up aronnd the mines in this vicinity, such as Hamilton, Fair play, and Tarry all, to which a stage coach runs three times a week from Denver. j In our old atlases, forty years ago, I we used to see the Rocky Mountains laid down as a great central chain or Tortoise-shell jewelry is said to be increasing in favor. Lobe or stud ear-rings have largely superceuea pendents. There were nineteen wrecks of Ameri can vessels during July. Iu Paris, bull-frogs are a dainty. Here they are a nuisance. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold ; bnt the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. Three letters, instead of the custo mary six.will make the name of the most eminent of .trench naturalists, to wit. Q V A. A wag who saw seven clergymen at the Saratoga races inquired if the races were to be opeued with prayer, but he was hustled off the grounds. A society for the "dispersion of dark ness" has been starting a newspaper in Japan. They oneht to have named their paper the Sun. Somebody says the planet Mars is fading out. There have been so many wars and rumors of wars during tli past few years, no wonder the sangui nary god is inclined to hide his head. A coal vein, about two feet in width, embedded in sandstone, and yielding specimens of fair quality and free from sandstone, has been discovered in the hills of Selano county, Cal., about six miles from Vallejo. T . 1 - backbone of the continent; but they are CS wn some JJ cattle at rotho- . . i the Home Farms at W indsor. and uu- vii.irv ,1 , 1 : ...... , ,. . . miles in """"""'UK "ley naa been led on rather a congeries of groups scattered i n n Af 1 1 1 - 1 : nu sics ui si, uuuureu null's u i :i u. . . ' . . , . . . . . width, and a thousand miles long ; I ,c; hah1pew ?lute an'nlate.J. among them are hundreds of thew n,J.8?lJ to,th.e nt, 'Ask if oil- parks, from a few acres in extent to the j Llu"5 goou Ior w,ve8' size of the State of Massachusetts. The Italians are said to exhibit bc- These mountains differ so entirely from ! cimens of dead human bodies pre- those usually described by travelers, j served according to the Bmnetti method the Alps, the Scottish Highlands, and which are as hard as stone, retaining the White Mountains, that one can I the natural shape Derfectlv And heinc scarcely believe that this warm air and 1 equal to the best wax models. rich vegetation exist ten thousand feet It is stated that silk mav be nrmlnnnl of different colors by feeding the worms on various leaves. Worms fed on vine leaves are said to produce silk of a bright red color, while those fed on let- above the sea. In climate the Colorado mountains approach more nearly to the Andes, where the snow-line varies from fourteen thousand to seventeen thous and feet. Here snow begins at twelve tuce produce emerald green silk. thnnaanJ font pj. k,i'u' vuuumuu WW illUIOSOCa IU qUtSIikllJf to the extreme height of the tallest peaks, about fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty feet, though even these are often bare in August. In these parks the cattle live without shelter in winter, and the timber is large and plentiful at eleven thousand feet eleva tion. Glaciers are wanting, but instead we have the rich vegetation, the wide range of mountains, the pure, dry, and oaimy atmosphere, and a variety, a depth and a softness of color which can hardly be equalled on earth. Lipjiin cott's Magazine. The American Department oflhe Vienna Exposition. A Charming View. last some one less vigorous- of i., ,i , ,t a habit or more airily clad thau the rest rises, with a shiver, and exclaims, "Why how chilly it grows !" The shiver goes round like a yawn, the family group breaks up, and each member goes to bed feeling a little stiff in the knees, the result apparently of long sitting. .Multiply this scene by the number of suburban residences, and you have rough estimate of the amount of ague culture that goes on around us every warm summer evening. That the crop does not always come to maturity is purely accidental. Whether malaria is chill, and chill only, as Dr. Oldham argues with such a cogent array of fact and observation ; or whether miasmatic emanations really do arise from stagnant water, newly disturbed illuvium, and so on, it does not matter ; repeated exposure to chilly night air especially with those of deli cate habit, or those whose system is debilitated by deozonized air, profuse perspiration, and other conditions at tendant on summer heat in citv streets and offices is almost sure to result in intermittent fever, or some other of the so-called miasmatic diseases. To similar alternations of temperature Dr. Oldham for many years superintendent of one of the largest sanitariums of the British army in India attributes very much of the prevalence of choleric diseases in hot seasons and hot climates. Persons who spend the heat of day in the city and the coolor nights in the suburbs have double need to be careful. The contrasts of temperature are inten sified in their case, and they are noto riously more subject to malarial affec tions than those who live constantly in the country. ihe proverbial ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In this case an ounce of flannel may be worth many doses of quinine. Avoid chill and you will not be troubled with chills. This Dr. Oldham s theory, and to prove his faith in it he slept without harm in the open air and close to the ground every night for three months, in the midst of one of the most malarious swamps in India. His only precaution was an abundant supply of blankets. ' j.o seekers 01 suburban comfort the moral is don't sit out of doors at night in the garb of noonday. At least put on a thicker coat, or throw a shawl around your shoulders, when the color begins to fade in the western sky how ever grateful the increasing coolness may seem. Frank Leslie. Authors Contrasts. The Saturday Review points out the contrasts between the public character and the private being of most authors thus : "The lively novelist is a taciturn. morose kind of person, ever ready to start topics of a grave and depressing nature. The poet whose songs are full of that delicious melancholy that makes them so divinely sad is a rubicund, rosy-gilled gentleman, brisk, middle- aged, comfortable, particular as to his wines, and prone to personal gossip and feeble humor. The lady novelist who sails very near the wind, and on whom the critics are severe by principle, is as quiet as a Quakeress in her conversa tion, and as demure as a nan in her bearing. The soar female essayist, who finds everything wrono and nothintr in its place, has a face like the fall moon, ana looks at if she fed on cream and batter." It is conjectured that the lady who aat for the last etching was Miss Frances Power Cobbe, place But not a dollar more may be expected of Virginia at this time. She owes too much, and has too little. If one of the many Northern gentlemen who are lavishing their hundreds of thousands on colleges and other charities would come to Westmoreland and pnt some thing a little better than a "neat iron fence" around the birthplace of Wash ington, he would do a noble deed for himself and for both sections of his lately estranged country. Lipjtincott's Magazine. Seeing "Koblnson Crusoe." Apropos that's French, but I don't think the spelling is right Paris is a nice place. You can have a good time in Pans. We did. One day, Sun no, Tuesday, we went out to Robinson. You don't pronounce it that way ; I'll tell yoa how when I get home. Robin son is called Robinson because De Foe wrote "Robinson Crusoe" there. They say De Foe wrote R. C. sitting in a large tree. He was a great ass if he did. We sat in the same large tree, but it does not follow that we wrote Robinson Cru soe or were great asses. We had our dinner in the top of the large tree, not sitting along a limb and dangling our legs, but in a sort of bird-cage reached by steps from terra Anna. Our bird cage was the favorite, and had to be secured beforehand. We had a jolly dinner ; the dumb waiter was a basket hauled up by a rope. We had lots of champagne, which accounts for old giving the Widow 1,000 francs to let him squeeze her hand, and accounts for his pouring red wine down his white vest to make him look as if he had been in a duel. When we found our cage sinking rapidly towards the ground we left. On our way down old , the Widow, and I stayed back, and as we passed a lower cage a pretty r rench girl sang "Cham pagne Charley is my name," Ac Old said : "D n it all right, old fel low American go to the d-1 !" The young French girl said, "I thought so." The Widow sat on the steps, and said, "He ! he !" and I said, "Ha ! ha !" for only then we realized that old was drunk ! I will do one side of the American department in the exhibition stern jus tibe. It commences with a long picture placed there by the Tork Packer's Asso ciation of Cincinnati, descriptive of the processes which millions of American hogs are subjected to before being con verted into pork. There are hogs going iu long procession to be killed, and going, too, in a determined sort of way, is if they knew it was their business to be killed. Then came hogs killed, hogs scalded, hogs scraped, hogs cut up into shoulders, hams, sides, jowls ; hogs salted, hogs smoked. Underneath this sketch were a number of unpainted nuggy ana carnage wheels ; next, a pile of pick handles ; not far off, a little mound of grindstones ; after the grind stones, a platoon of clothes-wringers ; next, a solitary iron wheelbarrow com muning with a patent fire-extinguisher ; following these a crowd of green iron pumps sewing-machines in full force. Such is a bit of the American depart ment. It is the fashion here that every one should have a growl at the general slim ness and slovenliness of our department. Every one gives our drooping eagle a kick. This is all wrong. We can't send our greatest wonders and triumphs to Europe. There is neither room nor opportunity in the building for showing off one of our political torch-light pro cessions, or a vigilance-committe hang ing, or a Chicago or Boston fire, or a steamboat blow-up, or a railway smash up. Were the present chief of the com mission a man of originality and talent, he might even now save the national reputation by bundling all the pumps, churns, patent clothes-washers, wheel barrows, and pick-handles out of doors, and converting one of the United States rooms into a reservation for the Modocs, and the other into a corral for buffalo and grizzly bears. These, with a mus tang poet or two from Oregon, a live American daily paper, with a corps of reporters trained to squeeze themselves into door-cracks and key-holes, might retrive the national honor, if shown up realistically and artistically. Lippin cott's Magazine. Tippecanoe county, Ind., is to have a baby show as one of the attractions of its annual fair. The judges are to con sist of three bachelors and three ma trons, each of the latter to be the mother of not less than ten children. The Tribune says : "It is pleasant to know that we are faster and faster in onr plastic art drifting away from the old classical improprieties, and that nobody would now try to make a mar ble Washington as like as possible to Jupiter Tonans." WHAT MOTHER noo?E stT. There was a man in Yankee LanJ, Who was co wondrona Wise, Hejnmped into a big balloon And mounted to the skua. But when he came to England s shore. And found Ihe enrrent nl.in He soared into another drift, Anil) came back agai a ! ' 'Jrapftic. A sure friend is best known in an ad verse state; we know not whem we trust till after trial ; there are some who will keep ns company while it is clear and fair, who will be gone when the clouds gather. That is the only friendship which is stronger than death; and those the friends whose fortunes are embarked in the same bottom, who are resolved to sink or swim together. There is in Cayenne a fly, called the LwHia hominirorax (man-eater), which commits great havoc among the convicts sent out to that colony by the French Government. M. Charles Co- thfl Q'lerel says that this fly lavs its ee-o-s in blue sky and wears a picturesque grace mouth or nostrils of a sleeping con not to be accounted for by the roman- v'ct especially a drunken one, and that tlo beauty of its surroundings and its t,ie offspring in their larval state usu perfect harmony with the scene in which j "Hy bring about the death of their vic lt is so prominent an object. Far away ! l'm- across the waters in front stretches the Seventeen years aeo. Miehnpl Tinrr. The Isle of Shoals correspondent of the Springfield Republican says that i the visitor who arrives at night, and : first views the scene at Appledore by the light of an early morning sun, mnst of necessity, be deeply impressed with its loveliness. There are, upon the At lantic coast, but few fairer pictures than that which is presented from the hotel porch when the last shadow of the night has disappeared behind the western horizon. In the foreground a little cove indents the rocky shore of the island, and here a navy of pretty boats rides at anchor, tossing gracefully upon the crests of the waves, and tugging rest lessly at the cables, as if eager to be gone. Away to the left White Island rises boldly from the billows, the high est summit crowned with a light-house which stands clearly out against New Hampshire coast line, hazy and indistinct in the morning light ; while beyond this and to the northward the mountains of Maine raise themselves in in a dreamy, misty ontline of blue and makes the tender background of the picture. They say that sometimes when the atmosphere has exceptional clear ness the sojourner at Appledore can trace against the horizon the faint out lines of Mount Washington and Mount Jefferson, distant many a mile from the coast. A Mysterions Xolie. A correspondent recently heard a sne aker ot l'ottstown, lost a SJD note while engaged at work. I he other day an in mate of the Alms House, thinking he was about to "shuttle off this mortal coil" sent for Michael, and upon visit ing him, said that he had found the $ which he pocketed at the time. "That money," said the old man, "never done me a bit of good, and I have worked and begged until I raised sufficient to pay you back, and here it is." Taking ; irum his put-KPt an oiii wallet.he handed j Mike the snm he lost seventeen years ! ago. li fewh r. Some Japanese fishermen recently killed a huge cephalopod, their boat naving oeeu seized bv its tentarW cession of strange, crackling noises out! ir,lT ffu "el'a 3 tentacles, of doors at night, and hod great dim- b j " ! hl? modern cnltv in finding the cause. The sound from the ''"M" the insertion of the ten- False Gentility. Cameos. Rome is now the chief seat of the art of cameo cutting, two of which are pro duced those cut in hard stone and those cut in shells. The stones most valuable for this purpose are the oriental onyx and the sand onyx, provided they have two different colors in parallel layers. The value of the stone is greatly increased for this purpose if it has four or five different colors in parallel layers, if the layers are so thin as to assist in making the device ot the cameo. For example, a specimen of stone, which has four parallel layers, may be useful for a cameo of Minerva, where the ground would be a dark gray, the face light, the bust and helmet black, and the crest over the helmet brown or gray. All such cameos are wrought by a lapi dary's lathe with pointed instruments of steel, and by means of diamond dust. Shell cameos are cut from large shells found on the African and Brazilian coasts, and generally show two layers, one white anil the other a pale coffee color or deep red orange. The subject is eat with small steel chisels oat ot the white portion of the shell. Stones adapted for cameo ratting are dense, thick, and conaiavt usually of three layers of different colored shell material. A gentleman occupying a respectable position in a mercantile house observed the worn looks of a lad who had been lately engaged. Addressing him kindly he asked if he were ailing. The lad re plied that he was merely overfatigued. As there was nothing in his work at the office to induce this his interrogator made further inquiries, which elicited that he only reaeived $6 a week ; that his board and lodging in Brooklyn ab sorbed $5 of this, leaving $1 for ferries and all other expenses ; that under these circumstances he had cast abont for night employ, but after the most active effort could only succeed in pro curing 50 cents a night as super at a theatre. But this alas, he had now been compelled to give up. He found that he could not stand the burning of the can dle" at both ends. He had been obliged, on leaving the office at half-past five, to rush over to Brooklin for his supper. then recross to New York and run, with the thermometer at eighty and ninety for he couldn't afford the car to an up town theatre. He reached it panting and running down with perspiration, donned his fantastic attire, aud then remained for hours in a heated atmos- Ehere. It is not very remarkable that e had found this process exhaustive, but he was,nevertheless, greatly pained at having to give it np. Moved with commiseration, the gentleman who had questioned him availed himself of his confidential position to suggest to his principal that $6 a week was an inade quate salary. The principal admitted this, and bv consenting to raise it to 910 made the poor boy happier than a IT 1 , , . T". 1 . 1 1 . v anaeroiif or lrew wcea uiey puvittn a million. But in extenuation of such small remuneration he observed, and very truly. "'Remember the crowd of applicants we had who wonld have been thankful to come for five." Now a chief cause of fiis enormous supply of needy clerks is their mothers' rage for gentil ity. The fathers don't care much abont culty in finding the cause. The sound came from some fallen walnut tree leaves, and he naturally expected to find that some species of insect caused the leaves to rustle. "At the next spot where I examined, I closely watched the modus operandi, and saw the dry, brown leaves gradu ally curling open, moving like little au tomata ; one opening wonld touch an other, and that in turn rolled open, with the peculiar rustling sound that had at first attracted my attention. But there i hands, and mont of them are disagree was no worm there. What then was the able ones. There is the fishy way, the power that carried on this general more- snubbing way, and the pumping 'way, ment? Upon meditating a little, the I and, the worst of all, which is the hearty truth flashed upon me ; it was simply way. When a friend is so glad to see that the day had been remarkably warm you that he crushes your hand in his for an April day, and the heat of the joy, aud ren lers you incapable of man sun had warped the leaves, curling them ual labor for eleven years, it is nearly up like a voluta ; but as the sun set,the time that friendship should become a northeast wind had blown the clouds lost sentiment. This is what happened and moisture from the Atlantic, and, i to a poor fellow in New Hampshire tacies, was abont sixteen feet ; one of the arms, from the junction of the body to the sucker at the end, measuring five feet in length. The readers of Hugo's "Toilers of the Sea" have not yet for gotten the "devil-fish," the marine hero of the story, and may have their confi dence in the author restored by this actual discovery of an eqnally hideous and powerful monster. There are many ways of shaking coming in contact with the dry leaves, had caused them to uncurL Thinking that some motion wonld accelerate their movement, I stamped upon the ground, and immediately the whole garden seemed alive with motion. The occur rence seems oLsmall account, but it il lustrates in a perfectly natural way the force and effects of variations in tem perature." Honest Iago. A Canadian paper repeats the fol lowing anecdote with great nnction: Five years ago a gentleman in the United States got up a railroad speculation, for which it was thonght necessary that there should be a Government subvention. The affair was duly submitted to Congress, and an engineer of high character, who was without a wit, was appointed on the part of the Government to report on the scheme. This scientific man visited the country, returned, and was one day sitting in his hotel, with a friend lying on the sofa, when one of the railway promoters entered and addressed the engineer in a low whisper. Speak out, said the engineer. Accordingly, after ascertaining that the other party pre sent was a friend.he said in a loud voice : "Mr. Smith, if yoa will fix that report to suit us, we will give yoa 130.000 of the stock." "Mr. Jones," was the re ply, "when yoa want to bnbe an honest man an honest man, mind yon come right down with your tpondnlics : darn it, bat whether Pope was or was not yoor stock 1" r i .. uose suu case snouut serve as a warn ing to the American people the most inveterate and unreasonable hand-shakers in the world. The MarseilL-us, who enjoy excellent opportunities for acquiring a taste for shell tish, since the Mediterranean sea board produces edible mollusks of sur passing quality, have established kiosks all along the approaches to the old har bor, in which oysters, mussels, cockles, and other bivalves, are displayed for sale. It is enrious to see the passers by, going to and from their business, stop before the shelves on which they are displayed, getting them opened, sprinkling them with lemon, devouring them, paying for them, and darting off in all haste, to repeat the snack on their rerun This goes on from morning till nigr- The Chicago Superintendent of Pub lic Schools has hit upon a device which appears promising. Ho recommends the establishment oi an ungraded school, o which the bad scholars the boys who swear, are obscene, rowdyish, or who flagrantly violate any rule, which offence is ordinarily pnnished by sus pension or dismissal, and the girls who are of the same sort shall be sent from all the other schools, there to remain until they become fit for associating with the properly-behaved scholars in the graded schools. By this plan the evil disposed will not be deprived of an education, but will be educated in a school of manners as well as mental, instruction.