L c ?a c c . HENRY A. PARSONS, Jb., Editor awd Publisher. KLK COUNTY--TUB REPUBLICAN PARTT. Two Dollars m Auntm. VOL. II. RIDGWAY, PA,. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1872. NO. 24. POETIC T, THE HORNY HAND. O, toller with the moistened brow. And with the horn? hand, No matter If yon hold the plow. Or at the anvil stand. Your heart should Oil with loft; pride, Your mission is so irrand. " My father workoth hitherto, And I work," was the word Of II Ira whose speech was evor true. Yet honor claimed as Ood. 'Tin truly loyal then to toil With hammer, brain or hod. Until some patient toiler rise With cmnnlnR hand or brain, No telescope can pierce the skies No steamer cross the main ; Nor distant ends of earth be linked With telegraph and train. . The barren earth Is clothed with bloira. The desert bears the rose. The darkest mine forsakes Its gloom And all its wealth out-throws, And wond'rous fabrics fill the loom Where'er the toller goes. No lordly palace-home can stand On towering cliff or hill. Without the mason's troweled hand. Or builder's cultured skill ; Yea, all the world of labor Joins Each palace-home to fill. The tollers not tho drones of earth Are worthy of renown ; Those are the men of noble birth With hands begrimed and brown. And they when reason has her reign Will win and wear the crown. The man whose ever restless brain Or sturdy toiling hand, lias reared two blades of nscful groin Where one alone did stand, Shall have his woll-doserved applause From all, in every land. All hall I then, to the homy hand. And to the motstenod brow, To those wh. at the anvil stand. Or guide the cleaving plow ; The day when labor wears the crown Is dawning even now I Utica lltraM. THE STORY-TELLER. TIMMS' STRATEGY. A STORY OF TWO RIVALS. Mapes was chivalrous by nature ; he believed in " seeking the bubble reputa tion, even in the cannon's mouth." His enthusiasm was aroused by the recital of stories of deeds of desperate daring; while he had nothing but contempt for even success won by crooked and indi rect means. Timms, on the oontrary, believed that there was policy in war, and that the end justified the means, particularly if the end was attained. Companions from infancy, their lives had been spent in competition for schol astic and such other honors as the local ity afforded, without even a momentary break rn their friendship. But now, in early manhood, they struggled for a prize of incalculable value, with an ardor that threatened a complete rupture of friend ly relations. The heart and hand of Eliza Reed, the neighborhood belle, were to be won ; and to these none others might aspire, in the face of such formidable competi tion as that of Mapes and Timms. They alone each by virtue of his own per sonality and position had a right to lay siege to the heart of that variable, irritable, imperious beauty, and for months the strife between had gone on. Each one had called into play all his personal and social resources ; for the local society had taken such an interest that it was divided into two factions, known as tho Mapesites and the Tininis ites. And yet Miss Eliza could not be brought to express a preference ; if she rode with one to-day, she was careful to walk abroad with the rival to-morrow. Coquetry is delicious to a woman ; and Eliza would not havo been feminine had she been in haste to have made an elec tion. Nevertheless, she did not intend to miss her opportunity. She knew well tho war could not always last, and feared that when one of the aspirants for her favor withdrew from the contest, the love of the other, wanting the stimulus of competition, would grow cold j hence, she had made up her mind that, upon the first favorable opportunity, she would signify to Mapes that his suit, so often pressed, was at last accepted. The opportunity, it seemed, was not to bo long wanting; for invitations were given for an apple-bee in the neighborhood, and Eliza found means to convey an in timation to Mapes that she expected to meet him there, and counted on his escort home at the conclusion of the frolic. The appointed eveuing looked for with such nervous anticipation by Mapes, came at last. Ho fult that it was the most important of his life, and arrayed himself as only a rustio dandy can. His way lay across a meadow, through which ran or rather loitered a deep, but narrow stream, spanned by a single log. It was so dark when he reached this primitive bridge that he was compelled to feel his way slowly across. As he progressed it commenced to swing light-ly-j-something very unusual until he reached the centre, when to his utter confusion, it gave way, and ho. was launched into the water. He scrambled out, then suddenly the night became luminous with that lurid light to which people refer when they say, in speaking of some profane wretch, "He swore nntil all was blue." Whatever illumi nating qualities this lurid light possessed, it had no. drying ones, and Mapes was forced to bid adieu for the night to all hopes of plighting his troth to tho loved Eliza. In the rural districts Down East, in early times, the good poople had such habits of industry and rigid economy that they seldom gave, or attended par ties, unless such as were cloaked under the names of raisings, quiltings, husk ings, or apple-bees ; thus, the appk-bee, fraught with momentous consequences to Mapes and Timms -was but a social party in disguise a few apple, being pared, quartered, cored, ana strung in tho early evening for appearance' sake. As usual, Eliza Eeed was the belle of the occasion. Good looks, entire self possession, and keen, satirical wit always assured her that position ; and this night she Shone with unusual bril liancy, until, as the hours wore away, and Mapes came not, she began to lose herself in pondering why, ana at length she asked Timms : " Is your friend Mapes ailing ". I guoss not," replied Timms ; " saw him to-day. He wasn't complaining." " He denies himself much pleasure," said Eliza, "in not coming here to-night, for this is the place where we always have a good time. Aunt Judy knows how to give an apple-bee." "You let Mapes alone," answered Timms ; " he knows what ho's about, you may be sure." " What do you mean '(" asked Eliza. " Oh, I mean," replied Timms, " that Mapes is the prince of good fellows, and gets invitations where the rest of us don't!" "Whore is Mapes to-night," asked Eliza, now fully aroused. " I don't know, for sure," answered Timms. " He told me to-day there were special reasons for his coming here, but that he had an invitation to the rich and aristocratic Squire Huntoon's, who is celebrating his daughter's birthday, and that he didn't know which way he would go ;" and Timms turned away to talk to tho next prettiest girl in the room. Petted youngwomen are seldom logi cal or patient. When the party broke up Eliza accepted Timms' escort to her home, and, before they arrived there, she had consented to become, with the least possible delay, Mrs. Timms. The next morning the engagement was announced, and preparations for the wedding commenced. Timms was ex ultant happy Timms ! For a few days Timms was not much seen in public perhaps for want of courage to wear his blushing honors openly ; perhaps for want of courage to meet other contingencies who knows ? But a man cannot make arrangements for his own wedding from a fixed stand point, and he was compelled to venture out. In a quiet and secluded by-way he met Mapes. The meeting to him was a Surprise; he smiled feebly, and extended his hand. But Mapes, intent on busi ness, strode squarely up to Timms and planted a vigorous blow on one of his eyes, which caused that gentleman to measure his length in the dust. Timms sprang to his feet, and showed fight ; but another blow on the other eye sent him again to grass, where he continued to lie. " Get up," said Mapes. " You'll knock me down again," said Timma. " Yes," returned Mapes, " I will." " Then I won't get up," said Timms. " You're an infernal scoundrel," said Mapes. " I can't help your saying so," answer ed Timms. " You sawed the log," said Mapes. " What log Y" asked Timms. " You sawed the log," repeated Mapes, advancing a step. " Yes stop," said Timms : " I sawed the log." " Well, you needn't think," said Mapes, " that after your marriage you're going to tell that story, and make me a laughing-stock." "I'll never speak of it," whined Timms. " Perhaps you won't," said Mapes ; " but I'm going to swear you before I get through. There's another thing: you won the woman by your d trickery, and I know it is in you to abuse her ; so I'm going to swear you to treat her kindly." " I'll swear," said Timms. " Hold up your hand," said Mapes. Timms held up his hand. " Now, repeat after me : I, Silas Timms, solemnly swear that I will never bring to the knowledge of any human being that I sawed the log whereby Daniel Mapes fell into the creek and lost a wife ; and, further, that I will, she consenting, marry Eliza Heed, and always treat her kindly : so help me God" Timms repeated the oath, terhatim. " Now, get up and go home," said Mapes. "I don't think you'll be mar ried till your eyes get out of mourning, and by that time I'll be far enough away. But don't think I'll lose sight of you ; and if you don't keep your oath, you'll see me." . Timms arose from the ground, shook off the dust, and walked away ; but when he had secured a safe distance, he shout ed back, exultingly ; " Mapes, she's an angel." In twenty years Daniel Mapes had learned many things, and among them this : Life is very much as we make it. In other words, the world is like a mir ror, and looks at us with the face we present. It returns scowl for scowl, and smile for smile. It echoes our sobs and our laughter. To the cold, it is as icy as the northern seas ; to the loving, it is as as balmy as the isles of the tropics. He had learned a still harder lesson ; which was, to forget the griefs, the sor rows, the slights, the wrongs, and the hates of the past. The effect of this les son was to make it appear that the lines, to him, had fallen in pleasant places. His rotund form and firm muscle bespoke a good digestion, while a cheerful count enance told of mental peace. A fair woman named him husband, and child ren called him father. A beautiful home in the'Santa Clara Valley was theirs ; besides which, Mapes had many broad acres of land, as well as many head of stock running nearly wild in the counties of Monterey and San Luis Opispo. Once .in each year the cattle that graze on California's thousand hills are gathered in bands at convenient places, to be claimed and branded by the own ers such assemblages being called rodtot. Mapes had been down across the Salinas Plain, in attendance upon a rodeo ; and, being on his return, jogging along on his mustang, he saw. far in the distance, but nearigg him, an equally lone travel ler. (Slowly the distance between them decreased ; and, as they approached, Mapes with California prudence slip ped his revolver upon the belt which sustained it, from his back, round to his left side, bringing the hilt under the shadow of his bridle-arm, and within easy reach of his right hand. A near look assured Mapes that fie had no oc casion for weapons ; the coming man was of middle age, but his look was worn, weary, dejected, and hopeless in ocal phrase, his manner was that of a person who has " lost his grip ;" and those who have met that terrible mis fortune are never highway robbers, " grip " being the very quality wanted in that hazardous pursuit. The travellers met with a long, inquir ing gaze, when from their lips simultan eously burst the words, " Mapes'" "Timms." After a moment of mute surprise, Mapes, spurring his mustang, drew nearer to Timms. So we meet at last. I have been wanting to see you this many a year." The movement seemed ominous, to Timms, and he cried out : " Don't don't shoot I I have no weapons I Besides, I have kept my oath at least, as well as I could. I never told the reason why you didn't attend the apple-bee, nor ever breathed a syllable about the sawed log upon my solemn oath !" "I wasn't thinking of the ducking," said Mapes. "Don't como any nearer," returned Timms. "I have always tried to use that woman well ; but sue wouldn't be used well. I have done my best to treat her kindly ; but she wouldn't be treated kindly." " It is no use to go over the grounds to me, Timms." But," replied Timms, " you have no idea what that woman is ; you wouldn't blame me, if you only knew. She's browbeat me till I ain't half a man." " So I see," said Mapes. " No, you don't see, replied Timms. " You don't see half. Look at this scar " taking off his hat, and showing a long seam on his scalp ; that was done with the skillet." " You have suffered," said Mapes. "Suffered I" returned Timms. "You ought to have sworn her, too. If you only knew how I have thought of you, and of my oath to you, and now I have borne blows, and been quiet how I have been called a brute and a fool, and kept silent how I have endured taunts and sneers, hunger and discomforts, with out a word of reproach you would for give me ; you wouldn't harbor thoughts of revenge." " Thoughts of revenge !" returned Mapes. " Let us dismount, and have a settlement ; for I see my chance has come at last." " Mapes, would you take the life of an unarmed man 'f" " Timms, you're crazy ! Let me ex plain. I have no wrongs to avenge. It isn't for vengeance that I have 'wanted to see you. I havo heard of you often know all your life and experiences ; and I have only wanted to meet you, to offer you a home and friendship, employment and opportunities for prosperity, here in California. I owe you no debt but the one of gratitude for the inestimable ser vice you did me by that little job of car penter work ; and that I mean to pay. Come with me." He took Timms' horse by the bridle, turned him about without remonstrance, and they travelled on in silence. After a while, Timms raised his eyes timidly from the ground, and said : "Mapes, she's the devil!" Overland Monthly. Relic of a Famous Temple. Dr. D. P. Li verm ore of Hallowcll, Me., has in his possession a very interesting curiosity. It is a piece of the famous Chinese Porcelain Tower, built at Nan king, by the Emperor Yungloh, to re ward the kindness of his mother. It was begun in the year 1411 and completed in 1430. The board of works was order ed, according to the plan of the em ieror, to build a tower nine stories high, ihe bricks and tiles to be glazed, and of fine colors, and it was to be superior to all others, in order to make widely known the virtues of his mother. Its height was to be 322 feet ; it was of an octagonal form, each side being 15 feet wide. Its base was upon a solid foundation of brickwork, 10 feet high, up which a flight of 12 steps hid into the tower, where a spiral staircase led to the top. The body of the edifice was composed of brick, the outer face of which was cov ered with slabs of glazed porcelain of various colors. It is a piece ot this glaz ed porcelain that Mr. Livermore has. The lowest of tho nine stories was 120 feet in circumference, but the tower de creased in size to the top, and at each story was a projecting roof, with a ball suspended at each corner 144 in all. On the outer face of each story were six teen lanterns the light of which " illu mined the thirty-three heavens, shining into the hearts of all men, good and bad, eternally removing human misery." Each story formed a saloon, which was finely painted and adorned with numer ous gilded images. On the top of the highest roof were two brazen vessels, weighing together 1,200 pounds, and a brazen bowl besides weighing 500 pounds. Encircling the spire, which was 30 feet high, were 9 iron rings, the largest being 63 feet in circumferense, and the smallest 24 feet, weighing 6,000 pounds. Sur mounting the spire was a ball filled with pearls and precious stones. The brilli ancy of the edifice, acoording to the Chinese annalist, would endure to hun dreds of generations, a monument of recompensing kindness to myriads of years. Therefore, it is named Pav gansz, or Recompensing Favor Pagoda. For two or three centuries it bore the appearance of having suffered by a stroke of lightning, which the Chinese attributed to a conflict of the god of thunder with demons ; in pursuing them to tho pagoda, they said, ne injured the building. In 1856 the Taiping rebels blew this magnificent monument of the gratitude of a son for his mother's love. to pieces with gunpowder, and its very site .will ia time be forgotten. Kennebec journal. Over 40.000 canarv birds are brought to this country every year, and probably 10,000 more are raised in this country tor tne purpose ot sale. Joaquin Miller. A correspondent of the YrSka (Cal.J Journal narrates the following in tegnrd to the poet of the Sierras : The poet's pedigree and place of birth are gonorally known. lie has many queer habits and eccentricities, but there is enough of the noble and gonerous in his composition to compensate for his faults, whatever they may be. I first saw him at the mines on McAdam's Creek, California. He was then fresh from the wilds of Oregon. His long, tow-oolored hair reached to his should ers, and, taken altogether, he was about the greenest looking specimen around the digging. Literature was then as now his ambi tion, and he kept constantly scribbling. I was several times favored with a sight of his manuscript, some of which I thought had peculiar merit ; but most of his writings neither gods nor men could understand. He knew nothing of the laws of versification, nor indeed of the rules of grammar, and when told by me that he must reconstruct his poetry, observing a rhythmical arrangement of words, and giving eaoh line a certain number of feet according to the kind of verse, his astonishment was great, and, thinking by my amazed appearance over his queer lines that I meant to disparage his talents, ho indignantly snatched the manuscript from the table, exclaiming : "Oh, d n the rith-um and measure ment 1 there's the ideas, and I know what poetical license means." His many eccentricities made him a butt for all the rough jokes on the creek. When smarting' under some of those taunts, I have often seen his flushed face express the keenest pain. Soon, how ever, he found a most effectual way to check such insults. He bought a long, heavy Colt's revolver, which at full cock he would level at the face of the person attacking him, who, thinking he meant mischief, thereafter would let him alone. In the year 1859 Joaquin worked for Hurst & Co., on Cherry Creek. The ras cally Hurst would not pay him, and being a ruffian and a bully, attempted to frighten him away. Joaquin again resorted to the logical influence of his revolver, and with the most satisfactory success. He also mounted a horse be longing to Hurst & Co., which he rode off and sold, paying himself with the proceeds, and thereby obtaining both substantial and poetical justice. The law, however, did not recognize such an irregular proceeding, but rather consid ered it in the light of a felony. Hurst procured a warrant for his arrest, and accompanied Sheriff Bradley, of Dead wood, to put it in execution. Joaquin's cabin -was then on McAdam's Creek. The poet was smoothing his cherished tresses when he saw the men approach ing, and, reluctantly dropping the brush, he leisurely started up the moun tain. Not heeding Bradley's order to halt, that officer fired two shots from his pistol. Joaquin replied by shooting twice at Hurst, who was still approach ing the fugitive. Joaquin now com manded Bradley to stop. The mandate not being heeded, that officer received a bullet through the thigh that just grazed the main artery, which stopped further pursuit. The poet, thoroughly disgusted with civilization, shook the dust of McAdam's Creek from his feet, and in the pursuit of liberty aud happiness we next hear of him among the Indians of Pit River Valley, where report said he went ex tensively into the " horse business" with poor Lo, until the Sheriff of Shasta County mode him " more trouble." A Fatal Lake. A Lake Takbe correspondent of the San Francisco Bulletin writes : Some twelve or fourteen persons have been drowned in this lake within the past ten years ; none of the bodies have ever been recovered. Superstition, ever ready to weave a sensation from na ture's laws, asserted that there was a doubtful mystery in the non-recovery of the drowned ; that, in fact, a mon ster had its abode in this fresh water sea, and that the bodies all passed into his capacious maw. The true explana tion of this mystery never has been given. The non-appearance of the bodies is due to three causes : - The first is the great purity of the water and its consequent lack of buoyancy. Drown ing is very easy in it, lor this reason, though I have not while swimming in it found any more than ordinary diffi culty in sustaining myseii. Tne second and main cause is due to the great cold ness of the water. Even at this, the warmest season, the surface water is as cold as the drinker desires it to be, but it is warm there compared with its tem perature at the depth of one hundred to two hundred feet. It is as cold there as the arctic heat of an iceberg. When a body sinks in the lake to the depth re quired, it is frozen stiff. The process, of course, preserves it, so that the gas which originates in tne oody from de cay in other water is prevented, and distension checked. The body is thus kept in a state of greater specifio gravi ty than the water in which it is sus pended, and therebv prevented from rising to the surface. The third cause. lies in the great pressure of the pure water on anything that is sunk to a great depth in it. Corks placed on deep sea nets are pressed down in a week to half their sizo, and one of the oldest residents of the lake expresses the belief that by the time a man's body has been suspended for a week at a depth of about 200 feet (it is not likely that it ever reaches the cavernous and almost fathomless bottom of the great lake), the compression of the water has reduced its sue to that of a child's. Doubtless the idea of unooffined suspen sion in such a " world of water" is not a pleasant one to contemplate, but to be pressed into a solid mass and suspended in a liquid coffin of ice temperature is quite as pleasant as interment and mouldering in tne ground. The Lawrence Tribune thinks grapes will be so plentiful this season that they will be sold tor two cents a pound. Brandy and Work. At a recent meeting of the royal so ciety, a paper on " Further expriments on the effect of alcohol and exorcise on the elimination of nitrogen, and on pulse and temperature of the body," was presented by Dr. E. A. Parkes. It con tained a detailed description of experi ments made on a soldier, a Scotchman, who had been brought up on oatmeal and milk, and who, at one time, had been in the habit of taking more than a fair amount of whiskey. As a soldier, however, he bears the character of a steady man in the enjsyment of perfect health. Uis experience as to the enect of alcohol is noteworthy. He com menced the exercise and brandy period of the experiment with a belief that the brandy would enable him to perform the work more easily, but ended with the opposite conviction. The brandy was taken in four ounce doses at 10 A. M., 2 P. sr. and 6 P. M., in an equal quan tity of water, and the work was chiefly done in the two hours immediately suc ceeding each dose, and from 6 to 8 A. H. The two hours' work from 10 A. M. to 12 m., immediately after the first four fluid ounces of brandy was, he thought, done equally well with and without the brandy. The man affirmed that he could tell no difference, except that, to use his own words, " the brandy seemed to give him a kind of spirit which made him think he could do a great deal of work ; but when he came to do it he found he was less capable than he thought." After the Becond four ounces of brandy he felt hot and thirsty ; but on the hrst two days he thought he worked as well as on the " water" days. On the third day, however, he had palpi tation of the heart, and was surprised to find he was obliged, to stop from time to time, because, to use his own words, " of his breathing not being so good." The third four fluid ounces of brandy at 6 F. M. produced on all three days very marked narcotic effects ; immediate ly after taking it he became heavy, felt the greatest indisposition to exert him self, and could hardly refrain from throwing down his spade and giving up work. He worked with no vigor, and on the second evening thought his mus cular power decidedly lessened. On the third evening, as it was raining, he could not dig, but took walking and running exercise under cover. On at tempting to run he found to his great surprise, as he is a particularly fast and good runner, that he could not do so ; on attempting to run he had palpita tion and got out of breath and was obliged to stop, bo that, he stated, on the next day, " it he had had his accoutre ments on and been ordered to ' double,' he could not have obeyed the order." After coming in from work on each evening, he fell into a heavy sleep, from which ho was awakened with diihculty. This lasted three or four hours, after which he was restless and sleepless. The man's own judgment was, at the end of the trial, that he would prefer to work without the brandy ; and, when asked his reasons, ho mentioned " the increased thirst, the heaviness in tho evening, and the fluttering at tho heart. Ringing Rocks. A Pottstown correspondent of the Philadelphia Prats says : In a February number of the Scientific American a contributor says : " The so norous stone near Pottstown, Pa., must be of volcanic origin, known as trachyte. An island in the West Indies, elevated 310 feet above the ocean, contains masses of the same character of rocks. Living stone, in his " South Africa," page 101, speaks of the Bamangwato HUls of the Bukoa Range, 700 or 800 feet above the plains : ' The rocks, in falling, produce a ringing noise, which leads many to fancy that they contain abundance of iron. In many places the lava streams may be recognized.'" The sonorous stone alluded to near Pottstown are found on one of the hills northeast of the town, known as Klingle Berg, or Ring ing Hill. Owing to the romantio wild ness of the spot, as well as the interest and curiosity attached to it, it always has been a favorite place for the young people of the country round. Going outl on an excursion of this kind, lately, we might have failed to find the rocks, which are so hedged in by evergreens as to be invisible from the carriage road, had not a band of school boys reached them, troin the opposite side, a tew mo ments in advance of ns. Suddenly, in the midst of beyish voices, the rocks spoke for themselves, some in the deep est bass, others pealing out as clearly almost as a silver bell. Scrambling through the underbrush and evergreens we nastily entered the scene of action, with small bits of rock in hand, ready to play our part. We found the tall rock near the centre which appeared to touch the others at but one or two points to have the clear est sound of all : another was specially interesting from the print of a horse s hoof somewhat indistinctly marked upon it, while many were cracked and seamed as from the action of heat, these latter phenomena favoring the theory of their volcanic origin. The ringing rocks themselves cover an oblong space less than an eighth of a mile from end to end. They are so thickly piled together and have been so completely washed Wv rains that, except a little brown moss here or there, not a particle ot vegeta tion can be seen upon them. The whole of the rocky region roundabouts, hew ever, is thickly overgrown with trees and underbrush. The belief is gaining ground that habitual drunkenness is a disease and should be treated as such. A commit tee of the British House of Commons has lately made a report on the subject and recommends the establishment of reformatory institutions similar to that at Binghamton, in this State. Much of the evidence taken on the Bubject came from America. It seems to be tolerably certain that habitual drunkards are in the coming time to be taken in hand by .1 1-1 . ' J . 1 1 tne oiate, u necessary, anu irtmuju evu cording to scientific principles. , Curiosities of Animal Life. There con be no doubt, writes Mr. Darwin, that dogs feel shame as distinct from fear, and something very like modesty, when begging too often for food. A great dog scorns the snarling of a little dog, and this may be called magnanimity. Boveral observers have stated that monkeys certainly disliked being laughed at, as they sometimes in vent imaginary offences. In the Zool ogical Gardens 1 saw a baboon that al ways got into a furious rage when his keeper took out a letter or book and read it aloud to him, and his rage was so violent that, as I witnessed on one oc casion, he bit his own leg till the blood flowed. All ftfiimftln fpol wnndnr. and marlv exhibit curiosity, the latter affording opportunity for hunters, in many parts of the world, to decoy the game into their power. Tho faculty of imitation, so strongly developed in man, especially in a barbarous state, is present in mon keys. A certain bull-terrier of our ac quaintance, when he wishes to go out of the room, jumps at the handle of the door and grasps it with his paws, al though he cannot turn the handle. Par rets also reproduce with wonderful fidel- tv the tones of ditterent speakers, and puppies reared by cats have been known to lick their feet and wash their faces after the manner of their foster moth ers. Attention and memory are also pres ent in the lower animals, and it is im possible to deny that the dreams of dogs and horses show presence of imagina tion or a certain skow of reason is also present. Animals likewise profit by ex perience, as any man realizes who sets traps. The young are niucn more casin' caught than the old, and the adults gain caution by seeing the late ot those who are caught. Tools are also used by some of the higher apes. The chimpanzee uses a stone to crack a nut resembling a walnut, and the Abyssinian baboons fight troops of another species, ond roll down stones in the attack before they finally close in a hand-to-hand encoun ter. The idea of common property is common also to every dog with a bone, to all birds with their nests, and notably in the case of rooks. Nor can a certain kind of language be denied to the brute. The dog communicates his feelings by barks of different tones, which undoubt edly raise in his fellow dogs ideas simil ar to those- passing in his own mind. hdinburgfy Uieview. The Mormon Succession. D. H. Smith, youngest son of tho " Prophet" Joseph, is now in Salt Lake City holding meetings on the subject of the succession. The Salt Lake Trilrune says : This movement on the part ot the Smith brothers is going to form a most important part in bringing about a hnal separation of church and state in this country, inasmuch as the question of successorship to Brigham Young is in volved, and which we predict in advance is going to be the one which will wreck and split up into tactions the Utah or ganization at the death of its leader. The question as to who will bo the suc cessor of Brigham Young is a perfect mystery t the Mormon poople, and a stranger cannot elicit anything from any of them bearing upon that subject, and it looks mere than singular that, at the present stago of the game, the lineal de scendants of the original founder of Mormonism should now be in Salt Lake City laying claim to tho control of the Mormon Church. That this subject is of the most vital interest to the public here was demon strated by the crowded state of the in stitute again last night, among whom was noticed not only portions of the Smith family of jthe Brighamite per suasion, but tho private secretary ot Brigham Young himself, who was most likely there in the interest of his master's kingdom, a fact which betrays how keenly the " frophet himseit is inter ested in the mission of the Smiths to this country. Jleat In South Australia. A. dispatch from Adelaide describes the intense heat of part of January, continuing for the unprecedented num ber of twelve days, and states that, with the exception of two or three hours on the seventh night, when it cooled down so far as to give promise of a change which did not come, the thermometer never fell below 82 deg., and ranged in the day up to 108 deg. in the shade. Business was brought almost to a com plete stoppage. The houses got so thor oughly heated in the day, that they had no chance of cooling at night, and sleeping, with many people, became an impossibility. Even a cold bath was a luxury scarcely attainable, tor the tem perature of the waterworks water rose to 79 deg. Toward the end of the twelve days, those who could afford it fled to the seaside. On the last night before the change, almost every vehicle in the city was put into requisition, and the beach of Glenelg was crowded with people, to the number ot some thousands, many of whom spent a great part of the night enjoying the comparatively cool sea-breeze, and only returned to town as morning approached. Those who could not afford to leave their homes sought relief by lying in the open air, or as near to it as possible, and many a cottage giving directly on to the streets presented the singular spoo- taole ot an open front-door with the proprietor and his family lying about in tne passage, in some instances me males of the family fairly came outside t sleep, and took what rest they could upon the stones. California is a State owning a great deal of good sense and good taste. Its latest evidence of these qualities is the appointment of a professional arboncul tunst, at a salary of (15,000 a year, whose sole duty is to attend to the planting of forest trees all over the State. No better improvement than this oould bo conceived and executed, and it gives a hope for other and older States that are becomiug pitiiuily bare, Facts and Figures. East Cambridge, Mass., is suffering from an army of locusts. There are eishtv Pullman palace cars arriving at and departing from Chicago every day. Tho 'amount of money ex pended in their manufacture ranges from about 10,000 to $30,000 for each car, the average cost being about if lu, 500. The amount of capital, therefore, invested in tho Pullman cars which ac commodate the business of Chicago, amounts to about $1,300,000. The Grand Jury of a criminal court in London recently indicted themsolves, not as a nuisance precisely, but as a superfluity. They expressed the belief that the function ot a urana o ury is fully "discharged by the inquires of tho committing magistrate. In regard to this presentment the common Sergeant of the court very decidedly disagreed with the Grand Jury, believing tne existence of that body to be essential to an effective administration of justice. It is probable that in this instance the hostility of the jurors to the institution may have arisen from impatience at be ing called upon to give the time and at tention necessary for the performance of the duties required of them in their offi cial capacity. "Crazy Black Dick," who died sud denly at Harrisburg, Pa., on Saturday, was a man with a mission, notwithstand ing he was insane. There is at Harris burg a tangled network of tracks between the two depots, over wnicn trains are constantly passing. For years "Crazy Dick," in all weather and under all cir cumstances, made it his chosen work to run along in front of every train that started, warning every one to clear tho track. Only once was he tempted from his post, and then a railway engineer gave him a ride to Pittsburgh. While he was absent a child wa3 killed on the track, and after that no inducement could persuade him to leave. The rail road men will find it hard to do without his services, so freely and courageously rendered. At the Irst battle of Manassas, a Vir ginian named Crocket Grayson was shot in the head, the bullet entering the temple, passing through the inner ear and lodging in the bone back of the ear, where it remained until recently, when a physician extracted it. Upon boring into the bone with a trefine the ball was found so firmly imbedded that it had to be clipped out with a chisel. Tho lead removed weighed half an ounce. Mr. Grayson went through tho operation without taking Chloroform, exhibiting great coolness and fortitude. Once dur ing the operation he called a halt, and after ejecting a mouthful of tobacco juice, coolly laid his head on the tablo and informed tho doctor that ho could now " go ahead." He was doing well at last accounts. Tho Evansville, Ind., Journal says : ' A story reached us yesterday ot tho death-bed confession of a man who, about a year ago, pretended that he woke up one morning and found his wii'o dead by his sido. The man is reported to have been steady in his habits, and no word reaches us ot any disagreement with his wife ; but, after about a year of agony, he confessed to a woman who was with him in his last hours that ho had smothered his wife, and that ever since she had haunted him her face being continually before his eyes re proaching him for tho murder. He ex pressed himself as willing and anxious to die, to escape the misery he endured. Our own recollection of tho case is that the coroner's jury returned a verdict of death from heart disease on the testi mony of the husband, but that no post mortem was held, tho urgings of two physicians to the contrary notwithstand ing." A man who has lately visited the grand pyramid of Cheops, wading in the sand fourteen hundred feet before he had passed one of its sides, and between five and six thousand teet bolore he had made the circuit, says, that taking one hundred city churches of the ordinary width, and arranging them in a hollow square, twenty-five on a side, you would have scarcely the basement of the pyra mid. Take another hundred and throw the material in the hollow square and it would not be full ; pile on all the bricks and mortar in the city of Now York, and the structure would not bo so high and solid as this great work of man. One layer of bricks was long sines removed to Cairo tor building 'purposes, and enough remains to supply the demands of a city of half a million o.f people for a century to come, if permitted to use it with perfect freedom. The pyramid of Cheops was built 2.123 years before the Christian era. The Canadian Parliament has passed a new patent law by complying with the provisions of which American inven tors will receive protection in Canada. iiy this law all inventors or their assigns may receive patents, provided a foreign patent for the invention has not been in existence for more than one year prior to the application being made for one in Canada. Improvements on existing patents may also be patented. The for eign applicant is obliged to elect his domicile in some known place in Canada, but this is a mere formality. The law requires that the patentee of any inven tion or his assignee shall begin to manu facture the article in Canada within two years of the date of the grant of the patent unless a sufficient proof be ad duced to the satisfaction of the Com missioner that the patentee has been unable to do so from causes beyond his control, in which case the Commissioner is empowered to grant a delay. Patents will be issued for five, ten, or fifteen years, at the option of the applicant, and Eatents issued for five or ten years may e extended for another term of five years, but there is no provision for ex tension after the fifteenth year. The fees payable at the Patent Office are reasonable, being at the rate of twenty dollars for each patent for each period of five years. When a patent is refused half the fees are returned to tho applicant.
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