-7 HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher . NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. . '., ; . ' "' " ' 1 " " 1 - - I,- -,.. i i i.. -..I ., ' 1 '-" , VOL. HI. EIDG WAY ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1873. W- 24- Moral Song on Money. Money is not happiness ; Wealth may coexist with gout j Buys the physio, ne'erthelcss, Which you can't he cured without. 3Ioney is not mutton no ( Money is not beer or wine j But to lock it is to owe Grievous hills, or not to dine. Money occupies the purso j Happiness is in the mind ; Else its state is the reverse Woo with indigence combined. HappincK8 you purchase through . Money that you wisely pcnd. Money is the means unto Happiness, and that's tho end. Who cmi keep a conscience clear, Who can have a mind at rest, That of ruin lives with fear Ever gnawing at his breast t Others' happiness your own W ould you ronder if you could ? 'Tis by money's aid alone You cau do your Species good. Happiness he may, below, Find, with money who abounds j . None else can until they go To the Happy Hunting-grounds. Money when a man decries, Ten to one his bond is duo, Aud that presently he trios Out of cash to swindle you. . . THE VASA D'AGUA. One very hot evening, in the year 1815 the curate of San Pedro, a village dis tant but n-tew leagues from Seville, re turned very much fatigued to his poor home, where his worthy housekeeper, Senora Margarita, about seventy years of age, awaited him. However much any one might have been accustomed to distress au'l privation among the Span ish peasantry, it was impossible not to be struck with the evidence of poverty in the house of the priest. The naked ness of the walls, and scantiness of the furniture, were the more apparent from a certain air about them of better days. Senora Margarita had just prepared for her master's supper an olla porida, which, notwithstanding the sauce and high-sounding name, was nothing more than the remains of his dinner, which she had disguised with tho greatest skill. The enrate, gratified at the color of tin's savory dish, exclaimed " Thank God, Margarita, for this dainty dish. By San Pedro, friend, you may well bless your stars to find such a supper in the house of your host." At the word host, Margarita raised her eyes, and beheld a stranger who accompanied her master. The face of the old dame assumed suddenly an ex pression of wrath and disappointment. Her angry glances fell on the new com er, and again on her master, who looked down, and paid with tho timidity of a child who dreads the remonstrances of his parent " Peace, Margarita ! Where there is enough for two there is alwnys enough for three, and you would not have wished me to leave a Christian to starve? He has not eaten for three days." .'.'Santa Maria I he a Christian ! He looks more liken robber 1" and mutter ing to herself, the housekeeper left the room. During this parley, the stranger remained motionless at the treshold of the door. He was tall, with long black hair and flashing eyes ; his clothes wero in tatters, and the long rifle which ho carried excited distrust rather than favor. " Must I go away ?" lie inquired. The curate replied with fin emphatic gesture " Never shall he whom I shelter be driven away or made unwelcome; but sit down, put aside your gun, let us say grace, and to our repast." " I never quit my weapon. As the proverb says, two friends are one. My rifle is my best friend, aud I shall keep it between my knees. Though you may not send me from your house till it suits me, there are others who would make me leave theirs against my will, and perhaps headforemost. Now to your health ; let us eat." The curate himself, although a man of good appetite, was amazed at the voracity of the stranger, who seemed to bolt rather than eat almost the whole of the dish, besides drinking tho whole flask of wine, and leaving none for his host, scarcely a morsel of tho enormous loaf which occupied a corner of tho ta ble. Whilst he was eating so vora ciously, he startedat the slightest noise. If a gust of wind suddenly closed the door, he sprang up, and leveling his ri fle, seemed determined to repel intru sion. Having recovered from his alarm he sat down again and went on with his repast. " Now," said he, speaking with his mouth full, " I must tax your kind ness to tho utmost. I am wounded in the thigh, and eight days have passed without its being dressed. Give me a few bit of linen : then you shall be rid of me." " I do not wish to rid myself of yon," replied the curate, interested iu his guest, in spite of his threatening de meanor, by liia strange exciting conver sation. 1 am somewhat of a doctor. You will not have the awkwardness of a country barber, or dirty bandages to compluin of, as you shall see." So speaking, he drew forth from a closet a bundle containing all things needed. and, turning up his sleeves, prepared nimseu to uiscuarge me amy oi a sur ceo ii. The wound was deep, a ball having passed through the stranger s thigh, who, to be able to walk, must have ex erted a strength and courage more than human. " You will not bo able to pro ceed on your journey to-day," said the curate, probing the wound with the sat isfaction of an amateur artist. " You must remain hero to-night. Good rest will restore your health and abate the inflammation, and the swelling will go down." I must depart to-day, at this very hour," replied the stranger, with a mournful sigh. There are some who wait for me, others who seek me, he added, with a ferocious smile. "Come, have you done your dressing ? Good : here am I light and easy, as if I never bad been wounded. Give me a loaf, take this piece of gold in payment for your hospitality, and farewell." The curate refused the tendered gold, with emphasis. " As you please farewell." So saying, the stranger departed, tak ing with him the loaf which Margarita had so unwillingly brought at her mistress's order. Soon his tall figure disappeared in the foliage of the wood which surrounded the village. An hour later, the report of firearms was heard. Tho stranger reappeared, bleeding, and wounded in tho breast. He was ghastly, as if dying. " Here." said he. presenting to the old priest some pieces of gold. " My children m the ravine in the wood near the little brook." He fell, just as half a dozen soldiers rushed in, arms in hand. They met with no resistance from the wounded man, whom they closely bound, and, after some time, allowed tho prieRt to dress his wound ; but in spite of all his remarks on the danger of moving a man so severely wounded, they placed him on a cart. " Basta," they said. " he can but die. He is the great robber, Don Jose della Ribera," Jose thanked the good priest ly n motion of his head, then asked for a glass of water, and as the priest stoop ed to put it to his lips, he faintly Baid, " lou remember f Tho curate replied with n nod, and when the troop had departed, in spite of the remonstrances of Margarita, who represented to him the danger of going out iu the night, and tho inutility of such a step, he quickly crossed the wood towards the ravine, and there found the dead body of a woman kil led, no doubt, by some stray Bhot from the soldiers. A baby lay at her breast, and by her side a little boy of about four years old, who was endeavoring to wake her, pulling her by the sleeve, thinking she had fallen asleep, and call ing her mamma. One may judge of Margarita's surprise when the curate returned with two children on his arms. Santa Madre ! what can this mean ? What will you do in the night? We have not even sufficient food for our selves, rtnd yet you bring two children. I mnst go and beg from door to door for them and ourselves. And who are these children ? The sons of a bandit a gipsy ; and worse perhaps. . Have thev ever been baptized At this moment, the infant uttered a plaintive cry. "What will you do to teed tho buoy ? Wo cannot allord a nurse ; we must use a bottle, and you have no idea of the wretched nights we shall have with him. "You will sleep, iu spite of all," re plied the good curate. ' O I auuta ALaria, lie cannot be more than six months old 1 Happily I have a little niilk here : 1 must warm it, and forgetting her anger, Margarita took the infant from the priest, kissed it, and soothed it to rest. Slie knelt be fore the fire, stirred the embers to heat the milk quicker, and when the little one had enough, she put him to sleep, and tho other had his turn. Whilst Margarita gave him some supper, un dressed him, and mado him a bed for the night of the priest's cloak, the good old man related to her how ho had found the children, and in what man uer they had been bequeathed to him. "Oh ! that is fine and good " said Margarita ; " but how can they and we be tea? The curate took the Bible, and read aloud "Whoever 6hall give, even a cup of cold water, to one of the least being my disciple ; verily I say unto you, he shall not loso his reward. " Amen 1" responded the house keeper. The next day, the good father ordered the burial of the poor woman, aud he himself read the service over her grave. Twelve years afterward, the curate of San-Pedro, then seventy years of ago, was warming himself in the suu in front of his house. It was winter, and there hud been uo sunshine for two days pre viously. Beside him stood a boy, ten or twelve years old, reading aloud the daily pray ers, and Irom time to time casting a look of envy ou a youth of about six teen, tall haudsome, and muscular, who labored in the garden adjoining that of the priest. Margarita, being now blind, was listening attentively, when the yougest boy exclaimed "O! what a beautiful coach ! " as a splendid equipage drove up near the door. A domestic, richly dressed, dismount ed, and asked the old priest to give him a glass of water for his master. " Carlos," said the priest to the younger boy, " give this nobleman a glass of water, and add to it a glass of wine, if he will accept it. Bo quick I " The gentleman alighted from the co.ich. lie seemed about fifty. "Are the children your nephews?' inquired he. " Much better," said the priest ; " they are mice by adoption, be it un derstood." "How so?" "I shall tell you, as I can refuse no thing to such a gentleman, for poor and inexperienced iu the world as I am, I need good advice how best to provide for these two boys." " Make ensigns of them in the king's gutrds ; and iu order to keep up a suit able appearance, he must allow them a pension of six thousand ducats." " I ask your advice, my lord, not mockery." "Then you must have your church rebuilt, and by the side of it a pretty parsonage house, with handsome iron railings to enclose tho whole. When this work is complete, it shall be called the church of the Vasa d'arua, (Glass of Water). Here is the p)an of it ; will it suit you ?" What do you mean ?" " These features this voice means that I am Don Jose della Ribera. Twelve years ago I was the brigand Jose. I escaped from prison, and the times have changed. From a chief of robbers, I have become the chief of a party. You befriended me. You have been a father to my children. Let them come to embrace me let them come 1" and he opened his arms to receive them. They fell on his bosom. When he had long pressed them, and kissed them, by turns, with tears, and half uttered expressions of gratitude, he held out his hand to the old priest. " Well, my father, will you not accept the churoh?" The curate, greatly moved, turned to Margarita, and said " Whosoever shall give, even a cup of cold water, to one of the least, being my disciple; verily I say unto you, lie snail not lose his re ward." " Amen I" responded the old dame. who wept for joy at the happiness of her master, and his children by adoption, at whoso departure buo also grieved. Twelve months afterwards, Don Jose della Ribera and his two sons attended at the consecration of the church of San Pedro, one of the prettiest churches in the environs of Seville, A Fatal Familiar. In Jersey City, according to the Jour nal, there is a physician who has won considerable fame from the successful cures ho has made both in medicine and surgery. For some years past, the doctor says, whenever one of his pa tients dies, no matter where he is, what time, day or night, a small white but terfly comes directly to him, and flits about until it has attracted his notice, when it departs. The moment the doc tor sees the little winged messenger of death, he is at once made aware of the demise of his patient ; and if at night the notice comes to him, he invariably remains in his office in tho morning in order to give a certificate of death. The first time the doctor ever saw this but terfly was a few years ago, while he was looking at the body of a dead child, which was very dear to him, and the butterfly alighted on the breast of the child, aud thero remained, slowly rais ing its wings up and down, uutil the body was closed up in its littlo coffin. A few evenings since, while- the doctor was attending a patient in Clark place, the butterfly entered the window, and commenced flitting about tho doctor's head; he looked up at it, aud one of the ladies in the room, thinking it annoyed him, said, " Oh, leave it alone ; it will soon burn its wings by the blaze of the gas." " No it won't," said tho doctor ; " it has come on a mission, and will soon disappear. I have just lost a pa tient, and in tho evening I shall be called upon for a certificate of death." Sure enough, the next morning, the father of the child that had died the night before called upon the doctor, and notified him of tho lss of his little oue. This is only one of many instances where tho doctor has received this strange visitation, and kept a record of the circumstances, besides that of call ing the attention of those present to the fact of the butterfly-warning of death among his patients. An Awkward "Catch." A man named Gilsey who, by strict economy and seveie industry, had suc ceeded in getting his family a little place, free of incumbrance was fishiug in Still river, near tho Beaver brook mills, ou a Sunday afternoon. After sitting on the bank for a couple of hours, without catching anything, he was gratified to see, on a flat stone in the water, a snapping-turtle sunning itself. The butt-end of tho turtle was toward him, and he thought ho would capture it ; bnt whilo he was looking for a pluce to step, the turtle gravely turned around without his knowledge, aud when he got in reaching distance, and beut down to tako hold of what na ture designed should be taken hold of while handling a snapping turtle, that sociable animal just reached out and took hold of Mr. Gilsey's hand with a grasp that left no doubt of its sincerity. The shrieks of tho unfortunate man aroused some of the neighbors, but when they arrived it was too late to bo of any benefit to him, or even to them selves, for they just caught a glimpse of a bareheaded man tearing over the hill, swinging a small carpet-bag in one hand, aud they at once concluded that it was a narrow escape from highway robbery. However, it was not a carpet bag ho was swinging it was that turtle, aud it clung to him until he reached the White street bridge, when it let go; but the frightened man did not slacken his gait until lie got home. When ho reached tho house, the ludicrousness of the affair burst upon him, and when his wife looked at his pale face, and bare head, aud dust-begrimed clothes, and asked him what was the matter, he said. " Nothing was the matter, only ho was afraid he would be too late for church," and appeared to be much relieved to fin I that he wasn t. Novelties iu Fashions. Over-tkirts deeply pointed on the sidea and clinging to the figure are worn abroad. They are made of twilled India silk, China crape, or az-y soft, flexible fabric, are edged with knotted fringe. or else lace or insertion, and are worn over white muslin or tulle dresses. Raised embroideries in colored silks and wool are favorite trimmings on French dresses of foulard and other silken fabrics. Every hue of the flower and leaf is represented, instead of the modest designs now wrought iu one color, tone upon tone. Embroidered laces are also announced as a garniture, used specially by Worth on very dressy toilettes. There is an effort abroad to bring into favor what is called the Restoration sleeve, viz. : a close sleeve with a largo puff at the top. This is unbecoming as it gives an appearance of too great breadth, and destroys the graceful slope of tapering shoulders. Fish as a Diet. Dr. Merryweather says ; "A fish diet is a great bumanizer of the tempers of mankind. Its consumption tends won derfully to render them more kindly to one another, and consequently tames the passionate disposition to crime. As carniverous animuls are always the most fierce and violent, so become human beings who have carniverous stomachs. Could such stomachs have an occasional respite by the consumption of fish, the world would be all the better for it. I speak as a medical man, and firmly as sert that many maladies would be miti gated, and, perhaps, annihilated by such a process A gentle being at Marion, Ind., lately caught a sandhill crane, hung it up alive by its heels all night, then plucked off most of its feathers, and advertised an ostrich for exhibition. Toads Living Without Eating. The notion that toads can live with out material food is both more generally believed and better supported than that touching the jewel in its head. Numer ous accounts, apparently well authenti cated, relate the finding of toads en tombed in the centre of nged trees when cleft open by the woodman's wedge, or enclosed in chambers of chalk or stone until disinterred by the miner, but still alive, and seemingly in good health. Their presence in such places was accounted for, in the case of the trees, by the supposition that they had eithei climbed, or been dropped by some bird of prey, into the hollow trunk ; and, being unable to extricate themselves, had been gradually shut in by the growth of wood overhead. In the case of chalk or stone, it was be lieved that the egg had been washed by floods through some minute crack or crevice into on already-existing chamber in the mine, which egg had hatched in due course, and produced the interest ing recluse in question. Both of which suggestions seem possible explanations of the mystery. So persistently, indeed, have such stories been repeated, that Dr. Buck land, formerly Dean of Westminster, determined to put the matter to the test by enclosing sundry toads in blocks of stone and wood. For this purpose he had twenty-four holes excavated in two blocks of stone twelve of them in a block of coarse oolitio limestone, and twelve in a block of close-grained sili cious sandstone. The holes were circu lar those in the limestome were twelve inches deep by five in diameter, and those in tho sandstone were of the same diameter, but only half the depth. Each cell had a groove at the top, fitted to receive a circular plate of glass, with a slate over it, and when closed was ren dered impervious to air and water by a coating of soft clay. In each of the twenty-four cells an unfortunate toad was pluced and sealed down on a given day, having been first carefully weighed, and the blocks of stone were buried in the earth three feet deep. ..On opening the cells, thir teen mouths after, all the toads in the smaller cells were found dead, aud muoh decayed. The greater part of those in tho oolite were still alive, aud, stranger still, more than one had actu ally increased in weight 1 But in at least one of such cases of increase the cover of the cell was found to be slight ly cracked sufficiently so, perhaps, to admit small insects out of thesurround- ing earth. All the" survivals were then buried again, and at the end of the sec ond year they were also dead. During tne last incarceration tney were frequently watched through the glass cover of their cells, and always appeared to be wide awake with open eyes, and iu no state approachiug tor por ; but on each successive examina tion they wero observed to be growiug " fine by degrees and beautifully less," until at last they died of sheer emacia tion. All those confined in trees in the same fashion were dead at the end of the first year, and much decayed. The cells were in apple trees, on the north side of the tree, five by three inches large. That the toad does "live on the vapor of a dungeon" appears therefore to bo conclusively disproved. Aud such aerial toads seem to be as much crea tures of the poet's brain as the flower eating serpents of the same great writer. JJtlgravia. Jeremy Got His Wife. Mr Jeremy White, one of Oliver Cromwell's domestio chaplains, sprightly man, and one wits of the'eourt, was so to make his addresses of the chief ambitious as to Oliver's youngest daughter, the lady Frances, The young lady did not discourage him : but in so religious a court this gallantry could not be carried on without being taken notice of. The Protector was told of it, and was much concerned thereat ; he ordered the person who had told him to keep a sharp lookout, promising him, if he could give any substantial proof, he should be well rewarded, and White severely punished. Tho spy followed his business socloso that in a little time he dogged Jerry White, as he was generally culled, to the lady's chamber, and ran immediately to tho Protector to acquaint him that they were together. Oliver, in a rage, hastened to the chamber, and going in hastily, found Jerry on his Knees, either kissing the lady's hand, or having just kissed it. Cromwell, in a fury, asked what was the meaning of that posture before his daughter Frances ? White, with great presence of mind, said " May it please your highness, I have for a long time courted that young gentlewoman mere, my lady s w,oman and cannot prevail ; I was, therefore humbly praying her ladyship to inte cede for me." The Protector, turning to the young woman, cried : " What's the meaning of this, hussy why do you refuse the honor Mr. White would do you ? He is my friend, and I expect you should treat him as such." My lady's woman, who desired noth ing more, with a very low courtesy, re plied : " If Mr. White intends me that honor, I shall not be against him." "Sayest thou so, my lass?" said Cromwell; " call Goodwyn ; this busi ness shall be done presently before I go out of the room." Mr. White was gone too far to go bock ; his brother parson came ; Jerry and my lady's woman were married iu the presence of the Protector, who gave her five hundred pounds for her por tion, which, with what she had sav.d before, made Mr. White easy in his cir cumstances, except that he never loved his wife, nor she him, though they lived together near fifty years afterward. To Take Stains out of White Mab blb. Take one ox-gall, one wine-glass of soap lees, one-half wine-glassful of turpentine ; mix and make into a paste with pipe-clay. Put on the paste over the stain, and let it remain for several days. If the stain is not fully removed, a second application will generally prove Buwcient, The rrcrcutlou and Cure of Cholera. In response to a request signed by a number of physicians of Tennessee, Dr. Chas. K. Winston of Nashville has writ ten an interesting review of the cholera epidemics of that city and the treatment adopted by him. Respecting tho pre vention of the disease, Dr. Winston writes : "Can this be done? I affirm that it may. If it were not for this fact oholera would be substantially the most dread ful of all scourges. If every family would establish a strict police, call the roll three times daily, observe the rule of personal cleanliness, see that all filthy places were cleansed or disinfect ed, eat aud drink prudently, keep regu lar hours, and exercise moderately, cholera could not bo developed in its active form. I affirm, further, that if under such circumstances the premoni tory symptoms should occur, and which I do not deny, then, and in that case, if tho party shall bo required to lay down and keep still no cholft-a in its full nature can be developed. " The ordinary healthy human body has the power of excreting the morbid cause of the cholera, aud I would agree to insure any number of persons, if they would observe the above rules. This is a fact of great consequence, and ought to bo insisted upon ut each visi tation of the dreadful scourge. It should be placarded nnd posted upon the door of every dwelling. And if any member of a family should at such a time say 'I am sick, require him at onoe to lay down and stay there until he can say 'I am well.' The materia) tnorbi of many diseases may not bo shunned or turned aside. We cannot shun measels, small pox, or scarlet fever, but we may avoid cholera iu the way to which I have now referred. "Suppose, however, the disease can not be avoided, can it bo successfully treated? I affirm that it can." Tho doctor then describes his treat ment in terms intelligible only to the medical reader. He concludes as fol lows : "Iu conclusion, let me sav guard the people against nostrums and cholera syrups of all kinds, especially peppers which injure the tone and ultimately upset the stomach. A little spirits of camphor nnd laudanum, together with a box of mustard and three or four ten grain doses of calomel, are all that is ne cessary. With these, and laying flat on ttie back, any one may bid denunce to cholera. Balloon Yoy ages. Tho longest balloon voyage on record was made by M. Nadur's great balloon, Le Geant, which ascended from Paris iu October, 18C3, with nine pas sengers, aud descended the next day, in a gale ot wind, near Nienburg, Hau over, having traversed seven hundred and fifty miles in seventeen hours. The descent was of a perilous character, aud several persons were injured by jump ing from the car. The balloon rose to an altitude of 15,000 feet. On Novem ber 7th, 1836, the celebrated English aeronaut, Charles Green, accompanied by Monck Mason nnd Robert Holland, left London in a balloon, and landed the next morning near Welberg, in the Duchy of Nassau. Tho time occupied in the journey was eighteen hours, and the distance traveled upward of hvo hundred British miles. Tho greatest height attained in this voyage was 12, 000 feet. In 1849, Arbau, a French bal loonist, mado the passage of the Alps, going from Marseilles to Turin, four hundred miles, in eight hours. Mr. Coxwell, the English aeronaut, and Mr. Glushier, the eminent meteorologist, made a number of high ascensions to gether. The most remarkable of these took place September 5, 1852, when they attained the greatest altitude ever reached by man. Mr. Glashier esti mates this to have been between 30,000 and 37,000 feet, or about seven miles. His last observation, made before the greatest elevation was reached, showed un altitude of 29,000 feet. Ho then be came insensible, and so remained for the space of about seven minutes, the balloon meanwhile ascending until it was checked by Mr. Coxwell, who seized the valve-rope by his teeth, as his hands were helpless. September 15, 1804, M. Gay Lus8ao reached a height of 22,977 feet, his ascension having been made for scientific purposes. Blunchard claimed to have ascended to a height of 32,000 feet, and Margat, Garuerin, Robertson aud othej's have claimed to outdo this, but iu most cases their balloons were too small to have been able to carry them so high, Messrs. Rush and Greeq ascended to an altitude of over 25,000 feet. A Boy With a Big Head. A few days since, says the San Fran cisco Chronicle, a woman entered a hat store on Washington street.accompanied by a boy about ten years of age. She said the boy was her son and she want ed a hat for him. The hatter glanced at tho boy's head and was dismayed at its size. lie tried several hats, but nouo would fit. Then he measured the lad's caput and found it to be twenty eight inches in circumference and eighteen inches from ear to ear. To fit such a head it would require a nine and three-eighths hat, and the largest size known to modern hatters is seven and three-eights. The woman said her name was Hickok, and that the boy was a native of Philadelphia. At birth, she said, his brain-box was of unusual size. The lad is of weak and puny frame, and one arm is partially paralyzed. A Strange Murder. At Jezi, in Italy, a few days ago, an old woman, named Capanori, announced that she had found her husband s body in a ditch at the bottom of a rocky emi nance, from which he must have fallen by accident. Suspicion, however, fell upon her, and she was arrested. She confessed that she had caused her hus band's death by pushing him over the cliff while he was at work. He had fallen into the ditch and had been drowned. Maternal love had prompted the commission of the murder. She had been told that the only way in which she could have her son restored to her from the ranks of the army was to be come a widow. In order to do this it was necessary to kill her husband. The Granges. The new secret society of tho 'Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry" has developed itself with a suddenness and strength which is very remarkable. The general idea of the order was origi nally suggested by a community ot Scotch farmers in North Carolina, club bed together for the purchase of all needed supplies from first hands, and at wholesale prices. It was not until 18G8 that the thougiit oi torming an ex tensive organization upon this model began to make headway among the farmers of he West. Gradually the thought was developed into action, and the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry became the wide-spread and powerful league which we now find it. women, as well as men, are admitted to the privileges of tho granges. Members admitted to the firRt degree are known respectively as laborer and maid ; to the seoond degree as cultivator and shepherdess; to the third degree as harvester and gleaner; and to tne fourth degree as husbandman and mat ron. The fifth degree is conferred only in the State granges, which are com posed of masters and past-masters of the subordinate granges and their wives, who are matrons. Those admit ted to this degree are called members of the Pomona or Hope grange. The sixth degree is conferred only upon members of the council of the National grange, which is composed of masters and past masters of State granges and their wives, who have taken tho degree of Pomona. Tho emblem of this degree is Flora (charity). The seventh and highest degree is conferred only upon members of tho national senate, which comprises members of tho council who have served one year in that body. The members of this degree are charged with the secret work of the order. It thus appears that the secresy of the or der, except as regards the seventh de gree, is only a transparent veil. And there can be little doubt that the secret work of the seventh-degree members will include the execution of whatever political plans may be adopted for carrying out the general purposes of the order. The Blouse Dress. White linens, with stripes or polka dots of black, blue, or scarlet, are the favorite materials for pleated blouses this summer. Among stripes fine hair lines are chosen ; polka dots are about the size of a pea, and are placed quite far apart. Such liuens cost sixty cents a yard. Sheer linen lawns are also used, and bought in the same designs for thirty cents. Entire dresses of linen lawn are made by this pattern, with prettily ruffled skirt and over-skirt ; the model is also excellent for Bummer prints and percales. Undressed gray flax linen makes useful blouses for morning and country wear, and has certain air of style when worn with black skirts of silk or alpaca. The Eng lish standing collar with turned-over points in front, and square shirt cuff with broken points, are used for gray blouses. Sailor blouses are of blue linen, or else navy flannel, with squaro collars, ou which white anchors or stars ore wrought. Very dressy blouses of thin white muslin have bauds of em broidery or the Valenciennes insertion let in between the pleats. Black Brus sels and guipure net blouses are also very stylish with silk skirts. A baud of black velvet ribbon, with narrow edg ing on each side, is placed down tho middle of each box-pleat ; others have a pull between the pleats, and colored rib bon is run through tho putt. The over-skirt is a full, long, ample round over-skirt, stylishly draped. The over-skirt is of the dark material of the lower skirt, but variety is given to tho wardrobe by having the upper skirt and blouse of the same liaht fabric with a dark skirt beneath. Tho imper feet remnants of eight yards of any pretty muslin may bo utilized, and graceful over dress made; this quantity will not be sufficient for a ruffle ou tho edge, and a bias fold is used instead, Insurance Suit. A curious insurance case has arisen in connection with the destruction o some furnace patterns owned by D. B, Montague fc Co.. of Springfield, .Mass. in tho recent burning of the Norton Furnace Company's works. The Union thus explains it: " Mr. Montague sent orders to the company to insure his property, and they accordingly placed two policies one for Slot) aud auotner lorfc-juu botu in the Springfield Fire and Marine, After two annual renewals had been paid, the property was burned, and ou applying for his insurance, Mr. jvion tague found that ho could get nothing on the larger policy because the prop erty was described as being kept in stwre-house, which was not burned, The $150 policy insured the patterns ' kept either in the store-house or Ion a dry.' and was of course collectible. Tho larger policy should have been written the same way, as the patterns were not kept in the Btore-house two weeks dur ing the year. Now. as Mr. Montague told thecompany to insure his property, and as they informed him that they had done so, he proposes to hold them re sponsible. The company, in turn, de otare their ignorance of the state of the case, and as the agent was ordered to write the policies to completely protect the property, they will bring suit against him to recover the amount of the loss. The sum is insignificant, but from the principle involved of the pecu niary liability of agents, the case will attract great attention." Suicides. A writer in a French medical journal, who has examined about 900 judicial ac counts of suicides in Paris, thinks him self warranted in assuming the follow ing conclusions : Philosophical, or pre meditated suicide, takes place usually during the night and little before day break ; accidental or unpremeditated suicide, takes place during the day, be cause it is then that the occasional causes arise, such as quarrels, bad news, losses, intemperance. &a. At every acre. too, men chose particular modes of com mitting suicide. Thus in youth he has recourse to hanging, which he soon abandons for fire-arms-; in proportion as vigor declines, or old age advances, banging is generally the mode. Facts and Fancies. A man at Do Soto, Iowa, lately swal lowed several of his teeth while playing croquet. The Treasurer of Lyons county, Min nesota, kept the funds in the drawer of a sewing machine, and $357 was drawn from it without his knowledge. A telegram from Mons, Brussels, says . an explosion of fire damp occurred in a coal mine at Framieres. Five miners . ... - i .t were killed and several mjureu. A fli!n.000 libel suit has been com- . menced against tho Chicago Times by a young lawyer whom it called a shyster, and eleven more suits are to follow. Irate party to bus-driver " Why didn't you attend to my hail 7 us- driver, with dignity and a "pulling team " " 'Cause I had my hands full of reiu." An Indiana man, who shot another, and afterword repented, wrote to his victim that if he would only getwrll ho would give him $10,000. Tho wounded person expressed a willingness to get well at any price. Mr H. O. Rotherv. Registrar of tho High Court of Admiralty of England, has been appointed British Ageut for tho Settlement of the Fishery Questions between the Canadian Dominions and the United States. Tho Houston (Texas) Mercury ex presses the opinion that it is necessary for tho better security of our borders that wo should possess a slice of Mexi can soil, and that the people Hre ripe for any niovo that tends toward its acqui- stion. A vouiiof "man" in Hudson, Mich., asked to accompany a young lady home from church. She declined his com pany, nnd ho walked behind her and spit tobacco-juice upon neroress. aiura then tho police have paid him much at tention. A rural correspondent of the Oilman's Journal, in describing a belle of tho oc casion, says she " wore a showy white dress, enlivened with pink, which was in harmony with her jolly good nature." Pink ponH-natured harmony is a desir able quality. A Maine eirl who was awakened tho other night by the flash of a light in her room, jumped outof bed and discovered a burglar creeping on all lours tlirougn the hall. Sho screamed ana turew a bed-wrench at him, and he scampered down stairs and out of doors. Earl Russel has obtained a return showing the number of persons tried for murder in Ireland during the last six months previously to the 9th of May last, and tho verdicts returned. Thero are nine cases in the list. In five of tho trials the jury disagreed ; in tho other instances the verdicts wero tor man slaughter." Hon. Charles Francis Adams has ac knowledged, in a letter to a Western man, the reception of a card containing what is denominated a platform of the Farmers' and People's Anti-Monopoly party of Livingston county, and says : 1 see but littlo to object to and a good deal to approve. But at this day it is not profession that is so mucn wanted as practice." This is the Nellie Grant bathing suit which has become bo fashionablo at all the seaside summer resorts: A Gari baldi waist, with sailor collar ; a short skirt attached to the waist by a belt and trousers ; hempen shoes and a chip hat tied down with a broad baud of rib bon. Ash gray, bound with scarlet, and blue with white are the favorable combinations. The consumption of potatoes in Sar atoga is large. At the Lake House it is the fashion not ouly to nibble a gooaiy quantity of this delicacy (fried, of course) while there, but to carry some away for future consumption. It is said that tho proprietor sold no less than thirteen thousand packages of fried po tatoes to the visitors of Saratoga in the season of 1872. A civil service committee in Washing ton asked an applicant for a clerkship what was tho distance of the planet Saturn from tho earth. The candidate answered that he was unable to state the distance in miles, but did not think it was sufficiently near to interfere with the performance of his duties as a clerk, nor to beget in him a desire it meddle with the rings. Stephen Chase, living near Fort Wuyne.Ind., recently discovered a large tree lying directly across tho railway track. He procured an axe, and had partly removed tho tree, when the axo slipped and cut deep into his foot, ne, however, bravely continued his work uutil tho track was clear, just in time to prevent tho destruction of a passen ger train which was approaching. The Dubuque Telegraph presents a new platform for the "new party" of Iowa. It goes in for free commerce, free banking, a uuilorm national, currency, payment of the debt at par in green- . 1 . 1 1 J. 1 -1 - A I - DacKS, tne rigui oi niuor iu snare iu ino profits of labor and capital, retrench ment and economy in Government ex penditures, low taxation, and opposition to vested rights. The name suggested for tho party is the Democratic Re publican." A young lady of Nashville is changing her views somewhat relative, to the question of matrimony. She says that when she "catno out" in society, she determined bhe would not marry a man unless he was an ipiscopauan. Time passed on and she did not get married, and then modified her views, and con cluded she would marry no man who was not a Christian. That young lady is still unmarried, and says now that all she is looking for is a man that don t drink whisky. A silent, but veritable revolution has taken place in English fashionable world. Hitherto it had been the prac tice when friends or acquaintances were about leaving town to call on one another and leave a card with the let ters in pencil, P. P. C. At present, if that missive be left by the owner, and no departure takes place within eight days, no umbrage is to be taken ; but if a fortnight or a month elapse, and there is no prospect of the departure, the p. p. e, is to be accepted as a notice to quit all visiting a decision as defin ite and unchangeable aa the laws of the Medes and, Persians.
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