( ; ) J . . f HENRY A. PARSONS, 'jr., Editor and Publisher. ' . p. Nit, DESl'PJtANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. III. HIDGAVAY,--ELK. COUNTY; TA.,v THURSDAY, OCTOBEll 2, 1873. NO. 31. 1 . . . HOW 5ELLIE WAS PAUSED. I don't share in the popular dislike and contempt for pawnbrokers. I look upon the pawnbroker as a most useful institution. Ho charges a high rate of interest, to bo sure ; but then loolt et the pettiness of the sums he will lend, lie is accommodating, I may say uni versal, i;i his charities. Nothing comes nmiss to him. He will disburse on the security of a ring worth a thousand dol lars, or a pair of boots worth a dollar nnd n half. Nothing is too small for him ; but no matter how valuable the article is, he cannot be induced to lend above a certnin anm im it Tl.. t- simply his caution. The article may be ohjilu, ui c oy in some improper manner, when, of course, he would have to give it up. He simply protects himself. But to my story. There is a certain side street running across Broadwoy, which I will, witli your permission, call Chicory street. Chicory street is not its name,' but as I nm about to relate some private matters in connection with it, it would not be either delicate or judicious if I were to be too geographically correct. In Chicory street resides a gentleman named Lazarus Levi, Esq., whose spacious old-fashioned house is the re pository of various articles of property belonging to numberless enlightened but distressed citizens of the United States. The lower story of Mr. Levi's dwelling is fitted up with a glass front, very dingy and dusty, so that the sev eral articles exposed to view in the win dows are but dimly seen. There are flutes, with tarnished kevs. that have lain silent for years. The dust lies tnick on the embouchure of each ; for the lins tli'it. blow tlmra tlm o.-,"l,,t.1 u mu i . intuitu air have shrunk into mere skin long ago, ana mo ague nngers that ran over the holes are now loose bones, that lie here and there, never to hang together on earth again. You can see all sorts of things in Mr. Levi's window. California diamonds ; real diamonds, very rare ; banjos, relics of disappointed minstrels ; guns ; silver tea-pots, now black and uncheerful, hinting at terrible domestic distresses in some poor fellow's home, and making you see the thin wife stealing out at night to raise money on the family valuables to feed the children. Mr. Levi is my friend. I have occa sionally mercantile transactions with him ; for I am a literary man, and it sometimes happens that I find myself the slave of a sudden necessity for five dollars. On these occasions I travel round my room, as M. Xavier de Mais tre may be supposed to have done, in search of somo appropriate token of esteem, which I may convey to Mr. Levi, in order to induce him to advance the required sum. In this choice it is necessary to exercise discrimination. For instance, I know that it will never do to present my stamped velvet waist coat three times running. And that if I were to take my little French clock to Mr. Levi too frequently, the article would pall upon him, aud my credit be impaired. Variety is necessary to per sons of Mr. Levi's position. Continual partridge destroys their appetite. They are epicures, and must be fed with nov elties. Accordingly one day, having need of the traditional five dollars o meet the expenses of a forthconiingliterarysoree at my rooms, I, after some deliberation, determined to present my Indian chess board to Mr. Levi, as a token of my affection, and work upon his feelings bo far as to induce him to present me with the longed for V. The chess-board was ivory inlaid. The men were delight fully Oriental, being carved all over, even to the tips of their noses, and alto gether I had great faith in the article, as it had never before been under Mr. Levi's charge. I waited until evening. It was a love ly evening for pawning. A thick fog, damp and threatening rain, hung over the streets, sis that there were but few passengers abroad. Chicory street was almost deserted. ! I rang at Mr. Levi's door. ' It was a privilege I had earned, both by the constancy of my ' friendship, and the usually valuable-nature of my presents. A delightful Hebrew servant-girl, with a nose massive as Egyptian architec ture, opened the door, and admitted me to Mr. Loivi's private parlor. In a few moments that estimable gentleman entered. ' "Ah! Mister Papillote," he said, holding out his hand, "how do you do? Come again, eh?. Well what is it this evening?" ..'.'A little matter I want you to arrange forme," I replied, unrolling my silk handkerchief from the chess-board. " I want five dollars on this for a fojv ,i r "Hum! On my word, Mr. Papillote, I'm sorry to see such a gentleman like you coming here S9 often. It's really too bad." Levi, as I have said before, took an interest in me," and .sometimes talked to me like a father. "My good Levi," I answered, laugh ingly, " don't take any serious trouble ou my aooounk- I'm till right. Ymi know the best of us will get into di fa culties occasionally. By-the-way, would you like to go to the opera to-morrow night?" His eyes glistened. i " Have you got tickets ?" 1 " Here are two. Can you let me have the money?" . - "Well, really, Mister Papillotte, chess is not a valuable property just at pres ent. .It oomes hard on the intellect, sir.''- " " But that is an Indian chess-board. It belonged to the Rajah of Gundarcool, and was taken from the royal . table by an uncle of mine in the Albicore fenci blos, who was at the seige pf Gundar cool. It is a historical chess-board, Mr. Levi. Do you play chess ?" . . ." Not exactly, sir. But I oame very near learning once." , " You know that the pawn is insepar ably connected with the game, I sup pose ?" ' - "I have heard something pf the kind, sir." 'Completely in. your line of business, you see." . Mr.. Levi stared. My joke was com- letely lost upon him. It was a very aild joke, certainly; but then, could bet ter have been expected from a mau who was begging for five dollars? , "I'm sorry you don't play," I hasten ed to continue, covering my jocular fail ure with some other remark. "I should like to have a game with you. That chess-board, I assure you, is worth thir ty dollars if it is worth a penny. Think of the associations.'. . . . " . Heaven forgive uie, but the Rajah was a creation of the moment. I had been made a present of the chess-board . by a sailor who had voyaged to Calcutta; but one must be a little deceitful now and then in this wicked world. "Well, I'll let yon have the money," said Mr. Levi, "though we're rather short to-day. A great deal of business doing just now, Mr. Papilotte;" and, laying the Rajah's property on the table, he disappeared into the office to make out the ticket. "A groat deal of business doing!" That meant, when translated, a great deal of misery - wandering . about the streets; a great many homes gloomy for want of petty sums of money; a great many mechanics without Sunday clothes; a great many poor students moaning over their valuable books, sacrificed to keeping life enough in them to read those that were left; a great many drunk ards, craving ' for their accustomed poi son, andfgetting it at the cost of neces sities; a great many mothers shivering in blanketless beds that the little ones might not starve. This was the terri ble kind of business that was doing ! I was reflecting on all this when I heard the parlor door open, and a light step fall softly on the carpet. Thinking it was Levi returning with the money,-1 did not raise my head. Presently a voice ah, how unlike Levi's buttery accents! startled mo from my reverie. "I can play at chess," it said, very softly. I looked up, suddenly. A little fairy creature, about sixteen years old, with long, fair hair, and large beautiful blue eyes, stood just within the doors star ing at me, like some timid bird at him who wanders in lonely woods, half fear ing to approach, yet longing to come nearer. " And who on earth are you ?" I asked, abruptly ; and as I spoke I saw at a glance that the blood of the chil dren of Israel did not run in her clear, blue veins. " I'm Nellie Lee, sir," replied the apparition, " and I'm in pawn.'.' "In what ?" I exclaimed, under the impression that I must have been de ceived in the absurd statement I had just heard. " In pawn, sir," she repeated, as simply as if she was sayiug that she was in bed. " And who put you into pawn, in the name of all the Medieis, may I ask ?" I said, scarcely able to keep my coun tenance. " Father pawned me for money to buy paints," answered this extraordi ary deposit ; " and I'm so lonesome oh ! you can't think !". " Vhat is your respectable parent, may I inquire ?" " He's an artist, sir, and he has just got an order, sir, and he wanted money for the canvas and the paints to. finish the picture. He paints beautiful pic tures ; indeed he does !" She seemed so very anxious about my not doubting hor father's ability that I smiled a sort of assent, as if I was per fectly convinced of his rare talent, and was intimately acquainted with the merit of every one of his productions. " Where do they keep you?" I asked, half-jestingly, for the whole affair seem ed so like a vaudeville that I expected every moment to hear some unseen audience applauding the performance. " Do they put you in the safe with the jewelry, or lay you on the shelves with gowns and coats ?" " No, sir, I live up-stairs with Mr. Levi. Father will come, though, iu a few days, with the money and redeem me. . All this as seriously as if it was the commonest thing in the world for dis tressed fathers to pawn their children, and to keep the duplicates in their waist coat pockets. " Have you ever been in pawn before, Miss Nellie Lee ? " "Oh, yes, sir. Father painted the ' Seven Sleepers of Ephesus ' with what he got on me, last Fall." This was really more than I could stand. I lay back on the old hair-bottomed sofa and roared with laughter. The deposit stood before me with a grave and patient demeanor, neither surprised at my merriment nor appar ently thinking that there was any thing at all singular in her position. ion say that you play chess, ' ! said, at last checking my merriment by a great effort, out of respect for the fair face and beautiful eyes that I saw before me. " Would yon like to play a game? "Oh, yes!" answered the deposit. " I should like it very much. You can't think " We sat down to play chess. I don't know how long we were at it ; but this I know, that if the entrance of Mr. Levi had not disturbed us, it would have continued probably to the present day. There was a first move. Then a long conversation. Then a pause, during which the blue eyes seemed to be in tently studying the board, and mine were intently studying the blue eyes. Then another move. Then more con versation, until at last the rival forces on the Rajah's ivory battle-field got into such a state of confusion that I be lieve Morphy would have become a lu natic at the- first' glance- he cost upon them. , . . -. ! i As for me, I thought of nothing but the smple, , beautiful young creature who sat opposite to me, and, in Bpite of myself, visions of such a being moving about my lonely chambers, making the gloom gay, and :oausiug the bachelor's barren life to burgeou and bloom like the dry rod of the high priest. In the midst of all this in came Mr. Levi with my five dollars and the du plicate lor the chess-board. . He seemed rather astonished at the quiet intimacy which had been so suddenly established between myself and his deposit. - . . " Mr. Levi," said I to him, " I had no idea that you lent money on this spe cies of personal security. I have a rich old unole, who won't die and leave me my share of his property, that I would be very glad to raise something on. How much will you give me on him ? He's in an excellent state of preserva tion, and has served, ia the last war " " Oh I" he replied, laughing, without paying any attention-to my proposed avuncular exchange, " Nellie Lee is a capital girl, and it's sometimes as well that she should bo away from her fath er, t He " and here he made an ex pressive pantomime suggestive of rum. I looked at Nellie. Her large eyes were filling with tears. " Don't be angry with me, Nellie," continued the pawnbroker, kindly. " You know that he has very bad hab its or you would not be here. My wife is very fond of her, Mr. Papilloto, and for that matter her father adores her, and as he never will finish nay of his pictures without the spur of some ter rible necessity, we contrive to put Nel lie in what he:" calls pawn, and then ha is sure to work to got the money to re deem her. Nellie, child, don't cry." I went up to the poor child, and took her hand gently in my own. " Nellie Lee," I said, "you love your father very much." f. She nodded her head, and shook off a tear or two that fell upon my hand. " It is but right you should do so. But you are in a strauge position here. Your father is not fit to be your guar dian, and you will not always meet with pawnbrokers as kind as Mr. Levi. Now what you ought to do is to intrust yourself to the care of some man who is young and strong, and who, with your fair face and good influence to stimu late him, will work for you day and night, and love you as dearly as ever your father did." She shook her head gently, and still the tears fell. f- " You think 'such a one cannot be found. You ore wrong.' If you could bring yourself to accept his protection ; if you could persuade yourself that a love suddenly born could be as vigor ous and lasting as one that takes years to mature, you never would repent of it ; I swear it!" "And where is there such a one?" demanded Levi, with a mingled in credulity and curiosity twinkling in his black eyes. "Here!" I answered. "I want but such an object as this to become indus trious. 1 have abilities, if I turn them to account, of that I am convinced ; .and, after all, if the worst should come, nothing under heaven can keep me from inheriting n portion of my uncle's estate. If Nellie Lee will take me for her husband, I call God to witness that I will cherish and love her until death." The little head shook no longer, and I felt a slight pressure from the small hand in mine. It may have been a tremor, however. " Her father would never consent," said Levi, reflectively. . .. " Never," echoed Nellie, in a low murmur ; " ho loves me so." . I could have said. "What, lnvo ' this that puts its idol into a pawn broker's shop ?" but I dared not insult the pure heart beside me, and I re mained silent. There was a long pause. No one seemed to know what to say, and Nellie's -hand still remained in mine. Then we all heard a sudden, violent ring at the hall door bell. Levi started and left the room, and still Nel lie and I remained silent. But invol untarily I drew her close to my side : my arm stole gently round her small waist. I ielt the throbbing of her lit tle heart, and then our lips met. The compact, I know, was sealed. In a few seconds Levi re-entered, pale and agitated. Ho stopped on the threshold when he saw us locked in the embrace, and, leaning against the edge of the door, he said: "i am glad of it. She has no guardian now but you." "My father !" and with a shriek Nel lie slipped from my clasp and fled to ward Levi. " Poor child 1" . he said, laying his hand reverently on her head, as if mis fortune had rendered her sacred, "it is so. ne has left you alone." There w as a wild burst of grief iu that dingy pawnbroking parlor, and poor little Nellie Lee sobbed aud flut tered like a, bU'd vainly beating against the iron 'wires'of its cage. The-old artist was dead ; the wretched man, un able to resist temptation, had expended the money he obtained from Levi in drink, and was found by the police in Washington Park, stretched dead oil one of the walls. He had killed himself with rum. For many hours my poor child . was distracted with her sorrow ; and good Mrs. Levi came down stairs, adorned with unredeemed jewelry, and the black-eyed Miss Esther, her daughter, was also there, smelling of patchouli, and Levi himself was continually coming iu and out of the shop with bot tles of cologne for the child's temples, and vinaigrettes to hold to her nose. They were all so kind and so gentle to my iittle Nellie in this her great sorrow that 1 made a vow on the spot never to speak ill of a pawnbroker again as long as I lived. But in time the tempest wore itself away, Nellie came at least to listen to the few words of consolation I cared to utter; for I am an unbeliever in verbal anodynes; and late that evening I might have been seen sitting on the old hair bottomed sofa with a fair, round face somewhat flushed with weeping, nest ling on my bosom, while Mr. Levi and Miss Esther sat round the fire and oc casionally turned round to admire us. Need I go much further? Need I des cribe the quiet wedding, where I vowed to be a true husband to Nellie Lee? It would not interest you very much; for there were no orange-blossoms or brides maids, and no reception and German cotillion afterwards.- -; -, .." But I may as well inform you tllat all I predicted has come to pass. I am now industrious and independent. Nellie is the dearest wife that ever wore a ring; and when I visit Mr. Levi, which I do often, for old friendship's sake, I walk boldly into his house, and have no pe cuniary object in so' doing. ,;; : On an inlaid table in my drawing room stands au ivory chess-board. It belonged to the Rajah of Gundarcool, and was taken from the royal table by a relative of mine in the Albicore Fenoi bles, after the siege of that place. ' It is the very identical chess-board which led to my finding Nellie in pawn. ' California as a State jb ' twenty-two years oia, A Stubborn Woman, A lady correspondent tells how she succeeded in triumphing over a Vienna landlord, she says: : ' They have an abominable custom here (Vienna) of requiring two weeks' notice whenever a person desires to leave their room. It is done, I think, to fleece foreigners, for this law is never told un til yon are ready to leave. ' ' ' My rooms are situated in -fc very un pleasant part of the city, which I did know at first. I paid a month iu ad vance when I came, and I have been half ill all the time. The doctor said the land was too low; that this is a swamp island, partly reclaimed, nnd 1 must go upon the hill to live. So I looked for rooms, and determod tomove. I never thought of it until within three days of the end of the month, and then told the landlord. He rented the rooms that afternoon to another party, to be occupied as soon ns I should laave. When I got ready to go I found I had not given "warning," and I must pay for two weeks' rent if I left, or have my baggage detained till I did pay, I left my baggage and went to a gentleman, and asked about the law, and found I had no redress. I must pay for the rooms for two weeks; but if I chose I might stay in them till the end. I did. I paid, and told the landlord I would stay. He did not like that ; and his other tenants had paid him, . and if ho failed to keep his promise with them he would lose a tenant for three months. Then he told me I might go. I said I was in no hnrry. I had paid for the rooms, and I should occupy them. The people sent their things. . He danced. Then he came and offered me my money back if I would leave. I declined. He offered mo ten guilders more to go, and I wouldn't. His new tenants came and I didn't like the looks of these and con cluded that they had too much money to let him have the swing, so I con cluded that I would remain- where I am. The family said, "This is all very ex traordinary," and I said, " Not at all." The woman said, "We have paid for these rooms." I said, " So have I, and I propose to retain them." She sat down on the sofa and fanned herself, and I rang the bell and told Anna to bring the lady some water and to open the middle door, and then I weut to writing, telling her I was busy. In the meantime the. landlord was out in the hall arguing -with the man and his daughter. . She insisted upon staying, because of the piano The old gentleman came, in and said : " Madam the landlord has told me how the case stands, and I will give you ten guilders nnd he will give you ten guild ers nnd return you your rent if you will vacate these rooms. They ore the only ones ! have seen that .exaqtly suit mo. wiit au juw on. j v uuiue, now. "I sny I will not vacate them fvi- xll the money you and he both havo got ; that is all 1 have got to say ; ana then I commenced to write again. He left with his family. Swimming In the Salt Lake. There are no fish in the Great Salt Lake, says a visitor there. The only living thing beneath its waters is a worm about a quarter of an inch long. This worm shows up beautifully be neath the lens of a microscope. When a storm arises the worms are driven ashore by thousands, and devoured by the blacis gulls. we tounU a pure stream pouring into a Jane, it was filled with little chubs and shiners. The lish became frightened and were driven down the brook into the briny lake, The instant they touched its waters they came to the surface belly upward, and diod without a gasp. The water . is remarkably buoyant. Eggs and potatoes float upon it like corks. My companion and myself strip ped aud went in a swimming. . I dove into the lake from a long pier, which had been built for the use of a small steamboat that formerly plied upon its waters. The sensation was novel. The water was sa salt that my eyes and ears began to smart, but so buoyant that found no difflcutlyin floating even when the air was exhausted in my lungs. ' As I struck out for the beach I felt as light aa a feather, In spite of. all that I could do my heels would fly out of the water. I found it impossible to stand upon the bottom. The lightness of the water and the surging of the waves forced my feet from under me. A person who could not swim might bo easily drowned in five feet of water. His head would go down like a lump of lead, While his feet would fly up like a pair of ducks. The water is as clear as the water of Seneca Lake, so clear that the bottom could be seen at the depth of twenty feet. When we reached the shore and crawled out upon the sand in the light of the sun, our bodies were quickly coated with salt. We were compelled to go to the little stream from which we had driven the chubs and shiners, and wash off in fresh water before we put on our clothes. Our hair was filled, with grains of salt which could not be washed out. The Mormons occasionally visit the lake in droves for the purpose of bathing. Many of them say that their health is improved by leaving the salt upon their bodies, and dressing without -wiping themselves with napkins. A Samion. In the eighteenth century lived Thomas Topham, a notorious athlets. Speaking of his accomplishments, a Caper of the day thus advertises : " He ends an iron poker, three inches in circumference, over his arm, and one of two inches and a quarter round his neck ; he breaks a rope that will bear two thousand weight, and with his fin ger roll up a pewter dish of seven pounds hard metal ; he lays the back part of his head on one chair, and his heels on another, and, suffering four men to stand on his body, he moves them up and down at pleasure ; he lifts a table, six feet in length, by his teeth, with one hundred weight hanging at the further end oj it, and lastly, to oblige the public, he will lift a butt full of water." Can we produce strength like his now-a-days ? , - iii.ii. ' i i i . , ; Mrs. Grundy says that if you wiah to see a fine display of diamonds upon the human , form you must secure an intro. duction to- the -ugliest woman to be1 found at a fashionable watering-place, Tlirottliii!? ft Hur&lar. An American Youth. Bedroom In Vienna Invaded by an Italinll Thief. The following extract from a letter from Mr. Frank Harding, of Einghaui ton, to his parents, dated Vienna, Aug. lutu, is published in the Unighamton I'c.publican: ',' I retired to rest fueling n ' good spirits, and dropped oil to sleep as easily as a babe whose chief occupation is to lose itself in the arms of Morpheus. I wandered off into dreamland, thought of homo, of friends. of my old boat Zota, and was looking about for laminar laces, when 1 was suddenly brought back to my little room in far distant Vienna by a sharp, quick sound just above' my head. Without moving I turned my eyes toward the window, which I discovered to, be wide open aud the moonlight streaming in, making every object in the room almost ns plainly distinguishable as in broad daylight. All was deathly quiet for a few moments ; . then I heard just the faintest sound, and immediately after ward the moon was shut out from my view, and a form crept slowly up on the window sill. Tho midnight thiof turned, looked back, as if he was no ticed by a policeman, nnd, ns his fnce was turned to the moonlight, I realized that I had something worse that a Ger man to deal with my visitor was un doubtedly an Italian or Spaniard the most cat-like people in the world. I rose upon one arm noiselessly, and was about to spring' upon him, and by a sudden thrust pitch him into the street,' but ere I had formed the thought per fectly, he jumped inside and commenced leehug about tho room hurriedly. Hanging upon a chair just opposite me was my vest, containing my watch and some hundred and fifty gulden. My visitor evidently did not perceive me, or, if he did, thought I was sleeping ; but I know my eyes were open as wide as they ever were. He commenced at the foot of the bed, crept around the room, examining everything as he went, nnd as he reached the bureau next to the chair upon which hung my watch, 1 thought it was time for action, nnd re solved not to let my things go without at least the satisfaction ot knowing that I had struggled to retain them. Jump ing quickly from my back, I went clean out of bed and landed square on my feet before the astonished individual. and ere he had timo to recover himself I seized his throat between both hands, aud if I didn't pinch then, I never did. I thought myself master of the situa tion already, and fairly chuckled in my excitement, but I did not know who I was dealing with. " The rogue seemed to enjoy the chok ing and took it quietly for about a minute, wheu he made a quick move ments and so uuexueoted-tliao I was thrown back upon the bed and I saw him thrust nm liuuil quickly to -ltls side. This time I anticipated him ; lie was evidently feeling' for the Span iard's best stand-by a stilleto. I must own I was now a little frightened, for I don't relish cold steel, so I caught him by the arm and said in German : ' What do you want here ?" He an swered me in poor German, Hush, or I will show you.' Oh, how I did wish for my revolver, which was resting quietly in the bottom of my valise where I placod it more than three ln-.mths before. I don't know why, but I never thought to call for help. My position was beginning to bo anything but desirable. My visitor, I was sure, was trying to produce a knife, and ! was determined ho should not do it, not liking such odds against a man in a night-shirt. I was getting the best of my uninvited guest a second time, and commenced to deal him a few blows upon tho head from an nrm in nowise weak, when he freed his right hand and I received a well-directed blow upon the forehead. I staggered back, aud as I recovered myeoif the fellow dodged out of the door, out to a balcony, and from that he jumped down some fourteen feet into the garden. I have not seen him since, but tho waiting girls in the house told me they found a man in the garden next morning, and let him out, as he said he was there the night before, fell asleep, and did not wake until the doors were locked for the night. I related the whole story to the woman who Owns the house, and she is so fearfully frightened now that she locks the windows and piles up chairs before them, besides keeping a dog in her room. The description that the girl gave of tho man coincided with mine exactly. I was trembling a little when I went back to bed, but from ex citement, as I had no fear during the whole affair, except for that little piece of steel that the villain was constantly endeavoring to get hold of. I crept into oeu ieariuny uissatisneu, out in the morning, when I thought the matter over more calmly, I concluded that it was better for me as it was having lost nothing, and knowing that I was not injured, and that I was not necessi tated to take the life of a human being. I have often thought what I would do away off here if any one attacked me, but 1 found that all my precious plan nings were not suited to the occasion. My room is but fonrteen feet from the sidewalk; and the rogue had no trouble whatever m climbing in by using the lightning-rod. Hereafter I shall keep my windows closed when 1 room on the first floor, that I may not be guilty of inviting or enticing strangers to enter." A Mau With a Broken Seek Stands Up The circumstances of the death of young mau named Muir, in Indian apolis, Ind., was somewhat singular, He was assisting in raising a derrick in iront oi one ol the central walls of the I'aimer House, when through some mismanagement the derrick toppled over. Under the impression that the derrick was about to fall to the ground. Afnir lennar intn t.Vin nollnv ltanontYi upon a pile of loose sand, a distance of about twelve feet, alighting upon his feet. After standing upright a moment he fell forward, striking upon a heavy .. 1 Ji.U 1 M 1 J -.- 1 Biuuo wiiu um loreueau. liaising nim seli up he reached up aud ielt the bruise caused by the fall, and then pucnea lorwara, dead. His compan ions came to his assistance and removed him to the Surgical Institute, where, an examination showed that his neck w as wvavu, A Remarkable Story.. Here is something remarkablo from the Daubury New. A woman in New Haven was recently bereft of her scalp by the idiosyncracies of a shaft and belt. The doctors saw that to remedy the evil they would have to recourse to transplanting, and so they actually suc ceeded in getting a sufficient number of pieces from other people's heads to give this unfortunate woman a new scalp. We hope those New Haven doctors used more discretion than did he who attended a man named Finlay, who met with a similar accident in Oriskany, N. Y., some thirteen years ago. Bits of scalp from seventeen per sons were secured by this doctor nnd ndroitly stitched to the head of Mr. Finlay. When it was done, people ('time miles to see Finlny's head, and Finlay himself, with his checker-board cranium, was the happiest man in Oris kany. But when the capillary glands got in working order, nnd the hair com menced to grow, the top of the man s head presented the most extraordinary spectacle on record. The doctor, who was about half the time in liquor, had consulted expediency rather than judg ment, and secured that new scalp with out any reference to future develop ments. We never saw anything like it. Here was a tuft of yellow hair, and next to it a bit of black, and then a flame of red, and a little like silk, and more like tow, -with brown hair and gray hair, and sandy hair, and cream- colored hair scattered over his entire skull. And what a mad man that Fin lay was, aud nobody could blame him. Ho would stand tip against the barn for au hour at a time and sob and swear. It was very fortunate that the doctor was dead. He went off two weeks before with blue ague, which is a mild sort of disease. Finlay kept his hair cut short, but that made no diller- ence. Then he tried dyes, but they only made matters worse. Then he got a wig, and this covered up the de formity ; but sometimes at church he would get asleep, and the wig would fall oil, and make the children cry. Once at the county fair he fell asleep, ana tne wig dropped oil, and the com mitteo on domestic goads, when they came around, stood in Iront of 1' inlay s head ior some nvo minutes m wrapt delight. They then immediately decided that it was the most ingenious patch-work in the list, and never dis covered tho mistake until they at tempted to piu the premium card to it. At that Finlay awoke, and knocked down the chairman of the committee and chased the others out of the build ing. We hope the New Haven doctors have been more particular, as it is not a subject to trine with. The European Balloon. A reporter conversed with Prot. wise at las room on the evening ot the great balloon collapse. As 1 have asserted all along, he said, "when asked to give my opinion as to the cause of the collapse, the mus lin was rotten, at least some of the sec tions, by exposure to all kinds of wea ther for weeks. I protested in vain against it and secured a shelter, but they would not listen to me. Their gieat point seemed to be to avoid delay and get the balloon oil somehow or any how. Donaldson is foolhardy enough to risk his lile, and the othois follow ed his reckiess example. I had rather walk up to a cannon s moutu than lace public indignation, aud I knew that no explanation would set mo aright it 1 re fused to go. So, against the wishes of my son, who is an aeronaut of twenty years' experience, I said I would go if they could inflate tho balloon. Yet I was confident they couldn't do it. Do you kuow whether the rents followed the seams ?" Tho reporter did not. "I think," he continued, "you will find that they did. I asked that silk thread might be used, and offered to pay the extra expense, but delay enough would not be granted to get it. Cotton thread was used, and the rain rotted it, I presume that the pressure started the seams at the valve, and ripped them down with perfect ease." The reporter asked whether the bal loon would have been safe had the in flation been finished without a break age. "No. sir. was the empnatio reply; " sho would have collapsed in mid-air and dropped ns into tho sea, perhaps from a height of three or four miles, She wouldn't have stood it forty-eight hours. I was confident of this all along, but nobody except Stiner would listen to me. It was no use talking to Donaldson ; he was bound to go up at any risk. I am only thankful that the break occurred as it did, and so saved four lives. Tho Oregon Senator. The career of U. S. Senator Whipple- Mitohell. of Oregon, is well-known, Recently the Oregon Republican State Convention adopted the following resolution relative to the Senator: Jiesolved, That whatever may have been the misfortune, faults, or short-comings of J. H. Mitchell. United States beua- tor from this State, in his early private life, we neither apologize for, pass judg ment upon, nor justify him, but ex press the unqualified belief that by his many years of constant, upright, and honorable conduct in this State he has outlived any imputations cast upon him : that to-day not only the itepubii can party, but a large majority of the people of this State have entire conti dence in his integrity, ability, and patriotism, and that he will faithfully and ably represent them in the united States Senate. An Important Decision. The Com missioner of Internal Revenue of the United States has decided that a per son who sells at the place of manufac ture wine made exclusively of grapes of his own growth is not liable to the special tax of a liquor-dealer for such sales ; but if ha sells such wiue away from the place of manufacture he is liable. A vintner, however, who sells wine made from grapes not exclusively of his own growth is subject to the anecial tax therefor, whether Bellini? such wine at the place where it is wade gr cwvwuoio, Items of Interest. The Saratoga Railway . thinks it is preeminently entitled to call itself a 'grand trunk line. No matter how amiable a lady may be, fashion demands that she shall ap pear ruffled in public. With the display now required for a first-class funeral, people are beginning to understand what are tho terrors of death. Several of the persons who took an active part in the insurrection at Alcoy have been tried and condemned ' to death. A water fall of 2,000 feet high, or more than twelve times the height of Niagara, has been discovered in British Guiana. Of the eightv-eight girls who hnvo entered the Michigan University, thirty-seven will study in the medical department. ' Four children were playing in an ex cavation in a sand bank nt Columbus, Wis., when tho soil caved in, and three were smothered. When you feel depressed nnd dis satisfied, and wherever you may look naught but frowning skies meet your -view, wash yourself. The lately divorced Mrs. Young con templates a book on Brigham. But she is not competent to write him up. She is not a faithful Ann Eliza. There will be plenty of butternuts and chestnuts this fall. Mothers are hiding their extra pillow-cases, and the agricultural members of the community are putting their guns in order. One of the greatest luxuries of nchea is that they enable you to escape so much eood advice. The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. Tho chief of the Mormons has had on adventure. He was taking a vfipor bath, when the lamp exploded, killing the attendant. Brigham only saved his life by jumping out of the win dow. A vouncr cent "pinched" tho ear of a little rat-teirier dog of the lively breed, the other day, in passing along. Re- ' suit a fine, pair of cassimero pants with a hole in them about three inches square. Sawdust as a substitute for stockings recommended by a writer in the Oneida Circular, who says that a table spoonful of the subsistence placed in each boot will keep tho feet both dry and warm. An incident connected with the re opening of the uincinnati pumio schools was the discontinuance ot tno practice of reading from the Bible, in accordance wiui tno recent aecision oi the Supremo Court. J. id. flupps, conuuetor on a xtew York street car, came to Danbury with his family, for rest and recreation, but was so annoyed by solicitors for contri butions to various charitable objects, that he was obliged to leave. There has latelv been discovered a poison called inrca. which is said to be more subtle than digitalino. It is ob tained by pressure from the seeds of Stronhanthua hhnidura, a npoeynaee- ous plant, found in Gaboon. You want to look out lor it. According to authentic information there is a license for the sale of drink in Russia for every 010 inhabitants ; m Siberia, one for every 500 ; in Prussia, 1 for 2G0; in Knglaud. 1 lor i; ; in Belgium, 1 for 93 ; in Holland, 1 for 90 ; and in France, 1 for every 70. A French provincial paper has been sentenced to pay a fine of fifty francs each to seventeen persons whose nameB it published on a list ot pilgrims. 1110 publication was true nnd harmless, but French law forbids journnls to meddle with the private affairs of individuals. A Quincy youth courted an obdurate young lady and managed to sroure u blank marriage license, which he filled up and showed her, with the remark that she was obliged to marry him now. She was terror-striekon, begged for time, and fled to tho country. Her friends propose to prosecute tno youtn for conspiracy aud forgery. The Binghamton (N. Y.) Republican savs : lteports indicate tuax, me poiaio orop in that section oi me ouue win be almost a total failure this year, iu consequence of the rot. Some of the dealers in Binghamton are not pur chasing potatoes to store in their cel lars, and they keep on nana oniy en ough to supply the demand during the day. Mendlessohn was, when a youth, clerk to a very commonplace, m fact stupid employer. One day an acquaint ance commiserated the clever lad on his position, saying, "What a pity it is that you are not master and he clerk 1" "Oh, my friend," returned Mendles sohn, "do not say that. If he were my clerk, what on earth could i uo witu him ?" A voung New Yorker spending a month with his uncle in New Jersey, wrote thus to his mother : "The peach trees here are too slippery for me to climb ; nuc!e won't let me sail boats iu the milk pails ; there's no birds' nests around that I can see ; Sallie Law spilt molasses ou my best pants ; a smaller boy than I am, who plays with me, ' wears a gold chain, and I want to go home." A singular natural curiosity is men tioned at Sadawga Pond, in Whiting ham, Vt., consisting of 150 acres of land floating on the surface of the water, covered with cranberries, and even sustaining trees fifteen feet high. When the water is raised or lowered at the dam of the pond, the island rises and falls with it, and fish are caught by boiinga hole in the crust and fishing down through as through the ice in winter. The estimatei value of all the rea and personal property of Pennsylvani was, according to the census of 1870, $3,808,310,112. That of the State of New York was $6,500,841,264. The same valuation assigns to New York city $3,484,268,700, and to Philadelphia $1,206,254,747. This leaves $3,016,-. 572,504 for the State of New York out. side of New York city, aud $2,602,085,- 865 for Pennsylvania outsi4e'of Fhila i ueipiutt,
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