HEMFIY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDTJM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. TV. ttlDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1874 NO, 33. X Me fore tlio Kaiu. We fcre i it would rstin, for all the morn A e . ' it on Blonder ropca of mint Was iii. nriiig tlio gnlilon backets down Into the vapory niiiothynt, (Of marshes and Kirn'tips and ilimal fong, Scorching tho dow thnt lay in the flowers, . Dipping tlio jonc' i -ml uf tlio eea, To.sprinklo tliom ovar tho land in fchowors. Wo Kiid loin, for tho poplars know it IjllOWCil TUo white of thoir loaves, tlio ambor grain Shrunk iu Mir. v.itiil-aixl tho lightning now Ih ts.';,li J in tremulous skeins cf rain ! THE TELEGRAPHISTS' REVENUE. (FROM TUB GERMAN). There were eight of us belonging to the telegraph department of tho German army, and wo had had another long and Laid day's journey. At a littla be fore midnight wo arrive, Vith our two K. wagons, at a pretty little town near Le Mans. As wo reached the outskirts of the place, the couri er Te had sent ahead met us with t10 billets for our quarters. As he hand'dli them to us his face as sumed at- expression that I knew only too wel', how to interpret. " C nr quarters are none of tho best, sb ' I asked. "Tliero have been some Bavarians here for n vholo week," was his laconic reply, which said quite enough. It was only whin tiioy found a very great nbnnjnncii and their stay was very short that, onr blue-coated allies left anything behind them. Well, cur billets, in our respective judgments, promised very little. I, for example, was sent to the house of a liut u-weaver. Now, at tho mere men tion of the worl linen-weaver, a feel ing of huugv-r and misery comes over me, probably on account of my having, in my boyhood, so often Bung the song of "Tho 'Weaver of Silesia." The others, being no better pleased with their billets than I was with mine, readily acceded to my proposition to go to a hotel end pass the night at our .own expense. Tho mail had arrived only a day or two previously, and consequently we all ha d money ; not much, 'tis true, but enor.gh to pay our reckoning for a nip'lit at least. The house to which we were directed was called " The Shark." If the name was somewhat ominous, we consoled ourselves with the thought, or rather the recollection, that.in the olden time, on a certain ooension, a very distinguished person found himself very comfortable . iu n fish's belly. Tho landlord, when onr troop enter ed his house, made an awfully wry face; when, however, he learned that we Lad not been quartered upon him, but cama as paying guests, his physi ' oguomy' assumed an entirely different ,"f "expression. V.Te Germans, despite the 4 hot rod of tho French for us, had a good reputation among the landlords ; and I ,nm convinced that, if countrymen of the proprietor of The Shark had pre- "sented themselves, he would not have been so well pleased as he was with. us. But his suave manner did not 'please us. There was something too fox-like in his physiognomy. While tie tongue ... of the little man was giving utterances to polite phrases, his little, sharp, dark !, ,eyes seemed to say, " If I only had the , gold in my pocket, you might go to the deuce for all I caro 1" Such-like lnndlor da were not new t0 us, and consequently the contradictory expression of 1 ls WOrds and his mien gave us no ueinea,,. He could in dulge in or.j grimaces he pleased, pro vided his larder was well filled and his wine wf ,H good. The jjjmj i;uew hi9 business, that no on,,v could deny. He ran over the list 1f his culinary delicacies with wonder ful volubility, and praised his wines with an eloquence that even a Geneva Calviuibt would have found it difficult to resist. As for the former, they tasted very like the remnants of a din ner warmed over ; auil, as for the latter, it had certuiuly been liberally watered. But our stomachs had not been cloyed with luxuries of late, and, especially for the last three or four days, our fare bed been so very plain, that we found the supper The Shark landlord set be fore us very palatable. Although we had had a hard day, we were, neverthe less, in a convivial mood, and, after our host had persuaded us to take one bot tlo of champagne, he did not find it difficult to persuade us to take a second, a third, and a fourth. So we sat drink ing and merry-making until three o'clock in the morning, when we sud denly broke up and hastened to our beds. At six o'clock we were all assembled again around the table, busy with our coffee, when the Shark appeared, and, with one of Lis friendliest grimaces, handed me our reckoning. Good Heavens I I thought I should sink to the earth when I glanced at the paper ! Such imposition I had never before witnessed. "Two hundred and thirty-three francs !" I cried ; " that is impossible I it cannot be 1" " Si, hi, monsieur.it is quite correct," answered the Shark, blandly. "Mod Dieu ! Messieurs les Prussiens have made every thing so dar with us in France what can we do ?" " The rascal 1" I thought, and told my comrades what the fellow demand ed of us. They, very naturally, were not less iucf-nsed than I was; but what could we do ? There was no time to enter into a discussion, for our wagons were already waiting at the door ; so we emptied our purses, and, with "Muh und Nuth," made up the sum the villain demanded, which he pocket ed with a nonchalance that clearly showed it was not the first time he had preyed upon the unwary. We went our way, all feeling very savage, I particularly, for it was my fault, if anybody's, that we had ialkn intcj the jaws of the monster. I" had no expectation of ever seeing the little town or The Sbark landlord again'; but Providence willed that it should be otherwise, and kindly gave me an opportunity to be fully avenged. Nine days later we were ordered to repair a short eonneoting-line near Le Mans, , Again we took the road to the littlo town of dearremembranee, which we reached about nightfall and where wi were to spend the night. We re ported ourselves at the commissary bureau, where I had the good fortune to find a good-natured asquaintance in the officer in charge. In tho Course of conversation, I told him how I and tuv companions had been robbed by The biiarfc proprietor a few days previously. "I know the fellow' Said he. " There have already been a good many complaints about lum ; but I have de termined to send him as many of my billets an 1 can with any show of jus tice ; in that way one can, perhaps, get even with the rascal." " Ah, an excellent idea 1" I cried. "Send me and my comrades to him- that is, if you can." "Why not? Eight luen yes, cer tainly I can stud you to him. The fel low is rich ; the other houses are full, and he has only three or four Bavari ans. Yes, I'll send you to him for to night." Fifteen minutes later onr wagon drew up before tno door of The Shark. On the way I had unfolded a little plan to my companions, with which they were delighted. When our Worthy host saw us he was radiaut with delight, and his satisfac tion was apparently increased when we excused ourselves for troubling him again so soon, and begged that he would have our tired horses well at tended to. " Oh, you are yrry welcome, gentle men," he replied, rubbing his hands with a sort of satanic glee. " You do my little house great honor 1" (" Here I have the eight dunces again," he thought to himself.) We made ourselves as comfortable as possible, and, in our endeavors in this direction, we were ably seconded by our host. When he asked us how many rooms we wished, we modestly repliod that we were by no means particular how many we had ; whereupon he has tened to allot to our occupancy eight rooms in a row, up two flights of stairs, which, ho assured us, were as comfort able as any rooms in his house, and I have no doubt that, in making the statement, he was not very wide of the truth. Of ordering our supper, we made equally light work, leaving the selection of the bill-of-fare entirely to him. Yes, we even went so far in evinc ing our confidence in his judgment and discretion as to allow him to select our wine for us. "Perhaps I shall put a bottle of oharnpagne on ice ?" he suggested. " I hope Messieurs les Prussiens found my wine to their taste the other evening."" " If you choose, you may put two on ice," I replied. "Perhaps three, messieurs." "Four if you like." "Bon, lot us say six." " You are very kind, monsieur." " My duty, my duty I I think I know what is due to such guests as you are, gentlemen." And so we continued to compliment each other until our jaws were busy with supper, which, thanks to tho gen erosity of our host, was truly Lucullian in its character. Our host watched our glasses witn Argus-eyes, and hardly were they empty when the waiters, in obedience to his wink, filled them again ; this we gave him an opportunity to do very fre quently, especially when he brought on the diarnpagne, which, to do the Shark justice, I confess was very good, and, unlike his claret, had not been watered. We swallowed with heroic courage whatever was set before us and it is astonishing what eight healthy, willing fellows can accomplish in this direction under proper encouragement, after a hard day's march, especially if they have been on plain fare for a few days. We repeatedly drank the Shark's health, an honor the significance of which he was destined not to learn until the next morning. Finally, at a late hour, with heavy heads and limber knees, leaving a formidable battery of empty bottles behind us, we retired to sleep tho sleep of the avengers. The next morning, bright and early, late as it was when we went to our beds, we were all assembled round the table enjoying our cafe au lait, and in all the better humor in consequence f the success of our little plot. It was with a sort of triumphant satisfaction that I watched onr host, as we drank our eottee, making a copy of what seemed to be an interminable list of entries in a big account-book before him. " Now he is slaughtering us," I whispered to my comrades, just as one of our drivers, a stalwart Pomeranian, presented himself at the door, and cried out, "The wagons are ready, gentlemen 1' Before our landlord could recover from his astonishment, we were out of his house and iu onr seats. But he was close upon us with his bill, which could have been measured with a yard-stick. I glanced at the sum. It was, as we intended it should be, larger than the previous ona. " What is it you wish ?" I asked with all the naivete ! could command. " The amount of my little bill, mes sieurs, if you please," repeated 'the Shark, in his blandest tone. "Your bill! how? why, we were quartered with you." "Eh! wh what! qua quartered with me ?" he stammered, and at each syllable his under jaw fell lower and lower. " Certainly ! Is it possible that I forgot last evening to give you our bil let ? Why, here . it is now !" and I drew the document from my pocket and handed it to him. " I beg a thousand pardons, raon cher monsieur ! Driver, go on !" And away we drove, laughing heart ily. The Shark, however, did not seem to relish the joke. As long as we were in sight he stood still, " with murder in his mien," looking now at us, and now at his " little bill." Wo, however, for the thousandth time, struck up our favorite song, which rang out merrily on the morning air : " Lieb Yaterland, magat rnhig sein, Feet fcteht and treu die W&cht am Rhein." Does anybody doubt that the land lord of The bhark looked after the Quartierbilltte a little more closely alter this adventure? ; Probably not I Power of the Eye, Cooley has got a new dog, says Max Adler, and I am sorry to say th.at he is exceedingly vicious ; indeed, that very few of the neighbors have coiirago enough to enter Uooley'B yard. J udge Pitman, however. had to bo in there the other day for the purpose, of collecting a bill, and he told me that he wasn't a particle afraid, because ho possessed the power of holding a wild animsi witn his eyes, when he looked straight into the eyes of a. dog the brute quailed before his glance, and slunk away. He said it proved the su periority of a human being with a soul and a resolute will to the mere brute creation. So he opened the gate and went in. Cooley's dog heard him com ing, and immediately flew to meet him. The Judge fixed his eye on the animal for the pnrpoe of holding it, but the dog didn't seem to notice the circum stance. But still the Judge looked, and still the dog came on. Then it seemed to occur to the Jndj'S that per haps his kind of an eye might not hold this kind of a dog, and he suddenly moved toward the apple-tree, with the dog close behind him. He became panic-stricken, and made a furious ef fort to climb up the trunk. He had just reached the first limb when the dog arrived, and made a Snap at him. The dog's teeth caught in the lower part of the judge's trouser-leg, and as it is a bull-dog, he held on ; while the Judge lay across the limb on his stomach, out of breath, frightened and uncertain what to do. If he dropped, the dog would certainly eat him ; if he climbed further up, we would have to take the dog with him. Ho had just made up his mind to stay where he was while his strength lasted, when ho thought he heard the limb cracking, and then he yelled for help. Then Oooley came out, and after making the Judge promise to take 20 per cent, dis count on of tho but, he pried open the dog's jaws with tho kitchen poker, and dragged him into the stable. The Judge came down, hot, breathless and mad ; and he has said to me since, pri vately, that the next time he wants to hold 1 dog with his eye he will impale him on a hay fork first. That is a safe way, anyhow. Reproof of Foppery. Dean Swift was a great enemy to ex travagance in dress, and particularly to that destructive ostentation in the mid dle classes ' which led them to make their appearauce above their condition in life. Of his mode of reproving those persons for whom he had any esteem, the followiug instance has been recorded : When George Faulkner, the printer, returned from London, where he had been soliciting subscriptions for his edition of the Dean's works, he went to pay his respects to him, dressed in a lace waistcoat, a bag wig, and other fopperies. Swift received him with the same ceremony as if he had been a stranger. " And pray, sir, what are your com mands with me ?" said he. " I thought it was my duty, sir," replied George, " to wait upon you immediately upon my arrival from London." " Pray, sir, who are you ?" " George Faulkner, printer." " You George Faulkuer, the printer ? Why, you are the most im pudent, barefaced scoundrel of any fellow I ever met with I George Faulk ner is a plain, sober citizen, and would never trick himself out iu laco and other fopperies. Get you gone, yo rascal, or I will immediately send you to the House of Correction." Away went George, as fast as he could, and having changed his dress, returned to the deanery, where he was received with the greatest cordiality. " My friend George," said the dean, cordially, " I am glad to see you return safe from Loudon. Why, here has been an impudent fellow with me just now, dressed in a lace waistcoat, and he would fain pass himself off for you, but I soon sent him off with a ilea iu his ear." Preparing FIsli for Winter. It is estimated that at present there are stored in .New lork city about U00, 000 pounds of valuable fish in a frozen state for next winter. These stores will not be touched while freshly caught nsn can he brought to market. Terra, pin is one of the luxuries of tho table, Those who catch them have to hunt for them as far south as Galveston, and Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S. C furnish supplies, and some very fiue terrapin are caught in the Chesapeake ISay, and are eagerly purchased at Ual- timore, where they have been sold as high as $15 per dozen. In order to get anything like a supply for the New York market, a leading wholesale fish dealer found it necessary, several years ago, to lay in a stock during the sum mer, at which time, in consequence of their voracity, tho terrapin are more easily caught.' As it is necessary to preserve the terrapin alive, he caused a large pen to be constructed on the shore of Pleasure Bay, near Long Branch, about 1UU leet Equare, con structed with a fence of planking 8 inches wide. 2i inches thick, and of or dinarv length. The bottom and shore was artificially constructed so as to give it a gradual slope, and the shore was made of white sea sand, wmie tne bed of the pen was composed of ordinary sea mud and snd. Hero for three or four years past the fish dealer stored his terrapin, sometimes having as many as 10,000 terrapin in the pen at one time. As the food they appear most to enjoy can be easily had, tlie cost of maintaining the pens is small ; while the revenue, should the scheme prove moderately successful, will be very great, as even good fat terrapin bring in this market from $3 to $15 per dozen. The most systematic method of put ting an end to one's existence ocourred at West Troy, N. Y. A mau fifty years of age, Martin Supple, by name, left his wife and children one evening, re tired to a bedroom, took an old gun, loaded it with a double charge, plaoed the stock in a vice, pulled off his shoe and stocking, tied the string to the trigger of the gun, made a loop which he inserted in his big toe, aimed the gun at his heart, pressed his toe down wards, and went into eternity, Orphan Asylum Tortures, An investigation of the stories of tor ture in the Orphan's Home at Wormels-doi-f, hear Beading, Penn., confirms their truth. Boys of six or eight years old were kept shoveling ooal until too tired to continue, and then whipped for stopping. In bitter weather they were kept standing barefooted until their feet Wero frozen. James E. More, agent at the railroad station, among other incidents related the following I The superintendent, accompanied by one of the orphan boys, came to the station for some freight. The boy drove the horses, and the animals back ed pretty hard against the freight house, as horses sometimes do even with the best, driver. Ferryman said to the boy " Don't jerk the horse so ;" the little fellow simply replied " I didn't jerk them," when Ferryman said in an excited manner " Don't call me a liar," jumped on the wagon and with his fist struck the boy so violently in the face that the blood gushed from his mouth and nose. One of the little fellows remarked that ho had been kicked in the side so severely that the blood came. To the question " Is there any truth in the statement that Mr. Al bright cut the finger-ends of any of the boys?" the reply was "It is true." " Well, how did he do it?" Here one of the boys took a knife and showed how it was done, by cutting the tips of the fingers in one direction and then cutting crosswise at right angles. A phvsioian remarked " That was a hor rible punishment, as the finger-ends are very sensitive, as you may well think, for the blind read by the touch of their fingers, and a person can feel the slight est particle npon which the fingers may rest. In January last a boy named John Lang left the Orphan's Home and walked to Philadelphia, where his mother is living. The constable at Wormelsdorf was sent after the boy, and when he met the mother she stated that she had secured a situation for her child in a factory, and begged the cou- stable, with tears in ner eyes, not to take her little son away from her ; that he had come to her with ragged cloth ing and torn shoes, and his back and legs black and blue from the brutal whippings, and she would rather see him starve at home than to be taken back and be so terribly abused at the Orphan's Home. The constable was mobbed while on his way to the depot, and the little boy taken from him. He then secured the services of a Phila delphia policeman, who went with him and explained to Mrs. Land that there was no use resisting the officers of the law, as the boy would have to be taken back to Wormelsdorf. The little fel low was then given up to the officers and brought back to the Orphan's Home. These are but specimens of what is being brought out by an official inquiry now in progress. The testimony brought out the fact that the children were choked with nooses for punishment, kept lashed in boxes for hours ; and that the teachers were profane and brutal. Four of the teachers are under arrest. FRENCH BALLOONING. American Religious Statistics. Americans cannot but read with in terest the statements circulated in Eu rope as to tne increase of religious bodies in the United States according to the census of 1870, 1860 and 1850. The Methodists count 21,000, 19,000 and 13,000 churches, in round numbers, severally, at each of these dates, thus showing an increase of eight-thirteenths iu twenty years. The Baptists count 13,000, 12,000 and 9,000, er a gain of four-ninths. The .Presbyterians, 7,000, 6,000 and nearly 5,000, or a gain of about two-fifths. The Roman Catho lics number 3,800, 2,500 and 1,200 churches at the three dates, or a gain of twenty-six twelfths. Tho Christian Connection (Union Baptists) number 2,800, 2,200 and 800, or a gain of twenty-eighths, a remarkable increase. lhe Lutherans count 2,700, 2,100 1,200 churches, or a gain of fifteen-twelfths. The Congregationalists return 2,700, 2.100. 1.700, or a gam of ten-seven tcenths. The Protestant Episcopalians 2,600, 2,100, 1,400 churches, or a gain of eleven-thirds, an increase to be ex plained partly by their missionaiv movements at the West, or perhaps by confounding German Reformed with Dutch Reformed churches. The Quakers. 600. 700 and 700, a de cline of about one-seventh. The Universalists, 60, 66, 53, a gain of about one-seventh, which may be wrongly reported. Tho Unitarians, 310, 264. 245 churches, a gain of 65 churches or a gain of about one- quar ter. The Mormons are reported at 171, 24 and 16, a gain of more than ten-fold, and the Jews at 152, 77 and do syna gogues, or an increase of more than fourfold. We have not taken these figures directly from the census, but from the official tables of a leading Eu ropean Year Book, and we have only calculated the average increase of each denomination. According to this state ment the Roman Catholics have gained more, relatively, than any other leading denomination, having more than tripled their churches in twenty years. Next to them come the Lutherans, who have more than doubled, and next come the Episcopalians, who have nearly doubled their number of churches since loou An Ascent from Cnlnl and a Plunge In the North BeaJ)I. Jlnronf'l Ill.torjr ol a Perllou. Voyage. M. Duinof and his wife, who made the perilous balloon ascent from Calais have been rescued In the North Sea. As one of the attractive features of a publio fete given at Calais that day, it was announced tna? ino aaveniurous aeronaut and his wife would go up in their balloon, the Tricolor, and if the wind was favorable they proposed to make an aerial voyage over the Channel and land in England. The wind was squally, and moreover blew in the wrong direction. With a southeasterly current the attempt would have been made, but it blew variously soutn and Bouthwest, and the only prospect be fore the voyagers was a descent in the German Ocean, unless they could reach the distant shores of Denmark or Nor way. The authorities forbade the as cent, but part of the crowd, disappoint- ed of tne sensational episode oi ins day's amusement, taunted Duruof with cowardice, and, stung by their taunts, he and his wife made the desperate effort to carry out their engagement, and Le Tricolor was seen rising into the clouds just as night was closing in, and drifing over the FUraits of Dover toward the open sea. So it continued to tirnt lor ten nours, when the gas being partly exhausted it fell into the JNortli &ea. Then they saw and were seen by a Grimsby fishing smack ; the crew hastened to their rescue, pursued the car, which dipped into and rose out of the water like a flying fish, and finally, after a chase of two hours, saved the half-drowned aeronaut and his wife in the middle of the North Sea, some 170 miles from the Spurr Lighthouse. According to these data it would seem that tne uauoon naa iraveieu about three hundred miles in a direct line, its rate being between twenty-five and thirty miles an hour, or about twice the average horizontal motion of the air. Subjoined we publish facts taken from M. Duruof's narration of his voy ntre and rescue : The balloon went up amid tne accla mation of the crowd, and for the space of 327 yards went in a northerly direc r. .... .ti. tion ; but upon attaining mat neignt our course changed to the northeast, and shortly afterwards we saw the French and English lighthouses at sea, and we seemed to be going more to ward England than toward France. There were no vessels to be seen at sea, and night was coming on. I ielt that, in case I should be obliged to make a long voyage, I must economize my bal last, and I decided to pass the night watching tho extremity of the rope, which was seventy-six yards long, and every time the rope touched the water I threw out a very small quantity of ballast. At four a. m., just before sun rise, 1 threw all the IigUt ballast out, and 1 discovered that during the night I had been driven in a northeasterly di rection. Not knowing the distance I was from the nearest land, and fearful of being driven by another current to the northward, I resolved to try to lower myself to a vessel. I manoeuvred so as to get down, and toward five o'clock I succeeded. The lower cur rent of tho wind was blowing north west. It is impossible to describe my extreme thirst. The sea was very rough. Without any fear I opened the valve, and descended until the ropes were trailing in the water, and in an in stant we were past a vessel. At seven o'clock we again sighted the smack on the horizon, and saw that she was pur suing us, and by degrees we noticed that she came closer to us. The cold s very severe, and our limbs were becoming benumbed, our strength was failing us, and the hope of being over taken by the smack was the only thing that gave strength to our arms to hold on. My wife s limbs were benumbed, and at each jerk of the balloon she be came weaker and weaker. The smack continued to approach us. I pointed it out to my wife, and it renewed her courage. I saw the danger they were in, and I began to cut the ropes that trailed from the balloon. I had cut tho greater part of them, when I was dashed against the boat, and I let my self fall into it. I, like my wife, lay helpless in the bottom of the boat. The men then let go the ropes or the. car, and tne balloon started on witn a mighty speed toward Norway. The boat returned to the smack. We were put on board and taken into tne cabin, where a good fire did not fail to bring us round. A Miraculous Escape. A Lucid Charge. If the jury believe from the evidenee that the plaintiff and defendant were partners in the grocery, and that the plaintiff bought out the defendant, and Mint t.lm defendant paid note bv deliv ering to the plaintiff a cow, which he warranted not breachy : and the war rantee was broken by reason of the breaohiness of the cow, and he drove the eow and tendered her to the de. feudant, but he refused to receive her, and the defendant took her home again and nnt a heavy yoke upon her to pre vent her jumping fences, and by reason of her yoke she broke her neck and died ; and if the jury believe that the defendant's interest in the grocery was worth anything, the plaintiff's note worthless and the oow good for noth ing, either for beef or milk, then the iurv must find out for themselves how they will decide this case, fer the oour1,,, if she understands herself, and the thinks she does, don't know ho euoh a case ihould be decided. Fashion Chlt-Chat. All thlnss have their day and fash ions come and go with meteof-like la pidity. Thus the Ions black lace scarfs with out which a lady would have considered her toilet incomplete last season have now become too common to be worn by the really fashionable. They are re placed by lace collarettes composeu generally of thread or Maltose lace made on a silk foundation. The latest style of linen cuffs are trimmed with a double box-pleated ruf fle at the wrist. Collars to match have the ruffle only at the back and turned down corners in front. RufD.es of cripe lisse are much used for evening Wear, but the high stand ing fraise of silk and muslin Is very little seen. Pretty ornaments for the heck and wrists are jabots of Maltese lace, with colored ribbon loops between the full ing and corresponding sleeve pieces. Black lace capes are worn small and without ends. They are usually of thread lao4 or guipure. The little tight-fitting black lace jackets are likely to supersede them. Very pretty jackets are made m the zouave shape of small puffings of white Swiss muslin, divided by rows of nee dlework embroidery. These jackets have no sleeves and are intended for evening weat over high silk waists. A still prettier zouave jacket is composed of alternate rows of blue brocaded rib bon and white Maltese lace insertion. Some of the newest evening dresses from Paris have tabliers of satin in three pieces, each piece fringed and looped back to form a sash. The waist has silk sleeves, with deep satin cuffs, and satin folds and bows trim tho front. A pale mauve satin made in this way over a blaok silk looks very handsome. Birds are more used in hats than ever, but wings are preferred for bonnets ; they are usually placed npar the face. Fans are of white or very slightly tinted satin, with ivory and mother-of-pearl handles. Clusters of flowers worked in lace are placed on the satin with good effect. Very elegant fans for evening wear are tipped with mara bout feathers. Stylish walking dresses are made of coarse, thick Irish frieze, trimmed with bark silk bands and bows down the front ; sometimes the waist has a silk vest. Very little fur naturally is seen on the fall jackets. They are nearly nil of black cashmere, beaded and braided, long in the front and short at the back. Few bonnets are entirely self-colored. They are usually made of dark velvet trimmed with a lighter shade of silk. Black bonnets have a great deal of jet and a good many ostrich tips on them. There has been a great change in buttons since last winter. They are now as plain as they were then elabo rate. Those which are worn on woolen walking dresses are frequently of plain black or brown bone. Oxidized 6ilver buttons are seen on dark cloth polo naises. A new fabric, with open work stripe, is called Goaiy. It will be worn over evening dresses, made up into over Bkirts. Some sleeves are puffed from top to bottom ; others are the straight coat sleeve, with deep cuff. The Chicken in the Eg?. William Baum, son of David Baum. of East Urandywine township, l'a.. de. scended to the bottom of a thirty-nve feet well on the premises of Mr. Baum. to get an axe which had fallen in, there being but eight inches of water in it When within one foot of the bottom the wall began to cave in. A man at the top looked down, only to see a mass of stone settling down and "literally squasnmg tne pump staiK, wnicn was a cucumber one. After the noise had ceased, he called to the young man to know if he was living, to which the young man replied, " Yes, I'm alive, and not much hurt." The man ut the top of the well gave the alarm, and by that time the young man s father was seen coming. When help arrived they had not tne proper macniuery lor re moving the stone, juep.sengers were dispatched to secure windlass and well buckets a distance of one and a half miles. While they were gone, those who were there removed several feet of stone by hand. A.fter the machinery came, and while removing stone, the young man called to them that he had giv&n up all hope of being rescued, The men eno juraged him, and after five and a half hours of terrible labor, dur ing which time 200 windlass buckets of stone wore taken out, he was found partial' v wedsred among the stone. nearl- frozen. Great was the joy and surprise of those at the top when the tilings reached them that Wilmer had sustained no serious injury. When a man reminds you that you owe him. iust make a note of it. He will take more interest in the matter if you honor him in that way. The hen has soarcely set on her eggs twelve hours before some lineaments of the head and body of the chicken ap pear. The heart may be seen to beat at the end of the second day ; it has at that time somewhat the form of a horse shoe, but no blood yet appears. At the end of two days two vessels of blood lire to be distinguished, the pul sation of which is visible ; one of these is the left ventricle, and the other the roof of the great artery. At the fifti eth hour one auricle of tho heart ap pears, resembling a noose folded down upon itself. The beating of the heart is first observed in the auricle, and af terwards in the ventricle. At the end of seventy hours tho wings are'distin- guishable ; and on the head two bub bles are seen for the brain, one fr the bill, and two for the fore and hind part of the head. Towards the end of the fourth day, the two auricles already visible draw nearer to the heart than before. The liver appears towards the fifth day. At tho end of seven hours more, the lungs and the stomach be comes visible, and four hours after wards the intestines, loins, and the upper jaw. At the one hundred and forty-fourth hour, two ventricles are visible, and two drops of blood instead of the single one which was seen be. fore. The seventh day, the brain be. gins to have some consistency. At the one hundred and nineteenth hour of inoubation, the bill opens, and the flesh appears in the breast. In four hours more, the breast-bone is seen, in six hours after this, the ribs appear, form. ing from the back, and the bill is very visible, as well as .the gall-bladder. The bill becomes green at the end of two huudred and thiity-six hours ; and if the chicken be taken out of its cover ing, it evidently moves itself. At the two huudred and sixty-fourth hour, the eyes appear. At the two hundred and eighty-eighth, the ribs are perfect. At the three hundred and thirty-first, the spleen draws near the stomacU, and the lungs to the chest. At the end of three hundred and fifty-five hours, the bill frequently opens and shuts ; at the end of lhe eighteenth lay, the first cry of tho chicken is heard. It afterward gets more strength and grows continually, till at lenetk it is enabled to set itself free from its confinement. Sturm's Beflectiona, MARK TWAIN'S NEW PLAY. The Olldrd Ae A Sjrnopala of the Plot. Mark Twain has taken a hand at play writing, and " The Gilded Age" is the result. The plot deals with a fam ily, the Hawkinses, who have emigrated from East Tennessee to Missouri, in obedienco to the advice of Colonel Sel lers, n visionary Southern gentleman with a very large heart, an active brain, and a sanguine disposition, but without any money or any practioal executive ability. The plfy opens with a scene showing the Hawkins family in the new country discussing their prospects and plans. Si Hawkins, tho head of this family, has two children, Lafayette and Emily, and an adopted son and daughter, Clay and Laura. The other members of his family are Mrs. SI Hawkins and an old negro servant, Uncle Dan'l. Tlio act deals entirely with the domestic affairs of this family. 'Colonel Sellers has in vested a large portion of Si Hawkins's money in a new steamboat which is ex pected up the river momentarily, and Lanra has a lover in the person of Col onel Selby, an ex-rebel officer. Tho act closes with the approach of tho steam er, which is snen to be racing with an other botit, For a few moments the in terest of tho party is entirely engrossed in the speed of the vessels, and Colonel Sellers becomes inordinately enthusi astic about his investment. Suddenly the favorite explodes, and the curiam falls upon a scene of consternation. Nothing, however, can discourage tho hopeful and enthusiastic Sellers. He sees a fortune in mules, in hogs, in land improvements, and devises magni ficent schemes involving millions. Hawkins, involved and almost desti tute, struggles on hopefully. Aul Laura is discovered to be the wiffl of Colonel Selby, seoretly married. The arrival of her brother Clay exposes Selby's real character. He already haa a wife in New Orleans. The discovery of this secret and its attendant miseiy end the second act. We then have an episodical scene in Colonel Sellers' house.a scene of in finite character and humor. The place is ehabbily furnished, indicating the proprietor's poverty. The rickety stove has a lighted candle in it.doing illusive service for a fire, and the broken door is propped up with a poker. In the midst of this distress, Colonel Sellers preserves his grandiose hopefulness and his show of pecuniary ability. His hospitality is boundless, though thera is nothing in the house to eat. His plans are princely, but he is without a cent. Clay Hawkins has called upon him in tho interest of tho family, and his practical, doubting disposition comes out in strong contrast with the effusive and visionary character of his host. He knocks down the poker and exposes the candle. But the Colonel is equal to the emergency, and explains the circumstance away with easy ex travagance. He even invites Clay to dinner, and Mrs. Sellers announces that there is nothing in the house but raw turnips and water. The gracious in genuity of Sellers at this discovery is inimitable. " Oh, never mind," he exclaims, " raw turnips and water will do, if it's a good artiole of water. But provide the best. Provide the best the market affords, Polly, It's a close place, but cheer up, girl, cheer up. Providence will tide us over the scrape somehow. Don't let us weaken on Providence, Sweetheart. " We always dine simply on Thurs days," he says to Clay, as they sit down. " But it's a healthy diet. Let me tell you, Clay, things are working pretty bright now. The air is full of money, 1 wouldn t take tnree lortunes for one little operation I've got on hand now. "Anything from tho casters? Iio? You're right, perfectly right. Some Eeoplo prefer mustard with turnips, ut I take them plain. None of your embellishments for Mulberry Sellers. High living kills our best men. lake some more water. How does tho fruit strike you 1" The scene then shifts to the national capital. We are given to understand that Colonel Sellers has projected a vast scheme by which the Government is to purchase a large tract of unavail able land in East Tennessee belonging to the Hawkinses, and there found a national university and farm lor ue emancipated negroes. To hasten the appropriation all the family nave gouo to Washington. Laura has become the belle of the town. Senators and Cabinet officers dangle in her train. She is using all her influence to work the appropriation. But her passion for Colonel Selby interferes with all her plans. Iu an angry altercation with him bhe discovers his coldness, and in a fit of rage and despair draws a pistol and shoots him. The nith set furn ishes a trial scene, in which Laura is a prisoner. There is nothing distinctly novel in the scene except tne cuaracier of Colonel Sellers. His actions, his testimony, his sincere emotion, and nis whimsical earnestness and humor are evenly preserved and stand out vividly in an otherwise barren finale. Making Statements. The New York Herald in referring to a Brooklyn slander case says : ' Everybody has made a statement about somebody else I, thou, he, we, you and they, he, she and it, have or bast made statements. There are almost as many statement makers as there are candidates for the Vioe Presidency, and they constitute a large percentage of the population. Now, this is our statement. Having read all the statements of the other statesmen, is it not time to state that any further statements are a bore? We twnk so, The Sun Does Not Set. Camobell.in hij Norway travels.says : The ocean stretched away in silent vast ness at our feet ; the sound of its waves scarcely reached our airy outlook ; away in the north the huge old sun swung low along the horizon, like the slow beat of the pendulum in the tall clock of our grandfather's parlor corner. We all stood silent, looking at our watohes. When both hands came to gether at 12, midnight, the full round orb hung triumphantly above the wave a bridgo of gold, running due north, spanned the water between us and him. There he shone in silentmajesty, which knew no setting. We involuntarily took off our hats ; no word was said. Combine, if you can, the most brilliant sunrise and sunset yon ever saw, and its beauties will pale before the gorge. oub coloring which now lit up the heaven and mountain. In halt au hour the sun had swung up peroeptibly on his beat, the colors changed to those of morning, a fresh breeze rippled over the flood, one songster after another piped up in the grove behind us we. had slid into another day,
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