f - nut II jC If. n., ) I ) 7 HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL IESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. i i VOL. IY. IUDGWAY. ELK COUNTY.' PA.. TTTTTRsnAV jaatttatjv irk nvrr. ah Swallowed. T'other day as I was twining Hoses for a crowu to diue in, What, of all tilings, 'midst tlie heap, Should I light on, fast asleep. But the little desperate elf, The tiny traitor Love himself Uy the wings I pinched liira up .Like a boe, and in a cup Of my wiue I plunged nnd sank him ; And what d ye think I did 7 I drank him ! faith, I thought him dead. Not he ! There ho lives with tenfold glee ; And now this moment, with his wings I foel him tickling my hoart-striugs. 1 Leiqh Hunt. THE STOKY OF THREE BEAKS. FOn LITTLE FOLKS. ' A tale which may content the minds Of learned inou and grave philosophers.' Oasoovsk. Ouce upon a time there were three boars, who lived together in a house of tfJieir own in a wood. One of them was a little, small, woe bear, and one was a middle-sized bear, and the other was a great, huge bear. They had eacji a pot for their porridge ; a little pot for the little, email, wee bear, and a middle-sized pot for the middle boor, and a great pot for the great, huge bear. And they had each a chair to sit in ; a little choir for the little, small, wee bear, nnd a middle sized chnir for the lniddlo bear, and a great chair for the great, huge bear. And they hud each a bed to sleep in ; a little bed for the little, small, wee bear, and a middle-sized bed for the middle bear, nnd a great bed for the great, huge bear. One day, after they had made the por ridge for their breakfast, and poured it into their porridge-pots, they walked cut into the wood whUe the porridge was cooling, that they might not burn their mouths by beginning too soon to eat it. And while they were walking a little old woman came to the house. She could not have been a good, honest old womau ; for first she looked in at the window, and then she peeped in at the key-hole ; and seeing nobody in the house, she lifted the latch. The door was not fastened, because tho bears wero good bears, who did nobody nny harm, nnd never suspected that anybody would harm them. So the little old woman opened the door and went in ; nnd well pleased she was when she saw the por ridge on the table. If she hod been a good little womau, she would have waited till the bears came home, and then, per liaps, they would have asked her to breakfast ; for they were good bears a. little rough or so, as the manner of boors is, but for ail that very good-natured and hospitable. But she wu.4 an impudent, bad old woman, and set about helping herself. So first Bhe tasted the porridge of the great, huge bear, and that was too hot for her; and she said a bad word about that. And then she tasted tho porridge of the middle bear, nnd thrt was too cold for her; and she said a bad word about that too. And then she went to the por ridge of the little, small, wee bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right; and see liked it so well that she ate it all up; but the naughty old woman said a bad word about the little porridge-pot, because it did not hold enough for lier. Then the little old woman sat down in the chair of the great, huge bear, and that was too hard for her. And then she sat down in the chnir of the middle bear, and that was too soft for her. And then she sat down in tho chair of tho little, i nmuu, on Mum, mm uiul wan ueuiier ioo , hard nor too sot t but just right. So she seated herself in it, and tiere sat till the bottom ot the chair came out, and down ! ...,,..11 1 .141... .-ii came herself plump upon the ground, And the naughty old woian said a wicked word ubout that too. Then the little old woman went "P stnirs into the bed-ehamlx'r in which the three bears slept. And fifst she lay down upon the bed of the great, huge bear; but that was too high at the head for her. And next she lay'down upon the bed of the middle bear; and tlwt was too high nt tho foot for her. Ami then she lay down upon tho bed of tjie little, small, wee bear; uud that was neither too liigh at the head nor nt tie foot, but just right. So she covered Up comfortably, aud lay there till she fell List asleep. By this time the three bears thought iiieu-jioiiiugo wouni ie cooi enougji; so i iiiey came nome to biraklast. Now the little old woman had left the spoon of the great, lingo hear stufiding m his por ruige. oOmeDOdy nail Deen at mV porridre !" said the great, huge bear, in his great, rough, gruff voice.- .Ind whon the mid dle bear looked at 1,1 1 ho saw that the spoon was standing m St too. They were wooden spoons; if tlly had been silver ones, the naughty old Woman would have put them in her pocki " Homebody las been at my porridge !" said the middle bear, inAis middle voice. Then the little, small, 'vee bear looked at his, and there was tie spoon in the porridge-pot, but the pnridge was all gone. ; ' Somebwly hat been at my porr fc'yti a.irf Aim taten it all up!" said the little, small, wee benr, in his lit tle, small, wee voice. I Upon this the three betrsj seeing that some one had entered their i house, and eaten up tho little, smal, Iwee bear's breakfast, began to lok afcout them. Now the little old womni bid not put the hard cushion straight whtn she rose from the chair of the great huge bear. " Somebody has besn I sitting in my chair I" said the great, huge bear, in his great, rough, gruff voice. j And tho little old woman had squatted down the soft cushion of tht middle bear. " Somebody has been sit ting in my jchair !" said the middle bear, in his middle voice. And you know what the little .woman nnd done to the third chair. " Smnebmly hat been titling in m rhair, and ha mt the bottom of it out I" said the little, small, wee bear, his little, Bmnll, wee voice. Then tho three bears thought it neces sary that they should make farther search; bo they went up stairs into their bed-chamber. Now the little old woman had pulled tho pillow of the great, huge bear out of its place. "Somebody has been lying in my bed I " said the great, huge bear, in his great, rough, gruff voice. And the little old woman had pulled the bolster of tho middle bear out of its plnce. Somebody lias been ly ing m my bed ! " said the middle bear, in his middle voice. And when tho little, small, wee bear came to look nt Ilia bed, there was the bolster in its place ; nnd the pillow in its place upon the bolster; and upon the pillow was the little old woman s ugly, dirty head which wns not in its plaoe, for she hnd no business there. 11 Somebody has been tying in my bed nnd here she ' ." said the little, small, wee bear, in his little, small, wee voice. The little old woman had heard in her sleep tho great, rough, gruff voice of the great, huge bear; but she was so fast nsleep that it was no more to her than the roaring of wind or the rumbling of thunder. And she had heard the middle voice of the middle bear, but it was only ns if she hnd heard some ono speaking in I a dream. But when she heard the little. small, wee voice of the little, small, wee bear, it was so sharp and so shrill that it awakened her at once. Up she started; and when she saw tho throe bears on one side of the bed, she tumbled herself out at the other, nnd ran to the window. Now the window was open, because the bears, like good, tidy bears, as they were, always opened their bed-chamber window when they got up in the morn ing. Uut tin? little old woman jumped; and whether she broke her neck in the fall, or ran iuto the wood and was lost there, ov found her way out of the wood and was taken up by tho constable and sent to the House of Correction for a va grant as she was, I cannot tell, lint the three bears never saw anything more of her. A Murderer Convicted. Albert Brown, the negro murderer of little Com Greenleaf, near Minnequa, Bradford county, Pn., ono of the most fiendish crimes' ever perpetrated, was found guilty of murder in the first de gree. Brown, at the time stated, was in the employ of a Mr. Gnxmleaf, the father of his victim. Being an unusually iu intelligeiit negro, nnd professedly very pious, he wns permitted many liberties. He hnd a class in Sabbath-school, nnd was a great favorite with the cliildren, especially with the child ho murdered. One day, in August, Cora was left in charge of Brown during the absence of her parents. Tho negro took her into an upper room, where ho first violated her and then cut her throat. He fled, but the crime being tliseovercd shortly after its commission by the parents of the , child returning, search was nt once insti ! tuted for Brown. He was found next day nt a station on the railroad, lying at the depot with both legs broken. He had attempted to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train of cars. I When his crime, was made known the! I flivv of the iirtl-inln,11 of fli nfnt!,,, ....t. .... i I -r-'r ' - ' intense that it was only by great effort1 that the negro, mangled as'he was, could i be snved from lynching. He was taken I tr, Tnwmi.lu mil in i wntr. vi.,i i the wuy he was shot nt several times by 'persons in the crowd thut followed. Several of the shots took effect, but none struck a vital spot. It was not thought I that ho could survive his injuries, buthe j recovered, nnd was tried and convicted i as stated. Railways in (ireat Britain. According to a rejent report made to the British Board of Trade by Capt. j Tyler, an inspector of the railways of j tho United Kingdom, the average divi dend made iu 1873 by tho companies was nve per cent, on ordinary capital, while the average earnings were 40 per cent. "By the running of trains over SIVVS a distance ot rjy.ao-i, iiv miles, the report, " 55,075,421 wero received during the year, of which .50,000,112 were expended in working and main tenance, and 25,015,301) remained as net profit; so that 54 per cent, of tho Rro8q r('ceilts we expended in earning to after making iivo per cent, dividend out of 40 per cent, net earnings is not stated. The average cost per mile of working trains was 30 shillings 57-100, while the net profits were 31 shillings 14-100 per mile. Tho report also says that 10,083 miles of railway were had down at the enormous outlay of 30, 500 per mile, or about 8180,000. When it is stated that American roads cost from $40,000 to 75,000 per mile, according to the nature of the work, it will be seen what immense sums English capi talists think necessary to lay out upon the mere construction of lines. Just Like Them. A bidl in Santa Fe, Texas, was attended by the members of the best society in the place, but an incident showed that border usages are not confined to border ruffians. George Stone, the son of the leading lawyer, and John Collier, the son of the leading physician, were among the daners ; and Miss Townley, regarded as the handsomest young lady in Santa Fe, was there, too. She is a coquette, and that night she accomplished the common feminine exploit of making each of two admirers believe that he was most agree able. At last their attentions clashed, and, without a word of controversy, Col lier drew his revolver and fired at Stone, the bullet making a terrible wound in the shoulder. The wounded man at once shot Ins assailant dead. As both lay on the floor juiconscious, Miss Townley dropped the coquetry that had made the deadly trouble, and revealed her prefer ence for Collier by throwing herself wildly upon his dead body. Stone will recover. The C'ontlnpntnl Cnrrrnry ol the t'nilpd Hltilrn nnd Whnt WnsDnue Wllh II Paper money, hi various forms, was uirenuy laminar 10 ine people ot tuo American colonies when the Revolution broke out. Massachusetts had issued bills of credit as early as 1G!)0. nnd her example was followed soon thereafter by Xew York, Pennsylvania, and the other colonies. I he total amount of tins cur rency iu circulation just prior to 1775 is variously estimated at from $7,000,000 to JKi),lMHUMn. It hnd depreciated in com parison with specie differently in different places. In New England it fell until it tooii six shillings to equal a Spanish dol lar, the par being four shillings and six pence. In New York eight shillings, and in Pennsylvania seven sliillincs went to I the same dollar. These rates seem to have become accepted as permanent, and it is only a few years since New Eng enders were accustomed to reckon by snmmgs oi one-sixtn oi a dollar eacn, New Yorkers by shillings of one-eighth, and I'enusylvamaus Ivy stullmgs of one- seventh of u dollar. When, therefore, in May, 1775, the Second Continental Con gress addressed itself to the' business of raising money, it seemed to everybody the most natural nnd proper thing in the world for it to order the printing of paper money. There wns indeed no other means nvailable. The total amount of specie m the country did not exceed 85,000,000, aud, ns wo hnve said, tho ex istiug currency did not exceed 825,000, 000 more, and was probably less than that amount. e had no credit abroad. om" commerce had been destroyed, and direct taxation was not only impolitic, but impracticnble. Promises to pay were easy to make, aud, thanks to the patriotic zeul ot the people, were readily accepted as casn. ine total amouut ot Continental cur rency put into circulation during the year 1775 was 85,000,000; in 1776, 89,000,000 ; in 1777, 88,000,000 ; iul778, 805,500,000 ; in 1779, 8114,500,000 making a grand total of 82H),000,000. During the same period the individual colonies, mid even private citizens, were also at work issuing paper money of their own, the aggregate amount of winch is estimated to have equaled that issued by Congress. It thus came to pass that a country of 3,000,000 of inhabitants Was supplied with a currency amounting to 8400,000,000, which is about the same thing as if, with our present population of 42,000,000, we should have a circula tion of 85,000,000,000 ! For the first year of its existence the Continental currency remained nearly at par with specie, and the 'only effect it produced was a steady advance in the prices of all kinds of commodities. The beginning of 1777 found it at a .dis count of fifty per cent., or, as wo should say iu these days, gold had risen to 200. By the 1st of January, 1778, specie was worth four times as much as paper ; by December, 1779, forty times as much ; and during 1780 the depreciation went on so rapidly that before tho end of the year it took 8525 in pajier to buy 81 in specie 1 Then by common consent the currency went out of use altogether. The bills ceased to circulate as money, and became objects merely of curiosity and speculation. As such tfiey fluctuated I in value irom ouu to l.uuu tor one. Their disappearance caused no panic, and was universally rejoiced over. No attempt was ever made to redeem them, though j the coin value actually received for them by Uongress had been 830,000,000. One thing which hastened the catas trophe was the enormous number of counterfeits that were added to the volume of tho genuine money. As, dur ing our late war, counterfeit Confederate notes were made in the North and car ried to the South, so the British Govern ment, as a war measure, lent every pos sible assistance to counterfeiters of the Congressional currency. Advertise ments offering to supply it to persons going into tho colonies were published in the official newspapers printed iu New York, aud flags of truce were taken ad vantage of to introduce it within tho American lines. The very paper used by Congress was imitated, so that little or no risk of detection was encountered. All efforts to prevent these practices failed, although whole issues of the genu ine money were, from time to time, called in and destroyed in order to render the counterfeits useless. The effects of the inflation wero simi lar to those which followed that of our times. Shrewd men, forseeing what was coming, bought at an early period all the property they could lay tlieir hands on, and ran in debt for it to the extent of their credit. The paper being a legal tender, debtors took advantage of its de preciation to swindle their creditors by paying off loans received in specie nt a miserable fraction of their original amount. Widows and orphans, whose money had been invested before the war, wero the chief sufferers in this way. Speculation ran riot, and fortunes wero made and lost in imagination, just as they were in Wall street in 1804 and 1805. A WTiter in the Penmyleunia 1'acket says : "I had money enough to buy a hogshead of sugar. I sold it again and got a good deal more money than it cost me. Yet what I sold it for, when I went to market again, would buy but a tierce. I sold that, too, for a great deal of profit, yet the whole of what I sold it for would afterward buy but a barrel. I have now more money than I ever had, aud yet I am not so rich as when I had less." Congress endeavored, too, to arrest the downward career of its currency. Besides making the bills a legal tender for the payment of debts, all sorts of pains and penalties were prescribed for those disloyal citizens who refused to take them in the course of trade. To keep down prices, which naturally rose as the currency depreciated, laws were passed regulating the wages of laborers, the charges of innkeepers and common carriers, and the amount of purchases to be made by any one person at one time. To prevent owners of goods from send ing them away for sale and thus escaping these arbitrary restrictions, an embargo was actually hud in 1778, and continued for several months, prohibiting the ship ping of wheat, corn, beef, pork, live stock, and other provisions. To crown all, in the last days of December, 1778, an official denial was issued of the re port that " Congress would not redeem the bills issued by thera to defray the expenses of the war, but would suffer them to sink holders!" i..-' , i . - i i Finally, in Felrfunry, 1781, after every expedient had been tried in vain and the currency was hopelessly gone, Congress unpointed Robert Morris Superintendent of Finance, and he, by boldly throwing his personal credit into tho broach, saved the failing fortunes of the country. In Mny, 1781, the Bank ef North America wns chartered, with a capital of $400,000, nnd its notes payable in cash on doniand were made receivable for taxes and duties. By the aid of this bank, and of lonns raised abroad to the amount of 842,000,000, the war was carried on and brought to a successful terminntion. So grent, however, was the public abhor rence of an irredeemable currency that when our present Constitution was form ed no power was given in terms to Con gress to issue pnpor money, and it was expressly forbidden to the States. An Important Matter. Many persons eat far too much flesh, and would be the better for a more copi ous admixture of vegetables. Others have too much vegetable, and especially farinaceous food, and not enough flesh", regard being had in either case to the work which the individual has to do, nnd to the power of digestion. Too exclu sive a flesh diet is the vice of many rich peoplo, who even allow their children at school to indulge in gnmo pies and other articles of tho highest class, such as un fit boys for plain tare, and deprive them of the help which a higher diet might afford them hereafter in ense of illness. Too much animal food is uudnlv stimu lant, renders children restless and ouor- relsome, youug men sensual and Philis tine, and elderly men gouty nnd dyspep tic. Too exclusively vegetable or farin aceous a diet, especinlly if tried too sud denly by persons unused to it, has for its first effect to constipate the bowels, which become loaded with musses of undigested potato, bread or rice. We believe that it Diay be hud -down as an axiom, that, other things being equal, the more the brain is worked, t he greater need is there for animal food. Town people must have more meat, as a rule, than couutiy folks; the children of pro fessional men more than the children of agricultural laborers. Still rich towns people on the whole should use loss flesh, nnd the pcor ones more. There are plenty of vegetable stimu lants, some combined with nourishment, as in mushrooms and onions; others im combiued, ns the peppers and spices. Aud the way to insure the greater uso of nutrient vegetables is to confer on them some of the flavor nnd stimulating properties of animal food. By this means the people who cat too much flesh, and the pevipid who cannot get flesh enough, would each have the best substitute. Rich people who can afford what they like, may lessen the cousuuip- uou oi uieai. iy liitroiiueiug various ac cessories as stewed fruit with roast meat and by substituting tho most cvhn'chc vegetable dishes for cntrcrs of meat. Poor people, who wish to reduce tho quantity of flesh for economical rea sons, must fall back upon the fannacea and on vegetables generally, and en deavor, by appropriate admixture of vegetable condiments to imitate the stimulating and satisfying qualities of animal food. In fact, puddings and other dishes which are too commonly eaten with sugar should be made savory by the addition of the condiments that generally accompany moat. Medical J tntn ana Uazruv. What a Fire Itevcaled. There has been a Are in Georgetown, Massachusetts, nnd the Newbuiyport Hi rat' I, published in the same county, makes the following blood-curdling state ment concerning the awful secret revealed by that fire : In the Masonic building were two hulls, one occupied by the Masonic and tho other by a secret society known ns the " Doduuks," or " Hell-cats. " When the building caught fire, both these halls were speedily dismantled and certain estreet l,v the ureverentfirer where wondering crowd. They were a diaboli . cal-looking set of implements, some of i which would have graced the dungeons I of the Inquisition. Of course, nobody was anxious to claim them; the Doduuks swore tin y belonged to the Masons, who indignantly declared that tho rubbish was none of their "houseu-stuff," and was finally lugged off or destroyed by the boys. The most conspicuous object was a dummy giant, about twelve feet high. His pants were made of several nical bags, ou which was the name of a promi nent graiu-dealer. The cut of his coat, which was of booking, and, like Joseph's, of many colors, pointed to a fashionable merchant tailor, The boots were No. 22, "saddle-seam. He was stuffed with meadow hay. The mask that formed his face was hideous enough to frightau a saw-horse. Then there were a lot of devils, hoofs and horns, tails aud all, which, with a box of brimstone, some blue lights, red fire, etc., were probably intended to treat the candidate to a mild representation of the place where the "rich man" went. There was also a huge gridiron. Next in order was a skeleton supposed to be the framework of some unfortunate member, who was broiled on the above-named gridiron for having divulged the secrets of the Lodge to his wife, who told them to all the other women. Then there was a sort of treadmill, where the hopefid candidate was put through his best paces ; also a large cask, hung on a crank, in which he was treated to a turn or two ; a mill with huge wooden rollers, where he was " ground over;" an old boiler, on which the "Devil's tattoo" was beat with clubs, while he crawled through ; a pair of boots, in which he had to walk up an inclined plane ; a two-gallon syringe, with which he was baptized into the Or der; the bonis, big enough to blow down the walls of Jericho without a miracle, and many other elegant little arrange ments "too numerous to mention," all of which the delighted candidate must have fully appreciated. A Washington judge has decided that in the case of a drawn bet, the stake holder may either keep the money him self or devote it to better purpose iu charity. nanus oi their UHr Foreign Imports. FIGHT WITH A HIPPOPOTAMUS. We -give below the importations into the United States from foreign countries of several articles for the fiscal years 1873 and 1874 respectively, and show the amount of the decrease of imports and of duties: Ton. 181.327 92,041 1873 Pig-iron imported. 1874 Pig-iron imported. Decrease of importation in 1874 .... 89, 286 Duty of $7 per ton $624,802 bar inoK. Pountls, 1873 Im)Krted 166,016,035 1874 Imported 74,031,633 Decrease 88,984,502 Duty of 1 cent per lb 889. 845 BAB, SCROLL AND HOOP IRON. Pound. 1873 Imported 25,660,711 1874 Imported fi, 955. 950 Decrease 19.704.7G1 At average duty of 1 cents per lb. $295,671 BAILROAD IRON. 7'oui(f. 1878 Imported 481,009,461 1874 Imported 40,759,006 Decrease 440,250,455 Dutv of 70 cents per 100 lb . S3.081.752 Tons. 204,078 51,357 SCRAP IRON. 1873 Imported 1874 Imported Decrease 152.721 Duty at S8 per ton . $1,221,708 STEEL RAIL. Pounds. 1873 imported 320,083.100 1874 Imported 292,821.945 Decrease 27.261.155 Duty at 14 cents per lb S340.704 RAW WOOL. Pounds. 1873 IinKrted 85,496,049 1874 Imported 42,949,206 Decrease 42,546,843 Dutv at au average rate of cents per lb 5.318.355 RECAPITULATION. Falliug off of duties on Iron aud steel rails 6,454.502 Falling off of duties ou raw wool. . . 5,318.355 Total on two articles 511,772,857 In 1873 the United States collected 8184,929,041 duties, derived chiefly from the following articles: Live animals & 1. 952. 779 Breadstuffs 2.449.218 Cotton manufactures 11.557,173 Lineu goods and tlax 7,212,791 Iron and steel 18,237,308 Leather : 8,734,828 Salt 741,939 Sugar aud molasses 32,048,562 Wood 2,143,02H Wool and woolens 38,490.628 Lead 1,365.848 Tin plates 2.451,726 Earthenware 2,394.191 GlasB aud glassware 3,952,777 Drugs aud chemicals 8.298.462 Hemp and Jute 1,684,089 Total from sixteen articles The duties on so-called luxury were; Bilks, etc Spirits aud wiue .132,715,428 articles of . 17,283,315 8,714.402 6.291,317 Tobacco and cigars . . . Clocks, jewelrv, fancv goods, aud furs, about 4,000,000 Total 6 36.289,034 Fooling With a Bear. The captuiu of the propeller Benton, iu winter quarters at Detroit, has a half- grown bear on board, and tho animal has been annoyed so much that he does not J Such determined and unprovoked fiuy hesitate to use his claws whenever ocea-1 as was exhibited by this animal had never sion offers. Saturday moruing a lanky been witnessed he appeared to be rav stranger from Sandusky happened along ! iug mad. His body was a mass of f right the wharf and saw the bear iu tho gang-1 ful scars, the results of continual con way. He stopped and began teasing fliets witli bulls of his own species ; tho oear, and bye-and-by the captain said : " Look out, mister, or you'll get dread fully tickled." " I guess I've seen bears afore now," replied the niun, indignantly, nnd he Kejii on culling me uear, spilling ui mm, making false motions, etc. Finally, I wllPU ubout to leave' Le thml)t i nn-i v 111111. Alio iuud wi 111'. ; false blow threw Sandusky off Ins feet and he rolled dowu to the bear. Bruin uttered one growl nud went to business. and the way the broadcloth, suspenders and white nnd red shirt flew was hand some to liehold. " Call off yer b'ar 1 help ! police ! police !" yelled Sandusky; but the police were far, far hence, and the captain has a lame foot and can't get around very fast. The whole back of the man's coat made only one mouthful for the bear, and ho wasn't a minute in gettiug down to hide and blood. " Oh 1 oh ! Marcy whoop gracious step yelp! yelp!" howled the man, as he rolled around the deck; but the bear would have been playing with him vet but for the captain and a handspike. When Sandusky was hauled out of the way aud jerked to his feet he was all blood and rags and bites and scratches. " Didn't I tell you not to fool with the bear ?" asked the captain, as he stood back aud surveyed the man. " Yes, capting, you did," replied San dusky; "and the next thing is to lend me an army blanket and show me a first class hospital !" Gold Fish. Seth Green says this as to tiie proper care and treatment of goldfish: Never take the fish in your hand. If the aqua rium needs cleaning, make a net of mos quito netting and take the fish iu it. There are many gold fish killed by han dling. Keep your aquarium clean, so that the water looks as clear as crystal. Watch the fish a little, and you will find out when they are all right. Feed them all they will eat, and anything they will eat worms, meat, fish water and fish spawn. Take great care that you take all they do not eat out of the aquarium. Any decayed meat or vegetables in the water has the same smell to a fish that it does to you iu the air. If your gold fish die, it is attributable, as a rule, to one of the causes liandling,8tarvation, or bad wa ter. An Arkansas grocer has been sent to the penitentiary for six years for shoot ing a man who " kept helping himself te the crackers." ThcMIonnter In Ills Nntlve Iiiuii(nTeua clous of Life. A tragical incident occurred not long nfter the establishment of the camp of Sir Samuel Baker, in Africa. There was an old blind sheik who frequently cross ed the river to visit the new-comers. One day he was returning with his son. when the cnuoe was charged by an angry hippopotamus. Seizing the frail bark at the end where the sheik was sitting, the monster crunched it to fragments be tween his ponderous jaws,aud so crushed and lacerated tho poor old man, that, al though rescued by his comrades, who hastened to his assistance, ho died du ring the night. The hippopotamuses were often the source of great annoyance, and sometimes of danger, to the expedi tion. One beautiful moonlight night, when tho flotilla was quietly nt anchor in a lake close to tho White Nile, one of these monsters made a most determined attack upon the diahbeeah belonging to Sir Samuel Baker. The vessel was close to a mud bank, covered with high grass, and about tliirty yards astern of her was a shallow part of the lake, nbout three feet deep. A light boat of zinc was full of strips of hippopotamus flesh, and the dingy was fastened alongside. Every one was soundly sleeping, when, says oir Samuel, "I was suddenly nwnkened by a tremendous splashing ciose to the diahbeeah, accompanied by tho hoarse, wild snorting of a furious hippopotamus. I jumped up, and immediately perceived n hippo, which was apparently about to attack the vessel. My servant, Suleiman, was sleeping next to the cabin door. I called to him for a rifle. Before the affrighted Suleiman could bring it, the hippopotamus dashed nt us with inde scribable fury. With one blow he enp sized nnd sunk the zinc boat, with its cargo of flesh. In another instant he seized the dingy in his immense jaws, and the crash of splintered wood be tokened the complete destruction of my favorite boat. By this time I had pro cured a rifle from tho cabin, where they were always kept fixed in a raw, loaded, and ready for action, with bags of breech loading ammunition on the same shelf. lhe movements of the animal were so rapid, as ho charged and plunged nlter nutely beneath the water iu a cloud of foam and wave, that it was impossible to aim correctly at tho small but fatal spot upon the head. The moon was extremely bright, and presently, as he charged straight at the diahbeeah, I stopped him with a No. 8 Reilly shell. To my sur prise, he soon recovered, and again com menced the attack. I fired shot after shot at lum without apparent effect. The diahbeeah rocked about upon the waves raised by the efforts of so large au animal. This movement rendered my aim uncertain. At length, apparently badly wounded, he retired to tho high grass. There he lay by the bank, at about twenty-five yards distant, snorting nnd blowing." Thinking the creuture must be dying, Sir Samuel went to bed, but in about hidf an hour was awakened again by an other furious charge. A riflo ball m the i head rolled the monster over, and ho floated helplessly down tho stream. This time he must sm-ely be dead. To the amazement of all, he presently re covered, and only gave up ufter receiv ing several bullets in his body. On the following morning a pot-niortrm ex amination showed that he had received three shots in the flank and shoulder ; four in the head, one of which had broken his lower jaw; another had pass ed through his nose, and passing down- ward, had cut off ono of his largo tusks, some of the wounds were still unhealed. There was one scar about two feet in length, and about two inches below tho level of the surface skin, upon the flank. He was evidently a character of the worst description, but whoso madness render ed him callous to all punishment. The attack upon the vessel was probably in- j l,UWl1 by th smf11 uf w Win1'ofinuB wluoh was hung in long, strips UUOUL 11113 Tlglllg, 1111U Willi WUU'U lilfcJ zinc boat was filled. The dead hippo potamus that was floating astern, lashed to the diahbeeah, had not been molested. The (roup Among Children. This is one of the most common mala dies of early childhood, says Science of Health. Scrofulous and plethoric chil dren are most subject to it. All "rich" (gross) kinds of food predispose to it, as candies, sweet cakes, greasy admixtures, fried dishes etc. The early Nymptoms are wheezy in spiration, with some dilliculty of breath ing, without fever, soon followed by the shrill, ringing inspirations and oppressed breathing, which are peculiar to the dis ease. The patient now manifests tho low, or typhoid, form of fever, which is one essential accompaniment. After a few hours or days, the symptoms will gradu ally disappear, or the patient will die of exhaustion or suffocation. The essential point in the successful treatment of croup, is to check tho exuda tion into the windpipe, aud prevent the formation of what is called a false mem- ! brane, as this must necessarily be de tached from the mucous surface, and if it is not expelled through the narrow glottis, the patient must be inevitably choked to death. The throat must be enveloped in cold wet cloths, the colder the better, and often renewed until the preternatural heat is subdued. In extreme cases, Sounded ice is better. If the surface is ot and feverish, tepid ablutions are in dicated, as in the hot stage of all fevers and inflammations. If the superficial heat is unequal, and the extremities in clined to coldness, the warm bath and hot applications to the feet are necessary. The expectoration of' the adhesive excre tion may be facilitated by means of sips of warm water, aud tho vapor or steam of hot water. The early treatment should always be prompt and vigorous, as, in most cases, the result depends on arrest ing the morbid excretion at once. Stovb Polish and Soapsuds. If stove polish is mixed with soapsuds, the luster appears immediately, 'and the dust of the polish does not fly around as it usually does. A Bad Manager. What a picture for "those about to marry " is thus given iu the Saturday Jtevlcw of a wife who is a bad manager: " Her dress is always stained with the droppings of her teacup, and she hns no intermediate state between untidiness and finery. She puts ou her best clothos for a morning walk, and keeps nothing for her visiting days. Her piano always wants tuning, and sho never remembers the date of the tax-collector's visits. She forgets her gloves or her card-case till sho hns arrived nt the hall door, nnd when they ore brought the gloves nlwnys wont buttons, aud there are no cards in the case. She never learns the rate of post age, and writes her foreign letters after the mail has gone out. A drive iu a cab involves a light about the fare, and she brushes the muddy wheel with her dress iu getting out. Slie expects her servants to do everything without instructions, and usually speaks of them as 'wretches.' While she exacts obsequious respect from them, she talka before them of their shortcomings. Sho gives them needless trouble by her laziness or carelessness, and, wliile she does nothing for their comfort, expects them to study hers con stantly. Sho will thoughtlessly ring them up to the top of the house to put on the coals which are in the scuttlo be side her chair, and will heedlessly send them on three or four errands when a little forethought on her part would have made one enough. She never interests herself in their welfare, hardly knows their names, never spares them when they are ill, or thinks of how she may save them trouble. She provides no wholesome literature for their leisure reading, and does net inquire nfter tho proper investment of tlieir little savings. Tlieir wages are always in nrrear, and she habitually tempts tlieir honesty by leav ing her purse or her letters lying about, and yet frequently suspects them without cause. She charges them with theft nud untrutlifulness on the smallest grounds, and constantly fancies that they are look ing at her through the keyhole or listen ing behind tho door. She is indignant when they give her notice, and refuses them a character when she finds that they cannot compel her to give them one. She knows nothing of them after tliey leave lier, and never concerns her self to get them places. She expects them both to be up before her in the morning and also to sit up late for her at night. If she is ill they must attend her like nurses, rise to her call at all hours of the night, nnd work for her in every respect as if they loved her. " The Beautiful Snow. Shortly after the lamps and candles were lighted last evening, say Ave o'clock, remarks the Danbury man, it commenced to snow. It had been rain ing all day a cold, miserable rain and now they said it was snowing. I could not believe it until I went out and saw for myself. At nine o'clock I went out again to observe what progress the storm had made, with as much interest as if I was a boy, and the next day a Satiu'day. At that hour thero was about two inches of snow on a level, and it was still coming down. I gathered up several balls of it and carried it into tho house, to the hys terical enjoyment of the ladies. This morning the hills and valleys were covered. The men servants have been engaged for au hour shoveling paths, and tho snow is still descending. I have been out on the back corridor looking down the yard upon some debris of timber, where some repairs have been going on. It looks wonderfully home like, but it is not comforting. You who have been brought up in affluence, with no call out-doors, and a sitting-room to be comfortable in, and not obliged to hover over tho kitchen stovo with its dreadful proximity to an outer door, can enjoy tlus snow, and look out over the hills and plains aud see only tho purity and beauty of its frosting. But to a chap who lias lived on a farm, or been a builder's apprentice, the first snow has no charms. It is white and beautiful to others, but to him it is terribly damp, and he knows by experience how it takes hold of a pair of fiue boots which have not been greased recently. How dread- iuiij iitibiutlA bliu CAiuncu muo 11 oiniLlb lings and floor boards looked down there , in the snow. I knew to a hair's breadth the size of the chill which went over the apprentice as he pulled tho pieces out with his bare hands, and I knew to a T what were his sensations and thoughts i as ho knocked the clinging snow lrom his boots and went inside of tho wiu dowless building. On a ripping cold day there is electricity in the air which stimu lates your blood, nnd urges you into an activity which produces warmth. But in a snowy day like this the air is as flat as a dish-cloth, and the dampness permeates every joint in your carcass, and bids de fiance to the shuffling of feet and the swinging of arms.. Ignorance aud Crime. We doubt, says the Scientific Ameri can, if more striking evidence of the necessity of compulsory education laws and the provision of means for their rigid enforcement could be found thou appears in a suggestive fact in the pages of a re cent report of tho National Prison Asso ciation. This volume, which is filled with copious statistics of prisons and convicts in this country, deals inciden tally with the causes of crime, making its deductions from the various prison reports of the mental and social condition of the incarcerated. Ignorance is proved to be the worst evil with . which a com munity must struggle. Forty-eight per cent, of all the convicts ih the United States can neither read nor write, and only one per cent, of the aggregate have acquired a superior education. We trust that the enforcement of the compulsory laws already enacted in some of the States will soon justify the wisdom that prompted them, and lead to an improve ment in the average education of the lower classes. The most repulsive member of the Brighton aquarium, says the Danbury News man, was the octopus. It is diffi cult to describe it. . Its body is in front of its head, and consists of a yellowish watery bag, like that of a spider. Its legs, of which there are any number, are long and slimy, and armed their whole length with suction tubes. Once fastened to any enemy it would be a difficult matter for the unfortunate to escape. An oc topus is the most dreadful looking object I ever saw. I would rather wear earring than be an octopus. V
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