' lie m fi7 113 v tf HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIXi DESPERANDTJM- Two bollars per Annum. iVOL. V. MDGAVAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1875. yp. 2oT Tlio Arctic Expedition. FROM THE women's bide. O let mo srailo a little, I pray Just a littlo, Mid whilo 1 umy, Even an a child nnilos: after to-day I Bliall havo whole years to weep lu. 0 lot me talk like a child, tinoLid : After to-day 'twill all be bid; No band will lift np tho cofiiu-lid Of the silence I shall sleep in. In Portsmouth barbor tho good ship rides, Itockod safuly upon the placid tidos, As love in a happy heart abides, Moving with each emotion, With voices and bauds alive all o'er: And to-morrow perhaps for evermore 1 shall look out from a desolate shore Upon an empty ocean. 0 love, my hero and my saint, My knight of the white shield, without taint, This woman-heart turns sick and faint, Although my lips may fail not : 1 Heo the rocks under smiling seas, I bear a tempest in everv breeze, I feel the icebergs as they freeze In the deeps whore ship can sail not. O love, my love, so bravo, so young, Strong arm, pure heart, and silent tongue I O lonely yoars that stretch out so long ! One cry, us of lost existence, And my soul sits down before its doom, As a white ghost sits at tho door of a tomb: No moan, no shriek, no tears, no gloom, Only a still persistence. Bo of good cheer. Rail on, sail on, Unto life or death; for both are one To the iufiuito faith in sweet days gone, To tho infinite lovo that folds thco. These girlish arms are weak I know, But my heart is strong as a woll-bont bow; t And whither thou goot I will go, In my spirit that upholds thee. Sail on, tail on, through tho frozen seas, To oiidlofs labors, and littlo ease : Come back triumphant, if Heaven so ploaso, Or with uuwun goal, inglorious; Only como back ! No. Should God say That he has crowned thee auother way, Lovo ! boo, beyond our night, His day, And wo aro yot victorious, .Vim Unlock. MAXWELL'S DREAM. Late on a Hummer afternoon the Mil liugton express wis rushing along at lightning hpeod through tho beautiful valley ol Wuuuahanna, making a terrible rour among tho clilfs, and sending up a warning ckuul of steam through the mighty pines and oaks that grew erect upon tho hillsides. In one of tho broad parlor cars sat a gr. mp of three people, consisting of a pale, richly-dressed young lady, a stout, commanding-looking man of sixty, and a thin-faced, delicate-featured old gentleman, whoso ago wus per haps eighty. At a little distauce from these people sat Maxwell Bryan, an important per sonage of fifteen, whoso dress, orna mented with brass buttous and a little gold lace, showed him to bo a pupil iu some military school. Ho was ou his way home for his vacation, and he fer vently hoped uotliing would interfere to delay or prevent his coming delight. Having littlo else to do ho hail been traveling since eight o'clock that morn ing ho gazed about him. It was not long before his attention was attracted by tho odd behavior of the venerable gentleman of whom I have already spoken. The eyes of tho old gentleman were brilliant as coals. They pierced every thing aud searched everywhere Now they would fasten themselves upon . the decorated roof of the car, now they would esamino tho nails of his lingers, now they would rest upon tho face of his lady companion, und now they would apparently study the type of a magazine that he held in his hand. Maxwell tried hard to keep the cob webs at a distance, but he failed. Ho begau to doze, and a most delightful medley arrayed itself before him, aud tho noise of tho train sank into a low music iu his dulled ears Suddenly a titrange thing seemed to happen. Ho thought ho saw tho flash of tho old gentleman's eyes between his half-closed lids; also that he put up his thin while hand and drew aside the handkerchief from his face; also that the faco was very eager and very wide awake. He also thought that tho other gentle man was, like almost everybody else, asleep. The old gent appeared to scru tinize him with the utmost care. Then to advance ono hand with tho greatest caution, and to unfasten one button of his coat. This was done safely. Then ft second. Still tho sleeper did not stir. Then a third ami tho last. The lappels of the coat fell back. 'Die old gentle man instantly pretended, to Maxwell's imagination, to go to sleep once more, but only for an instant. In a moment, seeing that he hud not disturbed tho sleeper, he was up again. Maxwell thought he saw him lean for ward, showing his whito teeth, aud, with a smile upon his face, reached out toward the breast of the other's coat. From it he drew by slow degrees a largo ilat wallet inado of red morocco, aud clasped with two nickel hasps. This ho held for au instant, nodding over it, and patting it as if it were a great treasure. Theu Maxwell's father appeared in the car, and then his oranges mountod into the air one by one, and as they fell the venerable old gentleman caught the largest, which had turned dark-red in some curious way, and threw it out of the open window of a tall castle whero ho seemed, to be. Just as he did so a dark shadow fell around, and Maxwell thought he saw a forest, and away off in the distance a sloping hill where the sun had gouo down, making a face just like the old man's, whilo a group of three pine trees stood in tho very midst of tho red sky, loaning towards each other with their limbs iutorlacod. Then he remembered no more ; he fell into deep sleep, and he lost all his pic tures. How long he elopt he did not know ; but he was awakened by loud voices and by a great deal of bustle and stir. He aroused himself. All the peo ple in the-car were searching and pry ing under their seats, behind their parools yes, and in their very pockets. The pale lady was walking up and down with a distracted air, wringing her hands and uttering loud cries of despair, while the strong genHunn etanding olosa beside his seat still absently feoling of his coatskirts looked bewildered and dis tressed. The other the old geutloman was still asleep, as Maxwell had first seen him, and they had clearly not thought it necesnaiy to arouse him. " Lost I Lost 1" cried tho lady, iu a voico of anguish. ' My portraits, my dearest treasures gone I Impossible impossible 1" Tears rau dowu hercheeks, and sho stooped hurriedly here and there, casting more glances into tho ob scurity of the car. Knots of people gathered about her and about the gentleman. Maxwell has tily joined the latter. The pocketbook had been carefully placed in his pocket at Millington, aud ho now discovered that it was gone. It contained ivory Cortraits of the lady's children and hus aud, all of whom were now dead, and also papers of inestimable and peculiar value. At this point the rolator cast an invol untary glance at the still sleeping sep tuagenarian. Tho travelers looked with extreme compassion upon tho weeping lady, and many attempted to console her. Hut, filled with grief, sho refused to be comforted, and hastened up aud down the aisle of the car like one de mented. The other gentleman endeavored to soothe the lady, but instead of yielding to his prayers to be quiet, sho cast her self upon his breast aud gave herself up anew to grief. A strange feeling of confusion over came Maxwell. H turned aside to study out something that seemed to cling in his head, and he could not tell how it got there. A half-formed train of pic tures ran through his mind, all connected with a pocketbook; but all was as misty as if a fog had penetrated his brain. Any ono that had seen his face at this time would have been startled at tho changes that crossed it. Now it seemed intelligent, and now it seemed puzzled; now it seemed to understand something, aud now it seemed to be more astonished than ever. All at ouco the train gave evidence of coming to a standstill. It slowed grad ually, and the rear lessened. It was about to stop at Moldhill. Maxwell's mind was one that worked quickly. He got up and was about to leave the train. ' Search that boy 1" cried some ono. J n a moment a heavy hand was laid npou his shoulder. He looked up, and saw the uncle looking at him with sus picious eyes. He passed his hands down his sides and down his pantaloons. Then he said: " You can go," aud he roleased him. The boy's indignation caused the blood to leap into his face like lightning. Ho clenched his hands and gazed after his iusulter with burning eyes. But his glance fell once more on the prostrated Judy. His sense of honor got tho better of his rage, and in another instant he was upon the platform of the small sta tion. In another, he dimly saw the train move off, and in auother it was beyond his reach, speeding rapidly away, with its red lights burning bright ly behind. Ho was alone, or nearly so. It was still quite light, aud it would be two hours before dark. Ho asked some questions of tho station master. " Are you very well acquainted with the road, sir ?" " Ought to bo," returned tho other, gruflly, swinging an empty coat sleeve toward tho boy; " used to be biakemau before I had my arm took off." " Well, do you remember a place, twelve miles from here, in that direction (pointing), whero thero are three pine trees " " Course I do," interrupted tho ether; " they are on old Goulding's farm. We always used to whistlo when we got abreast of 'em, fur there's a little station named Gouldiug's crossing closo by, with a road over the track." " Three trees, are you sure?" " Yes. They kinder lean together, don't they?" " Yes." Maxwell's heart leaped within him. This part of the notion that was wander ing in his head, at least, was true. " Can I go to Gouldiug's crossing to day?" " No, for the last down train has loft. You can walk, of course. " " Thank you." The man weut away, wondering. Maxwell reflected. He must reach tho pine trees iu some way, and before eight o'clock. It was then six. Even should he walk wth prodigious swiftness, it would take thre" hours, and then it would bo dark. He asked a farmer, who stood near by, about the road. The man said that it was rougu aiul rouuuuuout. The boy's eye fell upon a little brown building that stood clow by tho track. Ho knew that it ct ntained a handcar. In a moment ho was walkiug toward it. When ho reached it, ho looked behind hiiu. The depot was deserted. Ho saw the station master in tho distance, walk- lug oil witn a utuo tin uox under nis arm. He was alone. Tho wholo region did not contain a single man. Tho lock of tho little house was simple enough. It consisted of a peg of wood driven into a hasp. Maxwell pulled it out, opened the door, and beheld, standing upon its rails, a yellow handcar, with its cranks extended, as if in welcome. He shivered a little at his undertaking. Ho might be arrested, and locked up iu some jail. He began "to push the car out of the houso. It ran out almost of its own ac cord. But it made a horrible noise. Maxwell wondered why meu didn't come from everywhere to stop him. With littlo or no trouble the car was turned upon tho proper rails, and was headed for Gouldiug's crossing. Max well got upon it, and seized the crunk. In an iustant ho was of, spinning away like ligh'niug, his slender back going up and down liko a jumping-jack, and the crank going round and round like a coffee mill, aud all growing rapidlj less and less in tho distance. It was a great experiment, a wild test of something that was almost certainly a disordered dream. Yet there was a great deal to encourage the hope that there was a littlo tliat was real iu it aftor all, and Maxwell pressed on with flushed cheeks and pautiug heart. Six miles, eight miles, ten miles, and with many a rest and many an anxious glance at the gradually darkening sky. He came to Gouldiug's crossing at half past seven. The place was lonely and nilent, aud be rushed past it with all the speed he could raoko. Ho now began to feel a great ouxiety again. In a few moments matters would be brought to the test. Was it all a creation of his fancy, or had that terrible old nion really performed tho act? Then camo tho pic ture of the grief-strickeu lady. Max well steeled his heart against all doubts, for her sake. All at once, whilo he was languidly pushing on, pale and half exhausted with his exertions, the three great puies burst upon his view, standing against the broad red sky. His heart gave a leap. He had at last arrived on the ground. He ran ou slowly, barely moving 1 1 e crank, and began to search tho ground with his eyes. The ground woa partly sandy and partly covered with bushes. He wont on for a hundred yards. He saw nothing. Then ho stopped and sat down, and, burying his face in his bauds, tried to recall his impressions. First tho group. Then tho old man with the handkerchief. Then the uubuttouing of tho coat. Then the pocketbook with its nickel clasps. Then the throw from the window. Then the oranges flying in tho air. Then then then, yes, tho pine trees. Then nothing. Ah, how much like a mystery it all secnied I But yet, hero ho was. Ho had nothing to do but to search well, aud to put all his doubts at rest by actual labor. Ho went on n hundred yards. Here, ho was certain, was the limit of tho dis tance that was passed over after the wallet was thrown aud before tho pine trees were reached. He doscended from his car, taking with him a small tin lantern with a caudle that he found in tho box. Then he began his task in earnest. He walked up and down in tho twilight, bending nearer and nearer to the earth as tho light grew less and less. It was a strauge situation. No one was near. The frogs began to croak in the pools near by, the owls began to hoot in tho black trees, and the bats began to whirl to and fro in the damp air. Still the stooping figure of the boy went plod ding here and there, now stooping to feel of something beneath its feet, and now straightening itself up for a littlo rest. In a little whilo he lit his lantern. Then he weut on, up aud down, now around this tree and now around that, but seeing nothing. Ho despaired a score of times, but twenty times, too, ho plucked up courago and renewed his search. Nine o'clock came. His candle was burned low, aud it was growing cold. What a wild-goose chase 1 What a silly task. He heard a rumbling in the distance. "Ah," said he, "auother train I I wish that I were upon it!" His feet were wet, aud ho was exhausted with huuger and labor. His lantern hung carelessly from his hand. Suddenly, like two rays from a star, two flashes came out of the earth. Tho boy gave a leap and a shout. Ho had fonml tho -wallet ! Tim clasps had betrayed itl His heart was in a tumult, a thousaud things shot through his brain. The portraits were there I The beautiful lady would bo filled with happiness ! That was enough for his kindly heart. Ho was content. All that ho had done, all his troubles aud all his work, sank out of sight under tho knowledge that he was able to convey a little joy. It was a triumph of a quick wit and a ten der heart over the sluggish boy-nature. It had been a battle of the head and tho sympathies against a natural selfishness, against a natural inixmlso to let affairs take their own courso. Ho had sprung out of the mass of people- iu the car upon a mere hint, and had dono on act that the strongest man thero would havo been proud of. Maxwell stood up twice a mau. But tho roar of tho train eauio nearer and nearer. All at ouco ho gave a cry of dismay. Tho hand-car was still upon tho track! Two short, sharp shrieks from the whistle an instant more then a fearful cr;tsh and a smashing of tho trees by tho roadside ! Tho traiu rushed iuto sight. It was safe, but it was still shrieking as if it had gone crazy. The speed lessened. "Hallo!" cried Maxwell; "it's my chance for a ride homo. Hurrah!" And he rau for tho train as fast as his lefts could carry him. It was dark, and as the people camo out to see whut tho matter was, ho climbed in unseen, and took a seat in an obscure corner. Fivo minutes later tho cars went on. Fivo minutes later still, the stowaway was fouud by tho still angry conductor. Maxwell told hisstory aud proved it. Tho conductor, at first furious , grew inter ested, and then ho laughed heartily. "Good, good!" ho cried, and ho struck his fat knee with great approval of tho wholo matter. " Suppose you telegraph at tho next station that'you have found tho pocketbook. Telegraph to the conductor of that train traiu 42 aud send it to Hillsboro, which is the last stopping plnco befuro B . He will read tho messago to the lady, and sho will be at the depot to receive you when we arnve. " Capital I capital 1" cried Maxwell. "Let us do it !" At eleven o'clock that night Maxwell stepped from tho train, and he fouud himself instantly caught in the arms of the lady. Sho was wild with joy. She grasped the pocketbook with a cry of iutenso delight anil kissed the blushing boy time and again, to tho great aston ishment of Maxwell's father, who stood near by. Tho uncle, too came up, look ing profoundly ashamed, and he thanked the boy iu the most earnest manner. It was, indeed, truo that tho elder gentleman was insane. Thus tho finding of the wallet was doubly fortunate, and double gratitude fell to Maxwell's lot. Thus ends this short history of the work ing of a quick perception and a resolute aud quick mind. Thousands of men would have failed to do likewise ; und so boys arc not always children. PnisvENTiON. Prevention of cruelty to animals, prevention of cruelty to children, and now it is suggested that there be a society for the prevention of cruelty to women, with special reference to clerks and others who aro required to stand con&tautly, even when their duties do not make this always needful. Hu manity is opposed to cruelty, whether it be to man, woman, child, or animal; aud s.imo modification of a rulo that saleswomen should never sit dowu would be, to say the leant, humane. Ice 80,000 Years Old. The altitude of the Stevens miue on Mount McClellan, Colorado, is 12,500 feet. At tho dopth of from sixty to two hundred feet the oreyioe matter, con sisting of silica, calcito, and ore, to gether with the surrounding wall rock, is a solid frozen mass. ,McClollan is one of tho highest eastern spurs of the snowy ran go; it has tho form of a horso shoo, with a bold escarpment of felts phatio rock nearly 2,000 feet high, which in some places is nearly perpendicular. Nothing unusual occurred until a dis tance of some eighty or ninety feet had been mode; then the frozen territory was reached, and it has continued for over 200 feet. There are no indications of a thaw, Eummor or winter. The wholo frozen territory is surrounded by hard, massive rock, and tho lode itself is as hard and massive as tho rock. Tho miuers, being unable to excavate tho frozen material with pick or drill, found that the only way was to kiudlo a largo wood lire at night against the back end of the tunnel, and in the morn iug tako out tho disintegrated ore. This has been tho mode of mining for moro than two years. The tunnel is over 250 feet deep, and there is no diminution of the frost. Thero is, so far as can bo seen, no opening or channel through which tho frost could possibly have reached such a depth from tho surface. Thero aro other mines in the same vicinity in a liko frozen state. The theory is that the rock was laid down in glacial times, when thero was cold enough to freeze the very earth's heart. In that case the mino ia an ice house whoso stores have remained unthawed for at least 80,000 years 1 The pheno mena is not uncommon or inexplicable when openings can bo found through which a current of air can pass; but cases which, like the Brandon frozon well and tho Stevens miue, show no way for fair currents, are still referred to imbedded icebergs and the glacial period. The Pulse. Every person should know how to as certain tho state of the pulse in health, then by comparing it with what it is when he is ailing, ho may have some idea of tho urgency of his case. Parents should know tho healthy pulso of each child as now and then a person is born with a peculiarly slow or fast pulse, aud tho very case iu hand may bo that pecu liarity. An infant's pulso is ono hun dred and forty; a child of seven, about eighty; and from twenty to sixty years it is seventy beats a minute, declining to sixty at four score. A healthf id grown person's pulse beats seventy times in a minute; there may be good health down to sixty; 'but il the pulSe always exceods seventy there is a diseaso; tho machine is" working itself out; there is a fever or inflammation somewhere, and tho body is feeding on ltsrlf, an iu consumption, when the pulse is quick that is, over seventy, gradually increasing, with do creased chances of euro, until it reaches ono hundred and ten or one hundred and twenty, when death comes before many days. Whon the pulse is over seventy for months, and there is a slight cough, tho lungs are affected. The pulso decreases when a recumbent posi tion is assumed for any length of time, and is increased by exercise, stimulants, and the presence of food in the stomach. The Hired Girl. A hired girl should bo ingenious. Oue of them, in tho employ of a West street family, Daubury, discovered an unique way of extracting teeth. She suffered nearly a wholo week with an aching tooth, but had not tho courago to go to a dentist. One afternoon it troubled her so much as to force her to look for a remedy, aud she finally hit upon a plan. With a piece of stout twine sho mado a loop, which she put about her tooth. Then sha took a bit of soap aud rubbed it on tho floor, opposite tho back door. The other end of tho twine she fastened to the knob of tho closed door. Then sho took a position on the soapod boards and commenced to lean back. When she had acquired a elopo of about forty livo degrees, tho soap suddenly took hold, and sho came down on the floor with such forco as to knock a pair of ten dollar vases from a mantel upstairs. And thero she sat, reaching out for breath, when tho affrighted family mado their appearance, whilo tho offending tooth dangled from a string against the door. Earthquakes Supplying Water. Tho Santa Barbara (Cal.) Republican has this passage: Many people are op posed to earthquakes, and wo include ourselves among the number, but in this, as iu everything else, we find some ono to dill'er with us. This gentleman is J. P. Walker, who has a ranch near llincou. Before our earthquakes he had a lino wheat field which, up to that time, had never had flowing water or spring of any kind; all tho water it received camo from the rains. After the earth quake Mr. Walker was both surprised and pleased to find a largo spring flowing a good volume of soft water iu this field whero water had nover existed before, and, being on high ground, ho thinks of conveying it iu pipes to his residence. Col. Hollister tells us of a similar oc currence on a ranch belonging to him, several years ago, whero a volume of water was spouted to a height of nearly forty &;et for several days after the earth quake, and thero has been a flowing stream there ever since. Presidential Candidates. The New York S'ii says: The names of tho gentlemen from whom tho re spective parties will bo pretty sure to select their caudiates for President next year are not many. Here is a catalogue; Republicans. B. II. Bristow, O. P. Morton, E. B. Washburue, L. D. Mor can. H. Wilson. J. G. Blaine. Democrats. T. A. Hendricks, A. G. Thurman, W. Allen, T. F. Bayard, J. S, Black. S. J. Tilden. Each of theso lists seems complete as tho cose stands at present. . It is possible, but not probable, that new men may como ui) iu tho course of next fall aud winter. For instance, if Gen. Hayes should be elected Governor of Ohio by a very large majority, hn would tako a place iu the Republican list. Most like ly some oue of these twelve gentlemen will be the next President. A PLUCKY WIFE. She .Moon the (Inmblor who Won her lliiir. i band's Money and n Krone Ensues. It was one of the handsomest packets on tho river, and among the pas3eugors bound for Vicksburg were a Georgian and hi? wife, who havo relatives in Mis sissippi. He was a largo-sized, handsome-looking man, and she was a pleasant-looking littlo woman, with blue eyes and short chestnut curls. One would have said that she would have screamed at a tilt of tho boat. Ho sat smoking with other gentlemen aftor shq had retired to her stateroom, and the cabin was entirely clear of ladios, when soma one proposed a game of cards. In ten minutes after half a dozeu men were shuttling cards over cabin tables, and tho Georgian was matched against a stranger to all on board. He was a quiet, courteous, well-dressed man, and had been taken for a traveler in search of health. Ho was lucky with his cards, but ho did not . propose playing for stakes. It was tho nettled Georgian who proposed it. Ho called himself a champion hand at poker, aud whon he found that ho had met his equal ho de termined to test tho stranger's financial metal. They had fifty dollars ou tho tablo when the captain looked into the cabin. He caught the Georgian's eye and gave him to understand that his opponent was a river blackleg, but tho other gen tlemen had dropped their cards aud crowded around, money was up, and the information had come too late. Bo sides, the Georgian was doing well enough, and ho flattered himself that he could teach the courteous blackleg a lesson. It was a very quiet group around the tablo. and after the play had continued for fifteen minutes, tho gentlemen spoke in whispers, aud soino of them wore re minded of old times on the Mississippi, when gamblers had thtf till run of every boat. The Georgian had luck with him from the start, and while ho looked smiling and confident tho gambler appeared to grow excited and uneasy. His money was raked across the table until tho Georgian had $200 in greenbacks before him. Tho stakes had boen light up to this time.lboth men soeming to fear each other's skill. Tho Georgian proposed to increase them, and the gambler agreed. In ten minutes the latter had his 8200 back. Luck had turned. The Georgian lost 20 ; then u0 ; then 80 ; then 100. Tho gambler s face wore a quiet smile, as the Georgian became nervous. His hands trembled as he held up tho cards, and his face was wet with moisture. " Como, gentlemen," said one of tho group, " let s have a general band for amucinmout, and thou turn in." The Georgian looked up with a fixed glance, and replied : " I havo lost 400 ; ho must givo mo a fair show. The play went on. Tho heap of Green backs at the gambler's right hand grew larger. Once in a while the Georgian won, but he lost ten dollars for every ono gained, no finallv laid down his cards, pulled a roll of bills from a breast Eocket and. counted out 300. This was is pile. Iu lees than ten minutes every dollar of it had been added to the gam bler's heap. "Gentlemen, will you smoke? asked the gambler, as ho turned around and drew his cigar case. They know his true character iu spite of his disguiso, and they refused. "lain sorry for my friend, no con tinued, biting at the eud of a cigar, "but you will agrco that tho play was fair." me uoorgian nad passed out ou the promenado deck. The gambler turned to his stack of bills and was countiug them when there was a sharp exclama tion, the souud of a brief struggle, and the littlo woman with blue eyes aud chestnut curls entered the cabiu. She was half undressed, a shawl thrown over her shoulders, and she had a revolver in her hand. No one had seen leave her stateroom and cross tho cabin. No ono knew that her husband had tho revolver iu his hand as she softly canioupon lum. " Go back, ho whispered, "la incoming in a moment !" With swift motion she seized tho weapon, wrenched it from his grasp. and as she came down the cabiu to tho tablo at which tho gambler sat, and around which half a dozeu men yet lin gered, her blue eyes were full of liro. lne gamlJler looked up. The hammer of the revolver camo up with a double click. A white arm stretched out, and tho muzzle of the revolver looked straight into the gambler's face. Ho turned pale ; tho men fell back. For half a mimvto the deep sileneo was broken only by tho faint spfUsh of tho paddle wneeuJ. Uo! sue said. He looked into her flaming eyes as if ho could bluff her. "Go!" He rose up aud reached for the money. "Leave it 1" she whispered, makiug a threatening motion with tho revolver. lie retreated back, tone oiiowed. tool by foot he backed across the cabin, the muzzle of the revolver always on a lino with his face. Ho backed through tho door ou tho promenado deck, and tho railing was there. " Jump, she whispered. The boat was running along within three hundred feet of the shore. Over tho rail to the water was a terrible leap. " You can have the money," he said. "Jump," she repeated. " I will not." The arm camo up a little, and tho light from the cabm showed him a cold, strange, determined look on her faco. Ho tiu-ued about, shivered, aud was over the rail, leaping far out and unablo to suppress a cry of alarm as he felt himself goiug down. The boat swept along, her arm fell, and ro-enteriug the cabin sho sat down, leaned her head on the table and wept bitterly. The passengers said she was a " brick. Was sue I An entomological poet out in Coffey villo, Kansas, is inspired lo tho folio w iucr. which, outside of its high poetio merit, possesses great statistical merit ; hiliould millions into millions multiplied l. With ton million times ten million more, 'Twould suftioely represent a mil lionet h ot Tb grjuuihoppera that puw our dour. How They Did It. The first snccossfnl experiment in the way of outre advertising was made about fifteen years ago by a tobacconist, who. adopted the following method: De siring to have his goods introduced ex tensively among tho retail dealers, he employed a number of meu to "work," as the politicians say, the various wards of the city. One of these canvassers would enter a cigar store and ask the proprietor for a paper of " 's fine cut." The tobacconist in all probability had never heard of the article, but recommended some other maker's, which tho canvasser contemptuously declined. In about an hour another customer would come iu and make a similar demand, and before tho week was over the proprietor would find so many inquiries for this special brand that ho was compelled to make a pur chase, and as the articlo was only sold in large packages, it became necessary for him, in order to effect a sale, to recom mend it to his customers, and so tho article became quito popular. Tho can vassers were oftontimes compelled to buy, but as the goods wero returned to tho manufacturer and resold, very little was lost on tho transaction. Ten men, therefore, at a salary of 8 a week, for thoso wero tho days of low wages, could iu threo months have induced every cigar store proprietor to make a pur chase, and thus at au expenso of hardly 1,000 tho goods wero effectually intro duced to the trade. It is related that Day & Martin, of London, caused their wares to bo ex tensively introduced by having an ele gant equipage, with footmen, etc., drive up to a store with great clattor aud cracking of whips. One of tho footmou would descend, and in a loud voice ask for a pot of "Day & Martin's patent blacking." The storekeeper, unac customed to have such an aristocratic class of customers, approaches respect fully and is very sorry that ho has not thoso particular manufacturers' wares on had, but he can recommend something equally good. "No, no," cries tho footman in decided tones, "master is very particular and insists on using that polish; but as I'm here now, I don't mind waiting if you'll send out aud get a pot." The shopkeeper, fancying that by a littlo courtesy ho may secure the custom of John Thomas's master, is only too delighted, and resolves to have a stock of n-iy & Martin's on hand against similar contingencies. A "Sham" Wedding. The Washington correspondent of the Rochester Jixpi'ens writes : Speaking of shoddy iu matrimonial goods reminds mo of a wedding which occurred here tho other day. The morning papers stated that tho evening before tho ac complished Miss Dash, youngest daugh ter of our distinguished townsman Gen eral Dash, who is here in tho interest of ono of tho largest manufacturing com panies in the world, was united iu the bonds of matrimony to tho Hon. Blank, a highly respected and well-known gov ernment official. The happy couplo will make an extended tour to our principal summer resorts, terminating with a trip across the water. Tho display of pres ents and the numerous gathering of friends wero quito noticeable. This was all very well, and iu tho main tho truth, but not tho unvarnished truth by any means, as the sequel will show. I hap pened to know tho female party to tho contract, so I begau to strip off tho tin sel in tho interest of a few old maids of my acquaintance, aud this is tho result: Miss Dash is the daughter of a sewiug maehino agent, who is as poor as a church mouse, if he is the representative of ono of the largest manufacturing companies in the world. Sir Charles Henry is a postmaster in Prince George county, !Ud. J.uey visited our principal sum mer resorts Harvey's, Freuud's and several other ice cream saloons; and to make a "short-cut," and at the same' time save expense, ho rowed his Dul cinea across the Auacosta river, which constituted his Atlantic trip. Tho only present I heard of was the bill of the solitary hackman who conveyed them to church; and as for the guthering of friends there was quite a number of gamin collected when the old man and tho hackman had a littlo tut about the fare." The Female Population. Only tho United States, Belgium, and Italy have more men than women. This attributed to tho wear and tear of hard work, which kills off so many of tho fair sex of theso countiiaa. Accord ing to tho census of Dec. 31, 1871, Italy had a population of 20,801,154, yielding a percentage of 50.27 men and TJ.7J wonion, hfty-cight per cent, of old nt. of married couples, and six per cent, of the widowed, of whom tue widows moro than doubled the widow- In France thero is relatively the smallest number of births, though old persons aro there preserved longer than iu other countries, tweuty-two per cent. of its inhabitants being over titty years, and seven per thousand upward of eighty. In tho United States thero are only eleven per cent, upward of fifty, while tue young oi Dotii sexes oniy reaching twenty constitute fifty per cent, of the entiro population. His Home. "Where is your house?" asked a trav eler iu the depths of one of tho old solemn wildernesses of tho great West. " House ? I am t got no house. " Well, where do you live ?" "I live iu tho woods, sleep on the great government purchase, eat raw bear aud wild turkey, and drink out of the Mississippi. And he added: "its crettincr too thick with folks. You're the second man I've seeu within the last month : and I hear there is a whole fam ily come iu about fifty miles down the riwr. aud I am going to put out into the woods again. 1 aiu't fond of too much company." Large tracts of lands iu tho south of France, not hitherto cultivated, are be ing planted with a kind of oak trees, be neath which truiHes are generally found; and it is expected that each acre of this land, lately sold as low as five pounds sterling, will yield a crop of tiuftleg worth twenty pounds sterling a year. " - interest. To a squire who was boaNm.B . ,a horso's speed, Foote, the witty comedian, replied: "Pooh! my horse will stand faster than yours can gallop." It is singular that mineral waters are only beneficial to tho wealthy. Wo never knew a physician to advise a poor man to go to any watering-place. A philosopher asserts that the reason why ladies' teeth decay sooner than gen tlemen's is because of the friction of the tonguo and the sweetness of the lips. It is said that the hurrying to catch trains and boats, of which thero is neces sarily so much in these days, tends to produce diseases of tho heart and brain. A Boston editor blushes for tho ignor ance of threo young girls of that city who tried to get their horso's he ad down so that it could drink by unbuckling tho crupper. If you cut tho back legs of your chair two inches shorter than tho front ones, tho fatiguo of sitting will bo greatly re lieved and tho spino placed iu better position. Peruvian guano is now charged with the crime of introducing tho potato boo tle ; but iu Colorado, whence this fellow comes, they don't troublo themselves with guano. The Carlists recently caught a man, bathed him iu petroleum, applied a lighted match to him, and danced by tho light thereof. They had no personal grudge against him. We have heard of asking for bread and receiving a stone, bnt a gentleman may be considered as still worse treated when ho asks for a lady's baud and ro ceives her fathor's foot. If, in instructing a child, you aro vexed with it for a want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to writo with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand. Up to the close of 1874 eleven millions of dollars had been expendod on tho great naval arsenal and docks of Spezia. American men-of-war in the Mediter ranean, when needing repairs, put iu at that port. The latest story of the Niagara hack men is, that one of them drove a wed ding party one morning to a clergyman's house. In the afternoon the clergyman was visited by tho driver, who demauded a percentage of the marriage fee. Iu Minnesota the boys go grar,shop periug at the rato of sixty cents the ton, and on au average manure the soil wit h twenty-five thousand tons of tho in sects per day. They count upon break ing up tho State treasury or tho hop pers, ono of the two. Last year tho State of Massachusetts gilded the dome of its Stata-houso, and now it has boon compelled to pay for hermetically sealing the windows to the cupola above that the glittering surface may not bo tarnished by the expectora tions of tobacco-using visitors. It is calculated that 75,000 Americans havo gone over to Europo to see what they can see this summer, aud that tho husbands will lay out over thero fifty millions of dollars iu new whistles for their wives aud daughters. A few thiug embobs are necessary, of course. Mr. Backus, of Michigan, was so inju dicious as to smoke in tho same wagon with a can of oil. If Prof. Peters, in scanning around among tho planets, should happen to get a glimpse of auy thiug that looks like a fragment of Mr. B., he will send word to tho papers. A rod-haired lady, who was ambitious of literary distinction, fouud but poor salo for her book. A gentleman, in speaking of her disappointment, said : " Her hair is red, if her book is not." Au auditor, in attempting to relate the joko elsewhere, said : " She has red hair, if her book hasn't." M. Lilo strongly recommends tho use of bread mixed with sea water in cases of disease arising from poverty of blood, for convalescents recovering from acuto diseases, and for healthy persons of dcli cato constitutions. The water must bo gonuino sea water, not the sea salt of commorco iu water. That some soldiers appear stover ly about their clothes wheii others are clean and tidy, is accounted for by tho unequal commands of tho company olli cors. The captain never comes to a halt without telling his men to "dress up on the right," allowing the meu on tho left to look as shabby as they pleaso. The business of packing fruits, vege tables, and meats in hermotically-seid-ed cans, though of comparatively recent origin in this country, has had a rapid growth, and has now reached largo di mensions. The amount of capital in vested is J20J000J0j)0,the..numbor.iJ number of cans packed every year 100, 000,000. " When I married," said Ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Lowe at a Loudon partv. "I declared. With all my world - Y cooda I thee endow,' although I hadn't a shilling in the world. " " But, chimed in the wife, "you nad your splendid talents. "Yes, my dear; but you know 1 dian I enuow you wnu them," was the right honorable gentle man s reply. A Paris journal reports that recently iu the Butte-aux-Cailles, oue of the poor est quarters of that city, a human buby monkey was born, with an ordinary boy a face, a long tail, and considerable hair on its body. The father of the beast, a workmau, got wrathy over the birth, and immediately left hifl home with a vis iblo prospect of going crazy ; his wife, iti mother, was very much cast down bo cause it was born with upper aud lower teeth, and sho was therefore unable to wet nurso it. Stand Back At the Bunker Hill monument celebration the crowd pressod upon the platform for the speaker and distinguished guests, aud were in dan ger of breaking it down. The chair man's entreaties to the crowd to fall back being unheeded, he appealed to Daniel Webster, who arose and said: "Gentlemen, you must fall back." "We cannot," was the reply, "it is im possible; the crowd behind are pushing us forward." Webster said: " Gentle men, uothing is impossible tin Bunker Hill; you musk fall back." 1'he crowd tell back."
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