vat I7" HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL, DfcSPEttANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. VI. MDGWAY, ELK COUXTY PA1., THURSDAY, MAY ' 4, 1876: NO. 11. I) .1 n : it - . ' Origin of Robin Bed-Breast. A little brown bird with breatt of white Was backing himself in a beam of light. A dark browed youth and fair haired maid Arm in arm thro' the cunlight strayed, And the girl' bine eyes were in rapture Ixstit, And hpr heait was filled with a rich content As she lists to the story so old and so sweat, Till In love's trne olasp the two hands meet. And a warm, bright blush has ta'en the place ui iub iair, wnue roses tnac slept in ner laoe j When Just as the blush was taking its flight 'Xhe little bird flew from his beam of light, And the roue hue dyed the bird's white breast, And there forever it found a rest. And his song to-day, so sweet and low, Tells of their love in the long ago. I listened and caught the bird's refrain, , And sweet, my darling, I'll toll it again. Bee ! here in this golden light let us stand, And in lovo's true clasp let me lake your. hand. Oh I red-breast robin, your bosom's bright glow Is reflected here in her cheek of snow, And, darling, my darling, as girl and youth, We will vow to each other our love and truth. THE WIDOW IN THE L It had been Mrs. Butterkin's doings, lotting the L. Mr. Butterkin had ob jected to the proceeding, but mildly, as was becoming in the good humored husband of a whimmy " wife, bo prone to tears that there seemed some founda tion for her pet apprehension that her " blood was turning to water." Griev ously tormented by nerves, she longed for womanly sympathy, and on Mr. Ebbeson's decease, nothing would do but his widow should sell her farm and occupy tlio Butterkin L; for had not Ruth nnd she btcn dear friends from girlho iJ f After duo deliberation, Mrs. Ebbeson came, having first secured a life leasn of the building. A busy little woman was Ruth Ebbe son, as t.Ue had need to be, her intem perate, worthless husband having left her barciy enough to make both ends meet. If she would lap them comfort ably, it u list be by htr own exertions with tlm needle. And as she sat cheerily stitching by her invalid mother's couch, Mrs. Butterkin would often run in with beans to pick over or apples to pare, while on rainy days, obedient to his wife's suggestions, Mr. Butterkin did many a neighborly turn in way of car pentry. The two families were almost as one. Indeed, the lotting of the L seemed a provident arrangement for all parties. It was a relief to Mrs. Ebbeson to be rH of her farm; it was woll that her mother should be within easy access of a physician. Especially was it uf ad vantage to Mrs. Butterkin to enjoy cheerful companionship, and whatever was of advantage to Mrs. Butterkin nec essarily affected Mr. Butterkin. Thus years glided on, bringing mental vigor to the nerve-diseased Mrs. Butter kin. She bad never seemed in better health than in that fatal spring when she was prostrated by pneumonia, death stricken from the first. "The Lord wills it, Ruth, and I don't feel to murmur," she whispered, with dying grace; "but husband'll miss me, I know. You'll keep an eye on him, won't you, dear, when I am gone, and make him comfortable?" Mrs. Ebbeson sobbed a promise; but after Mr. Butterkin's bereavement she found the covenant embarrassing, for in this sublunary world of ours a widow who "keeps her eye" on a widower challenges unpleasant comment, and lit tle Mrs. Ebbeson deprecated the speech of people. Consequently, though she conscientiously ministered to Mr. But terkin's comfort, it was in unobtrusive ways not suspected by him, and hardly realized by the niece who kept his house. The door between the two sitting-rorns no longer, as formerly, stood invitingly ajar, but was hasped upon the widow's side. She never passed through it now, save in the gentleman's absence, when she occasionally assisted the inexperi enced Esther in compounding his fa vorite dishes, or surreptitiously pos sessed, herself of his fine mending. With his wife's demise the old free-and-easy life had ended. They were two distinct households, growing further and further apart, as the weed upon the widower's hat waxed rusty beneath ac cumulated months of mourning. It could scarcely have been otherwise. The closed door was but a symbol of the barrier which, in the verv nature of things, must exist between the bereaved iui, jjuiturtiiji uuu kuHiiuuuriy uereaveu glove has lost its mate, and a left has met with a like calamity, one naturally desires to fit the remaining two together, if haply they may make a pair, aud the widow shrunk sensitively at the thought of the neighbors thus mentally match ing herself and Mr. Butterkin. As far as in her lay she tried to make it ap parent to them that the twain were two odd ones, which could by no possibility be mated, But not so the gentleman in question. That people should gossip never entered his head. If in Roxanna's lifetime, to please her, he had done her dear Ruth frequent neighborly favors, all the more would he do them now that Rcxanna lay cold in death. And as day after day went by, and he felt more and more closely drawn to the cheerful, bright eyed widow, the simple man believed this was solely for his departed wife's sake. She had been dead a year and a day, when Mrs. Ebbeson whisked out upon the doorstep one warm July morn ing to shake the tablecloth. " Oh, my stars!" ejaculated she, look ing not into the firmament, but straight earthward at her hens darting hither and yon for the breakfast crumbs. la the midst of the flock bristled two Brahma, with sullen eyes and feathers on end, duckling for chickens that were not. " Anything wrong, Mrs. Ebbeson f " Mr. Butterkin paused on his way from the barn with the milk. " Only these Brahmas, Mr. Butterkin. I've broken them up, and broken them np, but they will net." (Mrs. Ebbeson had been reared in a rural part of New England where hens never "sit.") "Well, why not let'em I" " In July f Now, Mr. Butterkin I" " Then supposing you tied red yarn about their feet t" "Why, they'd peck my eyes out," laughed the widow, dcxtrously folding tne tablecloth in lti former creases. She was sorry the moment she had said it, for Mr. Bntterkin at one offered to assist in the girdling process. Why should he not ? Tet, as he held tne bens, first one and then the other. while she bound about the right leg of each the anti-incubating anklet, she was inwardly agitated and could not help be iug thankful it was early morning, and they were not likely to be seen by pass ers- Dy. No such feeling perturbed Mr. Butter kin. He was honestly triad to help Box anna's friend because she had been her friend, he would have said if he had thought about the matter at all; and in the kindness of his heart he presently asked if the chickens' bran was not get ting low. He was going to the village; snouia ne can at tne mm 1 " Or, if you have any errands, I can tone you over as welt as not, ne added, as an afterthought, and was mildly be wildered at seeing the sudden flush on her face as she hurriedly answered that she had no errands. Picking up the milk pail, in which the froth had perceptibly settled, he walked away with a troubled expression. Ho hoped Ruth hadn t any hard feeling to ward him. What could have made her color up so f And then it occurred to him that though he had asked her often, he was sure, she had not ridden with him for a long while not since why, not fiuco itoxanna died I aud his own race hushed under the dawn of a new idea. Ruth was afraid the neighbors might talk. Strange he hadn't thought of it before. Dear ! dear I what a timid little woman she was I As he jogged lonesomely along in the great wagon which used to carry two. and seemed dismally empty with one, ho could not banish her from his mind. and ho begun gradually to realize how constantly she had been in it of late. What had made her manner so distant these months past ? Was it fear of vil lage gossip, or did she really dislike him ? He wished he knew I and he jerk ed the reins, unwittingly wounding the feelings of his faithful roan, conscien tiously trotting her best. Turning in at his own gate, a rebel lious clamor from Mrs. Ebbeson's hen nery greeted his ear. Alas for his vain attempt to overcome maternal instinct t Hardly had ho left their sight when the clucking Brahmas sought their nest, where the lit'le widow found them bill to bill, the scarlet ankle-ties hidden be neath the straw. Six times she dis lodged them; six times they reinstated themselves; and now at noon thore they sat brooding over the pile of bricks sho !iad heaped in their nest, winking their iuall round eyes at her in lazy triumph ! It was too much. Was an immortal .voniftn to be outwitted by a couple of Suite hens ? The little widow renewed the conflict, but not daring again to lay liauds upon the belligerent bipeds, she reported to tho discreet experiment of poking at them through the open win dow, thus affording Mr. Butterkin, as he rounded the corner, a confused vision of agitated calico dancing about a dis tracted rake handle. " What 1 setting again, Mrs. Ebbeson-?" The small lady, till then unconscious of the gentleman's proximity, hastily withdrew her head from the window and looked down in some confusion from her perch on an inverted barrel. "Yes, they're setting again ; but it's just as well just exactly as well," said she, rather incoherently, harrowed by the fear lest sho were displaying her ankles. " Now, now, we must see about this," responded Mr. Butterkin, fishing in his pocket for a ball of twine he had bought that day for stringing the tomatoes, and meanwhile glancing over his shoulder, apparently to assure himself that the orchard was where it should be. He would have liked nothing better than to lift the widow down, but his instinct told him she would prefer to descend by herself, unobserved, and he was a man capable of self-sacrifice. "We'll tie the hens to the fence. " he added, presently, concious of a thrill of delight as ho pro nounced the "we." He knew himself better than in the early morning, and could not disguise the fact that he felt a personal satisfaction in entering into even the humblest part nership with Mrs. Ebbeson a satisfac tion evidently not shared by the Brah mas, who, resenting his continued in terference, tore his coat 'mercilessly. It was a jagged rent, from pocket to hem, in his Sunday garment too, which in Roxanna's time had never gone to the village on a week day ; but who was there now to watch over Mr. Butterkin's apparel ? Not Mr. Butterkin, surely, to whom the distinctions of dress were but as sounding brass and a tinkling cym bal. " What a wicked, wicked shame I" cried Mrs. Ebbeson, in distress. " But I'll darn it just as well as I can." No, no, thank you ; it's of no con sequence," replied Mr. Butterkin, with manly indifference. "But Esther can't mend broadcloth." " Can't ? You don't say so 1" Imbued with the masculine supersti tion that incapacity with the needle be tokens idiocy, Mr. Butterkin looked aghast. " No; she's young, you know, and not used to sewing. Besides, I'm responsi ble for this rent. Let me attend to it, please." He removed the garment without a word, his face flushing like moose-berries in autumn. Not at the thought that, since Esther was incapable, he must be indebted to the widow for past favors with the needle indeed, he would have unblushingly declared that this was the first occasion sinoe Roxan na's decease that garment of his had needed repair but he felt a reluctance to being dependent upon Ruth for a menial service, when it was now the growing desire of his heart that she should lean upon him. Seeing him color, Mrs. Ebbeson, out of sympathy, colored too, and such a vivid and lasting crimson that her mother at dinner mildly chided her for going out without her bonnet Busy over his coat that afternoon, Ruth naturally thought of Mr. Butter kin, while he, weeding the late turnips, recalled her blushes, and clumsily tried to analyse them. On tho whole, he couldn't believe she went so far as to dislike him. And so night came, the mended coat bung in its place, and under the fenoethe undisoouraged Brah maa brooded above imaginary eggs, Next morning they brooded there still. and there, had they been his own, might they have continued to brood, forgotten by Mr. Butterkin, who, as his late wife often said, oomplainingly, never charged his mind with hens; but these especial Brahmas possessed peculiar interest as giving him audience with the charming widow. Accordingly, in the days that followed, he hovered about the luckless' bipeds like a bird of prey. He bought the latest treatise on hens, and patiently tried in succession all the experiments therein suggested for subduing tho wills of obdurate sitters, Mrs. Ebbeson as sisting, as in common gratitude she must. This without producing the least effect upon the Brahmas. It was the widow that grew restive, conscious of the absurdity of Mr. Butterkin s sud den and ostentations regard for fowls, She knew the very moment when his heart turned toward her, but whether hers inclined similarly toward him wasn't for her to say till he asked; yet, coy little woman, sho gave him no chance to put the question. And, such is human perversity, the more she seemed not to care for him, so much the more was Mr. Butterkin re solved that she should care for him. Before July was ended he had fully made up his mind to propose, inwardly assured that his late wife would sano tiou the proceeding, not if she were re turned to flesh, of course in that case he would not ask it but as a shade she would not wish to stand between him and her beloved Ruth. Of Mr. Ebbe son's shade he scarcely thought, doubt ing, perhaps, whether a man on earth destitute of moral substance could at death attain the dignity of a heavenly shadow. But there is a vast difference between purposing to propose and pro- Eosing. Mr. Batterkin learned this to is chagrin after repeated abortive at- tt mpts at giving his frequent interviews with Mrs. Ebbeson a sentimental turn. At each advance of his she sped away as shyly os a girl, and in the seoure retreHt by her mother's conch was as unap proachable as if seated aloft in the chair of Cassiopea. In regard to a written declaration of love, Mr. Butterkin would sooner have attempted an essay on pro toplasm. August found him still wait ing for an opportunity. .He, usually so prompt and unhesitating the first se lectman of the town I The better he loved the widow, tho more he despised himseit, till one son twilight, when the zephyrs were whispering tender thoughts to the leaves, he rose with desperate re solve, and strode boldly round to the open door of the L. Mrs. Ebbeson sat just within the sittiug-room, but he was too crafty to enter. " If you 11 kindly step this way a mo ment," he said, "I've another experi ment we might try on those hens." iiut having lured ner to him. his next words were wide of the mark : " I came to ask -that is, I wanted to know in fact, I wanted to have a seri ous talk with you." bhe believed in free will, he in fore- ordination; but his " serious talk" would not savor of theology, she knew. She nervously essayed to confine it to poul try- . "Really, Mr. Butterkin, you take too much trouble about those hens. They " Nothing I do for you, Rnthi s a trouble." 11 They're fairly rheumatic from stand ing in that barrel of water, and, for all that, they're not cured of setting." As 1 was saying, liuth " Don't say any more about 'em. Mr. Butterkin, I beg." I'm not speaking about hens, Ruth. Here Mr. Butterkin wiped his brow with his handkerchief a widower's grimy kerchief. " I came to talk about you. Don't go. Your mother didn't call. Why won't you marry me, Ruth ?" bue gave mm a dozen reasons on the spot; but the fallacy of feminine logic being proverbial, Mr. Butterkin was not the man to heed them. ' At least this I know : before the snow came the widow Ebbeson had become Mrs. But terkin, and frosty evenings she snd her husband might have been seen carefully sheltering two late broods of chickens, for in the end the Brahmas had their way. Bazar. Not an Octagon, "Do Hook like an octogon ?" asked Mrs. Partington, as she sat at breakfast at the Grand Central, Oakland, with the Chronicle before her, and George, the beaming and genial exponent of gas tronomies! science, pouring her Mocha. "Do I look like an ootagon?" plaoing her fingers smilingly on the paragraph fixing her age at seventy-seven. "An octogon, indeed!" she continued, not severely, a smile wreathing her lips as the odoi of the coffee exhaled, and her spectacles were dewy with rising vapor from her cup ; "they will, perhaps, make -ae a centurion next and a relict of antipathy ; bnt this is the year for such, and perhaps I should be grateful for it, as age is honorable, and 1 might find a pl.ice at the great national imposition. let it is best not to assume years any more than virtues, and I shall be con tent if I am never older than I am now. This coffee is very flagrant, George," and as she spoke she gazed into the cup, seeing therein her good looks reflected which sixty years had not impaired, while George beamed down upon her with radiant satisfaction. Not Satisfied Yet. "I reckon peo ple are satisfied now," said Mrs. Gal braith, as she walked out of a court-room in Hopkinsville, Ky., with her third husband, after a jury had failed to con vict her of murdering her second hus band. The people were not satisfied, however, and every night her house is guarded against lynchers. She was a beautiful widow, and had two offers of marriage. On was from young Mr. Galbraith, who was poor, and the other was from old Mr. Wolf, who was rich, She" aooepted Wolf, avowedly because she loved his money, and two months afterward he was murdered. Having secured hi property she married Gal braith. The proof of her guilt fell short of satisfying the jury. Disease derail. Mothers know too well auvs Prof. Samuel Ijockwood, what is meant by the word " thrush" or "sprew," that mouth malady too common with little children. To the profession it - is known as an aphthous ulceration of the tongue aphtha being the name of the disease, and signifying a burning.! 1 The tongue "ia swollen, tender and furred." There are excoriated spots, sometimes true nloers, varying in size, perhaps, from that of a pin a head to that of a half pea. and these are severally capped with a white, curd-like mass. However dimin ntive these pustules may be, they are in truth hummocks of tiny plants, for each one contains many thousands of parasitic fungi, often Called tomtla, These fungi attach themselves to the mucous mem brane, and burrow among the epithelial cells. They are " composed of threads matted together like felt," whose basal ends interwine among the epithelia, like hair in the prepared mortar of the plus terer. At a recent meeting of the acad emy of natural sciences, Professor Leidy L."L 1 . i:in . " exuioitea a mouse wira utue curay patches on his ears, face and nose. The query was : " What ailed the little fel low, and where had he been I" The microscope showed that the white spots were colonies of a parasitic fungus ; and, strange to toll, they were as much like the thrush fungus as one pea is like its fellow in the same pod. The truth told, Mousie was captured in the children's department of Blockley hospital, where he had picked up the crumbs that had fallen from the mouth of i child patient. The diagnosis now eeemf d natural and direct. Mousie had been and got it namely, the thrush and, strange to say, he had got it bad, for it was on his ears and nose and face. Soon, in all proba bility, it would have entered the mouth, even if it had not already.' A minute portion of one of these white spots was subjected by skilled hands to a lens of very high power, and lo ! there were the mor,bid parasites, tiny sporular bodies, some single, some double,' and others "in chains of a dozen or more." The fungus was pronounced to be a torula or oidium, like that found in the disease known as thrush or aphtia. A drawing of it would simply be like a number of elongated beads strung together. But how diminutive these beads or cells were ! A single one was the 1.650 of a line in length, that is, it would take 7,800 of them in line to make an inch. The Spring Fashions. The tint known as creme is at its height. 1 (jtauze is much used for bonnets. Turbans are again in ttyle. Children's fashions vary but little in OUt.- . 1 " ... " t' l. f I - In bonnets the capote shape is in groat invor. The English Derby is a favorite among hats. Cashmere is largely used for children s oostumes, because it cleans admirably. White laces are no longer in vogue. Even the richest laces are tinged with yellow. A novelty in shoes is seen in boots with high tips at the back and laced in front. Small buttons are more and more used for trimming. in all dress materials stripes have su perseded cheoks. Jet is not abandoned, but is used with more discretion than last year. The diagonal shaped overskirt appears to be most popular. Buttons are small, and often covered with the same material as the dress. Sleeves for general wear are very close to the wrist, showing some dressy style of cuff. Bows of silk, ribbon, or the material of the costume, are freely used. bailor bats and turbans will be much worn by school girls this season. Many of the stripes on the newest dresses are shaded tone upon tone, and are from an inch to a half inch wide. Wide gros grain ribbon sashes are worn tied low around the hips, and are fastened behind in a large bow. . fashionable celebrities in Paris have introduced the wearing of the Greek costume for evening dress. Liate openings show dresses with full fan trains and skirts clinging to the form, tied back and without bnstles. Laces are generally laid on without fulling, as the present style of dress re quires flat trimmings. The cuirass bodice is changing in charaoter ; while still long and simply shaped, its fullness is relieved with abundance of trimming. bhonlder seams are made very short and high, and the long aide pieces con tinue in favor. ' The newest ruches for the inside of bonnets are composed of a double point of cream lace, with a small flower at the side. . Elysium. . The North Carolina Economist talks in this faoetious manner : Well, we are lazy in Norfolk, that's a fact. But there is no need of working here. If a man has energy enough to dig a worm he can take a pin hook and pit down on the wharf aud catch fish enough in one day to last him two. If he is too lazy to dig a worm he -can . tie a piece of flannel rag on a string and catch enough crabs to last him a day or two ; aud if he is too lazy to tie a piece of flannel to a string he lays down on his back on the sand at ebb tide, opens his mouth, and when the tide comes in the crabs run into it. What need is there for work in a country for which nature has done bo much. ' . The Terdlct. The coroner, in summing up a recent case, pointed out to the jury that there was no evidence whatever that the 4e. ceased had eome to her end by foul play, and therefore there was nothing else for them to do but to return - ver dict of "Deah by the visitation of God." The jury, however, thought it nigninea to . retire lor consideration, They dared not. of oourse, give a ver diet right in the teeth, of the coroner's summing up, and so, after along consul tation, this i how they satisfied their own consciences-and the demands of justice; "We find that the deoeased died by the visitation of. God, but un der the most suspioious circumstances," The Bunkers. A correspondent, writing of the Dun kers, says that they retain their Quaker- like garb, and the men wear long hair and full beards, objecting to the wear ing of mustaches alone. The men kiss when they meet, though it is thought of abolishing this custom. The semi-annual love feasts are a fa vorite resort of young pleasure seekers, not only when held in barns, but at the churches of to-day, and the crowds greatly annoy the humble, brethren. Their charity is proverbial, and their homes are well known to professional tramps. They help each other, and poverty is unknown among them. A bright illustration of their practical application of the precept, " Bear one another's burdens," was given last year. A barn belonging to one of the frater nity was destroyed by fire. Following the disaster a meeting of the church members was held, the loss was esti mated, and the full amonnt paid over to the sufferer by his sympathizing broth ers. The sect known as the Seventh Day Baptists is a seceding branch of the Dunkers, though now weak in compari son. Yet they have strength enough to cause the serious discussion of a propo sition before the Pennsylvania Legisla ture to permit them to work on Sunday because of their observance of Satur day. These religionists have monastio insti tutions in Lancaster and Franklin coun ties, in which maids and bachelors, widows and widowers, and even separ ated wives and husbands cloister them selves. They have an interesting his toric reputation for charitjr and kiud deeds during the Revolutionary and other war times, and also claim the honor of keeping up the first Sabbath school successfully years before they were introduced in London. The annual conventions of the Dun kers, commonly called the big meetings, which take place in Whitsun week every year, are very largoly attended by mem bers from all parts of the country. The large expense incurred by these gather ings seem to many of the fraternity to necessitate their abolition, and it is urged that the money be devoted to the education of the rising generations and the colonization of the Mcnnonites, for whose persecution in Russia they have a brotherly sympathy. A Co-operative Experiment. In JS'cribner for May. Charles Barnard has a paper on " Some Experiments in uo-operation, m which he speaks as follows of the Springfield (Vt.) indus trial works, a successful co-operative en terprise : At the benches are young men and women in about equal numbers, dis tributed according to the demands of the work or their own ability. Precisely as in any manufactory, there is a regular system of work and a perfect subdi vision of labor. By the peculiar method of selection, each one has the work that the majority think he or she is best suit ed to perform consistently with the best interests of the establishment. On going through the various departments, one cannot fail to notice tho quiet and order that prevaU. There is a rigid adherence to business that is positively refreshing. Persons familiar with working people in mills and shops can readily recall that calmness of manner, and ingenuity in doing, nothing with apparent energy that characterize some of the workers. Not a trace of this can be seen in the in dustrial works. The sun goes down, the lamps are lighted, and the work goes on without a pause. It is hammer, hammer, hammer, with all tho regularity and twice the energy of a clock. The whirling shafts spin steadily, the shavings fly from the piauers, tne paint brushes sup along quickly in nimble girl fingers. It is work, work, work with a jolly persist ence. The six o clock bell rings, and no one seems to discover it till the re luctant engineer turns off the water, and the clattering machinery runs slowly and finally stops, as if it also held shares in the company. we may join them at their liberal table; forty or more young men and women in good health and the best of spirits. They are well dressed, intelli gent, with manners self-respectful and courteous. After supper some amuse themselves with books, music, and games, and some return to the shop for extra work. All are apparently content ed and happy, and all, without excep tion, are making money at a rate seldom equaled by people in their position. Sot Satisfactory. After worrying his father for three or four years on the subject, a young man who has grown up with Detroit succeed ed i beooming the owner of a timepiece the other day. His father purchased it on the sly, took it home, and when the young man turned over his plate at din ner he found his watch. " Good ! Bully for me ! You are a noble father," he exclaimed, in delight. As he opened the watch his smiles faded away. Noticing the change, his father asked : "Isn't the watch all right?" " It's a good enough watch," was the eply. "Then what's the matter ?" "Why, you have had my name en- graved on the case, and no pawnbroker will give me five dollars on it if I get hard np I" Full of System. Peter Cooper in speak in of the late A. T. Stewart's system in his establish ments, and the strict discipline he ex acted of his employees, said ; Once I met Mr. Stewart in his uptown store, and while conversing with him about the magnitude of his business he took me by tho arm, and, pointing at the great array of salesmen, cash boys and porters, he ashed me if they did not display an evidence of thorough train ing and an intelligent acquaintance with the peculiarities of human nature, j, of oourse, assented. . , " And yet," said he, not one of them.; has discretion. They are simply machines, working in a system which determines all .their- ai tions." And so Mr. Stewart "managed all his business affairs. Method and regularity were the first considerations he gave his attention to, Jian'g Microscopic Enemies. A recently published paper by Pro fessor L. N. Piper says : The name "trichina spiralis" comes from two Greek words, signifying hair and curled, alluding to the hair-like form of the am mal and the curled position whioh it as sumes in the cells in which it is found in the muscular system. The male worm measures only the one-twentieth of an inch in length. The female is a little longer. It was discovered by Professor Owen in a portion of human muscle Bent to him from St. Bartholomews' hospital in 1834. In a few hours after the diseased meat is taken into the stomach, trichina separated from it are found free in that organ. Thence they pass into the duodenum, and afterward into the small intestine, where they are developed. On the third or fourth day eggs are dis covered, these eggs being alive, as we have found to be the case in other analogous larvae of which we have speci mens. From the intestines and other cavities where the young are first pro duced they penetrate into the substance of the muscles, where sometimes as early as three days after the diseased meat is taken into the stomach they may be found in considerable numbers, and so far developed that the young entozoa have almost attained a size equal to that of the full grown trichina. They pro gressively advance into the interior of the small bnndles of muscular fiber, where they may be often seen several in a file, one after the other. Behind them the muscular tissue becomes atrophied, that is, hardened, and around them an irritation is set up which cuds in pro ducing a cyst in about two weeks. Thus it will be seen that tho whole muscular system is filled with parasites, each one the central point of inflammation, and of course of terrible suffering, until the friendly hand of death closes the scene. These cases, we think, must be more frequent than is generally supposed, from our having so many brought to our notice within a short time, and this fact would be a good reason for giving up swine's flesh as an article of food. But there is a sure preventive for all this. Thorough cooking will render pork abso lutely free from any injurious effects in this direction. If we give up swine's flesh for the rea son that it contains entozoa we shall be obliged for the same reason to discard all animal food. One of the same family which we have mentioned as causing siokness among the Egyptians is of fre quent occurrence among cattlo, sheep and horses, the hare, the rabbit, etc. Another species is found in the liver of the salmon, in the alimentary canal of the pike and perch, and also many species infest the feathered tribes. We ought perhaps to say that al though the careful smoking of pork is said to kill the trichina, it is never safe, iu our opinion, to eat pork which is not thoroughly cooked. Spontaneous Origin of Babies. Some facts hardly of a reassuring character relative to rabies in dogs have been recorded of late iu England, and the gravest is that the opinion is enter tained that rabies may be produced in a dog by the bite of a non-rabid animaL There has always been a certain amount of doubt in regard to the disease in the human being when the dog which in flicted the bite was shown not to have been afflicted, but if we reason by an alogy according to the facts deduced by Mr. G. Fleming, it seems possible that a sound animal can bite another dog, which latter dog may have in time all the symptoms of rabies, while the first dog is free from the fearful taint. A cose is brought in evidence where a re triever, which had been carefully tied up except when taken out for exercise, was bitten by another dog. The first dog in time showed the pendulous lower jaw, flowing saliva, vacant expression, weak hind legs, and half unconscious movements, while the dog which in flicted the bite is now, according to the authority of the Lancet, alive and well. There can be no possible doubt that the retriever was afflicted with rabies, be cause, having bitten other dogs, they were all attacked, and had to be killed, and on their autopsy showed that all the thoracic and abdominal viscera were healthy, but the membranes of the brain were congested, and the interior lobes softened and hyperoamio. In New York, some two years ago. publio at tention was directly called to a cose of rabies the origin of which was traced to an apparently healthy dog. The mat ter, however, wants further solution. It is probable that an animal may have rabies and recover from it, and might propagate the disease when unsound, and we are still disinclined as yet to sup port the opinion that rabies may arise from the bite of a healthy dog. Lavish Generosity. Touching the lavish generosity of Orientals, the following inoident is re lated of the khedive. A certain M. Bavray obtained from the khedive .if Egypt a grant of land on which to build a house. When the building .was finished, he invited the khediva to come aud see. it ; and the latter, delighted, asked How much did it cost?" "Fifty thousand pounds," was the reply. " Here are sixty thousand pounds," said the khedive ; " let me buy it." The offer was aooepted, and M. Bavray was commissioned to fit it up and furnish it, which he did at the oost of some one hundred and twenty thou sand pounds. When all was finished, M. Bavray went to see the khedive, taking his little son with him. The khedive approached . the child to kiss him, but the boy ran away, crying out i "No, no. Mamma says yon are a naughty man." "Why?" exclaimed the astonished khedive. " ' '. 1 Because you have taken our oountry house," sobbed the ohild. ' , ' . M. Bavray, of course, apologized, and scolded tne child ; put, on taking leave, tne Kueaive wrote a tew lines on a pieoe of paper and gave it to the child lor nil mother, saying You can kiss me now, little man; I am no longer naugnty. The piece of paper was a deed of gift oi tne wnoie property. Items of Interest. A nice thing in oil for your dining rooms A box of sardines. "I would not for any money," s.iysr Jean Paul Riohter, "have had money in my youth." Mesnba, a converted thief, is a very successful revivalists in the Mahratta country, India. There is an artesian well in Prnirie tin Ghien 717 feet deep, which yields 30, 000 barrels of water daily. At last the use of the grasshopper is determined. He is to be pulverized and sent to Paris for fish bait. A Sicilian was found lying in a New Orleans street with a dagger driven to the hilt into his head through one of his eyes. In Meigs county, Tennessee, a few days ago, four hunters, all old men, with sixteen hounds, ran down and cap tured eight foxes. There are two millions of peasants in Russia who have not yet been able to fulfill the conditions of the act of eman cipation of March 3, 1861. A good disposition will carry a man through a private party, make him hold a plate of refreshments on his knees full of stuff he does not want to eat, and yet say he is happy. General Sherman says : "To bo strong, healthy, nnd capable of the largest measure of physical effort, the soldier needs about three pounds gross of food per day. A mountain of superior white chalk has been discovered in Idaho, and now, if a neVer-failing spring is in close prox imity, an enterprising man might start a dairy there without investing in a single cow. There are 62,552 churches in the United States, with sittings for 11,395, 542 poople, the Methodists being the strongest denomination. The total value of church property is placed at $349,- 613,780. Chicago Timet: Being President isn't such a fine thing, after all. Grant is no better off than the rest of us. It's no uncommon thing to hear him say. Fish, lend me a dollar till Saturday, when I draw my pay." A man in Florida brought a handful of creeping things to a native, saying: " .Liook at the young terropins l They were scorpions. A i re had been built upon a shell mound, and they were driven out by tho heat. In Anaheim, Los Angeles county, Cal., a few days since, a large bald eagle seized upon a baby eight months old, and was about to carry it off when its mother ar rived, just in time to save it after a big fight with the bird. A Preston man has been missing for three days; and, as he was recently mar ried, grave doubts exist as to whether he is sitting round in a hayloft some whore, meditating on the price of spring bonnets, or has merely drowned him self. This is tho way Council Bluffs alder men answer to their names : Alderman Hammer, " you bet ;" Alderman Scott, present by the skin of my teeth ; Alderman Keating, " d'ye see me now;" and Alderman James, " present unani mously." An elderly Wicklow maiden, who had suffered some disappointment, thus de fiues the human race : Man a con glomerate mass of hair, tobacco smoke, confusion, conceit, anil boots. Womau the waiter, perforce, on the aforesaid animaL A gentleman has a pair of pantaloons whioh were worn by one of his ancestors one hundred years ago. They are made of home spun cloth, except tho seat, which is of thick leather. It is inferred from this that the original owner was a book agent. A St. Louis scientist estimates that the annual loss to farmers caused by in sects averages $100,000,000; that the clinch bug alone, iu 1874, caused a loss of $30,000,000 to the Western States, and that in three years the grasshoppers have caused a loss of 850,000,000. To-morrow may never come to us. We do not live in to-morrow. We cannot find it in 'any of our title deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real es tate and great ships on the sea does not own a single minute of to-morrow. To morrow I it is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. A gentleman having an appointment with another who was habitually nn- punctual, to his great surprise found him waiting. He thus addressed him: " why, I see you are here first at lost. You were always behind before: but lam glad to see you have become early of late. Will you trust me for a clock?" asked a man of a peddler. " I am not at all acquainted with you, you must recollect," said the peddler. ' ' That is the very reason," was the rejoinder, why I made the proposition. If vou knew me you wouldn't trust me. I'm sure of that. "The only manufactory of gongs and cymbals in the country is in Boston. From 300 to 400 gongs and 500 pairs of cymbals per year are produced, the price depending upon the size cymbals of twelve and fourteen iches diameter ranging from $24 to $36, and gongs sell ing at fifty cents per inch of diameter. At the New ?ork Hippodrome, Dom Pedto being present, Mr. Moody assert ed that not even an emperor can save his soul without submitting to Christ. Peter Cartwright, the revivalist, was preaching one day when General Jacksou entered the churoh, and attracted, as Mr. uartwright thought, more attention than he waa entitled to, whereupon the preacher lustily sang out: "Who cares for General Jackson? He'll go to bell as quick as anybody if be don't repent !" A poor curate sent his servant to a chandler's shop, kept by one Paul, for bacon and eggs, for hia Sunday dinner, on credit. This being refused the dam sel, as she had nothing to cook, thought she might as well go to church, and entered as her master, in the midst of hia discourse, referring to the apostle, repeated: " What BaysPaul ?" The good woman, supposing the question address ed tol her. answered: "Paul savs. sir. that he'll give yon no more trust till you
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