.J J ... ; r . II 1 11 mi y 1 iiir 'WW " ' V Two Dollars per Annum. HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and publisher. NIL DESPEHAlTDtJMi NO. 52. VOL. VI. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, FEB11UA11Y "15, 1877. Did She Love Them All I I keep them In the old, old box That Willio gave me yenra ago, The time we parted on the rocks ; . His oliip lay swinging to mid fro, At waiting in tho lower hay ( I thought my heart would" break that day. Tho picture with the peiiMve eyes Is Willie's? No, dear, that's young Blake, ' Who took tho West Point highest prize t lie. went hnlf crazv for my sake. - litre are u lot of rhymei he wrote, And here's a button off his confi If this his ring ? My dearest May, I never took a ring from him ! This was a gift from Howard Clay j .flint see tho pearls are getting dim ; They say that pearls are tears what stuff! Tho setting looks a little rough. He was as handsome ns a prince And jealous ! lint he wont to Home Last fall ! He's never written since. I used to vinit at his home "Movely place beyond Fort Lee ; h mother thought the world of me ! Oh, no ! I sent his letters back. These enme to mo from Washington. Hut look, what a tremendous pack ; He always wrot'i me three for one. I know I used to treat him ill Pour Jack he fell at C'haneellorsville. Tho vignettes all that lot are scalps 1 tool; in London, Naples, Nice, At Paris and among tho Alps ; Those foreign lovers act like geeso i But, dear, they are such handsome men. We go to France, next year, again ! This is the doctor's signet ring. These faded (lowers ? Oh, let me see ; Why, what a very curious thing ! Who could have sent those flowers to me ? Ah ! now I have it Count do Twirl j IIo married that fat Crosbio girl. His hair wag red. You need not look So adly at that raven tress. "TSTKKft the head that lock forsook j You know but you could never guess I Nor would I tell you for the world About whose brow that ringlet curled. Why won't I tell ? Well, partly, child, liecauf-e you like the man yourself ; lint most bcanse don't get so wild ! I havo not laid him on the shelf He's not a bygone. In ayear 1 11 tell you all about him, dear. LITTLE MIM. The only point on which Joe Puulby and I could ever bring ourselves to agree was that his cousin Mini was the only young lady in the world who was worth falling iu love with. Joe Puulby was eight, I wai seven, and his cousin Mini was six. Joe was a strong, rough, troublesome, rude boy, and I wus small and weak and delicate ; and if it hud not been that we were both deeply in love with the same young lady, I believe I should have hated him. That solitary bond of sympathy served to bind us more iu less firmly to each other, and I seldom quarreled with him, except when his re Hi"l for her showed, signs of cooling down. She was a prevtv, fragile litMe lady, She loved us both very dearly, but I tii'nk Joe was her favorite. He was a ni le, unpleasant boy to others, but to her he wns quiet and gentle enough ; and perhaps this palpable evidence of sub mission appealed more directly to the little iudy than my undemonstrative and color lv.:s affection. But she was very fond of me, for nil that. 'Neither Joe nor I hud any parents, au-.l we lived with Mim's papa m n great, i aui: it, draughty house in Bloomsbury squill' ire. Captain raulby was our guaril- i.m a tall, bony, nnsymputhetio wid ower, who governed his house, as if it hnd been a' regiment of soldiers. A scale of dietary was hung up iu the nursery, and from it one learned how many quar ter ounces of cocoa, how many half pounds of bread, ami how many table Hpoonfuls of arrowroot we consumed iu the week. An order book wus brought into tho nursery every morning, iu which the detail of the day's duties was care fully set out, and to the instructions it contained implicit and unmurmuring obedience was exacted. It regulated the hours of rising nnd going 'to bed, the school hours and the hours of relaxation, when and where we were to walk, and what we were to wear. We were placed in charge of a nurse Nurse Stark, a tall, muscular, hardened woman of forty. She had a stern, unre lenting face, eloso lips, hard gray eyes, and a certain smooth roundness of figure which, on looking back, suggests tho idea of its having been tinned in a lathe. I never see tho old woman who lets lodg ings in a pantomime without thinking of Nurse Stark. I a'u bound to say, how ever, thnt sho wus scrupulously indeed, npgravntingly clean nud neat, nnd in that respect, of course, the analogy falla to the ground. Nurse Stork was not actively unkind to us; indeed, I believe shefhad cheated herself into a belief that she was rather weak luuided and indulgent than other wise, but in this she wns in error. I believe she was fond of us in a hard, un yielding way, but f-h'3 was midden and impulsive in h"r movements, and never handled us without hurting us. There ovu n uousemaiu jane toiler wno oc- Jfcnsionally helped to put us to bed, and was a housemaid Jane Cotter who oc- tie fl-i.rliteno.l mnniwr if dmili'ncr with I v,.l nt nun.l Vi nllnw rlnH vf miff ircn. i Under which to take shelter lie bet ivir.h mifimr. ivaira nt Iihi cium mill n ctpii- i Plmwli .fii bfvnf nm Nnvco Vtnrlr nil n k. her boisterous playmate which seldom I tleimm to spend the afternoon with us, I Mm8eH to J1:e"d from the ass f-.ilul kmitliim i.incnwnf fiV,W .,,,.1 , .. , t.,..( ., i ., u l,iu vnriV.l uviul JUmSOlI UUdCr ItS SIlBllOW. 1 lie sometimes Nurse Stark undressed us his question: "And how is our little while Jane yut our hair into ourl pa-1 Ethel?" that she was much better, aud pers, and so'Aimea Nurse Stark did ! hoped in a day or two to be quite well a i c'111' wbiie -Jhino undressed us. , again. After a time she was removed to And the manner In whljh these duties ! another room, which was always darkeu were to bo divided becamf? a matter of i ed, nud towhieh we were seldom admitted, no light speeiili't'on to us us IWiing ap- ! and only one at ft time. An mid chnuge prouched; for it was Nurse Sturlr'a cus- i seemed to come over us all. Nurse Stark torn to pull the locks of hair out to ftw-ir ! was quite kind now, aud used to read to IUUlength.andtheniv.il tl.an .,i J i,. f. r. J,nn mxwl lifflH children piece of - . -w. .... , ivuuii it . pnner, twisUng the ends trw irauier when thn mrl 1....1 i ....... well home, whereas June Cotter first mndo the curl up fiat with her fingers, and then moused it gently in a triangu lar paper which she pinched with the tongs. Jane Cotter's flat curls were pleasant to sleep upon, but Nurse Stark's corkscrews phiced a comfortable night's rest out of the ouestion. Tt ia ble to sleep in peace with a double row i of balk, each as big ns a lnrge chestnut, round your head. You can't move with out giving four or five of them . a wrench. I think we'must lmve been sufficiently happy bs b rule, or Suudny would not hr.ve stood out iu such gaunt and deso late contrast to the other days of the week. There reigned in our nursery an unaccountable fiction that Sunday was a holiday, and in deference to this tradi- ) tron we endeavored to cheat ourselves 'iito a belief that we were glad when that ditv nrrivod. Kundiiv lipfrnn nt n vprv I early hour iu Bloomsbury. It began to j ring itself in at half past so n, when we I got up, nnd continued to ring, itself through the day at short intervals, until j it finally rang itself out, nnd us into ' bed, at hnlf past eight in. the evening. There were drawbacks, however, to our i enjoyment of the day. I think we were required to tackle more collect than is I good for a child of six or seven, nnd per i haps we did not quite understand the I bearing of that shorter catechism which a iiencit ot tliouglmul bishops lias pre pared for the express use of very young children. Even Nurse Stark, a liigh au thority on all points of church contro versy, never succeeded iu placing its meaning quite beyond all question. Hut Nurse Stark had a special Sunday frame of mind which discouraged close ques tioning, and on that dny of the week she was exceptionally short nnd sharp in her replies. She baffled our interrogatories by pointing out to us that there was nothing so unbecoming as a tendency to ask questions, which seemed to us a little inconsistent when wo considered the inquisitive character of her share in the catechism. I believe I liked going to church, though I am sure Joe I'nulbv did not. That rugged boy never lookeil so hot or so rumpled ns he did during divine ser vice. As I look back upon Joe in church I nm nlwoys reminded of the ap pearance of restless decorum presented by a minstrel " bones " during the sing ing of a plaintive ballad. Joe occupied himself during the service in laying the foundations ot a series of pains ami pen nltiea which usunlly lasted well into i Thursday, for Nurse Stark hnd a quick eye for misdemeanors, and every crime liad its apportioned punishment. Poor j little Mini was too delicate to go to ' church, and used to Bit nt home in theo- i logicnl conference with Jane Cotter, I whose picturesque nnd highly dramatic ; idea of luture rewards nnd punishments ! had a special interest for the poor little lady. Por Mini hnd been told that even children die sometimes, aud both Nurse S'ark and Jane had a long catalogue of stories in which good little people were cut off in their earliest years, and bad little people lived on to au evil old nge. Mini wns often weak and nilins. nnd nt such times the recollection of these J stones came upon her. Nurse Stark s grim, hard manner relaxed wheu she was speaking to the little sick childaud her kindness to Mini, gaunt and grudg ing as it was, seemed to increase with the trouble the child gave her a never leasing source of wonderment to Joe a-d myself, who were only in favor when we ceased to occupy Nurse Stark's atten tion. Nurse Stark had a brother, a boy of twelve or thereabouts ( though we be lieved him to be eight and twenty at least), who was a page nt a doctor s in powers. Gaspar for that wns his un fortunate name was anniented boj', with a taste for acrobatic conjuring, killing flies and putting lobworms down Mini's back; but, notwithstanding these powerful recommendations, we looked coldly upon him, and, ou the wholo dis couraged his visits. He had ft way of challenging Joe uud rue to fight lain with one of .liw hands tied behind las back, by way of a handicap, which was not wlutt you look for in n visitor, and, moreover, compromised our reputation for valor in Man's eyes. On the whole he was not popular with us, and eventu ally he was proscribed bv Nurse Stark j herself, on a charge of filling the nur i wry cnndle with gunpowder, which ex- ploded nnd burned poor little Mini's eye- brows nud ej elashe. Gaspnr eventually ; got into trouble about some original dia iights of his own composition, which j he supplied to his master's patients us : healing waters mndo up in accordance ; with that gentlemau's prescriptions, and , spent several years in a reformatory. I have a dismal impression of the ' wretched afternoons that Mini and Joe ' mid I used to spend together in our great ! bare play-room. We were locked in by j Nui"-e Stark nt about five every after i noon, nnd not released until nbout seven, ; when wo hnd supper ; and ns the shad ows deepened and the fire got lower and I lower, we crowded together in a corner ; for warmth, nnd told each other strange i stories about princes and noblemen who s were tortured by cruel and vindictive ! page boys, with an occasional touch from I Joe Paulby upon caverns, demons, vam- pires, and other ghostly matters, until I poor little Mim screamed uloud with j terror. i She was a pretty, fragile, eweet teru , pered clinging little soul, far too delieute ' for the coarse, inconsiderate treutment to j which she was subjected, in common ' with ourselves. So nt Inst she became ; seriously ill, aud we noticed that the poor little child grew thinner and paler in her : cot, day ufter day, day niter day. She was very cheerful, although bo weak, ; nnd when the tall, grave, kind doctor came day after day nt first, aud then to- want tne last (lor sne died) two or inree : times a doy she would say, in reply to nil v 1 1 1 1. uun ri " " v ho lived and were very happy), and leu stories, and make beef tea for her, and turn the cold side of the pillow to her poor little fevered head. And the oddest port of the thing wns that Nurse Stark was kind to us too, and used to come of her own accord to tell ns how Mim wns (she was always a little better), and what messuges she sent us, nud how fihe seemed to take h new pleasure in the toy she had ouce discarded. Aud then she would take us, one nta time, to the sick room, and we were allowed at first to speak to her, but afterward only to sit on the edge of the bed (it was Bueh n big bed now 1) and hold her little dry hand. Joe Pnulby would come back crying (it was ft strange thing to Bee him cry, and it touched me as it touches me now to see a big man in tears), and he "would Bpend his half-pence they were rare enough, poor fellow in picture books for our poor little dying wife. But a time came when even the picture books were for bidden, nnd then the whole house was enjoined to silence, nnd the grave doc tor graver now than ever came and went on tiptoe. And if we stole to the little girl's bedroom, as we often did, we were pretty sure to find great hard Nurse Stork in tears, or with traces of tears upon her face ; nnd once, when Joe and I crept down to the room, nnd looked in at the half-opened door, we saw the shadow of Nurse Stark on her knees, thrown by the flickering firelight on the wnll. Then we knew that the end was near. One dny Captain Puulby came home earlier than usual, looking very grave, and with him came the kind doctor, and with them another doctor, an older man, but also very kind. They went up into little Mini's room, and they staid so long 1 that Joe and I stole down from our cold dnrk plnv-room to hear, if we could, the reason of his uncle's unexpected return, And Joe and I cried as if our hearts would break, for our dear little wife was dying. Captain Pnulby came out of the room, nnd, seeing us in the passage, told us quite kindly to go back to the play room. Joe Pnulby went, but I begged Captain Pnulby to let mo see my dear little playmate once more : nnd, ninrmed by my excited manner nnd my choking i soils, lie admitted me. . I hnd not seen her for two days, nnd Bhe wns grently chnnged. She looked so little iu that big bed that the two doctors nnd Captain Pnulby and Nurse Stark seemed absolutely gigantic as they nil bent, silently nnd without motion, over the little child. I think we must have remained so for nearly two hours, the silence undisturbed except by an oc- onsional whisper trom one ot the doctors and n sob from Nurse Stark. When I first went into the dnrk room Ethel wus asleep, but eventually she recognized me, and begged to be allowed to kiss me, ns she was nearly quite well. They laid mo on the bed by her side, nnd her little thin arms were placed around my neck, nnd there we lay motionless, both ef us, in deep, deep silence. At length I became conscious of a movement among the doctors, nnd theu n loud ring ing wail from Nurse Stark told me that my little wife was quite, quite well again. The Shadow of an Ass. The Greeks had a proverb that run thus : " To dispute on the shadow of an nss." This took rise from nu unecdote which 'Demosthenes is said to have relat ed to the Athenians to excite their atten tion during his defense of n criminal which was being but inattentively lis tened to. "A traveler," he said, (?no? went from Athens to Megara on a hired ass. It happened to be at the time of the log duys, and at notnil. He was much exposed to the unmitigated heat of the and not finding so much as u bush lought and seat owner of tho donkey, who accompanied hiin. ob jected to this, declaring to him that wheu he let the animal the use of it shadow was not included in tho bargain. Tho dispute at hist grew so warm that it got to blows, and finally gave rise to au action of law." After having said so much, Demosthenes continued the defense of his client ; but hit auditors, whose curi esity he had piqued, were anxious to know how the judgesdecided on so singu lar a cause. Upon this the orator commented severely on their childish iu- iustice iu devouring with attention a pal try Btory nbout an asses' shndow while they turned a dent enr to acnuse iu which the life of a liumnn being was involved. From that day when a man showed a preference for discussing small and con temptible subjects to great and iinportnut ones he was said "to dispute ou the shadow of an ass." The Great Snow of !;$. The following reminiscence of the i great snowfall of 1836, from the Syra- i cuse Journal, will be read with interest: We chanced to meet two old settlers i neither very old men, but nevertheless ( among those considered the oldest in- : habitants in these parta. One of them lived at Auburn in the great snow year, 1 1836, when the people were fairly snow- i ed into their dwellings. He says the : supply of fuel ran out, and the men turned out, and being unable to go be- ' youd the village bounds, were obliged to 1 cut down the ornamental trees in the i streets and doorjards to keep themselves i nud families from freezing. The other ! wns a resident of Baldwinsville at that time, and he snys that the supply of fuel running out, the men of that place were obliged to cut down a very handsome nnd valuable grove of trees, within the village limits, to provide means of heat ing their dwellings. There was then no coal used, and the dependence for fuel was entirely upon wood. In the great snowfall of '36, there was au average depth of enow on the ground of at least four feet, in all this part of the country. It was fully six feet deep m Snlmn street, then the mam thorough- fare. Such a body of snow soon draws the frost from the earth underneath it, and by the heat of the ground a gradual melting taker place. This is why the snow settles wheu it reaches three feet or so in depth, and why, no matter how much fnlls, the mass on the ground does not increase in aeptn. The lawyer who defended Daniel Price, convicted of murder in Warren ton, Mo., mounted the scaffold just bo fore the execution, and said to the spec tators: " You are now about to witness the execution of a fellow being of whose innocence I have not the least doubt. I tell you, fellow citizens, thnt iu the exe cution of this man the people of Warren county aro about to commit a most heinous crime that of executing an in nocent man." Price also protested his innocence. SPECIE RESUMPTION. ,MrMte of Prrnhlrnt lirnnt.-A Four IVr Cent. Ilond ItrcoiniiieiMled lixclmajienble for Legal Tender Mole. 9 The following is the President's mes sage on the subject of the resumption of specie payments : To the Senate and House of Hcpre sentatives ; By the act of Congress approved January 14, 1875, "To provide for the resumption of specie payments," the first of Januiny, 1879, is fixed us the date when such resumption is to begin. It may not be desirable to fix an earlier date when it shall actually become obli gatory upon the government to redeem its outstanding legal tender notes in coin on presentation, but it is certainly most desirable and will prove most beneficial to every pecuniary interest of the coun try to hasten the dny when the paper circulation of the country and the gold coin shall have equal values. At a later day if currency and coin should retain equal values it might become advisable to authorize a direct resumption. I be lieve the time has come when by a sim ple act of the legislative branch of the government this most desirable result can bo attained. I am strengthened in . , f,.o.i !, tnirmi 1 this view 1 in the last tw twr. vpnr nn.l hv tiA atveno-tli i of the credit of the United States at home j and abroad. ror the fiscal year ending June 30, i 187G, the exports of the United States exceeded the imports by 120,213,102, but our exports include $40,569,621 of specie and bullion in excess of the im ports of the same commodities. For the six months of the present fiscal yenr from July 1, 1876, to January 1, 1877, the excess of exiiorts over ' imports amounted to 8107,544,869, nnd the im- ! ports of specie nnd bullion exceeded the ;..,,...(.,. f Hw,;.,0 ,.if..io i. 4i; 100 . 147 in the same time. The nctual excess of exports over imports for the six months, exclusive of specie and bullion, amounted to 8113,737,040, showing for the time being the accumulation of specie aud bullion in the country amount ing to more than 86,000,000, in addition to the national product of these metals for the same period a total increase of gold and silver for the six mouths not far short of 860.000,000. It is evident that unless this great increase of the precious unless mis great increase 01 me pieeioun metals can be utilized at home in bucIi J way as to mnke it in some manner re munerative to holders, it must seek a foreign market ns sur. ly ns would any other product of the soil or manufactory. Any legislation which will keep coin aud bullion at home will, in my judgment, soon bring about practical resumption, ond will add the coin of the country to the circulating medium, thus securing n healthy "inflation" of a sound currency to tne great advinjige 01 every ipgiu ' mate business interest. The act to provide for the resumption ! of specie payments authorized the secre j tnry of the treasury to issue bonds of ! either of the descriptions named in the ' act of Congress approved July 4th, 1870, ! entitled "An act to authorize the refund i ing of the national debt," for not less 1 than cold. With the present value of ' tho four and one-half per cent, bonds in I tho markets of the world they could be ; exchanged at par for gold, thus strength ' cuing the treasury to meet the final re ; sumption and to keep the excess of coin ; over the demand, pending its permanent i use, n circulating medium at home. All that would further be required would be : to redu e the volume of legal tender notes iu circulation. To accomplish this, I would suggest an act authorizing the ! secretary of the treasury to issue four per 1 cent, bonds, with fortv years to run ! before maturity, to bo exchanged for le : gal tender notes whenever presented in ' sums of 850 or any multiple thereof, the : whole umount of such bonds, however, . net to excee 8150,000,000. To increase i the home demand for such bonds I would i recommend thnt thev be available for de posit in the United States treasury for j bllnUirjg purl)08es uuder the various pro. visions of law relating to national banks. I I would suggest further that national ! banks be required to retain a certain per cent of the coin interest received j from the bonds deposi ted by them with i the treasury to secure their circulation. . I would also .recommend the repeal of 1 the third section of the joint resolution : for the issue of silver coin, approved July ! 22, 1876, limiting the subsidiary coin nnd ! fractional currency to 30,000,000. I am : satisfied that if Congress will enact some such law as will accomplish tho end sug gested they will give a relief to the country instant in its effect and for which they will receive the gratitude of the whole people. U. S. Gkakt. Executive Mansion, Feb. 3, 1877. Hydrophobia ('uses. Iu the summer of 1873 the writer of this article was summering in a country village m Connecticut, where no case ot rabies had occurred for many years. Iu July a family owning a pet Spitz, a very pretty little animal, took board nt the hotel for a couple of months. During July and August of that summer the mad dog was the standing sensation of the village, and in all eleven dogs show ing symptoms of tho disorder were shot. The Spitz in question wns a quarrelsome little vagabond, liable to simp at dog or man with or without provocation, nud wa no doubt, responsible for everv in i stance of rabirt eanina that occurred iu i the village aud vicinity that summer, j A German family, near Kingslaud, N. J., Lad a Spitz dog which has bitten the wife and three children. A son, about twelve years old, died, and fears are en tertained that the other three persons win suner tne same .ate, Raising Snakes to Kill Bats. Notwithstanding the great profit ; raising oranges in Florida, the business nns its perpiexiues. a correspondent writes : Everybody tulks about orauges. All that's yellow is not golden fruit, how- ever, i usieueu 10 a gentleman ou Mat urday who was relatina- a misfortune. The rats had climbed his trees and eaten out all the inside part of nianv of his oranges without causing the riuds to col lapse or to fall from the limbs ! He was going to raise two , particular kinds of snakes which would Ariva ..w ti, ,.0. and he had also a somewhat similar plail for killing the squirrels that visitvd his orange grove. Living: Uy Their Mils. The Eureka (Nevada) Sentinel tells the following story of the early days of Eureka, wheu coin was scarce and credit difficult to obtain, and it used to worry some of the pioneers to keep a full lnrdef I There were four jolly good fellows living up in New York canyon, the owners of several fine locations, but bankrupt in purse, and their credit at the stores over done. Their laziness wns proverbial and they lived by their wits, and grew lean on their capital. While at breakfast, discussing the last remnants of provisions in the cabin, and already hungry iu an ticipation of the coming famine, it was suggested . thnt a beef stew would be iu order for diiinerj provided the ingredients could be obtained. There was good water and excellent salt on baud j tmt the butcher was obdurate, and the gro cery keeper hard of heart, and it needed considerable ingenuity to complete the list necessary to the concoction of the savory dish. After much consultation a plan was finally agreed on that prom ised success, and the quartette started for town to put the scheme in execution. one of the party providing himself with a I couple of stout pins bent m the lorm of a hook a necessary outnt n tne piau worked. On nrriving iu town. two of the pnrty lounged nround the door of a gro- eery, where potatoes, onions, and other vegetables were temptingly exposed tor . "--rv i' T V companion proceeded to tne muciier shoi). One halted on the threshold and gazed up aud down the stroet, while the other engaged the butcher in an animated ! seeds, accurately counted, were kept t o conversation, in the course of which he plant in an orangery, und the skin duti pointed to our friend, and hiuted that it j fully delivered to mamma to flavor a would be a most excellent joke to fasten ; promised cake. a piece of meat to the idler's coat. The j As might readily have been foreseen, butcher saw the point and handed over a when these boys became men, the first huge round steak, which, with the aid of stuck his two thumbs luto his world, the pins, was fastened to the apparently recklessly tearing it open as he hnd done unconscious victim's coat tail. As soon as it was secured in the desired position, he moved slowly up the street, leaving the butcher convulsed with laughter at the success of the joke. The attention of the bystanders was nttracted to the strange nppendnge. Some shouted, others laughed, and the victim increased his pace to a run, followed by a mob. As I worm until 11 is nan, Biaie unci unpront he passed the grocery, the confederates j able as a ship biscuit after a long voy stationed nt thnt point put into execution ! nge. their part of the scheme by liberally pelt ; - i ; , ( "-K VuV"th potatoes and onions, nn ex- , ample followed by the bystanders. He did not stop that was not in the play i but he was soon outof view up the canyou, j going at a gait that wordd have atonished a race horse. The excitement over, the three partners sauntered up the street, stopping by the way to fill their capa cious pockets with the vegetables so free ly used as missiles, and then joined their companion at the cabin, indulging their mirth over the complete success of their stratagem. The quartette partook of a savory beef stew at dinner, much to their gratification, uud to the disgust of the butcher when the joke wns explained to him. riavlng Chess with Human Men. Most persons who have any acquaint ance with the literature of chess have heard of the games said to have been ilaved in the middle ages with living hessmen. According to a news letter in the Vownr.Lord Lytton has recently evived this amusement in India. Dur ing las visit to looitan las lordship, after receiving nnd replying to au ad dress from the municipality of the city, ugnged, we nre told, "in a novel game of chess with Col. Millett. The chess board, if such a term may be allowed to carpet ot red nnd white calico, with checkers a yard square, having been spread in front of the hall, chessmen, men and boys, dressed in opposing red uud white uniform appropriate to the va rious pieces, were marched in and toot their places. Then" bv word of com mand, each piece moved to the square indicated, nnd a very lively game en- i mkv vi,. nrv W the vieeroy." An emperor of Morocco who once iiiduleed in n similar amusement is said to have added a terrible-realism to the game by causing all the pieces takeu during its progress to be beheaded. Chinese Maxims. It is the rich who want most things. Towers are measured by their shadow. nnd great men by those who are envious of them. We must do quickly what there is uo hurry for, to be nble to do slowly what demands haste. He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. . Hie court is like the sea everything depends upon the wind. What a pleasure ic is u give ! ihere wonld be no rich people if they were ca pable of feeling this. The ricn raid relations in the most re mote foreign countries; the poor not even in the bosom of their own families, WTho is the greatest liar? tj i.. iie wno speaks most of himself. lien a Bong gives much fame, virtuo gives very little. l'or him who does everything in its proper time, one day is worth tlu-ee. , The way to glory is through the pal ace; to fortune through tho market; to virtue through the dosert. The truths thnt we least wish to hear are those which it is most to our advan tage to kuow. His Silver Piute. Cardinal Alberoiu had a large quan tity of silver phite, and among other ar ticles Jie possessed various saltcellars, wrought in the form of different animals. A friend of . his emiuence borrowed a saltcellar made iu the shape of a tiger, but forgot to return it lor some time. At length, after the lapse of some six or seven months, he sent it back, request ing at the same time the loan of another iu the shape of a tortoise. The cardinal desired to see the person who had brought the message. " You are Bent," sidd he, " by the signor to borrow one of my saltcellers ?" " Yes, your eminence; I am his steward." " You will be good euough to tell your master that I lent him one in the form of a tiger, which is one of the swiftest animals on the earth, and it has been more than six months in returning; were I to lend him the tor toise, which is the slowest of animals, fear it would never return," The Ways of Hie World. More than hnlf a century ago, snys Porte Crayon, two little boy cousins sat together earnestly Bpeculating ou the ar rival of a beloved aunt, just from the South, with a big trunk reported to be laden with tropical fruits expresBly for the children! Very eoon their expect ancy was resolved by the receipt of a ripe golden orange each. NoW at that day the orange was so rarely seen by Its that it was encircled with the glnmour of romnnce nn exotic so costly thnt when we ocensionnlly got n pale, h.df wilted specimen, it wiis carefully peeled nnd di vided into compnrtments enough to give every member of the family a taste. But here each cousin held in Ins hands a whole globe of fresh aud succulent de light, to dispose of nnd enjoy according to his own will. Without pausing a mo ment to admire the beauty or snuff the external fragrance of his fruit, the first hurriedly tore it open, nnd burying his face in the luscious pulp, squirting the rich juice from Ins lnur to las neeis, swnllowed what he managed to get in about three gulps, threw the skin into the street, nnd wished he hnd nnother. The other cousin meanwhile bundled his golden gift ns if it had been " a gem too rich for use," tenderly manipulating its yielding plumpness, voluptuously exhal ing its refreshing fragrnnce, and when he could no longer abstain, carefully opened a pinhole in one end, nnd suck ing Bnmples of the contents, like a mod est gnuger, until he had extracted the nst drop from the precious cask. The his orange, devouring' estate, body and soul in three greedy swallows, dying at twenty-seven, so palled with the flavor of this life that he scarcely wished lor nn other. The careful cousin, now past threescore years, is still sucking his por tion through a pinhole, still straining for the last sweet drop, having squeezed his Court iiiir by Proxy. Mr. Leopold Stern was a commercial traveler for the business house of Sutro & Newmnrk, of New York city, selling goods for them mainly iu tho West and Southwest. He received a commission on his sales, and being an active sales man, wns enabled to make very good wages. While on a trip in the South he received instructions from one of the partners iu the firm to proceed to New Orleans nnd there further the partner's suit for the hand of a very attractive young woman whom the partner had previously seen. Tho commercial travel- ! er did his partner's business in so satis- factory a manner that the young woman I was subsequently lead to the altar by the New lork business man, and a happy married lit'o has followed the union. The commercial traveler, however, consumed considerable time, several weeks, in arranging affairs with tho maiden, so that she ni'ght not look with disfavor on the partner, and ou his return ascertained that he had been emp'oyed in a business that afforded lum uo commission. Ap plying for payment for his services, he was g'ven $uuu. lie count easily nave made 8'JOO in that time, he averred. The partners refused to pay inoro than 8500, and tho man who courted his partner's wife lor his partner instituted suit for t he remaining 8100. Life Insurance. i The money now'held by the life iusur ! mice companies of this country, says the I New York Sun, amounts to 8400,000,000. Yet it would require five times this sum, I or 82.000,000,000, to pay nil the out- i Btauding policies should they mature nt t,ui,e- "u tUe "ther hand, wlale 150,000 I policies ore annually issued m the State of rsew lork less than iu,uuuare termi - iiaicu i.y ueuui iuoie . umi i.uuu nqJB by non-payment of the premiums, and the vest are gotten rid o try surrender, by expuy, or by relusal to uccept alter making application for insurance. A widespread belief prevails that there is j fraud in the business somewhere; and in Indiana the Legislature has appointed ! u committee to prepare nud report ft bill ' for its regulahou, so as to protect the '. public. The chuirmau of the committee, 1 the Hou. James B. Hendricks, requests ; information and suggestions on the sub ' ject from any one who has anything to offer. His address is Indianopolis, Ind. A Ckuel Hoax. A cruel hoax was recently perpetrated on two members of the Hebrew community who presented themselves at tho synagogue in Birming ham, England, to be married. The cere- i nony was interrupted by the arrival of a i... ,; . , . . f .,.. lciritiiii w me IUUU1 lMlUUUJUg HUH IUUI the bridegroom was already married uud had two children. The brido was re moved in a fainting condition, and the bridegroom was chased through the streets by a mob, who saluted him with "a shower of stones nnd mud." Investi gation has since proved that the telegram was n forgery, and the wedding will take place after all. Astosished. A circus company, on their wny to Australia, stopped to Bee one of the Fiji islands. While wander ing about one of them turned a somer tault, and the native spectators were nstonished by the bight. Thereafter, the circus men, discerning the opportu nity for fun, varied their walks by fre queut somersaults and grotesque contor tions, all the time maintaining sober faces and the utmost gravity of demean or. Multitudes followed them, in the belief they were missionaries, sent to teach a roligiou in which somersaults were a part of the service. A Fortune Obphaned. Dr. Ayer, who makes pills, is hopelessly insane, says an exchange, and $2,000,000 is us good as orphaned. . This is liot enough, odds another paper. His fortune is much greater. His income is $2,000 a day, and we suppose there has never been a time iu the last dozen years' when he has had less than $500,000 lying idle aud 1 awaiting investment. Items of Interest, One of the most popular platform speakers is tho car driver who tells his mule to hurry up. New York mourns the ilenth of an ac countant who overhauled dishonest books and sent fourteen different clerks to prison. ' As an example of Vnnderbilt's econo my ia little things, recalloa tl.at a few years ago he caused the bright plate on all Lis locomotives to be painted black in order to Bare burnishing. , Sealskin sacks for poodles are coining into fashion. A lady carrying a cauino pet thus nttired called to comfort ft poor woman who had lost two children by starvation. The sack was cut pompa dour. A poet advises: "In the quarries should you toil, make your mark ; do you i tnal.-n vonr mark. But instead of taking his advice, you find better tnke lessons in peniufiriMiip nnd lcnrn to write your name. It looks bet ter than to make your "mark." In Fulton county, Pa., a few days since, a youth named John H. Tnttle was nbout throwing a bnll, having his right arm drawn bnck, when it suddenly snnp ped off midwny between the elbow and the shoulder and dropped to his side. The snnpping of the bone was heard for a considerable distance. Smoke from the leaves of belladonna is said to give great and often immediate relief in asthma, especially the spasmod ic form. The smoke should be drawn down deep into the chest. Tobacco smokers do not experience as much re lief as others. If the belladonna leaves are used too freely, a temporary heudftche may bo produced. It is noticeable that the cat who mounts the ridgepole of the woodhouse and sits apnrt at the conceit, and is wrapped in the thoughtful abstracted silence until the programme is about half through, opens out, when he doeB come in, with a wail that curdles the blood in a frozen beet, and rouses all the other members of the troupe to ft very agony of frenzied emulation. Near Epiual, France, three young sters bought two quart bottles of brandy at the fair, and drank the whole between them within nn hour, when they becnnie insensible. The youngest, aged thir teen, died on being taken home; an other, aged sixteen, expired a few houry later. The third, nged seventeen, rc covered, nud attended the funeral of his two comrades. It is said that atmospheric changes have a special influence on the rising of cream. Milk seems to know which way the wind is, and when it is north or northwest the cream rises freely. The next best condition of the atmosphere is wheu the wind is west ; the third best condition is when the wind is east ; the fourth, when it is south ; and the worst of all, wheu the wind is southeast. It is snid thnt oysters have not been so scarce in New York markets for twenty years as since the middle of, last Decem ber. This is due to the fact that tho season has been an unusually inclement one along tho coast, cnusing tho forma tion of ice on the rivers where the oysters nre usually obtained. The- demand for oysters, however, has been less thnn usual, iu consequence of the " hard j times, The private life of Commodore Van- derbilt was simple nnd unostentatious. In little mutters as well as in large ones he was very methodical. It is said thnt his favorite breakfast was the yolks only of three soft boiled eggs, ft cup of black tea, with twelve lumps of sugar in it, a little toast, and a lamb chop. He always nte this alone in his room, but the other meals were taken with the family. This is a Boston advertisement of 1808 : " Much wanted A neat, well behaved female, to do kitchen work in a small family at Ckorlestown, near Boston. Khe mav nrav and Bincr hvmns. but not i over the fish kettle; may 'go to meeting, i , . i i -i: ! 1. .1' r , bn(. not believe in tiie divinity 0f ; EU(W gmith nor belonR to tll0 wililung . COUKregation of midnight worshipers, I In nt the jcjHr(orv 0fiice, near ! i0i.ou Boston.' A Boston woman believes that she would die ut once if she failed to kiss a cross at exactly twelve o'clock every night. So precise is she as to the time that she lias a costly clock in her room, regulated every doy by a skilled work man, and servants nwnken her five min utes before midnight. At the instnnt the clock indicates twelve she kisses the cross and is thus assured, she thinks, of living another day. The remains of a balloon were lately found on the coast of Ireland, the car of which contained hum u remains. The Debuts thinks that they must be those of Prince, a sailor, who quitted Paris one dark night during the siege, in a violent wiud, and was never afterward heard of. What Btrength"eii8 this conjecture is that about the same time some Scotch fisher men saw something balloon-shaped dis appear iu the ocean toward the northwest coast. A traveler packed himself and a great quantity of baggage into a stage in Oro ville, Cal. The vehicle was so loaded that he had barely room to squeeze him self in; but he lit his pipe, and prepared to endure the hardship of a journey un der such circumstances. The straw under his feet caught fire from the pipe, and instantly the stage was in flames. He got out with difficulty, the baggage hindering him, and was fatally burned. A Country Editor's Appeal. From fk .V JTra, Cktttr, Cton. Delinquent enbuorilicr i behold before vou the editor of thirf paper ; he stands with his watch word pinned to hU manly hreant, pleading for bin due v.liich you your neglect, he baa been rednced to the wreck yon see before you. Can you look at that tear ntah ltd, eare worn, woea tegone virtnge " that dilapidated hat aud thread bare suit, and re tire to your lux ' nrioua couch to rest, with your newspaper hilt unpaid? are bo' linjuiitlyH nuuuuiuiug. But a few bliort months ago be was a guy and festive lad, chot-k full of tup aud a trtr energy (more I particular! v ap1, 1 hut, through
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