.: K if '1 HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. , . NIL DESPERANDtlM. v Two Dollars per Annum. YOL. VIII. . RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1878. yl2l,.- A Word to Iho Wise. Love hailed a little maid, Romping through the meadow; Heedless In the enn the played, Scornful of the hadow. , "Come with toe," whispered he; "Listen, sweet, to love and reason." "By tnd by," she mocked reply, 'Love's not in season." Years went years Come, Light mixed with shadow; Lore met the maid again Dreaming through the meadow. "Not so coy,", urged the boy, . "List in time to love and reason." "Uy and by," elm mused reply, "Love's ntill in season." Years went years came, Light changed to shadow; Love saw the maid again, Mailing in the meadow. "Pass no more, my dream is o'er, I can linteu now to reason" "Keep thee coy," whispered the boy, "Law's quite out of teaton." FENALLOSA. "Will yon to marry me?" Those were the words that, coming from the veranda iu a iloep rich voice and most teuderly impassioned tone, broke the capricious tilence that had just then fallen for a moment on the singing and lauching of the lighted rooms within. " Will you to marry me ?" It was Ignaeio Fenallosa's voice ; and Lo -was repentiDg a qnestion that, under various disguises, he had asked of Chrys tie perhaps a hundred times before. Ours was the prettiest, if not the busi est, little village in the world, with all its embowericg greeu close upyn the sea,and its two great counting-houses to which belonged all the wharves and warehouses of the South American trade carried on there ; and this was a young South American who had come there, with some others, in care of the consignees of the houses at home, for a mercantile aud English education. He was probably progressing reasonably that is, we did rot know whether he was or not. for we saw little of him when at length Clirystie came home, not as wild as a hawk, because she was, after an, more like a dove, but a shy. startled, swift-moving creature, with a cloud ot hair just a shade more yellow than flnxen, with immense dark-lashed tyes that yon took at first for black eyes, k till yon learned how dark the blue star lit midnight sky can be, and with a skin where the rich red came and went like a torch that the wind blows on, a tall, lithe, slender beauty, wayward as the weather, and born to have her will. Fenallosa was strolling by, one Septem ber day, as she sprung from the coach and ran up the crackling path, and threw her arms round John Allan, her brother-in-law, who came to meet her. The youth stopped deliberately and survey ed the scene, then lifted bis stick and shook'it at John, and strode on. We heard afterward that he that night as "".Bembled the other young Spaniards, as fofY were called in the village, and the retool their comrades, and gave them tf Understand that if they chose to daier, the race was free and fair, but thre was to be no foolishness, since for his part he meant to carry the girl with the corn -silk hair overseas with him and the priest's blessing ; and he appeared next day with a tassel of corn silk from some late field in his button-hole, and as many days thereafter f-s there was any to be had. He did not wait for an introduction, but climbed the fence one sunset, and accosted her in the garden with such an air of adoration and reverence that she could not be offended ; but as he could then only speak Spanish, and she could only speak English, all she could do was to retire with great dignity ; at which he was by no means abashed, for that, he knew, was her proper course, and he considered that he had now made her acquaintance, and he followed it up. A few weeks later he was heard to com plain to ynnng Juan that he had learned all the English hq wished ; ho had learned "No" and "Nevare," and he was going home in the next brig. Unnecessary to say that the brig sailed without him. She sailed many times without him, indeed, but never without the transaction of a little high tragedy on his part previously. He was leaning one spring day, over the rail of the veranda, the lazy roller creeping under neath for our house was close upon the sea, built so by grandpa's whim, the summer parlors almost, and the veranda quite, overhanging deep water, the solid old stone foundations belonging once to a light-house that had been removed when the brig rolled out again with all sail set ," Some day,"said he to Chrys tie, looking back at her, "you will be sailing out in her with me, and never - back." If Cbrystie had nodded, he would have been content, and have ask for no more just then, being strenuous that she should do nothing unbecoming; but she shook her head. He so took it all for granted that dissent on her part seemed absolute rebellion, and then he . snatched his hut and stalked off without a word, and meeting Leon at the gate, pitched him clean over the fence aud into the ditch. Of course a challenge was the result, and a duel was arranged, and I have no poubt would have come off but for notes that flew from the naughty Cbrystie to the combatants, iu conse quence of which, and in total ignorance that each note had been a counterpart of the other, they both appeared before her and bound themselves over to keep the peace. But Leon was a fickle youth, and it did not much signify. As for Fenalloes, we rather wondered at Chrys tie, for he was like nobo.iy else in the world, and with an irresistible personal charm, it seemed to ns such eyes were never seen except nrder Spanish brows, the fine black hair lay in great locks on a forehead that had something infantile in shape and hue, but the rest of the face was an unbroken bronze tint, except for the thin curved lips, and the teeth which made his laugh, the whole face breaking into dimples, dazzling. If Chrystie were not in love with him, the rest of ns barely escaped it, John Allan in the number. Of course as soon the danger of the duel was over, Chrystie took occasion to quarrel with Fenallosa's attentions, and to tell him to visit us no poor if he could not oease annoying her. We expected him to take her at her wordj but it was only the next day that he f topped on horseback under the window, having seen her face framed there, and having ridden np the garden path, as he told me on her disappearing, to ask her if "she have not changed her mind," for he never made the least secret of his suit, and seemed to feel that he had en listed ns all as his auxiliaries because he had rights, and success was but his de sert. He really rode up that day, though to display himself and his horse, for he rode like a young centaur; but it seemed that that was no way to win Chrystie. She had quite a different ideal soma little middle-aged, grief-worn hero, with iron-gray hair, perhaps, who had struck her fancy in a novel, but would have been fearfully uncomfortable iu house keeping; and she consequently regarded Fenallosa as a boy, than which nothing could have been more maddening to mm, for he regarded himself rather as a knight of old Spain.- "I have the blue blood 1" he cried to me, who happened on that day to be his confidante. "I ask her no beggar. It is the blue blood of Castile. -Seel" And I presume we should have seen, had I not snatched the penknife whose blade in another second would have pierced the white wrist. "A knight of the Round Table," said John Allan. "For all his nonsense, there is something of the Sir Galahad about him." When ho came again I was crossing the lane myself, and at the gate we saw (JhryBtie, sitting on the roof of the ver anda in the sun, and reeling some fine linen thread for her lace-work. With her fair hair and her color, her work, and the background of the sea be hind her, she certainly did look uncanny and like some lovely witch; all the more as, just at that moment, her voice began carolling: "Harkl hark 1 the lark!" sweet and strong as the lark's itself, in all the ripples of melody running np and down between heaven's gate and the low neBt in the corn field. Fenallosa stopped, and put Lis hands over his eyes. "Alas 1 alas I" he cried. "So young, so beautiful, so sweet, so wickodl " What do you mean ?" I exclaimed. "Ah 1 yon know yon know," he an swered, in solemnity, turning and re leasing the great eyes, "that of all things the good God do hate, it is the unthankful heart, and that girl she has no thank, she have no heart, she is the ingratitude itself. The great God can do but hate her alas I hate Chrystie 1" Of course I could only laugh at him: and so did Chrystie when he repeated it to her. "1 hope you will never grow up, you foolish boy, and never learn English !" she cried. "For you will never do nan so amusiug again. "What is that 'amusing?'" he an swered. "Is it to please you ? Then I will not to grow." He glanced up and down his shapely outlines, and looked down on her with a gay, pleased laugh. "Indeed, I can not," he said. "Iara the six feet now. To be more, it would be absurd, and less Desdichado .'" he cried, striding away; "she do not care if I be six-and-twenty 1" But the idea of a stature of six-and-twenty feet so tick led him that in a moment more he was laughing and beside her again. "Then I should not ask you, I should take you I" he said, "You learn the Spanish to-day ?" he asked, changing his tone to one of most seducing sweetness; for, with ail her coolness, Miss Chrystie was not neglecting so good an opportunity of increasing her vocabulary, and she took Spanish lessons from all the youths Fenallosa, Juan, Leon, Garcia, the first that came to book; and then, the lace work and reeling laid aside, the pretty Bight was to be seen of that fair head and that dark one bending over the page, Fenallosa's gr?at eyes rising, every now and then, to dwell on her, while, if he thought no one saw, he wonld furtive ly lift a long stray lock of the yellow hair and hold it to bis lips. One day, foug before the corn came again, he sauntered up the paths with what looked like tassel of the corn silk in his button-hole again. "What have you there?" cried Chrystie, suddenlv, as he ap peared. "I have my colors," he answered; "my scarf, my lady's favor." "Give it to me I" she cried, in some thing like one of his own furies. "Give it to me, or I will never speak with you again ! How did you come by it?" " I I took it," he answere'd humbly. " One doy as we read the Spanish." And he banded it to her, after he had taken it from the button-hole and kissed it. "Jde mi "he cried. "To wor ship, to adore, and not to can !" "And I suppose, said the heartless girl, " that you have been parading this every where, making a fool of yourself and me" " Making fool 1" he cried, clasping his hands. "Yes. you ridiculous boy. Do vou suppose it is my hair, that curl it Look at it. I bought it. It is some prison girl's, for all I know." "Dtos !" cried Fenallosa. And von did wear it ?" The disgust on his face quite outshone the wrath on hers, and it was a fortuight before he came near her again. In that fortuight I fancied Miss Clirystie did a little thinking; and we all studied a little Spanish more vigorously with Juan, who, although of the same age, was comparatively the staid guardian of the others. Chrystie had been singing a Spanish song with the guitar, Juan correcting her, and the rest of us were bending over the dictionary and grammars on the table, when, during a silence, a deep, grave voice sounded: " I should never to come again, but you do sing the song so badly;" and we looked up to see Fenal losa's head in the window, as he sur veyed J nan and Chrystie with tremen dous displeasure. Presently he came in, " What are you going to do on the Fourth, Fenallosa ?" asked John Allan, as he brought in a box of Roman can dles from the express wagon. " What is it that the custom of the country is to do ?" asked Fenallosa, for he had arrived last year just after that day. " Oh, burn powder." " And blow toot-horns." "And set towns ablaze with fire crackers." "And make every one wish there were no suoh thing as liberty," Powder I boras I It is sacrilege. Wish for no liberty 1 Yon deserve not the day. It should be in the church, processions, flowers, with prayers, with thanks. Powder, horns, fire-crackers detestable I" " But the fireworks are beautiful, Fenallosa," said Chrystie. "When John Bends np the rockets after dark from the roof, and showers of colored stars fall into the sea that showers of colored stars rise out of the deeps to meet ohl that is beautiful!" "That is beautiful!" said Fenallosa, all at once in a radiant humor. "I shall to see it. And I will play your Yankee Tootle on the toot-horns; you will give the instruction." And so Chrystie play ed him the desired tune, he standing beside her and adding to her guitar strain according flourishes on the piano. "It is a quickstep, your national tune. Your fast people do keep the time. Bnt it suits not the guitar. One night, Chrystie, you shall lean from the bal cony with me, and to hear the band down in the plaza play the soft musio very different music! and the seas roll ing other music in the harbor, mountain tops and south stars over ns " "1 do wish, Fenallosa," murmured Chrystie, as he bent his ear to listen, "that, if yon will make love to me, you wouldn't make it before all the world," "What care I for the world?" he cried. "The nnivorse is nothing then !f you but to listen i Ana ne turned about and caught my hand and kissed it in a pas sion of delight, since he dared not kiss Chrystie's, and he knew John . Allan would not mind; for he saw here his first good omen. , It was on the afternoon of the Fourth itself that Fenallosa appeared before ns in deep mourning, clad in the blackest habiliments of woe from top to toe. I confess I thought it was a part of his love-making, and he was only testifying to the condition of his emotions, or else that some revolution had turned up in South America that he was contrasting with our happy day of independence. But it was quite otherwise. The news had just come of the loss of a great-uncle, whom he had never seen, but who had left him a silver mine in the moun tains, a troop of slaves, a coffee planta tion, and a few other trifles. "I shall go back one day now to manoeuvre, to manage, my estate" he said, grandilo quently. " But not alone I go. They are not mine; they are hers." And he felt more than ever assured that, after this, things must turn out as he wished, aud he surveyed himself and the inky hue of his garments with ineffable satis faction, while Chrystie brought him the iced lemonade with which he celebrated, and which he regarded with unfeigned contempt. - Garcia and Leon were playing a duet on the piano as he came in. It is true that the music they played had never been written, but they had a bound vol ume of the Bazar open on the rack be fore them, and appeared to be going through it Philharmom'cally, their eyes fixed on the page and running along the lines, turning the leaf religiously when they reached the foot, nodding their heads to the time, going back for a fresh start or to play over some bar more to their mind, and jabbering together now and then without looking off concerning the fingering or the phrasing, and get ting out of it all a not unpleasant ring ing and clanging. As Fenallosa came in in his dark array, with the shining new block hat in his hand, they glanced at each other quickly, but banged away, till, having made his compliments to the rest, he wheeled on them, and with one of his gestures, which even Leon and Garcia never thought of disobeying, brushed them from their seats, and ad justed himself in their place. " They profane," he said, looking np at me. I used to think that nobody ever looked exactly like him, so nobody ever played exactly like Fenallosa. Playing seemed to be as natural to him as breathing, as natural as it is to any fish to wave his fins in the water, and the keys always sang under his hands. Even Chrystie listened when Fenallosa played. "They conquered the wild creatures with the music in the old day," said he to me, as 1 leaned on the instru ment. " I shall yet conquest of her," indicating Chrystie with his head. And there was a conscious power about him as the great chords rolled out. " Ah, Fenallosa," cried Chrystie once when he teased her, " why can't yon al ways be the man that you are when yon. are playing, and not the boy that " "Chrystie," he said, quietly, "why can you not to be the woman of dignity that does to tell me my fault, and not the girl I see when I pass the window, dancing alone with her arms above her head and all her silver bangles ringing like the Almee's bells ? Eh? But the beautiful arms 1 The fair head - " "There you go again I" cried Chrys tie. To-day, as Fenallosa played, there was something very grand and solemn in his thonghts: one might fancy that he was np among the purple slopes and silver peaks of the hills at home with the work of death. By degrees, though,more and more sweetness stole into the meas ures, with all sorts of hesitating turns and melancholy cadences; he had forgot ten himself and his boyishness in the musio. But when at length he paused, it was to see Chrystie's eyes swimming in tears, and all the boy was uppermost again. " She is ice, but I melt her 1" he cried: and immediately he began playing, with a total oblmon of dead uncles and living coffee estates, all sorts of gay dance tunes and the airs of sweet love songs, ending witn a nieuiey ot na tional airs framed in a fanfaronade of trumpet calls, drum beats, and shrill cornet strains, for Fenallosa was a mas ter of musio. Then suddenly he arose, bowed to every body, and darted for the hall and his hat. found the hat gone. and in its place the light straw ruin that Garcia had left. You should have seen the transport of rage into which Fenallosa fell, and have heard the anathemas on the luckless heads of his compatriots, the adjurations that they should want hats all their lives and have no heads to put them on, while the hat went spinning to the ceiling, came down, and was trampled under foot till there was nothing left of it. "A nice prospect for a wife!" said L at his elbow. "A pretty husband. yon!" He turned, laughing in an in- etant. ma wnne teem glistening ana tut ieoe full of color j "Why she not to pacify me?" he cried. And of oourse we all laughed with him, for the greater part of the time Fenallosa was as good as a play. But there was no help fot it; FenaJ losa now wonld not stir out of the house till night. "It is indecorous," he said. "I am not to mock the memory of my nncle. Here 1 stay!" And he was as good as his word, taking tea with us, and conducting himself with the most charming dignity, evidently in a sense of the honor due the day. After dark, when we had sat for a while on the ver anda overhanging the sea, watching the great stars rise from the water, brother John and John Allan went up to the roof with the fireworks, and Fenallosa followed; an increase of two or three other youths, Emily's lovers and Sue's, presently taking place, with the inevit able Spanish lads dying to play some fresh prank on Fenallosa. But Fenal losa shortly returned to us, and he and Chrystie leaned over the rail together to watch the colored lights in the wave breaking on the cliff bulow, and singing some refrain half nndsr the breath to gether. Just as we vere in the midst of our cries of admiration at the effect of the Bengal lights, I heard feet on the roof of the veranda overhead, a tittering and te-heeing, and directly down came a long pole with a huge bunch of fire crackers on the end, spluttering and fizzing and flaring, and exploding straight in the face of Fenallosa and Cbrystie, shedding sparks everywhere about us; and in another moment there was a blaze,ashriek,and Chrystie's mus lins were all aflame. There was one scream from every month: "Oh, she will burn to death I ' for the summer parlors had neither rug nor curtain, and there was nothing to smother the blaze. But before the words were well uttered a sheet of fire went hurtling through the air. "Fear not I" cried Fenallosa, " I too die !" And we saw that he had caught her in his arms and had leaped into the sea. " Hurry 1 hurry !". I shrieked. " He can't swim ! he can't swim I Oh, yon have killed them both I" But while I was exclaiming, a dozen long legs were scrambling down to the beach, the boats were out, and before long for he had come to the top again, and although he could not swim he could keep afloat Fenallosa and Chrystie were pulled in, safe and alive, but both of them badly scorched, and what was left of Chrystie's muslins one black and dripping rag. But we wrapped her in the cloak with which I had run down, and by the next evening her injuries were not apparent, except for the weakness from the shock she had sustained. Fenallosa hod been at the door at sunrise and at noon, and atr twilignt he CRme again, and now he sat beside Chrystie as she lay on the cool wicker sofa on the veranda, half covered with the flowers that the deeply repentant young scamps hod heaped upon her. It was from there, as the evening dark ened, that the words of which I told yon enme in on that tendealy impassioned tone: " Will you to marry me? Ah, mi povrecita. amiguita Chrystita mi a !" At which I hastened to make a racket of any sort. When, by-and-by, I went out on the veranda, Chrystie looked up and said, shyly, "Laura, dear, I. am engaged to Fenallosa; that is, I am engaged for a month for just a month, you know." "A month I" I cried, in amazement. "A month. By that time, you know, ho will be" " I shall be marry in just tree weeks I" cried Fenallosa. Your Fourth was my day of the independence." And marry in three weeks he.did Harper's Bazar, A Tunnel Costing Four Million Dollars. The Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle says: Ground was broken for the Sntro tunnel on the 19th of October, 1869. The work has, therefore, required eight years, eight months and ten days to complete. The progress was very slow at first, all drilling having been by hand; but in the spring of 1874, experiments with a Burleigh drill having demon strated the advantages to be derived from the use of that machine, a carriage capable of supporting six of those drills while at work was made, and on the 22d day of June, 1874, four were started. The progress was now much more rapid than ever before in the history of tun neling in the world, and on August 7, in the same year, two more drills were put to work. This made six altogether. From that date the average progress was over 800 feet per month np to April, 1877, when, the header having entered the brood Comstock mineral uelt, the heat became so intense that two drills had to be taken off the carriage. From that day the average monthly progress did not exceed 250 feet. Work has been continued uninterruptedly from the time that ground was broken until to day, but at times only two men were at work in the tunnel. The greatest pro gress was in December, 1875, when the heading was advanced 417 feet, and the least in October, 1870, when it was only advanced nineteen feet. The total length of the tnnnel, as stated in the official chart published last September, is 20,170 feet. The tunnel being con nected with the Comstock workings, the next move of Mr. Sutro will doubtless be to start north and south drifts to connect with all the mines on the lode. The work has cost nearly $4,000,000. An Unparalelled Case. ine .New York papers announced, a few days ago, that an Italian youth aged nineteen had fallen desperately in love with a French girl of sixteen while they were crossing the Atlantio in a steam ship together. He could speak no French; she could speak no Itulion.and they had no common tongue in which to communicate their thoughts and feel ings. Nevertheless, he managed to in form her by eloquent pantomime of the fervor of his passion, without making any particular impression her. He did not dispair, however. He continued his voiceless suit, and took occasion during its progress to inform her of his fi nancial condition, giving her to under stand that it was such as to fully justify him in the perpetration of marriage. This part of his communication was ob served to touch her; her former indiffer ence disappeared; she rapidly melted into compliance; and when they reached our shorts they were promptly united. TIMELY TOPICS. A rat weighing fifteen pounds is exhib itor! in a PhilololnViift hppr dlinn. Tt in a foreigner, coming from South America, The ' British interest " which has the largest representation in the present House of Commons is that of the soldier and sailor. There are two hundred and thirty-nine men in the present House of Commons who are either active or retired members of the army or navy. It is not generally known that in the oil region of Pennsylvania many of the engines which pump the oil wells are run with natural gas instead of steam. The gas is conveyed from the well to the engine through an iron pipe, being forced from the well through the pipe into the cylinder. A strange manifestation of affection occurred recently on the farm of Aaron Sutton, in Coffin's Summit, N. Y. A kitten, several days old, had become separated from its companions, and was adopted by a hen. The kitten was found under the shelter of the hen's wings, and, when taken away, the hen flew at the person who took it and show ed every sign of displeasure. The cruelty of which a Wisconsin wife complains, in her suit for divorce, is that her husband tied her securely and shaved her head. The defence is that she bleached her black hair to lemon color by the use of acid, and that he, deeming such a thing highly scan dalous, took the only means of undoing what she had done. He says that he bought a wig for her, imitating her nat ural hair, so that her bare head might be concealed while nature was remedy ing the disfiguration. The attempted assassination of the emperor of Germany recalls the fact that the month of May has indeed been marked on several occasions by crimes or attempted crimes of the same nature. On the 11th of May, 1812, Mr. Percival was assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons. On the 30th day of May, 1842, Queen Victoria was fired at while driving down Constitution Hill in an open carriage by John Francis. The 14th of May was the date of the murder of Henry IV., of France, by Revaillac; and on the 4th of May, 1874, Queen Isabella, of Spain, was twice fired at by La Riva. At Rochester, Mich., they have a unique way of advertising the men who stand on the church steps after meeting to stare at the ladies. The following card is kept standing in the Era of that place: The Donkey club of this village would respectfully inform the young ladies especially, and the publio gener ally, that they have made arrangements for an extensive demonstration on the steps in front of the Methodist chapel the members locating themselves on either side of the main entrance on Sunday evening next. Positions taken immediately after the close of the rel ig ious exercises within." The difficulty of providing horses with forage in war has set the ingenious to work in endeavoring to compound a condensed horse buscuit, and Col. Ra velli, an Italian officer, seems to have been very successful in this respect. By direction of the Minister of War, very careful experiments have lately been made with cavalry horses, and a com mission report that not only when the biscuit is administered with proper care is it consumed with appetite and easily digested, but that the horses fed upon it actually increased in vigor. There is really nothing new in this, for three cen turies ago horses in England were often fed in the same way. When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837, the estimate for her per sonal expenses was based on the charges of the household of William the Fourth. For her majesty's privy purse they set apart $300,000 yearly; for household salaries, $056,300; for ordinary house hold expenses, $862,500; for royal bounty, etc., $66,000; and for various other small items, $40,200. The total is about $1,925,000. Besides this she has $215,000, being the revenue of the Duchy of Lancaster. Thus, the sum which her majesty receives yearly, for her privy purse, is $515,000. This is entirely outside of her actual ordinary expenses. It is clear pocket money. An umbrella trick has been introduced by London thieves. The operator enters a jeweler's store with an umbrella in his hand, having pulled down the silk coverin g without securely fastening it, so that its folds hang around the handle and form an open-mouthed net. Into the bag thus opened it is not difficult to jerk a ring or two, or even a larger arti cle, which will fall into it without the slightest sound. If the shopman misses the treasure thus abstracted, he will run after his customer, and as a matter of course, the other will pretest inno cence, A search will ensne, at the end of which the owner of the umbrella will be struck by a bright thought, and will nnnseil bring to ligbt the desired ob ject, apologizing in the blandest way. and making merry over a joke which ,has so nearly, as he says, assumed a se rions character. Statistics have lately been published in Germany of the rate of mortality in different European armies. From the tables given it appears. that the average yearly deaths per 1,000 were in the Prussian army, in the years 1867-9, 6.4 ; in tne naxon, ibus-9, also 0.4 ; in the English, 1871-4, 8-4; in the French, 1872-4. 8.7 ; in the English. 1860-70. 9.5 ; in the French, 1862-9, 10.1 ; in the Belgian, 1870-4, 10.7; in the Italian, 1870-6, 11.6 ; in the Portuguese. 1861-7, 12.7 ; in the Belgian, 1867-9, 12.8; in the Russian, 1871-4, 14.7 ; in the Austrian, 1870-73. 15.3 : in the Russian. 1862-71. 15.4 ; in the Italian, 1864-9, 16.3 ; and in the Belgian from 1862 to 1866, 20.3. The comparatively small mortality in the Prussian army is attributed not only to the favorable climate, bnt also to the care taken with regard to the food, clothing, and general well being of the ouueri Hydrophobia, or Fright f We clip the following from a recent Paris letter:- A frightful death, attrib uted, and prima facie rightly, to hydro phobia, has befallen a young, amia ble, and accomplished gentleman, who seemed entering on life with the world at his feet. M. Cheri Montigny, son of M. Montigny, manager of the Gymnase theatre, and the incomparable actress, Rose Cheri, who, twenty-one years ago, sacrificed her own life and saved that of her infant by sucking his neck when he was attacked with croup, has died in terrible agony after the bite of a dog. He lived with his father in a handsome villa with a large garden, at 75 Rue de la Pompe Passy. A play of his, " Une Innocente," was in the bills for perform ance this week; M. Montigny, seventy years old, was about to make over the theatre to him. A fortnight ago, M. Cheri Montigny, coming home late, received, as usual, a deep-mouthed welcome from two pet dogs in the courtyard, one a Danish coach dog, the other a large terrier He was wont to encourage them to bark and jump upon him. On this occasion the terrier, pushing his caresses only a little further than usual, slightly bit his nose. He perceived a little blood, and on going to bed wiped his face and thought no more of it. Next morning it was ascertained that the dog had bit ten several other dogs, and he was taken to a veterinary surgeon, who did not suspect hydrophobia, but reported his death, which took place in three days, from internal inflammation. M. Cheri Montigny became uneasy He concealed the matter from his father, but bought several medical books, and waited with anxiety the fifteenth day, when he read that hydrophobia would declare itself. Last Wednesday he dined with Madame Judic, looked well and gay, spoke of the dog biting him, but showed no uneasiness. On Thursday he went to the review, and returned with headache and fever. Next day he was treated for sunstroke, bnt on Saturday he said he knew he was going mad, and asked an old servant to kiss him for the last time, begged to have a straight waistcoat put on, that he might harm no one, and died soon after in horrible con tortions. It is very remarkable that he had no symptom of illness before the review, and the question arises whether his im agination, acting on a brain disordered by sunstroke, did not make him fancy he had hydrophobia. There is no re port of mad dogs at Passy, and nothing is said about the Danish companion of the terrier. The France indeed reports that a groom, who was also bitten, is at death's door, but this is not confirmed by the latest papers. Not a Cuse of Kuickle. There was a picnic in Eby's Grove, near Dayton, Ohio, one day recently. Some of the young men wandered down the river. In a secluded nook they dis covered a pile of female clothing, They looked into the river for signs of life or death but saw nothing. A newspaper reporter of the party took down all the surroundings, rummaged among the clothes, and found there were several sets or suits of them, little and big. Iu one of the pockets a love letter was found, written by Hal to Julia. The clothing was tenderly bundled up and taken to the picnio camp, stuffed unde a buggy seat, and the party started home feeling very sad. It did not occur to them at once that it was a little strange ayonng woman and two or three little girls should commit suicide all at once. It was perhaps Julia and her lit tle sisters who had thus plunged into eternity. It was a very sad case all agreed disappointed love perhaps and on the theory of suicide the love letter would be a good thing for the account. The clothes wer6 taken to the police office. The reporter was satis fled that he had a good thing. The account was read evidently, for early in the morning an angry father came rag ing into police quarters demanding the clothes. His daughter had taken a walk on the river bank with two or three lit tle neighbor girls, and the place being secluded and the temperature warm, and the water inviting, they concluded to take a bath, Soon they heard voices in the woods, and hid themselves in the bushes. They huddled together as quiet as mice until the intruding young men had come and gone gone with their clothes. The only thing they could do was to remain auietlr where they were until after dark and then steal to their homes in the kindly shadows of mgni. The Palace of the Doges of Yenice. We visited the Palace of the Dotes. writes a correspondent from Venice, and found it the most interesting historical structure that we have yet visited. Here are the council chamber and the trial room of the Council of Ten, and the passages leading to the Bridge of Sighs, from the trial room, all so perfect and well planned as to need no explanation. There is also the anti-chamber of the three Inquisitors of the Republic and the series of cells, or rather stone dun geons, where political prisoners were confined and secretly killed. There are at least twenty of these dungeons, some of them underground, narrow passages leading from one to the other, and there is also in these dark and dismal holes the place where prisoners were executed, with a drain pipe to carry off the blood to the canal. What human misery there must have been in these dungeons! The various rooms are decorated very elegantly and the walls and ceilings covered with paintings, by all the great Venetian artists, most of them repre senting battles of the republic. The library in this paluce is famous all over the world, consisting of 220,000 volumes and 40,000 manuscripts. They fill sev eral immense rooms, and some of them have marked on their backs the date of publication as far back as the twelfth century. The interior of the palace is immense and the rooms are all large, with lofty ceilings and the most elegant ornamentation. They are evidently just in the condition that they were left when the first Napoleon took Venice and broke up thj Inquisition, dismantled the prisons and did many other good things for Venice, though he was not generally in the habit of doing well for lose he eoaqoeredt Items of Interest. A never-failing revolver The earth. Don't collect the bits " of a woman's mind. Bathing suits especially at this sea son Camden Post. A touohing incident A physioian feeling a patient's pulse. Advice to statesmen by the Chioago Times: Do right don't write. This is the most unkindest cut of all." as the standing rib said to the carv ing knife. Wuen the festive fly Gets ready to die. He buries himself In an apple pie. A Chinaman in St. Louis boasts possession of a set of rice-stioks a thou sand years old, wnicn nave aescenuea heirlooms from father to son. There are more than 2.000 photograph galleries in Paris, employing upward of 18,000 persons, and doing a business of more than 80,000,000 francs a year. It is said, remarks a New York paper, that Texas does not feel the hard times. She has more miles of railroad being constructed than all the rest of the Union. There is a fortune in store for the genius who can invent a way of carrying home a mackerel so it will resemble a parcel containing twenty-six yards of silk for his dear wife. A bov of five died iu Manchester. Eng., from hydrophobia, caused by the bite of a cat. The wound healed, and he appeared to be cured, until a few days before his death, when he began to rave. A vein search That of the leech. Gowanda Enterprise. A vane seorch Lookinsr for the one that the wind car ried off. Hackensack Republican. A vain search Looking for business with out advertising for it. Soender. a well-known English jour nalist, and his two sons were drowned while bathing. All could swim, but a huge wave overwhelmed them, and in its retreat broke away the shifting sand, and drew them into an unsuspected cur rent. As an illustration of the present value of horses in England, strong farming and dray horses brought at the late Howden'horse fair $250 to $350 each; harness horses, $250 to $300; handsome carriage horses, $350 to $500; and hunt ers from $250 to $750. At a festival of lawyers and editors, a lawyer gave a toast: " The Editor ho always obeys the call of the devil." An editor responded: "The Editor and the lawyer tne devu is sausnea wiui i" copy of the former, but requires the original of the latter." It was a wish of Bryant, they say, that he might die in June. We never tlrmght seriously enough on tho subject to insist on a time, bnt so far as we have any preference, to be definite about it, we have always thought we should like to die on the liUtU of i eb ruary. Burlington Hawkrye. A monkeyish letter ape X. Keokuk Constitution. A sharper letter keenO. Cine. Sat. Night. A noisy letter- blue J. A working letter busy B. A disfigured letter black I. A game let terbilliard Q.Phil. Bui. Observiug letters, I.C. Assuring letters, O. K. Exacting letters, 0. O. D. Breakfast Tabic. Jjetters have peace. It was not believed that the Paris Ex position of 1878 would be a financial success, yet the government commission ers already feel that they are out of financial difficulty. The cost of build ings and maintenance is estimated at about $9,000,000, and a revenue of nearly $7,000,000 is already assured. The attendance has exceeded expecta tions. Remarkable Cures. Among those who have been most remarkably affected by accidental sur prises are the deaf and dumb, and tales of unknown antiquity relate how speech or hearing has been recovered or im proved in this way. As a case in point. About 1750 a merchant of Cleves named Jorissen, who had become almost totally deaf, sitting one day near a harpsichord whilo some one was playing, and having a tobacco-pipe in his mouth, the bowl of which rested accidentally against the body of the instrument, was agreeably surprised to hear all the notes in the most distinct manner. This accident was a happy one, for Jorissen soon learned, by means of a piece of hard wood placed against his teeth, the other end of which was placed against the speaker's teeth, not only to keep np a conversation, but to understand the least whisper. Other cures have been brought abont less by skill than acci dental circumstances. There is a story of a Frenchman who, through a sword wound received in a duel, suffered from internal abscesses, which forced him to walk in a stooping posture. Some time after, becoming engaged in another affair of honor, this time with pistols, the bullet of his adversary chanced to pass exactly through the abscesses caused by the former wound, which, making them discharge, not only re lieved him from the stoop, but caused him to walk with rather a stiff carriage ever afterward. Reservoir Fish. A reservoir would not at first thought seem to be a good place to fish in. New York gets more natural history from its water pipes than it desires, so it was propos d recently to fish out the reser voir with nets. The seine is drawn so as to cover as wide an area of water as possible and drive the fish into the cor ner. The first haul made resulted in 2,700 fish. There were a seven-pound pickerel and a four-pound black-bass, besides many smaller specimens of the same varieties. Besides these there were uncounted rock-bass, sun-fish, cat fish, suckers and some eels, a few of which were three-pounders. All ex cepting the choice fish of the first haul were buried, as it was the desire of the department not to give too great pub licity to the fact that the reservoirs needed fishing. When the fishing was finished over 9,000 fish of various kinds were caught. The nah was given t9 the u i - V
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