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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
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