- i " iiiill HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher, NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. IX. : , V MPGAVAY, ELK COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1879. NO. 4. e-' v Which Way? Children, stop jour play, And tell me which way I lhall take to reach the city on the hill. . . First the girl, With a imilo i "This way i Through the woods, across the stile, By a brook where wild flowers grow, Where the birds slog sweet and low . Then you forgot it is so far, And how tired yon are. For the oalm rests yon, makes yon still, If you take this way to the city on the hill." Then the boy, , Wish a frown t " This way ; By the mill and through the town 1 You will see the soldiers there, Hear the drums and pass te fair i Then you forget the way Is long ' While you walk in the throng, For the noise wakes you, makes you thrill, When you go this way to the city on the hill.' The Tile-Room at Deadwood. For twenty years the old mansion at Deadwood, with its gables, mullioned doorways and embayed windows, had stood unoccupied. Colossal elms swept over it, rank shrubbery hid its lower windows, and lush grasses and weeds swamped the garden, yet still the place was beantifnl. It is said to have been built after a magnificent estate in Wales; but no one remembered its origin. It stood on a great hillside overlooking the sea, and sailors and boatmen going by always looked up at it as something pioturesque and grand. The mansion Ftood solitary, yet was bnt half a mile from the village by the river crossing the plain beneath, and 'when, r.fter this great trial of its inde- etruotiblenesB, human life appeared there, it was immediately discovered by the surprised villagers. Half a score of men had mowed their way np the front door, had set every ohimney smoking from the great fires bnilt be low, had hacked and hewed mercilessly at the overgrowth of intrusive shrub bery, and finally a carriage had oonie bringing a fair yonng girl with a mulat to attendant. " I think it's it's fearsome like, don't yon, Miss Queenie?" "Nonsense; it's delightfully antique and romantic Only I'm not going to live in the dark. Tell the men to cut down those locusts, Patty; they shut out the sun and are worm-eaten beside. Oh, its going to be lovely here, Patty I I'll have those walks leading down to the gate j ust blazing with tulips in a month." " What will you do for company, Kins Queenie?" " Oh, Guy is coming the first of . May." It was early in April then. The brave young heiress of Deadwood took bravely hold of the work in hand. She called the sunlight in through curtains of while laee. She burg the chamber walls with rose-colored paper. She spread bright rugs over the blackwalnnt floors and filled tbn rooms with graceful bamboo and softly-cushioned furniture. And when her little dot was quite expended upon further details of china, books and statues, the girl sit down to enjoy the home she had made. It was the first sue had ever had; and already her homeless life rested in it with a feeling of satisfaction which had been found in no other souroe. " I am glad Guy is poor, because now I can give Lira a home with mysolf," she rnurtnurod over her wedding clothes, which she was embroidering. He shfcll have a bnggy, and pick up a nice prao tice at the village; and so we have our good prospcots after nlL" For the matrimonial prospects of these yourjg people of eighteen and twenty two had looked doleful, very doleful, until the woman suddenly rose equal to the emergenoy. "Deadwood is mine, you say, Mr, Quills f " she said to the lawyer. "Yes." " And it won't sell and won't let. And I have ouly five hundred dollars of in terest monov in bank stock ?" "Jnstso." " Then I will live at Deadwood," "Alone?" "WeJl, yes, for the present; Patty and I," with u smile, sweet, yet quizzi cal, at the old lawyer's dismayed face. So far all had succeeded better than she had dreamed possible. She had made the old mansion habitable and pleasant; and now if the fallow land were brought under a man's hand, the hitherto unprofitable piece of property ' might even yield an income for Miss Elinor St. Edgar and her husband, Mr. Quill declared. But the things everybody expeot sel dom do happen after all, aud the things . nobody expected to transpire are always confronting us. After a blithe letter of invitation from his lady-love, Guy Blon del arrived at Deadwood one fine May day, and found .Queenie, as everybody called her, so pale, so grave, so almost , speechless, that he was dumbfounded. " Not a single smile yet, Quoeuie ? Why, what has come over you Have you seen a ghost ?" The girl winced as if he had struck her. "You do not believe in ghosts, Guy?" "Certainly not; no sensible person does. But what hag changed you so, Queenie? You chill and astonish me, you have altered so iu a few weeks I And I expeoted to find yon perfectly trium phant over your success, and ready to ' obey your, directions and turn farmer doctor at once." " Guy, we oan never be married." ' "Queenie I" " Something has happened to change all my pleasant hopes, Guy something strange and unexpected, vet none the less conclusive." Then Queenie told her story. " One of the rooms, Gay, I have not touched or altered an apartment on the ground-floor, faoing the north, finished with tile, and so oold, dar and gloomy that I found it quite a hopeless matter to make it healthy and pleasant Yet it is a handsome room, with inlaid floor and tiles of such great worth that I wonder the old mansion has not been broken into and pillaged. o them. Probably no one about here knows their worth, Bnt, as I say, I left the tile parlor unchanged, even from tue cod webs and yews crowing against the win' dows. But it is the only unpleasant . , ., , 3 I i : l . i UHOe in me houbu, buu un noiguuur hood to the bright little sitting-room I have made has never troubled me. " One chilly, rainy night less than a week ago, and after I wrote you to come, I sat reading by the bright hearth-fire of my sitting-room until nearly twelve o'clock. Patty was asleep in a little room leading from it which is directly beneath my chamber, and the other two servants, housemaid and man, were asleep in their rooms in another part of the house. I had told Patty not to sit up : yet when it grew midnight the sol itnde of the great houBe weighed on me a little, and I felt loth to go up to my chamber. Finally I wrapped myself in my dressing-gown and lay down on a couch before the hearth, knowing that the great wood fire would keep the room warm till morning. I had lain there but a moment, I think, when I heard a voice in the room say, ' Look under the hearth of the parlor It was so distinct a voice that the room seemed to echo with it. I don't know why I did as I did do ; I should thought I would have been afraid ; but I sprang np, caught a light from the table, cross ed the hall and opened the door of the parlor." " Poor little Queenie 1 You had over exerted jourself, and your brain had grown excited and unsettled." "Bnt, Guy, I knelt down in that dark room by t he hearth and passed my hand over the smooth tiles. Almost instantly I found that one was loose. It was small, and I pried it up with a hairpin. Here beneath lay a small, yellow, folded t'sper. I stared at it a moment, then took it out, and seeing, as I expeoted, hat it was covered with writing, I only t ijiped to look once more around the ilent black parlort then hurried back to my sitting-room. "Oh. Guv. it was no coincidence, mv finding a paper ia' hat plaoe 1 The pipe r is of the utmost importance. You may see that for youarelf. Here it is," and rising, Queenie took it from one of the corner cabinets secured to the wall, and plaoed it in Guy's hand. A bit of coarse, yellow parchment, the chirog raphy quaint, the ink faded; but it was the written confession of one Gilbert St. Edgar that the estate of Deadwood had been wrongfully obtained, and that he had wrongfully defrauded the right ful line of inheritance; and he further more besought and instructed the find ers of the paper, which he declared hidden nnder the hearth of the tile parlor for safe preservation a few days before his death, to restore the ill gotten estate of Deadwood to its rightful inheritors. Guy Blondel'a. scholarly ace grew grave and a trifle paler as he read. Anticipating what it boded for him, he made a strong effort for self preservation. "Queenie, dear Queenie, yon surr-ly don't mean that you are going to give no Deadwood and all our hopes for this old scrap of paper f " " Deadwood is not mine, Guy." " Oh, Queenie, don't plunge yonrself into after poverty and separate us for this unsubstantial idea I " . " I will not, if it is unsubstantial, Guy. I hopo it may prove so. Let us both hope so, and be happy, at least un til we find out," said the girl, miking .n effort to stave off her own discourage ment. She was full of pity, too, for the pain of the yonng heart all hers in its freshness and strength- Yet nothing overcame the power of that honest blood which had come with the strong blue eyes. She held firm day after day, only replying to Guy's pleadings: " Deadwood must be mine, Guy. If it is not mine, I do not want it. It would never be home else." At last Mr. Quill, who had been sent for, came. Queenie withheld the story of her dream, as Guy called it, but inquired, us quietly as possible, as to the exist ence of Gilbert St. Edgar. " Oh, yes, my dear; your great-great-uncle. I never saw him, of course, but my father remembers him." ' " I have a reason for wanting to see his penmanship, Mr.Quill," said Queen ie. "Do you think there ia any in ex istence!" " Oh, yes; I know there is. , My un cle, who was a friend of his, left a quantity of old papers and letters, among which are written bills of this same Gilbert St. Edgar. I'll look when I go home, and send you a specimen of the old man's chirography. Very inter esting, these old relics, Miss St. Ed gar." And Mr. Qaill partook of a delioious tea and rode back to town, never dream ing of the strained and anxious yonng hearts he had left behind him. Two days later, inolosed in a facetious note inquiring when the wedding was to be, arrived from Mr. Quill a bit of yel low paper signed by Gilbert St. Edgir. With the color ebbing from cheek and lips, Queenie and Guy compared it to the parchment taken from the hearth of the tile parlor; for it was identical, and the same penmanship. There could be no doubt. " And now, Queenie ?" " Now all hope is at an end; at least for long years, Guy. But wo may get rioh by-and-bye. and then " Tried beyond endurance he flung the slender hand from bis own. The next moment he turned with a bitter ory of remorse, and snatched the girl from the floor. . She had fainted. He never gave way after that No more anger or reproaches. He realized that Queenie, too, suffered, and tried to comfort and susta'n her. The sad days went by. Queenie bid the dainty wedding garments even from her own eyes. At length one evening the last even ing a carriage whirled np the drive. The occupant, drenohed with rain, sprang into the house and the room. " Excuse my wet coat rain right in my face all the way. Oh, hang prelim inaries I Here are you young folks making yourselves miserable; both look as if you'd had a fit of sickness; and and why, by George, Miss St. Edgar, old Gilbert St. Edgar was as mad aa a March hare, and finally killed himself in that tile parlor I" shouted Mr. QnilL "I didn't tell you before sort of hated to dash a brave young thing like yon; but they said the house was haunted, and a room where a sui cide has been committed is an ngly neighbor to a lady's boudoir I But bless my soul I this old parohment ain't worth Rhnoks not worth shucks, my dear Miss St. Edgar. . He never de frauded anybody of Deadwood. He in herited it from bis brother, as honest a man as ever lived. I've looked up the proofs been three days about itand then came back as quick as I could to let you know the truth. Hang that old tile parlor I Seal it up I Tear it down I But, anyway, get married and be happy, young folks. Don't be frightened out of the wedding." They took his advice Queenie and Guy. The walls and floors of the old tile parlor were dismantled of their tiles, the whole north side turned into glass doors which opened into the gar den, the walls hung with a paper of golden arabesques and rosebuds, and filled with a piano and harp, rose pink couches, books of poetry, pictures and marble Cupids and angels. The ghost of Gilbert St. Edgar never walked the re again. American Monthly. Chinese Poetry. Chinese poetry is the subject of an in teresting article in Macmillan's Maga zine. Few persons appreciate the gen uine poetry to which the Chinese have given birth, yet poetry oooupies almost as important a place in their literature as in onr own. Here is a literal trans lation of a short poem: ' The heart, when it ia harassed, finds no place of rest. The mind,' when embittered, thinks only of grief. In the following the writer is sup posed to be apostrophizing a bed of chrysanthemum plants in full bloom: See their slender shadows pictured on the fence whilst their delicate perfume soents the garden walls; Their tints, now dark, now light, flash one against the other; The dews as they drop strengthen their frames; Hungry, they feed on air What can with their bright colors compete t Talking of them odb might pity their languor, as of that ef an invalid; Delicate, they open with constitutions at best autumnal, Tet say not that they bloom to no purpose; For did they not by their charms inspire Tao to poetry and conviviality ? Here is one that has been metrically translated. It is called the " Tiny Rill:" Over green fields and meadows a tiny rill ran (The little precious coquette'): She waa pretty, she knew, and thus early Degan Gajly flirting with all that she mot. Her favors on both sides she'd gracefully shower, Regardless of whom thev mieht be: One moment she'd kisB the sweet lips of a flower, . The next lave the root of a tree. - She wonld leap from one rock to another in piay, - Tumble down on her pebbly bed v . Like a naiad, let the dazzling, sunsmitten spray, Fill in piismatio gems round her head. Sometimes she wonld lash herself into rage, Ana rusti roaring and seeming along; ' i'.l a bit of smooth ground would her anger assuage, When she'd iiqnidly murmur a song. Adulterated Food. From: facts and data in our possession. says the New York Herald, it is sus ceptible of proof that nearly all the es sentials of life are seriously tampered with, ana that the adulteration of food is the rule rather than the exception. The following list is carefully prepared, and will give an idea of the extent to which the evil extends: Sausages Made of impure meats and seasoned with spices. Bread Mixed with alum, lime water and flour ground in with lead . Flour Adulterated with damaged peas, powdered alum and casein, in which are 'worms, insects, acari and smut. Coffee Adulterated with cocoanut shells, almond shells, chiooory, beans, peas and corn. Tea Colored with black lead and Prussian blue. Oysters, Clams and Lobsters Stale and decaying. Cheese Colored witn saffron. Vene tian red, carrots 'and annotto, - whi ch latter is often found to contain poison ous chromates. Essences Adulterated and contami nated by nitro-benzole, pruasio acid, oil of turpentine, sulphuric aoid and citric acid. Sugar Injured by putrid blood, with which it is " purified," and adulterated with olav, sand and bean dust, with now and then a fair share of marble dust. Cake Flavored with oil of almonds. containing prussio acid. apices mack pepper, adulterated with buckwheat, caramel or shorts; cay enne pepper, adulterated with red lead, almond shells and ginger. Romance of the Custer Massacre. - Colonel Benteen, of the Seventh cav alry, left the impression in his testi mony in the Reno inquiry that Dr. Lord and Lieutenant Sturgis, who were with Custer, and whose bodies were not found, might be still alive and with the Indians. Away down in Maine this ray of hope fell upon the heart of a young lady who is in reality, but not in name, one of the widows of the fatal dash for vindication. There was more in the colonel's words to her than he intended. For the fifteenth time she wrote to Bis marck, Dakota, pitifully inquiring if there was any possible hope that Ben teen's intimation was founded upon fact. Her friend at Dakota answered "No." If Dr. Lord was alive and in Sitting Bull's camp the Canadian mounted police would have found it out long be fore this. Major Walsh, who is on the best of terms with the bostiles, and is with them a great deal, has made every effort to discover a survivor. He is a great admirer of the dead Ouster, and his personal feelings have been heartily enlisted in the vain search. All that he has found has been one horse of the white-horse company. Dr. Lord may be alive, bnt it is aa improbable as Jules Verne's eighty-day trip around the world. The lady in Maine, however, has an in tuitive belief that he ia still alive, and she will yet see him. She reproaches herself for some little thing she did, thinking it sent him off with Ouster, and that he was indifferent to the con sequences. Chioago Tribune, FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD Orchard aad Oardea Nate. Asparagus. Bake off the litter from the beds and carefully fork in the fine manure. Lettuce from the frames is set a foot apart, in rows, between the cabbages and oauliflowers. Shrubs may be transplanted and pruned, taking care to preserve their natural habit. Turfing is best for small plots, and should be laid on large lawns along the edges of roads and beds. Rhubabb. Make new beds by divid ing the old roots so that each portion has a bud. Set three or four feet apart each way, - manuring the hills very heavily. Hardt Vegetables. The prinoipal are: Beet cabbage, cjyrrot, cress, cauli flower, celery, endive, lettuce, parsley, parsnip, onions, peas, radish, turnip and spinach. Miscellaneous. Repair roads and paths. Unoover beds of bulbs. Lift and divide large dumps of perennials. Sow seeds of hardy flowers, American Agriculturist, Tender vegetables, not to be sown until the soil is well warmed, or at corn planting time, are: Beans snap and pole; cucumber, corn, melons, okra, pumpkin, squash, tomato, watermelon. New lawns should be made as early as the ground is in good condition to have the grass well established before hot weather. For light soils, red top, for stony ones, blue-grass, with perhaps a little white clover, is in our experience preferable to mixed seeds. Four to six Oushels to the aore are needed to make a good velvety turf.. Pears. Dwarf trees may be grown in the garden, and afford a fair amount of choice fruit, while their cultivation will afford much pleasure; but for fruit in quantities, plant standards in the or chard. Set dwarfs eight or ten feet apart. The variety is bewildering. For one dwarf tree, the " Duohessed'Angou leme." Early Cabbages and Cauliflowers. The earliest crop is from the plants thus treated. The ground should be heavily manured seventy-five tons of stable manure to the acre is not unusual, or part manure, and enongh guano to make the whole equal to the above heavy manuring. The ground is marked ont in rows twenty-four to thirty inches apart, and the plants set every sixteen inches. (leasehold Bint. To Clean Bbass. Immerse or wash it several timeB in sour milk or whey, this will brighten it without soouring, it may then be scoured with a woolen cloth dipped in ashes. To Preserve Egos. A pound of lime and one pint of- salt to three gallons of water. Put all eggs not wanted for daily use into this brine, and they will keep all the year round, and the whites froth almost as well as fresh eggs. Ornamental Trees. Plant when the soil is in condition; evergreens may wait 4 month or more. Where old trees in terfere, branches may be removed, but they never should be pruned in such a manner as to change their natural shape. Old lwns will need a top-dressing and a sprinkling of seed in places where the grass is poor. If manure is applied, let it be so thoroughly decomposed that no weed seeds remain alive. Ashes, guano, nitrate of soda and fine bone are all good manures for lawns, and bring in no weeds. Early sowing in drills twelve to fifteen inches apart should be made of beet, carrot, leek, onion, parsnip, spinach. Radish and turnip-radish seeds may be sown with beets, as they will mature and come off before they are in the way. Early potatoes should be planted and early peas sown. To Mend China. Mix a little lime with the white of an egg, to nse it take a sufficient quantity of the egg to mend one article at a time ; shave off a quan tity of the lime, and mix thoroughly ; apply quiokly to the edges and place firmly together, when it soon sets and becomes strong. Caloined plaster of paris will answer in the place of lime. To Remove Stains from Stockings. Place them to soak in tepid water over night ; in the morning put a pailful of water in your boiler over the fire and cut np an ounce of soap in it, stirring until it melts and forms a lather ; when it ccmes to the boiling point put into it a tablespoonful of the magical mixture ; stir it around, and having previously soaped the stains on the stockings, put them into the boiler and stir them around for ten minutes ; take them out, and un less very badly stained, they will need but very little rubbing ; rinBe and blue, and when dried you will find them free from all stain. To Remove Grease Sfots, To ex tract grease spots from books or paper, gently warm the greased or spotted part of the book or paper, and then press upon it pieces of blotting paper, one after another, so as to absorb as much of the grease as possible. Have ready some fine, clear essential oil of turpen tine, heated almost to a boiling state ; warm the greased leaf a little, aod then with a soft, clean brush wet with the heated turpentine both sides of the spotted part-. By repeating this appli cation the grease will ba extracted Lastly, with another brush dipped (in rectified spirits of wine, go over the place, and the grease will no longer ap pear, nor will the paper be discolored. Caallflower. "This very common vegetable is one of the market gardener's most profitable crops. It is closely related to the cab bage plant, and, like that, the eatable part forms a head; but while the head of the cabbage is formed of the leaves, the head of the cauliflower ia formed cf the flower.ntnlkH. which vrnnnn in nna compact, oonioal mass that, in well- grown specimens, measures nine inches to a foot across. There are many vari Lenormand's short-stemmed requires a nnA J il iV.I 1 -i . 6 (uou buu, jiuuiT uuuiurea; it is useless to attempt to grow it on a poor, gravelly or binding clay soil. Cauliflower is mostly grown as a crop for spring or early summer; as a late crop it is more apt to fail. For an early crop the seed should be sown in the first half of September, and later the plants should be Bet about three inches apart each way, in a cotd frame. Daring the winter they should be covered with Bashes, and in oold weather have an ad ditional covering of straw mats. On every mild or sunny day air should be given, by raising the sash a few inches, and as early in the spriug as the weather will permit, the sashes should be re moved entirely during the day. In the latter part of March, or as soon as safe from hard frost a little will do no harm the plants should be set out on well-prepared and riohly-manured land, in rows two by three feet. The seed may also be sown on the hot -bed in February, and by proper care the Elanta may be ready to set ont in the eginning of April; but in this case they must be thoroughly hardened be fore they are planted in the garden, or a little frost will kill thenr! By giving proper attention to this point, spring plants are but little inferior to those wintered over in the cold-frame, and may prodnce as good a crop. ' Lenor mand's Early Paris, Erfurt Early Dwarf, Large Algiers, and Autnmn Giant are some of the best varieties. Rural Hew Yorker, What to Do In Cases or Diphtheria. The following is from the circular of the Massachusetts State board of health: In the first place, as diphtheria is a con tagious disease, and under certain cir cumstances not entirely known, very highly so, it is important that all prac tical means should be taken to separate the sick from the well. As it is also infectious, woolen clothes, carpets, cur tains, hangings, etc., should be avoided in the sick-room, and only such ma terial used as can be readily washed. All clothes, when removed from the patient, should be at once placed in hot water. Pocket-handkerchiefs should be laid aside, and in their stead soft pieces of linen or cotton cloth should be used, and at once burned. Disinfectants Bhould always be placed in the vessel containing the expectora tion, and may be used somewhat freely in the sick-room; those being especially useful whioh destroy bad odors without causing others (nitrate of lead, chloride of zino, etc). In sohools there should be especial supervision, as the disease is often so mild in its early stages as not to attract common attention; and no child should be allowed to attend school from an infected house until allowed to do so by a competent physioian. In the case of young children, all reasonable care should be taken to prevent undue exposure to the cold. Pure water for drinking should bo used, avoiding contaminated sources ol supply; ventilation should be insisted on, and local drainage must be carefully attended ' to. Privies and cesspools, where they exist, should be frequently emptied and disinfected; the water should not be allowed to soak into the surface of the ground near dwelling houses, and the cellars should be kept dry and sweet. In cities, especially in tidal districts, basins, baths, etc., as now connected with drains, should never communicate directly with sleeping-rooms. In all cases of diphtheria, fully as great care should be taken in disinfect ing the si k-room, after use, as in scar let fever. After a death from diphtheria, the clothing disused should be burned or exposed to nearly or quite a heat of boiling water; the body should be placed as early as practicable in the coffin, with disinfectants, and the coffin should be tightly closed. Children, at least, and better adults also in most cases, should not attend a far. oral from a house in whioh a death from diphtheria has oc curred. But with suitable precautions, it is not necessary that the funeral should be private, provided the corpse be not in any way exposed. Although it is not at present possible to remove at once all sources of epi demio disease, yet the frequent visita tion of such disease, and especially its continued prevalence, may be taken as sufficient evidence of insanitary sur roundings, and of sources of sickness to a certain extent preventable It should be distinctly understood that no amount of artificial "disinfec tion" con ever take the place of pure air, good water and proper drainage, whioh cannot be gained without prompt and efficient removal of all filth, whether from slaughter-houses, etc, publio buildings, crowded tenements or pri vate residences. Can Oysters Whistle I This little oyBter story is from Thorn burg's ." New and Old London :" The shop was first established by a Mr. Pearkes in 1825. "It appears," say-a writer in the Daily Telegraph, " that about the year 1810 the proprietor of the house in question, which had then, as it has now, a great name for the su perior excellence of its delicate little ' natives,' heard a strange and unusual sound proceeding from one of the tubs in which the shellfish lay piled in lay ers one over the other, plaoidly fatten ing upon oatmeal and awaiting the in evitable advent of the remorseless knife. Mr. Pearkes, the landlord, listened, hardly at first believing his ears. There was, however, no doubt about the mat ter; one of the oysters was distinctly whistling, or, at any rate, producing a sort of sifflement with its shell. It was not difficult to detect this phenomenal bivalve, and in a very few minutes he was triumphantly picked out from amongst his fellows and put by himself in a spacious tub, with a plentiful sup ply of brine and water. The news spread tlirough the town, and for some days the fortunate Mr. Pearkes found his house besieged .by curious crowds. Douglas Jerrold's suggejtion was that the said oyster had been crossed in love and now whistled to keep np ap pearances, with an idea of showing that it did not care." Thackeray used to de clare that he was once actually in the shop when an American came in to see the phenomenon, as everybody else was doing, and, after hearing the talented mollusk go through his usual perform ance, strolled contemptuously out, de claring " it was nothing to an oyster he knew of in Massachusetts, whioh whistled Yankee Doodle' right through and fol lowed its master about the house Jike a dog." TIMELY TOPICS. There are in France 82,873 lunatics, of whom 89,887 are at the charge of their families, and 42,986 suptorted by the State. The proportion is about two per 1,000 of the population. In the course of a suit recently brought in London by a druggist of Bogota, United States of Colombia, to restrain Mr. Holloway, of pill and oint ment lame, from charging in his adver tisements that the aforesaid druggist dealt in spurious Holloway pills and ointments, it was stated that Mr. Hol loway spent $200,000 a year in adver tising, while the yearly profits of his business were about $260,00. As left-handedness in children is not generally considered desirable, it is well to prevent it, if possible. It is a well-known fact that most children in arms are carried on the left arm of the mother or nurse, as the case may be. The consequence is that the right arm is fast against the nurse's shoulder, while the left hand is left free to grasp at anything that comes in the way. Let the nurse use the right arm at least half the time, and the mischief is ob viated, A grim story of life in a lighthouse comes from the Burmoh coast, and is printed in the Rangoon Times. A tele gram having announoed that the light on the Algnada reef was not visible, a steamer was dispatched to ascertain the cause. The captain, on landing, discov ered two of the men in the lighthouse dead, while a third was lying in a pre carious state. The keeper stated that signals of distress such as " I want im mediate help " and "Man dying" had been exhibited by him for about twenty days. As a last resort, all his signals having failed to attract attention, he darkened the lights on the Bassein side, feeling certain that this step would not fail to attract attention to the light house. And so, with the dead and the dying, he watched for relief, whioh came at last. The famous marble quarries cf Car rara, although they have been worked since the reign of Augustus, and have furnished a steady and enormous sup ply to the whole civilized globe, seem to be inexhaustible. They compose an entire mountain range, and embrace every variety and quality of marble, from the coarse common kind to the statuary marble, Monte Orestola and Monte Sagro yielding the largest and finest blocks. The quarries number some 600, only about twenty of them furnishing the marble used by sculptors, and some 6,000 persons are employed in them. The marble taken out year before last was in the vicinity of 120,000 tons, valued ft $2,400,000, of which 40,000 tons came to the United States. The export of marble to this country has increased immensely within twelve to fifteen years, the third largest mar ble firm now at Carrara being American. Lingual Difficulties. On one occasion an estimable attache to the late Mr. Bennett, and who, from the fatigues of the job press of the New York Herald, aimed to study medicine and become a city coroner of Gotham, illustrated the power and the peace of language at one and the same time. The very first case of the doctor's ooronership was that concerning the death by mur der of an Italian. The only or chief witness was the terrified son of the murdered man. He was brought before the learned doctor, who said, in an im perial tyle, worthy of a Gotham coroner: " Well, my lad, what language do you speak ? " No response. " Do you speak German ? " No response. " Do yon speak Frenoh ? " No response. " Do you speak Spanish ? " No response. " Do you speak Italian ? " No response. " Well, do you speak Irish ? " No response. Turning to the jury, the classical doc tor said: "Gentleman, in the whole course of my professional experience I have never had such an astonishing wit ness brought before me. As you see, I have addressed him in five different lan guages, and he has responded in neither. Harper's Bazar. Cream Instead of Butter. A housewife writing for the New York Tribune proposes virtually to abolish butter. She says: "It would be well to train a family from the ontcet to regard butter as an incidental or luxury, rather than a necessity. The manufac ture of it is one of the hardest and most time-consuming tasks that a farmer has to perform. Moreover, with all the work it involves, butter adds less to the health and sustenance of the family than would the eating of the oream that goes into the making of it. Where one physioian advises the eating of butter, a thousand recommend the consumption of cream. I think not one will dispute the statement that of cream and butter eaters the former enjoy the beBt di gestion, the best health and have the finest complexion. Then, why work oneself to death for worse than naught t Why not eat milk and cream instead of turning it into butter ? Good bread is good enongh without the addition of a condiment to make it palatable; and, eaten with sweet cream, what is more delioious ?" Harried la Wagon. As onr worthy Dora postmaster, who is not only postmaster, but ia olothed with justice' authority to solemnize marriages, was meandering his way on horseback, west of his own premises on the highway, he met Esquire Elliott and Mrs. Nealis sitting on a spring seat in a two-horse wagon. Onr worthy es quire and postmaster was halted and in formed that his services were in demand at once to perform a marriage ceremony, the license being promptly presented in dne form. Whereupon the accommo dating esquire rode np to the wagon, requested the parties who were seated on the spring-seat to join hands, and then and there solemnized, on the pub lio highway, . without a- witness, the marriage of the twain, Qswego (Kan,) ITEMS OF INTEREST. Striking objeots Clocks. News of the weak Hospital reporta. jXLuruer, had ,ug nuvuu v. - pants, will out. In anoient times diphtheria was con sidered incurable. Home training should aid the teach ing children receive at sohooL Ttntnoatin i-tthViita am freanentlv bred to supply furs for various purposes. For two centuries there has Deen a depression in business every ten years. Gladstone's admirers will build a tirmnirjil in hia honor that will oost $110,000. "Come listen to my tail," said the dog as he thumped his appendage on the floor. The Boston Journal believes that when a girl turns out a deceiver it serves him right. Hinnivm Toonta fn tnnw if " time is money," why " can't he take time to pay flia ueuitj r Tf (a uM Mi of nnrfnrminor birds " are tancht their tricks through a cruel course of lessons. The wrong boy who was interviewed hv th hemlock twic feelingly spoke of it as the misplaced switch. " He lives above bis lnoome," Was the dark reproaon be bore, Till at last it was remembered Ihat be lived above bis store. nVi Innlr T.nnidfi ! Fred in at 'sent me this sweet little puppy. Wasn't he kind?" "Yes. dear; but it's just like him." Instead of saying " too thin," Kiohard rironf TChifA t ran nl ntan it into the ex pression "of the utmost tenuity of laono. Tha .Tnnrnnt. nf Chf.niistru 8SVS that no European nation is so advanced as Italy in its methods of teaching agri culture. An TniliDTiii loilv nf fiicrli tv-flicll t vears is crowing a third set of teeth, whioh . i -l ... ; 1.1 A- are so iar aavancea iuui ouo ia uuie w use them. V.U tha aita nf .Tannh'a well, in the city of Samaria, Palestine, there is a BaptiBt church with a congregation numbering 100, The king of Siam has a bodyguard of female warriors. They are said to be very beautiful the most killing young ladies of his realm. "Did you ever," asked a brother humorist of Josh Billings, "stand at the hall door after your lecture and listen to what the people said about it . . n. T 1' 1 T U it T as tney went oux r nepiiuu duau did once (a pause and a sigh), but I'll never do it again." Spain has ninety-two dukes, 8bo mar quises, 632 counts, ninety-two viscounts, and ninety eight barons, besides forty four ennobled foreigners. Two dukes, fifty-eight marquises, thirty counts, six ated by the present king. The univer sity students this year number 16,889, of whom 6,823 are studying medicine and 6,409 law. West Indian Superstitions. As regards animals, Guinea pigs may be mentioned as specially unlucky, at least in St. Croix. There are families there, among those from whom one would not expect such things, whose children would on no account be allowed to keep these pretty little pets. What precisely is the harm they do is not stated. All you can get out of one is, " Oh, they always bring trouble to a house; they're very unlucky." And yet, ' if the writer of this was an adept at one thing more than another in his small boy days which were spent in Barbados it was at keeping Guinea - pigs. They were kept by him on a scale so large that he could set up some of his school fellows as Guinea-pig keepers. He even ran the risk of keeping them sometimes in his desk at school, boring holes and cutting slits in the lid, to give the little bright-eyed creatures air. And it was a great risk to run, for those were the good old "licking times" now, hap pily, almost over fcr schoolboys. The master of the school was one of those men who are now, it is to be hoped, nearly as extinct as the dodo men who believed that you could teach a boy through his back, or through the palms of his hands or the seat of his panta loons. But yet the Guinea-pigs never brought a thrashing npon thf ir owner or his friends. Some of the boys at this very school were possessed of a sovereign plan for making yon perfect in your lessons, which may have kept off the trouble the Guinea-pigs would otherwise have brought on the sohool. When you had learned any lesson thor onghly (and some fellows kept the talis man in their hands all the time of learn ing the lesson) rub the page up and down or across with a large seod, called a " good-luck seed." Then return it to The pocket, where it ought to be kept. This done, you need not fear. So much for superstitions. Contemporary Ee view. A Poser for the Hawkeye " Man. A young roan, who evidently repre sents some St. Louis house, asks me where I am from. 1 tell him. His eye brightens. He says : "Do you know GuBt. Hirsch, there?" No, I tell him, I do not. 'Know Marx Oppenheimer ?" I don't know Marx Oppenheimer. " Do you know JoeHelminghausen ?" I fail to remember Mr. H. " Then do you know Chris. Erlingen sohaftlioher?" I don't believe I do, " But you must know Ernest Gund-laohenstreibiohdukirohsenliebalstenhei-minghaus?" I think possibly that I may have known come of him, and possibly a great deal of him, at different times, but I am quite positive that I never knew him all at once. The young man from the St. Louis house looks amazed. " Well," he says at last, "you ain't got much acquaintance in Burlington," And I sadly remarked that my ac quaintance there is rather limited, and he goes away.' Presently he returns. "Oh," he says, "them fellas I said to you about lives in Davenport." And I feel greatly relieved, tor I had begun to think that I didn't know any body in Burlington. R. J, Burdette,
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