1 ! , : i d)l JU 1 ( U Tf 1a Oil, rCt;iuoTrvrc! HEN RY A. PARSONS, , Jr., Editor ' knd 'Publisher.1 ' Nil DESPERANDUM. two Dollars per' Annum.' ' ' I.) VOL. IX. KIDGWAY, ELK -COUNTY, PA.,' THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, .; 1879.. NO. 31. i m The Fat mer's Wooing. The dailies nodded in the (trust, the butteronps were Bleeping, And just iioross the river tang the farmers ft. their reaping; , Upon the hillr, i blue and lar, the maple leaves irara showing Their soft white beaut y in the breeze that from the sea was blowing. K V ' '. i. A little maid came through the land with song and rippling laughter; . ,. The bntteronps made way for her, the daisies nodded alter. ' K A strong young farmer saw her pause beside the parting river; She drew a lily irora its depth with golden heart a-quiver. ' Thou art more lair than lilies are," said he, . with head uplifted, 1 And threw a poppy, as the stream toward the maiden drilled. ' ' .1 She set the flowers in her hair the red and white together; A cloud gVew black beiore the sun, and rainy was the weather. He came across the river then, this farmer, from his mowing; He minded not the water's depth he cared not ior its flowing. "Oh, love!" said he, "it gleaming sun and cloudless skies o'erlean ns, The river's barring width niuy roll unpnesed, untried betwoen us ; But wbeu loud thunder Alls the air, and clouds and rain come over, I'd cross the ocean to your aide I am no fiur- day lover!" And so one noon the village bells rang out across the river, Their music set the buttercups and daisies all a-quiver, Whilo some one drew a lily Irom tho Btreum so blithely flowing, And plucked a blood-red poppy that amid the whout was growing; Ae maiden set them in her hair the red anil white together With many u smile, a tear or two, and glnncis at the weather. Tlioy passed bnnenth the chapel's shade he farmer and tlio maiden Where arches crossed abovo their heads, itli snowy blossoms laden, And in that pluco of holy calm tho binding words wore spoken ; lie iu his beni't bore out the truth, she on her hand tho token. The years went by, and some were bright and some were clouded over, But ever stood he at her side ho was no flui dity lover. Boiton Transcript. JACQUEMINOT ROSES, It nil came about in this way. Of course it was wicked, and outrageous, and ungrateful, and all that, but then it was so sudden that she really did not know what had happened. And tN'n, why in the world should the proiessor object to Adrian, in whom there was neither spot nor Haw? The man selfishly wanted to keep the child himself, and after him the deluge! Yes, it came about in this way. lie had adored her so long. At first at such an awful dis tance "tho desire of tho moth for the star," Iter uncle Redmond used to call it in liia evil way; but another person might have said it was the pure and ardent passion of a young soul for its counterpart. And certainly that ex quisite being, so fair, so frail, half hu man, half seraphic, was only tho coun terpart of this fiery, turbulent boy, so strong, and so tender, too, tor all" the vehemence pf his impulses, so noble and so lofty in his ideals. Of course no young girl of Ella's ago Could have looked at his face, could have heard his voice, and not have felt a strange attraction-, for his beauty was as extraordinary as the sweetness of his tones. "Beauty!" growled the undo Red mond, when some one said so. "Ho looks like the child of an organ-grinder. Doubtess he was filched by Borne pa drone from some peasant.- "And what of thatP" said the aunt Redmond, fully in favor of the affair. "Some people might prefer to be chil dren of Roman peasants, with all their Roman history and ancestry behind them, rather than to be children of par venus hero." "Tooral-looraliV was the reply a customary one in such case. But little did Ella care whether those long black lashes darkaned the eyes of Roman or Saxon they were Adrian's eyes, her lover's, the ouly eyes that had ever looked into hers, and the light of the world was iu them. It was not his beauty, after all, that touched her heart; it was his personality himself. As for Adrian, he had seen the girl coming into church, had met her at col lege festivals, had watched her walking in the gardons. He knew her name, ana often 6trolled under her windows ; once, indeed, he sent a band there to breathe out music in the soft dead dark of the night, and Uncle Redmond growled something about throwing the Revised Statutes at their heads, till the aunt pro pitiated him by wondering if the sere nade were on account of his great work on the Civil Code. But all this was at a distance. He had not dared approach her; had not dared speak to her; had not dreamed of following her. ' But one sunset, in crossing a public square, with the shadows of trees dark ening the walks almost to twilight, he aaw her moving hurriedly alone just be fore him. themselves the only people to be seen in the square. " She does not touch the earth, she floats," he said. But as he thought it, a drunken crea ture started irom thesnadows and reeled up, leering into her face, wuile she shrank back with a slight sudden cry. With a bound Adrian was there; his arm fell, and the. offender assuredly touched the earth, whatever Ella did. Then he bent with bare head before her half an instant, stood aside for her to pass on, and followed again, only at a respectful distance. She was .coming down the steps from the president's reception when he next saw her. her uncle wait ing for her below her aunt seldom go. jog out in the college society . President Kex always gave rather gorgeous recep tions, though, so far as flowers and. musio went ; he' feasted the spiritual part, at any Kite, uud for the rest, let weak tea and lemonade go as far as they would. Flowering plants lined flic passages and stairways; and as in her eariy gauze the descended all alone into the dark, she' looked" to him," as cending, like the spirit of the flowers and of the music behind her. Sho held a spray of white roses in her hand. She never knew what made her eho thought of it afterward, shocked and horrified at herself, at her want of maidenliness and modesty, and her face reddened, and her tears started in the lonely night but she held out the spray of white roses, and gave it to him with an enchanting smile, and went down as lie went up. And he ho also never knew what brazen boldness, what wild daring, pos sessed him when he stepped to her side as she walked home from church next day, nnd said; "May I give you my name in exchange for your rose?" And although he had but introduced himself, he somehow took to heart tha literal in terpretation of her words, and in a wild," eager, silent way, considering himself engaged to her from that moment, whether she were engaged to him or not; and grown bold thenceforth, heal ways called her in his thoughts his Rose. One day, speaking with Iter for after that they often inct-i-hc called her so aloud, and she was in no wise startled ; it came so naturally, as if site had known, of course, that tho sun was going to rise, and this was the first rosy gleam of dawn. Yet following it came little alternations of joy and terror. " Perhaps he would not have dared to call me so," she thought, in her shame faced humiliation, " if I had not been so forward. Perhaps he does not respect mo, after all." And then, in spite of the trouble, her heart Would bound with gladness to think that she had given him the spray, to think he had called her his Rose. It was winter as they came to that. and the skaters were making merry. She had come down to the lake with her un cle, who was a famous skater; had bound on her skates, and slid away with him; had left him to tighten a strap, had lost him, and had beer, found by Adrian, and together they had glided away : and then the late afternoon red dened into sunset and purpled into twi light, and they were skating up the stream, and leaving all the cries and fires and flashing forms behind them. How soft and fresh was the vigorous air! how rich the violet of tho gathering night! how great the glow ot the wind-shaken tarsi Now it was no longer hand in hand that they went, but his arm was about her; they swept out on long curves together, and moved as if the pulses of one heart impelled them; and now they turned the corner ot a blutt ; now. tar out of sight of all the world, they paused, and there, in the wintry dark, they were folded heart to heart and mouth to mouth. If the snows had fallen around them there and clothed them with a garment of death, if the ice hart parted under their feet and plunged them into the drowning waters, they would hardly have asked anv more. Their passion wrapped them, so like De- janira s robe of name, irom all the trosti ness of death, that tho coming of eter nity upon them in each other's arms would have seemed but its sacramental seal. And suddenly a rude, hoarse cry broke in upon the sphere where they were resting the great rough voice of Professor Redmond, and Ella was snatched from Adrian's grasp, nnd a dozen stinging words were wlu'rled at him, and the uncle had carried her off as the wind carries off a feather. Adrian skated back alone. He scorned to move till the professor's heels cutting the ice could be hoard no more. Where had all that splendor of the night gone? It was tho darkness and coldness of des olation now. He took a terrible grind at mathematics that night, and the next day presented himself before the profes sor and asked of him the promise of his niece in marriage, only to receive in re turn the flattest nnd curtest and most insulting of orders never to darken those doors again. "For all that," said Adrian, stoutly, " I shall marry my wife." The professor looked at him and burst into a furious, roaring laugh. " Tooral looral!"sang the professor. "Begone!" he thundered. The winter wore away at last, and if tho professor kept the Rose from her lover, ho could not keep the color from the velvet cheek if he were near, the glow from the darkling eyes if she were there, the smile, forgetful of all the rest of creation, on the lips of both. He began to hate Adrian. He would have been glad to mark him out of existence, if marks could have done it out 01 his college existence at any rate; but the boy gave him no chance. .He deserved no reprimand, and none could be tor tured into shape for him. He studied as a machine worKs. lie covered lumsel: with laurels all tho more he would rattier tney naa Deen roses. "Who is the beggar P" the professor growled, one spring day, when they met him in the square again, ami, the bare headed silent reverence ended, he had passed on without greeting. " Who is the beggar?" growled the uncle Red mond, ."to whom you choose to give a glance when I forbid it I, who stand in your dead father's shoes P A fishing merchant's son, indeed! One might suppose that, reared ns you have been, the very thought of such connection would smell to heaven. ; . "He never touches fish," said Ella, feeling obliged to answer, although if lie had been a fisherman on the Bradbr coast, it-would have made no difference with her. "He never sees them. lie 6its at a desk in a counting-room, miles away from the warehouses, and his clerks write in books .all day. And Adrian will do so too." " He is rich, then, I suppose?" "Is he?" she asked, innocently. "I never thought, indeed." " He is not rich enough to have you," was thereply. - ' Yes. uncle, he surely will." said the timid thing, solemnly, with her heart in fier mouth, but ready to die for her faith. Then something in Greek exploded, loud and angry, from the professor's throat; and he never again let his ward out of his sight when she had crossed the threshold. Love laughs at lock smiths without doubt; but this lock smith was very skillful. It was almost midsummer, and not one word had Adrian heard from the lips of his Rose, and letter after letter had been returned to him unopened.' But his ardor was unchanged; his love burned with the Bame wliite flame, although there were only smiles and glances to feed the fire. And now at last the college life was drawing to a close, and Adrian was tho class poet. Perhaps' his passion had warmed genius into lite: there had never been such a poem uttered there before; but no other poet had had thosb tender yearning eyes beforo him with the tears suspended in them, that face so iiKe a nower in tuetresli dew. " More orean-grinding," growled the professor, The lovers met in the press, for one in stant, not long afterward, as that por tion of the exercises ended. And when he left her side a great bunch of red roses was in her hand, the most delicious dewy roses, whose perfume swept around her like an atmosphere. But the pro fessor had relieved guard. His lynx eye caught sight of a white gleam among the roses. 1 He took them suddenly out of her hand, abstracted a little note, and gave tho flowers back to her. Then ho slipped the note into his coat pocket. It is a pity the professor din not read that note before next day. This is what was written there : " Mr Rose. If your affection for me is all it was, is all that my adoring love for you would claim, you will hold these roses in your hand to-night as you enter the reception-rooms of Rex. If at any time in the course of the night, when the band is playing the Landler waltz, or when it is playing ' Little Buttercup,' you lift these sweet red roses to your sweeter face, and bury your face there for one long moment, I shall know that you can no longer endure this tyranny that part us. My horses will await us at the gate, and when you are my wife, neither professor, nor uncle, nor any one on earth can part what God has joined together." But he didn't read it. There was not the moment just then; somebody or something occupied his time exclusively : and when he might have read it, he hnd changed his coat, and could not find it. Being a little lame, and feeling obliged to attend the reception of the college president, unwilling to lose a moment of ids watch, which lie could not easily delegate, he ordered a carriage and pair to take him to old Rex's gate, and stumped up the stair witli his precious prize before him. Was ever anything lovelier than this vision in the doorway, with the shaggy old Professor Redmond behind herP So ethereally fair the corn-silk hair, the eyes like starry bluets; it was the im personation of girlhood and ot innocence. With a huge cluster of creamy white roses pinned in her belt just over her heart, in their center a red one blooming like th . live sweet secret thought beating in tho heart beneath, and in her old pearl colored draperies, she would have seemed ready to melt back into the outer twilight world, like the spirit of the evening star itself, but for the great bunch of red jacqueminot roses in her hand. What did she know of her lovers wish? Nothing. He had given these roses to her; he would be here ; of course she wore his flowers. Tho old President Ilex had as good aa eye for beauty as any undergraduate of them all; and although the young class day poet was receiving an ovation, he left him in order to welcome this perfect creature who had just come to his par lors out of fairy-land. Just then the band was softly playing the Landler waltzes; old Rex was over powering her with his flattering speech : the music was enchanting; there stood Adrian before with his eyes shining full upon her, although across tho room she could not bear it nil. Absentlv she lifted that bunch or roses, and builerH her face in all that blazo of color and delirium of fragrance. Hie next moment Annan slipped irom tho room. She looked for him present v. but ho was cone. And although they staid but an hour, it seemed to her an endless period before she stood at last upon the step in the dark and per fumed summer night, with the wretched tears of disappointment getting leave to overflow upon the roses that she held s near her lace. Her uncle came 11 tuning along behind her. "Professor Red mond's carriage !" called a servant. "Here!" shouted a renlv. Then a hand was helping her up the step, a whip was cracking, horses were plungins. her uncle was yelling into tho universe, Adrian's arms were about her, she was restinir on his breast, and thev were dashing madly away. " You nre here, you are mine," he was murmuring be tween his Kisses, " never to leave mo again, iou exchange one jailer lor an other." Before she well knew what had occurred. what it meant, she was standing in a clergyman's study ; papers of some sort were being scanned; a kind, silver-haired lady was giving her a glass of water; words were being hurriedly uttered, to which if she replied she did not know it. Somebody put into her hand a little slip that he called a marriage certificate; somebody spoke to her by another name Adrians name; the kind lady had kissed her, and she wns out in the dark, sweet summer night again ; was in the carriage whirling away, and Adrian was holding her, nnd calling her his wife. " Are we married ?" she gasped. " Am I truly your wife?" and then she burst into a flood of tears. " And I've nothing but this gauze gown!" she cried. "And your Jacqueminot roses," said he. So that was the wav it all haoDened. I know that by this time tho professor has forgiven it all ; he can't do" without her. But the aunt Redmond had a sorry time of it for one week. " I don't blaie him at all," declares Adrian. " I'd have done the same in his place. I wouldn't have given her to the archangel Michael, let alone the son of a fishing merchant, if the merchant were ten times a million aire, and the son ten times nearer a pro- The professor has had the little fatal note glazed and framed and hung up in his den, but he has never yet been able again to endure wun equanimity the sight of Jacqueminot roses. Harper's iiazar. A Matter of Importance. The abnormal increase of the burden some classes in our charitable and insane institutions, especially of late years, has directed the attention of the State Board of Charities to the matter. The outcome of their investigation is the conviction that crippled, idiotic, blind and lunatic persons are exported irom Europe 10 this country, where thev remain in city, county and State asylums as life-long tenants at nublio expense. .wooneoD- jects to the arrival here of able-bodied persons, no matter how poor, ior 11 nas been and is our boast that we offer homes and employment for the poor from every clime, industrious and vigor ous citizens adding to the wealth of any nation; but making this country a Botany bay for chronic invalids and our people supporters of those whose legiti mate claims for expensive care and sup port for life originate thousands of miles away is a mockery of public home char ity too apparent to need any argument. The New York State Board of Chanties has done wisely in calling attention to this growing evil, and wo hope that a sentiment against it will bo aroused that will result in some eflectivu means of arresting it. Albany Argui. A Father's Sacrifice. Not a great while since a prominent physician of Denver, Col., was called to attend a patient in the . Inst stages of what appeared to be consumption, but which, upon examination, proved to be simply a wearing away of life a decay of the energies or mind and body. A 1 though well supplied with money, the stranger was seemingly without friends or relatives. He wrote no letters and received none. An alien to the tender ness and charities which sanctify the affections, he Beemed to be drifting out of the world, in which, for him, all the flowers of the heart had perished a bleak and desolate old man, hastening out of the sunshine into the winter of the grave. After making a thorough examination of the case, the doctor told him that although he could find no or ganized disease, yet he was dying. " I know it," replied the patient. "But have you no idea of what brought you to this plight?" inquired the inter ested man 01 science. " 1 1 is a curious phenomena. You have heard a great deal about cases like mine more as a visionary exaggeration of the fancy than as an actual occurrence but, strange as it may appear, I am dy inp, as you say, of a broken heart." " iou surprise me!" "Yes. I surprise mvself. I did not come to your heaith-giving climate as others do i.i search of a longer lease of life but to die in peace, and alone." " But have you no mends!"' asked tho doctor. A' None that lean claim. My past is sealed with the shadow of a crime, and over my nameless grave not even a mem ory must hower. I am already dead to all who ever knew my name." ' You say you are a criminal!" pur sued the doctor. 'No. I am none. But I assume the stigma to shield another." "And that other." "Was my son!" " What was the nature of his crime?" The nhvsician's cuiiositv had cot the bettt r of his prudence. The shadows of twilight were falling around them. Through the open window streamed the sofl brilliance of the dying day. Clouds of amethyst and purple floated lazily on the lar-olt hills, liut in the chamber where the fevered breath was drawn quick and short there was a hushed still ness which seemed in keeping with the ghostly shadows. " it -was murder!" " And was fixed on you?" " On me I assumed it, and then es caped but not to evade the vengeance of the law, but to spare to htm 1 loved the stigma ot a leion s death." " How long ago was tnisr" " Twelve years." " And have you been a wanderer ever smcer "Ever since!" " The feeble pulse was fluttering the glazing eyes sheathed under waxen lids, and the shattered form was growing rigid momentarily. ' Will you tell mo no morci"' whis pered the physician. - . 11 is an 1 nave to tein The next inftant the man was dead. Ho had kept his secret, and sacrificed his life in keeping it. Curiosities of the Fairs, Jockevs are tho bovs who crenerallv sufl'er in life and limb at fairs, but Mis souri offers a tragedy in which a booth keeper is tho victim Whilo Senator Uockroiiwna deuvciing nn address at the Saline county fair, at Marshall, the cry of "murder" was raised nnd the treat crowd broke away from around the orator to pcur down upon a booth kept by uobert Montague, a man by the name of Fisher had quarreled with Montague and stabbed him to the heart with a dirk. There was the most intense excitement among the 6,000 people pres ent. At the Fulton fWis.) fair tho most valuable cow on exhibition keeled over and gave up the ghost. The cattle doc tors all gathered around the animal and made a post-mortem examination in public. The cause of deat h, wonderful to relate, was found to have been a hair pin in the beast's heart. The remains of the girl who perhaps went down with tho pin were not discovered. The novelty during the early davs of the Bourbon county (Ky.) fair was a baby show. The Cincinnati Enquirer dispatch, which chronicles the tact that W. P. Coupland, of Leadville, Colorado, won the prize, adds: " At the time of the tying the ribbon it seemed as though several fights were imminent among the mothers of the kids who were entered." At the Wisconsin State fair John Mc Cullough, the tragedian, recited from Julius Ciesar, Othello and other plays for the benefit of the rustics. There was a ballon ascension, also. It was so cold at the Minnesota State fair that an old-fashioned back-log fire in the lumberman's camp was the most popular attraction to the blue-nosed siglit-seers. Brilliancy was given to tho domestic department of the Minnesota fair by covering the tables alternately with red, white and blue cloths. A .coin collection, in which all ages and nations were represented, was the curiosity at the Toledo (Ohio) tri-State lair. Among the attractions to garner the shekels at the St. Paul (Minn.) fair was Captain Bogardus, the crack snot. In his ascension from an Ohio fair the other day an aeronaut took up a live colt. Many farmers were encamped in army tents on the Iowa Mate iair grounds. The novelty at the Decatur (111.) fair was a 400-yard toot race. Beer was banished from the Michigan Mate iair grounds. , A Fearful Fall Through a Bridge. One span of the great bridge across the Kaw river at Lawrence, Kansas, which is osu leet in length, gave way one morning recentlv with a terrible crash At the time a drove of cattle, numbering 27o head, belonging to Philip and Jesse Young, en route from Greenwood and Woodson counties to Northern Missouri were on the bridge. One hundred and fifty of the cattle, with two men, three horses and a wagon, went down with tho debris into the river, eighty feet below. One of the herders was badly injured about the head by the falling timbers, while his horse was impaled on one of the rods and nearly disem boweled The loss of cattle was only six head The escape of greater injury and losj of me was simply miraculous. Preparing for the Census. ; The superintendent of the Census Bu reau at Washington has issued a circu lar in relation to tho office of enumera tor under the Census law, in whi.ih tho duties of that office are defined, nnd other information in regard to the dis charge of these duties is gjvon. The du ties in the main are identical with those of assistant marshal under the last three censuses, but the provisions of the law regarding the time and the size of the enumeration districts make the office dif fer widely from the former. Under the old law subdivisions were limited to 20,000 inhabitants, whilo by the present law they are limited to 4,000, and will be generally confined to a single town where the number may be even less. By the old law, from June 1 to Nov. I was allowed for the enumeration, while under the present statute it is required to oe made in June, and in cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in two weeks from the first Monday in June. The aggregate amount of compensation to nn enumerator cannot exceed $100, ns only one month's time is allowed, and the pay not to exceed $ 4 a day. It is expected that enumerators will work in their own immediate locality, knowing and known to most of those they enumerate, without incurring traveling expenses in a majority of case j, and that in many instances the work can be dono without materially inter fering with their other vocations, so that a more competent class of enum erators may be secured. Township as sessors and other local officers, post masters at small offices, etc., are sug gested as men likely to perform the work faithfully and intelligently. Country physicians within the circuit of their usual practice would, it is thought, often make excellent enumerators. Their knowledge of vital conditions, their ap preciation of the importance of trust worthy statistics, together with their knowledge of the history of families, would combine to make returns alike of deaths and of the living population from officers of this class especially valuable. There would also be the practical con sideration that men of this profession are as a rule already mounted, and their service in the capacity of enumerators would involve no expense whatever for outfit. Schoolmasters have been found in England among the best qualified enumerators. Accustomed to keep lists and make reports, almost uniformly ac curate in accounts, trained in punctu ality and precision, and accustomed to enforce them upon others, tho teacher, within his school district, would gener ally do his work rapidly, neatly and accurately. The Finest Diamond in the World. trance p oposes to sell her crown jewels. Among them is the Regent, the hnest ot the great known diamonds of the world. There are several that are arger in the royal treasuries of Europe. and there are some few that are more valuable, but there are none so beautiful. A lmost perfect is this peerless stone in all respoc s. In shape, cutting, luster and color it may be pronounced faint less, were it not for a small and almost imperceptible spot, which is visible to tho eye of nn expert when the stone is aken from its setting. ihe history ot tho Kegont shows through what varied adventures the his toric gems of tire world hr.ve generally passed, found in the mines of dol- conda. it originally formed one of the eyes of a famous idol placed 111 the pa goda ot tJhanilermagose, lr. liengni. Stolen mysteriously by some unknown aaventurer.it passed from hand to hand until it became the property ot lhomas Pitt, the grandfather of the great Earl of v. liatham, that gentleman havirg pur chased it from a jewel merchant while in India tor the sum ot ba.oOO. The Duke of Orleans, when Regent of France, bought for $67,000. Louis XV. and Louis XVI. wore it in their hats. Na poleon I. caused it to be set in the hilt of his sword. For a long time, during the consulate nnd first empire, this precious diamond was held in pledge bv the state banker, M. Vanlerberghe. Whilst it was in his possession ho adopted a novel method of keeping it safely. His wife used to wear it con stantly sewed up in a belt, while the wary banker exhibited to the eyes of tho curious a fine fac-smile in paste of tho celebrated gem. During the second empire it formed the crowning jewel of a splendid diadem of antique form, en tirely composed of diamonds, which the beautiful empress wore on all grand occasions of public festivity. Those who have ever beheld this peerless stone blazing like a star above that fair brow have never forgotten the sight. A full inventory of the crowned iewels of France was taken in 1791 by order of the National Assembly. Therein the Re gent is described as "a superb white brilliant of a square form, with rounded corner, weiguing uo carats, ana vaiuea at twelve millionsof francs ($2,400,000) The great diamonds of the world are generally ugly and lusterless, as witness the Koli-i-noor. it is on.y tho great French diamond that shows as regal in its beauty as in its size and value Two Bull Stories. John II. McCoy, of Millbrook town ship, 111., went into a stable where bull was chained, when the animal made an attack on him, and drove one of his horns through MeCoy s arms. making a frightful wound. The next lunge the infuriated animal made he struck the unfortunate man in the bowels, making a wound ten or twelve inches long, and tearing out McCoy's in. testines. McCoy then succeeded in set ting into a low manger, but it was not high enough to protect him entire v, and the animal stuck his horns into the man's back near the kidneys, making a ghastly wound. Some men were near the stable and heard the wounded man's groans. Thev went in and succeeded in getting the bull out by taking hold of the ring in his nose. The danger Irom wearing red in the presence of bullocks, as well as bulls t ; 1 si, says a iexinjcuin lay.) paper, was nius trated in the fate of a negro woman who lived in this county, on the Russell road, about seven miles from Lexington. While passing throvgh a pasture near er home she attracted the attention of a herd of cattle, who seemed to be en raged at the sight of a red shawl which she wai wearing. She became seared nnd started to run away.when the whole herd gave chase. After running a short distance she became exhausted. Parties who witnessed the chase hurried to the rescue of the woman and even in time to prevent the cattle from running over Iter as she fell, but she died from the ef fects of her fright while being taken to ner noma. TIMELY TOPICS. One of the novelties at an Idaho fair were exhibits made bv the Indians on the Nez Perce reservation at the Lapwai Agency. Exquisitely pointed arrow-heads, beaded moccasins nnd em broidered scalps, does one surmise? Not at all. The exhibits consisted of choice egctables, corn of large crain and but teractually gilt-edged butter. This ,'ear tno Indians around Lapwai have mrvested 40,000 bushels ot grain from iou acres, an average 01 over tlnrty- x bushels to the acre. 3.170 acresof land arc cultivated by them, most of the land being along the creek bottoms. where there is a very rich loam. The egctables tins year will be about as three to one of last year's tillaso in quantity and the reservation agent is tickled that his red men are self-sus taining. The first gold bullion from Alaska recentlv left Sitka in the steamer Cali- , fornia for the San Francisco mint. For ! many months it has been known that gold existed throughout various por tions of the territory in paying quanti ties, and various explorations for it fiavc been conducted. During the Russian . occupation of Alaska the Indians from the interior frequently brought to the frontier trading-posts specimens of pure nativo gold, and the explorations of the country as have since been mide have resulted in substantiating the opinion that the country was rich in placer mines and probably in quartz mines. The placer mines are said to be extraor dinarily rich, and certain indications lend to the belief that discoveries equal to those in Australia during the earlier periods 01 the gold excitement there will! ere long be made in Alaska. I The disproportion between the cost of collecting the United States internal revenue and the customs revenue is very I great. Some interesting facts appe-ir Irom a study of the amount of revenue . derived from customs and from inter- ' nal revenue and the cost of collecting the same respectively from the year 1803 to 1878. Thus during the closing years of the war, when tho internal revenue service had just been organized, tho cost of collection rnnged only from 0.18 to 0.29 per cent, for amounts increasing om $37,040,787 to 209.404.215. while tho cost ot the customs, revenue was om 4.09 to 6.29 per cent, in collecting from $69,059,642 to $102,316,152. Then the cost of collecting the internal rev enue rose as high as 5. JO per cent, in 1871, but fell afterward to 2.99 and 2.96 per cent, for 1877 and 1878, the amount ollected being 8118,630,407 and S110.- 581,624 respectively. Meanwhile the cost of collecting the customs revenue has for the last five years ranged be tween 4.47 and 4.96 per cent., wtiile t he amount collected eaeli of the last two years has been about $130,000,000. Russia is nt present under a state of iege from St. Petersburg to Moscow nnd Warsaw, from Kieff to Kharkoff and Odessa. An army of porters about 15.000 strong, watch the streets of 1 lie capital, day nnd night, and policemen are set to watch the watchers. General Gourko, the crosser of the Balkans, who is now V ice-Lmperor, is invested with unlimited powers, tn the place of the dis heartened Czar. The verv Grand Dukes are under his orders. Arrests among officers of the army have been tho imme diate consequence 01 ueneral liourko s satrap rule. In several cases compro mising letters and prints were discov ered, and executions both of officers, like Lieutenant Dubrovin, and of pri vates, have followed. The gallows are in permanent activity. But perhaps the most significant feature and a promis- ng one too is the order issued, under ourt-martial law, that in all tho bar acks a list of the soldiers' arms is to be Irawn up and to be handed over to the police! This is the strongest sign of a suspicion against the army itself; and on the army the whole power of Czardom reposes. In an article on the Russian advance eastward, the Cologne Gazette estimates that 17,000 Russians are every year ban ished to or sentenced to penal servitude in Siberia. Peasants from the central and western provinces, who from vari ous causes hnd life in their own homes unbearable, quit the latter to migrato to the Dorado beyond tho Volga, where they have been taught by the traditions of their forefathers that they will find iree iana anu a ireo nie. Arrived at their destination, however, these emi grants only find themselves exposed to bitter disappointment. There is land enough to support thousands upon thou sands of families, but it has been for the most part bought up. often atmerelv nominal prices, by officials and specula tors, and the emigrant, on arrival, con sequently finds himself compelled to buy or pay a high rent for the ground he would cultivate. Ihe result is that everywhere a beginning has been made. but little more has been done, pillages are to bo found in the middle of forests, and here and there, in otherwise waste and desolate districts, a settlement h been made and a Chapel has been built by a party ot dissenters. Beyond this, nttie progress has been made. A Carious Fact About Yellowstone Trout. A curious thing about the fish in the Yellowstone is related by General Whip ple. Below the falls the trout are fine fellows for table use. But above the falls the fish are wormy. It is no trick at all for a fisherman to land 300 trout in ten hours, provided his arm doesn't the fish are unfit for use after they have been caught. No trout has ever been caught above the falls that did not carry a worm somewhere under its scales. The general examined a large number of trout, and every one contained the worm W hen examined it was found to be in most cases about eight inches in length and resembling a piece of white tape, This reptile, when freed from its bed in the meat, would wriggle and writhe as if suffering from an attack of colic. Some think the worms breed in the fish and then eat their way int6 the flesh Millions of these hsh die of the worms and float over the falls, and the gulls can be seen feeding upon them almost any minute in the day. Uhtcago Tunes. The Rev. G. R.'Davls, of Carson, Nev and the Rev. W, VL. Jenvey.of Reno, never lost an opportunity of giving each other a sly dig. Mr. Davis preached at Reno the other Sunday, and while taking breakfast at Mr. Jenvey's house remark ed : " Guess I'll take some more steak, as I have to preach." " Guess I'll brace up a little, too," rejoined Jenvey, passing his plate for another section of the meat, " I've got to listen." Boston Journal. 1 ITEMS OF INTEREST. The French government owns about .. half the railroads in France, the whole of which are valued at $3,000,000,000. Lord Falmouth's celebrated horse "Wheel of Fortune," only three years old, has already won for her master $95, 800. A New York barber derives quite an income shaving dogs. He gets from fifty cents to ten dollnrs a canine cus tomer. There are fou hundred and thirty four Chinese business houses in San Francisco, and twenty-five of these are druggists. -. ' Five miners in a Nevada tunnel re fused to abandon a comrade who had been overcome by gas, and were all suffocated. A tight-rope walker exhibiting at Virgina City .Nov., dropped a boy whom lie was carrying across a rope, and the lad fell fifty feet, receiving fatal injuries. The first American paper mill of which there is any account was owned by Wil liam Rittinghuysen, and was built in 1690, in Roxborough, near Philadelphia, on a stream called Paper Mill Run. The first export of apples from the United States to Europe was made in 1845, and they brought six and eight dollars a barrel. That country now re ceives 90,000 barrels of American apples per year. "Fare well, my own!" sang the man who took his sweetheart into a fashion able restaurant, handed her the bill of fare and then slipped out of tho back way and left her to settle the bill. Salem Stmbmrn. " What is your nameP" asked a teacher of a boy. " My name is Jule," was the reply; whereupon the teacher impres sively said, "You should have said 'Julius, sir.'" "And now, my lad," turning to another boy, " what is your name?" "Bilious, sir." The large railroad companies keep as careful a record of a locomotive and its performances as ship owners do of an ocean steamship. The Pennsylvania railroad does not repair one if the cost will exceed $3,000. The engine is then marked as dead 'nn the lecord, nnd is either sold or broken up. Vaccination appeals to liavo untold terrors for the country folk of Germany. A woman of Mellenberge, who was re putedly notified to submit her child of eight months to the operation, and was threatened with arraingnnient in court if she did not comply, jumped with the baby into the Fulda. Both were drowned. An excellent invisible ink for postal cards can he made by dilu'ing sulphuric acid with fifty times its volume of water. A slightly acid fluid is the result, which does not injure a quill pen. The mes sage is developed by holding the card over any convenient flame that of gas or spirits for example, or by laying it on a hot plate. The fastest run on record of a steamer was thatof tho Durban, from Table Bay, Cane of Good Hope, to England ; 6,000 miles in eighteen davs. sixteen hours, of nctual steaming, an average of 13.1 knots an hour. It is far easier to run 3,000 miles in nine days than 6,000 in eighteen days, because of the extra weight of coals that must be carried. The X club is a society of nine dis tinguished Britons Sir John Lubbock, Mr. Herbert Silencer. Sir Joseph Hooker. Prois.Tvndall, Frankland. Busk, Hux ley nnd Hurst, nnd Mr. William fcpott iswoode. The invitations to the club meetings arc verv odd. displaying mere ly the letter X linked to the date of meeting, thus : "X 9." Sometimes but rarely tho wives of the members are permitted to grace tho feast, and then tho card reads: "XxYVS-9." Prof. Huxlev and Mr. Spottiswoodo are reported to be the life and soul of these hilarious meetings, the only member who apnvoiiehes them in vivacity being Mr. 1 lerbert Spencer. Where the Heat Is Almost Unendurable. The following is an extract from the letter of a missionary's wife, and vividly describes the terrific heat which prevails in India during the summer: I remem ber seeing a fantastic lining by Gustave Dore, representing, tophet. The fire burst forth from the mouths ot hugo caverns, and everything had a molten and red-hot appearance. India at pres ent is very much in this condition. The hot winds blow uninterruptedly from four to eight hours daily as from a fiery furnace. The fiercely blazing sun scorches and burns everything in the most uncompromising manner. The e-irth has an oveny appearance, and is cracked open in large lissuies with the intense heat, and scorches the leet eveu through thick soled boots. The misera ble trees look unhappy and hang their poor wilted leaflets. There is r.ot a spear of grass visible. Folks out-doors drag their weary lengths along as though each were carrying a ball and chain. They seem to have no ambition on earth but to drop down and die quietly in some shady nook. The roads are some inches deep in dust and the air is tilled with it, so that breathing is difficult nnd pain ful. There are no vegetables nor any fruits. Wells and tanks and cisterns are law and the water muddy and unhealthy. Indoors the furniture burns the body througli the clothing. Tho sun glares into every crack and crevice so persist ently that blinds and shades and thick curtains can hardly darken a room suffi ciently. Every outside door is closed tightly, from early morning until after sundown, to keen out the heat. The air becomes stagnant and suffocating. A little relief is obtainable irom the pun kah, a large fan suspended from the ceiling Bnd worked by a servant from the outside. The punkah swings day and night. The man whose business it is to keep it swinging sometimes falls ' asleep, and then the air seems to press upon one at the rate of a thousand pounds to the square inch. Breathing is ne it to impossible. At night there is still less comfort to be had. The bed is hotter than- the body. Wo sprinkle the bed first and then jump in, but it is dry and hot again in almost no time. We sprinkle the floor and furniture and do everything imaginable to cool the sleeping room, but all uselessly. It is like trying to sleep in a well heated oven. Although we may long to renounce the flesh and ' sit in our bones, still we know that both . flesh and clothes are absolutely necessary . in order to protect tho body from tho ' hot air. How superlatively happy must those bo who live in a cold climate!1' What would I not give for a breath ofi.i tool air from the Adriondaeks, or for. a , plunge into the surf at Newport, or for walk on the strand, or even ior a distant glimpse of the sea? 1
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