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VOL. IX.
KIDGWAY, ELK -COUNTY, PA.,' THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, .; 1879..
NO. 31.
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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?
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