.' is :l J -' (A. v :--,-! t.1 iMiv;v U'' ''A ' .U .v.rji.-tli-X'.'. i lili . ,; , " i 'I i-, ! ! HENRY A. PARSONS Jf., Editor and Publisher. NlL DESPERANDUMi a t; J. . it -.M ' I .. ' Two Dollars per Annum. i I t VOL. IX. EIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THUKSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1879. NO. 39. -1 - v ' ' " y , i . II Prs ..ll.nr'.i I ll I Lessons on tbe Way. Starting from the cradle Toward the grave below, Trending in the footprints - Made to long ago; Do we note the landmarks AU along the way T Do we stop to gather Wisdom, day by day T Do we see the rivers Made ol human tears T Swelled by evil passioas Fed by craven fears ? If so, are we stronger Battling with the foe ? Are we hourly growing Wiser as we got Do we heed the breakers With thoir sullen roar T Do we see the timbers Strewn along the shore T Wrecks of human greatness Foundorod in a night Do we mind our rudder Bettor for the sight T Beacon lights are shining From the hills and towers j Angel voices calling In the darkest hours! Let us heed the warning, AU along the way Lot us gather wisdom While we watch and pray! THE DAISY'S PROPHECY. "Rich man, poor man, beggar-man, thief, doctor, lawyer there Julia, my fate is at last decided. Three times the daisy has said I am to marry a lawyer ; so let me hear no. more abeut Luke Hartwcll's well-stocked farm; or the significance ot'Squire Day's glances into our pew at church;" and Kate Morrison looked up into her elder sUter's face and laughed merrily. Julia's annoyed expression was very amusing to her. " You are so foolish, Kate," said Mrs. Bertram in a tone of vexation. " Not a day passes that you do not get sone new freak into your head ; and you are as per sistent ami stubborn in clinging to it as as " " A mule," said Kate, as her sister hesitated for a comparison. "Don't be afraid of hurting my -feelings, Julia; you know I am hardened to scoldings, and willing to confess that I do cling to an idea with tolerable firmness. Hut I always did bolieve in telling fortunes by the June daisies, and I am morally certain that I shall marry a lawyer. I shall wait for him if I am as gray as a badger when lie comes along," and . again Kate laughed, tossing her long curls with a determined motion of her small head. " I don't know where you ever ob tained such notions, Kate," said Julia, whose fair brow was still drawn witli its vexed expression. "I am sure mother has taken the same pains it. your bringing up as she did in mine, and tried to instill into your mind cor ' rect ideas of woman's duty. And yet, here you are twenty-three unmarried and unsettled. Why, I was engaged to Charles when I was only nineteen and married at twenty." " But then you had such a good offer, Julia. There are not many men like unaries." The wife's face wore a serene expres sion again" as her sister paid this tribute to the manly excellence of the absent husband. " But you seem so hard to suit, Kate," she argued ; " I am sure Luke Hartwell is a very fine young man ; do be a little civil to him; and there's Squire Day, who is as rich as a prince and owns the finest span of horses in the county." " wouldn't marry a man for the sake of his horses," said Kate, setting her lips firmly together. "But you would learn to love him for himself after a time, Kate." "I'm nfraid it would be a very long time, Julia. The old scarecrow wears false teeth, a red wig, and has six cross red-headed, uninteresting children. I know I couldn't do my duty to them." " But suppose mother should die. Kate? Luke Hartwell will have the farm nt once, and you will be left pen niless." " I will teach the district school when that happens," said Kate, cheerily. "The squire is one of the trustees, and lie would see that I got it if I was just the least bit pleasant to him." "Very well," said Julia, now really Hushed with anger. "Go your own way. The doctor said last week that mother was breaking up very fast in deed, and you will leel sorry for your obstinacy when you see Luke Hartwell in possession of this place." "Oh, my lawyer will come along be fore that evil day comes," said Kate. " It is of no use to croak yourself hoarse, Julia. The daisy has spoken, and I have faith in its prophecy. I felt sure I was not doomed to be the wife of Luke Hartwell. or the second Mrs. Day." The sisters had now crossed the mea dow, where the litt.e daisy had been ound by Kate, and were within the sweet old garden of Bower Farm. Julia went at once into the house, but Kate stood under an old, gnarled apple tree, and looked around her. Was this dear old place with its wealth of fruit and flowers to pass away from them, and be come the property oi Luke Hartwell? It Feemed hard that at the mother's death it should not become the property of tier daughters. The cottage was half-smothered in creeping roses, white and red, sweet honeysuckle and passion-flowers. Three old oak trees mounted guard ia front, and at the hack stretched out the old orchard, in which Julia and Kate had played in childhood. The commo dious barn, the airy stable and the grass crown farmyard were all dear to Kate's heart from long association with her life. The farm had belonged to Mr. Andrew Hartwell, an unele of Luke's He had loved Mary Penrose, but she had given her heart and hand to Arthur Morrison, who had led her a sad life for tweive years and, dying, left her penni less. Andrew Hartwell had not mar ried. Ho had remained an old biehelor for the sake of his early love, and when he found that she had been left forlorn and poor, with two little daughters, the younger only a year old, he installed her at once on Bower Farm, and at his death l ift it to her for life; then It was to re. vert to Luke, Andrew's brother's child , This decree was only just; yet it seemed - hard to Kate, who had lived here twenty-two years and loved every sticK and stone on the place. She it was who managed the dairy and poultry-yard who hired men to farm the land and made money enough to support herself and mother comfortably. Mrs. Morri son's days of activity were long past. She had managed the farm with great executive ability until rheu matism crippled and confined her to - an easy chair, and the farm had gone into Kate's willing hands. Julia, who was elder by nine years, had grown up and married ; but every summer saw her at Bower Farm with her two children. She found it both convenient and eco nomical to pay her mother and sister a long visit during the hot weather. Kate's happy disposition made her a general favorite in the neighborhood, but in spite of much attention from the sterner sex she was still single, which Julia seemed to think a disgrace to her self and family. But Kate only laughed at her arguments and snubbed Luke Hartwell on every occasion, and was deaf to the compliments of Squire Day, who had singled her out as the one best fitted to minister to the wants, and un dertake the education of his six auburn headed olive branches. The month of June was fast passing away, and the roses were blooming more luxuriantly than ever, and sending their fragrance into the kitchen where Kate was kneading bread, when Luke Hart well came over the meadow with shamb ling gait, determined to try his fate, and " win or lose it all." Kate's sleeves were rolled up to her shoulders, and her arms were white with flour, but she was net at all embarrassed by Luke's appearance. " Good afternoon," she said, shaking back the curls whicn were drooping over her face, "will you stay out here, Luke, or shall I call Julia to take you into the parlor P It's none too cool out here." " I came to see you, Kate, and I don't mind tbe heat." " Well, sit down and make yourself as comfortable as you can. I am too busy too talk, but I 3an listen well enough. But now Luke did not know how to begin his tale of love. He had prepared a neat speech in his mind as he walked over the meadow, but every vestige of it naa nown irom ms memory at the first sight of Kate. He therefore twisted ilia fingers backward and forward in an awkward manner, moved his chair half a dozen times, and coughed repeatedly before he could summon courage to speak. " Kate," he said at length, with a kind of choked gasp, "I've been intending to come over here for some time back." " I believe you were here only yester day," replied Kate, coldly. "Oh, was I ?" stammered Luke, " but I've come for a different purpose to-day." " You came to ask the address of that man I had to cut wheat for last year, 1 believe." " Yes, I wrote to him yesterday. But, Kate, don't blnft"me off so; I've come to ask you to accept Bower Farm as your own," and he blushed crimson as he made what he thought a neat speech. ' " Very kind of you, Luke, I'm sure ; but it isn't yours yet, so I don't see how I can accept it from you." "I see you won't understand me, Kate; and I'd better be plain in my speech. I have. had a liking for you for a good many years, and I believe I'd make as good a husband a9 you would find in the county." Kate made no reply, and the droop ing curls concealed her laughing face. Encouraged by her silence, Luke pro ceeded : " You shall dress equal to any woman round here, and I'll make you a present of that colt I'm breaking. You know I ain't poor, and you shail live as well as anybody in these parts." " I'm sorry to disappoint you, Luke; but I don't care to marry you. Please don't begin to argue, for it would an swer no purpose." " I made sure you would have me, Kate. But I'll wait, and try again after a spell" Ao, it would be useless to try again,' interrupted Kate. "The fact is, Luke, I am going to marry a lawyer." she added, with a pucker of her rosy lips at Luke's unconcealed amazement at hear ing the information. "A lawyer!" lie exclaimed, "Well, that does beat all! And I never even knew you wcro receiving 'tentions from anybody but me and the squire. I s'pose you wouldn't tell his name, Kate?" "No!" said Kate, " You'll know it in time." Luke bade her " good afternoon " and went out, meeting Airs. Bertram in the garden. "I took your advice," he said, stop ping in the path, "and asked her to marry me; but she says she's going to marry some lawyer," ana witnout wait ing for a reply, walked rapidly away, his heart sore with chagrin and disap pointment. Julia went into the kitchen and "spoke her mind" to Kate verv freelv To throw away a chance of keeping Bower Farm in the family, was, in her opinion, reauy criminal. " You are crazy, Kate. Haven't I warned you over and over that you will be left penniless, old and faded at mother's death? You will be an old maid, no one will have you then, and oh good heavens, what do you ex pect "I expect my lawyer," coolly an- swereu ivate, pairing iu imooui loaves of bread in the pan. "That is the craziest notion of nil I gave you credit lor more common sense, Kate, than to believe ineuch trash. It is really too ridiculous ot talk about." " men don't talk about it," said Kate "lam not anxious to hear your elo quent harantues on my poor little daisy s prophecy." " But vou can't mean that von will throw away good chances for the sake ot a suiy notion." " I mean that I will wait for my law yer," said Kate, still smiling. " How you cling to that idea! I've ni patience with you at all. If Luke had been a lawyer, would you have married him ? Come, let's see now much you really think of that idea," "I didn't say I'd have any lawyer," answered Kate. " I mean to choose my lawyer. I pulled every leaf off the daisy, and it left the last one a lawyer; so a lawyer it will be : and I mean to wait for my lawyer until my lawyer ramM" "Honors!" cried Julia, "don't use that detestable word again. I am utterly sick of it. I hope I'll never more see one of the profession." Kate laughed out loud as her sister fled to the parlor, worsted in the battle. Tke first week of July came, and one fine day when the sun was sinking in the west, Squire Day drove up to the front gate of Bower Farm, hitched his horses they were certainly handsome creatures and entering the house asked to see Miss Kate. Jul fa saw tke arrival-. and leaning over the railing at the head of the stairs, heard the question. She knew at once what was meant by it; he knew on what errand the portly squire had come, and she prayed that Kate would not throw away this second chance of settling herself advantage ously. Squire j Day, was able to buy Bower Farm three times over and twenty more like it, as far as money wss concernea. . , . . - r . Kate went into the parlor without even a glance in the glass to see if her appearance would be apt to please her elderly lover. She knew as soon as she siw the shiny appearance of his boots. the new suit ot broadcloth he wore, and the general aspect of -the whole man, that lie had come to ask her a very im portant question. And she was not mistaken. Ia a brief but impressive manner Squire Day offered her his name and heart. Julia kept her head out of the window until the squire came forth. She had a good view of him, and knew by his de jected aspect that he had been refused. This was a little too much 1 Kate de served a serious reprimand now: and. prepared to deliver it, Julia ran down stairs and met her sister in the hall. 'So vou've rejected the sauire." were Mrs. Bertram's first words. "Well, vou've taken your own stubborn, foolish course, Kate Morrison, and sou'll have only yourself to thank when you are an old maid with your pretty looks all gone." "I won't spend much time thankine myself," said Kate. " I will buy a bot tle of Bloom of Youth,' and paint my cheeks, and go to work at the district school." " Kate : vou mav laueh now s but vou won't laugh so much ten years from now. Squire Day is so rich, and those lovely horses" " And lovely red-headed children," in terrupted Kate. " What matters the color of their hair. The squire is rich, and loves you, and would give you an elegant home. Good heavens! what do you expect?" " I expect my lawyer," was the laugh ing answer. Kate! I told vou never to mention that word again. I have no patience witn sucn tolly. lou refuse Luke Hart well; you refuse Sauire Dav. Do vou think a prince is coming to "woo you? if ijt-ii uiwi jruu uc wuiLllig lui r " Waiting for my lawyer," answered Kate, and Julia went out, slamming the door behind her in a manner that spoke volumes. A few days after the squire's call, Kate received an invitation from an old school-mate who lived in a town a dozen miles from Bower Farm to pay her a visit. Julia connented to luanage the. farm affairs for a week, and so Kate went off for a holiday, and was gone ten days. 'I have news for you Kate," said Julia, as they sat at the . tea-table the evening of gate's return homo. Your lawyer has actually come at Jast." " I knew he would come sooner or later," said Kate. "Well, he is here; or rather, is stay ing at the Farmers' Rest in the village." "Who is he?" asked Kate, with an appearance of interest. "A Mr. Alfred Pendexter from the city. He is to be here a couple of months. It seems he knows Charles quite well, and enme out here the even ing of the day you left to call on me. He is full of fun, and you will be sure to like him." . Kate did like him. He. too, was very evidently pleased with Kate. He was tall, handsome, and a thorough gentle man, and a favorite everywhere. He came often to Bower Farm, and when the fall was throwing her brown man tle over the earth, lie told Kate that he had learned to love her, and asked her to be his wife. She gave him a differ ent answer from that she had given Squire Day ahd Luke Hartwell. "Now, Julia, I told you I should marry a lawyer," said Kate, when she. announced her engagement to her elder sister. "Well, I am very glad you have found him. I didn t believe you would, but I wish you much joy and a speedy wedding." " He is to return to his law office next week," replied Kate. " But in Decem ber he is to come and take me away. I shall believe more firmly than ever in daisy fortune-telling after this, and shall never forget to pick one every June." In December Kate was married, and her dress was trimmed with daisies artificial, of course and a bunch of the pretty white and gold flowers was at her throat. Mr. Pendexter smiled as he saw them, for of course Kate had told him of how she hart decided her fortune. They went at once to the pretty home In the city which the young husband had made ready for his bride, and over the qyiet elegance which Kate went into testacies. One morning, when they were fairly settled in their new home, Kate told Alfred that she wanted to walk down town with him to see his law-office. " You won't find manv books there. Kate. I have ledgers by the dozen, but nothing appertaining to the law. You can see all the grain and hay you want, though. " "Why, Alfred, what do you mean?" asked Kate, pale with surprise. " That I am not a lawyer, my dear, ' but a commission merchant. Let me explain this mystery: I went to the Farmers' Rest ' to stay a couple of months, and indulge myself in hunting and fishing. I called on your sister, and she told mc all about you, and your fancy concerning the lawyer. With no thought of ever becoming more than a friend to you, I proposed passing my self off as a lawyer, wearied of the courts, and in search of rest. After I learned to love you I would have told you my real occupation, but Julia begged me not to do so, saying that you were too full of notions for me to risk it. I did not believe that, dear; but since it was a harmless deception, I con sented to keep it up until after I had married you. Perhaps I had a faint idea of being a second Lord Burleigh. Do you feel very sorry I hoaxed you, KateP" " No; I don't care at all. I love you now, so it makes no difference to me what your ousiness is. - " But you will never again believe in daisies?" he laughed. indeed I shall, she cried, with energy. " How could the poor little daisy tell if I was to have a bogus or a genuine lawyer?" Florence H. Birney, n Domestic Monthly. Tickling induoes lauguter, except tickling in the thro it, whioh causes coughing at once removed by Dr. Bull's Uougn Syrup. 2S cents a bottle. TIMELY TOI'ICS. It is estimated that the evangelical work of the Young Men's Christian As sociation, in the United States, reaches 800,000 railroad men,. 60,000 college students and 100,000 commercial travel ers. It is also officially stated that work is being done for the benefit of 600,000 who speak the German language alone, and of 500,000 young, colored men . The councils for the settlement of trade disputes in France in their last year considered 35,040 cases. Of this number 85,834 were heard in private, and a reconciliation was effected in 18, 415 (seventy-one per cent.) ; 7,555 could not be reconciled, and were remitted for hearing to the general council, and 9,076 differences were settled upon advice of the councils. As to the causes of dispute, 21,368 cases were relative towages; 4,7 to dismissal, ana i,75 to matters affecting apprentices. An old Bible is now in a bookstore in Albany that was picked up by a Union solJier in the streets of Fredericksburg on December 14, 1869. The soldier gave it to his chaplain, who forwarded it to Albany, and there it has been ever since. It is a Latin Bible that was printed in the year 1500. The first person ot the Godhead is represented in it in the sem blance of an old man with the Papal crown on his head. The flood is pic turedNoah and his wife with their heads out of the window looking at the flight of four birds. Manna is repre sented about the size of a bread cracker, Moses is invariably pictured as having horns. The Western Michigan Methodist Conference at its recent meeting gave un mistakable expression to its sentiments on the use of tobacco by the unanimous adoption of the following resolutions: First That hereafter no young man using tobacco in any form coming i ts a candidate for the ministry, shall be re ceived into this conference. Second That those members ot this conference already addicted to the use of tobacco are exhorted to desist from it in public and when in company of persons who do not use it. Third That all circuits and missions are advised not to send dele gates to this conference hereafter who are users of tobacco. Fourth That no local, preacher will be ordained an elder who uses tobacco. Emigration to the United States will reach for the current year about 160,000. n nine months the number of emigrants from France has amounted to less than 1,700, and will not much exceed 2,000 for the whole year. This is inferential proof that the French are too well off at home to make emigration desirable, a fact whichj is a direct result of the fru gality andSndustrv of the people and of the enormfms benefits of a subdivision of landed property among millions Of small proprietors who till their own grounds, live in their own houses, raise theirown food, pay no rents, support no non-producing landlords, contribute liberally to the support of a who government and repose in contented industry litera'ly under their own vines and fig tiees, with none to make them afraid of want and none to monopolize the results of their thritt ana ton. Scientists are just learning that man hears as mueli through liis mouth as through his ears. The roof of a per son's mouth, and the skull entire are mi crophones, or sounding diaphragms, of excellent properties, and serve as valua ble assistants to the tympanum. Hence it is that deaf persons are now being ma terially aided in hearing, by discarding the ear-trumpet o long used and adopt ing a better apparatus the audiphone a new-invented, fan-shaped instru ment held between the teeth. The re sults are marvelous. With it all per sons possessing the auditory nerve may hear. , Soueh the ears mav not be of anv service Many who have passed as deaf and dum vm converse with the aid of thelnew instrument . The deaf hear, the dumb speak let this be called the age of miraculous inventions. Crime is rampant and misery unnre- ceaentea in raris at present. "The series of crimes," says the Parisian, "which have been committed in Paris during the last eighteen months, in con stant succession, has hitherto failed to attract attention to the misery of this great city. Foreigners who come here and walk about the boulevards and Earks, and visit the sights, only see the right side of Paris. They do not visit La Villette, Montmarte, Saint-Ouen, the Quartir-Mouffetard, and the banks ot the Bievre. l hey do not see the chil dren in rags, huddled up in damp holes that are warmed only by the heat of the fermentation of rottng ordure. The Parisians themselves see this misery. and if you speak to them about it they reply with an incredulous ' Is it possi ble?' Yes, and from these dens come the criminals the Troppmans, the Prevosts, the Abadies and Gilks. In no city in Europe is social reform more needed than it is in Pans. The Mont deplete, the hospitals, the relieving oftl- ces, tne aaministrative ana judicial sys tems are such as were created by fallen dynasties. To say that they are defec tive is to say very little." Kangaroo Tongues. A new Australian delicacv is findinsr its wav into the London markets in the shape of dried kangaroo tongues. The ians nuu Dims ui uiese animais nave long been utilized the former for mak ing soup, the latter for leather ; and the recent enormous destruction of kan garoos has given considerable impetus to tnese two trades, struck by the waste of food occasioned by the slaughter of so many thousands of these marsupials, whose bodies are frequently left alone to rot where they have fallen, a Warroo settler maa an experiment in curing the tongues of some of the slain, and so highly were thev anoroved that . con siderable trade has sprung uu in this commodity. The tongues are usually cured by drying in smoke like the Rus sian reindeer tongues ; but a much better plan is to preserve them in tins, like sheep and ox tongues from America. Tongues lend themselves to this treat ment better than almost any other por tion oi an animal, and they stand exces sive boiling better than beef or mutton. The Colonies and India. - Be patient. Wait. Don't fret over last summer's ice bill. Scientists tell us that in 17,600,000 years ice sixteen feet thick will entirely envelope this planet, and then the ice man's extortions will end. Saturday A'vW. FOB THE FAIR BEX. Fashion Notes. The fashionable muff is quite small. ' Jet ornaments are beautiful on black hair. SuiUlare much trimmed in apron shape. Gold-embroidered lace is among fresh extravagances. Quillings of different kinds are much used as trimmings Brunettes are wearing tics and necker chiefs of bright buttercup yellow. Ostrich feathers in contrasting shades. are now found to match the changeable silks. Colored chenille fringes, finished with cashmere beads, are among new trim mings for costly dresses. All sorts of crawling things, lizards. spiders, beetles, frogs and cterpi liars, as well as serpents, are reproduced in jew elry. The richest toilets are of black satin and silk profusely decorated with et embroideries, fringes and passemen teries. A coquettish addition to a set of furs is a bag to be worn at the side. When the suit is fur trimmed a fur belt may be added also. Engagement bracelets are sometimes substituted for rings. They fasten with a golden padlock and the lover weais the key at his watch chain. Long neckties of "bright colored silk. embroidered on the ends, have again appeared in the shops after an absence of two or three seasons. The Zouave jacket reappears in vel vet, heavily braided or embroidered with gold, and in satin richly orna mented with iridescent beads. Colored underwear has been imported in very large quantities this year, and it is thought that it will be more popu lar than it has ever been before. White is much worn by young ladies in the evening. Cream and ivory white are mucn used. The materials are faille, cachemire, light cloth and muslin. Some of the new morning dresses have the front breadths opened to show brocaded skirts, and others are made with House waists and panicr sashes. Short waists are predicted as among coming styles. Inthatcasethe "slim slip of a girl," who has reigned so long, will retire in favor of her more plump sister. The fine shirrings used on undercloth ing, are sr parated;by plain bands about a sixteenth of an inch wide, and stitched on both sides so that they are as firm ad cords. Broad bead laces and bead embroid eries are used for side trimmings upon dresses, separating the back from tbe front, or for the back of mantles or the front of bodices. Pretty little black silk chatelaine pock ets are painted on the upper side with a single flour or a bouquet of roses, lillies of the valley, forget-me-nots, or any other favorite flower. The finest ntvelty of the season in mil linery is what is known as the " feather" bonnet. This is composed almost wholly of mounted feathers taken from the necks of pheasants, at least half a dozen ot which are required for one bonnet. , The birds that find most favor are of the parrot species, witli long bills and very gay plumage, in which there is yellow, green and red, as these colors are much seen in the cashmere combin ation. Dragon flies of brilliant colors are for the .same reason popular orna ments. Recently imported fans are of silk and satin in all the new colors, and also white and black with hand embroideries in artistic leaf and flower designs and jardiniere colors, and bordered witli a double or triple row of feathers colored to match the embroideries; the sticks are ot carved ebony. Harper's Bazar says that in New York the echarpe (or victorina), with long wide ends in front to cover the chest is fast taking the place of the boa in sets of fur; indeed, the boa is almost confined to fur seal and black marten, as these furs are more effective when made round instead of flat. The walking jacket of the season is small and close-fitting, perfectly plain, no vest, so.netimes in fact double breasted, witli side lappels upon the short skirt of the back, which do not ex tend below its edge; English collar, square, not large pockets and cuffs. It fits like a glove, except the buttons, which are often striking, always hand some. News and Notes for Women Queen Victoria's income is over $2, 000,000 a year. A London physician lately advertised in the Times for a lady housekeeper, offeringliberal terms, and received 1,100 applicants. There are now five ladies in the school of theology of the Boston University. In the college of liberal arts there are eleven ladies in the freshman class. An English school board has expelled an eight-year old pupil who came to school with ornamental beads in her ears, and a Philadelphia private school teacher refused to readmit a girl who had been playing in the juvenile "Pinafore" company during the sum mer. Miss Alice S. Hooper, of Boston, left $100,000 worth of property by will to friends and r ublio institutions. She eav $ 1.000 each to the Boston train ing school fornurses and the Bethf sda society, of Boston. The rest of her valuable property she bequeathed to personal friends and relatives. Mrs. Mattie Potts, who in Mav last left Baltimore for New Orleans, has re turned, having made the whole distance on foot. She averaged twenty-one miles a day. wore out five suits of clothes. " didn t spend a cent," was entertained tree at all hotels and eatinir houses, re ceived innumerable presents and sent her trunk ahead of her by express all tho way " without charge." . The King of Siam,' appreciating the results of tke English education of his childhood, is giving the same advantages to his own children. Princess Civili, liis bright, clever ten-vear old daughter. receives from an accomplished English lady regular instruction in French, Eng lish and German, music, dancing and arawing. ine queen, her mother, takes great interest in the lessons, and is so pleased with foreignjwayg that she triKS oi auopting the European dress, The poor authorities of Dover and Canterbury. England, are ereatlv nuz zled over a supposed Japanese girl who was recently found wandering about the streets or the latter city No one there or in Dover being able to converse with her, she was sent to London. 1 The Japaneso consul of that city says that there is no similarity between her lan- ?;uage and that of Japan. The girl and ler story remain mysteries. As no one will support the poor stranger "in a strange land," the authorities send her from one city to another. , Two Children's Trip in a Balloon. When Mr. John Wise, of Philadelphia, was lost in his balloon called "The Pathfinder," the newspapers printed many accounts of trips made into the air, some by brave men and some by foolish ones. A lady who lives in the town of Centralia, 111., said nothing until all the rest were through talking. Then she told the editor of the St. Louis Republican to look into the number of the Republican that was printed On the 21st of. September, 1858. Tne editor looked and found nn account of how two little children took a trip in a bal loon all by themselves. On that day an aeronaut or sailor of the air, named Mr. Brooks, filled his iron ship with g is on the farm of a Mr. Harvey, who lived near Centralia. He expected to sail up in the afternoon. About noontime Mi. Harvey put his two children into the basket of the balloon just to please them and not thinking for a moment of any danger. The balloon was . tied to a tree by ropes. All at once a gust of wind broke tho ropes and. the balloon shot up into the sky with nobody but the two- children in the basket. Mr. Harvey was wild with grief and shouted aloud, "They're lost! they're lost!" All the neighbors ran to the spot, only to see the balloon drifting off to the north and more than a mile high, s One of the children was a girl, Nettie, eight years old, and the other was her little brother, Willie, four years old. Both cried when they found themselves leaving the ground and going on ; a very, very strange journey indeed. Nettie looked over the edge of tl.e basket and saw her father wringing his hands away below Soon the people looked to her smaller than ' babies and the houses like toy houses. She and Willie were going up, up, up all the time. " I expect we are goin to heaven, Willie," said Nettie. Willie thought it. was veiy oold in heaven, then, for tho higher they went the colder it grew.. Nettie wrapped Willie in her apron and held his head in her lap until he cried himself fast asleep. Then Nettie folded her hands and waited. She said, "I think we must be near the gate now."- She meant the gate of heaven that she had heard about in , Sunday-school. But Nettie fell asleep, too. When she awoke she found that some strange man was lifting her from the oasket. The strange man was a farmer in Northern Illinois, who had seen a balloon drifting low down across his field. The rope was dragging, and so he caught it and landed tho children safely. The balloon had floated all night. Nettie and Willie's father soon learned that they had been found, and took them home two days afterward. Nettie is now a woman the very same one who told the editor of the Republican to look back in its files for the story. The Sea-Serpent Shows Himself. Fourth Officer F. G. Rowell, of the steamship Anchoria, of the Anchor line, which arrived at New York port from Glasgow, says that while on the Newfoundland banks, he 6aw a sea-ser pent which lie estimates to have been fully as long as t ie steamship. Accord ing to " Lloyd's Shipping Record," tho Anchoria is 408 feet long, Mr. Rowell was walking the bridge at four bells in the afternoon watch, when he noticed a disturbance in the water about a mile distance on the port beam. At first he thought the commotion was caused by a school of porpoises, but, on closer ob servation, he changed his mind. When he looked through a pair of strong glasses he saw the head and a port ion of the body of the sea-serpent rising above tho water. Portions of the back ol the creature coulti bo seen rising out of the sea at intervals as it propelled it self along on the top of the water. Its motions were similar to those of the land snake as it moves along the ground. The water in the wake of tho creature had been lashed into a foaui by its tail. its heaa was large and. contained an enormous mouth, which opened fre ouently and spat out large quantities of water. Its tongue, which was extremely long, could be Been at times, but no teeth or fangs were observed. The bodv of the serpent was round, and its color was black, it was moving in the same direction as the steamship,, and at a greater rate of speed. When the crea. tare had got a little ahead of the vessel it sank down into the water and disap peared. , Several passengers wf ro on deck at the time. Observing the commotion on the sea, they asked Mr. Baxter, the sec cond officer, what the thing moving in the water could be. He was able to take only a hurried glance, before he was 1 1 J . .1.. ,i ! . . ii l the performance of his duties. When he returned with his glasses the creature was not in sight. Mr. Baxter says he he thinks that it must have been a sea- serpent, and lie places implicit reliance on the fourth omcer'n statement. Mr. Rowell has mado marine animals the subiect of study, and has alwavs be, lieved in the existence of sea-serpents; but his desire to see one of these animals had never before been gratified. 1 . Tho Fate of Zulu Ctwards. . What Zulu discipline and rule was. says a correspondent in South Afrioa. is clearly indicated by a story told by Cetewayo himself while on his way down to the place of embarkation. Point ing to a bush which he designated by the name of the Coward's bush, he in- lormea his conductors that In front of that bush Chake used to sit after a battle had been fought in order to hear accu sations of cowardice against any of his soldiers. If a man was convicted on what seemed sufficient evidence he was expected to stand still with his left arm high above his head, while an assegai was slowly and b j degrees thrust down ward irom the armpit till it pierced the heart. - One cricket would stand a poor show , trying to stop a railroad train, but millions of them can do it. A Western bound railroad train met an army of crickets at Clarke's station, about fifteen miles west of Reno, Nev.. and wus de tained two hours and a half trying to get through. To make the passage the train men were finally forced to- take brooms and sweep the insects cut the rails. The crickets covered the track for about three miles, and when the driving wheel of the engine would strike them thev would whirl around I without going forward an inch. ' ITEMS OF INTEREST. France has penny savings banks for schoolboys. .... . ( , , ; - ,. Postal cards, now almost universal, started in Austria in 1865. : The den tlst.v like the farmer may reckon his profits per acre. He who gives you fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.. "Swans sing before they die." They have to, if they sing at all. "None' but the brave deserve tho hair," is the way the Indians put it. The saddest words of tongue or pen. " Here's that collector of bills again. There is a tea plantation atGeorgo town, S. C., and it is paying ita owner. Fifty is the youth of old age ; forty the old age ot youth. So says Victor Hugo. Cane City, Kentucky; has been ship ping its strawberries of the second yield. In San Francisco-bay are ninety-two varieties offish for food. , ., . t America had 150 exhibits at the Industrial Exhibition at Sydney, Aus tralia.' VI . ' ( -... A new kind of sweet potatoe is culti vated in Kern county, Cal., picked speci mens . of which weigh from fifteen to eighteen and twenty-two pounds. Enterprising miners are mining gold on the ocean beach in Currey county, Oregon. The gold is found in deposits of black sand on or near the beach. Letter writing in Great Britain goes largely ahead of this country, it being thirty-one per capita there, compared with sixteen per capita here, for the past year. E. E. Mack, of Albany, New York has secured backers and is excavating a long mining tunnel near Idaho Springs, Idaho. The tunnel will be four miles long. The Cincinnati Commercial gives pre ference to canal boats a a safe means of travel, for the reason that the boats never run off from the track, and the propel ling mules seldom explode. Some one has invented a machine for breaking the cactus into a mass of white, elastic, fiber, which will be med in making mattresses. It is said the cost of mattresses will be reduced forty per cent. France, Germany, Italy Austria and Switzerland have agreed that their em bassies and consulates shall send home indigent persons of their respective na tionalities at naif the ordinary railway fares. It is pleasant forla man to go early to a church sociable, and then sit 1 the parlor and listen to every lresh male ar ri val knock liis new silk off' the top peg in the hat rack, down to the floor.- Hawkeye. The Norristown Herald tells a gooi story about a man who purchased an alarm clock one day and returned it the next afternoon. - lie said that it made such an awful racket in the morning that he couldn't sleep. . No boy of ordinary ability, who has to manipulate the buck-saw and ax, and furnish tho family with fire-wood, will think of going to work before he has selected a convenient place where he can hide the knoU that split hard. Uswego Times. The new machine for the manufacture of paper boxes, which threatens to revo lutionize the important Birmingham trade; has just been introduced ty a company in Cleveland, Ohio. A single machine is capable of producing 15,000 complete boxes a day. A new occupation for the young men who are filling Up Western Texas, seek ing their fortunes, is to start "goose ranches." One ranch has 3,000 geese, whose feathers are plucked every two mouths. Each goose averages a pound and a half a year, the feathers being . worth fifty cents a pound. News comes from Peru, that an Amer ican, knowing in the geology of coal oil, U8 discovered more and better petrol eum oil in that country than Pennsyl vania or California can boast. Already, with boring tools in hand, he has more flowing wells than he can handle. He is making a fine quality of illuminating oil, and he has sent East for men, means and appliances. Rhymes, Ftnernl and Hymeneal. It has long been the funeral custom among a certain class of society in New York to append a poetic tag to the news paper announcement of the death of a relative. The verse is not, as a rule, very good ; but the sentiment is sincere and the intention respectable. Here is an example culled from the columns of the New York ITerald. After recording the death of Isaac Florence, a chikj aged three years and ' eight months, the bereaved parents add two verses, of which we quote the second: i . . . KoM away those little clothes, , That our Florence used to wear; He's no more on earth to need tliein, He has climbed the golden stair. Underneath is gravely written by way of postscript, " He has gone to meet his grandmother." There is a pathos un derlying these rude rhymes . which shields them from criticism. But we cannot observe without protest a nas cent practice of invoking the family muse on the occasion of weddings. It has come to pass, notably in Michigan, that no wedding is complete without a poetio address irom the parents, which is appended to the customary newspaper announcement of the eeretnony. To quote one example from a score: Mr. Oliver Hill, of Davisbugh, marries Miss Mira Lyon,, cf Medina. The event is announced in due form in the local papers, with the addition of the follow ing verse : Oliver, you have from her ehildhood's home , . our pnze taken ; May she by you be ne'er forsaken, And may Ler love to you prove always true and unthukeu. It must be admitted that this is not a cheerful marriage hymn. There is a tone of melancholy running through it a prevision of evil pervading it not calculated to raise the spirits of a bride. On tbe threshold of life Oliver is marked with the suspicion ot intent presently to abandon the girl whom the first line leads us to fear he has forcibly abducted. This may be due to a tinge of melan choly in the constitution of the parents. Persons of more sanguine nature, would have tuken a brighter view of things. But, 'aprrt from particular instances, the growth of the custom is to be deplored- A new terrot would unques tionably be added to matrimonial rela tionship if on his wedding-day a man's f ither and ra.other-in-law were, like Silas Wegg. expected to drop 'nto i poetry. London Newt.
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