o I) J 4 ' ii fgllfl HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher NILi DESPERANDUM. Two Dallars oar Annum. VOL. IX. BIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, FA,, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1880. -NO. 48. i A. My Loss. Pay niter day, wliilo at my window sitting, I gee the children nt their piny near by; Like butterflies in summer gardens flitting, Thoy hover round beneath my watchful eye. The little girls, with flushed and merry luces, Glance at me shyly lor my answering smile, And tempt me with their most alluring graoes To pnt sad thoughts away whllo they be guile. Blonde hair and brown In solt contusion blend- Block eyes and blue upturned to meet my gaze, . Hoses both white and pin their, contrast lending, To add new beauty to the 'wilderinjt maze. But when they one by one, tired oitt with playing, ) Steal slowly homeward through the sunset liht, ;' Memory goes back beyond the dark years, straying Among the days of yore that, eocm so bright. . llurn ray head, a radiant, golden splendor Shines from .'.'.e West across the pictured Willi, And glorifies a face divinely tender, With bronze-brown hair waved round it fall on lull; With violet eyes so winsome in their sweet ness, That mine grow smiling spite of griel and pain, With curved lips, the seal of love's complete ness; Oh, Heaven' could I but pross them once ngain. In vain I watch and wait, she will como only When night hat cast her spell on sea and ehore; Then when I sleep and dream, co longer lonely, She comes to feed my hungry heart once more. Tis then anil only then that I behold her; Her dear voice floats nrouml me folt and low; ' Tis then, and only then, my arms enlold her, The littlo gill I lost so long ago. Boston Trantcripl. ALMOST TOO LATE. "Iam coinir now. Helen." Charles Archer stood at the door of the one, room high up in anoify tenement-house in New York, which he culle d " home." It :rns not the wedded home lie had dreamed of twelve years before, when he uttered t lie " Valedic tory " at Yale, when Helen Gordon blushed and sniiicd at the applnuse that creeled Ms appearance on the stac. Nor was tlint crouching figure beside the window, in the untidy print dress, willi the pretty sullen face, ami the uneoml cd golden hair, much like the graceful beile, of whose company he had been so proud, 8") hapny to monopolize, upon that golden day. His wife looked up and caught the ex pression of pitying regret upon his dark and handsome face. Her heart was full of angry rebellion against her fate, against herself, against him almost against God! " Why do you look at me like that?" she said, peevishly. "I know that the room has not been swept, and that I h ive not made my toilet for the day. My toilet," she laughed bitterly. "When shall I make a toilet again, I wonder? I once Bet the fashion in New Haven! Who would believe it now! And, oh, to think only to think what my life ruicht have been, if I had been wise." Her husband's face darkened all over. "I understand!" he exclaimed. "You mean if you had married Paul Hayden instead of me." ""How can I help such thoughts? I saw his wife early yesterday morning when I was out. She was driving to the railway station on her way to their country house for the summer. I heard the footman say so to some one when he went to buy the tickets for her. And, oh, what a difference there was be tween us two! No wonder she has kept her beauty. No wonder I have lost mine! Beauty and health, and youth and happiness, they are all going away from me, because we are so poor!" 'Better days may be coming, love," said the husband, after a pause. " I have heard of a pood situation this time, you know. If I get it. it will be a stepping-stone to other things of more consequence. Ana when l am rich, you know well, my darling, that I shall refuse you nothing." "You have thought so many time that better days were close at hand. And every time you have been disap- Eointed, and wt; have lived on the same orrible iifc," was the discouraging re ply. "I know, ray dearest: but this is really pood news, I trust ard hope. If you will only kiss me and wish me good luck, I have faith that it will come." He bent down, his dark eyes wistfully searching hers for one glance of love, such as he had so often seen there in the happy days of courtship. But love, so far as she was concerned, he sometimes feared, had flown out of the window of this home when poverty entered. The heat, the dust, the discordant street cries without, the shabby, disordered room within, the general sense of her own untidiness, and the galling memory of the fres'ily beautiful summer costume worn by the wile of Paul Hayden, as she lounged in her carriage on the pre vious day all these things combined to banish the affectionate glance for which the husband's heart so vainly hungered, and to make tho wife's parting kiss nr. cold and formal that it lingered like ice upon the young man's lipa as he turned away. He said nothing. But the deep sigh, that seemed to come from the very depths of a tried and overladen heart, silently reproached her. She caught a last glimpse of his face as he closed the door. It wore a look of repressed sorrow that would haunt her to her dying day. What evil spirit had tempted her to try him bo? Was it his fault that, by the sudden failure of a bank in the great "panic," the savings of years of steady toil had been lost in a moment? Had he not labored faithfully ever since for her siiDDortf i or her ungrateful sake, had he not stooped evn to menial toil.when no other employment could b j procured. And now she bad sent him from her, unentered by a look or word of fondness. What if some accident should haDDen to the train by which he was to travel? tv nat u lie should never return r For a moment she sat dumb, almost paralyzed by the shock of that idea. Then she sprang from her chair and rushed to the door. She would call him back, and ask hita to forgive that care less, cruel parting. She was too late. He was alreadv in the street. A moment later she heard the shrill whistle of the train. He was gone. The day passed on sadly enough. Thought after thought came crowding into ner mina to unsettle ana reprove her. They bore their fruit. In les9 than an hour niter Charles Archer's departure his home wore a very different aspect. By nightfall the one room was trim and clean as willing nanas couia make it. lielore the clean windows a pair of snowy muslin cur tains were drawn. The stove shone like a mirror, and from its open front a bright welcome to the absent master flashed out, flooding the very walls with warmth and light. And summer evening though it was, both light and warmth were needed. At sunset angry clouds rose in the south. and the rain came sharply down, with an accompanying wind that knew little ot its own mind, and veered sharply round continually lrotn south to east. Amid the wailing wind and dropping rain Helen Archer worked steadily on. At nine o'clock the train ' which was to bring her husband home was due. Her last task was finished, when she dished up iiis favorite viands and set them, covered over with a basin, upon the hearth to keep warm. She leaned from the window, looking out. tliroueh wind and rain, for some sign of his home-coming. She wore the dress he liked hest. Her hair was ar ranged in his favorite fashion of braids and curls. She had kissed him coldly its he left her, but now, with her heart upon her lips, she waited to welcome him back, even if he returned as unsuc cessful as lie went. What did that mat ter, she thought, as she glanced at the window of I .er opposite neighbor, who had been left a widow only one short month ago. " Only let him return to me safely, and I will make amends for all," she half thought, halt prayed, as memory recalled the countless times in which r'he had grieved him during the past half year. Nine o'clock came and paused, yet she did not hear the usual whistle of the in coming train. Half-past nine and yet no footstep on the stairs! Her heart lay like a leaden weight in her bosom . The color faded from her lips and cheeks, and her blue eyes grew wild with silent dread. At ten o'clock she could bear the suspense no longer. Slip left her room and ran down the stairs, with a half-formed purpose in her mind of inquiring at the neighbor ins station about the laggard train. Dimly, in the darkness, she saw a crowd ot people gathered at the outer door of the tenement-house. They were all talking confusedly, but now and then some words broke pla nly through the medley of sound. "His poor wife!" said one voice, " how is she going to bear it. I wonder. It is well for her that she lias no little ones to look after. She is nothing more than a child herself, anyway." "Make way there!" said some one outside. " We must carry the body up stairs. Which room is it! And some woman ought to go up before us and tell the wife." The crowd surged and parted. Be tween tlie ranks, six men came steadilv onward, following a policeman. Helen knew luni well, ana vnen lie looked up the staircase, and saw the slieht figure bending forward, and the pale faccTfull of a fixed nnd settled horror, lie turned again to the crowd, and called out : "One t f you women come up here to break the news. And take ner away," he added, in a lower voice: "it is no sight lor her." Good-natured Bridget McCarthy came forward, and ran up the stairs to where Helen stood. "You'll come back inut your room wid mo. my darlint," she said, putting her strong arms around Helen's slender waist. " Sure it 11 destroy you intirely to look on at the likes of that!" "Bridget, i9 he dead?" asked the pale lips, pitifully. "Sorry I am to say that he is! It was the train, my dear. Oi the tr.'.ck, they say, and ten strong men killed outright beside' him that they are bringing up from below. Helen fell senseless at the Irish woman's feet. Hallan hour later she struggled slowly back to life and loneliness again. She opened her eyes to find herself lying on her own bed, with the kind old doctor of the neighborhood bending over her with rather an anxious face. " We shall do nicely now," he said, making a warninggesturetosomeone in the background. Helen gave a great sigh as he took her hand. " Oh. why did you bring me back, doctor? I have driven my husband away to his death, and I hoped I could die. too. I blamed liim because we were so poor, doctor, and I would scarcely kiss him when he went away this morning to look for another place. Oh, I have been so cruel to him! And now, just when I was sorry for it, and when I had resolved to try to be a bet ter wile, God has taken him away from me. and he will never know how bit terly I repented." "flow do you know that he is dead, my dear?" asked tho doctor. "Oh, I saw them bringing him up the stairs. And I heard them talking about me." " Not about you, my dear, but about poor little Mrs. Gray, who lives in the room at tho back. Her husband was badly hurt on the train when it ran off the track this eveoing. We thought he was dead at first. Hut since then he has revived, and I feci sure that, byGod's mercy, he will recover before long." "But where is my husband, then? cried Helen, starting up. " God has been very good to you, too, my dear," said the old physician. " Is healive? Where is he? Oh, tell me! her every gesture struggling be tween hope and fear. "Here!" . The doctor stepped back. From a dark corner of the room a tall figure rushed forward and clasped the wonder ing, weeping wife in a close embrace. r,Is it you? Oh, is it really you?" site exclaimed, bursting into tears. "Oh, Charles, I have been so miserable, since you went away I How could I treat you so? You never, never can forgive me or love me again I" "A if I could help loving you as long as I live, Helen 1 And you shall be to happy after this. I have found a good place, I shall have a good salary, and to-morrow, if you are well enough, we will take a trip into the country to gether nnd find some pretty little cot tage, where you can amuse yourself all through this beautiful summer among the birds and flowers." "I don't want a cottage. I want nothing butlyou, Charles, and now God has given you back to me, that will be enough to make me happy," said his wife, giving him the tender kiss which she had refused him that morning. Nevertheless the cottage was taken, and the summer was as happy a time as mortals may ever hope to enjoy this side of Paradise. Once, on their journey thither, after a shopping excursion in the city, they chanced to be overtaken by the magnifi cent carriage of Paul Hayden, million aire. Mrs. Hayden, resplendent in a toilet fresh from the atelier of Worth, sat therein. She was brown-eyed nnd pink-cheeked and very handsome. Yet her face looked worn and wearied. It lacked the look of true and perfect hap piness that Helen's wore. Helen caught the somewhat anxious look that her husband turned upon her, as the great ladylrove slowly by. She smiled. Under cover of her pretty silken shawl her hand stole into his. Never for one moment had she for gotten the lesson of that long-post sum mer's day! Never had she ceased from thanking God that it had been given, although it came " Almost too Late." Single Song Singers. The Christian at Work publishes a list of names saved from oblivion by single poems: 1. Thomas Gray, 1716-1771. " Elegy written in a Country Churchyard." " Had Gray written nothing but his Elegy, high as he stands, I am not sure that lie would not stand higher; it is the corner-stone of his glory." Lord Byron. 2. William Falconer, 1730-1769. "The Shipwreck." 3 . James Beattie, 1735-1803. " The Minstrel." 4. Augustus Montague Toplady, 1740 1778. " Rock of Ages." 5. Robert Bloomfteld, 1766-1823. "The Farmer's Boy." 6. Charles Wolfe, 1791-1823. "Ode on the Death of Sir John Moore." Pro nounced by Lord Byron " the most por feet ode in the language." 7. Joseph Rodman Drake, 1795-1820. "Culprit Fay.'' 8. Fitz-Greene Ilallock. "Marco Bozzaris." 9- Samuel Wbodworth, 1785-1812. "Old Oaken Bucket." 10. George P. Morris. " Woodman, Spare that Tree." 11. Charlps Spraguc. "Odo on Shakespeare." 12. Richard Henry Wilde, 1847. "My Life is Like a Summer Rose." 13. Edward C Pinkney. "I Fill a Cup to One Made Up," etc. . 14. Richard Henry Dana, 1789-1879. " Buccaneer." 15. Francis Scott Key, 1790-1843. " Star-Spangled Banner." 16. Rounetde Lisle. "La Marseillaise." 17. John Howard Payne, 1792-1852. " Home, Sweet Home." 18. David Everett, 1769-1813. " You'd Scarce Expect One of My Aire." 19. Reginald Heber, 1783-1826. "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." 20. Julia Ward Howe, 1819. "Battle Hymn of the Republic." 21. William Allen Butler. "Noth ing to Wear." 22. Bret Harte. " Heathen Chinee." 23. Emma Willard. "Rock'din the Cradle of the Deep." 24. W. W. Story! "Cleopatra." 25. II. 11 . Brownell. " River Fight." 26. Thomas Dunn English. "Ben Bolt." 27. Clement C. Moore. " The visit of Santa Claus." 28. Joseph Ilopkinson, 1770 1812. " Hail Columbia! happy land !" '"uO Takes Care of the Stiltnu. The revelations of M. Abdul-ilakk. a writer in the Nouvelle Bcview, resemble the stor'es of "Thousand and One lights, " and one might be easily tempted to disbelieve the existence of such a state of affairs at the doors of European civilization if the details fur- nisuea by tne writer were not sup ported by the undeniable proofs of truth fulness. He tells us that the sultan is surrounded by hundreds of young women ; ne employs lor wnat tne writer terms his " family service" a body of iorty young women, selected eareiuiiy from among the handsomest in the pal ace. The duties they have to perform are to dress and undress him, to accom pany him to the bath, to keen his hair and finger nails in order and lull him to sleep, lie keeps a ballet of fifty girls, who perform several dances every eve ning after supper while his highness is resting on a divan. He also has a band of thirty female musicians and about sixty others who take charge of his apartments, clean bis narghiles and chi bouques, and pertorm other similar da ties. In short, the whole service in the palace is done by female slaves, chosen ironi among the most attractive ones in his dominions, and it mav well be said that Turkcy. which does not recognize the social existence ot a woman, sub. mits to being practically governed by women. Sad Result of a Practical Joke. Brooks Gould was perhaps the most popular young man in Chicago. Gen eral J. M. Waite, a middle-aged man of the same disposition, set Gouid down as his first friend and the two were to gether a great deal . When they entered the apartments of the general on a Satur day afternoon not long ago, liouiu, who had about him the dash and sparkle of Mereutio, proposed that they should disarrange the furniture to make the negro servant, .Toe, fancy that the rooms had been robbed. The joke was carried out. Valuables were removed, the bed overturned and things put topsyturvy a la burglar, the wags retiring to the bathroom at Joe's fot-fa!l in the hall way. Joe reached the door and stood aghast. With mouth agape and eyes wide open he scrutinized in one look the innermost corners and then straightway walked to the door ot tne bathroom This he found locked from within. He put his ear to the keyhole. Faint sounds of breathing reached him. He pulled out a revolver and instantly emptied every chamber into the panels of the door. General Waitc" felt his young friend's body quiver at the first shot ana threw his arms around him. Death fol lowed instantly. very lamng tuas. very Ulnains drug gists. Too very best remedy Dr. Bull' Uwugb Syrup. Anecdotes of a Great Business Man. The New York Mercantile Journal prints a sketch of tho life of David Leavi'.t, who died recently at the ripe age of righty-nine years. Wo quote from the article: The deceased was a prominent and esteemed merchant and banker, and had been Intimately identified with the busi ness interests of this city and Brooklyn for more than three-score years. Many of our most flourishing mercantile ana financial institutions were c ither founded by him er are largely indebted to his active aid and timelv counsels for their, present prosperity, lie was the founder, and for many years president, of the Brooklyn White Lead Company, one o' the oldest and most extensive establish ments of the kind in this country. Mr. Leavitt was born at Bethlehem. Litchfield countv, Conn., August 29, 1791, and came to this city in toe year 1813. He was employed as a clerk in a produce and commission house for sev eral years, when, on obtaining his share of his father's estate, amounting to about $10,000, he began business on his own account. At the outset of his career John Jacob Astor imported a cargo of tea, and Mr. ieavitt nought the entire lot. During the progress of the nego tiations Mr. Astor asked his customer in broken English how he proposed to pay for it. Mr. l.avitt coolly drew from his pocket the required amount in notes drawn by Mr. Astor, which young Leavitt had bought up on the street. An instance of the pluck and energy which made Mr. Leavitt a successful merchant was shown before he was twentv-five years old, when the Colombian govern ment, being engaged in a local war, authorized its ogents in this country to build a vessel, which was also to be pro vided with its armament nnd equipment in this country. The agents were un willing to fulhil the commission, and sought aid from other sources. Young lieavitt heard of the matter, ond under took the enterprise. He built the vessel and induced the United States govern ment to assist him in its armament, nnd then assumed command of the shin, lie sailed for the destined port, and arriving safely, received 8100,000 in the currency of the Colombian government and u draft on the city of London for 8100,000 more, a clear profit of .$100,000 as his recompense. Realizing that Spanish doubloons wpuld be more easily nego tiated in this city than Colombian cur rency, he stopped at Havana and made the exchange. Ins sagacitv was duly rewarded, for on arriving at this port he lound that a premium was being paid on Spanish doubloons, which netted mm a considerable addition to his pro tits in the transaction. Remarkable Trees. The last treatv with the Cherokee In. dians was siimed beneath a riant white oak that still stands near the Cherokee orner, Oglethorpe, Ga. At Wyoming, in Western New York. is an elm that measures thirtv-four lect atound the trunk. Its branches are thirty-four feet from the ground. A curious freak of nature can be seen near Eureka, Cal. It is in the shape of a tree, seventy-tive feet high, one portion oi which is pine and the other nr. Many oaks in England are 800 to 1.000 years old. 1 he Newland oak is forty Keven leet six inches in girth. The Cowthorp, now more than 100 years in process of decay, still has a girth of sixty ieet. A peach tree in the garden of Mrs, Caleb Crow, of Hartford, Ky., is bearing a full grown pumpkin. The Kcivs says : " This tree bore none of its natural fruit this season; but nevertheless there hangs the healthy growing pumpkin. just ns it had grown from the blossom to its present size, which is much larger than a man s head." Not a rivulet can be found on the island of Fierro, one of the largest of the Canaries, yet there is a species of tree, the leaves of which are narrow nnd long, nnd continue green through the entire year. I liese trees are continually surrounded by a Sioud winch' is con densed, and falling in Jrous keens the cisterns placed under them constantly mil. The trunk of an old tree that resembles a block of plaster or cement may be ceen on the grounds of the Jardin des rlantes. Pans. An inscription at t.:e root of the branches announces that the tree i3 the Aeaeiti Viryinensis spinosa of XMortli America. it was brought to France in K.01 by Jean Robin, nnd was planted in the place it now occupies by Vespasian Robin, gardener to Louis XIII., in 1636. This tree, which is now 278 years old, formerly reached a great height, but its topmost brandies with ered and had to be cut off to obtain new shoots. All its branches are bound with iron and carefully stopped with a com position so that water cannot infiltrate into the trunk of the tree, as that would cause its death. Heart Disease. The cases of heart disease are far less common than is general v sunnosed. tho heart being one of the toughest organs in the "body. Still there are many cases, and they are of different kinds. There may be a paralysis of the nerves of the heart. When this occurs death is instantaneous. Angina pectoris not unfre quently terminates in this way. for excruciating pains exhaust nervous force as greatly 113 doc3 excessive pleasure. There may be what is called a fatty degeneracy of the heart, in which fat takes the place ot tho fibrous tissue, nnd sooner or later gives way under some slight excitement. Sometimes the walls of thj heart be come ciuite thin at some Doint. and this, in connection witli the general enlarge ment of the organ, renders it subject to more violent action, and it mav sud. denly burst on the quickening of that action, ftucn enlargements are oiten produced by violent and protracted ex. ertions, as in boat-racing. Or there may be a dilatation ol a por tion of an artery leading out from the heart; such dilatations are called aneurisms, and'are attended with a loss of the elasticity of the heart and a thin. ning of tho wails of the vessel. Hence it mav suddenly runture. or. which equally fatal, tho walls may dilate so far as to prevent the outflow of the blood to the brain. Every one even in health knows how quick and strongly anv emotion what ever acts upon the heart knows from his own experience. In all diseases of tho heart absolute self control at all times is of the most urgent necesaity. Without it life may cease at any mo- linn, X, . ' longevity Notes. John Battle died in Montreal the other ay, aged 1 12. Robert Kidd. 105 years old, Is the oldest man in Texas. Marv Fernav died in Little Valley. N. Y., at the age of 105. Samuel Losey recently died in Pike township, Pa., aged 107. Margaret McMahon died in Durham, England, in her 113th year. Aunt Sarah Hicks, in the county hos pital in Flatbush, L I., is 104. Clara Clairs. of New Orleans, was burned to death at the age of 103. . Luke Courville. 102 years old, hanged iiimself in a pig-pen on a poor farm. Tliurlow Weed saw the first steam boat and rode in the first steam railway train. A dudH in the Cawonville (Ga.) school is eighty-two years old. She is a negress. After living more than a century, a Michigan man committed suicide by hanging. Andrew Jung, ninety-three years old. of Columbia, Pa., served under the first Napoleon. Lucy Kurney. of Lansing, Mich., was uiiy-uve years n bhvvc nnu uvci diaijt n 1 J ' . years free. ltouns KemD. ninety-six years old. of Galloway. Ky., married Mary Bridges, aged sixteen. Over a centurv ago Ann Collins, of Pans, Ky., was born. She remembers Washington. Diana Dorsey, of Springfield, Florida, was supposed to be 115 years ot age when she died. Mary Donohue, whose grandfather died in his 12 let year, recently died in New York aged 112. Peleg Sprague, of Maine, is ninety years old, and blind. He was a United Statas Senator in 1829. James Smith, of Somerset county, N. J., now 109 years old, was sold as a slave thirty years ago for fifty cents. Thomas Howe, of Barrington. N. II.. lately made a marriage proposal to a lady eighty-five years old and fifteen years his junior. A negro died not lone ago in New Haven, Conn., leaving a family ot orphans from sixty to eighty years old. The lather was 108. The eleven daughters of the late Robert Johnson, of Middletown, Conn., are alive, the youngest over fifty years old, the oldest over eighty. Armstrong l'orter, ot Jjuzerne, ra,., died last month aged ninety-eight, lie voted for Tiomas Jefferson for Presi dent, and for Samuel J. Tilden for the same office. Although 103 years of age. Jane Gil bert, who is living at 26 Vine street. Baltimore, is in excellent health. She remembers the bombardment of Fort Mc Henry, and saw Georgo Washington once. A .IN or til Carolina couple,, who are each over ninety years of age, desire to die at the same hour. They have com pleted their funeral outfit even to their tombstones. Ihey live in Iredell county. bir Moses Montehore. the eminent Jewish banker, is in Ins ninety-seventh year. He served as sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1837. the year of the queen's accession to the throne, and was knighted by her majesty that year. A Discontented Baby's Diary. 1. January Just born. Here's a lark ! Papa does not seem very pleased. though. 1. February Every night pa walks up and down the bedroom willi me when 1 squeal. I always squeal. I must do something. 1. March wurso l.s a spitclul thing- she sticks pins into a fellow on pur pose. 1. April Alter all one may even weary of the bottle. 1. Mav 1 wish I could cut a tooth. 1 d cue nurse. 1. June What a nuisance it is to have relations who keep on saying "Ketchetty, ketchetty, and dig in your ribs with their forefingers. When I grow up I'll do it to them, and see how they'll like it 1. July There are three babies next door got the measles. 1 get nothing. it s awiuiiy dun. 1. August- One ot the babies from next door came in to see us to-day ; nnd 1 heard ma say, " lie Hasn't got the mcas'.e8 now?" "No." said the babe's ma. There's a greedy sneak for "you Left 'em at home! 1. September Nurse drinks some thing out of a black bottle. I've caught nir at it. it isn t the same that is in tnv bottle, either. If I were a bit bigger I'd change 'em. 1. October Blessed if this am t a nice go, neither. Some one called to-dav to see ma and pa, and they said it was uncle, and gave mo to him to kiss. He didn't kiss me, though, with what you might call a good will. Then they asked him again, and then they gave me to him to nurse, and he pinched me. 1. November This is worse than ever. W hy, here s another baby now, and tli ey say he belongs to our "house; and they're not going to send him awav. Don't even know how to feed iiimself out of the bottle. Well, of all never mind. 1. December Got to sleep in the same crib with him now! Wait till he goes to sleep; i'll give him such a oner! Here's a beast of a baby ! He won't go to sleep, and not a soul in the same crib can get a blessed wink. London Judy Words of Wisdom. is 6uch a bait, it covers Hope hook. any Conscience is the voice of the soul; tho passions are the voice oi tne body. All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good nature. Hatred is so durable and obstinate that reconciliation on a sick bed is a sign ol death. A merry heart doctn good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drietb the bones. Circumstances form the sharacter; nut, like petrifying matters, they har aen whue they lorm. When one has no design but to, speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass The universe is but one great citv. full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other. Thebehvud of t!i9 Aim ighty are Ih iuo uuuiutj vi luc and thn poorwho Lava the taaguBnim rich wno nave the humiity or the pco ny wi tne ncn. TU ELI TOPICS. The emmtgration statistics for 1879 show that 175,689 persons landed at Cas tle Garden, New York, of whom 135,070 were aliens, against 121.369 arrivals in 1878. of whom 75,347 were aliens. Ger many sent the largest number of emi grants in 1879, the total being 33,574; Ireland came next, with 22,624, and then England, with 21,555. France only sent 2,331. The labor bureau found em ployment for 11,010 males and 5,517 females. The Cuban planters evidently do not think they will lose their slaves for some time to come. They are confident the emancipation bill will not pass at this time, and owing to this feeling a spirit of confidence has sprung up among them of late, and it is said slaves readi y com mand $500 in gold. It is whispered that what the Cuban planters pretend to foresee is the revival of Don Carlos' pretensions in Spain and his possible success. They believe that his govern ment would earnestly oppose any eman cipation of their slaves. The world's annual crop of cotton is now equal to twelve million bales of the average weight of American cotton. Of this quantity about five million bales Bre produced in the United States. Some statisticians reckon that the whole crop of the world could be raised on a section of Texas less than one-twelfth of its area, or could be divided between any two of the other 'principal cotton States without exhausting one-half of Their good lands; or it could all be raised on less than one-half the Indian Territory that i3 not yet occupied at all. Within the last few months the news papers have been printing the statement that a man in rans oilers 84,000 to any one who will draw tho annexed figure with a pen without lifting the pen from the paper: Henrv L. Carlton, a teamster of Stock ton. Nev.. saw this nuzzle ard tried to unravel it. lie worked at the thing for four months until at last he became vio lentlv insine. Dr. Mc.Mrwnn. nf Stock ton, decided that Carlton was clean daft, ana upon a certificate issued hy iam Carlton has been confined in the Esmer alda, county asylum. An application of electricitv to the mouths of unruly horses promises to be more 'successful than even Rarev's method. A metallic conducting wire runs from a Clark magnet on the seat of the wagon or carriage, through the reins to the horses' bits. By turning the crank of the magnet a current of electricity is induced and sent to the animal's mouth. No violent shock is given to benumb or alarm the horse, but the slight pricking sensation. i,-i;uu.ti. em u iv:rti i ii ii iirnuc, surprises and subdues him. It was invented by M. Depuy, but the superintendent of the Paris omnibus company brought it to public notice. An electric whip, to pre vent rearing or turning sudden! v. is an other ingenious invention. Wo seem to be just learning the application of the wonderful power of electricitv to dnilv life, although it has so long been tamed to serve us as a messenger. Now and then a notorious case of lost boy or lost man excites the country, and people fall to wonderinc how it is nos- sible, since telegraphs, newspapers and neteciives nave come into existence, that these mysterious disappraiances can occur. The act of the matter is. however, says the Philadelphia IHmt.i, mac mysterious disappearances are oc curring at the rate of something more than one a day. At the New York pi - lice headquarters alone, during the past year, more than three hundred cass have been reported of men and bovs who have disappeared and of whom no trace whatever lias been found. The majority of these lost ones belonged in New York or tho immediate vicinitv. thus making the average estimated rate of one disappearance a day in the whole country, an estimate very much within bounds. While these figures seem rather startling, there really is eround for surprise that they aro not greater When we consider the dangers of great cities, the possibilty of dying unknown while upon a journey, and above all, the temptation that besets so many men to hide crime or indiscretion by slipping silently out ot their accustomed places in society, the wonder is not that go many people but that so few people aro lost. She Renewed. One of the sanitary police was .the other day wandering over a box full of dead eats in an alley off Seventh street. when he heard yells and the sounds of conflict in a house near by. As he en tered the yard a man and woman buist open the side door and rolled down the steps in a heap, kicking and clawing witli right good will. "What is the trouble here?" asked the officer as he pulled them apart. "There, I'm glad you happened along!" exclaimed the man as he jumped up. " The old woman and me have had a dispu'e for the last ten or fifteen years as to when Christopher Columbus dis covered America. Maybe you know?" " It was in 1492." replied the officer. "Just what I said iust the date I had!" cried the husband as ho danced around. "Now then, old woman, wiil you give up?" JSever: " You won't?" ' Not an inch ! I said 1490, and I had your neck across the edge of the step. V e agreed not to bite nor scratch, and I prefer to renew the conflict rather than take a stranger s figures! Come into the house!" The officer waited at the gate until he heard two chairs smashed down and a dozen yells, and he resumed his rounds with a growing conviction that Colum bus would ultimately be two years ahead in that house. Detroit Frte frett. Alphabet of Precious Stones. With this alphabet any English word can be spelled out .v ltn precious ana '.mt-precious stones. The Jist com prises just the letters ot our alphabe t : A Amethyst; B Beryl; C Cat s-Eve; D Diamond ; E Emerald ; FFelspar 5 G Garnet; H Ilyaeinthe; I Ido crase; J Jasper; K Kyanlte; Ii Lapis-lazuli; M Malachite; N Nat rolite; O Opal or Onyx; P Porphyry; 14 Quartz Agate; k Kitny; a t?ap- 1 imiii.-, x iui4UuiBCj u Ulbinujiiuuc; V Verd-Antique; W WttcrStpp hires, a A&nanue; it zircon, ITEMS OF INTEREST. Two hundred and eighty-one members of Congress are lawyers. Talk about catching 'possums asleep, did you ever see a pillow-sham? New York News. Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, is the youngest member of the United States Senate, thirty-nine. The library of the supreme court at Washington is the moBt complete law library in the world. The cotton trade of Charleston, S. C, nmounts to 820,000.000 a year, and tho rice trade to $2,( 00,000. A man refused to be treated by a physician the other day. But suppose it had been n saloonist? Youth will never live to ago unless they keep themselves in breoth with ex ercise and in health with joy fulness. Japan has iron coins wortli about 100th of one cent. They are alleged to be chiefly used for alms and ns offerings to gods. Upward of 2,000,000 acres of land have been taken by settlers in Mani toba, British America, during the past two years. The New Orleans Picayune calls the ? out a sort of brake which a wise Prov dence puts on a man's legs when he is living too fast. . Virginia has 675 colored schools, taught by 415 colored teachers. The male teacher's salary averages $30 a month, the female's $24. King Humbert has been able to take a sleigh ride at home for the first time in nine years, there having been no snow in Italy before since 1871. A physiognomist says that large ears denote generosity, which isprohably the' reason why a mule squanders his hind legs. Philadelphia Bulletin. "Embroidered crash is much used for piano covers," says a fashion exchange. That makes a terrible sameness about tho instrument. Boston Post. A poet in ono of our exchanges be wails the loss of a kiss. The short brained driveler, it seems, does not know enough to go and get another. liochesler Express. AVhat is the difference between the meat, flour, etc., this country ships to England and a hungry boy alone at the dinner table? Ans; One is food-stuffed and the other stuffs food. Norrislown Herald. The average housewife will take more pains to carry a sickly fifteen-cent pjant through four months of winter than she will to keep butter on the ice during three months of hot weather. Detroit Free Press. 1 sing thoe prniso ol the cobbler bold, A merry old oe is he, Hc'fl peg away through hent and cold, .5 icwnys ss merry ns merry can be. Cincinnati Commercial. A tramp asked for a meal at a resi dence in Columbus, O. The head of the family said, "Get along, or I'll set the dog on you." Then the tramp bet that within five minutes he would be invited to eat the best that the house afforded. He won, too, because he proved that he was a wandering son returned. A German journal publishes a curious list of the decorations conferred upon Prince Bismarck, forty-seven in number. Anion" them maybe mentioned the star of the Grand Commanders of the House of Hohenzollern, with brilliants; the cross of the Knigl.ts of St. John ; the order of Fidelity of the Grand Duchy of Baden, with brilliants and a chain of gold; the grand cross of the Hanoverian order of Guelphs; the grand cross, with brilliants, of the Austrian order ot St. Etienne; the order of the Annuncia tion of Italy; the grand cross of the Legion of Honor: the order of the Sera phins of Sweden; the Lion and the Sun of Persia; the While Elephant of Siam; the Osmaniu, with brilliants, and the Toison d'Or. ' Last spring the five children of M. B. Corbm, of Colorado, promised to earn money enough to pay for an organ if their father would buy one. The bar gain was made, and, as a capital, three dozen chickens and an acre of arable land were given to them. The ground was planted with onions, and yielded the remarkable crop of three tons, for which 6145 was re;eived. The net re ceipts from the chickens was $55, mnking the total receipts $200. Ti e organ cost $118, leaving a balance of $82 still in the children's treasury. The children are from six to fifteen years of age, and worked throughout the season with gri'at energy and perseverance, and hene deserved their success. The wisdom of the German postal an telegraph authorities in determining to connect Berlin with tho chief cities of the empire by means of a system of un derground telegraph wires, has been fully confirmed during the severe weather recent ly prevailing. While tho violent storms of wind anel snow have in many districts been the cause ot con stant stoppages in the telegraphic com munication between places connected by e verground wires, the traffic between towns connected by subterranean lines has gone on through the worst weather without tho least interruption or in convenience. A considerable extension of the underground system is looked upon as probable both in Germany and other continental countries. .Estivation. It is emrious that some creatures which ate allied to the newts become torpid, not by ceild, but by heat, and pass into a lethargic slate, which we will call aestivation for want of ft bet ter word. These creatures are called by the namo of Lepidosiren. popularly known us mud fishes, and are found on the muddy banks of certain African rivers, the Gambia being the best known. During the fierce heats ot an equatorial suaimer tho waters are dried by the sun, and tho mud baked into a brick-like hardness, so that the lepidxhi rent), which live chiefly on tisb, would die for tho want of food. But as soon as the summer heats bo gin the lepidobirens bore deeply into the mud, doublo themselves up. and pass into astute of lethargy exactly parallel to that of hibernating animals. As in hibernation, they requiro neither to breathe nor to eat. and remain iu their cells safo from all Iocs until tho rainy teason returns and converts their brick like homes into mud. I have had miiny specimens of activated lepidosirens, andj have always found them in the sam position, not coiled but doubled up ! Willi HIP vHH pii Jt. J, Q, Wood. with tne ft" partly ovtr tho nraa. 1
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