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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. Nit. DESPER AKDTJM. Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. X. HIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MAY 20, 1880. " NO. IS-
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Mnslc in thelNIght.
When stars pursue their solemn flight
Oil in the middle of the night
A strain of musio visits me,
Hushed iu a moment silvery
Such rioh and rapturous strains as make
The very soul ot silence ache
With longing tor the melody.
Or lovers in the distant dusk
Ot summer gardens, sweet with musk,
Pouring the blissful burden out,
The breaking joy, the dying doubt;
Or rovelera all flown with wine,
And in a madness hull difino,
Boating the broken tune about.
Or else the rude and rolling notes
That leave some strolling sailors' throats,
Hoarse with tho salt xpray, it may be,
Ol many a mile of rushing sea;
Or some high-minded dreamer strays
Late through the sol itary ways,
Nor heeds t e listening night nor me
Or how, how whence those tones he heard,
Hearing, the slumbering sonl is stirred,
As when a swiitly passing light
Startles the shadows into flight,
While one remembrance suddenly
Thrills through the melting melody
A strain ot music in the night.
Out ot the darkness bursts the song,
Into the darkness moves along; .
Only a chord ot memory jars,
Only an old wound burns ita scars,
As the wild sweetness ot the strain
Smites the heart with passionate pain,
And vanishes among the stars.
Harriit Pmcoti Syofford.
A Slice of Bread and Butter.
" Dorothy Dorothy Waldo!" cried
Mi9S Lorinda Cross ("cross by name
and cross by nature," the children
yes, and many of the grown-ups of the
neighborhood fleelared her), as she
pounced upon the huge loat of bread
which she had taken from the oven
and put into the big stone crock only
half an hour ago, just before she
turned her straight-up-nnd-down back
on the kitchen, to stalk to the earret
after "that idle hussy, Molly" the
maid-of-all-work " who had been
twice as lout; ns she ought to have
been rn iking ttie liei.3 there."
I said the huge loaf. I should have
said half the hu-re lo-f, for only that
proportion of the newly baked bread
remained.
"Djr-o-thy Wal-dooo!" again
cried iMiss Cress, in an ascending
scale, with an ominous tremoio on the
last note. .
"Yes, aunt," replied a sweet, fresh
voice; and a p ettv young girl came in
from the garden, with a basket ol
cherry-red currants in her hand.
A tiny thing she was, with round,
dimpled, rosy face, innocent child-like
blue-gray e.ves, and lair hair, some
short tresses of which hud escaped from
the braid into which they had been
bound, and were making a delightful
use of lli'-ir freedom by curling in the
most charming manner about the low
frank brow and little pink-tipped ears.
About "sweet sixteen." a stranger
would have pronounced her; but
Dolly, as her youthful companions,
much to the disgust of her nunt Lor
inda, called her, was older than that
by a year and a half.
An orphan at the age of twelve, she
had been k it to the care of the only
relative she knew, her mother's elder
sister a woman Hard in speech and
manner, and anything but soft in
heart. This maiden lady soured ir
revocably on her twenty-fourth birth
day, which should have also been her
wedding day; but at the very moment
she was fastening the orange blossoms
in her hair, had come the news that
her betrothed had eloped with the
girl-friend she had chosen for her
bridemaid. Lorinda tore the bridal
wreath into frag uents, and sea tered
it to the winds; never mentioned the
ftlse pair from that hour, banished for
ever all the womanly grace and tender
n ss she had ever possessed (truth to
tell, she had never possessed much), and
became the hardest worker of her sex
that ever worked upon a farm. In a
man's boots, coat and hat, early and
late, hot or cold, wet or dry, with set
mouth, lowering brow and silent lips,
site toiled side by side with Iter sturdy
old father, until the day he was struck
down by the pitiless sun, and died a
fer hours after -died just in time to
be saved the pang ot hearing that his
youngest and iavorite daughter was
lying at tho point of death", widowed
and friendless, in a far-away city.
Lor in da buried her father if she wept
for him, none saw her promoted a
man who had been long in Lis employ
ment to the position she used herself
to occupy, and started for her sister's
bedside. When she returned to Fern
ville again she brought dear little
fair-haired, soft-eyed Dorothy with iter,
and some ot Iter neighbors fancied
that since that time site had been a shade
less stern; but if she had been, it was
so slight a shade that it was almost im
possibld to perceive it. True, she did
less out-of-door work, and devoted part
of the timo thus saved to teaching her
niece to sew and cook and churn, and
other like accomplishments; but nev r
were the lessons accompanied by an
approving smile or kindly word, much
less a loving kiss. Even to the geitle.
winning child, Lorinda Cross remained
a cold, stern woman. Bat Dorothy,
God bless her! was so sunny in dispo
sition that the stern ways and dark
face of Iter aunt could not cloud her
young life. And thouji shut out from
that inflexible woman's heart, she found
the doors of all other hearts open to
her. The dogs, the cats, the hens, the
chickens, the hoisrs, the cows, the
calves, the very geese, regarded her
with adoration. The farm laborers
blessed her pretty face whenever she
came among them ; and as for Molly
poor hard-woiked Molly! she wouH
Lave kissed the ground the little feet
troa upon.
What wonder, thpn. thnt. TYin TTnnrali
the young surveyor, who lived half a
I way, m the old stone co;tage, and
whom i she had known from the very
first day of her arrival in Fernville
(when he, then a tall, bright-eyed boy
of fifteen, passing her fill tit, t) ITti a n A
seeing tho sad-looking little eui, iu her
black dress, standing by ft, silently
ottered her the prettiest white rabbit
he had ever seen a rabbit he had
eoaxiug Abner Brown for a month putt
to sell him, and which now he parted
with, without mother thought, at sight
of thoBe lovely tearful eyes and that
sweet wistful face) what wonder, I
say, that he " thought of her by d".y,
and dreamed of her by nightP"
But to go back. Dorothy came smil
ing into the kitchen, her lips and cheeks
as red as the currants she carried ; but
the smile faded away when she met her
aunt's irate gaze.
' Did you cut this loaf, and then
leave it here in this hot room to dry to
a chipr" demanded Miss Cross; and
then she added, emphatically, without
waiting tor an answer: "But of course
you did. No one else would have dared
to do it. And how dared you, knowing
that I never allow breid to be cut in
my house until it is at least a day old?"
" I am very sorry, aunt," began
Dolly; "but he looked so hungry!"
"'He!'" screamed her aunt, regard
ing her with a look of horror. ' You
gave it away, then! And to a "he!"
A tramp, I've no doubt, who wi.l come
back some night, rob the house, and
murder us all."
" Please, aunt," entreated the young
?irl. "don't be so angry. He wasn't a
tramp; indeed he wasn't; but a hand
some young fellow with long golden
hair"
"A wig," snarled Miss Cross.
"And the most beautiful blue eyes,"
Dolly went on, "I ever saw in all my
life. And he wasn't near the house.
And he didn't ask for anything. Oh, do
lister, aunt, while I tell you all about
it. I was on my knees in the path, pick
ing up some currants I had let fall,
when I saw him, through the hole in
the hedge Brownie's calf made the other
day, coming slowly up the lane "
"If you had been looking at what you
were doing, you wouldn t have seen
hitu," said her grim listener.
" He didn't see me. of course," said
Dolly, "or I shouldn't have looked at
him so intently. And, oh, Aunt Lo
rimln, it was just like looking at a pic
ture!" 'Stuff ." said Miss Cross.
" He was so handsome, and so dusty,
and so shabby, poor fellow! And he
sat down under the old tree, took a
crust of bread out of his pocket nnd
began to eat it as though he was
very, very hungry. That went to my
heart."
" Rubbish !" said her aunt.
"And 1 got up softly, and ran into the
house and cut a slice "
"A slice 1 Great grief!" interrupted
Aunt Lorinda. "A piece big enough for
the breakfast of a whole family."
"And I buttered it."
"You buttered itP"
"Yes, aunt; I only took the butter
that was left in the dish."
"Half a pound! You to without
butter for a week."
" And I ran out again, and into the
lane, as fast as I could," continued
Dorothy, apparently undismayed bv
this threat, " for fear I might lose cou
rage: and Btonoinff ' suddenlv before
him, I put the bread in his hand, and
said, "lam so sorry for you!' and
turned to run away, when he seized my
ii ind, and kissed it" (Miss Lorinda
Cross became rigid as marble), " and
said, 'These are the first kind words
I ve heard since 1 came to this beastly
country. Tell me your name little one.'
'Dorothy Waldo,' said I. 'Dorothy
Waldo,' no repeated; 'I shall never
forget it;' ai.d he rai3ed his hat and
went away. Dear aunt, had you been
in my place, would you not have done
as 1 did!"'
"1?" cried Aunt Lorinda "I carry
meals to strange men on the public
highway P I let a foreigner who called
my country 'a beastly country' kis3 my
hand? No. indeed; he never would have
kissed my hand."
' Perhaps not," said Dolly, with a
momentary twinkle in her eyes; and
then she added, pleadingly, " But don't
be angry any longer, aunt. I'll make
another loaf of bread right away."
"But that won't bring back what
you've wasted." said her inflexible rel
ative. "A pretty wife you'd be for a man
wlio hasn't a dollar to call lnso.vn, giv
ing away bread by the loaf and butter
by the pound " (Miss Cross had retained
at least one womanly trait a slight
tendency to exaggeration) "to all the
thieves and tramps who happen to come
along."
"Oh, aunt! exclaimed her niece; "ho
looked like a prince."
"A prince!" with a sort ot scorn.
" Your head is turned by that trashy
poetry you read. A prince! A likely
story in shabby clothes, and nibbling
a crust! A disguised burglar, in my
opinion. But burglar or no burglar,"
sue continued, it must be conlessi d
with some irrelevancy, "you shall
never marry a man who hasn't a dollar
to call his own, with my consent, and
if ever you marry without my consent,
you make a iiar of your mother in tier
grave."
" Aunt, I have told you again and
again, "said Dorothy, tirmly but gently,
"that I never would. I have not for
gotten my mother's last commands."
"Then don't be encouraging that
Daniel Howell to meet you every tack
and turn; and if you must have some
one to walk home from church with
you I can go and come myself, thank
heaven ! there's Abner Brown, and he
has a thousand dollars in the bank."
" But, aunt, I've known Dan so long,
and he is away so much, that when he
is at Lome I feei as though I mean,
I wouldn't like to hurt his feelings."
"Bah!" retorted the grim maiden.
" Men have no feelings. And as for
knowing him a long time, I think
you've known him quite ljng enough."
" But if he had the thousand dollars,
instead of Abner Brown P" questioned
Dolly, with more spirit than she had
yet shown.
"That would be in his favor, cer
tainly. But he hasn't, and never will
have, with that old father and mother
depending upon him. A thousand dol
lars, iudef dj Where would lie get it?
Tho sooner you forget Daniel Howell,
and the sooner Daniel Howell puts you
out of his head, the better."
"There's no need for you to talk so
loud, aunt," said the little girl, indig
nantly; nnd then, startled by the look
of malicious triumph on her auut'g face,
Dorothy looked around, just in time to
reseive a farewell bow from Daniel
Howell as he turned from Die door.
"He heard me," said Miss Cross.
I'm glad he did ; 'twill save trouble."
" Oh, Aunt Lorinda, how can you be
so cruel P" said poor Dolly, bursting in
to tears.
A year and a half passed away, dur
ing which, owing to his frequent ah
seuees and MUs Lonnda's watchful
care, Dolly and her lover had met but
thret or lour times. " It's bard," said
the young man, on the last of these oc
casions, "to know that I cannot ask
your aunt for your hand because I have
not a thousand dollars of my own, when
I know that there is plenty of room and
love and everything for'you at the old
stone cottage. Oh, Dolly, if you would
but brave her anger, how gladly I'd
make you my wife this moment!"
"Dan," interrupted the girl, with
dewy eyes, ''it isn't her anger though
I feel that it would be most ungrateful
in me to provoke it but the promise
my mother made for me on her death
bed. And ii it had not been for that
promise, Dan, you must remember, I
should have been the inmate ot an or
phan asylum, and we would never have
met." Adding, the sunshine coming
back again, " Don't you see how much
worse things could have been?" -
"You are "right, my darling, as you
always are," said Dan ; " but think it
may be years before I have 'the bond.'"
" I can wait, Dan. Yes " with a
mischievous little laugh" I can wait
until I am as old as Aunt Lorinda."
"God lorbid, love 1" lie said, catching
her in his arms and kissing her sweet
lips. " And nowgood-bye; I am going
a ay again to- morrow, to be goue I can
not tell you how long. Oh, Dolly,
heaven speed thetimewhen a little wile
shall be waiting with the old father and
mother at the stone cottage to welcome
me home !"
She raised herself on tiptoe, clasped
his face between her two tiny hands,
gazed into his eyes with a wealth of
tenderness In her own, and said : " Who
knows? Good fortune may at this very
moment be on its way to us."
And the very next day, Januar, 3,
1880, as Dorothy, with a crimson shawl
thrown over her head, was out in the
garden scattering crumbs on the snow
tor the snarrows, she heard the jingle
of sleigh-bells, and Farmer Beers came
down the lane with a sled-load of wood.
" Mornin', Miss Dorothy," he called, as
he reined up at the back gate. " Here's
a letter for you. They thought it
might be important, at the oflice, and
so, knowin' how keerful I be, and that
I was comin' this way, they asked me
to fetch it to you." And the old man
tossed the letter over the hedge, into the
girl's cutstretched hands and drove off.
" A letter for me!" said Dolly, in tones
ol the greatest amazement. "Why, I
never received a letter before in all my
Hie!" Then she turned it about, and
inspected it curiously. The envelope
was a common large yellow one, and
bore the printed address ot a law firm
in f n adjoining city, as well as her own
address, written in a plain legal hand.
"Who can it be fromP" wondered
Dolly; and then opened it, to find her
question but partially answered. A
sheet of blue paper and a smaller en
velope were inclosed. A paper con
tained, in the same hand which had
addrchsd the letter, these lines:
" Miss DoitOTiiY Waldo :
" Dear Madam We send you the ac
companying check in compliance with
orders received to that effect from a
client in Europe whose interests in this
country wo represent. Please acknowl
edge receipt.
" Your obedient servants,
'Find & Pkove.
" January 1, 1880."
Dolly's lovely eyes opened to their
widest extent. "A check!" she ex
claimed, and with trembling fingers
tore open the second envelope, which
was also addressed to her, but in a dif
ferent, more elegant hand; and sure
enough there was a check a check for
a thousand dollars, payable to the order
of Miss Dorothy Waldo. And on a
slip of paper which had kept it com
pany were these words : In payment
for a slice a very large slice of bread
and butter," And that's all the young
girl ever knew about it.
For one moment she stood dazed with
joy and astonishment. Tho next she
thought of Dan. Perhaps ho had not
started yet. How could she get to
him through the deep snowP Sleigh
bells again. Farmer B ers coming
back without the wood. Sho ran out
iut ) the lane. "Oh, do take me with
you!" she cried, to the great surprise of
the honest old fellow. "I must see
Dan Mr. Howell, I mean. I must see
him as soon as possible."
"Jump right in, my dear," said tho
old man, "and I'll have you at the cot
tage in aiiffy."
Away they went, the gray mare mak
ing excellent time for her; and as they
neared the house, Dolly caught sight of
Dan just leaving ic.
"Dan! Dan!" she called, tier clear
young voice ringing on the clear air,
and madiy waved her crimson shawl.
Dan turned, saw the bright flag and
her sweet face below it, and came
bounding over the snow in time to re
ceive her in his arms as she jumped
from the sled.
' Youcouldn t no, not if you guessed
forever," she said, half crying and half
laughins "you couldn't guess what
brought me here this morning."
" Whatever it was, heaven bless it a
thousand times!" said her lover.
"It is leap-year, you know, Dan."
" Yes. now I think ol it. it is. But it
can't be possible you have come here to
propose to mei"'
"Very possible indeed." answered
Dolly, slowly and deliberately. "Mr.
Daniel Howell, wl;l you marry me?"
"Mr. Daniel Howell's" only reply
was to fold her in so close an embrace
that, being the tiniest ot maidens, she
almost disappeared from view.
" And has Miss Cross'' he began,
when the pretty blushing face, all dim
pled with smiles, was atain raised to his
own.
'No, sho has not," interrupted
Dollv. " She knows nothing about it.
But it's all right, Dan," carefully tuck
intr something with her dainty left hand
Dan held the right into the breast
pocket ot his overcoat. ' xou may
come and see Aur t Lorinda as soon as
you choose. You didn't know it, Dan
dear, but you've got a thousand do!
lars." Harper Bazar.
Joshua II albeit, of Crawford countv.
Mo., although running close into a cen
tury of life, has been confined to his bed
throuzh chronic rheumatism for more
than twenty years, but in all that period
Das retained his cnecrtutness and socia
bility in a remarkable degree. When
he was young he was very strong and a
great hunter. He killed eleven bears in
the winter of 1U16.
Jim Ingrabam, of Wynn'i Mill
Henry county, Ga , is said to be a cen
tury and a quarter old. He is very in
firm, and totillv blind, but can aril
miikp n.n ffnnii n hark Anllav m m,il
ever looked through, and really seems
10 enjoy me occupation.
A FREE PltESS.
Some of It Advantages Tersely Stated.
The beautiful ?dea of getting some
thing for nothing is nowhere more
readily traceable than in a newspaper
office.
So much has been spoken, written
and sung about a " free press," that peo
ple have come to accept the term in a
sense altogether too literal.
If a man has a scheme of any kind
germinating he just steps into the edi
torial room and details it with the re
mark ; " I'm not quite ready to advertise
yet, but a few words will help me along."
He gets the few words and never gets
ready to advertise.
Two tickets admitting lady and gent
to the " G. R. X. M. T.'s grand ball,"
are expected to produce a six-line lo
cal and a quarter of a column descrip
tion of the ladies' toilets after the ball
is over.
Church fairs and the like are worse
than balls. They never leave tickets,
but demand more space, because "it's
a matter of news and a help to the
cause."
Should a boy saw off his finger, " Dr.
C. O. Plaster dressed the wound with
great skill," would be a graceful way of
stating it, and besides it is "unprofes
sional" to advertise.
The patent rat-trap man brings in one
of his combinations of wire and moldy
cheese bait, sticks it under the editor's
nose, and explains how they catch 'em
every timo the spring works. "It's
something of interest to the community,
and if you put in a piece save me a dozen
papers," which he quietly walks off
with as though he had bestowed a favor
in allowing editorial eyes to gaze on
such a marvel of intricacy.
An invitation "to come down and
write up our establishment " is a great
deal more common than a two-square
'ad from the same firm. Newspapers
must be filled up with something or
other, you know.
The lawyer, with strong prejudices
against advertising, is fond of seeing
his cases reported in full in the news
papers, with an occasional reference to
ns exceedingly able manner of con
ducting the same. It is cheaper than
advertising.
In fact everybody, from a to izzard,
w ho has an nxe to grind, asks the news
papers to turn the crank, and forgets to
even say thank you, but will kindly
take a free copy ot the paper as Dart pay
for furnishing news.
Ihe press being "tree" all hands seem
bound to get aboard and ride it to death.
That is why newspapers are so rich that
they can afford to pay double price for
white paper, and never ask Congress to
aid them by removing the duty on wood
putp. yew uaven lieyisler.
A Mother's Love.
J ust before the circus oDened vester-
day nfternoon a woman, nccompanied
by her son, a boy about sixteen years of
age, appeared on tno grounds and was
t he hrst at the ticket wagon. When the
window was opened the mother said to
the ticket-seller:
' If vou will be so kind as to let a
poor widow woman's Johnny into the
circus he will carry water to the cle-
phant."
"Stand hack, madam, stand back!"
le cried, as he took the half-dollar over
her head.
She took her boy by the hand and
marched to the entrance of the bie tent
explaining to the man at the door:
' My Johnny is going to carry hav to
the camels."
"You nnd your Johnny carrv vour-
selves right out of this!" was the verv
emphatic reply.
' Couldn't we both go in for ten cents.
if we sat on the ground P"
'.So, ma am ! bland back, now : vou
are in the way!"
They fell back for a consultation. The
boy had tears in his eyes, an 'I the mother
looked determined.
" Don't cry, Johnny, dear your
mother ioves you and will get you in,"
sho consolingly remarked, as she led
h'm again to the ticket 'vagon. Crowd
ing and pushing her way in, she called
out:
'This hov's father was a Dreacher.
and you ought to let him in free."
'Stand back, madam, stand back!"
was the answer she got.
"Can t you let U3 in for ten cents?"
"No. no!"
She drew the boy out of the crowd
and took a walk around the tent. There
was a spot where the canvas was raised
a little, and as they halted there she
said :
'Johnnv. a mothers love can sur
mount every obstacl . I'll stand here
and you crawl undT the tent."
She spread her skirts as far as possi
ble, and the boy made a dive and disap
peared, in about ten seconds he reap
peared in the shape of a ball, and he
dn't stop rolling until lie had gone
thirty feet. The mother straightened
him out, luted him up. and inquired
what had happened.
" I I don't exactly know," said the
boy, as he looked back at the tent, "but
I guess I don't care for any more
mother's love. I'll take pink lemonade
in place of it." Detroit Free Press.
Look Oat for the Moon.
The theory was advanced some time
ago by an English astronomer that,
owing to the peculiar solar and lunar
action, the earth and moon must eventu
allv come into collision. This theory
was opposed by some of the most
learned scientific men, who areued that.
owing to the position of the tidal wave,
the moon is drawn not exactly in the
direction of the earth s center of gravity,
but a little to the east of that center,
and that in consequence she is made to
recede trom the earth, her orbit is en
larged, and her angular motion dimin
ished. The partisans of the collision
theory reply that this does not prevent
the consumption oi me vis viva or the
earths motion around the common
center of gravity, although to a certain
extent, at least, it must prevent this
consumption from diminishing the
moon's distance and increasing her
i neuiar motion. As this consumDtion
of vis viva will go on through infinite
ages.it the present oruer ot things re
main unchanged, the earth . and the
moon must ultimately come together.
with results which the imagination can
only faintly conceive.
The total cost of the Gothard tunnel.
the most gigantic work of the kind in
the world, will not exceed $10,000,000.
It has been very costly of human life as
well as money, no less than 150 work
men having been killed and 400 disabled
during its construction.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Hitherto when a professional diver
went under wa era tube has supplied
him with air. But a Mr. Fleuss has
patented a process by which an experi
enced diver can remain under water for
hours, having within his helmet and
dress a supply of compressed oxygen
gas, diluted with nitrogen, which is
naturally present in his lungs and in the
diving dress when he assumes it. The
exhaled carbonic acid being brought
into contact with caustio soda, the
deadly gas is transformed into simple
carbonate of soda. It is asserted that
numerous experiments and tests have
conclusively proved that Mr. Fleuss's
system is attended with no incon
venience, and the expense is one-half
that of the old method. Mr. Fleuss is
only twenty-eight. His process has
been brought out since the Tay bridge
disaster.
The gold and silver minirg fever is
not altogether confined to tho United
State'; it has jut broken out afresh in
New Zealand, and to a degree which
indicates the dawning of a new era upon
that country. The mineral resources of
the islands have, all at once, bern
brought to light to an enormous extent ;
coal fields have been opened; and gold.
silver and copper mines are revealing
wealth to an extraordinary extent. The
discoveries are not so much new: it is
the marvelous development of the old
that is exciting attention both n the
colony and in Great Britain.
The German emigration is startling to
the authorities of the empire. It is just
published that nearly 34,000 emigrants
left the four ports of Bremen, Hamburg,
Stettin and Antwerp for America dur
ing the past year. But a small portion
has gone elsewhere. This report does
not include the Germans who left Brit
ish and French ports, who may be
roughly stated at 10,000 persons. The
new German army bill, it is feared, will
bring the emigration up to the propor
tions of that time succeeding the Franco
German war, when it averaged 115,000
per annum.
The important branch of American
commerce with India is almost entirely
controlled by the cities of New York
and Boston. The former has now the
lion's share, but which she did not pos
sess in times past. There are now 109
ships and barks bound to New York
from various ports in India and China,
and twenty-five ships and barks to Bos
ton. All theso have valuable cargoes.
In 1877 Boston had sixty East India
men to arrive, bringing over 1,000,000
baskets and bags of sugars. Boston has
latterly taken quite a start in the ocenn
steam trade. A new steam line has re
cently been startedlbctwcen Boston and
London. The steamers are 2,500 tons
register.
It is not generally known that panes
of glass can be cut under water with
ease to almost any shape by means of a
pair ot scissors. 1 wo things, however,
are necessary for success: First, the
glass must be kept quite level in the
water while the scissors are applied;
aud secondly, to avoid risk, it is better
ti perform the cutting by cropping off
small pieces at tuo corners and along
the edges, thus reducing the form crad-
ual'y to that required for if any attempt
be made to cut the glass at once to a
proper shape, as one would cut a card
board, it will mo3t likely fracture where
it is not wanted. The softer glasses cut
best; and the scissors need not be verv
sharp. When the operation goes on
vell tho glass breaks away from the
scissors in small pieces in a straight
tine with the blades.
Since the first of Januarv an extra
ordinarily large number of emigrants
have arrived in this countrv. and it is
estimated that during this vear the
population will be increased by 400,000
foreigners. They come chiefly from
Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Nor
way, uenraark and Holland. The
famine in Ireland is driving thousands
to America. There is one feature of the
present emigration which teems to have
struck all who have examined the iu
coming tide of new citizens. That is
that the emigrants are generally from
toe letter classes ot the European peas
antry. and that large numbers of them
come provided with means to purchase
homes in this country, liut a small pro
portion of the new-comers stop at the
ports of arrival. As a rule they start
mmediately for undeveloped regions
with the intention of cultivating the
soil or engaging in mining. For some
time past the money-changers at Castle
tiarden, New York, have exchanged
tor newly-arrived emigrants, upon an
average, $150,000 per day. Besides this
very many of them are provided, before
leaving burope. with oralis upon com
mercial firms in this country. On some
days tne average aiuount ot ruonev ascer
tained to be brought by each emigrant
was as much as SoOO, and it is reason
able to suppose that those coming in at
otner ports are equally as well ou.
Concerning Lizards.
A discussion on the hereditary trans
mission of peculiarities took place at a
recent meeting oi the society oi biology,
of raris, when Mr. ttouget is said to
have mentioned as a remarkable fact.
that a single tail, which he had caused
to be amputated lrom a salamander.
was replaced by two tails, which sub
sequently grew out. This is by no
means an uncommon occurrence in the
West Indies, where I occasionally no
ticed lizards with two tails. I he original
one is replaced by another, always. I
believe, of inferior length, with a second
shorter one growing lrom us base.
The common lizards ot the West In
dies are extremely fond of music. In a
list) ning attitude, they will approach
the open window of a room in which
music is played, coming nearer and
nearer, with hi ads elevated, intently
listening. In a somewhat rare book,
entitled -,Barbadoes and other Poema,"
by M. J. Chapman (Iiondon, 1835,) this
habit is thus reierreo to :
Gaysouuds are beard witbin the lighted halls ;
Tne lwteiuDg leaves tne miloily ent brans,
The charmed Eenhjr pauses as be flion,
And mingles with hit .trains tuo scfuest sighs
The awakened lizard leaves dm Dually Da,
Climbs to the lattice and erects his head.
A lizard, so eneaeed. had its tail acci
dentally cutoff by the sudden closing of
tne winaow on uie sm oi wuicu n was
stationed. This curtailed lizard, how
ever.oontinued to visit the spot.cb armed
with the music. After a short time it
was noticed that, the lost appendage was
arraduallv reolaced bv two. Ihlsoo
curred at the house ot a friend in Bar-
, badoes. Thomat Bland, in Bcuhm Acum,
A Tremcndons Spider Story.
A correspondent writes from Plain
view, 111., to the Chicago Inter-Ocean :
The following facts transpired on the
farm of an honest Old farmer, about
two miles from the town of Plainview.
Last Monday morning on entering his
barn the farmer found, to his great sur
prise, his pet bulldog and old cat and her
kittens suspended from the cross-benms
in his barn. On examination he found
them to be suspended there by a cord
about the size ot common wrapping
cord, the fiber of which much resembled
silk, but proved, however, to be a spi
der's web. At first he thought the kit
tens, which were on the hay just above
the beams, had accidently dropped into
the web, and the old cat, following the
instinct of her maternal nature, endeav
oring to rescue them had herself be
come entangled. As to the situation of
the bulldog, he thought he had been
trying to get at the cat while in her
trouble, and had himself to succumb to
the same fate as the cats, but he after
ward came to the conclusion that they
had been picked uo by the spiders as
they went about seeking whom they
mient devour.
The farmer went out to call in some
of his neighbrrs to witness the marvel
ous scene.but imagine his surprise when,
on his return, he found a sucking colt
ascending to the web, having been en
circled by two different fibers, one just
before his hind, and the other just be
hind his fore legs, he was being drawn
up by the spiders. When the colt had
been drawn up five or six feet, a spider,
apparently well versed in physiology,
came down one of the fibers and began
boring for the spinal cord, just between
the atlas and the axis, as I have seen
mall ones do with flies, but the farmer
was unwilling to sacrifice the colt for
the benefit of scientific investigation,
and so he was rescued.
The soiders were then taken from the
dove-cote, of which they had taken pos
session, and killed. One measured
three and one-half inches in length, and
weighed one half a pound. They are of
a dark brown color, with a light stripe
down their backs, strong, active and
ferocious. Several men of good repute
in this section are willing to testify to
the above facts.
They Missed the Boy Arter All.
Jack was not a bad boy, but he was a
terribie mischievous one, and his pa
rents really teit reuet at the thought
that he was to start for boarding-school
the next day. His father thought of it
when he found that Jack had used his
azor to whittle a Lite-stick. lie thought
so again when he discovered that Jack's
ball had gone through the parlor win
dow. Jack's mother thought so when
he found muddy footprints all over tho
parlor carpet and a great scar on the
piano leg. They both thought so when
their chat at the supper table was in
terrupted by whistling and the upsetting
of the milk pitcher, and they told Jack
so, wnen, niter navmg driven almost
wild his father, wlu) was try ins to read
the evening paper, by getting up a light
between the dog and cat, he sat down
on Jiis mother's new bonnet she had
ust been lixin, and utterly ruined it.
Early the next morning Jack was
packed olf. Oh! what a relief from
noise nnd trouble it was. His father's
razors remained undisturbed ; no bound
of breaking glass was heard; the par
lor carpet was unstained by mud. But,
somehow, the house didn't seem cheer
ful to its occupants. It was a long day.
Tea was served. There was no whist-
mg and upsetting of dishes to inter
rupt the conversation, but the talk
didn't seem to run so smoothly after all.
And when it came to reading the even
ing paper and fixing up another bonnet,
the dog and cat slept serenely on the
hearth-rug, and no ilisturbance inter
rupted the proceedings, ihats tho
difference between having a boy in the
house and having him away, und the
gentleman put down his pper and re
marked as much to his wife, when he
noticed a quivering about her mouth
and two big drops on her cheeks, nnd
there was a kind of mistiness about his
eyes that bothered him about seeing
les, sue answered; "it is nice
and quiet; uh, uh, ou u-u!"and he
got up and went to tho window and
looked out and blew his nose lor twelve
minutes steadily.
A Tongh Story to Swallow.
There is sid to be a French babe, need
six months, born at Cherboure. the naDe
of whose neck has the singular gift of
producing un uninterrupted succession
of feathers. Twenty-three have already
sprouted, reached maturity, and fallen
off, to bo carefully stored away by the
fortune may be considered made if the
amazing story turns out correct. The
manner in which theso leathers grow is
thus described : A pimple forms on the
nape of the neck, quite close to the roots
oi the hair. At the expiration ot a ccr
tain time the pimole blossoms into i
feather, the child, at the moment when
it appears, seeming to experience a
slight uneasiness. The feather, which
is curved and gilded, attains.when fully
grown, from ten to twelve centimeters
in length. When it falls a few drops of
a whitish color issue from the pimple,
which then heals, leaving no trace of its
existence for awhile, until another ap
pears, inclosing the germ of another
feather. A curious circumstance, says
the Cherbourg paper, is that the feather
remains six days on tho infant's neck
when fully grown before falling, aud
that its successor takes as many daj s to
sprout as its predecessor to reach ma
turity. The father of the phenomenal
child intends taking it to Paris in order
to ask science to investigate the cause of
this freak of nature.
The "Great Hurricane."
The most ten io'e wind storms do not
occur in this latitude. What is known
as tho great hurr.cane started from
Barbadoes October 10. 1780, engulfed un
English fleet anchor d before St. Lucia,
ravaged that island, where six thou
sand live3 were loat, traveled to Mar
tinique, where it sunk a French fket of
forty bhips, Currying four thousand sol
diers, devastated St. Domingo. St. Vin
cent, St. Eustache and Porio Itieo. and
sunk many vessels sailing in the track
ol the cyclone. JSine thousand per
sons perished at Martinique and a
thousand at St. Pierre. At Port Royal
1,400 houses were blown down, and
1,600 sick and wounded wero buried
b'neath ths walls of the hospital.
Great as has been the suffering and loss
of ife from tornadoes in this country,
they cannot be compared to this truly
great hurricane of a century ago. .
Coming Home from Church.
Coming homo from olmrch together,
In the lovolv spring-time weather,
Pretty Jonny, dashing Willie
She as fair as my lily.
Slowly wending, 'noath the shadows,
Past the brook and by the meadows,
Arm in arm so fondly twining,
While the silver stars are shining.
Summer days are longer growing,
Summer nights their joys bestowing;
At the porch, in silonoe meeting,
Eyes alone extend a greeting.
Ah, the rogae! hor mother taught her
That the other way was shorter!
Longest road and brightest weather,
Coming home trom church together.
Autumn days wero sweet and mellow,
Autumn grain was ripe and yellow;
Oil, the moonlit hours for roving!
Oil, the liitle " Yes" so loving!
Blushing Jenny, handsome Willie
She as fair as any lily
Wedded in the golden weather,
Coming home lrom church togethor!
George Cooper, in Baldwin' Monthly.
ITEMS OF INTEREST,
The watchmaker does his spring
work all the year round.
The SDarrows are little thieves, but
they don't do the robin.
If you want to compliment a tenor
singer, call mm nign-ioneu. oorry
Press.
When two dentists are partners they
rarely quarrel; they pull together
Cfriswoui.
Nothing is wholly bad. Even a dark
lantern has its bright side. Balcm
Sunbeam .
The rain fall on the just and the un
just. But not on the man who has just
stolen an umoreiia. aoswn x ranscripi.
There about 1,000 applications for ap
pointment on the Boston police lorce
now on file at the commissioner's oflice.
" Music by the quire," as the fellow
remarked when he bought twenty-four
sheets of the same. Ma.raihonIndepend'
ent.
It is expected that coal mines worked
bv modern machinery will soon be
opened in the province of Nganhiong,
China.
On little hornet on the nest
A shining little vilyiiia
Josepiins gave tho nvet a kick
And then there was a million!
Tho vouns Emperor of China is al
lowed to smash $5i0 mirrors when he
feels funny, instead of beinir greeted with
a shingle serenade.wcll laid on. Vein tt
Free Press.
If those who are the enemies of inno
cent amusements had the direction ol
the world they would take away spring
aim youth; ttie lornier irom tue year,
and tho lutter from human life.
Dr. Peck, of Indianapolis. ha3 ampu
tated the lees of a young girl on account
of decay in the bones, produced by ex
cessive rope jumping. He ndvises pa
rents and teachers to prohibit this play
under all circumstances.
A Deep Well.
Tho Continental Diamond Boring
company, limited, have lately completed
tor the government oi jucctiennurg-Schwerin-a
bore hole of exceptional
depth, and the execution of which is of
particular interest from the rnpidity
with which it has been completed, ihe
boring which vns made for salt, is
situated at Probst Jesar. near Lubtheen,
Mid it was commenced on the sixth of
Jmy of last vear, with an opening
twelve inches in diameter. The first
part of the bore had to be through a
diluvial bed consisting mainly of drift
sand and coarse gravel, and for sinking
through this Kobrich's system was
adopted, the diameter of the bore being
maintained at twelve inches. Thetotal
depth sunk on this system wi s 321 feet
tilit inches, the sinking occupying
thirty-four days of twenty four hours
each, of which thirty-one clays were
spent in nrtual boring, and three days
in surdry works.
Below the diluvium the gypsum and
rock were reached, and through this
tho boiing was carried on with dia
monds, the commencement bcin made
on August 25, 1879, with a hole ten and
a half" inches in diameter. Until a
depth of 1.670 feet had been reached,
however, no firm looting could be ob
tained on which to rest the tubing, and
heuce great annoyance was experienced
from the falling iu of masses of sand,
tho infalls being so great that some
times, when the boriug rod was with
drawn, the bore became nli"d up again
to a depth of over 420 feet. The boring,
however, was steadily proceeded with,
and u.timately the final depth of 3.0til
feet was attained on the 6ixth ol Feb
ruary last, the diameter ol the bor at
time spent in laboring with diamonds
was 163 days of twcn'y-Jour worKiug
hours. . . .
With the exception of a bore hole
put down to the depth of 4,183 feet for
tho Prussian government, a lew years
ago, and which took four years to ac
complish, the boro of which we have
been giving particulars is, we believe,
the deepest jot Bunk, and the fact that
it was completed in less than six months
speaks well for the skill and energy
with which tho worn was carrieu out.
Scientific American.
Words of Wisdom.
To live long it is necessary to live
slowly.
Give neither counsel nor salt until you
are asked fur it.
Advancing or resting we still go on
by-and-bye to go off.
We hand folks over to God's mercy
but show none ourselves.
There are calumnies against which
even innocence lescs couvage.
Ho that ran compose himFelf, is wiser
than he that composes books.
Thcro is in every human countenance
el'.her a history or a prophecy, which
mutt sadden, or at least soften, every
rejecting observer.
Afflictions are the medicine of the
mind. If thev are not toothsome, let it
sutlice that they are wholesome. It is
not required in physio that it should
please, but heal.
To fill the sphere which Providence
appoints is true wisdom; to discharge
trusts faithfully and live exalted ideas,
that it the mission of good men,
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