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VOL. XII. IlIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THUHSDAY. MAHCII 2, 1882 NO. 2. "
I.ttve'H 4ntu t inure.
And iliii you think my heai t
Could keep iU love unchanging,
Troth as tlio buds that start
In spriiiR, ncr know estranging I
Listen I The, buds depart :
I loved you once, but now
I love you more than ever.
'I'is not the early love ;
With day an.l n;ht it altera.
And onward ptill must movo
Lilte earth, that uevir laltoin
For storm or tUr alove.
I I ivod you once, but now
1 1 jvo yon more than ever.
Willi gifts in tlioso glad .lays
How cnjeily I Bought you 1
Yontli, Bhining hope, and praise J
Thcwo were the gifts I brought you.
In this worM littloHtays :
I lovc.l yon once, but now
1 love you more than ever.
A child with ploriotis eyes
Hero in our arms half-sleeping
Bo pansion wakeful lies j
Hi' n grow s to manhood, keeping
Its wistful, young surpriso :
I loved you ouee, but now
I ljve you 111010 than ever.
When age's pinching air
Strip's d'.iinmer'd liuh osh! ssiou
And h uvoe the 1 niuehia bare,
My eeuri't in amfcs.-ion
S: ill thus with you I'll sli.no:
I lov.d you once, but n.'iw
I love you mora than over.
Gfovje '. J.alhrop, in the Continent.
Ky Great-Aunt Ciizabeth.
I oan remember my great-aunt
Elizabeth and I was a very little boy
when I uscil to hp's her she was a well
rcund il old Quaker lady with the neat
est of cups and a spotless kerchh f
folded across her breast. Whit most
impressed me wa3 thut she knitted gray
woiden stockings all the time, appar
ently never looking at them and never
dropping a stitch. This struck mo as a
very marvelous feat, and to tell the
tmth I trust Mill 'think it so, as I do
cot find ladies young or old nowadays
who can do the same.
I never imagined that wy great-arm
Elizabeth had experienced a livelier
emotion than that consequent on drop
pine a stitch or having a baking spoil.
Not till long after she was laid away ia
one of the tombless mounds in the
Friemb burying ground did I learn
from some old letters and papers what
a whirlwind of passion and of pain had
swept through her lifo half a century
before I raw her.
She was the youngest daughter of my
ancestor, her father, who, with due re
spect to his memory, must have been u
choleric and tyrannical old fellow. Shi
grew up a beauty, and as at that time
marriages weie formed early among the
settlers of Upland where tho family
lived, hor sisters were 60on carriod oil
and she lived alone with her father,
then a widower. Naturally she did not
lack admirers, somn from the surround
ing farms and some even from Phila
delphia and Newcastle. Two, however,
were particularly assiduous; the one,
Join Hatton, already the prosperous
owner of afarru ia tho neighborhord,
tho other Thomas Ebsworlh, a promis
ing sprig of tho law from Newcastle.
The latter was a dapper gentleman of
tho day, with a wig and black bilk
stockings, and with the courteous man
ners of tho Established church, cf
which ho and Li3 parents were mem
bers. He showed to great advantago in
Elisabeth's eyes in contrast to John
Hatton, a heavy youth, blow of speech
wearing an ill-fitting Quaker suit of
homespun, and inclined to Burlincus.
Eut her father locked at matters differ
ently. Ho had feigned business in
Newcastle and found the Ebsworlh fam
ily to be, as he expressed it, of the
Maryland style of people, spending
their incomes ia fine living, buying
wines and wearing imported goods.
Altogether the future of young Ebs
worth looted to him very problemati
cal, 60 ono evening he benn:
" Elizabeth, I seo thee has two fol
lowers who are coming often; I shall
- not urgo thee to marry either, but I
ehall tell thee one thee shall not marry,
and that i3 Thomas Ebsworlh. Nor
shall he co te again la to this house. I
. shall have no spurts in silk stockings
"enter my doors."
Elizabeth knew wey the hard inflexi
ble character of her father. She could
never remember to havo sat on his
knee, nor to have kissed him. Yet she
knew that in his way ha loved his fam
ily before all else, acd what rendered
her case hopeless was that it was this
very lovo for her that prompted his
cruel action. She turned deadly pale,
and sinking on a bench said not a word.
Her father had expected passionate
remonstrance perhaps, but not 6ilent
acquiescence. He well knew that her
affections were for Ebswoith. Many
: men would' have worked themselves
Into a rage to justify their harshness.
But ho needed no such self-deception.
He acted c.s Friends usually act, with
perfectly clear convictions.
" Theo knows that in this I act for
thy welfare. I cannot allow theo to
' enter a family, where the hours are
passed In wordly pleasures, where re
ligion Is a hollow profession, end whose
goods arc squandered in follies. Let
r iiis relation go so farther, and now o
c tiy s'ocp."
No t 1 i o wm in bey M did Eliza
beth givo way to thoeo wild choking
fobs which she had stifled by a mighty
effort. Life stretched before her a long
and tterile blank. The light and the
glory had utterly gone from it.
Next day she rose pale and haggard
And went about her dutiea as usual.
Her father made no reference to the
conversation, but he was .restless. He
know that on Fifth-day evening Thomas
Ebsworlh paid his usual weekly visit.
This was Fifth day, and the old man
evidently had something on his miud.
So had Elizabeth, fearing she knew not
what.
Toward sunset Ebsworth entered the
lane on horseback. He was dressed as
usual with much care in the latest
Eaglish fashion, and with tho usual
black silk stockings. As he entered
the yard the old man went out and ad
dressed him :
" Thomas, thee can turn round and
go home and stay there. I do not wish
more of thy visi's."
The young man was taken aback by
this language, but lost neither his pres
enco of mind nor his courtesy.
" Friend James," he said, " may I
ask why thoe treats me thus? I have
not deserved it." Thomas, though of
tho Eitablished church, adopted out of
policy the plain language with his
Qaakcr friends.
" I will tell thee why. Thee comes
for my daughter. Theo shall never
have her ;" and here the hot-headed
nature of tho old man got the better of
him and he burst out : " I shall never
give her to a worldiug who thinks to
get my money to spend ou cards and
wine, and," he added, looking scorn
fully at the shapely limbs of the young
man, "cn black 6ilk stockings. Get
thee gone. Neither sho nor I want to
see theo again."
A faint cry from fin tipper window
led both of them to look up. There,
prono across the sill, lay ths fainting
form of Elizabeth. The old man with
an imperative gesture of anger bade tho
youth depart. Lioking hopelessly at
the houso ho turned down the lane and
never was seen to enter it again.
Eut did ho thus give tip the chase ?
Ah 1 that i3 where a dreadful mystery
comes in. Watched and lectured by
her father, degged by surly John Hat
ton, Elizabeth sank into apathy, tho
roses faded from her cheeks, and at
last she was worried into consenting to
a marriage with this persistent suitor.
A year passed, when one day John
rodo up to tho old man's, a prey tosomo
excitement which changed his whole
features. His father in-law looked at
him with amazement.
"John," ho said, "what is the mat
ter? what aileth thee?"
" Matter," he hissed, " matter take
thy daughter back. I want no false
woman for my wifo."
But lie had not learned the temper of
the man ho waj talking to. With a
blow that would have done credit to an
arm of thirty hi3 father-in law felled
him to the earth.
"Tuko that, thou foul speaker, and
may tho Lord forgive me my anger.
But none shall speak srea lies of my
children."
" A lie. is it?" said John, slowly ris
ing, greatly cooled by this most incon
sistent action of the old Fiiend. " Then
what does this mean ?' and he spread a
crumpled pieco of paper before hi3
father-in-law's eyes.
It was with difficulty' tho eld man
could read it, o'.thongh it was written
in a clerkly Italian hand. It road:
" Will thee not meet mo, dear Eliza
beth, by the spriog in the woods after
snntet to-morrow? As we : pledged
each other oar 1ti love, let us keep
our pledge in e-t-ii e cf the one man who
stands in the way, no matter how near
he is to iheo. ' Thy own Thomas.'-'
It was not dated. The old inan saw
what it referred to and said
" This Ttat written years before thy
marriage, when I drove Thomas Ebs
worth from the house. Bat sho never
met him, as I watched her hourly fur
days afterward."
" Perhaps so," caid John, "but it
may have been written within a month."
As ho cpoke ho backed off to a respect
ful distance as ho saw a dangerous
light in tho old man's eyes. .
" John," Ea'd he, " anger me not.
Thou art a fool, and thy wifo is my
daughter. I shall speak to Friend Ra
chel Wilson and sho shall adjust this
matter between us. But never speak to
me again about it."
Friend Rachel was a local preacher
of great force of character and discre
tion. She reported that Elizabeth had
received this note from Thomas Ebs
worth the day ho was driven away, bat
her conscience was too much under a
sense of duty to heed it.. Unfortunately
she did not destroy it.
This explaca'.ion undoubtedly tho
true one did not satisfy John Hatton,
but he dared not openly defy it. He
grew more and more suily, soon took to
drinking, and after a few years of do
inestio unhappiness, he fell off his
horse one day when strong liquor had
weakened his brain, and broke his
neok. '
My great-aunt never married again,
and for fifty years after his death led
that placid existence which is nowhere
found in suoh perfection as ia the So
ciety of Friend,
And Thomas Ebsworlh, what of
him? Able and ambitious, he falsified
tho predictions of my ancestor and il
lustrated again how foolish is the wis
dom which would fenco passion with
prudence and love with calculation.
Ho removed to Maryland, married late
in life, and became a prominent figure in
tho early political history of our Union.
Once only did the lovers meet.
My fjreat-aunt, left with straitened
means and several small children, lived
after her husband's death near the
"Baltimore road," tho main highway
which in those days led from Baltimore
io Philadelphia. Ono summer after
noon she took her work to a seat under
a great oak tree by the roadside. She
was still a comoly woman with a fresh
sweet face and brown hair untouched
by gray. Her youngest daughter, a
girl of eleven, was with her and it is
her account of what happened that I
shall give.
Looking down the road the child
spied a delightful sight a real private
coach brilliant with shining lamps and
varnish, and driven by a liveried coach
man in the majesty of cockade and but
tons. As tho coaoh reached the shade of
the oak the coachman drew up to rest
his horses. Suddenly the door was
thrown open and a gentleman, dressed
in the elaborate costume of the day,
sprang out and holding out both hands
cried :
"Elizabeth I Elizabethl"
" When mother heard him," said my
informant, " I saw her turn white and
lean back against tho tree ; her lips
moved but she made no reply. ' Eliza
beth !' he repeated, have I no place in
thy memory ? I have never forgotten,
never can forget.'
" What mother answered I do not
know. Something she said in a low
voice, and for some minutes they talked
together in an undertone. Then mother
began to cry and sho made a motion to
him with her hand, as she did to us
children when sho wished us to leave
her. I heaid the words Thomas, thee
has a wife.' With that the gentleman
put his handkerchief to his eye?,
entered tho coach and was rapidly
driven away.
"Mother sat crying for a long time
under the oak, and I was so frightened
I did not dare speak, nor did I say a
word about it to hsr for several years.
Then one day I asked :
" Mother, will thee tell mo who
that gentleman was who spoke to theo
under the oak tree?"
" That, Anna,' she replied in her
usual calm tone, was Governor Ebs
worth, of Maryland. I knew him when
I wa3 a girl. But as ho was associated
with much that was painful in my early
life, I should prefer that, thee would
not speak to mo of him again.'
" And I never did."
Our Continent.
A i'haiire for Iiii cntofs.
A machine i3 greatly needed in many
parts of tho country for twisting to
gether swamp hay, the straw of grain,
bushes and tho small branches removed
rom trees in the operation of trimming
them, for the purpose of utilizing them
for fuel. Such materials are extensive
ly employe d in many parts of Europe
for heating houses and for cooking
food. They are twisted together cr
tied by hand. Although this country
is well supplied with wood and coal,
and the facilities for transporting thorn
are excellent in most sections, still
there are places where tho inhabitants
aro obliged to rely entirely on the ma
terials at hand for fuel for warming and
cooking. They Lave an abundance of
hay and straw, and sometimes bushes
and tho branches of trees that havo
been p'an'ed. . Ir they are twisted
together and bound they form very good
and convenient fuol for domestic pur
poses. The materials as prepared should
be nearly ia the form of sticks of slove
wood. In addition to being twisted
they should bo bound so that they can
be conveniently handled. A machine
that would accomplish these results
would bo of very great valuo in many
portions of tho West, and especially eo
in the treeless, coalless sections of the
great wheat-growing region. It should
be of ample construction, not liable to
get out of .older, and cheap. Large
muchines might be constructed that
could be moved from cne houso to an
other, as thrashing machines now are,
but small machines are more desirable,
so that every settler could havo one.
The machines would be valuable in
places where there is a supply of coal
but no wood that can be employed for
kindling purposes or for supporting
brisk fires that are often required for
cooking meals. With a suitable ma
chine a substitute for wood could be
obtained from materials now wasted, at
theeipensoof a little labor. -Chicago
Times. ' '
The National Soldiers' . Home, near
Hampton, Va., has now about eight
hundred inmates, and is to have a new
wing this season, increasing its capacity
to one thousand. A new brick buildin g
costing (35,000 has just been completed.
The enlargement of the building is found
necessary, owing to the inoreased num
ber of applicants from the old volunteers
for admission,
The 82,100,000,000 assessed upon
personal and real property in New York
city scaroely tells thontory of the wealth
on Manhattan island, as real estate is
assessed at only sixty per cent, of its
value, personal property largely escapes
altogether, and $100,000,000 of church
and school property is exempt.
One million dollars is waiting for
some one. Police Supsrintendont Wal
ling, of New York city, has bean requested
to cause search to be made for the heirs
or next of kin of George Frederick
Eappold, who died a year ago iu Ge
nova, Switzerland, leaving an estate of
82,000,000. He was a native of Germany,
and was temporarily stopping at Geneva
at the time of his death. It appears
that he left no will. His wife got pos
session of the half of his property, and
the other half is now awaiting claim
ants. His immediate relatives consist
of a family named Fluhrcr, who emi
grated to this country soveial years ago
and are known to havo sot tied in New
York city.
A scientific; experiment, not unlike
that performed on the soldier St. Mar
tin, by which the time of digestion of
various articles of food was for the first
time accurately ascertained, has been
tried in St. Louis, not with a view to
science so much as with reference to
prolonging the life of a man who was
starving to death on account of some
malignant stricture in his stomach. His
doctor informed him that ho could live
longer and moro comfortably by means
of a hole cut into his stomach. After
eight days tho wound was healed so
that food could be introduced, the pa
tient first masticating it. The doctor
observed that as soon as the patient be
gan to masticato his food the gastrio
juice in the stomach began to flow
through tho opening, showing tho in
timate connection between the stomach
and the early processes by which food
is proparcd for it. Indeed, it was made
certain, ia tho St. Martin case, we be
lieve, that the smell of food even stimu
lates the flow of tho gastric juices.
The king of Italy seemed surprised
on a recent occasion when a party of
nine Protectant mini.itera were pre
sented to him, one as a Wesleyan Meth
odist, another as a Baptist, the third rs
a Presbyterian, the fourth as a Wal
dense, and o on. "I do not ULder
stand," said King Humbert, "how you
can all bo ministers of tho same gospel
and yet havo so many distinctions.
Puihaps cno of you will be so good as
to explain to me." One of the number
promptly replied : "In your majesty's
army there are many regiments wearing
different uniforms, and called by dif
ferent n:ime3 ; nevertheless, they are all
under one commander-in-chief and fol
low one flag. In liko manner wo Prot
estants are divided into several denom
inations, but we know only ono chief
Jesns Christ and wo follow but ono
banner, namely, that of tho gospel of
our crucified and risen Lord." It in
said thut tho king listened otteutively,
and, thanking the speaker for his clear
explanation, said: "You wish me to
understand that while there are differ
ences amorig you on minor matters,
there is unity in all that i3 essential."
The Protestant ministers, thanting the
king for hi3 courtesy, then withdrew.
Jlilitaru Term F..rpSineil.
Fatigne duty means details rnado
from ccrr.pauies for duty, work of all
Liiids, such as leading and unloading
quartermas ter and commissary wagons,
repairing roads, ditches, etc. Police
duty is the keeping of the camp ia
order, sweeping, etc., and ,is generally
Verformed by the old guard, though
sometimes a special detail is made for
the purpose. A field worL is a work of
dirt thrown up for the purposo of giv
ing protection from tho enemy's fire.
Tho best order far firing with the
breechloading rifles is iu open order
or as skirmishers. If a call sound to
fire, a Eoldier fires only when ho sees
something to shoot ut. File closers
aro non-commimioned officers or
men marching ia rear of com
pany and their duties tre to check
all disorders, keep tho ranks
well closed up, and to caution men who
are firing too high. Filo closers never
tako part in firing unless the command
is hard pressod, at close qttatters and
when every available musket ia needed
Tactics, is tho art of moving troops in
tho presence of an enemy. Strategy is
the science of conducting tho opera
tions of war ought of sight of the
enemy. An aligment is tho line upon
which droops are formed or dressed.
A point of appui is tho point of rest or
toward which companies aro dressed.
A pivot is tho fixed or movable point
upon which a change of direction is
made. A deployment is the forming of
a column of twos cr fours into line.' a
ployment is the forming from line, iuto
column
At a recont school examination tho
son of a coal doaler was asked how
many pounds thero were in a ton. He
missed.
Bunflowers.liliea, poppies and peacock
feathers are now in good demand.
When physicians discovered that pain
could be subdued by ir.seiting under
tho skin a small pointed inbtiument
provided with a tube containing mor
phia, they little thought that they were
paving the way for a new vico. Yet eo it
was. There are in our merry England
beings who are as wholly tinder the
domination of morphia as ever the
Chinese were under that of opium
Women have yielded by degrees to its
fatal fascination, until at last they prick
the skin a dozen times a day with the
tiny syringe that has such terrible re
sults. Th9 oper ation is almost painless;
the immediate effects pleasant. A de
licious languor supervenes. Happy
thoughts and bright imaginations fill
tho mind. Some seo beautiful visions,
others feel only a pervading sensation
of comfort and well being. On a few
the effect of morphia is to crcito to
some intellectual effoxt, if effort that
can be called which is pure delight, a
glorious feeling of untrammcled
power or uncrippled.! exercise of the
highest faculties. It is as though tho
mind Lad suddenly developed wings,
But at the veiy height of the enchant
ment the influence of morphia begins
to subside. The glory fades. The
wings trail, and tho feet that are their
sorry substitutes become weighteel as
with lead. As with tho workers, so with
the dreamers. The visions ara ob
scured. The sonsation of comfort gives
place to one of discomfort, irritation,
even pain. The mental vision thut
had just now looked through a rosy
mist sees all things as through a crape
veil or a November fog. Can it be
wendcrod at that the dose is renewed,
that the poison is absorbed again end
again, that the intervals becomo shorter
between the reign of tho potent drug?
And the end? a. lie punishment is
terrible indeed. B degrees the mind
becomes daikened. Eido .us hallucina
tions seizo upon it. bih-control is
lost. Imbecility overtakes tho weak.
MadneES threatens the strong.
These aro tho personal consequences.
There aro others to be bequeathed to
sons and daughters, and later genera
tions. TLcso can be guessed at. The
new vice has not reigned sufficiently
long for tho world to havo seen them
exemplified, but a dark array of possi
bilities suggests itself only too readily,
The heritage of insanity, of inebriety,
of imbecility, with its future to be
traced back to those tiny tubes which
hold only a drop or two, and to which
men once looked as to a blessed means
of relioving pain, forgetting that bless
ings and curses go hand in hand iu a
crooked world. Dipsomania has now a
powerful rival, speedier in its results
than its own revolting process, and
eventually as degrading. Tho name cf
tho later-born s!ster fiend is Morpho
manir. Lowlon Truth.
1'rccloitn Ojxit.
Since tho time Pliny accurately
described his opalus to the present
day thi3 handsomo mineral has been
esteemed a gem, though not always
assigned the same rank; for fashion, in
its capricious vngarios, displaces and
reinstates it in favor at irregular inter
vals. Its innate beauty so happily
characterized iu the lines,
"Milky opa's that gleam and shine
Like sullen fires through a pa-lid mist,"
coupled wilh the fact that it is perhaps
the only stono really defying imitation,
has enabled it to eventually bold its
own, Tho high rank awardol it iu
ancient times w as utdoubtedly largely
due to the comparative ease with which
it could bo woiked, and also to the
fact that unlikj all otiur precious
stones much of its beauty was
rovo.led and available withoxit any
labor. The sttange popular belief of
modern days that opal is an unlucky
stone to the wearer, appears to bo
directly traceable to Sir Walter Ssott's
romance of ' 4nno of Geierstein." Ia
its usual ccanrronco in seams or veins
in porphyry end igneous rocks, it is
plainly an infiltration of gelatinous sil
ica (silica ia the colloid state), often
mixed with considerable cyrstalloid sil
ica, aud retaining more or h'ss of the
original combinod water. Iudeed, pre
cioas opal proper seems, as a rule, to
contain more water than ihe other vari
eties. Until within tho past few years
the greater part of tho material for
commerce has been of Hungarian
and Mexican origin, but a new
source of bupply has been discovered in
Queensland. In tho variety from this
locality, which may in eome respects bo
considerod unique, tho usual fiery re
flections are displaced partly or even
entirely by the most splendent metallic
hues greens and blues of every coa ;
ccivabla shade the individual colors
iu some instances bring arranged in
moro or less distinctly defined bands or
zones, or again imperceptibly melting
into each other and vying with the
plumage of humming birds in magnifi
cence. Clearly the old descriptions
will need enlarging to cover this latest
addition to the numerous forms of
silica. F. W, S:aebmr.
When one woman scans the horizon
for signs of the dawn of a bright era, ten
are scouting among their neighbors
trjinfj to borroir laleratus.
c vi tea v'h l'n ksm: rs.
The Vniions Arilclrn Received 1T tlieCon
ileuined Annus. 1m-A Chango of eilrlt.
The popular reprobation of the assas
sin's crime is still manifested in differ
ent ways. Tho common mode of ex
pressing tho feeling against theassassin,
says a correspondent, is to send a rope
suggestively noosed. These ropes
began to come by express and mail
before the trial, and are still coming in
They have been sent to the district at
torney, to Mr. Scoville, to the Warden
of the jail and to the ctsassin himself.
A little room at the jail is strewn with
ropes received from various parts of the
country. Some of them are ropes such
as are generally used iu executions,
with the conventional hangman's noose
skillfully made. Many other little re
minders of tho fate that awaits him
come in the mail to the assassin, but the
warden, as a rule, keeps them from his
eyes.
Cheap comic pictures representing
tho gallows with a dangling victim aro
als-o sent to tho assassin. In every
nook in the district attorney's office can
be found some testimonial of popular
feeling respecting the assassin. Many
of tho things recf-ived havo been de
stroyed. Ia ono corner of Mr. Oork
hill's private office is a little heap of
ropes. A bundle of switchej was sent
to the scoundrel from Florida. A citi
zen of Osceola, Iowa, in order to testify
to his feelings in a unique way, invosted
0 50 in a pair of white kids and a fine
white satin tie, the tips of which ho
dyed blood red. He sent these with a
request that they bo wora by . tho cul
prit on tho scaffold, the red marks to
testify the innocent blood of his vic
tim. They now form n part of the dis
trict attorney's museum.
From Ohio came a little wooden box,
opened ou ono si.le. It contained a
miniature Ecaffold, on which a paper
imago of a maa was hanging, while a
siore of paper women were hauling on
the ropo. These were, according to
tho inscription on tho box, "Iho women
of Ohio "
Among other curiosities saved by the
district attorney is a miniature scaffold
and coffin, very neatly constructed, and
a gallows-tree, witu an emgy six or
seven inchos long suspended upon it.
There ls also a little coffin, tho open
lid of which -exposes a death's head
The coffin is inscribed " Strangnlatns
pro diabolo, 1SS2."
All sorts of pictures, cartoons and
letters hove ben received and ele
stroyed. During the early part of tho
trial a great many gags of various pat
terns, tho common form being a corn
cob with Btrings tiod at each end, wore
received, with a request that they be
applied to the prisoner. Same of these
have been preserved. In the samo con
nection may be mentioned various pots
of glue and mucilage, sent with the
suggestion that Ihe villain's mouth be
glued up. Many patent medicine firms,
doubtless with aa eye to au advertise
ment, sent tho district attorney sam
ples of their wares, proposing that he
doso himself with the mixtures so that
his health should not fail him until he
had convicted the prisoner.
The district attorney has also received
a large amount of Confederate money to
to turned over to tho prisoner. One
imposing testimonial letter, signed
11 Citizens," contained ono coppor penny
to be given to Mr. SjovLIs to aid in 'ho
defense. A letter received from New
Wateriord, Conn., from a ropa-maker,
proposed to make for the assassin s
red, white and blue ropa oat of silk or
any other material the district attorney
might select. O20 of the most ghastly
cariosities in tho museum is a black
cap sent by an unknown frienc. of jus
tice. '
A letter that camo from Chicago sug
gested as tho proper mode of execution
that the assassin be fa -toned to a rope
300 feet long, the other end boing at
tachod to a balloon, which would give
him a veriiable " flight to glory."
The demon, acoording to . Warden
Crocker, has become as docilo as a
lamb; doesn't insist upon having hia
own way as he did during the trial, and
does what he is ordered to do without
a murmur. Ho has lost much of his
accustomed bravado, and does not be
como so excited when in conversation.
General docker states that he does not
believe any man under sentence of
death ever more fully appreciated the
awful situation than the condemned.
He has becomo very much depressed in
spirits and shows it. He behaves with
perfect decorum, and thero is not a
sign of insanity in his conversation 01
actions. Ha is denied tho piivilege of
teeing visitois now altogether, and this
seems ta worry him.
Clerks in the French government
offices are not so well paid as to make
the struggle for places so great ia
France as in some other lands. Ou an
averago tho salary is only 2,500 francs,
or about $500 a year, and the most of
them marry on this and have children.
itent cosip tnom at least giuu a year,
clothing and linen another 100, if not
8120, and general expenses about 3100,
that leaving them 8180 for food, drnk,
and, the dowrT of the daughter.
" Tl Three Ilnrdmt Wnrrfi.
A very 1. ai ned cian onco eaid, Th3
hree hurJest words in tho English
aacnage arc, I wa3 mistaken.' "
Frederick tho Great once wroto to
ho seca'.e: " I havo lost a great baltla
md it wai entirely my own fault."
Goldsmith says, "This cjnfrsaion
lisplaved more greatness than all his
iutories."
Dj not bo rfivM to acknowledge your
ois'.akes, elso jcu will nevtr cutrrct
hem; and yoa are really showing bow
a.tich wiser 3 on aro than when Joa
Si'A 0; t cy.
lti lUlnus Nnv 11 ml Note.
ft icsa has 209 Presbyterian churches
vith 12,041 members.
The revival movement whi'h origi
riated in 8'. Paul's Melhodiat Episcopal
ohurch, Cincinnati, under tho riinistra
lions cf Mr. Harrison, has extended to
L.cirly all tho churches in thut city and
its suburbs.
Leipsic, in Germany, has only seven
churches, all poorly attended, and no
M-.ck thing as a Sabbath-school. The
people- are iudifTc-ront to religion, and
JoU upon a religious pt-rson with cuii
osi y.
Tho Bishop of Honolulu ha pono tr
England for tho purpoae of soliciting
aid for building tho Episcopal cathedral
ia tho capital of the Hawaiian king
dom. Tho church will be 125 feet
long, aud cost $50,000.
The Centennial Methodist mission at
Lucknow, India, is reported to be in a
prosperous condition. The present
uurabcr of pupils is 115, comprising
fifty-eight Christians, forty-four Hin
doos and fourteen Mohammedans.
Tho Bov. Georgo O. Miln has de
cided, after all, not to give up the pul
pit of the Unity church, Chicago
(Unitarian) for the bar, hi3 congrega
tion having voted him perfect liberty
to say in his sermons whatever hf
wishes.
Ne"V Hampshire has eighty-oue Bap
tist churches, with a total membershir.
of 8,915. Tho total amount contributed
in all the churches for tho'support ol
tho gospel and for benevolent and
miscellaneous objects the past year was
S'8,105.48.
Archdeacon Macdonald, of the Canada
Protestant Episcopal church, has a field
of work on the confines of the Arctic
circle, and extending over about twentj
degrees of longitude. About 1,500 na
tives have been baptised and more tha:
100 are communicants.
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.
Remedy fob niccoucu. Dr. M. S.
Leslie, of Lexington, Ky., says that
the best remedy in ordinary hiccoughs
is alout twenty-five grains of commor
table salt placed in the mouth anii
swallowed with a sip of water.
Aiiconoii for Burns. Sydenham re.
commends the application of aloohol tc
burns, especially for children, where
immediate relief is most desirable. The
alcohol should be applied for one oi
two hours constantly, as the pain re
turns when dry. In cas3 of large burns
care must be taken lest the alcoholic
vapors stupefy the child.
How to Manage a Cough. A distin
guished English physician, in a work
on coughs and colds, says if we would
know just how to manage a cough wc
must learn how not to cough. The in
clination to cough should at any rat
be suppressed until the secretion, the
existence of which sets up the cough,
is within your reach; a full inspiration
should now be taken and the accumu
lated phlegm is then removed at a sin
gle effort; thus the mucous surfaces
aro not causelessly irritated, and a se
vere bronchial attack passes easily
through its stages; whereas, if th-
membrane is irritated by violent and
useless fits of coughing, it gets sore
and relaxed. Again, by inhaling steam
or Eucking au ipecacuanha lozenge on
first awaking, tho dried secretion may
ba loosened or easily expelled, and tho
usual tit of morning cough partly pre
vented. "With the Anttior'n 'omptinieiit."
When Professor Aytoun was wooing
Miss Wilson, daughter of Professor
Wilson, the famous "Christopher
North," he obtained the lady's consent
conditionally on that of her father being
secured. This Aytoun was much loo
shy to ask, and he prevailed upon tho
young lady herself to conduct the nec
essary negotiations.
" We must deal tenderly with his
feelings," euid glorious old Christo
pher. ' I'll write my reply on a slip
of payer, and pin it to the back of your
frock."
Tapa'n answer is on the bEck of my
drees," said Miss Jane as bha entered
the drawing-room. Turning her round,
me deligLted proftBSor read these
words: "With the author's compli
n?nts.'' C lumbers' Journal.
No fewer thin, seven diff-'rer t lnn
uuagf s are spoken on one bide c-f Luket
N.?assi in Afiica, whioh is only 350
miles iu length, and natives from the
cutlu-ru end cannot understand those,
at tU coitUerrt.