7, TV CJC T HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL, DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. XII. MDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THUESDAY, AUGUST 24. 1882 NO. 27. iilili Boys Wanted. Boys of spirit, boys of will, Boys of muscle, brain and power, Fit to oope with anything These are wanted every hour. Not the weak and whining dronea That all trouble magnify ; Not the watchword of " I oan't," But the nobler one, u I'll try." Do whate'er you have to do With a true and earnest zeal ; Bend yonr sinews to the task, rut yonr shoulder to the wheel. Though your duty may be hard, Look not on it as an ill ; If it be an honcBt task, Do it with an honest will. At the anvil or the farm, Wheresoever you may be, From your future efforts, boys, Comes a nation's destiny. HE STOOD THE TEST. "Who ever hoard ot ouch a beastly provision?" Valentine Thompson was saying, savagely ." I toll you, Stephen, I won't marry the girl if I never inherit a smiling of Uncle Harvey's money. I don t propose to be victimized merely for the gratification of an old man's whim, and it's nothing bnt a whim yon know very well some cranky notion he 8 cot out of his eveilat-tiug novels.' " Steady, my boy," his Cmsin Stephen observed, with a quiet twinkle in his eye. "Perhaps you wouldn't consider yourself victimized if you were to see fliiss ljulu. Uy Jove, Val, a fellow might be proud of such a wife." "Not if he had been coerced into marrying her," was Vol's hot-headed re joinder." " That is cne thing in which x will not brook interference. I shall marry whom I choose. I may as well say so first as last." Stephen whistled softly to himself for a lew moments, and then said : " You absol iiely refuse compliance- is that what I am to understand ? Rather than marry Undo Harvcy'u protege, you win mrieit your prospect tive inheritance, eh?" "Exactly," replied Val, with Fcomful indifference. "When you go back to town yon can ten him so. "Don't be too hasty, my boy," Ste- phen remarked. "Hadn't you better see Miss Lulu before you make tip your mum t "No," Val answered, without hesita tion. " ibe conditions attending such a marriage would make it disagreeable under any circumstances. Bnt I sav. Stephen, you seem to have been quite struck with Mit-s Welwyn; why don't yon marry ner yonrseit r Stephen's face flushed slightly, and lie movea uneasuy in his chair. " Oh, I'm a confirmed baohelor, Val,' he said, with an awkward laugh. " Yon know 1 am not a marrying man." " That is n reason why j on shouldn't Decome one," val fa a, stoutly, quit carried way bv this new idea. " you conld bear ber off in tiiumph, and I' no donbt Uncle Harvey would be a): the better satisfied if you were to b. her husband. I n a kind of a scamp you know ; bnt yon. my dear Stephen are a mo. cf rfspnrjsibijity." " Thanks : no, Val I Stephen said, in 1 a i . t . ma arv, oumornus way " ion Know I never did get along with the women and I'd sooner be shot than court one I' " Nonsense 1"' Val answered, enthnsi asticolly. "I'll help you. Nothing easier, Mepuen. - Stephen shook his head. "That's one of the things in whioh " there pan be no co-operation, my dear Doy, ne oDRorved. " That's what. inAtnerienxa ootid Val rejoined. " I'll prove the contrary, Just Jet me see Miks .Lulu. I'll make you the burd-n of my praises. I'll paint you as a little trod on wheels. I'll extol you to the skies, till you present yourself to her mind as a hero of romance. Young girls are very suscepti ble to that sort of thing, Stephen. Just say the word, and I'll open the campaign at once." "She won't have me, Val," Stephen said, but he was obvionslv wavering. and hia cousin came down with several other reassuring arguments whioh won him over. "If I really thought she would marry me," he said at last. "I might ask her. But I swear, Val, I'd sooner walk npto n wiuuuu a uiuum biitiu uuvu a woman say 'No' to me." "Follow my advice," Val answered, confidently "I'm an old stager. Stephen. For the present, just you go back to town, and tell Uncle Harvey that yon have conoluded to take the contract off my hacds. By Jove I You're a brick, Stephen. You 11 save me from penury, my dear fellow, for I swear I . wouldn't marry Miss Welwyn under any consideration, though I hare no doubt she is an angel." ' You will go down to Bedner right away then?" Stephen inquired, when they wero parting. " To-morrow," Val replied, and he kept his word. The next day at noon he found him self in the little library at AVelwyn Woods, chatting with his hostess and one or- the prettiest girls he had ever seen. Val was a connoisseur in beauty, too. " Your nnole told us," Mrs. Welwyn observed, cordially, " that your Cousin Stephen mixht be down with yon. I am sorry he couldn't come." " He hopes to get away after awhile," Val replied. "At present he is so en tangled in engagements that he hasn't a moment's leisure. I never saw such vitality as his. He is perfectly indefati gable, though I know there isn't an other man in town so much sought after." "It seems strange," Mrs. Welwyn re marked, "that he should never have married." " He is not easily charmed," Val said, with a laugh and a smggetive look at Miss Lulu. " The woman who wins him Will have a great triumph." These were the entering wedges, Val said to himself, and he deliberately laid in ambush for occasions to drive them deeper in. It was not a disagreeable task, he found, for Mips Lulu was a charming listener; and there was something so novel in it that it was more diverting even than flirtation. He did a great many things on Stephen's aocount which he wouldn't have dared to do on his own. It was quite delightful, indeed, to ramble through Welwyn Woods with such a companion, for he felt so mnoh at ease in her society, having already set her apart in his mind as Stephen's wife. And there was a peculiar charm in the Jong afternoons on the lake, when he looked so persistently at the fair face under a broad .Leghorn, and reflected that this was to be hi cousin, So the days went gliding by, and Miss ijuin was courted, as Val said, "bv proxy." He had kept his promise to Stephen, ponring into her ears the most, slowing accounts of his merits, the most piquant recital of his doings, the most winning reviews of bis wit. Miss Lulu lip ten ed apparently wide eyed wonder, and Val wrot at last for Stephen to come down to Bedner. Of course it was understood thai after that he was to leave hia cousin in fnll possession of the field, but some, how he was not at all pleased when Ste phen made the very reasonable sug gestion that he should go away from welwyn Woods altogether. In snort, he went back, to town in a very unnmia bie mood, Everything was exceedingly dull just then, and Val was like a fish out of water. There was nothing to do but "sit around," as be said, and when ever he undertook to do that he fell to thinkinc of things that made him nn accountably savage. He began to wish he never had gone down to Bedner, for it was evidently there that he had ah sorbed the germ of this unrest. It was some time before he knew what was. the ma ter with him, and when he did he continued to oppose the conviction, It was too too- too much like retriba tion that he should have fallen in love with Miss Lulu. He went about in a very miserable frame of mind, though, haggard and petulant, cursing everything and every body, bnt Fate and himself moBtof all. It had rather a startling effect unon him when Stephen burst into his room one day in a very rnflled state: " Uonfonnd von. Val I" he exclaimed I knew you'd get me into difficulty I" wnavs tne mattery "Why, I followed vour advice to fhe letter, and what was the conso qiencer "You're engaged to Miss Lulu. I suppose r Engaged? The deuce I She re 'used me on the spot. And and some ioniounded meddlesome old busvbodv as gone and told her about Unole tarvey. I haven't the ghost of a bance I" "Thank God I" This fervent exclamation rather stag- ertd Stephen, you may suppose. At oned at Val's white earnest face, at- houah it had been a phantom. "Well," he taid, slowly, " I must 7 you're a fine fellow I" Val hud jumped up hastily. He went award his cousin, and laid one hand i-uvily on his shoulder " 1 say, old fellow," he said in a u-ky voice, " you're not hard hit an -n? Because I am, you see. 1 oulJn't for the world no back on von. i ephen You know that. If it makes uucu difference to you. I won't think I it, but I love Lulu Welwyn with II my heart 1" Stephen stared hard at his cousin. but not unkindly. "if l didn t know vou so well. Val." lie said, presently, "I'd knock von lown." I know," Val replied, "it makes me look like a scoundrel : but. before God, Stephen, I didn't mean it." Htephen took several hasty turns u aud down the room, and then grasped nis nana. It's all right. Val." he said cor dially, "She wouldn't have me, any bow. It don t make so much differ ence to a man of my age. God bless yon, boy ! Go and win her." Yal needed no second bidding. He was back at Welwyn Woods in two days' time. Bnt he was bent upon a new purpose. He would win Lulu for him- self yes 1 But only on condition that he could not win her for Stephen. one met mm in the library, but not with her old cordiality. 1 have a singular errand. Miss Welwyn," he said, hurriedly, striving to conceal his emotion. "My cousiu tells me you have refused his offer of marriage." .Lulu flushed slightly, but cave a dic- nified assent. " May I ask," he went on earnestly. 'whether you have fully considered your decision ? My oonsin is a man that any woman might be proud to win for a husband. He is a noble fellow. He wiil be rich some ot these days, and he certainly is fine looking enough to suit the most fastidious taste. You can not have fathomed the depth of his na ture, Miss Welwyn, or you must have esteemed him more highly." In afraid. Mr. Thorne." she re plied, coldly, "that I do not appreciate yonr perfect men. I never did." Stephen does not profess to be an v. thing of the kind," he said, hastily Yon know yourself that he is the son. of modesty. I am speaking of him as 1 know he is, from long acquaintance with his charaoter. From my heart I honor him, Miss Welwyn, and, as your best friend, might urea von to re.on.r-d his suit with favor." "Yonr cousin has an ardent chum. pion, Mr. Thorne," she said, with the same frigid calmness; " but it is quite impossible for me to marry him. In the first place I do not love him; and, in the teoond, I would not marry any man who sought me as his wife only as a means to securing a fortune to his friend. Your cousin's conduct is most magnanimous so far as yon are con cerned, Mr. Thorne; but I must decline the honor he wonld otnfer on me." Upon my soul. Miss Welwyn." Val said, eagerly, " Stephen wonld not hive lent himself to such a scheme if be had not orsd foryou. Nothing could have induced him." Then, seeing the scornful smile that played about ber lips, his own love leaped beyond all barriers of restraint. and he or led: "Yon wonld not make that tell against tne, too ? I love you 1 Hear me I I refused to accede to my uncle's proposition, though he threatened to disinherit me if I would not marry you. I refused ; but Stephen had seen you. He knew you as I did not, and he offered to take my place. Then I came here, and without intending it, learned to love to worship you. For Heaven's sake, believe me! What do I care for the money ? It is von I want If you will not marry Stephen, will you marry me? My happiness depends upon it, for I love you with my whole soul." She trembled from head to foot, bnt sne evaded bis touch, and said, with studied indifference: I am sorry, Mr. Thorne, bnt I can not accept all you say on faith . Confess yonrself; it de es seem as though the money were behind the persistent pur suit of my hand. Luckily, some of my iriends i.ad beard of your uncle s sin gular exactions. I appreciate the honor his preference does me ; bnt I muse decline it. There is no necessity, nowever, or your snnering in con sequence, you have done your part. and yonr uncle must know that you can't marry me against my will." Val stood before her with a pale, im- pussicnea iace. " You do me a great' wrong." he said. hoarsely. " I love you as truly as ever a man loved in the whole wide world I swear it ! You must believe me, for this is God's truth. Tell me is there any way? there must be a way which I can prove it to you." in one pausea a moment. There was something in his voice and mannnt whioh thrust conviction upon her, and her whole attitude chanced. She turned toward him with sudden im petuoBity. " Yes," sne cried. " I will believe yon, Mr. Thorne, if if you are willing to renounce your unoies fortune for my " I will do it gladly." he answered. seizing her hand and covering it with kisses. "My darling, my sweet little aaningi" " But ore you willing. Mr. Thorne." she asked, in a voice that trembled in spite of her efforts to control it, "are you willing to formally make over to your cousin your share of your uncle s money? There is pen and paper. will marry you only upon condition that you sign such a contract " Val had seized the pen while she spoke. In a few moments he had written aud signed this : "1, Valentine Thorne. do hereby formally renounce all claim upon the ef-tate, real or personal, of my uncle, Harry l home, and do make over, no conditionally, to my cousin. Stephen R Thorne, any boquest or inheritance that may accrne to me upon the death of the aforesaid uncle. This act to go in force icon the day of my marriage with Mis Lulu Welwyn. " (Signed) valentine Thobne." He put this into her hands, saving: " This will leave me nothing but mv love to give you." "it is quite enough," she said, softly. " Go and proc&re a witness." he said: ' I want it perfectly legal." bhe turned and went toward the loor, but she paused on the threshold. fhe next instant, before he knew it he had torn the paper in pieces and thrown it at her feet. 'I believe you. Val." she cried. holding out her arms toward him. " 1 oelieve you I" He drew her to his heart with a face that shone. " I will give up anything for you. mv love," he said, in a low tone. "There is nothing in this world half so dear to me as yourself, my own little treasure I" lint be gave up nothmg. in fact, for old Mr. Thorne, whom they agreed not to inform any better, snnposed his dn tiful nephew was merely acting in obe dience to his expressed wish, and a handsome bundle of stock aud bonds was forthcoming on Val's wedding day. "I shall do my couiting by mvself next time," was Stephen's observation; and he carried it out with the best of results. Twelve months later he married a charming girl whom, as he said, Provi dence had been keeping for him all the time. How a 11111 Traveled. Just below Savertnn. Rail conntv. Missouri, is a very high, steep hill. Be tween the foot of this hill and the Mis sissippi river is a very narrow space only a few feet. Along this space runs the Long Line railroad track. One day recently some tremendous power tore 11.. I 'll i a .. . . . iuo mil loose irom tne balance of the range, and the whole hill, comprising several aoies of ground, began to move slowly into the river, pushing seventy five yards of railroad ahead of it. This tore the track up for several hundred yards on each side. The whole earth seemed to tremble, and strange noises were heard in the bowels of the earth. The spectacle is said to have been a grand one, and hundreds of persons flocked to see it. The hill moved at the rate of ten feet every twenty-four hours. Occasionally a small piece would break off and float down the river with large trees standing erect on it, presenting the strange speotaole of a miniature floating island going down the river. A M'onderf ul Fortress, Fortress Monroe, Vs.. is the largest single fortification in the world It has already cost over 03,000,000 of money. The water battery is consid ered to be one of the finest pieces of miliary construction in the world. Oolonel Lodor, the instructor of the military school, has invented and nar. fected some astonishing appliances that, when he shall have guns, will be of immense value in handling them. In one of the casements inside the fort is his ofiioe. He can sit in it and, with an electrio appliance, cause every gun in the fott to be fired simultaneously. He has perfeoted another set of instru ments by which the exact distance of a ship from the shore may be accurately determined, the velooity and direction of the wind, the consequent deflection of the ball, and the precise point at whioh the ball will strike the ship. The guns are flred ,bv electricity. In. duttrial South. FOR THE LADIES. News and Moles lor Women. Drake university, of Des Moines, la., has a woman professorship in the medi cal department. The bride at a recent Wedding at Lan caster, S. O., Miss (Jato, was but eleven years of age. The groom had just at tained his majority. The central committee of the suffrage party of the State of New York have issued a tract offering fifty reasons why women should vote. An Arkannas bridegroom caught the bride in his arms at the conclusion ot the ceremony, and dislocated two of her no witn a violent bug. Granny SnmmeralL of Hillsboro county, Fla.. is 111 years old. Her old est son, aged ninety-two, and youngest son, aged seventy-two, are living. 8ome of the English ladies use an ex tract cf cucumber for beautifying the skin. Some American ladies rub the nnder part of the rind on the skin to improve it. Rev. Mary Thomas Clark, of Rich mond, Ind., has been for several years a regularly ordained minister in the Universal! it church recognized in fall fellowship as far as the duties ot the cburch are concerned. Parsons college, located at Fairfield, Iowa, has had a donation of - $6, COO toward establishing a new chair of natural sciences to be called the " Sally Rinsland Professorship." Mrs. Ring land, the donor, was a woman of wealth recently deceased. The seoretary of the Harvard "Annex' learns that at least two persons now preparing their wills have included in them generous bequests to help the cause pf the education of women at Cambridge, and that offers of money ior immediate use have also been made Pennsylvania is now the only State which bos persistently refused women admittance to the bar. A lady in that State has been trying for seven or eight years to gain admittance, but ' the court refuses to allow her to enter under the existing statutes, and the legislature refuses to pass a new law. Hartford lime. A meeting of Indian widows was lately held in a temple at Madras, to discuss the unhappy fate of widows in that country, where they are condemned to either follow their husbands on the funerar pyre or lead a solitary existence for the remainder of their lives. It was remarked that at the present day ver few widows, especially among the yonng, consent to be buried alive after their husband's death. It was resolreo to send a petition to the queen of Eng land to secure them the privilege ol marrying again. Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln, afterward the wife of Abraham Lincoln, wrote when a young g'rl, a letter in which sh. expressed a determination to become the wife of a Piesident. The story i confirmed by the production of the doc nment, now in poHsession of Genera! Preston, of Lexington, Ey. It was ad irexsed to a daughter of Governot Wiokliffe, and contained a playful de scription of young Lincoln, to whon. she was betrothed. She svid: " But I mean to make him President ol tlu United States all the same. You wil ee that, as I always told you. I will yet be the President's wife." Fashion Notes. Indian sleeves are most graceful for mantles. Hungarian btaid patterns trim many fall jackets. Watered and shaded ribbons wil! again be worn. Marlborough is u new and delicate shade of copper red. White laco ruffles are still worn at the throat and in the sleeve s. Colored handkerchiefs are studies ol color in combinations and designs. The favorite point of the coroacte bow is the top of the left shoulder. Three flounces of equal wid:h cover new velvet skirts fron top to bottom. Laces of all kinds are in fashion. Even the old black Chantilly is revived. A jacket of prone velvet is elecantlv deaorated with gold gimp and buttons. Velvet bodices are worn with brocaded grenadine skirts the same color of the velvet. An enameled gold bow in tlin ornament with which to fasten bonnet strings. Tan-colored slippers are seen with tan-colored gloves and light evening dresses. The most becoming plastrons are pointed at he lower edge and made of horizontal puffs. White blouse waists are worn nnder long loose jackets for seaside and moantain costumes. Neck scarfs of white crinkled silk crape are considered more stylish than are the Suanish lace scarfs. WhiK pale blue and shell pink are favorite co.'ors for evening dresses at waterin j-plaott this summer. India red, a brigL soarlet shade, is the mot t effective oolor for combining with tha genuine India pongee. Velvet collars, cuffs, sashes and manv bows of velvet ribbons trim the ootton satine dresses worn in the country. Snort skirts of ball toilets are made short enough to clear the floor all around and show the tips of the slip pers. Soutache (or braid) embroidery is the fashionable trimming of the cloth traveling dresses that are made by Eng lish tailor;. Red and blue velvet parasols, trim med with flowers, lace and embroidery. are carried ia open carriages at the sea side resorts. Tailor-madti jackets cf cloth are mnoh worn over white pique waist coats, with collars rolling over the jacket collar. Evening dresses are uadA with saw close elbow sleeves, so that long gloves may ba drawn nn over thnm sltkmu H .. mm p WH. TT . .UU U. inconvenience. A sew fabrio for ball dresses is net cf various oolors, sparkling with flakes of steel and otherwise ornamented with loose lozenges of metal hanging among the threads. The new pink shade called erevettt, or shrimp, is something between tea rose and salmon color. It is fashionably worn of satin or moire, draped with tulle, for evening toilets at Saratoga and Newport. A new transparent lawn called sylph ide is made in the looms in which the celebrated Glasgow ginghams are woven, and is one of the most service able thin goods for summer dresses Tartan plaids, checks, blocks and bars are the designs of this soft undressed lawn. Brandebourgs, or frogs, have beoome too common to be used on nice travel ing dresses. In lien of these braid is arranged in large round spots that moasnre three or four inches aoross the middle, and are made by circular rows one after the other. These are put in rows of three on the dress skirt and on the npper skirt, with one row on the collar nnd sleeves. Dark brown circles of braid are stylish on ton or drab wool dresses. A Fearful Position, A Geneva (Switzerland) correspondent writes : a iew aays since two souool masters from Morzine, a Savoyard vil lage near the Swiss frontier, made an exoursion to the Col de Ooux, not far from Ubampery, in the Yalais. As they were descending the mountain, late in the afternoon, they thought they heard cries of distress. After a long search they perceived a man holding on to a bush, or small tree, whioh had struok its roots into the face of the precipice. As the precipice was nearly perpendic ular, and the man was some 1,200 feet below them, and the foot of the preci pice quite as far below him, they found it impossible to give the poor fellow any help. All they conld do was to tell him to stay where he was if he could un til they came baok, and hurry off to Morzine for help. Though it was night when they arrived thither, a dozen bold mountaineers, equipped with ropes. started forthwith for the rescue. After a walk of.twelve miles they reached 'he Col de ta Golese, but it being impossi ble to scale the rooks in the dark, they remained there until the sun rose. As soon as there was snffloient light they climbed by a roundabout path to the top of the precipice. The man was still holding on to the bush. Three of the resone party, fastened together with cords, were then lowered to a ledge about 600 feet below. From this coign of vantago two of the three lowered the third to the bush. He found the man, who had been seated astride his preoarious perch a dav nd a night between life and death. It as a wonder how he had been able to hold on so long, for beside suffering from hunger and cold, he had been hurt in the fall from the height above. tie was a reserve man bolonging to Sameons on his way thither from Lau surine, where he was working, to be present at a mnster. Losing his wav on the mountains between Thonon and Simeons, he had missed his footing and oiled over the precipice. He hud the presence of mind to cling to the bush, which broke his fall, but if the two schoolmasters had not heard his crien ue must have perished miserably. Hoisting him to the top of the preci pice was a difficult and perilous under- caking, but it was safely accomplished. none oi tne man s hurts were danger- ins, and after a long rest and a beartv meal or two, he was pronounoed fit to eontinue his journey and report himsel dt the muster." A Novel Suggestion. The Cleveland Lrndt publishes a column editorial article advocating the employment of bees as aids to the police in suppressing disorder in cities. The Leader says: All that is necessary to be done is for the police to keep on hand a supply of bee-hives filled with the mo-t stingy kind of bees. It may be difficult to feed them on flowers, but that ought to be overcome. Sugar, honey and molas ses ore good substitutes for flowers. In case of a riot all a policeman needs to do is to take three or four hives in a wagon and drive in the midst of a mob and dump his hives, and then beat a precipitate retreat. In comparison to these hives of bees, all the military, Gatling guns or armed police would be as nothing in point of efficiency in scat tering a mob and sending them all howling to their homes 1 Men can face revolvers, cannons, guns and all other implements of warfare, but they will run before a swarm of vindictive bees I Bees cost nothing, comparatively, and besides no lives will be lost. If the Pittsburg police had only twenty hives of bees during the great riot of '77. and turned them loose, the streets would immediately have become as quiet as a Sabbath morning I Abont Spectacles. Those who are compelled to wenv sneotaclea are oftnn tha vinh'mi r4 a good deal of personal ridioule nowa days ; out time was wnen it was con sidered fashionable to wear them, even by people who were not in the least nearsighted. In Spain they formed part of the costume of every well-bred person. This absurd rue of glasses was meant to increase the gravity of the appearance, and consequently the veneration with which the wearer of them was recorded. A having, through the assistance of his iamuy, caused nis convent to succeed in an important law suit, thought himself liberally rewarded when thn having embraced him, said, to testify his gratitude: "Brother, put on speotaolesl" The glasses of spectacles were proportioned in size to the rank of the wearer ; those worn by the Spanish nobles were nearly three inches in diameter. The Marnnia nf AnLnn'oa viceroy of Naples, after having his bust ruiupiureu ia maroie, particularly en joined the artist not to forget his beauti ful speotaoles. Lake Worth, in Florida, is onU Qnn yards distant irom tha At.lant.in mr.A W H WVB HV ft 4VSj extends parallel with it for a diutanoe of uuxy-Bve mues. SCIENTIFIC 50TES. Cork trees are being successfully grown in Georgia. Of some specimens planted many are now thick enough for use. Mr. H. P. Auersby asserts that a large amount of humus in a soil implies an abundant previous amount of veceta tion, and this in its turn implies a soil of at least moderate original fertility. Of all the men-of war in Europe Italy bos the most heavily iron-plated and possessed with the most formidable guns. The Duilio and tbe Dandolo have armor twenty-two inches thick, and they each carry K 0-ton guns. In the rivers rolling to sea, says the American Contract Journal, are millions of horse-power dailv rnnning to waf-te We do not appreciate the brook and river because they are so near and have been there so long. Had they com menced flowing but to-day we would have hastened to harness them. Nothing new under the sun as Na poleon I. used, in 1815, the first "sleep ing, dining-room and parlor car" that ever was built. This car. or chariot, wps taken to Waterloo and was pre sented to the prince regent of England by whom it was afterward sold to Mr. Bullock for $12,500. It eventually found its way to Madame Tussaud's wax-work exhibition, London, where it may still be seen. One of the objections urged against the proposed tunnel across the English channel is that it would open a high way for the invasion of Great Britain in case of a war with continental powers. Dr. Siemens suggests a novel plan of defense from such invasion should the tunnel be constructed. He would ar range chambers of chalk, in communi cation with the shore ends of the tun nel, in such a manner that the chalk might be readily flooded with diluted muriatic acid. The result of turning on the acid would bo the rapid filling of half a mile or more of the tunnel with carbonic acid gas, through which no human beings could pass alive. HEALTH HINTS. Accustom children to eat regularly and slowly. Impure air kills as surely as pnre air keeps alive. Meat should be eaten very sparingly during the warm months. The mightiest ourative force in the universe lies in the person. Let the liver rest by giving up tea, coffee, sugar, salt and butter. What is called a mixed diet is bad food for adults in hot weather, and very bad for children. Acoording to Dr. Footers Ilealth Monthly, a g uss of water, taken when retiring and on rising, will often re lieve costivenoss. Of all the means whioh can be used to give strength, tone and intrinsic power to the physical organization, working the soil is the best. There is eminent medical authority for the statement that unripe or very old potatoes contain a certain quantity of solanine. This may produoe seriout-. r. suits if the potatoes are boiled with tueir skins on, and if they are eaten in largo quantities. Sauls. The seal, as affixed to letters, has a ulaim for consideration in tht fact of its historic interest. The seals of Sen nacherib and Cheops are yet extant, together with a multitude of ancient signets, both of the east and west, and our letter seals are probably their lineal descendants, and relatives of the official, legal and royal seals still affixed ta documents. As symbols, of power they were, no doubt, affixed upon a missive to forbid its opening by an un authorized person, and their signifi cinco would be generally regarded. The early Chiistians used the sacred devices of the dove, the fish, the anchor and the lyre ; and the monks of Durham, becoming possessed nf a sral on which was figured the head of Jupiter Tonans, had engraven beneath it th? name of good King Oswald, thus sanctifying it to the uses of the church. In England, before watches wero worn, the seal was attached to the wrist, forming, in fact, a pendant to a brace let. Shakspeare's signet has his initials, "W. S." and a true lover's knot a de vice which has led to the supposition that it was given to him by Anne Hath away. Mary, Queen of Soots, had a seal with the arms of the three king doms upon it, and the use of this formed a count of the indictment against her. Another ring of interest which may possibly have been used as a signet was a cameo ring still in existence, whioh is said to be the identical one given by Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Essex. This is only ono of a thousand signets of historic interest that are still pre served. The "biggest thing" among theso belongs, as a matter of course, to America, and was presented to Presi dent Pierce by some citizen of San Francisco. Upon this was represented a kind of summary of Californian his tory, and a number of devices, such as a grizzly bear and an enraged boa. Without it was engraved the president's name, and in its interior parts were small cases containing specimens of various native ores. The weight of the precious gift was something like a pound ! The materials impressed have been nearly as varied as the shapes of the signets impressing them. Gold, silver and other metals were anciently in use, and even prepared earths or clays. Common wax was, of course, most prevalent before the introduction of sealing wax a oomponnd of loo and other materials invmted ia the six teenth century. White wax was used by Otho I., of Germany, and by many of our monorohs. Rufus, however, very appropriately adopted red. Blue is the rarest of tints: green was favored by the emperors and patriarchs of the Ea-it. At preseqt vermilion wax is most common, but should the metliod of sealing letters be revived we may expeot, with the resouroes of modern ohemistri and the diversity of modern testes, spolychromatio range of hues unknown to former ages. London Vk'OOa My Little Neighbor. You came to lire near us One bonnie spring day; The next Biinahiny morning A morning in May I heard you a-gardcnlng Over the way. But botweon, like Fate's battlement, Grim rose the wall, And yon wore so little, And t was not tall Bhou'il I about ? Would you anawar ? What name could I call ? I hate the man Who had bnilt the wall ther. I climbed with the aid Ol a venerabls chair A diminutive Itomeo Scaling your stair. The ledga I laid over Ah, such a wee thing I Like s restless white butterfly Light on the wing ; Hair gold as the primroso That blossomed in spring. Vour rake droppod, your sun-hat sltppsd Off your bright head. " Are you the boy next door ?" You solemnly said. I nodded, slid ovor the wall, Radiant and red. Oh, my wife, in Life's garden Wo linger to-day ; Many snows, many May-blooms Have kissed gold to gray, Sinco I wooed my weo neighbor Over the way. JT. Temple More, in Our Continent. HUMOR OF THE DAY. An old and fam jus composer- -A dull sermon, One part of the baseball fever is catching. Cannibals sometimes have their neighbors at dinner. Hanlan has won 880,000 by his skill with the oars. That is what we call good ecnllership. Some traits luu in families. Shakes peare's father, being illiterate, made his mark. So did Shakespeare. Jones says that he used to be pro ficient in half-a-dozon languages, bnt that since marriage he is not even master of his own tongne. At the seashore, as usual, one wave from a woman's handkerchief will con tinue to attract more attention than hundreds of waves from the ocean. A teacher was trying to make Johnny understand the soience cf simple divi sion. "Now. Johnny." she sai l, "if von bad an orange which you wished to di vide with your little sister, how much would you give her ?" Johnny thought moment, and replied: "A suck." The farmer iu tho graeey field; Doth make the irarant hay, And as bo pauxes iu his work bings a roundelay. Oh. why does he behind the barn So suddenly retire ? A bee hath climbed his trouecr's log He's putting out the fire. Scrambled snakes' eggs are the new dish, and as yet there seem to be no particular direction fir preparing them in the cook books. We would suggest. however, that you go out into the coun try until you find a nest with eggf, and then, when the snake puts in its appearance, it will come natural to you to scramble some. "Why, my dear." said poor little Mr. Penhecker, with a ghastly smile, "why wonld the world without woman, lovely woman, be like a blank sheet of paper?" Mrs. P., who had just been giving the little man "a piece of her mind." smiled and "couldn't think." "Why. because, don't you see, love," said the long suffering one, "it wouldn't even be ruled." The Trade In False Hair. Hair has been so ill-treated hvfnifio that its vitality is now seriously iu,- E aired. What with the strain and orer eating due to the blnndino- nf tha falaa with the real, the binding, the crimp ing, me curiing anu tne dyeing, a vast number of ladies have prematurely lost all or a greater nurt. nf thin m-anufnl - 0 , - -" Q.UUU.U. appendage of the human form divine. native iuo unwelcome lasmon, adopted perfoice. of wearing short lmir a.a preferable to no hair, has gained ground, and we hope the refreshing effect of the scissors may repair some of the mischief donA. At tlin Mama ft m a the demand for false hair has greatly mcreasea, wnue tne supply has dimimshod to as extent qualified as perfectly alarming bv the Wnt End coiffeurs. Enronrans either will not sell their hair cr have no longer any hair to sell, and tho trade has been uviuyaucu iu iravoi juriuer aneia. iue actual supply of false hair for the European markets is now for the most part imported via Marseilles from Asia minor, iuuia, uuiua ana japan, nut the hair imported from thnnn nm nW m is almost invariably black, and fans ut terly to harmonize with the auburn aud golden tints that so well befit a North ern complexion. It has. therefore. been fonnd necessarv to boil tha hair in diluted nitrio acid to denriva it nf its original color, and it then can be dyed . iu me uuii most in vogue, xnia opera tion has, however, been attended with considerable dancer t.n tha irnrLmon engaged in this new handicraft. Se vere cougns, bronchitis and other aooi- dents were tha na.tnrnl man 1 to nf tha nitrons vapor escaping from the oal- arons use a ior Douing tne hair. This new danger appears to have been first discovered by Dr. Felix, of Bucharest, and the Roumanian counoil of hygiene nas iBsnea a circular to all members of the trade warning them of tha duno-nr. and suggesting the necessary precau tious, iuese lao ion to harmonize with the poet's conception that beauty can draw love with a single hair. The demand is for hir by the ton, and it is time to see that in adapting the oolor of Eastern bair to Western nsageathe work should be oarried out tinder proper supervision. We should strongly object to hairdressers indulging in amateur dabbling with dangerous chemioals, especially nitrio acid. Lon dn Latittt,
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