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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.
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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
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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,