HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher, NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. r V VOL. XII. In the Mlnlnjy Tewn. "Tithe last time, darling," he gently said, Aa tie kisstd her lip, like cherries red, While a fond look Bhone in his eyes of brown. My own is the prettiest girl in towns To-morrow the bell from the tower will ring A joyful peal. Was there ever a king 8o truly blest on his royBl throne, AI shall be, when I claim my own?" Twasafond farewell) 'twas a sweet good byes But she watched him go, with a troubled sigh; So into the basket, that swayed tind awnng O'er the yawning abyss, he lightly sprung, And the joy of heart seemed turned to woe As they lowered him into the depths below. Her sweet young face, Willi its tresses brown, Wan the fairest face in the mining town. Ixl the morning came s but the marriage belt, High up in the towot, rimga monrnma kneU For tU true heart buried 'neath earth and . stone, Jar down in the heart of the mine-alone. Asorro-.,.Peal on her wedding day, For the breaking heart, and the heart of clays And the f.nee that looked from her tresses brown Was the saddest face in the mining town. Thus time rolled on in its weavy way, Until fifty years with thrir shadows gray Had darkenod the light of hor sweet eyes' glow, And had tiirnod the brown of her hair to 1ow. Oh! never a kiss from a husband's lips Or the clasp of a child's sweet finger-tips, Had lifted one moment the shadows brown iim the saddest heart in the mining town. Far down in the depths of the mine one d:iy, In theloopeiied earth they were digging away They discovered a face, o young, so fair From the smiling lips to the bright-brown nr.ir Untouched by the finger of time's decay. When they drew him np to the light of day, The wondering people gathered round To gaze at the man so strangely found. Then n woman sprang from among tlio crowd, Wiih hsr long whitohair, and her slight form bowed j She silently knelt by the form of clay, And kissed the lips that were cold and gray. Then the sad old face, with its snowy hair, On hi youthful bosom lay pillowed there. Ho had found her at last Iiis waiting bride: And the people buried them side by side. A Curious Disposition. Three ladies were seated in Agatha Foster's parlor ; Miss Forteseue, largo, ark and of uncertain age, who mon opolized the most comfortable arm chair ; Mrs. Keeker, shrunken and sandy, who was constantly sliding off the sofa and reinstating herself with a jerk, and Miss Agatha herself, who sat apart from the others, glanc ing uneasily out of the window, as if distressed by their garrulity. Mi.ss Agatha was a fair young woman, with a noble head and a countenance ex pressive of all grace and goodness. Yet at this moment she entertained feel ings decidedly hostile to her callers, who had run in, with the familiar free lom of follow boarders in a family hotel, to chat away the afternoon. At heart they were immensely sorry that Miss NannieFoster had not yet returned from a suburb, where she had gone the day before. Miss Nannie, Agatha's cousin, companion and ehaperone in one, was far more to their taste; she was more attentive, more easily impressed, more sympathetic, they thought. She never sat looking out the window when they 'were retailing their choicest bits of scandal for her especial benelit. But then she was a woman of years. How ever, they still lingered; it was a pleasant place. The Fosters had the handsomest suite in the building and furnished with such taste! Such car pets! Such decorative art! And the Fosters we!e lip-top people. There were four of them, Miss Agatha, her two bachelor brothers, ten and a dozen years her senior, and Miss Nannie.who, since their parents' death, had kept the children together. The winter day drew to a close, the room grew duskv, and still the ladies lingered. Agatha could endure it no lonorer: ..11 .i.. ...... ... . o hub, in an nays, sue was without pa tience. She rose quickly. "Ladies," she said, with an indig nant quiver in her sweet contralto voice, "you must excuse me. I cannot listen to such conversation !" There was silence a moment; then Miss Forteseue lifted her cumbrous frame. "Oh. certainly. I quite un derstand. AVe will withdraw. We do not wish to offend." " Oh, certainly," f aintlv echoed Mrs. Becker, sliding from the' sofa for the last time and preparing to follow. Agatha's impatience only increased. " And allow ine to say," she ex claimed, with no compunction, "that I think ladies might be better employed than with their neighbors' affairs." "Good-afternoon," said Miss Fortes cue, savagely. "Good-afternoon," sneered Mrs. Becker. "Good riddance!" cried Agatha, snarpiy, ere me door Had closed. "To-day of all days," sl.e said, as she walked to and fro in the dusk. Presently the door opened. "Ail in the dark, Agatha V" asked a cheery voice, y I thought vou wo Id never come, swift, unnerved re- nnie," was the " WllV. what is tli miitfpr mv what is the uear r " I have just put Mrs. Forteseue and Mrs. Becker out of tho room, and it has annoyed me." "Dear ine, what had they done?" "The same old sickening gossip Miss Bruce llirts on the street; Mrs.' Gray holds her step-child to the fire to burn it, and so on and so on." "They get their ideas from the morning papers," said Nannie, calmly, unclasping her fur-lined circular, .... - J ' The stepmother holding the child to the fire is a favorite paragraph When news is scaroo, Sometimes she heats the flaj-iron. For my part 1 would never go to t hat trouble' But Agatha could hot respond to her staid burnt;?. She helped put away the wraps, and tnijuired after the suburban friends. "You look pale aren't you well?" asked Miss Nannie when they Avere seatedv The girl dropped her eyes. Nannie. I have some news for you," she said with an effort. "I last night I promised Mr. Peters--to to marrv him." Then she sighed as if relieved of a great burden. The room was still, utterly still. If Miss Nannie were surprised or shocked she gave no token. She only sat quietly looking at the girl and taking tinie to collect. Agatha never lifted her eyes until, after some moments, her cousin cleared her throat and tranquilly in quired : " Well, dear, are you satisfied that you will be happy?" Then the girl rose and threw herself Upon the Sofa. " Oh "Y.lnnip T flnn't know j I can't tell." .-More silence. Then Miss Nannie asked if she had told the boys. To these women Oenrrrp nn.l T.o-ia would be "the bovs" as Inn ft nq thpV lived. ' 0 , I told Georffi at. nnnn " rnnliorl Agatha, in a voice heavy with tears. "Lewis was not here. I wish you would tell him." "And what did George say?" "He OnlV said. T ennnrr.ntnlnt.A Peters.' " Miss Nannie leaned back in tho door and meditated, bringing Peters' up for a mental review. Poor little whiffet ! To be sure lie had money, some social standing and a fair edi icntiim. Thru- had known him a long, long time, and even felt for him a sort of distant rela tives' affection. They would do anv t liing in the world for him. He often took Agatha about, to places of amuse ment, to church, or riding. But he was at least fifteen years her senior, and they had never dreamed of his as piring to marry her. His appearance was pitifully against him. Miss Nan nie reviewed his bad build, his bowed legs, his " wild eye," as she called it, a suspicious eye that seemed to skirmish about the room while its mate regarded you with steadfast respect. Then she turned her thoughts to Agatha Aga tha perfect in face and figure and en nobled by education and advantages Agalha, for whom a senator had pro posed and a congressman languished, j to say nothing of her lesser adorers' Agatha, who had rejected the senator because he lacked principle, and the ! congressman because he was a wid ower. ; Nannie remembered that the girl ! had suffered and shed tears over re- I fusing these and others. She had a i curious disposition, as the bovs bad said. At length Nannie roused and spoke. "I will tell Lewis; and now, dear, you had better dress, it is near dinner time. " "Hark I" cried Agatha, "there he is now gone into his room." Nannie recognized the clumsy step, Lewis had never yet come up those stairs without tripping at the top ; the rushing, impetuous way of his boyhood would always cling to him. "I am going at once to tell him, before George comes," said Nannie, rising. " 1 es, do," sighed Agatha. And when her cousin had gone out across the corridor, and her tap had been welcomed by a careless "Come in!" the young girl stole after and listened at the crack of her brother's door. " Lewis, I have news for you," said Nannie, gently, and there was a bid den sob in her fond voice. " Agatha lias promised to marry Mr. Peters." "Oh Lord!" cried Lewis, in open monthed disgust. Agatha crept away from the door ; her face was burning and her heart beat hard. But Miss Nannie remained awhile in her cousin's chamber. "Lewis," she said, gentlv, "I sup-. lu.c o u leei uie same over this matter? Agatha says when she told George he remarked that he 'congrat- uiuieu r-eiers. " Well, this is too bad," said Lewis, i indignantly. "It is a shame if a girl j with her face and brains can't do bet- i ter. She is altogether too soft-hearted, i She would have married all the men who ever proposed, if we had let her, I and out of sheer pity, not because she 1 cared for them. That is why she ac-! cepted Peters, couldn't bear to hurt j his feelings didn't want his eyes to j suffuse with tears I "We must do some-1 tiling to prevent." Nannie smiled deprecatingly : "We I must bo very careful. Agatha has a curious disposition, and if she thought wo were all against him she would only pity him the more." . " if there was onlv Rntnn wtxv in tic- nrau.if l,l. 1..:.' .. . ' . . I j... i mm, cAci.tiiiiuu i,ewis, grimly; "no ui una, exclaimed .Lewis grimlv i Jw lu.maine, mat you 'if we could send him out with the ' niU-st liscontmue yur talk 01 m7 sis iet Arctic KnraiiH.m I ter." lie cried, nnirrilv. next Arctic expedition " .Nannie rose. "You will be careful what you say, Lewis?" very "un, or course. She lingered at the door. "Agatha has not a forceless nature by any rrfeans," she said ; "she can get angry if she cares to. She tells me she put Miss Forteseue and Mrs. Becker out of our parlor to-day, because of their vile gossip. I have no doubt she did." "Humph 1" Agatha came down to dinner with her face composed and her manner gracious as ever. Her inward defiance was not outwardly manifest. Of her family, George was a shade more dignified than usual, and T.nu'iu ap peared annoyed, while Nannie put on a jcgiebiui iook uuu signeu occasionally. When thev left th ft dininor-roimi Agatha swept haughtily by the table,' tu v uiuu sab me ortescue aao Becker. HLDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THU11SDAY, NOVEMBEE 9. She Was done with the twain and intended they should seo It. Up in their parlor, George sat down by his sister. "Agatha," he said, slowly and with an evident distaste for the subject, "do you think you did well to engage yourself to Mr. 1 eters before consulting your family ?" "I was of age three years ago," she said, regarding him with serene dignity. " Yes, .yes, of Course. But there is such a thing as advice. Mr. Peters is our good friend, but is ho a suitable husband for you?" "What is there against him?" she asked, unflinchingly. She was not blind to her lover's bodily imper fections. She had lain awake nil night mentally endeavoring to straight en his crooked limbs and control his recreant orb. But with daylight they had dawned upon her as uncompro mising as ever. But George would not stoop to per sonalities. "Nothing," ho answered, quietly. "Only we have looked very high for you. We want you to be happy." "Then do not speak against Mr. Peters," she said, in a way that seemed to dismiss the subject. George betook himself to his own room, and Lewis took his place by Agatha. "I suppose I tun to congrat ulate," he said, with a careless disre gard of Nannie's injunctions. " You do not seem very enthusiastic," responded his sister, calmly, recalling his secretly-heard exclamation upon first learning the news. " I can't help it if I don't," he a o . t.n.-.,, utiu lllljiui.lt 111 J . X Ull KIIOW how proud we are of you, Gath, and we can't be expected to think any man good enough." She smiled. He went on recklessly: " I don't be lieve you knew what you vfre doing. You don't love Peters, you only pity him, just as you used to pity the sena tor and all the rest. This crooked little curmudgeon! Why, he is older than (ieorge, and cross-eyed " ' She sprang up iii a rage: "Lewis, you have said quite enough. Never speak to me again. I forbid it!'' Then she sought her own chamber and threw Ik rself upon the bed. Nannie came to her after awhile "My poor darling! Why are you feel ing so bad V" "Lewis has been saying such awful things!" " And are you quite sure you have made no mistake?" " Quite sure?" She arose and arranged her toilet; Mr. Peters was to come that evening. He arrived early. Nannie endeav ored to be gracious, but pxcuswd her self, leaving Agatha to her lover, the boys having both gone out. And : Agatha, with Lewis' cool criticism I still ringing in her ears, felt as if in a ; dream. Fortunately Peters made no j inquiries as to her brothers' opinions of the marriage. Mi.ss Nannie had con j gratulated him as though all was satis ! factory. ! Agatha accepted his adoration quite ' passively,, and sit last, when he had ; gone, retired to her own room to pity mui, aim ion nerseir. now mucli she loved tt'iii. But as the winter slinoed nn-nv tin. I engagement was announced, andhav : ing remained unbroken, Agatha's J brothers even began to feel quite re signed. The quiet, intense devotion of Nor man Peters was touching. lie wor shiped his betrothed j to him she was a very goddess. "If," thought Nannie, with a soft ened regret, " if he were only not quite so small ! If he yere only a half inch taller, to be of even height with Aca tha! fe Meanwhile Agatha was fretting her self to death. A thousand little heart less sarcasms and glances of ridicule, to which Teters, in his great happiness, was utterly oblivious, 'were constantly stabbing her. Night after night she passed in wakeful agony, the idea of breaking the engagement never once occurring to her. She was an ciio loved him, and she realized the depth of his devotion. She endeavored to rise above morbid sensitiveness, telling her self that people would cease their cruel ways when they saw that she was de termined to stand by him. But she gr w thin, and her face wore a hunted expression. Mesdaines Becker and F i tescue now began to circulate petty j littlo stories about her ingeniously ' constructed, but untruthful romances, j Nothing very bad, for Agatiia was a ' wo.nan to whom no doubtful mist j clung for a moment; but whispers of coquetry," "girlish folly," and "last! IVSort." which worn lilnwn from H.. t I lip on the dubious breath of friendship, came at last to vex the ears of the Forsters. Agatha only grew more ,iale. Stormy Lewis, however, one day confronted Miss Forteseue in the hall before his sister's room. "I can tell you, madame, that you ter," he cried, angrily. Agatha came out. "Oh, Lewis, dear." He took her by the arm. " Go back, Gath. I've a matter to settle with this lady. She knows what mischief she has been trying to work, and I in tend the talk shall cease, or I shall take measures she may not admire." Without a word Mr3. Forteseue turned and fled. "I was sorry for her," said Agatha; " she 'ooked so guilty and helpless." " I declare I haven't much patience with you," exclaimed her brother, " to think that you would defend her, and she every day assailing your good name. But all your ways of late are provoking. You are going to marry a man you don't love, because you pity him. For God's sake, why didn't you pity some one suitable?" She trembled with excitement and passion. " Lewis, if you have the least particle of love or respect for me, you will never speak so again. I do love Nor man, and it will kill pie. if anything should break the engagement i" Lewis quit her presence crestfallen. The days slipped by. There had been no date fixed for the wedding, nor was the subject discussed by the family. '' None but Nunnleknsw the terrible tremor in which the girl existed. She was moving about, her hands con stantly occupied, i Day after day, rain or shine, the two Jvomen were "out of doors. They had always an errand, usually one of merry. Nannie, how ever disinclined, would have felt it a sin to oppose, and so Agatha dragged her off through the flitting sunshine, the moodiness, the chill, of the storm of the springtime, until one last morn ing. It had been raining for three davs, and so steadily that the sidewalk Jgs were cleaned and whitened. . Agatha said they would not be ham pered with a carriage, and they took a car for a mile or so, alighting to walk a few squares to another line. The storm hail abated, and the rain was but a listless drizzle. Agatha slipped and slid once, and Nannie gave a frightened exclamation. " My overshoes are useless," said the girl, carelessly. "I must have another pair. I have a good deal of shopping to do soon." " Your outfit" ventured Nannie, and stopped. Agatha sighed, but the sigh was lost in the noise of the street , A poor little ye3ow dog limped out from under a passing vehicle, holding up one paw and yelping pitifully. " Oh, see," cried Agatha, with her eyes wet. "Poor," poor doggie ! I am so sorry !" .The yelps died away in the distance, and the ladies went on. A blind limn crrincr "fVimrli livon. iit. r - "n ges : upon the corner detained them for a moment. In the next block an old building had been torn away to give place to a new one. Careless workmen had loft the sidewalk unguarded in one place, a step from which would have landod one in a deep cellar, where lay a num ber of loose foundation stones. Just as they had reached this spot they were brought to a sudden halt by loud cries and confusion. Down the street, and directly toward them, came a runaway team dragging a splendid carnage. .- Agatha took art irresolute step for ward, and then sprang back as the horsedaslied up against the sidewalk. The women were thus separated, arid in a second Nannie was reaching forward, cold with horror. Atratha 'she cried, but ton l.-it I The girl had lost her balance, and had' fallen backward from the unguarded it. l . . .. . smewaiiv nowu into uie deep cellar, and there lay upon the stones limp and unconscious. She would live, sadly crippled and helpless; the spine had been injured iind one hip dislocated. So said the best of surgeons. She would hence forth require all care and tendernesss. "Thank (Sod she is not poor !" cried Nannie. As for the boys, George was completely crushed, anil Lewis paeml the floor for hours, erviiiir for his " Poor, poor sister !" Agatha insisted upon hearing tho worst, and, when it was made known, was silent. By-and-bye Nannie could see great tears trembling under the long, dark eyelashes. " I would not mind," faltered the sufferer, "but for him. Who will love and care for him now ?" Then she asked that he be sent for at once. When he arrived Nannie and the boys were in the room, but they withdrew to the window. Peters' face was as pale as Agatha's own. " Norman, dear," she said, without a preface, "I am a cripple for life. I may never walk again, I sent for you to give you back your freedom." " A frightened expression overspread his countenance ; his lip quivered and he sank on his knees by the bed and buried his face. "Agatha, darling!" he cried, with real pathos, "don't, don't cast me off You are a thousand times dearer to me now. All I ask is the right to care for you" his voice brokQ, and he fell to weeiiinir. By the window three persons heard it all. They looked in silence tit each other, then Lewis strode swiftly across the room. " Peters," he said, " we haven't done right by you. I, myself, have acted despicably. But if you will forgive and forget, it will lie very different in the future." Then Peters, who had risen, stood silent and bewildered till. thrnnrii tim mist, the room grew suddenly bright, for they had encircled him ami were clasping his hands with sudden warmth. And as Agatha lay watching she raised a feeble hand to stay the tears that coursed her cheeks. " I never thought," she sobbed aloud, "I never dreamed 1 could bo so happy!" An exchange acknowledges the re ceipt of two books called "Matri mony" and " Heaps of Money" from Harper & Brothers. The publishers were very thoughtful. When a man indulges in "Matrimony" he feels the need of " Heaps of Money." Norris town Herald. A Norristown man, who couldn't live within his income, was advised to dispense with a few luxuries. He im mediately sold his gun and hunting dog and bought a share in a yacht. Many a man would have smoked a cheaper cigar and made his wife wear her last year's dress. Herald. Birds and birds' heads are much used on hats and bonnets, SCIENTIFIC NOTES A French paper says : " H is a re tnarkable fact that there are no rats in the islands Of the Pacific ocean. Re peated attempts have beeii made to acclimatize the rodents there, as the flesh is much esteemed by the natives as an article of food. But the attempts thus far have failed, as they invariably die of consumption1." Among the Instruments at a recent scientific meeting was one exhibited by Sir F. Bramwell, employed for ascertaining the velocity of trains and the efficiency of brakes. With this apparatus it .was found that a train weighing 125 tons ran five miles five yards after steam was shut off while traveling tit u speed of forty-five miles an hour, The line was level and the day perfectly calm, Sensations are transmitted to the brain at a rapidity of about 180 feet per second, or at one-fifth the rate of sound; and this is nearly the same in all individuals. Tht brain requires one-tenth of a second to transmit its orders to the nerves which p-eside over voluntary motion; but this amount varies much in different individuals, and in the same individual at different times, according to the disposition or condition at the time, and is more regular the more sustained the atten tion. Experiments upon over four hundred Individuals of all classes, ages and oc cupations show how great is the diver sity of opinion as to the size of objects seen through the microscope. The ob ject Used in the experiments was a common louse magnified to a theoreti cal size if 4.G6 indies. The majority of observers underestimated this value ; two estimates were only one inch j seven were over a foot, and one was at least five feet. New students of the microscope usually re ceive an impression somewhat larger than the real value, and adhere to it for a considerable time. Dr. Mittendorf states that Ameri j can students are less afflicted with j near-sightedness than German stu 1 dents. The affection is developed by I sedentary occupations and lack of ex I ercise, women being therefore more liable to contract it than men. It usually appears in childhood, rarely after the twenty-first year. Weak glasses of 6light blue tiiit should be worn early to stay its progress, as blindness often follows neglect of treatment. In his paper on this suli ject Dr. M. tells of a line horse in Ber lin which became intractable and was found to be suffering from near sightedness, but was as docile as ever after a pair of glasses had been fitted to its eyes. The Virtues of t'off. e. The action of coffee is directed chiefly to the nervous system. It pro duces a warming, cordial impression on the stomach, quickly followed by a diffused, agreeable nnd nervous ex citement, which extends itself to the cerebral functions, giving rise to in creased vigor of imagination and in tellect, without any subsequent con fusion or stupor such as is character istic of narcotics. Coffee contains es sential principles of nutrition far ex ceeding in importance its exhilarating properties, and is one of the most desirable articles for sustaining the system in certain prostrating diseases. As compared with the nutrition to be derived from the best of soups, coffee has decidedly the ad vantage, and is to be preferred in many instances. The medicinal effects of coffee are very great. In intermittent fever it has been used by eminent physicians with the happiest effects in cutting short the attack, and, if prop erly managed, is better in many cases than the sulphate of quinine. In that low state of intermittent as found on the banks of the Mississippi river and other malarial districts, accompanied with enlarged spleen and torpid liver, when judiciously administered it is one of the surest remedies. In yellow fever it has been used by physicians, and with some it is their main reliance nfter other necessary remedies have been administered ; it retains tissue change, and thus comes a conservator of force in t'.iat state in which the nervous system tends to collapse because the blood has be come impure ; it sustains the nervous power until the depuration and reor ganization of the blood are accom plished, and has the advantage over other stimulants in inducing no in jurious secondary effects. In spas modic asthma its" utility, is well estab lished, as in whooping-cough, stupor, lethargy and such troubles. In hys terical attacks, for which, in ma'nv cases, a physician can form no diagno sis, coffee is a great help. Coffee is opposed to malaria, to all noxious vapors. As a disinfectant it lias wonderful powers. As an in stantaneous deodorizer it has no equal for the sickroom, as all exhalations are immediately neutralized by simply passing a chafing dish with burning coffee grains through the room. It may be urged that an article pos sessing such powers and capacity for such energetie action must be in jurious as uj articlo of diet of habitual employment, and not without deleterious properties; but no corresponding nervous disarrange ments have been observed after its effects have disappeared, as are seen in narcotics and other stimulants. The action imparted to the nerves is natu ral and healthy. Habitual coffee drinkers generally enjoy good health, cioine of the oldest people have used coffee from earliest infancy without feeling any depressing reaction, such as is produced by alcoholic stimulants. Philadelphia Times. Corn is said to be late in ripening, but when a fellow treads on your foot you will find your corn is ripe, and yell oh I 1885. Tiger Killlaff in Jara. l'he following is a translation of an extraordinary report published in the Jam Btidei the'6hief paper of Batavia : " Yesterday, so says the Mtltaram, a newspaper at Djoodjakatra", there took place here the announced clearance among the tig'efsj belonging to his highness, the sultan, in ofder to make room for a fresh Bupply when the hew tiger pens will be built. At about 10 A. M. the sultan, the resident military commander, assistant resident and other spectators appeared behind the Kraton and seated themselves in a grand stand constructed for the pur pose. Thousands of Javanese flocked to the spot to see the combats. Soon a fight between a royal tiger and a buf falo together in a pen commenced. The tiger was several times tossed into the air and then gored to death by the buf falo, which had beerJ made as furious as possible by peppered water, burning nettles and red-hot iron bars. The combat lasted fully two hours. After ward began the rampolsen or tiger flight. On the plain alongside thr Kraton stood Javanese armed with stout spears fifteeri to eighteen feet long, drawn up in rows Ctfe behind the other, forming altogether ah e-' traordinary large square. The two foremost rows lay kneeling, the two hindmost stood erect. In the center of this open space were thirteen straw-roofed rooden pens, in each of which was a tiger. At a given signal a musical instrument called the gam clan begins playing a martial air to slow measure. Three tiger keepers then step out of the ranks and approach the cage. Two of them bear ertch n burning torch, with which they set fire to the. straw. The tiger, frightened by the shower of sparks; is then forced out into the open space, but knows not whither to turn. It moves around and seeks whither it can find an outlet, until it endeavors either by a desperate spring to get away over the human 'wall which keeps it inclosed or tries to creep through underneath. But it falls pierced by the many spears 'which ha ve struck it. It utters a savage cry, which is drowned by the applause and shouts of the multitude. In silent agony it strikes around furiously with its mighty paws. The shafts of the spears often break like glass. In such eases a single blow might cost the life of any unfortunate within reach of its claws. It is afterward killed in due form. This scene took jilaco in the same way thirteen limes successively with as many tigers, the, festivity closing at 2 p. m. Only a few accidents occurred. One soldier, by ill luck, received a spear thrust when combating with a tiger, and was severely wounded in the leg. A native received a bite when one of the tigers broke through the square and was killed outside it, after causing great commotion among the spectators. An affecting scene presented Was that of a large tigress bringing forth a cub while she was being slain." "Wire the Gentleman." The new verbs which the rush of progress brings into use are often stumbling-blocks to the simple. The fun comes in when ignorant persons get frightened at them and go off with out asking what they mean. The Louisiana Commercial says : Two young women entered an in telligence ollice and one of them asked if there was any situation open. The agent said he had just received a letter from a gentleman in Pough keepsie, asking if they could send up a servant girl. The agent explained what work she would be required to perform and the wages she would Ret.. The girl consulted for a few mo ments with her companion and then said she would go. The agent gave her tho necessary directions and told her at what time she would have to be at the station, with the assurance that she would go through all right. The girl listened attentively. "Now you must be sure and go through all the way," said the agent, " and not get off." " Yes," said the girl. " And don't let anybody talk to you and ask you to go with them," said the agent. " Yes," said the girl. " I will write at once what time yon will get there and they will expect you," said the agent. " You will get there to-morrow." " Yes," said the girl. "if you have any difficulty when you reach the railroad station, wire the gentleman," handing her his card, "and he will meet you at the station." " I'll not stir a peg, so 1 won't. I'll engage to wash, iron and plain cook for the family, but I'll not do all this and wire gentlemen for fourteen dol lars a month, so I won't," and she went out of the ollice. How a Whale Breathes. The windpipe does not communicate with the mouth ; a hole is, as it were, bored right through the back of the head. Engineers would do well to copy the action of tint valve of the whale's blow-hole ; a more perfect piece of structure it is impossible to imagine. Day and night, asleep or awake, the whale works his breathing apparatus in Htich a manner that not a drop of- water ever gets down into his lungs. Again, the whale must of ne cessity stay a much longer period of time under water than seals ; this alone might possibly drown him, inasmuch as the lungs cannot have access to fresh ait. We find that this difficulty has been anticipated and obviated by a peculiar reservoir in the venous sys tem, which reservoir is situated at the back of the lungs. Frank Jltmkland. To get up a dinner of great variety cooks should have a wide range, NO. 38. .After a While. Thare in it Ctrnnge, reet tolaee in the tiionght That all the yom we suffer here below May, as a dark and hidoons garment wrought For ns to wear, whether we will or no Be cast aside, with a relieving smil, After a little while. No mortal roaming but hath certain end) Though far unto the ocean-spaces gray ' We sail and sail, without a chart for friend, AboTe tha sky-line, faint and far away There looms nt last tho one enchanted isle , After a little while. Oh, when our cares" coma thronging tW"v 4ud fast, With more of anguish than, the heart em bear, Though friends desert, and, as the heedlesa blast, Kren lote pass by ns with a stony stare, Let us withdraw into some ruined pile, Or lonely forest aisle. And contemplate the never-ceasing change Whereby the processes of God are wrought, And from our petty ues our souls estrange Till, bathed in currents of exalted thought, We feel the rest that must our oares beguile. After a little while. Xathan D. Umer. HUMOR OF THE DAT. "Whefe re the men of 7G?" shrieks an excited exchange. Oh, to Halifax with the men of seventy-six. Give us the women of twenty-three. Hawkey e. Who has any right to sneer at the inventive genius of woman when one in New York has discovered a process by which cat skin can be made to look like seal? Detroit Free I'reis. A man in Elgin, Illinois, put on tt' clean shirt with such energy the other day that he broke an arm. It is a duty which one likes to have off his mind as soon as possible. Free Press. Typhoid fever is now the fashion able disease. Having it is prima facie evidence that you are hi easy circum stances and passed the season at a summer resort. Philadelphia Neics. A man never realizes the littleness of his own abilities so much as when, after blacking his own boots, he is greeted by the first boy he meets with the customary "Shine?"' Lowell Citi zen. Several of our exchanges are de voting considerable space to the im portance of " cooking girls." It's no use. We don't want them cooked. The raw damsel, is good enough for us. Hartford Timex. Mrs. Partington honored us with n call this morning. She is looking well, and she says she is like the windows of a renovated house all tho old. panes are out of her, and the pneu-" maties are tilings of the past. Huston Star. j "Pa, I'll be right sorry when you get well," said a little Austin boy to his sick parent. "Why, my. .son?" " Because I won't get any more. empty medicine bottles to sell. I sell 'em for live cents apiece to the drug store." Mftinys. ' " Few men are born to xule," and that is what the bookkeejer thinks when he comes in after lunch and finds the old man has. been trying to close an account on the ledger with a spattering pen and a nickel ruler. Boston Bulletin. In the German army more' attention is being paid to tho science, of aero statics, and officers are being trained to make balloon ascensions. This Will fit them to come to this country and amuse the population on the Fourth of July. Boston Post. A New York man says he keeps chops iind steaks for several days in. the hottest weather by burying them in meal. Meal is a good thing in any veather for steaks and chops. AVe ,more particularly refer just now to the morning meal. Banbury News. The ruling passion strong in death ; " John," feebly' moaned a society lady, who was about shuffling off this mortal coil; "John, if the newspapers say anything about my debut into another world, just send me a dozen marked copies." New York Commercial. The Discovery of Porcelain. Kaolin, a hydrated silicate of aluin nia, is absolutely refractory and opaque ; it constitutes the resistant part of porcelain. Feldspars are sili cates of alumina and potassia, fusible at a very high temperature into a beautiful transparent glass. If now we mix a quantity of feldspar with kaolin, cover the mixture with a layer of feldspar, and heat tho whole at a ,very high temperature, the feldspar ,will melt and communicate to the opaque clay a clearness greater or less according to the quantity of it present, and to the superficial part of it that beautiful glaze with which all are familiar. A part of the action in this process is chemical, and consists rh the production of a new crystalline silicate formed by a combination of all the substances present. The discovery of porcelain in China is traced back to a high antiquity. The Chinese have cer tainly made it regularly for at least a thousand years; many authors fix the discovery at fifteen hundred or eighteen hundred years ago, but no evidence exists to justify our going back further than a thousand years. Tho first piece.? that came to Europe were probably brought by the Venetians at the end of tho thirteenth century. Charles VII., king of France, received a present of Chinese porcelains about the middle of the fifteenth century from the sultan of Babylon ; but it was not till the sixteenth century that the importation of these Oriental products by Portuguese and Dutch merchants assumed a real im portance. Southern cotton mills now boast 1,237,400 spindles, and the consump tion of cotton this year will reach 400,000 bales, or one-quarter of the amount used North,
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