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A pair of very chubby lfgs, EncMed in scat-lot hone ; A pair of little hI ubby boot, With rather doubtful toes A little kilt t a little coat, Out a a mother can Aud lo t before m stride, in s'ate, The Future's "coming man." eye, perchance, will read the stars, And search thoir unknown ways ', rorohanca the human heart and soul j Will open to their gaze t ' I'orchance their keen and flashing glance Will be a nation's light Those eyes that now are wistful bent On aprae " big fullow'a " kite, That brow, where mighty thoughts will dwell In solemn, secret state ; . Where fierce Ambition's restless strength Shall war with future fate j Whore Heienoe from now hidden cares 1 New tressnres shall outpour Tis knit now, with a troubled doubt, 1 Are two, or three, cents more? Those lips that, in the coming years, Will pload, or prayer teach ; Whose whispered words, on lightning flash. From world to world may reach j That sternly grave, may sieak command. Or, smiling, win control Are coaxing now for ginger-bread With aU a baby's soul I . Those handsthose little busy bands So sticky, small aqd brown ; Those hands, whose only mission seema To tear all order down Who "knows what hidden streugth may lie ' Within their futuro grasp, Though now tis but a taffy-stick la sturdy bold they clasp? , '. ' i aj ' " Ah, blessings on those little hands, . Whose work is yet undone I . An J blessings on those little feet, ' ( Whose race is yet unrun 1 . ; ' And blessings on the little brain That has not learnod to plan i Wtsto'er the Future hold in store, God bluss the coming man !" , THE JANDiDIER MYSTERY. - , A FRKNCH 8TORY. ' A VCrV ttllOft. tima o rrn : day, about four- o'clock in the afternoon, i a I the QiiAit-ier'du Marais was In as up ; r jar. It waa said that one o( the re a lecta'dj merchants in the Roi do-Sicili 1 is disappeared, ami all the efforts k disover him had proved fruit- leas, 'fho straug event was discussed iu all the shops in the neighborhood ; there we re groups around the doors ol all the greeu-grocers, and every moment some terrified housewife arrived, bring ing new details. The grocer at the corner had the beet, freshest and most c n eot intelligence, having received it from the lips of the iwok who lived ' in the house. r. "So," said he, "yebterday, after din-ne-, our neighbor, Monsieur Jandidier, went to his cellar and was never seen . ag .in disappeared, vanished, evapo ra ed !" .. r . It occasionally happens that mysteri OU3 disappearances are heard of, the public get exci ed, aud prudent people buy sword canes. Policemen hear theBe absurd rumors aud shrug their shoulders. They are familiar with the other Bide of theeo closely embroidered canvasses. They search into the matter and find, instead of artless falsehoods, the truth; instead of romances, sad Btories. Yet, up to a certain point, the grocer in tlie Hue Saint Louis told tho truth. . Monsieur Jandidier, manufacturer of imitation jewelry, had really not been n tine for twenty-four hours. . Monsieur Taeodore Jandidier waa a very tall, very b dd, man, about fif ty-eight years old. With sufficiently good manners, who had amissed a considerable fortune in trade. He had an income from stocks of twenty thousand livros, and his business brought " him in about fifty thousand francs, lie was beloved and esteemed by his neigh bors, and justly so, for his honesty was above suspicion, his morality austere. Married late in life to a poor relative, he had made her perfectly happy. lie Lad an only daughter, a pretty graceful girl, named Terese, whom he adored.. (She "had been engaged to the oldest son of the banker Schmidt of the flrtn of Schmidt, Gubenheim t Worb Monsieur Oustave ; but the match had been broken off, no one knew why, for the young people were desperately in love with each other. It was said in the Jandidier circle that Schmidt, senior, who, as was well '.known, would skin a flint, had "required a dowry far beyond the merchant's means, t Warned by public rumor, which con stantly increased, the commissary of police went to the home of the man who was already called the victim, though no exact information hod been received, lie found Madame and Mademoiselle Jandidier in such transports of grief that it was with the utmost difficulty that he could gather the truth. At last he learned the following particulars : The evening before, Saturday, Mon sieur Jandidier" had dined with his fam ily as usual, but did not eat with much appetite, having, he said, a violent head ache. After dinner he went to bis ware houses, gave some orders, and then en tered his office. Ret timing home at half-past six, he told his wife he waa going to walk. And he never appeared again. Ilaving carefully noted these particulars, the commissary of polioe requested -permission to Bee Madame Jandidier a few minutes alone. She made a sign of assent, and Mademoiselle Tbereee left the room. ' Pardon, inadaine," said the commis sary of polioe, "the question I am about to addrewj to you. Do you know wLfcther your husband had I again ask your Eardou any connection outside of the ouse?" , . -Madame Jandidier started np ; anger dried her tears. "I have been married twenty-three years, monsieur ; my husband bws never returned home later than ten o'clock." " Was your husband in the habit of going to any club or cafe t" ho con tinual. "Never; I wouldn't have allowed it." " Did he usually carry valuable pnpers about with him ?'f , " I don't know; I attend to my hous'J keeping, and don't trouble myself about business matters." It was impossible to get any further information from the poor wife, who was bewildered by grief. Ilaving accomplished his business, the commissary of police thought it his duty to say a few words of commonplace con solation to the poor woman. JJut when he went away, after making inquiries in the household.lie folt very anxious, and began to suspect tho existence of a crime. That very evening one of the most skillful detectives, lietivean bet ter known in the Rue de Jerusalem aa Maitre Magloire was put on the track of Monsieur Jandidier, provided with an excellent photograph of the mer chant. The very morning after Monsieur jandialer had disappeared Maitre Mag loire presented himself at the Palais de Justice to report to the magistrate who had charge of the matter. "Well, Monsieur Magloire," said the magistrate, "bo" you have discovered something?" " I'm on the track, monsieur." L "Speak!" lo begin with, monsieur, Monsieur Jandidier didn't leave his house at half past six, but at seven precisely. "Precisely?" " Yes. I got my information from a clock-maker in the Hue Saint Denis, who ia sure of the fact, because Monsieur Jandidier, while passing his Bhop, took out his watch to compare it with the clock ovef the door. He had an un lighted cigar in his mouth. On learning this circumstance I said to myself, I have him I he'll light his cigar some where.' My reasoning was correct; he entered a shop in the Rue de Temple, where he is well known. 1 The woman remembered the cirumstance because, though he always smoked sou cigars, he bought London ones." .. .. " How did he appear?" i '" " ' "Ho seemed very thoughtful, the shopkeeper told mo. It waa through her I learned he often went to the Cafe lure. I went in and was told he had been there on Saturday evening. He appeared depressed. The gentleman, the waiter told me, talked all the time about life insurance. At half -past eight o'clock our man left the cafe with one of. his friends, Monsieur Bhuidureau. I instantly went to this gentleman, who told ma that he walked up the boulevard with Monsieur Jandidier, who left him on the corner of the Rue Richelieu, pleading a buainesa engagement. He was out of sorts, and seemed troubled with the darkest presentiment." "Very well, so far," murmured the magistrate. "k ,i .,".--;. " On leaving Monsieur Blandureau I went to Rue du Roi-de-Sioile, to ascer tain from somebody iu the house wheth er Monsieur Jandidier had any custom ers or friends ; there was only his tailor in the Rue Richelieu.' ,1 went to this tailor. He saw our man on Saturday. Monsieur Jandidier went to his shop after nine o'clock to order a pair of pan taloons. While his measure was being taken he noticed that one of the buttons on his vest was ready to fall off, and asked to have it sewed on. He was obliged to take off his overcoat to permit the little repair to made, and as at the same time he took out the contents of the aide-pocket, the tailor noticed several hondred-f rano banknotes." " Ah ! that is a clew 1 He had a large sum of money with him ?" "Not large, but considerable. The tailor estimated it at twelve or fourteen hundred francs." " Qo on," said the examining magis trate. " While his vest was being repaired Monsieur Jandidier complained of sud den illness, and sent a little boy out te look for a carriage. He had to go to see one of his workmen who lived a long dis tance off, he said. Unfortunately, the little fellow had forgotten the number of the carriage. He only remembered that it had yellow wheels and was drawn by a large black horse. This afforded a clew. A circular sent to ail the livery stable keepers put me on the track. I learned this morning that the number of the carriage was 6,007. The driver, on being questioned, distinctly remember ed having been stopped about nine o'clock on Saturday evening in the Rue Richelieu, by a little boy, and having waited ten minutes in front of the Maison Gouin. The description of his face suited our man, and he recognized the photograph among five others I showed Maitre Magloire stopped be wanted to enjoy the approval he read in the magistrate's face. "Monsieur Jandidier," he continued, " was really driven to ' No. 48 Rue d'Arras Saint Victor, where one of his workmen lived, a man named J ules Tarot." The manner in which Maitre Magloire pronounced this name was intended to arouse, and did arouse, the attention of the magistrate. " You have suspicions?" ha asked. " Not exactly ; but these are the facts. Monsieur Jandidier dismissed his car riage at tho Rue d'Arras and went to Tarot'B room abjut ten o'clock. At eleven the employer and woiknum went out together. The workman did not re turn till midnight, and here I lose track of my man. Of course I didn't ques tion Tarot, lest I should put him on his guard." ' Who is this Jules Tarot ?" . " A worker iu mother-'of pearl ; that is, a man who polishes shells on a grind stone, to give them a perfect lustre. Ho is a skillful fellow, and helped by his wife, to whom he has taught his trade, can moke a hundred francs a week." " They are in easy circumstances, then." " Oh ! no, they are both young ; they have no children, they are Parisians ; ana, zounas, tney amuse themselves. Monday always squanders all the other days bring." Two hours after Maitre Magloire's re port, several police-officers went to Jules Tarot's lodgings to make a search. At the sight of them the worker in mother-of-pearl and his wife turned paler than corpses and were seized with an attack of nervous trembling that could not escape the practiced eye of Maitre Magloire. Yet, the most careful search having failed to discover anything suspicious, they were about to withdraw, when the detective saw Tarot's wife anxiously watching a cage that hung near the win dow. This was a ray of light In an instant Magloire had token down the cage. Twelve hundred-franc notes were found between the boards of the floor. This discovery seemed to crush the workman, while his wife began- to utter terrible shrieks, protesting that she and her husband were innocent. On being arrested and taken to the police-station they were questioned by the examining magistrate that very day. Their answers were precisely the same. They ac knowledged that they had had a visit from their employer on Saturday even ing. He seemed so ill that they had offered him something to take, which he refused. He had come, he said, on ac count of an important order which he proposed that Tarot should undertake, hiring his own workmen. Tarot and his wife replied that they could not do it for want of means. Then their em ployer said : " Nevermind, I'll furnish the money," and instantly put twelve hundred-franc notes on the table. At eleven o'clock Monsieur Jandidier tt'ked his workman to show him out of the house ; he waa going to the Fau bourg Saint Antoine. And, in fact, Tarot accompanied him to the Place de ia Hostile, crossing the Constantine Bridge and walking along by the river. The magistrate asked both husband and wife the very natural question : ." Why did you hide the money ?" They mode the same answer. Hearing on Monday morning of Monsieur Jou didier's disappearance, they were seized with terror. Tarot had Raid to bis wife : "If it is known that our employer came here, that I crossed the bridge and walked along by tho river with him, I shall be compromised. If this money were ever found in cur possession we should be lost." " Tho wife then wanted to bum the notes, but Tarot prevented it, intending to return them to the family.' This ex planation was reasonable and plausible, if not probable, but it was only an ex planation. Tarot and his wife were still detained in custody. A week after the magistrate was in the utmost perplexity. Three new examina tions had not enabled him to form an opinion. Were Tarot and his wife inno cent ? Or were they Biinply marvelously clever in maintaining a probable fable ? The magistrate knew not what to do, when one morning a strange rumor reached his ears. The house of Jandidier bad just stopped payment. A detective who was set to work brought back the most startling news. Monsieur Jandidier, who had been considered so wealthy, was ruined, utterly ruined, and for three, years he had sustained his credit only by means of various expedients. He had not a thousand francs, and notes falling due at the end of the month amounted to sixty-seven thousond.five hundred francs. The cautious merchant speculated in stocks. The magistrate bad just learned these particulars when Maitre Magloire appeared, pale and panting for breath. "You know, monsieur?" he cried, from the threshold. " All !" " Tarot ia innocent." "I believe him so; and yet that visit how do you explain that visit ?' Magloire shook his head sorrowfully. "I am only a fool," said he, "and Lecoq has just proved it. Monsieur Jan didier spoke of his life insurance at the Cafe Ture. This was the key to the affair. Jandidier was insured for two hundred thousand francs, aud French companies don't pay in case of suicide. Do you understand ?" Thanks to Monsieur Gastave Schmidt, who will marry Mademoiselle Therese Jandidier next month, the house of Jandidier has not gone into bankruptcy. Tarot and his wife, restored to liberty, have been established in business by this same Monsieur Gustave, and no longer go pleasuring on Mondays. But what became of Monsieur Jandidier ? A thousand francs reward to whoever will give news of him. Men are generally more honest in their private than in their publio capac ity, and will go greater length to serve a party than wheu their own private inter est is alone concerned. Honor is a great cheek upon mankind, but where a con siderable body of men act together this check is in a great measure removed, since a man is sure to be approved of by his own warty for what promotes the common interest, and he soon learns to despise the clamors of adversaries. Forbear to jude, Utr we Are all biu-nera. farm, garden and household. .Mrdlrnl Hint. BnfiHK-SwEi.LiNO. To cure a swell irg from a bruise, foment it for half an hour, morning and evening, witli hot cloths dipped in vinegar and water as hot as you can bear it. CcitK fob Warts. Warts may be re moved, says a celebrated physician, by rubbing them, night and morning, with a moistened piece of muriate of ammo nia. They soften and dwindle away, leaving no such mark as follows their dispersion with lunar caustic. To Pcbift the Blood. Strictly diet on oat-mcal porridge, lean- beef, plain vegetables, fruit and Graham bread. Eat no wheat bread or pastry or pud dings ; no butter or grease whatever. Butter and cheese secretly poison many systems. Drink weak lemonade. Eat regularly, aud the dryer the food the better. Food floating in grease refuses to digest Substitute clear water not ioe waterfor tea or coffee. On retir fofff 8Pply cold cream or beef fit to the complexion. Take the oils externally instead of internally. A Remedy for Catarrh. A farmer's daughter says : Dry and powder mullen leaves as fine as you would powder sage ; then smoke as you would tobacco, let ting the smoke escape through the nos trils instead of the mouth. This is one of the best of remedies for catarrh in the head. It has entirely cured a case of over twenty years' standing, when every other remedy heard of has failed to do so. It may require a little prac tice to let the smoke escape through the nostrils. Mullen will be stronger gath ered before the frost injures it, but will answer even if dug from under the snow. It will also be found an excellent reme dy for cold in the head. riewlnc mui Manuring. A correspondent of the American farmer says : The . above constitutes two first essentials in the production of good crops, and should receive special attention at the hands of every one who would cultivate and produce a good crop, let it be corn, tobacco, cotton or potatoes, etc. , . Thorough plowing I consider the more important of the two. for unless the ground is well plowed, the best manur ing will have comparatively little effect, whereas land well and thoroughly plowed with light fertilizing will produce fairly, but with better manuring will produce at a profit; still there is a limit beyond which profit ceases, and just where this limit is the cultivator must be the judge, after experiment; but generally there is little danger of exceeding it Plowing, to be thorough, should be so performed that the soil shall be broken and made as fine as possible; you cannot pulverize too much. . Plow deep is a relative term, and may mean very differently on different soils, for while four inches may be deep for one soil, ten or twelve may be less so on others, so that here we must be governed by the nature of the soil plowed. Sub soil ploughing is a distinctive difference from the common .acceptation of the term plowing, yet is often used with the same meaning. Sub-soiling on most soils, in connection with good plowing, is one of the essentials of certainty of a good product; the deeper and more thoroughly , the sub-Boil . is broken the better, as no crop will be likely to suffer the effects of drought or wet where the ground is sub-soiled, as where only sur face plowed. Iu' plowing under manure it should not be turned down to the bottom of the turned soil, if we wish the benefit of any portion of it in the present crop. The nearer the surface, and nave it covered in the soil, we keep manure, the greater benefit the crop will receive from it. ' Herein lies one benefit of plowing under the manure shallow, and again plowing the some ground a trifle deeper; which, while it mixes the manure with the soil, still keeps the greatest portion near the purface, just whew the roots of the young plant will be benefited by it; aud as the water of rains dissolve and wash down the portions of the salts, etc. , the later roots of the same plants find and appropriate what they most re- 2 uire, and thus the manure is equalized irough the Boil. Southern men have informed me that it would not answer to plow deep, as with their sudden powerful showers the land wonld go seaward, from washing, I suppose; however that may be I am un able to say, as I have no experience there; but from what I read of the ex perience of the most successful South ern planters, I think I should venture a trial and see the result I know here at the North the more shallow plowed ground washes worse than that which is deeply worked, and also crops grown on shallow worked soil are less certain and more subject to the vicissitudes of the season, wet or drought, than where the ground ia deeply worked. A Case of Elephantiasis. A man with his legs almost petrified died at New Haven, recently, in James Featherstone, aged 71, who for many years fcuffttrud from elephantiasis ara bum. He had a "crick" iu his back ten years ago and took to his bed, and has never since been out of it About a year later the soles of his feet began to harden and look like stone, and his legs swelled and were covered with scabs, nloers and homy excrescences, sometimes two inches long, presentiug a sickening eight, until at bis death they measured some thirty-five inches around the calf and weighed about eighty pounds. The case hoe attracted wide attention from physicians, aud isthonKbt to be the first of the kind in New Eug Wud.-jjfi,i(jlt,ld (Mann.) Jltpulliwi. . Lynch LawIts Origin. James Lynch waa mayor of Galway, Ireland, in 1473. He had mode several : voyages to Spain, and on one occasion brought home with him the son of a re spectable Spanish merchant, named Gomez. Walter Lynch, the only pon of the mayor of Galway, was "engaged to a beautiful young lady of good family and fortune. Preparatory to tho nuptials tho mayor gave a splendid entertain ment, at which young Lynch fancied his intended bride viewed his Spanish friend with too much regard. He accused his beloved Agnes of unfaithfulness to him, and she, irritated at his injustice, dis dains! to deny the charge, and they parted in anger. On the following night, while Wralter Lynch slowly passed the residence of Agnes, he observed yonng Gomez to leave the house, he having been invited by her father to spend that evening with him. In the madness of 'jealously Lynch rushed on his unsuspecting friend, who fled to a solitary quarter of the town near the shore. Lynch maintained the pursuit till his victim had nearly reached the water's edge, when he overtook him, and stabbed him to the heart, and threw the body into the sea, which cast it back again on tho shore, where it was found and recognized the following morning. The wretched murderer surrendered him self; and his father, being chief magis trate of the town, entrusted with the power of life and death, found himself obliged to condemn his son to death. On the night preceding his execution, his mother went to the heads ot her family and preyailed on them to attempt a rescue. The morning of the execution an immense crowd hail assembled, who cried loudly for mercy to the culprit The'mayor exhorted them to submit to the laws; but, finding them determined on a rescue, he, by a desperate victory, overcame parental feelings, and finding that his efforts to accomplish the ends of justice in the usual place and by the usual hands, were fruitless, he became executioner himself, aud, from the win dows of his own bouse, launched his un fortunate son into eternity. ; Power of Example. Speaking of a recent, suicide in New York, a correspondent adds : Tho natu rcl incnnation to follow an evil example was illustrated by the monument sui cides in London. The monument is 200 feet high, and its summit once was open to the public, with but a small protective railing. More than seventy years ago, however,, a man leaped over the rail and was picked up dead. His example was soon afterward followed by another, and the monument suicides became bo fre quent that a toll railing was built. which effectually prevented any further attempt. Similar instances of the power of ex ample have occurred in this city. A man. for instance, leaped from the wheelhouse of a steam ferryboat some years ago and was drowned. Immediately there waa a run of "steamboat suicide." Another striking case was that of Dr. Wells, the onoe noted Hartford dentist, and (as it is claimed) the discoyerer of chloroform. He came from Hartford to this city to attend to his discovery, and in the even ing walked out to see New York by gas light He became, no doubt, slightly intoxicated and waa included in a number of arrests made that night. When he fame to, he found himself the inmate of a cell, and he knew that as soon as this dreadful fact became known .his reputa tion would be destroyed. " Unable to contemplate such a result the unfortu nate man opened a vein and then dosed himself with chloroform, and was found iu the morning dead. That season a large number of ihlorofonn suicides took places. Hotel suicides have also been much in vogue since they were at first started. Paris green suicides also had an extensive run. One finds that there is a fashion inf lo de e just as there is iu everything else. A Heroic Nurse. One of the nursing sisters of the Order of Troyes succumbed recently at Paris to an attack of hydrophobia, con tracted under circumstances of no ordi nary heroism. X month ago she was taking a walk with live convalescent children, the eldest of which was only eight years of age, when they were sud denly assailed by a sheep dog, whoso jaws were running with foam, and who uttacked them with fury. She instantly baw the danger of her charges, and, resolutely interposing between the ter rified children and the furious animal, bravely withstood its attack. She was teverely bitten, and the dog, excited by the cries of the children, endeavored to rush upon them. Then followed a splendid act of devotion. Protecting them with her body the children, who hung on to her petticoats shrieking with tenor, this brave girl threw herself courageously uj)on the dog, and for ten minutes grasped it, rolling over with it, and thrusting her fist into its mouth to prevent its biting the children. Some peasants, who cume up at last, beat off and killed the dog. The sister was found to have fifteen deep wounds on her hands, and lacerated arma ; au import ant artery was wounded. Skillful care was given to her wounds, ligatures were applied, the parts torn wore cauterized, aud for a short time after her return to Paris some hope existed that she might escape tho ultimate fate which there was bo much reaon to fear. Later, how ever, the pharyngeal spasm, vomiting, and hydrophobia in all iU characteristic sympton s appeared ; and the nurse died from this fatal and tearful disease, find ing oontolatiou in the certitude of tav. ings-ived, at the price of ber life, the five children who had len confided t her. Items of Interest. "Life is made up ov sunshine and shaddo," says Josh Billings "about five shaddos to one sunshine." x More than 100,000, 000 lemons, orang'es, and citrons are consumed or exported by the inhabitants of various parts of Asia Minor. Professor " Ia one evening I counted twenty-seven meteors sitting on my ... l . . piuz2.it. V'lass expresses great aston ishment at the sociable characterof the heavenly bodies. In Cincinnati, on a recent Sunday evening, four publio balln, three' musioal entertainments, three .variety theatres, and " Hardnnopalns " in the Grand Opera House, were all numerously at- i i - leuueu. The ancestry of Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, on his father's side, was Dutch x on his mother's side, Irish. He bad Indian fighters and Revolutionary sol diers for his grandfathers and great grandfathers, and he is fifty years old. A young man who left home in Con necticut some years ago to seek his for tune, recently wrote from Texas, saying: " I've settled here." It has since trans- -pired that be was right. lie bad settled at twenty cents on the dollar. (One of the Kentucky minstrels is sit ting for his picture in character.) Operator: "Now, sir, look pleasant smile a little." (Minstrel smiles.) " Oh 1 that will never do. It's too wide for the instrument." The Anti-Horso Thief Association is an institution in northwestern Missouri, southeastern .Iowa and northwestern Hlinois, whoso object ia pretty clearly indicated in its name. The loss of human life during the great flood in Bengal, following the cy-" clone of 1876, has lately been ascertained to have amounted to 165,000. It waa estimated at the time at near 300,000. Bncks county, Pa., has a smoker who claims to have averaged seven cigars per day during the last fifty-seven years, which would aggregate 145,000 cigars, worth, at five centa each, $7,250. In Breslau, Germany, a successful at tempt boa been made to erect a paper chimuey about fifty feet high. By a chemical preparation the paper is ren dered impervious to the action of fire or water. A little five-year-old fellow came up to his mother the other morning, and with great earnestness said : " Mother, I saw something run across the kitchen floor this morning, and it hadn't any legs either; what do you suppose it was ?" The mother's curiosity was excited at the apparent strangeness of the supposed animal, and, not knowing what else to say, she said she supposed it was a worm, or something of that sort, she did not know what. Having for some time " enjoyed his mother's inability to solve the problem,' he Raid: "It was Borne water." Rome Bujinr Back Converts. A great sensation has becu caused at Geneva by the sudden depnrtnre of two priests who had become converts to the Old Catholic doctrine, but who appear to have repented of their conversion, for they left Geneva, addressing to the Pres ident of the Chnrclt Council the iollow- . ing letter: "Having found that at tempts to establish a national Catholic Church at Geneva have only a political end, we declare our iutention of separat ing from them, of returning to ihe bosom of the only Catholic Church, and of making submission to her authority as tho sole guardian of the Christian faith." The Ultramontane party exulted very ranch over this declaration, but it now appears, according to Swiss papers, that those two priests, before leaving Geneva, went to see Monsiguor Merniillod, tbe exiled bishop, who is living on the French frontier, and received from him the sum of $6,000 each to recant This accusa tion was first niade in on anti-Catholic .' journal, and would, it was supposed, be at once repelled as a calumny. But, upon the contrary, the Courrier de (itneve, which ie Mousignor Mermillod'a owu organ frankly admits that money passod, and adds that a Catholic associa tion had been formed for the purpose of buying back the perverts. Siamese Twins in au Oyster Bed. The clerk of the steamer Maggie, of the Eastern Shore Steamboat Company, has brought to the city a remarkable oyster that had been cuught in the Chea aneake. The ovster is. annarentlv. two oysters fastened together, aa is often the easa. The peculiarity, however, is that wlulo there were two Uistiuct oysters, they were fastened together O' a bgature running from heart to heart, the shell that divided them being very thin, and showing that there was really but one oyster contained in the three shells. The same gentleman has also an oia txiuo into which an oyster hud become imbed- 1, remaining until it waa too large to get out lialtunore liuUettn. An Idol Shop. An Anglo-Iudian journal contains an advertisement, of which the followiug i a free translation " Yamen, the god of day, oast in pure copper and tastefully executed. Nirondi, the prince of de mons, a great number to choose from ; the giant upon which he is niourted is boldly designed, and his sabre is fssh ionediu the latest style of art. Baron uia, the god of the sun, is lively lepre eentod ; bis crocodile is of copper, w " tail of silver. Bouaberen, the gw! riches : this god is of the flaett maubhip. Little derai-gods and inferior gods in the greatest tb i to selcLfrom. No mht is f diixnuU n allowed for retul v
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