Rates of Advertising. 8 rUBLtSHKI) KVKUY WEDNESDAY, BY W R. I)UN. f rriCI! IN R0BIN30N &, BONNEIt'8 BUILDIKQ ELM STREET, TIONESTA, PA. - TKKMS, filKIAYKAIt. No Kiiberlptin received for a shorter I'orloil lli.'iii tliroo month. r''ncsH)iU-n n soli.-iied from H part I Mm fount rV No noii.-e. will bo taken of i'.uoii'iiniim '-ojniiiiinit aiiiii.M. On Hquarefl Inch,) one insertion - ?! One Square " 0110 month -3(H) C)im Square " thrco months - fl 00 One Square " ono year - 10 00 Two Squares, one voar - - - 15 0ft Quarter OI. - - - - 30 00 Half " " - f,0 00 One " - - - - 100 00 T.eal notices at pstsbliHlied ra(e. Marriage and death notice, prratis. All bills for yearly advertisement eoj. lected quarterly. Temporary advertise- I DK'iiH tnust le p.iiil fur in iidvan''e. - J . 'ft Work, f'll-dl Ol) Il'li 'IV. VOL. XI. NO. 31. TIONESTA, PA., OCTOBER 23, 1878. $2 PER ANNUM, I 4 It Is but Lire to Die." Yon hillside with its shafts of gleaming whit Bathed In the glory of the netting nun, Holds many a grave where, hjddon from our ight, Rome loved one sleeps, life's toll and labor, done. Pnt there are graves over whose slumbering moid No polished marble ream its stately head, And whore no fragrant flowers above unfold To waken pity for the qulot dead. Those t re the gravos deep down within our hearts Whore lio the hopes and dreams of early yours, llnrietl from tight, but nignalud by moh marks As only can be made by blood and tears Rome early love that orowned us In our youth, And mtdo life glorious for a short, sweet hour Home cberlxhed promise, robbed of strength and truth Crnahod In the morning of lis n power. Here is the spot where memory has engraved The form and face of one we called li friend. O.ie for whose welfare we would e'en have braved Cetirtiire and heartache to the bitter end. Hut 'twas not wieoly doue, and so we draw Before i he troaclitry of the smiling eyes A heavy voll. Tho cold world, if It saw, Would proffer pity in a thousand lies. Bo life goes on. We ley the forms away Of things we loved Lot wisely bnt too well, And in the lapse of years we learn to stay Tho fretfui ohauting of their funeral knell. Wo loaru to smile, before the smiliDg throng, Although tho adder's faogs be deeply set j And Join, p;rhapi, our voices in the song, To suothe the pain we never can forget. And this we lotrn to envy the calm rest Of those who sleep beneath the sod. Bou id with life's galling ohaln, we know 'tis beat To bend our heads and pass beneath the rod. And when we see soma mourners heavy clad In robe4 of black, haggard, with tear-dimmed eye, We know their lives would be mora bright and glad Could they but reason it is but life to die. BETH'S TRIBULATION Miss Beth Hurnt listened to the soft ceaseless babble of polished table-talk quite as silently as was possible. . She had been in the house only a fort night, during which time Bhe had been as reel ue an she could be wjjout seem ing o Id or rude, until to-ntgtrt she had blissfully believed herself to be a per son of no sort of interest at all to her score or more of fellow-boarders. 15at this evening, Bitting among the voluble diners, she felt queerly sensi tive and unpleasantly self-conscious, and vaguely imagined that the old plati tudes hurled from mouth to mouth with such new and surprising vivacity, were iutended to discomfit her in some politely subtle way. " One would never be scandalized if he did no wrong," asserted one ; "there are more faults and follies and sins hid den than will ever be revealed. But, unfortunately, the transgressors are never grateful to those that love them most and would reform and protect them if they could from further offenses against social requirements. Do you not think the same, Miss Hurst ?" Somehow the young lady felt that the appeal was made ungenerously to test or to oonf use her.and her cheeks flushed up painfully, although she answered composedly enough : " 1 am not wise enough to decide so dreadfully weighty a question." She smiled, at the same time rising leisurely from her chuir ; "you will excuse me, plcaee." She left her place gracefully, with an apologetic bow, and crossed the large diuiDg-room toward the door of the broad, lighted hall, wholly assured that the company she was leaving would make her tho choice subject of gossip after her withdrawal. At the door tho insinuative voice of the mistress of the house stopped her. " You will not stop in the parlor with us for awhile? No? You will find a card there for yon. The geutleman called while you were out." The young lady entered the parlor with a nervous step. Bhe quickly guessed whose name she would read upon the card that had been left for her. "Mine enemy has found me out," she murmured, with blanching lips. "Hiram Wells has been here, and heaven only knows what mischievous story he has toll to my landlady, nor how she has exaggeratedit to the board ers. I can understand now the innuen does that disturbed me bo distressfully while I was dining." She went up to her room and locked herself in with the movement of one who was thus shutting out the world and its torments forever. It was a pretty room, and from one lofty window she could see a wilderness of roofs, a tangle of streets, and the gleam of the river not far away. " I shall have more trouble to-mor row," she mused very coolly and philo sophically ; " and I shall need all my strength to meet it bravely. So, just for to-night, I shall imagine I am the hap piest woman in the wnoie wide world, and bo sleep sweetly." Had Miss Beth Uurst been lees famil iar with Borrow, sho would have been perhaps less philosophical. But it seenml as if the waters of grief had gono over her until the allotted flood mnot surely be drawn almost dry ; and from this reasoning she gathered com fort and hope. She went down to breakfast the next morning as calm and dignified as if Bhe were not absolutely certain to And there curious stares or averted eyes. She had dressed herself for her morn ing walk, and she made a charming pic ture in her trim violet cashmere, with a single white camelia fastened on the collar of the rich dark yelvet waistcoat ; but Miss Both Hurst was beautiful al ways, with her slim, stately figure her colorless, statuesque face, '.her proud, crimson lips, her marvelous hazel eyes and her abundant golden hair. She had finished her meal, and stood in tk-ahall drawing on her delicate gray glovvJ, when her landlady joined her. 4' Miss Hurst," she began, rather re luctantly, " I do not mean to be meddle some or offlaiouM. bnt I rpull-r think- T ojit to know if you mean to be the wile of this Mr. Wells, or not ?" AnA T rnaltv tV.ir.lr T nn.),t 4.. lr.r ' you ask me a question that possi- v mav not seem to vou imnertinent ?" retorted Beth, while her largo dark eyes began to kindle with resentment and scorn. " Hush I Do not be angry or ex cited," returned her interlocutor with a warning gesture toward the breakfast room. ' I wish to know, Miss Uurst, because I am interested in your wel fare, because I liko you, and would like to have you remain with me." " Which means that if I am not to marry the man who called here yester day, you wish me to give up my room," interposed the young lady, dryly. "Well, yes," confessed the other, coloring beneath the unblenching eyes turned squarely upon her. "You see, my dear, the gentleman told me your whole story ; but he nobly exonerated you from any motive of, wrong, and he loves you very much indeed. You had best be his wife, I think, and then, no matter if you have been the least bit fast or indisoreet, people will forget all about it. But of course, if you persist in ignoring the wishes of your relatives, you would not find it pleasant here among people like my punctilious guests." "Thanks," smiled' the yonng lady ; but whether the srnile was of irony or grat tude the adviser could not decide. And' while she was speculating rather dubiously upon the subject, Beth finish ed an artistic arrangement of misty tulle bout her jaunty hat and golden braids, mi vanished into the street. Jeth was an orphan, and until the bo ning of the year that was nearly it. had been dependent for n home upou a brother much older than herself. and who had treated her kindly and gen erously until the refused the devotion of- Hiram Wells, whom he favored. " Hiram is my dearest friend, Beth," he had f aid to her, persuasively ; " ever since we wore in coliesro tocether. I have dreamed that some time he raicrht be nearer and dearer still. Do you re Nnber the time he saw you first ? It was a summer day. and vou were a little maid of twelve years. Your yellow hair hung below your waist, and was gar landed with ulue violets. With your whiteui8lini skirts gathered up from yourNe limbs; you were wading through the water after lilies. He loved you then, Ueth, and his love has in creased with your years. He is wealthy and handsome, and he wants you for a wife. I cannot understand why you have refused him." "Because I dislike him," averred the girl, " and since I refused him X have learned to despise him thoroughly. He has shown himself revengeful and un manly." " In what way ? " inquired her brother. incredulously. " He has tried to part me from my friends," asserted Beth indignantly. I have seen the sneers and shrugs with which he has tried to traduce me. He is a polished cheat, a dissembler without soul or conscience. Ah ! it is very easy for him to smile away my good name while my brother, is blind to his hy pocrisy." " Nonsense, Beth ! " exclaimed her brother in anger. "Hiram ha never treated you with anything but respect. " " He has threatened me," went on the girl, white with excitement; "he says that if I will not be his wife he will make me in the sight of men a creature so despicable, that the lowest of them ail would scorn me. And for what be has said or what he has hinted, the one man whom I love has left me without a word." "I suppose you refer to that Clarke Elliot," sneered her brother. "I refer to Mr. &luot, she answered. "Well, the truth of the matter is, Beth," he returned; " that your conduct has been censurable. Your association with that Elliot was highly unbecoming and indiscreet. When disagreeable com ments were made, Hiram always defend ed you. Hiram was quite right if he coaxed or coerced the fellow to leave you and the place. Elliot sought you and flattered you because you amused him, I suppose. But he never thought of marrying you. Never think, Beth, that a maa of such aristocratic preten sions would ever choose for a bride a girl without money and social distinc tion. Hiram has acted honorably, and you are ungrateful, Beth. He has done what many better men might not do to save from regret the motherless girl who is to be his wife." "I will never be his wife," protested Beth. " Theu you will no longer b my sis ter, nor can my home be yours, de clared her brother firmly. And so Beth Hurst left the home that bad been hers for so many years, to be followed everywhere by the perKecutions of her rejected suitor. Perhaps Iliram Wells did not mean to be so unmanly and so shamefully cruel. He was passionately fond of the girl, and she was so young so inexperienced, that he hopdd to win her by the persist ence of his own passion. Ho was natur ally a diplomat and intriguer, and could see nothing unkind or wrong in this un gallant pursuit of tho inimical young lady h had determined should be his wife. Most of all he wished to force her back to the home and influence of her brother. And to do this he affected to be the disinterested friend and pardon ing lover of a most misguided and indis creet coquette and perverse sweetheart. His handsome person, his chivalrous bearing, and hia seductive voice were sufficient to gain at once the attention and sympathy of those whom he wished to convince that Beth was a sadlv wav- vSrd if not exactly an improper sort of Pk '"jnir nerson. iIuch as Beth dreaded him, she was scarcely prepared for the vexations await ing her that morning when, resentful and defiant, sho went out to visit her muaio pupils. "Miss Hurst," said the lady of the house where sho first called, " my daughter will not require your lessons after to-day. I could not think of em ploying you against the wishes of your brother and the gentleman who is to be your husband. And, my dear, if I were you I would not delay my marriage. Mr. Wells seems to be a very excellent and generous gentleman." Poor Beth I She was blind with teal's wheu she went slowly up the Bteps of a stately house close by. As she was admitted, a handsome elderly lady met her and led her into the parlor. " Miss Hnr.it," she began quite gently, noticing Beth's agitation; " please to be seated en 1 let me talk to you. I have learned to like you much, and I cannot pait with you without advising you." Tho young mnsio teacher felt she was already rather surfeited with advice, but this lady was so kind, so sincerely sym pathetic, that her resentful mood vanish ed instantly. "My dear child," resumed the lady, "I have known yon for sometime, and I have always found your behavior admir able. Will you tell roe what momentary folly you committed that causes your friend to speak so seriously and yet bo compassionately of you ?' " Tho folly of despising that same per son who calls himself my 'friend,' when he is my most cruel enemy and persecu tor," cried Beth, while her proud eyes flashed. " I do not quite comprehend you," observed the lady, very kindly. " Will yon tell me the whole etory, my child ?" " Indeed I will," declared Beth, im pulsively; " for I know you will believe and be just to me also." The lady smiled and bowed gravely, and pretty, aggrieved Beth briefly nar rated her story with an impassioned voice that intently impressed her listener of her truth as well as her trouble. "And yet, my poor girl," remarked the lady, when Beth paused; " perhaps it will be best for you to yield. It will bo almost impossible for you to live down the reputation that your resolute suitor has given you. Nor can you ever be quite happy unless you become re conciled to year brother. And Mr. Wells may prove a good husband to you, after all." "He will never be my husband," avowed Beth, firmly "never, though he drives me to beggary." " And that decision honors you," said a gentleman, who had beeu standing unseen for some time near the door, and who now quietly advanced into the room. " My Beth, my dear love, I am ashanled to confess that when Hiram Wells, with his polished, persuasive assertions, told me you were a natural coquette, and were trifling with me, and that you really loved only him, and were very soon to be his wife, that I believed him. What I have just heard crakes me angry with myself, for I ought to have gone to you for au explanation. I sup pose you will never pardon me, dear Beth' She had dropped her pretty hands from her wet eyes with a little gasp of dieniay and gladness, when she first heard the strong, true voice of Clarke Elliott, whose presence then and ihere hod so much surprised her. But she could not resist the passion and plead ing she saw on his handsome face, and arising, sue went shyly toward him. "I have never doubted your affection for me." she said, simply. . " True heart -dear, troubled heart !" he responded, stroking her bright hair, "But, Beth, I really think I behaved bodlv toward you." Then he turned toward the lady who sat regarding them with pleased eyes. " You shall decide about our wedding' day, my sister," he said; " this is the sweet girl I have talked about to you so often. " I suspected so," returned she; "and that is why I sent for you as soon as the offloious Mr. Wells had gone." Beth's tribulations were all over. Her brother became reconciled to her union with the worthy man she had chosen, and she was much too happy to heed or resent the petty innuendoes that the cowardly and discomfited niram Wells occasionally hurled at her, bitterly but very covertly. There are few words with more mean ings thau that of "folio." When ap plied to a newspaper it means a four- page paper; when applied to a book it means one with sheets once folded; it is also a page in an account book; and, lastly, lawyers use the word to signify a oertaiu number of words. TIMELY TOPICS. The recent obsequies at Noire Dame in memory of Thiers cost $18,000. There were only 1,200 twenty-cent pieces coined in 1876, and they are said ta be worth $1.50 apiece. The consolidated and floating debt of Turkey now amounts to about $1,000, 000,000, and the annual expenditures greatly exceed the revenue. Mrs. Anna Wittenmyer, president of the Woman's National Temperance Union, is at work in Canada, organizing women's temperance societies. Chicago's barking girl is put hi the shade by the eat-labyof Racine, Wis., which mews like a cat in distress, has claws instead of nails, a month like that of a cat, and an arm resembling a cat's paw. The emperor of Brazil has invited eminent doctors from Europe to Bio Janeiro to study on the spot the true character of yellow fever; and discover a remedy for it. Several have accepted the call. Two men of St. Paul have patented an express and postal car to be made of bullet-proof iron, fixed with brakes and a coupler that may be operated from the inside, and with springs by which the doors and windows may be instantly and violently closed at the will of the in mates. There are loopholes and various other means of defence against train rob bers. James H. Slater, the new United States senator from Oregon, is an old settler, having gone thither when the Territory was almost a wilderness, He is au Illinois man, fifty-two years of age, and a lawyer of prominence for many years. He was a member of tho Terri torial legislature, and subsequently of the State legislature, and in 870 was elected to Conovess, serving one term. He defines himself as a Democrat opposed to inflation, but in favor of substituting greenbacks for national bank notes. The grand canal of China, which is as famous as the great wall of that country, is to be abandoned. This waterway was constructed by Kublai-Khan and his successors of the Yuen race, and is 600 miles in length. There are 10,000 tiat-bottomed boats on the canal, and these are used in the transpoitation of grain. It costs an enormous amount every year for repairs, the appropria tions uiere, as eisewnere, not uemg en tirely devoted to the purpose for which they are meant. Junks are delaved every month while channels sre being dug for their passage. This year, for the first time since the construction of the canal, the grain from Nankin, with tho consent of the government, has been forwarded by sea, and this fact has im pelled the Pekm authorities to consider the expediency of abandoning the canal as a commercial highway. Vesuvius ia at it again, after Quie tude for six year& Outbreaks are few and far between ; that next preceding 107Z was in Ibdd, which overwhelmed the village of Cercolo, the stream of lava flowing ten miles. Between 79 and 1860 only forty-nine serious emotions are believed to have occurred, and dur ing the early part of this century the crater had been bo inactive as to justify Sir Charles Coldstream's remark : " There's nothing in it." The summit had become in oppearanoe a rocky sur face, pierced by fissures, whence vapors escaped, in October, lb2', a violent eruption carried away more than 800 square feet, leaving a vast chasm miles in circumference. The eruptioa that overwhelmed Pompeii was in TO. The amount of matter eructed is enormous. that sent forth in 1737 being over 33,- ou,wu cubic feet. The Brave Southern llouurd. We want our readers to stop just one moment and look at this matter. These nurseB who have gone out of the pure air oi inoir nomeu to tue pingne-strioxen towns, to handle and tenderly care for dead and dying men who are utter Btrangers to them, need a higher cour age than any soldier marching into the thick of battle. They gain nothing, neither pay nor glory. Their victories are not watched by a proud country, for whose honor they gave their lives. If they die no weeping nation will, year by year, hang laurels on their graves. The nurse is only mentioned in the news papers 'as " one of twenty-five " arriv ing on such a date, or " one of twenty " who are dead. His name nobody knows. If he falls, his friends only learn of it because he fails to return. There is no battle-cry or martial music to cheer his soul in its last struggle with death ; in the future there is to be no roll-call of a victorious army, with the proud answer to his name: "Died upon the field of honor." He gives his life for some poor plague-stricken wretch, Erobably of less value to the world than imself, in the poisoned air of a solitary chamber, where there is none bat God to know, He is buried hastily in a nameless grave, with shuddering and fear, and quicklime is thrown upon the body. The saoriiloe be makes out of pure love to God and humanity, and this sacrifloe is now making, not by one man, but every one of the hundreds of nurses sent out by the Howard Ascocia tion. Every one of them carries his life in his hand as he goes. Vw York JYititme. A Chinese Inu. I was anxious to see a Chinese inn (writes a traveler in the Celestial empire) and accordingly waited with much in terest for one to be readied. Presently we 8topjod before a gate in a mud wall. The driver howled ; the gate opened, and the cortege filed in. It was an open court-yard of a rectangular shape, with a long, low, one-story building on two sides, an open shed for the animals on the third side, and tho mud wall with its somewhat heavy gate on the fourth sido. A closer examination discovered the long building to be a series of rooms, ranging in size from twelve feet square to twelve by twenty feet, according as each contained one or two beds, or kongs as they are called in Chinese. These beds but no, not to bring discredit on the name, let us too call them kongs. These kongs, then, are of generous di mensions, extending the full width of the room and being not less than six feet wide. The height from the floor is about two feet. Let no man's imagina tion carry him away. There were no mammoth sheets, blankets nor pillows on these kongs. They were built of bricks and mud, and presented a hard, smooth surface of the latter material as the place whereon to lie, A square bole In the side of each kong attracted my attention, and upon asking I learned that in there a fire was built to secure warmth for the sleeper; putting the bed-clothes underneath instead of on the bed as it were. Imagine getting too much fire on and waking up in the morning all cooked 1 As there was no hotel clerk to bawl out "Front, take this gentleman to Number 999," I made a tour to select tho best room for myself. Finally tak ing a room that had the appearance of being a shade less dirty than the others, I pronounced to Cheong, my servant, that I would be ready as soon as chow chow was. I sat on my kong and looked at my room. It was all mud, from the b?d I sat on to the roof over my head. There were no chairs, no table, nothing in fait bnt a mud kong and a mud room, and not clean mud either. After dinner, when it began to grow dark, I called for a light, and received a piece of pith floating in a saucer of oil. One end of the pith hung over the saucer and when Lghted sputtered deprecatingly, and looked as if a cross word would make it go out. Some books might have tempted me to read by such a light ; but the one I had was not of that sort, so I said "pshaw J" and the pith slid dowu into the oil and burned no more. Then I tried meditation, and marched up and down my room for about five minutes. All at once I gaped. I won't fay I did not encourage it ; but at any rate I acted on the hint and called out to Cheong to bring my blankets. One I was to lie on, and two I was to cover me with. Turning np the collar of my ul ster and pulling my hat down to my ears, without other preparation I got in kong. As an indication of how com fortable I found the kong, I may say I got up at five the next morning without being called. Eggs, coffee and toast made my breakfast. It had to be cafe nair, however, for milk was an unknown quantity in those regions. Cows indeed they had, but only used thorn as beasts of burden. It was a very ordinary sight to see a cow and donkey hitched to one plow ; and if I were not afraid of having my word doubted. I would add that I have seen several times a woman and a donkey hitched together. Compression of the Ffel. A practice so common that it may be safely said that there is scarcely a nor-mal-shaied foot to be found among civilized beings. Although this com pression is not in Europe and A merica carried to the extent of stopping all growth of the feet at a very tender age, as among some classes of the Chinese, yet the natural growth is bo much im ped ed by the idiotic fancy of most parents to inoase their children's feet in snug boots, that generally before a child is six years old the toes are more or less deformed. Usually the growth of the little toes is entirely suspended as early as twelve or thirteen years of age, while all are pressed together and overlapped, ana tno great too, instead of continuing on a line with the side of the foot, turns to the center at an angle of from thirty to thirtyflve degrees. To whatever ex tent the compression is carried, just to that degree is the circulation interfered with, causing the blood to flow less free ly, and in decreasing quantity, causing not only discomfort from cold feet, but a strong tendency to consumption is in duced. The interference with the capil lary circulation of the feet is also one of the most common causes of eatairh a fact not generally known. Uohten Rule. A Kenmrkable Lizard Hunt. A few mouths ago, says a Concord (N. C.) correspondent, Johu M. Imgraham, a prominent and wealthy citizen here, was appiieu to lor wont by John if orst. He tola the applicant that he had noth ing for him to do, but he would give him twelve thousand dollars for the hides of six thousand lizards, Imgraham giving his note lor that amount. 1 orst, with hia wife and five children, at once left for the mountains. There they es tablished themselves in camp and com menced a war upon the reptiles. The result of the first day's effort was so encouraging that they worked with re newed energy, and within the twenty days had secured the 6,000 lizard hides. The family marched iuto town yesterday and offered the reptile skins to Imgra ham, who informed them that his offer waa a jest. Tho lizard hunter, however, does not bo understand it, and to-day instituted a Buit upon Imgraham'a note, securing the bet counsel in th Bute. Lights and Shadows. " Into each life some rain most fall, ' Into all eyes some tear-drops start, Whetnor they fall as a gentle shower Or drop, like ore, from an aching heart. Into all hearts some sorrow must creep, Into all souls some doubtiufrs come, I. tHhiug the waves of life's great deep From dimpling w a tor a to seething foam. Over all pathways some clouds must lower, Under all feet some sharp thorns spring, Tearing the flesh to bleeding wounds, Or entering the heart with their bitter sting. Upon all brows rough winds must blow, Over all shoulders a Cross must be lain, Bawlng tho form In its lofty height Down to the duet in bitter pain. Into all hands is gome duty thrust, L'uto all arms some duty given, Crushing the heart its dreary weight, Or lifting the soul from earth to heaven. Into all hearts and homes an J lives God's dear sunshine comen streaming down, Gilding tho rains of life's great plain Weaving for all the golden crown. Items or Interest. The school population of the United States is 14,306,000. " How is your stock iu trade ?'' as the drummer said to the hose-dealer. Why should a lady's home dress last forever? Because she never wears it out Aluiobt every mau takes his day off, but we never heard of him bringing it back again. People who speak of Cdiscn, And make his name rhyme with medicine, Hhould pause before the deed is done. His relatives call him EdUon. The letter "O" is called the most charitable of all the alphabet, because it is found oftener than any in " doing good." Punch says that a Yankee baby will crawl out of his cradle, take a survey of it, invent an improvement and apply for a patent before ha is six months old. When a poet or a reporter speaks of the " deep blue sea," does he mean that the sea is deep blue or that the deep sea is blue ? " What was the brightest idea that ' ever suggested itself to' you?" asked' ClaribeL And Smythekins said: "Your eye, my dear." a OAT. At dw-bathed morn or even halcyon dutk You modestly gambol down the atony felope, You far-fetched travesty on the antelope; Ofttimes yon're meek and oft you're painfully brusque. You're eatlutkd as you chew the saffron husk, Oi- oyster can, or languid heliotrope . On sunny hills where idle breezes grope, And all the air is heavy with balmy musk. You are. Blr Goat, a study vast and grand; Your lite superbly calm doth know no blight, And, when you panao betide the reedy creek, Your Immobility statuesque and bland Is like a dream in murble, guotitly white, Until some juvenile hails vou with a brick. li. A". Mtuti-Utrick, in ('ruphic. When, some years ago, Anson Burliu game and Cussius M. Clay were stump ing iu the Wet, they returned to their hotel after a particularly warm welcome one uiyht, and were talking affairs over. Suddenly strains of lnusio were heard outside. " They are serenading us," said Clay; " open the window and make 'em a speech. Burlingame stepped to the window, opened it, sud began: ''Fellow-citizens, I hardly know how to thank you for this touohiug proof of your esteem and regard. Mr. Clay and myself are indeed grate" Just then at this point a voice in the crowd below was heard saying: " Boys, that ain't the gal in led. Let's duBtC Not long ago, as an elderly couple were out walking, a lady on the opposite side of the street tripped and fell down. The old gentleman rushed across the street, raised his hat, and offered to as sist her in any possible way. His wife followed him ucross at a slow pace, and witnessing his devotion to the stranger, she got mad and shook her fist at him. " It's all right it's all right," ho whis pered. " Yes, I know it is," ehe hotly exclaimed, " here an unknown womm stubs her toe, and you plow across the street to eat her up with kiudjws. The other day when I fell down stairs you stood and laughed and chuckled and tickled your ribs, aud wanted to know M I was practicing for a circus 1" Dorr a a Heather Sign. Dew is a sign of fine weather, and h never seen except under a cloudless sky. Wind and clouds are sure preventive of dew, from the simple reason that clouds are able to retain one of tt" solar heat ; and, as they ca active fort: warmth, the radiation from the earth i checked, and a warmer temperature pre served. Wind evaporates the moiBture s as fast as it appears ; and if the wind is- ' westerly, there is little dew or cloud to ba seen. The contrary is observed with easterly wind, but a west wind blows over a vast expanse of land, and having lost its vapor, dries up any moisture it may come across ; whereas an east wind, crossing the Atlantic, is full ct vapor and sheds dew on all si fes. lue. remarks, of course, apply chiefly to pax ticular localities, but the influence c ! a west wind may bo seen in tL spring. Dew is more copiously depos ited in spring and autumn than in sum mer, as there is usually a great differ enoe in those seasons between the tem Eerature of day and night ; in the spring, owever, there is a small deposit of devs when a west wiud prevails ; but it autumn, during the soft influence T Bouth aud east winds, the earth is ered with moisture. It has also t obberved that there is a greater f r . tion oi dew between nuuset ai.-l j night. J
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