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VOL. XII NO. 7.
TIONESTA, PA., MAY 7, 1879.
$1.50 Per Annum.
The OH, Old Story.
The pastor' littlo daughter
flits smiling in the sun,
Bwiilo hor on the old stone bench
The story-book Just done,
And lurking in hor wine-brown eyes
A story Just begun,
For yonder, pruning the apple trees,
Behold the farmer's son.
Slowly adown the pathway
The pastor comes and goes,
And settles with his long, lean hand
The glasses on his nose.
Dor ever dry, brown branch before
So beautiful a rose T
Alt, he thinks his bloBsom only a bud,
Though he watches it as it blows.
Is it the story of Moses
In his rush-wrapped cradle found,
Or Joseph and his brethren T
J to thinks as he glance round.
" You have finished your volume, Amy,
Is it something scriptural and sound T"
And his little daughter blushes and starts,
And her book fulls to the ground. .
Go on with your walk, good pastor,
You do not yourself deceive;
It has been a scriptural story
Since Adam first kissed Eve.
And never blush, little lassie,
The Ule was written above,
No other so speaks of Heaven
As the old, old story of love.
London Reader.
AT SIMPSON'S.
" Any letters for F. F. Van Cleof?" in
a nervous, anxious voiee.was asked by
a well-fed, well-clothed, close-cropped
young A llow of the hotel clerk.
'Alt', what nameP" demanded that
elegant functionary, not because he had
not heard perfectly well, but to find time
to lounge over the ten feet Intervening
b -twwn hiniHelf nod the letter boxes.
The name was repeated in a sharp,
quick tone.
"No; nothing.1'
"Please look in C.'"
The clerk stared ; wondered what was
up; rcflecUsl that the new comer had
brought but little bargage ; mentally re
solved to keep an eye on him; shuffled
over the letter in the " C" box ; shook
Ills head, and then relapsed into an arm
chair overcome wjth the exertion.
Frank took the elevator, let himself
iiKo h'm room, lit a cigar, reflected, and
tlnn sighed.
Eight years in Europe, home at last,
summer well under M ay, a fair inherit
ance, priniinally in Chicago property,
and a prospect of being independent ol
his brush for the rest of his lite such
were the time and circumstances under
winch ho found himself. Nothing to
nigh at in that.
But expensive living in Europe
had exhausted the gold remaining in his
pocket after ho had paid his passage
money. His lawyers and the executors
of his late Aunt Miranda's estate had
been instructed, however, by the previ
ous mail to remit money to him at the
Brunswick, so that was a matter of no
moment. -But the remittance had not
arrived. Most of his baggage had leeu
expressed to Chicago from the hold of
the big Cunardcr, and in it the address
of his new lawyers.
"'My lawyers' sounds well," he re
flected, " but I wish to the deuce they'd
send me some money."
Tuesday came, but with it no letters.
It becHmo annoying, but still ho could
wait, Presently he went out for a stroll,
found it warm, and deplored the luck that
kept him from getting away from the
heat and dust to Newport, where he was
to join some friends with whom he had
spent the winter in Home.
Entering the hotel, the clerk handed
him a letur. Ah! money at last! No;
it was a note, addressed in an Anglo
Boston hand :
Dear Ms. Vw Ci.r.v.v:
Come and dine with us to-night. We saw
your arrival in the i'urtiiw's paMenger-list in
the luoming paper, aud aroanxioiut to know
how yon aw and where you ar Koing to nd
the summer. Come at seven. Dining by sun
light is like " playing ten," so we ait lute.
Youi-h, sincerely, MiklB.
No. 28 Went 44tu street.
"Now, who the deuce ! Marie, Marie
I don't know any Marie, especially any
Marie who is particularly interested in
me. and who writes a charming note.
buys things which with women pass for
wit. and, smelling of the paper, " who
uses extract of violet literally. Well
I'll lie sure to go; it may divert my mini
from mv pecuniary embamwneftt. I'll
have to lnuke a clctui btvuit of it to the
clerk boon, w id probably lie arrested for
a. swindler. A man who exneots remits
tances and don't know his. lawyer's ad
dress, who has no hairsrriL'e and wants
money to get to Chicago with, looks like
a sublimely-cheeky conhitencc man.
"Evening dress claw-hammer coat,
etc., but no gloves, no ties; whyk money
is a momentary 4icccm.it y, by Jove!'-' s.iiil
Fr.fnk, an he took Micm articles from his
trunk.
!' 1 can't go to dinner and find out my
unknown friends if 1 don't have f loves.
Oh, if there was onlv a Mont tie lete in
New York! lty Jove, Simpson's! I
will arise and go unto 'my uncle' and
say, ' Uncle, lend me $10.' "
Frank laughed, then grew soler again.
There was a sense of degradation in the
mere idea. Then, with a shrujr, he
took out a box of jewelry, none of it ex
pensive, and t,urnel it over.
"Hello, here's just the thing," he
thought, as he took out a locket. It was
an odd cameo. A round it coiled a golden
, serpent, with brilliantly-enameled scales
aqd a pair of " pL-eon's-blood" ruby eyes.
Frank hd)i ked it up in a little fchop in
Iondon iu.st Itcforo he sailed for home.
It was one of the fancies in which he had
begun to indulge himself when he re
ceived the first remittance from his new
lawyers and new pre perty.
", This bauble is kjnci pally accountable
or my being sWt of "money." he
houlit. "I will make it remember
me." On the back of the quaint old
locket were the initials, " V. D. V.," and
below them, " M. E." There had been
a picture in it once, but there was left
only the marks of the knife with which
it had been pried out. It was growing
late, and calling a hack, Frank jumped
in and told the driver to take lum to the
new courthouse. Arrived there, he told
the man to wait, passed through the
building and out the other door, walked
briskly to Simpson's, hesitated a moment,
bolted in the door, and in a moment
stood in a box at the counter, where a
poor woman was pawning some clothing
for food. Frank shuddered, drew out the
locket nnd laid it down.
A dark man took it up, looked at it,
turned it over, scrutinized the initials,
tested the gold on a corner, and said,
laconically :
"How muchP"
"Ten dollars."
The man turned away, made out the
ticket, handed Frank the money and his
duplicate ticket, and turned to the next
comer.
AVith a sigh at the atmosphere of
misery Hanging around the place, from
the dark corners of which the hollow
faces of the specters of want and starva
tion seemed leering at him, Frank passed
quickly out the door, regained his cab,
said to the driver, " Brunswick quick !"
and rolled away.
n.
Two little red lips quivered percepti
bly, and two big black eyes fined with
tears. To be hungry w absolutely, un
poetically and practically hungry was a"
novel experience to Bessie Prang. To be
hungry in a fashionable lodging-house,
with plenty down stairs in a well-filled
larder and cool, pleasant dining-room,
was absolutely absurd. . Sitting in a
pretty room, amid a mass of pretty femi
nine knick-knacks and brick-a-brac,
hearing the rattle of knives and forks
come up on the air from the table below ;
and vet to be hungry was " positively,
maddeningly incongruous," she thought.
To bo sure there was no reason why she
should not have gone to the landlady and
explained her situation and been sure of
proper treatment, but thev bad been in
the house but a few days, and had been
taking their meals out at a neighboring
restaurant. Bessie's mother had been
called away'to visit a sister who was ill,
and she had left her little girl alone, not
without misgivings, and the night before
Bessie had lost Tier purse or had her
pocket picked coming from din
ner ; at any rate it was gone, and with it
tho money which was to have bought
her food for the next two days. A prac
tical woman would have done the obvi
ous thing and interviewed her landlady.
isut liessie was even more than most
women sensitive about going to strangers
when in trouble, especially about money
matters, and feared to encounter suspi
cion ; so she went without her breakfast,
and at lunch-time was ravenously hun
gry. What a curse a good appetite is at
times! Then it occurred to her that she
had heard her cousin Tom joke about
his " Uncle," and she knew that he was
alluding to a pawnbroker. What a hor
rid thing a pawnbroker must be. A kind
of a crop between a Shyiock and a Fagin,
sue thought, and they would ogle her
perhaps. Oh, no! She'd starve before
she would go there. But as the afternoon
wore on and hunger increased, and with
it her perplexity, she began to cry. But
crying didn't help matters nny; on the
contrary, the pangs of hunger rather in
creased, and with them her determina
tion to find her cousin Tom's " Uncle."
She resolved that no one but herself
should ever know of her perplexity.
not even mamma, nor of her visit to
the pawnbroker's never that."
i rora under a mass or ribbons and laces.
artificial flowers and dainty lace hand
kerchiefs, tumbled into a Bureau-drawer.
she fished out a small box, ad took from
it a queer old locket. It was a carved
cameo, surrounded by a brilliant
ly enameled snake with rubv eves, and on
the back the initials M. E., and under
neath, V. I). V.
Poor old grandma: how horrified
von would be if vou onlv knew, and
hadn't been dead these ten years!", she
said to herself so illy, as she put the
locket bacic in its cose, and ran
staii in the late summer afternoon
a long M'alfc down Broadway,
the pavements were hot and scorched
her feet, her face grew flushed with exer
tion, and Her black curls clung damply
to her white forehead. Besides, she was
weak from long fasting. She thought at
last that she did not know were she was
going, but she mustered up courage to
aok a policeman, lie eyed tier curiously,
but told her civilly enough where to go.
Hot waves of crimson dyed her face
and neck as she passed in at the doorway
under the trio of golden balls, and stood
at the counter. She heard a poor woman
refused the amount she begged for
on an old shawl. It was moth-eaten,
and they did not want it any price.
Then a voice said :
Well, miss P"
She produced the locket.
"How much P" Alter a hurried ex
amination she was relieved to see that
the man took to her novel situation cool
ly enough, and she spoke for the first
time
" Tea dollars, please."
.The money was counted out, she gave
a douar oi u to tne poor woman
whose shawl had been rejected and who
still stood in a dazed way on the side
walk, escaped from her thanks into i
tourth avenue car, and was soon bath
ing in her cool room, and forgetful, now
that sue nad money, of tier hunger.
j usi men a note reacneu ner.
JIsabbst Uehsib: Do come over and dine
Frei snd I are in town for a day or two. In
hauls, t hi us,
No. 26 Went 44th streot. Marie,
'"Put money in thy purse' and thou
ehalt be invited to dinner." thoucht Bes
sie, as she mentally resolved to go at
once to her old school-fellow and her
htuband
III.
".Mr. an iieei. said the man-ser
vant, opening the door of the drawing
room of No. V'H est 44th street, and
Frank was ushered into the cool rooms
ardthe presence of a tall, flue-looking
man, whom lie had never seen before in
his life, a blonde, matronly little woman
"that's Marie," he thought and a
charming girl, in white, with great black
ryes, and a mass of soft, black hair rolled
ujKin the small, clean-cut had.
For a moment the situation was em
barrassing. Then Mr. Francklyn step
ped forward, and Frank said:
"There seems to be some mistake; I
must hate a namesake somewhere."
"Oh, no; wo are cousins to your Jate
Aunt Miranda, who has just made you
her legatee, and as you have come home
at last we mean, now that you are hero, to
make you accept a cousin's place in our
house and our friendship, said Mr.
Francklyn.
It is enough to say that the dinner was
perfect, the liostess charming, the host
ajolly good fellow and Bessie so betwitch
ing that Frank was in love head and
ears before the dinner was finished.
The letter from "my lawyers" was at
the hotel when Frank returned, covered
with the postmarks of half tho " New
Brunswicks" in the country, among
which it had traveled while he was
waiting for it at the Hotel Brunswick.
The last murmur that he made as he
dropped off to sleep was, "Found an
' uncle,' two cousins and and " and he
was dreaming of a black-eyed girl in
white in another minute.
IV.
The phlegmatic clerk at the pawn
qroker's turned over two lockets appar
ently jus.t alike and examined tnem
curiously, then put them back in their
wrappers and was about to put them
away when a fellow-clerk approached
and also looked at them. They changed
them about a little and then placed them
in the wrappers and in the safe. The
next day both lockets were redeemed.
They thought it curious at the moment,
but odd things are of daily occurrence in
the office of a pawnbroker, the theater of
the daily tragedy of woe and want, pov
erty, hunger and dirt.
'
Frnnk looked at the locket when he
reached his hotel: it was the same.
There was the little bright spot where
the pawnbroker's acid had touched the
comer of the case, but the rest was the
same exactly. No he rubbed his eyes
whereas when he took the locket to
the pawnbroker the initials on the case
had read :
V. D. V.
M. E.
Of this he was perfectly sure; yet, here!
now, they were plainly reversed, and
read :
M. E.
V. D. V.
He puzzled over it for some lime.
Then he went down in a cab and de
manded of the pawnbroker an explana
tioiff The young man told him of the
two lockets, exactly alike, left within an
hour of each other on the preceding day,
each pledged for f 10, each redeemed in
the morning, and explanations how they
must have been changed. The young
man hoped that there was no harm done ;
remembered that the other locket was
left by a "young woman:" really didn't
remember what she looked like, and then
went back to his work. Frnnk returned
home puzzled. It really didn't matter;
it was only a chance purchase of a unique
trifle in jewelry j he hadn't the remotest
idea whose the initials were, but he was
superstitious about it, and it troubled
him. That the locket had a double in
New York there could be no doubt, and
so Frank resolved not to tell the story,
hut to wear the locket on his watch
chain, in the hope that it would some
time attract the attention of some one
who could solve the mystery.
v.
" Mamma," cried Bessie the next day
when, her confession made, she had re
deemed her precious locket and was ex
amining it, "Mamma, this is not my
locket. This is the other one. This is
poor grandma's love token to her faith
less lover come back to her grandchild;
see, see," she rattled on in wild excite
ment. Mrs. Prayne looked sharply, saw
the reversed initials, and was as excited
in a moment as Bessie. Cousin Tom w
doitiispatched to the pawnbroker's for in
formation. He learned but little more
than 1 rank, and so the ntvsterv was
talked oi and speculated upon for the
next week. Grandma's love story was
told over and over. Briefly it was this:
Mary Emerson and Van l)yke Vedder
were lovers years before. 1 itey exchanged
lockets made for them. Vedder went
sailing away out into the west nnd mar
ried, leaving grandma, then young aiidJ
i.i.ttir tn u.trm cnnanl.4 lipii.,lr with n .
other lover and husband. She always
' 1 11 , I . ' ' ' " '."-'- . . . . , , .1 III, (III
kept the locket and a warm spot in her
heart, as e.very woman does for the man
whom she once loved. But she never
saw or heard of him again in life. Bessie
received her blessing, her little fortune
and the precious locket from grandma on
her death-bed. And now, alter fifty
years and without a clew, the lockets
were changed by some mysterious agency.
VI.
Two months later Bessie and Frank
met again at tho Franklyns' pretty house
at Newport, iney nad both forgotten
the lockets, and soon forgot the world in
each other.
One summer evening Bessie promised
to be his wife, and as two littlo white
arms went up around his neck, Frank
was guilty of a most unconventional pro
ceeding. He actually was surprised out
of taking immediate "advantage of his
newly-acquired privileges. Among the
lace about Bessie's neck rested the other
locket. The love -tokens were lovo
tokens still.
Bessie told her grandmother's little
romance, and the initials were explained
to Frank, who exclaimed, almost with
awe: "Van Dyke Vedder, the faithless
lover of your grandmother, Mary Emer
son, was my grandfather."
In a handsome house in Fifth avenue
there hangs upon the parlor wall a velvet
case. In it are two lockets, each as iike
the other as can well be imagined a
cameo surrounded by an enameled snake
with ruby eyes. Over them hang three
golden balls. Ntw York Star,
TIMELY TOPICS.
It may bo interesting for some people
to know thr.t it nmb twenty-five dollars
to take a dog across the 'Atlantic, and
that the animal is taken at the owner's
risk, unless special contract to the con
trary is made with the steamship com
pany. One company will not take them
on nny terms, neither will it take corpses.
Goldie, the naturalist, has found in New
Guinea a tribe who suggested to him the
origin of the rumors always current of a
race of tailed men in some corner of tho
flobc. These natives wear artificial tails,
hey are entirely nude, except for the
caudal ornament, .which is a plait of
g-ass fastened around their bodies by a
tine string, and depending behind to
about halfway down their legs.
New Orleans is deterermined that its
filth shall not invite yellow fever to its
midst this summer. A sanitary associa
tion of citizens is backing up the Ixmrd
of health, and by their joint efforts the
fanals and gutters are being flushed,
garbage removed, and the cemeteries,
into which the city poor have been
crowded until the neighbors could hardly
endure the stench, covered two feet deep
under river sand. Quarantine regula
tions will also be more strictly enforced
than ever before.
A correspondent at Ilarrodsburg, the
oldest town in Kentucky the first cabin
was built there in 1774, by Capt. James
Harrod, after whom it was named has
been inquiring into the murderous record
of the immediate vicinity during the last
seventeen years, and has found that
forty-three liomicides have been com
mitted there, and only two persons sent
to prison for their crimes. Some of the
tragedies have been barbarous in the ex
treme. Mrs. Tilford, a widow with
seven children, having inherited her hus
band's estate, married again, one Scott, a
younger person than herself. He deliber
ately provided himself with a small
arsenal, and set about exterminating his
wife's offspring. He killed three out
right, and wounded others. The moflve
was plainly to enjoy the property alone
with his wife; but the jury found him
iasane. f It was held that an act so dia
bolical could not be done by a man in
sound mind. Scott afterward went to
Texas and married again. One Daven
port, a deputy sheriff, had a writ for the
arrest of Isaiah Gabbard, who armed
himself, and with a friend sallied out in
quest of the sheriff, and shot him and
his brother dead. The murderers wero
acquitted. Eater, a certain Henry Noel,
having heard that Gabbard had threat
ened his life, hunted him down, and find
ing him unarmed, put two bullets through
his heart. Noel was not even tried.
Timoleon Bosley was shot dead while
foniing out of church, by James Lawson,
who had an old grudge against him. No
Sunishment followed any of these mur
ers. In several instances, where men
df no social position exercised the privi
lege of the commonwealth by shooting
somelody, the shooters were hanged by
mobs.
' ; The First Piano.
! The name first given the new instru
ment was the hammer-harpsichord:
next, its power of giving both a loud and
a soft note procured it the name of forte
piano t. e., loud-soft; this next changed
to piano-forte. In 1702 Mozart played
upon the piano, at the age of six; and
his letters in 1777 record his great delight
in the pianos of Stein, a maker of that
tlay. In 1707 the piano seems to have
boon introduced to the public in England,
for a play-bill of "Tho Beggars' Opera"
at the Covent Garden Theatre, May 16,
announced that "at the end of Act I.
Miss Brickler will sing a favorite song
from "Judith," . accompanied by Mr.
Dibdin on a new instrument called the
piano-forte." "The use of this kind of
instrument," said Thallxug, " led to its
peculiar capabilities leing thoroughly
studied and appreciated, and the com
poser repaid their obligation to tho in
strument by writing for it many of tho
finest productions of music,- and by prac
ticing the execution of these productions
to such an extent as to be able to bring
them before the public with the greatest
possible eclat." Mozart, JJa xIn, Handel
and Beethoven wrote especially for it ;
and yet, although the noteof tlie virginal-
spmei-iiarpsicnoru was called by
Burney " a scratch with a sound at the
end of it," the early piano was not much
oeiicr. i ne one on wincii tiiuck com
posed his " Arnvida," which was prolw
ably as good as any of the great com
posers of the hunt century ever saw, was
made in 1772. It was exhibited as a
suggestive curiosity in the Ixmdon Ex
position of 1H02, and was thus described :
"It was four feet nnd a half in length
and two feet in width, with a small
Biuare sounding-board at the end ; the
wires were little more than threads, ami
the hammers consisteiW a few piles of
leather over the head or a horizontal jack
working on a bridge."
In his early life an important part of
John Jacob, Astor's business was the im
portation of Ixmdon pianos to New
York. In 1H00, Thomas Jefferson, in
writing to lijs daughter Martha, men
tioned that a Philadelphian had invented
"one of the prettiest improvements in
the forte-pianos 1 have ever si-en;" and
he bought one for his Montieello house.
It was an upright, and Mr. Jefferson
said that "he contrives to give his
strings the 6ame length as in the grand
forte-piano, and fixes his three unisons
of the same screw, which screw is in the
direction of tho etrinp, nnd therefore
never yields; it scarcely get out of tuue
at all, and then for tho most part the
three unisons are tuned at once. Julius
Wilcox, in Uarper'a Magazine.
Prof. Benjamin Pierce, of Harvard Col
cse, says the whole number of comets
vhich are capable of being seen 'from the
arth, and which are contained in our
, un's sphere, may be fairly estimated at
f ver 5,000,000,000. Considering the hard
ess of the times we should say that the
un's sphere was pretty well fixed, as re
1 ards comets.
When Neptune is in an affectionate
ood he throws an arm of the sea around
I waist of water and hugs the shore.
A Curiously Told Tiger Story.
A paper published in India says:
The fol lowing sensational story of an en
counter with a tiger is supplied by Babu
Doman Chundei Chowdry, Zemindar of
Maldah : " On the morning, 0th Bhad
dra, Kishen Lai and myself went with
five elephants to the Knduband jungle,
four miles to the north of Rohanpore.
My howda was on Makhna Kishen Lai
had his on Dantal. At 9 A, M. wc en
countered a tiger, and bang went two
bullets from my rifle, hitting stripes, I
suppose, on the loin and tho belly, and
Kishen Lai hit him on the thigh. Most
probably the bullets did not break tho
bones and the ' spotted foe ' took shelter
at some distance in tho water of a hol
low overhung with long glawv jungle
and was, of course, not visible. I at
once followed the game with a couple of
elephants, one being only a beater. Poor
Makhna. on which I which I was
mounted, unfortunately iell into the hol
low, and, quick as lightning, the tiger
was on his back, biting him. I lost no
time in giving stripes two bullets in his
body, and yet the fight between the ele
phant and tiger continued. The moment
was critical. The feat of remaining in
the howda became extremely difficult.
With his trunk Makhna dragged stripes
down four or five times and the latter
made the bulky body of the formershake
right and left some fourteen or fifteen
times. During this struggle the mahut
fell on the ground frcm the elephant's
neck but had the dexterity to mount his
back again and then to lodge himself on
the back of the howda, winch shook so
fearfully at times it would come swing
ing to the ground. Of course, now, the
combat was ' hand-to hand.' nnd lasted
for nearly an hour. The four remaining
elephants followed me at first, but what
with the struggle between their comrade
and stl ipes, and the roaring of the one
and the cries of the other, they became
uncontrollable, beat a hasty retreat and
took their stand more than sixty yards
off. Dear Kishen Lai tried his best to
come up to me, but the Dantal was too
much frightened to oley the mahut.
Chand Tare, poor creature, did after
wards comatoward me, but she was only
a beater and took her stand some fifteen
feet behind. Poor Makhna was much
the worse for this singular combat and
fell prostrate on his right sitre, and
Stripes, too, fell on the ground. The
tiger lay some four or five feet from me,
Not seeing me, my followers were
alarmed. They kicked up a row, Kishen
a crying out 'uncle killed by tiger.'
To see me was impossible. Lying on
the ground I thought of God, pressed
against the howda, handled the rifle and
gave stripes 'a bullet. It told upon his
neck, but yet he did not let go his held
of the elephant, which was still lying on
his side, The contents of the other bar
rel I emptied into the tiger's back. He
then left Makhna and all was over with
stripes in an instant. The elephant was
on his legs. The mahut got upon his
neck and I mounted the howda. Mak
hna, poor creature, had been hurt in his
trunk in ten or twelve places. The tiger
measured thirteen feet from the tip of
his nose to the end of the tail. This is
but a faint outline of what actually took
place. Many a tiger has fallen by my
rifle, but never in my life did I witness
such a larai."
The Powder-Play. ,
Several times during the year in Mo
rocco, the Arab inhabitants of a town
hold certain half-religious festivals called
the Feasts of the Aissouia, which, in
many ways, are as revolting as the orgies
of the lowest savages.
Though the Arabs are shy of foreign
eyes at their rites, the tourist may get an
invitation to these performances, if lie
happens to have a friend among the
natives. Following his guide through a
maze of tortuous streets, and up a great
many flights of stone steps, he will final
ly be conducted to a small hall of Moor
ish architecture, with the characteristic
horseshoe arches supported upon marble
pillars, and no root except, perhaps, a
fragment of striped awning. Around the
inside runs a gallery occupied by veiled
Moorish ladies, and ornamented with a
few flags, which alone relieve the glare
of whitewash on nil sides of this queer
building. The floor is laid with octa
gonal tiles ot red and white, and upon
red mats, around a small "altar" in the
I center, sit the musicians and performers,
while the spectators find n laces behind.
The chosen performers will dance
bare-footed upon red-hot plates of iron
and on beds of living coals; wili
lick rods of red-hot iron; will take
burning torches between their teeth
and hold flaming oil-wicks until the blaze
has burned straight into the palms of
their hands; will swallow nails and
stones; will even snatch up a living
scorpion and crunch it between the teeth,
with as keen relish as that with which a
newstioy eats a shrimp. All this is gone
through with (for money) to the harsh
tumult 'of half a dozen rude drums and
horns, which make a fit accompaniment
to these horrid remnants of pagan fire
worship. A much more interesting, though no
loss noisy, recreation, is the powder-play,
a game that may take place on foot or on
horseback, for these Moors, as everybody
knows, are nearly as much at home in
the saddle as afoot. The horsemen en
gaged in the game ride at an exceedingly
rapid pace, carrying loaded guns which
they discharge as they dash about in all
kinds of positions above, below, on
cither side and straight forward. The
noble horses seem to enter into the wild
ru.h and noise of the fun as much as
their masters, and the celerity with
which the various movements are exe
cuted is wonderful. Not only do the
younger men take part in the sport, bul
old gray-headed men enjoy it with keen
interest and eiual spirit. Another kind
of powder-piay h performed on foot.
Tho band strikes up a fearful din under
the name of music, and in the midst cf
the distracting medley two hnea of men,
that have formed opposite one another,
rush together, and. throwing their (todies
into wonderful attitudes, fire their guns.
and shout and yell as though in a tual
battle. The Arabs call this powder-play
J.nh-el-0nroU.l:rni lnyt.r$ull i tit.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
It is easy enough to make a shoi t ox
stall There are more short young men than
tall ones.
To make your collar last Make your
shirts first.
The fuschia Is sometimes called the
lady's eardrop.
A rod, a line, and a poor worm at each
end, typify patience.
Wood is often found at a depth of forty
fact at Oscaloosa, Ind.
It is said about 1,000 settlers per day
" boom into Nebraska."
The army Bill William Tecumseh
Sherman. fittfalo Express.
Eight hundred thousand base balls are
made in this country each year.
Two chunks of lead, weighing half a
ton, have been mined at Washington,
Mo.
Henry Clay's voice was called a band
of music; Webster's a trumpet; Cha
ning's a harp.
New Haven turns out 3,000,000 corsets
annually, half of the country's supply
coming from there.
According to the French newspapers
there is general distress in the provincial
manufacturing districts.
What Is the difference between an old
dame at the spinning-wheel and a young
urchin chewing tobacco? One sits and
spins and the other spits and sins.
The boxwood forests of the Caucasus,
Armenia, and the shores of the Caspian
Sea are rapidly disappearing under the
constantly increasing demand for this
valuable wood.
The construction of underground tele
graph wires is going on in Germany, and
that country will soon be intersected
with a complete network of this invisi
ble and inaccessible means of communi
cation, which no thunder storm can de
stroy and no roving enemy can readily
cut.
FOR WRITERS TO THE PRESS.
Write upon pages ol a single size,
Cross all your t's and neatly dot your i's.
On one side only lot your lines be seen
Both sides filled up announce a verdant green.
Correct yea, correct all that you write,
And let your ink be black, your paper white;
For spongy loolscnp of a muddy blue
Betrays a mind of the same dismal hue.
Punctuate carefully; for on this score
Nothing proclaims the practiced writer more.
The gallant who, when a young lady
stepped on his foot while dancing anil
asked pardon, said, " Don't mention it ;
a dainty little foot like that wouldn't
hurt a daisy," not only told the truth,
but doubtless felt more comfortable than
tho boor who, when his foot was stepped
on, roared out, "That's right; climb all
over me with your great, clumsy hoofs."
Boston Transcript.
The cattle plague is becoming more
and more formidable in Bohemia. Sev
eral hundred places have been attacked
by the disease. They are surrounded by
a military cordon, and as far as possible
prevented from carrying on intercourse
beyond its boundaries. The lost to the
inhabitants of the district Is very con
siderable, and is not totally represented
by that of the cattlo slaughtered. Agri
culture is in many places at a standstill,
the cattle which serve as beasts of burden
being locked up wherever the disease ap
pears. The "Tim Finnegan" Mines.
A far-West study in nomenclature is
given by the Halt JmH Tribune. A
stranger asks a miner why a series of
nineteen claims have the name of " Tim
Finnegai." The reply, in the vernacu
lar, explains th phenomenon: "Well,
stranger, it was at Pressott, an' me an' .
Tuscan Jake was playing a game of cur
sock, jes' for the drinks, you know, when
in comes one of them crazy, bloodthirsty
bloodhounds that turns loose in mining
camps sometimes, ripped out his six
shooter anil shot the barkeeper dead;
then, turning on me an' Tuscan Jake,
said : 'Now, either of you move an inch
an' I'll blow the top of your heads off !'
We knowd he'd do it. There was the"
barkeeper dead, an' thar was the pistol
pointed right at us. It was fearful; we
darsn't taae a full breath. Jake's feel
in's worked on him so powerfully that
he couldn't keep still; he hitched round
a little. Quick as lightning a bullet
laid him at my feet. The sweat stood
on my face like cobblestones. I even
wished he would shoot me an' have it
over with. Jes' then a pistol flashed
behind the wild beast, an he fell dead
in his boots. Tim Finnegan had got too
much whisky early in the evenin', an'
stretched out on some barrels in the
corner an' went to sleep. The shots that
killed the barkeeper an' Jake waked
him; an' bein' sobered by his nan, he,
unbeknownst to me an' the murderer,
easily an' gradually drew his pistol an'
sent the bloodhound to kingdom come.
I hugged an' kissed Tim, an' I've named
the claims after him; an' if I die before
my wife Tim's a bachelor I want her
to be named Mrs. Tim Finnegan."
Words of Wisdom,
Surely half the world must be blind
they can see nothing unless it glitters.
He who gives up the smallest part of
a secret has the rest no longer in his
power.
It is not what you have in your chest.
but what you have in your heart, that
makes you rich,
The word knowledge, strictly em
ployed, implies three things, viz., truth,
proof and conviction.
There is nothing lower than hypocrisy .
To profess friendship and act enmity is
a sure proof of total depravity.
The best kind of revenge is that which
is taken by him who is so generous that
he refuses to take any revenge at all.
It may serve as a comfort to us in all
our calamities and afflictions that he
that loses anything and gets wisdom by
it is a gainer by the loss.
It is when our budding hopes are
nipped beyond recovery by some rough
wind that we are the most disjntsed to
picture to ourselves what flowers thev
might have borne if they had flourished.