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VOL. XII. NO. 32. TIOKESTA, PA.; OCTOBER 29, 1879. $1.50 Per Annum.
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me
Upfl nnd Downs.
One day, as I liave heard it, mid,
It phanoed a rag and bit ol load
I at ia the konncl snug together
In very wet aDd muddy weathor.
The rag wns spoilod, and old, and torn ;
Tlio bit of load wan hrnisod and worn;
Two wails, whone worth, nt full nooount,
Was ol such very small amount
They woll together might remain,
To bide tno poking ol the rain.
Yet, low an was their present state,
Thoy both had known a hotter late.
The rag had onto been whole and white,
In evoiy way had pleased the sight;
And, in its timo, had helped adorn
A bride, upon her her wedding morn;
Lent to her figure and her lace
An added, though unnoodod, grace,
Nor thought such parting and distress
Could o'er holall a wed'Vng dress!
Tlio piece of load could not forget
Its lortunos had boon nobler yet;
For, moldod well, for uho ol one
YIlo was his country's liiilhful son.
II had though that was long ago
Keen sped against that country's foe,
And, guided by unerring hand,
Had Blrttohod him lilulyss on the sand.
Thorn ciuno a man, with hook and beg,
AVIio boro away the lead and rag,
And both were to a shop consigned,
With many others ol thoir kind.
Wheu winter passed, and summer camo,
The foriner rag had changed its name
To paper, and it might avow
It no'er had been so white aa now.
Moanwhilo, the le,id, so long despisod,
Was altered an') was highly prized;
For, inellei., purided and cast,
It was a printer's type at Inst.
Thry now, in this, their new condition,
Wire pot into their old position;
Drawu closer than before, to kiss,
And And their upothesis.
What greater immorality
Thau helping genius not to die ?
Scribner.
IN THE ORGAN-LOFT.
The light of n September suuset lay
lull on the elm tree bought, nnd check
ered the pavement below with soft rosy
glooms, when a cub from the station
stopped in ironl of the quaint brick
building which did duty ns "seminary "
to the Br.-u-ey theological students, and
a young uirr got out of it. Even-song
was in"grcss. From the ornate little
Gothic clinpel which stood at right an
gles with the long wing where tno stu
dents housed, sounded ft Gregorian
chnnt, rendered by n rhnrus of fresh
manly voices. A little strip of closely
shhvon lawn divided the chapel from the
street. Its smooth green was broken
now by long bars of pink light, and here
. and there a reddened lenf on the ivy
above glowed' like a carbuncle in the
sunset lire. It was a pretty and peace
ful scene, not at all resembling her pre
conceived ideas of what America was
going to be, thought AJhiee Trenchafd,
as, after dismissing her cabman, Mie
rwised a moment on the door-step be
lf ringing the bell. A bird'i shadow
flitted across tho illuminated grass; the
chant softened and died ; a sleepy twit
ter was audible In the tree-tops. From
the far distance came the soft chiming of
a bell. The sweet bell note and the
dewy silence won her attention so long
that black-gowned figures began to pour
out of the chapel before she remembered
what she had to do. Then she rang, and
entered, but not so soon as to be unob
served, and young Chasuble poked his
chum in the ribs and whispered, "Hey!
AY hat's that? A visitor to the doctor!
It must be that girl from Nova Scotia,
the dean's daughter, you know, I'll tell
you what, she's pretty." .
Faith rather than vision prompted this
statement, but Frank Chasuble was jus
tided in making it, nevertheless. Aimco
was pretty, very pretty. With the slcn-der-waying
figure which, with her
rame, she had inherited from her Cana
an mother, she combined that beauty
4 especially the dower of English girls,
a'compclcxion of unequaled fairness
truo roses nnd cream and lips as fresh
and red as a dewy clove-pink. Her hair
had golden glints in it, and waved na
turally back from a white forehead,
beneath whose pencilled brows looked
out a pair of clear eyes, as blue and fear
less as a child's,. in whose regard inno
coace and ignorance were charmingly
combined. For Amiee had been brought
up in solitude by a shy bookworm of a
father, and a? gentle rectangular old aunt,
and this was absolutely her first peep
into the wider world which' lav beyond
her guarded school-room bound. Dr.
Bracey, an old college friend of Canon
Trenchard's, had taken Nova Scotia, the
year before, as the objective point of Lis
summer vacation, and had then and
there fallen in. love in a fatherly way
with his friend's (laughter. " Poor dear
little thing, "he called her in his thoughts,
for she seemed to him cooped ud and
lonely, quite unlike the girls he was in
the habit of seeing at home, and he plied
her father with entreaties and arguments,
till at length he won reluctant consent
for a visit to "the States" during the en
suing year. This visit, for one reason
and another, had been postponed till
now, so here was Aimeejust arrived,
with three months of delightful novelty
and adventure before her, and bringing
a heart as unhackneyed as a baby s to
meet thorn, whatever they might prove
to hold.
As may well be imagined, her advent
created a tumult among the "Bracey
Boys." Absorbed as these young gentle
men were supposed to be in devotional
observance and theological lore, inter
vals more or less existed during which it
was both possible and natural to notice
the propinquity of a pretty girl, and
when both prettiness and propinquity
were so unusual, these intervals became
more rather than less. Aimee had
hardly been there a week, had attended
matins and even-song not more than a
dozen times under the wing of demure
Mrs. Bracey, before half the seminary
were her avowked slaves, and the other
half showed symptoms of yielding. One
and all, in greater or less degree, were
charmed with the fresh beauty of the
young English girl and expressed it in
their different ways, by action, or by
silence, which is sometimes as eloquent
a thing as action.
Aimee enjoyed her honors modestly
and Jraeekly. A little consciousness
crept gradually into the frank eyes, a
shadejof innocent coquetry, perhaps, into
the manner that was all ; and no harm
either, pronounced Dr. Bracey, as he
watched this gradual unfolding of the
womanly instinct. He loved the girl,
and it pleased him to see her having
"a good time," after the fashion of her
age and sex. "It will do her all sorts of
good," meditated this worldly-wise old
thcologue, with a chuckle, and he
rubbed his hands approvingly.
Simple Dr. Bracey! The momentary
amusement ot his protege was all he had
in his mind. It aid not occur to him
that happiness, most happiness, has to
be paid for in one shape or another, nnd
that the settling day, when it comes, is
rarely a pleasant one. Among the crowd
of admirers is always one who stands
pre-eminent in a girl s funcy. In Aimce's
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the handsomest young fellow in the sem
inary, for one thing. His views were
" high," but that was no objection to the
church-loving girl; and as tho only son
of a rich man, lie had it in his power to
express and adorn these views with all
tho ornamental touches with which
modern arts essays to decorate an aus
tere faith. Nobody wore such waist
coats as he; his bands were miracles of
fineness; the little cross at his button
hole was nn antique gem. The secret
grief of his life was the wearing of the
inevitable student's black gown ; its con
solation, the contemplation of a drawer
full of advanced garments, embroidered
rtoles and the like, with which ho pur
posed to bedeck himself the moment
Hint ordination should set him free to
do as he liked. He was altogether a
fascinating combination enough ' to
kindle the fancy of any girl; and Aimee
was in the fair road for a heartache
when "something happened, of which I
shall now proceed to tell you.
Among the little maid s accomplish
ments was a fair skill in water-color
drawing, and it occurred to her some
weeks after her arrival to turn this to
account for tho benefit of Dr. Bracey,
"the dear old doctor, who had been so
very, very kind to her." She had once
heard him express a wish for a view of
the interior of his beloved little chapel,
and with some shyness she offered to
make one. Tho doctor was charmed
with the idea, and carried Aimee off at
once to decide on the point of view.
The students were absent for the brief
Thanksgiving vacation, so there was no
one to disturb the pair in their examina
ation and discussion of the building. A
view of the east end, with the apse and
the tll lancet windows over the altar,
including a glimpso of the carved stalls
on the right, was finally chosen ; and as
the best place for the artist proved to
be the organ-loft, a small square space,
raised about five feet above the aisle, Dr.
Bracey installed Aitree there, showing
her how conveniently she could set her
self, and how she could regulnte the
light at will by closing or opening the
curtains with which the loft was in
closed. " And here is a shelf for your things,"
he added, exhibiting a ledge at the back
of the organ. " You might leave them
there, if you like, and save the trouble
of (carrying Ithem to and fro. Nobody
will meddle with them. The organist
sits round here, you see, and the bellows
boy is blind, poor fellow." With this
he departed, leaving Aimee to her task.
She worked on through that quiet
afternoon nnd the next, and so success
fully that her work became absorbing
and full of interest. On Monday the
students returned. Frank Chasuble
walked home with them after even
song, was asked to tea by Mrs. Bracey,
and spent a long evening with Aimee
over the piano. Never had he been so
charming, so devoted. Her thoughts
were fuller of him than of her drawing
as, early on Tuesday afternoon, she be
took herself to her perch in the organ
loft, secure, as she supposed, of three
hours' solitude before the tinkle of the
service bell at six should warn her to
flee.
She had just got well to work when
the opening door and the sound of foot
steps and voices startled her attention.
Peeping from between the closely drawn
eurtains, she beheld, to her surprise, the
greater part of the senior class entering
the chapel. There were Arthur Burns,
Vedderbake, Bensen, Frank, of course,
that quiet Mr. Challoner, who always
looked at her so much and said so little,
Gregory, Tom Esher and a dozen others,
all of whom she knew by name at least,
and most of them personally. What
could they be doing here at this hour P
She had never happened to hear of what
the students called "practicing Tues
day," on which monthly occasion the
senior class met to rehearse and criticize
each others' sermons. But the mystery
soon explained itself, for presently
Arthur Burns mounted into the pulpit
and began to read from a manuscript,
while his classmates, grouped in various
unconventional attitudes, listened atten
tively. The discourse lasted about
fifteen minutes. When he finished, the
others proceeded to comment.
"The ending was decidedly poor,"
put in Frank Chasuble. " You just
stopped, that .was all. There was no
finish."
Well, what better can a fellow do
than stop when he's through?" asked
tho speaker.
" lie can perorate. Ho can round and
embellish," retorted Frank. " Any one
can stop. It takes a cultivated man to
stop eloquently."
" We'll have your kind of stop now."
said his friend. "Forward, march.
Chasuble; it's your turn."
So Frank swept up the aisle and as
sumed the desk. His sermon was very
fine, thought Aimee very fine indeed.
She peeped from between the curtains,
her eyes shining with amusement at the
thought of how little they suspected who
was listening. Then a naughty thought
popped into her head, and she began
penciling sentences down on her drawing-paper.
She would learn a few by
heart, she decided, and quote them as if
accidentally in the course of conversa
tion. How amazed they would look,
and what fun it would be!
"Well, how was it?" asked Frank,
rather vaingloriously, as he returned.
"Very well written," said that sjuiet
young Challoner, "but nothing to it,
Frank. Words, just words." Th at de
sirable quality, frankness, was certainly
prevalent at the Bracey.
"What do you mean?" demanded
Frank, fushing angrily. "How is a
discourse to be expressed except in
words, I should like to know?"
" It is well to have something behind
them " began Challoner, but his voice
was drowned in acclamations from a
chorus of Frank's special cronies.
"It was first-rate. It was capital.
No one could take exception to a sylla
ble in it " and Aimee, unseen in her
gallery, clinched a small fist and shook
it vindictively at Challoner. It was out
rageous that her hero should be thus at
tacked. How did he dare?"
The two hours sped by. the last ser
mon was preached, and the class dis
persed. A few lingered on their way
out to discuss the events of the vacation.
Aimee, who had been glad to see the
move, shrank back into her shelter
again. She felt more than ever how
awkward her position would be were it
discovered that she had been there all
the time.
" We had a most gorgeous service on
Sunday at St. Allen's," said frank Chas
uble, who had perched himself on the
back of a bench directly below the or-
fan-loft. "I went with the Dixons.
liss Dixon is a raving beauty, I can
tell you."
"Was that the reason you didn't come
back Saturday, eh? I heard you tell
MissTrenchard you would."
" I dare say I may have said so in a
weak moment; but there was metal
more attractive where I was, my boy."
" All I can say lis that Miss Dixon, or
Miss Anybody else, has got to get up
early in the morning if she wants to beat
Miss Trenchard," declared Tcm Esher.
" She's the prettiest girl I ever saw in
my life. I declare, In that blue dress
she wore to matins to-day, she's stun
ning." "
" That's just all you know about it,"
responded Frank, indolently, "She's
well enough as country girls go has got
pretty hair and eyes, and all that: but
sha can no moi e hold a candle to Nettie
Dixon than she can fly. No English
girl ever born ever did compare, or ever
will, with a tip-top New Yorker.
There's a total lack or style, you see.
They don't know how to put on there
clothes, or to show'em off after they got
'em on. That blue thingumy Aimee
wears on her head would be laughed at
on Fifth avenue; I assure you it
would." (N. B. Frank had no more
than once praised said "thingumy.")
"She's a nice, soft little girl enough,
Aimee Trenchard is, but she doesn't
stand anywhere beside a dozen girls I
could name. As for Netty Dixon, she's
a real ripper."
Poor Aimee! The blood tingled in
her cheeks ns if she had received a sharp,
sudden blow, as these words fell upon
her ears. She was too stunned to move,
and sat perfectly motionless intier seat
as the conversation went on.
"Well, if that's your opinion of Miss
Trenchard, I think you'd better leave off
hanging about her as you do. You
might give another fellow the chanco if
you don't want it," remarked Tom
Esher.
"My dear fellow," responded Frank
Chastfble, in an indolent tone, "you're
quite welcome. I can't help it if a
pretty girl the only pretty girl who
happens to be on hand too likes me
better than she does the! rest of you .
It shows good taste on her oart, but
really it's not my fault. I don't give
myself any particular trouble to please
the little thing, and I don't see that
you are called on to take up arms in
her behalf."
"And I think," put in a quiet voice,
"that you are speaking in a very im
proper tone about a lady. Miss Tren
chard is the loveliest girl I ever saw,
and the sweetest. Sho is a thorough
lady too. and as gentlemen we are
bound to respect her name as much ns
we should herself were she present."
It was Ralph Challoner who spoke.
He looked straight into Frank Chas
uble's eyes, and that worthy quailed
under the glance.
"I'm sure I meant nothing," he
muttered, uncomfortably. "No one
admires Miss Trenchard more than I.
do. I don't know what you mean,
Challoner."
"Yes, you do," retorted Ralph, with
the same quiet decision; "you know
perfectly well what I mean."'
But Frank did not seem inclined to
take up the gauntlet. There was a
moment of silence; then the young men
moved away. If Ralph Challoner could
have seen the look in Aimee's eyes as
she peeped out at his retreating back, he
would have been a very happy man, I
think.
But with all the glow of gratitude, the
soothing which had come to her morti
fied spirits with his chivalrous words,
calmness was impossible now that the
moment of reaction was come, and for
half an hour Aimee wept as bitterly as
a girl can weep. It was for the ship
wreck of shallow ideal that she wept, as
well as from wounded pride. Had she
learned to love Frank Chasuble, the pain
would have gone deeper ; but, as a re
cent writer has told us, there is such a
thing as "imagination-ache," and the
suffering it causes, though not vital, is
hard to bear. So Aimee wept on and
only succeeded in drying her tears in
time to appear at tea, when that useful
plea of " a head-ache " accounted for her
pallor and dejection.
Frank Chasuble found MissTrenchard
" changed somehow " from that time
forward. She was less accessible, less
easily interested; he even detected a
gleam of mockery at times in the smile
yrhich met some of his impassioned sal
1 les. She was far more attractive to him
i n this phase. He became piqued, inter
estod; eventually he fell In love, as he
vrould have termed it. Aimee had her
r evenge, if she wished it, in the mortifi
es .tJ.on with which he received the gentle
buA decided "No" which ended his suit.
Butt he never heard from her or from any
on. else the tale of the orcan-loft ad TPn.
turn. That she kept for the husband
no. other than Ralph Challoner who
tn.ree years later visited remote Nova
cvcoria and bore away a bride. To him
she confessed that the dear love which
to his surprise and rapture, met his so
fuliy and completely, was born in the
little curtained space, the reward of his
manly interposition on her behalf; and
knowing this, the chapel is still the
Mecca of his imagination, the place to
w b ich his memory rocs back to pluck
thut fairest flower ofromance which is
th recompense of all true and Happy
rruanhood and womanhood, whether
cincai or iay,in England, or in America,
or- isewnere. narper's liazar.
A Great Engineering Work.
A few years ago an American engineer
directed the attention of the Russian
government to the feasibility of connect.
imc wjq uiuiou nuu x itn ii aeua uy a ca
nal, and the important results that
would follow its execution. Russia has
had many matters to occupy her atten
tion of late, but this project has been
:j 1 Ji r
uujj wuBiuciuu, lb appears, ior recently
works have been commenced by M.
Dardloff. an eminent Russian enmneer.
by which it is intended to unite the.
lilack and Caspian seas by the aid of the
Don and Volga rivers. " The Caspian
Sea is located in a great basin below the
ocean level, and for ages the great rivers
Volga and Ural have deposited in the
Caspian the soil of the vast regions
which they drain. Hence" the dimen
sions of the sea have become contracted.
and. large areas of what remains are
growing unnavigable. Moreover, the
surrounding country is, in consequence
of the diminution of the water-space
available for evaporation, becoming
sienie, ana commerce diminishes. As
the Caspian sea is much lower than the
Black and Mediterranean, if a communi
cation were opened between them, the
watt-r rushing in would eventually
raise the Caspian to a level with the
Black sea, and in the former there
would be a magnificent harbor, secure
from enemies. Thus, also, there would
bo opened a direct highway for steamers
from Odessa to tho northern shore of
Persia, greatly to the commercial ad
vantage of Russia. This enterprise will
be one of the vast engineering works of
tne age, ana will require many years for
its completion. aurpcr s Jiazar.
A Revengeful Son-Iu-Law.
The German criminal code contains
some laws that have no counterpart in
American statute books. Such is that
which prohibits, under heavy penalties,
tha llun rif inclllt-inn l.nmi.ffo aKmif lln
emperor, a law under which there have
uccu vcijr liimij jjrotteouiions in me past
year. Another is tho curious statute
prescribing punishment for behavior in
violation of the respect due the dead.
This Jaw is eaid to have been rarely
made the occasion for prosecution, but a
case has just been before the circuit court
at Berlin in which it has been applied.
Several months ago the widow Langen
heim was interred in the church vard at.
Weissensee. She had been possessed of
am pie weaiui, dui ner numerous chil
dren, with one exception, were greatly
disappointed in their expectations, the
bulk of her property having been be
queathed to one daughter. Unable to
restrain the rage and disgust aroused by
this discovery, one of the sons-in-law of
the widow, a provision dealer named
Hackmeister, presented himself at the
interment, and as the grave was about
to be closed stepped up to it, and, in the
presence of the priest and the assembled
mourners, with loud expressions of con
tempt, spat upon the coffin. He was ar
rested and prosecuted, the attorney for
the eovernment demanding that he
should be sentenced to six months' im-
firisonment. The court was merciful,
lowever, in consideration of the rarity
of such an oflence, and imposed fourteen
days' confinement.
How a Bog Fooled his Master. .
A newspaper that is printed in the
town of Palmyra, Wisconsin, the Enter
prise, tells a story about a dog which it
says is true, every word of it. The dog,
whose name is Tiger, belongs to a sur
veyor, now at work in theserviceof the
United Stat.'s government in that part
of the country. One day not long ago
tho surveyor saw that Tiger was asleep
near the edge of a thicket, and he thovght
he might have some fun with him. So
the surveyor shouted out: "Catch him,
Tiger; at him, old dog." and jumped
into the thicket, as if a deer, or at least
a rabbit, had been seen. Tiger, of course,
went bounding and barking in, but very
soon returned with his tail between his
legs, seeing that a triok had been played
upon him. Now comes the good part of
the story. Tiger made believe that he
was going to sleep again. In about three
hours he all at once sprang up, set his
ears and eyes in the direction of the
thicket, gave a loud bark and leaped
forward. The surveyor followed, think
ing that Tiger had found some game.
When Tiger saw his master parting the
bushes curiously, he gave a peculiar
" Ah wooh," and went back to his
sleeping place wagging his tail, and
satisfied that he had paid the surveyor
back for fooling him.
The total amount, of Knthrncita minor!
in Pennsylvania during the coal year,
endintr SeDtemher fith. was 17.1Q3 275
tons, an increase of 6,601,043 tons over
me product oi tne previous year. The
bituminous coal mined was 2,372,563
tons, an increase of 156,073 tons. The
total coal nrodnet for the vear wj 1'L.
4U5.843 tons, against 12,738,727 tons for
tne coai year loa.
In a barber shoo a comh and hrnsh
always play the leading parts.
TIMELY TOPICS.
The year 1879 will pass into American
history as a year of wonderful agricul
tural prosperity. The cotton crop is
larger by half a million bales than ever
before, the tobacco crop 12,000,000
pounds greater ; and the sugar crop ex
ceeds by some 200,000 hogsheads nil pre
vious yields. These are crops which be
lorg almost exclusively to the southern
half of the republic. In behalf of the
Northern States tte excess of products
this year over the crops of any previous
year is, according to the Chicago Journal
of Commerce, 20,000,000 bushels of wheat
and from 80,000,000 to 100,000,000 bush
els of corn. The hog crop also is larger
this year than for a number of years
past if it be not the largest ever raised.
Reviewing the reports on theMadras
(India) famine submitted by Dr. Cor
nish, sanitary commissioner of that
presidency, the commission has arrived
at the following conclusions: First, that
the same atmospheric conditions which
produce scarcity of food produce also
epidemic diseases ; secondly, that a large
proportion of the mortality of a famine
season is due more to epidemic disease
than absolutely to want of food, although
the destructiveness of an enidemic is in
creased by the fact that people half
starving or in iea are less able to with
stand disease: thirdly, that a point in
the process of chronic starvation, when
nutriment no longer sustains life, is often
reached before people can obtain or will
seek relief at a distance from their
homos.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
telegraph business in the United States
may be gained from the annual report of
the Western Union Teieg raph Company,
which shows that tho company has at
present 82,987 miles of line, 211,506 miles
of wire, and 8,534 offices. During the
year 25,070,106 messages were sent. The
OA Til t Q 1 fitrtolr rf ta Pntnnnn xr ia 4M I HTQ
410, and of forty and a halt millions of
net income in the last thirteen years, a
nine less man twenty millions nave been
paid in dividends to stockholders; six
and a half millions paid for interest and
principle of bonded debt; more than
thirteen millions added to the plant, in
the construction and purchase of now
real estate, all of greater value for the
. i . ...
us.u oi ui company man tneir cost;
and three-quarters of a million remain as
surplus in the treasury.
At the recent meeting at Montpellier
of the French Agricultural Society the
majority of the proprietors whose vine
yards have been ravaged by the phyl
loxera were of opinion that they must
look to the introduction of vine stocks
from America as the only means of
meeting me trouble they are in. Ex
periments have proved to the satisfac
tion of some of the most experienced
members of the commission appointed
to investigate this subject that certain
American vines offer a vigorous resist
ance more especially in respect to the
peculiar formation of the root, the tis
sues of which are exceptionally thick
to the dreaded plague. On the other
hand, it is apprehended that these vines
will only be a success in certain portions
of France. The failure in the grape
crop is quite as severe as the failure in
ordinary agricultural produce in Eng
land. The 300,000 hectares under vines,
which represented in a great degree the
wealth of the department of Ilerault, are
gone. Fortunately, Frenchmen are not
in fat years unmindful that lean may
follow, or the condition of things would
be very serious indeed.
Words of Wisdom.
It is always safe to learn, even from
our enemies ; seldom safe to venture to
instruct even our mends.
A quarrel, nine times out of ten, is
merely the fermentation, of a misunder
standing. Every man throws on to his surround
ings the sunshine or the shadow that ex
ists in his own soul.
Tf i u tv rkVi Inovw linur 1 v er a winn
may look among the crowd without dis
covering the face of a friend.
There is a great deal of unmapped
country within us which would have to
be taken into account in explanation of
our gusts and storms.
Honorable age is not that which
standcth in length of time, nor that is
measured by num ber of years. But wis
dom is the gray hair unto men, and an
unspotted life is old age.
Good intentions are at least the seed
of good actions ; and every man ought to
sow them, and leave it to the soil and
seasons whether they come up or no, or
whether he or any other gathers tho
fruit.
Nature seems to exist for the excel
lent. The world is upheld by the ver
acity of good men ; they make the earth
wholesome. Late is sweel ana toler
able in our belief in such society; and
actually or ideally, we manage to live
without superiors.
Sleep.
In a recent work on "Sleep." Dr-
Mortimer Granville objects, without re.
serve, to the use of narcotics in order to
produce it. lhey produce not sleep, but
a counterpart of it. When a man says I
will take a sleeping draught in order to
got a auiet night, he speaks in parables.
What he really says is, I will poison my
self a little, just enough to make me un
conscious, orslightly paralyze my nerve
centers, not enough to kill. He declares
that if people I troubled with sleepless
ness would resolutely set themselves to
forming the habit of going to sleep at a
particular time, in a particular way,
they will do more to procure regular
sleep than by any other artifice. It is
not so much matter what a person does
to produce sleep, but he should do pre
cisely the same thing, in the samcjway,
at the same time, and under 'nearly as
possible, the same conditions, night after
night, for a considerable period, say
three or four weeks at least.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Japan has fine macadamized roads
on which the bicycle is coming into high
favor.
The pain of a boil can be endured
when some other man gets it in the neck.
IHcagune.
Statistics show that of the 969,000,000
people inhabiting the globe, 3,000,000
die each year of consumption.
The ordinary life of a locomotive is
thirty years. No doubt it would live
much longer if it didn't smoke so much.
In Massachusetts recently, a frog was
found on the top of a church steeple 180
feet from the ground. It was the most
aspiring croaker ever heard of. IHca
xune. St. Louis has just found out that Mary
Duffy, an Insane pauper supported at the
poor-house for the past four years, has
$1,300 on deposit in one of th? " """
banks.
A sportsman was boastinir vestcrdav
of having shot a rabbit. "But it was
not in season," said a friend. "Oh.
yes," was the reply, "'twas seasoned
after I peppered it.'' Oil Vity Derrick.
A new temperance movement in Great
Britain takes the form of a joint stock
company, with a capital of $5,000,000,
in shares of $1 each. It proposes to
open temperance houses all over the
kingdom.
Of an experiment in Bristol, England,
for the lighting of the streets by the em
ployment of reflectors for the gas lamps,
the result was the production of fifty per
cent, more light with less than halt tho
number of lamps. ,
Mr. Sommerville of Manchester, Eng
land, has devised a scheme for connect
ing France and England by means of
a tunnel made of cast iron, which would
be floated and sunk in sections to the bot
tom of the channel.
Much interest has been felt in Florence,
Italy, at the discovery of over six hun
dred paintings belonging to the masters
of the sixteenth century, laid away to
rot and perish in government buildings ;
the authorities intend placing them in
the royal gallery of the Uffizi.
A party recently visiting the Daly
river, North Australia, appear to have
met with an alligator far larger than
anything hitherto seen. Nothing but
the head was visible, but this 13 de
scribed as being about four feet in length
and two feet six inches in width. On
being fired at the monster disappeared.
A gallant act was performed recently
by the daughter ot the illustrious Italian
patriot, a girl of twelve years of age.
She was taking a bath at Civita Vechia.
when a young man who could not swim
got out of his depth, and at his cry for
help the girl swam toward him, caught
him as he was sinking, and brought him "'TSS8
safe to land.
Herr Johann Boch, a well-know
painter of Germany was killed by a stroke
of lightning some weeks ago while tak
ing a walk in the neighborhood of a
Bavarian village, where he had been
passing the summer. It was beginning
to rain, and he opsned his umbrella,
which almost immediately thereafter
was struck by a thunderbolt that killed
the unfortunate artist instantly. A
black mark, extending from the head
downward, showed the course the elec
tric fluid had taken. The gold chain
that Boch wore could not bo found, and
is supposed to have been consumed; the
coin about his person was scattered in
all directions, and his clothes were torn
to bits. He was about fifty years of
age.
Life iu Sweden.
A correspondent of the London Times,
traveling in Sweden, speaks of the gene
ral well-to-do condition of the country.
Each of a dozen small towns which ho
visited had its school house, its church,
its newspaper and most of them had its
public garden; the streets were paved
and lighted with oil lamps swung across
as theyt were in old Paris ; the houses
were trim and neat. The people were as
neat as their houses. Ho did not meet
half a dozen beggars since ke had been
in the country Even in Stockholm he
saw no signs of poverty, while a crowd
ed opera liouse, overflowing cafes and
brilliant shops betokened an easy opu
lence. There is a general level of com
fort in Sweden without any violent con
trasts. The army and navy of Sweden
cost only a trifle. Tho national debt is
only $50,000,000, and has been solely
employed in the constructiou of railways.
All tho children go to school and over
ninety per cent, of the people can read
and write. The subdivision of property
is such that in tho country the greater
part of the population own their own
fiirma ATnir i lnnliiirr a frini. rni n t
ed out from a hill near his house forty -properties,
thirty-six of which belonged
to present owners, themselves the culti
vators of the soil.
A Girl's Awful Fate.
The horned stinger of tho Staked
plains is ono of the most deadly snakes
in the world, though luckily it is seldom
to be met with. It is very quick in its
movements, and is said to be provided,
byway of defence, with a sharp, venom
ous tail, which it brings in contact with
any object which arouses its anger. Of
this reptile the Fort Bend (Tex.) Snag
tells an awful and improbable story, ono
too horrible to bo repeated were it not
for tho circumstantial account given,
Tho facts as stated are theses While
gathering berries, a young woman of
eighteen, daughter of David Slicer, of
Dutch Cross roads on the Little Big
Sandy, was attacked by one of these
snakes. Terrified, she fell to the
ground, when it fastened itself to her
face, and vibrating its deadly stinging
tail compelled the persons who had now
come to the poor girl's assistance to keep
awav
The reptile is then stated to
have then made its wav. right in the
presence of two or three horror-stricken
people, into the girl s nioutn ana rapiuiy
disappeared down her throat. Of course
death ensued in a few minutes.
Scarcely has tho warm bieiith ol gummer
die J away, when cougha and cokla, thoueavunt
couriers ol (hingtimuH UiHcano, show thrni
sulves. Dr. Bull's i'ugh Syrup always curua
them, and moot ijuictAy too.
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