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TIONESTA, PA., NOV. 12. 1870.
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9 runijflincn kvery wedsesdat, by
A Legend of HarTCKt,
8o long ago that history pays
No hoed nor record ot how long,
Back in the loruly dreamy days,
The days ot story and rf son;;.
Boloro tho world hud crowded grown,
While wrong on earth was hard to find,
And hull the earth hud never known
Tho lorins and faces ol mankind.
Wlion nst as liow tho yei'.rs would keep
Their terms ot snow-sand suns mid showers,
It chanced that. Hummer dropt aslocp,
Ono morning, in a llold ol flowers.
And whilo tho warm weeks eumo and floil,
In all their tondnr wealth ot'chttrm,
She slept, with bounteous gelduu head
I,uid sollly on her weary arm,
She did not heiir tho waving trees,
Tho warbling nrook sho did not hoar,
Nor yet tho velvet-coated bees
That boomed about her rosy oar.
In many a yellow breezy mans,
Tho rich wheat ripenod l:ir away,
'And glittering on tho fragrant grass,
Her silver sicklo idly lay.
i
But then at IiihI, ono noontido hour,
A gorgeous moth, while hovering by,
Mistook her sweet mouth for a flower,
And summer wuked, wilh startled cry.
Sho rose, In anxious wonder, now,
To giizo upon the heightened whost,
And saw ft plenteous fase-els how
Dead-ripe below iho sultry heat.
Halt ernzod, she wnndurod east and wo-t,
Amid t lie peaceful spacious elimo,
Uutd at length, with panting broiBt,
Sho stood before old fit her time.
With tears ot shame she told him nil,
While poinli.ig to tho wheat uniuown,
And sail : "What power shall make it fall
Kre autiimu s hitler winds have blown T"
Then father time, with laughter guy,
Bowed a'.l his frame, and crooked his knees,
And tossed his while board like the spray
That ciowns tlu ert-Hta ol wintry seaa.
" Oh, daughter, choer your heart !" he oriedj
" Tho wheat shall fall ere lulls tho uiirhl.
We two hull mow it, sido bjiside,
Aud reap it in tbe t-trirs' pale light !"
Ho summer cleared her brow of gloom,
, And forth witli Cut her time eho weut,
And, haggard ago by youth in bloom,
Above tho tawny wheat they beat.
Iho lull rii;;!;t the harvest fell;
it,. i ...o ... i: i i.i.-.i... r " Tr
.
v eii.v.u iiiitb ni.iiai'ii mil itiivt IJ1UUV
As ancient annuls love to tell,
Obi father time h.is Ixime a scythe !
Elijar Fawnit, in A'ieholu.
DOHA'S LOVERS.
Dora will never forget that day of tho
procession ; she remembers the very aits
the ban (In played, the glitter of epaulets,
the splendidly caparisoned horses, tho
Waving Hags. Sho was very happy on
that day far happier than she whs lor a
lonir, long season afterward. Clement
had invited her to go into the city to wit
ness the pageant; ho had permission
from Air. Oliver, a director of the Rank
of Shekels, to take a window in that
building, by which the procession pass
ed. Aunt 1 1 it ty hid frowned upon the
all air, and had told her she was a fool to
encourago that young jaekanapi a, anil so
keep better matches at a distance. " If
he weren't going off directly, I should
forbid it," she said. " How can you
care for him, when such a man as Simon
Cleverly is at your feet, passes me!
They're not to lie named in the same
breath. Cleverly is tall, Clement Smith
ers isshort; Cleverly1 eyes nre dazzling,
Clement's are near-sighted; the one has
a fortune of his own, the other ha-m t a
sou, so to speak." As far the question of
money, Dora felt that she would rather
share poverty with Clement than dwell in
marble halls and fare sumptuously every
day with Mr. Cleverly.
It so happened that she and Clement
were the earliest arrivals at the bank,
with the exception of a clerk, and as
that person knew Clement, 'and I Jiad a
sweetheart to escort trom the suburbs,
he soon li ft them in possession. Dora
had never been inside tho bank before,
'and whilo they waited aud said their
tender nothings, she looked alxiut her,
asking innumerable questions, in onlor.
perhaps, to postpone the inevitable
question.
" I here's the safe." said Clement, as
they paused before a door. "It's built
i.ito the wall. II you open this door, it
rings. a bell sonu where in an ollice in
Exchange street, and they are warned
that somebody is tampering with the
safe, and up comes a brace of police
men." " Oh, Clement, what a romancer you
are!" laughed Dora. " Won't they hear
it atThuW Let's see" and she turned
the handle of the door. "There! Why
doesn't the bell ring?"
''The burglar doesn't hear it, I sup
pose, or he'd niake oil'. Maybe it's the
inuer door, the door of the safe itself.
They don't lock tliis one, you see, and
tiny body might open it by mistake.
When the bank ollici rs want to open the
safe, they know how to prevent the bell
from ringing, they tell me, hut maybe
it's aU humbug. Cleverly told me about
it he's teller here." And presently
other spectators arrived, and Clement
and Dora took their places at the win
dow, and caught far oil' tho mulUVd
tread ot feet, tho bea'ing of drums, ajid
tho hint of a martial tune, .lust then
the door opened hurriedly, and an irritated-looking
man popped 'in, llkeajack-out-of-a-box.
" Who has been meddling with the
bank's safe? " he cried.
" I don't, think it has been disturbed,"
replied a gentleman present. Clement
aud Dora had forgotten that a safe
existed, and had just stepped out upon
tho window balcony.
" Don' tell me!'1 pursued the irate offi
cial. "Was nobody here when you
came?"
" Only those two young people on the
balcony lovers."
"Confound 'em!'1 and he stepped up
to Clement anil pulled his sleeve
"Somebody's been tampering with tho
saf" can you toll me anything about
it?1
"I T really " stammered Clement,
suddenly brought down to earth. "I
beg pardon what did you wish P"
Tho man repeated his question more
angrily. His demeanDi brought the
blood in a ilamo to Clement's face.
"There was no harm done, I assure
you," ho answered. "The door was
opened by mistake 11
"Tell hi in, Clement tell him I
opened it," whispered Dora.
" Worth while bringing a man all the
way from Exchange street for nothing!
Th t comes of opening the bank to
Tom, Dick and Harry! 1 shall have to
lay it before the Hoard of Directors, I
shall!"
"I haven't tho smallest objection,"
said Clement; and while they returned
to tin? memorable pages of the past,
where here a rose had heen pressed, nnd
there a sprig of mignonette, the pro
cession moved into sight, tho music
soared above them, the crowd surged
beneath; there was rhythm in the tread
of the marching feet, and the sun struck
sparks Irom the housings of the horses
anil the points of bayonets. Cleverly,
on a capering steed, looked up anil
smiled on Dora, while daggers shot
from beneath his brows as he recognized
her companion. Hut everything has an
end. The last bit of glitter and color
finally vanished down the long vista of
the street, and the band music became
like the unreal melody of a dream. They
went and dined together afterward, and
Htepped into a picture gallery, and said J
gooil-bye at Aunt lutty sgate, since lie
expected to sail next morning by sun
rise, as first mate in ti e Videtle for
Japan.
Hut next day he appealed again.
"The wind didn't serve," he explained ;
" we shan't get oft' till afternoon. Put
on your hat, Dora, nnd I'll row you out
to the Videtto, nnd you sliall seo how we
poor sailors fare." Tho day was like
crystal, the river coruscated with shift
ing lights, while tho ship loomed up be
fore them like, some fabled sea-bird,
gigantic Hnd mysterious. Every mo
ment was full of elixir to Dora.
"Iwish I were captain, Dora,1' ho
whispered, as they leaned over the side
of the Vidette. and looked into the depths
below, nnd at their, own shadows upon
the surface, which threatened to become
6ftfft-as"'thB shirf'swayed aild the tide
rocked, "and we were bound for Japan
together."
"It is a long way; you might grow
tired of my companionship. Who are
those men coming up the side of the
ship, Clement? Do they belong to the
crew?"
"They look like policemen. T suppose
that one of the sailors made off without
settlingjiis bills."
"No, Clement, they are asking for
you."
" Nonsense! what can they want with
me!" Clement turned about, surprise
and perplexity giving him an involved
expression. He had the air of one
brought to bay.
"Air. Clement Smithers?" said one of
the ollieers, approaching. " You are
suspected of having tampered with the
safe of the 15 ink of Shekels on the seven
teenth of Juno. It becomes my duty to
detain you for examination."
"What folly!" cried Clement, hotly.
" I can explain it all. Tho lady who
was with me at the bank is my witness.
I can give my affidavit "
" But you must come with me; them's
my orders."
"How do we know but the lady's
your accomplice, th?" put in his com
panion. -
" But I am to sail in a couple of
hours," objected Clement.
" Ay, the shipjs to sail, but we'll t'ive
you another sort of berth."
"Tell them," gasped Dora "make
them understand tint I pulled the bell,
opened the door by mistake, for fun "
"Yes, we've heard that pretty story
before, but it won't bear washing". I'er
haps you took the bonds that are missing
too?"
Clement's heart stood still. "Are
there any bonds missing?" ho asked.
"Just as if you didn't know better'n
us! If the wind hadn't hauled round
you'd got off splendid with 'em."
It was all abroad nnd in the daily
papers by the following day ; everybody
was talking about it- Mr. Cleverly
stepped into Aunt Ditty's to eive the
latest particulars and assure Dora that
she should not be annoyed.
" Hut Clement is as innocent as you
are; it was I who opened the door," she
explained.
"Nobody suspects you of taking the
bonds, child. You wern't about to sail
for foreign shores there's the rub. I'm
afraid you'll have to go into court and
give testimony."
" You don't believe that Clement is
guilty?"
" It looks black for him. I suspend
my judgment."
" Hut you believe nie when I assure
you that he never touched the safe."
"I believe every word you utter. Hut
that will not convince the directors or
the jury. If no bonds had heen missing,
of course opening the door would have
given no concern."
" It is so unexpected, so undeserved! "
" That must be proved."
"Air. Cleverly," she asked one day
lata, "what will they doit Clement is
is found "
"Several years in the State-prison at
hard labor. I believe."
" And nobody to keep' up his heart, to
tncourag") hi in . He will get hardened
by such injustice, ' she signed.
As the time of his trial drew near,
everybody spoke of Clement as one al
ready condemned. " I'oor misguided
fellow !" they said ; and even Aunt II it ty
hoped he was supplied with tracts. In
the mean time it almost seemed as if
Cleverly had stepped inU) Clement's
nich. Ho was always at Aunt Ilitty's,
and going away late; and Aunt Hltty
was usually ill with neuralgia, whic h
prevented conversation on her side,
whilo Dora had nothing to do but keep
the ball rolling, and was never weary of
talking of Clement's case.
" You are profoundly interested in
this affair," Cleverly said to her one
night when she had stepped out upon
the pizza to wish by the new moon, and
he had followed.
" Nothing interests me so much." Mr.
Cleverly winced.
" What would you do to prove his in
nocence?"
"Anything that was right."
" Would you marry some one else, if
that would save hiin?"
"Some one I do not love? Would
that be right?"
"Where would be tlia harm, if he
preferred to marry without love, rather
than not at all?"
"These are mere idle words, Air.
Cleverly."
"No, tliey nre not mere idle words.
Listen; you will do anything to save
Clement Smithers. Is it wrong to make
another happy, and save a Iriond from
ruin? Tiien marry me, Dora, and I
will save him; I give you my word."
w ny wilt you make such acondttion
if it is possible for you to clear him?
Why will.you not accomplish it gratu
itously P"
"Hecau30 I love you, and I am not
Quixotic. At present your story is not
credited; you are suspected of a weak
ness for the prisoner. Were you my
wife, that prejudice would be cancelled.
Marry me, dear Dora, nnd I swear to
save his name nnd credit, or forfeit my
own."
"How could I do such a thing, even
to save Clement?"
"It is in your power to decide whether
he shall sp nit his best years in prison,
in the pursuit of menial tasks, in a con
vict's garb, in the society of abandoned
men, imhittered by injustice. It seems
to me that you can not hesitate."
Was it true, then, she asked herself,
that it was in her power to save Clement
from ignominy, and did she hesitate?
Did she r.ot love him well enough to
sacrifice everyt hing for him ? Daily she
reached the heights of renunciation,
daily she slipped hack into the vallev of
humiliition and self-Jove. Every day
Air. Cleverly pressed his suit, waxed
cloqivrt, convinced her ignorance by
plausible proofs and promises, and one
day he carried his point.
" Yes," she assented, feebly ; " I will
marry you to save Clement."
" I accept the terms," he said. " You
will marry mo for Clement's sake; by-and-by
you shall love me for my own."
She could make no objections to an
early wedding, sincit was only as Air.
Cleverly's wile that she could influence
Clement's fate, while Aunt Ilitty, un
aware of tho conditions of the contract,
at. that time, pressed the matter forward
with leminine alacrity. "I'msorr for
Clement Smithers," sue confessed, " but
you couldn't marry a felon if you loved
him to distraction. Air. Cleverly says
he prefers a wedding in church. Shall
it be satin and tube? 1 But it seemed as
if Dora had but a shadowy interest in
the preparations, such as a ghost might
have.
It was toward dusk of a dark after
noon, always darker in the place whero
Clemsnt awaited his trial than else
where, that Air. Oliver, one of the bank
directors, was admitted to an interview
with the prisoner.
iou Have come to beg me to confess
what I have done with the bonds?"
laughed Clement, bitterly.
"No," replied Air. Oliver; "I have
come to tell you that the bonds have
been found."
"Found!"
" Exactly. We had a wind-storin on
Air. Cleverly's wedding day. You have
the newspapers here; vou must have
read of it ?"
"I read nothing here; I have been
composing a satire on justice instead. I
did not know Cleverly was married."
"No?" It was a furious gale, and the
old elm that stood near the Church of
the Heavenly Manna broke beneath it.
A splinter s'ruck Air. Cleverly as lie
passed from the carriage to the church
door. It proved his de.:ah-blow."
"Poor fellow! On his wedding day,
too! Hut what has that to do with me
or the bonds?"
"Air. Cleverly was our teller, you re
member. Yesterday the bonds were
found among his personal effects. That
is all."
"That is a good deal," said Clement,
a new color Hushing his face. " I should
not have thought it of Cleverly. How
ever, let us speak no ill of the dead. ( )u
hi;) wedding day, too! Who was he
going to m irry ?"
" Aliss Theodora Gray."
"Aliss Theodora Gray! My Dora!'
he cried. The cloud that had lifted for
a space dropped again over Clement,
and he walked out of prison more hope
'es and heartlass than he had entered.
He iisked no questions; he did not seek
I Dora. 1 he captain or the Swan, about
I to sail for the Indies, had fallen ill, and
I he accepted the situation without a mo
! meat's hesitation .
I On the homeward voyage he put about
I to reMeve a shipwrecked crew. " You'l!
never catch me at sea again," one of tie
I rescued confided to Captain Smithers'
! mate when sho had gotten to rights on
board the Swan- " Bet ween seasickness
I and shipwreck, it's no joke. You see,
I the doctor prescribed a voyage for my
I niece; a love affair, you know lowered
I her system. I wonder if shipwreck is a
I tonic? Save us! who is that? The
i captain? Why, man alive! it's Clement
I Smithers! Dora! Dora! there was a
I Providence in our being wrec ked, after
tail. Goodness! what's the matter with
I the g'ul? Captain Smithers, don't you
' kn,.u f.-i.,,. ,L9 '....
know
you go to
, Dora? She looks as if the
were going
to taint."
I And Captain Smithers went. llarit ri
, Batar.
Ad rice to traveler, liny a bottle of Dr. Bull's
C'ouyh Syrup the only tiling to stop a buck.
SLAIN BY AN KLK.
low 'eitrnl II. C. Hull, a Veteran, Met
ft Vlo!ent I)efh"Two Other Men
Killed The IVtofR I'rivnte Pni k In
nicts 1 IO Antler WouivH In rive
Minutes.
The Philadelphia Times condenses
from the Osborne (Kan.) Farmer the
following graphic account of the fatal
struggle at Hull's City, Kan., between
General H. C. Bull, aided by several of
his employe, and an infuriated elk .
Itjs well known all over Kansas that
General Bull, savcral years ago, in
closed and fitted up at great expense, a
magnificent park, through which hun
dreds ol visitors have walked during the
last summer. The general was in the
habit of strolling about the inclosure
before breakfast every morning. About
half-past eight o'clock this forenoon he
went in as usual and attended to the
feeding of tho wild animals, of which
there is a number. Among tho animals,
are three elk, one a large, antlered male,
a royal specimen of the moose family,
and tho general's particular pet. This
elk never before exhibited any hostile
sums, and the writer, as well na num
berless others, has time and again patted
him on tho nose and rubbed his glossy
coat. Hut when, at nine o'clock this
morning, Robert Bricknell, one of the
hired men, was standing near the main
gateway he heard cries for help in a
voice which he at once recognised as
that of his employer. Bricknell ran for
ward. As he approached he saw that
the elk was endeavoring to paw the
general down whether in play or not
lie failed at tho first glance to see. Gen
eral Hull evidently was on his guard,
however, and bo seizing two clubs
Bricknell was at the general's side in a
twinkling. Both men grasped th:jir
clubs, the general saying: " Now. Rob
ert, I'll soon test his mettle.1' Without
a srgn of warning the now infuriated
beast made a ol uirge at the men, stt ik
ing General Hull and knocking him down
with great force. The eik then drew
back and made a second attack on Gen
eral Bull, this time with increased force,
using his antlers with terrible effect,
piercing the prostrate body of the gen
eral through the breast until the prong
protruded, then tossing the form high
into the air and thrrAving him over its
head. The elk then resumed his attack
on Bricknell, inllictiiijz terrible injuries,
whilst doing which George Nicholas,
another cmployee,who had witnessed tlio
occurrence, ran to tho rescue with
a heavy club of hard wood four
and one-half feet long, and about
two inches in diameter, with which
he expected to so disable the ani
mal as to compel it to desist.. With re
doubled fury and madness, however,
the elk caught the club in its antlers,
making indentures in.it and rolling it
upon the ground with great force. At
this time there were two bodies lying
prostrate, and with equal heroism and
courage William Sherman, a third em
ployee, hastened to tho combat. The
elk served Sherman the same as the
other men. catching him in his immens .
antlers and throwing him over the tence.
Airs. Bull was meanwhile a horrified
spectator of the terrible tragedy, and
wild with grief and terror ran to the
village crying for help. A number of
men made haste to reach the scene of
the disaster, but arrived too lato to be
of any service. They found General
Bull terriblynnangled and quite dead.
Again and again diA the beast charge
the rescuers, but ho was stoned off and
finally drive n to the extreme end of the
park. There he was lassoed and tied to
a tree by means of a stout cable rope. In
captivity he still paws and stamps the
ground with un bated fury. Poor Brick
nell died before the elk had been cor
ruled. Nicholas breathed his last about
eleven o'clock. A surgical examination
showed that General Hull's wounds num
bered forty-four. The wound that
caused his death was from the antler,
which entered the chest at the right nip
ple, pas-.-ing diagonally through the
body and coming out on the left side
abwut the fifth rib. The heart itself was
torn and both lungs pierced. Bricknell
received thirty-two wounds one under
the right arm, penetrating tho cavity of
the chest, and one in the groin, ripping
open the bladder. Nicholas was
wounded in sixty-four places ene being
over the stomach, penetrating the ab
dominal cavity, and one in the right
side, opening into the chest.
General Bull was ono of the most able
and popular men in the Slate He was
born in Wisconsin, and tit the breaking
out of the late war was a member of
the Wisconsin legislature. Ho went
into tho army, served gallantly in a
number of engagements, and at the bat
tle of Pea llidgo had his thigh broken,
which misfortune terminated his career
as a soldier, but left him a brever briga
dier general. After he had attained an
age wljen men usually retire from busi
ness, he came to Kansas, and after pome
changes finally went into the new county
of Osborn and established himself. He
selected a naturally beautiful spot. On
the north side of the river the wide bot
tom is shut in by a few line of hill's; on
the south side high bluffs, rising almost
Irom the water's edge, shut in Hie pros
pect; up and down the valley may be
seen the fringe of timber which marks
the windings of the south fork of the
Solomon. In this beautiful but lonely
spot the old generii and his noble
hesrtedwife selected their home.
The Sea Serpent,
The sea serpent is classed by some nat
uralists us a reptile, and by others as an
animal, hut this trilling disagreement
has no c fleet on the general health of
the monster. He is always in n jolly
mood and the best of spirits. He is not
quite as domestic in his nature as an old
tom-cat, or a boy with three stone
bruises cm each foot, but he is sejjoin
met wit It any great distance from home.
There is abundant evidence to prove that
he knew all about thin country before
Columbus did. At lea.-jt, the first one
set n in America by white linn acted as
much at home as a hired loan in the
pantry, and at no time dining the lat
four hundred years has the market been
short of a full supply.
Sea serpents have been met with only
150 feet long, but the majority of them
are at least double that length. A sea
captain who would come into port and
make oath that he had seen one less than
But) bt long would be laughed to scorn
and advised to go West and become a
Buffalo Bill. There is no doubt that
one of the monsters can keep riitht on
growing as long an he w ants to, and of
course each one is ambitious to spin out
as far as he can. During fly time a sea
60rpent 300 feet long has a great advan
tage over a cow or a mule a faet which
naturalists seem to have overlooked en
tirely. While these monsters are no doubt
somewhat given to roaming around, they
nre seldom found curled up under favor
ite cherry trees or in arbors resorted to
by moon-struck lovers.
While other snakes go t heaps of
trouble to get into a house and curl up
in an old straw hat on the top-shelf of a
bedroom closet, the sea serpent keeps
him elf modestly in the backgroutd.
This animal is not gregarious in its
habits. Two sea serpents aie never
seen together, and it is seldom that two
are seen the same week.
Their plan seems to be to go it alone.
Each one then secures all the glory and
all the plunder, and there js no give
away about it. Their ptiucipal lood
consist of tough old ships the older
and tougher the better, and it nny red
nosed sea captain or swaggering mates
happen to slip into the monster's mouth
along with topsail yards, bowsprits,
capstans, etc., the serpent is not to
blame for it.
While children may cry for this rep
tile, they hadn't better fool with it, as it
is plain that he is very whimsical in his
nature. Captains have taken one stiff
glass of grog and gone on deck to be
hold a sea serpent liumping away from
the ship as fast as he could go. Other
captains have taken two glasses of grog
and seen the serpent swim all aroundthe
ship and lift its head thirty feet in the
air and open his jaws as if he scented
roast chicken. It may all be in the grog,
or it may be the variable nature of the
serpent. Until the real truth is known
the tow-headed boys of the land had
better not run after this marine novelty.
While it is known that the house fly
lives six months and tho elephant 100
years, nobody knows how long it takes
a sea serpent to die of old age. He may
droop and die just as he has learned the
ropes aud come to know all about tho
bunko-game, or he may hang on and
witness the passing away of seven gen
erations of long-lived ol Jack Tars. It
is perhaps just as well that some little
mystery is allowed to enshroud this
strange inhabitant. If wo were privi
leged to slam him around as we do
mud-turtles, or kick himjout of the pnth
as we do an old hat with a rock under it,
we should feel a contempt instead of an
admiration for him, and when a ship
came homo and reported seeing a mons
ter sea serpent in the neighborhood of
section three, township eleven, in range
thirteen eastfi the captain would he
asked to look in our eyes and answer if
he saw a vegetable garden there. De
troil Free Press.
The Malarial Poison.
Intermittent fever, maish fever, ma
larial lever, lever nnd ague, "chills"
those ar! a few of the names by which
the; doctors and tho people know more
or less of oue of the most widespread
and familiar of the ills that flesh is heir
to a malady that seems to oi cur at one
time or another in all countries where
there are to be found water, sunshine
and a soil reasonably rich in decayed
vegetable elements. In countries where
the soil is less rich in vegetable ele ments,
the fever is restricted to the neighbor
hood of inundated lands or marshes, or
ponds of variable level, became in these
situations the; abundance of decaying
vegetable subsistence is very great. In
such countries the opinion is general, and
is perhaps accurate, that the poison lsnl
marshy origin ; but in countries where the
whole soil is rich enough to be in this
particular like these marshy lands, it
lias been long recognized that the poison
had no necessary relation to marshy
situations, but was in fact telluric, and
that a short rain, which only slightly
moistened the surface of the earth and
a few succeeding hours of sunshine biip-
hdied all the conditions necessary for the
eiaooratton ot the poison that produced
this fever. But what was that poison?
Within a ft w years ingenious endeavors
to solve this problem have multiplied.
In the present year some experiments
have heen made at Home which appear
to be more fruitful than tiny hitherto
recorded; or, in the words of the; report
read to the Academy cf Rome, "the in
vestigation was rewarded with com
plete success." These experiments were
conducted by Signor Tomnmsi, of Rome,
and Prolessor Klebs, of Prague. They
together spent some weeks in the
Aigo Romano, and made repeated
examinations of the lower strata of the
atmosphere, of the soil and of
st.ignant waters, and succeeded in
isolating a microscopic famrus, speci
mens of which, being placi d under the
kin of healthy dogs, caused distinct and
regular paroxysms of intermittent fever
and produced in the spleens id' these ani
mals that peculiar condition which is a
recognized part of tne pathology of this
disease. In the medical world this
achievement must be regarded as an im
portant one. To people at large it may
not seem a great affair to have ascer
tained precisely what oart of the elements
of a poisonous soil it is to which its
poisonous nature is due; but it mii-d
not be too hastily judged that this
knowledge will not involve an import
ant advance in the capacity to deal with
this noxious product ot the earth. New
York JAraUI.
An Iowa paper tells the story of a lady
who took her child into a cemetery fur
the first time, and upon showing him the
marble ligiu'o of a lamb upon a grave was
appalled to bear hini exclaim : "I sup
pose an old sheep is buried there.1'
The Tatchwork Spread.
Tho cottage stands back from the siiiowiilk,
In front is a lare willow tree,
While nestling among the morning glories
A flower hanging basket I see.
Mmleiru vinos climb o'or the window
And gay lady-slippers so re.l, -While
motlior, she sits in her roi k'ir,
Ihiiy making a patchwork spread.
'Iho garden U teeming wilh flowers,
Tho bright portulaccas in blooro,
With myitlo and gay creeping Charlie,
And sweet heliotrope sheds perfume.
Cut brighter und sweeter than any
(iay flowors that grow in their bed,
Is the dear ono that sits in the rocker,
Busy making a patchwork spread.
With pieces of muslin beside her,
Knufi one ot a different hue,
Some light and some dark and soma flain
one?,
Some well worn as well as some no w.
How deftly she puts them together,
The bright ones surround c.ich diuk shred,
So that when it is all completed
'Tia a beautiful patchwork spread.
The children are home for vacation,
They gambol and play in the room,
And swiltly her neodle i plying,
And she blithely singing a tune.
I think ns I watch her spare figure,
Some few silver hairs in her head,
How much that our lives twined together
Kesemblo that bright, patohwoik spread.
Some ilays have been happy and joyous,
And somo have h id heartaches and tears,
Y"ct bright they appear altogether,
For now ne:irly twenty-eight years.
God giant when our lives are both ended
And s-jwn with sweet love's silken thread,
Our children will think ol us kindly
When they look at that patekwerk spread.
Onnond Place.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A silent school-house makes a noisy
bar-room.
The annual tea crop of the world is
631,000,000 pounds.
Kind words can never dye.- It is
different v ilh the gray-haired bachelor
of youthful tendencies. liackland
Courier.
It is a fact that many a fellow has
learned through experience . that a
woman is never merciful to a timid man.
Waterloo Obsemr.
Tho Boston Courier discovers that
when two young men meet they address
eac h other as " old man," and that when
two old fellows meet they say "my
boy.'" '
England has no merino sheep, except
in her colonies; Russia has lsJ.OOO.OOO
merinos, France 0,(100,000. ' The merinirtj
and grades in the United States exceed
S5,000,000.
There is an oak tree near Raleigh,
N. C, which, at the sun's merid
ian, covers with a shade a space of
nine thousand feet. It would afford
shelter for 4.500 men.
Farmers are just now laying in their
winter's fuel, sind the more grown-up
daughters, the bigger the wood-pile.
Allowance must be made for sparks.
Middklown 'IVans'-ript.
Fast young men, like fast horses, have
records. Those of tho former are kept
at the police court and some of them
can show a gait that would make Rarus
feel like a dray-horse. Keokuk date
City.
Now fades the glimmering landscape on tho
lea,
Now ludes tho fly, the gnat, and all the
rest j
Now walks the street, oh, painiul figl't tn see,
The man whose winter u'.sler shroud 1"
glimmer vest.
Hairkcyc.
The Japanese government had in its
service eighty Englishmen, thirty-one
Americans, thirty Frenchmen, eighteen
Germans, seven DiVehmen, four Ital
ians, three Swiss, three Chinese, two
Austrians, two Portuguese and one Rus
sian, making 181 foreigners.
The Russian navy now consists of
twenty-eight ironclads, four frigates
eleven corvettes, thirteen clippers, twenty-one
fcteamers, twenty-two gunboats,
111 torpedo boats, twenty-seven schoon
ers and 117 sailing vessels. This arma
ment is manned by 3,h71 officers and SH.
WO men.
Of the miles of telegraphic wire in
use in tho English colonics, India has
17,810 miles; Ceylon, 75 miles; New
South Wales, o,o73 miles; Victoria.
i,ws5 miles; South Australia, 4,('0l
miles; Western Australia. 1.507 miles;
Tasmania, 7.rl miles; New .'aland,
3.307 miles:" Queensland, 5,033 miles;
and the Cape of Good Hope, 'J, 150 miles.
The wasp feeds on tho hollow peiioh.
Ami the thi-tlo down is blowing, blowing;
Tho I'tM ii is de-el, and the morning re I
lu the eastern cloud is glowing.
Tho holly-oak stuff is broken in two,
And the weed-tlies are all flaring;
Time ii shaking "io sliinxi.-h sainU,
And the year, the your m v earing.
The peculiar pe bbles know n iiVus
tralia us the traveling stones have iong
been regarded as great eunositie . S'mi
lar one. have just been ilis ovtred in
Nevada, almost round in shape, and in
large as a walnut. The cause of tl eso
stones rolling to a common point from
distances of t'iive or four lc t is the
loadstone or magnetic inn ore of which
they are composed.
An energetic girl in the coat hern part
of France "he ard that a gay youth had
been slandering her. She came up be hind
him while he was walking with
his sweetheart and threw vitriol into
his face, destroying his eyesight and
spoiling the beauty id his pretty com
panion. Evervhody sympathized with
her and she was aci'iintcd, alihoiuh
confessing that she had im diluted the
deed for two years.