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Lih.'s sands are running last away ; The buoyant stop ot youth Is gone; 'J'lio lulling hair i turning pray j And time soeiiu now to jmn j- on iMore fleetly limn In days ol yore Before the heart beoiune its prey Deforo 'twas saddened to Hie oora Belore the hair was quite so gray. Yes, turning gray! Ago comes like snow, As Bt ill and carves each careworn lino; Its wrinkles on tho brow will grow; Tho hair with silver Mreaks will shluej The oyes their brightness lose; tho hand Grow dry aiitl tremulous and thin For lite, alas! is quickly spanned, And denth its gates soon closes in. Ah, turning gray! We tain would hide The sign how long with time we've been Those deepened wrinkles, side by side, (Jut by the sorrows we '. avo seen; S J (Vbhlei beats the heart as years More qukkly cluster on our head; AiiJ autumn rain-drops hang like tears On some lair flower that's noarly dead Liko perished potals lrom ho flower, Our hopes and wildost foys are Jtw'd Burn only lor a day or hour W Sweet gambols by tho fancy played. As age comes on we long for rest As saints near eh ri nes will 'ong to pray; But still we love that time tho best Before the hair is turning gray. RU1H S FATHER-IN-LAW. A curious trade to take, but then it has grown profitable. Things were at a low ebb with me when I took it up, while now There, I won't boast, only say that I'm thankful for it. Poverty comes in at the door, and love Hies out of tfce window, so your poor people will be always mis erable, while according to my experiene your poor man is often more light-hearted than the man with thousands. I was at my wits' ends for something t da, and sat nibbling my nails one day .grumbling horribly. "Don't go on like that, Tom," says ntj wife; "things might be worse.'' "How?", 1 said. "Why, we might hare Luke at home and he is doing well.'' Luke's our boy, you know, and we bar got him into a merchant's olliie, where lit seemed likely to sty ; but I was in a grum bling fit then, and thtre was a clickety .click noise going on in the next room thai fidgeted me terribly. "Things can.'t he worse,",! said, angrily ; find I was going to prove myself in thi wrong by making her cry, when there wa a knock at the door. "Come in," said, and a fellow lodgei 1 put in his head. t J' Are you good at work, Mr. Smith?" ht said. "What work?" I Mid; "firework gas works?" "No, no; I mean works of things as jjofs with wheels and springs. " 'Middling,'' J) said, for I was fond of pulling clicks to pieces and trying to in vent. "I wish you'd oonie and look at this sewing-machine of mine, for I can't get it to 8' Sewing machines were newish in those days, and 1 got up to have a look at ft, and after about an hour's fiddling abont it, 1 began to see a bit of the reason why the purpose, J ou know, of all the screws und cranks and wheels ; 1 found rut, too, why onr neighbor's if who was a dressmaker, and h.ul just started one could not get it to go ; and before niirht, and by thinking, and putting this and that together, had got her in the way of working it pretty steud ily, though, with my clumsy lingers, 1 couldn't have done it myself. X had my bjt ot dinner and ten with these pffple, and they forced half a crown upon l!iOjs well, and I went back feelinir like a new mart, so refreshing had been that bit of work. There,'' said my wife, "I told you some thing would cofcie." "a ell, so you did," said I, but the some thing is rather smull." But The very next day as we were living in tlue midst of people who were fast taking to sewing machines if the folks from the next house didn't want me to look at the'ir's ! and then 'the. news spreading, as , news will spread, that there was somebody '. who could Cobble and tinker machines without putting people'to the expense that niakers would, if the jobs didn't come in fast so that 1 was obliged to get files and drills and a vise regular set ot tools by de grees j and at last I was as busy as a bee from morning to night, whistling over my work as happy as a king - ) course, every now and then I got a breakage, but I could generally get over ' that by buying a new wheel or spindle, or whatnot. Next wegot to supplying shuttles, ana needles ana machine cotton. Soon alter I bought a machine of a man who was tired of it. Next week J sold it at a good profit; bought another, and another, and sold them ; then got to taking 'them ami money in ex change for new ones; and one way or the other became a regular big dealer as you see. , Hundred? Why, new, secondhand and with those being repaired upstairs by the men, I've got at least 300 on the premise. while if anvbody had told me fifteen years ago that 1 should be doing this 1 should have laughed at him. That pretty girl showing and explaining the machine to a customer ? That's Ruth, that is. No, not my daughter yet, but she soon will be. Poor girl, I always think of her and of bread thrown upon the wafers at the same time. Curious idea, that, you will say, but I'll tell yJui why. In our trade we have strange people to deal with. Most of 'em are poor, and can't buy a machine right off, but are ready and willing to pay so much a week. That suits them, and it suits me. if they'll only keep the payments up to the end. You won't believe me, jierhaps, but some of them don't do that. Koine of them leave their lodgings, and I never see them again ; and the most curious part is that the sew ing machine disappears with them, and I never see that again. Many a one, too, that nas disappeared like that, 1 do see again jerlips have it brought here by someone to oe repaired or exchanged for a bigger or for one by a different maker : for if you look round here you'll see I've got all kinds new and old.little domestics and big trades there, you name any maker, and see if I don't bring out one ot his works. Wen, whenever 1 ask these p lhey.rgqt the machine for I a them bV the number it turf they've bought it through an ac Well, whenever I ask these people where for 1 always know rns out that dvertisement or si n salesroom, or may lie out ot pawn broker's shop. But I've had plenty of honest people to deal with, too them ashavecome straight forward and akedmeto take their machine back, when I'd allow them as nitiph as I thought fair, and 'twould be, n fetid of a pleasant transaction. " ' The way I have been bitten, th&igh by Fome folks had niademethatcase-hJSrdened that sometimes I've wondered whether I'd got any heart, and the wife had to interfere, telling me I've been spoiled with prosiierity and grown unfeeling, It was she that made me give way about Ruth ; for ono day, after having had my bristles all set up by finding out that, three good sound machines, by best makers, had' gone, nolwdy knew where, who should coino into the shop but a ladylike-looking woman in very shabby widow's weeds. She wanted a machine for herself and daughter to learn, and said she had heard I would take the noney by installment. Now just half nn hour before, by our shop-clock, I had made a vow that I'd give up all that part of the trade, and I was very rough with her just as I am when I'm cross and said " No." But you will if the lady gives security?" said my wife, hastily. The poor woman gave such a woe tegone look at us that it made me more out of tamper than ever, for I could feel that if I -topped I should have to let her have one at her own terms. And so it was; forthere, if I didn't let her have a first-class machine, as good as new, she onlv paying seven and one-hali down, and undertak ing to pay half a crown a week, and no more security than nothing ! " To make it worse, too, if I didn't send the thing home without charge 1 Luke wentwith it, for he was back at home now keeping my books, being grown into a fine young fellow . of . twenty-five ; and I sat and growled the the whole of the rest of the day, calling myself all tho weak-minded idiots under the sun, and telling the wife that business was going to the dojs, and I should lie ruined. Luke came back soon after looking very ili ange, and I was at him directly. "Where's the seven aiux ?" 1 says, an grily. He didn't answer, but put three half crowns down on the desk, took out his book, made his entries date of delivery, first payment, when the other's due and all the. rest of it and was then going into the house. "Mind," I said sharply, those .'payments are to be kept up to the day ; and to-morrow you go down to the Kollys, who live nearly opposite to 'em, and tell 'em to keep an eye on the widow, or we shall lose another machine." "You need't be afraid, father," he said coldly ; they're honest enough, only poor." I was just in that humor that I wanted to quarrel with somebody, and that did it. "When I ask you for your opinion, young man, you give it me"; and when I tell you to do a thing, you do it," says, In as savage a way as ever I spoke to the lad. "You go over to-morrow and tell the Kollys to keep a strict lookout on those people; do you hear ? "Father," he says, looking me full in the face, "I couldn't insult them by doing such a thing," when, without another woid, he walked quietly out of the shop, leaving me worse than ever. For that boy had never spoken to me like that liefore, and I should have gone after him feeling like mad, only some people came in, and I didn't see him again until evening, and a good thing, too, for I'm sure 1 should have said all sorts of things to the boy that I should have been sorry for after. And there 1 was, fuming and fretting about, savage with everybody, giving short answers, snapping at the wife, and feeling as a man does feel when he knows that he has been in the wrong and hasn't the heart to go and own it. It was about 6 o'clock that I was sitting by the parlor fire, with the wife working and very quiet, when Luke came in from the workshop with a book under his arm, for he had been trotting up the Mien's piece work, and-what was due to them, and the fight of him made me feel as if I wanted to quarrel. He saw it, too, but he said nothing, only put the accounts away and began to read. The wile saw the storm brewing, and she knew how put ojit I was, for I had not lit II1V. riinp llnr VM Vind mv ovoninr nnn - I I 1 - - - j - j - v ..... "!' which I alwsya had after tea. She did what she so well knew how to do filled my pipe, forced it in my hand- and just as I was going to dash it to pieces in the ashes she gave me one of her old looks, kissed me on the forehead, as with one hand she pressed me back into the chair and .then with the oilier she lit a splint and held it to my tobacco. I was done.' She always ets over me like that: and after smoking in silence for nan an nour. i was lying nacK, with eyes closed, dropping off to sleep, when the wife said (what had gone before I hadn't heard;: " Yes, he's asleep now." That woke me up of course, and if I didn't lie there shamming and heard all they said in a whisper! "How came you to make him more vexed than he was, Luke?" said the wife ; and he told tier. "1 couldn't do it, mother," he said ex citedly. "It was heart-breaking. She's living in a wretched room there with her daughter; and, mother, when I saw her I felt as it there, I can t tell you." " (io on, Luke '' she said. They're half-starved," he said, in husky way. "Oh, mother! it's horribl Such a sweet, beautiful girl, and the pv f woman herself dying almost with some terrible disenpe." The wife sighed. " They told me," he went on, " how hard hey had tried t live by ordinary needle work, and failed, and that as a last re source they had trifd to get the machine." "J'oor, things! said the wife; "but are yen sure the mother was a lady?" A clergyman's widow,' says Luke, has tily; "there isn't a doubt about it. Poor girl ! and they've got to learn to use it be Jore it will be of any use." "J'oor girl, L.uke," said the wife softlv; and I saw through my eyelashes that she laid a hand upon his arm, and was looking curiously at him, when if he didn't cover hm fane with his bands, rest his elbows on the tavle, and give a low uroan ! Then the old woman got up, stood behind his chair, ana uegan playing with and caressing his hair like the foolish old mother would. "Mother," he said, suddenly. " will vou go and see them ?" She didn t answer tor a minute, onlv stood looking nt him, and then-said softly: J hey paid you the lirst money ?" -"No," he said hotly. " I hadn't the heart to take it." t " Then that money you naid wa vours. Luke?" " " Yes, mother," he says, simply; and those two Btopped looking at the other, till the wife bentlownand kissed him, holdiag his head afterward'.for a few moments, between her hands; for she always did worship that chap, our only one; and then I closed my eyes tight, and went on breathing heavy and fciiiiimiipt. For something like a new revelation had come upon me. I knew that Luke was 25, and that I was 64, but he always seemed like a boy to me, and here I was waking up to the fact that he was a grown man and that he was thinking and feeling as I -first thought and felt when I saw his mother, nigh upon eight-and-twenty years ago. I lay back, thinking and telling mvself J was very savage with him for deceiving me. and that I wouldn't have him and his mother plotting agaitiHt me, and that I wouldn't stand by and see him make a fool of himself with the first pretty girl he set eyes on-when lie night marry Maria Tur ner, ttrfjengineers daughter, and have a nWe birfjf money with her to put into the business, and then be my partner. "No." 1 says, "if you plot together I'll plot alone, and then 1 protended to wake up, took no notice, and had my supper. I kept rather gruff next morning, and made ntyself very busyabout the place, and I dare say I spoke more sharply than usual, but the wife and Luke were as quiet as could be; and about twelve o'clock I went out, with a little oil-can and two or three tools in my pocket. It was not far to Bennett's place, and on getting to the right house I asked for Mrs. .Murray, and was directed to the second lluor, where, as I reached the door, I could hear the clic ing of ray sewing machine, and whoever was there was so busy over it that sde did not hear me knock; so I opened the door softly and looked in upon ag sad o scene as I shall ever, I dare say, see. 1 here, in the bare room, sal, asleep in her chair, the widow lady w ho came about the machine,and I couldsee that in her face which told plainly enough that the pain and suffering she must have been going through for years would soon be over; and, situated as she was, it gave me a kind of turn. " It's no business of yours,' I said to mv- i-elf roughly; ai.d I turned to look who it was that was bending over my machine. 1 could see no face, only a slight figure in rusty black; and a pair of busy white hands were trying very hard to govern the thing, and to learn to use it well. ' bo that the gal, is it I said to my self. "An 1 .uuKe my coy, vou ve got to the silly calf age, and I dare say " 1 got no further, tor at that moment the girl started and turned around, and turned upon me a timid, wondering face that made my heart give a queer throb, and I couldn t take my eyes off her. ' Jlusli ! ' she said, soltly, holding up her hand; and I saw it was as thin and trans parent as if she had been ill. "My name s Smith, I said, taking out a screw-driver. "My machine; how does it go? Thought I'd come and see." Jier lace lit up in a moment, and she came forward eagerly. "I m so glad you ve come, she said. "I can't quite manage this." She pointed to the thread-regulator, and the next minute I was showing- her that it was too tight, and somehow, in a gentle. timid way, the little witch quite got over me, and I stopped there two hours helping her, till her eves sparkled with delight, as she found out easily she could now make the needle go in and out ot hard material. "Do you think you can do it now? I said. ''Oh, yes, I think so ; I am so glad you came. "So am I," says 1, gruffly,; "it will make it all the easier for you to earn the money and pay for it." "And 1 will work so hard," she said, ear nestly. "That you will, my dear," I says in spite of ni y sell, for I felt sure it wasn't me iqicak- ing, but something in me. " She been ill long?" I said, nodding toward her mother. "Months,' she said, with tears starting in her pretty eyest; "but," she added, brightly, "I shall have enough with this to get her goods, to get her good medicines and things she can fancy ;" and as I looked at her, something in me raid : " Ood bless you, my dear ! I hope you will;' an.t the next minute X was going down stairs, calling myself a fool. They thought I didn't know at home, but 1 did ; there was the wife going over ard over again to the Bennett's place ; and all sorts of little nice things were made and taken there. I often used to see them talk ing about it, but 1 took no notice ; and that artful scoundrel, my boy Luke, used to pay the half crown every week out of his own pocket, after going to fetch it from the widow s. And all the lime 1 told myself I didn't like it, for I could see that Luke was changed, and always thinking of that girl a girl not half good enough for him. l're membered Kor myself, and I hated poverty, and I used to speak harshly to Luke and the wife, and feel very bitter. At last there came an afternoon when I knew there wos something wrong. The wife had gone out, directly after dinner, saying she was going to see a sick woman I knew who it was, bless you ! and Luke was fidgeting about, not himself, and at last he took his hat and went out. "They might have confided in ine," I said bitterly, but all the time I knew that I wouldn't let them. "They'll be spending money throwing it away. I know they've spent pounds on them already." At last 1 got in such a way that I called down our foreman, left him in charge, and took my hat and wenf after them. Everything was very quiet in Bennett's place, for a couple of dirty, dejected-looking women, one who was in arrears to me, had sent the children that played in the court right away because of the noise, and was keeping guard so that they should not come back. 1 wfcnt up-stairs softly, and all was very quiet, only as I got nearer to the room I heard a bitter, wailing cry, and then I opened the door and went in. Luke was there, standing with his head bent by the sewing-machine; the wife sat in a chair, and on her knees, with her face buried in the wife's lap, was the poor girl, crying as if her little heart would break; while on the bed, with all look of pain gone out of her face, lay the widow gone to meet ner husband where pain and sorrow are no more. I couldn't see very plainly, for there was a mist like before my eyes; but I know Luke flushed up as he took a step forward, as if to protect the girl, and the wife looked at me in a frightened way. But there was no need, for something that wasn't me spoke, and that in a gentle way, as I stepped forward, raised the girl up, and kissed her pretty face before laying her little helpless head upon my shoulder and smoothing her soft brown hair. " Mother," says that something from within me, "I think there's room in the nest at home for this poor, forsaken little bird. Luke, my boy, will you go and fetch a cab? Mother will see to what wants do ing here." My boy gave a sob :is he caught my hand in his, and the next moment he did what he had not done for years kissed me on the cheek before running out of the room, leaving me with my darling nestling in my breast. I said " my Jarling," for she has been the sunshine of our home ever since a pale, wintry sunshine while the sorrow was fresh, hut spring and summer now. Why, bless herl look at her. I've felt ashamed some times to think that she, a lady of birth, should comedown to such a life ; making me well, no, it's us now, for Luke's part ner no end of money by her clever ways. But she's happy, thinking her husband, that is to be.the finest fellow under the sun; ana let me ten you there s many a gentle man not so well off as ray boy will b, even if the money has all come out of a queer trade. .The Diseases of Wild Animals. W hile first surgeon of the Thirty-first regiment of the line, then stationed at Aliibera, in Algeria, I dissected the carcasses of about fifty lions. The lungs of twenty of them was affected; one half of them were almost gone, showing that consumption is prevalent among the lions of the Sahara and the Sahel. At 4he .1 ard in des Plantes, in Paris, peven lions have died since 1809. All oi them were horn there. I dissected them, and found that their lungs were entirely healthy. To what was the difference due? They received their food regularly, and were carefully protected from in clement weather, while the lions in Africa had to go without food for days, had to inhale the sandy air of the desert, and were frequently drenched by terri ble rains. There is at the Jardin des Plantes, a wolf from the Ardennes. He was caught when about six years old. lie was suf fering from a cough, and at one time we thought he was dying. He hawked and spat, and was always sullen and morose. Often he abstained from food for several days. At last we chloroformed him, and examined his throat. He was found to be suffering from nasal catarrh in its most aggravated form. Under proper medical treatment he recovered rapidly. Nine wolves born at the Jardin never showed the slightest sign of disease. M. Jaequeniart, the famous Indian hunter, often told me that he had seen tigers spitting blood, which exhausted them so that they could be approached within a few feet with impunity. All moDkeys are very delicate ani mals. They are not gluttonous, and having so much exercise, they are rarely ntllicted with diseases of the bowels. But they have weak lungs, and the rea son why so many of the most interesting among them (lie when brought to Europe, is the too sudden change of air, diet, and water. There is no more in telligent monkey than the chimpanzee, a truly wonderful nnimal. While in Berlin, I dined at the Zoological Gardens by the side of a pet chimpanzee. lie partook of everv dish like a human be ing, put sugar into his teacup, stirred it with a spoon, and drank the beverage with evident relish. But his eyes looked supernaturally bright. I felt his pulse. It was 125. "He will not live long," I said to his keeper. " Why not?" he asked, with a sorrow ful mein. " He is a consumptive," I replied. " Indetd! He often coughs." The chimpanzee died a month later His left lung was entirely gone. I'roJ. Jean, in Popular Science Monthly. A drunkard handed a bottle of whis. key to his son for safe-keeping, at Stan ford, Ky. The boy dropped and broke it, spilling the liquor. The loss so en raged the man that he shot and killed the boy offender. A Missouri doctor paid a patient 402 visits, and squared the bill for a barrel of cider and a load of bricks. " Ah, how well do I remember it wus in the bleuk November' when I oaufclit the cold that was wearing pie surely and swittly away ; hut I beard ot fir. bull's COugh Syrup, took it, and ain as well us ever. A Governor's Bride. One of the editors of the Pawtucket Chronicle has been roaming in and around Portsmouth, N. II., and of course visited the old Governor Bonninz Wentworth mansion, and heard the at tendant, among other things, say: "There is tho fireplace before which Martha Hilton stood when she was married to Governor Wentworth," which leads him to remark : We stand liefore the fireplace and sec that it in covered by a fire-board and screen, and then are reminded ot a story which we will relate : The mnrriago of the some what aged governor recalled among some of the citizens of Portsmouth an incident which hard occurred a few years before. There was a boarding-house on the ancient Pitt street, and one day the matron of it saw a careless, laughing, bars-foot girl passing before her door, carrying a pail of water, and wearing a dress that but scantily covered her form. She knew her, and cried out to her, "You Pat! you Pat! WThy do you go looking so? You should be ashamed to be seen in the street." " No matter how I look," was the pert reply; "where these rags are I shall wear lace, and ride In my chariot yet." Years had rolled on meanwhile. The governor had lost his first wife and lin three sons, and was left widowed and childless. After having vainly striven to deprive another husband of his wife, he turns his glances to a young maiden who is doing work in his kitchen and keeping his house in satisfactory order. On a certain day, therefore, the governor invites a party to dinner at his mansion, and among the rest of his guests comes, wearing his cocked hat. Rev. Arthur Brown, of the Episcopal church. Dinner is served with the profusion and variety that be fit a governor's table. The guests hav ing been satisfied with their repast, the governor quietly whispers to a mes senger, and soon, from the door in which we ent red, Martha Hilton, the independent mis9 whose scanty garb had provoked the criticism above men tioned, comes blushing and takes her stand in front of the fireplace. She seems regardless of the fire; does not appear to have any particular business there; she waits, and no guest has di vined for what object she has come. She is twenty years of age, while the gover nor's hairs begin to be whitened by the snows of sixty winters. He rises from the table and says to the rector: "Mr. Brown, I wish you to marry me." "To .vhom ? asked the startled pastor. " To this lady," was the answer. The rector stand 3 confounded, but the bridegroom rouses him from his bewilderment by the imperious mandate : ."As the gov ernor ot New Hampshire 1 command you to marry me." There is no delay now, and from this hour Martha Hilton becomes Lady Wentworth! Tradition declares that she made an excellent wife, and retained the affection and es teem of her husband. On his disease, in 1770. I:e left her his entire estate. In her grief, after his departure, friends came to this parlor to proffer sympa thy, and special consolation she found in t he society of a retired colonel of the British army, who bore the name of Michael Wentworth, and who, erelong, became her husband. A Learned Poodle. Once an expert in Paris, finding it was impossible to convince peoplo that he was right and t..e public were wrong, taught a poodle to determine what was a true antique coin, and what was bogus. A dealer would bring coins for sale. Their false character would be stated at once, but when the sellers were disputa tive the expert would say, " My poodle can tell you without the least trouble which e-oin or coins are false." The poodle would be introduced. The money would be placed on the table, the good with the bad, and after nosing them for an instant, the dog would knock off the table with his paw all the bad pieces. Of course this trait of canine Bagacity was convincing. The man's knowledge was but secondary with that of the dog. and the party with the false coins would go away perfectly satisfied. The fame of the dog extended over many countries. There was even the possibility that the poodle would be elected an honorary member of several learned societies. People would come with coins, asking for the expert, and when he was absent would say : " Well, if the mafter is out. pray let the dog look at them. We will be quite satisfied with his judgment." The tiick was quite simple. The numismatist took care to handle the bad coins and not to touch the authentic pieces. The dog's fine sense of smell at once distinguished the pieces his master's lingers touched, and he unhesitatingly separated tli8 bad coins from the good ones. How Far Can We Hear with the Tele phone This is a question frequently asked, but wo believe has not yet been defi nitely settled. Tho longest distance that we have mentioned is given in the item below, namely, two thousand miles. But perhaps Mr. Edison has had more extended experiences. If so we should be glad if he would let our read era know. An exchange states that Mr. Robert A. Pui'kpr Hiirtpi'intprtdpnt. nf t lm lVr.n- sylvania railroad, is at present hunting with a party of g"ntlemen in Nebraska. A few days ago lie for two hours con versed pleasantly with his wife and friends at Ssyre Pa., his brother at Mauch Chunk, Pa., and his friends along the line. The medium was the railroad anil Western Union telegraph win sand Edison's telephone. At the office in Bethlehem, Pa , connection was made with the Eastou and Aniboy wire, and at Perth Aniboy with a Wvestern Union wire, and thence to Chicago and North Bend, Nebraska, where the party are. The distance was about two thou sand miles, and every whisper was audi ble. kkieiUiJit; Atturii'im. Senator Bayard is an athlete, and has a reputation both as a pedestrian and hoxer. He is brotid--houieered, gray haired and clean-shaved. A Shadow. What laek the valleys anl the mountain Thnt once were green and gny What laek the babbling fountains? Their voieo is fad to-lay. Only the sound ol a voice Tender and sweet and low, A year ago! What lack the tender flowers? A shadow Is on the sun. ' What lack the merry hours, That I long that they were done ? Only two smiling eyes That told of joy and mirth; They are shining in the skies; I mourn on earth. What locks my heart that mutes it So weary and full ot pain, That trembling hope lorsakes it, Never to eoine again ? Only another heart, Tender and all my own ; In the still grave it lie I weep alone. ITEMS OF INTEREST. France has spent $200,000,000 since the German war in re-arming. Leadville has thirty smelting furnaces, which are kept running night and days. The Montreal Witness says the Cana dian government, is steadily advancing toward independence. The American $20 gold piece is super seding the English sovereign as the cur rent gold coin of the world, says a news dispatch. Master Tom: "Stand in the corner? What. for?" His Mamma: "Because you are a bad boy." Master Tom: "Can't I be a bad boy here just as well?' When Artemus Ward was exhibiting his show in Salt Lake City, his com plimentary tickets to the city officers, read as follows: "Admit bearer and one wife." In France locomotives arc used on canal tow-paths in place of mules. They make much better time than tha mu es; but, unlike the mule, there is always the danger that the locomotive may explode. The price of leather belting lias ad vanced from fifteen to twenty per cent. ; but what does the small boy care? He knows very well that though belting does come high, he is bound to have it, "-Chicago Times. ALL THE LETTERS. The following verse contains every letter in the alphabet: Except with zeal we strive to win God's just and holy love, We cannot conquer strife and siu Nor walk with Him above. Wragtswent to the statiou of one of our railroads the other evening, and find ing the seats all occupied, said, in a loud totyJ "Why, this car isn't going!" Of cotrAe these words caused a 'general stampe.'e, and Wnggs took the best seat. The train soon moved off. In the midst of the indignation the wag was ques tioned, "You said this car wasn't go ing?" "Well, it wasn't then." replied Waggs. "but it is now ."Louisville Commrial. Ex-Minister Washburne's latest pul -lb appearance was as a defender of mule meat. During the days of the commune, h i said, "for months there was no meat in Paris but horse meat and mule meat. I never ate horse, but I confers to have partaken freely ot the mule, and I will say to the c redit of thnt much-abused animal, that I found him quite good. My secretary assured me that of the many animals he had assistedlm devour dur ng the siege, the elephant waethe best oiiiul. 1 lie stones ol people eai ing cnts,,rats and dogs and other animals in Pans are literally true." Easy Goes What Easy Comes. A New York correspondent writes: Enormous fortunes have been made in New York during the last few months in the stock market. There are report of one gentleman who lias cleared $700, 000 by his speculations, and another who pocketed a cool $150,000, of a judge who has made $60,000, and of many others who have been extremely fortunate in their operations. But it is not in stocks alone that money has been rapidiy made. Almost every variety of property h:is gone up in value, bo that everybody feels richer than he was before, and con sequent happier. But it is a sad fart that as wealth has been gained, so has extravagance iccreased, and in a ratio out of all proportion in most cases to the money mtde. , Young New York brokers, who a year ago had hard work to meet the honest deniafids of land ladies, (shoemakers, tailors, washer women and the like, now indulge in the most profuse expenditures. They live in luxurious apartments, dress in Eng lish clothes, dine on the best in the land, drink the most costly wines and smoke the most expensive cigars. Quite a number of new equipages, dog-carts, T carts and coupes have been started on the strength of successful down-town speculations. Some are based on stocks, some on grain, some on pig tin, some on lead, some on real estate, etc., but they all represent the general advance in values. New houses and apartments are being expensively furnished. Fash ionable tailors, dressmakers and milliners never were so busy. One Fifth avenue tailor boasts of having made 119 dress suits for the regular clientele since the opening of the season. It is a notable fact that in all piattcrs pertaining to dress, both men and women, among the well-to-do and mod erately well-to-do classes, now choo-e the most expensive articles. Economy is no longer the order of the day. One ot these davs the reaction will come, and then the lesson which the people ought to have learned by heart during the panio will have to be taught them again. It is remarkable hotJiUle sense the best of us have just as Jm.ii as we grow rich.
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