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Lil.'s Hands are running last awny ; Tim buoyant slop ot youth is gone; Tho lulling hail' is turning eray ; And time souins now tojmriy on More Oeotly than In lny ot yore llafoto the heart l)icumo its prey Doforo 'twas suddoned to tho core Iiolore tho huh' waa qn ite so gray. Yes, turning gray! Ago comes like snow, As still and carves each careworn line; Its wrinkle on the brow will grow Tho hair with silver streaks will shine ; The eyes their brightness lose; tho band Grow dry aifa tremulous and thin For lilo, alas! is quickly spanned, And death its gate. soon closes in. Ah, turning gray! Wo Inin would liido Tho sign how long with time we've been Those deepened wrinkles, sido by side, (Jut by the sorrows we ! avo seen; So ruehloi boats the heart as years IMore quickly cluster on our bond; And autumn rain-drops hang like tears On some liiir flower that's noarly dead Like perishod petals lroiu the flower, Our hopes and wildest joys are laid Burn only lor a day or hour Sweet gambols by tho laney played. As age comes on we long for rest A saint near shrines will long to M'ay ; Hut 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 lias grown profitable. Things were at a low ebb with ine when I look it tip, 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 the indow, so your poor people will be always mis erable, while according to my experience your poor man is ofun more Tight-hearted than the man with thousands. I was at my wits' ends for something ti do, and sat nibbling my nails one day grumbling horribly. 4Jon't go on like that, Tom," says my wlwk "things might be worse.'' "How?". 1 said. "Why, we might have Luke at home and he is doing well.''' Luke's our boy, you know, and wehix got him into a merchant's office, where. In seemed likely to st-y ; but I was in a grum bling fit then, and there was a clickety clk'k noise going on in the next room that fidgeted me terribly. "Things can't be worse,",I said, angrily ; and I was going lo prove jiyself in tl, wrong. by making her cry, when there wa a knock at the door. "Come in," I said, and a fellow lodgei . put in his head. "Are you good at work, Mr! Smith?" lie said. "What work?" I said; "firework gas works'.'" "No, no ; I mean works of things as gof s with wheels and springs." 'Middling,'' said, for I was fond of pulling Tl$cks to pieces and trying to in vent. "I w'mh you'd come and look at this sewing-machine of mine, fur I can't get it to . ' o. ' . Sewing machines were newish in those days, and 1 got up to have a look at ft, and ' nfter about an hour's fiddling abont it, 1 begun lo see a bit of the reason why the purpose, you know, of all the screws and cranks and wheels ; 1 found rut, too, why onr neighbor's wift who was a dressmaker, and h.tel just started one could not get it to go ; and before niirht, and by thinking, " and puttjng this and that together, had got her in the way of working it pre tty stead ily, though, with my clumsy fingers, 1 . couldn't have done it myself. I had my bit of dinner and ten with these people, and they forced half a crown upon di3Ls well, and I went back feeling like a new mifl so refreshing had been thai bit of work. ' "There,'1 said my. wife, "I told you some thing woujd come." "a ell, so you did," said I, but tho some thing is rather small." But the very next day as we were living in the midst of people folio were fast taking to sewing machines if the folks from the next house didn't want me to look nl the'ir's ! and then the news spreading, as news will spread, that there was somebody who could cobble and linker machines withoijttitting people to the expense that makers-Would, it the jobs didn't come in fast so that I was obliged to get files and drills and a vise regular set of tools by de grees ; and at last I was as busy as a bee from morning to night, whistling over my work as happy as a king' - Of 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 we got to supplying shuttles, ana neeuiesanu machine cotton. Soon alter I bought a machine of a man who w:fo tired of it. Next week I sold it at a good profit; bought another, and another, and sold them j then got to taking them and money in ex change for new ones ; and one way or the other became a regular big dealer as you see. , Hundred? Why, new, second-hand and with those being repaired upstairs by the men, I've got at least 300 on the premise, while if anybody had told me fifteen years ago that I should be doing this 1 should have laughed at him. That pretty girl showing and explaining the machine to a customer? That's Kuth, that is. No, not my daughter yet, hut she Boon will be. Poor girl, I always think of her and of bread thrown upon the waters at the same time. Curious idea, that, you will say, but I'll tell you why. In our trade we have strange people to deal with. Most of 'em are oor, and can't buy a machine right oft', but are readv 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, jerhap8, but some oi tiiem don t do that, home of them leave their lodgings, and 1 never see them again ; and the most curious part is that the sew. ing machine disappears with them, and I never see Hint again. Many a one, too, that has disappeared like thnt, I do see again iterhaps have it brought here by someone to lie 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. Well, whenever I ask these people where tne.vMKO.t the machine for I always know them bV the number it turns out that they've bought it through an advertisement or st a salesroom, or maybe out of f, pawn broker's shop. lint I've h ad plenty of honest people to deal with, too them asjhave'come sfaight fofward and aked me to take their machine back, when I'd allow them as much as I thought fair, and 'twould be, ftn ciid of a pleasant transaction. The way I have been bitten, thmigh by pome folks had made me that case-hiSrdened that sometimes I've wondered whether I'd got any heart, and the wife had to interfere, tejling me I've been spoiled with prosjierity and grown unfeeling, It was she thnt made me give way about Kuth ; for one day, after having had my biiwtles all set up by finding out that three good sound machines, by best makers, bad gone, nobody knew where, who should como 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 money by installment. Now just half an 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 Legone look at us that it made me more out of ti'miier than ever, for I could feel that if I stopped I should have to let her have one at her own terms. And so it was; for there, if I didn't let her have a first-classiuachinc. as good as new, Hhe only paying seven and one-hali down, and undertaking to pay half a crown a week, and no more security than nothing ! To muke it worse, too, if I didn't send the thing home without charge! Luke went with 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 biifineRs was going to the do0's, and I should 1 mined. Luke came back soon after looking very urangc, anu i was at mm directly "Where's the seven aiigix ?" 1 says, an- gnly. He didn't answer, but put three half crowns down on the deak, took out his book, made his entries date of delivery, first payment, when the other's due and all the. reHt of it and was then going into the house. "Mind," I said sharply, those .'payments are to be kept up to the dsy ; 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 ; tlmy're honest enough, only poor." 1 was jiiHt in that humor that I wanted to 'quarrel with somebody, and that did it. "When I ask you lor your opinion, young man, you give it me"; and when I tell you to do a thing, you do it,"! says,1n as savage a way as ever I sjfke 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 1 didn't see him again until evening, and n 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 wilh 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 8 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 leen trotting up the men'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 wife saw the storm brewing, and she knew how put oit I was, for I had not lit my pipe, nor yet had my evening nup. which 1 alwsys had after tea. Hhe did what she so well knew how to do filled jny pipe, forced it in my hand- and just as 1 was going to dash it to nieces 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 gets over me like that; and after smoking in silence for half an hour. I was lying back, wilh tim eyes closed, dropping off to sleep, when tbe wife said (what had gone before I hadnt heard;: " Y"es, he's asleep now." That woke me up of course, and if I didi't lie there shamming and heard all they said in a wmsier ! " How came you to make him more vexed than he was, Luke?" said the wife ; and he tola ner. "I couldn't do it, mother," he said ex citedly. "It was heart-breaking. Khe'a living in a wretched room there with her daughter; and, mother, when I saw her felt as it there, I can t tell you." " (to on, Luke,'' she said. " They're half-starved," he said, in husky way. "Oh, mother! it's horribl e, Such a sweet, beautiful girl, and the p' ? woman herself dying almost with some terrible disease." The wife sighed. " They told mc,"he went on, " how hard hey had tried to live bv ordinary needle work, and failed, and that as a last re source they had trif d to get the machine." I'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 fore it will be of any use." "J'oorgirl, L,uke," said the wife softly; and I saw through ray eyelashes that alia laid a hand upon his arm, and was looking curiously at him, when if he didn't cover rug iaoe with his bands, rest his elbows on the tavle, and give a low groan ! Then the old woman got up, stood behind his chair, ana oegan playing with and caressing his hairlik the foolish old mother would. "Mother," he said, suddenly. " will vou go and see them ?" hhe didn't answer lor a minute, only stood looking at him, and then-said softly: II m, l .1 r . .... " iney uaiu you ine nrst money ; "No," lie said hotly, " I hadn't the heart take it." " Then that money you naid wa vour. Luke?" ' ' Yes mother,' he says, simplv: and those two stopped looking at the other, till the wife bentiiown and kissed him, holding his head after ward', for a few moments, bet ween her hands; for she always did worshiD that chap, our only one; and then I closed my eyes tight, and went on breathing heavy and tiiiiiiiiii. For something like a new revelation had come upon me. I knew that Luke waa 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 mat he was thinking and feeling as 1 tirst thought and felt when I saw his mother, nigh upon eight-ami-twenty years ago. I lay back, thinking and telling myself I was very savage with him for deceiving me. and that I wouldn't have him and his mother plotting against me, and that I wouldn't stand by and see him make a fool of himself with the first pretty girl he ml ryes on, whe1ie flight marry Maria Tur ner, the enheert) daughter and have a ntee bit of money with her to put into the business, and then be my partner. "No." I says, "if you plot together I'll plot alone," and then I pretended to wake up, took no notice, and had my supper. I kept rather gruff next morning, and made iriyself very busyabout the place, and I dare Bay 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 tool in my pocket. It was not far to Bennett's place, and on getting to the right house I asked tor 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 1 opened the door softly and looked in upon as sad a scene as I hhall ever, I dare say, see. 1 here, in the bare room, sat, asleep in her chair, the widow lady who came about the machinc,and I could see that in her face which told plainly enough that the pain and suffering she must have been going through for vears would soon be over; and. situated us 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 lace, 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. "So that i the gal, is it ?' 1 said to my self. "Ah ! Luke my boy, you've got to the silly calf age, and I dare say " 1 got no further, for at that moment the girl started and turned around, and turned upon me a timid, wondering face that madu my heart give a queer throb, and I couldn t take my eyes off her. "Hush !"' she said, softly, holding up her hand; and I saw it was us thin and trans parent aa if she had been ill. ".My namesbmith," 1 said, taking out a screw-driver. "My machine ; how does it go? Thought I'd come and see." Her lace lit up in a moment, and she came forward eagerly. "1 m-so glad you ve come, she said. ' I can't quite manage this." Mie 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 eyes sparkled with delight, as she found out easily she could now make the needle go in and out of hard material. "Do vou 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 I will work so hard," she said, ear nestly. "That you will, my dear," I says in spite of myselt, for I felt sure it wasn't me speak ing, but something in me. " She been ill long?" I said, nodding toward her mother. "Months," she said, with tears starting in her pretty eyet; "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 said : " (Jod bless you, my dear ! I hope you will;" and the next minute 1 was going down stairs, calling myself a fool. They thought I didn't know at home, but I 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 I 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 line it, lor 1 could see that Luke was changed, and always thinking of that girl a girl not half good enough for him. 1 're membered joor myself, and I hated joverty, and I used to upeak harshly to Luke and the wife, and feel very bitter. At last there came an afternoon when I knew there was something wrong. The wife had gone out directly after dinner, saying she was going to pee 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 apent pounds on them already." At last I got in such a way that I called down our foreman, left him in charge, and took my hat and wenf after them. Everything wa 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 wag 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 1 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 Bpoke, 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 aad 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, ray boy, will you go and fetch a cab? Mother will see to what wanta do ing here." My hoy gave a sob as 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 darling," for she has been the sunshine of our home ever since a pale, wintry sunshine while the sorrow was fresh, but spring and summer now. Why, bless her 1 look at her. I've felt ashamed some times to think that she, a lady of birth, should come down 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; nna let me ten you there's many a gentle man not so well off as niv lmv will cn if the money has all come out of a queer trade. .The Diseases or Wild Animals. V! hile first surircon of the Thirrv-tirst regiment of the line, then stationed at Ahibera, in Algeria, I dissected Hie carcasses of about fifty lions. The lungs of twenty of theni was affected; one half of them were almost gone, snowing that consumption is prevalent among the lions of the Sahara and the SahoL At4ho.lardin des Plantes, in Paris, seven lions have died since 18CJ. All ol them were born 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, nnd 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. He 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 he suffering from nasal catarrh in its most aggravated form. Under proper medical treatment he recovered rapidly. Nine wolves burn at the Jardin never showed the slightest sign of disease. M. Jacquemart, 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 monkeys are very delicate ani mals. They are not gluttonous, and having so much exercise, they are rarely ntllictcd with diseases of the bowels. But they have weak lungs, and the rea son why so many of the most interesting among them die 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 animal. While in Berlin, I dined at the Zoological Gardens by the side of a pet chimpanzee. He partook of every 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 185. "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. " Indeed ! He often coughs." The chimpanzee died a month later His left lung was entirely gone. I'roJ. Jean, in 1'opular Science Monthly. A drunkard handed a bottle of whis. key to his son for safe-keeping, at Stan ford, Ky. T he boy drooped and broke it, spilling the liquor. The loss so en raged the raun 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 wug in the bleak November,' when I caught the cold that was wearing frie surely and swittly away j but I heard ot lr. Bull's (Jough Syrup, took it, and am as welLws ever. A Governor's Bride. One of tho editors of the Pawtucket Chronicle, has born ronming in and around Portsmouth, N. II., and of course visited the old Governor Benning Went worth mansion, and heard the at tendant, among other things, say: "There is the lirepl aco before which Martha Hilton stood when she was married to Governor Wentworth," which leads him to remark : We stand before the fireplace nnd see that it is covered by a fire-board and screen, and then are reminded ot a story which we will relate : The marriage of the some what aged governor recalled among some of the citizens of Portsmouth an incident which had 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, bare-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! Why do you go looking so? You shoulrl 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 Rons, 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 betn 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 miss whose scanty garb had provoked the eriticism above men tioned, comes blushing and takes her stand in front of the fireplace. She seems regardless of the lire; 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 stands confounded, but the bridegroom rouses him from his bewilderment by the imperious mandate : ." As the gov ernor ot New Hampshire I command you to marry me." There i3 no delay now, and from this hour Martha Hilton becomes Lady Wentworth! Tradition deciarea that she made an excellent wife, and retained the affection and es teem of her husbnnd. On his disease, in 1770. he 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, nnd who, erelong, became her husbnnd. A Learned Poodle. Once an expert in Paris, finding it was impossible? to convince people that he whs 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 t'.ie least trouble which coin or coins are false." The poodle would be introduced. The money would be placed on the table, Hie good with the bad, and after nosing them for tin instant, the dog would knock off the table with his paw all the bad pieces. Of course this trait of canine sagacity 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 master 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 att once distinguished the pieces his master's fingers touched, and he unhesitatingly separated the bad coins from the good ones. How Far Ian We Hear with the Tele phone This is a question frequently asked, but we believe has not yet been defi nitely settled. The 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 ers know. An exchange states that Mr. Robert A. Packer, superintendent of the Penn sylvania railroad, is at present bunting wilh a party of gentlemen in Nebraska. A few days ago he for two hours con versed pleasantly with his wife and friends at Say re Pa., his brother at Mauch Chunk, Pa., and his friends along the line. The medium was the railroad ana Western Union telegraph win s and Edison's telephone. At the ollice in Bethlehem, Pa , connection was made with the Eastonand Am boy wire, and at Perth Aniboy wilh a Western Union wire, and thence to Chicago and North Bend, Ncbrnka. where the party are. The distance was about two thou sand miles, and every whisper was autli ble . Set cut ijic A nwriui n . Senator Bayard is an athlete, and lias a reputation both as a pedebtrian and boxer. lie Is broad-shoiiii'cred, gray haired and "lean-shaved. A Shadow. What lack the valleys an 1 the mountains That ones were green and gay ' What lacV the babbling fountains? Their voioo is md to-day. Only the sound of a voieo Tender and sweet aud low, A year ago! What lack the tender flower ? A shadow li on the sun. What lack .he morry hours, That I long that they were dono ? Only two smiling eyes That told of joy and mirth; They are shining in the skies; I monrn on earth. What lacks my heart that mutes it So weary and full ot pain, That trembling hope forsakes it, Never to come again ? Only another heart, Tender and all my own ; fn the still grave it lie I weep alone. I- ' 1 ! 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 cut 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: 'Cnn'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 are used on canal tow-paths in place of mules. They make much better time than the mu cs; 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 LKTTEKS. 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 aud siu Nor walk with Ilim above. Wag s went to the station of one of our railroads the other evening, and find ing the seats all occupied, said, in a loud tone, "Why, this car isn't going!" Of course these words caused a general tamptv'e, and Waggs took the best scat. The train soon moved off. In the midst of the indignation the wag was ques tioned, "You said this ear wn; n't go ing?" "Well, it wasn't then." replied Waggs. " but it is now." Louisville Comm r 'ial. Ex-Minister Washburne's latest pul Hj appearance was as a defender of mule meat. During the days of the commune, hi said, "for months there was no mi at in Paris but horse meat and mule meat. I never lite horse, but I confess to have partaken freely ot the mule, and I will say to the credit of that much-abused animal, that I found him quite good. My secretary assured me that of the many animals he had assistedto devour dur ng the siege, the elephant wnsjdie best oiall. The stories of people eaiing cuts.. rats and nogs and other animate in Paris are literally true." Easy Clues 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 reports of one gentleman who has 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 rapidly made. Almost every variety of property has gone up in value, so that everybody feels richer than he was before, and con sequently happier. But it is a sad fact that as wealth has been gained, so has extravagance itcrensed, and in a x'atio out of all proportion in most cases to the money mide. , 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 bet n 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 reprcseut 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 tho opening of the season. It is a notable fact that in all matters pertaining to dress, both men and wouHn, 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 (luring the panic, will have to be taught them again. It is remarkable how little sense the best of us have just as sooh its we grow rich. : 5 ; u
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