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Then, darlinir, wait; Nothing is lute la the light that shines forever. We luint at heart, a friend is gone; We chafe at the world's harsh drilling ; ' We tremhlo at sorrows on every side, At the myriad ways of killing. Yet, say we all, , It a sparrow lall, The Lord keepeth count forever. He keepeth count. We come, we go, We speculate, toil and latter; But the measure to each of weal or woe, God only can give or alter, He sendoth light He sendoth night. And change goes on forever. Why not take lite with cheariul trust With laith in the strength ot weakness? The slenderest daisy rears its head With courage, yet v. ith meekness. A sunny lace Hatn holy grace, To woo the sun lorever. Forever and evor, my darling, yes Goodness and love are undying; . Only the troubles and cares oi earth Are winged trom the first for flying. Our way wo plow lu tho furrow " now;" . But alter the tilling and growing, the sheaf Soil lor the root, but the sun for the bxd And God keepeth watch forever. Mary Mapei Dodge. JUST IN TIME. Dinner was over at last, and Mr. Walter Currie, English commissioner at the up-country station of Hutta-Bagh, in Northern India, had gone out upon the veranda with his wile and his two guests the colonel and major of the th light infantry to enjoy the cool of the evening. On three sides the house, was sur rounded by its compound, a large in closed space, serving the purpose 6f a courtyard ; but the fourth wm only separated by a small patch of garden from tho public road, along which a number of native women were passing with their little pitchers on their heads. Tltft gtglih i f them roitnrnUy turned the conversation u;on a favorite subject with all Anglo-Indians, viz., the char acter of the natives, and the best method of dealing with them. "There's only one way," said the colonel, emphatically. " Tell 'em what they're to do, make 'em do it, and thrash 'em well jf they don't. That's my way." " Well, I venture to differ from you there, colonel," said Mr. Currie, quietly. " I've had to do some thrashing once or twice, I own, but most of my native servants seem to get along very well without it, and they Borve me excel lently, I assure you." "I; wish you'd been in my place, then," retorted the colonel; ''you'd have changed your opinion, I war rant. Why, tho year before last, when Iliad charge of two battalions of the rascals down at Sutteopoor, because there wasn't another queen's officer within reaeh-just like my confounded luck! Thero was no getting anything done unless I did it myself. By 'Jove! sir! I had to be everything at once my own quartermaster.niy owusergrant major, my own caterer, and " " And your own trumpeter, Colonel Annesley ?" asked Mrs. Currie, with an arch smile. The colonel's broad face reddened ominously, and an explosion seemed imminent when a sudden clamor oi angry voices from the road below drew them all to the front of the veranda. The cause of the disturbanct was visible at a glance. Two half-drunken Euglish soldier, swaggering along the road, had come into violent contact with a native boy who was running past; and one of them, enraged at the collision, had felled the poor lad to the ground, and was unelaspirfg hisown belt with the evident intention ofjeat ing him unmercifully. " Serve the young whelp right." shouted the colonel rubbing his hands ; " that's just what they all want." The other oflieer, Major Armstrong popularly called Major Strougarrn-j"' a huge, brawny, silent man, who8ei6 lay in acting rather than in talking. During the wholo discussion he had sat like a great bronze statue, never ut tering a word ; but at the sight of this man ill-using this child, he woke up rather starllingly, . To leap to tho ground twelve feet be low, to dart across the garden, to vault over the high stockade beyond, aas the work of a moment for the athletic ma jor;, and in another instant he had raised the fallen boy tenderly from the f round, while saying to theformost sol ier, in the low, compressed tone of a . man who means what he says: "Bo off with you!" "And who the deuce are you, uhovin' yernose in where you ain't wanted?" roared tho infutiatcd ruflian, to whoso, eyes the major's plain evening dress bore no token of his being an officer; "jistyou " Tho sentence was never linished. .At the sound of that insolent derianee, Armstrong's sorely-tried patience gave way altogether, and the powerful right hand which had hewed its way through a whole squadron of Sikh cavalry, fell like a sledge-hammer upon his oppo nent's face, dashing him to the ground as if he had been blown from the mouth fa gun. "Well done,- Major Armstrong!" shouted Mr. Currier liom above. "You deserve your name, and to mis take." At that formidable name, the soldier toek to his heels at once ; and Armstrong, without even looking at his prostrate antagonist, proceeded to examine tho hurts of the hoy. The latter was sorely bruised in many places, and the blood was trickling freely over his swarthy face; but the little hero still did his best to stand erect, and to keep down every sign of the pain which he was enduring. " You're a brave lad, and you'll make a soldier some day," said the major to him in Ilindoostancc. "Come with me, and I'll see that no one molests you again." The lad seized the hugo brown hand which had defended him so bravely, and kissed it with the deepest reverence ; and the two walked away together. Six months have come and gone, and Mr. Currie's hospitable house presents a very different spectacle. The pretty garden is trampled into dust and mire, and the bodies of men and horses are lying thick among the fragments of the half destroyed stockade. All the windows of the house are blocked up, and through the loopholed walls peer the muzzles of ready rifles, showing how steady the besieged gar rison stands at bay against the countless enemies, whose dark, fierce faces and f;littcrinft weapons are visible amid the ialf-ruined building and matted thickets all around. The Sepoy mutiny of 1857 is blazing sky-high over Northern India, and Colonel Annesley is blockaded in Hut-tce-Bagh, with a certainty of a hideous death for himself and every man of the few who are still true to him, unless help come speedily. Day was just breaking, when two men held whispered counsel in one of the upper rooms. " No fear of the water running short," said Major Armstrong; " but even upon half-rations the food will be out in four clays more." " And then we'll just go right nt them, and cut our way through or die lor it!" growled the old colonel, with a grim smile on his iron face, for, with all his harshness and injustice, Colonel Annesley was "grit " to the backbone. "We mustn't say anything to them about it, though," added he, with a side glance at Mr. Currie, who, standing in the further corner, was anxiousiy watching the thin, worn face of his sleeping wife. At that momenta loud cheer from be low startled them both; and the next moment Ismail (the " major's boy," as every one now called him) burst into the room, with a glow of unwonted ex citement on his dark face. " Sahib," cried he, "there is hope for us yet! A detachment of Ingleez (Eng lish) are coming up the other bank of the river; if we can send word to them as they pass, we are saved !" "How do you knowP" nked the major, eagerly. . " I heard the Sepoys say so, while I was lying hid among the bushes yon der," answered the lad. " Among tho bushes yonder?" roared the colonel, facing around. " Have you really been in the midst of those cut throat villains, listening to what they said? Whatever did ydu do that forF' "I'did it for Sahib Armstrong's sake," replied the boy, proudly, " because he was good to me." The colonel turne'd hastily away to hide the flush of not unmanly shame that overspread his hard face; and Armstrong smiled slightly as he heard him mutter: " By" Jove! these chaps aren't so black as they're painted after all." " But if the troops are beyond the river, how can we communicate with them?" asked Mrs. Currie, who, awak ened by the shouting, had risen and joined the group. "Tliey may not pass ncaY enough to hear the firing, and we kave no means of sending them word." " Fear nothing for that, mem-sahib" (madam) said the Hindoo l.oy, quietly; " 1 will carry them word myself." "Bit how can you possibly doit?" cried Mr. Currie, thunderstruck by the eonfidtnttone in which this mere child spoke of a task from which the hardiest veteran might well have shrunk. " Listen, sahib," answered Ismail. "I will slip out of the house, and make a dash into the enemy's lines, as if I were deserting from you to them ; and you can tell your people to fire a shot or two after me with blank cartridge, as I go. Then tho Sepoys will receive nie kindly, and I'll tell them that, you're all dying of thirst, and that they need only wait one day more to be sure of you, so that they won't care to make another attack. Then, when they have no suspicion, and think I'm quite one of themselves, I'll steal away, and slip across the river." " But are you quite sure the Sepoys will believe you?" asked Miyor Arm strong, doubtfully. "They'll believe this, anyhow," re plied the boy, deliberately making a deep gash in his bare shoulder, and staining his white frock with the blood, as he glided from the room, followed by Armstrong. The plan was soon explained to the men below, and a moment later Ismail's dark figure was seen darting like an arrow across the open space in front of the building, followed by a quick dis charge of blank cartridges from the marksmen at the loopholes. The sound of tiring drew the attention of the Sepoys, several of whom ran forward to meet hiiu. In another instant las was in the midst of them. " I can scarcely see for those hushes," said Colonel Annesley ; "but he seems to be showing them the wound on his shoulder, and telling them it was our doing " At that moment an exulting yell from the enemy came pealing through the still air. "That's the story of our being short of water, for a guinea!" said tho major; " it was a very good thought of his. If it only delays their attack two days longer, there may be time lor help to arrive yet. Slowly and wearily the long hours of that f eai ful day wore on. The heat was so ten itic that even the native soldiers of the garrison could barely hold their own against it, and the handful of Eng lishmen were almost helpless. Had the Sepoys attacked then, all would have been Aver at one blow; but hour passed after hour, and there was no sign of an assault. At length, as afternoon gave place to evening, a movement began to show it self in the enemy's lines. Their curls of smoke, rising above the trees, showed that the evening meal was in prepara tion ; and several figures, with pitchers in their hands, were ficon going toward the river, among whom the colonel's keen eye soon detected Ismail. "By George!" cried the old soldier, slapping his knee exultingly, " that lad's worth his weight in gold! There's his way down to the river right open to him without the least chance of suspicion! Why, he's a born general nothing less !" Every eye within the walls was now turned anxionsly upon the d istant grou p, fearing to see at any moment some movement which would show that the trick was detected. How did Ismail mean to accomplish his purpose P Would he plunge boldly into the river, without any disguise, or had he some further stratagem in preparation? No one could say. Suddenly, as Ismail stooped to plunge his light wooden dipper into the water, it slipped from his hands, and went lloating away down the stream: A cry of dismay, a loud laugh from the Se- Eoys, and then the boy was seen running rantically along the bank, and trying in vain to clutch the vessel as it floated past. " What on earth's he up to?" grunted the colonel, completely mystified. "I see!" cried Major Armstrong, tri umphantly, "there's a boat yonder among the reeds, and he's making right for it. Well done, my brave boy!" But at that moment a yell of rage from the Sepoys told that the trick was discovered. Luckily those cn the bank had left their pieces . behind, or poor Ismail would soon have been disposed of; but the alarrn instantly brought up a crowd of tbtir armed comrades, whose bullets fell like hail around the boat and its gallant little pilot. " Let us fire a volley and make a show of sallying out," said the colonel ; " it'll tako their attention from him." But in this he was mistaken. The first rattle of musketry from the besieged house did indeed recall most of Ismail's assailants, but at least a dozen were left who kept up an unceasing fire, s.riking the boat again and again. All at once the coionel dashed his glass to the floor with a frightful oath. Between two gusts of smoke he had seen the boat turn suddenly over, and go whirling away down the dark river, keel upward. "There's an end of the poor lad," muttered the veteran, brokenly. ' God bless him for a brave little fellow. And now, old friend, we must just die hard, for there's no hope left. ' The first few hours of the night passed quietly, and the exhausted defenders, utterly worn out, slept as if drugged with opium. But a little after mid night the quick ears of the two veteran officers the only watchers in the whole garrison, except the sentries themselves caught a faint stirring in the sun'ound ing thickets, which seemed to argue some movement on the part of the enemy. Listening intently for a few moments they felt certain that they were right, and lost no time in arousing their men. The scanty stores of food were opened once more, and, crouching together in the darkness, the doomed men took what they fully believed to be their last meal on earth. "They're coming !'' said Major Arm strong, straining his eyes into the gloom through a loophole. " I hear them creeping forward, though I can't see them." "What the deuce was thatP" ex claimed tho colonel, suddenly. "It looked like a fiery arrow flying past." " It's worse than that," said the major, in a low voice. " The rascals are shooting lighted chips of bamboo on to the roof to set it on lire. Send the women up with buckets to flood the thatch there's not a moment to lose." "I'll go and see to it myself !" cried Mrs. Currie, hastening out of the room. But the nower of this new weapon had already become fatally manifest. The house was an old one, and dry as tinder from the prolonged heat, and as fast as the flames were quenched in one place they broke out in another. When day dawned, the fire had al ready got a firm hold of one cornet of the building, and a crushing discharge was pouroe upon all who attempted to extinguish it, while the triumphant yells of the human tigers below told that they felt sure of their prey. I' It's all over with us, old fellow," said the colonel, grasping his old" com rade's hand; "but, at least, we shall have done our duty." " Give me one of your pistols,'' whis pered Mrs. Currie to her husband, in a voice that was not her own. " I must not fall into their hands alive. " At that moment Major Armstrong was seen to start and bend forward, as if listening intently; for ho thought although lie could scarcely believe his ears- -that he had suddenly caught a faint sound of distant tiring. In another instant he heard it again, and this time there could bo no more doubt, for several of the others had caught it likewise, and a gleam of hope once more lighted up their haggard faces and bloodshot eyes. Louder and nearer came tho welcome sound, while the sudden terror and confusion visible among the enemy showed that they, too, were at no loss to guess its meaning. Then hiirh above all the dine rope tho well-known " Hurrah!" and through the smoke-clouds broke a charging line of glittering bayonets and ruddy Ensiish faces, sweeping away the cowardly murderers as the sun chases the morn ing mist. 'tThat bftv'a WnrHl bis urniijl.t in gold," said Colonel Annesley, as, a lew hours later, hi listened to Ismail's ac count of how he had dived under the boat and kept it between himself and the Sepoys, that they might think him drowned. "He's the pluckiest little fellow I've ever seen, and, although he belongs to the maior. I'm eoimrtotakn my i share of helping him on, by Jove!" The Dumb Creatures. The 65,000 dogs oi St. Petersburg bring to the city treasury $130,000 per year, $2 being the tax upon each dog. A dog washed from a passing schooner recently swam ashore, a distance of nearly four miles, near Watch Hill K. I. A setter dog in Lee county. Ala., at tacked a large hawk in a barnyard and whipped it in a fair' fight. A Bath (Me.,) cat after several un successful attempts to catch a pigeon, put corn kennels on the sidewalk before a post, behind which she hid, and soon had material enough for supper. An aged dog committed suicide at Manchester, N. H., by walking into the water and laying down till the tide came in and drowned him, notwith standing all his master's efforts to get him out. Mr. Tupper, a farmer who lives above Columbus, Ga., has given us the follow ing rat story : He was going out to his corn crib the other morning, he says, when he saw a large rat, with head erect, carrying a full-sized ear of corn in hismcuth, while at the same time his tail was wrapped around another large ear which he was dragging behind him. Friday, a gentleman living in Leeton, Ga., had his eye-glasses yanked from his nose and devoured by a mule. A wit ness of this remarkable spectacle says the mule seemed to know of tho defect ive vision of the gentleman, and waited deliberately for his approach, taking off the glasses and gulping them down as it they had been a delicious morsel of hay. At New PhNadelphia, Ohio, a huge dog in attempting to scale a high fence into a yard, missed his calculations and landed at the bottom of the well, sixty fret deep. The family thought the water rather " riley" next morning, but could not account for it. About noon the hired girl upon looking into the well discovered a pair of gleaming eyes staring at her from the bottom. Help was obtained and the dog drawn up. He was in the well about fifteen hours, and kept alive by swimming all the time. A cockatoo who has seen half a cen tury of shine and shade was presented by his master three years ago to the zoo logical gardens, Philadelphia. Upon his return irom Europe recently the gentle man went to the gardens, and standing where the bird could see him, called him by name. The cockatoo at once recognized his voice, and flew about the cage in a state of intense excitement. When the former master went up to the cage the bird became almost frantic with ioy The door of the cage was opened and the bird at once perched upon the visitor's shoulder and per formed many tricks which he had learned in the old days. A New Tork Fireman's Brave Deed. In September, 18G8, the residence of James Gordon Bennett, lounder of the New York Ucrald, was on fire. The ac tion of the New York fire department on that occasion prompted Mr Bennett to place in the hands of three trustees, on April 13,1869.$1,500, the income of which they were directed to use in procuring annually a gold medal, to be struck from a die, and conferred on the fireman who may bo best entitled to that reward. Al though but ten years have elapsed since Mr. Bennett placed this trust in the keeping of the trustees they have had ruade and presented fourteen medals. Daniel J. Meagher, foreman of a hook and ladder company, was the last re cipient of tho medal; the story of the brave act for which it was awarded to him being told as follows: At midnight on the second day of May, 1878, lire was discovered on the upper floors of 28 East Fourteenth street. The alarm was sounded for station 339. Foreman Meagher, of Hook and Ladder Company 3. with his command, was in front of the burning building in less than two minutes from the timo the alarm was sounded, and on his arrival he saw a woman partly hanging out of the fourth story window. lie ordered a forty-two feet ladder placed against the building. This was done, but it proved to be about ten feet short. He ordered that it be placed on the highest step of the front stoop. Fireman Flood ascended the ladder, which was still too short to reach tho woman. At this point Fire man Flood unfortunately seriously in jured his foot. Severe pain for a mo ment paralyzed his efforts. Foreman Meagher, taking in the situation at a glance, oidered that the ladder be held erect and away from the buildimr, so as to get all the length possible. He then ascended until he stood on next to the top round of the ladder, tifty-two feet irom tho sidewalk. 1 1 is head was just even with the fvt of the woman. lie uttered some words of encouragement, and in a calm but decided manner di rected her to hold her limbs and body as rigid as possible. Then, all being ready, he told her to drop, hhe did so. lie caught her in one' arm, steadying himself by the power of his legs and one hand on the top of the ladder. He passed her to ins comrade, Fireman Flood, who. notwithstanding the intense pain he w s.sull'ering, carried the fright ened woman to the sidewalk in safety. For this act of cool, well-planned and determined bravery the trustees decided that the Bennett modal for 178 should be awarded to Foreman Daniel J. Meagher. Tho gentlemen who ethaycil to si-ienuiltr Min i. a low evi-iiiii-s wiiico rlmnlil have I. ml " i lour " tliUMiU, anil tlieii cll.n; wou'.il have been bettor p'ic i ileil. Dr. ii ill's (.'utijjh Syrup is the In M icmt-dy eitiint lor u " tliii k " ' coiigi-fctfil vi iiliiinn ol the throat and bron chial tubes, giving instunt relict. Immensity of the Stars. It is known that the stars are true suns, that some of them are larger than our own sun, and that around these enormous centers of heat and liht re volve planets on which life certainly exists. Our sun is distant from us 38, 000,000 leagues, but these stars are dis tant at least 500,000 times as far a dis tance that, in fact, is incommensurable and unimaginable for us. Viewed with the unaided eye, the stars and the planets look alike; that is, appear to have the same diameter. But, viewed through a telescope, while the planets are seen to possess clearly appreciable diameters, the stars are still only mere luminous points The most poweiful of existmg telescopes, that of Melbourne, which magnifies 8 000 times, gives us an image of one of our planets possessing an ap parent diameter of several degrees. Jupiter, for instance, which seen with the naked eye, appears as a star of tho first iragnitude, with a diameter of forty-five degrees at the Imost, will in the telescope have its diameter multi plied 8,000 times, and will be seen as if it occupied in the heavers an angle of 100 degrees. Meanwhilo a star along side of Jupiter, and which 1o the eye is as bright as that planet, will still be a simple dimensionless point. Neverthe less, that star is thousands of times more voluminous than the planet. Divide the distance between us and that planet by 8,000, and you have for result a dis tance relatively very small; but divide by 8,000 the enormous number of leagues which represents the distance of a star, and there remain a number of leagues too great to permit of the stars being seen by us in a perceptible form. In considering Jupiter or any of the planets, we are filled with wonder at the thought that this little luminous point might hide not only all the visible stars, but a number 5,000 fold greater for of stars visible to our eyes there are only about 5,000. All the stars of these many con stellations, as the Great Bear, Cassi opeia, Orion, Andromeda, all the stars of the zodiac, even all the stars which are visible only from the earth's south ern hemisphere, might be set in one plane, side by side, with no one over lapping another, even without the sliehtest contact between star and star, and yet they would occupy so small a space that, were it to be multiplied by 5,000 fold, that space would be entirely covered by the disk of Jupiter, albeit that disk to us seems to be an inappre ciable point. Prof. J. Yinot. A Woman's Impressions jof Salt Lake. A letter from Utah, written by a lady, says: There are hordes of women in shaker or slat sun-bonnets and calico dresses scant in length, breadth and thickness; whole tribes of half-grjwn boys and girls, hoodlums with hardly an exception; young men sullen and vicious-looking; young women, care worn and degraded ; every woman with a baby at the breast and two or three hanging on her skirts; more halt, blind and lame than I ever saw in all my life. But the grav6 of Brigham is dilapidated to the hist degree. Not a wife has planted a shrub or seemingly shed a tear. A commonplace, flat little granite slab marks the spot where the great prophet rests. His grave is distinguished irom the others by being adorned with the decaying and odorous remains of a very dead cat and some broken pieces of old dishes. These may strike you as .rather unique cemetery orn:.ments, but I guess, on the whole, they are good enough for old Brigham. One of the numerous Mis. Young lives near us. She is a relict of the departed prophet. It seems very strange to hear that this Mr. So-and-So he has three wives and this is the home of So-and-So; his last wife lives here. I notice, too, that the last and best-looking and youngest wife generally lives in the best house and the best style. The first wife has to go to the Endowment house and give her hus band away every time he is married. But for all that, the poor creatures al ways let you know with an air of some importance when they do happen to be the first wives. Imagine a state of society where it is no cause of comment to having a married man paying atten tion to a young girl. Think of the bit terness and heartache of it. There were about 7,000 people in tho congregation the day we were there. I had a very strong impression that the whole 7,000 needed a bath of good strong soap suds, but doubtless that was the idea of a very carnal mind. A Fatal Shirt-Button. Dr. Sander, a physician, of Elberfield, Germany, died recently from the effee'ts of a singular ae-cident, which conveys its own lesson : One morning in 1874, while dressing, he contrive.l in some way to get a shirt-button between his teeth. Unconsciously, while laughing, the hut ton slipped into the back of his mouth, and thence into the larynx. All the ex ortiems of his surgieal fiiends to remove it were vain. It was ascertained that it sank into tho right lung, which soon became irritated. Spitting blood en sued, and he was himself looking for ward to his death as not very remote. He removed to a villa he had near Frankfort-on-the-MaUj to pass his last days in quiet. Here he was surprised by a tit of coughing, accompanied by spit ting of blood, in a paroxysm of which the button was ejected His health rapidly improved, and in a few months, regarding himself as quite cured, he re sumed his professional work, and endeavored to gather up the threads of his former pra-tice. But last ir un mistakable symptoms manifest them selves that the lung had net hilly re cjvered from the presence in its sub stance of a foreit'n body for several months. He spent the winter in the south of Europe, but relumed ainuist we rse than he went. He gradually wasted away, and sank a few days ago. i.muliit Tiuim. "I think the turkey lias tho advan tage of you," s tid the landlady to the inexpert boarder who was carving. ' Guess it has, mum in age." ITEMS OF INTEREST. t Fuilof interest The ledger of a sav ings bank. New York Xews. There is a distinction with a differ ence between attic rooms and rheu matics. The United Stales produced durinir 1879 838,100,000 in golel and 10,812,000 in silver .Tlio deepest mine on tho Pacific slope or in America is the Belcher, which has attained a vertical depth of 3,000 feet. When a thief snatches a watch and transfers it to a confederate, ho does so merely to pass awvy time. New York News. The exports from the United States to Great Britain for the last vear exceed those of the previous year by over $55 000,000. - During the past year 121 persons com mitted suicide in New York city. Forty three were drowned and 1,015 met their death by violenee. Though the corn crop of the United States is not so large as it was supposed it would be, it is the largest ever known by more than 150,000,000 bushels." Cheap eating houses, where one can get a substantial meal, including coffee, for fifteen cents, may be leioked upon as one of the best economic features of Cincinnati . "Do animals have fun?" asks some unobserving individual. Of course they do. When a row switches hei tail across the face of a man who is milking her, steps along just two yards and turns to see him pick up his stool and follow, she has tho most amused expres sion on her face possible, and if she can kick over the milkpail she grows posi tively hilarious. New Haven Rfyister. Augustus mid Nelly were walking Through the nieu.low, one bright summer clay; And merrily laughing and talking. When gome toadstools they wuw by the way. "Do the toads really tine these to sit on V Said Nelly " now don't make a pun, Gus, It you do, like the subject we've hit on, I'll deem it the meanest of fun-Una." Boston Journal of Commtrre. Ho tamo up a little late, stepped in without ringing, and striding softly into the parlor dropped into an easy-chair with the careless grace of a young man who is accustomed to the programme. "By Jove," he said to the ficure sitting in the dim obscurity of the sofa. " By Jove, I thought I was never going to see you alone again. Your mother never goes away from the house nowa days, does she, Minnie?" " "Well, i.ot amazingly frequently," cheerfully re plied tho old lady from the sofa. " M in nie's away so much of the time now I have to stay in." In the old hickory at the enel of the house the moping owl complained to the moon much in its usual style, the katydids never sang more clearly and tho plaintive cry of the whip-poor-will lillcd tho night with poetry, but he didn't hear any of it all the same. " And, by George," he said to a friend fifteen minutes later, " it I didn't leave my hat on the piano and my cane in the hall, I'm a goat. Think of 'emP Forget 'em? Strike me blind if I knew I had any clothes on at all. What 1 wanted was fresh air, and I wanted alH)ut thirty acres of it and mighty quick too." How the Lie Indians Live. The Utes, who massacred Agent Meeker in Colorado, live principally on bread and meat. .WMieu they can't pot bread they live on meat, and when they can't get meat they jive on bread. When they have a great quantity of pro visions on hand they eat it all up before getting any more. The same is true when they have a small quantity on hand. They are dirty. They are even very dirty. Their meat is general y permitted to lie about on the ground or any phco. Each Indian family pos sesses any number of dogs, froni eight to fifteen, and these animals help them selves to the meat. After they have satisfied themselves, and when the In dians become hungry, they cut out of this same piece en which th'e degs feed. They generally boil their meat, but sometimes they broil it. They put it in water and let it remain only a few minutes, just long enough to heat, when they take it out and begin to eat. They use the same water and same pail, for boiling over and over again until the water becomes a perfect slimo of filth. One pot generally does service for the entire family. This particular pot is a frying pun. When the Utes get out of bed they wash their faces and bathe the baby in it. after which they bake the bread and boil the meat. Then they eat out of the vessel, and then the dogs lick up the leavings. They clothe them selves with the skins of animals er with blankets. They generally takea blanket or skin and e lit a hole in the midd'e of it and throw it over their heads, t utting arm-holes and fastening the srarment at the waist with a w ide' belt, while they close up the neck with a buckskin string. When the garment vrnrs out they cut the string and let it drtp, but not before. Somt tinn s the Indians will wear as many os five ef these guinx nts at a time, always kt cping the cleanest one en the outside. A Precocious Boy. Hubert Harris, a little five-year old boy, whose pan tits lived near Senatediia, Mississippi, has given evidence ef re markable intellectual powers. He can reail and converse fluently, using clioice words and in a pat way. Before he had reached his third year he had read the second and third readers, and had made some pi ogress in arithmetic, showing a remarkable aptitude timing the time in spelling and other branches of knovvlcige. While in Ids fourth year he read' the fourth and fifth reaibrs, learned a good part of the mul tiplication table and spelled from Web ster'?, coiiiinen school dictionary almost any word uiven him. He reads news papers, and Irtis considerable knowledge in general inf'.nmitiuii nnd current event.
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