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VOL. XIII. NO. 10. TIONESTA, PA., MAY 20, 1880.
$1,50 Per Annum,
Friends of Long Ago.
Wlion T sit in the twilight gloaming,
.. And the busy itret-tsgrow still,
I d renin oi the wide, given im ndows,
And the old house on the hill.
I can bob the roses blooming
About tho doorway low,
Again my heart gives grtvting
lo the IriendB of long ago
Dear long ago !
I pan see my mct'ier tilting,
With lifu's Htiowflttkes in hor hair,
And she smiles above her knitting,
And bor luce is saintly fair.
And I see my father residing
From the Jtible on his knee,
Aiid again I hear him prny;ng
As ho used to pray ir inc
So long ugo!
I sen (ill the dear old luces
Of tho hoy and girls at home,
As I saw them in the doar old days
lk-loro we learned to roam.
And I sing the old sours over
With tho liiunds t nsod to know,
And my heart forget its sorrows
In it dream of long Ro',
Dear long ayo!
How widely our lent have wandored
From our old homo's tender lies,
Some are beyond the ocean,
And some Rio beyond tho skies. ;
My heart grows sad with thinking,
Ol the friend I used to know;
Perhaps I shall meet in heaven
All the loved ones of long ago,
Dear long ago!
UNDER AN UMBRELLA.
It was alxiut sunset ol a changeful,
Aoril day, when a young girl, lightly
descending the stops ot a handsome
residence, walked briskly down the
sum, which presently merged into a
thadi d Hvmue, spiin'dtd with niodest
vill is ni d neat cottages. She was e n
veloped iu a waterpioof cl-ak, which
fve:iled only the gr ccl'ul contour of
mr shoulders, over which fell a cluster
if.'gihh n-brown ringlets. Her little
feet tripped daintily along tho rough
ro:td. uiiiu Idenly pausing she lifted
a fresh, sweet fa:e, with laughing
brown eyes and a dimpled mouth.
"K.iiiiing again!" she said, aloud;
and stepping undi r tho thelter of a lin
den, she pulled the hood of I er cloak
forward over her little hat.. -And then,
an the light April rain was driving
directly in her luce, fhe twver it a
thick, brown double veil, "sunshine
and shower all day," she roumured. '
'"The uncertain glory of an April da.'
Very pi'crioking weather, when cne is
compelled lo go ut; but then cvery
thing looks so iresh and beautiful that
ii would be really a sin to complain.'
The sound of a quick stc p apptnach
irg from behind caused her to glance
back. It was already growing dusk,
rendered deeper by the lowering clouds,
yet she could discern a very nice-looking
young gentleman approaching,
sheltered beneath a huge umbrella.
The girl walked on ; but in a moment
the step was by her side, the shadow of
the umbrella extended over her, and a
gloveu hand was eagerly held forth.
" Cousin Nellie, is it real!y youP"
The girl started, and peered curiously
thoouh her thick veil.
" I am Nellie," she- said, with some
embarrassment; "but I I don't re
cognize you."
"Not recognize meP and after only
one year's absence! Why, Nel.ie, am I
so much changed And besides, did
you not receive my letter, saying that
you might expect me this wcekP"
"I don't think I did," replied Nell.e,
demurely; and at the same instant she
thought to herself:
V 1 wonder who it is that he takes me
forP"
" It is strange that you should have
missed the letter. But I hope I am not
the If 83 welcome for coming unexpect
edly." " Well, it is unexpected, I confess."
lie was , silent for a moment ; then
said, in a changed tone:
"You don't seem a bit glad to see
me, NelUfl. And yet, if you knew how
I have oked forward to this mecing!"
i "That was very kind of you, and I
am sure I ought to foci niyst-lf very
much flattered."
Another ominous silence.
"I don't care who ho is, or for whom
he takes me," thought the fun-loving
girl, as she walked demurely along be
nentli"the umbrella held over her.
." What right had he to address me and
call roe his cousin, before making sure
who I was? Perhaps a little lesson will
do him no harm."
" Nellie," said her companion,
slowly, "do you remember the last
night that we were together alone ia
the library P"
" I can't sav I do, exactly."
'Impossible! You cannot have for
gotten it. and what vou said to me in
adieu. You promised that you would
welcome me biwck with those words."
"What words?"
" You said : 'Dear Charlie, I do love
your Nellie, dear, won t you say them
now. as you promised r"
The young girl started. He spoke so
earnestly that she was fairly fnehtet.ed,
and felt herself blushing as though the
words were addressed to herself, Nel
lie Caldwell. Who the other Nellie
was the Nellie beloved by this hand
some young man she had no idea. At
any rate, though, she began to think
it was time to put an end to this adven
tuie. What right had she to suffer him
thus to betray his secrets to herP So
she said, gravely, yet still with a spice
ol miscinei :
" 1 think you are mistaken. I am
quite ture I never said those words to
any man."
He bent a little forward and looked
earnestly under the hood and at the
brown veil.
" Nel'ie, will you take off that veil P
I want to see your face, and to under
stand what you mean by talking in
this strange way?"
"Oh, you will understand it presently,
when we come to that green gate yon
der; then I will remove my veil. But
howenme you to recognize me?" the
nsk d curiously.
" How could I have failed to recog
nize you, rather. You have grown
slightly taller, perhaps, but I knew
your step and your beautiful hair,
more he'uutiful then ever, Nellie. 1 was
on my wny to your house, wheu at a
distance I saw you come down the steps,
and I could not resist trying to overtake
you. for just one word and look."
"Oh !" siid Nellie, ns a light dawned
upon her; nnd then to put n check upon
fur companion's sentimentality, she
added : " How it rains !" and quickened
in r pace.
"Let it rain!" he answered, impa
tiently "cannon balls, if it will. I
want to talk to you, Nellie."
"Cannon-balls may suit your taste,
perhaps, but would scarcely be agreea
nletome; and as to talki.ig out here
in the rain and darkness, I am not ro
mantic enough for that ''
lie was forced to keep by her side as
she walked briskly on.
"Where are you going P" lie inquired,
piejontly . -
"Home"
'.' HomeP Why you are taking a con
trary direction from home,"
" I tldnk riot; I believe I know where
I live."
"I did not know you had removed."
"Hid you not? Ah, here we are, at
the gate. ' Please open it, If you can, on
the inside.''
. He reluctartly obeyed, hut raised ti e
latch so slowly as to detain her while
he whispered ;
. "Nellie, you have not given ine the
welcome you promised. You have not
said tiiose words." .
' I don't believe you really want me
to say them," she answered, very much
incline! to laugh, jet almost frightened
at lier own audacity.
"Notwantit? When you know how
I love you!"
"I don't believe it is rr.c that you
love," she rsturned, pushing open the
ate.
" Good heavens, Nellie.how strange'y
vou talk! Who, then, do you imagine
l Jove?"
' I am sure I don't know," said Nel
ir, slowly raising hrr veil nnd pushing
nek the fiood. "I don t know, but I
in certain it can't be me!"
And she looked up in his face with a
l.muro, pured-un litt'o mouth, and
hrown ejes shining with suppressed
nirlli through their long, black lashes.
lie stood gazing upon her as it petri
fied with astonishment. Then a deep
flush crimsoned his handsome face and
his ejes Hashed with an indignant light.
I beg your pardon! ' lie said, with
eri-mouious politeness. Of course it
is a mistake on my part."
"I suppose it was," said .Nellie, ac
nurely. "I I mistook you for another." he
said, both embarrassed and angry.
Was that my iault? ' he returned,
".hut you vou certainly allowed me
to rest under the delusion."
"That was for fun."
"FunP"
" Perhaps T was wrong. Indeed I
now rather think that I was," said Nel
lie, coloring beneath his gaze. " But,
as neither of us shall ever mention this
adventure, I suppose no harm is done,"
she added, coolly.
He regarded her an instant with a
strange, undecided expression.
"1 beg your yardon i i am Keeping
you in the rain," he said. "Good even
ing!" And, luting his hat with icy polite
ness, he walked away.
Nellie, as she entered the tiouse, wa9
met by her elder sisters with a shower
of questions as to who was that elegant
looking man, how she had met him,
what he hud said.
Unlike herself in general, she returned
hriet replies; rnd escaping to her own
room, threw asii e her waterproof.
changed her dress, and. seating herself
before the tire, gazed absently into the
glowing embers. Presently she laughed,
then bit her lip witn a vexed expres
sion, and finally began to cry.
1 wonder what makes me to men
silly, unlady-liko things P" she thought.
" I am always getting into some ridicu
lous scrape or other. What an opinion
he must have ot meP I shall be really
ashamed to meet him again, as I sup
pose I must, if he is Mr. (.ray."
Inen her mood changed.
I don't care. He nfav be as dicnitied
as he pleases, but he shall never see that
I trouble myself even to remember this
ridiculous walk, and the horrid um
brella!" Presently another change came over
her.
"Poor fellow! I can't help, pitying
him, for I fear this has befu-merely a
rehearsal of the real act. Why-', Nellie
Archer was in tho parlor with captain
Lloyd nearly two hours this aftfnoon,
when she must have known, ffom that
letter, of Charlie's coming. I wonder if
she ever said to the captain or to young
Doctor Bliss what she- said lo her
cousin? Poor fellow! And Nellie has
been showing his letters tojurthe girls!
She could not have done so had she
loved him."
Nellie Caldwell was correct in her
anticipation of again meeting with Mr.
Charks Gray. The society of the little
town was veiy gay; and what with
church fairs and parties, and other social
amusements, it was impossible that
these two Bhould not be thrown to
gether. Nellie blushed, despite her utenost en
deavors to look unconscious, when Mr.
Gray was first presented to her; but
the gentleman was so cool and composed
that she actually doubted whether he
had recognized her.
lie conversed with Jer a little, danced
with her once, und 'ie observed, was
chiefly inteiested 'n, 'ehing Nellie
Archer and Captain A- And Miss
Archer, pioud tosh" J her handsome
couain. and her oa influence over
him, treated him very sweetly in the
intervals of her flirting with other ad
mirers. Some weeks glided by, in which the
acquaintance between M iss Nellie Cald
well and Mr. Gray imperceptibly as
sumed a more agreeable character.
His cold politencFs, nnd her equally
cool indifference gradually thawed, and
each vacunly felt that, despite their mu
tual effort 8 to Ixep apart, there was
something which mysteriously drew
them together.
Nellie attributed this to her sympathy
with his disappointment in regard to his
cousin, nnd often expressed tha wish
that the latter would love him, as she
was sure lie deserved, and make him
happy by marrying him. It was inex
plicable to her that any girl cou!d prefer
Captain Lloyd to Mr. Charlie Gray.
Neither had ever but once alluded to
their first mcetirg
Coming out of church one evening
Miss Archer said:
"Nellie, what have you been doing
with yourself this last terribly rainy
wcekP Isn't such weather enough to
give one the blues?"
"Oh.no," she answered, cheerfully.
" I like rainy days at home, and can
alwnys find something to amuse meP"
"Even in the rain itself," paid Mr.
Gray, on her other side. "What an
enviable disposition is yours. Miss Cald
well, to be able to find ' fun' in such a
situation!" .
Nellie looked up quickly, and met the
halt-laughing glance bent upon her.
Instead of answ ring gayly back, as was
her wont, she colored, and her eyes filled
with tfars.
"Mr. Gray," she said, as Miss Archer
fell' ehind with Captain Lloyd, "I want
you lo promise to forget that hateful
walk in the rain, and never again allude
to it." .
" I am not sure that I could keep such
a promise at least the first part."
"That means that you haven't for
given me."
"I really do not feel as though I had
anything to forgive, or you to ask pardon
for," lie said, pleasantly.
." I was very silly and wrong, htit you
see I have grown older and wiser since,"
said Nellie, demurely,
d " If the increase of wisdom is,jn pro
portion to tliatof age " he commenced,
but was interrupted by Miss Archer.
"Nellie, are you and Charlie flirting P
or what is that mysterious whispering
aboutP"
"We are not flirting,'' returned Mr.
Gray, coolly. "Miss Caldwell does not
flirt, I have observed ; and for myself,
you know I detest it."
" I know you have some old-fashioned
and absurd notions," retorted his
cousin, laughing. "One must n very
prudish and old-maidish to meet your
ideal of perfect womanhood, Charlie."
Ar.d again Nellie Caldwell felt con-
scicnce-frtricken, remembering that un
fortunate walk, and the . impression
which her conduct must have pro
duced on this very particular young
gentleman.
Some time after this, there was a pic
nic at a picturesque old mill a few miles
from town. Nellie Caldwell spent
rather a tiresome day, wondering why
it was that she could! not enjoy herself
as usual, and envying Nellie Archer her
high rptrits. To-day. at least, she ob
served, she and Mr. Gray seemed to be
petting a'ong unusually well together,
she appearing radiant, i.nd he serenely
happy. v ,
i wonder if they are engaged?" she
thought, and did not leel nearly so elated
as she ought to have done at the prob .
ability of such a consummation. . .
He sought her out occasionally, but
had little to say, seeming to prefer re
clining at her feet on the turf beneath
the willows, looking dreamily on the
water, or up into her face, as she talked.
Several young ladies observed that
they both looked very stupid and unin
terested at each other.
As the evening waxed late, there was
a sudden stiramoug the company. It
was certainly going to rain, some weather-wise
prophet had declared, and the
elder portion of the company, at least,
were anxious to get safely under shelter
before the shower came. ;
Mrs. Caldwell collected her dessert-t-poons
and her daughters, who had come
with "tier in the family carriage.
" Why, Nellie,' said one of her young
companions, "you are surely not going
so soon. It would spoil the party ; and,
besides, you will miss the plantation
songs, and your favorite Virginia reel."
.Mr. (iray stepped forward.
Would Miss Nellie accept a seat in
his bugcry? and would Mrs. Caldwell
intrust her daughter.in his charge P If
so, Mies Nellie could remain to en
joy the reel and yet arrive at home al
most as soon as the carriage with the tat
and lazy horses.
So Nellie stayed, and her spirits rose
unaccountably.
The final favorite reel was scarcely
commenced, when a few scattered drops
of rain startled the gay throng. An im
mediate rush was made to the convey
ances.
"Don't be alarmed," Mr. Gray said.
as he assisted Nellie into his buggy. " It
will be but a passmg shower, probably,
and we will take the road through the
woods, which will afford some shelter
in addition to that of my umbrella."
A few other vehicles were going the
same way. Mr. Gray's was the last in
the procession.
"You don't object to the umbrella?"
he said, raising it, and adjusting it to its
socket in the back of the buggy.
" I hate umbrellas!" Nellie returned.
" Do put that down there is hardly
anv rain."
" Nevert!ielee s, I am responsible for
your safety and good condition, so will
keep it up till we get to the woods." .
"A little rain never hurts me."
" But it may hurt your hat. Are you
a woman, and never gave thought to
that important Question? Why, there
was not a young lady on the ground to
day who did not make that the urst cou
sideration." " Well." said Nellie, laughing. " per
haps I am uot much liko other young
women."
" Perhaps so. la fact, that idea pre
sented itself to me on my first meeting
with you."
She colored and bit her lip but made
nonnswer.
" Nellie," he said, bending forward a
little, and looking in her face. " doesn't
tlmremind you of that evening?"
" I thought," she answered, sharply,
" that you were never again to allude to
that subject."
" I can't help it; it is too often in my
thoughts. In fact, I like to think of
it."
Her heart beat a little at his tone, but
she looked straight before her, without
reply. ,
"Nellie, do you remember the request
I made of you that eveningP"
' That request was not for me."
" It is now."
Their eyes met for an instant.
" Arov you sure," said Nellie, half
archly, but with a strange tremor in
her voice '"are you sure you are not
Btill taking me for some one else?"
"Quite sure, despite your golden
hair, and your voice, nnd your similar
ity of name. If is Nellie Caldwell that
I now ask to to say those words!" he
whispered, as he clasped one of her
hands in his.
" How long," said Nellie, half mis
chievously, half seriously "how long
since you said this to Nellie Archer1"'
"I never said it to Nellie Archer.
When I left you and went to see the
original Nellie," smiling, "I found her
to te quite a different character from
the ideal which my fancy had pictured,
during a whole year's absence. Enough ;
you know what I mean I never spoke
to her of love, and to-day we came to, a
pleasant understanding, when she in
formed me that she had engaged her
self to Captain Lloyd. I lovelier well
enough as a cousin, but not as I must
love a woman wnom I would make my
wife."
They were bowling along the wood
land track, where the trees made a ver
dant arch overheard, through which
the rain-drops slowly dripped, like a
shower of diamonds. Nellie had never
before felt how beautiful the world wan.
They arrived at home in a drizzly
shower, through which, iu the misty
east, a glorious rainbow Bhone.
At the door he detained her for an
instant under the umbrella, as three
months before he had done at the gate.
"Nellie, darling, you have not said
those words" 1 love you, Charlie."
"No," said Nellie, blushing. "No,
Iwon'tsay them now; but," and she
glanced up, roguishly, " I do love that
dear umbrella!"
And she rushed upstairs as her
mother came into the hall, inquiring if
taey had gotten wet.
Domestication of the Buffalo.
The early explorers of the Mississippi
valley .believed that the buffalo might
be made to take the place of the domes
tic ox in agricultural pursuits, and at
the same time yield a fleece of wool
equal in quality to that of the sheep;
but no persistent attempts have yet
been made to utilize it by domestication.
That the buffalo calf may be easily
reared and thoroughly tamed has betn
conclusively proved, but little attention
has been paid to thtir reproduction in
confinement, or to training them to
labor. During the last century they
were domesticated iu variniu parts of
colonies, and interbred with domestic
cows, producing a half-breed race which
i9 fertile, and which readily amalgam
ates with the domestic rattle. 'The half
breeds are large, tine animals, posses
sing most of tho characteristics of their
wild parentage They can be broken to
tee yoke, but are not so sober and
manageable in their work as the tame
breed sometimes, for instance, making
a dash for the nearest water, with dis
astrous results to the load they are
drawing. It is somewhat difficult also,
to" make a fence which shall resist the
destructive strength ol their head and
horns. But the efforts at taming buffa
loes have not been many or seriously
carried on, and no attempt appears to
have been made to perpetuate an un
mixed domestic race. Probably after a
few generations they would lose their
natural untractableness, and when cas
trated wouid doubtless form superior
working-cattle, from their greater size,
strength and natural agility. Ernest
Jngersoll, in the Popular Hcienee Monthly.
Bear Sausage nt Berlin.
Liver sausage is regarded as an ex
quisite delicacy throughout Germany,
aud it would appear from a quaint
achievement recently effected in Berlin
that its maximum of toothsomeness can
only be obtained when the material
composing it is extracted from the car
cass of a deer. A few days ago an ex
hibition of culinary art was opened at
Hamburg; and the Berlin committee of
restaurateurs, desiring to contribute
thereto an edible worth of their gastro
nomic renown, applied to Dr. Bordinus,
the managing director of tho zoological
gardens, for leave to purchase and slay
one of the society's bears, in order to
convert the ursine liver into a sausage
of paramount excellence. Having a
bear to spare, the learned doctor parted
with one for the modrate consideration
of ten guineas, and the committee,
twelve in number, proceeded to the
doomed one's den, where Heir Wiese,
the proprietor of Sommer's salon, shot
bruin through the head, and afterward
narrowly escaped mutilation by ven
turing to stroke the luckless beast's
furry coat before i t had quite given up
the ghost. JTho beast's liver was duly
chopped up, spiced and manufactured
into a gigantic sausage weigh ing twenty
five pounds, and his remains having
been artistically set up by a noted taxi
dermist, he now occupies an honorable
and rampant position at the chief en
trance to the Hamburg exhibition, sup
porting upon his fore paws a silvern
platter containing the dainty comesti
ble prepared from his own body. Lorr
don Telegraph.
A Boston artist painted an orange peel
on the sidewalk so naturally ttiat six fat
men slipped down on it.
Mrs. Partington at the Sociable.
There was no mistaking the costume,
and the fact that the venerable dame
led a small boy by the hand confirmed
the impression that Mrs. Partington
was in tho assemblage. J here was a
momentary lull in the buzz of conver
sation, and the party gathered around
the new-comer, engr'o shake her by
the hand. " Bless me!" said she, with
a beaming smile, which played over
her face like sunshine over a lake;
"Bless me! how salutary you all are!
-mst as vou ought to be at a time like
this, when nothing harmonious should
he allowed to disturb your hostilities.
You are very kind. I'm shore, and I am
glad to sec you trying to enjoy your
selves. We liad no church sociables in
my young das, but we had huskin
bees, and quiltin' bees, and apple bees,
and" "Bumblebees," said Ike, break-
ins in like a bov on thin ice "and
though we had good times, and sociable
enough, goodness knows, When the red
ears were found, they were nothing to
the superfluity of this." Ihere was a
slight disturbance in the circle, as Ike
in bis restlessness placed his heel on a
circumjacent toe, but it was stilled as
the master of ceremonies came up to in
troduce the minister. " Glad to see you,
madam," said the minister, "I hope
you may find the hour spent with us a
happy one." " I know I shall, sir,"
replied she, "for happiness depends
very much on how we enjoy ourselves.
and enough ot anything always satis hes
me. How could I help enjoying my
sell in a scene of such life and ani
mosity as this?" "Very true, madam "
"And then the lights, blazing like a
consternation, and the music and
flowers mako it seem like Pharaoh
land." The minister was called away,
and the master of ceremonies askea
Mrs. P. if she would like "an ice." which
she faintly heard. "A nice P"she
replied, looking at him and hanging on
to the long as if it were the top bar of
a gate. "Oh, very." A rush by the
contestants in a game nere broke m
between them., the band cave a crash.
which seemed to start the roof, the
mass of people waved to and fro, Ike
started off with a new crony in quest of
some suggested peanuts, and Mrs. Part
ington backed into a seat. She looked
nintiQflnt.ltf nnnn the tnnvinfr Bnpp.tnele
...uuw. . K - r-
through her own parabolas, 51er fingers
beat time to the music, and iier""oii
factories" inhaled the breath of flowers
and the smell of coffee from an adpv
cent room, till she was becoming "lost,'
when she realized that a figure was
standing before her, and a cold spoon
wa9 being thrust into her right hand
It was the attentive manager again with
an ke-cream which ho invited her to
take. " You are very surprising, sir,"
said she, smiling; " I was unconsciona
ble at the moment. Thank you; I
will. Iam very partially fond of ice
cream, and this is manila, too, which is
my favorite." She ate with a sense of
enjoyment caught from the scene and
went away soon after, when Ike had
lomed her, with plethoric pockets, bid
diux the manager convey a good-night
from her to tho party, saying she had
enj yed a real sociable time. Is. I'.
fi'iillaber, in the Avemte.
Then and Now.
Owing partly to the improvement in
tools and sh-p appliances, and partly to
the system or subdivision ot labor, there
is no parallel by which the workman of
to-d iy can be g mged or compared with
t he wi rkmaa ol thirty or iorty years ato
Then the apprentice was taught
crudely, perhaps, but still. taught-all
the mysteries oi his calling, Horn the
rr. paration of the crudo material to the
finish of tho completed result. The
carpenter hewed hi timber from the
tree trunk or Umo by means ot chiv.k
line and broadaxe. He bored, and mor
tised, aud cut tenons, erected the frame
J. . I .11. 1 .11 1.1
oi tin ouuuinsr, ooaruea ana smngiea.
and clapboarded and lathed. Ihe
blacksmith shod horses and oxen, tired
wheels, made bolts and nuts, chipped
and filed and drilled, forged and tem
pered axes and chisels, and performed
numberless jobs of a variety of forms
and for a variety of purposes. The ma
chinist sometimes made hi own pat
terns and often his own tools, worked
at the vise and the planer, the lathe nnd
the forge, and was ready to undertake
any job, from repairing a broken stove
to buildiugan engine.
Our venerable contemporary, the Bos
ton Journal oj Commcre, remembtirs
when the above practice was universal.
We congratulate it on surviving to see
all this changed. Now timber is sawed
and not hewed : mortises and tenons a re
machine cut; houses are built by the
shinglers, the lathers and the joiners, as
well as by the carpenters; and the deors,
windows, window and door frames and
sashes are factory built. The liorse
shoer does nothing else. The forger of
steel seldom works iron. Tho tool
maker is nothing but a tool maker. The
mac hinist is a bench man, a lathe man,
a planer, a fitter, or lie has a specialty
in cotton machinery or woolen, or never
works b'lt on steam machinery. ikicn
tfic American.
Meteoric Iron in Snow.
Observations of snow collected ou
mountain tops, and within tho Arctic
circle, far beyond the influence of fac
tories and smoke, confirm the sup
position that minute particles of iron
float in the atmosphere, and in time
falls to the earth. By some men of sci
ence, these floating particles of iron are
believed to bear some relation to the
phenomena oi the aurora. Gronemann,
of Gottingen. for instance, holds that
streams of tne particles revolve around
the sun, and that, when passing the
earth, they are attracted to the pole,
thence stretching forth us king fila
ments into space; but, as they travel
with planetary velocity, they become
ignited in the earth's atmosphere, and
in thi way produce the well-known
lumi' ous appearance characterizing
auroral phenomena.
Professor Nordenskjold, who exam
ined snow in the far north, beyond
Spitzbergen, says that ho found in it
exceedingly minute particles of metallic
iron, phosphorus and cobalt.
Onward.
Like a bell ol blossom ringing,
Clear and childish, short and sweat,
Flouting to the porch's shadow,
With the tiiinU-st lull oi fc.et,
Comes tho answer softly backward,
Bidding tender watcher wait,
Whilo the baby queen out rnns her,
"Only going to the gate."
Through the moonlight, warm and scented
Love to beauty breathes a sigli,
Always to depart reluctant.
Loth to speak the word " good-bye j"
Then the same low echo answers,
Waiting love of older dute,
And the maiden whispers soltly,
" Only going to tho gate."
The gates wo passthein upward
On o ir journey, one by one,
To the distant, Bhining wicket,
Where each traveler goes alone
Where the friends who journey with us
Strangely taller, stop nnd wait,
Father, mother, child or lover;
"Only going to the gate."
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Pasteboard shutters, in imitation of
wood, are the latest.
The Governor of Kentucky, under the
constitution of tho State, is ineligible
for re-election.
Seven Bibles or Testaments are now
turned out every minute by the Ameri
can Bible society.
A pretty girl's house is a legal institu
tion, for the simple reason that parties
go there to plead.
A wooden shoe factory Las been
started in Illinois. It will use a great
many feet of lumber.
Nashville got its name from Gen.
Francis Nash, a brave soldier of the
Continental army who foil mortally
wounded at tho battle ol Germantown.
The manufacture of clo thing in
Chicago has doubled in four years, and
gives employment to 30,000 people. The
value of the goods made is $15,000,000.
There are in the United States 380
theaters and 120 concert halls, 140 regu
lar traveling companies, 50 variety
companies, 68 companies formed to sup
port stars, and seven resident stock
companies.
The Boston assessors' tabulation
shows that there are 49,229 buildings in
the city, of which 1.433 dwellings,
valued at $5,872,300, are vacant. The
hotel of the highest valuation is the
Parker house, at $500,1100.
An observer in England has found
that the depth of the dew-fall in that
country seldom exceeds the hundredth
part ot an inch during any night of the
year, while the average annual depth
of the deposit is not more than an inch
and a half.
Of the 2,120 commissioned officrs in
the United State regular army, only 829
are graduates of West Point. Of the re
mainder 174 rose from the ranks, 084
w ere appointed from civil life, chiefly
froai officers of tho volunteer force
during the late war.
A drunkard fled into the woods, near
Nashville, Tern., while wild with de
lirium tremens, dug a grave, and was
found lying in it dead. His wife was
muilo lrantic by the sight, and she
loudly called upon heaven to let her die
too. It happened that, on her way
home, lightning struck and killed her.
Accerding to an official statement, the
effective strength of tho Swiss Federal
army on the first of January, 1880,
amounted to 119,047 men, as against
119.743 in the previous year. The num
bers required by the existing law are
105 388 men in the regular army and
07,012 in the Landwehr, or altogether
212,400. The actual total at present is
215,063.
Words of Wisdom.
Youth looks at the possible, age at the
probable.
Charms strike tho sight, but merit
wins the soul.
No man ever looked on the dark side
of life without finding it.
One should seek foi others the happi
ness one desires for one's self.
Truth is the foundation of all knowl
edge, and tho cement of all societies.
They that laugh at everything, and
they that fret at everything, aro alike
fools.
No manner of sneaking is so offensive
as giving praise aud closing it with an
exception.
As the firefly only shines when on the
wing, so it is with the human mind
when at rest it darkens.
How many are there like Atalanta in
the fable, who lost the iace by stopping
to pick up the golden apple.
Pleasant occupation lends to prolong
life, for longevity is much dependent
upon the feelings ot the mind.
It is not merely the individual but so
ciety that suffers by every idle.very
selfish, every mean, every unjust man.
As the sun appears largest when he
is about to set, so does the proud man
swell most magnificently just before his
fall.
Ileal merit of any kind cannot long be
concealed; it will ho discovered, and
nothing can depreciate it but a man's ex
hibiting it himself.
Lei.ure is tims for doing something
useful; this leisure the diligent man will
obtain, hut the lazy man never; so that,
Poor Richard says : " A life of lazineus
and leisure are two things."
Ho is moit see-ure of lifo who lives for
his fellows. One lives through all
periods who has in all periods lived lor
his race. We must see humanity
through our ambition always, if we
would make and perpetuate that life
which consists in an undying reputation.