'fflu rf west jEfjmMtan. in ri!i:Miiir.n kvkiiy wkdnkbday, bt r. 33. xvaaivris: ofrioe in robinson & bonner's building elm sth;:i;t, tiontta, pa. Rates of Advertising. One Square (I inch,) ono insertion -One Square " one month - 3 M OneNquare " threoinonths - 6 00 One Square ' ono yenr 10 ( Two Squares, ono year - - lft'O Quarter Col. ' - - - - no Half -- no (0 One " - - - - 100 () IjOfral notices at established ratos. Marriage and death notices, gratia. All bills for yearly ailvortiH!inonls . leeted quarterly. Temporary advertise, monts must bo paid for in advance. Job work. Cash on Delivery. A TERMS, 1.60 A TRAIl. N(i Subscriptions received for a uliortor period than throe months. I'orroNpondewo no id tod troiri nil part ot the country. No nolico will ho taken of anonymous cniiinni ideations. VOL. XIII. NO. 27. TIONESTA, PA., SEPT. 22, 1880. $1.50 Per Annum. K J "J The Seasons. Spring, brilliant peuxon ol the year, Wo think, for divers roasons, Thai thou art, taken ns the whole, The Bpico ot all Iho seasons. Kininnoi', thou warmest ot Iho time, That oomes with sun and shower, No man can doubt an instant Unit Thou art tho pepper ol the hour. Autumn, sweet evening of the year, Kith fruits ami grain adorn thy brow. And in thy plontoous harvest gilts Tho salt el time art thou. Winter, stern, and cold, and chill, ThoiMfiotnest biting, bleak and drear, And as we shun thy biting breath Wo namo thee vinegar ol tho year. Stcubenville Herald. WILD GRAPES. " Fu"h a quanlily of llicm," said the Widow Winton, "and doing nobody anv good P The golden September sunshine was stooping all the Uplands in yellow bright ness; the avanl couiiers of tho coming fros i bad touched the maples and sumacs with fiery red, and the wild grapes in the woods came freighting the air with sweetness. Such wild grapes, too great, olooming masses ol purple, out lined against their rank, green leaves, as if some enchanted hand had hung all the forest aisles with glistening pendants of amethyst. " The jelly they would makel'aid the Widow Winton, shading her largo black eyes with one hand, a she looked up where the vines had garlanded a copse of cedar trees. "And the preserves! And the price they would bring in maikel ! 1 really do think that when I rented, the Gkn Cotiagc, I ought to have hud the privilege of these woods into the haivain. inoic especially as Mr. KuclumM ! i" I'u.ope, and the grapes are doing nobody uny good." And the Widow Winton drew a deep .Vgb, ns the wind wafted a fresh gust ol liarance towrd her the sweet, inde scribable annua of ripening grapes in lue ei tK'ib e of autumn i-uti.lnne, The Widow Win ion. bo it under stood, was . no angulai matron or wii?k!ed old beldame, hul a rosy little personage of two or ibne-and-twentv, with uiighimr. hW -Muck eyes, long lotdu d and aluiond-sharted, a feaucy, " retrousse none, and lips like a cleft rose- 1..... A .1 .... ol... u kA tl.ni.ri vrlttt lwt IIUU. AIM! an Dllt rwi'u tt . nvi . diiunled hands interlaced above her eyes, a rebellious resolution formed itself in her heart. . " I will have them," said the Widow Winton; "as well me as the schoolboys and the sparrows, am ii i were io ass that crusty old agent, I know he'd re fuse, so I shall ouiit the little ceremony. I'll send Vm into town, and I'll take the money to get me a new full hat, for mine h.w been positively shabby ever since tho crape got soaked through in that summer shower, t-ree weeks ago Sun i day." Anii Iho Widrmr Winton vpnt. home to the little collage on the edge of the -wood, which had once been a porter's lodge to the Esselmont estate, and fold her sister what she had determined upon. " Fanny," said Miss Charity Hall, who was ten years older than the widow, and a good many degrees graver, " pray don't think of such a thing." " Why not P" said Fanny. " It would be stealing!" " No, it wouldn't," stoutly 'argued Fanny. 'There they hanp, doing no- O. body any good; and it's a wicked, sin ful shame! And Mr. Esselmont is in l'aris, and that cross old crab of an agent sets up a cry if one docs but break oil a sprig oi autumn leaves, jmo, Charity, there's no use arguing; the grapes I want, and the grapes I'll have !" " 1 wouldn't," said Miss, Charity. " I would," said the Widow Winton. And she took down a little wicker- basket, with a twisted handle and a double lid, and tripped off. "How are you going to reach themP" said Miss Charity. . "-I shall climb," said the widow. " YouP" cried Miss Charity. t Yes, 1 ! ' nodded the widow. 15ut she was yet engaged in gathering the purple spoils that hung, ripe and tempting, within her reach, when there was a crackling of dry leaves under toot, and a tall young man, in a suit of dark-colored cloth and a Tyrolese hat, stepped lightly iuto theforceit glade. " It's the new rector," said the Widow - Winton to heitelf. "To think that he should have blundered along at this very time of all others! But I may us well make the best ot it." And she turned around to greet tho bewildered new-comer with a sweet smile and the utmost self-possession. " Will you have some grapes?" said she, holding out the twisted wicker basket. . . I Tl -. 1 lit 1 l l nvx yuui uaiuom tsmiiiiueruu the stranger; "but I must have mis taken my way. I supposed these were the Essetniont woods. " So they are," said the widow, "and I am stealing the J'.sseimont grapes be cause, you see, I've rented the little cottage yonder, and I really think the grapes ought to go with the cottage don't you''" Ileal ly." otrid the stranger tho Widow. Winton hud perceived by this time thai he was tall and straight, with plcttoiint hazel eyes and a long, silky mustache. "I know solittle about the property here" "Oh, ot course not!" said the widow, sitting down on a fallen tree, with her little black silk apron full of grapes. " But I can tell jwu. Mr. Esselmont.who owns the property, is in Europe; and the ugeniis such a cross old fudge that one can't ask for so much as a bunch of wild llowers a regular crab.you know !" openia,i her bright eyes very wide to emphasize- iho idea. "How vcr disagreeable!" said tho fctittiier, who had taken a seat on the moFsy log. beside tho widow, and was eating grapes as if it were tho most nat ural thing in the world. " So I just concluded to help myself," said the widow. ,' So I perceive," said the hero of tho silky mustache. "Wouldn't you, if you were in my place P" said tho widow. "Certainly I would!" said the gentle man. "And if you will allow me, I will help you to help yourself." " But you haven't time," said the Widow Winton, dubiously. "Oh, yes, I have!" said the stranger " plenty of time, I assure you. I was only crossing the woods to call on the new rector, and " The purple clusters of grapes slid to the ground, as the Widow Winton started up in amazement and dismay. "Oh, dearl" cried she; "I thought you were the new rector!" Tho stranger laughed. " 1 o I look so very clerical?" said he. " Then you are the asrenl's son from Canada!" said she. "Oh. dear! oh. dear ! And I've been calling your lather a crab, and all sorts ot names. Oh, dear! I beg your pardon, I urn Burc, but all tho camo he is a crab!" " Pray don't distress yourself," soothed the stranger. "I am. no rela tion at nil to Mr. Esselmont's agent." The Widow Winton brightened up a little at this. " I am thanktul for that," said she. "And now, if you will help mo with the grapes, we can get them ail gathered before tho agent comes this way on his afternoon walk. Can you climb?" "I should rather think I could," promptly answered the gentleman. Tho widow clapped her plump JJttle hands in delight, as the huge bunches rained down into her apron. " There," cried she, ' that's enough!" ' Are you quite sure?" "Oh, quite," said the widow "for jelly, and marmalade, and to send a lot to town to buy my new bonnet-strings." The stranger sprang lightly to the ground, from the boughs ol a stately beech tree. " Then it's all right," said he. " And we've outgeneraled Mr. Esselmont and his cross old Hgent, after all." "Haven't we?" said tho Widow Winton, with her black eyes all dancing with mischief. "And now, if you'll come homo with mc, I'll give you a cup of, real Fnnch chocolate, and a slice of sponge cake." " I shall be very happy to carry your basket for you," said the stranger, cour teously. " There he is now," said tho widow, recoiling a little, as they neared the tiny cottage, with its drooping caves and pillared veranda. Who?" said the gentleman. "The agent," said the Widow Win Ion. " He can't hurt us." said the stranger. And he walked boldly into tho very presence of Mr. Sandy Macpherson, with the basket of plundered grapes on his arm; while tho widow followed, much marveling at his valor. But, instead of bursting out into invective, the agent sprang to his feet, and began bowing and scraping most obsequiously. "Heally, sir really, Mr. Esselmont," said ho, " this is a pleasure that I didn't expect." " Mr. Esselmont!" cried out the widow. ' I beg a thousand pardons for not disclosing my identity before!" said the handsome "Incognito." "But you've no idea how I have enjoyed this mas querade. Will you allow me to in troduce myselt formally at last?" The Widow Winton turned crimson and nale. " But 1 ve been stealing your grapes," said she. " Every fruit and flower on the Essel mont estates is at your service," said the young heir, with a Dow ana a smile. But when he went away. Miss Charity took her younger sister formally to tusk. "Fanny," said she. "arent you ashamed P" " Not a bit." said Fanny, valiantly. " Stealing fruit like a schoolboy, and romping like a child, remonstrated Charity. "If Mr. Esselmont don t mind it," said the widow, "why should Ir And we're going to the haunted springs to morrow, and I shall show him the rocky glen. Uh, 1 can tell you. Charity, it s great run! ' nut, as time crept on, Miss Uhanty Hall crew more uneasv still. " ianny," said she, " you must leave oil nirtiDg with Guy E3selmont! ' " Why P" said tho widow . " Because you are poor and he is rich ; and people are beginning to talk." "Let'em talk," said Fanny. "We are to be married next month, and then we can set the whole world at dchance ; and, Charity " hiding her face on the elder sister's shoulder. " WellP" " He say he fell in love with me that day he caught me stealing his grapes!" "Humph!" said Miss Charity "Well, you've stolen his heart, so don't 6ce but that you're quits!" Living in flew York, 17!) i. Tho Tontine house, under the care of Mr. Hyde, is the best hotel in New York He sets from twelve to sixteen diehe evtry day. lie charges lor a years board, without liquor, $Jf0 to $100 liutter in tne market is J74 cents per pound ; beef, compared with the English beet, i9 poor; turkeys are 64 cintseach common fowls are 25 cents each. Of "Albany beef," sturgeon, you can get enough lor ill cents to Iced a tamuy. Oysters are plenty and large, l'eaches sell two cents lor three to BixT of them. All ranks of people smoke cigars six or seven inches long. Silver money is plenty, but go'd is rarely seen. The population of the city is about 30,000. There are two places of public enter tainment in the environs of the city that are much visited in tho summer; one is c.illed Belvidere (on 'Bunker's hill), and the oth'r Bundlins's gardtjus. Alayasine 0 American Malory. A Japanese (Fable. Once upon a time, on the shady side of a hill near the seashore, there lived a crab. One day he found some boiled rice, and Eet off home with it; but on his way was spied by a monkey. The monkey offered to exclnge the seed of a persimmon, the fruit ol which he had nearly tinished eating, for the rice. This the crab accepted on condition that the monkey had not injured it with his teeth. The exchange made, Jocko de voured the rice, but the crab planted the seed in his garden. A long time afterward, the nienkey happening to pass the same spot, was surprised to see a fine tree laden with fruit, and his friend the crab sitting on the balcony of a nice new house, admiring his fruit tree. Tim monkey being hungry, begged tho crab to allow him to eat some of tbe fruit. But the crab apologized, say ing that his mend would be quite wel come to some ol the fruit, but he could not climb t' e tree to gather it. The monkey declared ability to climb if the rab would allow him to try; to which tho owner of the tree consented, stipu lating that he should receive halt the fruit that was plucked. So up the mon key clambered, aniigfast as he could, selecting the best Hm? Ripest fruit, but was too greedy to notice the crab, who was waiting patiently below. At length the crab, losing patience, accused the monkey of being a bad and deceittul tel- low ; upon which the monscy got angry, pelted the poor crab, and broke his hell. The crab s inend. the wasp, com ing by, attacked the monkey and stung turn so severely that Jocko scampered awtiy tnghtcned. The wa9p then sent lor his mends lggand Mortar, and alter due deliberation, they made it up amongst them to punish Jocko. They arranged that Egg should explode if put on the lire, the wasp should sting Jocko, and Mortar, placed on tho roof, should roll off upon his head as he ran outot the door. The next day the mon key being hungry, called at the crab s house to apologize, and to beg another dinner of fruit; but, seeing no person in the house, he entered, and finding a nice largo egg on a tray, he put it on the lire to roast it, as lie could not manage raw eggs so well aa hard cooked ones. Presently tho egg exploded violently and scattered the hot cinders over Jocko, who ran into the next room nowiing wuu pain; oui uie wasp new out of a corner and stung him bo badlv APYVr K Z fLflY. howling with pain; but ttie wasp Hew that he rushed out of the house, fright ened and almost mad with pain, when dropped the mortar upon his head and killed him. Moral: Cunning and greedy people rarely gain much; and uhgratelui ones are generally punished in the end. A Famous Horse-Woman. A Yorkshire (England) authority says that perhaps the most exciting and enthusiastic scene ever witnessed on a ace course was at Knavesmire, in 1804, when Mrs. Thornton accepted her brother-in-law. Captain Hint's chal lenge to ride a race for a wager for " 500 guineas and 1,000 guineas bye." The distance was four miles, and Mrs. Thornton to ride her weight against Mr. Flint his weight. A hundred thou sand persons flocked to the course, and the Sixth dragoons were called out to aid the constables in keeping order. At to four on the petticoat." When balf I the course had been run it rose to seven the betting was " five and six to four, and at three miles advanced to two to one. During the three miles the lady had been gradually increasing the lead, when in the last mile her girth slackened, and though she cleverly kept her seat she could not maintain her plaeo. It was said that $1,000,000 changed hands. In the following year Mrs. Thornton rode two races one a match for 2,000 guineas and a bet of 600 guineas with Mr. liamtord, who at the last moment declined to ride, and Mrs Thornton cantered over the course, The other was with a famous jockey named Buckle. Mrs. Thornton, in pur pie cap and waistcoat, nankeen shirt, purple shoes ana enioroiaerea stockings, took the lead and kept it lor seme dis tance, but was passed by Buckle, who maintained his position for a lew length, " when," to quote a chronicler, " the ladv. bv the most excellent horse manshin. pushed forward and came in in a style superior to anything of the kind we ever witnessed, gaining the race by half a neck." The Cologue Cathedral The Cologne (Germany) cathedral, be gun about in'M, was nnisnea August, 1880, when the last stone was inserted in the tinial of the second tower. It is 511 feet long and 231 broad, and its twin towers are 511 leet high. It originated when tho religious enthusiasm ol the Roman Catholic church was at its height and enormous edifices were required for the masses who thronged the altar. Up to 1830 it remained in tho same state is in the middle ages, only the great chair and a portion of the towers having been built, the entire main part of the struc ture the nave, transept and tho aisles not having been begun. The original plans were tound, however, in the dusty archives ot tho cathedral, giving every detail of its construction, so that the work could be carried on exactly as at lir3t intended. In 1830 there was a great enthusiasm for the monuments of the past throughout Germany, and the work of completing the pile was taken hold of with energy under King William Frederick III., of Prussia. It has been pushed Idr ward rapidly and as much has been done in tho past fifty years as could have been done in centuries of tho mid- dls ages. - Tho greater part of the build ing is really of modern construction One of tho towers contains the famous kaiser glocke (emperor's bell) presented by Emperor William in thanksgiving for the victory over r ranee. Iho work has been done by large government ap propriations, pnvate subscription, and tho Cologne CutLeiral building society, with frequent drawings ol a grand lot tery. Tho nave, aisles and tho tran sept were eon iecratod in llS, and the wbolo interior wua thrown open in lb63 The United States and Europe. We number now nearly or quite 60,- 000,000 people. A hundred million could be sustained without increasing the area of a single farm or adding one to their number by merely bringing our product up to the average fjnndard of reasonably good agriculture; and then there might remain for export twice the quantity we now send abroad to feed the hungry in foreign lands. No longer divided by the curse of slavery, this nation is now united by bonds of mutual interest, of common sneech. tied bv the iron band of B5,00n miles of railway, and is yet oniy beginning to leel the vital power ana erandeur of truly national existence. What may be the future of this land few can yet conceive. Texas alone com prises as much territory as the German empire, Enjland and Wales combined. Texas has now about 2.000.000 people within her boundaries; the German empire, England and Wales about 67, 000.000. The good land in Texas is f nual in area to the good land in Ger many and Great Britain. Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa combined more than equal Franco in area and possess more fertile land . Only twenty-five years ago John rirown and his companions re deemed Kansas from slavery. Ne braska was then indicated on our own maps as a part oi me great American desert." and Iowa had scarcely occome a eiaie. Aiieir popu lation may now be 2,500,000. France has 47,000,000. The great middle lection of Eastern Tennessee. jNortncrn Georcria. Western Carolina and South ern Virginia has been hemmed in by the curse of slaverv. and is yet almost a terra incoenita. but it is replete with wealth in mmera s. in umoer and in fertile valleys of almest unequal climate for health and viaror. This section is almost equal to the Austrian empire in its area, and more than equal in re sources. It has a sparse population of only one or two millions. The Austrian empire has over 37,000.000. The healthy upland country of Georgia. Alabama and tho Carolinas contains vast area of fertile woodland, which can be bought by the hundred thousand acres at hail a dollar or twenty-five cents an acre, on which sheep and cotton thrive equany well. These sections aro being slowly occupied by white farmers, and wait for immisrrants who can bring them to use. " ouu -y, -i upon the kernel of the cotton-seed, and unon the masses that follow the cotton, In a few short years, sheep, ted mainly upon the grasses that follow the cotton, will send to market irom tne same ueios, alternately occupied, as much wool as cotton. This warm section is more than eaual to Italy in area; it has perhaps 2,000,000 people. Italy contains 27,000,- 000. The fertile lands of tho bhenan- doal valley in Virginia, and along tho rotomac m Maryland, more man equal Belgium. They may contain half a mil lion neon e. Jieigium nas more man five million. In the consideration ol this problem of productive capacity there are other factors of the greatest importance. What are the burdens to be borne by our people compared to others? What is the mortgage on this land that we possess. E. A. Atkinson, in Fortnightly Hcvicw. Old Things. Do you know, anyhow, I don't feel mucli reyerenco for old things that aie ?W I suppose it is ueathenish and awiuuy uoonsu, uut i vnu u ucip it. A man shows me a teapot or a tooth brush and tells me his grandmother used them fifty-six years and that was one hundred and sixty-two years ago. I can't uncover mv head, and go down be fore the venerable relic on mv bonded kn:es. in a spirit of veneration. I feel more like tellinzhitu it was time theold girl gDt new ones. Family relics, like family babies have no sort of interest for any outside of the family. Here, the other day a man bought an old spinning wheel. " One hundred and twelve years old," he told me, proudly, and he was eoing to take it home, and set it up in his library and never part with it. And for the life ol me. I couldn't see why. It had no Interest in the world lor him beyond its age. He might have gone out into the street and picked up a boulder two thousand vars old with just as much local and liistorical inter est for him as the spinning wheel. But that the former owner ot the spinning wheel should sell it for money, that did surprise me. It had a world ot memo ries for him. He could touch the treadle and the whirring wheel would croon out the same old mono tone that had droned its drowsy aecom paniment to the cradlo songs that had l l ... J l " . 1 , :H I . ., I. An.ia. it would sing to him in ills manhood and in the long evenings of his old age, ol a white-haired "grandma" and a mother with patient face and beautiful eves: it would sing of a thousand old- time memories and forgotten faces; it would repeat snatches ot old songs, and old lorgottea tender words for him ; it wou.d sing how the tenner mother's lace grew patient and sad and careworn ns the ycar3 went on. and the beautiful eves were laded with tears and dimmed with watching and the loving hand fainted with weariness until at 'ust one day tho wairring wheel stood still, and its silence spread a great heavy quiet all over the old home, only broken now and then by low, soft breathing whis pers and tho sobbing of motherless children in the little rooms; by and by the tremulous voice of the white-haired pastor, and then homely voices singing some grand old liymns of tho deathless faith that mother died in, tlio sullling feet ot tho bearers, and then nothing in the darkened room but u creeping ray of sunshine falling in through the blind, and a quiet so deep that the hum of tho bees in the old-fashionod vinos triiling about the window had a Btrangely plaintive sound. How the man whose grandmother and mother sat at that busy wheel, could sell it, 1 cannot un durstand. But what it c-ould be to the man who bought it, is fully as great a mystery. Jit will sin.: none of those songs to him. It would I e liken in m talking Bengalee to u Spanish parrot. JSurddU. FIUURES FOR THE FAMILY. flow Mr Spooprnilyke Audited the Ac comtls of Ills Wife. "Now, my dear," said Mr. Spoopeti- dyke, " if you'll bring mc the pen ami ink, I'll look over your accounts and straighten 'cm out for you. I think vour idea ol keeping an account oi the daily expenses is the bes&thing you ever did. It's business like, and I want to enourage you in it." " Here's the ins," said Mrs. spoopen- dyke, growing radiant at the compli ment. " I had the pen day before yes terday. Let me think," and she dove into her work basket and then glanced nervously under the bureau. W ell, do you suppose l m going to split up my fingure and write with thatP' demanded Mr. bpoopendyke. ' Where's the pen P I want the pen." I put it somewhere," said Mr3. Rpoopendyke. "Aht here I have it. Now you see," she continued, " I put what money I spend down here. This is your account here and this is the joint account. You know " " What s this?" asked Mr. bpoonpen- dyke. T hat s your account; this" " No, no, I mean this marine sketch in the second line." "ThatP Oh, that's a 7." "S'posc I ever spent seven dollars with a tail like to it? If you're going to makn figures, why don't you make figures. What d'ye want to make a picture of a prize fight in a column of accounts for? What is this elephant doing here?" I think that s a 2," replied Mrs. Spoopendyke, dubiously. "Maybe it's a 4. I can tell by adding it up." "What are you going to add upP D'ye count in this corner lot and that rose bush and this pair of suspenders? U'ye add them inP" "That's a C and that is a 5 and the last is an 8. They come out all right, and during the Insi month you have spent more than I and the joint account together." Haven't either. When did 1 spend this broken-down gunboat P" " That ain't a boat. Il's $12 for your suit." Well, this tramp fishing off a rock. when did 1 spend himr" It ain't a tramp. It's $50 cash you f t . T i n t- ft whnr Trmi nnenr took, and i aon t know wnat you spent it for. . Look at my account, now-' " What's the man pulling a gig for?" 1 It's nothing of the sort, That ain't a gig, it's $1 lorwiggin. xouseei ve only spent $22 in a month, and you've spent $184." xou can t ten oy tuts what I've done," growled Mr. Sooopendyke. What s this rat trap doing in the joint account ?" " that s tourteen cents lor iruit, when you were sick." And this measly-looking old hen, what's she got to do with it?" lhat s no hen. That s a 2. it means $2 for having your chair mended." W hat have you charged me with this old graveyard for?" " lhat s hfttcn cents for sleeve elas tics. The 15 ain't plain, but that's what it is." How do you make out I havo spent so much P Where's the vouchers P Show me the vouchers P I don't know what vou mean." said Mrs. Spoopendyke, "but you spent all I put down." ' Haven't done anything of the sort. Show me some vouchers. Your ac count's a humbug. You don't know how to keep an account 1 Yes, I do," pleaded Mrs. Spoopen dyke. "and I think it's all right." " ISO you don t. 'What do you mean by getting up engraviugs of a second hand furniture store and claiming that it s my account P You re a grfat book keeper, you are. All you want is a sign hung between you and the other side ot the street, to be a commercial college If I ever fail in business. I'm going to nil you up with benches and start a nizht school. Give me that pen," and Mr. Spoopendyke commenced running up the co'umns. " x wo two s lour and eight twelve and four sixteen and carry onetD the next and three is four. Here, this is wrong, r ou ve got an eighteen lor a twenty here." "Eh? ' lerked out Mrs. fc-poopendyke. "This is $204. not $184 I knew you couldn t keep accounts. 1 ou can t even add up." That makes your account even bieger," responded Mrs. Spoopendyke 1 didn t think it was so much." Slam went the boo across the room followed bv tho pen. and the ink would have gone too, but Mrs. bpoopendykc cautiously placed it out of harm s way Hod gast it! ' howled Mr. bpoopen dyke, as he tore of his clothes and pre pared for bed. " You ain't fit to have a pen and ink. Next time I want my accounts kept I'll keep 'em chained up in the yard, and don t you go near 'em ; hear mef ' "Yes. dear." sighed Mrs Spoopen dyke, as she slipped the obnoxious book into the drawer. isrooclyn .ay e. Words of Wisdom' Prefer loss before unjust gain, for that brings grief but once, and this lor ever. The modern nwjesty consists in work What a man can do is his createst orna ment, and he always consults his dignity by doing it. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one inor contemptible. Vice is infamous, thouch in a prince; and virtue honorable, though' in a peasant. Where a man makes his money there lie should make his home, aud, as a rule, it will mainly bo his fault and that ol his family il ho cannot spend his iilo there with profit and satisfaction, Without earnestness no man is ever great or does really great things, lie may bo the cleverest man; tie may he brilliant, entertaining, popular, but he will want weight. No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in ils depth a shadow. Col Bono t What is hopo T A smiling rainbow Children tollow through the wet; 'Tis not here, still yonder, yonder; Nover urchin tound it yet. What is life. T A thawing icoberg On a soa with sunny shore; Gay, we sail; it molts boneath ns; We are sunk, and seen no more. What is man T A looliah baby, Vainly strives, and fights, anl frets; Demanding all; doaerving nothing; Ono small grave is all he gets. Thoma Carlylt. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Early to bed and early to rise is a very good plan to escape being interviewed by flies. It ain't what goes in, but what goes" out of tho inkstmd that makes the trouble Boslo7i Transcript. "Mine, miner, minus ! " This is the general upshot ot speculation in mining stock. Faicrson Press. From 1871 to 1880 Chicngo had 13'J murders, twenty-two of them occurring on Juiy days and only seven in Febru ary. It is said that a woman's voice can bo heard for two miles by a man in a balloon. That may bo the reason why i ii r i, so lew men go up in uauons. itcxs Sun. A Commercial Travelers' Car com- ... t i.i ;i a. pany will bo organized in ueirou w build cars with restaurant and sleeping accommodations and spacious compart- ments lor the display ol samples. A man near Houston. Texas, made $000 per acre this year Irom the cultiva tion of domestic blackberries. Tho yield was 3,000 quarts per acre, which sold at twenty cents a quart. A man condemned to four years im prisonment at Casano, Italy, starved himself to death. From the day of his sentence he refused to take food, and no compulsion being resorted to he died at the end ol thirty days. A South American plant has been found that cures bashfulncss. It should be promptly tried by the man who leaves the hotel by the back window because he is too difhdent to say good bye to the cashier and clerk. The tickets of admission to ancient circuses and other exniDiiions were freauentlv little "squeezes" of baked clay, the material having been pressed into moius Dealing cuigies appiu-uaic to the different tiers of seats in an amphitheater, cr having reference to the town or city. For example, an elephant stood for one place or tier, an eagle for another. " Are seeds of the future lying under the leaves of the pastP" is the very per tinant inquiry of a knowledge-seeker. They may be; or it's barely possible that the seeds ol the past are lying unaer the leaves of the luture; or the leaves of the luture may be lying under the seeds tf the past ; or the seeds ol tho leaves may bo lying under the luture of tho past at any rate something is lying, and if you expect to get through a heated political campaign like this with out it, there's where you dispose of your self. Marathon Independent. Tbe Fire Laws or Japan. The severity with which persons in Japan are punished who have the mis- lortuno 10 ue ourneu oui is siaicu iui lows by the Scientific American: If the house is occupied and is acci dentally set on tire, the person through whose carelessness the ore is siarieo re- . ceives ten cays' imprisonment wuu hard labor; if it is inhabited and the fire be produced bv the proprietor, then he is punished with twenty days; if the hre spreads to other houses, tue sentence is forty days, and when anybody is killed thereby, ono degree heavier: but if tho person killed is a relative ol tho first degree, the punishment is one hun dred days; if tho house belongs to the government, one hundred days; if a temple, from sixty days to one year, uui ten years are indicted if it happens to bo one of the great temples of Isle, or in the precincts oi tue imperial paiace. n a robber sets fire unintentionally to a house, he is punished with at least three years imprisnment with hard labor. Decapitation awaits incen diaries, ten years penal servitude an at tempt at arson, tho punishment being mitigated if the would-be incendiary is a servant who lias just received a sharp rebuke, or if the attempt bo maele on an uninhabited dwelling. If a man sets lire to his own house, ninety days, but it the tire spreads to houses in the neighborhood, two years and a half; and penal servitudo for life is inflicted it tho oflender profits by the opportunity of tire to purloin goods or property. Kobiu Ked-Breast. Tho English robir, after whom our robin is named, has some very pleasant traits ol character. For one thing, ho is tender-hearted, and is often known to feed and comfort suffering birds, whwther they are of his own kind or not. Stories aro told of homesick birds shut up in cacs being visited by robins and cheered up by social chattering, and also ol their being supplied by the same generous little creatures with worms and other nice morsels ol lood. Young birds which fall out ot the nest before they can fly seem to bo tho special care of the robins. They will feed and care for them, ai d at last teach them to fly, and lly away with the grateful young sters. The bird we call a robin, though he is quite ns interesting as tho English rabin, and has his own pleasant, lively ways, lias really no riht to tho name, being in facta thrush. Whatever we cad him, ho is a bright, intelligent fel low, and nothing ciui bo funnier than to see him jerk a worm out of tho ground lor his breakfast. -Ntw JltumUih Mis c gr.
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