She $TOt gfjmMiran. II PUBMSUKD EVERY WKDNHHDAY, RX O". 33. WEWIC OFFICE IN EOBINSOS k BONNTEK'B BUHDntO ELM STREET, TI0NK3TA, FA. Rates of Advertising. One Square (1 lncli,) ono insertion - i'. OnoNiiiHro " ono month - - !i it OneSfiiaro " thrpo months - R (KI OneHfjiiRro " nno year - - 10 (it; Two .Squares, on year - 1" f'j Qur.rtrrC'ol. ' - - -. :'.!(( 1UW " " - - .r'0 CO if! fl Ono 100 CO TE11M3, I1.G3 IBAK. No SulisiM-ipUona received for a shorter ( tJiau three months. 'orrespondeiieo solicited rrnm all part of tho country. No notice will betaken of anonymous communications. I.opl notices at established rates. ' M'irrintio and death notices, grails. All bills for vearlv advertisements col lected quarterly. "Temporary advertise ments must bo paid for in advance. Job work. Cash on Iiclivery. VOL. XIV. NO. 9. TIONESTA, PA., MAY 25, 1881. $1.50 Per Annum. Tho Old Farmer's Elegy. On it green, grassy knoll, by tho banks of the brook, That so long and so often ban watered bin flock, Tlio old farmer rests' in his long and laat sleep. Whilo the waters a low, lapsing lullaby keep. He has plowed his lost farrow, has reaped bin lust grain; . No morn shall awake him to labor again. Yon tree, that with fragrance is filling tho air, So rirh with its blossoms, so thrifty and fair, By his own baud was planted; and well did bo nay, It would livo when its planter had moldered away. IIu has plowed bis lant furrow, has reaped Lis Ust grain; . ,vl " No ntorn shall awako him to labor again. There's the well that he dug, with its waters so cold, With its wot, dripping bucket, so money and old, No nioro from its depths by the patriarch drawn, For the "pitcher is broken," the old man is gono. ' He has plowed Ins last furrow, has reaped bis last grain; No moru shall awake him to lalwr again. 'Twas a gloomy-giving day when the old farmer diod; Tho stout-hearted mourned, the affectionate cried; And tho prayers of the just for his rest did ascend, For they all lost a brother, a man and a friend. Ho has plowed his last furrow, has reaped his last grain; No morn shall awake him to labor again. For upright and honest the old farmer was; His God ho revered, he respected the laws; Though famclcHS he lived he has gone where his worth Will outshine, like pure gold, all the dross oi this earth. . He has plowed his last furrow, has reaped bin ast grain; No moru shall awake him to labor again. Joxiah 1). Canning. A NARROW ESCAPE. It was dreadfully dull at Elderbush Farm. Mr. Poyntz had hired the farm for six months. "If my girls are eo bewitched after the Sft"5f9rv' said he, "and the country, 111 uaud fcTtf-yr)Tighot it 1" Elderbush Farfi Pi,the estate market at a low rate, and Mr. Poyntz engaged it, ready-furnished, with a gard ener, a cow, and the pony phaeton, with a blind pony thrown in. Mrs. Poyntz and the girls, bowever Buc.h is the perversity of human naturo did not seem pleased when they heard of the bargain which had been driven. "But, pa," said Miss Imogen, "we didn't mean a one-stoned house in a swamp of salt marshes 1 We meant Cape May, or Atlantic City, or else that dear, picturesque Delaware Water Gap 1" "There's no society here," sobbed Alexia, the second daughter, a blooming girl just out of boarding-school. "Nothing going on," said Mrs. Poyntz, a stout matron, who did a great deal of parish work, and belonged to at leaBt a dozon "leagues," "societies" and "com munities," in the city. "You can make butter and cheese," said Mr. Poyntz, who had discovered tho remains of an ancient barrel-churn in the cellar. "And there is the ocean view, and the pony, and the new row of boarding-houses just around the Point." : "It's all very well for papa," said Imo gen. "He cau go up to town every day. 1 Jut we shall be bored to death down in I this wilderness 1" ) Unfortunately, however, there was no appeal from the paternal dictum, and ! the Misses Poyntz took to drawing in I water-colors, walking, and boating in a . venerable skiff which they found at the J back of the barn, whilo their mother en deavored to modernize the house with Eastlake chintzes, muslin draperies and home-made lambrequins. One day, Israel, the hired man, came in. "Heard the news ?" said Israel, who was one of those free-and-equal sons of the republio who never dream of the wide social gulf that exists between em ployer and employe. "No, said alias Alexia, who was re duced by circumstances to be glad even of a trossip with a "hired man." "What rws? I didn't know they ever had ai-y news in this benighted region. "Once in awhile," said Israel, with a chuckle. "Mis' Parker's got a new board er a poetess, from Philadelfy. P'raps you've heard of her Miss Emily Eglan tine?" Alexia and Imogen clasped their hands enthusiastically. I hey were both in clined to be literary. "Heard of her V" cried they. "Why we know all her delicious poems by heart. We've read them in the Trans cendental Weeklti ever since we can re member. Miss Eglantine I It has been the dream of our lifetimes to see her. Israel chewed a straw, reflectively, "I read some pretty verses once that she writ," said he. "I do suppose, now, it's qrite an art to sling rhymes together. never could do it, I know." "But what is she like V" impatiently cried Alexia. "Tall, slender and wil- owv. with " 'I only seen her trunks," 6aid Israel "two on 'em markod 'E. E.' with canvas covers on ; big enough for smoke houses. I guess Mia' Parker had a jol ly old time, pottin 'em up the crooked staircase. Pete llawley, the express man, he told me about it. And he went out to harness the old pony, to bring Mr. Poyntafroin th eta- Imogen and Alexia looked nt each other. "How shall we contrive to get ac quainted with her ?" said they. "We muHtn't soem pushing," sugges ted Alexia. "Of cq'urso," said Imogen. "Wher ever sheigooH, Bh.e jg tormented to death with people, begging introductions." "No," said Alexia ; "the matter must be quitcr spontaneous. An acquaintance of this sort must bo formed accidental ly, or not at all." . "There will bo plenty of chances," ob served Imogen. "She must be here for tho benefit of tho sea-air, and she'll walk a deal on the beach. You and I will go boating, Lex, and o it will bo the most natural thing in the world that we shoidd meet. Dear me ! to think that Emily Eglantine should l as good ns our next-door neighbor I How I should do light to have her aatograph in my al bum !" Tho next morning Alexia, who had been abroad early to secure fresh eggs for the omelettes, in which her father's matutinal soul delighted, returned with the news that Mrs. Parker's new board er was out walking on the beach. "What is she like ?" cried eager Imo gen. "Short and stout," Alexia answered, in accents Which denoted a slight degree of disappointment.- "And she wears a poke-bonnet, and thick boots, and stamps up and down tho Bands, with an umbrella under hor arm, and talks to herself." "That ia genius," cried the delighted Imogen. "I dare say tho mood of in spiration was upon hor. Oh, Lex, how I shonld like to see her 1" "I watched her for a long time," said Alexia, "bnt I don't think she saw me. She's decidedly eccentric, I wager." "So are all talented people," laid Imogen. "Tell Israel to get the boat ready at once, Alexia. I do so long to look into her deep, intellectual eyes." "I think you'll be disappointed in her," said Alexia. "I never can be disappointed in the sacred fires of genius," said Imogen, with enthusiasm. "Emily Eglantine 1 Why the very name is a pass-key to my heart of hearts 1" And she went to put on her prettiest boating-suit of dark blue serge, with white silk anchors embroidered on the collar. "Come, Lex," said she, to her sister. "I shall want yon to pull the stroke oar." "I'd like to go along too," said Is rael, wistfully. "I've always wanted to seo a live authoress 1 "No I" said Miss Poyntz, with author ity. "We are better by ourselves." And then, as Israel went dejectedly back to the woodpile, she added : "That fellow is so intrusive I" "I think he's very nice," said Alexia, "And his father owns tho largest farm on the beach. And they've been offered ten thousand dollars for it by the Salt Sea Park Association !" "Onininns differ." said Tmocren. drilv. as they pulled out inio deep water. "Oh, Lexl there she is, pacing thoughtfully aloncr. her eyes fixed on the shininpr sands I 1'erhaps, even now, some poem ing itself within her brain. Oh, is forming what a thine it is to be an authoress ! "Hush 1 whispered Alexia. "She is looking this way. Pull a little nearer to shore, Imogen. Uh, do listen I bb.e s speaking !" Good-morning r said tne stout young woman, witn tlio poKe-bonnox ana the umbrella. Good-morning 1" the two sisters an swered, in chorus, infusing an accent of the tendcrest respect and admiration in to their voices. "Going out sailing?" demanded the inspired one. "I'd like to go, too !" Imogen cast a glance or scarcely-re pressed delight and triumph at her sis ter. "We shonld only bo too proud," said she, making haste to draw her boat up alongside tho sandy beach. - The young person stepped in, rather clumsily, it must be owned, for one who was supposed to be ephemeral as air, and sat down. Alexia pulled off, and Imogen made an effort at conversation. . "I am one of your unknown admirers," said she, a little abruptly. "Eh ? said the poetess. "I am so delighted for an opportunity of knowing you personally," added Miss Poyntz. "Every syllable oi 'Eglantine Spray' is impressed upon my memory." The stout young woman siareu. Imo gen perceived that she was not progress ing favorably. "Perhaps, she thought, "she s a little shy and sensitive about her own produc tions. I'll try another topic." And she added, aloud : "I hope you like tho coun try here ?" But the stout young person seemed intent upon something else she was trying to take the oax from her inter locutor. "Would you like to row? sweetly asked Imogen. "Get out of this I said the young per- ... i i i . i M son, with a bnsit diow oi ner uinureua handle, aimed at Imogen's head. "Come, jump ! both of you 1 lam the Queen of the Alaska Islands, and i am going up to see my dominions !" Alexia and Imogen looked at each other in blank dismay, as they warded off the brisk play of the umbrella-handle. "She is insane !" cried Alexia. "No more than you are yourself!" bhrieked the young woman with the poke-bonnet; and, seizing the unfortu nate Miss Povnta bv the shoulder, bbe endeavored to fling her over into the "I'm a deposed queen," said she ; "but I will be obeyed 1" Imogon, dropping her own oar with a scream, liastened to the rescue, and a struggle ensued, during which the frail, boat upset, and all three of the wome.n were in tho sea. Not ono of them could swim ; 1 ut, fortunately, rescue from the shore was nigh at hand. Mr. Tarker pulled out in his flat-bottomed fishing-boa, and stout Israel Teck was not far be'aind. "Well," said Mr. Parker, scratching his head, when ho had gotthe stout young female, now all wet ard dripping, into his boat, and 'iaw that Ip jael had been equally fortunate with tla0 two Misses Poyntz, "it's a rod thng sho hadn't killed 'er. SIhj'b as vnad as a March hare, poor dear ! It's, my wife's sister. As we thought, wa air and plenty of fresh milk would bo better for her than the asylum fare. But if these are the capers you ire going to cut up, Adeliza Mary, you'll have to go back again. And so peaceable as she's been of late, too 1" "I I though t it was Miss Eglantine, the poetess," -said poor Imogen, with blue lips and -chattering teeth. "Bless you,, miss, no," said Mr. Par ker. "The trunks are here, but she don't come -down until next week." While Al exia, sitting under the Bame rug with Israel Peck, had not a word to say upon, the subject. And they all went home tr Lot tea, bottles of boiling water and we 11-warmed blankets. Adeliza Mary Stubbs went back to tho asylum. Miss Eglantine came down the n ext week, an elderly lady, in blue spectacles and a cap, whom Imogen Poyntz pronounced "decidedly stupid," and Alexia became ongaged to Israel. 'Ho saved my life," said she, "when wn were out in that horrid little boat with the crazy woman. And he's so good and substantial worth a dozen city dandies, according to my taste." And Imogen's enthusiasm about au thors and authoresses ia considerably lessened. The Origin of the Xante 'Artemu8 Ward." There has been not a little specula tion as to how Brown came by his nam de plume, "Artemus Ward." Dr. Shat tu;k says, that having some confidential business with him during one of his lr,st visits to Waterford, he took the oc casion to inquire in particular about it. Brown said it was in this wise: While engaged at the Plain-Dealer office, in Cleveland, unio, he made the ac quaintance of an eccentric old gentle man whose actual name was Artemus Ward, though assuming some more pre tentious titles. This man waa in the show business, having a few "wax figgers," birds, " snaix," and a kanga roo. While waiting on the printers for his. bills he amused Brown by telling an. endless number of anecdotes, all of which were duly treasured up. Among t'nese were some of the incidents in 33rown's article entitled "Edwin For rest as Othello." He referred to the following as one of the contributions of the original Artemus V aid: "Ed was actin' at Niblo's garding, I ?i t Vint Mnvo T cistt i fwr in pit took out my spectacles and com. ,n0nced peroosin' tha evenin's bill As i was perooHin the bill, a grave young man who sot near me axed me if I'd ever seen Forrest dance tho Essence of Old Virginny.' "He's immense in that,' sed tho young man. Ho also does a fair champion jig,' the young man con tinned, ' but hia big thing is the Es sense of Old Virginny.' "Sez I: " Fair youth, do you know what I'd do with you if you waa my sun ?' '"No, sez he. "Wall, sez I, 'I'd appint your funeral to-morrow arternoon, and the korps should be ready! You're too smart to Jive on this yearth.' " The old man claimed himself to be the hero of this story. Brown, however, wanted the credit of correcting the spelling and of dressing the Btories up in good litetary style. Pleased with the name, he attached it to several of his comic productions, and finding that it took with the public, adopted "A Ward" as hia ovm.Scribner, It Was Then. It had been raining for six long hours Saturday when a man wearing an old beaver cap and a faded army overcoat entered a hardware store on Woodward avenue, shook the water off his back, and said : "About eighteen months ago I left my umbrella in this store. "Yes." "It was a bran new umbrella with a white handle.." "Yes." "And now I guess I'll bike it away." "Certainly. Where did you leavo it ?" "Behind the door." "Well, there it is." "Ah ! Any charge for storage T "Nono." ' "Well, I'm much obliged." "Not at all. Any time yew leavo an umbrella here it will be bafo for ten years. Good day." There are hundreds of men in Detroit like that merchant. They might pass a trade dollar on a stranger, but they would never appropriate his nmbrella. Free Press. Lewis Hamilton, who lately died at Nelsonville, Ky., was eccentric. His daughters were named Avenue Belle, China Figure and Hebrew Fashions ; and his sons, London Judge and South ern Boil. He hail ample mean", yet Ins children were reared in ignorance and FCX AT WEDDINGS. 'ftar Ilomorons Hide of Mntrlmany ns Ob served by Clergymen. Marriage is said to appall the stout est heart, and is generally encountered with fear and trepidation. It and death constitute the dread unknowns. This element of uncertainty, joined with tho solemnity of tho occasion, seems to conspire to evoke ludicrous incidents at weddings, and there is not a minister in the land who has not a score or more of them in his remembrance. As illus trating the nervousness incident to such occasions, all of them have had similar experiences to tho one narrated below. A few years since a young gentleman from the interior of the State came to the city for the purpose of meeting hero and marrying a young lady who, being left an orphan a year previous, had found a homo with an aunt, who was de cidedly opposed to the match. Tho plan waa for the gentleman to come to Detroit on an early train, make the necessary arrangements and meet her at tho depot at 7 o'clock in the evening. Accompanied by a friend, a parson was found who consented to the ceremony being performed in his own parlors, and, all preparations completed, tho gentleman repaired to a hotel for a quiet smoke before the train should arrive. While so engaged the intended bride groom bethought him of the financial phase of the transaction and inquired of4hia friend what waa tho customary foe, and how and when it was to be paid, apologetically adding, with a little nervous laugh, "You see, my boy, I never was married before." The desired information was given, the soon-to-be Benedict withdrew to a side table, procured paper and an envelope, and indited a note to the clergyman thanking him for his kind ness, and asking his acceptance of the inclosed, at the same time wishing he was able to give more. The reverend gentleman decres that he wished the same, for the envelope did not contain a penny. Almost equally common is the experi ence of marrying those who resort to all manner of schemes to evade pay ment. A well-known clergyman nar rates an instant in point. He was then preaching at Dexter, when an appar ently verdant couple came over to his study from the hotel. They had come to town on purpose to be united by this clergyman, they said, and were going on a " tower." The ceremony over, the groom thrust his hands deep into one pocket after another, and then with well simulated annoyance, ejaculated: "I declare, Jane, I have left my money in the trunk over at the hotel 1" He would go right over and get it, and be back in a minute. The clergyman, however, had been bitten before, and blandly suggested that inasmuch as he waa com ing back so soon the bride could wait there until his return. I his arrange ment seemed to bo satisfactory and the groom started lor the hotel, lie soon returned and said : "Jane, I can't un lock that pesky trunk of your'n. You will have to come over and do it, Evidently the trunk resisted their com bined efforts, for the clergyman never saw them afterward In ono instance the clergyman upon going to a residence to perform tho marriage ceremony found the contract ing parties and their guests all seated in the parlors unmistakably awaiting his arrival. In a low tone he requested them to rise, but the groom was nervous, tho bride abstracted, and neither heard the request. He repeated it in a some what louder tone of voice, but the re sult was the same. Then one of the spectators reached forward and, givirg the groom a poke in tho back, whispered, loud enough to be heard all over the room, "Git up, Gil, git up!" One day as an old white-haired minister was writing in his study, a domestic came in with tho announcment that a couple were outside who wished to be married, no told hor to admit them, and in they came, three pairs of them, and all arm in arm. It was impossible to decide which waa the pair, but select ing the most confused looking couple, he commenced the ceremony. All went inerrily until it came to the charge, " If there be anyone among you who knows of any?HiHtson why this couple should not be aed in wedlock, let him now speaK, o rever alter noid nis peace. Here thewi'snal brief pause wasmade. but was quickly terminated by the groom ejaculating, in a suppressed voico, Go on, parson, go on ! There ain't no reason !" One of Detroit's oldest clergymen narrates an incident that occurred soon after he located here, when ho know but little of tho people and nothing whatever of the localities, lie was waited upon by a not very prepossessing-looking man, who wished him to come down to Franklin street to "marry me and Lize." To tho minister, Frank lin street sounded as aristocratic as would Washington street, but he admits that he waa a trifle taken aback when he followed his guide into the house and found he was in a saloon. How ever, 6aloon-keepers must be married as well as other people was his thought, and he followed on through the room, up a flight of stairs and into a sitting roam. Then the guide, who proved to be a groom as well, stepped into the ball and shouted, "Come on, Lize! Come on, girls; the parson's cornel" and into the room trooped a crowd that bhowed him that ho had got among the slums. The opportunity was too good to be lost, and under the guise of that marriage ceremony he preached such a sermon upon the subject of morality as those present had probably never before Jitt-,ned to, That his fcddrei-s had been of no avail, however, ho waa convinced of the forcible and expressive remark by the groom, as, smiting his fists to gether, he triumphantly shouted: 1 Ihere, Lize, I d like to see that fellow get you now !" Detroit Free Press. The Wild Sheep of the Sierra. At the base of Sheep Rock, one of the winter strongholds of the Shasta flocks, there lives a stock-raiser who has the advantage of observing the movements of wild sheep every winter; and in the course of a conversation with him on the subject of their diving habits, he point ed to the front of a lava headland about a hundred and fifty feet high, which ia only eight or ten degrees out of the perpendicular. " There," said he, " I followed a band of them fellows to the back of that rock yonder and expected to capture them all, for I thought I had a dead thing on them. I got behind them on a narrow bench that runs along the face of the wall near the top, and comes to an end where they couldn't get away without falling and being killed; but they jumped off and landed all right, as if that were the regular thing with them." " What !" said I, "jumped a hundred and fifty feet! Did you see them do it?" " No," he replied, " I didn't see them going down, for I was behind them; but I saw them go over the brink, and then I went below and found their tracks where they struck on the loose debris at the bottom. They sailed right off, and landed on their feet right side up. That's the kind of animal they is beats anything else that goea on four lega." On another occasion a flock that was pursued by hunters retreated to another portion of this same cliff where it is still higher, and on being followed they were seen jumping down in perfect or der, one behind the other, by two men who happened to be chopping where they had a fair view of them and could watch their progress from top to bot tom. Both ewes and rams made the frightful descent without evincing any extraordinary concern, hugging close to the rock and controlling the velocity of their half falling, half leaping move ments by striking at short intervals and holding back with their cushioned, rub ber feet upon small ledges and rough ened inclines until near the bottom, when they " sailed off" into the free air and alighted on their feet, but with their bodies so nearly in a vertical posi tion thattheyappearedto.be diving. Scribner's. OJRI0CS FACTS. The numbor of bones in the human body is 210. The average number of teeth is thirty-two. A magnet weighing two ounces sus tains a weight of three pounds two ounces, or twenty-five times its own weight. There is a species of the crow in Flor ida that gives vent to a series of haw ! haws ! in exact imitation of the human voice. A wild elephant may generally be tamed so as to be conducted from place to place unfettered, in about six months. If the crab ia often interrupted he will, like the spider, pretend to be dead, and will watch an opportunity to sink himself into tho sand, keeping only his eyea abovo. .Tnnnn Vina A !.'17 nnutnfllppa. ftnd the asarettata leneth of its mail routes in operation is 42,293 miles. The money- order system is employed to tno public satisfaction. The tiger docs not naturally possess, bnt easily acquires, a love of human flesh. When ho has once tasted it, the spell of man's supremacy is broken, and ever after that, it is said, ho prefers it to any other. if tho earth could be suddenly stopped in her orbit, and allowed to fall unobstructed toward the sun, under the accelerating influence of his attraction, she would reach the central fire in about four" months. But such is the compass of her orbit that, to make its circuit in a year, she has to move nearly nineteen miles a second, or more than fifty times faster than the swiftest rifle ball, and, moving twenty miles, her path deviates from perfect straightness by less than one-eighth of an inch. Boiler flxploslons. There is a most inexplicable dispro portion between the English and Amer ican reports of boiler explosions in 18h0. For the United States 170 explosions were reported, and for England but twenty-eight, although it is added that the English total is considerably below the average. The loss of life was for England sixty-eight, and for the United States 25'J. In England the wounded numbered eighty-two, and in the United States 555. In the United States the boilers cf wood working mills formed by far the most fatal class, while in England the explosions were chiefly in iron works. In the ieriod from Octo ber. 18C7. to 1880, there were in the United States 1,2'J'J explosions, which killed 2,505 persons and wounded 2,612. But since July, 18C1, there were in Eng land only bo explosions, wnicn Kiiica 1,001 persons and injured 1,790. In each case the figures are taken from the re port of a company for tho insurance of boilers. Two contrasting statements, which may throw some light on the dis crepancy, are ono by the English com pany that no boiler insured by it ex nloded. and a second bv thft American company, that during the yea1" it abso lutely condemned JJ77 toilers. b"11111010 over discovered 5,11 1 dant;eroa-defects, besides botnn tens of thousfods of miner ones. THE BLACK DEATH. Krnpprm-nnrp of the Great Plngae Which l)evnlnled the Middle A urn. Already Europe is becoming alarmed at tho appearance of the plague, or black death, in the East, und fears are expressed that' it may spread westward. It, therefore, becomes important to know the character of tho disease. The London Standard states, on pathological grounds, that it is a " very malignant form of contagious fever," which breaks out suddenly in certain localities and spreads with frightful rapidity, and that the present " type" is as virulent as that of th Middle Ages. It ia char acteristic by swellings of the lymphatic glands and by carbuncles, and beyond doubt one seizure Booms to afford no se curity against a second attack. This is, however, a point upon which physicians have not often had a chance to study, since " the pest" does not usually leave the same individual a chance of experiencing its symptoms twice. It has been contended that it ia not contagious, but in almost every case of an outbreak the disease has been traced to persona who have come from infected districts. In the Astrakhan epidemic of 1879, and in that of 1771, which cut off 100,000 peo ple in Moscow, tho pestilence was known to have been brought, in one instance, from Central Asia, and in the other from Choczin. Again, during the latter outbreak, tho 1,100 inmates of the Imperial foundling hospital, who were isolated, and in 1813 the town of Jegla, in Malta, which was shut off from Valetta, where the disease was raging, entirely escaped. Quarantine, however, aa a preventive against the ravages of the cholera, has been proved to be utterly futile, and it is very gen erally allowed that it is not much more potent aa a barrier against the plague. No other form of death has ever enlist ed into its service historians of such brilliant talent. De Foe could not have been an eye witness of the horrible scenes of 16G5 in London. But he had doubtless talked to many who had survived those dreadful times and were familiar with the tales of the corpse carrying wagon going its dismal rounds, of the living being unable to carry out the dead, and London deserted by the I court, and, indeed, all who could escape into the country. In "Kienzi the late Lord Lytton has given an account scarcely less pictorial of the- plague in Florence, and in almost every other Eu ropean country the " pest which crept like a foul miasma over Asia, Northern Africa and Europe, from Naples to Archangel, and even to distant Green land, where it smote the Esquimaux by thousands, has secured 6uch able chroniclers that, at the slightest sign of its reappearance, Western Europe naturally grows alarmed. In the vears 1318, 1361, 13G3, 15C9 , and 1G02 Loudon was visited by the "black death," though those early attacks of the disease, sink into insignificance when compared with that which deso lated the city in 1G05, the year which will ever be known as " the year of the plague." In reality, however, though it caused before Christmas a mortality of 98, 596 out of the five hundred thousand people which the metropolis then contained, it did not abate till 16GG, while in the thirteen subsequent years there were many latai cases recorded. But after 1G79 no death from plague is j know to have occurred, and in 1701 so entirely had it disappeared that the name of the disease was actually omitted from the bills of mortality. Niw York Herald. WISE WORDS. Help somebody worse off than your self, and you are better off than you fancied. To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. The sublimity of wisdom ia to do those things living which are desired to bo when dying. Let him who regards the loss of time make proper use of that which is to come in the future. " The book to be read," says Dr. Mc Cosh, " is not tho one winch thinks for you, but the one which makes you think." Any one may do a casual act of good nature, but a continuation of them shows in part the temperament of the individual. Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats ; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too. If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more auda cious. If women know what men think, they would be twenty times more co quettish. Like dogs in the wheel, birds in the cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious meu still climb, and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. Memnon's image imparted not its mysterious strains except at the touch of the sunbeams, nor will manner yield its true witchery from any inspiration but that of the soul. Three things too much and three things too little are pernicious to man to spend much and have little ; to pre sume much aud be worth little ; to talk much and know little. A curious fact has been noted by Pro fessor Von Tieghem. The cells iu tha roots of an apple tree underwent alco holic fermentation when the soil wus very damp. The tree thtn presented very biokly appearance. ttt.
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