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Volt XIV. No. 36.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1881,
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Little Dancing1 Leaves.
Little dancing leaves
Tn the garden bower,
Which among yon grlovos '
Not to be a flower ?
" Never ono i" tho light loaves say,
Dancing in the sun all day.
Little dancing leaves,
Hobos loan to kins yon;
From the eottago caves
Vestling birds would miss yon
We should tiro of blossoms so,
If yon all to flowers should grow I
Little dancing leaves ,
Oraasos, forns and sedges,
Nodding to the sheaves
Out of tangled hedges
What a dull world would remain
If you all were useful grain 1
-
Uttladancing loaves,
Who could do without you ?
Every poet weaves
Borne sweet droam about you.
Flowers and grain awhile are hero;
Yon slay with us all the year.
Liitlo dancing leaves,
When through pines and birches
The great storm-wind hcavos,
Your retreat ho scrchos;
How he makos the tall trees roat I
While you only dance the more I
Little dancing leaves,
Loving aud caressiDg
Ho most joy receives
Who bestows a blessing.
Dance, light leaves, for dancing made,
While yon bless us with your sbado !
Lucy Larcorn, in St. JfidioUm.
THE KEEPER'S DAUGHTER.
A lighthouse on a rocky coast Out
side, thunder, lightning, wind and rain,
and preat black waves duelling up against
tho rock at the foot of the tower. In
aide a winding flight of stairs leading to
au octagon-shaped room containing the
, plainest furniture. The occupants, a
girl of eighteen, talj and lithe, with
black hair hanging in massive braids to
her wnist. and luminous gray eyes under
Btrnight black brows. Her dress of gray
waterproof cloth was short and ecunt,
and hung in wet folds about her limbs;
aud strangest i f all girdles, a coil of
rope encircled her waist and trailed one
rnd on the floor. By her aide a boy of
. fourteen years, with his bine blouse
open at the throat, and a faded plush
cap on his dark curls. Thcso two wore
bending over a man who lay in all his
magnificent length on the floor. A
picturesque-looking man, with fair hair
clinging in dripping masses to his fore
Lead; a curling golden beard and a
White firm throat, and one might be
erMiaded that the closed lida with their
long fringe s dovered a pair of steel blue
eyes.
" Reckon ho's a goner, Liz,",'said the
boy, as ho paused in his vigorous rub
bing of the man's hands.
The girl was forcing some liquor from
a tin cup between the blue lips, and did
not answer directly; but when their
patient gave the faintest possible sigh,
she exolainied, joyfully: " Bee, Neddie,
he breathes 1 Now work fast," whereupon
they both fell to rubbing him at a great
rate. .
"When Allen Mclntyre opened his
Ayes he looked about him confusedly.
The odd little room, the girl with her
black braids, and tho boy looking so
like her that one would at once recog
nize the relationship; the drenched con
dition of all three, and tho strange
languor through all his frame what
did it mean ? lie closed his eyes
wearily, and then the boy spoke up in
this bluff fashion:
"You came near going under.Jcap'n,
but Lizzie pulled you out."
Then Mclntyre remembered all, and
languidly raised himself into a sitting
posture.
"It is too wild a night to be afloat
in a little craft like that," said the girl,
making a gesture seaward, where a tiny
boat had broken up an hour before.
'It was fair wheu I left the shore,"
replied the man. "I ventured further
than I intended. Then the wind went
down, and I could only drift until the
storm arose. I have a recollection of a
fierco rush of wind and wave that upset
my boat, and a blow on my head, prob
ably from some part of the boat as I
went over."
" Yes," said tho boy, "there came a
flash cf lightning, and Lizzie and I,
looking out, saw the boat capsizo. So
Lizzie caught a ropo and ran, and I
after hor."
'We're used to that sort of thing
eh, Lizzie?" Lizzie nodded, and tho
boy continued, animatedly: ' You see,
my father keeps the light, bat he is sick
now, so Lizzie and I tend the light we
always do when father is sick or gone
to tho mainland and we've pulled out
more than one fellow more than half
dead. Why"
'Never mind that, Neddie," inter
rupted his sister, gently, and the un
spoken reproof in her voice had tho ef
fect of making tho lad look somewhat
shamefaced as ho went back to the
first part of his story.
Well, sir, we rau down the slope at
the side of tho cliff out there, where the
waves were tearing up like 10,000 wild
horses. And every time it lightened
we could see you bobbing aroundout
there like a pieco of cork. We were
afraid of your striking against the
ledges, so Lizzie fastened one end of
the rope about her waist and I held the
other while she went straight iu and
struck out for you."
Mclntyro uttered a low exclamation
! turned his gaze from Neddie to
Neddie's sinter. The boy wagged his
head proudly.
" Ah," BaicLho, with gleaming eye,
that's nothing for our Liz to do I She
f nught you, and I pulled yon both in.
But you re monstrous heavy I I thought
we'd never get jma upstairs."
mclntyre laugned as he rose rather
doubtfully to his feet.
'I feel a trifle shaky, he said ; and
then, It is easy to see that yon are
brother and sister. I am Allen Mcln
tyre, at yonr service, Miss Lizzie," and
ho bowed in a fashion that gave the lie
to his declarations of shakiness. "Of
course I realize that you and your gal
land brother here have rendered me
a great service ono for which you
sh ill not go unrewarded, although I
can never hope to fully recompense
yon."
Lizzie raised her head haughtily.
" Sir, such work as we have dono to
night wo do not for wages. If you feel
strong enough, I will walk with you to
the nonse. I think tno storm is passing
over, wo live a quarter or a mile from
the light. Our accommodations are
plain enough, but there is no other
house on the island.
" Oh, I am as good asjnew, now," said
Mclntyre; "but will you leave this
boy here all alone."
She smiled.
" Ned is not afraid, and ho can tend
the light as well as I."
" Very well I will go with you."
He waved a smiling adieu to tho boy,
and followed his guido down the narrow
stairway.
Two days later a small sailboat put
out from the island, which, when it
returned, brought Mclntyre luggage.
Lizzio's father, who was laid up with
au attack of rheumatism, had taken a
fancy to the young man, who expressed
a desire to spend a few weeks there at
any price they might charge. Captain
Clvde straightway ordered Neddie off
in "his new boat to the mainland for the
gontlemau'a traps. The youngster
obeyed this order with alacrity, for the
good-humored ease of tho stranger, to
gether with his evident appreciation
of "our Liz.," had wrought favorably
on our Neddie. Even the maiden aunt,
who kept the house, smile 1 frostily at
the prospect of this pleasant addition
to their family.
Mclntyre, who had been wandering
about three or four hundred miles from
home in search of a quiet place to
spend the summer, congratulated him
self on having drifted to the very
place.
" Although it was an expensive style
of drifting," lieremarked, with a smile,
as ho inclosed a bank note in an envel
ope, to be sent to the owner of tho little
craft which had slipped him out into
the waves abroa3t of the lighthouse.
A week later, as he sauntered shore
ward, there camo to his ears a wildly
sweet strain of melody. As lie listened
in amazement, for he had seen no musi
cal instrument about the place, ho be
gan to realize that it was a part of
Strauss' artist life waltzes that he heard
a strain that he often whistled. He
stepped round the jutting of the cliff,
and there, leaning against the granite
Wfdl, was Lizzie, her chin dropped care
lessly on a little red violin, as she drew
tho bow across tho strings. She flushed
like a guilty thing when she saw Mo
lntyre. " Youwhistled that the other day,"
she faltered, " and I liked it so much
it haunted mo all tho time."
He stepped forward.
"Why, Lizzie I Is it possible you
play like that without notes?"
" I don't play much now," she said,
drawing her dark brows over her eyes.
" A party of ladies and gentlemen
came here to visit the lighthouse once
and overheard me playing. I heard
one of the ladies say : The idea of a
girl with a Addle 1 So I thought per
haps it didn't look well."
'Not look well, indeed!" and ho
laughed in merry scorn. Why, child,
did vou ever hear of Camilla Urso ?"
"No."
" Well, she is a lady, aud she makes
tho most exquisite inusio on a fiddle
and thousands of people go to hear her.
Why, Camilla Urso herself would listen
with pleasure to your music, Lizzie,"
said Mclntyre, extravagantly. ' Who
taught you to play?"
"No one. This violin belonged to
my father, and he learned me how to
tune it. I pick up tunes that I hear,
but I nover heard anything half so
beautiful as the tunes I hear you sing
and whistle." '
Mclntyro smiled; his repertoire of
music consisted of snatches of operas,
waltzes, rcdowas and German airs,
which had dimly associated iu his mind
with nights of brilliant gayety; aud he
wondered dreamily how this pure
minded, healthy-souled girl would look
upon the elegant dissipation carried on
by the set of which he was a favorite.
A sudden glow warmed his heart as he
thought that not one of the lino ladies
who hud swung languidly through the
mazes of that very waltz of the great
composer's could have rescued him so
bravely from the jaws of death as Lizzie
had Lizzie, who stood there so quietly,
with her little violin hanging from her
breast, and her fingers straying lovingly
over the btringa.
" Tell me about Camilla Urso," she
said, presently. " Did you ever hear
her play ?"
' Yes, indeed I I have a paper in my
trunk containing a little sketch of her
life, which you mayread for jourself, and
which w ill tell you better than I can of
her talent."
For a moment Lizzie's eyes met his
own, a look of shame and distress gath
ering iu them.
" Mr. Mclntyre, that will bo of no
use I cannot read."
" Lizzio 1" ,
Her violin slipped from her grasp and
would have fallen to tho ground had
not Mclntyro caught it. and she cov
ered her face with both hands.
" But Lizzie," persisted her com
panion, in some perplexity, " I do not
understand. There are "good pnblio
schools in the oity, and surely your lather
must have known that it was his duty to
give a girl like you an education, to say
nothing of Neddie, who is growing up
such a splendid young fellow."
" It is very kind of jou to say such
things of Neddie and mo ; we are com
mon people, and ours is a common life.
Neddie did spend two years with our
uncle who lives in York State. Ho went
to school there. But father doesn't
think much of book learning." Aunt
Jane never had time to help me, and
Neddie is too restless to keep still long
enough, I suppose." She continued
quaintly, "You who live out in the
world look at these things in a different
way ; but I know of many who are just
where I am. Why, there is a whole
family on that island," pointing to a
tiny speck away to the eastward, ' who
cannot read or write. Once in three
months, perhaps, they go to tho main
land. I scarcely ever go. I suppose I
shall always live here, and I am con
tented I think," and a look of doubt
gathered in her eyes ; " at least I was:
But lately I have wished so much that
I could read and had books for it is so
lonely here iu the winter."
"Well, dear child," Baid the young
man, gently, "this gives me the priv
ilege of paying my debts, doesn't it V"
"Your debts?" echoed Lizzie, in sur
prise. " Certainly. Did you not fish me out
of the water a week ago? Well, now
you shall put your six feet of driftwood
to some service. I will teach you to read
and to write."
After that Mclntyre proved the most
faithful of teachers, and his pupil made
steady progress in her lessons. Neither
was the violin any longer in disgrace.
Lizzio played to attentive ears while
learning a deeper lesson than cither at
first realized. Mclntyro was the first
to wake up. He was a man cf the
world, and understood himself, or
thought ho did, thoroughly. Accord
ingly he started one morning for a stroll
along tho beach to think it over.
As the case now stands." ho solilo
quized, as he lit a cigar and threw away
the match, " it is either Lizzie or the
world; and I confess tho -world has
charms for me."
His gaze wandered absently over the
swelling waves, and lingered on a far
off sail that dipped and rose, dipped
again, until it sank below tho horizon.
His lip curled involuntarily as he
thought of the delicate ladies in his
set, and how wretched they would make
the poor girl'B life in their own high
bred fashion. No but would they,
though?"
A faint amusement lingered in his
face as he recalled Lizzie's rather
stately carriage and stately dignity that
redeemed her from being common
place. He laughed out.
" It would be fun to see her among
all those peacocks. Poor Lizzio 1 What
a shame that she has been neglected !
If she had received half the advantages
of any one of my acquaintances she
would have surpassed them all. Well,
well, it is high time I returned home.
I have been here six weeks. Yes, I will
go away to-morrow and forget her, as
she will forget me."
So saying, Mclntyre threw away tho
end of his cigar and started into a brisk
walk along the shore, coming directly
upon the object of his thoughts,
who was pacing to and fro, drawing
primitive musio from hei violin. She
wore a scarlet jacket over her gray
dress, and a white handkerchief tied
over her head and under her chin. His
heart throbbed faster at the sight of
her.
"Fool!" ho muttered, "to think I
could leave her. Now, then my man,
"'It's all for love, and the world well lost.' "
Lizzie greeted his approach with a
mile, but played to the close of tho
strain before she spoke. It was a
little German air that he had taught
her.
" Is that right?" she queried, aa she
finished.
" I cannot tell you."
Then, meeting her look of astonish
ment with his own earnofct gaze, he
said:
" Lizzie, will you care very much
when I go away from here ?"
Her eyes dropped, the red blood
dyed her cheek and brow for a moment,
and then faded away, leaving her quite
pale. ,
" I think it will bo well for you to
go," she said.
"And why, Lizzie, will you tell me ?
You need not fear to tell me anything,"
he added, as she hesitated.
She looked away from him, and her
voice was almost inaudible as she an
swered: "Because because Oh, I cannot
tell you I You know "
"I have thought of going, Lizzie;
but I realized to-day that I cannot leave
you ever again, dear."
Ho put one arm about her, but she
drew away from him, trembling from
head to foot.
" Don't, Mr. Mclntyre ! I want to
remember you kindly, and I cannot if
you use such language to me."
" For heaven's sake !" he cried, in as
tonishment, " tell me, have I said any
thing wrong to you? Is it wrong to
love you ? If that is a sin, then I am
the gteatent of binners "
" 1 do not forget that yon are a gen
tleman, and I but a poor, ignorant girl,
who knows only what you have taught
her."
"But, Lizzie, I ask you to bo my
wife, and you have not answered me. I
do not boast when I say my suit would
not be rejected in most families of high
standing where I am known."
"Ah, that is the idea," she exclaimed,
hastily ; "if, as you say, you do care for
me" she stammered a little over the
words, 'you would soon grow weary of
my stupid ways. I should shame you
every day of your life, and your grand
friends would wonder at your choice,
and I Bhould die of homesickness."
"With me, Lizzie ?"
"Yes, even with you!" Btniling and
blushing as she met his eyes.
He laughed he was so sure of win
ning her and kissed her mouth.
"Well, sweetheart, I will live hero
then, and turn keeper of the light after
youi father. Will that suit you ?"
"Don't deceive yourself, Mr. Mem
tyre. We would not bo happy together,
and think how terrible it would be
bound together forever."
He laughed exultantly and with a
great deal of amusement.
" Faith 1 I think it would bo a
mighty pleasant thing. Come, Lizzie,
you can deny me no longer. Do you
not see that your own happiness de
pends upon your answer? Now kiss me,
dear, and tell me that vou will take the
life you were so brave to savo into your
own keeping."
He drew her gently toward him, but
she faced him suddenly, with great
tears trembling on her long lashes.
"Do you think it costs me nothing to
refuse you you who have made my life
so beautiful these few short weeks ? I
am rude and ignorant such a wife
would burden and disgust you in time.
It is for your good that I refuse to ac
cept what seems like a heaven to me."
And then, swift as a deer, she flew
along the shore, leaving Mclntyre to
strutrgle between aDger, amusement
and wounded self-love.
All that day he tried to speak with
Lizzie alone, but she gave him no
opportunity. At last, in very despera
tion, he tapped at the door of her
father's room. Captain ClyAe was
again suffering with rheumatism, and
the young man found him in the easy
chair, while Lizzie hovered about him.
Captain Clyde," said Mclntyre, as
he blocked the doorway with his broad
shoulders to prevent Lizzie from escap
ing, "I wish to say a few wcrds to your
daughter in your presence, since she re
fuses to grant mo that, privilege else
where." " Say on, my lad, she would be proud
to hear whatever ou have to say to
her."
Well, Lizzie, I will go away from
here to-morrow, and Btay as long as you
bid me. When the time is up I will return-
to claim you for my wife. You
shall seo that this is no idle, passing
fancy."
His eyes, grave and sad, rested on the
girl's flushed face, and tho bluff cap
tain's eyes widened in amazement.
"Speak out, gal," he commanded
" Havo you anything to sav to this
young man, who woes you like a gen
tleman ? Shall ho come or no V
And Lizzie answered, with downcast
eyes: "If he comes one year from this
time, and still cares for me, I will be
ready."
"And is that all, Lizzie?" ho said,
stepping toward her with outstretched
arms,
' No, I'll be bound !" said the old
man, with a sly twinkle in his eyes.
" When I went courting, my little girl
used to kii8 me." And reaching over
he gave Lizzie a little push that sent
her into the arms of her lover; where
upon they all laughed, and Lizzie, after
kissing Mclntyre, shyly Blipped from
tho room.
A whole year passed by, anoVnot un
happily to Lizzie, who had faithfully
endeavored to improve herself. She
spent the winter " on the mainland,"
with some friends. She studied, read,
watched the people about her, and,
never coarse herself, despite her com
monplaco life at home, she fell easily
into the new groove. Although not un
happy, tho girl's cheek wrs paler than
of yore, and her eyes held i wistfulness
that had grown in them since parting
from her lover, for occasionally this
thought crossed her dreams for tho fu
ture: " He may notcome at all he may
forget."
But Allen Mclntyre was truer than
most of his kind; for the early fall
brought him again to Lizzie's house.
VThile he waited in the old-fashioned
sitting-room, the door was opened hes:'(,
tatititfly, and who was this before him?
Allen had left ayoungjpsy, magnifi
cent in Ler way, with coal black braids
and flushing eyes, -v et scarcely the figure
for a drawing-room in her short gown
and thick coarse shoes ; a daughter of
the sea, sun-brcrwned und fearless. But
this was this Lizzie? A graceful
woman iu trailing robes, and the shin
ing hair braided and coilod about her
head, resting in a coronet a queen might
envy, above the low broad brow. Paler
than of old, her eyes downcast but
shining softly through their happy
tears, her mouth smiling triumphantly.
Was this Lizzie ? Why, not a womau
in all his brilliant throng he remem
bered could compare with her,
Every sunnier a handsome gentleman
and hia dark-haired wife visit the light
keeper's home ; and every fall they
return to their stately home in a far
away city, where the lady doe the
honors of hor grand house with. a grace
that charms all.
And yet Allen Mclntyre laughingly
aomsr hii wife of " fishing fcr Liui.1'
CONFIDENCE MEN.
How They Operate HetweenlNew York
find l'hilndrlphla.
A Philadelphia letter to a New York
paper says: The bunko men who
operate between this city and New York
have been reaping a harvest of late.
The leader of the gang has in foar
instances represented himself as a
nephew of AnthoDy J. Drexel or a
member of the well-known banking
house of which Mr. Drexel is the head.
One of the victims was Mr. Evan Ran
dolph, an experienced business man,
whom ho swindled out of $110. Tho
second was Mr. Hazlehurst, a leading
member of the Philadelphia bar, whom
he caught for $2,400. The third was
Mr. J. A. J. Sheets, a prosperous
lumber merchant, who lost $2,900 by
his confidence in the scoundrel. The
fourth victim is no less a personage
than the Hon. George Sharswood, chief
justice of the supreme court of Penn.
sylvania. In the latter case, however,
the amount involved was only $ 10
Th e story of this operation was given
to your correspondent as follows :
,.As I was strolling up Broadway, in
New York, a well-dressed young man
addressed tne by some name not my
own, which I do not recall, and seemed
both confused and incredulous when I
told him that he was mistaken. He,
however, apologetically said that I bore
a striking resemblanceto the gentleman
who he supposed me to be, and that he
wouid be grateful if I would tell him
who I was. I gave him my name, and
he left me with every mark of courtesy.
I had not gone much further when an
other gentleman, youthful, well-dressed
and of remarkably pleasing manners,
crossed the sidewalk toward me, and
extending his hand, addressed me bj
name and professed to be delighted to
have met me. His face did not seem
unfamiliar to me, but I could not re
call his. name, and I supposed my puz
zled look led him to relieve my mind,
as he said : Ah, I see you don't remem
ber me I am F. A. Drexel, Jr. I have
been studying art in Paris, and returned
only last week.' ne then asked many
questions about the welfare of promi
nent Philadelphians, with whose names,
occupations and social standing he
seemed thoroughly familiar. He also
conversed very interestingly on
art matters abroad, mentioning
incidentally that he had been an
extensive purchaser for the account of
his uncle's as well as himself. We
walked uptown, chatting thus pleas
antly, and not a suspicion that my com
panion was not what he represented
himself to bo entered my mind. At
length he mentiomd that he had just
received a very expensive painting from
Paris ono for which Belmont's and
Vanderbilt's agent had bid against him,
but which he had bought for 50,000
francs. 'It was a very steep price, and I
don't know how father and Uncle Tony
will like it,' he faid. He then invited
me to look at his treasure, which, he
said, was only a block or two away.
Nothing was occupying me particularly
at that time, and 1 consented. Turnmp;
down one of the cross streets we came
to a handsome brown-stone house, into
which we entered after Jinging the bell.
While we stood on the steps my com
panion told me that he had drawn the
grand prize, 11,000 fiancs, in a lottery
designed for the benefit of some Pari
sian art association, and was only wait
ing in the city for the moniy to come
to hand. He then would go to Phila
delphia and visit his relatives. The
door was opened by a liveried porter,
and we were admitted to a saloon parlor
that seemed to havo been turned into
an office. Mr. Drexel introduced him
self to the gentlemanly individual who
occupied the desk, and said that he had
brought me.mentioning my name, to see
his famous picture. The gentlemanly
individual was sorry that the picture
had just been sent to Philadelphia, and
he showed tho express receipt in con
firmation. Apologizing for tho disap
pointment, my companion made a move
as though to go away, when tho gentle
manly individual, after a brief consulta
tion of what seemed to be a book of
ontry, said : 'Mr. Drexel, 1 received the
remittance of your grand prize, 11,000
francs, this morning. Hero is tho
money,' and he counted out what
teemed to be that amount. The gen
tlemanly individual then suggested
that it would be well to take some tick
ets in another lottery drawing for the
benefit of somo other art association.
Drexf 1 was willing. He said ho patron
ized such schemes lor the benefit of
art, aud always turned his prizes over
to deserving artists. I had scruples
against such methods, but he insisted,
and T handed him $10. Then they
brought out a numbered chart, and
gambling implements. I saw at once
that the whole thing was a trick and
device, and I repossessed myself of the
$10 which I had given my companion,
and which was lying on the table, and
made my way out of the room without
opposition. The psoudo Drexel came
along, and agreed entirely with mo in
my estimate of tho character of the
place. I still had confidence iu him,
losing it only after suits had been
brought to recover money falsely so
obtained ."
Money often leads men astray. Some
of them will run after a dollar ; but a
hound doar is more avaricious. Ho will
follow a bcent.
I5y contracting a severe cough aud cold,
I was conipf llej to give up my daily work and
l.iscp to tlio Uoutso. A uuiglihor rii.-omiuemUd
ii. o to try a bottle of Dr. hull's Cough Syrup.
It wai procured and usoJ ; to luy astoiiislmu ut
i !iuf Vili mnUuituiU'OUd.
1.UW. W. Ouyto, Waverly, MJ.
Dr. Holland's Last Verses.
The following verses appeared In the Touth'$
Companion, over Dr. Holland's signature, and
they have a peculiar interest, in viow of his
death:
If life awake and will never ceane
On the future's dietant shore,
And the roc o of love and tho lily of peace
Shall bloom there for evermore
Let the world go round and round,
And the sun sink into the sea;
For whether I'm on or nnder the ground,
t h, what wilr matter W me ? ,
HUHOIl OF T11E DAY.
President Arthur weighs 215 pounds,
David Davis, 315. Total, .530, The
government is no oh a solid 'founda
tion. " I'll jump at the proposal I" said
tho lively Miss Lulu. "Lulu, my '
dear," remonstrated her mother, "re
member this is not leap year."
The Fisk University negro singers
were refusfed accomodation at - i ouj?
Toronto hotels. As soon as this be
came known, a number of wealthy
white famlies tendered their hospital
ity. The washerwomen at St. Petersburg ,
cannot wash the buttons off the Czar's
cast iron shirt. This is about the only
consolation the Czar derives from the
situation of affairs in his unhappy do
minion.
Should a man shave up or down?"
asked Angustus. " That depends," re
plied the barber. When I shave you,
for instance, I always shave down."
Tho emphasis on the last word nearly
broke Augustus' heart.
It was a Boston girl who asked :
Why is it that two souls, united in
the impenetrable mystery of their
nativity, float by each other on the
ocean currents of existence without
being instinctively drawn together,
blended and beautified in the as
similated alembio of eternal love?"
That is an easy cne. It is because
butter is dearer and a good sealskin
sack as high as $500. The neces
scries of life must experience a fall in
price before two souls will readily
blend in the assimilated alembio and
so forth.
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
The precision of modern engineering
is forcibly illustrated by tho recently
accomplished feat of picking up a long
unused ocean cable from a depth of
2,000 fathoms. The Bcientifio engineer
ing which locates a fault with so much
exactness and so readily finds a mere
thread two miles under the sea must,
add much to the security and value of
ocean telegraphic property.
In his address at the York meeting
of the British association Professor
Huxley predicted that fifty years nence,
or in tho centennial year of the associa
tion, whoever undertakes to record tho
progress of paleontology will note the
present time as the epoch in which the
law of succession cf the foripa of the
higher animals was determined by the
observation of paleontolgical facts.
Experiments by German scientists in
ascertaining the peculiarities of the
electric light, establish the fact that it
is not only healthier than other
methods of illumination in leaving the
air purer, but that it increases the
power of the vision in some respects,
especially in distinguishing colors.
Bed, green, blue and yellow are modo
much more distinct and marked under
this light than by daylight.
When the earth in which a plant
grows is much warmer than the air the
plant grows very thick, ceases almost
altogether to increase in height,
and finally shows deep transverse rifts
which make further growth an impossi
bility. These effeotswere produced by
M. Prilleux, who used a largo dish 'cf
earth, in which he planted tho seeds,
and kept the earth ten degrees warmer
than the moist air of the chamber.
Tho Monileur Industriel, in an article
on tho influence of temperature on the
resistance of steel, statos that it is the
presence of phosphorous which is the
main cause of the variation in strength.
Iron, which contains none of it, main
tains the same breaking strain in various
temperatures, and gave only a slight
variation of the limit of elasticity. It
follows from this that one of the best
means of avoiding the breakage of
wheels, tyres md axles of cars and loco
motives is the employment of pure
steel free from phosphorous.
Throwing Up the Brick?.
A correspondent in Germany writes:
German bricklayers do not carry the
bricks up in a hod. They are generally
thrown up. One man stands at the pile
iu the street, and one man is placed on
each staging to throw to the man above
through a hole iu the scaffolding. By
this succession of relays bricks are
thrown np five stories. I have never
seen a "muff" made, but I usually
watched the game from the other side
of the street. Another custom con
nected with house building is for the
owner to give an entertainment to the
workmen when the walls are up. Tho
fact is advertised to the community by
a great crown of flowers placed upou
the top of the building, with numerous
flags aud decorations. Work is sus
pended for the day, and the workmen
meet the owner and the invited guests
around tho festive board, au I afterward
tlance with their wives and daughters.
It is well known that tho Germans have
us i"1 "v holidays as possible.