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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1882, $1.50 PER ANNUM. 1 Farmer Stebblns at Ocean Grove Deab TlnoTHita Jon : W got hire safe my worthy wife en' me an-pircnca oar touts wiimn a grove contig'ua to the we; We've harvested inch meant of grace at growed Wllllin ourriwrn; We've 'icndfd all the mornln' talk., we've heard the Hinhnp preach : An' evrrvi hlng weut pleasantly, until we had ium My wife and I one breezy day, to take an ocean ewiin. We wouldn't ha' vent'rod ont, I think, If Slater rmniiruwptts Hadn't ur cl ua over an' ag'ln, an'aald aho knew the rope. An told how safe an' sweet It was "in ocean rills to lave," An' " .port within the foaming surf," an' " ride the An1 so w went along with her my timid wife an' me Two Inland noodles, for oar first acquaintance with They pnt mo In a work-day rtfj, as na'ally Is done a wampus iu snort overuauia all tewed op Into one. I had to pnll an' fu.s an' Jerk to make the things go 'round (You sre aware my peaceful weight will crowd three hundred pound). They took my wig an' laid It op to keep It safe, they said An' strapped s straw-stack of s hat on my devoted bi-ad. They pnt my wife Into a dress too short by full s third 'Twas some'at In the Bloomer " style, an' looked a bit absnrd. Tou know she's rather tall an' slim somewhat my opposite An' clothes that are not cat for her are likely not to fit! But as wt was we venfred In my faithful wife ani me An' formed oar first acquaintance with tbs Incon sistent sea. M!s Sitnnyhopcs she went ahead, a-lookln trim an ewpct ; She'd had htr bathln' suit all fixed an' trimmed from head to feet : An' I went ont an' grabbed the rope, )nst as she told me to A a' wife came next, a-lookln' scared, scarce know In' what to do. But Bitter Uuniiyhopct tome a smile o'tweetneit rave, An' said, " Now watch your chance, an' jump here comes a lowly ware I" I must ha' jumped, I rather think, the wrong time o' the moon ; At any rate, the lovely wars occurred to me too soon. It took me solid, with rode an' unexpected ahoci; ; II best the stoutest pair o' horns there la In all my flock. An' then, to top the circus oat, an make the act mere One, I tried to kick the lovely wave, rellnqnlahln' tho On country fair an 1 jctlon days. In walkln through a crowd, I'm rather firm to Jostle "gainst perhaps It makea me proud; But If It doe, that wave discoursed how soreness never pays ; An' toemed to shoot, " Bow small la man, no odds how much he weighs I" It tat on me, it jumped on me, In spite of right or law, An' whisked an' whirled me an about at If I'd been straw. An' then It laid me on the beach, right thankful for my life ; An' scrambltn' np, I gave a gaze to find my faithful wife; But she had sort o' cot the wave, with all the edge she had, h An' stood a-holdln' to the rope, uncommon moist and sad ; While Ulster Snnnyhopet, with smiles, was lookln' proud an' gay, A-floatln' on her dainty back, torn several rods away. Bhe looked so newish-pretty there (an knowed It too, the elf). The crowd was ail admlrin' her, an' so was I my- self. ' An' while spaln I grasped the line betide my wife of truth, My eyes would rove to Bister 8., her beauty an' her youth ; When all at once another wave, tremendous broad an' deep. Come smanliiu' down on wife an' me, an' tossed ns In a heap. Dead over heels, all in a bunch, my wife across o' ma, An' I on some unlucky folks who happened there to be; My hat untied an' floated off, an' left my bald head bare. Whenwegot out.lf I'd ha' tpok e, it would ha' warmed the air. W drank a good part of the sea my gas pin' wife an' I While Meter S., still floated soft, a-gazln ' at the sky. We voted that we'd got enough, an' crawled out of the way Before another wave arrived, an' bid the aea good day. We looked as like two drownded rats at ever such was called, With ent of 'em a mighty foot, particularly bald. But, like a woman true, she said my watchful wife to me, " We will not mind ; there's others here that looks at bad as we." Now Sister Bunnyhopee, by-V-by, came back Into our tent, A. sloek or skieker than before, an' asked in when we went. Pays I, " My dear good Sister 8., please do not now pretend You did not see our v'yage through, arid mark its doleful end. If you would play the mermaid fair, why, tueh I'd have you be ; But we're too old to take that part my faithful wife an' me." H ill Carltton, in Harptr't Weekly. MARY'S BLUNDERS. " Dear me I Aunt Sadie, is Mr. Co vert ill? Yes? Then I cannot take ray music lesson to day." " Yon seem to feet happy for that re lief." "Oh, dear, no I I rather prefer tak ing my lesson." Aunt Badie glanced sharply at her nit 03, but that young lady 'a face was calm enough. "It strikes me," observed the old lady, "that yon do not dislike Mr. Co vert as much as yon seem to." " I never expressed any aversion to him," replied Carrie, demurely. "In fact," she added u she molded the bis ouits she was making with deft Augers, "I think I like Mr. Covert very much." "Humph I" sniffed Annt Badie, con temptuously. He is only a poor musio teacher, and yon cannot afford to marry a poor man with no prospects." "Well, I deolarel" flared Carrie. "Do yon think it follows as a conse quence that I must marry a man I like T Aunt Badie, x am surprised at you r- Aad Carrie took np the pan contain ing the dozen little round balls of dough and pushed It 'into the oven with auoh a bang that the old lady dropped her knitting and almost fell from her chair by the range. Then Carrie flounoed out of the room indig nantly and went upstairs to dress. Ten miantes later aha cam flying back to the kitchen, and her pretty litlla face wore a look of great consternation. "Land pokes alive I What's tho matter, child?'' cried Aunt Stdio. "I have lost my garnet ring, Annt Sadie." "Perhaps von left it on the table be fore kneading your bisouit dough," suggested the old lady. "No," tparfnlly replied the unhappy nine cock " I am sure 1 did not; ana 1 have searched all over my room. It was a present from papa when he p,ot the pastorate of his new churoh; and I am doubly anzions to find it because Mr. Covert wished it on mv finger " "There, now. yon are going off at a tangont about that man again I" ex claimed Aunt Sadie, in an impatient tone. "I don't care: he's real nice, and he is good, and he is handsome, and I like mm, and yon are adverse to him, Aunt Badie, because von thought he was coming here to carry away your daughter Mamie lor els wile, and he undoceived yon." " There, there I That will do. miss!" cried the old lady, starting np angrily. " I vow, this is nice talk for a minister's daughter I Yon shonld respect your elders." "I am sorry," retorted Carrie, "ibat poor papa's teaching docs not make a deeper impression on vour mind at least enough so to teach your conscience the fault of looking down on Mr. Covert beoanse of your disappointment." " Well I" gasped Aunt Badie, with an inoredolons stare at Carrie over the tops of her spectacles, "I'd always heard that as a general thing ministers' wives and daughters ain't the most ex emplary of mortals: and now I believe it. The very idea of you von. Carrie Ray, talking to me in this way I It beats anything I ever heard of before I What my religious prinoiplea are is none of your business do yon under stand 1 and when my sister Bally vour mother married Parson Bay, I kinder suspected some snch goings on as this here, twenty years ago P The ring was forgotten now. bnt the bisouits in tbe oven began to burn, and soenting them, with a scream of dismay Carrie turned font her angry aunt, opened the oven door and took ont the pan. There were a dozen beautifully browned biscuits in it one or two slightly scorched, but not enough so to spoil them. " I s'pose those things are for your father's supper 7' "Half are," returned Carrie, "the balance for Mr. Covert." " Good land sakes alive I" commenced Annt Sadie. " Here, Mary," called Carrie to tho servant in the dining-room, "take these half dozen biscuits I have wrapped np in a napkin to Mr. Covert, down tho street, number fifty-four." " Yes, ma'am ; an' will I say who they're from, ma'am?" "Leave word' whispered Carrie, "that they are from Aunt Badie Hall." "All right, ma'am I" rejoined Mary, who suspected a joke. And taking the bisoaits off she went. "I feel so sorry I quarreled with Annt Sdie," thought Carrie, shortly afterward, " for she is good and kind to me, and his almost taken the place mamma held in my heart before she died. Bnt her prejudice against Mr. Covert is sadly misplaced. Poor fellow I must a k papa to call on him. And oh, won't he be surprised when he re ceives those bisouits, with the message they are from Annt Sadie? I will not say anything about it to any one, and when he is well enougjh to call there will be such fun 1" Yes, there was to be fan, bnt a differ ent kind from that wiiioh Carrie ex pected. That evening she asked her father to call on Launce Covert, explain ing that he was ill. " Ilam I Number fifty-four did yon say ?" asked the stout minister. " That is right on my way, as I was about to drop in on our new neighbor." " In number forty-five?" asked Carrie. "Yes, my dear, an old bachelor, I think," replied her father. " I saw him in my chnrrh Sunday night, and I think I have seen him somewhere before, too, but where I cannot recall to mind." When her father had left the room, Aunt Badie entered. "I hope," she said, frigidly, "yon are a little lese oombative to-night, Carrie;" and she sat down in a chair and stared at the girl in a most nncom for table man ner. "Oh, A ant Sadie, forgive my rude ness this morning," cried Carrie, re pentantly, ss she sat on a low ottoman at her annt's feet, "for I was very angry " "Yon should learn to control your temper," replied the old lady, severely; " bnt we will forget it, dear." She kissed her niooe fondly. The door burst open at this juncture, and in rushed Mamie Hall, her daughter, quite ont of breath from running. She was a tall, angular girl yet in her teens, and had a somewhat pretty faoe and charming manners. "My graoiens, what's tho matter?" cried Annt Sadie. "Oh, dear mel" panted Mamie. " The funniest thing happened to me just now I I was returning from Ada Gray's house, and passing No. 45 of this street, a tall, thin gentleman in a long white duster ran out after roe, waving his arms frantically, and called for me to stop. He looked so strange that I became frightened and ran, and, wrnld you believe it? the wretch had audacity enough to chasa me. I paused Uncle Benjamin, who was going by ob tbe other side of the street, bnt as f did not wish to implicate him in any trouble I did not stop him, And sow hark I whnt is that? Some one at the door ! Oh, good gracious I I really do belUve that old monster is there I" There came the sonnd of a vigorous " bang 1" at the door, and thou tbe ve hement voice of Mary in stormy alter cation with some one. Then they heard a tremendous crash, and with simulta neous shrieks of terror the three parted. Carrie dove under the bed, Aunt Sadie bounced into a closet and closed the door, while Mamie sought refuge in flight upstairs. It's a lunatio I" was Annt Sadie's agonized thought, while horrid visions of dire tragedies floated through Car rie's mind. They heard noises below stairs which plainly indicated a scuflla of some sort ; then shortly after there sounded foot steps on the stairs. " He has killed Mary, and is coming np here to butcher us 1" thought the trembling old lady, as she crouched further lack in the darkest corner of the closet, while Carrie kept very quiet, although she was on the verge of screaming. Patter, patter, patter, sounded the approaching footsteps, nearer each mo ment; then there was a pause, and they distinctly hoard heavy, labored breath ing. The suspense was becoming in tolerable to the two ladies, and dim thoughts crossed Mrs. Hall's mind of breaking from her concealment, of rushing valiantly ont, confronting tho intruder with a poker, or some other implement of self defense, and by star ing at him dauntlessly drive him from tne room; she bad beard maniacs could be subdued by unflinching courage, and a stare as unwavering and giant-like as that of an owl. Bat before (he could put her theory into practice the door opened; then Aunt Sadie sprang out, a low cry escaped her lips, and she sank feebly back into a chair. For the per son in the room was Mary. That female was in a stormy frame of mind, and there was a vicious look on her generally good-humored face." " Ooh, ma m r she cried. " i ve bad snch a ruction wid the aonld feller az got thim biscaits this very blessed rnin', down at the dhnre, that I'm nearly dead now, so I am 1" ' ' What does all this mean? ' demanded Aunt Sadie. "Sbure, ma'am," returned Mary, in perylexity, "I don't know meself. Whin tuk mm Miss Carrie s biscuits this morn in' wid yonr compliments " " with my compliments? echoed the bewildered old lady. " Why, you are bereft of your senses, girl I Who did you give biscuits to this morning with my compliments r " Why, the aould man az kem to the dhnre jist now, axin' for yonr blessed self an' Miss Mamie, shure. Faith, he was that wild I wouldn t let the likes av him in, an' bedad we had a tussle which same ended in meself givin' him ther fut an landin him in the airy, whin I schlammed the dhnre in his onmannerly face, so I did, or yez moignt arl 'ave been kilt I If he'd a kem dacintly an' axed ter see yez, gracious only knows what ud a happined 1 " Who was that man ?" asked the old lady, in bewilderment. " I don t know, ma am, for he a on v moved into this strate; he lives beyant iu that ellegant honse, number forty- tlve, an' a more deceivin man I never boo. it s moighty quare he is, for this mornin' he was all schmoiles an' graces, an this avening he saamed to be clane garn in his upper story." At this interesting innoture Carrie emerged from her retreat, looking very foolish. That Maty had carried her present to tho wrong house she had no doubt. Nnmber forty-five and number fifty-four are numbers widely different, and by not paying attention to what was said the girl evidently had gotten the numbers transposed in her mind, and so made the blunder. ' "Well, I declare!" exclaimed the old lady. " I am at a loss to understand what this all means." "Aunt Sadie," interposod Carrie, gently, "it is partly my fault. This morning I sent Mary with that half dozen of my biscuits to Mr. Covert, and told her to say they were from you; but she carried them to the wrong house, and the man who followed Mamie was the recipient of them, and probably wished to ask her why they were sent." " Well, I neve.' I" gasped the old lady. " That acoonnts for it." Though she said nothing about it, she appreciated her niece's kind aot in saying she bad sent the biscuits; al though, coupled with this intended kindness, Carrie had intended perpe trating a j oke. The explanation seemed satisfactory enough, too, but the little shadow of mystery surrounding that day's doings was only just developing, and tho following day they were to be very much more surprised. " It's odd yonr father has not returned for tea," observed Aunt Sadie, after all the dishes, save one for the absent min ister, had been cleared away, "He said he was going to make seve ral calls," replied Carrie. "He is always late," grumbled the old ladsaa "Aunt Sadie," said Carrie, "what is the matter wi'h you to-day you are so out of temper?" For answer, her aunt burst into tears. Carrie looked at her in surprise. " Dear Aunt Badie, have I offended you?' she asked with troubled look, as she kisred her affectionately. " No, Cirr e, that it not it. I know I am a burdensome eld creature, but I have been harassed by so many doubts and fears since my 1'Usband went away that I bare often wished for the peace of heaven. You don't kuow what I mean" No, I do not," replied Carrie. "Why, mamma," said Mamie, "is para not dead. You always led me to believe so." ' No that is, I do not know," said the old lady. " He left me to travel for the firm he was connected with in busi ness, and went ont West. A month after he had gone I received intelli gence that he was thought to be dead. They said he was in a train which had been wrecked by falling through a bridge. It was a frightful accident, and the papers were full of the news at the time. Mamie was a little child then, about three years o'd. They did not find his body, nor have I ever hoard from him since, and it was supposed that his corpse was carried away by the river. To-day was the fifteenth anm versary of the frightful event, and bearing on my mind so all day it has mado me exceedingly peeviaji and disa- gifeauio. - It was late that night when the Rev. Benjamin Ray returned home, and he rushed off to his library in great haste, and sat there nearly the whole night through, smiling benignly, and polish ing his bald head with his handkerohief until it shone again. No one in the honse knew the occasion of his joy. nor did he divulge it until the succeeding aay. " Carrie," said he, at the breakfast table, "did yon send Mr. Covert a nan kinful of biscuits yesterday?" The girl blushingly admitted that she had done so. ' Well, my dear," said the old gentle man, "I am glad yen did, for it has al most cured him of his illness, and he is coming here to-day to thank you for them; you know I called on him." Came looked at Annt Sadie in per plexity, and the old lady returned her a glance of the same sort. " But, papa," she stammered, "Mary delivered tnem to some one else, and the old madman who got them chased Mamie last night, giving ns all suoh a scare tha we did not know what to do." "Eh?" said her father, glancing over his spectaolos at her. "The wrong party got them, did he? Oh, I guess not 1" Carrie and Aunt Sadie gazed at him, more bewildered now than before. "But Mary said so," began Carrie. Before she finished speaking there came a "bang!" at the door; it flew back on its hinges, and in rnshed the old fellow who had pursued Mamie. They all started to their feet and the ladies would have fled had he not barred their exit by standing in the doorway. Then there sauntered other footsteps in the hall, and before Annt Sadie could resist the stranger had her in his arms and was crying: "Sadie I Sadie! At last I have yon again !'' "My husband!" she cried. Oh, thank God 1" Yes, it was Annt Sadie's hosband, and the old lady clung to him, weeping for joy. " And, William, here is your little Mamie." There was no fear of the supposed madman now, and Mamie found herself clasped in a loving pair of arms and felt her father's tender kisses with hap piness indescribable, while Carrie looktd on in astonishment. " So you thought me dead, eh?" said Mr. Hall. " Well, it was all a mistake. I received severe in jaries in that rail road accident, but soon recovered, owing to the good care I reoeived at the hands of the miners' wives to whom I was carried. They persnaded me to stake out a claim in their mining re gions, and I did so. I was not rich, you know, Sadie, and 1 saw prospects of sudden wealth in mining, and my hope was realized after years of work. Once the gold fever was on me I could not leave thereuntil I accomplished what I meant to do. I would have written yon, but resolved not to do so until I could return and say lam rich,' or ' I am a beggar.' The surprise to you now is more delightful, isn't it, my dear ( " But the suspense you kept me in ?" she remonstrated. "I thonght that, too but I knew you would not remarry during my ab sence." " But that isn't what I mean," she expostulated. He laughed and kissed her, saying he knew it was not. " I was at the gate of my new house. and was making np my mind to come after yon," heoontmued; "fori learned your place of residence by seeing Ben here at his chnroh, and inviting him to call on me, and he not knowing me the while, either, when Mamie passed by. I knew who she was, despite her growth into young ladyhood while I was away for she is the image of you and I ran after her with wnat result you know." At this juncture Mr. Covert walked Li. He was young and handsome, but icmewhat pale. "Ah! Covert," cried Mr. Ray, "you are up?" "Yes, Carrie's biscuits half cured me," he said, laughing. "This, then, is the gentleman," said Mr. Hall, "for whom the bisouits weie intended? You see, si-, your name was written in pencil on he napkin, with your ddress, and I caw there was a blander on tho servant's part in deliver ing them to me. Awl when Mr. Hull came to my house I showed it to him and he took the parcel to you; so it went all right, after all " " Then Mary must have told him they were from mo," thonght Crrie. But half an hour later she was unde ceived; for, ou linding herself alone ia the parlor with Mr. Covert, that gwitls- man explained the mystory by handing her a little paroel. it contsiaed the ring she had mined when making the biscuits. "I found it none of the biscuits, where it must have slipped from yonr finger," explained he; then taking it, he added: "And will you let me re place it on your finger to bind the ac ceptance of my love for yon, Carrie ?" She did not say no, for she bad learned tbat she loved him; and Mamie suffered nothing, for Annt Sadie was mistaken in supposing she cared for Mr. Covert, as another man toon after made her his bride. A Week In a Chinese House-Boat. To the uninitiated it may be said that a CM . J 1 1 l j- 1 ouauKuai uuiise una! 10 Terr tnucrij . er,n a. x. a-tr - j more of a home than are the craft calledO'". ta 6( ftkei 'A.?1 by the same name whioh are met with occasionally upon the Thames; and the " bosses " of the great banks and mer cantile houses vie with eaoh other in the lavish decoration and . luxurious comfort of their house-boats. Many of them are, in fact, little floating drawing-rooms, ablaze with mirrors and gilding, and very much better adapted for "loafing" purposes and entertain ments than for shooting expeditions and other rough work. The boat in which we made onrtrip up the river was com fortable and convenient enough; but it was a praotioai and not an ornamental house-boat. It was late summer when we started; for although a house-boat is generally tolerable during the hot season, when nothing else is, we were not much given to lounging and the re ception of company. All told we were six on board including the "lowdah" or captain, the cook, and two ooolies to tow or work the boat. Scenery there is none near Shanghai; and at the first starting, amidst the crowd of boats, jnnks and sampans which block np the creek below bridge, the only sense titil lated to any extraordinary degree was that of smelt. It was very slow work, bnt we kept in the boat, and passed tho time agreeably if not profitably, in eat ing, drinking and smoking, and listen ing to the old low dill's tales of bis pirate life. The cook did h:s duty manf ally, and varied our meals with the talent pe culiar to Frenchmen and Chinamen. Until we passod Sicawei, whioh may be termed the boundary of the foreign do minion, the coolies oared the boat in their peculiar fashion, the lowdah steer ing wih his feet when his hands were busy with his "chow" or his pipe. But when we got into the open country the tow rope was fastened, and the coolies got out on the bank. It was a ennous voyage. Only one thing annoyed ns, and it was inevitable, it had to be borne the oeaseless attention paid to us by the native dogs. Chinese dogs in fact all Chinese animals possess an extraor dinary faonlty of scenting ont a foreigner, and the former invariably announce their discovery by howlings and bark ings, which only cease with the com plete disappearance of the obnoxions intruder. Sometimes in the country these dogs which, like those of Con stantinople, are the publio scavengers, and are protected from harm by pnblio edict as well as by popular prejudioe are positively dangerous ; for although singly they are arrant cowards, and run off at the mere action of picking np a stone, in groups they are apt to be ag gressive, especially if the foreigner be alone. We could always tell when we were approaching a village, when the high banks hid it from view, by the ex citement amongst the dogs ; and when we anchored for tho night always in mid-stream their incest ant barking banished all notions of sleep. Another annoyance was the mosquitoes; but at night the curtains kept them out. Everywhere we oonld see traoes of the horrible work of pillage and devastation carried on during the Taiping rebellion, and, strange to say, in spite of the more generons ideas of civilization which are beginning to assert them selves in China, as it is nobody's busi ness to remedy the appearance of mat ters, the bare and desolate character of the country still remains. We muBt have passed during our week's trip at least twenty villages utterly wrecked and deserted, not to. speak of magnifi cent porcelain bridges ruined, pagodas tottering to their fall, roofless temples and even desecrated graveyards. Every evening we anchored in mid stream and jumped overboard for a swim ; and upon one occasion, when the spot chosen was not far off from a town rejoicing in the euphonious name of Sin Ka Kok, as we were espied jump ing overboard and striking out, the whole population swarmed out to wit ness tho sight, the bridge was a mass of human heads, and the banks were lined with a crowd of both sexes. Not far from here are the only hills anywhere near Shanghai, and being hills, they are a favoritu pilgrimage of foreigners weary of the monotonous grave-studded flatness of the country round theEaro pean settlement. They are but mounds; bnt there are actually some picturesque copses at their base which are greatly resorted to by picnic parties. We ascended the hilln, as in duty bound, and then turned the prow of our boat homeward a proceeding which ssemed to please our coolies mightily, for they took ns bank in half the time they oc cupied in bringing ns. Tbe extraordinary advance of what has developed into the human race is shown in the faot that Darwin left an e tato valued at Jfa.wu. jignteen uiiilions of years ago no monkey then extant was worth half that number of 0'iettaat. 1 SCIENTIFIC JT0TES. Coke is to coal exactly what charooal fa to wood. Twisted magnetio wire loses its power by being twisted in the opposite direetion. From statistics gathered in India it appears that cholera is far more deadly in the open than in the wooded dis tricts. This is another inducement to preserve forests. Of the 8,000,000 tons of ore now an nually raised in the United States, a portion belongs to the clay or carbon iferous measures, while the remainder takes the form of either hematites or oxides. Dr. Ii. Riociardi has analyzed six specimens of the lava ejected from same perpendicular plain. He found the only difference to consist in the various layers in th different propor tions of iron in the highest stage of oxidation. As to the redaction of the production cost of wheat Dr. H. Jjulierecommerds the substitution of good for inferior varieties, sowing by drill instead of broadcast, greater care in the destruc tion of weeds, reaping in suitable weather, thrathing by machinery to prevent the waste of grain, deep culti vation in order to secure the plants from droughts or excess of moisture, and, finallv, the judicious management of manures. At a recent meeting of the Photo graphic Society of France, M. Janses handed round a magnificent proof of the late partial eclipse, and said a few words upon the long discussed question of a lunar atmosphere. In speaking upon this subject he said: " Suppose for a moment that the moon is sur rounded by an atmosphere, what would be tbe result if we took a photographic view of it during an eclipse ? The lunar disk wonld be sharp enough, but there ui uuv nun iiiiu Btftixiu Birrau puu iu ju would be a gradnal decline in density, as in a vignetted portrait. This is ex actly the contrary whioh took place, as the proof will bIiow. The Innar disk is very sharp and the negative is rather intensified near the disk, probably from refracted light." M. Jan sen appears to donbt the existence of a lunar atmos phere. The Alexandria ltlots. The chief mate of the steamship Bifrost, which arrived at Dover, Eng land, with a cargo of cotton seed from Alexandria, gives the following aoconn of the massacre whioh ooourred at that town on Sunday, the 11th of Jane, and ot which he was an eye-witness. He says: "Ocr vessel, with one or two others, was lying alongside the quay in tho harbor at Alexandria. We were discharging a cargo of deals. In the morning I went out with one of the officers for a ride on horseback, and re turned to the town about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. At that time every thing appeared to be quiet in the town. About 3 o'clo ik we suddenly noticed batches of Arabs running about the town brandishing stick, with whioh they attaoked every European they came across, beating them in the most horrible and cowardly manner until they had killed their victims. Oae gentleman, who had taken refnge on board our vessel, afterward went to see two of his friends who had been taken to the hospital, but they were so ter ribly mutilated tbat one ot them he could only recognize by a button on his coat, and the other by a part of his mustaohe, the skulls of the unfortunate victims being completely battered in. We saw one Greek marine running for his life down the street toward the quay in the hope of getting on board one of tbe English vessels. He was followed by a large crowd of Arabs, who were carrying sticks. They had evidently been chasing Lim some time, for the poor fellow was nearly exhausted. On reaching the quay he found the gate closed, and he tried to scale it, bnt be fore he had time to do so some of the Arabs reaohed him and knocked him down. Borne one opened the gate and the Greek managed to regain his feet and run toward the quay, but one of the Egyptain soldiers stabbed him with a dagger, and he then ran into the street again, where he was overpowered by the Arabs. The man presented a very ghastly appearance. His faoe was bat tered, and his clothes, whioh were very mnch torn, were covered with blood. The general belief was that the soldiers and police killed more people than the Arabs. One gentleman we bad on board told us of a family who had been taken to the police station for shelter, but were shortly afterward found there murdered. We heard of other oases of this character. We took several families on board, our deck being crowded with them. At night we moored off the quay, and took every precaution in cass of an attempt to board ns. We had a nnmber of Arabs employed discharging onr cargo. As soon as they heard tho cry tbat an at taok was being made on the Europeans they left their work like one man and seized on anything which they conld ay hold of which would serve as a weapon and ran np into the town. We transferred a great many of the refugees to other vessels, but bad abont eighty passengers, including children, when we left Alexandria We disembarked tbe greater part of them at Malta, bring ing abont twenty on to Dover. One gentleman, whose family we bad on board, had fallen a victim in the mas sacre. Besides decapitating him they had mutilated him in the most varbr pat maanar,
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