tifer orrst llrpubliran is rrpi,mnF,n KrrRt wemwidat. t T. K. WENK. Omoo In flmoarbaugh Sr. Co.'s Building, L-I.M orrvniTr, . t:o::h3ta, ta. NojrWKv-r.y.M.is.rcivwl for a eliorter ixriod t'lHll till ( 1 Hlitlf)i 4. ' Unv(-.;Mi. i-ummliryod from nil tnrfHof Hn 7f lgit Watch. Slowly .1 ho KiIrArf'wijBht sailed Beyond the pib'ple bars; And now the lonely 'lakelet holds Ita mirror to theslirs. All round ho w?d.riicA(niiased lior Noineeot aohlL Jo broeznj No ripple on tii cloomyjke, , V No murmur in the tre3s ", V. Far down tlm-jlim rrfloctod heavon'i " Suffusing nlmonphero Orion drops hin flnry darts, Groat Jnpitor his spear. Along thft cV.rlily wooded cape Black cliff a of shadow he; The tear oaks roar their antlered tops gainst tho .u!mn Bky. Abo lhe;tilel lf-nrtosjTSoilcnS " '- The alow stirs drift, and soon, " Bohind its frin.To of pinos, tho emit Will brijfhtou with the moon. There roijns thron jjliout the universe A Btillness iw of death; The world's frront heart has boosed to boat, Creation holds its breath. ' Swift orb, whose passing leaves no wake, Whose axles never burn, II-w fast you cleave the trackless bine, How noislosnly thoy tnrnl By day, by night, through- boandless apace, lrm inrestina planet rolls With p her ooeans, lands and climes, Aiig an ner iroight of souls. I lilted till the silonee roars; Wlmt is the sound I hear? Ihe thunder of the parted hoavenj, The rushing of the sphere 1 Each moment from our plaoe we speed, And oome to it no more; Infinity behind OS lies, Infinity before. . ' . ; Man 1ms no Hied abiding-place: 1 : Through pathley deeps we roam; This" native soil, this steadfast earth, ' I9 but a wandering home. 1 ; As eTermore the whirling ball Along ita orbit flies, . " Still evermore the sun leads on ." ' To yet remoter skies. .. Even while I pause to pondor it, ' ' With headlong silent force The orb has sped a thousand leagues Upon her fearful coarse. Oh voyager on the driving ship, Where is thy destined shore? ' ' Eternity behind thee lies, Eternity before 1 J. I., Trowbridge, in the Companion. THE MISSING WITNESS. "I'm afraid it's a bad case," I Baidto myself, as I laid down my brief after reading it over for tho third or fourth time, and leaned back in my chair to reconsider it for about tho twentieth, " A bad case, and I am sorry for it." I was a barrister, young both in years and in professional standing, and this was the lirst brief of any import ance I had ever held. My client was an Italian sailor named Luigi Bernini, and the crime of which he was accused was robbery; tho plunder being a life long savings of a woman upward of righty years of age, which the poor creature kept hidden in tho thatch of her littlo cabin. The witnesses were the old woman herself, who had been stunned by a severe blow from the perpetrator of the theft, and a neighbor.who deposed to having met tho prisoner in the im mediate vicinity of the cabin, AVhen Iernini was arrested some days later a curious foreign coin, identified a3 a part of tho stolen hoard, was found in Ids pocket. This, however, he ac counted for by Baying that be had picked it up on the road. The weak point in tho chain of evidence was a scarcely perceptible hesitation on the part of one of tho wit nesses. She bad at lirst declared positively that tho prisoner was the man whom she bad seen going toward old Joan s cabin, and had alter. ward adhered to this statement with what afterward appeared to be dogged obstinacy, rather than real conviction, The prisoner himself positively de nied having been in the neighborhood at all on the day of the robbery, but unfortunately be could not speak with certainty as to his whereabouts. He had been lately dismissed from hos pital, scarcely convalescent, after a bad fever; bis own ship had left the port, and he had been rejected by the cap tains to whom he had offered his ser vices, as not being sufficiently robust for a' sailor's work. He. had a littlo money left, and therefore took to wan dering aimlessly about tho country, intending, as soon as the Columbia re turned, to ship aboard of her again. His mind had been weakened and con fused by bis illness, and although he knew that for several days preceding and following that of the robbery, he had been in a part of the country fully twenty miles distant, he could not possibly say where ha had been, or to whom he had spoken on the day in question. Many inquiries had been made and many persons interviewed who remembered "the poor foreign chap," but no accurate information as to dates was forthcoming. As tho tes timony of a person who had extended her hospitality to him, "either of a Tuesday or a Thursday, she couldn't ri'ditlv say which," would not, unfor- - unately, car-jy much weight in a court tip 0km. ikiippci J -' ! ' , , ;rr: . . v.. . VOL. II ; p,37. of jsW I had to trust for a defense to jiA cross-examination of tho wit- ni;.-s,ta'hose character for veracity I hoi'41, W judicious management of the Visual forensic ivratmiw. tn usual forensic weapons, to ronj hem to annihilate with th-ir oti lips. I much regretted tlis an!W evidence, as I was strong wsinsed in favor of tho nris- lypr oiur hb f, soiA thing frank and lionest in e nuking it dinicult for mo to bjlie) hl cuiltv of the cowardlv cfimt of wlich he was accused. IJa- sties, t Wa as I luLvn H.-iifl mv first. important disc, and self-interest and )t-ofeionall instinct alike prompted je tojlesirelts successful issue. Hut ' this J. had little hope.. J hud atftfe my brief at length and enf uyto the drawing-room, where ' was1 greeted by my cousin and 'stews With a somewhat petulant re- 0f fr bavins lingered so lontr over ' "SO ) isty law papers. AlicJ inl I h;ul been children to- IV eier-I i big girl and a littlo boy rown from nlavfellows into w .had fritids resting IU) lbs and since her marriage her Carrigarvan had been mv lace in assize times. I was at understand the cause of her vexitioi at my tardy appearance. She wanton) what or a matchmaker, and Jiaviig one but myself on whom to elerej e her talents, she had devoted mh'ii exclusively to my service, she had dre.'iily decided on a suitable wife .J . i ' s tor hp, and was exerting herself to the, Umost to bring about the mar riage The chosen young lady was prest;-and I knew that' Alice was mu Oannoycd with me for devoting tlio caning to my brief instead of to DonilLyno. The latter was tho daugflor of a solicitor in good prac tice, ;4d was herself a very pretty, brigh dooking girl, who would, I was competed to admit, be a most desir able wfe for a young unknown bar rister, i I waj thoroughly fond of Alice, .and she w.ilmy chosen contldante when ever I i-eded one ; but I cou'Ui not tell herevei that tho true reason which preventd Dora Lyne's bro wn eyea and swtH voice making their duo im pressioin me was the remembrance of a f acoseen but during a thrt e-hours' railway burney, a face with ij irk gray eyes andquiet, thoughtful exi iression. and of a toice heard at somew hat rare intervals' the space of time, whose low-pitclul tones still vibrated in my imaginatin.. A lice would have been too good-nttflredto laugh at me, but I felt sure thiit.bad she known tho state of the case, shii would have entertained, and probably expressed, fears tlat over- study had affected my b rain an opinion that would probably h. ivo bwn shared by all 'persons whose charac teristic was amnion sense Miss Lvne.l perceiving tlint Alico was vexed wi'.li me, and wi. ming, I think, to showlhat alio did net share tho feeling, called mo over to look at some prints ;iad photographs: ' which sho was cxaurtiinp'. "Alice," sail Miss Lyne, at length, did yonsliov Mr. Lest range the sketch vim fousd in that bookf" No," said 'Alice; "I forgot it, You will find i; in that volumo of the 'Stones of Venice' on my table, Richard. It is really a beautiful sketch I wonder howJt came to ba forgotten in the book." I brought the book to Dora Lyne, who turned oyer the leaves until she found- the drawing, which she put into my bands. He moment I saw it uttered an exdlamation of Burpme, which brought my cousin at once to my side. It sSvas a spirited water-colored sketch-' of a man's head a dark, for eign-looking face; surmounted by a red cap. It was, however, neit'ier the skill of the artist nor tho pictii.resque beauty of the model that attraf tted my attention; it was in the fact that in tho somewhat peculiar features of the latter I recognized those of my client, Lxugi Bernini. " What an odd coincidence!" said Alice, when I had explained. I wonder who could have taften the sketch some one who knows how to handle a brush," Bhe added, looking critically at it. " See, here are initials and a date, but they are so faint that I cannot make them out, "Let mo try," said Dora; "I have pood sight." She took the sketch over to the lamp and scrutinized it closely, "W. M. D., but I cannot make out the date. Stay, I have it. May 10th, 18' "May 10 why, that was the very day of the robbery," I said. Then the full significance of tins date flashed suddenly upon me and I absolutely turned giddy. "The alibi: I gasped "if we could find the man who did that sketch, we might succeed in prov. ing the alibi." Dora Lyne grasped my meaning with ready quickness, " Morrison's library that book came from, was it not, Alice? They ought to be able to tell you there who had it on. or imiiiodiately after, the 10th of May." "And the person, whoever she or he is, will have to be hunted up, 1 said. " and there s so little time. This is Monday and tho trial is fixed for Wednesday. I suppose Morrison's is t closed by .this, Alice if" "Indeed it is, she answered. " You would find no one there now but a caretaker, You must ju&t wait- pa tiently until to-morrow, Richard.'. I had perforce to wait; as to the pa- J TIONESTA, ' PA., WEDESDAY, ticnc with which I did so, tie Isjs said tho better. I The following morninir foumlrae at Morrison's library. On explainiig tny business, I was referred to the cl rk in cliar'o of tho library department from whom l totally l ailed to obtain liio re quired Informat ion. The younr man who usually attended to that rtirt of the business was away; if I coull call next week -" " I I intimated with what nppe:r ed to me, at the time, most praise4rthy self-control, that next week wou ii not do, giving a partial explanation m the circumstances. But the clerk, although ipparently willing to help me, ro- fi"inefl himself ijtjlm jtnabln to d SO. iou see, sir," he said, "if you wanted to know what book any sub scriber had out at a given time 1 could probably tell you, but as for ascertain ing the whereabouts of a special book it's an impossibility. If you like ta look over our entries for yourself, you aro welcome to do so." l accepted tins offer, and spent a good part of the day in turning over tjio Plotted pages wherein were in scribed the names and course of read ing of the subscribers to Morrison'a, And an unprofitable morning's work it was. The record was to all appear ance imperfectly kept, and I failed to trace the second volume of tho "Stones of Venice" through a period longer than three weeks, during which it hail; twice changed hands. I Some hours moro were speni In hunting up the persons in whose pos session it had been for that length of time, neither of whom could give any nformation concerning the sketch. An ippncation to Jjcrnini himself was qually fruitless, lie remembered that i lady and gentleman whom he had met during his wanderings had asked him to sit to them, but he did not know who they were, nor could he even make it clear where the incident had occurred. I returned home at dinner-time, tired ml baffled, to reoort my failure to Alico and her husband, from whom I received much sympathy but no sug gestion of any pra-tical value.' I had given up hope, and was endeavoring to dismiss the subject from mv thoughts, when late in the evening the ball bell door sounded and a message came up that a person wanted to speak to Mr. Lestrange. doing down I found waiting for mo a bright-looking boy, one of tho shop assistants at Mr. Mor rison's, who had been for a short time aiding in my investigation of the en tries. I think I have what you want, sir," he said, as I entered the room. " It was in my mind all that day that I had given out that book to some one, I couldn't think who, and a chance word that I heard tins evening brought it ill back to me like a flash. It was to Mrs. French, of Eedcourt, that I gave it, and it must have been on tho 3d or 4th of May. Hero is the lady's name and address, sir ;" and be handed me a slip of paper on which was written iir5 I' rjirinli 'mlmirf K Ion frnn It was in Kilcarran or the neighbor hood that, according to Bernini's own statement, he had spent the day of the robbery. Thanking and dismissing the lad, I returned to the drawing-room with my priae. Ihe next step was -to com municate with Mrs. 1 rench. Kilcarran was fully fifteen miles from Carri garvan, and the trial was to begin the following morning. " Hand me over that railway guide, Dick," said Alice's husband. I thought so no train before ten. There's nothing for it but for me o drive to Kilcarran the first thing in the morning the mare can easily do it ii two hours and if I find that any onl there can give evidence worth havinm I'll bring them back with me, and hava them in court before the case for th defense opens." The trial began next morning, pro ceeding at an unusually rapid rate. It seemed to me that the learned counsel for the prosecution had never before put forth his wisdom and legal knowl edge in so condensed form. The cross examination of the witnesses was of course in my hands, and I did my best to make it as tedious as possible, to- tally failing, however, in my attempts' to contuse them or cause them to con tradict themselves. My only hope lay now in the unknown witness, and of him there were no tidings. The case for the prosecution closed and the court adjourned for lunch; I was standing in the barroom, thinking over my speech for the defense, and mentally re arranging my sentences after the man ner of the most prosy member of the circuit, when a note was handed to ine: "All right the witness is in the sher iffs room." Going into tho sheriff's room I found my cousin, accompanied by a strange lady and gentleman. "This is the prisoner's counsel," said the former, as I entered. "Allow me to introduce Mr. Lestrange Miss Darcy, Mr. French." 1 turned to the LUdy as her name was pronounced, and, ffam afraid, forgot to bow, in my sur prise and delight at recognizing in tho tall, fair-haired girl before me my dream of the last six months; my un known lovo, another glimpse of whom had been my chief desire ever since 1 lost sight of her as she stood on f he platform of tho little roadside otatiua where she had alighted. DECEMBER 13, 1882. " It was Miss Darcy who did that sketch," said my cousin, "and she re members all about it." " Yes," said tho girl, "the sketch was taken at Kilcarran on the 10th of May. I remember all the circum stances perfectly, and should have no difficulty in identifying the original.' Having by a few hurried questions convinced myself of tho value of Miss Darcy's testimony, I took her and her brother-in-law, placing them where they had a full view of the prisoner. Miss Darcy looked attentively at the latter for a minute and then said, de cidedly : " Yes, that i the man." I opened the case for the defense in as few words as possible, and then called up my witness AVinifred Darcy. Sho gave her evidence very well, in grave, concise language, without irrel evance or circumlocution. She stated that she lived at Itedcourt with her sister, Mrs. French, and that on tho 10th of May she and her cousin had spent the greater part of the day sketching by tho river-side at Kilcar ran. At about 2 o'clock a gust of wind had carried her hat into tho stream, whence it was recovered by the prisoner, who happened to pass by at the moment. Interested by some thing In his appearance, they tried to enter into conversation with him, but without much success, hi3 Eng lish being very imperfect. They, how ever, managed to make him under stand mat they wished to em ploy him as a model, and he sat to them patiently for more than an hour, at the end of which tine he went away wnn manv expressions or grati- Uude for the money they gave nim. Miss Darcy would have been ertain as to the date, even if it had ot been affixed to the drawing (which ivas produced in court), as her cousin iau arrived at Kilcarran on the 0th oi May, and left on the 11th. Cross-examination failed to cast any doubt on the uccuracy of Miss Darcy's evidence, while her veracity was "of course above suspicion. The jury professed themselves sat isfied with the evidence, and, declining tn hear counsel for the defense, re turned a verdict of "Not Guilty." The prisoner was seized upon by some of his compatriots, who were serving on the mixed jurv, and carried off in tri umph, somewhat dazed by the change in his prospects. Some months afterward, a man, dy ing from the effects of a hurt) received in a drunken brawl, acknowledged him self guilty of the crime of which Ber nini had been accused. He also was an Italian, and bore sufficient resem blance to his countryman in height and complexion to account in some de gree for the mistake of the witnesses. As for me, I date the beginning oi b:ith my professional success and oi my life's happiness from the day of Bernini's trial. The -Vaiuifactnre of Tiles. Tiles, being a thinner ware thaD bucks, have to be made of a purer and sronger clay. They also require nore careful treatment, but the process f manufacture is not essentially dif Erent. There are many varieties of ties, but for practical purposes they iay be reduced to three, namely, laving tiles, roofing tiles and drain Ues. In weathering, the clay is oread in layers of about two inches tiickness during winter, and each Iyer is allowed the benefit of at least ie night's frost before the succeeding ftyer is put upon it. Sometimes the process is affected by innshine. The comminuted clay is 5ext placed in pits and allowed to mel low or ripen under water. Then it is J '--ev uuuuii nic l'icg Jlllll, nuu lilt tempered product' cut in thin slices t.Oi-aa,1 tliptu..lt Hin -... .4 with a piece or wire fixed to two han dles, in order to detert any stone, and lUen passed through the pug mill again, lter wnicn it is generally ready for nolding. To take .the iase of pan tiles (hand molded) tho m older turns the tin out of the Hut mold onto (Jiewash 1 g-off frame, on the covered surface c which, with very wet hands, he a ashes it into a curved shape. Then he sriKes it with a semi-cylmdri-il instrument called he splaver, f id conveys it on this to the flat block, hero he deposits it, with tho convex 8 lo uppermost, and, removing the ilavcr, leaves the tile to dry. The tile i' afterward beaten on the thwacking fame, to correct any warping that may hvo occurred, and trimmed with the Uwaeking knife. In the kiln, -fldeli is (instructed with arched furnaces aiu,e llise of a conical erection called the dune, the tiles aro closely stacked in iiiright position, on a bottom of vitre-f-d bricks. The fuel used is coal, and hirning continues usually about six i lys. In making pipe drain tiles, the day is lirst molded to a proper length, iilth and thickness, then wrapped iround a drum; the edges aro closed tigether and tho tile is carefully s,iaped by the operator's hand, some times agisted by a w-nod en tool. Tiles ;h w.eli as bricks can b;i made by ma chinery; with suital.l " jiies almost any fynn of tile may be i bus Tad, which is producible by tho advance of a given section of clay parallel to itself, lu otiior machines presur.i is exerted on tho clay is a in- .'lueikan 1'ot tery liejpoiUr. . $1.50 PER ANNUM. SCIENTIFIC K0TES. Experiments conducted between Munich and Miesbach have proved con clusively that electrical energy capable of being converted into motive power can be sent over an ordinary telegraph wire. Captain "Webb seems to think that the use of porpoise oil rubbed all over the body and even the face prevents the chilling action of cold water affecting the vital parts of swimmers who re main a long time in the water. All professionals, he says, now use oil Artificial ivory of a pure white color and very durable has lately been made by tho inventor of celluloid. It Is pre pared by dissolving shellac in ammo nia, mixing the solution with oxide of zinc, driving off the ammonia by beat ing, and afterward powdering the resi due and strongly compressing it in molds. F. J. Faraday is inclined to the be lief that the breathing of air devoid of the usual quantity of oxygen is apt to develop germs otherwise harmless into those which produce consumption. As giving support to his hypothesis he cites the decrease of consumption iD well-ventilated barracks, and the re lief afforded to patients by sea voy ages, tho air of pine woods and the in halation of carbolic acid. The new liability Co fire resulting from the introduction of electric light ing apparatus lends new interest to a method of preparing the wire lately brought to the attention of the French Academy of Sciences by M. Geoffroy. A copper wire is insulated with asbestos and threaded through a lead pipe. A sample of the conductor of this wire was entirely volatilized without affect ing tho leaden pipe in the slightest de gree, the volatilization taking place in the fraction of a second. After all, M. Faye mai ntains there i3 nothing very difficult about under standing the reasons why comets undergo sudden changes of form as they approach or recede from the sun. Two causes are assigned. First, solai attraction tends to decompose bodies of very small mass and great bulk when they come within its influence. And comets are concededly very light in comparison with the "quantity of matter they contain. Secondly, there comes into play the action of solar re pulsion, which arises from the incandes cence of cometary materials when freed from great pressure and subjected to intense heat. What was relatively solid becomes nebulous. "But these theories do not appear to cover the whole ground. . 1VIE WORDS. A man's life is an appendix to his heart. f Sorrow is not a blessing until turns to joy. 4 it The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression; tho more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit. Our notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling there is a good deal of amusement) on the road, but after all, one wants to be at rest. "We learn wisdom from failure more than from success; we often discover what will do by finding out what will not do, and lie who never made a mis take never made a discovery. '';, The longer I live the more I am satisfied of two things: First, that the truest lives are those that are cut rose-diamond fashion, with many facets answering to the many-planed aspects of the world around them; secondly, that society is always trying in some way or other to grind us down to a single llat surface. A mind, knowing itself and its own proper powers and virtues, becomes free and independent. It sees its hin drances and obstructions and find3 they aro wholly trom itself, and from opinions wrongly conceived. The more it conquers in this respect the mero it in its own mttntcr, feels its own natural liberty and congratulates it self on its own advancement and pros perity. It is not always tho value of what we lose that leave us so desolate. It is what it was to us that makes us so lost without it. It may have been very insignificant in itself, but so much to us that our hearts feel lonely, lost without it. We are continually looking, reaching out in tho darkness for a something. These strong affec tions of ours give us, we sometimes think, more sadness than joy, yet they o very necessary to us. They are to us wat tho leaves are to our plants. Without tn-, adornment how dis asreeable wouu.,1(. ilumaa nature. From Baud to i"-utn. " What a well dressed gbuiPman that is !" remarked a stronger trom "inlTi CrrteW. US a LentleTnHii in an pnt turnout dasht.i jovti Austin Yes, but be just livcsfro; , mouth." . V 1 . "Why. that's very smgih don't look as if ho was in strH id to He nud rireumstauces." . MM.. ...r. n,.ll,illir VtlKTllI living from hand to mouth. lle ii1(! I leading dentist in tho placei' Tilt RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Scjiinre, ono inch, ove iiio, iio i . .-.,1 A'' ( n f.,nnri-. oh ("!! .m-i ' " ( (lie Hiiinre, o:io inch, i Ii . m ; -j ; i 1 !e' . . . ! ' One Square, one inch, one yc.ir VU 0 k Two Himre, one year ." U) - Quarter Oolnnin, one yenr ::0 (;0 Half Column, (in year W) 00 One Column, one year WO 00 Iiecal notices nt established rates. Mnrriae and death notices gratis. All bills for yearly ndvertixrmonts collected quarterly. Temporary advertisements must be paid in advance. Job work, cash on delivery. A Farewell. Come not to my grave with your moUfninia, With yonr lamentations and tears, With yonr cad forebodings and fears; When my lips are dumb, Do not come I Bring no long train of carriages, No hearse crowned with waring plumes, Which the gaunt glory of Death illumes; But with hands on my breast Let me rest. If, in my fair yonth time, attended By hope and delight every day, I could spurn the sweet baseness of clay, Can yon honor me, try Till yon die. Inenlt not my dust with yonr pity, Ye who're left on this desolate shore, Still to suffor and lose and deplore "Tii I should, as I do, Pity yon. For me no more are the hardships, The bitterness, heartaches and strife, The sadness and sorrow of life, But the glory divine This is mine 1 Poor creatures 1 Afraid of the dartnees, Who groan at the anguish to oome. How silent I go to my home I Ceaee your sorrowful bell; I am well. nUMOft OV THE DAT. Although an expert penman may rise to distinction he will never make "his mark." The cultured no longer call it hash. Mosaic nutriment i3 the correct form. Transcript. A Milwaukee woman has kept a kettle of boiling water on the stove for the past twenty-two years in order to scald burglars. A young lady of Missouri slashed an insulting fop with a knife. Sho probably wanted to cut a swell. Co urier-Journa I. A woman has suggested that wnen men break their hearts it is all the same as when a lobster breaks one of his claws, another sprouting immedi ately and growing in it3 place. Hart ford Times. A trade journal gives directions for preserving harness. Preserved harness may be considered very palatable to those who like that sort of thing, but wo don't want a bit in our mouth. Norristoicn HeruUcj. A man advertised for a "helpmate, who shall be a companion of my heart, iny head, my lot." A- candidate for the situation wrote: "I don't care to know anything .about your head or heart; but how big is your lot?" The postofiice department lias ruled that a husband has no control over tho correspondence of his wife. But this decision will not prevent a man from carrying his wife's letter in his insido coat pocket three weeks before mailing it. l'uayune. A poet wooed a beauteous maid, And by his honpyid rhymes Did win her heart; but when hnd passod The tender courting times Ho found her obutinate, and arked The fair one to rehearse Tho reason; she replied 'twas canso He'd gotten her per verse. Yonkcr't Gazette. Mrs. Yerger is ono of the most ex travagant women in Austin. On the recent occasion of her husband's birth day, she presented him with an ele gant pocketbook, saying : " Xow, my dear, whenever you take out this pock etbook, think of me." "You bet I will," ho replied, with a vociferous heartiness that surprised her. Sit ings. " Tapa, what is a tornado?" asked a young hopeful. " My son," said the father, glancing cautiously around to see if the coast was clear, " did you bear your mother tell mo this morning what sho thought of a man who would stay out all night to see the comet?" "Yes, sir," replied the awe-stricken boy. "Well, that was about as near a tornado as a man can get without being hurt. But you needn't tell your mother I said so." New York Commercial. A well-known and eccentric minister of Xewburyport was many years ago being ferried over to Ring Island to see a sick brother. Tho night was stormy and the timid divine was praying au dibly, when the ferryman said: "Far son, I shouldn't think such a good man as you aro would bo afraid anywhere." "Good gracious!" said the "minister, with considerable display of temper, " You don't suppose I want to go to heaven by water, do you?" Boston Journal. Pay of tho First Congress. Sumo antiquarian has just dug np these figures as the pay received by tho lirst United States Congress- The Con tinental Congress met on the ICth of May, 1775; tho number of members was sixty-four. At this timo a mem ber appeared from St. John's Fucish, Ga., and afterward tho colony of Georgia sent an entire delegation. Each coh.y paid its own delegation. New Hampshire idlowed to each all expenses, a servant, two horses, and a guinea a day; Massachusetts, '.en.ses and $3 a day; Rhode Ishuul and Maryland, '-rl y shilling a day and expenses; Vir giiii.i. a half Johannes per dav; Xorth J arohna, IJOOper annum; South Caro lina, iMOO per annum; Georgia, i'100 I r month while in session.
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