B. F. SCHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THB UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXVIII. M1TFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., APRIL 29, 1874. NO. 17.
AT PEACE.
BT WlIJJAJf WTXTEB.
Green trees, and quiet fields, and (onset light
V.t'-i li3!y silence, save for rippling leares.
And b.rdi that twitter of the coming night
OiUm j their mates, beneath mj cottage leaves
These Fate hath granted for a little space
Tj be companions of my pilgrimage.
Tiling my grateful heart with Nature's grace,
IL
Sot nuremembered here the garish stags.
Nor the wild city's uproar, nor the race,
Fcr gain and power in which we all engage;
But here remembered dimly, in a dream.
As something fretful that has ceased to fret
Here, where time lapses like a gentle stream,
IliJ in the woodland's heart, and I forget
To note its music and its silver gleam.
ra.
Cut never, never let me cease to know,
O whispering woods and daisy-sprinkled grass.
The beauty and the peace that yon bestow,
When the wild fevers of ambition paws.
And the worn spirit, in its gloom and grief.
Sinks on your bosom aud there finds relief,
Galaxy.
ZMifscellanj-.
r.N-tamitnquat iath'n I'mbrella.
An African chief's umbrella is no con
temptible thing, though to any accus
tomed to the arms and impediments of
civilized warfare there is something al
most grotesque in the information con
tained in a recent telegraph front the
Gold Coast, to the effect that the pres
ence of the old chief, Essamanquatiah,
"whose umbrella was captured, "proved
that serious work was intended. An
other of the war telegrams states: "We
also captured two sheep, some chick
ens, and Essamanquatiah's umbrella."
Apart from its prodigious size, the loss
of a chief's umbrella in battle more
than equals the loss of the standard of
a European commander. Some of
these African chiefs' umbrellas are of
prodigious dimensions no less than
25 feet in diameter, 12 feet 6 inches in
the ribs ! The latter are made of lance
wood, and the covering is of gorgeously
colored chintz in varied sections of
crimson, yellow and bine. It is opened
by means of pulleys and ropes attached
to the "runner," and this unique para
chute takes three or four men to open
it. The pole or handle is of birch,
about 14 or 16 feet high. Those used
by the King are made of rich damask,
and edged with golden fringe; while
others are made of varied colored silks
one of these delicate "sunshades" cost
ing, perhaps, 25gs. or 30gs. Should
the King wish to indulge in a "family
picnic" his "gingham" could accom
modate beneath its shade between 100
and 2)1 of his little household, and
every occupant would be well sheltered
within the golden fringe of his royal
parachute. Some time before the out
break of the war one of these umbrel
las, munufac Lured at Bristol for ship
ment to the Gold Coast, was erected in
the large open space in front of Messrs.
Furzel's sugar refinery, for the purpose
of Boeing how many it would actually
accommodate in case of a "shower." It
was raised in the workmen's dinner
hour.and the number of men who stowed
themselves away beneath its ample cov
ering wai fully 23).
Memory of Fares.
When a man has the winter's faculty
of recollecting faces, and with it a quick
and retentive memory of small la:ts,
the continuation gives him great social
power. This was Macaulay s case. He
never forgot the face of a man whom
he had met in society, and with the face
be remembered all" the salient facts
connected with the ownerof it. Few
things are mora flattering to an ordi
nary moital than being thorocghly re
membered by a great lion with whom
he has perhaps had a brief interview
several years before. I donbt if this
faculty exisU to any great extent among
our public men; indeed, I have often
been surprised at the absence of it. A
Russian baron of the true divine-right
fchool once maintained to me that this
was an effect of republican institutions,
or, what came to the same thing, that
the opposite was the result of monar
chical institutions. He said that king
and princes were obliged to see a great
many persons, wherefore Providence
had conferred on them various means
of being gracious to those persons, of
which prompt recognition was one,
Oatary.
H urning the Dead.
The sentiment in favor of bnrning
the dead seems to be growing in Eu
rope. A society has been formed at
Hamburg, the members of which are
pledged to dispose of deceased mem
bers in this manner. Another in Zu
rich, called La Sjciete de la Mori, has
a similar object. The distinguished
surgeon, Sir Henry Thompson, in late
number of the Contemporary Jicview,
discusses with force, clearness and
spirit, the question of cremation of the
dead.
The British Medical Journal suggests
the formation of a "Society of Increma
tors" to carry out his ideas, and adds
in support of the notion, "If a few hun
dred men of notable character, ability
and respectability, were to agree to
commit their bodies to the flames after
death.and make suitable arrangements,
they might probably soon be imitated
by many more thousands, and so the
foul practice of committing rotting
body to the graund.there to poison the
soil which it encumbers, would be re
placed by the more reasonable and
cleanly reduction of the body to ashes
by the speedy ageicv of the flame,
Beaaty.
A clever writer says "Providence
meant women to make the world beau
tiful as much as flowers and butter
flie,and their is no sin iu tasteful dress
but only in devoting to it too much
monevor too much time.' 1 Ins is a
most sensible view, and is the true
ground of mediuniship between the one
extreme of straight and rigid sim
plicity and devotion of the best ener
gies of a lifetime to vanity and tn
rolitv. But, after all, what is this rage
for dres but an effort after the beauti
ful I The reason why the beautiful is
notalwavs the result is because bo
manv women are iguorant or merely
imitative. They have no sense of fit
ness: the short wear what belongs to
the tall, and brunettes sacribee their
natural beauty to look like blondes.
That which is inappropriate is uever
beautiful, no matter how fashionable,
but who does not know some woman
whose taste and training are so per
fect that fashion becomes to her a
means tf grace insteadof a despot so
that even the worst of fashions seems
to them but a chain of roses.
How numerous noover any man's ill
qualities are. it is just that he should
have doe praise for his few real virtues.
rORK-TOSC TED.
"Harry I" she gasped, in a strange,
harsh, cracked voice : and. aa T mttrtA
and looked up from my work, there was
my wife coming towards me, with her
arms stretched out, her eyes fixed, and
horrible, ghastly look upon her white
face, that made me drop my spade and
ran to meet her. I caught her just as
she was falling, when her eyes closed
and she gave a shiver that seemed to
snake ner whole body.
This was soon alter we had settled
ont in the nn eountrv. and thara
only another but Here and there in those
days; but, after years of knocking
"' uumo. trying to get an Honest
living and never succeeding, we had to
make our minds to try Australia, and
here we were, living in a log hut I had
knocked np for myself, shepherding,
and doing what little I could in the
shape of gardening ; for that being my
right trade, with all the beautiful rich
soil lying fallow, it did seem a sin to me
not to have a turn at it ; so, getting
what seeds I could from Sydney, and
adding to the few I had in my chest, I
managed to make quite a little Eden of
the bit of land I broke up around our
hut. We were not saving money, not
to any extent, but there was a roof over
onr heads, and no rent to pay, lots of
vegetables of our own planting, and not
costing anything, plenty of pork to do,
and, one sort and another, always plenty
to eat; so that after what we had gone
through in England, you may be sure
we were willing to put up with such in
conveniences as fell to our share, and
as a matter of course, there were things
to encounter out there in what some
people wonld call a wilderness, though
it was a wilderness that blossomed like
a rose. There were times when we were
in dread of the blacks, who had some
very queer things here and there about;
then the place was terribly lonely and
ont of the way if you wanted the doctor;
and Mary used to joke me because I
never could get a pint of beer, but I
found I could get on just as well with
out it, and, my word, what a capital
cup of tea we had out there.
Well, Mary came out to me that day
looking horribly ghastly that, being
naturally too fast at fancying troubles
in advance, I taw directly half a score
of blacks coming to spear us, and some
of them knocking out the children's
brains with their clubs and not the
first time either, but in a few moments
the poor girl opened her eyes, and be
gan to stare about her. There were no
blacks to be Been. Little Joe was sit
ting in the path playing, and, though I
looked along the edge of the wood be
hind the house. I could see no signs of
danger ; so I began to Bee she must
have been taken ill, and turned over in
my own mind how I should get and
help for her.
Just then her face grew contracted
again as her thoughts seemed to go
back, and gasping once more, "Harry,
Harry," she gave another shudder, and
said, "the baby a snake 1"
I could not see myself, but I know I
turned pale, all the blood seeming to
rush to my heart, for if there is any
thing of which I am afraid it is a snake,
even going so far as to dislike eels, of
which there were plenty in the river,
close at hand.
I don't know how we got there, but
the next thing I remember is standing
at the hut window, with Mary holdicg
little Joe tight in her arms, and me
looking through at the cradle where onr
little thing of nine months old was
lying ; sad my heart seemed to be
turning to ice as I saw nestled in the
foot of the cradle, partly hidden in the
blanket, but with some of its horrible
coils in full sight, and its head resting
upon them, the largest snake I had
seen since I had been in the country.
The feeling was something awful, and 1
stood there for a few moments leaning
upon the ronnd handle of the hoe I had
caught up not able to move, for my
eyes were fixed upon the head of that
hideous bc-ast, and I expected every
moment that the baby would wake and
make some movement sufficient to irri
tate the snake, and then I felt that the
little thing must die.
What should I do ? I asked myself
as the horrible feeling of helplessness
were off. If I crept in and reached the
cradle side unheard, I dared not chop
at the beast for fear of injuring the
child, for I could see that some of the
folds lay right across it I dared not
make a noise, less the next moment the
child should wake as well as the rep
tile, for I knew the rapidity with which
the reptiles could wreathe fold after
fold around the object they attacked ;
while if of a poisonous nature, they
strike in an instant Thoughts came
swiftly enough, bnt they were unavail
ing, for to wait till the baby woke, or
to go in and attack the snake, seemed
equally dangerous. .Even if I made a
slight noise the danger seemed as great,
since, though the snake might wake
first and glide off, the probabilities
were just as great that the child might
wake at the same time.
And so I turned over the chances
again and again, my eyes all the while
fixed upon the two sleeping occupants
of the cradle, whose pleasant warmth
had evidently attracted the reptile,
"I went in and saw it there," whis
pered my wife, and, then, without
taking my eyes for an instant from the
snake, I whispered the one word "Gun,"
and she glided from my side.
I did not know then, but she told me
afterwards, how she had carried the
little boy to a distance and given him
some flowers to play with, while she
crept back to the hut snd reaching in
at the kitchen window, brought me my
gun. for I had not stirred. And now,
as I grasped the piece in my hand,
knowing as I did that it was loaded, it
seemed of no use, for I dare not fire ;
but with trembling hands, I felt in my
pockets to see if there was a bullet in
them, and then softly pulling out the
ramrod, I unscrewed the cover of the
worm, drew the wadJing, reversed the
piece and let the shot fall pattering out,
when I softly forced down the bullet
upon the powder, examined the cap and
stood ready waiting for a chance ; for I
thought that the shot might have scat
tered, and if ever so little might have
injured the child instead of its enemy.
And there we stood for quite half an
hour, watching intently tuat horrible
beast completely nestled in the blanket,
expecting momentarily that the baby
would awake, while my hand trembled
so that I could not hold the gun steady.
One minute I was thinking that I had
done wrong in changing the charge, the
next minute that I was right then I
fancied the gun might miss fare, or that
I might slay my own child. A hundred
horrible thoughts entered my mind
before little Joe began to cry out to
his mother, and she glided away whi e
I muttered to myself, "Thank Heaven I
for she was spared from seeing what
followed. . .
As if at one and the same moment
the child and the snake woke up. I saw
the baby's hand move, and its little
arms throwa oat, while from the motion
beneath the blanket I knew that it must
have kicked a little. Then there was a
rapid movement in the cradle, and as I
glanced along the gun barrel, taking
aim, there was the whole of the horrible
reptile exposed to view, coil gliding on
coii, as it seemed to nn tne wnoie cra
dle ; had my gun been charged with
shot I should have fired, so as to have
disabled some parts of its body ; but
with only a single bullet, I felt that the
nead mnst be the part attacked when
opportunity offered.
Glide, glide, glide, one coil over
anotner quickly and easily, as it were
untying its knotted body, while now
the head elowlv rose from where it had
been lying, and crept nearer and nearer
to tne cnild s lace, the forked tongue
darting in and ont sod playing rapidly
on either aide of its hideous mouth. I
could see the glance of the snake's eyes,
snd expected every moment to hear the
little one shriek in terror, as the low
ered head rested over her breast But
no, the child lav perfectly still for a
few minutes, and then I stood trembling
in every limb as I ssw the snake's head
drawn back, and then begin to sway to
and fro, and from side to side, the glis
tening neck of the beast gently undu
lating whilst the tongue still darted in
and oat of the dreadful-looking mouth.
Now was the time when I should have
fired but I was too unnerved 1 and laying
down my gun, I seized my hoe, meaning
to attack the beast with its stout handle ;
but my hand fell paralyzed at my side
aa I saw the little one in the cradle
smile and laugh at the gently undulat
ing head of the snake ; while, as the
agony grew to be greater than I could
bear, in seeing the little white hands
try to catch at it aa it swsyed to and
fro, my powers seemed to come back.
I snatched up the gun, and as the
snake's head was drawn back prepara
tory to striking, I pulled the trigger,
when the sharp crack of the peroussion
cap alone followed perhaps providen
tially, for in my trembling state I might
have injured the child. Then I saw a
rapid wreathing of the coils in the cra
dle, and as the tail of the snake glided
over the aide, everything around me
seemed to swim, and I tried to catch at
the wall of the hut to save myself from
falling.
But that soon went off, and gazing in
at the window, I tried to make out the
whereabouts of my enemy, as I recapped
and tapped the gun, so that the powder
might ran np the nipple.
The snake was nowhere to be seen.
and darting in I seized the child, and
carried it out to its mother, when, now
feeling relieved of one horrible calamity,
I obtained my shot pouch from the
kitchen, rammed down a charge upon
the bullet, and cautiously went in search
of the reptile.
I knew he must still be in the part of
the hut we used for a sleeping place,
and after cautiously peering about, I
came upon the hole where it had taken
refuge an opening between the
roughly-sawn planks laid loosely down
to form a floor ; while, unless there was
an outlet beneath the woodwork, I felt
that the beast must be there ; and to
make it more probable, there was our
cat that we had bought a kitten in
Sydney, gazing with staring eyes down
at the hole.
Jut then I heard a soft rustling be
neath my feet snd as I looked down, I
could see between the two boards the
scaly body gliding along. The next
moment there came tne loud report ol
the gun, the place was full of smoke,
there was a loud scuffling noise, and as
1 looked down between the boards
where the charge had forced a passage
through, there was no sign of the snake.
"Harry, Harry 1" shrieked my wife
just tt hen ; and on rushing out there
was tne beast writhing about in tne
path, evidently badly wounded, while
some crushed down flowers by the hut
wall showed plainly the pole of commu
nication. I never saw snake writhe and
twist as that creature did, but I was too
excited then to feel afraid, and a few
blows from the butt-end of my gun laid
it so that there was only a little move
ment left in its body, which did not
stop for an hcur or two after I had cut
off its head with an axe,
I should have liked to skin the boast,
but I could not master my horror. 1
measured it though ; fourteen feet three
inches long it was, snd as thick as my
arm ; while as to its weight I saw the
cradle rock to and fro heavily as it
glided over the side.
Snakes are scarce now in these parts ;
for there isn't a man in Queensland thai
does not wsge war against them, and
where there was one settler then, there
are scores now. Cattell'i Magazine.
The Clepsydra 1st Renae.
It is not very often in these progres
sive days that we find the ancient
methods of measuring time in actual
employment The sun dial, it is true,
occasionally serves as an ornament
to some country lawn, but little depen
dence is placed on its slowly creeping
shadows. The honr glass has disap
peared from the pulpits of parsons; for
twenty minute sermons, instead of
many-headed dissertations prolonged
through hours, are now sufficient for
the spiritual needs of their flocks. The
divided candle exists only in history,
and is linked with the story of good
King Alfred. But the water clock re
mains; not in this country, to be sure,
but where it was used a thousand years
ago. Julius, Csesar, tradition tells us,
found by its aid that the summer nights
in Britain are not the same length as
those in Italy. Cicero relates that the
length of speeches made by Senators
was regulated by clepsydrae sept in the
Senate Chamber; and the same parlia
mentary practice, which now holds in
our own parliamentary halls, of a mem
ber yielding the floor for a certain num
ber of minutes of his time to another
speaker then existed, for a grave Sena
tor often gave so much of the water as
remained in his clepsydra to a colleague
who was thus enabled to obtain a lon
ger or an extra water time for his
speech than would have been otherwise
at his command. If a legislator in those
days, however, was interrupted by ab
surd questions something after the
fashion which occasionally appear
when our learned representatives in
dulge in discussions on patents or was
embarrassed by the somnolent habits of
his associates during a long-winded
speech, he did not ask permission to
have the latter printed and distributed
at the country's expense, but simply
stopped the flow both of his water clock
and his rhetoric, and calmly waited till
the house became ready to listen to his
further remarks. The clepsydra of
antiquity, in fact, while really a very
useful and ingenious invention, of
course was very crude in form, and of
not of very nice construction. The
clock stands in a pond in the Pincio,
the latter being a very elegant public
park, located on the summit of the Pin
cian Hill, one of the famous seven emi
nences on which Borne is built The
grounds are a favorite resort for the
people, and serve the same purpose
to the city that Central Park or Fair
mount Park does to New York or Phil
adelphia. The apparatus, in its present form, is
the invention of Padre Embriaco, a Do
minican monk, and from the pages of
Vllhixlrazionr, a new illustrated weekly
published in Home a significant fact,
by the way, of the influence toward pro
gress exerted by the new regime in Italy
we take the following brief descrip
tion: The water is led by pipes to a reser
voir in which a constant level is main
tained, and from an orifice iu which the
stream escapes into a receptacle divided
into two compartments. iielow tne
hitter is an arrangement in the form of
an anchor, the curved portion of the
latter serving as a rocker on which the
divided receptacle vibrates. 1 his oscil
lation takes place under the entering
stream; so that when one compartment
is carried down by the weight of water
within, the second is raised to receive
its supply. A pendulum, beating sec
onds, is suspended from two springs.
parallel to and equidistant from the
resting point of the rocker, and reeu
lates the movement of the receiver. The
springs are prolonged in the direction
of tangents to the curve of the anchor
arms and maintain the pendulum in
motion with a constant force, so that
each oscillation of the latter corres
ponds to one of the rocker and of the
receiver. The water from the latter
falls upon balanced mechanism, which
is so constructed as to oscillate every
second minute, and to transmit motion
to a suitable train of wheels, which
move the hands upon one or more dials
in the usual way.
The sounding apparatus consists in a
cylindrical reservoir, which is suspended
by chains to the axis of a wheel and is
arranged to empty itself every fifteen
minutes. Its weight turns the wheel,
and thus sounds the hours and the
quarters. Water is carried to the res
ervoir when empty, by a simple siphon
arrangement.
The case of the clock is of cast iron,
made in a handsome rustic design, in
excellent keeping with the general sur
roundings. e should imagine our in
ventors could easily devise a simple
form of similar apparatus, which,
mounted in some appropriate casting
from the iron founders who make that
class of work a specialty, would form
an elegant and useful ornament to
either private or public pleasure
grounds.
Depth of Lake Champlala.
The United States Coast Survey of
that portion of Lake Champlain lying
between Burlington Harbor and
Bonse's Point is now completed. The
results of this work are embodied in
three elegant lithographed charts, a set
of which has recently been forwarded
to the Trustees of the Plattaburgh
Academy. One of the most striking
and to citizens of Plattsburgh inter
esting features of this survey is the de
termining of the depth ot water in
Cumberland Bay. Inside of a line
drawn from the point of Cumberland
Head to Crab Island, and thence direct
to the main land, the greatest depth is
less than 60 feet, and at no point for
two miles south of Plattsburgh dock is
a greater depth than 20 feet found, at a
distance of 80 rods from the shore.
The greatest depth between the dock
and breakwater is 13 feet; in the vicin
ity of the Oakes Ames slip it is 9 feet,
while inside a line drawn from that
point across to the Nichols' place on
the "Point" the depth is only from lj
to 3 feet Dredgings around the mar
gin of the bay reveal the fact that there
are immense deposits of sawdust mixed
with fine white sand, and this is un
questionably the main cause of the
gradual reduction in the depth of
water, which we know is constantly
going on. Very near the east shore of
Cumberland Head the depth of water
increases abruptly, .showing a deep
channel between the main land and
South Hero the deepest soundings
being 193 feet, about midway and on a
line from "Wilcox Cove" on the Island
to "Gravelly Point" on the main land,
while in a direct line from the Cumber
land Head liht-house to Gordon's
dock, the depth for four-fifths of the
distance is 1G2 feet From the south
end of Isle La Motte to Rouse's Point
the deepest place is 67 feet between
"Horse Shoe Shag" and east side of
Isle La Motte, and the greatest depth
between "Catfish Point" and Fort
Montgomery is 23 feet just north of
the railroad bridge and a short distance
east of "Old House's Point" about
one-fourth of the distance across. The
deepest soundings in the "Broad Lake"
seems to be 333 feet ' several points
opposite Burlington and near Colches
ter Reef, just south of the light-house.
Offlremblean Point the water sinks
abruptly to a depth of from 65 to 122
feet, and very near Port Kent dock a
depth of over 100 feet was found. The
shallowest sounding near the southwest
point of Valcour Island is given as 31
feet It was in this vicinity that the
"Royal Savage" was sunk almost a cen
tury ago, and the impression has pre
vailed that the water here was much
shallower. These charts embody a
great amount of usefal information.
Lacustrine Dwellings la Ger
many. The remains of ancient habitations
raised on poles are of rare occurrence in
Germany, and hence the discovery last
year of the debris of such structures in
the bed of the river Elster, near Leipsic,
awakened a lively interest. The dis
covery was made by Ilerr Jentzch, of
the Geological Institute of Austria.
The order of the visible strata at this
point is as follows: At the base is found
a hirer of sandstone, on this a lacus
trine clay. Both of tliese belong to the
upper portions of the quarternary rock.
In the clay are two beds containing the
remains of plants, and among these are
found leaves of the willow and oak.
fruit of the .doer, and sundry other veg
etal fragments. Above these occurs a
layer of roots some inches in depth,
which shows that the surface of the soil
remained at this level for a considerable
period. The upiwrmost layer, two to
three metres thick, was produced by an
inundation. The piles discovered by
Jentzsch in the bed of the Elster are set
in the clay and covered over with this
silt Tliey are arranged in circles, with
their lower ends pointed, and their
upper extremities connected by horizon
tal ties of oak. Among the animal re
mains found here are the lower jaw of
an ox, with its teeth, stags' heads, the
lone bones of some mammal yet unde
termined, and shells of the unto and
anonda. No traces of human remains
have been found, though fragments of
pottery and charcoal are met with; also,
two stone hatchets.
A lady ws wishing she had some
t'ling to read that would be new to her.
"Take vour Bible, mother." said her
daughter.
Proverbs anel Mottoes of Shaltsv-
peare.
There is no virtue like necessity.
Courage mounteth with occasion.
He tires betimes, that spurs too fast
betimes.
Small showers last long, but sudden
storms are short
With eager feeding, food doth choke
the feeder.
Though death be poor, it ends a mor
tal woe.
The ripest fruit falls first
Out of this nettle danger, we pluck
the flower safety.
No word like "pardon," for kings
months so meet
Tell truth and shame the devil.
Oxen at a stall are better cherished,
still the nearer death.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown.
A man can die bat once, we owe God
a death.
He that dies this year is quiet for
the next
The first bringer of unwelcome news
hath but a losing office.
Grief is proud and makes his owner
stoop. j
When law can do no right, let it be j
lawful that law bar no wrong-
Oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
makes ill deeds done.
Most subject is the fattest soil to
weeds.
Wise hearing or ignorant carriage is
caught, as men take diseases, one of
another ; therefore let men take heed
of their company.
How ill white hairs become a fool
and jester.
There is some soul of goodness in
things evil, would men observing distil
it out
Nice customs curt'sey to great kings.
A crafty knsve does need no broker.
Thrice is he armed that hath his
quarrel just
It is a great sin to swear unto a sin,
but greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
The thief doth fear each bush an
officer.
The bird that hath been limed in a
busb, with trembling wings misdoubteth
every bush.
Small herbs have grace, great weeds
do grow apace.
Two may keep counsel, putting one
away.
What must be shall be.
He that is robbed, not wanting what
is stolen, let him not know't, and he's
not robbed at all.
They laugh that win.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove
unkind.
A knavish speech sleeps in a foolkh
ear.
Who covers faults, at last with shame
derides.
Anger hath a license.
Love reasons without reason.
Yon cannot make gross sins look
clear.
To revenge is no valor, bnt to bear.
He's truly valiant that can wisely
suffer.
The learned pate ducks to the golden '
rooL
When beggars die there are no comets
seen.
Cowards die many times before their
deaths ; the valiant never taste of death
but once.
As fire drives out fire, so pity, pity.
The evil that men do, lives after them,
the good is oft interred with their
bones.
Some that smile have in'their hearts
millions of mischief.
There are no tricks in plain and sim
ple faith.
There's beggary in the love that can
be reckoned.
Every time serves for the matter that
is then born in it
Some innocents escape not the thun
derbolt Tis better playing with a lion's whelp
than with an old one dying.
He that will have a cake out of the
wheat, must needs tarry the grinding.
In the reproof of chance Lea the true
proof of men.
'Tis mad idolatry to make the service
greater than the God.
The amity that wisdom knits not,
folly may easily untie.
He that is proud eats up himself.
Fear makes devils of cherubims.
To fear the worst oft cures the worst
To be wise and love exceeds man's
might
Perseverance keeps honor bright
One touch of nature makes the whole
world kin.
Those wounds heal ill that men do
give themselves.
The end crowns J1.
Thanks, to men of noble minds, is
honorable meed.
The raven doth not hatch a lark.
Few love to hear the sins they love
to act
Tis time to fear when tyrants seem
to kiss.
Home-keeping youths have ever
homely wits.
They do not love that do not show
their love.
Truth hath better deeds than words
to grace it
Timd is the nurse and breeder of all
good.
Use doth breed a habit iu a man.
Sometimes we are devils to ourselves.
Sancho
To be Carried In Yonr Pocket.
Keep good company or none. Never
be idle. If yonr hand cannot be use
fully employed, attend to the cultivation
of your mind. Always speak the truth.
Make few promises. Live up to your
engagements. Keep yonr own secrets,
if you have any. When you speak to a
person look him in the face. Good
company and good conversation are the
very sinews of virtue. Good character
is above all things else. Your character
cannot be essentially injured, except by
your own acts. If any one speaks evil
of you, let yonr life be snch that no one
will believe him. Drink no kind of
intoxicating liquors. Ever live (mis
fortune excepted) within your income.
When you retire to bed, think over what
yon have been doing during the day.
Make no haste to be rich, if you would
prosper. Small and steady gains give
competency, with tranquility of mind.
Never play at any game of chance.
Avoid temptation through the fear you
may not withstand it Earn money
before yon spend it Never run into
debt unless you can see your way to get
out of it N ever borrow if you can pos
sibly avoid it Da not marry nntil you
are able to support a wife. Never speak
evil of anv one. Ba iust before you are
generous. Keep yourself innocent, if ;
yon would be nappy, save wnen you
are young, that you may spend when
yon are old. Read over the above
mtTima at least once a week.
Every man mnst be alone in the
world. No heart was ever cast in the
same mold as that which we bear within
Animal nitrations.
A correspondent of the Popular Sci
ence Monthly, writing from Colorado,
says that grasshoppers (locusts) migrate
solely on account of an enemy a dip
terous insect much resembling the
house fly, but larger, quicker and gray
ish in color, owing to the white hairs at
the edges of the articulations. This in
sect deposits its eggs in the upper p.-rt
of the locust's abdomen, when the lat
ter is resting on the ground, as it can
not do so when flying. Its favorite
moment of attack is just as the locust
alights from a flight or a hop. In a few
days the larva or maggot is about a
quarter ot an inch in length. Soon the
locust dies, when the larva eats its way
out and burrows in the ground for
transformation. Sometimes four of
these larva; will be found in one locust
I first noticed this in the summer of
1871. In 1872, when a flight of locusts
began to arrive, the fly destroyed nearly
all that came during the first two weeks
or until cool nights seemed to stop its
multiplication. In 1873 1 had an un
usually fine opportunity to observe the
locusts as they hatched in incredible
numbers upou my farm and devoured
my crops. During the whole summer
the fly left the locusts no quiet, but
drove them to most desperate straits to
avoid the attacks; so that as soon as
the locusts acquired wings they flew
away that is, what were left of them,
for I estimate that not one 'in fifty es
caped death. In places where the irri
gating ditches prevented them from
crawling forward, they were piled two
and three inches deep. The ground
during the cool of the day would be
dotted with white maggots crawling off
to find burrows. The locusts did not
leave on account of famine, for there
were ample fields of grain and other
crops untouched; and they would some
times abandon a field when only slightly
eaten, .besides. I nave seen the swarm
floating all day in the air when still,
and constantly alighting and arising, as
hunger impelled from above, or the fly
from belo. I do not find this fly men
tioned in Tenney's work on "Entomol
ogy." If comparatively new, there is
hope that it will work the destruction
of the locusts. I also believe the latter
can b readily destroyed by the com
bined efforts of man, as they hatch in
exceedingly small areas.
The prairie dog ( Cynmnes ludovicianus)
is migratory, although it moves slowly,
accomplishing hardly more than half a
mile a year. Apparently, their object
is to obtain fresh food, for they eat root
and branch as they go. The leaders
are, invariably, the young, who are
constantly driven out by their more
mature and powerful brethren. Their
vacated holes are occupied by owls and
rattle snakes, but whether these prove
enemies or not I do not know.
I strongly suspect that the cause of
migration in the lemmings is the para
sites which infest their bodies. These,
after a few years, increase to such num
bers as to be unendurable; then the
lemmings set out and are never knwn
to return until they have overcome tneir
enemies in me uirhi.
Ancient Athenians.
The Athenians of old were a light and
fickle people, constantly seeking after
new things, and soon tired of the old,
and much disposed to make novelty.the
standard of merit A winning cause, in
their eyes, seemed generally a just
cause which very highly commended
itself to Athenian favor. And this was
never more the case than at the time
when the power of Philip seemed broad
ening to imperial dimensions, and all
efforts to check him vain. So we can
easily imagine how strong a feeling
there was at Athens, after the defeat of
Cbseronea, in favor of abandoning dead
issues, overcoming all prejudices, and
learning that broad national patriotism
which, flinging to the winds the tradi
tions and sentiments of the past, would
merge Athenian, Theban, Spartan au
tonomy into one grand Greek empire.
But though neither patriotism, pride,
love of liberty, nor wisdom was
left to the Athenians, one virtue
they still had reverence for their
forefathers and love for their
memory. And they had, more
over, among them one man in whose
breast the flame of trne patriotism and
love of liberty burned as brightly as it
ever had done in the days of Miltiades;
and he dated,in words that have echoed
down to our own times, to tell his coun
trymen the truth. He told them that
success was no measure of justice; that
there was something greater than suc
cess, and that was Duty. He told them
that they had done right in fighting for
their freedom, though their dead cov
ered the fatal field of Cbsronea, and
the shadow of the Macedonian sarissa
already lay black over the Acropolis.
"No," cried he, in that fiery burst that
thrills us to this day, "you did not err
you did not err, Athenians, in taking
this great hazard for the liberty of yonr
country no, I swear it by those who
fell at Marathon "
Power of Prejudice.
A gentleman was one day stoutly
asserting that there were no gold fields
except in Mexico and Peru. A nugget
dug up in California, was presented to
him as evidence against his positive
assertion. He was not in the least dis
concerted. "This metal, sir, I own, is
extremely like gold; and, yon tell me,
that it passes as such in the market,
having been declared by the assayers to
be indistinguishable from the precious
metal. All this 1 will not dispute.
Nevertheless, the metal is not gold, bnt
auruminium; it cannot be gol d , because
gold comes only from Mexico and
Peru." In vain was he informed that
the geological formation was similar in
California and Peru, and the metals
similar; he had fixed fn his mind the
conclusion that gold existed only in
Mexico and Pern; this was a law of na
ture he had no reason to give why it
should be so, bnt such had been the
admitted fact for many years, and from
it he could not swerve.
Keep the Children Warm.
Dr. Brown-Sequard, in a lecture at
Boston the other night said: "The
application of heat to children is ex
ceedingly useful to help their develop
ment. If the air they breathe is cool,
and heat is applied to their limbs, but
not so much to the body, they certainly
grow faster. There is no question that
in northern climes, children who are
not well clad, and are not well cared
for, in regard to the heat surrounding
their body, do not grow so well as child
ren who are submitted to the influence
of heat There is one thing which in
this country especially is most hurtful
an(1 dangerous, and that is heat applied
to the lungs. It is perfectly well known
that the mortality of children in this
country is enormous in the summer
months, and that chiefly through the in
fluence of heat on the lungs and on the
belly. Digestion and respiration are
disturbed, and death comes, as yon know
too frequently. More care could easily
be obtained in that respect"
Youths Column.
Ths Dog asd thi Bkkf tea. Did
you ever hear of a dog that tried his
paw at nnrsing? I have a true story
for you of one named Plato that, while
his mistress was sick, busied himself
about almost everything, up stairs and
down, as if he thought nothing would
be done just right without bis superin
tendence. One morning he watched the lady's
mother making beef-tea ; he noticed
the whole process, from putting the
beef into the saucepan to dishing the
hot savory soup with slices of toast
The meat was given to him, and this
part of the proceeding he did not un
derstand. He would have been glad to
eat it if he had felt satisfied that all was
right ; but holding his appetite in con
trol, he sat looking at the meat as if
considering, and after awhile concluded
that the patient would be cheated out
of the best part of the affair unless he
concerned himself to see that justice
was done.
With a self-denial worthy of imita
tion, ho watched for an opportunity,
and as soon as possible carried the beef
in his mouth up stairs and into the
lady's room. She was asleep ; and
jumping on the bed so lightly as not to
wake her, he laid the moist ragged
morsel on the sheet close to her face.
But this was not enough. He thought
there was still danger that she might be
robbed of it so he stationed himself at
the door to bar out intruders.
Soon some one tried to enter. "Woof !
woof 1" said Pluto, in such tones of de
termination that he woke the lady. She
happened to put out her hand, touched
the meat and screamed with fright.
Pluto was laughed at, but loved the
more for his self-denying though mis
taken kindness.
Ths WbrVs Reorrra. It was on
morning early in the spring, a few years
ago, that we heard an unusual twitter
ing outside our bedroom window, above
which is a deep thatch. On looking up.
we saw two curious festoons hanging
from it. apparently in motion. It was.
in fact, two half circles, composed of
little wrens clinging to each other by
foot and wing, to the number of twenty
or thirty. Tney clung together thus
for the space of about two minutes. It
might be more or less ; for as we did
not mark the tlms by a watch, I could
not with certainty say now. They twit
tered mournfully all the while, so dif
ferent to their usual joyous little song,
then saddenly, as if by one consent
they in a moment broke loose and flew
away. On descending shortly after
ward we found a dead wren lying just
under the window over which these
festoons or wrens had been hanging a
few minutes before. It looked as if
these affectionate little creatures had
been singing a dirge over their dead
friend below at least we could think of
no physical cause for the unusual ap
pearance. From that time the wrens
deserted that locality for more than two
years. On speaking of this to one who
had made natural history his study, he
told me it was called the '-Wren's re
quiem," and was an established fact
though very rarely seen. Possibly some
one of our older readers may be able to
throw light on the subject
Masked Poets. L
Far-reaching, continued through time
or space ;
And the part of a wheel in the outmost
place.
A flat thin fish, that is nearly round :
And an animal, chased with horse and
hound.
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Of a thing, the tinniest, smallest bit ;
And a row, with one over or under it
IV.
The musical call of the gentle kine ;
And a measure for measuring fabrics
fine.
V.
To believe, or trust, or suppose, or
think:
And a path o'er a stream, from brink to
brink.
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A royal laurel with just three feet ;
And a man who works with a goose s
hett
Six men of our land, of the poet-kind ;
Yon must guess off their masks, their
names to find.
Answer : Long-iellow (felloe) ; Bret
Harte; Whit-tier; Low-ell; Trow
bridge ; Bay-yard (Bayard) Taylor.
Good Advick. A good rule is never
to be certain nntil you know, and then
stick to it It is told of an uncertain
boy, who in school was called upon to
do an example upon the black-board.
After he had begun, the teacher cried
out "No !" and the boy stopped and
begun again. After he proceeded a
little way, the teacher again exclaimed.
"So I and the boy stopped, and was
ordered to sit down. Another boy got '
up. He begun, and alter a lew ngures
were made, the teacher cried out, "No !"
"Yes !" said the boy, and went on and
finished the solution. "Why, that's the
way I was doing it," whined the first
boy to the teacher. "Just so," replied
ths teacher, but yon were not certain
that you were right Yon never have
thoroughly learned your lesson, until
you are certain that you have it Unless
yon are certain, yon had best go and
study it all over again.
This is the true way to learn, lie
certain of every thing, as far as you go.
and then if somebody says "no 1" you
can say "yes," and prove that yon are
right afterwards.
Word Sqcabz. A trench.
A territory.
A candle.
A game.
An animal.
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A Svilk. Nothing on earth can smile
but human beings. Gems may flash
reflected light hut what is a diamond
flash compared with an eye flash ? A
face that cinnot smile is like a bud that
cannot blossom, and dries up at the
stalk. Laughter is day, and sobriety
is night and a smile is the twilight that
hovers gently between both, and more
bewitching than either.
Self-renunciation is not surrender flto character, etc, before they are ad
will. The will is never so strong as in j miited, and they obligate themselves to
giving up, for principle and the common obey all orders of the executive earn
weal, self-interest or sensual delight mittee. Any lady wishing an escort has
only to apply to the president of the
Because fourteen persons said a fifty ! society, naming the evening, and a
cent scrip picked np on the floor of a ! yonng man is detailed for the purpose.
Detroit horse-car was theirs, the eon- j As soon as a yonng man becomes en
due tor coolly settled the matter by put- j gaged he muat withdraw from the or
ting the money in his own pocket I ganization.
arieties.
He who saves in little things can be
liberal in great ones.
There is no joy like that which springs
from a kind act or a pleasant word.
True goodness is like the glow-worms
it shine most when no eyes except
those ot Heaven are upon it
There were 4,116,730 bu-hels of salt
produced last year in Michigan, being
000,000 more than in the previous one.
The Dubuque people, after a good
deaj of wrangling, have decided that
society has no reason to look down upon
a woLaan because she wears mnskrat
furs.
Experiments are being made by an
English railroad company to ascertain
whether steel tubes can profitably re
place those of copper and brass in loco
motives. The reputation of a man is like his
shadow; it sometimes follows and some-
time8 precedes him; it is sometimes
longer and sometimes shorter than his
natural size.
A Pennsylvania couple lately had the
bad taste to be married in a graveyard.
This festive incident caused the worst
pun we ever heard ; for some wretch
said : "But then, you know, it's ceme
teriaL" Immaterial, indeed 1
The maximum cost of transporting
railway freight last year, between New
York and Chicago, was 7 mills per ton
per mile. The total cost of moving
freight by canal (horse power being
used It towage) is 5 mills per tnn per
mile.
EIv Chanel. EIv dam. London a
building cf much historical interest
was sold recently by an order of the
High Court of Chancery. It brought
5.250, and was bought op behalf of a
gentleman who intends to preserve it
aa a chapeL
During the past ten years, the screw
has entirely replaced the paddla in
transatlantic navigation, the weight of
murine engines has diminished one
half, the steam pressure has quadru
pled, and the consumption of coal has
decreased two thirds.
The young ladies who k.ve taken to
jumping for prizes will finu it a health
ful, if not graceful, exercise ; but they
must be careful to avoid the damp
ground, or they may be attacked wit 'a
the jumping toothache.
Screws of all ordinary sizes are now
made in England by rolling bars of
heated iron between two peculiarly
grooved plates. Two boys with one
machine are able to make 29 ewt of
fish bolts for railways, by this process,
in nine hours.
The oldest stove, probably, in the
United States is that which la still in
u-e at the Capitol in Richmond, Ya. It
was made in England in 1770, and was
60 ysars in the House of Burgesses in
Virginia before it was removed to the
Capitol, where it has been for 30 years.
The editor of a new paper recently
started in Nebraska, gives a very good
reason for doing so in his "salutatory,"
as follows: "The object in view in the
establishment of this paper is procuring
of means wherewith to buv bread and
butter, and good clothes." Such a can
did admission probably will not go un
rewarded, and the means employed, if
properly directed, doubtless will bring
forth the object in view.
The Rev. Dr. Porteous, in a lecture
on humor, tells us that "the ancients
knew how to laugh and the benefits of
laughing. The world has had so much
divinity in the last twenty years that it
now wants more wit, more cheerfulness,
to give a silver lining to the dark
cloud." He thinks that we Amerioana
are "saturated with humor and cannot
help ourselves ;" but that our wits
are not capable of seriousness.
The water colors of the present Lon
don exhibition consist mainly, accord
ins: to the Spectator, of "sunny glimpaaa
of green fields and flowery brook aides ;
stretches of breezy moorland ; wave
washed beaches, and sea-girt cliffs ; re
minders, in short, of pleasant summer
sojourns or wandering, or generally of
lite beyocd brick walls and smoky
streets; some freili flower-studies to
afford spots of gay color, and a few
nicely-painted heads or rustic figures to
give variety."
The following touching little story is
told by a correspondent of the Port
Jervis Gazette: "An old hunter told me
be once was back in tLe monntains,
manyyeara ago, chopping. That day
a fawn ran up and lay down terribly
frightened at his feet. He grabbed his
rille, for he heard the powerful springs
of a catamount coming. It was in pur
suit of the little fawn at his feet He
fired and killed the animal, when the
little deer rose, left for the forest He
said he never afterwards wanted to
shoot a fawn, that one having placed so
much confidence in him."
Statisticians,
relying on figures that
never lie, give
man one year of mar-
ried felicity before he dies, is divorced.
or consigned to a lunatic asylum. These
not too generous statistical opportuni
ties have been grossly and ungallantly
neglected. Garrett J. Banta, a middle
aged man of New Jersey, married the
lady of his choice on Saturday, made
his will on the day following, and hung
himself on Monday morning, thus inti
mating to the world in general and his
wife in particular that two days' experi
ence of that sort of thing was enough
for any able-bodied New Jersey man.
Mr. Banta's pedagogue had evidently
failed to teach him ordinary politeness.
Dr. Nicholas Belleville, the famous
French physician who nettled in Tren
ton, New Jersey, in 1778, was a keen
observer, and generally spoke to the
point although be was a trifle profane.
In lecturing before a class of students,
he would sometimes wind up with this
remark: "If you have patients of good
sense and they need no medicine, only
advice, explain the matter to them, but
if you are treating d d fools give them
bread pills." But few of the physicians
of the present day act upon this sensi
ble advice. The majority try to make
their patients believe that they are
much sicker than they are, for the
greater the cure or rather the apparent
cure, the more startling the bill.
A number of highly respectable and
strictly moral young gentlemen of St
Louis have organized an association, to
be known as the "gallants' club," the
object ot which is to furnish young
ladies who have no regular beaux an
escort to church, concert lectures and
places of amusement. All members
k.M , nn,l.nm i m jtxAminatinfi aa
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