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B. F. SCHWEIER, . THE C0S3TITUTI0N THE CHIOS AHD THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Propria.
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VOL. XXVIII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., SEPTEMBER 30, 1874. NO. 39.
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Poetry.
CillLTY OK -OT UlILTV.
.She stood at Uie bar of justice,
A creature wan and wild.
In form too email for a woman.
In features too old for a child;
I'nr a look ho worn and pathetic
Was stamped on her pale. Tonng fare.
It Kwmed long year of anffering
Mast have left that silent trace.
"Your name." said the Judge, as he eyed her
With kindly look, vet keen,
"In"' "Mary McOuire, if yon please, sir,"
"And vonr age ?" "I am turned fifteen."
"Well Mary," and then from a paper
He slowly and gravely read,
'You're charged here, I am sorry to aay it,
With stealing three loaves of bread.
"You look not like an offender.
And I hope that you can show
The charge to be false. Sow, toll me
Are you guilty of this, or no ':"
A passionate burst of weeping
Was at first the sole reply,
ISnt nhe dried her eyes in a moment.
And looked in the judge's eye.
1 wm leu you how it was. sir :
My father and mother are dead.
And my little brothers and sisters
Were hungry and asked me for bread.
At first I earned it for them
Iiy working hard all day. , ,
But somehow times wore hard, sir.
And the work all fell away.
"I could get no more employment ;
The weather was bitter cold.
The young ones cried and shivered '
(Little Johnny's but four years old)
So what was I to do, sir ?
I am guilty, but do not condemn,
I took oh, was it stealiug ?
The bread to give to them."
Every man in the court-room
Gray beard and thoughtless youth
Knew, a he looked UKn her.
That the prisoner soke the truth.
Out from their pekketo came kerchii fs.
Out from their eyes sprung tears.
And out from old faded wallets
Treasures hoarded for years.
The judge's face was a study
The strangest you ever saw.
As he cleared his throat and mnrsaurod
Something about the law;
For one so learned in such matters
So wise in dvaiing with men.
He seemetl, on a simple question.
Sorely puzzled just then.
l!ut no one blaml him or wondered.
When at Ia-st, these words they heard :
'-The sentence of this young prisoner
Is. for the present, deferred !"
And no one blamed him or woudercd
When lie went to her and smiled.
And tenderly led from the court -room
Mary, the guilty" chiM.
nrious t'ns of Ilydropliobi
A medical 111:111 recently died ill
tlio
mis Maison Miinii-ipulc dc Saute of
14. itiftt itiifbiiililj'il nii'iinitmiw of ru
tl
bies. Dr. Fcreol. who hail the man
agement of tlu case, gives the : follow
in? summary: An individual enjoy
ing perfect health, temperate in liis
habits, ami with no hereditary propen
sity to insanity, is seized, after hit Mir
ing under low spirits for :i few days
it It lit of rallies w hich carry Liui oil'
in three days. On a post mortem ex
amination the lesions usually observed
in eases of iiylriltoliia were foil ml.
Two years and a lialf before tlie outset
of the fearful disease which destroyed
him iu so short a time, the patient had
Is i'Ti bitten lv a bitch which was in a
raliid state. The animal was examined
after death by a veterinary surgeon,
who certilied to the existence of rabies.
It should, moreover, lie observed that
the bitch.at the time she liecame rabid,
w as suckling a pup, which died hydro
phobic three weeks after the mother.
Sir. Fereol, under whose care the pa
tient died, lias sent an elaliorate essay
to the Academy of Medicine on the
ease. A lively and instructive discus
sion is expi-cted. The essay concludes
with the following deductions: 1 The
incubation of rabies, -which is mostly
limited within the first two months
after inoculation, may exceptionally
last much longer, and may reach eigh
teen mouths or even two years and a
half. 2 The symptoms of the disease
are generally of a uniform description,
but thev may assume various aspects
uuder "the influence of numerous
agents, as insanity, alcoholism, hys
teria, &c. There are, however, certain
signs such as spasm of the. glottis a
peculiar mode of sputation and the
symptom known under the name of
aerophobia, which lielong especially to
rabies, and which allow of the. diag
nosis of the disease, although accom
panied by the hlKive-named complica
tions. 3. Idiopathic or imaginary
rabies, which is "t generally fatal,
may cud in death; .in such case the
symptoms will yieW sullicient reasons
for holdiuir that actual rabies did not
exist. 4. The bronchial spunia with
rabid patients plays an iuijiortaut part
iu the phenomenon of sputatiou; and
it may be safely affirmed that the prin
cipal symptoms aa.well as the. princi
pal lesions of rabies in the liumaa sub
ject, are concentrated upon the func
tion of respiration. The characters of
the breathing distinguish rabid hydro
phobia from the cases of hydrophobia
deiK iidiug 011 a non-viruleirt cause
A Dumb Dialogue.
It wrenchesone badly to step on the
wrong chair, but few can help laughing
at the awful stride he makes. It is
equally fanny to see a man meet the
wrong "customer," and go to talking
and gesticulating at him as if he was
somebody else.
Jones went to the deaf . and dumb
asylum the other day to inspect the in
stitution. Upon entering he encountered
a man, evidently an inmate, and he at
once endeavoured to explain to the
man by making signs upon his fingers
that he wanted to look throngh the
place: The man also made signs, which
Jones could not comprehend. Then
Jones made other and more elaborate
motions, which set the man at work
with great violence, and for the next ten
minutes they stood in the hall gesticu
lating and twisting their fingers, with
ont being able to comprehend what the
other meant. Finally Jones became
angry, and in aa outburst of wrath ex-,
claimed :
"Oh, get ont, you idiot ! I'm tired of
bothering with you." ,
Whereupon the mm said. ?'That s
nst what I was going to say to yon."
D, you can speak, can yon ? Then
why didn't yon do sd, and not keep me
standing motioning to yon? I thonght
yon were deaf and dumb." ' m
"I came here to inspect the asylum,
said Jones, "and I took you for a
patient" ' , , T
"That's what I came here for, and 1
thonght you were an attendant, said
the man. , , ,
Here Jones and the man shook hands,
and hunted np a gennine attendant and
went away happy. After this Jones will
always use his tongue, no matter where
he in. Youth' Comjxinion.
robim noon. -
' Bia Hood la th frees wood stood."
. OA Ballad.
BY ABTBXB OIT.MAX.
The question has been asked by many
a sober old man and by many a lively
ooy: -via i.ODin Hood ever live?
Staid historians have taken sides on
the question and long essays have been
written to prove both that Robin lived
and that he did not live. I shall not
express my opinion very exactly, for I
am not very sure. It is so charming to
tl ink of the gay -and exciting scenes
that we read of as real, that I like to
believe that Robin Hood ranged the
great forests and shot his "gray goose
wings" at harts and does, that he really
once flitted about among the sturdy
English oaks and the graceful English
vines, dressed in a suit of "Lincoln
green," and wielding a stout qnarter
stafT that was longer than he was tall.
I say I like to believe that these
things were true ; but, when I come to
stndy into the matter, I am obliged to
confess that it is very hard to prove
that they were. And yet I think most
ordinary English countrymen believe
! that ltobin Hood is as real a character
of history as Richard Craur de Lion or
George the Fourth. They have sung
the ballads that tell how he fought
with the tanner and was beaten, how lie
was tumbled from the bridge by stout
Little John, and they have seen; per
haps, the place in Yorkshire where he
is said to have been buried. I say they
have sung and seen these things ; and
I might say, too, that their fathers and
grandfathers and great-grandfathers
have done the same, for hnndreds of
years. . ... .
- And yet it is doubtful ii Robin Hood
ever lived I
There would be no trouble about the
matter if we could only believe what
ballads say. for one of them tells ns
very plainly.
"In LirkHleT town, in merry Nottingham shire.
In merry. weet loekfley towu.
There l.ilii Kobtn M-mm1 he was born and was bred
Hold KoUm of famous reuowu."
I think, however, that this may be onh
a story, made to amuse and interest
those who .sung it ; for we are told in
another ballad that bis father was a
forrpster. vhn rnnl1 flpnil An arrow
irum ins strong oow ' iwo nines ami biwHa nroved to be a
iucu, wuicu is oeyonu uenei. xjcsiijw.'rilin and said
it is too exact, for no one would Mr
the man who said lie had caught ninety
nine fish, and who, upon being asked
why he did not say one hundred, said
he would not tell a lie for one fish.
However, the ballads say that ltobin
Hood bved ; but they do not agree as
to when it was. Some say that it was
at about 1150, and others at about 1300
or later. We learn from history that in
the year 1066 a bold Northman, or
Norman, culled William, came into
Eugland from France and conquered
the country. He not only made him
self king,' but he brought many men
from his own land, whom he made
rulers and gave much authority. This
was not at all agreeable to the English,
and some of them would not submit to
William.
As William and his men made the
laws, those wko would not obey him
were obliged to run away and bide. It
is said that Robin Hood was an Eng
lishman who did not like the new rulers
and that he ran away and lived a free
life in the woods. It was a hundred
years after William's time that Robin
Hood lived if he lived at all; and
Henry the Second, who is called a
I'lantagenet, was the king of England
at the time. Henry was a descendant
of William the Conqueror.
Richard Oenr de Lion ruled after
Henry the Second, and was one of the
brave adventurers who went to Pales
tine to fight in the crusades against the
Mohammedans, whom he called infi
dels.
Other people say that Robin did not
live in these reigns ; but at the time of
Edward the Third, and his son, the
Black rrince, about 1350. There are
others who tell ns that Robin Hood
lived between the times of Richard and
Edward, in the reign of Henry the
Third.
If you have studied English history.
you will recollect that King John, who
was one 01 tlie meanest 01 Kings, was
forced to sign paper called the Magna
Charta. that gave some privileges to
the people. Henry the Third was a son
of John, and tried to take from the
people the privileges his fattier bad
given them by the Magna tnana.
The people rebelled against King
Henry, under the lead of a powerful
nobb called Simon de Montford. The
king was beaten by the people at first
at the battle of Lewes, 1204 ; but in
J2G5 he was victorious over them at the
battle of Evesham, one of the most im
portant of English conflicts.
After the battle of Evesham many
men who would not submit to the king
took to the forests, and it is said that
Robin. Hood and his' men' were of the
number.
Whether any of the stories are true
or are not, it is very plain from them
what sort of a character Robin "Hood
had. He was a man who had run away
from society because he had done
some thine for which the laws of his
country would have punished him. In
other words, he was an outlaw a man
outside of the law, one who wished to
keep out of its reach.
I suppose it was very pleasant to live
in the green woods of England, on ven
ison and other, game during pleasant
Summer weather ; but it seems to me
that it must have been very unpleasant
in cold and storms. One thing I know
however ; it was not very pleasant nor
comfortable inside of the house in those
days. I think they had no glass in
their windows, no chimneys, no gas nor
lamps, and, in fact, almost none of the
conveniences that we enjoy. 1 believe
that they had no forks even ; and that
Unon and nneens. Diinces and prin
cesses, were obliged to take their food
in their fingers, uniy mini 01 n 1
I said I like to believe the stories
about Robin Hood. Let ns try to be
in thim for a bttle while. I will tell
you what he is said to have done, just
..v .i t t - 3 IL.t I. n V. . .I Anna
as II 1 really Deiievea ma "
it.
One of the best ballads is called "A
Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode," for they
did not know how to spell in those
days as we do now, and they often took
a good deal more . trouble than was
.necessary, it seems wme K1""
easier to spell "little" in our way. ib
"Lytell l teste is ohm ,?":
parts, that are, queerly enough, called
"Fvttes." and I cannot imagine why.
tt.'T. the ,l,t "fvttes" tell most
of the story of Robin Hood, and they
are full of strange words. Among these
are "sicker" for secure ; "enow for
enough; "thorow" for through; "j apes
for jokes ; "fotes" for feet ; "lough
for laughed ; "selerer" for the one who
had charge of the cellar; "pees for
peace ; and "fet" for fetched, ion see
many of the old words are shorter than
ours, and some are, I think, mere ex
preftsi ve. i,vintr t
the words, queer and interesting as they
we must no atop w o
are ; but turn to the little of the story
tnat we snail be able to examine, in
the first "f ytte" or the "Lytell Geste"
we are introduced to some of the com
panions of the "proud outlaw." The
chief of these was called "Little John."
When Robin Hood met any man who
could beat him he always invited him
to join his band. He met a stranger
once on a bridge and was thrown by
him into the water, after a pretty good
beating with the qnarterstafl. This
stranger proved to be named John
Little. He was a very large man, and
outlaws changed his name to Little
John, as a sort of joke.
"And an, ever after, aa lone as he Ured,
- Although he was proper sod tall.
Yet, nevertheless, the truth to ezpresa,
Still Little John ther did him can."
Will Scarlet was another very im
portant member of .the band ; and he
too had beaten Kobin. Oeorge-a-Ureen,
the Finder or Fenner thepoundkeeper
of Wakefield ; Much, a miller's son ;
Maid Marian, whom Robin seems to
have married ; and Friar Tuck are the
others of whom we hear the most.
AUin-a-Dale and Arthur-a-Eland are
two others. The first of these is intro
duced to us as in love with a young
damsel, who was taken from him to be
an old knight's bride, and the ballad
tells us "how Robin Hood, pitying the
young man' case, took her from the
old knight, when they were going to be
married, and restored hsr to her own
love again."
One morning, when be was full of
hope, young Allin frisked through the
forest, chanting a roundelay. The next
day, when his hopes were blighted by
the old knight, he ' was seen to "come
drooping along the way."
The scarlet he wor the day before.
It wu clean cast away :
And at every step he fetrht a alffh,
Alack ! and a 'Well-a-dar
Robin Hood had compassion on poor,
distressed Allin as who would not ?
and stopped the wedding of the old
knight, giving his bride to her lover,
whom she wanted to marry. Allin
joined Robin's band out of gratitude
for this.
Arthnr-a-Bland was a very different
man. He was a tanner of Nottingham,
and he "tanned" Robin's hide, as the
ballad says, after a well-fought -contest.
relative of Little
f
Tell me, O ten me, where ia Little John ?
Of him 1 fain would hear:
For we are allied by tlie mothen' aide
And he ia mv kiiiMiian dear."
I do not know the names of the mem
bers of the band. There were a hundred
or a hundred and fifty of them, and
their greatest delight appears to have
been to live a free life in the woods, to
take money away from the rich and give
it to the poor, (I call that robbery), and
to fight or make trials of strength. They
were wonderful archers, and I suppose
could split a very narrow wand stuck in
the ground at a very great distanc. It
was a long time before guns and gun
powder were used. '
It does not appear very strange to me
that common English people liked to
sing about Robin Hood. There is some
thing very charming in the thought of
living in the green wood, with a roof of
leaves and a carpet of moss. We are apt
to think little of the rain that drips
through such a roof oftentimes, and of
the bngs that always burrow in such a
carpet.
But, besides the charm of an out-of-door
life, the people thought of Robin
Hood as their champion. He fought
foreigners, and the people of almost any
country like a strong man who stands
up for them against people of other
1 inds. I believe this was really the
great reason why the stories of Robin
Iloid became so very popular. Ferhaps
there was once a man who was much
loved who had some of his traits.
Suppose he had lived in the time of
Richard Cceur de Lion, and had been
written about, or talked about, or made
the subject of songs, 1 think that every
new writer, or talker, or singer, would
have tried to make him appear little
more brave, a little more skillful as a
shooter, a little more patriotic than he
had been, and you can see his character
would thus have grown to be very dif
ferent from what it first was. .
If there had been a Robin Hood, he
would not be the Robin Hood that we
should see after all the writers, talkers,
and singers had labored over him. He
would appear to us a sort of ideal mao,
composed of incongruous traits of char
acter a hero.
Much as I like to think of Robin Hood
as a real man, I am forced to believe
that something like what I have de
scribed has been done to his history,
and that what we see is the portrait of
a hero of the English imagination.
Ever since I cannot tell when cer
tain games and festivals have been
celebrated iu England in honor of Robin
Hood. Generally they occur on May
Day ; and the people dance around
Maypoles, gayly dressed, calling them
selves the Abbot of Unreason that is,
Friar Tuck Robin Hood, Little John,
and Maid Marian. Besides that, they
fight and shoot not in earnest now
as they used to do in old times.
Perhaps some of you have read of
King Arthur and his wonderful Knights
of the Round Table. Mr. Tennyson
has written a great deal about them.
Ihey are said to hava flourished six or
eight hundred years before the time of
Robin Hood, and yet I think there is a
wonderful resemblance between them
in many respects. They all were heroes
of the people and fought foreigners.
They were all brave, gentle, and, in
their way, religious. Ton will be in
terested to trace the likeness further,
some time, I am sure.
Though we cannot be quite positive
tnat Robin Hood was ever born, there
is no doubt that he died. He was bled
to death by a nun at Kirklee Hall, so
the ballads say, not far from Hudders
field, in the western part of Yorkshire.
There bis grave is shown to the curious
stilL Independent.
How we Fade.
As the trials of life thicken, and the
dreams of other days fade, one by one,
in the dim vista of disappointed hope,
the heart grows weary Of the long eon
tinned struggle, and we begin to realize
our insignificance. Those who have
climed to the pinnacle of fame or revel
in luxury and wealth, go to the grave
at last with the poor mendicant who
begs by the wayside, and like him are
soon forgotten. Generation after gen
eration, says an eloquent writer, have
felt a we teeL and their fellows were as
active in life aa ours are now. They
passed away as a vapor, -while nature
won thA una asDect of beauty as when
the Creator commanded her to be.'
The heavens will be as bright over our
graves as they are now around our path;
the world has the same attraction for
offspring Jyet unborn that she once had
for ourselves, and that she now has for
our children.
Real glory springs from the silent
conquest of ourselves.
Dancing.
Warm climates seem to be naturally
productive of and the most favorable
to the best simrers and dancers. There
alone can lie found that clow and vi
vacity, that impetuousness and enthu
siasm, which can hardlr ever lie niiiul-
led in northern climates. Ia Russia,
for instance, dancing is as common a
pastime as in fcpam or Italy. 15ut how
vast the difl'erence! The Russian peas
ant's dance is heavy,, listless, and of
tentimes devoid of gracefulness. He
merely swings to and fro to the monot
onous music of the balateica, a long
guitar, whose notes are frequently
drowned by the shouts and songs of
tne uystanders. 1 ue dance or the Cos
sacks is nothing but a noisy tramp, or
condensed stamping of the" feet, digni
fied with the euphonious names of
"koppak," "tranak," and "kastchok."
But tne Court dance is the polonaise.of
Polish oriranjis indicated bv the name.
It is merely a measured promenade or
niarcn, anoruing tLe very, best oppor
tunity for conversation, is at once
graceful and unconstrained while the
strictest etiquette may lie maintained.
The redowa, mazurka and varsovjeune
are all Polish dances Great Britain,
Prance and Germany have each been
the birth-place of quite a number of
special or fancy danccs.but at the pres
ent day there is really no national
dancing, and the same style prevails iu
all countries, at least in good society.
The jig and country dance are- purely
English, while the reel is unmistakably
of Scotch origin. The minutes so
called because of the slioit step (menus
pas) taken in tlie different figures
originated in the old Prench Province
of Poitou, and was afterwards intro
duced by the Marquis de Flauiuarens
into England, where it long remained
in favor, and deservedly, for it was a
dignilied and graceful dance. The
gavotte, which lias recently come iuto
fashion here as a fancy dance, was
tripped centuries ago, by the peasant
gins in the gavot's country a small
mountainous country in the neighbor
hood of (Jap in the South of France.
The ever delightful waltz, contrary
to general lielief, is not of German
origin. It was extremely ixipular in
France toward the thirteenth and four
teenth centuries and became known in
Germany only after that period. Its
popularity was soon established in all
countries, despite the prejudices and
objections raised against it. Tlie polka
was brought from the forests of Hun
gary in 1S40, ami created quite a sensa
tion. Everything was dope in polka
fashion. There were polka lints and
dtess goods, and polka jewelry and
polka trimming. Shortly after the
polka liecame iiopular here, or aliout
the same time, Mr. Polk was elected to
the Presidency of the I'uited States
and owing to this somewhat singular
coincidence, many persons BiipMiscd
that the new dance had Ix-en named
after him, or in his honor. The schot
tische and mazurka next came in
vogiie.and from that time fancy dances
multiplied rapidly .many of them going
out of fashion before the end of a
mon tli. Aot a few of the modern
dances were first brought out on the
stage.
The cotillion introduced here under
the name of the German is a very old
dance, which has liecn' but slightly
niiHliheil, lor most of its figures were
well known more than one hundred
years ago in several of the ancient
Provinces of France. The lxnuiuet,
mirror and butterfly figures for in
stance, were qmte popular, and it
mauilv consisted, and does now, of
round dances. Then, as now, it re
quired some talent to le a good leader
of the cotillion. The Orientals are
very fond of witnessing ballets and in
tricate iiassiif Is, but they never dance
themselves The dances of the baya
deres and almees are true pantomimes
though not always very delicate or
graceful ones . .
Wonders or A lieu" Egg.
: The following observations tin the
changes that occur from hour to hour
during the incubation of the hen's egg
are froui "Sturm's Reflections:"' "The
hen has scarcely sat on her eggs twelve
hours before some lineaments ot the
head and body of the chicken appear.
The heart may lie seen to heat at the
end of the second day; it had at tliat
time somewhat the form of a horse
shoe, but no blood yet appears. At
theend4t two days two vessels 01
blood are to be distinguished, the pul
sation of which is visible. One of
these is the left ventricle, and the
other the root of the great artery. At
the fiftieth hour one auricle ot the
heart appears, resembling a noose
folded down upon itself. '1 he heating
the heart is first oliserved of in the
auricle, and afterwards in the ven
tricle. At the end of seventy hours
the wings are distinguishable; and on
the head two bubbles are seen for the
brain, one for the bill, and two for the
fore and hind part of the head. To
wards the end of the fourth day, the
two auricles already visible draw near
er to the heart than before. The liver
appears toward the fifth day. At the
end of seven hours more, the lungs and
stoniach.lccome visible;and four hours
afterwards the intestines and loins
and the upper jaw. At the oue hun
dred and forty-fourth hour, two ven
tricles are visible, and two drops 01
blood instead of the single one which
was seen liefore. The seventh day .the
hr:iin lieeina to have some consistency.
At the oue hundred and nineteenth
hour of incubation, the bill opens
the flesh appears tn the breast, in
fonr hours more, the breast lione is
seen, in six nonrs alter tins, me nos
appear, forming from the hack and the
bill is very visitue, as well as tne gnii
hlmliler. The bill liecomes green at
the end of two hundred and thirty-six
hours; and if the chicken be taken out
of its covering, it evidently moves it
self. At the two hundred and sixty-
fourth hour, the eyes appear. At the
two hundred and eighty-eighth, the
ribs are perfect. At the three hundred
and thirty-first, the spleen draws near
the 8toraaeh,and tne lungs to tne cnesr.
At the end of three hundred and tifty
irve hours, the bill frequently opens
ami shuts; and at the end of the
eighteenth day the cry of the chicken
is heard, it atterwarti gers more
strength and grows continually, till at
length it is enabled to set itself free
from its confinement.
An Eastern I.esrnd.
Tli a i.lmi.ler of the tombs, savs the
funelipator iVivr. is not an employ
ment that would be likely to prove re
munerative in England, but in certain
countries it seems to be practiced with
omlaiMtw ami nrrMH According to
the MmiUtur tie VAhjcrit. the celebrated
... w-. a - . w. I . 1 a
tomb 01 tne itaum, near ixtuewueu,
ln latolw been hrotrpn into, and its
contents, including some valuable bra
zen lamps, removed, ine legeuu con
nected with this tomb is of curious in
trttL When the Mussulmans ruled
over Spain, the Jews who dwelt there
were permitted to louow ineir religion
without molestation, but after their
ATmiiamn a mrwfpm nf tvrannv was
commenced which fell heavily on the
Hebrew race, adouz tne commeuce-
m.nl nf tha fnnrtopnth CPTlturV the
IUV.U. v. - r
Grand Rabbi Ben-Si nah-Durand was
thrown into prison with the ltauoi uen
Kaotia, and-their execution was deter
minwi on when, as the legend goes, a
miracle delivered them from their con
finement Tlie Grand Rabbi suddenly
felt possessed of extraordinary power,
and, seizing a piece of coal, drew upon
the wall the image of a ship, which
immediately became a real vessel, and
bore him safely out of the reach of his
persecutors towards the shore of Al
geria. -Here he was well received by
the Mussulmans, and his name, besides
being associated with this tomb, is
ranked as that of the first Israelitish
legislator in Africa. The tomb has
been venerated, not only by the Jews,
but also by the Mussulmans, and, as it
may be supposed, this act of theft Is
viewed with considerable indignation.
l onrtesy Compensated.
A yonng editor of a theatrical journal
called lately on an actress living on a
third story in the Rue Richelieu. Leav
ing her rooms he descended the stair
way. At the first floor binding a door
suddenly opened, and a black-coated
gentleman stepping suddenly out, ran
against, the yonng man ; begging
pardon, he abruptly asked, "Monsieur,
have you half an hour to lose ?"
"For what, sir?"
"To render me a service which will
bring you in a triile of say a hundred
francs"
"Do you call that losing half an hour ?
What is it you wish?"
"To serve as a witness to a will. One
witness has failed to come ; the sick
man is dying. Will you serve ?"
The journalist consented, and follow
ing the notary, found himself iu a
sumptuous chamber near the bed of the
moribund, and seated himself with the
other witnesses. The old man had no
relative, and made short work with his
will. It was ready for him to sign.
They opened the curtains to give him
light. A ray fell across the journalist's
face. The sick man saw him, and mo
tioned him to approach.
"Sir," he said, in a feeble voice, "do
you know me ?"
"I have not that honor, sir."
"Do you not recall seeing me at the
Theater Francais ?"
"No, sir."
"I can refresh your memory. Did you
not attend the first representation of
"Fire in a Convent ?"
"I was there, certainly."
"And I, too. You had a good
orchestra stall ; I a miserable stool,
right in the doorway. The draft made
me ilL You gave me vonr comfortable
seat and took my poor one."
"1 did but my duty, sir, toward an
old man and an invalid."
"Ah t They are rare those people
who do their duty. Allow me to give an
evidence of my acknowledgment."
And turning toward the ear of the
notary, the old man added a codicil to
his wilL The witness signed, the notary
countersigned, and the former, each
noted for a hundred francs of legacy.
retired. 1 he next day the journalist
revisited the actress Coming sway, he
rang at the old man's door, and asked
after him. He had died during the
night. In due time the young man at
tended his funeral. After it the notary
said to him : "To-morrow we open the
wilL Be there. You are interested."
Our editor did not neglect the invita
tion. He attended the reading of the
will.
The old man had bequeathed him a
hundred thousand francs
The orchestra seat was well paid for.
The Cat.
The cat is called a domestic aniniile
but I never have bin able tew tel
wherefore.
You kant trust one enny more than
yon kan a case ' of the gout. There is
only one mortal thing that you kan
trust a cat with and enm out even, and
that is a bar of hard soap.
- They are as meek as Mosies, but as
full of deviltry as Judas Iscraft.
They will harvest a dozen young
chickens for you, and then steel into
the Bitting room as softly as an under
taker, and lay themselves down on the
rug at your feet, full of injured in
nocence, and chickens, and dream 01
their childhood days
All there iz about a cat that iz do-
mestik, that I know ov, iz that yon kan't
looze one.
You kant looze a cat they are az bad
to looze az a bad reputation iz.
Ton may send one out ov the State,
done up in a meal bag and marked C.
O. D., and the next morning you will
find him or her (according tew sex,) in
the same spot alongside ov the stove,
ready to be stepped on.
Cats have got two good ears lor
melody and often make the night atmos
phere melodious with their opera musik.
But the most wonderful thing about a
cat that has been discovered yet is their
fear of death.
Yu kant induce one, by any ordinary
means to accept of death they actually
scorn to die.
You may kill one. az yu have a mind
to, and they will begin life ann in a few
minetts, witn a more nattering pro-
spektus
Dogs I love ; they carry their kriden
shuls in their faces nd kant hide them,
but the bulk of a cat s repntashnn lays
buried ia their stumnk. az unknown tew
themselves az tew enny boddy else.
There iz only one thing about a cat
that I like and that iz, they are very
cheap a little money, well invested,
will go a great way in cats
Cats are very plenty in this world just
now. I counted eighteen from my board
ing house winder one moonlite night
last summer, and it wan.t a fust-rate
night for cats neither. Josh Hilling.
Look Alter The Bjrn
Multitudes of men and women have
made their eyes weak for life by the !
too free use of eyesight, reading small
print and doing fine sewing, in view
of these things, it is well to observe the
following rules in the use of the eyes :
Avoid all sudden changes between
light and darkness
Never read by twilight, or on a very
cloudy day.
Never sleep so that on waking the
eyes shall open on the light of the win
dow. Do not use eyesight by light so scant
that it requires an effort to discrimi
nate. Never read or sow directly in front
of the light of the window.
It ia best to have the light from above,
or obliquely or over the left shoulder.
Too much light creates glare and
pains and confuses the sight. The mo
ment you are sensible of an effort to
distinguish, that moment stop and talk,
walk or ride. .
As the sky is blue and the earth green,
it would seem that the ceiling should
be a bluish tinge, the carpet green, and
the walls of some mellow tint.
The moment you are instinctively in
clined to rnb the eyes that moment
cease to nse them. '
If the eyelids are glued together on
waking do not forcibly open them, but
apply salvia with the finger, and then
wash your eyes and face with warm water.
Children.
Children the most freely discussed.
the least understood, the most injured
portion of humanity I We have among
us by tne score fcmvie tncompruie
dear persecuted.
unappreciated
creatures, eloquent in complaint that
they will never be valued aright by
their husbands and families until the
grave has closed over them and they
are lost to them forever who bear for
Uie the martyr's cross consoled by a
certainty of the martyr's crown in the j
future. We have men of intellect who
comfort themselves under a sense of
present failure with the complacent re
flection that posterity will be wiser,
that they will in all events leave their
stamp on the coming race. But child
ren, unfortunate children who alas !
is to stand forth and utter a protest in
their favor ? What is to make atone-
mnt tn them for th inrirRtfnlneM of
their idiosyncrasies, the ignorance of,,n8 offers. wf "would always try to
their motives, the insufferable airs of , ,mP!Te ?nrselve s
superiority with which maturity eon- . "Certainly. A very improving even-
tinually endeavors to force them into a 1Df J0 841 J Drover.
dead level of uniformity with some! Toa tUlnjt so. dont yoa? 841,1
preconceived model of its own ? Ma-1 Snaff-
turity deeus it his prerogative nay, his 1
"bounden duty, a duty he owes him-
self on all occasions to repress to I
snub, to keep down what he, in accents '
of withering scorn, terms "the rising j
generation." With what delight does
he roll as a sweet morsel under his
tongue the self-assumed axiom,
"loung folks think old folks to be
fools, but old folks know yonng
folks to be fools," and offer this as a
wholesome thongh bitter sedative to
all youthful aspirations ! All this
children suffer in silence; for where is j
the representative child who can bold-1
ly arise, ntter its wrongs and maintain
its originality ? "The child is father
to the man" we thank Mr. Wordsworth
for thus tracing for ns the pedigree of
these levellers of childhood thank him
heartily, for we are thus enabled to re
buke the conceit, the ignorance, nay,
the ingratitule with which the mature
descendant treats his juvenile an
cestor. It is a grave mistake, and one who
thoroughly understands a child's na
ture will see how grave it is, to sim
plify things too much for them. Give
them rather a few facts and leave them
to make their own deductions. To at
tempt to make them understand all
they learn or see is to strike at the
root of their faith, and by depriving
them of jwholesomo exercise, actnally
cramps and dwarfs their intellect.
What should we think of the training
of an athlete if he was never required
to exert his muscles to their utmost
ability, to do naught but what was
readily within his power ? And why
should we suppose that the mental re
quires less expansion, less exercise than
the physical frame? To simplify every
thing until it comes within the compass
of a childish intelligence, is to sap and
weaken that intelligence in a vital
point.
Children have not only the. power of
reasoning, comparison, casuulity, all
the higher intellectual faculties, in em
bryo it may be, but still developed em
bryo, but they have also the" lighter
characteristics of the human species
wit. hnmor. 3. as well as they have ;
the vices and the blacker points of j
man's disposition, selfishness and de-
ceit; and that selfishness and deceit
are over and often fostered and in- j
creased b 7 the defects in their training j
and education. Their originality is j
smothered by the attempt to make men
and women of them, instead of allow- i
. 1 . I . . ,
ing them to mike men and women of
themselves They are made overbear
ing and even insolent by being con
sulted by their parents before they are
at an age to form a judgment upon
their own conduct. One parent com
plains that her son "will not go to
school." Another that she "cannot
induce hers to come home at a suitable
hour in the evening." This one is al
lowed to choose whether he will go to
school, go into a store, or begin to
farm. This boy smokes at fourteen,
orders his own clothes with a sublime
indifference as to their cost, calls his
father "the governor," and openly
maintains that the only use he has for
"the governor" is to draw on him for
money. Parents complain that in their
young days "children were children
now-a-days they are men and women."
Whose fault is it ? Treat them as child
ren, and children they will be; treat
them as men and women, and the re
sult will be a priggish, disagreeable
anomaly, neither child nor man.
What we say of boys applies with
perhaps greater force to girls Little i ot onr ! ln caDinet size is the
girls are made women by their parents, I b81 suited. Select two, with faces
and consulted about their school and j turned the same way, arrange them in
their studies as thongh they were of : the lrame nntl1 tljey form one picture,
mature judgment. The way in which j The resnlt is a most comicul combina
their dresses are to be made np and il0-- .Yon ak ir tance, Mr. H
trimmed is discussed before them as j and Miss W. Mr. H. has the high
though it was one of the greatest qnes-! coml 88,1 braids of Miss W., while her
tions of their Uves What wonder that ! iet ear-rings, and laces and bows give
in a neighboring city a short time since j h" fanciful appearance. Or, Miss
a little girl, on being told by her mother . wears across her upper lip the well
to go and Dut on a certain alDtca dress waxed mustache of Mr. H., while his
in her wardrobe, burst into a flood of
tears and declared that she would "as
Uef die as put on that dress, for that it
had neither overskirt nor panier !
This seems ludicrous, but to a thinker
it is by no means so. Children are de-
prived of the natural enjoyments of j
their age, anil in their place is substi
tuted an artificial excitement, a lorceu
and premature development. They are
wearied of life before they fairly enter
into it. They say in efiect, if not in
words, with the unfortunate little
blasee. "I have found out that mv doll
is stuffed with saw-dust, and I want to
be a nun." An undue notice is taken
ol things wnicn should oe leic 10 time
and themselves, and like hot house
fruits they pay for their early maturity
bv a loss of flavor.
Give ns, ye gardeners of the human
species, give ns children like wild
wood strawberries a little tart per
haps but far preferable to the mon
strosities of the horticulturist, the in
sipid "Triomphe de Grand"' and "J 11
cunda." Wltr Coining Home.
A recent paragraph in the Guardian,
calling attentian to the fact that the
4i mniwr wiitnworw wprA hflvinir the
jolliest times imaginable in the absence
of their voluble halves, has had a most
remarkable effect. The wives come
trotting home to see abont this thing.
One gentleman who was having an nn -
usually good time, and whose wife had
gone away to stay till the middle of
September, was wonerfully sstonished
on going home at four o'clock in the
morning yesterday, to find bis wife
sitting up waiting for him. bhegavehim
a rousing reception, and he looks like
the last rose of summer. The wide world
may wag as it will, but it is doubtful if
he ever smiles again. The wives are
coming home unexpectedly every day,
and husband had better look out a little
in order that they may save some
trouble.-Paterton Guardian.
, . ,
The family jar is frequently a jug.
AT. O. IHcayune.
Vo lit lis Column.
Eocaii Friexdships Best. "Ah !
what has become of yon late
Shag?" cried Drover. "I've missed
Jn. aJter ening shepherding uiis
"I've been
coldly.
"Engaged 1
engaged," . said Shag,
How? Where?" sail
urover.
"With company the new company
at h5 ho'" 8j,d SLrag'
"Oh. hoh ! What. Crack and Bril
liant, and the rest ?" said Drover.
"Yes They seemed to wish for my
1 " t u' i.
inruuaiup, 01 a tumuu . uuuiu,
said Shag.
" ery good ; and you are going
now ? inquired Drover. "Don t let
me hinder you."
1 was lou see. Drover, they are
highbred ; and I think, when an open
"I think the best company is that we
get mast good from, said .Drover,
"Yes, that's it," said Shag: "and
Mr. Crack has such a beautiful way of
moving (action they call it,) and Mr.
Brilliant is so quick and clever, and
they are all so superior one way or
another."
"Happy to hear it.
But I think your
'action' and cleverness are quite suffi
cient for your way of life. However,
please yourself," said Drover, running
on.
"Why, Shag ! you here !" he cried, a
few evenings after. "I thought you
had cut low company, and were on the
improving plan !
"Ahem ! I preferred a walk with you
this evening. Drover," said Shag, look
ing rather shy.
"Very good," said Drover. "How
are your friends at the great honse ?"
"Very well, for anything I know,"
said Shag.
"What ! have you broken with them?"
asked Drover.
"To say the truth, I was deceived in
them. They are low, ill-bred, con
ceited fellows, and I despise them !"
said Shag.
"When did you find that out ?" asked
Drover,
"Last night," said Shag. "They
were together with Mr. Commodore,
the captain's dog, and when 1 went to
them they looked as if they didn't know
me, and Mr. Crack asked me how it was
I wasn't shepherding. So I walked
away, and I don't raeuu to go near them
again."
"Then you've done being improved ?"
said Drover.
"Oh, don't langh at me," said Shag.
"I won't ; only be advised, and never
expect steady friendship out of your
own beat. 1 on may, for some capricious
reason, he patronised and kept on suf
ferance for a time, but the merest trirle
will be enongti to take awav the favor I
in the same cannce that bestowed 1L ,
A Cmtors Isird 3 kst. Ihere is a
hiril in pv fininaa ..alia.! ttiA Maota.
Dodins. which in the si of its eirra and
its manner of hatching them, must be
considered extraordinary. It is not
larger than one of our ordinary fowls,
but its eggs are three inches long by
two and a half in diameter. It does
not attempt to sit on them. A colony
of birds lay their eggs together in a
large mound, in the hottest part of the
0 . . , . -. . ,
year, from September to March, and
leave them to be hatched by the sun.
The mound is made of sand, loose
earth, and sticks and leaves, which
latter by their decay increases the heat.
The mounds are wonderfully large,
being ten feet high and about sixty feet
in circumference- at the base. The
young birds come ont of a hole in the
top. Tne mother birds wait on the
trees aronnd till their chicks are
hatched, and then each leads off her
own brood. How each knows its own is
a mvstery. The eggs are much relished
by the natives but not at all by Euro
peans A native of Cape York ventured
one day into a nest for eggs, and while
he was exploring the hidden riches of
the large mound the upper part fell in
and he was smothered. He was after
wards found in the very act of digging
buried alive in a bird's nest.
FrrssT PHOToc.RArns. Here is some
thing for the eves. Take vonr stereo-
8epe and a collection of photographs
Alexis collar and her ruffles form a
unique style of neck-dress
Bat the queerest efl!cts are the com
binations of expression. Yon have fun
loving eyes over a stiff upper lip, and
Miss A.'s gentle features with the
haughty tone of Miss B.'s expression.
Move the pictures slightly, and one
looks out from behind the other like
the "angel over the right shoulder."
Try it.
Vesicb and Beaps There are
factories of beads in the Province of j
. Venice, 30 melting furnaces and and 90
j annealing ovens Besides this there is
a large number who are engaged in tne
; manufacture of glass beads by the use
j of the lamp, where beads of every size
and color are produced.
The capital invested in the business
persons are ?R . the different
branches of the manufacture.
To form aa idea of the importance of
this branch of trade it need but be
stated that the annual products of the
diflerent factories does not fall short of
1,000,000, which finds a market in
every part of the Globe, the greater
quantity being sold on the coast of
: Africa, India aud Portugal, and among
; tne American muiaus.
j
Pisistatcs, the Grecian general.
! walking throngh some of the fields
several persons implored hi. chanty.
, "If you want beasts to plow your land,"
he slid, "I will lend you some ; if you
' want land, I will lend; if you want
seed to sow your land. I will give joa
some; but I will encourage none in
idleness" By this conduct, in a short
time there was not beggar in all his
dominions
j .
" . .
1 The Toledo Historical Society has
been presented with a bttle, completely
i formed egg, which was found inside the
jyolk of a hen s egg. It is nearly an
inch long, of the usual shape, and the
' shelL which is hard, is formed.
artie.
A three months old oyster ia about
the size of a split pea.
Suspicion and distrust are the groat'
est enemies to friendship.
There is no fault in poverty, but the
minds that think so are faulty,
Nurture your mind with thoughts
To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Only what we have wrought into our
character during fife can we take away
with us
Since we are exposed to inevitable
sorrows, wisdom is the art of findiag
compensation. Levi.
Do with trials as men do with new
hats put them on and wear them nu
til they become easy.
He that does a base thing in zeal ior
a friend, burns the golden thread that
ties their hearts together.
A Texas gentleman was married the
day before he was hanged. It isn't sta
ted which not he liked best.
"The truth is that capital may be
produced by industry, and accumula
ted by economy ; but jugglers only will
propose to create it by legerdemain
tricks with paper." Thomas Jejferton.
We admire wit as we do the wind.
When it shakes the tree, it is fine :
when it cools the wave, it is refreshing;
when it steals over the flowers, it is en
chanting; but when it whistles through
the key-hole, it is unpleasant,
A Frenchman roasts coffee, grinds it
to flour, moistens it slightly, mixes it
in twice its weight of powdered white
sugar, and then presses it into tablets
One of these tablets can be dissolved at
any time in hot or cold water, making
at once the very perfection of coffee ;
and it is claimed that a pound of the
berry will go much farther by this than
by any other preparation of the bever
age. The Rio Grande, like the Mexicans
and Indians on its further side, is con
tinually encroaching on the soil of
Texas Matamoros has robbed the
Texas city of Brownsville of much val
uable trade, and now the insidnona old
river, says the Galveston News ia
winding its way into the bank and un
dermining our chief commercial city on
the border.
A youth who attended a Scotch revi
val meeting for the fun of the thing,
ironically inquired of the minister
"whether he could work a miracle or
not. "The young man's curiosity was
fully satisfied by the minister's kick
ing him out ot the church, with the
maledictory. "We cannot work mira
cles, but we can cast out devils !"
- At a meeting in London to receive a
report from the missionaries sent to dis
cover the tribes of Israel, Lord H
was asked to take the chair. "I take,"
he replied, a great interest in vour re
searches, gentlemen; The fact is I
have borrowed money from all the Jews
now known, and u you can find a
new
sei
I shall feel very much obliged."
The years 1871. 1872. and 1873 hav
ing been exceptionally bad ones for the
production of wine in Uermany, it is
gratifying to learn that the present sea-
sou, ia iiaeij to prove exceptionally
good particularly as regards the choice
growths of the Rheingan and Mosells
Reports from these districts are very
favorable, and the vintage is now be
lieved to be beyond the possibility of
injury by frost or any other natual
cause.
The Khivan expedition is said tat
have brought into notice a rival to the
famous Prussian erbtwurst, or pea-sausage
The Russian soldiers were fed
chiefly on biscuits composed one-third
of flour of rye, one third of beef re
duced to powder, and one third of sa
nerkrout also reduced to powder. The
soldiers had a great relish for this food,
and their good health during the ex
pedition is attributed in great part to
the use of it.
A party of scientific and literary men,
after digging away all day at a mound
on the land of a farmer named Richard
Long, near Rockland, 11L, finally un
earthed a white tablet of stone pro
nounced to be Niagara spar. The tab
let is two inches wide, three and one
half long, and one-fourth of an inch
thick, and is inscribed with a face and
other characters, of coarse unintelligi
ble. A few inches beneath were found
a stone chisel, flint arrow-heads
spear-points, and decayed bones
An exhibition of the city ot Pompeii
as it was 1,800 years ago is now to be
sejn in Paris, winding up with an erup
tion of Mount Vesuvius, which is said
to be splendid. The whole city is re
constructed before the spectators The
forum, the street of the tombs the
tragic threatre and amphitheatre, the
temples, the baths, the villas and man
sions of citizens are all displayed.
Photo-sculpture is among the means
employed to produce the illusion.
The show is exceedingly successful.
M. Jansen states that Croee-Spin-neUi,
in his recent baloon ascension to
an elevation of 25,000 feet finds by
spectroscopic observation that the lines
in the spectrum ascribed to the vapor
of water are due to the terrestrial aad
not to the solar atmosphere ; since
when the former, by reason of the ele
vation, is greatly eliminated, the bands
are also in Uke proportion decreased.
It may, therefore, be considered that in
the sun there is no watery vapor, at
least in appreciable quantity, and that
consequently the tempature of that
body ia not yet sufficiently lowered to
; allow water to form.
Samuel Hopkins was the first person
I who ever received a patent from the
I United States government. It was
' granted July 30th, I7'J8, and was for
f! ."'i .TJzl
fer
tion President Jefferson remarked that
"it was too valuable to be covered by a
patent, and there should be no patent
for a thing no one could do without after
it was known." This was said in
December of that year. For many
years afterward the patent office was
but a clerkship in the state department.
The canary bird in its wild state ia
not so beautiful as his domesticated
fellow. Its body is greenish yellow.
"d the color 01 its "eaa J""
! !rnMrom.'n"h, " rrt
i Jb color of ,.ft " "JJ
ngy and nJ bnild nta
Psy .ebfJ :fdX Tr!!
r t; hil-
bait of the domesticated birds
reared in the Harts Mountains and in
Thuringis in Sxony. Ia 1853 not
more than 50.000 were annually raised,
but to-day one firm in New York city
alone imports from fifty te seventy-five
per cent, more than that number. It
is estimated that no leas than 20,000
birds are raised in Germany every year
now, and that at least forty-five per
cent, of that number is brought into
this country.
'it