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B. F. SCHWEIER,
THB CONSTITUTION TH1 UNI05 AND THE I5TOKCIMEST OF TH1 LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXVIII.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., OCTOBER 14, 1S74.
NO. 41.
Poetry.
A LENKOS.
I said, mv life ia a beautiful thing,
I will crown me with ita flowers,
I will sing of its glory all day long.
For my harp is young, and sweet, and strong
And the passionate power in my song
Shall thrill all the golden hoars.
And over the sand and over the stone.
For ever and ever the wares rolled on.
I said, my life is a terrible thing.
All rained, and loot, and crashed.
I will heap its ashes upon my head,
I will wail for my joy and my darling dead.
Till the dreary dirge for the days that are fled
Stirs faint through the doll, dumb dost.
And orer the sand and over the stoue.
For ever and ever the waves rolled on.
I said, I was proud in my hoar of mirth.
And mad in my first despair.
Now, I know nor earth, nor sky, nor sea.
Has heed or helping for one like me.
The doom or the boon comes, let it be.
For us, we can but bear.
And over the sand and over the stone.
For ever and ever the waves rolled on.
And I thought they sang, "We laugh to the
sun;
We shimmer to moon or star;
We foam to the last of the furious blast;
We rage whf n the rain falls fierce and fast;
But we do oar day's work; and at last,
We sweep o'er the harbor-bar.'
And I learnt my lesson mid sand and stone.
As ever and ever the waves rolled en.
IV I i js eel I a ny .
Cholera and Bird.
German naturalists, says the London
tilobe, have called attention to a new
incident with regard to the outbreak of
epidemics. It is on record that an ex
traordinary flight of birds has occurred
simultaneously with the appearance of
ine disease. I he occasions have been
so numerous and in so many different
countries that it is impossible to regard
the coincidence as merely accidental.
Thns, bo far back as the year 1818 birds
of all kinds deserted the towns of St.
Petersburg and Riga, and it was in that
year that cholera broke oat. The
epidemic proceeded in its westward
conrse the following year, and the same
phenomenon was observed in Western
Prussia in 1849, and in Hanover in
1850. In all these cases the facts were
chronicled as having occurred at the
time, bnt they were not supposed to
have any relation mutually. Bat when
these phenomena were more closely ob
served by men of science more accurate
details were given. Thns, it was found
that in the little town of Przemysl, in
Galicia, all the jackdaws took flight
from the streets into the country on the
26th of September, 1872, and that
cholera broke ont there two days after
wards. On the 30th of November these
birds returned from thhir spontaneous
quarantine, and by that time the last
case of the disease had been recorded.
The same results had been observed in
southern Germany last year. Both
Munich and Nuremberg were visited by
this epidemic in the autumn, and in
these towns it was observed not merely
that the larger birds fled from the
environs into the open country, but that
sparrows and swallows deserted the
town. It was a repetition of the article
in every sailor s creed that rats desert
a sinking ship. The inhabitants of
Nuremberg looked with joy for the re
tain of the sparrows, who seem to have
arrived as soon as the danger bad dis
appeared. Foreign physicians seem to
think the state of the atmosphere when
the poison is in the air has a direct ef
fect upon the birds, who instinctively
fly from it. Bat the whole phenomenon
seems capable of a much more simple
solution. It is a well-known thing that
during the getting in of the harvest
sparrows and the kinds of birds that
are found in the neighborhood of towns
fly off to the fields. This may be tested
much nearer home than Germany or
Western Russia. When the harvest
has been reaped they would naturally
return to the shelter of streets and
houses. Even swallows, thengh they do
not seek the corn-fields for grain, find
the insects which they feed upon in the
fields, and these birds also return to
their town quarters to reassemble for
their winter flight The simple people
of Nuremberg and Bavaria probably ac
cepted as an omen an event which
happened to be coincident with the
arrival of the dreaded epidemic, but
which, in fact, was of annual occur
rence, and had no real connection with
it.
Birlh-Plare fColambiis.
Tradition makes Cogoleto, a small
town a few miles from Genoa, the birth
place of Columbus, and there is an in
scription which marks the house of his
reputed birth. It may be tree, and it
may be false for, in this land of tradi
tion and superstition, it is as easy to
fabricate a tradition as an inscription,
and credulity is ready to believe that it
is as old as Adam. The house of his
father was in the suburbs of Genoa, as
is shown by the deed. He, himself,
says he was born in Genoa, an expression
which may well mean the territory,
and not the city, of Genoa. There is,
therefore, some color for the tradition,
and it is not worth while to dig deeper
to find doubts. He was a Ligurian,
and nothing could be more likely to
sharpen his curiosity and suggest a life
of adventure than to look out from
these rocky highlands upon the Medi
terranean washing the field at its base
and covered with the little, but daring
and enterprising, corsairs of the Levant,
the Grecian Archipelago and the African
How time seta things right ! Brought
home in chains, robbed in hia lifetime
of his honors, and hia profits, and the
name of another given to his discove
ries, time has written his name "with
iron and lead in the rock forever. His
jealous and triumphant enemies, as
well as his royal patrons and enterpris
ing followers in the path of discovery
are remembered; but when we call
them np from the land of shadows, there
is always in the midst of them, and be
fore them, the great Genoese with a
glory about him, in the light of which
they shine with a pale ray. So it will
be forever. ,,
He went on, when every other would
have given np in despair. He gave a
New World to the kingdoms of Castile
and Aragon. But Castile and Aragon
and all the progeny of their descend
ant commonwealths, are dwindling and
fading away, and a race, never akin to
the old Ligurian "the world-seeking
Genoese" is, from year to year, de
voting the New World to the great
commonwealth of freedom and mutu
ality t .
Success, says Josh Billings, does not
consist in never making blunders, but
in never making the same one a second
time.
THOSE TWO HEARTS.
Tea, it certainly was the door-be 1L
"De-liverance !" said Miss Phrygia
"and I've just taken the comb ont of
my back hair 1
In emergencies of this kind Miss
Phrygia had a way of drawing back the
tidy chintz curtain just far enough to
peer inrougn ana see whether it would
do to run down "just as she was." If
it would do, down she ran, and if it
wouldn't, she called softly through her
wuiuuw. --immeaiaieiy j ana then
flashed through her preparations with
a speed truly miraculous, for Miss
Phrygia had a love of promptitude that
covered the whole superficial stratum of
ner nature, and "immediately !" was
so favorite an expression of this aualitr.
that if she had been asked graciously
to set a time for her own execution,
those who knew her best would have
expected it as the natural and unhesi
tating reply.
But this time, as the chintz curtain
revealed a pony phaeton at the ante.
and on the door-step a slight, maidenly
figure, a sweet young face, and a mist
of golden hair, she only said "Dear
heart ! and laying the comb on the
dressing table, she glided down stairs,
her own locks falling into an undula
tion of chestnut rings, that might well
have been the envy of a goddess in her
own namesake land.
"So glad yon are at home," said a
voice from under the golden mist.
"I've just brought you my little book.
I've kept the last page for yon, always
have everything so nice. Any trifle,
'light as air,' you know will do.
It was one of those blessed old towns,
rare to find in these days, where the
lofty and the lowly knew and respected,
loved and took an interest in. each
other, and Miss Phrygia, instead of
waiting for the book, which the maidens
of the place, when about to assume the
duties of wife and housekeeper, had a
fashion of circulating among their
friends for collections of choice receipts,
reached forth and took both the slender,
gauntleted hands in her own. As she
did so, her right thumb pressed a dia
mond on the left forefinger of her
visitor, and her face, so beaming as she
ran down stairs, suddenly melted into
a different expression, as she gazed into
the hazel eyes confronting her with a
yearning tenderness pitiful to see.
Poor thing I" she said softly, "poor
little thing .'"
"Why. what's the matter. Mica
Phrygia 7 I know you don't like en
gagement rings, but you can't under
stand that I am. and am going to be.
the happiest little woman in the world."
'1'oor little thing I was all Miss
Phrygia said again, much as you would
do over an unfledged doveling that
will fall ont of the nest.
"And then," with a caressing squeeze
from the slender hands, "I'm not going
far, yon know only a step you can
see the chimney right up there through
the trees, xou 11 come and see me often,
won't you?"
That s what they say when people
die. but a pretty long step, I call it,"
said Miss Phrygia ; "still its always a
sort of comfort to visit their graves,
and I'll come with pleasure."
Oh. Miss Phrygia! Well. I only
wish you did understand. I wish you'd
get married yourself! You'd be a
hundred times better off; didn't yon
ever feel in your secret heart ?
"Tea," said Miss Phrygia, quietly a
great many times."
"Don't yon think it would be pleas
anter than living here all alone 1"
"Yes," said Miss Phrygia.
"Then why haven't you tried it ?"
"There's been always just one diffi
culty with every opportunity I've had,"
said Miss Phrygia, dropping her eyes
thoughtfully "Yeu can't aeem to find
any way of doing but by marrying some
man, and that," with a little shiver
running over her shoulders, "puts it so
out of the question I"
A rippling laugh, that made the
golden mist Beem like moonlight on the
lake, answered Miss Phrygia.
"Then if you could come across an
angel you think you would venture ?"
"Immediately," said Miss Phrygia.
"Well I'm sorry I'm so fond of the
only one in the world that I can't give
him up to you, but it dot seem as if
you might find something," and with
another little squeeze, the dainty hands
left a marble-covered book in Miss
Phrygia's,.took np the pony-reins, and
drove away.
Miss Phrygia went slowly np stairs,
put in her comb, and sat down to the
receipt book, for "immediately" was
deed as well as word with her. A soft
evening cloud that alternately lets fall
a few drops of refreshing upon the
flowers, and then illuminates its whole
surface with a heaving flash, direful to
be encountered, is a fit type of Miss
Phrygia's face, as, gazing at the open
page, her thoughts turned first to the
gentle heart that would ponder its pud
dings, and then to the "man" into
whose keeping that heart's happiness
was to be confided.
"Poor thing! Sweet heart!" she
murmured, with a tender moisture in
her eyes, and then, with a dangerous
flash. "Horrid creature ! I wonder what
he looks like I"
The alterations went on for a few min
utes, and then a sudden gleam of humor
lighted np her face, as if some stray,
belated sunbeam had tipped the cloud
with pink.
"A trifle light as air," she said, "111
write it for herl" and seizing a pen.
Miss Phrygia wrote :
"Mortality PcrKS,
KEVEB KNOWS TO FAIL.
Eggs (cockatrice), L
Milk (human kindness), just ready to
sour, 1 drop.
Cream oi xartar-caugnt, qs
spoons, heaping.
i lower (oi an nourj, iiiu vuy.
Salt (of the Earth), very small pinch,
mere dusting.
Raise with fermentations Drewea as
follows :
Hop (e)s realized, L
rlisnnrjointed. 99.
Sweeten with faith and submission.
Spice with variety.
Bake in earthen vessels, under a slow
fire, till the vessels crack."
A week later, Miss Phrygia put on a
pair of black gloves, a black bonnet,
and a black lace veil to let down in case
she should cry, and went to church to
see a plain gold ring take precedence
of the diamond she had pressed, and to
hear the hymeneal blessing pronounced
over the mist of golden hair.
She had to drop her vefl once or twice
as ahe gazed at the cloud of lace and
orange-blossoms before the altar, and
when she eonldn't help seeing the new
broadcloth suit that stood beside it,
she kept herself down by repeating as
fast as she could, "Charity hopeth all
things, endnreth all things, is not
easily provoked." Then she went home,
pat on the brightest dress she had, and
Went to nurse a sick neighbor who
could obtain no assistance for money,
and therefore must have it for love.
The bright dress had almost time to
fade before Miss Phrygia saw the way
clear to go home again. It was a long
pull, and neither ahe nor the invalid
knew how they would have got through
had it not been for the strength and
comfort of the doctor's daily visits. Six
feet in height, two hundred pounds in
weight, strong as a tower, firm as a
rock, cool as a hygrograph, and yet
when pain or discouragement called for
it quick with a brooding tenderness,
more beautiful. Miss Phrygia thought,
even than a woman's.
Twilight in the sick room seemed
lonely to Miss Phrygia, and she fell into
the way of watching for a light to gleam
through she elms that shaded the
Doctors house just opposite, but no
light ever appeared, and ahe had just
made up her mind that he was never at
home in the evening, when she had to
send for him two or three times after
the stars were out, and there he was.
"Oh dear!" she said, "I hope he
doesn't sit there without so much as a
candle lighted, thinking about those
children of his that were drowned, and
the wife in the insane asylum that only
died a year and a half ago. He can't,
or he never could come over here on a
moment's call, all ready to cheer us np
and be such a comfort I" This "cheer
ing them up and being comfort" con
tinued until Miss Phrygia began to
wonder what days at home would seem
without it, when her season of duty
should be ended. What the Doctor
thought about losing his nurse, he did
not say, but he insisted upon seeing her
home, when the time came, although
the moon was as large as a cart-wheel,
and shining clear.
As they came out, they both involun
tarily glanced up at the house under
the shadow of the elms.
Dark," said Miss Phrygia ; "it al
ways is.
'Yea'" said the Doctor, "it has been
for a good many years now, very dark."
"I know it," said Miss PhrvKia,sof tly.
feeling as if she ought to have on her
black gloves again.
Don't vou think." sid the doctor.
adjusting her hand a trifle more closely
to his arm, "don't yon think I might
bring in a bright warm light before
long, if I could find it?"
'Immediately I" said Miss Phrygia.
'Even," and the doctor stooped to
come as near as he could to a look un
der Miss Phrygia's hat, "even if I
should leave your house empty and
dark to do it?
What Miss Phrygia said, or what
either or both of them said after that,
will never be revealed ; but certain it is
that when Miss Phrygia ought to have
been going to sleep that night, she
wasn't going to sleep at all, but saying
over and over to heself : "Oh, what
have I done ? What have I done ? How
could I ever do it ? What am I going
to do?"
The perplexity thickened and dark
ened, to the peril of Miss Phrygia's
night, when suddenly a ray of light
flashed forth upon it.
"Why, of course V she said. "He
isn't exactly a man, after all ; he's a
doctor's and that's just how I came to
do it I" and with this satisfactory con
clusion in her soul, and a wonderful
whirl of new sersations in her heart,
Miss Phrygia turned on her pillow, and
went to sleep like a kitten.
The village was so astir with the news
the next week, that Miss Phrygia was
thankful her first walk, leaning on an
arm that wasn't her 'a, and yet claimed
to be, came in the twilight.
The shadows deepened as she wan
dered on, listening to a great many
things the Doctor had to say, until at
last, just as Miss Phrygia spoke for the
first time, a glow-worm came in sight.
"I must stop and tie np mp shoe !"
was what Miss Phrygia said, and
whether the Doctor heard it or not, he
stepped forward a few paces to see
about the glow-worm, and Miss Phrygia
put up her foot on a stone by the way
side. As she stooped, a noiseless step,
accompanied by one a trifle heavier,
came behind her; somthing misty
touched her cheek, and a voioe whis
pered in her ear :
"Is that your mortality puff?"
1 Hush-. " said Miss Phrygia.
"Yes, for a breath might blow him
away. Bring him round to visit my
grave, won't you t Some evening about
tea-time ; and well have puffs !
Immediately!" said Miss Phrygia.
A Gruger Fable.
In a certain zoological garden two
bears were chained several rods apart,
which were fed each with a different
kind of fruit. Now there were in the
same garden a half dozen monkeys who
thought it would be nice if they could
?;et a portion oi tnese luscious iraiis
or themselves. Accordingly they per
suaded the bears that, variety being the
spice of life, it would not only be grate
ful to their palates, but oonducive to
their healthy digestion, if they would
exchange with each other a portion of
these fruits at each meaL But the
chains being too short for the bears to
come in a convenient distance to each
other, the exchange could be affected
only through the kind offices or. the six
monkeys aforesaid. Accordingly the
fruit was passed by bear No. 1 to the
first monkey, who passed it to the next,
and so on to the last, who delivered it
to bear No. 2. The fruit in exchange
passed back to bear No. 1 in like man
ner.
Now each monkey through whose
Eaws the fruit passed thought a few
ites was no more than a just compen
sation for his services, and it happened
when the fruit reached its destination
little more of it was left than the core.
So both bears grew lean in spite of im
proved digestion, and the monkeys
grew fat, and put on many airs, and
winked at each other aa they passed
fruit to the hungry bears in the course
of their employment.
The keeper of the garden seeing tnis,
and ascertaining the cause, lengthened
the chains of the bears, and so the ser
vices of the monkeys were dispensed
with, and the bears grew fat again.
But the monkeys set up a nowi at Do
ing deprived of their legitimate em
ployment, and berated the bears for
their ingratitude.
A lesson which patrons anouia pon
der.
A Hero's Dewetlea.
"M. de Moltke,' says a correspondent,
"goes to bed regularly at ten, but on a
Aim nnmer'i eve he will first indulge
in another short solitary stroll, in which
he mentally prepares the next day's
work. Often, too, he goes at night to
visit bis wife's tomb, which is concealed
bys row of cypresses, on hillock in
the park. He lost her on the Christmas
night of 1868. She was young and
charming, and they appear to have been
tenderly attached to each other, al
though he might have been her father.
Whenever he arrives at his seat, his
first ears, before entering the house, is
to go and pray near her grave."
The Gipsy's Flowers,
THE ORIGIN OF THE STORT OF
BLUEBEARD.
There was once a Snanish oentlemnn
of high rank, who had led a very wild
and dissolute life, bat now desired to
settle down on his estate and take to
himself a wife, who would preside over
uuunruuiu in a rming iasuion. Being
rich and handsome his wickedness went
for naught, and soon he was betrothed
to a lovely lady, whose family were
pleased with the alliance and who
Drought him a hne fortune.
The wedding was celebrated with
peat pomp, and when he brought his
bride home to his palace, the poor of
the place as usual gathered about the
door, and one a withered old beggar
nuuian oeing iouu in ner praises or
the lady's beauty, and begging to be
permitted to present her with a bouquet
oi white wild flowers that she had
gathered in the woods.
A poor oftenng, my lady," said the
woman, "bat all the poor gipsy has to
give."
The lady took the flowers with a
smile, and dropped coin into the gipsy's
hanil A a . .1 ,i. .1 A
'uiiv. 3 nuc run i cu me uuur, sue
bent her lovely head and inhaled the
Pennine oi the Dowers.
The servants rememlxrod the action
and her smile as she passed into her
apartment leaning on her husband s
arm, ior it was the last thev ever Raw
of her. An hour after she lay dead,
and all the doctors in Madrid could not
tell what had killed her.
The vonnz widower was verv anil fr
a long- rime, our, uy and Dy he began
to find life bright once more, and chose
for himself a second wife. This lady
was younger and lovelier than the first,
though not so rich. Her predecessor's
fate did not alarm her. for she was
strong and tun ot health. Death seemed
to lie very far from so radiant a creature
as she stood before the church altar and
plighted her troth to the man with
whom she hoped to pass her life ; but
those who remembered the first wife's
fate shuddered, as at the fall of evening
sue entered the gates ot her husband s
villa. The same old gipsy who had
greeted the former bride stood amidst
the crowd.
"Heaven and the saints blea von.
lady!"' she cried. "I greeted her who
came here be tore and faded like a Bower.
May you live untd your hair is as white
as mine. Flowers are all I have to give.
Will you honor me by taking them,
lady V
The bride, as the other bride had done,
accepted the offering, and repaid the
gift with coin.
She held the blossoms loosely in her
hand, and passed into the hall. A ban
quet was prepared and she partook of
it- vi ine was on the board; she tasted
it. When the dance began none danced
more gayly than the bride. It was a
merry wedding; and when at last in
the early honrs of morning the music
died away, the guests departed, and the
lamps were extinguished, the beautiful
girl turned with smiles and blushes to
seek her place of rest. As she crossed
the threshold of the hall she stooped
and picked something from the floor.
"My poor gipsy's flowers,1 she said.
"I will not reject the humble token of
kindness:1 and bending her face over
them she passed out of sight.
Half an hour afterward the husband
also entered the bridal room. All was
still. The lamplight fell over the. pil
lows but no fair head rested upon them.
He looked alwuthim; in a far corner
of the room lay what looked like a heap
of rumpled satin, at first sight, lie
advanced toward it, and saw a hand
that grasped convulsively a little bunch
of white flowers, and, with a cry of
horror, cast himself beside the body of
his biide. She was dead ; she bore no
wound; no sign of injury altout her.
Again thepbysicianscould find no cause
for the death, and people began to
whisper tales of evil spirits who haunted
this fatal bridal chanilier, and did to
death the fair beings who braved them
by entering it.
Again the gentleman was a widower;
again he suffered much sorrow, but it
was not eternal. He began in time to
seek another bride, but in vain. No
one would risk the fate of those other
young and lovely women. No one
would have this Bluebeard, the mystery
of whose castle was so terrible, and for
years the widower went a wooing with
out winning, until one morning meeting
the Donna Mora on her way to the
church, her black eyes vailed beneath
her black mantilla, he made a grand
impression, and was permitted ere long
to offer his hand and heart with true
Spanish gallantry.
Donna Mora, who was a widow, list
ened not ill pleased.
"I do not detest you, Senor," she said,
"and I frankly tell you so ; but you have
had strange "bridals heretofore. I do
not feel tired of life, and desire to en
joy myself a little longer. Let pie know
woy your nrsi wives uiea. l ou musi
know."
"On my soul I do notT eaid the gen
tleman. "I believe you," said the lady. "Listen
to me, then. I am ready to marry you,
but before I do I must be allowed to
inspect your house from roof to cellar.
You must vacate it. and give me the
keys, and I must go there alone with
my sister. I will discover the mystery,
if there is one."
"Donna Mora,'' said the gentleman,
"do as yon will. I vacate the dwelling
at once. There are the keys. The long
one of steel opens that fatal chamber
which I beg you not to enter the bri
dal chamber of my dead brides. Adien !
Thanks for your promise, which I shall
hasten to claim when you summon me."
He kissed her hand and rode away.
She at once made ready to seek the
dwelling of which she had heard so
much. The lumbering carnage held
her, her sister, two brothers, maid, man
servant, and pet poodle, very well.
And. at last, thev came in sicht of the
old Moorish building, and paused to
inspect it.
"I begin to tremble,"" said Donna
Anna.
"I have no fears," said Donna Mora.
Then she ordered the coachman to
drive closer, descended ;and unlocked
the gate with her own hands. All was
still ; only the echoes welcomed them.
Theirfeet awoke more upon the stairs;
they made Donna Anna nervous. Donna
Mora was as brave as a man.
They inspected every room ; they
peeped into every closet, they opened
the bridal chamber, and saw the dust
that had gathered noon its ornaments,
and from the neighbors they drew the
whole story. All tnat was known. And
for the first time Ionna Mora heard of
the old gipsy and her flowers.
Then she waited, pacing the floors of
the empty rooms, while Donna Anna
watched from the window, and the
brothers smoked cigarettes in the court
yard. What was she waiting for f She
told no one.
At last:
"Sister, is any one coining! I thought
I heard a step," said she.
"It is an old gipsy with some flowers,"
said Donna Anna.
And Donna Mora said :
' Bid her come in."
Then, passing between the smoking
brothers, who scarcely looked up, and
by the little dog, who growled, entered
an old woman, shrivelled and yellow,
who rourtesied and said :
"May the good stars shine for the
fretty senoritaa and the brave senors.
have heard that the lady who is to be
mistress here has come, and I am old
and mav not live to see her a bride, and
would fain welcome her."
Then Donna Mora answered:
"I am the lady."
"Then may I offer a few wild flowers,"
said the gipsy, "and my good wishes.
ior ine senior nas Deen my oeneiactor.
A poor rift, but do not scorn it."
She held the flowers toward Donna
Mora, who took them and put them
down upon the table.
"Donna Anna." said she, "bring my
dog here. Brothers, seize the gipsy."
In a moment more the struggling
woman was held in a strong grasp, and
uvoii -uora, uoiuing ner nog id ner uip,
pressed the flowers to his nostrils.
"If he lives, free her. If he dies, have
her arrested." she said, quietly.
Donna Anna hid her face. The
brothers sternly regarded first the
woman, then the dog; the latter had
begun to tremble. In a moment more
he uttered a whine, long and terrible to
listen to. Donna Mora dropped the
flowers. The poor creature lay motion
less across ker lap. He was dead.
"Have the woman arrested," said
Donna Mora, again. It is she who has
murdered those two poor women with
her poisoned flowers, as she would have
murdered me."
But to the senor, when they met once
more, she said this:
"I know the ways of gipsies and their
art of poisoning flowers. I know also
that an injured gipsy girl is always
avenged by her tribe, lie who is false
to one woman let no other woman trust
Adieu."
Sleep.
Persons who live by mental labor not
only require a full supply of sleep, but
they also need letting down gradually
to the level of repose. Hence, the
longer the interval between the time of
the active use of the brain and the hour
of rest, the better the chanoe of refresh'
ish and restful sleep.
The American Journal of Insanity
not long since attributed much of the
Erevalent nervousness and impaired
ealth of individuals to the want of
sufficient and quiet rest It says : "To
procure this it is important, in the first
place, that the mind should not be dis
turbed for several hours before retiring
to rest. Study during the evening is
improper. Some few persons, we know,
are able to perform much mental labor,
and to study late at night, and yet sleep
well. Some require but little sleep.
But such individuals are very rare."
Another medical authority, the Lan
cet, places the minimum of sleep at six
hours for men, and seven for women,
with an extra hour or two to be taken
whenever practicable. Dr. Hammond,
an authority on nervous diseases, says :
"For the brain there is no rest except
during sleep." Southey slept seven
honrs and a hall at night, but he also
took a siesta during the day. "Sleep
agrees with me," he wrote, "and I have
a good substantial theory to prove that
it must ; for as a man who walks much
requires to sit down and rest himself,
so does the brain if it be the part most
worked, require its repose."
In respect to sleep. President Grant,
E. E. Hale, and others have confessed
to requiring nine out of twenty-four
hours. Milton in winter invariably
took eight hours repose, and seven in
summer. Hum bolt is reported to have
slept but four hours in the twenty-four,
but this was in his old age, when he did
not need much sleep, and besides it is
said that he was a great "lie a-bed,"
and spent many hours in this half -wakeful
state.
Campbell slept over seven hours
Douglass Jerrold retired at 10 and rose
about 7, while he slept a little after
dinner. Chief-Justice Story always
slept eight and often nine hours. John
C. Calhoun went to bed at 10 and rose
at daybreak. Dr. Arnold allowed him
self about eight hours' sleep. Dr.
Channing usually took an after-dinner
nsp, besides taking a full night's rest
Melanchthon used to take but six hours'
rest, but he would not even open a let
ter in the evening, and retired at nine.
This whole subject may, perhaps, be
summed up in a sentence, viz. : that a
man must proportion his sleep to his
work so as to give time during the
former for the brain to restore the
waste which has taken place during the
latter. If he can get along with a small
supply of sleep it shows either that his
nervous energies recuperate rapidly, or
that the rate of waste during work is
slow.
Again : In every example of an ex
traordinary amount of work being per
formed by any individual, it was always
followed by a long rest, or resulted in
injury to the constitution of the person.
or death, as in the ease of Horace
Greeley, who was a life-long sufferer
from sleeplessness.
Lastly : It would appear from the
number of examples of such a practioe
that taking a midday nap is a prudent
policy. Among those who make this a
rule art 1 hi ers, and Beeoaer, not to
mention others. Golden Aae.
Three God Lessons.
"One of mv first lessons." said Mr.
Stnrgis, the eminent merchant, "was in
1813, when I was eleven years old. My
grandfather had a fine flock of sheep
which were carefully tended during
the war of those times. I was the shep
herd bov and mv business was to watch
the sheep in the field. A boy who was
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more iona oi uis dook man me siieep
was sent with me, but left the work to
me, while he lay under the tree and
read. I did not like that, and finally
went to my grandfather and complained
of it. I shall never forget the kind
smile of the old gentleman as he said :
"Never mind, Jonathan, my boy ; if
you watch the sheep you will have the
sheep."
"What does grandfather mean by
that r I said to myself. "I don't ex
pect to have sheep. My desires were
moderate, and a fine buck was worth a
hundred dollars. I conld not exactly
make out in my mind what it was, but
I had great confidence in him, for he
was a judge, and had been to Congress
in Washington's tine: sol went back
contentedly to the sheep. After I got
into the field I could not keep his words
out of ravhead. Then 1 thought of
Sunday s lesson: "Thou hast been faith
ful vrr a few thin its. I will make these
a ruler over many things." I began to
see through it. "Never you mind who
neglects his duty; be you faithful and
you will have your reward."
I received a good lesson soon after I
came to New York as a clerk to the late
Lyman Reed. A merchant from unio
wno knew me, came to buy goods, and
said: "Make yourself so useful that
thev cannot do without VOU." I took
this meaning quicker than I did that of
mv grandfather.
Well I worked upon these two ideas
nntil Mr. Reed offered me a partner
ship in the business. The first morning
after the partnersnip was maae Known,
Mr .Tames fieerv.the old tea merchant.
railed to congratulate me, and he said.
"Be careful who you waus ine streets
with." That was lesson number three."
And what valuable lessons they are :
Fidelirv in all things;" "do your best
for your employers:" "carefulness
about your associates." Let everybody
take these lessons norne ana siuay mem
well. Thev are the foundation stones
of character and honorable success.
In our own affairs, making is better
than ready made.
Six Haaatreel Acres T Water
Lifted la tm the deads.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle gives
the following particulars of a most re
markable water-spout near laangley,
ueergia:
A dense cloud was first seen approach
ing the pond, being apparently a con
siderable distance up. Nothing par
ticular was tnougnt oi it, ine citizens
of Langley being at the time occupied
in trying to keep oool, a hard thing to
do, with the thermometer 100 degrees
in the shade. But presently a startling
circumstance occurred. The cloud had
halted over the pond, and established
connection with the latter. A genuine
water-spout had, in fact, been evolved,
and an immense quantity of water was
rushing skyward through the liquid
conductor. When first seen, the water-
rut was near the dam, and traveled
rly across the pond until it reached
the railroad trestle work, a distance of
a mile and a quarter from its starting
point, when it disappeared, and the
cloud moved majestically off, carrying
with it thousands of gallons of water
which had been drawn from the pond.
The latter, covering an area of six hun
dred acres, was, in fact, lowered fully
two inches. The huge column which
joined the upper region to the expanse
of water below resembled a cone in
form, and rotated horizontallv with ex
ceeding rapidity. The marvelous speed
with which the column turned im
pressed the beholder immediately with
the idea that it was associated with a
whirlwind. This was most orobablv
the case, as a tremendous wind passed
over Augusta, from the direction of
Langley, some hours afterwards. The
heavens were brilliant with incessant
flashes of lightning after the spout de
scribed above had disappeared. There
was no rushing noise connected with it,
as is the case in some instances. The
water underneath the clouds just before
the spout formed was in a state of great
agitation. Waves rolled angrily, and a
perceptible bulge was seen. As the
clond halted, a sort of tunnel protruded
from it, and dropped slowly down, be
coming larger as it lengthened, the
broader portion, or base, being at the
surface of the cloud. When it reached
a point about one-fourth the distance
between the cloud and the pond, the
bulge on the surface of the latter rose
to meet it, and the two at length joined,
when the water from the pond com
menced ascending into the cloud, which
moved slowly toward the trestle-work.
The waves in the water all leaped and
tended towards the spout, and the spout
itself continued the vertical motions
referred to above. The outside of the
watery funnel was dark and not well
defined, while the center was much
lighter, being rather of a bluish cast.
This would seem to indicate that the
column was partly hollow, the dark
portions representing the sides. There
can be no doubt but that the immense
quantity of water which was transferred
from the pond to the cloud was literally
sucked up. The spout finally disap
peared, as if it had been drawn boldly
up into the cloud, while the latter
quietly moved off to parts unknown.
Not a drop of rain fell during the oc
currence or afterward. The formation
and subsequent motions of the spout
are described as having made up a
spectacle grand in the extreme. Nothing
of the kind was ever before seen in that
section. The strangest part of the
phenomenon was the fact that the
cloud, so burdened with water, moved
off without dispensing any of it in the
form of rain in the neighborhood.
Mom Rosea.
Moss rosea are largely grown for the
London markets ; they thrive pretty
well under trees, and are very hardy and
floriferous. Light, rich and deep ground
suits them best. Two rows of these
roses are generally planted between
currant and gooseberry bushes, about
two feet apart, but as suckers, speedily
make their appearance, all traces of
rows become lost and the result is a
broad band of roses, some 2 or 3 feet
wide, occnovinff the central BDace
between the bush fruit. Under fruit
trees where no fruit bushes exist, they
are grown in lines 2 or 3 feet apart, I
and interspersed with sprouting broc
coli, Brussels sprouts, potatoes, or
shallots, and they are also grown in the
open ground, about the same distance
apart. After they have done blooming,
and have made good wood, they are
layered on both sides of the rows, and
in October, or any time between that
and the following March, the layers are
lifted, and after their roots have been
dressed and their tops shortened a little,
they are planted out in permanent rows
from two to three feet apart, or, if space
is scarce at the time, thickly in rows a
foot or eighteen inches apart, where
they remain for twelve months before
being finally planted out. They are
pruned very closely in Winter, and in
Spring they begin to form flower buds,
almost as soon as the leaves make their
appearance. It is the buds that are
gathered for market, the blooms never
being permitted to expand. In hot
summers, and indeed whenever oonve
nience permits, the space over their
roots, two or three feet in width, is
mulched with litter, which saves them
from drought, and also acts as a stimu
lant A Scalptar's Idea of a Ghost.
T. K. Gould, the Boston sculptor, has
f rod need in marble the "Ghost of
lamlet." It consists of a head , bearded,
helmeted and plumed, chiseled in high
relief on a sunk oval set into a sqnare.
The "Advertiser" says of this effort :
"Here is a shadow in marble, yet a
distinct personality of keen and varied
expression. It is a spirit striving to
become an apparition, end showing the
strain of the endeavor. As one looks
lontrer the Diteousness of the whole
expression grows especially, again, in
the wonflenui eyes; me countenance,
grim and pertubed' as it is, is seen to
be 'more in sorrow than in ancer.' and
even the dead frown seems tempered
by the love and longing which led tne
father to seek his only son. In every
line and aspect the head is most majes
tic and kingly; and by some subtile
skill the effect of paleness, as required
by the text of Shakspeare, seems to be
imparted to the wasted cheeks."
A Pair af Pretty CaaapUnseaU.
Sir Geortre Rose beinj introduced one
day to two charming young ladies,
whose names were Mary and Louisa, he
instantly added, with a bow, "Ah, yes !
Marie-Louise thesweetest pear I know;
a compliment almost worthy of being
coupled with that most graceful one of
Sidney Smith, suggested by the sweet
pea. A young lady, walking with him
in the garden, paused to examine a
favorite flower on which she had taken
great pains. "I am afraid, Mr. Smith,"
she said, "that thia pea will never come
to perfection."" "Then allow me," tak
ing her politely by the hand, "to lead
perfection to the pea i
The sweet orb of life The honey
moon.
"Voiitlis Column.
HI
ln kisses plt. mutlwrr
IJtu Witter aaka,
ftaiai&ff gr- t, dark. mast tTM
Tbst bnahteo for her Mirer b"jr
Tbroagh taer ufe of Sop ud Joy
W hat know be uf I
Sara careaaea atft and awaet
Earh fneb boor of life to irreM
Bleaaina klaa of aire and mother,
Claap of alater, has of brother ?
Thanks lot babf Mlaw.
Happy, e herl bed darlinjr.
He Dor knowa nor carea
Of paaeioaale lipa that preaa hi Taut
On thoae that cannot alow aain.
Of wild, deapatrlmi klaaea preaarxl
On damp aoda where oar idols rest,
'Mid aad ana&ewared prayera.
Can troe-heartad childhood
Oueee each thinee can be
Aa kiea twist aecret ft and foe.
Aa handa that ctaap o'er anlfa below.
Aa klaaea with no loving laaTan,
Coldly taken. Idly gieen.
In cuaUMu courtawy ?
Can frank hearted childhood
Urea that kindred upe
Lips that have met a thousand times.
Warm and true as posts' rbymea
May for each other learn to frarue
Scorn or hatred, mork or blame.
Lore's on warned eclipse ?
Dim not childhoods fniden fai'h
With socb tore as this la ;
Let hun trust the sUdneas round
Trust toe love aa birthrubt foaad :
Hoon. too soon, the world will teach
HtiDRa may lurk m honeyed speech.
Treason hide in kissos,
TAjfrsa Birds. It may not be unin
teresting to some of your readers to see
the account, which I give below, of my
experience with wild birds. I am very
sure birds could quite easily be taught
to have confidence in ua.
While living in the West I tamed two
families of birds known as "chipping
birds." Thev at first nicked ud the
crumbs shaken from the table-cloth.
After a few days they would come npon
the steps of the cook-room, and at last,
they became so very tame, they would
come into the house for food for their
young, and if they found no one in the
room to leed them, they would go into
all the rooms, until some one was found.
I have known them even to go into the
parlor, where five or six mi eats were
seated, without fear, and come directly
to my leet, hen their young left
their nests the parent birds taught
them to oome into the house also, and
they never manifested fear. Sometimes
several of them were in at onoe. This
season, we have bluebirds quite tame,
naving their nest in the verandah. Y e
have a tame chipping-bird, and feed
him many times daily. Last eveninc.
at ten o'clock, I was sitting by the table
reading, and was much surprised to
hear the little fellow singing. He had
seen the light shining through the win
dow, and saw me sitting there.
Plaw Talk to Girls. Your every
day toilet is part of your character. A
girl who looks like a "fury" or a sloven
in the morning is not to be trusted,
however finely she may look in the
evening. No matter how humble your
room may be, there are eight things it
should contain, viz : a mirror, a wash
stand, soap, towel, comb and hair, nail
and tooth brushes. They are just as
essential as your breakfast, before
which you should make good and free
use of them. Parents who fail to pro
vide their children with such appliances
not only make a great mistake, but
commit a sin of omission. Look tidy
in the morning and after work is over
improve your toilet. Make it a rule of
your daily life to dress up for the after
noon. Tour dress may or may not be
anything better than calico ; but with a
ribbon or flower, or some bit of orna
ment, yon can have an air of self-respect
and satisfaction that invariably comes
with being well-dressed. A girl with
fine sensibilities cannot help feeling
embarrassed and awkward in a ragged,
dirty dress, with her hair unkempt, if a
stranger or a neighbor should come in.
Moreover, your self-respect should de
mand the decent apparalinsr of vour
body. Ton should make it a point to
look as well as yon can, even if yon
snow nobody will see you but yourself.
A Wo.wderptt. Art. The manufac
tory in Kome where pictures are copied
in mosaic being thus rendered almost
everlasting, or time-proof, is the most
celebrated establishment of the kind in
the world, some of its productions be
ing little less than miracles of artistic
genius, beauty and skill. The mosaio
is formed of tiny bits of opaque colored
glass of various shades, amounting, it
is said, to the almost incredible number
of 30,000 different and distinct shades,
themselves so arranged as to form a
picture perfect in every detail in light,
shadow, shade and color. It is de
scribed as corresponding, in some
measure, to the pictures formed in
Berlin wooL The various pieces of
colored glass are placed in their pre
arranged order on a table covered with
a sort of cement, and when this tedious
process is over, for there are many
thousands of pieces in each picture, the
surface of the picture is then smoothed
and polished. These are the main
features, mechanically considered, of
this wonderful art.
Books. Books are a great aid in
thinking, and the people who really
wish to learn will be careful in their
choice of books. A great many works
have no tendency to awaken thought on
the part of the reader. They present
oaly common-place thought, and are
not worth reading, except for the in
formation they may convey. There are
other books which set the reader think
ing. They are commonly the produc
tions of first-rate minds. It is seldom
wise to read a book produced by an
inferior mind. Tou know that there is
an advantage in having familiar inter
course with men of superior minds.
Yon would not choose the society of
weak and ignorant minds, if you could
have that of strong and learned minds.
In like manner you should not spend
your time in perusing the works of
feeble or common-place minds, when
those of first-rate minds are within
reach.
How to Succeed. If your seat is too
hard to sit npon, stand up ; if a rock
rises up before yon, roll it away or
climb over it If yon wish for confi
dence, prove yourself worthy of it. It
takes longer to skin an elephant than a
mouse, but the skin is worth something.
Don't be content with doing what
another has done surpass it. Deserve
success and it will come. The boy was
not born a man. The sun does not rise
like a rocket, nor go down like a bullet
fired from a gun ; slowly but surely it
makes its round, and never tires. It is
as easy to be a leader as a wheel horse.
If the job be long the pay will be
greater ; if the task be hard, the more
competent yon must be to do it
Bring np a child in the way he should
go. A French youth was recently put
on trial for murdering his mother.
The murderer was found "guilty" with
extenuating circumstances, the only
ground for which was, that he had never
received any eanoauon.
t nineties.
Silence never yet betrayed any one.
Drunkenness is nothing but volun
tary madness.
Egotists cannot converse ; they talk
to themselves.
The agitation of thought is the be
ginning of wisdom.
A long winded orator is said to have
a sleeping car attached to his train of
thought.
When your pocket-book gets empty,
yon can put all your friends in it, head
and ears.
One of the Prince of Wales' principal
creditors is Poole, the tailor. He pants
for his pay.
It is a strange fact that wise men
learn more from fools than fools do
from wise men.
Love others well, but love thyself the
most : give good for good, bnt not to
thine own cost.
Laws, like saosaffes. would fail to in
spire respect if all people knew how
they were made.
The books in the library belonging to
the British Museum occupy twelve
miles of shelving.
The bread of life is love : the salt of
l-'fe is work ; the sweetness of life
poesy ; the waters of life faith.
It is said thst water which percolates
through gneiss rocks is an infallible
homoeopathic specific for cancer.
A red-hot iron pressed closely to the
gnm, in contact with an aching tooth,
will usually prove effective.
A Yankee editor has recently (rot no a
remedy for hard times. It consists in
ten hours' labor, well worked in.
We are all hunters in the field of life.
Some of us bring down our game ; but
most of us end in a wild goose chase.
The great struggles in life are limited
to moments ; in the drooping of the
head npon the bosom in the pressure
of the hand upon the brow.
Velocipedementia has become epi
demic in Paris, and the bicycle is not
only used by sickly persons for exer
cise, but by cyclopedic reporters of the
leading journals.
Shakespeare says : "It is a good di
vine that follows his own instructions.
I can easier teach twenty men what
were to be done, than to be one of
twenty to follow my own teachings. "
There is that in every animal's eye,
a dim image and gleam of humanity, a
flash of strange light through which
their life looks out and up to our great
mystery of control over them, and
claims the fellowship of the creature, if
not ot the souL Jiuxkin.
Emulation, even in the brutes, is sen
sitely "nervous." See the tremor of
the thoroughbred racer before he starts.
The dray horse does not tremble, but
he does not emulate. It is not his work
to run a race. Says Marcus Antonius :
"It is all one to a stone whether it be
thrown upward or downward."
A child, born recently in Chautauqua
county. New York, and still living, the
local paper asserts, has its heart located
on the outside of its chest, and in plain
view. The heart is perfect in form, is
well proportioned, and as firm in tex
ture as could be expected in so young
a child. When the child cries the
the heart expands to nearly twice its
ordinary size.
The Niagara Falls Gazette tells of a
queer trip taken by a lady visitor's par
asol the other day. The lady accident
ally dropped it into the swift current
that harries under the Lnns Island
bridge. The current whisked the light
burden over the precipice, and the late
owner figured up the late cost of her
carelessness. Subsequently the lady
took a trip into the Cave of the Winds,
where she found her truant parasol pa
tiently bobbing around in a friendly
eddy.
A German professor from Frankfort,
in relation to the use of horse-flesh as
food, said, at the late international Con
gress, "Once get the people over their
prejudices, and we will see no more
lean, lame and suffering old racks, for
when unfit for work, they will be fatted
for food, and of course well cared for.
He remarked that, to his knowledge,
there were more than five hundred
horses kept for food annually in Frank
fort, and yet there was not a person to
be found in the place who ever eat horse
flesh ! Certainly not
Speaking of the exhibition of British
and foreign birds at the Birmingham
Exchange, the Uazette says a vulture
and a pair of horned owls were to have
been exhibited, but their introduction
was marked by such a panic on the part
of their predecessors that it was found
necessary to keep them back. The en
trance of the vulture was especially re
markable. Every smaller bird seemed
to become instinctively aware of the
presence of a natural enemy and the
screaming which prevailed for some
time after its removal was prodigious.
A novel street car has been put in
use in San Francisco. It is built some
what in the shape of a balloon, and has
ample seating capacity for fourteen per
sons. The car revolves on the wheeis
and saves the necessity of having a turn
table, and can be turned with ease, so
that in case the street is blockaded, the
driver can turn back at once on bis re
turn trip. The expense of a conductor
will be saved on these cars, passengers
dropping their fare in a box near the
driver. The front is so arranged that
the driver can sit down or stand at will.
The car is a novel contrivance, ia quiet
light, rides easy and comfortable, and
will probably be sought for more than
the cars at present in use, as they can
not be overcrowded.
In China where locusts are wont to
ravage the country, the local authori
ties, whether civil or military, are held
responsible for the stamping out of
these insects as soon as their appear
ance has been reported. They are re
quired to summon a large body of men,
and at once surround and destroy the
locusts, the expense of maintenance of
the men and compensation forthecropa
trodden down during the chase being
supplied by the Provincial Treasury.
Should the local authorities suoceed in
stamping ont the locusts within a lim
ited time, their services are favorably
reported to the Emperor ; but should
they fail, and the locusts spread and do
damage, they are liable to be deprived
of their posts, arrested, and handed
over to the proper board for punish
ment A certain sum per bushel is paid
to peasants bringing in unwinged lo
custs, and half that sum when the lo
custs are able to fly, while compensa
tion is given for crops trodden down in
the chase. The locusts are swept with
besoms into trenches dug at the sides
of the corn fields in which a vigorous
fire is kept up. The best time to cap
ture locusts is when they are feeding; at
dawn of day, when their bodies being
heavy with dew and their wings wet,
they are unable th jump or fly.