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VOL. XXVIII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PEXNA., DECEMBER 23, 1S74. NO. 51.
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BT K. B. KTODDAKD.
"O. give w something. Ladv ;
'For I have given my heart
A trille to replace it.
When we mre far apart."
She drew (ram out her bosom
A rose-hod wet with dew.
And gave it to him. saving.
' Here' something, sir, (or you."
"I take it and will keep it.
For never lady wore
A flower so pure and perfect
l'.nt you mnxt jjive me more !"
"I have no more to give, air;
A simple maid like me.
"Who ha nor birth nor fortune,
"What should she have? said she.
T.iit you have gold," he answered;
'No lady in the land
So rirh a dower. "What is it ?"
"Tlie ring upon yonr hand ?"
She plipjv-d from off her fiugcT
The little nng she wore.
"I take it, and will wear it
lhit you must give me more !"
What more have I to give yoa ?
"Why give you auythiug ?
You had niy rore liefore, sir.
And now you have my riu."
"Vou hal firyottcu one thing."
"I do not undt-rHtaiid !"
"The dw gm-s w.th the mae-lnnl.
And with the nn the haud !"
She save her baud: he took it.
And killed it o'er and o'er;
"I give myself to you, love;
"I cannot give yon more !"
Distance of the Sun.
Suppose we hail it messenger whom
we cul l send to aud fro lnjtwf en the
earth and tlit-Miu, snd who conld tell
iik exactly low long it took him to per
form the jonrney ; suppose we could
ill so find ty trial exactly how fast he
could travel ; tlieu multiply his speed
by the time occupied in coming from
the sun, hu1 we shall have the distance
of that ho 'r, jnst as we would get the
distance of two cities when we knew
that a train running forty miles an
hour took seven hours to run between
thom.
Knch a messenger is light. Let us
find how long it take light to come
from the snn and how fast it flies, and
wo have the distance required. How
hopeles a task it seems to find either
the time or the velocity! lint both
have lx-en found by mi thods which
admit of leing nude ratood without any
gr-at. ann-uit, of scientific knowledge.
The time of the j mruey has been found
by two entirely mdejieudent methods.
The first is by the eclipses of Jupiter's
satellite?. The inner of these satellites
revolves around Jupiter very regularly
in less than two dnvs. l passes
through the shadow of Jupiter in every
revolution, and thus becomes eclipsed.
These eclipses can be olserved with a
ftnall telescope, and the time noted
within a few seconds. The time of re
volution and the form of the orbit
lieing precisely determined, the mo
BieuU at which future eclipses are to
occur can Is? exactly predicted. The
Crat astronomer who accurately inves
tigated this subj-ct found that when
the earth was between the sun and
Jupiter tho eclipses were seen several
minutes sooner than they should have
occurred ; as the earth moved away,
they were seen later, and finally, when
the earth got to the opposite side of
the aim. they were as much too late as
they had been too early. As the earth
returned the eclipses again came earlier,
and the irregularity continued in the
name order year after year. The varia
tion was found to be about eight
minutes in time on each side of the
wean. 1'ersuaded that no such irregu
laris in the motions of those bodies
could really exist, he attributed the
appearance" to the progressive motion
of light, and hence concluded that this
agent was about eight minutes in pass
ing over the space which separated the
mu from the earth. The exact deter
mination of this time was made about
seventy years ago from an examination
of all the eclipses of Jupiter's satellite,
observations of which were to be found
in the I'aris Observatory. The result
was 8 minutes 13-2 seconds.
The other method of finding the time
light requires to pass from the sun to
the earth is due to Bradley, who was
Astronomer llcyal of England in 1750.
In making observations to determine
the parallax ot the fixed stars he was
surprised to find an apparent annual
motion of the stars of about 20 seconds,
which did not correspond to the paral
lax at alL After long study on the sub
ject, it occurred to him that, owing to
the rapid motion of the earth in its
orbit, uo star would be seen in its true
direction unless it was in the line of
direction of the motion ; but the mo-i-n
( the liirht itself would be com-
ttlUs'l
with that ol tlie earui. xue
r oil seconds showed that
.UU&U
the
verity of the light coming from
stir was lO.(XX) times that of the
the
i-arth ju lis orbit. Hince the velocity
of tiie eart-h would carry it to the sun
in alMint 57 davs, light would, by this
liieorv, r quire about 1 -JHNH of 57 days
to reach the sun. Calculate this time,
aiid it will give 8 minutes 12 seconds,
t he EWt;t exact observations of receut
times give H miunU-s 18 sccouds. There
is thereforean outstanding discrepancy
(A five seconds only Itetween the results
4if tine two methods', and this is accouuted
for bv the uncertainly of the old obser
vant of Jupiter's satellites.
The terrestrial veloci-y of light is
also obtained by two diff. rent methods.
The mechanical diihVclties involved in
them mnv be judged by the fact that it
has been necessary w u -
U time less than a millionth of a second.
The iri'wt accurate method ia that of
Koucault.jn which, beam of light is
rc-a-lo to f.U on a rapidly revolving
w.rn.r. from wuivk it is reflected to a
ceoud mirror, wh:J throw- i j back to
the revolving mirror. If the light re
quired no time whatever to pis be
tween the two mirrors, the stationary
mirror would reflect it back to the
name r-oint from which it came in the
first place, for, however fast the other
mirror might turn, it would be in the
Mme posit'on when the hghl
rerlecteil and when it came back after
the second reflection. But if the light
takes anv time to go and come, the
mirror will have moved a little between
the two reflections, and the rays will
le thrown back to different point
from that from which it came. By
giving the mirror velocity of a thous
and turns per second the deviation of
the second reflection was sufficient to
be measured by the aid of a telescope,
and the resulta of the measurements
indicated that the Telocity of light
was 185,000 miles per second. Mul
tiply this by the 498 second it takes
light to come from the snn to the
earth, and we find the distance passed
over to be 92.130.000 miles, s result
l.i,i. Aivmlint with the other
recent determination of the snn aia
Unce. 7(irxT' Magazine.
MY CIIRiSTn.lS RETESGE.
I do not think there is any need of
my explaining how it happened, that I,
who when lsrn had expectations of
quite a fair fortune, should have found
inyself.when womanhood came, obliged
to earn my daily bread. But so it was;
and in one of the large sewing-machine
emporiums (no matter which one) of a
leading American city, I held a position
as a teacher for several years.
My duties were very monotonous;
but I used to extract a considerable
amount of interest and amusement,
while engaged iu giving instruction,
from learning the histories and they
were very varied of my scholars.
The pi esc nt recollect ion al ways come
back to me at the Christinas time; anil
therefore when the season rolls around
again, with its merriment and cheer,
its niisletoe and holly, its written and
unwritten iragetlics and comedies of
life, 1 feel like recounting it to others.
The position of instructress brought
me almost entirely in con Met with my
own sex. Sometimes 1 had a male
pupil one of a mildly mechanical turn
who would wish to become familiar
with the machine, so as to Is? able to
assist some wife or sister ; but the in
sti iictioii-rooin, as a rule, was usually
quite free from fivqiicut visits of the
sterner sex.
During the fall of a sccial year I lie
I'ame conscious, however, that a certain
Mr. llarrv Ia-v, a gentleman whom 1
knew to W an intimate acquaintance
of one of my employers, and whom'
lace was quite well kuowu to all in the
establishment, Itegan to occasionally
drop into my department and look on
during instruction hours. He was very
plcasaiit and gentlemanly in his luau
neis, and gave as an excuse for the in
terest lie took, that he was a horn Yan
kee, and therefore very fond of inven
tions. Although there were other teachers,
I discovered that he lingered most
fiequently in my vicinity, and seemed
more interested in my conversation
than that of my companions. 1 was
young at the time, ami no doubt had
the usual desire of my sex to please. I
felt flattered, Itcrhups. at his rescctful
attention, and took particular pains to
make mvobservatioiisoii "what 1 knew
ulstut sewing-machines'' as intelligent
as my limited powers permitted. He
soon ticcanie a frequent visitor, and
sometimes when business was dull
would linger and converse on other
subjects besides the technicalities of
the trade. 1 found that he was well
educated, had traveled considerably in
his own country, and knew, as they
say, "men ami things.'' His intimate
friendship with one of the firm pre
vented any remarks as to the frequency
of his visits; and he made the addi
tional aiMilogy for Missible intrusion,
that he was very much at his leisure,
and sometimes thought of connecting
himself with the business. 1 admit
that I was quite interested in him, and
felt pleased when sometimes he would
bring me some favorite book atiout
which we hud con versed and exchanged
views or ask my opinion on some ma
gazine article that w;is engrossing pub
lic attention. 1 had never given a
thought to his relation iiT life whether
lie was married or single; lie had
simply liccii to me a pleasant episode
among my daily labors; and the flash
of his blue eyes and his frank smile,
when saluting me, 1 at first considered
as merely among the other usual inci
dents of my daily life.
It was during a somewhat extended
conversation, one day, some weeks
after our first acquaintance, that the
thought flashed across my mind that
he had seen trouble and was unhappy
in connection with his affections. His
opinions of the female sex, 1 discovered
uku probing him a little, were not
very enthusiastic or rose-colored.
Sometimes, when speaking of marriage
and its relations, I thought his remarks
rather cynical and bitter; and once or
twice he criticised some of my young
and fashionable pupils very severely,
sccmiug to have a very poor opinion of
them as to their usefulness as probable
wives and mothers.
We lM'came very good friends, event
ually; indeed, I am afraid that should
I confess to the truth, we indulged a
little in harmless and pleasant flirta
tion. At last, from an accidental remark
of one of my employers, I discovered
the "skeletou in his closet." He was a
married man, but separated from his
w ile. I think that I felt a little pained
at the information; and I certainly
could not help the coldness of my
manner when next I met him. He saw
the change, and asked with his eyes
for an explanation, though not with
his tongue. Had betaken the latter
liberty, it is very possible that I might
have "told him, anil then this story
would never have lieen written ! As it
was, a few hours thoroughly calmed
me; showed me something of the im
prudence of which 1 had been guilty,
in making so close an acquaintance
with a mail alsnit whom 1 knew liter
all v nothing; and roused all the woman
within me, iu pride and a dim suspicion
of revenge.
That revenge was much nearer than
I could possibly have dreamed : and
unlike most revenges, no sorrow is en
tailed bv the recollection. But of that
anon. Following the discovery, the
first thing 1 did was to enlarge it by
ascertaining particulars.
lie hail married a petted, wayward,
iM'autifulgirl theonly chiidof wealthy
parent, who had by injudicious man
agement fostered every weakness of
her character. He had formed her
acquaintance, and married her after a
short courtship, while on a visit to her
tiaive town, and after a few months
removed to the city where he now
made his residence. He hud brought
her home to the house of his mother,
w ho, with his sister, was of the true
New Knglan.l tyie. They were thor
ough going, practical women, notable
hotisckcciM-rs, slightly Puritanical in
their l-liefs.and holding very little
sympathy with youth and inexperience.
The young wife was impulsive, unused
to disc ipline of any kind, ran-less, ig
norant of any habits of industry, but
iji--hc:irted and affectionate. No
doubt a very troublesome relative to
the Maul, meiiHMiicai woiucu mui
whom she took un her residence.
I'nfortnnatcly for the wife, also, her
husband uau been laugni io iook up
to his mother and sister as the lest of
.. ......... ! li.-ixl fondlv fancied that
when his new treasure came under
their control all those little weaknesses
of wlm h lie had soon ik-coiuc aware
..i... ,..,irrinii wniiid lie cured by
rt l f . - r
ti...ir eiamiile and advice. But his
sanguine hoes were .doomed to early
disappointment. Instead of his wife
growiug docile and yielding, she be
more willful and intractable,
relielled with a high spirtt against any
rule, and looked upon her husband
more as a companion with whom to
enioythe amusemenU of fashionable
- i,..n oi a h. -Inmate and mend
with whom to pas through the trials
i..l cares of life. Still she had a kind
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more love and sympat hy been exhibited
in connection with efforts to change
. ... .,,.1 loss rold. severe exac-
tions shownon tbepartof her husband
relatives, the eveni nugui u "
r.? .11 At, last the usual result
followed, quarrels became of frequent
occurrence; esirangeiueu. ." "c
i . .. u. i..,,i,.n,l ami wife: and it was
only a year after their marriage that
the voung wife, one day, after a pas
sionate outbreak and most unhappy
scene with her husband, left his home
and returned to that of her parents.
Here she was not onlv received with
open arms, but condoled and sympa-
iiuzcu Willi wi ni-r greai luim.v j iu-
rjirfM iiriniiMfil mill nil ch:Lllie of rei-llll-
cilintion ilestroyed.
Such was the pamlul story, as i
lyathArAil tliA nartlinlum no rsrA HHP
in the world, I am quite aware, and yet
sad enough as embodying the wreck of
two lives.
Tt wna in tha month of DacpfrdiAr that
one very cold and blustering morning a
laiy was usuerea into me lnsirucuou-
wm lw nna it fl,A dlnamHTl RIlA WAR
a young and remarkably pretty woman,
ana aressea very necomingiy iu me
- , n,i i i
prevailing moue. a no usuai reuiaras
that "she was afraid she would be
stupid," and my reassurance that I had
taught pupils Irom twelve to eiguty in
age and from Irish Norah to the Hon.
Mrs. Highflyer in position, passed be
tween ns ; and then the lesson began.
Upon the raising of her veil, as she
seated herself. I discovered that her
beautiful brown eyes showed traces of
. . n. .
recent tears ; ana several times as iuo
I .v nvntroaaoil m 1 Tl nV TinMflT Hi V
drawn long sigh or sob proved very
plainly mat sue nau jaieij iu3cu
through some strong emotion.
In the conrse of the lesson, that day.
she told me that she was married and
the mother of a little boy somewhat
np a var old. She hinted at trouble
in connection with her marriage rela-
ions, ana oi late news mat uau uwu
the past night to be spent very unhap
pily. She seemed low-spirited, and
deeply ashamed of her ignorance as
regarded all knowledge of sewing or
the construction of the simplest gar
ment I encouraged her told her that
patience and application only were
necessary, as she showed very good
natural abilities and would learn easily.
The first lesson was succeeded by
others, for several days following, dur
inir h;h T learned that she had been
married between two and three years ;
tnat sne naa always oeiore uer maiimgc
u and Ininrionn existence, her
parents being fashionable butterflies ;
that she bad passed through a great
sorrow, when her babe was born, and
now was inst beginning to appreciate
some of the realities of life. She con
fessed that it was when recovering Irom
ai'V.hevt anir amors the new and
strange feelings that came with the
birth of her babe, mat sne naa awak
ened to the truth, and listened to the
promptings, always before ignored, oi
her more practioal nature. That it was
through the advice of a kind friend who
her thrnnch her sickness
that she had purchased a sewing-ma-
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chine, tne inena rjeueving wu iv wuum
be a eood beginning in her efforts to do
Amalhinir noefnl
All this my new pupu aia not teu ma
in so many words, but it was the sub
stance of what I gathered by degrees.
I was very much interested and one
day. as Bbe was leaving, casually re
-, t-t . i ir
marked that her husband was, no
doubt, pleased at her progress in mas
tering the mystery. Then I heard what
I had almost before suspected, as with
tears filling her eyes she said that she
had no husband in one sense that she
had separated from him tnat it was
her own fault an act done by herseif
in hot anger and rage, but now bitterly
repented.
I felt very sorry never more so for
lwinr her renentaiice was
""J "'- o , .
so sincere and her sorrow so hopeless.
A dim suspicion naa oeen creeping
through my mind during this last rela
tion, that I had heard a story some-
thing akin to this before ; ana as sue
was about leaving I reminded her that
.iinnmih ri went well acquainted as
teacher and pnpil, I had never yet heard
- - i :
her name. Apologizing ior ner run
ness, she handed me a card as she left
the room. I will not say that I was very
much surprised, for I had half guessed
the coincidence by intuition, when I
read on the card I held in my hand,
"Mrs. Gracie Lee."
Yes, it was Harry Lee's wife who had
been my pupil I A great many strange
feelings were at work within my breast
daring the next ten minutes. I had not
seen AXr. Lee for some time ; he had
avoided the instraotion-room a conrse
of conduct for which I bad been thank
ful.
Now the rest of this is going to be
very brief. On my bed, that night, the
desire to do something, corn oi tne
necessity, took practical shape, and I saw
my way to my revenge on Harry Lee.
I hope my imaginary blushes may be
spared, when i say tnat to aauiHu
it I took occasion to turow mjieu
Mr. Lee's way (of coarse by apparent
accident), and that within a week I had
won him back to the instruction room
CHRISTMAS MARKET
and the renewal of onr friendly chata,
though at such hours (late in the after
noon) that there was no chance of his
meeting his wife. That I never lalmred
harder with any pupil than with that
willing bnt nervous little lady, to ena
ble her rapidly to become not only pro
ficient at the machine bnt to teem so.
Then tl at 1 progressed by making an
appointment with Mjs. Lee, on some
excuse as to my convenience, at four
o'clock on the afternoon before Christ
mas (Christmas eve at a very early
stage of the anniversary), and mean
while gained a character for benevolence
by telling my companions in teaching
that they had better go home early and
thus enjoy the gay sights and sounds
presented by the Btreete on that festive
season. And then that I crowned the
whole by making another appointment
with Mr. Harry Lee, for the same place,
half an hour later, having in view the
necessity of bringing him unexpectedly
upon his wife at the very moment when
she should be sewing away at the top
of her ability.
1 know not much about the meeting
between Harry Lee and his wife, over
the sewing-machine, that evening be
fore Christmas ; as (confound it I) I
felt myself obliged to leave them alone
together just at the interesting moment,
and they had made it all up before 1
thought it proper to return !
However, I had my reveBge. Mr.
Lee (I wish to be understood and be
lieved on this point) never flirted any
more with me, however mildly "never
no more." He went to Europe, but a
little later, and took his wife, leaving
his little son with his notable New. Eng
land mother, who was sore to take good
care of him though she might not per
mit him to romp too hilariously. They
were kind enough to believe that I had
been of service to them ; and I was the
recipient of certain rings, on" of which
Harry Lee gave me with what I thought
was rather a conscious look, and the
other of which Gracie Lee gave me with
no shamefacedness and a hearty kiss.
I saw them together, and at home
again, in a pretty new home over which,
taught by some mistakes in the past,
the wife was sole mistress, apparently
very happy, the next Christmas ; and I
think Mr. Lee, nnder some sort of idea
that she owed the recovery of her
husband to her sewing-machine, looked
upon that useful article as a species of
good fairy, and her seat at it as a place
of refuge, and always to be found sewing
when things went at all crooked in the
household.
My after-acpnaintance with them, at
all events, showed that the indolent,
useless, and self-willed wife had become
the busy, useful and gentle one ; and
that the husband, who had begun by
misunderstanding her, bad come tally
back to his senses, and grown much
wiser as to the quality of the woman
with whom he had been intrusted. And
something of this, if not all of it, was
the result of a little flirtation nipped in
the bud ; ad of My Christmas Revenge.
Edible Fungi.
The Gardener's Magazine says :
"There are hundreds of 'edible vegeta
bles that the world disdains to eat,
snch as hop-tops, nettles, hedge mus
tard, chickweed, and so forth ; and if
it be to please the eccentric or save one
from starvation, any or all of them may
be welcome. But the verdict of the
world upon such things is sound. It is
actually cheaper to grow a cabbage than
hunt in the hedgerows for table vegeta
bles ; so it is with the fungi. Anybody
can enjoy the real A garicu campenlri,
and its near ally the coarse but well
flavored and nutricious Agnrieua
arventin. The champignon, Maraxmiut
oreadet, a pretty flat-headed, brownish,
dry-textured fungus, is perhaps a better
thing than the mushroom, thoughtless
well-known, and because less fleshy and
nutritive, less to be desired. The
truffle, Tuber cibarium, and the morel,
Morchella eitculenta, are epicures' deli
cacies that are not made much of on
the tables of people who do not under
stand the high art of artistic dining,
and who, consequently, rareiy enter
into the epicure's enjoyment of the
flavor of these dainty things. When
we go beyond these five kinds we are in
a region of doubt and difficulty. 'What,'
says some one who has recovered from
sickness caused by tasting Agaaicut
euomttu, which emits a very spicy
odor, "will vou ignore the puff-ball and
the great liver fungus f" Ah, to be
sure, when quite young, the puff-ball
ia a good fungus : but a Scotch phi
losopher who knows all about puff-balls
was nearly killed a month or so back
through tasting one while preparing a
lecture on fungi."
IX SI. PETERSBURG.
Literary Ilnsbaudu and Wives
It lias often bceu said that literary
men and women rarely lead happy
married lives. I tin not profess to
know all of the literary j-ople in the
world, or even in the I nited States,
but those who occur to my mind at
present live just as happily as do the
majority of people, and happier than
many who never write a line for the
printer. In New Yortf is Stedinan, for
instance; nothing could ls more de
lightful than his domestic n-lations.
He has a most charming wife, to whom
he is devoted, anil they keep house very
cozil v in an np-town flat. His two
children are loys,one of whom is learn
ing the publishing business with Scri li
ner, Armstrong &. Co. Mrs. Stedrnan
is not a literary woman, but she is none
the less appreciative of her husband's
talents. Kichard Henry Stoddard lives
very happily with his wife, who is a
woman of many accomplishments, and
not unknown to literary fame. The
home of Dr. J. O. Holland is a model
for the world. He is blessed w ith one
of the most sympathetic of wives, who
is in every war a helpmeet. The family
circle of Dr. Holland is just what one
would supioseit would lieaftern-ading
some of his liooks. The doctor has two
U-aiitiful and accomplished daughters
and a son of whom he is justly proud.
Bret Harte is one of the most domestic
of men, and spends all of his time with
his family at Morristown. X. J. His
wife is a woman of more than ordinary
intelligence, "and he has three young
children, all lsiys. The next to the old
est Ixiy.Krank.inherits his fathers talent,
and, although not more than 10 years
of age, has written some stories that
are worthy of a more experienced in-n.
Col. John Hay has ln-en married so
short a time that he hardly comes in
this list. However. I may say that
there is not a more devoted couple in
New York than the gallant Colonel ami
his wife. Mrs. Hay is n-markably
handsome, and one of those warm
hearted, whole-souled women that one
cannot meet without admiring. Mrs.
Lucia GilU-rt Kuukle, better known as
Mrs. Calhoun, leads about as pleasant
a life as any woman I know. Her
home is over in New Jersey, but her
husband, w ho is a lawyer of large prac
tice, does business in New York, and
the two are just as often seen at social
gatherings here as though they still
lived in the city. Their home is one of
the most tasteful and most comfortable
I ever was in. Its interior was planned
by Mrs. Kunkle, who has proved le
yond question that a fine architect was
lost to the world when she became a
writer. Junius Henri Brown married
a sister of Mrs. Kunkle, Miss Lillie
Louise Gilbert, who is a clever corres
pondent and an agreeable woman.
Although there is considerable differ
ence in years between Mr. Brown and
his wife, he is just as much of a lover
as though he was ten years younger.
The Browns have lived at the Astor
House ever since their marriage, some
four or five years since, and will lie
among the last to desert that place of
historic memories. Mrs. Brown, like
her sister, Mrs. Kunkle, has no children.
1'arkie Godwin, as is well known,
married the daughter of William Cullen
Bryant, and has always enjoved the
most pleasant domestic relations. He
has three accomplished daughters, one
of whom is a painter of talent, and
another of whom has one of the finest
voices belonging to an amateur in this
city. Mr. Bryant has always lived
quietly in the country, away from
fashionable and literary societv, and
his devotion to his home is sufficient
froof of its attractiveness. "Marion
larland," who is Mrs. E. 1. Terhune,
of Newark, X. J., ismarried to a Dutch
Reformed minister in that city, and
her life has been without a discord.
Her husband is a good preacher, and a
great favorite in Newark. It is whis
pered, among the gossips of that city,
that Mrs. Terhune writes the best of
her husband's sermons ; but those who
know pronounce this a libel. George
William Curtis, who married a Miss
Shaw ot Staten Island, lives over on
that earthly paradise (barring the mos
quitoes), ana his lovely home is the
envy of all bis kiehclor acquaintances.
"Jennie June," Mrs. Croly, is married
to a husband well known in the jour
nalistic world of this city, and, although
he is a man well able to hold his ow n,
he goes by the name of "Mr. June
among the press fraternity. That the
"Junes" are well mated there is no
question. M rs. Rebecca Hardin g Davis,
of Philadelphia, and her husband, are
both literary people. Mrs. Davis has a
brilliant reputation as a novelist and
story writer, while her husband, who is
an editor of the 1'hiladelpbia 'Inquirer.'
is well known as a clever and impartial
dramatic critic Some of his more elalio
rate criticisms, which have appeared in
the 'Galaxy,' are among the best on dra
matic subjects written bv an American.
Hartford has a model home in that of
Charles Dndley Warner. A more thor
oughly delightful man than Mr. War
ner, or a more charming woman than
his wife, it would Ik- impossible to find.
Few people can boastol more admiring
friends than the Warners. They are
everything to each other and to their
select social cin-le. Mr. Warner is one
of the few literary people who have no
nir of the snob aliout tliem. He is just
as agreeable and unpretending as
though he had not written that richest
bit of humor, 'My Summer in a Garden.'
I will wind up"these remarks with a
reference to George Mar Donald and
his family. Those who were fortunate
enough to meet this great man and his
wife need not be told how happy was
their life. To those who did not, 1 will
only say that I never knew a couple
ln-tter suited to one another. Mrs.
MarDonald made no pretensions to
literary distinction, but her husband
considered her his lest literary critic.
He submitted everything to her, not as
one who undervalued his own opinions,
but as one who thoroughly appn-ciated
the advantages of her quick wit and
n-ady sympathy. The ton-going are
but a few in the long list of distin
guished writers in this country, but
they are suflieicut to prove the fact
that literary men and women are not
necessarilv unhappy in their domestic
life. IX. V. Letter to Boston Gazette.
Intelligent tdnrnlrd Learned.
The English language is made up of
such a varied combination, and is used
so figuratively and allegorically, that
one can hardly give utterance to an
unstudied phrase but what ingenuity
and quick jH-rception can construe into
a diversity of meanings ; and so many
words have nearly the same meanings
that they are often misused and mis
applied ; more probably from a can-less
custom than from ignorance.
The words intelligent, educated, and
learned, are often used as though they
had the same meaning, although they
convey entirely distinct ideas.
Intelligence is an innate faculty of
the human soul, that enables one to
think anil receive ideas with a degree
of comprehension and understanding.
Education is the cultivation and re
finement of the powers of understand
ing, anil includes 1mIi moral and intel
lectual training. This term is usually
applied to the early developments of
the mind, when it is made capable of
receiving learning. There aie two
kinds of education ; one we have given
ns at school, which only prepares us for
the more substantial one we get our
selves from the world. Human natnie
can never be learned from hooks; it is
a knowledge others may acquire, but
never impart ; it constitutes an inqior
tant part of our education, and ran
only be gained by mingling with our
fellow-men. There is a gn-at ditt'en-nce
in people, and this difference is greatly
the result of our education.
Learning is knowledge gained by
research and study. It is erudition
which a well-educated man may not
possess. Knowledge is information
gained by study, experience and obser
vation. Wisdom is un endowment,
and is higher than knowledge with
judgment and discretion.
Intelligence, education and learning
are three great steps to the highest
development of the human mind,
neither of which can lie attained with
out the aid ot the other. God places
us on the first step ; we make sure of
our footing, ana reach the others iy
our own efforts.
The second requisite to this end is
application. He who would acquire
mental as well as human knowledge
must never admit defeat, or pause over
a diulf ultv. but work steadily on to the
end, that he'may conquer every olwtacle
which comes in his way in tlie lexi
con of youth," says Bulwer. "there
should be no such word as fail."'
Restraint.
Tou will find on fairly thinking of it,
that it is his restraint which is honora
ble to man, not his liberty ; and, what
is more, it is restraint which is honora
ble even in lower animals. A butterfly
is much more free than a bee ; but you
honor the bee more, just because it is
subject to certain laws which fit it for
orderly function in bee society. And
throughout the world, of the two ab
f tract things, liberty and restraint, re
straint is always the more honorable.
It is true, indeed, that in those and
all matters you can never reason finally
from the abstraction, for both liberty
and restraint are good when they are
nobly chosen, and both are bad when
they are badly chosen ; but ot the two,
I repeat, it is restraint which charac
terises the higher creatures ; and, from
the ministering of the arch-angel to the
labor of the insect from the poison of
the planets to the gravitation of a grain
of dust the power and glory of all
creatures, and all matter, consist in
their obedience, not in their freedom.
The sun Las no liberty dead leaf has
much. The dust of which yoa are
formed has no liberty. Its liberty will
come with its corruption.
TOI THS COLl .
Qteer Talking Yoa boys and girls,
just before the shirt-collar and back
hvr age, manage to twist words in a
comical way. Often I have a good
time listening to the wcefolk who come
to onr meadow.
One day a little girl, seeing in the
last part of one of her Christmas books,
that a sequel to it would soon be pub
lished, called out to a playmate, "O,
Kitty, isn't this nice ? Mtf new book't
got a Sfjucal to it.''
But she was quite accurate, compared
with a little bit of a boy, who came to
the creek with some other children, one
day last summer, to look for water
cresses,
'I'm goin to take a awful lot of
cresses home to mamma," he said,
trndging along, " 'cause my mamma's
got a Ji-iyeJator what'll keep everything
as cold as ice, to put 'em in. Your
mamma got one ?"
"No, she ain't," answered a tow
headed little chap ; "bnt Bhe's got a
steel egg-beater !"
no ! a !eg beater ! shouted my wee
youngster, turning squarelv about to
look at the speaker. "What's that
for?"
"Why, to beat eggs with, ' you
goosey I"
"Ho I" screaehed the little chap, in
great scorn. "She'd better look out !
If she gets to beatin' eggs she'll break
'em. Eggs is brittler than anything.
Guess you 'most don't know what you're
takin' bont '"
' , .
"PLExsisGn - MeADBiNii." - ''D..r -
ing a pleasant tour in Scotland, in
ltMiO, I witnessed on the pier at Dun-
noon, an interesting sight, which af-
forded great pleasure to not a few. A
Lt 11. i
fine dog was on the pier, close by the I "Land and Water" says that the
side of the Glasgow steamer. He had, t surahs which supply the nobles of Ja
I believe, just before, been taken from i pan with teas are reported to be &X)
a small steamer, and was waiting for
his further passage on another boat.
On patting the pretty animal he held
up his head, when I immediately no
ticed a label, on which I read the words
'Please, give me a drink !'
"No sooner had attention been called
to this appeal evidently attached to
the dog's neck by a kind-hearted and
thoughtful owner than a group of
ladies and children gathered around us
and willing bands and feet were in in
stant requisition to provide a supply of
water. One of the porters, evidently
with a tender heart nnder his jacket,
promptly brought a tin filled with
water, which was qiickly drunk by the
thirsty animal, whoe face said, as
plainly as dog can say. Thank you !
tieveral of the ladies. 1 found, were to "tnpact in grain. The African black
be fellow-passengers with the dog. and ! woo , nt ,s Tn
manv were the assurances from my fair ! more s;,,1"1' aml ml w,t,h ,vorJ m"ke8
- . . . . y - l.,t14 .Fill nwnnmnf.l wriwv
friAiiila that matror ,l,wro-;e ohni.i i
everv attention during the voyage, aud i The earliest print from a wood engrav
shonld not suffer from the want of I "g, of which any certain information
either food or water." Children' j cn be obtained, was found in one of
Friend. the most ancient convents of Germany,
. I pasted within the cover of a Lfitin mau-
MrFFLEu Diu'ms. A captain, observ- j uscript. It is a picf nre of St. Christo
ing that one of the drums did not beat, pher carrying the infant .Tens across
sent his lieutenant to inquire the rea-1 the sea, and it is dated ll5. Little
son. "Tell the captain," whispered the j 'vrfiral.
drummer, "that my drum is loaded i The whistle blown from Cape Fon-
with turkeys, and one of them is for
him." "Well, well," said the captain, ;
"he needn't do duty, if he isn't able.
How often, when men should speak,
they are silent, because they have, or
think they have, a selfish interest in
consistent with what they ought to
ntter.
The conscience and the heart are
often loaded and muffled by sinful pur-
poses and recollections.
Wrong in the heart so unfavorably
affects even the intellect, that it does
not promptly and plsinly respond
the siroke of the hand of truth. It only
mumbles when it should ring and rattle
with alarm or animation. He who
.i i.. . . .
tt i iimn tt tt i uft; Mmusaaiun,
whisky with a very husky voice. A man
should have his mouth clean from to
bacco before he opens it wide against
brandy. The spirit of the world in the
heart prevents one from speaking effec
tively for spiritnal-mindeanefs.
Gluttjsv. While the war against
intemperance in drinking is being
waged, why d:es not some one rise np
to omh4t. ititikm riorAiii in A'ltintr
1 - t.....ft .
How does it happen thst amid the ever- !
lasting cry ag uust drunkenness we !
never hear a word against its sister evil
gluttony? I think, says a well-known
physician, I cau assert with truth that,
in a long practice, three have died
among my patients from over eating,
where one h:m died from drink. Whence
come apoplexy, paralysis, dyspepsia, hall of justice. Their place is snpplied
and a host of other diseases, but from ! with a new piir, which, in their turn,
too much rich food, taken under most j are drawn off to make room for others,
imprudent circumstances ? And yet U leing considered sufficient to conse
we hear of no society formed to prevent 1 crate them that he should merely have
this growing evil. A man eits nntil he i drawn them on.
drops down with apoplexy by the road- Tbe 1Vsf:pnlPr steamer system has
drops oown wun apoplexy ny me roaii-1
side, when np conies the coroner with
a jury of twelve good men .and true,
who pronounce verdict "Died from
intemperance. So he did but what
kind of intemperance was it ? I have
heard more than one minister in the
pulpit expatiate with great vehemence
agaiast the sin of drunkenness, whose
very appearance was proof positive that
be was pre-eminently guilty of glut
- . .
How to Keep a Siti-atios. Bo ready
to throw in an odd half hour or an lo reau wnno.ii langnn ami write wm.
honr's time when it will be an aceom- j pa- , T,be principle .f this ear applied
modation. and don't seem to make a j ambulances doubtless would be a
merit of it. Do it heartily. Though f?reat boon to the wounded who may be
not a word be said, your employer will j conveyed in them,
make a note of it. Make yourself in-1 The way to get credit is to be pnnc
dispensible to him, aud he will lose ; tnal ; tbe way to preserve it is not to
many of the opposite kind before he j ue it much. Settle of ten; have short
will part with you. accounts. Trust no man' s appeirance;
Those yonng men who watch the , appearances are deceitful, perhaps as
clock to see the very second their work- I snme.1 tor the purpose of obtaining
ing hour is np who leave.no matter j credit. Beware of gaudy exteriors;
what style of work they may be in, at j rogues generally dres-i welL The rich
precisely the instant who calculate the ; are plain ; trust him, if any one, who
extra amount they can slight their work carries bnt little on his back. Never
and yet not get reproved who are I trust him who flies into a passion on
lavish of their employer's goods will being dunned, bnt make him pay
always be the first to receive notice, quickly if there beany virtue in the law.
when times are dull, that their services I Whenever you meet a man who is fond
are no longer required. I of argument, yon will meet one pro-
. . j fonndly ignorant of the operations of
They Wast to Speak. "You see Gyp j the human heart. Mind yonr own
bids you welcome." said Adam, "aud i affairs. Let all the errors yoa see in
he's very slow to welcome strangers. '" ) others management suggest correct
"Poor dog I" said Dinah, patting the ness in your own.
rough, gray coat "I've a very strange An Jn Pnion9 projectile, invented by
feebng about the dumb things as if ! , Kns8ian officerf is now claiming the
they wanted to speak, and it was a ,ttention of military scientists. The
trouble to em because they couldn 1. 1 M it is calie.l. is an elongated
leant help being sorry for the dops ghelj tL' heJM, of which i9 completely
always, though, perhaps there s no j . herieal ; , ronnd shell upon the end
need. But they may well have more , 0'f n iron CTlinaer. The two parts are
in them, than they know how to make ! nnited b .comparatively slight thick
us understand, for we can t say half , ti When fired, the seza-
hat we feci, with all our words.
Adam Bcde.
?"" """ I cal part alone flies in pieces while the
What's the use, in these days, trying spherical head continues its flight in
to be honesi ? exclaimed a grumbler, j tact and may ricochet for hundreds of
i Oh, you onght to try it once and see,
' retorted one of his companions.
j
People say "as black as ebony, but
ebony is not always Dlack. Ibere is a
beautiful green variety brought from
New Zealand, marked with veins of a
darker shade.
TkKUTIKS
A nod fellow Morpheus.
A waste of time That of a stout old
lady.
Waste not either time, money or tal
ent. Trance action Walking in one's
sleep.
Good place for matchmaking Sul
phur springs.
The best way to take a cool bath is
to take it coolly.
If thyenemy wrong thee, buy each of
his children a drum.
He lives long that lives well, and
time misspent is not lived, bnt lost.
We govern onr passions ; bnt in gen
eral we let the passions first have a trial.
Cast your nets in thA right water, and
they may take fish while yoa are sleep
ing. S me people can't see why a heap of
snow fast t the ground sbonld be
called a drift.
It should not disc-nrage ns if onr
i ""unesa is unacanowieugea ; it nas lis
! mflnence stilL
It is with our judgment as with onr
i watches, none go just alike, yet each
believes his own.
Idleness is a great slough into which
j the vices of the world drift and settle.
' to rise again in miasma.
, , , , , . , ,
! An oU, IaJv' he.ariDS , R,,mo',T ?T
I mails were irregular, said : "It
was jnst so in mv young days no trust-
!in?,'nj,of"fm - " ,. , tl u
1 "'J ,"'a to "nJ t',en ho"
j tI,at hs BTOW nP honest ; better put
a WJP ln a '!,r barrel anJ walt tlU he
make8 ?oa "ney.
, . , . . , , ....
years old, the tea grown on old plants
being the best.
A farmer complains that a hook and
ladder company has been organized in
his neighborhood. He states that the
ladder is used after dark for climbing
into his hen house, after which the
hooking is done.
Spilkins got home about J o' clock
on Sunday morning, indignantlv pro
nouncing the eclipse a fraud. Mrs. S.
with a woman's intuition, at once in
spected the color of his breath, and
ordered him to bed in disgrace.
Black ebony comes mostly from the
Indies and Madagascar, and is hardest
and heaviest, while from Portugal
comes brown ebon v. softer and less
oeatuiiui ornamental wont.
cher, during foggy weather, is distinctly
heard at the distance of seventeen
miles in calm weather ; six to ten, in
stormy weather ; twenty-nine with a
favorable wind ; six to ten, with con
trary winds. In the history of the
range of sound, it is a well known fact
that the cannonade of Waterloo was
heard at Creil. a distance of one bun
dreil and tweuty-one miles from the
field of battle.
m, , . i r n
Th? fn'mental ciuse of all unuappy
marriages m y o found in the joining
j toff-ther of uncongenial temperaments
and the su len stnblK.rnes of either
I . "'-holding mutual concessions,
i which do so much to make married life
happy. M.-n and women should never
marry in haste to repent at leisure.
Better a long and tedious courtship,
that the man and woman may learn
each other's good and bad qualities
than a married life of acrimony, re
crimination, and regret.
Among the Chinese (says Pidding)
no relics are more valued than the boots
hich have lieen worn bv an upright
magistrate. In Davis China we are
informed that whenever a judge of nn
nsual integrity resigns his situation,
the people all congregate to do him
honor. If he leaves the city where he
has presided, th" crowd accompany him
from his resilience to the gates.
where his boots are drawn off with
m-eat ceremony, to lie preserved in the
jPHf:pr
be(,n appiiBj
I hmt'g rail
,sW with
by a Mr. Henry Giffanl to
ilroad car, which has boen
antiiMia An I K A lina atf li a
: Sorthern raiiro8(l in Kriince. Seated
; ia this ca whlch han(?, on elafttic
, .prin(f, the traveler experiences the
! ,J,nsation of repMin(( in , hammock.
free from the vibrations and bnmpings
of the ordinary car. At times, the car
undulates as does a boat on a calm sea.
rue movement is dcBcrilwd as a verv
' gentle one and the traveler is enabled
; i.. th, cmn Lke an ordinary
.i.-ti . nnt -k.n it bnrsts. the cvlindri-
yards farther. Tbe advantage of sncn .
I a shell against artillery, for example,
ia very great. After bursting and scat-
i tenng its fragments among ine guns oi
the enemv. the head goes on to plunge
into the infantry, still farther back. It
is to be used in Knssia, however, only
for cannon of moderate size.