' feiSW wv-syisv fall 3 . . . til 'fitt YLi' I f III II I II I Mill i sav iia tm 1 ' '..-' . ""--N. r - -. . - i i ii B. F. SCHWEIER, . x!-'"' ' IHI COM3TITUTI05 TH1 UHI0H-A5D THB iSTOHCEMEST OT THI LAWS. ' , Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXIX. flLX , MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.: JUNE 9, 1875. : ;; ...... NO. 23. THE KNIGHTS LE1P ATALTESAHR. ET CASOX KINGBLCT. ' So pie f,mn Lac fired (he gate, men of mine,-! And tlie water is spent and dune Tbea I iug me a cup of red Ahx wi I never aha drink but thia - i ' And fetch me my harness, saddle my hone. And lead him 'round to the door! He nHuat take ajrh a leap Jo-tirgUt. perforce Aa bore never took before. - "I have live J by the aaddle for Tears a score, And I rnnst die on tbe tree; - Tlie'oldiiaddte-tre. which ban borne me of yore, la the protcrest timber for me. "I have lived my life ; I ha.-e fought my fight; I have drank my ahare of vine ; ' From Trier to Colne there was never a knight I jvod a merrier life than mine. "So now to eboar Iti-top and burgher and priest How the Alteiiabr hawk can die! If they smoke the old falcon out of his nest. He must take to his wings and fly.' He harnessed himself by the clear moonshine. And he mounted his horse at the door, Aud be took such a pull at the red Ahr wine As never man took before. He sparred his oM horse, and he held bun tight, Aud be leaped him over the wail Out over the cliff, out into the uitfht Three hundred feet of fail. They fonnd him next morning below in the glen And never a boue in him whole ; Unl Heaven may yel have more met cy than men Uu such a bold riJer'a son. Blessedness. SINUI.K, IKH HUE, AND TKII'LK. "I will never marry, never," said William Blake to his father; a patient, weary looking old man, n ith thin firry hair streaking across his bowed head. He answered, rellertively "Well, 1 think you're right; there are incii who cm manage women, but your mot Iter liuri Imh'u tM ntiK'li for me." "It seems half selfish to lue to go off and leave you alone with her; but what i :u one do, with work that wants plan ning, and that continual scolding in tine's ears?" "It's the crying fits that masters me, though." said .Mr. Blake, -'when she sits suitting into her apron; looking at me that reproachful, till I'm half brought to believe that 1 have cnui mitte.l niuriler, or something in my sleep." "I sometimes think, do you know, father that in those times it is that she is sorry for her temper, is, in .fact, re lienting.' "It's an awfully unpleasant, unfair kind of ieniteuce, then; but I don't know ; she's been Imr..iiig in my ears so long, that I pet fairly liothered some times, and don't feel clear about any thin';." ",'11 tell you what you must do when she wets pa-t (tearing; just come off to me; it won't lie far, you know." ".So I will, my boy; so 1 will." Accordingly t lie next morning, w hen Mrs. Blake licgau the day ith prophetic indications ol' ln-ing what she called "upset," her husband prepared to es catc, greatly to her displeasure. She hail re.-enteil Will's removal and "set ling up for himself;" but then, as Mr. Blake remarked, "she couldn't Ite any rosser than she was Itefore," so he de parted in comparative conifui't. ' "Will's room was a pior little place. He was not earning much as yet, anil he said. "Anything dues' for oneself, with a desolate air that somewhat contra dicted his philosophy "of loneliness; till, his work "unproved wonderfully,' aud in that he was always happy. Will was a designer of mouldings. Mr. lllake found him busily stitching at an old coat. . , Turned tall.tr. "Will he as"kil. - "Tisn't work enough for a tailor, and I a.n afraid my bungling would not pass lor one, either. 1 trii-d glue, but some how it oulJn't answer, and one must keep oneself decent looking. I am going after orders, by aud by." . , 'Women is of some use, after all, if they wasn't such unreasonable crea tures," said the father, with an involun tary glance at the table, which looked rather like the wreck of a kitchen, li-atcd up, as it was, with a little of everything. Will was accustomed to have all his tools round him in his work, anil so had gradually gathered the household im plements together ill the same fashion. "We will have breakfast presently," he said: "it would have lieen ready lie lore, only while I was gone for a loaf the kettle boiled over." It won't do that this time," said Mr. P.lake, lifting the tilted vessel from the tire. "Whv?" "Sec'!" Then they Istth laughed; Will had forgotten to put in the water. Kut the blunders were soon remedied; there w as no one to scold over litem. Father and son were chatting pleas antly over the end of their weal, wheu a bright ron tig voice w a h'eant on the lauding outside, calling, "Willie, Willie ".Made friends already?" asked Mr. IEIake, looking up, surprised. "'o, it is somebody that lodges over head ; her little brother has run ofl'dow u stairs. He seems to give her a deal of trouble, but she never sieaks shatter than that. "Ihtn't she now? It is a wonderful pleasant sounding voice." 15y and by it seemed that the culprit was hunted up the stairs home again; a merry hunt, w ith much laughing on Istth "sides, and, as they passed Will's door, a quieter "Willie, Willie." Mr. Blake looked strangely reflective. -"I haven't heard anybody say Willie" in just that cooing, careful way, not since my sister that died; she was just like a mother to me; it's a terrible long w hile ago." These two are much the same. They live alone; she minds him aud keeps Itiin, and sends him to school." Vou se-iu to know all about her, Will." "All I am likely to know. I have not seen her. There are uo strangers like fellow lodgers, and she is not the kind of girl to meet on the stairs, accident ally, for the purMtse. " That was how your mother and I got acquainted." "I did not know that father." Will spoke with an air of regretful aMtlogy that was understood and ac cepted, hut silently. dreamily, in the hush of old memo ries, the "father walked away to his work. Will sat dWii before the window to finish some drawings, but the thick square teiicil made idle marks, w hile the eyes that should have guided it sought the only bit of nature within sight the strip of changing sky between the housetOts. Many a bold design had come from those sweeping cloud-kaleido-scoies. None came now. Will was musing. How could a man work, with that sweet, iinM-rious "Willie, Willie," ringing in his ears? It was a worse distraction than his mother's scolding, forTie coirld'notTie ur that lie really wanted to foreet this i "I am glad 1 have never seen her, he said, with a long breath that did not sound like content.- Then he tried to say ifrViHiev'- inl her tones, and, aa look ol inpatient -disgust marked his consciousness of failure, he put ou Lis cap and went out. The haunting voh ltecatue a presence ail too soon. A l ill came home she met him in the passage; a little, swift gliding figure, w ith oft dark eyes set in a pale, fair face. ".N ot a bit like mother." he thought, with a curious feeling of satisfaction;, but as she passed, he saw that her eyes were humid with fear ami grief. '.'.. - "What is the' matter?, he asked, In voluntarily. . . ' "Willie! .cholera! the doctor!", she answei-ed, rushing by, into the street that was wet with a stormy rain. "Sjtay J, 1 can go astex,iv'.C.ieu' JVill, following her,, "Tou go'bacV, to your brother S.ie oltcyeJ at once with the quick docility of a gentle intelligence: and he thought again ".Mother would have talked tor an hour." , The doctor came soon, hut not soon enough. ' illie wis very ill. Hravely the little fellow stru;jgled? but theoe wastoo strong for hi.a. " "Strmge',' the doetoT muttered tin patiently; "the last cases are so often the worst. I thought it was over for this year." A week before another lodger in the. same house, a gluttonous man, had made" himself ill feasting on mussels, plnins and lieer; he recovered, but the jsiison thus Drought u-to the Mouse fastened on the weakest there.. . The child died. There was nothiiig more to ho done for him. All at o.ice, for the first time in his little life, Willie wanted nothing; not even his sister. She went a tout her necessary work, with ait op,.-es4ve, lx- wilderiug sense of leisure upon her. And Will if tae joyous voice alone had distracted him so, hov7 could he work now now that it recalled the meek, desolate face of the moin'.ier; now, that the cry hail chan-reil into such a pitiful, beseeching "Willie I Willie J" . The day after Willie was hurled, it liapM-ued that Will paid his rent, aud took that opKtrtuuity to inquire after his fellow lodger. "I'oor young thing," said the motherly landlady, "it makes my heart ache to see her, up there in the little room, where they were so happy, those two. She says the very walls seem w ritten with his name, and the things he used to touch cry, "Alice, Alice," just as he called for her, at the last; it is enough to craze her; there isn't an empty room in the house, or she should have it for a bit." "Ask her to change with ine," said Will, eagerly ; "tell her I should lie so glad, if she would not mind; the light there would suit me lictter." Alice consented doubtfully. "It seems like deserting Willie," she said; "and vet one has no right to let oneself get ill; tell Mr. ISlake I accept his otter grati-rnlly." She hail grown a little stately in her solitary grief, and Will staiiii.iered over his premeditated speech. "My name is Willie, too; couldn't you take me for your brother?" ' h, no," she answered w ith direct simplicity, "lie was so naughty, the darling; I never could li.-ve liim out of my thoughts for a momeiit." Alice herself had this kind of naugh tiness for Will, and now living, in iter rito.n, he seemed to he encompassed by her prescm-e; his tools and work felt rough aud coarse amidst the lilUe dainty arrangements that marked a woman's hand. "If it hadn't lieen for knowing mother," he mused, one evening, "1 might fall in love, 1 do believe; as it is, I know lictter." ( , . , ' So,- "knowing better," he shrunk from an iiitureoiu-se that might, in some sharp answer, bring Alice down lroi.i her pedestal, on which he still chose to place he.-, justifying his bright dreams to himself hy saying, "It is pleasant to 'make believe,' a the children Kir." Alice, meauw hile, had found a cheer ing employment in putting Will's room straight, as she called tt. "Such a pity, ioor man, for him to live in such a muddle, aud him so clever, too." She had found some torn draw ings in the littered fireplace, and ea.-efully smoothed them out as treasures over looked. Will, coining for a ltook, found her thus busy, ami said, smiling "They are of no use t don't want them."" 'They seem wonderful to nie," she said, looking op frankly.- ' "Ah! just as women's work does to us. I put a button on my cuff, this morning, and it is off already. "fict me sew it ; I have a needle here." Will muttered something a! tout "trou bling her," but she answered, "I ougitt to do anything I can, yon don't know w hat good the change of rooms has done me. 1 suppose it is like rich ladies going ont of town." ' " "Yon have made a grand improve ment here," said Will, looking around ; the same room, the same fii.-uitii.-e; but w hat bad tieeu a dreary contusion was now a fair -ace. "I w ish you would stay here always," he added. Alice was brought to answer, "I do not mind," not understanding him; but something in Will's eye made her own droop, the little fingers trembled over their work; suddenly, Will's hand caught them. "Alice, will you stay here? will you let me love you lie my wife?" She shrank away from him. "I must not I must not." "Why not? tell me darling." "Mother said, when she died,' Child, never marry.' Father made her so wretched." "We are kindred in tronhle, then, that is all," said Will; "mother, some how, tormented my father so, that I re solved to live aud die aloue let us both give np our hard purposes will you, Alice?" . -.. Will's tones pleaded lictter than his words, they gained him the victo.-y. From the wreck of the past seemed fo spring a bright future, like the flowers from out of last year's dead leaves. By and by there was a wedding; the motherly landlady gave Alice away, and Will took her as the great gift of his lite. As they came home from church, he said, Itrightly, "We have both resigned single blessedness, w hat shall we have instead?" . She nestled close to him aud answered, "Double blessedness." Peacefully and brightly the years went on till even old Mr. Blake learnt to be lieve in youth aud love and happiness; more especially, when a little fairy granddaughter 'came to clasp Lis hand and toddle in his footsteps.: . One day, when lor a wonder. Will's sleeve had uo button, be came to his wife for her to sew one on; something in her attitude, as slie eat before him with the morning sunshine on her hair, reminded him of that first work of hew wheu his love grew np almost in a night. "Do you remember the first button you put on for me, like a fetter round in y wrist, cunning Alice?" he said, smilinglv. "Wouid you be loosed now, if you conld ? she asked, -with tender look of uenanite. - . "Ah no! this, our life is" a tender merry voice broke In, calling, 'Fattier I he ended, -with a thankful sish. "Triple blessedness!" London Ihty of Tile Faawlms Wealth r the Aaclula. The moderns who are showing such extravagant taste for art have by no means reached the appreciattveness of tne ancients, euxis grew so rich that ue xeiused u mul more pictures, and gave them away to cities: aud Xicias declined an offer from At talus of 13,- ouu lor a single . picture. Apelles re- ceivea i.j,two iwr a ortrait of Alexander, and gave i.12,301) for each picture Protegeus 'had in his studioV. - Julius Vxsr gave A'20,000 for two pictures of "Medea; and M.-Asriwwi wild to the municipality of Oy;ueus JtlO.OlW for two more. Lucius Mummiiis refused 32.- uuu lor a picture of "r ather Bacchus," which he hail seized in Greece, and Tiberius gave tiO,0(S) sesterces, or nearly i'.V"j,0OO, for a' picture by I'arrhasius. 'icro argued that Verres had com- itelled lleius, a rich Sicilian, to part with a little bronze Cupid by Praxiteles beeausa - Verrea -bought' it for -.only jL1,m:(; and Nicomedes nflcred to ay off the publie debt of ('nidus, if the citizens would give tihn Praxiteles's statue of Venus in return, aud was refused because it was the glory of the city. "But what shall we say of Lollla 1 aulma, the rival of Agrippiua, whose dresses alone were valued at i&fiJ.DKi ?" Nero gave 1!,OUO,0IO in presents only rather more than .Louis Quatorze spent upon ersailles; and "there was Pallas, the curled darling aud lover of Agrip piua, who was enormously rich, aud to whom Juvenal alludes as a type of wealthy men. He left a handsome es tate in lainl I sneak only of land now of some 2,'Jlljfj. Then there was ncneca, the philosopher and moralist. who always preached the virtues of is i vert y aud self-denial, aud the virtues of Stoicism, who left about the same amount, given to him in great part, I supiiose, by 2ero and Leutulus, whose real estate amounted to about 4."i,22!,lf(i, and Isodorus, who disposed by will of 41b slaves, J,oU yoke of oxen, and z.x,- OIXI other cattle. These were all fairly well off, one might say; but apparently Marcus Scaurus was sujierior to them all in wealth." These fortunes are perfectly possible, if we recollect that the wealth of a plundered world was in the hands of a few Itoinan nobles; but it must be re membered that in those days all statis tics were more or less inaccurate, that even now a popular estimate of a man's wealth is often ludicrously exaggerated, and that a Itoinau household consisting of slaves, and food to a Koman noble costing scarcely anything, his surplus could only be dievoteil to the competition of luxury. Loadtm Stior.ta'ur. flaw Aarthra lave. IIiptocrates in his celebrated "Trea tise on Diet," endeavored to trove that all men were 'iorn with equal caacity, and the difference in after life in their mental iMtwer was owing to the foot I w hich they ate. ' ' A resitectable physician asserts that he can estimate the calilterof a man's mind by the state of his stomach. It is stated that a gentleman trea ed Dr. Johnson to new honey aud cream, of w Inch he ate so much his entertaine' became alarmed.' This celebrated man had always a voracious attachment to a leg of mutton. "At my aunt Ford's" said he, ."1 ate so much tf a boiled leg of mutton that she used to talk of it. Joseph Addison was very timid in the presence of those he deemed his stiie riors, and strove to bring his courage up by the use of w ine, and finally be came -very intemperate,' which drew from Dr- Johnson these memorable re marks: "In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, eowanl'u-e for courage, and ba-shfultiess for con tidence." Charles I-aml) was excessively partial to roast pig, and wrote an essay il praise of it. . Ariosto was so attached to a frugal way of living that he said of himself he should have lived "w hen acorns were the food of mankind. ishelley had an ineffable contempt for all sensualities of the table, aud, like Newton, used to inquire if lie had died. . To counteract a tendency to corpu lency, Lord Byron at one period dined four" days in a"week on fish and vegeta bles. Benjamin Franklin contemplated practicing abstinence from animal food. "1 hesitated some time, he says, . be tween principle and inclination, till at hist recollecting that when a cod hid lieeu opened some small fish were found in it, I said to myself, if you eat one another J see no reason why. we may not eat you. ' Ilowr convenient it' is to lie a rational animal that knows how to invent a plausible pretext for whatever it has no inclination to do." The Fash low tm Ladle' tilave. Dressed kid elovesare rapidly losing favor, especially for Summer use, and fashionable ladies wear undressed kid w ith their most elegant toilets. Neither the Saxony glove, which closes all the way up, nor the long buttoning gloves will lie in favor. To obviate the disad vantages which both these styles present, the gloves will lie very long and have a large ojtening under the palm of the hand near the wrist, this opening allows the hand to pass easily, aiid, closing with buttons, prevents the glove from creasing. Forevening wear in Summer the gloves axe of undressed kid, and the length of an ordinary six button glove ; they fasten with three buttons. The colors should correspond with the toilet. For visiting purposes a glove the length of four-button gloves is suitable with only one button at tbe wrist. White gloves, which have not lieen in vogue for sometime, are to lie tbe rage for seaside wear and riding on horseback. The white gloves mast lie of a washable material aud not of kid, for white kid gloves should only be used for full dress. There is a glove suitable for this pnrpose made of Indian tissue, and used only for Sn turner wear. This glove is quite unlike those of Scotch thread, for it is beautifully cut and sets as well as kid. Gloves of this sort are made in all colors, but white will be chiefly used. Bakit 'I trust everytfiing under God," said Ionl Brougham, "to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed reli ance; habit, which makes everything easy and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from a wonted course. Make sobriety a habit, and iutemerance will be hateful. Make prudence a habit and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes are to any of our lordships. Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth ; of carefully respecting the prop erty of others; of cruMilously abstain ing from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of .rushing into an element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying, or cheating, or swearing." Mlerwacwpe -Wider - Dlaewvera. . Which II A "magnifying glass" used to be re garded as a mere toy to please and amuse children and youth, and with little if any farther practical purpose. But this time has passed, and the microscope is now firmly established as one of . the most eracient instrumentalities in any thing like liberal culture. In fact, the flood of light which It throws upon phy sical science is probably greater than all that we derive from other sources. In the departments of botany, geology, mineralogy, chemistry, the practice of medicine, this instrument is now alto gether indisiiensable. It reveals secrets w hich hut for its aid would remain for ever bidden from human observation. As a means of instruction the field of knowledge which it opens before us cannot be ; bounded or described; and for this reason it is especially adapted to enlarge the ideas of children and yonth. inspire thought, and develop, a spirit of inquiry. 1 wo or three dollars will buy a microscoiie sufficient for the purposes of ordinary observation, so that it is within the reach of all. But if the pur chaser's purse and tastes incline him to something more expensive, lie ran gratify his ambition all through a scale of prices w hich run up to $1,700 or $2,4HMI. We can imagine that it would be very gratifying to possess so high a priced instrument as the last named, w ith all of the little accessories needed for perfect work: but it is quite as gratifying to know that for general and ordinary purposes, a little, simple in trumeut costing from ti.oO to lh will answer quite as well. Only professional microscopists or wealthy amateurs need to indulge in the luxury of a 1,5()U instrument. One of these cheap instru ments should find a place In every in telligent household, where parents are anxious that their child re u shall neglect no attaiualtle means Tor culture and improvement. With a little instruction aud there are books not costing over 50 cents to $1, from which it may be ob taineil boys and girls will readily learn to work with one of the simpler forms of this instrument. Any one can prepare objects for this inspection, and they are everywhere. In the summer time every drop of stagnant ditch water teems with life. 1 he wing, ere, or foot of a fly is a subject for a world of study. A human hair assumes the proportions of a crow bar; the horns of a caterpillar become as large as a walking cane, and armed with barbs like a tish-hitok; in fact. there is no end to the great variety of objects, and they are all around us. But our pnrpose at this time was more particularly to speak of the revelations of the microscoie, some of which are quite recent. Mr. Xobert, of Pomerauia, has ruled a series of lines on glass which have attracted much attention from their exquisite fineness. There are nineteen of these bands of lines, the coarsest of which are separated by the l!,Om)th part of an English inch. The finest band has IU.ikni separate lines to the inch ! Thisextreme fineness is quite incomprehensible if we try to think about or understand it, and yet we be lieve that they have lieeu resolved by Dr. J. J. Woislward, of the Army Medi cal Museum at Washington. To do this, of course the highest magnifying power is required, as well as great experience and care in the working of the instru ment. Another instance seems to border upon the marvellous. It is called "Webb's Test. It is simply the writing on glass of the "Lord's Prayer;" but it is so ex tremely fine aud small that it is esti mated that the Bible, in characters of like size, could be written eight times in the space of oue square inch !- and there would be still room to write the Lord's Prayer 2,000 or 3,000 times in the sur plus room. How this writing is done, and how Xoltcrt's lines are ruled, are secrets with the gentlemen who have produced them, but tbe microscope brings out the fact beyond dispute, aud the method of measurement is easy enough to an expert, ltisa well-know n fact that chalk is an aggregation of mi croscopic shells. The old cretaceous seas were fairly alive with these little animals soft and gelatinous, aud in closed in beautiful shelly cases. They were constantly dying and sinking to the bottom, where in time they hardened into the substance known as chalk. They were so extremely small that mil iums of their shells are contained within a piece of chalk one-half an inch square. The microscope brings them out in such plain view that they have been classified in genera and species. A species of rock is found near Kiclmion.l, Ya., which is made up of the siliceous shells of ani malcule which lived millions of years ago. Take a cubic inch of this rock and "there's millions in it" of these siliceous shells. They are so hard, were so per fectly formed and remain so indestructi ble, that white heat has no effect in destroying them. Under a magnifying jsiwcr by no means the highest these shells become very beautiful and inter esting objects. We occasionally read of the "red snow," which is found in high northern latitudes. For a long time this redness was supposed to be due to the prescm-e of animalciihc, but more recent investigation proves that the col oring matter is a minute vegetable. An imal substances were found associated w ith it, and hence for a long time it was deemed to be animal matter; but the microscoiie has settled the question. It is fully proven that low animal, as well as vegetable, organisms are constantly Hooting in the air as far north as mail has yet set foot, aud the probability is that they exist everywhere on the globe. Quite an interesting fact has been re cently stated in regard to snow (lakes. They settle upon the earth noiselessly, and to all appearance a mass of pure white crystals, but they are the "scav engers of the atmosphere." They ab sorb into their porous substance the particles of dust which are constantly floating in the air, a study of which has revealed facts or much interest. In a drop of water obtained from a single flake of snow under a magnifying power of 500 diameters were found "pieces ofcoal, fragments of cloth, grains of starch, sandy matter," together with a pio.nisctious lot of other trash, not a particle of which "exceeded in diameter .0003 of an inch !" These investigations showed the presence of little nuggets of iron impalpable dust, which one might breathe with impunity but which, un der high magnifying power, gave evi dence of having been in a state of fusion, "very probably due to some mass of meteoric iron rendered incandescent, and melted by friction with our atmos phere," In the great Arctic snow fields dust has been collected, which contains not only iron, but nickel, car bon, phosphorus, cobalt, etc. A German investigator has arranged upon a glass slide, 1x3 Inches in size, a collection of diatoms a class of siliceous animalcules, which are believed to be of vegetable origin which is for sale by most of the dealers in microscopic wares. It com prises about 500 individuals,' showing specimens of 3!ri species and seventeen genera. The price of this little piece of glass, an inch wide and three inches long, with its 500 little specimens, is only the trifle of $40; but if the reader thinks that is too much, let him try and produce on for himself. These statements might be multiplied almost indefinitely, but they are suffi cient to show that we are surrounded by wonders, of which we could have no The conception whatever without the aid of the microscope. "The very dust on which we tread was once alive," and if we examine it as closely as we -may to day, we shall find that much of it is living yet, aud that, living or dead, it is wonderful and beautiful beyond de scription. - " The deer family, species of which are indigenous to ail countries in the world except Australia, ae everywhere re nowned for their graceful and elegant form aud their timidity, their remark able fleet ness of foot enabling them, in open country, to, keep away from the haunts of man.'' ' The race includes genera of all sizes from the little nmnt- j:ic to the moose, and the chief peculiar ities Of tbe stiecies, the horns, the hairy skin, the habit of rumination, and the feet, each with two principal aud two rudimentary toes, are to be found in all of them. The American deer (enrru YirqiniiiHu) has a long head with sha. r muzzle- with larire eyes, and the less are long aud slender. , It U easily do mesticated but requires a spacious range to keep it in Health, the Innil pro duces two or three young at a birth, but no ar-tmchamrmt takes place till she is two years old; she conceals Jier young carefully, visiting them only three tiuies a nay. . The red deer formerly 'found In all parts of Great Britain, but now seen only iu tbe mountains of Scot Land and ou one or two extensive moors are so exclusive in their habits that they will not reed with inrerio.- animals; they have an especial abhorrence for sheep, leaving the place at once if thereare foot prints of sheep on the herbage. Ihe kind usually kept in parks in Entrland is the fallow deer, a native of Africa originally; but it has been do mesticated in Lngland for some cen turies. It is humbler in its tastes, and accommodates itself well to a small tai-k or paddock. Like all its tribe, it sheds Its horns annually, retiring as if iu shame till the new growth appears. Cfclewa Baak Bill. Paner money is known to have been used iu Chiua from a very early period. Tbe native batiks of Fnchaufu are quite numerous, and the bank bills in use are noted for their uniqne appear ance, and the difliculty with which they are counterfeited. 1 he banks are not under government inspection or con trol. Any individual who has the cap ital, or any company of individuals who can furnish the necessary funds may establish a bank and issue bills. ithout getting a charter, or applying for any kind of permission from the goverinent. The outline of the bill, with various devices to make counter feiting difficult, is engraved neatly on a so! id block of brass i n the case of weal thy liauks; poor proprietors of hanks use hard wood instead of brass. The right hand margin is n;ade au inch or more wider than the left-hand margin of tbe block of brass or wood. 1 he value of the bill tiill and the day of issue are filled ' early fixed the modest limits of his pro-1 Trip guessed she would weigh sisty ith the pen, and one of more wonU fessumal income at 3,000, aud would j five pounds; but, to his aniaenient, he icilitate the detection of a counter- allow no professional business to inter- fouud the scale said a hundred and tif- iu to fac feit. aiious stamps, large or small round or square or ottlong, some o. which are very curiously and elaitor- ately engraved, are impressed on diff erent parts of the bill, using red or blue ink. These add very much to the neat and handsome appearance of the note, and are believed usually to have some secret aud private niaik. From these and other causes, the notes are very difficult to imitate with precision and exactness by counterfeiters. Kut perhaps the use which is made of tbe wide margin furnishes the greatest security against counterfeiting. Ou this margin there are stamped o: written various words, phrases, or sentences, before the bill is cut off or trimmed and put into circulation. iYhen everything is ready, these stamped or written sentences or phra ses are cut through with a sharp knife, leaving the right-hand margin of the bill, about the same width as the lclt fiand, though it presents a very dis appearance. Of course, the edge of tne bill, and the edge of the paper which was cut off from it will pre cisely match each other, but, as tbe sentences have been cut into two parts, part of the word and stamps will be on tbe bill, and part on the slip of paper cut off. These slips are all carefully kept in a book form ready for reference, each slip contain ing the value, date, and private marks of a bill for payment. If there is the least doubt of its genuine, reference is made to the corresponding proof slip, and the banker or his clerks know immediately whether it is gen uine or counnterfeit. A successful imitation of the written sentences aud words, tbe blue and red stamps, which are fonnd on the right margin of a bank bill, and which have been cut through a line parallel with the left hand margin, it is almost impossible to make so exact, precise and minute as to tit the preserved proof-slip. A Wenderfail Flower. One of the most exquisite wonders of the sea is theopelet, a flower resembling very much the German C'hina-p.ster. It has the aptearance of the double aster, with a quantity of petals of a light green color, glossy as silk, each petal tipped with rose-color, i hese lovely petals are never still, but ware altout in the water while the flower clings to the rock. So innocent aud lovely looking, no one could suspect it of eating anything; cer tainly if it did, only a bit of rainbow or a drop of dew. But those beautiful waring petals hare other and more material work to do to proviile food for a large mouth, w hich is cunningly bid deep down among them. They do their duty famously, for as soon as a silly little fish comes in contact with those rosy tips, he is struck with a poison, fatal and quick as lightning. He dies instantly, and the beautiful arms wrap themselves about him and drag him into tbe greedy mouth, then those lovely petals unclose and float Innocently on the water, just like our water-lily. This flower was long talked of, but its exist ence doubted until the last century. Now the opelet is known to lie a thing thnt really exists. L'nicertUt. . .The Bed Llfht afaata. The continents of Mars are tinted red with red ochre and its seas present themselves to our gaze under the as pect of snots of a gray-green, deepened by an e fleet of contrast due to the color of tbe continents. The coloration of Mars is not due to its atmosphere, for, although the evil extends over the whole planet, neither its seas nor its polar snows yield to the influence of this coloration. Morever. the borders of the planet are less colored than-the center of tbe disk a result which would Dot be if thia coloration was due to the atmosphere. May not this char acteristic color Mars, visible to the naked eye, and which doubtless is the cause of tbe warlike individuality which the ancients conferred on this planet, be due to the color of the her bage and of tbe vegetable which must color its champaigns t Are there red prairies, red forests, red rivers there T Are our silent woods with their soft shallow replaced there with trees bet ing rubicund foliage, and are onr wlfd red DODnies the emblem nf the Itotanv of Nlare. Tha Slavery af Fraierlty. In the full swing of medical practice tne pace is tremendous. W hen once the indefinable stamp of fashion is set upon a doctor every one wants to engage his services, l ou may so to tbe zreat man's house again and again, and the great man will not be able to see you. You may write to his secretary, and the secretary may make an appointment for the week after next, but it by no means follows that he will be able to keep the appointment. As soon as the clock strikes two he makes a dash for the eon- suiting room, swallows an apology for a lunch, and you pre: ntly observe, him driving past the winnows. - Iu vain the nnpunctualitv is notorious, in vain the consulting fee is doubled. People are determined to have the great man, and the great man they accordingly get. They will bring him iktwn 200 miles, though they have to pay 200 guineas for the journey. lhey will have him, though the patient may be in articulu innrtt. ' For there are circumstances under which some rich men think that no consolation is too costly. They will have him and no one else, although the case, scientifically considered, may be as simple as a cut finger. Sometimes they resort to him because the case has really balllud the average skill of the average practitioner and it not unfre quently happens that the celebrated physician makes a diagnosis and sug gests a remedy that sets his brethren to rights. Uu the other baud, the prac titioner has his revenge in repeating stories of extraordinary blunders perpe trated by fashionable physicians. But when the fashionable physician has really obtained this immense practice the charm of the practice must depart. The great physician becomes a great slave. He lives in a state of gilded cap tivity. He cannot call his house his ow nj or Lis hours his ow n, or his family his own. He is at the beck and call of the public. He takes his meals w ith his loins girded; or, rather, he may be obliged to exist on Liebig's extract for want of time to partake of solid food. When the tide of fashion steadily sets in he Is almost submerged beneath the wave. He bids farewell to leisure, friends, private life, all that make exist ence endurable. The guineas accumu late, the checks, the bank notes; there are plethoric investments, a lordly in come. But a man's income for all pur poses of enjoyment is not w hat he gets, but w hat he sends. Many men w ho imagine that they are iu the enjoyment of a stately income are often, like chil dren playing with little bits of pater that come in and little bits of pater that go out. There is not so very much use in a man getting 15,000 a year if he can hardly spend 1,5I0. But as a rule we acquit great physicians of any mean love of the filthy lucre. They hardly know the sums which roll out of their I pockets when, worn out anil harrassed, they tumble into the uncertain bed from w hicli the uiglit-uell may arouse them. They w ould williugly take less of lucre for more of leisure. This was a strong j idea of the late Mr Henry Holland. He fei-e with his th.ee months' holiday. He had his reward in living to a Nestorlan age, w ith ail the reputation of Nestor's w isduui. The fashionable physician who reci procates tlie firm belief which the Lon don public have in him w ith a eorres- Mnding belief in himself is goaded ou j ,,y two considerations of supreme weight. In the first place he believes that he is conferring a great amount of good on suffering humanity which no other physician could render equally J well w ith himself. Ju. the next place be believes that be is steadily enlarging the limits of medical science. Each patient is a book, and hi practice repre sents the library of medical knowledge. He is w illing therefore to endure any toil, although he knows how dangerous is such toil when carried beyond the endurable limit. Such a course is especially likely, if be is a believer in the boundless future of medicine, iu new methods of diagnosis, in new sys tems of therapeutics, ami has the "en thusiasm of humanity" in his soul. London iibhem The t'eailai laa. Look at his honest face; his firm lip; his Ste:iking eye! The elements of manhood are his! he has good health, which is essential to the most successfid manhood. We venture he uses neither pills nor stimulants. Neither rheuma tism, nervousness, nor dystepsia trou bles him. The day to him is a happi ness, and the night a blessing. His sleep is sweet, and his dreams are like angel w hispers. He has learned the habit of attention. He does one thing at a time and that well. See how intently he reads how eagerly he gives his whole mind to the thing in hand. Then he loves know ledge. He is not a rich man's son, as you see by bis clothes. He has to work for a living, and this he is not ashamed to do. He means to tie oue of the world's pro ducers. He does not intend to be ig norant; his time of leisure he Stends, not in reading silly tales, but In storing his mind with the literature of his father's profession, or in mastering the knotty problems of science, in learning a language, or in kindling bis moral faculties by seeking "as for hidden treasures," the know ledge of God. Life ud Death. The Carlisle bible of mortality comes as near the truth of the grave fatality of a community, perhaps, as at present possible. This table is the result of observations, continued for many years, as to the population of Carlisle, a city in England, and is used as an authority in life insurance calculations in America and Europe. According to this table, of lo.uijo children born : 3.540 die in 3.910 - 4.3M " 4.915 " 5.6fW 6 357 " 7.5! 9.047 9 848 991 " 9.9W . 10 jeara. . 20 - .80 - . 40 . 50 " . 0 . 70 " . HO . 90 " .100 .10 " Leaving one of the 10,000 persons living at the expiration of VH years. PrvCaaitjr. We are emphatically in the age of profanity, and it seems to us that we are on the topmost current. One can not go on the streets anywhere without having his ears offended with the vilest words, and his reverence shocked by the most profane use of sacred names. Nor does it come from the old or middle aged alone, for it is a fact, as alarming as true, that the younger portion of the community are most proficient in de grading language. Boys have an idea it U smart to swear; Ibatajt makes them manly; but there never was a greater mistake in the world. Men, even those who swear themselves, are dissrusted with profanity in a young man, because tney Know now, oi all bad nanus, this ding's the most, closely, and increases with years. It is the most insidious of habits, growing on so invisibly that almost before one is aware he becomes an accomplished eurser. ' Tonus coin. JiirJ- Train adeire to little girh. Good little girls onght not to make mouths at their teachers for every tri fling offence. This retaliation should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravating circumstance. If you have nothing but a rag doll stuffed with saw dust, while one of your most fortunate little pUyraatts has a costly china one, von ahoiilil lnit hr with a show nf kindness nevertheless. And yon ought not to attempt to make a forcible swap with her unless your conscience would justify you in it, and yon know you are aide todo id. ;' . Yon ought never to take yonr little orothers chewing rnra away from him bv main force ; it is better U "rope him in" with tne promise of the hrst two dollars and a half yon find floating down the river on a grind -stone. In the artless, simplicity natural to his time of life he will regard it as a per fectly fair transaction. In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fic tion has lured the obtuse infant to fin ancial ruin and disaster. If at any time you lind it necessary to correct yonr brother, do not correct him with mud never on auy account throw mad at him, liecanse it will soil his clothes. It in better to scald him little, for then yon attain desirable re sults ; you secure his immediate atten tion to the lessons you are inculcating, aud at the same time your hot water will have a tendency to remove impur- tirs trom ins person, and possibly the skin, also, iu spots. , If your mother tells yon to do a thin?. it is wrong to renlv that vou won't. It is lictter and more becoming to inti mate that yon will do as she bids you. aud then afterwards act quietly in the matter, according to the dictates of yonr lictter jndgement. You.' should ever liear in uuud that it is to your kind parent that you are indebted for your food and nice lied, and for your bcun tiful clothes, and for the privilege of staying home from school when vou let on that you are sick. Therefore you ought to respect their little preju dices anil humor their little whims, and pnt up with their foibles nntil they get to crowuiug you too niucu. Good little girls always show marked deference lor the aged, ion onght never to sass old people unless they "sass" you lirst. JTmc Jf;-. Trip Weijhetl the Children. Mr. Trip is a good, simple-hearted man, who tends in a small grocery-shop iu our village. The children ail like him ; but sometimes. I am sorry to say, they play tricks on him. For example, the other day, onr four girls.-with their brother Sydney, went to Mr. Trip's shop, to get weighed. "flow much do you think 1 weigh, Mr. Trip V asked Mary, the eldest of the girls. "Altout a hundred and twenty pounds said Mr. Trip. Mary stwid on the platform ; and Mr. Trip, much to his surprise, found by the figures that she weighed a hundred and i eighty pounds. "Well. I wouldn't have thought it !" exclaimed the good man. Then our Kuinia was weighed. Mr. teen pounds. "Well, well, who'd have thought it I ' said poor Mr. 1 rip. "And how much do you guess this smallest one weighs T" inquired our Sydney, whocould baldly help laughing. Mr. Trip lilted little Agnes with his hands, and replied, "Well, she can't weigh over forty pounds any how." Hut, strange to tell, the notch of the bar showed ninety pounds as she stood on the platform. Mr. irip now began to suspect that something was wrong; but where was the trick f Oh. ho! It was the mis chief of Master Sydney, skulking be hind the little girls, and pressing on the platform with bis two hands. Trip did not get aiixry. He was ton fond ot fun himself to object to a little bit of fun on the part of a little boy. Besides, it was the hrst day of April ; and might not children, on that day, play a few harmless tricks t But Mr. Trip revenged himself : atid this was the way in which he did it. Holding np a tine bunch of raisins, he said. "Who speaks first f " "I ! " cried Sydney. "Well, I thonght yon would,'' said Mr. Trip, puttiug the raisins back into the Imh. "There! I've paid you of!.'' he added. Mr. Trip, yon will perceive, was not a vindictive man. fJ.-'C Little Il'orm. Two men were at work together one day in a yard where ships were built. They were hewing a stick of timber to put into a ship. It was a small stick and not worth much. As tiiey cut oil' the chips they found a worm a small woiui not more than half an inch long. "This stick is wormy,' said one; "shall we put it in V "Yes" replied the other; "I think it it may go in. It will never lie seen." "That may Im',"5 said the lirst; "but there may lie other worms in it, and these may increase and hurt the ship." "Xo, 1 think not ; never mind, we w ill put it in," said the other. So the stick was put in, and the ship was built and launched. She went to sea, and for ten years she did well, but at last it was found that she was weak and rotten ; her timltcrs were eaten by worms. But the captain loaded his ship and tilled it with passengers, and went across the sea. On their way a storm came on. The ship tried to mount the high waves, but at last she sprung a leak. They had two pumps, ami the men worked at them day and iiiglit.ltut the water came in faster, until at hist she sank under the waves. linen t failed yet. Little Allie D. ran to meet her father on his return from businessevery evening for months, and with joy beaming in her counte nance would exclaim. "Haven't failed yet." She had earn day attended school and diligently studied the lessons as signed her, and perfectly committed them to memory, and when the time for recitation came she was ready to answer all the questions put to her cor rectly. So when evening came and the day s duties were iterformed, she could with a joyful heart ami a pleasant smile run with buoyant feet to meet her loving fatlicr.and excluiui'llaveu't failed vet." if all the little ltoys and girls who at tend school would pat forth all their powers, aud strive to learn their lessons correctly, so that when evening came they could meet their parent and ex claim. "Haven't failed yet," how many happy little children there would be in our land, and how many parents would be glad too ! Vonijregutionnlitt. A letxon. Every man lias this lesson to learn in life : to depend on yonrtelf. Don't wait for yonr father to start you in the world. Start yourself ! Til risk that yon will do well enough if yon look all obstacles square in the face and say "Get out my way, or I'll move you out of it ! And having said that, if it don't go, make it go. Dont give op to it. Don't be put down by it. There are 343 theatres in Italy, Xt7 in France, 101 in Germany, PW iii Spain, 151 in Austria, 1H in England, -14 in Kusssia, 31 in Belgium, tl in Holland, 20 iirSw itzerlaiid, lti in Portugal, 10 iu Sweden, 10 in Itenmark, 8 in Norw ay, 4 in Greece, 4 iii Turkey, 3 in E pt, and 1 iu Syria, making in all I,."t22 theatres. . SITS EL BRIEF. The past winter was mild in Ice land. "... j. - - The gras-hoppers are at work in Clinton couuty, Missouri. ,, It is stated ; that of the 521,042 teaciwM in this country, 127,713 are woolen. A maple sugar factory in Vermont, tlie largest in the State,-'annually taps 3,So4 U-eea. -r, vt-.' I - .1 At the funeral of Mayor Barret, of St. Louis, eight ex-mayors ofliciated as pall bearers. ' ' Blackberries are selling by the street hawkers iu Savannah, Ga., at 10 cents a quart. -1 i The Fisk iniversitv jubilee singers, colored, have sailed, for a second tour, through Great Britain.. Liquor to the value of 2.V,000 has been seized In Boston, and the w ar on. the Whi.ikey riug coulinues. . The ouly real popular drinks this summer will lie "True Inwardness" cobblers, and "S-8o" slings. It is very unkind of the Savannah News k sjteak ol Harpers' Weekly aa "a journal of snivelization." The Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain has elected Mr. Peter Cooper as an honorary member. . . Carl Schurz is applied for as a lect urer in all directions. He will begin his tour in New England November 1st. A bill has been Introduced intii the New York legislature providing for the erection of a College of Music in Central l'ark.. , Ex-Attorney General Williams ami ex-Commissioner of Internal Revenue loitglaa have hired a law otfica together. It's altout time for the farmers to think of planting their apples and plow ing for black berries if they are ever going to. A prominent "rentleman of Cincin nati offers to giv 12.",iMNI towards the erection of a capacious music hail in that city. Itaiiicl F. Davis, nf Reading T:.. U the smallest man in Pennsylvania. Her is forty-four inches high and w eigha only fifty-six pounds. Ir. Brown of Springfield HI., has sold his boa-coostricter, twenty-lhrea feet long, fo.- 2 20". It has been pur chased "for the British Museum." Two commissioners to represent France at the Philadelphia Centennial. one to reside iu the Liited Suites, and the other in r ranee, w ill be appointed. The directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad have voted to allow the Allan- tic and Pacific Telcg.apli Company to extend its service over their entire lines. It cost a round million to build a ingle story of the Chicago Custom House with rotten stone, but it w ill take only ilonTnno Ul p,,n jt down and begin jam. The sides of the steamer Schiller have caved in, covering up the sis-cie. cargo, aud pruUiMy a number of bodies hut Wasting operations will be soon begun. The receiver and superintendent of the I lira, Ithaca and Eluiira railroad have discharged a sufficient number of mploves to reduce the exitenses I,0lJ per month. -Thirty-seven foreign nations have al ready siguifled their intention of jiartic- pating in our great Centennial, tiood. Crowd up iu front tiiere. Plenty of room tor more. . Judge Jeremiah S. Black, of Penn sylvania, will deliver the oration at the unveiling of the bust ol tbe late Bishop aiiiplH-ll. at Bethany College. el Virginia, in June. A rival for Wcsfon has turned up it Chicago iu the person of O'Leary, w ho has w alked 2.si miles in sixty-seven hours, and has undertaken to walk 300 miles iu 1.12 hours. The vote of !-uiocrats In New Hampshire to refer the contested elec- on cases to the Judge ot the Supreme Court doesn't look as though they were iessrately w icked. At tbe Philadelphia Mint the coili ng of new twenty-cent piei com menced, and thelites tor the same pieces have Ih-i-ii forw arded to the Carson City and San Francis-o Mints. The latest thing out in the line ol elebrations is a reunion on the grounds f Dr. Milliard of New- Haven, a practi cing physician for fifty years, of altout 1,iki wrsoiis at whose birth be. profes- ionally assisted, The Boston Traveller report that the mem Iters of the Bini!;er Hill Monu ment Association are seriously tliink- ot presenting the monument ami grounds to the eity of Boston, alter the celebration this year. Be careful how you celebrate your 'lite nuiul. Nathaniel Eaton of Warner V. IL, whose centennial birthday was elcnraterl a few days since, died soon liter of pneumonia, the result of expo- ire on that festive occasion. The Iowa grasshopper is recognized is a civilized being compared with the grasshoppers of Wisconsin. It pays some res-ct to death, and, when a member of its lodge dies, wear the Usual badge of mourning for thirty days. antes Lick, the San Francisco mil lionaire, whose gift of a fortune to public objects was revoked and renew ed uuiler another deed of trust, has been sued for$."i;",lniO, the honorarium claimed or twenty-two year s medical service. Michael Lahv, the no-armed grad uate of the Pittslield, Mass., high school has been appointed by the selectmen to take the census of jtersons In town be tweeu the ages of five and fifteen years. He writes a "goinl hand" with the pencil in his mouth. Mr. Carl Rosa's tronpe of singers of opera in English are gaining great favor in English provincial cities, litis company includes .Miss Kose llersee. Miss Julia iiayloril (formerly or New York), and a Mr. F. Packard, w ho is advertised as an "Amerieau tenor." An editor having remarked that he never saw but one king in his life, the Richmond twuirer is led to think that bis education iiiu-t have been wofnlly neiit-teil. It toiichingly says: We saw four of 'em once ourselves, and never care to look upon their like again. The culture of trees in the V. S. is quite extensive. I'nder the act cf Con gress ottering Its) acres of land to any person who would plant 40 acres of them to trees and cultivate them for eight years, about l.loo persons, it is stated bad taken up 170,0IO acres of land in Minnesota up to January.. The demand for young trees to set out this spring iu California is quite great. The last Legislature of West Vir ginia ordered the removal of the State Capital from Charle-town. on the Kana wha, to Wheeling. The Stat Supreme Court enjoined the removal. The Gov ernor ignored the Court aud was altout to make the removal. The Secretery of State Treasurer, etc., have now con cluded to obey the Court rather than the Governor, and the case is pretty badly complicated as it stands.
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