i -11 I I s v. i-iil 'll liiili - ,3 - , B. F. SCHWEIER, - . THI C0HSTIT0TI05 TH1 TJHIOH AUD THB ESFOKCJ MIXT Of TH1 LAWS. Editor and ProprlatsMV TOL. XXIX. : r - MIFFLINTOWN; JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. SEPTEMBER 29, 1S75. " NO. 39. DSSHtS FOR THE CHILDREN. ITiians in ths morning ' Hake the dmj aeem bright, Filling every sorner With s gleam of light ; And what happiness he sjjaswi, Who. affection's impulse scornins. Departs and gives no kisses To the children in the morning. Many think it folly: Many say it's bliss ; Very mnch depending . On whose lips yon kiss ! ' Bat the truth I am oonfsssing. And Fd hare yon all take warning. If yon covet any blessing, Kim the children in the morning. Kiaaes in the evening. When the lights are low. Bet two hearts starring With affection's glow. And the angels swarm in numbers Bound the pillow they are pressing. Who ars wooed to peaceful slumbers By a dear one's fond caressing. Kisses in the morning Ars not oat of place ; Kisses in the evening Have a special grace ; And it snums to me that this is For indulgence lawful reason ; Sweetest tulips I mean kkaea ! Ye are never out of season! The Piano Tuner's Story. "You are a pair of precious young fols,anJ tlutt's the best I ca.ii fin to sav about you ! ' said Aunt George. Her name was Miss Georgianua An derson; but the. sweet abbreviation "Georgie" was never used to her; as fuion might one think of venturing; on familiarities with a bishop! Everybody called her "Aunt George;" and, as she walked with a measured, heavy tread, like a grenadier, the name didn't wein at all inappropriate.. .. , ' . She was Lizzie's 'Aunt" George not mine. And she hail brought Lizzie up in her queer, downright fashion, never giving her a kiss or a caress or an en dearing word, yet withal lx-iug kind to her after her own way. I wish I could describe Lizzie Ander son to you as she really was. A little, dimpled, blue-eyed creature, w ith long, shady lashes, and a Htiy way of looking at you, like a child ; a girl who; voice was low and flute-sweet, and who moved about quietly and noiselessly, like a sweet spring wind rustling the flowers. A lid only eighteen, too; that wasvh:tt aggravated A nut tJeore the most of all. "I wasn't married until I was five and thirty!'' oaid Aunt George; "but you young people can't be consented without rushing headlong into the vor tex. It would be different if you were rich ; but, dearme!" and she rubled her nose perplexedly, "Jije is nothing on earth but a poor pianoforte tuner, and you haven't one solitary enny of your own, Lizzie." "We shall be very economical. Aunt George," Lizzie answered, cheerfully. "And you'll have to be," answered tlie old lady, grimly. It is my intention to be perfectly frank with the reader. I shall not disguise from him the fact that I had, in our confidential talks, asked Lizzie if she thought Aunt George would do any thing for us in a pecuniary way. -"Oh, dear, no !" Lizzie had answered shaking her brown curls in a most de cided fashion, "She always told me never to expect anything from her; and besides, Joe, she has really nothing to give!" There was no getting over these two facts, taken either together or separ ately - "There's one comfort, Lizzie," said I stoutly; "we are young and strong and brave-hearted, and we'll not ask aid of anybody." -''Of course we won't, Joe." said Lizzie, her blue eyes sparkling like dew wet violets at sunrise, I did wish, onee or twice, that my business had been something more lucrative than piano tuning; but it w as what I had been brought up to, and I had a pretty good ruu of t-ustoiu ou the whole; and, as Lizzie said: "A little will go a great w ay when you are care ful of it." "You'll see,Joe," she added, blithely, "that I shall make a splendid house keeper." We had just seventy-five dollars to furnish our little second floor with ; but I can assure you our two rooms looked delightfullv cozy, with the red and green carpet and'ueat stained furniture. Lizzie said it looked exactly like a doll's house, and perhaps she wasn't very far wrong. "Such a pair of fools!" reiterated Aunt George, in a prophetic mood; "but there's one comfort it won't last long." ! "Why shouldn't It, Aunt George?" asked Lizzie, coloring and smiling in that pretty, flower-like way of hers. "Humph!" said Aunt George. "If you come to that, why don't the sun shine las. forever!" ".So it might if there w ere no clouds, . Lizzie answered, softly. " ' ' "Ah, child!" sighed Aunt George, "you're young now, so enjoy it as much as you can. We can't le young twice over, more's the pity !" So we were married quietly, as became our humble estate and moderate exieo tatione.aud went to spend a few days in the country, where I had a sister living on . hnwzv. cld-fashioned farm. Do vou think Luzie and 1 will ever forget "those days, even if we live to be as old aa Methuselah ?" It was a November evening w hen we came to the "doll's house," where the red merino draeries gloweu warnny iu th r.i,iv shine, of the fire and the tin kettle was singing out its homely lay of welcome. "Lizzie," said I, softly, "are yon glad lAmiiM tiAmf" ' ...H ah answered, more with her eves than her lips, "Oh, so very, very glad! for we are going to be happy here ' I know it as well as If 1 saw all the rears stretched out before me on a map." n... at t-er was verv blissful, es- lxxiallv after the baby came to make our lives musical, with his little cooing voice; but after that the hard times came. Not that we repined. Lizzie and I were brave to endure whatever we could bear together, yet it went to mv .heart to see her growing paie aim n.'i o,mrh cittinff un at night to sew and earn aiule extra money, because my business was dull. And, almost be fore we knew It. the bilbvbegan to accumulate, and the rent got behind. "This won't do, Joe,'r said Lizzie gravely. "We must do w ttnout meaw ..-rv - . t. mthintr " said I. laughing, although I felt little enough inclined to lie mirthful: "but we cannoi very ...-.. a t.i - OTnf .nr nnr heads. 1 "ivm't m Joe." said my ltcue hearttome wife. "We shall not want. will hoaure to hanpen. "But what can happen, Lizzie T The dav of miracles are over. Til ere are un" TMiiah and ravens in these times. "Yes. there are. Joe, said Lizzie, cheerfully, "although we don't always uow it at me time. There is an order for you to tune a piano up in South street ; isn't that a raven " And she held the little strip of paper triumphantly up before me. "When I came back from South street Lizzie met me at the door with humid eyes and a troubled face. "What is the matter?" 'I eriej out. anxiously. "Lizzie not the babv? Nothing has happened to him?" "Xo," Lizzie answered ; "he is quite well, and fast asleep, like a little white lamb. But Aunt George is dead." "Aunt George!" I repeated, vacantly. "Yes; she died this morning, and' I could not be sent for in tiuie to receive her last breath. Oh, Joe, she was very, very kind to me." Are we men naturally so selfish, or was I, hunted and driven by want, an exception to the ordinary rule? For I confess that as Lizzie stood there looking tearfully up into myface the first thought that followed the entrance of this unex pected news into my brain was: Would Aunt George leave us anything? I sup posed Lizzie was her sole living relation, and surely, in all these years, though her income was small, she must have saved something. But f am thankful to remember that I never told Lizzie what was in my mind. "Site was very old, dear," I said, striving to comfort my grieved wife; "over threescore aud ten. It,, is the allotted age of humanity, and vim kuow she had grown to lie very feeble." "And 1 know she is letter off," said Lizzie; 'but, Joe, she is all the mother I ever had." v . , ' We went to Annt George's funeral, and her will was read a very, brief document in which she hequcatiied her simple" household' furniture and "be longings to a nephew in Wisconsin, i nd "to Elizabeth, wife of-Jo-epli Allen, as a token of the affectionate remembrance of the deceased, her piano." ., . A tuneless, jangling instrument, half a century old, with carved spindle legs, ornaments of inlaid brass and keys as yellow as Aunt George's own com plexion. I laughed contemptuously when I heard the words. But Lizzie laid her hand gently on my arm. "It was Aunt George's, dear," she said, softly, "and we must cherish it for her sake. Besides," iu a w hisper, 'think how it will amuse the baby." And that was the end of all my expec tations of an inheritance from Lizzie's AuntGeorge. ' The old piano was duly carted home the next day. If it bad been a fashion able instrument, of modern make, they could never have gotten it up the narrow staircase: hut it looked quite friendly and home-like oposite the tirepliMM, its lank proportions covered by ja faded green cloth. 1 shrank back with a little grimace as lizzie 'touched the keys to make the baby laugh.' ' "Of course it is out of tune, ,hte,'' she said, merrily; "lint you'll soon set taut right. ' Ami I shall rub up my Iracttce again in no time." It happened to lie a very dull time just then; sol had nothing else to lo but to take Lizzie's advice; and iu just half an hour I had the old instrument nearly dissected, much to Mr. Baby's edification, as he sat gravely on the floor in the midst of the interior developments of the ancient piano. And now comes the most marvelous part of my story. . All niaiio tuners know that when you take away the front piece alxive the key board there is a hollow place of con siderable extent, in any instrument of ordinary size. And as l stopped to mow the dust awav from this place 1 saw a bundle or roll of bank notes fastened round with , a yellow slip of paper, on which was written : "'For my niece Lizzie." , - "Lizzie!" I cried, breathlessly, "Lizzie !" and she was at my side in an instant. And. if vou will believe me, there were 15.000. the accumulated savings of Aunt tiearge's trugal tile; anu iius was what she had meant by giving Her piano to us. That $o,(KlO was the starting point of the snug little fortune we nave since scraped together; and if Aunt George could know how much her liequest has done for us, I think it would do her kindly heart good. Hat Ins; la Arabia. A contributor to the CUl.lie 'rll describing the work of missionaries among the Arabs, relates this little inci dent: A band OI la couples were luieiy married from the orphanage of Bcn Aknoun. The fathers informed the archbishop they had 15 excellent boys who were about to leave, anu wnoin they w ished to find wives for and settle in he nearest Christian village. The archbishop asked the suerior of the girls' school if she could supply 15 maidens w ho wouiu go anu enure inc humble homes of their brother orphans. The sunerior renlied that she had pre cisely the number required girls who must leave the shelter or the convent in a few months, and whom she was most anxious to see provided for. The graiies were ripe, ami the vintage, which was close at hand, woilll lurnisu an opor timitv for a meeting between the par ties. " So one morning, in the cool, sweet dawn, thev set out to the vineyard, the maidens rand acted Kv a ister, t he youths by one of the priests; the latter iook one side and cullefl the grapes, while at the other the maidens gathered up the branches and bound them into bunches. s thev went they sang hymns and eanticles to lighten their labor; and when the dav's ta-k was none, inej ien the vineyard iu two distinct banns, as they bad come, and returned to their sforfe convents. "Well," said Mgr.-.de la Vigerie to UieTrc8idIng father next day. ''have the voung men chosen eaen nis maiucu,nu is the choice atiDroved ?" -y -"Alas ! ' monseigneur, thev did not even look at each other," replied the disconsolate matchmaker. "They never raised their eyes from their work. Sister f . and I watched them like lynxes." "You have brought up the children too well, my good father " cried the archbishop in despair, ""hat is to be .L.ttA villi tlii'lll lUiW ?'' "Ilav a little patience, my lord, and it w ill come in good time," replied the father encouragingly. Vest day the two bands of maidens and yourha sallied forth agaiu to the --.....-..-.la ail sn everv dav for a week. Then the father came in triumph to the archbishop to announce the success ful issue of the scheme. One by one the ....i,a i.o.i i.liu'Lnl un courage and thrnncrh the tendrils of the vii anil, thanks to some magnetic sympathy, heen simultaneously raised to meet theirs, and they smiled at each other. A little further on the green leaves were fluttered by whisper isking :he fair one's name; she told It .V..ahor m hisner told ner his. So the flower blossomed n the thirty young hearts, and the priest and the sister who watched the gentle grow m delighted. -" Charles Bradlaugh, the noted Eng lish liberal, will arrive iu wis couuw, about the first of October, on a lectur- in tour inrougii mc r-va as ftaeletaas la .Ike Bayal Cal-les-e af iu( as. iron, ... .LUl,,. nnn.,h to aii oaiivkuiio uvuu -v a,n. am, another Church of St. Ursula like that at Cologne. Attending first of all to the genus bimana it is extraordinary now naturally hard words come to one in the College of Surgeons we find the skeletons of sundry remarkable persons n odd juxtaposition. Charles O Brien, the famous Irish giant, who died in 17S.I, is sati! to nave had a confirmed and, as it appears, well-founded horror that the surgeons would be ou the watch for his remains. Just before he died of too much good liquor, at the age of ..-.,.... ...... .. I .1 : . c in cui-fcw v av UJiUlc U1JHMUUIIS lor ins Durial, requesting that he niisht be sunk iu the sea, far beyond low-water mark. All his fears aud schemes, how ever, proved useless to avert his fate, or rather the fate of bit bones to remain above ground. At a cost, it is said, of 300, his body was secured and the skeleton prepared. He was, if we are to believe ail we hear, eight feet two inches high during life; the skeleton, however, measures only seven feet seven. Other skelutous are there of giants and dwarfs, and one of a middle sized thick-set mau, not remarkable from an auatomical point of view, but otherwise interesting enough. It is that of a famous imlivulual, no less than Jonathan Wild the Great," who. in the lauguage of his biographer, Henry Melding, finally "swun out or the world." By the side of the skeleton is the coffin-plate bearing the inscription, ".Mr. Jonathan w line. IJied Slay 24th, 1715, In the 42d year of his age" a date which clashes considerably with Field ing's narrative, which sets down as the birth-day of his hero that ou which the great plague broke out in 1UV1. Almost equally interesting is the skull of Thur- telt, the murderer or Mr. weare. it is worthy of note that, while the head of WiMe presents no special peculiarity of conformation, being rather small and cli'gaut than otherwise, that of Thurtell possesses an atrocious "facial angle, the lower jaw,1 abundantly furnished with great white teeth, projecting hide ously. Kugene Aram's head, again, is conspicuously small. - Very curious is the result of putting iieople's heads to gether. - Ilie 'vull or the Baresark and of the mild Hindoo are hardly distin guishable; while those of the negro. he ew-Jlollander,aud the lasmaiuan, differing from each other, differ yet more widely from the heads of white men. Horriblv, ghastly are the pre pared heads from the Indian Archi pelago, covered with paint and gilding; and supremely curious are the loug lieads preferred bv the Canbs, and the flat heads admired by the tribes of North America. Near these are casts of the rain cavity of various animals, show ng how very small in proportion are the braius of the w hale and the elephant when comiiared with that ot mau, ami overhead is au enormous skeleton of the "right" whale weighing several tons. Further on is the osseous framework of poor Cliunee, the famous elephant whose destruction at Exeter 'Change excited so much sympathy at the time. All thr ieitr . .(. Arctic Cola. It is unwholesome to use snow to l1irrilll niv? v, no iv .'i .iii.T i.ii ... fiainmation of the throat, palate, and tongue. Besides, enough can never be taken to quench the thirst, as a temper ....m.ilm lm I.In aa !- diHiiff, an ature of 30 or !) degrees below zero makes it taste like molten metal. Snow- eaters in the north are considered as feelile and effeminate, iu the same way as an opium-eater in tne east, ine groups of travelers who traversed the snow-fields were surrounded by thick vapors formed by the emanations from their bodies, which became condensed, notwithstanding the furs in which the travelers were enveloped. These vars fell to the ground with a slight noise, frozen into the form of small crystals, and rendered the atmosphere thick, im penetrable, and dark. Notwithstanding the humidity of the air, a disagreeable sensation of dryness was felt. Every sound diffused itself to a very long dis tance. An ordinary conversation could be heard atone hundred paces off, while the report of gnns from the top of high mountains could scarcely be heard, -li. raver explains this phenomenon by the large quantity of moisture in the Arctic atmosphere. 3Ieat could be chopped, aud mercury used iu the shape of balls. Both taste and smell become greatly en feebled in these latitudes ; strength gives way under the paralyzing influence of the cold; - the eyes involuntarily close and become frozen. When locomotion stops, the sole of the foot becomes insen sible. It is somewhat curious that the beard does not freeze, but this is ex plained from the air exJred being im mediately transformed into snow. The cold causes dark beards to become lighter; the secretion of the eyes and nose always increases, while the forma tion of perspi ration altogether ceases. The onlv nossihle protection against the cokl is to be very warmly clothed, "J to endeavor as much as possible to pre vent the condensation of the atmosphere, while the much-vaunted plans of an- oiutiug ami blackening the body are pronounced to nave no real vaiue. LvhJuh Malical Urvnl. Old riiapltr. Old Flippitv is. very old. It is my lielief that he must have heard the limes ujkui at least some seventy Aew -I'M Tim frosts if frost itniav le called that looks like summer twi- ii'ht linirerins upon a ripeneu Harvest ;..i.i m tlilflr miofi his head. The dimness of old age is drawing slowly iver his kinmy beaming eyes, even n i veil, and the ikl gold-rimmed pecta- i . . f r. .in hi m-ite now in 1. 1 1 1- i A " i, r rest, praise God, score of years) are- failing in their powers. Therefore Mil rlippiry, peenni; mw wic Si..inB larknes of his fife, leans forward as he vajks, aiid is becoming ueut ot iorm anu nervous. His cheeks are falling in, his .ra imiir nr Uiiu. the wrinkles in is sallow face are working deeper and i.A ..i.lm Mk-lileli onrar wore so .well filled, hang liiup and spiritless upon his aged limns. Tv. nil ...iarQnm then. Old r litililtv past his serviceable time aud has no nmi- tn lira for. and mar as well grow gloomy and morose ami bitterly exclaim that all is vanity ami ma thorns are sharp long alter all the roses liave faded. ; ' Kloca -ntip heart. Old FlinpitV urmilJ smite 'Lri hear vou say" io, and ci ru w i i" .i 0 explain, that you are wrong, -qnlte B.l.i a minima If. Ill 1 1 1 1 UaSLHU 1(1 wrong. For as to pleasure, w ny ue nas never had more pleasure, than he has now. and as to' happiness, why, he was never happier.'-Why, do not the chil dren fly to meet him all along his home- . . . . i. . HUlUf IM LIMIT III H II II V HlMfllL i.., ami nnh him until he is iu rreat daneer 01 tailing aown upon nieiui . . . . . .-ii a . il l L-1 i - ... , . i a VI hy Is it tuey love uiiu w 1; - viu ip-..:- annnt tll. Rut that tliev do love him no one can doubt who has seen them clap their little hands and cry as they boisterously charge npon him .t'....i Philint I'ncle PhilinI Here ftnmes Uncle .Philip!" Of course it is true that uncie rnuip icorrupi-u vy Mmtn Tiuinff mn. whoop most imnor- 11 ll JV.., , taut employment in life is to tell vulgar stories about young ladies and smoke cigarette, into Old Flippity) generally has his pockets full of wonderful cari osities, which he is never tired of show ing to the children, and that he is deeply versed in all the mysteries of "King Vt Uliain was King James son," and "Ixmdon bridge is tailing down. ITncle Philip or old Flippity it matters very little which earns a scanty living from having charge of two ponderous volumes, whtcn lie upon the furthest corner of a desk in the in terior of a dark, long, little den on Third street. The dark little den being a bank, Old Flippity's duties extend to the discount and collection department. He is not quick at figures. He is no brilliant; arithmetician. He goes slowly np ami down one columu several times liefore he dares conclude that the addi tion is correct; and as to Interest it is the dailv nightmare (if such a thing can be) of his life. Still, Old Flippity stays liecause his daily bread deiends upon it. Aud the bankers keep him because be works for very little salary. This rea son, in addition to a feeling of gratitude for a service rendered them a dozen years ago, causes the bankers to retain Old Flippity as long as he is able to remain. The service which Old Flippity ren dered may be briefly told. One Sep tember evening Old Flippity, poring late over his books at the bank, with no one near but the janitor, was surprised to hear something fall. - Looking hastily up, lie was still more surprised to see the janitor lying stunued umui the floor, whiletwo viilainous-looking men stand ing over him were pointing pistols at Old Flippity's head. The sight was such a strange one that Old Flippity could only stare in silence. "Old man," said one of the meu, "you've got a key to that vault. Open it quick." Instantly the sense of duty flashed into Old Flippity's mind. ."1 will not do it," he said. With .in outh the leader again com manded him to do it. adding, "If you don't we'll llow the top of your head Off." ;...'. 'I will not do it," once more sturdily announced old Flippity.. ".lack." said the man who hart lieiore spoken, 'we'll give the old man three minutes. If he don't ojwu that safe in three minutes we tire. Xow, old man !" Old Flipuity stood there quietly in the presence of xssille, death. The loud ticking of the clock upon the wall sounded to old Flippity like the knock ing of the dark angel at his heart. Fifty one hundred one hundred and fifty how fast the seconds flew! One hundred and sixty seventy seventy five the men were taking aim eighty ! "Well." said old Flippity. "Hold! here is the key," aud he slow, ly drew it from his un-ket. "Here is the key. Consider what von are doing, friends; this is a crime and a sin. . oiisiUer be fore it is too late." . . "Ojien the vulilt!" HAnd you will not be turned from your wicked purHse?' , "Open the vault, l say, or i snonu -"Then there is the- kev, and fire if you will!"' cried Old Flqipity. And suddenly raising his hand he hurled the vault-key through the. plate-glass window into the middle of the street. This action, so unexjiected, caused the robbers to look undecidedly at each other. Then their first impulse was to murder the brave old mau. But at that moment two policemen and a numlier of citizens who had been attracted by the noise of breaking glass, came run ning into the hank, and Old Flippity's life was saved. Thus even a weak old man may be good for something. And certainly it does me good to know that in the bent ami feeble form of such a person as Old .Flippity there hides a faithful servant and a children's loving friend. And what can we be morer Kpaalsk Beverages. Everv sort of coolinff drink can be had in ertVi-tion iu the streets of Madrid. Water, to liegin with, is always quite fresh and cold, ami this is more than a luxurv. it is au absolutely necessity in a country where one is literally burnt up with thirst- in every town sturay gaiK q carry it about, and it is refreshing even to hear their monotonous, long drawn cry of "Agua pura," "Agua mas frescaque la-nieve," for tne east wiuu brimrs with it dust and burning fever. and the sun scorches and dries the very blood and skin with its fiery heat. Those ho are wise will.wlieu traveling, provide themselves with one of the pretty little white porous jars that keep the water as fresh as if it had been just taken from the snrinsr. Then. in all the-e. and at the comers of the principal streets may be had more iced beverages than could be named iu a single jiage deli cious orange and lemonade, the glass piled high with cool, white snow, with perhaps, half a ripe apricot, or a. few strawberries thrown on it. to give still more: flavor to the refreshing mixture. There is iced barley-water, or orgeat, mixed with the juice of fresh fruits or syrups, sometimes having also a $nHpton of wild-thyme or herbs, that give a slightly aromatic taste, inexpressibly refreshing on a hot day. Besides all the various prcmratkns of orgeats, there Is thin beer and ginger-beer, and many more drinks of tne same nature- ' Above all must be placed the A Wo, in nln of nomiiled francs, barlev-luirar. and water, carefully strained and iced, with a few strawberries, or pieces of orange or pineapple, and perhaps flav ored with a little vanilla or almonds, the whole making a- mixture that it is worth going to Spain to taste. In other nlaces it might not, iierhaps, he so much appreciateii, for the hot sun gives not only the rich flavor to the fruit, but the thirst that makes It pleasant. Olearatad Flwr Uardeas Deslgaed far tke 'allar af Base Bashes Oalv. . There are but very few spots-in the world which can show so charming a flora of roses, besides the isle of roses in the Sturnberg lake, near Muui. h, as the ArchducaL. Tark in Alcsuth and l...ir.pUt,a IcIqiii! nur Pesth. On the latter there are at this time, the begin ning of July, more man m.uuu nign sMiurii rn&ia Imithpa In flill bloom, eaeh covered with roses withont number. The sight of the gorgeous forest of roses mumuiiImI tn lie fnirv like, while their fragrance, extending ever so far, . .. r u.. invites jieneci nosu. m isiwr. than 11H0 different kinds of roses are I.i..ai1 lliaio anil tin t.r'lltil CatAloirnA ol Hie two garuens ineiiuoucu prtrsenw more than 3.0U0 varieties of roses, the ffreater Dart of which are blooming the entire summer. ''. , ;, ; Ttas T.Wrri af Esaatlats. - It Is related ly Sprengel, in his "Geschichte der Arxueikuinle," that the Arabian physicians sometimes relied with great success on moral means for curing disease, of which the following is a striking instance : One of Harouu Al-Raschid's wives suffered from para lysis of both arms. . Oschibrail, the court physician, induced the caliph to summon all the leading nobles to a large hall in his palace, and then introduced the lady to the assembled multitude. Without a word of preface he raised her veil, when feelings of shame and fear restored strength to the palsied arms. The lady hastily drew her veil down again, and was cured from that hour,- aBaclllaa-. I receive, and for some years have received, many letters daily written by representatives of all sorts and condi tions of men ; and I ean safely say that an error in sneliuiK is the very rarest that I meet with. Indeed, an error of this kind almost never occurs in any manuscript that comes nnder my obser vation. Mistakes of all other sorts are plentiful, chiefly those in the construc tion of sentences ; those in the meaning of words are common enough, but the sneiiinir may be said to be always cor rect. A change in spelling seems to be necessary to trive neither writers nor readers a complete and easy command of the tneluth language, spoken or written. This outcry airainst the diffi culties of English spelliDfr has been heard for manyyearsin certain quarters: but it does not come from the body of intelligent c.ngnsn-speaking people. Men who devote themselves to one special study are apt to liecome "hypped npon it, to find some favorite grievance, and weep, and wail, and wring their hands in pnblic over it. The advocates of decimal system of weights and measures are doing the same thing over tons, ponnds, and ounces, gallons, quarts and Kills. They say, as is said in a recent article npon the subject, that "every schoolboy" "knows the difficulty with which a knowledge is acquired of the weights and measures now in use, and that every grown person who has "mastered this important but perplex ing part of arithmetic" knows how soon it is forgotten. A man of ordinary sense and memory ought to be ashamed to enter such a plea in favor ot the pro posed change. Any person who nnds two gills one pint, two pints one quart, four quarts one gallon, sixty-three gal lons one hogshead, &c, perplexing, and who, having ouce learned it, cannot remember it for the rest of his life, is not very likely to "master"' or to re member anvthinir. The woeful diffi culties of spelling are much of the sort that every grocer fiudsin selling vinegar bv the gallon and sugar bv the pound. What is not necessary may, however, be desirable. 1 he desirability of a re form of English spelling is now urged on three grounds ; it would save much time now lost in writing sileut letters, aud much money now lost in printing them ; it would make pronunciation certain ; it would diminish very greatly the time spent m acquiring the ability to write the lauguage Gahuy. Haw ta Make Marriage Beaatlfal. Ill the flrst place, let people defer to the laws of health, of sanity, hereilitary soiiuiluess; let them obey restrictions, consult wholesome seasons, resjiect the limits set up by the commou sense ot nature. Mutual ignorance on these points Is filling marriage with unneces sary evils; they not only soil the well lieiug of a family, but gjmil its dLxsi tion. I.et the ork In every house be reduced, by a reduction of its ambi tions, till all its parlors, all its tattles, all the c!othes, exactly represent the current condition of every family; not a bracket or a ribbon fur exaggeration, not a single' room for parade, neither sewing, washing, eating, scouring, nor company giving beyond actual needs, and all done by the least elalxirate methods. Then" in the second place, reduce to the lowest -xissihle point the disturbances which arise from igno rance and vanity, from artificial train ing; you simply liberate marriage for the more effective discharge of its spir itual purpose. - The men and women might suspect that they are ill-mateu till life it.self pronounced the bans. Teach children that marriage only pro longs their school hours into the future of sterner discipline and less perishable attainments. Warn them against those affectionate extravagances which un dermine respect, against the physical errors which so sap the will that it is humbled and enslaved by annoyances which health aud freshness laugh at. And teach them simplicity, make vul gar habits and ambitions appear odious to them, ply their imagination witu austere and noble forms, tempt them to fall in love first with spiritual beauty, whose service makes them free, theu they will be better prejiared to discover that marriage withholds felicity until it has been earned. Arraw-Heaal ajaperstltlaas. There are some curious suiierstitious attached to flint arrow-heads in various parts of Europe, as, for instance, in Scotland and Irelaud, ' where the country eople call them elf-shots or elf-bolts, believing them to lie the mis siles ot those imaginary beings.- iney used to wear them mounted in silver frames as protections against evil influ ences. Sir W. K. Wilde states that iu the north of Ireland, "when cattle are sick, and the cattle doctor or fairy doctor is sent for, he says the beast has been 'elf-shot.' or stricken by fairy or elfin darts; and forthwith he proceeds to feel the animal all over, and by some legerdemain contrives to find iu its skin one or more poisouous weapons, w bicn with some coins, are then placed in tne water which it is given to drink, ami a cure Is said to lie effected." According to Trofcssor Xilsson, the veteran in lnr- ologist of Sweden, there is still linger- in anion ir the Scandinavian tieasantry a Is-lief that flint arrow-heads and stone implements in general are endowed with certain magic powers, similar superstitions survive In Italv. In some parts of that country the peasants pre serve tliut arrow-heads In their nouses, in order to protect them from the ef fects of Ifchting, and in the Island of Elba thev- are mounted in silver and worn as amulets, as in Scotland and Ireland. An arrow-head of flint has been found anpeuded to au Etruscan necklace of gold, apparently as a sort of charm, which seems to show, say Mr Evans, "that a belief in the supernatu ral origin of these weapons, and their consentient miract:!3iis powers, is of very ancient date." In : this country where stone arrow-points are probably more numerous than any wliere else. no strange notions in reference-to tbeni are entertaiued by the rural population tneir origin anu use being so wen un derstond that even the 1 chrtdren in country districts, who pick them up in the Ids are fully aware of their being the ' siles used, at no remote period. by the aborigiual occiipauta of the soil lltiriitr' M'tqazinr for Stpt'rnhrr. l-, . . . . , , : ... i i. i Tke Last CkleT Jastice af Eaa-laad. The Court of Qneen'sBeneb will cease to exist next Xovemlier that is to say, the act of Parliament which abolishes it will take eS'ect at that time : although what probably will lie its last sitting was held Jaly 6. The London 7hnr$ sava: - i , - "It is impossible (as Lord Coleridge observed a year or so ago to con template witiioat feeling of interest, and perhaps a passing pang of regret, the extinction and passing away of so augustandancientaa institution. Even in this country, so tenacious in its tradi tions and institutions, and most of all Its. judicial institutions, the Qoeeu's Bench, as it was curtly called, or, to nse its correct legal title, 'the Conrt of the Kins before the King himself 'coram ipso rege was tha most ancient of all. and far more ancient than Parliament itself for it can be traced back clearly in the substance of its nature and character and in tne essence of its juris diction to the time of Alfred above ten centuries ago. It is a earions cir cumstance that, reckoning from the ac- cession of Alfred in 871 the earliest date at which such a jurisdiction can be shown to have been exercised to the year 1870, when the original of the judicature act which abolished it was introduced, just 1,000 years should have elapsed. To Sir Alexander Cockburn, certainly in many respects not the least distinguished of the series, belongs the melancholy distinction of being the lost Lord Chief Justice of England. The jurisdiction of the court, it is true, .s preserved by the Judicature act, and is vested in a division of the High Conrt of Judicature. And its peculiar juris diction is vested in that division exclu sively. But as a court as that great court which has existed ever since the Conquest as a distinct and separate tribunal, with that high and lofty juris diction which could originally only be exercised by the King in person, and was so exercised by our sovereigns ever since the time of Alfred, as that great court of the King; inferior only to tf arliament in greatness and in dignity its history has closed. All its proud distinction and its lotty traditions ex pire and pass away aud become as things of the past. It has, however, a great history a history of ten centuries' duration closely connected with the Constitution of the country through a long succession of ages, and associated with series of great names and historic. often tragic events ; and it was not fitting that it should pass awav forever without a word by way of memorial aud in some measure of regret." Tka Pradaetlaa aaS Caaaaaaallaa af , . Ivory. The quantity imported into England amounts annually to 650 tons of which 350 are used for home consump tion, the cutters of Shellield alone work ing up 200. .The weight of the tusks varies from one to one hundred and sixty-five pounds; the average is pounds; aud the imiteriul is worth x.h to 03 the hundredweight, according to quality. . To obtain the quantity above mentioned, ai,nun elephants are sacri ficed everv year. Noticingthese figures and taking into account the ivory con sumed iu other countries some idea may be formed of the carnage to which the elephants are exposed. Bombay aud Zanzibar annually export ItiO tons; Alexandria and Malta, ISO tons; the western roast of Africa. 20, thet.'ape nil; Mozambique. 14.. -The ivory reaches Bombay from all the southern countries of Asia; a large part of it goes to the t'hinese aud Indian markets, and the rest comes to Eurnie. Alexandria and Malta rei-eive that troin .Northern Africa and the central regions, as well as that from Kgvpt and the countries bordering the Nile. The 'largest tusks are lurnished by the African elephants, and are exported from Zanzibar. They produce an ivory of a very fine qmlity, oiaitie, tender, easily worked, and which does not split. I hat winch comes from Ambriz, the Gaboon river aud the ports to the south of the equator is called silver grav; it preserves its whiteness when exposed to the air, which the other sorts do not, and it never lieeomes yellow with age, a that from Asia and the east of Africa ilmn. That quality is the most valuable of any which the material Mjssesses. The ivorv of Siam is in great demand for works of carving and ornament because it is soft, has a hue grain, and is trans lucent. The tusks which come from Mozambique and the Cape rarely excin-d seventy pounds- . The Gardraa af Jtnnrr: The groves of rose-trees and the flower-farms of Morocco are said by a recent traveler to exceed in extent those of Damascus, or even those of the valley of Mexico. The general climate of the country is very favor able to this kind of culture. Sweiit alternately by the breezes of the Allan tic and Mediterranean, and temiiered by the snows of the Atlas ranges, tie degree of heat in Morocco is much lower than in Algeria, while the soil isex- ceeJingly fertile. To the date palm. and to orange aud lemon trees, the climate appears to he especially suited, the dates of Talif.it having been famous even from Konian times. The or.uige lantations are of very great extent in various parts of the country, while olives and almonds are also staples ex ported in large quantities. Seeing that this fertile laud, within fivedavs' steam of London, produces so much vegetable wealth under the most barbarous culti vation, it appears extraordinary that Enrois-an enterprise does not. in sncn a climate, seek profitable employment for its over-abundant capital in its applica tion to the development of such vast re sources so close at hand, instead or going so far afield as Australia or America. Marreas. Purposes, however wise, without plans, cannot be relied on for good re sults. Random or spasmodic efforts. like aimless shots, are usuallv no better than wasted time and strength. The mioses of shrewd men in the business of this life are always followed by carefully formed plans. Whether the object is learning, honor or wealth, the ways and means are all laid out accord ing to the best rules au-1 methods. The mariner has his chart, the architect bis plan, and the sculptor his model, and all as a means ami condition of success. Invention, genius, or even what is some times ailed inspiration, can do little in any department of theoretic or practical science, except as it works by a well- formed plan. Then everv step is an .idvani-e toward the accomplishment of theobieet. Ever tack of the ship made according to nautical law keeps her steadily neariug the port. Each stroke of the chisel brings the marble into a closer likeness of the model. ,o elfor' or time is let. for nothing is done rashly or at random. Waald TaaT Mould you keep voiir rosy com- blexion. wear thick soled shoes. Would vou enjoy quiet content, do away with' airs and pretense. . Would yon have Uiits respei-t your opinions hold and uever disown ;iiem yourself.. Would you have good health, go out in the sunshine.. Sickness is worse than freckles. Would you respect yourself, keeji your heart and body clean.. . Would yon retaiu the love of a friend, do not le selfishly exacting.' Would you gain the confidence of butanes men, do not try to "p-ort the style of your employer. Would you never be told a lie. m-t Would you sleep well, ami liave a good appetite, attend to your own busi ness. : Would you have the respect of men, never permit yourself to indulge in vulgar conversation. .. . Brakes Fraaalaea. ' Reader, never break your promises ! Aud to this end, never make a promise that you are not sure you can fulfil. You may think it a trifling matter to make au appointment with a friend or agree to do a certain thing, and then fail to "come to time; but it is assur edly not a small affair.' '.i - RemnrknhU natural enriosity A woman's. nnir coLrxs. Char lit t JisobetUmre. Oh, mother, the threshing-machine is coming cried Charlie. Yes. I see." replied the mother. The little boy started toward the door. "Don't go near the machine. Charlie," she continued. "Kemember what say to yon now, or you wl!l certainly get hnrt." "Pooh P said Charlie, as he closed the door behind him. "Mother is always frightened." He went to the barn, where the men were getting the machine ready to thresh the wheat. It soon began to move. anil, heedless of his mother's command, he pressed near to it. "Stand back, Charlie," cried his father, who was hnsv with his work, Charlie stepped back a little. He had a great desire to see the machinery; nut it he had been a good and wise boy, he would have obeyed his parents. 1 am sorry to say be was neither good nor wise. He was like a great many other boys and girls, who wickedly disobey because they foolishly think they know more than those who have the care of them. I say they wickedly disobey, tor wish yon to rememtier that disobedience to parents is sin against God. "Charlie," said his mother, calling him from the kitchen-dnor "Charlie, it is near school-time. You must come in and get ready." He did not answer. He wanted to stav and hear the men talk and see the machine go. and he resolved not to go to school unless he was driven. Verv soon his father was called awav. and then.quite contident,be went near, resolved to examine the machine to his satisfaction. After looking awhile. he took np a handfnl of straw and pushed it in among the whirling blades. l here was one loug. agonizingsnriek. and a strong man seized the child and drew him out, one hand and arm hang ing in mangled shreds, lsleeding and insensible, he was borne to the honse and laid upon the bed. "Oh, Charlie, Charlie ! my poor mined boy!" moaned his mother as. she hung 'over him; why did yon disobey me t" The doctor came, and he was placed on a table, and men, with faces bathed in tears, held him while the crashed and useless arm was cut off. The pain was terrible, and fever came on. ror several days itsceuiod doubtful whether he would live or die. After a while he liegan to improve, and iu a few weeks he was. able to go out again, but he was maimed for life. I think if yon could see hint, with the empty jacket sleeve hanging from his shoulder, you would say that he hail paid a heavy price for the pleasure of having his own way. 1 think be will never lie disohedieut again. I hope he will not.- Bnt why should you wait till some great misfortune comes npon you before you learu to obey t 1 sup pose yon think you are in no danger: but I tell you my little friends, that disobedient children are always in dan ger. God is displeased with them, and ip some wny they are sure to suf fer for their sins. Tmininii. "And W this all my mo ther could do for met"' grumbled the woolly-bear caterpillar, as, he crossed the gravel path where the little golden beetles shrank from him in something like disgust. "Frightful, of course frightful ; very bumilitating !" he ex claimed, as he ticgan to make his din der off the dead nettle to which he hail crawled. "Patience," said the dead nettle, "you wou't always 1h a wooily-liear." A little time and wooolly bear be came a pupa, that is, an insect mummy, or a baby in swaddling clothes. "Is this change for the better T am I any nearer beauty now t" he asked de spairingly of the nettle. "Surely I was iK'tter otl when I could at least snow life, and move almnt, than I am in this living tomb." Patience, when things come to the worst they mend," said the nettle; "you won't always be a mummy." One morning the snn shone on the glorious wings of a tiger-moth, as it balanced itself on the hedge, trembling with delight. "Ah." cried the nettle. "I told yon so, the training wasn't pleasant, but see what has come ot it! Ikf't Trap. When my brother Ike was about nine years old, he fancied that it would be fine sport to set snares. and catch rabbits and other game. So one dav he set a trap in a rabbit s path. He wove some sticks across like a fence, leaving an aperture at which be Disced a slip-noose attached to a stick that would spring np as soon as the game came through. The next day it stormed so that he did not visit his snare ; but the follow ing day he returned to the house with tun-grown ration in nis arms, n w-a in a sad condition. Its bright, black eves glistened with pain and frightj The snare had caught one of iU bars. which had been broken in its attempt to release itself from the cruel string. As to Ike. instead of reioicing.he wan crving as though his heart would break. "Mother," said be what shall I do with the poor creature T I never will set another snare." His mother told him to carry it out. and get Cucle John to kill it and thus end its suffering. He did so: and. what is the best or the story, he was true to his word. He never set a snare from that day to this. Thr Power ot Lore. A teacher was giving a lesson on metals and minerals to a clam of children. 1 hey were tola that gold could be melted. Then the teacher asked : "Can stswie be melted. "Yes," said a little boy; "stone is melted in volcanoes. "That is true : and now ran yon tell me what can melt a heart as hard as stone f" After a few moment s thought the lit tle bov renlied : "1 tiiink it is God only who can melt a hard heart." "I think so. too, my endd ; but how does 1 1 od melt the heart I -"It is by his love." "Yes, the love of God melts the stony hearts. 'We love him because he first loved hs." "irrier." said a perplexed mother, "why is it that yon are not a better hovr "Well." said the little fellow, soberly looking an into her face with his hon est blue eyes, "I suppose the real rea son is that I don t want to lie !" We think the child gave the real reason why all of us, big as well as lit tle, are not better than we are. Haw la Live ls-a Xavel Tkearjr. freaek M. Robing, an eminent French chem ist, announces to- the French Academy of Medicine his belief that Ufa exists only in combustion, but the combustion which occurs in our bodies like that a hich takes place in chimneys leaves a detritus which Is fatal to lite. lore- move this he would administer lactic acid with ordinary food. This acid is known to ses the power of removing or destroying the incrustation which form on the arteries, cartilages, and valves of the heart ; and, as buttermilk abounds in such acid, and Is, moreover, an acceptable kind of food, its habitual use, It is urged by M. Robing, will free the system from these causes, which inevitably causes death between the TT.th and 100th year. HEWS U B&H7 A German chemist has discovered that mosquito bites are healthy. In the 223 churches In Brooklyn, X. Y., 170.S5O are paid annually for music. A Boston murderer, in consequence of his poor health, wants his execution delayed. The Chinese in California consume nearly a million dollars' worth of opium per year. To the medical department of Cor nell University a chair of surgery is to be added. Five millions of bushels of wheat from Texas and Arkansas will be shipped Xorth this season. - Forty years ago 58,000,000 cigars were manufactured yearly; now the consumption demands 742,000,000. Professor King, the aeronaut, in tends to construct two balloons at Buf falo for use during the coming year. The Democratic state of Georjia has more thau doubled its taxable proierty since the close of the war. The long closed mines of Chihua hua are about to le reopened hy a New ork company, with a capital of $b,000- 000. It is reported that Gen. Butler is retained a counsel for Tilton in the second trial of his suit against Beecher. From the clay pits around Xew Bruiisw iik. X. J., iXYuooixiO tons of clay valued at f l.ooo.ooo, are annually taken out. Of Southern voters thirty-nine per cent, are unable to read. In the North the proportion is only onertifth of that percentage. Ex-Senator Stockton, of Xew Jersey is soon to make his home in Trenton, X. J., where he will resume the prac tice of the law. Rev. Charles Fisher, of Hartford, Conn., has jut married his l.KOOth couple, and litis no idea bow much he has to answer for. Wagering kid gloves ou the races has been all the rage among the ladies at Saratoga ; Stewart's store h.w -sold about 20,000 pairs. Kockl'nrt. Mass., has an eight v- year-old citizen, who lives in a l."0-ye.ir-old house, and sleeps under a 2."0-year-old counterpane. Sixty-five convicts in the Maine Penitentiary have agreed to take a weekly newstaM-r in lieu of their reg ular allowance ot tobacco. Chicago has eighteen strain eleva tors, with i combined caiutcity of !. Kil 1,000 bushels. Thev cixt. with the laud on liii li they rest, $;,000,000. The Rev. Adirondack Murray will introduce a Turf column in the new re ligious paiier he is to edit. All reli gious turfmen areexiiected to subscribe. In Massachusetts two-thirds of the towns (townships) have lost population. as t!ie recent census shows. The uian- ufacturin;! cities show a large increase. 'he Pennsylvania department. Grand Army of tlie Republic, have be gun to make arrangements to gather all he lxists In the country at the Centen nial. General Spinner has left Washing ton for the Summer, and is resting in his old home, .Mohawk, X. Y. In the all he will go to Morula to sim-iu! the Winter. To provide an independent connec tion with Xew York City from the prin cipal water reservoirs, a new aqueduct is proposed, to cost from i,00u,00u to $-s,uoo,ooo. Forest and Stream in behalf of American sportsmen, has secured 1.20U) feet of space at the Centennial Eixjsi- lon lor the display ofsiHirting articles and rare birds. Lt.-Geu. Pemlx-rton, of the late Confederate army, who commanded at icksburg, is employed by the Penn. K. K. In. in establishing Iron works at Perth Amboy, X. J. The cultivation of tea In this country has been successfully attempted by .Mr. D. Manure!, or Louisiana who has produced a perfect article, which sells at f l.bo a xmnd. The fact doesen't seem to have been sufficiently circulated that the juries in the Mountain Meadow massacre trial and iu the Beecher case stood the same; nine to three for acquittal. Treasurer Xew and the express companies have settled the dispute con cerning the transortition of national bank notes hy agreeing on a basis of 37 cents per thousand dollars. The contract for running sleeping arson the Michigan Central will, after November, w hen the Pullman contract expires, In; given to Wagner. This is due to v anderbilt s opposition to f ull man. It is said that an effort will be made next winter to secure a law authorizing the coining of gold pieces at Xew York instead ol 1 hiladelphia, on the ground of economy iu the cost of tran.-porta-tion. It. Withcrbee, a man known almost all over the world for his prominence in connection with the iron trade, who resided at Port lleury, X. Y., is dead. He amassed an immense fortune ill his business. On tin- .Til of June last there were two National hanks in San FraicI-o having on deposit and in circulation $5182,704. and on hand in specie $l,10t,491. The circulation was not very large. At Wells Beach, Vt thev harbor a curious siiMr-tition that any one who win take a dtp in the river on June 2, will he free from sickness for one year. and on that date hundreds flock to the charmed waters. Itarrei the Peruvian, minister built a house at Xewixirt at a cost. with grounds ami hot bouses of 1400 ,000 and Mr. W. T. Blodgert, of Xew York, is said to have l.-io-ly purchased the property for $14,000. During the iast summer more rat- llesnaL.es have i-eeti killed along the line of the litdaware river than wereever known before, the long drought having brought them down from the moun tains to the damp, low grounds border ing tlie rocky mils. There are over 2,700 varieties of ap ples known by over 1.HO0 names, 3,200 of pears, 2MJ of cherries, 150 of plums, 300 of our native grapes, fifty of cur rants, eighty of raspberries, and thirty of blackberries, according to a count ing np of somebody. - During the Ia?t quarter of a century the number of volnme In tlie British museum has increased from 4:.r,000 to l,loo,000; in the bibliotheque nationale, Paris, from kI.iiju to 2,000,1)00, and in the public libraries of the United States from .M0,itM to nearly 20,000,000. Since the Bwtou Post Oilce was es tablished, i 17X1), there have been eleven Poit-masters, and all but the first two Jonathan Hastings and Aaron Hill are now living. Xatlianiel Greene tlie third in office, held the ixiaition the longest, twenty-ne years, in two dif ferent terms, and is now the oldest of the survivors. t ; i I . . . t hp i lv: -' i I Hi I t v 7
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