li ii - ! B. F. SCHWEIER, TBI CeHSTITUTIOH TH1 UHIO AHD THI INORCIMEXT OF THB LAW! Editor and Propriatsm VOL. XXIX. MIFFLINTOW, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., OCTOBER 13. 1S75. NO. 41. CHILDREN. BT lOKoncixov. Come to ma, O ye children ! For I bear yon at your piay, ' And the questions that perplexed ma Have vanished quit away. Ye open the eastern windows. That look towards the son. Where thoughts are singing swallows, And the brooks of morning ran. In your hearts are the birda and the sunshine. In your thoughts the brooklets flow ; But in mine is the wind of Autumn, And the first fall of the snow. Ah ! what would the world be to us, . If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than tha dark before. What the leaves are to the forest With light and air for food. Era their sweet and tender Juices Have been hardened into wood, That to the world are children ; Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are aingiug In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contriving, And the wisdom of our books. When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ! Ys are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems. And all the rest sre dead. A Pleasant Adventure. Mr. Henry Thavies vu one day seari'liui" the catalogue of the British Museum library for a book he had long sought, tint had been unable to obtain. He was so preoccupied that he lid not notice the approach of a stranger liehind him. and, feeling a touch upon his arm, he turned in some considerable surprise. He found himself face to face with a medium sized, thick-set terson of thirty or so, whom, so well as he rememliered, he had never seen before, the man said : "Can you tell me whether there ia a work iu this library by Armand Ie Compte, entitled '.Seven Voyages to the .Mi mhi? It is rather a rare anair, even in the way of curious literature; but I do not desjiair of getting iU" "Oh, yes," returned Mr. Thavies; have seen the hook myself. Ijook into the catalogue, under the head of " The stranger interrupted him by placing both hands upon his shoulder, and staring, with a quiet laugh, into his face. "Don't you recognize uie, Henry Thavies?" "Not exactly, but I lieroeive you recognize me." "This is a merry jest," returned the man, heartily. "You don't rememlier Joseph Steele?" "What! Idle, good-natured, perfectly worthless Joe Steele !" exclaimed Tha vies; my former schoolfellow, tlie very liest and worst scamp in the world. Where, in the name of heaven, have you been since those happy nays when we got flogged together? Iet nie think. Why, Joe, I haven't set eyes uion you since tliat night you ran away, when we were caught stealing cherries, have I ? "Indeed vou have not. The truth is. Henry, 1 have been everywhere all over the world, nearly even to Austra lia,' and China too. That was getting low enough, wasn't it? But let's go away from this, I live very close by. Quarters not iwtrticularly gorgeous, but certainly comfortable. Thavies signified assent, and they started off together. - As they went along the streets it was rather evident if it had not gathered much moss, had unquestionably accumr.lated a plentiful Quantity of dust. Joe's coat was almost white, his shoes and hat the color of ashes. Joe's Quarters were comiiosed of a little Ill-furnished room up four pairs of stairs in neighboring boardhig house. The reaching of the apartment was like ascending the Monument. "Here, you perceive," said Joe, look ing cheerfully arouud, when he and his friend had made the ascent, "are my chambers! I feel quite as if 1 were lord of a castle. Xow take a seat if you please." Mr. Thavies examined about him, somewhat embarrassed. "Ah?" said Joe, quietly, "you don't see a chair, do you ? Very well I didn't say take a chair I said take a seat Fling yourself at full length upon the divan." The visitor eeated himself upon a box. "Xow, .foe, teli me your story," he said ; "but don't make it long." "At once! Well, as J said to you in the library, I have been everywhere since I ran away from school that night of the cherries." Xow I am going to the moon." "To the moon?" "Precisely !" returned Joe, taking a newspaper from his pocket. "Kead for yourself." Mr. Thavies read an advertisement, indicated under Joe's brown finger, setting forth thaton that very afternoon a balloon ascension would be made from Vauxhall Gardens, by l'rofessor I-epo-rello, at precisely two o'clock. "Are you the .Vronaut?" , "Harry, you will easily recall to your mind that from boyhood's happy hour I have had a fancy for being high up in the world. My ambition was of the most exalted character. This taste de veloped w ith my years. It is apparent in my regular choice of tall-heeled shoes. It is apparent even now in my selection of the attic of this mansion rather than any other portion of the house." "How many ascensions have you made?" "This will be the first on my own responsibility. I have, however, been up at divers times under the direction of others. Xow meet my frankness in kind ; tell me how old friends are getting on, ami about your own attain, too, if you choose." "Well," returned Thavies, slowly, as if about to touch on a doubtful subject, 'you know, 1 stipiiose, that I am mar ried?" Joe Steele became suddenly grave. "To whom? " he asked, looking steadily at the wall before him. "To Mary Graham, of course." The shabby irronaut paled visibly, and sank against the wall. "At last at last," be murmured, brokenly. Thavies went toward him quickly. "My dear Joe, I did not expect tli is. You must not give way to nonsense, you k now. I thought you had got over your whim for Mary's love long since." 'The dream is over," returned the other, recovering himself with an effort. "All is past, Thavies." "What do you meau ?" "What do I mean," he cried, his voice rising almost into a shrill scream. "I mean that she promised me, when I left scnoot that night, to be true to me until we should meet again nay, if we did not meet till after death. Oh, I loved ner so, man : l loved her better than my soul : and Thavies. you remember how jealous I was of you ? I feared she might be false in my absence. So I brought a Bible with nie and compelled her to swear there and then that she would never be your wife. Through all my long weary pilgrimage it has been such oomiort in trial, vexation and disappoint ment, to think that one day, perhaps. 1 should go back to her and find her still keeping her troth. But now you tell me she has been false " He burst into wild tears, and hid his bronzed face in his arms against the wan ot the room. Thavies was much moved. "M v dear Joe." he said, kindly "think how foolish it was to rest the happiness or your me on sucn a schoolboy vision. My wife has told me that she loved you truly, and at one time believed that she would wait in patience until you came hack to claim her hand, or release her from the vow she made. But, after a few years she had never heard, of you after the night of your departure she concluded you had forgotten your ab surd engagement, and so she married me." . The aeronaut brushed away his tears, anu looked up. "Thavies, you are right," he said, with a short, hysterical laugh. "The shadow being gone, I am a man again Forgive my weakness. Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean ; and. to be plain, old boy, I don't care. Away with melancholy then I Ivt us be joyful while we may. Ask me to lunch with you, Harry. I can't ask you, you know Where shall the banquet be set forth ?' His manner had totally changed, The old restless gavety hail come back more sunn n2 and ghastly man ever. Anywhere you choose. But how can we lunch together, since you are to make your ascension at two o'clock, and it is now a quarter past one?" "Is it?" exclaimed Steele, iu surprise, "Then I must be off instantly." He moved towards the door, but suddenly turned and came back. "I've a thought, 1 navies. (o up in the balloon with me. won't you ? It's a rare offer. 1 know the ropes as well as I do my own name, and there'll be no danger. The fact is, 1 want to talk to you. 1 havies was taken a little aback. "I should like to try such an adveu tore," he said. "What time shall we come down, and where?" "Any tune, auywnere! Simetime, somewhere; all right, le assured Come!" Aftera little further hesitation Thavies agreed. They set off for Vauxhall Gardens at once, stopping to get a bottle of sherry and some sandwiches, and on arriving at their destination found the balloon already inflated and a crowd gathered to see it off. "Just in the nick of time," said Steele. "Jump in, old boy." Ihavies stepped into the swaying basket, looked very curious and doubt ful, and the a-rouaiit followed. A band of music liegan to play, and the multi- tilde cheered lustily. "Cut off," shouted Steele. "We've got everything, I believe. Yes, all right. Xow, don't lie nervous, Harry, take hold of the roiie; that II do. oive way. And, swaying slowly from side to side, up they went. Thavies clung to the edge of the basket, at nrst, in great alarm, but Steele laughed. I ooh. you can t be pitclied out, he said. "lxok at me. I sit very calmly on this flying trapeze arrangement, and drink your health. He oiiened the bottle and took a huge swallow. "Xow to business. Is the ballast all correct? Quite, eh? Everything in its place. I lielieve. Yes! Then let us make ourselves comfortable." But this advice was quite thrown away upon Thavies. "I don't feel very comfortable, I must confess, Joe," he returned, clinging to the sides with both hands. "1 wish 1 hadn't come." They were rising at a great rate now. Xo speed in the world could have beeu as rapid. "Pshaw! That sort or feeling will easily wear off. I experienced it at first. "But it dout wear on in the least." Higher, higher and higher they flew. Suddenly Steele, who had been de vouring the sandwiches and disposing of more wine, cried out "Look over the edge, Harry I" Thavies, by a great effort of will. steadied himself with his feet, and peeped down The sight was strange beyond description. All London, in one vast picture, lay below. "It's grand," he murmured. "Grand, is it?" reiieated Steele, glancing down from his side of the car. "So it is !" He got up and stood with folded arms. "Xow, dear boy, let me tell you some thing, you will never see London again." He burst into a wild peal of laughter. "I didn't seem anxious w hen I asked you to take a voyage with me, did I ? But my heart stood still while you were making up your mind." Thavies stared at him perfectly unable to comprehend. He had fallen into the extreme of dread and terror. His blood seemed to freeze in his veins. "Yes. old ly, your time has come. You will never go back to Mary Graham agai n. v e are alone nere ; i snau piccn vou out. and t lieu sink down comfortably myself, and say you jumped over a rope aud fell. Who will know the differ ence?" Then the whole truth flashed upon Henry Thavies his companion was a mailman. Get an. friend of my soul," con- inued Steele, with horrible laughter, rolling up his sleeves, "we are called to the stage," and then addressing an inatrinarv audience. "Ladies and gen tlemen, von will now witness the rare feat of strength, produced only upon this occasion, entitled, "A Struggle for .ife." Thavies still held on the basket, par alyzed. "There is no time to lose, Harry, i lie higher we rise the furtlier we fall. If vou drop heels upwards, you will be likely to have a headache, afterwards. Come on." His voice was growing husky and he staggered a little. Clearly the wine he had swallowed w as biking its effect. "Well, then," said Thavies, faintly, 'vou must allow me a drink to nerve myself, you know. I am not in a enn- litiou for a good wrestle." Steele instant ly poured out a glass and handed it over. Thavies drank It witn eagerness, lie waited awnue u recover his balance by means of the draught, and then stood up deadly pale. - Heaven have mercy upon me, c prayed. The mad aeronaut made one spring, his hands onen and his eyes wildly staring, but Thavies caught the shock fairly. Then the dreadful struggle commenced. They held each other with grips of iron, neither yielding an Inch, and both pushed with all their might towards the edge of the car. The basket swayed from side to side, and the bottle and 'glass crunched under their feet. But Thavies leu nimseu giving wj, his enemy's strength was beyond oppo sition. Vet still they fought, the weaker going backwards and backwards, until they both stood on the Drink. Your hour has coine, Harry, shouted Steele. "Good bye, old friend, l ll take your love home to Jlary." The wife's name decided the contest. With one superhuman effort, Thavies darted down between the other's legs, tripped him, and in another instant the madman, with a despairing cry, fell head foremost into space. It was some time before Thavies man aged to lower himself, but no anxiety equalled tnat which Had gone berore. However, time lightens the solemnity of everything. In speaking on the subject of his experience now, he calls it a rieasant Adventure. . la aa Aasakltkeater. : A writer in Apleton'i Juurmtl, de- ocrioiiig an euierutiuiueiu in me amphi theater of Verona, says: The sword game was about to begin. Two China men, in crimson satin and blue silk cos tumes hung with countless bells, oecu pied the stage. One of them acted as spokesman and general diverter of pub lic aueiiuou ; ins voiupauiou was a tan, reticent, ugly-looking rascal, with cheek bones pushing out Ins pock-marked skin almost as high as the bridge of his Celes tial nose, and with eyes ot a very decided oblique angle. Two swords were pro duced; my interest quickened agaiu, and I was almost persuading myself that there was to be fun between the bar barians, when the giant of the great jaw slowly began to cram both wide blades down his capacious, wound-proof throat, my friend meanwhile indulging in the most frantic jumping-jack exercises. and shrieking unintelligible spasmodic words of encouragement. W hen the blades were fairly in the giant's maw. and he looked like some bird of gay plumage spitted for the fire, feathers and all, the excitement of the audience was supreme. My cries of "Ilahrtt WW."' were drowned by prolonged shouts of "Mmvo!" with an accompaniment of hand applause; and the noise did not diminish until he had unspitted himself successfully, and had recated his salam a half-score of times. The grant! old interior gave dignity even to such a per formance as we were witnessing; the voices of the people, and their quick, sympathetic recognition of the efforts of the performers indicated the same im pulsive spirit that their ancestors dis played in the enjoyment of nobler names; the same blue sky arched over the en closure that smiled upon the bloody com bats which turned mens hearts to stone as they grew accustomed to the horrid siiectacles. 1 bis was, to lie sure, a riilicn Ions parody on the siiorts of the liomans ; hut it required little effort of the imagi nation to whisk out of sight the cheaply painted theater, to repeople entirely the immense ellise with full, brown faces, bright garments, ami to magnify the hum of the thousand into the murmur of fifty times that number. The upper row of benches cut off for those seated lower down any view of the town or country beyond,, but the wide arches behind the siiectators trained in lieautt ful pictures the sunlit streets and the broad piazza pictures dancing in the heated air like the reflections in an un- quiet pool. How many times have eyes weary of slaughter turned to gaze uiion these peaceful pictures of flat-roofed houses with the sheaves of grain drying in the sun, the women knitting in the shade of the doorways, and the scrubbi ng trees casting sharp shadows of the broad leaves and plump figs on the dazzling white of the walls! Bask la's Dearrlptloa tea. r a Slaraa al Few people, comparatively, have ever seen the etlect on the sea of a powerful gale, continued without inter mission for three or four days and nights ; and to those who have not, 1 believe it must be unimaginable, not from the mere force or size of surge. ut from the complete annihilation of the limit between sea aud air. The water, from its prolonged agitation, is beaten, not into mere creamy foam. bnt into masses of accumulated yeast, which hang in ropes and wreaths, from wave to wave ; and, where one curls over to break, form a festoon like a drapery from its edge ; these are token no by the wind, not in dissipating dust but bodily, in writhing, hanging, coiling masses which make the air white and thick as with snow, only the flakes are a foot or two long each ; the surges themselves are full of foam in their very bodies, underneath, making them white all through, as the water is under neat cataract. and their masses. being thus half water and half air. are torn to pieces by the wind whenever they rise, and carried away in roaring smoke, which chokes and struggles like actual water. Add to this, that when the air has been exhausted of its mois ture by long rain, the spray of the sea is caught by it as described above, ana covers its surface not merely with the smoke of finely divided water, but with i - - , - , il. I - mining mist ; imagine aiso uie iow rain clouds brought down to the very level of the sea, as I have often seen them. whirling and nying in rags ana frag ments from wave to wave : and finally conceive the surges themselves in their utmost pitch ot power, velocity, vast ness and madness, lifting themselves in Drecipices and peaks furrowed with their whirl of ascent, through all this chaos; and yon will understand that there is indeed no distinction left between the sea and air: that no ob ject, nor horizon, nor any landmark, or natural evidence oi position is ieii; that the heaven is all spray, and the ocean all cloud, and that yon can see no further in any direction than you could see through a cataraeL" In the publication of selections from bis earlier books. Mr Kuskin says of this word-painting: The whole ot this was written merely to show the mean ing of Turner's picture of the steamer in distress, throwing up signals, it is pood study of wild weather : but. separate from its aim, utterly feeble in comparison to the few words by which any of the great poets will describe sea, when they have got to do it. I am rather proud of the short sentence in the 'Harbors of England' describing a great breaker against rock : One mo ment, a flint cave, the next, a marble pillar, the next, a 'fading clond. Bnt there is nothing in sea-description, de tailed, like Dickens's storm at the death of Ham, in 'David Coppertield."' The UsdMi Hasaaat Hair Market. For one prime natural product the emissaries of fashion must go to Mincing Lane. Judging from the quantities in which it is iiiiMrted, this article must be in considerable demand. The "lot" with which we are more immediately concerned is lying in Cross lane, and weighs some five thousand pounds a tolerably large consignment of an article which is welt: not necessary, per haps, but apparently finds customers readily enough. It is human hair. 1 he great 'bulk of it comes from China, is black as coal and coarse as cocoa-nut fibre, butof magnificent length. Many a Chinese head had been shorn to produce these tons of material, to be sold only In lots of two cases (of about four hundred pounds) each, and expected to realize about half a crown a pound in this wholesale transaction. Skilled experts are weighing ana ieenng me long tresses, but soon leave them to investi gate the various shades and qualities of one bale of choice European, worth ten or eleven times as much as the Chinese, Whence comes this? From Germany mainly from Russia and from France sometimes. Here lies a heapof samples culled from this valuable bale, with the weights or each color carernlly attached With what variety and richness of hues glow these long, fine, suky tresses ranging from the deepest brown.th rough every shade of ruddy auburn aud sunny chestnut, to the purest gold and fairest daxen. What a monument of self- abnegation is here! what a picture of self-sacrihce ! for when woman parts with her hair, she performs au act far more trying than when she parts with her jewels. That maiden must be poor indeed mho parts with her crowning charm for a few shillings. Legends to the contrary notwithstanding, how can she get more than a pitiful sum, when a choice bale, after passing through the hands or the shearer, the local merchant. and the importer, and paying cost of transport, will fetch no more than seven- aud twenty shillings per pound? The blonde madchen, whose superb tresses 1 hold in my hand, did not, I apprehend get much for them. Ferhans a few florins; little enough, according to our estimate of money, but yet sufficient to keep the wolf from her mother s door for a little space. But this silken crown, which brought its original owner so little, must pass through many hands before it adorns the still handsome head of Lady Barepoles, who is not quite the woman she was when UareiRiles became the captive of her bow and spear in her first season but is yet a leader of fashion. All the Year liuuud. A Ward far the WtsMa. We do not hesitate to say that the average woman, educated in the better class of schools in this country is abetter scholar, and a more capable and aceom plished person, than the average col lege graduate of the other sex. What we want is cheaper schools of an equal excellence. The farmer's boy goes to college, finds cheap tuition, wins a scholarship perhaps, boards in commons earns money during vacation, and gets through, while his sister stays at home. because the only places where she can get an equal education are expensive beyond her means. There is no college that needs to lie so richly endowed as a woman s college. Women are not men. quarrel with the fact as we may, and they cannot get along so cheaply and with such sell-helpfulness as men while going through the processes of their edui-atinii. if we are to have women's colleges, we must have well paid pro fessors, philosophical apparatus, cabi nets, collections, art-galleries, labora tories, and they must be provided for by private munificence. Provision should be made for the poor, so that high edu cation shall come within the reach of all. There is not a woman's college, or an advanced public institution for the education of women, that is not to-day in need of a large endowment for the purpose of bringing its advantages within the reach of those whose means an small. Xow wc commend this matter partic ularly to rich women. There are many scattered up and down the country, who are wondering what they shall do with their money when, aud eveu he fore they dio. To all these we beg the privilege of commending this great ob jwt. I-et the boys alone. They have lieen pretty well taken care of already, and the men will look after them. It is for you, as women w ishing well to your own sex, and anxious for its ele vation in all possible ways, to endow these institutions that are springing up about the country in its interest, so that the poor shall have au equal chance with the rich, lou can greatly help to give the young women or all classes as good a chance as their brothers enjoy, and you can hardly claim a great deal of womanly feeling if you do not do iU Scrihner't Mouthly. Keep Ike Braia Fallaw la Cklldhaad. When we are considering the health of children, it is imperative not to omit the importance of keeping the brain fallow, as it were, tor several of the first years of their existence. The mischief perpetrated by a contrary course, in the shape of bad health, pee vish temper aud developed vanity is incurable, some intant prodigy, wbicn is a standard of mischief throughout its neighborhood, misleads them : but parents may be assured that this early work is not by any means all gain, even in the way of work. 1 sus pect it is a loss, and that children who begin their education late, as it would be called, will rapidly overtake those who have been in harness long before them. And what advantage can it be that a child knows more at six years old than iu compeers, especially it mis is to oe gained at a sacrifice of health which may never be regained t There may be some excuse for this early book- work in the case of those children who are to live by manual labor. It is worth while, perhaps, to run the risk of some physical injury to them, having only their early years in which we can teach them book-knowledge T The chance of mischief, too, will be less, being more likely to be counteracted by their after life. But for a child who is to be at book-work for the first twenty-one years of its life, what folly it is to ex haust in the least its mental energy, which, after all, is its surest imple ment! The Esnhleaeatle Eagle. The Etruscans were the first who adopted the eagle as the symbol of royal power, and bore its image as a standard at the head of their armies. From the time of Marios it was the principal emblem of the Roman Republic, and the only standard of the legions. It was represented with outspread wings, and was usually of silver, till the time of Hadrian, who made it of gold. the double-headed eagle was in use among the Byzantine Emperors, to indicate, it is said, their claim to the Empire both of the East and the West; it was adopted in the fourteenth century by the Ger man Einterors, and afterward appeared on the arms or Kussia. 1 he arras of Prussia are distinguished by the black eagle, and those of Poland bore the white. 1 he white-headed eagle is tne emblematic device of the United States of America, is the badge of the order of the Cincinnati, and is figured on coins. .Napoleon adoiited the eagle for the emblem of imperial France; it was not, however, represented In heraldic style, hut in its natural form, with the thunder bolts of Jupiter. It was disused under the Bourbons, but was restored by a decree of Louis Napoleon (Jan. 1, 1ST2.) Aj'i't'tim's American Cyrhprdia. Hsaall Tklaca. A holy life is made np of a number of small things. Little words, not elo quent speeches or sermons ; li ttle deeds, not miracles, not battles, not one great heroic act of mighty martyrdom, make no the true Christian life. The little constant sunbeams, not the lightning; the waters of Siloam, "that go softly" on the) meek mission of refreshment, and not the waters of "the river, great and many," rushing down with torrent noise and force, are the true symbols ot a holy life. Only 712 of the l,ai odicers in the American nary are on duty at sea. The Marriages efClreat Mea. Byron married Miss Milbank to get money to pay his debts. It turned out a bad shift. Kobert Burns married a farm girl with whom be fell in love while they worked together in a plowed field. He was irregular in his lite and committed the most serious mistakes in conducting uis domestic anairs. Milton married the daughter of country squire, but lived with her but a short time. He was an austere, ex acting literary recluse, while she was a rosy, romping country lass that could not endure the restraint imposed upon ner, so tney separated. Subsequently however, she returned, and they lived toieraoiy nappy. Queen Victoria and rrince Albert were cousins, and about the only ex ample in tne long line or f.ngush mon arens wnerein the marital vows were sacredly observed, aud sincere affection existed. Sbakesiieare loved and wedded farmer's daughter. She was faithful to her vows, but we could hardly say the same of the great bard himself. Like imst or the great poets he showed too little discrimination iu bestowing his affections on the other sex. Washington married a woman with two children. It is enough to say that she was worthy of him, and they lived as married folks should in jterfect bar mouy. John Adams married the daughter of a Presbyterian clergyman. Her father objected, on account of John's being a lawyer ne nau a bad opinion or the morals of the profession. John Howard, the great philanthro pist, married his nurse. She was alto- er beneath him in social life and intellectual capacity, and besides this was fifty-two years old, while he was but twenty-five. He would not take Xo' for an answer, and they were married and lived happily together un til she died, which occurred two years aiterwarus. Peter the Great of Russia, married peasant, sne made an excellent wife and a sagacious Empress. Humboldt married a poor girl because he loved her. Of course they were happy. It is not generally known that An drew Jackson married a lady whose husnand was still living. She was an uneducated bnt amiable woman, and was most devotedly attached to the old warrior and statesman. John C. Calhoun married his cousin and their children fortunately were neither diseased nor idiotic, but they do not evince the talent of the great "State Bights" advocate. Haaared Hearts. Robert, Earl of Mellent and Leicester, as famous among the crusaders of the twelfth century for his sagacity, elo quence ami valor, as he was infamous at home for his unscrupulous rapacity. violence, and cruelty, rinding life si pi ping away from him, assumed the mon astic habit, anil died in the odor of sanc tity at the Abliey of Preaux. There be was buried; but iu fulfilment of his dying wish, the heart of the inridel bater was sent to the hospital be had founded at Braekley, to lie there pre served in salt. Perhaps the old warrior thought, like Lord Windsor, that the heart of an Lnglishmaii ought to rest on bis own land. That nobleman died at Spa in 1574, and directed that his hotly should be buried iu the cathedral church of the noble city of Liege, and his heart, enclosed in lead, laid under his father's tomb, in the chapel at Bradenham, Bucks, 'In token of a true Englishman. So, too, Sir Robert Peck ham ordered his heart to be conveyed to lienliam, in the same county, to be placed in the family vault ; but bis rela tives did not seem to be in any hurry to execute his lehest The worthy knight died in 15G9; and the register of burials at Denham, contains this entry: 'YA mundus Peckbani, Esq., sonne of Sir George Peekham, July 18, 1580. On the same day was the harte of Sir Robert Peekham, knight, buried in the vault under the chapell ;' so that it had been kept above ground for seventeen years. When George Villiers, Duke of Buck ingham, fell a victim to Felton's knife, King James commanded that his dear Steenie should be interred in West minster Abbey, where his tomb may be seen; but a sumptuous monument to the Duke also exists in St. Thomas's church, Portsmouth ; and as this boasts an urn, it is probable that it boasts also the possession of the heart of the once all-powerful favorite. In Chichester Cathedral may be seen a slab of Purbeck marble, bearing a sculptured trefoil inclosing hands hold ing a heart, with the legend : Ici gist le ca-ur Maude de.' Time has spared no more, and we are left to vainly speculate as to the personality of the fair lady thus commemorated. Still less communicative was the plain leaden case, discovered by a workman, in a niche in one of the pillars of Christ Church, Cork, and found to 'contain a heart pieserved in salt, weighing seven and a half ounces; whileanother found at Garley Church, Huntingdonshire, only brought to light an empty box, that had evidently once held a heart whose, none can tell. reUrttrn'tJuurKnl. Hartk aad Kawth. A Xortherner was fain to believe that the hate of a Southerner hail more sides to it than the hate of any other people, and he was very apt to speak of it with a certain amount of respect; while the Southerner was inclined to look upon the Xorthern hate as a frigid iceberg of eon tern t, never to be melted, always to remain just so high. It has only begun to appear there has been no hate worthy the name for at least fi ve years. But it is the most com mon of all suspicions among Xorthern ers that this present good-will of the South is an impulse that is in constant danger of being displaced by another impulse from the other side of the house; that were Massachusetts to scowl upon Louisiana, or Grant to crit icise Iee's good qnalities. the whole cotton-country would fire up and begin to hate once more. This is about the es timate that is made of the stability of Southern convictions. Xever was one more mischievous or w ith less founda tion. The Southern desire for deep and thorough amity w ith all other sections of the country rests njiou grounds as enduring as any social and political grounds can lie, and one comprehends this when be is enabled to walk in aud out of Southern homes, a friend permit ted to hear all and to see all without re straint. The editorials that the papers print and the speeches that men make upon platforms fall flat before the spoken evidence of the men and women of any settlement, and it is just this that Xorthern people rarely, if ever, hear of. The laardlaato Daratlaa af ; Mlmaera. Superfluous variety causes the inor dinate duration which Is ruinous to the well-being of dinners. If one is fortu nate enough to have a pleasant com panion during dinner the edge of even the brightest conversation is liable to be dulled by being employed too long. The torment experienced under the same circumstances in the case of uncon genial companionship most people have probably experienced. It is bad enough if, having opened up subject after sub ject and produced nothing better than monosyllabic answers, you are forced to subside into a dreary silence, and to concentrate your faculties upon making the best combination possible out of the heterogeneous materials for dinner set belore you. A yet worse thing than this, however, may befall you. Ft may be that the lady whom you are privi leged to take into dinner imagines her self to be charged with a mission, and has cut short all endeavors on your part at conversation, not from shyness or ignorance, but with a deliberate purpose. If this be so, she will follow the course which has been seen to be adopted by a distributor of tracts in a railway car riage, who, observing a nervous looking boy occupied in reading a novel, begged for permission to glance at his book for a moment, ami immediately filled its place with a selection from his own pro vision ol literature, in like manner the woman with a mission will carefully exhaust all her neighbor s resources, and, when It is completely defenceless, will attack him with all her eloquence. It is useless for him to hint at the out set that his opinions upon the subject which engrosses her have been formed long ago, and are not likely to be altered Herein she will only discern a greater possible glory to be gained by bringing mm over to ner views, in tins case the constant handing round of endless dishes which breaks in disagreeably upon a pleasant conversation may be come a blessing, by giving the victim at least a temporary escape, nut he may not be able to avail himself of any such chance, and then he will be in a parlous suite, lie will be compelled not only to listen, which is bad, bnt to answer, which is worse, either until the com pany Is broken up or until he is driven by sheer despair and weariness to give such kind of assent to the proositioiis ottered as will satisfy their suggestor. If he is so far overmastered by fatigue as to take this step, to the sufferings already inflicted upon him will be added the self-inflicted one of an uneasy con science. Suturtlig fieriew. Hiatal Kirk Mea a Daacktcrw. There are very few, comparatively, of the "sweet girl graduates" of this year of grace who ought not to be earning a 11 xed i ncome as their brothers are d i ng. There is not one of them to whom it is not a plain duty to know how. The laughters or rich men certainly have a right to all the elegance and leisure which they can afford to pay for. But in America the tenure of .wealth is so uncertain that the heiress of to-day may lie the stipendiary of to-morrow. If sne cannot produce, but must remain a consumer only, then she is guilty of a breach or that unwritten compact with society under whose conditions we all came at birth, aud whose violation is dishonorable. Besides, it is the daught ers of rich men who must encourago the belief that the capacity to earn is as natural and dignified a function of women as of men. It was not till Ca milla of Fifth avenue, rich enough to ihiiI a velvet robe daily, looped up her shining draperies above the contamina tion of the pavements, that Biddy of the tsowerv. too poor to spare the price ofa shilling print a month, dared lift her ggled hems to an economic! and leanly height. When the Camillas put on cashmere and serge cut with severe simplicity, then the daughters of the bank teller, the insurance agent, the struggling lawyer, the small sho- keeper, the genteel, the iiovcrty pinched widow, cheerfully substituted that wise fashion for the sleazy silks and ahun- ant cheap trimmings they had cher ished. Tlma rii-ti irirla tutiat niAi wnrlr ftiali- ionable if it is to lie honored. Were it understood that the daughters of Dives ad become accomplished milliners, or ressmakers, or telegraphers, or tyie- setters, or teachers, or book-keejers, or florists, and were proud of their connie- tency, the daughters of Lazarus would rush to perfect themselves in like at tainments and would exercise them to their profit and pleasure. As it Is, it is not indolence.it is not carelessness of the overworked father and mother which keeps our girls of genteel families from openly and gladly earning their own bread. It is the feeling that a working women loses caste. Out of this false timate of things grows not only that hollow life of shabby gentility which distorts the character of all who lead it, but that habit of mind which regards marriage as a prudential arrangement, bargain which guarantees board and clothes on the one side for an indefinite quiil pro 'jiui on the other. tan sa-aeaao Veatllatiaa. Col. G. E. Waring, Jr., writes in the October Atlantic as follows: The best practical statement I have met about ventilation was contained in the remark of a mining engineer In Pennsylvania: "Air is like a rope; you can pull it better than you can push it." All mechanical appliances f r posti ng air into a room or a house are dis appointing. YV hat we need to do is to pull out the vitiated air already In the room ; the fresh supply will take care of itself if means for its admission are provided. It has been used to withdraw the air through the ceiling, that is, to carry off the warmer and therefore lighter portions, leaving the colder strata at the bottom of the room, with their gradual accumulation of cooled car bonic acid undisturbed. Much the better plan would be to draw this lower air out lrom a point near the floor, al lowing the upper and warmer portions to descend and tike its place. An open fire with a large chimney throat, is the best ventilator for any room ; the one half or two thirds of the heat carried up the chimney is the price paid for immunity from disease; and large though this seems from its daily draft on the wood-pile or the coal-bin, is trifling when compared with doc tors' bills and with the loss of strength and elliciency that invariably result from living in unveutilated apartments. I4as;kler aa a Beaaesllal asniallaa. At the recent meeting of the German Scientific Association, at Leipzig, Dr. Hecker made some remarks upou laugh ter. He stated that tickling, which he styled a variable intermittent excite ment of the nerves of the skin, produced irritation of the sympathetic nerves, with the result of an expansion of the pupil and a contraction of the blood vessels, and that the consequent diminu tion of pressure on the brain, permeated with blood-vessels, is so considerable as not to be without danger. Powerful expiration operates against such a di minution of pressure, and therefore laughter, which consists simply in in termittent forced movements of expira tion, must be recognized as a decided remedy for the effects of tickling. laughter, due to a sense of the ludi crous, according to his exerlments, is also to be accounted for as the result of an intermittent, cheerful excitement, accomianied by similar bodily mani festations, which may be referred to stimulation of the sympathetic nerve. Ijiughter tli us seems to have a remedial ollice. Chicago has one hundred and forty two church bells, all tolled. TOCTW COIXU. iW to Prosper. k contributor to the New l ork Observer says : I returned to Ashville after an absence of three years and found my friend Trufhes grown fat and jovial, with a face the very mirror or peace and self-satisfac tion. T rattles was the village baker. and he was not like this when I went away. "TrutHes," said I, "How is it t Yon have improved. "Improved ! How I "Why, in every way. What have yon been doing V Just then a little girl came in with a tattered shawl and barefooted, to whom Tru tries gave a loaf of bread. "Oh, dear, Mr. Truffles," the child said with brimming eves, as she took the loaf of bread : "mamma is getting bet ter, and she savs she owes so much to you. She blesses you, indeed she does.' I hat s one of the things I ve been doing," he said, after the child bad gone, "ion are giving the suffering taniiiy oreau," 1 queried. i es. "Have yon any more cases like that?' "Yes. three or four of them. I give them a loaf a day. enough to feed them." "And yon take no pay "Not from them." "Ah ! from the town T" "No : here." said Truffles, lavinir his hand on his breast. "I'll tell vou " he added, smiling. "One day, over a year ago, a poor woman came to me and asked for a loaf of bread, for which she could not pay she wanted it for her poor suffering children. At nrst I hesitated, but finally gave it to her. ana as her blessing rang in my ears atter she had gone, 1 felt my heart grow warm. 1 imes were hard, and there was a good deal of sutlering. and I found myself wishing, by and by, that I could attord to give away more bread. At length an idea struck me. I'd ston unuKing aaa give that amount away in bread, adding one or two loaves on my own account. 1 did it. and it s been a blessing to me. My heart has grown bigger, and 1 ve grown better every way. Jiy sleep is sound ana sweet, and my dreams are pleasant. And that s what you see, I suppose. Second Thought are Best. "Anything is better than this . exclaimed a Thrush, after having vainly battered about a frozen snail, which she at last gave un in despair. Anything is better than 'hist chirp ed a Kobiii in a melancholy toue. as he saw the last crumb picked up by a spar row I x-fore he could hop to it, aud knew bis breakfast was gone. 'Anuthina is better than this." ninr- mnred a Blackbird, perched on a leaf less branch, with his feathers putted out to twice their usual size. by doesn't Master John conieand shoot ns with his gun I 1 hat sharp, short death would lie easy compared with this lin gering misery!" "Poor, dear creatures!" cried the black Cat, who bail been watching them and listening behind a snow-drift, "You are all quite right. Take my ad vice and bear it no longer ; anal, as Master John doesn't seem to le com ing, let me, in a friendly way, put you out of yonr troubles !" - Away they all tlew, at the very sight of her ears above the drift, without waiting to hear her oiler. "1 knew how it would be !" she cried, more provoked than surprised. "Though they are silly enough to talk nonsense, they are wise enough to know better than abide by their words." A ChiltTt Hea. A mother was show ing her little six yearold. Dore's Para dise Lost- The child was greatly in terested in the magniticient pictures, and also in the story the mother told by way of explanation. Unlike the major portion of children, who would have heard the strange, eventful, story, and then turned open mouthed to thoughts of bread and blackberry jam, the child of our little narrative pon dered on what she had heard. The re sult of her brown study was somewhat as follows : "Mamma s'pose yon and papa and me had been in the Garden of Eden, and you and papa had eaten of the for bidden fruit and I hadn't then you would have been turned out, and I wouldn't. Do you know what I'd have donet I'd pitched flowers over the fence to von." The mother told the child that the angel would not have permitted any commnnication, between parents and child under any circumstances. "Then I'd eat the fruit and go with you." said the child. Trouble for Nothing. Shine ont, mamma : don't you see how they twin kle at ns I" said a young Glowworm to her mother. "The stars, do you mean my dear T" asked the mother "Yes, if you call them stars: they are staring at ns finely," said the daughter. "Bless yonr little heart," said her mother; "do you think they can see ust" "Why not t We can see them," re plied the daughter. "Because, mv dear, their light is strong enongh to travel to us, but ours is too feeble to be seen many yards from the earth. We might shine our hearts out, and the stars would never know we were in existence." The Point at Issue. "How in the world did we get here T cried the mice, one to another, as they ran hopelessly round the wire walls of a large trap. "I think something fell down and shut me in," said one, "I think I was so taken np with look ing at the cheese that I lost sight of the way I came in." said another. "I can't account for it at all," said a third. "What's the nse of wasting time in trying to account for it t" said an old gray-beard ; "here we are, and the question to lie considered now is, not how we got in, but how we are to get out." It was the house of a well-known doctor of divinity : and the little tod dling girl who did not like to see her aunt trim a lighted kerosene lamp, and came honestly by a somewhat modi tied theory of predestination, said: "Take care, take care ! or well get blowed up into the sky; and then God'll say: "Girls, what are you in Buch a hurry for f " Planting Hair. A five year-old girl hail her hair cut a few days ago, aud was seen digging a hole ia tlu garden, and on being asked what she was do ing, said : "I'm planting this hair to make a little child grow." Faresta la Cteraaaay. Few people have any idea of the ex tent of forest land in Germany, and most imagine that of the Black Forest little is left except a tradition and con ventional blister of woodland, so named. On the contrary, In Hanover alone there are io0,0no acres of wood under State management, while nearly a fourth part of the area of Prussia Is in forest, although half of that is in private hands. As is well known, the forest adminis tration in particular districts has long been famous, especially in Thuringia and the HarU mountains. In North Germany generally the responsibilities are allotted in districts among acaref ully organized body of officers, presided over by a forest director. SEWS d BRUT A blue rainbow is a reported Waco (Texas) phenomenon. Wyoming Territory has one saloon to every ISO inhabitants. Xew Canaan, Ct., claims the largest cologne factory iu the country. A 123 pound pumpkin is the worst case of inflation iu Jersey City. The sea-serpent is reported to have established a branch in Lake Ontario. Indiana has now 2,032 grange lodges, aud is one ahead of Missouri. Minnesota's wheat surplus over home needs this year be 24,000.000 bushels. A gentleman at Cookesvillc. Miss.. has a mule's tooth that weighs seven pounds. A Texas judge lost $120 at three- card nioute on a train of cars in Ohio the other day. Eiirht hundred poner mills in the I'nited States produce annually 470- 000,11(0 in stock. Georgetown (D. C) people are. agi tating the retrocession of that city to the State of Maryland. Oregon is going into iron mining. aud furnaces for the production of pig iron are in course oi erection. Vassar College reonens with a full list of students. The vacation has been used in making many improvements. The Freeilmen's Bank Commission ers think that a dividend can lie de clared for the unfortunate depositors by Christmas. Twelve hundred prisoners are now incarcerated in the Missouri peniten tiary the greatest nuiiilier ever within its walls. Fifteen life- latat stations are to be built on the lakes nine on take Mich igan, four on take Erie, and two on take Ontario. The National Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of Goal Fellows, ad- lourned at Buffalo, to meet uext year at Wilmington, Del. A general council of all the tribes in Indian Territory unanimously passed a resolution agaiust o(eiiing the terri tory to white men. The woman suffragists want only thirtv-two more votes in the Massachu setts Legislature to commit the old Bay State to their reform. The wicked editor of the New Lon- lou TrlnjniM suggests that the lady God- va style oi co-tome will lie the proiier successor to the tie-back. St. Louis is about to iieii a direct trade with Krazil by a line of steamers which will also carry the United States mails at ocean rates of ostage. The Loni"iana sugar crop for 1H71- H7." is estimated at lli.i7 hhds. a-'ainst 8ft,t;S last year. The molasses crop is estimated at ll.Clrt.KJS gallons. The niavor of Cleveland has a tXM side-board, ami some of the Cleveland p:iM-rs regard the financial ruin of that ity a only a question of time. Ine of the candidates for the Mas sachusetts Governorship is Ituf n Frost. il ins brother .lack could vote for him. he would do the thing up brown. A Chicago alderman recently re used ft, (Mil) fur his vote. We hasten to add, however, that he got $2,(MNI from the other side. fom-hestrr lh-mcmt. The resents of the State University of California have elected 1). O. Mills treasurer, vii-e Kalslon deceased. The university will lose uothing by the fail ure. A disgusted and disapiioiuted miner as arrived at Cheyenne from the Black Hills. He exhibits t.1.20 in gold dust. and savs it was washed out by three men in fifteen days. Sixteen Chinese women ware sold at auction iu California the other day. mly Chinese being allowed to-bid; $4 as the highest price, and one sold for 63 cents her nose being out of plumb. The Supreme Court of West Vir ginia, sitting at Charleston, Jefferson county, !ixs decided that the act of the legislature removing the capital to Wheeling is constitutional and valid. The quantity of peach brandy maii- facliired in I Ma ware this season will lie much larger than usual. There are now over sixty small distilleries In op- ration, and several more will be set up. Three hundred Xew Jersey Harris ons recently made the Mountain House near iirange, in that State, interesting nd lively bv a family reunion. It was their third annual meeting of this baracter. The death of William A. Graham, North Caronina, leaves but two living survivors" of the Senate of the Twenty-seventh Congress. These are Gov. Allen, of Ohio, ami Senator Con rad ol 1-oui-iana. A iiortrait of Gen. Frank Blair. representing him in his prime, has been ung in the Missouri Capitol at Jeffer son t. Ity. It was painted by (jell. George C. Bingham, Adjutant-General of the State of Missouri. The people in the vicinity of Rock- rt, i'exa, gather their o n salt from the flats on the Iciy roast near. The hot, dry winds have produced so much evaMration that tons of siqierior salt are lying on the flats. Xew London has the largest w harf l the United States. It is l.l-'SI feet long and 2! Ml and 2-'iO feet wide, has 20 feet depth of water, and covers nearly X acres; the walls are solid stone work with a filling in of gravel. The largest church in North Caro lina has just been erected at the Falls of Tar river by the Primitive Baptists. Its seating capacity is 10,000 and it is built on the. site ofa church burned a ear ago by an inceudiary. The manufacture of sewing machine needles is carried on extensively in Brocton, Mass., and in the past year the production at two manufactories has lieen nearly a.oon.ouo. At present they are fiiibhing alsxit 21,000 needles aday. The guidon of the eighty-third Pennsylvania, which has taken in Vir ginia during the war, has been sent to Governor Hartranft by Capt. W. M. ( Iwen, of Xew I Irleans, adjutant of the Washington artillery, in Lee's army. Owners of extensive vineyards in the vicinity of Haniniondsport, Pleas ant Valley, and along Keuka Lake re iort that the grape crop this year will not tie one half what it was last season. The cold dry weather of the spring is ascribed as the cause. In the garden of the late Andrew Johnson's residence is a magnificent willow, grown from a twig taken from the willow which bends over the grave of NaMileoii Bonaparte on St. Helena, and sent to the ex-President. A twig from the noted tree will be planted over Mr. Johnson's grave. The Secretiry of State of Minnesota reports the following statistics of dam age done by grasshoppers this year : Acres of wheat damaged or destroyed, 240,417; bushels of wheat lost,t4.S,Wl2; acre of oats damaged or destroy L 52 125; bushels of oats lost, 1,186,733; acres of corn damaged or destroyed, 34,1311; bushels of corn lust, 73S,4I5. T : i t .; r t : ii II M r i 'I t a. I 1 1 ii1
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