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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
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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.
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