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VOL. XXX. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. FEBRUARY 16. 1876.' NO.
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TEI MUSIC OF CHILDHOOD.
BT HAM BMOJDW.
When I bear tiis water fretting,
When I see tlie chestnut letting
AU her love) v bkosom falter down, I think,
"AIm the dj !"
Once, with magical sweet ringing.
Blackbird set tin woodland ringing
That awakes no more while April bonis wear
themselves away.
In oiir heart fair hope lay smiling
Sweet an air, and all begniliug ;
And there hang a niist of blnebella on the
elope and down the dell ;
And we talked of joy aud aplendor
That the year unborn would render ;
And the blackbirds helped as with the story,
. for they knew it well
Piping, fluting. -Bees are bamming ;
April's here, and Summer's coming.
Dout forget ns when yoa walk, a man with
men, in pride and joy ;
Think on n in alleys shady.
When yon stop a graceful lady ;
For no fairer days hare we to hope for, little
girl and boy.
'Laugh and jlay, O lisping waters!
Loll onr downy sons and daughter ;
Come, O wind, and rock their leafy cradle in
thy wanderings coy ;
When they wake we'll end the measure
With a wild sweet cry of pleasure.
And a iley down deny, let's be merry, little
girl aud boy !
At North Conway.
THE MISTAKE OF AN EVKXIXG.
"I think you said " There win a
startled look on the pleasant face of the
much-enduring waitress as she bent a
little lower; and certainly the order
which she had received. "Miss Sylvester
and dipped toast." was rather a novel
one. "1 don't think I understand you,
sir."
"I beg your pardon," said Philip Van
Ifcrne, coming back to the contempla
tion of bis supjier with a sudden start,
and blushing like a school boy as be
became conscious of bis mistake; and
then, as the relieved damsel sped away,
her evident fears as to his lapse from
sanity being quieted by a les difficult
order, he glanced again at the distant
table where sat the three personages
whose advent bad so surprised, and, as
it appeared, disconcerted him.
Two ladies aud a gentleman; one
lady tall, pale aud dark-eyed, with a
wonderful crown of pale gold hair; the
other a mere child iu appearance, with
a round, piquant, peach-blossom face,
wide blue eyes, and fair hair, cut close
and curling'around her forehead in little
babyish rings; the gentleman a rather
grave looking, but decidedly handsome
man, with no peculiarity of look or
demeauor that would justify Philip Van
Dome in staring at him in such a de
cidedly vindictive aud unprepossessing
wav.
He watched them furtively until they
rose to depart ; but as they passed by,
be was to all appearanee entirely ab
sorbed in the roll w-ith which he had
been trifling for the last half hour, aud
did not raise his eyes.
They noticed him, however, for the
younger lady laid her hand suddenly on
her companion's arm.
"Iok, Kose I" she whisperedthere's
Phil Van Dome." And Kose, after one
glance.passed on, with her gold-crowned
head held a little higher, and her face a
little paler than before.
Two minutes later, Philip Van Dome
was iu the office, hastily running over
the list of the new arrivals at the Kear
sarge House. Yes, here it was at last;
".Mr. and Mrs. Colchester, Miss Sylves
ter, New York ;" and although he had
felt sure of it from the first, tire sight of '
her changed name affected him as he
had believed nothing could have done.
M.ie w as right, after all," he said, bit- j
terlv, as be turned away. "Odd that I j
should meet them on their wedding
j..urnev, thongh." Very soon he found
himself face to face w ith a gentleman
with a lady on eituer arm.
"Mr. Van Ikirne how unexpected,
and how pleasant!" It was a wee
w hite hand which w asestended to him,
and he took It mechanically iu his.
"Thank you," he-ald, his eyes wan
dering to the tall, lissome figure beside
her. "I hardly thought to meet you
here, Emmie."
The old pet name came almost uncon
sciously Kniraie had always been a
favorite of his in the old days and then
Kose returned bis low bow without
removing her hand from the sleeve
where it rested.
"h, and I beg your pardon Mr.
'olchester Mr.. Van Dorue. I believe
you have met before, though !"
"Yes," answered Fhilip, grimly,'on-e
or twice only, I think." Kmmie, with
a little laugh, slipped her pretty hand
through his arm.
"Itse, you and Roger lead the way.
We will follow." And Philip, finding
himself taken possession of, resigned
himself to his fate. After all, it was
letter to face it bravely than to run
away; so, with Emmie on his arm, he
joined the promeiiaders on the wide
veranda.
All that long evening he watched that
face, that proud, pale face, which bad
once been to him the only face in all the
world. And when at lat be sat alone,
trving for once unavailingly to find
solace In a cigar, that pale, proud face
seemed still before him.
How he had loved that woman 1 how
dear she bad been to him In the old
lays! Yet how little had separated
them. A hasty word, a scornful reply,
and it was over.
He had been greatly to blame. lie
felt it now, keenly; but she had been
impatient of interference, and imperious
and obstinate in a pretty girlish way,
and so, at last
"Ah, me 1" said Phil, tossing his cigar
away as he arose, "to think that I should
meet her here on her wedding journey,
not two years afterward ! There were
grounds for jealousy of Colchester, after
all ; although I don't think she is madly
in love with him. Perhaps that stately
dignified style suits him though." lie
thought, gloomily, of the time when that
gold-crowned head had rested lightly on
his shoulder, in her charming flu of
penitence for some misdoing, when
those eves had looked up to him as
they looked at no one else, when those
lips
"Confound it all!" hesaid, wrath
fully. "1 shall make a fool of myself if I
go on in this way. Better leave quietly
lo-tnorrow take the earlv train, and
teave a note of adieux to Emmie." But
fate ordered it otherwise; for, as be
went in to his early breakfast, a nod
from a curly head, and a wave from a
pretty hand, brought him to a seat be
side Lmmie herself.
"We ouly stay here to-day, you see,1
explained the little lady, after the morn
ing greetings were interchanged, "ana
we want to make the most of it. There
fore this early breakfast;" . and Rose
smiled across at her sister in manner
so suggestive of the bright, winsome
Kose he used to know, that Phil felt
bound to assert to himself that be was
self" over another man's wife. "Better
face it out," he thought. "It's only to
day anyway, and if I go it will look as
though" as though be had not forgotten
old times quite so completely as desir
able, he was afraid. 1 hjgi deciding, he
talked and laughed w lui Emmie, and
was so generally agreeable, that even
Roger Colchester unbent a little, and
the pale face opposite grew interested
and appreciative. - -
After breakfast they strolled around
after the usual fashion of Xorth Conway
visitants, and Philip, having nothing
else to do, strolled with theiu ; . but
although he strove to seem at ease with
Rose, he felt that he failed miserably,
and gladly returned to Emmie- for re
lief. She, at least, was unchanged.
just the same childish, winsome Kmmie
as or old, whom he had been used to pet
and tease; and she Itad not outgrown
her old liking for him, either that was
evident, for she showed it frankly.- So
he strolled along beside her, and minted
out the beauties of "Minerva's Head,"
the shadowy "Indiau Maiden," and the
famed "White Horse," which, with up
raised head and flying mane and tail,
seems ever galloping madly away from
Xorth Conway and sightseers, in gen
eral, but ever remains there, one of the
"lions" (pardon the anomaly) of the
place.
After dinner there was a drive pro
posed. "Would he go?" Kiumieasked;
there was "just room for four." He
went.
Riding backward made Kmmie ill.
"Would Kose mind?" Xo, Rose
wouldn't; and before Philip realir-ed it
Rose was sitting beside him. The silken
folds of her dress swept against him;
and once, as the carriage swayed heavily,
her gloved hand rested on his arm with
a swift, light pressure, w hich made bis
heart throb strangely.
"I beg your pardon," she said; and,
looking up, her eyes met his for a mo
men t only a moment; hut as she
turned away a sudden wave of crimson
swept over her face.
"She has not forgotten, then," be
thought grimly, glancing at the two
opposite.
Roger Colchester was, to all appear
ance, unconscious of the little by-play;
but Emmie's blue eyes were a trifle
wider than usual, and she was looking
at Rose with a sudden surprised curi
osity on her face.
All that afternoon Philip was invisible.
Taking a full cigar-case as a companion,
he set himself resolutely to the task, of
walking off the new depression aud un
rest which had come to him.
"I won't see her again," be said.
"Thev go earlv to-morrow, aud I'll keep
away Irora them;" and, pursuant toj
mis pian, new asoueoi uie iiiesi ar
rivals at the supper table, and ate in
stately solitude.
When, however, he went out on the
broad piazza a little later, aud, looking
through the windows, saw them sitting
in the great parlor, he could not resist i
the temptation to join them. "Alter
all," lie said, "it is only to-night, after
which she will go out of my life entirely.'
So he sauntered in, iu his lazily grace
ful way, and took the vacant seat beside
Emmie.
"Have you been dancing?" he asked.
Emmie answered with a little sigk of
regret. "Xo, only twice. Roger doesn't
care for it, and there is no one else."
"Take pity on me, tlieu. ' I am Kirt
nerless. - May 1 ? for the Lanciers ?"
The next moment, with Emmie's band ,
on his arm, he joinvd the dancers, aud
went through the figures "unexecption-
ably," as Emmie declared; and then
stood beside her, laughing and talking
lightly when the dance was over and
she had resumed her seat.
"Listen!" she said, as the music be-1
gan again. "How odd for them to play
that, the saddest of all sad things,
it is the 'East altz of the Madman,'
Rose." I
Philip hesitated for a moment. Why
should he not? She could but refuse;!
and it would be the last time. He turned
toward her w ith a look aluioot of en
treaty on his handsome face. "Will
you ?" he said "Will you, Rose!" I
He had never once called her by her
new name he could not and the old
name came' so thoughtlessly. "I beg
your pardon," be said gravely. With
out reply she rose aud laid her baud on
his arm.
That waltz could he ever lorgct it ?
with that gold-crowned head almost
restingon his shoulder with that beau
tiful face so close to bis own. For this
brief space she was bis. At last it came
to him suddenly and sharply, that not
one particle of the old love bad died out,
in spite of all his struggle?, and the
mantle of grim cynicism in which he
had striven to envelojie his lietter self;
that, Roger Colchester's wife as she was,
she w as dearer to him than any other
woman ever was, or ever could le.
"You are tired," be said, sharply,
seeing the sudden pallor of her face as
she looked up, wondering at bis long
silence.
"Why did you not tell me?"
"It is so beautiful," she said, almost
in a whisper, "and so sad. Is it not
heart-breaking?" There were tears in
the great dark eyes as she turned her
head away, but Philip, looking down at
her, answered not a word.
"How white you are, Kose!" ex
claimed Kmmie, as they came back to
her. "You sliould not have danced so
long. Why did you let her?" a little
sharply looking up at Philip. But
Rose answered quietly that it was noth
ing, she was only a little tired, and she
bad not waltzed for so long so very
long. She glanced at Philip; and he
meeting Ifer eyes, thought of their last
waltz together In the old days.
"The music is over for to-night," said
Emmie, gathering her light cloak aliout
her, "Early hours seem to be the rule
at the 'Kearsarge,' for the piazza is de
serted. It is lovely out there in the
moonlight. Come !" And slipping her
hand through Roger Colchester's arm,
she led the way. "We're going to walk
down to the Tagoda,' " she proclaimed,
after a few minutes, looking back over
her shoulder. "One wouldn't think it
a prosaic depot by moonlight. You
don't mind our leaving you for a short
time, Rose, as you are too tired to go,
do you? We'll be back directly." The
next moment Rose and Philip were left
alone together for the first time.
There was a moment of embarassing
silence as the two disappeared down the
wide plank walk; aud then Philip
began to talk rapidly concerning the
scenery, and especially old Kearsarge
as appearing by moonlight, the "cloud
efleets" of the previous day, etc., until
he saw the shimmering gleam of Em
mie's dress in the distance, and knew
she was returning. Then he turned to
the woman beside him, with a sudden
and entire change of manner.
"As you and I go our different ways
to-morrow," he said, "I wyj bid you
good-bye to-night; but before 1 go, I
must say one thing which, perhaps, 1
ought not to say now, but w hich I ought
to have said long ago. If, in the old
davs. I was domineering and exacting,
as I was, I most sincerely beg your
pardon. We did not part friends. let
us now and I wish you every happi
ness, Mrs. Colchester." - . ...
She was standing beside him, a fleecy
shawl veiling her bead and shoulders,
her face turned away from him, and her
dark eyes looking up at the far-away
crown of Kearsarge; but as he spoke
the hist .word, she turned quickly, a
vivid blush sweeping across her lace,
and looked up at him with a great won
derment iu her wide eyes.
. "I was in fault, too," she said, alter a
little . pause, her voice trembling
strangely. "I have regretted it bitterly
sine more tliau you can know, aud
I, Philip! how could you think it!
1 am not Mrs. Colchester. 1 thought
you knew it it is Emmie." .
Very soon 'after, Kmmie, returning
with her husband, was eleetrineil ry tne
sight of Kose with her head pillowed
on Philip Van Dome's broad shoulder,
Philip's strong inn around her, and her
beautiful face, no longer pale, but sus
piciously rosy, looking up at him In a
way which told of happiness and peace
at fast.
"It is all very well to goseekingone's
fortune iu foreign lauds, Rose, said
Philip to his wile, a few months after
ward, "but I don't believe iu it. I found
my fortune (after a long search, though,
I must confess) nearer home."
"Where?" asked Rose, looking npat
him, with a mischievous light in her
great dark eyes.
" Under the shadow of Kearsarge, love,
at Xorth Con way and at the inouieut
when I believed that I was bidding an
eternal good-bye to another man's w ife,
I found my own." The AMine.
Literary IwrlMlllrs.
Pliny asserts that the Iliad of Homer
had been written on a piece of imrcii
meut, so small as to be enclosed in a
nutshell. Huet, although skeptical,
made an experiment which convinced
him that it was possible, although others
may still doubt. He tells us that a
piece of vellum ten inches long aud
eight wide, can be pnt in the shell of a
large walnut. On this be considers it
Itossible to write in a single line thirty
verses of the Iliad, and to squeeze 250
lines in a single page. The two sides
of the leaf would hold the 15,000 verses
of Homer's jioeni. A line of Iliad con
tains about thirty letters, hence 900 let
ters would have to be written in every
line, which, if not beyond the bounds
of pos-sibilitv, is bevoud those of proba
bility. Charlotte Bronte's small writing con
tains twenty letters to the linear inch,
and she put 17 lines into au inch.
This would give nearly 2000 verses of
Homer iu the space that Huet considers
can be made to hold 15,000. Klian re
cords that a Lacademouian artist wrote
in letters of gold a posy of two verses,
enclosed iu the rind of a grain of corn.
Peter Bules, a celebrated and irasci
ble writing master, is said to have writ
ten a minute copy of the Bible, each
leaf containing the same matter as a
page of the great Bible. The entire
book was enclosed iu a walnut not
larger than a ben's egg. The British
Museum is said to contain a iortrait of
tjueea Anne, a little larger than a hand
iu size, but the lines of the drawing
are formed of very small writing, and
contain the conteuts of a small folio
volume.
Passing from writing to printing,
OUC of the smallest books ever produced
is an octavo entitled, "The Bible, in
Miniature (sic), or a Concise History
of the Old ami New Testaments, Lon
don, printed for E. Xewbury, corner
of St. Paul's Churchyard, 1780." It
extends to 256 pages, is strongly bound
aud adorned with execrable steel en
gravings. A single page, taken at ran
dom, is found to contain 21 words, or
105 letters. The page measures Is,
inches, about an inch being occupied by
the text. This small book on a great
subject, is exceeded in infinitesimal uess
by a literary pigmy blushing in its
thirty-second edition. "Small rain upon
the tender herb. Dent xxxn.2. Thirty
second edition, London Religions Tract
Society, 56 Paternoster Row," is the
full title page of a work which may
probably claim the designation of the
smallest book in the world. It is an
octavo of 128 pages, and each page holds
some 40 words, or about 140 letters. It
measures a shade over 14 inch.
If we take as a test of smallness the
greatest amount of matter compressed
into the least space, the palm is proba
bly due to a Bible recently issued at
the Oxford press. It measures 434
inches by 2J.' inches, is about an inch
thick, and weighs when, handsonie'y
bound in calf, with silk linings, les
than 3xi ounces. Another firm bae
lately issued a Bible which is only
smaller than that just described.
The largest book the world has so far
seen is believed to be the work entitled
"Sieeitieation8 of Patents for Inven
tions,"' published for many years past
under the editorial Care of Mr. Bcnnet
Woodcroft, F. R. S. The work is still
iu course of publication, about ten
parts of it apiH-aring daily, or between
three or four thousand yearly. Each
specification forms a pamphlet stitched
111 a blue jiper cover, lllustrateu wnen
necessary, with engravings. Some spe
cifications only cover, a single leaf;
others are as large as a good-sized
vol 11 me. If we are to regard that as the
smallest book which contains the few
est letters, the palm is probably due to
The Wordless Book, ' which alter the
title-page, d.M not contain a single
word. This "book" consists of ten
pages. The first is the title page and
front cover, the tenth forming the
other cover; the second and third pages
are Mack as an "Etbiop's arm;" tne
fourth and fifth are red as a rose; the
sixth aud seventh are virgin white; the
eighth and ninth are shining gold. The
entire work is a religious allegory, de
vised by some enthusiastic Evangelical
the black symboiizing tlieunregeuerate
heart of man; the red indicating the
Redemption; the white portraying the
condition of the heart after it has been
"plunged beneath that flood, and the
irolden felicitv with which the book
ends being the symbol alike of earthly
and celestial joy.
Derivation Uafw.
Lour or Lowr. and Loaver, are all
vulgar terms lor money,' and combine
two gypsy words, Uie one loco or Uiwg,
and the other luurt, to steal. The rea
son for the combination or confusion is
obvious. The author of the Slang Dic
tionary, in order to explain this word,
goes as usual to the Wallacbian Gypsies,
for what he might have learned from
tiie first tinker in the streets of London.
I should remark on the word loure, that
Mr. Borrow has shown its original
identity with lovt, the Hindustani for
plunder or booty. I believe that the
American word loafer owes something
to this Gypsy root, as well as to the
German laufr.r (landlmfer) and Mexican
Spanish jilfaT, .and for hls reason,
that when the term first began to be
popular in 1834 or 1835, 1 can distinctly
remember that it meant to pilfer. Such,
at least, is my earliest recollection, and
of hearing school boys ask one another
in jest, of their acquisitions or gifts,
"Where did you loaf that from?7' A
petty pilferer was a loafer, but in a very
short time all of the tribe of loungers
in the sun, and disreputable pickers up
of unconsidered trifles, now known as
bummers, were called loafeisj. On this
point my memory is positive, and I call
attention to it, since the word in ques
tion has been the subject of much con
jecture In America. Lelana $ tnglttn
U'jpnet.
... lit ! Mawds.
Ill Morocco the number "five Is never
mentioned in the Sultan's presence, be
cause five is the number of the fingers
of the hand ; and the hand, as the wiel-
der of sceptre, sword and pea should
be, is the symbol of authority all the
world over. This gives a meaning to
the custom of saluting a ruler's hand
by way of homage, and no courtly cer
emony can boast a ' greater antiquity
than that of kissing hands! Priam, sup
plicating Achilles to restore the body of
Hector, calls himself the most miserable
of men in being forced to kneel before
the murderer of his children, and kiss
the hand yet reeking with their blood.
Roman soldiers kissed the hand of their
generals; consuls, tribunes and dicta
tors permitted a iavorea lew to pay
them the same mark of respect. Under
the emperors,' . kissing the imperial
hand was held an essential duty on the
part of courtiers of high rank; and,
taking a leaf out of the ragan's dook,
as was too much their habit, the bishops
of the early Christian Church gave
their hands to the lips of inferior min
isters. The wearers or the triple crown
were content with being honored in the
same fashion, until one of the Leos, not
caring to exhibit a mutilated band, sub
stituted his foot, and no one daring to
protest against the innovation, his suc
cessors were careful not to resort to the
less abject ceremony. It may be doubt
ed if any Pope would have persuaded
Cardinal John, of Lorraine, to kiss his
toe. When the Duchess of Savoy prof
fered her fair fingers to that lip-loving
churchman, he declined the favor with
disdain, declaring he was accustomed
to make free with the lips of the great
est yueen in the world, and was not go
ing to do less by a dirty little duchess;
then seizing the astonished lady by the
waist, the bold Cardinal, spite of strug
gles and perturbations, kissed her thrice
upon the' mouth. With equal disregard
for etiquette, but with more simplicity,
did the country dames, to whom Charles
II. presented his hand, put uptheir lips
for the kiug to kiss, a breach of custom
the Merry Monarch readily forgave;
forgave, we may be sure, with more
sincerity than James I. forgave Sir
Henry Yelverton for speaking disre
spectfully of his countrymen when, in
token of pardon, he allowed the indis
creet orator to kiss bis royal hand thrice
ere he left the presence. Kissers at
court are, we believe, forbidden to ap
pear with their hands gloved. It was
not always so, for in a letter dated 1025
we read.- "This day my Ixird Coke, with
his gloves on, touched and kissed the
King's hand, but whether to be con
firmed a councilor or cashiered I eannot
yet learn." From kissing hands at
court came kissing hands in courting
a practice the learned Selden consid
ered as foolish as to eat the paring
of an apple when one might taste the
fruit itself; aud from kissing hands for
love came kissing hands lor politeness'
sake, and the use of the phrase, "I kiss
your hand," as a salutation Uon leave
taking, w ithout a thought of suiting the
action to the word. A story is told of
an old laird, w ho, being presented to
George the Fourth at a levee, in his ig
norance and anxiety to get through the
business, ignored the hand extended to
him, and, with a hasty blow, edged to
ward the door with all speed. Brought
up by Lord Erroll's whisjiered reminder
"Kiss bauds! kiss hands !" the startled
old gentleman, facing about, kissed both
his hands at the king as if wafting a
cordial recognition to a friend at a dis
tance. All unconsciously, the laird was
acting according to ancient rule, for
only the greater subjects of the later
Ciesars were ermitted to press, their
n upon imperial . fingers. Inferior
folks kissed their own hands, as they
were wont to do upon entering the tem
ples of the gods; a custom Pliny set
down among those which were followed
for no known reason but their antiquity.
All the l'tar Unund.
What 1 kH.
I saw them go down town to-day.
She was on one side of the road and he
on the other; she carried a large basket
and he swung a cane; she panted for
breath to bear the heavy weight and
face the cold, strong wind, and he puffed
his away on a five cent cigar.
They entered the store; she handed
the clerk the basket of butter, and leaned
against the counter with a poor, tired,
faint little sigh of relief ; he lounged
over to the stove, tipped back iu a chair,
and, elevating his feet, watched the
graceful curls of smoke with intense
enjoyment.
She anxiously inquired the price of
and purchased a little coffe, a little su
gar, and "some cheap calico for the
children's dresses;" be carelessly or
dered a clerk to give him "a pound or
so of your lest fine-cutand andanother
box of cigars." She sadly remarked to
the clerk that winter was coming on,
but honed that the Kansas people were
all provided for; he said to one nf the
!) that it was "conronntleil haru on a
fellow these times with a family to sup
port." She took the basket containing
her purchases in one hand, and a kero
sene can in the other, and wearily left
the store: be lit another cigar, shifted
his chair, raised bis feet higher, and
discussed politics until nearly half after
dinner tune, w hen he wemleu his way
homeward, with his hands in his poc
kets. 1 remembered five years ago when
they walked down town, and he held
her (arasol so as to shield her fair face
from the sun, and carried the book she
was returning to the library. An hour
after they walked back together, the
very picture of blissful content and
happiness. That was before he prom
ised to love and cherish her every day
besides Sunday nights. .
Hlata far Bile-boat Iavallda.
As to clothinff. the invalid ought to
carry supplies of light and warm de
scriptions, wnicn may oe requirea to
doll and don, often twice during the
day. Unless well wrapped and under
an awning, it is not advisable for very
delicate persons to leave the saloon af
ter sunset. During November and the
three following months, dew falls pro
fnsely at night all over the Valley of
Thelies after 9 P. M. It is, however,
dispersed before 9 A. M and in the
form of fleecy cirri may be seen float
ing at high altitudes in an otherwise
clear and delightfully serene-atmosphere.
The dew almost vanishes in
Nubia, above the First Cataract, in
consequence of the close proximity of
the desert to the river. Thus the cli
mate, from being moist, as in Egypt,
becomes exceedingly dry in Nubia.
Travelers sometimes sail at night when
the wind is favorable, but as time
onaht to be no object, the preferable
plan is to halt at dusk and start
after breakfast. 'By this means the
sick enjoy all the scenery, and are
saved the annovance of the creaking
helm at night. The boat should be so
placed that the morning sun will shine
on either the starboard or port side
for two hours before the patient ar
rives in the saloon, the lattice windows
of which have been raised, and the ou
ter curtain rolled op, the object being
to dispel the sharp morning air, by no
means an insignificant caution. Bat it
will be found that invalids with sas
centible air-nassiiges -and they consti
tute more than one-half of the Winter
sojourners on the Nile who have ex
perienced the comfortless feeling of
getting oat 01 oea ana aressing witn
an Egyptian north wind blowing
tnroaKh tne boat, will Iully appreciate
this recommendation. Again, on the
downward voyage, when Boreas blows
sharply, the stern windows sboald be
covered with the satara, and the boat
allowed to drift stern foremost while
the patient is seated in the cozy nook in
front of the saloon. A comfortless
boat, without a satara, and foil of
drafts from the badly-fitting doors
and windows, obliges the invalid to
shot himself up daring windy weather,
and thus the f ull benefit of the climate
is in a measure lost. The grand advan
tage of the Egyptian climate in winter
is its daily serenity and sunshine.
However strongly the wind may blow,
a sheltered corner after breakfast time
will always be a sunny one. To per
sons, therefore, with delicate lungs it
is a matter of no little importance to
be aware of thia circumstance and to
be enabled at the same time to utilize
a few simple measures of protection
against the asperities of the weather.
The climates of Upper Egypt, Nubia,
and the desert are, from their superior
dryness, far better suited for certain
lung diseases than the damp atmos
phere of the Delta and cultivated
tracts of the low country ; much, how
ever, depends on the condition of the
Satient, who must consult with his me
lcal adviser on this point. The cli
mate of the Nile Valley in Nubia is
much dryer than that of Lower Egypt ;
t : 1 - 1 1 1 - i 1
wunc uie suarp, oracinir air 01 uie u
bian Desert is often trying to the very
delicate. I he experience of years
suggests to the patient that, provided
benefit is obtained by the voyage to the
First Cataract, he will do well to push
on to the second cataract, and tarry in
Nubia as long as the weather will per
mit. He may return to Assowan to
ward the end of February, and bask
for a few days among the sunny creeks
of the rapids, where he will enjoy the
fine scenery and a delightful climate.
If enaal to the exertion, he can stroll
among Phillas's interesting ruins, and
anchor the boat in the sheltered nook
iust under the grand temple of Kscu
lapius no unsuitable place for the in-
vatia who ieeis me uetter ior nis Nu
bian tour. Indeed, if his gratitude for
the art which has been the means of
sngiresting remedial measures for his
good has any eccentricity he may imi
tate the ancients, and there and then
sacrifice a cock at the Temple of
Health, where doubtless many an
ancient Egyptian bad offered np simi
lar oblations. IMmwrii Journui
Raeealatlve Talae.
There is a homely proverb which
warns us against counting our chickens
before they are hatched. A beautiful
exemplification of the proverb is given
in the Arabian Nights, in the story of
Aliiaschar; how he invested a few cop
pers in a basket of crockery and imag
ined rapid sales and high profits rein
vested, aud prosperity and wealth flow
ing in upon him, until he was in a po
sition to marry a princess. While gloat
ing over hi imagined good fortune, in
that insolence of false pride which is
too apt to accompany sudden wealth,
Alnaschar spurns his priucess,aud suit
ing the action to the thought, kicks
down the basket and smashes the crock
ery, which is his whole fortune in the
present as well as iu the future.
Xow it must, how ever, be said of the
imaginative Persian, that he speculated
entirely on his own capital. His success
was to be due solely to bis own efforts.
His folly ruined himself, but hurt no
body else. How very different would
have been the story of so sanguine a
gentleman of the present day? He
w ould have borrowed of everybody that
would have loaned money to him; per
suaded those to endorse who hail not
the money to lend ; lived on the pro
ceeds of his wits while be held his wares
at ridiculous prices, and estimated his
own business capacity at a marvelous
value, until the eud came, which al
most inevitably comes to those who
trade on other people's capital. This is
a story which the history of the day in
America tells us over and over again.
It is a common fault with us to imagine
that we can manage other people's mo
ney better than they can do it them
selves. It is a common error to under
take to do iu The results are seen in
the account of failures which annually
occur. It is estimated that in this coun
try, the total number of business fail
ures, for the four years, 1S72-3-4 and '3
will foot up at the eud of this year
about 22,000, and an Indebtedness of
$075,000,000, that is, six hundred and
seventy-five millions of other people's
capital, on which these twenty-two
thousand men nave been trying to get
rich, at other people's risk. This is
something fearful, and bears terrible
testimony to the recklessness and ex
travagance of the American people. It
must lie taken, too, into consideration
that these are the failures only of h s-
iness 'men. No note is taken of the
hundred thousand mechanics and la
boring men who have also counted their
chickens too soon, but whose failures
are two insignificant to deserve a record
in the business world.
TBS Easllsa Walaai.
The home of the English walnut (Jwj-
lan rtgia) is Persia and the Himalayas.
It was introduced Into Europe, at a very
early age, by the Greeks, who planted
it iu all their colonies. It round it
way into Italy many centuries prior to
the Christian era, and was greatly
prized by the Romans, who gave it the
name Juglans, said by Varro to be a
contraction of the words Jnrit tjlnnt,
Jupiter's nut. The Romans diffused
the tree through their provinces, plant
ing it even in England, where it was
called by the Saxons Wealh-knut, or
foreign nut, whence comes the modern
name walnut. In Russia, the tree is
called Greek nut, probably because it
was carried from Greece into that coun
try. The finest walnut-trees in the world
grow, it is said, iu Asia Minor and
along the Black Sea. In Circassia aud
Persia, thousands of families subsist
upon the produce of a few roods of
ground devoted to walnut-trees. The
Building Xetct, giving statistics regard
ing the tree, says: "Near Balaklava, in
the Crimea, there is an enormous wal
nut, which belongs to five Tartar fam
ilies, and which produces annually from
80,000 to 100,000 nuts. Tills tree is said
to be nearly 3,000 years old. At the
Village of Parthenit, in Greece, there
is a walnut tree whose trunk is 20 feet
in circumference. This tree is worth
27 annually. There are several very
ancient walnut trees in England, the
most remarkable of which is iii Norfolk.
The trunk of this tree is said to be 80
feet bieh. and 11 feet in diameter. In
1027, a walnut-tree was cut down at
Melwyn, In Hertfordshire, which, wnen
standing, occupied a space of 2,21)9
square yards." -
The timber of the English walnut is
light, hard, fine-grained, and suscepti
ble of a blifh Dolish. It is consequently
greatly valued for various purposes. It
is, with the black walnut, almost the
only wood used in the construction of
gunstocks, and $3,000 has been paid for
a sintrle tree to be worked up in this
manufacture.' England annually con
sumes 20,000 full-grown walnut-trees,
which are imported mainly from Italy
and the ports 01 tne .buck sea.
Fire Island, near Norfolk, Conn.,
, : . V- , ivin nnA : I i
IS garrulous wiui 1, uw,wv miu gcvsc
A atoyal HMtlsc.
'When the allied armies occupied
Paris in 1815, the emperor of Russia.
who resided at Talleyrand's palace, was
In the haoit of taking every morning,
in the strictest incognito, a walk in the
Tuileries - and from thence to the Palais
Royal. One day he fell in there with
his two allies, and the three sovereigns
were going togetner to tne Kue St.
Florentine, when they were met by a
man who, in all probability, had arrived
in Paris but a few days ago.
"Gentlemen," said he to the allied
princes, "can you tell me where I can
find the Tuileries?"
"Yes," replied Alexander, "follow
us; we are just going there."
The stranger thanked him, and the
conversation . was continued. A few
minutes after they reached the palace,
and, as their paths separated, they took
leave of one another.
"On word more," added the stranger,
who was an honest Gascon ; "I should
like very much to learn the names of
the gentlemen who have been so ex
ceedingly kind to me?"
"I believe you have already heard of
me," replied Alexander. "1 am the
emperor of Russia."
"A capital jote," exclaimed the Gas
con; "the emperor or Russia?" "And
you," he asked, of the second, "who are
you?"
"1 suppose I am not entirely unknown
to you either, as I am the king of Prus
sia." "Better and better," replied the Gas
con. "And you?" be said, turning to
tne mini.
"I am emperor of Austria."
The Gascon burst into a fit of laugh
ter. Alexander then said to him :
"I suppose vou will tell us now like
wise with whom we have the honor of
speaking?"
"Certainly," replied the Gascon,
drawing himself up to his full height
and walking majestically; "I am the
Great Mogul."
The Emperor Alexander often related
this amusing episode to his friends.
Fralt la Pvealsta rle Tloaea.
Carbonized apples of small size, iden
tical with those growing wild iu the
woods of Switzerland, have been found
abundantly in lake bottoms and in a
tolerable state of preservation. Mr.
Messikommer discovered on one occa
sion more than three hundred of them
lying together. They are often cut in
halves, more rarely in three or four
parts, and were evidently dried for
consumption during winter. Whether
a larger kind of apples found at Robe 11
hausen was cultivated, or a wild-growing
species, remains undecided. Prof.
Oswald Heer, of Zurich, who has pub
lished an interesting work on lacustrine
vegetable remains, inclines to the for
mer view. Wild pears were treated in
the same manner; but they are far less
common than apples, which must have
formed a much-sought article of diet.
Among other vegetable remains accu
mulated in the lake mud may be men
tioned hazel-nuts and beech-nuts, which
doubtless both grew in great plenty ; also
water-chestnuts, which doubtless were
collected and eaten bv the lake-men, as
they are in l'per Italy 'at this day.
Their present occurrence in Switzerland
appears to be restricted to a tarn in the
canton of Lucerne. There have further
been found abundantly the stones of
sloes, bird-cherries and wild plums,
and seeds of the rasplierry, blackberry,
and strawberry, showing that these
fruits of the forest were used as food.
According to Dr. Keller, the lake colo
nists of the Stone Age drew their sus
tenance chiefly from the vegetable king
dom. Their animal food evidently was
acquired by hunting rather than by the
breeding of cattle, considering that, in
the accumulations around the piles, the
bones of wild animals outnumber those
of the domestic species. Milk, we may
assume, formed au important article 01
their diet.
Laadaa l'sdf lw aawi Cakaaea.
When people are disposed to murmnr
at careless conductors or at exorbitant
cabmen.let them remember their hard,
exposed lives from morning to morn
ing. Let them also believe that they
are not willingly cruel to their horses
when they appear so ; indeed, they are
otten fonder of them than of their
wives and children. We beard one
touching instance of genuine feeling.
An omnibus horse fell. The coachman
got off his Iwx and tried to raise him,
but the colli had seized him! He took
off his coat and wrapped it round Uie
poor animal caressed him spoke to
him in Tain. The man bnrst into
tears, for the horse was dead. We
ourselves saw an elderly conductor
with two large pieces of bread in bis
hand, which he gave to the horses at a
particular spot, "They al'ays look
round for it just here, whether I've got
it or no," be remarked. Christmas was
the worst time for man and beast. Day
after day, night after night, luggage
vans and carrier s carts. laden to an in
credible height and width, threaded
our ice-maze with much difficulty. The
country must have starved itself to
feed the town, but neither the one nor
the other knew the labor of delivering
the boxes. haniDers. and baskets that
contained the good cheer sent to cele
brate Christmas withal. Much or it
arrived too late for the occasion. "We
would 'a broueht it last night." said a
youth, in return for a trifling Christmas-box,
"but the North Mail was late
owen to the frost, but there was such a
sight o' ifoods that 'twas impossible to
deliver 'em. I haven't been in bed
myself since last Saturday." What a
revelation! While we were celebrating
the event, most important and most
blest to mankind in the world's his
tory, in a church artistically decorated
with evenrreens and flowers, railway
officials, who had not slept in comfort
for a week, were dropping tood from
door to door. London Society.
Jaaa Kaadalaa aad the aafce.
The IlernUTt recent statement that the
better class of Englishmen like Virginia
reminds the Cincinnati Time of a story.
It savs: When that distinguished
French Abbe (can't for the life of us
recall his name) was making us a visit
in the early days of our national his
tory, he happened to be dining with
some Washington celebrities, of whom
John Randolph, of Roanoke, was one,
and the place of whose residence was
not known to tne loreigneer. ine
question was put to the Abbe :
"And now were you pieasea w uu uie
South?"
"Exceedingly ; but I confess to hav
ing been a little disappointed I had
heard so much in the Virginia gen
tlemen. .
"Perhaps you were unfortunate in
your circle," broke in Randolph, with
"You did not come to Roanoke, for
instance."
"True," said the Abbe, covering his
evident annoyance at the rude tone
with his usual calm smile. "True ; the
next time I visit Virginia I shall cer
tainly eo to Roanoke."
"Gentlemen," answered Randolph em
phasizing the word, "do not come to
Roanoke unless they are xnvttea
It was a cruel thrust, but the Abbe
took it in the same placid manner; and
lifting his gray head, paused for a mo
ment to give aue empnasis to nis woras
and then replied, looking inquiringly
at the other guests :
"Said I not, messieurs, that I was dis
appointed in tne Virginia gentleman r
T0CTIS COIXH.
Joseph' Wife. The fame of Joseph.
the son of Jacob, and tne great minis
ter and servant of Pharaoh, is not by
any means confined to the present
readers of the Bible. In Egypt he is
still remembered, although they don't
think so much of bim as we do, while
the Mahommedans have, or pretend to
have, bis full history. -
It may not be out of place to give
their story of his marriage. I hey say
that one day, when he was in the full
tide of power, he went out, driving, and
by the roadside an old woman stopped
the horses of bis chariot and begged
for alms. As be looked at her, Joseph
thought he had never seen so very ug-
Iv a woman, and as he was rather plain
spoken in those days, be told her so.
1 he old woman told him as his God
answered all his prayers, he should
pray that she might be made young
again, promising him that then she
would not be so ogiy. Josepn at once
lifted up his hands and voice, and
prayed God to make her young and
beautiful, and when he turned again to
look at her, she was so young and so
lovely, that be fell in love with her and
married her. She long outlived him.
and died very old, becoming the only
old woman in Heaven, because, accord
ing to the Moslem or Mohammedan
belief, all women are made young in
Heaven, but only once, and Joseph's
wife had already been changed, so she
mast remain in Heaven forever as an
old woman.
Such is the Moslem story, and there
are several moral in it. which yoa can
hunt up if you will, and while you are
looking them out, let those who know
the meaning of the word "usurer" and
"usury." try to think how and where
Joseph became the first usurer in his
tory, and what were the consequences
of his usury ; and as I may as well tell
yon that we ravens don't like Joseph,
see if yoa can tell the reason why f
A ChiUr Fancy. knew a little irirl
who spent a winter with two maiden
ladies, aud who hud been presented by
one of them with a paper doll, gorge
ously arrayed. She natued it the Mar
quis, and at once assigned to that no
bleman the heart and band of her
younger hostess. He was thenceforth
always treated with the respect due
to the head of the house ; a chair aud
plate were assigned to him at table,
though, for reasons of practical conve
nience, he usually sat in the plate.
Good-morning must always be said
to him. The best of everything must
be first offered to him, or else Lizzie
was much hart, aud the family were
charged with discourteous neglect.
Indeed she always chose to take the
tone that he did not receive unite the
consideration to which his rank and
services entitled him ; and when she
first awaked iu the moruing.she would
give reproving lectures to his supposed
spouse. "He doeseverything for yon,"
the child would say to this lady ; "he
earns money, and bays yoa all that
you have; he shovels your paths for
you" this Iming perhaps on a snowy
morning when that process was audi
ble "and yet yon do not remember all
his kinduess." The whole assumed re
lationship was treated as an absolute
reality, and the lively farce lasted,
with undiminished spirit during the
whole of a New England winter.
tkribner for January.
A Jkiid Jlairk ami a Lirina One.
"What a commotion you are making!"
said a sparrow to a flock ot small birds
chattering and twittering around the
body of a hawk that was Iving stiff and
cold on the ground.
He s dead ! he s dead !" they cried ;
we are safe from him now ; he will
never frighten us again."
r rigbten us !. said the sparrow, hoo
ping up to the dead enemy and giviug
him a contemptuous little peck; "speak
for yourselves, my friends, as for me, I
never saw so much to be frightened
Labout in the fellow. After all. yoa
may see he is nothing bat a bird : be
has wings, and a bead, and legs and
claws, and so have we. A close view
shows one the absurdity of needless
alarm ; for my part, I intend in future
to show to the whole tribe W by,
where are you all going T" he ex
claimed, stopping in his harangue, as
the small birds suddenly took wing.
Ott as fast as we can. ' thev cried :
"the hawk's mate is hovering above us,
and as we have not received your new
light, we prefer getting out of her way.
1 on can stay aud tell her your mind. '
'Ihe hawks mate! iou don't sav
so!" screamed the sparrow. "Here;
let me pass, pray !"
Aud he brushed through the throng.
and never rested till he had gained his
hiding-place !
The Duke of Wellington was a great
soldier, perhaps, with the exception of
King Henry fland .Mai borough, the
greatest warrior of England, lie was
accustomed to the rough life of the
ramp and on the field was notoriously
blun, cross and severe; and yet a lin
net who lived in the Duke's iron-girt
house, told me once that the last words
of the Iron Duke were "if you please."
Just before he died an attendant asked
whether he would have some tea. el
lington said. "Yes. if you please."
drauk the tea, looked his thanks and
never spoke again. If the great mar
shal of Eugland thought it worth while
to say "if you please," wonldu t it be a
good sentence for some of us, who are
not field marshals, to use more fre
quently I
Am Aneimt Pmnt 1 vprr learned
man once came to one of the dear little
schoolma'ara's picnics, and what do
you think he said in the course of con
versation f
1 give his remark entire.
"We all know." said he. raising his
eyebrows, "that rivers in time will car
ry land from one place and deposit it
in another. Perhaps the best illustra
tion of this fact is lower Egypt, which
Herodotus said the Egyptian priests
considered to be a present from the ri
ver A lie.
The little schoolmistress was busy
dealing out sandwiches at the tine,
but she nodded her head. So I sup
pose the learned man was right. St.
A'kkolasfor February.
A Blackbird not long since told me
that in an old town hall in Massachu
setts be saw a book of town records,
dated two hundred years ago, and in it
was the following: "Voted that the
town clerk bay half a quire of paper
for the use of the town." Fancy a
town council voting on such a question
nowadays. Paper may have cost more
then than now, but if I didn't know
that blackbird, I wouldn't believe the
story.
"Children.1' asked a Favette county
minister, addressing a Sunday-school,
"why are we like flowers ! What do we
have that flowers have T"
A small boy in the infant class,
whose breath smelled of vermifuge.
rose nn and made replv. "Worms."
The minister crept under the pulpit
chair to hide his emotions.
been struck in the Centennial lode near
T ..nto I'it. W T At a rienrh nf 100
feet a large body of quartz has been
iounu, snowing an amount ui irec
whleh it is believed exceeds anything
ever before seen in rock. A huge solid
mass of this rock will be sent to lh3
Centennial Exhibition.
KIWS D B&H7.
Tallahassee's fire department cost
$20.50 last year.
Frank Leslie has bought Boss
Tweed's late residence.
William Cullen Bryant has been
elected President of the Century Club,
of New York.
The banks of Louisville have or
ganized a clearing house, with a capital
of nearly $0,000,000. ,
The statue of Burns will be erected
in Central Park, New York, this year
during the Centennial festivities. . .
Twelve thousand dollars woith of
dried fish are every month sent from
San Francisco to China by the Chinese.
--The property and franchises of the
New York Central Underground rail
road are to be sold under foreclosure.
At Milwaukee a new telegraphic
invention has been tried, and lt mes
sages at once were sent over one wire.
There are fourteen pairs of living
twins in Xew Hanover township, Hun
terdon county (N. J.,) according to the
assessors' returns.
An Iowa Colonel who has survived
four wives, and is only ninety-two
years old, is about to wed a youug" lady
of sixty-seven Summers.
Senator Oglesby, of Illinois bad his
infant son baptized, recently in water
which the Senator brought from the
river Jordan twenty-years ago.
The total number of hogs slaught
ered in Cincinnati this season is 308,-
89. Ihe number slaughtered at the
same time last season was 392,802.
An extensive petrified forest has
been discovered in the desert of North
western Humboldt, west of the Black
Rock range of mouutains, in Nevada.
A Xew York lady has a punch-
twiwl rliikt hriklitnmkil i irhrM'itM the
Great King of Poiitus, who has been
dead these eighteen hundred years and
more.
Durinir the first three weeks of au
Iowa saving bank the deposits amounted
to only seventeen cents. The hanker
got disgusted, stole that, and is now far
away.
Missouri has "farnied out" its Pen
itentiary leasing it to a party who
agrees to manage and maintain it. and
to pay to the State $112.50 a year for the
privilege.
Out west, in the great grain-grow
ing regions, they use straw for fuel to
drive their steam threshing-machines,
and it is so managed that it answers
very well.
A California inventor has patented
a contrivance for driving sewing-ma
chines, which does away with the
treadle. It is driven by aud runs like
clockwork.
The IudeM-mlmt, published at Bry
ant, Kn I ton County, 111., is the smallest
paper in America. It is published
monthly, and the subscription price is
15 cents a year.
The Lackawanna coal region, it is
said, will continue to produce coal
throughout the winter, unaffected by
the suspension in the Schuylkill and
Wyoming districts.
A Xebraska man died the other day
at the age of 00 years 11 months and M
davs. We can Imagine how mad that
man must have been that he couldn't
make it au even hundred years.
The Springfield, Mass. people now
kindly warns the tramps that they only
furnish crackers aud water, while at
Boston there is a soup-house in full
flow. The tramps usually pass on.
Mrs. J. J. Astor presented $1,500 to
the Children's Aid Society during the
holidays, for the Hirpose of sending a
party of 100 children and poor families
to homes and places of work out West.
Minnesota Is to have a State inebri
ate asylum for which the liquor sellers
will have to pay, as the supreme court
has sustained "the constitutionality of
the law imposing a tax for this pur
pose.
The heaviest special co-partnership
ever orgauied in America started out
in Xew York with the Xew Year. It
includes the combination of seven capi
talists, who contribute an aggregate of
fsoo.ouo.
Mil ford. X. II., talks of contribu
ting Jimmy Blanchard to the Centen- '
nlal, to be exhibitel witn a picture oi
the young George Washington, as spe
cimens of two kinds of little bovs raised
in this country.
A Chicago banker h:is adopted the
system of the 'London Cheque Bank,
with this variation, that it issues cer
tificates of deposits for sums of $10, $15
$20, and $50, payable to the order of
the depositor only.
Mrs. Emily Tubman, of Frankfort
Ky., has presented the Christians of the
e.nmu.lllt.iMltffMn.tinn mt A lliliur.
Ga., withacompletely furnished church
and parsonage, which she had erected
at a cost of $101,850.
The town clock at Xantucket Mass.
is in charge of Mr. Walter Folger, who
at the advanced age of ninety years
limbs into the tower with apparent
ease, and regulates the machinery as
perfectly as iu his young days.
Mrs. Capital of Rhode Island, is a
widow, and is worth $3,000,000. Here
is a capital catch for some enterprising
young man ; but no doubt Mrs. Capital
will not enter Into lile partnersmp Willi
any man who has no capital of his own.
Minnesota is an unfortunRte state.
Last spring it was invaded by grass
hoppers. And now there have been iu
flicted uon the people two governor's
messages, each about the length of an
average annual message of the Presi-
dent-
Hon. A. II. Stephens continues in
a very feeble state from disease in oue
of his lungs. Though he eats and sleeps
well, he does not regain nis strengiu.
It is feared that ne will not ne aoie to
take hU seat in Congress during the
present season.
At Crescent. Xew York, there live
two twins by the name of Lansing, now
in their seventy-fourtn year, one oi
whom was born one year and one tne
next. The former came late on Xew
Year's eve, and the latter early Xew
Year's morning.
Mrs. General Gaines has arrived in
Washington to attend to a suit pending
in the supreme Court, affecting the
nrobate of a will In Xew Orleans, stie
savs she has been in litigation concern
ing her interests for forty-four years,
and has spent three fortunes.
The State Prison of Vermont has a
new chaplain, who has worked so dili
gently, since the beginning of his en
gagement in September, that five of the
prisoners have been converted, and
have made profession of their religion
by being baptized. Jail seems an un
promising place for Christian effort but
a jail chaplain has advantages iu ad
dressing his congregation not enjoyed
by other preaches. His hearers are
bound to be punctually on hand, re
gardless of the weather, aud their at
tention is not distracted by being com
pelled to notice the new fashions in the
apparel of their fellow worshipers.
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