. i .V f i a F. SCHWE1ER, THJ OOK9TITCTIOII TH1 CHIOS 4 ) TTS BHfOROIMin OF THB LAVS. Editor and lropriete TOL XXX. MIFFLINTOW, JUNIATA in3TT, PENNA.. MARCH 15. 1876. NO. 11. J f , , LOVE UNEIPRJSSID. notes among tbe human heart- strings An dull with nut ; " , fte sweetest chord- adjusted bj the angel - are dogged with doet ; , W pip Dd piDe OQT dreamy music Tpon the self-eanje strains, ' I --Rli)BSSrorSMi and fee and nssolsnon Come back in and refrains. Oo throng the world re go, an army march ing With listening ears, jjch lonpn?- ebbing fot the heavenly mnsio He never bean : Each Ion gin, tithing for a word of comfort A word of tender praise A word of lore to cheer the endless journey Of earth's bard baay days. Ihejloveua. and we knew it; this suffioes For reason's share ; why should they pause to give that lore ex pression With gentle care ? -Why should they praise? Butatill our hearts are aching With the gnawing pain Of hungry lore that longs to hear the music, Aud longs and longs in vain. We lore them and they know it ; if we falter ; With fingers numb. Among the unused strings of love's expression The notes are dumb. We shrink within ourselves in voiceless sor row. Leaving the words unsaid. And aide by aide with those we love the dearest. In silence on we tread. Thn on we tread, and thus each heart In silence Its fate fulfils Waiting and hoping for the heavenly mnsio Beyond the distant hills. The only difference of the love in heaven From love on earth below Is, here we love and know not how to tell it. And there we all shall know. A Bound-Girl's Valentine. BY OLIVE BKLL.- February had come in like a lamb. Thes-taon the sloping hillsides around aeosy tarmhouse.on the outskirts of the village of Riverside, looked green and inviting in the pale yellow glow of the wiring sun. There was a peculiar opaline tint In the cloudless sky, and far in the west, some broad bars crossed the horizon like crimson banners. The air was warm, and heavy with the fra grance of moist ferns and velvety aiosses that grew rank and wild in the strip of dene woodland that skirted the river, where a young girl stood, shilling her eyes with her hand, as she gazed up at the opaline sky, out of which the sunset glow was slowly faJinj; then down at the blue waters that flowed at her feet with a musical ripple. No one that she was aware of had ever told Nellie Blaine Margaret Allen's bound girl that she was a beauty. Tet she was one, for all that, and oi.lv lacked the costly setting that embellishes less charming gems, to transtorm her into what the world might call a "lovely woman " A wild roe sort of a beauty she was, too. wonderfully charming in her un conscious loveliness, so shy that a kind word would send floods of crimson into the peach-like cheeks, and the slightest frown make the scarlet lips quiver like a baby's. There was a spice of romance in her nature, born, perhaps, of her utter loneliness, for never, since she could remember, had Nellie heard a voice with a truly loving ring in it, for her parents had died when she was a helpless infant, and Miss Allen, al though a strictly moral and religious woman, did not believe in wasting her precious affections on a bound girl. "Nellie !" screamed a shrill voice; as Nellie was just going off into a delicious dav-dream. "what are you doing?'' Nellie hastily snatched up a pail which she had heedlessly dropped, filled it with water from the river, and turned homeward. Miss Margaret met her at the garden pte, wrath in her cold gray eye, and her hair in stiff curl papers, that always reminded Nellie of porcupine quills. "What on earth were you standing there for, staring at the sky t" she ex claimed, as Nellie reached her side. "Iid 1 not tell you to hurry? Mr. Ja mison will be here presently. Give me that bucket; you know I'm always a fright when I don't bathe my face in that river water." Nellie meekly handed over the pail, with a mirthful twinkle in her bright, dark eyes, for Mr. Jamison was the new minister, a man popular for his elo quence and many virtues; and Miss Allen, who was at least ten years his senior, had been one of the first ladies in bis congregation to impress him fa vorably, for the zeal with which she entered into all His charitable projects was truly encouraging. "Now, Nellie," said Miss Margaret, when they reached the doorstep, "go into the parlor and see that the light is not too glaring. You know I always look best wheu the light is mellow." "Yes. ma'am." "Then bring in some fresh water and have the cake in readiness. Mr. Jami son is a lover of good cakes. And do, for pity's sake, keep yourself out of his siglit. If he caught a glimpse of you, he would thiuk i had established a rag ged school." Nellie stood under the hall lamp, looking up at Miss Margaret, who had paused on the stairs to deliver this last order. "It is not rov fault if I am in rags," flashed out Nellie, with flaming cheeks. "I have not a decent dress in the world." "You have as good as I can afford," grumbled Miss Margaret, frowning at the young girl, whose bright loveliness startled her. "Everv cent I can spare nust go to the heathen this winter. Now go atom your work, and no more complaints." Nellie turned slowly into the parlor, t smile playing about'her ripe lips. She as nervously twitching at the torn sleeves of her waterproof dress, and started back aghast w hen her eyes fell on a tall figure that stood between her nd the light; a curious light in the clear blue eyes, that seemed to take in Seine's outfit from head to foot. "Mr. Jamison !" she exclaimed, with sort of gasp, "I did not expect to meet yon here." "Doubtlou nnt Mia Allen must have been out of the house when I came , as I saw no one. Io you wish to fe her?" said Mr. Jamison, gently, whom u supposed to be one of Miss Allen s needy neighbors, as he had often no ticed her in some retired corner of his church, poorly dressed and so sad look iug. that he had often longed to say 'ue kind word to hr. "Me!" echoed Nellie, with an amused ""'. "I live here." "Live here! With Miss Allen?" "Live with Miss Allen t" with a merry "ugh at Mr. Jamison's surprise. "I am her bound-girl, and of no account to anybody," "Strahge " said Mr. Jamison! with a compassionate glance at this ill-clad domestic heathen. "I have been a fre quent visitor at this boose for the last three months, and never met yon." "I -never see anyone," replied Nellie, shyly lifting her eyes to the face that, for the last three months, she had been studying with an admiration that seemed almost sin. "How old are you?" "I will be eighteen on St. Valentine's eve." 'Ah! Ton will be free then." There was a world of relief in Mr. Jamison's voice, lie gazed reflectively into the fire a moment or two, then looked at Nellie, who was nervously turning down the lights, until the room was bathed in a mellow glow that heightened the beauty of her own rosy face wonderfully. "Miss ," began Mr. Jamison, slowly. "Call me Xellie, Nellie Blaine, please!" interrupted Xellie with a blush. "Well, Xellie, what do you propose to do with yourself after Su Valentine's day? Stay with Miss Allen, of course," "Xo," cried Xellie, with a look of dismay; "I will die first." Mr. Jamison looked serious. lie had thought himself a good judge of human nature; but it struck him there must be a page in Miss Allen's life that was a sealed book to the world's eyes. "If you need a friend, remember no one will help you so readily as your pastor," he said, as Xellie was flitting out of the room. She nodded her thanks, her eyes meeting his one moment, with a glance that strangely upset the grave minister's thoughts. In fact, he was so thoughtful and reserved all that even ing, that Miss Allen, with all her bland ishments failed to arouse him, and petu-' lantly remarked to Xellie the next morning that he scarcely tasted the eake after her wasting a dozen of eggs in its concoction. The next Sabbath, Mr. Jamison preached a' stirring sermon from the text: "The poor ye have always with you." The little rosy face, and shining eyes in the shadowy corner, gave him inspiration, and the clasp of her little brown fingers after service, was a bliss ful reward; for there was something in Nellie's face that told him, his words were a heavenly balm to the lonely girl-heart. "Was not that splendid, Xellie?" Miss Allen remarked to her bound girl, as she stood before the dining-room grate, after her walk from church. "What?" Xellie said, absently. "Why, that sermou of Mr. Jamison's. Why Mrs. Latham looked like a con demned criminal. Everybody knows she uses that bound girl of hers like a heathen " Xellie looked amused. "She is better clad, and better fed, than soiiie people I know of," she said. "Yourself for Instance," snapped Miss Allen, her forty-year old face flushing hotly. "But you have better clothing than you deserve." 'I have done my duty to you," qui etly returned Xellie, thinking a little bitterly of the rears of thankless Dona- age she had spent in this woman's ser- VHM - M. . - ' f " " " youth : have gone half clad, comfortless and unloved all my life," she added, drearily, more to herself than to Miss Allen, who was teinsniy nugging toner heart the delusion that Mr. Jamison's sermon did not suit her. Mr. Jamison came to the larmhouse almost daily now, and somehow it hap pened that in going out, or coming in, he met Nellie, who watched for his foot fall, with an eagerness that sent a rich flow into her round cheeks. She never reamt this sudden flushing of cheek or brow, at his slightest smile, or some trifling act of kindness, meant anything but a respectful esteem for his worth as a minister, on her part; or the interest he nlainlv manifested in ner iavor was anything but the result of that almost divine compassion, which led him to follow the commands of his Master with such seal and courage. While his coming made the hours brighter for Xellie. Miss Allen was jubilant with excitement. She had long angled for a nusnana, wno wouiu sun her tastes, socially arm wurauy , ui none had been so blind as to see the tempting baits she held out to them. Mr. Jamison was a man to attract any woman, aud Margaret Allen, witn tne obstinacy of old maids, who can never see they art an old maid, laid siege to his heart, with a pertinacity worthy of a better cause. But Mr. Jamison was willing to discuss any subject witn ner but love, although, as she remarked to N'rllie. actions sneak louder than words and surely his visits to the farmhouse were actuated Dy sometningaeeper uisu love for the heathen. T have civen. more money to the missionaries this winter than 1 ever did in mr life before." crumbled Miss Allen one Sabbath evening, "and what have I gained by it. Xellie, you can take a ii. : wich tm " wait 11 jvu " For the lisrht in Nellie's eyes baa grown so sparkling of late that her mis tress was glad to have the fresh young face out of her sight. Xellie. reioiced at the respite, took up her hood aud ran out of the bouse into the balmy twilight of this February evening, for the spnng-iiae soilness still lingereu, anu mo fr in up in the warm sunny meadows where JNeuie loveu w muiuic. heart was full of sweet, undefined long for home, and home caresses, for some pure life of simple love that would flow on like some peaceful river, when Mr. Jamison raw iinnn her. leaning airainst a stile, with a nipt look in her beautiful eyes. "Nellie." he said, In nis genuc way. ..i.! ,h. slim hrawn hands in his, 1 am elad I met you. My me is iuu oi UaiUK Mo". . , , , r cares ana crossCTW",ov,""-f ' j i airo iwi ft if there was wme- thing in your honest synipaiuy w re2?i!!',L I benefit vou?" Xellie says, shyly "I who am so poor anu weak ana irieuuicw. in many ao. , . j i .i.;v f Jamison succeeded AUU A UIIU , m in convincing Xellie that she was of some account, lounu, i , ' down the path towards his church her face grew absolutely "" lau-h rang ou.like a happy child s. .io h anvthine I can do for you, Vellie?" Mr. Jamison said at parting .w mi r make vour me an v mi UK brN?eUier's eye's drooped beneath the . r?" f the clear blue eyes, but r nd later she looked up ro rmight send me .Valen- tine man wno is vw - Cshal'l-have one, XeUie-mind, I T ZTr Zlm ot the T Sabbath twilight Wronnd ner. and a robin, bTgh up in the locusts, burst out i. happy song, as If to re-ecn "Xellie," Miss Allen said to her on St. Valentine's Eve, "Mr. Jamison was here to-dav."' As if Xellie did not know. At if her hand had not rested one instant in his, and his glance tent her back to her work with a light heart. "Well," she said, going on with her Ironing placidly. . ... "Anu be said be would be Mire in the morning to ask me to give up something I ought to be very loth to part with. Xow, Xellie, do you think I ought to hesitate to give my heart into the keep ing of such a good man, for I am sure that is what be wants." Xellie looked Ditvinely at the faded face of the woman who sat before the kitchen fire, gazing into the coals, with a sentimental expression in her dull, eyes, and regretted that she would be the cause of another disappointment to in is unsatlsnea heart, that still craved the love and admiration that had by some mischance missed her In her girl- nooa. "What do you say, Xellie?" she went on; "will 1 marry him or not? I think I would be a good wife, and a useful one." "Marry him by all means. Miss Mar garet, If he asks you," was Nellie's low reply, her own heart thumping rebelli ously all the while. "If he asks me ! He will certainly do that," said Miss Margaret, in her self-satisfied way. Then, when my fu ture is settled, 1 will arrange for yours." Xellie blushed rosier than ever, her thoughts going out from that hot, close kitchen, to St. Valentine, who, even now, was busy gathering np loving missives and quaint devices to send afloat among the youths and maidens ho watched for their, coming with such eager eyes. What would come for her? A heart. a hand, or, better than all, the Iwve of an upright, pure-minded man, whose love waa almost too great, too grand, and too glorious for a poor, unlearned girl like Xellie, who had learned such patient lessons of love and forbearance in the hard school of dependence? All that rehruary night bellie s dreams were disturbed by the fluttering of wlrite pinions and the dropping of wonuenui love missives on ner nine dingy couch. But she was up with the dawn, the light of inward peace on her radiant face, the smiles of content wreathing her red Hps. Miss Margaret was wandering about the house, restless and wathful. "He's coming, Nellie," she said at last, as Mr. Jamison's tall figure came In sight. "I declare I don't see how I will get through the ordeal decently. Hand me my salts, Nellie." Nellie obeyed, then crept softly out of the room. On the side piazza she laid her hai.d in Mr. Jamison's broad palm. "I will be your valentine, Nellie," he said softly. "Will you take me?" 'Oh, Mr. Jamison I 1 am not worthy of you indeed I am not." Xellie said, with a quiver in her fresh young voice. "Take me, Xellie," he urged; "St. Valentine himself could not oner you a better one." He laughed, and Xellie blushed hotly, but finally held ud her lips for his kisses. "Mr. Jamison Xellie !" screamed a hysterical voice, and wheeling around suddenly, the lovers saw the passion distorted face of Miss Margaret. . tthe was holiling to th door knob lor sap- port, and really looked as If she was going to faint. " nat uo you mean ny Kissing jei- lie?" she demanded, angrily. "It means." said Mr. Jamison, com ing forward, gravely, "that Xellie has given me the right to be her protector for lite." Then, in his grave, gentle way, the voting minister told Miss Allen how dear the little bound girl was to him, and how much he needed her strong faith and patient love to help him with his Master's work. What will people think," snapped Miss Allen,"of your marrying a girl you never 6poke to until two weeks ago?' "That it is a freak of St. Valentine's," quietly responded Mr. Jamison, putting Ins arm around Neuie, wno ne knew was above reproach. "And I thought I thought " groaned Miss Allen, turning away in disgust. But no one but nerseii ana .aeuie knew what she thought on the subject of Mr. Jamison's marriage. ftmrvlval er the Moat Traasawreait. In a fantastic tale entitled "Maumat- fk- ft n-in.l I,. h. Jinnarv Atlnnlir. miuu . " v - - , are to be found these curious sugges tions: It occurs to one very soon that ani mal lite does exist of so transparent a texture that to all intent and purposes it is invisible. The spawn of frogs, the larvae of certain fresh-water insects, manv marine animals are so clear of texture that they are seen with diffi culty. In tde tropics a particular in habitant ors nootn seas is as invisioie as a piece of f lass, aud can be detected only by the dolor mingled in Its eyes. At first rene- tiou a uiousana instances arise of assimilation oi aiumai uie 10 t.hpir Riirroundinirs. of mimicry of Na ture with a view to safety. Why, then, by survival OI tne moss transparent, ahnniii not some invisible life hotd a se cure position on the earth ? Pondering tnus, l naa oeen siameu not a little by coming now ana again on facts that seemed to bear this out. Strange tracks through untrodden grass suggested footsteps of the unseen. Flat tened spaces or peculiar snape in mo riro n,hr human be in irs BlfAtlUltJf J , -. r T conld not have intruded, looked marvel- lik-A human viRitAtinii. Or 1 IV 1UUOI J iiv concealed and watched the crows in a roadside field. hat was itcausea mem tnnt nn nitiliiil and flan iwav on sooty fringed wings? Xo bird, beast or man came, men tne rats idl ing about under a dock, like so many .7.n Virginia swine: all at once came flurry of whisking tails, and they were off! Yet I had not stirred, nor did anything move on the dock above. Nevertheless all seemed to realize a common danger, a noise of some kind perhaps a step? Again, you sit like DIOCa Willie a Biiaatj ukiiw uwi.c-. i the sun, and may watch many hours irhn.il mvfnf hut sometimes it hap pens that he raises his head, quivers for i instant nis uouuie tongue, uu bmu I the stump into a bush. At such times out vour ear to the earth, uo you not distinguish or is it all imagi nation a souna, a orusninj; i Ther There is a case in point here of a me- teorologicallv-inclJnea postman oi nart fnrd who fixes his Idea of the day's cold by a particular thermometer that be visits every morning In the line of his duties. Pitying him, the owner of the thermometer regularly on cold days warms up the bulb just as the messenger arrives in sight, and the satisfied way farer hasn't been really cold yet a single morning. His eye prove to him that it would be foolish to feel a condition that does not exist, so he doesn't reel tu Ana a defective thermometer has been known to keep a family cold all winter, to cause several extra tons of coal to be burned, and to lead to a rupture with the agent of "the best furnace In the world." Hartford Coaraaf. A SUB WMw. A good story waa told me by a Oe . man ladv who aftrlhntMi It ta t! ) "Grimm Brothers;" but it certainly ) S not among their translated stories. Tt ' 7 translator doubtless possessed too mat delicacy to present it in English. How ever, tba beat Dart of the tvidee said to have taken place In hernrna certainly St. Peter would not allow any . would persist In saying were only the indecent conduct np there; hence, I a a result of her own fancy, determined on encouraged to repeat it, as near as lean leaving In the course of a few days (at remember the case. . she afterward stated). : On the follow- Ouce upon a time there waa a very lng night the slept with a night light, stingy woman, the wife of an honest and the door into her maid's room open, peasant in good circumstances. They But the noise of tramping, which bad lived together and labored incessantly , been hitherto heara only In the ser to lay up earthly stores, so that ' vant't wing of the boose, which was when they were old and feeble and i opposite, was now heard in the east side could work no longer they would have I of it. "Tramp, tramp, tramp!" the enough to keep them from consuming the grudgingly bestowed crust gener ally offered to poor relations. But about the time they had nearly enough, the good old man closed his eyes In this weary world and gave np the ghost. Now the old woman had an extended reputation, founded upon an avaricious disposition, and knowing this the sis ter of deceased, fearing the man would be sent to eternal rest destitute of good clothes, especially that most desirable article, a shirt, took it upon herself to provide and robe her dear brother with one at her own expense. : This was accordingly done, much to the gratification of the mourning wid ow, who, after she was left alone with the dead, became possessed of a greed unconquerable, and began to reason thus : "There lies my poor old man, with a couple of yards of flue linen under him; now he is not used to that sort of thing, and I doubt If he will rest well on such a piece of extravagance I think it is my duty to make his last bed at natural and comfortable as possible." Forthwith the takes th shears, turns the resistless husband over in his cof fin and cuts off about a yard of his shirt where it had no gathers and seems. ''This," said she, "will come handy some day, and nobody will ever be the wiser. It would be a sin and a shame to bury so much fine linen !" However, the sister did not quite trust this sister-in-law, and just before the funeral investigated matters, and dis covered the robbery but held her peace, aud as soon as the burial was over, re lated the deed lo the priest, and asked him to punish the wicked creature when she came to confession. But the widow had no intention of confessing anything about the linen and time passed on un til the sister became impatient, but the clever priest told her to wait, he would force the confession from her by-and bye. When the widow next came to him he looked very sad, and slie asked him if be was sick. "No," said he, "but I had a vision last night that troubles me greatly. I thought I was in heaven and the angels were all having such a glorious time dancing and singing, and I looked around for your husband, but he was not amongst the joyous ones." "You see, holy father," the woman exclaimed, "he never was much of a baud to dance, and was a good deal out of practice." "Xo, tt waa not that ; for I taw hlra away- ovariu a owruer," keeping time to the music with hands and teet, and wriggling with his body from right to lelt, but his back was pressed as chose to the wall as if he had been glued there for punishment. I am sorely puzzled." This frightened the woman so terri bly that she fell on her knees and con fessed having curtailed her husband's shroud. Then the briest forced her to disgorge her ill-gotten linen and do penance by paying so much a week of her hoarded earnings uutil her nusDana s snirx should grow to a decent length to per mit him to join, other angels in tne dance. As this took a very long while, the sting old thing became justly poor be fore her death, and then she was sent to her doom wrapped in a sheet. Ollaapaes or the Saperaurtmral. A brother of mine, a man who is the last person In the world to believe over much, or to be in the least degree suer stltious, wishing to be near a particular town, and yet within easy reach of the permanent county residence of his greatrst friend, was induced (A.D.1S62) to take over the remainder of the lease of an old-fashioned lurnished mansion in Cheshire, where he, with his wife. children, and servants, In due course went to reside. He was advised to take the place as well because of the reason ableness or the rent, lor it was spacious aud comfortably furnished, as by the recommendation of the Lionuon nouse agents, a well-known firm In tne nest End, whilh whom tne letting oi it rested. Soon after the arrival of the family and servants, the latter protested again aud again that they were disturbed almost every night by a continual tramp, tramp, tramp" of heavy foot steps up the stairs and along the narrow passage, out ot wnicn were two uoors which led to their bedrooms. They would have it that the house was haunted. The sounds were sometimes ao loud and alarming that, as one of the servants remarked. "It seemed like a regiment of foot soldiers marching over creaking boards." Complaints were made to my 0 rot ner, wno merely said that the noises must be the result of wind under the joists or of rats, and be laughed at the whole affair. Some of the servants gave warning and left. Still the sounds went on, not always every night, out, witn certain cessa tions, from time to time. In the autumn of the year 18C3, a lady. her daughter of fourteen, and a maid, came to stay in the house; and as the former was somewhat of an invalid, a suite of rooms in the west wing, each communicating with the other, was ap portioned to them. The second night alter their arrival, the lady in question, suddenly awakening, saw in her bed room a luminous cloud, which gradu ally appeared to be formed into the shape of an old man, with a most pain fully depressing couutenance, full of the deepest sorrow, and wearing a large full bottomed wig. She tried to raise herself in bed, to see if it were not the effect of her half-waking fancy, and the result or a disturbed dream, but could not. The room, in which there was no natural light, seemed to be partially but quite sufficiently illuminated; and she felt confident that a spectre was be fore her. She gazed at it for some min utes, three at least, hearing the ticking of her watch, and counting the seconds. There the apparition stood, and seemed to be making an effort to speak, while a strange, dun inarticulate groan seemed to come up as from the floor. Upon this, 'seeing the bell rope hanging within the folds of the curtain at her right hand, she braced herself up to seize it and give it a most violent pull. Imme diately she did this the face of the figure bore an expression of anger, and by degrees it faded away. The bell, which hung some distance away, was heard by no one, and the was compelled to lie alone, for she feared to rise (though the apparition did not reappear) until the church clock near struck four, when, r-srning having broken, the rose d 4 ceased herself. In the morning, before she had said a wdy her daughter, on meeting her, il, "Oh, mamma, an old man In a wtt wig trampled through my room See In toe night.; Who eoold.lt nave i ia4y being to impressed by these - wotjrfewos, which ner host and i nosiest ' sounds were heard constantly, without cessation : so much to, that the master of the house, my brother, rose suddenly that very night, thinking that thieves had broken in, ai.d rushed out to the east passage. But all in a moment they stopped; uoining was to oe Heard, notn lng seen ; all was still. This occurred again aud again. The lady left as arranged. The noie ceased for a while, and then began once more. It was with difficulty that any of the servants could be induced to re main, believing that the bouse was haunted. Ha. F. R. Lee. ictkla Afeetwt Potat la. Blackwood? t Magazine thus talks pret tily concerning Venetian point-lace: It was made to last forever, and for centu ries some of it has lasted ; nor does there teem any reason why a piece of well- wrought geometricial lace, or of that wonderful point da Venue en relief, of which a gondola might be made, so strong Is It with its tiers upon tiers of stitches and its ribs of massive outline like the beams of a ship, should not last forever. The lighter kinds ot point de Venite, however, might have been wrought by Venus herself, that Aphro dite who came out of the sea, and per haps brought them with her, for aught we can tell, with all their tangled re collections of weed and shells, and l the feathery growths that lie down un der the waves. After the somewhat icy regularity of the geometrical patterns, there is a whole sea-story in the Vene tian designs. Mrs. Burry Palliser tells a pretty legend of how a young fisher man on the lagunes Drought to his be trothed, as she sat working her jmatt on the marble steps of some landing-place, a bit or the delicate white sea-weed called Mermaid'1 laeend bow she won dered and pHzzled over It, and at last shaped it into her work, and made Its tangles the foundation of a new devel opment. The story deserves to be true, as the examples given in Mrs. Palliser's Instructive and popular book will show the reader, supposing him (or ber) to have no more precious specimen at hand. M. Seguin't illustrations are much larger, and, of course, for that very reason, more satisfactory; but M. Sequin's book is perhaps too luxurious and costly to be accessible, and the smallest pictures represent with perfect clearness the lovely tangle of curved and clinging lines, laden with indescri bable buildings hair nower, nan leaf let, half water bubble with small star ry epecka thrown tn between, and irreg ular lines ol connection, all I re lieu witn little spines and pricks like those which the children offer you on the blazing edge of the Lido, salt from the Adriat ic. There could not be a better illus tration of the possibilities of realistic de corative work, bea-weed and shells dabbed down with blank flatness of im itation would constitute ornament of a very primitive and unrefined class; but look into the delicate tracery of the fi nest point de Venite dream-face too ex quisite, one would think, to be worked by any but fairy fingers and you will find it all there, the blobs of the sea weed, the atar-flsh at the bottom, the spines and curves of the shells. Even that little honor of a sea-horse (what is its name?) which we picked up that scorching fiery day when the blue roll of the " wave lapped over the thirsty sands, apparently on a higher level than they eveu that riny grotesque monster gleams at us out of the delicate confu sion. It seems almost matter of lact to say that the stiff patterns of the earlier art have " Buttered a sea-cnange into something rich and strange." The hea vier point de Veuise that which is in relief, aud which, with erochetrstiicbes and thick cotton, youug ladies not long ago took to copying, is almost more salt water than we like. - Nothing more boldly decorative, more splendid in line and mass conld well be. But It is not so much the lovely rarities of the sea- bottom that it suggests to us, Out odd monsters with dull big eyes aud mighty limbs. Visions of the octopus come be fore our started vision. Forgive us, gal lant M. Seguin, gentle Mrs. Palliser, and all ye knights and ladies who are amateurs stud connoisseurs! but it Is true. Even the delight of possessing it would scarcely make up for the night mare horror of being devoured by one's own collar! We admire, but shudder at the suggestive monsters A Fail's WIS. Most ladies, especially if young, handsome and wealthy, have In at tendance a "fool," either in the shape of a lover or friend, but we fear not possessing the privileges or Inclination to exercise them so freely used in olden times. In a work named "Doran's Court Fools" we met with the following: "At the court of Queen Elizabeth was one Dean Perne, who had oscillated from one faith to another three or four times in about a dozen years. He with Archbishop Whitgift was in attendance on the Queen one wet day. when ber majesty was desirous or going out tor a walk. The desire was an nnwise one, for Elizabeth was in ill health; the divinea were, however, not bold enough to dis suade her. But Clod, the Queen's fool, had the courage: 'Madam,' said he, 'heaven dissuades you, for it is cold and wet, and earth dissuade you, for it is damp and dirty. Heaven dissuades you too, by this heavenly man, ArchDisnop Wb'tgift; and earth dissuades you by me, your fool, Clod the lump of clay that I am. But if neither can prevail you, here is the Dean Perne, who is neither of heaven nor of earth, but hangs between the two, and he, too dissuades you. The laeUavBafeawr Trees. The India-rubber tree is found in parts of Mexico. Central and South America and in the East Indies, and is one of the noblest and most picturesque or ail the trees of the forest. In Assam, be yond the Ganges, it is found in inex haustible abundance. It is either soli tary or in two or three-fold groups; is large and umbrageous and may be dis tinguished from other trees at a dis tance of several miles by the striking beauty of its dense and lofty crown. The main trunk of one of the Assam trees measured seventy-four feet in cir cumference, and the area covered by its exnanded brancbea.had a circumference of six hundred and ten feet. The height of the central tree was one hundred feet. It has been estimated that there are over forty-three thousand inch trees in one district, within an area of thirty miles by eight. It growt on the slopes of the mountains, from the valleys np to an elevation of twenty-two thousand feet. The raw seeds are poisonous to man and quadruped, but macaws eat them and they are used for fisb bait. Long boiling deprives them of their poison. . A large proportion of the quantity of rubber or caoutchouc, furnished to com merce comet from Brasil. The process of gathering the iuice it very simple. The tree It lapped in the morning, and a gill of fluid it received In a clay cup placed at each lucision in the trunk. This, when full, it turned into a jar, and it ready at once to be poured over any pattern in clay, the form of which it takes, as successive layers are thus applied. It comet from the tree purely colorless, like milk, but when dried by the sun It is white within and a yel lowish brown without. Its drying and hardening are hastened by exposure to the smoke and heat of a fire, and it thus acquires its ordinary black color. Com plete drying by the sun requires several days' exposure; during tli Is time the substance is toft enough to recive im pressions from a stick, aud is thus orna mented with various designs. The na tives collect it upon ball of clay in the forma of bottles and various fauciful figures, in which shape it is often ex ported. The clay mould, ever which the bottles are formed, being broken up, is extracted through the open neck. Usually it hat been brought to this country in flat cakes; but a method has been devised by which the liquid is shipped in air-tight vessels of tin or glass, just at it comet from the tree. As ilteasilial aMtatealtx. A curious paper was handed in re cently at the sitting of the Academy of Sciences, by M. Ballls, on a still unex plained question of astronomy. ' In 1596 the Dutch pilot Barents, who had been shipwrecked on the. coast of Xova Zembl.i, was obliged to Winter there with Ms crew at the place called Icy Haven, situated at 76 degrees North latitude, and 63 decrees 4 minutes East longitude from Taris. During their stay on this inhospitable coast these Dutch mariners witnessed a singular phenomenon, the cause of which has re mained unknown np to this day. On the 4th of November the tun had quitted the horizon, as it was expected to do, and the night was, in due course, to last until the 8th of February. Instead of this, the sun reappeared on the 24th of January, a date which our author cor rects from calculation, and finite to have been the 25th. In short, daylight came a fortnight earlier than was expected. On their return to Holland, this piece of news they brought was received with universal Incredulity, but Barentz ad duced an argument in support which was decisive. It waa this: On that memorable January 24 he had, at six o'clock A. M., observed a conjunction of the moon and Jupiter. Xow, this astro nomical event was marked on tne epuem- erides of Venice for that day at one o'clock after midnight. This settled the question, and the only difficulty now remained, how to explain the pre mature return of the sun. The phe nomenon was attributed to the great polar cold, and It was admitted that the retraction of the atmosphere could, tn certain cases, amount to 4 degrees. A long time after, about 1670, Lemon nier took up the matter, and found an error in the longitude, which BarenU seemed to have mistaken, and it might there fore be doubted wheiher be saw the conjunction at all. M. Baills has en deavored to elucidate this point by taking np all the calculations again from the beginning, tie arrives at tne conclusion that BarenU certainly com mitted an error, but not that attributed to him by Lemon nier, whose calculation was wrong; that BarenU nevertheless could have seen Jupiter in a Hue with the horns of the moon, and that the premature appearance of the sun was caused bv reflection, similar to that which produces the rainbow. .faris Hestengrr. KavaltT. From the Almanach de Gotha for 1S76 it appears that there are thirty-eignt sovereigns and three republics in Ku rope. 1 be pope is the oldest sovereign (83) and has reigned the longest twenty-uiue years. Emperor William cornea next, aud is 78; the Czar is 67; Queen Victoria, 66; Victor Emanuel, 55; Frauds Joseph, 44; and Alfonso, the youngest of all, 18. San Marino is the oldest republic, Switzerland is the next, and France is the youngest ot all, having been born at Sedan in 1870. There are now officially recognized and respected 145 orders of chivalry. In cluding those of the White Elephant, of Siam, and Bolivar's Bust, of Vene zuela. The second part ol the almanach is devoted to princes, Including all the noble families of Great Britain, Ger many, France, and Italy. Two hun dred and sixteen pages are accorded them for the description of these 161 houses, embracing the entire stock of European aristocracy worth taking off one's bat to; since the remaining drib lets not mentioned in the Almanach de Gotha are Indeed small beer. Thus, 38 monarchs and 161 family stocks rule over two hundreds millions of people. The Irish duke of Abercorn beads the class, which is appropriately footed up by the Grecian Prince Ypsilanti; be tween this Alpha and Omega the others stand. In the chronicle of notable events for the year ending June 30, 1875, the most notable in America is the following: "1874, August, Gen. Grant pnts forward for a third term hit candi dacy to the presidency of the republic." The THaf Caw pie's Fries) d. At the best, love is fatal to friend ship; the most that friendship can do is to listen to love's talk of Itself and be the confidant of its rapturous joys, Its transports of despair. The lover fan cies himself all the fonder of his friend because of Ms passion for his mistress, but in reality he has no longer any need of the old comrade. They cannot talk sanely and fraukly together any more; there is something now that they cannot share ; even if the lover desired to main tain the old affectionate relation, the mistress could not suffer it. The spectre of friendship it sometimes invited to haunt the home of the lovers after mar riage; but when their happiness has been flaunted in its face, when it has been shown the new house, the new china, the new carpets, the new garden, it is tacitly exorcised, and is not always called back again except to be shown the new baby. The young spouses are ever to willing to have the poor ghost remain ; the wife learnt whether it takes two or three lumps of sugar in its tea; the husband bids it smoke anywhere it likes, and the wife smiles a menacing acquiescence; but all the same they turn It out-of-doors. They praise it when it is gone, and they feel so much more comfortable to be alone. Atlantic Monthly. , Mr. John Muir taya that there are sixty-five glaciers In the mountains of California, uue or mem ne waicncu forty-seven days, and in that time It moved forty-six inches. Yosemite and similar valleys were dug out by glav ciers, loCTaa- coLCak. WkaVt Zany for thee i Law for me. "I hate flies !" amid a crop eared mastiff, as be lay basking in the tan i one summer's evening. Hit companion, the honse dog, who I had hiwn dozin bv his aide, merely licked one off that had tickled his nose. aud made no reply. "I can't are what use they are, ' said the mastiff. "Cau't you P said the houe-dog,see-ing be must answer before be could go to -le-p again. "Xo can vout" said the mastiff, snapping angrily at two or three that buzzed iu his face. S a allows like bbem." said the house dog, yaaning, and flapping tome off with bis ears. "Swallows indeed, and what's the use of swallows f Is all the world to be tormented with flies because swal lows like tbemf They do nothiug but play, and put the housemaid in a pas sion about the windows." "Why don't oa knock them off, as I do f said the house-dog, dapping bis ears again. might if they'd left me my ears,'' said the mastiff. -Ybo cut them offf asked the house-dog. "Wbof why my master, when 1 was a pap. I wish be had left them alone. I dare say he'd have made a fine to-do if anybody bad cut his." "No doubt," said the hocse-dog. "he would have told them they were too useful to part with." Abd do you suppose mine were not meant to be as useful to me P said the mastiff, angrily. "Doubtless that's yonr view ; but, you see, it wasn't his. There's no ac counting for the different opinions of people ; if yon, for instance, were to inquire of swallows and flies, you might hear that they were aa necessary in the placet they occupy as you would find your ears at this present moment." Interior. Queer Compuniomhip. At different timet I saw a mouse running round my room. Always my canary would seem deligLted, and would ny after him. I w: i sure that he visited "Par son't cage very night ; for the seed in the morniL? would be almost gone. But I did not know how very intimate the bird and the mouse were. One evening I returned home late. At I lighted my lamp, 1 heard a noise in the cage. I waa very qaiet so as to see what was going on. The mouse was there! "Parson" waa fast asleep on hi perch, with his little head tucked np under his wing, and one leg drawn np nnder bis feathers. The mouse ate and drank all he wanted, not teeming to care at all for me. Then he ran up the side of the cage, aud along the perch on which "Parson" was sleeping and then with his nose poked the bird in the side: and then looked at him oat of his two little shining eves. It was last at much as to say, "Wake, lit tle sleepy, and we will play." "Parson" did not seem a bit afraid. He took bis bead ont from nnder his wing, looked at Mr. Mouse, and then par it back again. He teemed to say, "I am too sleepy to play. Go to bed !" Then the mouse jumped to the bottom of the cage, nestled into a corner and went to sleep. 1 was very much surprised at this, and very much amused. Had I not seen it all it would have been al most too strange to believt). Bnt th little readers of tbe nursery may rest assured it is all true. Sureery. Teaching at Home. Mrs. Dodd con trived a q titer occupation for the boys when they began English history. For Joe, who has a pasion for drawing and daubing in paints, she provided a mammoth blank book, each enormous page labeled a century. On these Joe drew figures, giving hit idea of the people, houses, and state of civilization in that century. Yon may be sure that Druids and oaks ; Boadicea, with her spear and yellow hair ; wolves, Alfred and bis burned cakes, filled up the first pages witn magnificent blotches of co lor. We confess that his zeal slackened as be came down to civilized times; there were hut two or three figures in a ceuturv, but their histories were as fixed in Lis head by his mother's repe tition as those of Ciiidirella, or the great Jack himself. For Will, who had an odd skill in costume and dramatic efiect. Mrs. Dixld contrived paper boxes, with the name of the century in great gilt letteis. There, by the helo of little figureM'ie Black Priuce plard b pair, and Richard was huux it again. The plau, with Mrs. Dodd' other plans, ni.iy neem trivial to our readeis, as they did to ibe teachei. "Your facta are nails," she u-ed to say. "Iron bails. I onl silver iliem over, and drive iheni iu." tkribner. Child Life. Celia Burleigh says in one of ber lectures that, "Calling on a friend one dav, 1 found the usually sunny faced pet of the household con vulsed witn solw. A glauee into the p.aj-room, where I btd had many a good frolic with the small mamma aud her large familv of dolls, showed what was amiss. 'The destroyer,' in the shape of a big brother, had 'come down like the wolf on the told." aud all the dollies were doing duty as Blue Beard's slaughtered wives. Some were sus pended by their hair, others by their uecks, while several had been behead ed, and were scattered iu ghastly cou fusiou about the floor, 'Never miud, darling,' said the mother, 'never mind ; brother Will has only ripped off their heads. I can easily meud them, and make them just as pretty as they were before.' 'let, mamma.' sobbed the little one, 'but you can't mend their feelings.' And just here is the trouble; a child's feelings, wounded by injus tice, axe difficult to mend." Mr. Danrin tells a story, as an ex ample of the reasoning powers of a monkey that was scratched by a pet kitten. At first Jocko was immensely amazed. Recovering from bis surprise, he tet to work to discover the loca tion of the claws. After a severe tussle he got tbe fore feet of the kitten within bis clutches, saw tbe nails thrust from their guards, and with the broad est grin of satisfaction he proceeded deliberately to bite the points off of each one. The owner of a pair of bright eyes says that the prettiest compliment she ever received came from a child of 4 years. Tbe little fellow, after looking intently at her for a moment, inquired naively, "Are your eyes new ones f" Gray Hora obmbs. Daring leap year the girt who counts all the gray horses she sees, until she has got np to a hundred, will be mar ried within a year to the first gentle man with whom she shakes hands, af ter counting the one hundredth horse. Every girl in tbe city carries a memo randum book that she may be sure to keep a correct record. One has already twenty-six, another eleven, and ano ther, who only began yesterday, baa seven. If somebody would bring a drove of a hundred gray horses to town to-day, what a shaking of hands would take place to-morrow. Jtffernon City Tribune. To extinguish kerosene flames fling a cloth over them, or, if the flour barrel is handier, throw on flour, which ab sorbs the fluid, kills tbe flames, and can be readily cleared up afterward. HITS IB BBH7. A Baltimorean bat taken one new paper for fifty-four years. . A but once married Meriden,Conn., man has twenty five children. There are 19,900 interments In Mt. Auburn cemetery, in Cambridge. The prohibiting of salting horse railroad tracks in New York in now a, law. A farmer in Montague county, Texas, raises three crops of potatoes per yt-ar. Over forty-three per cent of Xew York horse car passengers have . to stand up, for want of seats. An iron steamer of small dimen sions is to be built at Dubuque for the King of Slam, and shipped iu sections. Van Pelt, the Ohio crusader, has just been sentenced to five years' im prisonment in the Missouri 1 euitenti ary. Hundreds of Xew York profes sional rooks at hotels and the like re ceive $3000 and f4000 a year salaries, with board. In the vicinity of Redwood, Minn., there are ten ladies whose aggregate weight is 2,220 pounds. The average is a very pretty figure. Secretary Bristow says that about nine millions of silver bullion have been purchased and paid for in bonds, under the Resumption Act. Chicago's wholesale grocers use in their business a capital of $7,500,000 and employ over 1,200 men. The amount of sales for 1875 was $62,500,000. The Smith sisters of Glastonbury, Mass. again refuse to pay any more taxes, and will fight the town in the nww so luug ob kucn uauuvy iwi s. A bill iiu. xluced into the lower house of the V vides for a tai upon each per- srinia Legislature pro f two dollars a year a who uses tobacco. There has been a great revival In Fairfax, Vermont, but the interest sub sided suddenly when the minister for bade the boys going home with the girls. The number of iron furnaces ia blast in the whole country on the 31st of Deviiber was 345, and the number out 368, the total number of furnace being 713. At a large leap year party in Wil mington, X. C, Joseph Walters was elected "belle" of the evening, and wa duly crowned as the Queen of Love and Beauty. Prof. Seelye, the Amherst Profes sor in Congress, says he thought the Rebellion was ended, but two mcnths In Washington has proved otherwise. Who speaks next? Perrin H. Somers, alleged to have committed forgeries in California to the amount of $200,000 waa arrested in Brooklyn, and will be taken home by California detectives. Statistics of insanity show that cases of mental derangement are more numerous, in proportion to population, in Nevada and California than In any other State In the Union. Vermont "points with pride" to the fact that the State Prison during the two years ending August I. 1874, showed a surplus of over $8,0u0 after paying all expenses, including $7,000 for repairs. There is said to be an orange tree in the Guardian block, at Tampa, Fla., that has three differeut crops of oranges on it, and is now very full of blooms. The first crop is fully ripe aud ready to be picked. Senator English very handsomely refused to take the back pay due him since Senator Ferry's death, in Novem ber, and directed the sergeant-at-arms to send to Mrs. Ferry a check for the whole amount. According to General Doubleday's book, the man who raised the palmetto flag over r ort Sumter, at the tune of iu surrender, was Lieutenant Colonel F. J. Mises, since the Republicau Gover nor ot South Carolina. A gentleman of Castleton has in his possession the dinner bell which used to call Horace Greeley to his meals when he was learning the printer's trxile at Poitltney, Vt. ft will be placed among the relics at the centenuial. The Iowa House of Representative have passed a bill requiring that all conditio. is of insurance societies shall ne printed -in type not smaller than "long primer," and that the use of smaller type shall violate the policies. The report of the Rhode Island State auditor shows that in a population of about 250,000 there are 101,635 de positors iu savings banks. The assrts u the savings banks are $53,272,731, and were iucreased about $3,0U0,UU0 in 1874. Senator Sharon, of Nevada, has sold his house in San Francisco to Mr. V. S. O'Brien, of the banking firm of Flood & O'Brien, of that city, for $212- 000. Among the appurtenances sold with the house were three chandeliers that cost S2,000 each, three carpets that cost $5,0U0 each, and a fireplace costing $3,00. The arithmetic man of a western paper has discovered if every one of the 8,000,000 families in the American union would only skim the soap grease off of their dish water and invest its proceeds in a sinking fund at 4 per cent compound interest, the proceeds in 109 years, two months and eleven days would pay off the national debt. "Custer City" In the Black Hills it springing up like Alladin's Palace. Over forty houses have recently been built there and sixty-nine more are now in process of erection. Miners are pouririif In mid every day there are large additions to tb oopuiation. Soon there will be ti tbt itj and a daily pa per and the pli .-e then may properly be designated a city. Two years ago the State of Tennes see borrowed $700,000 to pay the inter est on the State debt, and has just now paid off that loan of $700,000 which bad itself been drawing ten per cent, inter est. But on the capital of the State debt,now over $23,000,000, interest goes unpaid, and will so continue for some yet. Tbe revenues or the State, last year, were hardly equal to ordinary ex penses. Xear Santa Fe a Mr. Chisnm owns 30,000 head of cattle, roaming over 1600 sections of land an ex'ent of country equal to that embraced within several States of the Union. This grazer can fill an order for 20,000 or even 40,000 "beeves" upon a notice of ten days by telegraph from an eastern city ; and to guard his Immense "bands" or herds he employes 100 cowboys and as many trained horsemen. The boys of Winnemucca, Xev., had some fun with a showman. They formed a line from the ticket office, ex tending around a near corner. Each asked the price of admission, and when being told that it was fifty cents, shook his head, said it was to dear, retired and fell in at the rear of the line. This was kept np until the showman, as tounded by the unanimity and the seem ingly great nnmber, reduced the charge and then every boy cleared out.
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