If Editor and Proprietor. B. K. SOHWEIER, THE COH3TITCTIOH TH1 CNI05 AKD THX X5P0KCXUENT 07 THX LAWS. NO. 22. Mi VOL. XXX. MIFFLINT01TN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., MAY 31. 1876. r GODSPEID. n haiuuet PBiaooTT sporroai. The great ahip spreads her wings, her plumes are flying; Mnic sweeps down the deck, and chiming laughter ; She climbs the green crest of the shining snrgea. The shadow of the chasing surge climbs after. Ah, never overtake her, mighty shadow! Spirit of fire and air, attend npon her. In cloud by day and fire by night possess her ; Sacred her charge, and sacred be her honor! Far in the mid-waste of the weltering waters. Furrowed with dark and day and dark re turning. Fly. fly, good ahip, easing with every dawning, To hail your beacon in the billows burning. And though you toss where oerer breath of blomom lUow nor sweeps round the mast the swift eea swallow. Yet with yoa still, all storm, all space, defying. On her untiring wing my lore shall follow ! An Affair Of Honor. For five-and-forty years I have borne the name of Peter Smith. Though you have never beard of me, I flatter my self that my family name will be famil iar to vou. I am quiet in my habits, and, l" believe, not disposed to interfere w ith the right of other men ; yet even this did not avail to save me some ten yearn since from becoming involved In an affair of honor. Let me tell you who it lia.ned. At the time of which I speak I wag an inmate of Mrs. Jones' family. I use the word advisedly, since it was well known that Mrs. Jones never took Murders. In fact, she expressly gave me to understand that her only in ducements taking me was the pleasure she exiled to derive from my society; that she was far above mercenary con siderations'. Of course 1 felt flattered liv the compliment thus insinuated, though I confess I was somewhat sur prised, since all mercenary considera tions w ere disclaimed, to be charged a higher rate for board than I ever paid. Mill 1 did not demur, feeling certain that 1 had at length found a home. Let me describe Mrs. Jones, my host ess, rhysically speaking, I should say that she came of a great family, her proportions being most aristocratic. In her demeanor towards me she was al ways very gracious and condescending forVhieh 1 felt properly grateful. She always came to the table arrayed in a stiff satin, the very rustle of which be trayed her consequeuce, aud impressed me'with my comparative insignificance. M rs. Jones has a daughter, by name Sophronia. In external appearance she was quite unlike her parent, being ex veediug tall and slender, while the other was short and dumpy. In a copy of verses which she was kind enough to show me. some enthusiastic youug man had the temerity to call her a sylph. I do not know much about sylphs, never having seen one to my knowledge; but 1 question much whether sylphs have red hair, or noses with an upward tendency. 1 have my doubts also as to whether sylphs squint. Still I am far from denying that Mis Sophronia Jones was a sylph, since that belief evidently afforded her satisfac tion. Mrs. Jones's table was admirably adapted for a valatudlnarian. There he would find no dishes of unwhole some richness nothing indeed that was calculated to induce excessive eating, If. as some physicians have declared, health is lest preserved by always ris ing from the table with an appetite, I was never in a fairer way to secure it blessings than when enjoying tfce gen teel insufficiency of Mrs. Jones's hos pitality. About a month after my arrival con versation turned at the dinner table, upon a concert which was to be given the same evening by Signora Falialini. 1 have a poor memory lor Italian names but this U the name, to the best of my recollection. "I wish I could go, ma," said the fair Sophronia. "So you could, my dear," replied Mrs. Jones, "if you had a gentleman protector." Thereupon she began to disclaim against the customs of society which preclude a lady's attending a place of amusement without a gentleman, la menting that Sophronia had on this ac count been more than once debarred from gratifying her exquisite taste in music. 'Jf course I could not in politeness re frain from offering my escort, although I should thereby be prevented from at tending the weekly meeting of the dub of w liich I was a member. Sophronia was in great confusion and she could not think of troubling me. I began to hope that she would not, but the mother quickly silenced scru ples by saving that she was a silly girl (thirty-five if she's a day), and that she must not think of refusing. Sophronia made uo further objections and 1 had the pleasure of paying a high price for a couple of tickets. Mature not having bestowed on me a musical ear, 1 could enter but indiffer ently into the rapture of my companion who pronounced Signora Falfalini's singing divine, although she considered her quite devoid of personal attractions. The signora being built after the same model as Sophronia, I quite agreed with her in this bit of criticism. "Do you know," simpered my com panion, confidingly, "I have myself thought at times that I was designed for a prima fonna or an opera singer like Signora Falfalini?" "Then why do you not become one ?" I enquired. . "Because ma had such an objection to anything of a public character. She felt that I should be demeaned by so doing, and advised me to content my self with contributing to the gratifica tion of my friends at home, " ou have never heard me sing, I think?" I had at times heard a shrill voice, in a very high Key, as I sat in my room, which had struck me as far from agree able. 1 thought it best, however with out mentioning this, to utter a simple negative. You murt not expect much," con tinned Sophronia; "my voice is rough and uncultivated. Ma is always tell ing me that I ought to devote more at tention to it; lut I can never sing ex cept when hydration seizes roe. If you will comeSn to-morrow evening I will sing to yop, if you would like." 1 expressed y thanks for this disin terested kitndntss, and, as the concert was finished, proceeded to escort the lady home. As we were inaking our way through the crowd, it chanced that some one, ac cidentally or otherwise jostled my com panion. She immediately seized my arm con vulsively, and in formed me that she bad been insulted. - "Who did it r" stammered I; for I confess my courage is not of the high est order. - In reply Sophronia pointed out a s mall gentleman with a fierce mous tache, who was standing at a little dis tance. ' Mentally deciding that it might not be prudent to have an altercation with such a person, I hastened to assure my companion that it might have been an accident. "So," said she, very decidedly. "It was not an accident. It was intentional. I wish you to demand an apology in my name." "Don't you think it would be better" said I, in great embarrassmenr, "to treat it with silent contempt?" Sophronia was by no means of this opinion. Accordingly 1 approached the gentleman, who appeared still more formidable on a nearer view, and asked in what was intended to be a resolute tone. "What he meant by insulting the lady under my charger" "Sir-r-r!" be ejaculated, wheeling sharply around. I repeated my request in a fainter tone, ana suggested that I trusted it was accidental on his part. Stroking his moustache very fiercely, he informed me that he had no expla nation to make; that if I wished to hear from him at any time, I should have an opportunity, and forthwith presented his card. Without stopping to look at it, I 6lunk away in the crowd and soon reached borne. My companion intimated that she supposed I should seek satisfaction in the usual way. I said something indistinctly I am not sure exactly what and very thank fully took leave of tiie fair Sophronia in the entry. Reaching my chamber 1 examined the card which had been placed in my hand and found inscribed thereon the name of Captain Achilles Brown, As tor house. Very probably he was dis tinguished by the same qualities which characterized his great namesake, and it made me shiver even to think of a conflict with him. Kesolviug that 1 would at least take every possible means to avoid it, I went to bed and sank into a slumber disturbed by fright ful dreams, in which I fancied myself shot through the heart by the terrible Achilles Brown. Early next morning, while in the momentary expectation of hearing the breakfast bell, 1 was startled by a knock at the door. Immediately afterward entered a tall man, "bearded like pard." He introduced himself to me as a cousin of Sophronia, aud intimated that, hav ing heard of my difficulty of the previ ous evening, he had come to offer his services as my second. Thanking him for his kindness, I said that 1 had not, as yet, decided to call out the gentleman iu question. "Not yet decided ?" repeated my vis itor, springing to his feet, causing me thereby to recede two paces in some personal apprehension; "not yet de cided ! But perhaps I do not under stand you." I intimated rather uncomfortably, that 1 had conscientious scruples agaiust the practice of the duello. Conscientious fiddlesticks!" inter rupted my visitor. "Sir, you must fight. There is no alternative. A lady has been insulted while under your pro tection. The lady is my cousin. Un less you take notice of it, I must." "But you have no quarrel witn Capt, Brown," I said. "You misunderstand me," said he gravely. "Unless you challenge Capt. rown, I shall understand it as a per sonal disrespect to my cousin, and shall challenge you. Chose which of us you will fight." This was said so resolutely that I suc cumbed at once. I reflected that, while there was equal danger to be incurred in a duel with my visitor, there would be less credit. "Shall I write the missive?" inquired my companion, who called himself Lieutenant Eustace. "Yes," said I, frankly. He sat down at my desk, and in a few minutes produced the following : "Sim: You crossly insulted a youne lady. wbile under my protection, last erening. As a man of honor, 1 call npon you ior an ample anoloer. or for the usual satisfaction accorded in such euea I send them by Lieutenant Eustace, who a authorized to act as my inend. Yours, eta, Petes tSxrra. "Captain Achilles Brown." Having signed this with some misgiv ings, I enquired as to the character of the Captain is rown. "I don't know much about him," said my friend, "but I suppose he is a regular fire-eater." This was satisfactory very. "Suppose." said I. in a tremendous voice, "you erase the word 'ample' be fore 'apology.' I consider apology suf ficient." "But I shall not," was the lieuten ants emphatic reply. There was no more to be said. He de parted with his missive; and I was left in no verv enviable frame of mind. On his return, "Has he apologized?" I en- cuired eagerly. "Xot a bit of it," was the reply; "he vows that be will shed the last drop of his blood first ." "What a sanguinary monster he must be." was my internal reflection. "The meeting is appointed for to morrow morning, an hour belore sun rise." resumed the lieutenant, "It is to take place at Iloboken ; weapons, pistols; distance fifteen paces." "Isn't that rather near?" I ventured to remark. "Near? Of course you want it near. You will be more likely to hit your man." "And he will be more likely to hit me I reDlied. "Of course." was the reply. "You must take vour chance of that." I could not help wondering whether he would be so cool c bout it if he were the principal, and I the second. In fact, I have always observed that sec onds are much more scrupulous about the honor of their principals than they are disoesed to be about their own. l think it altogether likely that I should make a fierce second. "I suppose you are used to pistols?' remarked my friend. Used to pistols! I remember once havtnz fired one as a boy. to the immi nent danger of my little sister's life. Since then I had not had one in my hands. As I strolled out into the streets icau unhappy frame of mind, a newsboy thrust into my hand a daily paper, which I mechanically bought. Glanc ing over the columns, I observed that a boat was advertised as about to start that day for Havana. The hour of de parture was four in the afternoon. A sudden thought struck me. Would it not be much better to embark for Cuba than to remain behind to be shot? a result which the state of my nerves and my want of practice with the pistol rendered altogether probable. With new-born alacrity, I immedi ately repaired to the boat, and demanded to see the agent. He in formed me that the boat would positively start at the hour indicated. I asked to see the list of passengers. Running my eyes casually down the list, my heart beat quickly as they fell upon the last name. Could it be possi ble that my opponent. Captain Achilles Brown, had secured passage? What could be his motive ? "When did this gentleman book his name as a passenger?" I inquired. "Not half an hour since." "Did he understand that the boat started to-day?" "Yes; he made particular inquiries on that point." "Will you describe him to. me? Is he tall?" "Yes quite so." "And has a black moustache ?" "Yes." "A dark complexion and wears a large cloak ?" "Precisely. Yon know him, then?" "Very slightly," said I carelessly. "By the way, I don't think I shall be able to get away for a week. I won't engage to-day. "We would give you good accommo dations." "No doubt of that. On the whole, you need not mention to Captain Brown that any one inquired for him." My heart bounded with exultation, as with some difficulty I realized that my opponent, whom 1 had dreaded so much was about to leave the country from fear of encountering me. "What a joke that was ! I laughed all the way home, though I endeavored to F reserve my gravity. On the way home purchased a brace of pistols, which I ostentatiously displayed on reaching my boarding-house. "To think you should risk your life for me," simpered the fair Sophronia. "Miss Sophronia," said I, with suita ble fierceness, "no one with impunity shall insult a lady while under my pro tection. During a portion of the afternoon I practiced shooting at a mark, and was never more lively than at the tea-table. Lieutenant Eustace, who was present seemed considerably surprised at the change in my demeanor, and was evi dently puzzled to account for it. After tea I invited the company to witness my will, which I had drawn up for the sake of producing an impres sion. It proved a master stroke. I noticed that Lieutenant Eustace treated me with increasing respect, while Soph ronia repeated several times under her breath, but loud enough for me to hear "Brave map '" All this I enjoyed, and took the op portunity to severely discourse upon the sac redness of honor, in defence of which I asserted that any man ought to be willing to lay down his life In the course of the afternoon I had the pleasure of witnessing the sailing of the Ariel, with Captain Brown on board. r nether this circumstance had anything to do with Inspiring in me these elevated sentiments, I leave the reader to judge. The next morning, at an early hour, I proceeded to the field with my second. Captain Achilles Brown was nowhere to be seen! I professed a great deal of disappoint ment, and insisted on waiting three hours to allow him time to appear. Of course it was in vain. All, however, testified to the remarkable courage which I displayed under the circum stances, and tendered their congratula tions. The affair found its way into the papers, and I found myself all at once elevated into a hero. I could not walk Broadway without beln furtively pointed out as the celebrated duelist. Among the ladies, particularly, I be came an obfect of great attraction a circumstance that may well excite sur prise when it is considered that my only claims to their regard lay in my having been implicated iu an affair which the moral sense of the commu nity condemns. Soon afterward I left my boarding place, to the great regret of the fair Sophronia. I afterward learned that, bad I shown the white leather, it was arranged that Lieutenant Eustace should force me into a marriage with his cousin, on pain of a duel with him self. The extraordinary show of cour age which I exhibited imposed uon him to such an extent that he did not think it advisable to offer the alterna tive lest I should accept the duel. I have heard nothing of Capt. Achilles Brown since the memorable day on which he did me the service to sail for Cuba. Had he possessed a little more courage, I shudder to think what might have been the result. TkeArt mattery. If flattery is to be grateful to a sensi ble and truth-loving man or woman, it must clearly conform to several condi tions. As we have remarked, it must not be too broad, wholly setting at de fiance the bounds of truth, but must be recognizable as an approximation to the truth. Thus the compliment be stowed should clearly point to a merito rious quality having an undisputed ex istence. Further, it should never be forced on a person in an obtrusive way, It should be couched in modest lan guage, and not break violently on our atttention In bald eulogistic epithets. And it should not be kept before our minds so as to arouse a full and embar rassing consciousness of the speaker's meaning, but rather appear as a tran sient element in a fugitive conversa tion. It is always belter to let the praise be inferred from the language used than to declare it in direct terms. In this way it will be appreciated by a swift movement of feeling, while there will be no time for its arousing a pain ful self-consciousness. Once more, flattery Is always more acceptable when It seems to be the pro duct of the movement, and not the re sult of premeditation, for in this case it has a greater appearance of reality. Or if the speaker distinctly intends to in dicate a deliberate wish to gratify, and so to show the exercise of forethought, the praise should be tendered with a certain delicate skill, so as to assure the recipient of the giver's anxiety to make the offering as graceful as possible. The Indirect ways or flattery are also worth attending to. One may flatter a person by saying to his intimate friend for instnni-e. his wife something hiehlv eulogistic, which it would be difficult to sav to himseir directly. Anomer ana still more useful method is to flatter by action instead of by words, that is, by treating people as if they had a certain kind of merit or excellence. Thus we may studiously consult the taste of a lady whose, icstneuc juugmeut we wisn to extol, or may enlist the co-operation of a person in a benevolent scheme, and thus indirectly attribute to him a gener ous disposition. The advanUge of this last mode of flattering is that it escapes the necessity of even a slight verbal untruthfulness. To appeal to a per son's opinion is not the same thing as to declare him to ne wise, even mougn be may be readily disposed to conjecture from the former that we mean the latter too. Lazat? er Fallcae. It is a great pleasure to get thorough ly tired. The only way to fully enjoy rest and sleep is to get tired first. Many persons have an idea that idleness Is pleasure. There cannot be a more er roneous notion. Idl persons enjoy nothing. A sense of languor haunts them through the night. Nor, on the other hand, the highest enjoyment of repose. It is the happy combination of mental and bodily labor, requiring re creation for both body and mind, which alone qualifies one for the complete re alization of the luxury of the change to rest and sleep. And it Is only front such sleep that we awaken greatly strengthened and refreshed. mh Carteaa Wills. Mr. William Tegg has just published in London an entertaining volume called "Wills of Their Own,,rln which he presents many remarkable wills of eccentric persons: Among the most curious of these is that of Edward Wort ley Montagu, son of Mr. Montagu, Am bassador to Constantinople In 17 to ny Ladv Marr Wortlv Montagu, his wife. the supposed Sappho of Pope. "Alter some bequests 'to my noue and worthy relation, the Earl of ,' the will adds : 'I do not give his lord ship any further part of my property because the best part of that be has con trived to take already. Item, to sir Francis I give one word of mine, because he has never had the good for tune to keep his own. Item, to Lord M 1 give nothing, because l know he'll bestow it on the poor. Item, to -. the author, for putting me in his travels, I give five shillings for his wit, undeterred by the charge of extrava gance, since friends who read his book consider five shillings too much. Item, to Sir Robert w 1 leave my politi cal opinions, never doubting be can well turn them into cash, who has always found such an excellent market in which to change his own. Item, my cast-off habit of swearing I give to Sir Leopold D , in consideration that no oaths have ever been able to bind him Tet," Pernans even more eccentric than this is the last will and statement of Mr. Daniel Martinett, of Calcutta. The following clauses are full of a grim humor : The undertaker's fees come to noth ing, as I won them from him at a game of billiards in the presence of Mr. Thom as Morrice and William Perkes, at the said William Perkes' house, in February last. I furthermore request, as it is not only customary, but as I sincerely b lieve the prayers of the good availeth, and are truly consistent with decency. that the Kev.jir.Butier read the prayers which are customary at burials, and also preach a funeral sermon on Sunday next after my decease, taking his text from Solomon, 'AH is vanity.' In con sideration of which, over and above his fees, I bestow upon him all my hypo crisy, which he wants as a monern good man ; but as my finances are low, and cannot conveniently discharge his fees, I hope he will please accept the will for the deed. As It lies not in my power to bequeath anything to my rela tions at home, 1 shall say nothing con cerning them, as they have not for these six years past concerned them selves about me; excepting that I hear tily wish them all well, and that my brothers and sisters may make a more prosperous voyage through this life than I have done." The great Lord Chesterfield seems to have had an equal sense of humor, for by one of the clauses of his will, proved shortly afterjiis death in 1773, he pro- vmea that In case my said godson, Philip Stan hope, shall 'at any time hereafter, keep. or be concerned in keeping of, any race horses, or pack of hounds, or reside one night at Newmarket, that infamous seminary of iniquity and ill-manners, during the course of races there; or shall resort to the said races, or shall lose in any one day, at any bet or game whatsoever, the sum of 500; then, in any of the cases aforesaid it is my express will that be. my said godson shall for feit and pay out of my estate the sum of 5,000 for the use of the Dean and Chap ter of Westminister." Similarly Mr. Davis, of Claphatn.left, "The sum of 5 to Mary Davis, daugh ter of Peter Delaport, which is sufficient to enable her to get drunk for the last time at my expense." And a London bookseller.Mr. Parker, "Left in 1785, a legacy of 50 to Eliza beth, whom, through my foolish fond ness, I made my wife, without regard to family, fame or fortune; and who, in return, has not spared, most unjustly, to accuse me of every crime regarding human nature, save highway robbery." To these instances may, perhaps, be added the testament of Mr. James Robbins, who, in 1809, "Set his face and will in favor of his widow wearing widowjs weeds. He ordered, 'In the event of my dear wife not complying with my request to wear a widow's cap after my decease, and in the event of her marrying again, then, and in both such cases, the annuity which shall be payable to her out of my estate shall be 20 per annum, and not 30." The Eee-aaaajr T Wea-etarlaatlssa. A writer in the (Juarterly Journal of Science makes a trenchant criticism of arguments usually employed by vege tarians in support of their system of diet. The author considers the question from the economic, the moral, and the hygienic points of view, but we have not space to give more than an epitome of his remarks on the first or these topics. One hundred acres of good land, say the vegetarians, will support a greater amount of human life If plan ted with wheat,potatoes, or other crops directly consumed by man, than if laid out in pasture or set in vegetables in tended for the food of cattle. This is true, but all land is not good ; in every country there Isabundauoe of land that is unfit for tillage, and which, never theless, yields excellent pasture. Un der a vegetarian retime such lands would cease to supply the food-market. So too the produce of the forest and moor- game would cease. More serious still. the waters would no longer contribute their share. It might be said that poor lands could still be used for pasture, and the produce of flocks and birds (wool, butter, cheese, milk) utilized. But if the grazer cannot sell the meat, it would be unprofitable to keep ani mals, unless be could get, for the prod ucts above named, prices a hundredfold higher than he gets now. Besides, the use of milk, butter, and cheese, is Incon sistent with vegetarian principles. In a strictly vegetarian country, tallow, L!.i 1 1 . l.t 1 uiaes, auu uair, couiu euarceiy ue pro Cured. Again, the refuse of the fisheries is rising into importance as a manure fully equal to Peruvian guano. But, if nsh might no longer De captured, the supply of this fertilizer might be cut off, unless indeed the destruction of animal life for purposes other than rood received an exceptional sanction Even then the cost of the raw material would be greatly enhanced. rukll for Marias;, 1S7 Affections are cut close, are worn by old and young, and are equally becom ing to all. They are useful ror every day wear, for hill-climbing, and rock scaling. They come mostly in the old decided colors, and are worn long or short to suit the taste or convenience of the wearer. Honor is beginning to be considered a somewhat antiquated goods. Several large houses are selling out below cost, preparatory to going out of business, "as there is no profit in it," they say. Large stocks have accumulated on their hands, as they round rew purchasers for even the finest quality. Some ap parently heavy dealers nave railed en tirely, and closed up for want of capital, Generosity was much worn at the holiday season. It is not an imported goods, but of home manufacture, and comes in ail prices ana graaes. Intellect is much sought after at - cer tain shops, where it is supposed to be found. A "shoddy" article is often palmed off upon shoppers, a quality with a cotton back and a satin figure. But those really desirous of purchasing can always find a genuine article, and it is within the means of the poor. Fraud, though not as popular as it was last year, is occasionally worn as a neglige by those retiring into bankruptcy ; and at the reception of creditors by their two per-eent. debtors. There is another garment shown at the openings which promises to be as great a favorite this spring as ever. Its common name is Love. It comes in suits, prices ranging from one hundred to many thousand dollars per suit. It is made to order when desired. Some times much profit is realized on the sales. Many who have purchased "say that it can be turned and made over for another season. There is much coun terfeit in the market. It requires a practiced eye to detect the false. Only the real will wear; the frail imitation soon gets shabby by dust and friction. I atn told that some of our leading fash ionables Invest in the cheap material, and trimmed up nicely it is thought to look as well as the genuine. Policy is one of the most popular over-garments of the season. It seems to be worn by all ages and classes, it is considered the "correct thing" for court, business, or society. Some skill is required In wearing it, so that the lining, which Is often of a different tex ture, shall not show. Those designed for ladies are often trimmed with a be wildering combination of puffs, bows, and folds ; those for gentlemen are or namented with red tape. Orthodoxy is not so high or straight as in former seasons, nor buttoned so closely. Heresy is very popular, especially when worn with white neck-ties. Creeds are not so much imported as at one time, but are home-made, which causes a great variety. Scribuer for Jfiy. Old PMMtLar terslIUeais. The following superstitions, handed down by tradition from the past, are fervently believed in, in many parts of this country, and by people who rack among the most intelligent: i 1 ' . , , r i uoever reaus epiiapus loses uis memory. W hen a mouse gnaws a gown, some misfortune may be apprehended. When a stranger enters a room he should be obliged to seat himself if only for a moment, as he otherwise takes away the children's sleep wlthh him. The crowing of a hen indicates some approaching danger. Whoever sneezes at an early hour either hears some news or receives some present the same day. v ben women are stuffing beds, the men should not remain in the house, otherwise the feathers will come through tne ticks. To rock the cradle when empty is injurious to the child. If a child less than twelve months old be brought into a cellar, be becomes fearful. The first tooth cast by the child should be swallowed by the mother to insure a new growth of teeth. To eat while a bell is tolling for a funeral causes toothache. The following are omens of death : A dog scratching on the floor, or howling in a particular manner, and owls hoot ing in the neighborhood of the house. Buttoning the coat awry, or drawing ouacoat inside out, causes matters to. go wrong during the day. v ntte specks ou the nails are lucky. He who has teeth wide asunder must seek his fortune in a distant land. He who proposes moving into a new house must send In beforehand bread and a new broom. Domestic harmony must be preserved when washing day comes, in order to insure fine weather, which is indis pensable, as that ceremony is generally performed out of doors. When children play soldiers on the roadside it forebodes the approach of war. Whoever finds a four-leaf trefoil shamrock should wear it for good luck. By Denaing tne neau to the hollow or the arm the Initial letter of the name of one's future spouse is represented. Old Phlladelftklas rharekea. The first Methodist congregation, by-the-way, in Philadelphia consisted of three men and their wives and a certain John Hood, who met in a sail-loft in Iock Street. The Wesleys sent over Pilmore, who preached from the State house steps, carrying his library and wardrobe in his saddlebags, and aided by Captain Webb, a one-eyed British, barrack-master, whose stento rian tones sounded through the streets like a trumpet calling to battle. St. George's Church was the first owned by this sect, in Fourth Street, a dreary place, Watson states, with no floor and a leaky stove-pipe. The British, duri ng Howe's occupancy, took It as a cavalry school. John Hood's 'wondeiiul sweet voice in singing,' is so often noted in these old records what we seem to catch an echo of its soft music even now. The first Synagogue in the city, built in 1747 was in a small house in Sterling Alley, between Cherry and Race streets. The congregation were descendants of those Jews banished by Isabella and Ferdinand from Spain. The first Presbyterian church was founded in 1098. The "New Lights," disciples of Wbitefield, built a house at Third and Arch streets. Their pastor during the revolution was the famous Gilbert Tennant, thought by the com mon people to be a saint of God. The story went that, being overtaken by a thunder storm, he went into an inn, when the lightning came down the chimney, melting his silver knee buckles, but leaving him unharmed. The first Baptist church originated in a joke. A wild young fellow named Keach arrived frem London in 1686, and passed himself for a minister. He was invited to preach, and the house was filled to hear the English divine. When in the midst of his sermon he was sud denly wrenched with remorse, and with tears confessed his trick. He went at once to a Baptist minister at Khode island, was baptized, ordained, and at once returned to Philadelphia to preach in all sincerity. The first Roman Catholic Chapel was built in 1729, when Miss. M'Gauley, an Irish lady, brought over a colony as tenants, and settled on the road leading from Frankfort to Newtown. Penn complained that it was a subject of of fence against him in England that he suffered the scandal of the mass in his Province, but he made no effort to stop it. All these churches had increased and were in a flourishing condition at the time of the Revolution. It was an easy matter then, too, to distinguish the members of each by their dress, just as the custumes of laboring men and their wealthier neighbors marked the differ ence of caste so strongly as to delight the eye of an artist, however offensive it may have been to a reformer. Harper1 Magazine. Albany (Oregon) is said to be the only place in the United States of 3,000 inhabitants which has no Roman Cath olic church. ' - AtckUe SttsasibMiSs Bwrlsts; Pkysf raj Eiswars, Where men are subject to great and prolonged exposure to cold, experience has taught them the danger of taking spirits while the exposure continues. My friend Dr. Feyer told me that when crawling through the wet weather, in pursuit of deer, on a cold" day, he offered the keeper who accompanied him a pull from his flask. The old man declined, saying, "No. thank you, it is too cold." The lumberers in Canada who are en gaged in felling timber in the pine forests, living there all winter, sleeping in holes dug in the snow, and lying on spruce branches covered with buffalo robes, allow no spirits in their camp, and destroy any that may be found there. The experience of Arctic trav elers on this subject is nearly unani mous ; and 1 owe to my mend ur. Milner Fothergill an anecdote which illustrates it in a very striking way. A party of Americans crossing the Sierra Nevada, encamped at a spot above the snow-line, and in an exposed situation. Some of them took a good deal of spirits before going to sleep, and they lay down warm and happy ; some took a moderate quantity, and they lay down somewhat but not very cold ; others took none at all, and they lay down very cold and miserable. ..Next morning, however, those who had taken no spirits got up feeling quite well, those who bad taken a little got up feeling quite cold and wretched, and those who had taken a good deal did not get up at all; they had perished from cold during the night. Those who took no alcohol kept their heart warm at the expense of their skin, and they remained well; those who took much warmed their skin at the expense of their heart, and they died. But while alcohol is thus injurious during prolonged exposure to cold, the case is very different after the exposure is over, and its administration may then be very beneficial. A DIataer la tkeClty A substantial dinner, eaten during the hours of a business pursued with the eagerness it generally is in our stir ring cities, is fatal to good digestion. This requires a freshness of bodily euergy, a calmness of nerve, and an ease of mind which are seldom to be found in the bank parlor, the exchange, or the counting-room during their periods or activity, lhe chop-house aud restaurant systems of dining, which have been adopted to economize time and supply the necessaries of life which the niggardliness or unskllfulness or our American homes has failed to pro vide, are responsible for most of the broken-down constitutions and prema ture deaths of the business people of this country. The facility with which their ever-ready spreads can be reached, and such provisions as they offer con sumed, does away with all the neces sity of preparation for or deliberation in dining. V ith a hop, skip, and a jump the merchant is out of bis count ing-room. Into the eating-house, and before the ink is dry in his ledger he is drenching himself with brandy-and- water at the dinner-table. 1th the sweat of labor and the tremor of busi ness anxiety and excitement still upon him, he begins bis hurried play of knife and fork, aud it is so soon over that he Is again at his desk before the effects or the care and work he took away with him have had a chance to disappear. lie has in the mean timo almost uncon sciously gorged his stomach, havijg tilled it with every thing at nand tnat it blindly cared for. Digestion an operation which demands a concentra tion of nervous energy to which ex haustion and agitation of all kinds, and especially mental anxiety, are particu larly unfavorable is hardly possible under the circumstances. Business aud eating can be carried on together, as may be daily witnessed in our mercan tile quarters, but the result is sure to be some blow, sooner or later, fatal to health or life. A Mystery r Perfass. No one has yet been able to analyze or demonstrate the essential action of perfume. Gas can be weighed, but not scents. The smallest known creatures the very monads of life can be caught by a microscope lens and made to deliver up the secrets of their organizations, but what it is that emanates from the pouch of the musk deer that fills a whole space for years and years with its pene trating odor an odor that an illimitable number of extraneous substances can carry on without diminishing its size and weight and what it is that the warm Summer air brings to us rrom the flowers, no man has yet been able to determine. So fine, so subtle, so im ponderable, it has eluded both our most delicate weights and measures and our strongest senses. If we come to the essence of each odor, we should have made an enormous stride forward, both in hygiene and in chemistry, and none would profit more than the medical profession if it could be as conclusively demonstrated that such an odor pro ceeded from such and such a cause, as we already know of sulphur, sulphurate hydrogen, ammonia, and the like. Belatlas afPlaate mad Aalawls to Ike Air. Moreover, although it remains true that there is an inverse relation be tween the green plant in sunshine and the animal, in so- far as, under these circumstances, the green plant decom poses carbonic acid, and exhales oxy gen, while the animal absorbs oxygen and exhales carbonic acid ; yet the ex act investigations of the modern chemi cal investigator of the physiological processes of plants have clearly the fal lacy of attempting to draw any general distinction between animal and vegeta ble on this ground. In fact, the differ ence yanishes with the sunshine, even in the case of the green plant; which, In the dark, absorbs oxygen and gives out carbonic acid like any animal, wbile those plants, such as the fungi, which contain no chloropbyl and are not green, are always, so far as respira tion is concerned, in the exact position of animals. Tbey absorb oxygen and give out carbonic acid. Popular Science Monthly. Trae Patke. Gen. Washington, in his parting in terview with his generals undertook to read a farewell paper which he had written for the occasion. But, finding it difficult to read, he said ; with simple pathos, "Pardon me, gentlemen, I have not only grown gray, but blind in your service." Prof. Wilson, Edinburgh, made a speech to his students even more touching than this. When Wilson first met bis class in tne university alter nis wife's death, he had to adjudicate on the comparative merits of various es says which had been sent in on com petion for a prize. He bowed to his class, and In as firm a voice as he could command, apologized for not having examined the essays; "for" said he, "I could not see to read them in the dark ness of the valley of the shadow of death." As ne spoke the tears roiled down his cheeks. He said no more, but waved his hand to his class, who stooH up as he concluded, and hurried it of the lecture room. C'EHTEXMIAI. HOTE9. ' ' The Beaverwycks and Mutuals of Albany intend to send excellent crews to the Centennnial regetta. Dr. De Forest WHlard has been con firmed by Director General Goehorn as medical officer in the Bureau ox Jieuicai Service. The collection of portraits of Cabi net officers has been sent from the vari ous Departments to the Centennial. Among the portraits of Secretaries of War are those of Jeff. Davis and Bel knap. The concessions or privileges to sell in the grounds amount to about $600, 000, which is about one-fourteenth of the cost ot the whole enterprise, set down in round numbers at $3,500,000. It is stated that the cost of the im mense main building of the Exposition so delicate in appearance, yet so strong; so nearly fireproof, so well lighted and ventilated, so well provided with every requisite convenience, and so beautiful, too has actually been less than would be the cost of handsomely carpeting the same area of twenty-one and a half acres. One of the principal points of inter est just now is Old Independence Hall. The - original Declaration of Indepen dence and the original commission of Washington as Commander-in-Chier of tha American armies, which are in a fire-proof safe, fully exposed to view, attract great attention from all visitors. The National Museum, in the same building, is also largely visited. Captains Merriman and McGowan, of the life-saving service, have selected on the bank of Centennial Lake a site upon which they will erect a building for the display of all the apparatus used in that department. It is proposed to cast gruff and disobliging fellows of the Centennial guard into the lake every day for exhibition, and, when the breath of life is about leaving them, haul them out, thereby showing the ef ficiency of the apparatus. There is a celebrated restaurant in Paris called "Les Trois Freres," and it has a cousin of the same name on the Exhibition grounds. The principal similarity seems to be in the prices charged, and an unfortunate experi menter gives his "bill" as follows: Pain, 08; potage, 30 cotelettes, 50; ser vice, 10; total, 98. If we had indulged in the luxury of butter, it it would have added 10 cents to the reckoning. Pota toes were marked in the bill 50 cents, roast beef 80 cents, cold meats 60 cents, half a roast chicken $1. We apprehend that neither the dinners nor the prices will "go down." The arbitrary rule enforced at the gates on the opening day, of requiring the payment of a fifty-cent note or sil ver piece as the only fee for admission, has been dispensed with or modified, so that all pay visitors to the grounds can now enter upon presenting fifty cents worth of money in notes or specie of any amount. Two quarters of a dollar or five ten-cent notes have as much po tency in gaining entrance as had at first a silver half dollar alone. Where sev eral persons entering are paid for by one of the party, the turustile keeper will receive the aggregate amount for the whole number, out must not be ex pected to make change. Thus, a two dollar bill admits four persons, but where the party consists bf an odd num ber the exact amount of the extra fifty cents must be furnished. The following gentlemen have been selected by the British Centennial au thorities to act as judges for Great Bri tain and Colonies at the Exhibition, and they have consented to at in that ca pacity : Minerals Isaac Lowthian Bell, M. P. Chemistry and its Applications Professor Odling, F. R. S. JCotton Yarns and Woven Goods Dr. Forbes Watson, reporter on the Products of India. Woolen Goods Henry Mitchell, of Bradford. Weapons Major W. n. Noble, R. A. late associate member of the ordnance se lect committee, and second officer of the experimental branch at Woolwich. Hardware and Edged Tools D. Mac Hardy, of Aberdeen. Education Sir Charles Reed, M. P., chairman of the London School Board. Industrial Designs Peter Graham. Metal and Wood Machinery John Anderson, L. L. I., C. E. Spinning and Weaving Machinery W. W. Ilulse, C. E., of Manchester. Motors W. II. Barlow, C. E. Railway Plants Sir John Hawkshaw C. L. F. R. S. Pneuinatie and Water Transportation Colonel F. H. Rich, R. E. of the Board or trade. Agricultural Machines John Cole man, of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. The Judges' Hall, an elaborately finished structure costing $-10,000, is de signed for the accommodation of the 125 United States judges and 100 for eign ones who are to award the prizes. Two large pavilions near the main en trance contain the omces or the com mission and the Board of Finance. The annexes to the priucipal buildings are as follows : three to the Main Building, eleven to Machinery Hall, five to Agri cultural Hall ; two' to Memorial Hall and one each to the Horticultural, Gov ernment and Women's Buildings. Of the Slate buildings, the Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York and New Jersey buildings are to-day finished and ready for visi tors. So are the little "Old Virginny" building and the Massachusetts log ca bin. Next in order of completion come W.Virginia, Missouri, Iowa, Maryland, Delaware, New Hampshire and Wiscon sin, on all of which little remains to be done. The backward ones are Kan sas, Michigan, Rhode Island and Cali fornia, the two last especially. The three buildings belonging to the British Commission were finished some time ago. The Spanish building is finished with the exception of the annex. So is the curious Japanese building, though the Bazaar is far from ready. The Tur kish divan is almost complete, presen ting an elegant appearance. Frauce, German, Sweden, Australia, Brazil, Morocco and Egypt are all well np to time, but Canada Is backward. The restaurants are all open, ready for the hungry and thirsty millions. These are the Great American, the Trois Fre res Provencaux, Sudreau's French Res taurant, the Southern Restaurant, Lau ber 'a German Restaurant, George's Hill Restaurant, and the "Dairy." In the Massachusetts log-house also historical meals, so to speak, will be served up to people Interested in the Colonial way of doing things, and at the Hebrew Res taurant may oe iouna au tne ueiicacies of the season, except that national lux ury pork and beans. Tbe Photon graphic cunning ana tne eg tne 'o'ulr? office is W orld's Ticket am'Ist to ,ny SSEfl? globe desired. Of the ngs, one hundred and nlne- Inmber, including the fountains and soda water and peanut (Unas, the great majority have been completed. KIW3 Cf BSH7. Texas is called "the State without fences." Andrew John is to have a bust In Memphis. A mountain of superior white chalk has been discovered in Idaho. In 1873 Rochester made 84,000 bar rels of ale and beer, using 217,237 bush els of malt. Thirty-seven companies on the Kennebec river, Me., have housed 690 500 tons of ice. Property has depreciated in Chicago 40 per cent., in New York 30 per cent., and in Boston 25 per cent. The cost per capita in the Cleve land (Ohio) public schools is only ninety-nine cents per pupil. John Jacob and William B. Astor have each contributed $25,000 to Su Luke's Hospital, New York. The Newark, N. J., authorities, have decided that flogging shall not be abolished in the public schools. The inhabitants of Greeley, Colo rado, have secured a $30,000 school house by contributing $10 a piece. If the reductions of the house com mittee on postal affairs are adopted, a saving of over $2,000,000 will be ef fected. But thirteen millions of lumber have been cut the past year on the An droscoggin, against thirty millions three years ago. A child with two faces was born recently in Alabama. As the father is no politician the event has made him unusually thoughtful. Over five hundred houses have been built at Custer City, Black Hills within the last two months. But little gold has been seen there yet. Old steamers on the Atlantic lines when played put for first-class traffic are switched off to the Mediterranean, India, and other stations. Pom Pedro will be provided with twenty-two rooms in Washington. On account of its circumscribed limits he declines to visit Rhode Island. A Georgia journal asserts that Chee Spuich, an Indian, and Nabih, his wife residing in Graham county, are aged respectively 175 and 130 years. Louis Riel, President of the Repub lic of Winnepeg during the insurrec tion of 1870, is, according to the Ottawa Free Press, in a mad house at Montreal. Some corporations have souls. Tbe Washington aud Georgetown Railroad Company has voluntarily increased the pay of its conductors from $2 to $2 25 per day. The new iron stand-pipe of the Bloomington (111.) water works, which has just been completed, is 225 feet high, eight in diameter, and holds nearly 100 000 gallons. General A. S. Diven, of Elmlra, has bought twenty-eight acres of land on St. John's river, Florida, and in tends to build a handsome winter resi dence upon it. The House Committee on Appro priations have cut down the estimates for the postal service over four million dollars as compared with the estimates for the past year. They think a good deal of their pigeons in Cambridge, Mass. A boy has just been sentenced to eight years in a Reformatory for stealing four. Two years per pigeon. Hotel-keepers will be glad to know that Iom Pedro will pay all of his ex penses himself. King Kalakaua's $6,000 bill at the Windsor Hotel, in New York has not been paid to this day. The wife of Ole Bull lives in Madi son, Wis. and translates Norse novels, some of which a Chicago house is about to publish. She only stays here be cause of her mother's ill health. John B. Felton, a San Francisco lawyer, is a lucky man. He gaiued a great mining suit some time ago. and was paid a fee of $1,000,000. We should like to feel as he Felton that occasion. The savings bank bill which passed , the Massachusetts Legislature provides for a guarantee fund, limits dividends, vacates trustees' office for non attend ance, and divides surplus every three , years. It is now proposed to re-establish the whipping post in North Carolina, for the purpose of relieving the peni tentiary, which is now becoming so full as to make its support a burden to the State. The New York Yacht Club was or ganized in June, 1844, by Commodore Edwin A. Stevens, and from four yachts has grown a fleet of sixty-nine sloop and schooner yacnts ana eleven steamers. In the twenty-two cities of the United States with the highest postal receipts the citizens pay on an average $2.01 each for postage yearly. Boston averages $3.80; New York, $3.16; and Chicago, $3.03. A paper company in Jlolyoke Mass has manufactured an immense ream of paper for the Centennial. Tbe sheets are 6 by 13 feet, the ream weighs about a ton. the value of the 480 sheets is $1,500. and if cut intoordinary sheets of note paper they would make 500,000 sheets. The late Hosea T. Clark of Jersey City left a singular will. In all the le gacies left to his daughters, widowed sister, brother and half-brother, besides other people, the amount has been left blank, only tbe words tnonsana aoiiars with a dash before them, being written. The property in New York. and New Jersey is of great value. Mary Harris, who shot and killed Burroughs, a Treasury clerk, in Wash ington, some years ago, and was ac quitted on the ground of insanity still lives at tne capital, aiwui a quarter vt her time she is incarcerated ; then re leased till she chooses to return again, which she does quite regularly. Her face looks haggard and aimless. Tobacco growing Is assuming con siderable importance in Oregou. The eutire product in 1870 was but 3,847 pounds, while that or :s.- was 4s,i9 pounds, an increase of 600 per cent. The quality of the article is inferior but it commands remunerative prices and is used chiefly in sheep washing. Hop growing is also assuming considerable Importance in that State. Mr. John Jacob Astor has author ized tbs corporation of Trinity Church, New York, of which he is a constant attendant, to have erected at his ex pense a new altar and altar screen, or whatever material and design may chosen. It is thought that theatfCry ore, which will undoubtetVluemorlal magnificent, is interuitor. otUtMTot June, 1776. the jrrfoT Sheffield. Mass voted that It the Continental Congress would declare the colonies independent iu inhabl UnU would solemnly engage with their live and fortunes to support them in their measures. This event will be celebrated on the 18th and 19ta and 20th of June, this year. Bishop Janes preaching the centennial sermon, on the first day. Mi ' A 1 . 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