if i! .-. J.. Editor and Proprietor B. F. SOHWEIER, THI 0053TITCTI05 THI CHIOS ASD THI XNFOBCKHIKT Of IHI LAWS. VOL. XXX. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. JUNE 28. 1876. NO. 26. L K.J II I II I III II III I : IS- CONTENT. My heart and I bnt lately were at strife. She fell a-longing for a certain thing. The which I could not gire her. and my life Grew aick and weary with her clamoring. God knows I would hare giren my youth's - wide scope. To boy my heart bnt one brief, bleeaed day Of the blind bliea aba coveted ; bnt hope. When I appealed to it, turned dumb away. Until hope failed, I did not chide my heart. Bat was fall tender to her misery. I knew bow hard and bitter was her part ; . Bnt when I saw that good was not for me, I felt that time and tears were vainly spent , "Heart," said I, "hope ia silent ; be content." Poor heart! Bhe listened eamestihomble-wiee. While my good angel gave her counsel strong. Then from the dust and ashes did arise. And through her trembling lips brake forth a song. A soothing song that grew into a strain Of praise for blua denied as well as giren. Elie sang it then to charm a lingering pain, Bhe sings it now for gladness, morn and even. She sings it. seeing on life's garden wall Lore's deep red roses in the sunshine stir. And singing, passes, en Tying not at all. Content to feel that lore is not for ber. The roses are another's bloom and scent. My heart and I bare heartsease and content. AH The Tear titmnd. The Work of the Avenger. It lay ia one of the fairest spots In all the midland counties, and yet such a ghostly, desolate, taunted place I could not even have conceived before I saw it. 1 had seen ruined mansions before, and I had walked in rank, neglected, and forgotten parks; but it seemed to me that the isolation and the desolation here were different. I told the vicar so as he took me round the empty house, point ing out the remnants of past beauty, which were even yet distinguishable through the blight of decay. "But you must not compare this," he said, "with ruins pur et simple. The simple fact is this die estate is in chancery. In the west wing there Is a door which, with a little management and strength, I can open. Would you like to see within as far as you can, I mean, for it only gives access to three rooms. The door opened into a small ante room, so small that a couch and chair and table, with a couple of shelves filled with faded books, seemed quite to fill it. The vicar opened another door op posite to that by which we had entered, and I followed him into a large and lofty bed-chamber, whose satin hang ings might have been a brilliant crim son once, but now they were faded to a yellow brown. And they hung in tat-, ters where they were worn by the hands which had once been used to draw or lift them, and from end to end were eaten into holes by myriads of moths. About the room were valuable and handsome ornaments and books; and the walls were covered with paint ings so beautiful and so little hurt by time that they seemed to mock the worn and faded furniture. "Can there be finer paintings even in the picture gallery than these ?" I asked the vicar, as be unlocked another door opposite to that by which we had en tered. "Xo; those are picked from the gal lery, the choicest that were there. And in this room are the choicest portraits. Come." lie had opened the door, and as he spoke he pushed aside a heavy padded curtain, under which I passed into a room exactly the size and shape of the bed-room, but furnished . as a sitting room, music room, all in one furnished not only handsomely and luxuriously, as I could see through all the disfigure ment and decay of time, but furnished curiously, as if a hundred different tastes had been at work, or one taste, it might be, varying restlessly from year to year. "These," said the vicar, looking round upon the closely-covered walls, "are all the best of the family portraits, or 1 suppose I should say they are the most recent ones ; the squires and dames of more than one hundred years ago I mean of more than one hundred years before these rooms were occupied stare into vacancy from the walls of the long mouldy gallery below. Notice this one, will you ? it is the last squire." "Did he die young?" "Xo-o." "Will "you tell me how it was?" I urged, as I rested on a faded couch be fore the portrait, "will you tell me the story of this desolate place?" "I will tell you as we walk home," he answered. But when he saw how tired I was, and that we must rest there foresooth, he took another of the chairs, and brushing off a little of the thick dust and cobwebs, sat down upon it, and liegan the story, in a low, uneasy voice, which made me so nervous that presently 1 even feared to look around me. Lindley Warwick was a very young man when he inherited this estate, very handsome, as you see, and proud, with a pride that was ultra-sensitive and re fiued. That such a man possessing a fine estate, of high birth, and educated and accomplished as few country gen tlemen were in that time, should be a favorite in every London drawing-room is surely no matter of surprise; that such a man, skilled in all manly exer cises, and free and lavish with his wealth, should be a favorite in every country mansion in the Midlands, is equally no matter of surprise. Few who enjoyed bis brilliant conversation noticed the absence of generous sympa thy, or the cold indifference to those who did not enter the magic circle of refined and cultivated society in which he moved ; and few who gazed in ad miration on the fine and perfect face, noticed that the haughtiness which sat o well upon it was but cold and cruel pride after all. lie lived here but a month or two in every year and then he always had the house full of guests, and ruled with the most lavish splen dor. Between these visits he enjoyed gay seasons now in his handsome house in London, now on his shooting estate in Scotland, now abroad, and now vis iting among other families. He was the mark at which all the looks and thoughts of mothers were directed, he was the idol of their daughters, he was almost the unrivaled pet of society. One day when he was staying here, with a crowd of gay and fashionable visitors, there was a clumsy attempt made by a couple of burglars to rob the house. I believe it was the squire him self who first heard them, but at any rate they were surprised . before they had even effected an entrance, and a little boy, whom the villains bad put through a broken gap to unfasten the door to them, was the only person cap tured. This boy was the only child of a woman who lived a very quiet and solitary life, in a tiny cottage which had been given her, it was said by the late squire himself. She was a Spaniard by birth, a beautiful, dark-faced woman, who, though she lived se near him, had never been heard to mention the name of the rich man who had lured her from ; her native land ; a woman whose silent. solitary life was bound up in that of her child. When she beard that the squire had locked up her boy and sent for the police, she came up to the Hall for the first time since the squire's father (and the father of her own child) had turned from her last prayer; and she told the young squire with eager, burning tears, the one reason why he should have pity on her boy. Then he smiled his cool and handsome smile, and quietly ad vised her, if she lied at ail, not to lie to her own shame. When the police came and took away the child, stretching his arms out to his mother, she stood with white and rigid lips in the great hall, not even folio w- ing mm wiui iier eyes, lor uiey were fixed upon the handsome face of the young squire. The boy, a pretty, timid child of scarcely 12 years or age, was brought before the magistrates, and told bis tale with many tears. He had been walk ing quietly home the evening before, when two men overtook him and walked wish him. They talked a great deal to gether, though not to him; but when he turned from the turnpike ready to go home to bis mother's cottage, they bade him walk a little further with them and they would give him a present for his mothar. He went on a long way he thought it and then they took him into an empty cottage and shut the door, and kept him in there until It was quite dark. They carried him then into the ilall, as he could not have found his way in the dark; and they put him through a small broken hole in a win dow, and bade him unfasten a door he would find close to him, or, if be did not, he must stay there in the dark for ever. This was all the child told, but it was Elain to see how he had been frightened y the threats of those villains. I believe one of the magistrates sug gested that the terrible rear the boy had undergone had been sufficient punish ment for him; but the idea was quietly smiled to scorn. The child was sen tenced to solitary confinement for two years aye, though the poor foreign woman fell on her knees before the squire and pleaded to him as she might have pleaded to her God. Before the time of the sentence was half told the doctor ordered the boy to be removed to the hospital. "This soli tary confinement is most fatal for a delicate growing lad," he said, with a grave shake of his head. "If be does not die, he will be a hopeless idiot for the remainder of his life." That worse fate was spared him ; he did die; and the mother, to whom this news had been a death-blow, although she did not know it then, crept to the mansion here, and asked to see the squire. His servants told him, and he smiled a quiet smile. "Take her money ; noth ing more is needed for such as she." She looked down vacantly upon the offered money ; then she stepped back a few paces, aud raising her hands sol emnly to heaven, called down its judg ment upon the master of the house; pleading that the punishment to which he had doomed ber boy might visit him. And the caressed and feted master of this beautiful house, looking from the window, saw this scene and smiled. Five years went on, and still Lindley Warwick lived his brilliant and luxuri ous life; flattered, admired, and sought after; committing none of his father's sins, only leading his life of cold and pitiless self-indulgence. But when these five years had passed, he came once un expectedly and quite alone to his Lon don house. He went out on the morn ing after his arrival, in a hired cab, with his face muffled in a white silk comforter; and when he had been clos eted for a long time with a famous phy sician, he returned and ordered the house to be locked up again, as he was going down to the country. He came here at once, and even be fore he took off his great-coat and the muffler that was about his face he summoned into his presence four old servants who had lived here through all his life. It was to tills room they came, and he stood there on the hearth, his face half turned away while he talked to them. They had been surprised enough at his unexpected and solitary arrival be who used to come in state, when every room in the house had been prepared for the guests who came with and fol lowed him but what a much greater surprise awaited them ! He told them that every servant in the house was to be dismissed except themselves; that either of them who objected to this, or would not obey him to the letter in what he was going to require, could go at once, before he spoke further; but if they stayed they must strictly, and on their oath, observe his orders. He told them there would never again be guests in the house to require their labor and attendance; that, "except their own premises, only these three rooms would ever be occu pied again. He told them that from that day he intended never either to see or be seen by man or woman; and, showing them a loaded pistol with a double barrel, told them one bullet was for any one who should dare to intrude or look upon his face, the other for him self afterwards. In those three rooms he should live apart, be said, and he would have doors through which no prying eyes could penetrate, and locks no bands but his could understand. He would give the rest of his orders In writing, he said, after the other ser vants had been dismissed. So at once began this terrible life of suffering solitude; and though no one ever, from that day, penetrated into the young squire's presence, and though he had told his secret to no one, still it was understood for the quietness of the whisper was horror, and not doubt that a slow disease was eating his life away, and must first of all destroy the beauty of which he had been so keenly and so sensitively proud. Tear after year life went on for him in this awful solitude. Into these rooms be gathered about him all he could to make such life bearable, and sent for the choicest of the pictures in the gal lery to hang about. When be rang this bell, the old man servant found his written order passed under that locked door. When he rang the chamber bell, the door between the two rooms was locked, and the curtains hung heavily between, but that outer door was open, and the man could ar range or take away the meals (through these meals the young squire had no attendance), light the lamps or fires, or whatnot. When the inner oeii oi an mif. the chamber was at liberty, and the servant who went about his tasks there hastened over them, knowing that his master sat the w hile locked in that little anteroom beyond. or he never went from that door down Into the park (though he had it made on purpose) until the whole household and the whole village too had been for hours in bed. Only in the deep night dark ness did he ever venture forth, and no one had ever chanced to see him then. And so In this awful solitude never looking on the face of man or woman, never hearing the voice f a fellow creature, never himself seen or heard the master of this beautiful home lived for nearly twenty years. Think of It! Picture such solitude and such suffering for one week, then draw it to a year and then to twenty ! But to fully com prehend its weight to him you must re member the lire be bad lea, tne ultra- refined and haughty nature or the man and his Intense sensiveness both to phy sical pain and to anything In the slight est degree loathsome. Remembering these, and the burden or tne secret to be keDt while the curious world wbicn missed its idol clamored to be told the reason of his living death to them, you may imagine a little of the acute and almost unbearable suffering of those twenty years. At last there came a time when the meals were scarcely touched, when there were no orders put below the curtained doors at all; until one day a written paper lay there bearing a sum mons for the clergyman. An old man the vicar was then as old as I am now and It was he who told me this story just as I tell it you. He came and prayed as he had been bidden to do, kneeling in the outer, room. He knew the door was opened leading into the bed chamber where the squire sat, but he had been bidden not to pass beyond the closed curtain, and he tever dreamed of trying to do so. He raised his voice and prayed in terri ble earnestness, but no answering voice reached him through tne heavy drapery. He might have thought that the squire was dead but that there came a written word of thanks at last. Next day the vicar came again, but the doors were fast then, for he had not been summoned, and there was no sign from within that his plea for admission was even beard. That night the frightened servants sent for him again. They could hear no sound within their master's room, and for two days now. they said, he had not even admitted them with food. "Ton shall fetch the doctor," he said, "and we will enter somehow he and I and save him, if we can You must all remember his orders and your oath." Tbey broke the lock of that first door with great difficulty and the doctor and the clergyman stepped softly in. This door, the one that leads into the cham ber, was ajar behind its curtain, and when they entered they saw at a glance the solution of this ghastly mystery. The squire lay dressed upon the bed, his loaded pistol still grasped in the stiffened fingers of his thin right hand, and his left stretched towards the cur tain of the bed, as if he had been going to draw It round him when the end had come. He had not used the pistol, though heaven knows If there could ever be enough temptation to excuse self-murder it was here ! No, in this solitude and pain and ghastliness of suffering, he had waited his release. The doctor gently covered the face which had been so proudly beautiful, that the ghastly sight might hurt no other eyes; and it never did. The faithful old servants remembered and obeyed their master's order even now. For nearly twenty years they had lived with him and never looked upon his features ; and through this one day that they had access to his room they kept their oath most sacredly, and left the soft, white covering on the face which, in its decay, they never could have re c guized. Errars af aeeaataatlaa. It is possible that some one who reads the title of this article, says the -Yew Emland Journal of Education, may find himself guilty of falling to pronounce the ci and sh in shun. I find that my lady friend, w ho is very precise in her language, will persist in accenting 'eti quette' on the first Instead of the last syllable. My good minister, who has the greatest aversion to anything wrong, was greatly surprised when I mildly suggested to him that 'aspirant' should be accented on the penult, while my musical niece mortified me the other day by pronouncing 'finale In two syl lables. I heard my geological friend explaining the 'subsidence' of the earth's crust, but he should have ac cented the second Instead of the first syllable. The same mistake happened the other day to my friend the Presi dent of the reform society, who spoke of the "vagaries" of some people by ac centing the first instead of the second syllable. He also announced that I would deliver an "address" that even ing, but I knew that it was not polite to tell him to accent the last syllable. My boy says he left school at "recess" accenting the first syllable, and he was loth to belelve that, whatever the mean ing of the word is, it ought to be ac cented on the final syllable. Then my friend, the President of the debating club, who is a great student of 'Cush Ing's Manual," tells us that a motion to adjourn takes the "precedence" by ac centing the first instead of the second syllable. My other lady friend says that sbe lives in a house having a 'cupe low.' She should consult the dictionary for that word. But 1 will close by re marking that my legal friend, who is very .scholarly, always accents "coad jutor" on the second instead of. the third, where It rightly belongs. Am ladiaa'a Prayer. The p raver, which we copy below is that of an Indian of the Crow tribe once addressed to the Great Spirit with de vout simplicity, clearly illustrating the distorted ideas of right and wrong that govern the conduct of our savage broth er of the American wilderness. It adds weight to the opinion stoutly main tained by most intelligent travelers among wild tribes in all countries, that the races who to day remain in a con dition of barbarism are of Inferior men tal organization, and consequently in capable of being elevated to the moral and intellectual place occupied by civil ized and enlighteoed peoples: I am poor; that is bad (murmurs the Crow Indian to his God). Make me a chief; give me plenty of horses; give me fine clothing. I ask for good spotted horses. Give me a large tent; give me a great many horses; let me steal five horses: grant it to me. Give me guns by cheating; give me a beautiful woman ; bring the buffalo close by. No deep snow; a little snow Is good. Give me a Blackfeet to kill or die; close by, altogether. Stop the people from dying, it is good. Give instruments for amusement; blankets too. and plenty to eat. Give the people altogether plenty of fine bunalo, and plenty to eat. The Acm a Misery. . The man who has nothing to do is the most miserable of beings. No matter bow much wealth a man possesses, he can neither be contented nor happy without occupation. We were born to labor, and the: world is our vine-yard. We can find afield for usefulness al most anywhere. In occupation we for get our cares, our worldly trials and our sorrows. It keeps us from con stantly worrying and brooding over what is inevitable, ir we nave enougn for ourselves, we can labor for the good of others ; and such a task ia one of the most delightful duties a worthy and good man can possibly engage m. A $120,000 chapel is now being bunt for the students at xaie college. Leeke aa Has Thus I think: It is a man's proper business to seek .happiness and avoid misery. Happiness consists in what delights and contents the mind ; mise ry in what disturbs, discomposes, or torments it. I will therefore make it my business to seek satisfaction and delight, and avoid uneasiness and dis quiet ; to have as much of the one, and as little of the other, as may be. But here 1 must have a care I mistake not, for if I prefer a short pleasure to a las ting one, it is plain I cross my own happiness. Let me then see wherein consists the most lasting pleasures of this life, and that, as far as 1 can ob serve, is in these things : 1st. Health, without which no sensnal pleasure can have any relish. 3d. Reputation for that I find everybody is pleased with, and the want of it is a constant tor ment. 3d. Knowledge for the little knowledge I have I find I wonld not sell at any rate nor part with for any other pleasure. 4th. Doing good for I find the well-cooked meat I eat to day does now no more delight me, any. I am diseased after a full meal ; the perfumes I smelt yesterday now no more affect me with any pleasure : but the good turn I did yesterday, a year, seven years since, continues still to S lease and delight me as often as I re ect on it. 5th. The expectation of eternal and incomprehensible happiness in another world is that also which carries a constant pleasure with it. If then I will faithfully pnrsne that hap piness I propose to myself, whatever pleasure oilers itself to me, I must carefully look that it cross not any of those five great and constant pleasures above mentioned. For example, the fruit I see tempts me with the taste of it that I love, but if it endanger my health, I part with a constant and last ing for a very short and transient plea sure, and so foolishly make myself un happy, and am not true to my own in terest. Hunting, plays, and other in nocent diversions delight me; if I make use of them to refresh myself after study and business, they preserve my health, restore the vigor of my mind, and increase my pleasure ; but if I spend all, or the greatest part of my time in them, they hinder my improve ment in knowledge and useful arts, they blast my credit, and give me np to the uneasy state of shame, igno rance, and contempt, in which I cannot but be very nnbappy. Drinking, gam ing, and vicious delights will do me this mischief not only by wasting my time, bnt by a positive efficacy endan ger my health, impair my parts, im print ill habits, lessen my esteem, and leave a constant lasting torment on my conscience. Therefore all vi cious and unlawful pleasures I will al ways avoid, because such a mastery ot my passions will afford me a constant pleasure greater than any such enjoy ments: and also deliver me from the certain evil of several kinds, that by indulging myself in a present tempta tion 1 shall certainly afterward suffer. All innocent diversions and delights, as far as they will contribute to my health, and consist with my improve ment, condition, and my other more solid pleasures of knowledge and re putation, I will enjoy, but no further, and this I will certainly watch and ex amine, that I may not be deceived by the flattery of a present pleasure to lose a greater. Fox Bourne's Life of John lxKke. saw aad Clares. ' The cinnamon of commerce is the inner bark of a tree closely resembling the laurel, or sweet bay, a native origi nally of Ceylon, but which Is now grown in the other parts of the East Indies, and also in Jamaica and other West India islands. I he trees are left to grow unmolested until they are nine years old, at which time the young shoots or branches that are about three years old are lopped off. The bark is then slit on one side and removed from the branch, tied up in bundles until the next day, when it is loosened, and the skin or outer bark scraped oil. it is then dried or rolled up into quills or pipes, about three feet long, which have a slit down one side, where the bark was cut. The smallest quills are rolled up inside the larger; the whole then tied up in bundles of SO or 90 B.S. weight, and wrapped up in cloths, when they are ready for exportation. It has an astringent and highly aromatic and warm flavor, and yields by distillation an extremely fragrant and pungent volatile oil, kept fur pharmaceutical use under the name of oil of cinnamon. The articles known in commerce a cloves are the unopened flowers of a small evergreen that resembles in ap pearance the laurel or the bay. it is a native of the Molucca or Spice Islands, but has been carried to all the warmer parts of the world, and Is largely culti vated in the tropical regions of America. The flowers are small in size, and grow in large numbers in clusters at the very ends of the branches. The cloves we use are the flowers gathered before they are opened, and while they are still green, After being gathered, tbey are smokeJ by a wood fire, and then dried in the sun. Each clove consists or two parts, a round head (which is the four petals or leaves of the flower rolled up, inclosing a number of small stalks or filaments), the other part of the clove being terminated with four points; it Is, in fact, the flower cup and the un ripe seed vessel. AH these parts may be distinctly shown if a few cloves are soaked for a short time in hot water, when the leaves or the flowers soften and readily unroll. The smell of cloves it very strong and aromatic. Their taste is pnngent, acrid, and lasting. Both the taste and smell depend on the quality of oil they contain. Sometimes the oil is separated from the cloves be fore they are sold, and the color and taste Is consequence are much weakened by this proceeding. History af Bafcia-. . t The art of baking consists in heating anything in an oven or fire so as harden it, and this term is applied to the man facture of bread, porcelain, pottery and bricks. The origin of baking, as of most arts of primary importance, precedes the period of history, and is involved in the obscurity or the early ages or the human race. The very early mention of bread in written history further bears out the great antiquity of the art of baking. We are told in Genesis, xviit., 5, that Abra ham, wishing to entertain the three an gels on the plains of Mamre, offered "to fetch a morsel of bread," and told Sa rah to "make ready quickly three mea sures of fine meal, knead it and make cakes upon the hearth." A little later, the art of baking was carried to high perfection by the Egyptians. From an cient Egypt the art of baking travelled with the march of civilization into Greece. We also learn that the Roman bakers had special privileges granted to them. The calling of the baker during the Middle Ages was considered to be one so closely affecting the interests of the public that it was put under strict regulation and supervision, and con tinued to effect the trade until very re cent times. In England as early as 12G6 an act was passed regulating the price of bread by public assize, and continued until 1836. In 1811 the captain of an English ordered a baker in one of the towns of Sweden to bake a quantity of bread to the value of 1 sterling. The baker, confounded at so large an order, refused to comply unless security was furnished that he would take the bread away, as so large a quantity could never be disposed of in the town. In the year 1804 Manchester. England, with a pop ulation of 90,000 persons, did not con tain a single public Daker. (J ust imag ine a city in the United States without a bakery.) In 1803, in Ureat Britain, an act was passed making a searching inquiry Into the condition of bake hou ses and of the persons employed in them. History does not yet give much Information regarding bakers in onr own country; but possessing, as we do, in this age, all the inventions and ap pliances for making bread, there is no use in pursuing the subject further at this time. The Confectioner. Ia Medlflwe at laeleaeeT It is a nice question, in many caes. which has done the more hurt, the dis ease or the remedy? Whether ror in stance, the child's health suffers more from the intestinal parasites which vex him, or from the destructive purgatives employed as anthelmintics; whether the cancer or the knife produces death more speedily; whether calomel or quinine be not pretty much such friends to the sick man as La Fountaine's good natured bear was to the gardener, whose mouth be crushed while trying to brush the flies off as he slept. It Is an equally nice question to determine whether there ever really did occur a critical period in any disease, when the direct actual medicine, per se, can turn back the wavering life from the jaws of death to the flowery meads of re-established health ; or, granting the possibility of such a rare occurrence, we do not run too great risk, as s rule, to be able to profit by it? These are nice questions, as I havecalled them, nor does the pres ent condition of medicine entitle us to expect to see them answered. For these reasons, among many others, medicine cannot be called a science. It must not be supposed, however, that the doctor's office is to become a sinecure because his drugs are voted rubbish and his methods falser. On the contrary, we shall need him quite as much, and his advice will be more valuable to us than ever. He will not have It in his power to do harm, and consequently can give his undivided energies to the pursuit of good. It shall be in his office to teach us the fallacy of physic. He shall pre sent to our minds in all its horrid ar ray the atrocious enormity of medicine as once it was practiced, and so sit&ll save many a poor sufferer amongst us from unconscious suicide. He shall be our perpetual beacon light against the iron-bound, immitigable loadstone rock of quackery, where so many fair keels lie untimely wrecked. In fine, be shall become to us the counterpart of that In valuable member of another profession, known as the chamber-lawyer, a quiet man of skill and experience, who abounds with all the wisdom and unc tion of pertinent - counsel, and who never takes his client into Court, where he is bound to lose, no matter how his case is decided. Atlantic Monthly. Earspeaa lases. The statement is made that the num ber of lace-makers in Eurode is some five hundred thousand, and of these nearly one-half are employed in France, almost all of whom work at home. Of the French laces, the most noted Is the point d'Alencon, which has had a wide celebrity for more than two centuries, and has been styled the queen of lace. It is made entirely by hand, with a fine needle, on a parchment pattern, in small pieces, which are afterwards united by invisible seams. The firmness and so lidity of the texture are remarkable, and horse-hair is often introduced along the edge to insure greater strength. Al though the workmanship of this lace has always been of great beauty, the designs in the older specimens were seldom copied from nature. This cir cumstance gave a marked advantage to the laces of Brussels, which represen ted flowers and other natural designs with a high degree of accuracy. The defect, however, has disappeared in the point d'Alencon of recent manufacture specimens containing admirable cop ies of natural flowers, intermixed with grasses and ferns, being now produced in abundance. Owing, however, to its elaborate construction, this lace is sel dom seem In large pieces. A dress made of point d'Alencon, the production of Bayeux, consisting of two flounces and trimmings, was exhibited at the expo sition of 1SC7. Its price was $17,000, and it required forty women seven years to complete it. Balls. The origin of the terms "6 penny." "10 penny." &u, as applied to nails, though not commonly known, is in volved in no mystery whatever. Nails have been made a certain nnmber of pounds to the 1000 for many years, and are still reckoned in that way in Eng land, a 10d. being 1000 sails to ten pounds, and 6d. being 1000 to 6 pounds, a 30 penny weighing 30 pounds to the 1000,and having just one-half the num ber nails to tne 10 pounds of the 10 penny, and in ordering the buyer calls for the 3 poifhd, 6 pound or 10 pound variety, &c nntil by the Englishman's abbreviation of pun for pound, the ab breviation has been made to stand for penny instead of pound, as originally intended; and when it comes to lees than one pound to the 1000, such as tacks, brails, &c they are reckoned 8 oz., 8 oz., 13 or., &&, and the manufac turer who would make less than 1000 nails to ten pounds for a 10d. nail, would be looked upon as a cheat, as in former times the difference in the cost of the manufacture of one pound of small nails over the larger sizes was much greater. As nails are now made and sold, the dealer only asks for the sizes needed, by the usual designation, and the fact that there are now but two-thirds of the number of nails for merly called for in the pound does not lessen the value. A Persaaaeat Hesse. To have a borne which a man has himself reared or purchased a home which be has improved or beautified a home indeed, which, with honest pride and natural love, he calls his own is an additional security for any man's virtue. Such a home he leaves with regret : to it he gladly returns. There he finds innocent and satisfying pleasures. There his wife and little ones are happy and safe ; and there all his best affections take root and grow. To such a pair, as time advances, the abode ot their early and middle life, whence they have, perhaps, all de parted, becomes constantly more dear ; for it is now a scene of precious memo ries the undisturbed declining years! And say what lapse of time, what varied experience of prosperity, or sor row, can ever efface the good impres sion made by such a home on the ten der heart of childhood ! To the tempted youth, to the wanderer from virtue, to the sad victim of misfortune, such re membrance haaoften Droved a strength ening monitor, or a healing balm. Nor can this kindly influence wholly tail so long as the dear objects of that famil iar scene retain a place in memory, connected, as they inseparably are, with thoughts of a fathers councils, a mother's tenderness, a sister's purity, and a brother's love. 1 One of the saddest things to con template, just now, is the large n amber of persons In this country who h:tve no relatives in Philadelphia. Hlatary efS About 280 years B. C, Hero, of Alex andria, formed a toy which exhibited some of the powers of steam, and was moved by its power. A. D. 430, an architect arranged sev eral chaldrons of water, each covered with the wide body of a leathern tube, which rose to a narrow top, with pipes extending to the rafters of the adjoining building. A nre was xinuied neneain the chaldrons, and the house was shaken with the efforts of the steam ascending the tubes. This Is the first notice of the power of steam recorded. In 1543. June 17, Brasco de Garay tried a steamboat of 200 tons with tolera ble success, at Barcelona.Spai n. It con sisted of a chaldron of boiling water, and a movable wheel on each side of the ship. It was laid aside as Impracticea ble. A present however, was made to Garay. In 1C20, the first railroad was con structed at Newcastle-on-the-Tyne. The first idea of a steam engine in England was in the Marquis of Worces ter's "History of Invention," A, D. 16 63. In 1701, Kewersman made the first steam engine. In 17G3 James Watt made the first per fect steam engine in England. In 1706 Jonathan Hulls set forth the idea ef steam navigation. In 1779 Thomas Payne first proposed the application In America. In 1791, Marquis Jouffrey construc ted a steamboat on the Saone. In 1785 two Americans published a work on it. In 17S9 William Symington made a voyage in one on the Forth and Clyde canal. in 1802 this experiment was repeated. In 1782 Ramsey propelled a boat by steam at Xew York. In 1789 John Fitch, of Connecticut, navigated a boat by a steam engine on the Delaware. In 1794 Robert Fulton first began to apply his attention to steam. In 1782 Oliver Evans, a native of Phila delphia, constructed a steam engine to travel on a turnpike road. The first steam vessel that crossed the Atlantic was the Savannah, In the month of June, from Charleston to Liverpool. lataatlle Eaerl eats. To see that this is the case, one has only to listen to her prattle for an hour : it is wonderfully flexible. I am satis fled that here every shade of emotion surprise, joy, vexation, sadness finds expression in varieties of tone; herein she equals or even surpasses the adult. On comparing her with animals, even those best endowed in this way such as the dog, parrot, singing-birds I find that, with a less-extended gamut of sounds, she far surpasses them in the fineness and the abundance of her ex pressive Intonations. Delicacy of im pressions and delicacy of expressions are the distinctive characteristics of man as compared with animals: here is the origin of language and of general Ideas. Among animals, man is, what some great and ingenious poet Is among labo rers and peasants: in a word, he is cog nizant of a multitude of shades and tints, even to a whole class of shades, which are unnoticed by them. This is further seen both in the kind and In the degree of man's curiosity. It is easily seen that, commencing with the fifth or sixth month, infanta, during the suc ceeding two years or more, give all their time tj making experiments In natural philosophy. There is no ani mal, not even the cat or the dog, which makes such continual study of all bod ies within its reach. Every day, the infant of whom I speak (age twelve mouths) touches, feels, turns over, lets fall, tastes, and experiments upon, whatever the object may be a ball, doll, rattle, toy once it is sufficiently known, the infant leaves it aloue : it is no longer a novelty; there is nothing mora to be learned from it; it no longer interests the child. This Is simple cu riosity; the child's physical wants, its desire of food, have nothing to do with the matter. It would seem as though already in its little brain each group of perceptions tends to complete itseir, as in the brain of a child that possesses language. Popular Science Munthly. Baa Habits. Understand the reason, and all the reasons, why the habit is injurious. Study the subject until there is no lin gering doubt in your mind. Avoid the places, the persons, and the thoughts that lead to the temptation. Frequent the places, associate with the persons, indulge in the thoughts that lead away from temptation. Keep busy; idleness is the strength of bad habits. Do not five up the struggle when you have roken your resolution once, twice a thousand times. That only shows how much need there is for you to strive. When you have broken your resolutions j ust think the matter over, and endeavor to understand why it is you railed, so that you may be on your guard against a recurrence of the same circumstan ces. Do not think it an easy thing that you have undertaken. It is a folly to expect to break off a habit in a day which may have been gathering long years. The Leacth ar Days. At London, England, Bremen, and Prussia, the longest day has sixteen and a half hours. At Stockholm, in Sweden, the long est day has eighteen and a half hours. At Hamburg, Germany, and Dantzig, Prussia,, the longest day has seventeen hours, and the shortest seven hours. At St. Petersburg, In Russia, and To bolsk, Siberia, the longest day has nine teen hours, and the shortest five hours. At Tornea, in Finland, the longest day has twenty-one hours and a half, and the shortest two hours and a half. At Wardnuvs. In Norway, the day lasts from the 21st of May to the 2nd of July, without interruption; and at Spitzenbergen, the longest day is three and a half months. At Xew York, the longest day, June 19. has fourteen hours and firty-six minutes, at Montreal, fifteen and a half hours. lid Aaalaaaa. Mrs. Siddons once described with no small humor to Campbell the scene of her probation on the Edinburgh boards. The grave attention of the Scotchmen, and their canny reservation of praise till they were sure it was deserved, she said, had well-nigh worn out her pa tience. She had been nsed to speak to animated clay, bat she now felt as if she bad been speaking to stone. Suc cessive flashes of her eloquence that had always been sure to electrify the South fell in vain on those northern flints. At last she said that sbe bad worked np her powers to the utmost emphatic possable utterance of one Eaasage, having previously vowed in er heart that if this could not touch the Scotch sbe would never again cross the Tweed. When it was finished, she paused, and looked at the audience. The deep silence was broken only by a single voice exclaiming, "That's do bad!'' The State of Illinois has .2.000,000 worth of fences, and it costs $175,000 annually to keep them In repairs. raadei CEXTEltSa.lL HOTES. Fat men, and men with tight boots, will be gratified to learn that there ar only 38 miles of walking required to obtain a mil view or the Centennial. Specimens of wooden nutmegs and wwulun huma mafia ftf ttlA "Charter Oak," are exultingly exhibited in the Connecticut recepuou room, venienmai grounds. Tyrant flimis.nf? lmaHanflllkaa. Tflll- adelphia women, sjys the Louisville Courier Journal, glare upon the unpro tected oacneior patriot wnu goea iw uic Centennial. Ohio sends to ths Centennial a re markable specimen of black band ore. eight feet thick. Being composed of layers or coal and iron ore, it roasts it self without the use of other fuel. Ths West Point cadets, about 300 In number, who are to visit Philadelphia, will start on the 27th or June in a gov ernment steamer. They will be accom panied by the Academy Dana, and win remain in Philadelphia ten days. The silk banner presented by the ladies of the State of New York to the Women's Department of the Centennial will be twelve feet by seventeen feet. Fourteen young women have been em- Droiuermg it ror tne last two montns. It Is the largest "piece of silk embroidery ever done in this country. In Machinery nail, Valere-Mabille, Morlanwez, Belgium, exhibits ponder ous boring and tubing machinery that put to shame our puny oil well derricks. Think of boring a mining shaft of fif teen feet diameter, through earth, and hard rocks, by means of Immense drills of wrought Iron and steel ! Among the beautiful curiosities at the Centeennial Is a collection of sea weeds from deep sea soundings and from the surface. They are preserved on card board and framed, and they comprise some very rare and pretty specimens colored in beautiful tints, from the palest pink and green to the richest purple. The great-grandfathers of Thomas Jefferson, who are now living in Flor ida in comparative poverty, have on ex hibition at the Centennial show speci mens of fish scale jewelry. The ma terial used is the large scales of certain fish found in the southern waters. These are bleached, and then fashioned into brooches, earrings, and necklaces. A large model of what Is claimed to be the largest pumping machinery in the world has been placed on exhibition in Machinery Hall, and is attracting no little attention. The exhibit is in the British departmeut,and is enclosed In a glass case. As thi re are In the model 3439 separate and distinct pieces, it is needless to say that the machinery is complicated.' The original is at work inCadigro, near Ferrara, Italy, and is said to have a capacity of lifting 2000 tons of water from ten to twelve feet high per minute. The machinery con sists of a pair of compound, surface con densing engines, with centrifugal pumps. In order that the workmen and their families throughout the mining and manufacturing regions of the Phil adelphia and Reading Railroad Couip i- ny may nave an opportunity to visit the Exhibition, the company proposes that when five hundred passengers are guar anteed, it will run a special excursion train, leaving any point in the mining region early in tne morning and return ing late in the evening, allowing a stay of at least eight hours at the Exhibition. The tickets for such passengers will he furnished through its station agents at the rate of $2 per passenger for the round trip. This rate will be uniform from all points, but the tickets will be good on the special train only and on the day named for the excursion. Mexico astonishes visitors to her section by exhibiting a circular mass of pure silver weighing 4,000 lbs., and valued at $i2,000. l be mineral contri bution of this country is exceptionally good. There are some flue cannel coal and a collection of beantiiul opals and precious gems Imbedded in ore. In textile manufactures, Mexico compares favorably with other nations, and ex hibits cloth and cassinieres of the finest workmanship. There is a large dis play of medicinal plants, caffee, and to bacco, and alsoavaluable exhibit, show ing the many uses of the agave. The fiber of this plant Is made into rope, pa per, and cloth, and its flower yields an intoxicating drink called putyKe. Arrangements for a "Lacrosse" tournament between a club of twelve picked players from the Iroquois In dians and rival clubs of like number, composed of Canadian gentlemen, are In contemplation by several prominent Canadian visitors and exhibitors. The tournament will take place in the Park, within convenient distance of the Ex hibition grounds. The game of "La crosse" is of Indian origin, and the first record of it dates back to the French and English wars. When Fort Detroit was captured by the Oneida Indians, the game was used as a blind to gain admit tance to the gates, while two clubs of young Indians were playing on the out side of the fort, hundreds of warriors creeping stealthily up and remaining concealed in the woods until the ball was thrown over the wall. The juve nile red men asked and were granted permission to go in and recover their plaything, but hardly were the gates opened before the fort swarmed with the enemy. The principle of the game is not uniike that of the old Irish game of "Hurley," though the ball Is kept in the air and caught upon and thrown by an implement somewhat resembling a huge battledore. On the opening day, a large number of Turks, Japanese, Chinese, Spaniards, and Germans appeared in the costumes worn by their countrymen, and, as has been already announced to the credit of the somewhat mixed crowd that thronged Fairmount Park on the 10th of May. they were treated while on the grounds with the utmost respect and courtesy. Of course the Turks and Egyptians were stared at. but they were not made to feel out of place or uncom fortable. On the streets, however, af ter the opening ceremonies, it appears that their treatment was very difierent. They were followed by large crowds ol Idle boys and men, who hooted and shouted at them as if they had been an imals of a strange species, instead of visitors who were entitled only to tne most courteous attention. It is known that in at least one case the silken robes of a Chinese official were nearly torn from his back by some malicious per son. Because of this kind of treatment, all the Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, and Egyptian commissioners and attendants have abandoned the striking dress of their native countries, and, with but few exceptions, have made themselves uncomfortable and unattractive by ap pearing in the conventional coat, vest, and trousers of "the great Yankee na tion." The Japanese take remarkably well to their new dress, and appear to be quite at home in the high silk bats which they almost invariably wear, but the Chinese seem to be particularly "in hot water," and out or their element. FKW3 Q BRUT Irelaifl is to send a crew to row in the Saratoga regetta. A Xew York shoemaker uas the ap- j propriate name of Heeltap. t ' Dartmouth Coltge graduates a fifty yar oid student tins year. Robert Bonner has eighty thorough breds on his breeding farm. Chalk bricks are used for building purposes in Western Kausas. A woman is living serenely under the same roof with two husbands, near Geneva, Ga. Illinois has 200 cheese factories, to which 2,000,000 milch cows make daily contributions. A Nantucket man has drunk over 73 barrels of liquor in 31 years, and yet he is not happy. England has now about 140 art schools, which have an attendance of nearly 30,000 pupils. The Order of the Sisters of Charity now numbers over 50,000 members throughout the world. Five fishing vessels and forty-seven lives have been Inst in the Gloucester, Mass., fisheries this year. It is estimated that about 7,000 per sons are engaged in the manufacture of lime in the Uuited States. The insurable value of London has risen in ten years from 900,000,000 sterling to 1, 400,000.000. Arabella Goddard, the pianiste, af ter giving 100 farewell concerts in Eng land, will make her home in California. In Statesvtne. X. C, is a minister who has been in business seven years. He has married eigety-five couples for less than (50. Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago, has given fifty dollars towards the cost of the proposed memorial bust of Thomas fame. The girls of Fulton county (HI.) had a sheep shearing match the other day, and the winner sheared thirteen sheep in two hours. A grand reunion of all the regi ments in Maine, including the batter ies, will take place on one of the islands in Casco Bay on August 10. It is gratifying to learn that Gov. Bedle has appointed Auxencius Maria Pina Venezuela Ilildreth Dickerson, of Salem. X. J., to be a Notary Public. Hon. J. Proctor Knott Is a candi date for re-election to Congress from the Fourth district of Kentucky, and is not likely to encounter much opposition. On Decoration Day the grave of William U. Seward, in Auburn. Xew York, was loaded with flowers, which were surmounted with a large floral cross. There is a town in Maine where. after three days' hard work, the citi zens raised seventy-two cents for the tdow or a man who was accidentally killed. There are only two gallons of whis ky, per year, manufactured lor each in habitant oi the I nited States, and it is a clear case that somebody's got to go without. The Rev. Dr. Hall, who has been a professor in the Auburn theological seminary for the past 22 years, has re tired on an annuity or si,ooo ror the rest of bis life. There arrived at the port of Xew York last year, from the West Indies, 22,500,000 oranges, about 600,000 bun ches of bananas, 5,250,000 pineapples and 7,500.000 cocoanuts. The book containing a record of the baptisms in the Old South Church, Bos ton, from 16U9 up to the present time, has the date of Benjamin Franklin's January 6, 1707. A fishing party of six, with lines. caught near Pensaeola, recently one hundred and fifty snappers and grou pers, in all, nine hundred pounds of fish in half a day. The law's delay. A case was re cently decided in England which first commenced in the year 142. The amount originally in dispute was $100, 000. Nothing was left. The exhibition grounds have al ready become noted because of the fre quency with which visitors meet friend and even relatives, whom they have Io$) sight of for many years. Madam D'Atalie, the strong woman whoexhibited in Itanium's HipiMxIrome show in Xew York, has been married to Nat Austin, the clown. Both are in California with a circus. It is worthy of notice that Texas flour has already been sent to market. ot, of course, in large quantities, but enough for an exhibit, from wheat cut on the fifteenth or May. By a previous arrangement, all the ministers at Nelson, Kentucky, offered prayers for rain the other Sunday, and before morning the citizens thought the deluge would never subside. Gen. Wm. Sooy Smith offers to build a tunnel across the Detroit river and not ask the city lor money until the work is completed, lie says English capitalists will advance the money f uuds. In recognition of the generous con tributions of A. T. Stewart to the relief of Paris after the siege, it is proposed to call one of the newly-opened streets in the upper part of the city by his name. England is spending $10,000,000 a year on her public schools, besides some millions of voluntary contributions, and yet only 1,800.000 of the 3,200,000 chil dren in the country of school age are in school. Sheriff Clark of Boston declines to give to the public the last written con fession of Pi(er, withholding it at the request of the family, but says it fully confirms Piper's previous alleged con fessions. All the men on the School Commit tee of Watertown, Mass., resigned be cause a woman was elected a member, and their action has been rebuked by the election of two women on the new committee. The total earnings of the Xew Hampshire State Prison in 1835 were $36,399, yielding a profit of $20,598. Owing to the hard times the contract price of labor per day has been reduced from 95 to 63 cts. Mrs. Caroline Richings-Bernard it is reported, is in receiptor a very hand some offer from Manager Mapleson to become the prima donna of a company of American singers for a series of per formances in England next season. Kansas now leads in the culture of castor beans, and her last year's crop was not less than $250,000. Grasshop pers refuse to eat the leaves of this plant, and as it grows thriftily and yields well on the prairies, there is no good reason why Kansas should not supply the world with castor oil. A. T. Stewart's "Roll of Honor" has been published, containing about 300 names of those employees who have been in his service ten years and up ward. Sums ranging from $500 to $2,500 have been paid, amounting to a total of $205,750, besides special be quests. Many grateful acknowledge ments have been made. J : 1. f 'i if -Ml
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