B. F. SCHWEIER," thz ooasTiTonos thi mnoH nn thi xstokcimist or thi laws. Editor and Proprietor VOL. XXX. MIEFLINTOTVN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA-. AUGUST 23. 1876. NO. 34. f '4, LITE. BT CHAKIjOTTE BBOSTE. Life, believe ia not a dream So dark as sages say , Oft a little morning rain Foretells a leaeaut day. Sometimes there are cloud of gloom. Bat these are transient all ; If the shower will make the roaea bloom, O, shy lament iU fall ? Rapidly, merrily. Life' runny hours flit by, Gratef ally, cheerily. Enjoy-them as they fly! What though Death at times step in An J calls our best away ? What though our sorrow seems to win O'er hope, a heavy sway ? Yet hope again elastic springs, Cnconqnered, though she fell ; Still buoyant are her golden wings. Still strong to bear as well. Manfully, fearlessly, The day of trial bear. Tor gloriously, victoriously. Can courage quell deopair! Grandfathers Bank. There were four of us : Beck. Wyman and fat littie Bunuie, besides me. We all lived iu grandfather's house. It bad been a grand place in its day, and the boys and girls of long ago used to walk out in the summer twilight to admire the great wooden pineapple and its green leaves carved and colored over the front door. In our day it was an old-fashioned house in a shady city street. Mother died when Bunnie was but a baby, so grandfather took us to live with him. The stage brought us, under the charge of Mrs. Stocking, and wes cared and wondering, stood in a row before him. He said : "Well, well, children ! Nurse, take them in to get some supper." Then he rubbed his hands and went out Into the garden to potter about some plants. While we were eating at a small table iu the middle of an immense dining room he came and stood in the door way. "Retecca is the eldest," said he, re ferring to a paper iu his hand. "Fif teen ! Want your nurse yet?" Beckie 's eyes filled with tears. "Tut! Tut;" exclaimed grandfather; "don't cry ! I can't bear crying ! 'Sir," began Beckie, resolutely, "I can do whatever you think best; but I'm afraid I do not know enough to take care of Bunuie all alone." "Then nurse must stay till you do know enough. Learn as fast as you can." He then made some agreement with Mrs Stocking about wages, and our dear "Stockie," as we called her, afier Bunuie's perversion, staid a year. There was the great house, nothing changed for more tlian half a century. A wide, shady garden ran down to an other street. We bad free range with out and within always excepting grandfather's rooms. On the rainy davs. or when we felt particularly full of fun, we used to go to the garret, where our racketing could disturb tobody ; and in that great cob-webby space we had royal times, till we needed other things, attiring ourselves in the antiquities we fouud there. Wye and I wrote a thrilling drama of the war, in which he represented a Union officer taken prisoner, and Beck, the lovely Virginian, who set him free. Buunie was a sentinel. I, a spy. There were scenes w ith soldiers, iu which we four appeared, and hospital sketches in which bolsters laid out made capital sick soldiers; and Wye was a surgeon to cut off arms. We all felt out of sorts when Beckie grew too old for this entertainment and used to walk alone in the garden, like an imprisoned princess. We inher ited from our mother an income of oue hundred dollars a year; that was punc tually paid to Beck by grandfather, in quarterly instalments, to be spent for the four. What a life we led her! How we insisted she should buy aecor deons. pistols, dolls, work-boxes for getful of ragged hats and toes sticking through our shoes. All this time the great civil war was " raging, and grandfather, who hated war, and thought everybody wrong, and everything going to perdition, talked nothing but politics to his neigh bors, and to us, when we were still enough to listen. He particularly hated the paper cur rency, and Bunuie once came in glee with a dirty fifty-cent note fisherman had given her grandfather in change. It had fallen to the ground, and he, be ing irritated that morning, told Bunnie to take it away. He had never given us anything before, and we sent Wye out to buy chocolate candy. When Beckie was eighteen, Wyman was in his last year of the High School, where Stockie had told us we ought to send him. For a long time one hundred dollars had to be expended on this youth. We knew he must have an ed ucation, and wear decent clothes. We looked forward to his getting a situa tion sometime, and our having each a new alpaca in consequence. He would grow so! One of our most wretched experiences was when he insisted on having a sage-green overcoat that faded in streaks, and that he had to wear. Buunie's little clothes, even to his i-Ai.s. we contrived out of his r j brother's. He was independent. Beckie and I for several years exer cised in the shades of evening, or now aud then, spasmodically appeared sep arately at the little mission chapel near us. We had a black alpaca between us oueskirt, and two basques. Beckie had a sash when she wore hers. I had some bows I pinned on mine. One summer we asked grandfather for two linen sheets they were superbly fine and made Beckie a dress, which she wore In triumph to a pic-nic with a Mr. Van Aster, the young man who took such an interest in Wye. He belonged to the academy, and taught Greek and geology in the High School. Wyesome times brought him to tea. Beck had the best clothes. It was necessary. If I happened to have a fresh calico, I presented myself, If not, some excuse was made for me. I re member we made ourselves wrappers out of some soft Canton silk, covered with great flowers that we found. It had once been used for curtains when the house was in its pride. When hard pushed for a costume, one of us would make the most of a little cold, and ex tinguishing the glory of the wrapper by a shawl, would sit near the lire. Wye bringing tea, and Mr. Van Aster suggesting hot loinenade or violet tea, such as bis mother made. Grandfather was always kind to us that is, he never scolded us; but he never petted us. He never thought of our wanting money or clothes, I sup pose, any more than we thought of ask ing. Betty was pretty a pale, wild rose beauty with brown hair and soft shining brown eyes; but what was the good of her being fair with no one to see? Grandfather had his bed-room and library down stairs, on the south side of the hall. Pleasant, sunny rooms they were, opening into others never used, and tilled with the gigantic fur niture our ancestors preferred. In the evening he used to open his library door, and we could see him reading under the light of his tallow lamp. When bed-time came we said good night to him at his door, aud he would pleasantly respond. But one evening he did not answer. His book was open before him, his head upon his breast be was dead. The neighbors came. Among others Mr. Thompson, with whom grand father had been accustomed to hold long debates over the garden wall. He was a cute business man, kind but with no time to waste. He showed us how we stood in the world. There was no will. We were the heirs. But except a few hundred dollars in the secretary, and the certificates of good-for-nothing insurance stock, there was no property no trace of income. "Most singular!" said Mr. Thomp son. "How has the old gentleman been living?" "We do not know. We did not even owe the servants but that oue week's wages." There were but fifty dollars left when the funeral expenses were paid. We had the place to be valuable in the remote future; but how were we to eat and drink meanwhile? Mr. Thoinpsou said he would advise us at any time, and went home. We girls cried. We said he should talk ith Van, Aster, and get a situa tion at once. He was within a month of graduating, but if he could have the place in the bank at three hundred a year he should go now. This he did. Van Aster's uncle was the bank president, and, perhaps, was influenced in our favor. For a week we felt rich. Then we soon found that wood, coal, flour, tnxes and things counted up so fast that we were poor even in the matter of clothes. Wye must look nice to work in the bank. We grew thriftier every week, aud bv-and-by Wye said he thought we would be able to bring it down to a straw a day. Poor, boy, he did have such an appe tite. All the time I had it in my heart to hone we should come upon some hidden treasure, aud I scoured every corner of the house. I found old wine, a chest full of rich brocade and lace, boxes of yellow letters, but of money, not a dime. "Do you suppose," said Beck, "that he turned his whole fortune into gold, and spent it during these years of war? I have beard of such things." "If he did not, wliere is it?" said I. When spring opened we established Wyman in grandfather's rooms. They were pleasant, and convenient for his friends, and gave him a certain dignity as the head of the house. We had little of anything else; we thought much of our family dignity We bad no servauts, but we cleaned the rooms ourselves, and the whole work was completely done, all anima ted by the forlorn expectation of mine, of finding some biding place, or at least a paper, to throw some glimmer of light on grandfather's past. But nothing happened. Nothing happened till months and months after. Wyman came home from the bank, sick. Then we felt this was our first real frizht and misfortune. Bunnie ran to the end of the street for a doctor, and came holding him fast by the hand He had made a friend, and so it turned out. had we. He was a young man, I found out in the course of a few days, and he seemed wonderfully taken with us all, and what of our story he learned As for Wyman, he was not danger ously ill at all. Staying iu bed was the best thing he could do. He needed but little medicine: we must give him nice things, talk to, and amuse him. So we did ; and getting over our anx iety, had quite a jolly week, doctor, Van Aster, and all. The doctor had never been in so old fashioned a house. ne thought it beautiful, and talked so much about the great chests of drawers the tables and the chairs, that we opened our eyes. 'And the bed !" exclaimed Wyman, "Don't you believe one mahogany tree was sacrificed to each post, to say notb ing of the crowning cannon-balls, big enough to hold a pium pudding each ! As he spoke an idea flashed through me. I was always having inspirations Beckie said. I mounted a chair, from thence to a table at the head of Wymans bed. Thev were huge balls, divided in the centre by a projecting band like the equator of a globe. I began to un screw. 'Look at that girl!" said Wye. "She is always searching for Captain Kidd's treasure. She harrows the life out of na. Vow she thinks she has it In an old West India pickle jar, and now in the stuffing of a chair. Once she made me crawl over the floor to sound for hnllnw nlace. and eood gracious, but she's found it at last!" So I bad. The top of the ball of the bed-post unscrewed. The hollow was full of gold eagles. A post apiece, Wye said. as A rsytleiaa Bale Health far the Heate Terse. Rise early ; the morning air is pure and cool. Take a hand bath, going over the whole person with water at its natural temperature; any one can do this who can command the use of a ba sin and one or two quarts of water. Use nothing but the hand ; once or twice a week put a few drops of ammonia in the water to cleanse the skin, or use white castile soap avoid all others. Do this all the year round, no matter what the temperature of the weather is; be ginning now, the skin will become ac customed to it, and cold will not effect, but tone up the system, bringing the blood to the surface and preventing cold from sudden changes ; besides not half the clothing will be needed. At this season do not discard flannels altogether, but wear thin ones without sleeves; the best are made from white bunting, which is not heating, and yet absorbs the perspiration, and will last for ever if properly shrunk before being made up. On rising, if feeling faint and loss of appetite, take a teaspoonful of char coal stirred in a little water, and re peat the same at bedtime; it must be the fine willow charcoal, and to be found (with twenty-five cents) at all apothe caries. This absorbs the gas from un digested food, and sweetens the stomach and prepares it for food, and should be taken at any time when there is any un pleasant fulness in the stomach before eating. Avoid ice water, except one or two swallows; the habitual use lowers the temperature of the stomach and prevents digesting. Soda water in im moderate quantities should also be avoi ded, certainly not more than a single glass per day. Let the diet be a gener ous one, but avoid mixtures; never more than two or three dishes at each meal. Pastry of all kinds should be es pecially avoided in hot weather. Plain yeast bread a day old, with good butter, sparingly, and in hot weather with milk when fresh well salted; all kinds of fruit and vegetables in their season, well cooked and salted salt allays thirst hen taken fresh upon food. Go slow about your business or work. Never try to do two men's work in one day. There is nothing gained by it. Keep on the shady side of the street if there is one; if not, carry an umbrella, if you can ; if not, your hankerchief iu the top of your hat; if in the country, greeu leaves. Never get in a passion, as it shortens life. Finally, make haste slow ly to get rich ; remember that without health riches are of no account. Hotel Life la Baa Fraaclaee. A story is told of a San Francisco house, says the Helena Star, but as it is not localized, we cannot possibly saddle it on any or them. A man boarding there thought prudent to settle terms beforehand, to be sure that his money would hold out. Two dollars a day. He staid two months and sent for his bilL Carramba ! the $2 a day for board was only a small part of the items charged. Sixty dollars for fire loomed up conspicuously. Boarder demurred. Can't help It," says the landlord, -'we can't afford to furnish the fuel and a man to attend to it for less than a dol lar a day." "All right," says boarder, "I'm wil ling to pay you a dollar a day for fire, but don't want to pay you any more than I've had. Now, out of all the time I've been here, it's impossible that I could have had a fire more than half a dozen days In the whole sixty." "Well," says the landlord, "that's not our fault; the fuel was there and a mau to attend to it; you might have used it if you had been a miuJ to." But the boarder remonstrated still further. "Now, if you'll come up and look at my room, I think I can convince you that there never was any fuel there, and what is more," continued he rising to the sublimity of thesituatiou, there is no place to put it. if it were there. There is no fire-place in the room, and no stove. There's not even a chimney in the room for smoke to get out at, nor a 6tove-pipe, nor a hole to put a stove pipe in." The landlord "went down in his boots." : Bar lace Cereasoalee. The ancient practice of mariage by capture, which has left some traces even in our customs and sports notably In that popular game of kiss-in-the-ring, a mimic representation of the great game of marriage finds many illustrations in Mongol life. Kubruquis, who visited the hordes of Tartary, and was enter tained in the tent of the immediate suc cessor of Yenghis Khan, described a Mongol marriage thus: "Therefore, when any man hath bargained with an other for a maid, the father of a damsel makes him a feast; in the mean time she flies away to some of her kinsfolk to hide herself. Then the father says to the bridegroom, "My daughter is yours; take her wheresoever you can find her." Then he and his friends seek her till they find her, and having found her, he takes her by force and carries her to his own house." This simple form of marriage contract is still preserved among the Koraks and Tchuc tchus, tribes of north-eastern Siberia. There the damsel is pursued by her ad mirer, and hides herself among the po logs, or cabins made of skin, which form the internal compartments of their dwellings. The woman kind assist her in her pretended evasion, and not till the bridegroom has caught his bride and left the impression of a finger-nail upon her tender skin is the betrothal completed. The analogous customs in Roman marriages here strike one with the myth of the rape of the Sabines ; but we need not go so far afield. The customs of a Welsh wedding, up to a very recent date, included a mimic pur suit of the bride by the bridegroom, both on horseback : and even in our English manner, when the bridegroom Invariably goes to seek his bride on the weddinz morn. But the value of wo man-kind in a pastoral life.where there is so much for her to do ia the way of milking, cheese and butter making, and so on, brings a further element Into the relationship. A price must be paid for the future companion, and the kalim or wedding portion enters largely into the question. A more modern Mongol wedding is described by Hue, that most amusing of Jesuit fathers. The relig ious ceremonies are those of Buddhism. The marriage Is arranged by the par ents, who settle the dower that is to be paid to the father of the bride by means of mediators. When the contract baa been concluded, the father of the bride groom, accompanied by his nearest re latives, carries the news to the family of the bride. They prostrate themselves before the domestic altar, and offer up a boiled sheep's head, milk, and a sash of white silk. During the repast all the relations of the bride receive a piece of mouey, which they deposit in a vase filled with wine made of fermented milk, (we have, or had, a similar cus tom of hiding a ring or money in the wedding cake,) the father of the bride drinks the milk and keeps the money. The lamas, or priests, fix an auspicious day, when the bridegroom send a depu tation to escort the bride. There is a feigned opposition to the departure of the bride, who is placed on a horse, and led three times (note the three mys tic circles) round the paternal house, and then taken at full gallop to the tent prepared for the purpose near the dwel ling of her father-in-law. All the Tar tars of the neighborhood repair to the wedding feast and offer their presents, which consist of beasts and eatables. These go to the father of the bridegroom, and often recoup him the sum he has paid for the sou's bride. Rather a shame, one would think, of that selfish papa, did we not reflect that he will have to support his son aud daughter, or at all events set them up in sheep and cattle from his flocks aud herds. Beljratia. Strategy. "Monkeys should be looked after and educated," says a sarcastic writer; and certainly these animals possess a taleut for mimicry which gives them the ap pearance of possessing brain power. Man, however, is more than a match for them, as the following story will show. A company of Brazil hunters had a lot of little boots made, just large enough to be drawn over a monkey's foot, and filled the bottom with pitch. With these they set out for the woods, and soon fouud themselves under the trees where the lively little fellows were leaping about among the branches, banging by their tails, swinging them selves easily from one tree to another, and chatung noisily together, as if mak iug observations upon the strange visi itors that had come into their quarters. The hunters quietly sat down under the trees, while the little chatterboxes were rattliug on over their heads, but never for a moment removing their eyes from them. Then they placed the little boots where they could be seen, and commenced biking off their own boots. Having done this, they let them stand awhile near the little boots. All this the monkeys very closely noticed. The hunters, now taking up their boots, having carefully looked over them, drew them slowly, oue after another, on their feet. Not a motion escaped the observation of the monkeys. Having replaced their boots tuey hurried away to the thicket, where they could, un seen, watch the monkeys, leaving the little boots standing in a row. lhey were no sooner out of sight than down from the branches dropped the mo keys. They looked at the boots took them up, smelt of them, and finally seating themselves as the hunters had done drew them on over their feet. As soon as they were fairly in the boots, out sprang the hunters f rom their hid' ing place, and rushed upon them, I he monkeys, affrighted, at once started for the trees, but only to find that they had destroyed their power of climbing by putting on the boots. So they fell an easy prey to their cunning enemies. Hlata aa te Beaaty. There is nothing more unfavorable to female beauty than kite hours. Women who, either from necessity or choice, spend most of the day in bed, and the night in work or dissipation, have al ways a pale, faded complexion and dark rimmed wearied eyes. Too much sleep is almost as hurtful as too little, and is sure to give the person unwhole some fat. Diet, also, has a marked in fluence upon personal beauty. A gross and excessive indulgence in eating and drinking is fatal to the female charms, especially when there is great tendency to "making flesh." Regularity of time in the daily repast and good cooking are the best means of securing not only good health, but good looks, the ap petite should never be wasted during the intervals between meals on pastry, confectionery, or any other tickler of the appetite, which gratifies the taste, but does not support the system. Exer cise is. of course, essential to female beauty. It animates the whole physl cal life, quickens the circulation of the blood, heightens the color, develops the growth, and perfects the form of each limb and the entire body. It also gives beauty and grace to each movement. DlTlac far Drlak. One of the hotf&t regions of the earth is along the Persian Gulf, where little or no rain falls. At Behrein the arid shore has no fresh water : yet a com. paritively numerous population con trives to exist there, thanks to copious springs which burst forth from the bot tom of the sea. The fresh water is got by diving. The diver, sitting in his boat, winds a great goatskin bag around his left arm, the hand grasping Its mouth ; then he takes In his right hand a heavy stone, to which is atttached a strong lite, and thus equipped he plun ges In and quickly reaches the bottom Instantly opening the bag over the strong jet of fresh water, he springs up in the ascending current, at the same time closing the bag, and is helped aboard. The stone is then hauled up, and the diver, after taking breath, plun ges again. The source of these copious submarine springs is though to be in the green hills of Oman, some five or six hundred miles distant. Taaatie ta Persia. The system of taxation is one of the moat onerous that can be imagined, and its burden is placed with blighting in cidence wholly upon the producing classes. For each plowing bullock the poor peasant pays nearly the value of the animal yearly. Be contributes of his produce, he pays for every date-tree, he is subject to a poll tax ; no w and then he is called upon to protect his village against an attack by robbers, and in case of defeat must submit to be spoiled of any portable property he possesses. If there is a highway robbery within the boundaries of his village, he must pay his Bhare of the losses Incurred, which It is not at all certain will ever reach the empty pocket of the plundered man. He can never calculate the amount of his taxation, for while the Governor of this year may be lenient, his succes sor next year will be rapacious. As a rule, the Governors purchase their of fice, and sometimes, over and above the sum which they are obliged to return aa revenue, make annual presents to the Shah. To repay themselves for this outlay they ravage the district with tax ation ; and a Governor is successful or not, from his town point of view, in reference to the sum, in excess of the assessed amount, .. hicb be or his vizier (for the greater Governors rarely do this themselves) can force from the peasants and from the traders iu the bazaars of the towns. We were unable to present the letter which the Sadr Azem had given us to the Governor of Bushire, because a few days before our arrival bis Excellency had started with a large number of soldiers upon a tax-gather ing expedition. The crown of a most iniquitous system is the exemption of the moollahs and in fact of all who are not engaged in trade, commerce, or griculture. It follows from this sys tem that men hoard money to the utmost of their power and conceal their riches as far as their tastes permit ; that repro ductive expenditure is restricted to a minimum, and that this is declining every year as the demand for foreign goods increases and the balance of trade is augmented against Persia. Already the gold coinage has virtually disap peared. The common talk of the ba zaars is of tomans, but the traveler may spend a hundred thousand without ever seeing one. And now, year by year, the silver ktrnm, which with the copper thihee form the currency of Persia, are passing away in millions to pay the bal ance of trade, which, if native produc tion were encouraged, might so easily be discharged by exports of wheat, cot ton, wool, and opium. The value of the specie exported from Bushire, the chief port of Persia, in 1S73, is reported by Col. Ross, the Political Resident, to have been Rs. 1,053,396. When the American War of Secession so greatly raised the price of cotton, there was for some years a considerable export irom Persia; but now that American cotton is once more cheap and pleutiful, it is falling off, and production is further checked by the heavy export duty, but a share of which reaches the Persian treasury. We have already referred to the Khan who farms the customs of Southern Persia. For the privilege of collecting as much as he could get un der this head In the port of Bushire for the year 1873, this person paid 32,000 tomans or about 12,800. None but his dependants are employed in obtain ing the revenue; there is no interfe rence of any sort by employees of the Government, and no returns or reports are required of any of his transactions. It is surely mild language which the British Resident uses in reference to this monstrous abuse of fiscal authority, when he writes to the Indian Govern ment that "the system is felt to be in convenient by traders." Cvnieritn-9f Review. AeeeasUe rrepertleaert'hareaea. Though modern church architecture is constructed on acoustic principles, it frequently happens that the voice of the speaker is lost. Especially in this the case when the building has numer ous subdivisions,8uch as of vaults, aisles and chapels. In many of such larger edifices the use of sounding boards back and above the pulpit becomes necessary. The American Architect and Building News gives a brief notice of such con structions. It explains that, in addition to peculiarities of form which must be adapted to the configuration of the building, such screens should have a certain solidity of construction. It is not required that sounding boards should have a vibratory influence.which would be the case if they were made of thin wood; but that, being built solid and of heavy oak, they should nave the Dower of reflecting sound. Mention is made of such a defective sound board, due to a firm of piano makers, the wood employed being such as was used in the construction of their instruments. This, instead of reflecting the sound as it was intended to do, and as a heavier wood would have done, absorbed the sound into its own mass, and vibrated with the air. The Baaalaa Fair at 9HJal-eva;ered The great Russian fair, which sixty years since was transferred to Nijni- Novgorod from Its ancient locality in the meadows near the Monastery of Macarieva, opens on the 25th of June (old style), and comes to a close early in September. Dr. Doria, secretary of the British embassy at St- Petersburg, re ports that it is calculated that a million persons visited the fair last year, and about 130,000 of them were resident at a time, for a longer or shorter period. during the fair. The value of the mer chandise actually sold at the fair has risen from 49,000,000 roubles in 1847 to 163.000,000 in 1S74. In the last-named year upward of 6,000 shops were let. The site, at the confluence of the rivers Oka and Volga, is unrivaled in the whole empire for water communication. Between the immense market halls and the moat which surrounds them is the celebrated subterranean gallery, washed by the water from Lake Mestcherski, which, rushing with great impetus into the gallery, cleanses it thoroughly, carrying away all rubbish into the river Oka, whose level ia six yards lower thin that of the lake. The wholesale trade in iron, in different forms, amounted at the fair in 1874 to 5,557,800 poods of 36 pounds each, sold for 13,953,000 roubles, equal at 33d., to 2,193,813. Tea of the value of upward of 10,000,000 roubles was also sold. Along the banks of the lake enormous pyramids of chests of tea are heaped upon the ground covered only with matting made from the inner bark of the birch tree. These chests of tea, called "tslkiki," are so packed as to be impervious to rain or damp. Out side the ordinary wooden chest is a covering of wicker-work of cane or bamboo, round which, at Riakhta, raw bull hides are tightly stretched, with the hair inward. These chests arrive at Nijni from China, having been re ceived In barter, at Kiakhta or Maimat chin, on the Chinese border of Russia, for Russian manufactures of cotton or wool; the transport thence being on the backs of camels to Orenboug, and then in rude carts to the rivers Kamma and Volga. It is these "taiblki" which contain that peculiar Kiakte, Baikoff tea, whose taste and aroma are un equalled by any other kind of tea im ported into Europe from China. But Kiakhta tea now encounters a formida ble rival in the tea imported through the Suez Canal and Odessa, as well as from England, and which bears the name of Canton tea. Large sales are made of corn and of leather at the fair, of fruits from Persia, of madder and wine from the Caucasus, and of cotton and skins from Bokharia. Ecjrptlaa Beaearthes. Dr. Birch, of the British Museum, thinks the origin of the Egyptian race is enveloped in mystery. The Egyptians at the earliest periods represented them sclve as "men," and mythically were supposed to have been created by the gods, or to proceed from the eye or mouth of the demiurgos. As early as the third dynasty, their type has been recently, recognized as European, dis tinct from the Nigritic and Semitic races. Philologically considered, the ancient Egyptian language belongs to the Semetic and not the Aryan family of speech, and favors the hypothesis of an early Semetic wave of emigration which flowed into Egypt; but the only solution that remains is the considera tion that the Egyptian was a type pro duced by a fusion of different races alter a period of miscegenation and climac teric influence, and varying afterwards with the olitical relations. Nor is there any indication of an abori ginal race subjected to a more powerful one, or reduced to servitude, and the existence ol a stone period, as it has been called, in the valley of the Nile, during which an uncultivated race rose gradually to a higher developement. Geological considerations, too, do not aid to any great extent in determining the highest chronological limit of in habited Egypt. The Egyptian belongs. after all, to the recent race of men, and has nothing to distinguish his first ap pearance ou the earth's crust from races actuaMy existing. There is no trace of evolution or development. Even the earliest monuments exhibit some of the finest arts, and there is no evidence of the primeval savage race inhabiting the banks of the N ile and plains of the Del ta gradually ascending in the scale of civilization. In the investigation made in this his tory nothing has been too insigniflcent for notice. It is not a history compiled from payri or literary documents alone. A portion of it is inscribed on the walls of the courts of Egyptian temples, or on the sides of the propyla a, the gates or the doors of which were the triumph al arches of Egypt. Here the hiero glyphic details of war are blended with sculptures representing the incidents of Egyptian campaigns, the list of van- quishel countries aud conquered cities. The eldest of all treatises copied on the walls of the court of Caranak, remains long after the original engraved on a plate of silver has forever disappeared in the crucible of time. Yet even these are secondary in im portance to that researen wnicn nas opened every tomb and joined the bro ken clue of history and contempo raneous monuments inaccessible to the Esrvntian and unintelligible to the Greek historians of the country. Criti cism in this respect has supplanted tra. dition. Not only rocks and metals, however but the most fragile of all ma terials, papyrus, has hauded down de tails of Egyptian history. About 2000 rolls and fragments have been discov ered and preserved. Unfortunately, the Turin papyrus, the canon of histo ry or list of all the kings with their suc cessions, years, months, aud days of reign, and in some instances the dura tion of their life, has only escaped the ravages of time in tatters, and it is im- poisible to patch them together. It is supposed to be a system compiled from all extant and contemporaneous sources, representing the idea of the date of the world as known to the Egyptians. Much difficulty exists in re conciling these data with Cynchronistic history. Still it is wonderful how manv of the important outlines of Egyptian history have been discov ered. A great deal still remains to be done to fill up defective portions, for the subject is by no means exhausted. Fresh and younger students would find a new and attractive inquiry of a novel kind reward the efforts of research. The atmpllf tly ef Creatae . Manv rears ago the licentiates of Princeton Seminary were in the habit of preaching at a station some distance from that place. Among their habitual bearers was a sincere and humble, but uneducated Christian slave, called Un cle Sam, who on his return home would try to tell his mistress what he could re member of the sermon, but complained that the students were too deep and learned for him. One day, however, he came home in great good humor. saying that a poor unlarnl old man, just like himself, had preached that day who he supposed was hardly fit to preach to the white people; but he was glad he came, for his sake, for he could remember everything he had $id. On in quiry it was found that Uncle Sam's "unlarnt" old preacher was Rev. Dr. Archibald Alexander, who, when he heard the criticism, said it was the high est compliment ever paid to his preach, ing. The Mewspapsr la Ceart. Before the time of newspapers people could not hear promptly of the crimes committed at a distance; now the pub lic must have a general jail delivery of three or four continents at the break fast table. The morning journal makes the criminal and the charlatan welcome in a million households with the day. It enables a single offender to pour forth his story of conceit, imposture, or crime, for years together ; it raises up a party in his behalf, and occupies a whole nation in discussing his pretence to an estate, or his domestic troubles, or bis ignorance of French. It has not, perhaps, been sufficiently remarked that the modern press does not merely discover ill things; it creates them also by giving popular voice to every one who is interested in darkening counsel. The journals are the making of the liar. They, or rather the public taste which they consult, in spite of their despotic prerogatives, enable the pretender or criminal to raise up such a following as princes could not command in old times. The press gives expression to all the lower forces of society, hitherto unorganized; if it aids intelligence, it aids ignorance just as well. Look at the Tichborne case, for instance ; could the claimant have disturbed English so ciety for years if he had had to deal with judge and jury only? It was the newspapers which gave him vogue, which raised up a great party of the ig uoraut in his behalf, whicn supplied him with money, counsel, and support, for a five-years' raid upon society. AH this is a modern abuse. Imagine a claimant in Federigo's time distracting Italy for years with a civil suit, and putting the defendant to greater ex pense in holding the property against a single rogue than the Duke ever spent upon the fortification of his cities! - It is curious to observe, in great mod ern trials, the darkeningof counsel. The accused person sit in court for months, locking up the discussion against a thousand journals the mystery that two words could explain, battling the law, the judges, the counsel, the jury, the witnesses, the cross-examinations. How can he do it? The press enables him to divide the community into two contend ing factions, modern Guelphs and Ghibellines; divided, however, about no question of civil and temporal power, but about the personal virtues of two rival sentimentalists. It is the press that gives him the opportunity to con vert his private affairs into public af fairs. Imagine the couciousness of such a man, holding his secret safe from the curiosity of a nation ! The Galas;. II arses Listealaa; te Basle. The other day, a German band struck up a lively air, and at the same instant two horses, in a field adjoining the Deaf and Dumb Institution grounds, rushed, scampering and galloping in hot haste down close to the hawthorne hedge which separated their field from the roadside where the musicians were performing. I observed them from my back window, to which I had been called on purpose by uiy boys. The horses, with necks craned out and ears erect, stood motionless, as If sjielled, and eagerly listened during the erfor- niauce of the first piece, as if they did not wish to lose a single note. When it cauie to an end they began to graze, but iu a listless manner, and, every few seconds, kept turning and looking round in the direction of the ban d, evi dently expecting the music to begiu agaiu. Then as soon as the first note sounded the grazing stopped, and "all ear," they listened again. This same process was repeated with every piece the band played, and no auditors could have been more attentive than these two horses. When tiie Germans lifted their music-stands and finally moved off, the horses for some time continued to gaze in the direction they went, fol lowing them with marked interest. They then began slowly and reluctantly again to climb the hill, but all the while continued to look back, as if on the watch for the strains to come again. It was singularly interesting thus to note the evident and unmistakable en joyment of "the concord of sweet sounds displayed by these Intelligent animals, and we wondered if there was any thing in their past lives which could, by the association of equine ideas, ac count for this their peculiar sensibility to music ; or if it only afforded another illustration of that innate love of lost harmony, which, although dimmed and shattered, still underlies and per vades the whole universe Amlretn Jatne SpHtnitOH, in Animnl World. Trae Eeeaesay at Life. The true economy of human life looks at ends rather than incidents, and ad justs expenditures to a moral scale of values. De Quincey pictures a woman sailing over the water, awakening out 2, sleep to find her necklace untied and one end hanging over the stream, while pearl after pearl drops from the string beyond her reach ; while she clutches at one just falling, another drops beyond recovery. Our days drop one after an other by our carelessness, like pearls from a string, as we sail the sea of life. Prudence requires a wise husbanding of time to see that none of these golden coin are spent for nothing. The waste of time is a more serious loss than the extravagances against which there is such loud acclaim. There are thousands who do nothing but lounge and carouse from morning till midnight; drones in the human hive, who consume and waste the honey honest workers wear themselves out in making, and Insult the day by their dissipation and debauch. There are ten thousand idle, frivolous creatures who do nothing but consume and waste and wear what honest hands accumulate, and entice others to live as useless and worthless lives as themselves. Were eve ry man and woman honest toilers, all would have an abundance of everything and half of every day for recreation and culture. The expenditure of a few dollars of taste is a small matter in com parison with the wasting of months and years by thousands who have every ad vantage society can offer, and exact every privilege it affords as a right. A small California town sent 26,000 pounds of honey to market in the month of June. 5IWS IS BBU7. General Israel Putnam used to oc cupy the house at Peekskill where Mr. Beecher now lives. The only female Journalist running a paper in Iowa, is Mrs. Swalm of the Fort Dodge Mttsengtr. Galveston, Texas, is now shipping wheat direct to Liverpool at twenty eight cents per bushel. Woman's Rights. Ladies now have to take off their hats in the California theatres, just like men. Bethlehem, N. II., in the White mountains, is the highest village east of the Rocky mountains. A nickel mine has been found in Seymour, Conn., and the metal is said to be in paying quantities. Mrs. Tyner, the wife of the new Postmaster General, was before her marriage about three years ago a Treas ury clerk. A Salem (Mass.) girl, who is to be single but a week or two more, has twenty-four dresses, all made up, at a cost of $5,000. The Chinese navy consists of forty five ships of war, divided into three squadrons, and the army is composed of 1,200,000 men. A burglar just discharged from the Massachusetts Penitentiary has passed twenty-five of the forty-six years of his life in prison. The two hundred women painters studying at Cooper Institute have earned about $5,000 iu the past year by painting pictures. A letter from the Northwest says that 120,0)10 head of buffaloes were slaughtered on the Northwest plains during the past year. A company of 1,200,000 tradespeo ple daily wainiij- to their hops and dish out commodities by the pound, gallon and yard in the United States. A company has been organized in St. Louis to build a new hotel that will cost $2,000,000, coutaing 2,000 rooms nd accommodate J.jOO guests. A Detroit firm of meat and fruit hiers are the lessess of 15 refrige rator cars, which are run on last trams between lviroit, Chicago and New York. Professor Winchell, lately of Cor nell university, has been offered a pro fessorship in the Vauderbilt university Nashville, Teun., at a salary of $3,0110 year. Kice culture in Ixmisiana employs 30,000 people, on 1,200 plantations; pro- uces a crop wortfi J.l.ow.uuu, and ue- veloiis business to the extent of 10,- 000,000. . lady in Georgia who is the pos sessor of a bonnet 150 years old hopes one of these days either to catch up with the fashion or have the la.-uion catch up w ith her. The Bank of England is run in an old shabby and dingy dungeon of a uilding, but it has never "burst up." Iti akes one of our latter-day "palatial institutions to do that. The Grjnd Order of Accepted Bakers are on a strike in New Vork for ight and pure air. lhey work eigh teen hours a day, make the bread under ground, and bake themselves. The tonnage of vessels that passed through the Suez canal within the last twelve mouths amounted to 2,940,708 tons, and the number of .-hips has been nearly quadrupled iu six years. An enilowniuent has just been unded by an aged and wealthy citi zen of Baltimore, of a large pecuniary dt: to furnish fresh-air treatment ncli slimmer for the children of the Hior. Beer, it is alleged bv some imbibers will not intoxicate, but Berlin statistics show that in that city, wliere beer Is occasionally used as a beverage, 16,000 arrests were made for drunkeuness last year. 'alifornia is building half a dozen new railroads. The most iiiixrtant one is the Southern Pacific, which will probably be in running order between San Francisco and Los Angeles iu Sep tember. The largest sponge ever found in the Floridas is now on exhibition iu New York. The sponge when wet is eight feet in circumference aud when dry twelve feet, and weighs nineteen pounds. Eph. Morris, champion single scul ler of the United Suites, proposes to make a match with Henry Coulter ac cording to the challenge lately issoe-I by the latter. Morris defeated Cot Iter twice last year. The Bank of England clips every iirht sovereign that it receives. The weighing is done very quickly, 3000 au hour being weighed by one machine. In 1875 the bank weighed 22.100.000 worth of coin, aud rejected 840,000. The "big tret;." as it was called. which grew in Calaveras County Cali fornia, contained half a million feet of inch lumber, and was recently lolled by five men working twenty-two and a half days, making one hundred and twelve ami one-half days' labor. Burns, a butcher of Terre Haute Ind.. has just completed a bird house about two feet square that is very novel, ingenious and handsome, it Is In walnut, with marble trimming, in Swiss cottage style and shape, and con tains 3,000 pieces of wood and weighs but six pounds. The venerable Dr. Charles Avery, now in his .Mst year, who has for thirty five years Professor of Chemistry in Hamilton College, says that in going up and down College Hill during that ... . . i - r . i period, lie nas maue me circuit oi me earth once, and reached the quarter- pole on the second turn. During the year ending June 30, 1876, there arrived in the Cuited Mates 22,572 Chinese immigrants, of whom only two hundred and fifty-nine were females. I wo previous years ine total immigration was lb, IS,, of whom eighty-two were females. This shows an increase in lib of !,!. Jeremiah Whalev, aged ninety-two years who lives at Narragansett Pier, R. I., had never seen a train of roilroad cars until a few days ago, when he saw the locomotive used in laving tne tract on the Aarraganseu 1'ier ruiuroau. What makes this case more remarkab.e is that he lives within a few miles of the Stonington Railroad. A negro began business as a phy sician at Oxford, N. C, several years ago, but was not very successful, ex cept pecuniarily. The mortality among bis patients seemed greater man me circumstances justified, and recently his neighbors, convinced that he knew nothing about doctoring, took him into the woods and whipped him soundly. Miss Amy Roselle, one of the pret tiest and piost charming actresses in London, is about to retire from the stage. On the 18th of September she will wed a member of the House of Lords, equally celebrated for his talent money, and his charity. It isn't every day an actress marries a Duke, and, what is better, the Duke has got the best of the bargain, for he will have the prettiest wife in England. 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