- .-..( a,.. - 'y'X 1 I 1 I '' .Fill P I KMU fl ill II I H l.yi 1 1 I I 171 I i j. NNVXN 1 II ! -111(11 III II I H I II I I III - (rvj r-T. jq an WWW F. SCHWEIER, fSOST WORL jwtt have fome with Dofcelesa trJ, tZ&a&ol the enow, - . m 1a.-.a fHnnirll iIaa.1 ' i.tMirm!i " - ' o 1 h .,a toi mm"1 S,ow- Sojuacr bird have flown. . . enivtv newt tyyeilhin; make "'AeeleM moan .Scathe leafy covering fearful song i beard ; prfen Sowers that came lu Spring nr to the ground, as droops the wing . vtwv : , . i ;palironniedbird. Ittbet dariina Come and view Btao tinted fkiee, ftaei with 'int '" of dremT blae. ii I tch the hoe p!tet. antroabled eye. jjicy the liut of tce. my love, otthtfAut"11111 d-T 5, kb li;tts op the leafy grove. Coot W thee lite wandering dove, iodWdiuwto-rs "! Bt-T- Which was the Gossip. H HEi-F-X FKRKSr GRAVES. Sr. jeveramv haJ been Uting te ra Mrs. Tn-lyon. That was nothing jf. Mrs. Severance often took tea rah:IieTrelT0u5. Mrs. Trelyon was ikoepitible little body, and Mrs. Sev suothad quite discrimination enough tbicw trber h. jtnw-i4her Hgntest jrcfctke, the clearest preserves and & best quAliry of Bohea. Bat the nnuual pxri of the combina tion of eircum-tanot.'S was that Mr. Ilron chanced to be at home, with a Eiioed aiikle, upon this special after- Iik UiiiM f.it iu the parlor, with Atir wing. Mrs. Trelyon was hem i white apron for her little girl a filj-htired elf of live, or thereabouts, ciiMr. Severance was engaged in iivra octagonal bits of satin together Ee i chair-cu-hion. Sr. Trelyon lay on the sofa ii. the ib.trr VvonJ, with a newspaper, and ipfrtrot drift of books and magazines a i table by hi side. Tjen Mrs. Severance had gone home Mii Trelyon hobbled into the room chi comical face. "IwoDldn't have believed it if I a3s"i b?arJ it with my own ears !' ii he. ' 44Eeliev-;t3 !.ut?" asked Mrs. Tre- -n. "i hat wou:fn were such gossips." "Xonsense :" said Mrs. Trelyon, a -de fharply. "if you haven't torn your neighbors pieirs by the wholesale, this blessed -rnoon," went on Mr. Trelyon, sit atwn in his wife's work-basket, :35 jecJlng the spools, reels and seis es spinning alout in various direc- -sf '"if you haven't aired all their tlir;g, laid bare the sanctuaries of secret faults, and dissected their iiioie bein-:, I am destitute of the :ver of hearing. My dear, I'm .aimed of you :" Mrs. Trelyon colored angrily. "Louis," cried she, "you're too bad. .'.von could have heard yourself and i Major Fernleaf gossiping aboot the rEUi Kejinient men last week." "Pilaw, my dear!" said Mr. Trel 3!, Molly. Men never gossip." "Oh, don't they, though ?" said Mrs. slron, maliciously. "Didn't you :d Charles Fortescue gossip yesterday Mary Havward's flirtation with i. Gordon V Mr. Trelyon looked a little awkward. Vtiit we might have said a word or v; but" "01, t word or two I" bitterly echoed "Sow, Paulino, there's no use In :3trreling about it," said Trelyon, re wrlng hi3 good humor. "We'll put ' natter to the test. Do you see tr.ie"s savings-bank up there on the ant?" "Of course I see it!" said Mrs. Trel- '5, much marveling what was com- nt. "VJ, look here. Every time I hear "W TOer a word of gossip about yo-;r bbon, I'll cay '.Remember " 'J re to put a ten cent stamp into it. 7 time you hear me talking un- uriuMv about anvbody. 6ing out meDberl' and I'll nut in a quarter." "But it isn't fair that you should ray forfeit than I," said Mrs. Trelyon. "I'm quite nillina- to risk It." said t. Trelyon, calmly. "I don't mean ' get caiigU very often. And at the ' end, w e'll open the bank, and one who has the biggest lot of for 'hall Invest the whole sum in a ff memorial present for the other. "But where are you going to get so -jit ten cent pieces and quarters?" Waim. Trelyon, still Incredulous. .h, that's easily settled. I'll send n to the driis store, on the corner. cS !t a five dollar bill changed Into ia currencv," trlumt.hauUy an- "WdTrelvun. T tll,d..u'x send Molly," said Mrs. "f'yon. '-Slie'll be sure to stop half "lour giggling wih the drag clerk, member:- cried Mr. Trelyon, Ut? lln lila ft it "Tan gntA. k " 7 Trelyon, if you pleare." "A, but that isn't fair," said Mrs. -n. "folly's only my maid." ''y's a fellow creature, for all y 'aid Mr. Trelyon. And, besi,ie3( we haven't begun !" "Vtn'twe It. ctritea ma that's . r- J 4 V I J "HJ vu, ""UltV, Hi iu'1'i'i.r a rmt car nno ttti tl , , "iree. and betrin! There's little ? Bl'kv-ni send him." . OmBailevin 11. o ctront .mint" iM Vri T.l ..,,-1 i. . lll.lCe in f'u rrnrc tn " tta I- he found the place 100 hard' 'Js mother took him out." "hat a fool Mrs. Eailey la!" cried "Treyon" itl, flv nt1i.r .hild. account !' "AltdMr. Trelyon. w , ' yon turned very red, and J XXX' r v MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.; - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1876. ; NO. 50. C . P' "'tone even speak?" said 6he, "Xot If one can't uneak charitahir ' said her husband, slyly enjoying the fun. "Where's my newspaperT" "Old Mr. Foxcraft Just sent to bor row re, aahl Mrs. Tretron.- "Oh, bang old Foxcraft!" cried out Louis, impatiently. "If he's too stingy to subscribe to the paper hlnv self" . - iie-mem-Der I" laughed Mrs. Trel yon. "Twenty-five cents for you." "Caught, by Jove!" aaid Trelyon, subsiding sheepishly into his easy chair. Husband and wife were both tolera bly cautious during the rest of the evening until old Mr. Foxcraft came to return the paper. -ueara the news?" said old Fox craft. "Xo," said Louis. "Leslie Hay ward has applied for a divorce, all on account of Mr. Gordon. "Hay ward's the biggest fool going, not to have put an end to the thing be fore this," said Trelyon, impulsively. "And Mrs. Hayward has behaved shamefully!" chimed in Mrs. Trelyon. "Remember !" said Louis, suddenly recollecting himself. "Twenty-five cents for you!" re torted Mrs. Trelyon. Old Foxcraft stared. The next morning It was rainl ng. "There goe old Mrs. Myers, under that same Noah's ark of an umbrella." said Treylon, as he looked out of the window. I do really, think, Pauline that the ladies of tn' Dorcas Hociety ought to subscribe and buy her a new one." "That counts for tweuty-flve cents," said Pauline, who was sitting on a low divan, buttoning her boots. "Oh, dear! there goes another button! I told Molly to sew them on tight, but she never pays any attention to what I tell her a flisrhtv. feather-headed thing!" "And that counts for ten," said Mr. Trelyon. "Laws !" cried the wife, flushed and indignant; "I shan't keep up this non sensical child's play any longer!" "Oh, but you must," said Mr. Trel yon. "You've begun, and you must go on." At breakfast, a note was handed to Mrs. Trelyon. "Miss Perkins wants to come here and spend the day !" said she irritably, as she opened and read it. "Oh, dear! and we've nothing but cold lamb in the house ! Why can't people stay at home until they're invited? I do think Miss Perkins is a perfect bore !" "Ten cents !" said Mr. Trelyon, in a business-like sort of way. Mrs. Trelyon threw down the note, in a pet. "Nonsense !'' sputtered she. "Very good sense," said her hus band, tearing open his own letters. "Hey hello ! here's your cousin Did derley wants to borrow a hundred dol lars again !" "Poor Diddcriey," said Mrs. Trel you, compassionately, "he's always in difficulty! Of course you'll try and accommodate him?" "Of course I'll do no such thing!" said Mr. Trelyon, savageiy. "I don't see why I should throw away my sub stance on a miserable, thriftless, loaf ing scamp like " Mrs. Trelyon reached down the little tin savings-bank, and extended it toward her husband, with a smile. His countenance fell, as he fumbled in his pocket. "Xever once thought of the fine, Pauline," said he. At the end of the week, there were three dollars in quarters, and two dol lars and seventy cents in tens, in tbe savings- bank. "Xow say, dear," said Mrs. Trelyon, with mischievously sparkling eyes, "which is the gossip?" "You've got me cornered, rauline," said her lord and master with a gri mace. "But now, look here, my girl if you and I have got into such a habit of criticising and fault-finding as this, it's high time we got out of it." "I think so too," said Mrs. Trelyon. And so with the contents of the savings-bank, she bought a pretty little framed and glazed illuminated text, which she hung up in the parlor. This was the legend : Hrt a watch upon the door of thy lipa." A BetaarkaM Fm Story- A remarkable incident, says the To ronto Gloe, occurred at Brown & Hall's saw-mill, in Acton, while a pine log was being sawed up Into lumber. The outside slab and one board had been cut off, and while the workmen were turning over the log they were sur prised to see a large toad poke his head out of a hole in which he was imbed ded, and where he had barely escaped being cut up by the saw. How the stranger got there was a mystery, as be was completely eucasea m me www, with no nossible means of ingress or egress. As the log was the fourth or fifth from the butt of the tree, hii por tion must have been at least nrty or s.t ty feet from the ground, and he had no doubt grown up with it from infancy, lieln. nrobablv hundreds of years oia. The animal was quite flat and nearly as large as a man's hand, lie was penecv 1y blind, but when taken from his bed he made use of his limbs to crawl away. The tree was perfectly sound, with tne exception of a decayed spot of about a foot in length below ine nonow piiu. i m-i.ir-h he was imbedded. How did he get there, and what did he live on ? rbaraeierlatireof the Arb. Monsieur Ernest Feydeau. tlie de liehf ul French novelist has just been traveling in AlperU and publishing a book alout ir. His summing up of the Arab character is (food humored, lie describes the natives as of simple, marvel-loving nature, easily pleased, careleas, treerhanded, pleasure-loving, and childish in manner. Neither moral nor- religions consideration can keep him from feaating or fireworks. Ihe native has a certain wit of his own a wit which delighu in the practical part of joking; and he has a keen apprecia tion of the wit in others. Iofef&lm relishes a good thing so much that hen he has heard it once he instantly cries out. "Encore, encore!" and wants to hear it again. Mt the Ear. A writerin the London Musical World ysj A recent cursory description of the well known Uozarteam, from the pen of an intelligent correspondent of uauy paper, mentions the fact that amongst the interesting relic of the di vine composer exhibited to the public gaze at Salzburg, is a drawing of his ear, showing an abnormally larsre bell. as though nature intended him to be a gifted listener. It is noteworthy that in all portraits, except those painted by the sun itself, next to the boots, the ear sesms to present to the painter the great- A3 .llfll t. . . . . uiun.-u.uy. ii is rarely one sees a shoe beautifully drawn perhaps it is sun rarer that the ordinary covering ior tne leet presents anything that can oe made beautiful, even by a skilful draftsman. With the ear the observer can not help remarking the same ab sence of Individuality. Anything will do for an ear, and a daub or two, that would with equal propriety represent a dried fig or an oyster, would do duty for the above organ. In calling attention to this matter, I venture to submit the results of some of my own observations, in the hope that something more may elicited on this, as I believe, most Inte resting question. And I shall be ex tremely glad if any person who is of opinion that my conclusions are prema ture or erratic will kindly contribute the result of his or her individual ex perience. Small ears are invariably under great disadvantage. Large ears are usually Indicative of a more com prehensive taste. A narrow harp or harp-like opening always denotes a good ear for music. If the harp is verv rez- ular you may safely prognosticate a correct intonation. For a singer, the rim must be very even, and the circle unbroken. Any protuberance on the rim of the ear will occasion a slight dis crepancy of intonation ; the singer will not be at all times alike. Some have a double harp; this Is dangerous to the success of the singer. A perfect double rim is, on the other hand, highly ad vantageous. This is, however, open to the weakness of being satisfied with sweet sounds of any kind. The ear without a rim is the most dainty and difficult to pleate. It appears to receive, almost, as it were, by selection, only the best sounds; ordinary sounds have no attraction for it. These are a few of the leading features of the ear. Seeing that we have the cast of pianists' hands, would it not be as instructive to have casts of composers' ears? Surely the one is as important to the musical stu dent as the other. bar lea James It was at the time of our visit that the symptoms of dropsy, the disease of which Fox died few months later, be gan to show themselves. His legs were so swollen that he could not walk ; be used to wheel himself about in what was called a "Merlin chair;" indeed out of this chair I never remember to have seen him. In many respects his personal appearance at this time differed little from that assigned to him in the many prints and pictures still extant of him. There were still the well formed nose and mouth, and the same manly, open, and beuevolont counte nance. But his face had lost that swarthy appearance, which in the char acters of the day had obtained for him the name of "Xigger" it was very pale. His eyes, though watery, twink eled with fun and good humor. Hie 'thick black beard of true British stuff,' had become like that of Hamltt'' father, "a marbled silvered." He wore a sin gle breasted coat of a light gray color, with plated buttons as large as half crowns; a thick linsey-woolsey waist coat, sage-colored breeches, dark worst ed stockings, and gouty shoes coming over the ankles. ' Fox was not visible of a morning. He either transacted the business of his office, or was occu pied in it, or reading Greek Plays, or French fairy tales, of which last species of literature I have heard my father say he was particularly fond. At on? i o'clock was the children's dinner. We used to assemble in the dining room; Fox was wheeled in at the same moment for his daily basin of fotip. That meal dispatched, he was for the rest of the day the exclusive property of us child ren, and we adjourned to the garden for our game of trap ball. All was new noise and merrimeut. Our host, the youngest among us, laughed, chaffed, and chatted the whole time. As he could not walk, he of course had ' the innings, we the bowling and fagging out; with what glee would he send the ball in the bushes in order to add to his score, and how shamelessly would he wrangle with us whenever we fairly bowled him out. Fox had been a vejy keen siortsman too keen to be a suc cessful one. In his eagerness he would not unfrequentiy put the shot into the gun before the powder. Bob Jeffs, the Elden gamekeeper, (an heirloom of the Admiral's) was fond of telling me how he once marked down a woodcock, and m ent to the hall with the intelligence. It was breakfast time. Up slarted Fox front the untasted meal, ana gun in hand followed the keeper. A hat thrown into the bush flushed the grime, the bird escaped soot free, but Jell's hat was blown to pieces. One hot Septem ber morning Jroxset out irom moik- ham, fully anticipating a good days sport at Egmere, Mr. Coke's best part ridge beat. As was usual witn sports men in thoe days he started at day light. Just as the family was sitting down to breakfast Fox was w en stag gering home. Xot ill, I hope, Charles?' inquired his host. "Xo," was the re ply, "only a little tipsy." Being thirsty, he had asked the tenant of Egmere for a bowl of milk and was too easily persua ded to add thereto a certain, or rather an uncertain, quantity of rum. As a consequence he passed the rest of the day in bed Instead of tlie turnip field. Holkham shooters were one day driven home by a heavy rain. Fox did not ar rive until some time after the rest; he hA fallen in with one of Mr. Coke's laboring men, who had come for shelt er under the same tree. The statesman became so interested in the society of the plowman, who gave him an account of the system 01 "turnip nusnanary THI C0NSTITUTI05 TH1 Din ON just come into vogue that he had great difficulty in tearing himself away: At my father's table one evening the con versation turned upon the relative Jni its of the different kinds of wine. Port, Claret, Burgundy; were criticized in turn, but Fox, who considered alcohol the test of excellence, said, "Which is the best sort of wine I leave you to Judge, all I know is no sort of wine Is bad." Earl Russell and Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford are the only persons of my acquaintance, now living, who besides myself, bad personal access to this great statesman. Lord Eversly, when a small boy, had the advantage of hearing him speak in the House of of Commons, but he does not appear to have highly appreciated that eloquence which so electrified the rest of mankind, for he cried out, "What is that fat gen tleman in such a passion about?" Lord Albemarle1 't Recollection. . fteir-Xaule Martyr. Many women seem to take real pleas ure in martyrizing themselves, and de rive solid enjoyment from the fact of having something to fret about. "I won't ask my husband or my boys to do my chores." says one of these self- elected sufferers. "If they don't think enough of me to do them without being asked, I will do them myself as long as I can, and then somebody else will have to do them." Yes, my good woman, there is just this martyr spirit that I commenced with. Your husband has Ms head full of projects, and if the water pail were right under his feet, he would not think to fill it; and the boys, "bless their hearts," believe in the old adage, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," and would tumble over said pail to get out doors and have a game of tag, or a frolic with the dog, before going to work. TRey do not mean to neglect mother; they have no idea of being unkind; they are not in tlie least to blame; only when her willing hands are at rest will they see their mistake, and perhaps not then. A gentle hand upon the shoulder, a pleasant "fill the pail," would always insure its being done. Supposing they erunihle a little is they probably will that won't hurt you half as much as bringing wood and water, or carrying other heavy burdens. Any man would rather do the chores than know bis wife is over worked. But be knows nothing about the thousand little things connected with a woman's every-day labor. He attends to his own business (or ought to), and expects us to do the same. For getting little things are not intentional unkindnets, neither should we consider it to be so. Hydraaile Practical Jakes. When Catherine II. and her succes sors amused themselves at Peterhoff the water-pcwer was taken into service to play practical jokes on unwary peo ple, which cannot be called enjoyable. In one retired nook there stands a gi gantic mushroom, large enough to have a bench around its stem. As soon as anybody undertakes to seat himself upon it the water streams out of the whole periphery up to the spreading top, enclosing the captive in a splanhing cylinder. To rise again stops the flow of water, but people have not always the presence of mind to think of that. In another secluded spot there is what is called the "Lover's Seat," and here I came upon a poor boy iu a rather dis agreeable plight. Under the spreading elm the branches of which are artfully interwoven with water-pipes, there stands a -bench, just wide enough for two, with a bed of flowers in front. which contains some artificial and some natural shrubs and two huge cast iron thistles. Some fun-loving individ ual had enticed the boy to sit down there and turned on the water, which was pouring over him from all direct ions, from tlie branches of the elm, the back of the bench, and from every branch and thorn of the shrubs. It must be an ardent love indeed that would survive such a dousing. In tlie boy's case there was no tender flame to overcome, and iieoounced irom nis seat with a yell and fled across the park, his cowhide boots causing sad havoc among the flower-beds, while his dripping gar ments secured him plenty of elbow room wherever be struck a gaily-dress ed crowd. I'eea af Bark wheat. Buckwheat is used for food for man and domestic animals in various coun tries of Europe. In some parts of tlie United States it is extensively grown for fattening sheep and swine, but it is generally used in this country for hot buckwheat cakes duriug the rigors of winter. Its fattening qualities are su perior to most other grains. It is used in various ways in diflerent parts of Europe. The flour is commonly mixed with that of rye or wheat in most parts of the continent of Euroie by . both public and private bakers. In Saxony, Bradenburg and Silesia buckwheat forms a part or whole of all the three daily meals ot the lower class, and at least two of the daily meals of the wealthiest classes. Tlie dish of boiled buckwheat flour is the staple food of the peasantry in vaiious parts of Ger many and other countries of Europe, and various preparations of it figure prominently on the tables of the rich. Millions of German and Austrian peas ants not only thrive upnu it, but are as healthy, handsome and vigorous a race as any in Europe. . , Craaawcll'B Bible. In the collection of bibles in the Cen tennial Exhibition is a copy of Crom well's Bible, so called because he pub lished an edition of such size that each soldier could carry it iu his knapsack. A soldier was found dead at Naely in whose knapsack a copy was found pene trated by a bullet which reached that verse in Ecclesiastics, "Kenietubernow thy Creator in the days of thy youth.'' The book is five inches long, two aDd a half wide, and one and three-quarters thick; weitrhs only eijrht and a half ounces, and is the property of the American bible Society. It belonged to John Milton, and was printed in I006 by John Field, printer to Parliament. There are but three other copies in the country, one of which is in the library of the Boston Athena-nm, another in Harvard University Library, and a third in the library of the late George Livermore. The last remains of Daniel Boone's fort is still visible, but becoming oblit erated, at Boonsvllle, Kentucky. A5D TBI KHfORCXMENT OF TH1 LAWS. elea's rat. Mover of yours mm over ml Wei Refuse. I "Promised, to tell you how r Helen Grander died, did' If' said John Man nVtig as w gathered around the tire at Sbarpe's. "It's not a story with a good ending, like your magazine stories, that are writen so as not to shock the nerves of fine lady readers. Xo, not at all. But 111 show you what metal Helen Grang er was made of. "She was Sam Granger's daughter. You know Sam the freight master at Bristol; laid up with rheumatism now; but when he is well, the toughest, wiriest fellow in the country. . "Six years ago when Helen promised to be Charley Warnich's wife. I was telling you about Charley two or three nights since, I believe, "They were well matched, and they loved each other dearly. Helen wasja remarkably handsome girl. '.You don't clap - your eyes on many like her. "You might have dipped her in the salt sea, and she would have come out with her face as white and her cheeks as red as before ; and her bright, curly, brown balr was all her own, and it didn't owe its curl to being done up in crimpers and braided at night, either. "She had a waits such as a man likes to put his arm around. "Xo corset springs and steel braces for him to press against. '.'Of course there .was. another sweet heart lu the case; there always is when such a charming girl as Helen Granger is concerned. "Carl Deutzel was a German. A slow, heavy, stolid sort of a felllow, with a dull blue eye, thick, lead-colored lips, and a big beard. "He looked as If nature had ex hausted her material In making his head, and not having enough for his neck had left that out altogether. Deut zel was an officer on the road, of some degree of Influence and wealth. "He persecuted nelen a good deal with his presents of jewelry and fancy gimcraeks. for it is persecution to a wo man to be offered gifts from a man she doesn't love. But just let her love him and she'll kneel down on her knees to kiss a flower thrown away. "The ways of some women are strange, and not one man in a dozen ever understands them. "Deutzel had done a heap in an underhand kind of way to hurt Charley with the company, but fortunately the superintendent was a man with a mind of bis own, and he wasn't so pig-headed as to dismiss a faithful servant on any rich Dutchman's account. "Deutzel had an idea that if Charley was out of the way Helen could be easi jy won V PUt i -Know, mat ueieu wouiuLand you will become truly one, hate hated him iust as bad as if she had never neon f'hnrlpv Warnieh. "One Saturday n!ght after all the trains were in, the superinteudant sent Charley to the city on some special er rand. "Charley had the "Dunderburg," his favorite engine, ani as he ran down he halted a minute at Granger's to see He'.en, to get a sample of worsted she wanted matched in towu. "Deutzel was smoking a pipe, with old Granger. ' 'it'll be a lonesome trip back to night,' he said to Charley. By George! I wouldn't want the job!' . " 'You're not an engineer,' said Charley, 'and besides I'm never lone some. I have my thoughts for com Iaiiy, with a glance at Helen, tlien he stoojied over the girl, kissed her, and said good night. "He was none of your sheepish, sneaking kind of fellows to be ashamed of making tlie girl of his choice happy before folks. "Helen went to the door with him, lingering a little over thi parting a a loving women will. "Deutzel stopped an hour or so aud then took his leave. "Helen had been watching him close ly.' "There was a red spot on each of his sallow cheeks, and his dull eyes actual ly gleamed as he turned his face an in stant to the light. " 'Father, said Helen, after he had gone, 'there 1 mischief in Carl to-night. I saw the devil in his face. " 'Nonsense,' said old Granger, put ting his pipe on the shelf and taking himself to his bedroom. 'You are as full of fancies as an old grandiime. Go to bed and sleep 'em off.' "'After he had got to snoring, Helen threw a shawl around her and went out into the dark. "It was damp and foggy. "A cold wind blew from the sea, and wailed through the pine trees like some mortal creature in distress. "She took the railroad track, and be gan walking rapidly towards the city. "What she feared she did not know. "She went on for more than a mile until she saw the lights at the bridge over the river.. "The signals said all w as right. "Still she sped on. It was a tidal river, and there was a draw for small steamers to pass through. "As her foot touched the outer tim bers of the bridge she heard the clock of St. Stephen's striking twelve. "Just tlie time when Charley had said he would return. "Even as she stood there she heard the approaching wistle of the Dunden burg, so h rill and clear, and so easily distinguished from others. "He was coming! ner heart beat faster. She thought she would crouch down there in the dark, and see him safe over the bridge. It was always sweet to her to be near liiin. "She took a few steps forward the light from one of the signal lanterns flashed over the bridge and showed her that the draw trot vpt "Like lightning she darted forward and seized the fastenings which held It, tugging with all her strength to unloos thein. "And at that same time she was seized by a pair of strong arms from be hind, and she felt the hot breath of Carl Deutzel, foul with lumes of brandy on her cheeck. " 'Swear to be mine," he said, 'and I will clear the draw and let that cused lover of yours pass over al Ive ! Refuse and he shall die, and you with bim !. He pressed her back until her body lay across the Iron rail, and close at band thundering along like fate, came the snorting Dunderburg. - "She broke from him, and with one mad effort she tore the fastenings of the bridge, and it fell with a dull thud that shook the whole affair to its foundation "The track was safe! . "Deutzel leaped upon her like a tig er. " 'Thus I end it all V be screamed. "And, with her in his arms, he plunged in front of the locomotive! "She put out her helpless hands to wards Charley, and he saw it all at a glance. "Judge if you can, of his feelings. 'The Dunderburg was stopped on the other side of the bridge, and Charley came back and gathered what he had loved up in his arms. "He was sick for two months after that in fact he was never exactly him self afterwards. "Deutzel ? Oh, no ; he wasn't killed ! Certainly not. Killing would have been to good for him. "His legs and arms were crushed so that the doctors cut them off, but his body and his big head were left. "Not many engines could pass over a head like that and keep the track. - "Charley would have killed him, but when he saw how the curse of heaven was upon bint he let him alone. 'There, gentlemen, I see I have made you sad, so I will go. "Now you know how Helen died." Jaad Advice la Married Paeale. A worthy wife of lorty years' stand ing, and whose life was not made up of sunshine and peace, gave the following sensible and impressive advice to a married pair of her acquaintance. The advice is so good aud well suited to ail married people, as well as those enter ing that state, that we here publish it for the benefit of such persons : Preserve sacredly the privacies of your own bouse, your married state, and your heart. Let no father or mother, or sister or brother, ever presume to come between you, or to share the joys or sorrows that belong to you two alone. w ith God's help build your quiet world, not allowing your dearest earthly friend to be tlie confidant of aught that con. cerns your domestic peace. let mo ments of alienation, if they occur, be healed at once. Xever, no, never speak of it outside, but to each other confess, and all will come out right. Xever let the morrow's sun still find you at vari ance. Renew and renew your vow ; it will do you g-od, and thereby your souls will grow together, contented in that love which is stronsrer than death. -.-ri, aaaaaaa nair ay uilis The much vexel question , how to get gold hair is solved at last. While the Germans shrink from being held a fair haired nation, w ho knows but the suf ferers, what other nations have gone through to win the hair despised by Frussia? Ladies have borne unheard of torments in pursuit of this ficticious gold. One w ho had to be turned around in the sun for hours during the pro cess, bore with fortitude the terrible headache involved each week, nor even complained of what she had to pay, though, after all, she scarcely even electro-plated. Some run other risks, in robbing Teuton corpses of their long fair locks; and all is ineffectual while eyes and skin remain to give the lie to hair. Xow, no more dyes, migraines, or wigs will be necessary. Everybody may sport the "glad gold hair" nay, blue eyes, too, and snow-skins. All you have to do is to go and live on an island and eat enguiiis eggs and the more yon e:it the fairer you will get. None need despair, for hair too dark to turn to gold turns to red, and red hair being more the rage than flaxen, taut mieux. Tlie Isle in question Is one of the Crozet group on which the survivors of the unfortunate' Strathmore were wrecked last year, and were only res cued after six months durance tile. They had little to eat but peoguins's eggs (and doubtless the eggs without tlie island would be of no avail), but the slight Inconvenience of the sameness in food would be readily encountered by the votaries of fashion. A survivor writes, "the eggs did everyone a heap of good A most remarkable tiling was Chat every one had fair skin and light hair, dark faces and hair be ing quite changed, black hair turning brown or red, and farer people quite flaxen." If some enterprising English man does not immediately set np a ho tel on this enchanted spot, we shall never give John Bull credit for know ing how to make his fortune. LmnUm chn. Etlajaelfe la Irish Barlala. It is generally believed that all ques tions of precedence are merged in the grave; such, however, does not appear to De tne opinion 111 Ireland, where, ac cording to tlie Frrnmint Jminuit, a frightful row took place the other day in a burial ground on this point, it seems that two men, Thomas Slattery, and his son-in-law I'atnclc Claney, were found drowned in a little river on the roadside, about eight miles from NeiiaKh. A car and a dead horse were also found in the river. At an inquest held on the bodies a verdict of "lound drowned" was re turned by the jury, the impression being that neither of tne men was drunk, but that they were accidentally thrown into the river by the upsetting of the car. Thus far, barring tlie result of the un fortunate casualty, matters went com fortably enough. The men were dead, but no stigma rested on their char acters, and it only remained to deposit their bodies in their last resting-place. Here, however, a question of an ex tremcly painful and embarrassing na ture arose at the last moment. When the rollins containing the remains ar rived at the graveyard, tlie friends of Slattery insisted ou "their corpse" entering the graveyard and being burled before the corpse of the Claney party. On the other hand, Clancy's friends were equally determined that this honor should be paid to "their corpse," the idea being that the corpse brought into the cemetery and buried last would have to act as servitor to the other in the next world. The result of the dis cussion wan a general fight, and several broken heads and bleeding noes. rail Mall Gazette. When William the silent felt himself dying, "Holland's greatest warrior' asat ior twtv clergy men of he opposing religious factions and bade them argue which of their creeds was the right one. "I see well enough," said the hardened unbeliever, when they had finished their discussion, "I see there is nothing cer. tain except mathematics." With this he turned his face to the wall. He bad ceased to live. A remarkable depen dence upon the certainty of mathemat ics. One who was not quite so confident endeavored to make "assurance doubly sure." I quote from Scallger and De Thou, who both maintain that Hieron ytnus Cardan, a celebrated astronomer and mathematician, who lived in Pavia toward the middle of the sixteenth cen tury, and may be better known to stu dents as the discoverer of "Cardan's suspension," having foretold the day of his death by various calculations starved himself to death for fear that his pre diction would not be verified, and that his beloved science might sutler in con sequence thereof. lliis might be called being imbued with the spirit of the thing; but I think that my next example goes a step fur ther still. ''Creech, the celebrated coro menter on Lucretius," says Voltaire in his"DictionairePhilosophique," 'wrote on his manuscript, 'N. B. I must hang myself when I have finished my com mentary.' " He kept his word in order to have the pleasure of ending his days like his author. Champcenetz, the secretary of Riva rol, during the French revolution of '93, innocently asked, when he had heard of his death-sentence, whether a substitute would not do. Andre Chemer did not trouble him self so far. Perceiving his friend Bou cher, the author of the "Months," a poem not unlike Thompson's "Seasons,' he apostrophized him quite freely by reciting the opening lines of the first scene of "Andromache." After which he kept silent until they arrived at the Barriere du Trou Renverse, near which the guillotine was erected. The hideous cart was met by a flock of sheep just en terlng Paris. It brought to the young author's mind the seventh Eclogue of Virgil, which he closed with "Torri- dus." "Torrida". corrected Roucher. His companion did not answer until they had mounted the scaffold, when he softly approached Roucher and tapped him on the shoulder. "You were right; I forgot that summer wa feminine in Latin." That Montaigne should get up in his dying hours to pay his servants their salary, for fear that his heirs might neglect It or dispute the amount, is not so wonderful, knowing what we do of the man and his principles; but that one of his very opposites should have some thoughts for bis cred itors after he shoul 1 be gone is rather surprising. Vagueia, author of the "Remarques sur la Grammaire Fran chise," a not very strait laced personage, did so, however. Notwithstanding his ample pension, he was loaded with debts to that extent that he no longer dared appear in the street in the daytime, but only went out at night, a proceeding which gave rise to bis friends calling him "TheOwI. This condition of things made him very uneasy, as was proved at his death In his will. After bavins disposed of his wardrobe to satisfy all out-standing Cialms, he adds, with a perfect f ran kness and bon horn m ie : " But as there might still be left some credi tors who cannot be paid, even after everything is sold, in that case my wish is that tney snail sell my body to some surgeon at the highest price that shall be paid for it, and that the amount shall be applied to the liquidation of those debts which I may still be owing in the world ; so that, if 1 have not succeeded in being useful during my lite, I may be at leant so after my death." 1 won der whether he ever heard of Dryden's body being detained by his creditors. Haw Heads rirat fame ta be Trapped. Previous to the time of Francis I. the French nobles had worn their hair long. Tlie cause of this change of fash ion forms a curious chapter in the his tory of modes. On Twelfth Day, or le iour de oi$, the Court being then at Romorantin, the King was informed that the Comte de St. Paul, following an an ancient custom, had made in his home a king of the bean. Upon which Francis gathered about him all his cour tiers, and informed them that he should place himself at their head and lay siege to the Count's house, to dethrone this king. St. Paul, made aware of his com ing, prepared for his defensa, and caused his people to bring within doors a large number of snowballs, and gather all the apples, eggs, and other things that would serve as projectiles, they could find. The assault commenced, but very soon the beseiged had exhausted their ammunition; in the excitement of the moment some one snatched up a burn ing log from the hearth and cast it through the window. It fell upon the King's head, inflicting a severe wonnd. The physician found it necessary to cut his hair close to his head. From that time he allowed his beard to grow. A few weeks afterward every pretender appeared with a cropped lie 1. The Hex Ward's Fair Prepar I aa; fa aa raace. An official communication from the French Government, through our Con sulate in Paris, relating to the Inter national Exhibition to be held in that city in 1878, comprises a courteous letter signed by M. Krantz, President of the Commission, and al. iierger, Chief of the foreign Department, inviting Amer icans to send exhibits, a pamphiet con taining the rules and regulations and a chart of the proposed building, show ing particularly the space allotted to this country. The United States de partment will occupy about 3,000 square yards, facing 011 a main avenue of the building, which Is to be erected on the Champ deMars. The trench officials request that the space be enclosed in a way architecturally characteristic of America. The site of the Exhibition has been enclosed and work . is to be commenced at onee on tlie-buillinjr. which is to hold the entlxaSMow. with out anfiexes, ' anX to be solidly .con structed or flre-prnof rnateriai s. A "grand Masonie C'ongrefc the Paris papers say, will beJtcUUin that city or London next May or Jnne. Editor and Proprlti The great northern express train lu England runs at tim rate of sixty miles an hour.'" There are this year 1,300 names on the roll of students in the School of Fine Arts in Paris. It is proposed by somebody to re christen Hell-Gate 'Newton's Channel, in compliment to the man that opened it. Xew York city consumes 70,000,0(0 eggs anually, principally supplied from Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Canada. At Rockingham, Va., there is a family of five persons who weigh re spectively 315, 2t4, 2.f2, 210, and 21t pounds. It has cost Vermont $32,300 more than it received in fines to enforce the prohibitory liquor law during the past two years. A Xew Brunswick moose well trained to harness has trotted half a mile in 1 r09,and is now matched to trot a mile in 2:20. Qneen Victoria has received from the empress of Brazil a present of a dress woven of the webs of a large South American spider. A California horseman recently ac complished the feat, at Los Angelea, of riding one hundred miles in four hours and forty-five minutes. Andrew E. Xash, a Bridgeport an tiquarian, has a full collection of cop per cents, which is said to be superior to that of Yale College. Five thousand eight hundred gal lons of beerwere sold byone restaurant iu Bnyreuth, (luring the performance of the "Ring of Nibelungen." The British Admiralty have ordered the immediate construction of six steel corvettes to serve as cruisers in the Pa cific and Chinese waters. Xew York has 100C bakeries and 5811 lager beer and lienor saloons, which is pretty . good evidence that "man cannot live ou bread alone." t A late Charleston circular puts the present rice crop of Georgia and South Carolina 73.5UO tierces, or about five per cent, more than any crop since the war. . There Ls to be an I nd ust rial exhibition at Sydney, Australia, during April and May next, and the Australians hope to see a good show of American machin ery. Over 80,000,000 feet of lumber has been imported from Ottawa to the States during the season just closed. The lumber Is valued at 812,00O lu gold. The civilized part of this planet now owes, according to the ll'estuuiu ter llerinr, the very neat sum of about twenty-three thousand million dollars as a national debt. "My son," said an old man, "beware of prejudices, they are like rats, and men's minds are like traps: pre indices creep in easily, but it is doubtful if mey ever get out." According to the German philoso pher Adelnay, the number of languages spoken in Europe is "87, in Asia 937, in Africa 270, and in America 12G4, mak ing a total of -iM. Mr. Krupp, tne oeruian iron and steel manufacturer, has given to the Washington Museum a large part of the articles which made up his display at Centennial Exhibition. fudge Warner, of the Georgia Su preme Court, who lias occupied the bench for thirty consecutive years. contemplates resigning at the close of tne present term of court. The Archbishop of Canterbury says that in the lat lorty years i.'3U.UUO- K0 has been spent by members of the church of England in the restoration of old ones or the buildingof new ones. Tlie rush of Centennial pilgrims to Mt. Veruon has so enriched the associa tion as to enable it to pay all its debts and to leave a handsome sum for the further improvements of the grounds and surroundings. A French statistician estimates, that within the last seventy years, no fewer than one thousand lives have been lone by the burning of theatres, and that tlie losses of property from that caue exceed sixty million of dollars. The Xew Jerusalem church, in thi country, has ten associations, with 4U1 ministers, of whom nine are ordained, seventy-tour are pastors, and eighteen licentiates. About tour fifths ouly 01 the ministers are actively employed. A colored Arkansas preacher, seven feet high, weighing 400 pounds, and but tweutv-six years old, has Just had a pair of shoes made at Memphis which are seventeen and three quarter inches long and six inches across tlie sole. Eggs are sent annually from Sus sex County, to New York and Phila delphia, which are of twice the value of all the grain sent annually to market from the county and the value of tlie fowls is nearly equal to that of tlie eggs. A recent census of India shows that 03! of the natives are authors and poets . 135 astronomers, 23,000 fortune-tellers and pedigree-makers, 3U,000 religious mendicants, 8,000 painters and sculp tors, 38,000 actors ami juglers,and l,0uo snake-charmers. Utah now contains some 90 miuing districts, and some 10,100 people en gaged in mining. The mines and Im provements are valued all the way from $15,000,000 to $30,000,000, and the annual yield of lead, silver, and gold ha reached $5,000,000. Judge X. C. Blount of East Pasca goula, Miss., is said to have invented a machine by which kegs, barrels and hogsheads can lie made at the rate of one In two minutes. He has been of fered $100,000 for his patent but seei more money in if Chili has 1,000,000 acres under cul tivation by irrigation, it being estimated that one third of the value of the entire farming land of the republic is ex pended upon tlie enterprise. Wherever irrigation has been introduced the land has increased in value threefold. With the exception of the Pyramid of Cheops the spire of the Strassberg Cathedral. 404 feet in height, has hith erto been the most elevated building in the world. It lias now been exceeded by the lately completed spire of the Rouen Cathedral, which is 490 feet high. Chattanooga was treated to a rare spectacle recently, by the burning of the woods and grass 011 Lookout Moun tain. At one time the top was all ablaze, and afterwards the fire crept be low tlie precipice. The mountain was literally a pillar of clouds by day and Are by night. A man from Maine makes his head quarters at Kumney, X. Hv every win ter season, anal sets more than thre thousand traps for different kinds o animals in Cooe and Craiton counties He had very good success, and last year secured fur to the value of $1,000. in cluding 17 otters at $i'8 each. He has already captured f'flo worth this season.
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