- '; ' ; I ifcuvniS & crip . 1" . N- ... : .... . -V : It Ifl I lit : M.: 11 'llil' : 1 Milt' ippSS-, jv'SOIIIt ; 6- F. SCHWEIKR, THX OQH8TITUTI05 TH" U5I05 JUCp THI IH70RCEMSNT Of TBI LAWS. jry Editor and Proprietor : r.b j. .. ' -J'S VOL.XXX. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1876. NO. 51. REUNION. rre ihAi'l we meet who parted loua ago ? Rtt frosty stars wen twinkling is the sky, jtt moorland lay before us whit with mow, rhe north vitid emote our 1 aoes lushing by. rkAit shall we meet ? On each a moorland lone? jo crowded city street or ooontry lane ? Ob u'l.T beaeh-walk, while the see, mmkee moaii ? quiet chamber ? Sbll we meet again bit ipot of old familiar ground. Ou childish haants ? Or in a far-off land? lh e ! a hat if on earth no spot be found for longing ere to meet, and clasping hand? fhit then ? If angry fate reunion ban, A better meeting waits beyond the stars. flta ehmJI we meet who parted in the night ? It wine ra'm dawning, or in noontide heat ? frity ? to-morrow ? or will yean take flight Before our yearning hearts find welcome sweet? gin ehail we meet ? While summer roses lis grsde our path, and rustle overhead ? & iater. when a leaden winter aky Look colJly on the empty garden-bed ? WluK youthful faith and hopefulness an ours? Or only when our hair is growing gray ? ib at ' we may bare dons with earthly hejpra Btfore it comes to ns. that happy day! ti then ? Let life's lone path be humbly trod, 4ud where or when we meet, we leaTe to God. AU The lesr Sound. A Night to Remember. Tbe nigl-t which will dwell In my memory with vivid distinctness while Hfe anil reason are left me, was in Oc- W(per, a rongwrtitre agoI was at that, time telegraph operator, stationed upon theGrand Trunk Line ot railroad. MineVas by no nieangjrnodel place of rM'iein'fj There erabeer gardens, driuaing saloons and gambling houses out of all proportion to the more re st Mable shops and residences; we bad :u arrests of counterfeiters, and there wac scarcely a day passed that there as not a brawl among the ruffians tnmml us. Still there was a school andj i timiJ Mue-eyed woman had come to Mdi there. How long an unprotected woman siht iiave lived there I can ouly guess, for Alice Holt had been there tut three mouths when she consented lo walk into ehurc'a with me one day u,i aalked out my wife. This was in July, anil we had occupied a pretty Mttase nearly a quarter of a mile from tiie kit-graph office since our marriage. Being trie only man employed at tbe Hejraph business in the town, I was V'j-ed to rruiain constantly at the tffivt ami part of the evening and Alice lier-ielf brought ine my dinner and supper, There was a small room next my ofr-e, with a window, but only one door communicating with the larger room. Here Alice had fitted up a dressing table, and mirror washstand ud some tapper, salt and pickles for bv offii repasts. The two rooms were on the second floor of a building that tool alone. With this necessary introduction I fome to the story of that October night isd the part my blue-eyed Alice, only l'.'aud afraid of her ow.i shadow, pluyeJ in It. I was in my office at Uut 7.30 o'clock, when one of tht railway ofliciali came In, all flurried, arinj: "Stirling, have you been over to the embiiikment on the road to-day f" The emMrikment was not a quarter of a mile from the office, on the east side. "Xo; I have not." "It was a siiecial providence took me there then. One of the great masses of i.k hail rolled down directly across tnok. It will be dark as a wolfs with to night, and if the midnightm up train comes without warning, there ill be a horrible smash up." "It must stop at Tostville, then," I replied, "I will send a message." "Yes. That is what I stopped in for. The down track is clear, so you need Mtitop that train. "All right, sir." I was standing at the door, seeing iy taller down the rickety staircase wken Alice came np with my supper. It was hut, and I cold, so I drew up a and opening can and basket, sat wa to ciijoy it. Time enough for iiess I thought afterward. As I ate chatted. "Any njessage to-day? my wife ikiil." "Onefor John Martin." "Mn Martin?" Alice criexl; "the PMtest ruffian in the neighborhood, what was the train?" "Midnight train." ""'is that all?" "That was all. Mr. Hill has just in here to tell me there was a huge acro-; the track at the embank so I simii stop the midnight train u rotville. The passengers must wait ' few hours there, and come on in the """ling after the track is cleared." nave vou ut the message. "Sot yet. Tliere is plenty of time, train does not reach Postville till Mf past 1 1 , and it is not yet 8. Yes, It "j't striking." "Better send it, Kobert. If there ld be an accident you would never "five yourself. Send it while I put ""kan towels in the wash room, then I will come aud sit with you Jou cau come home." She. went into the dressing room as poke, taking no light, but depend H u the caudles burning iu the office. rising from my seat to send the Pata w hen the door opened, and ""r f the worst characters In the M by Jouu Martin, entered the " - l'-f..i- i i- ti.rew . . WUIU DIIW., wwwv tue back in my chair, one held a ''ver to uiy head aud Joint Martin kl''ke. ' , .-".mui was ii-.. here to stop the up iou w in not gend the message. ten. J ilt' r. u L- la tr. otn that "Put there for that purpose. n is $30,000 In gold on the train. " Vou understand ? oo would risk all the lives in the "Jo to rot it?" I cried horror-struck. Elactl "0i y " was the . cool reply. fifth !a ir 1 th. JjS- The money has been watch w "ie way along." I uw the whole diabolical scheme at once. If the train came It would be thrown off the embankment while the men could easily He in wait there. .--"'"Owne," Martin said, "will you loin us?" "Xever!" I cried Indignantly. 1 trembled for Alice. If only my life were at stake I could have borne it better. But even if we were both mur dered I could not take the blood of the passengers in the train upon my head Not a sound came from the little room as I was tied hand and foot to my chair bound so securely that I could not move. It was proposed to gag me, but ther concluded that my cries, if I made any, could not be heard, and a hand kerchief was bound over my mouth. The door of the wash-room was clos ed and locked. Alice stood undiscov ered. Then the light was blown out, and the ruffians left me, locking the door after tbem. There was a long silence. Outride I could hear the step of one of the men pacing up and down, watcbine. I ratified mr hpail ao-ainct tliA wall Ka nina me, ana succeeded in getting tfilroad company at Postville. We ao handkerchief on my mouth to faim-eoted : had a dinner: were toasted and around my neck. I had scarcely accomplished this when there was a tap on the Inner door. "Robert!" Alice said. "Yea, love! Speak low, there mau under my window." "Are you alone in the room ?" "Yes, dear." , "I am going to Postville. There is no man under my window, and I can get out there. I have six long roller towels here, knotted together and I have cut my while skirt into wide strips to join them. The rope so made reaches nearly to the ground I shall fasten it to the door knob and let my self down. It will not take lone to reach home, saddle Selim, and reach Postville in time. Don't fear for me When you hear a beu cackiing under 7wy window you will know I am safely on the ground. Little Alice! My heart throbbed heavily as I heard her heroic proposal, but I dared not stop her. "Heaven bless ana protect you," I said and listened for the signal. Soon the cackling noise told me tbe first step of her perilous undertaking was taken. It was dark, cloudy, and threaten ing a storm, and nearly as I could guees, close upon nine o'clock. She had to go six miles and I could only wait and pray. I was too much stunned ever yet to realize the heroism of this dark ride through a wild coun try, with a storm threatening. Nine o'clock ! As the bell of the clock ceased to strike, a rumble, a flash, told that a th under stor ui was coming rapidly. Ob, the long, long minutes of the next hour! Ten o'clock. The rain falling in tor rents, the thunder pealing, lightning flashing, Often I had held her, while as death, trembling, aliuuM fainting, In such a storm as this. Had she feared to start with the storm in prospect, or was she lying somewhere on the wild road overcome by terror, or perhaps stricken by lightniug?" Eleven o'clock. The storm w as over, though the still night was still inky black no sound to cheer me, none to make the hideous suspense more en durable. A host of possibilities, like a frightful nightmare, chased one another through my tortured brain. Would tbe next hour ever pass ? Once the clock tolled midnight all was safe. I was drenched with a perspiration wrung from me by mental agony one hour, chilled with horror the next. Xo words can describe the misery of wait Ing, as the minutes dragged along. In tbe dead silence a far-off sound struck a thrill of horror to my heart, far ex ceeding even the previous agony. Far, far away a faint whistlle came through the air. Nearer and nearer, then the distinct rumble of the train growing more and more distinct. The midnight train was coming swiftly, sure, to certain destruction. Where was my wife? Had the ruffiaus Intercepted her at the cottage? Was she lying somewhere upon the road? Her heroism was of no avail, but was her life saved ? In the agony of that question the approaching rumble of the train was lost; far more did I feel the bitterness of Alice dead than the terror of the doomed lives the train carried. Why had I let her start upon her mad errand? I tried to move and writhed '.a Impo tent fury upon my chair, forcing the cruel cords to tear my flesh as I vainly tried to loosen even one band. The heavy train rumbled past the telegraph office. It was an express train, and did not stop at my station, but as I listened, every sense sharpene1 DV "ental tor ture It seemed to me that the speed slackened. Listening intently, I knew that it stopped at the embankment, as nearly as I could judge. Xot with the slackening crash I expected, followed by wails and groans from the injured passengers, but gradually and carefully. A moment more aud I heard shouts, the crack of fire-arms, the sounds of some conflict. Wliat could it alt mean? The minutes were all hours till I heard a key turn In the door of my prison and a monent later two tender arms were round my neck, and Alice was' whispering in my ear. - "They will come in a few minutes, love to let you free I The villlans left the key in the door ! I thought of that before I started, but there was a man at the front watching. I crept around the house and saw him though I did not dare to be seen." "But have you been to Postville? "Yes, dear." "In all that storm?" "Selim seeemed to uuderstcud He . awlft.lv and surely. I was well wrapped In my water-proof cloak and hood, When I reached Postville the train had not come up." "But It is here?" : "Ouly the locomotive aud one car riage. In that carriage was a sheriff, a deputy sheriff and twenty men armed U, the teeth, to capture the gang 't the embankment. I came too, .! tey lowered me from the platform when the speed was slackened, to that I could run in here and tell you all was safe I" 'While we spoke, my wife's finger had first untied the handkerchief around my neck, and then, la thw-dork,- feaad some of the knots of the cord binding me. But I was still tied fast and strong, when there was a rush of many feet upon the staircase, and in another moment light and joyful voices. "We've captured the whole nine!" was the good news. "Three, including John Martin, are desperately wounded, but the surprise was perfect! Now, old fellow, for you !" A dozen clasp knives at once severed my bonds, and a dozen hands were ex tended in greeting. As for the praise showered on my plucky little wife, it would require a vol ume to toll half of it. The would-be assassins and robbers were sent for trial and sentenced to penal servitude. Alice and I lett tor a more civilized community the following year. But before we went, there was an invitation sent to us to meet a committee from the complimented, and then Alice was pre sented with a tea service as a testimon ial, from the passengers upon the threatened train, the company and the railroad directors, in token of their gratitude for the lives and property saved by my heroine. . . Pants or, as they call them in Eng laud, trousers are not subject which the average citizen cares, except in the presence of his tailor, to discuss. "The lean and slippered pan tnloon "mentioned by Jacqnes may have contained a fore shadowing of coming events in the Western world. Be that as it may, the male biped wears pants, pantaloons, or trousers as the case may be. His ances tor, presuming him to be of Scottish de rivation didn't deem it necessary to in sult their ahems with anything of that kind; they preferred petticoats, aud even yet cling to the short skirt, or nale "chemiloon," with an ardor wor thy a better cause. But kilts are un suited for business, sporrans and skein dhus to to the arts of peace ; so man, American man, however descended, has settled down in his pants. Many stripes have been added to bis lot since first he put his foot in it. He has stepped into garments a world too wide for his shrunk shanks, and pulled them on the same as he would cover over a corpulent um brella. Many and varied have beeu the changes in pants since their first ap pearauce upon man, and humble though he may seem to be, he still has a pride In his Inexpressibles, and w hy shouldn't he, it isn't much be has to be proud of anyhow. "There," exclaimed a dis consolate widow, upon receiving the well-known nether garments of her de ceased huslwind. "There's the breeks, but Where's the legs." A young Ox ford swell once described his stock in trade after this fashion: "I have my walking twousers, my standing up and my sitting down twousers, my morning and my evening, my dining and my dancinz twousers." He was all twou sers. We trouble to think what might have happened had he put on his stand ing trousers when he was sitting down or ins sitting wnen ne wax standing. But touching pants we read with interest, and congratulate the swells thereon, that among the most pro nounced authorities in London checks are once more the rage. The check is so large that it takes two men to carry it, or two pairs of trousers to show off the pattern. The swell puts on one pair in the morning, and another in the afternoon. He might with advantage pin npon the first, "to be continued in our next." ho pays the cheques we do not presume to say. As the boy Is father to the man, perhaps he pays the tailor himself. But then, as every swell knows, it is such a deucedly low thing to pay a tailor at all, perhaps he doesn't. May he not hand In his checks, and leave them a legacy to his creditors. But that Is a subject beyond our province. We started in on pants; the more we think of their career and their cheques, the more we are Inex pressibly reminded of Adam and origi nal sin. I Mltnre ! masses. Dark colored glasses are the best, the roots being impatient of light. Novem ber is a good time to begin the culture of hyacinths in water. Nothing can be more simple than the modut operandi. Almost all the single varieties named above are well adapted lor growing in water. Having selected good bulbs, fill the glasses with soft rain w ater, place the base of the bulb near to, but not touching, the water. Set the glasses in a cool, dark closet for about six weeks, or until the glasses are well filled with roots ; du ring that period keep the glas ses filled, but never allow the bulb to touch the water. It is not necessary to change the water over ouce a month by placing a piece of charcoal in the glass It w ill keep the water fresh and free from decomposition. Xever use guano or any kind of manure mixed with the water; they succeed better without it- I knew an amateur who, to have an extra display, treated his bulbs to a dose of ammonia, which had (to him) the unbooked for effect of en tirely ruining his show for the season. There were only two out of about fifty bloomed a memorable lesson for him. Bring the plants gradually to the light; they will soon be enabled to stand the full sunshine. The more sunshine they enjoy, the stronger the spikes and the more brilliant the colors of the flowers. H)S)W W heal ar Well OaT- You are well off when you are in a healthy neiKhborhod, with enough to eat and drink, a comfortable, well-ventilated apartment to sleep in and you are paying all your expensesand laying up something even slowlyfor a rmwv day, and in addition to all this, ac- :;n ttnnwledire and strenetheninir vour character. Young men whose situation combine all the preceding advantages suould be very cautious aU ut exchanging such a certainty, un- it tu for another certainty. Hap nineM does not depend, upon great wealth so much as it does upon inde pendence and intellectual and moral culture. - A writer In the Horn Jountml thus fittingly rebukes the flippancy and thoughtlessness of some young women : I tnink it must be a Jolly thing V ne a young widow :" I heard this remark the other day In a group of laughing girls. I think I remember saying such a thing myself in my girlish times. Do you know, girls what it is to be a wid ow? It is to be ten times more open to comment and criticism than any de moiselle could possibly be. .It la to have men gaze as you pass, first . at your black dress, then at your widow's cap, until your sensitive nerves quiver under the infliction. It is to have one ill-natured person say, "I wonder how long she will wait before she win mar ry again ?" and another answer, '"un til she gets a good chance, I suppose." It 1 now and then to meet the glance of real sympathy generally from the poorest and humblest men that you meet, and feel your eyes fill at the tok en, so rare that It is, alas ! unlocked for. It is to have your dear fashionable friends console you after the following fashion : "Oh ! well, it is a dreadful loss. We knew you'd feel it, dear." And in the next breath, "You will be sure to marry again, and your widow's cap is very becoming to you." But it is more than this to be a widow. It Is to miss the strong arm you have leaned upon, the true faith that you knew never failed you though all the world might forsake you. It is to miss the dear voice that uttered your name with a tenderness that none other could give it. It is to hear no more the well- known footsteps that you flew so gladly once to meet. To see no more the face that to your adoring eyes seemed as the angels of God. To feel no more the twining arms that folded you so loving ly ; the dear eye that, looking into your own, said plainly, whatever it might seem to others, yours was the fairest face earth held for him. It is to fight with sorrow as a mau fights with the waves that overwhelm him, and to bold It at arms length for a while only to have In the hours of loneliness and weakness this torrent roll over you. while poor storm-driveu dove you see no haven. CavptarlSHC Oatrleka. The greatest feat of an Arab hunter is to capture an ostrich. Being very shy aud cautious, and living on the sandy plains, where there is little chance of taking it by surprise. It can be captnred only by a well-planned and long-continued pursuit on the swiftest horse. The ostrich has two curious habits in running when alarmed. It always starts with outspread wings against the wind, so that it can scent the approach of an enemy, its senscror scent is so keen that it can detect an enemy ft a great distance long before he can be seen. The other curious habit is that of running in a circle. Usually five or six ostriches are found in company. When discovered, part of the hunters, mounted on fleet horses will pursue the birds, while the other hunters will gallop away at right angles to the course the ostrich has taken. When the hunters think they have gone far enough to cross the paths the birds will be likely to take, they watch on some rise in the ground for their ap proach. If the hunters hit the right place and see the ostrich, they at once start in pursuit with fresh horses, and sometimes they overtake one or two o the birds, but often one or two of the fleet horses fall completely tired out with so sharp a chase. Seldom does a year pass during which some illustrious name is not added to the long list of those who are sleeping their last sleep in the cemetery of Mt. Auburn. This year the grass is grow ing for the first time over the grave of Charlotte Cushman. It is no longer ago than the Autumn of 1874 that she rode out there . for the purpose of selecting a lot, requesting to be shown one where there was au "un obstructed view of Boston." She was conducted to one a long way from the entrance, away over the beautiful couii- try, which lies fair and and green and peaceful beyond the inclosure of the city of the dead, to reach which she had to pass the graves of many of her old friends of whom she spoke tenderly. When she arrived at the small triangu lar lot designated, she stopped, satisfied, and gazing yearningly at the distant roof and spires, she said "See, yonder lies dear old Boston," aud expressed her great delight in the place she had chosen saying, "This is a delightful spot;" and returning to it for a second visit some weeks later, she seemed hap py in the certainty that her last resting place was to be in sight of the city of her birth. To that "delightful spot," in a little more than a year afterward, she was borne, from the very Stone Chapel, the King's Chapel, iu w hich she had been wont to worship, before whose altar her lifeless body had rested for a few hours while the funeral hon ors were being paid, while friends and strangers, and the girls of he Cushman School heaped flowers laurel and ivy, pond-lilies, forget-me-nots, and immor telles upon the casket where she lay, with a lily-of-the-vally in her hand, while along the arches of the venerable church thrilled the solemn music of chant and hymn. Xot many weeks after her death, while rambling about Mount Auburn we came upou her soli tary grave. The prospect was enchant ing. Turning a little to the right, we beheld scattered farm-houses, villages, wooded knolls and green fields, making a lovely landscape, outlined by gentle bills, and in tbe rear valley a river and meadow, willow skirted. In front, in full view, perhaps four miles distant, lay "Dear old Boston" the stately pile of buildings crowned by the burn ished dome of the State House, close by her birth-place, whose chimes had been among the most lamlliar ot her childhood. Her grave, as yet unsodded, was in the center of the three-cornered lot on the fair slope looking toward the sunrise; and so, with her face toward the city she laved, and her feet to the East, she awaits the resurrection niorn- She is In the neighborhood of mar.y whom she knew in life, like her elf distinguished. The grave of Ever etttbat. of Plerpopt is on the rising gVbOird just above, arked by a teaaple- tbaped monument of gray stone with sunken arches; and a little further on the plain, open lot, where the summer household are gathered, save those that went down Into the sea father, mother and children under the small white stone In a range at the back, and the great Senator in front, alone as was his life. It is simply a level, swarded place, with no green thing growing but the grass not a flower or vine, and not a tree except one tall, gauntoak, blasted and storm scathed. On that April even ing th aspect was most forlorn; and to aJu pathos to tue scene, a little banging nest still clung to the outmost twig, showing that a bird had once made its Way home and reared its brood there, and given the cheerfulness of its pres ence to the place. Xot far away is the block of granite frera over the seas which marks the burial-place of Agassis. A boulder taken from near the lower glacier of tbe Aar of Switzerland and set up In its native roughness, except that a space was made smooth to receive the inscription, which simply records the time aud place of his birth and death. It is tcarely more than four feet iu height, an unpretending stone, dark, with gray and greenish stains, and decorated with vines which have been trained over it. Tbe eeutre of the rock is orna Rented with a rustle cross set in a heap of rocks like a calm. A photograph of tils fitting monument hangs on the walls of the Agassis Museum, where the newly-executed aud life-like bust of the "teacher," as he liked to call himself, is a constant reminder of his genial presence. In a neighboring lot are members of Margaret Fuller's fami ly; one stone is to tbe memory of Ar thur, chaplain ol one of the Massachu setts regiment, who, when there was a call for volunteers for Fredericksburg, was among the first to go, and was shot while on the bridge of boats fearless in arms as he bad been in reform. Xo one who ever heard this brave preacher in his pulpit could forget him strong- featured and fair-haired like his sister, with tbe same prominent forhead, aud something of her magnetic power in manner and utterance. His likeness is cut in the marble head-stone, and his own words ase these, "I must do some thing for my country." Another stone stands for Margaret's child, the beauti ful boy who was washed ashore after the wreck, a id buried by sailors in a little grave which they hollowed out for hlrn among the sand heaps on the beach, and afterwards brought away by hh) parents to Mount Auburn all that the sea gavef 'back to remember Margaret Fuller by. The inscription is followed by the usual bit of poetry : "Though hre mad thm th offering that w lutrd VuftMt4 but tbvearlT shoot. And foriMd Uu lull ItouW rout Tub lrmnUntu and mwvnl, Yet Twm a iicufcl fiivor g-ivea Alwv th poreata paltry wurtb. To he a annvry oa earth ITsr the ateraal eanl of Ueaxa." Ill memorial of herself and Ossoli, there Is a marble slab with appropriate emblems for each a sword, with oak leaves for the one a book, with olive leaves and flowers for the other. The stone is arched and surmounted with a cross; in the centre of the arch is sculp tured her head in profile, with the strong intellectual characteristics so familiar in her portraits, but in general effect far from pleasant. Itcturning in the twilight we passed the sombre inclosure where X. P. Wil lis is buried; the exquisite cross orna mented with ferns which bears the name of his famous sister, the monument, with the lit design of a broken lyre and laurel crown, in memory of Francis Sargent Osgood ; the simple drab-colored stone where, besides his wife and sold ier son, lies Rufus Choate; the long ridge where the wife of Longfellow sleeps; and the graves of Channing and Spurzheim. Paper ! Oatral Asia. Nearly all the paper which is u-ed in Central Asia is manufactured at Khok- and, and at Tcharku, a little village in the Khanate of Khokand. The process of making it is rude and slow, yet inter esting as a hint of the achievements of the native Asiatics in the industrial arts. We extract an account from the Interesting works of Mr. Schuyler on "Turklsta": "The rags are alternate ly pounded and macerated until they are reduced to a thick pulp, whieh is then collected into a round ball. Por tions of this are then placed in a tub of water and well mixed together. The paper-maker takes an oblong sieve, made of thin glass stretched over a wooden frame, and puts into it a quan tity of the pulp shaking and inclining it uutll it is equally distributed over the surface. After allowing it to stand for a few moments, he turns It out on a board. In this way one man can make about 300 leaves per day which are placed one on the otber, with layers of felt between, and submitted to a beavy pressure to squeeze out the moisture. In the morning they are taken out, and hung for drying on a wall exposed to the South. The sizing and polishing are done iu the bazaar, by a different set of workmen. The size usually em ployed is a kind of dextrine found in the roots of the Shira$h, a plant of the lily family; and the polishing is made by a smooth, heavy stone. By this process the value of paper Is nearly doubled (from ten to thirteen or 20 cents a sheet). Imperfect paper Is, however, never thrown away; for at the time of sizing, boles or fissures are patched up with their strips, and the surface is made so even that the defects can only be discovered by holding the sheets up to the light. This paper, which is usually gray, although some times colored pink and blue, is very tough and firm, and excellent for the gummy ink with which the natives write. For the purposes of the Europ eans it is of little use, and the Buseians have to import all the paper they re quire." ' The Lt Petit Journal of Paris has' a daily circulation of 4iu,u, the largest in the world. Lira la .; LaUtawfea. The next place we stayed at was Trom- so, Norway, where we anchored off the wa.&ree day, and new the sun mere ly revolved round the aky, and at mid night was high above the horizon, and shining with a brilliancy even greater than that seen under tropical skies. The effect of this phenomenon has been often and variously described, more or less poetically, by many travelers; but all unite in one senaVnent that of its wondrous grandeur and solemnity. For myself, I experienced a feeling of mys terious awe and dread, as if we were all phantoms on the confines of the land of which it Is said "There Is no night there." Oue peculiarity iu this region Is that, although all nature is hushed and a palpable silence reigns over all, there is something in the atmosphere which renders sleep almost needless. Midnight found us quite as lively and bright as early morning ladies sketch ing or reading on deck under parasols; gentlemen lounging about fishing, ig niting their cigars by aid of burning glasses from tbe sun's rays ; and one had to darken the cabin windows with thick enrtains even to obtain the four or five hours' sleep we allowed ourselves dur ing the twenty-four. From Tromso we visited the Lapps, and saw a herd of reindeer. A six mile wal'c up the Tromsodal brought us to some fenced I n-iuclosures, and farther on, three or four dome shaped huts, about seven feet high in the center, constructed of mud, stones and timber, each having a door, also a circular-shaped opening in the roof, serv ing for a chimney and window. On entering the hu through a doorway about four and a half feet high, we saw a very grimy old Lapp woman sitting in the smoke of a wood fire. On the ground were what seemed through the smoke to be several small bundle;, and by four cords from the roof of the hut hnnga smaller bundle; examination, however, proved the latter to be a baby about a month old, and the others vari ous members of the family, covered with reindeer skins. The baby was' laced up with gay cords in a cradle hav- j ing the form of a large shoe. We were not loth to make our exit, and asking for the reindeer were told to look up ward, where they were pointed out "a magnificient tribe of 10" slowly de scending from tbe bare-looking moun tains. In time, by the aid of sagacious dogs, they were driven Into one of the Inclosurcs, and some of tbe animals be ing adroitly lassoed, were brought near for our inspection. These Lapps and their reindeer wander Into the interior of the country during the winter, and return to these their summer haunts every spring. It is said that their ap proach Is always announced before hand by the arrival of wolves, these latter animals making -a point of being continually In attendance on the herds of reindeer I am afraid with sinister motives. London tyteea. Oar True Barlal-Plaee. Over the place that receives the btHlies of the dead, monuments are erec ted as if to mark the last unchangeable abode of the departed. Yet, even In the crudest materialistic ense,our final home is not in the earth. Nature soon rifles the grave and disperses its con tents into the atmosphere altove. Not the charnel-house upon which attention has been so intensely fixed by poets and preachers, but the ulster realm of rainbows and light, of ever-shifting clouds, of the golden glories of sunset and sunrise, the world of everlasting beauty in the refulgence of the day and the splendors of the night this is, in reallity, the tomb of man. Even in the lower sense we need to look beyond the grave ; and death would wear a very different asicct if we could escape from the vulgar and repulsive associations ot the burial, which we owe to grave yard poetry, food-for-worms literature, and the emphatic parade of Interment. The atmosphere Is a thousand times more the theatre of life than the earth beneath us. All living things are bom from it. The entire vegetable ! kingdom has been condensed out of its invisible elements, aud, in decay and dissolution, except a little ashy residue, It is all again restored to the atmosphere. The animal world follows the same law. All sentient creatures are con structed out of the viewless medium above, and back to its serene depth they are all at length returned. The processes are slow, but they are com plete and Inexorable; art cannot arrest them. Though the body be embalmed for preservation, tiie course of Nature is only transiently checked, and the dissevered atoms find their way back to their atmospheric home. The crema tionists are disquieted at burial aud our mortuary rites, and would send the dead back to the aerial world on the wings of a bonfire. But why be impa tient? The grave is but a convenient incident in the clydeof transformations. Nature will do her own work in her own measured and eflcient way. She has time enough, and prefers to use it. Slowly and gradually Is life unfolded, and slowly and gradually it is again infolded. In fact, the processes are so closely involved and bound up in a common method that they proceed to gether, and life and death are bnt differ ent sides of the same thing. The at mosphere that is finally to take us is also taking us back to itself, moment by moment, in every breath. Itnerstltial death, the constant dissolution of tbe organic system, and the expulsion of its dead particles by respiration, is the essential condition of continued life. We beein to die as soon as we begin to live. Xature confounds our convenient distinctions, and tells us that a man does twenty times more dying in the course of bis life than In his final de mise. The living body Is a w hirl-pool of destructive transformation incessant ly counteracted, in which life is the constantly sustained result. If, to maintain his vital energies sud enable him to keep up the course ot his life work, a man of seventy has had to drink upward of fifty tons of water, to eat thirty tons of solid food, aud Inhale more than fifty thousand pounds of ox ygen gas, which has been expended in the vital reactions of living and dying, how little, comparatively, of death is there In that final derangement of his worn-out machinery, when the changes. seem to go in a eo-ordinate way I That plant and animal in relation to the at- l.hsvcxcrtaatagUlniaflur other purifies, and to firmly does Nature hold the balance on a grand scale, from epoch to epoch, that the constitution of the atmosphere is kept in stable har mony with the delicate lequirement of living beings. JppleUm'i Joarnol. ts4l Bills. V Were you ever lu Schwalbach ? This is the bill which a. party of four and one-half viz.: three ladies, one gentleman, and a servant had to pay at the Deutschen Kaiser Hotel in that place In July last : To apanaMnt Fuar bedrooaM aod a aUtingroom, five data, tea fraaca To braakbat Foar peraooa, 1.6 fraaca each, Sre dat m t Te duaaar Foar peraoua, tbre franre each, Sv Tit wise See aottka Huchheiaw '. 15 To taa Star penoa. 1 Jtt each, five data t To aervaat'a board and rooata, Sva Ly Call one dollar tve fraar. Were you ever In Saratoga? This Is the bill which a party of four viz.: two gentlemen, one lady, and two ser vants hail to pay at a hotel there in August last: T board 1 per da. - Ur ?-i (Three. bedrooBM aal ittiii-ripifii: eer- uiu room.) To rneala to ma. To hatha... , Tirtal.. In accordant with a custom at hotels, a servant Is reckoned as half a guest two servants count for one. Xow at Schwalbach each guest had to pay less than two dollars a day, while Saratoga mulcted tliem In the sum of ten dol ars apiece and over. What is the reason, asks the Xew York Tiutes, for this dif ference between the cost of living at the American and German watering places ? MlalatcrLal Kee?atrleltlea. One good lay brother found difficulty in moutliinfr the names of Suadrach, Mesliacb, and Abedneiro, and when ha came to them attain, he said, naively, 1 lease, the same three jrentiemen as before." One who had resolved he would take tbe people by guile said, in expounding : "All the world weut ont to be taxed,'7 etc.; "This is a upnre of speech called by the learned an hy perbole, a sort of exaggerated stnte nient;" and added, by way of appli cation, "if l said you were all aMeep, it would be an hyperbole for not more than half of yon are in that contlitiou." (ireat care shonld be taken to be very exactly truthful in pnlpit ministrations. A great gun of a party, in one of his sermons, said, "A striking illustration just cornea to my miud," which was very telling; but a friend of mine, a physician, happened to hear the preacher deliver the sa-ne discourse attain, when the same apt illustration just came to his mind in the same place in the sermons. My friend got iuu a way of sceptical aitKpiciou that injured him for years and made him sadly doubtful ot pulpit integrity. A preaclt iuit pedant in Leicester, who had a small congregation, was in the habit of introducing his text with learned mor sels of criticism. For instance, he would say, "(nr version does not give the real signification of the oiiirinal Greek text. Tholuck says it ought to to read thus; but the more recent Her man expositors say if oticht to read thus; but 1 say this is the right render ing." And so the stockintrers stared, and were taught and editied. That tlod's people were like evergreen leaves, it is said, excited the cry in a Methodist meeting, "Lord, send ns a bar." And the fact that heua were among the most grateful creatures, never drinking without lifting their bills upward, produced thesnpplicatorv exclamation. (h! that we were nil hens The clerical John ltcrridge said some strange things, and wrote still stranger in his correspondence with the Countess of Huntingdon. Rowland Hill was naturally a it. ami often nttered odd things. So did Mat thew Wilks. But either wit or humor would reqnire careful watching aud be ing kept under check of good sense, or tbe pulpit will become a griuniug post, and uot a rostrum of aouud speech which cannot lie condemned. lnt niauy persons like these things, as the old man who listened to Kowland Hill, in his latter days, said, "liless his dear heart he is as tunny as ever. Forty J'iir' Christian Ministry. 4 nlaeaa t'atlaMaae. China has no real coinage for pur poses of trade. Little bits of silver as sayed and weighed, and dollars of the Mexican Kepublic, battered out of shape and classed one, two, and three, at dif ferent values accord-ng as an affected comprador pretends to have found more or less bronze iu their composi tion this is the ridiculous "coinage" of the coast, in Hong Kong itself, when I took my letters to the post and gave a dollar to tbe clerk to pay for stamps, 1 had to wait w hile he bit it, tried it with an acid, we:ghed it and gave me change, not as though my dol lar were a dollar, but according to its weight, which was 'Mi 100 of what it should have been. This was no excep tional case, but was the practice gone through in every instance. Such is the repute of English coin, that the Hong King mint would in a few years have introduced the use of its dollars by the Chinese people throughout the trading portions of the Empire,, with out continuing to impose any charge whatever on the English tax-payer. The history of dollars would be a very curious oue. The Chinese look doubt fully upon all that do not bear the name of some well-known Chinese firm stamped upon them, as we write names across the back of a bank-note, except they are of oue kind: Mexican pillar dollars, the two pillars of which are described iu their Chinese name, Two-piecy-canneltick" dollars, that is two candlestick dollars. A note in the history of dollars that I propose would have to record the fact that our expe ditionary force to Abyssiuia had to be supplied with 31 aria Theresa dollars, of which none were to be obtained iu the market, these being the only coins received by the natives of that country. The Austrian Government had to be applied to by the British Government, and the coins ha I to be specially struck for us at the Vienna Mint. .V-ioaf-lwt' Magazine. Lcft-Huded Was It is a singular fact that many of the ladies appear to be left-banded. A cor respondent says that in his travels about cities for years, in horse cars, stage coaches, and omnibuses, it has been otteerved that the female passen gers generally have their right hand gloved, while the left is bare, and they invariably use the latter in taking change from their pertemonnaies to pay their fare, shaking hands, or in making gestures. A horrid old bache lor, who was asked to explain this sin gular phenomenon, asserted that it was all right; that it only was a left-handed way ef showing jewelry. 51 WS Of B&H7- It is said there are 1,100 pointer uogs in ilttert county, Ueorgia. beea I'" nre "The entire coffee crop of the world last year was 900,000,000 pounds an which the United States imported a full third part. Ex-Governor Staufonl, of Califor nia, revels in building. He is about to begin another new house which will cost $100,000. 9 . Paris has devoured during the last half year 700,000 kilogrammes of horse- -flesh and 43,000 kilogrammes of mules or donkey meat. ' . The Potiltney Glass Works at Port t Jar vis, X. Y., recently supplied 7,000 T ' dozens of kerosene lamps of their man ufacture to Japan. The Agricultural bureau t (ieor gia costs each citizen a ceut aud a quarter per year, and last year saved the farmers $ooi),000. Prince GortschakotT is seventy eight years old, 'uses uo wine or tobacco eats only two meals a day aud sleeps ten or twelve hours. Christianity is spreading rapidly in Japan. At Tokio 10,000 people attend the Missionary churches on the Sabbath, according to a native paper. A committee of physicians appoint ed by the Board of Health report that 1,000,000 quarts of water was sold as milk in New York city In 1S74. Kerosene has been introduced Into Japan. Last year the Japs started seventy-six newspapers, so that the acci dents will be duly accounted for. - - The testimonial fund for the widow of Haywood, the cashier who-lost hU life in the raid on the North Held bank, has reached the sum of $13,077.S.. The English government declines to renew the contract with the Cunard and Ionian steamship companies for carrying the mails after Jan. 1, 1377. General John B. Frisbie, of Vallejo, California, who three vears ago was worth $2,000,000, is to-day penniless, the result of operations iu ' mining stocks. The Tuscaloosa, Ala , ifw, tells of a double marriage near that place, the mother and daughter marrying two brothers, the younger one taking the old lady'. The European Powers likely to be involved in the Eastern question have, between regular troops anil reserves, something like 8,000,1X10 of contestant under anus. Another college is to be founded in New England. It will be located at St. Albns. Vt., in accordance with the w ill of the late Juilire Bellow, who en dows it with $1in,un. Nevada never held 00,000 people. It contains oue desert which alone cov- -ers .TO.OUO square miles. Xone of the mountain Territories will average oue acre in twenty lit for cultivation. The immense wall of solid concrete being built by the Government for the protecilon of the Falls of St. Anthony will be 1,875 feet long, fortv feet hlsli. seven thick at the base, and four at the top. Massing the forces. In New York city tliere are a drug More, gin mill, and undertaker's shop next door Ut each other, with a church on the same block, and a police station around the corner. John Webster of Napa county, Cal ifornia, has received the bounty for the scalps of four thousand squirrels, aud an unfortunate justice of the peace bad to count them all before payment could be m.-ule. The most metho Jical suicide on re cord was that of a man at Yoiingsville, Pa., a few days ago. He rose early, prayed, embraced his wife, kindled the tire, milked the cow, and tlieu hung himself. The newest and largest submarine torpedo turned out at Woolwich Arse nal will be propelled with a rapidity of twenty knots an hour, and no diltlculty is feared in railing the rate to twenty tive knots. That out of eight million Centen nial visitors only two thousand should have lost their umbrellas, and most of them poor shabby ones at that, is a fact which the future historian of the Ke public should not overlook. Bayard Taylor say eight years ago, when he was in Italy, a shoddy Ameri can could obtain a baron for a son-in-law br settliuit $2,000 a year uikmi him ; ! a count could be got for about $ 5,000 per annum, ami a prince Mr ?1U,000. A new industry, that of drying eirirs, has been set on foot at Passau. on the Dunulie, ami the Prussian military authorities are about to give the product a trial for soldiers' rations. Several German chemists are very sanguine as to the success of the experiment. At Clam Lake, Mich., pine trees- furnish spurs 17o feet long and not over two feet through the butt. Michigan is the state for tall timber. Its pine is the best in the world, and is actually car ried to the state of Maine, to work iu with that pine, as a choice article that will stand w hat ocean-winded pine will not endure. Mr. Ifctvid Crockett, who resides seven miles south-west of Mexico, Mo., while clearing rubbish out of his corn- crib killed 60 rats. After clearing the crib of shucks and rats, he commenced to haul corn from a number of pens In his field, and while so doing killed bu nion: rats, and then wound up by cap turing 11 more in the open field. Mr. B. O. Perry of Bridgeport, Conn., has an antique armchair which was brought to this country by the Marquis Lafayette when he left France to lend his aid to the struggling Amer ican colonies. Mr. Perry's grand-father was a passenger in the ship which brought Lafayette over, aud was pre sented with the chair by the distin guished Frenchman. Steamboat captains iu Florida say that the alligators are apparently as numerous as ever, especially in the marshes and lakes of the upper St. John's. A few vears ago the skim were in demand at from oO cents to $1 each, and thousands were slaughtered. Iu oue instance a man killed within five months over 1,000 to fill a contract, but as that specie of leather soon went (Mil of fashion the business declined. The teeth frequently commaud high prices, and are a standard article of commerce in the southern market, mainly lor or namental purposes. With a superficial area of about 15, 000 square miles and a population of two millions and a half, Switzerland has 5,0s8 public schools. The canton of Berne Id the most liberally supplied, and has 37. SchweiU has leat, only 24. Of these schools, 2,359 are German, 1,578 French, 487 Italian and 64 Ro mance; 3,924 are mixed, 578 are for boys only and isU for girls only. The salaries of teachers range from 228 francs (about $45, the lowest, In the canton of Vaud, to 3.000 francs (or $000). the highest, In the canton of Berne. Accnrilitio- to the latest statistics. 411.. I 70 children attend these schools. O
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