THE CONSTITUTION THB UNION ASD THE ENFORCEMENT OF THB LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. B. F. SCHWEIER, MIEFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31. 1S77. NO. 5. VOL. XXXI. THE FAEYES FEEDETH ALL BT CH1BLES O. LELaND, IS "OOLPES Ul IJE. Sly lord ride through bia palsoe gats Mr lady sweeps along in state. The aac tbiuka Ions on many a tiling. The rua.don mtues on marrying ; Tbe miustrcl barpeth merrily ; Tbe sailor ploughs tbefoaming sea, Ttie limit-man kills tbe pood red deer. And tlie soldier Tars without e'en fear ; Cut Ml to each, whate'er befall, Tbe tanner be must feed them all. Fruit h hamrnereth clierry tf d the sword. Pri st preachtth pi:re tbe Holy Word, Dame Alice worketh I roid ry well. Clerk Ilichard tales of love can tell. Tbe tap-wife sella h.r foaming beer, Lan Fisher tialieth in the mere. And courtiers rai'rio. strut and shine. While paes uiiiig the Oiscon winej; lint fall to each, wbate'er befall. Tbe farmer be must feed them alL Jln builds bis castle fair and bib. Whatever river runneth by, (treat c;t ej rise in every land, Gieat churches show tbe builJer'a band. Great arches, monuments and towers. Fair palace aLd pleasing bo a era. Gnat work is done, be't here or there. And well man worketh everywhere ; But work or rent, wbate'er befall, Tbe farmer be must feed them all. Mr. Grumbler's Cure- A LESSON FOR HVSBAXPS. "The old story the coffee cold, the fire nearly out. and the room full ol stifling smoke." Mr. Grumbler Crew his chair up to the breakfast table as he spoke, with the face of a martyr. "The coffee is only just made, dear," said Mrs. Grumbler, a pretty ,timid-look-ing woman with solt blue eyes and brown braids; "and I don't think the room is very cold. As for the smoke, I am sorry, but the man promised to hare the chimney seen to yesterday." "Of course lie did ; nobody ever keeps promises to us;" groaned Mr.Grumbler. "If it had been Smith, now, the chim ney would have been seen to long ago. Do give me a piece of steak that is at least warmed through, we're not canni bals that I know of, to eat our meat raw. But that's always the way we never had a cook that understood how to broil a steak." ''But, my dear " said Mrs. Grumbler. "Djnt tell me," interrupted Mr. Grumbler. "I know just how things ouht to be done. The pajer hasn't come vet, I supose? No, of course not. I really wish somebody would en lighten me as to why my paper is al ways hall" an hour later than anybody el.-e's. If that 1 aby don't leave off cry ing, I shall ccriainly go erazv." "Its teeth trouble it," sighed Mrs. G ruiubler, leaving the breaklast table, to walk up and down the room with her fretful little charge. "Oh, nonsense!" said Mr. Grumbler, sharp charging at a slice of toast with his fork; "you coddle it too much, that's all." Mrs. Grumbler thought of the general commotion into which the house had been thrown about a month pre viously, when Mr. Grumbler had the toothache. But she nestled the baby's velvet head against her shoulder and said nothing woman's way of dispos ing of a great many little martyrdoms. "Xow, then, where's my hat?" de manded Mr. Grumbler, rising and look ing around. "Very singular that hat is never in its place." "It is just where you bung it your self, paiier, in the hall," said little Harry, from behind his spelling book. "Children shouldn't talk so much." said Mr. Grumbler, tartly. "My dear, that rent in the lining of my top coat is not mended yet; why did you not see to it" "I intended to do so," said lils wife apologetically, "but you know we had company last night, and the baby slept so badly that I rose rather later thaa usual this morning, but " "Always some excuse," interrupted her liege lord. "1 really don't under stand the reason that nothing is ever done in time iu this house." He gave the front door rather an em phatic slain as he went out, and little Mrs. Grumbler, instead of rebelling against her husband's iron rule just sat down to cry. Oh! those couilorting woman's tears; how many grievances float Into oblivion upon their blessed tide; how many heart wounds are healed by their balmy drops. Woman may lose all her privileges, one by one, but as long as she can cry there is some consolation remaining to her. Mr. Grumbler wasn't by any means a bad husband. He really loved his wife, and believed himself to be a pattern ol conjugal amiability; only, he had, some how or other, fallen into the un conscious habit of fault-finding; and like many another individual, whenever he couldn't fiud anything else to do, he grumbled. "Crying again, Bessie!" exclaimed her brother, coming in just an hour or two later. "Now that's too bad. I suppose Henry has been treating you to another domestic growl ? I've a great mind to tell him how uncomfortable you are made by his little eccentricities. Shall I, Bess?" "Xo, no; I wouldn't have you breathe a syllable to him for the world!" ea gerly exclaimed Mrs. Grumbler, hur riedly drying her tears. "He has the kindest heart in the world and I know he loves me." "1 dare say he does," said young Mr. Carlton, "but why is he fretting and fault-finding hour after hour? I think it is in oversight in our laws that there is not one to punish married men who scold!" What was Grumbler's, surprise, on coming home that evening, fully primed for a tirade, on the subject of a button which had drifted from his shirt front during the day, to find his especially easy chair, and corner of the fire, occu pied by an asthmatic old man, whose bead and face were enveloped in a silk handkerchief, and whose feet were in a tubofbot water. He stopped short in amazement and horror. "This is Uncle Tompkins, Harry," said Mrs. Grumbler, who was busy warming a basin of gruel over the fire; and the old gentleman extended' one finger without turning his head, and said in a cracked voice, I w Ub, nephew, you would shut that door. Nobody ever thinks of ever shutting a door in this house! What's that noise up stairs? I beg, niece, that your baby won't cry the whole time I am here. Is tea ready? If so, I will take a cup right here by the fire." "What does 'this mean, my dear?" ejaculated Mr. Grumble, iu a hurried whisper; and his wife whose arm he had caught on the way to the kitchen for more hot water for Uncle Tompkins, replied in the same tone, "Oh, you musn't mind my uncle, dear; he didn't mean anything, only he is old and whimsical." "But a man lias no reason to make everybody else uneomfortable in this sort of a way," muttered Mr. Grumbler. Tea was brought In at this moment a little smoky it must be confessed, and the toast considerably charred, but, just as Mr. Grumble was opening his mouth to comment on these facts, Uncle Tomp kins forestalled him by exclaiming, "What stuff this tea is! One would suppose it was made of cabbage leaves. The toast, too, is as black as a cinder. Isu't there a slice of stale bread in this house? I'm a dyspeptic, and have to be very careful as to what I eat." Mr. Grumbler silently devoured his meal, secretly wondering how long Mr. Tompkins mont to stay. Xo sooner was the table cleared than the irascible old gentleman beg in again. "Mr.Grum bler," said he, "1 wish you'd stop that creaking of your chair, my nerves are so weak; aiid if you could keep your children up stairs, that racket wouldn't disturb nie quite so much. I really don't know how I am going to stand that baby's noise. "1 don't think it is a very noisy baby," said Mr. Grumbler, meekly. "It's teeth are very painful just at present." Mrs. Grumbler, who was stirring the fire, in accordance with her uncle's pet ulent request, said nothing, but smiled quietly to hear her husband, trying to extenuate the baby's sins. "Well," remarked Uncle Tompkins, "all babies are noisy. And, by the way, Grumbler, I wish you would oil the hinges of that squeaking door, and I don't like the smell of tiiat geranium in the window. Hallo! you haven't any top button on your shirt front! I hope my niece isn't a careless wife.' "Not at all, sir," said Mr. Grumbler, nervously ; "but the care of her child and house-keeping duties absorb a great ileal of her time. The instant she finds leisure she will look to mv cloihes." "1 don't see how a woman can spend all her time keeping house and looking after a pack of children," observed Un cle Tompkins incredulously. About ten o'clock the old gentleman was ushered to the spare room accom panied by a proccsssion of medicine vials; tubs of hot water, woolen dress ing gowns, and heated blankets lor his feet; and his absence created quite a general relief. "What an insufferable trid egotist that is!" exclaimed Mr. Gi uuibler, throwing himself with a sigh of satisfaction, into his favorite seat once more. "My dear Bessie, bow could you bear this eternal fault-rinding?" "I am accustomed to that, Harry ; it is the lessen that most women are obliged to learii,'"repliedMrs.Grunjbler with a little sigh. Her husband picked up his ears a lit 'led uneasy. "Accustomed to it !" What did she mean! It was not possible it could not be possible that he was like that odious old Uncle Tompkins. And yet he wished Besssic had not spoken that way. Somehow it made him feel uneasy. Day after day passed away. Uncle Tompkins growing more and more in tolerable the whole time, while Mr. Grumbler improved the occasion by making a sort of mental looking glass of that worthy old gentleman. "Upon my word," said he to him self. "I must have been a perfect nui sauce all these years. Why didn't somebody tell me of it?" At length Uncle Tompkins went away, flannel gowns, medicine battles, and all, and on the evening of the same day Tom Carlton arrived from a tempo rary absence no one knew where. "So Uncle has been visiting you?" he said gayly, to Mr. Grumbler. "Yes," said the latter with a slight grimace. "What sort o.'a looking man is he?" Mr. Grumbler was silent for a mo ment; ! you know," lie exclaimed, breaking into a perplexed laugh, "1 couldn't describe a single feature iu his face. He was always enveloped like an Egyptian mummy, in a silk handker chief something like that o:e you have in your hand. However, I'm heartily glad he's gone. With my iermission lie shall never set foot in this house again !" "Xo !" said Tom, archly. "The most intolerable fault-finder I ever met with, said Mr. Grumbler; "ab solutely the most disagreeable man who ever cumbered the eartb. I don't see how it is possible to take the exceptions to everything as he did." "That's not an uncommon failing, I believe," observed Tom. demurely smil ing. "Very likely," said his brother-in law, emphatically; "but his visit has been at least productive of one good ef fect it has completely cured me of any tendency I might have had that way. I, for one, mean to leave off grumbling." "I'm happy to hear you say it, ne phew Grumbler, exclaimed a cracked voice. The victimized man started up in dis may, scarcely believing the evidence of his senses, as Tom twisted the silk handkerchief skillfully round Lie head, and lient himself nearly double with an asthmatic sound between a groan and a grunt. "Why you don't mean to say that you are Uncle Tompkins?", exclaimed Mr. Grumbler. "Pardon me, Henry," said Tom, smiling, "but I saw that you had un consciously become an habitual growler, and I judged the best antidote was a faithful representation of your own feel ings. Was I right?" His brother-in-law was half inclined to be angry, but thought better of it. "Shake hands, Tom," said he. "You are an irreverent young scamp, but I forgive you. At all events, the cure is complete." And so Bessy found it. Carreaejr la Afrleaaad t'alaa. Africa, a continent naturally desti tute, so far as is known, of silver, lias always been driven to strange expe dients for a currency. In the Soudan, where an elephant's tusk represents so many able-bodied slaves where a cer tain number of strips of cloth arc equal to a calabash filled with beads or but tons and a bean-pod brimming with gold-dust docs duty for a bank-note, small change is urgently required. This wnat is partially supplied by those little white shells called "cowries," which are found on the coast of India, and are often there used to adorn tbe horse-trappings of princes. In Angola, and other parts of Ceutral Africa, these same cowries two thousand five hun dred of w hich, in India, are the equiv alent of one rupee, and are the jiocket money of native children of the poorest caste rise to the value of five thousand to the pound sterling. Except in Egypt and Morocco, no money is coined in Af rica north of the Cape of Good Hope. It is wonderful that so highly-organized and commercial a community as that of wealthy China, should have contented ly retnaiued so ill off in a monetary point of view. The Flowery Land, iu this anomaly, as in others, has probably been enslaved by the tyranny of custom. Those long strings of perforated copper coin, technically called "cash," have been, for centuries untold, the only re cognized money of the central king dom ; and eveu now, although the in digenous taels and tungsteens are large ly supplemented by Spanish and Mexi can dollars, a Chinese merchant prefers to make payments of stiver, not by tael or by weight, but by measure. China, like India, no doubt contains a large proportion of the whole stock of the precious metals; but its absorbent qual ities are so great, that what was an ciently called tbe balance of trade is nearly sure to be against the outer bar barians. All the Ytir Hound. Harry a aid Haste. "Never do anything in a hurry," is the advice given to attorneys and solic itors by Mr. Warren. "Xo one in a hurry can possibly hare his Kit about him ; and remember that in the law there is ever an opponent watching to find you off your guard. You may oc casionally be in baste, but you need never be iu a hurry ; take care resolve never to be so. Kemember that the interests of others are occupying your attention, and may suffer by your inad vertence, by that negligence which gen erally occasions hurry. A man of first- rate business talents, one who always looks so calm and tranquil that it makes one's self cool to look at him on a hot summer day once tela me that he had never been in a hurry but once, and that was for an entire fortnight, at the commencement of his career. It nearly killed him; he spoiled everything he touched; he was always breathless and harassed and miserable. But it did him good for life. He resolved never to be in a hurry gain, and never was, no not once that he could remember, during all his twenty-live years of practice. Ob serve, I speak of being hurried and flus tered, not of being in haste, for that is often inevitable; but then is always seen the superiority and inferiority of different men. Iudeed, you may almost define hurry as a condition to which an inferior man is reduced by haste. I one day observed a committee of the House of Commons, sitting on a railroad bill. The chief secretary of the company, during several hours w ben great inter ests were in jeopardy, preserved a truly admirable coolness, and tranquility of temper, conferring on hiru immense advantage. His suggestions to the coun sel were masterly and well timed, and by the close of the day he had tri umphed. 'How is it that one never sees you in a hurry ?' said I, as we were pacing the long corridor on our way from the committee room. 'Because it's so expensive,' he replied with a signifi cant smile. I shall never forget that observation, and don't you." Xarwrglaa Weddla-ra. Norwegian weddings are as a rule attended with a great deal of pomp and ceremony. Among the rural popula tion a wedding frequently lasts from three to six days; if the bride is rich, friends and kinsmen are summoned from far and near, and amid firing of guns, shouting, and music from violins, the merry procession starts for the church. The bride wears a silver crown, (usually an heir-loom in her family) very elaborately wrought and hung all around with small gilt disks; her linen is clasped in the throat by a large silver brooch, of curious work manship, and her bosom adorned with other ornaments of tbe same metal. In 'he fjord districs, the company usually proceed to the church in boats; while in the interior parishes, the bride and the groom head the procession on horse back. At the church door, the master of ceremonies greets them with a well prepared speech, and as soon as they return to tbe bridal house as man and wife the merriment breaks out in real earnest. Formerly brawls, and even bloody fights, were of no rare occurence on such occasions; and it Is even told that in the last century, wives were in tbe habit of bringing shrouds for their husbands in their bandboxes, counting their chances of being killed as, on the whole, predominating. Xow, however, the nineteenth century has caused sad havoc among the primitive customs and tastes of the Norsemen ; and a mail's chances of being killled, are I believe, smaller in Norway than any where on the globe. Primeval man, if he still exist, has become self-conscious ; or in other words, is no longer prime val. It cost a thrifty New Hampshire husbandman f 11.C6 to sell a thirty-five pound stone in a bale or hay. dreal Ezpeetatiaaa. CHARLOTTE SMITH. The other day a smart little girl cf seventeen confided to me the secret that she had great expectations. Expecta tions of what? "Why, that I shall some day or other, marry a rich and in fluential man." Poor, deluded girl, 1 thought. I did not tell her how she was destined to be disappointed in the end but she will be. Just now there is much real suffering in the ranks ol these ambititious beauties; for they, in large numbers are impeeuulou. They have no bank account, aud if they had, it would not be many days before they had none. Their vanity has been lit erally strained, if such a thing can be. They have, for the last three winters, been turning their dresses; and, I be lieve, it must be confessed that they have exhibited a sort of heroism in this matter while the agony they have en dured in this trial has been intense and heart-rending. Aud now, as times are not mending a bit, the feminine soul is shivering with a cold chill over the prospects of this winter, that, to say the least, is very uninviting. The strain has been too great. A young lady's idea of economy is not much like India rubber. It will snap if the strain con tinues for some years. It must be re membered that the pressure, caused by panics and scarcity of money, has been very wearing upon the souls of fash ionable women, and some that are not so fashionable. If there is anything par ticularly offensive to a n'.ce, dashing young lady of really few expectations, it is to have to make a little money go a great way. There are so very many beautiful things in dry-goods palaces, iu the jewelers' windows, in many places, that ought to be bought and worn and used up in some way; and it would be worth the trial if one just had the money to give to one of these beau ties and tell them to go on to the end ol the string, There would be some tall shopping for a fortnight or so. But as the times grow worse the desire for moneyed men to marry seems to de crease; and hence the out-look for pretty faces with small incomes is not the most cheerful. It might, Indeed, lie vastly more satisfactory than it is. Xow, I never did regard this mercenary proceding of catching a rich husband with anything but disgust; this speeies of horse and land purchase, or, rather, a barter of affeetwu and beauty for money and a husband. And I am glad the business is getting less profitable and less successful. I have no doubt that the present state of things is open ing many eyes to the necessity of look in some other direction besides a matri monial match for a settlement of the impending crisis. Perhaps many of those who have waited for something to turn up during these last three years lomelhiug that would go to make them happy forever more have at last. come to the conclusion that they must find themselves, in their hands and brain, the means through which they shall gain a competency. I think it is much belter that this fact should stare them iu the face, than that they should be reading love jiocnis for a year or so yet. If people had soinetfling useful for their hands and brains to do, would they be making geese of themselves, coquetting and sentimentalizing ail the beautiful spring-time of youth? I am told that in the great city of New York, there is an increase often percent, of young ladies engaged in arts, sciences, and avocations to make tliein independ ent. Many have United into the neld of wood cutting, porcelain painting, and short-hand reporting, book-keep ing, telegraphing, engraving, and type setting, Aud so I might mention many other fields, where talented, industrious ladies, sick of the chuui of seuliiuental trash and great expectations, have taken a hand and succeeded beyond their pleasant dreams. I don't know that this is exactly as it should be, for no one can persuade me that woman s real place is any other than at home in the midst of her family, domestic duties aud joys. I can't conceive that the nat ural destiny of woman points in any other direction. But these are strange times. The hunt for rich husbands has a background. It means that we have been living years-and years in extrava vaganc , and now we are face to face with ruin, financially. ie have been acting these long years as if money was the end of all happiness, aud that if it be in our possession all worldly glories would come with it. 1 wonder it some of us have not found out that the love of money is the root of all evil? It has wrecked the hopes and blighted the dreams of many a bright-eyed girl. But no matter about that, the young girls of ambitious dreams wiil never take in sail because other crafts went to pieces on the rocks. But I have intimated that the sphere of woman was not, as a matter of fact, in the world, battling with men in the shops and on the forum. I mean just that. I do not know, nor have I ever advocated the propriety of a woman competing with men in a field not sub ject to her taste or nature. But the present is an uncommon period. We must take things as we find them. The women of the Revolution assisted their husbands to conquer the invader and op pressor. We have now a more formida ble disturber of our tranquility. We have poverty and want all over the land. We have had it for some years. The prospect for better times are not promising. Perhaps a better day may come; and when that day does come it will not disorganize society much for women to pass out of the busy factory, shop, and office. It is high time that young misses, and older ones, too, should see the hopelessness of marry- irg a millionaire. It can't be done as easily as some vain beads presume, Better lay away your sentimental poems and say good-bye to your green-house romances, my pretty girl of eighteen. Yon fcave no houses and horses to put against the money-bags of your bache lor friend in the marble palace; and bis smile don't mean marriage, by a long shot, depend on it- Not with you, any way. So too bad better tarn your bead to something useful. I have no faith in "great expectations" unless you work for them. Bays YersaaVlrls. Respect and admiration for women are generally conceded to be character istic of the American people, and trav elers often dilate on the courtesy and attention shown to ier here as com pared with that which she receives in many of the countries of Europe. No woman, however humble her appear ance may be, is ever exposed to insult when journeying alone in our country, even in the most forbidding situation or amidst the roughest human elem nts, and consequently our chivalry .;td de votion have almost passed iu'.o a pro ve! b. But cases occur occasionally to show that Young America forgets the examples of its elders in this respect, exhibiting a spirit which is far from being commendable or justifiable. At a Wesleyan college lately, a young lady pnpil vts selected as the poet of the class, a distinction corresponding to that of orator on commencement day. There was no preteuce expressed that she was not qualified for the position, but the pride of the young men who were fellow-pupils with her was of fended; their sensibilities wero wounded at such an uncalled for usurpation, and a threat wait made that they would leave the college. The young lady, although supported natur ally by all of her own sex a in on if the pupils and also by some of the boys, did the most graceful thing she could have done under the circumstances and re fused to accept tbe position. The inde pendence which the youth of our coun try arrogate to themselves is not likely to appear in a very favorable light if it has its expression iu such weak and silly prejudices as these; and this inci dent is only a stronger argument for the admission of gills into onr colleges of learning, and their being allowed to mix with those of the opposite sex. Wemay disguise the fact as wewill.but it still remains undisputed that loose conversation, suggestive innuendoes, and even profauity are too much in dulged in by our boys. The youth who has discarded button-ops and sports a watch and clain considers himself a man, and the height of his ambition is reached when he can imitate the foibles and copy the language of his elders. There is no disappointed lover or office seeker more sneering and cynical than yoor yonth of sixteen, to whom every thing with a moral tag appended to it is a horrid bore, and who would vote a companion who cherished the memory of his home, and who dilated on moth erly or sisterly goodness and affection as a "mutPor a "spoon." We may jest at the influence which woman wields, and make light of her sometimes mis directed efforts to attain to undue prom inence, but the roughest and most churlish amongst us are awed into si lence and respect in her presence, and the man who does not believe in obei sance to courtiers would doff his hat to her with as princely a mien as Sir Wal ter Raleigh showed when he spread his loak on tho groand so that Onccn Elizabeth nii-lit pass over it without wetting Ler allocs. The boy or the man who associates with pure aud gentle women, either iu the dower of maiden hood or the full fruition of maternity will gradually imbibe the subtle es sence which flows from thctn. And it will be a sad day in the history of our country when onr youth forget this aud allow silly prejudice aud a feeling of fancied snpcrioritv to supplant the in nate tenderness and chivalrous courtesy which every true geutleinnn extends to woman. Tie nonilljr aaDrn. Manners easily aud rapidly mature into morals. As childhood advances to manhood, the transition from bad man ner to bad morals is almost impercep tible. Vulgar and obscene objects be fore the mind, engender impure iaiages in the imagination and make unlawful desires prurient. From the prevalent state of the mind, actions proceed as water rises from a fountain. Hence hat was originally only a word or phrase becomes a thought, is meretri ciously emltellished by the imagination, is inflamed into a vicious desire, gains strength and boldness by always being welcome, until at hist, under some ur gent temptation, it dares, for once, to put on the visible form of action ; it is then ventured upon again ami again, more frequently and less warily, un til repetition forges the chains of habit; and then language, imagination, desire and habit bind their victim to the prison house of sin. In this war profane lan guage wears away the reverence for things sacred aud holy ; and a child who has been allowed to follow, and mock, and hoot at an intemperate man iu the streets is far more likely to become in temperate himself than if he has been accustomed to regard him with pity, as a fallen brother, and with sacred abhor rence, as one seH-brutifled or demon ized. So, on the other hand, purity and chasteness of language tend to pre serve purity and chasteness of thought aud of taste; they repel licentious imag inings; they delight in the unsullied and the untainted, and all their tenden cies are on the side of virtue. Huntce Mann. Horseshoes lsiA orient Times. The date at which borses were first shod with metal has never been satis factorily determined. Many have con tended that passages in Homer prove that the art of shoeing horses was in practical use In his d;.y, but others de clare that the phrases supposed to indi cate this are metaphorical. George Fleming, au English veterinary sur geon, has issued a volume iu which all the evidence on the subject, from Xen ophon down, are carefully collected and collated, so as clearly to exhibit both Bides of the question. He makes it clear that the daring experiment of driving a nail into the foot of a horse was not ventured upon in classic times. There is no doubt, however, that differ ent coverings were in use from a remote period, both in Greece aud Italy, to pro tect the hoof when sore from travel, or when passing over rough roads, but there is much negative evidence that these were never generally adop ted, and that they were awkward and clumsy in construction, and were only used from sheer necessity upon hard and stony ground, or iu cases of foot-soreness. Kasslna raaadllaa; Hospitals. Among the largest Foundling Hospi tals in the world are these of St. Peters burg and Moscow. The one in the last named city was found in 1702 by Catherine II., and in the first year of its existence received several hundred infant inmates. To accommodate the increasing number of children annually applying for entrance, a series of build ings have been erected, which, for magnitude and imposing architecture, rival the largest and finest structures in Moscow. Bayard Taylor estimates the size of tbe hospital at three times that of the Capital at Washington, and the length of its front, at 1,000 feet. Its construction is iu every particular of the most substantial character ; its walls are of brick or stone, its corridors are faced with marble or tiles, its stair-cases are of iron, aud the apparatus for heat ing and ventilation are admirably con trived. Its management is most orderly and systematic; and an air of cleanli ness, cheerfulness, and comfort reigns throughout. The charity of the institution is not limited to illegitimate children, bnt the offspring of respectable parents are ad mitted without reservation. No infor mation Is asked with regard to the parentage of an infant; it is enough that it here seeks the fostering care of the State. The only question put is whether it has been baptized, in order that, if the rite has been neglected, it may be immediately performed by the priest connected with the Hospital. Children are brought from all parts of the Empire, even from remote Siberia aud Bessarabia, aud the doors of the great building are open night and day to receive them. In 1857 the number of children admitted was 14,000; and, between 1S62 and 1SC4, it was 35,387. Within 100 years from its foundation the. institution had taken within its sheltering arms about 400,000 found lings. The little ones are retained at the Hospital for six weeks or two months, and are then sent into the country, where they are reared in private families until old enough to be put in schools. About one-third of thechildren received die iu infancy ; aud yet this death-rate is much lower than that among Russian infants cared for at home. A nurse is provided for each child in the Hospital, and her wages are alut $30 a year, in addition to board ami bulging. At the time of Bayard Taylor's visit, there were 1.200 babies in the nurery and 1,200 nurses. The expense of maintain ing this immense institution amounts to $5,000,000 annually, and the manage ment of it is given into the control of some great nobleman or distinguished person. The foundings .ire regarded as chil dren of the Slat,., and it provides for their education and trains them for a condition of usefulness. One depart ment of the Hospital is appropriated to the orphans of Government officers. The boys of this betterelass are educated I to some profession, and the girls to be come teacher- and governesses. If any among them manifest talent in a par ticular direction, it is given opportunity tor a full development. The common foundlings are trained to various in dustries, and many of them enter the army, or arc established as colonists on vacant crow ii-Iands. The system prevailing at the lying-in hospital is based on as generous a plan as that of the main institution. All women are received without question or reserve and arc admitted a mouth be fore confinement, and retained until well. Tho-e .who wish to conceal their identity are carefully protected from observation. Many wivc of poor men, and even of those in comfortable cir cumstances, take, advantage of this op portunity to save themselves trouble and expense. When restored to health, they are at liberty to eilh.-r leave or to carry away, their infants; and they may remain, if they choose, and take the place of nurses to their own off spring, receiving t!:e ti-nal par accorded to one of tbe regular staff. Parents, are allowed to visit their children at stated intervals, and may reclaim them at any time. The Foundling Hospital at St. Peters burg was established in 1772. It ex ceeds iu extent that of Moscow, and its buildings cover twenty-eight acres of ground in the heart of the city. It is divided into four departments, com prising the nursery; twelve country districts, to which the children are sent to be educated ; a city hospital for the crippled and incurable: and a country institution for legitimate children. In 1S.VJ it annually received 7,000 found lings. Ten years later 33,003 were annually received at this and the Moscow Hospital. The Institution at St. Peters burg employs upward of 500 teachers, and a corps of 5,000 nurses, servants, and other functionaries. The cost of the education of the children is more than $1,000,000 per year, and the property devoted to the support of this and the Moscow Hospital is above $5,000,000. In considering the moral influence of an institution like these described above, the fact must be taken into tiie account that the crimes of fieticide and infanti cide are unknown in Russia. It must also be remembered that the children of respectable parents swell the nnmbcr of those received at the Hospitals of St. Petersburg and Moscow. f'barles Mathews First En-a-ental. The first regular engagement was at Dublin, where he had a very good taste of the miseries of the calling which he had chosen. The manager was impe cunious, and salaries were seldom forth coming. More than once our aspirant passed a couple of days without food, but all the while studying, w ith undi minished enthusiasm, parts which be never might be called upon to play. He burned for low comedy, but was cast for walking gentleman. He was at the time a lanky boy of seventeen ; he had been subject to fits as an infant, and these had distorted his features. "The off side of my mouth took such an affection for my ear," he says, "that it seems to have made a perpetual strug gle to form a close communication with it, aud one eyebrow became fixed as a 1 rusty weathercock, while the other popped an inch apparently beyond Its proper position." Lewis, the comedian, described him as the tallest man in the world (he was only five feet ten, how ever) aud the funniest, with no regular mouth, but speaking from a little hole In the cheek! The celebrated Miss Farren came to star at Dublin, and he was cast as her lover, a sentimental spoon, in the now-forgotten comedy of the "Citizen." For this part he de scribes himself as being dressed in a scarlet coat made for a man a head shorter than himself, the sleeves reach ing only within au inch of his wrists, a yellow embroidered waistcoat, a pair of black satin breeches scarcely cover ing the knee, and showing a leg guilt less of calf; jiowdered hair, tied in a queue, aud a chitMU bra which he scarcely knew what to do with. When he came before the audience there was a shout as if a clown had made his ap pearance. "Oh ! see the inopstick V "Ah, Pat. hould your breath, or you'll puff him off the stage," "Oh ! the creether ! what a slice of a man." "Arrah, where's yer other half? Why don't ye bring it with you, me jewel?" Such were a few of his greetings from the gallery. When he made bis exit, he was followed by a universal Who!" Then a voice cried out "A groan for the long lobster I" which was given with great emphasis. Temple 2ki. Tbe Jala Temples of Ulraar. The Jain Temples on Girnar are very elaborate and beautiful. The older one, sand older portions of others, are of granite; but all the modern work has been composed out of a sot t oolitic stone which is to be found on the base of Gir nar and abounds over Kathiawar. The principal temples, seven in number, are on the ledge that runs above the great precipice of Girnar ; but there are others gathered about on the peak rising im mediately above, and some of these lat ter are in course of repair, aud also of erection, the funds being supplied not only by Jains, but by wealthy, pious Hindus. In outward appearance the temples are much in the usual style of Hindu architecture. The mot striking characteristics of their interiors are their fine tesselated marble pavements; their painted domes; their exquisitely shaped and carved pillars, sometimes of granite and green syeniti ; their antique porticoes, and beautiful small sculpt ures, aud colossal statues. The central dome of the first temple, that to Xeuii nath, is curiously painted and surroun ded by female figures. It has beautiful marble pillars. The pavement Is com posed of alternate slabs ofbrowu and white marble, and it contains a large statue of Xeiuinatb, in black marble or namented with gold and jewels, and with a symbol of Vishnu inlaid Iu the marble floor before it. There are two or three apartments off the central dome; the doors are of carved stone, and there are blocks of stone on marble stands, with merely a thousand small footprints of disciples of the Tirthan kara. Another temple has a colossal statue covered with marble-like rhxnnm, ofKishaba, the first Tirthankara, who is al.-'o called Adinatha, and Adi-B'id-hanatha. The temples arc sacred in Parishnath, one of them containing a very large white marble statue of that saint, though his proper color is blue, so dark that he is sometimes mistaken for Xemlnath. In another, the chief" statue is Abhinaudauatha, with Adin atli ion one hand and Sbambhavanatha on the other. Great bells are hung some of the temple. The temples are all beamifuliy clean; in themselves fit ting receptacles for the grain.' solemn statin's they contain, they are rendered all the more striking by their position on the edge of a groat precipb-e. Tthu l-. ss-rcas ta Life. Tbe w orld's greatest workers are not always rewarded according to their merits; and experience confirms the truth of the saying, that "the race is not to the sw ift, or the battle to the strong." We see the fool rolling in riches, w hilea w iscmau wears out a wretched exis tence in a single-handed fight with ad versity. We see quackery parading iu purple and fine linen, and honesty strugsling manfully for bread. The carpet knight takes precdence of tbe toil-worn soldier, and the tumbling mountebank attracts greater crowds than the eloquent devine. Adventu rer who can tickle the fancy and hit the public taste are rewarded with fame and fortune, while genius is made to feel tho pangs of disappointment, in gratitude, and neglect. Of course, wherever property is secure, it will ac cumulate, and as long as men are differ ently constituted, there will be riches and overty. Children will be born to inherit wealth, while others will come into the world amid destitution; and this arrangement Is in accordance with human nature, and teaches that the re wards of merit are almost as eccentric as the accidents of birth. There are men who seem to make money out of every thing they take in hand, while others remain poor in spite of industry and at tention. The author of the "Hunch back" lived a poor actor, and died a pensioner on Government, while the producer of a trashy sensational drama nets his thousands in a season. Teasaas Farlt. Hours have wings and fly up to the Author of time, and carry news of our usage. All our prayers cannot entreat one of them either to return or slacken his pace. The mlsspents of every min ute are a new record against ns in hea ven. Purely, it we thought thus, we would dismiss them with better reports, and not suffer them to fly away empty, I or laden with dangerous intelligence. How happy is it when they carry up not only the message but the fruits of good, and stay w ith the Ancient of Days to speak for ns before His glorious I throne. Last year witnessed the building of 3,363 dwelling bouses Id Philadelphia, notwithstanding tbe hard times. The employes of t'je Nevada Bank in San Francisco received flWeach as a Chrima present. irrys n bris?- Washington has 5X professions gamblers and only 140 clergymen. Sunset Cox made $1,500 from his book on laughing, and that's "why do he laugh." Joe Jefferson (Kip Van Winkle) has a son in the 5th artiVry of the United States army. Spain owes her army now in Cuba $24,000,000. And she isTlikely to owe it iu the future, too. The Salem, Mass., Gazette is one of the oldest papers in the country, having been established in 176S. The heirs of a Jersey City man have been sued for his board bill. The bill covers the space of twenty-seven years. Thomas's Hotel, Berkely Square, Loudou, is nearly one hundred years old, and is still one of the most fashion able of the private hotels. An Illinois hunter, on the 2'Jth of December, shot an eagle that measured seven feet across, and in his next shot killed sixteen quails. Five hundred thousand dollars)' worth of beer and soda water was sold on the Centennial Grounds during the Exposition at ten cents per glass. Cardinal Antonelll chose his owu resting place in the Church of St. Lau rent, and had a monument erected over it, in 1S70, at a cost of i.'l,0W. Tbe duty ou English playing cards last year amounted to 12,528. which covers the salaries of Lords Beacons field and Derby and leaves Jt'523 over. A Londoner, Mr. Sawyer has of fered to take the Crystal Palace and grounds lor a long term of years at au annual rental of x5,oou. The AVilliamsport saw-mi!' cut ISO.iMi.OCO feet of lumter last vear. o from 37,000,000 to 4'l.000,0u0 les thai the preceding one. Presiileut Andrew D. White, of Cornell University, ha bought, in Eu rope, some memorial slabs tor th it in stitution. Lieutenant-Governor Sissou. vi Rhode Island, raised 2,500 bushels of corn from thirty-live acres of land the last season. He found the land to do it iu in Lis own State, too. Auber's monument has at last been completed. It is a pyramid of black marble bearing his name and the dates of birth and death and the titles to forty-eight of his principal works. The Orpheonio societies in Europe, are to hold a monster re-union in Paris during the Exposition of 1878. An ap propriate concerted piece for a chorus 8,0JO strong Is in course of preparation. A niece of Mungo Park the African explorer, is living in destitute circum stances iu Scotland. She is seventy three years of age. A subscription pa per is going the rounds for her benefit. There are seventy Protestant churches, with 20,0i0 registered niem liers in Kastern Turkey; in Central Turkey 2i churches and 8,000 members, and in Western Turkey twenty-tour churches and 5,000 members. New Hampshire is the only State tiiat requires its Governors and legisla tors to be Protestants, and its Constitu tional Convention, now in session, re commends the abolition of the religious test. The swamps in Louisiana are said to be dryer than they have been for thirty-five years. A man may rido ou horseback or a wagon may Iks driven through tracts of country heretofore impassible within the memory of man. There seemsj no limit to the per formances of thieves. Somebody s'ole, in New York, a !hx containing $ 25,0th worth of silk-worm eggs that were go ing across the city i.i tran-it, from H-Mig Kong to France. Mrs. Maxwell, of Colorado, the hunt ress who was at the Centennial, has her collection ii Washington aud is strengthening it with a view tD en larging it and taking it to Paris next year. There are iu England, Scotland and Wales l,0t; Roman Catholic priests and bishops; 611 Roman Catholic churches, chagieLsand stations; convents and monasteries and 10 Roman Catholic col leges. A Patterson (N. J.) man recently disputed about ten cents In a carpen ter's bill. Suit was brought, and he won his case after a cost to himself of $5.25 ard to hi ononeut of $S. How precious are our rights! William Knox walked from New York down the Atlantic Coast, along tbe Gulf of Mexico, across the isthmu of Darien and up the Pacific t oa.-i. a Ui Joaquin Miller's poem, to f.is Angeles, a distance of LOW miles. A New Orleans editor recently vis ited Boston, and evidently went around upon a tour of investigation. He savs : "There are eighty-three uncles in Bon ton with whom young men can leave their jewelry." Tnirclit-r. The Rothschild family in Paris have spent recently $2so,(iO in enlarg ing the hospital founded by tbe late Baron James de Rothschild. Fifty beoN for persons afflicted with incurable dis eases have been added to the hospital. Geo. W. Carleton, the publisher. . as the recipient of a branch of orange the other day from Miss Augusta J. Evans, the novelist, who plucked it from a tree by the window where she wrote her Southern Home. Xeither Delaware, the Indian Ter ritory, Xew Mexico, or Wyoming re port their school populations. In the other thirty-six Suites und eight Terri tories there were 14,007,522 children entitled to instruction. Pupils enrolled in the public schools, 8,75;,6til. Calculations have been published showing that over twenty-three millions of animals and birds were wounded without being captured, by the licensed sportsmen aud poachers of the British Islands during the vear ending March 31, 1876. A singular petrification has been fouud in Manlinus village, Xew York. It exactly resembles in form a huge carpet-bag, with handles and all com plete. The Syracuse papers are trying to make out that it is the carpet-bag of the Cardiff Giant. A bill has been introduced in the Virginia Legislatures to give employes of railways, canals, steamboats and other corporations the first lien on the property of the company employing them, without regard to mortgages, sale or conveyance of any kind. According to the tabular record of deaths from unnatural causes reported in a Xew York paper it appears that during 137 more than a thousand per sons died from violence, and there is au excess of more than a hundred over the similar record of 1875. Last year 3,793 nnclaimed bodies were buried from the morgue and hos pitals of Paris. At Perela Chaise there were buried during the last fifteen years, 218,212 bodies; at Mont Parnasse, 136,810; aud at Montmartre, 95,522. Or the twenty cemeteries- sis arc beyond the line oi fortifications. J
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