- 1 " T" ' - J B. F. SCHWEIER, VOL. XXXI. - ItEETINS. - A meeting of hamls auJ a meeting of voices. A toneb and a tone where two spirit are one; A chord that. d ar heart, stiil riuga and rejoices; And makes you my own by the life thns be- Suu- ' " i . : A meeting of ran!, where meeting were mad ness If Jit wire ntt eqnal, and love lived alone ; Wh sn e clasped did we cot ? in the arm of oar gladreM, To wondor aud wake with the Joys that we own. Then apeak, with that voice which, ao mow ed mated, llm wedded its soul to the garment of song, Ai.d lmscr. O love. till, with spirit elated, I li'Un aud live with a life glowing long. And tell me that waiting fliall never divide Da, That want ehall not wa-.te, and datb ahall not dim The affection t!at gloaa. and the trust that hae ?ri d oe The life that leap r,p of the darkneea ao ! Else ti'.ecce. O silence. I ilare not invoke it ! In stillnef-a to die. If tout dnmbnesa wocld kill; To wait in despair, while no feladuees can choke it. And cry unto you with a want never atilL It ig heart unto heart, ia it not, O my Treas ure? II ia life lout in l.fe, ia it not tell me true ? Or Lave I tut found to have lost without measure ' My faith and my fortune, my heaven in yeu? Then why did you smile from the eliqaent dreaming Of eyes lost afar in reluctaut reply ; And why did you whimper one word of sweet Heemiug, To linger in hope, and but linger to die ? No, no : till yoa speak I am bound to dissem ble. And say to my heart 'tig s glory but hid ; To wait on your words witl. a trust that will treiubie. Sustaining me still till your answer forbid. Eve. BY MAKY KYLE DALLAS. She had promised lliat she would mend the lining of his new overcoat, if lie would wear another and leave that at home. And so, as lie had left it, she took it from tlie hall-rack aud carried j it into her sew ins-room. She was Mr. Wilton, and sbe had been married live years, and never i never :,ever during that time had iiad one unlmppy moment. Mr. Wilton had been very attentive, very kind, very generous and never made her jealous. She often said she wa the happiest woman living. Now, as she looked at the lining and compared the silk with which she was about to replace the torn portion, she was thinking these thought. ' . i They had n,eve r had any children, but when "people are all in all to each oilier, that is no very great grief. All her care was for him all his for Iter "And he is just the dearest, best, truest feliow in the world," said Eve Wilton to herself. "I'm not half good enough for him. I wonder what this is in bis pocket it bulges it all out of shape." She put her band into the breast pocket as she spoke and drew out a little package wrapped up in silver pa per, and ti d with blue ribbon. "Something be has Ooiight for me, 1 eTnect " said Eve. "I wonder what It u I think 1 won't len it until be come borne;" then she laid the silk across the hole and cut it out, and bas ted it down. "I wonder what it Is," said she. "Tom did mean to give me an opera- gla-s, I know, but that is not the shape of the parcel. It doesn't seem like a book. It might be lace wouud on card real lace " She looked at the package again. "I do wonder what it is?" said she, and hemmed the patch down. "There won't be much to patch after all," she said. "I thought the tear much longer. He caught it on a nail at the office. 1 know. Now I do wonder what there is in tiiat package." Eve put the coat over achair and took uu the little parcel. "Tom wouldn't mind," said she, "I will iust take a peep. I'm sure it is for me." Then she unilid the ribbon, unfolded the paper, and saw letters. Dear Tom," said she, "lie must Veep mv olil letters next bis heart, and he never has told me." But the writing was not hers; she saw that at a g'ance. "His niothei's letter," shesaid. "He loved bis mother so." Then she began to tremble a little, for the letter did not begin "My dear son, nor anything like it. She cast her e ves over them. They were love-letters. "Tom has loved sme other woman before he met me," she said, beginning to cry. "Oh, what shall I do?" Then she cried out: "Oh, foolish crealure th:tlam! Of eourse she died, and he only loves me now. It was all before we met. 1 tnn,t not mind " but there she paused, gave a scream, and threw the letter from her as though it had been a serpent and bad bitten her. It was dated the past week. It was not four days old. "Oh! -oh! oh!"- cried Eve.- "Oh what sha'.l I do? "Ohy where'1 shall 1 go?" At every cry a thought pierced her breast like an actual stab. "Tom my Tom! What shall I do? Tom! Tom lie to be false Oh, have I gone mad Xo. There they are! They are really there those letters! Why 'do I not die! To people live through'.' such things as these?" ' ' ' Then she knelt down on the floor am gathered up the letters, and steadily read them through. There were ten of them. Such love-letters! Xo other Interpretation could be put upon them They were absurd love-letters such as are always produced in court in cases of breach of promise. And they called him "Popsy Wopsy," "Darling Par linr " "Lvev Povey," and "Own Sweetness," and "Angel of my soul, and ihcy were all signed "Tour ow . Nellie." - . 'It is ail trne," said poor Eve, wring ing her hands. "And It Is worse than anything I ever beard of. I trusted hi in so. 1 believed in hint so. My Tom' mine!" Then she wiped her eyes, gathered up the lcters, picked them up, wrapped the silver paper aliout them, tied the blue ribbon, put them back Into the awful breast-pocket of that dreadful overcoat aud hung it on the ball-rack again. "Tom shall never know," she said. "111 not reproach him. I will never see him again ; when he conies home I shall be dead. I will not live to bear this." Then she sat down to think over the be-t means of suicide. She could hang herself to the chandelier with a window-blind cord, but then she would he black in the face and hideous. She could drown herself, but then her body would go Coating, floating down the river to the sea; and drowned people looked even worse than strangled ones. She was too much afmid of fire-arms to shoot herself even in this strait. Sbe would take poison. Yes, that would be best, and though she would never see Tom again, he would see her, and remorse would sung him. Here she made a great mistake. A man who is cooly treacherous to women never has anv remorse. Re morse in love affairs Is a purely femi nine qutlity, and even the worst of our sex are not without it. However, it Is natural to believe that remorse Is pos sible to a man whom one has heretofore believed to be an angel In human form, and Eve, took a little, miserable com fort in the thought that Tom would kneel beside her coffin and burst into tears and passionate exclamations of regret, which she, perhaps, might see from some spiritual post of observation. So, having put on a hat and a thick vail, Eve betook herself down the street and around the corner, to the nearest German drnggist. The druggist was an old man, a benevolent-looking one, with red cheeks and a smiling mouth; and when she asked for "poison for rats" he said: So!" and beamed milJly upon her. "I wan't it very stiong," said Eve. "So!" said the druggist. 'But not to give more pain than is necessarv," said Eve. "To the rats?" asked the druggist. "Yes," said Eve, "of course; and it must be quick, aud not make one black in the face." "So," said the druggist, slowly. Well," what 1 shall give you shall not make de rat black In de face." And with a grave countenance he compounded a iiowder and handed it across the counter. Eve took it, paid the few cenU he asked, and walked away. Once Imme he went at once to her room and un dressed herself and rt tired to lied, tak- ug the powder with her. Once or twice she tasted it with the tip of her tongue, hoping it was not very disa greeable. Then, finding it sweet, she bravely swallowed it. It is over," she said. "Oh, Heaven forgive me, aud forgive Tom." And then she laid herself down upon her pillow. Jm-t as she did so. the fa- iliar sound of a latch-key In the door helow startled her. Tom never came home at noon but there he was now ; no one else but Tom could walk in In that cool way, and now be was calling her. Eve Eve Eve where are you? Xever before bad she refused to an wer that voice. Why had he come to torture her dying moments? Hark Now be was bounding up the stairs. He was in the room. "What 19 the matter?" Are you ill, Eve?" he cried. Xo,"said she, faintly "only tired." 'Ah! You look tired, little one," said he. "I came home to get the over coat. I suppose vou've-foiind out by this time that that in the hall is not mine. 1 wore Johnson's overcoat home from the office last night by mistake, and be is anxious atKut it. He asked me if there was any one In the house who would be apt to meddle with pa pers or anything in the pockets. I said I thought not. I hadn't a jealous wife eh? What's the matter, Eve?" "Oh, Tom !" cried Eve, hysterically 'Oh. Tom. say it again! It was not your coat? Oh, Tom, kiss me. "Whv. what is the mattter. Eve?" cried Tom . "You must be ill I" Then Eve remembered all. "Oh, I am a wicked woman, Tom!" she cried. There were letters iu the pocket love letters. I read them thought you false to me. I I took poi son, Tom. I'm going to die and 1 long to live so. Oh, Tom, save me! Yes, yes,'.' cried Tom. "Oil, good Heaven! what poison?" 'Mr. Hofimau will know. I bought it of him. Perhaps he can save me I cried Eve. And away went Tom, as white as death, to the druggist's around the cor ner. He burst into the shop Eke a whirl wind. - "The lady !" be gasped. "The lady who bt ught poison here an hour ago! She took it by mistake! Can you save her? Have vou an antidote? She Is lving!" "Xo. no!" said the old German. "Be calm! be at rest! Xo, no! she cannot die of dat- When a lady ask me for poison dat will not turn a rat black in de face, I say to myself so: 'I smells someting;' and I gives her in de paper slmst a little sugar and somctings. She could take a pound. Go home and tell her so. I never sells poison to womans dat cry and do not vish de rat to become black in de face. So be calm !",' So Tom flew home again, and Eve re joiced; and after hearing that Johnson was a single man, who admitted him self to be engaged, she did not rip the patch off bis coat as she bad at first in tended. A. T. Ledger. '"The late Sir Titus' Salt, a"man th'or ntii'hlv puotUhfearted as wIIaa Wealth, h.-i left the sum of 150A"00 as a fund lo he invested for the teiietit of the sicl aud aged poor at Saltaire and Its ?t liuity. . . -. . - . The peanut crop of Tennessee SOO.Ooo bushels. . : . . '. , : Pkivaib letters Monogram. . MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., " WEDNESDAY, Tks ArtlM-Neldler The story or Andre, as we commonly read it, tells little of Andre himself. It tells nothing of the manner of man he was, how be looked, how be dressed and what be said and did. We read of him as the spy. He was one at the time of Lis death, but that he believed bis military duty ; he tried to serve bis king as well as he could, and perhaps we cannot blame him so very much, even if we did punish bitn so sadly, lie was something else than a mere spy. and it is more agreeable to think of him as an artist than a soldier. He diil not love war as some soldiers do, aud while in this country be many times tiied to soften the hardships aud troubles of the times. Once he louud a poor little boy who had been cap tuied by the Biitisu soldiers in West chester County, aud brought to New Yoik to le put into the dreadful pris ons the British then kept in our city. Such a little fellow could do no barm, and Andre took him away from the soldiers and sent bim back to bis mo ther iu safety. Besides painting aud drawing, Andre could sing, and make charming verses, and cnt out portiaits in silhouette. Many of bis ltttcis and pictuiea are well preserved, and could jrou read the letters, you would see that be was a genial, lively and entertaining man. While be was in this country be kept a journal, and it is said, it was full of pictures of plants and insect and ani mals, people and places, bits of scenery and plans of cities and towns. He used olttn to give bis pictures away as presents to bis friends; aud once, when he was a prisoner in onr hands, and was sent to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for safety, be taught the children of the village to draw. One of the Lan caster boy's pleased bim so much, and displayed so much talent, that Andre offered to make an artist of bim, aud to take bim to England when the war was at an end. The bo ' father would uot consent to this, thqngh he was pleased to think the English officer should take so much interest in his son. The piis oners were afterward removed to Car lisle, aud Andre bad to leave bispnpil. He did not fortret him, for he after ward wrote a letter to the boy's father, in which be said that the boy "must take particular care iu forming the features iu faces, and in copying the liaLds exactly. He should now and then copy things from lite, and then compare their proportions with what prints he may have, or w hat rules be may remember." All this was during the war, and An dre himself was an enemy ; but we can baldly think of him iu that nay. He regretted all the troubles of the times, aud, unlike bis brother officers, be iie- ex called us "the lebeU."' but the col onists. Even to this nay, tin letters and little pictures, bis silhouette por traits,' aud sketches and verses are ireserved iu some families in rcmeui- of the kind, merry, and cultivated EiikUsIi geutlemau whom no now call Major A mire, the spy. Wnen he was exchanged, ho went back to the British army stationed at 'niladelpliia, aud there again he dis played bis many talents. He painted drop-sceue for the theatre which was thought to be very hue, and they said of it that "the ioliage was uncom monly fcpiiited and graceful." He also wrote verses to be recited in the thea tre, and even took part iu the plays. Once there was a trr.iod pageant iu Philadelphia a water processon on the Deleware, with irayly trimmed boats, aud bauds ot music, and ladies in faney costumes all ending in a fraud ball. Audre took an active part in all these pleasuring, designed the costumes lor the ladies, wrote verses and helped to put up the decoratious. All this happened when onr poorand discouiaged troops were having a sad time of it, waiting aud watclnug fur a chance to strike a blow for the country At last the British were obliged to leave Philadelphia. Andre went away with them to New York, and it was there that he received the commission to treat with Arnold for the capture of West Puiut, aud that only eudeJ iu his capture and sad death. On the last day of bis life be drew his cwn portrait from memory with a pen, that is without the aid ot a mir ror, and the picture is still in exist- anee. V uile iu ew loric. just oeiore Le went up to see General Arnold, he made several silhouette portraits of la dies who then lived there, aud all were said to be remarkably correct likeuess es, and were, of course, greatly pnr.ed afterward as the work of the young, genial and light-hearted British officer. Those Kevolutionery days are now very old, and the handsome English gentleman has been dead lone, long years. We can forgive his ell'orta ag ainst us now, and perhaps it will be more agreeable to think of him as the artist-soldier rather than the spy at West Poiut. St. Nicholas. The Verrnaa lrw vi I leer. Even iu Beeiland there are different kinds of beer; like the federal union, , . Tl one in many ana many in one. be tween them are irreconcilable difler euces, as for example, between the white and Adieus beer of Berlin. 1 he former is :nade of wheat, aud is exclu sively a summer beverage, and it glass nf it is fondW termed a 'kleine Weisse' fa little white one), perhaps in irony for it is served in eccentric mammoth tumblers, which require both bands to lift.. Then there isllie Vienna Beer, the iintinodes of the Bavarian. The latter must be drunk soon after it is made while the former must lie many months n the cellar before it is ready for use, in . Austria, that forcible . union of States of clashing interests and nation alities, which is uot a nation, but only a government reposing on bayonets, the population is divided between King Gambriuus and those of Bacchus. As little as an artist could maintain that he was familiar with the works of the great masters when be bad not visited Italy, so little conld a beer drinker assert that he bad seen beer rightly drunk when be hud not been in Munich it is the elixir of life, tbe fountain of youth and happiness It is looked npon as nourishment by tbe lower classes who drink for dinner two masse of it, with soup and black ": t - ....... . i IHI C05STITUTI05 THI OTTOS AS bread. For the price of beer they could procure a good portion of meat. bnt they universally maintain that they are best nourished with beer and bread. The Bavarian drinks to satisfy bis thirst, that beautiful German gift of God." If be is healthy, hedriuka be cause it keeps bis life juices in their normal state ; if be is sick and in pain, because it is a soothing and harmless narcotic; if be is hungry beer is nour ishment ; if be baa already eaten, be cause beer promotes digestion ; if be is warm, leeause it is cooling aud refresh ing; if he is cold, because it warms bim ; if be is fatigued, because it is a tonic and sovereign strength lenewer; if be is angry, because beer soothes bitn and gives bim time to consider; if be needs courage, because beer is ex actly the right stimulant. Where the Americans fly to their bitters " to tone up the system and enliven the secre tion s," the Get mans resort to been aud many are of opinion that frequent trips to the bock stalls in the spring are more healing than a visit toCarlshad or Baden Badeu, where one driuks dis gusting water. In all circumstances and all moods they diink and are com forted. 'Hie Galnnu. A taMlie KgoUnt. Vesti is I., the famous dancer, re mains on history as the most coloss ally, comically vain of artists. Intoxi cated with applause, be considered himself the greatest genius of bis time. "There are but three truly great men in Europe," be would aay, "my self, M. de Voltaire, and King Freder ick.". To his iu finite egotism, his son and successor YestrisIL, added an immense capacity for rebellion against authority. Twice be was sent to prt-1 son, the second time at the personal desire of Marie Antoinette. This is how it happened. In bis efforts to dis' play the height of his genius to the people of England, he injured one of the tendons of bis right foot. The ac cident, though it did not betray itself in bis walk, was suflicient to prevent him from dancing with the grace, the vigor and the perfection which placed him so far above all bis rivals. On his return to France be found that the Ling of Swedeu was the guest of Marie Antoinette. The queen was naturally desirous of exhibiting to her visitor the Eiost distinguished of her artists. Ac cordingly she sent a message to young Vestiis beggiug bim to dance before the king of Sweden as well as he could she was aware of his accident if it weie ouly a few pa. The yonngartist returned a reply that be could not af ford to ventnre his professional repu tation by appearing when he was nut at his best. The queen had seen bim at the opera and observed that be walked with perfect ease, so she sent hiiu another order a thiid, to each of which a similar reply was returned. The upshot of it was that yonng Ves tris was sent to the prison of La Force and kept there till he had completely recovered the use of bis foot. The news was announced to bis father. "H V said Vestris I.; "then onr bonse and the house of Bourbon are at last face to face ! It shall be war !" onset bins' Aktoat laaeeia. An old friend of mine, an enthusias tic philo-apiariau, told me that being at a friend's house one dry summer, when all the field flowers were nearly scorched up, he saw thousands of bees busy in a field of clover then in bloom. '1 wish my liees were here," said my friend. "Probably they are," replied the gen tleman. "What, at forty miles distance?" "Yes" said bis friend. "On your return home dredge the backs of your bees with flour as they issue from the hives in the morning, and we shall see. This was done, and bis friend wrote him directly: "There are plenty of your white-jioket bees here in the clo ver!" Bat whatever is the fact with bees, ants follow their noses much more than their eyes. In my garden I saw a train of ants ascending an apple tree; go up by one track, and descend by another. As in ascending they passed between two small shoots that sprung from the hole, I stopped their passage with a piece of bark. The ants did not see this obstruction with their eyes, but ran bump against It, and stood still, aston ished. Soon a crowd of tlretn had thus been suddenly stopped, and were anx iously searching about for a passage. By various successive starts forward, they eventually got around the obstruc tion aud reached the track oil the other side. The line of scent was renewed, and thenceforward, on arriving at the barricade they went without a tnotnent's hesitation, by the circular track. I then took my penknife and pared away piece of the outer bark on the oeu bole where the ants were descending. .Tlie effect was the same. Tbe sueut being taken away, the ants came to a dead stand, and there was the same con founded crowd, and tbe same spasmodic attempts to regain the road, which being effected in the same away, the scent was carried over the shaven part of the bark, and the train ran on as freely as before, St. Xichlnt. What l UW W.rlht The precise monetary valnc of human life in various parts ot tlie world would be an Interesting subject for careful in vestigation. ' In Dahomey we probably begin at one of tbe lowest rungs of tre ladder. A few beads or a strip of calico there will purchase a well-developed specimen of humanity. In China any criminal possessed of $15 may procure a substitute, who, having deposited the money in the nanus oi his poor rela tives, will cheerfully undergo the oper ation of decapitation, . The", a&cending a little higher ten' " the allegor ical ladder, we come to slave-marts, where often an elephant's tusk is worth four women. It is unpleasant to come nearer home, and ask what some phases of so-called civilized life are worth. A German professor, who rejects Malthu siau doctrines, computes that, taking the whole world for an average, a woman is worth about one-eighth of a man. He thinks that there are at least 250,000,'00 unmarried women In the world. As a TOte.'OTft of Europe, horses are more valuable than members of the lair sex. . However, Esquimaux women s-e scarce, and each one is probably worth two men. Jn new settlements, such as many In California, a woman rises vastly in estimation sometime outvaluing seven men. ' TO E3T0RCEME5T OF TH1 LAWS. Baebeltr aad ClrL The words bachelor and girl, the first of which, being formerly held as syn onymous with "young man," or "sweetheart," may be regarded as the parallel and corresponding term to the other. We hope that the classes which bear these names will parJon us for saying that etymology gives a not very flattering account of the origin of ekher. As for girl, we are left, as far as iu derivations, to choose betw een the Saxon carl or churl and the Latin word gamila, a garrulous female. If the lat ter of these derivations be the right one shall we say in this case, as In some of the preceding that the term girl has de parted much from its original significa tion? At all events, we are certain that the parties denoted by the term will prefer the application of (sweet) prattlers to that of carls or churls, burly and surly. As for bachelors etymology is still less kind aud still less decisive with respect to the meaning of their distinctive designation. One philolo gist refers the term to a Greek word, plainly and plumply signifying foolish, while another derives it from bat cheva lier (French,) a knight of the very meanest grade. By some, the word is traced to the Latin buculut (a staff,) be cause bachelors, In their old days, have nothing but a stick or cane to lean upon ; and, last and least, the worthy commen tator and improver upon Johnson, Mr. H. P. Todd believes "the most probable derivation to be from ' acca laurus, the berry of a laurel or bay ; bachelors be ing young aud of good hopes, like lau rels in the berry. Truly this latter is even too hard a nut to crack, and we had . rather tlie tree in - question had been the chestnut or hazel. To speak the truth, in plain earuest, the French derivation of bat chevalier seems to be the true origiual of bachelor; and all, therefore, who expose themselves to the designation by remaining ob stinately in a single state, must be con tent to rank themselves under the prim itive appellation of "knights of the lowest order." The parties implicated, it Is to be presumed, will shelter them selves under the plea that a great change has taken place iu the meaning of words; aud as this is the argument we ourselves set out with, we cannot very well gain-say the defense. Chcmberi' Journal. Tlie blck Jlle. There are, of course, innumerable points at which the views and the cus toms of men and women diverge more or less widely, but there is probably nothing in which the difference is more strongly marked than in their respec tive methods of bearing small illnesses and indispositions. Small ones, be It said ad visedly ; a grave malady has or dinarily so prostrating an effect that it is undergone with an almost apathetic patience born of its very severity. But with smaller ailments the cae is differ ent; and it is in their manner of bear- ng them that men so often raise a pity ing smile on the countenances of their less robust but more long-suffering womankind. It never seems to occur to an ordinary lord of cieation that it is within the bounds of possibility that one of the minor ills to which the flesh is heir should touch him, and be is as astonished and aggrieved when be finds himself suffering from a headache or a fit of influenza as if tbe malady were a perfectly abnormal occurrence. This is tbe more remarkable as, almost inva riably, he scoffs at and laughs to scorn any precautionary measure declines to change wet shooting-boots as being "of no consequence," and persi-teiitly sits in a draught because be is over heated. But when the heavy cold conies he is ail auiaeenieut, cannot con ceive how he caught it, and regards himself as a victim grievously ill-treated by fate, and deserving of all possible sympathy and compassion. As a rule a woman is abundantly pitiful and sym pathetic; but It aoust require immense command over her risible muscles to re press a smile when her lord gravely as sures her that no one was ever so ill before;-and that she cannot have the faintest conception of what he Is endu ring, sue trunks ot me many eoius from which she has suffered, for which he has always condemned her for "cod dling;" assuring her that a cold was a "mere trifle, nothing to make a fuss about.". And yet, what was her fuss ing to his? Besides feeling ill, she Is always willing to try such such reme dies as experience has taught her are the most efficacious, while be can be persuaded totry pothing, . though he complains sorely that no one does any thing for bim or appears to compassion ate his evil case. . It is hardly a happy time lor those brousht much In contact with him. If he suffers from a headache the whole machinery of the house must be stopped, not a door must creak, nor a footfall be heard, though he is the last, person In the world to respect the headaches of others, and always p.ofesscs his belief that they are only another name for caprice or convenience. At the smallest derangement of his usual robust health, from whatever cause it may arise, he at onee believes himself to be extremely, K not dangerously, ill ; ami yet, with a strange perversity, absolutely refuses to see a doctor. His feminine belongings, if they are wjse, commiserate and make much of him, but are never in tbe slightest degree alarmed so long as he grumbles and bewails himself; when he becomes silent as to his sufferings they at once conclgde-tbat something serious is really the matter.'-' : . ; ' ' Perhaps'' the'most doleftil speclscle that can ber presented to the ' imagina tion is that of a man afflicted with the tooth ache- It -certainty is a most wear ing and distressing pain; still, it has been endured at different times by al most every one. 'it is edifying to note that though," when any one else has been attacked with the same torment, he has recommended Instant recourse to a dentist, and has derided any back wardness in following his advice as cowardice, he is, when his own time comes, no more eager to plant himself iu the chair of doom than were his des pised friends, and is fertile in inventing expedients for putting off the evil day, probably, If tbe pain abates to remote FEBRUARY 21, 1877. date. A woman must be very near, In deed, akin to an angel, who, after her husband or some other near male rela tive has for years laughed to scorn her complaints of agonizing neuralgia tel ling her it "is all fancy," "only nerves" (could It be anything worse?), that she would never have it if she did not think about it,or If she took more exercise, or if she did soraething.or other totally out of her power to do does not, sorry as she may be that he should suffer, feel a cer tain satisfaction when the enemy seizes upon bim, and he is made to feel what she has endured. , The absurdity of men's utterances never seeint to strike them when they gravely affirm that no one can possibly gauge their suffering from an ordinary cold in the head. There is no offence so great as to try and persuade a man that, disagreeable as it may be, it is but a temporary inconvenience, which in a very short space of time will pa,- away, leaving not a trace behind; he regards this simple exposition of fact as most unfeeling, and bemoans himself plaintively that no one cares whether he is ill or not. He believes firmly that be is a model of fimness undersuffering. The women about him will be wise if they abstain from irritating him by auy refutation of this preposterous fallacy. It may be admitted that it Is difficult for them to hold their peace w hen they see bim deliberately making himself ill by eating or drinking what he knows from experience will disagree with him. It is not easy to be compassionate to the fit of gout brought on by drinking sweet champagne, or to manifest sympathy with a headache produced by over-indulgence In pickled salmon or lobster salad. But the victim will never allow that imprudence has anything to do with the matter, and persists In regard ing himself as the martyr of cruel late. London World. After Dlaaer Xape. Xo wonder if half the world knows bow pleasant it is to take an after din ner nap, and what a relief it is to the overburdened brain or stomach. We nsed to know a lawyer who took bis nap every day after dinner on three chairs, and that lawyer, ir he continues the practice, will die an old man. if there is any one time when a man Is forced to exert himself, whether In j muscular or orain iaoor, io ,'", after the noonday meal. If all men ( could only rest, not one hour but two hours, and put the extra time on the closing hours of the day, what an im provement would be made in their health. Whether he be a farmer or a mechanic, or a pndessional man, a good rest after dinner leaves the man in a better condition for bard labor than even in the morning. We once worked j for a farmer in harvest, who always made an agreement with bis workmen to work ten hours a day, and from I twelve o'clock to two no work was to be done unless in case of emergency, a threatened rain or something that in quired extra exertion. Didn't we have glorious times sleeping under trees after dinner I We always used up three quarters of an hour at the table and then slept one hour and a quarter during the heat of the day. The result was the men were never overworked, and tbe farmer got more labor from his men than any of bis neighbers, though their men of;en worked twelve bours a day. When two o'clock came the hands were all in good trim, completely rested out, and they could do double the work With more ease than if they had com menced work at one o'clock. A single hour's rest at the proper time worked wonders with them. English Xittaers. It is a marked fceture of social life in England, and certainly one of its es pecial charms, that mothers and daughters are so uniformly seen to gether at their own home. Not only is the mother the first lady to whom you are introduced at the bonse where you visit, bnt mistress of the ceremonies throughout ; not only does she preside at the dinner table, but in the evening party she sits as queen. Whatever may be your first impression of such an arrangement if it happens that youi sympathies are with the younger ladies you will veiy sooo learn to think that the mother's absence would be very sincerely regretted by the daughters. As a picture all mnst ad mit the arrangement to be perfect. The portly form and matronly dignity of the mother are an exquisite foil to the yonthful beanty and maiden coy ness of the daughters. And yoa will find nothing to mar, but everything to enhance the interest of the picture. The mother's presence never seems to operate as an unwelcome restraint. Between her and the daughters yon will mark the most joyous, playful. loving freedom, without the sacrifices of a little parental dignity and author ity on the one hand, or of sweet grace ful filial duty on the other. It may be said of English families generally, that these two things are eminently characteristic, to wit, uniform parental authority, and the most charming free dom of intercourse between parents and their cbildien. Capital Paalakmeat la Italy. Tbe movement lor the abolition- of capital punishment in Italy has already been partially successful. In France a movement in the same direction has been initiated. Some forty-odd promi nent Deputies Including Louis Blanc, have submitted a bill, in which they cive the following reasons for abolish ing the guillotine : "That the right to inflict an irreparable punishment im plies an Infallible judge; that to inflict death is a bad way on the part of society j of inculcating respect for life, and, con sequently, of arresting the arm of the murderer; that the spectacle of the blood shed by the executioner hardens perverse hearts, and is an obstacle to that refinement of manners which should be the result and Is the sign of an advanced civilization; that the pun ishment of death has been condemned by the greatest criminal lawyers; that the countries where it Is abolished have only had to congratulate themselves on its abolition; that the punishment of death, in a word, produces effects In every way contrary to those expected by iw partisans. . A. Xew York firm Is about sending to Australia four locomotives for use on the railroads of tbe tiovernment of Xew South Wales. ' .- : Dawctaterawa Lady Helaa- It may be that there are households to be found in which ladies ran, with advantage to tueraseivee ... . - . .1 .1 V.A;aa Am I pioyees, unueriaae iuc uulrc, - performed by servants, mere is no doubt that manT well-born and well- educated gentle-women would rather cook all day long than to teach a vil lage school, and would infinitely prefer dusting a piano to listening to a child playing scales upon It. Bur, after, all, the system of lady helps Is a retrogres- slve n'ovement, and therefore can only have a partial and temporary success. Refined women who are obliged to earn their livelihood will by degrees see that they ought to try to find employ ment Iu some sphere where their cul ture and accomplish menu would be of value, instead of being unproductive. It is because they are uot as yet suffi ciently educated that they are obliged to raise the cry of having no work to do, and in despair of finding congenial occupation, take to manual laliorofa not verv remunerative kind. But it seems a pity to go searching for new oieniugs in a backward direction. It is labor lost, and induces a wasteful ex penditure of enthusiasm on the part of enthusiasm on the part of social re formers. There is still plenty of raw material to supply more than all tliel servants wanted for use. provided rich people would. not keep so many merely for show. The raw material might be turned into good servants if we had any organization by which girls could be apprenticed and taught then trade. There Is really no suflicient reason why young ladies of the rising generation should take to sweeping rooms and cleauing grates in strange houses, or even passing sleepless nights with teethinz babies not their own. Ioraes- tic service can never solve the question of "women's work," although It may for the present stop a gap and furnish a subject for conversation. On the other hand, there can be no question that many of our social difficulties would be almost entirely mastered if young ladies would consent to become lady helps in their own homes. Nothing can be more intolerable than the mis management and discomfort to be found In countless households where there are plenty of grown-up daughters, who nave really little to do but grumble at the dreariness of their lives, and iret themselves Into permanent ill-health Perhaps they take sufficient interest in the housekeeping to wonder contemptu ously bow their mother can be tronbled with such inefficient servants, "crea tures" who canuoteven make palatable coffee or keep the silver bright. They have no patience with the shortcomings of the overworked bouse-mald, from whom they expect as much personal at tendance as if she had only a lady's maid's duties to perform. They cannot think why the gardener does not show more taste in his arrangement of the flower-beds, and why he does not cut off the withered roses. Half the young women one meets in the country sink into a state of semi-imbecility from idle ness and want of Interest in their sur roundings. From mere thoughtless ness and ignorance they grow up ex acting aud unreasonable. From want of active exercise they become the ready prey of hysteria, dyspepsia, and spine complaints. They marry any one w ho will have them, simply because they are so bored that any change Is welcome. They make bad wives, because they have uever learned the rudiments of domestic eonomy. When the unfortu nate mother of such daughter allows herself to be persuaded to add a lady help to the establishment, the height of absurdity is reached. Four or five plain commonplace stupid girls may lounge about the bouse he with apiece of soiled fancy-work, another playing snatches of dance mu.-ic, a third read ing French novels on the sofa, while perhaps a pretty graceful lady lays the fire, dusts tbe room, and endeavors probably In vain, to bring order into tbe uncomfortable and chaotic estab lishment. .&ifurfij Seviev. Hovel Vie for SplderV T a read. Cobwebs have been applied to various uses. The delicate era's hairs in the telescopes of surveying instruments are fine webs taken from spldcis of a species that are specially selected for their pro duction of an excellent quality of this material. The spider, when caught, Is made to spin bis thread by tossing him from hand to baud, in case he is indis posed to furnish the article. The end is attached to a piece of wire which is doubled Into parellel lengths, the dis tance apart exceeding a little the diam eter of the instrument. As the spider hangs and descends from this, the web is wound upon It by turning the wire around. The coils are then gummed to the wire and kept for use as required About a century ago, Koa of Lunguc- doc. succeeded in making a pair of stockings from the thread of a spider. They were very strong, and of a beau tiful gray color. Other attempts of the same kind have been made; but Reau mur has stated that the web of tbe spi der was not equal to that of the f ilk worm, either iu strength or lustre. The cocoons of the latter weigh from three or four grains that 2,034 worms pro duce a pound of silk; but the bags of the spider, w hen cleaned, do not weigh above the pirt of a grain. Saklaa; a Tool ! Oae'a Self. Making a fool ' of one's self is with many people a part of their education al experience in life. Once brought to the experimental realization of the fact, one is apt to be wiser ever after. ' A man eenerally makes a fool of himself by wasting his money, or be lieving in mines and companies, that are but traps lor the unwary, or by losing his temper at a critical moment. A woman manages to do the same thing through the means of ber tongue or her heaiV She talks herself into tribulation, or she gives her love to some worthless creature who becomes the bane of her life. It is over an empty purse that a man generally stands and clenches his hands and matters, "I ve made a fool of myself." It is over her empty heart that woman usually wails forth the same words. . , Editor and Proprietor NO. 8. 1TCW3 EI BRH7. There are no less than fifty lady 1rwrata at ii V " " " J XjrmAnn has nine hundred profes- gional brokers. There were about 650 suicides iu tbe United States in 1376. Westborough. Mass., makers have sold about 3000 sleighs this winter. Over 3,000,000, cigars are daily burned in this country. No insurance. Florida citizens are taxed, on an average, 2.50 a pie.-e Tbe Harvard freshmen have chal lenged Yaie to an eight-oared race. Tlie coal miners of Brazil, Ind., are clamoring for an increase of wages. Lai-t year the English Life Boat In stitution saved !'. lives, besides res ruing H vessels. The Kindergarten system has been introduced in the Government school for girls in China. IomestlcatIng partridges is a new and profitable branch ol industry iu ' North Carolina. - At her recent Moscow benefit Patti received 3t0 bouquets, sprinkled with .)0,000 worth of uiamontls. Arnold, the writing-fluid man, has made $1,000,000 by it. That's the sort ot an ink-come to have. Rev. Anna Oliver has taken charge of a Methodist Church at Passaic, X. J.. which has a debt of T100,000. A lemon tree at Stamford, Fla., pro- duced 6.U00 lemons last year, some ot which weighed a poum! each During the past five years Califor nia has exported nearly B,0O0,0oO gal lons of wine valued at over $4,000,000. Miss Emily Peyton has been a second time elected enrolling clerk of the Teuuessee House of licpreseut-' tlves. Cumberland county. Va., Is infests witn beavers .which are busily engaged in building tueir habitations along the rivers, There are four lay preachers In the British House of Commons Sir Watkin Williams and Messrs. Blake, Waddy and Allen. A magnificent vase, four feet high, aud cut from a single piece of agate, has been sent to the Mikauoby the Emperor of Russia. The gold production of Montana since the discovery of the mines in 1S6J. is calculated bv an authority in that Territory at $110,000,000. A Detroit restaurant keeper hangs out a sign of "free chops," and when the old loafers couie around he show s tnem an axe anj a woodpile. The biggest Sail in the world has just been made in Dublin. It is rectan gular iu shape and in size ISO by 00. U will be used in raising sunken vessels. Hard as tbe time? are, one cham pagne firm in Kheiins exported to this country last year over as.ooo dozen, on which the Ooverninent received f--N" 0(X i i duties. The GOO grasshopper prize offered by the Minnesota Legislature has in spired a genius who proposes to destroy the insect hv raising a net bv b illoonsa quarter of a mile apart. At least 300,000 tons of ice were shipH-d from tlie Kenneliee and its tributaries tlie pist year. The sales ire reported to have average.! ?J per ton. iml at this ngure a million dollars was realized for the cold product. The Catholic Directnrr for 1S77 re ports the n u m ber ol" Cat hoi ics-h u rches i u this country as 5,2'J2, and the number ol" priests as 5,207, while the congregations to whom they minister are estimated at 6,200,000. ewish silver shekels have lately been found near Jerusalem, belonging to the time of Simon Maccabeus, U. C. 141. Oa one side they have ttie cup of manna, aud on the other the building rod nf Aaron. Boston covers an area of 31 '4 square miles, has 364 miles of streets, and its population is :M2,tNi0. In liM irs popu lation was 17S,noo, the ciry covered 4J4 square miles, and Ini'l UM miles o streets. Dr. C. H. F. Peters, the indefatiga ble astronomer of Litchfield Observa tory, llamiltoii College, IS gatfierin I quite a fimily of lane'. about hiiu. The twenty seveutd addition to his family circle of asteroids is announced. Mr. George Jack of Chester county. Pa., has a drove of turkeys numbering nearly eight hundred. They were pur chased in Southern Ohio, shipp-d by railroad to Newark, Del., and driven from there to Mr. Jack's residence, a distam-e of twenty-two miles. Edw in BooLliand Sothern haveeucii given $."00 to the fund for the erection of a hakes(are memorial hall in Strat- ford-ou-Avoii. Ol' the sum required, Jt'10,000, (the laud Is a gill) iJU.OOO ha been subacrlhed, ami I nure L.eooom will lay the corner-stone on April '2:!rd. Sa:ito .Motiiea, California, "tlwr : Long Branch of t!ie Pacific,' was laid out in towu lots but sixteen months since, and now there are in tbe town over three hundred buildings and eight hundred inhabitants, with a $'2'J,oou hotel, a public school building and two church edifice. Tl.e tjueen's state saloon on the Great Western railway, Kuglaud. is made entirely of boiler plate, and so lined and padded that if the carriage were to go over an embankment and roll to the bottom, the cnauces are mat the occupant would escape uninjured. Mrs. Lena Orton of Lancsville, Conn., in order to preveut quarrels tnioiig her heirs alter her death, has adopted the expedient of dividing a large part or her property among tnem. Sbe has already distributed in this way more than one hundred and forty thou sand dollars. The Massachusetts census report for 1S75 contains some curious findings. For instance, there are KH5 "ladies7' in the state and 20 "gentlemen," and there are five "old Irish gentlemen.". There are nine "gamblers," three "hermits," three "loater," ten 'pedestrians," aud one "prize ngnter. Storev county. Xevada, is one of the richest counties in the United States. The bonanza mines are situated in it. and they yield their product of wealth every mouth with invariable uuiforni- iiy. lis yieiu o. ko.u u w.n lion for the quarter ending September 30th was $3,742,400. The Freemasons of England sup port three charities, one of which pay annuities to aged Masons and widows. while 'the other two are school lor children of Masons, one for boys, and one for girls. The sura contributed lasr rnr for their support was over - $195,000. . . A Yokohama, paper announces the , circuit of the world by means of a cor respondence in 73 days, two days less than the time consumed by "Jules Verne's hero. A letter despatched via America to England, was auswered , delav of tnree or four davs and lne reply sent to Japan via the Suez route, reaching its destination in less than80days. ti fi 4 ii
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