B. F. SCHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THI UNION AND THB INFOECEMEXT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. TOL. XXXI... MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PEXXA.." WEDNESDAY, MARCII 21. 1S77. SO. 12. HOVE 05. TIis bright, snnny nlU keep on flowing Alon by the bub and the brae, Aud not one 8ummer blowom atopa growing. No matter how dark are the days. Tl.e cloud too, keep aailing and lifting. To let the bright aun arrows through ; Tli a oatnre by changing and shifting. Keep moving with plenty to do. Stand still, and yon mis the bright plaoea That wait for too further along ; bund still, and the booming oasis Will comfort yon not with iU song. M jre on with the grand working army That labor with purpose of soul ; More on, and the air will grow balmy, Aud victory be your at the goaL ht-p back and thJ)'i email hope of winning. 1'nr courage true fleetneaa moat lend ; Stop back at the very beginning. and where will you be at the end t Go forward, jounj sowers, at dawning. With glaJnees and hope to the field ; ju forward, for weet iu the morning. To labor for Autumn rich yield. tiivat worlds in their orbita are moring. And planete unpeopled keep pace. While in contrast, all living aud loving. Dumb life aide its mite to the race. Then why, in this busy creation. That move without rent or delay, l-h. why. fair young sonde of the nation, Mioui J man be the laggard to-day ? The Eyes in the Bust. I ii the winter of 1842, a gentleman ami his daughter, a young lady, while tra veling through Canada, arrived about nightfall at an old-fashioned tavern. The gentleman concluded to stop there instead of going on to the village of S , which was ten miles distant, and which they had thought to reach. The daughter Carrie expressed her wil lingness, as the tavern presented a com fortable appearance, and they ulighted, when it was plainly to be seen that the gentleman was quite lame, so much so that he was obliged to use a cane. The landlord came out, and calling a loy to take the horse and sleigh to the barn, he ushered Mr. Spencer and his daughter into a pleasant sitting-room, where a bright fire was burning on the hearth, which proved very acceptable to our travellers, who had been in the Sleigh since morning. "Your room will be ready by supper time, sir," said the landlord as he left the room and went into the bar-room. Supper was sbortiy announced, and after refreshing themselves, Mr. Spen cer and Carrie returned to the cosy sitting-room, where they chatted until half-past eight. They were theu shown to their room, which was on the second sn.ry, in a wing somewhat remote from the main portion. The room was very long, with a high ceiling. On one tide as a window, and on the other was a door. Just above the door was a bust of King George III. The room was plainly furnished, con tuininir two beds, a washstand and a few chairs. Carrie took in the whole room at a glance, aud it must be confessed had there not been a cheerful fire burning, she would have felt nervous about sleep ing there. As it was, the warm glow lit up the room into comparative cheer fulness. While she and her father sat by the fire, her eyes wandered to the bust be fore the door, when she noticed that the eyeballs bad evidently b en knocked out, leaving two empty spaces. "Well Carrie," said Mr. Spencor pre ai'iilly, "I think you had better lock the door. I am going to count my money." After Carrie had done so, he drew out a money belt, heavy with bills, and proceeded to count them. While doing so. Carrie's eyes involuntarily wandered again to the bust, when to her horror aud astonishment in place of the empty t paces were two glittering eyes, greed ily watching every movement of her lather. The young girl could hardly suppress a scream ; but controlling herself, sue looked toward the fire, while her father went on counting a large roll of bills. "I must have been mistaken," thought the fair girl. "What could make me have such a strange fancy, though i" she continued, glancing again at the bust. The eyes were still there two burn ing, savage eyes that brightened as Mr. Spencer went on counting. -Good heavens!" thought Carrie, "what (.hall we do? We are evidently in a den ol tnieves, anu win ueiuurucrru 'or my poor faiher's money." Bow to communicate their danger to her father without those terrible eyes noticing it, Carrie could not think. Suddenly a bright idea came to her. " : "Father," she said aloud, "let me take a card and pencil. I wish to make a memorandum of some items I want to purchase in the village. ller father handed them to her, after stowing away his belt. Carrie wrote tremblingly in a fine hand : "Father, do not be frightened; we are in a trap. Go in the opposite cor ner of the room, where your face will be in the dark, and look at the bust above the door. In it you will see two glittering eyes that have watched you count your money." "Read -it," she said, aloud, handing the card to her father. "I want you to see if you think I am too extravagant." Her father betrayed no emotion while he read it, but said : "You are pretty extravagant, Carrie, I uppose you think your father is made of money." Aud lie arose and went to the washstand, which was iu a dark corner. Once there he glanced tow r ; the bust, and the glance confirmed his daughter's extraordinary statement. When he came back to his seat, Carrie saw that the eyes were gone. Then leaning toward her father, she said in a low tone: ' ' - - - - - "You see it is as I said. I have thought of a plan, however, by which we can both escape. You would be perfectly helpless in an affray of any kind on ac count of your lame leg, so I must try to save us both." Then followed a whispered- consulta tion, -during which Carrie kept her eyes fixed on the bust;buttheglitterlngorbs had not come back. As she concluded, Carrie went to the window, threw It up and looked out. Beckoning to her father, who came, she said, or rather whispered: "You see this shed. Father? Well tney pronaDly come upon it and get through the window. I do not think they will make the attack before twelve. so I will get out of this window, jump from this shed, go to the barn aud take our horse and go to S for help.' Hinging a wrap over her slight fig ure, she embraced her father tenderly, aud bidding him not worry over her, she jumped lightly out on the shed and disappeared. Mr. Spencer watched her fora while, then closing the window, took out his watch, saw that it was nine o'clock, aud proceeded to work. He first covered up the fire, blew out the light and rolled up a blanket, with which he made a dummy. This "lie placed iu the bed which his daughter was to occupy. Then he sat down aud waited. den, ntteen, twenty minutes went by, and no sound came from the vicinity of the barn. Pulling oil his boots, he crept noiselessly to the window aud peeped out, but he could see nothing. then creeping to the washstand he laid his money belt in the drawer and closed it. He then threw himself on the bed and once more waited. After an hour had apparently went by, Mr. Spencer threw off his coat and vest, tumbled up the bed, hobbled to the door, unlocked it aud stepped out into the hall. This was all iu accord ance with Carrie's plan. "Landlord! landlord!" he shouted. He then went back into the room and noiselessly threw up the window, all the time shouting for the landlord. That worthy came flying up the stairs, and late as it was, he was still dressed. "Oh, landlord!" gasped Mr. Spencer, rushing toward him, "I have been robbed ! my money is all gone !" 'Gone! how?" echoed the landlord in dismay. " W ho could have stolen it ?" groaned Mr. Spencer. "I had five thousand dollars in a belt, and it is gone stolen !" The landlord lit the caudle and looked around, chagrin depicted on every fea ture. "Why don't you wake your daughter, sir?" Mr. Spencer hurried to the bed. "Carrie ! Carrie !" lie called but no answer came; and the landlord drawing near with the light, saw the dummy, and cried : "Why, man, the girl isn't there!" "What?" gasped Mr. Speneer. "Oh, I see it all ! The wicked girl has robbed me while I slept and run off to meet her lover, from whom I was taking her." He ran to the window, followed by the landlord. "Yes, yes, here are footprints in the snow on the shed !" cried the landlord, while Mr. Spencer groaned aloud. "How long do you think she has been gone sir?" asked the landlord. "For an hour or more, the deceitful jade," replied Mr. gpencer. "Then there's no use to look for her, sir," said the landlord. "Oh, but I must!" cried Mr. Spencer as he began to descend the stairway, followed by the landlord, who bad be lieved every word Mr. Spencer said. They proceeded to the barn, followed by the landlord's confederates. They found the horse gone, aud her mode of flight was easily explained. "You may as well give her up, sir," said the landlord, consolingly. . I suppose I may," groaned Mr. Spencer, and they returned to the house. As they left the barn he heard the landlord whisper to one of his con federates : "The job's up, Jem we'd better let the old man alone." Once more entering the room, Mr. Spencer threw himself upon the bed and awaited the return of his brave daugh ter. "God bless her and bring her back in safety," he murmured. Meanwhile all grew still and the hour rolled by. The fire had been raked up and crackled on merrily. The eyes were not looking from the bust ; they had evidently disappeared for the night. At last, after what appeared an age to the anxious watcher, he heard a loud knocking on the front entrance, and five minutes afterward heard the landlord stumble to the door. Then followed a confused jumble of curses and strug gles, then a rush of many feet up the long hall and stairway. The next moment the door was thrown opeu and his daughter rushed In, fol lowed by the officers, who dragged in the landlord and his confederates. "Oil, father yt,u are safe, safe!" she cried, throwing her arms around his neck, and bursting into happy tears. The sheriff and his posse of men held the landlord and his confederates in a vice-like grasp, while Carrie related the adventures of her perilous ride. "After I left the barn I led Tommy to a fence, all unsaddled, sprang on him, wound my arras tightly around his neck, and whispered, 'Go Tommy,' and away he went like the wind. Up and down over the frozen road we went. My arms felt like ice. I thought I should certainly freeze, and after what seemed to be an age of cold, and pain, and misery, we dashed into the main street of S As we came up in front of the tavern the stage drove up, and the in mates sprang out and rushed to my as sistance. I must have been almost in sensible, for I had to be carried in by the landlord. I was given warm drinks until I fully recovered and was able to relate my story. I told them my suspi cions and my fears, and this gentleman" here Carrie paused, and turning to a fine-looking man near her, said, "Mr. James, by his ready belief in what I told, and his energy and spirit Iu arousing the sheriff and his men, has been the main cause in bringing assist ance." Mr. Spencer grasped the young man's hand and thanked him. "Your plan succeeded admirably Carrie," he said ; and advancing to the washstand, he took out the money belt, saying, "my money Is all right as you The landlord quivered with rage as he saw how completely he had been de feated. As the men began to search the room, the landlord protested his innocence, declaring that they had no right to hold him or his men prisoners, or to search the house. Breaking open the door, above which was the bust, the men rushed in. The room was empty, save for a long ladder, which reached a shelf above the door. A hole above the shelf disclosed the bust to be broken in half, so that a man could easily climb up the ladder, get on the shelf, thrust his bead in the bust, which was large enough for an ordinary man's head, and see all that was going on iu the adjoining room. This certainly looked suspicions, but absolute proof was yet wanting. On re turning to the room occupied by Mr. Senccr, they again searched every iiot& and corner. Suddenly Carrie and Mr. James, who had been standing by the fireplace, gave a loud cry, for on close examination, they had found siots of blood on the bricks which formed the hearth. They began to pull up the bricks, which proved loose, when Carrie, feeling faint, gave way to the sheriff and his men, who soon had them all pulled up, when a cavity was disclosed, containing the murdered body of a gentleman whom Mr. James and the sheriff remembered to have stopped at S , three days lie fore. The evidence was conclusive. The landlord and his confederates were well guarded through the ninht. and the next day were lodged in jail,' where in due time they were sentenced and suffered the extreme penalty of the law. II eallby Moasea. Dr. Richardson has come a little nearer to the level of ordinary life since he startled the world by his picture of a city of health. The kind of house which he recommended is not beyond the reach of any one who is about to build a dwelling for himself, and has strength . of mind enough not to be turned from his purpose by the object ions which builders are sure to raise iu the first instance. Dr. Kichardson mentions four essential points in which a bouse constructed on his plan would differ from ordinary houses. la the first place, there would be no rooms un derground. The basement would be simply an arched subway, with a free current of air passing through it, thus preventing any damp from ascending into the upper stories, and affording an opjiortunity of warming the air ad mitted into the house. Secondly, the kitchen instead of being in the base ment, would be at the top of the house, by which means all smells of the coot ing would tie kept out of the living rooms, and the conveyance of hot water to the bedrooms would be much easier, Next, the staircase, instead of being in the center of the house, would be in a distant shaft at the back. There would be a door on each floor communicating with the staircase, and lavatories and similar apartments would be placed in the shaft so that they would be out of the house, and yet accessible from each floor. Lastly, the roof would be level, paved with asphalre, and covered with glass. In this way a garden would be obtained on the top of every house, sheltered from the weather, and pro tected from frost by the warmth of the kitchen beneath. There is no doubt that Dr. Richardson's picture is an ex ceedingly attractive one, anil there seems to be no reaon, beyond the diffi culty of getting uew ideas accepted within any reasonable time, why it should not at ouce be subjected to th test of experiment. LltUe j a.litl. If you are gaining Untie by little, every day, be content. Are your ex penses less than your income, so that, though it be little, you are yet constant ly accumulating and growing rieher and richer every day? Be content; so far as concerns money, you are doing well. Are you gaining knowledge every day? Though it be little by little, the aggregate of the accumulation, where no day Is permitted to pass without ad ding something to the stock, will be surprising to yourself. Solomon did not become the wisest man in the world in a minute. Littie by little never ommltting to learn something, even for a single day always reading, always studying a little between the time of rising up in the morning and lying down at night ; this is the way to accumulate a lull store house of knowledge. - Finally, are you daily improving in character ? Be not discouraged because it is little by little. The best men fall far short of what they themselves would wish to be. It is some thing, it is much, if you keep good res olutions better to-day than you did yes terday, better this week than you did yesterday, better this week than you did last, better this year than you did last year. Strive to be perfect, but do not become downhearteued so long as you are approaching nearer, and nearer to the high standard at which you aim. Little by litttle, fortunes are accumu lated, little by little, knowledge is gain ed ; little by little, character and repu tation are achieved. The multiplication of 9S7054321 by 45 gives 44,444,444,445. Reversing the order of the digits and multiplying 123 456789 by 45 we get a result equally curious, 6,555,555,505. If we take 1234 56789 as the multiplicand, and inter changing the figures of 45, take 54 as a multiplier, we obtain another remarka ble product, 6,6X6,606,006. Return to the multiplican first used, 987054321, and take 54 as a multiplier again, we get 53 333,333,334 all threes except the first and last figures, which read together 54, the multiplier. Taking the same multiplicand and nsing 27, the half of 54, as the multiplier, we get the product of 26,066,006,607 all sixes except the first aud last figures, which read to gether give 27, the multiplier. Next interchanging the figures of the number 27, and using 72 as Uie multiplier, with 967054321 as the multiplicand, we obtain a product of 71,111,111.112 all ones ex cept the first and last figures, which read together give 72, the multiplier, 1 Faaeral iaaa. A worthy army surgeou desired those who saw him to his grave to wear any thing but black, and to carry white flowers in their button-holes, as he wished the ceremony to be considered more an occasion for rejoicing than one for inouruing.A yet more merry -minded man was a so-called "misanthrope," who died at Mont Gaillard In 1822. He left Instructions that all tiie musicians in the place were to lie invited to his funeral, to lighten the march to the churchyard by playing minuets, waltzes and hunting tunes. His house and the church were to be decorated with ever greens and flowers in honor of the event, and his property was to go to the relative who laughed the heartiest dur ing the celebration of the burial-rites. Another eccentric Frenchman, who had spent his life In collecting gems and coins, wished his obsequies to be per formed with every accompaniment cal culated to inspire mirthful feelings. His body was to be wrapped in tanned pig skin, and buried coltiuless in a standing position upon a pile of charcoal. The "followers" were to carry laurel branches, and upon their return from the church the doors of his treasure chamber were to be thrown open to all comers, that they might help themselves to its contents at discretion. His be hests were hardly likely to be obeyed ; for, iu anticipation of the general scramble, before the collector's breath was out of bis body, bis servants de camped with everything that was porta ble. Dame Margaret Thompson, who lived and died in Boyle street, in the days of ( 'uecn Aune, was of a different way of thinking. She had never found any flowers so gratifying to her sense of smell as good Scotch snuff, and there fore desired her old servant, Sarah, to see that her body was covered with it before the cofliu-lid was screwed down. She was also to strew the threshold with two bushels of snuff preparatory to her dead mistress being carried across it by six of the greatest snuff takers to be found in the parish, and to secure the same number of old maids for pallbearers, and supply them with boxes of snuff for use on the road; Sarah herself, walkiuglefore the collln, and distributing "every twenty yards, a large handful of Scotch snuff to the ground and upon the ground," while the clergyman was expected to take a certain quantity of the same, not ex ceeding a pound, as he walked in tho procession his fee of four pounds de pending upon his carrying out the dame's whim in that respect. John Oliver, a jolly Sussex miller, bad a tomb built for himself near his mill at Highdown hill thirty years be fore he was ready to occupy it. When he came to that pass his body was put into a white cotllu aud borne to its long prepared lodging by eight men clad in white; the burial service being read by a girl of twelve, who afterward preached a sermon to the congregation of curi osity-mongers, some two thousand strong. Weary ot making watches that would not go, Charles V. took to morti fying his flesh and making himself miserable generally, until he brought himself to such a melancholy pass that nothing would do but he must celebrate his own obsequies, before he was ready to take his proper part in them. No opposition was offered to the indulging of bis whim; although Charles was only an ex-monarch, his will was law in the little domain he ruled in bis re tirement. Accordingly tomb was erected in the monastery chapel; a colli u made; and all the necessary properties" for the performance pro vided. At the time appointed, the monks and the imperial domestics, carrying black tapers, fell in behind the collln and the shroud-eu wrapped hero of the strange comedy; aud all, making believe to the best of their ability, marched with solemn faces and slow steps to the chapel ; where Charles, resigning his part of chief mourner, was laid in the colli n to listen to the chanting of his own requiem, and join audibly in the prayer for the repose of his yet imparted soul. Then the coffin and Its tenant were deposited in the tomb, and the assistants at this odd ceremony retired, carefully closing the chaiel doors as they departed. When he was tired of his solitary confine ment, Charles arose and returned to his apartments, to be seized the next day with a fever which quickly rendered a real funeral necessary a funeral celebrated iu much more regal fashion tbau the mock one which preceded it. On the 1st of lecemoer, 1865, a for eigner called at the office of the Tlalstow registrar, and registered the death of Vital Douat, producing a medical cer tificate showing that person died on the 29th ol November of aneurism of the heart. The same morning the sex ton of the Roman Catholic cemetery at Low Leyton received instructions to get a grave ready by the ensuing Sun day. In the afternoon a man, calling himself Monsieur Rubini, bought a ready-made coffin at an undertaker's in the Mile end Road, and ordered the handles to be removed from the sides to the ends, and an extra thick leaden lining to be put to it. On the Sunday he appeared again, called in two laborers who were passing by the shop, and en gaged them to carry his purchase to the Sboreditch railway station, where he and it were booked for Leystonstone. Upon gettiug there he hired a cart, put himself and the coffin in it and was driven to St. Patrick's Cemetery, where the coffin was taken into the chapel the service read over it, and it was con isgned to the earth. A few weeks after ward Madam Douat sent in a claim to an Insurance office In Paris for the sum of hundred thousand francs, due to her In consequence of the death of her husband in England. . The officials aware that M. Douat was a fugitive fraudulent bankrupt, put the applicant off, and sent across the cbaunel to have the matter inquired Into by the gentle men of Scotland 1 ard. An order was obtained for the exhumation of the body of Vital Douat, and the coffin was taken np, and of course no body was found therein. Douat had registered his own death, bought his own coffin, and fol lowed it to the grave. By the tune all this was ascertained, the rogue had taken refuge in America; but after a while he ventured upon a trip to Ant werp, where be was arrested and de livered to the French authorities. An old couple living iu a village not far from Berlin, as many provident sou is have done, anticipated a certain want by purchasing a pair of coffins, Weening the cheerful reiiiirders in a stable, to serve as cupboards for the storing of baked fruits and other winter necessities. At last the old man died, and his eldest son, a soldier quartered at Berlin, was summoned home to the funeral. The widow emptied one of the coffins of its contents to make room for the corpse, filling the other with the ejected comestibles. The day alter the funeral the soldier had to return to his duty. The dame went to fetch him some fruit, and on opening the solitary coffin was startled and confounded at beholding her dead husband. Some body hal blundered, and the collliiful of good things had been solemnly put under the turf, and everything had to be done over again ! All the lVir J.'vuml. British and AaterlraaCoalraMt. The American people have ttiis great quality and have it, we think, in an even higher degree than the English the quality of being sobered by the very presence of danger. There is no people among whom what seems cer tain to lead to mischief goes closer to the very verge of the most alarming catastrophe, and yet none among whom we can feel certain that the immediate presence of imminent danger, instead of exciting them to the fatal plunge, will brace their nerves, clear their head, and reduce to sober seriousness the very leaders who, before the peril was Imminent, were the hottest par tisans of the policy of danger. In Eng land there is, we think, more disposi tion to be carried away by the impulse in the moment of peril than there is In the United States. Iu fact, it is the most striking feature in our political institutions that they express and cou- contrate the wares of popular feeling which, indeed, they sometimes tend to exaggerate while it is the most striking feature in the institutions of of the United states that they repress aud dissipate the waves of popular feeling-which, Indeed, they somewhat tend to underrate. And both the na tions apiiear to have got the habit of re flecting, to a certain extent, the ten dency of tlieir iiistitiiTiotia Tlwo-. w ; no doubt that the i.nor,ont ..has ot British feeling often assumes too lni posing an air to spectators who are not iu any way behind the scenes, and that what (he nation really thinks and wishes, it appears to think and wish with even more intensity and unanim ity than it really does. The opjiositc thing happens in the United States. The very fact that a strong popular feeling is gaining a marked ascendency there seems to call out ail the restrain ing and self preserving power which the nation contains. If we remember how long public feeling in the North was in breaking down the constitution al respect for the Fugitive Slave law, how long it was again, even after the war for the iiiaititainauce of the Union had broken out, before the enthusiasm for turning it into an anti-slavery war could gain any Influence with the poiiti-' cal masses and statesmen of the federa- tion, we shall understand at once how great werethe forces, both constitutional and moral, w hich seem to hold back the American people from anything like null surrender to the tides of political enthusiasm. And o it ha always happened that at a critical moment the people of the United States have shown not merely true self-command, but lierbaps even too much self-command, certainly more self-command thin they did in the early stages of exciting ques tions. Ami it is the same now that this very difficult and dangerous question as to the Presidential election has arisen only in this case, as uo greater and noble principle is sacrificed for the sake of moderation, we can afford to give a fuller need of sympathy and even admiration to the society of the American peo'e than it seemed to us possible to give at the time of the great er crisis to which we have alluded. rSJ ptlaa Archlteetare. Owing to the climate of Egypt, it has never lieeu a woodland country. Palm trees are fonnd abont the deserts of Lybia, and near Denilerah timber of all kinds is scarce, as the soil is not united to the growth of trees. The acacia and the palm do grow, but the oak does not, and fir has to be imported from Arabia; and. thus for solid struc tures of great magnitude the old build ers of Egypt were shot np to the use of stone, which abounds in profusion, and in the use of which the Egyptians were great proficients, as may be seen both in the rock temples which were excavated adorned witb sculpture, aud in the temples which were erected in the open air. While the sculptures and the hieroglyphic figures which adorn their palaces and temples attest the progress of their workmen in the art of the hewer of stone, it is evident that they bad made great progress also in the department of construction, for many of the block which they used were of enormous dimensions, and that they were lavish in their use ot materi al is shown by the fact that the walls of some of their temples are of the al most incredible thickness of twenty- four feet. At Thebes, the walls of the principal entrance gate are at tliebaseno less than fifty et thick. Then again the stones instead of being dressed as in modern masonry on one side, are cat inside as well as outside, and the whole mass is solidly joined to gether, thus tending to secure the du rability of their monument. In these great structures no arch is ever intro duced. The columns stand at such short distances that great stones can reach from capital to capital, and thus the roof is formed of huge blocks laid on horizontally and forming a solid bed. American Monthly. In Switzerland 150,000 persons ob tain a living by watch making. Caviar and 11 acta. In a recent number of the Xew York Times we observe a lengthy communi cation written by Prof. James W. Mil ner, Assistant U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries, to Professor Henry, in which is fully explained the process by which caviar is manufactured. The same writer also gives a detailed account, In the manner in which l.-ing!a-s is manu factured from fish bladders. Says Professor Milner: "The pro cess in preparing the roe for caviar I quite simple. There are two kinds of caviar manufactured the fresh or grain and the pressed caviar. In both cases the roe of the several kinds of sturgeon is spread out on a net with narrow meshes, forming a sieve and stretched over a wooden frame. An essential point in the manufacture of caviar seems to bit the absence of con tact with ail metals. The apparatus at Mandusky, Ohio, where large quanti ties are manufactured, consisting of a sieve made like ordinary wire sieves, substituting horse hair in place of the wire. The eggs are passed through meshes by slightly pressing the whole mass until nothing remains on the sieve but the membranes of the ovaries, fat and muscular tissues. In the pro cess used at Sandusky, different sized meshes were used, and in the oeratlon a larger mesh was employed first, re ducing the mesh each time until finally the eggs would pass through meshes of no larger diameter than themselves. In this way the smaller particles of mem brane and tissue are left and the eggs are gathered entirely free into tabs be neath. The eggs are left a short time on the sieve to drain. For manufactur ing grained caviar, the roe is sprinkled with very flue salt (Liverpool rock-salt ground). The whole mass, after the salt is sprinkled on, is stirred with a wooden fork having prongs. Th quantity of salt required varies accord ing to the season. In August they take ! from 3 to 5 pounds of salt to 30 pounds of roe, ,34' to 3'.,' pounds in winter. The less the fresh cavair is salted the more it Is esteemed. The roe mixed with salt presents a doughy appearance when stirred up, but when every grain has been impregnated with salt, the whole mass swells, and in stirring a slight noise is perceptible, like that of stirring small grains of glass. The noise is a s"" ll,at thc cavUr ,s reat!y- 11 is then packed in casks made of linden wood, which docs not imparl any bad flavor tu it, which is not the case w ith casks made of other wood. Our bass wood 1 1",nber wou,J " probability, an swer thc same puriiose. lor manu facturing pres.-ed caviar, a tub half filled with brine is placed under the sieve, the brine being stronger or weaker according to the temperature and the season. To Impregnate the grains evenly with brine, the whole mass is stirred with a wooden fork, al ways turning it from the same side. The grains are taken out with fine sieves, and after the whjle brine has been drained, lli3 pounds of grain are put in a rack made of the bark of the linden, placed under the press in order to get all the briue out of the caviar and to transform it to a solid mass. Iu thus pressing thc caviar a large number of grains are crushed, and a lHirtiou of their contents flows out w ith the brine, so that there is always more or less los- Afte" baring taken the pressed caviar from the sacks, it is packed in ,' casks containing thirty pounds each, ; t'e inside of w hich is covered withj j napkin liuen, this being the reason why i the caviar Is also culled 'napkin caviar.' pi'1' finest quality of prised caviar, j tnat w hich has been least pressed and ' salted, is placed in straight linen bags of cylindrical shape, and is then called "pressed caviar." Caviar is also shipped in tin boxes, hermetically closed and soldered. The fattest caviar Is that made, during the hot season from the roe of those kind of sturgeon which are caught In the sea between the 8th of July and the 10;h of August. In speaking of the manufacture of isinglass, the same writer says: "The manufacture of isinglass from the bladders of fish, is everywhere carried ou among the fish establishments at Sandusky. The methods employed seem to be merely keeping the bladders stretched tightly upon a board, and then with a knife scraping off the mem brane from the outer surface. They are spread upon a clean bonrd and al lowed to dry. The principal use of that prepared In this way is ior brew ers' purposes in clarifying ales and malt liquors. First, the swimming bladder of the fish is thrown into water where it is left for several days, the water being frequently changed in or der to detach all the fatty and bloody partieles. from the bladder the hotter the water the quicker this is done. The bladders are taken out, cut lengthwise into strips, aud then exposed to the sun and air. These strips or leaves are usually spread out in ordtrto dry them with their outer sides on small boards of linden wood. Tnc inner side is formed by leaves of pure isinglass, which, after having been well-dried, are carefully detached from the outer side. The leaves of the isinglass thus obtained are laid between pieces of linen to preserve them from the flies and from du-t. They are then placed under a press and it is only after these different operations have been per formed that the laborer proceeds to pick the leaves and tie them in bundles. These bundles of isinglass produced from the large sturgeon, are usually composed of from ten to fifteen leaves, and weigh one and a half pounds each, while those of the common sturgeon contain twenty-five leaves, and weigh oue pound each. The swimming blad der deprived of its inner skin that is of the inner shining cuticle of which isinglass is made, as already described, still contains a certain quantity of glue, which is moistened with water, and then removed by scraping it with a knife; this is also moistened with water and then kneaded. This mass is molded into small round tablets as big as a dollar, which after being dried are shipped in sacks, and cost less than Isin glass in leaves. Isinglass is used for clarifying various liquids, for making fine glue colors, for giving a gloss and finUU to textile fabrics, for making plasters to take the impressions, and finally in the kitchen for making jellies. The amount of caviar consumed in the United States is not very large, anil Is almost wholly Imported. The market prices obtained from the commission and shipping merchants of Xew York are sufficiently large to make the busi ness a very profitable one. Smoked sturgeon is very palatable meat, afford ing quite a good substitute for smoked halibut. The oil obtained from the sturgeon is sold under the common name of fih oil. As the sturgeon Is a very fat fish, this production is quite a profitable one. An effort has been made to utilize the skins in the manu facture of leather. A number have been tanned by way of experiuiei-t, in a few instances, making good, durable leather, though the presence of the plates on the sides, back and belly will probably prevent it ever becoming an extensively used article. The Lower Columbia river and its several tributaries are known to be the home of countless numbers of these fish. Every season hundreds and thous ands are captured and brought to Port laud, where the flesh is used for food, being commonly known as "sea bass." Why could not some enterprising er sons, with a small capital, engage ex tensively iu the business described above? Any number of sturgeon can be easily obtained along the Lower Co lumbia, and all that is necessary is capital and experience, to build up and maintain a very large and lucrative business. The question is certainly one worthy of the attention and careful consideration of those who have the means and disposition to embark iu such an enterprise. The suggestion has been made that salmon eggs can aUo be manufactured into a good article of caviar in the same manner as the roe of sturgeon. So tar as is known the ex eriment has never been made. During the fishing season immense quantities of salmon roe are thrown away, which might he converted into a marketable article. Is not the matter worthy of ex periment ? The 1 arlew'a ktaM ! Hearing;. A writerin Saturn advances the theory that thc curlew is directed by the sense of hearing in its probings in the sand for food. 'Die bird has a bill often eight or nine inches long, and this it forces into the soil as far as the nostrils, aud rarely misses securing a worm at each thrust. It cannot be supposed that it makes its borings at random, else these would be repeated many times fruitless ly. Neither can the sense of sight assist it, as its victims are imbedded too deep ly In Mud or mud, which is often per fectly smooth on thc surface. It must, therefore, so the writer suggests, be gnided solely by hearing. "ItisdiffI cult," he coufe?ses, "to believe that this sense is is so delicate and precise as to enable the curlew to perceive exceed ingly slight a sound as that which must be caused by the movement, say, of a small worm at a distance of ten or twelve inches from tt.e surface of the sand, and at the same timu to localize the exaet tpot beneath the surface from which so slight a sound proceeds. I ct.nnot see, however, that any other ex planation is open, aud perhaps the one now offered may not seem so incredible, if we rememlier the case of the thrush. No one, I think, can observe this bird ! feeding and doubt that it finds its worms i and grulw almost exclusively by the sense of hearing. And, if the di-tanee which It runs between successive pauses for listening represents as we cannot butsuppose it must the diameter of the circle within which this bird is aide to hear the movements of a worm, I think that the hypothesis I have just advanced with regard to the curlew eeav-s to lie improbable." laMaeaee. In our jiersonal history we arc often brought into contact w ith natures that seem to drop into our lives an element of good we can hardly tell how ; but there results a softening of rough lines and angles; new emotions of pleasure quicken the pulses; uew power for use fulness, aud uew energy in the active duties of probation; while an elevation of thought aud purpose brings us nearer God, and arms us with a capacity to dif fuse every here a healthful influence over those around us at ouce ennobling, purifying, and elevating. This life potency is not ephemeral. It goes with us through duty and suffering down to tiie last hour. Death does not destroy it, for it fends Its healthful glow across the dark river through the eternal years of our Immortality. On the other band, we have met w ith persons filled with envy, selfiohuess, and dark depravity, who have dropped into our life current an element of dis cord a bitterness most unpalatable (nnless it finds in ns a congenial soil in which to vegetate and grow), so that the calm rivulet is in commotion; a rocky bed tears to shreds our hopes, and wounds our sensibilities, or plunges us into dark and muddy pools of unhappy discord and misrule. The stream no kingcr runs clear, the translucent waters of life are polluted and we sink Into nn honored and miserable tombs, or wake amid the blazing justice of eternal troth to the fearful sentence, "Depart I" We call this element influ ence. W hen good, it wonderfully bles ses the world, and when bad, it is an unmistakable curse. We all have influ ence. We are not isolated. Society is around ns. Into it we are continually dropping the one or the other element. We can say w hich it shall be a bliss ful, healthful influence, or the reverse Reader, which shall it be? The t'iral Siaia. Do our young readers ever think how little it takes to stain their characters? A single drop of ink is a very small thing, yet dropped into a tumbler of clear water, it blackens the whole; and so the first oath, the first lie, the first glass, they seem very trivial, yet they leave a dark stain npon the character. Look out for the first strain. There is at the present time in the Mexican treasury, the sum of seventoeu cents in specie. It has slipped into a crevice, and cannot be got at. UIW3 EI B&U7. The Illinois penitentiary contains over 1,500 convicts. London dispensed last year about 35,(jO,(XJ in charity. There are twelve miles of shelving for the books in the British Museum. A jiew style of postage stamps of the three eei.t denomination is to ! is sued in May. The salary of the president of Switzerland has been increased from 2,0JO to 2,7X a year. Kansas anticipates a very largn emi gration iu the Soring from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. A sheep ranch of 40,000 acres has just been surveyed in .Menard countv, Texas, for a Tennessee breeder. Earl Township (Pa.) boasts of a very young grandfather, viz.. Nathan Kae, who is not yet 35 years of age. Bills enforcing compulsory edu -a-tion have been ii-troiluced in the Wis consin and Illinois Legislatures. Dr. Shlieniann's wealth is esti mated by those who have th means i knowing at not le than $:l,U00,UtiO. J. P. Hasler, the defaulting cashier of the Carlisle (Pa.) Deosit Ban!, hanged himself in tiie garret of hi dwelling. An old-fashioned piano, which was made for Beethoven, and used by him in Vienna, is now to lie seen in a music store in Zurich. A new Methodist church in Boston Is to lie thc largest belonging to that de nomination in America, and will seat 5tiw persons. The Senate of Nevada has passed a bill to tax the profits of churches, secret societies, and colleges, and exempt mortgages. They have a man in San Francisco who is distinguishing himself by eating iiiacearoui by the mile. He disposed t?i the first mile in 22 minutes. Colonel Ielancev Kane nroiMtses that the first trip of the spring season of the Pelham Coach to the suburbs shall be made on Tuesday, May 1. Mr. Wni. E. Dod;re. of New York, is said to e the heaviest timber laud owner in the tinted Mates. He owns land iu the South, the West and Canada. The new Iemocratie daily at San Francisco is edited by au Australian. He landed since N'ovemtier, but hurls the spirit of '76 at all Returning Boards. Narrow-gauge railroads were first made in this country in ls71, and now we nave t.io, miles ot this form of eon. structiou, of w hich 5ti: miles were built. tn l7tj. A very old married eon rile nsmo.l Minor, live at Fall River, Mass. The husband is more than one hundred veur of age, and the wife eighteen months younger. The shock from the firinsr of the S!- tou gun at Shoeburviiess, England, re- cent y caused bottles to fall off a glass shelf iu the window of a house sixteen miles distant. Kansas derived a revenue of 5!, 120 from its railroad.- on state tax alone during the la.-t ye-.r. The as.-es-meut of railroad property amounted t $16,205, 135. Four factories at lluntsville. Mo., are prepared to handle three million pounds of tobacco this year. Nearly double that finount finds a market at lluntsville. A Sail Francisco clerk paid 35 a month for his rooms, ate $3 dinners, and smoked 25 cent cigars. The firm over hauled his accounts, and found them 21,000 short. There is talk in London of setting np Cleopatra's needle iu Northumber land avenue. To remove the olielisk from Alexandria and re-erect it will co-,1 at least ::,0i. The Irish organizations of Balti more have sensibly resolved not to waste their money on a St. Patrick's day par ade, this year, hut give what the would have spent iu that way to the poor. A curious fish is found in Wallow' Lake, California, w hich are blood rl in color, very fat, and are of superior , delicacy to salmon. There are only four knewn lakes In the world where these fish are found. The old'-t Duke In Great Britaiu I the Duke of Portland, aged 77; th younge,t the Duko of Montrose, aged 25. The oldest Marquis is the Marquis of Donegal, aired SO; the youngest, the Marquis of Camden, aged 5. Mr. Is-nias Barnes's loss in his newspaper venture is computed to be 400,. The price paid for the privi lege ot killing the Brooklyn Anu in ad vance of its natural dissolution is vari ously rejiorted at from !,0u0 to f.33,U0. In order to retain Professor Younir. of Ihirtmouth College who recently re ceived a call to Princeton College, the I'arimoutu lacuity voted to otter him a siecial professorship of a-tronon.y and to appeal to the alumni fur funds ui en dow it. Caleb Cnshinz is seventy-seven years old. He is the reputed author ol' a large number ot Presidential messages. A congressman was once asked w hat he thought of one ol Buchanan's iuesage, and replied that it w as the "lH.st our Caleb Cashing ever wrote." The match of the national rifle as sociation for tiie Centennial trophy Is announced for September, and notice has been issued to foreign rille teams. The capiaiu of the Irish team responds thet it is uncertain w hether it is possi ble to raise a team to shoot for the tro phy this season. A number of very interesting old manuscripts, suiXMrd to lie written by some monk of tiie Soloveisk Monastery, near Archangel, and said lo throw new light Hjou tl'e history of the religious sects of Russia, were recently found by a Russian antiquary iu one of the book stalls at St. Petersburg. The Health and Police Committees of the San Francisco Board of iper visors have just laid out the future Chi nese burial grounds, a short distance beyond the halt-mile track, parallel with Point Lobos avenue. This will be th third time the Chinese have b-en com pelled to remove the hones of their dead interred iu this country.- On the Southern Pacific Railroad, 340 miles south of San Francisco, is seen a unique piece of railroading, w here the track, after passing through a tunnel, winds around the mouuUiu and crosses itself directly over the tunnel, thus gaining a height of 73 feet on 3,795 feet of rail. About 100 miles further south the road runs through one of the largest tunnels in America, that of San Fran cisco, 6,907 feet in length. The Great and Little Dismal swamps, embrace over 3,O"X),0iJO acres of the richest lauds of North Carolina, a large portion of which, by a moderate outlay tor drain ing, could be made equal to the most fertile of Louisiana. Tlies lands belong chiefly to the educational fund, but are of no present value to it. Governor Vance Is anxious to have them drained, and has directed a bill to be prepared for the legislature ou the subject. i;
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