I V fit B. F. SCIIWEIER, THE COirSTITTITIOir THE UUIOJ A5D THE EffTOBOEMEST OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXII. MIFFLINTOAVN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 187S. NO. 39. 1 THE STORJf IS SUMMER. On a sultry day in anmmtr, When the air was parched and dry. I was dreaming by the aeaaide. Gazing out upon the sky. Here and there a tinge of whiteness. Flecked the deep ethereal bine, lint in clouds of gloomy rtirkneas Swiftly vanished either hue. Soon I saw the lightnings playing O'er the crested wares at sea ; While the scene's majestic grandeur Told a tale of lore to me. Which the loudly rolling thunder. With its grand, yet awful roar. Through the air reverberating, Seemed to echo o'er and o'er. But at last the storm was oxer. And again the sky was blue. And again the clouds of whiteness Lent their beauty to its hue. Then I went my way in gladness. Aud my soul drank in the sight. For. to greet my grateful ruion. Out of darkness came the light. Sara's Lawyer. "Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer there. Bertha, my fate is decided at last ; the daisy has said I am to be the wile of a lawyer, so don't be hinting to me about Seth Chambers' attentions, and Squire Mar vin's glances into our pew at church," and Sara Brady looked up into her sis ter's face and laughed merrily. "Hoar foolish you are, Sara," said Mrs. Maybin, reprovingly. "Every day you get some new freak into your head and persist in it with the obstina cy of of " "A mule, why don't you say, Ber tha?" laughed pretty Sara. "Well, as you say. 1 do cling to au idea when my mind is once made up. And I always did believe in fortune telling by dai sies, and since this daisy, the first I've eeu this June, declares I am to marry a lawyer, I will wait for that lawyer it I aai gray before he comes along." "I don't know where you ever got such notions, Sara," answered Bertha Maybin. "I am sure mother has tried to bring you up just as she brought me up, and I was a proer, studious,indus trious girl, and at twenty-two married Francis, who was thought au excellent match for me, aud I am sure I have done my duty as a wife and mother." "Oh, nobodv disputed that, Bertha," said Sara. "I am sure Frank could ne ver have found a better wife if he had searched everywhere." "But here you are twenty-four years old. Sura, and with no idea of settling yet. I o you know that you will very soon be an old maid," with terrible emphasis "and then where will be your chances? Do be reasonable, Sara and treat Seih Chambers with some courtesy, and don't be so abrupt with Squire Marvin. You seem to forget that he is a rich man, owns that beau tiful place, and drives the handsomest horses in the county." "I wouldn't marry a man forthe sake of his house aud horses," said Sara.set tiug her lips firmly together. "But you might learn to love him, Sara." "Yes, I might, but I wouldn't. The old scarecrow has six children, wears false teeth and a wig, and inclines to stinginess. As for Seth Chambers, I'll wait until he has an ounce of sense in his head before I think about him." "But suppose mother should die, Sa ra? You know the farm would go into the possession of Seth at once. You w ill be left without a cent of money or a home. Why not see things in a rea sonable light?" "I could teach the district school," said Sara, quietly. "The Squire is one of the trustees, and I'd let him make love to me until I was installed, and then give him his conge." "Very well, Sara, persist in your ob stinacy if you will, but recollect that mother is sixty-five years old and can't last very long. The doctor said last week that she was breaking up very fast. You won't feel verv comfortable when you see Seth Chambers on our comfortable farm, and find yourself tied down to teaching the stupid, red headed children around here." 'My lawyer may happen along,"said Sara, blithely. "I shan't torrow trou ble, and you needn't croak yourself hoarse, Bertha, for it won't do any good," The sisters had crossed the meadow by this time and reached the door of the comfortable farm house they called home. Sara went into the kitchen to put the kettle on for tea, and Bertha Maybiu went to her bedroom. " We had a nice walk over the fields, mother," said Sara, kissing the old lady who sat by the window, knitting. "I am glad of it dear," was the re ply. Mrs. Brady was too old and too much trippled with rheumatism to help in work of the farm-house at all, and all devolved upon Sara, who was fond of housekeeping and diary work, and sold the best butter and cheese, and the fi nest honey of anyone of her neighbors. The farm was situated two miles from the small town of Stockwell, and was to revert to Seth Chambers at the death of Mrs. Brady, to w hom it had been left by the young man's uncle, who had been Mrs. Brady's lover in her young days, and dying, had remem bered her in her poverty with her two children to support. It was a generous and a timely bequest, for Mrs. Brady had just lost her second husband, and after his funeral expenses had been paid, found herself without a dollar in the world, aud with two children look ing to her for support. She took in sewing and eked out a scanty living for them all, and then three months later Mr. Chambers had died, and she found herself mistress of Blossom farm and the owner of a dozen cows and seve ral horses. There was also couple of hundred dollars in the bank in her name. Mrs. Brady was possessed of great executive ability, and she made the farm "pay," but never made more than a living for herself and two children. Bertha had been ten years old .and Sara only one year when they had movee to Blossom Farm. Bertha was the child of her first husband, and Sara of her second. Bertha had grown up and married and gone to the city to live, but the first of every June aw her in stalled at the Blossom Farm as a board er, and she now had two children to bring with her. Sara Brady's happy, pleasant dispo sition made her a general favorite in the neighborhood, but in spite of much attention from the sterner sex, she was still unmarried, much to Bertha's dis comfiture who appeared to think that her half-sister was disgracing the fam ily by remaining in a state of single blessedness. The mouth of June was passing swiftly away, aud Sara had had two chances to change her condition. Seth Chambers had lieeu the first to bring matters to a focus, and had made Sara a very bashful proposal, to which she had said "no" very decidedlv. Bertha had been angry, very angry, and had, as she expressed it, "spoken her mind" to Sara. To throw away such a chance of keeping Blossom Farm in the family, was, in her ttpinion, cb solutely criminal. Perhaps Bertha looked forward to the time w hen she would have to take board elsewhere for the summer, aud didu't fancy the idea at all of having no Hlossom Farm to go to, where she could make herself thor oughly at home. "You are crazy to refuse him, Sara. Haven't 1 warned you how you will be left an old maid, penniless, homeless, aud good heavens. What do you ex pect " "I expect my lawyer," coolly inter rupted Sara, kneading up the bread, with arms bared to the elbow, and lis tening with a smile to her half-sister's lecture. "That is the craziest notion, Sara. I do wish we had never taken that walk, and you had never found that horrid little daisy. It does seem too ridiculous to talk about." "Theu dou't talk about it,' said Sara. "But you can't really mean, Sara, that you will throw away good chan ces just for the sake of such a silly no tion." "I mean that I shall wait for my law yer," said Sara, still smiling. 'You are just the one to cling to an idea of that sort, but I think you ought to have more sense. If Seth had been a lawyer would you have had him?" "I didn't say that I'd have any law yer," auswered Sara. "I mean to pick and choose my lawyer. I pulled every leaf off the daisy aud it left the last one a lawyer, so I shall wait for my lawyer until my lawyer comes." "Horrors I" cried Berth, "dou't use that word again. I'm sick of it. I do not feel as if I ever cared to meet one of the profession again." When, on the last day of June Squire Marvin drove up to the farm-house gate, hitched his horses they certain ly were handsome creatures-and aked to see Miss Sara, Ben ha knew what he bad come for. Surely that could be told easily, for never hail his wig been more carefully brushed, or shoes of a shinier asect. Yes, the Squire had come a courting. He told Sara his lit tle story, without, however, mention ing his six children and his sixty years such little unpleasant facts are best kept out of mind and waited for her answer. Sara olitely thanked bim for the honor he had done her, but said she did not care to marry at present. Argu ments were of no avail, aud the squire left the house, his dejected asject tell ing the peeping Bertha what fate his tale of love had met. "So you've refused the Squire," sjc said, entering the parlor before Sara bad had time to fly to a more stcure nook, where Bertha could not pene trate. "Well, you have taken your own stubborn course, Sara Brady, and you'll have only yourself to thank when you are penniless and an old maid, with your pretty looks all gone." "I won't spend much time thaiikint; myself," replied Sara. "I'll get a bot tle of 'Bloom of Youth,' paint my faded cheeks, and go to work at the district school." "It may be a laughing matter now, Sara, but it won't be then," said Ber tha severely. "It makes me almost hate you to have you refuse that rich man, who owns those lovely horses " "And those lovely ,red-headed, freck led children," interrupted Sara. "What of that? Io you expect a prince? Are you waiting for a king to come by and sue for your hand ?" "No, but I'm waiting for my law yer," answered Sara. It was only a few days after the Squire's proposal that an old school friend of Sara's invited her to come to a town a tew miles off and pay a visit. Sara decided to go.but only for a week, Bertha declining to take charge of the household aflairs of Blossom Farm for a longer period. The week was heart ily enjoyed by the girl, who returned home refreshed and invigorated by the change. "Sara," said Bertha, at the tea-table on the first evening of her return, "I have some news for you. Your law yer has actually come at last." "I knew he would," said Sara, smi ling. "Yes, he is a Mr. Ellsworth Elliott, and is staying at the Crown-and-Shield, in Stockwell. He came over here with Seth Chambers the very night after you left, and has been here four times since. 1 guess he fancies your honey, for I had him stay to tea." "He must be very intellectual, since he has chosen Seth for a companion," said sarcastic Sara. "Oh, he only got acquainted w ith Seth by accident. He is a stranger here, you see." "I like his name," said Sara. And she soon liked Mr. Ellsworth Elliott, and he was worthy her liking. Tall, handsome, with pleasing man ners, and a thoroughbred gentleman, it was small wonder that he quickly won Sara's heart. Nor was her love given u n returned, for Ell&worth Elliott was attracted at once by her pretty face and amiable character, and the longer he knew her the more he found to admire in her. Weeks passed by until the sum mer was over, and fall was throwing a brown mantle over the earth, and all too quickly had it goue to the lovers. Sara felt as if she had never before known the beauty and value of life, and w hen Ellsworth told her how dear ly he loved her, she felt as if life were t4H sweet to last. "I tolj you I would marrv a lawyer, Bertha," said she, when telling her mother and sister of her engagement. "Well, I am sure I am pleasud," said Bertha. "I didn't believe you would find him, but since you have. I wish you joy and a speedy wedding." "He must return to his law office next week," said Sara, "but he will re turn in November and take me away. I shall final v adhere to daisy fortune telling hereafter, and guide myself by what my first June daisy tells me. Never shall I forget to find one as the years roll by." In November Sara was married, and on her breast she wore a knot of daisies and Ellsworth smiled when he saw them, for of course she had told him of l.er fortune telling. They went at once tothe pretty house which the young husband had made ready for his bride in the city, and the quiet elegance of which sent Sara into testacies ot delight. After they were fairly settled to housekeeping Sara said one morning to her husband : 'Ellsworth, I want to go down town to day, and see your law office." 'You won't find much law about it, Sara," he answered, "nothing but grain, hay and bran." "Why, Ellsworth, what do you mean ?" "That I am not a lawyer, Sara, my dear, but a commission merchant. Let me explain to you. I went to Stock well to pass the summer, fish,huntaud enjoy myself. I met your sister, who told me about you, told me about your fancy about the lawyer, and just for tun I proposed passing for one. After I learned to love you I would have told you what my business was. but Bertha made me promise not to do so. She was afraid you would back out, I sup pose. Do you feel sorry I played the hoax.Sara?" "No, I don't care at all. I love you now. and it makes no difference." ''But you will never believe in dai sies again, will you ?" "Indeed I shall." she cried with en ergy. "How could the poor little dai sies tell if it was a bogus or a genuine lawyer I would get?" The "Groves of Rlaraey.' Th? celebrated "Groves of Blarney" make up the park adjacent to the castle. They are noted for their magnificent trees, shrubbery and flowers, unsur passed probably in Ireland for pictur esque beauty and charming landscape effects. We saw nothing equal to them elsewhere. Some of the grand old elm trees are at least five feet in diameter and fifteen in circumference, with out spreading branches covering a space of more than one hundred feet- Nearly every tree in the grove is festooned with ivy from Its roots to its topmost branches. The grounds, the lawns, the meaJows and the pastures are covered with wild flowers, among them the rhododendron, which was seen in its perfection, cf various shades, more beautiful than the specimens exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The white blossoming hawthorn grows here to the altitude ot a good-sized pear tree, which It much resembles. The red hawthorn, which grows to the height of twenty or thirty feet, is a gorgeous tree now in full bloom. The furze bushes, about the size of our mountain inure!, grow up spontaneously all over the country, aud its bright yellow flowers, now in bloom, are a prominent feature of the landscape. The "Groves of Blarney,' adjoining the ca6tle, it is said, were formerly adorned with statues, grottoes, fountains, and bridges, but if so these have entirely disappeared, and there are no vestiges of them now, except the modern bridges, which are all of stone and very substantial. But we have the flowers, the same as ever, in all the freshness of their ancient beauty. Hae Tarantula. The Fort Worth Standard corrects some talse impressions in regard to this mammoth spider. The tarantula, a species of spider, may be found in great numbers on our prairies. If water is poured into their holes they will come to the surface for air, and may be caught with a sharp stick. We have asked a number of oid tettlers if these tarantulas were dangerous, and thus far have heard of no one being bitten. They keep in their boles during the day and forage for insects during the night. The mouth is near the centre of the body, near the ground, and it cannot bite unless it springs upon you. The tarantula is a much-abused inof fensive spider, that attends to its own business. The last remark might ap ply as well to the rattlesnake, whose motto is given as " Don't tread on me." All beasts and reptiles are harm less towards those who do not happen to come in contact with them. What is known as the tarantula in Texas and other southern States is quite as large and formidable as its Italian cousin, of the poison of which so many miracu lous stories used to be told. The Texas tarantula has the form of a spider, with a body two inches long, and an extent of legs amounting to four inches. Na turalists say, " Its poison is active, and might cause troublesome symptoms in man, if the fangs could be opened at an angle to pierce the skin. Cases of per sons having been bitten by them, as well as by smaller poisonous spiders, appear to be well authenticated, though Aquarians. The first step taken to establish an aquarium - was made by the British Zoological Society w hich set up a few- tanks aud made a small collection of fresh water fish, though the collection never went very far. Then the Parisi ans started a larger aquarium in the Bois de Bolonge, and a marine one was instituted at Arcachon during the period of the Maratime Exhibition. The major part of this, however, was devoted to shell fih. Boulogne followed suit as did Havre. None of these aquaria howeverare not worth more than a pass ing notice. Coucarueau also attracted attention at this time, but these were rather vivers than aquaria, being large square basil. s into which the tide flowed and w here l.-irge turbot, crazy fish, &e 4c, were kept alive. Then Hamburg made its mark under the management of Mr. W. A. Lloyd, who managed to render it very successful. Theu fol lowed Berlin. Next the Brighton qua rium was projected, and the Crystal Palace constructed one under the man agement of Mr. Llovd and the people of Hastings determined to follow the ex ample. Southport caught the infection, and carried out a very fine project, in cluding winter gardens, concert rooms and an aquarium. Next came Man chester, under the able supervision of Mr. Saville Kent. Then Naples and several others on the continent were called into being; and the Westminster Palace, under the able nianagemement of Mr. Robertson, included under the title of aquarium not only au aquarium but theatricals, acrobatics, conjurations and mighty magic, for the exhibition of which Mr. Robertson could certainly have run the risk of being roasted by our intelligent forefathers. Rothesay followed, but this is a small concern, though it attracts large crowds of ex cursionists and perhaps pays a better dividend than any of them. The ex pense was small, aud continues to be kept small; no money which can be made available for dividends being wasted. Next, Scarborough made a start, and the great Yorkshire water ing place erected a very handsome aquarium, but somehow they do not seem to get on with it satisfactorily, and have contrived to fall out with the town authorities. Birmingham Is the latest projector of an aquarium, but that is still In embryo. None of them, however, can equal that at Brighton, whether as regards the great range of accommodation, the beauty and bril liancy of the tanks or the great variety, rarity aud abundance of the specimens of fi.-h exhibited. There the student of ichthyological science may gather ob servations and facts in the natural his tory of fish both old and new and strange. The fish are made to feel the loss of their liberty as slightly as pos sible, the conditions of their artificial abiding places being assimilated as closely as possible to their natural ones, and the manner in which the most of them thrive shows that they do not in any way miss their liberty, while the perfect freedom and case with which the spawning operations of many of the fish are conducted season after season, gives forcible evidence in the same di rection. Larger fish in many of the species may he seen in the Brighton Aquarium than are ever brought to market by fishermen, and the rapidity of growth made by some of them an sa's to be almost unexampled. For instance, sea trout, after their first journey to the sea, would, in a state of freedom, be thought to have made a fairly good growth if they reached one and a half or two pounds within the next year. Sea trout have been taken oil' the Brighton coast in their first mi gration, and, being placed in the tanks of the Aquarium, have grown up to five and six pounds weight within the twelvemonth, thus throwing a positive light upon the capacity of growth in the Salmonida" upon which we were previously doubtful and uncertain. Messenger Mike's Umbrella. "1 say, Mister Jones!" said Mike the Messenger. " Don't bother me now, Mike," re plied the clerk from behind a mound of affidavits. ' Wait until I'm done." Mike returned to the private examination-room and busied himself with his collar. He wore a new one this morn ing, a" PiccadiIIa"of the usual variety, and, naturally enough it required ex traordinary efforts to keep it under con trol. " Now, Mike, what do you want to know?" said Clerk Jones, when his work was over. " What I want to know, Mr. Jones, is, did you ever lend an umbrella?"' " Did I ever lend an umbrella? Well, really I don't remember," slowly re plied Mr. Jones, I might have been Kuilty of it in the days when "I was guileless and innocent, and didn't know any better. But that's so long ago that I almost forgot it. Why do you ask, Mike?" "Well because I lent my umbrella the other day." "To whom?" "To a reporter." " Well, it serves you right you don't get it back. The idea! to lend anything to a reporter!'' "Oh, no!" exclaimed Dick. "He sent it back. But it's like adding in sult to injury. On Decoration Day af ternoon became in, and says he, 'Dick, lend me your umbrella for a minute ; I want to go over to the prison.' I told him I needed it myself, and he says, 'Only for a minute; I'll owe you a chew of tobacco on pay day.' So I gave it to him. I waited until 6 o'clock, and then I had to walk home in all that rain, I had to walk in the rain during the whole of last week. This morning the fellow sent me the umbrella 'with many thanks,' I am afraid his paper, won't get any court news to-day, for dead, or alive, if I catch him in here I'll make an end of him. I'll give him 'many thanks,' " "No, no," Mike, said Mr. Jones, don't do anything rash. " You'll be the heaviest sufferer. "I'll tell you why. First, you ought not to have lent the umbrella. A man of your age ought to know better. Secondly, you ought not to have lent it to a reporter. They're as tricky as " " Tricky !" interrupted Mike," " Did you ever hear the trick they played on me?" Listen. Three 'o them asked me one night to go out aud hava a couple o' drinks with them. We went into one place, had three or four drinks, and when the barkeeper looked up for pay, they showed their badges, and said, " We're the press, and the barkeeper said, Thank you, gentlemen, won't you take another before you go?' We went to several places, and everywhere the reporters acted in the same way. " That's a splendid racket you fellow's 've got, said I.' 'Oh, said they, you can work it better than that. " How,' says I, "Go into a place, drink all you want and when they ask you for money say I'm the police.' That's even better than our racket." " Not long after that some friends o' mine came from Ireland, and I showed them the town. They thought I was a Deputy Supreme Court Justice or some thing of that sort. I made up my mind I was going to try the racket and went into a fine place, drank as much as we liked, and when we thought we had enough I buttoned up my coat, and said to the barkeeper, 'I'm the police,' and walked to the door. Well, it took three days before I got the kinks out of my spiual column and the mourning off my eye. Later I heard that the re porters, expecting that I would go and burn my lingers, had on the night they took me out all gone to the places be forehand and paid for the drinks in ad vance. That's why the barkeeper let them go." " Well," said Clerk Jones, "that is just like them. They have a natural inclination for laying it on to somebody. Through a simple concatenation of the phenomena which happen in their di urnal and hebdomadal circuit, of duties, it conies to pass that as the Latin pro verb has it, 'Adde jjantm parro.' " ' Hold on a moment, Mister Jones !" " ilaynu well, let's try it in another way. All forces in nature are either in the fit vuo ante Vellum, or " " Hold ou !" shrieked Mike. " Wait till I get my collar down." "What's the matter?" asked his Honor. " Oh, Mike's got 'em at last," whis pered the clerk. "I expeeted this all along, Mike. Now I suppose you took lager as an eyeopener this morning. That's worse than whisky. I give you fair warning now. Don 't come near me in that s'ate anymore, otherwise you'll be sent down to the prison the same as any other of fender." "And all this comes of having had intercourse with these reporters," sad ly mused Mike as he retired to wipe his heated brow. llow a Woman Buys Meat. There is so much of "human natur" in the following, that we doubt not not many of our fair readers will gent ly smile, if not "laugh right out," as they read it : Wbcu a worn 11 enters a butcher shop to select a piece of meat for din ner, she has her mind made up to take mutton roast. Therefore, when the butcher rubs his hands, and asks what she will have, she promptly replies: "I'll take some that mut " She stops there. Her eye has caught sight of ham, and she suddenly decides to take ham. "Best ham I ever saw, madam; how much ?" 'Well, you may give me three Well, I don't know either. My band was saying he'd like some sage." "Plenty, madam. Now, then, how much will you have?" "It's pork sausage, is it?" "Yes, ma'am." "Well, I suppose a pound would be enough for our small family ; bnt but "Shall I weigh a pound, madam ?" 'I was wondering if a veal pot-pie wouldn't suit him better," she an swered. ' You have veal, I suppose?" "O, yes, madam ; here's a splendid bit of veal, as good a piece as I ever saw." "Yes, that does look like veal," she says, lifting it up. "And you'll take it?" "Let's see," she muses. 'Y no, I guess not. I'd better take pork chops." "Nice chops how much?" he asks. "One of those slices w ill weigh a pound, I suppose?" "About a pound, madam." "And it was a young hog?" "Quite youngish, madam " "And you cut the rind off?" "Yes, madam." "Well." she says, heaving a deep sigh, "I guess you may give me some beefsteak some that's nice, and be snre and cut all the bone out!" And she's only been half an hour coming to the point. The Familj Hammer. No well regulated family pretends to do without a hammer. And yet there Is nothing goes to make up an equip ment of a domestic establishment that causes one-half as much agony and pro fanity as a hammer. It is always au old hammer, with a handle that is inclined to sliver, and always bound to slip. The face is as round as a full moon and as smooth as glass. When it glides off a nail and mashes a finger, we unhesi tatingly deposit it in the back yard, and observe that we will never nse it again But the blood has hardly dried on the rag before we are In search of that same hammer again, and ready to make an other trial. The result rarely varies, but we never profit by it. The awful weapon goes on knocking off our nails, and mashing whole joints and slipping off the handle to the confusion of man tel ornaments, and breaking the com mandments. Yet we put up with It, and put the handle on again, and lay it away where It won't get lost, and do up our smarting and mutilated fingers; and. after all, if the outrageous thing should disappear, we kick up a terrible hullabaloo until it is found again. Talk about the tyraoiaing Influence of a bad habit I It is not to be compared to the family hammer. Saved by a ttnOklo. The buffaloes of India are domestica ted. Though uncertain as to their tem per towards strangers they are very much attached to their keepers. Reared from the day of their birth in the hut ol their master they grow up with the children aud cling to them through life. A buffalo bull will defend his master from the attack of a tiger, and a buffalo cow once saved her master by her at tachment to him. Among the prisoners taken by the English troops, 011 the day after they had thrashed a rebel chief, was a man with a wife, a motherand a buffalo cow. He was not a soldier but a camp-follower. The women were let go, the cow dashed into the jungle, and the man marched off. The march was a long, hot one, through valleys and over hills. But the buffalo never lost sight of her master, though she would not come near the soldiers. While marching through the thick jungle, the man would now and then give a call. Immediately the faithful buffalo, answering with a grunt, would come crushing through the thicket. When she saw the redcoats of the sol diers, she would stop, utter a bellow and disappear. About the middle of the afternoon the troops halted by the side of a small stream. All were tired hot and hungry, The native looking at the commander, said, " Sahib if yon w 111 untie my hands, I will give you all milk." His hand were untied, and he called to his buffalo. She came out of the jungle but would not approach the troops. "Shahib," said the mnn, "you must let me go to her; she will not come near you. I will not run away." "Very well," replied the officer, ' You shall go to her. But mind, if you run, this rifle never misses. You'll drop dead before you've gone three yards." Taking a brass drinklng-vessel from one of the men, the native went to his buffalo, milked her and returned. The milk was very refreshing to the tired men, and the officer was grateful. He determined to release his prisoner. That evening the native was told to be off. With a low prostration he mur mured a blessing on the officer's head, and bounded into the jungle. The last heard of him was his call to the buffalo and her answering grunt as she ran to meet him. Sacred Rivers. Egypt, the land of enigmas to the solution of which our modern era is so zealously devoted fosters, in the bed of the gigantic Nile, the source of her existence and maintenance. This river, by its fructifying freshets, not only maintained all those who inhabited these regions in good condition physi cally, but by the regularity of their oc currence exci'eJ the Egyptians to be come the first astronomers of the world and the first surveyors of boundaries. Just as this river flows from hitherto unknot n sources, so the origin of the Egyptians as a iieople is enveloped in darkness. Through the regions of co lossal stone quarries the Nile winds its way. These quarries, in ancient times, supplied the needful material for gigan tic structures, the grandeur of which with regard to time anil dimensions, was awe-inspiring. The river forms the cataract and rapids of Assuan, and from thence to theDelta is the benefac tor of the country. With great predi lection, the old Egyptians would paint their Nile, raised to a divinity like Neptnne, " the old man of the sea," surrounded by sixteen children, accord ing to the number of yards his water will have to rise ere he becomes a bene factor. The billows of the Nile rushed under the boy Moses before the daugh ter of Pharaoh raised him up. When afterwards the young Israelite, accom-pli.-hed with Egyptian learning, dwelt ujon the banks of the Nile, his eyes may have often watched the billows of that river which once were his cradle. Lotos flowers exhale fragrance and glitter with their rosy calyx whenever the magic sound of the name of the river Ganges thrills the ear. Whatever poesy, glowing fancy and love can in stil into the heart of a poet has been sung on the banks of the Ganges and of the Ganges. Not only "Lakontala" and ' I'rvasi," the charming fairy-tales of Kalidasas," but also the poems of modern lyrics, lead us to the banks of the Ganges as the most beautiful spot 011 earth. Imagining its waters to pro ceed from the feet of Braf.a, the ancient inhabitants of India represented their stream in their numerous works of sculpture as a holy person; a drink of the sweet waters of the Ganges would preserve ne from the dreaded metem ;ycAir, and a dead body floating in the billows of its waters maybe a dis gusting sight to strangers, but its spirit enjoys immediate affinity with the most exalted Godhead. Through Palestine flows the river Jordan, whosebanks have been so often reached only alter inexpressible pain and suffering. The aim of the Crusad ers, and the thousandfold repeated prayer of those who remained at home, was to possess a flask of water from the river Jodan. Baptism with such holy water was considered an in valuable advantage, but with al most moroe sadness some of the bold wanderers saw this river streaming through the lovely lake of Genesareth, and then ending its course in the Dead Sea. The latter the Bible calls the place where St. John baptized Jesus, and this circumstance gave to the Jor dan, the waters of which were per mitted to be used in the baptism of Christ, a bright halo of sacred ness. In the south of Russia rolls the broad majestic flood of the holy "Mother Volga " (thus the South Russian calls, with his well-known predilection for pet names, his river), the largest stream in Europe. The Neva,, though but thirty-two miles in length, enjoys a similar favoritism; but although its very agreeably tasting waters, filled in bottles, accompanied muiy Russian travelers on their tours.and although in former times the Czar received from the commander of the post a goblet filled with .this water which was re turned filled with gold immediately after the report from a cannon's mouth had proclaimed the bursting of the ice, no one else ever applied the adjective " holy " to this river. " To the Rhine, to the Rhine, go not to the Rhine," thus counsels the sor rowing father the ever-wandering son. But the broad torrent, with its green waters, and its golden wine, and moun tains ever clad in sun-illumineJ ver dure, has a bewitching, alluring power. The proverbially long bills w hich are shown up to the haughty stripling, like threatening goblins, have not yet beeu able 10 break one gem in the lustrous crown with which the Teutons in their hearts are crownitur the beauteous brow of their holy river Rhine. Hunting; the Dogfish. The increase of the dogfish in many European waters, and the consequently greater destruction of fish by these rob bers, has led to many controversies lately among the fishermen respecting the means of destroying them. Some of the most interested suggested the granting of a premium for each dogfish killed, as the hunting does not pay for the trouble of the catches, and very few fishermen can be induced to make it a special branch of their fishiug. The Genua Ftihery Gazette describes some of the methods used formerly in hunt ing these fish. A very simple way of hunting the dogfish has been used for the last twenty years by alluring the dogfish to come close up to the hunter, stationed upon a sand-bank by the means of imitating their movements when the dogfish is knocked down and killed with a cudgel. More than one hundred are known to have been killed in one summer by a single hunter, who easily enticed them upon the dry sand bank. The hunters very seldom make any use of the gun, as the sound of the discharge disperses them at once; only old dogfish have to be shot, as they are too ily to be caught by the tricks of the hunters. Another more ancient method was by sharp-pointed spears, fastened to a chain, which was spread around the edges of a sand-bank upon which the dogfish were accustomed to assemble and sun themselves. The spears were pointed inward, at a cer tain distance from each other, aud in order not to topi-le over or fall back ward, fastened to a small iron plate in the shape of a duck's foot, the whole se curely buried in the sand. The dogfish arrive at the sand-bank as soon as the water leaves the top dry, and settle themselves inide the chain and spears, these being still covered over by the water. Before the latter get fn of it, the hunters arrive in a boat aud make a noise, when the dogfish, in trying to get off the sand-bank, rush direct upon the spears, and those nor killed outright are knocked down with a club. As many as twenty have in this mannei been caught at one time, but this mode catching them has been discontinued for smetime, partly because it was con sidered very cruel, and partly on ac count of the chains and spears being lost frequently, if continuous stormy weather prevented the sand-bank from getting drv. An easy way of catching the dogfish happens sometimes at the mouth of the River Elbe and in the North Watt, when they assemble upon a sand-bank, having a kind of groove running into it, w hich in these parts occurs often. The hunters have only to run their boat slowly toward the groove and spread a sturgeon net at the entrance, when most of the dogfish get entangled in the net upon their at tempting to escape, and are then easily killed. The Two Dromios Again. Two brothers in St. Louis resemble each other so exactly that it is with great difficulty they tell themselves apart. How others are confused is il lustrated by the following story : It is a rule in the Circuit Court that but one attorney on each side shall ex amine witnesses. In a recent trial in which Thomas A Thomas were engag ed, this rule was violated in a very dex terous manner. Stepping to one side as if for private consultation, they ex changed chairs, and no one could tell that it was the sams one who had before occupied the seat. In this way they re lieved each other, while the lawyer on the other side had to stop from exhaus tion. "Mr. Thomas," said a circuit judge a short time ago, "are you ready to ar gue that motion now ?" "What motion, your honor?" "The motion you spoke of yesterday." "Your honor, I was not in the court room yesterday." "Your memory must be very short, sir. I saw you here." "Not me, your honor." "I know it was you; and if you trifle with the court I shall have to flue you for contempt, sir." "Your honor, it was my motion," said the other Thomas, entering the room. The judge looked at the two Thomases in amazement, and, recover ing his good humor, remarked that na ture had committed a plagiarism in the case of one of them, he couldn't tell which. Ice mad. In no Christian country, perhaps, with the sole exception of Lapland, are the clergy so poor as in Iceland ; but In none do they exert a more beneficial in fluence. Though the island has but one public school, at Reykjavik, jet per haps in no country Is elementary educa tion more generally diffused. Every mother teaches her children to read and write, and a peasant, after having pro. Tided for the wants of his family by the work of his hands, loses no opportunity in his leisure hours, of inculcating a sound morality. In these praiseworthy efforts the parents are supported by the pastor. About the Heart. The human heart has been considered by many of the dying in past times as a votive gift peculiarly sacred. And miny instances are on record of the burial of the heart apart from the place where the ashes of the body might re pose. One of the earliest instances of this mode of heart burial is that of Henry II. of England. He died in a passion of grief before the altar of the church of Chinon in 1139. Ills heart was interred at Fontevrault, but his body, from the nostrils of which tradi tion alleges blood to have dropped ou the approach of bis rebellious son Rich ard, was laid in a separate vault. When Richard Cteur de Lion it 11 beneath Gourdan's arrow at the siege of Chalwy, the gallant heart which, in its greatness and mercy, inspired him to forgive and even to reward the luckless archer, was, after his death preserved in a casket in the treasury of the cathedral which William the Conqueror built in Rouen ; for Richard by a last will directed that bis body should be interred in Fontev rault, "at the feet of his father, to tes tify his sorrow for the uneasiness he had given him during his lifetime." He bequeathed his heart to Normandy, out of his great love for the people thereof. In Scotland there have been many instances of the separate burial of the human heart. The earliest known is that connected with the found ing and erection of New Abbey by Derargilla, daughter of Allan, the Cel tic lord of Gallaway, and wife of John Baliol, father of the competitor for the Scottish crown. Baliol, to whom she was deeply attached, died an exile in France in 12G9, but Derargilla had his heart embalmed, and as the Scotichroni con records, "lokyt and bunden with sylver brycht," and this she always carried about with her. In 1239, as death approached, she directed that "this silent and daily companion in life for twenty years should be laid upou her bosom when she was buried in the abbey she had founded. During the repair of Christ's church at Cork (Ire land) in 1819, a human heart, in a lead en case, was found imbedded among the masonry; but to whom it had belonged, what was its story, the piety or love its owner wished to commemorate, no le gend or inscription remained to tell. W hen the body of the Emperor Napo leon was prepared for Interment at St. Helena, in May, 1S21, the heart was re moved by a medical officer, to be solder ed up in a case. Mme. Bertrand, in her grief and enthusiasm, had made some vow, or expressed a vehement desire, to obtain possession of this as a precious relic, and the doctor, fearing that some trick might be played him, and his com mission be thereby imperilled, kept it all night in his own room in a glass dish. The noise of broken glass aroused him from a waking doze, and he started forward, only in time to rescue the heart of the Emperor from a huge brown rat, which was dragging it across the floor to its bole. It was rescued by the doctor, soldered np in a silver urn, filled with spirits by Sergeant Abraham Millington of the St. Helena artillery, and placed in a casket. In 1774 Sir Francis Dash wood received the singu lar bt quest of a human heart, as the obituaries of that year record, that when "Paul Whitehead, Esq., a gentleman much admired by the literati for his publications, uicd at his apartments in Henrietta street, Covent Garden, London among other whimsical legacies was his heart, which with 50, he bequeathed 10 his lordship." The Bed- The bed is not only a place of rest, it is especially our sleeping garment, and has often to make up for privations endured during the day and the day's work, and to give us strength for to morrow. You know all the different substances and materials used for it. They are the same as our garments are made from. Like them, the bed must be airy and warm at the same time. We warm the bed by our body just as we warm our clothes, and the bed warms the air which is constantly flow ing through it from below upward. The regulating strata must be more Iowerful in their action than in our day clothes, because during re.t and sleep the metamorphosis of our tissues and resulting heat becomes less, ami because in a horizontal position we lose more heat by an ascending current of air than in a vertical position, where the warm ascending eurrent is in more complete and longer contact with our upright body. The warmth of the bed sustains the circulation in our surface to a certain degree for the benefit of our internal organs, at a time when our production of heat is at the lowest ebb, hence the importance of the bed for our heat and blood econemy. Several days without rest in a bed not only makes us sensible of a deficiency in the leeruit ing of our strength, but very often pro duces quite noticeable perturbations in our bodily economy, which the bed would have protected us from. Excellent Interest Rules. Finding the interest on any princi pal for any number of days. The an swer in each case being cents, separate the two right hand figures of the an swer to express it in dollars and cents. Four per cent. Multiply the principal by the number of days to run ; separate right hand figure from product nd di vide by 9. Five ir cent. Multiply by number of days and divide by 72. Six percent. Multiply by number of days and divide by 43. Eight percent. Multiply by number of days and di vide by 45. Nine per cent. Multiply by number of days ; separate right hand figure, and divide by G. Ten per cent. Multiply by number of days and di vide by 30. Twelve per cent. Multi ply by number of days; separate right band figure and divide by 3. Fifteen percent. Multiply number of t'aysand divide by 24. Eighteen per cent. Mul tiply by nuaiber of days ; separate right hand figure and divide by 2. Twenty per cent. Multiply by number of das s and divide by 8. Twenty-four per cent. Multiply by number of days and di vide by 15. t
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