I ypll IS . f i i IClIilL. THE COUSTITTmOIT THE TJITIOII THE EirOECEMEJT OF THE LAWS. B. F. SCIIWEIEIt, "Editor and Proprietor. 'MIFFIJN1WX. JUNIATA COUNTY PEXXA., WEDNESDAY, JAN U All Y 1. 1S79. VOL. XXXIII. NO. 1. TSS DYKG TEAS. fir. fir away t'rf-ro u ft glint of crimson In the west A rose;;. ViA'W. r-r rrks of fire set in the ' Whose shapes eacu moment, changed anew. some beauties freeh unfold. n.e red leaves strew the garden walk ; the autumn showers fall Vcrosa the path in gloaming gray ; t!ie whist ling plovers call. rte r comrades to the sheltering fen ; the stealthy owl skims by. What time the white moon 'gins to sho w be crescent in the sky. And rise from river-side the mists, and cattle cease to graze. ai lay them down beneath the bonghs ; and in the fathering haze Ihe narsh-li-lit show their glittering sparks of all-delaaive fire. To lnre the heedless wayfarer into the treach erous mire. Wet are the last few flowers with dew the dahlia's gorgeous croro tows heavilr its petals bright with glittering gems bent down ; 1 he crimson foschia gently kuods her purpi lined bells ; The frosty nights creep on apace, and the short daylight tells tf coming winter, when the earth shall robed be with snow. Aid bare shall be the forest trees ; nor shall there longer blow 'Jue bloom of ail the blossoms fair that bright ened summer hours. TU spring shall smile on earth again, and briug n back the flowers. 200 000 Pounds. I shall never forget the uncomfor table position tli:it 1 foil ml myself in through too free a use of that unruly member, the tongue. 1 was a voung IV 1 low th:i, clerk iu a Loudon bank. My father w as an officer in the army, tun! lie often told us boys that netting each of us in some business or pro fession was all he could ever do for us, a the scanty pittance he would leave behind him must belong solely to my mother and sister. But my brother and I w ere energetic and hojieful. So long as each day brought us enough tosatis ly our wants, we reckoned little of the future. One bleak, cold, January morning 1 was greatly surprised, on my arrival at the bank to find my father pacing up and down before the building. I was not living at home just then, and his presence there made me fear lest some thing was wrong. "I'hillip," he began, "are you iu tim t'an.jou riiare.me three min- "Ves. sir." I replied, "for a wonder. 1 ee I am ten minutes earlier than I need lie. What is the matter?" "Do not look so startled," he said. "Nothing is wronir. You know )fr. f O.s rTTs""- I "Oh, you mean the half-cracked old man w no is awfully rich, and is my godfather, as well as cousin, thirty limes removed?' "Yea," was the reply. "Well, last night I received a letter from hini.aftrr years of silence, in which he asks after you." And he read me the letter. "What a queer old boy !" I exclaimed "Vt list does he mean? ' for I did not exactly understand it. "Mean!" cried my father excitedly sn.ncrnng tne letier Irom me, am crushing it into his pocket. "Mean why, to make you his heir, Philli his heir!" "Whew!" said I, blushing; "that a pui l idea !" "You must apply for leave and go off it once," sai.l mv father. "Strike while the iron's hot. It's a splendi chance, Phillip, splendid ! 1'se it well and your fortune's made." So I thought, applied for leave, au set on lor tne I'adilingtou Station soon alter, with mr ears ringing with a le gion of instructions for pleasing old men, given me by my feliow clerks. The only one I could clearly remember as to rise w heuever lie came into the room, and then eschew every comfor table arm chair for fear he should want it. I felt bursting witn importance and actually treated mvself to a glass of hot whisky and water at the refresh ment room. "Ilellow, W illiam !" suddenly cried a voice. "Why, Jack, what brings you here? I replied, recognizing an old friend "I'm going down to Gloueester,"-.aid I.e. "Where are you off to?" "Oh, to such luck !" I said. "I'm off beyond Ilercford, to humor an old gen tleman." "What" said Jack. "tome along, and I'll tell you all about it," said I. "Second-class. Y"es, !11 right. Here we are." Alter we got settled in our places, an old man got In. He was poorlv fixed. and had a green shade over one eye, w hile his other looked weak anddroop ing. We grunted our strong disappro val at ins entrance, and made mutual grimaces, out as his blind eye w as to wards us, they were doubtless lost on him. As the train moved off I told my story, which you know already. ell .lone, Phillip. Your bread is buttered for you !" he exclaimed.when e nag heard me to the end. "What a ? i wu? chance M an aifve, I wish I was in your shoes, that's all !" 'Yes, yes, ,y jM,y A11 right ,,, j exclaimed. "Well, it's a shame if 1 don't secure a good smoke before the light of my pit goes out in obscurity. Do you object to smoke, sir?" This latter question was addressed to the old gentleman in the corner, who appeared a curious mass of seedy old coats, railway rugs, and newspapers. "1 do object very much," was the old gentleman's gruff replv. "Very sorry, sir," said I. "I'll keep my head out of the window, then." Shame seizes me when I recall this incident. In lieu of attending to the old man's wishes, I coolly lit my pipe and though I knew the wind would' blow the smoke right into his eyes though I heard him growling with rage I puffed on heedlessly. I should tro be sorry to be so rude, now, but you see I was young and very excited. The short January afternoon was drawing to a close, and very soon after we were dependent on the lamp that , r "rtre rer!aje roof lor iic. Whether it was the old man's exam ple who had gone to sleep, or the mo notonous noise of the train as it speed ed along, or that our powers of chatter ing were exhausted, I know not, but anyhow we too began to feel inclined for a nap. Hut we found the lamp an iuto'erible nuisance, with its inces santly flickering light. "Bother it! Can't we blow if out?" I exclaimed. Not if we cracked our cheeks. But I've a notion!'' cried the ready-witted Jack. "Hand me the old boy's hat." "What lor?" 1 asked.as I handed him the article in question. It was worn and rust)", but well brushed and well shaped "To make an extinguisher of," said Jack, and so saying, he fitted it on to the lamp, making the globe net like the bald head of the owner of the hat. It fitted to a nicety, and so tightly as to keep well iu its place. The arrange ment answered splendidly, and not a glimmer of light was to be seen. When the train stopped at Swinden we awoke, and rushed out of the car riage to get refreshments, quite forget ting our fellow passenger aud his hat. Ou returning we found they had both flown. The irain started, and when we arrived at Gloucester, Jack left me, J had a coid, lonely journey to my desti nation, a little station just below Here ford. When I arrived it was nine o'clock; a dark, raw night; I was very sleepy and tired For some moments 1 could not find my portmanteau; then my hat box was missing, and while I was searching, the guard was exclaim ing about the delay of the train. At last it was all found, the guard whis tled, the train moved off, and I was left standing on a little country platform, in a strange place. "Any cabs or flvs to lie got here?" 1 asked the station master. "Dear me, no, sir," was the reply "But we can get vou something down In the town. Where is it to, sir? "1 want to go to Mr. Fosberry's of Castle Hall," I replied 1 paced tli o wretched little station till the conveyance came, with my mind full of the coming meeting. I asked the driver how far we had to "0. "How far, sir," said he. "Oh, on!r about four miles." I got in, and w e bowled along the dark narrow lanes. After half an hours drive we entered some handsome iron gates, and drove into what seemed to 1 . 1 . l : ... 1 ; .,1. r . vai-it .l.iu!v. I pars. J lie whole aspect imnni,l me -it., memeaof a grand estate. And I questioned the driver on the subject. "Indeed it is a big place, sir," said he. ' It's about fifteen mile-round the eiaie. r.h. ilr. rusbcrry s very rich. People flo say he ha two hundred thousand pounds to leave, if he has one penny, besides this property." My driver jumped down and pulled the bell. The peal resounded through the house like the clang of a triumph. A footman in livery flung open the door, and I was admitted into a hall glowing with light and warmth, and then shown into a large, brilliantly lighted drawing room. Soon we were at the house. A mo ment later and the tall footman reai- peared. He apologized for his master uon-apearance, aud requested me to obey the instructions of a note which he handed me from a massive silver salver. I tore it open and read : "-MK. 1 UILI.IP r KOSBKKKY Vtll.I.IAMS The next time you travel bv rail do not smoke nor annoy old gentlemen ;do not make the infirmities of age am seeming poverty your laughing stock do not tell vour friends of your great expectations; do not speak of vour old erack-braiiied relatives; do not make extinguishers of old gentlemen's hats do not be slangy, vulgar and insulting to strangers; Uonot nourish vain hope of inheriting me, and finally, do not lose any time in leaving forever the house of your old 'fireworks' of a fel low traveler. I'mi.Lir i kosbki.kv 1 . S. I enclose a i-'M note to pay your exiN-nses." Howl got out of the house how I got back to the station, and spent the uight iu a wretched inn how I re turned to town and told to mv enraged relations my woeful tale, w herein played such a sorry part how my ab ject letter of apology was returned un read I cannot tell. I only know old Fosberrydied worth the 2(10,000. leaving his niece sole heir ess, aud that I quarrelled with Jack Evans about it, nor have 1 ever spoken to him since. font Judge. Don't judge a mail by the clothes he wears, for Ood made one aud the tailor t.ie other. Don't judge him by his fa mily connection, for Cain belonged to a verv good fa mil v. Don't judge him by his speech, for the parrot talks, and the tongue is but an instrument of sound. Don't judge a man by the house he lives in, for the lizard and the rat often Inhabit the grandest structures. Don't judge him lor his activity in church for that is not unfrequently inspired by hypocritical and selfish motives. Don't judge him by his love of display, for the long eared beast is the humblest of animals, but when aroused is terrible to behold. Don't take it for granted that because he carries the contribution box he is liberal, he often pays the Lord in that way and keep the currency . Minnesota planted 823,000 acres of amber sugar cane this year. Make but few explanations: the char acter that cannot otherwise defend it self is not worth vindicating. ALTHOrflH Mast are meitlsnnsed tn tune tmo. blrs Irom bir.h. yet even ucu may escaoe con sumption or other Pulmonary or Bronchial dis eases 11 d ecare and watchtulues be observed, and all excitlutr causes are Diomtulv treated as they arise. It is In tuete cases ir. J yne s peciorani exerc.tes its mosi beneficial efleets. and Um produced the larirest proportion of its cures. Hesijes prompt If removing Coughs and Colds, winch, when lea to themselves, are lh (be Uiiinedlate cju ot tuberculous develop ment, tins standard remedy ullav-anv unims tion wiiicb m.y raut, and "by promoting easy eiteewratk n,ilea .aes Uje luujrot tnesuostan. ces which clc? uu m up. and wul. h ruDiiiiy des- whaa tucerio) is stiuaio. St. Petersburg. " Russian affair are attracting consid erable attention just now, and this de scription of life in the streets of St. Pe tersburg la therefor especial? Interest ing. The fine streets of St. Petersburg, well paved and broad, axe lined with elegant residences and handsome shops, which contain not only the rich goods of other countries, but are temptingly supplied with the furs of Russia, the products of its manufactories, which are very numerous, and the peculiar silver-work cf this country, which ev ery traveler invests in. Here one can buy the shoes worn by the peasants, a sort of braided straw, curiously formed, and copied either in silver, gold or por celain these for flowers, cards or for cigar ashes; water-carriers, in bronze, on stands of any of the peculiar stones from Siberia. The three-horse carriage also is a favorite in bronze and silver; and a bronze table, with silver cloth, ou a foundation of malachite or lapis, is often seen, with Russian peasant and wife drinking tea, thus showing their dishes and their eculiar way of pre paring the tea, with a great urn In the middle of the table, and the whole forming a beautiful inkstand. There is no end of this sort of temptation here, and if one's money holds out he never knows where to stop; iu factour Amer ican party kept buying until the last moment, and then hadn't enough, be cause. I suppose, we all felt as though we should not probably ever come to RiMla ajrain. Prices are at a very hlsb i figure, I am told, for all "articles de luxe"-not really needful things-while the necessaries of life are very reasona ble; and if they were not, these people could not live under the governmental condition of affairs, as the lower classes hive to live on almost nothing, and pay for that well in taxes. Everywhere there is constant life and activity. The little droskeys, only large enough for oiie, but in two often ride, the larger public carriages, and the elegant pri vate turnouts, are all driven in the main thoroughfares as if in a case of life or death regular John Uilpin fashion. As onesitsina public carriage, being iu the midst of this curious melee, he in. voluntarily holds on, and holds his breath as if at any moment he should be crushed to atoms and nobody would know anything about it. We took many such daring drives and erjoyed the scene extremely, feeling comparatively sate, for where people always drive fast there are but few accidents. The p'ople were a novelty, so were the shops, then ev ery few blocks there was a chapel, and the people praying all about, and at certain points, men in peculiar Russian dress were kneeling out on the edge of the sidewalk with fruits and small wares, sometimes whole rows of them. and if a carriage stops they immediate ly flock up to sell their goods ; and as to Uicm little droskeys, one can take one for a g:eu point and pay only ten cents, then pick up one again at any time. 1 found that if we could not tell the driv er where we wanted to go, we could do as well by pointing aud keeping them going till we wanted to stop, but they drive as though they would break one's neck, even at small pay. The man James Donnelly recently taken from the hold of the luman stea mer City of Chester well nigh starved to death by eleven days fastening, is fast recovering. He is a young Scotch lad, twenty years old, about five feet seven and a hilf inches high, with blue eyes, light hair and a faint mous tache. Kxcept for the emaciation re sulting from his long fast, he is perfect ty neaithy. ins tliet is confined to brandy and water or brandy and milk. with occasional sips of beef tea, and this will not be varied much for several days. His eyes are sunken and his cheek bones prominent, his tongue dry and hard. His constant demand is for water, which he sips lovinglv. Ac cording to his own sory, told with ma ny pauses to gain strength or moisten Ins parched tongue, he is a native of Dumbarton in Scotland, where lie has a brother. He has two aunts aud two uncles living at "Only Villa". Marina, R. I., and it was to get to them that he became a stowaway. He had worked for a time as a plater or rivetter in the shipyards ou the Clyde, and latterly in the boiler shops at Birkenhead, near Liverpool. Finding himself out of work aud out of money, he got a Dottle of whiskey and the day before the City of Chester sailed weut on board at the Albert Docks, Birkenhead. The whis key, he says, he save to a sailor and begged the man to hide him away. Car go was then going in and the sailor told him to go below where tiie cargo was. stowing. Donnelly describes this friend of his w ith sufficient minuteness to in sure his identification. The man took the whiskey and afterwards threw the bottle down Into the hatch where Don nelly had stowed himself. This occur red, Donnelly says, about 4 o'clock on the afternoon of September 22. It was perfectly dark in the hold and he can tell iiothipg of days or times after that event. In groping about after the hatch separating the orlop from the lower steerage deck was put ou he fell through to the bottom of the hold. Felling about he discovered some salt meat, but it was so very much spoiled that he could not eat a mouthful, al though he was beginning to be hungry. He then climbed to the orlop deck, where lie discovered some loose salt, and after a while ate some. Of course, as be knew it would, it made him hor rible thirsty. He say he felt no hung er at any time to be spoken of In the comparison, but to slake his thirst would have given all the world. It was perfectly dark, and he could tell night from day only by the sound of bells which reached him from above.1 On what he concluded was the second or third day out he got hold of a bar rel stave and managed to work it up between the hatch and the deck com bings, lie made all the noise be could, and the barking of a dog followed. Then he heard and felt the dog lay hold of the end of the stave and break It off, and heard shouts of laughter of some- body evidently amused at the dog'e tics. He shouted and cried till uod no voice left, and then he fell t4 he deck and became uncousci m L knew no more of anything imr!'1 m'j water poured upon hi in as he lay sj the steamer's deck on Friday erennj. Donnelly insists that he had aot been drinking the whiskey, but liaf brougl.t It merely as a bribe to the siilor. As soon as he came to his scnics his f.rst sensation was a great gna'iug at the pit of the stomach, and tbn his thirst returned, which h'.s continual sipping of water has not taken ft away. The chief officer of the City of Chester sid the story of a bribed sailor he did lot consider to be true, siuce the crew' of the ship were an exceptionally line lotof men. A sailor, moreover, would not have stowed a ay a man in such a fa shion. It was more than likely that the supposed savior was a stevedore connected with one of the gangs at the Birkenhead docks. Those men wire the blue smock of Iunian Hue sailors. The salt meat Donnelly got at was a lot of rancid bacon, which lay in the hold. The deck aliove the orlop deck was the lower steerage deck, and there was a dog there, kept by one of the passeng er s though the hatch was entirely se vered by a heavy tarpaulin, which ex tended over the deck on all sides. He did not see how a man could thru-t a stick up from the lower to the upper compartment, and thought that this was a dream of the starving man befoK be fell into unconsciousness. p k Knew a liitte too Much. ' Intelligent young man of Burling. ot:, who has picked up a little agricultiirtl argot, to old granger sitting beside him on the cars : "This has been splendid weather for fall plowing." Old granger, pleased with the general intelligence of the young town man: " It hez, stranger, it hez; couldn't ha' been better." Young man of Burlington, warming with his subject, and well pleaded with his success : " The farmers have a greater acre:ge of ground ready for sowing than tVy have had at this season for scvtral years." Honest old granger, fairly deliglw-d at the really good sense and observing habits of the young man. 'Yes, I 'low we hev, I rather lw we hev." Young man of Burlington, ruined by excess and over-confidence : " But I'm very much afraid tliey won't be able to get another crop of corn out of the way of the frost iids year." Disgusted silence for the next sixty-, Ave miles. The Ealers off Morphine. The morphine eaters, as a classare the most peculiar I ever dealt wj particularly in their negotiations tor their favorite drug. They will under take anything, will promise anything to obtain morphine. 1 remember some years since, w hen I wa in a dow n town drug store, a young woman came in one morning, and ordered a large quantity of toilet goods put up, saying that she was from the country, and that her father, who was out doing some trading, w ould call it! and pay for them very soon. Among other things she ordered an ounce of morphine to be put up with the rest of the goods, but first took a large dose from one of the bot tles right there. Then she went out and never returned, while the clerk who sold her the goods waited in vain for the father fro the country, and was for months af the butt of vari ous jokes on his confiding nature. 1 afterwards found that the young wo man visited a "urge number of drug stores in town, and did the same thing, but she one day tried the game upon one drug store where, after she got the morphine, the proprietor refused to let her go nntif she paid for the goods. She immediately stepped to a room in the rear of the store, and divested herself of a chemise, which she pawned for tlie morphine taken. I have quit the s.ile of these drugs, except iu filling pre scriptions, because I do not care todetl in them, or to supply the people w it, are addicted to their use. Cashmere Coats In Nevada- Pure Cashmere goats Cnd among the wild sage brush barrens of Nevada ai acceptable climate, where their healU is excellent and their fleeces unusually fine and silky. A herder near Carsot has a flock of 8,0n0. Eastern farmers and esecially that great multitude wh to admiration of rural life do not unit much affection for farm labor, are soli cited to give reflection to this intelli gence. Here is a whole State, 120,000 square miles, oien to superficial pre emption, its mountains exactly adapted to climbing goats, and its sweet gratt sheltered by every bush of artemesia Everywhere the flashing-leveled white sage abounds. In the growing time of summer no animal can stomach its bit ters." But the first frost that kills the summer food turns this bitterness to sweetest pasture. It is savory and fat tening to all animals that herd. It ten ders their meat and gives to their coats a glossy fur that defies the frosts and the tempests of winler. Here is invi ting occupation, most remuneratin, least laborious, most healthful, len' risky ami involving small initt.il otn lav. Pompeii. Excavations at Pompeii Drove th' city to have been one ot the most fash lonable aud beautiful of Kom.in sum mer resorts, and, but for the eruption i; might have remained so to tins day. As with Pompeii, so with thousands i: people who have beauty of form anl leatuie. They might always be aa- niired bat for the eruvtion. that makes the face unsightly, aud betrays the presence of scrofula, virulent blonl poisons, or general debility. There is out one remedy that positively cures these affections, and that remedy lsl vr. fierce a Irolden Medical Discovery. It is the best known tonic, alterative and resolvent. It speedily cares pim ples, blotches, liver spots, and all dis eases arising from impoverished or impure b'ood. It also cares dyspepsia, and regulatea the liver and bowels, bold by all draggiata. BowTralMw Itocsaaid MiMUfiLir. When the monkeys and dogs had fi nlshed their performances, all of the hundreds of people left the Aquarium - litdlng. or scattered in various tllrec- ons, among the tanks or nsiies, out I was not satisfied. I wanted to see the man who bad taught these ant raals such astonishing tricks, so a messenger started off behind the stage to find him. while I hurriedly gathered my tras together, and put them on as becomingly as I could, ready to be res pectable and middle-agil again on the approach of Signor Taddei. He came before long quite surprised at having been sent lor, a kind looking, sober gentlemen, who could'nt sjeak a word of English, llow fortunate that I was grown up again ! Perhaps I could un derstand him. As he proved to speak French, we got along very well, and I always shall be grateful for the patient way In which he answered every ques- ion, often adding some welcome bit of information. Has Monsieur owned these animals long? Oh yes, some of them for twelve years; he had been training animals for fifteen years. Did he have to whip them? "Oh, no. In deed; that would do no good; it would frighten them. Kindness was much the best," and soon until we obtained man interesting facts. I shall rcpeit th" to you in very much the same irky way in which they came. Signor laildei had come to America a few month before, bringing his animals with liimt hia daughtjir, who eaoae aU ), assists him very much, and bis pets l UH . r.... ...I ..f ka. i. .M t v. ; . ic an ivuiiu vi 1 1 i as iijt-j ai VI iiiiu She always stands behind the scenes to receive them when they run off the stage. They are fed and petted after each performance. The dogs like meat or sausage; The monkevs son:e- t lines take meat, but generally they ea bread, milk, and rice, ihey like to drinK raspberry or strawberry juice mixed with water. His monkeys tasted bananas iu New York for the first time iu their lives, and were delighted with them. Where did he get his animals? Certainly, Madame should be told, with great pleasure. The dogs mostly were obtained in Austria, but his monkeys he picked up at circuses aud zoological gardens in fact at anyplace where he could find the right sort. He selects his monkeys usually by what he sees of them at the menageries, or zoological gardens. The best ones alwavs are ac tive and on the alert. Were monkeys as intelligent as dogs? Well yes; no; he could'nt sav. Sometimes monkevs are brightest, sometimes dogs; it de- pends entirely upon the individual ani mal. Monkeys often forget their tricks when they come to a new place, are I CiilCluitmA s- - .1.1 -- dogs don't forget at all. A long time generally is needed for training either. but this, too, depends niKn the animal's iV'i'1.li''eiiee and the difllculty of the trick; it may be three month, six months, nine months, or a year. It ook more than a year to train th j chief ladder dog. Madame would n't believe it, but another dog has been tn.ining for the same trick for a wltole year and cannot perform it sueefu!ly vet. The Mory of Chub. Everybody about the dejKJt knew Chub, the basket boy, for he was always limping through the room crying "ap ples ! eanuts ten cents a quart ! Ap ples two for a penny! Right this way, Mister, for your lresh-baked pea nuts and rle, apples!" WhereChub came from or to whom he belonged seemed a mystery, lie was al ways at his post, from early morning till nine at night. Then he would dis apiiear only to return punctually the next day. He wasn't at all communicative, and said but very little in the way of gem -ral conversation. Yet everybody liked him; his pale face and withered limbs were sure to appeal to their sympathies. I used to like him myself.and it always ,'deased me to see him get a good day's tustom. But it's over a year, now, since Chub Tonl apples aud eanuts in our dejMit, and I miss him yet. There Is a real lonesome place over in the corner; here he used to sit and eat his lunch at noon time. It was his favorite seat, and "t never seems filled now. If often hear our agent and Simons remark, when they glance in that di rection, "It seems kind o' lonesome not to see Chub around." I remember as if it were but yester day, the lady coming in leading that little witch with a blue silk bonnet crowning her curls. It w as the sweet est baby I ever saw. As she ran about the depot, laughing and singing, she happened to espy Chub limping his rounds. She ran right up to him, and, putting out a tiny hand, touched his crutch. "Oh, oo poor 'ame boy," she cooed, Ise dot a tiss for oo." Chub's fae fairly glowed with de light as he bent his head to receive the kiss from the rosebud lips. He leached her a handful of peanuts which she took and placed in her little sack pock et. "I loves oo, poor 'ame boy," she said, softly, "tause oo was dood to me." "Come here, Birdie," called the !a- dv. '", mamma, no! Ise doing with ij",T. poor, "ame boy," she said, reso lutely sticking close to Chub. But the lady took her away. Chub hobbled into the other room. The lady was busy with her book,and did not notice her child slip out; but I did, and every now and then caught stray glimpses of the little figure as she ran up and down the platform. By and by I heard a whistle. 'Twas the fast mail going up, but it don't stop. I thought of the baby and so did her mother. "Birdie!" she called; but no "Bir die" answered. Just then I glanced out, and there stood the little one in the blue silk bonnet right upon the track. I fairly stopped from very terror. The mother ran shriking forward. Will no one save her !" "Yes," shouted a voice. I taw Chub iiiup w ihl out and Miatth the little form from its perilous position, and throw it oo one side just as the train thundered by. The ba'ty was saved; .but unrai tbe track was a crushed and mangled form. They lifted him sadly, and, laying him down upon one of the seats, weut for help. It was too late; for he only open ed his eyes once and whispered, "Is she safe!" . They brought her to him, but he did not heed. She stroked the still white face with her tiny hands, and cooed in sweet baby fashion, as she looked around upon the crowd : "Poor 'ame boy gone fast seep ! gone fast seep !" Aa Indignant llead and Seek. A most extraordinary sensation oc curred in the American colony of Lon don last week. A young lady from Philadelphia was walking down Regent street with the mother and sister of a young gentleman of rank, when the at tention of all three was attracted by some photographs of notables and others exfosed In a window, and they drew up to look at them. Fancy the astonishment of the American girl on seeing her own photograph exposed there among the others, but in the most amazing shape it is possible to con ceive. Her head, her foce, the arrange ment of her hair, the turn of her neck; it was impossible to mistake ; and ret there she was, almost as undraped as the Venwo oleltvi - Its feet, -r- e tights and fleshiugs, and labelled "Ma zeppa." "Khat can this mean?" she cried to the elderly lady, her lips blanched with shame and terror. "I really cannot tell you," replied Lady Disdain, with steel-hard eyes and icy voice. "You perhaps can tell us w Jiether on any occasion iu America you were in the habit of appearing in this dress?" "Oh, what do yon mean to insinu ate," uttered the poor girl. "IK you think I ever stood as Mazeppa? Oh, how cruel of you to speak so." "It is certainly your portrait,",added the other lady. By this time one or two bystanders had drawn up to the w uidow, and no ticing the likeness were nudging each other. "It is ome coincidence of course it cannot be meant for me." "You had better take a cab and go home and tell your father about it," said the lady, still with her frigid man ner. "My daughter and I have some calls to make." In a half-dazed state of mind the young Philadelphian drove home and told her f . 1 1 w wk li.il fcnyyiwd. 'I'o get back to that shop, to have that pho ograph out of the window, to demand an explanation of the stationer, was pot tH sa of many ns'.cutcs for the enrngeilr father. But though it was easy enough to demand an explanation, it was not so easy to get one. Suspi cion falls upon the servants in the house, one of w hoin might easily have abstracted a photo out of a package of them which has been kept hitherto in an unlocked drawer of the young la dy's writing desk. Of course it is a "cooked" picture; only the head and neck of the American lady's photo graph, the rest that of some one else, and together the picture represents one of the most boautiful women it is pos sible to conceive. The matter has caused so much indignation aud so much comment that it is not impossi ble it may check the mama so prevalent among society beauties for having themselves photographed for sale at a sinning a rnrtt de visile. 1 he Uead Cauest. Lord F. was ou his travels on the continent, when he met a young man engaged in similar way, with whom he grew very familiar. Mr. G. gave him, in the course of conversation, to know that the end of his life had been predict ed to him, and that he had some ground for believing that this prediction was not without iu weight and credibility. "As how?" asked Lord F. "I was trav eling with two friends," replied the other, " In Italy, aud at Florence we agreed to have our nativities cast by a woman there, who had a great reputa tion for astrological skill. She foretold that none of us would live long, and named the days on which we should each die. My two friends ara dead, and each at the time she uamed ; It remains to see whether her prediction will be verified to me." "Pshaw !" cried Lord F., "a mere coincidence, impossible that it can happen a third time. But what is the day she named?" Mr. G. named one about six months distant. "And where shall you be then?" pur sued Lord F. "At Paris." "Why, I shall be there too. Let it be an engagement- Come you and dine with me on that very day at seven o'clock, and keep up your spirits till then. I shall be found at Xo. Rue de . Do yon agree to the bargain ?" "Willingly," replied the other, and In a short space of time the friends separated. The six mouths passed and a little before the appointed day, Lord F. found himself iu Paris. He sent a note to Mr. G.,' to remind him of his engagement, and re ceived for answer thai he would come. However a day or two after, another note was brought to him, in which Mr. G. said that he was not very well, and must postpone the pleasure of dining with Lord F. till another time; that the Indisposition was very trifling, and ere long he hoped to have the pleasure of waiting upon him. Lord F. thought no more of the matter, ordered dinner ou the day that had been named, at seven, for himself, and about six o'clock sent his servant to Mr. G.'s with a merely formal inquiry as to how he was. Seven o'clock came; Lord F. sat down to din ner, when just as he was beginning his meal, the door opened, and In walked Mr. G. He walked In, it is tne.buthe said not a word, went up t '. table, and went out again. Lor was a larmed, and rang the bell, J it was answered by the servant whom he had sent with the message of inquiry. "How is Mr. G. t" he demanded. "Dead, my lord," was the reply : "be died just as I reached bis house." Peewuarltlea of Prominent Xia, The Duke of elnngion was not re markably sedulous ot dress, although on Krand occasions he roatle a antnetent d!plr.j whenji ixre f i iutor.y-g. ders and decorations iTsL,g on a com more gorgeous than the celebrated bub it of Prince Esterhazy, which, it is said, cost him 2(0 in repairs and dam ages, every time it was put on. The duke had a custom of weaiing a neck cloth in uniform, which gave him rather a slovenly appearance, and a flippant French duchess once called him "Le Due de VU'ianton," because he appeared at a full dress party in something less than grande tenue. He was also familiarly called in the army, "the Beau," from his usual plain at tire, and apparent negligence of out ward splendor. That vanity is an in herent compound or attendant of great ness, is a wide position, which admits of ninch argument and endless demon stration. Many distinguished men ef fect or adopt eccentricities, of w hich vanity may be the inciting cause. Lord Nelson was fond of exhibiting his stars, and delighted in having his horses taken out, and hi carriage drawn by the mob. The celebrated Lord Peterborough, though light aud vain and proud, had no weakness of this kind. Once, the populace taking him for the Duke of Marlborough, insisted on dragging him through the streets in triumph. "Gentlemen," said he. "I can assure you by two reasons that I am not the Duke of Marlborough. In the first place, I have only five guineas in my pocket, and in the second place they are heartily at your service." So, throwing his purse among them he got out of their hands with loud huzzas and exclamations. The Earl of Peterborough, who had much sense. much wit, and much whim, leaped out of his chariot one day on seeing a dan cing master, with pearl colored silk stockings, lightly stepping ' over the broad stones, and picking his way in extremely dirty weather, and ran after him with his sword drawn, In order to drive him into the mud, into which he, of course, followed himself. All singularities mav be traced home to a certain degree of vanity, of w hie h prevailing weakness the old leather breeches of Frederick the Great, the coarse coat and brass buttons of Charles XII, the small cocked hat and gray ca pote of Xapoleon, the blanket and f.ib of Diogenes, and even the pious beaver and modest drab of the (Quaker, may te included as samples. A Fatal t'lre Hunt. Recently, a party of four hunters left South Canadian Station, for the pur poe of hunting deer aud turkey. A Creek negro by the name of Andy Gill- pin tccouifardcd t!:c f.'.iiy. O'jirre of any consequence was killed during the day, so ihe hunters determined to remain in the woods all night, for the purpose of engaging in what I famili arly known as "fire hunt." After leav ing the station, they struck the Cana dian River east of the railroad track, proceeding along its bank for some dis tance, until they arrived at a point where it was known that deer were plentiful. Here they separated, two striking into the woods and the other two crossing the river. Gillpin took a torch and struck out ou his own hook. The agreement was that the hunters should meet in the morning at day break on the South Canadian Bridge, and return with their spoils to the sta tion. Sandy Waite, one of the hunters, while walking in adence cluster of un dergrowth, saw ou a slight elevation of ground near the river, what he sup posed were the eyes of a deer. Tne moon had gone dow n, and the surroun ding woods were shut in som her gloom. In a "fire hunt'' the sportsman is al ways ou the alert for two shining orbs, which glow in the darkness like balls of fire. They know w hen they see them that they are "shining" the eyes of a deer. Waite placed his torch against a tree, raised his rifle and took delibe rate aim lietween the two balls of tire which glowed on him from the dis tance, a sharp report rang through the woods and a terrible cry of agony broke the night air. Waite stood transfixed to the ground, staggered with the awful suspicion that he had shot and killed one of his companions. He sprang through the woods, running with all possible speed to the spot where he saw the two shining balls of fire. Lying at the foot of a tree, face dow n, w as the lifeless remains of the Creek negro, Andy Gillpin. a stream of b!wl ami brains oozing from between the eyes. Gillpin held in his right hand a torch. which had been extinguished, and clutched in his left hand w as a rifle. Waite remained with the body of the negro until daylight, frequently firing off his rifle to attract the attention of his companions. In the morning he started for the Canadian bridge, w here be met his companion, w ho returned with him and brought in the body of the negro. Waite ava that the eves of the negro shone in the darkne.. like those ol a deer. Ultle Hertle's Frock. He was walking up Macomb street, peering on the Italians, glancing nto open windows at junk buyers, and now ami then entering an alley to inspect rickety old vehicles standing in front of barns. ' What am I looking for? he an swered the policeman; ' well, it may strike you as foolish, but I have been lookir.g around for a w hole month, and 1 may have to keep it up for another; I'm looking for a rag-buyer; I'd know bis rig if I should see ita-ain, but I haven't the least Idea where he i or where I'll find him." " Did he steal something from you?" "Xo no," was the hesitating reply. " Want him arrested for anything?" " X no." The officer was wondering w hat the cause could be, when the man said : " I feel a bit ashamed to tell you, but perhaps you won't laugh at me. But you see I have old clothes on, and I don't look as if I had plenty of cash to i i i.. i : spm r. i iu uiiiy a jwvr mwi ni uiwi, renting a Cottage up by the reservoir, and though I've ouly the old woman with me, it's often that we barely have enough to eat. W hen Vio-e' plenty of w .-v- 1 " ti .lt-i'-s " a - J whtT. -ve7e in health the world goen dead against us. It is a sort of a life-and-death struggle with us, and some times we sit in the darkness and wish we were dead and buried 'longside of our little Bertie, up In the poor folk's share of Elm wood. That little grave up there is all that keeps us here wo cling to life that we may keep dowers growing green there. I've -stood on the streets many a time, and felt like going todeathat a jump, but that grave rose up to warn me back. On my way home at night, I've feared, time after time, to find the house deserted or a corpse on the door ; but that little grave has restrained my wife as well as me." 'How old was she?" asked the otfl- cer, his own heart aching a little. Th three years old," replied the man ; " and she was the only child ever coming to bless us. We had luck enough before she died. I had work day in and day oit. My wife was sing ing the whole day long, and when I started for home at night the know ¬ ledge that Bertie would be watching for me through the bar of the gate picked my feet up faster than anything has ever since." Well?" queried the otlltvr, as the man paused. " Well, she toik sick and died. I lQnt .want to tell y im.ro tSan alia. - or I'll be 'breaking right down heie In the street, and the people will wonder if I've been drinking. It was three years ago she died, and her voice rings in my ears to this hour, the same as if I bad left her at home. It's the same with the wife, sir a dozen times a day she runs to the door, thinking that s!'e hears Bertie's voice; and I never go in that she doesn't look at me w ith re proach for not having our dead darling on mv arm. "I've lost two children," sighed the officer, as he turned away his head. 'Then you know how the w ife tra- ures up the little dresses and stockings and hats and such things. We put all those things away after the fuueral, and though it almost broke our hearts to set the bundle down and look it over, we somehow had to do it every Sunday, and there was'nt a thing that hadn't been tear-wet before the. first year was gone, the-ie rencs were our riches. We wouldn't exchange them for the wealth of anv man vou can name. One day, about a month age, a rag buyer came along. Y'ou may think it funny, but even the iorest of the poor sometimes have rags to ell. My wife made up a little bundle that day enongh to get a tin cup, or something of that kind and in -oine way or other T''c"r"'r j""1'' "OrOei' i-,;;; -Oil day frock got mixed up with the rag and papers, and was sold and carried off. My wife has done nothing but weep and lament since that day, ami I've looked here ami therein hopes to find the ragman and get the precious relic back. It may seem a little thing to you, sir, but to us we reincmlier the first time she wore it how proud she was how we took her out walking how much she looked like a rich man's child. That dre-s had more tear- stains than all the other relics, ami, though I haven't $-0 worth of furniture in the house, I'd give every stick of it and go into the street to find Bertie's Sunday frock. I don't expect to get it now. It has probably lieen shipped to the paper mill ere this, and we have lo-t it forever." ' I'm sorry,'" said the policeman. "And when I go home tie-night," whispered the man, " my wife will be standing at the gate, w arching and hoping; and as far as she can see .-he'll k'low by my face that the search has not availed. I had rather lo-e a linger than meet her white and reproachful look. I wish we were both dead." And with a weary step and hopeless heart he dragire 1 along, having such a mission as neither hoje nor despair nor love brings to one iu ten thou-and. Too UI a Itir.l. A couple of chaps, u hose years will be few in the land if they do not re form, entered a Gratiot avenue saloon five days ago and one of them ex plained to the proprietor: "This fellow and nie have got a ler. I bet him ID that Grant will be the next Pre-iden', and he takes me. Here's the money. We want you to keep it until the l-t is decided i l.s.sti." "I will do zo," was the calm reply, as the money was rake. in. The strangers departed, each vigor ously asserting that he wasn't afraid to trust the salooiiist, ami they were not seen together until two days after wards. They then appeared to rein n : "We have been talking the thing over, and have concluded to withdraw the bet. It has been some trouble t you, and if you'll hand over $9 we'll call it square." "lam no mon as dot," replied the saloouist, as he opened the till; "I makes no charge here is der cash." He threw them out the two tens they had left, a sly tw inkle in his eye, and as they slid out he called after, them : " Schentlemens, ven you makes any moar pets cal ir: ,u U." But they won't. The two bills were base counterfeits, and they didn't get mixed up with his honest cash. atnrai HiiUory. A lecturer on natural history was called npon the other day to pay for a live rabbit which he u.i l in a basket in a railw ay car, and which the conductor -aid would be charged the same as a dog. The lecturer vainly explained that he was going to use the rabbit in illustration of a lecture he w as going to give in another town. ami. indignantly taking a small live tortoise from his pocket, said, "You'll be telling me next that this is a dog, and that I must pay for it also." The conductor went for sujerior orders, ami on his return delivered this lecture oa natural his tory : "Cats is dogs, rabbits Is doga.but a tortns is a hinsect." The professor had to pay dog fare for the rabbit.
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