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SOCHU.
FHAB3IACEUTICAL.
i?ECiFIC REMEDY FOR ALL
DISEASES '
or iu
1MW
s
ER I KIDNEYS.
Iwrsf"
:-,-i,:v. !..-! of Memory. Imliposi-
: : htr:;. n rr Iii-;nes-N crhortnes of
I: I w!:i Tiiontit of Disease,
: Vi-;on. Y:izi in the Kittc. Chest,
z :. Ruu f : l;:oi-i to liie Head, PaJt
::: :..'f. ainl L'ry rkin.
ynr.itiji-i are ttliowel to po on,
- .7-;,:; hrii' inic Fits Hn.t Con
j io.:(.m V ...!. the constitution
l- jiSVct.-I it rt-.aires the aid of an
-rrn ti;.-4iciii to strengthen anil
'-c sjsttai which
ti at
KslmbuId'sBuctiu"
M
EOES IX EVERY CASE.
ISOLD'S BUCHU
IS UNEQUAIXD
-.Pi'
-v-r.r known. It Is prescribed by
(..uiMit piiyeiciaiu ail over the
fj-frxat'-rrlicEa,
Nervousness,
Dyspepsia,
Indigestion,
Constipation,
Aches and Pains,
Debility,
L"?y D:.eascs.
Liver Complaint,
Nervous Debility,
Epilepsy,
liia.l Troubles,
l'aralysis,
General Ill-Health.
Pi Diseases,
sciatio.
Deafness,
iJecliiie,
Lumbago,
Catarrh,
Nervous Complaints,
Female Complaints, &c.
I fit
Pain tn the Shoulder, Coueh.
-'-s, ..ur Stmiiarh. Eruptions, Bad
" i? - M-mtii. I'alpitation of the
"ra;:i In tii-- K-ioii if the KMneys,
k '.kii. otii.-r painful symptoms,
-e t-i'iln-'-, of IysiK:iibia.
Helmbold's Buchu
hrignrates the Stomach,
"'"insist p. thp tnrpM Liver, Bowels,
. " ln-uithy action, in cleansing
is ,f ' t :ill inipuriiH-A. ami imparting
i ttr 1 vi-"r t the whole srstc-m.
- 'iii in ie quite tuiut-H-iifc iu
the nwxt htaiiatuig of its valuable
ISa.ilit.3.
?&CE 1 PER BOTTLE
Or Six Bottles for S5,
,Td to any address free from observa-
iv"'"'8" may consult by letter, receiv-;t"-
.i'"1' "'" '"'"n as l.y calling, by
--tiic luiiuwiiig quely)ns:
?.U J'?nr name nnd post-office address,
stale, and your nearest express
i&rf'n.l sex?
, "!iii.,iii
UTfa '"--Instlct
' R,;'''it now and in health!
: Y. " - ''ve you been sick t
' 1W u'!,!,,x i'm.color of hair anfl eyest
' tr iJou " IO"I"iiir or erect gait?
'"",ul reservation all yon
'Wn.i,'., V'ur case. Knclose one dollar
-n,..'u""a tf. Yonr letter will then
;urlr sJ"'"""n.aiil we will give you
" 'Jr '" and our candid
'' :4tJ i i.i ''ieians attend to eorres-'-aMu,
'"'-tieis should lie addressed
y' iuU:rt treet ruUjk
H. T. HELM BOLD,
rircggist and Chemist,
Philadelphia, Pa.
SOLD ETEKIWUE1
There was house of clsr.
WTierein ths inmste sat all day.
Merry an J poor;
For Hops sat with her, heart to heart,
Fond and kin J,
Vowing be ivar would depart
TU1 all at oace h changed his mind--Sweetheart,
good by !" He skipped away
And shut the door.
But Lore came past, andlookinj la.
With smile that pierced like suubeam thin
Through wall, roDf. floor,
Stood in the mioUt of that poor room.
Grand and fair,
Making a glory out of gloom
Till at the window mocked grim Cara;
Love sighed : "All lose, and notUing win ?"
He shut the door.
Then o'er the close-barred house of clay
Kind clematis aud woodbine gay
Crept more and more;
And bets hummed merrily outside,
Loud and strong.
The inner sil.ntnesa to hide.
The patient silence all day lon;
Till etening touched with finder gray
The bolted door.
Moot like the ncit stops passing by
Will be the Angel's, whose calm eye
Marks rich, marks poor;
Who, fearing not, at any gate
Stands aud rails;
At which the inmate opens straight
Whom, tr j the crumtl ng clay house falls.
He takes in kind arm silently,
And shuts the dcor.
Turning The Tables-
Tom Hills, sometime huntsman of the ; rep'u?d that it was a matter upon his con
Old Surrey Hounds, were once sent to buy j science.
a fox in Leadenhall Market for service the ! "oll ' ace il u matter of conscience,
next day. The commission was not at all j 1uacan." sai J the good-natured minister,
to Tom:s liking ; but obeying orders, he j 1he3,r wUatu
r.xle to town. mrf hi fov. n.l nntlin.. l.in.
O'- j I 0 ,
securelv stranned- lesrs unwariL in mm.
' i J 1 :
, . . , . . . i , - 1
riiMia TwLtil in Ilia ntrorfStnt Inrnnl litc
horses head homeward. Somewhere about !
miilniMit lp ri-iMi'i 1 Strpiitli'ini Puiiinmn i
. - ' '
to do euaaemy stopped vita the once .
familiar challenge
lite!"
"My money !"
' Your money or your
exclaimed Hills. "I
haven't p t any ; I am only a servant ; and
vou wouldu t take mr life, surelv f i
The highwayman told him to look sharp,
emphasizing the injunction by jiointiug a
pistol at the huntsman's head.
--v.cn, m man, .u uic muex,
ou l uu uui. 1 - am .u, me, u, a ,c
no money, I suppose you must have
money's worth. You'll find something
quite as good in my pocket here ; so pray
help yourself
i he robber s disengaged hand dived into
. , . , I a xt . . i
Tom s pocket lnstantcr. and JIaster IJej r"
-cd'e tth closed as quickly upon it, cans-
ing the fell- w to yell in dismay, and drop
pistol and reins ; while Tom galloped off at
his U-st pace, having his unwelcome ac -
quaintance to bandage his hand and digest
his disapiwintment at le isure.
lu'iaur.j uis inuiaa cxjHTienccs, voionei
.ueauowa i u itr lens ui ins iH'in oesi-i Ly f
huiulreeis f'l pilgrims arm travelers, crying
out azainst the- Ininias, or tlnir-reili rs, who
not onlv gave their custodiers short weight.
but adultiTutei! the flour fo abominably '
with sand that cak'-s made of it were utterly i
uneatjwe. 1 lie coione-i 11. terminea to pun-
ish the cheats: and this is how he did it.
"I told," says he, "some riiable men of
mv escort to go quietly into the bazars, and '
each bur flour at a separate being j
careful to n-e whose shop it was. Hie
Jour was brought to me. I tested every
sample, and found it full of sand as 1
nassed it under mv teeth. I then de-sired
.... - 1: . . , 1 , !
all t:ie persons name-eiianM iu ;,;
to me, with their baskets 01 Hour, tiieir , .
weights and sc-ales. M-niy aiterwara nicy i
arrived, evidently s-jsptcting nothing, and ,
were placed in a row on tiic grass before Fair,y pai(, h(T own ni wasti,e Pari
my tent. 'Now,' said I, gravely, eaeh of j Emn dmil wn0i answPnrig a wet-tooted '
you is to weigh out a seer two poumtsj 01 ,
your flour ;' which was done. j
" 'Is it for the pilgrims;' asked one. !
"'o, said I, quietly, though I had much ;
difficulty to keep my countenance. 1 ou 1
must eat it yourselves. 1
"They saw that I was in earnest, and j
offered to pay any fine I imposed. ,
"Xot so, I returned ; you nave niaac 1
many eat your Hour; wliy snouia jou
object to eat it yourselves V
'They were'horrihly frightened; and
amid the screams of laughter and jeers of ,
the by-tanders some of them actually began
to eat, sputtering out tue iiau-nioisicncu
flour, w hich could be heard crunching be
tween their teeth. At last some of them
fiim" themselves on their faces, abjectly be
seeching pardon." And so, with a severe Humming Wri.
aehnonition, they were let off. Xo more There are about ten thousand diffcr
was heard of the lad flour. ! cnc kjnds kn0wn, and these are classed
It is a pity rascals at home can not ! j ouc hundred and thirty famiiies, one
be served in the same way, pure iooa
would he the rule, if the concocUrs and
venders of vile make believers were liable
to compulsory consumption of their own
wares. , ,. .
Sir John McXeill, a shrewd Scotch diplo
matist, trained the repute of being the only
European who ever got the belter of a derv
ish During the New Year's festival the
ish. Dunns the Xew lears ie-su ,
Pcreiim religious mendicants ply their voca-1
tionmost vigorously, not merely asking ior i
i ., .i,.mnilinT such sums as they :
deem proper, according to the rank of the j
A dervish tried to extract an -!
giver.
"sant tribute from Sir John, and the
ambassador proving obstinate, proceeeled to !
;t ,,non him :" that is to say, he csiao-
lished himself in Sir John's garden, just be
r,. i5 Kiiidr windows, and relieved his
feelincs 1)V
making a .ime
. 1.:.1,.na ItllUHlUItin
dr and nishU The diplomatist was
in- i
cUned to make short work of the nuisance,
but was w
arncd that violent measures
would he dangerous.
...... f him if vou can. said
his
Persian advisers; "but do not touch him.
Sir John sent for a bricklayer, and gave
the order: "Build a wall all round that
howling beggar in my garden, and then
The SeWwi looked on composedly while
the wall slowly rose round him, and made
than before: but when the roof-
j a bo awoke to
in" process comments, .
, LwledMthatit was really intended
to entomb him alive, he clambered over the
to entomb bin. a ,
the
naiu
THE
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY,
shire living was held by a company-loving
parson much in request at marriage merry
makings, whose clerk was equally welcome
at christening tea-flshts. These two wor
thies contrived to fall out : so it came to
pass that when the clerk was due at a tea
party, he found himself obliged to foreiro
the anticipated muffin feast by reason of the
parson requiring his attendance. He bore
the disappointment with tolerably Rood
grace, hoping for an opportunity for re
taliation. It was not long coming. On
Sunday-morning advised that the clergy
man was going to dine with a newly wed-
dixl pair, instead of giving out only part of
the hundred and nineteenth psalm, the
wicked fellow said, "Let us sing to the
praise and glory of God the humlrcd-and-
nintteenth psalm all on't" Ikfjre his
victim was well aware of the treat in store
the musicians were fairly on their way, re
solved to go through their task, come what
might It was weary work, hut they
gravely persevered. Sometimes only one
instrument accompanying a single voice
was to be heard; but singers and players
were determined to do their duty, and held
on somehow to the end ; and the parson
had to dine at home, inwardly confessing
the tables had fairly been turned upon him.
The liev. Dr. Maclead, father of Dr.
Norman Macleod. tassinr throucli Hie
j -J o -
j crowd gathered before the doors of a new
i church he was about to open, was stopped
I by an elderly man with : "Doctor, if you
I please, l wish to speak to you. Asked if
! he could not wait until after worship, he
" l"' uull"r' "'"lean, "liie mat
ter is this. Ye see the clock yonder on the
, ,
new church.
Now there is reallv no clock
lht'K' n,y the face of 0DC ? thcre U no
"uiu wi-ic, ouij onec in iwcive Hours; anu i
in TNV llinil f llt IB tmmr rfn- vwiniv nn.l
- 7; - I
4""'- aaiAirfc iiiu tvuaiiimx; luai mere i
... . ..
tie llT' n I
the Lord.
I The doctor promised to consider the mat
ter, "uui, saia ue, '1 m glad to see you
looking so well, man. "You're not young.
I rcuiemlier you for many years; but you
have a tine head of hair still."
'"Eh, doctor !"' exclaimed the unsuspect
.ng Duncar "now ve're joking.
It's long
j my
ir. 31 looked shocked, and an-
igwered, in a tone of reproach: "Oh Dun-1
can , puucan ; you poins Int0 lhe Uouso
I of the Uwd with "lie on your head ?" He
' , ,
, howl no more of the he on the face of the
frjUrcn
j r Al-meritc-d repartee w dealt by a
n mi(lshipmnn to the dtcr of a K.
c n ft ba Kivcn ,,v the Mtvf ,0 ,he
: naV!l offlcrn nQ the padlJc
jTbe nii(ldv was MJ cnouch to tUc
I yom ,a(U. t(J him f(; ,)t,r partlMT
dear
no, .aiu tUC supercilious
Dall
Ma never allows me to dance,
with miekhipmen." Somclnxly let her know :
the middy was a Lord, and she repented,
ana reminded Inm that he was engaged to I
her for the next dance. ;
The youngster however, was not so easily
mollitu d. and rcmcmbrnn? the ladv had
:native blixxl in her reins, smilingly replied: i over in olio days, 5 hours, 4S minutes,
i ' )h dear, no. Ma never allows me to'.W seconds? Much more surprising.
dance with smaws." :
Said one piay-going young fellow to an-
other:
! '"I was at the Gaiety last night for the
sixteenth time, and took a look round the
pit to see if you were the-re."
But nowavs disconcerteel bv the insinua-
thc su, ,icct of bis ..dia!r retorted;
theGaietv.
Vcu can't seethe pit!
' j
vis;tor-g request for the loan of a pair of
siipp( rs, by Riving, "Certainly, my dear,
if yon think mine will fit you,' received
, lie cjCTer rejoinoer : "I dare say they will,
if TOU tcu vour nlIU,i to put a cork
Jp insidu them."
..you have given me Scotch whisky; 1
agj f0T Irish," complained a hurried im-
lj;bor
"ver mind,n said the publican; "fancy
it's Irislu"
The man drank up the liquor, and made
f,,r tue door.
"Stop!" cried Boniface;
"you haven't
pam me.
"Xevcr mind; fancy I have,
customer, and away he went.
said his
of the largest of which is the humming
bird, which has about four hundred
different species. They live mostly in
very warm countries, and are so beau
tiful that Audubon, the great natural
ist .lle.1 them the "irlitteriiig frag
ment of a rainbow." They have
orcen and gold body, and a red throat
. . , it collar. Their nests are
n .nch w.ulC) an,i an ncu deep, and
they will EsUt anything that comes
., ,i,on, Tiiev will live for weeks
on i,oney. or sugar and water, and will j
become very tame. If not frightened
thej will come year after year to t'ie
same flowers
Too Trusting.
"Mary Jane Marsh, didn't I say to
last week that the next time you came
..i.-rra of drunkenness
lie i " v " -
I should send you up lor sixty ujjsr
asked his Honor of a flve-ind-iorty le -
male.
"I think you said so, Juuge, uui -i
inh f;iiLh In vou to
III I II ls X
believe you'd do any such thing," she
re"Well. you trusted too much. You
are regularly booked."
"And I'm regularly sorry Your
Honor, because I can never believe in
rou aeain. It's a sad day when a man
loses the confidence ot the public in his
word." ..
?peak well of the absent whenever
. h,v a suitable opportunity. Xevcr
I . k.a anltali eonrtoriuuuy
; i r thpm or of anvbody. unless
J , f them pr allybo.ly; un ess
spe d u legs
juu aivc. ,. ., ,n(,nt or
MSS7d ShSX- "
C05SnTUTI0ir-THE UfflOS-AtfD
Bee Kanchlnc In California.
This is a famous country for bees and
the making of hoaey, and at many a
breakfast table in dLstant Europe to-day
the waffle is spread with sweets that have
been filched from tlio hearts of a thou-
uuu -.uiornta flowers. In the n.nmi,
oi aimost every canon there is a bee
ranch or apiary, whose owner grows
inuoient and prosperous from tl. i.w...
of his industrious subjects. Here there
are no long winters with dearth of
flowers, through which the patient
workers must be nursed and fed In
order that they may live until theopen
ing of the next field season. These
bee-rauches are models of neatness and
domestic comfort, and the profession
of bee-keeping is rapidly becoming
popular among persons of little uhvsi-
cal strength or small financial capital,
or both ; such as maiden ladies, broken
down ministers, bachelor students, and
those dilettante fanners who fancy that
the royal road to bucolic happiness lies
through the flowery beds of a bee-pasture.
Their expenses are as light as
those of a hermit in his cage, and what
stores of honey are laid up arc so much
clear gain, as the bees board themselves
while they work, and work unceasingly
in preparation for the winter whTeh
never comes. When the hive is full
the cakes of comb are removed, the
liquid Is strained from the cells, and
the empty cups arc replaced to be filled
again and again. This economical pro
cess prevents a waste of labor and time
in the gathering of wax and the build
ing of new bins in the store-house.
Walking out in the morning in the
green brushwood of these chiuh you
hear a loud and continuous buzzing of
wings, and, although there may not be
a flower in sight, it Is as ceaseless and
strongasinabuekwheat patch or clover
field at home. This humming of bees
is nature's tenor voice, as tlio roaring
of water is her bass. There is a cure
for homesickness in the bees mono-
.
tiinp pvpn thntiirn trip nutrtnra tlipri-if
Pertly wiTa, as, indeed, many of
' ' ' !
these are. In such a country you can
la such a country you can-1
not feel utterly lonesome and lost.
The Most Wonderful of Calculating Iloy.
Whca Bidder was ten years old lie j
answered in two minutes the following j
question : What is the interest of X' 1,1 U !
for 4,414 days at 4.'2' per cent, per an- j
num. The answer is 2,431 10s O' l.
A fewmouthslater.wheu hewasyct tlev
en years old, he was asked, how long
would aVistera one mile cube be filling
if receiving from a river 120 gallons
per minute, wiUiout luiermiasiou r.an (
two minutes he gave the correct an-
swer, 14,300 years S-'j days 12 hours
and 4 minutes. A year later he divid
ed correctly in less than a minute
4t;S,ry2.413,."i3 by 9,070. I have tried
how long this takes uia with pen and
naner- ami. after ietrlii! an Incorrect '
j. a,uj a,ur;0r minute, !
,.i,t fi,,,h ii, sum o.,; mr.
" v. v ... -
rect result, (51,G.".,.H and 5,873 over,) !
n alxut the same time. At twelve I
years of age he answered In less than a j
minute the iuetioii, if a distance of !
Hj ; inches is passed over in a seconl of j
ti,.. i.ntr n.-.nr in.-i.ej ni lm r:ipil
however, w.is his success, when 1:J
years old, in eleaiing with the question,
whatistuecuue rootoi s.'i,..ij,j..,?.
002,ljd? lie obtained tne answer n I
two and a half minutes, viz, '.lil.537
I do not believe one arithmetician in a
thousand would get out this answer
correctly, at a first trial, iu less than a
quarter of an hour. But 1 cinfess I
have not tried the experiment, feeling,
indeed, perfectly satisfied that I should
not get the answer correctly ia half a
dozen trials. Xo date is given to the
following case : "The question was put
by Sir William Herschel, at Slough,
near Windsor, to Master Bidder, and an
swered in one minute : Light travels
from the sun to the earth in eight min
utes, and the sun boinu 9S.O00.0JO of
miles ou", ol course, this is quite wrong,
but sixty years ago it was near enough
tothe accepted value, if lightwould take
six years and four months traveling at
the samo rate from the nearest fixed
star, how far is that from the earth,
reckoning 30."i days and six hours to
each year, and 2S days to each month?"
The correct answer was quickly given
to this pleasing question, viz., 40,033,
810,000,000 miles. On one occasion we
learn the proposer of a question was not
satisfied with Bidder's answer. The
boy said the answer was correct, and
requested the proposer to work his
sum over agaiu. During theoperation,
Bidder said he felt certain he was right,
for he had worked the question In
another way, and before the proposer
found that he was wrong and Bidder
right the boy told the company that he
bad calculated the question by a third
method. M-
The Tannine Wolves.
It is said, a traveler In Germany
writes, that whenever several of the
larger wolves associate together for
niisehief. in the German forests ami
,htir neUhherhoodthere is always a
numerous tram ol smaller ones to fol-
j low jn the rear, and act 83 auxiliaries
iii the work of destruction. Two i.irze
wolves are sufficient to destroy the
most powerful horse, and seldom more
than two ever begin the assault, al
though there may be a score in the
gang. It is no less curious than amus
ing to witness this ingenious mode of
. , If there is n0 gnow or but lit
tic on the ground, two wolves approach
in tUe mfjst I)ayf a(l carei
ssmg man
ner, lying, rolling and fri-King about.
until the too credulous and unsuspici
ous victim is completely put oil his
guard by curiosity and familiarity.
During this time, the gang, squatted on
their hind-quarters, look on at a dis
tance. After some time spent in this
way, the two assailants separate, when
one approaches the horse's head, and
the other his tail, with shyness and
cunning peculiar to themselves. At
this stage of the attack their frolicsome
approaches become very interesting it
i approacues uccumc i", uu.i..-i..
i. rtKM earnest; the former Is
TIE LTfTOBOEMEJT OF THE LAWS.
PENNA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21,
mere decoy, the latter is the real assail
ant, ind keeps his eye steadily fixed on
the liamstring or dank of the horse,
The critical momementUthen watched,
and the attack is simultaneous; both
wolves spring at their victim the same
moment one to the throat and the
otliCr lo t,ie Hank and if successful,
wl'ieh they generally are, the hind one
never lets go his hold till the horse is
completely disabled. Instead of spring
ing forward or kicking to disengage
himself, the horse turns round and
round without attempting a defense.
The wolf before then springs behind to
assist the other. The sinews are cut,
and in half the time 1 have been des
cribing it the horse is on his side; his
struggles are fruitless the Tietory is
won. At this signal the lookers-on
close in a gallop; but the small fry of
followers keep at a respectful distance
until their superiors are gorged, aud
then they take their turn unmolested.
Witches at tlio Lewes.
Xow, my sou Koileriek my young
est son, who Is twenty-one next month
was last year at the herrin fishery
at Fruzerberg. One night he went
ashore, aud met a strange woman and
man walking. They did stop, and did
ask who he was, and where he did
come f.-om. "From Loch Invcr,"says
he. "Aud so do we," says they (which
was siugular, as he did never set eyes
on them before) "Come with us, and
we will give you a drink " of beer or
of rum, or of whisky, or of gin, I do
not rightly mind which it was what
eller. You must know sir, that each
boat, at the herrin' fishery time, takes
a woman on board to cook meat and
wash for them; there wiil be many
women go to sea in this marner.
Well, they ask my sou at the tavern,
"D'nl you have any good luck with the
herrin' to day" "Xo, very bad."
"Did you yesterday?" "Xo worse
again." "Ah ! but," says she, "you will
have to-morrow." Well sure enough
be ,M 111 hi1 ry
ininr rrnr.s r n-rr n' .im ili.l rot ftT.
. ... . ' r .
j ior nis s nare mat one uay. it was a
j wonderful thing. But he did tell me
I that that gold did do him no good; he
I had no Idea how it did get spent what-
etl'er. That day be did go looking
abo.it after the man and woman all
over, but he did never see them again ;
I did not here of bis ever again seeing
them. "Roderick ! I do hope rou will
never again have anvthinir to do with
'these vi itches." "Xo, father, I will
never again, so long as I do live." Ho
Is away to Frazerbsrg this year again.
a.uKi nsr or another witch In the
Lewes, 1'3 rear agone. She llved'at
Stornoway, and diel sell winds to sail
ors. One of our Loch Inver boats did
not get away that autumn for weeks.
The w ind was almost dead against
them. Well, ihey did go to her, and
..-. !.,- l.. I I
si,A ffve tmm hhi.-fc sfrlnn- tied with
.i , ...! i 4-n
inlet- iviiue.-, uiii. sain, ii utciiiHj;
aw a-10 ,0rrow. Xow, if the wind is
ot streng enough, loose one knot; if
ev0I1 then it is not enough, loose the
c.L-ond : but on vour life ! on vour life!
litina loose the third!" Well, they
got oil" sure enough next morning with
a fair breeze: and then the skipper
loo.-ed one knot. Ou the boat sprang,
and the wiini rose. Soon lie loosed the
second, and thev tore over the wave.
i,-ian,i were very soon over the Minch
!iear Loch Inver
They got to the cn-
t ranee of the harbor near the store house
ye ken it? on the right and the
.-kipper says, "We're a" richt now; if
the deil himself withstands ine, I will
loose the third !' lie did loose it, and
though so near home, the boat was only
got a-hore iu little bits! She was al
though broken up! The men were all
saved.
Jluneil for Five Hours,
He was a Sweele who had Anglicised
his Swedish name into S. I. Lewis,
lie had worked for some yean for the
Central branch, Atchison, Kansas, but
latterly had been well-digging. The
well had caved in from the rains and
was bring walled up again. He had
gone down to remove the old curbing
and the fatal mass of saud had fallen
In anl crushed him. There was no
doubt that he was dead, and , poor fel
low, he had a wife aud two little chil
dren. There was soaie discussion as to
whether it were better to send word to
his wife that he was dead or to leave
her to hope for a while. So the people
talked, and occasionally some one
would look down the well and shudder
to think of the livid corpse crushed
under the heaped up saud. All this
time the man in the well was alive.
He could hear every stroke of the ham
mer ol the men who were making the
curb, but he thought it was thecarpen
tcrs across the street. He could eveu
feel the earth vibrate a little. A board
had fallen over against his back and
crowded him against the side of the
well. There was water about him; he
could hear ic drip, aud mixeJ up with
the sand were rocks and pieces of boards.
He was as cold as death, and the mass
above him reached he kuew not how
far. He thought, however, he would
work his way up the side, and so he
did, inch by inch, wearing his finger
nails almost to the quick. Life is dear
to a man with wife and children, aud
so poor Lewis worked and pressed the
saud back and kept getting on and up.
Then there was another fall of sand,
and he was almost in uespair. He
mounted in this way for six or eight
feet. In the meantime the people had
got roused and began to hope that it
was a live and not a dead trail in the
well. Fifty men relieved each other in
digging, and a crowd of sympathizers
stood about. Ai last they could hear
the buried man's voice. Then he was
almost uncovered, but the board which
he had at his backall the way up reach
ed over his head. He called for a saw
aud cut it off, and at 2 o'clock in the at
tcrnoon. over five hours from the time
the sand fell, ho w as taken out alive,
without a broken bone, or bruise, or
scratch, only stiffened with cold and
worn out with diggins like a ino.e for
hi3 life.
EqnaUons
We hear much nowadays about the
extraordinary speed shown by this or
that horse at some race meeting. These
time tests are regarded as much a part
of the record as the winning of the race
itself. But while the general public
may be satisfied with announced results
some of us would like to know more
about the contest than is told in the
brief statement that "Karus trotted
mile here to-day iu 2 13," or whatever
t may be. It has become so that a frac
tion of a second makes a great differ
ence in the record as well as well as in
the value of a horse; and yet it seldom
happens that two men in the timbers'
stand agree as to the exact time made,
While it is true that in the well regu
lated mind of man, the will posesses
supreme direction over the whole cur
rent of thought, policy and action, can
it be said with positivene.s that he who
occupies the position of a timing judge
on a race course has a well-regulated
mind? Sensation aud perception are
the two things most intimately con
nected with the proper timing of fast
horses. The horse speeds around the
course, he approaches "the wire," and
amid great excitement, passe i under it
The timer, who may or may not be im
bued with this same excitement, or
who may have an active or an inactive
brain, sees the horse and becomes con
scious of the fact, but he is not done
yet. There has to go back from the
brain, o to speak, an electric spark
along the nerves, which produces a
contraction of the muscles of the arm,
and a motion of the thumb and finger
follows. These press the spring, aud
the hands of the watch are stopped.
U'lt the activity with which all this is
accomplished differs iu men materially.
At best, the nerves transmit their share
u the work at the rate of only seventy
feet asecoud, which is less than double
the rate of speed at which the horso is
moving in the same period of time.
There exists a phenomenon called"per-
sonai equation," aud so long as quick- i
wittcd persons and slow-witted persons
are to decide the speed at which race
horses travel, just so long will the time
test be an irresponsible one. Iu making
i he common observation of the exact
moment when a star travels across the
due vertical wire intersecting the fit-Id j
of view of a telescope some astronomers
always anticipate the event, aud others
allow it to pass before they succeed In
noting it. This is by no means the ef
fect of inexperience or maladroitness,
but is a persistent characteristic of each
individual, however practiced iu the
i-jf1r-ri!n? observations he nar In.
The iiiT.-.n. Iwf ween the time ora'
man's noticing the event and tiiat of '
its actual occurrence is called his per
sonal equation, and is carefully a.-ee r-
tamed for every assistant Iu every lab- 1
oratory, ine adaption ot a similar
plan on our race courses can alone give ;
u f 1 1 A i(trrjitr lima tunila Ktf ft -t '.
IS 3 LIIVJ I II L, Ltllil UlitVlli L' V
liorsej. j
Too Tollte for ;noanlers.
The elitil beaches of this
sandy coast
have been considerably stirred over an
event that will be heard around the
world. You know what Xarragausct
is at least you know what It has been,
for the place, I believe is yours by dis
covery. I would not like to say how
many years ago you and Deietor Gama- ,
licl Bailey and his lovely family found
by mere accident, that op'posite New
port was a beach quite as lavorable to
bathing, and adjoining it was one hotel
and one boarding house. The one was
Whalley's, lineal descendant of Whal
ley; the other a crude little place, half
tavern and half boarding house, filled
with people from Fhiladelphia. In
those days one left the railroad at
Kingston, and wended his weary way
to the 1'ier by an old fashioned coach.
At the Tier there was one horse,
known as Old Smooth Tooth, that could
be hired at a dollar a day, with a
vehicle thrown in, that impressed one
with the belief that, it had been Xoah's
family carriage, aud had yet clinging
to its wheels, some of the mud left
from the flood. Primitive days and
primitive people. I remember the
Taylor people took on airs and pre
tended to look down ou the Whalley's.
They were poor snobs, whose pocket
books would not permit life at New
port, so they aped Newport at Taylor'
A good story was told of General
Schenck ancnt this tavern. He was
out bathing one day, when he encoun
tered a couple of females splashing in
the breakers, and very courteously of
fered his services to them. After a
lively time the General escorted his
damsels to the bathing houses, and
coming out himself was met by a grin
ning friend. "I say, Schenck, we have
enjoyed a laugh at your expense," he
cried. "How so?" responded the grim
M. C. "Why dout you know you have
been bathing two ol Taylor's servant
o-irls?" "Well, responded S., "I
thought they were too polite for board
ers." Tame Hornets.
There is no accounting for tastes
Mrs. Lincoln, of Boston keeps two big
pot lions, and now we hear of a West
ern farmer w ho has domesticated a lot
of creatures that belong quite as appro-
, . r .1...-.- l.. I..t.i I,,.
priateiy vut ui uwi, .. j
says: "In the middle ot my parior i
have a curious republic of industrious
hornets; their nest hangs to the ceil
ing by the same twig on which it was
so admirably built and contrived in the
woods. Its removal did not displease
them, for they find in my house plen
ty of food, and I have left a little hole
in one of the panes of glass that an
swers all purposes. By this kind usage
they have become quite harmless. They
live on the flics, which are very trouble
some to us through the summer. They
are constantly uusy eaieiiius m,
even on the cyerds of my chliureu. i.y
their assistance I am but little troubled
with flics. All my family are so ac
customed to their strong buzzing that
no one takes any notice of them, and
though they are fierce and Tindictive,
yet kindness has made them useful and
harmless.
Fast II or mod Pergonal
1S79
The Century riant.
The American aloe, or century plant
a rarely fi ne rpeciraen of which is now
growing in Brooklyn, and about to
ll it f tuilil.,,,, raafiltaj tli.t iMi.f.uitinn
which 'results t!f.rs. . ,e,ner.,tP
climates. Its growth here is so slow
that its popular name is derived from
the belief that a full term of 100 years
is required before the blossoms appear
But in its native soil, in tropical and
semi-tropical climes, extending to the
thirty-second parallel on either side of
the equator, it corae3 to perfection in
much less time; often in twenty or
thirty years. The samo plant never
blooms more than once. When the
time comes the nVwer-stalk shoots up
with great rapidity from the centre of
the crown, around which the leaves
radiate, growing often fifteen or eigh
teen inches a day, until a height of
thirty and sometimes, in an exception
ally vigorous plant, of forty feet Is
reached. The arms of this stalk, like
those of a branching candlestick, bear
the cup-shaped flowers, which have no
remarkable beauty. The aloe belongs
to the agave family of the order of
Amaryllidaceic. The leaves are thick
at the base and terminate In a sharp
point, it is one of the most useful
plants found in Mexico and Central
America. From the fibres of the leaves
a thread is obtained which can be wo
ven into cloth aud twisted into ropes,
and these leaves make a substantial
thatch roof. A part of the stalk is used
for foot, and the hard pitby centre at
the base forms a good whetstone, as
silica enters largely iuto its composition.
while the fermented sap of the aloe, or
maguey, as it is called, is an intoxicat
ing beverage known as pulque, which
is largely consumed by the natives.
Large specimens of the century plant
are valued highly hy florists here, and
as much as several hundred dollars is
not uncommonly paid for a fine one.
A Stranger's None.
Some ol tliOij chaps who wear their
elbows down thin leaning on saloon
counters have an artificial fly with a
line thread attached to the back, and
sometimes these toys can be handled to :
the amusement of asmail crowd. When
an unknown man fell asleep in a saloon !
the young man w ith an artificial fly was j
there. He took position behind his
vii-tim. who was lvm-v tiactc on m
chair, and presently the fly alighted on '
the stranger's no?e, walked up the
bridge and down, and settled for a mo- j
menton the rvteud. The sleeper ncv-
er moved i jr. The fly w ent over
V. re ,.oIntp ti. wmur of
encrrrrry' -.oneu over to the right, I
aud came el'u
to the grand stand on
I :
tue ceau run, dui me sieeper siepi on. i
It iieiran to appear that he was used to I .
hes am, s0 t,K. ;amc changed. By
,til.kill, a trough one of these',
sticking a pin through one of these j
tops yoii4.an make quite a bee of it, the
... .
pin being the stinger. !
I nneii the "tee - nrcciwe'a on i:ie
granger's nosC everybody expected to
see a sudden start, but it e'.id not e-ome.
Altera jab at the tip end the "1p"
crawled along up, waiting lor develop -
merits, and getting in an occasional
sting, but not even a sigh escaped the
sleeper. The young man w ith the in-
sect was getting tired, when the stran
ger lazily opened his eye, slowly rose
up from his chair, and coolly remarked :
"Xow, then, if you have got through
fooling with my nose, I'll fool with j
yours lor awhile !" I
It isu t iikcjy that pameu ar young ,
man w ill ever dang e arttUe.al flies any ,
more, lie was uouoieu up, Mraiguivu-j
ed out. choked, mopped and slammed
so thoroughly that his appetite w ill run
lueiiitkuui'iuui a. t...w
days to come. When
passed tha stranger
the
cvclone had ;
culled
jn I
drank it. and said to me wnuc-iuccu
crowd on the bench :
"Gentlemen, il any more of you see j
anything peculiar about my nose, please
call around and let ine know !"
Two Little Shoes.
Charley Bunnell was running mes
senger on the J.M. and I. II. It. and
tells this story: "Bluff old Jack Mills,
rough, but kind hearted, was the en
gineer. About a mile and a half this
side of Columbus there is a fine stretch
of road, and Jack had 'pulled her wide
open" to make up lost time, and the
old engine aud traiu were rocking
along at a rate of about thirty miles J.u
hour. A country road runs parallel
with the track here for some distance,
and finally crosses it. But a short dis
tance, and finally crosses it. But a
short distance from the crossing, ou the
day referred to, there was suddenly
discovered a man, evidently half drunk
in a two horse country wagon, and in
it was his w ife with him. The man
wa-s standing up driving like mad, but
the train was so close upon him that no
oue dreamed of his attempting to cross,
but making a sudden turn to the left,
he endeavored to cross the railroad
track. By the time the wagon was
fairly on the track, the locomotive
struck it, sma.-hed the wagon to spliu-
.ers killed the horses, and mangled to
eleath the man and woman. The train
ran some instance ociore u couiei ue
stopped, and when it was finally j
checked Bunnell went forward and j
found Engineer Jack Mills, swearing bouri Arstoekholm, Sweden, the longest
like a trooper, his engine all 'mussed,' j day has eighteen an I a half hours. At
and he was damning the drunken fool i Hamburg, Germany, and Dantzic, Prussia,
in the wa'on lor his criminal careless- j the longest day has nineteen hours and the
ness which brought on the accident, shortest five hours. At Borneo, Finland,
ii i . , ,,., i ... , ,, the longest day has twenty-one and a half.
Jack was hot. A he turned to get ou tue"3horte91ttwoamla half. At Wardhuy
his engine to reverse her and return to , jn x;orway lhcd.iy last9 from the .!,, ,)f
the fcene of the accident, his eyes j to ,ue 2:!d of juIVj without inter
caught sight of a tiny rair of baby's ruptfon; and at Spitzlie-rgen the longest day
shoes, which had been among other of u three months and a half. At New York,
the purchases of the man in the wagon ! the longest day, June ltj, has fourteen hours
and knocked out. They had fallen on j
the boiler of the locomotive, and there
they rested as gently as a dove sitting
in a cannon's mouth. A flood of recol-
lections of the little ones at home
watching and waiting for their parents
,i ,i 'i., . te
who would never come-thoi.ght,, "
may be, of the little lect at home was
too much for the true aud tender heart
of the rough and hardy engineer, and
he leaned on Charlie Bunnell's shoul-
Editor and Proprietor.
NO. 39.
der and sobbed aloud. 'Ju.-t look at
them little shoes, Charlie,' he said, be
tween his tears, 'I I didn't mind so
much running over that drunken fool
who tried to cross ahead of us when ho
- Mnt, but the little one, Charlie, the
little kid that' waitin' for 'em, that'i
too rough!"
The Rattlenake.
ft has been observed by some natur
alists that If we withhold water from
snakes when about to shed their epider
mis, they are thereby prevented from
divesting themselves entirely of the old
skin. I always kept a small bird,s
bathing cup, filled with clean water
ence a day, in the case containing my
crotalus. The first skin he cast off, iu
July, was entire and without a blem
ish. At the seconel change, however,
about the last of September, I removed
the cup one night, intending to replace
it shortly afterwards, but I forgot todo
so. The next morning I found por
tions of loose skin all over the floor of
the case, and much more hanging iu
shreds from various parts of the body
of the snake. Other parts seemed not
to be detaehed yet. I had not sup
posed that the ophidian wasquite ready
for a change. He was over two mouths
in divesting himself of his torn trousers
Was it due to the fact that water had
been withheld at the last time? Both
changes occurred in tiie night, and l
failed to observe the interesting pro
cess of divestmeut. To test the ques
tion of so-called blindness oe-ciirring
during the time when the pupil is cov
ered by a whitish film or thiu mem
brane becoming detatched, and occlud
ing the sight of the eye, I placed some
very active mice repeatedly in the case
during the period of change of epider
mis. The ophidian attacked the mice
in quick turn, without even missing
his first victim. On other occasions,
however, when his sig'it was uneb
structed, I hav seen him strike at aud
miss the mark repeatedly. After mak
ing a lew misses he would then strike
about with intensitieel fury. The snake
never without first striking his victim.
He did not eat more than two mie-e at a
I meal, and sometimes an hour lapsed be
fore eating the second one. He never
killed his prey wantonly; on the con-
j trary he permitted luie-o to keep his
company white ni3 appetite was ap
peased. Cuttlnr Class With Sci-tsora.
Many persons may not be aware that
glass can be cut under water with great
ease t0 araost any shap by siply
I uslug a pair of shear or strong scissors.
I ? u pfaiir" to iticore success two pcinU
must ru nttpnrlerf t First and moti"
uitiHjrtaui. mw gi um-i w rp quiits
level , tlie water whlle the scis)M aro
applied, and, secondly, to avoid risk,
it is better to begin the cuUius: by
t.lVi ftnr-m.n nil.,.PJ ,, fh ,.rner
anJ alonff the eJ,es a j sc reduce the
shaiM? gradually to that required, as if
!. ...,.,., ms,e to ..,.. i.,.;!
I at onoe to the fchape we KOtM cut a
j (Uoe of carJ board, it will most likely
j break where it is not waned Some
ij.iuj3 of glas3 cu milcU better than
, otIiers tie softer glasses being the bet
j for this purpose. The scissors need
, n, ttfl all .h n4 t!.,.ir action d.
not appear to depend on the state of the
c lges presented to the glass. When
the operation iroes on well the irlass
bre!lks away from the scissors in small
pieces ju a straight line with the blades,
Tb-is method of cutting glass has often
q( when a iU.dmowl bas
at hand au j
segments, and though the edges are not
! so smooth as might be elesired for some
purposes, yet it w 111 answer in a great
n.i,i,..,.i.k ir
ma" ""'" r
strictly louoweu, win always insure
Adventure With a Snake,
Kobert G. Pillow, a son of the late
ex-Con feilerate General Pillow, lives
on an Arkansas plantation, across the
river from Memphis. A few days ago,
accompanied by Aleck, one of the col
ored men on the piace, he was out hunt
ing a wild hog that had been seen in
the vicinity. Pillow had a gun and
Aleck had armed himself with a pint
bottle filled with whiskey. The hog
was found and shot, and just as Pillow
went tip to the writhing animal an Im
mense "cotton-mouth" snake, whose
bite is fatal as that of a rattlesnake, fas
tened its fangs on the calf of his leg.
Pillow is not easily frightened. Ho
took in the situation in a moment, and'
instead of exhibiting alarm he turned
to his companion and quietly remarked :
"Aleck, I think I'll try a little or that
whiskey now," whisksy basing consid
ered an infallible remedy. II poured
j every drop down
his throat without
j stopping to venture any remarks as to
its quality. Then shouldering his gun
he rapidly walked to the house, a half
mile distant, where he drank the con
tents of three ordinary glass tumblers
filled with whiskey. He was soon in
what he calls a "Niagara Falls of a per
spiration," which rapidly expelled the
poison and saved his life. For a day or
. two after he says mat lie was uio sick.
....
j est man ia all Arkansas.
Length of the Dajs.
At London, England, and Bremen, Prus
sia ih lr.nrrct iiv has sixteen and a half
anel hlty-six minutes; at .uomrc-ai uuee-n
and a half hours. But the longest day of
, 7 u that at the polS where it lasta
. jor jx months, and is succeeded by a night
I equally as long.
'. Ti i -
When a person is overheated and ex-
I i,a,ls,te J, both ttic hands and feet should
i bathej jn coi,i water, and something
warnt snouiu oe iaen at ucc um.
lemonade, ginger water, or somethiug
of that kind.
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