. mmmlm ,"g" X,Y ' V - : - . - - . . : - . " 7" ? - : "-ji" , ' ' ' l' - i B. F. SCHWEIER, THE OOHSTmrnOI THE USIOS-AHD THE EBTOEOEMEIT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXIV. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, TENNA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1SS0. NO. 17. H. T. HELMBOLD'Si COMPOUND tit tttt , I L U ID EXTRACT i , . BUCHU FHABMACEUTICAL. The marsh-wren build amouj the reed t j Tbe night wiud through the widows mo n s ' The school house gone, tha children grown j : The farmer aleep where w Id djw. r ,ro. Wh brought their grain so Ion s ago, A SPECIFIC REMEDY FOR aLL!!1'--'??'0 . And the water whew turned rouud and iouiv DISEASES or TBM t or D VUlty, Loos of Memory. Indtaposl tlon to Exertion or Business, Shortness of llreath. Troubled with TuoukIiLs of Disease, Dlnineos of Vision, fain in the Buck, Chest, aU Head, Rush of Bloixl to the uad. Pale Countenance, and Dry dkin. If these symptoms are allowed to aro on, very frequently Lpiltiptlc Fits and ton tumptiou follow. When the constitution i become effected It require the alii of an 1 Invigorating medicine to alrengthen and tone up the system which "Helmbold's Buchu DOES IN EVEKY CASE. IS TJNEQTJAIXD By anv remedy known. It Is prescribed by ! the most eminent physician all over the I world. In I Rheumatism. ; Spermatorrhoea, j Kenrelgia, Nervousness, ! Dyspepsia, Indigestion, j Constipation, Aches and Palgf, General Debility, Sidney Diseases, Liver Complaint, Nerroua Debility, Epilepsy, Head Troubles, Paralysis, General Ill-Health. Bpinal Diseases, Sciatica, Deafness, Decline, Lumbago, Catarrh, Nervous ConipAnts, Female Complaint Ac Headache. Pain In the Shoulders, Coojrb, Idsalnese. Sour Stomach, Eruption. Bad Taet in the Mouth. Palpitation of the Heart, Pain In the rm-ion of the KUneye, and a thotn nd other painful symptom a, are I be offsprings of Dyspepsia, Helmbold's Buchu Invigorates the Stomach, And stimulates the torpid ler., Bowela, and Kidney to healthy aollon. the blood all Impufltiea, and Imparting new life and Tlgor to the whole system. A alngU trial will be QU"2" conTince the most hesitating of Us Taluable remedial qualities. PRIOE $1 PER BOTTLE Or Six Bottlae tot U. BeliTercd to any address free from obserraV U Patient" may consult by letter, rteeiw Ins the same altsnUon as by calling. J aiwwerlng the following questions: OIts yonr name and post-offlee adaresa, county and State, and your nearest aiprae ufBce t . Tour age and sex T a. Occupation t 4. Harried or singlet .., a. Heicht, weigh now and In healUT a. How loag bare you been tekt t. Tourcomplexlon.colorof haUandeyesT i :it-ihrtpte. yo. as consultation ie . ""'"".,. i. v reeelve our atventlon. and we will l yTJ tbs nature of your oVsease aud our c-bom opinion eonoemlng a enre. Competent Physicians attend to corres lndenu. All letters should arS? io Dtopensatory, 121? Ubrt treet, PhU lphU, Pa. 8. I. RXIM90LD, Druggist and Obsanlat, nUaMpkl. 1 " Ky Willow brock. beneath th htll : Standi quaint and Ky lb old grutt-uUl. Spring noam on kia steep roof grow. . Whers broad their ansae the w llowa throw. . The pocd near by is dear aid dot p. ' And around its brink the alder sweep ; ' , The li:y psds spreal gT and green, , The Uiiea whita and gild between ; While grinds the null with rumbling sound, The water wheel torus round and round. . Among tiie reeds the muakrat dives. And swiff the swallow bomaaard dies ; Ti.e robin sits in cedars near. "hen Wuluw brook tuut swift and ceai Tb cuildren ? h- - pir. Where slumberous shadows softly star, . i ... When Wiiluw brook turn ewift and c'ear ; ' And warm and low the eumnier bretza : la whispering through the willow leave. ; WhUe grinds the null with rumbling sound, ; The water wheel tutu rouni aud round. ' The crows now wing their southern way ; lhe sqiiritU in the not trees p!sy ; With merry thouls the school boy ruu ; ; The mountains blu b 'neath autumn's sun ; Their grain tbey bring adown the hill. The farmers, to the oid griet mill : . j Aud faict from far o'tr hill and dale I Falls on the ear the thresher s flail ; : While c,rinds the null with rumbling sound, ; The water wheel turns round and ronnX Long year hare oome aad paasaj away ; I The mill with age is gann'. aud gray ; ' The roof gaps wide to rain aud sua ; With cobaeb thick the walls are haug. The pond is overgrown with weed : Red Wins. "Ued wins:' It was the croupier's hoarse cry, again and again reiterated, unly dirtrsifled with that of ''Red loses!'' which broke the still ness in the superbly-appointed room at Homlmrg. witii the gamiug-table in its cen tre, mund which were gathered its eager rotaries, behind whom were lhe scarcely less interested groups of lookers-on. "Come away, uiy dear," f aid a Tery love ly wobutn among the secutora, in a whis per to her husband. "I am sorry that we came. This is no place for Pearl," indicat ing with a nod of the head, as she spoke, an exquisitely lieuii.iful girl, scarcely more tlian a child, of some twelve or thirteen summers, who stood besile them. "Tome, Pea.1," the father said. But the girl stood entranced, her eyes fixed upon a man's face sealed at the far thest end of the table. It was a strikingly handsome face, even when wearing, as it now did, an expression of calm, born of desperation. Xo tinge of color was in either cheeks or lijie. ifis eyes shone with a strange and hard glitter, and were fixed niton the balls as they swung round, as though on the color uppermost hung his hope of life or death. And so it was. lie had sat down pos sessed of a fortune; he arose a beggar! Fate had steadily pursued hiui with mock ing hopelessness, until he bad placed his hist stake, only to see it mercilessly swept from him. lie half arose from the uUe. AVIiat isorc was to be done, save to go 6ut some where into the still night air antl send a bullet through his heart or brain. It was at this moment the girl, with flushed cheeks and half parted lips, darted up to his side. "Take this," she platded, 'fer ray sake," and presied a gold piece into his odd hand. lie turned. To hi excited imagination she seemed scarcely mortal in her pure, childlike lovt lines'. His tirst impulse was to return ber offering he was not yet an alms-taker but again rangotit the croupier's cry of command to place the stakes. The child stood breathless in her eager expectancy, her eyes burning with levensb interest. A sudden impulse overmastered him. Without speaking a word, he placed the gold upon the table. The next minute a snail pile of gold was at his elbow. He staked it all again. Again he won. A bright spot of scarlet replaced the pallor in his check, which spread and deepened as Dame Fortune, who had so persistently frowned upon him, now re served for him only her smile. JlorUng was breaking when he lose from the tables, no longer a descralc man, but with his fortiuie threefold returned to him. After his first winning he had turned to return to the child her offering, but she had vanished. Should he ever find her, ever repay the debt ? He knew not ; but, stand ing at last out under the clear blue sky, with a great weight lifted from hia heart and brain, Harold Clayton vowed that it sh mid be his life-search, lmt that the lesson taught hiui slMnild never be forgotten, and the gaining tables should know him never more. Six years passed, and Harold Clayton was winning name and fame in his own land, in his profession as an artist. Handing one night in a crowded assem bly, some one in paseing touched him light ly on the arm with her fan, and glancing around, he met the smiling face or his hos tess. Come," she said, "I want to present you to niv belle. If you can prevail upon her to give you a sitting, and transfer her coloring to canvas.', you will render your self immortal. " 'Is she, then, so beautiful."' he question ed. "Judge for yourself," she lightly rejoin ed, leading him to a little group doing homage to the fair girl in its centre. "Miss Keyburn Mr. Clayton," were the formal words of the introduction, as Harold bowed in acknowledgement before the wo man whom his artistic eye confessed the most beautiful that in all his wanderings he had ever met. Before the evening was ended he might have added, the first woman whom he ever loved, since she had awakened in him an Interest as new at it was strange. Through the next week her face haunted him. Then tbey met axaln, and the charm imw and deepwued. He could not define it ; he scarcely acknowledged it to himself; only away from Miss Reyburn he was rest leas and uneasy, until he again found him self within the scope of her fascinutions. Yet her nature remained an enigma to him. Although so young in years, so beautiful in form and feature, she seemed cold even to haughtiness, reticent almost to scorn. It was as though some exquisite marble statue had risen in his pathway, which might some day warm into life. She welcomed him whenever they met with a manner which, while it gave him no cause for complaint, yet chilled the hope springing within his breast. One day, on going to her home, the ser vant met him at the door with the an nouncement that the was very ill. This knowledge brought other knowlcge the fact that he could no longer conceal from himself that he loved her, and that on bis hope of winning her hung his life's happi ness. lie went back to his studio, wretched and despairing, and seated himself at his easeL He had not meant to paint her face his brain seemed unconscious of hi fin gers, toil yet, when the morning broke, it was ber features smiling upon him from the canvas, and he remembered lhe words his hostess had uttered on the night he first had met her that thus should he render himself immortal. He grew pale and wan in the days of anxious suspense, when those who watched over her couch knew not which would conquer, the angel of life or death. But there came an hour, never to be forgot'-en, when he was admitted into her presence. I She was very white, very fragile, but I more beautiful than in the coloring of per- feet health. A new expression,, too, was" I in th vLtlnt rrn mi ! to welpiinu. Iiitn "I am very glad to meet you again," she said, gently. "I hear you have Iteen anx ious about me. You were very kind. Then the words he had not meant to speak ln'Tst from his lips. "Anxious?'' he said. Cau a man, Miss Keyburn, perishing of hunger, hear of the famine without a shudder 1 I am presump tuous, you will say. It is true. What is my life, with its many settled pages In which your eyes could never look, that I should dare offer it to you? And yet, puri fied by your love, I would try to make it more worthy. Tell me answer me! If I I serve as Jacob served for Rachel, is there hope th:it 1 may win you? My darling! my darling! I love you! I cannot live my life without vou! Will not you share it?" I.ower and lower drooped the litis, until the long dark lashes swept the marble cheek, while the sweet mouth trembled: but the m omental y weakness passed as she spoke: "Forget all that you have said, Mr. Clnyton. It can never be." "You do not love met" he questioned sadly. Again that swift expression of pain flitted across the lovely face. "I shall never marry," she answered; "but," and in her voice crept an aluuist pleading tone, "I need my friend very much, Mr. Clayton. Do not desert me!" "I cannot, " he replied. "To desert you would be to desert the hope of one day forcing you to unsay those cruel words the hope which will go with me to my grave." What was the barrier between them? This was the question ever ringing in Ilur old Clayton's car. As she looked when she ' pronounced his doom, so he had fancied she might have looked when the statue j 3 ' warmed into life. Since then, she bad been colder, more dis tant than before; but he had caught the momentary expression, and transferred it to the picture on which his every leisure moment was spent. He was thus engrossed one morning, ever striving to add new beauty to his almost perfect work, when a low knock at tbe door aroused him. "Come in!" he called, then bent anew ICW to his task, without so much as raising bli head until a low, laughing voice sounded close beside him. "We were caught in the shower, Mr. Clayton; aud I persuaded Margaret to seek shelter w ith me here. I did not dream she would fiud herself forstalled." It wa Mrs. Somers who spoke the lady who had first presented lim to Miss Rey- burn whose instruction he had, unknown to her, carried out. 'Mat-caret," she added, turning to her friend, "you have I -en sitting for your portrait, and did not let me know. Why , , . ., have you kept it such a secret He had bow sprung to his feet in timeto see the rosy tide 6prcad over Margaret Rey- i. ;i . i . !. n,..J it w uovny "'- -m . . 1 1 -w e. o , r burn s knowledge, Mrs. boaiera, he ex- plained. "1 assure you l nave never oeen so fortunate as to secure a sitting. " "Well, you shall have one cow, and you must thank me for iL" she reioined. while ... -Margaret turned away to examine the n J sketches and studies lying about in profuse confusion. "Here are some sketches taken while I was studying alroad, Miss Reyburn," said Harold. "Will you amuse yourself by looking at them?" "I will return in a few moments," in terrupted Mrs. Somers. "Wait for me, my dear." A word of expostulation rose to Mar garet's lips, but too late. The door had closed behind the speaker. Silence fell between the two thus left . . . . . , it .-l.t'. are launiuiry reiurueu iuo ucai u, m behind, when t low cry arrested Harold jp, the purchase of a fifty coot rose, attention, He sprang to Miss Keyburn s and ocajonaiij. without making any pur aide. chase at all, having thus obtained the adorn Her eyes were fixed upon a little sketch menu for one evening's wear at the mer ahe held in her hand. It represented a chant's expense. Some time ago a carriage gaming table, at one end of which sat a i customer, it is said, ordered to be sent to . . , , fiH her fashionable residence, for selection, man, haggard, desperate, despairing, and b m(ch by him a child, holding out to him a single , h( u WM on the eTe of , gnDd goldplece, with a smile in her eyes, and reception, the messenger was told not to re seetuingly a prayer on her lips. j turn without the money or the goods. "You would know the history of that The lady played sick, the articles were sent said. "Let me tell you. picture, no J"" 1 ears ago 1 was in nomuunt. 1 ue gaming ,0 humbugged, the storekeeper tent a tablet attracted me, and every night found j pe-eenptory message demanding the return ma betide them, losing or winning accord- j of the articles Izninedlately, which was re ing to the fortune of the hour. One even, j luetantly eempUad with. ar - i y 1 nri .-.I-. ing the demon ill luck pursued me. I lost i j - w m 3 1 1 1 11.1 ( auu tost mini i iouuu i w, usSu. .u..- dened, desperate, I resolved to put an end to my miserable life, when someone touch ed my shoulder; child angel stood before me and slipped into my hand piece of gold. 'For my sake!' she whispered. The croupier's hoarse call warned me no time was to be lost. I staked the gold and woo, but turning to give her back her own she had tied. When I rose from the table I had recovered all and more, but 1 vowed a vow to my unknown deliverer that I would never again hazard a dollar of the fortune I considered hers. I have never found her, Margaret. The child will never know ber work, but I am not afraid to meet her, for I have kept my pledge. 'Harold!" it was almost a whisper but something in the tone made his heart give a wild, joyous leap "have I known you all tins time, and have you just found me out ? It was this, Harold, which sep arated us. I dared not give my life to a man whom I had first known as a gambler. I supposed you still played, and I thought that to see again the expression on your face I had seen that night would kill me. Tell me, is It true! Have you never touched a card since 5 "Xcver!" he answered, solemnly. "And it is to you I owe it it and life. Pearl little Pearl, can you not trust the man who has been so long faithful to the child to be 4lill faithful to the woman? My own, you will not djoui the lite that yoa have saved V But at this juncture, Mrs. Somen, open ing the door, beats a precipitate retreat. Harold's statue has warmed into life, and, pressing the lovely lips to his, he thanks G Jd that it is hi breath which has awaken ed it. Tell Fire la bis Ear. f grieved if he heard you express those opin Ju&t about midnight the other night four i ions;" or, "Jenny, 1 am sure Mr. Simpson men in a Detroit saloon sat looking at a world not think it proper that you should fifth. The fifth one was drunker than the i plav crouuet with C apt. .Mullet." There is other four. While all men were created equal, some men get drunk twice as fast as others. 'It will never do to send him home in ! this condition," said one of the four after a j silence. ! "No, it would break his wife's heait,"i added a second. I "But we can't leave him here, and if we turn him out the police will run him in," ; observed the third. i "I have been lhinking,"musedthe fourth. I "He has a telenhone iu his housed Here is ! one here, I will make it my painful duty ! to inform his waiting and anxious wife that he won't be home to night." j to be thased over new country, full of holes He weut to the telephone, got her call, i covered with wild grass, over ditches, fallen and ocean: trees, among trees, and their branches, on "Mri Blank, I desire to communicate horses that have no superiors in the world with you regarding your husband." I " speed. Then the dangers that you are "Well, go ahead.' j to encounter when yon overtake the kan- "Ho is down town here." j gar00, though not in reality extreme, are "I Know that much." J as great as thoso met in the tiger hunt as "iu descending the stairs leading from 1 usually conducted, while in the latter you the lodge room he fell and sprained his j have not the excitement and danger of the ankle," I chase. The place where I write is about "Are you sure it wasn't his neck!"' she'20u ,uilM 1nm tI)e ocean shore, on the asked. banks of a lieautiful river, shaded with en- "It is not a serious sprain, but we think I calyptus trees. These trees are the natural it better to let him lie on the sofa iu the i p h of the country, cover a large part of anteroom until morning. RtMt assured I that he will have the licet of care. SVe arc Idouv ev .' "Say!" broke in a sharp voice. "You bundle him into a wagon and drive him up here, where I can keep him hidden until that drunk goes off! He won t before to-morrow night!" lie sober i ! "My dear mad- H;et out! If he' aWi.v .IriinU nut water on his head! That's the wav I al-' wars da1' " Will vou let me inform you that" j "Xo, sir : I won't ! Thmw water on his bead, get him into some vehicle and rattle i anl cnie without doubt from that stock, him tip here, for it's most midnight now j Their hair canuot lie strictly said to be nd it will take me half an hour to get his if''"" wooljbut most nearly resem- . . . . ...a,! l,li tli, lattnr ni.ii. um nf mvv! cit. Dootsoii ana push him up stairs: i.e-; member pour water on his bead and veil fire' in his ear!" . m Cars ia tbe Arabian Desert. Mr. Russell, gives an interesting sketch of a run through a portion of the Arabian desert by a new railway route. We sub join an extract: "Blanched hones of camels lie in dull whiteness on the sand. Not a bird fans tbe hot silent air. Stones and aaud. and sand and stones, are all and everywhere stretched out dead and hard i under the blue sky and the relentless sun. The rail which conveys us through this and is about seven and a half feet long fr.m desolation is single, and the line is said by ! his nose to the end of his tail, the tail be English engineers to be very jioorly made, ing about three and a half feet or this, and as the French engineers who laid it out ! one foot in diameter at its base. He lives took it over a ridge 1,100 feet high, instead of following a low level near the river, which would have greatly diminished the expense and cost of working. Tbe water and coal of the engines is to be carried bv the trains out to the various station!. So tuev jike commissariat animals in a I Imrren country, which have to carry their I own fodder and diminish the public bur- j thens. The stations are helpless, hot, oven- - "ke f7 'Jwdrfou,1 "jh .old wooden huts, within the sliade of which ; . undoubted Englishman jswokw his pipe. At th itwelfth stal':on j we coaled; the train ended in the d-sert inrre: but at lonir intervals, ior nines in au- nm an could see the encammuents of ", 7 ; raus, wuo 101 iuc I one uau wure uavvaca, : ;,: i h. , . . uiirur throurh the rocks a wav 1 1 " ,h ;, horse. In a lonir. wooden shed j the centre of a group of tents were laid ! out lone tables, covered with hot joints of I waaahI; animola TMsrtiaTn IHSffltfa rhiMnft , '""'""'r .-r- - " r7 i li.mitd voirotan'rm hQ Va tiir flirt. aud liicnite veetaiilcs. This was Dur din ner it had come all the way from Cairo so had the wine, beer and spirits. If manna and quails were at all eatable, we bad en vied the food of the Israelites. Strange Devices. Society women in Philadelphia are ac cused of "strange devices by the shop-keep-era. One storekeeper in the artificial flower business says it is quite a common occur rence to have ladies call on the morning be fore a ball and have handsome flowers sent to their residence for approbation, which j 10 nCT ro spn-iw.HulTdmlsetL Determii I J - lAia uui.e uut The Trials of aa Engaged Girl. of mKtilge in M ap , paretu, that should sit on two pair of shoulders; and there is nothing very seem ly in seeing a girl wait to wear her own (xi t of ' it until it has been nicely padded with quilted satin. Looking at the matter from a less elevated point of view, long engagements are rather tiresome in restrict ing the liberty of girls. Miss Jenny, who is going to marry Mr. Simpson as soon as that hopeful young man gets a living, is obliged in the meantime to deny herself many pleasures, lest Simpson should take offense. She must eschew balls; she must lake care that nobody makes love to her; and for this purpose she is obliged to let all chance comers be speedily informed of ber engagement. L'nhappily, the symbolism of ringe is always unregarded, else the chance comers might discover the fact for themselves by looking at the second finger of Miss Jenny's left hand. If Jenny has no sisters to talk of her betrothal, and if her mother does not accept timely hints to mention it on every necessary occasion, or the engagement is not announced the girl is rather embarrassed for words in which to convey the news delicately to strangers. She cannot allude to Mr. Simpson as "Johnny'' that would bo too familiar; she cannot speak of him as "Simpson,'' for this would sjund strange; but if she refers to him frequently as "Mr. Simpson," strangers uiii lit draw undesirable inferences from ber apparent familiarity with a person thus coldly specified. Then the engaged girl has to put up with a great (leal of chaff, which is only pleasing for a while, and af terward becomes intolerable. The trials of matrimony are frequently commended to her impatient attention by way of paternal rebuke: "Ah, my dear, you will find out that I was right when you are a wife your self !" and so forth ; or a snub is put upon her too hasty wish to consider herself free by the reminder that there is many a slip between the cup and the Up. Sometimes Simpeon is actually held up to her as a j bogey: "My dear, I don't think Mr. i Simpson ' would quite approve of your wearing that cherry ribbon;" "Jenny, j dear, t think Mr. Simpson would be sadly ieuoiiirh in ail this to make a girl sit down ! antl crcnui. ! mm- Kangaroo Hontlng. The kangaroo, as is well known, is found only in Australia and Tasmania. It; means of locomotion and defense are so pe- culiar, a.id its swiftness so great, that the chase of it is attended with excitement and dangers wholly unique. The huntingof the foxinLuirlandUever cotKparativelv smooth ground and moderate-sized fences, with well trained horse?, while the ka-itraroo has nu are ocneveo, uoin nere aim in u- rope, to so destroy malaria as to be a sure guarantee against fevers of all kindi The couches are examined before retiring at night to see if there are any snakes in them; but none are found: A native, with two women, is ramped on the shore near by. Their camp is a half-ciicle of pileti-us logs, three feet high, while on the open side, to- wants the water glares a Dniliant are. ''Sh"nR UP tliem n(1 t'ie darkness with a lurid, fantastic savageness. These natives resemble the African more nearly than either of the other tour of the human rat-, ""- w ! 1rk hrown, well made, and don't encum- 1 ber themselves with much clothing. One ! of their weapons of war Is the boomerang. i and it is a curious affair. It is made of very hard wood, three feci long, four inches wide, one inch thick at the centre, and bends edgeways so as to make a third of a circle. With the hand they are said to throw this implement 15) yards, cutting off the head of an enemy, and having the ! weapon return to the feet of the sender. I i have seen it thrown that distance and re. ' turn to the person throwing it. The full- grown male kangaroo is called "boomer, on grass, sometimes invading the fields of ;'n connecting some important building the frontiersman and eating up all he has. with another in a distant city, by which He stands on four legs when feeding, and t-legraphic commumcatiox was Maintained; at no other ti:ne. His tail ia full of power- tJ J'' S -ven one was visible ful sinews, but it is used only to assist in anywhere. e live in the wire age ol the the equilibrium while sitting, standing wn world's history, and a moat interesting and the tot s aud running. In a sitting posture wonderful epoch It is. e know that then, be is atiout four and a half feet high ; but iron fillameuts sulwcrve the purpose of when he stan.la ou his toe to survey the ! nerves of thought and sensation, and over country or an eneaiv, he is taller than j them, or through them, the world's corn man. He has a soft, gaz-.IIc like expres- n'" 18 carried on. Iu the human orsrun sion, but the white teeth gleam between UaUon we know that ir any accident .ir the lis. His color is brown, tending in event happens to the extremities, the fleshy age towards red or grey, according to the j nerves transmit instantly the news to the species. They weigh (the male) from 100 ' seat of sensation the brain ; and so it U to 170 pound each, lhe meat tasies somewhat like venison, but is not very ,Kh the mfc.-i -Trellent aoniv ' - ! The female is under six feet in leneth. and is different somewhat in appearauc-e from the male. The young, when born, are only an inch long, and are first seen uurs- ing the mother in the pouch in front, where she carries them. They remain in this pouch till they are eight months old and weigh about ten pounds, antl l M;g after- wards return to it on appearance of danger, When the mother is hard pressed by the enemv in a chase she throws the young one out of the pouch, who thereby makes its es - cane There are Kangaroo uogs, very swui and strong, esecially adapted to hunting ths kangaroo; but no experienced dog will tackle them without somebody to back him. They jump about fifteen feet at a time usually, but sometimes twenty or more, and their swiftness is prodigious. Nothing can apparently overtake them In a fair race, and tbe usual way is to practically surrourd them. When hard pressed they place their back to a tree for tbe fight ; or, in preference, they always strike for tbe water if there u any near. They try to seize their enemy with the fore paws, and then rip it from top to bottom with tbe middle claws of their hind feet, which are very sharp. If tbey are in the water they try to hold their enemy under it until he is drowned. They will always leave a dog to attack a man. At 9 o'clock one morning tea men, in cluding myself, started on horseback, with four dogs, on a chase. AH weie experi enced iu the business except a young Eng. lUhman and myself. Ws took no firearms, a large stick being the only weapon to be need. We bad no -eUffiwulty la finding the anlmala. It wag disdained to avoid such fences at we found, and we jumped several of height of four to rive feet, always ap proaching them at a full run. We divided the party, half going to each side of i partly open plain. 1 soon saw a large kan garoo and two small ones coming towards our party, vie waited until they were near enough to see us, when they made a right angle and went on at an astonishing pace, in jumps of fifteen to twenty feet in length, going from eight to ten feet in the air at each jump, n e '-went for the big one, but be quickly gut beyond our sight, the three already having distanced the docs. The kangaroo dogs hunt by sight like the greyhound. These three were all lost, we learned as we met at the point airreed upon. We next surrounded another large tract of forest plain and meadow, this time divid ing the dogs. In a few moments a hun dred or more kangaroos came bounding to wards the party with ine. The dog with me started tor thcin, and all tbe dogs and men were at once in pursuit The kangaroos divided into several parties, each dog selecting one to follow, and each man following some one of the dogs. My dog went for a boomer.and I also, in comapany with two others of the party. The boomer stood up, took a long look at us, and then Hew. We followed him among the trees and branches, jumping logs and debris of all kinds, and across plains at a fearful rate. The horses needed no urging ; their blood was up now. The dog "laid to it," but made no sound. When he would get near the kangaroo the animal would make a jicip at right angles and change his course, while the dog would shoot on a distance before turning. After a run of this kind f some distance, the kangaroo started for a swamp. After reaching that, and going in a distance, he turned bis face towards us, standing up on his hind paws to a height of seven feet, and prepared for battle. The dog went for him and the fight commenced. The dog succeeded in getting hoM of his tail, and was carried in the air some distance by rcjieated jumps. The dog then lost his hold, ami was oeized and put under the water. Owing to my having the best b-w, I was first to come to the dog's aid. I was warned by shouts not to approach the animal, but dis regarded them and showed myself a good kangaroo hunter. The animal proved to be eight feet long. The rest of the party killed two smaller ones, and later in the day, at another chase, another large one was killed. The females do not fight, but run so swiftly that they are rarely over taken. Air and rood. An English scientific paper remarks as a curious physiological fact, that although open air life u so favorable to health, y t it has the apparent effect of stunting growth in early youth. While the children of well-to-do parents, carefully Loused and tended, are taller for their ?e lhau the children of the poor, they arc not so strong in after years. -The laborers' children, for instance, who play in the lonely country roads and fields all day, whose parents lock their cottage doors on leaving for their work in the morning, so that their offsprings shall not gain entrance and do miscliief, are al most invariably short for their age. The children of working farmers exhibit the same peculiarity. After sixteen or eighteen, after years of hesitation as it were, the lads shoot up, and become great, hulking broad shouldered fellows, possessed of immense strength. Hence it would seem that in door life forces growth at the wrong period, and so injures." The inference is plausi ble, but is wide of the mark. The children of the well-to-do are talk not because they are kept in-doors, but because they are well fed and srved from severe exposure. The children of the poor are stunted, not by too much sun and air, but became they are ill fed. Give the first class plenty of out-door day, with the proper diet, and they will be strong as well as tall. Ciive to the laborers' ! children the food suitable for their years, and ik) amount of sun and wind will stunt ' them. On the contrary, they will not have jto wait till age brings capaci'y to tm strong food to bone and muscle, and time to overcome the evil effects of hnrd times in early life; but they will grow from the first, steadily and sturdily. The Wire Age. Whenever, in walking or riding through the streets of our great cities and towns, the eye is directed upward, a perfect network of wires is seen stretching from building to building and from chimuev to gable. The appearaccc is as u some huge spider had ln at w,?k silently and covered in the eoiitpiu;. mj', iioiuiuk it a prisoner in me meshes of its nest. The view is Iwilder ing, and it seems impossible that any prac tical or important use cin be made of these iron wires, so mm rom as almost to shut out the sunlight. It is but little more than thirty years since only a single one could be i uu uu n.n IU ine exieruai won.-, which science has arranged; not an event of importance can transpire in any part of tbe globe which is not instantly "wired" to (the great cities, and the news spreads ; everywhere with the rapidity of thought. I ntd within the past four years the wires were capable only of transmitting signils of j a complex nature, but easily understood J and interpreted by expert!-; now, human beings talk with each other over the iron, j and it seems to make, as it were, a unit of t the great family of man. Words, actual ! wcrds, produced by the organs of speech. ' are ever winging their way, with the speed 01 iigntmng, over cities, atro-e nvers ana mountains am. woods, and voices are recog mzed scores 01 miles away, the wires needed in cities for transmitting fire ami burglar alarms, for police calls, time signals and other muiioipal purposes, are many in number; and when to these are added the wires for telegraphic and telephonic pur poses, the question of space or room for them becomes an important one. These wires must all be independent of each other; there must be no contact anywhere; else serious errors and complications occur. In Philadelphia the fire alarm system has been so often Intcriured with that the chief engi neer has called the attention cf the city au thorities to the matter. The time is not far distant when additional wires will become necessary for electric lighting, and, perhaps, warming. In the years to come the whole country will be covered with them unless some plan is devisee) by which electric cqnenta can be conveyed in the earth bv wires protuctud in tubes of clay or metal. It ia certain that some method of this nature most be adopted, and that onita speedily. There It no sculptor like the mind. Match HaaMng. Moat people have no doubt observed al one time or another, and perhaps at various times during their lives, that matches not made in heaven, viz:. Inciters are very often apt to cume up nuasing, or else prove worth less at the most critical junctures. If you are a married man and the father of child ren, your opportunities for observation in this line have been, like a kind of paper. manifold. It is during the cold and frosty hours of a winter night that the interview ing of the family match safe is generally accompanied by the greatest aniouut of ill luck, and, unless you are careful by pro fanity. About 2 o'clock, a. nx.on a winter night your wife wakes you with a shake and yells: "John Henry, strike a light, the baby has the croup!" Turning over in bed you reach for the match -safe at the head of the bed, and find it empty. This U a great disappointment to yj, but you say nothing. Meantime your wife speaks again : "John Henry, will you ever get a light ! This child will elioke to death." With one bound yoa are out of bed and the next moment with arms outstretched in front, you run full till against the edge of the sitting room door, which stands about half way open. Such little incidents are good for you. They start the sluggish blood from the nose which you have bruised on the door, and disciple you in the art of holding your temper. To render the dis cipline greater your wife laughs in a sup pressed manner at your misfortune, finally retching the dining room you plunge wildly for the place where the match-safe u usually kept, and find it not. Then vour over-taxed patience begins to How away, and you say, mildly, of course: "AngeUae, where Is the match safe?" "In its usual place, my dear," she re plies. "I don't find it." "Feel around on the floor. Perhaps the children have knocked it down." Then you get down on your knees and "feeL" Just a& you have run a needle into your finger and are about to express your self in positive and forcible language, your wire savs: "Oil, I think the match-safe is in the book-case, where I put it yesterday to keep it out of the wav of Jennie." Another effort and the book-caw is reached, opened, and the match-safe found at last, it contains two matches. With frantic haste you rub one on the under side of the shelf in the case. It fails to isrnite. You have tried the wrong end, you think. lou essay another snort with the other end. A dull rasp is beard, but no fire is sti uck. "Vt ho under the sun uses matches and puts tbem back into the safe again 2" vou ejaculate. o answer from the bed room, (traspint; the last match, you ascertain by the feeling that it is one of those thin emaciated specimens, about as thick as a piece of paper. You scratch" it carefully and hopefully. It breaks in two as it ignites and the sulphur falls to the floor with a fUz and a sputter, the fumes filling your lungs. At this important juncture your wife's dulcet tones are again heard : "John Henry x relinghiiysen, what under the canopy are you about ? Haveyou fallen asleep out there l" "Oh, yes, 1 ve fallen asleep. I have. I've fallen asleep out here, with mv knees knocking together, with the cold. To morrow I'lf buy two gross of matches. One gross ID piie up in the bed room and the other gross I'll open and place the Mixes all around the house, so that a fellow can find anything he wants in this house." Then you make a desperate rush for the kitchen and Mud a lox full of matches the the first time trying. Lighting a lamp you prepare to fix up a dose for the croup, when the Lis t straw is laid on the camel s back; by your better hf, who says : "vsever mind, now, John, I guess the baby hasn't the croup after all, for she has fallen asleep again." Then, after making a mental vow to keep a lieht burning every night the re mainder of the winter, you shake the stove down, and in a tit of absent-mindedness. blow out the light and retire. This performance is a matchless one, when well executed, and is capable of countless variations. A Novel Uivwree Case. There isn't much humor in law but some things that come out of the law are rather funny. One of these happened the other day an 1 caused smiles all around, except on one man's face. This nun had come from Nevada at the request of a lawyer to have a decree of divorce set aside. He had packed off from his wife several years ago, and the woman afterwards married the lawyer, first, however, going through the form of getting a divorce. Mie bad not lieen long married to the lawyer when he followi-d the example of her first husband by withdrawing from her company. Then learning that there had been some irregul arity about the divorce, he set out to hunt up the original husband. He discovered him in Nevada and persuaded him to come to New York. The husband had not be fore beard of the divorce, and when the lawyer told him about it he was mad enough to pilch in and smash it to pieces, just for spite. He did pitch in. and was helped by a lawyer who was a friend of the lawyer who had hunted him up in Ne vada. Proceedings were opened to have the divorce set a?idc on the ground of fraud, or something of that sort, and everything went on very nicely for awhile. But by-and-by the fir.rt husliand began to think. Then he went to the lawyer who was act ing for him and told him to stop. The law ver said he would if his fee was paid. The man from Nevada said she did not owe any fe?. He appeared in the case merely to oblige the other lawyer, and the latter was the man to look to lor a lee. "V ery well," said lawyer number two, then I'll noonwi'.h the case." And go ou with it he did before a referee, and before the Ne vada mau could help himself tbe reteree had made a report to the court and the court had et aside the decree of divorce. The effect of this is to release the lawyer from his marriage to the woman, and to reinstate her as tbe wife of the man whom the law yer bad brought on from Nevada to help him out of a snarL The Nevada man didn't want his wife given back, and the woman did not want t ) be reinstated, but tbe law said that was how it should be, and the law er can put bis hand in his pocket and ask the reun ted couple, who had hoped never to see each other again, what they are going to do atiout it. Let this be a warn ing to other nusnenaa, who nave once got rid of disagreeable wives, to be muzhty careful about accommodating lawyers who may possibly want to get rid of tbe same wives themselves. Had the Nevada mac stuck to his camp, instead of coming to New York to oblige a lawyer, he would not have a wife thrown back on his hands by the law, after she had got a secret di vorce from him and warned another man. The Sute debt of Iowa Is ouly $rjo,uoo. The regular 1arg for crematiu a body Is V-U. HuraUig Baraa. There are undoubtedly many barns burned from carelessness. In one case recently, a match, which had been lit to af ford a momeutary light, was thrown down ia the dirt on the barnrloor. where it started a alow fire, which gradually extended to the haymow. In another instance an enter prising owner shot an owl in the barn and killed him and burned the barn. When ever it is necessary to tire a run about buildings, wool should be used for w adding, as it will not readily take fire from tbe powder. Spontaneous combiLst ion, it is be lieved, caused the bumingof the other two. one by the heat from a big pile of buck wheat Chan, and tbe other by hen manure under the fclicl, mixed with straw and other manure. In souie instances buildings have barely escaped. One of our citizens w aa sitting in his bouse one everuns in Autumn. and happening to put hU hand against the wan ne round it so hot a- to nearly burn him. Seeking for the cause, he fouud it to lie heat from the banking around the dwel ling, w'jich was buckwheat chaff. He did not go to bed until that banking was re ir.ovtd, The house would undoubtedly have been burned before morning. Another man jiL-t at night loaded his wagon with the droppings from the barnvard, and then ntlded St Hue hen manure and ashes, and as it was late left the wagon and contents stand until the net moruing. Fortunately he did not run it ip'o any building, for the next day be fouud it on lire m three places. . The dirt from a large gri-l mill was swept out of the back dixir, and here too a lot uf sliavings were thrown. One night the mill burned down, and the fire started at the very place where the debris was rotting. A farmer who leaves the hen manure to ac cumulate during the summer, or lets the horse nian'.re remain in lhe yard, runs the risk of having to build a new barn. Every building should be kept clear of litter, withiu and without, and no violence will be done to chemical laws nor to good taste. A fiise la Diamond. Whether it he on account of the Increas ed demand for diamond earrings, or ou ac count of the decreasing supply of the pre cioU.i stones, both from the t ape fields aud the "Districto Diamantino" of Brazil, cer tain it is, that the price of tine diamonils has risen fifteen per rent. Dealers com plain, however, tlu.t they cannot get the higher price to which they have gone, aa the majority of purchasers insist upon the old average of j-io to j7- a carat. They are therefore obliged to use inferiiw stones to keep their trade going. There is really no difference Iietween a good Brazilliau stone and a good stone from the Cape, and the outcry recently raised in London by a lady who discovered that the diamonds she had bought as Brazilliau were Africans was a fanciful one. The frauds of the Dutch and English dealers are perpct rated mainly in cutting the Brazilian and (ape dia monds in the old-fashioned styles of the In dian stones, which were in vogue before the Brazilian fields were discovered in 1730 and which now hrtve the value of antiqui ties. The only superiority of the Brazilian over the Cape diamonils is that the per centage of tine stones is larger in South America than in Africa. Thus, for instance in a thousand Brazilian stones three hun ered fine ones may be found, while the Cape will not yield more than a hundred specimens of the same quality. The mo mentary scare produced among the posses sors of a "wealth of jewelry" by the re port that Hannay, tbe Scotch ehemist, had discovered the secret of rrukmg artificial drainonils has now entirely disappeared. He acknowledges that he never really made anything but "very small quantities of a substance like bort." Bort is known In the trade as a dark brown stone similar to tbe diamond in its properties and of use only in cutting real stones or for drilling pur poses. Deeca Marlins. 1 h ; Decca muslins of ladia aie among the most wonderful evidences of the hand skill of the strange people of the mysteri ous East. These fabrics, which are spun and woven entirely by haml, and are the product of obscure antl curious processes, unknown to aud unattainable by the West ern nations, like the fabrications of Damas cus steel and the making of camel's hair shawls; are marvels of ingenuity and skill, and tbey illustrate the poetry of cotton. The uiont delicate of these fabrics is known by the name of "woven air." It can only be made in the early morning and in the evenings, when the air is full of moisture antl the dew is on the grass. The process es by which It is woven are kept secret, and people who do the work are compelled first to pass through a long course of training and initiation. Their delicate wares are of such ethereal texture as to be almost invisi ble, and yet so enduring that they will bear washing and wear in a wonderful manner. This precious stul is monopolized for the use of the ladies of the oriental harems, and is said to worth hundreds of dollars per yariL A Florida Idy. One morning a figure was seen dimly amongst the flags and reeds of the distant lake shore. Presently we made out that it was a woman. She hailed us. and asked to come aboard to trad". Our snia'l boat, with a gallant gentleman as escort, brought out this specimen of the South Florida lady. She looked abashed as her upturned face caught the glance of a dozea men, who all greeted her with pleasant raillery. They politely lifted ber on deck. Her short, scant dress revealed cowhide shoes and ankles innocent of stockings, and, apparent ly, she wore nothing under her thin calico sacq'-e and skirt. But back in tbe faded sun-bonnet I saw a cheerful, sun-browned face whose smile is, perchance, the radienee of that which nwet blesses man's earthly home woman's iove. She trailed her beef hide for coffee and tobacco. About to leave us, she answered to a challenge to be our cook : "I'd like splendid to go 'long and cook for you, bnt I couldn't leave the babies." A Frecftous OarUns;. There is a child in Bangor, Mo., whom, according to the old theory, Providence manifestly designs for either pulpit or the gallows. This enterprising youngster has not yet reached age of five years, but he is old in experience. Two years ago he swal lowed a quanity of paint, which the doctor finally succeeded in removing from his lit tle stomach. While the recollection of this exploit was still fresh, a nmuthtul of lauda num found its way down his thnut to that bourne when such travelers seldom return, but again the physician was equal to the emergency. Not long afterwards his par ents took their darling to Belfast to make a visit, and, while there, he introduced into one of his nostrils a kernel of corn, which it required heroic efforts to dislodge. With out waiting for an encore, he repeated this performance immediately upon his return to Bangor. This time the ke.-nel of eoru remained so looj in the nose that, when, Jully extracted, it was found ou th point of sprouting. m - HU ITXItf HUMMM
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