B. F. SCHWEIER,
TEE OOESTrnmOE TEE UEIOE AID TEE EKTOBOEMEBT OF TEE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXIV.
MIFFLIN1WN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 18S0.
NO. 33.
Cp w the moon o'er the tow. ring mountain.
Spumed, and danced, in the silvery rill,
Wl-ile forth from the elm -I roe, hard bj the
foanUin,
Floated the note of a lone whip-poor-will.
Sjitlv the breath of the evening allured ma
An? from my coach ; and I leaned on the
sill.
As the calm of the boor again reassured m
I beard in the distance the lone whip-poor-will.
Si.arp aa the awiri of a willow it sounded
Sharp on the balm of the ev'ning atill ;
liick from the mountain the clear echoea
loundtxl
llonnded the wail of the lone whip-poor-will.
Ba.-k to my conch, aa tbe craning star faded ;
Dack as the breeze, from the meadows blew
chill,
Wtiile the moon from my vision by clouds was
o'er-sha Jed,
Again broke the plaint of the lone whip-poor-will.
Forgive Him!
'Forgive him:" said Sirs. Stains, "Oh,
William, forgive bim !"
The speaker was an ageu woman and a
wUkvv. Her head was white with the frost
of years, and her mild features were deeply
marked by the hand of lime. There was a
tear in her eye, and her face was clouded
with sorrow. She ?poke to her son, a mid
die-aged, strong-featured person, whose
countenance betrayed a firm -willed, unbend
ing heart, but yet who appeared an upright
honorable man.
"Forgive him '." repeated -the white
haired widow, as she raised her trembling
hands towards her son. "Tie is your bro
ther your only brother. Oh, if you know
your own heart, you will forgive him."
"Never!" spoke TV'illiam Stains, in a
firm, deep tone. "John has wronged me
deeply wronged me and I should he to my
soul were I to forgive him now.
"And have not yon wronged him ?
asked the widow, linprcsaiveiy.
"I wronged him f How ?"
'By withholding frotn him your lore
by treating him harshly, and causing him
to sin," answered his mother, kindly.
"Cease, mother. When you say that I
have caused him to sin, you are mistaken.
He has chosen h:.s own path, and now he
must travel in it."
"WUharn, you are the oldest, and from
you should come the love that can alone
heal the wound between yourself and
John."
"Listen tome, mother," said the stub
born man, with a piece of bitterness in his
tone. "John has been unjust to me he
has been unmaniy and unkind. He has in
jured me beyond reparation.'
"No, no, William," interrupted his mo
ther, "not beyond reparation."
"Yes, he has injured my feelings by the
roost fatal darts of malice and ill-wilL He
has told falsehoods about me to my friends,
and even assailed my private character."
"And can you not forgive all this ?" she
asked, tenderly.
"Perhaps I might, ' returned William
Stains, "but," he added, in a hoarse tone,
while his frame quivered with deep feeling,
"he has done more than that. He has
spoken of my wife, and But I will not
tell it a!L I car.not forgive him this''
"Forgive him, and be happy. His heart
is as kind as yours, and he is all generosity
and love to his friends. More than forty
years have passed over John's head, and
during all that time he never spoke one un
kind word to his poor mother."
"And did I ever speak unkindly to you,
my mother I" asked William Stains, in a
half hushed voice.
"No, no; you and John have both kind
hearts, and it grieves me airely to see you
aa you are now. Ah, W iliiain, I fear that
you do not perceive how noble a thing it Is
to forgive those who have injured you."
The man made no reply to his mother.
He saw that she was unhappy, and be knew
that he was himself unhappy also. In for
mer yeais he had loved his brother, and he
knew that be had been faithfully loved in
return. The trouble which had so unfor
tunately separated them, had been trivial in
itsbeg-nning; but William's 6tcrnness of
will and John's hastiness of temper had
kept the fire on the increase. The first
fault had belonged to the younger brother,
but a word of explanation at the time might
have healed it without any trouble; now,
however, the affair had become deep and
dangerous, and there was but one way for
remedy. That way the aged mother would
point out.
"William," continued Mrs. Stains, speak
ing in a trembling tone, "I can spend but a
few short days longer on earth. I feel that
the sands in my glass have most all run out;
but before I depart I hope I may meet my
two boys together in love I hope I may
see them once more bound together in the
aweet bonds of friendship. When you
were babies, I nursed you and cared for
vou, and I tried to do a mother's duty. I
tried to make you both Jit for the grea.
world. As you grew older I promised my
aalf a full share of hapriness in your com
panionship, and naught has come to dim
t he joy of my widowed heart, till this sad
cloud lowered upon me. I love my child
ren - I love them both alike and yet tbey
love not each other. William, my son, one
hing weighs heavily upon me- Should this
thing last till I am dead, then how will
you and John meet by the side of my
corpse ? How will you feel when you come
ti "
"Hush, my mother!" uttered the stout
man. trembling like a reed. "Say more
now. This evening I will speak J00 my
mind." . . . .
John Stains sat in his easy chair in his
own cozy parlor, and about him were his
wife and children. Everything that money
could procure toward real comfort was his;
" yet he was not happy. Amid all his com
forts there was one dark cloud to trouble
Mm. The spot where for long years he
had nurtured a brother's love was now va
cant. Ko, not vacant, for it was filled with
bitternesa. He knew that he was la the
fault, but he tried to excuse himself by
'Walang that his brother hated him. This,
I
however, did not ease his Yno...,
v, w ..... . .. ""
uiai ne was lying to himself.
Vhile he sat thus" he heard a rap at the
"w., ana in a lew minutes one of the
uuiuren tow him that "Uncle William"
wamea to sec him.
"Tell him to come in," said John ; and
after this he made a motion for his wife and
children to leave the rjora. "1 shan't
nudge an Inch," he muttered to himself.
"If he thinks to frighten iae, he'll find his
Before he could say more, his brother
entered the room.
"Good evening, John." said William, in
a kindly tone, at the same Ume laying his
uai on uie table.
John Stains was taken all aback bv this
address, and he could hardly believe his
ears; but he responded hesitatingly to the
salutation. For an instant he looked up
iuui ms orotuer s lace, and during that in
stant there flashed across his mind a wish
that he had never offended.
"John," continued William, still stand-
-ng, "you know well what has parsed to
make us both unhappy.'
"Yes, I know," answered John, hardiy
Knowing what toae to assume.
"Well, my brother,' continued William,
while a tear glistened in his eye, and at the
same time extending his hand, "I have
come to bury the evil that has risen up be
tween us. If you have wronged me, 1
trecly forgive you ; if I have been harsh
and unbrotherly towards you, I ask that
you will forget it. Come, let us be friends
once more.
lake an electric shock came this speech
upon tbe ears of John Mains. A moment
he stood half bewildered, and then the teara
broke forth from his eyes. He reached forth
his hand, but his words were broken aud
indistinct. He bad not expected this from
his stern brother; but it came like a heaven
sent beam of light to his soul, and in a mo
ment more the brothers were folded iu a
warm embrace. When they were aroused.
it was by feeling a trembling hand laid up
on their heads ; and when they looked up
j they found their arc J mother siandin ' bv
' them.
I "Bless you, iny children, bless you !'
murmured the white-haired parent, as she
; raised her hands towards heaven ; "an J oh.
i I pray our Maker that you may never be
unhappy more."
John Stains knew that his mother had
been the angel who had touched the heart
of his brother, and it did not alter his for
giveness "Oh," he murmured, "I have been very
wrong I have abused you, my brother;
I but if you can forgive me, I will try to
make it ail up."
"Your love will repay it ail, John. Let
me have your love, and I will try never to
lose it more."
"Now I am truly happy," said the aged
mother, as she gazed with pride upon her
sons. "Now I can die in peace. Oh, my
boys, if you wou!d have your children sure
of happiness in after life, teach them that
forgir:nc(i will heal social wounds which
' Aon lui 1 in nA nf 1 1 1 r f MnnV ft.
can be healed in no other way. Many a
j heart has been broken from the simple want
of that talia-Jianic power."
! , i .i , . i. : .1 i . . l.l - 1 1. n I
1HU Im'se urotucrs illtru VJ ujeio lum
mother for the healthful lesson she had
taught them, and they failed not to teach
it to their children as one of the best boons
that could be given them for life.
Ihrondhjem.
The town has Utile in itself to attract at
h.nii.ui Thrtiif.li fnnnilpl altout the veal
1000, it has so often been destroyed by tire
'that few traces of its antiquity remain,
i The streets are wide and regular, and the
' houses for the most p.irt built of brick or
! stone; thus, the wooden aspect, so char
i actcristic of Norway and so quaint, is here
i found wanting. So far one is a little dis
appointed in 1 uronuujem. it nas nem an
important place in early Norwegian his
tory. One's ideas of it have been formed
in imagination at the impressionable age
when "Andersen's Tales" are devoured in
implicit faith. The mind, in connection
with it, is imbued with a vision of all that
is old and much that is miraculous from
a fairy-talc point of view. Therefore,
awakening to the discovery tliat the aacient
town, with iu rich, grand, rolling name,
its tradition of wise men the most north
ern of the large towns of Europe would
not be out of place in any nearer, even the
most southern towns of that quarter of tbe
riiroa rather a rude ahock to the fee!-
(ivmvi to , , . ,
ings bewilders the imagination, disturbs
the boundary maw Between iaci aou
i ,... - little nfthp romance attending
UU i.nroj w ... v-
this wonderful and beautiful country to
melt away, just as cvcryiuiDg is ei prcocm
.or.ir Timtpr the influence of the
fierce midday sun. Vte found ourselves
in the market-place, a large, wiue ai,
th four leading thoroughfares
1 1 1 nil " un... -
of Tbrondhjem open out. It was aa modern
as anything you couiu wuw w
u half covered with booths
and stalls, the buyers and sellers not even
clad in any special costume w rennet
.mi nirtnrpaniie. At the end of
UlBUUVf,!.. V c.uu 1
one of these tlKroughfares stood the ca
thedral, the-great ana special kuku
Throndhjem its glory, as it is that of
Xorway itself, the one solitary piece of
architecture that it possesses. But only in
iu first impression is Throndhjem disap
pointing. The cathedral makes up for a
crcat deal, and once visited, memory fast
ens upon this piece of antiquity for its as
sociation with the ancient capital. And
again, though the actual situation of the
town U not so picturesque and quaint as
that of Bergen, yet tne neighborhood of
Throndhjem is full of beauty, more luxuri
ant and fertile than anything we had yet
seen ta -Norway. It is situated at the
8ee" J", .v. k,a .nrt during the first four
mourn in mo a
centuries of iu existence -!
ros. Throndhjem sigmnea " v"""
Home," It is here that all the Kings are
crowned. But at the urn on o :
with Norway tt ceaseu w u -f-r
. . , A r.t and the roval res-
the sea oi w
dence. So far iu glory has departed.
Scattering Crala.
Paiuvntrers on uio iumj". -
1 assenga" ji.j,:, .n,t Pitlahiinr.
Eft T-wTo'owwh-at makes
nave ura. v track during
the green k-' . -
aioug Tha roaaon 13. that
wettge oi v T -"T- osded
the easiwaru ---
hat tS " l
tbat tracaj .ana WMtlrard boumd
ther nwca w -j
ns. which earry no grain.
Chanexl by Tmara.
She was a pretty girl, was Jemima
petite that's what I like bright eyes,
luxuriant locks a white and pink com
plexion, plump and compact. She was al
ways in good humor, and we soon became
the very best of friends nay, more for
who could help being affectionate toward
her ? Everybody loved her. When the
boatmen called her "a sweet little craft,"
they expressed though vulgarly, the senti
ment of my own heart. I was in love with
Jemima, and Jemima well, Jeuiiuia was
not indifferent to me. I had not nerve to
ask her, in so many words, would she ac
cept my hand and name. I spoilt a quire
of paper in the effort to utter my ihoughu
in a letter; so at last, on her birthday, the
15th of May, I ventured to present her
with an elegant bound book, and on a lit
tle slip of paper inside I wrote:
"Deak Jemima By the acceptance of
this trifling gift let mo know you accept
the giver:
Alfeeo Bausstapi.b DoroiiTT."
I flattered myself it was rather a plucky
thing to do, aud it answered admirably.
Next time 1 saw her she was all of a
glow, and when we were alone together,
and I was standing rather near her, and
said; "You received my humble offer
ing," she burs, into a flood of tears, put
her arms round my neck, and spoilt my
alurt front.
Then, when she recovered a little (do
you believe in Niobet I don't) she
said:
"Have you asked pa P
Of course I responded I had not.
"Then do at once," she said; "for, good
ness gracious me, if he was to find us out
iu anything sly, and trying to keep it from
him, it would be awful!"
It is a good deal worse asking the governor
than asking the girl, especially such a pep
pery old party as Captain Wattlcborough;
however 1 screwed myself up, and when
Jemima was down about the place, playing
on our piano, and 1 knew he would be
making his evening toilet by puttiug on a
pilot coat, I ventured to look in upon him.
After a few words on ordinary topics, such
as how were we botli, how was the
weather, I hemmed aud bean, "Captain,
1 am ambitious."
'Itigbt boy climb as high as you
can.
"Don't encourage me too much, Cap
tain: I'm ambitious in your direction."
"Boy, you're not going to sea P
'N'oj Captain; I 1 I I aspire to the
honor oi beiair your son-in-law! '
The Captain looked me full in the face.
IUVU MIU.
"Have vsu monev ?"
"Of course I hadn't, and he t )'.d me to
go and get it before venturing to aspire to
the hand oi Jemima.
"But, my uear Captain" I ventured
1 1 expostulate.
"ciet off my doorstep!''
'Let me speak for a moment to- Jemi
ma." "Get off my doorstep! '
He acconianied this last instruction by
a thrust which scut me staggering into the
street.
Mr affair.with Jemima was at an end.
The Capt:tin would not listen to reason
that is, he would not listen to me. All the
letters I wrote to Jemima were sent back
to me. I grew weary, packed up and
packed off, with a letter of introduction to
a firm in China. Well, the fortune was
not so easy to make, but at the expiration
of twenty years I began to think it suffi
ciently large to warrant my return to "tue
girl 1 left behind me." I had heard very
little from home. Father and mother were
still alive, but the Captain was dead. They
had carried him through the cornfields one
summer's day to the Utile churchyard, and
there they ouried him.
Jemima, 1 understood, lived in the old
house and was still singlt So full of
emotion, all the tenderness for the dear
girl I had left behind me rapidly reviving
off 1 went, carpet bag and everything,
just as I was, to have the old vows re
newed and sealed in the usual manner.
A maiden with a freckled face, much
sunburnt, opened the dtxr. Could 1 see
Miss Wattleborough ? The maiden did
not reply, but leaving me where I was,
retired to the remote back settlement.
There I heard the following dialogue:
"Missus!"
"Well, what is it f
"Somebody wants you,"
"Who is it P
"A fat old man with a bag."
I could have shaken the girl into jelly.
TUere was further talk in a smothered
whisper and then the eirl returned, and
motioning me with her linger, said:
"Come in here," and showeu me into the
parlor.
The ola parlor, lust as l naa icti u, ncai
and trim, the old harpsichord, the old
punchbowl; but some new things a ca
nary in a cage at the window, a black, long
lezged cat ensconced upon a chair.
The next minute a lady entered. Could
it be ? No, impossible this pale-faced,
sober visaged lady with stiff curls, and n
more figure than a clock case could this
be my Jemima ? Where was the old lustre
of the eyes where the old bloom upon the
cheeks where the lips that were ruddier
than the cherry f She lifted up lioth hands
when she saw me. i
"Alfred!" j
"Jemima!''
Wc shook hands; after a moment's hesi
tation we went further more m accor
dance with old times.
Mv heart sank within me, however, as I
sat down opposite to her, and thought of
what she was. She looked at me very
steadily, and I thought I detected disap
pointment in her glance.
We are Dotu cuangea, jemima."
Yon are very much altered," she
said.
"You are different," I responded.
"Do you think sop
"Think so? Why, Jemima, there can't
be two opinions about it."
"It is generally observea; out yom
,
"Well, my dear!"
'You have grown ridiculously stout, and
you are bald-headed."
"l ou are not stout, my aoar: dui your
hair is not quite what it was."
"People say they see no change in mo
that I preserve my childish appearance
wonderfully."
"Humph!"
Our interview was not altogether agreea
ble. When we parted we contented our
selves with shaking hands.
That afternoon 1 wrote a note to her.
suggestirg that we did not renew our en
gazement.
That afternoon sne wrote a note to me,
suggesting the very same idea to me. Our
cross letters crossed.
We are to be friends nothing more.
But that could not last. 1 was the first
to give in. I called upon her, ana saia a
good deal, and she cried, and then we said
why not I ana men sue put ner neaa upon
my breast and spoiled my shirt front as she
had done before.
"You are not so very fat," she said,
laughing.
"You are not so vary lean," I said,
laughing also.
"Yea can wear a scalp," she said.
"You can dye," I responded.
So we both laughed again, and it was
all settled. We were settled, and here
we are out of the fog, and very much at
your service the happiest couple in our
towr.
A Summer Voymce oa tbe Pepatctoa.
This branch of the Delaware, so far as I
could leain, had never before been
descended by s white man in a boat. Rafts
of pine and hemlock timber are run down
on the spring and fall freshets, but of plea
sure seek ere in boats I appeared to be the
first. Hence my advent was a surprise to
most creatures in the water and out 1 sur
prised the cattle in the field, and those
ruminating leg-deep in the water turned
their head's at my approach, swallowed
their unfinished cuds, and scampered off as
it they had seen a spectre. I surprised the
fish on their spawning beds and feeding
grounds; they scattered, as my shadow
glided down upon them, like chick
ens when a hawk appears. I sur
prised an ancient fisherman seated on a
spot of gravelly beach, with his back up
stream, and leisurely angling in a deep,
still eddy, and mumbling to hiniselt. As I
slipped into the circle of his vision, his
under jaw dropped and he was too bewild
ered to reply to my salutation for some
moments. As I turned a bend in the river
I looked back, and saw him hastening
away with great precipitation. I presume
he had angled there for forty years without
having his privacy thus intruded upon, I
surprised hawks and herons and kingfish
ers I came suddenly upon musk-rats, and
raced with them down the rifts, they hav
ing no time to take to their holes. At one
point, as I rounded an elbow in the stream,
a biuck eagle sprang from tne top of a dead
tree, and flapped hurriedly away. A king
bird gave chase, and disappeared for some
momenta between the great wings of the
eagle, and I imagined him seated upon his
Lack delivering his puny blows upon the
the loyal bird. I interrupted two or three
minks fishing and hunting along the shore.
They would dart under the bank when they
saw me, then presently thrust out their
sharp, weasel-like noses, to see if the dan
ger was imminent. At one point, in a it-;
tie cove behind the willows, I surprised
some scool-tnrls. with skirts amazinclv
abbreviated, wading and claviug in the!
water. And as much surprise as anv. I
am sure, was that hard-worked looking
housewife, when 1 came up from under the
bank in front of her house, and with pail
in hand appeared at her door and asked for
nu Ik, taking the precaution to intimate that
I had no objection to the yellow scum that
is supposed to rise on a fresh article of that
kind.
"What kind of milk do you want P
'The best you have. Oive me two quarts
of it," I replied.
'What do yon want to do with it ?" with
an anxious tone, as if I might want to blow
up something or burn her barns with it.
"Oil, drink it," 1 answered, as if I fre
quently put milk to that use.
"Well, I suppose I can get you some;"
ami she presently reappeared with swim
ming pail, with those little yellow flakes
floating about upon it that one takes to see
Chemicals In Philadelphia.
One of the great industries which dis
tinguish the city and constitute the basis of
iu prosperity is the manufacture of chemi
cals, or of articles tor the production of
which chemical processes are necessary.
Many of these take the form of drugs and
medicines for the wholesale trade, not in
cluding specifics. Others are acids, alkalies
and chemical agents used in other manu
facturers. White lead and chemical paints
are also included. The line ot distinction
is not easy to define to the general reader,
though well recognized in tbe trade, and it
does not include the body of the product
known as dves, paints and medicines, al
though closely related to them. As so de
fined, the chemical manufacture in Phila
delphia includes about thirty establish
ments, whose annual product has risen
from $6,162,880 in lf70 to $10,000,000 in
1 575 and $12, 000, 000 in 1S77, and, as neur-
U rc. t. Iu, Aol,tl.it.il kmt ilQ IMlO
0. in value for the year j.ist closed .They j
, . 1k... o,i .
-l-ii k .1 JT'i
(ViUUcjr BUiOil uuuiuci tut twura riv
duced and have attained a position oi su
premacy in their respective departments
which renders thein reasonably secure, Tbe
drug and mcUc:nal products are tne
largest, eight or ten establishments produc
ing $8,000,000 in value oi quinine, mor
phia, preparations of iodine, bromine, etc,
with other standard pharmaceutical pre
parations. These are now the basis and
body of applied pharmacy in this country,
and are likely to increase even more rapid
ly in the future. On tbe side of standard
medicines used as specifics almost as Much
more would be added, and the classifica
tions would be cotirely appropriate as a
manufacture. The drug and chcmicM
works insist on the distinction, however,
and in a calculation of a total of $12,000,
000 production they are not included.
They would reach $t,000,000 at least, and
under the general name of proprietary
medicines, footed a total of $5,4!0,105 in
1870.
The Cucumber Man.
"Enos Turner, what's all this about?"
inquired his honor of a man of sixty who
came out with his coat on his arm and the
sweat running down his neck.
"I won't ans wer one darned question?
squeaked the old man as he humped up
his back.
"Phew! What's the matter with you?
That's no way to answer a civil ques
tion." "Well I'm mad bilin' mad! The more
I thinK of it the madder I git."
"You are charged with disturbing the
peace."
"I sposcd there was some infernal
charge or other, but I'm going to fight it if
it costs me my hull farm. You see, I
brought a few early cucumbers to town to
sclL I was in a grocery up here some
where to ask the price, when an old crow,
bait of a horn hitched to a rag wagon
moved up and reached into my wagon
and chawed six dozen cowcumbcrs into
mootal mush In about ten seconds. If the
owner ot the hoss had bin willin' to settle
like a man, there would't have bin, a word,
but be declared up and down that he
would'nt pay one darned cent. Then I
got mad, and the fust thing I knew I had
that rag-man in the ditch and was playing
on him like a lao droller. I own right up.
Judge, and I'm sorry there wasn't one or
two more of them."
"If I could overlook this on the ground
of your general good character yon would
be more careful in tbe future I take It?"
"It's my first fight for forty years."
"Well don't have any more trouble.'
"I'll try not to, but cowcumbcrs are
awful high just now, and I'm feeling mad
clear down to my heels. Good day Squar';
1 wish I'd brought ye In two quarts of
cherries. "
The orange tree in Florida are
cot growing as rapidly aa usual this
season.
Fontalnebtoau.
The forest of Fontainebleau covers 42,-
000 acres and is sixty miles in circumfer
ence. Most of the trees are very old, and
to tbe most remarkable ones are affixed
small plaques giving the particulars of
their history. Originally the demesne was
named the Foret de Biere and became
known as Fontainebleau from the fact that
j King Louis IX, while bunting in one of
lU wildest parts, lost one of his favorite
hounds, whose name was Bleau. The dog
was found quietly drinking from a spring
of cool water, which the king named Fon
taine Bleau, or Bleau's fountain. Struck
with the beauty of tbe spot, the king or
dered a hunting mansion to be built near
the spring, and this hunting box has in
successive reigns been enlarged and beau
tified till it became tbe stately palace
which all visitors to the environs of Paris
know so well.
In Francis I.'s time, tradition says, the
forest was infested by an enormous serpent,
which gobbled up men, women and chil
dren in large numbers. As there were no
snakecharmers sufficiently courageous to
attack the mnnnJiT Svintr Vraruia tfotpr.
! mined to try bis hand on it, and caused a
suit of armor to be made of razors, with
the edges pointing outwards, and tne ser
pent met his death.
The library of tbe palace contains many
of tbe first books seen in France. Ia
Charles VII's reign the 853 books therein
contained were worth the present sum of
113,100. The English carried off tbe
books when they were rulers in France,
but they were bought back at the cost of
$2.50.
tin the Hotel d'Albret, in the Cour du
Chsval Blanc, Cardinal Kicbelieu dwelt
when attending on the court. Here he
was taken i!l and was removed to Paris on
a litter. The litter was too wide to pass
through the door of the hotel and was
lifted out through a window. In 16o7,
Christina, Queen of Sweden, while visit
ing at the palace, caused Monaldeschi, one
of her favorites, to be assassinated. Cardi
nal Mazarin, by order of the king, wrote
to her to leave the palace. She replied by
ordering Mazarin to inind his own business;
as a queen was always a queen wherever
site happened to be. Fontainebleau was
the scene of many of the triumphs of Rous
seau and Voltaire. The latter, however,
was requested to leave the palace, an un-
complimentary remark he had made hav
i '"S come to tne tars of royalty. Thcabdi
cation of Napoleon I. was signed at Fon
tainebleau aud here the petit cor-Hral kept
Pope Pius VII. prisoner for the spice of
two years, on account of some slight dif
ference of opinion between himself and the
successor of St. Peter. In the Cour cu
Chcval Blanc, Napoleon took his l-.-ave of
the Old Uuard when he started on bis trip
of exile to Elba.
Fainting Fits and Their Cauaoa.
A fainting fit arises from sudden failure
of the heart's action. It is met with most
frequently in young adults especially in
females. Its occurrence is favored by gen
eral debility or ill health, and more partic
ularly by anemia, or poorness of the blood.
It is very common in young ladies who take
very little outdoor exercise and spend most
of their time on the sofa reading novels.
Want of active occupation powerfully pre-
disposes to fainting. People who are not
very strong are most likely to faint after
some unusual fatigue, or aftcf long absti
nence from food. A liability to fainting
seems most to be hereditary, so common
is it ic some families. Sometimes it is as
sociated with heart diseases, but in the vast
majority of cases it is purely functional,
and there is nothing wrong with that organ.
The determining causes of a faint are va
riable in character. The susceptible sub
jects it may be brought on by any sudden
impression on the nervous system. This
need not of necessity be painful or unpleas
ant, for people may faint from excitement
or excess of joy. For instance, the sudden
announcement of the return of some long
lost relative, or of the unfavorable termi
nation of a protracted law suit, may be the
exciting cause. The sight of certain ani
mals such as a frog, or a black beetle, or
even a mouse, is quite enough to send sonic
people off, while others faint immediately
at "f1.,0, bl. aQ
and faint if they read of
and even feel sick
an accident in the
papers. e have
papers. e nave all heard the storv ol
the young preacher who fainted on having
to read the account of one of the sanguinary
battles in the Old Testament. Medical st u
dents sometime- faint at their first opera
tion. Such a trivial accident as pricking
the finger will make some people sick and
faint.
Just aal Expected,
A day or two since a traveler from the
East walked into the Cass House, Detroit,
with his grip sack in one hand and the
other pressed to his jaw, and he wasn't
long in permitting fifteen or twenty people
to know that be had been afflicted with the
toothache every minute since 7 o'clock the
previous evening. He couldn't eat drink
nor stai.d still, and when some one asked
him why be didn't go to a dentist, he
replied.
"Because I haven't got the pluck! Here
! I am, a great big six-footer, able to knock
down an ox, and yet 1 haven t got the gnt
to stand one yank on th s tooth! I've been
down on the battle-line, in free fights aud
out among the red skins, but I'm a cow
ard:" Some laughed and some encouraged him,
aad he tinal'y said:
"Weil, 1 believe I'll try it, but I know
wha'J. Sin, and I want something to push
me on. I'll bet this five-dollar bill a.tainst
ten wets that I'll have the tooth pnhed."
Oue of the guests made the wager, and
a small crowd went along to see the fun
The stranger walked up as bold as a lion,
took a seat in the dental chair, and evinced
no signs of crawfishing until the dentist
picked up the forceps and told him to get a
good grip on the chair. Then he grew
white in an instant, slid out of the chair,
and scizedhis bat and said:
'It's just as I expected! I'm a great big
calf on wheels, and the worst flunker in
America, but I can't help it! I've lost the
five dollars, and will probably have the
toothache right along for a week, but I'll
have to stand it and .Mope to be struck by
lightning or mashed up on the cars."
Man aa a Compound.
The eminent Prof. Jager regards man as
a threefold being, made up of body; of
purely physical matter; spirit, or that
which is absolutely immaterial and trans
cendant ; the soul, or connecting link be
tween the body and spirit. The soul, ac
cording to him, is the seat of.the will, tbe
passions and the emotions, and it may be
lsoiatea oy expemueuw ifc bjbv casujr
perceived by the sense of smell. He en
deavors to trace the phenomena of sympa
thy and antipathy as between different in
dividuals, whether brute or human, to the
nature of the "soul emanation." Tbe want
of harmony in their specific emanation was
the cause of the social chasm between Jews
and Christians, bctwt a Aryans and ne
groes, Ac. It would appear, then, that it
is but a universal eolotnewhlch is needed
to bring peace upon earth.
Whoa Oae Explodes.
There is unfortunately not much difficul
ty in accounting for the London disaster.
The Gas Company has been laying a new
main through a part of London of the
unusual diameter of three feet. This vast
pipe has lately been laid along Guilford
street, through Russell Square, Montague
Place and Bedford Square, and seems to
have been in use np to the point in Baily
street where the explosion commenced. It
bad been since continued along the line of
the explosion. Recently the w.irkmeu con
nected these new pipes which run along
Percy street and Charlotte street with tbe
existing mains, and before leaving it for tbe
night the mu in charge tested tbe work by
applying a light. Now, however foolish
it may be to hunt for an escape of gas in a
room or a cellar or a cupboard with a light.
that was not the folly committed in this
particular case. If a pipe is fully charged
with gas and a hole is made in it out of
which the gas escapes into the open air, no
explosion is possible. The only possible
result in such a case is that the escaping
gas will light and burn with an ordinary
flame. Two things are needful to an ex
plosion ; the first of these w that the gas
shall be mixed with air; the second is that
the mixture shall be in some confined
place. In the upper part of a room an ex
plosion will happen if there is one part of
gas to Queen of air and a candle is applied
to tbe mixture. But as the gas is lurhtei
than air it will always get away if there is
any opening for it; so that an explosion
can only result from an escape when the
gas is prevented from getting away. Now,
for s-muc reason or other, the pipes tested
recently were not full of gas, but of an ex
plosive mixture of gas and air, and conse
quently when the light was applied the
whJle exploded like a train of gunpowder.
Such an explosion would not have force
enough to tear open the earth all along its
course, but would find the weakest places.
and break out with concentrated violence
at those points. This is just what hapien
ed. The explosion ran along the whole of
the three and a half furlongs of the gas
main, and concentrated itself to burst out
at half a dozen points. The accumulated
force in all the intermediate lengths of tube
spent itself at these points. The outburst
at these places was like the firing of some
enormously long cannon which had been
charged ta the muzzle.
Parte la Winter.
So ecnomical are the poorest claws, that
they are obliged to make shift with as little
fire as possible. Tbe poor seamstress has
generally, rolled up in flannel, a hot flat-
iron which she warms on a portal le
petroleum cooking apparatus and uses a i
footstool during the long hours when she
is engaged with her needle and thread.
On the san.e stove, her soup simmers the
whole day long, to provide in the evening
a succulent ana seasonauie meal, cne pro
tects in going out, her feet from the snow
and frost by woolen stocking, coarse flan
nel boots and wooden shoes into which
before putting them on she has slipped a
pair of cork soles. The petitet lourgeou
fortify themselves in their domiciles against ! whistle sounding au alarm it is his first tm
cold, as the garrison of a belcagured fort I pulse to lookout of the window, but this
would take precautious against an insidious, ; impulse is always restrained !r second
cruel and ever-watchful enemy. Every
door and window are caulked up with
bourretct, i e. a tube of calico stnffed
with tow and nailed along orifices above ; i
below, down straight, and, in short, wher- j
ever the wind is in the habit of penetrating, j
Hot ashes are pi.ed up at tbe backs of fire
places. Closed stoves are never u ed m
Paris unless in omnibus offices the ante
rooms of private houses and in the lodgings
of poor people, who do all their cooking
and ironing in tbe single sitting-room. A
closed stove is a confession of poverty. An
open fire is the rule with the respectable
middle classes who use the oldfashioncd
hearth, with two iron bars ninning from
back to front, and faced with dog's heads
across which blocks of wood are laid The
brushwood is placed underneath, and on
tbe application of a lighted match there is
in a moment a blazing, crackling Are, the
warmth of which the ash-heap behind pro
longs. The Srrecta of London.
The streets of London do not unfor
tunately, expand with its growth. New
streets it is true, are formed as new houses
are built, and the old streets still retain
their former proportions and are often
wholly incapable of affording accommoda
tion lor the number of carriage which at
tempt to pass through them simultaneous
ly. Old Bond street, for instance, at some
leasons of the year, utterly breaks down
under the pressure of its traffic For some
hours every afternoon this unfortunate
street is completely blocked by a tost of
carriages tals and other vehicles cram
med into it vkiihout reference to its latest
dimensions. The people in the carriages,
to judge by the expression on their faces
seem to be in no hurry ta move on. Time
to them has no particular value, and when
the weather is genial Bond street, with its
many shops and many interesting associa
tions )8 hy no means an unpleasant place
for meditation and repose. It is otherwise
with the people in tbe cab, and who are, as
a rule, bent on business rather than plea
sure, and whose looks denote anxiety and
impatience. Sometimes, indeed, they show
signs of temper, and make use of language
they must in calmer momenta deplore.
They are to be pitied, for the consequences
of missing a train or failing to keep an ap
pointment are often serious. It is how
ever, not easy to suggest any remedy for
the inconvenience they endure. Old Bond
street was built in 1 6So. when private and
public vehicles were comparatively few in
cumber. It was then, no doubt, wide enough
for the traflhc of the day, but there can be
no doubt that it is now, like manv other
old streets quite unfit for the requirements
of modern London.
Treading; the Old rata.
The morning sun was dancing over the
floor in doubleshuflles as His Honor fell into
the Detroit station, bis face flushed, his hair
wet and bis general look one of goneness.
"Bijah, did you ever see such a scorcher?"
he faintly Inquired, as he fanned himself
with his hat. "This 'ere weather," replied
the old janitor, as he stood his broom in the
co.-nir, "is ireezing compared 10 smeitx
periencedin Jiexico. ny, Juage, tve
seen it so hot in Santa Fe that ink boiled in
the inkstand while I was trying to write a
letter to my mother. I was sues' ruck
seven times in one day while driving an ice
wagon." "Mr. Joy," said His Honor, as
be rose up and rroved to his desk, "I was
in hopes your late illness would be taken by
you as a solemn warning, and am grieved
to find you Kill treading the same old
path. "Wasn't I ever in Mexico ?" de
manded the old man as his face prow red.
"We won't argue the case. I am sorry for
you." A bootblack behind the stove here
began to grin. Bijah walked over and
seized his hair and gave him a lift in the
world and whispered in his ear: "Boy, I
want you to understand that I've .been In
more Mexico than you've got hairs on your
ca'p, and any mere grin around were will
lea yeu the top ot your neaa.
It has always been easy for housewives
who are troubled with rats to poison
tbem, but tbe problem has been to induce
them to die upon the field of honor, so to
speak to wit, the kitchen floor. They
have usually preferred to retire to their
inaccessible retreats in the walls as soon
as they have felt the symptoms ot arseni
cal poisoning, and the low state o: sanitary
science prevailing in their communities is
such that poisoned rats are'never properly
buried or incinerated by their assoc:ates.
The problem has been how to kill the rats
without bringing unpleasant odors into the
house. Mrs. Benedict has solved the
difficulty and is entitled to the honor we
give to an inventor and benefactor. She
was engaged, it appears, in the domestic
manufacture of plaster casts of various
kinds. Complaint having been made of
the fragility of these wares, Mrs. Benedict
began a course of experiments with the
hope of giving greater durability to her
casts. Une ot her devices was to mix
wheaten flour with ber pulverized plaster
of Paris so that the glutten of the flour
might make the paste less brittle. One
evening she had visitors, who rang htr
door-bell just as she was sifting the mixed
plaster and flour for the third time by way
of mixing them intimately, as the chemists
say. She had already set a dish of watar
at hand, intending to make a cast at once,
and when the door-bell rang she hastily
removed ber apron and went to welcome
ber guests, leaving her material upon the
kitchen table. The guests stayed until
late bed time, and when they bid her
adieu Mrs. Bcuedict went to bed without
returning to the kitchen. What happened
in the nirht was this. A rat, sniffing the
' odor of flour, made up the leg of the table
to the top, where he was speedily joined
by other foragers bis brethren. Tbe dish
of dour and plaster was easily reached, and
the rats ate freely ami hastily of it, as it
is their custom to do. It was rather a dry
supper, and water being at hand, each rat
turned from the savory dish of flour and
plaster to slake bis thirst with water.
Every! oiy who bis had to do with plaster
of Paris will guess at once what happened.
The water drank first wctt .il the plaster in
the rats' stomach, and then, in't 'Cln cd
phrase, "set'' it; tha is to say, the plaster
thus made into a paste lustantly grew hard
in each rat's stomach, making a cast of all
its convolutions. The eveut proved that
with sucb a cast in existence it is impossi
ble for a rat to retreat even across the
itiu-hen. That morning thirteen of them
lay dead iu a circle around the water dish.
.Mrs. Benedict, like a wise woman, kept
her secret and made profit of it. t-he un
dertook, for consideration, to clear the
premises .f her neigulxirs of the pests and
sicceetlel It wa not long before the
town was as free of this sort of vermin as
if the piej piper of Haaiel'm had traveled
that way. Tucn Mrs. Benedict advertised
for agents to work up the business through
out the country, selling each the secret for
a fair price.
I Should think It Uld."
W hen a railroad passenger hears the
thought, except in the case of green tra
velers, uecently an oM man and his wife
were passengers on a Lake shore train, and
a the scxtion men were makin ' repairs oa
the lint in various places the whistle was
sounded pretty often. Tbe old couple were
fully alive to every 't'.ot," and each time
the old man would stick his bead out of the
window.
"Does it mean anything, Samuel?" ask
ed the wile every time his head came back,
but he could give her no satisfactory ex
planations. A traveler behind them finally
warned the old man tbat he ran a risk by
sticktng his head out, but at the very next
toot he was at it again. He wore a plug
tat which looked fully twenty years old,
and its loss would be nothing great. Prep
arations were quietly made behind him. and
everything was all ready when the next
whistle sounc!e L
"I wonder what's on the track now ?"
queried the wife, as she moved around
un asily.
"I dunno." he replied, "I believe we've
run over as many as a dosen men since we
left Toledo."
"Do lookout and see wbatit means" she
cont'nued.
Out went his head, his face towards the
engine, and a smart lap with a cane from
the next window knocked bis hat off and
sent it flying into a swamp. He pulled back
with sucn a rush that he almost went over
bis wife into tbe aisle.
"Land a stars! but did it mean any
thing'" she cried, as she grasped him,
"I should think it did !" he yelled. "It
meant that I was a dinned old fool, and
have got to go bare-headed all the rest of
this summer !,
The hard-hearted conductor refused to
stop tbe train and recover tbe hat, and at
the finis of a hot discussion the bare-head
ed victim brought his fist down with shiver
ing force and exclaimed:
"Waal, now, 1 want you to understand
that if there is anv law in this land this 'ere
railroad has got to move its fence coiners
back. 'Sposen, them rails had given me a
wipe on the jaw !"
A Modrat Brother.
A certain gentleman requiring legal assist
ance had l teen reconimenuea to one oi
two brothers but had forgotten the Chris
tian name of him he sough!, so he called at
the office of the one first found and asked
for Mr. Podger.
''That is my name, sir.
"But there are two of you of that name
here in town 1"
"Yes."
"Well, I wish to consult the Mr. Podger
excuse ue tor the allusion who wears a
wig."
'We both wear wigs air."
"Well, the man I seek was divorced from
his wife not long ago."
"There, you hit us both again, sir."
"Tbe man to whom I was recommended
has recentlybeen accused of forgery, though
I trust unjustly."
"There we are again, my dear sir. We
have both had that ecntle insinuation laid
at our doors."
"Well, upon my word, you two brothers
bear a striking resemblance. But I guess I
have it now. The one I am after is in the
habit of occasionally drinking to excess
sometimes to intoxication."
"Mv dear man, that little vice Is unfortu
nately characteristic of the pair of us and I
doubt if our best friends could tell you
which was the worst.
"We'l, you are a matched pair certainly.
But tell me," continued the visitor, "which
of the twain it was that took the poor debt
ors oath a lew moot us ago i
"Ha, ha, we were both in that muddle.
I was on Bob's papa and he was on mine,"
"In mercy's name!" cried the appli.
cant, desperately. "Will you tell me which
of the two is tbe most sensible man I"
"Ah, there you touch bottom, my friend.
Poor Bob, I cant stretch the truth, even
to serve a brother. If you want the more
sensible one of the two I suppose I must
acknowledge the corn. Tm the man."
Roaeood By A Doc;.
Recently a number of soldiers went from
Fort Craig to the Rio Grande for a bath
Among them was Captain Jack Crawford.
After being in the water about three-quarters
of an hour Captain Jack started to
cross toward the other side over a sand-bar,
on which the water was only from six
inches to a foot deep. Several of the others
had followed Jack, and they had consider
able fun tripping each other and rolling
over in the water, while two of the boys
got Jack down in the shallow water and
tickled him in the ribs until he was nearly
exhausted with laughter, he being very
ticklish. In order to get away from hia
tjrmentors Jack rolled over towards the
deep water on the lower edge of the bar,
and when he got np on his feet he kept
backing down stream, and although there
was not over two feet of water where he
stood, yet the current was so strong that it
would carrv him down should he lose his
footing. He kept splashing water on those
who bad been tickling him and bantering
them to come on after him. when suddenly
he made two or three desperate efforts to
get back, but failed. Yet he said not a
word or the others might have joined Lands
and reached for him. No one dreamed for
a moment tbat be was trying to extricate
himself from the quicksand. All at once
he went down like a piece of lead. Even
then we thought he had taken a dive until
be was under water longer than a man
would willingly stav, ami, indeed, no one
would have noticed this particularly had we
not heard a peculiar sound, more like the
roar of a lion than anything else, and the
next instant Jack's dog, "Hero," a beauti
ful St. Bernard, was seen swimming
towards his master, while he set up a howl
tbat seemed to say, "I'm coming," Jack
came up about twenty-five varus below
where he went down and right in the centre
of a terribly swift current, near where the
river would make a quick, sharp turn. He
was nearly exhausted when the sand broke
from under him, anil, striking a whirlpool,
be could ni&ke little or no headway and
had to use all his strength to keep from be
ing caught in the suction. Hill, a Sjldicr,
otdrrly for General Hatch, soon as he saw
the dog go f-T Jock .so sprang iu the cur
rent, but Hero got to -V!; tret, juat as he
was going down the second time, and tak
ing him by the hair of the head brought
him alwve water. Jack, who nevnr lost
his presence of mind, caught the dog by
the lack jutt above the hip, and the faith
ful Hero brought him safe to shore, nearly
a mile below where he first went down.
This was really a narrow escape, as an
otdcer and five soldiers went down nearly
in the same place a few years ago and were
never seen. A wagon and team of mulea
disappeared in the river two yean ago and
have not turned up yet. An old Mexican
brought Jack over from the opposite shore
in a boat, while Hero never ceased licking
this hands and face until he came out of the
boat. In about an hour Jack was all right
again, except that he had a headache and
could not hear good, his ears being full of
water. He told bis experience as follows :
"When I got away from the boys I felt
kinder weak. The denied cusses they
tickled me till I couldn't kick : then when
I got near the lower end of tbe bar I felt
the sand getting softer and my feet so rued
to stick as if tbey were being drawn down,
and I had to keep pulling them out one
after another, when, all at once, the whole
bottom seemed to drop right out of the
river, and down it went, and that under
current just held my ne on the ground;
for a little while, by Jove, I thought i
never would get up, and in those few sec
onds under that current of muddy water I
saw more strange sights in my mind, than
ever Jules Verne pictured fifty leagues
under the sea. When I did come up the
first thing I heard was Hero, theu turning
round I saw the dear old boy coming for
me with all his might. I believe I'd lost
my senses if I hadn't seen that dog, but just
then that old Spottsylvania hip wound
stopped my right leg from doing any service,
and I felt that I had struck a whirlpool. I
kept on the outer edge as much as possible,
and believe I must have made aliout a turn
and a half; when I felt I had to go I took
a long breath, shut my mouth, and the
next thing I knew Hero had me by the
hair. It was the first time 1 ever felt like
having my scalp lilted, at leant above
water. As soon as I got a mouthful of air
Hero left go, and I 'aught hold of him by
the hips, when he towed me ashore. 1 tell
you tbe hot sand was a good layout for me.
I was never so much exhausted, ami if I
had been drowned I suppose the Coroner
would have said it was accidental drowning,
instead of being tickled to death." Captain
Jack's dog is without doubt the finest speci
men of the St. Bernard that I ever saw.
He is eleven months old, weighs 125
pounds, and white as snow, hazel eyes
and a very broad forehead and most in
telligent lace.
Two Joker.
On the .Michigan Central train the othe
day was a passenger who had lo"t his right
arm. Nion alter the train pulled out or
Detroit, he began talking with those around
him in regard to the political candidates
claiming to have served under both. This
led some one to ask bow he lost his arm.
and he replied :
"It was down in the W ilderaess. V e
were charging tbe enemy's line. A bullet
struck my arm, crushed the bone, and 1
fell unconscious. When I was restored to
consciousness I was in the bunds of the
Confederates. Indeed a soldier was going
through my pockets. When he discovered
that 1 was alive he was aliout to bayonet
me, but a corporal sprang forward, knocked
tbe wretch down, and save 1 my life."
bile he was telling this, a man with
bis left arm gone had risen from his seat
and came nearer, and as the other finished
he bent forward and said :
"I am that very corporal I I remember
the incident as if it happened only yester
day. I had you conveyed to an old log
barn over on tbe right.
"Yes yes let us shake bands let us em
brace! Thank Heaven that I have found
you out. How came you here?'
"I have been to Detroit to be treated for
cancer, but there is no longer any nope. I
am going home to go to the poorhouse and
there end my days, i haven't a shilling or
a friend,
"And I am going to tbe poorhouse as
well," replied the other. "1 have consump
tion, and I am penniless. I must go and
die among paupers."
Then they embraced some more and
seemed to weep. One passenger fished up
half a dollar and passed his hat, and in five
minutes a collection amounting to $3.50
was divided between them. Everybody
said it was a shame ; an old man seemed
willing to adopt tbem both if tbey would
go to Illinois. But tbey didn't; ihey got
off at Dearborn, and it was a quarter of an
hour after before a commercial drummer
dared to make tbe statement that both
chaps lived in Detroit, both lost their arms
by accident, and that they naa piayea tne
same game over and over on every railroad
in the State.
The strength of many pollt leans lies
ia the fact that tbey keep Mum.
Thi little peach catches the early
market.
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