a. AkMl. jP Jit A s 1 i sciifi J H B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COtfSTITUTIOI THE TJBTOlf AID THE ETTOEOEMEET OP THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXIV. MIFFLINTOWX, JUNIATA COUNTY, FENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1SS0. NO. 37. Oh jolly old place is grandpa's bam. Where th doir stand open throaghont tbe day. iui tbe cooing doves fly in and out, Ai;d the air is sseetwith the fragrant hay; Wlitra grain lies over the slippery floor. And tbe heoe arc bosliy loosing around, And tbs sunbeams flicker, now hers, now thtfs. And tbs breeze blocs through with a merry sound . The swallows rn'tter and chirp all day. With fluttering wing, in the old brown cares. And tlis robins sing in the trees which It an To brush the roof wiih their rustling leaves. U f.c tbe clad vacation time, tVLtn grandpa s barn will echo tbe shout Of marry children, who roam an 1 play n the new-born freedom of school let out, Bnrh scaring of doves from their coey nests. Such hunting for eggs in the lofts so bgh. Till ths frightened hens, with a cackle shrill, Frjm their hidden lreaa.iree ars fain to Oh. the dear old barn, so owl. so wide ! lis deors wi 1 open aain ere lung To the Summer sunshins, ths new-mown And the merrv ring of vacation sobj. For grandpa's bun ia tLs J oiliest place Fr frohc snd fan on a Summer's day ; And e'en eld Time, at the years slip by. Its memory never oa ateal away. Margaret's Money. "She lias five thousand pounds," said the eld man, "and she' a good girl. She'll be a catch for somebody." Then I thought he looked at me. "Why should he look at me?" I thought 'I'm not a husband worth angling for, as l.e knows very well, this man who pays r.ie my email salary every week with his own hands. Still he did look at me, and I answered with a word or two; 1 forget what now. "Yes," he said talking with a meaning, too, looking at me evidently, to see how I took the news, "yes; and what do you suppose she does with it? Has it locked cp in my fire-proof safe in my fire-proof vault, don't use it in any way, don't get merest on it: locks it up as she does her rings and pins and lets it lie never tonrhed. "1 wonder you doat give her better ad rice," I said. "Give a woman advice!" be said. "Try it. However, I approve of this. Better keep her dowry locked up safe, than risk and lose it. My fire-proof safe and fire proof vault will hold her money the money her husband is to have the day he marries her fast and safe." Then the old man trotted away to his own desk, and looked over it at me, 'I'm her guardian," be said. "Her father and I bad quarrelled, you know. But when he died, be left her and her money in my care. A nice thing far an old lacbelor to have, a young niece quar tered on him for life! I'll marry her off as soon as I can. I say, Fisher, come up and take tea with me to-night" He did mean it' He offered his niece and her five thousand pounds to me! He bad never liked me either. "Shall I go?" I asked myself. "Why not? I might as well see the heiress. I was not a man to be bought by money, it she were a coarse, vulgar creature, like her uncle; bui otherwise, why not see what she was made of! At least it could do no harm to take tea with old Simon Giddings. I went home with him that evening. I noticed some little changes in the parlor, as though a lady's hands had been busy there; and in a moment Hiore I saw, sit ting in the shadow of tbe curtains, a girl dressed in deep mourning. "Margaret, Mr. Fisher, my niece, Miss Giddings, Tom," said the old man; and as I bowed, I saw a little velvet-headed cratch leaning against the girl's chair. She was lame, then. Old Giddings thought this was an obstacle to her making a good match. So he offered her to Tom Fisher. "It won't do, old man." I thought "I shouldn't mind a plain face to much, but a lame wife will never do for me." Then something whispered faintly in my ear, "Five thousand pounds!" For the rest, Miss Giddings was fair and sweet-looking, and pleasant in her man ner. She was a lady, too, which seemed odd for old Simon's niece, for he was as vulgar as be was rich; and she sang to us after tea very sweetly. I liked a girl with dash and color, but still her blue eyes and sweet smile haunted me a little after I went home. "She! never quarrel with one," I thought; "and a women worth five thousand pounds would be a catch, certainly; but that crutch: "I'll stay away from Old Simon's house for the future. But he would not let me stay away; he kept on urging me to go borne with him. There was Marion More. Perhaps she liked me a little, I admired her intensely, but she had no money, and I should take her away from her snug home to some poor sort of place if I married her. I should find it hard work to feed and clothe her decently. This fair, sweet Margaret was rich; and a time passed on, I began to see her liking for me. And I sat in the office one day, three months from the time of my first visit, wondering whether I could be quite sure that I should be good enougn w the little thing I meant to marry for her money, to keep her from knowing that there was no actual tove for her in my heart And as I poncered, the voice of old Simgs reached my ears: "Tom Fisher np in the moon again, eh! Well, well, when a fellow is in love we excuse laziness in him. There's my niece Mar garet pouring the tea in the slop basin and oversetting the milk at breakfast "Mog gie," says 1, "you're thinking of some one, an't yet She blushed to her ears. You've managed to get into good graces in tiat quarter, Tom?" "Do you think sof" I said. "1 kw so said the oM - oughtn't to aay so, you know, but Tm aaiisV. I listened to him, then two voices whis pering to me: 'You dont love her," said one. -You don't hate her," aaid the other. "You don t want a lame wife," said the first ou do want live thousand pounds," said the other. It would make a man of you. You CDu'd go into business on your own account Tou'd cease to be a slave in this dingy office." Five thousand pounds! " I said to myself. Then I started to my feet "Mr. Giddings," 1 said, "would you be willing to give your niece to me as my wife?" ' His answer was frank. "Torn Fisher, I'd give her to any decent young man. A girl bothers me; I'm tired ef the charge. Every one dont want a same wife. If you like her, take her, and on your wedding day, I'll hand the five thousand pound to you, and be rid of the charge. She'll aay 'Yea,' don't fear. I'll tell her that you asked me to-night, and hurry on the wedding. I thought I heard the thump of a crutch in the church aisle as he spoke. I thought jof the graceful step of Marion More. I turned faint, and sat down to my desk; but I went to old Sim n's house that night, and saw Margaret She looked as fair and happy as a child. I sat down by her and took her hand. - "Are you going to say Xo,' Maggie?" I said, and she lifted her innocent lips to mine, and kissed me. "I'll be good to her,i sai1 to myself. I'll be very, very good to her." But there was no lover's warmth in my heart; only a kind of gentle pity for the girl who was to bring me five thousand pounds. We were, engaged. Old Simon joked us coarsely, and seemea to exult over the affair. I might even have doubted of the existence of the five thousand pounds, but j that Maggie told me of them herself. "Uncle was keeping them for me to live on, when I was an old maid," she said. "But you shall do what you choose with the money when I belong to you. We II buy a pretty house, shan't we dear, first of all, and live there all our lives; somewhere where we can have a garden?" So, after that, I never doubted, but clung to the idea as I could not If 1 had loved the girl. We were marrie-l in a fortnight Uncle Simon and his old house-keeper alone were present It had touched me a good deal when Margaret had whispered that she had rather not have a wedding party. "Fancy the bride "limping up the aisle upon a crutch!' she said. ''Let me be married with none to stare at me. You love me so I don't care alut being lame any more, but I'd rather not be stared at" 1 took her in my arms and kissed her then. I'll be rood to her." I said, as the clergvinan uttered his prayer, "very, very good;'' and I wa saying it agftin when I at with my wife ih old Simon s parlor in he twilight and he coming in, lit the gas, and stool twinkling bis eyes at us malic iously. So it's over," he said, with his fiendish chuckle. "She's yours nowf.tr her five thousand pounds. I'm going to hand il over to bight I shall sleep better." I bluslied with shame. "Xi yet" I said; "don't talk of money yet!" "Xoi" said Simon. "But I will though. I've got it hiTC." And he unlocked a side board which stood in the room, aad brought out a small roll done up oddly enough in brown paper. There it is," said he, "there it is! Look at it count it Five thousand plump count it." He fairly grinned as he spoke. She smiled. I saw something in his IaUj,h that made me shudder. Without a word more I walked to the table, opened the parcel and spread out the notes. There were five thousand pounds worth of them, reading the value on their faces, but tiicy were the nous of the Diddleton and Bilkcui Bank, which had failed years ago! 1 had been deceived. The girl I had married was penniless! "Impostor!" 1 yelled. Old Simon an swered with a roar of laughter. "Good joke," he said. "I've done what I promised. You've g. t the five thousand; I didn't tell you what it was in. Of course such money is of no use to yn, but 1 can't I help that. Ha! ha!" I thick 1 snouia nave tj"c" - 1 but just then I heard Margaret scream. I looked at her. I saw. as I had known before, that she bad no band in the decep tion. I saw an awful look in her eyes, a doubt of mv love trembling on her lip. I saw hJr rise and falter on her poor feet, and iretch her hands towards me. I heard her cry, "Thomas. I did not know; and then-oh, thank God for it-the love I had never felt before rushed into my heart-a great, all-conquering love. Iran to her. I took her in my arms. I eave her the first kiss of Parnate new-born love, and I said, "Margaret, try to bear poverty with me, for I love you TdZgS. money-the money that had faded before me like fair, ' gol d could never have gircn me half the joy that the wealth of love, given to and re ceived from her, gave me upon our bndal . .u- drri alnlTOlinff day- rare me in ail u - redded life, and will pre me, rears OI our w cr - T r,ltheend: prince of Germany. The Crowi "nHs as Cordially by the friend, and shoo wndering as hard; then, llDoud to. said, "1 to .embly, in J;!! yoo; tbto man trodnce my Vthi. flattering educated me." The object ol The SSJ Unversed prince turned again to mm an U with himforr'ettne man, be had a son. "Yea, ?V sodded nntiieBodyGua Thenco and dd AW 'a. a Compaq already. Woodcock. Bogardus, in his work on "Field, Cover and Trap Shooting," aays that to make a good bag of woodcock is a feat the sports man may well be proud or. To meet with success in woodcock shooting, one must be an excellent snap shot and possess a tireless nerve and muscular organization. Besides, he must be familiar with the hab its of the bird. To an experienced eye, woodcock ground is easily recognized. This dainty little bird is an epicurean in its habits, and a voracious feeder. The fat, angle and other worms which inhabit the rich, soft and wet ground, are consul em! by the woodcock as the most dainty morsels, and form its sole diet Among the lowland and marshy places where the ground is soft ami loamy, the woodcock loves to dwelL It is nocturnal in its hab its, spending its nights in feasting, and then at the break of dawn retires to a favorite retreat among the willows or tan gled underbrush, and gently dreams the daylight hours away. It is a hard bird to find, and a sportsman without a staunch dog with a good nose, mayaluioet tramp aon bird before it takes to its wings, and it is seldom seen until it flies. Occasionally the sharp eye of an experienced sportsman catches sight of a bird in its day retreat Tbe woodcock obtains its food by means of its long-pointed bill with which nature has furnished it, and on account of its resem blance to the snipe it is often mistaken for this bird by farmers who occasionally flush it while making tours through the marshy portions of their esta'i. The bird while searching fcr food, probes his bill deep into tne mucky spots where worms are plenty, and his sensitive prober soon de tects the presence ef the wood cock tempting morsel. For hunting woodcock a dog is almost absolutely neces sary. Man does not like to penetrate the marshy places and spots overgrown with onars ana tail weeuj, where tne bird is found, to raise him from his hiding place, and no; having the necessary olfactory re quisites to detect the presence of tbe bird by scent may walk within a step of bis in tended victim without flushing him. On account of its tender feet and hide, it is al most wicked to use a pointer in woodcock shooting among the marshes though in hunting the bird late in the season among tbe corn fields, a staunch pointer is used to good advantage. For general woinioock shooting the setter is much used. His coat of long hair and feathered feet protect him from the cutting swan p grass and poison ous briars, but the thoroughbred Sussex and St. Charles cockers are fast growing in pop ularity for cover sliootmg. They aie meny and active workers, and when properly broken and handled afford tbe shooter ex cellent sport Generally speaking tbe woodcock is a hard bird to hit. Josh Killings, in an ar ticle on birds, says of the woodcock that the first that is seen of the bird is a "whiz, and the last we see is a whirr." In shoot ing among the saplings the shooter must follow the dog and take his chances with snap shots. In low underbrush and later in the season among tbe corn fields, some open shots are obtained. The uncertain flight of the woodcock as he rises in hU rig lag night tends to distract the aim ol the shooter, and the success of the novice is very uncertain. A Naval tiorror. The Chilian transport Loa, purchased nt the commencement of the present war, was blown up in Callao bay on the 3d of July. The affair caused great excitement in Lima and much gratification among the Peru vians. The plan was a diabolical one. From the time the Chilian fleet had been ou the coast of Peru it has been noticed that the officers and men were particularly partial to flirts and vegetables, not being always csreful to distinguish between the market boat of a neutral merchant vessel and the coasting boat of a Peruvian. This fact impressed itself on a Peruvian officer, and at last he hit on a plan to turn it to some practical account He took an ordi nary fruit boat, put a torpedo iu the bot tom and over this be placed a false bottom resting on springs, kept down by the weight of the cargo, lie then loided it with a very choice assortment of camatcs, yucas, chirimoyas, gmnulillas, iowlsaud turkeys, green vegetates, etc., etc., and towing it out towards tiic blockading squadron be fore daytight set it aunft. All day long that launch floated aliout, but the Chilians could not see it, until about five o'clock in tbe evening, fearing it wouid fall into neu tral hands, a boat was sent out to bring it back. The Loa was doing duty, and see ing the bout from the shore leaking to wards the neutral vessel can -lit sigtit of the launch n -t-cs turned towards it. Seeing th s ii - Ikia: :i r,i.-L h laiahasty retreat The Loa lowtitd lo boats to bring in the prize, and it was brought alongside and the discharge at once com menced. As tbe weight in the launch was diminished the machinery in connection with the torpedoes was set fiee and in a moment three hundred pounds of dynamite were exploded and the Loa was alinott lifted out of the water. The effect, as described by those who were watching the operation with breathless interest from the shore, was awful in the extreme. Every house in Callao was shaken to its founda tion and every ship in the bay shivered as though a feaiful earthquake had speut its fury beneath them. The fated ship ap peared as enveloped in one mass oi name, which lesolved itself into dense clouds of black smoke. When this cleared aw-iy she seemed not to have suffered; but suddenly she. was observed to sink at the stern, while her bows went high in the air, and the Loa disappeared forever. Perils of tbe London M roc la. It lia Wn calculated that the vcarlv average of persons killed by accidents in iKa rinvtt nf fondon is irreater than tbe annual total of persons lusssacred on all the railways ol the L mtea lvingoom. mu rine the last decade oi tne victims oi me thoroughfares the metropolis have reached an aggregate of Ziao, while in zs, 071 cases more or less injuries have been ;nfliiut These statistics arc start line. and they signify in reality more than at first appears. Only tne tiowi injuries are enumerated under the puoushed cate gories. There is a considerable percentage c .... i J . 41 I I, of casual! ties wnicn uurs uw m j into print and when it is said last year tbe killed and wounded in the London streets amounted to 234 and 3Bia respectively, it must be remembered that the eslimato is i.,ww4 tn a minimum. The allowance of unascertained accidents may be calculated upon as that of undetected murders. Aiarm u these fiirures seem, there is nothing surprising in them when one recollects what are tne iacis auu um tuc perils of tbe case. A population of 4,000, trarprsed hv DerDctual streams WV, " and blocked by constant congestions of traffic -tbe numrjer oi veniciea oi uiuerem .:,). -,;.), riailv nass un and down Ox- aiuuo .-- j i i ford streets is computed at 11,891; tho rtoJrhfares often absurdly inadequate fee the exigencies oi tne proem uj; iuui passengers in swarms, frequently indiffer ent to all considerations of personal safety; drivers of every variety of caution and ckleas-iasa-these are the chief features ef the situallen. A Maine Fanner aad Plaaenaan- It was the islander who was both fanner and fisherman, as a person uniting in him self the two moat ancient and honorable professions, that aroused in Middleton the principal interest Such a one could not lake the trips of two to three weeks with the seiners of the coast fleet; still less could he go tbe long voyages of the bankers, to the bays of L Escaul and Chaleurs. to Green land and even as sometimes happens, to tbe coast ol Iceland, for fresh balibut where they join the fleets of Northern France, the Netherlands, and the Scandi navians. He must attend the lobster-traps; set weirs for herring, menhaden, alewives, and mackerel; keep dragnets and trawls; pernaps, u lavotaoiy located, make a a specialty of aupplyiug bait to the fleet wuicn, now mat it must be Kept iced, it often in great straits for it Between times he runs to she for a day or two in his cat-boat, his "Hampton boat" or his jigger. The cat boat it appeared, was the better sailor, since the more canvas in a single sail, the closet into the wind; but the Hampton boat a modified pink stern, with shoulder-vi-mutton sails on its small masts was the "abler," that is to say, better qualified to stand the exigencies of al isorts of weather. The jigger, however, a small schooner of perhaps torty feet long by ten feet beam, with a considerable hold. and a cabin with four bunks, a table, and a rusty sheet-iron stove tor- ward, seemed the most available for general pui poses, whether for taking a haul of fish, smacking ' a loaat of lobsters, wood, or ice, or hanking a load of apples at retail from port to port, where they were a rarity. A professional "dragger" carried nearly a mile of nets. They were straight and not very deep. The fish was meshed in them by the gills. Thus by the regulation of tbe size of mesh only picked fish need be taken, while tbe great purse seines of the fleet take e Venning, destroy at every haul a value nearly equal to what is saved, and tend toward rapid extinction of the fish, as Middleton was told, besides having already reduced the averaite size. The trswl was another engine of formid able bavnc, against which there was equal complaint It is the method in use among the backers, exeirt on George's, wher' tbe tide ruus too swift f.ir anything but ly ing to an anchor, and hand-lining over tbe side. Tbe purse seine and the trawl are ibe twonietbods of taking fish par excel Unve, the f truer for liie mackere'. the alter lor ad iheo.h rsof giea: sizeer. Whin Middleton saw a trawl, he found that it was a long Coi d with hundreds of baited Looks fixed at intervals alonir it It was sunk so as to rest on the bottom, buoyed at both ends, and left there. A trawler kept great numbers of these lines neatly coi.ed in tubs, and set them one alter another. After a sutticicut lapse of time, he went back to the first, and 'underrau" it that is drew up one end, passed it over his boat, taking off the fish, and bailing the hooks anew, and paid it out at one side as he took it in at the othtr. The method pursued by the bankers was to carry twelve or fourteen dories, which were put out when the fishing ground was arrived at with two mea iu cach,providcd with tubs of trawls at discretion. It was the sun cu ed salt-fish that was tbe lavorite article of diet in the islanders' households, while very Utile account was made of the fresh. The young people had some merry customs of their own with it They represented that if a certain particu larly salt strip in the centre cal ed the dream "line," were eaten before going to lied, the girl or the young man oue was to marry trould be indicated by appearing in a visioa and handing htm or her a glass of water. llrraklnx A Chain. "You will have to open tbe shop this morning, Lucia, and take care of it the best you can," called my father from the next room, "for my head is aching so that I shall be unable to leave my bed to-day." 1 was quite a httle girl then, uot more than eleven years old, but as father and I were alone and there was nocne else to per form the task, I arose cheerfully, shivered in'o my clothes for it was bitter cold and quite early-ami hastened down stairs. Broom in hand for the purpose of sweep ing off the side sidewalk first, I proceeded to throw open the front door, but only, to draw back, with a faint cry of terror and surprise. Crouching behind the friendly shadow of a large packing-box, standing at one side of the doorway, was a lad, apparently about twelve or fourteen, a pooi, ragged creature, with hollow checks and a haunted look in bis dark-blue eyes that lived in my memory for many a day afterward. rlease, plcae, don t cry out or call any one:" be entreated in a low, pleading voice. "They'll surely take me again, and I don't waat to go back." "Don t want to go back where?" I asked, growing courageous and taking a step nearer him. For answer he pointed to a heavy ball and chain attached to one of his ankles. In those days for the time of which I write was long ago it was customary to attach a weight of some kind to the legs of convicts in order to prevent them from going very far in case they should attempt to escape; so I at once understood that he had broken away from the town jail. "I was arrested for stealing a meat-pie and thev treated me so bad at the jail." he said with a dry sob that went straight to my heart, "that that " "i on ran awav, poor boy! Come in, and I'll hide you safely awav." Together, and with much difflcu'ty in pre venting tbe chain from rattling which would betray his presence to my father, we succeeded in creeping down to the back cellar. There I left him, well satisfied with my morning's work. A little while after, I carried him a lxiwl of steaming coffee, and a slice of bread, which he swallowed to my great satisfac tion, with a decided relish. "I say, sis, he whispered, as I turned to leave, "if I had bad a good strong file, could get this ere chain off, and then I d be all right" "I will bring you not only a file, but a good suit of clothes that belonged to my brother that's dead, and an old re 1 wig from the garret, t disguise you with, ' I an swered 'on one condition only. "What is it?" he asked, eying me curious ly. "Only this, that you give me your solemn promise never to steal again, no matter bow poor or hungry you may be, and to try and become a good and respect able boy." A fLish of brightness, visible even ia the dim light that struggled through the narrow cellar-window, passed over his wan fea tures, and kneeling down before me, he caught one of my bands, and bending over it, slowly breathed the required pledge. For three days, during which time, fortunately for my project, my father kept his room, the poor fugitive remained in his diner retreat inen when night came on, and I well knew tbe one constable our town boasted was snoring comfortably between his blankets, I soltly opened the back door, and let John Ray as he eallad himself, out into the aarknesa. Freed from his fetters, and arrayed in I .1 : : i . : : i i i I iuc nice auu i unu given uiiu, iiu nja.eu so respectable, even handsome, that 1 felt he never would be recognized, and, that he might not want for ready caah to assist bim on his way I pressed a long treasured gold piece of my own in his hand, as we parted in sober silence in the shadowy doorway. Twelve years came and. went Misfor tune meanwhile had visited us in several ways. One wintry night our little shop and all it contained, together with cur household goods, was consumed by fire. Later my father's eyesight failed him, and hoping to better our condition, we moved to .New York. But we sooa found out that the great city was already over -crowded with work ers, and in a little while we became poorer than we had ever been before. Hearing one day that a wealthy gentle man, who was about to make a long jour ney, wanting a respectable person te care for his house during his absence, I hastened to apply for the situation. I found him at his office a handsome, kindly-featured man, seeming but a few years older than myself. "Have you references? he asked, on my statins my business. 1 produced a written paper, which our good minister had given me before I left the home of my childhood. A flush of pleasure overspread his hand some features as he read it " ou do not recognize me, I see, he remarked,. I certainly did not, and said so. "And you must remember John Rav? I shook my head. Ic the many troubles that had come uma us, the memory of the convict boy I once assisted passed entirely awav. "If you have forgotten me, Lucia Sum mers," be returned, taking a small shining cold-piece from his watch chain, "perhaps you may remember this, the coin you gave rrre one dark night twelve years ago. I bad no orca-ion to spend it then," he went on, "for I found work almost immediately, and, since, I have kept it as a talisman against temptation and a reminder of the promise I made you." "And why did you never let me hear from you?" I asked. I wrote to you once, but received ao re ply, and two months ago, when I found myself the junior member of the firm whom I had served so long, I went to your town to look for you but you had gone no one knew ;v hither. John K ty, prosperous and happy, went on bis intended journey, but not alone; for we were married soon after, and I ac compauied him, and my father also, for the purpose of having his eye attended to by a celebrated French doctor. When his sight was fully restored, we came buck to reside in the beautiful home wbii'h hr.dcome to us all through my timely aid i:i "Breaking a t'iiiiu." Scene in a Nevada Court-Room. Billy Brown, a lad ot ten, was put on the stand and questioned. Tbe court "Did vou ever take an oath?" Boy (positively) "Xo, sir; I never took anything in my hie." Mr. II lues (facetiously) "What ! nev er J" The spectators tittered, and the court, as mad as a hornet, called them to order, remarking: "I want mighty little of this 'Pinafore' business in my court" Just then the daughter of the court, on tbe floor above, was heard to disturb a piano and sing. "I'm called little Buttercup, dear' it tie Buttercup." Another laugh followe this incident, and the court sent a constable up stairs to make the merry maiden stop her vocal ana instrumental excrcases. "Shut that girl off at once," was the parting injunction from the bench. The youthful witness was finally allow, ed to testify without being sworn. "You see," he began, "I heard a racket and went out. The woman was chuckin' bricks and cussin' like thunder, and the boys was runnin' about the yard. The night before I went down town." District Attorney "ever mind about that." Witness "Well I did go down town. (I can prove it by Patsey over there." To Palscy) "Didu't we go down town Pat sey. Here the room was called to order again. and the boy put off the stand. Tne Woodaa Hat. Somewhere about the year 1780, a trav eling miU-wright, footsore, and with the broadest northern Doric accent stopped at Sobo, at the engine factory of Boulton A att, and asked for work, ills aspect was a little better than one of bogirary and poor looks, and Boulton had bidden him God speed to some other shop, when, as he was turning away sorrowfully, uoulton suddenly called bim back. "What kind of a hat's yon, ye have on your head me mon?" "It a just timmer, sir." . "Timmer, me mon; let's look at it Where did ye get it?" 'I just made it, sir, myainseL" "How did you make it?" "I just turned it in the lathie." "But it's oval, mon, and the lathie tums things round." "A wee!! I just gar'd the lathie gang anither gait, to please me, and I thocht to have a hat to keep out water, and I hadna' muckle siller to sj are and I made me anc." By his inborn mechanism the roan had invented an oval lathe, and made his hat, and the hat made his fortune. Boulton was not the man to lose so valuable a help, thus the after famous William Mur Jock the originator of locomotives and lighting by gas took suit and service under Boul ton & Watt and in 174 made the first vehicle impelled by steam in England, and with the very hands and brain-cunning that had produced the "timmer bat" Fair flay. Or.ce, when I was returning from Ireland (says Rowland Hill), 1 found myself an noyed by the reprobate conduct of the captain and mate, who were both sadly given to tbe scandalous habit of swearing. First, the captain swore at the mate; then tbe mate swore at the captain; then they swore at tbe wind, when I called out to them for fair play. "Stop! stop!" said L, "if you please gen tlemen, it is my turn now." "Ah, what is your turn, pray?" said the captain. "At sweanne," I replied. Well, they waited and waited, until their patience was exhausted, and then wanted me to make baste and take my turn. I told them, however, that I had a right to take my own time, and swear at my own convenience. To this, the captain replied with a laugh, "Perhaps you don't mean to take your turn?" "Pardon me captain," I answered, "but I do, as aeon as I can find tbe good of doing to." I did not hear another oath on the voy- A Dissertation on Thnmba. The female -thumb is said to be an lm portant index of the female character, Women with large thumbs are held by phrenologists, physiognomists 4c., to be more than ordinary intelligent what are called sensible women while women with small thumbs are retarded as romantic- According to certain authors, who profess to have been observers, a woman's hand is more indicative of her character than her face, as the latter ia to a certain extent un der the'control of temporary emotions or of tbe will, whereas 'he former is a fact which exists for anyone wbo understands it to profit by. Consequently a few hints about the proper reading ot a woman's hand may be very useful to aome of our readers. especially aiarned men, and men contemp lating matrimony. Women with square hands and small thumbs are said to make good housewifea, and gentle wives. These sort of women will make any man happy who is fortunate enough to win one of them. They are not at all romantic but they are what is better thoroughly domestic, women with very large thumbs have a tem per of then own, and generally a long tongue. There is a hint in this to a lover. Let bun, the first time be seizes hold ot his mistress hand, examine, under some pre text or another, her thumb ; and if it be large let him make up his mind that as soon as he becomes a married man he will have to be a good boy, or else there will be the very deuce to pay. Again if a young man finds that his lady-love has a large palm, with cone-shaped fingers and a sniaii thumb, let him thank his stars for in that case she is susceptible to tenderness, readily nattered, easily talked into or out of any thing, andean be a readily managed partner. But if she is a woman with a square hand, well proportioned and a tolerahlv developed thumb, why, then, she is either one of two distinct classes of woman she is either a practical female wbo will stand no non sense, or she is a designing female ; she is one who cannot be duped, or a woman who will dupe him. A Sad Bathluc-Place. Hall, in Austria, is a bathing-place fam ous for its iodine bath which is strongly re commended to those affected with sarofu- lous diseases. The fearful ravages of these diseases meet one at every turn here a livid wretch, wrapped up and being drawn about in a wheeled chair ; there some one painfully supporting himself ou a crutch ; sadly sitting under this tree a woman, her head and face wrapped up, a mass of scrofula, and many equally toathfome sights. Numer ous are the suicides which here take place, for people put off coming till hope is gone, and when they find il too late go to some quiet corner and send a bullet through their hcads. But the saddest of sad sights is the children, of whom there are many suffering in silence or crying with pain. o romp ing here, no shouts of pleasure, no games in the fields, no rosy cheeks and sunburnt legs, but crooked limbs and suppurating wounds, a heritage from their parents. 1 he little patients sit sad and downcast or walk quietly by their nurses. Many of tbem suffer from eye disease, and are led about blindfolded. Hall is unite a modern 'Bad," for although the spnngs have flowed for ages as records show they were, un til forty years ago, onlv used by peasants in the neighborhood. The waters are very powerful, and many a cattic despcratun has found a new lease of life through their agency; but tbey are limned in quantity, for their flow, although regular, is incon siderable- Hall can thus never become a large "Bail," and could not supply the wants of more than 2,000 invalids. About half the number are they now. I ascer tained on inquiry that one Englishman was taking the waters they are btithed in and drank and this gentleman and an Anier. can are the only two "Anglo-Saxons"' who have been there for the last four years. Strange to say, the most numerous com munity of foreigners is that of the Russians, of w hom there are many first-rate families. Of the good Austrians and Uunsarlausone meets In Hall some of the ereme. Could the stones of this quiet place but speak they could tell some startling family tales ! Uouaehold Cnatoms tn Jauan. When a woman reaches her house, she takes off her sandals, pushes aside the slid ing doors of paper, and enters in her stock ing feet The rooms are softly malted, but contain no furniture. The houses are built of wood, and among the poorer classes have but twoj or three rooms. In the kitch en is a large stone box with ashes and burn ing coals in it. Thisis called the hibachi, and over it tbe rice is cooked. There is co chimney in the kitchen, but smoke goes out either through an opening in the roof, or imperceptibly through the broad open doors. After tiie rice is cooked, it is put into a small unpainted wooden tub. At dinnertime, the mother brings out a little table, two feet square and one foot high, with dishes and food upon it The family sit upon the mats, the tub of rice is in the centre, aud each one dips out into a liowl, from this central dish, rice sufficient for himself. They often pour tea over the rice, and always eat with chopsticks. Fish, sweet potatoes, and a pickle made from a vegetable called daikon, are sometimes served with the dinner. Japanese houses often have but one sleeping room, which is occupied by the entire family. When guests come, they share it with them. The bed consist of heavy comforters. TheT are spread out on the mats at eight, and put awav in the ciosets during the day. Each person lays his bead, in sleeping, on a litt'e wooded pillow, constructed with a hollow place in which the head may re;t In some room, in the house is a closet con taining a shelf for tbe goods; and upon this shelf stand all the household idols, which have come down as heirlooms of the fam ily from generation to generation. One of the best tests of the sincerity of the Chris tian converts is their willingness to put away these idois; for it proclaims at once to their friends and the priests that they have renounced the religion of their fathers. Clveerlne. The inexhaustible usefulness of glycer ine has received another illustration by the erection at the Kew Observatory of glycerine barometer. Tbe advantages it possesses over mercury is that its indica tions of minute atmospheric variations are more easily observable, and it is thought that for meteorological stations, cojienes. and " some other such institutions, this facility would be of advantage. Glycerine varies an inch where mercury only varies one tenth of an inch; but the mean height of iu column against the air pressure is twenty-seven feet A difficulty in the use of glycerine occurred in the fact that tbe exposed surface freely absorbed moisture, but this has been overcome by covering the surface exposed in the cistern of the barometer with a layer of heavy petroleum oil prepared especially for the purpose. The barometer fixed at Eew has its cistern in a room below that where toe observa tions are taken so as to obtain the neces sary length of column. About three fourth of gallon of glycerine, colored red bf aniline, were required to 111 it Out of Repair But Tnere. Our cow was bought from sixty miles away and appropriately enough she took steer-age passage ia a steamer to get to Detroit. The wharf is about a quarter of a mile from the house and I stood there with two or thsee of my neighbors who had kindly offered to help mo home with the cow. As the steamer rounded too. noticed that the cow had the whole lower deck to herself and that there were guy ropes from every tie-able portion of ber to stationary articles on board. Tbe passen gers on tbe upper deck had a pleased ex pectant look on their faces as if there was something enjoyable ahead. When the gangway plank was run out, the deck- bands seemed reluctant to interfere with ihe cow. Tbe captain came down the for'ard stair -i and shouted: "Let go her head line, slack up aft" "Aye, aye, sir," cried the sailors and the command was obeyed. "Get a line out in fiont" One of the sailors took the original farm rope that was around her horns, and got on the dock. All the other lines were re moved, and as the cow began to look steadily at the fellow out on the wharf, pulling on the shore he began to tremble, "Port hera little, and send her for 'an'," said the captain. "Port it is, nr." answered ope of the hands, as he approached tbe animal with a club to induce her to port Our cow bad stood like a statue all the while, glaring at the man on the wharf. Now she made one wild wave of her boins in the direction Jf the club person. He rapidly tumbled over two barrels, and sprang on a dry goods box while the cow stood tri umphant over theVlHb. A murmer of ap probation came from tbe passengers, who were perched up on accessible articles of freight "Can I b; any service?" I mildly asked the captain. "v ell, yes," said be. "If you could go and get a good serviceable coroner, you would do us a favor, I think we'll need one." Meanwhile the passengers were showing bow the cow could easily lie got out, hut none of them came down to put their theo ries into practice. "Make fa-t ymir head line, called the captain to the man on the wharf. He gave the rope a couple of rapid turns around a projecting tiiulnir. ".uw all bauds aft, was the next com mand and the boys gathered around in the rear of the cow. "All toL'jther now," was the crv, and a dozen men gently shoved Ihe reluctant cow shorcwards, while the wharf man shortened the rope an eind Ihe timber. Our cow re solutely planted her four hoofs down and hung back, bui the combined force of the , crew was too mu.-h for her, and she slid along amid the cheers of tne passengers. uddenly she changed her mind, and made a spring to the end of her rape. The wild grappliug of the pushers as they went down with the most astonishing unanimi ty brought forth the heartfelt applause of tbe discriminating audience. By this time the captain was on the upper deck ringing the boat ahead, and I could see the passengers around bun coax id.; him to stay and let them watch the cow sacrifice those of us that were left on the dock. One of iny near neighbor., a big, power ful young man, said that he would take home the cow for me, that steamboat men did not understand how to treat cattle any how, and he proceeded to unwind the rope from the timber. The wharf, however, seemed to suit the cow exactly, and she refused lo budge. We tried to shove her along as the steamboat men had done, but it was too big a contiact At last one of the men brought a pitchfork, and while the rope man got ready for a tornaj , he touched up the cow. It was a brilliant suei-ess; Man and cow disappeared up tbe rood in a whirlwind of dust Everybody along tbe route thought was a runaway; the women shrieked and the men climbed fences. We never expected to see either cow or man a?ain. lie, however, unuer- ood his business. He let tbe infuiiated animal drag him along until he reached the open gate, and then, with one wild bound, he sprang ahead and gave the rope a turn around the starboard gate prt The way that cow came around was amazing. She described a semi-circle very much quicker than Euchd could have done it She lay there in a heap, panting and evidently wondering how it all came about "There a your cow, said my friend. covered wit h dust and triumph, as he closed the gate, flung the rope over her prostrate form, "she may lie somewhat out of repair but she's there." feasant Lire In BeugaU The dailv life of the family is a series of pictures of Aicadian simplicity. At day break, when the crows begin to caw, the whole household is astir. Ihe two older brothers are off to the fields, while Gayaa- rani is seeing after the cows. The women are busy in tbe huts and court-yards. Some times the men come to thtir midday meal, and sometimes it is carried to them in the fields. At sunset the labors of the day are brought toclose. A mat is spread in the court yard, and the men sit down ernes-legged and smoke their bubble-bubbles, and at such times it is the jop of Badan's life to listen to the ch'ldkh prattle of his little daughter Maliti. Occasionally the brothers pay visits to their neighbors, or neighbors drop in and join in the smoking. Tbe con versation is nearly aways the same the weather, the bullocks, the crops, and the cows; the plowing, harvesting, sowing, or irrigating. But money is ever the burden of the taik;rupees,anoa,anJ piece; the zetr mdar s ren: ; Ihe interest paid to the money lender; the cost loss or profit of every transaction connected with farm or house hold. The whole family is religious; indeed all Hindus are religious. They may be everything that is good or bad, but they are never wanting in tear of the gods. Tbey are constantly uttering the sacred names, and they offer a portion of every meal to tbe gods of the earth, water and sky. They see everything that exhts, and omens of good or evil in everything that moves. If thev meet a cow or a wedding l ... . .. i ness, or journey, or transaction of any sort or kind, without a prayer to the goddess Lakshimi or an invocation to the elephant headed Ganeaha. Every family or group of familiis has its own Purohita, or domes tic Brahman, whs performs endless cere monies cf propitiation, consecration, or purification at births, deaths, marriages. fasts, festivals, religious celebrations, and iamuy i lueuus oi every aiuu. in return, j the Purohita receives a l the offerings of rice, fruits and vegetables that are made to the gods, with occasional presents of a like character. Every year the Guri, or relig ious teacher of tbe sect or distrct, makes his appearance to receive a shilling fee from every household, and to confirm younger neophytes by whispering into their respective ears the name of the god that each one is to worship as his own in dividual deity. This name ia known as the "seed prayer," and is to be uttered by tbe worshipper 108 times every day until tbs end of bis earthey they rejoice over their good lortune; h tney seeawidoworafuneral,theyarelown-hcaji-,tonbesC!ofT ed at their ill-luck. They engage in no busi- ' Beallatle Opera. The king of Bavaria is a poet and has a poet's eccentricities with the advantage over all other poets of being able to gratify tham, no matter what form they may take. He is fond of the opera, but not fond of sitting in the presence of an audience; therefore, it has sometimes ocenred, in Munich, that when an opera has been con cluded aid the players were getting off their paint and finery, a command has came for them to get their "paint and finery on again. Presently the king wouid arrive, solitary and alone, and the players would begin nt tbe beginning and do tbe entire opera over again, with only that one indi vidual in the vast Solemn theatre for au dience. Ouce he took an odd freak into his head. High up and out of a sight over the prodigious stage of the court thea tre is a maze of interlacing water pipes, so pierced that in case of fire innumerable little thread-like streams can be caused to descend, and in case of need this discharge can be augmented to a pouring flood. American managers might make a note of that The king was sole audience. The opera proceeded ; it was a piece with a storm in it ; tbe mimic thunder began to mutter, "the wind btgan to wail and laugh and the mimic rain to patter. The king's interest rose higher and higher; it duvelop- into enthusiasm. He cried out : "It is good, very eood indeed. But I will have real rain. Turn on the wat?r !" The manager pleaded for a reversal of the command ; said it would ruin the Costly scenery and spiended costumes, but the king cried : o matter, no matter. I will have real rain ! 1 urn on the water " So the real rain was turned on and began to descend in gossamer laces to the mimic flower beds and gravel walks of the stage. The nchly dressed actresses and actors trip ped aboat singing ibravely and pretending not to mind it The king was delighted bis enthusiasm grew higher. He cried out: "Bravo, bravo! Mure thunder! More lightning ! Turn on more rain !" The thunder boomed, theliglitningglared, the storm-winds raged, the deluge poured down. The mimic royalty on tbe stage, with their soaked satins clinging to their bodies, flopped around mikie deep in wa ter, warbling their sweetest and best ; the fiddlers under the eaves of the stage sawed away lx dear life, with the cold overflow spouting down the backs of their necks, and the dry and happy king sat in his lofty box, and wore his g ocs to ribbons applauding. "More yet !" cried the king; "more yet, let loose all the thunder: turn on all the water! I will bang the man who raises an umbrella!" When this most tremendous and effective storm that had ever been produced in any theatre was at last over, the king's appro- . nation was measureless. He cried : "Magnificent, magnificent 1 Encore! Do it again!" But the manager succeeded in persuad ing him to recal the encore, and said ths compijiy would feel sufficiently rewarded and co.nplimen'ed in the mere fact that the encore wis desired by his majesty, without fatiguing him with a rejietitioa to gratify their own vanity. During the remainder of the act the lucky performeis were those whose parts required changes of dress; the others were a soaked, bedraggled and uncomfortable lot, but in the last degree picturesque. The stage scenery was ruineil the Imp-doors were so swollen that they wouldn't work for a week afterwards, tbe fine cwtuims were spoiled, and no eud to Miinor damage were done by that remarkable storm. It was a royal idea that storm and royally carried out But observe the mod eration of the king ; he did not insist upon his encore. If he had been a gladsome, unreflecting American opera audience, he probably w uld have had his storm repeat ed and repeated until he drowned all these people. The Grape. We have atout seven hundred vines on trellis, and aliout fifteen hundred on stakes, and have had for the - past ten years, and we prefer the trellis, although we admit that the trellis culture is a failure oftencr than the t-Uke, for tie reason that si many persons do not study the nature, habits and wants of the vine. On the stake, necessity forces them to keep the fruiting wood near the soun of supply i the ro t, iwhile on the trellis they may let tbem grow ten, twenty, or even forty feet from the root, and theu they are like an army drawing its supplies a long distance through an enemy's country. The grape only fruits on the last year's growih of woop, and, if a leader be con tinued from year to year on tne end of the vine, it grows a great way fro:n the n and all side laterals (lisapear from near the base, and il ouly sets fruit near the ex treme end. But the leadi r or end of the vine should be cut off as soon as the vine has acquired sufficient length, say four to six feet; that will throw out side laterals, which will form fruiting spurs o:ie year by cutting thepi back two buds, and in turn those two buds will produce the fruit and form wood for two fruiting spurs tbe fol lowing season. There snould never be more than two or thiejc .nes from one root and that should lie replaced by a new cane, either from the ground or as near the ground as a good oue cm be haL Our vineyard has been in bearing eleven years, and there are very few, if any vines more than four years-old or more th'in eighteen inches above ground. Solid Hints to Piraicere. The best place to set a table is on the side hilt The efforts of those on the lower lii'e to keep their place restrais those on the upper side from leaving theirs and go ing over the table. The table itself should be cf sufficient size to accomodate one half of those sitting at it Everlxxly is then held in his or her place. One knife will do for every four persons, and the plate, the beans and vinegar are taken from, is just the thing for your custard. It gives it body. Hot tea, is grxxL It should be seal, inghot, though, aid always pass over the heads of the party when there ia no nnrkrtnnil tn kIiova ii iimlir :,, a.m t ,,t.i i. .i , hy the nan(1 from ,he foxL , ive ones are lwo tluncs to , -i(.nic canot u ,TpMwL ,,. --- .... uij. Attu uno suuui'i v; 1 Ui: ' Hi should be borne with stoicism. These are the unexpected shower and the equally unexpected hornet They can be utilized to some extent by letting the hornet put in his work first. Showers cool such places, and by having the places ready when the showers comes, an advantage is gained. Vyelna: Ejea. A learned German doctor has discovered a means of dyeing the eyes of animals in general, and of men in particular, any color he pleases.- He is accompanied on his travels of propagation by a dog with a rose-colored eye, a cat with an orange-red eye, and a monkey with a chrome-yellow eye. But the most curious specimens cf his art are a negro with one black eye and the other blue, nd a negress with one eye gold-colored and the other silrer-white. The doctor says the process of ocu ar trans formation, far from injuring the fight, strengthens and improves it !! i ft t'it
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