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VOL. XXXIV.
ABTTJIN TCKW3.
By Mis gniden dreamful weather, .
By tba bird that fly together.
Dark atainat 1 1 radiant sky,
l'.y the rlleuce growing deeper.
hT the r sung of the reaper.
ricaeaut cava are drawing n'jh.
Ey the vagrant way-siJe briar,
Uinawri far i.a tangled fire,
Ey Uie forest's mUey Una,
Koil oak and m .pie splendid.
IloMiof rta'.e'y court, attended
As for pageant ilea and fine.
By the asters, tnoense bringing,
I'y tbe morning -jlonea' aannging.
And the apicy fragrance a had
From the gnpe, whiee purple cluster
Captive boiJa the vivid Inaier
of the aaaaner scarcely Bed.
P.easact days a-e coming Dearer,
Day, when beme wili eeem Ute dearer
Ttat its eirele tmaller grown,
u its Lappy talk and langbttr,
O.- :te eiL-, low stealing after,
Ncrrjwa to enfold its own.
Blithe, for mneie. work ai d study
Then Will glow tbe tksrth Same toddy,
bat tbocgb wil 1 tbe winds may blow ;
Always tbeie is golden weather
WLere trne bear. a are net togttber,
Ttotifch a iihout be atorm and anow.
All tbe Autumn's wondrous shading,
B.petd tne. a ii gentle fading.
And tha biid that southward rlj.
Speak to us w lib sign aud token,
iti words ws Lear. anapoLen,
1 leasaut caya are drawing niab.
Lctty Bancroft's Story.
1 am only sixteen. I hare hair that
really is wouderfully black and sod curly,
acd, big Hack eyes. Everybody calls m
handsome, and 1 suppose what everybody
says must be true. I can play on Uie piano,
suit,', dance, make was flowers and em
broidery. Ia fact I'm really quite an accom
plished girl I don't know that I ought to
feel cut out by any one. I bad tha prize
fur French last quarter, and I can r.cite
beautifully. So you see when Laura
Koder said I was vain she jiirt ihowed her
own meanness and did not tell the truth.
Pa and ma have been away lmm home
for three years. Ma's health was delicate
aud travel was recommended. Of course I
miss them, but ma writes that she's greatly
improved, and they are going to bring me
home a little Geneva watch and a set of
pearls, gloves Horn Paris, and a silk from
Bruxtlk ; and meanwhile, I am living
with my Aunt Annette.
1Tt Aunt Annette is an old maid of thirty.
1 don't thiiik she's pretty just ordinary,
gray eyes and brown hair, and she 'a so
prim. Lots of things tbe gals do that I
never heard any oue e peat ?' ( before,
she calls "wrong. I told ' . ecu that I
di( n't wonder f be never g-;t married, and
she said that flirting and U-having like a
fool would never marry any girL
I never was fo watched before not but
that Aunt Annette is nice too ; and once I
bad wished I bad minded her. That was
when v& went off after school to row on
the Hudson I and J illy Moore, and Jane
Barlow, and Effle Lee, with Tom Martin,
and Ed. Raymond, and Charlie Sparks.
And the boys managed to get tbe boat
straight before a great steamer and couldn't
manage to row out of her way. We were
upset. Poor Eflie and Tom Martin were
drowned ; tbe rest of us were Just saved :
aud Jane and Tilly, were taken away from
Mis Pratt's school, and they said Ed. Ray
mond was delirious for a mouth, and raved
about drowning ail tbe while.
As for me Uie first I knew after I beard
the girls shriek, and felt myself si-king
into the water, I was in bed at borne, and
aunt and a doctor were standing by me,
and he was saying:
'My dear Miss Bancroft, don't distress
yourself any more. Your niece will do
Tery well now. There's no danger of her
d Ing none whatever.
And then Aunty began to cry. She
never scolded me a bit, and petted me like
baby, which was more than I deserved.
The doctor came two or three times a
day, and when I felt well enough to look
at bim I saw what a splendid man he was.
About five-and-thirty, and so handsome. It
was really delightful to be attended by bim
aad he was twice as attentive as any other
doctor I had ever bad. Te be sure, 1 had
not bad one since I had the measles, when
I was only a little girl of twelve; and T
supposed a handsome young lady must be
more interesting than a child. But he came
two or three times a day, and brought gifts
of Sowers and fruit sometimes ; and when
he still came after 1 was able to be about,
suddenly tbe truth flashed on me. I began
to feel that be was in love with me. He
was nat one of those poor doctors who
have hard work to live ; ha was a rich
man, for he had a large fortune left bim
by Lis grindfather, and he practiced niedi
cine for the love erf It, and that, you know
w as quite romantic. And so I had made
up my mind though he was a little old
and poky. and high-flown, and not so full
of fun as Ed. Kaymond-that Pd have him
when he asked me. He used to come and
ask us to walk, about this time, and take
us to concerts. I did think Aunt Annette
might have had sense enough to say she
was too busy to go,or something. Of course
he only asked her out of politeness, and I
wrote to ail my dear friend, about his de
Totion, and about Aunt Annette in never
leaving us for a moment alone together.
"He never will have a chance to pro
poae." Iofuutsaidibuechsncedid
come one day. "' J'S
AnnetWtodine with them, and dn
me;ndIwa.athome,bor1DgthaXsme-
h0; fate would enlighten DrJrsh to
tbe conditien of things d enu "TV .
when the door-bell rang, and then, he
really was. ' .
"Tbe ladies at home?" be asked.
-Miss Bancroft has gone out to dine,
answered that stupid Biddy.
And be was really tunm WJ
.tuck my head out of tb parlor door an
called out: rv come
"But I'm at home, Doctor- caD
in."
At that
UbMhiahJtonth.rack and
'Saw
that is lucky, for I have something to say
to you a question to ask. "
He had never called me "my dear" be
fore, asd I felt my heart flutter as he sat
down beside me.
-You're such a good-natured little soul,
Lwty, 'he went on, "that I'm not a bit
a.raid of you. I want you to tell me the
truth, and to promise me not to laugh at
me untU I've gone away. If. m Tery
serious matter to me. 1 tue fact ia.Lotty,
I think 1 have been a bachelorlong enough,
and I moan to marry, if I can. Do you
think any one would hare me?"
I dont see why not," I answered, feel
ing very nervous.' ..
Have you ever talked to your aunt
about me?" continued the doctor. '
"Oh, sometimes I have," 1 anwereeL
"And did she seem to think n .
cent sort of fellow?" he went on
"She likes you I act sure,"' I anwered.
"She says you are perfectly splendid."
"You dear little comforter," said the
doctor. "1 could not tell by her manner
to me; but then after all, she may not like
me much. Now, Lotty, answer me one
hing: has your auut a suitor? Is she en
gaged to any one?'
I burst it. to a laugh.
"Poor Aunt Annette; she's thirty.'' I said.
"She's a real old maid.
"And I'm a real oid bachelor,'' he an
swertd "Oh, you young tblngel you young
things; But I'm not too old for "Well,
Lotty, I'm going to tell you somethlne
BOW."
"He's going to propose," I said to my
self. And he continued: '
"I'm not too old for an uncle, am 1
for I'm going to ask your Aunt Annette !
to marry me. Of course, I'm not sure that
she will, but you have given me a great
deal of hope."
Good gracious! I felt myself growing
scarlet. Aunt Annette ! What a vain lit
tle fool I bad been ; and then he said the
words that put an end to all my conceit in
a moment-
"I shall be tee best uncle in the world,
Lotty," tie went on, "if your aunt will have
me ; for you really are the nicest little
thing, and bid fair to be as handsome and
elegant as she is by the time you are her
ago."
The door bell rang at that moment. How
glad 1 was to bear it, and to say:
Here comes aun'y ; you'd better talk
to her," and to get out of the room.
Tbe worst of it all was that 1 had wnt ten
to the girls, an-i I was wicked enough to
hope she would refuse him ; but she did
not. They are married, and he makes a
very nice uncle indeed. And really I don't
mind it at all bdw, for I think Ed. Ray
mond is much handsomer than the doctor,
aud has asked me if he can speak to pa.
Interesting VLeuverfaa.
Fresh discoveries are daily being made
by the cxpioiiug puny at Morton i'arni, on
Lady Oleander's estate near Sandown. Isle
of Wig Lit. The most important addition
to the ren ains of tbe Roman Villa alreaily
laid bare has been a large cuaoit)er, nearly
lorty feet lone, east aud west divided by
strong piers of solid masonry. The west
ern portion of this chamber is nearly nine
teen feet wide, and the eastern end more
than tttten feet, it contains iu parts the
remains of a dodo about eighteeu inches
high, ornamented with frescoes in scroil
pattern of piuk, gray and brown. A fi.lel
of plaster runs round tbe whole chamber,
the wails of which are between three and
tour feet in height, the superstructure be
ing of wood and plaster, much ot which
baa been found iu the ruins, with the colors
weil preserved aud for the most part re
markably fresh. The floor of the chamber
is riavtd throughout in tine tessellated
work, the most elaborate thai has yet been
dUcovered in the Bnti-b islands. The
subjects contained in paneU are, among
others, Perseus ai-d Ar.Uruiiu.da and tbe
Four Seasons. The central ornament in
another portion contains the head of
Meousa, witb snake-like locks, and around
Ibis are panels tilled with rajtral groups,
and a spirited composition of Tritons ana
monsters. The exploring party of eistin
guiahed antiquarians have now unearthed
six chambeis, making, with what had al
ready been discovered, eleven. In a short
tune the full extent of a spacious Roman
villa, which was without doubt tbe habita
tion of some great personage, will have
been opeued to the light of day.
Mr. Bmiler Behela.
Tbe neighbors hadn't seen Mr. Smiley
hobble around into the back yard so lively
for over a year. A hasty glance at tne
clothes line, and he sturubk-d up the steps
hurriedly and remarked excitedly :
"Hannah, that 'ere garment will have to
come off the line at once. It's all over town
that a rebel flag is Dying in my ysru.
..i-..m i tM! That a i:iv last win-
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ter's balmoral sunning to clear out the
moths."
"Sunning or no sunning, balmoral or
whatever it is. it must come down."
"lchabod Smiley, do you think I am a
fooL lust because they are making game ot
.... -i t-. KmalliK-era srocerv store.
VOU W " " -
That balmoral stays there, rebel flag or no.
Then I'll take it down myself," and he
reached for the first clothes pin.
See here, lenaoou, nis ;
call it. rules this lainily. Ton rebel if you
dare." And the neighbors who had gath
. i i,.,.b vrd fence were treat-
ereu arouuu " . .,
ed to the interesting tableau of a mop handle
wielded by Uannan einiic, a ...
ruckled arm. crushing in the white plug
Kit ioryears had been the emblem ol
Mr. Smiley 's repectabili'y.
DTins
Vf Itn Hta Charge.
Recently the engincerj of train near
dk, leT Te engir observed that
ftf S crouched close to the ground a.
'ue an.m,"k bv the cowcatcher. A mm
he was struck yuic , white
ute later the fireman WJ he
where the dog buea u
that not only the dog,
had been kiilei It w" then
dog had bn samguara
cbUd, and. bked to aura
ofthewgineer - JeTthan desert hU
WThech..dhad wdcredaway
cbarge. The. house, followed by
frn nlSfuppodth. child Uy
dtito-U!. track.
MIFFLINTOWN,
Tke KmjuiHpatlow T Man.
She looked just like that kind of a wo
man when she came Into the sanctum,
and all tbe seniors became Instinctively
very but-y and so absorbed In their work
that they did not see her, which left the
youngwt man on the staff an easy prey,
for he looked at the visitor with a little nat
ural politeness, and was even soft enough
to offer her a chair.
"You are the editorf she said, in a deep,
bass voice.
He tried to say " Yes" so that she could
hear bim, while his colleagues in tbe
sanctum couldn't ; but it was a failure, for
the woman gave bim dead away in a
minute.
"You are?" she shouted; "then listen to
me; look at me; what am It"
The foolish young man looked at her
timidly and ventured to say, in a feeble
voice, that she looked to be about forty
sev '
"Am I not a woman?" she said.
The yourgest man weakly tried to cor
rect his former error, and sjid she seemed
more like a gir
"Oir-r r-U " she said, "I am a woman;
a woman w
ith all the heaven-born apira -
tiocs, the fathomless feelings, the ag -
gressive . courage . and tbe indomitable
will of a woman. What can you see on
my lace I
The position of the Youngest man on
tbe staff was pitiful, but none of the old
beads appeared to observe it. At least
they didi't oiler to help him out. So he
looked at her face for a second, and said,
timidlv:
"Freckl "
"Nursling," she shrieked, "had you the
soulful eyes of a free man you could see
shining on my brow the rising light of a
brighter dawn."
"Could I," asked the youngest man
timidly.
"Yes, you could I," tbe woman said in
tones of unmeaturable scorn. "Now bear
me, have you a but I cannot bring my
self to use the hateful expression in the
style of masculine possession; are you any
body s nusbandf
Tae youngest man blushed bitterly, and
said be wasn t as yet, but he had some
hopes.
"And you expect your that is you ex
pect the woman whose husband you will be
to support you?"
The youngest man blushed more keenly
than before, and tremblingly admitted
that he bad some expectations that, that,
being the only daughter of his proposed
father in-law, if be might put it that way
"labl snarled tne woman; "now let
me tell you, the day of woman's eman
cipation is at hand. From this time we
are free, fer-rec! You must look for oth
er slaves to bend and cringe before your
majesties, and wait upon you like slaves.
You will feel tbe change in your affairs
since we have burst our chains, aud bow
will you live without tbe aid of women?
Who makes your shirts now ?" she added
fiercely.
The youngest man miserably said that a
tailor on Jefferson street made his.
"H'm," said tbe woman somewhat dis
concerted. "Well, who washes 'em then?"
she added triumphantly.
"A chinaman just west of Fifth street,"
the youngest man sa:d with a hopeful light
in his eyes.
liie woman glared at him and groaned
under her breath, but she came at him
azain witb :
"Proud worm, who cooks your vict
uals?" The youngest man said truly that he
didn't know the uaine of the cook at his
restaurant, but be was a darky about forty
years old, and round as a barrel, with
whickers like the stuffing of a tofa.
Tbe woman looked at bim as though she
was going to strike bun.
"Well." she said, as one who was leading
a forlorn hope, "who makes up your bed
and takes care of your rooui?"
The youneeet man replied with an air
of trulli and frankness that he roomed
with a railroad conductor and an ex-Pullman
sleeping car porter took care of their
room.
She paused when she reached the door
and turned upon him with the face of a
drowning man who is only five feet away
from a life buoy.
"Miserable dependent," she cried, "who
sews on your buttons?
The youngest man on tbe staff rose to
his feel with a proud, happy look on bis
face.
"Haven't a sewed button on a single
clothes," he cried triumphantly, "patents,
every one of 'em, fastened on like copper
rivets, and noliiing but studs and collar
buttons on my shirts. Havn't had a but
ton sewed on for three years. Patent but
tons last for years after tbe garments have
gone to decay."
And the woman fled down the winding
passage and the labyrinth stairs with a
hollow groan, while the other members of
tbe staff, breaking through their heroic re
serve, clustered around the youngest man
and congratulated htm upon tbe emancipa
tion of bis sex.
Earl Illatory ef Minnesota.
The name of Minnesota is an Indian
name, signifying "cloudy water." Min
nesota is the thirty second state in the
Union. The first European who set foot
in Minnesota was Louis Hennepin, who in
1680, in a company of French fur-traders,
ascended the Mississippi to the Falls of St.
Anthony to which be gave their name. In
1763 this region was ceded to Great Britain,
and in 1766 was explored by Captain Jona
than Carver, a native of Connecticut. In
1763 it was transferred to the United States,
as part of the .North-wost Territory. In
181 9 Fort SneUing was established. A few
years ago, as my mother was going from
Minneapolis to jnankato, sue met a laay
who was over seventy years old, who said
her husband was one of tbe first soldiers
sent to tbe fort. She, with four other la
dies (wives of the soldiers.) visited their
husbands that summer (lhl9) and they
were five weeks going from Prairie du Cbien
to the fort, on flat-boats. In 1823 tbe first
steambiat visited Minnesota. Between
this and 1830, a small colony of Swiss set
tled at Mendota, near SL Paul. In 1833
the Indian title to lands east of the Missis
sippi was extinguished. In 1843 a settle
ment was commenced at Stillwater; on
March 8, 1849, Congress passe i an act o--ganixing
the Territory of Minnesota, Its
western boundary being tbe Missouri river.
At this time the population was between
4.000 and 5,000, and it was duly organized
on the 1st of June following. In 1831,
Immigration was commenced in earnest;
and so rapid was tbe increase of population,
tat on February 26, 1859, Congress passed
an enabling act for its admission as a State.
The provisions of the act were complied
with, a constitution (under which the State
is still governed) was passed and submitted
to tbe people, and members of Congress
elected the following October, and on May
11, 1858, Minnesota was formally admitted
into the Union.
"Ix'a not the phiiay a man dhrinki
that makes him die," aald OTlaberty,
"bJt it's lukin' at the bsrtlnder's dia
mond through tha bottom It tha turn
rslara, Mgxm!"
JUNIATA COUNTY,
Tae Wool Barter's niacws.
The danger which lurks in tbe dust and
dirt of old rags, and especially hair and
wool, is, during their manipulation pre
paratory to being transformed into paper,
felt, or cloth, a very serious matter for the
workmen employed. Tbe exceedingly
unclean condition In which the bales of
rags and bair are received in the factories
necessitates their being first cleaned and
sorted by hand, and this operation is often
fraught with the gravest consequences,
scattering sometimes the seeds of loath
some ana fatal diseases. The sorting room
is provided with tables, at each of which
is a worker, usually a woman; at her side
is an open bale, from which she chooses a
handful at a time and deposits on the table;
this liberates a great ileal of dust. In
many cases the dust contains tbe germs of
the horrible disease called "anthrax,"
"uslignant pustule," "caarbon," and
Siberian plague," These germs possess
singular vitality and virulence, developing
in the human subject the loathsome and
fatal malady called"wool sorter's disease."
It is not, however, confined to wool, as
the germs of the fungoid organirm, "Ma-
! viUvm anthract,n are found in every des-
' cription of hair and wool, and most f re
quently in the Siberian hore manes, which
are largely imported in England fir the
manufacture of haircloth. .Neither is the
disease confined to the sorters; the infected
dust is mingled with tbe air and gets out
side the works, or it is distributed among
mai.uie dealers who buy tbe refuse dirt.
This has recently been conclusively proved
by cases in Glasgow, Bradford, and else
where. Manufacturers in England are therefore
contemplating the disinfection of ail dan
gerous bair and wools. It ia proposed to
empty the bales in a fanning arrangement,
burn the coverings, or soaking them in re
fuse sulphuric acid, changing them into
manure by the addition of gypsum as a
drier. The fine dun blown out by the fan
is to be discharged under the fire bars of a
steam boiler, where it will be promptly
and effectively destroyed. The heavier
dust falling on the bottom, and now sold
for manure making, is to fall at once into
a lead tank with sulphuric acid and treated
like the coverings; this dust from hair and
wool is rich in phosphates and ammonia,
and is, thervf.re, a valuable fertilizer,
while tae acid increases its fertilizing
properties and utterly destroys any germs
prest nL . Carbolic acid is to be used tor
disinfecting the hair, as chloride of ltnie
or bleachiug powder injures the filer. In
order to show the ureeucy of these precau
tions we recite some of the details of one
of the cases lately reported in an English
medical journal: Wiiiiaoi Otley, aeJ 6 i,
employed by Mitchel Brothers, Bradford,
to prepare mohair after it bad passed
through a washing and scorning proct-os
necessary to manufacture it into arn. He
ha 1 first a small pimple upon his chin; this
increasing and making bim feel unwell, be
staid home. A physician was sent for,
aad found swelling of the under jaw set
ting in. As the pustule increased rapidly,
and constitutional symptoms showed them
selves, the malignity of the case was soon
recognized and all hope of staying the
disease was lost. Three days later the
patieut died. On the niormug of that day
the doctor took a little blood and serum
from the ant.c.ed part, and, submitting it
to a microscopic examination, discovered
the organism known as " Yaerllus anth-rat-it,"
now universally rccoguized among
pathologists as the cause of splenetic fever
iu cattle, aud that form in which it is iden
tical with wool sorter's disease. Mo
doubt the pimple on the chin bad been iu
n Krulateu by the virus, the development of
which caused tbe man's death. After his i
deceased the upper part of bis body un
derwent a most rapid decomposition.
uenerai Skobelerr.
Skobcleff's care of his men, his personal
anxiety for their welfare and comfort, and
nis ceaseless activity in securing for them
every advantage that can be wrung from
the horde of speculators in the supply de
partment, were almost phenomenal. He
personally iuspected their rations and their
clothing, and sometimes when public funds
were wanting be secured comfort for them
by large expenditures of his own money.
Jn return for his care of bis men be de
manded of them, first of all, unhesitating.
Unflinching, unquestioning otxdience to h.s
orders. If be ordered a man to do any
thing, whether immediate death was as
certain as the sun in heaven, be expected
to be instantly obeyed, without even so
much as a look of question or surprise.
Himself a man of w id-j reading, speaking
many languages, and having traveled in
many lands, lie gathered about him, in his
personal staff, as rough and uucullur.-d a
lot of men as I ever saw in officer's uniform;
bnt they answered his purposes for car
rying orders, and, as be said, if he ordered
one of them to ride bis horse against tbe
muzzle of a discharging cannon be would
do it instantly. Oue morning that I was
with bim on a reconnoisance we came to a
small btook; an officer of lb staff, with
whom he had had some cause ot dissatis
faction just before, rode forward to try its
depth; while he was cautiously feeling the
bank another officer a Cossack -rode
towards it, aad, as bis horse dr.-w hack
plied both spurs aud the whip with ail bis
force; tbe torse sprang forward into the
middle of the little stream, and as it was
very deep, though very narrow, both horse
and rider disappeared under tbe water.
"There, cried Skobeleff to the other,
"that's the way 1 want my officers to do
thinirs."
"The first officer, greatly nettled, then
put spurs t) his horse, and though Sko
beleff, seeing his purpose, yelled at him to
stop, in an instant he and bis horse disap
peared under the water. Both men were
then dragged out, dripping from their cold
bath. Everyone laughed, and Skobeleff
was in the best of humor.
".Now go home and dry your clothes.
You're both fine fellows (VeeMolode zee.)
But," turning to the first one, "after this
never hesitate in what you have to do."
'On another occasion Skobeleff beard
one of his colonels, just as he was going
mto action, trying to make a speech to his
men, but hesitating and stammering and
breaking down in it. He relieved him in
stantly- "If at such a moment, he said.
"a man can t find a few simple words to
tell bis men what he expects them to do
then he don't know it himself. At lhal
moment a man can't lie; his heart will
speak if be have a heart for fight, and if be
can't find words it is either because he is a
coward or because he has no notion in his
head of what be is going to d-."
Again, he punished his men without mer
cy for the slightest depredation on unarm
ed inhabitants or their property,
".Not that 1 care anything fur these mis
erable people their suffeiiugs are nothing
to those of my men bit they had no or
ders to do it- If it served my purpose, I
would ive them a village to plunder and
burn without a moment's thought. But
they must do it only on my order. I want
them to feel that they are merely my crea
tures that they exist simply by my will."
His personal bravery was not only oi the
most reckless character, but at times it
I seemed to partak of the mtTfklbravado,
PENNA.. AVEDNESD AY, NOVEMBER 3, 1SS0.
in which only extraordinary luck prevented
bim from reaping in death the well-earned
reward of bis foolishness. He always wore
a white coat, a white hat, and rode a white
horse in battle, simply because other gen
erals usually avoided these target-marks.
He was perpetually riding at break-neck
speed over some fence or ditch, leaving
half bis staff and orderlies sprawling in it.
He never lost an opportunity of displaying
courage, lie weut luto battle in bis clean
est uniform and fresh undercloluing, cov
ered with perfume, and wearing a diamond
hilted sword, in order, as he sid, that be
might die with his best clothes on. For a
long time he wore, with evident affectation.
a coat in which be bad been wounded, and
which bad a conspicuous patch an the
shoulder. -
Yet this was not mere bravado and non
sense, but was the result of thought and
almost cold-blooded calculation. It was
intended to impress his men, and it did so.
They thinly believed be could not be hit,
and whenever they saw a white bora-, coat
and cap among them, they knew that it
was bkobelcff, and so long as he was there
they felt sure that everything was going
well. At the begin: Ing of tbe war be
made up his mind firmly that he would
never come out alive. Alter reading me
the telegram announcing the armistice,
one of the first things be said was. "Well,
perhaps I won't get killed after all." Witl
this idea firmly fixed on his mind, that his
death was only a question of a few weeks
or months, his one tnougbt was bow to
make the best use of his life so as to make
an impression on his men, and gain such a
control over them that they would follow
him anywhere. In anything that he did he
tried to eliminate the idea of danger from
their miads, and to make the mast danger
ous exploit appear as an ordinary every day
affair.
alUtory of tha Bayonet.
In the early part of tbe seventeeth cen
tury it was found ncctssay to retain tbe
use of pikemen in tbe infantry on account
of the defenseless position of the firelock
men when tbe enemy approached to close
quarters. To remedy this defect they
were accustomed about the middle of the
century to stick the bandies of their dag
gers into the muzzles of their guns in
order to use them as pikes. Of course,
when the dagger was so fixed tbe guu
could not be fired. But as many of tbe
daggers bad rings at the guard the men
saw the txpendieucy of fastening the dag
ger to the muzzle of the piece by means of
the ring. Nxm the dagger or plug bayonet
was so secured to the outside ot the barrel
that the firelocks could be loaded sad dis
charged although tiayonels were fixed. The
British bad their first experience of what
may be called the compound guu and pike
ia the time of WiUiam HL, in one of the
rlauders campaigns, and they "swore
terriuly," no doubt, when they found that
their opponents could fire at them with
fixed bayonets. River's collection shows
all the transition stages of tbe bayonet
from the plug handle to the modern tube
and catch attachment. This is only a
sample brick, so to speak, of the civil and
warlike gropiugsof a man from precedent
to bis present condition. We have a fiue
opportunity of doing something of tbe
same kind on this continent, and tbe mar
vel is why some men of wealth do not
embrace it, and so secure tbe perpetuity
of their own name through the advancement
of an important department of scivnc.
Aa Awful fceveuse.
An awful case of the consequences of
refusing a young man's honorable love
is reported on the West side, San Francis
co. A really nice young man fell in love
with a hanusome girl, the only daugiiter
of a handsome and well preserved widow
of thirty-eight, and offered her marriage.
She ridiculed him because he was twenty
six, and said he was old enough lo be her
father, and so on, and with her taunts
goaded him to such a pitch of frenzy tuat
ue swore he would be fearfully revenged.
Accordingly he proposed to and married
the wrciuied girl's mother. Now that
wretched girl lias lo wear stout leather
boots two sizes too large lor her, and go to
bed at V p. in., and eschew the theatre.
chocolate caramels, ice cream, and in fact
everything else that makes life worth liv
ing lor, her stepfather's nominal object
being that w hen she grows up she may be
as splendid a matured woman as her moth
er, ttie compliment implied in this inducing
I ihe mother to second bim enthusiastically.
When a young man comes round to see
that wreichea girl her stepfather bouuees
bim down tbe lronl steps, throws his bat
after him, and tells the wretched girl that
tbe young man is not a fit compauioa fur
it jr. aa 1 lau aa is i s.icitjji for ber
future as be would be for that of his own
child, and altogether, in the kindest man
ner possible, he makes that wretched girl
even wish she were dead as many as a
hundred times a day. Let all oiber beau
tiful girls who are often tempted to refuse
the matrimonial offers of eligible young
men, be warned by her unhappy fate.
The use of glucose has become so ex
tensive in the United States that many of
tbe reliable old commercial papers are coll
ing loudly for legislation to control its use,
aud to prevent the adulteration of many
articles in the manufacture of which it is
largely used. The use of glucose in the
preparation of table a mips has become
very extensive, ceusl.tut eg as it does in
many instances fully 'io per cent of their
composition. Tbe light brown sugars in
most common use are iarge.y adulterated
with it, in some ins ances 40 per cent being
glucose. Everywhere but in this country
glucose is made mostly from potatoes ; but
here it is almost exclusively made from corn.
Each bushel of corn makes from 2ti to 30
pounds of glucose (syrup or sugar), which
brings from two and a half to four ceuts
per pound. As corn, at Chicago for ex
ample, is worth only about 35 to 40 cents a
bushel. while thecuetof manufacture is but
25 to 35 cents a bushel, tbe best appointed
fvHones can make 40 or 50 Ci ate profit on
each bushel of corn worked into glucose.
The process is oue requiring much skill and
clote, and careful attention ; and success
depends almost entirely upon one man, tbe
chemist in each factory. Tbe question
as to its effect upon Ihe health of persons
using glucose is a disputed one, but no one
would of bis own accord be willing to take
the risk of testing its effect upon bis own
health, and the public would gladly wel
come legislation which would compel those
who sell glucose todo so under itsown name.
It is an imposition to make the communi
ty pay 10 cents per pound for this cheap
material, uxder tbe,name of syrup or sugar.
The extent of the use of glucose may be
imagined when we learn from the best
author.ty that it is produced at the rate of
5U0 ton per day, and that this proportion
is being rapidly increased.
Tax best soil for wheat is a rich
limestone clay loam well plowed and
harrowed and made fine. Wheat needs
lime to st i tie n the straw and giro tbe
berry a clear, clean, bright look, and
the lime opens, lightens, and warms
the soil.
ilanrer aad Appetite.
The notion that appetite ia a low degree
cf hunger a:d hunger an intensified form
of appetite does not seem to be brneout
by facts. Tbe two desires or longings are
different in their nature. Appetite is the
craving of tbe apparatus of taste, and some
times of the digestive organs, while hunger
is tbe demand of the organism as a whole
or of some of its parts ot food. Use the
words appetite and hunger how we may,
there are actually two needs to be expre-s-ed,
and much mischief arises from CO i
founding them. Tbe on3 cry for food t nic
we can appetite is an an air of bah t o
caprice, ami, may for a time at leas., be
stimulated by appealing to the sense of
taste, or promoted by certain cordials and
stimulants; but, looking at tbe matter from
a physiological point of view, it is difficult
to see what we eain by exciting the organs
of digestion to lake food unless tbe system
is in a condition to receive it. The rational
mode of procedure would seem to be to
wail the expression of need in the system
in short, to look to hunger rather than ap
petite as an incentive to tbe act of feeding,
instead of exciting the palate and sense
orgaus to take food when we have no
organic reason to suppose that there is aa
inner need of it. There are certain evd
consequences of the civilized mode oi feed
ing appetite on the basis of habit, whicn it
uuiy be useful to carry out. First, separa
ting appetite from burger and developing
it as an independent scme or f unci ion.
there naturally springs up a fashion of lite
which may te aesenbed as "living to feed.
Tne purveyor of food trades on tbe tastes
and cultivated longings of the consideration
what to cat and what to drink comes to
occupy a place in ihe self consciousness
which it was probably not inteuded to till,
and in so far as this U the case man is more
animal and less spiritual and intellectual,
than he ought to be; although it may be
conceded that the rcn-ed taste of cultivated
nature is less offensive tuou the simple
voracity of the savage. There are some that
contend that man is the gainer by the de
velopment of bis appetite. If this be so
tbe gain is a good not mixed with eviL
Another drawback U that bv Severing ap
petite from hunger we lose the indication
of quantity which nature gives with her
orders for fixxl. '1 he man who cats a reg
ular numlier of meals daily, with a duiy
stimulated and organised habit, probably
eat much more In the twenty-four hours
than his system requires, or the organism
as a whole is constituted to deal with.
I'reKrvmg a Min'i Reason.
A curious story is told of an exhibit in a
chop wiudow of one of the leading jewelers
of Vienna. The object of attraction is a
brooch magnificently studded with gems, in
the middle ot the cha-dug of which is en
cli sed tbe most singular of centres four
common, old, bent aud corroded pins. This
brooch is tho property of the Countess
Lavetskofy. The puis have a history, of
course. Seven jears ago Count Rolicrt
J jivel-ikofy, as tbe story runs was arrested
at Warsaw forau alleged insult to the Rus
sian goveruiiK ut. The real author of ihe
insult, which consisted of some careless
words spoken at a sociul gathering, was his
wife, lie accepted the accusation, how
ever, and was sent to prison. In one of the
dungeons in which the Czar is said to be
fond of coutlning his Polish subjects, the
unfortunate martyr for his wife's louse
tongue spent six yean, lie had only one
amusement. After he bail been searched
and thrown into a cell, he found in his toat
four pins. These h-j pulled out and threw
upon the floor; then in Ihe darkness be
hunted for them. Having found them, per
haps after hours, even days, he scattered
them again. And so the game weut on for
six weary years. "But for them." he
writes in his memoirs, "1 should have gone
mad. They provided me with a purpose.
So long as 1 bad them to sjarch for, 1 had
something to do. W hen the decree for my
liberation as an exiie was brougt to me, the
jai'ur found me on my knees hunting for
one which had escaped me for two days.
They saved my wife s husband from lunacy.
My wife therefore could not desire a proud
er ornament.
MmJoiicw War.
The clay for the fiue majolica is depos
it by tbe rivers of tbe country of majolica
i Italy, the Metuaro, the Fuglio, tbe Isuuro
and it is usually gathered in the rain or af
ter the great storms which wash djwn the
naked soil of the Apenuincs to the river
beds. A most amusing aud quaint old
print accompanies Piccolpasso's treatise,
and represents a hill couutry with towers
and castles and a rapid river bed under a
pouring rain; the banks in layers of mud
lite the banks of the Nile, in cube-like de
posits of fiue soil, and a ciay digger loading
a donkey. Another picture rcpreseuts a
high set, cosleliated to n, under a great
faced sun w hich tills up the whole sky a
graphic expression of his sweltering maj
esty bakuig the clay. Naked clay -diggers
toii on me river's bank. When the
raia falls upon tbe Apeninnes and swells
the risers with a turbid flxxi. tbe lighter
part of the washings of the bills settles at
the sides of the rivers, and is leit one or
two feet high, a soft red aud gray clay. It
is so fiue and soft that it suggests manipula
tion, and invites the plasi'.c hand. Cov
ering this ciay, when moulded, with a
while and viinli.ible composition, we bave
th6 various majoUcas of Italy either made
from the finer ciay of the rivers, or dug
out of cave deposits; and Pesaro produces
tbe colors which adorn her majouca. A
majolica painter of Pesaro informed me
that he relied chiefly upon the Colors ot
Pesaro, as neither German nor French
colors equaled in brilliancy those ol
Pesaro. In every sense tbe majolica of
Italy is wholly indigenous to iu
Bf useaui uraenclainre.
In the British Museum, at tha top of the
stairs, we encounter in a terrific alliance a
giraffe, a hippopotamus, and a basking
thark. The public, young and old, pass
with a start and stare, and remain a-i wise
as they were before about all three crea
tures. One day recently I was standing by
tbe big fisb; a father came up to it with
bis little boy. "That's a shark! " says'he ;
"it turns on its side when it wants to eat
you,' and so went on, literally as wise as
he was before, for he had read in a book
that sharks turn on their side to bite, and
he never looked at the ticket, which told,
bim this particular shark only ate small
fish. Now, he never looked at tbe ticket,
because he didn't expect to find anything
on it except that this was the Sbarkogoba
lus Smith-Jonesianius. But if round tbe
walls of tbe rwin there had been all the
well known kinds of shark, going down in
graduated sizes, from the basking ono to
our waggling dog-fL-h, and if every one of
these had a plain English ticket, with ten
words of common sense en it, saying where
and bow tbe beast lived, and a number (un
changeable) referring to a properly arranged
manual ot the shark tribe, (sold by tbe
museum publisher, who ouht to hae his
shop close by the porter's lodge.) both fa
ther and son must bave been lar below the
level of average man and boy in mother
wit if they did not go out of the room by
the door in front ot them Tery distinctly,
and to themselves amazingly, wiser than
they had come in by the door behind them.
Tthere Oar Heat; Coatee Froaa.
The new crop of hooey is coming to
market ia small quantities. Tne white
clover comb honey is very fine in quality
and the quantity is expected to be Urgei
than last year, . whtn good, pure
honey was scarce and high. Ihe best
hooey in the world is the Swiss honey,
considersbie quantities ot which are
shipped to this country, and sold in all
markets. Of course, only the extracted
honev comes from Switzerland. It is
worth sbout a $1.25 a quart, or (5 a gal
Ion. The b.-st American honey comes
from California. That is the great honey
producing sec.ion of this continent. rrom
the vicinity of the "White Mountains," so
ea led because they arc white with clover
blussouis. comes the best collected in that
State. Vast s retches of upland and moun
tain, slope and summit, are covered with
a luxuriant growth of white clover that at
a distai ce appears like an expanse of snow.
Those who have visiied this clover bell
and honey region, say that the hum of bees
throughout those fields is continuous day
in and day out, and that tbe bees seem to
regard the clover fields as their particular
province and resent intrusion. However
that mav be, white clover honey is the
best, and tbe best of it as well as the
largest quantity comes from California, In
the far V estern States some attention has
been given to bees, aud some buckwheat
and half wild honey produced. Virginia
is noted for its wild honey. Some of the
inhabitants make it a business to collect it,
aud the finding of it requires some knowl
edge of bee movements. A bee is
c tught, and at tbe proper time of the day
liberated. It returns to its swarm, and as
it flies in a ''bee line," its home can be
found by taking tbe point and with the aid
of a compass following in the same direc
tion, up bill and down, untU the swarm U
foi.nd. The t:eo is felled and the houey
tikea. Eight r ten pails of honey ate
of; en ( b'amed from a single hodow trje.
A small pare cf Virginia wild honey is col
lected. The great honey region is in
Western .New Vers, and Irom this part of
tbe country the honey now in tbe market
comes. Vermont and New HampsLire, in
fact all States, send more or less boney to
market, llouey consumers prefer honey
in the comb, for in the comb it must be
pure, while out of it, it may be any kind
of inferior syrup, glucose or some other
product that will not sell under its own
name. If consumers were sure of the pure
article out of the com!), extracted honey
would sell more readily. It sells very
well now, but the buyer dues not know
whether it is honey or something else.
All honey, however, should be extracted
before it is eaten, for in spite of care some
of the comb or wax will be eaten with the
honey, and beeswax dis'.urbs tbe digestive
macbiuery. Honeycomb bears the same
relation to honey that husk bears to corn,
shell to nut, rind to fruit, and is no more
fit for an article of food than any of them.
A machine has been invented to extract
boney. The comb is taken from tbe hive,
placed in a machine, which is rapidly re
volved, and the honey is thrown aut by
the centrifugal process. The comb is re
turned to the hive to be filled again, and
the bees an: saved the trouble of building
another comb or cellular case. A siugie
swarm of bees have often manufactured
$25 worth of honey in a season. Bees
can be kept anywhere on the roof, over
tiie porch, in any place where there is mom
for a hive. It is said by some, and denied
by others, that bees extract honey from
decaying mat'.er, street garbage and the
like. At least, bees are seen at work
where refuse abounds, and from appear
ances, Samson's riddle is as true as it ever
was, wbice is saying very little. Last year
the best honey was worth 2425 cents;
1'ie price now lor ion iois, is zuijs-i cents.
The price is likely to be biglier, owing to
the high price of buiter, which is 1012
cents above last year's prices. As butter
advances, honey is in greater demand as a
substitute, aud prices are affected. The
shipment ot honev abroad is very large.
One firm iu New Vork last year shipped
8'J tons at one shipment
Be Uad HI Auspicious.
A defendant before the Justice Alley
Court, Detroit, recently objected to the
jury which the Constable bad gathered
together. Begining at numler oue the
court asked:
"State your objections to the juryman."
"1 beat him out of j-V) ou a horse trade
and I know how he feels," was the replv.
"And this one!'
"He and I couldn't agree on a game cf
cards one day alxmi two wi-eks ago. and I
punched bis h.'ad. lie hasn't forgotten it
you bet.
"Well here's the third man?"
"Ho has a grudge against me for licking
bis brother-in-law.
"And the fourth?"
"We have never been good friends since
I shot six of h s bens. "
"Aud the fifth!'
"1 know him of old. He says I stole his
shot-gun."
"And do you object to the sixth and
last!''
Decidedly I do. It isn't four days since
I got ready to throw him off a wood-dock."'
"Wouldnt it be safe fir you to dispense
with a jury and let the court try the case?"
suggested bis llocor.
.No, sir! ' was tbe decided reply. "I
don'l say that I've got any thing iu particu
lar against this court, but this court may
have formed an opinion that I am tbe man
wiio bagged his twentv-six game fowls one
night last month. I've heard that he had his
suspicions' "
The case was adjourned to secure six
jurymen from out of the city.
Our nte lAndL
Now that tbe wave of emigration has
found a western shore upon which it re
coils, the current must stop or find some
other direction. Tbe limit of successful
agriculture in the West seems to have
been reached, for already thousands of
settlers bave found that they have gone too
far and have actually penetrated tbe arid
districts where bo vegatable growth can
thrive without irrigation, although it may
exist without iu It is therefore well that
attention should be called to the vacant
lands in the East and South, where there
are millions of acres which need only cheap
reclamation to become productive. The
broad Alleghany ranges, with their outlying
spurs aud parallel ridges, are all but unoc
cupied, and land on those hills and in the
valleys between them can be purchased in
large tracts for nominal prices. Whole coun
tries in Maine, New York, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky,
large tracts in other States and smaller
'tracts almost everywhere, are ready and
wailing to be reclaimed. Parts of them
may be profitably turned to timber cul
ture and tbe remaining portion, the better
share of the land, is admirably adapted to
grass and grazing either fur lighter and
moreiardy beeves or the hardier kinds of
sheep. The attention of those philanthropic
societies, who aim to encourage Ihe sealing
of industrious men of small means upon
farms of their own, might be turned to
these tracts, upon which annual fires now
purposely set every Spring, destroy the
young timber and kill the grass and so keep
back their reclamation.
NO. 15.
Paper Weights aad lekstaadj.
Piper weights and inkstands, pretty and
costly trifles although they be, are modern
ia ibeir workmanship and design, and sug
gest nothing but Paris and. Paris wuk
memories of the Second Empire yet hang
ing about her. What do you, with your
pretty jargon about pomander and clocked
stockings, your chatter of pilasters and in
cised work, your latticed window panes
and panelled walls and Ceili-igs, care fur
the Zulus, or for Mexican onyx, that you
should dip your ink from a head of the one.
and guard your loose papers with the other!
hat you want is a bit of K timin bronze
that shall show that you have made tbe
irand tour, aud have put the finishing
touch to your education asa gentlewomm,
and shall serve as a text to the classic a),
iusions with which you are going lo inter
land your letters, tenderly comparing your
self to Arria, and John to Brutus or Cato
r some other Roman to : whom
he is as like as he is to
Hercules. As you want the things, of
course they have come .and are already in
the shops, and when you ask your father
for the money to buy them you will be
orought back to ttejiineteenth century very
quickly, but you will remember Cicero's
daughter and wid coax until you have your
way, and then comes tbe more difficult
task of selecting. What shall it be i Here
is a little temple of Vesta in green brjrtze.
and if you sacrilegiously take the little
dame ou the roof between your thumb and
linger and lift it off you wid find a little
well of ink in the place where the statue
of the godncss once stood. Here is a tiny
Cupid audaciously playing with one of the
lhunderers eagles, the two sitting on tbe
cover of an inkstand supported by lambs'
heads; and here is a pair of inkstands sur
mounted by a simpenn ' onus and a riot
ous Bacchus. Then there are larger ink
stands, a baby Hercules strangling tbe
snaky invaders of bis bed forming the orna
ment of the cover, and the twelve labors in
low relief embellishing the sides. Then
there are seala,wilh Pan nursing tne infant
Bacchus, and satyrs occupying the place
of handles, aad sume of more modern de
sign, with a wicked-looking devil in the
place of Ihe old gods. The proper paper
knife to accompany these seals is a double-
edged dagger with a tiny classic figure for
a handle.
The paper weights are' various in design.
some being spheres of agate or alabaster
spheres upon which a figure is lightly pois
ed; but tbe best for your purpose are those
wuicu represent rums, the smallest or
these is Byron's "nameless column with a
buried base," which has been quite un
earthed since Childe Harold's Hint;, and
now stands as it did when the exarch of
Ravenna set it up to the mem iry of i'uocas.
the Roman emperor wuo least deserved a
monument. The two columns that yet
remain of the temple of Vespasian, the
three Corinthian pillars that were once
part of the fane ot Castor and Pollux, and
the eight that mark the site of the old tem
ple of Saturn, are the larger paper weights,
and it wJl be so easy as you look at theua
to delude yourself into thiuking that when
you saw them it was as a trie and loyal sub
ject of Queen Aane, and that while your
lather puzzled over the".Sfcai- popris
qve Ji(jmanva incendio connvmptvm
rvtitvit" on the architrave of the eight
columns, you who knew no Latiu stood
aloof and puzzled not your heads as to
whether '"Diva Vapatiano'' follows or
not, although in fact, you discussed the
question in a lively way. and conned the
arguments for and against liecker with great
Zeal. Last of all, if you want a memorial
of modern Rome, there is a St. Peter, as be
iits and has sat tor cjnturies to receive tie
respectful salutes of the laithful and the
gibes of tbe uubclievers,of whom of course
you must be one, fur iu your time, or in the
time of your clocues, Cuurcn and state are
one. and as a subj ct of Q leen Anne, your
respect for Christian Rome must be small
m proportion as your reverence for ancient
Koine is great, i ou are going to look very
pretty among your brouzes, you l no,
aud what sweet things you are going to
write to Strephon wku the ink from that
tempie of Vesta! aud when they are fin
ished, how nicely you will seal your billet,
melting the wax by the flame of a liitie
bronze lamp, and alter you have impressed
yur chosen device upou it, you will ring
one of those Oliim bells fur your black
amoor to take it away. Alas, your black
amoor is white and has aa unmistakable
accent, and your Roman visions vanish
with ber 1 -Not uutil she has closed the
duor caa you find your way back to dream
laud, but the bronzes do their best to aid
you, and soon you aie once more in the
teacup time of hoop and hood.
Tawna; Uoat-Bmidara.
During the late summer three boys, stop
ping Willi their parents at Atlantic City,
New Jersey, Waller Vanneuian, Ruble Mar
shall and Willie llalsey, the first being but
ten and the others thirteen years of age,
saw a little boat at the lauding which so
pleased them that they wished the little
craft was theirs and tried hard to prevail
upou their parents to purchase it for the in.
Failing in this they resolved to build one
themselves, and gathering together tbe
proper materials by purchasing lumber and
borrowing tools, went at tbe work, la
thirty days, with no assistance from any
boat-buUder, and only an occasional look
at their model boat, their little craft, eight
feet iu length, was ready for tbe water.
Recently the happy day came, and
with ail the ceremonies usual to such cir
cumstances, with a beautiful flag floating
from her mast, and amid loud hurrahs
from the spectators, who were seated on a
platform erected by tbe lads, the little
boat was sent afloat. She wdl carry three
persons, has mast and sail, aud ia painted
and finished throughout in a neat and a
substantial manner.
Taa Bwuar Hit.
Humboldt, in his 'Travels in South
America," records a visit to Caripe, where
is the cavern of the Gaucharo bird, and our
knowledge of tms wonder is derived from
his most interesting narrative. Among the
natives in the couutry around this Cavern
is celebrated for its great size, for the mys
terious birds which haunt its inmost re
cesses, lor the river which dows from it,
and for the superstitious belief that in its
gloomy depths is the abode of the spirits of
their ancestors. The name which it bears
signifies 'the mine of fat," because from
tbe young of the birds which inhabit it an
immense quantity of fat is annually ob
tained, ihese birds are about tbe size of
our common fowl, with wings wfiicti ex
pand to three feet and a half. All day
ijng they dwell in the cavern, and, like
our owia, only come forth at night. They
subsist entirely on fruits, and have if
powerful beaka, which are necessary to
crack the tough nuu and reeds which form
part ot ibex food.
"Can I glv- my sou a college educa
tion at home?" asks a fond parent.
Certainly. All you want ia a base ball
jrulJa, a racing shell, and a paokage of
elgareites.
it
cams in. .
alona, my daart" aald ha.
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