v- T. 5 ' 0 XvSY SCHWEIER. B.F. THE OOVSTITUTIOS THE 115101110 TEE EXTOBOEMZHT OF TEE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXV. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1S81. NO. 6. v - -. -...cat- ... fS5 1KC nAVsVAiAV HAY 111 AVfnv.TY, ln r IlillilMNI yilillill 1 i 1 i AWAKE. Auil.fts hi.-t.wlr laJ; Open tour ejrt. hj t . Tje uu isouttf bed. Tl,enioonir5'tim1'1' Sbed.ro not the .nil. ,Vth.U.-bbo!tb. stats must go, Tbe-ang-t"PintLm0r,"UE- Ti.e worM in J1 -'i-1't-Er.rTtreei- tullol glee. EvtiT How-Ma bn,ht; KrcrrbirJ is smsm? wtliome to hi King. You glorify e0-tl"inB." Iho.unfet up m the morning. Amino must cbiliren, too ; How du-e yen keep fast .p. The ic.n is calling you ! M.J !' tne b:rJ? llk'890ma Vour merry voices r ss u i Hurrah I How g! J we are We Lave got suu to praise ! A Fiery Steed. For once May gave promise of being a Uv worthy of the many beautiful songs w hicU have been sung in her praise. She cine daucinc along alter her sister April who had just left in a shower of tears with a brurlit smile upon her lips ami a wondrous Mii-bow halo alwut her head. luc youue maples began to blush la hani.v consciousness of her approach, and the uViicate I-ink and white blossoms on the orchard trees opened the ir dainty leaves and shyly flung a welcoming fragrance on the solo clear air. All through the fields and meadows, the vaVs and woodlands, and over the hills ran the violets and trailing arbu us and May -buds and daisies and their sister flow trs. telling clad tidings of sunny days and moonlit u-ciits and lovely butterflies aud sparkling "rain-drops tnd buiy humming .ts, aud bin:, swinging on blender green Loughs, sang in sweet twittering notes to t &di other : eigbbor, soon we shall see the roses. Alon? a pleasant, winding, lonely coun try read, with splendid great apple and pear trees standing n cither side, and the spring rimers dotting tne green carpet SO thickly that the grei n is almost hidden, comes slow lv tn thi peel's May day, a diminutive, .'id, (.-cd-loiiing while "horse, drawing a Miiiii market wagon tilled with household tur:.i:ure, mcoiiipariied by an enormous, tLx:i:y New ioundiand dog, and as pretty a country maid as ever milked a cow, 01 u.a e a p"t of golden butter. The Uoad-briuinied straw hat she wears shades a ;nw I row to which clings babyish iiEjlfts of lair the Color of glossy, satin suiioth buttercups, a pair of innocently r. . v, a . li.i Wn fif hrown with an Ull- dtrlyiag huge of rose,a cLarming red-Upped ! Uji iiih, ami a linn, round chin. Ai.'jt-s ihe brow, however, at this mo iLinl Cts the shadow of a frown, and a lock cf cun.ic ptrpitxity comes iuto the twit young face. 1 he odd-looking horse has su-i ptu in the middle of the road and reii air, jftfictly motionless, staring s;r;,ii:ht Iticre him, save when he bends h head to tiile a nibble at the Bower-thick i-ss. as thi.ujh suddenly oblivious of evt-ntiiin" unctr the sun except the tran- . Mui.i'tv ,.t the June like lav alternoon. ! v'u. Charley 1 Charh y I go on do ! j tLa:"s i dtar '." coaxes the girl coming to Lis side aid gently patting bis head with Ltr hale ! Town ungloved hand ; but Char ity n ert y whisks a too familiar fly away :ih his lurkru old tail aud makes no fur ther tbn. "Cl.iir.ey, good horse, CLarley oh! why didn't I Lrii!.- si .tne carrots with me? Clarley. yi-u bail, bad fcilow, if you don't iocajiftthipyou sure as you stand there. Coii;e, ! a Uaiiing." And thus she alter- ,v.i' . , .;,h .xreional dash at Lion assisting in tLe be.t oiYis obstinate tyuine friend, but companion. " Uut why, if you will per Ihatiey relt ststobu 'Maian," plants LU.M n-e to ask are you bidding farewell to lever blirs; and at i signation, she goes j li-L, w Hh au hack to :Le air ot n rath, seats herself on a rude tal foru.ed by iiature ot tb gnarled roots 4 ot a, ipen old tree, aud waits patient-1 1 iv lor at !ei'l ten minutes. At the end of ! tLis tm.e Charley iooks about with a just- aktu-uptxj.itssion in bis eeS as who shouid s..y. "Dear: Dear ! I quite forgot thae was work to be done," and starts oil with a .uiek step that gradually becomes ' n v Wh asi!d. Tre.k-f the young girl arises mi 1 f.,!:ottfc I lir.l;tiir tmf k from the i wood, wheieje has been making hasty ex I'loraUViia, having il in his mind that bis iiistress is cot to be lei I without bit pro Uctiou lor n, ore than two minutes at a fine, takes his place at ber suit and the (eiplexed look lades away into a smile that brinirs to light two row s of pearl-white teeth. Hut alas '. the smile is premature. In ai.ot.her ten minutes again overcome by the beauty and peacetulness of the day, 1 barley lalls into reverie, stops once more, ami oi.ee more refuses most decidedly to "go on.'' Aud in this manner does that dieadful i: ir Khavt- lor a whole hour, making short pi' -cresses and .oug pauses, until Coining to the eo-Lc-iUsiou that there had been quite enough ot this sort of thing, he deliberately dracs the wasjon to the side of the road, takes np Us station U neat h a wide-spreading oak aud pr-ceus to munch the young cross at his leu, with a look in his eyes that say as plait! as w orus : "From this spot move me 11 od can." "O, Charley I Charley ! Low can you?" begins the young girl, loudly and indig nantly lollowiug him w ith her small brown hands tla; ed beseechingly. 'Uh, you w ickeil, u i . J Charley 1" "l'idyou call me?" asks a masculine Voice, lol.tr great astonishment; and as w ith a slight start she turns in the direc tion of the voice, she sees a young man walking lapidiy towards her the sound of his approaching U otsteps having been com pletely lost in the inquiring bow-wows of hi r canine guardian. "Did y on mil me ?" be repeats. "No, sir," she replies, blushing prettily, and looking at bim with lrank, chiid-iiKe eyes. "I was speaking to the horse. Be suit. Lion.'' "Ilea pardon. I thought for an instant you wue sh aking to me. It seems that I hive the Luuor ol being a namesake of your fiery skuL But ou are in trouble. What is tne matter? tan 1 heln you in any w ay ? "I here is nothing very serious the mat ter, she says wiili a smile. "We are mov ing to day, and lather went on ahead a long while ao. Laving some business to settle with our new landlord, aud he must le at this very moment waiting for me at the new house, and wondering what in the world has become of me. You see, we have no boys in our iamily, and the other girls are younger than myself, and father and mother both thought this being a very quiet road that Lion and 1 could look alter Charley and tne furniture, but Char ley, who geueially behaves pretty well, has oeen awfully cotUrary, and has stormed e. ery few momenta, and the oonseauence U that we have already been two hours on a journey mat should have taken us but one, and there's just as long a distance to go yet; and with Charley oh, you wicked horse! standing under that tree, I don't know how we are ever to get to Grassto wn." "It's almost as bad a plight as the old wo man was with her pig, when he xeouldiit go under the stile, and she was afraid she couldn't get home that night," laughs the young man a nice looking fellow he is, with gentleman stamped on every feature of his handsome face. "But suppose I cut you a switch X Perhaps that, used with discretion, might have some influence on the hery steed. "O, no, fia would never do!" she says, shaking her head emphatically. Charley was never whipped in his life. He'd be so scared at the very sight of a switch that I believe he'd run away." "Wouldn't that be a desirable thing, un der the circumstances?" asks the young man, with a broad smile: the idea of the old horse,whose principle desire appeared to be not to move at all, running away, striking him as inexpressibly comic, and thinking "IJIess her kind little heart.'" he continues: "Well, since you refuse the switch, 1 will try how a command in a masculine voice will affect him;" and he commanded "ii'long, Charley !rt Charley started, turned his head toward the speaker, recognizing a master, backed away from the oak and went off on a quick walk. 'Well, the idea!" exclaimed his young mistress. "And now with your permission, I'll walk with you to the end of your jou I'mrney, for sure if I leave you, Charley will -note my absence immediately, and stop under the first tree." "O no indeed 1 you must not," says the pretty country maid. "You were going in an entirely different direction. I could not think of taking you so far out of your way. M any thanks for your kind offer, but in deed, sir, 1 couldn't. Charley will behave well now. Won't you, Charley I" "Good heavens! I never knew my name was so mubical before, thinks the young man, and then explains: I was going in an entirely different direction because I miss ed my train at the last station, and, if 1 had waited would have to hours for another ; but being rather impatient by nature, and tempted by the fine day, I set out to walk, my destination being the next village. And now if I return with you 1 shall have a much pleasanter walk, catch the next train, and lose no time after all. Lion approves of my plan. Don't you Lion ?" And lion usually very suspicious of strangers, comes and lays his start liogly cold nose in his new friend's hand. And so the two young people walk along side by side, crushing the pretty flowers un- j der their feet as they go, but Charley, look- I im; back every now and then out of the corner of his right eye to see if the mascu line voice is still there, never falters, but tteps steadily on his winding way. After a few moment's silence the innocent little maid raises her blue eyes they have been hidden by the long lashes and says, in a shy voice "You said vou were going to Daisyville. I have lived there ail mr life-? ot a very long time," says the young j man with a smile. j "Seventeen years. I was born and my three sisters were born in the same little I """ " B . - ; trembles on the long lashes and rolls down her round rosy cheek, t uv "unfc u.au awm? . .u. n pitying wonder. j "And were you very happy there I" he ! asks. I "So happy, " replies the girl, "that we fear we will never be . half as happy any where else. And" a sudden light break ing over her face "I believe that is what ails Charley. He knows it isn't right that we should be going to a sTange place, and does his best, poor fellow, to prevent our going. "Undoubtedly, gravely asserts n nu vl"e u wui;, viuirej, -""-; 'y evinces a desire to listen to the conver- sal ion. Father didn't own the place. He had it : on a long lease, which ran rut the very j week (a month ago) our old lam lady died, , nd his mother j I""" er u-. coming to ake possession of the estate, I Ikty waot our farm house for their I gardener, Whe Mrs. Marks was alive her ! gardener had rooms over the stable, and 1 crura .w v.. 47.1-1 A til r itllB flll'V W rTf. ti XY. RnU the kitchen garden was just back of the big house. But I suppose the new people are more stylish than the old ones, want their kitchen-garden lurtner away man jirs. Marks' waf, and so tbey take from us our home, and we are obliged to move to Grass town." j And are your father and mother as much attached to Daisyville as you and your sis ters are I" he asks. "Even more attached to it," she answers, "if that be possible. It almost breaks my heart to see mother's sad face. But 1 must '.ry to make the new home as bright for them as 1 can that is, if 1 ever get there. O dear ! how very unfortunate that Char Icy should have taken it into his head to be so naughty this day of all others 1" "On the contrary, I think. Miss Grey" ' it has transpired that her name is Bessie ' .. .... . .. .i . lirey T.ual n is lue nioe-. iiiuk that could have nsppeneo. Her blue eyts and her red mouth open in wonder. "Because answering the look u Charley had behaved well instead of badly you wou.d bave been at Grasstown long before this, and I should not have had the pleasure of meeting you. . And now 1 am about proposiugsiuielhing which will seem extremely absurd to you, although the wisest thine that cculd be done under the circumstances. Suppose we turn Charley's ha.d in the direction of his old home and see what speed he will make then f " "But,' looking at bim half frigbtened,as Lion bounds forward with a loud cheerful bark to meet a stalwart old man who comes suddenly around a corner, bis hat in one hand and a red silk handkerchief in the other, aud who .shouts the moment he catches sight of her : "Why, girl, where have you been? Whet on earth's the matter?" Bessie leaves unfinished the "But be inin ano-ch and runs laughinely to him, and. taking the hat from his band, fans him en ergetically while she explains: 'Charley . .a tl.. in.ltpr. fHllier. luu vaio n-,,,M how ,r,TmvRiimr he's been. He wouldn't bo until this gentleman" with another pretty blush "was kind enough to make The old man looteu rcuij "And Dray wheie did you i .. ., .h hn mMT vou be?" he ljiuc limn, " a.L-iul oli.rnlir 1 wUl leb you where I came from, and how I happened to meet your daughter, at , -..,... lima Meanwhile you w.U enrn. tntiiM. iim. unuiniui. i w" learn from this who I am handing a cwd to the old farmer, on which was engraved Charles Marks, Jr." "Our old landlady's nephew and heir ? The same, at your service ; and having no desire, in spite of my agent't arrange- urcuia iu me contrary, to begin my life at Daisyville by turning so worthy a tenant " v" "ran ue aauea '-Willi so pretty a daughter") 'out of the bouse he has occu pied so uany years, I was just proposing to Miss Grey as you made your appearance that Charley should be stopped in his mad career, ana once for all be turned toward his old borne. "Are you quite in earnest sir t" Never more so in my life. Whoa, Char ley, poor old boy 1" and around went horse and wagon, and off started the fiery steed so fast tout they could no longer follow him, Lion "leaped a yard in the air." in the exuberance of his delight galloping by his aiue. "lie's all right, said the old man. his face beaming with happiness. And won't mother look wondet fully surprised when she sees him coming up the lane t I don't know how to thank you, sir." ''Don't thank me. I deserve no thanks, says Charles' Mar kis holding aside a low hanging tree branch that Bessie may pass uuder. "And the new gardener P asks Bessie, looking back at him. "Will have rooms over" the stablO You know you said they were 'very comfort able.' " "But ycur train ?" persists Bessie, with the first gleam of coquetry that ever spark led in her blue eyes. "I'd much rather walk," says Mr. Marks. tiitllrd up In m M-h a. On the border ot the Fiushingse Madows, in Long Island, in a bleak spot west of the village, near Ireland Mills, is the old Texi do mansion, formerly the residence of the late Captain Manuel Texido. On his death the house was sold. It passed into the hands of Senator, now Chief Justice Prince of New Mexico, who now owns the farm. lie sold the homestead to Miss Clarkson of this village. The house, a few months ago, was let to a Mrs. Allen, from New York. She represented herself to be the sister-in-law of a prominent olllcial of the last Slate Government. Mie was greatly interested in religious matters. She said she had a brother who is a clergyman ot the Episco pal Church in the western part of the State, About a month ago Mrs. Allen, who had another woman living with her, moved to New York. Before going, Mrs. Allen ask ed a lady here if it was safe to leave the premises without any occupant. When told that it might not be safe, she said: "n ell, 1 ve got a competent person to live there in my absence." Miss Clarkson, who did not know of Mrs. Allen's removal, recently went to collect the rent due. Her summons at the dour received no response until it was vigorous ly repeated. Then a window was opened, and a woman's head was thrust out. The woman looked wild, and bcr hair was di shevelled. She immediately began chat tering to Miss Clarkson. She said she had not seen Mrs. Allen, and iu starving. Miss Clarkson not knowing what else to do, came back to the village for assistance. She called upon a lady lrieiid, who return ed w itu her to the ola mansion. They took a louf of bread with them. On their knock ing at the dour Uiey saw the head again thrut out of the window. The woman made a bead, rending appeal for something ui eau i ne io uto.ea urooieu a raa tiwu a fKliCe jn Hdjining field, and sticking tue loaf on the ehd, held the bread up to lue tarnished woman. She showed the mt.u gt nvi,-tv to secure the food. No sooner mo. sue gei u iu ner nanus man sue raVcuouly to devour fu ilien EUe begged for water, saying that a utg mat sue nail wiui iicr lor eoiupauj waa aio lamished. The ladies got a piece of rj aIul tUrew it to the woman, who by it let dow n a pail. The ladies tilled the pail with waier and the woman drew it up. Still they were unable to get into the house, and once more tbey returned to the village called upon a Justice, who referred them to County Superintendent of the Poor Sullivan, lie, with the ladies, returned to tLe mansion. Mr. Sullivan tried to get in by window, but it was liruily secured. lle ,ut.n ,.rawlca through the cellar and worUtd his way upstairs to the room where uie woman was. lie iouiiu me uoui uui jonlv but nailed up with boards, and the handle was tied with a rope to the ban aje ut Another door across the halL Mr. SulliTlia lore gwsy these burlt lbe UoororH;n. obstacles and la lut. uu(iUieoi me room w-ju uie !maaj UlefjSc.j ouly in , ,um ouon skirt , a jackt.t c glmilar 8luff. Lnder her LraJg W118 tne remains of the loaf, and a a barking and snarling at the intruders, I . 1. .- . ..I.. Ti... ,t,.lt- ttrti.lud in t lias was at her aide. The ouly articles in the room were a pile of meadow grass in one cprner, on whicu lay a piece of covering tour feet square, aud a pail. 1 here was no stove. How tha woman uvea inrougn tue recently very cold weather it is hard tell ing. Mr. Sullivan and the ladies questioned her, but ail that she would say was that Mra. Allen had been very kind to her. She said she had some property at Locust Val ley, L. L, and had been so importuned by Mrs. Allen that she finally assigned it to her.the deed being on record in the County Clerk's office in Jamaica. The woman bad been confined for over a month. She look ed like a living skeleton. It was learned that she had a sister in Locust Valley, and after being cared for she was sent there by Superintendent Sullivan. Tne Toawl. It has been demonstrated that the toad is highly venomous. Digs and other ani mals inoculated with toad poison have soon died. A boy in Fans accidentally seized a toad, receiv ed the poison through a wound in his hand, and in spile or tne U-st medical assistance, shortly alter died. This poison exudes through the skin of the back when the animal is violently moiesieu, and is the ouly defence it has against iu numerous foes,4for il cannot bite like the snake, nor bound out of sight in a single spring Uke the froe. A toad might be handled a thousand, times wuiiouv iu re sults, since it is a necessary condition that the skin of the hand should be broken to afford the liquid poison ingress to the veins; yet considering - what has been proved by patient investigation, it ia not unimportant to warn all, but particularly boys, who are oft n inclined to emulate each other iu clever feats, not to make a plaything or a pet of the toad, nor, on the other baud, to ill-treat it, but simply to let it alone. Dogs froth at the mouth when encouraged to worry a toad, and cats, it is said can uever be got to touch them. The Duison has b"n proved by recent experi ment to be exceedingly active, and no one can be too careful in avoiding contact with it. At the same time the creature 13 per fectly harmless when not meddled with, and useful as a destroyer ol injects. When it is ov rtaken in the lane, or on the foot path, il will always show the greatest hum bleuess and refptct ; it will bobble away out of sinbt as last as it can, and give you all the road to pass. The eye is the only part of the toad that can be called boauti luL but is seldom observed. The lustrous eye is unquestionably a jewel of rare valne, and it is the only attractive feature that the toad is endowed with to compensate for its general ugliness. A Kom.nct of thm The British steamer West Indian, which arrived at Baltinore in the early part rflLUwgnt I had never seen two flner- January, brought from Jamaica the ne or one ol the most heartrending man' disasters which even the present tempes: uous winter has caused. About the middle of December the British barque Fontabelle, Captain Mxon, sailed from Jamaica for inuon, naving on Djant a crew ot twen ty-flve men and ten passengers, including the captain's wife and three children, and two young couples, who had been marrtti only six weeks before. The Toyaire opened with promise; the wind waa falrtbjr wita the exception that he wore moc- and gentle, and everything indicated a 1 casus and had his lower limbs encased in quick and pleasant passage to the Knglis! g pt 0 oomfortably greasy deerskin trow shores.. The West Indian seas, however, j rs. Bound his waist was a bell support are treacherous, and when one day out the ling a revolver, two butcher-knives and a wind fell and the vessel lay becalmed. ! steel and iu bis hand he carried his trusty rolling lazily upon the long waves. FcHrrXriJ.E.Tbe Widow." ' Jack, tall and lithe, days after sailing, when every sail was set ; miUa ught brown dose-cropped hair, clear, to catch the listless breeze, a hurricane of . laughing, honest blue eyes and a soft win prodigious fury fell without warning upon I ning ajnile, micht have sat as a model for the barque, and stripped her of masts and&jypical m-xleru Anglo-Saxon, if etunolo- nggmgin ten minutes' time, ine ga,.!! excuse the term. Bill was dark, increased in rury, ana me aismastea nuiK was driven violently before it, being re peatedly swept by huge waves, which mo mentarily threatened to sink it by the very weight of the tons of water which they threw on board. The passengers and crew, abandoning hope, crouched under the bulwarks, and through the long night listened to the bowling of the wind and the shrieks of anguish, as, one by one, their numbers were diminished by the relentless seas. V lvid flashes of lightning at times the States or been anywhere east of the illumined the scene, making its details more i Mississippi. They knew scarcely more of terrible. With every flash the passengers ) civilization and lue life of the great cities who crouched in the stern could perceive than' the Indians around them. After one of the young married couples clinging wy- they both went East and made to the wreck and to each other, the hus-j.y Cjdy has, 1 believe, settled down band standing over his wife to shield her from the force of tne waves. One wave of unusual power struck the pair and tore from the body of the youmr wife the night clothing in which she was wrapped, where upon the husband, stripping oil his own clothing, fastened it about his wife, and leaving her bound securely to the side, plunged down into the hold, at the risk of his hie, and brought up for her more suit able attire. Just as the dawn was break ing the climax came. A tremendous wave hurled the vessel high in air ; it came down crashing upon a reef ; another torrent of water struck the deck, and the captain and ten men, with the young bride, were hurled into the sea. As she was torn from her husband's arms the latter appeared stupefied, but the next moment he leaped after her with a terrible cry, and he, too, was swept away aud out of sight of the horrified survivors. To these the prospect of instant death was not to be avoided, and they clung to their fastenings and watcbtxl with despair the slow crumbling of the vessel beneath the blows of the sea. About noon the storm abated, and the survivors began to gather a little courage. The night came, and the other bnde. overcome by exhaustion, died in the arms of her husband. Day dawned again, hut only to arouse one of the seamen, who, crazed by thirst, leaped into the sea before the eyes of his horrified companions, and sank for ever. In the clear water they could see bis body descend, until, thirty feet below j 1 'j . it lodged in a hollow of the rocks.f- rd !- H wm -.-!rg-r h ,, Th. ... , , rlv.v lhl.t whom he morn. ing came, seven more had beenswept away, and only the mate, one seaman and the captain a wife remained alive. Late in the alternoon of this awful day a vessel hove in sight, perceived the plight of the surviv ors and sent a crew of ux men to rescue them. But the pitiless sea hud not yet been appeased with victims ; a wave over turned lue boat when il had almost reached the barque, and the entire crew were drowned in the surf beneath the very eyes of those whom their bravery bad vainly attempted to save. Another boat was sent off, however, and at irreal risk brought on board the men and the woniau whonadsat with death for eight and forty hours. This is but oue of the terrible tales which are every year brought hjme by those who go down to the sea in ships, and which make the romances of imaginative writers seem like idle tales. It is nuely that a ship wreck occurs which is attended by more distressing details, but the seas are full of terrors, many of w hich are known only to those who die in them, and whose fate is never known. Such narratives as these give a livily stimulus to the imagination in thinking of the multitudinous wrecks from which no survivor has ever come, and which go to swell tne chapters of romance .of tue mysterious and llircatcnim deep. I Dont I are. At 10 o'clock a boot-black stood at the south door of the I'ostolbce in Detroit looking across Larned street. A woman came out of the office and banged the door against his bead and back and heels and lilted him clear oil the steps by the con cussion. "I don't care you bad no business there ! she snapped as he picked himself "Say, that was real mean," ne said, as he rubbed his head. Well, then, keep away from the doors." "1 was goin' W tvake you a Christmas present," he reui&:ked as he followed ber up Larned street. "1 don't want any." "Yes, 1 was goin' to buy you a fifty- pound sack of flour and put it in yer atockin'." "I don't care !" "That's what I was goin' to do. but I've concluded not to. V er see, it would slip down into the foot ot your stock iu' an' fit so clus that ye couldn't git it out without buildin a stagin an htrin carpenters an goin' to more trouble than the flour was worth!" She gave him one awful look and he fen back, but she bad no sooner turned the corner than the halted before a window for no o.her purpose than to get a sly look at her feet and see if they had swelled any since she left home. II ew to Hans; Thermometers. In the first place the temperature of the wall of any building, at any hour of the night or day, is not the true temperature of the circulating air and is of no use to science. A wood wall radiates its heat moie rapidly than a brick or a stone, and the amateur scientist who bangs bis ther mometer on a wood wall can force bis meicury down below the amateur who selects a brick wall. The proper way to expose your thermometer is to surround it with a light wood frame covered with slats, like shutter work, and roofed over. This will protect it from the direct rays of the sun and reflected heat. Kun a light wood bar across the centre of your instrument shelter, to which you can attache ther mometers, which should be, when properly exposed, on the north side of the building and the thermometer at least one foot from all objects. If these directions are followed erroneous reports of extreme cold weather will not find their way into print so often. It is not a very funny thing for the press to report 25 deg. below zero when 15 deg. represented the true temperat ure of the circulating air. It gives persons wrong impression of your climate. BwsnUo Bill ana Texas Jack. Tha Earl ofDunraven in a late narjer. aava: I Tutu rut specimens of humanity, or two ntt.Te picturesque figures. Both were tall, wtll-lMjUt, active-looking men, with singu lily handsome features. Bill was dressed In pair of eorduroya, tucked into' his high buota, and a blue flannel shirt, lie w-jre a broad brimmed felt hat, or sombre ro, aud baa a white handkerchief folded like a Uttle shawl loosely fastened round hV net ay to keep off the fierce rays of the eftca sun. jack costume waa siuu- v .tit qi jck, searching eyes, aquiline nose, aid delicately cut features, and he wore his hair falling in long ringlats over his shoulders, in true Western style. As be canteaed up with his flowing locks and broad-lirimmed hat, he looked like a pic ture at a cavalier of tbe.olden times, r Ah. well ! it is years ago since the day I fL'jt k hands with Jack and Bill, and 'tnauy changes bave taken place since then, I At that time neither of them had visited 4ii a ranch somewhere in Wyoming, and Jobu Omohundro, better known as Texas Jack, has gone to other and better hunting grounds, i'eace be with him; he was a good and kind friend to me, a cheery com panion, as brave as a lion, as geut'e as a woman, always ready for anything, al ways willing to work, cutting down nioun tuns tf dithcullica iute molehills, always ia fumur, never quarreling a better but'ltjg companion than Jack was in thote Cavs.. a more re. Utile friend, it would be h I to find- Thire was nothing mean a'-t Jack ;' J to use oue of his own $f(.irru phraotSl real man. IvVell,' said Cody, after the ceremony of Introduction had been got through aud we Had made known our wishes aud aspi nuioua, "1 guess we will both go along wii.li you gents, if you lute, and if 1 can leave, and 1 don't know as there will be aiwrouble about that. You see Jack and 1 Svt started out this morning to get a :o,Voinieat, but there has been considei-ab-o! fixe down toward the forks and v-vl all the game off ; and as we had imI Koi no stores with us for moie than a day or two, we concluded to come right b-ck. "Oh, Lord," 1 said ; "the game all scared off, is itf what an infernal nuisance 1 it does not look a very cheery country to ride about in without plenty of game to "Uvea one up." "Never you mind about (iter aid elk," cried Jack ; "you will bave mo eau wotij mm. . j. you can aiffleV'T,.. kno call worry about that ; we will Jicd I benevolent t themf yoaV "Ahf ye hit Well it does seem kind of dismal, dou't'iL this time of year. Ah! " he added enthu siastically, but you should see in the summer, when the grass is all green and the flowers is all a-biowiug, and the little birds is a-building of tneir nestles and boo-huoing around aud the deer are that fat tbey will scarcely trouble to get out of your way ; and as to eating, they are just splendid, immense 1 1 tell you ; ain t they, Bill ?" Ves sir, you bet your boots they are. But come on, Jack , let's ford our ponies and skin for the fort ; we don't wsnt to stay out here all night, anyhow. "Good night, gentlemen ; we will see you in the morning and fix that hunt all right, I guess. Aud so Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack "ford their ponies and skin out." while we bundle ourselves into the wagon and rattle oil as fast as seventeen hands Liih muits can tear to the fort, where we are most kindly and hospitably reoeived. Buffalo Bill aud Texas Jack were as fine sjiecimens of their race anil class as could anywhere be fouud; aud that is lying a good deal, for honest hearts and stalwart lrames and handsome features are not rare among the pioneers of Western civilization. it might be supposed t hat these hunters, Indian trailers, cattle-boys and miners are disagreeable people to come across. That is not at all the case. There are, of course some rough charac ters, regular desperadoes, among them, and they occasionally shoot each other pretty lreely in gambling quarrels and drunken sprees, but to a stranger who knows how to behave himself, they are, as far as my experience goes, most ujvil and obliging. If a man is civil to them tbey will Le civil to bim. and if he does I 1 . . 1 . . .' .. T.. . M ...... nit in.eriere auuu iuvh iuoii. n"-j bother about his, unless he wants their as sistance, nd then they will be ready and willing to give it. The manly sense of independence, the self-respect, and that feeling of respect for others engendered by It, which so s:rngly characterize the Au.erican people, are as deeply marked and have as good an effect among the nomads ot the est as in any class of the population. Of course if a man gives himself airs be must expect to pay lor it- 1 remember rather an amu sing instance of this- I bad engaged a hunter and guide, a first-rate man, to ac company a Inend ot mine. i ue uay oe- fore they were to start the guide came it Die and said, "Now look here, Mr. Earl, 1 ain't agoing to back out of this bargain, because I told you I'd go ; but I ain't sweet upon the job, 1 tell you. I nover came across a chap wit! such a lot of side on in my life, aud I don't like it. How ever, I said I'd go, and I'm a'goiag: but I ain't a'uoing at the price I told you, 1 am going to charge him $1 a day more." And so my friend enjoyed his expedition in blissful ignoranc tuat he was paying 4s 2J extra for "side." Tr&etns tne HodeonX'nder tne HrM. The "Atlantic Coast Pilot," published by the United States Coast Surveys ex plains the origin of the curious deep' holes met with along the New Jersey coast. some distance out at sea. Of these "mud holes," as they are termed, nine are known to navigators, the deepest aud furthest out being the 145 fathom hole, bi miles soutn east of Sandy llot,k light vcsseL These remarkable depressions, as the "Pilot" points out, bear the appearance of Laving been oritrinal.v a continuation ot the liud son river valley. They were in all proba bility scoope 1 out by tne river being forced to run in narrow gorges. Several of these can still be traced running almost parallel with the New Jersey shore line. In fact the soundings along the coast seem to in dicate that the whole coast line, agea ago, was many miles eastward ot its position to-day ; and then the Hudson river enter ed the ocean at least 100 miles southeast of its present mouth, and that the whole continent baa since subsided, the sea en croaching further and further inland as the country gradually sank. A Knit A mane Breaker. Mr. Tornado Raft has recovered from bis injuries. The way he got hurt was this: Mr. Kaft wsa appointed by a certain up-town missionary society to investigate the theatre and see if it is really a wicked thing. He came to Boston and called, on a manager and expressed his business, and the manager told him be was at liberiiy to go behind the scenes of bis theatre and witness how things were done, Mr. Kaft accepted. The piece being produced that night was a spectacular one, and Mr. Kaft wandered about among the imps and gob lius and fairies untU he got under the stage, and, unperceived and unawares, stood upon a trap. A devil was to be shot up through that trap to the stage, and, just as be came up, somebodv on the stage was to make a vicious whack fit him, which ha was to dodge. The machinist who worked the trap just glanced at it, aaw that a man was on it, thought that it was all right, and shot it up. Halt felt himself going and gave a wild yell, but it was too late. Up he went, and the man on the stage was all ready to make the welt at the devil, and made it. But Kaft, bewildered by his novel position, was not prepared to dodge it, and got the blow, a powerful one, over lite head. It sent him flying clear across the stage. It was m the play for everyone to kick at the devil, while he waa to dex terously dodge every blow; and the man w hom ICaft tell near didn't in the excite ment of the moment, notice that it wasn't the (leva, and kicked at Raft, and, as Kaft didn't dodge, be got hit, and waa lifted clear up the stage to where another man kicked him, aud he was terribly scared, and began to yell; and the audience, which thought it wasfHtrt of the play, cheered, and then another man kicked him, and then another, and another, and, shrieking loudly, he flew about Uke a foot-ball until finally he rolled at the heels of a trick mule n the stage, and the animal kinked him iut: the orchestra; and as he fell ha broke two fiddles and a tromlionc, while his he -id got stuck into a ketlle-druin. This wildly excited the orchestra, but by that time the actors bad found out that there was some mistake, as the real "devU" came up through the trap, bo, proceedings were stopped, while Air. Kail waa extricated aud taken to the green-room. The mana ger went to him, and asked him what the Old Harry he meant by gettinf upon the stage and disturbing the peace, and Rati said it was a conspiracy to ahy lain. Fi ually the matter w&s explained, and Kaft waj sent to the hospital in a hack. He ha; reported to the society that the theater is tue w ickedest place in existence and ac tors the wickedest people. benevolent Mr. TTIxbava. At a meeting of the Ladies' Benevolent society, held the other day, it was resolved that a committee of four ladies be appoint ed to canvass for donations, and in the course of their perignnations this com mittee dropped into Mr. Wixham'a office, lie received them as a gentleman should, and after the usual formalities one of them began: "Mr. Wixham, we are asking aid for purposes. rear Benevolence is a bums which after poor folks."' "Wo are." "Very proper very proper. You all have children of your ownl" "Oh, yea," "All of them are well-fed, well-clothed and well-cared for, are theyf" "Yes, sir." 'That's very proper. I presume their stockings are properly darned, buttons in their places, and they say their prayers when they go to bed? Am I correct? 1 lie worn n looked at each other in a sly way, and then at him, and one of them said: 'We shall be happy for any contribu tion." i es'm, yes'm. You don't want this con tribution tor your own families, eh? No, sir! answered four voices in cho rus. Well, I am somewhat inclined to benev olence. Hardly a day passes that I don't do something for chanty. Here's an old account of 2t against Mr. , I know he's hard up at d having a close time to get along, and yesterday 1 canceled the debt. " One of the canvassers turned red, white and blue and looked out ot the window. 1 hat was her husband, but Wixuam didn't know it. 'And yesterday 1 found a poor, forlorn- looking little boy out here crying with hun ger aud cold. He said his name was Tom my , and he lived at no. oh street. He badn t been washed or combed for a week, and 1 felt sad for him. 1 was going to take bim home aud feed him, but he slipied away. Another woman suddenly looked out of the window, aud her pulse ran up to 120 a minute, but Wixham was as innocent as a lamb of any knowledge that it was ber boy. Then you won t aid uof queried the spokesman. "Oil, yes, certainly I will. I was sim ply figuring to see how much 1 could spare. 1 signed a note with Mr. last fall, and 1 had to pay it yesterday. That makes nve feel rather poor. The third woman didn t turn red, but green, but Wixham couldn't have poasi bly known that it was her husband. -Let s see. Let s see. I want to give you all I can spare. Mr. on street. owes me four months house rent, and 1 11 give you an order on bim for 120." 1 he four women rose up. 1 bey rushed in a solid body for the door. Tbey went out in a heap. Some were red and some were pale, and all mad. 1 hey tried to speak, but they couldn't, and as they has teued to get away from each other, Wix ham held up the half-written order and gasped: How very, very singular! I'erhaps they thought they couldn't collect the money." Areuic in Wall I'apers. A law suit concerning the use of arsenic in colors was lately tried in the High Cour of Justice, London. Sleinhoff, a color maker, sued Woo lams & Co., for a small bill for colors furnished. Woollams refused to settle becaase the colors were found to contain arsenic; they not n!y refused to pay, but claimed damages against Steinhoft to the amount of nearly two thousand dol lars. It was proven on the trial that Slein hoff, when be sold the colors, which were the "iinitatiou azune blue," guaranteed that they contained no arsenic. Woollams showed that his reputation in business was to a great extent founded on the fact that his wail papers were made without ar-enic Believing that the colors of Sleinhoff con tained no arsenic, he made up a lot of wall papers therewith. Subsequently it was found that tLe coidrs contained arsenic to the large extent of fifty per cent. The jury allowed the claim for damages. So the plaintiff, instead of obtaining a judgment in his favor, had a heavy judgment ren dered against him, and had to pay the costs on both sides in addition. The pecan crop of Texas just gath ered la unprecedented. A Buffalo Hut. The second afternoon out, a buffalo-herd was discovered feeding far to the south, resembling a flock of black sheep in the distance, A bait was at once called, and preparations made for a descent upon the game in the morning. The horses were tethered by long raw-hides, and the men proceeded to put their guns and ammuni tion in order. The next morning dawned fresh and clear. The buffaloes were still in sight, though farther away ; and, as the wind blew from the hunters toward the bent, a long detour waa made in order to approach them from the opposite side. At length, the hunters dashed among them and commenced the work of destruction. Will 's horse, the unreliable Bonanza, be haved well while among his companions ; but no sooner did they scatter than he be came unmanageable, and his rider heartily wished be had taken his father's advice in relation to the animal, as he found he was going to be left out of the sport. There were no breech-loading guns in the party, and it would astonish a crack sportsman with his repeating Winchester and ready loaded shells in a convenient belt to see a horseman charge a muzzle-loader lroni the saddle. The report of the hunter's rifles gradually diffused uneasiness among the buffaloes, which numbered two thousand or more, and they began to move, followed by the relentless horsemen. In their course they again approached the horse of our dis appointed friend. WUl tried desperately to get close enough for a shot. He suc ceeded, but a scared bull, with a shaggy front and furious, twinkling eyes, charged toward Bonanza, and that animal turned and fled ignominioualy. The now terrified buffaloes closed in upon the panic-stricken horse, and won ill was surrounded by the shaggy herd. He tugged vainly at the bit ; and lbe loud laughter of his compan ions, who rememliered bis boast on starting out, grew fainter as be waa borne swiftly away, lie was not at all alarmed till be looked back and saw that be was fast leav ing the men out of sight. Then Bashed upon him the thought of how powerless he was in the midst of the unwieldy herd. He waa completely surrounded, aud the frightened builaJos were running at their swiftest speed, which they would probably continue for hours. He thought of stop ping his horse by taking off bis coat aud putting it over the animal's eyes. But then, should the horse stop, be would be knocked down by the buffaloes, and then both of them be pounded to death beneath the feet of the herd. So powerful arc these clumsy beasts that in a large herd they are almost invincible. They leave a track behind which much resembles a plowed field. Should one of the number lose its footing it is almost sure to be killed by its companions, aa those in the rear, crowding upon the forward ranks, makes a pause impossible. Crocker observed his son's peril first. He was beard to cry out suddenly, and then, applying his spurs, be galloped in the rear of the last -retreating herd. Lecierc and Dutch followed hard upon his heels, but the cooler-blooded Mex icans remained to skin the buffaloes the little party had slain. Meanwhile, Will had given himself np for hat. But he looked his peri' in the face, with a courage begotten of a. life a.xong (.angers. Sim denly a aeapetat thought occurred to Aim He had heard drovers and trappers tell of Indian hunters whose mode of killing buf faloes was by running on their backs, and speanm; them as they ran. by could not he escape that way ? The animals were close together and, though a misstep would be fatal, to remain in his present position was certain death. A dense cloud of black dust hung over the h rd, through which na igbt was visible but the tossing sea of beasts near him. He, therefore, bad no Idea how nianv animals intervened between himself and sufetv. His chances of es cape seemed not one in ten, but the st am bling of his horse decided him to make the attempt. More thoughtful than most boys would have been in the face of a dauger like this, he unbuckled his horses bndie and tied it around his gun ( which he car ried strapped to his back), and then, get ting off his saddle on to the horse's withers, be loosed the girth and let it fall to the ground, inteudimr, should he make Lis es cape, to go back and pick it up. He now rose to his feet on the horse s back, holding to the animal's mane, and in an instant leaped to the nearest buifalo, holding his gun, like a balancing-pole, in both hands, t he animal plunged, but he jumped to the next and the next, like Eliza, crossing the Ohio on the ice, iu "L'ucle Tom s Cabin. He had accomplished half the distance, w hen one of the buffaloes, seeing him com ing, jumped to one side, the Ooy leu between, but dropped his gun in time to grasp the animal by its long hair, aud with difficulty he climbed upon the terrified and plunging creature, and jumped desperately on till he reached the outside of the herd, when he fell to the ground and rolled over and over, with bis bead swimming and a heart leaping for joy. He was yet in dan ger from the stragglers on the edge of the herd, but the cloud of dust and the animals it obscured passed by, and faded into a smoke-like billow, leaving him uninjured. Ten minutes after, Crocker and his two followers gall' iped up and, to their great joy, found the boy unhurt beyond a few uruises. mil rode home behind his father's saddle, but whether or not the ad venture had any effect for good on his stubborn nature, the chronicle saith not. Cap. V., ot Yankee Fork, began to tell about the lakes and fish of the Lemhi coun try. He told of ice lakes in the .Middle roik in which were trout weighing from twenty five to fifty pounds. Tnen he told about the red-bsu lakes. Said he: " 1 here is something in this red-fish business that astonishes me. At a certain day in the early spring they leave the Pacific Ocean, and travelling up the Columbia Kiver with out a halt turn up the Salmon Kiver, and never turn to the right or left till they reach Ked-fish Creek, in Lemhi County. I hey form fours at the mouth of that creek and march up to the lakes, where the boys and bears have a high old time on fish for the summer. "The bears! What do you mean?" "Why, 1 mean just what I say. A sal mon liver man never thinks of fishing with a hook, line, or spear. We make the bears do our hshiug up there, you bet. By care fully studying the habits of bruin we liud that in lbe summer aea-oD, from 5 o'clock till i in the tiiormng, ne is busny engaged fishing. 1 h-; way bears fish up our way is this: Eight or teu bears will ail in a row oa a ritlle in the river; the bear iu the middle by a quick motion of the right paw, pull. the fi&h out of the water; he then throws it to the bear next him, and it is thus passed one to the other until it is thrown ou the bank. They throw the fish to each oilier like you see men pass brick. Well, all we've got to do ia to juU go along quietly, sack lbe fish as fast as the bears throw them out on the bans, and go off about our busi ness. Maybe you don't think bears are suspiclousf I've seen eight beais jump the bear that was nearest the baux, because one of our boys stole one fish oui of their pile, and the bear tha; kept tally missed it wuen the fishing match was oyer." NKWS IW BRIEF. The Ohio Legislature is thinking of employing girls as pages. Misisippi has 193,000 TOters, of whom 105, COO are negroes. Lancaster ran boast of 76 good sub stantial tobacco warehouses. In 1S5I Wisconsin bad ten miles of I railroads; now it has 3,133 mile. A hundred of the French Jesuit have appeared in Constantinople. Boston's original area wr n 3 acres; its present territory includes 23,61. Over twohundred deer were killed in Forest country during the past sea son. It Is said that the wine crop of California this year will be 10,000,000 gallons. The loss by fire in New Orleans during tha past year has been only $121,740. The Pittsburg pension agency pays out two mijilou dollars annually iu pension i. Charles O'Conor ag-d 76, ha be come a citizen of JSantuekec, where bo is at work on a law treatise. It Is stated tb it it will cost over $31,000,000 to run the New York city government the coming; year. General Walker has already esti mated that in iSWO this country will bave a populatiau of 65,000,000. Thirty thousand square miles of pine timber are now awaiting the saws at Beaumont, Texas. The statement of the Imperial Bank of Germany shows a decrease iu specie oi 74,000 marks. The duke of Westminster, the rich est man In England, waa raised to his present title by Mr. Gladstone. The Washington banker Corcoran bas given awav $4,000,000 and has only sbjut $l,OUO,o6o left for himself. There are 40,000 negroes In Wash ington, of whom not more than 5,000 re steady at work during the year. It is estimated that the Indian river country of Florida will alone pro duce this year 70,000 boxes of oranges. A farmor in Chilton county Ala bama. raied 403 bushels of vellow yams on a half acre of common pine land. Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee are the three most populous states of the South. Georgia ranks next to Ten nessee. The wife of Gen. Sherman is in such uncomfortable health that she will nor perform any social duties this season. The Colorado bullion production tor 13S0, is estmated at $22,00.),OJO. ot which Leadville ia credited with $15, 000,1)00. A silver dollar of 1703, "in excel lent condition," i worth about $1 ,50. Half dollars of 1312 are worth about sixty cents. Commissioner Le Due ha located his experimental tea farm '20 miles from Cmrleston on the South Caro llan railroad. Kansas harvested 25,000 acres of "iy-ptivi or ric- corn !xs year, :La average yield being twenty-five bush els to the acre. It takes two and a half million dol lar to pity the annual expenses of the 20,00!) hounds said to he owned In Great Bric-tiu. During the past seven year3 the mine ol the United S:ates have pro lueetl 23J.00O,000 of gold and 271.- 500,01.0 of silver. The total coinaze of all coin, eold. silver and minor, from the foundation of the Government to the present time. is i, -!.,, iti.y.u. We have now outstanding In green backs, $3'i3 5SS 421, national bank notes, 1.1.2 irt.O.lll total, $jjoo,803,307 iu paper currency. i he first turnpike ever made In the United Scate was that constructed be tween Philadelphia and Lancaster iu 17'JH, costing $500,000. The first time the White Hou-e. at Washing on, was thrown open to the public was at the New Tear's levee of President Adams, in 101. The Kussian Army has 25,000 offi cers, which lust.equals the whole ruiy of ihe Uuited Stales, counting in hos pital stewards and the rest. Nearly $9500 has been contributed In Cincinnati for the benefit; of the amilies of five firemen who lost their lives at a recent fire in that city. The number of croquet sets sold In this country during the past five years. is estimated at 8,000,000. aud still we onlinue to send missionaries to Africa. Vanderbilt draws $510,000 from the government every ninety days, that amount being the quarterly inter est on the 4 per cent, bonds held by bim. The gross earnings ef the Missouri raclfic railway for the year ending December 31, 18 were $25,404,10ii.Os, an Increase of $1,8S4,401.34 over those of ls79. An English writer places the num ber of horses in the world at 49,0OJ,- 000. ot which the I nlted Slate and Canada have 11,' 00,000, and Kussia 21,0vX),O00. Eastport, Me., exported 65. 000 cases of sardines last year, worth $(150, UM), against 25,060 in 1S7'J. Seven new lactones were erected, making thirieet. now iu operation. It is estimated that the railroads of the country have required this year l,iUo new locomotives and bs,4,'0 cars, worth $'J5,67'-).92J, aud $71,l4,00O wortn ot new lies aud rails. The exports of grain from the port of New York during the year 1SS0 reached 107,000,000 bushels, au excess ol nearly 13,000,000 bushels oyer the exports of auy previous year. The most careful estimates, allow ing tor the losses by bid wenher aud tne scareity of labor, put the cotton crop of lsi at 6,017,. 164 bales, an in crease over 1S7') ot 256,000 bales. The Personnel of the German Navy compri-es 10,00 men, of which num ber during tue twelve months euding on the 1st of April last, on an average, 5,1.(7 were afloat aud 4062 ou shore. The Maharajah Dbuieep Singh, the well-known East Indian prince w ho lives iu England, advertises 3,000 pheasants and 1,000 hares lor sale, al ou the E vedou estate, near Thettord. The Moccasins, necklace and other barbarous personal property of "Don't Kuow-Uow," a meinbxr of the Yauk luuuais tribe of Sioux, bave been re ceived oy secretary scuurz ny man, that ludian having no further use for them. The total number of paupers in Loudon ou ihe last day of the third week iu December was0J,262,ot whom 51,566 were iu workhouses, and 40,706 received oudoor relief. Compared with the corresponding week in 1379, these figures show a decrease of 3,550 ; but as compared with 1474 aud 1477, tbey show au increase of 6,061 and 6,605, res oec lively. I
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