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B. F. SCHWEIER,
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Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXV.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1881.
NO. 21.
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17IER ALL
Oh, this wesry world, with iu restless toiling.
And ita fitful feysr of on oe Ming cm !
th, this selfish world, our kindest action
oiling,
go that out stained souls can scarcely rise
in prayer !
"Peace !" I hear the preaohf r-poet call,
This world is God's world, after all
After all."
Oh, this weeping world, full of rain and sor
row. Full of trtakin; hearts that once were
strong and brave,
t ull of dark despair that hopes fur no to
morrow. And love whose memory is but a grave !
'Peace !" 1 hear the preacher-poet call,
"This world is God s world, after all
After all,"
This is God's world ; so the birds are singing,
So tie happy fields are glad with golden
wheat,
So the sun is shining, so the Sowars are
springing.
So the Ixavy heart again with joy may beat.
Only listen how the strong words fall,
'This world is God's world, after all
After all."
If tie God's world, why st.ould we work
weeping?
Why should we go heavily by night or day ?
"lie giveth His beloved while they are sleep
ing." He loves the cheerful toiler, who can say.
I fear no grief, no wrong that can
befall ;
This world is God's world, after all
After all."
The Good for-NotLlng.
'Richard's main fault is that he's just
fcjudfor nothing." and Josiah Broadbent
tapped the ashes out of his pipe in a very
desponding way.
1 don't lelieve that, Josiah, Nature
does cot put such a grand dome over a fine
fate for "nothing.' Richard has not hid a
fair trial, that is all about it."
The subject of this conversation sat at an
open window at the other end of the long
parlors, and as the two older men looked
tow aid him he raised his eyes from the
book in his hand to follow the upward
flight of a white-winged flock of pigeons.
Rational, full, deep-set eyes, and a bright
keen face, surrounded by soft, light, curly
hair. Most people would have looked at
such a T-ce in a man with dim dcubts and
foreboding. Richard was a stray soul in a
stray body In that plain matter-of-fact fam
ily. .None of the Broadbents hrd ever been
the" least like him. Yeomen, woolstaplers,
spinners and weavers, great hard headed
hard fisted Yoikshireraen,what kin to them
was this bright, clever youth, who looked
like a knight j ist stepped out of a fairy
book! .
At first Richard s love of learning had
rather amused his household. Old Josiah
was not averse to seeing his son carry off
all the honors of his school, and when peo
ple spoke of the lad's attainments, and of
the promising career before him, he thought
of course they meant that Richard would
greatly increase the business of Broadbent
i Sons, and perhaps in the end get into
Parliament. .
But Richard showed no disposition for
business, and after a year of lruitless and
ageravating efforts to find something he
coiild do in the works, the trial had been
almndoned. His elder brothers, fetephea
and Mark, were very fond of this lad, who
was ten years younger than either of them,
and whose leauty and bright ways had
been their pride for twenty years. Indeed
Richard's mother dying at his birth, these
"big brothers" tad adopted "little Dick"
with all their hearts, and when he com
plained that the smell and noise of the
works made him ill, Mepben hud spoken
very decidedly to his fatter about forcing
tLe "trial lurther.
There's plenty o' brass 1 Leeds' bank to
keep him father, and Mark and I can well
fend for oursei'a. Let the lad be. He's
none like us.'
And Josiah, having also a tender spot in
his heart for his youngest son, had sighed,
and left Richard very much to his own de
vices. But every now and then he wanted
his grumble about the lad's shiftless, good-for-nothing
ways, and this night he had
it to his chief friend, the RcV. Sam
uel Sorlcy, Rector of his parish.
Mr. Sorley knew Richard better than
either his father or brothers, and he was
glad the subject had been opened.
"Josiah," he said, gravely, 'tell Stephen
and Mark that 1 want Richard for four
years. Vou can give him a thousand
pounds or not, just as you trust me, but at
the end of that time 1 think I'll prove
Richard Broadbent no fooL"
"Wbat wdt do wi' him, Samuel? bend
him to Oxford!"
"Thou must ask no. questions, Josiah,
I'll have the lad entirely at my own disp
sal." , . .
Then the two men looked toward Rich
ard again, but he had left his seat, and was
strolliug off toward Saurhaia Park. They
walked to the window and watched him.
and his father lifted the book he had
laid down, and with a mixture of contempt
and indignation threw it aside.
At this moment Stephen Broadbent en
tered the room and said, angrily:
Father, Dick's off to Saurbam wood
again: Im wiUine enou' to let Dick play
the fool i' our house, but dang me if he
shall meddle t' t' squire's."
"What docs thou mean, Stephen?
"I mean that our Dick an' Miss Saurham
have gotten some love nonsense together.
I know it. I tell Ihee how: Jim Harkness
gain home from t works has seen them
meet ivery nigbt. Kow I ween t have
iu"
Father and son were both equally sngry
and distressed, but this circumstance so
favored the rector's proposition that it was
eagerly seconded by Stephen, and was re garded
as settled. Then the rector put
hiiuself in Richard's way and met him just
at dark outside Saurham Park. He was a
man accustomed to look weU after his pa
rishioners and their children, both tempo
rarily and spintually.and therefore Richard
was neither astonished nor offended when
he said: . , .
" ho have you been walking witn,Dickl
Tell me the truth, my son."
"With Agnes Saurham, sir.
The light of love was still in the young
fellow's face, and the rector could not help
noticing how handsome he was. He aid
not say to him: "Vo'i have no right, Rich
ard the young lady is far beyond your
station. You are going to make a ueal of
trouble," and soon. On the contrary, he
praised Agnes' beauty and worth, and then
.i. ki.n knw lamf-. llv the sauire might
refuse her hatd to any maa until he had
done something to prove himself worthy of
"What can I do, sir?" W
"I will tell vou. Richard.'' "
And then the old man took the young
one's arm and talked so solemnly and so
earnestly that Richard caught his enthusi
asm,and whatever Mr. Suriey's plana were,
ne entered heartily into them.
"You shall have every ielp that money
cl2 give you, Richard, only mind, I will
have no love making, and vour nrnrwdifxrd
shall be kept a secret from all your friends.
I don't want Stephen and Mark running up
to see you and meddling in my plana."
One thine Richard, however, insisted on-
he must see Agnes once more, and tell her
he was going away; and Mr. Sorley agreed
to this, on condition that he saw the squire
also. The first Interview was easy and
satisfactory enough; Agnes praised his am
bition and genius, prophesied all sorts of
honors to him, sud promised to wait faith
fully for his return. Her father was a dif
ferent person to manage, and . Richard's
heart quaked as he entered the squire's own
peculiar parlor. It was sutny room. Ut
tered with odds and ends of hunting and
nsiung matters; and the squire was sitting
on a big, old-fashioned sofa, playing with
a couple of thorough bred black English
terriers.
He said, frankly enough;
"Good-day, Richard Broadbenu" but he
did not trouble himself to rise, for the
Broad bents had been tenats of Saurham
from the days of King Stephen. That in
these cotton-spinning days tbey had grown
rich did not alter their position at all in
Squire Saurham's eye. Fifty years ago
the great landed proprietor did not consider
money as an equivalent'for good birth; so
the squire treated Richard pretty much as
he would have done a favorite servant.
Jli88 saurham says that thou art going
away, Kichard. W hat for, ladf
'To study, sir."
"Yes, yes. 'When lands and money all
are spent, then learning is most excellent.'
I have always heard that; but, lad, thy fa
ther has money why need thou go study?'
''Because, sir, I wish to make a great
name, to become famous; then, sir, per
haps, Squire then
'The dickens! Speak out, lad then
what!"
"Then, sir, perhaps you will permit me
to tell you how dearly I love Miss Saur
ham. ".No, Richard, I shall never allow any.
thing of the kind. If twer not for old
Josiah I would say worse than this to thee.
Come, Giddy, come Rattle, we will go to
the hayfield. I hope thy study, Richard,
may teach thee to be more modest and
sensible."
Richard watched the sturdy figure in its
green coat, white corduroys, and buff top
boots across the lawn,and then, with a very
angry feeling in his heart, left the HalL
He disappeared soon afterward, and after
a few desultory inquiries from various ac
quaintances, he seemed to be forgotten. ;
The Broadbent mills went on as usual.
Josiah and Stephen, and Mark passed to
and from them as regularly as if their We
was ordered by machinery; and once a
week the rector went up to their house,
smoked a pipe with Josiah, and generally
said, as be left:
"All is well with Richard, Josiah very
weU indeed!"
In the fourth year of his absence there
was much trouble between the mill owners
and the operatives. The masters were
everywhere threatened, and many mills
were set on fire, and the excitement and
terror was hardly allayed even when the
prominent offenders had been imprisoned.
Their trial was one that anected the inter
ests of all maLufac'.uring districts, and the
spacious court-house was crowded. Josiah
of course, was present; so were Mark and
Stephen.
.Now, if there was anything these men
had an almost idolatrous respect for, it was
the paraphernalia of the law. Those advo
cates la their black gowns, those grave men
in their imposing wigs, those wise-looking
calf -bound volumes, the pomp and cere
mony of the sheriffs, constables, and criers,
were to them the most obvious representa
tive of the majesty of English law and
power.
Conceive, then, their amazement, when
prominent among these gowned advocates,
giving directions to other lawyers, and de
meaning himself as one having authority,
was Richard Broadbent. Old Josiah noshed
and trembled, and touched Stephen and
Mark, who were also too much affected to
do anything but gravely nod their heads.
But when the arguments were over, ana
Richard Broadbent rose as a special pleader
m the matter, curiosity changed to amaze
ment and amazement to enthusiasm. Such
. i i - .
a speech had never oeen ncaru id mc
Riding before. It was cheered and cheered
till even Yorkshiremen's lungs were weary.
The good rector had his reward when he
stood beside his protege, and saw the
squire and the city magnates crowd round
the brilliant youug lawyer with their con
gratulations. But far greater was his jiy
when old Josiah and Stephen and Mark
pressed forward with radiant faces and full
hearts. They were not men given to speech
andtl htppy father could say nothing
but, "God biuft3 thee, lad!" while Stephen's
and Mark's pride and love found its full
expression in, "WeU, Dick! Dick!" But
no words could have been more satislac-
tory.
The good-for-nothing had found his vo
cation. Two years after his departure from
Leeds he had been called to the bar at
Gray's Inn, and since then, by his tact and
eloquence had made himself one of the ac
knowledged leaders oi me uxioru cireuii.
1 here was now nothing that his father and
brothers would not hafe done for him, but
he asked Just the one thing Josiah was
loath to move in; he wished him to speak
to the squire about his daughter. Josiah
promised, but he was thinking of deputing
the business to the rector, when the way
opened unexpectedly. timing out oi
Leeds bank he met tnc squire, "u
troubled and preoccupied look. He passed
Josiah with a nod, then suddenly turning
and touching him. said:
"Josiah Broadbent, yourhot'se and mine
have been long friends, eh7
". ti, Smure. Broadbents served
Saurhams when King Stephen was fighting
lor the crown o' England; they are ju
.H,r in aorvi them, now."
"I believe it, Josiah. I want four thou
sand pounds. My boy Roger has got mw
trouble. I would rather owe it to you than
mortgage Saurham."
"Thou can have ten thousand pounds,
twenty thousand, if thou need it, squire,
an' Josiah Broadbent wants no security but
Squire Saurham s word us wor whj uu
if he did." t r . .
Traioh Ktandin? there on Market
street;laid bis bank book on a bale of wool,
and signing a blank check, put it into the
squire's hand.
The fewest worus iu "
With the tact of a true gentleman he turned
the conversation to Josiah'sson, and finally
hesitating a little, said:
-There was some bit of youthful love
making between Richard and my Agnes;
Sou didst not know iu belike, Josiah.-;
"Yes, that for he were sent away niam
lv but he's M fond as iver about her.
thou mustn't strive wP nun, squire love
is be vond our ordering. '
Sdno thought of it tow. Richard
has nrove his metal You may tell him if
KTty. 'Yes' still. M never be the one
W " Tiak Uu, Squire, it'. great honor,
an' yvcr nama .the money
to the young uns, I'd tak it kind. Thats
Squire of Saurha-n, but I can draw a
check for you, and I'm proud and glad to
doit."
As Richard had secured Agnes' "Yes"
the future arrangements were easily settled
and within a year lovely Agnes saurham
became Richard Broadbent's wife, and the
squire has had good caose to be proud of
the alliance. Old Josiah also lived to see
his son not only one of Her Majesty's coun
sel, but also Member of Parliament for his
native city, and a Baron of the Court of
Exchequer.
Thus the good-for-nothing in a spinning
mill was good for an honorable and noble
career in a court room.
Old Tune Cm flayers
In the early history of Indiana, card
playing was more than an amusement;
with a good many men it was "business."
The founder of Lafayette, "old" Digby.
was for many years the most noted player
on the Wabash. There are many anec
dotes of him that have been handed down
and are worth preserving. If the old set
tlers are to be believed "Old Dig" and the
late Judge Pettit had many a lively tussle
at the card table. On one occasion the
two sat down early In the forenoon at their
favorite game of "old sledge," five dollars
a game. About four o'clock in the after
noon, when Petlit was about seventy dol
lars winner, he announced to Digby that
he must quit. "What are you ging to
quit for V inquired Digby. "I want to go
and take care of my horse," replied Pettit.
In those days every lawyer kept a horse to
ride the circuit. "I can go without my
dinner," the Judge continued, "but I am
not gning to abuse my horse just to accom
modate you at this game." Pettit retired
with Digby' $70 in his pocket. The next
morning, bright and early, they were at it
again. Digby had a big streak of luck,
and before 12 o'clock had bagged $120 of
Pettil's money. Raking from the table
the last $10 put up he announced to Pettit
that he was going to quit. "What are you
going to quit for ?" inquired Pettit Why,
I must go and feed my horse, John.
'Why," replied Pettit, "you have'nt got
any horse !'' "Well, John, if I haven't
got any horse," slapping his bands on his
breeches pocket, "1 ve got the money to
buy one!" The game was closed. Digby,
who was a bachelor, had a one-story frame
house rut up on Main street, close to where
the canal now is, as an office and sleeping
apartment. After it was finished, but the
plastering nut suluciently dry to be occu
pied. Dimity and Pettit sat down to play
their favorite game of old sledge. Digby 's
money was soon exhausted and Pettit de
clared the game closed. Digby proposed
one more game, staking bis new house
against a certain sum of money. The game
was played and Pettit was the winner.
The next morning be made a ltargain with
a house-mover to remove the building to a
lot he owned on the south side of Mam
street, a little east of the public square.
The wooden wheels were put under, and
in the af terno n it was started up Main
street with a long team of oxen before it,
and at darK it had just reichad the public
square That night Digby and Pettit had
another game, and in the morning there
was a readjustment of the wheels, and the
bouse was started on its return toward the
river. It reached its propel place in the
street, and was left to be put back in its
old position on the morrow. But the next
morning it was started up town again.
The next day it took the other direction,
and by this time tiie whole town understood
it. Finally it remained in the public
square over Sunday, and on Monday con
tinued its way up Main street and was
wheeled on Pet tit's lot. He soon moved
his books into it and for many years occu
pied it as a law otiV'e
Hablt of the O.trlrh.
There has long existed a belief that the
ostrich, contrary to the character of all
ther birds, is careless of her young, ne
glects them, and is even cruel to tnera.
It also prevailed at least a thousand years
after the book of Job was written. See
Lam. iv. 3 : "Even the sea monsters draw
out the breast; they give suck to their young
ones: the daughter of my people is become
cruel, like the o.trich in the wilderness."
It is probable that this idea respecting
the cruelty of the ostrich towards its young
is derived from the fact that if a flock of
ostriches be chased, and among them be
some very young birds, the latter are left
behind by their parents, and fall a prey to
the hunters. But in reality th? ostrich has
no choice in the matter. The wide sandy
desert affords no place of concealment in
which it might hide its young. Nature has
not furnished it with weapons by means of
which it can fight for them ; and conse
qnently it is forced to use the only means
of escape by which it can avoid secri
Bcing its own hie, as well as the lives of
the young.
ltdxsnot, however, leave the young
until it has tried all means in its power to
cave them. For example, it sometimes
has resource to the manoeuvre with which
we are so familiar in the case of the lap
wing, and pretends to be wounded or
lamed, in order to draw the attention of its
pursuers, whde its young escape in another
direction. An instance of th's practice is
given by Mr. Anderson in his LakeSgami:
"When we had proceeded a little more
than half the distance, and in a part of the
plain entirely destitute of vegetation, we
discovered a male and female ostrich, with
a brood of young ones, about the size of
ordinary barn-yard fowls. We forthwith
dismounted from our oxen, and gave chase
which proved of no ordinary interest.
"The moment the parent birds became
aware of our intention, they set off at full
apeed the female leading the way, and
the cock, though at some li' tie distance,
bringing up the rear of the family party.
It was very touching to observe the anxiety
the birds evinced for the safety of their
progeny. Finding that they were quickly
gaining upon them, the male at once slack
ened bis pace and diverted somewhat from
his course ; but, seeing mat we were noi
to be diverted from our purpose, he again
inert ased his speed, and, with wings droop
ing, so as to almost touch the ground he
hovered round us, now in wide circles, and
then increasing the circumference until he
abruptly threw himself on the ground, and
struggled desperately to regain his legs, as
it appeared, bke a bird that has been badly
wounded.
Having previously fired at him, I really
thoueh he was disabled, and made quickly
toward him. But this was only a ruse on
his part, for on my nearer approach, he
slowly rose and Degan to run in a uiueieiu
dirwv.ion to that of the female, who, by
thi3 time, was considerably ahead of her
charge."
Nor is this a solitary instance of the care
which the ostrich will take of her young.
Thunber? mentions that on one occasion,
when be happened to ride near a place
T-hpra an ostrich was sitting on the eggs,
the bird jumped up and pursued him, evi
dently with the object of distracting his
attention from the eggs. aen ne laceu
ter. she retreated; but as soon as he turned
his horse, she pursuea mm aireaa.
' There are 154 different brands of
tine cut for Americans to chew on.
Caj young man who la writing to
his sweetheart be said to be writing
for the press?
Tornadoes, Ba,storoBS sad Waterspouts.
The conditions of tornadoes depend ra
ther upon vertical relations of temperature,
under which the unstable equilibrium of
the atmosphere is liable to be violently
disturbed by slight local changes of tem
perature causing the under strata of air to
burst up through the overlying strata. A
cyclone is usually a broad, flat, gyrating
disk of atmosphere, very many times
greater in width than in altitude ; a tornado
may be regarded as a column of gyrating
air in which the altitude is several times
greater than its diameter. The enormous
velocities of the ascending currents in a
tornado appear to be caused by the differ
ences between the gyratory velocities above
and those very near the earth's surface.
The former largely prevent the air from
pressing in to fill up the partial vacuum
near the center, while the smaller gyratory
velocities near the earth allow it to rush in
there to supply the draught. The tenden
cy of friction is constantly to use up the
energy of gyration so that the tornado can
not continue very long. The ascending
currents carry up an enormous amount of
aqueous vapor into the upper regions of
the air, where it is condensed and produces
the heavy rains observed in connection
with tornadoes. An ascending current of
GO meters a second, which cannot be un!
usual in tornadoes, would f Ornish, under
extreme conditions of air saturation, four
inches of rain in a minute, if it were to
fall directly back. With such an ascend
ing velocity, however, no nun could so f alL
It would be thrown outside the vortex,
giving an immense though lighter fall ot
rain over a larger area, especially if the
tornado in its regular progressive motions
should remain stationary or nearly so for
several minutes. If the velocity ot the
ascending current is not so great that the
water is all earned up to where the cur
rents are outward from the voitex, and yet
great enough to prevent its falling inck,
there may be in the lower part of the cloud
a vast accumulation of rain, prevented from
falling by the ascending currents and Horn
being dispersed by the inflowing currents
from all sides toward the vortex. When
the sustaining energy of the tornado is ex
hausted by friction or by the weight cf
waier accumulated in toe cloud, the water
is liable to fall in a mass, causing what is
called a cloud burst. This is especially
liable to occur in mountainous regions, for
contact with a mountain must greatly in-
teriee with the gyratory motion of the
tornado and the inflowing currents below,
and tend to break up the system at once
and let the whole load of water drop sud
denly. When the ascending current canics the
vapor into the region of frost which is at
a lower altitude within the gyrating funnel
than outside of it the condensed vapor is
converted into hail. The small hailstones
may theu be kept suspended near the base
of the snow cloud and enlarged by the
additions of freezing rain. In this way
compact homogeneous hailstones of ordi
nary size are formed. At the height of
7,000 yards the air has lost more than half
its density, yet an ascending velocity of
twenty yards a second, which must be no
unusual one in tornadoes, would sustain
even at that altitude hailstones of consider
able siie. It is not necessary that the
hailstones should remain in the freezing
region a long time, or remain stationary.
They may be carried from this vortex out
where the ascending current is small, and,
dropping down some distance, may be
carried into the vortex by inflowing cur
rents and again thrown up to the region of
frost. The nucleus of large hailstones is
usually compacted snow. A sin ail ball of
snow saturated with water is carried higher
and freezes; and being of less specific
gravity than compact hail It is kept where
it receives a thick coating of ice from the
unfrozen water dashed against it, and after
wards falls to the earth, either at a distance
from the vortex where the ascending cur
rents are weak, or near it after the uprush
has been sufficiently exhausted. Some
times, as in the case of. the cloud burst, an
almost incredible amount of accumulated
hail may fall in a short time, when the
energy of the system is suddenly spent.
The formation of large hailstones by
concentric layers of clear ice and white
sno-v, hud on like the coats of an onion,
will be readily understood from the fore
going, as many as thirteen layers have
been observed in large hailstones, showing
that they must have been made of half a
dozen circuits, being successively thrown
out of the frosty vortex above and sucked
in below by the inflowing currents, each
time adding to their coatings of snow and
ice before their final fall to earth.
When the tornado is very small in the
area covered by the gyratory motion, a
land spout or a water spout is formed, as
it may happen to occur on land or at sea.
In these the gyratory velocity diminishes
with distance from the center. Their de
structive habits are sudden and often great,
but the area of violence is small. In the
center of a waterspout, as in that of a
tornado in lull force, no rain falls or water
descends in any form, though a heavy
shower often falls in the vicinity. On
land dust and light substances are carried
up, and as they are being collected from
all aides by inflowing currents toward the
vortex below, they assume the form of a
cone, which meets the descending spout,
falling apparently from the clouds, and
thus give the whole phenomenon the ap
pearance of an hour-glass.
1 he observed diameters oi waterspouts
range between two and two hundred feet
or more, and their heights from thirty to
fifteen hundred feet, sometimes very much
more ; but none of these observations can
be regarded as at all exact. With a high
temperature and a very low dew point Mr.
Ferrel calculates that a water spout might
reach a mile in height, but such conditions
must xxur rarely. Waterspouts are often
observed to drop down from a cloud in an
incredibly short space of tune, and to be
drawn up again in the same manner; but
this is all an illusion. When the gyrations
are such as to not quite reduce the ten
sion and temperature in the center, so as
to condense the aqueous vapor and make
it visible, a very alight increase at once re
duces the temperature sufficiently, and the
spout appears from top to bottom almost
instantaneously. Just the reverse of this
takes place, when the spout breaks, and it
seems to be drawn up instantly ; it is dis
solved, not lifted. Tornadoes and water
spouts originate only in an unstable state
of equilibrium of the air, which requires
an mutually rapid decrease of temperature
with increase of altitude. This can take
place only when the strata nearest the earth
are unusually heated ; accordingly tbey
never occur at night, or in the winter, and
but rarely in cloudy leather. If any agita
tion of the air, such u that arising from
the discharge of cannon, tends to break up
these meteors, then any considerable dis
turbance of the air from any cause must
tend to prevent thuii formation. Hence
they occur at sea and on the lakes only
when there is utile or no wind.
White squalls are invisible spouts. In
such cases the dew point is so low, and the
cloud when formed so high, that the gyra
tions are invisible. Still the gyrations and
the rapidly ascending current in the cen
tral part are there, and also the rising and
I boiling of the sea. Over the boiling sea,
high up in the air, is a patch of white
cloud, formed by the condensation of the
vapor when It reaches the required beigrL
The bulls-eve squalls on the west coast of.
Africa are "of precisely the same nature,
In these cases the air is too dry to furnish
the cloud necessary to mace the spout, or
center of the gyratory movement, visible.
Old Scot tub Society.
Edinburgh society was a strange jumble
of license and formality, punctilious obser
vance of etiquette and a semi-barbarous in
difference to the decencies. A man of
blood and position might steal a horse,
where a plebeian or parvenu dare cot
look at the halter. Everybody spoke a
dialect of the Northern Doric, with a
marked hyperborean accent; but there
were ladies and gentlemen of the highest
station who seem to have prided them
selves on the breadth and vulgarity of their
Scotch. Fine ladies who inhabited flats
on a fifth or sixth story were lighted down
the odoriferous common stairs, delicately
"kilting" their robes of brocade. They
were brne to private parties or to the
Assembly Room in their sedan-chairs by a
couple of "caddies" at a "swing trot,"
along filthy closes and through ill-paved
alleys, fitlully illuminated by a flaring
torch. In the Assembly Room the old
courtly style was carried into the formal
old-fasluoned dances, with an elaborate
profusion of obeisances and courtesies.
Scarcely even in the Court of the Grand
Monarque, as described by su simon,
were the rules of etiquette and precedence
more rigorously observed. There were
self-elected mistresses of the ceremonies,
like the famous Miss Nickie Murray, who
ruled over the management and company
with an iron sceptre. We may picture the
demure propriety with which young ladies
of honorable families, fresh from the
country, received the attentions of the bril
liant town sparks, pronounced eligible as
partners either for a minute or for life.
hiie, on the other hand, knowing that
the gentiemen, generally speaking, had
been launching themselves nanasomeiy
into the ballroom with some half-gallon or
so of full-bodied Bordeaux, we suspect
that the ingenues must sometimes have
opened their eyes at the compliments and
conversation offered to their inexperience.
But it was not in the manners of the time
to be over-nice. Exemplary matrons, of
unimpeachable morals were broad of
speech and indelicrte in thought, without
ever dreaming of actual evJ. So the re
spectable Mrs. Keith, ot Ravelstone, com
missioned Scott in her old age to procure
a copy of Mrs. Behn's novels for her edifi
cation. She was so shocked on her first
attempt at a perusal of them that she told
him to take ''his bonny book" away. Yet,
as she observed, when a young woman she
had heard them read aloud in a company
that saw no shadow of impropriety .in them.
And whatever the faults of old Scottish
society, with its sins or excess and its
shortcomings in refinement,, there is no
disputing that its ladies wese strictly virtu
ous, and such slips as that oi the heroine
of the ballad of "Baloo, 3Iy Boy," were
so i are as to be deemed worthy of record
ing in rhymes. So the reformation of
manners was as satisfactory as it was easy,
since the foundations of the new super
structure were sound.
An Engineer's Dog Starr.
The boys finally drifted onto the subject
of dogs, and an Illinois Central engineer
to k the floor. Said be; "It s better than
a circus to see the fun I have on my run
from Chicago to Champaign and back with
the express. There are a dozen dogs that
know my train and my whistle as well as
they know their master's bouse or voice.
1 ou see the law requires us to blow two
toots at every country road crossing, and
these farmer's dogs lay in wait for the ex
press, and when the whistle sounds they
get down on the line and lay for us. One
dog in particular down on the section be
low h,cnington is as regular as the time
table. 1 know him, and believe he knows
me. He is a long-bodied, long-lei;ged,
lop-eared cuss, and seems to take as much
solid comfort out of a quarter-stretch
against the express as Splan says his mare
takes in a three-mile dash. This dog hears
the whistle, and at once takes his poiition
on my side ot the engine, just outside the
company '8 fence. He don't need any
starter, and don't take any advantage.
For a year or two I didn't pay much at
tention to him, and, being goed track, I
always distanced him on the first quarter,
but alter I got better acquainted, met him
so regular, and saw he enjoyed .t, I kind
of humored him. So when I pulled in to
ward his starting-pole I got to slowing up,
as it were, and gave him a chance. He
would stand with his mouth open, ears
flopping, and tail pointing south until the
cow calcker was abreast ; then he would
gather his legs under him like the horse
men say Parole does, and off he'd go. It
was a jolly good run as long as he could
keep up, and if I did lay myself liable to
being sids-traoked, I say for many a run
he had a fair show. How fast did he rant
Oh, well, my time-card is thirty-five miles
an hour; Id alow up to about twenty-
seven, and the old dog would loll tin
tongue, and laugh, and bark, and keep up
for twenty or thirty telegraph poles. 1 hen
he'd quit, and as 1 pulled the throttle op:n
and looked back, the old rascal would be
up ended on his haunches, blowing and
laughing like a country jake who d just
won a foot race."
Before aw Earthquake,
An Italian writer on the recent cat autre
phe on the Island of Ischia mentions those
prognostics of an earthquake which are de
rived from animals. Ibey were observed
in every place where the shocks were such
as to be generally perceptible. Some min
utes before they were felt, the oxen and
cows began to bellow, the sheep and goats
bleated, and rushing in confusion one on
the other tried to break the wicker work of
the folds ; the dogs howled terribly, the
geese and fowls were alarmed, and made
much noise ; the horses which were fas
tened in their stalls were greatly agitated.
leaped up and tried to break the halters
with which they were attached to the man
gers : those which were proceeding on the
roads suddenly stopped, and snorted in a
very strange way. The cats were fright
ened and tried to conceal themselves, or
their hair bristled up wildly. Rabbits and
moles were seen to leave their holes, birds
rose, as if scared, from the places on which
they had alighted ; and fish left the bottom
of the sea and approached the shores, where
at some places great numbers of tbem were
taken. Even ants and reptiles abandoned,
in clear daylight, their subterranean holes
in great disorder, many hours before the
shocks were felt Some dogs, a few min
utes before the shock took place, awoke
t leir sletp'ng masters by barking and pull
ing them, as if tbey wished to warn them
of the impending danger, and several
persons were thus enabled to save them
selves. One of the harueai les-oas to learn
in life is that the man who differs
with yea, not only in opinions but In
orineiples, may be as honest and tln-
( cere as yourself.
riaaetatiT Com mictions .
A conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
recently took place and those astronomers
who peered through their powerful tele-
scopes on that day say Jupiter and Saturn
were on the opposite side of the sun from
the earth and almost in a straight line
drawn from the earth through the sun.
Far beyond them and approximately in the
same direction was the great planet
Neptune. On the same side of the sup,
but making a large angle with the direction
of the others, was Mercury, hastening to
get into line with them. On this side of
the sun Venus could be seen swinging into
line. Uranus and 51rs did not join in the
planetary parade, Mars being nearly at
right angles to the line, while Uranus was
far off in another direction. Still the sun
and six of the eight great planets were
almost in a row, the earth being at the one
end and Neptune at the other. Before
Jupiter and Venus, however, had joined
the dress parade, the great pianeu had
already broken ranks to proceed in their
journey around the sun, but their move
ment is so slow that several days will have
elapsed before the march may be said to
be fairy under way.
If astrologers are to be believed dire
events are to follow the conjunction, owing
to its having taken plaee in Taurus. The
last event of this kind occurred in 114rt,
and was immediately followed by a crusade
against the Turks, which resulted in the
loss of over 200,000 men. Ireland, too,
was the scene of anarchy and civil war.
Similar events are prophesied for the near
future. England, it is said, will be devas
tated by civil war, and there will be inter
national strife at other points on the world's
surface, especially ia the East. Terrific
plagues and earthquakes, according to the
same wise men, will prevail during the
ensuing ten years, together with terrible
storms of thunder and lightning, meteors.
trembling of the earth, eruptions ef vol
canoes, tidal waves, unusally fatal colliery
explosions, with a general feeling of dread
and dismay among the inhabitants of the
earth. Great mortality among crowned
beads is predicted. For America, however,
the signs favor a rising revenue and a
generally prosperous and successful time.
Still, as a sage asserts, there will be soioe
trouble and anxiety on account of enemies,
and American swords will not yet be turned
into plough-shares. Many violent and
sudden deaths will occur, and a high rate
of mortality and disease among cattle will
also prevail.
Ihe fact that the Conjunction occurred
in the "ninth bouse of the heavens'' is also
said to prognosticate great religious changes
this ''house, in the brains of astrologers.
ruling religion and religious persons, more
especially the clergy.
An old writer savs that " a great con
junction happening in Taurus foreshado-vs
nun of houses and ancient buildings and
divisions and hatred among the clergy."
The second crusade was a religious one,
inspired mainly by thj eloquence of St.
Bernard. Hence within the twenty years
over which the influence of the conjunction
extends the world may expect to see the
("burch of England disestablished and the
Christian religion undergo fundamental
changes which will end in many ecclesias
tical reforms. Singular dogmas will be
promulgated, while se'ence will prosper
and scientific men be held in great esteem.
Scientific infidelity, however, will not pios
per.
Raphael, an old English astrologer, does
not agree with the favorable effect of the
conjunction on America as forecasted by
Zidkiel's almanac. Raphael says that at
the time of the conjunlloo at Washington
Cancer will be rising and Jlars will be on
the meridian and the conjunction will take
place in the eleventh house. Ilerschel w jl
be on the east of the fourth and the Moon
in the sixth bouse. The Moon rules the
figure, and being so placed will give much
sickness in the States, but the chief position
is that of Mars culminating. This will
cause civil war and the imposition of new
taxes, and the people shall be unruly, and
the Government administer the laws
barshlv and with great cruelty. The credit
of the Slates will be sorely shaken, and a
disruption in the Government may be
expected. Uerschel, in the fourth, shows
the confiscation of land and a lack of g nial
seasons for the crops. Terrific tornadoes
and storms will be experienced, and shocks
o earthquakes, doin an immense amount
of damage."
Jale Webber's Bear right.
Judge Harry Webber, one of the bonanza
kings of the camp, had an encounter with
a large cinnamon bear last evening, and
came out victor after a hard and desperate
struggle. The judge had been visiting his
San Joaquin property, some distance from
the city, up Cooper gulch, and was return
ing when be met bis uearship between
John Roberts' tent and John Ross' cabin.
The Judge fortunately bad his Winchester,
and immediate!) opened fire upon Mr,
Biuin. Three shots took effect iu his
head, but did not cause death before the
wounded and infuriated brute reached him.
The Judge, fending escape impossible,
entered into a hand to hand fight with his
enraged foe. He 'truck him twice over
the head with his gun, without any appa
rent effect, and thinking that blows could
not ward off the outstretched strong arms,
that would probably give him his last
embrace, he dropped his gun, and, retreat
ing backward as fast as possible, drew a
huge camp knife that he always carries
with him, and, springing to one side,
plunged his knife into the throat of the
monster as he sprang st him. Already
weakened by the shots and blows, Mr.
Bruin was forced to succumb. The J udge,
somewhat excited and very much elated,
went to Roberta' tent, where be obtained
assistance and earned his game to the tent,
whae it was dressed. Having no scales.
the weight could not be ascertained, but
was estimated at 700 pounds. The Judge
now considers himself a hero.
Tea in the Hoase of Commons.
At whose instance is it, we wonder, that
cups of tea are handed round to the occu
pants of the ladies gallery during a debate!
Is it the survival of the hospitality of other
days, a graceful attention emanating from
the members' tea-rooms, or the uninstigated
gallantry of the attendants? Be this as it
may, there is the fact, and most highly is
it appreciated by the occupants of the cage
above the press gallery. It shows that
the traditional homage paid to the fair sex
is n yet extinct at St. Stephen's, for
there is no similar handing round of the
"cup that cheers" or anything else, in the
strangers' gallery deviXed to the sterner
sex. Tbey are not allowed even to nibble
the surreptitious biscuits of their own
providing, but must subsist solely while in
their seats on what is often but the dry
husks of debate. It is curious, if tne
ladies' tea is indeed provided by the
House's own order, that its gallantry does
not fort with remove the grill behind which
fair visitors have to siL We wonder some
ladies' man does not propose its destruction
in Committee of Supply, and carry his mo
tion to s division. It would be curious to
analyze the '
day.
'ayes' and " noes " the next
Aneeaotes of Shipwrecked Mem.
Lord did not find the Gallipagos islands
so much to his mind as dd an Irishman'
who let his ship depart without him, and
set up his rest on one of these volcanic is
lets, dwelling there lor seven years in a
hovel of bis own building, living upon tor
toises, seals and fish washed down with
rum obtained from ship in exchange for
the potatoes and pumpkins he busied him
self in raising.
In 1S1S, an American sailor was taken
off a desolate rock in the South seas by a
boat's crew belonging to IL M. S. Queen
Charlotte, whose attention had been drawn
to the spot by the smoke of a seaweed fire.
He had three years before been left there
with three companions, all of whom had
quickly succumbed, while he had lived on,
sustaining life by feeding on the flesh of
birds and drinking their blood.
The find of the Queen Charlotte's men
was not so surprising as that of the Flemish
seaman, Pickman, when, in 1810, his ship
grounded near a small island rock between
Scotland acd Ireland. Some of his rnea,
going in search of eggs, came upon a black
hairy creature, who by signs entreated
them to come to close acquaintance, and,
finding the strange otject to be really a
man, they took him on board with them
to tell the skipper his story. It was a mel
ancholy one. lie and two others, occu
pants of the passage boat between England
and Ireland, had been captured and af
terward cast off by a Fresch privateer. Hav
ing nothing eatable save a little sugar with
them, one of the three soon died of starva
tion, the others lived to be driven on the
island, where tbey built a hut out cf what
was left of the boat, and tor six weeks
lived on seamews, sea-dogs, eggs, and wa
ter. Then the partners in misfortune
parted company, one of them disappearing
leaving his forlorn friend in utter ignor
ance of his fate; he could only surmise that
he had fallen into the sea while searching
for eggs. Months passed, and the poor
fellow lost all hope of deliverance. V in
ter came, and found him clothesless. Com
pelled to keep within the hut for drys to
gether, he only kept starvation at bay by
catching sea niew?,as hungry ss himself, by
baited slicks through the openings of the
hovel's walls. So he kept himself alive
until thj accidental ad vent of the London-
bound Flemish timber ship released bun
from his dreary durance.
Corlows Bctoe.
A most respectable jury every one of
them a XitO Freeholder was impaneled at
ClonmeL Ireland, to try a most important
qutstion. During the course of the trial
the learned Judge had to retire for half an
hour, promising to be back on the expira
tion of that time. The Judge then retired,
and so did the jurors. In some time after,
one of the jurors returned, and stated in
open court, to an astonished audience, that
he had beer, to a christening, drank the
child's health, a speedy uprise to its mother,
and that ber son might be a much better
man than its papa. This caused so much
surprise that those who heard it remained
silent. He asked a learned council to give
him the song called "The Low backed
Car." At this request the learned gentle
man shook his head. 1 he juror then said,
"You won't, won't you ? Then I'll do it
myself;" and so he did, in excellent style,
and concluded amid the bravos of a crowd
ed court. He thee made a speech on the
duties of a patermtl Government and ac
quitted himself with equal cred ,and was
vociferously applauded. He thcu demand
ed that the Judge should be sent for; and,
this demand not being acceded to by the
crier, he stood up and called the learned
Judge to come into court, on a fine of 50.
This he did three different times, and in
the usual way. He then declared that as
the Judge did not come he wouldn't wait
he should go back to the christening;
and he according left the jury-box, and
finally in an hour he returned, and, not seeing
the Judge on the bench, he commenced
inging "Rory O'More." after which he
stepped into the jury-box, resuming his
seat among his fellows, who appeared
quite "glum" at his antics; but he.seeuiing
not to mind the wry faces of his breth
ren, began to hum a song. He then tried
what he could do at the Kent bugle, and
succeeded to admiration; but, just as he
had concluded a splendid solo, the learned
Judge made his appearance at the corner
of the bench, where he stood listening, in
mute astonishment, to the music of the
special juror, who was equally astounded
when he beard the cry of "Hats off ! Be
pleased to keep silence!" In the meantime
something was said to the Judge, who
good-naturedly adjourned the court for the
further bearing of the case until the fol
owing morning.
Wb Iv Eat.
Never eat till you have time to digest.
for digestion requires leisure; we cannot
assimilate our food while the functional
energy ot our system is engrossed by other
occupations. After a hearty feed, animals
retire to a quiet hiding place, and the "at
ter-dinner laziness," the plea of our system
lor rest, should admonish us to imitate
their example. The idea that exercise af
ter dinner promotes digestion is a mischiev
ous fallacy. Jules Virey settled that ques
tion by a cruel but conclusive experiment.
He selected two curs of the same size, age
and general physique, made them keep a
fast-day and treated them the next morn
ing to a square meal of potato chips and
cubes of fat mutton, but as soon as one of
them bad eaten his fill, he made the other
stop too, to make sure that tliey had both
consumed the same quantity. Dog No. 1,
was then ooofii.ed in a comfortable kennel,
while No. 2, had to run after the doctor's
coach, not at a breathless rate of speed,
but at a fair, brisk trot, for two hours and
a-balf. As soon ss they got home, the
coach dog and his oomn.de were slain and
distected; the kennel dog had completely
digested his meal, while the chips and
cubes in the coach dog's stomach had not
changed their form at alL the process of
assimilation had not even begun. Rail-
road laborers, who bolt their dinner during
a short interval of hard work, might as
well pass their recess in a hammock; it
weakens instead of strengthening them.
till it is digested, together with their sup
per, in the cool of the evening.
Tne Vv U1 canar
From nearly every garden in Manilla the
neb notes of the wild canary can be heard,
and in the opinion of many its songs are
preferable to those of ita more brilliant
domesticated brother, without the shrillness
ot the latter.it has very nearly its compass
and fullness of tone. It generally chooses j
the topmost branch of a tree and pours
forth a little flood of music, which it ans-1
tains even wben flying from one tree to an
other. Occasionally, though rarely, it will
also sing from the tops of houses. . Orna
mental firs and other Ihick-foUaged trees
are its favorite buildings, and it is not un
common to find five or six nests in the
same tree. Ihe sot g is continued more or
less throughout the year, but in the winter
many pack in flocks with the linnets and
gold finches,
Tht thread for glass cloth Is spun
from a bar of molten glass at the rate
of 2000 yards in a minute.
BRIEFS.
Glass wa9 first introduced Into
England In 674.
Nitro-elveerine was Invented by
Soblero In 1347.
The Dines are said to Iw the b?st
linguists in the worn.
The salary of the Emperor of Kns
siaisllO.COO.OOO.
The finger rings of this country
are worth 138,000,000.
"Canada will send a regiment to the
Yorktown celebration.
In Paris a post-offiee Is to be snnexed
to every telegraph bureau.
The Jews talk of erecting a nation
al synagogue m Washington.
A hair pin factory at German town,
Pa., turns out 4O.0UO a week.
Memphis was built by M'zraiin
2,000 years and more before Christ.
A mink has killed nearly SOOrro it
in a pond in West Cumberland, M ?.
Fifteen hundred miles ot raSlwayi
are in course of construction in Itify-
The Prince or Wales has sent tw-
elephants to the Zaoloical Society of
Berlin.
The library of the lat Dr. Ch ipiti
was sold at auction, for 20,0tK): it cost
$50,000.
At Bildah, Algeria, miv be ."en
eucalypti, ouly five year old, ils.iv
feet high.
Cincinnati ts preparing to cele
brate, in 1384, the 100th anniversary or
its settlement.
The first iron vessel b:iil: in th
United States was launched at I'itts
burgh ia 1S3!.
It is estimated that there are ovsr
1.300 trotting horses training iu the
United Soates.
Lord Derby is childless, of inex
pensive habits, and has an iiicoiuj of
730,000 a year,.
The Chester (Eajtand) Cimn!?
sions find 2,000 out of 4,0 JO electors
iuilry of bribery.
Paris has 41,000 tobacco shops, ten
times that number of drinking bjo:!is,
and a few churches.
Bessemer steel was first mil in
the United Statesat Wyaudo:te, Mich.,
in tbe autumn of 1304.
Seth Green affirms that an acre of
water can be made to produce as mujii
food as an acre of land.
On the third anniversiry ot his
cororation, Pope Uo Xlfl dsp-:iied
nearly T3000 in charity.
There wens 121 persons run over
and killed in London in lSo, au I
2,950 persons injured.
More than 23,000 persons were
killea In India, in 1SS0, by wild beii's
and venomous snakes.
Tbe butter, cheese, eii, an I milk
business of the country are e?tiiu ite I
to be worth a.ooo.ouj.
There was in Germ my iu H7s 34
paper mills which together produced
3,WX),000 cwt. or pipor.
Elephants have been known to
live 400 years, and it Is siii),.-e.i
whales may live 1,000 years.
Silk culture, which wis introduce!
in Louisiana in 1714 has ttken a J resh
start within the past few years.
The first Iron manufacture-! w-iw
of tlw Allegheny mountains wis mi lu
in rayette county, iu 170J.
Ia the last fifteen veirs the.sfn--
of Louisiana has expend -d for levies
and repairs the sum of $ll,t:j5,."() .
Iron was first made In Americi !
1C20, at a point on FalUn' creeV, a
branch of the James river, in Virgiai.i.
There are 17,000 locomotives run
ning over the railroads of tne Unite I
Slates, and over sUO.OUO cars of ail
kinds.
The London Religious Tract S -
ety has circulated nearlv SJ.ooo (if) 1
books and tracks in 130 different 1.1:1
guages. The population of Ciiiea 'o his in. '
creased 70 per cent, in l'j) years, an. I
membership In the churches only 12
per cent.
It Is estimated tha: the iuvntr.ir,!
pouring into this couutny iii'l.ri,.
during the summer at lear ISl KJOjij
naru money.
A dog stopped a pir of runaway
' orses in Clinton. Cscada.br takin'r
the trailing lines in his teeth and fling
ing to them.
The first Bessemer steel rails roiv.l
in this country were rolled at the
North Chicago rolliuir-mill on the 21,-!
of May, 1803.
According to the ofli -tat reoort nt
the Un:ted States local inspector ot
team vessels, not a life was lost 011
Lake Superior last rear.
Sir Bartle Frere lately state l to 1;
in a single year more than 1 1.5 1 0J ;
worth of diamonds have ms-ed ihrou 1
the Cape Town Post Office.
The new census est:mit"s t!i
amount of standing pine in the three
.States of Michigan. Wisconsin and
Minnesota at 81,1130,000,00'j fe -t.
Over 80,000 buffilo have ben till
ed in Montana within the past six
months, all but some 20,000 being slain
for their hlt'es alone, whlc.i bring
from $2,25 to $2,75 each.
The total immigration to tills coun
try in 18s0 wa3 457,24:;. This u tnj
larcest immigration exjept that of
IS4.t when 4ou,iu foreigners landed in
the several porta or the United S;a;es.
On the great battle plains of Lo:n
bardy there are upward of twenty
houses preserved as having been the
headquarters of the great Xapoleon
during his canipagins with the Aus
trians. The Lehigh Valley Kallioad Com 1
pany is said to have determined to
aereafter employ none but total ab
stainers from strong drink and from
visits to places where strong drink is
-
The farm housos near Lille occu
pied by Louis XIV, during his siege
of that city, In li07, is about to be
razed to the ground. The capitulation
by which Lille became French terri
tory was signed there.
The railroads In New York stite,
the report made by the state engineer
shows, represent an aggregate of strx-k
and debts of ;62,SI,4S8. on which the
earnings in ltfcO were 78,044,751, of
which 46,470,202 was profit.
The average receipts of the United
States Treasury for tbe lac nine
months have been a little over l.CU),
000 a day. Ic is believed the total re
ceipts during the present fiscal year
will exceed those of last year by $
000,000, notwithstanding the red'uctiou
of some taxes.
There are now supposed to be Iu
Paris 75,000 Protestants, among whom
are 35.000 reform, 30,100 Lutheran,
and 10,000 of other denominations.
This is an approximation. About
seventy-five pastors attenj to the
spiritual wants of the Protestant pop
olatio . '