fr tilt ! ;1 ' 1! B. F- SCHWEIER, THE 001ST1TUT101 THE U1T0H AID THE EITOBOEKEBT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXV. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., AVEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1881. NO. 27. A ... A yfV gum ctwiict jm. mm y pjiim KOl-B-I-EAFKU CLOVK.K. v,f, s-TU-li-i ci..l lleck-a .11 ine sky, " V twilight still ileiHTtDg. u hrn to bir child a mother mil J (Tied, -Mv, where were you staying? -o mo"er. ier. I wandered far B, ndd aod copse wood cover, ,nJ searched in v.n,h grassy plain, Kur one small tour-leafed clover. -1 bug to dream a lovely dream. Mid wate to nnd it reai" - ikh. aimple child," the mother smile.!. - Too well oo love the ideaL But loot hesi'de Jon my stoiie, Mv reckless little row. K, very mar I see from here wi long sought f.mr-iealrd clour. - tad think. May. -tua Ka,1,er " i,reen in the cowl gray gloaming. How often grow close by and low The gilt, we seek M roaming. Then, if von learn to Oud at home -mail jovs vou once looked over. You'll We. the day you hiled away In seeking four-leat-clover. A TfcKHHU.K ll M One Angnt evening I was taking a m woman; I shall not again do so in re stroll along tue Chamiw-lJvsees, 1 ana. fnsju? satisfaction to her son. It was a httle after ume ami around me j .. .TLe generai-8 perplexity and anger was tlie usual gay crowd of s'uum,'r i lH.gan to pass awav; he seemed moved, uight Frouieiiaders by the hundred; He strQ)le np au j down the room f()r merry people seated at tl,e hne. t!,!,k's some moments, and finally, turning to in front of the-oafes, .,.t chatting. To the ri 'lit. a cafe-con- ....rf its front covered with coioreu iiui- Before me the long Avenue des ; Chami-s-Ely extended, its hundreds of lights glimmering like glow-worms in the dark. Suddenly I saw a familiar face ly the light of a street lamp. It was Oustave Kaisaut. Hello, Majorr said I, extending my t band, "well met! ... ... "Ah, is it you? said, he languidly. I am glad to see yon. His tone struck inc. linked at him attentively. He seemed to have aged ' nineh since I had seen turn before. AlreaJv there were gray hairs showing around his temples. Linking my arm with his, I said: 'Come, let's take a stroll." Willingly." After we had walked some httle dLs tunce I eave up attempting to make him He seemed entirely destitute ! of interest in any topic that I might ! liring up, and plunged into melancholy. "Come, come, Gustave, said 1, "you ! mH)lo B sign to mv second and he did not Lave something on your mml, haven t jus,st yon?" tun "Ve took our places, tt was a curious He hesitated a moment, but finally jtacle a private soldier in his nui replieJ: fornl facing his superior officer in muftL "Yes. n "The swords were crossed. The word "A love affair. Til W sworn. as given. I watched his face with a He was silent, and I repeated my some- feverish curiosity. In his eyes there what hrusime remark. There are some 1 was the same glare of the day lief ore the wounds that will n t 1 K-ar pn 1 ing. I same indecision. Suddenly a strange smile Suddenlv he spoke: appeared ujxm his lips the smile of a "Listen said he, "and I shall tell j hr"k heart a smile I s hall never for ron the cause of melancholy. lVr- tl"mgli I live a hundred years, lap I am wrong to chafe uiJt-r it as I j V as a flash he abandone,l h s gt,ard Jo: ivrliaiis von mav give me some good advice. In anv event I shall t,U ! yon my story. Since I last saw you there has liecu a tragical avent in my life. Oil, you have heard nothing of it Thanks to 'the jeople at headquarters, the papers were silenced, and I won't Uire vou mv storv Lsn't long; and," he added hitterlv. "I think it is interesting. t. . 1 1 " .1-- i 1 i. i JJHl u ls oi.l lueouiMor 01 uie iwieuui i , ., , , ,, sins being expiated bv the chilib-en. I ... . . . , - , . . , He knocked the ash from his cigar, and : .. . 11.111-. then he slowlv told his storv: , , ! "La,t June, as you may know, the reserve forces were ordered out for their , yearly service. We had some of them . at MamVuge, where I had leen stationed I with the Fifty sixth for a month. One 1 morning I was aliout to start for Lille, on regimental business, in company with a brother officer of my regiment We stepped into a large eating-house to take a chop before the train left It was a very large establishment, with marble tahles aronnd the room, and at one end was a long bar, where those with light purses were allowed to take ref resnments. onr table was near the bar, and at the time we seated ourselves there was a long line of private soldiers and lalorers drinking there. We talked of various matters, and finally my companion said : " 'Have yon the sou of any celebrity among your recruits?' " 'Yes,' said L 'young Myrian, sou of the well-known printer, is in my com mand. And you?' " 'Well, I have the son of a celebrity, J too, but of a different kind. It is young (reorge de Ferrisset' " 'What! not the sou of Madame de Ferrisset ?' " 'The same.' "I laughed heartily as I said: " 'Well, well! So De Ferrissct has a grown up son, has she? How the time thes! I was dreadfully in love with the woman once, but another fellow won her Hot undivided favors.' " 'And L too," replied my companion, T was a httle sjooney on her; but then, yon know, I always had scruples alnmt married women.' " 'Oh, you were wrong,' I replied. 'She was wrll worth the trouble. And then poor De Ferrisset! The tyie of an unsiibpeetiug husband! She had twenty lovers to niy know ledge, and he never knew it.' "I had scarcely finished speaking when a stripling soldier quitted his comrades and advanced toward me. His face was as white as a sheet His emo tion was so great that he trembled as he walked, with his saber flittering at his heeLs. When he reached our table he glared nt me for a moment with wild yet indecisive ey-s, and raised his hand to strike me. There was a hurried move ment, an outcry, and several of the sol uiers aronnd leajied tion him, and held nana. He struggled for a moment then was calm. Still gazing at me, he hWi w a choking voice: 'She is my u'iuer. in a moment I realized the hideous insult 1 had offered him. I tinrfed with shame. What could have possessed me that morning I do not know. Xo officer r gentleman would ever sjeak ill of a -..uian least of all in public. "Let him go!" I cried to the soldiers. i rose, removed my cap, and liowing, ' "Sir, I place myself at your disposi- "At this moment the whistle of the pproachiiig train was heard. My friend ra-lx-d my aim and dragg-d me to the Muou without, where we took the train ior laJie. As soon as I could do so, I hastened . "e genend commanding our division. i told him all. As yon may imagine, he reprimanded me severely. ' hat." said he, 'an officer of tout k babble thus in public, like a raw !'y just out of the military school? It W the fault rt , U'or nomrtmntlt They should not promote men so young you to positions of importance.' "I privately thought that if I had been a general the affair would have been ! tliA flaiiiA Tbit T no riehlv merited hia severe language that I did not reply. " 'Well,' aid ho, finally, 'what do you propose to do?' " 'There is but one course open to rue, general," I replied. 'I have grievously offended this yoving man. I have, there fore, placed myself at his disposition. We must fight' " 'A duel ! You are mad ! A major cannot go upon the field with a private soldier.' " 'General, you must allow me to say that there are certain insults so grave that military usf.ge must yield to them. Grant me pennLssion to do this. " 'But I cannot I have no right to do so.' " 'Then telegraph the Minister of War.' " 'He will refuse. " 'Well, if that Iks the case, I shall notify George da FerLsset, and we will fight in Belgium.' " 'Then vou desert?' 'Yes, geneni. I will desert and then ' return for mv punishment I have once a ivi i frazil t rci -1 1 in tinl t1wlT lTtuiiltiiitr me, said: ; r. . -.. ;n n...,- ;. " 'Be it so. jw,,rv, ti,t t innr t..,tl.;,.iT f thj8 affair this conversation has not takon ..j thlinketl hiui, nl repaired to mv quartors That evening, De FerLsset s .j,, arrived. They were civilians, wa8 Ue two friends wh I ,laIucj to arrange matters with them, The weapon chosen was the sword; the llm six 0.clock the f0uowing morning; tue j,i1K( a uttla village just within the frontier. I put mv affairs in orJ,.r tliat ni ut for 1 hadeU-nnined to offt-r but slig'it defense to my oppo nent "At the appointed hour the next day we were alone. It was a raw, drizzly morning, and the mud was ankle deep. De FerLsset apppeared in uniform. One of my seconds remarked that he, like the rest of us, should have come as a civil ian, lie replied mat ue nau oeen lusnu- a man and soldier, and that relRration was due to him as such. I "' r 1 ' , , 1,1 it . 11 he hurled himself ujion it It ran him mrougn tue Dotty, iiienng a mrae cry he fell backward; a bloody foam tinged his pale lips. A conclusive shudder ran OTer his liody another then a groan. He was dead." I listened with horror to his story. TT. ....,' ... 1.,1 1 .ti t n'Alit ilorrfTillv I xir ii"i 11 1 i iu, " i'u - - - . on: - T . . . i il l 1 .: T "Of course I had not killed him 1 , , . . . . . , , ,f . had even resolved not to defend mvsell; " , 1 ' , ' . ... . . v . I and I nuitted the arniv. But still 1 feel !". - T . , ,,. T t..i like a murderer; I feel as though 1 had ooluliuttoa a prime. When I think of tuat r hov loval to his mother, bad though she was ilain in the first flush n Toutn j feellike an assassin. And , tiat t-iie.1 mother! How she must mourn her brave lioy's fall! It was growing late; the people were pouring out of the cafes-concerts. Xow and then a passer by would hum over the latest comic song. Strange contrast ! The follies of the song mingled with the words of the sombre drama just unrolled MoTe me Oustave walked on by my side, with lent head, crushed by the weight of his tragic story. And still the Champs-FJysees swarmed with people. Around us was the intense life of a summer night in frivolous Paris. On the avenue were innumerable car riages, and all around gayly dressed lonngers on the Lion chairs. As my eye roamed carelessly over them, I saw one group, the center of which was a woman of forty-five, but still very beautiful. Sea was dressed richlv and tastefully, and bore in her hand' a boquet which a smirking dandy had just presented to her. I could not repress an exclamation. Gustave fol lowsd mv eves. n "What!" he cried, "it cannot le she. "Yea," I answered him, "It is Madame de FerLsset" A Bloody Tragedy. A member of a railroad surveying party, writing from Adambara, Alexia thus des cribes an awful tragedy in their camp : "Our party was composed of Mr. Filley, in charge of our branch ; Fester, who bad the transit;' Martin, the level;' Jones and mvself, topographers,' and Dr. Sack rider, taking lines on the slopes. The doc tor had been compelled to leave home and practice, being the victim of certain perse cutions. His troubles so worked on his mind that he became crazy. He imagined that he were in league with hie enemies and were trying to ruin him. For some time past we all noticed little things which made us agree that he was slightly unbal anced. Our suspicions were con finned in a horrible way. On Fnday morning 1 awoke at half-past five, and the first thing I saw was the doctor, with one of the largest pistols pointed at and within a foot of Martin's head. I beard him say : Where is that diary of mime which you trot from the hacienda last evening?' f'Martin seemed to gasp the situation and said, 'All right I wiU get it for you,' intending to get hold of the pistoL But he was not quick enough. The doctor fired, and Martin who was on his knees, fell for ward, with bis head all shattered. The doctor then turned to our side of the tent going at the Bame time toward the door. Before he reached it he cocked his pistol, fired and fatally wounded Jones, my bed mate, lying alongsiae of me. He then ran out and ten feet from the tent turned and fired at me. Fortunately the bullet missed me, making a hole in the tent just above my head. The bullet that mortally wound Jones also made a hole through my blue shirt The doctor then fired a fourth shot through the tent for anyone it would hit One of our men by fhis time had managed to get his gun, and I called out 'shoot him! shoot him 1 He knelt down by the door of the tent and shot the madman threugb he heart The coinage executed at the United States mint during May aggregated 4.241, 620 pieces, valued at $7, 688, 550. Of this amount there were 2,220 double eagles, ?24.500 eagles, 769,920 half eagles, and 1 500 000 silver dollars. Lock in Latter! ti. Curiously illustrative of the tricks played from time to time by Dame Fortune to her votaries are two well-authenticated lottery stories, recently narrated by the gifted feuilletonist, Ilieronymus Lorin, borne years ago in Berlin, a poor girl dreamed three times running of a certain num ber, which appeared to her in lumin ous figures, while an unearthly Voice, re peating over and over again, "This num ber will win the first prize in th: class lot tery, " resound;d in her mind's ear. She imparted the vision to her guardian, and he repaired to the Royal lottery office and enquired what bad become of the ticket bearing the number in question, receiving answer that it had been disposed of to a well-known lottery agent In Koenigsberg. lie forthwith wrote to this person enclos ing the price of the ticket and req uesting that it should be forwarded to him by re turn of post In reply to this application he was informed that that particular ticket bad been sold over the c.unter a day or two before, to whjtn the agent could not say. He, however, enclosed in his letter another lottery ticket which he naively recommended as "an excellent and highly promising number. But the youthful dreamer's guardian, failing to recognize any special merit in the ticket thus urged upon his acceptance, sent it back with pe remptory instructions that his money should be returned to him without delay. His vexation may be imagined when at the drawing of the State lottery the number winning the first prize of 15,000 proved to be, not that of which his ward had thrice successively dreamt but the one he had refused to purchase at the recommend ation of the Koenigsberg agent Still stranger it the second lotteiy incident re corded by M. Lorni. It took place in a small town of Nether, Austria, and led to a long, wearisome lawsuit with what re sult however, the chronicler does not in form us. In the chief square stood a gro cer's shop, the proprietor of which, the leading trademan of the place, sold lottery tickets, as well "as sugar and spice, also all that s nice. To him appeared one morning a young student who was a con stant customer, in a state of great excite ment about a dream of the previous night. ! in which it had been clearly manifested to bun that he had won the great prize in the local land-lottery with a ticket which had been chosen for him by the grocer's wife. Ue entreated the grocer to intrust him with a packet of lottery tickets for a few seconds :n order that he might solicit the lady in question to select one from among them, which ticket 09 would then purchase and pay for on the spot "You cannot see my wife," replied the grocer, "for she is ill in bed, but if you like I will take a few of the tickets up to her room and she shall choose one for you." To this arrttngeiunt the student agreed, and it was carried out ac cordingly. When the lottery was drawn, the ticket purchased by him upon the gro cer's assurance that it bad been picked out by the lattcr's wife, turned out a blank. Bui the wily grocer drew the first prize with the ticket really selected by his bet ter half, which he had kept for himself, selling another of his own choice to the too-confiding student OJ, at least the story goes. Coney Is la oil. bus braird of this TtODU- lar summer resort of the Xew York ers with its splendid hotels, the .Man hattan, the Brighton, and the rw;r,t.,t Tt .lir.vtlv on the Ocean. v " - " . ' and the pure sea air, safe bathing, and . , . . . i excellent music, mase one iorgev mo heats of summer. The Pennsylvania Eail rAi,,Mnr ami ibn Troii Steamboat lunu .jri. n . , Company of Xew York.have entered into arrangements by w uicn extra i acumen are offered for reaching Coney Island, this popular summer resort These palace steamers will connect with trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Jersey City, and land passengers at the Iron Pier, Coney Island, direct, also at Bay Ridge, where connection is made with the Xew York and Sea Beach Kail road. ileturn trips will be made at such hours ae will afford satisfaction to all visitors to the anil onnliln them to make 8UT6 and close connections with trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad homeward bound. The time on this line between Jersey riHr anil Conev Island will be about forty minutes. This will be a safe, speedy, and pleasant route iroiu ui points to Coney Island. A Ghost Kiplalned. Some years ago it was my good for tune to le a frequent visitor at a fine old manor-house in Dorsetshire, built in the reign of James L, but much altered dur ing the last hail century, use an oiu country mansion the house was of course "haunted." Strange sounds, like foot steps, had been heard coursing about at the witching hour of night, in the vast empty garrets and along the great pas sage or corridor, running from end to end of the building, into which the gar rets opened; an odd and mysterious rat tling, and clattering, as of metals or chains. The country folks and servants, and especially the "old people always the most ready to stick resolutely to a good ghost story firmly attributed these nocturnal noise, without thought or question, to supernatural agency. The old mansion had undergone many alterations, some of them dictated by reason, others by exwuency. One oi these was the removal of the fine old staircase, and the erection instead of one of small, confined dimensions, and very awkwardly situated and contrived. These stairs sprung from the foot of a wall, in which was placed, high np, a large win dow, so that any oue going np stairs would have this window aiiove ins neaa and behind his back. It was exactly op posite the wall of the first landing place, whence the stairs branched away to the right One brilliant moonlight night the fam ily were about to retire to rest, m hen thev were startled by a loud scream from one of the maids, who rushed into the dining-room, eyes staring, and mouth wide open.exclaiming wildly that she had just "see'd a awful ghost on the stairs and was most frightened to death!" All the party with one consent arose from their chairs, and ran into the hall, some arrying the candles with them. But nothing whatever was to le seen. The girl, however, positively declared she had seen a tall dark figure in a long cloack and hood standing on the first landing; adding, that she saw it all the more clearly on account of the white wainscoted wall just behind, which serv ed to throw the figure into relief. A general search, and a regular hne-and-cry all around the house now followed; but with no result Xothing was dis covered in any way irregular, either in flesh and blood or in ghostly appearan ces. Altont two mVhta after, however, the very same thing occurred again, at near ly the same time; the specter was again seen by the same maid, and by the foot man, who happened to be just entering the hall; the man most liositivelv de clared that the figure stood hooded and cloaked, exactly as the maid had de scribed, on the top of the landing. The young men rushed into the hall with lighte, as before, and with the same re sult they saw nothing. "Two of the sons, genuine ghost-hunters, who thor oughly entered into the "fun" of the thing determined to sit up and watch through the night, with the pleasant ac- coiupanimentH of plenty of warm fire and bright light; but 1 need hardly say the brave watchers saw nothing, discovered nothing. His cloaked and hooded "ghostship" did not appear again that night at any rate. About a mouth afterward, however. the same thing occurred again. A great commotion was heard in the hall the ghost had again appeared, and what was even more remarkable, had slowly dis appeared just as the man-servant caught sight of it This van almost too much for my friends, especially the junior branches, who were highly indignant at being so completely "wild" by the spec ter. But there was nothing to be done or discovered; so after many threats of what thev would do if they could only catch him, the whole party went off to ImhL Xothing further occurred to disturb the family peace until three days after ward, when Jack, the youngest son, rose from his supper to let in a favorite bull terrier. Jinks by name the doughty hero of the garrets and corridor who was whining piteonsly, and scratching vigorously at the garden door. Jack had hardly entered the hall, when he rushed back into the dining-room post haste, and holding up his finger in a mysteri ous manner, intimated in a regular stage whisper: "Here s the ghost on the stairs again, hood, cloak. and all!" His brother instantly jumped up, and ixth ran into the hall; and there sure enough, on the lirst landing of the staircase stood a tall dark figure roltcd in a long cloak and high hood. The young men Ikiui re garded the apparition intently for a few moments, and then boldly ascending the stairs, both burst into a loud ringing laugh, crying out that they had cancrht the ghost, and shouted for the family to come out and see, hnt to bring no lights, and they could judge for themselves. 1 he terrible mvsterv was now at an end. Just outside the staircase window at the rear of the house, was a small de tached building used as a laundry; but as the fireplace smoked very much, my friends had had a new and very mncb taller cliimnev erected. This was nar row at the top, and gradually got wider as it went downward, and was capped by a large and peculiarly shaed cowL 1 he "ghost" proved to le merely the shallow of this chimney and cowl outside, pro jected by the bright moonlight through the staircase window, on the clear white painted wainscoted wall of the first land ing. The sloping sides of the chimney gave the apix-aranee of a cloaked figure, and the broad cowl looked exactly like a hood, while the dead white of the fiat wall beliind served to throw the dark shadow into very strong and bold relief. The reason now was clear why tho 'ghost' was not seen ofteuer. It was simply that the shadow was only projected when the moon was just opposite the window; and its apiearijig gradually to fade before the footman '8 terrified gaze is easily ex plained by the passage of a dark cloud at the moment over the moon's bright disk. Further, lie it noted, that when the family entered the hall on the first alarm a month previously, many of them carried lights, and thus of course de stroyed the appearance altogether. The window, moreover, was sometimes cov ered with a blind. Snake Training for lUttle. In a factory in Orange Valley, Xew Jersey, three snakes are in training for battle on the k ourth of July, ihey are imprisoned in separate hat boxes. One is a black snake four feet long, another is a copperhead, shorter and of less di ameter, and the third is an adder of still inferior size. The owner of the snakes is Jack Harrison, a workman in the factory. He is 60 years of age. He lives on the flat over the ridge of the Orange Mountain toward the Hudson. Quiet, and extremelv chary of speech, he is possessed of a sort of magnetism which makes him respected and liked by his fellows, and which is said to exert a remarkable influence over dumb animals. He has caught and tamed woodchucks by the score, and his power over reptiles such as craw l in the wilds of his native heath has won for him the name of "Snake Charmer. The snakes which Harrison is keeping in the hat factory are expected to furn ish holiday sport The black snake has been a prisoner for three months, and it is presumed that he was pretty hungry when he was captured.. The others have been two months in their respective hat boxes, and in that time they have re ceived no food. Their abstinence has served to make them extremely savage and belligerent. The black snake, in deed, has exhibited such a degree of pugnacious hunger that on one occasion since his incarceration it has lieen deem ed advisable to stay his stomach with a small toad. But it is wished to starve all three to a state of blind ferocity by the Fourth of July, when they will be turned altogether into a convenient re ceptacle, and made to furnish an illustra tion of the survival of the fittest That the snakes will fight when they are thrown together has already been demonstrated. The hat lioxes in which they are contained have been occasion ally moved close together, and the covers have been cautiously slid aside just lar enough to permit the emergence of the heath) and a few inches of the bodies of the reptiles. The result has been that the snakes have distended their jaws frightfully, that their eyes have flashed battle-fire, and they have exhibited the most insane desire to be at one another. It is hoped and believed by the workmen in the hat factory that on the Fourth of July the snakes will be filled with uncon trollable fury. The hat ltoxes in whice the snakes are imprisoned are of the ordinary pastettoard sort Small holes have leen made in them to admit air, and the covers are tightly bound on with cord. The con fined quarters are thonght to be calcula ted to exasperate the snakes, as well as the withholding of food. Xo uneasiness is felt at the presence of the snakes in the factory except in the trimming room, where a number of young ladies are em ployed. As for Jack Harrison, he tumbles all three about with impunity, being a trifle cautious only with the copperhead. The battle will take place in a large iron tank ordinarily used for soaking hats, bnt to be emptied, of course, for the occasion. Betting is $1 to 75 cents on the copperhead against the black snake, and the adder has no backers. UoDia Facts. The pyrethrum roseuai, or "Persian camomile,'' is the powdered leaf of a harmless, flower growing in Caucasian Asia in great prolusion, where for centuries it bat beta used to rid the natives of insects. With a finely prepared dust made from these flowers, whieh can be purchased of iiuuM biij rcuauie uruggisi at auoui seventy cents a pound, the house fly, the wicked flea aad the mosquito may all be put to flight or to rest In order to enjoy this delicious riddance it is only necessary to heap up with a Pttle cone one teaspooo ful of the drug pyrethrum, touch it with a lighted match and watch the thin blue line of smoke as it rises to the ceiling and is wafted through the air, changing the busy drone of insect life into a weak wail of in sect woe. Pretty soon down they come plump on to the table and over your paper, spin on their tiny backs and then sheathe their lancets, curl up their hair-like lees and interest one no more. Up staira the httle ones sleep unmolested, though there are thousands of mosquitoes in the room ; the pests are sick unto death, and cling sadly to the walls, too feeble to think of tapping the rich warm blood that flows in ruddy little limbs just below ; the fume of the pyrethrum has settled their business, and while it lingers in the room outsiders are unwilling to make an entry, though the windows are raised and the lattices are only half closed. Gauze bars are hot, stuny things at best, and one must be sadly driven to attempt to sleep under such a cover ; then, as we all know, the mosquito always finds his way through, no matter bow carefully one may tuck up its folds about the couch. Smoke from the Persian camomile or its dusty powder we have found most effica cious, and your readers will bless me when once they try it The purity of the drug must be assured. I his can readily be tested. It must have a bright buff color ; be light readily burned, and give a pleas ant tea-like fragrance ; one pinch should kill a dozen flies, confined in a bottle, at once. When it fails of these properties it has been adulterated. In common use, in large or breezy rooms, where, from great dilution, it fails to kill, it nevertheless pro duces en insect life, through its volatilized essential oil or resin, undoubted nausea, vertigo, respiratory spasms, and paralysis. It acts upon them through the minute spir- ac.es, the breathing tubes, that stud the surfaces of their little bodies, and form the delicate net-works of veins in their tinv wings. To human beings it is, so far as I can ascertain, entirely innoxious, and not disagreeable. That we a family of eight persons, infants and adults have lived tor several weeks in an atmosphere of pyre thrum dust and smoke combined, during this present summer, is sufficient proof of my statement 'lo the skeptic I recom mend aninteresting experiment : Put the pyrethrum into a close, warm room, where dies most love to swarm, just after dark, ehut the door, and make another visit in thirty minutes. The sight of uilliousof dead and squirming vermin on the floor will do his heart good that is, if he is a human beings and not an angel. Having drafted our plan of battle against these little foes, it becomes proper to speak of the care of the woguded. To cure pvwpiito stings, 1. know nviing better than a twenty per cent solutiutw in either oil or water, of pure carbolic acla. This is to be rubbed well on the painfurwnot To bathe one's tingling bands and smartf limbs with this solution, gives a cooling. grateful sensation that is hard to describe. Carbolic soap will do almost as we'.L or an ointment compounded of carbol, camphor and cosmohne. Ixhtrr Factories The lobster factories are very numerous. and can hardly escape the notice even of the fashionable visitor to Maine. He is confronted by one, for instance, at the land ing of Harpswell, the principal island of Case Bay, another at the historic old town oi tastine, another at Southwest Harbor, Mount Desert, besides the one at Green's Landing. Deer Island has factories at Oceanville and Burnt Cove, forming part of a series twenty-three in number, which belong to one firm, and stretched all the way down to the Bay of Fondy. They cannot be called intrinsically inviting, owing to their wholly vtilitanan character, although they are apt to have redeeming features in an occasional touch ot tne pic turesque. The factory cpens at one end on the wharf, close to the water. Two men bring in the squirming loads on a stretcher and dump the mass into coppers for boiling. At intervals the covers are hoisted by ropes and pulleys, and dense clouds of steam arise, through which we catch vistas of men, women and children at work. Two men approach the coppers with stretcher and scoop-nets, and they throw rapid scoop fuls, done to a scarlet backward over their shoulders. The scarlet hue is seen in all quarters on the steaming stretcher, in the great heaps on the tables, in scattered in dividuals on the floor, in a Iirge pile of shells and refuse seen through the open door, and in an ox-cartload of the same re fuse, further off, which is being taken away for use as a fertilizer. The boiled lobster is scperated, on long tables, into his constituent parts. The meat of the many jointed tail is thrust out with a punch. A functionary called a "cracker" frees that of the claws by a couple of deft cuts with a cleaver, and the connecting arms are passed on to be picked out with a fork by the girls. In another department the meat is placed in the cans. The girl puts in roughly a suitable selection of the several parti. The next weurhs It and adds or substracts enough to complete the exact amount desired (one or two pounds). The next forces down the contents with a stampi nvented especially for the purpose. The next puts in a tin cover with blows of a little naimncr. Then a tray is rapidly filled, with the cans, and they are carried to the solderers, who seal them tight ex cept for minute openings in the covers, and put them in another tray, which by means of a pulley-tackle, is then plunged in bath caldrons, in order that the cans may be boiled tid the air is expelled from their con tents through the minute openings. Then they are sealed up and boiled again for several hours, when the process of cooking is complete. In the packing-room the cans are cleaned with acid, painted a tbin coat of green to keep them from rusting, pasted with labels displaying a highly .ornamental scarlet lob ster rampant against a blue sea, and placed by the gross in pine boxes to await the ar rival of the company's vessel, which cruises regularly from factory to factory, collecting the product Xine-tcnths ot the supply at present goes to the foreign market. On l3af-days." the hands occupy themselve with making the neat cans which it is their ordinary business to fill. England, in the scale of nations, was a secondary power until 1763. The con quest of Canada and the establishments in India, her naval superiority, her colons and her trade, raised her to the first rank among nations. Th Skylark. About the first of May 1880, Seventy four English Skylarks were let loose near Kidgewood, Xew Jersey, by Mr. Hales. Fifty ot them kept together in a close flock. The rest scattered. They did not mount up and sing at the first taste of freedom. but devoted their attention to their physical wants. The buzzing insects, the enticing worms and the tender young growing grain were tidbits too appetizing to be resistel, and for a few days there was strict atten tion to business. Would the larks sing I That was the question of great interest A note from Mr. Hales a few days after their release settled it He wrote: "Here it is! The same delightful sound that has inspired so many poets and charmed the Old World for ages. As pure and tweet as in his na tive gray sky. Xo one who has ever beard the shrill, thrilling notes, not loud but very disiinct will ever forget it or fad to know it "After a few day's enjoyment of the sweets of liberty the birds set about housekeeping. They stole away by pairs in the fields, and began nest building. The males became more and more vocal, and t oared aloft above their setting mates and poured forth their sweet strains. The nests hidden in the grass or grain were not easily discovered, but some ot them were found. They contained four or five freckled eggs of a greenish cray cast Like other nests placed on the ground, some of them have been visited by cats or other predatory animals, but in other cases the eegs have gene salely through the process of incubat'.on, and the young larks, real Auierican born skylarks, have appeared. There is no question that the youngsters will taKe care of themselves, aud barring acciien'.s common to all birdlings, reach maturity. The crucial test will come with the winter. V ill the larks migrate to warmer climes and come back another season, or will they stay and perish with cold t These are questions that time will answer. That the country about Kidgewood in fact nearly all of that part of Xew Jersey con tiguous to Xew York is well adapted fot skylarks, there is no doubt Mr. Keicne, the bird importer, who has released thou sands of foreign song birds in the vicinity of Xew York in the past quarter of a cen tury, says that the country along the Uack ensack valley is almost the exact counter part of the great meadows of Holland, which are inhabited by millions of sky larks, and he believes that if the birds could be protected from hunters, they would multiply and increase in Xew Jersey until they became as common as in tt Via orld. A lot of skylarks that were freed in Brooklyn, many years ago, for several winters, it is said, migrated only as far as Staten Island, and were gradually killed off. Mr. Ueiche-believes that the larks in tr.xluced in this country will spend their winters further bouth. He says that he is satisfied that the larks of England and Xorthern Europe, or the greater number of them go to Italy in winter. He has seen myriads of them in that country, where they are eaten by the inhabitants. He has no doubt that they are the birds from northern latitudes." French Reporting. A brilliant feat of French reporting happened at the time when the great Tmp. mann murder case was agitating Paris and France, and everybody was eager for details. A reporter who had the matter in and left Pans for Cernay, where the father of Tropmann resided. He arrived, called upon the justice of the peace and the commistaiie de police, invited them to lollow him to the maine, took his seat in the judge's chair, and there, with unpara lleled audacity, ordered the garde cham petre to go and bring before him the assassin s fatner. 1 he officers did not say a word ; the reporter had conquered them by his air and his demeanor. When the father of Tropmann was brought before him, the reporter interrogated him as though officially commissioned to do so. The result of the cross-questioning was that the son had written to his father on the eve of the day of the crime. " Mon sieur le Cbtnmissaire,' says the reporter, " please to go to the witnesses' house and seize these letters." The functionary obeyed; the letters were brought the reporter read them, found them full of evidence of Tropmann's guilt, copied them carefully and with a solemn air. Then, with respect he handed over the originals to the j'itice of the peace, asked him to seal them carefully and keep them for the further use of the court The reporter put the copies into his pocket saluted the gentleman and left it was 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and the train that was to bear his letter to Paris would not leave before evening. If he sent his precious report by that train it would be too late for the morning edition of his paper. Besides, he met two other Paris reporters who bad just arrived and who would soon learn the news at Cernay and send it on to Pans at the same time he did his report What does he do! lie goes up to his brother reporters and says: "1 am dying of hunger, my friends. Ll us breakfast together. You go to the tavern there and order a good dejeuner, with plenty of wine, you know, and I'll come ptesenily. The two reporters did as he bade them, while our friend jumped into a wagon, had him self driven to the station, after bard beg ging and giving money was allowed to leave on a luggage train, then about to yart, caught a passenger train for Paris at a junction further on, and arrived at the office of his paper late at night He com municated his information, and the first page, which was already "closed up," was completely reset The next morning 60,000 copies of the paper were sold. Tne llome Ruler. Colonel McSpilkens, who owiu and rents out a number of houses, went up to a man on Park avenue, and said to him : "I don't know you, sir, but I saw you kick a man out of your front gate yesterday, and as I myself have teen very much annoyed by book agents, l was glad to see it " That fellow was worse than a book agent I am sorry I didn't mutilate him with a club. " A life insurance agent then I sup pose? " orse than that 1 11 never cease to regret I didn't have a bull dog to set on bun. " You don't mean to say a newspaper man who wanted to interview you ? " orse than that my dear sir. That fellow I kicked out don't deserve to live atalL" " I can't imagine who it could have been," said the man who rents so many houses. "It was my rascally landlord after the back rent," responded the Home Ruler, gritting his teeth. Cuba produces one-thud of the cane sugar, and Brazil, Java and the Philippine islands each about one-seventh, so that one half the cane sugar of the world is grown by slave labor ujder the Spanish nag. Vncle Sile. When poor old Uncle Siias Patterson went to his grave the other day, not a mourner followed, and never will a tear moisten the earth above him. In by-gone days he aspired to be a political leader, and there are plenty of men who remember how he once run a ward caucus. Know ing his ambition to become a power in the ward, three or lour old jokers put up a plan to make him Chairman of the caucus short ly to be held, and they visited him in a body and explained : ''Everything will depend on how you run thh caucus lie calm. Be dignified. Don't let any one ride over you. One will move this and the other that but you must re fuse to entertain any motions until you have ascertained the pleasure of the meet ing." Lncle Sile was delighted and puffed up. and he could hardly wait for the hour which was to witness his triumph, lie was called to the chair, as planned, and after a few remarks to prove his gratitude, he called for order, and said : 'Xow, then, what is the pleasure of the meeting I" A citizen rose in reply and began : "I move you, Mr. Chairman, that we now pro Order I Order ! called t nele Sile. "I am in order." "You are not ! Take your seat or I'll have you put out" Tne astonished elector dropped back to second fiddle, and Uncle Sile continued : "Xow. then, what is the pleasure of the meeting t" "I move that we proceed to bal " It was another elector, and be had only got thus far when the Chairman cried out ; "1 call for order I If we can t have order we might as well adjourn. I now ask you for the third time, What is the pleasure of the meeting I lue electors were dumbfounded for a time, but one of them recovered a httle sooner than the rest and asked : "Is this a caucus t '' "You bet !" answered Uncle Sile. "Are we here to nominate ward rfflcers?" "We are." "Then, sir, I move that we pro" "Order I order I" yelled the Chairman "That's the third or fourth time that trick has been tried here, ami the next man who makes a motion before I have found out the pleasure of the meeting will be put out! Xow, then, is there any pleasure in this meeting i It so, where is it and what is it! " 1 le soon discovered. About twenty men rushed for him at once, and he went out of the window like a bag of sand, and before he had come to the caucus had transacted its business and adjourned. The mcident not only cured Uncle Sile's anibitioi to be a political leader, but it is doubtful if he ever cast an her vote. Hints About Flower. The art of arranging bouquets is very simple. Having collected the flowers to be used on a tray, all the superfluous leaves should be stnpped from the stems, and by placing the flowtrs side by side you can easily seethe order in which tbey can be most advantageously displayed. A very pretty hand bouquet ean be made by tak ing a small, straight suck not over a quar ter of an inch ic diameter, tie a string to the top of it and begin by fastening on a lev flowers or one large hanusome one, for the center piece, winding the string about each stem as you add the flo vers and leaves to the bouquet Always place the flowers with the shortest stems at the top, preserving all those wLh lon s'ems for the base, and finish off the bouquet with a fringe of finely cut foliage. Then cut all the stems evenly, wrap damp cot ton around them and cover the stems with a paper cut in pretty lace design. In mak ing bouquets from garden flowers, such as are niott easy to secure, the flowers can be arranged flatly and a background made from sprays of evergreens. To destroy the vitality of weed seeds in soil by bak ing, will, in a great measure, destroy the fertility of the soil. A better way to kill weed seeds is to spread the oil out thinly in a warm place and keep it moLst In a few days most of the seeds will germinate. after which the soil should be stiired and allowed to become dry. In this manner weeds may effectually be destroyed. To grow geranium cu ting : Take coarse, clean siod, about three inches in depth, insert the cuttings about one to oue and a half inches deep therein ; press the (and (irmly around them, and water freely at first ; afterwards use it sparingly. One cause of geianiiun cuttings turning black is the keeping of them too wet Xo kind of cuttings are better adapted for sending by mail than geraniums, as the drying ot the cut end is conducive to rcoiing ttr.'ni easily, and they universally give satisfac ton. A Snow-Sllile. Xot long ago James Powers, who was at work in Buckskin Gulch, near Leadviile, Colorado, hal elided the labors of the day and was about to descend to the caU . The mountain was cuvtred with several feet of snow and it was difficult to reach the base without the aid of snow shoes. Accordingly Powers took his seat on h& shjvel, and, gelling ready, began to go down with good progress. While he was thus moving on his way a huge boulder was dUlodged and began to roll after him in his snowy track. Powers looked be hind him and saw the dreadful thing com ing after him. At each bound it would Air up oth r boulders, and soon it looked as if the whole mountain had suddenly been torn into rocks and sent after him. suddenly there was a crash, and a thund ering sound penetrated forest and echoeo through canyon. Hearing the rumble ano roar ot the rocks as they tore down th mountain aide, the miners who were neai by came out of their doors and witnesses the race between man and avalanche. They saw Powers overtaken and then disappear belwten the tons of rock and snow. A ouce they ran to the place, aud with theii picks and (hovels they proceeded to un earth the unfortunate miner. This wat about 5 o'clock, and darkness soon caiut upo i them. Afraid to proceed in thu dai k tor fear of tutting the buried man in delv ing for him, they secured candles, as it was a gloomy mbt There in the gloon, the lights tiicktred and the steady anc rapid strokes of the miners were heard fot miles away. They were re-enforced by others, who could not understand tht -cene, and at 9 o'clock some one shouted : 'My God, boys ; here he is, dead 1" Hit body was doubled up, and the rocks be neath his head were stained with blood, which showed most ghastly under the duh glare of the candles. Dropping the im plements, they went to work with then hands, and in a few momeuts the rxiii were away and the body hfied to the sui face. It was carried by strong hands into the cabin, and the Coroner was notifiad on the following morning. Bustle is not industry: nor is imptt Idence courage. XEWS IX BRIEF. A race of kings re igaed in India 2300 B.C. Queen Victoria was born May 24th. 1819. Duluth talks of a new $75,000 hotel. Key West shipped 900,000 cigars last week. The British troops in Ireland number 30,000 men. r The census of IF (50 gave 18 slaves to Xew Jersey. The Chinese physicians receives no fee until the patient is cured. l"he cost of Solomon's Temple is esti mated at $77,531, 693.63C The Whittaker court- martial will cost the government $100,000. St Louis has 202 miles of public sewers, costing $5,000,000. Mr. Blaine is about to build the largest private residence in W ashington. The wheel foundries at Altoona, Pa , are making 350 wheels per day. The Bank of England was founded in 1794. The capital is 15,533,000. Presidents Garfield's life is insured foi $25,000 for the benefit of his wife. Bismark has a salary of $15,000 as Chancellor of the German Empire. Emile Girsadin, thela'e Parisian editcr? left an estate of $10,010,000 francs. The total human population of the earth is estimated to be 1,421,500,000. Suicides have increased annually, it: Italy, from 186 to 1373, from 30 to S7. In Massachusetts during 15 J dry fi-th was taken as cash, and boards aho in K57. Canada was surveyed in 1842 under Sir William Logan and Alexander Murray. The crops in the neighliornood of Que bec were badly damaged by frosts recently. A turtle dated 1821 was recently dis covered waddling across Franklin county. Pa. From China and Japan last year this country imported 68,775,143 pounds of tea. The deepest known worked mine is in Australia, a shaft having been sunk 3,200 feet Journalists of Paris propose to erect a statue to the veteran poet-journalist Victor Hugo. The profits of the bank of Montreal during 188o were $400,000 more than in 1879. The Secretary ofWar has prohibited the use of tobacco by the cadets at West Point The Rothschild family and house was founded by Anselm at Frankfort, m 1743 to 1772. Profile pictures, it i3 stated, originat ed with Philip of Macedon, who bad but one eye. The passage of fifty-seven bills com prises the work of the Legislature of Pennsylvania. A system of rewards is to be establishe to encourage target practice iu the regular army of the U. S. There are 2,200,000 people living within a radius of twenty miles of the City Hall of Xew York. The Crown Prince of Sweden and Princess Victoria of Baden, are to be mar ried about October 1. Xine-five thousand dollars were paid out in wage at the Cambria Iron works, Pa., in one week recently. The Chinese claiai an extreme anti quity. Fo-hee, their first Emperor, reujned about the year 2950 B. C. California's wheat crop for 1 S3 1 is esti mated at 40,000,000 bushels, againgt 53,- 000.000 bushels last year. Mrs. Xellie Grant Sartons will prob ably spend a part of this summer with her parents at Long Branch. General Grant receives $10,000 a year salary as President of the United States ationsl Bank, ew xork. There never was a slave owned in the State of Vermont. The first Constitution of the Mate prohibited slavery. The census of the city of London just compiled shows a population of 3.814,571. In I9i I its population was 3,2jl,804. The debt of Xew Hamsphire was re duced $139,696.10 last year, leaving $,373,770.i)5 as the total present debt. The Scottish Regalia consists ot ths Crown, the Sceptre and the Sword of State. The crown is of the time of Robert Bruce. The suear crop of the world ii 1830 was 3,322,933 tons, of which 1,857.933 was from cane and 1.565,000 beet-root su gar. Iowa became a Territory June 12, 1338. with a population of 22,859 ; and a State, December 28, 1 845 population 97,- 538. The Princess Stephanie received a dowry of only $450,000. while Princess Mills, bnde of Whitelaw Held, received $500,000. The net earnings of the Milwaukee it St Paul railway for the year foots up $5,C03,000, an increase of $300,000 over the previous year. The ore production of the Rio Tinto Mining Company, of Spain, was 915,657 tons last year. The company produced 8559 tons pure copper. The trustees ot the graveyard at J or is as, in Buckinghamshire, England, refuse to allow the removal of the remains of Wm. Penn to Pennsylyauia. At the close of the year 1SS0 there were in the United Slates 170,103 miles of telegraph lines, and during that year 33,- 153.991 messages were sent The first recorded patent granted by the United States government bears date July 31, 1790, issued to Samuel Uopkins for making pot and pearl ashes. The oldest church ia Xew York State is in Tarrytown. It is built of stone and brick, the latter having been imported from Holland for the express purpose. The public debt was decreased aurin' the month of May $11,150,721, and during the past 1 1 months $89,251,323. The cash oalance now availliable is $155,161,896. In 1880 Great Britain carried 52,000, 00 tons of merchandise at sea, while the United States only carried 8,250,000 tons, Sweden and Xorway carrying 9,250,000 tons. The number of horses exported from England dunnff March and April was 442, uid the value 28,228. In the same period last year the number was 410, and the value 28,095. Between 1492 and 1848 the American lemisphere- produced $5,234,546,000 of elver bullion, or nearly double as much f that metal as all the world has produced from 1843 to 1880 inclusive. There are in this country 124 theologi cal seminaries with property, grounds and buildings valued at $5,5C0.000, and pro ductive funds of $3,250,000. The annual income of these funds is $553,000. f It'. j i- .lit! ti iiif r I .Mo tt 1 :4 I i. Ik Hi 'i: r :1 V V
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