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B. F. SCHWEIER,
TEE O0I3TITUTI0I THE TJJIOI AID TEE EHTOBOEMEIT OF TEE LAW8.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXY.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1881.
NO. 30.
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OE-AWAKE AND FAST-ASLEEP.
. Mutht summer day came out of the east,
' Aad a dear little lad was Be,
uos were red from utrawberrj feast.
And his eves were blue as tb sea.
at wnow hair was Mown bj the breeze,
like pass in a windj place ,
HMiad torn his jactet in climbing trees
1 he laughed all over hi face.
. danced in the elm, on the leafy spray
wnere the ne-t of the blnebird swings,
TiU the Kir-"" d wmted tne 8,eep ,WaT
. ii mi.ler their painted wings.
H, moot the stem of the lilies tall,
uT,,ie the nodded in high sarpris
. .1 mi.bed. with weir nngen. . ,
Tne .in-am from their golden eyes.
The .lai-T hurried to wash her face
in a drop of the silver dew,
ndevervleaf in its lofty place
' The kiss of the sunshine knew.
ne stuirre: chattered and combed his tail.
That curls up over his spine ;
Kua each red clover turned almost pale
' VheD the village clock struck nine.
ror two little bovs, in two Utile bed.
lay sleeping the raornuiK
persou in his presence. He determined J wife whom everybody you, most of all
to be so agreeable and deferential that J must consider disagreeable ?"
fair
she should imagine her ears had de
ceived her.
Conversation progressed very pleas
antly between the two.
"Nice girl to talk to," Mr. Dean
decided. "Sweet voice, no giggle, no
affectation."
Jnst as he made this reflection, he en
countered the eyes of Harry Sinton, and
fancied he saw in them satirical amuse
ment. Awakened by this glance to the
conviction that he wits making himself
the subject of mirth, he sought the side
of an acknowledged Wile, and saw no
more of Irene Pierce until dancing
liegan.
j She was standing opposite him, in a
t set where the fashionable Miss Beutly
j was his partner. This young lady was
considered a very elegant personage.
! She wore a Paris dross, and the costliest
Bert
! Dean's glance rested with satisfaction
on Irene Pierce. Her face, undeniably
pretty, her dress was a stranger to Paris,
and had, perhaps, been made at home ;
but it was accompanied by a smooth
white neck and a pair of rounded arms.
As Bert made these comments, and
r..nuv part, said aarry oiuiwu, i: t i .Ija.u.tiKfi.Hl t Thin comnniiinn'a
Fin not particular; a good little heart, ' common-place remarks, he decided to
on.I a sweei leiupei .
She hesitated a moment.
"What do you mean ?" cried Bert, in
amazement
How to Live In Summer.
Clothing must b considered, for it
has much to do with our elasticity of
movement. It is as yet a point of dis-
pute whether cotton stuffs are the best
"Vn Mlintl,.v. f..rr.tn r Aral ' many .H nn mg 01
..,., r or women nothing is sweeter in sum-
nieeting, she said, more composedly ; mer than a lres8 it a pitv we
uo not ouiige me to repeat your words do not patronize linen more for adults;
- . , - tn An thir t&nffled heala i
mouhj tat . song. ornaments of any one in the room.
I Hil inr "
w ,i cl.l the snmmei
. , . m u ih rnimliier (lit.
-oh. dear, on, .
w hat sleepv small loya I see :
i wish. I wish they would wake and play
With a Dright little dajike me."
THAT I.ITTI.K EKMiHT.
. ernrmre his l ix-n-fin for the next set.
iliat, 'her hair shall be what color heaven He follnJ Limself repaiJ for Jarf
..leases.' Sot that I am afraid of for coulJ 8peak of her own
intv-I like a pretty girl
as well as
sex without malice.
Her conversation
I auvou"e-but I don't insist on it as some- ( waJJ mteUigent which assured him she
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thing 1 ani enuueu kj. was lamuiar with tne best boots, ana
The elegant Bert Dean smiled a snide hep cUoi(.e langtlage pieased him. All
f contempt. this he discovered in the pauses of the
-Hv (rood fellow," said he, "your i n i tileasod bim so well that
powers of comparison must ie erj nj ungert?j at ner g;je rather longer
liiuiteJ if you propose exchanging your flian mere 1! demanJed when
dionsaud bachelor privileges ior bi.
trilliug consideration.
what do votl
r
Ueiir.
Bert D au shrugged his shoulders.
" Mav will expect me early," he said,
au.1 retired to his dressing-room.
Tie enienred from it an hour or so
the set was over.
On his homeward way, in company
want ? Let ns ... , . - . , s; . . pnMM,n.
tered some raillerv. He announced
I don't know that 1 want anything , jjimif to j,ave found in Miss Pierce the
I ata very well contented as I am. ' mosj agreeable girl he hail found in a
Buthat would induce you to le- i,mg timej truly ladylike and intelligent,
(mui a Benedict V" I 'You can't deny that her hair is red,"
"Let we see; I dou't wish tola un- laughed Harry,
reasonable. Beauty is, of course, the "Certainly not ; but it was tastefully
firlt requisite; wouldn't look at an arranged'
Leirc without it. Merc beauty, how-, xhe nest day, in the afternoon, found
ever is a very slight matter. I must Dean standing on the steps of the
not W afraid of my wife's opening her i,ouse wliich belonged to Miss Pierce's
lils. Of course she must sing, speak father. He did not tell his friend that
several languages. Given all these, and jje had asked permission to call, but he
a suitable income say twelve to fifteen jjj,
thousand a year and I might think of g0 fonllJ Mrs. Pierce and her
it then." daughter sitting together in the back
'What, nothing more?" asked the parlor, with their work. Irene was
other, ironically, "I am afraid you go braiding a sacque for her little sister;
too cheap." ' anl ner mother employed on something
'Bert Peau " said Harry, solemnly, ' more practical She had not "been well
vou are a 'conceited fop! A good schooled, as the idea that she was to
Man" one. I admit, and not originally leave the room did not occur to her.
destitute ..t i.rains; but eaten up, de-. Irene did not look as plain as she hid
toured bv iuonlinatc vanity; and I done last night, as her animated conver
firmlv eswH-t to see von knocked down, sation dazzled him. There was an
' w , mrl with red ringlets." affectionate confidence lietween mother
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aull UUUgllier uiui uc unu uvjl uici
best society, and he found it, or some
thing else, so pleasant that he largely
outstayed the limits of a fashionable
calL
ktriu the most scrupulously exquisite! T . . l)etter not call again," he
cmhtiou. He had some excuse for j,e went home ; "but what a
matins extravagant demands alout a jpijgijtfjj companion she would be !"
wife. His Cousin May, called him when j A week or two went by, and Bert
all things were considered the first young 'adhered to his new resolution of not
man iu society, and was casting her cauing but was unable to prevent him
ey. around for a suitable match for from Watching for her.
liini. Wlieii he entered her well-lighted .3Jav .. he asked carelessly of his
rooms, they were already quite fulL He COU3jn oue eveningf "who are those
niade a tour of the apartments, bestow- pj,..
ing a little languid u tice on two or three ( Q1 frieU(ls of miue she answered ;
favored one:., and presently subsided ,excellenf sutantial people ; but why
into a ch:,t with Mrs. Miller. This lady ,.,
was neither verv young nor particularly , tt j met them i,nt bere, and that
j.retly, but he liked to talk to her, and j haye neard o tbem,"
so he ri'Uiaiued at her side. J ne gaj
'Mr. TVan," she said, when half an j "JJj-s. Pierce thinks home is the liest
horn- .r more had elapsed, "I am afraid place for girls, so she does not go out
the young ladies will hardly forgive me mUCh."
for absorbing your attention so long. if Irene Tierce went out so little, there
See there is a young lady qtute alone ; ,Was scarcely a chance that they should
pray go and make yourself charming." j meet except at her own house. And did
Bert turned his head. J he really care enough about the ac-
"Whut !" he exclaimed, "That litfle . quaintance was it valuable enough
fright ? Mrs. Miller, do le merciful!" for him to take trouble to seek it ?
But Mrs. Miller did not smile. j Probably these questions were
"I l-g your pardon," he said, I answered in the affirmative, as the next
politely. "It was very wrong to speak J day brought him to Miss Pierce's door ;
as I did." nor was that the only occasion on which
"It was -indeed. I am afraid she 1 the neighbors opposite had the privilege
beard yon, too." of seeing him. Again and again he
"That is not possible !" he said, with 1 came, but, as time was going on, he
raJ mortification. I grew strangely diffident Drawn day
Mrs, Miller relented at the sight of by day to Irene's side, happy nowhere
bis vexed countenance. else, he could affirm even to himself that
"The only atonement you can offer," j 8he was more to him than a friend,
she said, "is to seek an introduction and There had been a time that, to declare
make yourself as areeable as you can. himself a lover, involved some sacrifices
Perhaps she will forgive yon, or think ' on his part ; it seemed strange now mat
she did not hear aright"
"Must I ? Will yon pardon me on no
other terms?"
"Certainly not When I see the
young hulv suulinz urwn vou von shall
be restored to ni
then,"
l,a aT.nnl.1 he anxious to m-iKO sucn
a sacrifice, yet doubt, with anxiety
whether Irene would care to accept it
Some weeks of suspense went by, and
he could wait no longer. One bright
teenC and not till ' day, when favoring fate had left them a
; little while alone, ne spose not ery
"Cruel! but I am oliedient And he eloquently, but stall sufficiently cohe
rent iu search of an introduction. ! rently to make his meaning plain.
Mr. Sinton chanced to be near at hand, ! Irene colored deeply, and refused him.
aul opened l.U iicrl,tlv when he' At this he grew a little more self-pos-
learned his friend's desire.
"Know her'" li
Jo! Prot.hesi..i nm;ntr l,er Kef,, re 1 sisted : was there a previous attachment
we came, red ringlets and all. Didn't She blushed more vividly, and said no
tbink, though, that your fate would be ' such thing existed.
Wn on you so soon " i Was ere not some hopes for him,
"Xonsens i ,r K then? Mieht not her resolution be
I 3 i i rrrJ tn Viiowt W reftsonfl-
geaseu, "66"-'
Af v,nrKe T ! She declined to state them. He per-
overcome
? Might not these resolutions
cease to exist ?
Oh, no ! Her resolution was unalter
able.
serious."
"BecauM it is t,uch a serious matter
ifbyon? Very thing I was saying;
"tiGTC Tllir... 1 f T Mma
na-" And Miss Pierce and Mr. Deanj Then he urged an explanation, and
ere presently exchanging opinions on insisted on it as his right His suit was
staple party-going topics. poshed with ardor, and Irene s agitafaon
To do Bert justice" he sincerely re- 'poved that she waa not insensible But
Pitted his thoughtless exclamation. with a great effort she somnianded her
He as ungeutlcmanl y, he kn ew, andhe self, ... j
W, besides so great a horror of female ! "I ahould be most unjust to you and
"gliuess as to regard all subjects to it to myself," said she, "could I allow a
th a painful compassion. The dread ( transient feeling to set aside my judg
tbat Miss Pierce had overheard his re-' ment" M
gave him just that sting of self ! "Transient ! O Irene !
reproach that one would feel had he But she silenced him.
Uuded to the infirmity of a deformed 1 4Could I allow myself to give you a
that evening."
The room swam around Bert Dean.
"That little fright !" Oh ! the sacrilege,
the horror, of that speech ! Could he
have made it and about that angel?
Overwhelmed with mortification, he
strove to explain, to say how entirely
his feelings were altered.
"Enough, sir," said Miss Pierce, with
dignity. "Spare yourself the trouble of
apologizing ; it is quite unnecessary, and
altogether useless." And so she left
him.
Surely this was an awkward situation
for a lover, particularly for Bert, who
had contemplated arranging matrimonial
affairs in such a quiet, well-bred way,
He went home in despair. Could any
woman even Irene, gentlest, dearest of
vomen forgive such an insult to her
vanity? li she could only see his heart,
and know how long he had ceased to
regard her as plain, in how many ways
she was even beautiful to him ! But to
explain this to her it was impossible !
He could never obtain her pardon. And
her love ? That was too far and dear to
dream of.
Private life has its Napoleons, how
ever. I hey rout impossibilities, and
prove them to be the merest shams. A
week from this dreadful day, Bert was
sitting very much at home in the
same parlor whence he had withdrawn
so ignominiously, and Irene looked at
him in a way that clearly showed that
she had relinquished her "resolution,
and sacrificed her judgment"
8Mt.
A Detmiter who had business in a vil
lage in Washtenaw county, Michigan,
drove out there in a buggy, and, of
course, went to the inn for his dinner.
The landlord made no inquiries until af
ter the meal had been eaten and paid
for, and then he found opportunity to
inquire :
"Were you going out to 'Squire
Brown's place?" .
"No."
"I didn't know bnt you were a light
ning rod man and I was going to say
that the "Squire has threatened to shoot
the next one on sight We don't go
much on them fellers around here, and
rm right glad that you are somebody
else. Maybe yun are going over to SuZe
Hardy's to sell him some trait trees for
fall setting?"
"No."
"Well, that's lucky. Only recently
the Judge was remarking to me that the
next fruit tree agent who entered his
gate would want a coffin. The fact is,
I myself have got to do some pretty hard
kicking to pay for being swindled on
grape vines, xou are not a patent right
man, eh ?"
"No."
"Well, that's a narrow escape for you.
We've been swindled here on hay forks,
cultivators, gates, pumps, churns, and a
dozen other things, and I'm keeping six
teen dozen bad eggs for the next patent
lighter who shows his face in this town.
Perhaps you are a lecfcirer?
"Oh, no."
"Well, you haven't lost any thing. We
never turn out very strong here to a lec
ture. The last man who struck us lec
tured on Our Currency,' but didn't take
in enongh of it to pay for his supper.
You are not a lxxk carvasser?"
"No."
"That's another escape. We've been
laid out here so often that if an agent
should offer to sell a $20 Bible for fifty
cents, we'd suspect a trick to beat us.
Strikes me now that you may le a
lawyer ?"
"No."
"Good 'nuff. Last one who settled
here had to leave town at midnight; and
we don't want one any way?" Say,
what are yon, any way ? "
"A politician," replied the Detroiter.
"A politician ! Then git ! For heaven's
sake, don't stand around here if you
value your life ! We've just impeached
our poundmaster for embezzling the
public money; and the excitement is so
intense that the Democrats will ride you
on a rail or the Bepublicans duck you in
the water trough. Git up and scoot 1"
Church Manner.
Be on time. No one has a right to
disturb a congregation or a preacher by
being tardy.
Never look around to see who is com
ing in when the door opens. It diverts
your own and other's attention from the
exercises, and is discourteous to the
eader.
Never talk or whisper in church,
especially after the exercises are open
ed.
Never pull out your watch to see what
time it is when the text is announced.or
during the sermon. Better to feed on a
sermon than to time it
Never lean your head on the pew rail
before you, aa thongh indifferent to the
preacher.
Conform, if possible, in conscience,
to the usages of the church in which
you worship kneel, stand, bow accord
ingly." ...
2 ever manuest your disapprobation
of what is being said, by unpleasant
sounds, or signs, or by hastily leaving.
Do not fidget, as though the service
were a weariness. Be quiet and decor
ous to the very end.
Do not put on your overcoat or adjust
your wrappings till after the benedic
tion. No gentleman ever defiles place of
worship with tobacco.
Never be one of a staring crowd about
the door or in the vestibule, before or
after service.
Do nothing out of keeping with the
time, place and purpose of a religious
assembly.
for children, cottons; for workingmen.
worsteds. The heavy suits of men are
weighing them down in summer, and
clothes of serge are far preferable to
those of thick woolen cloth. ery thin
silk is a cool wear. The heavily-laden
skirts of women impede the free action
of movement much, and should be aim
plihed as much as possible for summer.
So also the headgear.
Infants, if at all delicate, should not
be allowed to go with bare feet; it often
produces diarrhoea, and they should al
ways wear a flannel band around the
stomach. Another important matter is
the changing of night and day linen
among the poorer classes. It is terrible
to think that a workinsrman should he
down in the shirt in which he has per
spired all day at his hot work. Let men
accustom themselves to good washes
every evening liefore they sit down to
their meals, and to changes at night
that they may take np a dry shirt when
going to their hard day's work.
Frequent change of linen is abso
lutely necessary anyhow, a night and
a day change, This change alone would
help to stay the mortality among the
children, if accompanied with other
healthy measures, such as sponging the
body with a Little salt and water. Where
tenements are very close, wet sheets
placed against walk will aid to revivfy
the air and absorb bad vapor in rooms.
All children's hair should be cut short;
boy's hair may be cropped and girls'
hair so arranged by nets or plaits that
air passes freely around the neck.
Light head coverings are essential in
summer, for the head must be kept coot
The most serviceable dress is that which
allows art; to pass freely around your
limbs and stops neither evaporation of
the body nor the circulation of the re
freshing atmosphere, In summer you
may breathe freely and hohtlv, you can
not do so with your stomach full of un
digested food, your blood full of over
heated alcohol, your lungs full of vitiat
ed air, your smell disgusted with nau
seous scents, your system unable to
carry out the natural piocess of diges
tion. All the sanitiry arrangements in
the world will do no good if we eat and
drink in such a fashion that we are con
stantly putting on fuel where it is not
needed, and stuffing up our bodily
draught, as we would that of a heating
appliance. Our ignorance and our bad
habits spoil the summer, that delightful
season of the vear nothing else.
How Much to Eat.
Having tested a number of meals in a
general way, eating more or less rach
time, find out as near n cxar be wle.t i
the proper amcunt for a meal. Begin
with a very light breakfast of ordinary
food, such as you have been accustomed
to, and note the number of hours you
can go without feeling a want ot more
food. For a very light breakfast, say
one roll, a cup of coffee and a very small
piece of meat, three hours or less will
be found the limit This is not offered
as a role bnt as a suggestion, for it makes
a vast difference what you do- daring
those three hours. A given amount of
food will go further in manual labor
than in mental labor, as brain work is
more exhausting than hand work. The
next time try a little more, and in the
course of a dozen breakfasts you will
learn to judge pretty closely what you
require to carry on your work till the
hour of the next meal. Having found
out just what you need, never, on any
consideration, take more. Never mind
how nice steak, how tempting any food
may be, shut right down on the whole
eating business the instant yon have had
enough. Too little can be repaired by
eating a light lunch before the next
meaL Too much can not le repaired,
and yon must pay for indiscretion. In
all this there must be plain common
sense. JJo not imitate the invalid who
kept a pair of scales on the breakfast
table to weigh his daily bread. Eat and
be satisfied, and then stop.
Artificial Refrigeration.
ice-making and refrigerating machines
are constructed so as to utilize this
property possessed by all volatile fluids.
If the ether be placed in a metallic ves
sel exposing a large surface to water or
any ' other fluid which requires to le
cooled, all the heat necessary for the
volatilization of the ether must be taken
from the water ; the volatilization of the
ether is assisted bv means of an air-
pump, and the ether vapor is then con
veyed tlirongh pipes to another vessel
also s iu rounded by cold water, where
it gives np the same amount of heat
again, and is thns converted back into a
liquid In this way a comparatively
small quantity of ether will cool or even
freeze an indefinite quantity of water,
and the whole of the ether can be con
densed again into the liquid state. In
stead of ether, liquid ammonia, sul
phurous acid, or other very volatile sub
stances may be used, and a variety of
complicated mechanical arrangements
are introduced to assist in the volatili
zataon, condensation and preservation
of the volatile agent used. These me
chanical arrangements have been so far
perfected that even water itself has been
used as the evaporating agent, and ice
has been successfully produced by such
means. Great cold and even ice has also
been produced by the expansion and con
traction of atmospheric air by machines
constructed on a similar principle to
those we have just referred to.
The production of cold and even ice
by artificial means is now a necessity in
many industrial processes. According;
to the continental systems of brewing,
great cold is required not only during
the actual brewing process, but also for
months afterward while the beers are
maturing in the cellars. In this coun
try the natural production of ice is very
uncertain, and some winters may pass
without sufficient being formed to be
worth collection, and even when ice is
plentiful here we have no suitable ar
rangements at hand for storing and pre
serving it for use in warmer weather.
For these reasons many ingenious con
trivances have been devised for the arti
ficial production of ice, and it may not
be uninteresting to give some explana
tion of the theories on which these ma
chines are founded. When a volatile
liquid evaporates, a large amount of
heat is necessarily absorbed by the re
sulting vapor, and is rendered latent or
imperceptible to the senses and the
thermometer. This heat is taken either
from some of the remaining liquid or
else from the medium in which the
liquid is in contact The cold produced
by evaporation is very evident with a
volatile fluid like ether; when a little of
this liquid is placed in the palm of the
hand an intense feeling of cold is ob
served; the ether, in evaporating, must
absorb heat, and therefore takes it from
the nearest body, which is the hantLand
thus produces a corresponding reduction
of temperature. The evaporation of
volatile liquids is greatly assisted by a
reduction of pressure; and, thus, if a
little ether be placed in a shallow dish,
floating on a thin layer of water, and the
whole be placed under the receiver of an
air-pump, there is not much difficulty
in freezing the water by a rapid exhaust
ion of the air; in this case the vapor o
ether is renewed almost as fast as it is
formed, and fresh quantities of liquid
ether are thus volatilized. The various
A Railway Tunnel throaeh a Volcano.
The rocks which constitute the south
ern island of New Zealand are for the
greatest part of the archaic type, con
sisting principally of gneiss, granite,
mica-schist, phyllite, qnartzite, and fel
sitie rocks. They are partly covered by
palaeozoic strata, which are folded np
into innumerable troughs and saddle
backs throughout the province of Can
terbuiy, and which partly belong to the
carboniferous period, so that there are
prospects for a future discovery of coal
beds. By far the greatest interest,
however, is offered by the extensive vol
canic phenomena of the island, and
among them the extinct volcanoes upon
the Banks peninsula, east of the town
cf Christehurch, are prominent This
peninsula, now only connected by bands
of low and recent deposits with the main
land, was once a complete island, only
formed by volcanoes, which rose up from
the bottom of the sea. The special con
st rration of such an extinct volcano has
been'nade visible by a tunnel of 2,620
met ? 1 length upon the railway between
d'T Jt tinToh and Littleton which has
'pureed through the walls of. a voleani
cone and thus has laid bare its structure
of successive streams of lava and beds
of scoria?, ashes, and tufa?, which are
again intersected by dikes of younger
volcanic rocks. This is perhaps the
first volcano through which a railway
has been constructed.
Another peculiarity of New Zealand
is the extremely frequent occurrence of
bones of those large wingless birds,
which by the aliorigines were called
"moa," and which belong to the family
of the Dinornithiihe, of whom the larg
est representative has reached the con
siderable height of ten and a half feet;
the largest deposits of these bones were
found in the Point cavern and the
marshes of Grenmark. There is now no
donbt that these gigantic birds were
contemporaneous with man, and that an
early human race were moa hunters in
these islands, who lived upon the flesh
of these birds at a time when the glaciers
extended still very much below their
present boundaries, for lKines.tools, and
other remnants of these early moa hun
ters are frequently met intermingle
with boies of the now extinct Dinor
nithidse. ratehea of Red Snow.
Prospectors returning from the Holy
Cross country, Colorado, and especially
from the head of Cross Creek, report
that the ground is covered with red
snow. In the almost inaccessible defiles
of Mount Shasta, in California, is the
only other known place in the United
States where this is seen. In Polar re
gions it is a familiar sight, and no ex
tensive traveler there returns without a
description of it The broad fields of
everlasting snow that flank the northern
coast of Greenland are flaked with the
strange red blood, and further toward
the poles miles of it stretch as far as the
naked eye can reach. The phenomena
is due to the presence of minute red
anamalcuhe in the snow. A microscope
detects its presence, bnt how it got
there is a difficult question, and one
that has never been quite satisfactorily '
answered. The red snow in this region
is first seen at the head of Cross Creek,
where it may lie observed in patches of
intense carmine, varying in area from as
large as a man's hat to twenty feet in
diameter. Taken in the hand and closely
examined, nothing can be detected that
gives it color, and it melts into clear red
water, leaving no stain. Further on, in
some of the steep gulches with which
the country abounds, the bottoms are
entirely covered with the strange sub
stance. In some places the color is vivid
in the extreme, while in others it fades
to a faint pink, producing an effect not
readily described in words. Old pros
pectors, who penetrated the region two
years ago, say that there was no snow
of this description there, and its fall can
scarcely have antedated this year. Still
higher, and at the very foot of the
mountain, the red snow disappears and
nothing save the pure white coverlet
greets the eye. How the same tiny in
sects that sent the Boreal can find their
way to the inaccessible Holy Cross, is
thing beyond human ken, and will be a
problem for the scientists of the future
to ponder over.
Pkisoskr, have you ever been convicted
"No, your Honor; I have always employ ed
first class lawyer.
A Remarkable Counterfeit.
The counterfeit twenty-dollar silver
certificate, pen made, recently received
by the secret service of the treasury, has
been examined by very many experts,
and is considered a remarkable piece of
penmanship. There are many defects
in the note, but the most interesting re
lates to the manner in which the secret
service office came to suspect the proba
ble designer. Shortly after the note
was discovered by the treasury depart
ment it was discovered that the wording
on the back was grossly defective in the
manner of spelling. For instance the
word "customs" was spelled "costumes,"
and the word "tender" was spelled
"tendre." This gave rise to the belief
that the counterfeit was executed by a
noted German forger who has figured to
some extent in the West, and at times at
Cincinnati His penmanship, especially
in the execution of counterfeit bank
notes, has on more than one occasion
attracted the attention of government
officers, and in each instance the work
was marked by faulty spelling. The
suspected forger was reported to have
been in Cincinnati at the time the note
was received in the treasury, and the
chief of the secret service division at
once telegraphed to an agent in that
city to keep the man under surveillance.
For several days nothing more was heard
of the matter. A special agent was sent
to Cincinnati to look further into the
affair. This officer, upon arriving in
Cincinnati, discovered that the bird had
flown, and that the officer originally
instructed to shadow him had leen on a
protracted spree.
The Youncer and Elder Booth.
Plenty of Honey.
NEWS IX BRIEF.
The Duke of Argyll is nearly dead
with the gout.
Na oleon'a "X" on the Seiue bridges
is beinir chiseled off
! Phi .-ulclphia is to havesevenil iiectn
It 1
me oaors oi years oi coo&ing, wuicu poncem -u.
were reinforced in the preparation of j There w to lie a revised Xew Testa-
everv meal. Seated at the tAble a filthy . ment M "Lsh.
A traveler writing about his fare while
in the South, says of one of his stopping ,
places: The dining room below was
dark and dismal, and was pervaded with !
negro appeared and took my plate.
"What have you for breakfast ?"
asked.
"Meat'n greens," was the reply.
"Nothing else?"
"Corn bread and coffee, lioss."
I had never had courage to attack
dish of "meat and greens;" but
Booth is now forty-eight He was
only nineteen when his father died, but
he had seen the latter in some of his best
characters, and always considered him
one of the greatest tragedians of the
day. This is no doubt the case, bnt the
unfortunate man was so utterly destroy
ed by strong drink that he never could
take that position to which he was
naturally entitled. No engagement
could le relied on unless the manager
locked him np for the occasion, and
hence he only found employment at the
cheap theatres, where people tooktkeir
chance. How strange to think of Booth
playing Richard III, in the Chatham
theatre to an audience made np of news
boys and other plebeiau, who beheld his
grandest flights at twenty-five cents ; pit
half-price. I have often paid my old
fashioned shilling for a seat in the latter
in order to see Booth thunder in the
crooked-back tyrant, which was his
greatest role. Although deficient in
point of stature, his appearance was
very impressive, this being chiefly dne
to his countenance, which waa one of
tremendous power. His evee were very
large and rapidly expressive of the varied
passions which are represented on the
stage. They were finely set off by a
Grecian nose, bnt the latter was, when
I saw it, marred by a blow which he
had received from a fellow-actor in self
defense, and which may be thus ex
plained : Booth never played except
when under the influence of brandy, and
hence he was often dangerous. His
imaginary foes became real and his
sham fight sometimes had a murderous
appearance. On one occasion, when
Tom Flynn was his antagonist. Booth
drove him into the corner and was about
to run him through, bnt Tom warded off
the thrust and then knocked him down
with his fist The play was at once
stopped, and Booth's nose thenceforth
bore witness of this strange affray.
Eating with a Knife.
Japan is now snptortiucr six kuve
universities on the European plan,
. The population of New Sonth Wales
j is, by the recent census, 750,000.
Bo. .ton is going ahead with her pro
I ject for a World's Fair in 18S5.
There are 585 Chinese children in
a the San Francisco public schools.
I i A tricycle, propelled bv steam, has
seemed to have no choice, I let the leen made in Geneva, Switzerland,
durkev bring me a plate of that delict-' The Comtesse de Chambord has
able compound. "Meat in the Sonth, ' ,1"s' F'"1'8'11"! S"2,000 to the Pope.
T nnrl.t at.iI..;,, n,n. amnUl luuv.n ! One lierson in every six of our 50.-
-the only kind of meat, except chick-1 132' l"" " urch member.
. . r. , . Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is pro-
ens, that W often used by the poorer j nounce1 Wyond by her
classes m the country. The "greens" j cians. " "
are generally cabbage-spronts, and the j Three or four ounees of oU can be
bacon and the "greens" are boiled to-' extracted from one hundred pounds of
gether until they are not oidy thorough- water.
ly cooked, but until the whole mass is ' The yield of wheat iu Texas thid
pervaded with the fat of the pork and Tcar iTon M to 20 bushels per
the flavor of the smoke by which it was , re" . ,
T. . , ... , ., I Gov. iioyt has lieen made a doctor
cured. It takes an appetite for a north- of ,aws v th Uuiversit ,lf Penv,Va.
em man to relish such a dish as that. '
of Los Angeles
i church, to cost
and a stomach that never rebels to di-1
gest it There were other attractions
in that breakfast The "coffee" was
"home-made," that is. it had been raised I
The Presbyterians
are preparing to build
$10,000.
Kaniraroo tail soup is now canned
A subscriber says we have many
authorities on the subject, bnt I would
like to see a sensible, intelligent opin
ion as to how far the knife can be made
use of in eating, without one's being
considered ill-mannered. The short
est answer is best not at all, in polite
society. Bnt what our correspondent
perhaiM means is : What sense or rea
son is there in the prohibition, by so
ciety, of the use of the kinfe in eating?
That is a harder question ; but the
sufficient fact is that society doesn't
need to furnish reasons. In the realm
of etiqnetto, whatever is, is right As
a matter of fact, it is doubtless alarm
ing or unpleasant to many people to
see a knife put to the mouth ; it sug
gests a possible cut, and too nearly re
sembles shoveling in the food. A man
may know that he will not cut him
self, and declare that he lifts no more
food than his neighbor does on a fork,
bnt society says that it is ill bred, Ibid
until the custom changes, people had
best conform, unless it is a matter of
conscience with them. As Hamertou
says, in a parallel case, you may see no
reason why you cannot come to the
dinner-table with your shooting boots
and jacket on, and bring your dog with
yon, if yon are clean and your dog well
bred. "Very welL Society will not
argue the point, much less concede it.
It will simply drop or taboo yon. ii it
is essential that a mail shall eat with a
knife, or in his shooting jacket or that
he shall take np his plate in his hands,
or drink ont of the bottle, or discard
both knife and fork on the plea that
'fingers were made before forks, he
had better dine alone. That is the way
it seems to us. Conformity is the best
wisdom in minor unessential matters of
custom and fashion.
on the place in the form of chicory or , m Australia and exported in great qunn-
barley, hail leen badly burned in roast- uues-
ing,was sweetened with molasses or 77 ceas,VVhtt' V,.atU,le
; , . ... . cotton acreage of 1879-80 waa 14,VJ,-
not at all, and cream or milk was a lux-! Qyij
ury unknown. Shanghiu has a scheme for an Intel
I survived this fare three or four . national Exhibition in 1882 under cou
meals, piecing it out lietween times with sidenitiou.
canned meats and fruits which I bonght, Mr. James Russell Lowell is said to
and then I accepted an inviation from a I be co"lctiug materials for a memoir cf
gentleman of the town, who lived in a j Hau)i'orVt;. t, i . i t
. ... , , . . , One hundred and nineteen uieuiliers
civilized way, to stay a day or two with. of the House of Commons voted agt.inst
.My radical mends then announced that adjournment on the Derby Dav.
1 had been "captured by the Ku Klnx."
and lost all confidence in my reports.
I fared lietter in a little town iu east
ern North Carolina, which I once visited
on a similar mission to that which took
me to western Alabama. There waa no
hotel in the place, but a widow, whone
husband had kept a whisky saloon and
was killed in a fight, maintained a very
comfortable boarding-house where stran
gers were entertained. The first day at
dinner we had roasted chicken. At
snpper fried chicken was served, and at
breakfast fried chicken appeared again.
At dinner the second day the servant
brought on roasted chicken fricasee.
WTiile I was at the table at snpper the
second evening the landlady came in,
and, with some signs of confusion,
said:
iiT 1 . 1, , ,
-a nope you line cnicKen, sir. 1 see
you don't eat the bacon."
I said that I did like it, and that she
cooked it very nicely.
"Because," she added, "there is not a
pound of fresh meat in town, and I don't
know when there will be. I own two
steers that are old enough to kill, but
they are down in the Dismal somewhere
with.Colonel Jones' herd. I hadn't heard
from tliem in more than a year until
last summer, when they came out and
I tried to get some one to shoot one of
them for me, bnt didn't succeed. I
couldn't do it myself, yon know, and
now they have gone back, and the Lord
only knows when they'll come out again.
It is very hard for a lone widow to get
along. There s no butter in town either.
The steamer will lie np in a day or two,
and will probably bring some. I have
plenty of honey, if yon like that."
"Here'a Your Pan.
He told the Superintendent he wanted
a pass to Chicago.
"Ah, you're a worthy citizen who has
been roblied and who wants to get home,"
said the Superintendent "I see snch
every day."
"No sir, I'm not," said the petitioner.
"You're dying of a wound received in
the war, maylie, and want to see home
once more."
"Nary a wonnd, I played sick and
stayed in the hospital while in the
army.
"Did, eh ? W ell maylie yon've got a
child dying you want to see?"
"Not a bit of it"
"Now, well I reckon I can guess your
yarn pretty soon. Yon once saved a
train on this road from lieing wrecked."
"No, I didn't"
"Well, what in thunder is your excuse
for asking a pass ?"
"Jnst this. I'm a beat and a bum. I
want to get to Chicago and don't want
to hoof it I come to ask a pass on clear
cheek,"
"Well, bless your impudence, I like
it Here s your pass.
Wild Sheep of the Sier
In the months of May and June the
wild sheep of the Sierra bring forth their
lambs, in the most solitary and inaccess
ible crags, far above the nesting-rocks
of the eagle. I have frequently come
upon the beds of the ewes and lambs at
an elevation of from twelve to thirteen
thousand feet above sea level. These
beds are simply oval-shaped hodews,
pawed out among loose, disintegrating
rock-chips and sand, upon some sunny
spot commanding a good outlook, and
Mirtially sheltered from the winds that
sweep those lofty peaks almost without
intermission. Such is the cradle of the
little mountaineer, aloft in the very sky :
rocked in storms, curtained in clouds,
sleeping in thin, icy air ; but wrapped
in his hairy coat and nourished by a
strong, warm mother, defended, from
the talons of the eagle and teeth of the
sly coyote, the bonnie lamb grows apace.
He soon learns to nibble the tufted
rock-grasses and leaves of the white
spiraea ; his horns begin to shoot, and
before summer is done he is strong and
agile, and goes forth with the flock,
watched by the same divine love that
tends the more helpless human lamb in
its warm cradle by the fireside. "
To Keep Shaded Places Green
Especially in the front yards of dwell
ings, both in town and country, which
are much shaded, we often see the
ground completely bare, not a living
thing being perceptible. Sometimes
there are many nearly nude, straggling
limbs lying upon the ground or very
near it which are unsightly and every
way worthless, that ought to be cut
away. This would give room for the
growing there of seme plant or vine that
would be adapted to it, and which
would not only recover the naked spot
and make it a "living green," but would
be adding very much to the general ap
pearance of the premises. The best vine
for this purpose is undoubtedly the per
iwinkle. It will grow almost anywhere
in the shade if the proper attention is
given to it, but not otherwise. It is a
beautiful vine and will densely cover the
ground, producing nearly the whole
season a pretty bine flower. Weeds,
however, are its deadly enemies. It can
not fight them. Steadily they will en
croach until they drive away our favorite
and occupy the field of battle. A little
help now and then, however, will defeat
the common enemy and allow us to en
joy the cool-looking, popular evergreen
tut many years without renewal.
Employment is given by the rail
ways of Great Britain and Ireland to
aliout snO.'MtO personn.
Lord Beaconsfield'a late London
residence, with its furniturp, is adver
tised for sale by auction,
The Mexican government has de
posited in the city of Mexico $145,000
for American claims.
In the anthracite coal regions, since
the beg'.nriiug of J8U9, there have been
nearly lV0O deaths by accident
The Marquis of Lorne will, it is
stated, continue in office until the close
of his term in December, 1882.
Notwithstanding his blindness, the
British Postmaster-General is an expert
angler, -,nd lately had some good sport,
ductic- of wool in the United States for
the year 1880 was 2tJO,000,0)0 pounds,
au increae of 32,000,000 over the clip of
1878.
The New York Indicator figures
that the wheat crop of the Union will
fall short of the yield of 1880 as much as
125,000,000 busheLs.
The trustees of the Lemoyne fur
nace at Washington, Pa., have almost
made up their niinds to quit the crema
tion business.
Prince Bismarck is Knight Grand
Cross of sixty-four orders, more than
half of the existing number of snch dis
tinctions. The United States carried 8.250,000
tons of merchandise at sea in 1880. Swe
den and Norway 9,150,000 and Great
Britain 52,000,000 tons.
The Japanese Mikado is to have a
new palace at Yeddo, which is to be
built entirely of wood, and will cost
nearly 5,000,000.
Governor Colquitt of Georgia, is re
ported to have recently made $70,000
by the side of a coal mine in which he
and General Gordon were interested.
Senator Wade Hampton is collecting
full data aliont the burning of Columbia,
for the purpose of fixing the responsibil
ity for that act on Sherman.
Fifteen States produce now, as iu
1870, more than 99 ir cent, of the to
bacco of the United States, though it is
reported in twenty-two other States and
six Territories.
The census of Ireland shows a H)-
nlation of 5,159,849, lieing a decrease of
252,538 since 1871. The population is
composed of 2,522,804 males and 2,037,-
035 females.
Recent shipments of honey from
California to Great Britain have been
received with great favor. An English
order recently calls for 58,000 pound
cans.
The fisheries on the Pacific coast, a
recent census return shows, employ 16,-
40 persons and Itli boats valued at
$104,695. The total amonnt of capital
employed is $2,748,383.
The silver coinage bill became a law
three years ago last February, and un
der it over 80,000,000 silver dollars hava
been coined.
A farm in Mid Kent,Md.,wluch was
sold within the past twenty years for
$112,500 was put up the other day at a
reserve of $45,500, but there was not a
single bid.
Liast year Switzerland was visited
by 1,400,000 foreigners, among whom
were 28,000 Englishmen, 20,000 French
men, and no less than 900,000 Germans
and Austrians.
There were only twenty-three miles
of railway in operation in the United
States in 1830; in 1879 there were 86,
497. During the year ending with
March last 6,113 miles were constructed.
Prince Bismark has given, a reluct
ant assent to the marriage of his son
Herbert to the Princess Carolath. This
lady is d-scrilied as a very handsome.
and gifted with all the accomplishments
of her race, the Hartzfeldti.
It appears from some of the police
reports that in London alone there are '
no less t'tan 30,000 regular thieves, 150,
000 habitual gin drinkers, and 150,000
people living in systematic debauchery
and vice.
The total nnmlier of newspapers
now published in Greece is 129,55 of
which appear in Athens alone. Most of
them are of very little value, either from
a literair or political point of view.
The: will, as contained in eleven dif
ferent papers, of the late Pope Pins IX,
who died on Feb. 7th 1878, has recently
been proved in London, the personal es
tate in England being sworn under .
800.
The New York City Directory for
1881-82 is out, and contains 285,477
names, an increase over the previous
year of 11,761. The population of the
city is estimated at 1,257,544, or 60,964
more than, when the census was taken.
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