1) ; . to g?fS! WaP wly ID tee oovsnnrnoE tee unoi aid tee estoioemeit or the llts. Editor and Proprietor. vot- xxxv. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., TODNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1SS1. NO. 33. WHAT OF THAT? - Tired! WetL what of thai? lHilst fancy life wu pent on bait of ease. nattering tbe root love, acattete J by the urease? Come, rouae thee I work wnlle It la called H-dajr 1 Coward, ariae ! go forth upon thy way I Lonely 1 And what of thatt Some niiut be lonely ! tia not given to all To feel a heart responsive riae and fall. To blend another life into It, own. Work may be done in loneuneaa. Work on. Darkl Well, what of that Pidrt fondly dream the ran would never aetT Doat fear to lose toe way? Take courage yet ! Learn thon to walk by faith, and not by aight ; Thy steps will guided be, and guided right. Hard 1 Well, what of that 7 lHdst fancy life one anmmer holiday. With teaaona none to learn, and naught but play T Go, get thee to thy task ! Conquer or die t It most be learned 1 Learn It, then, patiently. No help 1 Nay, tia not ao 1 Though human help be far, thy God la nigh. Who feed, the ravena, near, hia children cry, Bel near thee, wheresoe'er thy f ootatepa roam ; And He will guide thee, light thee, help thee home. THE V1XLACK OAK. Dunn't nobody tell me ! When the Trevors oomed to these pearta, sentries ago, the Squoire if they called them squoires in them times brought with him a fair young bride. So, when theer son an' heir was born, theer was foin Join's, and the mother, in "memoration, planted the aoorn from which has corned ' that oak. The rooks that cawed in the elms then have died the elms theer selves has died but theers the oak, hale and hearty. The lightnin' struck it, the wind blowed it ; yet theer it stands firm as ever, and while it do, the Trevors will be sqnoires at the Hall !" The speaker was the old sexton. He had just closed the vault of the Trevors, and, with spade and mattock on shoul der, stood among the graves in the shadows of the ancient, square-turreted church in which Squire Trevor had that dav been laid to rest. "That, my frieni is, T suppose, the superstition ? smiled the new near. scanning the old church with the look of an antiquary. "Superstition ! 'Well, if the truth be superstition, perhaps it is, sir." "At any rate, the present Squire, they say, is different enough from his uncle a spendthrift, or worse. "Mabbe. The Trevors have all been 'a bit wild at first ; but they settle down, you see, sir they settle down when thev marry. Squire Mann' duke will marry and settle down, like the rest." "It is to be hoped so," said the vicar, Juudlv. "At any rate, he'll marry ; that you may be Bure, for he's the last Trevor, he is, and the family's bound to live as long as the village oak. Now. sir, I've locked all np. p'r'aps I may go?" "Certainly, my friend. Good even ing r The sexton, his opinion of the new vicar by no means raised by this con versation, plodded his way to the ale house. The vicar, his head bowed, his hands liehind his back, went slowly through the peaceful churchyard, crossed the road, and entered the icarage garden. The blinds that had been lowered out of respect to the defunct Squire were still down ; but approaching the long window, which was open, the vicar put back the blinds, and stepped into charmingly cool room pleasant with the odor of fresh rose leaves. -i The oecnpants of the apartment were a prettv girl, with brown, soft eyes, small, delicate features, and chestnut hair, and a young man, owning a pleas ant, manly, countenance, and a well shaped, easy figure. As the vicar s shadow had fallen on the blind, the young man had moved so far away from his fair companion s work table that, aided by the heightened color of the lady's cheek, that action was more suspicious than his close proximity to the piece of furniture. . "Hullo. Ned ! found us out already ?' aid the vicar, with a smile. The fact is, sir," replied the young man. returning the warm hand-pressure, "your description of the old church, the place and especially that village oak, was too tempting for me to resist. I made leisure, packed up my knapsack, and came down." "Ah! I understand," remarked the vicar, drily, and he did understand very well. "The attraction, no doubt, is great to an artist;" "and his glance wandered tobia pretty daughter." "By the way, Jennie," he proceeded, "I have a contribution to your album of Family Superstitions.' That village oak has one twined about its ancient branchoa." "Has it really, papa?" she smiled, leaning upon his shoulder. "What is it?" Ned Graham also showed much inter est, and the vicar told what the old sex ton had said. "Why," laughed the artist, "there is a capital subject for either a picture or a poem." "Then, I suppose, papa," said Jennie, "if one night the old oak on the green were to blown down, there would be an end of " "Mr. Trevor, sir H said the servant, opening the door. A merry glance passed between the young people. . "Exactly!" smiled the vicar, as he rose and went into the library, where the new Squire awaiivd him. The Squire was a handsome man of about thirty, but with the expression of one whose time had never been well employed. The eyes were bold and dark, the mouth dogged more than determined. 'As the only heir to the late Squire, who had died a childless widower, Marmaduke Trevor had led a wild, reck less London life, aware that his future was assured. The death of his uncle had suddenly aroused him from an existence aa idle as dissipated, and he had hastened- down to the HalL He was by no means loth to take possession, and had already formed plans for a merry future ; but the drear solitude of the place at present was un bearable to one accustomed to a succes sion of amusements. So, using his own words to Mr. Cath cart, "He had taken the liberty of throwing himself upon the vicar's hospitality," "Indeed you are welcome, Squire !" the clergyman rejoined. "No doubt you do find it dull, especially to-day. I his quiet slumbrous village is a strik mg contract for one used to the Great City. We will go into the drawing room. There are younger people there, who will make it, no doubt more cheer ful for you." The Squire readily assented, and for the first tune, beheld Jennie Cathcart in whose society he had not been long before he felt toward her as he had never before felt to any woman. Seated talking with the vicar, his looks followed her everywhere, but lowered darkly a he detected the evi dently high place that Ned Graham held in her regard. "That fellow will be an obstacle to my success with Miss Cathcart," re flected the Squire. "Yet perhaps not Women are ambitious, and, to become mistress of Trevor Hall, would be great temptation. Yet, supposing some engagement exists between these two, and the girl holds to it ? Then I should admire her the more, and be the more determined to make her my wife ! The days passed on, and the Squire's vishto to the Vicarage were frequent. Ned Graham, the artist, did not like it, and so told Jennie. She, however, laughed at him. However, it was not long before the artist's words were verified. One morn ing, Marmaduke Trevor, appearing early at the Vicarage, requested to be allowed a few words in private with the vicar. When closeted together in the study, he confessed the passion with which Jennie had inspired him, and proposed for her hand. Mr. Cathcart sat a while silent. He had listened in surprise with regret. His silence, the perplexity marked on his visage inspired the Squire with con fidence. Evidently the poor parson was overwhelmed by an offer so unlocked for. "Surely, Mr. Cathcart," he remarked, "you must from the first have seen the impression your pretty daughter made upon me ? "Had I, Squire," broke in the vicar, quietly and rousing himself, "I should have felt a guilty man in your presence at this moment I declare to yon I had not the least idea. It never crossed my mind that you ever would have desired so to honor my family. Had it, believe me, I would at once have informed you of that which, with much pain, I must now tell you." A dark shadow fell on the Squire s face. "And that ?" he asked. "My daughter is engaged already; has been so for six months, to " "Spare me his name!" interrupted the Squire, raising his hand. "Yon mean the artist 1 have met here. 1 knew from the first he was my rival. But it is woman's privilege to change, Mr. Cathcart as they should be, women at times are ambitions." "That is true, unfortunately ; but I trust not Jennie. Yet, in justice to her; let it be she who decides. She is in the morning-room, Squire. H she consents, I can answer for Mr. Graham relinquish ing his claim, and for my accepting you as a son-in-law." "I thank you. I will, at least try." The vicar watched him from the room ; then, with some anxiety, waited his re turn. Could Jennie would she be dazzled bv his offer? J ' Not a quarter of an hour had passed when a quick step on the gravel path caused the vicar to look through the window towards it It was the Squire leaving the Vicarage. I knew it !" ejaculated the clergy man, with almost a cry of joy.' "I knew I was not wrong about Jennie. Come in," for there was a tap at the door, and hia daughter entered. Oh, papa !" she ejaculated, in sad reproof, "why did you send the Squire tome?" "For your sake and his, my darling," answered the vicar, taking her in his arms. "And your reply, Jennie ?" "What could it be, papa ? How could I be untrue to Ned ? What wealth and position could compensate me for his love?" Neither Jennie nor the vicar would have commiserated the Squire as they did, had they seen his dark, lowering looks, and if they could have read his thoughts, as he proceeded through the Trevor woods.to the HalL Thus stood matters when October ar rived. The evening of the ninth was dark, heavy, oppressive ; and the Squire wiped the perspiration from his brow, as he stood among the slumbrous woods,- waiting for whom? Evidently this poaching, hang-dog looking follow that came slouching toward him for on his appearance he made a step or two for ward. "I am here, Squire," he said doggedly touching his hat, but keeping a few feet distant "I trusted yer. Still," with a swift glance among the trees, "ef yer've got any of yer darned keepers in hidin', let 'em look out, an' yer, too, Squire ; rfl die game!" "Have no fear, said the otner, Come nearer SUcpool I am alone." After a moment's hesitation, the man complied. "Listen tome, proceed we nquire, in low but firm accents! "Do you know the artist, Edward Graham ?" "Him as is going to marry the vicar's daughter?" m "Yes," with a fierce spasm of the fea tures. ' "He returns here to-morrow night The roads are lonely. ' I hate him ! If he never reaches the Vicarage alive, your passage to Australia is assured, and plenty of gold besides. Do you understand?" "Who wouldn't?" retorted the poacher. Wild and black was the evening of the next day. A gale of wind such as never had been experienced for years swept across the land. No rain fell, but vivid was the lightning that shot down now and again from the clouds. For reasons of his own, indeed, that no suspicion might rest on him, the Squire had passed the day at a town in a contrary direction to Saroombe, but, tortured by anxiety, and eager to learn Stacpool's success, 'having an appoint ment with him at ten, despite the weather, ho had mounted his horse, di recting its head towards the HalL Soon he was far from the town, in the darkness of the land, the fierce wind tearing around him, making his horse stagger, and his own seat unsteady. More than once the animal had reared at the lightning. All who know any thing of horses are aware of the brief space there is between fear and panic. Just where the road was densest and wildest a vivid flash rent the clouds setting, as it seemed the whole earth on fire, followed by a fearful crash of thunder, so unparalleled that it made the strongest hearts tremble. The Squire's horse reared, uttering a scream, then, with dilated eyeballs, dashed on, the bit betwixt its teeth. That fearful crash aroused the whole village. Jennie Cathcart, alarmed and scared, reflected how pleased she was that Ned had sent a message deferring his return until the morning. . The old sexton had sprung fairly from his bed. ' " Bless us, missis !" he ejaculated ; "sure the world s corned to an end ! Save us, what a gust of wind !" "It surely is !"" said the sexton, grop ing his way to the casement Then he gave a loud cry, for before him, clear to the other side of the green, was space. "Alack, man ! what is it ?" cried his wife. "The village oak is down ! It's down ! Woe, woe, then, to the Trevors !" he an swered. Woe, indeed ! - The next morning broke calm and glorious. The wind sobbed gently, as if repentant for the havoc it had done ; but gloom rested over - the village, as the people grouped about the fallen monarch. "WhoU tell the Squire?" whispered the sexton. :J Who? Stay ! Who were these people coming yonder? Servants in the Trevor livery, hastily put on, and bearing somethiug between them ! . ' As they drew near the oak, the vil lagers gathered round ; the sexton, as usual, first ' It was a man, pale and still, they car ried. "The Squire!" cried the sexton, throwing up his arms. It was so. His horse, shivering and foam flecked, had been found outside the stable door that morning riderless. The servants, alarmed, had started in search, and found Marmaduke Trevor dead on the road. Which fell first, none knew ; but the sexton always affirmed that it was the village oak. A Mytewj of th Mountain. The San Jacinto mountains are located in the northeastern portion of San Diego county, and form the southern boundary of the San Gorgonio pass. The region is a very wild and rough one, and ex tremely difficult to explore. There ex ists in one portion of these mountains a natural or supernatural curiosity, the source of which has never yet been ex plained, although many attempts have been made to solve the mystery. At irregular intervals a heavy report re sounds through the region, which can be likened only to that of the largest cannon itensified tenfold. The concus sion produced is such as to wake a per son from the soundest sleep, shaking and rattling everything in the house more than is done by any ordinary earth quake. Sometimes days elapse between these reports, and on other occasions as many as three or four are heard in one aight that being the favorite time for their occurrence. This irregularity has operated to defeat all efforts made to dis cover the exact locality of the phenom enon. By the Indians of the region this if called "Tah-quish,"or the devil. They have many traditions concerning it; and manifest the utmost reluctance to make any search for the exact spot One old Tidum, supposed to be upward of a century in age, claims to have acci dentally discovered the spot one day while hunting in his younger days. He described it as simply a dark tunnel run ning into the aide of the mountain, and having the appearance at the entrance of having been exposed to much heat Many offers have been made and large rewards offered to this Indian to per suade him to conduct some white man to the place, but without success. The most common tradition with the aborig ines is that old "Tah-quish" comes out of his evidently uncomfortable residence below for the purpose of obtaining a breath of fresh air, and that becoming alarmed at something he retires in haste, slamming the door after him, whkh pro duces the report referred to. Daniel Tfebsteia First Flea. Ebcnezer Webster, father of Daniel, waa a farmer. The vegetables in h i garden buffered considerably from the depredation. or a woodchsck whose hole and habitation was near the premipas. Daniel, some tea years old, and his brother had set a trap. and at last succeeded in catching the tres passer. Ezeaiel proposed to kill tbe animal and end at once all further trouble with him ; but Daniel looked with compassion upon his meek, dumb captive, and offered to let bun go. The bovs could not agree. and each appealed to their father to decide tie case. ' - " Well, my boys." said the old gentleman. " I will be tbo judge aad you shall be the counsel to plead the case for and against his lire and liberty." Ezekiel opened the case with a strong argument, urging the mischievous nature of the animal, the great harm he bad already done, said that much time and labor had been spent in his capture, aid"now if suf fered to go at large, he would renew his depredations, and be cunning enough not to be caught again, and that he ought now to be put to death ; that his skin was of some value, and that, make the most of bm they could, it would not repay half the damage be had already done. His ar gument was ready, practical and to the point, end of much greater length than our limit will allow us to occupy in relating the story. 1 he father looked with pride upon hi eon, who became a distinguished jurist in lus manhood. "How, Daniel, it's your turn ; I'll hear what you've got to say." It was his first case. Daniel saw that the plea of his brother had sensibly affected bis lather, tbe judge ; and his large, bril liant black eyes rested upon the soft, timid expression of the animal, and he saw it trembled with fear in its narrow prison bouse. His heart swelled with pity, and be appealed with eloquent words that the captive might go free. God, he said, had made the woodchuck. lie made him to live, to enjoy the bright sunshine, the pure air, the fields and woods God had not made him or anything in vaiD. The woodchuck had as much right to live as any other living thing ; he was not a de structive animal, like the wolf ; he simply ate a few eouiinon vegetables, of which they had plenty, and could well spate a part; he destroyed nothing except the little food be ate to sustain bis humble life; and that little food was as sweet to him and as necessary to his existence as was to them the food on their mother's table, God fur nished their own food. He gave them all they possessed, and would they not spare a Utile for a dumb creature who really had as much right to his small share of God's bounty as they themselves were to their portioa? Yea. more, the animal had never violated the laws of his nature, or the laws of God, as man often did, but strictly followed the si.-nple in-ttincts be had received from the Creator of all things. Created by God's hands, he had a right to deprive him cf either, lie alluded to the mute but earnest pleadings of the animal for that life as dear to him as were their own, and the just judgment they might expect if, in selii-h cruelty and cold heart cdnesa, they took the life they could not restore again. During the appeal the tears had started in the old man's eyes, aud were fast run ning down his sunburnt cheeks. Every feeling of a father's heart was stirred within him, aud he felt that God had blessed him beyond tbe lot of common men. II is pity was awakened by the elo quent words of compassion aad the strong appeal for mercy; and, forgetting the judge in the man and the father, he sprang from his chair (while Daniel was in the midst of his argument, without thinking be bad already won his case), and turning to hi eldest son, dashing the tears from his eyes, he exclaimed : "Zke, Zeke, you let that woodchuck go!" : About Some Fnh. On board a United States vessel, in 1873, while sailing south, a dolphin was caught which was of unusual size, some four feet six inches long. It is exceed ingly interesting to examine the stomach of all fish. In this dolphin, however, nothing very curious turned up, though the voracity of the fish was quite evident when the contents of the stomach were exposed. A lot of coal cinders was found, and at least a half pound of three-inch wrought iron noils. An explanation of how the fish had f wallowed such strange and indigestible hardware was readily found. The ship's cook was in the habit of cleaning out his stove every morning at half-past four o'clock, and hod lieen burning a quantity of passen gers' old berth boards, which hod been held togehtor by wrought fronnoils.mix ed up with the cinders, which the dol phin hod swallowed. An instance of voracity of a similar character may be told of a shark. In the spring of 18C1, while at anchor off the coast of Georgia, a ship's crew amused themselves by fishing, Their luck was poor, For some days all the lines were severed, and there waa no sport A pilot told us that a tiger shark was under our bottom, and that it had taken all our bait We sot to work to catch it A shark hook was baited with a piece of pork, and this soon brought it to grief. We rigged a running bow line a kind of nautical lasso slipped it over its head, and soon had it hauled on board, stern foremost. After severing its vertebral column, we disemboweled the monster. The contents of the shark's stomach were exposed to view. Among many minor items were several large lumps of clay.fnUy a peck of beef bones, many fish hoots, with pieces of the lines belonging to us, two horse-shoe crabs seven inches wide, pieces .f stones, prob ably ballast, and a half-worn boot The inquisitiveness of the writer led him to examine the boot most carefully, to find out what had been the effect of the gas tric juices on the leather and the noils. On the "uper" some few spots of green were visible. This was determined to be green paint The evidences were that somebody hod been engaged in painting a short time before. But had the painter dropped overboard from some vessel? hod he been swallowed by the shark ? and was this boot all that remained of the man? , The intelligence of fish remains as yet an unwritten chapter, which requires fu ture study. What instincts we may al low birds in their migrations are followed out even more miraculously by fish. If birds can see land-marks, it is not . im probable that the water fish can be guided by their eyes. Think of the shad in Chinese waters whieh mount np from the sea to the head of river two thou sand miles distant from the ocean! There must be exceeding intelligence in tbe black bass, which protects her young as valiantly as does a hen her chicks. Think, too, of that fish which secures his food by a co-ordination which is really not equaled by any other creature! Tko fish sees an insect on a leaf or spear of grass overhanging the water. It rises to the surface, sights the Insect aa a rifleman woula his weapon of . precision. and unerringly fires a tlrop of water, which never misses the tiny mark the insect, which knocked off its perch by the globule of water, falls into the stream, and is swallowed. The assumption that fish possess- great amount of natural intelligence need not be doubted! A certain sagacity is absolutely necessary in order to enable fish to overcome the difficulties they must encounter in obtaining food. An instance of this character may be cited. Near the Marquesas Islands the peace ful waters abound in fish and birds. There are constant schools of flying fish and bonitos. The latter exist almost en tirely on the former. The flying fish, by clever flying, are always endeavoring to escape the jaws of the bonitos; while the devourers are up to all kinds of stra tagems to circumvent their agile prey, The bonitos seem to study the curve the flying fish will take in the air, and the deflection caused by the wind, and, shooting across in a straight line, will catch the flying-fish as he touches th water at the end of his night On one occasion, when the sea was smooth and the wind light, opportunity was taken to throw out a surface dredge, in order to secure specimens. This dredge was made of gauze. For several evenings in suc cession it was observed that shortly after sundown there were to be seen on the surface of the water numbers of flying fish. Many of them were caught in the dredge, and when taken out were found to be disabled or dead. This occurrence was so remarkable that the writer was led to ask the reason why, and at once set about finding the cause. Watching the sea from a position taken on the bow of the ship as she was slowly surging through the water, he observed a large school of bonitos, which separated into three divisions. One took position di rectly ahea l of the ship, the other at some distance on either bow. Presently tbe portion of the school on starboard attracted attention by a disturbance on the surface. They were seen driving a school of flying-fish, who, to avoid the bonitos, tried to pass ahead of the ship, bnt they were prevented from doing so by the school of fish on the larboard side. Frightened, then by the bonitos advancing toward them and flanking them on both sides, they took wing, and, after a few moments of hesitation, flew directly toward the ship's bow, always pursued by their enemies. They were corraled to their fate. Hundreds were dashed against the ship's prow, and fell into the water, maimed or killed, to be immediately gobbled by the bonitos, who waited the ship's coming, passing astern to gorge themselves on their victims. This act was plainly observable from the stern of the ship, where the movements of the bonitos could be studied. Gently Hlntod. He was lately married, and had no more idea of what an article of a wom an's dress costs than aa elephant has of a humming bird ; so when his young wife gently hinted one morning that she must have a new spring bonnet he looked pleased, and blandly told her to get something nice and have the bill sent a round to the store, and he gave her a good-bye kiss and said he wanted his little wife to look as well as the rest and went off humming a Sunday-school air. He had been to missionary meet ing the night before, and, pleased with the sermon, had promised a liberal do nation to the collecting agent when he called, as he had announced he would on that day ; so he took twenty five dollars and inclosed it in an envelope, with "From a friend" on the outside, and then tucked five dollars into his vest pocket to pay for his wife's bonnet "I don't suppose it will cost more than half of that My hats never do, and they last a whole year, but perhaps the gew gaws may come to that," he soliloquized. About five o'clock p. M. a small boy ap peared carrying a box, and the lately married man took the five dollars out of his pocket and asked for the bill. "It's inside with the bundle," he said. The master of ceremonies opened the box and looked vaguely in. "I don't see any bonnet," he said. The boy looked on and grinned. "It's there," he said, "in the corner ; it's a little un." The hus band took it out tenderly with his thumb and forefinger. It looked like a gold horseshoe a hand's breadth of tinsel with a tri-colored feather. He picked up the bill ; twenty-five dollars ! Phew 1 The senior partner of the firm was mak ing np the- day's account when a frantic individual rushed into his private office and exclaimed: "Look here, Smith, look at this!" "I see," said Smith, calmly, It's a new bonnet" "Heaven! do they cost like that? Why why didn't you tell me so before before it was too late?" "It would have made no difference; that is one of Mme. La Mode's imported bonnets, you see. I know ; it's an old story to me, and if you don't let her have it, now that she has picked it out; shell be wretched and so will you; it is really cheap at that price see?" He thought he did; he groaned and walked out Then he took the twenty-five dollars out of the envelope and paid the boy and put the five dollars in hia vest pocket with the envelope and laid it away. When the agent called for help for the missions the young man thrust the in closure into his hand muttering some thing like "Charity begins at home" as he )vd found by experience. A EgypMaja Lady and Geatlewuui. Egyptian men of all ranks shaved their needs and their entire faces, except some times a portion of their chin, from which snort square board was allowed to de pend. The barter was in attendance on the great lord every morning, to remove any hair that bad grown, and trim his beard, if he wore one. The lord's wig was auo under hi superintendence. This consisted of numerous smail curls, fastened carefully to a reticulated groundwork. jrhich allowed the heat of the head free escape. The dress, even of the highest class, was simple. It consisted, primarily, of the shenti. or kilt, a short garment, folded or fluted, which was worn around the loins, and fastened in front with a gir dle. The material might be linen or wool len, according to the state of the weather or the wearer's inclination. Over this the great lord invariably wore an ample robe ot fine linen, reaching from the shoulders to the ankles, and provided with full sleeves, which descended nearly, if Dot quite, to the elbows. A second grdle, which may have been of leather, confined the outer drees about the waist The arms and lower parts of the legs were left bare : and in the earliest times the feet were also bare, sandals being unknown: but they came into fashion at the beginning of the flrth dynasty, and thenceforward were or dinarily worn by tbe rich, whether men or women. They were either of leather lined with cloth, or of a sort of basket work composed of palm leaves or the stalks of the papyrus. The shape varied at differ ent periods. Having dressed himself, with the assistance r.f his valet the Egyptian lord put on his ornaments, which consisted commonly of a collar of beads or a chain of gold round the neck, armlets and bracelets of gold, inlaid with lapis lazuli and tur quoise, round the arms, anklets of the same character round the ankles, and rings upon the fingers of both bands. Thus attired. the lord took his baton or stick, and, quit ting his dressing room made his appearance in the salon or eating apartment. Meanwhile bis spouse had performed her own toilet, which was naturally somewhat more elaborate than her husband s. Egyp- n ladies wore their own hair, which grew in great abundance, and must have occupied the tire-woman for a considerable period. A double-toothed comb was used for combing it and it may also have been brushed, though hair brushes have not been discovered. Ultimately, it was separated into numerous distinct tresses, and plaited by threes into thirty or forty fine plaits, which were then gathered into three mis ses, one behind tbe head, and the others at either side of tbe face, cr else were allowed to fall In a single continuous ring round the head and shoulders. After it had been thus arranged, the hair was conSaed by a fillet er by a head dress made to imitate tbe wings, back and (ail. and even some times the head, of a vulture. On their bodies, some females wore only a single garment, which was a petticoat either tied at the neck or supported by straps over the skjuldera, and reaching f om the neck or breast to the ankles; but those of the up per class had first over this, a colored sash passed twice round the waist and tied in front and secondly, a large, loose robe, made of the finest linen, with full, open sleeves reaching to the elbow. They wore sandals from the rame date as men, and had similar ornaments, with the addition cf ear rings. These often manifested an elegant taste, being in the form of serpents or terminating in the heads of animals or of goddesses. The application of cohl or stibium to the eyes aeems to have formed an ordinary part ot the toilet Tobaeoa Pipe. A collection oi tobacco pipes, now on view in London, is one of tbe most inter esting of minor art exhibitions. The col lection includes specimens of all countries, and belonging to many periods, of the graven images and idols of clay which Iiave been dedicated to the worship of tobacco. From France come pipes of Sevres made in the national porcelain factory; from Germany old Dresden Pipes and the pipe formerly smoked by the giant In the pro cession of tbe guilds at Cologne; from Holland several hundreds of the aesthetic clay called " Early Dutch," collected by II err Van der Want, Master of the Pipe makers' Guild at Gouda. The Dutch con tribution includes also specimens of the bridegrooms' pipes, clay ornamented with ribbons, which the farmer of the polder smokes on the day of his wedding and then lays by on the shelf, to be taken down once a year when the aniversary comes round of the momentous occasion. Tbe pipe is re garded with great interest by smokers as an example of tbe various uses which to bacco serves in calming feelings of ecstatic joy and mitigating the pangs of regret There are 700 early English pipes; Scandi navian pipes, with modern runes inscribed upon them ; Siberian bowl?, the consola tion of the exile, mtde of bard wood and mammoth ivory; Basque pipes, and tbe costly meerschaum and amber toys smoked by pachas in then seraglios. Ninety-six ef the Japanese pipes arc in Ivory, twenty- four in wood, horn, rock crystal, agate. etc. The carvings illustrate the social iifc of Japan in Its most amusing relations. One pipe, which formerly belonged to Enomoto, forter brother of the Emperor, bean the imperial symbols, and the central portion it entirely inlaid with gold. The bowli are extremely smalL A pipe con tains merely whiff. A piece of tobacco is rolled up to the size of a pea, and one long, soothing exhalation exhausts it. The smoke is retained for some time in the lungs, as usual, in the East, it is no mat ter of surprise that, according to the narra tive of the Earl of Elgin's mission, a Ja panese will smoke fifty such pipes in a morning. From China come the opium pipes, which balance the finances of Iadia tubes of jade or tortoise shell, bowls of silver and enamcL Hookahs from India, the calumets of peace and war from North America, tbe pipes of the Aztecs and the Carlos, the latter called " tobacco," whence the European name of the weed originally consumed in them is said to be derived ; pipes smoked at the great "customs" in Central Africa, the sperm whale's teeth carved into bowls, pipes from Caledonia and New Guinea, are also to be seen. WTondera of Broom Cora. Broom corn is likely at no distant day to revolutionize the breadstuff supply of the world. A process has been discov ered by which the finest and most deli cious flour can be made from the seed to the extent of one-half its weight and leave the other half a valuable food for making beef and milk. The average yield per acre is three hundred bushels, and in many instances five hundred bushels, or thirty thousand pounds,have been secured. Nor does it exhaust the soil as Indian corn, from the fact that it feeds from the deeper soil, and assimi lates ita food from a cruder state. It belongs to the same genus aa the sweet cane, commonly known as sorghum. wnicn aa an article oi food is crowing rapidly in public esteem, and from the seed of which a most nutritious flour can m obtained. The Great Mono Fare. Six miles of continual ascent have brovght us to profile lake, writes Somuei Adams Drake. Although a pretty enough piece of water, it is not for itself this lake is resorted to by the thousands. or for the trout which you take from the reflection of tmls on its burnished sur face, but for the mountain rising high above it, whose wooded slopes it so faith fully mirrors. Xow lift the eyes to the bare summit It is difficult to talieve the evidence of the senses. Upon the high elms of this mountain is the remark able and celebrated natural rock-sculp ture of a human head, which, from a height of 1,200 feet alxive the lake, has for uncounted agea looked with the same stare down the pass upon the windinirs of the river through its incompstrable valley, lhe profile itself measures about forty feet from the tip of the chin to the flatted crown, which imparts to it such a peculiory antiqne appearance. - It is perfect except that the forehead is con cealed by something like the visor of ueimet. And all this illusion is pro duced by several projecting crags. It might be said to have been begotten by a tnunder bolt. Taking a seat with a rustic arltor on the high shore of the lake, one is at lib erty to pursue at leisure what, I dare say, is the most extraordinary sight of a life-time. A slight change of position varies more or less the character of the expression, which is, after all, the mark ed peculiarity ot this monstrous altore- lievo; for, let the spectator turn his gaze vacantly upon the more familiar objects at hand, as he inevitably will, to assure himself, that he is not the victim of some strange hallucination, fascination born neither of admiration nor a horror, but strongly partaking of both emotions, draws him irresistibly back to the Dan tesque head struck like a felon's on the highest battlements of the pass. The more you may have seen, the more your feelings are disciplined, the greater the confusion of ideas. The moment is come to acknowledge yourself vanquished. This is not merely a face, it is a portrait That is not the work of some chisel, but a cast from a living head. You feel and will always maintain that those features have had a living and breathing coun terpart Nothing more, nothing less. But where and what was the original prototype? Not man; since ages before he was created the chisel of the Almighty wrought this sculpture upon the rock aliove us. No, not man; the face is too majestic, too nobly grand, for anything of mortal mold. One of the antique gods may, perhaps, have set for this arche type of the coming man. And yet not man, we think, for the head will surely hold the same strange converse with fu turity when man shall have vanished from the face of the earth. Hod Bvron visited this place of awe and mystery, his "Manfred," the scene of which is laid among the mountains of the Bernese Alps, woidd doubtless have had a deeper perhaps a more sinister, impulse, but even among those eternal realms of ice the poet never lcheld an object that could so arouse the gloomy exaltation he has breathed in that tragedy. This gigantic silhouette, which has been christened The Old Man of the Mountain, is unquestionably the great est curiosity ot this or any other moun tain region. But it is not merely curi ous; nor is it more marvelous for the wonderful accuracy of onthne than for the almost superhuman expression of frozen terror it eternally fixes on the vague and shadowy distance a far-away look, an intense and speechless amaze ment, such as sometimes settles upon the face of the dying, untranslatable into words, but seeming to declare the presence of some unutterable vision too bright and dazzling for mortal eyes to behold. The face puts the whole world behind it . - Bells in Barman.. The love of bells in Bnrmoh is some what remarkable. Every large pagoda has some dozen of them, of all sizes, hanging round tho skirts of the Zaydee, image houses, and Zayata. One or two were put up with the building itself; others have been added in various times by the religious. Most of them "have long Pali inscriptions on them recording the praises of the Lord and the aspira tions of the giver. Here and there ore few with Burmese dedications, pre sented by the poor, simple jungle peo ple, the monks in whose district did not know Pali, or had the grace to say they were not learned enough to write an original composition in that language. Every Bnrnian has learned a certain number of Pali formuhe, to enable him to worship at the pagoda; but few even of the most renowned Tsadaus have any thing like a thorough knowledge of the sacred language. Hence, when there is a modest monk in the Kyonng, the sim ple cultivators have to fall bock on their own vernacular, and produce plaintive appeals like the following; "This bell was made with great care and much ex pense, and is presented by Monng Tsang Yah, of the hamlet of Nga Pay Oh, in the township of Maoobin, and Mahmah Gyee his wife, who seek refuge in the boundless morcy of the pitiful Buddha, in the majesty of the eternal law. and in the venerable assembly, the three gems. They visit the precious things faithfully on the appointed days. Applaud, ye pious. They humbly strive to gain for themselves merit May the good Nats whojguord the forest and the field look smilingly on them, and guard the poor man's crops. May the Nats who dwell in the air and the earth defend from evil things the two fat bullocks which plough the fields. May the guardian Nats of the house and the city keep from harm the Chit Oo, their son, and little Mah Mee, their darling daughter. And may the merit of this offering be halved with their children. May the excellent Lord pity them; the holy Assembly receive them. So shall Mount Tson Yah and Mah Mah Gyee gain much merit and rejoice in presenting this belL Weight seventy-five -Since January, Chicago Las hmlif 619 cases of small pox. The Emperor William of Germany j ha. gone to Wiesbaden. Australia is gazing at a comet sup-' posed to be that of 1861. ' I General Moltke sleeps only three i assessed at $36,500,000 for himself, hours out of the twenty-four. I $20,500,000 as trustee for J. W. The Duchess of Edinborg has re-jMackey. Mr. Charles Crocker is as turned to England from Russia. 1 aessed at $20,000,000. NEWS IN BRIEF. - T. IL Tibbies, the advocate or fus Poncas, has married "Bright Eyes."' J" Affr-r- paying his debt' Lord Bi a consfivlu's estate foots np 300,000. - Pritcewi Louise la expected to r tirrn to'Canada the first week in September. Extra writing i now the only pun ishment inflicted on scholars in French school-i. . Thirty yeus ago it cost Massachu setts Sl-1 to educate each child; now it costs $1.3. 53. Th-. British Consul at Bagdad announce- lhe extinction of the plague in that pai I of Asia. In Cleveland. Ohio, it is estimated that 5000 irrepressible boys and young men carry firearms. The failures of the first six months of 1681, are slightly in excess of the nrst hall of last year. Oarabaldi has accepted a yearly pension of $6,000 offered him by King Humbe t from his civil list The Baroness Burdett-Coutts gave a garden patry at Holly Lodge, Highgate. on the aiternoon of July 15. The blindness of the little Earl of Arundel and Surrey, heir of the dukedon of Norfol k, is now beyond a doubt. Jefferson Davis says in a recent in- tarview that Albert Sidney Johnson was the mast perfect man he ever knew. Hit American Bible Society, since its fon ition, sixty-one years ago, has issued M,882,811 copies of the Bible. i the 1.000,000,000 acree of culti vated l.ind in the United States, only eievi i nd a half per centum are used. Trader the ruins of the Imperial pala. 0 .it St Cloud was found a bag con taining thousand francs in Napo leons. Th. late Dr. Alexander H. Vinton beqnea' hed $5000 to the Protestant Epis copal I omestic and Foreign Missionary Society. A Jf:iryhmd farmer claims to have picked J07 bushels of peas from three and a hnlf acres of land during the past season. Tlw official count of the cotton crop of Geor(i in 1879-80 shows an aggre gate of 813,965 baled, the acreage being 2,615,568. Fifty millions of people in the United States furnish the paper niann- faotnroii with 250,000,000 pounds of rags per annum. The New Testament is being sold in England for a penny, and has lieen purchased at that price by a quarter of a million persons. The King of the Belgians has offered a prize of $5000 for the best essay on the subject of the improvement of ports situateu on sandy shores. It is proposed in New Hamiwhire to celebrate the one-hundredth annivarsary of Daniel Welter's birth, which falls on the 18th of January next The remains of Daniel Boone and his wife were exhumed in 1845, and de posited with appropriate ceremonies in the cemetery of Frankford. Ky. A Jersey cow, owned at Staatsburg. New York, was milked 310 days last year. giving 6187 pounds of milk, from which 412 pounds of butter were made. The brass cannon that was captured at Yorktown by Lafayette, and which nearly ctt the gallaut Marquis his life, is presorved at the Watervliet Arsenal. Charles H. Dennie. the retiring City Treasurer of Boston, entered the Treasury Department in October, 1852, . and has lieen City Treasurer since 1875. -Miss Ida Iveson, of I'hillicothe, ' Minn., a public school teacher, has fallen heir to $2,500,000 in Scotland.ond has left to take possession of her proper- Mr. Theodore K. Davis, who de signed the famous White House dinner service, is engaged on a design for vase which is to be called "America in 1881." In r, collection of books recently sold in I mdon was a prayer book trans lated into the Mohawk language for the Indians and published in New York in 1715. Sir Bartle Frere lately stated that in a single year more than 3,500,000 ($17,500,000) worth of diamonds have passed through the Cape Town Post office. The bomb that killed the Czar pos sessed 120 times the explosive force of gunpowder, a fact ascertained from Kibahschitch, one of the executed Ni hilists. Colonel Danit l Thomas, of Hodg don, Maine, in 1873, at the age of sixty six years, began fruit culture, and now has between 700 and 800 fall and winter apple trees. TbiCity of London, Ontario, has made a seven years' trial of wooden gas pipes auieared with tar, and has decided that th.y are unfit for the purpose of condnciag gas. F-e hundred acres of land around Yorktav u have been purchased by the comm.ttee association formed to cele brate i'.'e centennial anniversary of Lord Cornw uis's surrender. King Kalakana, of the Sandwich Is lands, was formally presented the other day to Queen Victoria, who received him at Windsor, surrounded by several of her sons and daughters. Kit Carson's grave, at Taos, N. M., is unmarked by stone or monument The grave mounds of the famous scout and his Indian wife are two low gravel heaps iu a desolate cemetery. The treasurer of the Illinois State Hospital paid the wages of employes in Mexican dollars which he bought at a discount The profit of this was $19, and the loss was a position worth $1,200 a year. It is estimated that the amount in sured against fire with leading offices in England, forming what is known as the Tariff Association, exceeds $10,000,000, 000, and there is an outcry against their profits. It i estimated that nearly 2,000, 000,000 pounds of paper is produced an nually; one-half of which is used for printing, a sixth for writing, and the re mainder is coarse paper for packing and otheifpurposes. President Garfield, it is said, be came the owner of a large farm in Fair- county, Va., last week. The prop- T- i!t. Y . , he wa8 woundcd. James G. Fair heads the personal ,,mt mil mt fiiri ; Q. v cisco with S42.2iJ0.000. Mr. J. C Flood I ' 9 it
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