S?T. SCHWEIER, THE O0I8TITUTI0I-THE TWIOI-AID THE EIPOXOEKEBT OP THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXV. MIFFIJNTOAVN JUNIATA COUNTY, PKNN A., WEDNESDAY. XOVEMIiEU 1(5, 18S1. NO. lf. IS 1HE TWILIGHT. u we Pow our -Te8,erdar sem verr dim ami distant ; Ufgr'pe. " "i" ' "hwkeneJ wars, Thnu'l' all that existent : Yrt tar-uff bris1,t ,nJ cI'ar suds that loog have faded, d faees 'aJ rm smmty nr ' to "" lifr " h,h?a- t P" 'J oar ,ear " ,',lr Vnr (nenUi iwwt lately taken, J pot Ul ,-4il ,he san)mer from roses lbrttly shaken wr,en som . ham word or itUe strain. jtc oliir.ls of memory sweeping, I nlw the B-wi-gates of our pain f or those h tautftitts weeptnjt. I- we grow M. our unities are rare To those ho greet uk daily, or, if ne 'tvins face wear The looks that lieame.l so gariy From eyes Uag close-l, anJ we should smile In an-er to their wooing, ' p , fit. but the Fast that shines the while iur power I" smile renewing. I, e grow ; u oar dreams at uigt Are never f thenriTTOw; They mni" with vauisheil pVasure pright, (ir ilark wi'.h ol.len sorrow ; in, when we w ake, the names we say Are not of any mortals, put of those in "iue long dead ilay IVi-eii through life's sunset's portals. HOW ITCAME AliOlT. "Yes, he was very eccentric, remarked the Joctr, '"I've had a deal to do with .wtients whose heads, as the saying rnus were not level. 'I liked Mr. Fortescue. lie was j)li-j;i!it fellow when the fit didn't come ou. When it did, it was just as well not to tronl'le him with unnecessary ques tions Me was insane then?" queried Dr. T:ir'A)rJ's litisiuess associate. 'Well, yen would hardly call it by that Liaae. You sec there was a woman as tLere always is at the bottom of the trouble. It was too much brooding over the 'lost love', if 1 may so call it, that gave him a well, supjxise we call it an iJiosywrasy. That word will answer very welL" "What of the woman and the idiosyn crasy?" asked the partner, with a blight langh. "As for a woman, of course you drag her ra, my dear associate in pill Jiseusiu, because you are a confirmed , liaehclor." "Bau," replied the doctor, whose first luiue, by the way, was Calden. 'The woman was greatly to blame. As for Frteqne, well, he was a fooL I'll tell yon the story, metaphysically speak iap, it is intt resting. Briefly then, Freileriek ForU-sqne had just left col lego wilh the honors. He had lieen an iuilustri-ms reader for four years, living lie Ajuouk. uevep Jpokinx in awpmaA'sJ face, anil eouversing only with those Jry ohl fellows whose profession it is to onuu aail'itious stu.leuts for the closing examination. When young Fortesque finally s -vered the strings which had tie.1 hiia to the aprou of his alma mater he felt like a rudderless ship thumping ag;unst sea rocks. While in this unhap jit eoiiiiitiou the ymng fellow was thrown into the society of the most cliarniing and, I will add of myself, most heartless of flirts that ever donned a woman's outer garment, l'oor devil! The young lady. I will call her Grace Lvsauder. played with the verdant youth very much as an experienced disciple of Iaak Walton plays with a prize trout Mere landing him. "At first, Fortesqne was as lishful as a girl, I mt Miss Lvsauder knew w hat was troubling her gudgeon. She en- j ootiraged him, and so far as she was in teresting, coaxed htm, out of his natu ral timidity in the presence of herself, if not of other meuiliers of the sex. For tesiu; adored her, of course, as all young fols do when they indulge in "love's yoiiiig dream. For six months "lie kept the poor fellow cn t lie tenter L.k.s, ami, finally, when she thought it was time to end her cruel, but womanly tirt. she managed to bring the really laanly Wking Frederick to an avowal of liLs profound regard for her, asking her, iu impassioned tones, to make him hap ly hy becoming his life friend, his inti mate companion in fine, his wife, "Grace Lvsauder affected to be great ly surprised at this declaration. She Iiad not the remotest idea, she said, that lie had ever entertained other tlian a friendly regard for her. She liked bun "s a companion well enough; but had Ae for one moment lelieved his regard for her would grow into a leeling that would demand any sacrifice on her part, he would have as gently as jossible have severed their intimacy. She thou jht that, like all her associates of both sex es, he was aware her affections were ir revocably fixed on a geutlcmar to w hom indeed, she was betrothed, and with whom, on his return from Europe, in a few months, she would go to the altar, there to plight her troth for aye. "Had the incorrigible and heartless young woman struck him ot the heart ith a dagger her words could not have heen more damaging to the soul, mind nj body of the sunblwd suitor. "In his heart he felt that Grace Ly siuder was unworthy of one thought; hut, notwithstanding, she had so en chanted, so In-wildered him, that he still felt himself a slave to her. Contradic tory as it may seem, he, while despising Br, would gladly have laid down his hie aye, damn his soul for all future if by so doing he could have given her even transitory pleasure. ' It is wonderful, resinned the doctor altera shor pause, "what influence women not all of them, but many, too ""wiy have over men!" "Fortesque was, I repeat stunned at the reception he had met at the hand of the winsome flirt; gradually he fell to hroodings, to solitary walks, to eccentric actions. His parents, not ignorant of his love for Miss Lvsauder, were becoin ug alarmed at Ids manner They re quested me to observe the conduct f their pon. and to tell them my imi- prettsions of bitt mental slate. . I reques ted theni to not even liint to the bewil dered youtli that they knew me, and that I would seek an introduction to him tLrongh another channel, and then not as a medicid man, but as a private gen tleman. "In a few days I effected my ptu-jiose. I fonnd that he could only think of tbe woman who had jilted him. At fin.t I ! imagined that he cause of his eccentri cities was the rounding of his self-love that like most young men who had graduated with i brilliant standing as a scholar, 1 e was sensitively egostisticaL But, he rarely alluded to his acquisi tions, and no matter how foreign the topic introduced, he would cunningly divert conversation to the only channel i iu which he cared to have his thoughts run the beauty of Grace Lvsauder. - "For several days I was his almost constant companion. He unveiled his heart to me. I saw that he was gradu ally falling into a species of insanity, which is correctly descriled by the term melancholia." . "From Grace Lysnndcr his thoughts began to run extreme forms. Once he imagined himself the defender of the in nocent especially innocent young women. From the women he turned his mind to the sad condition of men, and suggested the propriety of building a large assylum for bachelors it should be large enough to accommodate one hundred thousand of those who, as he said, should npon examination be proved to have b en born without that ex tremely useful article in thebwom the heart. Ouce he imagined himself Pres ident, at another time Governor, and one afternoon, when the idea was farth est from my mind, he declared himself a pirate of the lake. r "It was exciting very, oa that occa sion, and I believe my presence of mind alone averted a catastrophe. We were floating on the Mahopac, in a two-oared boat. I was seated in the stern, having the gearing of the rudder in my hands, and a finely flavored cigar between my lips. Fortesque had the oars. He was pulling manfully at them, while I was enjoying what the Indians call riolcc far iiicntc, at the same time luxuriating in the bits of scenery which every now and then came before me, when suddenly my worthy Charon dropped his oars, and pulling out a revolver, leveled it at my head! . ''Was ever a gentleman And physician placed in such an embarrassing situation before?" Mr. Tarbord, said my patient, 'I haw au ide. -; -.-- " 'Ah, indeed,' said I, looking into the tube of the pistol which, if he pressed upon the trigger, wonld sjieed ily end my career as a medico. I saw that my life depended on my coolness. 'What is it?" " 'That I shall tuxn pirate. The free- looters of the sea alwavs imbue their hands in human gore before they earn a name for Atrocity Now, I propose sending a bullet throngh your head. Won't it make a sensation? All the pa pers will be full of the wild deeds of Fortesque, the bloody pirate of Lake Mahopac!" The poor fellow, I saw was iu dead earnest. " 'It would be a capital idea, I replied 'Bnt you don't propose going on pirsti- cal expeditions alone, do you? You'll want a lieutenat or two. I think I d make a first-rate cut throat. We'd bet ter go Ashore and see if we can pick up crew that will agree to board and kill the crews of the other boats on the lake.' Fortesque, still holding the pistol so that the muzzle covered my body, paused to consider my suggestion." " 'Well, yes, he returned, I don't know bnt that you are quite right It would be ridiculous for me to go pirat ing alone. Yes, we had better engage a blood-thirsty crew, and, Mr. Tarbord, vou may consider yourself my first of ficer and entitled to a share of any booty we may get.' "While this little arrangement was in process, beads of cold sweat gathered on my brow, and I felt as if a great piece of ice had been placed against my spme. "H withdrew the revolver and re sumed the oars. WTien we landed, you may be sure I promised myself I would never Again place myself at a disadvan tage with a man who was laboring under temporary aberration of mind.' However, what love had destroyed love cured on the Hahiimaun princi ple of like enriug like, I suppose. The friends of Fortesque when they heard of my lake adventure, seriously considered the propriety of placing him under restraint He was becoming dangerous. At any moment he might be guilty of a crime for which they, un derstanding Irs condition, could never forgive themselves for which, indeed, they would be held morally, if not le crally rest) risible. "When about to carry out their resolutions, a curious circumstance hap pened. The affianced of Grace Lysan der was daily expected from Europe. Her marriage to him was to follow im mediately upon his arrival. The trous seau was in readiness; bnt the man nev er came Instead, a telegram was re ceived one day by the young lady's pa rents or guardieons Announcing the marriage of the fellow to a woman to whom he had been introduced in the French capital an English woman of exceeding beauty and with a very entic- iiiir bank account. T AiA not svmimthize with Miss Tvsander. I thought she richly deserved the punishment of disappointment she had received just penaty for her cruelty ty mw noor TMitient. "Tr. tut creat surprise. Miss Grace did not appear to be greatly troubled over the insult Oa the contary, she was gayer, more charming, more win some than ever. ''Suddenly I also discovered that my patient put a ay his eccentric, his in sane thoughts, and was again an assidu ous admirer of the strong-hearted belle, I trie, Lis friends ami parents warned him of the consequences. We all might as well have toiled to persuade a has heesli teaer to reform in the midst of his delicious dissipation. . . . . "After a time I further noticed that Fortescue arreeted Misa Lysauder's at tention much more than others of her beaux all moths, who were joggling each other that they might have the pleasure of getting their wings scorched in the fierce name of her beauty. "This went on many weeks. The scene is now removed to the old place Saratoga and another season of pleas ure is with ns. " "One evening 1 was seated iu a retired spot of the park. It was quite dark where I was a summer house. ' I was meditating, and my thoughts were any where but where I was seated. -A couple enter the pleasant arbor. Presently whispered conversation began. " As it continued, unconsciously to the speak ers, it gradually rose in tone until I could hear distinctly every word ut tered. "What could I do? I could not now leave the place without disclosing my self, and to remain and overhear an evideutly sweet interchange of thought would le unpardonable. Of the two evils, I came to the conclusion that to retire woidd be the least 1 Arose for that mi pose, but before I could take a step, the familiar voice of my 'Pirate of Mahopac struck upon my ears. Cnr osity now got the better of my gente- manly instincts. I argued that I was not to lie held responsible for a couple's negligence in ' not first inquiring, be fore they exchanged confidence, that there w?not an eavesdropper "present. "Dear Grce," said my ex-patient, "I suffered the termeuU of the 'damned when you refused my suit I love you, oh! how widly. Indeed, I was after that, for a time; partially insane. I could not understand it I hated and adored you at the same time; I would have placed my life at your disposal at any time. I became, when you dis missed me, wild, careless, crazy, full of idle resolves and hallucinations. I did the most ridiculous, unaccountable things, and yet while I knew I was doing the eccentric in a hundred ways, I could not hdjunjaelf.. I.camo iwar tdjuftinK a friend of mine a Mr. Tarlwd while we were on the Mahopac Had it not been for his coolness, his apparent in difference to death I should certainly have shot him. But now, Grace now that you are my own, my own forever 111 have no more of these fancies or fan tasies. "Whew !" I cried, "site the wind in tlit quarter?' Frederick," said MLtS Lysander, softly, "I knew you loved me, not less however, than 1 love you. Unhappily, I was engaged, much against my will, for certain family consideration, to the man who did me the kindness to unite his destinies with the English-woman. I wanted to keep you near me as my good friend, and I dreaded the hour' when you would urge your suit. I was awkwardly placed, and I had to do pre cisely what I did. And now, Frederic, yon will no longer regard me as a flirt, but as a true, honest loving woman." "God bless yon, darling!" I heard him whisper, "we understand each other now." Then there was a resonance that in my ears sounded like a kiss. The happy lovers a little later retired. And I was permitted to cogitate on the mutability of human affairs. Before the Octolicr moon had waned there was one less in the city of Aew York whose prenomen was Lysander, but one more whose name was Fortes- cue. tVhjr He Ate Bcaus for Dinner. They tell a good story about one Wy- niane, a dinunuiive drummer well Known on the Comstock. He stopped one night At Deming, Xew Mexico, a favorite resort of the cow-boys. "Madame," said Abe to the landlady, give me some dinner and be quick about it I have not diued since yester day." The lady brought him some bean soup. "Madame, take away thit soup. I never eat soup. Bring on the roast right away." The lady brought him a large plate o pork aud lans. "Madame, take that away. I never eat those tilings.' In vain the lady explained that pork and beans was the best the house affor ded. He was obdurate, and wanted roast leef,rare. A niild-mannered,blue eyed cow-boy at the table then chipiied in, "Beggin pardon, stranger, but you must excuse the lady. We " "Who are you, sir?" retorted the drummer; "I know my business." "You don't tell me," said the festive cow-boy, drawing his navy. "Now you eat them beans. I'm goin' to sit here an' see you feed. Light into 'em quick cr IU open on you sure, And put em in. This is bizness with me, An' I'm shont- in' in your ear." The unfortunate drummer saw blood in the air, And was forced to choke four plates o" the unwelcome food down before the cow-boy was satisfied with his apology to the landlady. Geese are easily kept; grass and water form their chief requirements. These w fch a fair supply of c irn, oat ud boiled po tatoes, make up their iP Marking Farm Koundartoa. Tbe most satisfactory method of ioca- tln nrt ftaalffnallnfr ivwiuiit tiir tvnrn fences between adjoiuing farms I witnessed ,,ouse of the Pennsylvania Rtilroad, in during a recent visit to tbe larui of the Jersey City, is An odd-looking loconio HoB. Dt -MAioue, New York, Tbe sur- tive bearing the name "Fontaine" The veyor bad lo?Aied, And worxmeo Had just finished setting a stone at tbe termination of each line in tbe boundary of tbe farm. When an act like this m to be performed, affecting property rights and wten led to settle all disputes between ndghoorg, it hould be attended w.th some cato Sow, in no case Is it impowible for neneubors to Airrea as to whem their division l uces shall be located, but in many cases they may agree upon lines entirely erroneous, and . when future owners examine then- boundaries with th aid competent sur veyors; Add by the light cf recorded c.m eyanees this baD-hazard method may pn.ve a prolific cause of litigaiioa. 'When boundary lines ate to be located, the ex pense of procuring the Assistance of a com petent civil engineer is comparatively 1 small compared with tbe important object to be accomplished. ben tbe country was new and land was held at a low value fanners were careless about corners and boundary lines; a difference of a few feet, and in roanv rjub-a a rod or morp vm ryin. eidered as of no great importance. ,3ut aim the country trows older land improves B value, and fanners desire to build .mere permanent fences, it becoizes ninre desira ble to locate division ienoes w&ti.4ifty suficient importance to locate permant monuments: tbe practice was s1 together too prevalent of "blazing' some smaif tree or perhaps merely setting some atate tit ner practice was good lor ice-lliiie, but was cot lasting, and in many cases all such monuments have long tiiite been ob literated by time. Tbe gent eman to whom I have referred, to mara tbe boundaiy between bis and tbe adjoining forms, procured and set stone s'abs seven feet into the ground, the upper end of each slab projecting a few inches above the surface. When this is done, a map of the farm is made, and thus Acer-: tiin method is provided of settling all dis putes that may arise in reference to bota- dsry lines. The quest ir n may be asked la all this trouble worth the cosii I ana-, wer unhesitalingly, Yes. Ia every farm ing community, every question affecting' landed rroperty is of importance, and none more co than question! relating to b nindary line. Ouce settle such too often disagreeable questions and they are settled forever. In a great many cases, farms are com posed of a single lot, of a square or red angular shape. In such a case, only four boundary monuments are required, and when adjoining owners share the cost of procuring the services of a surveyor where it is necessary, and j in in the trouble and expense of setting the boundary stones, the cost is reduced to a n inimum. f How Cold Are Cansht. Let us sunooee a Dcrson to be sitlinirin a room the temperature of which is, say , 70 degrees Fahrenheit, and that a currant i orcoldairTS rusnTngTu at An otieaTTuor ot window and playing upon tbe back of his head, or peHians on his legs or feet, and the probability is that he will "catch cold," and in nine cases out ot ten this cold will be a catarrh in the head, and what may appear more remarkable slill, only one nostril will at first be affected. Now, if the catarrh was due to the inhalation of cold air, both noUriU would suffer; but it is not so, for as each sif.e of the body is supplied by its distinct set of nerves, so only that side is affected through which tbe reflex disturbance has been transmitted. Tbe modus operandi is the following: The draught of cold air acting, we w ill suppose, on the back of the head, convey through the sympathetic nerve, which ramifies on tbe scalp, a shock to the ner vous eenter from which these nerve fibres proceed; but we must understand that this serve center sends its Dlamenu to other portions of the body, And so the shock which this center receives by one set ol nerves is reflected by another set to some surface quite remote from that primarily acted upon, and in this way a temporary paralysis of the nerves supplying the blood vessels of the mucus membrane of tho nose is brought about In consequence these vessels become di'ated aud engorged, and, the shock which has brought about this congestion continuing, disturbs the equilibrium of the blood supply, hnd so an inflammatory condition is set up. When this exists the blood vessels are enennous'y distended; consequently an exasi of blood passes through the part, tbe utile cells which secrete tbe mucous being thus ex cited and working much more rapidly than when in health. In this way the enor mous discharge of mucus which accom panies a cold in the head is accounted for. Another ellect of this irritation of the mucous memnrane is sneezing, which is an effort of nature to restore the equilib rium of the nervous center by another kind of reflex action. Sneezing in catarrh is a method natuie adopts to stimulate the prostrate nervous center, and thus enable it to reassert its proper control over the blood supply to the part; indeed it will be found that the effects of being exposed to a draught of cold air are often completely destroyed by a succession of sneezes. Ot ourse nature does not always immediately succeed in those efforts, but when she docs not the shock from which the nervous center suffers gradually passes away, and the blotd vessels again come under tbe control of the little nerves which regulate their caliber, and so the catarrh disappears in a few hours, or at most in a few days. It sometimes happens that the shock from the cold air acting upon the nervous center is of such severity that the consequent m flamation is intense enough to cheek tbe secretion altogether, and in consequence the mucous membrane is dry as we'd as inflamed, and the suffering very much in tensified. So far, we have only glanced at a cold in tbe bead, which passes away in a few hours; but this is not Always the happy terminal Ion. There is a peculiar tendency which inflammation possesses of not leaving off where it commenced, but of invading the tissues in iu immediate neighborhood, and more especially when the tissue is continuous with that primarily attacked, as is the case with the mucous membrane of the air passages. A cold may commence in the Lead and rapidly smead by what is technically termed con tinuity of tissue into the chest; and so what at tbe first promised to be only a cold in the bead may terminate in an attack of bronchitis, or even inflammation of the lungs. A Stl Tnbe for the English Chancel. A grand scheme is said to be in contem plation for crossing tte English Channel. A line of steel tubes, sixteen feet in dia meter, is proposed, to be sunk and firmlv anchored at a sufficient depth below the surface to be out of the way of navigation. It is to be ballasted to overcome the buoy- art effect And secured to sunken caissons by chains. Ninety Miles an Hour. Standing in the "stall " in the round , alrnlaA ,., .i i . y .... , , .. ' . . , ai1,,'u1, 14 has not yet made its trial trip, it is expected that it will run at the rate of ninety miles an hour. The ma- ! clinery, instead of lieiug Wlow the m,Hlillm line of the lloi, almost en . . , . .. . . driving-wheels, but only two rest on the rails. The third pair are on top of the bodor directly in front of the cab. These wheels are termed the "main drivers. and the powr is communicated to them from the cylinders. The steam chests and cylinders arc set at an angle of ab.-ut .forty-five degrees, on the sides of the boiler, and the crank rods run up to the drivers. The lower drivinir-wheels are ' fllfTf.rnlif anil a tuit 4rtiii.ut.i.l f The rear wheels, which are only four Kuj oue.Uaif ft iu diameter, in the nomenclature of railroad men Are the "pomes." The forward pair are called the "lower drivers," and are double. Jho main part of each wheel is six feet yi diameter. The other part, which is 1 a separate wheel, inasmuch as it does not come in contact with the rail, al though in the solid casting, is known as Pe-"friction wheel." It is four and J one-half feet in diameter, and is supplied U a steel tire the some as the others. Tho 'main drivers" stand niton the "friction wheels" and transmit the mo live power to them. The largo wheels rolling npou the smaller ones give the rpeed. There is no gearing whatever. : TUe "main drivers" ran in one direction, and turn the "friction wheels" and lower drivers" in another. In order to yreveut the wheels from slipping and thus losing motion, steam pressure is Applied to the main drivels to hold them down upon the wheels beneath. The fo.de can be increased from the simple weiglit of tho wheels to ten tons at the will if the engineer, who is governed by the 'tngth of the train the locomotive my be drawing. The diameter of the irr k w Lexis tinder the front end of the n "ue is forty inehes. The usual size ia tlirty-three inches. Otherwise the itaine" does not differ materially mri the ordinary locomotive. The wl affair weighs thirty-eight tons. Saire engines weigh fifty tons. The ylIlKljs are seventeen by twenty-four inc s iu dimensions. The amount of te '..carried when running is 130 ii10 v T"e passenger engines ou -ut. J roads carry 140 pounds. The rtiik f.-ntnro of th "Fon- f,. - . , a , , .. , I aasv w auu . J a i4C U I AA il'tlU auce. The presence of the extra pair of wheels on top of the boikr has won for it the names "camel" and "grasshop per." While the engine looks strange in comparison with others, it does not apjear ill-proportioned. It is gay in paint aud emlM-llishments, and the smooth brass and iron parts are brightly polished. The engine was invented by Eugene Fontaine, a Frenchman, for merly a locomotive engineer, whose homo is in Detroit, Mich. It is the second one built, and was completed alxmt a month ago. It was constructed at the Grant Locomotive Works iu Pater son. The first engine is now running on the Canada Southern Railroad. In May Inst it drew two coaches from Amherst burg to St Thomas, a distance of 111 miles, in minutes. The entire run from Amhersthurg to Buffalo, 235 miles, was made in 235 minutes, including stops for coal and water. Among those on board the train were William H. Vanderbilt and J. H. Butter, of the Central Hudson Railroad, and W. P. Taylor, General Manager, and W. E. Carrol), General Superintendent of the Canada Southern. I'rodisica of Strength. Iu 1877 "Monsieur Gregori," claim ing to be seventy-one years old, nightly astonished the good folks of Here-foot by carrying seven hundred weight with the greatest ease, and performing cer tain other extraordinary feats. For all tliat, he was one of the quietest ment and simple as a child, living in constant dread lest he should be provoked into using his strength un professionally, and afraid to nurse his own baby lest he should give it a fatal squeeze. Joseph Pospischilli was wout to amuse I Jio Hungarian public by holding a table m the air by his hands and teeth while a couple of gypsies danced upon it to a third's fiddling. He And one of his brothers would bear upon their shoul der a sort of wooden bridge while a cart full of stones tlrawn by two horses was driven over it Falling into evil ways, Joseph was imprisoned in the fort ress of Ofen, aud one day volunteered to give the prison insticctors a specimen of his abilities, and, permission being ac corded, he so arranged the Governor's heavy mahogony table as to hold it sus pended with his teeth for nearly half a minute. Joignery, a French profes sional acrobat, lately performing at a Berlin theater, executed the following extraordinary feat: As he swung head downward from a trapeze to which his ankles were fixed, a horse covered with gay trappings and begirt with a broad leather surcingle having two strong loops attached to it, and mounted by a full-grown man, was brought on the ecu tral stage, alove which Joignery hung suspended. Seizing the loops with his hands, the Frenchman, by sheer muscu lar strength, lifted horse and rider some inches off the stage, sustained their com' lined weight in the air for some seconds, and then let them down again as evenly and slowly as he had raised them. Mr. Stanley tells ns that Simba, Chief Over seer of Amu bin Osman's Caravan, stand ing six feet five inches barefooted, and measuring thirty-two inches from shoul der to shoulder, could toss an ordinary sized man ten feet into the air and catch him in his descent He would take one ! of the large white Moscat donkeys by the ears, and with a sudden movement of his right foot lay the surprised ass on its back; carrying a three-year-old bul lock on his back half way round his master's plantation; and once actually bore twelve men ou his back, shoulders and chest, round Osman's house, to the intense wonder of a large crowd of ap plauding spectators. A man of great strength was William Joy, known in his day as "the English Samson." He was a native of Kent, having been born near Ramsgate in 1C75. From an early pe riod of his life he displayed remarkable strength and dexterity for his years, and when 24 years of age he began publicly to exhibit his astonishing feats. Among other of Joy's performances, he is said to have been able to retain and keep in place a strong horse, surged by w hip to escape his powerful rein, solely by the check of his pull, without any stay or support whatever. Aided by a strong leathern girdle or belt, and snpportiu himself by pressing his arms ou a rail ing, he could lift from the ground a stone said to be a ton-weight He also broke asunder a rope fastened to a wall whieh had previously borne more than a ton and a half weight without breaking. Notwithstanding his great strength, he was possessed of singularly agile and flexible joints, many wonderful stories being told of his feats in this respect such as placing a ghrs of wiue on the sole of his foot, which he could twist around with his hands and convey in this way to his month without spilling. Brae lteer. This is a kind of beer brewed in Rus sia. 1 n order to obtain lo wedros (alxmt 2 barrels) of beer, one sack of corn, 40 lbs. of malt, and 3 lb. of cultivated, or 5 lbs. of wild hojw, and 40 wedros (aliout barrels) of water are taken. The whole of the corn and malt is placed in a wooden vat and treated with 30 wedros (aliout 2i barrels) of boiling water; in the meantime the hops are bo:led in a copper. In a second vat a layer of straw ia spread over the bottom, the latter being provided with a small open ing into which a long rod is fixed, which is used as a stop valve. The steamed hops are then brought iuto this vat, and the sweet wort and boiling water added. The rod is then drawn up, and the hop ped wort filters throngh the straw into a .lb. It is again warmed, then brought in oonta-rt with tho hops and filtered, And this operation is repeated till a clear liquid of aromatic smell has been ob tained. One liter (about 1 quart) of yeast diluted with 4 wedros lalamt 10 gallons) of warm water is now added to the wort, and the whole allowed to fer ment for two hours. The beer is then transferred to casks and left to ferment a cool place, the yeast escaping through the veut hole. After two or three days the vent peg is fastened firm ly into the cask, and the beer is ready tor use shortly after this time, but it is considered preferable to bury the casks in hay for a short interval. By this treatment the quality and brightness of the beer are considerably improved. Frlncea Frederic. llampton Palace stands to-day as it was left by the great Cardinal. It is no longer royal residence. The Queen with un common generosity for a Hanoverian, con sented long ago to relinquish its pretty corridors and home-like chambers to ans tocratic paupers the widows of distin guished public personages, generals, aud tbe like. To these have recently lieen added the charming Princess Frederics, daughter of the late King of Hanover, whose blind exile this remarkable girl soothed and gladdened as few of her vile race and bad blood were ever known to do before. How vile tbe house and bad the blood requires but a passing knowledge of the Ancestors of ictona to make plain. The Princess rredenca. fortunately for herself, lives in an age different from A famous unfortunate predecessor. .Because she married the man of her heart, Fre lerica has been disowned by her haughty and domineering brother, heir to the throne of uanover before Prussia incorporated the the kingdom ia her own boundaries. The brother will not tee tbe sister, and quair Is even with Queen Victoiia and th-) English bian h for si a log the unhappy gr tol erance. As royalty goes, the English Guelphs ha e been kind to their luck'e s kinswoman. Ihey have given her tbe state apartments at Hampton Court It's All Right. A citizen of Detroit entered a Michi gan avenue grocery the other day and said he wanted a private word with the proprietor. When they had retired to the desk he began : "I want to make confession aud repa ration. Do yon remember of my buy ing sugar here two or three days ago?" I do." 'Well, in paying for it I worked off a counterfeit quaterpn the clerk. It was a mean trick, and I came to tender yon good money." 'Oh, don't mention it" replied the grocer. "But I want to make it right" "It's ail right all right We knew who passed the quarter on ns, and that afternoon when your wife sent down a dollar bill and wanted a can of sardines I gave her that bad quarter w th her change. Don t let your conscience trou ble you r 11 it's all right," On I day Billy and Sammy were playing in a mud-bole snd bill md: "Now, Sammy, les play we was a baru- yard. You be tbepig and lie down snd waller, and I'll be bull and bellcr like everything." So they got down on their bands and knees, and Sammy he went into the dirt and wallowed, While Billy bellowed like distant thunder, By-and-by Sammy came up muddy you never saw such a muddy Utile fellow and he said: "Now you'll be tbe pig, and let me be I ler." But Billy said: I ain't a very good pig except tor dinner. And it 11 be time null for you to heller when yer mother sees yer ClO! " Ieath of the Old Wife. She had liuu all day in a stupor brea- tluug with heavily-labored ' breath, but as the sun sank to rest in the far-off Western sky, and the red glow on the wall of the room faded into dense sha dows, she awoke and called feebly to her aged partner who was sitting motionless by the bed side; he bent over his dying wife, and took her wan, wrinkled haud in his. "Is it night?" she asked iu tremulous tones, looking at him wiih eyes that saw not "Yes," he answered softly. "It is growing dark." "Where are the children?" she quer ied: "are they all in?" Poor old man! how could he answer her; the children who had slept for long years iu the churchyard who had out lived childhood and borne the heat and burden of the llar, and, growing oui, utui laui iiown the cross and gone to wear the crown, before the old fa ther and mother had finished their so journ! 'The children are safe," answered the old man, tremulously; "don't think of them, Janet, think of yourself ; does the way seem dark?" "My trust ia in Thee; let me never le confounded. What does it matter if the way is dark? "I'd rather walk with God in the dark than walk alone iu the light "I'd rather walk w ith Him by faith than walk alone by sight "John, where's little Charlie?" she asked, x Her mind was again in the post The grave dust of twenty years had lain on Charlie's golden hair, bnt the mother had never forgotten him! The old man patted her cold hands, hands that hod labored so hard that they were seamed and wrinkled aud calloused with years of toil, and the wedding-ring was worn to a mere thread of gold and then he pressed his thin lit to them, and cried. She had enixmraged and strengthened him in every trial of life! Why, what a worn in she had lieen! What a worker! What a leader in Israel! Alwavs with the gift of prayer or service. They had stood at many a death-bed together closed the eyes of loved ones, aud then sat down with the Bible lietween them to read the promises. Now she was alont to cross the dark river alone. And it w as strange and sad to the old mau, and the yellow-haired granddaugh ter lefj them, to hear her babble of walks in the woods, of gathering May flowers and strolling with John, of jM-tty house hold cares that she hail always put down with a strong resolute hand; of wedding feasts and death bed triumphs, and whoa nt. &ii3nigUt ska noMvl th bridegroom's voie-e, and the old man, bending over her, cried pitifully, and tho young jnnddau"hter kissed her palo brow, there was a solemn joy in her voiee as she spoke the name of her children one by oue, as if she saw them with immortal eyes, and with one glad smile put on immortality. They led the old man sobbing away, and when he saw her again the glad morning sun was shining, the air was jubilant with the song of birds and she lay asleep ou the conch under the north window where he had seen her so often lie down to rest, w hile waiting for the Sabbath lell. Aud she wore the same best black silk, aud the string of gold lieads alxmt her thin neck, aud the folds of white tulle1. Only now the brooch with his miniature v as wanting, and in its place was a white rose and a spray of cedar she had loved cedar she had loved to sing over her work: Oh, mar I In Hi courts hr seen. Like a jixinjjee.Uir fresh aud green. But what strange transformation was there? The wrinkles were gone. The tracers of age. and rain, and weariness were all smothed out the face had grown strangely y;ung, and a placid smile was laid on the pale lips The old man was awed by this likeness to the bride of his youth. He kissed the unresponsive lips and said softlv: "You've found Heaven first Jauet,bnt youll come for me soou! It's our first parting in our seventy years, but it won't be for long it won't lie for long?" And it was not The winter snows have not fallen, and there is auother grave, and to-day, wonld have been their diamond wedding! We have planned n.tich for it, and I wonder I wonder bnt no! Where they are. there is neither marriage nor giving iu marri ages. Hereditary Tranftinluions. In 18.J6 Ciptain D'Urban. of her Ma jesty's ship Uriflin, having capture! off the coat of Martinique, a Portuguese slaver, called the Don Francisco, landed in that colony the living freight of 4:37 human beings, who aliout two months previous! y, had been forced form their homes on the hanks of tbe Congo, to be sold in Cuba. uiitin Laidlaw, one of tbe liliera'ei tUves who is now in a position cf some trust on the Goodwill sugar plantation in tbe island, gives to me the following interesting de tails of hereditary transmission in the Af cai. which 1 believe will be intoresting to the readers of nature: "I am about smy or sixty-five years of age. and was born with six bngcrs on each hand, boon alter my Vrt-edom' I married a woman from our country. We had four children, two being boys and two girls; they were born with six tihgers on each hinJ, and one ot the girls had six toes on each foot. My eldest sou Robert, who is rrarried and set tled in Demerara, is the fa' her of two bovs, w):o bare six lingers on each band. My second son, William, who is working with n e on the Goodwill estate, married, and h's wife bad five children : they were born bavicg the same peculiarity; but I regret tt say none are living." I yester day sent for William Laidlaw, and sub stantiated his father's statements. I meas ured the sixth fingers. The one on the right hand is exactly one inch and a-quar-ter in length, and has a perfectly fonnvd nail; the one on the left showed traces of hiving been partial! v amputated. YVaixarurnl resort landlord thinks e city mau is puttirg on too many airs, ba merely says, as he bands him the key to his room at night: "ue careful to turn out the gas; don't blow it out" N EWS IX BIUEF. Charles I. died on ihe scaffold. Frog continue to grow for five years. Charles II died suddenly it is said of aoplexy. -James I. died from drinking and tho effects of vice. Illinois has 21,330 pensioners who draw $5,000,000 a vear Finger nails two inches long art- the pride of a Bidtjmore woman. M. Victor Hugo has jnst given $2000 to the poor of Paris. A monument to Dean Staidey Is to be raised in Westminister Abliey. William Rnfiis died the death of the poor ttags which he hunted. The first sun dial was erected in Rome in the year of the city 447. George Stephenson, inventor of the locomotive, was Wrn Jnne 9. 1781. The wheat crop of the Canadian Do 1 mimou for 18S1 is 2S,000,0iM bushels. There ore 1500 smiare miles of ice in the Aljw, from SO to COO feet thick. The ivory of the walrus is covered with enamel so hard as to strike fire with flint or steeL From 3,000 to 5,000 people iu the United States are inenr.il -ly addicted to the use of opium. William lif, ilud of evusiiniidive habits of body ami frout the ol horse. stnuildin The Egyptiaus placed a mummy at their f.-stal boards to remind them of immortality. Surnames Wgan in France iu the year 1000, and in England in the time of the Conquest. A new pnblio school building in Xew Orleans has lieen named the tlar fiel l School. At theTallah assee ( Fla. ) State Fair a premium of S was offered for the best darned stocking. William the Comnueror died from enormous fat. from drink, and from tho violence of his pissii ms. A mi ng the Ang! i-Sa xoiis the science of medicine and of the law was monouo- lized by the clergv. The question of the Hanoverian succession to the throne of England was carried by a single vote. A child lom in Ananiosa, Iowa.last month, weighed but one pound and seven ouuees. More than 2000 Mormon converts have left Laverjxid for Utah during the past summer. Adelaide Auu Proctor's jioeuis are increasing iu popularity and aie King republished extensively in England. The animal production of pins in the United States for several years past has bei-u about seven billions. During the past year half the mines on the Pacific slope yielded in gold $0,418,378, and in silver 29,211,778. The Japeness sent 1.272, 75fi tele grams last year over tlieir own wires. Pretty good for a N-ple who have no alphabet. Massachnsetis with a lpulatiou of 1,800,000 inhabitants, his M0 divorces annnally. England, with a ixtu!atioii of 24,000,000 has 81X1. Stone coffins occur among the Anglo-Saxons as early as 0!.", and w ere not qnite i.lisol. te before the rci n of Henry VIII. M. GamlK'tta says that the strength of France is, in a great me-asnre, due to the thrift and industry of French wo men. Tennessee cattle that have ln-en compelled to live on withered grass during the long drouth are reported in remark ably good condion British trade re tr.ms for ScutemU-r show a decrease in imports of 1.(M.()HL and an increase in exjmrts of .873,000. The throe hundredth anniversary of the annexation of Silicriit to the Czar's empire will soon be celebrated at Irkutsk aud in other citie of Asiatic Russia. Queen Victoria has ittst been buy ing several large farms in Wiltshire, al though land in England is unpromising as an investment at present The network of German subter ranean cable is completed. It connects 221 towns, and hiss cost aliout ?7,IK0. 000. According to the last censns the outlay for building and repairing farm tence-s timing 18i0 iu eleven Southern and Southwestern States aggregated $13,505,716. Tho sowing of forest line seed has liegun hy the Sliakers at Enfield, Conn., and the State authorities are considering plans to encourage this industry. The Empress Augusta has lieen for biudeu by her physicians to ascend stairs, aud an elevator has been con structed iu the palace at Berlin. A recent religious censns taken in Prussia shows that that country contains 17,615,42 Protestants. 9.205,1:10 Catho lics, 3ii3.fi 15 Jews, 42,518 Dissenters, and 22,006 persona professing no reli gion. The city of Bangor is the headquar ters of the lumlie-r business of Maine. This year there have been 200,000.000 feet of logs ia its lmoms nn.l localities aliove, and aliout 140,000,000 feet have been manufactured and shipped to mar ket The numlier of students at tho Vienna University is now 3.457. exclu sive of 504 nuattaehed students, or cou-side-ably more than nt the German University of Berlin and Leipzig. Thirtv- five are Americans. Tiie funeral ear of the Lite Presi dent was removed recently from the public square iu Cleveland to Lake View Cemetery. It understood that the ceme tery trustees will at once have built over it a fine bnildiug, chiily composed of glass, with a framework of wood. Some weidthy Berkslure manufac turers are proposiug to buy Mrs. iar fiedd a home in Wilhainstown, Mass. The money is pledged, and they only wait to learn whether she would accept t with a view of lit-iug near her sou during their college course. The school savings banks in France", founded iu 1874, have prove a great suc cess. Iu 1877 the unrulier of these liunks was 8033, and ihe tetal deposits nearly $TOO,000. Now there are 14,372 school savings banks, and the deposits are $1,280,755. Secretary of the iuterior Kirkwood and General Peter F. Bacon, of Wash ington, turned ont in the procession whie-h welcomed our termer dsstinguish ed French visitor, General Lafayette, to Washington on the 13th day of Octolier 1821
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