TO mm B. F. SCHWEIER, THE OOagTlTUIIOI-THE XmOU-AJD THE EHFOEOHHUT OP THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXY. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1881. NO. 4. 'WSyW WWW little nr LinxK. sepaadihen another. a the lanre renl meBjeJ : , brick apn not!ier, n-este upon another, , tM UttM cora! workers, RTtlieir bat const,int nvtloa . built tsepret;i Island UK das"31 dart-bine ocean : tM!it.!nii.lertaklniri jurtwisoom hath conceived, Bon-r'r,,1'ffur1 . , H.vf !en patently adnered. not 1 disheartened Off !H ort -TOU to do" n, tbat net rmpht.T task yob wr cam set throng ; V juaenJeavordajbTdaT ' AotMr point to cn, lixl aooa " mountain whics you feared Xfi'i pro o be a pialn. I!omf was ,ail',e,1 in d-T" larictit proverb teaches : ,,, Mture. her "M flowers. Tut same sweet sermon preachea. Ttmsnoc.if far off Unties, gai of dntie which are near, Mvini once bejran to wort, . A Dl IX OK A WEIJUIXu I un a ardent admirer of female beau, anil ougbt to Lave been an art ist or "a sculptor, bat I am neither. I , book-ke.'ier for Brown & Co., wholesale dealers in hides and tallow. Henry Bower, a young man of very lively disposition, was employed in the sune" office. We lioarded and roomed together. One niylit Henry and I attended one rf the- Ivceum lectures iu W. We Lad lardly beeu in the Lall five minntos be fore my attention was fixed upon one of the ladies in the front seat. She was a little to the right of me, but as she was tilting very earnestly to the lady neit to her. her face was turned towards as ; and, susceptible as I am, I could not but be impressed by the beauty of it. Indeed, I could not withdraw niy aze from the beautiful young lady before me. She had golden hair, andher bluest of eves swam full of love and sweetness. Her nose wai small and straight, and shs had just the prettiest dimple among the blushes ou either cheek. And then, inch a mouth ! What red lips, teeth of pari, flashing ln-twecn the roses Her f jrehead was smooth and broad, and her neck, I saw, as the fur cape drooped low on her shoulders, was as white as alabas ter tad smooth as marble. In brief, I !id hear a word of the lecture. A month passed without my seeing anything of my beautiful stranger. Cut about that time I received an invitation to visit my friend, Mrs. Segard. in M. She is widow of forty, and is the mo " tier of a certain Miss Segiird, "tahiiliarry , tailed Clara. I knew that Mrs. Segard had tried to bring alxmt a marriage be tween Clara and myself, and I believe I was not much opposed to the match. Clara was a good girl everybody said ; a Tery pretty brunette, with flashing black hair and eyes, but her form was short, thick and dowdyish. I admire a hand some form quite as much as a hand some face. I might have married her I really think I should, but for a little affair that h ippened at U. The morning I started for 31 . Bowers accompanied me to the depot. While I was buying my ticket, I noticed another gentleman come into the waiting-room. Ify first thoughts was that it was my shadow that I saw before me. He was about my height, had a light complex ion like mine, and eyes of grizzly -gray, and one of them turned in just like mine. He had on a tall silk Lat, tipped on one side of Lis sandy locks, and so did I ; and furthermore, he earned in his hand a carpet-bag, with a tag marked "J. MeD." tied to the straps. So did L I looked at him, and he returned the compliment. "I say, ru-" saij the stranger, look ing down at the carpet-bag I held, and examining the tag, "are you John Mc DongaL oram I?" "My name is McDougal. I hope you are an honest man, for, you see, if yon should hap)en to rob a bank, forge a note, pick a pocket, or cut somebody's jugular. I might have to suffer, perhaps swing for it I can give you reference as to my character," I answered. "Yes, that's very good. But Mr. Me Doniral, which way are yon going to go?" "Down. I Lave just bought my ticket" "Then I'm goiug up. I don't think e'd best travel together. Them's the teiin starting now, Good bye, Mr. Mc DoTigal, I wish you success, and for my sake don't spoil your character." . To get to M., which, by the way, is a rather ont-of-the-way place, a small, one-horse town, with one tavern, two churches and a poor-house, I had.to leave the cars at T., and then take a pri vate conveyance to M., five miles dis tort. I could have gone by the stage, out that only leaves U., once a day, at five o'clock in the morning. So when the cars stopped at U., I O0k my carpet-bag in my hand, and got out upon the platform. There was quite a large number of PTle at the station, bnt I took no no tice of any of them, except a tall, braw ny man, in a brown overcoat and slouch ed hat, who started for me as hoon as I stepped off the cars. I was a! tout to move away when the slouched hat laid his j and heavily on my shoulder. "You are a villain !" 'Sir?" "I repeat it You're a villain !" "A miserable scamp," said a corpu lent gentleman, coming forwaad and aerowling fiercely. I felt that I was a match for the ktter, but as to the other one, I did not doubt but he might work me up wto shoe-strings in less than three min- 'Will you please explain yourselves, gentlemen," I asked, trying to smile. "Yes, I will," answered the big one, putting great stress on the "wilL" . 'Certainly," growled the corpulent gentleman with a smile. "Come this way you rascal," said the tall one-, drawing me along with him. His companion followed us out back of the station, where we were out of sigLt and Learing of the rest of TJ. "Now," said the tall gentleman, turn ing and confronting me. "IU introduce myself. I am Captain Augustus Boyn ton. This gentleman is my father, John Boyntou, Do yon know ns now ?' "Well, really," I replied, wondering in my own mind what the deuce was coming ; "really I don't know anything more about you than what vou've just told." "Hush !" said the captain, and he lieut down and hissed in my ear : "I am Carrie Boyntou's brother." "And I am her father," growled John Boyntou, "Ah, really, do yon say so." I could not help smiling, tbe whole affair seem ed so ludicrous. -'Give my regards to Carrie." "Ha ! you laugh at us, do you, vil lain," cried the captain. "Look 'ere," said he lowering Ids voice to a horrid whisper; "look at these." I did look, for just then he drew from the pocket of his brown overcoat a hand some case, and, opening it, displayed a pair of splended silver-mounted duelling pistols. "lake your choice. A cold tremor ran through my frame. Was I to be murdered ? "Choose quick," urged the captain. "Sir," said I, in a tremulous voice, while the cold drops of prespiration stood out on my brow, "there must be some mistake. I'm book-keeper for Brown 1c Co., dealers in hides and tal low. My father was Norton McDougal, my mother was Mary McDougal my grandfather was " "Confound your grandfather Either marry my sister as you promised to do a month ago, or take one of these pistols and" "O. help !" ''Dry np, you whelp!" and the" cap tain clapped his hand over my mouth. "Choose," said the captain, giving me a kick with his boot "I'll mar-marry her. -"All right" And the captain smiled grimly as he returned the pistol to the case. The elder Mr. Boyaton went after the carnage, hut belore 1 liau ceascrt to tremole he returned. The captain Leliied me in, ai:d then aeatfvl Aietwecn the chivalric father and., son, I rode away. There were plenty of people on the street, but I was warned not to shout, if I knew what was healthy for me. We rode at a smart trot for about two miles, I should think, and then the cap tain drew rein before a large, two-story white house, that stood near the road, surrounded by a high white fence. There was a gravel walk up to the frrnt door, and several large cherry trees stood in the front yard. 'Here we are." said the captain, get ting down, and motioning me to follow. The door opened just as we reached it, and who should fall into my arms but the indentieal young lady who had made such a strong impression upon my heart the night of the lectnre in W. "O, John! I knew you would be true," she cned ; and the captain snick ered as he led the way into the parlor. But once there I succeeded in convin cing Mws Eoyntn that I was not Mc Dougal Her father apologized, so did the captain, and the upshot of it all was that I consented to stop over night with them, and. I am happy to state that I passed a very p!easant evening indeed. "I learned, too, that this J. McDou gal, for whom I had been taken, was a gentleman of wealth and leisure, with only one fault, and that was promising to marry every pretty woman he became acquainted with. Then I told my story, and both Mr. Boynton and the captain seemed pleased, and so did Carrie, es pecially when I offered to stand in Mc Dongal's shoes. And w H, my dear reader, I did about a month afterwards. We had a great wedding, and Clara Segard was one of the bridesmaids, and Henry Bower was groomsman And I am well satisfied that McDougal took the up train instead of the down. Oat I Cume. In the days gone by a Detroit Sheriff ho Lad made a close Bliave of being elected, had the ill luck to lose a pris oner from the iaiL The fellow made good his escape to the country, but the Sheriff overhauled him about eiglit miles out and drove him under a barn. The prisoner was captured and yet Le was not If Le could cot eret out the Sheriff could not get in, and threats Lad no effect on him. In this emergency tne officer called out: "Say, Jim. "Yes." "You know I Lad a migLly close sLave getting this office." "Well I'm laying my pipes for a sec ond term. If I lose you 1 mignt as well hang up. TI'C opposition will hold ;t m in letters four feet lugh, and hun dreds of men in my own party will slip my name. Do you near me "I do." vr!i T asfc von to come out. not cx actly as prisoner going back to jail, but more as a patriot bouna to siauu j rwrtr rVtme. Jim. "IT1 be hanged if I don't!" rcpiieu mc nrLioner. . The judge was agin me, my - - - ..... 1-1 iL. sentence was unjust, and I hate your jail, but if it's going to help the party and crush the hydra-headed opposition out I come! The Snake Ki-er Falls. For two or three miles above Shoshone Falls the river flows throngh immense chasms, with walls on either side hundreds- of feet high. The river is full of rapids for miles, the descent being so great At the upper Shoshone Falls, known as Twin or Little Fulls, the river is divided by an island, and the two streams rush over the precixice and fall iuo the pool 172 feet below, As viewed from the bluffs, hundreds of feet abjve, the sight is grand, and from below there is still more to admire and to awe the visitor. Some four or five miles down the river and we come to the great falls, where the entire river descends in one sheet 210 feet We remember roaudng around Xiagara Falls, the rapids and other places of interest for several days once, and with all that there is to admire and excite our wonder, there is as much if not more, to interest the visitor to this portion of Snake River, and should this place le connected by railway with the outside world this wifl ecome a great resort for travelers. Some thirty or forty miles down stream is Solomon Falls, ex tending quite a distance. The greatest of these falls is only about twenty feet, but the forms a d the great number of the falls and cascades made it very beau tiful. But a short distance alove these falls is the most remarkable sight we have ever seen. In the high bluffs along there issue numerous great spriugp, the waters of which fall over the rocks and are lashed to silvery streams and spray in their descent The finst of these pours over a cliff in a semi-circular form and f'dls over 250 feet As seen from the opposite side of the river it is very beau tiful. Further down the river it is a much grander sight A stream of water equal to that of a river pours out of the bank and falls over the rocks in silvery streams of almost every conceivable shape and form, while the spaces be tween are lined with green moss and shrnbs,so that it presents an appearance of an immense grotto. These falls cover a space of over 100 feet in height and several hundred feet in width. Further J down the stream for over one mile other similar springs issue, and each possesses its own features of beauty. Where this vast body of water comes from is a ques tion that will probably never be solved. Lost River enters the Snake River Val ley at a point up stream over 100 miles distant, and there sinks out of sight in the lava. Other streams along the west ern and northern liorders of this vast lava plain for a distance of nearly 200 miles come iu from the mountains and sink. These united streams would pro bably furnish as much water as pours out of these springs, but no single one of these srteams would supply any of tbrrlarger springs, so it is only specula- lion to assume tliat the source cf snpply comes from any particular stream. Oar (iermitfi Cnet. The following is a list of the desend- ents of Baron Steuin of Revolutionary fame, now the guest of the Nation at Yorktown : Arndt von Steuben, aged fifty-six, colonel of the Seventy -ninth In fantry, stationed at Hildesheim, and chief of the mission. Fritz von Steuben, aged forty -five, captain of the Fourth Royal Guard Infantry, stationed at Spandan, brother of the Colonel. Knno von Steuben, aged twenty-six,lienU-nant of the Thirty-ninth Infantry, stationed at Duesseldorf, a son of Colonel Steu ben. Bern'dt von Steuben, aged twenty four, lietuenant and adjutant of the Twenty-third Line, stationed at Rastadt, another of the Colonel's sons. Anton von Steulen, aged twenty-three, lieu tenant in the Seventy-ninth Infantry, still another of the Colonel's sons, and stationed with Lis father at Hildesheim. Richard Ton Steuben, aged fifty-four, royal chief forrester and captiin of the Landwehr national militia, from Falsen berg. Engen von Steuben, captain in Niuety-eight Infantry, from Branden burg, Lis brother. With the exception of Berndt and Anton von Steuben,young men of twenty-three and twenty-four, they are all mamed. Speech lew. Where was it somebody was telling the Jester about the good old preacher somewhere down in Ohio, who loved his pipe and cigar for better than he did the man who always keeps awake throngh the hymns and goes to sleep during the sermon? One day the com mittee of brethren came to remonstrate with the parson for about the hundredth time, beseeching and commanding him to abandon thewicked and filthy habit of smoking. " If," they told him, "you can give ns one passage of Scripture, one line from the Bible that justifies you in the use of tobacco, we will let you smoke in peace and never approach yon on the subject again." "11 m, aaia uie 01a man, -yon mean that, do vou?" "Indeed, we do mean it, ana we win abide by what we say," said the com mittee. "Then," said the parson, brightening up, "noweloestieveiauonxxii,n. suite you 'He which is filthy, let him be fil thy still' ?" And they turned away and were speechless. Poah Behind. In the seventeenth century they Lad in Paris a queer little veLicle made to carry but one person. It w s not drawn by a borse, but by a men. One evening, when it was raining terribly. Toisson the youngei, a famous coiredian, hired one of these carriages to take Lim to the theatre. Bnt the man-horse went so slow that Foisson began to fear he would be late. "Why don't you go faster?" he asked. "I can't unless I have some one to push behind," said the poor deviL "Well, well, it must be done, I sup pose," said Foisson, and, leaving his seat, he pushed with all his might all the way to the theatre. He reached there on time, to be sure, but as muddy and wet as if Le had just been picked out of the river. The White Man. ! Anions- the Semiuo'.e Indians there is u a singular tradition regarding the white man's origin and superiority. Theysay when the Great Spirit made the earth Le also made threb men, all of whom were fair complexionud, and after mak ing them Le led them to the margin of a small lake, and bado them jump in and wash. One obeyed, and came out purer aud fairer tban before; tlie second henitated a momeut, during which time the water, agitated by the first, had be come mnddied, and when Le bathed he came out copper-colored; the third did not leap until the water became black with mud, and he came out with his own color. Then the Great Spirit laid liefore them three packages, and out of pity for his misfortune in color, gave the black man the first choice. He took hold of each of the packages, and having felt the weight, chose the heaviest ; th copper-colored man chose the next heaviest, leaving the white man the lightest When the packages were opened, the first was found to contain spades, hoes and all the implements of lalw; the second unwrapped hunting, fishing, and warlike apparatus ; the third gave the white man pens, ink and paper.the engines of the human mind the means of mutual, mental improve ment, the social link of humanity tLo foundation of the white man's superi ority. A New C'rage There are indications of a new archaic, aesthetic and dyspeptic development which may affect not only our busines and our bosoms, but our stomachs as welL Someliody iu England has dis covered, and ill shortly publish, a series of cooking receipts and bills of fare of the fifteenth century. That date ii about two centuries liefore Queen Anuo; and whoever would be utterly utter id serving a dinner, according to the correct date and style, must go back two hundred years or so, in the dining room furnishing, and substitute wooden bowls and pewter platters for "keramics.' And, as to the forks, not even in the palace in England were they known till the sixteenth century. Bluff Harry, the much-married, who died in 1547, never used a fork. The great Queen Bess had several presented to her, but used the article only on state occasions, probably when the foreign Ambassadors were present who had brought her the "res thetic" article, as gift fit for a sove reign, nigh breeding, in those days, consisted in skill in so using the fingers that the hand should not be smeareds qiute to the wrists. This accomplish ment, by the way, might be useful now, at picnics or with travelers who regale themselves in the railway cars. The Oreat In-ill Serjeant. 1 I It was fit and proper that the repre sentatives of the Steuben family should be invited to participate in the York- town ceremonial, The Baron Steuben was one of the foreign officers who came to the assistance of our Revolutionary fathers, and who remained an American citizen to the close of his life. He was indeed a great acquisition. Trained in the martial school of Frederick the Great he had won his laurels at Frague and at Rossbach, and had risen to be an Adju tant General in the King's staff. He came to ns at a dark peroid of the war, and his first services were rendered amid the wintry want of Valley Forge. He drilled our troops as he only could Lave drilled them, ne was a thor ough disciplinarian, and his manual for tie army was approved by Congress in 1779. He was an accomplished soldier, of great knowledge and experience, and sometimes, it is said, the clumsiness of his men sorely tried lus temper, His knowledge of the English language was limited, and the tradition is that he swore very freely at the troops in Ger man and French. Once, particuarly ex asperated, he called out to his aid: Ve nez, mon ami Walker, sacrez de gauch erie of dese badaude jo n'en puis plan I can curse dem no more." He was a member of the court-martial which tried and doomed Major Andre in 1780, and in the same year he had command of the troops in Virginia, and did good work in making matters uncomfortable for Bene dict Arnold, who was in command of the British forces. . Subsequently he 9 attached to Lafayette's division, and took part in the siege of Yorktown. Major Ebenezor Denny, a diarist of the Revolution, writing at Williamsburg, September 15, 1781, says: "Baron Steuben is our great military oracle. The guards attend the grand parade at an early hour, where the Baron is al ways found waiting, with one or tjro aids ou horseback. There men are ex ercised and put through various evolu tion and military experiments for two hours many officers and spectators pre sent ; excellent school this. At length the duty of the parade comes on. The guards are told off; officers take their posts ; wheel by platoons to the right ; fine corps of music detailed for this duty, whicTi strikes up ; the whole march off, saluting the Baron and field officer of the day, as they pass.' We can here imagine the Baron in his ele ment, his vigiiant eyes watching every movement, and his voluble tongue exe crating in mingled French, German and English every sign of ignorance, of in dolence aud of clumsinoss. In a sepa rate command, he did not win much distinction ; indeed, Le did not Lave much chance, for his operations in Vir ginia were brief, and were not very for tunate. Congress, however, put a high estimate upon his services, for in 1790 it voted him a life annuity of $2500, and Le had" a plenty of land also voted him Dy aiiierent states. JNew lork gave him 16,000 acrvs near TJtica. He trans ferred a good deal of it to his aids. Some of it he himself improved, and he lived untQ 1(94. When Steuben was appointed Inspev- tor there seems to have been some fear that the undefined duties of Lis office might give rise to dissatisfaction and oc casion embarrassment Hamilton was apprehensive that " a fondness for power and importance, natural to every man, might lead him to wish for more exten sive prerogatives in his department than i; would be for the good of the service to grant" Yet Hamilton considered the Baron " a valuable man," and thought that he ought to be treated " with all the deference which good policy might warrant" At times Steuben was very much discontented, and almost resolved to quit the service. He was part:cularly hampered by Lee and Mifflin, or he thought bo ; but the matter was patched up by sending him to Rhode Island. The Republic undoubtedly owed the services of Baron Steuben to French in fluences. He came to this country partly through the persuasion of St Germain. Ferhaps, as a soldier, he was ready for service in any honorable cause; bnt he liked the United States well enough to remain in them for the rest of his life. He gave us the benefit of his great knowledge and military ex perience ; and it is paying to his mem ory no doubtful compliment to say that he was precisely the man wanted at the moment when he lent us his sword. Blockaded by Buffaloes. The passengers on a recenf train from the Yellowstone Lad an experience ex ceedingly rare. When about two miles from Sentinel Butte, the dividing line between Montana and Dakota, a herd of sixteen buffalo were seen a short dis tance ahead within easy rirlo range. There were several soldiers on board with army rifles, and numerous small revolvers were also pointed toward the excited bison. A perfect volley of lead was poured into the herd, but to no effect. They bounded away over the divide, and were soon lost to sight The passengers Lad no sooner begun the discussion of what they had seen in years gone by when a danger signal from the locomotive brought every one to the lookout A herd of twenty or thirty buffalo were making directly for the train, anl fearing the engine would strike them and be thrown from the track, the air-brakes were set and the train brought nearly to a standstill, while the buffalo crossed, the track a few feet ahead. Every gun was again level ed. Such excitement can not be de scribed. Bullets flew in every direction, some striking the ground as near as ten feet from the train, others raising the dutt a mile distant. The train moved on slowly, and the volleys of lead con strued to pour from the guns of the ex cited passengers. Finally the smoke cleared away, and the buffalo could be seen about half a mile away, trying along as unconcerned as though they had never seen a railroad train. The disgusted passengers drew in their weapons, and spent the re?t of the day arguing as to the probable amount of lead that a buffalo will carry before he will weaken. Pictures of railroad trains passing through herds of buffalo are nu merous, but the actual experience is one of which the passengers miy feel proud. They were probably but straggling bands from the main herd, which is forty or fifty miles north of tne track. From Sentinel Butte east to Pleasant Valley (Dickinson) at leai-t 500 antelope were seen, which i but a daily occur rence. Verily, the Xothern Pacific is the sportsman's paradise. Iamseus Blades. All old work Las disappeared (from Damascus) and anything really good in brass, steel or silk is as rare as it is valuable. The manufacture of the peculiar heavy silks of shot colors Las now died out, not being able to survive tbe competition of tLird-rate goods from European looms. The Damascus sword blade Las passed into the category of things we often read about, but seldom sec, and the brass-workers seem to have lost their cunning. Their present pro ductions are rude in the extreme, and of no artistic merit whatever. At first it may be matter of surprise that more relics of past excellence should not come, into the market, but this must be ac counted for by the supposition that there are foreign agents always on the watch to buy for Cairene trade. In no other way can we explain the notorious fact that, whde a year or two of residence in Damascus will not be likely to produce a respectable purchase in brass or silk beautiful specimens of both these branches of extinct art are always on view in Egypt, and are replaced as soon as sold. The silversmiths are also poor workers, and their bazaar is disappoint ing, containing little that is tempting, except, psrhaps, some Bedouin girl's massive silver necklace, which in spite of its resemblance to a dog-collar, we have seen worn by an English woman with good effect As a rule, however, barbaric ornaments do not become Europeans, since they show only to full advantage on their rightful owners. For a bnght kefia we want an Arab's face and eye, and every one knows how different a clumsy silver bracelet looks on a white arm compared to the same on a fellahah's brown skin. St. Edward. . On Thursday, October 13th, a curious scene was witnessed in Westminister Abbey, London. Being the feast of St Edward, the Confessor, the chapel where the remains of that King were deposited is on that anniversary thrown open to the public From 10 A. M. until late in the afternoon numbers of Roman Catho lics, priests, laymen and ladies were to be seen praying around the shrine of the saint Some had prayer books, others rosaries in their Lands, and all were evi dently most f arnefci in their devotions. Stock Feeding- with Fruit Culture. Stock feeding is peculiarly adapted to compensate for the fertility carried off in fruit crops, and fruit culture and stock feeding may profitably be joined together. This is especially true of the larger fruits, sueh as apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries, etc - These fruits, after being properly planted and the trees grown beyond the risk of pos sible injury, will be benefited if the orchards are pastured by young stock, and especially with calves or sheep. Calves and sheep are fond of fruit, and wormy, early fallen fruit will be eaten before the insects escape to the earth, there to lmrrow till the next season. We have known many old orchards, the fruit of which had become worthless from the depredations of the curculio, to be en tirely renovatad, bearing large excellent fruit, after three years pasturage of calves. O.te large apple raiser, who markets many thousand barrels per year, and pastures calves, sheep and pigs in different orchards, informed us that the increased quantity and quality of fruit woxld much more than pay for all the food the seanimals would consume if it were purchased; besides, he finds the growth upon this stock a large it'm of profit He said he had one year pur chased ten calves, two months old, and placed them in a ten-acre apple orchard, which was under the plow, for the pur pose of promoting the health and growth of the trees, and did not furnish much pasture. He therefore fed each calf one quart of oats and two quarts of mid dlings per day for four months, begin ning the first of June, and in October sold them for stock calves, at profit of 875 on the lot, over and above the cost of calves and food. They were estimated to weigh on an average 500 pounds per head. These calves picked up all the wormy fruit as fast as it fell, and their j growth was most rapid after the defec- j tive fruit began to fulL We know one dairyman owning a large orchard, who, instead of pasturing calves, turns his cows into his largo ap ple orchard as soon as the defective fruit begins to fall. To prevent them from reaching apples upon the lower limbs or from injuring the trees, he has devised a convenient method of tying the head down to the level of the position in which they ordinary hold the head when not grazing, A leather clasp three inches wile is buckled around the foreleg with an inch ring sewed upon one side, and a rope tied about the horns of proper length with a snap in the lower end to snap in to the ring on the leg clasp. This does not require the cow to hold her head iu an unnatural position, but prevents her from reaching for fruit, and it can be unsnapped in amoment . He finds cows the best for consuming this wormy fruit, especially if there is con siderable of it; and as his principal stock is dairy cows.be saves the expense and the trouble of keeping young stock or calves, and thus can devote all the keep of his farm to dairying. He keeps no other stock except horses and hogs. He thinks that dairying and fruit cul ture are peculiarly adapted to each other, for the labor of dairying and fruit culture do not at all conflict The apple crop especially, comes to market in the fall, when the dairy is at its lowest de mand for labor. Pigs are well adapted to stone fruits, as they will eat their fruit while calves will not Sheep are also good stock for old orchards, as they eat almost any kind of fruit, and their droppings are an excellent fertilizer for fruit trees. Large orchards may also furnish much green soiling food for stock, and thus bring a considerable profit outside of fruit. lithe farm is nearly all devoted to fruit, stock may yet be profitable; for after usin-all the food grown upon the farm purcnased food may be nsed with a profit on the growth, beside the manure produced. Stock feeding is the cheapest method of producing the compensating fertility for the fruit carried off year by year. And it matters not how large or how small may be the orcharding, some branch of stock feeding should be carried en as auxiliary to fruit farming. As grass is king, the whole business may be sum med up iu four words grass, fruit and stock. Mu-tlcal. Musical instruments which are thought to throw important light on tho history ot music have been found in the royal palace at Potsdam. Three early Silber- man pianos, discovered there by Mr. Hipkins, have been identified with those on which John Sebastian liach impro vised before Frederick tho Great All are copies of the instruments invented by Christofari, the Italian, and this fact is thought to dispose of the claims made for Silberman as the inventor of the piano. Another piano, also found there, is believed to be oue of Stein's, Mozart's Angsburg friend. Two Schudi harpri- chords, one of hich is dated 1766 has silver keys, have turned up in the same place. Mr. Hipkin's is to write about them for Grove's "Dictionary of Music" and the "encyclopedia lintannica. Apply Within. Gen. ForsUhe, of Sheridan's staff, found a humorist during bu recent tour of inspec tion among tbe military posts of the ex treme Western frontier. Away up in the fool bills along Orecn Kiver, he came upon a station-keeper, who lived in a but con taining four stalls for animals, and a com bination parlor, kitchen, and sleeping apartment six by ten feet in size. Over the door, outside, in huge character letters, ''Hotel de Starvation, 1,000 miles from bay and grain, seventy miles from wood, fif teen miles from water, and only twelve inches from h L" The walls of tbe room are decorated with picture" cut from police publications. Over tbe door, inade, in char coal letters a foot in leneth, are the words, "God bless our home, and in another place the notice, "Wanted a nice young girl for general housework. Apply with I Some Autocrapha. f The many people who have admired the free, bold, yet graceful handwriting of President Garfield, as displayed hi hundreds of foe simi'ies, will be glad to learn that his original autographs are quite as fine as any copies of them ever made. General Arthur writes a large, care less, heavy haad, with no particular in clination. It looks precisely as if the writer could not spare the time neces sary to execute it There is strength in the writing, however, and both these signatures compare favorably with the inflated; shapeless, balloon capitals of General Grant, or the little cramped hand of President Hayes, which likewise appear among the rest. Secretary Roltert T. Lincoln, by the way writes a haud strikingly like that of ex-President Hayes. Attorney General MacVeagh's signatures resembles some of those affixed to the declaration that is, it is large, bold, antique and distin guished-looking. Kirk wood and Win dom are neat aud legible penmen. Post master General James writes prettily, with several graceful little flourishes. Secretary Blaine's hand is large, bold aud distinct, all letter j and words being connected throughout If ever a signature could be received as indicative of the character of its own er.it is that of Roscoe Conkling "grand gloomly and peculiar." It stands out in the relief of the blackest ink from the paper. Scarcely two letters at the same angle, with intricate and grotesque flourishes everywhere it certainly gives expression to the mentid ramincations of the unknown, so far as they can be guessed at It seems to say: "My mas ter writes like no one else; I stand alone among the signatures." Directly below, as is fitting, appears the respectable and business-like chirography of Thomas C. Piatt, which is above invidious criticism. Colonel George Bliss signs Lis name in a bold, dashing running hand, every stroke of which is clearly cnt, without a particle of affectation, General Jonn A liogan incribes his name in a series of coarse, black, npright characters. Senator Pendleton's style is somewhat similar, though the letters are better joined and better formed. The Hon. Thomas F. Bayard's Land is a study. Plain, neat aud angular, it re sembles the bold, English manner of writing so much affected by ladies. General Joseph B, Hawley's elegant and graceful autograph is familiar from its appearance on innumerable diplomas and other documents issued by the cen tennial commission in 1376. Alexander H. Stephens writes hesitatingly. : small, tremulous hand. General William, Malione, the great Virginia rcadjuster, is the possessor of wliat may be termed a lateral hand writ ing, 11 handwriting 13 a proper term to apply to a sea of broad horizontal dashes extending from one side of the paper to the other, with here and there a slight ripple of short, upward stems. Hannibal Hamlin apparently wastes as little time, ink and paper as possible in signing his name, yet there is no need of a second glance at the writing in order to inter pret it Senator George F. Hoar, of Massachuseets, writes, quite as plainly, but in a pinched sort of a hand, like that of a New England "school rearm," who set copies to her pupils prettily, in the style of former days. Wade Hampton vails his ferocious per sonality behind a pretty lady's hand, which some of his fair constituents might envy. Don Cameron appears to have en tirely forgotten that one of the objects of writing at all is to convey ideas to the human mind, as not even the profound hand wnter expert who figures in so many courts, could confront the scrawl described as his signature without a feel ing of awe. .Lx-benator IS. K. Bruce places on record one of the most d:iinty and micro scopic round hands imaginable. William Intt Kellogg simply wntes his name like otlier people, and not unlike them in any marked degree Bob Toombs signature is an old-style round hand, as much behind the age as the views of that venerable fire-eater. Jeff Davis has a characterless way of allow ing little sharp letters to strangle up and down hill, rather in accordance with the imaginary curved line of beauty than with the straight line commonly regard ed as the line of beauty jiost appropri ate to chirography. General Beaure gard' signature is as distinguished and Frenchy as his three magnificent names, which he gives at full length. fix-Treasurer Spinner, whose auto graph has been as eagerly sought for as that of any oher man living, appearing as it has in all its strange luxuriance upon millions of green1acks; wries from his niiiet home in Florida a courteous little note, the chief interest of which is that it exhibits in a curious manner the great difference between his ordinary hand wilt ;n;r and his remarkable signa ture The latter, however, has lost none cf its nuique perfection. A Ilad Case. A more shocking spectacle," exclaim ed the indignant old lady, "I never be held." The simple fact was that she had surprised Julia's lover in the act of depositing his head upon Julia's should er, a proceeding to which tho young lady was making no visible resistance. Mrs. Marrowfat has very strict notions cf propriety and went onto say: "That a daughter of mine should be capable of permitting such liberty almost freezes my blood to think of. How do you ax plain it, Julia?" Julia suffers her parent to cool oil a little and then, with a countenance as undaunted as that of the bronze gladiator on the mantelpiece haughtily says: "Mother, you do both Frank and me an injustice. We weren't making love at alL I had complained of a pain in my chest and he was only -ounding my lungs," XEWS IX BRIEF. Liszt is sick with dropsy at Wei- mar. The water in Great Salt Lake is twenty-five per cent Salt Paper is leing made from sugar canes, after the sugar is extracted. The coronation of the Czar will take place in April next Seven thousand Morwomen are di vided among 3,000 Morrnen. Balsam tulu, corn' -1 with creo sote, are new German ri . jdies for con sumption. The French Government encourages smoking by its prisoners, and, it is said, the profits are great Tho leaves from the trees in the Paris boulevards and gardens are dried and used for stuffing mattresses. All the White Mountain hotels are closed, after what has been on the whole a prosperous season. A memorial window to Lord Bea cousrielj haa been dedicated in Hughen den Church. On Hospital Saturday nearly 1,000 ladies sat in the Loudon streets in charge of the collecting boxes. The President of the French Re public receives a salary of 200,000 per annum. There is land enough in Texas to give four acres to every man, woman, and child in the United States. Pennsylvania is said to snpply nearly one-half the eggs that Xew York eat a. A leading Chicago builder calculates that 2,000,000 brick are being laid every day in Chicago. Large desia of gold have been found in the led of the Little River, Blount Comity, Tenn. Four barrels of water of the Great Salt Ln!ke will leave, after evaporation, nearly a barrel of salt The annual production iu the United States for several years past has been about 7,000,000,000 pins. The total area planted with tobacco in the United States is C3S.841 acres, producing 472,fil,159 pounds. Six valuable marble quarries are now giving employment to many hands in Hawkins County, Tenn. A new street ra'lway company iu Chicago will charge only three cent for fare and expects to niuke money at that The Crowu Prince of lYussia has reached his fiftieth year. His birthday was celebrated with much splendor. The well-known popular tree plan ed by Marin Antoinette in the garden of the Petit Trianon at Versailles has been blown down. Japan has enacted a code of crimi nal procedure and a pennl code based on the Code Xapoleon aud framed by a French jurist Senator Davis keeps a splendid esta blishment in Bloomington, 111., his resi dence on the eastern outskirts being one of the fiaest iu Illinois. Mrs. Barney Williams, the actress, lost $10,000 worth of property cos tumes, manuscript, etc., in the late storage-house fire iu Xew York In 1659 X an tucket Island was deed ed by Tuomas Maybew to ten purchas ers, for thirty pounds and two beaver hats. Arkansas has more coal than Great Britain. At least three other States in the Union have Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. Senator David Davis is the most ex tensive laud owner in Central Illiuois, -his wealth leuig set down at $2,000,000. His yearly taxes amount to $27,000. Somebody estimates that the recent heavy frosts did $1,000,000 worth of damage in the territory within ten miles of Boston. The completion of the canal around Mussel Shoal.-, which will happen within two years, will render the Tennessee navigable from Paducah to Knoxville, a distance of 500 miles. A London jonm.il records that the annual poisoning of children by the eat ing of toadstools has begun, and that now there are cases of their dying from the use of homemade wine. Four hundred Hungarian families, with a capital of some $400 each, have notified the American Vice Consul at Pesth of their desire to find homes in this country. Of 106 ministers of the Xortheni Presbyterian Church who died last year 2 were over 90 years old, 19 were be tween 80 and 90, 35 were between 70 and 80 and 50 were under 70. The King of Bavaria has made Mr. Lothar von Faber, proprietor of the fa mous pencil factory of "A. W. Faber," at Stein, near Xnremberg, a hereditary baronet The first American flig used by citi zens of California is still in existence. The people mode it themselves, and had to buy a seaman's shirt in order to get the blue. The revision of the war treasure of the German empire will shortly be made. This treasure, which is said to amount to 120,000,000 marks in gold coin, is de posited in the Julius Tower at Spandau. Records show that iu 13 Septembers in the past 31 years no rain fell in San Francisco. The raiu in the remaining 18 Scpteniliers ranged from 02. of an inch to 1.03 inches. The garrison hospital at Metz con tains complete stores and equipments, to the smallest details, for 3,000 sick for three years. These stores are untouch ed in time of peace. President Harrison's grave, on a little hillock overlooking the Ohio river, fourteen miles from Cincinnati, is marked only by a plain stone neariy hid from view by weeds and other rubbish, More than 3000 women are employ ed in the railway offices of Austria, They receive a salary ot $lo to $30 a month. The majority of them are the widows, wives or daughters of defunct or active mole employes on the different roods. A brakeman who lost his arm coup ling cars on the Iron Mountain road.has brought suit for $10,000, on the ground that the cars were of unusual construc tion, and that no notice of the fact had been given him. Christine Xilsson is to receive $1 ,000 for each of her one hundred concerts in this country next season. Manager Henry B. Abliey will also pay all her traveling and Jiotel expenses, besides giving one-half of the receipt after $3,000. -What is snp)osed to be the outcome of Queen Victorias' visit to the Italian Likes two years ago is said to be the pros pect of a matnmouial alliance between the Princess Beatrice and Thomas, dnke of Genoa, the only brother of Queen Mar nerite of Italy. r.
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