Vf ...... frt i S 4) B.F. SOHWEIER, THE OOXSTITnnOI-TSE UTI0-aID TEE EirOEOEXZIT Or THE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. vol. xxxy. MIFFIJNTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1SSI. . i NO. 49. IffiD ;.. ..to. V ) IVrS A CRAY DA. Funk from ft skr of windless graj Poors down the soft, persistent ruin, And she for whom I sigh In rain, Who nuke my bllsn, now nukes mr pain. Brine far from me this autumn dar No far away. I'pon the wiser vuM and gr No floating sail appears in sight The dull rain and the homld light No wind has any heart to spile. Thin drearj, weary, autumn nyr With love away. Where she fa skies ma not be par, But sunlight All the Tital air Ah, were she here, or were I there, skies might be dull, or might be fair, And I not heed, so she this day Were not away. o gull winirs out twixt gray and gray Ail gray, as tar as eye ran rearh ; The sea too listless seems for speech. And vaguely frets upon the beach, A. knowing she this autumn tay Is far away. Ah, like that sea my life looks gray Like a forgotton land it lies, WIU. no light on it from her eyes. Lovely and rhangrf ul as those skies Neath which she walks this autumn day So tsr away. But they shall pass, these skies of gray, And she for whom I sigh in vain, M ho makes my bliss and makes tuy pain, SL.11 turn my gray to gold again. Bring not, as now, that future day. So far away. THOSE. Geraldiue Spencer the ouly daugh ter .f the- well known Col. Hubert Speu vr, one of the wealthiest planters of Mississippi. The Colonel was a fiery hlooded gentleman of the old school in those Jays "Wfore the war," of which we are speakirg. His grandfather was an intimate anil trusted friend of Wash ington. His father was a Brigadier General in the last war with Great Bri tain, and the Colonel himself was a gra duate of Went Point, and one of the ut dashing aud daring officers under old 'Rough aud Ready, in the pic-nic of a war which, we had with Mexico a generation ago. CoL Spencer was the leader in some of the most daring exploits south of the Rio Grande. He was complimented more than once in the official despatch es, and a brilliant military career that s, as the state of the country permitted iwas In-fore hini.hnd he chosen to adop the military profession, but though th Colonel would have preferred . fightiug to eating, he resigned his commission in the army and went home to his planta tion in Mississippi. He knew what a horde of hungry young offioers were clamoring and clatter-clawing for posi tions in the army, and he preferred they should have them, especially as he saw a prospect of a lengthy peace before the country, a eriod of idleness for the ar my, which would fret snch a high soul as his to death. He perceived all this, we say, and went back to his plantation, on the Mis sissippi, and devoted hicself to his fa mily. The latter consisted of his ouly sou and daughter. Hubert, named of course after himself, was in the second year at Wett Point; the wife was dead long ago and Geraldiue presided over his house hold. One reason, why, perhaps, there was such a strong affection lietwoen father and daughter was because they were so much alike. She was high spirited, as independent and as proud as he. She was as lieantiful as an houri, with her wealth of jet black, waving hair, her brilliant complexion, her marvel aus eyes, her matchless fignre, her patrician, features, and her wonderful grace o voice and manner. Geraldine had numberless admirers aud devotees. Many from the North, where she had spent a couple of years, aud her own suuny South produced my riads but she seemed to care for none of them. The Colonel used to chide her at times for the repeated Miubbings she gave her callers, witiiont regard to - their social pusition and standing. She would leave them at any time, aud go" with her fa tuex oa a tramp through the woods or fishing in the river. After all. there is nothing so eaptivut iug in a pretty woman or any woman, for that matter as an absolute indepen dence which preserves one's self-respect at all times, aud humbles the pride of the proudest of the lords of creation. It Is just that soli of woman that all are most anxious to secure for prize. One summer af ternoon,jfreraldiue and her father were sitting in the shade of the long, low porch which extended in front ol their house. The colonel smok ing his cigar, and the daughter who was richly dressed, was geutly rocking back and forth, and looking off at the yellow Mississippi, aloug which a high decked steuuier. was lalKirionsly plowing its way. A close observer would have seen that the beautifid daughter had some trouble on her mind. Site was uneasy and restless. The swaying of her chair was fitful and uneven. Sometimes she smelled of the fragrant sprig of magno lia, in her hand iu a eei-vona way.and her lustrous eyes seemed to le brighter and more flashing than usual. But the colonel noticed nothing; for he knew the superb poise of his daugh ter so well, that he did not believe any thing short of an earthqnakc could dis turb it. So he continued placidly amoki his cigar, while his pr rested idly ia his lap, and he loked off toward the Mississippi. Suddenly he rose up. "Where is Syd.iey?" asked. "T Lft ltini 'awhile aSO. he abruptly and he has not gone home yet I thought I would like to sit down a f w minutes with yon. "I am g'.ad to have yon, my daughter but it does seem to ma that you treat eome of your callers with rudeness," .Then if I were they," said the proud girl, touching the magnolia to her nose, ' I wouldn't make callers of myself." "I should thiuk not," commented the colonel, with a little suiff at the curious expression she flung at him; "I have a very hijrh regard for Svdne,v.Geralduie." 'Have you?" she asked with an in difference, which in reality, . was as sumed, though her father did not per ceive it "What is there aliout him for you to admire ?" "Well, he is the ouly surviving sou of my intimate deceased friend, Capt, Wil liams of the army. The captain was 1 one of the bravest and noblestmeu who ever trod this footstool, aud Sydney's looks and manner make ne feel he is simply another edition of his father. He has a fine education, is manly look ing, and is going to make Lis mark in the world. He has practiced law only two years, and he has a reputation as high as any who are double his years, I like Sydney very much." "More than anyone who comes here?" akl the daughter, holding the niagno lin again to her nose, while she glanced furtively at her suspicious father." "Well, yes," he returned; "I can say I do. But why Isn't he here?" he ad ded, looking sharply around." "He Is waiting for me," "Didn't I see him dressed up iu some ontragious suit something to match this highbred style of your make up?" asked the father, with an amused but puzzled expression, "If you saw him at all during the last hour you did." "What Is the meaning of it?" "He is to play the part of a gentlemen of the old school in a littlecomedy which he has gotton up, and which ia to lie given at the private theatricals of Mine Choteau. next week, for the benefit of the parish." "And yon and he Lave been rehears ing?' "Something like that He wanted me to criticise his suit and make up and to give him some 'points;' while he vol unteered to do all that he could for me ia the same direction, Our two charac ters are the most important ones in the piece, aud Sydney is anxious that we shall fully sustain them. We rehearsed alone. But, father, such an extraordi nary thing took place while we were do ing so that I made up my mind to come and tell you." "lou don t seem to have i.eeu in a hurry," said he, looking wouderiugly at h:r," fro yon have lieen here half an hour." The lovely daughter hesitated a mo ment before replying. A very singular thing for her to do. "He wished me to leave) him for a short time," "Ah, that is it? Very welL I am sa tisfied to have von here as long as vou will stay," And the colonel looked with pride up on his beautifid daughter, who recalled so vividly the mother when she was a bride, more than a score of years le fore. It was just like the proud, young wo man, who without any appearance of excitement or agitation of manner. came, to the momentous subject which was really the canse of her being there. "You say, father, that you admire or rather respect Sydney very much?" "That is snlistantially what I said." "As much as any young gentleman of your acquaintance?" "Really more." "How would you like him for a son- in-law?" The colonel turned as if struck by a pistol shot, and looked keenly at hie daughter without speaking for a ful minute, Geraldiue herself seemed tc be picking the sprig of magnolia, while she looked unconsciously down at it: but, for all her forced composure, the crimson blood crept np under the rich skin of her countenance, and strive as mnch as she might she could not hide the fact from her father that her heart was throbbing more tnmnltuonsly than ever liefore. Suddenly he exclaimed "Wnat!" I thiuk vou heard me, father," said Geraldine, in alow voice, without trust ing herself as yet to look up. 'Are you in earnest my danguter? This was uttered iu the same low but firm voice. "Come here, nij child! The Colonel kept bis seat while Ge raldiue. standing beside him, looked down in his face. He took her hand af fectionately, while he asked : "Has he proposed to you? "He has," "Have yon accepted him?" "I could not do that until I Lad first received your permission. " "Does he love yon? Geraldine laughed iu spite of her self. "I have a strong impression that he would scarcely ask me to marry him un less he thought pretty well of me." "Of course of course; but do yon love him?" "With my whole heart aud soul!" There was afeverency, a depth of fee ling, in this exclamation, accompanied by the flushed cheeks, the sparkling eye and tremulous hand that rested in of her father, which spoke her x soulful earnestness. "WelL if that's the case, said Colonel Spencer, throwing away his cigar, "all I've got to aay is you are doiu oouioiu: ded simpletons if you don't get married there''' This was a consent with considerable emphasis. Poor Geraldiue! The proud, brave -U-i limits down at last She knew it would be a terrible sacrifice for her fa ther to yield her to another, and she had the gravest doubts of ever receiving his consent, but he gave it so promptly and willingly that she could only throw her arms about his neck and murmur bet- jreea her sobs: "You're the best father that ever lived and I hate to leave vou." "Xever mind about that," he replied. soothingly: "I know it will be your hap piness to do so, I could never forgive myself if I stood in your way. I shall fix yon in a honse to suit myself, and then I shall live with you about four fifths of the time. If either or both un dertake to interfere with me, I shall put you both out of the house." The happy Geraldine gave her father another hug, and seemed loath to leave him; but he said: "Come, daughter; Sydney I know is waiting for your answer Go and tell him. I hope he will feel better." "I know he will." was the laughing utterance of Geraldine, as she tripped away. Sydney Williams was but a short dis tance oft As the father turned his head to follow his daughter, he saw the niau's head, covered with its huge.cnrly wig, resting upm uis arms, as though he were asleep though that was hardly possible under the circumstances. As ueraldme passed beyond she caught sight of her lover, and turned abruptly and approached him so softly that he did not hear her. He had thrown his head forward on his arms, resting on the stand, and he formed a strange figure in tLe English suit of a former generation. Geraldine stood a moment with throb bing heart, looking down upon and ad miring him; theu seized by a sudden fancy, she stepped closer, and leaning over, gently touched his hand with a sprig of magnolia, which she still held Sydnry moved as though it were a fly aud then she laughed in a low, soft nier- way which caused Lini to raise Lis bead and look longingly up in the beau tiful face. "Oh, speak!" he gasped. "Has he consented ?" The poor fellow's whole soul was iu the question, and she saw how cruel it was to keep him iu suspense. "He says, lie thinks we will be sim pletons if we don't marry each other." Sydney caught her iu his arms, and it may be said the contract was sealed then and there. The young man was always partial to the sweet perfume of the magnolia, bnt now since it is associated so intimately with Lis winning tLe love of his heart, there is nothing in the world of a vege table nature to which he is so partial as a sprig of magnolia. Rules for Health. Never stand in the cistern all night It checks perspiration, and spoils the water for washing purposes. Never spank yonr children with a handsaw, or box their ears with the sharp edge of a hatchet, as it Is apt to affect the brain. More than three and one half pigs' feet and half a minoe pie eaten at mid night, will not canse the consumer to dream of an hours' paradise, accommo dating bankers, and other good things; at least they are not apt to do so. To enlarge the muscles of the arms and legs, climbing up aud down the ) chimney (especially if the Louse, is a four-storied one) three or four times be fore breakfast, is a cheap exercise, and gives a voracious appetite. Ear ache in children is a common and vexations complaint To cure it at once, bore a hole in the tympanum with a gimlet and pour in oil and things. I the child keeps on crying, lore in all the way to the other ear. Corns may be easily cured. The most torturing corns can at once be extirpat ed as follows : Take a sharp knife, and fiud the joint of the toe whereupon the corn resides; insert the knife in the ar ticulation, cut off the toe and thaow it away, it will never return again, un less your dog brings it back to you in his month. (Patent applied for.) The habit of drinking can be cured by giving the drinkers all the liquor they want to drink all the time. We know of two in our own experience who were cured in three weeks. One jumped out of a fourth-story window and run a curb-stone into his head. The other didn't get np one morning, and now a curbstone is growing over his Lead in tLe graveyard. . A Kiss am I be Slv. There is to be found much refresh ment in a well-proportioned kiss. This much everybody acknowledges; tliongh only a frank few have the courage to ac knowledge it openly. And it is a curi ous fact, yet unexplained by the philo sophers, that the slyer the kiss is the more there is in it of refreshment A kiss that is paid as a forfeit before a whole room fnll of people is pro&aic.not to say embarrassing. The girl langLs which spoils the romance, and the fel- ow, ten to one, blushes neither of them thinking much of it, and they both are apt pretty soon to forget about it But let the same fellow kiss the same girl when nobody is looking, and the si tuation is aa'different ss possible. That sort of a kiss fired off in a hurry liehind the door or in a conservatory is like an electric shocJc, and is as sweet as cream. The taste of it holds on and constantly suggests the propriety, as the case may be of trying it again. And the laugh ing and blushing are exactiy reversed. The fellow laughs without spoiling the romance a bit, aud the girl blushes lice a pink carnation. It is queer that the very same thing should, under such slightly altered circumstances, be so en tirely defferent,nor is any the less queer because the difference has existed from the earliest age of the world. The King of Denmark has knight ed fom Jews in Jutland. Fond and Drink. What is there that defies indefinite multiplication and Universal diffusion ; that refuses to be vulgarized, to be made a spectacle, to fill shop fronts ; that ad heres to the old laws of space and time? It is flavor. What is flavor ? It is a mystery inscrutable and impalpable,but undeniable. It is a sad truth that all those vast and beneficial operations for feeding all the world from one kitchen, one larder and one pantry ere conducted tlins at the loss of flavor, more or less, A moderately fastidious palate will at once detect the want and take a dislike to the article in which it is found want ing. It is flavor that reconciles us to the acidity of one wine, to the luscious nt ss of another: it is flavor that makes both dry meat and greasy meat tolera ble ; it is flavor that enables us to toler ate what without it is a very sickley thing, "grape sugar" that is, the sweet ness of all fruits. The basis of flavor none can pretend to say .though analogy would suggest it may be some acid in quantities impossible to be ascertained. Of course it is akin to perfume, equally if not more elusive and mysterious. The America ns, however, as if themselves conscious of tlus weak point in their rich and nutritious contributions to the world's table, tell us how to meet it No people in the world are so ingenious at pickles,rchshes and condiments of all kinds. Almost auy cold meat will pass muster with those accompaniments, which are rather thrown away when the food has sufficient flavor ot its own. Perhaps even hominy may be made pala table by these aids. The loudest wail that we hear is over the disappearance of old rjisliah nam and bacon. It no longer answers to fattten a pig for re moval to any distance. Five miles from home his products meet the overwhelm ing competition of good "pig's meat" sold from shipboard at Liverpool for three pence a pound. The shopkeepers cease to keep on hand what nobody asks for, and the fine large ham that used to appear twenty times at a country break fast and lunch table, apparently inex haustible and good, indeed better to the bone, is a memory aud no more. Its successor is some thing that you may or may not be able to penetrate with a well-tempered and well-bharpened blade and which somehow fails to revive in your heart the memories of the happy past The Americans assure us that they are improving year by year, and discern ing jndges bear them out on this side.so far: but there remain two sources of ap prehension. Is the New World as fav orable to the production of flavor as the Old? It certainly is, to some extent, a geographical question. The fish of the Mediterranean are not so well flavored as ours. The wines of Italy and bpain are not so well flavored as those of France. Egyptian wheat is accused of a musky flavor. American wine, even from vines imported from the best European vineyards, Las a peculiar flavor. The fruit of the torrid zone, though sweeter, is not so well flavored as that of the temperate. It really does remain to be seen whether the New World, which in so many respects Las the the advantage of Old World, is not somewhat wanting in this royal gift The importance of that gift, however, is confined within royal limits. Few can appreciate flavor; still fewer can obtain it: and it is evident the millions see in this deluge of American and Australian eatables an unmitigated boon. I hope Von're Satifirl. One night Mr. and Mrs, Jones were shutting up tLe Louse preparatory to re tiring, when there came a loud ring at the front door bell that startled them both, as it was too late for either busi ness or callers. Who could it be? Mrs Jones declared she would not open the door for the world and begged Mr. J. to arm himself with the umbrella stand or hat rack, for it might be masked robbers or something of that sort At which Mr. Jones pooh-poohed rather faintly and nervously, and marching valiantly to the door threw it wide open and next fell back over Mrs. Jones, who had kept cautiously behind. Then the two recon noitred the situation. There was no hu man being in sight, but on the doorstep there was some kind of ft mysterious looking object Mrs. Jones looked at it a moment, then she burst into tears. "It's a-a-a covered basket Oh, J- J Jones, you wretch, how could and I-I-I trusted you so!" you3 "Mercy on me, Maria, what are you crying about? I dou't know what it is? Maybe it's an infernal machine, to blow us up." gasped Jones. "Oh, you know what it is well enough Mr. Jones? Don't add falsehood to your other baseness. Oh, Jones, Jones how- how c-could you deceive me so," and she wiped away another flood of tears. "Ill throw the thing into the middle of next week," shouted Janes in a fury. "IU" "Stop, stop, wretched man!" cried his wife, grasping his coat tails. "Don't add murder to your other accomp lishments, and to think I have tr-tr-b-usted" "Maria," said Mr. Jones, with the calmness of desperation, "unhand me! I will find out what this means. That's our old market basket," he exclaimed suddenly, and the next moment he had dragged it into the hall ' by. it s our dinner for to morrow. I forgot all about it and left it at the btttc'fv's, and he has sent it home then! I hop you're satisfied." "I never saw such a careless man in my life," said his wife, in s relieved voice. "We might have had to go with out our dinner, for all of you." Jones says it was the narrowest es cape ever he had, - The average man measures about five feet three aud one-half inches. Sweet Orange. Of the sweet orange Uiere are many va rieties, classified by some writers into the rortugal orange and the China orange, though some favorite varieties partake somewhat ot the characteristics of both. Tbe following varieties are standard wbere- evcr known: Acia is large, roundish, ovate. good quality, ripen late. Butelha was grown by Rivers, of England, fruit of su penor quality, thin nod. Creole is large, fine for shipping, originated in Louisiana. Lni Kol is of medinm size, choice in quali ty, fruit striped in color while growing, skin firm, good heart r. Dulctssima is a French orange, very small, seedless, very sweet, bxquisite is another of Rivers seedling, used for green -house culture, thin-lined and rich. St Michael's, or egg. is large, thick-nned, oval ; St Michael's (small) is thin-skinned, sweet and early. Jaffa was imported from Syria, noted market sort. Maltese Wood is t hornless. fruit large, sweet seedless, pulp blood-red. Navel, or Bahia, has fruit that is very large, nearly or quite seedless, highly flavored, marked bv an umbilical formation at the apex of the fruit tree t hornless. Prata, another of Rivers' seedlings, is called the silver orange, fleeh pale, rind thin, flavor piquant The Sweet Scvilie is a standard for quality, lruit small, round, thin-skin ned. The Tahiti, well-known in Califor nia markets, is grown to a considerable ex tent in Florida. Tbe tree is quitbe thorny. I he "true St Michael's." as aomn of the nomologists call it is a medium-sized and finely- flavored variety and choice for market The class of oranges which are usually classified under the general name of Mandarin, or Tangerine, are beautiful, small Jruits of high flavor and very de sirable for home use and for market The treee are distinguished by the slender branches, the dwarf growth and the aro matic odor of lruit and leaves. f ruit is small, deep color, rind loosely adbereut Of varieties the China, the Japanese, the st Michaels, langerme and the B:jou. Much similar to thu Mandarin is the bat- suma of Japan, which lakes high rank as a table fruit Another species of small orange is the Otahcite, a dwarf tree, with reddish fruit od small, sweet fruit Slid another of the dwarf species is the Kum-Q iat, native of Chios and Japan, and a tree which endures a good deal of frost. The plant is a shrub the fruit is oval and not much more than cue inch m diameter, quality good. The King and the Miller. Near Sans Souci, the favorite residence of Frederick the Gree t there was a mill, which much interfered with the view from the palace. One day the king sent to inquire what the owner would take for the mill ; and the unexpected reply came that the miller would not sell for any money. Tne king much incensed, gave orders that the mill should be pulled down. The miller made no resistance, but quietly remarked : "The king may do this, but there are taws in Prussia." And he took legal proceedings, the re JjJt of which was that tbe king bad to rebuild tbe mill and pay a good sum of money beeides in compensation. Although his majesty was much cha grined at this end to the matter, he put the best face he could upon it and turning to his courtiers, he remarked : "I am glad to see there are lust laws and upright judges in my kingdom," A sequel to this incident occurred about forty years ago. A descendant of the miller of whom we have just been talking had come into possession of the mill. After having struggled for several years against ever-increasing poverty, and being at length quite unable to keep on his bus iness, he wrote to the King of Prussia, re mi naing him of the incident we have just related, and stating that, if his majesty felt to disposed, he should be very thank ful, in his present difficulty, to sell the mill The king wrote the following reply with his own hand : 1 "My Dear Neighbor: I cannot allow you to sell the null. It must always be in your possession as loog as one member of your tamily exists, for it belongs to the history of Prussia. I regret however, to hear you are such straitened circumstances, aud therefore send you herewith $6,000. in the hope that it may be of some service in restoring ycur fortunes. Consider me always your sff C.ionaU neighbor, Frederick William." How to Shake Hands. There are only two or three people now living who can successfully shake hands. There Is good deal of Land shaking done through the country, es pecially at tliis season of the year, but only a very small per cent of the shak ers and shakees know Low to do it so as to get tLe entire amount of exhilaration out of it Some grab the band of an adversary in a quick, nervous manner that scares the victim nearly to death, while others slide the cold and clammy paw at you so that you feel the same as when you drop a cold raw oyster with vinegar on it down your back. IS you are shaking hands with a lady, incline the Lead forward with a soft and grace ful yet half timid movement, like a boy climbing a barbed wire fence with a fifty pound watermelon. Look gently in her eyes with a kind of pleading smile, beam on her features a bright and winsome beam, say something that you have heard from some one else say on similar occasions, and in the meantime shake her hand in a subdued yet vigor ous way, not as though you were trying to make a mash by pulverizing her fing ers, nor yet in too conservative a man ner, allowing her hand to fall with sickexing thud when you let go. Care should be taken also not to hang on to the hand more than half an hour in pub he, as bystanders might make remarks. This is now considered quite outre and mandamus. Battery Carbon. A useful method of preparing cheap carbon poles for voltaic batteries has been devised by M. Mauri. It consists in taking finely powdered graphite mixed with an equal weight of sulphur free from carbon .te, and healing the mix ture iu a crucible until all the sulphur is fused. The temperature, however, should not be raised over 200 deg. Cent. When the mass is fluid it is poured into a suitable mould of metal, and a stout copper wire it inserted to serve for an electrode. When the macs is cool an J solid it is ready for use. Its conductivity is practically as good as that of the best retort carbon, and as it is more electro-negative than simple carbon, the electromotive force of the cell is higher. By increasing tbe proportion of sulphur in the mixture a highly resisting composition msy.be obtained which can take the place of copper or platinum silver coils for telegraphic or electric ligbtiog purposes. I A Japanese Cirees. xiiuk euiuetmuK CAirwuuiuuii was. iiiut couiu coinmanu a view n me nnn- . . . . , , , . . ,i dred and one steps, were closely crow- ded witn spectators, Japanese and lor - - ' . cigu. it iui mo inner class uie kuuuuw 1 1 . . . 1 I-14-. i .1 a l at the bottom of the steps was thronged .-.I 4l. ... i c 1 ... i the smiling waitresses were unpreceden - ted in the history of that thriving es- . . ,. , ' . ., , utousiiinem. "xsiu. says me reauer, ,, , i . i . , b'liat lift thni nicrlit f Ri.na Hnwith 1 the pony you were speaking of? A great . , . ., , , deal, sir.for the beast has been announc - , . , , ., ... . . e J to go up and down them with a ruler . f . , , , uu uis uses, auu, sure euuugu, wneu . : . it arrived at tLe foot of tLe stairs, not ii a it .v- , i- witLout difficulty, and long behind time ... , owing to the pressure of the crowd. f.mL .!: tvuiiuv iiwiii iL. , wuim .iui . it " " cudgel, after scattering salt for luck, vaulted on its back and directed it, head on, to the steep ascent With a re J signed air the patient creature com menced to jerk itself up the steps, every J now and then sniffing and looking mildly urprised, as mnch as to say that the getting up the Atagoyama stairs, to which it was so well accustomed, had been intensely stiffened and steepened. At the half way stage the poor brnte, apparently 'half-baked, with heaving sides and drooping head, was allowed a few seconds breathing time, and treated to a sprinkling of salt, aud then urged by tbe girl jockey to the latter and steep er half of its climb. And it went at it with a will, lurching'npward and hog ging its back with every slow but deter mined step. Within twertyjfeet of the summit, however, tne horse flesh begin ning to fail though the spirit remained willing, tLe stalwart rider applied Ler stick and nsed Ler voice with resonant effect At the sixth or seventh step from the top the pony's friends seized its bridle, its legs, any thing they could lay hold of, and so it was dragged and sLoved and pommeled to the achieve ment of its jonmey. At least we thought the journey wras then achieved, never dreaming that tLe creature could return to the bottom ot the steps direct, othcr- wrise than by the rol'ing down, as one winter morning years ago a certain sail or did, to be picked np a mangled mass and carried to the grave. Yet w lien a few moments' had been accorded to the skeletou steed male acrobat, after throwing some salt at it, on the ground and on himself, clambered on to the pad and pointed the jade's Honian nose Yo- kohamaward. With its former matter - of fact manner Lis mount began its des cent A short way down the rider trans ferred the fan Le carried to the safe guard of Lis toes, and camly stood on Lis Lands in the saddle, and fauned his face with his foot At the middle stage again a few seconds rest was allowed for the horse to breathe, and for the ri der to make fresh oblations of salt Thence to recommence, and the pair to arrive safely at the foot of the hill amid continuous plaudits, after a series of varied and ingenious contortions per formed by the biped associate of the dual company. We aae informed that the anomalous quadruped will climq and descend a ladiler. Antipathies. Shakspeare in his "Merchant or Venice" has a well-known passage con cerning the unaccountable antipathies of some men, and an interesting book might be written upon the subject. Not onfrequently these antipathies are strongest and apparently most ridic ulous in people whom we might sup pose to be loftily superior to anything of the sort Scaliger turned pale at the sight of watercress; neither Le nor Peter of Abano could ever drink milk; Cardan was disgusted at LLe sight of an egg; a French lady "never could abide" boiled lolnters, and Ambrose Pare records the case of a gentleman who was similarly affected by the view of cooked eels. Yangheim, a famous Hanoverian sport -man, slew wild boars innumerable, but ran away from a roast pig, or fainted if he had not time to beat a retreat Marshal d' Albert was so terrified at the view of a pig's head that Bussy says that if any one had fought a duel with the marshal with a pig's head in his left hand he would have had as much ad vantage as if he had worn suit of armor; the smell of fish threw Erasmus into fever. King Yladislas of Poland ran away from an apple. Zimmerman records the case of a lady who shudder ed on touching the velvety sktn of a peach, silk and satin lieing equally obnoxious to her. Dr. Beattie tells of healthy and strong men whom the touch of velvet disturlied. Lord Barry more could endure anything but a pansy; the Princess of Lamlialle any thing but a violet. Ore try, the com poser and Anne of Austria abhorred the smell of roses; we read of a monk who fainted on seeing a rose and never quitted his cell during the season ol flowering. Favorit the Italian poet, had a similar aversion, and so had Vincent, the painter, and Scaliger tells of a re'ative whom the sight of a lily threw into convulsions. Henri III. fainted on seeing a eat, thongh he was passionately fond of little dogs. The Duke of Schomlierg had the same mortal antipathy, and the case is re corded of a gentleman who con Id not even bear to walk under a signlxiard bearing the image of poor puss. The Duke of Epernon was unaffected by the sight of a hare, but the view of a leveret would throw him into a cold perspira tion. The Marshal de Breze fainted at the sight of a rabbit; in this case the: antipathy could be traced back to his havuig shot, while firing at a rabbit a serwit, the husband of one of his rais . ... , , Jiaimews uai a mortal ureail ol spiders, Jjms I intr.mt l..- ;., alwut to happen had been notified, we. ,,,., y, , , ... , ' , . 'I .. m '.iiiTr.xiuceu the uiucoru iut . i- L, , . v i an" wnen tue Dake of Athole, thinking ; the Eiigiiah coat of arnts nt'oin'r Hk Higbgateu , . .. , tt . i . T !. i hand closed, Matthews drew bos kept covered wit h flowers. road from the Grand Hotel to the third , , ..,-. ,. . .1 , ,, . . s ord and was with difficulty prevented I A sea-fisher was an officer in the bridge, and in Hommnra every point . ..... .. t honsI,ol.l of E.1-.-1 in I tresses, A hare or a fox terrified Tyeho ' Bndie fairly out of his wits. William , r , , ... . ,r ., ,. , ., .. ,., I Alar-ana. the author of tlie "TnrViuli , muiuu uiuuiru ' t lltr irukc ted in l.Wt by Edwari HL i." , . . ., ! ferred encountering a Hon rather than : o . i 1 . - t .'--.. "Liit. , ,vvA,ta uio v ntw vi a young woman who could see a person i trim his nails with a pair of scissors, bnf ' . . r , , .... " knife was employed she fainted; ....... r - ... . ' Seattle, that of a man who had a horror ! , - . . , ui oeeuig aiijr one uauuie a cor, " I T. .la .nt 1 - ' ,. -14 , i sound of any musical lustrument, tliongh ' . . , . , . , , he delighted in the roar of thunder, . 4i , Angnstns had a mortal fear of thunder ' i . , , , and lightning, and thongh he always . , v . . I carried a sealskin as a talisman against . . , - . ? ... 4iv wwuHi uiuv u vvKKiaano iu m mult, t , . - i I terror had leen ins jure J when dnrt ing a Dight march, the lightning struck his litter and killed a slave by his side, Henri II I. was similarly affected. A lunar eclipse was too much for the nerves of Bacon. Bayle, the philoso pher, never could overcome his auiip- atby to the sound of water splashing from a pipe or cock. Peter the Great the ugh later he built a flet, could not till he was fourteen lear the sight of ctill or running water, especially if he was alone, nor would he cross the short est bridge iu Lis carriage unless the windows wt re shut close. The Emperor Heraclms at the age of 59 conceived such an aversion to the sight of water that it was found necessary to build bridge of boats across the Bosphonts and screen it closely with boughs in order that he might enter Constantino ple. The cases are mentioned of one Xicauo, who fainted whenever Le heard a flute played, and a woman in Namiu who fainted on hearing s. bJl rung, and a resident of Alcantara was thrown into convulsions by the sound of the word "wool, though he wore garments of that material. Pennant, the traveler, uau a great aversion to wigs, and on one memorable occasion, after exhaust ing himself in maledictions upon the Mayor of Chester's head-coveriug, snatched it off and fled through the streets wjth it, pt.rsned by the indig nant magistrate. Louis X1Y abhorred the sight of a gray hat, and Lope would not suffer any one to use tobacco in his presence. And every one knows the aversion that James I. bail to the sight of a naked sword, aud how Sir Kenelm Digby nsed to relate with pride that when tbe King knighted him His Majesty turned away his face shudder ing and nearly ran the new candidate for knighthood through. Lastly, ac cording to Bran tome, while the Queen of apies, Jane III., was n:dike the majority of her sex in Wing without fear of the smallest monseth at creeps the floor, as mnch could not be said forCarraccioli, her favorite. He was so timid in all respects that Her Majesty let a mouse loose while he was playing chess, and iu his terror he rush ed into the Queen's arms for protections a new versiontot the familiar story about "iTissy, ask your mistress," The I'lare Where Cat t'an'l Live. Jim Townsend, of Lnndy, California, has been making some experiment with an ordinal y domestic cat It has been repeatedly stated that a cat can not live at an altitude of 13.000 feet above the sea. Mr. Townsend has demonstrated that such is the fact. Recently he and another gentleman made the ascent of Cattle Peak, which is a little over 13. 000 feet high. They took with them a cat Thomas that was a year old, and had lived at an altitude of 6000 feet with no symptoms of disease. Mr, Townsend had the cat in a box, and as they went np he took observations and noted very carefully its every movement. When the summit was reached they pitched their tent This was about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The cat par took of some food, and after playing for an hour or so, fell asleep and did not wake np until near midnight WLen it did recover couscionsness it set up a howl ng, and seemed mnch distressed. Townsend pitied it and endeavored to make it feel at home, but of no use. It kept np its conMant moaning and displayed symptoms of Laving fits. When morning came the cat was offered food, but it refused to eat, and acted even more strangely than during the night. Towasend says it would open its month as if gawping for breath; jump about, and then go to sleep and wake np with a start All this while close watch was kept aud every movement noted. At 5 o'clock iu the afternoon the cat died of exhaustion. A Dmui Til's. A good deal ot interest has been aroused in England over tbe discoveries on the site of a Roman vii!a in rVingham, Earl Cowper, the owner of the property, and the tenant are co-opcratiDg heartily with the committee of scientists which has the work in charge. In the foundations, tbe masonry firat touched upon proved to be a bath, tbe walls being covered with black and white tessene tile-shaped stones. The floor, which was destroyed, had been made of the same material. Three steps lead Into another room, ten feet square, paved with black and white tessera arranged in diamond pattern and enclosed in a border of alternate black and white stripes. In a third room the black and white teaseis are " admirably disposed in a labyrinth fret design," being bordered as in the room last described. The passages through which the hot air passed into the various parts of the building have been discovered, and cleared of their contents. The work promises to bear rich remits. Two children are playing together in a garden. The little sister says to her little brother : "Which would you rather be, a little flower or little bird?" Ihe young man, after a moment' re Section "a little bird, because it eats! NF'.VS 1 " The order of the Garter was iustitn- There is mil a ' aue in uuiv one hundred of the , j . - . . t . . T , Modoc tri'ie of Indians left. The first Ktuwiaa emlmasy arrived in London in February, 1.157." The sous of the Prince of Wales are leing banqueted at Yokohama. Fmttfhir Wil 1 i.i ... 'u IkuIii. l. I lieved to lie decliniusr seriously. The Herdic coaches are so popular at Boston that 23 will lie added. Prof. S. B. More, the iuveutor of the telegraph, was born in 1791. Cadet Whittaker has liecome a ma nager of a negro minstrel troupe. The Euijieror William has resumed the transaction of orti nalbnsiness. General Francis A. Walker, super intendent of census, has resigned. There were 2U51 cases of desertion from the United States army last year. The first Scotch matyr to the Re formation, was brought to the stake in 1527. Chicago has already ten fine thea tres, bnt is talking aliout bnildius an other. The first shad bt the season ha lieen caujrlit in the St. John's river.- Florida Calling the hours by watchmen is a custom said to have had its rise in Germany. It requires 850 turns of the crank to wind np the clock on Trinity Church, New York. Semper Idem (always the same iwas first nsed as a motto on the arms of Eng land in 17W. Two dyers of Exeter. Eucland.were flogged in 1C28. "for teaching their art in the Xorth." The Eildyutone hvhthou.se was liegnu iu 1706 by John Sweaton. It was built iu four years. A. 1 exas man was lynched for ndim? a mule on Sunday. It was another man's mule, by the way. The death is anuuiiuced of Elia Sehonnioff, for many years the chens champion of Kusbia. " Mrs. Collins, 0f Trov. X. Y.. baa been seriously poisoned by wearing scarlet-dyed stocking. The interior of the Capitol of Vir ginia is beiug repaiuted by a convict from the Penitentiary. A wire 400 feet louar can lie made from one grain of silver. Such a wir is finvr than human hair. General Stonemau has raised 316.000 worth of grapes on his vineyard at Lo Angeles, CVd., this year. In two day recently there were shipped from Pittsburg by water 10,- i i misiiKia oi COH1. A large brick tea factory. 170 miles from Foochow, owned by a Russian firm, was destroyed bv fire King Alfred used to measure time by a device of twelve candles, graduated so as to burn two horn's each. The Philadelphia and Reading Rail road has ordered fifty new engines, eiirht of which are for passengers trains. A larere boa in the Zoological Gar dens in London swallowed a blanket, and disgorged it in thirty-three days. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln ' Las an annual income of 88.000. WLen not traveling she saves about half of it ech year. A London firm has just niannfac tnred a sporting knife forCetywayo, the Zulu monarch, containing twenty -six in struments. Cattle men in the Xorth went who have watched tbe signs of the weather for many seasons say that the winter will be mild. It is said that one square nide in Lon don where the poorest people congre gate, over S2,OOO,0O0 a year is spent iu strong drink. During the eleventh century the ladies of France carried light walking sticks, the heads of which generally re presented birds. The first certain account of the U9e of stirrups of which the ancient name was m-alie, is said to lie toward the end of the sixth century. The Gothic style of architecture was first adopted for chnrches about the eleventh century. It is distinguished by its pointed arch. -General Sherman is shortly to visit Colonel Blackwell at Durham, X. C, on whose farm General Joe Johnston sur rendered to him in 1865. -For half a century, Kentucky has allowed white widows w ho have chddren between six and twenty years of age to vote for school trustees. Prince Murat has been badly wound ed in the arm-pit in a duel with Barou anx. whom he challenged for an article published in the Tribwtlrt. -The people of Truro, Xova Scotia, in a recent public meeting, antnonzed the giving of 8100,000 in bonuses for the promotion of manufacturing industries there. Sojourner Truth, the colored ex-slave, jrho is 105 years old, is still lecturing, - She was born a slave on the banks of the Hudson river, and was owned by a Holland family. Her name was Belle nardeuberg. Mr. Archibald Maearthur, who is reputed to have lieen the oldest man in Scotland, died on October 2;th at Da noon, Argyllshire. He was lrn in the pariah of Kilmoonsh, Argyleshire, on September 5th, 1777,aud thus was in his 105th vear. His faculties remained un clouded. The Tow-boat George Washington, said to be the oldest on the Hudson River, has just lieen examined and lieenvsl for another vear. It was built 1N!0, of live oik and cedar, and has been subjected to very few repairs. Mrs, Garheld is now settled with her three yonnger children iu her new home nu Euclid avenue, Cleveland. They will remain there until April, and will then return to Mentor. The elder Mrs. Garfield will spend the winter with the willow of her son, The vote of the people of Colorado upon the site of the State capital con tinues it at Denver by over 12,000 plur ality. The other leading places voted for were Pueblo and Colorado Springs, but the vote for Denver was nearly threw to one over the combined vote over x thereat I i i 11 I. f f 'J
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