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B. P. SCHWEIER,
THE 0018T1TUT10I-THE TJSIOI-AID THE EiTOBOElfEIT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXY.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PKNNA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 4. 1S82.
NO. c2.
WOODS IS WINTR.
When winter winds are piercing chill.
And through the hawthorn blow the gal.
With (oleum feet I tread the hill
That overt-rows the lonely Tale.
o'er the bare npland and away
Through the long reach af deaert woods.
The embracing sunbeam chastely play.
And g'adden those deep solitale.
Where, twisted round the barren oak.
The summer Tine in beaaty clang.
And summer wind the silence broke,
The crystal teirle Is hong. .
Where, from their frozen urns, mute pr;nj
Poor oat the river's gradual tide,
ShriUa the skater's iron rings.
And voices nil the woodland sMe.
Alas I how changed from the fair scene.
When birds sang out toe mellow lay.
And winds were tort and woods were green.
And the song ceased nut with the day.
But still wild music Is abroad.
Pale, desert woods ! within your crowd :
And gathering wtmls in hoarse acrx-rd
A raid the Tocal reeds pipe load.
( hill airs, and wintry wia.is : my ear
Has grown familiar with ynur mmi- ,
I hear U in the opening year
1 'Wen, and It cheers me 1 njr.
a TKrE sionv.
"Jules Leach, the young man who
escaped from the Asylum, has leen
found. When recognized, he was quiet
ly seated in a train, bound West, with
little child on his knee. The con
sternation of the poor woman with whom
he hod been conversing may be imagin
ed, when told that he was an escaped
lunatic of the most dangerous sort.
So read grandpa, in a riot unpleasant
voice, in spite of his eighty odd years,
after we had risen firm the breakfast
table, "Jest think of it, Martby what an
escape for soineliody' Well, I'm glad
on't"
"I shouldn't like to have lieeu that
woman," said little Mary, bustling
ulsv.it.
Nor I," said grandma, as she found
her yarn iu an old silver tankard, where
the loy of the family had deposited
it.
"So, I reckon not, "said grandpa, with
a chuckle. "Yon see she's leen there
herstlf, grandma has."
"What does ho menu, grandma?"
asked Mary, standing still with the
sugar-bowl in her hands. "Did yon
ever meet an insane person out rf the
hospital?"
"I did have a leello adventure of that
kind ouoe." said grandma, joining her
yarn and V-jriiiiiug to knit. "But
la"
"Tell it, Mar'uy; I've almost forgot it
myself. Yon see it happened nigh forty
years ago, when we were both a little
younger than we are now, eh, Marthy!
And we lived over in Camden, didn't
we
"Yes iu
Camden, said grandma,
smiling.
"And it happened in the summer
time, didn't it?" queried grandpa, wink
ing at nie.
"No! Hummer when snow was on
the ground?" said grandma, feverely.
"Seems to me your memory is failin',
Jchn."
'Well, luaytie 'tis; but I recollect
now 'twas whiter and the man's
name"
"You can't haw forgotten that?" eaid
grandma, eagerly. "Why, 'twas the
same as our own. Yau Pom. Didn't
he make out that he was a relation?
Of course he did. He came to the door
alwnt cloven, and I had just finished
ironing.
"It was ou Tnesduy, too, perhaps you
don't rememlH-r," continued the old
lady, superbly, "and I'm sure when I
went to the door and saw that tall, hook
nosed fellow, with a beard almost down
to his waist, I was struck with a kind
of dre ad. lint dear me. how polite he
was!
" -I'm Joseph Van Doni said he,
and I came from w York this morn
ing. Dr. Isaac Van Dornisyonr bus
1 land's cousin, isn't he?"
'Yes,' I said. The New York Van
Doras, you see, were our relatives.
There was but the one family that I
knew of.
'Well, you'll le surprised at tha news
I tell you; bnt it's rather cold out
here; perhaps yon wouldn't object to
my stepping into the house. My
name's Yn Pore, and your husband is
my cousin.
" "Indeed, said I, for I was a little
subpicicus. for he hadn't the family face.
He looked more like a Jew, but I in
vited him into the parlor, which was
cool and dark, and gave him the rocK-
inir chair.
Yt . said he. taking off his hat and
dusting it with his handkerchief. 1
haven't seen John for live years or more
I aiitiDOHe he looks about the same-
little bald spot on the top of his head,
scar on the right temple, bushy eye
brows, and spectacles.
"You've descriled him exuetly," 1
said, lieginning to feel quits cousinly
and familiar, for I knew that John set
great store by his relations.
"Oh. yes. John and I were school
mates, and lxwoui friends, as you might
nay,' he went on. 'But about that news.
Of C irse, you haven't heard yet Pr.
Vr TV.rn is dead, and has left your
husband ten thousand dollars,
"Well, I wan more foolish then I
'pose, than lam now. We were pretty
poor, and John luid to work day' work
ii. a nrinrinff office, and the way tluit
man said it, you'd have declared that lie
Kpoke the truth.
'Is John at home?" he asked.
" Oh, no, said I; 'John never comes
home till five in the afternoon.
"That mnst make it lonesome for
vou.' said he.
"It does.' said I. 'I am all soul
alone, day after day, and the neighlwrs
uever come in till after dark.
"If yon don't object, says he, put-
Hm his bat on the table, u a stay nere
little while. I've been traveling all
night, for I thought it was my duty to
give John a hint of his good fortune.
I always liked John so much,'
" "Certainly, said I, for the man's
manner was so natural and cousinly like
that I began to think considerable of
him, for John's sake.
" Tn about getting lunch, and if
you can be satisfied with hot ginger
bread, and bread and butter and a cup
of tea, you're welcome.
" 'Thank you very kindly," said he;
'have you got a quarter handy?"
" 'A quarter!" I exclaimed, astonish
ed. 'Yes; you see, I have souie letters
to pest, and though I've got plenty of j
money, it's all in large bills; and be
took out a bulky pocket book, though
he didn't open it. Til hand it back to
John, tomorrow
'! thought thai queer, lct I bsp
j pcuod to have fifty cents i:i my iockpt.
and lhaudedit to him.
j " '1 hank you kindly, he said, very
J pleasantly, and off.ovd to go out and
ciiange it.
"I went into the kitchen, through the
dining-room, my thoughts iu a sort of
whirl, what with the quecrness of John's
cousin, and the news of the ten thous
and dollars. I must say I kiuder lotted
oh that money; for John was working
too hard for a mart of his age; he was
past forty, a little, fien, and not nigh so
strong as he is new.
"Well, Td got me toa ke!tio to boil
ing, and the tea out, and t'je ginger
bread was done, beautiful 1 always did
make good gingerbread, if I do say it
and I'd gone into the dining-room to
set the table, and was just putting the
cups on, when I felt a hand ou my
shoulder. It startled me and I scream
ed and turned round. There stood that
man, with two or three pounds of meat,
done np in a red silk handkerchief th.
same I had seen round his neck.
" 'Wonld yon be kind enough to cook
this?' said he, with a queer smile, and
he put it on the table, right ou my snow
white best damask cover, that I'd got
out iu consequence of the ten thousjud
dollars no, I mean in honor of the
visitor," said grandma, seeing that we
smiled.
"Well, well, it ain't jiossible to tell
you how I felt when I took up that mess
in the rod silk handkerchief. I put the
meat on a plate, as soon as I could, and
just wanted to burn the handkerchief,
but instead I put it on a chair by the
door, and went dubiously into the kitch
en, " 'What kind of a man cau he be,
thinks Ito myself, t bring meat home
in that fashion?'
'There was a stove iu the parlor one
of those old-fashioned, sheet-iron, air
tiiglit stoves and hearing a noise, I
went to look through the glass top of
the dining-room door.
Well, you'd a-thought the house
was on tire to hear the roaring of that
stove! He must have put all the wood
in it that was left in the wood-liox. As
for the man liimself, he had taken off his
coat and collar, and thrown himself full
length on the floor in front of the stove,
where he appeared to lie asleep. That
was the mometit I begau to 1
scared,
However, I tried to reason witu my
self that he was probably one of those
old-fashioned, easy-going men, who
make themselves at home anywhere
though I do think that sort ought never
to go into anyliody's houses bnt their
own.
"Well, I went back and cooked the
meat- of course he took that fifty cents
to buy it with and then I called him.
But I'd made np my mind that I would
tell him he had better go and see John
at the printing office; for the thonght of
his staying there all day was lieginning
to be more than I conld bear.
"It was some timeliefore he woke up,
but after he did, he had the grace to put
on his coat before he came into the
dining-room. He sat down to the table,
and folded his hands and shut his eyes.
I shall never forgot the words he said
for grace:
O Lord, have mercy upon all Jews,
give us this dav our daily bread, and
make this meat and this ginger-cake a
blessing and refreshment Amen."
"As foj me, I could not eat. Never
in all my life have I seen a man eat as
that man did. Half the loaf of ginger
bread and all that meat disappeared;
and the wild way his eyes worked in his
head was frightful.
"Thinks L 'What shall I do?' for he
watched every movement I made. He
finished his dinner at last but I had
not eaten a mouthful.
And now. said he. I waut to
wash.
'Very well, said I, 'there's a pump
in the kitchen.
A pump!' said he. 'A pump! Do
you take me for a heatneu man? A
pump! Xo, I wish to wash like a Chris
tian, and I must go up stairs, and I'd like
yon to lay me out a clean shirt and a
collar, for Tve brought my razor along,
and I intend to have a good
shave.'
"With that, he took a new shining
black-handled razor from his vest-pock
et, and opened it I recognized it in a
moment for a new one John had bought
the dv before, and carelessy loft iu its
case on the parlor shelf'
"I assure you then a cold chill rau
over me. I tried to look unconcerned.
I didn't dare to move. Ihe table was
between us. and I felt sure now that he
was a maniac
" 'That razor is sharp,' he said, with
his herrible eyes fixed on my face, 'and
T'm poinir to'
"That minute the door-bell rai.g. It
tas a startling bell very shape and
loud.
"Stop a minute, said be. 'Don't
trouble yourself. I'll go to the door.
He hurriedly shut the razor, and put it
on the table, and left the dining
room, "I had just strength enough to stretch
my haud for the razor, and close my
fingers ou it, when I beard a scuffling
and loud voices, and down I went in a
dead faint.
'Wheu I came to, my old father was
standing over me, looking pale enongh.
'Well, Marthy, you've bad a nice vis
itor,' says he, as soon as I could sit np;
'one of the worst patients in the insane
asylum. It's the greatest mercy that
yon're alive!'"
"I aict a doubt the old lady came near
gitting killed, said grandpa, "They
had a hard tussle before they captured
him, Bnt the oddest thing is that bis
name was Van Dom, and that Pr. Van
Porn was dead."
"And did he leave you ten thousand
dellars?"
"Not a cent!" said grandma, indig
nantly. Washed Overboard and Bwk Again.
The following incident occurred in
the experience of a Portugese vessel on
a trip from Rio Janeiro to New York. In
the course of the night the sails were
oi.e by one furled, and the morning
found only reef ed topsails set, while the
force of the wind, even under this light
canvass, buried the bulwarks on the lee
side under water. "The tips of the
yards almost touched the tea," was the
phrase used to describe the situation.
While the vessel laliored along iu this
position, a' Hint 7 a. m., a tremendous
sea struck her amidships from the wind
ward side. It swept across the dtvk
with awftd force, carrying away every
loose objects and tearing three men from
the rigging to which they were clinging,
it swept them clear over the lee side,
some fifteen or twenty feet from the
vessel, Tha waves were wasliiog over
the decks from all sides, aud luck had it
that the mass of water into which they
fell was moving towards the vessel.
Just how it all happened, or bow long
they were overboard no one could telL
The Captain, Francisco Piasdos S mtos
Boron thinks it was about a minute.
Ho saw them carried away, and a terrible
feeling took possession of him for a mo
ment Then be saw them swept on
board again. He rushed forward ahd
seized Cauipos by the hair, holding on
for dear life while the maters retreated.
A couple of others eanght the lioatswain.
Tercira grasped aud held on to some
part of the rigging. It was all over be-
bre anv o-ie quite realized what had
transpired, aud the only injury inflicted
proved to be a trifling laooratioa of the
mate's left leg and knee. The weather
moderated later the same day, and
the passage was concluded uneventful
ly '
Oahiroa.
Oshiiua, one of the largest of the Isl
ands lietween the south coast of Japan
and the east coast of Formosa baa lately
been visited and partially descrilied by
Pr. L. Doderlein. It is subject to pro
longed and violent typhoons. Besides
what appear to be the aborigines, it is
inhabited by the more robust and bet
ter proportioned Japanese. The former
have a narrow face and pointed chin.
Their eyes are Urge, the lips thin, and
the bridge of the nose convex. All the
body is protected with thick hair like
that which distinguishes the Amos. The
language is a sort of Japenese dialect
Except some veneration paid to a de
parted relative, the author could not
find that they had any religion. Al
though the population is fifty thousand,
there is not a priest or temple on the
island. The customs differ greatly from
those of the Ainos and the Japanese. A
married woman in Japan blackens her
teeth, for example; the Oshima women
do not A woman among the Ainos has
her lips tattooed ;an Oshima girl as soon
as she is thirteen years old has her
hands tattooed from the wrist to the
roots of the nails by experts, but the
lips receive no tattooing. The pbgue
of the island is a snake called "habu."
It is amphibious, pursuing eels ia the
streams and climbing trees to strike ita
prey on land with equal facility. Death
is inevitable from ita stroke unless the
part affected be instantly cut out or the
limb itself amputated. Villages have
been abandoned where the babu pre
vails. The fauna of the island is Loo-
character eenerally. No other
traveler from the West has hitherto de-
sciibed Osliima.
A Brakemaas stream.
"During the heavy rush of freight on
the Erie Railway last summer, said
brakeman, "I had been on duty three
days and nights, and was completely
iadod ont Between Deposit and Han
cock our train broke in two, and running
together again caused a wreck. I was
sent back to flag the first approaching
t-ain. After going what I considered a
proper distance I sat down on the out
side of the rail to wait. I was soon
asleep with my head leaning upon my
hand and my face turned up the track.
I dreamed that I was lying on the track
and that the Atlantic express-ran me
down, cutting off. both my arms and
mangling me so terribly that 1 couia
not possibly survive, I awoke with a
start, and there within forty feet or me
was the headlight of a locomotive bear
ing down on me at the rate of forty
miles an horn. I grabbed my red Ian-
ten and sprang from the track, and as
I did so the engineer saw me, there was
a whistle f down brakes, and the train
was saved. It was the Atlantic express
that I saw in my droam."
The Turks have a debt of 500,000,-
000.
Mexico's population is put at $10,-
000.000.
A Siamese prince is ou his way to
the United Bute
A Woldlng la Wyooilnc
Camping near the town wa secured '
our stock and then went iu. Entering
the leading store I introduced mys:lf to
Mr. Stiles, one of the proprietors and J
the Postmaster. i
It is now half past two. and at three;
there's to be a wedding down the street j
at Jonas Burton's. Old Jonas is a rough
old coon that we elected justice of the
Peace about a month ago, and, as this
will be bis first attempt at a marriage,
I think we will see some fun. Come
and go down with me."
We went to the old 'Squire s cabin.
We found him poring over a large vol
ume of the statute mt Wyoming, sweat
ing like a horse and looking terribly an
xious. After greeting us he said:
Stiles, the dnrucd galoots that got
up these yer law nnrin t gumption
enough to last 'em over night I've run
through the blamed book a half a dozen .
times, an' can't find a dod-blatted word j
alont metermony, or bow the hitchiu'
process is proceeded with. I'vo just got
ter put the clamps on this couple hit or
miss, an ef I don't yoke 'em up legal I
can't help it"
0!" said Stiles, "just do the best
you can. Any fctnd oi ceremony win no
in this country, for people II never ques
tion the lesrahty of the thing. Ill post
you as well as I can.
Stiles then explained tc turn aliont
how he should proceed, and the old man
finally thought he could worry through
in tolerable shape. Ere long the couple
appeared followed by a crowd of the ci
tizens of the camp. The candidates
stood up liefore the Squire who liegan.
'Feller citizens, this 'yar man an
this yar woman have appeared before
the court to 'oe hitched in the legal baud
of wedlock. II any galoot in the mob
knows of anything that niout block the
game ef tuk to a higher court, let him
now toot his bazoo, or else keep bis jaw
to liimself now and forevermoro. All iu
favor o' me percoediu' as orthoriztnl by
law. say 'L' "
Everybody said "L"
"Contrary, 'no.' "
Nobody said "no."
"The motion's carried unanimously.
an' the Court rules that thar haiu t
nothin' to prevent ihe tryin' of the case.
Grip yer fins."
The candidates joined hands. "Amos
Peabody, do you solemnly swa'ar thet
ye '11 freeze to 'Mandy f urever an' ever?
That ye'll love 'er, au iervide fur er,
an' treat 'er squar an' white, accordin'
to the rules an' regulations sot down to
govern sich cases in the laws o' the Uni
ted States, so help yer God?"
"Yaas, sir: I do, sir."
"That fixes your end o' the bargain.
'Mandy Thomas, do you solemnly swaar
that ye'll bang on to Amos for all co tu
rn' time, that you'll na"s him in sickness
an be squar' to him in wellness, that
ye'll always be to bira a good, true hon
est, up-an'-up wife under the penalties
prescribed by the laws for the punish
ment of sich offenses. Do yon swa'ar this
so help yar God?"
"I swa'ar I will"
"Then by the power in me vested as
Justice o' the Peace, in an' far this pre
cinct, I pronounce you Amos Pealiody
husband, an you, 'Mandy Thomas, wif e,
and legalize ye to remain as sich now
an' furevermore, an yell stand commit
ted till the fees an' costs iu the case be
paid in full, an' may God bavo mercy
on your souls, an bless this union with
His belt lest lilessin s:
The fees and costs were adjusted,
and, after receiving the congratulations
of the assembly, the newly-made una.
band and wife departed for their cabin
up the creek.
Texas Stylo.
One of the most horrible and incredi
ble murders ever chronicled iu the an
nals of crime occurred on the cotton
plantation of a widow, Mrs. Mallum,
aesiding on the Brazos river, near Pitts
villc, a small cross roads place, some
twenty-five miles southwest of here.near
the Texas Western Railroad. Four or
five persons, all negroes, were concerned
in the crime. Two brothers, Frank and
Joe Randall, wi'h an escaped convict
named Bill Hookey, stole a bale of cot
ton, and employed a half crazy negro
named Arthur Armsted to do the haul
ing, or at least tae some snare in uie
theft Sulwequent'y they became
afraid he would give them away to the
white folks and send them to the Peni
tentiary, and they therefore determined
on his death. Going to the house of
his mother, Hookey and the two Ran
dalls forcibly took her son, telling her
they wanted to put him out of the way
of the wliite folks. This was the last
she saw of bim alive. A few minutes
afterwards gun shots were heard iu an
old field, some distance from the bouse.
It seems the mnrdervrs took the victim
to an old field. When the latter said
they were going to kill bim, ue said,
lon't kill me, for God s sake; give me
time to pray! They replied, "o,
d n you, that ain't what we came for!"
One of the ruffians then shot the victim
in the back of the head, another shot
him iu the neck, and the third in the
side, the miserable wretch still begging
for time to pray. When Armsted had
fallen and was dving, the murderers
drew their knives, and also an axe, with
which they cut his throat from ear to
ear, and literally cut off his bead. After
giving a few blows the neck was so
severed that the bead nnug only by a
slender thread or tmncle. Determined
to make a clean job, they seized the bead
and forcibly twitched and wrenched it
from the shoulders. After it was en
tirely de' ached, intelligence did not
seem to entirely desert the brain, but
the tongue and nouth continued their
vitality, and the trunkless bead actually
uttered and spoke two words, and mut
tering, bnt which sounded Uke "P p
pray!" The tongue then became quiet
forever.
Ia a Hammock.
There is something aliout a hammock
tLat is indescribable, and there is no
m'e that can be made that will insure
safety while sitting in one of the queer
things. There are people who believe
that a ban. mock nnderstards what is
going on, and occasionally indulges in
;, j ;a certain that an old lierson
with a lame back cau swing in a ham
mock as thick as three in a ln-d, and
there is no danger, bnt let a spoony
young couple fit iu a hammock ever so
carefully and it seems as though the
confounded thing was alive, and bad
taken a contract to spill them out on the
ground ia all sorts of embarrassing
shapes. There can be nothing much
more annoying to a young couple than
to be sitting side by bide or facing each
other in a hammock, looking iuto each
other's eyes, and allowing the love they
jare no gpfe to show itself in those
orlis, and just as they are feeling as
though tl:ey conl.iu t live a minute un
less they clasped each other to each
other's heaving bosom, or at least one
heaving bosom and one boiled shirt, and
then have the hammock turn liottom
side up and land them on the back of
their necks, on the ground, with legs
pointed toward t'je crabs apples on the
tree to which the hammock is hitched,
arms flinging lively to pull down panta
loon legs, and hands convulsively claw
ing gravel, aud muslin and delaine,
while blushes suffuse faces that a mo
ment liefore were background for the
picture of love'a young dream, and a
j crowd of spectators on the hotel veran
da laughing and saying, "Set 'em up
aain." The hammock shakes itself and
turns right side up for another victims,
as though it kuew what it had lx-en do
ing, and enjoyed it. There are yonng
men all over the Lmd who have been
through such experiences, while the
nutnlicr of girls who have been mortified
by having to get to the house with their
baek hair in one baud, their skirts in
another, while six places lietween the
polonaise and the earrings were aching
like the toothache from the coutact with
the gravel path are legion. Xo girl who
is bow-legged, or has an ankla like a
lutabngor.seouM trnst herself iu a ham
mock, even though it is held by half a
dozen friends, as a haninirck will shy
at a piece of paper as quick as a skittish
hors !, and iu such a moment ye think
not yon are ou all fours, your head diz
zy, and if there is a hole in yonr stock
ing it will look to outsiders as big as the
gate to the fair gronnii. Ou a liniuniock
Ls worse thau a bicycle. '
Straw Furniture.
The lumber of the future is to lie
made of straw. It is to compete with
that of the better class, as there seems
to be no necessity of introducing knots
and shakes into ihe artificial material.
It is manufactured iu any desired
lengths, from twelve feet upward, and
as much as thirty-two inches in widtlu
The cost is such as to compete with
better or finished grades of pine, and
the locality of competition cannot vary
much, for straw is usually cheap where
lumlier is cheap. Some samples re
cently exhibited hold a nail as well as
wood, are susceptible of high finish and
can le polished to anv extent desira
ble. It is waterproof, and therefore must
be as endurable as pine or oak, while it
s as well adapted for roofing purposes
as for fine inteiior work. It is suscepti
ble of being worked by the onlinary
tools of the carpenter, and once fitted
for its place it will not lie apt to shrink
or swell. Samples resemble hard wood,
about as dark as oak, bnt more dense
in texture, with a specific gravity of
one-fifth more than thoroughly season
ed black walnut
For Crushing, it will not le required
to be as thick as ordinary lumlwr, as
its tensile strength is about double that
of wood. The fntnre will introduce a
complete chancre in building materials.
These will include a paper for doors
and window frames, floor, monldings
and roofs, elass for porches and pillars.
cornices and walls, iron for beams.joints
and rafters, with not a splinter oi wood
in the who'e construction, which will
ha replaced with straw iuraler. II
needed.
The A ctrUau Coup.
The colony of tuo Australian group
which has the most land under cultiva
tion is South Australia, with 2.574,489
acres, most of it under wheat Never
theless, thousrh the wheat acreage is
double that of Victoria the produce is
less. Victoria stands first in population
and. except! Xew Zealand, has the
largest public debt It is first in exports
and imports, and has more r.iilroais
opened than any other colony, save New
Zealand, The public debt of ictona
tier head is 23 lfis, 0.1, and reckoning
the inter stou thu at 4 per cen ., the
aunusd interest charge i 1 2s. 6d, per
head, The annual interest charge ou tho
whole British debt, including sinking
funds, is not more than 16a. twr head.
Doa't DeeelTa Ha.
What ! asking me aeam for money!
replied a Michigan avenue merchant as an
old woman requested him for mercy' sake
to give her a nickel.
"If you please, sir.'
"It was only yesterday I gave y.u
dime."
"I know it"
"Aed I'll bet yu went nulit to a ml.n,n
with it."
"Oh, no sir."
"Don't deceive me. - -
"I wouldn't deceive you ft tne world.
sir. 1 m too muca oi a iaay 10 gu iuio a
saloon, and besides that 1 have a trusty boy
whom I can send with a bottle."
Did you buy bread or whiskey with
that money I"
"Well, sir, I flipped coppers with the
old man to tee which it should be, and the
penny fell into a crack of the floor and we
compromised on gin and a riot which sent
him to the Work House for sixty days.
I've no one to flip with now, and the money
sliai go for the silk stockings I've needed
these many weeks."
Home - .Mada TuoU.
Horse Scraper. This is a wide board,
six feet by sixteen inches, with two han
dles, (a pair of old plough bandies are
just the thing.) fastened ou securely by
bolts; a couple of rings and staples half
way down the board, at suitable distan
ces apart, serve to bitch the trace chiina
of a ploughing harness; this tool ia very
useful in scraping snow from hot beds,
or for clearing a field of ice for cutting,
when it happens to be covered; the un
der side should be shod with hoop iron
or hard wood, if it is to stand hard us
age. The snow plough in common use iu
our village streets for clearing sidewalks,
is a very conveuieut thing upon the
form for plonghing out paths to the
buildings, etc. ; it is made of two wide
boards, about six feet long by sixteen
inches vide, set upon edge in the form
of the letter A, with a brace across
nearly in the place where the cross mark
of the A comes. To this are attached
the plough handles, a strong iron eye
piece, for attaching the whiftletree, is
securely bolted to the nose at the upper
edge of the boards, and the nose and
under edge of the lioards should be shod
with iron or bard wood. This is su ex
tremely useful tool; a larger plough or
road breaker for clearing a track for
teams, after a deep snow, is mule with
out handles, of two inch planks, fifteen
feet long or more, and needs four horses
or more to break through heavy drifts.
Wooden snow shovels are sold to
cheaply, and excellently made, that it
would hardly pay to make them by
hand.
The clod crusher or land drag. This
is intended to take the place of a land
roller, where this tool cannot lie affor-
d, and there are some who prefer the
work of the drag to that of the roller in
crushing clods and smoothing the laud,
but I prefer a roller. The drag, bow
ever, has the merit of cheapness; it is
made by taking two pieces o f oak plank
six or eight feet long and four by six
inches; these are to be split diagonally
at the saw mill, so as to give four pieces
three and one-half inches thick at one
edge and cue-half inch at the other
edge. Turning the fiat or square side
of each piece up aud the beveled side
down, with the thin edges of all in the
sa'ne direction; secure them in this
position by bolting on top two cross
pieces of iron or hard wood, and attach
suitable ringbolts and chain for hitching
on the two horse whffletrees. Of course
the team is attached to that side of the
drag where the thin edges of the plauk
come, so that when drawn over the field
the clods are crowded down and ground
down by the wedge-like pressure of the
four pieces of hard wood; it does rapid
work, making a track six or eight feet
wide, but will not take the place of the
roller for rolling grass land in the
spring.
The hand marker for marking out
hot beds for setting plants. This is a
very simple and useful tool and is usu
ally made of pine; the back piece is five
feet, eight inches long, so as to just fit
inside the planks of a common six foot
hotbed; this back is ljx2 inches, aud
has firmly nailed to it a number of teeth
projecting two and one-half inches in
length, the distance between the teeth
being such us we wish to give the plants,
the two markers most used are three
and one-half inches and seven inches;
the latter give fifty plants to each sash;
the former about two hundred. Larger
markers with teeth twelve to eighteen
inches, or two feet apart, are sometimes
used for marking out drills in the field
for setting field crops, such as lettuce,
celery and cabbages, but for this pur
pose the wheel markar is every way su
perior. This is a wheel whose c irenmference
is a common multiple of the distances
we wish to mark; good size is nine
feet circumference, which will enable
us to mark at distances of nine, twelve,
ciffhteeu or twenty inches. The rim of
the wheel is of stout hoop iron, without
wood, and through it are drilled, at
proper places, boles for bolting on the
pegs which mark the spots for tha
plants. The wheel id mounted on a
pair of bandies, like a wheeibarrow.and
a little practice will enable the workman
to strike ont his rows quite straight with
it
ftublleta as Sbilcr.
In one or two garrisons ou the Conti
nent the experiment of establishing
kitchen-gardens in the neighborhood of
barracks, to be cultivated by the sol
diers in their spare hours, has been
lately tried with very successful results.
At Rouen, for instance, such a garden,
established by the Twenty-Fourth Regi
ment of Infantry, yielded during a pe
ril si of right months vegetables cab-
le, carrots, turnips, onions, etc
wkich wonld have sold for at least 100;
while a similar garden tilled by the men
of two battallious of infantry in a Ger
man garrison appears to have been
at least equally productive. The value
of such a garden must not, however,
be estimated simply by the money value
of produce; since it not only ensures the
men c.iltivi tiug it a plentiful supply of
vegetables, but it enables the troops to
obtain the latter in a trer and whole
some condition; wl ile rare herr-s useful
for the seasoning of soup, etc., but
which can not always be bought, can be
grown in it The garden, again, will
afford the men 'to whom it belongs
healthy and interesting occupation dur
ing many hours which otherwise they
might be tempted to spend in the beer
house or wine-shop, while the knowl
edge they acquire in it may prove very
useful to them in after life. The insti
tution of soldier gardening is indeed one
which deserves encouragement, and it
would be well if it were far more gene
ral than it as in England.
Thaacnta.
i
Bear malice toward every nnui who j
differ from yon if you want to be in con
tinual miswy.
Grumble incessantly. It won't do
you any good but it will make other
people miserable.
Never acknowledge that you are in
the wrong for fear some people mill
think you have no mind of yonr own.
If a kind friend points ont to you
some of your glaring fallings, rut his
friendship at once. Of course he does
not value your friendship or be would
not take so much interest iu you.
Give yonr connterfeit currency to a
blind man and jour tilver money with a
hole punched in it to children who won't
know the diffeience Remember that
caution is as neceMry as com bread and
sorgum.
(iive your snpjs.rt and indneucw to
public enterprises and let other people
pay the expenses. Show that you
have the advancement of your native
brother's interest constantly before you
and your pocket tiook couetantly behind
yon.
Collect yonr bills promptly and don't
pay any debts until you have to. Yon
will thus have plenty of cash on hand
and make a little something in the way
of interest on what you owe. You
should always remember that other peo
ple have no rights j on are bound to res
pect Remember that your occupation
whatever, it may tie. is disagreeable, and
thet all others are agreeable. Dou't be
happy for then your great mind would
have a chance to rest, and your fellow
man would not be bored to death with
your chronic complaints aud that would
not he 'according to Hoyle" or any
other staudard of what is right and
just
Make yourself at borne if you happen
to find yourself in a strange house: in
spect the furniture criticaliy.ask wheth
er the carpets are body Brussels or throe
ply, hammer on the piano without in
vitation, comment on the pictures and
be sure and find out whether they are
oil paintings or chromos and make your
self generally agreeable.
1 abto Maaaara.
It is not now the cuMoni, as it used
to be, to wait until everyone is helped:
haste or impatience are ont of place.bnt
it is proper to eat whenever the food
is placed before one. One is not expec
tes to ask twice for sonp, fish, or salad,
and is seldom helped a second time to
desert.
1 "reference for white or dark meat,
rare or well done, should be expressed
without hesitation, and all food taken or
declined promptly and in courteous
terms. Well-bred people never handle
the glass, silver or china unnecessarily,
or the food;they never make bread pills
or drink or speak with food in their
mouths, or leave the table while eating,
or complain of the dinner.
When the child ia strong enough to
manage a fork, give him one instead of
a spoou, and when the dignity of a
knife is arrived at, teach bim the use
of it, and also, when done with the
knife and fork, to lay them in close
parallel acmes thw plate, the handles to
the right
Teach him to use a spoon properly;
to lay it in the saucer while he drinks
his tea no-selessly, (holding the cup by
the handle), to leave it in the saucer if
the cup is to be re-filled, and to place it
in the empty cup when done.
Table manners forbid all unnecessary
clattering of knives and forks. Salt is
taken on the knife, which is tapped on
the fore finger of the left band, instead
of the fork. The hand is the proper
medium for removing grape skins and
fruit pits from the mouth to the plate,
and the napkin should hide all use of the
toothpick.
Vegetables are generally eaten with
a fork or a spoon. Asparagus may le
taken in the fingers; water-cresses, cel
ery radishew and olives are always s
eaten. Cheese is generally taken with
a fork.
Economical housewives cover the ta
ble with a square of baize, canton flan
nel, or cloth of some kind, over which
the linen one is spread; this improves
the appearand, keeps the cloth from
wearing at the edges of the table, aud
prevents noise.
However one may economize in house
hold labor, good taste and much pains
taking should govern the appointments
of the table and dining room.
An attractive table is a good appetizer
and has something to do with good be
havior. Human nature is easily affect
ed by the atmosphere with which it is
surrounded; children cannot be expect
ed to Wbave well iu an hour given over
to fretfulnes, disorder and flurry.
Table manners for the housekeeper be
gin in seeing that her table it neat and
attractive, and calculated to inspire
cheerfulness from it she should banish as
far as possible, all vexatious, care aud
worries.
As CMial.
The commercial traveler of a Phila
delphia house while in Tennessee ap
proacheJ a stranger as the tr.un wa
about to start, and said:
"Are von going on thin trnin?"
"I ani.'
"Have you any baffgsgv?"
N,"
"Well, my friend, you can do me a
favor, and it won't cobt you anything.
You see, I've two rousing big trunks,
and they always make me pay extra for
one of them. Yon can get one checked
on your ticket, and well euchre them.
See:"
"Ye, I see; but I haven't any ticket"
"But I thought you said yon were
going on this train?"
"So I aia. I'm the conductor."
' Oh!"
He paid extra as usual.
NEWS IN lUUEi-'
The Duke of Albany i,sou t.i timr
ry a Genmui Princes.
M. Gam'ietta lvuclied his forty
fourth birthday on Octoiier :$0.
It said that Vau-K-rbilt uow hol.la
380,0(K),(H iu government IhhhK
There are 271.111 sehool-teiehr
in the United States and Territories.
For the Ws of an arm or a leg, a
pension of $24 jh.t niunth is allowed.
Senator Logan's 17-year-old son
ttill euti-r Harvard College uext yi-ar.
At present uior? than fiilO.OOO lives
are isiiril iu the United states alone.
Five hundred thousand tons is saiJ
to lie the annual prodnction of coffee.
The lat John Armory Lowell, of
Boston, left 4,0.s) to Harvard College.
The decrease iu tho national debt
dnriutf OctoWr aiiH.nnted to $1:1,321,
43S.87. The teleirniih messengers iu Rio
Janeiro useii bievclea m carrving mes
sages.
A public statue b the memory of
Richard Cobden is to lie erected in Lon
don. Edwiu Booth oi.iy wants l"i,0H)
for playing three weeks in San Fran
cisco.
Cloves have been brought into the
European market for more than 2,000
years.
The Euperor William is recovering.
His condition is more favorable and ht
is free from pain.
Mr. C. O. r.o"klmi.l, broth, r of
Colonel Rockwell, is rs. tinrtl. !U's pri
vate secretary.
From the iHrt of Sinda Barbara.
CaL, hundreds of tons of linitt lieansaro
being shipped.
The HOth birilidur of Prof. Virei.ow
is to lie publicly celebrated at Berlin on
the 19 of Dece-uU-r.
Senuh r Cameron and family are
now occupying their new resideiu-o ou
Scott Circle, Washington.
The Peiiii.NyIvai.ia State Fair was
successful, inasmuch a tho receipts ex
ceeded eieti.litur-a by 2,000.
Recently oil" the coast of New
Brunswick a steamship p:i-sed a"i ice
berg a mile and a half long.
Berlin police authorities havj for
bidden the lierforni.-inee of "La Mns
sotte," for some nucxplahied reasou,
The deejiest well in the world is at
BudaPesth, liujigsry. It has a depth
of 3,2in feet, over tlirce-fiths of a mile.
An Iowa muii refuses $10,000 for
the old battle-ring of the Fortv-saventh
Regiment, of which G.irfield was Col
oneL
Comity HcrU rt Von Bismarck, the
Chancellor's win, will K; teniporarilv at
tached t til Oenimn Embassv in Lon
don. General NejNikoitscuitzke, who won
chief of the stuff during a jiart of the
lat war lietween Russia and Tnrkev, is
dead.
General Boiihtticr and several
other roeniliers of the French delegation
will extend their Western trip to San
Francisco,
A happy hunting ground for the
Niinrods of France has bsen established
in Southern Algeria by au enterprising
i'renehman.
Ex-Semitor Allen G. Thornton in
tends to settle down to the nninterrn
ted practice of the law at his home,
Columbus, Ohio.
The snin of S2Ni,I0t,KU; was pail
into tho treasury during the fiscal vear
ending June 30, 1vS1, by the commis
sioner of customs.
The amount already subserilied for
the Garfield Memorial Professorship at
Williams College is $17,710. It is hoped
to make the total $30,000.
C iptaiu Charles W. Kennedy, who
has crossed the Atlantic three hundred
times, was given a complimentary din
ner iu New York, recently.
Dan Sully, the comic singer of a
variety show, read the service for th
dead, in Cincinnati, at the funei-al ot a
memlier of the company.
Mrs. SnraMosely, of Madisou, Intl.,
died recently at the age of 111 years.
Her danghter is a giddy yonng child of
eighty-seven.
Mrs. Webb, otie hnndreo vears old,
attended the funeral of her daughter,
who was aged seventy-four, at Green
wich, Conn., one day recently.
The ex-Empress Eugenie intenils to
build a mausoleum in the grounds of
her new English home, and will transfer
to it from Chiselhnrst the remains of
her hnslmnd and son.
Whea in Scotland, the Pirno of
Wales always wears the kilt, oulv sub
stituting velvet for tweed aud modify
ing his "'broiies" at dinner.
It is said that $1300 in arold and a
Urge quantity of silver coin have bewu
found buried lienenth the hearth of a
cabin lately ocenpied by an old miuer in
Gallon, O'nio.
Real estate iu Holland h.is declined.
Grazing land in Friesland, the garden
of Holland, w hich brought in a rental
of $400 or $300 ier acre a few years ago.
r.ow reuts lor gui to tflper acre.
Qneen Eiizaletli of Ronmania still
clings to her literary career. She has
just published another volume a collec
tion of novel iu verse called "Stnrme."
The Alumni of Dartmouth College
icsidiug in Boston are to hold a meet
ing soon to celchntu the one hundreth
aunniversarv of the birth of Daniel
Webster.
The new City Hall of Vienna, be
gun in 1872, and new nearly finished,
will be very fine. It forms a parallelo
gram of five acres. The wtyle is Italian
Gothic.
Forty -two parties au unusually
large nnmlier have ascended to the
summit of Mont Blanc this season. Of
the 62 tourists inclii.led six were Ameri
cans, and of theso three were woman.
A thiirvmau in Halifax had five
cliildren down with scarlatina. He,
however, continued to dispense milk to
customers. Of eighty-two families he
thus supplied forty -five were attacked
with scarlet fever.
A Spanish noble Count de Sin An
tonio, married last year Senora Martin
ez Campos. Siie now petitions the
First Chamber of the Civil Tribunal of
the Seine to annul the marriage, ou the
, ground that the Cc nut is a woman.
Uov. .Murray, ol l tah, sent Gover
nor Crittenden, his half-brother, of Mis
souri, a silver wediling present, ailvei
brick weighing eight and one-half ounces
and inscrilied "1S54. C J. (monogram)
1881. Affectiouate congratulations 4)f
Eli and Evelyn. Utah-Missouri,
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