B. F. SCHWEIER,
TBI 00I8TITUTI0I-TEE TWIOI-AID TEE UrOXOEKEIT 0? TKB LAVS.
Editor and Pi-oprietor.
VOL. XXXVI.
MIF1LINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY IS, 1SS2.
NO. 2.
AX OLl COUNTRY CUl'RCH.
I atop to rest in the gnus-grown anl
To gathar tie QTamn blooms.
And lazily dream on the velvet swarJ
That mantles the sunken lonius.
The rasptierrj nriara obscure the woMs
Affection has carved on the stone ;
With ripening blossoms and bees and birds
Forgotten I hey sleep alone.
And all of the men who wore this pota
or the threshold of yonder door,
To hear of a father's lore or wrath.
Are found on the earth no more ;
And spiders lazily spin their threads
Secure from Intruding feet.
Wills Autumn ltd leaves o'er the pu!plt spreads
And the listener's sunken seat.
I close my eyes anil I seem to hear
Some sacred old hymn arise,
or the pastor inviting, in accents clear,
To M anaions above the skies ;"
Or I hear the bearers, with reverent tread,
Their charge to the chancel bear.
And their murmurous s:gh for the honored dead
Fluats out on the autumn air.
Then the call of the robin dispels my dreams ;
So, rising with bated breath,
I mark where the sun through the casement gleams
As life in the midst of death.
He careth for sparrows;" I thnk Thee, Lonl,
For a temple not made with hands.
And a love that nnto the least arj'inls
A gift from Thy outstretched hands.
"LIZ."
"Where have you inn this timeo'
night ?" he growled, showing his teeth
like a wild animal. "A pretty time fur j
an honest girl to 1 prowliu' round the '
country." j
He came near to her, raising his arm
as if he would strike her. but she '
looked him steadily and defiuanUy in the i lne m to lrT nSul '
eyes. "It's no matter; I am used to ; r E down to the court house,
looking out for mvselt She turned away and followed the
Then, in a sndd'en fit of rage, he pick- stream of men, women and children
ed up a gnarled mauzauiU stick and ; ' running toward the large
struck her. Its aim as sure. It hit her j wooden court house. The jury was em
on the shoulder, and the blood oozed paneled, the men constituting H of
through her thin calico gown. He look- course were tumors and their looks to
ed at her as if afraid to speak. Her face tuc prisoner at the bar did not
turned deadly pale, while the red blood ' tud to re-assnre him. Liz stood
ww .lmt.iun7 Kfj.ine.1 iier lres A : in the back of the room, white as
look of hatred flashed in her eyes, then
she turned away silently, and wiped off
the blood, while he went into the next
room, as if afraid to meet her gaze.
The next morning she went to her
work as usual, but he sneaked o.T down
town before she was up.
"Harry's Liz has struck a good streak
to-day," the miners said, as lie found
an unusual quantity of dust, but she
never heeded nor answered then.
Dirk Beech sauntered domn alnuit the
usual time in the afh-rnoon
"How does it go, Liz?"
She vouchsafed bun no answer.
"Liz, what's the matter? Sulks to
day ?"
Still no auswer.
"Don't le hard on a fellow. It's so
confoundedly hot I wanted a sight of
you to refresh me."
She lifted her eyes for the first time,
and looked at him with a peculiar,
searching expression and answered :
"I should think you could find re
freshment nearer home. Nancy Brown
is gwod enough for some folks to look
at."
"Oh, jealousy, thy name is woman !"
he laughed. "Why," Liz, your little lin
ger is worth her whole body. But vou
know," he continued,stroking his mous
tache, "a fellow has got to have some
fun."
"I could smother yon, or kill you,
Dick Beech, if you were false to me. I
stipiiose I'm not good enough for the
like of yon; but none of theni will love
yon any better."
"I wish you didn't have such an aw
ful tamper."
Aud. privately, Mr. Richard. Beech
did think he was too good for poor Lie
Byrnes.
""What is tlir.t stain on your dress ? It
looks like blood. Has anybody hurt
you !'
"So," sLe answered, looking away
from lam. "I only fell down on a stone
and cut myself."
"Liz, if it were not for your father,
we would be married.
"Tes," she said drearily.
"But I never could stand him."
"The knights Hugo read of stood
everything for the ladies they loved.
They killed giants, overcame dragons.
They were strong to stand everything,
and, Dick, they would have waited pa
tiently, with brave hearts. Poor old
Dad he would not trouble, I am proud
of liim Yon don't know him as I do."
"In the nineteenth century, Liz,
knights are not so plently as blackber
ries. The Round Table is a rocance,
after all.
"But," she said earnestly, the color
mounting into her cheeks like the rosy
alpine glow over summits of the moun
tains in the eventide, "people don't need
to fight battles with their hands, old
Hugo says. The beasts are in the heart
we must conquer. Sometimes I feel as
if a lion was in mine, aud it's hard work
to keep him quiet.'"
"Life is long enough without so much
trouble. I will see you again."
Liz nodded "Good-bye" cheerfully,
and her heart felt lighter as she went
home in the evening. The cabin was
deserted, no signs of her father any-
when. bnt she lighted a fire add tried
to cook an evening meal,and being tired
from her work, she laid down on her cot
and fell asleep
When she awoke it was dark, and the
moon was shining in her face. She
lmtked out of the door, down the long
f nines bnt he was not there. She
was there for hours, it seemed; nnGl at
l.at h saw his familiar form approach
Jnr Wis trait was very unsteady. Liz
rose, and said to him:
nnn't cross. Go up to the bridge.
Put l.n &nwered her with an oath,
and stepped on the narrow, enclosed
flume, which was just the witdth of a
plank. Liz started to go to him, but he
waved his hands wildly, commanding
her to "go back."
Her heart lieat fast as she watched
mrit, aH-niiied eves throngh the darkness
and saw his form swaying iroin one side
to the other. He reached trie miuuie.
She breathed more freely. He stopped,
and commenced gesticulating. Throw
in., l.io 4rms nn. he missed his balance,
and fell; and Liz heard a sickening
.a struck the rocks lielow. She
mi tli liank alone.asone iietrified,
If lt tiA nereamcd and scrambled
down the steep declivity as rapidly as
possible. Her cries reached the ears of
a passsing miner, and he hastened to the
spot and peered down into darkness with
his lantern. Uz was sitting iuei, "-'iJ-lessly
holding her father's head on her
lap and beseeching him to stop.
Liz wrung her hands, bnt she could
not cry. and her eyes burned like fire.
The miner obtained assistance, and they
bore the lifeless body to the cabin, and
proffered their rude help, but she per
f erred to be alone,
She grived for him passionately,
mourned because she conld not tell him
she forgave. Her pan lay in the corner; '
nieney was so little to her that she had I
no incentive to work; stilL unless she i
roused herself she must starve. So she
started out one afternoon, mere with the
secret hope of seeing Dick than any j
other object. She looked white and '
worn, a mere shadow of herself, walk-1
ing in the sunlight like some poor, lost .
soul, out of place in the world. She
sat down on the bank, bnt a familiar
whistle startted her which brought the
color to her cheeks.
"Hello, Liz," he exclanied, "yon
have crawled out of your hole at last.'
His face had an uneasy expression. "I
thought I wouldn't "distnrb yon," he,
said half apologetically. "I could not
do any good, and I hate funerals, and
such reminders. Now, Liz what are you
going to do?"
She looked at him earnestly, but he
turned away on pretense of plucking a
cluster of mauzauita berries that hung
altove his head.
"I well "he said, stammering, "the
fact is, I'm too poor. Liz. We must
wait for a while stilL"
"I can't wait, Dick."
One morning Liz went down town to
obtain some supplies, for Dick had sent
her some money as a present by a boy
that day. She saw knots of men gather
ed in the street, discussing something
very excitedly. She went into a store
and asked:
What is the matter?"
'They just took Dick Beech up to the
calaboose for steulin' Long Tom's pile
last night, who lives above yon, and
marble, listening breathlessly.
Long Tom shuffled up, attired in his
Sunday best, and apjieared as uneasy as
a young barrister wrestling with his
maiden speech.
"Waal," he begun, "I jnst handed
over the dishes and truck, for Topsy,
my dawg, to lick, when I thought of
somethin' I wanted down town so I left
my pile in ole sack nnder the lied, some
luiuis and pieces of silver, 'bout a hand
ful, I reckon. I was gone just 'bout an
hour. When I came in the bag was in
the middle of the floor. I tuk it up and
shook it. It was empty as Job's turkey,
and I'd seen Dick Beech sulkiu' 'rcund
thar a while before and no one else was
near. I'd know that silver this side f
Halifax cause I cut au X, my mark, on
the four bit piece."
Lix started, and looked at the money
iu her hand. There was the mark, ill
cut and jagged, but plain as day. She
closed her fingers tightly over the pieces,
and a faintuess came over her. She
staggered, caught hold of a beuch near,
for now she knew JJieK lieecn was a
guilty man, a criminal and she loved
him.
Long Tom descended from the (stand
with a well-satisfied air. The attorney
for defense spoke a few moments, evi
dently as a matter of form, for his ar
guments were weak and lame, showing
his spirit was not in the work. The jury
returned and rendered their verdict of
guilty. The judge said:
"Prisoner at the bar. the court has
found, when a man is guilty of theft, he
should be hanged by the neck until ho
is dead."
A hush fell upon the crowded room,
and they looked intently at the prisoner.
Dick lifted his head, loo King naggaru
aud appealinirlv toward the crowd, as il
seeking sympathy, but there was none
for the guilty in all those upiuruea
faces. Before he could reply. Lis push
ed her way throngh the crowd, and
stood before the Judge, who regarded
her sternly. Two bright spots burned
on her cheeks. She looked straight at
Dick as she spoke and the people listen
ed breathlessly.
"If it please your honor.I am guilty,"
she said, proudly, looking steadfastly at
Dick. A gleam ol joy and renei passeu
over his countenance. The color died
from her face; and a weary look came
into her eyes.
'Does the man recognize this ? she
ssid, holding out a few dollars in her
hand.
Tom came forth, "les he said, joy
fully, "that's my mark. I could swear
to it." . .
Dick covered his face with his hands,
and would not look at her; but her eyes
never left him. looking at him as if she
could read throngh his cowardly soul.
'I am willing to die Judge, only let
it le soon. You shall have the rest.
Only let me speak once to the innocent
ceutleman-"
Groans of derision burst from the
crowd. A boy threw a stone w hich struck
her, but she stood there as u sue nau
been a caryl statue, and did not utter
word.
"What you ve got to say, say quick
ly " commanded the judge.
She went to .uick ana wiiispereu w
him. He tried to kiss her hand, but she
snatched it quickly away, rubbing it, as
if his touch contaminated it.
"Y'ou will find everything in n y cabin
to-night, "she said quietly to the Judge.
"I have nothing more to say. I air
cmiltv ."
Dick Beech walked out of the room a
free man. He was pitied and praised,
xhile she was reviled by every tongue
and he did net say a word in defense oi
her. She merely glanced at him but
here was a world of love, misery, disap
pointment and reproach in that single
look.
They mitigated the sentence, because
she was a woman, but many long years
Liz Byrnes expiated Dick's crime iu the
Nevada jail. After her term was served
she went back acain to the old log cabin
tlie hill, an outcast, an object of
scorn to all the people; a martyr, a saint,
to the angels above.
Tt was winter time, and the rain de-
from the heavens in solid
ulla1tfl
Liz sat with bands folded, watching
the storm; but she was not afraid,
though the wind threated to blow down
d.l shanty at every trust Through
the storm some one was beating his way
. i.r door, as a fiercer blast blew it
open, it drove a man, with dripping
i.,i.,t.t into the tiirht
"Tom," she asked, gently, "what do
you want here.
"Liz," he said, hesitatingly, "won t
you shake hands with me r 1 mow au.
biek Beech is dyin' down at the tavern.
TTo'a fold lift.
lie said. Wiping a bubim-
. ilV.....
ions moisture from his eyes, "ou're
of tojfl butif there was on airth, you're
T .1. . nn-in-ilin TfllataH Kill a, .
that one, Liz Byrnes. He wants to see
yon 'fore he pegs out, the scoundrel."
She hastily threw an old shawl around
her shoulders and followed Tom. At
last they reached the saloon. It had
seemed hours to Liz, who threw off her
drippings, and went into the room where
he lay dying slowly,
"Liz," he said, feebly rising up as she
enter!, "I knew vou would come to
me, he moaned, falling back on his
pillow. -"Only say that you will forgive
me, I have told them all. I would
scarely know you, you are so changed.
May I kiss you once, Liz, for I love
you," he said, looking at her wistfully.
She clasps her hands in his, while a
light, bright as the halo around the
head of a saint, shone in her face.
"Yes, Dick, I forgive freely freely,
if you will only live! I don't care for
those years, for my life was not meant
to he like other women's."
The wind swept round the huose like
the wail cf a lost spirit, and Dick held
her hand in his, and smiled peacefully,
for he was too feeble to talk any more.
As. morning neared, the storm died
slowly away, the embers faded into ashes
quietly away. His soul was summoned
before a Higher Tribunal. I Az sat there
motionless, by his side, through the
long day, praying in her heart for death
to be merciful unto her.
Irish Boca Reelainiabla.
The total area of bog in Ireland is esti
mated at 2,9d0,000 acres, nearly one-seventh
of the entire surface of the island.
Of these bog, there are 1.276. (WO acres of
fat bog. Uie remaining 1,254,000 acres are
mountain bog. Without entering into
chemical details, which, however, we are
fully prepared to do. we may state as an
uncontradicted fact that nothing but well
directed labor is required to convert the
j greater portion, if not all, of that land, now
waste, into the net est pasture or com
laud. Drainaee is the first, and in trany
cases the only requisite to effect this change
Burning tlie surface of the bog after
draing has, in some places, had an admir
able result. Claying the bog by extract
ing the clay which lies below and forms an
impervious lied, and placing it as a top.
dressing is the method which has been
followed in other cases, as in our own
Bridge ate r levels, with the result of
turning waste swamps into the richest
pasture of hay growing lands in the king
dom, t'hichcver of these methods be
adopted, there is the remarkable charac
teristic that enly labor is required. o
more capital is required than will suffice
lo teed the work people. There is a gieat
work to be done a work so large that 11
is beyond the reach of any pnvate enter
prise; it is a work involving immense na
tional benefit. All neighboring landowners
wojld be enriched by the reclamation of
this enormous bog. The island would
have almost a new country added to its
productive ares. No money need be
stuck in bog. It is only requisite to ap
ply to it thai muscular toice which is fret
ting itself into deeper poverty and en
forced idleness, that the proper mode
for attacking the bog is a matter for ready
scientific determination, every Woolwich
cadet is aware. What is required is simp
ly enough labor under scieniiuc direction;
aud when we reflect that we want the
work done as well as the men to be em
ployed, we think no unnecessary strain
would be put on convict laoor as a solu
tion to the problem.
The 1'mtdoH.a Carriage.
President Artlinr'i carriage aud horses
are now in Washington. The establish
ment is in every way a rich aud hand
some one; indeed, it is no exaggeeration
to say that it is the finest which has
ever appeared in the streets of the
Capital. At the same time, however
all its appointments are sulidued, mod-
mi. and in the best of taste. The Car
riage, from the Now York Broome street
Brewsters, is a landau of novel design,
painted a dark mellow green, relieved
with enough picking out of red, to show
the outline without being conspicuous.
The trimmings are of morocco and cloth.
the cushions and doors being faced
with heavy lace. The harness has been
made in keeping with the carriage, and
is heavily mounted with plain Bilver
The dress blankets are of heavy dark
green kersey, and the coachman's lap
robe of green English box cloth. These
are all ornamented with the .Tresideni s
monogram. The lap robe for the inside
of the carriage is Labrador otter, beau
tifully lined with dark green, and bav
ins the monogram "C. A, A." worked
in silk. Ine horses, two in numuer are
magnificent animals mahogany bays
with black points, and without a white
spot anywhere. They are 5 years old; 16
hands high, have nne nowmg manes ana
tails and are half brothers. They are
matched almost to a hair, were raised
by the same man, and nave always been
driven together. Their heads and necks
are particularly fine, and though very
tylish and showy, they are prompt.
firm, aud resolute, yet very kind and
gentle. They can lie driven on an easy
rem, without check ormarungaio. iuey
were the President's personal selection,
as was also the carriage, aud reflect no
little credit upon his judgement as a
horseman. The entire "turn out" is a
model of quiet magnificence aud good
taste.
T Make Ueraniums lowers la Wluter.
There is. perhaiis. no plant better
suited for prolonged flowering during
the winter months than the geranium,
if handled in the following manner. Pro
cure your plants of the varieties you
wish about the middle of May. 1'ut
them in four-inch pots, this being the
best to keep them in for the n.xt four
months. Use well decayed sod, adding
about one-third cow manure. Mix
thoroughly together, but do not make
too fiue, as the geranium delights in
rather a rough compost. Place them in
rather a shady situation, first putting
iibont four inches of ashes under the
pots. This will have the eft ct of keep
ing worms and other insects out of the
pots. Keep them ou the dry side as you
do not want to encourage growth.
Should any flowers appear, pinch them
off, also the leading shoots to keep them
in shape. Toward the end of September
repot them in six-inch pots, that is six
inches in diameter, iu the compost re
commended above. They will now com
mence to grow freely. About the 10th
of October put them in their winter
quarters, selecting the window where
they will get the most sun and light.
plants treated in this manner will flow-
er the whoto wiatefc
Oa tha I'm mt Spectacle.
No more mischievous mistake can well
he made than the one which is involved in
the prevslent idea that the use of spectacl
es should be put off as long as possible.
This becomes evident at a glance as soon
as it is understood that the case is one of
incapacity of the lens of the eye to adapt
itself to near vi-ion in consequence of lorn
of accommodating power. The continued
eatirt of the delicate mechanism of the eye
to accomplish a task which is beyond the
measure of its capacity must be necessarily
be attended with an injurious, as well as a
painful strain. Squinting is one of the
evil consequence which are apt to ensue
hf such fruitless efforts are long persevered
in. Mr. Carter remarks upon this point
in the following monitory strain: "The
effect of accomiuo-iation is prec:sely that
of adding convex lens to the passive eye,
and so, when accommodation fai'.a, we can
supply its place by adding the required
lea by art. To do this is the ordinary
function of the spectacles which are re
quired by all people, if their eyes were
originally natural, as time rolls on. The
principles ou which such spectacles should
be selected is that tbey should be strong
enough to he effectual, and they should be
used as soon as tbey are inquired. Opticians
often supply glasses which are too weak to
accomplish what is needed, and which
leave the eyes slill struggling with an in
firmity from which they ought to be en
tirely relieved, while the public frequently
endeavor to postpone what tbey look upon
as an evil day and do not obtain the help
of glasses until they have striven hard and
fruitlessly to do without them. Tnese are
important practical errors. It cannot tie
too generally understood that spectacles,
instead of being a nuisance, or an incuui -brance,
or an evidence of bad sight, are to
the farsigbled a luxury beyond description
e'earing outlines which were beginning to
be shadowy.brighlening colors which were
begining to fade, intensifying the light re
flected from objects by permitting theai to
be brought closer to the eyes, aud instant
ly restoi ine near vision to a point Iro:n
which, lor ten or a dozen years previously,
it had been slowly and imperceptibly but
steadily declining. This return to juven
ility of sight is one of the most agreeable
experiences of middle age, and the proper
principle, therefore, is to recognize lots ol
near sight early, and to gve optical help
liberally, usually commencing with lenses
of plus 1.25 or plus 1.00 to as to render
the muscles of accommodation not only
able to perform their tasks, but able to
perform them easily. When, as will hap
pen after a while, in consequence of the
steady decline of accommoddlion,yet more
power is required, the glasses may be
strengthened by from hall a dioptic to a
dioplic at a time, and the stronger glasses
should at first be taken into usi ouly by
artificial light; the original pair, as long as
they are found sufficient for this purpose,
bciag still worn in the daytime.' The
common prejudice against uung spectacles
a! soon as the impairment of Jie sight be
gins to be observed with advancing age
appears to have unfortunately aruen from
the fact that there is a serious disorder ol
the eye, known as glaucoma, which is at
tended with obscure vision, resembling
that of old sight, but which is nevertheless
altogether different in its essential condi
tion. The mischief in glaucoma usually
proceeds with an accelerated pace. Strong
er aud stronger glasses are used on account
of the assistance which each fresh acc-sc.ion
of strength at first gives. But the sufferer
in the end becomes hopelessly blind, and
the result Is then erroneously altubuted to
the influece of the glasses which have been
employed, although as a matter of fact
this has had nothing whatever to do with
the issue of the case. The injury to the
sight in such instances is really due to an
over-tense state of the eyeball having been
set up, aud to the destruction. In conse
quence of abnormal pressure, of the deli
cate nerve-siructures within. Mr. Carter
unhesitatingly affirms that the habitual use
of strong magnifying glasses is not injuri
ous to ordinary eyes, sad be supports his
opinion in this particulsr by referring to
the cuxumstacce that watchmakers, wno
commonly employ magnify ins classes in
their work, in reality enj iy a very envi
able immunity from diseases of the eye.
It appears that it is quite an unusual thing
to find a working waich-maker among the
patients of an ophthalmic hospital. Mr.
Carter holds the habitual exercise of the
eye upon fine work, such as these men are
engaged in tends to the developomcut ana
preservation of the powers ol visiou,iather
than to their injury.
Water.
Water is so common that few persons
think of it as the most important factor
in the building up and civilization of
tli world. But water was also God's
i.,;i.l..Y of the world as we see it The
rocks were mud and sand made by wat
er and laid down by iu one kind ou top
of another. Coal, made of plants, was
covered np by water, so that the rotton
plants were kept there and changed to
coat Veins of lead, copper, gold, silv
er, crystils. were cracks in the rocks
filled with water that had those precious
things dissolved in it And water, as
ice, (glaciers) ground np rocks into
earth, in which plants can grow, the sea
aud streams helping to do tho work.
Water builds plant's and animals, too.
Three quarter of what they are made of
is water. When you pay 20 cents for
a peck of potatoes you are really pay
ing fifteen cents for the water that is in
the potatoes. A boy who weighs eighty
nonnds. if perfectly dried up. would
weitrh only twenty pounds. And there
can bo no potatoes or boy without wa
ter. It must dissolve tilings to make
them into new tilings; and it carries
them where they ara wauted to built the
new thinszs. It softens food, and then
as watery blood carries the food to every
part of the body to make new flesh and
bones, that we may grow and have
strength. It carries the plant's food np
into the plant Water carries man and
goods in boats, and.as steam, drives his
cars. It makes the wheels go in the
factories. It is a great worker, and
we could not get along without it
it makes much of the beauty iu
world.
Xljht Lights.
And
the
The common practice ot having night
lhrhts in the bed rooms of children of well
to-do parents is deprecated by Dr. Robert
H. BakewelL lie says tha; it has a most
iniurious effect upon the nervous system of
young children. "Instead of the perfect
rest the optic neives ought to have, and
which nature provides for by the darkne ss
of the nurht these nerves are perpetually
stimulated, and, of course, the brain and
tha rest nf the nervous cystem suffer. Chil
dren thus brought up are excessively timid
for years after on going into tne oar a.
A Ucstroctlv Biped.
Mr. Whit marsh has a friend in Western
Texas who is engaged in the business
known as ostrich farming, and his fnend
took it into his bead to make Mr. White-
marsh a present. He therefore'slscted a fine
eentlemaa oetrich and shipped it to Mr.
Wbitemsrsh. He al wrote a full ac
count of the habits of the bird, and the
letter arriving several days ahead of the
ostrich, Mr. Whitemarsb had time to pre
pare for the expeeled guest
He bought several four-horse wagon
load of sawdust and about a schoouer
load of sand, and after mixing them to
gether, spread the mixture on part of a
vacant lot hu had enclosed. He put on
wire netting ar Hind the top of the fence,
far fear the bird might jump it and every
thing being ready, the arrival of the ostrich
was anxiously looked for. The bird ar
rived in due se in and was lodged in the
enclosure piovidc-d for him. The first
thing in order was something to eat for
the ostrich and for the first time it occur
red to Whitmarsh that he knew nothing
about the food of ostriches. His friend
had neglected to inform him ou that poiut
and none of the neighbors cou'd furnish
any information. In this emergeccy Mrs.
Whitmani rerocmticrcd that she had a
Z-jiTs Encyclopedia, presented to her by
.Mr. Whilemarsh in his courting days, and
the book was immediately resorted to, but
but it failed t give the desired information,
merely saying that ostriches had been
known to eat nails, etc. and it was said
had eaten hot bullets fresh frcm the mould
without apparent inconvenience.
While the enclyclopedia wis being con
sulted the ostrich had quietly made a meal
of a pile of old tin cans that happened to
be lu one corner of the enclosure, and the
matter of that meal was thus satisfactorily
settled. The ostrich bad not thoroughly
satisfied bis appetitie, however, for he
swallowed a couple of half gallon jugs
and a broken iron pump handle tha; were
in the enclosure before be set e J himself
for the nhrht. After seeing the bird lying
comfortably in the shed that had been pre
pared for him, and apparently nxed lor
sleep. AVhitmarsh retired to bed with his
mind at case knowing that ne could on the
sort of material ou which he h id made his
supper, easily supply him wdh provisions
for the next six months a: a inning cost
The next morning Whitmarsh arose at bis
usual hour and went to look at his ostrich.
To his surprise he found the bird in the
yard, having eaten the wire netting!
lust had been placed around the
fence, and somehow managed to surmount
the fence. The bird was swallowing the
last of a fire-dog as Wliitemarsh appeared
upon the sc.oe. An old shed behind the
house was used as a kind of store house
for rough articles, and the ostrich entered
the shed and made a breakfast before the
astonished Whitemarsh. A pair of iUt
irous, a grindstone, a patent wringer, and
an old scythe disappeared down the throat
oi the ostrich in rapid succession.
Mrs. Whitco.arsh made her appcarnce
about this time and watched this strange
breakfast with the greatest interest: sev
eral of the neighbors appeared also, but no
one seemed to notice anything but the os
trich, who next entered the kitchen and
leisurely proceeded to clear the wails ot
the articles bangibg thereon, a fluting-iron,
an e?g-beater, and a patent broiler being
quickly and easily disposed of.
Whitemarsh uecare aiarmea at tuts ue-
struction of valuable property, anu at
tempted to drive the bird out, but the
ostrich stretched out bis neck and hissed,
at the same time flapping his wings and
showing other signs of bad temper, caus
ing Whitemarsh lo become alarmed and
send out for help. The ostrich swallowed
about one and a half dozen eggs that were
on the table inteuded for the breakfast of
the family, and then seeing a stua.1 coal
oil stove, on which some food for the ba
by was cooking, bolted that, borne muf
fin rings hanging on the wall caught the
bird s eye and was sen: to join the gen
eral breakfast fund already swallowed by
the bird, and the list was successively in
creased by a rolling pin, a couple of old
pickle bottles, several lancy cake cutters,
an old sh e, a milk strainer, a butcher
knife, a small basket full of clothes pins,
and finally an elbow of stove pipe belong
ing to a small stove.
The ottrich could not swallo the el
bow of stovepipe, but it stuck in his
throat, with the end about six inches out
of his mouth. By this time the rolling-
pin swallowed by the ostrich bad taken
ure from the ou stove, ana a stream oi
smoke issued from the ostrich s mouth,
which so alarmed the bird that be ran cut
of the bouse and took refuge in the wood
shed. The clothes plus must have caught
fire about this lime, for the smoke from
the stovepipe increased to such an extent
that an alarm of tire was given, and sev
eral eninnes appearing on the scene, del
uued the weodsbed with water, and one
pipeinan happening to see the end ot the
stovepipe, with the smoke issuing from
it directed a stream ol water inimeuiaieiy
into the stovepipe, with such an euect
to not only put out the nre nut ai to
drown the ostrich.
Whitemarsh don't know whether to
grieve for the loss of his pet or rejoice at
heinij relieved ot such a destructive uiru,
and. uutil he nukes up his mind about it,
he does not intend to say anything lo his
fexas friend about his loss, for fiar be
might send another.
Heavy Keoilers.
True gluttony, like, "true charity,
hath no locality, no provincial, no peculiar
garb." From the period of the Roman
empire down to the present day tbcie is a
bright roll of magnincent or merely
mighty feeders, a glance at which is not
without interest, ll is not very easy 10
classify the gluttons of classical times, for
between the man who merely leeus ana
consumes an immense amount of proven
der, and the man who squanders a large
f jrtune on expensive meals thtre is or ma)
be a vast difference. For instance, iteli
us whom Mr. Silts Wegg very properly
named Vittle us spent fa.OOO.Ooo
month for seven months on his tab.e.
When the numbei of couvives is consider
ed, and the price of the dishes ton of
rare fish and three and a half tons of rare
birds at one banquet in days when fancieis
Daid 1325 dollars for a red mullet aid f4
apiece for pigeons, the expenditure may
not seem excessive. A man nrgm eat oi
a 2d,000 dish of birds' tongues, and yet
not be, in the strictest sensa ol the word,
a glutton ; add nightingales' tongues, the
brains of pheasants and peacock?, and the
rocs of the rarest and most delicate fishes
were not only favorite, but common dishes
aincne the elite of impend Home, llelio
cabal js is credi ed with spending $100,
000 at one supper, and Nero with eating a
dish that coct S15J.000 and washea it
down with a bumper still more costly, but
this proves nothin, unless it be the sheer
idiocy and wastefulness of the convives.
A different aspect is touched upon when
the cuestion is approached: How did
they eat? And when it is slaUd that
Veius increased the number of guests
from nine to twenty, and made his supper
coterminous with the dark ; that Nero sat
at the table twelve hours, that Tiberius
and Yiteli'us sat there all the time they
were not in ueu, uuv- umiuuuiiu c
his bath, and that Domilian carried around J
a classical sandwich to stay bis hunger be-1
tween meals, it must be admitted that
most of these noble diners were gl ittons.
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lUBALUUIliau, w UV IM w.j 1" " J v. I - .
meat aud drank five gallons of wiue at a ' of that which is used here is previously
repast could, at least, allege his size. Not 1 sent to European tanneries for the de
so the average glutton not so, indeed, j s;r,i ti,i 0f preparation. It is returu
the modern glutton. Thus, only a ' - ..wif,,! i;, ..t ;
few months ago there died at Kingston,
in this state. Mr. Alexander Urant,
laminariy known as mo aviuuernooic j
glutton," wh without any inconvenience,"
would devour twenty pounds of solids at a
silting, washed down by not less thin a
gallon of milk and coffee. We read th it
"five pounds of beefsteak was regarded
by him as but an appetizer, and uuless
such side dishes as a half peck of potatoes.
a whole boiled catibaire, a big pie and a
complete pudding were provided also, he
insisted that be had only lunched."
Though he has left us, and his loss we
deeply feel, we are not without some con
solation in the fact that Niuire Carey,
of Walkili, whom his admiring friend dub
" the man wuh the rubber Elomach. A
dispatch of recent date informs us that the
'Squire " swallowed a halt eaUon measure
full of oysters and four large plates of
crackers. He then offered to eaZ six quarts
more of oysters it any one would pay
for them, but bis tnV-r was not accepted
ll is said that at oue silting Carey has
eaten 400 clams, and at another a half
barrel of shell oysters.' As compared
with him may be cited Mr. Kom" Liw-
son oi Alleusvilie, ixonn Carolina, who
on election day lart year ate " one and a
half quarters of mutton, eighteen bis
cuits, oce pound candy, two half grown
chickens, five herrings, one loaf ot corn
biead and a piece of shoat supposed to
weiiru about one pound, urank oue quart
of water, and said he hadn't eaten half
enough. He then offered to bet he could
throw any man or lift more with a baud
stick tban any man on the ground. In
order to show his strength, be took a m m
that weighed 200 pounds and carried him
about over the gr unc in his teeth, lie
then went up to another table and called
for a 23 cent snack." Mr. Liwson has an
honorable rival in Mr. J -snua Joyne?,
gentleman weighing 2 0 pounds, aud own
ing to bO summers, who last summer sat
down to dinner at Ouancock, Acco.nac
county, Virginia, and ate fifteen pounds of
pork, twelve links of bologna sausage,
souse from on: large hog, oue large gooe,
one full grown chicken, one peck ot sweet
potatoes, one dozen huge biscuits, osc
largc niuice pic, and drank six cups of
strong conee. Mr. Jiynes sat down to
this repast at 1 'cloek, and a. 2 3 J he had
disposed of every article named, picked !
the bones of the fowls, and taken a gliss j
wager, ate four aud a half feet of blood
pudding in twenty minutes, washing it i
down with half a gallon of wine, thus j
proving himsell worthy to sit down at tue i
Gargautuan repasts in Fiji, at which, j
according to Miss Gordon Cummin, one
sees served twenty puddings, the largest
being twenty feet in circumference.
James 1. treated the question of glut
tony from a highly practical standpoint.
when, a distinguished citizen bavmg been
presented to bun who ate a sheep at a
meal, but could do no more than folks
whj contented themselves with a solitary
cutlet he desired the execution of tiie
man as oue thai eats as much as twenty
men, but can not do the work of one."
What would be have done with Clouius
Alpinus, who devoured a bushel of apples
at once, and for a breakfast rendered
account of 500 figs, 10") peaches, ten
melons, twenty pouuus of grapes, 4'JO
oyster;, and 100 gnat snappers f Ur with
Phagon, that disUnuUhed subject ol
Aureliauus, who managed at a single meal
to eat a boar, a sheep aud a pig, with one
hundred loaves of bread and three gallons
of winef Hardicanute, James' prede
cessor, earned honorably the title of
S wines mouth. One Mallctt, a counse'or
at law of the time of Charles.!, qute
eclipsed Haydn or the queer customer
of a Paris cafe meniioned iu a recent
issue of the H 'or til, as on one occasion he
ate a dinner provided in Westminster hall
for thirty people, and his practice not
proving equal to his desserts and the pre
liminary course, had in bis old age to con
tent himself with bauquets of beers heart
and liver. Nicholas Wood, of Harris in
in Kent was justly incluiled in Fuller's
" Worthies," among his claims to fame
being tie deglutition at one uteal of a
whole sheep, at another 3oo pigeons, at
another eighty-four rabbits, at a fourth
the victuals provided for thirty men, at a
fifth eighteen yards ot blood pudding, and
at a sixth of a whole hog, accompanied
with three pecks of Damson plums.
Master Nicholas had on one occasion a
very nurow escape According to Taylor,
the water poet if he had not been scru
pulously auoiuted with oil aud butter he
would have surely died, but sir V ilham
St. Ledger nursed him round and then
put him in the stocks, "two loins of
mutton and one loin of veal were but as
three snrats to this eater." After all, he
was perhaps outdoue by the distinguish
ed boor who visited the camp of Charles
Uustavtis, offering to eat a pig by way of
paying bis footing and when deneral
Konigsmark denounced him t a sorcerer.
volunteered to eat the General would he
but lay off his sword and spurs, opening
so large a mouth that tho general, one ot
the heroes of his time, took to his heels
and ran.
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Oue of the l9.d short descriptions of
the Michigan fire comes iu a letter from
a little girl to a New Haven lady who
had sent her a winter coat The young
correspondent writes: "The fire was
terrible. It got dark at noon, and so
hot that the window paues were as hot
as lamp chimneys, and the wind wac so
strong that it blew the building over
forty acres. The fire sparks flew as big
as fist, and so thick! thicker than snow
flakes. It was hard to save the lives.
There were two of our ne'ghbors who
got bumt to a crisp on the road as they
were escaping. The fire overtook them,
each mother, with five children, and
the father, was left. There was oue
family of six children with their parents,
and all iu a group. The whole number
of lives lost was thirty-one in our 'own.
It got so dark thai everybody was run
ning, and they did cot know where to
save their lives. Some had to tear their
clothes from them to save their lives, for
they were burning on them, and some
children suffocated in their mothers'
arms. One girl's c'othes caught fire on
her, and she was burnt befere she could
tear them off. She aiut well yet Next
morning yom could see cattle, horses,
hogs, sheep and human bodies all around
lying burnt. This fire was a great deal
worse than the Are in 1871, but I do not
rmcml er that one."
Fttihlon' Lne t'luaara.
A writer from New York says although
hardly to be reckoned scarce, the skin
oi mo .-viiijiuior is stui expensive, .mien
the different colors which may at the
moment be fancied. As present mode
j is considered particularly elegant as is
also fawn; green and red likewise appear,
although much less frequently tban the
permanently favored tin and seal brown.
A medium sized journeying bag of this
material may be made here to be worth
$S0 or $1,000. The cost is about the
same as in the case of seal skin of cor
responding quality aud style.
Au imjiorted bag of the latter mater
ials, however, has been in use here which
tad cost its possessor 3,500, but belong
ing to this were of course exquisite fit
tings and mountings of gold. The bag
of alligator skin, costing one third as
much, is furnished with elegant silken
liniai's and gilt mountings, and the bot
tles for cologne, salts aud soap, the tooth
aud nail-brush Wtles, flask, etc, are of
cut glass finely patterned and covered
with gold-plate tops. Work in silver,
nickel, and fire-gilt, applied te the ma
terial seems most harmoniously ground
sel. This also takes the form of higher
art; thus as a gift for a gentleman with a
tte for aquatic sport a letter-book may
have perhaps ou oue side au alto relieve
group in silver representing oarsmen
seated in a boat, or the design may be
that of a single figure, with an oar car
ried iu the hand. Purses of this skin
are lined with plush, chaicois, seal or
calfskin. The carcase is rendered yet
more beautiful by jeweled mountings.
Recently snakes and lizards have lieen
furnishing some share of the material for
what are considered the most elegant
styles" of pocket-looks, portmounaies,
gentlemen's match-safes, card-cases, side
bags with girdles and fashionable trifles
of rll kinds. Yet it is by rather slow
degrees that the lKia-constrietor elegance
has leeu winding itself into favor with
us; in some of tlie turj-ieau cities it is
reported as haviug become much more
tlu, iIt.re iu tlie lnaunf act tiring
SM" uiuauueu, yu isi
South America, and resembling what one
sce9 m tue British Museum. Its mark-
mgs are.very lieantiful. with the gold
touched stripe throngh the centre and
the irregularly conjoined diamond and
triangle shapes at either side. It is this
natural design which is so much prized
for objects like the side-bag or the jxK-k-et-look.
Yet the material may have,
perhaps, the fault of not wearing quite
satisfactorily. The edges of the scales
are apt to get mbled up the wrong way
o as to cause very soon a seedy appear
ance of the article. For the prevention
of this roughening tendency gums are
introduced, however, with more or less
success iu the process of preparing the
skin for manufacture.
A Valley ( Roses.
The maritime vale of Sauta Barbara,
for sixty mib's facing the Pacific Ocean,
is considered the nioht attractive in Cal
ifornia. The soil is extra deep, dark al
luvium. By the formation of the coast
it is sheltered from the rude trade winds,
elsewhere so unpleasant on our shores.
San Francisco Itcinx in north latitude
7J deg. Santa Barbara is 31 J deg. north
:i deg. southwardly. Here flourish in
luxuriance the fig tree aud the olive,
the prune and the almond, the orange
and the lemon, the nectarine and the
pomegranate. Here grows Alfalfa clov
er, giving three cuttings a year aud pas
ture through the winter. Here flowers
bloom perennial. Here ouly is a para
dise of roses and other fragraut flowers
cultivated for commercial perfumery.
Hure the We pastures all the year, the
hivers gathers hoey every day and ab
staining themselves they give to man
nearly their whole jirodnction. Ouly in
stress of stormy weather they draw
upon their hoarded swteLs. Feathered
soniTHters never misaate from this
elysium. Mari's dwelling is enlivened
by the chirp of birds and their music
gives ierpetu:d cheer, nuchecked by win
ter frosds. Happy, thrice blessed are they
whose lot is ca-st where happiness is so
lightly wooed and won! Here in mid
December the company's rose gardens
are a sight to charm the eye, when, day
bydny, children gather eyer-blooming
flowers for extraction of perfnme for the
toilet. At Kezanlik, iu the foothilli of
the Balkan range in Ronmelia, South
Turkey, north latitude 421 deg., is a val
lev devoted to rose culture exclusively
for like purposes, bnt there the sale of
nosecavs to many villages is extra pro
ti table. There the hair and the clothes
of all who work among the roses retain
the perfume for a week ol absence from
the valley.
A Mild M later.
Ihe Enzlish appear to having an un
usually mild season. In some parts of the
Isle of Wight fine raspberries have been
gathered ia the open during December.
strawberries are to be lound in compara
tive abunJ uice, and at Shankha peas sr.
to be seen in bloom and in pod. The va!
leys ara full of spring flowers, including
violets and primroses, and the summer
flowers are still blooming, and to all appear
ance will retain their verdure until the
cornirg summer without undergoing the
usual autumnal decay and stripping. Koses
rare fuchsias, gcrauiums and other flowers
are blooming in the open. The thrush has
not yet ceaeed its song, and the other day
a titlark s nest was taken on St. iSouiiace
Down, with three newly laid esgs in it.
Altogether the weather is most extraordi
nary, even for the Isle of Wight where the
winters are usually mild compared with
other parts of England. Some pans of
Kent present an unusually springlike ap
pearance. 1 nmroses are in blooni, violets
perfume the barks, and the song birds
have not lost their summer notes. On
Hayes Common the heather is in purple
bloom; oi Keston Common the furzes are
dotted with yellow blossoms and the coun
try around assumes an aspect of spring
rather than the proximity of Christmas.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Mr. Glad.-tone has returned to
Hawarden.
The British Museum was first insti
tuted in 1753.
Mme. Pompadour was the origina
tor of high heels.
The weight of an average male
adult is 110 pounds.
Ohio was admitted mt the United
States Union ia 1802.
Arabian scale armor was sometimes
made of thin pistes of horn.
The hnman skeleton consists of
more than 200 distinct bones.
Don Carlos, the pretender to the
Spanish throne, is ill iu London.
The average man measures almnt
five feet three and one-half inches.
Thirty-eight kinds of wild fowl were
served at a gau dinner in Chicago.
Pliny says that lour-wbeelej carri
ages were invented by the Phrygians.
The Egyptian physicians of old
were paid by the State.
Baron Steulien has named his in
fant son, born recently "Blaine Steu
ben." The focsil remains of a prehistoric
man have been found at Caiabacel, near
Nice.
The tunnel betweeu Dover and
Calais advances at the rate of a foot an
hour.
The Lyciaus considered mourning
effeminate, and so put ou women's
clothes.
John Anderson, the man who first
wrapped tobacco iu tin-foil, made $200,-
000 by it
Bishop Elder, of Cincinnati, has is
sued a circular agaiiit round dancing iu
his Diocese.
From the port of Santa Barbara,
Cat, hundreds of tons of lima beaii-s are
being shipped.
The inventor of the submarine tele
scope, a woman, has received $10,000
for her inventiou.
The landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
from the 'Mayflower" oceured Decem
ber 20, 1C20.
"Paradise Lost," the finest work of
Milton's genius, was sold in 1(!C7 for
the sum of 5.
Ou -'Hospital Saturdav"uearlv 1000
Indies satin the London streets iu charge
of the collecting I nixes.
Prince I.eoiKild and the Princess
Helena, of Waldi-ck, will be married at
Wimlsor Castle in Match.
Among Swedish Laplanders a drum
is kept in every family for the purpose
of exercising the evd spirits.
Louis Napoleou usually styled
Napoleon III., was choseu Presideut of
the French Republic inl84S.
Aim. Faure, the singer, and Coque-
lin, the actor are to receive it is stated,
the order of the Legion of Honor.
The work of reclaiming the Kver-
glades of Florida is being carried on
with energy, aud with a nattering pros
pect The form of hailstone is that of an
inverted umbrella, tieing cone shaped
and having ribbed sides and ronuded
bane.
The late census of Japan shows a
total population of very nearly 3(,000,
000. The eventh and last crusade was
ended in 1250 by the surrender of King
Louis IX. of Frauee. with 30,000 men at
Dumietta.
Up to the of Henry III. only silver
and brass were used for coinage, gold
Wing first used in this country iu that
kiug's reign.
Beaufort County, S. C. this year.
in addition to State Taxes, paid into
tlm State Treasury as phosphate rovalty
S10S,h49.50.
The Empress of Austria has set a
fashion, already largely followed in
Europe, of wearing the hair flowing
over the shoulders.
Professer Schlager, of Vienna, is
responsible for the statement that blue
light has a quieting aud soothing iidlu-
euce on the iu&ane.
Pliny tells us that Disdains invent
ed the saw. The earliest saw-mill of
hieh we have mention was built at
Madeira in 1420.
At the first side this season in
Nabd, Africa, of native-grown ostrich
feathers, three pounds and niue ounces
of lung white feathers bronght $100.
The annual revenue to the United
States from applcj:ick alone is in the
neighborhood of soO.OOO, and aliont
two-thirds of that is from Sussex Conn
ty, N. J.
Edward (tibliou, who wrote the
"Decline aud Fall of the Ihimau Em
pire, s rid by some caitics to lie the
hnest history ever written, was liom in
1737.
The total area of T.-i.essce is 2C,-
800,000 acres of which 10,771,3'JtJ are
still covered with its orijnnid forests.
The population is little over a milliou
and a half.
The (tosiiel of St Luke has lieen
translated into Putagonian by the Rev.
Theodore Bridges, who tailored among
the natives of that country for twenty
five years.
After the war a colored man went
from North Curolina to Boston and
started iu trade as a tailor. Ha now
gives employment to 100 person and ia
worth 350.000.
A Christum church has lieei built
with stones from the ruins of a heathen
temple by the converts connected with
the Madura mission of the American
Presbyterian Board
The proprietors of a cotton factory
in Darweu, England, were recently fined
$157.37 for keeping their hands at
work 12 minutes after the honr fixed for
closing by the Factories Act
At the riceut rite of conouization
in Rome the silver trump. t which
nsed to sound from the dome of St.
Peter's as the I'ojie elevated the Host,
were used for the first time since 1S70.
Clier.g Tsao Jn., tlw new Chinese
Minister, is reported to have been for
ten years superintendent of the arsenal
at Shaushui, Ue knows arms and ma
chinery thorougldy.
Jn a letter to the JUincet Dr. A. Pagsi
records the following observation : He
slates that in Paris be saw a case in which,
under the inhalation cf chloroform, the
heart ceased lo bt a', and artificial respira
tion for ten minute-1 failed to restae cir
culation, when Dr. Labis dipped a larze
cloth in boiling water and applied it to the
regi 'n of the heart, with the result of im
mediately restoring the action of that organ.
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