strip r--J (fv4f( M. fa, - A. Jtv . lll llljir Mil' 111 B. F. SOHWEIER, TEE OOIHTITU'1'IOI-TEB UHOI-AID THE EHTOMEllEIT Of THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOI 'XXXVI. MIFFLIN1WN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 25. 1SS2. NO. 3. BY .THE SKA. Tired with the struggle. With the ceaseless needs of life ; Tireil ol the petty Jar, (if the toli and amfe ; of the ikui and of the fear, of the care that haunt us here ; Uf the fever and the fretting, I'seless dreamuiK, Tain regretting, named aim. ungranted prayer, thale and turmoil every where with a vague unseeing sight. She looked on the Septemiier night. Broad and vast before ber, Spral:ng leaguesaway. Hushing in the hush of night, Cray tieceath the gray, Ught wirols ruffling on her breast, Ijij the sea In solemn rest, lirifiht and wi.le the pathway showed Where the harvest moonlight glowed, Htarhiiig from the silent land, Ky I lie great horizon spanned. Where tv and sea together blend, Where our dim sweet fancies tend. To the golden glory Came a little bark. Shone in it for a moment, Then gliding into dark. So in a dull life's hours and days A child's fresh laugh, a word of praise, A flower, a smile, a gentle duty, or a thought of peace and bean y, o'er the arid waste may fling A light all pure and glistening. Where a sad heart may rest and win Stw strength, new conflicts to begin. 1'I.KKINU t'KOM A FOBTI SK. The sun rose propitiously bright on Grace Sylvester's wedding morn; the air was balmy, the sky blue, and all nature seemed in svmpathy with the happy day. l'resen lv a stir awoke in the house-hold that soou swelled into a murmur ( con ..t ..,-..( i.m The bride was missing. Somo one had gone to her chamber to awaken her and found it empty. Immediately a search was instituted, which proved fruitr less. The bridegroom was sent for, but he "couid offer uo explanation; like l.k IMilV-llts he was distracted with - aa f llYlfrtV. Grace Sylvester was a proud, impnl- .iv nirl. with a warm heart ana 11a iietnons temper. She was an only child, somewhat spoiled, as was natural; but nothing that could be imagined or adduced could account for this uuueara .f freak; she had net even fastened a note on the toilet-cushion as a key to the nivsterv, after the custom of heroines, v.'.r . w.k previous to this now on- ,'av the Sylvester mansion had continuously opened its hospitable .i-rivim? euests. Friends and relations of Mr. Frank Howard, the . .i-t brideirrooui. crowded to ex- do honor to the occasion, which the Sylves ter connection were no less eager to i-UHellLli with their prcser.ee, Thi singular occurrence, therefore, could ..oAvmsiblv le preserved a secret, and distract! hot iuc - hostess bad all the added misery of knowing that their daughter's inexplica ble flight was the subject of all sorts of surmises and discissions, by those who, in set- phrase, endeavored to condole with them, and at the same time hint at insanity as the only solution of such an unprecedented freak. lJut a special gleam was soon destined to ffluuiiuate the darkness. Glace had not leen unmindful of her dear parents, nor of her devoted lover, a letter ad dressed to the former had leen dropped l.v her in the post-ofiieo. It was brief, and evidently written under the pressure of excitement; but even in its fragmentary haste, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester could tr tl.-ir daughter's tenderness; and i.-.i. i..vi-r despite the undispelled nivstx-rv of its tone took consolation from it Its contents may be rendered thus: She had Kft of her own free will and uimeconipauied, though she admitted that she wotdd be met at her journey s end bv a worthy guardian, in whose care she would remain, and who, at the ex piration of a week, would bring her home again; until then, she begged they would wait for her explanation, and a)ove all forgive any pain or annoyance her hasty disappearance had cause.,. This epistle, though gratcf idly receiv ed since it assured them of her safety, was not, of course, entirely satisfactory t ber parent and lover. Despite her ..-on.ise. to return, they could not remain qnict till the expiration of the time muned, but sought her in every place; bnt as was evident from the security of i.,iret. Grace did not mean to , i :n nr interval she had KH1UU mi ..o ,..! One bv one. or in small parties, fl...v had come, the weddiBg guests .lom-ted. Thoy carried to the houses a charmingly inexhaustible theme for gossip and wonderment Every one held a separata solution and theory and the subject promised to be one o. uu ,wn:.l varietv and entertainment. But i i.m iassHl anv clue to OUIV OIK i - . fl,e truth and she. sly, insidious plot ter that she was. had hud a train whose success promised even beyond her hope. w..r..iirl its development in silence. It was not her cue to speak, but to await . f..n:i ,f i.r desitm. and so she me uiiiiiuii ui v. . i lingered, professing the intensest syni patbv for all. and at the same time con triving to liestow most of it oa Howard, her distant cousin. Frank This vonaff lndv. Msy Frescott by name, had long been hopelessly in love itl. l..-r cousin Frai-k. She knew iui his heart was devoted to another, but had never had an opportunity of seeing l.r rival till the cenerons and unsus n,o.v. ishinfi' to eive bo;h her and Frank pleasure, had asked her letter to lie one of her bridesmaids. bv Mav's darlinK object was then gained, She had unlimited faith in her own power- of creating discord, and had secretly resolved to separate the lovers and will Frank for herselt, even eleventh hour. at the Tier firt inh rview with Grace con vinivl l.erthat ardent and impulsive KeuerositT were the strong points of ner character. On these she acted. .1.1iv the irifta of fate are dw ributed," said she with a sigh as they were talking together the night before w vuuiug f uuc wuuiu IU111K lb Was ,.,,1 i it. " l - a ' enough to get a beautiful wife without grasping at a great fortune, too; but then Frank always had a keen eye for the main chance." Grace's face flushed a deep, indignaut crimson; her full, bright eyes flashed with sudden auger as she looked at May Frescott steadily, Tray explain yourself. Miss Fres cott," she said, "I do not understand you in the least." "What! Have you never heard of the will of Frank's eccentric old Uncle Paul? But I am sorry; perhaps I have done wrong in mentioning it. Xo doubt he meant to deceive you uo, no! I duu't mean that I mean perhaps he did uot wish you to know." She affected to be overcome with con fusion at her own inadvertence, and pre tended to jegret having said so much. Grace quietly but firmly demanded to know alL 'You have said too much to recede," he exclaimed, "tell all there is to tclL This was just the opportunity May sired. She arose to see that the door was closed: then, satisfied that she and Grace were alone together, she poured in to her victim's ear the stoiy, whose result was Grace's flight from home. The week passed anxiously enough to the three people who were awaiting the wayward bride's return. The appointed day came, and ear!y in the morning a carriage stopped before the Sylvester mansion, and Grace alighted from it, followed by an old nurse, of whom she had always been fond, and whose presence explaiined the fact that Grace had been staying in he' home, not five miles away. Grace walked into the house with an air of mingled triumph and deprecation. After the strange greetings were over, Mr. Sylvester, with attempted sternness, demanded the promised explanation and this was the story: "The night lieforemy wedding day. I learned froni some one who thought I already knew it, that Frank was about to inherit $100,000 upon a very strange condition. His uncle had died and left that amount to him, provided he mar ried me within a year af ter the test ator's death." "I had never seen this uncle, but as I learned from my informant, ho had met me by chance in one of the Xew York hospitais, and after taking the tronble to iuquirj my name, and no douM satis fying himself of the suitability of the connection, he made up his eccentric mind that Frank should marrT me. or lose a large foitune in the event of dis obeying his command. "Xow, though i am deeply obli-ed for the distinguished honor mennt me by tlie deceased, I positively decline to be bartered away to any one at a tated price. "It was sufficiently embarrassing to me to know that the old gentleman was attracted by a whim of mine, and mis took it for characteristic virtue. The fact Ls, during that winter my first in Sew York I wa3 seized with a fancy to vary my round of pleasures by au after noon among the sick, to whom I earned the ever-welcome gift of fruits and flowers, and it was while I was uistrib nimii these offerintrs that the mat rimonial project occuired to Frank's uncle. "Oo you not understand, and can you uot sympathize with me7 Had L re mained here, no explanation could have altered the case, and I should inevitably have become Frank's bride, nuder cir cumstances alike painful to my love of truth and selfrespect 1 Lave always .Wlored that I woidd be loved for myself alone, not for qualities I did uot possess, nor the money of a whimsical oldcentleman." She drew a long breath as she hmsli- 1 her recitd. and fceld out her hand with her own winning frankness. The last week of the year expired yesterday," she said, with an unmis takable sparkle of triumph in her hand some eyiS. "U yon take me now, Frank, it must be all for love. Theie 8 no longer any money in the ques tion." "With all my heart!" cried the m dulgeiit lover. "Since you have come back to me of your own free will, and have no further objections to make to our union, I consider myself one of the l,or.ii,-Ht and most fortunate of bride- ""ii Lfooms. Hecaunht Grace s preiiy, uureiucmui hand in his and pressed it rapturously to li'iw with a smile quite as triumphant as her own and a glance whose intense and mischievous meaning was not explained until after the quiet wedding, at which May Frescott was the BIIVO v tT Mr. alia Airs, oyncai mJnce ami wonuiy wuwwu .uu w" -ia,rnl their impulsive daughter's wiirmcrh thwir partial teuder- etodt'iiii., n & uess forgave her. "You have chosen pover y in preu r- ence to wealth," they said, "na so must ins content to do without the emmd wedding we had contemplated. Grace submitted witu tne uesi uiuuor possible; she had tested l-rans .o,c l.er own end. and all was . . a sn 1. f uu f, . . . i i...r... Imr inexiienenceu ongui, """v liis After the weaoing, r ru - - bride: . - -avou auite satisfied with your -i.- ,.f povertr and glad that your marriage occurred to-day instead of "lam perfectly delighted." Grace answered. "Will you'take a little wedding gift as I have not yet presented V Frank asked meek you wiui i ith pleasure," Grace answered, as jsbe extended her Land, expecting to re- ceive a jewel case. But instead of that, a ponderous legal document was produc ed, at which Grace gazed in blank sur prise. Then Frank explained that, despite Miss Frescott's kind interest in their af fairs, the fortune was not lost, as she had made a slight miscalculation in dates; and his uncle's discerdment in selecting so charmulg a wife for him had made him the happiest of men. May Prescott's chagrin at the failure of her conspiracy, and the delight of Grace's parents at her good fortune can easily be imagined. Grace bore her partial defeat with charmiug equanimity, as she was quite convinced, by some mental process of ber own, that she had her husband's love. So she was reconciled to the possession of a fortune! The Farmera Need. The great need of our farm' rs is un derstanding. We use this word as uis dinct from knowledge, intellect, educa- de-ition or wisdom, or rathrr, a.i embracing them all and more. A lilwral education by which we mean a knowledge of the so called higher branches, as mathema tics, philosophy, astronomy and the classics while it may render a farmer no less fitted for his business, is not re ally essential The rudiments of au education, embracing reading, writing and arithmetic, well founded aud un derstood, go a great way towards fur nishing one with all that is alsolutely necessary for a worker of the soil. The rest may come through, the schools or through observation, logical and practi cal deduction, and experiments. Knowledge is desirable, but of little use to him who knows not how to apply it Intellect sets man alwve the brute. aud the one man above his fellows; but the most intellectual man is not always, or often, the most successful in his un dertakings. Education is not to be des pised; but its possessor may not always know how best to use it, and the wise man may often learn from the ignorant one much that will be to his advantage in the lower walks of life. We would say nothing tending to influence the agriculturist to neglect the acquisition of any or all forms of useful knowledge and culture, but we would endeavor to impress upon him the fact that they may be like fertilizing ptinci- le that exist in nature in a state that render them of no use, because they are not in a condition to make food for, he assimilated by, plants. Understanding is that which enables their possessor to make them of service in his every-day life, and as a small amount of fertilizer judiciously applied, may be of more real service than a large quantity used at random, so a little learning that .can or used is better than scholastic acquire ments with au unpractical mind. So, get education, knowledge and wisdom hen thou canst, "but with all thy get- tings get understanding. a Sale f Turkey. Every body knows that Light street wharf.Baltimore, has a reputation for a tandard of prices for the necessaries ot life, but a few davs aifo a little incident oecared in that locality, which "riled' commission merchant to a considerable degree, notwithstanding his familiarity ith the usual limited idea of his cus- il i tomerB. He was on one oi uie svcum boat piers, where he had a lot of live turkeys in coop, when a leUow came along aud inquired: "How much are your turkeys? "Eight cents," replied the dealer. The questioner hesitated a moment and then said: "Gimme a dozen nice ones." The commission man plunged into the pile of coops, and after a deal oi trouble relected twelve of the uesi in the lot There they are," be remarketl.as He finally secured them in a coop for deliv- prv - . .. . i i The would-be buyer tnrusi ma iuuuj into the depths of his pantaloons pocket nn.1 wi hdrew it filled with a jingling mass of silver and copper coins. Imag .luaior'n anmrise. raee aud dis- UIC 1- - . X trust when the man counted but the sum of iiinetv-6ix cents wlucu ne u'" him s payment for the fowls. The only error was that the man had mista ken the price per pound for the pnee per turkey. It is scarcely necessary to add that the sale of the turkeys was not consummated with that party. Cards aud Croquet. One dav we rode fifty miles in railway car, seated behind lour men who were plavine with those awful playthings of the devil cards. They played euchre until they were tired of it Ibey play ed a little sevenup, pedro, and occa- ii- o rrifl of poker. We never Wrd a diaonte. Their bursts of mer riment occasionally, at some unexpected nlav. repeatedly drew our eyes irom our book. They never quarrelled, and never called names once. Alter we goi v .i. Nation, we sat at the window ana watched a party of young men and maidens playing croquet In fifteen minutes we saw two persons cheat suc cessfully. We heard the one player who did not cheat accused of cheating five times. We heard four distinct bit- 4- nnrrli We heard a .beautiful vonnsr cirl tell two lies, and a meek looking young man three; and, finally, we saw the young girl throw her mal let against the fence so hard tnat it frightened a horse; the other young oirl pounded her mal let so hard on the Ground that it knocked the buds off an b , i r .1 : . . 41.-. apple tree; tuey uoui utugeu . mw i,n at different doors, and the two young men looked shrepish and went off after Onnfc. .now. nuj "" Bathing In Faces. A question has just come before the Manchester city council, England, which has interest for every town where public baths exist It is iouud during hot weather that many of the bathers re main in the water 'and unconscionable long time several hours at a stretch sometimes. This is said to lie especially the habit of feminiue bathers, to the great danger of their health. In one instance, a girl actually lost the use of her limbs, and in many others illness of one sort of another has been traced to this over indulgence. At the Manches ter baths printed notices are posted np, prescribing half au hour as the maxim um time. These, however, are sat at naught, and what may le "picking" goes on just as if there were no regula tions to the contrary. We have little doubt the officials connected with the public baths of the metropolis could tell a similar tale if so minded. Perkaps, therefore, some good would come from distributing among bathers printed war nings as to the consequences tliat result from over bathiu.T. Loss of strength, drowsiness, hepatic derangement, and, we believe, heart complaints are among the results of the practice when frequen tly resorted to: It is, we think, more through iugnorance of any harm rank ing than out of downright perversity, that this foolish excess lu bathing has come to btt so general. Of course.there are some constitutions that can stand anything: and here and there a Webb or a Beckwith is to be found, to whom long immersion in water is, apparently, innocuqu. And even these amphibi ous beings like to have the water warm a condition which does not obtain at public baths during summer time. Mow ladtano Mica. Every woman who has Been obliged to spend half a day several times during the winter cleaning the mica m her coal stove, usually by biking tueni out and washing them in soapsuds, will rejoice to know that there is no need to take them out or let the fire burn very low in order to do it successfully. Take a httle vinegar and water and wash the mica carefully with a soft cloth, the acid re moves all stains, and if a little piiius is taken to thoroughly clean the corners and wipt. them dry, the mica ill look as good as new. If the stove is yery hot, tie the cloth to a stick, and so es cape the danger of burning your hands. It is a great care to see that stoves are kept in proper order, and not many ser vants can be trusted to do it as it should le done. The task might be made somewhat easier by choosing stoves which are not too highly ornamented; unless the trimmings are kept absolute ly spotless and bright, which is very difficult thing to accomplish, they can not lay the least claim to being ornam ental; indeed, a stove which by reason of its excessive decoration is rendered the most proniiuiut feature of the room demanding the attention the moment one enters, is certainly in bad taste. A clean well polished stove, with graceful shape, wliich fulfils the end of its being heating the house, is all that a stove should be. The fire may be, as it has been, called the soul of the rooms, but it ought not to ask too much attention, to its body. Telegraph Posts aad Aniuuls. Herr Melson the director of the Xor- . . . . i, il: wcgian telegrapns, recently puunsueu some curious facts whieh have come UHderhisolwervstion. Wherever the tele graph wires were carried through the for rest twenty years ago the wtives disap peared and have not suice returned. Of course this may be due to other causes, or to accident; but it has always been popularly believed thst, no matter how famished wolves may be, a slight fence made merely with a cord stretched be tween two posts will drive then back. Another singular thing is that the vi bration which the wind striking the wires, conveys to the posts, appears to be mistaken bv woodpeckers for the working of worms inside the ptsts. The birds, therefore, peck at the posts near the insulators until they destroy them ; and one was shown at the electrical ex hibition with a hole thus made quite through it and large enough to admit the hand and arm. Another circum stance is that the stones of the mounds which steady the posts were constantly found scattered in all directions while the posts themselves were knocked about. This was long a mystery until the marks of bears paws were observed on the ground. The theory is that the noise made by the wires in tne winti is mistaken by the lear for the humming of bees, and that he docs the mishief in trying to get at the honey. A FeuiaU Koight of rjll.ta. A womau of Bay City, Michigan, dis guised herself as a man aud clerked m a store for a year, aud then applied lor membership in the Knights of Pythias and was initiated. During the work of the Third Degree her sex was discover ed. It seems that in the Third Degree they have an India rnbber rat and a cel luloid snake, which ran by clockwork inside, and which were very natural ndeed. The idea is to let them run at the candidate to see if he will flinch, When the snake ran at the girl she kep her nerve all right, but when the rat tried to run up her trousers leg she grabbed her imagnginary skirts in both hands and jumped onto a refrigerator that was standing near, (which is used in the work of the Fouith Degree), and screamed bloody murder. The girl is a memler of the order, however, and there is no help for it Thia affair may open th eves of members of secret societies and cause them to investigate. One loLre here, we understand, takes pre cautions against the admission of woman hwMivinliv examining the feet of the . client, l If the feet are cold enough to freeze ice cream the candidate is blackballed. Tcsedbjr m Mad Buffalo. A buffalo hunter writes as follows, there was no time to be lost as I was not more than forty yards from him ; so raining in with a jerk and turning the horse at the same instant broadi-ide on I raised my gun, intending to put a ball, if possible, just between his neck, and shoulders, which, could I have done so, would either have knocked him down or at any rate made him swerve ; but my horse, instead of standing steady, as he hail always done belore, now commenced walking forward, though he did not ap pear to take any notice of the buffalo. There was no time to put my hand down and give another wrench to the bridle (wliich I had let fall on the horse's neck) and for the life of me I could not get a sight with the horse in motion, A charging buffalo does not take many seconds to cover forty yards, and in an other instant his ontstretehed nose was within six feet of me, so, lowering tne gun from my shoulder, I pulled it off in his face, at tlie same time digging the spurs into my horse's sides, but it was too bite, for even as he sprang forward the old bull caught him full in the flank pitching him, with me on his back, into the air like a dog. The recoil of the heavily-charged elephant gun with whieh I was unluckily shooting, twisted it clean out of my hands, so that we all, horse, gun aud man, fell in differeut di rections. My horse retained his feet aud galloped away immediately. The buffalo on tossing the horse, had stopted short, aud now stood with his head lowered within a few feet of me. I had fallen In a sitting position and fa cing my unpleasant-looking adversary I could see no wonnd on him so must have missed, though I can searsly un derstand how, as he was very close when I fired. However I had not much time for speculation, as the old brute, after glaring at me a lew seconds with sinister -looking, bloodshot eyes, finally made up his mind aud with a grunt, rushed at me. 1 threw my body out flat around the ground to one side and just to avoid the upward thrust of his horns; receiv ing however a severe blow on the left shoulder with the round part of it. near ly dislocating my rurbt arm with the force with which my ellow was driven against the ground and receiving also a kick on the instep with one of Ids feet Luckily for me he did not turn again as he most eel tiinly would have done had ho been wounded, but galloped clean away. The first thing to he done was to look after my horse, and at about 150 yards from where he had leen tossed I found him. The buffalo had struck him full in the left thigh : it was au awful wonnd, aud as the poor beast was evi dently in the last extremity, I hastily loaded my gnu and I ut him out of his misrrv. There I was, left alone and uninjured, with only my gun for com pany and the nob-baoked buflalo canter ing away toward the horizon. Duntiug tne wild uoar in Connecticut. ( "Wild boar huntlnz In Connecticut' said an eld Windham County tanner re cently, is something I never expected to see in my day. Nevertheless, it is a solid fact that can't be denied. I be tanners assertion is true. The finest and nios: ex citing sports in Windhc ni County this fall and winter bas been bunting wild nogs. In the town of Ashford there is an exten sive tract ot stenle land that is nearly all a wfcderness. Larire forests cover the lef ty bills, and in the hollows are impasslle swamps, quaicmires, and dense tnickets, and along the hillsides rocky caves. In this district live and breed and are minted the wild bogs. How tne hogs came there is a question; but it is the general Deliet that they are the offspring of a litter of p'gs that strayed away from the farm tf Mr. Boe worth several years ago, aad be came wilt'. Their number now is various; ly estimated at from fifty to seventy-five head; and at certain seasons tbey do much mif chief, prowlicg around the farms and out-houses at nibgt and rooting up fields of crops. They have returned to savagery. They are described as long bodied and It an, covered with coarse, black bristU-s, and are ferocious and for midable antagonists, 'their tusks are lone, sharp and curved. They lurk in the coverts of the woods, feeding on nuu and forest twigs, and when disturbed rusn out with a loud snort, nnd ma with the swiftness of the wind. They have long j since been voted a .common enemy, and every hunter earns the gratitude of tbo farmers by snooting them, lhe hunters don't like to go alone to meet the bogs, but well-aruud with brtcn-kading noes. or guns loaded with buckshot, go in strong parties. About the middle ot October was me first hunt of this year, and several hogs were killed after a fierce corn et, and brought into the vi lage of Ashford amid grea: n joicing. The carcasses were com pletely perforated with buckshot. Since then several other parties have tried the sport, but in each case the game was too wary to hazard a battle or too swill lor the hunters. In one instance a big bog. with flaniinz eves and erect bristles. started up out of a thicket just ahead of the hunters and dashed on in lou view oi the sportsmen, who were too astonished to shoet Kecently the most formidable and elab orate hunting expedition of the year set out Irom Lrxiklyn, Windham County. There were nine men, all armed with Ireaeh loading liflts. A double waenn loaded wr.h munitions of war, and draan by a pair of heavy hor-es, conveyed them to the fluid. A sinad and lively domestic pig was carried along for a decoy. A driz zling rain was falling, and the ground slip pery. 1 be party tramped au day inrougn the wet underbrush, going over thirty miles, and got not a glimpse of a wild bog. Ibe domestic pig was a complete lauure as a decoy, liwaa lnienuea to iae uw youthful animal into a part of the forest frequented by the hogs, and to have one of the party secreted in the bush press it to his bteast It was expected that the pig would iqucal agonizingly in return, and attract the wild swine to the spot The man with the pig secreted himself, according to the n qwreinenls of the pro gramme, and squeezed tne animal vicious ly, bat it would not squeal, lie wen tried to coax it to sound a note of appeal ; he pinched its ear and trod on its tail, but not a sound would the pig utter. The party accordingly put the animal in a bag, and late in the afternoon, footsore and dis gusted, rolled home in thtir two-horae vehicle. Their entry in the Tillage wj greeted with anouta of derision, and the price of tame pork rose a cent and a quar ter per pound. The rt. Uothard tunnel. Six hours n the bowels of the earth. attended with as aevere physical exer tion as I ever went through in the same space of time; six hours in an atmos phere rapidly alternating between the heat of an oven and the clammy chill of a wet morning in late October, beside being thickly impregnated with the smell of exploded dynamite aud the greasy, sickening smoke from innumer able oil lamps of the most primitive construction; in addition no slight per c ntagn of danger from being crushed by passing trains or single truces loaded with building material or debris knocked in the head by the pick of some vigor ous workman, unseen and unseeing in the doom or brained by a stone from the arched loof, loosened by au explosion of dynamite in the floor below such are the nticessary experiences to be gone through by any individual desirous of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the present condition of this most gigantic enterprise. On arriving in the Alpine village fo Goschenen tlie traveler who has visited the western frontier districtsof America will be struck with resemblance of this place to the settlements in the western wild which are just beginning to as sume the garb of civil'zation. Regularly built stone houses and liotels are sur rounded by wooden shauties of rimple, uuplaned board construction, with the interiors fitted with rough tables.bcnch es and sleeping bunks for the accommo dation of the workmen m tlie Swiss end of the tunnel. The engineer's office of the tunnel division is a small, barren looking room, in which I found Mons ieur Zollinger, in charge of this portion of tlie Kno, who not only readily acced ed to my request to visit the tunnel, imt volunteer i d to take me with him on his tour of inspection, whirh he repeats femr times per week. At 2 P. m. I was shown into a grimy room containing a bench, rough washstand aud a grating, behind which a stock of dingy clothing was hanging. This was the "dressing room," where - necessary preparations aie made before entering the yawning mouth of the tunueL 1 had put on my long war boots, and with a water proof coat considered myself capitally epuip ped for any subterranean exploration. To my surprise, M. Zollinger directed me to doff my waterproof as well as my coat, felt hat and tie. M. Zollinger himself donned a rough garb, and then needed his spectacles to even faintly distinguish him from any ordinary "navvy." With a greasy cap aud well oiled and tarred blue linen blouse. I mounted the little locomotive which was to transport our train to the point where the compressed air locomotive would relieve it As we scrambled into the corners of the dirty machine, I couid not help contrasting M. ZolliDgi rs equipment and means of making his rounds of inspection with those which an American engineer would have spor ted in like circumstances. The latter would have invented a natty dress, suitable for the work, yet readily dis tinguishable from the workman's garb; then he would have had a Ught steel handcar, with cushioned seats for three persons, and cranks for two men to work the machine lieliind him. llus car could be easily lifted off and on the track when trains were eucjuntered.and tne engineer would nave made nis rounds in one quarter the time and with one-tenth the physical wear and tear of the St. Gothard member of the fra ternity. Tlie tunnel is perfectly straight from end to end, and the engineers met each other so accurately that their centre lines were within a hand's breath of au exact coincidence. As the headings approached each other the explosions of dynamitewere distinctly audible tnrougu nearly 400 metres ( t.cio leet) oi inter vening rock. The total length is 15 ki lometres 913 miles). The grade as cends uniformly from Goschenen to the summit of the tunnel, which is 1,154 metres alxve the sea level, and 45 me tres (1481 feet) alove Goschenen. while it is only nine metres above the month at Airolo. The ascent from Goschenen to the summit is 5:S2 per cent, while iiie uesceui 10 aituio is per veiiw The summit of the tunnel is 300 metres (993 feet) lie'ow the surface at Auder matt, and 2,000 metres (6,000 feet) be neath the peak of Kastelhorn of the St. Gothard group. This tunnel summit is 1,154 metres, the Mont Cenis tunnel summit is 1.338 metres, and the Pacific railway summit is 2,513 metres above the sea level. There are uo air shafts in the St Gothard tunnel, the two en trances being th i only openings. When the mechanical operations cease inside, and the many existing olistructions to free passage of air, such as scaffcid- ings, heaps of debris and unfinished parts near the centres are done away with, there will be nothing unpleasant in the passage through this tremendous tunnel, which is 2 700 metres (1; mile) longer than through Mont Cenis. lhe engineers assert that the tunnel will be ready for traffic by the 1st oi January altiiongh the whole line from Ijiicerna to liissca will not be op ened until next July." Although the great enterprise is successfully approach ing completion, and that is the best evidence of good management there is room for some improvement in what may be called the niceties of construe tion. The means of access to the tun nel could be ad vautagcously improved. There is too much delay in getting the shifts of meu to their work, much valu able time being lost at the points where tbey have to change trains. Auother thiug struck me as being desirable. i There was a certain alisence of clearing up in me completed portions oi me tunnel, and this, of course, necessitates needless expense in sending gangs of meu to places wheie there should be nothing to do. there is nothing to prevent the ballasting being finished wherever the tunnel is completed, and the temporary track, transferred to this improved surface, would lie much snftr, aud fewer accidents, with consequent loss of life and money, would occrr. There is also an absence of se'entitic methods of fighting the great passage, Money would have been savd by a more general system of illumination. In fact the general impression made upon foreign professional mind is that of "main strength and awkwardness" to greater extent than one would expect to find in this highly inventive and sng Restive age. lhere is no e'eubt in my miud that a large majority of the cases of injury to the employes has been due to the alence of a general systen of lighting the tunnel, and of those more scientific details embraced in my phrase of the niceties of construction. ' The Averaga pay of the St, Louis school teacher is Solo 51 a year. What tlu I.T He is a man with a light beaver over coat on. He drives a white horse and top buggy, and all of a sudden he stops in the middle of the street and look fix edly at his horse, la two minutes fifty people line the curbstone. "What's the matter?" "Balky." A man steps out to seize the bridle, and shut the horse, but the driver shakes his head and motions him away 'I'll bet he's an ugly brute." "Of course he is. Look at that ugly eye of his!" The crowd has now been increased by fifty, and several vehicle have stopped. "Anybody hurt?" Xo; balky horse." "Why doesn t some one whisper in his ear?" Four men stepped ont to give advice, but they are hastily motioned back, and a livery stable man in the crowd observes: "It that horse doesn't kill two or three men here I shall be much mistek en. Three minutes more and the crowd numliers two hundred. The man with the gray horse looks np and down the street, braws his fee!, tikes a firm grip on the hues and softly says: Come. Peter." And Peter drops his head, dangles his ears, aud n.oves off as slowly and softly as a river of grease. "What was it?" calls a man who has run four blocks and is puffing like a whale. But there is no one to answer him. The crowd has dissolved like a haudlul of sugar in a barrel of water. It is very mysterious, and the crowd doesn't enjoy the climax at all. i Out To-Morrow. A piteable aud interesting ca'e was that of young McCarty. as the name ap peared on the register, at Sing Sing prison Xew York. This was an alias, however. McCarty had been sent to prison for two years for stealing. He was suffering from consumption when received. The poor fellow lay in his cot He was undoubtedly in the last stages of his disease, and had an intelli gent face and good brow. He was ap parently alove thirty years of age. The Warden stepied slowly up to his cot "Well McCarty almost through?" the Warden asked in a quiet way. "Yes, Warden, this is the last ay, I'm out to morrow." McCarty replied, his vsice scarcely alove a whisper. 'How do you feel?" "Oil, I'm stronger." "What are you going to do?" "God only knows. Warden. I've got $15 left But how 1 ng will that keep me? I suppose I must go to Xew York. If sonicliody only knew of my case and wo aid give me $ to help mj on to Phi ladelphia I could do something there. I could eara $3 a day there; God knows I don't want to be driven to stealing again." He spoke with broken breath, almost gasping out part of his speeclu 'Are yon stroug euongh to go?" the Warden asked. "Yes, I'm going. My legs are heavy, and they won't work very well, but I'm going. If 1 only bad an overcoat it would protect me fnm the cold I'm afraid of the raw air. Do you think, Warden," he ssked, appealingly, "that there miuht be an old overcoat ying around that I could have?" "Don't cive yourself any trouble about that McCarty. I'll see you are fixed out with everything you want." "Thank you. Warden, thank yon, A bright Ught shone in McCarty's eye Ho was evidently thinking of tne mor row. "So, then," the Warden said again to McCarty, as he moved away, "you are bound jo go to morrow. "Yes, Warden. Only let me get out side the walls, outside the walls," Mc Carty was left smiling at the thought of 'only getting outside the walls, "1'oor fellow," exclaimed the Warden when he hail moved away. "I'm afraid he won t ever get outside the w oils alive, strong er? He's growing weaker and weaker. It's strange what a fascination it has for him to get ontside the walls." McCarty had not a fnend ui the world nor was there any one to take any in terest in him. Raat Armadillo. Ou the Isthmus of Panama the tapir and sloth are eaten by tlie Indians, w to also consider the agouti aud other small rodents great delicacies. In Paragnay the capybara, a great amphibious gum eit pig as big an ordinary porker, is a standard dish, and throughout the whole of South America, roast armadillo is highly esteemed, aud may be reoo in all tlie cafes and restaurants of the cities turned ou their scally acka, feel upper most, and the interior filled with a rich sauce compose of lemon and spices much too ereasy for my palate, though the flavor of the animal itself is delici ons. I have tasted menkey and parrot in Mexico, and found loth very dry and insipid, but I am given to understand that the bird Ls not to be despised i pnperly dressed. That most malodor ous marsupial, the opossum, is recog nized as an article of food in Rio Grand do Sul, am' other provinces which inhabits, where, however, they bury it in the earth until the flesh is free from its chaacteristic offensive smell before coking it Its cousin, the dasyurr, n treated in the same way in Australia, where it sliares the honors of the table with the kangaroo. There are 2 3 wcaen ir Boston worth a million dollars ew-h. NKWS IN f.blFF Six hniidr d linns wer killed atone show given uy the Bomaii Pouipey. Thetimlnjron Prince AVittgenstien's estate in Russia is estimated at $5,000, 000. Arehiuiedes invented a screw fr . facilitating irrigation in Egvpt, B. C. 250. The first altar mentioned in Scri ture was erected bv Xoah, after the flood Margaret Cmnlen (Lady Bauner maii) is said to have been Cariyle'a first love. Miss Magpie Blaiue.diiuguterof the ex-Srretaiy, is pursuing her studies in Paris. A ly living in Bangor, Me , is five years old and weighs less than six pounds. General Joshua L. Chauilerlaiu, of Maine is passing part of the winter in Florida. T. F. Burges. ex-President of the old Transvaal lU-pu'ilic in Smth Africa, is dead. G.-u. Franz Sigel Ls now a school inspector in tho eighth district of New York City. There are tea female students in the Hoiuifipathie Mislic-.il College, iu Cincinnati. Sara Bernhardt will receive it is said 20,0l K) for her engagement at St. Petersburg. (lililx'ii bgaii to write his "IWliue and Fall of the Kouiaii Empire" i ) Lon don, in 1772. The assessed valuation of Colorado is $9t;,ai9,000, an increase ..f $2:j,00t, 000 stnoe 18N0 Alligatt r teeth, in Georgia and Florida, are purchased fur lx-tweeu $2 and $3 a pound. In Moscow the plague introduced by the Turkish army carried oif 20.000 victims in a month. A new law iu Kansas forbids any person to marry within six months after procuring a divorce. Captain De Long, of Arctic fame, was an office txy at .! a week iu Xew York twenty years ago. Iu Loudon ifiirrn a lady advertLses her Lsh t o exchange her engagement ring for a black fur caie. The late Tunmas K. Gould, tin) sculptor, considers his 'Cleopatra,"now in Boston, his ln-st work. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Lu France, guilty animals suf fered death on the gallows. Complaint is made iu some of the rural p-irtimis of Xew Jersey that eider made of drugs Ls being introduced. Peacocks were carefully reared ill the island of Sutniios ami si 1,1 at such high prices that Van says thev fetched yearly 2,(MX). So great was the desire to see Mrs. Langtry on the stage that some of the audience paid, it is rcortvd, ns much as $50 for a stall. There is a heavy demand on the United States Treasury for bright nuw diuios, for baugtes. There are none iu the Department Mr. L. von Faber, proprietor of the famous lead joncil factory at Stein, near Xurenilerg, has been made a Baron by the King of Bavaria. It Ls stated as probable that the Duke of Connanglit, who has a strong desire to visit Iudia, will lie elected for an Indian command. One hundred women iu this country have offered to go to Irelaud to promote agitation there, and a majority are will ing to servo wit . out pay. Mr George M. Pullman, the origin ator of the Pullman cars, is alnmt 47 years of age, aud said to lie worth from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. The Duke of Wellington is Presi dent of the British Goat Society, and actively promotes goat keeping among the peasantry on his estates. In the city of Denver more than $4,000,000 was expended iu the erection of new buildings, and the total assessed Tarnation f the citv shows an increase of $9,400,000. The Washington school trustees have, by a vote of thirteen to three, de cided ugainst the admission of colored children to the schools attended bv hite children. It is proposed to erect a monument to Sallust nt Aiuila u the Abrurri, overlooking the Itiver Atenio the site 1 the ancient Amiternnm, where the istonan was born. The school population of Ohio Ls es timated at l,Obi,225. The increase Is alxiut 3,000 every year. The average daily attendance in the schools is only forty-six ier cent. There arrived at Xew York during 1-H.Hl from foreigu jiorts (K129 vessels of wliich 1953 were steamers; and from do mestic ports 11,9:13 of which 13iX; were propelled by steam. Eighteen steaiulio-its are now plow ing the waters of the St. Johns, Florida, arrying passengers and freight, exclu sive of tlios3 employed in towing aud for logging pnrtMjses. There is said to lie no male descen dant of tne fenmner family. Its only representatives are the three ueiees of the great rx-nator the daughters of his sister, Mrs. Julia flantinrs. There is a weekly sale in Paris of toads, wliich are brought Lu casks filled ith damp moss. One hundred toads are worth from sixty to seventy shillings. These are Wight for gardens. A company has leen formed in Winnipeg to supply Eastern cities with canned frogs. Largo canning houses are to be built early in the spring in the vicinity of the town of hitemonth. It is ofliciallv annonnced that the great St. Gothard tunnel ill be oiened for the regulnr passage of trams ou Jan. uarv 1. The total cost of the work Ls 56,M0H.G20 francs, or aliout$ll,0U0,000. General tleorge .McDonald, now over 97 years old,has the honor of ln-Lug father of tne Britisu armv. He is colonel of the Bedfordshire Regiment, and entered the armv iu Septenilier, 18.15. The total value of school property in West irgiua is fi..iii,rsj. xuo school population ls 213,4 11, the attend ance is 91,291. There are 4,327 public school teachers iu the State, 1 1 7 of whom are colored. 1 he average salary given to teachers is $20.G1. In the Annual estimation of the value of coius by tlie Director of the Mints, there are ouly two changes for 1SH5 in the values shown by the Treas nary circular of January 1st, 1881. The Austrian florin and tlie Japauese yen are r L ,1 if 3 IV
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