B. F. SCHWKIER.
THB OOIBTITDTIOS-TIIE TOTIOI AID THS BrfOKOEKElT 07 TEX
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXYI.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1. 1882.
NO. 8.
THE TRYST.
She glided over Uw meadow grass.
And through the green Joans; corn ;
Sweet a. the ignimT blooms she was
And fresh u Hammer morn.
We laughed and loved beside the brook
That sang Its gay refrain,
And where we met mat day, my love.
We swore to meet again.
But ere the prase was dry and brown
Amid the ripening corn,
I p to the churchyard on the down
A maiden's corpse was borne.
I weep alone beside the brook.
All swol'n with Autumn rain ;
Fur where we met that day, my loe.
We shall not meet again.
AN OLD MAN! IIAKLIXG.
She stood in the garden among her
flowers with the sunshine ail about her;
and John Ashly, watched her from the
doorway, on Lis face, could think of
nothing but a bird or butterfly, as she
flitted about from rose to lilac, with her
yellow curls flying about her face in a
cloud, and her eyes full of sparkles like
water in shadowy places
His Tears were more than double hers.
He was a man whom studv had made
sober and thoughtful in early manhood.
He had a brave strong face, with a
strange gentleness in it now, as he stood
and watched the girl in the gnrdeu. She
was the only child of an old friend of his
who had left her to him when he died;
he had accepted the trust willingly. He
had tried to be faithful to it And lie had
succeeded.
"She is growing into beautiful wom
anhood," he said to himself. "Some
one will be robbing me of her one of
these days I suppose."
He sighed a little as he spoke.and the
thoughtful look upon his face grew dee
per. "Unless " and then he stopped sud
denly, aud shook his head, as if to as
sure himself that what had been in his
mind that moment was not to be thought
of seriously.
The girl in the garden began to sing.
Her voice was clear as any bird's, and.
the still morning air rung with its melo
dy. John Ashley left off thinking to
listen,
A bird perched on one of the lilac
bushes by the gate began a Bong in pure
rivalry. It seemed as if he would split
his slender throat in his attempt to out
warble the singer in the garden.
She listened a moment, and began
again; She ran up and down the lines
of melody in lights aud dips of sounds
that made him think of a bird flitting
in mid air.
"Bravo! ' he cried, slapping his hands
as her voice died into silence, and the
bird flew np and away in the blue over
head. "You have put your rival to
flight"
"Why, John!" she always called him
that "I didn't know any one was list -ening."
"You'd make a fortune with your
voice," he said. "But I wouldn't like
to have tou trv it"
"Why?" she" asked.
'Because I don't want to lose you,"
he answered.
"You'll never be fortunate enough to
do that" she laughed, "I'm going to
stay with you always, John."
'"You'll change your miud.some time"
he said, gravely, looking away toward
the mountains in that way ho had when
thinking deeply. "Wait till Boy
comes."
"I wish Boy was here,"she said, com
ing up the steps, and stopping close by
him. "You have told me so much about
him that I want to see him."
"He rill be here to day or to-morrow,"
he answered, thinking that with
Boy's coming there would be an end of
the old quiet life in which he had Sta
cia all to himself.
Someway it hail seemed to him all
along as if Boy would marry Stacia.
They were suited to each other. He
knew of no one he would sooner give
her to, but and always at the thought
of giving her np to any one there was a
curious little paiu at his heart He wan
ted her for himself.
That night Boy came.
"I like him very inuch, "she told John
Ashley next morning. "We shall be the
best of friends."
"Or lovers?" he asked, with a grave,
low smile.
"Oh, no; only friends, she said,
droppiug her eyes lefore his earnest
gaze, while a sott color like that in a
rose's heart came iny her face. "I'm
going to have no lover but you, John."
"Wail and see," he answered: "you
don't know your heart yet"
But Stacia only shook her head.
She and Boy were the best of friends,
as she had said they would be. She
had never known a brother's love cr
companionship and Boy's pleasant ways
won a place in her regard from the
first
There were long rows on the river in
the pleasant days when all the world
was full of summer sweetness, and walks
ia the twilight And John Ashley.sit
ting apart, with only his thoughts to
keep him company, saw the two togeth
er, and told himself that what he had
foretold had come true. Eoy loved her
and he was going to lose the woman he
loved.
"I must be a fool to think of such a
thing as linking her life and mine
together.- he said, bitterly, one day, as
he stood at U e window, watching them
rowing slowly up and down the river.
"I am almost an old man. May and
December were not meant to mate to
gether. And yet, women have loved
men as much older than they were, as I
am older than Stacia. If she could love
me how complete life would seem!
Without her, I shall always be a lonely
man." . . 1,
One day Boy and Stacia were in the
garden together. They were tying up
carnations.
"I don't know anything in the world
sweeter than carnations except your
cheeks," Boy said, all at once.
That's a very piMj compliment
said Stacia. "I suppose I ought to give
you something in return. Here is a
carnation. That's fair you give me
compliments and I'll pay in carna
tions." , .
. , A,,M now in kisses.
i 1.3 t 4.TV-. r,n knnw 1 am leal-
laugneu iwj. -- -
ous over that kiss you gave uncle John
TL.n wa its Tliflr
this morning; you never "
M
Because I keep my kisses for the one
-1, m best, sue i""-'
BO?!7t - Urvwr said suddenly.
-You must have seen that Stacia? J.
have loved you since the first time I saw
rt
"I never thought you cared for me
not in that way at least' said Stacia.
Dulling away the hand Boy had taken
"". hi T haven't done
possession cu ""i , - v
or said anything to make you think
loss
"You haven't tried to make me love
you, exerted any wiles to catch me, if
that is what you mean, he answered.
'But I thought you did care for me.
Stacia.
"So I do, as a vry dear brother, she
answered, "I love you very much. Boy,
but not in the way you meant just
now.
Roy's face was full oi keen disappoint
ment He had hoped to woo and win
this fc:rl. But it could not be.
"I am sorry, very sorry for you Jtoy'
she said, tenderly, touched by the sight
of his disappointment. "Let me be
your sister Stacia, and forget that you
ever thought of me as anything else.
You shall le brother Roy from this time
forth. Is that agreed on, Koy7
"Yes, since you will have it so," he
answered.
He understood that it would be use
less for him to urge his suit Stacia al-
wavs meant what she said.
'Let me seal the compact with a kiss
then, she said, and kissed him.
Looking up after the careass, she saw
John Ashlev s face at his window. He
had seen her kiss Boy, and his heart
was full of keenest pain at the sight He
thought it was sueh a kiss as a woman
gives to the man she loves, and sighed
to think his life must be barren of such
kisses.
That night he was in the parlor alone
thinking of her, w hen she came in.
"I have leen hunting for you, she
said, "I'm lonesome: I want some one
to talk to."
Sue drew a little stool up to his feet.
and sat down, leaning her head upon his
knee.
"Lonesome, are you?" he said, strok
ing her yellow hair gently. "Where is
Boy?" He ought to keep you from get
ting lonesome.
-I don t want to talk to Boy. she
answered. -I want you, John. You
dou't act as you used to before Boy came
I don t have vou all to myself for a quiet
talk as I used to.
"You dou't miss my company, do
you ? he said, threading his fingers
through ber tresses in an absent way.
He was thinking how much he should
miss her when Boy took her away.
"lou know I miss you, she answer
ed. "I like to talk to you better than
anv one else."
"Better than to Boy?" he questioned.
"Yes, better than to Boy," she au-
auswered.
"I suppose it is all settled between
you and Boy," he said, by and by, brea
king the silence that had fallen about
them.
His voice had a sharp touch of pain in
it It hurt him to talk about losing
her.
"Yes, it is all settled," she answered.
Has he told you?"
'So, but I saw yon kiss him in the
garden this af ternoon,and I have known
how it would be from the first I hope
you will be happy, very happy, Stacia.
It will be hard for me to give you up; 1
shall miss you more than you can think
but I am not selfish enough to try to
keep you when love calls you else
where.' "I don't understand you." she said.
looking up at him, in a puzzled w ay. "I
kissed Boy in the garden, but it doesn't
follow from that that you've got to give
me up, or that love calls me away from
you. It doesn't; John. I'm going to
stay with yon always, and, be you Sta
cia," "Don t you love Koy? he asked, lift
ing her face up that he might look into
her eves.
'Yes, I love Boy: and we're going to
be the best of friends. He is brother
Boy to me, and I am sister Stacia to
him."
"And nothing more? There was a
strange eagerness in his voice.
"Nothing more, she answered, soft-
"Stacia, I wonder he began and
stopped suddenly.
' onder what? she asked.
"No matter," he answered getting up
and going to the window, where he
stood looking out into the sight. with a
shadow on his face.
"But I want to know," she said, fol
lowing him, and laying her hand upon
his arm. "Tell me John!"
"Would you force me to tell you that
I love you?" he cried, passionately.
"That I have been fool enough to dream
that I could make you happy? Qo away
Stacia, and let me think of my folly,and
try to conquer it
'is it tolly to love me? she asked,
softly, lifting shy eyes to hi, "Oh,
John, I could be happier with you than
any one else in the world!"
"Do you mean that yon could care for
the old man as the old man cares for you
Stacia? Have you thought of the years
between ns?"
"I only know I love vou," she said.
and pnt her hands in his. "If you want
me, John, why take me!"
"But with the old haunting thought
throwing its shadow in his face "I am
so much older and soberer than you.
Don't take me out of pity, Stacia. It is
love I want You will be in woman.
hood's prime when I am a white haired
old man."
" I hen I will be an old man's dark
r." she said, softly, and John Ashley
bent and kissed her, with a great joy in
his face. She was his all his!
Jones Offer.
Mr. IS , who ha d a store in tbecoun
try and employed a number of wood-chop
pers, who were his principal customers,
had one among them named J one, who
wits constantly behind in his weekly setlle-
me its. Oae day Mr. li informed
Jones that it could be tolerated no longer.
and hereafter, if he wished to obtain any
thing from the store it must be paid for,
as it would not be charged, as formerly.
Jones demurred at this and refuted to cut
anv more wood. Mr B . who was a
kind-hearted man, met Jones a fortnight
after the occurrence, when the following
conversation ersued:
Wei'. Jones, are you still out of
work?"
Yea, sir he repr.ed.
I am very sorry. Would you be wil
ling to po at work aain and have it cred
ited to your old account if 1 should make
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it very easy ior youi inquireu r. u
"I don't know; how will you fix itt
answered Jones.
"WelL I'll tell you " said Mr. U
"You know I am paying my choppers a
dollar a day, but if you are disposed to
work "nit your old indebtedness 1 will
allow you four dollars a day until the old
account is settled. What say you?
Jones, after meditating a few moments,
Iv exclaimed:
"By golly! I'd do it if you'll make it
half cash! .
Of the seventy-six United States
senators fin are of foreign Dina.
that " and then she stopped at a
how to explain her meaning.
& Conductor's Coat. Lion.
A reporter met an old railroad con duo-
111 in f 1- - . i .
reveoiiy, ana was surrris-
m uau neen discharged.
"ies, ne said, "the old mau tide
iracaeu me. '
"What fort"
'WelL I suopose he thought I had too
niucu money.
"Yours or bis? And be laughed.
- "You rember I In gao working for the
Y. Q nd in 1865, at the close of the war.
From $50 a month I was gradaally raised
to $100. The other day the old man'(ihe
superintendent found out that I owned and
was paying taxes on 1 12, 000 or $15,000
worth of propeity. So be kicked. Ue
offered to keep me if 1 would "restitute."
but I said I guessed I had railroaded abeut
long enough.
"How did you save all that money in
15 years from a salary of $000 iucreased
gradually to $1,200 a year!" And he
laughed asain.
"As I'm out of the bufinass now and
ainuo' use railroad companies, I don't
mind explaining the conundrum. I'll hold
up my hand, though, and swear I always
accounted for every passenger I ever rr-
nea. out i watered 'm watered the
company like its directors water the stock
Ana I did it in this way: You see every
year the president and general officers is
sue an unlimited number of annual passes.
borne of these are in exchange with other
raiiroaua. nut most of them are to the
high-cock-a-lorums, congressmen and
members of the legislature. 1 always made
my ousintss when one of these fellows
took my train to 4pipe him off' that is,
get in conversation with him. find out
where he lived and what bis business was.
You know passengers always like civil
treatment from a conductor; it seems odd
like, With this acquaintance I would use
him.
Used him?"
i es, used him. Knowing about how
often his business required him to travel, I
traveled lor him. Jk you catch on? When
he didn't travel I just deducted that much
from my cash receipts and credited the
annual bummcf with one trip. My divi
sion cash fare was a little less than 7.and
it was a poor run tor me if I diuVt turn in
two or three old duffus."
Ab, I see. You robbed Peter to nay
Paul?"
"No, I robbed the annual pissholler to
pay m self. But my best bold was in catch-
ag the pasboldcr in robbing the company
There's where I made the most of my
money. 1 ou see, the avrage member of
the legislature not -only thnks the company
shouia carry him free, but all his fritnds.
So he loans bis pass t Tom, Dick and
Harry, his neighbors. I made it my busi
ness to identify every legislative passhold
er. Every two or three weeks a man
would get on my train and show up that
pass. 1 would give him his check, go on
through the train, do my work, aud then
come back and sit down by him, i would
say. Let me lock at your pass again t He
ould hand it nut 1 would then turu to
my memorandum book and read : 'Arclii
meaes Skrubendike. tall, dark hair, SO
years old , annual, 0107 Tbea I would
turn to the rooster and say: "Why, you're
not Archimedes Skrubeukike; you've no
rignt to ride on this pass. Bead the con
ditions on the back Not transferable.'
And then the fellow would go all to pieces.
He would beg, and plead and offer to pay
fare, but I was too fly. When 1 had him
bad enough scared. 1 would say. I'm sorry
and 1 hope this thing will never occur
again. Jiow, 1 11 !U you what i ll do l ll
not take up this pass, as I am instructed to
do, for Skrubenkike is a good friend of
the railroad, and I wouldn't bave him get
into trouble for anything in the world.
You give me $10 and I will let you keep
the pass to give ba: to nim, only you
must promise never to tell him you got
caught And the fellow would snatch
out $10 quicker'n a wink. It's an honest
fact in one year I worked old fckrunen
kike for more'n $300.
My Brother, Out WA
"Say. my dear." said Mr. Spoopendyke,
as he finished reading a letter be had just
received, "my brother, out West, wants
me to buy a razor strop and a suitable
present for a young lsuy, and send them
to him."
"I didn't know that a raxjr strop wss a
suitable present for a young lady," replied
Mrs. Spoopendyke. who was buty mixing
catnip tea, and caught the remark imper
fectly.
"It would be a suitable present ior soaie
dod gasted married women, if it would
shsrpen 'em up any!" retorted Mr. Spoop
endyke. "Who said anything aliout a ra
zor strop and a young lady? v nai i ooser
ved was that my brother out West wants
me to buy him a rarw strop and a present
suitable for a young lady. How, 1 can get
the strop, but 1 dofl unoersiana wuai
kind of a present he wants."
"Let me see." mused Mrs. Spoopendyke
her shopping instincts rising to the surface.
'IXk-s he say what kind or a young iauy
she isl"
No, he doesn't!'' roared Mr. Bpoopen-
dyke. "He leaves something to tne im
agination of the reader. 1 suppose she's
got arms and legs, 'cause if she hadn't he
wouid proaauly have mentioned u. m uai
be wants is a present for an average wom
an; now, what can we get for her?"
If I knew whether she was a blonde or
a brunette. I could tell better what she
would like," replied Mrs. Spoopendyke,
who. like the rest of her sex, always asso
ciated a woman with the color that becomes
her best. "Do you suppose that he mesns
something for her to wear or some orna
ment for her house? lou see 1 dont know
whether ane keens house or boards, or
lives at home."
What difference does that make?" de
manded Mr. Spoopendyke. She's proba
bly a human being, but we'll suppose she
roosts in a tree. Does that help you acj i
Can you think of something useful for a
female who lives in a tree and bops wun
light-hearted skips from bough to b ugh
hke a dod gssted crow
"f ou might buy her a toilet set" sug
gested Mrs. Spoopendyke, taking refuge in
woman s one idea oi an appro-iiaic
rtresent for another woman.
She don I want a toilet set. snouieu
Mr Spoopendyke, 'any more an she wants
the chicken-noxl You want to think of
something that is pretty and at tLe same
time that she can use. Now tt inkl"
"How would one of the new painted
porcelain flower pots do?" ventured Mrs.
SaooDcndyke.
"lhat r it howled Mrs. cpoopcnuyke, --a
flower pot with a measley saucer under it
to pbrct the tree in when it turns cold! That
your idea? One with broken-legged bugs
painted on the outside, ana a noie in tne
bottom, su sne can use u in uio biuk iui
a tnv glass! Thai's tne idea! A tour dol
lar flower pot for a six cent rose bush with
the blind staggers and a toucn oi the pip.
Whcre s the pot! Fetch forth the highly
seasoned flower pot!" and Mr. Spoopend) k
leaned back in his chair and glared at his
wife.
Ill tell you what will do, my dear.
aid Mrs. Spoopeadyke, approaching the
next suggestion cautiously, "Why not send !
uer an aiDumi '
"You mean one of those books for a lot
of Idiots to wish they were dead in?" asked
Mr. tfpoopenriyke, suspiciously.
fli)i replied Mrs. tpoopench ke: "a
photograph album."
"Don't want it" stuffed Mr. fenoopen
dyke, contemptuously. ' Tou mean that
sort of a thing that a girl always brings out
ailer tea and says: 'That s mn and thal'p
pa, and that s aunt Yin and her little boy,
and that's uncle Si, and that's aunt Fie,
and that's uncle Jess, and thata my niece:
.Nellie, kin t she sweet? And thats a dog
e uscu to own, and 1 dont know who
that is, and that's tlma Morris!' Don't
want it!" And Mr. Spoopendyke's voice
rose to a stesm whistle pitch. "S'post
I'm going to inflict a suffeting Dublic with
a bookful of old stairs that all look alike,
and hare been in every measly rlbum tince
Adam began to wear pants? Can't ve think
of something sensible?
V ouldn t a half dozen folks be nice?"
faltered Mrs. Spoopendyke, almost at her
wus end.
"Just the thing!" gasped Mr. Spoopen
dykc. "Half a dozen pitchforks and a
ton of hay. Then you might throw in an
eight day ben coop and a cat climbing over
the back fence! You've got ideas about
such Ihiug! All you want ia a chin whis
ker and a chimney to be a dod gasted Santa
Claus! With your Intelligence on these
subjects, you only need a strike and a glue
pot to be a toy sbopl I'm going to buy
this present myself" and Mr. ipoopendyke
shot out of the house and tore down the
street with his head sunk in hi? shoulders
and his fists in his pockets.
In an hour he returned all grins and set
a parcel in his wife's lap.
"Now, my dear, what do you think of
that?" be asked cheerily.
Mrs. Spoopend) ke opened the parcel and
disclosed a huge crimson silk handkerchief
that would have made a tabernacle teut
for a camp meeting.
How did you come to think of it?' she
asked, holding it up admiringly.
"Why," replied Mr. Spoopendyke, "he
said in the letter that if 1 couldn't think of
anything else to get a handsome handker
chief. Here it ia." and Mr. Spoopendyke
drew out the letter triumphantly.
"liut he don't say handkerchief; be says
a nice handkerchief nni;! Ikre s the riut;
on the next line," said Mrs. Spoopendyke,
mildly, planting her thumb on the supple
mental word.
"Dod gast tie dod gasted woman!" be
howled. "Why don't he write plain?
Why didn't you tell me before what he
wanted? by did you let me break my
neck for this flag for, when he wanted a
ring? If I didn't have more sense than
you've got I'd put broken glass on my
head and hire out for the back of an idiot
asylum!"
Mr. Spoopendyke dove into his chair and
snoied lustily untd bedtime.
"Anyhow, "thought Mrs. Spoopendyke,
as she put the haudketchief away, "1 can
find out where he bought it and trade it
tor match safes and lingerie for the baby,
and by the time he gets a strop to suit
him I will be pretty weli fixed for stock
ings and hairpins.''
And Mrs. Spoopendyke fired another
charge of catnip into the baby, hushing its
startled cries as Mr. Spoopendyke, fast
asleep, slid out of his chair like a load of
coat
Plaster of Paris In Fracture.
Plaster, either In the form of a bandage
enveloping the fi act tired part or in the
form of a distinct splint, is used quite ex
tensively in the various horpita's of this
city. In fact all other things being cq-ial,
it is given the preference over other forms
of apparatus usually employed in such in
juries. Particularly is this the case with
fractures of the leg, which are treated now
almost exclusively by this bandage. The
fracture box is rarely used, and only in
exceptional case!', where there is great
iwel.ing, and under condition of extensive
injury of the skin, in which it is necessary
for the parts to be exposed during treat
ment Generally this open method is only
employed untd such time as it is safe to
apply the plaster of Pans bandage, as
shown by the disappearance of the swell
ing and the healing of the abrasions. No
time is lost by so doing, as generally the
parts are made fit for the immovable ap
paratus before the bony union commences.
In compound fracture the limb is generally
placed at once in the plaster apparatus,
openings being made in the latier corres
ponding with the injuries of the soft part
for the purpose of establishing thorough
drainage. As a rule, and wh:n,of course,
there is no special contraindica ion in the
shape of undue swcllinr, etc., all fractures
in which plaster of Paris is to be employed
are "put up" at once. A general des
cription of the method of procedure may
apply to that to be employed in any case
ot fracture in any region of the body. The
part is enveloped in a thin layer of cotton,
and the bandages, immersed in water
sufficiently long to be permeated, are ap
plied directly over the cotton, care being
taken to exert slight and uniform pressure.
Each layer of bandage is carefully mould
ed to the inequalities of the surface, snd
made perfectly smooth betore the next
layer is applied. H the bandages .are
properly prepared, without sizing, and
have been kept in a dry place, the plaster
will commence to 'set before the second
bandage is applied. Generally three
layers of bandage are sufficient for a frac
ture where ordinary support is required.
Four, with suitable re-enrorcements, may
be required in other cases. After the
dressing is complete, it is exposed to the
air, and hardens sufficiently enough in two
or three hours to allow the limb to be
moved. . .
The master apparatus is generally kept
in position dunng the whole period of
treatment If undue swelling occures,the
envelope is slit in the long axis of the
limb bv a Uys saw, or Dy scissors ior tne
purpose, and thus a splint is formed which
is kept in position by outside bantlaes.
Some surgeons prefer to dispeuse wim
cotton altogether, and we a well-nued
silk or gauze stocking or jacket as the
foundation for the plaster. There is, hew-
ever, greater care anu sain rcqiuicu m
. . : ..1 sn
his method, as any undue pressure at any
one point would be more apt to produce
awellinzin the parts beyond, let stilt
when nroperlv applied, this makes me
most comfortable and lightest dressing that
can be used, and gives the perfection of
support and greatest accuracy oi adjust
ment to the injured parts.
Wolves In Chuh.
During the services in a church in a
small Spanish town near Madrid, on last
Christmas eve, the congregation was star-
tied by the tuJden entrance of a pack of
famished wolves. Before they were driven
out the wolves had killed three persons
outright and seriousiy wounded five others
It is said that a quick-witted sacristan,
who ascended the pulpit while every one
else was dumb with terror and began to
imitate the noise of a loud-barking dog,
bad much to do with the flight of the
beasts.
President Gonzales, of Mexico, is
ill.
Winter Sports.
Sailing the ice-boats is a sport of re-
ceut origin, but one which has attaiaed
great popularity in neighborhoods suit
able for it, and vary remarkable skill
and accuracy in both the eonstruotioa
of boats and their sailing. The head
quarters of the sport in the Uai ted States
are ou the Hudson and Shrewsbury riv
ers. The illustrations give a correct
idea of the construction of an ice-boat,
which is represented as racing a train
ou the Hudson river railroad aud leav
ing it behind, by no means an iiu redible
thing when it ia remembered that time
has been taken ever abort distances
showing the speed of the boat to have
lieen at the rate of 120 miles an hoar.
The longest distance ever actually made
in au hour, was 72 miles, which, wa
need not say, is a great deal faster than
th9 fastest trains are driven. The prin
ciple of the iceboat is the same as that of
a pair of skates. In a boat the cross piece,
haa a runner at each end fastened below
it and these runners are shod with fine
ly olished cast-iron in the center and
towards the front, and woik on a pivot
so that the boat can clear slight obsttuo-
lions on the ice without bumping. Bum
ping was au inconvenience in the nse of
the ice-boats first made which bordered
on danger. At the extreme end of the
lioat, underneath where the captain sits
there is an iron shoe working on a pivot
after the same fashion as those provided
on the runners. These three metal
shoes give fac.lity to the motion com
municated by the use of sails. Iceboats
are generally sloop-rigged, that is, with
jib and maiusail, with the sail carried
very low. The skillful captain aims at
getting the wind on the quarter, the
s)eed att-uned in this way always ex
ceed in? that when the direction is the
same as that of the wind. Sailing on
an ice boat is not generally so exciting
a matter as that representing in a pict-
ture, which shows two persons keeping
down the boat and exulting because
they have passed the tr&iu. It is a de
lightful source of amusfuiant aud re
creation. In large boats as many as 10
or 12 persons can be accommodated,and
the excitement of sleighing is certainly
equaled if not exceeded by the delights
of an excursion by young people on one
of these ingenious contrivances. Acci
dents are infrequent The Icicle is one
of the best boats on the Hudson river.
Ou the. Shrewsbury the Uncle Bob is a
new boat, 42 foct long, with frame 26
feet long, and is 16 feet between run
ners. Competitions between crack fee-
boats are exceedingly exciting forms of
sport W o need scarcely add, that the
best boats are beautif ully finished and
costly pieces of workmanship.
Manna In the Wildernou.
Botanist and travelers have been rath
er unsuccessful in attempts to ascertain
the origin of different kinds of manna
kuowu in commerce. In the valley of
Gohr, to the sonth of the Dead Sea.aix
teen hours onward which leads into a
long valley, Buckhart found what he
called manna, dropping from twigs of
several kinds of trees. According to
his representations Arabs collect it and
make it into cakes, which are eaten with
their nauseous butter made from the
milk of sheep. They churn it thus. A
goat skin is filled with milk and suspen
ded between two poles swing to and fro
by pulling an attached cord till it as
sumes a new character a greasy, soapy
mass and that is Arab butter. Mr.
Turner found a grove of tamarisk trees
near Mt Sinai in the valley of Farran,
which furnish what the monks call man
na. They were bushy, about ten feet
high, from which drops of sweetish thick
fluid oozed. If taken early in the mor
ning, before the sun is up, it may be
kept in earthen pots a considerable time.
It is used in lieu of sugar in the con
vent Commercial manna, principally
in the hands of druggists, is a product
of the punctured stems of the omits
L'uropa, growing in Calabria. An ar
ticle very simiiiar in appearance aud
medical properties is procured in Sicily
by the same kind of process. Both hays
a sweetish taste, are soft, of a pal yel
lowish coior, and nsed for their mild
laxative quality rather than food. From
the foregoing facta it is very clear there
is not the slightest resemblance to that
extraordinary nutritious articlo which
was miraculously provided for the chil
dren of Israel in a barren wilderness on
memorable occasion, while in their
forty years peregrinations towards the
promised land.
Electricity from crystal.
Jaques aud Curie have shown that by
the mere compression of an inclined
hemihedral crystal, electricity, ia devel
oped. They experimented by placing
a crystal or a suitable section of it be
tween two sheets of tiu foil insulated on
the exterior by plates of caoutchouc, the
tin foil being connected to a cralvano.
meter. By now compressing the crystal
in a vise or otherwise, electricity is de
veloped and may be measured by the
galvanometer. The electricity devel
oped is the opposite of that produced
by heating a crystal that is to say, the
extremity of the crystal which becomes
positive on heat ng, becomes negative
on compression. On releasing the pres
sure, electricity oi an opposite kind is
produced. The authors find that the
production of eleotncity ,ly pressure
can only be obtained with Lemihedral
crystals having inclined faces. By
combining a number of such crystals in
a pile, they have invented a new appa
ratus for producing electricity. The
amount of electricity developed varies
for different minerals. They find, for
example, that a section of quarts, eat
perpendicular to the main axis, volvta
more electricity than a similar section
of tourmaline.
As A axel Clerking la a Grocery storw.
One evening, not Ion j ago, a little girl
of nine or ten entered a place in which
were a bakery, grocery and saloon in
one. and asked for five cents' worth of
tea. "How's your mother?" asked the
bey, who came forward to wait on her.
"Awful sick, and ain't had anything to
eat all day." The boy was just then
called to wait upon some men who en
tered the saloon, and the girl sat down.
In five minutes she was nodding, and in
seven she was sound asleep and leaning
her head against a barrel, while she
held the poor old mckle iu a tight grip
between her thumb and her finger. One
of the men saw her as he came from the
bar, and, after asking who she was said
"Say, boys, here we've been pouring
down whisky like old Harry, when this
poor child and her mother want bread.
"Here's a two-dollar bill that says I've
got some feeling left" "And I ran add
dollar," observed one. "And I'll give
another." They made np a purse of an
even five dollars, and the spokesmen
carefully put the bill between two of the
sleeper's fingers, drew the niokel away,
and whispered to his comrades: "Jiat
look a-there the gal's dreaming." So
she was. A big tear had rolled out from
her closed eyelids.bnt the face was cov
ered with a smile. The men tip-toed
out, and the clerk walked over and
touched the sleeping child. She awoke
with a laugh, and cried out: "What a
beautiful dream! Ma wasn't sick any
more.and we had lots to eat and to wear,
and my hand burns yet where an angel
touched it!" When she discovered that
her nickel had been replaced by a bill,
a dollar of which loaded her down with
all she could carry, she innocently said:
Well, now, but ma won't hardly be
lieve me, that you sent np to heaven
and got an angel to come down and
elerk in your grocery."
Verbal Errors to no Guarded A gain.
Accord for give; as
the information
was accorded him."
Aggravate for irritate; aggravate is to
make worse.
Allude to for refer to or mention.
As for that; "not as I know" for "not
that I know."
Avocation for vocation; a man's voca
tion is his business; avocations are
things that occupy him incidentally.
Balance, for rest or remainder.
Character for reputation; one may
have a good reputation, but a bad char
acter, and the two words should never
be confounded.
Dangerous, for in danger; a sick man
is sometimes most absurdly said to be
dangerous, when it is only meant that
the poor fellow is himself in danger a
very different thing.
Demean, for debase, disgrace or hum
ble. To demean one's self is merely to
behave one's self, whether well or ilL
Dirt, for earth or loam.
Donate, lor give.
Execute, for hang, as applied to the
criminal. It is the sentence,not the man,
that is executed.
Healthy, for wholesome; au onion
plant may be healthy; but when yon
pick au onion there is no more healthi
ness or nnhealthiness to that although
it may or may not be wholesome as an
aiticle for food.
Illy, for ilL
Inaugurate, tor begin.
Kids, for kid gloves.
Learn, for teach.
Liable, for hkeiy or apt
lxaa, for lend.
Pants, for pantaloons, or (better still)
fro risers.
Parlake, for eat
Real, for very; as "real nice," "rial
pietty."
Beside, foi live; residence, for honse.
Be tire, for go to bed.
Seldom, or ever, for seldom, if ever.
or seldom or never.
Some, for somewhat; "she is seme
better to-day."
Stop for stay; "where are you stop
ping? ' This is one of the vilest of wit- I
ticisms.
Sammons(tae noun), for snmmons( the
verb).
Those kind ot apples, for that kind.
Transpire, for occur.
Vulgar, for immodest or indecent.
Without, for unless.
Weddl.cs Ia India.
A correspondent writes from Bombay
about how they conduct weddings in
India: "About 9.20 P. M., the bride
groom arrived with a lay procession
hich started from his residence in Kai-
badeyi road. On entering the gateway
of Madhao Banc he was welcomed by
Mr. Ooculdas, and conducted over a
carpeted pathway to the marquee, where
he was received by the bride's mother.
After certiau preliminary rites he was
seated on a decorated wooden stool, in
which position Mr. and Mrs. Goculdas
washed his feet with water and next
with milk. The bride was then brought
from the bungalow and seated on a simi
lar stool opposite the bridegroom. The
family priest joined the hands of
the bride and bridegroom with yam tied
around them and the Shastrees chanted
hymns and matras and iuvoked bless
ings npon the roaming couple. After
going through some further rites the
happy pair, who had been fasting for a
whole day, were taking inti the bunga
low, where refreshments were provided
for them. There was then an interval
in the ceremonies. At 10 P. M. the
marriage fire was lighted in the marquee
and fed with glee. The bride and bride
groom exohanged morsels of a native
sweetmeat which they ate; they were
made to go four times around earthen
pots placed at right angles: were made
to repeat mantras vowing eternal fideli
ty and affection, snd thus the ceremon
ial ware over about midnight
Tokio, Japan, haa 2,000 pickpockets.
Too Speelro Spec
I have seen a great deal of fun and
laughter produced by a very simple.
little device, which I call the Spectre
Specs.
A large party of people at a small
country hotel were yawning away the
evening, as they often do in such places,
when the inspiration seized one of
the most able-bodied yawners to do
something to break up the monotony.
Taking into his confidence little Tom
Wittles, an admirable .boy, with a large
faculty for fnn and mischief, he induced
that youth to purloin his grandmother's
spectacles. With this modest instru
ment and a paint-box belonging to one
of the guests, they retired to the bed
room, where the gentleman painted the
sarface of the spectacles all over with
white paint, and then neatly cleared a
round spot iu the centre of each glass.
He then painted a couple of pointed
eyebrows ou his own forehead with
black, and pnt oa the spectacles. Then
he tousled his hair, and twistec a few
threads of white and red worsted among
it. This gave him an appearance awful
to behold.
Thus transformed, he walked into the
dimly-lighted parlor doorway, and in
quired in a deep voice of the other yaw
ners whether a gentleman of the name
of Samercanderoffsky was boarding in
that hotel. There was no more yawning
after that
When all the company had complete
ly recovered from their surprise, the
gentleman retired again to his chamber
and began to transform Tom Whittles.
He first painted a pair of eyebrows in
the middle of the boy's forehead, and
then slightly altered the eyeballs in the
spectacles, so as to give them the ap
pearance of a squiut Placing them on
Tom's forehead just alxve the real eye
brows he told him to close his eyes. He
led him into the parlor, and introduced
him as the son of the Samercanderoffsky.
Of course, there was no surprise now,
but the lad looked very funny, and
produced no end of langater with his
long face and melancholy expression.
One word as to the material to be
employed in painting the spectacles.
Chinese white, such as artists nse, is all
that is needed; but as very few people
are apt to own such a thing, perhaps
the best plan is to cit two oval pieces
of white paper the shape of the specta
cle bows, with a round hole in the
middle, and stick them on the back of
the glasses.
A Chicago tilrr. Love.
"Does your father keep a dog!"
These words, uttered with the simple
earnestness that showed how deeply
their full meaning was felt by him who
spoke them, fell from the lips of Etliel-
bert Dooley as he looked tenderly into
he fair, tpirituelle face of Rosalind
Mahaffy. They were at the matinee,
and a dull pain stole into the girl's
heart as she shifted the last caramel in
ha box over to the starboard side of
her pretty mouth. "Ethelbert does
not love me," she said softly to herself,
while a look of pain whitened for an in
stant a ith a deadly pallor the pure in
genue face, and the shapely hand grasp
ed more tightly the dainty silk parasol
that served alike to keep off sun and
wind from the little form. All gone!"
she murmured sadly ''every blamed
one!" feeling earnestly with her taper
fingers in every eorner of the empty
box; and then a look uf sweet content
overspread her features as she placed a
hand in tho pocket of her seal-skin
sacque, oaly to be suooeeded by a dull
dazed expression of grief and an
guish.
She had lost her chewing-gum!
"You look ill, darling!" whispered
Ethelbert, as the curtain went down at
the close of the first act; "try some of
these," holding out a paper of pea
nuts.
With a clad look of lo-, e in her beauti
ful brown eyes, Rosalind turned to him
and said: "I can never doubt yon
again, darling! I would follow you to
the end of the world!"
Poisonous Adulteration.
Committees of experts tell of adultei.
atiou in food that is simply appalling.
Were the ingredients which are mixed
with food innocuous it would still be a
very great hardship, but when it is
knowu that the most violent poisons are
employed, it is a marvel that the whole
country does not rise np and put a stop
to such practice and punish the dealers
who use poisonous articles of food. If
confirmation of these startling state
ments were needed one has only to read
the facts recently brought to light in
Chicago, w here it is impossible to find
pure sugar and where not ten per cent,
of the milk is good. In that city the
bread without exception is poisonous
the teas were never imported but are
made of leaves "faced" with Prussian
blue and chromate of lead. Seventy
five per cnt of the cream of tartar "is
white earth, and the coffee is coated
with lamp-black. But Chicago is no
worse thau other cities. Baking pow
ders are largely composed of alum.
f lckltng fluid is diluted with sulphuric
acid, alum and verdigris to give it a pe
culiar navor. ine manufacture of a
great deal of our confectionery should
be puni-hed as a crime, for much of the
candy rold to children ia simply a lump
of white earth, made attractive to the
eye with arsenical paint and sweetened
with glucoss. Costly spices are coun
terfeited in a terrible grotesque manner
the flavoring being given by the rankest
poisons. In these and other adultera
bona arsenic plays the largest part We
import annually 2,000,000 pounds of this
deadly poison one cent a worth of
which would kill 2,800 people and the
bulk of this import is used in the prepa
ration of food and clothing.
NKWS IX I5RIEF
Fresh disorders are reported from
Egypt
Black bass fisning in East Florida
ia very fine.
General Ganlialdi la suffering from
a bronchial attack.
There are now 70,000 claims befora
the Irish land court
The average expense of one session
of congress exceeds 3,000,000.
Three hundred men exercise in the
gymnasinm of Harvard College every
day.
The National Exposition t Milan,
recently closed, realised a profit of 565,
000 francs
A rich copper mine has been redis
covered in the vicinity of Tucson, Arizo
na, withiu a few weeks.
It costa $75 iu California to prepare
an acre of land and grow grape vines so
the period of production.
In Florida there are 19,763 whito
people oyer ten years of age who can
not write their own names.
Canadians continue to obtain com
paratively 'arge nnmliero of polled Aber
deen cattle from Scotland.
TLe tobacco monopoly of France
last year yielded a net profit to the
State of alout iJiIO.OOO.fKX).
Mille. Jeanne Bonaparte receives a
dowry .f 2,000,(00 francs from her
brother Roland and Ins wife.
Iu China a lady's distorted foot,
which naked locks something hke a
hoof is called a "golden lily."
In one hand of a corpse the Lapland
ers plaee some money to pay the fee of
the Mrter at the gate of paradise.
An Indianapolis conplf were mar
ried in 1872,divorced iu 1877. remarried
in 1879, anil now sue to be rediverced.
Of ever 760,000 square miles of
timber lands in this country the South
embraces ItSO.OOO, or nearly" two-thirds.
Queen Vict na will remain at Os
borne for a month and then retnrn to
Windsor Castle and stay there till ApiL
The recent crop of oranges in Flor
ida surpassed lxtn in quantity and
quality any previously raised in the
State."
Indoor tennis w a novelty for the
winter. It is played iu a long, empty
nan, witn the regulation net, balls aud
rackets.
Bostou's Teachers are petitioning
that female teachers who bave strvd
ten years shall receive a salary of not
less than $1000.
An Italian colony has beeu estab
lished near Gainesville, in Florida, for
the cultivation of oranges and lemons
on a large scale.
The Duke of Argyll has received a
present of wild turkeys from this coun
try, which he intends to try and breed
from at Inverary."
Nearly 10,1X10,000 was taken from
the mines of Utah last year, and a bul
lion product of 813,000,000 is predicted
for the present year.
Germany has a population of 45-'
234,000, of whom alont 9,000,000 are
entitled to vote, though only 5,000,000
voted at the last eleetion.
The ice cone at the base of the
Yosemite Falls is 200 feet high. There
are numerous visitors, and there are
fifty-nine residents in the valley.
The iron ore mines in the vicinity
of Boyertown, Berks county, Pa., are
shipping 160 cars of ore a day.
CoL Samuel Colt had made in Paris
one of the first daguerreotype stands for
his own nse in Hartford. It is still nsed in
that city for the taking of tiu types.
The monnment to Edward L on
Burgh Marsh, in England, the scene of
bis death, has just been carefully re
stored at the expense of Lcrd Lonsdale.
Lord Bute, who has a colony of
beavers near Rothesay, Scotland, is
going to present several to the Zoologi
cal Gardens, the breed there having
died out
Four thousand barrels of petroleum
a year was too much for the world's con
sumption twenty-five years ago. They
are using it up now at the rate of about
50,000 barrels a day.
Nevada nsed to send out wealth:
now it is taking it in. All the mines in
the State yie'ded during 1881 about
$4,500,1)00 less thau enough to pay the
cost of operating them.
The Grande Duke Cons tan tine.
nncle to the C'aar, has taken a house in
Paris, and it is probable that he will
reside there in future, as he is not per
mitted to return to Russia.
Nearly 1,500 of the 3,630 street of
Paris have during the last thirty years
had their names changed, chiefly for
political resons. This must involve in
finite trouble to the residents.
Not a single bushel of 72,000.000of
grain sent to Europe from New York
last year went in an American ship. In
iojw aiioui one per cent of the ship
ments was by American vessels.
A four-year oid boy of Clay county.
Ind., is nudergoing treatment at Indi
anapolis for spinal troubles, brought on
bv excessive smoking. The invalid has
been a heavy smoker for a year and a
half.
Mrs. Gen. Sherman has been elect
ed President of Talwmaele Society.
Washington, au organization of Catholic
ladies which aims to provide for poor
churches of that faith the requisite altar
ornaments and vestments.
A curious undertaking is on the
carpet at Batuvia, N. Y. A monnment
to William Morgan, snpposed to have
been murdered by the Masons, is to bo
erected there, and over 2000 person1
have already contributed to its cost
Still the Cologne Cathedral is not
complete, although it has been officially
declared so. There is yet some decora
tion to be applied, and it is said that it
will probably take another g aeration to
finish the structure in all its details.
Two surviving veterans of the
Grande Armee died recently in France.
Their names were Hain and Appe. Each
naa made the campaigns in opsin, Por
tugal, Germany aud Russia, and each
had passed his ninety-second birthday.
A gentleman of Ottawa, Canada,
gave an order for a silver mounted claret
jug to a Montreal dealer, instructing
him to send it by express marked C, O.
D. A couple of days ago the jug ar
rived, engraved in beautiful large letters
"C- U- D."
A watch stolen from a Sau Frail"
cisco lady more than a year ago was re
turned to her last week, the singular
fact in connection with its recovery
being that it a as sent back from China
Kw awvriA iiarui in tKawa V.n a. 1
it as a present, bat was not satiafifel
with its style.
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